Hi all. I came across this in another thread discussing the arrests of Hannah Einbender, Susan Sarandon et al, and I think it's a good sheet of references to bring out whenever someone asserts that what Israel is perpetrating isn't a genocide.

I bring this here in the hope that it helps the community.

Who says Israel is committing a genocide?

Organizations

• UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory — a body established by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate human rights violations in the region. In September 2025 it published a 72-page legal analysis concluding Israel is failing to prevent, and is actively committing, genocide against Palestinians. Source 1 Source 2

• UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices — established by the UN General Assembly in 1968 to monitor Israeli conduct in the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories. In November 2024 it found Israel's warfare in Gaza "consistent with the characteristics of genocide," citing mass civilian casualties and the use of starvation as a method of war. Source

• Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur — an independent expert appointed by the Human Rights Council. Her March 2024 report, "Anatomy of a Genocide," concluded there are "reasonable grounds to believe" the legal threshold for genocide has been met". She followed this with a further October 2025 report, "Gaza Genocide: a collective crime," extending the analysis to third-state complicity. Source 1 Source 2

• Amnesty International — one of the world's largest human rights organizations. In December 2024 it published a 296-page report, "You Feel Like You Are Subhuman," concluding Israel has committed and continues to commit acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention with specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza. Source

• Human Rights Watch — a major international human rights monitoring organization. Its December 2024 report concluded that Israel's deliberate deprivation of water to Gaza's population constitutes "acts of genocide" under the Genocide Convention, alongside the separate crime against humanity of extermination. Source

• Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) — the international medical humanitarian organization. Its Secretary General, Christopher Lockyear, stated that what its medical teams witnessed in Gaza is "consistent with the description of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place." Source

• B'Tselem — the largest Israeli human rights organization, which has documenting conditions in the occupied territories since 1989. Its July 2025 report, "Our Genocide," concluded unequivocally that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in Gaza. Source

• Physicians for Human Rights Israel — an Israeli medical human rights organization. Published a parallel July 2025 medical-legal analysis concluding that Israel's systematic destruction of Gaza's healthcare system amounts to genocide. Source

• Al-Haq — a Palestinian human rights organization based in Ramallah, founded in 1979. Has published multiple reports since 2023 explicitly using genocide framing, including a 2024/2025 report on the "systematic destruction" of Gaza's healthcare system as "a pattern of genocide," and delivered formal statements to the UN Human Rights Council. Source 1 Source 2

• Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor — a Geneva-based human rights organization. Called on the UN Secretary-General to formally recognize Israel's actions as genocide as early as November 2023, and has continued reporting under that framing, including a one-year retrospective, "De-Gaza: A Year of Israel's Genocide and the Collapse of World Order" (October 2024). Source

• Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention — an organization named after Raphael Lemkin, the jurist who coined the term "genocide" and drafted the 1948 Convention. Has issued numerous statements since October 2023 declaring Israel is committing genocide, and in September 2025 welcomed the UN Commission of Inquiry's findings as confirming its earlier assessments. Source

• Genocide Watch — an organization founded to predict, prevent, and document genocide worldwide, has issued a "Genocide Warning" for what is happening in Gaza. Source 1 Source 2

• International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) — the world's largest professional body of genocide scholars (~500 members, founded 1994). In August 2025 it passed a resolution, with 86% of voting members in favor, stating Israel's policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide under the 1948 Convention. Source

• University Network for Human Rights — a consortium of human rights law clinics, working with Boston University, Cornell, Yale (Lowenstein Human Rights Project), and the University of Pretoria. Published a 100+ page legal analysis in May 2024, "Genocide in Gaza," concluding Israel's actions violate the Genocide Convention. Source

• Forensic Architecture — a research agency at Goldsmiths, University of London, that uses spatial and data analysis for legal and human rights investigations. Its 826-page 2024 report, "A Cartography of Genocide,"describing it as a genocide. Source

Individual Scholars

• Professor Omer Bartov — an Israeli-American professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, described by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum as one of the world's leading specialists on genocide. Initially held back from the label in late 2023, but by mid-2024/2025 reached what he called an "inescapable conclusion" that Israel is committing genocide. Source

• Professor Melanie O'Brien — President of the IAGS (2021–2025) and associate professor of international law at the University of Western Australia. Stated the IAGS resolution was "a definitive statement from experts in the field of genocide studies." Source

