A few months ago I was sitting on a bench in Tel Aviv with a colleague, and an older Israeli man came up to us and asked if he can sit with us. We said yes, so he asked what we were working on. We said we're making a film about the West Bank.
"What do you think about the Arabs?", he asked. Instead of answering, I asked what he thought.
"A good Arab is a dead Arab", he answered.
This was said 5 minutes into the conversation, to a complete stranger. This is a normal thing to say in Israeli society, even in the hyper-liberal Tel Aviv.
This would make sense if Oz’s book and TED Talk didn’t sell people on learning the “skill” of “mentalism” — decoding body language, nonverbal cues, etc.
This distinction is why I reached out to Stevie Baskin in the first place… as our episode explained. (Also, it’s hilarious)
In the week that Israel expressed outrage at the notion it would ever abuse Palestinian detainees, here’s their security minister proudly posting actual evidence of Israel abusing detainees.
Beyond parody.
There’s this bizarre tendency by Zionists to claim that a literal cabinet minister does not represent Israel’s government, while actions by random Palestinians define the entire Palestinian nation. Funny how that works
Does anyone still have doubts that Palestinians are being tortured and raped? This is how Israel treats international protestors in public. What they do to Palestinians in private is a million times worse.
@HilzFuld@Evgeny_Ben You agree with the conduct but disappointed it was recorded for the world to see because PR
Hillel, your weekly meetings with the CEO have ruined your brain
An American Jew who was born in New York in 1944 and an Ethiopian Jew born in Ethiopia can both turn up and get citizenship, rights, votes, land, homes.
Palestinians who were born there, whose families have have lived there for generations, remain refugees in the surrounding countries, denied a right to return to their lands, despite holding onto keys and property deeds.
This is Zionism.
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.