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Wat u niet leest in Pieter Kloks @volkskrant 😉
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Dit krijg je dus als je nooit meer tegenstemmen toelaat in de echokamer van media en academia over Israël: een aaneenschakeling van leugens en geschiedvervalsing, opgetekend door @DriesLesage. Met als toppunt:
"De Israëlische annexatie en kolonisatie sinds 1967 zijn even misdadig als de Russische bezetting in Oekraïne."
Oekraïne is al decennialang een soevereine, internationaal erkende staat, bovendien beschermd door het Boedapestmemorandum. Een Palestijnse staat bestaat echter niet en heeft nooit bestaan, omdat Palestijnse leiders elk voorstel tot de oprichting ervan hebben afgewezen: van de Peelcommissie in 1937 en het VN-partitieplan in 1947 tot de vredesvoorstellen van 2000 en 2008.
Het doel van de Arabische landen was altijd de vernietiging van de ene Joodse staat in het Midden-Oosten, niet de oprichting van een onafhankelijke Palestijnse staat. Toen Egypte en Jordanië na hun vernietigingsoorlog tegen Israël respectievelijk de betwiste gebieden in de regio (Gaza, Oost-Jeruzalem en de West Bank) bezetten, kraaide daar geen haan naar. Want dat was bezetting door andere Arabieren, niet door de verfoeide Joden.
Bovendien heeft Israël zich in 2005 vrijwillig en eenzijdig uit Gaza teruggetrokken en de Palestijnen de kans gegeven er zelf iets van te maken. Ze hebben zelfs hun eigen Israëlische burgers hardhandig verwijderd. Het exacte tegendeel dus van "landroof".
Het resultaat? Twintig jaar terreurbewind door Hamas, miljarden geïnvesteerd in de uitbouw van een militair tunnelnetwerk met menselijke schilden, en de voorbereiding van de slachtpartij van 7 oktober.
Is het een wonder dat de Israëli's niet langer een Palestijnse staat willen? Het zou gewoon suïcidaal zijn. De Palestijnen hebben zelf hun kansen op een staat verkwanseld, door hun starre eliminationisme en hun onophoudelijke terreur.
Het is werkelijk ongelofelijk dat deze man hoogleraar internationale politiek is. Maar hij is helaas niet de enige: hele universiteiten worden nu bevolkt door zulke types.
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A former UN official just said what the world needed to hear.
Alice Jill Edwards served as the UN's Independent Expert on torture from 2022 to 2026. She spent her career defending Palestinian refugees, led proceedings before Europe's highest court to protect them.
And yet, in a bombshell opinion piece in Britain's Daily Telegraph, she accuses two of her most prominent UN colleagues - Francesca Albanese, the UN rapporteur on Palestinian territories, and Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur on violence against women - of deliberately ignoring Hamas's sexual violence on October 7, 2023, calling their conduct one-sided, politically motivated, and a betrayal of the victims.
"They never formally documented these horrors, despite the growing body of evidence which to most of us is indisputable, but which they dispute."
She also takes direct aim at UN Secretary-General António Guterres, saying he has "failed to carry out the original mandate of the UN" and adopted a "fatalistic posture" while wars rage around the world.
When Edwards published her own report on October 7, only one other UN special rapporteur agreed to sign it. Others refused. Some tried to have material removed entirely. This is not coming from Israel. This is coming from inside the UN itself.
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Just for a moment, imagine a counterfactual in which, after October 7, the entire world demanded the immediate release of the hostages and Hamas’s unconditional surrender. I mean the Pope, the UN, the heads of every government, artists, musicians, poets, actors. Rallies in the streets of every capital. Students, professors, university presidents unequivocally, fervently insisting on the release of the hostages. Militaries prepared to intervene to secure their freedom and bring about the end of Hamas. Why didn’t this happen?
In the name of peace, in the name love, in the name of common decency —why didn’t this happen?
