Balance Ton Sioniste - Dump Your Zionist

Enough is enough - ça suffit.

The blackmail - 100 years - has gone long enough.

Cent ans de chantage pour justifier le viol de la Palestine par les victimes du Nazisme Européen. C'en est assez.

La parole a finalement été libérée. Bientôt la Palestine sera libre à son tour.

Long repressed speech has been liberated from the claws of Zionist schemers who profited from Western ignorance and guilt to perpetrate the most macabre rape of the twentieth century, that of the Palestinian nation.

La Palestine est une nation millénaire et non des refugiés démunis abandonnés au gré des vents de la politique intéressée des nations.

Nul ne peut faire disparaitre la Palestine et sa cause. Surement pas les mécréants de l'Europe de l'Est convertis au judaïsme et n'ayant aucun lien historique ou génétique ou culturel avec la Palestine Hébraïque de l'Age du Bronze.

Les histoires écrites par des tribus nomades dans les déserts d’Arabie il y a 2000 ou 3000 ans - qu'est la bible - ne peuvent pas faire figure de témoignage authentique de l'histoire. Même en acceptant que la mythologie racontée dans la bible d'une fiction autoproclamée (Le Peuple Choisi, la saisie violente par Joshua sur ordre du dieu juif Yahweh de la terre des Cananéens, etc.), cette dernière ne pourrait en aucun cas justifier l'invasion et le viol de la nation Palestinienne 3000 ans plus tard. C’est simplement absurde.

Si les Hébreux se sont permis d'imposer leur fiction, on devrait alors permettre aux Assyriens d'imposer l'Epopée de Gilgamesh comme vérité historique, ou l'Iliade d'Homère comme la fondation d'une nation grecque ayant des revendications territoriales sur tout les territoires du bassin méditerranéen. Les Romains aussi. Les Ottomans aussi. Les Arabes aussi. On n'en finit plus.

Dans tous les cas des récits légendaires ou mythologiques chez tous les peuples du monde, seule la bible - torah, ancien testament - est tenue pour preuve certaine sur laquelle on peut baser la violence inouïe infligée au peuple Palestinien par des européens qui ne sont ni culturellement, ni génétiquement, ni historiquement liés au peuple hébreu de la bible. Seul un critère précaire et franchement archaïque - la religion - pourrait être invoqué. La religion? Ces fables de l'histoire que des humains ignorants imaginaient pour essayer de comprendre un monde dont la cruauté et la mortalité leur échappaient. 

Si les peuples de la planète acceptent l'argument du "retour" à la terre promise, alors nous sommes confrontés à une interminable boîte de Pandore où n'importe quel peuple - y'en a très peu qui peuvent se faire valoir d'une pureté raciale - peut réclamer les terres d'un autre peuple avec qui il aurait eu des disputes et des guerres il y a des siècles et des millénaires. Accepteriez-vous que la France, hybride qu'elle est de ses résidus gaulois, romains, anglais, normands, germaniques (les Francs) etc., soit raisonnablement l'objet de la convoitise des anglais qui l'occupèrent pendant des siècles, ou des allemands (puisque les Francs étaient une tribu allemande), ou des Italiens qui l'occupèrent pendant plusieurs siècles... ? C'est absolument absurde.

Pourtant, nous acceptons l'argument de ces européens de l'Est et du centre qui, s'étant convertis au judaïsme il y a quelques siècles, s'en viennent à réclamer la terre de la Palestine qui aurait été occupée il y a trois millénaires par une violence inouïe par un autre peuple - les Hébreux - dont ces européens se déclarent les descendants. C’est absolument absurde.

 

Antisemitism Scarecrow Gone Too Far: Rejected by 700 Jewish University Professors

 

Nearly 700 Jewish professors call on Biden not to sign antisemitism legislation

Nick Robertson

Updated Thu, May 9, 2024

A group of nearly 700 Jewish college faculty signed a letter to President Biden on Wednesday encouraging him not to back the controversial Antisemitism Awareness Act.

The academics took issue with the act’s use of the International Holocaust Awareness Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which has raised concerns that legitimate criticisms of the state of Israel could be seen as antisemitic under the bill.

The bill easily passed the House last week, though 21 Republicans and 70 Democrats voted against it, with many voicing the same concerns as the faculty.

“Criticism of the state of Israel, the Israeli government, policies of the Israeli government, or Zionist ideology is not antisemitic,” the letter to Biden and Senate leaders reads.

“We accordingly urge our political leaders to reject any effort to codify into federal law a definition of antisemitism that conflates antisemitism with criticism of the state of Israel,” it continues.

By using the IHRA definition in federal law, the letter claims, the bill could “delegitimize and silence Jewish Americans — among others — who advocate for Palestinian human rights or otherwise criticize Israeli policies.”

