#pro-Isreal lobby

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Palestine Information and Resources

I have some resources for you all. My main focus here is for Palestine, but there are more places that need help as well, like Congo, that I will put closer to the end and post more about when I can (I won't have internet for the next week after today).

Here is a website that tells you which brands to boycott, and why.

We have to stay loud an continue to interact with those sharing the news. Especially the creators in Palestine, who are on either TikTok, Insta, or both.

wizard_bisan on TikTok and Instagram. (ill list more later when I can)

I am going to talk about AIPAC (American Isreal Public Affairs Committee). As soon as I clicked on the website I was overrun with nausea. "Stand with Isreal. America must stand with out ally as it defends its citizens". Calling to us to call congress, which they have already paid so much money to do their bidding in destroying the Palestinian people, to tell them they are doing a good job with their death parade.

The Guardian article (slightly left-leaning, according to bias-examining website AllSides) - wondering why our government is not calling for ceasefire or listening to citizens. lobbying is the answer, likely. Another Guardian article from 2019 about 2018.

AIPAC's website says that 98% of AIPAC backed candidates won the election in their respective fields. AIPAC clearly has power. And money.

Here is a website showing money that goes around in the government. You can check multiple things based on filters here.

More on money here by the same site.

Some about DeSantis, limiting freedom of speech of pro-palestinian student article and article 2

I need to go to sleep but I'll update this when I can.

So research of Congo, of other genocides. Educate yourself. If me, a white, sheltered, 18-year old can do it, so can you.

Stay loud.

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[USA flag emoji] [China flag emoji] Who IsReally behind the TikTok ban? ([Israel flag emoji])

TikTok has 103 million monthly active users in the US.

More than 1/3 (37.36%) of mobile internet users actively engage with TikTok.

Half of TikTok's US users are between the age of 10 and 29, with teens making up the bulk oh the user's base.

Over 50% of content creators are between 18 and 24 years old.

From October 23-30, 2023, posts with the # 'standwithPalestine' were posted 10x more than posts with the # 'standwithIsrael'.

Posts with the # 'standwithPalestine' also received 5x as many views.

When TikTok was accused of deriberately pushing Pro-Palestinian content, they denied the claim and made it clear that the algorithm pushes whatever people engage with.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the director of the Anti-Defamation Leage (ADL), which is an extremely powerfulJewish-Zionist organization that has often targeted free speech, was very worried by this.

Seeing Gen Z in the US overwhelmingly support Palestine in the face of Israel agression, Terrified [in all caps] him.

Is it such a coincidence that today the 'TikTok Ban Bill' passes after Months [in all caps] of congress pushing for it so heavily?

They are demanding that the Chinese company 'ByteDance' sell the platform if the app wants to remain in the US.

With the ADL being so entangled with this decision, I would imagine they'd want to manipulate the algorithm to push Pro-Israeli content whule halting Pro-Palestinian content.

The Chinese lobby isn't a lobby Americans should be worried about, it's the Zionist one.

Because the Zionist lobby has been altering US domestic and foreign policy for over half a century.

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A screenshotted tweet from the CensoredMen account about the TikTok ban.

[newsfromstolenland]

Is the ICC investigating idf military brutality and war crimes against Palestinians already? Or did USA+UK cancel it from going thru? And are the self-righteous hypocrites still stanning idf-lobbying, "military training helped me play wonder woman", author of a pro-gaza-bombing Facebook post Gol Godot who defended direct attacks on civilians by claiming "all could be H*amas"? Why does nobody care about Palestine and how GG might be a militarist sycophant?!

The ICC (international criminal court) investigation into Isreal for war crimes against Palestinian civilians is ongoing.

The Isreali government is fighting this, claiming that it is rooted in anti-semitism.

I would just like to point out that Isreali officials must be held accountable for the atrocities committed against the Palestinian people, and that accountabilty is not the same as discrimination.

I will concede, however, that there are plenty of other countries getting away with war crimes (Canada, the USA, etc.), though my solution is to hold them all accountable, including Israel.

In answer to your point about Gal Gadot, she has a long history of endorsing the war crimes committed by the Israeli government, her defense being that she is Israeli herself. It's worth noting that many Israelis, and Jewish people all over the world, abhor the treatment of Palestinians, so her ethnicity and religion is no excuse for her support of war crimes.

[progressivejudaism]

Hello! Do you have any resources for someone who is wanting to gather a deeper understanding for the Palestinian/Israeli conflict? I have considered myself Anti-Zionist for a while, but I'm very eager to gather an understanding of Israel's positions. There are extremists on all sides and I just want to make sure I'm standing by my beliefs for the right reasons. Thank you!

