#Israel's unrepentance

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Unto Us a Child is Born

1 But there is no gloom upon her who is distressed, as when at first He humbled the land of Zeḇulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward more heavily oppressed her, by the way of the sea, beyond the Yardĕn, in Galil of the nations.

2 The people who were walking in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death a light has shone.

3 You shall increase the nation; You shall make its joy great. They shall rejoice before You, as in the joy of harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

4 For You shall break the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Miḏyan.

5 For every boot of one trampling in tumult, and coat rolled in blood, shall be used for burning and fuel of fire.

6 For a Child shall be born unto us, a Son shall be given unto us, and the rule is on His shoulder. And His Name is called Wonder, Counsellor, Strong Ěl, Father of Continuity, Prince of Peace.

7 Of the increase of His rule and peace there is no end, upon the throne of Dawiḏ and over His reigna, to establish it and sustain it with right-ruling and with righteousness from now on, even forever. The ardour of יהוה of hosts does this.

8 יהוה sent a word against Ya‛aqoḇ, and it has fallen on Yisra’ĕl.

9 And the people shall know, all of them, Ephrayim and the inhabitant of Shomeron, who say in pride and greatness of heart:

10 “The bricks have fallen down, but we rebuild with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we replace them with cedars.”

11 And יהוה set up the adversaries of Retsin against him, and stirred up his enemies,

12 the Arameans before and the Philistines behind. And they devour Yisra’ĕl with an open mouth. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.

13 And the people have not turned back to Him who smites them, nor have they sought יהוה of hosts.

14 And יהוה cuts off head and tail from Yisra’ĕl, palm branch and reed in one day.

15 Elder and highly respected, he is the head; the prophet who teaches falsehood, he is the tail.

16 For the leaders of this people lead them astraya, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.

17 Therefore יהוה does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is defiled and evil, and every mouth speaks foolishness. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.

18 For wrongness burns as the fire; it consumes thornbushes and weeds, and sets the bushes of the forest ablaze, and they roll up like rising smoke.

19 The land shall be burned up by the wrath of יהוה of hosts, and the people be as fuel for the fire. A man shall not spare his brother,

20 and cut down on the right hand, but shall be hungry; and he devours on the left hand, but shall not be satisfied; each one devouring the flesh of his own arm:

21 Menashsheh Ephrayim, and Ephrayim Menashsheh; together they are against Yehuḏah. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out. — Isaiah 9 | The Scriptures 1998 (ISR 1998) The Scriptures 1998 Copyright © 1998 Institute for Scripture Research. All Rights reserved. Cross References: Judges 7:25; 1 Samuel 30:16; 2 Chronicles 28:6; 2 Chronicles 28:18; Psalm 46:9; Psalm 68:2; Ecclesiastes 4:5; Isaiah 1:31; Isaiah 7:1-2; Isaiah 7:8-9; Isaiah 31:1; Matthew 1:1; Matthew 1:23; Matthew 4:15-16; Matthew 12:34; Matthew 15:14; Matthew 24:24: Luke 1:32; Luke 1:79; Luke 19:4; Revelation 18:8

[zeitztun]

ik this is known but no successful settler colony has reached relative "internal stability" without genocide. north america is the first example of this that comes to mind: during the early years all up to the 19th cent., wars and attacks between native americans and settlers were frequent. and yes, while the settler armies were more well armed and more powerful, the native americans were a great force against the european invasions and did cause casualties among white populations, "including civillians", and halted expansion and development for many of the colonies.

this was met in 2 ways:

federal programs sponsored by the colonial states (violent deculturation, seperation from families through residential & boarding schools, expulsion from ancestral lands and destruction of the indigenous identity)

and unofficial, "individual" settler and enlistee actions of massacres upon indigenous populations. these events obviously were never prosecuted because they worked in tandem with the colonial powers, supported and encouraged by them.

the extermination of the american indigenous people wasn't just a facet of american success but the foundation of it. if they weren't subject to the genocide, the wealth and vast land in north america wouldn't have reached the white populations and the continent would be unrecognizable today, with canada and the united states not slightly as globally influencial as they are today. imagine a usa reliant on tourism.

