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Turns Out I’ve Been Filing All Your Redemption Prayers Under ‘Wayfarers Begging For No Rain’ by God Divine Throne Room, October 6 – OK so this is awkward. You know how in your Yom Kippur liturgy – I get that many of you tuned out or were otherwise engaged during this part of the service – you invoke the prayer of the High Priest in the Holy of Holies, which …
I Can’t Wait For Another Gaza Relief Flotilla That Carries No Relief By Subhi Jamaal, Gaza resident Gaza City, September 16 – More than eleven years have elapsed since the Mavi Marmara incident, in which Israeli commandos boarded a vessel bound for the Gaza coast that carried mainly activists and some weapons, but which organizers touted as carrying “aid” to our “besieged” territory, and took control of the …
We At Human Rights Watch Are So Concerned About Afghanistan, We Went A Whole Hour Without Tweeting About Israel By Ken Roth, Director What is happening in Afghanistan is as horrific as it was preventable, which compounds the tragedy. Our organization’s anxiety regarding recent developments there has increased to the point that one day two weeks ago, and again this past Friday, our official Twitter account focused exclusively on it for sixty entire minutes, …
I’m Moving On To Running Nursing Homes And Girls’ Schools For The NY Jewish Community by former Governor Andrew Cuomo Albany, August 23 – My career in politics appears to have ended, at least for the short term. But every man needs purpose, and I believe I have found a purpose that will propel me to my next pursuit: management of eldercare facilities and hands-on administration of female educational institutions …
It’s Not Fair That We Palestinians Don’t Get To Lord It Over Jews As Our Ancestors Did By Issa Amro, human rights activist Hebron, August 12 – Progress comes in many forms. The adoption of human rights principles has advanced civilization, and the Palestinian cause in particular, to places it never would have achieved absent those universal tenets. But not all change brings positive outcomes, and here I refer to the longstanding …
by Dean Baquet, Executive Editor, The New York Times New York, August 3 – Roberta, this is a fine recap of the Met’s upcoming exhibit – good job getting them to grant you an exclusive preview of the Pollock retrospective. It’s a real coup. But I wanted to tell you in person, because I think it’s …
But My Fellow Rockets And I Were Just Getting To Like This Nice Family In Whose Home We’re Stored! By Fajr-5 LMMC-6D33108B2 Gaza City, July 25 – It looks like my buddies and I may have worn out our welcome in this apartment, but not because of anything we did: public nervousness in the wake of a bunch of mishaps has made Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other resistance movements more wary than before of …
Sadie, I MUST Have This Palestinian-Children’s-Blood Matza Recipe! by Harriet Lefkowitz New York, July 14 – Good morning, Sadie! So nice to see you. How are the grandchildren? Oh, so good, so good to hear. A doctor? Oh, you must be shepping! I hope he finds a nice girl, too, a bright boy like that, and a cardiology student to boot! Say, this …
What Good Is Your Cause If You’re Not Willing To Kill Children For It? by Yahya Sinwar, Hamas Chief Gaza City, July 5 – We boast often that we courageously place minors and other noncombatants in or near positions of military importance, with the intent of provoking Israeli strikes on those positions and exploiting the international condemnation of Israel for the inevitable deaths of those noncombatants, thus contributing to …
At Least My Suffering Will Be Invoked In An Egregious Analogy To Gaza One Day By Srul Zaiden, Sonderkommando corpse disposal squad Belzec, June 24 – Hell on Earth. That’s the only way to get close to describing my existence at the moment, and even then, the words ring hollow, inadequate. No reason, no purpose governs this living death, but I cling to one small spark of hope: that in …
My ‘As A Jew’ Beats Your ‘My Rabbi Said’ by Aril Elyse Gold, National Co-Director, Code Pink New York, June 15 – In the rhetorical contest surrounding who gets to represent “authentic” Judaism to the world, and to invoke “what Judaism says” about any issue, we must remember the comparative strengths of different sources of authority. I seek to draw the reader’s attention in …
Hamas Giggling Over What Next Ridiculous Pretext For Violence The World Will Take At Face Value Allies and enablers will reflexively blame Israel for whatever happens as a result. Gaza City, June 6 – Leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement that governs the Gaza Strip have spent the last several weeks since the latest conflict with Israel wondering how far the organization can go in pulling excuses for missile attacks on Israeli …
Has Enough Time Passed Since The Meron Disaster For Me To Use It Politically? by Amos Schocken, Publisher, Haaretz Tel Aviv, May 25 – Nearly four weeks have passed since dozens of people lost their lives in the worst civilian accident in the country’s history. Responsible voices have restricted themselves in the ensuing days to expressions of sorrow, consolation, and, to a limited degree, sober inquiry into the causes …