Hi there!

Sadly, everything that is *out there* is going to be very biased.  But I think that it’s important to understand the three major biases out there- and which one I personally prefer.

First of all, you have the two major extremes.  Both are dangerous, riddled with bias, and are usually filled with pure hatred. Although I can point to certain periodicals, websites, and writers that tend to lean in these directions, I would much rather describe them so you know what to watch out for.

One extreme argues for the Israeli far-right.  On this side, you will tend to see a narrative that paints the Palestinians and Arabs as all extremists, Islam as the most horrendous religion in the world, and will often be very-pro occupation.  They often argue that Palestine is a myth, that Palestinian nationalism isn’t real, and that all of the problems that exist in Palestinian society are their own fault.

On the other side sits the Palestinian far-right and the Palestinian far-left (often dominated by non-Palestinians).  Both paint Israel and the government as extremists, tend to scapegoat Jews, and develop narratives of “Good Jews vs. Bad Jews”.  Although very anti-Occupation, this dual-side will often argue that the entire land mass should be considered Palestinian territory, and portray Zionism as the worst ideology that has ever been created.  This side often uses antisemitism to propel their arguments.

Both groups ignore clear history/archaeology, they vilify the “other,” and only think in “black and white”.  Both are disgusting, horrendous, and gross examples of pure hatred, bigotry, antisemitism/islamophobia/racism.  That is why I like option #3: the centrist perspective.

Those of us in the middle, understand all of the issues of sitting on the extremes of this Conflict.  Some statements to exemplify this perspective can be: “the Occupation is a horrible injustice, but Israelis shouldn’t be subjected to extremists attacks.”

I suggest reading and learning about as much as you can while understanding these three perspectives that exist.  I personally will only ever post articles (and write my own content) from the third perspective.  I do not think that the first two are productive.  But, I personally take in news from all three outlets and I think that you should too.

And as asked, here are my own personal resources that I think are the best of the best!

The purest form of Progressive Zionism appears in a book written by Alex Sinclair called “Loving the Real Israel: An Educational Agenda for Liberal Zionism“. I HIGHLY recommend this book for understanding how we can successfully talk about Zionism once you are well versed in the history.

JewishVirtualLibrary does a fantastic job at sticking to facts in regard to all of its content and doesn’t often let emotions (or false narratives) get in the way of teaching real information.  I warn you, this site is extremely dense.. but it’s great.

MyJewishLearning also provides some great resources on Isreal.  They are much less dense and typically have a more center/left wing bias.  

The NY Times gives a relatively simple description of the last 70 years of war.  It seems politically center.

ReformJudaism.com has several articles about Israel which should be helpful.

For your convenience, I have listed some of the major organizations/sites that support Israel.  I have included where they fall politically.

*ARZA (Association for Reform Zionists of America):  The NorthAmerican Reform Movement’s lobbying organization to the World Zionist Congress which promotes Progressive Jewish and Zionist values. (center left)

*The Jewish Agency: “ The Jewish Agency for Israel brings Jews to Israel, Israel to Jews and helps build a better society in Israel and beyond.   Our Vision To ensure the future of a connected, committed, global Jewish People with a strong Israel at its center.   Our Mission Inspire Jews throughout the world to connect with their People, heritage, and homeland, and empower them to build a thriving Jewish future and a strong Israel.“  (center)

*JStreet: “J Street is the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who want Israel to be secure, democratic and the national home of the Jewish people. Working in American politics and the Jewish community, we advocate for policies that advance shared US and Israeli interests as well as Jewish and democratic values, leading to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” (center-leftish)

*AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee): “AIPAC’s staff and citizen activists educate decision makers about the bonds that unite the United States and Israel and how it is in America’s best interest to help ensure that the Jewish state is safe, strong and secure.” (right)

*If Not Now: “We are building a vibrant and inclusive movement within the American Jewish community, across generations and organizational affiliations. This movement is open to any who seek to shift the American Jewish public away from the status quo that upholds the occupation. “ (far left)

*Breaking the Silence: “is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. We endeavor to stimulate public debate about the price paid for a reality in which young soldiers face a civilian population on a daily basis, and are engaged in the control of that population’s everyday life. Our work aims to bring an end to the occupation.“  (far left)

*Shoreshim / Roots:  An organization that brings Israeli Settlers and Palestinians together  (Center-left)

*Backgammon in Jerusalem  (Center)

*Yad v’Yad (Hand and Hand):  Palestinian/Israeli schools (Center)

*NasDaily: a 20-something-year-old Palestinian citizen of Isreal who makes 1-minute videos each day.  All of his videos are fun, some promote coexistence and love between Arabs and Jews. (center)

I hope that this helps, friend!  Please let me know if you have any other questions!