and ik this is all elementary level information, but israel mirrors this entire process in eery similarity, with ancient, ancestral lands seized from palestenians exploited and destroyed for capital gains following violent expulsions (the nakba created israel). palestinians remaining within the israeli border endure lynchings and attacks by settlers as well as repression and persecution under federal law. israel was founded on the same colonialist principles that america and other european settler colonies (algeria, mozambique, kenya) were: their survival just depended on how far they would go to destroy the indigenous population.

what im dreading is that israel is on course to go further and proceed with that destruction. we are currently is a uniquely horrifying moment: 2,600 dead palestenians and 6,000 in hospitals with 0 supplies and 0 power - and the ground assault following the impossible evacuations is looming. the massacres about to sweep palestinian lands with the gifting of the ten thousand rifles to settlers. the unprovoked, unwarned and constant airstrikes. the monolithic, hysteric nature of mainstream western media. the army's sentiment of hunting animals. the global unrepentant backing. the repeated promise of complete victory.

what would complete victory mean? you cannot quell palestenian resistance without exterminating palestine. the palestenian people are a tortured people, hungry, radicalized simply from their day to day life: not one gazan hasn't watched corpses being pulled from the rubble, not one gazan doesn't have murdered family, not one gazan doesn't have something to mourn. their friends and family disappear or lose limbs on the daily now, building on grief from the previous 7 decades deep destruction. the homesickness is constant. the sounds of explosions is never far. of course there would be resistance movements, of course there would be revenge attacks, of course it will be bloody, because no humans in the world could silently endure these conditions. if hamas was entirely destroyed tomorrow, the next generation of palestinian youths would simply form another. for a complete, permanent victory, you would need to raze palestine.

this is why i balk at people hoping for coexistence. coexistence goes against the very founding strategy of israel. it goes against every principle and long term plan israel has for itself. israelis themselves do not want coexistence, they want gaza flattened and the west bank annexed, they want palestine destroyed and the palestenian people extinct. any sympathy with israel is a transgression on humanity.

[eretzyisrael]

by Rachel O'Donoghue

Everything about the spectacle reeked of choreography: the green military-style uniforms forced upon them, the framed certificates they were compelled to hold aloft like unwilling contest winners, and the stage constructed for no other reason than to parade captives in front of the cameras.

This wasn’t just a release of hostages; it was a grotesque theater performance — Hamas’ carefully crafted attempt to project an image of power while simultaneously masquerading as benevolent.

The four young Israeli women — Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Albag — soldiers kidnapped from the Nahal Oz army base in southern Israel on October 7, 2023 — were the reluctant stars of this PR charade.

And yet, somehow, some in the media managed to swallow this sham whole. They didn’t just cover the hostage parade; they gave it legitimacy as if parading captives before the world wasn’t an affront to the very humanity Hamas so desperately wants to feign.

The BBC, for example, falsely claimed during a live report showing Hamas’ sickening PR stunt that the Israeli hostages were wearing the same IDF uniforms they had been kidnapped in. This, of course, was a blatant misrepresentation. As even Hamas’ own wealth of body camera footage from October 7 makes chillingly clear, the four were abducted from their beds and paraded through Gaza’s streets in bloodied pajamas and underwear — not military fatigues.

The truth behind Hamas’ choice to dress the hostages in army-style uniforms couldn’t be more transparent. It was a deliberate ploy to insinuate that these women were legitimate military targets. And yet, the BBC and others, including Australia’s ABC News played right into this lie, lending credence to Hamas’s narrative.

Media Rehabilitate Released Terrorists

As part of the first stage of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, Israel has agreed to release approximately 1,900 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 33 Israelis taken captive during Hamas’ terror attacks.

Saturday marked the second round of this so-called “first stage,” with 200 Palestinians walking free. Among them were more than 120 individuals serving life sentences for carrying out deadly attacks on Israelis — a reminder, if one were needed, of the kind of people Israel is being asked to trade for the return of its citizens.

And yet, outlets like The New York Times and the Associated Press went out of their way to engage in some serious image rehabilitation for the unrepentant mass murderers released, including when both chose to describe a terrorist serving a life sentence for attempted murder and planting an explosive as an “Islamic Jihad activist.”

Yes, “activist” — a term typically reserved for those campaigning for political or social change — was somehow deemed an appropriate label for a terrorist whose “activism” involved planning mass-casualty attacks on innocent civilians.

