I am sick to my stomach of hearing and seeing spokes-people,'leaders', and other influential, powerful or supposedly rational, intelligent and authoritative commentators claim, when anyone condemns Israeli actions or supports the Palestinians, that they are antisemitic.
Horror at and condemnation of the brutality, killing of innocents, destruction of homes and infrastructure, deliberate sniping at individuals, refusal to allow aid packages and even its destruction, rape and pillaging, humiliation and torture - none of this is about hatred of Jews or antisemitism.
These condemnations are the response of fair minded, caring, compassionate and rational people who would condemn such actions *regardless of who it might be that committed them.*
The International Criminal Court is right to have indicted Netanyahu and issued a warrant for his arrest. There are many others who should be subject to the same fate.
That Israeli or American politicians and state voices can stand up and shamelessly deny that such indictments are valid is beyond condescension of hypocrisy - it is criminal denial.
Thank you for publishing this account and thank you to Lee Mordechai for gathering this important evidence. Please may it bring the facts to light and stop the lies and denial.
Although the article in question may be useful as an argument that there exist Israelis who recognize the inhumanity of the Zionist State, the Middle east Eye outlet itself is unfortunately having a Zionist position on Syria and it is absolutely criminal what they are publishing on this issue, especially today when Syria is being raped by ISIS-cutouts who are getting help from Banderites with blue-yellow flags. Middle East Eye begins to resemble Haaretz. "MiddleEast Eye: ENOUGH WITH ASSAD - AFTER SYRIAN REBELS took Aleppo from government control on Saturday, Syrians gathered in London to call for President Assad's removal. Chanting "We want freedom" and "Bashar has fallen", they also call for a free Palestine (sic) and the removal of Netanyahu".
Because they agree with it. It is ordinary Israeli citizens that form the bulk of the military force that is destroying Gaza and the OWB and that is implementing settler-colonialism. The opposition to Netanyahu and his government in Israel is not because they are committing genocide, but because they are not going far enough. While this professor has done an invaluable job collating all the data and the evidence he still talks about the ‘values’ he was brought up with. He himself is still oblivious to Israel’s settler-colonialism and what it means. The overall majority of the Jewish Israeli population want to see all the Palestinians gone and they do not think they are committing a genocide because ‘it is not the same as the holocaust’ and because they are steeped in the narrative that they are just defending themselves from an antisemitic enemy that is determined to annihilate them. I have written about Israel’s insane psychology and their cult mentality. (I am fluent in Hebrew and read the Israeli media- to the extent that I can stomach it).
That you are fluent in Hebrew is so valuable. There aren't many who are, and who are also willing to translate what is said. David Sheen is another. I can't think of many more.
I had to search hard to find Ahad Ha-am's "Truth from Eretz Yisrael" in translation, for example. I haven't found it in any English language compilation. I only found one instance, an academic paper.
Have you by chance translated any early Zionist writings that aren't widely available?
I’m afraid not, and I am sorry. It’s not my field. I am occasionally happy to help with small scale translations, but I don’t have the time to invest in it. To be honest, I also find so much of the literature I grew up on sickening, and would much rather not go into it too much.
If you read people like Shlomo Sand, Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappé, you will find valuable insights into the writings of the early Zionists and these writers scholarship can be trusted. They are all fluent in Hebrew. Following their references and bibliography can provide a rich foundation of data for you.
LLMs (Large Language Models) like Claude (the AI programme by Anthropic, which you can subscribe to for free) knows around 36 languages, and can do a really good translation from Hebrew to English. You will have to copy and paste text from a Hebrew source, which means you will have to have an electronic copy of the text, but it can be useful for some of your work.
Thank you very much for those recommendations. I will look into them. I hadn't heard of Claude and I'm glad to know it can do a good translation.
Your work is very enlightening. I really appreciate and thank youfor telling the truth about what it is like inside Israel and the cult of Zionism, especially working through deep discomfort. I had suspected some of it in vague terms, mainly the self-involvement and cruel entitlement, because I grew up in a religious household that went deeper and deeper into it as I grew older, but I didn't and don't think I could have suspected the extent of it. It goes well beyond how evangelical fundamentalists think, although they are ready and willing to sacrifice anyone to their religion.
