Ignoring Facts for Palestine
Arab refugees deserve better than Palestine/Rape Supporters
Repost: Ben Sales, "... How Judaism animated Ruth Bader Ginsburg"
I’m reposting this as a reminder that RBG was a proud, Zionist Jew.
1948 Quotes from Arab Leaders
“The Arabs of Haifa fled in spite of the fact that the Jewish authorities guaranteed their safety and rights as citizens of Israel.” New York Herald Tribune, June 30, 1949
Repost: Ion Mihai Pacepa, "The KGB's Man"
“Two years after signing the Oslo Accords, the number of Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorists had risen by 73%.”
REPOST: Zain Alloul, "The Story of the Six-Day War" (1967)
“Enter the Jews! My father screamed with tears in his eyes. We wonder in fear what they look like. Do they look like the monsters we see in the pictures? Do they have horns??”
Repost: Matti Friedman, "An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth"
2013, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict claimed 42 lives— roughly the monthly homicide rate in the city of Chicago. Jerusalem, internationally renowned as a city of conflict, had slightly fewer violent deaths per capita last year than Portland, Ore., one of America’s safer cities. In contrast, in three years the Syrian conflict has claimed an estimated 190,000 lives…
Zionists are not banned. Jews are.
In 1973, the Palestinian Authority imposed martial law, and banned non-Arabs from buying land, punishable by death or life imprisonment. From this point on, ~2M+ Arabs enjoyed full rights in Israel, while risking imprisonment and death for expressing those same rights under Palestinian leadership. There is no mention of the word “Zionist”…
Repost: Zack Rothbart, “Everyone knows about Herzl. Is it time for Max Nordau, the intermarried father of Zionism, to get his due?”
He also coined the term “Muscular Judaism” — a redefinition of what it meant to be a Jew in the modern world; a critical shift away from the traditionally insular, “meek” Jewish archetype devoted solely to religious and intellectual pursuits. The “Muscular Jew” in theory and practice was necessary in order for a modern Jewish state to be established.
Repost: Emma Goldman, "On Zionism"
I have been taught that the land should belong to those who till the soil. With all of his deep-seated sympathies with the Arabs, our comrade cannot possibly deny that the Jews in Palestine have tilled the soil. Tens of thousands of them, young and deeply devout idealists, have flocked to Palestine, there to till the soil under the most trying pioneer conditions. They have reclaimed wastelands and have turned them into fertile fields and blooming gardens.