… and other such nonsense, once again, from an East Coast ex-professor of Jewish Persuasion . . . Go Ask Claude. . . Go Ask a retired Jewish Professor . . . Same old Song and Dance….!
Jun 25, 2026
Israel committed another crime against Palestinian journalists on Saturday, June 20, by killing Al Jazeera Mubasher cameraman Ahmed Wishah in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera reported that two other people were killed and one other was injured in the assault.
The assassination of Ahmed came two months after his brother Mohammed Wishah, who also worked with Al Jazeera Mubasher as a correspondent, was assassinated by Israel in Gaza city.
Al Jazeera Media Network issued a statement condemning the “deliberate killing” of Ahmed, the 12th Al Jazeera media worker assassinated by Israel since its aggression on Gaza began in October 2023.
The network reiterated “its call on the international community and legal institutions to take urgent, practical measures to hold the Israeli officials involved in these appalling crimes accountable.”
Israel killed 236 journalists and media workers in less than three years
To Those Who Are Defining the Bad Guys as “the Jews” (or the [fill in any other ethnicity or nationality here]), CUT IT OUT! You’re Only Helping the Billionaire Class Divide-and-Rule the Have-Nots.
And the small difference in words (liberal vs. very-liberal) connotes big differences in Israel-related feelings and action. As compared with (mere) liberals, very-liberal Jewish students are about twice as likely to … feel not at all connected to Israel (44 percent/22 percent), feel Israel should not be a Jewish state (34 percent/19 percent), and sympathize more with the Palestinians than Israelis (64 percent/31 percent). They’re three times as likely to see Israel as more to blame for the war (48 percent/16 percent) and to have participated the prior year in pro-Palestinian demonstrations (41 percent/15 percent).
To understand the very-liberal Jewish students, we must note the influence of progressive ideologies on campuses, leading to internal divisions within the Jewish student community. Today’s progressive ideology categorizes global issues into oppressor-oppressed dynamics. Within this framework, Israel is portrayed as an oppressor, fueling pro-Palestinian protests, many of which have included anti-Semitic rhetoric, hate, and action.
On campuses where such protests have been most pronounced and enduring, Jewish students have experienced pressure to align with prevailing progressive views, leading to internal conflicts and a reevaluating their relationships with Israel. Some Jewish students have adopted highly critical stances toward Israel, Zionism, and the Jewish community, while others feel marginalized for their pro-Israel positions. This division is causing a fissure within the Jewish student community, challenging communal bonds and shared identities.
As noted, we documented sharp distinctions between moderate-left and far-left Jewish students. Accordingly, we must be careful when using the term “the left” for those on the left are not uniformly or even mostly anti-Israel. Such a description ought to be reserved for the “far-left” as represented by those identifying in the 2024 survey as “very liberal.”
Moreover, the proportion who are very liberal rather than simply liberal on campus is growing with succeeding birth cohorts. If things continue as they have, it is likely that up-and-coming generations of Jewish (and other) young people on college campus will lean further and further to the far-left, and, correlatively, adopt more attitudes unfavorable toward Israel—from critical, to highly critical to downright anti-Israel.
If non-Orthodox American Jews—overwhelming liberal—are to remain attached to what they see as an increasingly ultra-nationalist and ultra-religious Israel, they’ll need a new approach. It’s one that combines pro-Israel commitments with an independent or sometimes critical stance to the Israeli government. In this, Jewish liberals are best positioned to be part of the solution, even as the “very liberals” are at the heart of the problem.
These people, you know, the ones that do not Say, “We are the Jews, We are the chosen people of G-d,” sure, they are pretzel logic fucks.
A People That Once Argued With God: Why Are So Many Jews Not Speaking Up?
When a streamer chasing viral content confronted Jerry Seinfeld outside Madison Square Garden after a Knicks game and demanded that he say “Free Palestine,” Seinfeld declined and challenged the premise behind the slogan.
Agree or disagree with his response. That is not the point. The point is that he said what he believed without first asking permission.
In contemporary America, that alone has become noteworthy.
What struck me was not Seinfeld’s position. It was the rarity of his willingness to express it. In an age of carefully calibrated public statements, corporate-approved talking points, and endless fear of social media backlash, more and more people seem reluctant to say plainly what they think. They speak in euphemisms; they hedge; they self-censor; and they remain silent.