Meanwhile, CNN saw fit to elevate Haaretz journalist and terrorism apologist Gideon Levy, presenting his fringe views as though they reflected Israeli society. Incredibly, Levy was given a platform to draw a grotesque equivalence between the Israeli hostages and the released prisoners, referring to both as “hostages” and telling his CNN hosts they “may call” the convicted terrorists that.

[lizbethborden]

Started listening to American Predator while doing my chores etc. Something I didn't realize or even think of, and I guess it's just unfamiliarity with this style of business, is that Samantha Koenig worked at one of those bikini kiosks.

If you're not familiar with him, the book is about Israel Keyes, a very recent American serial killer who committed suicide in prison in 2012. He has a mythology about being the most meticulous serial killer of all time, because he buried multiple caches of supplies, or "kill kits," all across the country, and traveled hundreds of miles out of his way to retrieve these kits and commit his murders, exploiting jurisdictional boundaries and the isolation and lack of resources in rural and underprivileged areas to make people disappear.

He was caught after he kidnapped and murdered Samantha Koenig, a teenager working a night shift at a coffee kiosk in Anchorage, Alaska. He held her hostage, raped her, killed her, froze her corpse in his shed, later returned and thawed her body, sewed open her eyelids, and staged a "proof of life" photo so that he could collect ransom for her. Later, he dismembered her and submerged the pieces of her body in an Alaskan lake. It's been implied in what I've read and listened to that he committed necrophilia with her corpse and the corpses of other victims.

Samantha Koenig worked at a coffee kiosk. In the American Northwest this seems to be a pretty common business, and to be stereotypically staffed by young, attractive women, especially because in the summer, the female staff wears bikinis to serve coffee. The first 48 hours of the investigation into her disappearance were squandered by investigators assuming she had just run away. Even when surveillance footage was discovered showing Keyes holding her at gunpoint, forcing her to empty the register, tying her up, and kidnapping her, it was considered "unclear" whether this is what was actually happening, because they'd appeared to be having a friendly conversation beforehand. The police did not publicize her disappearance until after her father's activities--standing outside the kiosk for hours, handing out flyers with her face on them--forced them to act.

When I realized she worked at one of those bikini shops, I thought about the video publicized a few months ago of a young woman at a similar shop on the West Coast, who, after a male customer berated and threatened her and threw coffee at her and the kiosk window, took out a hammer and smashed his windshield. She was interviewed afterward through a lens of how she should be regretting or questioning her own actions. Luckily, this woman was totally unrepentant, as she should be.

Something it makes me think about is the extent to which these women and girls are considered disposable. If Samantha Koenig's father had not advocated on her behalf and widely publicized her disappearance, what actions would the police have taken? What did it matter if it initially appeared that she was friendly with her attacker in the video--how does that possibly confuse the issue of her being held at gunpoint and tied up with zip ties? She didn't have her own bank account, not even her own debit card. She didn't have her own car. How was she going to run away?

I don't have a full conclusion here. But this is what's circling in my head right now:

Objectification/dehumanization of these women and girls, especially because of working in a sexualized environment

The role of women and girls, especially in customer-facing service roles, as absorbers of cultural (male) aggression and unhappiness

The indifference of authorities to these "disposable" women (something which Keyes not only exploited here, but to the nth degree when he victimized Native communities, people of color, and prostituted, drug-addicted women--Gary Ridgway was similar)

[hero-israel]

Besides the unrepentant Jew-hatred, one of the worst things to come out of this conflict is that I have no more trust when it comes to news out of Gaza. None. My empathy has been taken advantage of too many times. At least 80% of the stories coming out of that strip of land always prove to be false after 24-48 hours of independent verification. There's always multiple "last hospital standing in Gaza." People always posting about "there's no power in Gaza" yet their cell phones are always working. Inflated death numbers. Lying about a famine. Half of the images out of that damn place are stolen from Syria. Another quarter are proven to be AI. There is no way to ever be sure what news out of Gaza is true or fake, and I'm tired of it.

I just assume any news from the Palestinians' mouths is a lie until it's proven true because they do not deserve the benefit of the doubt anymore.

I believe Palestinians in Gaza are suffering. The problem is that pretty much every activist and press group and NGO that could report on how badly they are suffering has been proven to be useful idiots at best, falling for the 2020 Gaza Rapture and how Israel sent tainted Covid vaccines to cause autism and how the worst thing that ever happened in the Middle East was the Al-Ahli hospital "bombing."