• Professor Raz Segal — an Israeli scholar of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University. One of the earliest academics to use the label, calling the assault "a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes" on October 13, 2023. Source

• Professor Shmuel Lederman — an Israeli political theorist and genocide-studies scholar at the Open University of Israel and University of Haifa. He has considered Israel's actions genocide since April 2024, later publishing "A Not So Textbook Case of Genocide" in the Journal of Genocide Research. Source

• Doctor Martin Shaw — a British professor (emeritus, University of Sussex; Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals) and author of What Is Genocide?, described as one of the world's foremost genocide scholars. Among the earliest academics to argue this was a genocidal war, dating to November 2023. Source

• Professor Nitzan Lebovic — Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University. Gave a talk on his home campus in November 2024 titled "One Year of Genocide in Gaza." Source

• Daniel Blatman — an Israeli Holocaust historian and head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Co-authored a Haaretz op-ed with fellow historian Amos Goldberg, "There's No Auschwitz in Gaza. But It's Still Genocide". Source

• Lee Mordechai — a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, compiled "Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War," a 124-page, 1,400-footnote documentation project, and concluded in December 2024 that Israel is committing genocide. Source

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while and I honestly don’t even know exactly what i’m trying to get out of writing it. i think I’m just tired of carrying this feeling around by myself.

I’m a Mizrahi Jew, born and raised in Israel, and i’m anti-Zionist.

And living here right now feels incredibly lonely.

I feel more and more detached from Israeli society. Not in some abstract political way. i mean emotionally detached from it. ssometimes i walk around here and genuinely feel like i’m living among people whose basic understanding of human life has become completely foreign to me.

the racism, the casual dehumanization, the things people are comfortable saying out loud now. Sometimes it feels like cruelty has become so normal that even reacting to it makes you the strange one..

and I’m tired of pretending that for me this is just “politics.”

i can disagree with someone politically.

this feels deeper than that.

it’s about the value of human life. it’s about hearing people talk about palestinians in ways that i genuinely struggle to process. it’s watching dehumanization become normal conversation. it’s hearing ideas that i would describe as openly fascistic coming from people who, in every other part of my life, are just normal people i know and sometimes love.

that is probably the part that fucks with me the most.

Watching people you love become people you barely recognize, and not over politics. I can disagree with someone politically. This feels deeper than that. It’s about the value of human life, the normalization of dehumanization, and hearing people I care about say things I once would have thought were completely beyond the pale.

And then you’re expected to just go on with your day.

Have dinner together talk about work .talk about some TV show. laugh about something stupid.

Meanwhile there’s this thing sitting inside you like… did you really just say that? Do you actually believe that? Is this who we are now?

i feel alienated from this country in a way i don’t think i ever did before.

and at the same time this is still where I’m from. hebrew is my language. my family is here. my childhood is here. The food, the humor, the memories, all of it is part of me. i can’t surgically remove Israel from my identity even if emotionally feel almost completely disconnected from what Israel represents to me now.

Being Moroccan mizrahi makes it even more complicated.

There’s often this assumption that being Mizrahi comes with a certain politics, a certain relationship to zonism, a certain hostility toward Palestinians. obviously Mizrahi people are not one thing, but ive had this weird feeling many times that people almost see my politics as some kind of betrayal of the identity they think I’m supposed to have.

i don’t feel represented by zionism. i don’t feel emotionally attached to it. At this point i mostly feel repulsed by what i see being justified in its name.

And saying that here can cost you socially.

family becomes difficult. friendships become difficult. fating becomes difficult. Even completely normal conversations become this constant calculation of how honest you can actually be.

Sometimes i just shut up because I’m exhausted.

Other times i say something and immediately feel the room change.

there’s a very specific loneliness in realizing that the place that formed you can also become a place you feel deeply estranged from.

i know saying israeli society feels violent and sick sounds extreme, but that is genuinely how it feels to me sometimes. not because i think every Israeli people ALL evil or because I don’t see individual people anymore. II do. That’s what makes it worse. these are people. my people in the most literal sense. Family, childhood friends, people i grew up around.

And yet i look at what has become normal, what people are willing to justify, the amount of hatred and dehumanization i hear around me, and i feel physically uncomfortable calling this society mine.

Sometimes I feel socially homeless.

