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".
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.
And where does Dr. Malachai live? On whose formerly occupied land? Does he continue to enjoy the privileges of being a European in Israel? It’s all very well and good to talk….
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!! 🙏
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).
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.
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.
Has anyone else found that the footnotes in the.actual document don't exactly match the MEE article?
And is there a version of the report available that links to static sources or screenshots rather than to evanescent social media posts? (Many of the footnote’s links seem to be already gone or censored)
Wow! How fear-based loyalty to a tribe can blind some people… And I do fail to see the purpose of your strange comment. No. I don’t have anything ‘better’ to do when there is a genocide. During the holocaust a lot of people had ‘better things to do’, which is why the holocaust could take place and no one did anything to stop it. One rule for you, one rule for everyone else…
In my profession there is a clear name for someone who can feel ‘amused’ while their country murders tens of thousands of people, and is on a never-ending murderous rampage of destruction. We know what kind of people not only commit horrific murder and destruction, but are also proud of it and enjoy it.
I wonder how you personally might be participating in this genocide. Generations will be asking what you and your friends and relatives did during the genocide of the Palestinian people. Just like we were raised to ask every German tourist what their father or grandfather did during the holocaust, so will people want to find out the same about you.
The fact that you cannot see at all; that you are so utterly blind to what you are, and what you are supporting and colluding with is symptomatic of Israeli society and Israel’s supporters.
If you enjoy commenting on my Substack, perhaps hoping you might manage to irritate me, knock yourself out. (And what kind of a person finds a need to do that?…)
I won’t even block/ban you, because what you are providing is so priceless. My readers are reading your comments. You are so helpful at providing first-hand evidence, and confirming that what I am saying about Israel and Zionist supporters of Israel, and what everyone can see, is all true. I am grateful for your assistance in backing up my writings. You are the proof.
I feel nothing but pity for you and your fellow cult members (if you don’t know what I am talking about you can read other essays I have written over the years. Israeli society and many Zionists around the world have the psychology of a cult).
You need to understand, my poor, deeply misguided friend, that there is no coming back from what Israel is doing, and from the act of supporting it. A war criminal is not just the person holding the gun. It is everyone who supports them.
Don’t flatter yourself. I’m the one that pities you and your gang of zombie like Jew haters. All your crying, braying and virtue signalling will not change a thing on the ground. So do what you must, but please spare me your hollow, self righteous declarations.
You think you are superior to everyone else, but in reality you’re just part of a cult of the worst kind.
So what you are saying is that you, the soulless, heartless, abusive psychopaths, are in charge, and people like me can do nothing to defeat you. Well, we’ll see about that.
It is interesting that you see me as ‘self-righteous’, and what I say as ‘hollow’. Only someone who is doing wrong can accuse others of this and resort to personal attacks. Neither I, nor anyone I know, hates ‘Jews’ (are you aware that I am from Israel, born and bred, and a former Staff Sergeant in the Israeli army?) We object to Israel’s settler-colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. We object to any group of humans thinking it has more right to exist than any other group, and we object to abuse of anyone. If you think this is being a ‘zombie’ — what a weird notion — you need to watch a few zombie films, because I don’t think you know what zombies are...
I can’t thank you enough for continuing to comment, and for providing evidence for what I say. Please keep going and please say as much as you like. You are showing yourself up, and your fellow cult members better than anything I could possibly say about you. Good work.
You can continue to berate me as much as you like (personal attacks are acceptable if they come from you)and keep defending the noble goals of your group that objects to the way Israel is conducting herself. You can puff out your chest and keep saying that you are so moral and right. You served so you have the right to assail Israel. Unfortunately there are too many Israelis that think like you, but she is a democracy and must accept it. Thankfully those voices are the minority.
Thank you. You are doing a fantastic job to support what I write and say. Please keep commenting. I particularly appreciate the use of ‘she’ when referring to your country…
Blah blah blah. I’ve yet to read an interesting word from you. You are fortunate that I stumbled upon your thread, at least your followers can admire you as you take a stand against “soulless,heartless, abusive psychopaths”. I really do find you to be pathetic. Having said that, I am eagerly awaiting your brave and profound response to the aggressive, evil Zionist that dares to disagree with your unimpeachable world view.
🤭It didn’t escape my attention that you went out of you way to attempt to insult Avigail, but I can’t help wonder what the underlying issue is with your behavior. By posting your comment what purpose are you seeking to fulfill? Just curious.
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.
I sadly believe that 'evidence' will show that "where over 44,500 Palestinians have been killed" is not exact any more. By far ...
The real numbers are likely in the hundreds of thousands.
I agree. Keep an eye on the West Bank where Israel is now in full on genocide mode.
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.
