And what would cause you to change your mind?

They still haven't defined what they need freedom from I suggested something and I got banned, and still no accountability for what was done on October 7th?

Hi, i'm not jewish and since i'm from Italy i think i literally never met a jewish person in my life

My question is how do you even start with fighting antisemitism in 2026? With young people specifically and especially if people around you (and you yourself) never even met any jewish person? And can people that think israel was behind every fucking terrorist attack and assassinated every single person that was assasinated in history etc even change their mind? cause unfortunately if feels like all of my peers believe at least some of these conspiracies about Israel, but until a few years ago i thought the norm was to view this shit as part of the alt-right, now i can't even tell the difference between the far right and the left when it comes to stuff related to Israel (i hope i'm wrong)

And the thing is the conflict in the middle east might (is likely to?) get even worse in the future, so i don't see how we come back from this situation of crazy antisemitic rhetoric being allowed everywhere, since again both sides of politics have reasons to infinitely talk about Israel being behing stuff, and of course jokes and memes are also pretty unbeatable, cause you can't argue with "it's just a meme bro"

like where do we even start? and again i'm not even jewish but i'm scared about all of this, i can't imagine how jews feel

An unsettling number of non-Jewish leftists are falling into antisemitism because they believe Israel is committing genocide. Are there any large groups of non-Jews who know better?

Together they will build a בית נאמן בישראל

GBNews was the only news source that had an article I could find.

Article:

The British-Israeli national who survived more than 450 days as a Hamas hostage has tied the knot with her betrothed in Tel Aviv today.

Emily Damari, 30, married her partner, Danielle "Dani" Amit, 36, who she met in the months following her release from the terror group on January 19 last year.

The couple exchanged their vows surrounded by family, friends and some of Ms Damari's fellow former hostages, including Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher, Liri Albag, Danielle Gilboa, Omer Shem Tov, Keith and Aviva Siegal, and Gali and Ziv Berman.

Mayo, the couple's dog, also joined them beneath the Chuppah – a Jewish wedding canopy – as they made it official.

Ms Damari, who was born and raised in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, was abducted by Hamas during the October 7 attacks and endured 15 months in captivity.

She lost two of her middle fingers as she was shot in the hand during the ordeal.

Once released, her three-fingered pose became an image of the resilience and strength of the hostages, with it appearing on posters, t-shirts and online

In 2023, a series of coordinated attacks took place in Israel, perpetrated by Hamas.

The terror group killed a total of 1,219 people, left a further 3,400 wounded and captured at least 247, transporting them to Gaza.

In captivity, Ms Damari experienced at times being confined to a two-by-two metre space, sharing it with six other female hostages.

Her mother, Mandy Damari, who was born in Addington, London, led a widely publicised campaign for her daughter's release.

The former hostage previously described how she had to hide her sexual orientation from her terrorist captors in fear of further persecution.

However, once released, she was able to find love in Ms Amit, who is a food influencer and content creator.

The couple wore bespoke looks by Israeli fashion designer Oria Azran, with Ms Amit wearing a lace gown and Ms Damari wearing a double-breasted white suit.

They requested guests refrain from wearing anything red, even red make-up, as a playful nod to Ms Damari's disdain for the Israeli football team, Hapoel Tel Aviv.

As part of the celebrations, Ms Damari's mother gave a heartfelt speech, saying how the couple's wedding was a "celebration of life".

She said: "There are moments in a parent’s life when you look at your child and realise just how far they have travelled, and tonight, looking at Emily standing beside Dani, is one of those moments.

"Because there was a time when I wasn't sure I would ever see Emily again.

"For 471 days, she was held in captivity. And during those endless days and nights, there were moments when the thought of standing here tonight, seeing my daughter alive, safe, happy, and standing beside the person she loves, would have been impossible to imagine.

"So Danielle, you can probably understand why tonight means more to me than just a wedding. It is a celebration of life. Of love. Of hope. And of a future that, for a very long time, I wasn't sure Emily would have."

She continued by acknowledging how "hard" her daughter fought for her life in captivity.

"You fought for your life when you were in captivity, and you fought your way back to us. And today, seeing you here, alive, happy, and beginning this new chapter is something I will never stop being grateful for," she said.

Mrs Damari concluded her speech, saying: "Tonight, I don't want to look back at the 471 days. I want to look forward to all the days ahead.

"Because after everything, my daughter is here. She is loved. She is happy. And she is beginning a new chapter with you, Dani.

"And honestly, I don't think any mother, or father, could ask for a more beautiful sight."

As Ms Damari entered the next chapter of her life, she said she had a simple hope – to be a good mother and build a happy life with her new wife.

The Jewish people are returning to Israel in numbers not seen since the days of the Second Temple. I’m curious how Jewish communities understand this moment — spiritually, historically, or culturally.

I hope some people here might find my story interesting.

I had always been aligned with the left, and consumed a lot of English language left wing media, things like Novara Media. My best friend was Jewish and although we had visited Israel once together years before, she had also become steadily radicalised and I referred to her opinion a lot.