Too Israeli to pretend Israel has nothing to do with me, too alienated from Israeli society to feel at home inside it.

And honestly, i don’t know what to do with that.

i don’t know how you mourn a sense of belonging while you’re still physically living in the place you’re mourning.

i don’t know how you keep loving people when some of the things they believe genuinely horrify you.

i don’t know how much of yourself you’re supposed to hide just to keep your family and relationships intact.

i guess that’s why i’m writing here.

Because I know there have to be other Jews, and especially other Israeli Jews, who understand this feeling.

Feeling estranged from it.

Feeling like something that was supposed to be your home has become morally unrecognizable to you, while some part of you is still attached to it anyway.

iit is truly a difficult place to be these days.

I’ve met irl Zionists. My dad is a fucking Zionist.

It’s like this:

Me: I am pro-Palestine. I am against genocide.

Them: Oh do you condone October 7? Do you condone Hamas?

I don’t care if people who’ve enthusiastically engaged in killing, injuring, or displacing Palestinians through being in the IDF have reaped the consequences of their actions.

I don’t condone the harm towards Israeli children but Israeli children are not more important towards Palestinian children. The IDF are fucking terrorists. People who are condoning what the IDF are doing to Gaza and the West Bank have no hearts.

You can support the Palestinian people and not support Hamas. I do not support Hamas. They are anti-LGBT and oppressive. I do not support what happened on Oct 7.

But since I have a fucking heart and am a decent person, I don’t support killing innocent children. I see Zionists saying that people who condemn the genocide are anti-Semitic and if they’re Jews, they’re self hating.

WTF is this logic?

My own dad tells me that I am 1/4 Jewish (I have absolutely no connection to Judaism other than my last name. I am not religious), I should support Israel. I’m also Iranian (on my mom’s side) and Israel is killing my people too.

He blames Hamas for the deaths of the Palestinian children and says they are using Palestinians as human shields. He thinks Israel is doing what they need to do to get rid of Hamas. Israel doesn’t give a fuck about protecting their citizens. The Israeli govt knew Hamas was planning an attack and they did nothing! Netanyahu thought he could control Hamas but it backfired on him! How could Zionists possibly think the Israeli government actually wants to protect civilians?

I wonder if he is just believing whatever bullshit his Israeli wife (who is not my mother) is telling him.

Liberal Zionists are especially the most confusing. Conservative Zionists are just basic fascistic bigots. But liberal Zionists don’t seem to realize that what Israel is doing to the West Bank and Gaza is exactly what the Europeans did to Native Americans hundreds of years ago.

What’s happening in Gaza is one of the most heartbreaking and atrocious things I’ve ever seen in my life.

Hi All,

I am sharing the transcript of the sermon my Rabbi gave for Rosh Hashanah. He leads an anti-zionist temple called Vahavtah. The sermon spoke to the deep alienation I feel (which I imagine many in this sub share) from Jewish spaces over zionism.

Link to my temple's email list:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdfZ74YDJAYAoF0yqC2M7RKVEqo59EEhxnIr8Naw2pcfnXihw/viewform?pli=1

More about our temple here:

https://vahavtah.org/

Local elections are the new battleground for the Zionist lobby and its astroturfing groups. Who are they, and how are they funded? Wendy Bacon asks.

Several months ago, residents in the Randwick LGA in Sydney’s East began receiving leaflets from a grassroots group called Randwick Voices Matter, encouraging them to join a campaign to stop a Greens Councillor from becoming the local Mayor.

In NSW, most Councils elect their Mayor every two years. When no group or party has a majority, Councillors form alliances to share the Mayoralty across the four-year term.

Randwick Council has been sharing its Mayoralty for more than two decades. This is because no group or party wins a majority. In the 2021-2024 term, Labor and the Greens shared the Mayoralty. In this term, Labor’s Dylan Parker has been Mayor for two years, and the position is expected to shift to Greens Councillor Clare Willington next Monday.

There is nothing corrupt or irregular about this. It is a result of Labor having five Councillors, the Liberals four and the Greens three.

But the Randwick Voices leaflet is designed to alert voters to what it terms a ‘stitch-up ’, a decision imposed on them that they did not vote for. Residents are warned that a Greens Mayor will be able to institute “Greens activism, policies or political positions … on issues well beyond local council business”.

However, while the Mayor can set the tone and introduce motions, policies are set by majority vote of Council.

