r/JewsOfConscience • u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ Jewish Anti-Zionist • Sep 26 '24

Celebration Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda has won The Emmy Award for Outstanding Hard News Feature Story.

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Rabbi David Mivasair has a GoFundMe to help provide basis necessities for the Palestinians of Gaza. If it is within your means, this is the link:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-gaza-families-survive

Rabbi Mivasair writes:

I want to add that the need is not only for money. There is a huge need for people there to simply have someone NOT there who expresses care toward them, who listens to them, who witnesses with compassion and empathy. I think of the people who scrawled on the walls of barracks in Nazi concentration camps "if only someone on the outside knew what they are doing to us here". I want to be the people who let them know that we do care, we are listening, we are trying to help, and they can tell us what is going on in their lives.

Please consider signing this petition which calls for a ceasefire and arms embargo, started by Rabbi Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/not-another-bomb-sign-on-letter?source=direct_link&referrer=group-jvp-2

Excerpt:

We know that in order to achieve a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the U.S. must stop arming Israel’s war and occupation against Palestinians. That’s why we are calling for an immediate embargo on US arms to Israel. Join us in calling on presidential candidate Kamala Harris to distance herself from Biden’s disastrous policy of arming Israel’s ongoing genocide and occupation in Palestine.

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u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ Jewish Anti-Zionist Sep 26 '24

A pro-Israel group attempted to censor Bisan, but to their credit, the Emmy's award committee refused to give in.

The pro-Israel group in-question is called 'Creative Commons for Peace' which is just a shell organization for the right-wing group Stand With Us (SWU) - only with a flowery, nice-sounding name.

It's nauseating that SWU would accuse anyone of being antisemitic when they themselves use the classic antisemitic imagery of tentacles to describe the BDS movement.

SWU had a Canary Mission-like doxxing website to harass pro-Palestine activists before that became a staple of pro-Israel activism.

  • Their website surveilled progressive activists who supported Palestinian human rights - and was called 'stand4facts.org'.

SWU also developed a password-protected website, http://www.stand4facts.org/, that profiles anti-Israeli speakers and professors, provides downloadable flyers, questions, and facts to counter their main points, and supplies materials exposing their extremism or falsehoods.

'stand4facts.org' included sections for each individual/organization, detailing debate 'strategy/counter-strategy', canned talking-points under 'point/counterpoint', and pre-written 'Letters to the Editor' (I assume this was sort of astro-turfing mass-action, intended to get someone fired/cancelled in the days before Canary Mission). Each entry also had a 'forum' as well.

A progressive Jewish activist on Twitter saw her own profile on stand4facts.org & called out StandWithUs. StandWithUs's official Twitter seemed to deny the website's existence at first.

The activist discusses her stand4facts.org profile on her blog:

Stand With Us hosts a covert web page (Stand 4 Facts) on activists and speakers to be used to contradict, disrupt and even prevent events from occurring on campus and to monitor those who would raise criticism of Israeli brutality.

(My dossier, the last time I had access, was 61 pages long! –with privatized espionage, there is NO freedom of information act!!!)

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u/alex-weej Sep 26 '24

I am in genuine, absolute awe of the level of organisation that goes into the pro-Israel effort. That, coupled with the willingness to use sex to sell Zionism... feels like we don't stand a chance.

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u/nada8 Sep 26 '24

Disgusting

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u/Processing______ Jewish Anti-Zionist Sep 26 '24

Fuck every single dickweed that signed the CCP petition. Here’s their blog post about it.

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u/Quick_Care_3306 Sep 26 '24

Bob Marley is turning over in his grave, that his Marley family name is on this.

Full circle, I guess.

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u/MooreThird Anti-Zionist Sep 26 '24

Would love to see Debra Messing's reaction Owda's win...

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u/r3d330 Sep 26 '24

Preferably with a close up

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u/DevelopmentMediocre6 Ashkenazi Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 27 '24

Here’s a more extensive list of actors involved with the Creative Community for Peace:

Helen Mirren (Actress)
Sharon Stone (Actress)
Sacha Baron Cohen (Actor/Comedian)
Ashton Kutcher (Actor)
Gerard Butler (Actor)
Gene Simmons (Artist/Actor - KISS)
Michael Bublé (Singer)
Selma Blair (Actress)
Debra Messing (Actress/Producer)
Zach Braff (Actor/Director)
Mayim Bialik (Actress)
Rebecca De Mornay (Actress)
Emmanuelle Chriqui (Actress)
Alona Tal (Singer/Actress)
Jonah Platt (Actor/Producer)
David Mazouz (Actor)
Jonathan Tucker (Actor)
Moran Atias (Actress)
Michael Adler (Actor)
Aaron Cohen (Actor)
Declan Joyce (Actor)

Others - Sherry Lansing, Meghan McCain, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Haim Saban, And Diane Warren Among 130+ Celebrities And Entertainment Executives To Sign Open Letter

https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/blog/2024/08/19/emmysccfp

https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/blog/2021/05/14/open-letter-on-the-middle-east-situation

Feel free to block them on social media so they don’t benefits from your views 😊 fuck these people

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u/ToroTosto Sep 26 '24

BRAVAAAAA Bisan Owda!!! 🇵🇸🍉❤👍🤘👏✊❤🍉🇵🇸

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u/Thisisme8719 Arab Jew Sep 26 '24

Congratulations to her and it's encouraging to see her voice recognized in such a mainstream venue, even though the circumstances are obviously as awful as could be.