The word, the accusation, the actual phenomenon.
I am not persuaded that Israeli soldiers are Nazis. There is so much that separates your average soldier from an actual Nazi, just as there is so much that differentiates the Israeli state’s pointless military occupation of the West Bank and patchwork of anti-Palestinian policies, from the mobilization of an entire civilization for the express … Read more
On October 7th, 2023, the Hamas military invaded southern Israel. For an entire day, they systematically murdered every Jewish person they found. Their stated goal was to join with Hezbollah forces scheduled to invade northern Israel on the same day, and together with militant cells in the West Bank successfully wipe out millions of Jewish … Read more
TIL the statistic that 60-65% of the Armenian population was killed in the Armenian genocide. 1.5 million people out of a population numbering a few hundred thousand larger than Gaza’s before the war.
Statement on the Tiktok Discourse of Genocide in Gaza The Mt. Zion Bureau of Public Affairs affirms the responsibility of every sovereign state, including Israel, to conduct military operations in accordance with international humanitarian law. We recognize that the current war in Gaza has caused profound suffering and immense civilian loss of life. Allegations of … Read more
The devastation of Gaza can still shock and pain me, as a thinking and feeling human being and as a religious Zionist, and pose a collective challenge to Israeli society that demands a coherent answer, without any need to redefine genocide in order to make it fit the horrific impact of this war on the … Read more
Attention New York synagogues and Jewish schools, museums, and community centers: You can not feign outrage over accusations of genocide and then eagerly platform and fawn over an Israeli parliamentarian who has repeatedly called for genocide. Defending his mob of fans’ thuggish and racist behavior because you “understand the context” is really a self-own in … Read more
Belated, but: I’ve been catching references to the “Chapter 9 Project,” which seems to have become linked by some pundits to a modern blood libel, accusations of genocide committed by Jewish Israelis against Palestinians in Gaza. I respect many aspects of the more progressive denominations of Ashkenazi Judaism, but this project and the association that … Read more
If the IDF wanted to genocide Palestinians, the war would have been over within a week. The Palestinian populations of Israel and the West Bank would be gone. The facts are that while the airstrikes have been devastating for Gazans… …the death rate (less than 1 out of 100, and that’s INCLUDING Hamas fighters) hasn’t … Read more