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Lauren Libbert retweeted
I've never see Jews stringing up little girls because they wore lip gloss or jeans. I've never heard of Jewish rape gangs. I've never heard of Jews forcing their women to live every moment of their public life peering through a slit in a black sheet. Jews never blew up our buildings or beheaded Christians.
You have a problem with Israel. Fine, register your geopolitical opposition to our foreign policy with regards to Israel. But I've never been afraid of what a Jew would do to me or my daughters.
Lauren Libbert retweeted
I’m glad the Jewish community aren’t the only ones concerned by the focus of the @ArchbishopSarah visit to Israel.
This is Ian Paul a member of General Synod and on the Archbishops Council.
‘Our archbishop has managed to be photographed in front of, not one, but two notorious terrorist leaders within the space of a couple of days—quite an achievement! And you can see the intertwining of terrorist resistance with Christian devotion in the painting of Nasser: in the background of the canvas, there is a traditional iconographic depiction of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ.
It is worth reflecting how both Israelis and British Jews will be made to feel by seeing these images.’
In an excellent blog post (next tweet) he asks:
‘Why did the archbishop decide to make such a one-sided visit to the region which such a complex and contested situation? Why was not more care taken?
It might be claimed ‘Well, it is obvious that she opposes terrorism, so that does not need to be stated’. But that is clearly not the case. Just this morning on my Facebook feed I see that a once-respected evangelical ethics scholar has posted a Guardian piece containing antisemitic blood-libel lies about ‘Israel targeting children’ in the Gaza conflict, and citing the ‘genocide scholars’—that is, those Arabists who were willing to pay €50 to join the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS—no qualifications required ‘We are inclusive and welcome activists…’)
Why didn’t Sarah Mullally take care to engage with all angles on this visit? If her agenda was dispassionate concern for those who have suffered, why didn’t she visit any of the families of the 1,195 slaughtered on October 7th, or of the 250 abducted? Or of the 1,010 killed and 8,341 Israelis wounded in the second Intifada? In December 2023, a survey showed that 83% of West Bank Palestinians supported the atrocities of October 7th. Did she meet any of these? It is implausible to think that this number does not include ‘Palestinian Christians.’’
Lauren Libbert retweeted
The claim that Israel is an apartheid state is one of the most preposterous of all the claims made against Israel.
Hitler and Goebbels always said, “If you say something ludicrous but false long enough and loudly enough, over time, it will seed itself in the collective subconscious, and people will start to believe it.”
Israel is a country of 10 million people, 21% of whom are Arabs, 17% of whom are Arab Muslims, and they have the exact same civil, commercial, and political rights as their Jewish neighbors.
They can open a restaurant, become dentists, lawyers, and doctors. There is a Supreme Court justice sitting on the court, Supreme Court of Israel, who is an Arab Muslim, and by the way, almost always has been. There are Muslim judges all throughout the court system.
If you see the rate of matriculation and graduation at some of the most elite universities in all of Israel, the engines of socioeconomic mobility, you'll see that Muslim Arabs comprise sometimes almost 50% of the graduates in dentistry schools and nursing schools, even though they're only 20 or so percent of the population.
That’s the very opposite of an apartheid state.
But there is apartheid being practiced every single day all across the Middle East, but it's not in Israel. It's in the Arab states that are pushing the apartheid claim against Israel.
Think about whether there would ever be a Jewish or Christian Supreme Court justice on the Supreme Court of Tehran. Would there ever be a Jewish or Christian general in Damascus, or a Jewish and Christian head of a hospital in Ramallah or Gaza City? Those are obviously preposterous things even to conceive of, but the opposite happens every single day in Israel.
What does the state of New Mexico, the city of Louisville, Kentucky, and Birmingham, Alabama, have in common?
Each of them has more Jews in them than there are living in the entire Arab world. 22 countries with hundreds of millions of Arabs have fewer Jews living in them than live in the city of Birmingham, Alabama, or the state of New Mexico. There is apartheid all over the Middle East, it's just not happening in Israel.
Lauren Libbert retweeted
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Lauren Libbert retweeted
It’s taking an awfully long time for the victims of genocide to decide whether or not they’d like the genocide to end.
Lauren Libbert retweeted
As someone who never met a Jew in his life until after October 7, and as someone who grew up in an environment that indoctrinated him from the beginning to hate Jews, and as someone who marched on the streets against Israel, and as someone who moved to America only to find the same Jew-hatred here as back home, I had every reason to never change my position.
