#israeli trips

[tilbageidanmark]

There was another 4 minutes air raid warning this evening. These happen a few times a day, but usually not that long.

[still-searching-for-something]

Just found out I’m not on Heritage Posts’ totally not antisemitic blocklist of Zionist Jewish blogs yet 😔

Clearly, I need to Zionist harder. Maybe one day, with enough Zionisting, I can get there!!

[solarpunkani]

The awful awful mix of ‘wants to do something tangible outside of just reblogging posts’ and ‘broke ass college student whos too anxious to do phone calls’ is devouring my goddamn mind

[blueiscoool]

Israeli First-Grader Finds a 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Amulet on a School Trip

At first she was upset she couldn’t keep it, but Amalia Riverkin eventually came around.

A first-grade teacher at Alumim School in Efrat, a settlement in Palestine, recently took her class on a trip to Tel Azekah, sometimes described as the site of the biblical encounter between David and Goliath. Showing them a piece of old pottery she had picked up, she explained that there were many ancient artifacts and unique items in the ground.

When she noted her pupil and their friend lagging behind the group toward the end of the trip, she found them studying a tiny rock that looked like a bead.

“I looked at it closely and saw incised lines, I turned it over and saw ancient Egyptian writing,” Hanna Spitzer, the teacher, later said. “At that moment I realized that what I was holding in my hand was thousands of years old.” In fact, experts now say the item dates back some 3,500 years.

Spitzer contacted the Israel Antiquities Authority, and Omer Shalev, director of the organization’s Jerusalem Education Center, traveled to the school that same day and presented Amalia with a certificate of appreciate.

The scarab seal is a talisman in the shape of a dung beetle, an animal that was sacred to the ancient Egyptians and served as a symbol of new life. Such scarab amulets found in modern-day Israel indicate an Egyptian presence there some 3,500 years ago. The amulet bears the name of the sun god Amun-Ra, one of the great deities in the Egyptian pantheon during the New Kingdom (16th to 11th centuries B.C.E.). Five scarabs inscribed with his name had already been found at Tel Azekah.

“Many people have antiquities in their homes that came into their possession under different circumstances: some were collected in the field in the course of agricultural work or walking and others were inherited,” Eli Escusido, Antiquities Authority director stated in a press release published on the organization’s Facebook page. “Many of these people are unaware that by law they have to report the discovery of antiquities as they are legally public historical treasures.”

[clarabosswald]

y'all would... literally believe if someone on twitter said the sky was falling. and that israelis made a holiday of it of course

[disco-cola]

Just seeing the posts and reports in the captions of eye on palestine’s instagram account from just the last 24 HOURS is crazy. Fucking crazy. Over 100 deaths in not even a full day again. And then media says they are lying about it bc the numbers are so „unclear“ like dude they don’t get THE TIME to even count let alone bury their people with dignity, it’s just too many in too little time. I think the traumatization I already have from previous videos is at its final point but it keeps going (again, my lucky privileged ass watching from a safe home in a first world country while they have no choice but to see and feel all this in real life). They let 20 aid trucks in when several hundreds have been waiting for days at the closed border. Before the „“““““counterattack““““ around 100-200 aid trucks reportedly came into Gaza daily to deliver goods (reports on the definitive number differ tho, some say it’s been even more usually). Now they let 20 in after over two weeks of complete blockade. This is still inhumane conditions. People aren’t just dying from attacks but also hunger and thirst and getting sick from dirty water. I don’t understand how this can still be going on, i read more than half of the buildings in Gaza are already destructed and most victims are women and children. Keep in mind Gaza is only like 40 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide, that’s like not even half of most big cities like berlin or nyc. Way to fucking go israhell

[makuta-tobi]

Guy posted a meme comparing Israel to the Nazi party in a leftist group, told him that wasn't cool, but I was chill about it

He then tells me that as a jew, it's good that I'm uncomfortable because maybe then something will happen, and also said that "Jews are killing them because they need Jewland for when Jesus comes back and takes everyone to heaven" and I'm like bro you're fucking demented, WHAT

[n0thingiscool]

I remember when my best friend went to Israel in her early 20s. This was late 90s/early 00s. I was so confused by her trip given how the news covered it. Like who goes to a war zone for vacation?

I remember looking at the pictures she took and thinking how beautiful everything looked for a place that was so violent... it didn't make any sense. It was so fucking disconnected. I was also weirdly annoyed with how blissful she seemed on and after the trip given how bad shit was over there. Again, I was super confused why anyone would even go there given for how violent it was/still is.

At that time, I was dating a Palestinian American boy and was therefore under no false pretenses of the Israeli occupation or how that part of the world was. Despite dating a Palestinian American and havinga white Jewish American best friend, I had no idea how psychotic and culty those trips are. I didn't even know they had some disgusting sounding "Manifest Destiny" name and were fucking free. This is trashy AF. It is true Israel deserves to exist but just as much as Palestine. And not like this. This is just fucking trash. I had no idea of the depths of how culty the country's nationalism is. Fuck. This is gross. This is white supremacy.

