Thursday, October 17, 2024

Links - 17th October 2024 (1 - Palestine/Middle East Peace)

Ta-Nehisi Coates' vision of an Israel without Jews - "One sentence is all it takes to understand writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’ views on Israel. “On the last day of my trip to Palestine, I visited Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center,” Coates writes as the lead to the final section of his new book, “The Message.” Israel, Coates apparently believes, does not exist — and probably has no right to exist. How else to explain his situating a memorial to the destruction of European Jewry in some mythical place called “Palestine” — a country that has never existed, rather than in the very real state of Israel and its equally real capital, Jerusalem... In one notorious passage, heavy with manipulative guilt-making, Coates speaks of a visit to Paris’s Luxembourg Gardens — which he brands a “public garden.” Marveling in their splendor, Coates laments that he — supposedly victimized by American disenfranchisement — had “never sat in a public garden before, had not even known it to be something that I’d want to do. And all around me there were people who did this regularly.” Huh? We have “public gardens” in every city in America, brother Coates — have you never been to Central Park? With his new book, Coates has found limitless source material in the doom that has become the Palestinians. By his own admission, Coates had never been to Israel or Palestine before his 10-day journey last year that undergirds “The Message.” (Imagine a white writer parachuting into some African conflict to report on its past and present in the same manner; you can’t — because it would never happen). His unfamiliarity with the region would be comical if it weren’t so dangerous — both to the Israelis imperiled by Hamas and Hezbollah along with the Gazans and Lebanese held hostage by their Islamist overlords. And yet, like so many today and before him, Coates blames the Jews... Juiced up on arrogance and entitlement, Coates sets up a place, Palestine, and a people — the Palestinians — of whom he claims admiration, commonality and license to give voice solely because he’s black. Because they are both “conquered people.”... Backed by his trauma-tourism jaunt through the Holy Land, Coates is suddenly equipped to deliver the final word on a century of Zionist egregiousness. Amateurish and self-indulgent, “The Message” is the ultimate exercise in intersectional chutzpah coming from the wrong writer on the wrong topic at very much the wrong time... There are no winners in “The Message” beyond Coates’ own ego. Jews, for instance, are essentially erased, save for the Zionist pioneers he reduces to white supremacists — along with the wincey Kapos who accompany Coates through Jerusalem as they echo-chamber his foundational anti-Zionism. Despite his imprimatur of moral purity, Palestinians hardly fare better. Coates may believe his prose speaks for a people “erased from the argument and purged from the narrative,” but his fetishistic reverence for Palestine and Palestinians lacks any of the necessary nuance upon which nations (such as Israel) are actually founded. In Coates’ hands, everything Palestine-related — their food, their architecture, their stories of exile and rebirth – is worthy simply because it’s Palestinian, even though the exact same parallels can be found among Israeli Jews. “The group spoke about politics in a manner of communal intimacy — the way my people speak when no white people are around,” writes Coates of a Palestinian-American community he visits near Chicago upon his return from the Middle East. Take it from me, Ta-Nehisi — someone who’s both black and Jewish — we Jews speak exactly the same way when we’re among our own. Such silly setups — Coates’ cringy Pale-fabulism — confirm the hollowness of the DEI culture that gave voice to folks like Coates in the first place. Whether in Palestine or Philly, Coates’ veracity — like those of the Palestinians he obsesses over — rests in his color and identity, not in truth or facts. How else could a book about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict come to market with no serious consideration of Hamas or intifada or the Oslo Accords — only “ethnic cleansing” and Gaza “reservations” and lots and lots of “whiteness.” Coates’ reliance upon the “Jews are White” trope is perhaps the most damning confirmation of his disdain for Jews and Judaism. As my own blackness attests, Jews — including a plurality of Israelis — aren’t exactly “white.” Indeed, the only motivation behind Coates’ “Jews are white” charade is to edify the claims of “genocide” and “zionist-colonialism” now parading through city squares and college campuses intended to legitimize Hamas barbarism and justify Jewish death. And this, ultimately, is the real message of “The Message.”... Horrified by the hotel guard who’d dared ask if he was a hotel guest, Coates declares, “I could only ask myself, what the f–k am I doing here” in Israel? A better question would have been, “What the f–k is Ta-Nehisi Coates doing writing a book like ‘The Message’?” "
Coates needs some education from French anti-racists about how terrible France is