Ma’am, Your Medicine Isn’t As Important As Rockets To Kill Israeli Children by Mahmoud Al-Zahar, Hamas spokesman Gaza City, May 12 – Madam, please stop your histrionics. The screaming will accomplish nothing but annoy me and put you and your family on a blacklist of those who get food and housing last. As I have already explained, we cannot supply you with your life-saving medication because all …
The Problem With The IHRA Antisemitism Definition Is It Doesn’t Accommodate Antisemites by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, T’ruah – the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights New York, May 3 – Numerous thinkers and organizations have attempted over the years to provide a precise, useful definition of the term “antisemitism.” The two most recent efforts making headlines include that of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and the Jerusalem Declaration, …
The Nobel Committee Remains Skeptical Of These Claims Of Isolating The ‘Palestinian Leader Who Accepts Jewish Sovereignty’ Particle by Mats Larsson, Chair, Nobel Committee For Physics Stockholm, April 22 Dear Sir: We appreciate your submission to the Committee the nomination of Professor Kerry for next year’s Nobel Prize for Physics. Unfortunately, we are forced to request more compelling evidence that he has indeed achieved what the nomination letter claims, namely that he has proved …
I Recommend The ‘Be Palestinian And Kill Some Jews’ Investment/Retirement Plan by Richard Silverberg, Morgan Stanley investment consultant New York, April 13 – Hi, thanks for being so prompt. I know you two are trying to juggle a couple a of hectic schedules, so thank you for being prompt, and I hope not to take a lot of time for this consultation. I’ve reviewed the information …
No, We Will Not Share Our Riches With Poorer Terrorist Groups, You Commies by Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas political chief Doha, March 31 – Forbes reported last week that our movement has surpassed Hezbollah as the world’s best-funded terrorist organization, with more than a billion dollars moving through our coffers on a per annum basis, a tidbit that prompted more than a few less-fortunate (pun intended) allies and… others …
Sir, We Cannot Figure Out In Which End Of The Anti-Zionist To Insert The Anal Probe by Lieutenant Zorb-8, Watch Commander, Galaga-X Scout Vessel 22R, Squadron Blue, Intergalactic Fleet Task Force M Intergalactic Standard Date 14.5.99.008, in orbit around Earth – Captain, our surface team has returned from the planet with several specimens upon which to conduct our experiments, including at least three of the fascinating “Anti-Zionist” subspecies of human, but our …
‘Don’t Define Islam By A Tiny Violent Minority!’ – A Jew Who Demands You Define Judaism By My Tiny AntiZionist Minority by Ariel Gold, Code Pink New York, March 10 – Prejudice and discrimination have no place in our society – or in our world. Anyone who defines the hundreds of millions of adherents of Islam – the religion of peace! – by the violent actions of a misunderstood but mistaken small minority, commits the sin …
We’re Sorry You Don’t Deserve Attention Because Your Occupation Isn’t Done By Jews by The United Nations Human Rights Council Geneva, March 1 – Bureaucracy moves slowly by nature, but the time has come for us to apologize nevertheless: we, the members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, express our regret that your land faces occupation by people who are not of the Hebraic persuasion, and therefore …
Apparently Hebrew Has Words Other Than ‘Tikkun Olam’ …? By Rabbi Andy Kahn New York, February 18 – Today I Learned that the language of most of the Hebrew Bible contains words that are not ‘Tikkun’ and ‘Olam.’ I was Today Years Old when I discovered that. Who knew? For the uninitiated, ‘Tikkun Olam’ means “repairing the world,” and it bespeaks the supreme, ancient …
I Hope My Portion Of ‘Palestine Refugee’ Funding Gets Embezzled By Someone Cool by Gigi Hadid New York, February 3 – My modeling career makes it unnecessary, unwise, and distracting to wade into politics, but now and then I cannot help but express my feelings on the plight of my Palestinian brethren. Chief among those feelings: of the money that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees …
I Think The Other Hamas Fighters Trapped In This Collapsed Tunnel Are Closer Than 2 Meters by Hussein Halabi, Hamas commando Somewhere underground near the fence between the Gaza Strip and southern Israel, January 21 – Oh God. I think both of my legs are broken. And several ribs. And I can’t feel my left arm. There’s so little air in here, and it’s dark. We were on our way across …