I'm sorry to say this but any time I have ever attempted discussion of this with a Palestinian-AMERICAN it has always proven pointless. I have never encountered one that knew the most basic history outside AJ's two-minute-hate soundbites. None had ever heard of the Peel Commission or al-Husseini. All of them, to the last, believed the two stripes on the Israeli flag symbolize ruling from the Nile to the Euphrates. One told me that Zionism had oppressed the good peaceful original Jews like Golda Meir who had identified as a Palestinian - because that person had never read her famous interview where she declared "Palestinian" meant Jew and that there was no such thing as a distinctly Palestinian Arab at all. Meir was taking the hardest-core anti-Palestinian stance imaginable and this AMERICAN COLLEGE GRADUATE saw it as solidarity! They know NOTHING - about their enemy! How the fuck does that work? How can someone have an adversary in a long conflict and make zero effort to learn who they are, what they care about, why they are there? And as I've pointed out before, this unlettered bluffing goes to the highest levels of Palestinian society. It is a roadmap to failure.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Eugene Kontorovich

Hamas’ grisly terror raid on Oct. 7 has proved to be the single most stunningly successful act in gaining support for the Palestinian cause—not among Israeli or American voters, of course, but among top Democratic policymakers, and their counterparts across the Western world. One might think that a campaign of unrepentant killing, torture, rape, and hostage-taking would be disqualifying for a national independence movement. But in Washington, Hamas’ ongoing crimes have resulted in much of the weight of the U.S. government being brought to bear on advancing the cause of Palestinian statehood, and its correlate, the punishment and demonization of the Jewish state.

Months of U.S. backing for the Palestinian national cause have produced glorious results for Palestinian diplomacy. Whereas less than two years ago, at a meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas, President Biden had declared that “the ground is not ripe” for renewing negotiations between Ramallah and Jerusalem, the Oct. 7 massacres made Biden change his mind—and make the establishment of a Palestinian state with all deliberate speed a central priority of U.S. Middle East policy. Since Oct. 7, four countries have recognized the “State of Palestine,” with three European states indicating their intent to do so in May. That is more recognition than the PA has won in the entire past decade (notably, only one country moved to recognize Palestinian statehood during the Trump administration).

International institutions, seeing that Israel’s protection by the U.S. has been lifted, have also showered gifts on the perpetrators of Oct. 7. In recent weeks, the U.N. General Assembly voted to upgrade the Palestinians’ status, giving them privileges reserved for member states. On Monday, the International Criminal Court charged Israel’s prime minister and defense minister with committing war crimes, placing them on a par with the terrorist leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar—a huge diplomatic coup for the terrorist group that creates a moral equivalence between it and Israel. Had Oct. 7 only managed to revive the trial of Jews for killing babies, it would have still been a triumph.

Indeed, in his first three years in office Biden was careful to avoid overtly repealing any of President Trump’s historic pro-Israel initiatives, preferring a more indirect approach that nevertheless signaled the administration’s preferences and end goals. In recent months, the administration has dropped all pretenses—making it clear that Iran, not Israel, is its favored regional client. Israel is forbidden from restoring peace to the country’s north by attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon, or from offering anything more than a token response to a massive direct attack by Iran.

By itself, the specific identity of the perpetrators of gruesome violence does not account for Western advocacy on their behalf. That is explained only by the specific identity of the victims: Jews.Share

A similar about-face applied to the question of Israel’s borders. In November 2019, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo clarified that the United States did not view Jews residing in Judea and Samaria (“West Bank settlers,” as they are called) as a violation of international law; two months later he “disavowed” the so-called Hansell Memorandum of 1978, which used shaky legal reasoning to declare Jewish communities in the historic Jewish heartland to be illegitimate. In June 2023, the State Department circulated foreign policy guidance to relevant agencies ending bilateral scientific and technological cooperation with Israeli institutions in Judea and Samaria, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, even as it maintained that it had not reinstated the Hansell memo.

This past February, however, the administration let it all hang out. Without bothering to present any legal analysis, Secretary of State Blinken declared that Jewish communities in those areas that had been ethnically cleansed by Jordan after 1948 were illegal (“inconsistent with international law”), going further than even the Obama administration, which had used the lesser epithet “illegitimate.”