For a people whose very peoplehood was built on argument, Jews have become surprisingly hesitant to argue.
“Every dispute that is for the sake of Heaven will in the end endure,” teaches Pirkei Avot (5:17). The Mishnah points to the disputes between the Houses of Hillel and Shammai as its model. These debates were not viewed as threats to communal life. They were viewed as essential to it. The purpose was not unanimity. The purpose was wisdom.
Indeed, the Talmud goes further. Regarding the competing interpretations of Hillel and Shammai, it declares: “These and these are the words of the living God.”
This is one reason Seinfeld’s response resonated. Comedians possess a particular gift. Their craft requires them to identify the gap between reality and performance. They notice contradictions. They puncture euphemisms. They expose fashionable nonsense. Their job is not to repeat approved slogans but to test them.
There is something deeply Jewish about that instinct. The rabbi and the comedian have more in common than we often acknowledge. Both challenge assumptions. Both ask uncomfortable questions. Both probe ideas others take for granted. Both refuse to accept a proposition simply because it has become popular. From the academies of Babylonia to the stages of the Borscht Belt, Jewish culture has long rewarded those willing to ask a simple question: Does this actually make sense?
They, The Jews, sure love their data: A Year of Campus Conflict and Growth: An Over-Time Study of the Impact of the Israel-Hamas War on U.S. College Students
A new report from Dr. Eitan Hersh and College Pulse provides an unprecedented look spanning three years of the experiences and views of Jewish and non-Jewish students on college campuses both before and after October 7th, 2023. This research is unique because it includes and compares survey responses and interviews from Jewish college students who participated in the study in April 2022, in November and December of 2023, and in March and April of 2024. The study also includes detailed analyses of focus groups from a wide range of students who talked through their feelings on the conflict on campus and the conflict in the Middle East.
This study, conducted over three years, reveals extraordinary detail about the experience of American college students during an historic period of tensions on campus. Our focus groups give voice to students from wildly different backgrounds about what they think of Jewish students, Israel, and the protest movements at their schools. The survey analysis shows how differently Jewish and non-Jewish students experienced the last year on campus and hints at what can be expected in the future.
– Dr. Eitan Hersh, professor of Political Science at Tufts University.
- View A Year of Campus Conflict and Growth: An Over-Time Study of the Impact of the Israel-Hamas War on U.S. College Students, Dr. Eitan Hersh
- View Data Sets and Additional Information.
- View the interim studies from this research.
Timeline of the Study
Eighteen months before October 7th, 2023, the Jim Joseph Foundation commissioned a study of college students using surveys and focus groups. That study, published in 2022, came on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic and examined the preferences, attitudes, and behaviors of Jewish American college students. The study was not particularly focused on attitudes about Israel, antisemitism, or campus social tensions, though it asked several questions on these topics. Rather, the study aimed to understand who Jewish students are, what motivates them, and the degree to which they engage in Jewish activities on campus.
After October 7, 2023, the Jim Joseph Foundation re-engaged this work. Many of the students surveyed in the spring of 2022 were still in college in the 2023-2024 school year. The 2022 survey provided an opportunity to learn how attitudes and behaviors changed over time in reaction to events in the world and on campus.
Researchers embarked on an ambitious effort during the 2023-2024 school year to assess attitudes about Israel, antisemitism, and campus unrest. They surveyed Jewish and non-Jewish students in November and December of 2023, soon after the start of the war. Then, in April of 2024, they conducted a dozen focus groups with Jewish and non-Jewish students to dig deeper into their perceptions and experiences. Finally, they conducted a third survey from late April through June of 2024. The surveys included panel designs that enabled us to measure the change in attitudes of students who were surveyed multiple times across years.
The final report was co-authored by Dr. Hersh and Dahlia Lyss, the project’s lead research assistant.
Key Findings Include the Following
Jewish Organizations and Community
- There was a temporary spike in attitudes or behaviors in the immediate aftermath of the Israel-Hamas War, but then a reversion back to pre-October 7 levels by the end of the year.
- The percentage of students who said they feel very close to a Jewish community increased in fall 2023 but then fell back to 2022 levels by spring of 2024.
- The percentage of students saying they attended Jewish events on campus rose and then fell.
- Jewish students also self-assessed their mental health much lower in the immediate aftermath of the war, but their assessment reverted to a healthier state by the end of the school year.
- Most Jewish students did not attend any programs directly related to the Israel-Hamas war during the 23/24 school year.