My Incitement Focuses On Jews, So At Least My Twitter Account Is Safe by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader, Islamic Republic of Iran Tehran, January 13 – Recent uproar over the harsh response to US President Donald Trump’s lifetime banishment from social media giant Twitter has called attention to the tech company’s alleged laxity in enforcing its standards elsewhere, leading numerous concerned parties to challenge the firm on …
It’s Cute How You Think Agreements Giving Palestinians Self-Governance Will Stop Us From Blasting Israel For Palestinian Misgovernment by Ken Roth, Director, Human Rights Watch New York, January 4 – It never ceases to amaze and amuse me that people think just because Palestinian leaders signed a binding document accepting responsibility for their own internal affairs covering the vast majority of their population, we in the “human rights” community will somehow view the …
We Palestinians Are The Original, Ancient Holders Of The COVID Vaccine, You Zionist Thieves by Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas spokesman Gaza City, December 24 – Palestinians continue to suffer the world’s numbness to historic evil, and its frequent participation therein, most blatantly of late as international powers enable the Zionist oppression of this land’s indigenous population by claiming that they, and not we native Palestinians, have developed the immunizations crucial …
We’ll Prove All Those Israeli-Arab Peace Agreements Worthless By Making Sure They Fail by John Kerry, former US Secretary of State Boston, December 15 – Almost to a man, we officials of Barack Obama’s presidential administration have dismissed the recent spate of normalized ties between Israel and various Muslim countries, having contended for years that no separate peace between Israel and the wider Arab or Muslim world could …
Stop Misinterpreting The ‘From The River To The Sea’ Call For Genocide As A Call For Genocide by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) Washington, December 3 – A few days ago I felt compelled to remove a message I reposted from elsewhere on Twitter, a message that contained the oft-repeated slogan of Palestinian national liberation, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.” I decided to undo the retweet because, I …
If I Follow Progressive Leaders’ Guidance In Staying Away From Family For Thanksgiving, I Can’t Berate Relatives For Supporting Israel By Rabbi Alissa Wise, Deputy Director, Jewish Voice for Peace Philadelphia, November 25 – Tikkun Olam isn’t meant to be easy. Difficult choices await us at every turn. The latest: follow the dictates of vaunted progressive figures such as Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York and refrain from holding or attending large Thanksgiving dinners with …
We Continue To Maintain Fraud Occurred In The 1947 Partition Vote by the late Saeb Erekat, Palestinian negotiator Jericho, November 16 – I died last week. You might think that prevents me from further expression of my political mantras and propaganda, but I’m not going to let a little death stop me from doing what I’ve always done. Besides, arguing a dead issue is the perfect …
Only Four Years Until The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetime Again By Every Single Goddamn Person Involved in American Politics Washington, November 5 – It’s over. Or it’s just beginning. However you experience the aftermath of this exhausting election, we must all take a step back, take a deep breath, and let go of some of the tension we’ve been nurturing all year – perhaps even …
Our Situation Is So Desperate, We Refuse To Sacrifice Anything To Save Ourselves By Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian Authority; Chairman, Palestine Liberation Organization Ramallah, October 27 – The Palestinian national movement has seldom seen darker days. Arab nation after Arab nation has announced normalization with the Zionist entity, even as our cause languishes and we remain powerless as ever to stem the ugly tide of peace. Circumstances have …
OK So Apparently The ‘Just’ In ‘Just War Theory’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Only’ by Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Leader Beirut, October 19 – Boy, is my face red. I finished reading some background material on what scholars call jus bellum justum, the philosophy of the Just War, and only now did I realize the whole time none of those thinkers, ancient through modern, interpret the phrase to mean “all war …
I Did My Part To Free Palestine By Vandalizing A Jewish Grave By Hassan Ali Paris, October 7 – In the final reckoning, when the time comes to reward those who contributed to the greater good and to assess the penalty for those who stood by – or worse, impeded progress toward a better world – as others expelled the usurping infidel from sacred Palestine, I can …
Penitence Season Allows Me To Call Out Fellow Jews For Insufficient Progressiveness by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Truah – the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights New York, September 23 – The period from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur has always loomed large in my calendar, given its centrality in Jewish synagogue life and my role as a rabbi. In my capacity as a fighter for human rights and …
