A great article as usual from Alon Mizrahi, Arab-Jewish activist:

A great article as usual from Alon Mizrahi, Arab-Jewish activist:

"We are not the victims here, the story is not about us, and we by no means can replace Palestinian voices. Still, the truth is what it is, and you pay a price for being an anti-zionist Israeli/Jew"

I share his tweet and article's sentiments. I am normally extremely suspicious of any Israeli I meet (and 99% of the time I'm correct in being so) but if a person with past or current Israeli citizenship has dedicated their time to dismantling the occupation and/or countering the prevailing hasbara, they've proven they are worth being an ally. Examples are Ronnie Barkan, BM (ireallyhateyou), ​Eyal Weitzmann, Ilan Pappé, Avi Shlaim, Adele Shoko, Andrey X, Salukie, Sam Avraham, Jasper Nathaniel and a number more.

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u/EgoIdVeto — 1 month ago

[TW: very harrowing read] 'Baby, an update: He's just died': Israeli guards' texts reveal abuse in prison

I wonder if somewhere in the lowest pits of hell, Josef Mengele ​is cackling to himself at the irony of seeing his former victims acting more like him than anyone could have ever expected.

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u/EgoIdVeto — 1 month ago
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Labor and Coalition vote down bill to strip tax breaks from charities funding Israel war machine

Utter disgrace on the part of the "center left" Australian government. They pay the mildest lip service to condemning a few settlers and do their usual "we have made it clear" diatribe when challenged, but given their buddy-buddy relationship with Australia's Kahanist-in-chief it seems they're more than happy to continue to lurch to the fascist far right.

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u/EgoIdVeto — 1 month ago

The Daily Mail trying to paint anti-nazi protesters as nazis

So in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia, a bunch of white nationalist groups organised a fascist "March For Australia" this past weekend.

The anti-nazi protesters wore keffiyehs to their counter-protest.

The pro-fascist rag Daily Mail deliberately tried to pass off a pointed finger as a nazi salute, when there were actual white supremacist neo-nazis marching that day. Unfortunately with today's polluted media climate in Australia, too many gormless people are inclined to believe the Daily Mail instead of their own lying eyes.

Interesting to note also that the organiser of these nazi protests, a dark money-funded astroturf group called Advance, is partially funded by the family trust of Australia's "Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism", a Kahanist from South Africa named Jillian Segal who seems to be allergic to condemning neo-nazism.

u/EgoIdVeto — 2 months ago

I think this has got to be one of the most insidious psyop pages I've ever seen

This Instagram page called "No Normalisers" is such an obvious right wing psyop. Thankfully they're not a huge page (approx 4k followers) but it's got potential to do some damage.

They exist to criticise and purity test every single prominent left wing pro-Palestine and anti-zionist activist from Edward Said to Andrey X to Daniel Maté to Greta Thunberg to Beast from the Middle East, claiming they're all zionists.

"How?" you may ask? Well, by using some ridiculous parody of left wing logic (ie what conservatives think "cancel culture" is) they come up with an extremely tenuous claim about one person, and then claim that every person that their target has ever interacted with is also a "normaliser" and therefore a zionist, as though being a zionist is somehow a highly contagious infection passed by being too close to someone or speaking to them.

Their logic is extremely bad-faith and threadbare, for example they used a post from Daniel Maté going to an anti-zionist party as evidence that he was a zionist because he dared to go to a party amid a genocide.

Conspicuously they deliberately leave out any and all criticisms of right wing activists and grifters like Carlson, Owens, Bilzerian and myriad other far right bastards. They couch everything in anti-imperialist language but it's so clear they're a movement wrecker psyop designed to farm outrage, spread disunity and hamstring any chance at meaningful work for a free Palestine and an end to the zionist project. ​

They have nothing but contempt for people who have put their bodies and reputations on the line for Palestine but have no words ​for the wealthy conservative imperialists who sit in their ivory towers after having spent their entire lives spreading hatred for Palestinians, only to realise in 2024 that there's money to be made by limply criticising Israel and shilling nazi propaganda.

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u/EgoIdVeto — 2 months ago

Help checking my pronunciation of biblical Hebrew

Hi folks!

So my choir are performing an arrangement that I did of an anti-Zionist Yiddish lament on Friday, and during the piece I plan to recite part of Bereshit 4:10-11 (*"What have you done? Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground! And now you are cursed even more than the ground which opened its mouth to swallow the blood from your hand."*) in biblical Hebrew.

I think I've got my pronunciation down pat as I've been researching it for quite some time, but is there someone who'd be willing and able to listen to a recording of my pronunciation to ensure I'm doing it right and getting the correct syllable emphasis?

Thanks khaveyrem.

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u/EgoIdVeto — 2 months ago

Please be aware of this so-called "anti-Zionist" white supremacist grifter

This person is named Harry J Cook. He's a very popular online influencer and I've met him at a number of rallies for Palestine and he seemed nice enough at the time, however with this blatant holocaust denial and Hitler apologia it's clear he's been going down a very dark rabbit hole on the internet.

