Jews Against Nationalism

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” ― Edward R. Murrow “Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.” ― Lysander Spooner “If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?” ―Warren Ellis

They call it the Star of David even though there is no known connection to David the King. In fact, the Star of David appears to be of recent origin - 19th century - at least as far as Jews go, other than one ancient synagogue and one grave. The symbol does appear in much earlier occult and Hindu artifacts and on churches. Given the Torah prohibitions against idolatry and the use of stars as one of the earliest forms of idolatry, the star does seem an unlikely symbol for Jewry. It came only to be one after the Zionist movement adopted it as a symbol at the First Zionist Congress. Thus, it seems odd that the Nazis would choose the star as a clothing patch to identify Jews or graffiti to identify Jewish businesses. It's odd until we note that the Satmar Rebbe blamed the Holocaust on Zionism. As many gadolim have noted, Zionism is just an extension of the haskalah. The haskalah decimated 19th century Jewry and Zionism decimated 20th century Jewry. Was the Nazi use of the star a sign

Police arrest a wounded Charedi protester Nov. 28 outside the recruiting office in Jerusalem. >> Note at 0:36 seconds how one of the officers enjoys the torture so much that he poses for a photo together with his victim to show off to his friends and family. https://www.facebook.com/ IsraelVsJudaism/videos/ 322939658111857/

Joseph Soloveitchik and Zionism – Not to be believed I hesitate before publicly criticizing the words of a prominent figure such as Joseph B. Soloveitchik of Boston but "Religious" Zionism has become such a monster and so threatens the future of Torah observance that I feel obligated to speak up if I have something to point out. Quite simply, he was not to be believed on the topic of Zionism. Witness his thoughts on David Ben Gurion as depicted in an article by Jeffrey Saks: When Wiesel asked him who was responsible for this state of affairs, the Rav would not answer, but stated that it was unfortunate that David Ben-Gurion, then Prime Minster, didn't appreciate the potential of Judaism-as-religion to draw young Jews to Israel, and encourage self-sacrifice on its behalf. This despite the fact that he Rav saw in Ben-Gurion someone with a "religious connection," albeit one that was generally not properly articulated. "In my eyes," said the

Israel learns of a hidden shame in its early years Soldiers raped and killed Bedouin girl in the Negev Chris McGreal in Jerusalem Tuesday 4 November 2003 02.48 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/nov/04/israel1 For 54 years the fate of a young Bedouin girl who disappeared in the Negev desert was relegated to rumour and a single entry in the diary of David Ben-Gurion, the prime minister of the fledgling Israeli state. "It was decided and carried out: they washed her, cut her hair, raped her and killed her," he wrote. After that the case became one of the state's earliest secrets, and no more than hearsay passed between soldiers. Now the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz has used previously classified army documents to reveal the full story of what Mr Ben-Gurion called a "horrific atrocity". In August 1949, an army unit stationed at Nirim in the Negev shot an Arab man and captured a Bedouin girl with him. Her name and age remain unknown, but sh

"From Lydda, the inhabitants left on foot, some being stripped of money and jewelry by the IDF troops at checkpoints on the way out....During the following days, suffering from hunger and thirst, dozens probably died on the way to Ramallah. An Israeli trooper later described the spoor of the refugee columns, "to begin with [jettisoning] utensils and furniture and in the end, bodies of men, women, and children, scattered along the way. Old people sat beside their carts begging for a drop of water -- but there was none." Another soldier recorded vivid impressions of how "children got lost" and how a child fell into a well, and presumably drowned, ignored as his fellow refugees fought over water. "Nobody will ever know how many children died" in the trek, wrote the legion's commander, John Glugg." Israeli historian Benny Morris, "1948", p. 290)

"The endorsement of partition along the lines of Resolution 181  by Ben-Gurion was essentially a tactical move. 'Does anybody really think that the original meaning of the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate, and indeed, that of the millenarian yearning of the Jewish people, was not that of establishing a Jewish state in the whole of Eretz-Israel?' he had asked rhetorically in a speech to the People's Council on 22 May 1947. His acceptance of the principle of partition, he explained a week later, was an attempt to gain time until the Jews were strong enough to fight the Arab majority. Shlomo Ben Ami, Scars of War, Wounds of Peace, pp. 34.. Israeli Foreign Minister, Minister of Security, Member of Knesset, Professor at Tel Aviv University "Ben Gurion was a  prudent gradualist who relied on 'the course of time.' The immediate task, as he put it in a letter to his wife in the summer of 1937, was that of establishing a Jewish state, however modest in its