If We In The EU Undermine Israeli Sovereignty, That Undoes the Holocaust, Right? by Josep Borell, Chief of Foreign Policy, European Union Brussels, September 10 – Europe’s unified approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict grows in large part out of the Continent’s ambiguous legacy when it comes to the wholesale slaughter of Jews under Nazi occupation during the Second World War. The perpetrators could not have committed atrocities on …
It’s Harder To Instill Jew-Hate In My Students Via Zoom by Hassan Kiswani, Palestinian educator Jenin, September 2 – Coronavirus has upended routine in numerous ways, chief among them the regular attendance of children at school or childcare. Teachers, parents, and students throughout the world struggle this week to resume a semblance of the academic year, often with the aid of technology to replace the …
by Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran Tehran, August 21 – Diplomacy and politics are all about compromise. Both arts require flexibility, creative thinking, and efforts to craft win-win situations in which all parties to the issue can walk away with a compelling argument that they gain from the outcome. Iran …
At Least The Beirut Blast Looked Symmetrical by Detective Adrian Monk San Francisco, August 12 – Numerous elements of the disastrous ammonium nitrate explosion in the Lebanese capital last week give cause for alarm. Nevertheless, one the more common features of such incidents remained noticeably absent: the irregular pattern of the initial blast wave and its accompanying puff of smoke, which, blessedly, …
How Dare You Weaponize My Antisemitism By Mentioning It! By Congresswoman Wata Bout Washington, August 3 – My political allies and I are sick and tired of finding our past statements invoking classic notions of Jewish power and perfidy used against us as a political cudgel, as if our suspicion of Jews has any relevance. It seems every time we make a pronouncement, post …
Stop Noodging; We’ll BDS The Non-Jewish Causes As Soon As We Get Rid Of The Jews by Roger Waters, washed-up musician London, July 23 – My social justice allies and I have grown weary of partisan accusations of “hypocrisy” surrounding my support for Boycott, Divest, Sanctions measures against Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians, while we supposedly “ignore” or “downplay” the ongoing persecution of other peoples, and those partisan accusers …
By ‘From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free’ I Obviously Mean ‘The 1967 Lines’ by Saeb Erekat Ramallah, July 14 – Don’t believe the Zionist apologist distortions of the English language. Trust me, when we Palestinians repeat as we always have that only an Arab Muslim state is acceptable between the Jordan and Mediterranean, that is simple shorthand for wanting to restrict our territorial ambitions to the armistice lines …
At Our ‘Day Of Rage’ Gathering We Almost Had A Minyan To Say Kaddish For Terrorists by Yonah Lieberman, If Not Now New York, July 3 – Yesterday’s series of protests in solidarity with Palestine and against Israeli annexation of Palestinian land attracted so many attendees that at our best-attended event, in Philadelphia, we could almost cobble together the ten-person quorum necessary for the Mourner’s Kaddish in honor of Palestinians who …
Sue Gun Manufacturers Who Enable Palestinian Leadership To Keep Shooting Selves In Foot by Michael Sfard, attorney Tel Aviv, June 24 – American and Israeli citizens have for years pursued cases in the courts against various Arab or Palestinian entities, charging that the latter played a role in the financing or otherwise played a supportive part in terrorist attacks that killed relatives of the plaintiffs. This phenomenon relates …
In These Divisive Times It’s Always Reassuring We Can Unite Around Our Jew-Hate by Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, comedian Paris, June 15 – Indications of social polarization and “othering” precede the 2016 US presidential campaign, though we can all acknowledge that since then the general sense of alienation has only increased; it remains of some consolation, to me, however, that even when our differences get accented near to the …
You’re Not Allowed Double Standards But We Are By Europe Brussels, June 4 – Perhaps we need to explain an important point that you fail to understand, a point that undergirds the framework of our international funding and policy, especially regarding the Middle East: we, the European Union, enjoy the freedom to demand certain behaviors of Israel in the name of “justice,” “even-handedness,” and …
Saying ‘Before Islamic Conquest of Palestine’ Is Like ‘Before The Big Bang’ – Meaningless by Imam Aswalo Mafissis Mogadishu, Somalia, May 21 – Let us dispense once and for all with the wrong-headed notion that Jewish exile and longing for return can in any way trump the Islamic claim to Palestine, because exploring those Zionist lies is tantamount to asking an astrophysicist what happened “before” the Big Bang: just …