Last month, the administration indicated it might require that Israeli-made products from Judea and Samaria no longer be labeled as “Made in Israel.”

[whencyclopedia]

Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), a lieutenant-colonel in the Nazi SS, was responsible for organising the transportation of Jewish people and other victims of Nazism to concentration, labour, and death camps. Eichmann played a key role in the Holocaust and murder of 6 million Jews but escaped capture after the Second World War (1939-45). He later fled to South America.

Living under a new identity in Argentina, Eichmann's past eventually caught up with him when Israeli agents identified and captured him in 1960. Eichmann was removed to Israel where he faced trial for crimes against humanity. Found guilty, Eichmann was sentenced to death by hanging. Unrepentant to the end, he was executed on 31 May 1962.

Early Life

Adolf Eichmann was born in Solingen, Germany, on 19 March 1906. When Adolf's mother died in 1910, the family moved to Austria. In Linz, Adolf's father worked as a manager of a power and tram company. Ironically, given later events, at school Adolf was "taunted because of his dark appearance and small stature as 'the little Jew'" (Boatner, 150). Following in his father's career, Adolf enrolled at the Linz Higher Institute for Electro-Technical Studies, but he left after two years. Adolf then worked as a travelling salesman for several power and construction companies, but he was ambitious to represent a power of a very different kind.

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[poooooooooao3]

adl and standing together are the different sides of the same coin. they are cowards and i don't hate them tbh. just pity them.

they are bending to the world. the world demands that they deny antisemitism, left, right and center. so they do. it's throwing us under the bus and very dangerous but unless i recall incorrectly, adl did similar shit under trump before. i can't remember who but someone said it's a humiliation ritual. and i agree. we have entered the age of humiliation for jews. the world intends to drive us apart and keep us divided. very scary.

I assume you're referring to this post?

If not, please correct me and I will delete this.

The non Jewish world has always attempted to humiliate us. That never stopped. Why else would they "permit" us to pursue vocations that they found distasteful?

We never left that age. The quick and steep rise in antisemitism proves it.

The problem is this softer stance on this behaviour, condoned by a world leader, a world leader that is supposed to be allied to Israel, is a departure from Greenblatt's previous statement from late 2023 on this same goof over similar antics.

Published: 09.05.2023 New York, NY, September 5, 2023 … ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt issued the following statement today regarding recent developments with X/Twitter:

“It is profoundly disturbing that Elon Musk spent the weekend engaging with a highly toxic, antisemitic campaign on his platform -- a campaign started by an unrepentant bigot that then was heavily promoted by individuals such as white supremacist Nick Fuentes, Christian nationalist Andrew Torba, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and others. Finally, we saw the campaign manifest in the real world when masked men marched in Florida on Saturday brazenly waving flags adorned with swastikas and chanting "Ban the ADL."

But to be clear, the real issue is neither ADL nor the threat of a frivolous lawsuit. This urgent matter is the safety of the Jewish people in the face of increasing, intensifying antisemitism. Musk is engaging with and elevating these antisemites at a time when ADL is tracking a surge of bomb threats and swatting attacks of synagogues and Jewish institutions, dramatic levels of antisemitic propaganda being littered throughout Jewish and non-Jewish residential communities, and extremists marching openly through the streets in Nazi gear. All of this is happening in a context of the highest number of antisemitic incidents that ADL has tracked in more than 40 years -- and just two weeks away from the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

And so, this behavior is not just alarming nor reckless. It is flat out dangerous and deeply irresponsible. We need responsible leaders to lead, to stop inflaming hatred and to step back from the brink before it's too late.”

So why does the first lady, Musk, get a pass this time?

Never kiss the ring on the hand intent to take your life. Ever.

We said 'never again', yes? How do we think we got there the first time?

By letting shit like this slide.

At some point we have to say 'no', and mean it.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to discuss this concern. xo

[tanadrin]

In Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany, Esra Özyürek describes the way that German politicians, officials and journalists, now that the far right is in the ascendant, have been cranking up the old mechanism of sanitising Germany by demonising Muslims. In December 2022, German police foiled a coup attempt by Reichsbürger, an extremist group with more than twenty thousand members, which was planning an assault on the Bundestag. Alternative für Deutschland, which has neo-Nazi affiliations, has become the country’s second most popular party, partly in response to economic mismanagement by the coalition led by Olaf Scholz. Yet despite the undisguised antisemitism of even mainstream politicians such as Hubert Aiwanger, the deputy minister-president of Bavaria, ‘white Christian-background Germans’ see themselves ‘as having reached their destination of redemption and re-democratisation’, according to Özyürek. The ‘general German social problem of antisemitism’ is projected onto a minority of Arab immigrants, who are then further stigmatised as ‘the most unrepentant antisemites’ in need of ‘additional education and disciplining’. ...