PJ

[ithisatanytime]

  The short version of the brainwashing you recieved goes as follows.  People notice average group differences between races, religions,  gender, etc. movies come out conflating that with people who judge individuals based on these group average differences, almost no one actually does this though, then they further conflate that with murder. the “racist” or “sexist” character usually murders someone throughout the course of the film or television series. this makes even noting these group average differences morally reprehensible, so that when we look at things like arrest rates, or income differences between men and women, we dont think first of the very real and relevant differences between these groups to explain this, instead the blame falls squarely on evil white men. btw you are totally allowed to make assumptions about individual white men based on the sins the group has been accused of committing, all white people are privileged, all white people are genocidal.

  this is bad enough, but then when you find out that the majority of our mass media which promotes these ideas is made by an incredibly tiny ethnic minority in direct competition with white men for resources and power, the true motivation becomes clear. Then when you learn this tiny ethnic minority (jews) has been kicked out of hundreds of different locations over thousands of years for pulling some shit exactly like this it starts to click.

   remember they have had over 2000 years of trial and error to refine this group survival strategy. its not some shadowy group that meets in a building though often times it is, the jewish world congress for instance, im sure you didnt know that was a thing. or AIPAC the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in which american politicians and corporate big wigs meet up and decide unanimously to continue giving israel billions of dollars in aid every year. in fact we give more money to israel in aid than we do to all other countries combine, including all the countries in africa, israel must really be struggling. also keep in mind every war we fought in the middle east was against a direct enemy of israels. its incredible our foreign policy has so frequently aligned with israels, they truly are our greatest ally. that being said, they arent a monolith, many jewish people dislike israels treatment of Palestine, some jewish people are socially conservative etc. but practically all jewish lobby groups are pro immigration and demographic replacement of white people in the west. in short, its not necessarily a conspiracy theory, though likely many jewish people living in the west do conspire against american interests, but instead it is a group survival strategy, and in part its instinct.

  Jewish influence on the west should be what everyone is talking about all the time, every day, until we undo the damage its done to our country, but of course its never mentioned as most news organizations are owned directly by jews and the rest know that they’d better play ball. the left is totally oblivious due to years of emotional propaganda that trains them to never think of racial explanations, not even to entertain them, unless the explanation is “because white men are evil” and the right has a jewish hand so far up its ass they can taste the fingers. most protestant christian churches are in fact death cults propping up isreal to fulfill a very bizarre interpretation of revelations, on that you will just have to take my word, as i am sure most of you reading this are not the church going type. The effect jewish influence has had on the west is fucking devestating, the near complete destruction of the nuclear family, no unifying tradition, reliigion, racial make-up.  its been a disaster, the american dream is long dead and is starting to draw flies, men and women are being taught the wrong things on purpose and as a result men are killing themselves more than ever, figuring (correctly) that the odds of them leading fulfilling lives, with a wife and children are basically moot, and women not only flying down the express way to lonely spinsterhood, but literally turning to online prostitution to make ends meet. single parent households are the norm, white people are not breeding fast enough to replace the deaths due to social and economic meddling, and at the same time being rapidly replaced by millions of illegal immigrants who out breed us tenfold. things will steadily and quickly decline if we are unwilling or unable to examine the source of these problems, the social conditioning makes this very hard for americans, no one wants to be a nazi, but I have good news brother, the nazi party was disbanded nearly one hundred years ago, and you can criticize and penalize people without shoving them into magic ovens. we are going to have to do something about jewish influence in the west or all hope will be lost.

  I think its clear to everyone at this point that our media is bizarrely hostile towards white men, who in a majority white country, should be their primary customer base. this is why. they developed hostility towards european men by living as an “other” in white countries for thousands of years. if they were not hostile to the host nation they would have been instantly swallowed up! they would have interbred and ceased to exist hundreds of years ago, just like dozens of other peoples you have never heard of. they developed a critical eye towards Europeans to remain a separate people within their lands, and once they gained control of our media and academia, white nations adopted a view point critical towards white people! most will not be ready to accept this as the holocaust narrative was extremely effective for deflecting criticism from ethnic jews living in the west. that alone should be evidence for what im saying, that in a primarily white country, the worst thing you can be is someone who criticizes jews, their exists no other GOOD explanation for why that is. i will keep harping on about this until enough people are convinced that we can change our country. set things back to how they were when shit actually worked. this isnt working for anyone, and no, going farther to the left will not make things better, why the fuck would it? its made things progressively worse.