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/propaganda-dehumanize-palestinians/ What really happened to the greenhouses?  According to the  New York Times , two months prior to the withdrawal, in July of 2005, Israeli settlers demolished about half of the greenhouses, “creating significant doubts that the greenhouses could be handed over to the Palestinians as ‘a living business.’” There are  other reports  that rather than leave their greenhouses behind for the Palestinians some settlers decided to burn them to the ground. Notwithstanding the destruction that had already been wrought, wealthy American philanthropists led by the Gates foundation and James Wolfensohn, the US Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement, bought the remaining greenhouses from the Israeli settlers on behalf of the Palestinians in Gaza for $14 million. Wolfensohn contributed $500,000 of his own money. Admittedly, Palestinian looters took to the greenhouses when they were transferred to Palestinian control in mid-Septembe

The first time I heard Norman Finkelstein's name it was uttered in the same way a person might utter the name of Goebbels or Arafat. With venom. As if, there goes a bad man, a hater of Israel, a nasty, ignorant self-hating Jewish lunatic of the wretched left. But somewhere along the line, during my research on the issues in Palestine, I watched a video of Mr. Finkelstein speaking. It was quite impressive. He was knowledgeable, logical, fair-minded, and articulate. I watched another. Same thing. And again. He was even funny. I think now I have seen every video of him on youtube. And I have two of his books, the others not being so easy to get in Israel. I would call Mr. Finkelstein my go to guy for understanding what's going on over here on a political level. Being an Observant Jew, I won't go to him for his view on religion since he is an atheist of sorts. Nobody is perfect. In his professionalism and integrity, he doesn't talk about religion. He limits his comm

Eyewitnesses say Arif Jaradat, 23, did not endanger anyone when he was shot by Israeli troops. Jaradat, loved by all the children in his village, died of his injuries last week.                                                      Mohammed was most recently arrested in 2013. It happened on the street, and Arif saw it from the balcony of his house. Horrified, he started to cry out again, “No, my brother Mohammed!” He shouted the same thing in the late afternoon of May 4, two months ago, when he saw a force of six or seven soldiers moving on foot near his house. Hearing the shout, his siblings were filled with apprehension. Then they heard a single shot. They rushed to the scene and saw their brother sitting on the ground, bleeding. The soldiers ran off, not bothering to check his condition                                                                                                                                                                                                         

After many years of hacking away at the Torah and corrupting a part of the people, an outward change took place in these anti-Torah writers. The pogroms in Kishinev and elsewhere showed that assimilation was bringing no benefits, for the mobs had attacked the assimilationists as well as other Jews. A new and more pernicious trend began under the banner of anti-Torah nationalism. The same Hebrew and Yiddish writers, in the same periodicals in which they had preached assimilation, now began to preach Jewish nationalism. Their hatred of the Torah and the Torah leaders did not diminish, and it has continued to this day. The animosity of the nationalist leaders today toward the Torah is an inheritance from the old assimilationists. Rabbi Avigdor Miller, Rejoice O Youth! #560. True, the assimilationists and the nationalists corrupted part of the people, but the vast majority remained loyal. But the persecutions by the czarist government caused a tide of emigration which weakened Russian

Interview with Holocaust Survivor Maryla (nee Husyt) Finkelstein About Zionism and Her Bad Experiences with Zionist Organizers after the War I was not a Zionist because I did not believe that this problem of a lot of Jews, of a congregation of so many Jews in the world, can be solved by a small country like Palestine. Naturally, I didn't think that we should build our country over dead bodies. So I did not believe that Zionism will solve the Jewish problem. After the Holocaust as I told you, there was more enlightenment. I started to think that maybe I am wrong. In my idiotic mind I thought that if we would have during the Second War a country like Israel and a representation in the League of Nations we would be saved. Well I started to think about Zionism. But the experience with the Judenrat. The experience with the leaders in the DP camp in Austria which had everything what they wanted. They had as much money for nothing as they wanted. And still there was pilferage, injusti