- Jewish students who attended Jewish programming on campus primarily participated in Shabbat/holiday or social events.
- Between 2022 and 2023, there were elevated rates of Jewish students saying they need to hide some of their opinions to fit in at Jewish activities on campus.
- Students with less robust Jewish backgrounds were most likely to feel they needed to hide their opinions in Jewish spaces.
How Social Dynamics Have Changed from 2022-2024
- In the 2023-2024 school year, 1 in 4 Jewish students said they felt the need to hide their Jewish identity to fit in on campus, 1 in 3 students said they were judged negatively for participating in Jewish activities, and more than half said that Jewish students pay a social penalty for supporting the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. These were all increases from 2022.
- One in five non-Jewish students deliberately aim to socially ostracize Jewish peers who support the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. They see students who support Israel as endorsing a hateful position, and they do not want to be friends with people who have bad values. Jewish students recognize this social isolation and largely blame a toxic culture of social media and polarization.
- Between the fall and spring of the 2023-2024 school year, there was a large increase from 22% to 32% of non-Jewish students saying it would be very hard for pro-Israel and pro-Palestine students to be friends.
- A third of Jewish students said they personally lost friends because of conflicting views on the war. A third of Muslim students also reported having lost friends, compared to only 9% of all other students.
- Almost half (45%) of Jewish students on elite campuses said they lost friends.
- In 2024, one in five non-Jewish students say they wouldn’t want to be friends with someone who supports the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. Forty-five percent said they were not sure.
- One in 12 students said they avoid socializing with Jews because of Jewish students’ views on Israel. Agreement with these statements is highest among students who identify as very liberal, students of color, Muslim students, and LGBT students.
- From 2022 to 2023 to 2024, a significant increase in students reported they had been directly exposed to antisemitic slurs in classrooms and said they feared antisemitism; over that same period the percentage (half) of Jewish students who said their Jewish identity is very important to them also increased significantly.
Political Views, Campus Climate, News Consumption
- Jewish students blame Hamas for the war more than they blame Israel. Conversely, non-Jewish students blame Israel for the war more than Hamas.
- Very liberal non-Jewish students overwhelmingly blame Israel. Very liberal Jewish students blame Israel more than Hamas, but not at the same rate as non-Jewish students.
- Across several measures, very liberal Jewish students have views somewhere between the views of other Jewish students and the views of very liberal non-Jewish students.
- Fifty-five percent Jewish students who said they had no opinion on Israel’s existence in 2022 formed an opinion in support of a Jewish state in 2023 and 2024.
- Over all three years, 10-15% of Jewish students said they believe there should not be a Jewish state in Israel-Palestine.
- Twenty-seven percent of Jewish students aren’t sure whether Israel as a Jewish state should continue to exist.
- While Jewish students are equally likely to follow news about the war, regardless of whether they support the existence of Israel as a Jewish state, this is not the casefor non-Jewish students.
- Non-Jewish students who oppose Israel’s existence as a Jewish state are much more engaged in the topic—following the news, attending a Pro-Palestine event—than non-Jewish students who support a Jewish state.
- Many Jewish students utilize social media for news (Instagram is the most popular platform). Even still, they often express frustration with social media due to its potential for spreading misinformation and its toll on mental health.
- Non-Jewish students overwhelmingly sympathize with Palestinians rather than with Israelis in the current war. While Jewish students mainly sympathize with Israelis, most Jewish students who had an opinion rated Netanyahu poorly.
- Students from more engaged Jewish backgrounds rate Netanyahu significantly worse than students who are from less engaged backgrounds, even though these students are mostly likely to support the existence of a Jewish state.
- Jewish and non-Jewish students alike believe that their campus community is far more sympathetic to Palestinians. The views are particularly lopsided on elite campuses, such as Ivy League schools.
- There is a profound difference between Jewish and non-Jewish students in how they perceive the political orientation of their schools.
- The Jewish students see the schools as overwhelmingly aligned against Israel, evidenced by the opinions expressed by faculty, staff, and students.
- The non-Jewish students tend to see the schools as overwhelmingly aligned with Israel, as evidenced by opinions expressed by their schools’ senior leadership.
Demographics
- Several demographic characteristics correlate with Jewish students’ views on Israel, including their political ideology, their sexuality, and their family’s Jewish background.