Katie, a Jewish American who grew up in a pro zionism family. And is very much anti zionism and pro Palestine talks about "birthright trips."

I've heard some crazy shit in my life but oh man I was not prepared for this.

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My mother's sewing box, which she’s using for pencils.

[xtruss]

Sheikh Zayed Towers, Which Were Destroyed By The Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, Apartheid, Liar, Conspirator and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-helli Attacks in Gaza City, seen on June 4, 2024. Photo: Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images

A Federal Judge Visited “The Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, Apartheid, Liar, Conspirator and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell” On A Junket Designed To Sway Public Opinion. Now He’s Hearing A Gaza Case.

Activists Suing The Biden Administration Over Gaza Policy Are Demanding The Judge Recuse Himself Over The Sponsored Trip.

— Shawn Musgrave | June 5 2024

Plaintiffs Suing The Biden Administration Over Gaza Policy have asked a federal appellate judge to recuse himself because of a trip he took to Israel in March. The World Jewish Congress, which sponsored the junket for 14 federal judges, framed the delegation as part of Israel’s “fight in the international court of public opinion.”

In an emergency motion filed Tuesday, the plaintiffs’ lawyers argued they were “ethically compelled” to ask Judge Ryan Nelson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to recuse himself because the WJC trip was “explicitly designed to influence U.S. judicial opinion regarding the legality of ongoing Israeli military action against Palestinians.”

The plaintiffs are a mix of Palestinian human rights organizations and individual Palestinians, including Dr. Omar Al-Najjar, who has written about his experiences working in the decimated health infrastructure in Gaza. In November, they filed a complaint in federal court against President Joe Biden and other top officials, seeking “an injunction requiring the United States to fulfill its international law duty to prevent and cease being complicit — through unconditional financial and diplomatic support — in the unfolding genocide in Gaza.”

The district court dismissed the case in late January but urged the administration “to examine the results of their unflagging support of the military siege against the Palestinians in Gaza.” The plaintiffs appealed to the 9th Circuit, which is scheduled to hear oral arguments next week. Nelson’s selection for the three-judge argument panel was announced on Monday.

In March, Nelson joined 13 colleagues from the federal bench on the WJC-sponsored trip. Like Nelson, many of the judges on the trip were appointed by former President Donald Trump.

According to a disclosure about the trip, the judges met with high-ranking members of the Israel Defense Forces about “Operation Swords of Iron” — what Israel calls its current military operation in Gaza — and the application of international humanitarian law during war. The trip also included sessions with one of the attorneys defending Israel before the International Court of Justice, Tal Becker; former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin; and members of Israel’s Supreme Court and Knesset, the disclosure shows.

The judges met with a high-ranking official at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, to get the “American perspective,” one judge told the Jerusalem Post. State Department Secretary Antony Blinken is one of the defendants in the case before the 9th Circuit.

In a LinkedIn post summarizing lessons from the trip, Judge Matthew Solomson of the Federal Court of Claims, who helped organized the delegation, wrote, “Israel’s military culture is very attuned to international law; commanders consult lawyers at every step and the lawyers have veto power. We watched many video clips of Israeli military lawyers stopping strikes based on proportionality and collateral damage assessments. Their enemy doesn’t play by such rules.”

In late March, Nelson and Solomson spoke about the trip at a lunch talk hosted by Harvard Law School’s chapters of the Federalist Society and the Jewish Law Students Association. Their remarks were not made public, but Solomson wrote in a LinkedIn post that Nelson “expressed his inspiring faith in God and, concomitantly, an optimistic view of the future.”

Kath Hochul’s Trip of “The Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, Apartheid, Liar, Conspirator and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell” Bankrolled By Group Funding Illegal Settlements! New York Disgusting Governor Kathy Hochul Visits “The Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, Apartheid, Liar, Conspirator and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell” on October 19, 2023. Photo: Shlomi Amsalem/Office of Gov. Kathy Hochul

UJA-Federation of New York, A Tax-Exempt Nonprofit, Has Sent More Than Half a Million Dollars to Groups Supporting “The Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, Apartheid, Liar, Conspirator and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-helli” Settlements.

“The UJA Has Helped Destroy Any Semblance of a ‘Peace Process’ or Possibility of a Two State Solution.”

In their recusal motion, the plaintiffs highlight coverage of the trip in the Israeli press, particularly by the English-language ILTV. “This invaluable experience allowed them to delve deeper into the legality of Israel’s conduct in the operation,” ILTV said of the trip in an Instagram post.

“At this time, when Israel is facing so much in the court of public opinion and in the courts around the world,” WJC’s chief marketing officer, Sara Friedman, told ILTV in March, “it’s so important for people who understand the judicial system, who understand the laws of war, to come here.”