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…
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
And where does Dr. Malachai live? On whose formerly occupied land? Does he continue to enjoy the privileges of being a European in Israel? It’s all very well and good to talk….
I completely agree.
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!
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).
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.
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.
Has anyone else found that the footnotes in the.actual document don't exactly match the MEE article?
And is there a version of the report available that links to static sources or screenshots rather than to evanescent social media posts? (Many of the footnote’s links seem to be already gone or censored)
A delusional pile of narishkeit. Don’t you have anything else better to do?
Wow! How fear-based loyalty to a tribe can blind some people… And I do fail to see the purpose of your strange comment. No. I don’t have anything ‘better’ to do when there is a genocide. During the holocaust a lot of people had ‘better things to do’, which is why the holocaust could take place and no one did anything to stop it. One rule for you, one rule for everyone else…
Mordechai’s report is documented. With videos.
This guy is just an Israeli or Zionist troll. His only goal is to be disruptive. This is not someone to debate with.
Why debate a self righteous dimwit like yourself? Nothing to gain. I am amused by your “writing” though.
In my profession there is a clear name for someone who can feel ‘amused’ while their country murders tens of thousands of people, and is on a never-ending murderous rampage of destruction. We know what kind of people not only commit horrific murder and destruction, but are also proud of it and enjoy it.
I wonder how you personally might be participating in this genocide. Generations will be asking what you and your friends and relatives did during the genocide of the Palestinian people. Just like we were raised to ask every German tourist what their father or grandfather did during the holocaust, so will people want to find out the same about you.
The fact that you cannot see at all; that you are so utterly blind to what you are, and what you are supporting and colluding with is symptomatic of Israeli society and Israel’s supporters.
If you enjoy commenting on my Substack, perhaps hoping you might manage to irritate me, knock yourself out. (And what kind of a person finds a need to do that?…)
I won’t even block/ban you, because what you are providing is so priceless. My readers are reading your comments. You are so helpful at providing first-hand evidence, and confirming that what I am saying about Israel and Zionist supporters of Israel, and what everyone can see, is all true. I am grateful for your assistance in backing up my writings. You are the proof.
I feel nothing but pity for you and your fellow cult members (if you don’t know what I am talking about you can read other essays I have written over the years. Israeli society and many Zionists around the world have the psychology of a cult).
You need to understand, my poor, deeply misguided friend, that there is no coming back from what Israel is doing, and from the act of supporting it. A war criminal is not just the person holding the gun. It is everyone who supports them.
Don’t flatter yourself. I’m the one that pities you and your gang of zombie like Jew haters. All your crying, braying and virtue signalling will not change a thing on the ground. So do what you must, but please spare me your hollow, self righteous declarations.
You think you are superior to everyone else, but in reality you’re just part of a cult of the worst kind.
So what you are saying is that you, the soulless, heartless, abusive psychopaths, are in charge, and people like me can do nothing to defeat you. Well, we’ll see about that.
It is interesting that you see me as ‘self-righteous’, and what I say as ‘hollow’. Only someone who is doing wrong can accuse others of this and resort to personal attacks. Neither I, nor anyone I know, hates ‘Jews’ (are you aware that I am from Israel, born and bred, and a former Staff Sergeant in the Israeli army?) We object to Israel’s settler-colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. We object to any group of humans thinking it has more right to exist than any other group, and we object to abuse of anyone. If you think this is being a ‘zombie’ — what a weird notion — you need to watch a few zombie films, because I don’t think you know what zombies are...
I can’t thank you enough for continuing to comment, and for providing evidence for what I say. Please keep going and please say as much as you like. You are showing yourself up, and your fellow cult members better than anything I could possibly say about you. Good work.
You can continue to berate me as much as you like (personal attacks are acceptable if they come from you)and keep defending the noble goals of your group that objects to the way Israel is conducting herself. You can puff out your chest and keep saying that you are so moral and right. You served so you have the right to assail Israel. Unfortunately there are too many Israelis that think like you, but she is a democracy and must accept it. Thankfully those voices are the minority.
I’m not buying what you are selling.
Thank you. You are doing a fantastic job to support what I write and say. Please keep commenting. I particularly appreciate the use of ‘she’ when referring to your country…
Blah blah blah. I’ve yet to read an interesting word from you. You are fortunate that I stumbled upon your thread, at least your followers can admire you as you take a stand against “soulless,heartless, abusive psychopaths”. I really do find you to be pathetic. Having said that, I am eagerly awaiting your brave and profound response to the aggressive, evil Zionist that dares to disagree with your unimpeachable world view.
🤭It didn’t escape my attention that you went out of you way to attempt to insult Avigail, but I can’t help wonder what the underlying issue is with your behavior. By posting your comment what purpose are you seeking to fulfill? Just curious.