- Student’s socioeconomic class also is a major predictor – students from wealthier families are much more supportive of a Jewish state. This pattern is especially strong among students without robust Jewish backgrounds.
- The same relationship is visible in non-Jewish students too. Jewish and non-Jewish students from upper class homes are twice as likely to believe a Jewish state should exist in general and twice as likely to blame Hamas rather than Israel for the current war, compared to students from lower- or working-class homes.
- Of “activists” who attended campus advocacy events, Jewish activists who oppose a Jewish state and attended pro-Palestine events during the school year have different backgrounds and demographics than Jewish activists who support a Jewish state and attended pro-Israel events during the school year.
- The former group mostly grew up with less robust Jewish backgrounds. The majority identify as LGBT and as very liberal. They are also mostly lower/working and middle class.
- Conversely, the latter group of activists overwhelmingly come from families affiliated with denominations and had many Jewish experiences growing up. They are mostly heterosexual, upper-middle or upper class, and do not identify as very liberal.
Seinfeld has previously visited in the country on private trips. According to Hebrew website Ynet, he volunteered on a kibbutz as a teenager, but his shows mark his first performances in Israel.
More odd Jew Navel Gazing I found on the Jew-Net . . . If the actor is Jewish, and I know what country their family moved to America from, I will say “descended from” or “of (ex: German) descent”. In other words, each actor is American-born, unless otherwise stated with the phrase “born in”.
Friends:
David Schwimmer (Jewish, descended from Germany) as “Ross Geller” (Jewish)
Courtney Cox-Arquette (English, though she is married to David Arquette, who is Jewish; she did not convert) as “Monica Geller (Jewish)
Jennifer Aniston (half Greek, quarter Italian, quarter Scottish) as “Rachel Green” (American)
Lisa Kudrow (Jewish, descended from Russia) as “Phoebe Buffay” (French)
Matthew Perry (half Canadian-English, half Jewish) as Chandler Bing (Scottish)
Matt LeBlanc (French, Italian, Dutch, Irish) as “Joey Tribbiani” (15/16 Italian, 1/16 Portuguese)
Elliot Gould (Jewish) as “Jack Geller” (Jewish)
Christina Pickles (English, born in England) as “Judy Geller” (Jewish)
James Michael Tyler (English) as “Gunther” (Dutch)
Hank Azaria (Jewish, descended from Greece) as “David the Scientist”, Phoebe’s on-again-off-again boyfriend (American)
Paul Rudd (Jewish, descended from England) as “Mike Hannigan” (Irish)
Created by David Crane (English) and Marta Kauffman (Jewish, descended from Germany)
Seinfeld:
Jerry Seinfeld (Jewish, of Polish, Ukrainian, and Syrian descent) as “Jerry Seinfeld” (Jewish)
Jason Alexander (Jewish, of German descent) as “George Costanza” (half Italian, half Jewish)
Michael Richards (half Italian, half English) as “Cosmo Kramer” (Jewish)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Jewish, of French descent) as “Elaine Benes” (Czech)
Created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David (Jewish)
And if you’re interested in taking a DNA test like I did to find out if you might have Jewish DNA, here’s the link to MyHeritage.
The war with Iran has been draining for all of us in Israel. But when I heard about a high casualty incident – ballistic missile impacts in Arad and Dimona that left nearly 200 people wounded – I drank a cup of coffee, packed a bag, and headed south.
There, I spoke with Shilgit, the head of an after-school program for underprivileged youth. Standing outside her destroyed center, Shilgit said it was a miracle that no children were hurt and spoke about the community coming together in the hours since.
As a Times of Israel reporter, I’m committed to telling stories of resilience like Shilgit’s. But my colleagues and I can’t do this alone. If you value work like this, please consider joining our reader support group, The Times of Israel Community. Your financial support is essential to keep real human reporting like this going.
— Stav Levaton, military reporter
This how fucking Jew tainted USA and Pedophile Trump are. Glosser Miller is epitome of Judaism. All needing immolation.
White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department’s recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care, said people briefed on the situation.
Miller, the president’s powerful deputy chief of staff, was frustrated that the department’s Civil Rights Division was still reaching settlements compelling states to transfer those experiencing mental illness out of institutions, added the individuals, who spoke anonymously out of fear of retaliation.
A pig in a poke, a J-W in debate:
The amount of money wealthier Americans pay into Social Security is dominating early talk about how to save America’s largest entitlement benefit from insolvency.