Exclusive | CBS Interview on Israel Triggers Fight at Network; Shari Redstone Weighs In - WSJ - "A CBS morning-show interview about Israel with author Ta-Nehisi Coates has triggered turmoil inside the network, with executives saying it failed to meet their standards and some staffers saying management came down hard on an anchor who was doing his job.  In the interview, which aired on Sept. 30, anchor Tony Dokoupil opened by stating that the content in Coates’s new book “The Message,” which is critical of Israel, “would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist.”"
You're not allowed to challenge left wing anti-Semitism. You're only allowed to ask difficult questions of Trump, Vance etc

Thread by @OrenKessler on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Just a book on a display table at Barnes & Noble, published by Stanford, with this on the back cover:  “Neither a democratic political party nor a terrorist group, Hamas is a multifaceted liberation organization, one rooted in the nationalist claims of the Palestinian people.” Just a book on a display table at Barnes & Noble, published by Stanford, with this on the back cover:  “Neither a democratic political party nor a terrorist group, Hamas is a multifaceted liberation organization, one rooted in the nationalist claims of the Palestinian people.”"

Thread by @OrenKessler on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I’ve read the NY Review of Books for many years, but this is journalistic malpractice:  “Seventy-six years ago, Zionist militias drove more than 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.”  1948 was vastly more complex than this nonsense sentence.
The word “tendentious” doesn’t quite cut it:  “Between 1947 and 1949 armed Zionist militias roamed through Palestine, ethnically cleansing the inhabitants of more than five hundred villages, massacring many, and forcing out an estimated 750,000”
From this week’s issue:  “In 1948 Aziz became one of over 750,000 Palestinians expelled from their homeland by Zionist militias”
Naturally, this propaganda is published in the October 4, 2024 issue in order to coincide perfectly with the year anniversary of the October 7th attacks. All of these come from Tareq Baconi, author of “Hamas Contained”
There are many things in history that I wish were true, but just because something feels satisfying to write doesn’t make it so. Twitter isn’t really the place to relitigate 1948, but there are many, many good books on it (“libraries worth of books,” as I wrote in “Palestine 1936”). Morris’s seminal Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem (Revisited) is a good place to start. Were there expulsions during the war? Few serious historians deny that. It depended mostly on when and where, and the military situation in a given time and place. But despite Baqoni’s fantasies of Einsatzgruppen with Star of David armbands, it’s well-documented that Palestinians fled many, many villages, towns and cities without seeing a single member of “Zionist militias,” as he puts it. That tends to happen in wars. Civilians flee. Again, Twitter isn’t the place to relitigate this. There are these things called books. I wrote one, and it also covers 1948.  But this – this isn’t history. It’s an elite American publication publishing a deliberately timed defense of the indefensible...
For those actually interested in 1948, see eg the list in Morris ,2004:  A: Abandonment on Arab orders C: Influence of nearby town ‘s fall E: Expulsion by Jewish forces F: Fear of being caught in fighting M: Military assault W: Whispering campaign amazon.com/Palestinian-Re…
A quick glance at the list will show you that this history, like much history, is (brace yourselves) complex.  What you don’t see is the letter “E” for Expulsion all down the line, as Baconi tries to dupe readers into believing, with the avid encouragement of the NYRB."

Meme - Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630: "This was, depending on your definitions, either the 6th or the 9th rejection of a fairly good peace deal by the Arab side.  Why do they keep doing this? Because they want a ONE state solution - the Palestinians in the state of Israel, and the Jews in the State of Grace."
Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM: "In 2008, Israel offered the PA 100% of Gaza, 94% of the West Bank + compensation, half of Jerusalem, and a right of return for 1000 Arabs per year. The Americans called it amazing. The Palestinians rejected it "out of hand." After such an offer is rejected, what else is left?"
"PROJECTION OF ISRAELI PROPOSAL FOR TERRITORY"

