I’m writing this to while away my evening hours tonight because I have to stay up to go on BBC Breakfast in the UK morning to discuss the death of Liam Payne (I did Sky News here this evening).
Cowardice and desperation but also lack of information. Standard media is replete with false narratives about Israel. After 10/7/23, I hit the books and the podcasts to find out what was the real story, were Israelis/Jews the monsters the media said we were or were we justified in our actions. It took me months to wrap my head around Israeli history, Palestinian history and Iranian history. I came out the other side a fervent Zionist but it took a lot of time and effort. Most people don't go to the trouble. They just trust what the BBC, the Guardian, the NY Times, WaPo, and the UN tell them and believe it's truth. It's nothing like the truth but it takes real work to find that out.
Hmmm… I am people, a Gentile and a Zionist. The old saw that ‘some of my good friends are Jewish’ does apply to me - more, that my best friends in the last 50 years were Jewish, including two who were incarcerated and tattooed during the Holocaust!
To my great sadness, Werner, Helga and my dearest friend Gary, have all passed.
I sincerely hope that the majority of my countrymen support Israel… as do I!
Not only that. Jealousy is too rational a feeling. It was the main one at the dawn of anti-Semitism and now, especially in "intellectual" circles, the thought like "they got a lot of Nobel prizes - what bastards!" is replaced by a more irrational and more perverted phenomenon.
It is more like an addiction to drugs or gambling. Reality puts them in a situation where the disgusting nature of anti-Semitism is proven by millennia of persecution of Jews, the absurdity of accusations of "genocide", "apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing" is clearly visible with critical thinking.
But this destroys the comfort of their invented, prejudiced world, in which Jews are evil, people who do not deserve to have anything of their own and are obliged to follow the cultures and rules of non-Jews. And the more they justify the abominations and injustices towards Jews, the more they fall into this addiction. It is not enough for them to simply blame Jews for something. They need "scientific" evidence so that reality drowns and disappears in thousands of false dissertations, doctorates, "scientific discoveries." They need media subordinate to anti-Semitism that filter reality, ignore attacks on Jews, the evil that is done to Jews, in order to distort any actions of Jews in their defense. Blaming them when they are attacked, blaming them simply by inventing reasons. Anti-Semitism is an industry like the drug business or the gambling business (if you think that this does not bring profit, then look at the UNRWA organization, which thrives on anti-Semitism, and there are many such organizations, and there are also media, bloggers, influencers and other freaks). Millions of people are deceived into it, and the chance that a person without outside help will stop being an anti-Semite is the same as the chance that a drug addict or a gambler will free themselves from addiction.
I used to think about the self-hating JVP crowd as kapo Jews, but I am no longer satisfied with this. Kapos at least had the excuse that if they didn't collaborate, they would die (sooner rather than later).
This jibes with my turn from calling Hamas or Hezbollah terrorists and supporters "animals" or "scum." How unfair to animals and scum! Animals and scum do their thing by instinct. People are sentient beings with moral agency. Unlike animals and scum, they have a choice.
Eve, do you know the essence of the problem? Of course you do, as you show over and over again in your writing. The self-hating Jewish Voices for Autogenocide crowd are desperate to continue playing patty cake with their little friends at the progressive table in the kindergarten. It's really not any more complicated than that., don't you agree?
I have not lost any friends over Israel. That's because most of my friends are conservatives or old-school liberals who actually believe in, like, freedom and law and stuff. Many of my friends are proud Jews. I raised two kids to adulthood as proud Jews, and they both are raising, or intend to raise, proud Jews. This despite the fact that I am a fellow traveler.
Bear with me here. I know that this has been beyond painful for you because you have considered yourself a leftist, or progressive, or however you would have labeled yourself before. The generic issue with progressives is that they refuse to recognize and embrace limits like transcendent morals, human rights, and even objective empirical reality (the concept of which is increasingly labeled as racist even when it has nothing to do with race).
Rather, progressives hitch their faux normative wagon to a demigod called "History." They are on the right side of History, and you are not. They know this having returned with Doc Brown in the DeLorean from ten years hence, or a thousand years hence, or perhaps from the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and they know--they know with certainty from personal communion with History--that you will lose, and they will win. So, you are wrong--"evil" even--and you are certainly not enlightened.