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“It didn’t start on the 7th of October 2023”
1. Jerusalem Nebi Musa Riots 1920
2. Jaffa Riots 1921
3. Hebron Massacre 1929
4. Motza Massacre 1929
5. Safed Massacre 1929
6. Jaffa Riots 1936
7. Tiberias Massacre 1938
8. Farhud Massacre, Baghdad 1941
9. Tripoli Pogrom 1945
10. Jerusalem Commercial Centre Riots 1947
11. Aleppo Pogrom 1947
12. Aden Riots 1947
13. Haifa Oil Refinery Massacre 1947
14. Convoy of 35 Ambush 1948
15. Ben Yehuda Street Bombing 1948
16. Jewish Agency Bombing 1948
17. Hadassah Convoy Massacre 1948
18. Kfar Etzion Massacre 1948
19. Oujda and Jerada Pogrom 1948
20. Tripoli Pogrom 1948
21. Cairo Jewish Quarter Bombings 1948
22. Expulsion of 850,000 Jews from Arab Countries 1948–1970s
23. Ma'ale Akrabim Bus Massacre 1954
24. Kfar Chabad School Attack 1956
25. Libya Pogrom 1967
26. Baghdad Public Hangings of Jews 1969
27. Avivim School Bus Massacre 1970
28. Lod Airport Massacre 1972
29. Munich Olympics Massacre 1972
30. Kiryat Shmona Massacre 1974
31. Ma'alot School Massacre 1974
32. Savoy Hotel Attack 1975
33. Zion Square Bombing 1975
34. Coastal Road Massacre 1978
35. Nahariya Attack 1979
36. Beit Hadassah Hebron Attack 1980
37. Vienna Synagogue Attack 1981
38. Rue des Rosiers Attack, Paris 1982
39. Rome Great Synagogue Attack 1982
40. Achille Lauro Hijacking 1985
41. Neve Shalom Synagogue Massacre, Istanbul 1986
42. Israeli Embassy Bombing, Buenos Aires 1992
43. AMIA Bombing, Buenos Aires 1994
44. Jerusalem Bus 18 Bombings 1996
45. Mahane Yehuda Market Bombing 1997
46. Other Second Intifada Bombings 2000–2005
47. Dolphinarium Massacre 2001
48. Sbarro Massacre 2001
49. Beit Yisrael Bombing 2002
50. Park Hotel Passover Massacre 2002
51. El Ghriba Synagogue Bombing, Djerba 2002
52. Hebrew University Cafeteria Bombing 2002
53. Jerusalem Bus 2 Massacre 2003
54. Maxim Restaurant Massacre, Haifa 2003
55. Istanbul Synagogue Bombings 2003
56. Ilan Halimi Murder, Paris 2006
57. Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva Massacre 2008
58. Mumbai Chabad House Massacre 2008
59. Itamar Massacre 2011
60. Toulouse Jewish School Massacre 2012
61. Burgas Bus Bombing 2012
62. Brussels Jewish Museum Attack 2014
63. Three Teens Kidnapping and Murder 2014
64. Har Nof Synagogue Massacre 2014
65. Hyper Cacher Attack, Paris 2015
66. Sarona Market Attack 2016
67. Sarah Halimi Murder, Paris 2017
68. Mireille Knoll Murder, Paris 2018
69. Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre, Pittsburgh 2018
70. Jersey City Kosher Market Attack 2019
71. Beersheba, Bnei Brak and Elad Attacks 2022
72. Neve Yaakov Synagogue Attack 2023
73. El Ghriba Synagogue Shooting, Djerba 2023
74. October 7 Massacre 2023
75. Jaffa Light Rail Attack 2024
76. Capital Jewish Museum Attack, Washington 2025
77. Ramot Junction Shooting 2025
78. Heaton Park Synagogue Attack, Manchester 2025
79. Bondi Beach Hanukkah Massacre, Sydney 2025
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Hamas sneed triomfantelijk baby’s de keel door, verkrachtte juichend vrouwen tot de dood erop volgde en stak lachend huizen in de fik met de inwoners er nog in. #JamalOuariachi noemt dat 'proportioneel geweld van verzetsstrijders'. Wie dat schrijft, heeft geen moraal meer. Punt.
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The peerless Howard Jacobson.
"I know about genocides. They were once another of my obsessions. Most Jews of my acquaintance are the same. We know that a genocide is not determined by the numbers of people killed in a cruel war.
Until you understand the history and moral atmospherics of genocide, until you’ve been hounded out of every country, herded on to death trains, seen your civilisation defamed, your every thought ground to nothing, the very principle of your existence eradicated, wiped forever (had the genocide succeeded) from the slate of history – and I would not wish that experience upon a single Palestinian – until then, you who march and demonstrate against Israel have no business with the word.
Could there be such a phenomenon as Shoah-envy? Could it be that Jews are begrudged the Holocaust for the pity it earned them? Why else this attempt to render them unworthy of their history? Why else want it expunged? And now consider this: even as you march to denounce the genocide, you are wishing that very eventuality upon the Jews. I have seen posters calling on someone to finish the job. Not just from the river to the sea, but wherever and whenever Jews have been respected, you want them gone."
