SIGN the PETITION! STOP UCSC Department’s Anti-Zionist Abuse https://t.co/IeoE9KPyLa
Zionism = the belief that Jews have a right to self determination in their ancestral land of Judaea.
What exactly are you protesting, @ucsantacruz ??
In the Netherlands, they refused to put up this outdoor campaign to raise awareness about the Israeli hostages while the hypocritical investigation at the Hague Tribunal against Israel is going on there... do you understand that?! Share and let's make sure that every corner of the world sees this ad... they won't be able to hide the truth from everyone!
HOW DARE YOU @GretaThunberg. How DARE you call for ethnically cleansing the Jewish people from our ancestral land?? You know nothing. No history, no reality, no truth. So I have this to say to you.
Israel is not a colonialist state – it’s a refugee state which was literally decolonized from Britain.
The majority of Israeli Jews are people of color, whose families were ethnically cleansed from other parts of the Middle East.
Throughout history, the only indigenous sovereign entities to exist in the land have been Jewish states.
Jews originate from the land, derive our religion and our practices from it and despite centuries of exile and displacement have always kept an unbroken presence there.
And you Greta Thunberg, are chanting “crush Zionism” on the streets of Sweden.
Zionism is the Jewish people exercising our right to self-determination in some parts of our only historic, ancestral and indigenous homeland.
Hamas showed us on October 7 what “crushing Zionism” looks like and you want to cheer that on Greta?
Greta Thunberg, if I can borrow your famous phrase, “how dare you!”
But this is how antisemitism works – Find what is most evil to you, and blame it on the Jews, or today - on the Jewish state.
I can understand that younger generations in western societies feel guilty about the evils of colonialism.
But Israel’s history is not your history, and whatever guilt you feel, supporting the massacre of Jews in their ancestral land will not wash away the sins of your fathers. When your ancestors were colonizing the world, my ancestors were being slaughtered by Cossacks.
We were dreaming – next year in Jerusalem – of building a life raft in our homeland. We fled genocidal violence in Europe. We were ethnically cleansed from Arab countries all over the Middle East. And we built a liberal, democratic Jewish state. That is not a colonial enterprise.
Zionism is not a colonial enterprise – Zionism is the decolonization movement of the Jewish people.
And to anyone who cannot accept our presence or who slanders Israel as something it is not, we are here to say: “how dare you.”
@SpencerGuard from your experience, what are the top 3 priorities that we should be thinking about wrt ‘the day after’, e.g. de-radicalization, dismantling of UNRWA, growth and sustainability plans for Gaza, workforce development and integration - what has worked ( and what has failed ) populations coming out of massive conflict ?
Hamas terrorists are dressing up as civilians and fighting out of civilian buildings. After the October 7 Massacre, Israel is going after them all.
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Together with women around the world, we say no to rape. Remember. The body of Shani Louk on the lorry, with these horrible Hamas men spitting on her and shouting Allahu Akbar, is the most horrible thing. As a woman, as a mother, as a human being and a politician, I felt a deep disgust when I heard the silence of so many powerful people after these October 7 crimes.
The crime of these girls in Hamas eyes? Existing. Being Jewish, going to a festival. Shani Louk was young, she wanted to enjoy her life. Instead her life ended in the hands of Hamas. She was thrown onto this lorry, and we saw Hamas men dragging her half-naked with this lorry around and spitting on her, shouting “Allah Akbar”. For me, this image is worth more than 1,000 investigations, this image is stronger than 1,000 words, this image says it all. She and all others were someone’s daughters. How could the world let them down?
Anyone who isn’t outraged and doesn’t stand up to what we’ve seen, frankly I don’t know whether that person deserves to be called a feminist or a humanist, but it’s a betrayal. It’s a betrayal of the cause of women and it’s a betrayal of all Jews, it’s a betrayal of humanity.
For all the women and girls I joined forces with other women around the world to call for justice. This is our message.
For the hostages to return home. For justice. Stop rape. Bring the rapists to justice. #UnitedWeStand
" (1) Releasing all the hostages and (2) Eliminating Hamas so that the Gaza Strip can never again pose a threat to the people of Israel "
Every single life lost in Gaza is on #HamasTerrorrists#HamasislSIS#StandWithIsrael