Netanyahu, too, has learned from Germany’s postwar efforts at whitewashing. In 2015 he claimed that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had persuaded Hitler to murder rather than simply expel the Jews. Three years later, after initially criticising a move by the Law and Justice Party in Poland to criminalise references to Polish collaboration, he endorsed the law making such references punishable by a fine. He has since legitimised Shoah revisionism in Lithuania and Hungary, commending both countries for their valiant struggle against antisemitism. (Efraim Zuroff, a historian who has helped bring many former Nazis to trial, compared this to ‘praising the Ku Klux Klan for improving racial relations in the South’.) More recently, Netanyahu accompanied Elon Musk to one of the kibbutzim targeted by Hamas, just days after Musk tweeted in support of an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Since 7 October, he has seemed to be reading from the Eichmann trial script. He regularly announces that he is fighting the ‘new Nazis’ in Gaza in order to save ‘Western civilisation’, while others in his cohort of Jewish supremacists keep up a supporting chorus. The people of Gaza are ‘subhuman’, ‘animals’, ‘Nazis’. ...

In a more unnerving illustration of the postwar German-Israeli symbiosis, the German health minister, Karl Lauterbach, approvingly retweeted a video in which Douglas Murray, a mouthpiece of the English far right, claims that the Nazis were more decent than Hamas. ‘Watch and listen,’ retweeted Karin Prien, deputy chair of the Christian Democratic Union and education minister for Schleswig-Holstein. ‘This is great,’ Jan Fleischhauer, a former contributing editor at Der Spiegel, wrote. ‘Really great,’ echoed Veronika Grimm, a member of the German Council of Economic Experts. The Süddeutsche Zeitung, which in 2021 ‘outed’ five Lebanese and Palestinian journalists at Deutsche Welle as antisemites, with equally flimsy evidence exposed the Indian poet and art historian Ranjit Hoskote as a calumniator of Jews for comparing Zionism with Hindu nationalism. Die Zeit alerted German readers to another moral outrage: ‘Greta Thunberg openly sympathises with the Palestinians.’ An open letter from Adam Tooze, Samuel Moyn and other academics criticising Jürgen Habermas’s statement in support of Israel’s actions provoked an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to claim that Jews have an ‘enemy’ at universities in the form of postcolonial studies. Der Spiegel ran a cover picture of Scholz alongside his claim that ‘we need to deport on a grand scale again.’ ... Susan Neiman, who wrote admiringly of Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Learning from the Germans (2020), now says she has changed her mind. ‘German historical reckoning has gone haywire,’ she wrote in October. ‘This philosemitic fury ... has been used to attack Jews in Germany.’ In Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust, which examines the German response to mass killings in Cambodia, Rwanda and the Balkans, Andrew Port suggests that their ‘otherwise admirable reckoning with the Holocaust may have unwittingly desensitised Germans. The conviction that they had left the rabid racism of their forebears far behind them may have paradoxically allowed for the unabashed expression of different forms of racism.’

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Damo

Published: Nov 15, 2024

This month is #IslamophobiaAwarenessMonth. The ostensible goal of this initiative is to “deconstruct and challenge stereotypes about Islam and Muslims”. A noble aim you might think, as apparently do the organisations, institutions & individuals signalling their support.

However, Islamophobia Awareness Month was co-founded by the Islamist group MEND - an organisation closely tied to the terrorist support group CAGE and created with the purpose of “battering the Israel lobby” according to its founder Sufyan Ismail. 

MEND’s idea of challenging stereotypes appears to consist of attacking liberal Muslims & partnering with Salafist hate preachers such as Haitham al Haddad & Shakeel Begg.

Haddad supports death for apostasy. Begg was found by a judge to have “encouraged religious violence.”

One of MEND’s former directors, the now CAGE-employed Azad Ali, is also no stranger to court cases. This unrepentant Hamas supporter launched a libel suit against the Daily Mail for describing him as a hardline extremist who supports the killing of UK troops in Iraq. He lost.