The Curious Rise of 'Settler Colonialism' and 'Turtle Island' - The Atlantic - "Settler colonialism—academic jargon for the violent process by which colonial empires empower settlers to push out and oppress Indigenous inhabitants and form a dominant new society—is a term much in vogue among activists and academics on the left. To talk of settler states and oppressed Indigenous people, and claim an umbilical connection between Palestinian struggles and those of Native Americans, is to construct a morality tale stripped of subtleties—a matter not of politics, but of sin. Israel, in this view, is not a flawed and contentious democracy engaged in a war with an enemy that vows to destroy it. It is a settler-colonialist state built upon the oppression and exploitation of Indigenous Palestinians. A left-wing kibbutznik who lives a few miles from Gaza and drives sick Palestinians to Israeli hospitals is no less a colonialist than a right-wing theocratic settler who brandishes an automatic rifle and insists on the annexation of stolen lands on the West Bank... Settlers, the theory goes, are mere pawns of imperial patrons, and impermanence is implied. Settlers can be uprooted, sojourns violently terminated. What matters is that Indigenous people reclaim their rightful inheritance.  The Australian historian and anthropologist Patrick Wolfe, who died in 2016, is widely seen as one of the intellectual founders of settler-colonialism theory. This form of colonialism, he wrote, is premised on “the elimination of the native” through genocide and coercive policies that turn survivors into “white people.” This process, Wolfe explained in a 2012 interview at Stanford University, is a “‘winner take all,’ zero-sum game whereby outsiders come to a country and seek to take it away from the people who already live there, remove them, replace them.” Any reasonable measure of European colonial empires and the westward trail of American settlers can locate exploitation, racism, and bloody conquest. Wolfe’s theories resonate deeply in left-wing corners of academia. Prominent American universities from UCLA to Yale offer courses in settler colonialism; British universities have research centers devoted to it; papers in journals debate its finer points and expand the discussion to include the subjugation of native people as a laboring class. Many divine in settler-colonialism theory a global explanatory power, applying it not only to the U.S. and Wolfe’s native Australia—where Europeans dominated and marginalized the Aboriginal population—but to Indonesians in West Papua, Indians in Kashmir, and Moroccans in Western Sahara... The notion that Indigenous violence is inevitable, even liberatory, has gained chilling traction on the American left. “One could (and should) very well argue that in a settler colonial context, there are not such things as civilians,” the Palestine-issues committee of the Democratic Socialists of America wrote in June on X (formerly Twitter). “It’s total folly to compare settlers perpetrating pogroms to resistance groups deploying violence to liberate themselves.”  More assumptions flow from this conceptual fountainhead... Just by way of concentrating the mind, let’s remember the specific nature of the violent resistance practiced by Hamas, whose fighters began the morning of October 7 by breaking a cease-fire with Israel and ended by killing children, raping women, and slaughtering parents in front of their children. Decolonization turns out not to be metaphorical. I put the question of settler colonialism to Roger Berkowitz, the academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He said he is taken aback both by the speed with which the ideological construct of settler colonialism has entered the global discourse and by how intently people who espouse the theory focus on Israel... In invocations of settler colonialism, Berkowitz hears progressives giving up on effecting change through political means. “The left has replaced its faith in proletarian subjects and utopian solutions with a view of the Indigenous as innocent and oppressed. It’s an ethics rather than a politics.” In the late 1960s and early ’70s, prominent radical American Indian activists saw in Israel a symbol of an Indigenous people regaining their land and reviving their language. Since then, however, many Native American activists came to strongly embrace the Palestinian cause alongside anticolonial struggles in Algeria, Ireland, and South Africa. If their “Indigenous cousins” can liberate Palestine, the underlying logic suggests, so Indigenous Americans might set free Turtle Island tomorrow.  “We want U.S. out of everywhere. We want U.S. out of Palestine. We want U.S. out of Turtle Island,” the University of Minnesota professor Melanie Yazzie, who is Navajo, said at “From Minnesota to Palestine,” a panel in December sponsored by Red Nation, whose politics run sharply left. “The goal is to dismantle the settler project that is the United States.” To talk of dismantling an American settler state of 330 million people is to take a rhetorical flight of fancy. It is less a program than a millenarian dream––a “prophecy,” as Nick Estes, a University of Minnesota historian who is a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and a co-founder of Red Nation, has written. Unlike Hamas leaders who explicitly and repeatedly call for Israel’s violent elimination, Native activists and academics say they have in mind not a bloody Indigenous uprising but a socialist revolution against liberalism and capitalism, to demolish national borders and police forces, and upend a racist system that, in Estes’s words, seeks “to kill us off, confine us to sub-marginal plots of land, breed us white.” This might occur in concert with sympathetic descendants of settlers... Morality tales offer poor stand-ins for politics, and discourage an honest engagement with history, which is often messy and fractured. The question of who is Indigenous in Israel and Palestine involves layers of complication. One of the holiest sites in Islam, the venerable al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, was built in the seventh and eighth century and sits atop the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. The first temple was completed there in the 10th century B.C.E. and predates the foundation of Islam by 1,500 years... Today the Mizrahi Jews, as the Indigenous Jewish residents of the Middle East are known, comprise slightly more than half of Israel’s population."