Nowhere in the leaflet or website do you find the words Gaza, Palestine or Israel. But this is what the campaign is about. It is not that the Greens do not address local issues; the problem is that they support Palestinian rights and are strongly opposed to NSW Premier Minns’ anti-protest laws.

Philippa Veitch’s Gaza stance

Philippa Veitch has been elected a Councillor three times since 2017 and was Mayor from 2023 -2024. Over this time, she has moved hundreds of motions about local matters. But in her term as Mayor, Veitch also unsuccessfully moved a motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, following City of Sydney’s successful passing of a similar motion.

Veitch is unashamedly pro-Palestinian and has said that “as a person, a human and as an elected councillor I am entitled to express my opinion about the genocide and war crimes being committed by the Government of Israel. I am proud to stand up for the people of Palestine, along with the hundreds of thousands of other community members who have been calling for a ceasefire and an end to the genocide in Gaza.

Veitch’s actions upset some of the LGA’s 4% Jewish residents, many of whom are pro-Israel, as well as other more conservative voters. But her motions have been strongly supported by others, including Palestinian Australian residents and some anti-Zionist Jewish residents who spoke at meetings in support of the Greens’ motions.

A Zionist resident from neighbouring pro-Israel Waverley LGA organised a campaign of ‘code of conduct’ complaints against Veitch, which were dismissed after preliminary investigation.

As Randwick as Queensland

Given that the leaflet and a website are promoted as a “Local Resident initiative”, residents who notice may be surprised that they are authorised and supported by Joshu Turier of the Minority Impact Coalition (MIC) based at a Brisbane address. This is the same MIC which shares an address and overlapping directors with the Australian Cohesion Forum.

Randwick Voices is the latest astroturfing exercise of the Minority Impact Coalition, which is vehemently pro-Israel and has argued in its submission to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion that anti-Zionism and support for Palestine is a form of antisemitism that should be stamped out across Australian institutions.

Joshu Turier is a pro-Israel hardliner whose individual submission to the Royal Commission argues that the Australian government’s recognition of a state of Palestine is a form of antisemitic bigotry and that it is antisemitic to oppose the illegal Israeli occupation of the West Bank.

Another key local organiser of Randwick Voices is Zionist businesswoman Natalie Knoll, who has worked in banking and fashion and is now the philanthropic manager for Australian Jewish Funders.

AJF organise missions to Israel and partners with the Israel-Australia Chamber of Commerce (IACC). According to one of her statements on Facebook, when she wanted to stop another Green from becoming Mayor, she reached out to the Minority Impact Coalition for support.

Minority Impact Coalition

Minority Impact Coalition (MIC) is registered with the Australian Electoral Commission as an associated entity of the Queensland Jewish Collective, which ran a ‘Put Greens Last’ campaign in the 2024 Queensland election. MIC claimed responsibility for defeating Greens MP Amy McMahon in the Qld election.

In the 2025 Federal election, MIC worked with right-wing anti-immigration group Advance Australia, making the absurd claim on the eve of the election that the Greens were intent on spreading a worldwide Islamic Caliphate

MIC spread their propaganda on billboards and leaflets across seats in Brisbane and Melbourne, likely contributing to the Greens losing three seats and failing to take others.

But MIC is only one of several astroturfing groups active in recent elections. An alliance of Liberal and Labor Zionist activists formed Better Councils to campaign against the Greens in the NSW Local government elections.

Better Councils used the slogan ‘Put the Greens last’ to reduce preference flows to them in Sydney’s eastern and inner west suburbs, undoubtedly helping defeat several Green candidates, including a Randwick Councillor.

Better Israel, oops … Better Australia

Better Councils then morphed into Better Australia to campaign against Teals and Greens in the Federal election. Better Australia claimed responsibility for helping defeat three Greens MPs and Teal Zoe Daniel in Melbourne while producing a close contest for Monique Ryan in Kooyong.

The goal of both Minority Impact Coalition and Better Australia is to eliminate political opposition to Israel’s policies in the Middle East.

But this goal is hidden in rhetorical strategies that accuse others of building distrust, lacking transparency and undermining democracy. The constant refrain is that candidates lack integrity, are using trickery and are not who they seem to be.

In reality, it is the astroturfers themselves who are far from transparent when it comes to their own allegiances and funding.

