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

Humor Gentlemen, this is the Only Democracy In The Middle East™, manifest!

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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.

Not another bomb!

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u/BerlinJohn1985 Sep 26 '24

People often forget that being a democracy is not just about free elections. Punishing and threatening people for non-violent speech is the opposite of democracy.

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u/jonawesome Sep 26 '24

Tbh Israel being a democracy makes it worse. Say what you will about North Korea, but the bad things the government does are definitely not the fault of some random citizen.

Everyday Israelis have voted in Netanyahu over and over again. The brutality comes bottom up. In the above article, the Bedouin girl isn't just suspended by the school for saying it's bad when children die. She's attacked by her classmates.

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u/theapplekid Orthodox-raised, atheist, Ashkenazi, leftist 🍁 Sep 26 '24

When people talk about how Palestinian/Arab citizens of Israel are treated equally to the Jews, I wonder if they know about how many of the Bedouin tribes have been displaced, divided by the separation wall, dispossessed of their lands, and how that process even on the Israel side is still ongoing to this day (not to mention many of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank displacing Bedouin communities there). What has been done to the Bedouins is very much a collection of genocides with striking parallels to the genocides of indigenous peoples of the Americas.

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u/Moostronus Jewish Anti-Zionist Sep 26 '24

This is so heinous, morally repugnant, and should be terrifying for anyone interested in peace. And the Zionists I knew growing up insisted to us over and over again that Palestinian children were the ones indoctrinated with hatred and violence...

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u/Coppervalley Sep 26 '24

they threw things at her? this is like a brat state throwing tantrums at anything that upsets them, very disappointing

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u/BloodRedMarxist Non-Jewish Ally Sep 27 '24

Zionists are just crybullies. They kill 40,000+ people and act outraged when a little girl calls them out. Such victims, a kid said something they didn't like.

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u/Coppervalley Sep 27 '24

pychologically it must be very difficult for an ordinary zionist, somebody who isnt a pychopath, to justify the killing of children, i mean all their arguements to justify it are either its hamas fault or hamas stole their aid, its everybody elses fault exept theirs. so when they get called out or reminded that other people are also suffering, they get angry because its uncomfortable, and they know its unjustifyable

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Sep 27 '24

Have you seen the video of the IOF soldiers attacking Lebanon with their fire-trebuchet?

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u/Coppervalley Sep 27 '24

i was told that 'it was used to burn vegitation so hez does not hide in it while in combat, nobody was harmed only plants'

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u/BloodRedMarxist Non-Jewish Ally Sep 27 '24

In my senior year of High School just following Oct. 7th, I was suspended for saying Oct. 7th was wrong but happened for a clear political reason during a class discussion. I also said it is more important to focus on the events in Gaza than the attack itself, as human lives are still at stake in Gaza. The teachers had me suspended. When I finally returned to class, I called them out for their censorship in front of the class, and reiterated my previous statement, and most of the other students seemed to agree. I did this the second time as an act of defiance and to show them that censorship won't work on me.

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u/Kreyl Non-Jewish Ally Sep 27 '24

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u/Cornishcollector Sep 27 '24

She was suspended 😔 wt the actual fuck