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The breathtaking gaslighting of the Greens racist motion is its claim that eradicating Israel will create a big, equal rights democracy .
The British Mandate was divided up, and the ONLY group that chose equal rights or democracy was Israel.
Self-determination in practice.
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Why did the genocide charge appear within days of October 7th, before Israel's ground invasion had really begun?
Matti Friedman gives two reasons.
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Sabine Taasa has returned to Israel from the Netherlands after attending a screening of the film “NAZA” where she says she was subjected to a horrifying wave of antisemitic abuse, threats and near-violence.
In an interview with i24NEWS following her return, Sabine who lost her husband and son in the October 7 massacre in Netiv HaAsara described what happened inside the screening:
“People looked me in the face and told me: ‘Go back to the ovens,’ ‘Go back to the Holocaust,’ and ‘It’s a shame another Hitler didn’t rise to destroy you.’”
Sabine said she had never experienced such blatant racism and antisemitism.
According to Sabine, her microphone was ripped from her hand, the phone of the woman filming her was snatched away, and she was nearly physically attacked.
Asked whether she was afraid, she answered:
“I almost died on October 7. The terrorist who murdered my husband, my neighbor and 20 other people in Netiv HaAsara stood just meters from me and shouted, ‘Allahu Akbar, death to the Jews.’ Do you think these neo-Nazis scare me?”
Sabine also warned that Jews and Israelis in the Netherlands are afraid to identify themselves openly and fear for their lives.
Her message after returning home was unequivocal: the fight against antisemitism and the campaign of hatred against Israel cannot be ignored.
Source: i24NEWS
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Woody Allen über den Judenhass heute, und wie kaputt Schreihälse und Mitläufer sind.
Und das auf unnachahmliche Art.
„Wissen Sie, ich habe immer gedacht, der größte Vorteil von New York sei, dass man dort neurotisch sein kann und niemand es bemerkt. In anderen Städten wird man zum Arzt geschickt, wenn man mit sich selbst spricht. In Manhattan bekommt man dafür eine Kolumne in einer Zeitschrift angeboten.
Gestern bin ich losgegangen, um Lachs zu kaufen. Das ist übrigens die einzige stabile jüdische Tradition, die Babylon, Rom und meine Beziehungen zu Frauen überlebt hat.
Ich lief durch Brooklyn und dachte über den Tod nach. Nicht, weil ich Philosoph bin. Sondern weil ich inzwischen über neunzig bin, obwohl ich ursprünglich höchstens bis siebzig geplant hatte.
Und plötzlich – eine Menschenmenge vor einer Synagoge. Zuerst dachte ich, dort tritt ein berühmter Psychoanalytiker auf. In New York stehen Menschen stundenlang Schlange, um zu hören, warum ihre Mutter an allem schuld ist. Obwohl Juden das eigentlich auch ohne Vortrag schon wissen.
Aber nein. Sie schrien etwas über „Intifada“. Und wissen Sie, was mich am meisten erstaunt hat? Wie viel Energie diese Leute haben. Woher nehmen sie die? Ich will nach zwei Treppenabsätzen schon mein Testament schreiben. Und die sind bereit für eine Revolution, ohne vorher auch nur einen anständigen Kaffee getrunken zu haben.
Ein Typ schrie etwas von „Dekolonisierung“. Mein Gott. Als ich jung war, bedeutete „Kolonisierung“, dass Tante Frieda drei Monate lang unser Sofa besetzte und sich weigerte auszuziehen. Heute ist es plötzlich ein zionistisches Komplott.
Überhaupt ist moderner Antisemitismus viel zu intellektuell geworden. Früher hasste man uns einfach. Ganz direkt. Heute nicht mehr.
Heute erklärt Ihnen irgendein Mann mit Schal, der aussieht, als würde er Gedichte über seinen eigenen Bart schreiben, mit Hilfe von Heidegger und Nietzsche, warum die Existenz von Juden eine Form von Aggression und eine Bedrohung für die Menschheit sei.
Und ich stand da und dachte: Früher wurden wir wenigstens von Leuten ohne Hochschulabschluss verprügelt. Heute kommen die Pogrommacher mit Diplom von der Columbia University.
Dann sagte ein Mädchen neben mir: „Wir sind gegen Zionismus, nicht gegen Juden.“ Das ist ungefähr so, als hätte meine Exfrau gesagt: „Ich habe nichts gegen dich. Ich bin nur gegen alles, was du sagst, tust, fühlst – und besonders gegen den Sex mit dir.“ Die Bedeutung bleibt dieselbe.