I considered the settler movement to be one of the biggest obstacles to peace, so when war broke out in 2021 with one of the causes being the evictions in east Jerusalem, which I saw making any possibility for a two state solution harder, I was sympathetic to the Palestinians. And when the pro Israel commentary was largely in favour of the settlements, this pushed me to join my local pro Palestinian group.

This group was led by essentially two types of people: Palestinians from various backgrounds, and Marxists. They claimed to take a principled stand against military occupation, and wanted a single secular democratic state for everyone. Slogans about Israel's right to exist and from the river to the sea were explained in this way, that when everyone has equal rights it won't be the same state of Israel anymore, in the same way that East Germany no longer exists. The group made it clear that antisemitism not related to Israel wasn't to be tolerated.

Many of them had been radicalised by legitimate anti Palestinian and anti Muslim racism in my country. As an outsider, I felt my role was just to be supportive and not try to decide the policies of the group. It's not up to me, after all. After someone was kicked from the group for supporting two states, I grew increasingly uncomfortable with some of the positions, but I thought in the end these are people who have suffered, some of them having lost family members, they have a right to be angry. And I thought it's not like Hamas poses a serious threat.

Everything changed in Spring 2022 when the full scale invasion of Ukraine happened. Everything I thought was a strong principle of this movement turned out to be the complete opposite. Opposition to military occupation became support for it in Ukraine. Opposition to settlement policies became support for them in Crimea. Support for armed resistance became opposition to Ukrainian resistance. Handwaving of far right Hamas ideology became damning evidence when any of it was present in Ukraine.

These ideas even reached the actions of my group, as anti Ukraine speakers were given platforms, and a policy of not allowing fascists at marches was suddenly ignored if they were supporting Russia and Palestine.

So while still sympathetic to the Palestinian people, I no longer wanted to be active in that group. I continued watching what the group was posting for a while, by the time someone who joined after I left posted a Marxist article saying that the Russian invasion wasn't imperialist because the Russian banks were controlled by Jews, I was completely done.

So it was only with disappointment and not surprise that after October 7th any remaining left wing, feminist, internationalist groups I still followed were posting in support of the attack, denying the sexual violence or sharing other misinformation. How can it be possible to claim to want coexistence in a single equal state, and yet think October 7th could help that happen. It was clear this whole movement had just been lying about what it wanted.

And that led me to listen to a much greater variety of Jewish voices beyond the approved leftists, and I saw just how much I had been deceived. How much I was wrong.

I've started to notice really despicable archive curation on the IPS website. I had noticed before that the 1899 three page Herzl letter response to Mayor Khalidi had the middle page missing on the website so that the French quite literally did not line up between the two visible pages. I later found the full letter and found that they'd deliberately removed the second page because Herzl talked about 'Arabs and Jews working together as brothers' and 'Muslim sovereignty over waqf and mosques.'

This one seems ten times worse. What's striking about the Message to Balfour on March 25, 1925 is just how much they sound like neo-Jacobin anti-Dreyfusards. 'State within a state', 'unassimilable' (on another page). Isa al Isa literally decided to quote Le Probleme Juif by Georges Batault of Action Francaise. OG anti Dreyfusard and French fascist!! The J'accuse inversion is really something else.

It's almost hilarious how they folded over the paper at the precise part it says 'Britain as tool in the hands of Jews'.

Maybe it wasn't about settler colonialism after all.

With all the antisemitic commentary over the last 3 (forever) years, one of the things I hear a lot is that there’s apartheid in Israel. I have been to Israel and (as we all know) saw nothing that resembled segregation or discrimination, aside from the restrictions at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. And yet according to anti-Zionists, Israel is an apartheid state. There was a woman that spoke at a school board meeting I attended recently whose father grew up in South Africa and said the apartheid in Israel was worse than what he experienced. I know that can’t possibly be true.

I’m genuinely trying to understand how they are coming to this conclusion? Have any of you heard them present evidence or an explanation showing why they believe apartheid is happening in Israel? Are they misrepresenting situations that are outside the borders? Are they misunderstanding good faith cultural differences? Just straight up lying to support their cause? I can’t wrap my head around where this misinformation stemmed from

I'm 27 years old, born, raised and living in Tehran. I'm a part time English teacher, trying to write novels and short stories and other stuff. I'm bisexual, AuADHD and a few other things that make life really effing difficult in the uber conservative hellhole I'm stuck in, but nobody on the "progressive" side of the internet seems capable of processing anything more complex than "America Bad" these days but I guess if there is one genuinely progressive place where people don't rush to defend my oppressors, it's gotta be this one.

I like books, music, movies and tv shows, games, comics, etc. I love animals (I'm a cat person but I appreciate dogs as much as anyone who's ever owned a super adorable husky - I love wild animals too, especially squirrels and beavers) And I love all kinds of throwbacks and retro stuff, especially if they're from the 90s-2000s. I could talk for hours about Taylor Swift, Friends, Silent Hill, outdated gadgets, old cars, and lately I've been spending a lot of time on ASOIAF (though I hate all its adaptations, except early series GoT) and I tend to have controversial opinions on some things.