“By stifling criticism of Israel, the IHRA definition hardens the dangerous notion that Jewish identity is inextricably linked to every decision of Israel’s government,” the letter continues. “Far from combating antisemitism, this dynamic promises to amplify the real threats Jewish Americans already face.”

The IHRA defines antisemitism as “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews” and says “Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

The organization provides a number of examples for what qualifies as antisemitism, including calling for the harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion, and accusing Jewish individuals as inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.

The letter urges lawmakers to instead pass the bill using a different definition of antisemitism, “without undermining Jewish safety and civil rights by insulating Israel from legitimate criticism.”

A total of 694 Jewish faculty from colleges and universities all over the country, and some across the world, had signed the document as of Wednesday afternoon.

Pushback against the bill in Congress united the far left and right wings of the House last week, with critics warning that the bill could chill free speech.

“Antisemitism is wrong, but this legislation is written without regard for the Constitution, common sense, or even the common understanding of the meaning of words,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) wrote on the social platform X.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), himself Jewish, said despite having “devoted much of my life to combatting antisemitism,” he was against the “misguided bill” that “threatens to chill constitutionally protected speech.”

The criticism comes as Congress focuses on antisemitism, given a rise in reported hate crimes against Jewish people. College campus protests have also taken the spotlight, as students at hundreds of campuses nationwide have launched pro-Palestine encampments, protesting the Israel-Hamas war and Biden administration policies toward Israel.

“Antisemitism, antisemitic posters, slogans, calling for the annihilation of Israel, the world’s only Jewish state,” he said in remarks at the Capitol. “Too many people denying, downplaying, rationalizing, ignoring the horrors of the holocaust ... It’s absolutely despicable, and it must stop.” 

[Iznogood comments: there is something unethical and insidious in linking the Holocaust with Palestine. Would Butcher Biden recommend that Armenians invade and rape Lithuania because of the Turkish genocide of Armenians?

What does the Holocaust have to do with the Palestinians and the rape of their country by foreign European settlers? Why should Palestine be the consolation price for the Jewish victims of Germany and other European Fascist countries - Germans, French, Italians and many others - for what they did to their own Jewish citizens some 75 years ago?

PALESTINE IS INNOCENT OF THE GERMAN HOLOCAUST OF JEWS. PALESTINE SHOULD NOT BE PUNISHED OR MADE TO BE THE SCAPEGOAT IN AN INTERNAL EUROPEAN CIVIL WAR BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND JEWS.]

 

No Longer Fearful of Zionist Funding Blackmail, Colleges Now Support Student Protests

Pro-Palestine protests remain strong and steadfast across college campuses nationwide nearly three weeks after they first appeared at Columbia University. And that despite persecution by Zionist henchmen whose Republican imbecilic puppets in Congress threaten to send protesters to Gaza.

In the weeks since April 18, more than 2,600 people have been arrested on 50 campuses. The protesters have said they want their schools to cut all ties with Apartheid Israel's Zionist racist supremacist regime in the Jewish colony in Palestine. Just like campuses across the entire nation did with the Apartheid South African white supremacist regime.

Protesters for justice for the Palestinian people, whose country was raped by European colonial settlers some 75 years ago, have been accused by the Zionist lobby and its domestic American servants of being marxists, terrorists, anarchists and such other typical and stale accusations from the late 19th century.

Many of the campuses have engaged in negotiations with the protesters that have led to early victories for the students: Colleges have pledged to either submit the issue to a vote or to actually begin a disengagement with investments and corporations that manufacture lethal weapons for the criminal settler Zionist government in occupied Palestine. Other colleges have canceled their commencement exercises as they were seen too exuberant and superfluous while millions if innocent civilians are being slaughtered by the Zionists in occupied Palestine. All of this spells victory for the protests which are still in their early stages. College protests against Apartheid white settler South Africa took almost two years to materialize in the abolition of the apartheid regime, the liberation of Nelson Mandela and the ushering of one democratic c0lor-blind South Africa for all its people.

At the University of Chicago, hundreds of protesters remain entrenched on campus after more than a week. University President Paul Alivisatos acknowledged the school's role as a protector of freedom of speech and officers in riot gear who initially blocked access to the school's Quad were asked to retreat.

Officials at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have engaged in a tug of war with teachers and instructors who overwhelmingly support the proteters. Some students have been informed by instructors opposing the suspension of student protesters that they will withhold grades. The school provost's office said it would support "sanctions for any instructor who is found to have improperly withheld grades."

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), protesters were given a deadline to voluntarily leave or face suspension. Very few have left, according to an MIT spokesperson, but many protesters remain entrenched behind the fencing erected around them.  On Monday night, some hundred students remained at the encampment in a calm atmosphere.