Und dann schrie jemand: „Zionisten sind Nazis!“ In diesem Moment hatte ich das Gefühl, meine Großmutter hätte sich im Grab so schnell umgedreht, dass sie einen Teil von Queens mit Strom hätte versorgen können.
Meine Großmutter hat übrigens echte Nazis erlebt. Sie versteckte sich in einem Keller in Polen mit einem Mann, der so schrecklich hustete, dass die Deutschen sie allein am Bronchialgeräusch hätten finden können.
Und jetzt erklärt mir irgendein Junge aus einem Elite-College, dessen größtes Trauma im Leben ein kalter Kaffee bei Starbucks war, was Faschismus bedeutet.
Ich lebe wirklich in erstaunlichen Zeiten.
Heutzutage sprechen alle wie Menschen, die versehentlich eine Universitätsbibliothek verschluckt haben. Niemand sagt mehr: „Entschuldigung, ich bin ein Idiot.“ Nein. Heute heißt es: „Ich dekonstruiere das dominante Narrativ.“
Hören Sie, ich bin unter Juden aufgewachsen. Wir dekonstruieren keine Narrative. Wir erschaffen Narrative.
Ich kam nach Hause und schaltete den Fernseher ein – denn wenn man Angststörungen hat, wirkt Fernsehen wie eine ausgezeichnete Idee. Das ist ungefähr so, als würde man Alkoholismus mit einem Martini auf Eis behandeln.
Dort erklärte Roger Waters wieder einmal die Welt. Rockmusiker machen mir immer Angst, wenn sie älter werden und plötzlich anfangen zu reden wie Paranoiker, die beim Anblick einer schwarzen Katze eine Verschwörung wittern. 1/2
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Apartheid state. Genocide. Ethnic cleansing.
Those accusations might sound like they belong to the war in Gaza, but they have been thrown at Israel for much longer than you might expect.
They were standardized in 2001 at a gathering of NGOs, including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch. It was supposed to be a conference against racism, taking place in newly post-apartheid South Africa.
Instead, it became a forum dripping in Jew hate. They sold copies of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and voted down a paragraph condemning antisemitism.
The US and Israel walked out. Today, 25 years later, the UN General Assembly is giving Durban a full day of commemoration.
Watch who shows up, and ask: why is the UN still celebrating this?
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This one hurts the pro palis screaming "LOOK AT THE NATIONS THAT WALKED OUT ON NETANYAHU"
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Brooke Goldstein sat on a CNN panel and did the one thing that table almost never allows. She spoke as someone who actually went.
Two years in and out of Jenin, Ramallah, Tulkarem, and Nablus. Interviews with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, not through a press release and not through a translator who works for the story. They told her to her face that they want war. That is not a talking point she invented in a green room. That is what they said.
The rest of the table looked the way people look when the script gets interrupted. They have never been in Samaria or Judea. They have never watched the propaganda machine operate on the ground and then come home to hear it repeated as news. They sit on a sofa in a studio and decide what Israel is allowed to do, while the people who have been there keep getting treated as the problem for noticing that this is an ideology that teaches children to love death and then parks those children in front of the launcher.
She said the quiet part without raising her voice. It is not only Hamas. It is what the schools print. It is what the commanders admit. It is why there can be food in the Strip and still be starvation, because Hamas treats the warehouse the same way it treats the tent.
CNN will air the clip, then go back to calling itself journalism, and still act wounded the next time someone says the network is selling a product instead of a report.
@GoldsteinBrooke already did the work they refuse to do. They just did not like hearing it at their own table.
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Because the BBC is captured. This is an extraordinary piece of editing. It's as if the BBC is trying to memory-hole the October 7 atrocities. Uncle Stalin would be proud of them.
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THE TRUTH ABOUT GAZA NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR
Let's talk about what nobody wants to talk about.
Hamas is not a liberation movement. Hamas is a terrorist organization in the same family as ISIS and Al-Qaeda. The same ideology of holy war and the same hatred of Jews and of everything the West stands for.
The difference is that Hamas has a territory, a government, and millions of people under its control. That doesn't make them less dangerous. It makes them more dangerous.
Israel pulled out of Gaza completely in 2005. Every soldier and every settler was removed. The answer wasn't a state. The answer was Hamas. In 2007 they seized power by force and threw political opponents off rooftops. There hasn't been an election since. The blockade came after, not before. So to those who say "context"…That's the context.