You’re Concerned About ‘Destabilizing’ Me – Have You Seen Me, Like, Ever? by the Middle East The Middle East, May 12 – It’s so touching to see Western – and some non-Western – figures express their worries that certain moves against or by entities in my neighborhood will disrupt my stability, and such pronouncements make me wonder: have you people ever even looked at me? Where has …
Simba, Everything The Light Touches Is Our Kingdom Unless Muslims Ever Ruled It, Even Briefly by King Mufasa Serengeti – Simba, look out over the pridelands. All the way to the horizon in all directions. Everything the sunlight touches, we hold sway. Except for that shadowy place, the badlands where the hyenas roam. And except for any part of the kingdom where the Islamic empire once held, no matter how …
Glad To Get Yom HaShoah Over With So I Can Call For Another Shoah With A Clear Conscience by Zarah Sultana, Labour Party MP for Coventry South London, 21 April – Thank goodness that’s done. Feigning concern for the welfare of Jews one day a year on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising exacts a price in nerves and emotional composure. But doing so allows me to return to my normal routine …
Never Attribute To Malice What Can Be Explained By Stupidity, Unless Jews Are Involved By Daniel Gos, Twitter antisemite Hanlon’s Razor admonishes us, “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity,” but that piece of advice fails to account for the axiomatic evil inherent in those of the Hebrew persuasion. I therefore propose to amend the aphorism by the addition of the subordinate clause, “unless Jews …
Before I Judge An Act I Ask If Israel Did It, And Then I Judge by Issa Amro, Palestinian activist Hebron, March 26 – Philosophers and thinkers have long grappled with the nature of a given act: its context, its purpose, and of course its effects, to determine whether that act complies with or violates human morality. They have failed, however, to reach a convincing conclusion – and I maintain …
Isolation Diary Day 4: The Trapped Housefly And I Have Forged An Alliance Jerusalem, March 18 – Dear Diary, The situation continues to look grim. Our stocks of precious toilet paper look visibly diminished – we may have only seventeen rolls remaining – and Rose continues to obsess about running out of toothpaste. Access to wifi, though precarious, appears stable for the moment. On the bright side, the …
Of COURSE We Will Allow Jews To Live In Palestine. Then We Will Kill Them. by Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian Negotiator Ramallah, March 5 – We Palestinians have grown tired of the contention that we demand a state with no Jews in it. Not only does it distract from the core issue of our statelessness and displacement, it presumes something false. In fact we make no such demand – any …
Either You Accept This False Dichotomy Or You’re Literally Hitler by Esjayda Bilyoo, pro-Palestinian activist Berkeley, February 26 – It comes down to this: you’re either with us or or you’re against us. You don’t get to ignore the need to protect Palestinian rights; the only question with any relevance asks whether you actively work to further those rights, or you remain content to see …
I Fight For My Right To Worship Freely At The Wall I Also Believe Should Be Controlled By Those Who Would Ban Jews by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Truah Rabbis – The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights New York, February 17 – The Western Wall must be open to all to seek a divine connection as they see fit, except that it lies beyond the 1967 lines, which means it must be under Palestinian control, and if they keep …
As Long As ‘Peace’ Means We Can Keep Fighting, We’re In by Jibril Rajoub, Fatah Ramallah, February 6 – Our people’s objections to President Trump’s “Peace Through Prosperity” plan span many different issues, but I wish to make clear that all of those problems have solutions available if we receive assurances that making peace with Israel will nevertheless allow Palestinians to keep waging war against Israel. …
I’m A Little Disappointed You Used ALL The Balloons As Bombs And Didn’t Even Save ONE For My Birthday, Ahmad by Qusai Qawasmeh, Hamas field operative A field outside Kahn Younis, Gaza Strip, January 27 – Ahmad, I can’t believe this. You didn’t even leave a single balloon over from making bombs, and you KNEW today’s my birthday? I’m shocked. And, frankly, offended. That tiny bit of consideration that our friendship implies wasn’t enough to …
I Think You’re All Too Stupid To Realize This Is Satire, by Rabbi Jill Jacobs by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Truah – The Rabbinic Call For Human Rights New York, January 11 – Several weeks ago this site published an article in my name, without my consent or input, that attributed to me statements I have not made and opinions I do not hold. It put words in my mouth to …