He posted this video blatantly sympathising with Hitler and denying the holocaust, while also repeating fascist propaganda about "Bolsheviks".

If you look at his Instagram he spends a lot of time making it all about himself, and very little of his content (if at all) is dedicated to elevating the voices of Palestinians.

It's very telling that he's been spending his time reading right wing anti-Soviet propaganda and the writings of Hitler, instead of, say, reading the writings of Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, Mohammed el-Kurd, et cetera. It shows his interests aren't in liberating Palestine but in making the movement all about his white self.

He claims to be a "leftist" but spent the entire time while this video was up defending himself and refusing to accept criticism, and then deleted it without acknowledgement or apology.

Something something white liberals et cetera. ​

u/EgoIdVeto — 2 months ago
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From a mainstream Australian newspaper

The year is 1938. Cartoons appear in national newspapers depicting an Abrahamic religious and ethnic minority as large-nosed, swarthy, hairy, bearded inhuman savages from the Orient determined to destroy our Greco-Roman way of life.

The year is 2026. Cartoons appear in national newspapers depicting an Abrahamic religious and ethnic minority as large-nosed, swarthy, hairy, bearded inhuman savages from the Orient determined to destroy our Greco-Roman-inspired way of life.

u/EgoIdVeto — 2 months ago

Australian healthcare licensing regulatory body admits that the far-right "Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism" successfully applied pressure to implement the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

For those unaware, Australia's quisling prime minister appointed an utterly ghoulish Kahanist as its "Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism" without any democratic process, a South African whose family trust has ties to white nationalist and pro-settler groups and used to be the head of one of the chief Israel lobbyist groups in the country.

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u/EgoIdVeto — 3 months ago

guys im really having trouble answering the question from haretz can u help me its really hard

Sarcasm of course. I have no idea how someone like Gideon Levy could bear to write for a rag like this, honestly.

u/EgoIdVeto — 3 months ago

Please donate to help Mohammed achieve his university dreams

I was immensely privileged to speak with Mohammed a few days ago. He is an extremely gifted 18 year-old from Gaza who studied for his high school exams online during a genocide and managed to achieve an exceptionally high grade (approx. 97%) in his finals.

He wants to become an engineer and is so talented that he has already been offered a full scholarship to a university in Tunisia, however the occupation has made it so incredibly expensive to leave Gaza that he cannot afford to attend.

Speaking with him about his experiences and how he is feeling was utterly heartbreaking​​ and brought me to tears, but I know we can make a small difference in his and his family's life. He deserves to follow his passion and to use that incredible intellect to support his family.

Please give generously, if you can.

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u/EgoIdVeto — 3 months ago

How are we supposed to react when prominent anti-Zionists say stuff like this? Are we able to even confront them or are we supposed to just take it on the chin?

[Edit to add]: this person isn't a nobody. They are a very prominent and popular activist who has also done some very admirable work.​ I'm not trying to debate the person in particular, rather the increasing phenomenon of people unleashing their fury at Israel and Zionism in ways that are directly anti-Jewish or bigoted in other ways incl. transphobia or racism.

I'm wary of being accused of "centering Jewish feelings" or "tone policing" but this is just blatant justification of the holocaust, ethnic cleansing and pogroms based on what Zionists did *afterwards*.

At what point are we able to call this kind of stuff out?

I know there are Zionist bots out there trying to paint the movement as antisemitic but what happens when these comments are actually coming from someone real and famous or prominent?

Are we genuinely just meant to accept that this is okay rhetoric provided the person claims to have the right idpol justifications to say it? ​

I hesitate to mention this stuff for obvious reasons (namely the holocaust being perpetrated in our name) but surely shit like this is just handing ammunition to the Zionists.

u/EgoIdVeto — 3 months ago

At the end of the day, even the most liberal of "liberal" Zionists will stand with the most unhinged, shrieking Kahanists over any Palestinian.

This Reform rabbi is condemning Zohran Mamdani for his speech about Netanyahu, despite making her brand of Zionism appear to be opposed to Netanyahu; but when Netanyahu is criticised by a non-Jewish person, it's time for her to circle the wagons around him. ​

We have seen this with the NYC Israel Day parade, and we see it now with many in the "liberal Zionist" community making excuse after excuse for Israel's Kahanist government and military.

We have seen this with the "left leaning" Israeli politicians cheering on the settler pogroms the moment one Palestinian dared to fight back against a man brandishing a gun at him.

There is no liberal Zionism. Only a less honest shade of Kahanism.

u/EgoIdVeto — 3 months ago
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France24: Hamas dissolves Gaza governing body

I'm really not sure what to think of this, given the imminent takeover by the "Board of Peace", the plans for further ghettoisation of Gaza and Israel's seemingly permanent annexation of 70% of the territory.

Perhaps they're attempting to stop Israel from accusing everyone and anyone of being khamaaaas by simply disbanding? ​​

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u/Candid-Argument-6615 — 3 months ago

Anti-Zionism has a white saviour problem.