Half of Gaza's population wasn't even born when Hamas took power. They've never been allowed to choose anything else. That's exactly why it's not Palestinians you're defending when you celebrate "the resistance." It's their jailers.
For years, Israel let millions of dollars from Qatar flow into Gaza every month. The money was meant to pay public salaries, help poor families, and keep the power on. Meanwhile, cement and aid meant to rebuild Gaza became hundreds of miles of tunnels, rockets, and weapons depots. It was a mistake to believe the money went where it was supposed to. But that mistake proves one thing…Whatever Gaza gets goes to war first.
And the tunnels aren't placed at random. Hamas built them under hospitals, schools, and UN buildings. Under Al-Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital. Under the headquarters of the UN aid agency. One of their leaders said openly that the tunnels are for the fighters and that protecting civilians is the UN's job. When Israel warns with leaflets, text messages, phone calls, and evacuation routes, Hamas has told people to stay put. When one army says "leave" and the other says "stay," who is it that needs dead civilians?
Because the dead get used. The Hamas-run health ministry counts them without distinguishing between terrorists and children, and the world's media repeats the numbers. When a hospital in Gaza was hit in October 2023, it went around the world within hours that Israel had killed hundreds. Several intelligence agencies later concluded it was most likely a misfired rocket from Islamic Jihad. The correction never reached the same screens.
And it starts early. At Hamas summer camps, kids learn to carry weapons and march in uniform. On Hamas children's TV, the youngest have been taught that Jews are enemies to be fought and that the greatest thing you can become is a martyr. Schoolbooks celebrate terrorists as heroes. That's not how you raise children for peace. That's how you raise the next generation of Hamas.
Their 1988 charter calls for killing Jews. Not Israelis. Jews. On October 7 they did it, and they filmed it themselves because they were proud. Afterward, one of their leaders said publicly they would do it again and again.
So when someone says "I defend Gaza," the question is: Which Gaza? Because Gaza as a political cause has been Hamas's cause for almost twenty years. Hamas defined what "resistance" means, and it's their slogans being chanted in the streets of Western cities.
You can't celebrate "the resistance" and claim to reject the people who make it up. You can't call it genocide when Israel defends itself and call it context when Hamas slaughters young people at a music festival.
If you truly wanted good things for ‘Palestinians’, you'd demand they be freed from Hamas. That's the only liberation that counts.
Anything else is defending terror.
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Hebben ze geen ogen in hun kop? — Rik de Lavaletta
Ik kijk naar demonstraties voor Palestina en denk steeds vaker: zien deze mensen werkelijk niet wat er voor hun neus gebeurt? Of willen ze het niet zien?
Queers for Palestine. Regenboogvlaggen tussen Palestijnse vlaggen. Mensen die vanuit de veiligheid van Amsterdam, Londen of New York demonstreren voor een gebied waar hun eigen seksuele vrijheid bepaald geen vanzelfsprekendheid is. Ik krijg die tegenstelling niet meer logisch aan elkaar geknoopt.
Israël is het enige Joodse land ter wereld. Een democratie met verkiezingen, oppositie, onafhankelijke media, demonstraties tegen de eigen regering, universiteiten en een economie die zich kan meten met ontwikkelde westerse landen. En juist dat land roept al tientallen jaren een haast obsessieve vijandigheid op.
Op 7 oktober 2023 werd Israël aangevallen. Burgers werden vermoord, mensen ontvoerd, jongeren op een muziekfestival afgeslacht, gezinnen uit hun huizen gehaald. Israël sloeg terug. Een staat die zijn burgers niet verdedigt nadat ze zo zijn aangevallen, houdt op een staat te zijn.
Maar ergens onderweg begon voor een deel van de westerse protestbeweging de geschiedenis ineens op 8 oktober. Hamas, de aanval en de gijzelaars verdwenen naar de achtergrond. Over bleef één verhaal: Israël is de dader. En toen kwam het woord genocide, alsof Israël simpelweg besloten zou hebben Palestijnen uit te roeien.
Dat argument volg ik niet. Israël beschikt over overweldigende militaire macht. Als vernietiging het doel was, had het daarvoor de middelen. Je hoeft het militaire optreden niet goed te keuren, Netanyahu niet te sparen en elke bom niet te rechtvaardigen om dat simpele gegeven te zien. Maar doe niet alsof Israël zonder aanleiding op een ochtend besloot Gaza binnen te vallen.
