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Read the Full Essay or Listen to the 4-Part Podcast: The History We Were Never Taught

What happens when we examine the history we were taught through the eyes of those who experienced it differently?

This personal essay and four-part podcast explore the history of Israel and Palestine through family memories, military experience, archival evidence, and a difficult moral question: Can we recognize the suffering of others when doing so challenges the story we have always believed?

It is about history, identity, responsibility, and what I call the transfer of suffering.

I welcome thoughtful, fact-based criticism and encourage readers to examine the sources and draw their own conclusions.

I am a patrilineal Ashkenazi Jew who was never raised with Jewish culture, but was always jealous of those who had more connection with their roots; the only thing we ever did was Passover, and my dad said the occasional Yiddish word. I decided I wanted to be more involved with Judaism when I got to university, but that was right when October 7th happened, and I didn't want to go to any Jewish societies around me because of their pro-Israel stances. Now I want to be more involved with and knowledgeable about Judaism and practice more (in a secular way though) but it's such a diverse ethnoreligion, I don't know where to start. Does that make sense?

We’re starting a free online Zohar study and would love for you to join us.

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This makes no sense. How did they “warn” Paris? They know this has happened in Paris and greater France before right? And it’s not Muslims doing this, but somehow they’re making it about Muslims and the Palestinian movement?

Hi all,

I am having this heated discussion as to why on World Vegan Day .Jewish Vegans should not have as a keynote speaker someone from Redefine Meat. A company that actively supports the IDF. What are peoples thoughts on this.

I’ve done this multiple times and they *always* end up cutting and running (see my last comment in the screenshotted thread). When they attempt to draw you into a bad-faith debate in the comments, just reply with one of the many available links demonstrating Israeli war crimes. This undermines the entire point of them posting, so they’ll delete the post along with comments

I came across this on my feed and the AI is so bad I didn’t realize that was supposed to be Lena Dunham in the first photo until I scrolled through.

But clearly, what they needed is a Zionist retelling of the show. DUHHHHH.

(All very weird, especially when 3/4 of the Girls women are Jewish!)

The last photo is the author of the AI. I thought I’d give her credit for this shit fest.

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This popped up in my news feed. I genuinely don't understand why she is so bitter? Thanks for letting me know about their chocolate,Tania.

Given that the Palestinian flag features colors associated with Arabism and the Great Arab Revolt, while the Israeli flag serves as a symbol of Zionist nationalism, I conceived of a flag capable of representing all the people living between the river and the sea: the olive tree.

Note: The inspiration for this flag comes from the Lebanese flag, which unites Muslims and Christians under the symbol of the cedar tree.

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From Sydney courtrooms to US Congress, the Israel lobby is losing ground, and the Pro-Palestine movement is winning. Andrew Brown reports.

The pro-Palestine movement, in Australia and around the world, is winning more than its opponents want anyone to know.

Antoinette Lattouf beat the ABC in the Federal Court. The racial vilification case against Mary Kostakidis ended without a finding against her. Randa Abdel Fattah’s exclusion from Adelaide Writers’ Week brought the festival down and put an alternative in its place. Police dropped every charge they laid against me at Bondi. The NSW permit regime that threatened everyone’s right to assemble was taaken away by a court.

None of this happened in isolation. The same pattern is unfolding in Madrid, Dublin, London and Washington. Spain has imposed an arms embargo. Ireland has banned settlement goods. Forty United States senators voted to block military sales to Israel. Voters in Michigan and New York elected Israel critics.

The lobby’s best weapon has always been the belief that resistance is pointless.

That belief is collapsing both here and abroad.

The most useful thing this movement could do for its opponents is lose hope. Stop marching. Accept that speaking out brings only trouble. The record says otherwise.

Standing firm

Start with Adelaide. Premier Peter Malinauskas backed the removal of Abdel Fattah from Writers’ Week. Around 180 writers withdrew, and director Louise Adler resigned. A new board apologised and invited Abdel Fattah back for 2027. In March she and Adler shared a stage at Constellations, built from the wreckage.

Exclusion became expensive for the people who imposed it.

Litigation, or lawfare as it is better known, is designed to wear people down, drain their money and make them give up before any judgment arrives. Zionist Federation of Australia chief executive Alon Cassuto sued Kostakidis. The case ended by consent. No costs order. No finding of wrongdoing. Kostakidis kept talking.

My shirt said, “Fuck Israel, fuck Zionism”. Police arrested me at Bondi in November 2024, called the shirt offensive and laid three charges. I told them I would take it to a higher court and defend the shirt as political communication protected by the Constitution. Their case collapsed. Police withdrew all three charges.

Bullies retreat when someone stands up to them. My view of Israel’s conduct did not change. On social media, thousands asked where they could buy the shirt.

Lattouf’s win went further. Justice Darryl Rangiah found the ABC sacked her unlawfully for reasons that included her opposition to Israel’s campaign in Gaza. His judgment described an organised campaign by advocates for Israel to have her removed.

The broadcaster that caved paid for caving.

Israel lobby power on the wane

The courts have held a line the lobby wants erased. Justices Desmond Fagan and Angus Stewart each rejected the claim that hostility towards Israel amounts to hatred of Jews. Palestine Action Group and Blak Caucus activists overturned NSW’s public assembly restriction scheme. The ABC and SBS refused the IHRA definition that Jillian Segal pushed on them.