Schools not beholden to the Zionist agents are still showing support for the protests, letting students hold demonstrations and organize their encampments as they see fit.

The Rhode Island School of Design, where students started occupying a building Monday, has affirmed students' rights to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly and supports all members of the community. The school has said President Crystal Williams spent more than five hours with the protesters that evening discussing their demands.

The president of Wesleyan University in Connecticut has commended the on-campus demonstration — which includes a pro-Palestinian tent encampment — as an act of political expression. The camp there has grown from about 20 tents a week ago to more than 100.

President Michael Roth said the university will "continue to make space" for the protesters "as long as that space is not disruptive."

If the Palestinian Anne Frank of Gaza in Palestine Could Speak

What do you think she would say? What diaries would she write?

Fear and terror at getting killed, kidnapped, or sent to the notorious prisons of the state that raped her country and made her a refugee-for-life. In her own native Palestine, hunted by foreigners with strange names who do not speak her language, who burned the original village of her grandmother along with its olive and orange groves, sent her family off fleeing on death marches as refugees in their own land, to settle in some squalid refugee camp. Those are the stories the many Palestinian Anne Franks would write in their diaries. Their own stories and the stories of their grandmothers who still hold the deeds and those big bulky keys to the ancient wooden doors of their ancient stone houses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Palestinian Anne Frank is being hunted down by a self-declared superior and moral Fascist militia for the past seven months, indeed for the past eight decades. From refugee camp to refugee camp. Not in the comfort of a golden prison in a cozy attic in Amsterdam. 

Eating one meal every other day, after waiting for hours in long lines for a tin can of watered soup. Not with food delivered every day by kind hosts. Carrying jerrycans of water for half a mile whenever water is available.

The Anne Frank of Amsterdam had the luxury of writing a diary, of pondering the situation and her feelings. The Palestinian Anne Frank may not have that luxury, as her family moves on donkey cart from one desolate landscape to another under the constant barrage of  American-made 2,000-lb bombs kindly gifted by the generous government of the land of the free and the home of the brave.

The Palestinian Anne Frank would tell in her diary, which she writes on candlelight, of how her father was seized by the Fascist police, stripped to his underwear, forced to crouch in the sun under the grinning laughter and humiliation of Fascist soldiers holding guns. She would tell her diary that her father never came back. She still remember his face, but the image is fading a little day after day.

She would tell stories of dead bodies littering the streets as her donkey cart travels up and down the Gaza Ghetto-concentration camp. She would tell of body parts strewn all over this wasteland that long ceased to be a hometown. She no longer has a hometown. Her hometown is the back of this donkey cart. Her bed is this torn blanket she has been carrying around for months. She has no place to hide the diary she might have written. 

She would tell how, should she survive the war, she will have her face and body repaired by doctors who will remove the dozens of shrapnel that now dot her face and body.

The Palestinian Anne Frank would say in her diary that when she had her first period, she thought she was hit by shrapnel from one of those magnificent bombs that Americans make to fall from the sky on innocent civilians.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She would tell how her grandmother gave her the old key to the ancient wooden door of the family's ancestral stone house in some beautiful valley in the lost paradise that Palestine used to be. She hopes to preserve that key, despite the constant moves from refugee camp to refugee camp.

Had she had a normal life, she might have read Anne Frank's diary, visited the house where she hid in Amsterdam, and learned to empathize with ordinary people subjected to the horrors of wars by madmen who read too many Torahs, Gospels and Korans and who take their imagined fictions literally.

Palestine: The Wall is Breached. Young Americans are pro-Palestinian

Young Americans are more pro-Palestinian. Why? Because, unlike their Zionist-misinformation captive elders, the Internet has liberated the truth and opened their eyes to the historical facts.

For the past several months of war between Israel and Hamas, US public opinion on the conflict appears to have shifted, except for one constant: a divide between the views of older and younger Americans has creeped up both during the war and in the years leading up to it.

A late October YouGov poll found that more people ages 18-29 sympathized with Palestinians than with Israelis in the current conflict — the only age bracket with that view (28 percent expressed more sympathy with Palestinians vs. 20 percent for Israelis — though even more sympathized with both peoples equally, 31 percent). Older groups were more likely to sympathize with Israelis than Palestinians or both groups equally, particularly those 65 and older. Only 14% of 18- to 29-year-olds thought it was “very important” for the United States to protect Israel, in contrast to two-thirds of those 65 or older. It appears that the unrelenting Israeli savagery against innocent civilians in Gaza has breached the wall of Israeli supremacy in the generally ignorant and biased American understanding of the conflict.

Two generations, two narratives

One expert says that each age group has a different “generational memory” of Israel. Older generations have been impregnated by Zionist propaganda that has over-exploited the Holocaust to view Israel as a refuge for the Jews, exclusively seen as permanent victims.  Palestinians, on the other hand, who are the real victims of the creation of Israel, have been globally, though wrongfully, associated with third-worldism, terrorism and Islamism.

