Judean Flame

I burnt out. Now I burn bright.

Unapologetic social justice advocate.

🇮🇱 Proud Mizrahi Zionist 🇮🇱

🕊️ Pro Peace 🕊️

Zan Zendegi Azadi 🦁💚🤍❤️🦁

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

I am not the person I was on October 6, 2023.

On Oct 6, I scoffed at the idea of Zionism. Israel existed. Why do we still need it I asked?

On Oct 6, I scoffed at the idea that people I love and trust could turn against me and my community. We know better now I said.

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

@serachisrael @thewebbie I'd take the snow over this, but I very much prefer something in between.

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

The word “genocide” is being thrown around so casually and dishonestly that it has lost all meaning.

Genocide requires intent.

On October 7th, Palestinians showed clear intent to kill as many Jews as possible. They wiped out entire Jewish communities, and they remain determined to finish the job.

Accusing Israel of genocide while defending those who tried to commit one, and still seek to repeat it, is not just absurd.

IT IS COMPLICITY.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

5,000 doctors from 46 countries signed a petition to the World Medical Association to act against discrimination and medical boycotts.

Their call comes after the British magazine The Lancet published a call to exclude Israel from the World Medical Association.

The petition, which was signed by doctors from Canada, Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, and Italy, and more, states that "medical organizations should remain spaces for scientific and universal cooperation, and not serve as a tool for political exclusion."

The doctors added that the Lancet "completely ignores any role Hamas has in destroying the healthcare system in Gaza."

Several hostages testified to the fact that Hamas held them in hospitals. Hostage Noa Marciano was murdered by a Hamas doctor at Al-Shifa Hospital. He injected air into her veins. Her family was sent a video of the horrific act of violence.

Excluding Israeli doctors, whose research saves countless lives, from global medical institutions will do nothing to help Palestinians.

It will only increase the hatred Jews, including Jewish doctors, are facing.

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

For years, the media called Israel paranoid.

But today, UNRWA just quietly fired 70 of its employees in Gaza because they were linked to terror organizations.

Israel was right all along. Why is the world still funding an agency that employs terrorists? It is time to defund UNRWA permanently.

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

@SuzyQue64568715 Oct 7 is part of why I moved home . We made it through 1000 days, but I hope this is resolved before we have to make it through 1000 more.
That anxiety and grief over the hostages is gone, but as antisemitism grows exponentially, the world feels scarier too.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

It’s a great question. Easy answer: it took my understanding of antisemitism from being about off-colour jokes about tailors and shekels, to realising that people genuinely want Jews dead, and that a lot of those people live in my country. A seismic change in how I saw the world.

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

@IlliniJdMd @kanzler1florian @aziz0nomics The US government isn't all powerful. This agreement needs to be reached between Israel and the Palestinian territories. That requires new leadership all around. Israel's election is coming up, but no viable non extremist alternative has been proposed in Gaza and West Bank

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

@IlliniJdMd @kanzler1florian @aziz0nomics I think that's a more contentious issue than it may seem from outside.

I appreciate your willingness to discuss this in good faith even if we may disagree. That is rare these days.

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

@IlliniJdMd @kanzler1florian @aziz0nomics Jerusalem was never really a settled issue. Even in 1967. That has always been contested - with Jews claiming it as our holiest site and Arabs claiming it is the third holiest site for Islam. It is going to be a sticking point for both sides.

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

@IlliniJdMd @kanzler1florian @aziz0nomics IMO the borders get drawn, and people in the settlements can decide to move if they don't want to be a member of the new Palestinian state - with relocation support from Israel. This all assumes that the Palestinians are willing to have Jewish citizens which seems like a hurdle.

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

@IlliniJdMd @kanzler1florian @aziz0nomics They say that but are unwilling to compromise on things like sharing Jerusalem.

I've long believed Israel should declare they recognize the Palestinian state based on the armistice lines. It's made more complicated in the West Bank by the settlements, but not impossible.

[איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh @AyOdeh]

“The blood of all the victims, Palestinian and Israeli, cries out from the ground. Beyond all the disputes, all the narratives and all the historic score-settling, human life is the most precious thing of all, and both peoples have continued to waste it for more than 100 years.

People are more important than land, and this land is already saturated with too much blood.״

Read my op-ed for @haaretzcom, in which I share my ten insights from the last war and explain why there is only one path forward to peace and security for both peoples between the river and the sea.

Link below 👇🏽

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

When the most senior Palestinian in Israel is a Zionist and much more nuanced than Zohran Mamdani…

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

@rich_toronto His take is shortsighted.
We depend on other countries for trade, research and all manner of things. That alone makes other countries relevant.

Conflict in Iran impacts gas prices.
Conflict in Israel may slow research on AI and medicine.
If we are in conflict, we want allies.

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

@kanzler1florian @IlliniJdMd @aziz0nomics The land is already partitioned. Although a couple of the borders are contested, Israel already exists. The Palestinians have maintained a position of wanting nothing less than all of it. That's not going to happen. Advocating for one state is advocacy for neverending conflict.

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

@kanzler1florian @IlliniJdMd @aziz0nomics What you want is irrelevant. The people who live there - both Palestinians and Israelis overwhelmingly don't want that. The Palestinians largely want it all to be theirs, and the Israelis want to keep Israel.

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

@mirijoie Depending on the exact funding arrangement, the Crown could theoretically alter funding for the next funding cycle, but there may still be legislative limitations to that.
Because the museum has a research function, things like academic freedom become important to its integrity.

[Judean Flame @TheFireBurning5]

@mirijoie For the Human Rights Museum, government interference could theoretically result in rewriting history based on the political flavour of whoever is PM. Denials of past atrocities Canada has participated in for example because it makes their base uncomfortable.