Fragen an einen pro-palÀstinensischen Aktivisten:
ErklÀre mir bitte, warum du der Meinung bist, dass Israel den PalÀstinensern das Land weggenommen hat, obwohl Jordanien 80 % des historischen PalÀstina besetzt hÀlt?
ErklĂ€re mir, warum du es fĂŒr selbstverstĂ€ndlich hĂ€ltst, dass PalĂ€stina den PalĂ€stinensern gehören soll, dir aber nie der Gedanke gekommen ist, dass JudĂ€a eigentlich den JudĂ€ern â also den Juden â gehören könnte?
ErklÀre mir, warum du Israel als Apartheidstaat bezeichnest, obwohl ein Araber völlig unbehelligt durch Tel Aviv oder Haifa spazieren kann, wÀhrend ein Jude, der sich versehentlich nach Ramallah oder Shechem (Nablus) verirrt, Gefahr lÀuft, gelyncht zu werden?
ErklĂ€re mir, warum du es völlig normal findest, dass Araber in Israel leben, dir aber undenkbar erscheint, dass auch nur ein einziger Jude in einem zukĂŒnftigen palĂ€stinensischen Staat leben dĂŒrfte?
ErklĂ€re mir, warum du die Gebiete erst dann als âpalĂ€stinensische Territorienâ bezeichnet hast, nachdem Israel sie 1967 von Ăgypten (Gaza) und Jordanien (JudĂ€a und Samaria) ĂŒbernommen hatte?
ErklĂ€re mir, warum die PalĂ€stinenser in all den Jahren, in denen diese Gebiete unter arabischer (jordanischer bzw. Ă€gyptischer) Herrschaft standen, nie versucht haben, dort einen eigenen Staat zu grĂŒnden?
Und erklĂ€re mir schlieĂlich, warum du diesen Fragen ausweichst â aus Angst, erkennen zu mĂŒssen, dass deine unerschĂŒtterliche UnterstĂŒtzung der palĂ€stinensischen Sache gegen Israel letztlich nichts anderes ist als der humanitĂ€r verbrĂ€mte Ausdruck deines Antisemitismus?
Does Israel have a right to exist?
No?
Cool. Cool.
You are against religious states? Got it.
Totally get it. Itâs a problem when members of a religion have more rights than members of other religions. Makes sense. Totally with youâŠ
Hey, mind doing me a solid?
Send me some links to where you opposed the existence of 52 Islamic states.
How about the 120 Christian countries, 15 of which have Christianity as the official religion?
Send me those tweets of yours please.
Whatâs that? Speak up please. Canât hear youâŠ
You havenât written about Muslim or Christian states?
Only the one Jewish state is a problem but Muslim and Christian states arenât?
Ohhh, ok.
Whatâs it called again when you single out the Jew and have one standard for Jews and another for the rest of the world?
I know thereâs a name for that. Just canât put my finger on it.
Care to remind me what thatâs called again?
đșđłWhat will NOT get you fired from a UN job:
- Implying Israelis eat human flesh.
- Saying Israelis have no humanity.
- Speaking on Qatar-owned channel Al Jazeera alongside Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and Iranâs Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Calling Israel âthe enemy of humanityâ.
- Being condemned for antisemitism by France, Canada, Germany, and the US.
đșđłWhat WILL get you fired from a UN job:
- Saying the war in Gaza is not a genocide.
- Saying Hamas attacked Israel and Jews on October 7 with genocidal intent.
Never forget that UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese had her mandate renewed, while UN Genocide Expert Alice Nderitu had hers terminated.
It wasnât Israel that blocked baby formula from Gaza.
It was Hamas who stole and stockpiled it for their narrative that âIsrael starves babies.â
Now, Gazan activists are documenting it.
Will all those Westerners who pledged to âlisten to Palestiniansâ do so now that Palestinians are exposing Hamasâs crimes?
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@MarkJCarney This will go down in history as a huge error - and a major misstep by western nations - who have coordinated together to reward slaughter, rape, Jew-hatred, and radical Islamic terrorism.
This will only make everything worse.
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@Mikeggibbs The message it sends when 48 hostages, brutally kidnapped on October 7th and held for over 700 days, are STILL being held in Gaza is that terrorism gets rewarded and the world doesnât care about Israeli hostages. And it pushes right wing Israeli politicians further right.
I respect @ezraklein a lot, but this is dead wrong and frankly a baffling thing to say.
Charlie Kirk was the *epitome* of our modern brand of poisonous politics. Ezra tries to make the point that he went around to college campuses to debate people. And that's true, for a very tortured version of the word 'debate'.
But Charlie Kirk was not trying to build bridges. He was not trying to reach a common understanding with his opponents in the way that Ezra himself does. He was not operating in good faith, and his goal was not respectful two-way conversations where both sides can grow and change.
Kirk's goal at his college 'debates' was not to find experts on tricky issues of culture and policy and then have a Socratic dialogues and learn from them. His goal was to find a purple haired nineteen year-old sociology major with more feelings than sense, and then dunk on them. He wanted to farm clips he could use on social media to make his opponents look ridiculous, and he was good at it. When I think about how social media has changed politics for the worse, Charlie Kirk and his style of engagement is one of the main protagonists.
We live in a heavily polarized era where the parties hate each other more than they have in decades and political violence is on the rise. And while it might be distasteful to say it directly after he was murdered, Kirk was one of the people driving that hatred and that polarization. He taught his audiences to hate and fear their opponents. He egged on the public's worst and basest instincts. He flirted heavily and repeatedly with the idea of political violence.
