OK, All you Christian Zionist out there who somehow believe this project is a partnership. Well, it is one, but it's parasitic.
Realise that you are aiding in the ethnic cleansing of Christians from the Holy Land.
You are condoning the destruction of ancient churches and religious texts.
Hi, just remember that US politicians repeat Zio atrocity propaganda which has been discredited. This question needs to be put to US Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who repeated the lies. And all the other US Politicians who repeat Zio lies.
I never really got the idea of Easter since, unlike other Christian holidays, it didn't fall on the same day every year. It wasn't until I was married to a Jewish woman that I figured out it was a passover Seder that was geared to fall on Sunday.
One of the big differences between Passover and Easter is the reading of the Seder. I was curious about the Gaza Liberation Haggadah being read by the Columbia Students. I wasn't able to find the exact text, but there are a lot of suggestions for how to conduct the seder this year.
Reading these suggestions make it clear that Zionism isn't Judaism. In fact, it is very contrary to the tenets of Judaism. For example, the quoted texts come from the Australian New Israel Fund's Haggadah Supplement for Pesach 2024:
The Rabbis taught that it was wrong to celebrate the death of anyone, even an enemy: (Proverbs 24:17) “Rejoice not when your enemy falls and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles”. This idea led to the Ashkenazi tradition of removing one drop of wine for each plague. We can not celebrate “with a full cup” knowing we have achieved freedom through the suffering of others.
The Zionist state talks of Amelek, but there is this:
Near the end of the Passover Seder, as we open the door to welcome Elijah the prophet, we recite the shefokh khamatkha, Pour Out Your Wrath: a prayer in which we request divine vengeance be poured upon those who persecute us. In general the idea of vengeful retribution is a challenging text to discuss, but even more so this year.
and this:
For those who believe in God, we can see this as a prayer to remove the need for vengeance from our hearts by relinquishing this to the Divine. Weare not the ones who are able to effect justice adequately in this world, instead we must trust that just responses to evil will be pursued by Hashem. With this faith we can free ourselves from the bitterness of pursuing revenge and instead focus our energies on our journey out of slavery and into freedom.
I've been on quite a few of these protests and have yet to see any real "anti-semitism". What is see are mobs of "Anti-semitic" Jewish students protesting lsraeli actions. Jews protesting against Zionism.
Of course, criticism of the Zionist state and Zionism is smeared as "anti-semitic" by Zionists since they want to try to stop any scrutiny. On the other hand, Zionism is one of those things that fall apart when under scrutiny.
It's sort of undeniable. It's not anti-semitic to point out that Zionism is a racist ideology. Actually, like the ethnic cleansing and genocide, it's pretty obvious. Just read Herzl's Mauschel. Talk about self-loathing Jews!
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages. The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels (all containing references to it in their preambles).
The textcan be found here. It's Article 21 that drove me to post this, although the other rights are worth supporting.
American aid to Israel is illegal under a law passed in the 1970s that prohibits aid to nuclear powers who don't sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 (22 U.S.C. ch. 39). The US has long suspected that lsrael has been making nuclear weapons. Mordecai Vanunu showed conclusively that Dimona Nuclear plant was making nuclear weapons. Still, the US has not shut off aid to Israel.
Israel refuses to confirm or deny it has nuclear weapons or to describe how it would use them, a policy of deliberate ambiguity known as "nuclear ambiguity" or "nuclear opacity." This has made it difficult for anyone outside the Israeli government to describe the country's true nuclear policy definitively, while still allowing Israel to influence the perceptions, strategies and actions of other governments. However, over the years, some Israeli leaders have publicly acknowledged their country's nuclear capability: Ephraim Katzir in 1974, Moshe Dayan in 1981, Shimon Peres in 1998, and Ehud Olmert in 2006.
During his 2006 confirmation hearings before the United States Senate regarding his appointment as George W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates admitted that Israel had nuclear weapons, and two years later, in 2008, former US president Jimmy Carter stated the number of nuclear weapons held by Israel to be "150 or more".
There is also the Leahy Law: section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 22 U.S.C. 2378d and 10 U.S. Code § 362, says that no funds may be used for any training, equipment, or other assistance for a unit of a foreign security force if the Secretaries of State or Defense have credible information that a country has committed a gross violation of human rights.
