Israeli Moshav, villages, Kibbutzim in Samaria/Judea


From 1901 until 1948 90% of the land that makes up Judea/Samaria (wrongly renamed “The West Bank” by the Jordanian occupiers between 1948 to 1967) was purchased by the Jewish National Fund from absentee Arab landowners (who were all too happy to sell “worthless desert land” to the foolish Jews, who paid widely exorbitant prices for the privilege). Funds were raised from collections at Synagogues all over the Earth, for the purpose of establishing a home land for the Jewish people.

As a result of the first Arab/Israel war (1948) Judea/Samaria was captured by Jordan, and subsequently “ethnic cleansed” — Kibbutzim, towns and villages were burned to the ground, and Synagogues were destroyed. Jordans occupation of Judea/Samaria would last for nineteen years.

Prior to 1948, there were twenty-one Israeli settlements, villages, and Kibbutzim in Samaria/Judea. The oldest, Kfar Etzion, was founded 1n 1927, occupied (and ethnic cleansed) by Jordan from 1948 until 1967, when it was liberated by the IDF in the “Six Day War.” Of the kibbutzim that had existed prior to Jordan’s occupation, Kfar Etzion was the first to be rebuilt and repopulated by the original residents.

Here is a list of all the Jewish villages, Kibbutzim, and Moshav in Samaria/Judea. Villages established prior to  the 1948 Jordanian occupation are marked with an*:

 