MEND’s founder has pushed the scare-mongering assertion that British society hates Muslims, and has falsely and irresponsibly claimed that UK law does not consider threatening or committing violence against Muslims to be a crime.

Yet for a group who launched an anti-Islamophobia initiative, MEND are not keen on the infinitely more moderate group Tell Mama who exist for the same purpose. MEND have described them as being headed by a “pro-Zionist” & criticised their liberal position on homosexuality.

MEND were also less than enthused with the appointment of liberal Muslim Sara Kahn to lead the counter extremism commission, with one of their officials referring to her as “an Oreo” – a racist reference to those who are deemed brown on the outside but white underneath.

In 2018 head of counter-terrorism policing, Sir Mark Rowley, aptly criticised MEND’s undermining of efforts to tackle hate crime - referencing their absurd and divisive claim that Britain was "approaching the conditions that preceded the Holocaust".

It should be clear that partnering with extremists groups like MEND and their cohorts, or otherwise legitimising them, does nothing to challenge actual bigotry, and that anyone interested in actually making a difference in this area should be giving MEND a very wide berth.

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In other words, "Islamophobia Awareness Month" is completely bogus, a propaganda tactic by Islamists to try to culturally embed the idea that any resistance to the demands of Islam constitutes racism and bigotry; namely, the imaginary crime of "Islamophobia."

The last time I posted about the fact "Islamophobia" doesn't exist, a number of people lost their minds, calling me the usual, predictable, tedious epithets.

So, before anyone screams at me like a blue-hair banshee, know that I will block and remove all traces of your reply or reblog unless you meet the following challenge: describe a real, legitimate, justified criticism of Islam in a way that does NOT and CANNOT constitute "Islamophobia."

That is my threshold. These kinds of people like to pretend that they're not trying to censor all criticism of Islam, they're just trying to protect people, by acting as if I just don't know enough (when I demonstrably know more than they do) and that it's the way I'm criticising it. So, demonstrate how it's done. If you cannot meet this straightforward challenge - and I'm pretty sure you can't, and you know you can't - then don't bother wasting my time or your own, because nobody needs to listen do you and you've already proven my point.

"Islam is not a race… Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not ‘Islamophobic’ to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy." -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

[angrybell]

So Hamas allies in the US attended the hearings today on Capitol Hill about aid to Israel. It looks like they attended in costume because it was Halloween.

Now, most likely they using as an inspiration the photo on the right with the man, hands bloodied, in the window. Who is he? How did his hands get that way?

That man’s name is Abdel Aziz Salha. He is a “Palestinian” originally form Ramallah.

The photo was taken on October 12, 2000. On that day, two Israeli reservists took a wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah. Ramallah, then as now, was under PA control. Since the two men were Israeli Jews, they were taken into custody by the PA Police and taken to the police station under arrest.

The man in the left picture below is Vadim Norzhich was a truck driver who had made Aliyah from Russia ten years earlier. The man on the right is Yossi Avrahami, a toy salesman in civilian life. On the day in question, they were reservists in the IDF being called to report to an IDF base at Beit El.

While arrested and in custody, Salha and crowd of Arabs formed. This was just over 2 weeks into the Second Intifada, an uprising that occurred because a Jew had the temerity to go up to the Temple Mount (side note, I did it seven years before and they didn’t care). Salha, and his buddies, were angry that the Israelis had not just let his compatiots riot and destroy everything they could. So when they heard that 2 Israelis were in custody, it was time for pay back.

In the US, if this were to happen, we’d call it a lynch mob.

Rather than disperse the crowd and retain control, the PA Police were happy to let Salha and his buddies “storm” the police station and pull the two Israelis out of the cells. The group that actually entered the police station were made up of 2 Tanzim members (part of Fatah/PLO) and 2 Hamas members. It appears that Salha was the only who wasn’t a member of either terrorist groups.

They were beaten.

They were stabbed.

Their bodies were mutilated.

And Salha was part of that. He choked one of the Israelis while others beat and then butchered them with knives.

Salha was pursued by the Shin Bet for 11 months before he was finally caught. At trial, he was convicted of murder of Norzhich. He was supposed to spend life in prison, the harshest penalty israeli courts can impose on anyone who isn’t a member of the Nazi party form 1933 to 1945.