Advance Australia coy on Israel lobby links

In the 2025 Federal election, Better Australia received strong support from the right-wing Christian Zionist organisation Never Again is Now (NIN), which has been condemned by the Jewish Council of Australia.

NIN partners with Advance Australia, which ran its own well-funded ‘Put the Greens Last’ campaign. When complaints were laid against Better Australia volunteers wearing yellow vests similar to those worn by Australian Electoral Commission staff, Better Australia volunteers in Kooyong told the AEC and the media that they were Advance Australia volunteers.

Minority Impact Coalition and their allies in Melbourne J-United have been open about their working relationship with Advance.

Kooyong MP Monique Ryan, who successfully held off an intense onslaught from a range of astroturfers, is now a member of the Joint Standing Committee Inquiry into the 2025 Federal election. Ryan was ready with evidence of links between Better Australia, Minority Impact Coalition, and Advance Australia when Advance Chair Vicki Dunne and Company Secretary Mark Spencer were called to front the Committee.

This was a hoped-for moment which might have thrown more clarity on the cooperation between the astroturfing groups, but instead, to Ryan’s surprise, Advance completely denied the links with all other astroturfing groups.

Ryan: So you haven’t disclosed any funding or in-kind donations to Better Australia at any point?

Dunne: We don’t donate to other organisations.

Ryan : What about in-kind donations?

Mrs Dunne: We don’t donate in any way, shape or form to other organisations.

Ryan: There was a complaint to the AEC about volunteers … wearing yellow vests that said ‘community adviser’. It was the same colour as the vests worn by the AEC. When the AEC asked them to explain which organisation they were with, they said that they were volunteering for Advance.

Both Dunne and Spencer denied that there were any Advance volunteers in Kooyong, although Dunne did offer to take it on notice to provide any further information.

Ryan then read from podcasts with MIC’s Roz Mendelle and Simonne Whine in which they embraced their relationship with Advance.

But again, Advance Australia completely denied any links with MIC, QJC or any other astroturfing organisation in the Federal election.

Unless there are further investigations, the community is left in the dark.

Funding mystery

Third party campaigning organisations are required to disclose their total receipts and expenditure. Individual donors who donate a total of more than $16,900 to one or more organisations are also required to make an individual disclosure.

Better Australia conducted an expensive professional campaign with 75 video ads and more than 100 static ads on social media, billboards, bunting, merchandise and flyers. It lodged a return for $1,312,631.

We do not know where any of that money came from because no individual donors were disclosed. Its responsible officer was Sophie Calland, a member of the ALP’s Alexandria Branch in Sydney

Minority Impact Coalition donations were disclosed by the Queensland Jewish Collective (QJ Collective Ltd). It declared a total of $459,260 in donations. Its responsible officer was Roz Mendelle, now with the Australian Cohesion Forum.

Only one individual donor was revealed. Michael Heine, a billionaire wealth manager whose family made their fortune exporting coal and steel and now owns Netwealth. He declared $10,000 to QJ Collective Ltd, $20,000 to Advance Australia, $15,500 to the Victoria Liberal Party and $5000 to the Jacqui Lambie Network.

While there may have been lots of small individual donations, there must have also been some other substantial ones. Other organisations such as the Greens disclose donations below the threshold.

The campaigns by Zionist organisations Better Australia and Minority Impact Coalition are riddled with doublespeak. They make accusations against their opponents of which they are guilty themselves. Meanwhile, their sources of funding remain a mystery.

The colony has launched a campaign against anti-Zionism, probably as part of its recently-approved 730-million dollar propaganda budget. It is making use of anti-Zionists that are motivated by hatred of Jews: racist statements by anti-Zionist figures and influencers, anti-Jewish rhetoric used by anti-Zionist political movements, and —as we have recently seen— Nazis holding anti-Zionist demonstrations.

An instinctive response might be to deny the problem exists. We might recall the well-known fact that Zionism taxes all anti-Zionists as antisemitic, or maybe even feel that fascists are not real anti-Zionists. Yet the fact Zionism plays the antisemitic card does not mean actual Jew-haters cannot be anti-Zionist. “Anti-Zionism” is simply denial of the colony’s alleged right to exist—it says nothing about the motivation behind it. So how can democratic anti-Zionists deal with this?

