Jews Against Nationalism

The problem is much worse than not fitting in to the schools. If I took a MO kid from Teaneck and put him in Mesivta Chaim Berlin he might not fit in but he could learn to. Same with the reverse. Not fitting in can be problematic and even harmful but it's a comfortable American's idea of what the problems could be. The problems here are on a whole different scale. Coming to Israel a kid can barely function. The biggest problem is language acquisition. The Zionist salespeople spew this myth that "they'll be understanding Hebrew by Chanukah and speaking by Pesach." I heard this from a dozen people before I came. This is nothing other than a delusion. I have met numerous kids who have been here 10 years and tell me that they can't speak or read comfortably in Hebrew.  And the ones here a year or two are suffering terribly. Two years is a long time for a child to feel that way. If you dig deep enough you find a real Ulpan teacher who tells you the truth that it ge

Another lie is that of the vibrant democracy. Israelis are as brainwashed as anybody. It could be that once upon a time the people were more independent minded and politics was more vibrant. That's when the 'Israeli's' were European and Arab-land born. Today it's largely controlled by a kind of military-government-media enterprise. Some token opposition is allowed but it's really token. Professors get bounced out of the country if they criticize the government with any real vigor. There's a law left over from the Ottoman empire that a person is not aloud to criticize a government official. People go to jail for this. External critics of Israel get banned from entering the country. Israelis don't argue politics all day. Rather, they talk about their smart phones and TV shows like everybody else on the planet. If you espouse views different from theirs, or even raise questions, they become your enemy. 

Norman Finkelstein - Old Wine, Broken Bottle: Ari Shavit’s Promised Land

The zionist propaganda never stops, the goal always is to get you to move to israel regardless of whether it makes sense for your life, even your religious life. When you get there nobody talks to you, helps you, has anything to do with you. I know so many people whose lives fell to pieces moving to Israel. And of course world war III never actually started. There was about as much pressing need to rush to Israel as there was for the USA to invade iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction of which none were ever found. 1/2 million people died in the process. Oh well. Sales people often use the "this deal is ending tonight" technique. So you rush into a decision. These are the same zionists who prevented Jews from safely emigrating to other countries just so they'd be forced to go to israel. They did this during the Holocaust, during the persecutions in Arab lands that only started with the State, and again with the Iron curtain fell. These maniacs will do anything to h