Jeremy ChristianLeft

Advocating left radical vision of Jesus - antiwar, non-violence, economic justice, equality, resisting nationalistic idolatry, preserving an inhabitable planet

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️JUST IN: Israel is preparing a major ground invasion of southern Lebanon, aiming to seize all territory south of the Litani River and dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure, U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios. Troops and reserves are being reinforced on the border ahead of the operation, which could become Israel’s largest invasion of Lebanon since 2006.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Pro-Palestine leftists perform endless verbal gymnastics to avoid conflating Jewish people with the state of Israel, while Israel and its supporters conflate them constantly. Yet we're the ones who get blamed whenever there's a terror attack on a Jewish institution by someone enraged by Israel's actions.

Zionists are the ones doing everything they can to make sure people see the state of Israel as synonymous with Jews and Judaism. That is what they are doing every time they claim a criticism of Israel's actions is hate speech against Jews. They are claiming that the nation and its government are one and the same as the entirety of the Jewish faith and its adherents.

Pro-Palestine leftists have been doing the exact opposite. We go to great pains to make sure all our arguments are carefully worded to avoid being interpreted as an attack on the Jewish faith, making it clear that our grievance is with the state of Israel and the political ideology of Zionism which supports that state's abusive nature. And then Israel apologists come in and smear those meticulously crafted arguments as a hateful attack on all Jews everywhere.

Zionists are therefore responsible for the growing perception that our Jewish neighbors and countrymen are culpable for the abuses of the Israeli government. When more attacks on Jewish institutions occur (and they will), it is Israel and its supporters who will hold the blame for this, not the pro-Palestine left.

I am not saying attacks on Jewish institutions should happen. I am not saying it will be good when they do happen. I'm saying it will happen, and when it happens it will be a terrible thing. And it will be the fault of Israel and its supporters.

We've been running around like crazy trying to stop this, falling all over ourselves to thwart the Zionist efforts to conflate Jews with Israel, but our voices aren't strong enough. We're not the ones getting loudly amplified by every mass media outlet, they are.

So when we lose the narrative war on this front and the next extremist attack occurs, it won't be our fault. It will be theirs. It will be the fault of Israel and its apologists. We fought them as hard as we could to prevent this, but they won. And the consequences of this will therefore rest squarely on their shoulders.

[Morgan Ariel @itsmorganariel]

Imagine thinking that the demons who did this to Gaza are Gods chosen people.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Mainstream Israeli voices explicitly said that Israelis have the right to rape Palestinians and use it as a weapon of war. The IDF gang-rapists caught on tape were treated as heroes. Knesset members protested their arrest.

This is the true face of Israel, financed by Americans.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Instead of spending $1 billion a day on the War in Iran, we could use that to invest in the American people, not more endless wars.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

The United States gave Netanyahu billions of dollars to fund the genocide in Gaza.

Now, Netanyahu and Trump are teaming up for an unconscionable war with Iran.

The American people are sick and tired of funding atrocities to appease Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

It's time to abolish the Israel Tax.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Powerful video of the kids killed in strike on school in Iran by @bravenewfilms. How much we spent to kill these kids is heartbreaking. We are constantly told there's no money for projects that help American citizens and then we spend money to start these wars and kill innocents.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

This genocidal monster wants Arabs to die fighting Iranians on behalf of genocidal Israeli Zionists and American Christian Zionist fanatics.

[Jo Kaur @SikhFeminist]

Dear Iran:

We know. You're not the aggressor here. We pray for peace and for Zionists to leave you alone and stop killing your people.

Signed,
Ordinary Americans

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran��s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

I'm so tired of Israel making us culpable in their crimes against morality and decency. So, now we're going to destroy another people while pretending to help them, just so Israel can get another puppet leader in the Middle East. How much more of this can the world take?

[Kate Willett @katewillett]

Hey I know that children are being slaughtered around the clock in Iran but have you considered focusing on the Mayor’s wife’s imaginary reaction to an imaginary crime that I am an imaginary victim of?

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

The country that has been “cutting babies’ heads off” would be Israel. @realDonaldTrump

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

PSA: There’s nothing cowardly about refusing to die for Israel.

It’s the most patriotic thing you can do.

[Sabby Sabs @SabbySabs2]

In other words, Lindsey Graham committed treason.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

If your church leaders and elected leaders are telling you the way to bring Jesus back is by killing innocent children of innocent foreign people you’ve never met in a foreign land you’ve never been to, then your believing the lies of wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing.

[Sara Afshar @SaraAfshar]

Why isn't this photo on every front page & on every news prog? It's been verified. It's striking & heartbreaking. Imagine these were the graves of American schoolgirls or Israeli schoolgirls or British schoolgirls, then it would be on every front page. #Iran #USIsraelStrikes

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Not enough people are talking about the fact that Israel likely tested a nuclear weapon last month in Dimona and that most of humanity is within range of its Jericho III nuclear missiles