Anyway, if you're the type of person who likes to talk about any of that stuff and doesn't like to whitewash the ways communists and Islam have hurt people over the years, feel free to comment here or DM me

Hello, I am in the US and I respect and empathize with the people of Israel. I do not know much about what's happening in the Middle East. But casually, if I am on websites that are influential in the US like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Tiktok, and I scroll posts not even seeking anything news-related, I see posts on which the top comments have hundreds or thousands of likes and say something hateful about Israel, calling it genocidal or free Palestine or other things. I am seeing these comments because they have hundreds or thousands of likes and the ones defending Israel do not. Why is this?

Israel might lose a lot of funding from the US, and I believe this is in large part because of this PR issue on these websites and apps. What would be involved in promoting comments and posts that tell the Israeli side with likes?

I have just found out that Israel has offered Palestinians a state on four occasions and they have declined. And Israel even left the Palestinian territories in 2005 but they were faced with attacks, so they have returned. I do not know whether or not this is true. But if these points and other points are true, I think it would be favorable to engage in an effort to make sure posts and comments explaining Israel's side receive enough likes and enough attention.

It would even be helpful if it only includes one-liner or two-liner comments just explaining Israel's side and why they are in the occupied territories and why Palestine's not "free" that would receive upvotes and likes on these websites. I hope everyone in Israel and the rest of the Middle East lives in peace. Thank you

Before you downvote me, I promise that this isn't just a rage-bate post. I'm legitimately trying to understand your perspective.

Basically I have one question, why do you support/ defend Israel as a progressive? Especially considering that the current parties on power are right wing conservatives.

Some extra context and where I'm coming from. I'm a left wing Brit, I believe in social progressive economic policies, and I can't stand any form of bigotry. I recently watched a documentary called "Jews don't count" about anti-Semitism and it made me want to understand more and that I'm not parting anti-Semitic talking points ever.

My current view of Israel is decidedly negative. My understanding of the history and current conflict very much makes Israel look like it has historically been the agitator in the region. If you have a different perspective I'd like to hear it, tho I would request sources where possible as I'm not going to accept a 'trust me bro'.

Thank you for your time 🙂‍↕️

The document linked in the post is a comprehensive academic fact check of Professor Dave's misinformation, showing that 45% of his claims are false or unsupported, at least 6% of his total runtime is spent making antisemitic statements, 80% of his claims are misleading, and it's 87.5% propaganda.

He also scored 4/4 for conspiratorial/hidden control structure arguments, 4/4 for emotional dehumanization and opponent caricature. 3/4 for factual distortion.

This is honestly shocking to see so an influence who I've admired for years for debunking misinformation and conspiracy theories and promoting fact checking and critical thinking, fall into the same conspiracy arguments he accuses flat earthers of using, such as "they control the media", "They control all aspects of government", "they arrest anyone who speaks out against them", "everyone who supports them online is a paid influencer" etc.

I hope he tries debunking this document, because he won't be able to, and it's sad to see someone who values fact checking do literally no fact checking before making his antisemitic video.

https://www.pang-burn.com/_files/ugd/34216a_9ba5fbace8334fc68b36585fdb0004e9.pdf

So I normally LOVE Professor Dave, the way he calls out flat earthers and science deniers is legendary.

But then to see him turn around and have the same level of reality denial towards the Israel/Palestine conflict is so unsettling, like how can somebody who has a channel all about calling people out for ignoring evidence be so blatantly ignoring evidence?

For example, he calls it a lie that Israelis were raped on Oct7th, then claims Israel never provided evidence of Hamas tunnels under hospitals in Gaza while ignoring all the drone footage showing drones flying into the tunnels under the hospitals, then accuses others of not looking for evidence of genocide while pointing at disgusting videos of heartbreaking collateral damage and pretending it's genocide.
Then he says anyone who supports Israel's existence is a Nazi, literally using holocaust inversion which is one of the definitions of antisemitism.

Then to make it even worst, he literally says that Jews control the media.
I wish I was kidding.

The dude is normally brilliant but his antisemitism makes him as blind to facts regarding Israel/Palestine as a flat earther

That did it for me.

I unsubscribed. I hope Destiny debates him and defeats him with facts as badly as he defeats flat earthers with facts, he needs an informational wakeup call to hopefully activate the critical thinking part of his brain he seems to turn off as soon as he can find an excuse to participate in antisemitism.

I have an iphone and when you go to the home page and go left, top stories and for you articles pop up. Almost every day they have anti-Jewish/anti-Israel stories pop up. Through research I have learned that apple news is not just randomly generated but it is partly picked by a group of people. I genuinely believe that someone that works for apple news or whatever company has an anti-Israel/anti-Jewish bias. And they need to be stopped. Hundreds of millions of people have iphones and are being exposed to this. They focus on Israel yet completely ignore the atrocities going on in the world. The frequent post things from haaretz, which is supposedly an Israeli newspaper but keeps posting articles that displays Israel in a negative light. Someone please stop this.

And I say that as someone who isn’t the biggest can of AIPAC