Germans and other Europeans committed the Holocaust, not the Palestinians. Instead of directing their anger and hatred at the innocent Palestinians whom they expelled into refugee camps and whose country they invaded and destroyed, Israelis should direct their anger and hatred at those Germans and other Fascist Europeanswho perpetrated the Holocaust.

The paradigm myth which Zionist propaganda has literally drilled (movies, newspapers, books, documentaries, and endless tales of Germany's barbarity against its own Jewish citizens) into the older generation of Americans as one of a people returning to their homeland after living for 2,000 years as a scattered diaspora facing persistent persecution, has finally failed the test of reality in the minds of the younger generation. Persistent calls by Palestinian intellectuals to try and present the conflict in a more balanced and less biased way, combined with Israel's growing militarism, ultra-religiosity, expansionism, racism, and denial of a Palestinian identity searching for its own return to its ancestral homeland, have borne their fruit. Archival records, together with archaeological and genetic data, debunked the made-up and bible-garbage-founded links between the ancient Hebrews of Bronze Age Palestine and modern-day, newly converted, European Jews.

Israel's military victories against its Arab state neighbors (Syria, Egypt and Jordan), in 1948, 1967 and 1973, could no longer camouflage the horror of foreign colonial settlers from Europe displacing with untold violence the native indigenous Palestinian population. During the months before and after the 1948 war that created Israel, an estimated 700,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes by threats, massacres, rapes and looting, and about 600 Palestinian villages were literally erased from the maps of Palestine to either completely disappear or be replaced by Zionist "settlements". The language used does not need further explanation: Palestinian places are known as "villages", while Zionist places are known as "settlements"; this alone should tell you who is the real historical owner of the land and who is the savage colonial intruder.

But by the time millennials began forming their understanding of global events, the violence of the second Intifada had concluded in the mid-2000s with separation walls and barriers constructed between Israel and the West Bank, and then Gaza. Illegal in the eyes of the whole world, including by Israel's closest and only blind ally, the expansion of land theft, dehumanization and humiliation of the Palestinians, led the younger American and western generation to form a different idea of Israel than the one their elders had: The myth of the white European pioneer - a builder of Soviet-style Socialist collective settlements known as Kibbutzim who was "greening" the desert - slowly mutated into one of a repressive militaristic Israel that cultivated a racist attitude toward the lowlier "brown" Palestinians, that denied everything to the Palestinians, not just access to water and to their own lands, but also its freedom of movement, its life and livelihood, and its dignity trashed by unlawful imprisonment and unfair trials, under the military control of what had become a wealthy rich, nuclear-armed and malevolent power.

A racial justice lens

Joey Ayoub, a Palestinian-Lebanese writer, podcaster and academic, says young Americans are more likely to conceptualize the Palestinian cause as a sister issue to U.S. efforts for racial justice. There is a “visual parallel,” he said: of an armed white soldier or police officer dominating a space inhabited by a darker-skinned populace with limited power, whether in a town in the occupied West Bank or a majority-Black neighborhood in the United States.

“It’s a natural ally to the Palestinian struggle, because it’s very similar if you think of it in terms of the bullet points being demanded — the right to dignity, the right to life and so on,” he said.

He sees 2014 as a pivotal year in a new generation’s understanding of the conflict: A war in Gaza killed about 2,250 Palestinians and 73 Israelis at roughly the same time as protests erupted in Ferguson, Mo., over the police shooting of an unarmed Black man.

Eitan Hersh, a political science professor at Tufts University, said conflict between Israel and Palestinians seems to be seen by the young, especially on college campuses, as “a people of color — that is, the Palestinians — rising up against a white oppressor,” though a small portion of Israel’s Jewish population is of a non-European background. Some Israelis are the descendants of about 500,000 Arab and Iranian Jews who left for Israel between the 1950s and 1970s, not because they were persecuted as the filthy Zionists claim, but under intense pressure and with more than generous bribes by the arms of the Zionist movement, like the Jewish Agency, that wanted to increase the Jewish headcount at the expense of the native indigenous Palestinian headcount. I know this fact from personal experiences: In our neighborhood in Beirut, we lived side by side with Jewish families of pharmacists, photographers, teachers, bankers... During the 1960s, they would come to us one by one and tell us that "they have to leave for Israel because of pressure, scare tactics, and unimaginable sums of money". The Jewish community in Lebanon was a thriving one with schools, newspapers (The Alliance Israelite), summer resorts, and even a representative in the nascent Lebanese parliament. There were no pogroms, no mass expulsions... these were all lies spewed by Zionists to try and equalize their own pogroms against Palestinians.