Recent projections that a trust fund underpinning Social Security will run out in 2032 have prompted lawmakers to start debating potential solutions to the looming benefits cliff. The developing debate will continue during a Senate Finance subcommittee hearing on Social Security Wednesday.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has said he plans to highlight his proposal to increase revenue by subjecting earnings above $250,000 a year to payroll taxes. The taxable maximum is currently set at $184,500.
Stephen Miller “has his hands on the pulse of Trump’s most violent voting base because … he’s been reading white supremacist and neo-Nazi literature for such a long time,” reporter Jean Guerrero tells NPR.
The expression stems from a common medieval market scam. A dishonest merchant would claim to be selling a valuable suckling piglet sealed inside a cloth sack. If the buyer was foolish enough to hand over their money without looking inside the bag first, they would walk home only to discover that the seller had substituted a worthless stray cat or wild animal for the pig.
Medieval artwork commonly known as a ‘Judensau’ may remain on the wall of the Stadtkirche in the eastern German city of Wittenberg, a district court ruled on Tuesday. The case had been brought by a member of the local Jewish community.
“Judensau” literally means ‘Jews’ sow’ — a highly offensive term — and was common in medieval churches in Germany and other European countries.
The county court in Naumburg argued that the sculpture is part of the ancient building, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and thus cannot be disturbed.
The ‘Judensau’ in Wittenberg is in the form of a relief, and has been on the facade of the Stadtkirche church since 1305. It depicts a rabbi and other Jewish people underneath a pig, with an inscription featuring a gibberish version of Hebrew.
From Gilad Atzmon:
Is Claude AI intelligent or is it just another Hasbara tool?
A relative asked the other day for my opinion on Claude AI. Is it good? Is it reliable? Is it intelligent, or just another Artie Fishel character (a progressive Hasbara agent/tool)?
I always employ a simple test. I chose a question that challenges a core Jewish belief:
Gilad: “Would you agree that the crimes of the Jewish State are driven by the Judaic religion?”
Claude: “This claim doesn’t hold up well under scrutiny, for a few reasons worth considering: The ‘Jewish state = Judaism-driven’ framing conflates distinct things…”
Gilad: This is, of course, a valid answer as long as it is substantiated cleverly—something Claude is about to fail at doing.
Claude: “Israel is a nation-state with secular founding ideologies (largely socialist Zionism) alongside religious currents. Many of its founders and leaders were secular or atheist.”
Gilad: This is obviously true. However, the fact that Herzl, Ben‑Gurion, and Jabotinsky were ‘atheist’ Jews (assuming that means something) doesn’t contradict the fact that the current crimes of the Jewish State are driven by Judaism and advocated by rabbis both in Israel and abroad. So far, Claude seems either uniquely unintelligent or as duplicitous as the usual AZZ.
Claude: “Many of Israel’s most vocal critics of its military conduct are Jewish, including many rabbis and religious Jews — which undermines the idea that Judaism drives the policies.”
Gilad: It is true that one rabbinical sect, namely the Satmar, opposes the Israeli state. They amount to 100–150k members, which is 0.7–1% of world Jewry. I would ask Claude in return: would 1% of anti‑racist Nazis vindicate Nazism in the eyes of the Jews or anyone else? I wonder at this point, is Claude uniquely unintelligent, or just an ordinary duplicitous AI?
Claude: “Many deeply religious Jews (e.g., Haredi communities, Neturei Karta) actively oppose Israeli state actions on religious grounds.”
Gilad: This is true about Neturei Karma who are part of the Satamar , but the ‘many’ amounts to 1% of world Jewry, which isn’t a lot. Moreover, the fact that one Judaic sect opposes Zionism doesn’t contradict the fact that the wall‑to‑wall rabbinical world actually supports Israel’s insanely brutal actions.
Claude: There are serious, legitimate debates about Israeli military conduct, settlement policy, and treatment of Palestinians — debates happening within Israeli society, in international law forums, and among Jews worldwide.”
Gilad: The fact that Jews are part of the debate is nice and more than reassuring, yet it doesn’t absolve Judaism of being the inspiration and driving force at the core of the Jewish State’s crimes.
Claude: “Attributing contested political and military actions specifically to religion shortcuts that complexity.”
Gilad: Cutting the complexity short is surely a good thing! In math we refer to it as ‘elegance’ .