It should obviously be said that none of that justifies killing him. Anyone who advocates for political violence is no friend or ally of mine. But for a man who wrote a book called "Why We're Polarized" to look at Charlie Kirk and say that he practiced politics the right way is delusional.
92% of UN aid was stolen by Hamas.
Yonatan Sameranoâs body was kidnapped by UNRWA staff.
UNRWA food & IDs were found in Sinwarâs tunnel.
The UNâs watchdog cut its threshold in half to declare a famine.
Maybe the UN isnât the most neutral voice to speak about famine in Gaza.
The âFree Palestineâ crowd in the West breathes Palestine, dresses Palestine, lives Palestine.
But they donât know where Gaza is on a map.
They donât know which river and sea border Israel.
They donât know that 20% of Israelâs population is Arab.
They donât know that Gaza was under Egyptian control from 1948 to 1967, and yet Palestinians were never granted Egyptian citizenship.
They donât know that every Israeli was forcibly removed from Gaza in 2005.
They donât know that Hamas is still holding 50 hostages, blocking any chance of ending the war.
They donât know that Hamasâs leaders are billionaires living in luxury in Qatar while Gazans suffer.
The only thing they seem to know is how to burn synagogues and beat Jews â thousands of miles away from Gaza.
Jews in Canada are 25x more likely to be victims of hate crime than all other Canadians, according to a new report.
"The daily reality is families wondering if itâs safe to walk to synagogue, school buses being checked for explosives, and students being bullied and harassed for being Jewish."
In a country that celebrates diversity, Jews are being told to hide theirs.
Thereâs something really dangerous about the kind of antisemitism weâre seeing now. And itâs not just because itâs so out in the open. Itâs because it makes Jewish fear sound ridiculous, and hyperbolic.
Thatâs what makes this moment different, and honestly, even scarier.
For a long time, Jews in the West could talk about antisemitism and people would at least listen. âNever againâ meant something. Holocaust survivors were still alive. People took it seriously when Jews said: weâve seen where this can go.
But now it's all different.
Now if you say Jews arenât safe in America, people act like youâre hysterical. Mention the Holocaust, and youâre accused of emotional manipulation. Say youâre scared, and they laugh you off like youâre using old-fashioned language from your grandfatherâs era. Like weâre trying to guilt the world into caring.
And thatâs the scariest part. Not just the hate, but how people have learned to tune out our fear.
This new kind of antisemitism didnât just pop up again, it came back smarter. It came back disguised. Wrapped in âsocial justiceâ terms. Wrapped in academic jargon. Instead of yelling âJew,â they use words like âZionist,â âcolonizer,â âglobal elite.â Same hate. Same target. New packaging.
And when we try to call it out, weâre mocked and told that weâre overreacting, playing the victim, or clinging to the Holocaust for lack of better arguments
And suddenly the most basic Jewish survival instinctsâwarn early, speak up, donât be quiet this timeâsound to the world like overused lines from an old play.
Itâs disgusting.
Imagine living in a world where Jewish suffering has been talked about so much, and so often, that people start treating it like background noise. Where the words ânever againâ donât raise alarms anymore, they roll eyes. Where every time we say, âThis is serious,â weâre met with a shrug or worse, sarcasm.
The modern Jew is now stuck. If we speak too loudly, weâre told to calm down. If we stay quiet, we disappear. Either way, we lose.
And thatâs what this new wave of antisemitism has figured out. Not just how to threaten Jews, but how to make our warnings feel annoying. Like spam and a broken record.
It messes with your head. Makes you second-guess yourself. Am I being too dramatic? Too sensitive? Do I sound like Iâm trying to âuse the Holocaustâ? It turns memory into something shameful, and our pain into something suspicious.
Thatâs why this version is so dangerous.
Itâs not just attacking Jews physically. Itâs stripping us of our ability to defend ourselves at all. Our credibility. Our voice. The one thing we had after all these years.
Our parentsâ generation said ânever againâ and the world paused to listen. We say it now, and the world rolls its eyes.
This is where we are: Jewish kids needing guards at school. Synagogues burned down. Crowds marching with genocidal chants. Professors spewing hate from podiums. Celebrities spreading conspiracies. And still, when we say weâre scared, weâre the problem.
Itâs not just the hatred.
Itâs the fact that people donât care that itâs happening.
So yeah, this is different. This is worse.
Because weâre not just fighting for safety anymore.
Weâre fighting for the right to say weâre in danger and not be laughed at.
Watch below for a friendly reminder of what slogans like "Globalize the Intifada" really mean.
And for those who choose to affiliate themselves with the message behind these slogans, maybe ask yourself: Am I comfortable being complicit in the real-world harm these chants cause?
You donât need to downplay one people's pain to care about another.
Your heart should break for babies pulled from rubble, no matter where theyâre from. You should care about civilians in Gaza, and you should care about civilians in Israel. Thatâs not cognitive dissonance. Thatâs called being human.
You donât have to support a countryâs governmentâor any warâto recognize the humanity of the people affected.
If it truly brings you joy that Israelis are being murdered, just because of where they're born, youâre not taking a political stance. Youâve just lost your humanity.
A woman is someone who feels like a woman, sees herself as a woman, identifies as a woman. She may express her femininity in any way that suits her life at that time. She simply is a woman.
A transphobe is someone who feels that womanhood is defined by the absence of a penis.
Thereâs also the more generalized coercion which comes from the legislated poverty many disabled people are forced to live in.
The constant degradation that comes from having to beg for a meagre support that isnât enough to keep food on the table.