Shifting Demographics and the Retreat of Religion

One explanation for the generational divide, experts said, was that fewer young Americans identify as conservative or Christian — demographics more likely to sympathize with Israel. The biblical mythology and its garbage supremacism and exclusivity from the Bronze Age, no longer speaks to younger generations. The advent of the Internet and the dissemination of archives and historical records, which younger Americans are more likely to consult than their ignorant parents (who to date cannot locate Israel on a map), revealed facts about the creation of Israel that were largely hidden or altered by Zionist propaganda. The Zionist made-up myths and lies were slowly debunked: the “biblical return”, the “land without people for a people without land”, the Palestinians’ “voluntary” abandonment of their villages and towns to become refugees, confounding a legitimate national resistance with terrorism and Islamist ideologies etc. The younger American generation awakened to the reality of Israel as one of many colonial enterprises (Algeria, Vietnam, South Africa, India etc.) that always sought to portray their colonized indigenous victims as uncouth savages and barbarians that the colonizer had to civilize under the "white man's civilizational mission".

Moreover, the tenacity of a downtrodden unsophisticated Palestinian resistance in the face of the overwhelming support to the Zionists by the West forced a deeper reflection by the younger generation over the root causes of the conflict, and the realization that long before the Zionists invented the myth of Israel-as-refuge for Holocaust survivors, Israel was conceived in the late 19^th century as a Jewish me-too colonial exploitation and a western outpost in the heart of the nascent oil fields in the Middle East.

“Young adults in America think of Israel in the same way that they might think of Iran, or China or Russia,” Professor Hersh said, referring to a 2021 study of young Americans’ views on Israel compared with other nations.

Thirty years ago, support for Israel was associated more with Democrats than Republicans. This began to change during the George W. Bush presidency, after 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when a perception on the American right developed “that Israel is the front line in this clash of civilizations — between a Judeo-Christian civilization and militant Islam,” the expert said.

Donald Trump’s support of Israel, including moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to the more contested city of Jerusalem, furthered the trend, said Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland.

“The fascinating thing there is that attitudes toward Islam and Muslims actually improved in America with the rise of Trump,” Telhami said. “People said, ‘We hate Trump, Trump hates Muslims, therefore, we like Muslims,' ” he said of progressives.

Another major factor in older generations’ feelings toward Israel is their greater religiosity. More than three-quarters of Americans 60-64 are Christian — with increasingly higher numbers for older brackets — compared with about half of adults under 30.

“It’s, I think, for many religious Christians, somehow a kind of atonement in supporting Israel and Zionism,” Waxman added. “Genuinely, a feeling of Israel as a consequence of this long history of Jewish persecution” by Christians. Some Christians, particularly among primitive ultra-religious evangelicals who believe that Israel was promised to the Jews by God, and that the return of the Jews to Israel fulfills a biblical prophecy of the events that will precede the second coming of Jesus Christ.

But even outside of this belief, the idea of Israel as a sacred land for Judeo-Christians has an emotional resonance that echoes back to the Christian Crusades – essentially an earlier Christian version of Jewish Zionism – in that both movements (1,000 years apart) tried to retrieve the Holy Land from the Muslims. This is simply not acceptable for the increasing number of secular young Americans.

“There’s a connection between Israel as they see it in the Bible and Israel that exists politically today,” Telhami said of some Christians. There is an association between place names like “Hebron,” “Jerusalem” and “the Galilee” with fictional Bible stories as much as with 21st-century geopolitics, and a long history of hearing this geography referred to as the home of the Israelites, particularly through the Old Testament.

Social vs traditional media

Dana El Kurd, a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Institute, said different types of media consumption have probably played a role in how people have formed their views on the Middle East.

Americans 45 and older are most likely to get their news from TV networks and their websites, which almost exclusively endorse and propagate the Zionist narrative, while Americans younger than 45 are most likely to get their news through social media and the wider Internet that opened access to vast but heretofore unreported archives that balance out the traditionally pro-Israeli bias.

The regular use of TikTok in particular is correlated with criticism of Israel, a New York Times/Siena poll found this week.

Ayoub, whose interview podcast “The Fire These Times” with Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Jewish, and Armenian perspectives has mostly Gen Z and millennial listeners, said that new forms of media facilitated access between content creators and consumers without “having a gatekeeper,” the latter being the biased TV networks and newspapers. Opening the floodgates of uncensored information began eating away at the Zionist narrative and allowed traditionally underrepresented groups to reach an audience, though it also had downsides, including “a huge uptick in misinformation” online.

TikTok has been criticized, especially by Republicans, because pro-Palestinian hashtags appear to be more popular than pro-Israel hashtags on the app. But the company says that phenomenon occurred organically, not because the company was intentionally manipulating its algorithm.