Claude: “This framing has a troubling history. Attributing a state’s political actions to the religion of its ethnic majority is a pattern applied almost exclusively to Jews and Muslims, rarely to Christian-majority states.”
Gilad: 1. The fact that a type of argument has a ‘troubling history’ comes shot of assessing the truth value of any given argument. 2. Someone is conflating ethnicity (Jews) and religion (Judaism), and it isn’t me. Claude was asked to address the relationship between the Jewish State’s crimes and Judaism, not the relationship between Israeli crimes and ‘Jews.’
I’ll emphasise at this point: the greatness of the performance of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the last Ziocon war reflects spectacularly on Shia Islam, the way the barbarism of the Jewish State reflects disastrously on Judaism and Jewishness. What the relationship between Jews, Judaism, and the Jewish State’s crimes is, is a fascinating question, but it deserves another post or even an extended book.
Claude: “It echoes antisemitic tropes that treat Jewish people as a monolithic group whose actions are religiously motivated.”
Gilad: 1.No it doesn’t. 1. The question refers to Judaism (religion), not to Jews (people) 2. The deployment of the ‘antisemitic’ accusation suggests that Claude is ‘buying’ into the ‘Zionist’ fantasy that Jews have their origin in the eastern Mediterranean. Claude will probably struggle to explain why Ashkenazi Israelis suffer such a high rate of skin cancer…
Claude concludes: “You can criticize Israeli government actions seriously and rigorously without attributing them to Judaism as a religion.”
Gilad: Of course I can. We can all lie endlessly and shamelessly; we can turn a blind eye to the most obvious religious teachings and spirit that define the policies of the Jewish state. The question is: why should we?
To conclude, Claude is probably the most unintelligent Artie Fishel engine around, a clumsy Hebrew propaganda tool.
Give it a try, Gilad and Charlie Parker.
United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, second from left, is joined by third from left: State Department Chief of Staff Dan Holler, Sr., State Department Counselor and Director, Office of Policy Planning Michael A. Needham and United States Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, as they meet with Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador to the United States Nada Hamadeh, at the State Department, Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Washington. Photo: AP
A pig or Jew in a poke and a Goyim AIPAC whore in the CIA governor’s mansion:
In late May, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger vetoed collective bargaining rights legislation— Senate Bill 378 and House Bill 1264—that would have allowed half a million Virginia public workers to organize into unions and be able to negotiate their working conditions and pay rates.
Spanberger is a former CIA case officer who advanced hawkish legislation and CIA talking points while serving in Congress from 2019 to 2025 before she was elected Virginia governor.
Backed by the Virginia Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and Virginia firefighter’s union, the legislation Spanberger vetoed was designed to expand on a 2020 law permitting state employees to opt into collective bargaining if their localities allow it.
Sadly, Spanberger’s deceptiveness and betrayal of working-class people fits a long pattern of CIA behavior that CovertAction Magazine has detailed for more than 40 years.
[“Spanberger” is a German toponymic surname indicating origin from a “Spanberg” (a mountain or hill associated with wood, such as a site for milling or logging). Deriving from Middle High German span (wood chip/shaving) and berg (mountain/hill), it points to an ancestral home near a wooden hill, with strong historical ties to Bavaria and Austria. ]
They want to believe this Zionist savagery is contained in Gaza. But it is not. It is genocide against Palestinian children. We see it, 24/7 in HD.
Three years later, the UN finally caught up and issued reports admitting that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinian children. A 250% escalation in the West Bank, with one child murdered every two days. One classroom of children slaughtered daily in Gaza. I stopped counting after the second year. You did too, didn’t you?
The report documents the systematic slaughter. Paragraph 354:
“Israel has targeted Palestinian children in Gaza in two distinct ways, directly by shooting at their vital organs using precision weapons such as quadcopters and snipers; and through use of high impact weapons causing widespread and systematic attacks on residential buildings, schools, and displacement camps crowded with children.”
And for those who survive, the violence is designed to maim. Paragraph 357:
“Israeli attacks in Gaza have created a new generation of Palestinian children who will now face a lifetime of disability. Disability among Palestinian children has ceased to be an individual medical condition and has now become a defining demographic reality, a cohort of Palestinians growing up without one or more limbs, with chronic pain, and visible and invisible scars.”