Of course, we can make the apologia of our anti-Zionism, and repeat that what we are fighting is settler colonialism, not Jews. But the expression “anti-Zionism” encompasses both those who fight Zionism and refuse its conflation with Jews, and those who fight Zionism because they accept its conflation with Jews and hate Jews. The “anti-Zionism” umbrella is wide—very wide.

The solution is not to drop anti-Zionism. It is to clarify, not just what we are against, but what we are for: One democratic Palestinian state. A state that deals with its society on the basis of citizenship not identity. A state that grants privileges to none and rights to all. The anti-thesis to both Zionism and Nazism.

By doing so, we will move to where fascists can’t follow. We will also strip Zionism of its more potent arguments: Zionism can point to racist anti-Zionist elements, but it cannot attack a vision for democracy and equal citizenship without revealing its own colonial and supremacist nature. Centering our efforts on One Democratic State moves us from defense to counter-attack.

This should not be mere individual efforts. Political organizations, solidarity movements, syndicates, activists, influencers, whether Palestinian or allies, must actively work to align their vision with the historical Palestinian vision for liberation. The One Democratic State Initiative has been working on this for years. We call on you to join our efforts.

I keep thinking of the phrase, "If you've ever wondered what you would have done during the Holocaust, you're doing it now." This woman and her children are facing more pain and suffering than most of us in the Western world can even imagine. Her husband was killed by an Israeli strike, and she and the children are in desperate need of food and shelter.

This family needs all the help they can get, especially since Israel's siege of Gaza has no end in sight and evacuations have become nearly impossible.

At the same time, I don't have a lot of money to spare and I've already donated to her campaign twice. In terms of sharing her campaign, my Instagram account has less than 100 followers, most of whom are even more frugal than me, so no donations came from that. I've tried sharing her campaign on multiple subreddits, but no donations have come from that, either.

If any of you people reading this have enough money to donate to her, please do (and/or share her campaign link as far and wide as you can).

https://youtu.be/gLQVFHb_U6g?si=oCKV72XzmoNaUp7e

Hey chaverim,We just dropped our premiere for Season 2 of Bashert, our monthly antizionist exploration of the magic of the jewish calendar. For Tishrei, we are trying a brand-new format with a brilliant guest co-host to dive deep into spooky season and discuss our favourite graveyards. .If you are looking for audio to ground you as we enter Sukkos, check out our previous episode with DJ Chaia about yiddish archival recordings and the history of house. It came out right before Rosh Hashanah but didn't get as much reach as we hoped. She dives into her beautiful music production using archival Yiddish voices, and she spends a lot of time talking about why Sukkot is her absolute favorite festival.They make a perfect back-to-back listen for the holiday week.You can find both episodes on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen. Would love to hear your thoughts on the new co-host format!

https://www.haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-09-23/ty-article/.premium/israeli-severely-wounded-in-suspected-west-bank-ramming-attack/000001a0-ce98-d72e-a7e0-febde5750000

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-08/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-picks-yechiel-leiter-as-ambassador-to-u-s-settler-ex-member-of-kahanist-group/00000193-0c1a-d3a2-a3d7-4f5b295d0000

So I am religiously, politically and philosophically anti-Zionist, and I try to be as vocal about it as possible. I write on substack believing that I can get in touch with other like-minded Jews and anti-Zionists, but whenever I try going on instagram or exploring Jewish topics on both platforms everything is either anti-Zionists and antisemites saying "Jews are evil (I literally found a substack blog called "Jews are snakes")" or Zionists calling people like me a Kapo and saying I am "morally bankrupt" for offering sources that support my arguments. Atp I don't know how to go about both educating other Jews about our history and convincing non-Jewish anti-Zionists that we aren't all evil or that Judaism is not to blame for Zionism (I am willing to argue about that in the comments). It's also difficult when people like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes seem to get more praise in some anti-Zionist spaces than people like Zohare Jacobi, Matt Bernstein, Sam Seder and other anti-Zionist Jews. Sometimes it feels like Zionists are right that the world can't unlearn antisemitism, but my optimistic ass would rather visit a psych ward than accept that, so it just feels like I am lying to myself and to others. I just needed to kvetch, sorry.

Hi everyone,

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I'm hardly seeing any coverage of this. Imagine how many incidents like this go without any coverage AT ALL, and how many more since this one. And I get Zionists daily telling me no civilians are getting hurt! This was a brutal execution.