The U.S. is a signatory to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Congress passed the Genocide Convention Implementation Act (18 U.S.C. § 1091) in 1988, making it federal law. International law imposes on Biden and other high-level officials a legal duty to prevent genocide. The United States has significant capacity to influence Israel's actions as its primary provider of military and political support. Therefore, the U.S. has been obligated, since learning of the serious risk of genocide in Gaza, to exercise its considerable influence on the Israeli government to prevent the crime.
Israel and Zionism are their own worst enemy.
I've made it quite clear that the people who fixate on the Israeli hostages being returned are being played. Here is a former hostage who reiterates that point.
If the people who fixate on the hostages were actually serious, they would be asking for a ceasefire louder than the pro-Palestinian crowd. That's because Israel's reckless bombing campaign has resulted in the deaths of 50-70 of the hostages.
Toss in the hostages the Israelis who were njust killed because the IOF is a bunch of trigger happy idiots.
Maoz Inon, an Israeli entrepreneur and peace activist, who lost both of his parents on 7 October due to a Hamas rocket fire, is now campaigning for peace.
OK, Christian Zionists try to second guess god, as do a lot of "fundamentalists". But the problem is that an English translation of the Bible is reading a REALLY bad translation since the Hebrew alphabet is an important aspect of the Old Testament.
Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky has a couple of videos that explain why this doesn't work.The rebbe says: "Shlomo, I have the perfect job for you. You can sit at the edge of the Stetl and wait for the mashiach to come. For this, I will pay you a ruble a day."
Shlomo says, "A ruble a day! That's not very much,"
To which the rebbe responds: "Yes, but think of the job security!"
Rabbi Manis Friedman, self-dubbed 'Youtube's most popular rabbi,' is the dean of Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies in Minnesota.
All that needs to be done is to recognise the Palestinians' rights: especially THEIR right of return and reparations for the Nakba. Of course, that means the end of the Israeli ethno-state, but that is something which should have happened long ago. It probably would have if people knew about the Nakba.
By Jarrod McKenna from the Red Letter Christians blog
One of the most powerful elements of the GazaCeasefirePilgrimage.com movement globally is hearing from the Palestinian Christian minority, like our new friend, Cami.
You may remember, the week before Christmas, Pope Francis condemned the Israeli military’s murder of two women, one 84 years old, who were sheltering in Holy Family Church in Gaza City. They were shot by a sniper leaving the church. The Pope called the murder of these innocent Christian women by the Israeli military, “terrorism”. Kat and I prayed for them and their families when we found out. On Saturday, we met Cami, one of the people we prayed for. Nahida Anton and Samar Anton were Cami’s family.
It was Cami’s 84-year-old aunty Nahida who walked outside the doors of the church into the courtyard to go to the convent when she was shot in the stomach by an Israeli sniper. What threat was this grandmother and beloved elder? What justification is there for looking down a high powered telescope getting a clear look at an elderly woman and deciding to pull the trigger?
It was Cami’s cousin Samar who ran from the church to embrace her elderly mother who lay in an expanding pool of blood when she too was targeted by the sniper. How can you look at a defenceless woman running towards an elderly woman lifeless on the ground and decided to again pull the trigger?
That image, of these two Christian women, a daughter seeking to embrace her murdered mother like her mother held her as a baby, on the grounds of a place of worship, now slumped over each other’s bodies, I cannot shake.
I must not shake.
It must shake us all.
Shake us from our apathy.
Shake us from our indifference.
Shake us from inaction.
This is not just Cami’s aunty.
This is not just Cami’s cousin.
These are our sisters in Christ!
These are human beings!!!
This is the church, the living stones, flesh and blood, being targeted alongside every soul in Gaza.
Our sister Samar served as a volunteer cook for the poor and hungry at Sisters of Mother Teresa House. Our 84-year-old sister Nahida was a beloved grandmother, not just to her own grandchildren, but to the whole community of Holy Family Church where they worshipped Christ and served him by serving those in need. Not just the Christian community, but they saw Christ in every hungry child, every suffering soul.
You might not be able to fathom the murder of 30,000 souls in Gaza.
You don’t have to.
Just hold these two women, your sisters in Christ, in your heart.
They are not numbers.
They are not statistics.
Say their names,
Nahida Anton.
Samar Anton.
They are your sisters.
They are witnesses to Christ, or in New Testament Greek, “martyrs”. Their lives testify to the truth.
Are we listening?
God save us from not being shaken.
Save us from the devil’s indifference.
Deliver us from the evil of apathy.
while people are being murdered en masse.
Let all God’s people say,
Amen.