Thread by @JewishSpaceLazr on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "9/11 was my 2nd week as exec dir of @RutgersHillel, at @RutgersU, the State U of NJ. The next day flyers went up all over campus inviting people to a special meeting of the Muslim Students Assoc on 9/13. Of course I went. Here is what I saw and heard. It haunts me to this day. ๐Ÿงต I thought half the campus would be there. Who wouldn't want to hear what the MSA had to say 2 days after Al-Qaeda killed 3,000 Americans? We could smell the smoke from Ground Zero on campus. But I was the only visibly non-Muslim person in a crowd of 200+. Wearing my kipah. ✡️ The first 45 minutes a prof spoke on the atrocities of the recent Algerian civil war. At first I didn't understand why. But he was making a point to the doubting Muslim students. SEE? It is possible for Muslims to do violent terrible things. It's possible Muslims had done this. The fact that he had to drive that point home over and over was a wake up call for me that his audience had a very different understanding of themselves and the world than I did. To say the least. The next speaker was the imam from a nearby mosque. He spoke ad nauseum, quoting the Quran in Arabic, citing Hadiths, employing the kind of excessively poetic language that is foreign to the Western ear. Between all that and his accent, I confess I couldn't understand a thing. Then came Q&A, where the rubber hit the road. The very first question was from a foreign student who said simply "How do we explain to people that the Israelis did this?"  It felt like all eyes turned to me, standing in the middle of the crowd with my Jewishness on my head. I just stared straight ahead at the imam, waiting for his answer. How would he respond? Would he explain, as the prof did, that yes, Muslims could have done this? Would he condemn or support Al-Qaeda? His answer shocked me then, but in retrospect explains the next 2 decades. After a very long, thoughtful pause he replied "It is too soon to explain the political dimension." And with that, 200+ heads nodded up and down in approval and understanding. Yes, Israel had done this! This had nothing to do with Muslims. It was the Jews!! My head was spinning. I stayed until the end, listened to other questions, but tbh I heard none of them, remember nothing else. I am now used to the world's infinite capacity to deny reality by blaming Israel, but it was new then. For the next 20+ years on campus anti-Israel antisemitism was the #1 issue I dealt with on campus, as Palestinian Solidarity and then SJP rose to prominence, while faculty and administrators denied Jewish concerns and the world became...what it is today. But NONE of this is new. All of it was present in that one meeting after 9/11."

Matthew Nouriel on X - ""Zionism has created a reality in which Jews have forgotten they are dhimmis." - Mufti of Gaza, Haj Muhammad Said al-Husseini, 1948 It was never about land."

Meme - Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: "Breaking: The University of Pennsylvania has changed its bookstore’s “history” section to exclusively propaganda books demonizing Israel.  It is no wonder the university breeds a student body that is radicalized, considering these are the books they push on them."

Conner Habib on X - "Susan Sontag, a few days after 9/11/01. She didn’t flinch. She was widely reviled for this and stood, resilient, anyway."
wanye on X - "This is yet another demonstration of the truism that all debates about tactics are really a debate about something else. Progressives are of course fine with civilian casualties. In fact they’re fine with the deliberate targeting of civilians as a primary objective. In fact, they think that Americans civilians actually *have it coming* and *deserve what they get*. Whenever you hear these people complaining about collateral damage in Palestine, in other words, you should understand that they are perfectly comfortable with the direct targeting of civilians, given that they support the cause in question.  So just understand that the debate is about which side you’re on, not ever about civilian casualties.  Debates about tactics are always a debate about something else."
Another example of "this is actually a perfect distillation of how lefties argue:
1. find two things that are different in nearly every possible way
2. find one superficial similarity between them (this proves they are actually identical)
3. "why are you against one but not the other ๐Ÿ˜"

David Collier on X - "Remind me again why the Arabs did not declare a Palestinian state between 1949-1967? After all there was no 'occupation'. The Arabs held Gaza, Judea/Samaria + the holy places in Jerusalem. Yet no Palestinian state! Why? Because their real goal is all about destroying Israel!"