Posting this here because I have gotten my head bitten off for it in the past in other spaces.
I have seen a growing number of white anti-Zionist activists claiming to be Jewish before going on to push far-right, antisemitic and sometimes downright neo-nazi rhetoric and disinformation about Judaism. Digging into their background reveals they have Jewish ancestry, but were born and raised Christian as descendants of Jewish converts to Christianity.

These people invariably act as some kind of whistle-blower with super secret insider knowledge about Judaism that the sneaky other Jews won't tell the goyim, and have absolutely zero care for anything leftist other than centering their own white voices within the Palestine movement and indulging their inner white saviour complex. Either that, or they chum around with or support actual nazi antisemites and give them a pass for their hatred and weaponisation of Palestinian pain to suit their own white nationalist narrative.

An example would be (and I'm not trying to give too much info away as I'm not interested in singling someone out) that I'm aware of a former Christian Zionist who served in the IOF air force and has always kept super shtum about whatever war crimes they committed whilst doing that, but all of a sudden has become this massive white saviour in the anti-Zionist movement. They have never spoken out about what crimes they may or may not have committed, especially considering how the Israeli air force has been responsible for some of the most disgraceful and bloodthirsty bombings in the past. ​​They have made some really nasty claims about Judaism, such as the idea that we all celebrate mass slaughter on Purim. ​Despite being open about the fact that they're a former Christian Zionist, they claim to be Jewish and love to present themselves as a representative of the Jewish anti-Zionist community (hint: they aren't).

Another example would be a person on a forum using a "Jewish" flair but is in fact a Christian with Ladino-speaking Spanish heritage, who has mounted thoroughly dishonest and bad-faith defences of openly neo-nazi people by weaponising their own holocaust survivor ancestors to discredit any accusation of their favourite little tradwife America-First influencer, and on other forums mounts incredibly racist defences of transphobic rhetoric by claiming it's "imperialist" to be opposed to POC being transphobic.

I've also seen people claiming Jewish ancestry using the dogwhistle "Talmudic" and claiming that Judaism is a "Babylonian religion of mass slaughter and ethnic domination", and a quick peep into their profile shows they are, indeed, a Christian.

Of course you also have Christian Zionists doing the same, with a literal Anglican priest in my country claiming to be Jewish in order to claim trauma from seeing a kuffiyeh. This person has been shown communicating with neo-nazis and white nationalists as well.

Are we cooked at this point? I don't mention I'm Jewish at rallies any more because tbh I'm actually sick of these grifters centering themselves and people falling for it. Instead of uplifting Palestinians, western anti-Zionists seem far more interested in hoisting up self-styled white saviours ​​with blonde hair and blue eyes and an instagram filled with selfies instead of an inconveniently brown Palestinian.

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u/EgoIdVeto — 4 months ago

This makes a tremendous amount of sense.

As someone not raised Zionist, I was genuinely baffled at how and why so many Jews clung so deeply to what was very clearly a nasty, racist and cruel ideology, especially given how well-known the crimes of Israel have been among "liberal" Zionists for many years. I actually thought "Zionist" meant someone like Ben Shapiro who was just a racist POS, until 2023 when I realised just how many (the majority) of us were Zionist and, to be honest, monsters.

But this explanation in this video explains SO MUCH about why Zionism is retained despite its antithetical nature to everything else in mainstream Jewish culture. Where evangelical cultish Christians will tell their children that they must obey, lest they be sent to hell, the Zionist teach their children that they must obey, lest there be a holocaust.

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u/EgoIdVeto — 4 months ago

Prominent Australian pro-Palestine activist racially profiled by police

I have met this man several times personally. He knows me and always gives me the most massive bear hug when he sees me at rallies, and he is always overjoyed to see the Jewish bloc standing with Palestine.

He's an absolute mensch with not a single bad bone in his body, a gentle giant and only filled with compassion for his fellow human beings.

We all know that ACAB but to see him being so obviously racially profiled by a group of smug, smirking cops was utterly enraging to see. This man is a beloved fixture of the Sydney Palestine movement.

Note that the moustache being worn by one of the cops in the footage appears to be a very common fashion accessory for NSW Police these days, and I have a sneaking suspicion it is designed to imitate the moustache of notorious Australian neo-nazi Thomas Sewell.

I saw dozens upon dozens of these moustaches being worn by the angry, violent police who bludgeoned people for protesting Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia.

Note also that the same NSW Police Force enthusiastically approved a neo-nazi rally outside the NSW parliament house, and upon investigating themselves concluded that the neo-nazi rally "did not constitute an incitement to racial hatred".

Also important to note that the Australian "Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism", a far right hardcore Zionist from South Africa with ties to settler organisations and a husband who donates tens of thousands of dollars to white supremacist organisations, did not speak a word about the neo-nazi protest after it happened.

The Australian prime minister ironically used to be a massive activist for Palestine and populist leftist causes, but as he's moved up in politics he's shifted hard to the right, becoming utterly indifferent towards women, POC, First Nations, DV survivors, Muslims, the working class, and of course anti-Zionist Jews (although we are very small in number here).

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u/EgoIdVeto — 5 months ago