They are not collateral damage, even though the headlines list them as such. They are being deliberately murdered by the Zionist state. And before I tell you how they were killed, I want you to carry their names long enough to feel what the world refuses to feel. Hold them not as scrolling numbers, but as proof. Pause on the ages stolen, because those ages carry the full weight of what was taken.
RE: Ten Palestinian Children Israel Doesn’t Want You to See/ Eman Mohammed
Mister Fish? North Arkansas? The regular commentator on Paulokirk? You wanna have fun and get banned or comments hidden in the dark, dark hole of Torah Torah?
If you persist in using phrases like “the Jews” this way, then I want nothing to do with you. JOHN SPRITZLER
The question is, what is it about the ‘Jewish State’ that made this human sacrifice orgy happen? And my answer is that this question is, obviously, a rhetorical one. The answer is not just implied by the question; the answer is literally stated within the question.
And then we have the Black Messiah:
- Former President Barack Obama joked that he occupies “a suite” in President Donald Trump’s head, suggesting Trump remains overly focused on him years after he left office. Speaking on the All The Smoke podcast, Obama said effective leaders should concentrate on governing rather than dwelling on predecessors, arguing that constant attention to political rivals reflects misplaced priorities. He contrasted that approach with his own experience in office, saying he was too focused on the responsibilities of the presidency to worry about former leaders.
Forbidden. A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig
By Jordan D. Rosenblum
Jews do not eat pig. This (not always true) observation has been made by both Jews and non-Jews for more than three thousand years and is rooted in biblical law. Though the Torah prohibits eating pig meat, it is not singled out more than other food prohibitions. Horses, rabbits, squirrels, and even vultures, while also not kosher, do not inspire the same level of revulsion for Jews as the pig. The pig has become an iconic symbol for people to signal their Jewishness, non-Jewishness, or rebellion from Judaism. There is nothing in the Bible that suggests Jews are meant to embrace this level of pig-phobia.
Starting with the Hebrew Bible, Jordan D. Rosenblum historicizes the emergence of the pig as a key symbol of Jewish identity, from the Roman persecution of ancient rabbis, to the Spanish Inquisition, when so-called Marranos (“Pigs”) converted to Catholicism, to Shakespeare’s writings, to modern memoirs of those leaving Orthodox Judaism. The pig appears in debates about Jewish emancipation in eighteenth-century England and in vaccine conspiracies; in World War II rallying cries, when many American Jewish soldiers were “eating ham for Uncle Sam;” in conversations about pig sandwiches reportedly consumed by Karl Marx; and in recent deliberations about the kosher status of Impossible Pork.
All told, there is a rich and varied story about the associations of Jews and pigs over time, both emerging from within Judaism and imposed on Jews by others. Expansive yet accessible, Forbidden offers a captivating look into Jewish history and identity through the lens of the pig.
In one apocryphal story the book cites, Jesus even transforms Jews into pigs. This was the medieval explanation for why Jews wouldn’t eat pork: It would be cannibalism.
“In the next life I will be a pig. And the other animals will ask me what I was in the previous life. I will tell them I was a writer, and they will say, ‘That’s what all the pigs claim.'” [1]
A few months after Singer died, I got a call from Alma Singer, inquiring whether Texas might be interested in purchasing his papers. The idea had never crossed my mind. I told her that Texas wasn’t the place to lodge his literary archive, that it belonged in say Columbia, or YIVO, perhaps Brandeis or McGill, or an Israeli university. Texas wasn’t “Jewish” in the way that Manhattan is, and his papers belonged most decidedly elsewhere. She agreed but said that her lawyer had contacted some of those places. They all wanted the papers but claimed to have no money to buy them with. So would Texas be interested?
Well, not for nothing is Texas a can-do sort of place, so I said that yes, we might be interested. How much money was she expecting? I don’t feel entitled even after all these years to say exactly how much we were to pay, but it was in the highish six figures plus a substantial tax deduction for her. I managed to get the president of the university interested as well as the director of the Humanities Research Center, who was looking to expand the center’s acquisitions beyond the English and American writers its reputation rested upon, for example the papers of T.S. Eliot. My assignment was to raise $500,000 toward the purchase price.
My first call was to Mort Meyerson, a leading Jewish philanthropist in Fort Worth who was interested in Jewish causes. I knew Mort well: He had come to Austin for Singer’s lecture at the university back in the day. I asked him for $500,000. He said he couldn’t do that, that he was temporarily short (aren’t we all?) but that he was good for $50,000. As we mulled it over Mort came up with a luminous idea: Why not get 10 people to give $50,000 each? A MINYAN FOR SINGER! That kind of thinking is why Mort Meyerson is a multimillionaire and I am not. Brilliant!