But for reasons I still don’t fully understand, I’ve always wrestled with belief and ideas. And over time, I came to realize that Zionism is simply the belief that the Jewish people must have sovereignty in their land to put an end to 2,500 years of exile, genocide, and humiliation.
Zionists are simply people who want to make sure the Jewish state remains strong and safe.
I reject all the nonsense about Jewish supremacy, expansionism, and the rest of the lies.
Lauren Libbert retweeted
It’s so weird being Iranian right now, scrolling through my feed and seeing all my fellow Iranians praying for freedom, and seeing every white leftist & terror sympathizer praying the oppressor wins… “for humanity.”
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Dear Members of the @PulitzerPrizes board,
My name is Emily Damari. I was held hostage in Gaza for over 500 days.
On the morning of October 7, I was at home in my small studio apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas terrorists burst in, shot me and dragged me across the border into Gaza. I was one of 251 men, women, children, and elderly people kidnapped that day from their beds, their homes, and a music festival.
For almost 500 days I lived in terror. I was starved, abused, and treated like I was less than human. I watched friends suffer. I watched hope dim. And even now, after returning home, I carry that darkness with me - because my best friends, Gali and Ziv Berman are still being held in the Hamas terror tunnels.
So imagine my shock and pain when I saw that you awarded a Pulitzer Prize to Mosab Abu Toha.
This is a man who, in January, questioned the very fact of my captivity. He posted about me on Facebook and asked, “How on earth is this girl called a hostage?” He has denied the murder of the Bibas family. He has questioned whether Agam Berger was truly a hostage. These are not word games - they are outright denials of documented atrocities.
You claim to honor journalism that upholds truth, democracy, and human dignity. And yet you have chosen to elevate a voice that denies truth, erases victims, and desecrates the memory of the murdered.
Do you not see what this means? Mosab Abu Toha is not a courageous writer. He is the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier. And by honoring him, you have joined him in the shadows of denial.
This is not a question of politics. This is a question of humanity. And today, you have failed it.
Lauren Libbert retweeted
Terrorists are attacking Israel from seven different fronts, yet they will try to convince you that Israel is the aggressor.
One word: Antisemitism.
Lauren Libbert retweeted
𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐲 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐲𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐓𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐅𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐲 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 ‘𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐮𝐝, 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞"
Last Sunday (March 2) Holocaust survivor and My Voice storyteller Lydia Tischler shared her unique perspective on the Holocaust to a packed room of over 100 people at Brondesbury Park synagogue, 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐲 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 ‘𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐮𝐝, 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞", which has been published in partnership with the Yad Vashem UK Foundation.
To an enraptured crowd, Lydia spoke about the horrors of the ghetto-camp at Theresienstadt where she spent two years before volunteering to go to Auschwitz after learning that her mother and sister were being transported there. She spoke of the tragedy of her mother’s murder in the gas chambers at Auschwitz and how she and her sister Rutka dug trenches at the labour camp of Oederan in Germany and held onto their integrity - just.
Czech-born Lydia, an eminent child psychotherapist who trained with Anna Freud and is still working at 96, answered questions from the audience in her inimitable straight-talking manner, explaining how fortunate she was to have had the opportunity to undergo analysis to process her trauma early on as she was able to get distance and talk about her Holocaust experiences, ‘without it churning me up every time’.
Lydia also spoke about the Holocaust being a taboo subject for many years in Israel for reasons of shame, ‘that we allowed ourselves to be slaughtered like that’ and gave her personal views on Holocaust deniers: ‘They don’t want to know the truth because they might have been Holocaust perpetrators. You have to deny something because you’re so afraid of being a part of it.’
Daniella Selig, Lydia’s My Voice befriender and interviewer, who kindly sponsored the tea, also spoke about the befriending experience calling it ‘exhilarating, painful, heart-breaking and at times really, really difficult.’ She also praised Lydia’s strength and fortitude and hoped that all children can learn, ‘that there is strength and hope to be found in hard times.’
Juliette Pearce, Manager of The Fed's My Voice project, marvelled at the success of the London project, thanking Lydia, Daniella and the Brondesbury Park community saying, ‘there was so much positivity in the room.’ Juliette added, ‘This is a very exciting time for the My Voice project. The My Voice books are now being used to educate the next generation across the UK so they can read and learn from these inspirational people.’