Thread by @ShaiDavidai on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The Infiltration of Terror Supporting and anti-American Ideology into North American Universities: A case study...
On September 26, 2001, (just fifteen days after 9/11), @SamiAlArian (a professor at @USouthFlorida) was a guest on the @BillOReilly show.  Prof. Al-Arian was asked about a statements he had made, saying that "Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam. Death to Israel. Revolution. Revolution until victory. Rolling to Jerusalem."  He could have taken his statement back. He could have denied having made it. Instead, he doubled down.  When asked about his call for the annihilation of Israel, Prof. Al-Arian's answer was, and I quote, "let me just put it into context." It doesn't end there.  Five years later, Prof. Sami Al-Arian pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to contribute services to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Stop scrolling and think about that for a second:  A Professor at a major American University was arrested, pleaded guilty, and was deported for raising funds for the Islamic Jihad. In prison, Prof. Sami Al-Arian used the same tactic that the imprisoned terrorists use in Israel.  He went on a hunger strike.  Guess who came to the defense of the person who just pleaded guilty to a terrorist conspiracy?  @amnesty International.
As part of his plea deal, Prof. Sami-Al Arian was deported to Turkey, where he could presumably be more effective working with the Islamic Jihad. In Turkey, Sami Al-Arian founded The Center for Islam and Global Affairs (@cigaistanbul).  Here's an event in which they hosted Professor @JonathanACBrown from @Georgetown to talk about his book about Islam and Blackness.  (Remember this guy. He comes back later in the story)
Being a true gentleman, @SamiAlArian left his wife Nahla behind, so she could keep up the spirit of supporting terrorism in the U.S.  Here she is, last spring, in the illegal encampment at @Columbia University.  Columbia did not even issue a condemnation of her visit.   (as a side - Here's how @AP reported on her visit: They described Nahla as a "retired school teacher" and @SamiAlArian as someone "who had been prosecuted [...] on charges that he had given banned support [...] to a sanctioned Palestinian group",  They just omitted the fact that he had pleaded guilty and that the "sanctioned group" was a designated terrorist organization. ) Of course, @SamiAlArian also left his daughter @LailaAlarian behind.  Guess what she does for a living?  You guessed it: She's a journalist at no other than Qatari-funded @AlJazeera.  Guess where @LailaAlarian went to school?  You guessed it again: @Columbia School of Journalism (@columbiajourn). But here's the really crazy part:  @LailaAlarian is married to @JonathanACBrown, a Professor of Islamic Civilization at @Georgetown School of Foreign Service (@georgetownsfs)  Remember him? That's the guy giving talks for the center run by a convicted supporter of terrorism.
So what does the son-in-law of a convicted supporter or terrorism teach and research at @GeorgetownSFS, a school that trains the future leaders of American and international politics? In 2017, @JonathanACBrown gave a lecture at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (@IIITfriends) about Islam and slavery in which he stated that he doesn't think that “ it’s morally evil to own somebody".  He also justified rape as something that has been historically acceptable.  His response was, just like his terrorist supporting father-in-law's response, you need to look at the context. The obedient son-in-law that he is, @JonathanACBrown routinely shows his support for Hamas, the PFLP, and the Palestinian Islamic on his social media.  Here he is, denying the massacre of October 7 *while it was ongoing*. Again, stop scrolling and let that sink in for a moment:  The son-in-law of a convicted supporter of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad teaches at @Georgetown and openly supports the same terrorist organization.  In what world is that a morally acceptable thing?
So, what did we have here?
- A professor at @USouthFlorida who called for the annihaliation of Israel and who pleaded guilty to charges of terrorist conspiracy.
- A wife who openly supports @Columbia students who protest in favor of her husband's favorite terrorist organization.
- A @Columbia trained daughter who writes for the Qatari-funded @AlJazeera
- A @Georgetown professor son-in-law who openly supports terrorism, derides its victims, and finds ways to justify slavery and rape.  
This is just a case study.  There are hundreds of other professors like these all across the U.S.  Professors like Rashid Khalidi at @Columbia who is still battling accusations of being a spokesperson for the PLO, a Palestinian terrorist organizations from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Something needs to be done.
(side note: please share this with Jewish students and alumni of @Georgetown. They might want to know who their tuition and donation money is currently funding)"

