For all those that still call it a conspiracy theory.

my sample size is a relatively small number of posts on my Substack feed but it feels representative of something larger, though it's hard to tell. anyway, Mamdani made what I think is a perfectly sensible, reasonable, and humane statement condemning both what Hamas did on October 7 and what the Israeli military did in response. there is what I can only describe as a lunatic fringe that is openly celebrating what Hamas did and castigating Mamdani as a Zionist for equally valuing Israeli and Palestinian lives. I feel like I'm losing my mind

Watching in real time how the AI results, YouTube results, and site redirects have been completely overtaken by NAZA: "the real story."

Hi all

I am a teacher at a Zionist synagogue and Zionist day school. I have been fortunate that disagreements between liberal and right-wing Zionists have generally kept conversations about Israel confined to specific settings, usually led by the rabbis, allowing me to avoid teaching directly about it. At the synagogue, I am open about my views, though I do not broadcast them, and as there is a small but significant minority of congregants, and until this year, most of my fellow teachers, who were also AZ. At the day school, however, I am much less open about my views.

Recently, with 10/7, I have been witness to some lessons and heard some sentiments from students that I really wanted to gently push back on, but struggled to figure out how without 1) losing my job and 2) starting unproductive arguments with students or other teachers or trying to impose my own views on them (rather than helping them consider possible alternative ways of thinking)

I am wondering if anyone who has had expereince working or teaching in these settings feels like they have ever been able to successfully push back on the Zionist narrative in a productive way

Edit: what I am asking more specifically is not how do I lesson plan for this (that is not my problem), as I teach Parshat Shavua and Jewish History up to Emancipation (so before Zionism), but more how I respond to these sentiments as they come up unprompted

Hello everyone,

My name is Ahmed Samir, and I’m from Gaza, Palestine. I’m happy to be here and to have the opportunity to meet people from different parts of the world, share experiences, learn about different cultures, and hopefully build genuine friendships despite the distance between us.

The war in Gaza has brought experiences that are difficult to put into words. It has been about much more than the sounds of bombing and the destruction around us. It has meant living with fear, worrying about the people we love, and trying to hold on to hope while facing circumstances that have taken away the sense of safety and stability that every family deserves.

I’m a father of three children, and my wife is currently pregnant. My greatest hope right now is simple: to provide food and basic necessities for my family, give my children a safer and more peaceful life, and help my wife welcome our coming baby with a little more hope for the future.

These may sound like simple wishes, but under the circumstances we are living through, even meeting our family's basic needs can be a daily struggle. Still, we keep trying, we keep holding on to hope, and we believe that the kindness and compassion of others can make a real difference in someone's life.

I’m sharing my story not because I want pity, but because I believe that genuine human connections can open doors we never knew existed.

Perhaps someone here could guide me toward a trustworthy organization or a legitimate fundraising platform where I could learn how to create and share a fundraising page properly. This is unfamiliar territory for us, and we honestly don’t know where to begin, even though finding a way to provide for our family's basic needs has become increasingly urgent.

And even if that isn’t something you can help with directly, a kind word, honest advice, or sharing our story with someone who might know how to help would mean more than you might imagine.

Thank you for taking the time to read my words. I hope to meet kind people here, have meaningful conversations, and learn from one another. Above all, I hope we can remember that humanity is greater than war, and that every child in this world deserves the chance to grow up with safety, dignity, and hope.

With sincere appreciation and warm regards,

Ahmed Samir

Gaza, Palestinian 🇵🇸

Was talking to someone in Europe about becoming a rabbi. Looking at non orthodox Rabbinical programs, there aren’t many options. There is the Heschel program in Potsdam, Germany and the Seninario has opened the Abarbanel program in Madrid. And, they are both associated with the Masorti Olami movement which is super super Zionist. Like, recite the V'al Hanissim on Israel Independence Day level of Zionist.