Thank you so much for this clear feedback and I am pleased that my writings offer some support for your thinking, and activism. Fanaticism is a psychological, not a religious or otherwise problem. My very best to you as well and thank you for reading and commenting. I hope you will find the translations you need, and I am happy to help on a small scale if you ever need it. 🙏
Specific: Israelis weren't just plunged into this bizarre reality yesterday or last year or even 10 years ago. All this was dragging on and on for ages so to many of them it's all kind of much of a muchness. Even this genocide needs to be viewed in the context of genocidal mindset that everyone "got used to", whether they fully support it or the minority from the absolute opposite. So Israelis got really good (I mean really) at ignoring crazy stuff.
General: Could technology have something to do with it? what is happening outside matters less these days?... we have the internet to escape to? We are being corralled into an online shopping basket.
Israelis will have their name etched in the annals of genocidal history along side Nazis, Khmer Rouge, Stalinist Russia, and the colonial global powers - UK, USA, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Italy, etc.
Thank you for sharing this important report. The author will, no doubt, be vilified, and those who will not see will continue to remain deliberately blind.
P.S. Any word on the next book for the Palestine book club?
Israeli authorities are not yet officially arresting their own people but some lunatic could assassinate him or GideonLevy. That isn’t because they express opposition to state policies, or criticise the government. It is specifically because they ‘air the dirty laundry. This is a far more serious ‘crime’ in the Israeli cult society, than simple dissent. ‘Disloyalty’ to the tribe/cult is their biggest issue.
Re BCOP, you will need to register to the mailing list so you can get the notices. I hosted the last two books but I’m not involved with organising. If you’re not on the mailing list you’ll need to contact Samer. The email address is: bcop0081@gmail.com Samer is currently running meetings every Wednesday as part of the ‘Encounters’ project. It is intended to help activist discuss and practise how to respond to different people in different situations about Palestine. Thank you!! 🙏
I just started my Substack journey in which I explore effective ways of freeing Palestine and sharing deep thoughts (among other things) follow for more 🫶🏻
Most of the so called Jews in Israel are fake European Jew with 0 Semitic dna unlike the Palestinians who are Semitic so no I am not anti semitic but anti Zionist
That’s actually true. I did my own DNA test a few years back and discovered the vast bulk of my DNA is from Western Europe, and I have % DNA from the Eastern basin of the Mediterranean. I believe I am typical of the majority of Israeli Jews. Israel apparently has been hiding DNA information about its population for precisely the reason you mention. Nothing antisemitic about it. Shlomo Sand, an Israeli scholar, wrote about this in _The Invention of the Jewish People_.
I'm saying the article you posted seemingly has a typo, or perhaps there is another version of the document? Or some other set of footnotes?
Both the people shot with white flags and the people slowly killed because the hospitals were destroyed and medicines blockaded are equally dead and murdered. No one is minimizing Israeli culpability in both these awful deaths.
I'm trying to understand where the link to to the white flag footage referred to as footnote 354 might actually be found, since it isn't where the article states it is, and it is a key paragraph in the article.
I think a good idea would be for you to contact Middle East Eye and point it out to them. I am sorry that I just don’t have time to pursue this. Maybe you spotted something that they have overlooked. MEE are usually a very reliable news sources and I am pretty sure they would welcome the feedback and will be willing to engage with you and investigate what you have found.
Your profound absence of empathy to your fellow human beings is staggering. Feeling only for your own perceived tribe or group is a mark of extremely primitive psychology, and it is what is really destroying us as a species. It takes true psychological health and maturity to see beyond our own self-preservation and our own little group or tribe.
Given both your reactions, I don’t have much hope you’ll understand what I’ve just said, but I said it because you never know. Everyone deserves a chance.
I have, however, banned you permanently from this page, because your instinctual reactions do not demonstrate a capacity for self-awareness, and are poisonous. You just want to lash out in what you feel is righteous anger. While you have every right to feel all your feelings, my page isn’t the space for dumping, and I’m not your bucket. I’m sorry you’re suffering such turmoil and I wish you well.
Thanks for this important post, Avigail. I will share as widely as possible.
This is valuable information.
I am sick to my stomach of hearing and seeing spokes-people,'leaders', and other influential, powerful or supposedly rational, intelligent and authoritative commentators claim, when anyone condemns Israeli actions or supports the Palestinians, that they are antisemitic.
Horror at and condemnation of the brutality, killing of innocents, destruction of homes and infrastructure, deliberate sniping at individuals, refusal to allow aid packages and even its destruction, rape and pillaging, humiliation and torture - none of this is about hatred of Jews or antisemitism.
