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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

Superb Eve, just superb.

As was the calm, reasoned,and beautifully prepared rebuttal from the Israeli legal team.

Please always remember that there are many many more Jew lovers than Jew haters. We have your back and are ready to be counted.

We repeat….’Never Again’!

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

This substack should be in every single newspaper in the world. It's the absolute truth.

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Nobody reads the newspaper anymore, I say push it to every iphone screen!

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

Just when I was thinking that in today’s version of the Dreyfus trial, no one stands up to cry J’accuse, here you go Eve. Thank you for your courage, and for those clear words, from yourself and others, to clearly demonstrate the evil and outrageousness of this so called “court”.

I have read Deborah Lipstadt’s book “History on Trial: My day in court with a holocaust denier”. In this book Lipstadt outlines her legal team’s efforts to empirically prove the holocaust. I thought “how many other groups are expected to empirically prove their history?” And now we are, yet again, having to “prove” reality to those who claim they should be the arbiters of our lives, our legacy, our suffering.

Your writing serves to demonstrate both that empirical truth, that some insist on, and the moral truth, that they close their eyes to see. Thank you for your wisdom, compassion, and strength.

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

Eve you are so right there are no "both sides". This a war of right and wrong. My heart breaks for the Israeli people first suffering the horrible terrorist attack of 10/7 then the continued injustice and insult from around the world. You are right about something else though. Hamas will not win. Terrorist bootlickers and barbarians will not win. God bless

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

Brilliant, Eve. What it is to be a Jew immortalised in your words. The sand and stone of the Negev, King David's City, the mountains of Judea, all of it in our bones. Our souls shine in our eyes, as your soul does in the pic. of you in the City of King David helmet! Thank you.

In these intolerable moments of malice and farce as the ICJ tries to have its way, we shall prevail because of who we are.

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Brilliant work EB. South Africa has found itself on trial as the team representing Israel is lapping them. No matter the result Israel bust continue its work. End Hamas. Fuck the haters. Love you Eve.

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

Brilliantly written & articulated Eve!

We will not lose.

Hamas will not win.

South Africa will not win.

The haters will not win.

We will win,

We will always win...because we are better!

I stand with Israel 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

#releasethehostages

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

Blown away. A piece of writing and assembly of quotes for the ages.

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

Brilliant, Eve. I have found so much solace in your words, thank you for all you’ve endured for putting your words in the world.

Can I be obtuse and hope that the ICJ chose to take the case so that Israel could do just what it has done, put forth a case for Israel and its response to Hamas? I am not a “there must be a pony here somewhere” woman, I’m much more likely to stare at the piles of shit and be enraged.

However, I am beyond thankful that this case is at the ICJ. Israel and her team of lawyers had the opportunity to display in full color the bullshit that has been hurled at her/Zionists/Jews since long before 7 October. While I have no delusions that this will silence the hoi polloi, it will give our repudiation a gravitas and validity that people currently dismiss as opinion.

May our hostages be returned today and the name Hamas be drowned out by all the TT noisemakers.

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

Your piece was brilliant as was the Israeli defense. Israel will lose as the deck is stacked against them. In reality hypocrites cannot side against themselves. They cannot stare their own lies in the face. It would require a reckoning that South Africa and its allied scumbags are not prepared to admit -- they are Antisemites and anti Zionists. They will twist any truth and any set of facts to serve that purpose. I’m glad that the Israelis spoke the truth and it was eloquent, I’m just so sorry that it will be of no avail. Jews and Israel must and will triumph but not at this forum. It will win by its own hand and courage.

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I think Israel will win the trial but it will be a close vote, and that too is shameful.

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

We stand tall and stand united against the tide of fashion and the deliberate intent to destroy us.

The Parsha this week is Vaera and Rabbi Sachs commentary about freewill ends with:

"Freedom in the deepest sense, the freedom to do the right and the good, is not a given. We acquire it, or lose it, gradually. In the end tyrants bring about their own destruction, whereas those with willpower, courage, and the willingness to go against the consensus, acquire a monumental freedom. That is what Judaism is: an invitation to freedom by resisting the idols and siren calls of the age."

I wish Rabbi Sachs was here right now. His voice was a Jewish beacon of righteousness and wisdom. His influence and standing in the world was important. Sometimes it is too easy to fall into the trap of shouting F them. We can stand tall without putting up the middle finger. And walking that fine line is our challenge :)

Eve your voice is a rallying cry in a sea of distortion and deliberate confusion. I learn from your courage and I love how you share the voices of others.

https://rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation/vaera/freewill/

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I miss the great Rabbi Sachs

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

Tour de Force Eve, superbly written and expressed intelligently, persuasively, and with passion. I will forward to those few individuals and relatives within my orbit who don't see the truth. If it changes even one mind or opens even one of their eyes, fantastic. If they continue to be close minded, blind, and are irritated by your post, even better.

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Jan 14Liked by Eve Barlow

Every time I get anxious because of the seemingly never ending absurdities directed at us, I hear the ping of the notification from Blacklisted and instantly feel better. Thank you Eve, you breathe new air into my lungs and alleviate the heaviness I feel in my chest. Just brilliant. I hope we help to keep you strong as you do us.

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Me too ! Eve keeps us going and brings us together ! I now have friends from the worldwide Jewish community. That’s my true family. Love you all !!!!

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This makes me so happy

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

I want to repost this entire stack on my Facebook page, and send it to every anchor and commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and all those other “liberal” media outposts that have stuffed their shows with “spokespeople” for “the Palestinians” (read: HAMAS supporters, United Nations and other “human rights” allies of HAMAS, and Israel-haters passing themselves as “progressives”) while neglecting to provide equal time for anyone who actually knows the history of the region, the history of anti-Semitism, the (it should be obvious!) fact that HAMAS has planned, provoked and sustained the war—at the expense of the Palestinian people, who the Israelis are now being accused of performing genocide on. Today, there’s a march on Washington “for Gaza.” I wonder what the signs will read? Or maybe there’s no wondering. We know. We see it every day. Thank you again and always, Eve, for being a beacon during this time. We need you, we are grateful for you, we love you.

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

Thank you so much. As I wrote on your subscriber page after I upgraded to paid today, Wonderful, passionate writing, grounded in solid data and persuasive argument during an era much in need of hard truths. The data on civilian deaths in war is particularly valuable and persuasive.

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Jan 13Liked by Eve Barlow

As good as you've ever done. ♥️

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The best, imho. Jettisoned me into the paid group.

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