But instead of spending lift in prison, he was exchanged as part of the prisoner swap for Gilad Shalit.

When asked if he had any regrets about murdering Norzhich by the Eletronic Intifada, he replied

“I believe it is not the right thing to speak about such incidents because ti is nto going to make a difference whether people know the details or not. … “ Salha said. “It will harm us [those who killed Israeli soldiers] if we keep speaking and boasting about what we did, and also it will be used agaisnt us by Israeli media.”

“Does that mean you regret what you’ve done?” I ask him

Looking ponderous, Salha remained silent for a moment before replying, “It just means we should not speak about how we feel about what we did.”

So the Left is celebrating an unrepentant murderer of Jews for being Jews in the “wrong” place. They’re probably claim its the equivalent of another lie that the intersectional left pushed to the point where people forgot the truth: Hands up, don’t shoot.

Kind of par for the course these days.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Unrepentance of Israel and Judah

Come, let us return to the LORD.

For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence. So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes. Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning. For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant;

there they were unfaithful to Me. Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood. Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities. In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.

Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity. — Hosea 6 | The Reader's Bible (BRB) The Reader’s Bible © 2020 by Bible Hub and Berean.Bible. All rights Reserved. Cross References: Deuteronomy 32:39; 1 Samuel 7:3; 1 Samuel 15:32; Job 29:23; Job 31:33; Psalm 19:6; Psalm 30:5; Psalm 78:34; Psalm 85:1; Psalm 126:1; Psalm 141:4; Jeremaih 5:30-31; Jeremiah 7:9-10; Jeremiah 11:9; Jeremiah 18:13; Hosea 4:2; Hosea 7:1; Matthew 9:13; Matthew 12:7; Romans 5:14; 1 Corinthians 15:4; Ephesians 6:17

[barbiegirldream]

Libs are going to be like yes Biden just approved the largest oil export terminal in the entire history of the country and yes his unrepentant support for Israel and its genocidal fascist bloodthirst drew us into a war with Iran because Biden is also a genocidal fascist but vote for him to save democracy. Like democracy bro you're delusional

[eretzyisrael]

TORONTO – Following B’nai Brith Canada’s advocacy, the University of Toronto has reportedly cancelled the room booking for an event featuring a convicted terrorist.

“Allowing an unrepentant member of a listed terrorist organization to spread propaganda on campus would have compromised the safety and well-being of students,” B’nai Brith Canada wrote Wednesday on social media. “We commend the university for taking appropriate action to prevent this dangerous platforming of extremism.”

Shadi Shurafa, the speaker, was convicted in Israel for plotting to bomb a Jerusalem bus during the Second Intifada. He is also a self-professed member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a listed terrorist entity in Canada. One of the groups that planned to host him was the officially recognized U of T Muslim Students’ Association (UTMSA).

B’nai Brith Canada warned U of T on Tuesday that the event threatened to foment hatred against Jewish and Israeli students. Shortly thereafter, event organizers removed social media posts relating to Shurafa’s appearance and later announced that the event would not be taking place on campus and that he would not be speaking.

“Canadian universities are supposed to be places of learning, not incubators of hate,” said Richard Robertson, B’nai Brith Canada’s Director of Research and Advocacy. “B’nai Brith Canada remains committed to defending the rights, safety, and dignity of peace-loving students and staff on campus.”

[vague-humanoid]

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[beardedmrbean]

I genuinely believe that neither side of the US political field will attempt to cross the aisle because too many get their rocks off being unrepentant assholes and to do away with tribalism will lead to 70% of the US population having to accept that they're unhinged violent individuals and not the good freedom fighters they have deluded themselves into believing they are.

election ads in my area were attacking a congressman I didn't have as a choice because the district changed but they going after him for crossing the aisle, there's several of them that will especially as things get more and more extreme on both sides.

I would really like a third party I can vote for that's got people that are not beholden to their party line.

tired of the republican in name only and whatever the democrat version is, hate both parties really.

Fetterman has things that I really don't agree with that he does but then occasionally he pops in and waves the flag of Israel at a group of angry protesters while saying they have the right to defend themselves, or that Rubio thing from yesterday.

There's some that will do what they feel is right regardless of party politics, sad that there so few is all.

I respect folks that will do that even if I don't approve of whatever it is they're pushing for.