The American progressives of the early 20th Century believed in the gospel of eugenics. Eugenics would improve the race. You can guess which race. Progressives don't like to talk about that now.
If you embrace any normative or empirical anchor, you can't play patty cake anymore at the progressive table. It doesn't really matter whether that anchor is the God of Abraham, the Christian gospel, the Tao of Pooh, Kant, Locke, or Aristotle.
If you believe in right and wrong, however you ground it, you have an anchor. And you are not a progressive.
Also our office gets tahina milkshakes from the Israeli restaurant in Philadelphia that was attached early on. Proudly buying Israeli made products. If you haven’t been to Goldie in Philly, fellow Eve fans, do go. Support Israeli businesses and eat great food.
Friends can be pests but are easier emotionally to deal with than relatives who have lost their way the past 12 months. You won't lose true friends and who needs faux friends, and distant relations just become more distant, but the pain one can't walk away from is when a dear and loved relative has lost their way and for reasons not clear, perhaps confusion of the heart, mind, and misplaced sympathies, is over sensitized to the pain of Gazans to the point of being so open minded their brains have fallen out. Certain loves cannot be containerized or walked away from, so in love I continue to send posts such as the brilliant crafts by Eve. After all, it would have been misplaced love for a German Jew in the 1930s to cease warning a loved relation of the danger because the relation found such warnings too disturbing and preferred living in a bubble.
That video was priceless. When told she's tearing down Greek flags "Oh, I thought it was Israel's. Uhhhh, my bad." Another case of stupidity in action.
I quit the Episcopal church over their leadership's hypocrisy toward the Jewish people. Most in the congregation don't agree with Episcopal church leadership, yet leadership lobbies congress in our name. Fuck that!
In my 62 years of living, I have never seen such evil so enabled by society's "elites".
I’m now a non-denominational Christian. I decided I didn’t need a middle man to pray to a loving God. I carry Christ in my heart. I love Israel and Zionism is a given.
Well done as always. I had quite a few friends who never identified with their Jewish heritage until now - when they come out as JVP types. No one is threatening them - they voluntarily jumped on board with their own destruction. My Jewish friends are in fear for their jobs if they speak out. I’m fortunate that my employer is a practicing Jew who is very cool with me writing pro Israel. I need to remember that and write more. Every voice that is not silent counts. You are a constant inspiration.
Never been to a Finnish restaurant and don't know if any even exist outside of Finland, or even in Finland, but good thing for the anti-semitic imbecile it was a Greek flag she defiled rather than a Finnish flag. Ever see the movie Sisu?
That TicTok is emblematic of so much of the "anti-Zionist" campus rabble. They remind me of one of my two Shih Tzus. One dog, hyper-vigilant, barks at everything. The other, not the brightest crayon in the box, will then run in and start barking too, despite being utterly clueless about what they're barking at.
The people at the restaurant were far nicer than I would have been. I would have given her a choice. Get up on a ladder and rehang our flags or I'm going to call the cops and file a complaint of vandalism and threatening my employees.
“A few years ago all they cared about was bleaching their eyebrows, synthesizers, Miu Miu loafers and kinda sorta maybe the idea of some sort of BDSM” absolutely SENT me 🤌
“ The kink is antizionist Jews.”
As a Zionist Gentile, I do not understand how one can be both Antzionist and Jewish!
Awaiting explanation…
Tillman
cowardice and desperation
And see below. Desperation at the thought of being ostracized from the tribe.
too many are Jews in name only... no knowledge of the deep heritage just the superficial lox and bagels crew
Not the dreaded JINOs???
also known as "as a Jew" Jews...
Cowardice and desperation but also lack of information. Standard media is replete with false narratives about Israel. After 10/7/23, I hit the books and the podcasts to find out what was the real story, were Israelis/Jews the monsters the media said we were or were we justified in our actions. It took me months to wrap my head around Israeli history, Palestinian history and Iranian history. I came out the other side a fervent Zionist but it took a lot of time and effort. Most people don't go to the trouble. They just trust what the BBC, the Guardian, the NY Times, WaPo, and the UN tell them and believe it's truth. It's nothing like the truth but it takes real work to find that out.