To purchase Lydia's book click here - myvoice.org.uk/product/lydia…
To learn more about the My Voice Project click here - myvoice.org.uk
@FED_Manchester @yadvashemUK @HeritageFundUK @UnitedSynagogue @CzechLondon
Lauren Libbert retweeted
Heartbreaking and HORRIFYING!
ALON OHEL has been hold his entire time as a hostage, in Gaza, STARVING in CHAINS.
Several shrapnel wounds in his body since October 7th 2023 have NOT been treated and for a wonderful piano player, the ones in his eye may leave him permanently blind.
Eli Sharabi and Or Levy who looked like Holocaust survivors on their release, were held with him for the duration of their captivity and have said he is at risk of dying.
Alon’s mother is asking us all to REPOST and REPOST.
NO comments or likes are needed.
He needs our loud voices and the entire world, to shout out for him, protest against the horrific conditions he’s being held in plus insist upon and enable his release ASAP!
LET ALON OHEL GO NOW!
WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THESE BARBARIC ACTS?👇👇
@antonioguterres
@PalestineRCS
@UN
Lauren Libbert retweeted
I accuse the UN of encouraging Hamas, starting with Secretary General Antonio Guterres who gave succour to the terrorists by saying the October 7 massacre “did not happen in a vacuum”.
I accuse Unwra of perpetuating this war by calling the grandchildren of people who left Israel in 1948 “refugees” and encouraging their futile dreams of “right of return”.
I accuse the international political community of cowardice for failing to demand the immediate and unconditional release of all civilian hostages and for, instead, demanding that Israel feeds its enemy.
I accuse the Red Cross of failing to push hard enough to ensure the wellbeing of the hostages and for failing to immediately call out the grotesque hostage return spectacles.
I accuse “humanitarian” charities of parroting the lies of Hamas and not only refusing to fight for the return of child hostages Ariel and Kfir Bibas but becoming involved in trying to stop Israel getting the arms to fight for their children.
I accuse the political pygmy David Lammy of exploiting our pain after he hugged British hostage mother Mandy Damari when she made a public call for the hostages to get humanitarian aid – and then attacked Israel for not giving enough humanitarian aid to Gaza. And for continuing to fund Unwra despite knowing it housed terrorists.
I accuse Sir Keir Starmer of not admonishing his MPs who joined the hate marches.
I accuse the Metropolitan Police and Sadiq Khan of allowing the hate marches – filled with genocidal chants and blood libels – to terrorise Jewish people and parrot Hamas propaganda since October 8 2023.
I accuse the women’s charities of hypocrisy for failing to once speak up against the sexual violence perpetuated on October 7 or demanding that the female hostages are returned: in doing so they have set the feminist movement back decades.
I accuse the Arab states and countries including Ireland, Spain and South Africa of insincerity for insisting there was a “genocide” going on in Gaza but refusing to offer a home to any Palestinian refugees.
I accuse the BBC and Sky of parroting Hamas propaganda and never once saying that footage from Gaza was censored by the fascist terrorist organisation.
I could go on. I am so filled with rage. I do not know any of these people. I don’t hate them. But in refusing to acknowledge what Hamas is, they are agents of harm to our society. They need to be called out, over and over again.
Full piece 👇🏼
Lauren Libbert retweeted
It is pure evil to take a mother and her young children and an elderly man hostage.
It takes another layer of evil to be responsible for their deaths.
And yet a further layer of evil to trade their bodies to release hundreds of prisoners including terrorists serving life sentences for murder.
This is what Israel is up against.
Today, all decent people around the world mourn with Israel, Kibbutz Nir Oz, and the Bibas and Lifshitz families.
With broken hearts, we pray for the return of all the hostages and a just and lasting peace.
עם ישראל חי!
Lauren Libbert retweeted
I think I'm on the side of the people who don't play upbeat music and dance while parading dead babies through the streets.
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To my Palestinian brothers and sisters watching Hamas hand over the bodies of Israeli hostages: recognize the sacrifices Israel is making to return its hostages, dead and alive, and realize that your government would never do the same for you.
If you dream of a life where you are valued, the first step is to free yourself from the Hamas terror regime, which will sacrifice every last one of you for its antisemitic, genocidal cause.
Lauren Libbert retweeted
It will forever boggle my mind that there exists an organisation that can kidnap 1 and 3 year old babies, kill them, parade their coffins on stage to cheering crowds of civilians, and still be considered the victims by morons in the west. – at North Tipperary, Ireland