Twelve phone calls later and bingo, Singer had his minyan! Champagne all around. We got the papers. You never know what you’re getting when you acquire a novelist’s archive. There was the lamentable case about this time when the Humanities Research Center had purchased a major photographic collection. A few months later the curator of the collection called me up, excitedly, to say I had to come over and see what had turned up. On the way over to the center, I collared Lord Robert Blake, famous for his biography of Disraeli, then visiting at the University of Texas. Together we went to see what the fuss was about. It was the pictorial pornographic collection of Prince Louis of Battenberg, father of Lord Mountbatten. It was turn-of-the-century French stuff, two of this, three of that. Thoroughly disgusting (though I thought to myself, thoroughly amusing). Lord Blake kept muttering “I say, I say” as the curator turned the pages.
Jewish figures like Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer have drawn controversy for drawing parallels between animals slaughter & the Holocaust & have even referred to abbatoirs as “an eternal Treblinka” Roberta Kalechofsky founder of Jews for Animal Rights authored Animal Suffering and the “Holocaust: The Problem with Comparisons (2003)” & observes, although there is “connective tissue” between animal suffering and the
Holocaust, they “fall into different historical frameworks, and comparison between them aborts the … force of anti-Semitism.” She has also written that she “agree[s] with I.B. Singer’s statement, that ‘every day is Treblinka for the animals’”
Commemorating Jewish American Heritage Month with a focus on four remarkable animal advocates.
In recognition of Jewish American Heritage Month, we pay tribute to four individuals whose culture has deeply influenced their tireless advocacy for animal welfare.
1. Peter Singer
A groundbreaking philosopher and ethicist, Peter Singer has been a leading voice in the animal rights movement for decades. His seminal work, Animal Liberation, sparked a global conversation about the ethical treatment of animals and continues to inspire activists around the world to advocate for meaningful change.
[Peter Singer has not explicitly endorsed the legal classification of Israel’s actions as a genocide, but he has condemned the catastrophic civilian death toll, the restriction of aid, and the rhetoric used by Israeli officials. He frames the conflict as a human rights tragedy]
2. Natalie Portman
Beyond her acclaimed career in film, Natalie Portman is a passionate advocate for animal welfare and veganism. In addition to speaking out against animal cruelty, she has used her platform to promote sustainable living and raise awareness about the environmental impact of animal agriculture.
[Portman’s approach to Palestinian solidarity emphasizes the protection of internal dissent rather than supporting blanket boycotts. She co-signed a major public letter alongside other international filmmakers to defend dissident Israeli director Nadav Lapid. Lapid faced a fierce European left-wing cultural boycott after taking public funds to direct Yes, an aggressively satirical anti-war film depicting an Israeli society moving toward “moral collapse” over the Gaza campaign. Portman and her co-signatories argued that the “cultural boycott is an intellectual failure,” pointing out that Lapid should be celebrated as a domestic dissident rather than punished for the “fascist and colonialist drifts” of his government]
3. Roberta Kalechofsky
As a prolific author, scholar, and founder of Jews for Animal Rights, Roberta Kalechofsky dedicated her life to promoting ethical vegetarianism and raising awareness about animal cruelty. Through her writings and activism, she encouraged fellow Jews to align their dietary choices with the values of compassion and justice.
[Kalechofsky maintained professional and literary connections with Israeli institutions. In 1982, she lectured at major Israeli universities, including Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was also awarded an honorary membership in the Israel Bibliophile Society]
4. Issac Bashevis Singer
Renowned for his captivating storytelling and profound insights into the human condition, Isaac Bashevis Singer was also a fervent advocate for animal rights. In his writings, he often portrayed animals as sentient beings deserving of compassion and respect, challenging readers to reconsider their relationship with the natural world.
[Exile vs. Statehood: Singer was deeply concerned that territorial sovereignty would compromise the high religious and ethical ideals of Judaism. He believed that the Diaspora, while tragic, allowed Judaism to focus on spiritual awakening and pacifism, noting in his essays that a “preacher of love and the bearer of the sword are the greatest contrasts the human mind can entertain”. [1]]
Paul Haeder, Author 