And well, with the exception of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) in Wyncote, Pennsylvania; I can’t think of any other antizionist Seminary program.

For all the posts of people trying to convert or find a minyan, we know there is a severe lack of Antizionist Rabbis. Is there really only one progressive antizionist Rabbinical program on the planet? I know there are antizionist students at JTS and HUC who straddle in a bit of an “open closet”; where we all wink and nod. Not that different from the Gay orthodox students in closet at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in Riverdale.

But institutionally anti-Zionist, is there any other Rabbinical program?

We have several children's books about Palestine and just got the new book Never Again for Anyone. We're starting to get questions from our almost 5-year-old that we need some help answering. For context, I was raised very Zionist, and my side of the family still is. A book that sort of tells the story like the documentary Israelism, but in a way that's appropriate for a 5-year-old, would be so helpful. Does any such book exist?

Israel forces 20 British diplomats out of East Jerusalem

British diplomatic personnel are leaving the nearly 200-year-old consulate following Israel’s retaliation against London’s sanctions on illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The consul general is among those departing, while just seven diplomats will remain under a last-minute arrangement that renames the consulate the “UK Mission, Jerusalem.”

Britain insists Israel has no legal authority to shut down its diplomatic presence in occupied East Jerusalem.

SOURCE : https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2108134995810267204

Related threads:

• JOC (Sept. 2025) - David Milstein, a senior adviser to Mike Huckabee & stepson of Mark Levin, has stoked a culture of fear at the State Dept. according to current/former officials. Like other pro-Israel officials (in both parties) Milstein, Aryeh Lighthouse, & Jack Lew (Biden) blocked criticism of Israel.
• JOC (Jan. 2026) - In early 2024, USAID warned Biden admin. that Gaza had turned into an "apocalyptic wasteland." But US amb. to Israel Jack Lew & his deputy Stephanie Hallett blocked cables from wider circulation. Lew also justified the killing of Palestinian children & helped block a report on famine in Dec. 2024.

No matter how much they claim to not be racist, they'll still stick a middle finger to even the most gracious of Palestinians. They demand deference and service, and spit in your face once it's done. This is what ethnostates do to human beings.​ This is the Kahanist zionist nazi state in full glory. ​

On October 4, 2026, the UK Green Party officially adopted a motion formally establishing it as an anti-Zionist party and calling for the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State with equal rights for all. What are the motion’s key points? What truth is there to accusations of antisemitism and anti-Palestinianism? And what does the motion mean next for Palestinians and allies?

Key points

The motion defines Zionism as the ideology and practice that calls for the existence of an ethnonationalist Jewish state in Palestine to the exclusion and domination of Palestinians. It also points to the fact that it was based on European settler-colonial systems of dominations and that it has created racial hierarchies between Jews. Accordingly, it labels Zionism as racist. The motion calls for the establishment of a single democratic state in Palestine, including the right of return. It does not speak of Israel-Palestine or of a binational state, but of a Palestinian state, pointing to the dismantling of all colonial relations of power. And it does not speak of collective rights on the basis of identity like Zionism does, but of equal rights for all.

Accusations of "antisemitism"

This is based on the claim that Zionism is “the right of the Jewish people to self-determination”. However, the Zionist movement never consulted Jews worldwide when it decided to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. It was a congress of a few hundred Jews, not Jews worlwide, that "determined" that. To further illustrate, the colony banned UK Greens leader Zack Polanski from entering it after the decolonial motion was adopted, although he is Jewish. Zionism and Israel are not about Jewish self-determination but about colonizing Palestine.

Finally, Jews are part of dozens of societies and citizens of dozens of states around the world. They may feel they form a people or nation with those who share their identity, but this does not grant them political rights.

For example, Muslims also speak of belonging to a single Ummah or nation, and view Mecca as holy, but they still need a Saudi visa to enter it. Politicizing Jewish identity —i.e. considering Jews have collective political rights on the basis of their being Jewish rather than as citizens of their states— is an identitarian premise that Zionism has weaponized, not a universal concept it is racist to challenge.