En dan Queers for Palestine. Daar houdt mijn begrip echt op. In Israël kunnen homoseksuelen openlijk leven; Tel Aviv heeft Pride, er zijn homoseksuele politici, artiesten en militairen. Organiseer eens een Pride-optocht onder Hamas en vertel daarna hoe veilig je je voelde. Toch loopt hier men met diezelfde regenboogvlag enthousiast mee achter Palestijnse leuzen.
Het gaat verder dan homoseksualiteit: vrije verkiezingen, vrije pers, vrouwenrechten, religieuze vrijheid, politieke oppositie, openlijke kritiek op machthebbers — Israël kent dat alles, hoe rommelig ook. Kijk vervolgens naar een groot deel van de regio, en leg mij dan uit waarom juist Israël wordt behandeld als de morele mislukking van het Midden-Oosten.
Want dat is misschien de vreemdste omkering. Elders worden hele bevolkingsgroepen vervolgd, homoseksuelen opgesloten of erger, vrouwen onderdrukt, minderheden weggevoerd, protesten neergeslagen. Waar zijn daarvoor de tentenkampen, de dagelijkse demonstraties, de beroemdheden, de regenboogvlaggen? Maar zodra Israël, na zelf te zijn aangevallen, in oorlog raakt, wordt een halve westerse activistenwereld wakker.
Dan vraag ik me af of dit nog uitsluitend over Palestijnse burgers gaat. Natuurlijk mag je medelijden hebben, natuurlijk is het verschrikkelijk wanneer kinderen sterven. Maar waarom gaat dat medeleven zo vaak samen met geheugenverlies over Hamas? Waarom staat het bestaan van Israël zelf zo vaak ter discussie? Waarom wordt van Israël een morele perfectie geëist die van bijna geen ander land in oorlog wordt verlangd?
Daar draait het werkelijk om: niet alleen wat Israël doet, maar waarom het, wat het ook doet, bij voorbaat fout lijkt te zitten.
Ik zie de demonstraties, de regenboogvlaggen, de leuzen, mensen die duizenden kilometers verderop met absolute zekerheid weten wie goed is en wie kwaad. En ik blijf achter met dezelfde gedachte: hebben jullie werkelijk geen ogen in je kop? Of is kijken inmiddels vooral een kwestie geworden van alleen nog zien wat in je eigen verhaal past?
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Bill Maher on the “genocide” lie in Gaza.
There is NO genocide.
This MUST go viral.
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Number of Jews in Egypt: 10 (total population: 100 million)
Jordan: 0 (10M)
Saudi Arabia: 0 (34M)
Lebanon: 100 (7M)
Syria: 0 (17M)
Iraq: 4 (39M)
Iran: 8,300 (83M)
Number of Arabs in Israel: 1.9M (9M), with full civil rights.
But sure, Israel is the apartheid state.
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Anti-Israel Professor Ilan Pappé’s “idea for peace” at the Oxford Union: send me and my family “back” to Iraq. And the students cheered.
A professor who built an entire career on the words “ethnic cleansing” stood up and proposed one. For me and my family.
Here is what he doesn’t want you to think about:
Millions of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi, roughly half of Israel’s Jewish population, the children and grandchildren of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Iraq, Yemen, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Algeria, Iran. We didn’t come from Europe. Over 850,000 of us were expelled or driven out of the Arab world, stripped of citizenship, homes and everything we owned.
So “cleansing” Israel of Mizrahi Jews isn’t a peace plan. It’s a selection process. Who goes? The grandson of Iraqi Jews, or the grandson of Polish ones? And what about the millions of us who are both? And the other half? Send them “back” to Warsaw, Vilnius, Berlin? To communities that were wiped out down to the last child? My family is from Iraq and Tunisia. Which half of me goes where? Most of us cannot divide ourselves in half.
And “back” to what? Iraq stripped its Jews of citizenship and seized their property. It hanged Jews in a public square in Baghdad in 1969. In 2022 its parliament made contact with Israelis a crime punishable by death. There are no Jews left in Iraq. That is the “welcome” Pappé is so sure of. There is no “back” for any of us. That’s why Israel exists.
The Farhud, the pogrom that ended my grandmother’s childhood in Baghdad, was in 1941. Seven years before Israel existed. Iraq did not expel its Jews because of anything Israel did.
Pappé knows all of this. He just leaves it out.
Where is your family from? Tell me in the comments: Baghdad, Tunis, Sana’a, Casablanca, Aleppo, Tehran, Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Vilnius, Kyiv, Bucharest. I want them to see how many of us there are.
Share this with anyone who still thinks Israelis are “colonizers.”
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