#isreal will not stop pounding #palestine now as the sympathy #terrorists in the #un#icj and around the world try to extract demands using hostage and martyr.
I can't blame Israel for it's actions now. The legacy media world has taken the side of #Hamas. #Israel has nothing to lose and no one will stop them.
@louis@8124@RememberUsAlways well, how has this plan worked out? #Israel has made itself a pariah, which certainly does not serve Israel. Or it's allies. Like us.
And from what I understand - correct me if I am wrong - #Judaism is bigger than Israel, and there is dissent on this very same thing.
There were better ways. Leveling #gaza and killing civilians has demonstrably been the wrong path.
"Hamas demands the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to issue arrest and detention orders against all war criminals, including occupation leaders, officers and soldiers who participated in crimes against the Palestinian people. It also demands the cancellation of all arrest warrants issued against Palestinian resistance leaders, as these warrants violate international conventions and resolutions [Article 51 of the UN Charter].
#Judaism / There Are No Lights in War: We Need a Different Religious Language (Ariel Schwartz [January 16, 2024])
Ariel Schwartz comes from a right-wing, religious Zionist family, in the political dialing areas of Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. He studied at the Etzion Yeshiva, in southern Mount Hebron, and during his regular service in the settlements in the West Bank, he asked himself who those stateless Palestinians were, "who live under the daily rule of the IDF." These questions caused him to become a left-wing activist.
He tells #Haaretz […] "They took from me the thing most precious to me, my faith, and directed it against me. As religious people, we believe that our tradition demands a different moral stance, one that can restrain the war instead of fueling it."
[…] An example of this can be found in the recent words of R. Amihai Friedman, the rabbi of the Nahal brigade’s training base: “I sit and imagine that in these days there are no casualties, hostages, or injured,” he told his soldiers. “And the second I remove them from the screen, I’m left with what is maybe the happiest month in my life since I was born.”[1]
[…] R. Friedman’s words give rise to a harsh realization: around us is a religious world that is happy, in many respects, about the current war.
[…] Thus, for example, writes R. Yigal Levinstein in the pamphlet He Leaps Up Like a Lion: On the Exaltation of the Spirit and the Special Level of Life During Times of War that saw light in the situation: “The war is not a marginal thing, and we should not view it as a ‘mistake’ or a ‘mishap’ which we would have preferred to avoid. The war is a great thing and, at the end of the day, brings a great message to humanity on its wings.”[2]
[…] According to R. Levinstein, the greatness of the war is rooted in the fact that it is one of those extraordinary moments in which “the inner soul shines in all its vitality.” Indeed, for the individual, the war is a difficult event, but at the national level it calls forth great moments in which the people of Israel “reveals from within itself its mighty heights of life.”
[…] Widening segments of the contemporary religious community are seeking to wrap the war in a halo of enchantment and holiness and turn it pleasant, ideal, and even joyous from an emotional perspective. In furtherance of this aestheticization and idealization, there are those who seek to remove any ethical brakes from the war. They call for us not to differentiate between blood and blood and condone any action done in its framework. These conceptions treat the spirit of battle as the climax of the revelation of the human spirit, but within this, implicitly, it is as though they require war to happen again and again, so that this “spirit of battle” may be revealed. In light of this attempt, we must seek a different religious language―one that remembers that the Jewish horizon is not war but peace, that the goal of the Jewish nation’s existence on this land is not “to shorten the life of man but to lengthen,” and that ethical conduct even in times of war is the soul of our religious tradition.
Militarized police officers assaulting, on camera, an unarmed 65-year-old woman, Annalise Orleck, who also happens to be Chair of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth, is ensuring Jewish safety on campus.
"We need an exodus from Zionism" - Excellent opinion piece by Naomi Klein in today's #Guardian (actually a transcript from her speech at the 'Emergency Seder' held in front of Chuck Schumer's house a couple evening's ago).
"This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name."
#Passover 2024 / Time for Exodus from Zionism (Naomi Klein)
#Zionism is a "false idol" that has betrayed core #Jewish values of justice, emancipation, and liberation and turned the biblical story of the “Promised Land” into a justification for "colonial land theft, roadmaps for ethnic cleansing and genocide" against Palestinians. Naomi Klein calls for liberating #Judaism from the #ethnostate of Zionism, which wants Jews to live in perpetual fear.
We cannot talk about Passover, a holiday celebrating Jewish liberation, without talking about the extreme violence and dispossession carried out against Palestinians at this very moment in the name of the Jewish people.
I’ve translated below the words of Simon Assoun, who organizes with me as part of Tsedek!, a collective of decolonial Jews in France. Simon’s words exactly convey my feelings at this time.
#Wikipedia / Controversy over "Redemption of Captives" Entry on Wikipedia Amid Efforts to Sway Public Opinion
The demand for the return of the Israeli captives held by Hamas for 150 days has led to an embarrassing war around the value of "redemption of captives" (Hebrew: פידון שבויים) on the Wikipedia. Until recently, the entry dealing with the commandment of returning captives focused on #Maimonides' interpretation that "there is no greater commandment than the redemption of captives." However, observant surfers noticed that since October 26th, the entry has been changed several times, and qualifications to the commandment were introduced - in what appears to be an attempt to sway public opinion.
Directed by two first-time filmmakers, Erin Axelman & Sam Eilertsen, ISRAELISM uniquely explores how Jewish attitudes towards Israel are changing dramatically, with massive consequences for the region and for Judaism itself.
"It is about the Land according to the redefined Judaism that emerged in the centuries following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE. This Judaism replaced the temple cult with Torah study - a study that pertained in part to that very temple cult, that became a portable homeland, and that reconfigured the Land."
"It is about the Land according to the redefined Judaism that emerged in the centuries following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE. This Judaism replaced the temple cult with Torah study - a study that pertained in part to that very temple cult, that became a portable homeland, and that reconfigured the Land."
"Studying texts from the cities and countryside and tracking developments over time, Alstola shows that there was notable diversity in the Judeans’ socio-economic status and integration into Babylonian society."
Alstola, T. (19 Dec. 2019). Judeans in Babylonia, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004365421 [Accessed 29 April 2024]
"Studying texts from the cities and countryside and tracking developments over time, Alstola shows that there was notable diversity in the Judeans’ socio-economic status and integration into Babylonian society."
Alstola, T. (19 Dec. 2019). Judeans in Babylonia, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004365421 [Accessed 29 April 2024]
Smadar #Lavie: "The refusal of elite #military reservists to attend to their periodic training […] is conceived as another Ashkenazi privilege. In general, being pro-Palestinian in #israel often requires contacts and funds to pay bail rather than rot in prison in case one is arrested during a solidarity visit to West Bank villages."
Smadar #Lavie: #israel#Mizrahi left "#NGOs are budget dependent. If there are donations, they usually come from progressive Zionist donor organizations of the American-Jewish diaspora, and NGOs need to adapt their activism so that they don’t offend the donors. The image diaspora Jews have of Israel is that all Jews are equal in the homeland of the Jews."