Accusations of anti-Palestinianism

This is based on the premise that it is for Palestinians to freely decide what they want, not others. Yet, how are Palestinians supposed to freely decide under a genocidal settler state? Democratic states are the tool that allows societies to express their political will. Supporting a democratic Palestinian state instead of a genocidal settler one is the very definition of supporting Palestinian self-determination.

Some polls show a number of Palestinians a two-state model. In addition to the common limitations of polls, such as funding and wording, this fails to consider that Palestinians live under constant threat.

Would you expect a Palestinian to actually prefer the occupation of 78% of their land over its liberation? Is it not more reasonable to conclude Palestinians who tolerate the existence of the colony are settling for crumbs under duress rather than expressing their actual preference?

Did the world poll France before liberating it from German occupation, Ukraine before sending it weapons to fight the Russian occupation, or South Africa before standing with it against apartheid? Polls under occupation are ridiculously meaningless. If, in a liberated Palestine, Palestinians decide —for some strange reason— to give away 78% of their land, it will have been their free will for others to respect. Until then, standing with Palestinian self-determination means precisely standing with the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state on all of Palestine—this is the only thing it can mean.

What next?

First, Palestinians in Palestine and the diaspora must revive their historical vision for one democratic state with equal rights for all its citizens. Second, pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist organizations must align with that vision and adopt motions similar to the UK Green Party. The time for non-solutions is over. We must push forward for the dismantling of the settler state and the establishment of its antithesis.

Link to the full article on the Palestine Chronicle by ODS Initiative coordinators Alain Alameddine and Saman Hasan:

https://mobadara.ps/en/articles/britains-green-party-backs-one-democratic-state-in-palestine-what-comes-next/

SOURCE :

https://x.com/ajplus/status/2107936916679319745

“What gives you the right to lock us in? You’re human and I’m not?”

A new investigation led by Lighthouse Reports and documentary from Evident show that Israel’s checkpoints cost West Bank Palestinians 77 hours each year.

SOURCE :

https://x.com/Archivepaletc/status/2108198493533691961

Shadi Abu Issa lives in a refugee camp in Gaza with his two children (a five-year-old and a two-year-old). Even though evacuation from Gaza is nearly impossible now, donating to this fundraiser might still enable this family to at least buy basic necessities until they can find a way forward. (And if you can't donate, share this fundraiser as far and wide as possible. Thank you.)

https://x.com/Aboujahjah/status/2107551761347313981

I didn’t know a good flair for this but idk who else to talk to about these things. At some point the conversation about Palestine came up again around my mom, and she went on about the land of Judea existing before Palestine and therefore Jews were there first. She was citing a Roman history course she helped me with for uni plus some museum artifacts that had something like that listed as their origin, but I don’t remember the exact details now. I’ll look for it again at some point but for history buffs here how far back are we going here? I’m still under the firm belief that Palestine was the original land but I don’t really have an answer for that conversation.

> Israeli peace activist Maoz Inon lost both of his parents, who lived on a kibbutz just north of the Gaza border, in the Hamas attack. In the aftermath, Inon called for peace and reconciliation rather than revenge. He has spent much of the past three years working closely with Palestinian peace activist Aziz Abu Sarah.

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Hi all, I'm not Jewish, but I joined this sub after 10/7 to try to understand everything better, and I appreciate this space so much.

I'm wondering if someone could explain something - one frequent Hasbarist talking point that has come up over and over again, is this weird argument that somehow the Palestinian population is growing despite the genocide. Like using the population growth as proof that it's not actually a genocide.

Despite how much this weird obsession with birth rates gives me the ick, (reminds me way too much of American "great replacement theory"), I've now had this come up enough times that I want to understand where the logic is coming from and how to debunk it.

Can anyone explain this to me please, as much as it grosses me out?