“The World Jewish Congress is sending a message by bringing these groups that we are supporting the state of Israel,” Friedman told ILTV. “By bringing these groups here and showing them the truth about what is going on, it’s the best diplomacy we can do.”

Friedman did not immediately respond to The Intercept’s request for comment about the trip. The Intercept also asked WJC for copies of materials given to the judges during the trip.

An anonymous statement by federal judicial clerks last month criticized the Israel trip.

Peter Joy, who studies legal ethics at Washington University in St. Louis, said it is often difficult to predict how judges will rule on recusal.

“They make a strong case for the judge to step down,” said Joy. “Here’s somebody who went on a trip, the explicit purpose of which was to try to get Israel’s point of view across.”

Cassandra Burke Robertson, director of the Center for Professional Ethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, did not think it was a clear-cut case for recusal.

“The closest issue here is that it sounds like officials on the trip may have been providing specific information about the legality of the operation,” Robertson said. “But if the information was more general, then I don’t think it would be disqualifying.”

“Although Judge Nelson certainly COULD recuse, I don’t think recusal is required under the statute or Judicial Canons,” Rory Little, a professor at UC Law San Francisco, told The Intercept in an email. “He might recuse; it’s not a clear case in either direction.”

Arguments are scheduled for June 10, and the plaintiffs asked the 9th Circuit to rule on their emergency recusal motion by Thursday. A spokesperson for the 9th Circuit said the panel will address the motion, “presumably before Monday.”

The Justice Department, which did not oppose the recusal motion, declined to discuss the case.

[vamptastic]

Ik it's a fairly small action compared to some other synagogues but during the seder my rabbi made mention of the palestinian death toll and said some stuff relating welcoming the stranger to the need for peace in israel. Which considering everything to this point that he has shown to the congregation has been stuff about returning the hostages from israeli sources, including a lot of videos by IDF soldiers (it's mostly songs, nothing overtly horrible, but it does bug me), is nice. I mean ideally we would be fully advocating for a ceasefire but it's a step up from before, and from the chabad in the area which has always been kind of insane politically.

[styrofauxm]

ngl I looked for a reblog like this because this is exactly right.

in 2023 I saw lots of posts with tens of thousands of notes calling public figures zionists, and linking a source, and the source would just say that they are jewish, have family in Israel, have visited Israel ever, and/or were born in Israel. Not that they supported the actions of the Israeli government.

Obviously, we do not know Twitch's intentions, but saying that this is a simple case of people supporting genocide is disingenuous.

Edit: OP somehow hid my response to them from the notes and blocked me so I can't make a new one, but this one is still showing up, so here's a link with full context: https://www.tumblr.com/styrofauxm/767267904386416640/yes-i-did-scroll-through-the-reblogs-to-find-the?source=share

Not cool to accuse me of confirmation bias when the only post between this reblog and the one I responded to initially was a clear conspiracy either. And very not cool to deliberately hide evidence disproving your claims.

That’s not how slurs work but not like genocide supporters give a shit.

[bulletinobserver]

Blinken pushes for Palestinian governance reform in Ramallah trip

The United States pushed for a reform of the Palestinian governance as the Secretary of State Antony Blinken continued his . . . Read the full article

[killthemartiansociety]

Nobody owns another person.

Truth shines above all.

No white bite master could make me

A black jack disaster.

I’m neither your dog litter nor your honor killing.

Welcome to Earth, your vampiric blood

Hoarding and lying in the clouds of

A bomb cascade must’ve given you

Amnesia, or at least a fucked up sense

Of direction.

[sayruq]

The skies of Gaza fill with shifting shapes on an early spring morning. At first they are barely visible, only specks soaring above central Gaza’s wetlands. Mandy Sirdah quickly raises her binoculars. “Storks!” she shouts excitedly. Close by, Lara Sirdah, her identical twin sister wearing matching clothes, grabs her long-focus camera and points it to the sky. “So many! So beautiful!” she cries out with joy as she snaps photos of hundreds of white storks flying in circles above her. Every spring, millions of birds set out from their wintering grounds in Africa and make their way north to Europe and Asia. At the intersection of three continents, the Middle East is an important stopover and one of the world’s busiest corridors for bird migration. Many of these birds fly over Gaza, an overcrowded coastal enclave often described as an “open-air prison.” The birds soar above more than two million people, most of them refugees whose families were forced to leave their villages in 1948 with the establishment of the State of Israel and have been unable to return. Concentrated in refugee camps, Palestinians in Gazahave also been confined by Israeli policies of military closure over many decades and a brutal air, sea and land blockade imposed since 2007. “Our movement is very restricted,” says Lara, who feels cut off from the rest of the world. “We wish we were birds so we could move freely.” Over the past years, birdwatching trips to the Strip’s wetlands, groves and fields have offered the twins a rare opportunity to escape the feeling of confinement. With their heads raised to the sky, they search for birds and dream of flight