Meme - Visegrad 24 @visegrad24: "This is what "globalise the intifada" looks like. *911 Twin Towers on fire*"

Dr. Eli David on X - "“We must declare that Palestine is an Islamic land, and that Spain ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ – Andalusia – is also the land of islam. Islamic armies must also conquer Rome ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น. The decline of the West will give rise to islam from its ashes.” Their intentions cannot be clearer."

Meme - Drew Pavlou ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ @DrewPavlou: "The “1,455,590” death toll figure comes from a Brown University study which counts every single conflict related death in the Middle East since 2001 as a death caused by America. ISIS carrying out genocide against Yazidis? America. Assad gassing neighbourhoods? America"
Jezebel Peliqueen.bsky.social @linbregar: "R.I.P. to the 2,996 Americans who died on 9/11. And R.I.P. to the 1,455,590 Innocent Muslims who died during the US invasion for something they didn't do."

Queers for Palestine? Group offers $1 million for LGBTQ advocacy org to hosts Pride parade in Gaza, West Bank - "A watchdog group that aims to expose hypocrisy announced Monday that it would donate $1 million to "Queers for Palestine" or any U.S. LGBTQ advocacy organization to host a gay pride parade in Gaza or the West Bank. Anti-Israel groups such as "Queers for Palestine" have surfaced across America since the Hamas terror group attacked Israel on October 7, but homosexuality remains deeply taboo in the Palestinian territories. Gay and transgender people in Gaza and the West Bank face a significant level of persecution and are often subjected to horrific acts. New Tolerance Campaign (NTC) President Gregory T. Angelo, who is gay and the former president of Log Cabin Republicans, said the campaign is a "wake-up call" to anyone who identifies as part of the "Queers for Palestine" or "Gays for Gaza" movements... "On the left in the United States, all oppression is the same oppression. And I think the left, quite to their disservice, lumps everything from racial discrimination to sexual orientation discrimination to gender discrimination to Islamophobia, all under the same umbrella. That’s certainly not the case," Angelo said. Angelo said that many anti-Israel protesters across the United States insist LGBTQ people aren’t treated particularly well in the United States when confronted with facts about how they would be treated in Gaza or the West Bank. "Well, that could not be further from the truth. Here in the United States, we have protection from job discrimination for gay and trans individuals that came through a Supreme Court ruling. We have same-sex marriage is the law of the land in all 50 states, and just more generally, aside from legislation, we have a country that welcomes people of all faiths and family types," Angelo said. "Contrast that with what you see over in the Palestinian territories where same-sex marriage isn't something that's even a possibility or discussed," he said. "There are no protections in terms of employment for sexual orientation or gender." Palestinian Authority police in 2019 barred gay and transgender rights group from holding events in the West Bank and threatened to arrest participants. Meanwhile, Israel frequently promotes its tolerance on issues of sexual orientation and Tel Aviv is proud of its reputation as a top destination for gay and lesbian travelers. Angelo said he was stunned in 2013 when he visited the West Bank during an immersion trip to Israel. "I got to see with my own eyes the disparity in, not just gay rights, but really human rights that are evident when you cross over between Israel and into the Palestinian territories," Angelo said. New Tolerance Campaign bills itself as a "watchdog organization mobilizing Americans to confront intolerance double-standards by establishment institutions, civil rights groups, universities, and socially-conscious brands," according to its website. "NTC action campaigns empower ordinary Americans to hold accountable self-proclaimed arbiters of tolerance when they betray their own stated values," the site says."

Uri Kurlianchik on X - ""Jews have no business living in the Middle East!" cries the Pakistani living in London."
Am HaNetzach on X - "Arabs in New York love screaming at us to go back to Poland."

Meme - Kid to mother in devastated landscape: "But mom you were so happy when we attacked Israel"

Richard Goldberg on X - "Qatar becomes second Muslim nation whose citizens can travel to the US without a visa Are you kidding me? You can host Hamas and the Taliban and come to the US without a visa???"

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