These condemnations are the response of fair minded, caring, compassionate and rational people who would condemn such actions *regardless of who it might be that committed them.*
The International Criminal Court is right to have indicted Netanyahu and issued a warrant for his arrest. There are many others who should be subject to the same fate.
That Israeli or American politicians and state voices can stand up and shamelessly deny that such indictments are valid is beyond condescension of hypocrisy - it is criminal denial.
Thank you for publishing this account and thank you to Lee Mordechai for gathering this important evidence. Please may it bring the facts to light and stop the lies and denial.
Although the article in question may be useful as an argument that there exist Israelis who recognize the inhumanity of the Zionist State, the Middle east Eye outlet itself is unfortunately having a Zionist position on Syria and it is absolutely criminal what they are publishing on this issue, especially today when Syria is being raped by ISIS-cutouts who are getting help from Banderites with blue-yellow flags. Middle East Eye begins to resemble Haaretz. "MiddleEast Eye: ENOUGH WITH ASSAD - AFTER SYRIAN REBELS took Aleppo from government control on Saturday, Syrians gathered in London to call for President Assad's removal. Chanting "We want freedom" and "Bashar has fallen", they also call for a free Palestine (sic) and the removal of Netanyahu".
How disappointing. But nothing surprises me anymore in humanity. Disappointment is constant these days for me.
How can Israelis not be violently overthrowing their government and executing its leaders?
Because they agree with it. It is ordinary Israeli citizens that form the bulk of the military force that is destroying Gaza and the OWB and that is implementing settler-colonialism. The opposition to Netanyahu and his government in Israel is not because they are committing genocide, but because they are not going far enough. While this professor has done an invaluable job collating all the data and the evidence he still talks about the ‘values’ he was brought up with. He himself is still oblivious to Israel’s settler-colonialism and what it means. The overall majority of the Jewish Israeli population want to see all the Palestinians gone and they do not think they are committing a genocide because ‘it is not the same as the holocaust’ and because they are steeped in the narrative that they are just defending themselves from an antisemitic enemy that is determined to annihilate them. I have written about Israel’s insane psychology and their cult mentality. (I am fluent in Hebrew and read the Israeli media- to the extent that I can stomach it).
That you are fluent in Hebrew is so valuable. There aren't many who are, and who are also willing to translate what is said. David Sheen is another. I can't think of many more.
I had to search hard to find Ahad Ha-am's "Truth from Eretz Yisrael" in translation, for example. I haven't found it in any English language compilation. I only found one instance, an academic paper.
Have you by chance translated any early Zionist writings that aren't widely available?
I’m afraid not, and I am sorry. It’s not my field. I am occasionally happy to help with small scale translations, but I don’t have the time to invest in it. To be honest, I also find so much of the literature I grew up on sickening, and would much rather not go into it too much.
If you read people like Shlomo Sand, Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappé, you will find valuable insights into the writings of the early Zionists and these writers scholarship can be trusted. They are all fluent in Hebrew. Following their references and bibliography can provide a rich foundation of data for you.
LLMs (Large Language Models) like Claude (the AI programme by Anthropic, which you can subscribe to for free) knows around 36 languages, and can do a really good translation from Hebrew to English. You will have to copy and paste text from a Hebrew source, which means you will have to have an electronic copy of the text, but it can be useful for some of your work.
Thank you very much for those recommendations. I will look into them. I hadn't heard of Claude and I'm glad to know it can do a good translation.
Your work is very enlightening. I really appreciate and thank youfor telling the truth about what it is like inside Israel and the cult of Zionism, especially working through deep discomfort. I had suspected some of it in vague terms, mainly the self-involvement and cruel entitlement, because I grew up in a religious household that went deeper and deeper into it as I grew older, but I didn't and don't think I could have suspected the extent of it. It goes well beyond how evangelical fundamentalists think, although they are ready and willing to sacrifice anyone to their religion.
My very best to you.
Thank you so much for this clear feedback and I am pleased that my writings offer some support for your thinking, and activism. Fanaticism is a psychological, not a religious or otherwise problem. My very best to you as well and thank you for reading and commenting. I hope you will find the translations you need, and I am happy to help on a small scale if you ever need it. 🙏
Specific: Israelis weren't just plunged into this bizarre reality yesterday or last year or even 10 years ago. All this was dragging on and on for ages so to many of them it's all kind of much of a muchness. Even this genocide needs to be viewed in the context of genocidal mindset that everyone "got used to", whether they fully support it or the minority from the absolute opposite. So Israelis got really good (I mean really) at ignoring crazy stuff.