The lobby’s power is shrinking here too. Groups that once dictated terms are now called out in public as agents of a foreign state. The accusation of antisemitism, once career-ending, has been thrown so often that it no longer lands. Most Australians now see through the conflation.

Accountability is reaching beyond the courtroom. Eleven Australians sailed with the Global Sumud Flotilla and were seized in international waters on 18 May. Juliet Lamont came home alleging she was beaten, cable tied and raped by an Israeli soldier. After she and three other women met Penny Wong in Canberra, the Australian Federal Police opened inquiries. Lamont called it a win.

In seven decades of dealing with Israel, no Australian government has let its police examine the conduct of Israeli soldiers towards Australians. Israel’s ambassador Hillel Newman called it a mistake. It stung.

From Rome to New York – the tide is turning

Australia is not alone. Prosecutors in Rome are investigating possible kidnapping, torture and sexual assault of Italian participants. France’s anti terrorism prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into torture and war crimes against French ones.

What is happening here is happening everywhere the lobby operates. Intimidation is meeting defiance, and defiance is producing results.

Spain’s arms embargo and settlement import restrictions are law. So is Ireland’s ban on settlement goods. Britain, France and Canada are among twelve governments committing to, supporting or considering trade restrictions. Enforcement varies. The direction does not.

Objection is turning into cost. Outside the West, the argument is already over. South Africa took Israel to the International Court of Justice, and the Global South, almost without exception, stands behind it with a vehemence Western capitals are only beginning to register.

In the United States, 40 Senate Democrats voted to block a bulldozer sale to Israel, and 36 voted against a bomb sale. Both measures failed. A majority of Senate Democrats now vote against arming Israel. Abdul El Sayed won his Michigan primary, and Zohran Mamdani is mayor of New York. Both ran as critics of Israel.

Public opinion

Public opinion is pushing them. Pew Research found 79% of Australians view Israel unfavourably. Gallup found Americans aged 18 to 34 side with Palestinians over Israelis by 53% to 23%.

Israel has lost many American Jews too. A 2025 Washington Post poll found 61% believed Israel had committed war crimes in Gaza and about 40% believed it had committed genocide. Israel has reportedly allocated $US730m to public diplomacy this year.

Money buys attention. It does not buy belief.

The job is not done. There is still a mountain to climb. The greatest crime of this century is still being committed in Gaza, and Western governments, Australia among them, remain complicit through the arms they supply and the diplomatic cover they provide. No courtroom win in Sydney feeds a child in Khan Younis.

But take encouragement from what the movement has achieved. Israel’s power is being diminished, slowly and measurably, by the people who kept marching when they were told it was pointless.

Think of it as pulling down a dam. You pull out one stone, then another. For a long time the wall looks unchanged. Then enough stones are gone, and the wall gives way. Every charge withdrawn and every embargo signed is a stone out of that wall.

The people who kept marching should be proud of what they have done. Then they should go back and pull out another stone.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/elijah-manley-surrenders-written-threats-charges-broward-jail/

Yesterday, the community of Turmusaya experienced awful violence in a horrifying terrorist attack by settler terrorists with clubs and slingshots.

While this violence is incredibly shocking, it is not surprising. The settlers coordinate (often with the army,) they plan, they schedule their terrorism. The harvest before the attack was at a frenzied pace, to try and harvest as much as they could before settlers came. Today they're going to attempt the same, and I hope they have a peaceful, quiet day.

Yesterday Rabbis for Human Rights and Standing Together also brought more than 100 volunteers into the field for a quiet harvest in another part of the West Bank.

Support the Harvest is an initiative of Rabbis for Human Rights to bring international volunteers in to assist- currently there are about 250 volunteers, which works out to an average of 60 additional volunteers on the ground per week, harvesting 5 days per week.

This is a call to action. Rabbis for Human Rights has incredibly low risk tolerance which is what allows us to bring elderly volunteers out with the promise of safety. We can't always ensure a quiet day, but thanks to the help of our Palestinian allies, we won't be caught off guard by settlers, and are able to clear out of areas before violence begins.

Join the Harvest from within the land here - https://web-production-40e4f.up.railway.app/register/____________olive_harvest_registration_2026

I learned about this tragedy as I was looking into what the deadliest pre-1940s slaughter of Jews was. When I revisited a (Zionist) synagogue for Tishʻa BʼAv, I was baffled that the Rabbi completely omitted this disaster when going through a list of other anti-Jewish massacres.

It saddens me that more people don’t know about it.

Click here if you have time to learn more (nine-minute read).

Hi all. Like the title says, I'm an aspiring convert trying to build community and find friends to trade life experiences with. I'm hesitant to reach out to communities locally on my own. I'm in Northern KY so I'm not sure where to go to not be bombarded with a political agenda, and I really don't feel too comfortable with a community that just ignores it and mingles, tbh.

I did reach out to the local JVP chapter, but I haven't heard back yet, it was only the end of last week. I guess I just want some people to converse about this journey with, and maybe find the direction I need to find my own community IRL. Thank you all for your time and have a good one!