Op 21 oktober 2023 verscheen mijn nieuwste roman "Vergeefse Moeite" (uitg. September), Eerste reacties: "Wat een prachtig verhaal.Knap in elkaar verweven." "Filmisch geschreven." "Ik zat heel wat delen met koude rillingen, zo mooi en spannend."
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@ADnl Folders uitdelen voor Obama maakt je geen Amerikakenner. Wel een charlatan.
De man slaapt een uur of 4 -5 per nacht en ziet er beter uit dan @locuta zelf.
Knowledge five months after the fact doesn‘t change a thing. It actually would make it worse. To handcuff a person who you know is dying and the last thing for him to hear is „you have the right to remain silent“. To even think that this somehow makes it less bad is disgusting.
Here are some harrowing testimonies from Jews still living in the West (for now), from @IzaTabaro in @Quillette. These are the flames that all those useful idiots in academia are fanning.
"Musician and writer Deborah Conway talks about a call from the director of a writers festival, telling her there's been pushback against her participation in the programme. He assures her everything is fine, but at the festival, she finds herself surrounded by heavy security. At one panel, people rise to their feet, unfurl signs, and start screaming at her. In Brisbane, a dozen masked people pound on the glass of the bookshop where she is speaking, screaming to globalise the intifada, while policemen do nothing. Intimidation bears fruit: music critics sidestep her new album, and she can't book venues to perform it in. Her public presence is quietly diminished. Has anybody noticed?
But it doesn't stop there. Large social media accounts target her daughter, an online food personality. Her hummus adds to Palestinian suffering, apparently, so they threaten to show up at markets where she sells the food. "She had to pack and leave," says Conway. At those markets, did anybody notice she's no longer there?
There is a history of Jews vanishing and others choosing not to notice. "I don't know where the Jews who lived here went—they just moved out at some point," was a common postwar refrain about the murdered Jews next door.
Some of the most striking testimonials in "Some Were Neighbours," an exhibit originally shown at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, come from German Jews recalling non-Jews disappearing from their lives as the antisemitic Nazi state asserted itself. One-time friends, neighbours, classmates, colleagues, dance partners, lovers just marched on into the promise of a great new German future, leaving Jews behind. So strong was the sting of this personal betrayal that neither the horror of the genocide that followed nor the passage of time diminished the force of its memory.
Another testimony from the present: Joshua Moshe, an award-winning saxophonist and composer. His career is destroyed after his bandmates of seven years publicly expel him from the band via a social media post declaring that they do not tolerate Zionism in any form. Other fellow creatives follow: one pulls out of a joint show, another withdraws performance rights to his song. Invitations vanish. It's business, nothing personal; these are the times. Nobody wants to lose work "by association."
Doxxed and targeted in a "coordinated online pile-on across every channel," Joshua and his wife make a hard decision: move to another part of Melbourne for the sake of their son, who is also now being threatened. As they pack up their gift and homewares shop, passers-by scream, "Good, we don't want Zionists in our area."
If you want to understand what it feels like to watch one's world narrow, with the walls closing in on you, ask Moshe: the "relentless" abuse left him "with anxiety, night sweats, an elevated heart rate, and an inability to sleep," he told the Royal Commission. He felt "devastated," sensing that his life "was starting to unravel—not knowing what would happen.""
https://t.co/qYN9U7D6Od
Since October 7, Jews and Israelis across the West have faced a surge of hostility: verbal abuse and harassment, vandalized synagogues and cemeteries, campus intimidation, social ostracism, threats of violence, chants to "globalize the intifada," and relentless pressure to answer for the actions of a foreign government. And eventually also violent assults and terrorist attacks, which is exactly what "globalize the intifada" means.
Many have been forced to conceal their identity—removing their kippah or Star of David, avoiding Hebrew in public, scraping Israeli flags off their laptops. Israeli academics have been disinvited from conferences, excluded from collaborations, and treated as pariahs by former colleagues and friends. Israeli-owned restaurants have been targeted and forced to close. Jewish academics are resigning from universities and leaving Europe. For many, daily life now involves broken friendships, hostile chants, professional isolation, and a constant calculation of when, where, and how openly they can still be Jewish or Israeli.
And yet thousands of academics have decided that now is a wonderful moment to further fan the flames—calling for even broader boycotts, harsher denunciations, and deeper exclusions. They insist they are targeting institutions, not individuals. But the practical effect is to stigmatize and isolate Israelis and their collaborators, regardless of their political views. And they never denounce all the violence that is being committed against individual Israelis and Jews.
I am disgusted by the state of academia today.
And frankly, @stephenfry, it is profoundly disappointing to see your name attached to this campaign. You are one of my intellectual heroes—not only as a writer and comedian, but as a defender of liberal values and a critic of ideological dogmatism. Yet here you are lending your authority to a movement that promotes institutional boycotts against one single country that happens to be the only Jewish one on the planet, while repeating some of the most inflammatory accusations against Israel: genocide, apartheid, the deliberate targeting of civilians. Here you are supporting a profoundly illiberal ideology that wants to expel Israeli academics from all collaborations. As I wrote previously, Israeli universities enrol tens of thousands of Palestinian and Arab students, often supported by government programs, and they are filled to the brim with staunch critics of the Netanyahu governments. You are now punishing all THOSE people.
What were you thinking, Mr. Fry?