General: Could technology have something to do with it? what is happening outside matters less these days?... we have the internet to escape to? We are being corralled into an online shopping basket.
Yes, hard to read, but this is a brave man. I appreciate his bearing witness and telling the truth.
Me too. His work is important, but believe it or not he is still a Zionist and in denial (or ignorance) about Israeli settler colonialism…
https://www.newarab.com/news/what-israels-ben-gurion-canal-plan-and-why-gaza-matters
Israelis will have their name etched in the annals of genocidal history along side Nazis, Khmer Rouge, Stalinist Russia, and the colonial global powers - UK, USA, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Italy, etc.
Thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing this important report. The author will, no doubt, be vilified, and those who will not see will continue to remain deliberately blind.
P.S. Any word on the next book for the Palestine book club?
Israeli authorities are not yet officially arresting their own people but some lunatic could assassinate him or GideonLevy. That isn’t because they express opposition to state policies, or criticise the government. It is specifically because they ‘air the dirty laundry. This is a far more serious ‘crime’ in the Israeli cult society, than simple dissent. ‘Disloyalty’ to the tribe/cult is their biggest issue.
Re BCOP, you will need to register to the mailing list so you can get the notices. I hosted the last two books but I’m not involved with organising. If you’re not on the mailing list you’ll need to contact Samer. The email address is: bcop0081@gmail.com Samer is currently running meetings every Wednesday as part of the ‘Encounters’ project. It is intended to help activist discuss and practise how to respond to different people in different situations about Palestine. Thank you!! 🙏
Possibly Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac’s new book!
I just started my Substack journey in which I explore effective ways of freeing Palestine and sharing deep thoughts (among other things) follow for more 🫶🏻
All the best and hope you have many readers!!
Thank you for the kind words 🩵
Most of the so called Jews in Israel are fake European Jew with 0 Semitic dna unlike the Palestinians who are Semitic so no I am not anti semitic but anti Zionist
That’s actually true. I did my own DNA test a few years back and discovered the vast bulk of my DNA is from Western Europe, and I have % DNA from the Eastern basin of the Mediterranean. I believe I am typical of the majority of Israeli Jews. Israel apparently has been hiding DNA information about its population for precisely the reason you mention. Nothing antisemitic about it. Shlomo Sand, an Israeli scholar, wrote about this in _The Invention of the Jewish People_.
Go to PROTECT-PALESTINE.COM SIGN the petition, EMAIL the Hague Group, email your PM
Thank you. It’s good to know about it. I will follow the link and share.
Noor Ousman explain more in this video. Please everyone, watch it, email the Hague Group, this is so important!
https://youtu.be/hxwAFktm-ss?si=L-FLycEvw2C-In0K
Footnote 354 links to a Palestinian who died from hepatitis, not to a sniper firing on civilians with white flags. (Unless I am mistaken?)
I'm saying the article you posted seemingly has a typo, or perhaps there is another version of the document? Or some other set of footnotes?
Both the people shot with white flags and the people slowly killed because the hospitals were destroyed and medicines blockaded are equally dead and murdered. No one is minimizing Israeli culpability in both these awful deaths.
I'm trying to understand where the link to to the white flag footage referred to as footnote 354 might actually be found, since it isn't where the article states it is, and it is a key paragraph in the article.
I think a good idea would be for you to contact Middle East Eye and point it out to them. I am sorry that I just don’t have time to pursue this. Maybe you spotted something that they have overlooked. MEE are usually a very reliable news sources and I am pretty sure they would welcome the feedback and will be willing to engage with you and investigate what you have found.
Thank you for sharing, Avigail. Excellent, informative, and timely.
Your profound absence of empathy to your fellow human beings is staggering. Feeling only for your own perceived tribe or group is a mark of extremely primitive psychology, and it is what is really destroying us as a species. It takes true psychological health and maturity to see beyond our own self-preservation and our own little group or tribe.
Given both your reactions, I don’t have much hope you’ll understand what I’ve just said, but I said it because you never know. Everyone deserves a chance.
I have, however, banned you permanently from this page, because your instinctual reactions do not demonstrate a capacity for self-awareness, and are poisonous. You just want to lash out in what you feel is righteous anger. While you have every right to feel all your feelings, my page isn’t the space for dumping, and I’m not your bucket. I’m sorry you’re suffering such turmoil and I wish you well.