You’re asking the wrong person. This is like when people ask me why do people hate Jews? Uhhh, Try asking the people who hate Jews?
People have no compassion when it comes to Jews.
Hmmm… I am people, a Gentile and a Zionist. The old saw that ‘some of my good friends are Jewish’ does apply to me - more, that my best friends in the last 50 years were Jewish, including two who were incarcerated and tattooed during the Holocaust!
To my great sadness, Werner, Helga and my dearest friend Gary, have all passed.
I sincerely hope that the majority of my countrymen support Israel… as do I!
Thank you 💙💙💙💙- yes I know there are some beautiful non-Jewish friends of ours out there 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
Possibly the only upside of my experience of the past year is the amazing sense of clarity that I gained being liberated from those relationships.
Regarding the video, the person from the “ Israeli “ restaurant really looked confused. 🤦🏻♀️
I think it was the Jewish Cross on that
flag.
One of my biggest questions is why are they so obsessed with us?
They're jealous
Not only that. Jealousy is too rational a feeling. It was the main one at the dawn of anti-Semitism and now, especially in "intellectual" circles, the thought like "they got a lot of Nobel prizes - what bastards!" is replaced by a more irrational and more perverted phenomenon.
It is more like an addiction to drugs or gambling. Reality puts them in a situation where the disgusting nature of anti-Semitism is proven by millennia of persecution of Jews, the absurdity of accusations of "genocide", "apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing" is clearly visible with critical thinking.
But this destroys the comfort of their invented, prejudiced world, in which Jews are evil, people who do not deserve to have anything of their own and are obliged to follow the cultures and rules of non-Jews. And the more they justify the abominations and injustices towards Jews, the more they fall into this addiction. It is not enough for them to simply blame Jews for something. They need "scientific" evidence so that reality drowns and disappears in thousands of false dissertations, doctorates, "scientific discoveries." They need media subordinate to anti-Semitism that filter reality, ignore attacks on Jews, the evil that is done to Jews, in order to distort any actions of Jews in their defense. Blaming them when they are attacked, blaming them simply by inventing reasons. Anti-Semitism is an industry like the drug business or the gambling business (if you think that this does not bring profit, then look at the UNRWA organization, which thrives on anti-Semitism, and there are many such organizations, and there are also media, bloggers, influencers and other freaks). Millions of people are deceived into it, and the chance that a person without outside help will stop being an anti-Semite is the same as the chance that a drug addict or a gambler will free themselves from addiction.
The idiot taking down a Greek flag is priceless. Did she pay for it?
I used to think about the self-hating JVP crowd as kapo Jews, but I am no longer satisfied with this. Kapos at least had the excuse that if they didn't collaborate, they would die (sooner rather than later).
This jibes with my turn from calling Hamas or Hezbollah terrorists and supporters "animals" or "scum." How unfair to animals and scum! Animals and scum do their thing by instinct. People are sentient beings with moral agency. Unlike animals and scum, they have a choice.
Eve, do you know the essence of the problem? Of course you do, as you show over and over again in your writing. The self-hating Jewish Voices for Autogenocide crowd are desperate to continue playing patty cake with their little friends at the progressive table in the kindergarten. It's really not any more complicated than that., don't you agree?
I have not lost any friends over Israel. That's because most of my friends are conservatives or old-school liberals who actually believe in, like, freedom and law and stuff. Many of my friends are proud Jews. I raised two kids to adulthood as proud Jews, and they both are raising, or intend to raise, proud Jews. This despite the fact that I am a fellow traveler.
Bear with me here. I know that this has been beyond painful for you because you have considered yourself a leftist, or progressive, or however you would have labeled yourself before. The generic issue with progressives is that they refuse to recognize and embrace limits like transcendent morals, human rights, and even objective empirical reality (the concept of which is increasingly labeled as racist even when it has nothing to do with race).