From my Quillette piece:
"In liberal democracies such as Israel, universities are indispensable parts of civil society, which facilitate the critical examination and questioning of government policies. Despite the country’s flaws, such criticism is still very much possible in Israel. Those who oppose the policies of Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition partners will find numerous allies among Israeli academics. Many of them took the lead in the protests against Netanyahu’s dangerous judicial reforms of 2023, which threatened Israel’s democratic character. Finally, Israeli universities enrol tens of thousands of Palestinian and Arab students, often supported by government programs. They too will be targeted by a blanket boycott of Israeli universities, which will in no way contribute to peace, but will instead further weaken the constructive and liberal forces in Israeli society."
https://t.co/oVndq9VvLA
Die Palestijnse 'studenten' kunnen natuurlijk niet opgevangen worden in Algerije, Bahrein, Egypte, Irak, Jordanië, Koeweit, Libanon, Libië, Marokko, Mauritanië, Oman, Qatar, Saoedi-Arabië, Soedan, Syrië, Tunesië, Ver. Arabische Emiraten, Jemen of Turkije.
Alleen in NL plaats?
If it wasn't for X, we never would've known about what the left did to Quentin in France.
If it wasn't for X, we never would've known what British police did to Henry Nowak.
This is why they want to censor X.
Because the truth comes out.
#Trouw hield Israëlische rapport over gruwelijk seksueel geweld op 7-10-23 door #Hamas weken stil. Op 28 mei, nadat #Israël zelf werd beschuldigd van zulke misdrijven, refereerde de krant pas aan de #Hamas misdaden. Geen toeval. #Hamas#Israël
https://t.co/TL8RidNMKh
Mij viel dat ook op. Adri Vermaat is oud-journalist en -ombudsman van Trouw.Sinds zijn vertrek is Trouw verworden tot de Klimaat-en anti-Israëlbode. En nu vervangt de hoofdredactie ook nog eens de 'kaltgestellte' topcolumnist Ephimenco door Ronit Palache: nóg meer Gleichschaltung
Het zijn geen “kenners” bij de @PubliekeOmroep@WNLVandaag of het @ADnl het zijn de lieden met de mening die ze willen horen.
Een kenner had de juiste uitslag van de verkiezingen voorspeld. Niet @locuta
Uhhhh ik wel bijvoorbeeld.
Het zijn geen “kenners” bij de @PubliekeOmroep@WNLVandaag of het @ADnl het zijn de lieden met de mening die ze willen horen.
Een kenner had de juiste uitslag van de verkiezingen voorspeld. Niet @locuta
Uhhhh ik wel bijvoorbeeld.
Tijdens recent evenement van Barakah Charity (tentakel radicale Moslimbroederschap) in Edegem van burgemeester @MetsuKoen doken ze op met mobiele betaalterminals in de zaal. Ze vroegen specifiek naar donateurs die onmiddellijk 500, 1000 of 5000 euro wilden betalen met bankkaart.
“Tien leden van een landkonvooi van de Flotilla werden TIEN DAGEN GELEDEN gearresteerd door Libische milities en hebben zojuist hun gevangenschap verlengd gekregen door het repressieve regime daar. Ik heb geen wereldwijde verontwaardiging gezien of obsessieve berichtgeving door de media. Ik vraag me af waarom” - Heidi Bachram #NoJewsNoNews
De online ophef over het harde politieoptreden in het azc van Zeist krijgt een nieuwe wending. De aangehouden man, de 30-jarige Palestijn Wesam Mekdad uit Gaza, mocht volgens documenten al maanden niet meer in Nederland zijn. https://t.co/0qc8LO2iFz
Victor Vlam spreekt de waarheid over het kabinet Jetten: 'Dit is niet een regering die er is voor de Nederlanders.'
"Sjoerd Sjoerdsma is nu bezig met een begroting voor elkaar te krijgen. Dat betekent dat er geld extra gaat naar ontwikkelingssamenwerking. Dat is waarschijnlijk de consequentie daarvan omdat hij met PN in de Eerste Kamer moet samenwerken."
"Tegelijkertijd verkeersboektes, waarvan iedereen zegt: die zijn veel te hoog in Nederland. Alle experts zeggen dat, die gaan ook weer omhoog omdat er geen ruimte is in de begroting om ze op hetzelfde niveau te houden."
"Dan maak je als kabinet de keuze om niet voor je eigen mensen te kiezen maar voor de mensen in het buitenland. En ik vind dat echt fundamenteel een verkeerde keuze."
"Dit is wat mij betreft niet een regering die er is voor de Nederlanders. Het is voor de bovenste elite laag van Nederlanders die zich graag wil profileren op dit soort thema's. En dat vind ik een grote tekortkoming."
Rutger Castricum voegt toe: "En Sjoerd Sjoerdsma heeft gewoon een grote fout gemaakt met de UNRWA-besteding. Dus die heeft vooral rechts heel erg in de maling genomen door te zeggen we gaan dat niet verhogen. En uiteindelijk toch te doen terwijl ze zich omdraaiden."
"En daar is het eigenlijk fout gegaan. Daardoor krijgt hij nu in de Eerste Kamer die begroting niet rond. En dan gaat hij inderdaad nog meer ontwikkelingsgelden erin stoppen om het maar rond te krijgen. 1919 is de laatste keer dat een begroting er niet door kwam. Dit is echt een afgang."
Wat werd oud minister Faber PVV belachelijk gemaakt door velen in de politiek en ook de media. Wat gebeurt er nu, wat zij voorstelde wordt nu zo goed als zeker ingevoerd. Haar probeerden ze kapot te maken. https://t.co/2UABqen4gj