Overall public opinion in the United States traditionally supported Israel. But as recent demonstrations on college campuses around the country indicate, there is a fast growing generational divide. Even before the Hamas invasion of October 2023, there were distinct generational differences in Americans’ attitudes towards Israel. These differences are mirrored by divergences between older and younger Jewish Americans. There are signs that these gaps have widened since the current conflict began.

As the following polling from 2022 shows, older Americans have more favorable attitudes towards Israel than younger ones. A 2022 Pew survey found that 55% of Americans had a favorable view of Israel, while 41% had an unfavorable view. But a breakdown of these results reveals key generational and partisan differences. For example, only 41% of those aged 18-29 had a favorable view of Israel, compared to 69% of those aged 65 or older. Among those aged 30-49, 49% held a favorable view of Israel, and among 50–64-year old’s, 60% held a favorable view. Moreover, 71% of Republicans hold a favorable view of Israel, compared to only 44% of Democrats.

In March of 2023, Gallup found that Democratic sympathies in the Middle East now lie more with the Palestinians than the Israelis, 49% versus 38%, even among Jewish Americans who have come to increasingly distance themselves from the growing right-wing Zionist Fascism of recent Israeli governments. In many conversations I've had with Jewish students on US campuses, they could not understand or accept Israel's evolution from a shelter nation to an aggressive expansionist hypermilitarized regime that claimed it did not need friends in its own neighborhood. Not a good recipe for survival on the long term.

A survey commissioned by the Jewish Electorate Institute, a group led by prominent Jewish Democrats, found that 34% of Jewish respondents agreed that “Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is similar to racism in the United States,” 25% agreed that “Israel is an apartheid state,” and 22% agreed that “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians.” When broken down by age, 43% under 40 agreed that “Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is similar to racism in the United States,” among 40-to-64-year old’s 32% agreed with the statement, and among those over 64, 27% agreed. When prompted with the statement “Israel is an apartheid state,” 38% under 40 agreed, compared to 23% of those 40-64, and 13% of those over 64. Finally, the statement “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians” resulted in 33% of those under 40 agreeing, in contrast to 18% of those aged 40-64, and 15% of those over 64.

Additionally, the poll found that 9% of Jewish voters agreed with the statement, “Israel doesn’t have a right to exist.” Among voters under 40, that proportion was higher with 20% agreeing.

Interestingly, 62% of Jewish voters support the U.S. sending aid to the Palestinian people while only 28% oppose it, apparently demonstrating widespread acknowledgement of the plight of many Palestinian civilians.

An Economist/YouGov poll conducted between Oct. 21 and 24 demonstrates this. Somewhat more people in the youngest group, aged 18-29 sympathize with the Palestinians (28%) than with the Israelis (20%), far different than among those 65 and over who support the Israelis by a margin of 65% to 6%, respectively.

These generational and partisan differences influence views about public policy. In a recent poll, Quinnipiac University found while Americans 65 and older support sending more military aid to Israel by a margin of 46 points (69 to 23%), younger Americans are almost as strongly opposed, with only 29% in favor and 65% opposed. Similarly, Republicans support aid by a margin of 35 points (65 to 30%) while Democrats do so by only 6 points (49 to 43%).

There is a concern that unites Americans across generational and partisan lines. When a close ally of the United States is at war, many people wonder if we will soon be at war too. The Quinnipiac poll found that 84% of the public — from young to old and from Democrats to Independents and Republicans — fears that the United States will be drawn by Israel into a war in the Middle East. It remains to be seen how this concern will find political expression if the conflict continues for more than a few more months or years.

While some younger Americans are increasingly aware of the hardships that many Palestinians have had to endure, others are echoing long-standing anti-colonial narratives calling, as does Hamas, for the outright destruction of Israel. At the same time, some young Jewish Americans feel distant from the story of Israel’s founding and the Jewish struggle to gain the recognition of a homeland. For many younger Americans, the current bloodshed is their first experience with a conflict that has been going on for more than 75 years. The coming months are likely to have a profound impact on the attitudes they will carry with them through their lives.

In short, the walls of the untouchable and forbidden Zionist city have been breached. Never in the 75 years of Israel's history have Americans so clearly distanced themsleves from Israel. The organic connection betwen the US and Israel, woven by decades of propaganda and brainwashing of a generally inward-looking and ignorant American population, is unraveling. The truth is out. The lies are exposed for all to see. Justice can perhaps finally prevail.

 

Lahoud-LaHood: From pro-Syrians in Lebanon to Zionists in America

The LaHood family is a notorious political and feudal family in Lebanon. For decades, one of the Lahouds (Lebanese spelling) was a puppet president of Lebanon working for the Stalinist Syrian regime and its occupation of the country. "LaHood" is the Americanization of the name: The reason for the uppercase H in the middle of the name is that the sound this letter represents is a deep guttural voiceless pharyngeal fricative - ح - in Arabic, and the American Lahouds decided to highlight it, even though Americans cannot pronounce that sound.