Rather, progressives hitch their faux normative wagon to a demigod called "History." They are on the right side of History, and you are not. They know this having returned with Doc Brown in the DeLorean from ten years hence, or a thousand years hence, or perhaps from the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and they know--they know with certainty from personal communion with History--that you will lose, and they will win. So, you are wrong--"evil" even--and you are certainly not enlightened.
The American progressives of the early 20th Century believed in the gospel of eugenics. Eugenics would improve the race. You can guess which race. Progressives don't like to talk about that now.
If you embrace any normative or empirical anchor, you can't play patty cake anymore at the progressive table. It doesn't really matter whether that anchor is the God of Abraham, the Christian gospel, the Tao of Pooh, Kant, Locke, or Aristotle.
If you believe in right and wrong, however you ground it, you have an anchor. And you are not a progressive.
Also our office gets tahina milkshakes from the Israeli restaurant in Philadelphia that was attached early on. Proudly buying Israeli made products. If you haven’t been to Goldie in Philly, fellow Eve fans, do go. Support Israeli businesses and eat great food.
Attacked early on I mean. Early morning typos. The “protesters” surrounded the restaurant and accused it of genocide. Killer falafel ???
You can edit your comments. Press the three little dots at the right.
Friends can be pests but are easier emotionally to deal with than relatives who have lost their way the past 12 months. You won't lose true friends and who needs faux friends, and distant relations just become more distant, but the pain one can't walk away from is when a dear and loved relative has lost their way and for reasons not clear, perhaps confusion of the heart, mind, and misplaced sympathies, is over sensitized to the pain of Gazans to the point of being so open minded their brains have fallen out. Certain loves cannot be containerized or walked away from, so in love I continue to send posts such as the brilliant crafts by Eve. After all, it would have been misplaced love for a German Jew in the 1930s to cease warning a loved relation of the danger because the relation found such warnings too disturbing and preferred living in a bubble.
That video was priceless. When told she's tearing down Greek flags "Oh, I thought it was Israel's. Uhhhh, my bad." Another case of stupidity in action.
I quit the Episcopal church over their leadership's hypocrisy toward the Jewish people. Most in the congregation don't agree with Episcopal church leadership, yet leadership lobbies congress in our name. Fuck that!
In my 62 years of living, I have never seen such evil so enabled by society's "elites".
I quit being a Presbyterian elder for the same (sane) reasons.
I’m now a non-denominational Christian. I decided I didn’t need a middle man to pray to a loving God. I carry Christ in my heart. I love Israel and Zionism is a given.
Agreed!
The United Church of Canada (once the largest Protestant denomination in the country) is hopeless.
Well done as always. I had quite a few friends who never identified with their Jewish heritage until now - when they come out as JVP types. No one is threatening them - they voluntarily jumped on board with their own destruction. My Jewish friends are in fear for their jobs if they speak out. I’m fortunate that my employer is a practicing Jew who is very cool with me writing pro Israel. I need to remember that and write more. Every voice that is not silent counts. You are a constant inspiration.
Never been to a Finnish restaurant and don't know if any even exist outside of Finland, or even in Finland, but good thing for the anti-semitic imbecile it was a Greek flag she defiled rather than a Finnish flag. Ever see the movie Sisu?
That TicTok is emblematic of so much of the "anti-Zionist" campus rabble. They remind me of one of my two Shih Tzus. One dog, hyper-vigilant, barks at everything. The other, not the brightest crayon in the box, will then run in and start barking too, despite being utterly clueless about what they're barking at.
The people at the restaurant were far nicer than I would have been. I would have given her a choice. Get up on a ladder and rehang our flags or I'm going to call the cops and file a complaint of vandalism and threatening my employees.
Just opened JNS and this was the headline...
Jewish anti-Zionists can’t be part of our ‘big tent’ community
https://www.jns.org/jewish-anti-zionists-cant-be-part-of-our-big-tent-community/?_sc=NTAyMDI0NiMyMTMxMg%3D%3D
“A few years ago all they cared about was bleaching their eyebrows, synthesizers, Miu Miu loafers and kinda sorta maybe the idea of some sort of BDSM” absolutely SENT me 🤌