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J Street - Progressive Anti-Isreal

J Street – Progressive Anti-Isreal

Side Bar: J Street is a progressive Jewish lobbying organization which declares itself ‘pro Israel’ while taking every opportunity to demean and condemn the Jewish State. This organization seems unable to accept it was the Arab Muslims themselves, who when invited to join in the new Israeli state in 1949, instead followed the lead of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a former ally of Adolph Hitler,…

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[progressivejudaism]

Do you have any non biased resources on forming opinions about zionism/israel's place in overall judaism? i am an american jew but i feel like my identity has so little to do w israel. i am struggling to understand how i can be a jew independent of israel

Hi there,

I wish that there were unbiased resources out there, but unfortunately, everything in our world is extremely biased.    I would suggest being keen to some of those biases in regard to the Israel  (for example if a source argues that all Palestinians are not a real people, you should absolutely look at that source with caution).  I would also avoid Christian or Muslim interpretations of Jewish history.  Although Christians and Muslims can be objective when reporting and writing Jewish history, you will notice that some news and advocacy organizations tend to create false narratives about Judaism.  I would also be careful about extreme-right wing views on Israel in general. The best way to avoid these false narratives is to avoid sources that see the Conflict and various topics in Israel as black and white.

I would highly suggest looking at sources that take multiple perspectives and make an attempt to rationalize them together.  Many people argue that this is a core tenant of Progressive Zionism.  The purest form of this is in a book written by Alex Sinclair called “Loving the Real Israel: An Educational Agenda for Liberal Zionism“.  I HIGHLY recommend this book for understanding how we can successfully talk about Zionism once you are well versed in the history.

JewishVirtualLibrary does a fantastic job at sticking to facts in regard to all of its content and doesn’t often let emotions (or false narratives) get in the way of teaching real information.  I warn you, this site is extremely dense.. but it’s great.

MyJewishLearning also provides some great resources on Isreal.  They are much less dense and typically have a more center/left wing bias. 

The NY Times gives a relatively simple description of the last 70 years of war.  It seems politically center.

ReformJudaism.com has several articles about Israel which should be helpful.

For your convenience, I have listed some of the major organizations/sites that support Israel.  I have included where the fall politically.

*ARZA (Association for Reform Zionists of America):  The NorthAmerican Reform Movement’s lobbying organization to the World Zionist Congress which promotes Progressive Jewish and Zionist values. (center left)

*The Jewish Agency: “ The Jewish Agency for Israel brings Jews to Israel, Israel to Jews and helps build a better society in Israel and beyond.   Our Vision To ensure the future of a connected, committed, global Jewish People with a strong Israel at its center.   Our Mission Inspire Jews throughout the world to connect with their People, heritage, and homeland, and empower them to build a thriving Jewish future and a strong Israel.“  (center)

*JStreet:  “J Street is the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who want Israel to be secure, democratic and the national home of the Jewish people. Working in American politics and the Jewish community, we advocate for policies that advance shared US and Israeli interests as well as Jewish and democratic values, leading to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” (center-leftish)

*AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee):  “AIPAC’s staff and citizen activists educate decision makers about the bonds that unite the United States and Israel and how it is in America’s best interest to help ensure that the Jewish state is safe, strong and secure.” (right)

*If Not Now:  “We are building a vibrant and inclusive movement within the American Jewish community, across generations and organizational affiliations. This movement is open to any who seek to shift the American Jewish public away from the status quo that upholds the occupation. “ (far left)

*Breaking the Silence:  “is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. We endeavor to stimulate public debate about the price paid for a reality in which young soldiers face a civilian population on a daily basis, and are engaged in the control of that population’s everyday life. Our work aims to bring an end to the occupation.“  (far left)

*Shoreshim / Roots:  An organization that brings Israeli Settlers and Palestinians together  (Center-left)

*Backgammon in Jerusalem  (Center)

*Yad v’Yad (Hand and Hand):  Palestinian/Israeli schools (Center)

*NasDaily: a 20-something-year-old Palestinian citizen of Isreal who makes 1-minute videos each day.  All of his videos are fun, some promote coexistence and love between Arabs and Jews. (center)

I hope that this helps, friend!  Please let me know if you have any other questions!

PJ