In America, one of the LaHoods founded another political family farm in Illinois, and one of his offspring by the name of Darin LaHood has become a Zionist in the US. From pro-Syria in Lebanon, they are pro-Israel in America. Loads of principles and high moral standards.

This is typical Lebanese duplicity where survival compels them to become chameleons, donning the colors of the substrate on which they tread. If Darin defends the pro-Palestinian protesters, he might lose the election next time. Just as his ancestors did in Lebanon: Emile Lahoud would not have become president of the country under the Syrian occupation if he did not kiss ass to the Assads in Damascus. So he criticizes the pro-Palestinian protesters to prove his loyalty to the Zionist powers-that-be in America.

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LaHood says Pro-Palestinians crossing the line

Linda Cook

Sun, May 5, 2024 

WHBF Davenport

Demonstrations on college campuses across the country about Israel’s war against Hamas continue to grow in number and in intensity. They are getting more confrontational.

University of Wisconsin Police and demonstrators got physical Wednesday when officers arrested more than two dozen people for violating the law against camping on campus.

Hundreds of officers in New York broke up a protest at Columbia University at the request of the administration after protestors started occupying a building on campus.

There was a more violent confrontation on the campus of UCLA between Palestinian supporters and Israel supporters. Classes were canceled there Wednesday.

Several members of Congress see the pro-Palestinian demonstrators as anti-Semitic, pointing to verbal attacks directed at Jewish students on campus.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act Wednesday to beef up federal anti-discrimination laws. It now moves to the Senate.

This response on Capitol Hill to those pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses pits the argument of free speech against anti-discrimination law.

It’s one of the topics host Jim Niedelman gets into with Illinois Congressman Darin LaHood.

“We’ve seen a disturbing trend of antisemitic activity on college campuses,” LaHood said. “We should never tolerate the type of hate that we’ve seen toward Jewish Americans and Jewish students on campuses across the country.”

When Shimon Peres Applied for Palestinian Citizenship

Former Israeli leader Shimon Peres Arrived in Palestine as a refugee seeking to become a Palestinian citizen of the Government of Palestine. There was no Israel back then, but there was a Palestinian State with a Palestinian Government. His example is but one of the many insidious ways by which the Zionists ended up raping Palestine and creating the state of Israel over its ashes. Nowadays, instead of these murderous Zionists begging to enter Palestine as refugees from the horrors inflicted on them by their fellow Europeans, they are killing and evicting their Palestinian hosts, declaring them terrorists for defending themselves, stealing their lands, and denying there ever was a Palestinian State or a Palestinian people.

When Shimon Peres authorized the 1985 bombing of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in Tunisia, one must presume he had forgotten his earlier oath of loyalty to the Palestinian government, which was revealed when his Palestinian citizenship application was uncovered.

MyHeritage is an Israeli startup which has used the Israeli State Archives to compile a database of over 67,000 citizenship requests filed between 1937 and 1947 during the British Mandate period.

Shimon Peres's Application for Palestinian nationality

The Palestinian Quds News Network uploaded the documents to Facebook on Monday, receiving, in turn, an outpour of comments condemning Peres and his role in perpetuating the Palestinian conflict.

The documents revealed that Shimon Peres, then known as Szymon Perski, had declared an interest in “agricultural work” before travelling to the territory of Palestine.

The former Israeli Prime Minister’s signature appears at the bottom of the application, including a statement which declares that, “I will be faithful and loyal to the Government of Palestine.”

Peres became one of the architects of the State of Israel, especially through creating the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from what was a federation of Jewish terrorist organizations (Haganah, Stern Gang, Lehi group, etc.) that plundered Palestine, massacred, raped and expelled hundreds of thousands of indigenous Palestinian villagers, erased up to 600 Palestinian villages from the map, and are now, as we speak, continuing the ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine.

 

Israel's Killing of Doctors Aims to Prevent Resurgence of Palestine

Leading Gaza surgeon Adnan Al-Bursh dies in Israeli prison

Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman, Zeena Saifi and Kathleen Magramo, CNN
Fri, May 3, 2024

A prominent surgeon in Gaza has died in an Israeli prison after being held for more than four months, according to Palestinian prisoners’ groups, which decried his death as part of a “systematic targeting” of health care workers.

Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, head of orthopedics at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, was declared dead by Israeli prison authorities at Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank on April 19, according to a joint statement Thursday from the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society and the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs.

Al-Bursh was arrested along with 10 other medical workers in December during the Israeli military ground invasion of the Jabalya refugee camp, CNN previously reported. He was taken away while treating patients in Al-Awda Hospital, according to the statement.

His body has not yet been released by Israeli authorities. The prisoner associations blamed Israel for his death, saying it was part of a “systematic targeting process against physicians and the health care system in Gaza,” according to the statement.

CNN has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment.

The death of the 50-year-old was “heartbreaking news for everyone, for his family, the medical staff at Al-Shifa Hospital, and for Dr. Adnan’s patients,” the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, Dr. Marwan Abu Saada, told CNN.

“This is the last thing we expected, and it’s difficult for the human soul to bear this news,” he said. “Dr. Adnan loved life, was cheerful, and was loved by everyone.” Al-Bursh’s nephew Mohammad Al-Bursh told CNN in a phone interview that he found out about the death of his uncle at around 1 p.m. on Thursday from the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society.

“I didn’t know how to tell his wife and my father. News like this is hard to keep in… We are shocked, more than anyone can imagine. We are in pain,” he said.

The youngest of nine siblings, Dr. Al-Bursh wasn’t just a doctor, he was also a sports adviser for the Palestinian national soccer team, his nephew said.  He told CNN his uncle worked nonstop during the height of the war in Gaza, only taking an hour in the morning to jog and play sports by the beach.

Palestinian surgeon Al-Bursh (left) is pictured treating a wounded Palestinian child at a hospital in Gaza. - Ministry of Health in Gaza

“From October 10, 2023, he spent every moment he had at Al-Shifa hospital. He didn’t even see his wife until probably two weeks later,” Mohammed said.

During the first Israeli incursion into Al-Shifa hospital, Mohammad told CNN [that] Israeli soldiers told the medical staff, including Dr. Al-Bursh that they could either leave the hospital and go south, or face arrest.

He followed orders and went south temporarily, eventually returning to the north of Gaza when he felt the roads were safe, Mohammad said. Dr. Al-Bursh ended up moving from one hospital in Gaza to another, each always falling victim to Israeli incursions.

According to Mohammad, Dr. Al-Bursh had the option to flee and take refuge in shelters in Jabalya but was determined to keep working. Until he was detained by Israeli soldiers on December 14 last year. Mohammad said he tried to get information about his uncle’s arrest from authorities and lawyers but was kept in the dark.

Al-Bursh with his two children. Colleagues told CNN the doctor "loved life."

Allegations of physical and psychological abuse

Just like Mohammad, Abu Saada said he had earlier asked Israeli authorities about Al-Bursh’s detention but “didn’t receive any news.” Abu Saada was told that one of Al-Bursh’s fellow prisoners – who had since been released – said the surgeon had been tortured and was killed.

CNN cannot independently verify the claim that Al-Bursh was tortured in detention. However, testimony from dozens of Palestinians who have been released by Israel in past months alleges the widespread use of physical and psychological abuse of those detained by Israel during the war in Gaza.

The IDF has previously said it treats all detainees in accordance with international law.

An unpublished report compiled by the United Nations which CNN has obtained describes beatings, sleep deprivation, sexual abuse and threats of sexual violence against both men and women detained by the Israeli military.

Earlier on Thursday, Israel released dozens of Gaza detainees via the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel. The release included the return of the body of Ismail Khadr, a Palestinian man from Gaza, who had also recently died in Israeli custody, the prisoner associations said in the joint statement. The total number of Palestinian detainees who have died in Israeli custody since October 7 rose to 18, the statement said.

Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza after the Hamas-led October 7 attacks when militants killed more than 1,200 people in southern Israel and took more than 200 people hostage. Israel’s military response has since sparked a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza that has inflamed opinion globally.

The seven-month bombardment of Gaza has killed more than 34,600 people, according to the Gaza health ministry. Half of the 2.2 million people in Gaza are on the brink of starvation and man-made famine is imminent, according to a scale used by United Nations agencies. Concerns are also heightened over an anticipated Israeli military operation in southern Gaza’s Rafah, prompting renewed calls for a ceasefire.

There has been fierce criticism of Israel’s actions in and around hospitals in Gaza, as medical groups and NGOs warn the health system in the territory is on the brink of collapse. Israel has defended its incursions at medical facilities in Gaza, alleging that Hamas fighters used hospitals to run military activities through a network of underground tunnels. Hamas and medical staff at various hospitals across Gaza deny the allegations, and Israel has been under significant international pressure to prove its claims.

Dr. Al-Bursh is survived by his five children, the youngest aged three, who hadn’t seen their father in nearly five months. “I walked into the mourning house yesterday and saw two of his kids jumping around expecting to see their father. They didn’t know that he was martyred,” his nephew told CNN, struggling to hold back tears.

The last post Dr. Al-Bursh posted on X was a cartoon image of him wearing his scrubs in the midst of Gaza’s destruction, with a note in Arabic that read, “We will die standing and we will not kneel… All that remains in the valley are its stones, and we are its stones.”