NAME HEBREW POPULATION (2020) YR EST COUNCIL
Adora (Adura) אדורה 515 1984 Har Hebron
Alei Zahav עלי זהב 4,647 1982 Shomron
Alfei Menashe אלפי מנשה 7,975 1983 Shomron
*Almog אלמוג 236 1977 Megilot
Almon עלמון 1,467 1982 Mateh Binyamin
Alon אלון 1,031 1990 Mateh Binyamin
Alon Shvut אלון שבות 3,046 1970 Gush Etzion
Amihai עמיחי 209 2018 Mateh Binyamin
Ariel אריאל 20,520 1978 Shomron
*Argaman ארגמן 131 1968 Bik’at HaYarden
Asfar (Metzad) מיצד 1,228 1983 Gush Etzion
Ateret עטרת 891 1981 Mateh Binyamin
Avnat (Ovnat) אבנת 249 1983 Megilotl
Avnei Hefetz אבני חפץ 2,363 1990 Shomron
Barkan ברקן 2,040 1981 Shomron
Bat Ayin בת עין 1,730 1989 Gush Etzionl
Beit Aryeh-Ofarim בית אריה 5,517 1981 Shomron
Beitar Illit ביתר עילית 64,015 1985 Gush Etzion
*Beit El בית אל 6,108 1977 Mateh Binyamin
Beit HaArava בית הערבה 508 1980 Megilot
*Beit Horon בית חורון 1,442 1977 Mateh Binyamin
Beit Yatir (Metzadot Yehuda) בית יתיר 696 1983 Har Hebron
*Beka’ot (Bqa’ot) בקעות 187 1972 Bik’at HaYarden
Brukhin ברוכין 2,412 2012 Shomron
Carmel כרמל 465 1981 Har Hebron
Dolev דולב 1,613 1983 Mateh Binyaminl
Efrat (Efrata) אפרת 11,853 1980 Gush Etzion
*Elazar אלעזר 2,615 1975 Gush Etzion
Eli עלי 4,701 1984 Mateh Binyamin
Elkana אלקנה 4,301 1977 Shomron
Elon Moreh אלון מורה 2,105 1979 Shomron
Einav (Enav) ענב 1,062 1981 Shomron
Eshkolot אשכולות 623 1982 Har Hebron
Etz Efraim עץ אפרים 2,519 1985 Shomron
Ganei Modi’in גני מודיעין 2,603 1985 Mateh Binyaminil
Geva Binyamin גבע בנימין 5,913 1984 Mateh Binyamin
*Gilgal גלגל 229 1970 Bik’at HaYarde
*Giti גיתית 502 1973 Bik’at HaYarden
Giv’at Ze’ev גבעת זאב 21,097 1983 Mateh Binyamin
Giv’on HaHadasha גבעון החדשה 996 1980 Mateh Binyamin
Haggai (Beit Hagai) בית חגי 725 1984 Har Hebron
Halamish חלמיש 1,485 1977 Mateh Binyamin
*Hamra חמרה 224 1971 Bik’at HaYarden
Har Adar הר אדר 4,065 1986 Mateh Binyamin
Har Brakha הר ברכה 3,165 1983 Shomron
Har Gilo הר גילה 1,655 1972 Gush Etzion
Hashmonaim חשמונאים 2,589 1985 Mateh Binyamin
Hemdat חמדת 361 1980 Bik’at HaYarden
Hermesh חרמש 245 1982 Shomron
Hinanit חיננית 1,659 1981 Shomron
Immanuel עמנואל 4,656 1983 Shomron
Itamar איתמר 1,470 1984 Shomron
*Kalya קלי”ה 490 1968 Megilot
Karmei Tzur כרמי צור 980 1984 Etzion
Karnei Shomron קרני שומרון 9,920 1978 Shomron
Kedar (Keidar) קדר 1,649 1985 Gush Etzion
Kedumim קדומים 4,548 1977 Shomron
Kfar Adumim כפר אדומים 4,957 1979 Mateh Binyamin
*Kfar Etzion כפר עציון 1,371 1967 Gush Etzion
Kfar HaOranim (Menora) כפר האורנים 2,604 1998 >Mateh Binyamin
Kfar Tapuach כפר תפוח 1,639 1978 Shomron
Kiryat Arba קרית ארבע 7,490 1972 Har Hebron
Kiryat Netafim קרית נטפים 1,009 1983 Shomron
Kokhav HaShahar כוכב השחר 2,501 1977 Mateh Binyamin
Kokhav Ya’akov כוכב יעקב 9,794 1985 Mateh Binyamin
Ma’ale Adumim מעלה אדומים 38,046 1975 Gush Etzion
Ma’ale Amos מעלה עמוס 906 1981 Gush Etzion
*Ma’ale Efrayim מעלה אפרים 1,377 1970 Bik’at HaYarden
Ma’ale Levona מעלה לבונה 1,018 1983 Mateh Binyamin
Ma’ale Mikhmas מעלה מכמש 1,744 1981 Mateh Binyamin
Ma’ale Shomron מעלה שומרון 996 1980 Shomron
Ma’on מעון 607 1981 Har Hebron
Maskiot משכיות 353 1986 Bik’at HaYarden
*Masua משואה 297 1970 Bik’at HaYarden
Matityahu מתתיהו 920 1981 Mateh Binyamin
*Mehola מחולה 688 1968 Bik’at HaYarden
*Mekhora מכורה 179 1973 Bik’at HaYarden
Mevo Dotan מבוא דותן 612 1978 Shomron
*Mevo Horon מבוא חורון 2,669 1970 Mateh Binyamin
Migdal Oz מגדל עוז 572 1977 Gush Etzion
Migdalim מגדלים 592 1983 Shomron
*Mitzpe Shalem מצפה שלם 343 1971 Megilot
Mitzpe Yeriho מצפה יריחו 2,657 1978 Mateh Binyamin
Modi’in Illit מודיעין עילית 83,356 1996 Mateh Binyamin
Na’omi (Na’ama) נעמי 165 1982 Bik’at HaYarden
Nahliel נחליאל 743 1984 Mateh Binyamin
Negohot נגוהות 514 1999 Har Hebron
Netiv HaGdud נתיב הגדוד 214 1976 Bik’at HaYarden
Neve Daniel נווה דניאל 2,354 1982 Gush Etzion
Nili נילי 2,059 1981 Mateh Binyamin
Na’aran (Niran) נירן 101 1977 Bik’at HaYarden
Nofei Prat נוֹפֵי פְּרָת 1,200 1992 Mateh Binyamin
Nofim נופים 1,174 1987 Shomron
Nokdim נוקדים 3,094 1982 Gush Etzion
*Ofra עפרה 3,497 1975 Mateh Binyamin
Oranit אורנית 9,295 1985 Shomron
Otniel עתניאל 1,041 1983 Har Hebron
Peduel פדואל 2,084 1984 Shomron
Pnei Hever (Ma’ale Hever) מעלה חבר 743 1982 Har Hebron
*Petza’el פצאל 371 1975 Bik’at HaYarden
Psagot פסגות 2,086 1981 Mateh Binyamin
Rehelim רחלים 1,062 2013 Shomron
Reihan ריחן 408 1977 Shomron
Revava רבבה 2,950 1991 Shomron
Rimonim רימונים 707 1977 Mateh Binyamin
*Rosh Tzurim רֹאשׁ צוּרִים 978 1969 Gush Etzion
Rotem רותם 275 1983 Bik’at HaYarden
Sal’it  סַלְעִית 1,450 1977 Shomron
Sansana סנסנה 716 1997 Har Hebron

Sha’arei Tikva

שערי תקווה 6,122 1983 Shomron
Shadmot Mehola שדמות מחולה 702 1979 Bik’at HaYarden
Shaked שקד 1,128 1981 Shomron
Shani (Livne) לִבְנֶה 571 1989 Har Hebron
Shavei Shomron שבי שומרון 1,083 1977 Shomron
Shilo שילה 5,072 1979 Mateh Binyamin
Shim’a שמעה 938 1985 Har Hebron
Susiya סוסיא 1,602 1983 Har Hebron
Talmon טלמון 5,379 1989 Mateh Binyamin
Tekoa תקוע 4,326 1977 Gush Etzion
Telem תלם 540 1982 Har Hebron
Teneh Omarim טנא עומרים 985 1983 Har Hebron
Tomer תומר 310 1978 Bik’at HaYarden
Tzofim צופים 2,553 1989 Shomron
Vered Yeriho ורד יריחו 377 1980 Megilot
Yafit יפית 225 1980 Bik’at HaYarden
Yakir יקיר 2,586 1981 Shomron
*Yitav ייט”ב 261 1970 Bik’at HaYarden
Yitzar יצהר 2,093 1983 Shomron

Contrary to what is widely reported by anti-semitic, propaganda embracing sources (such as Wikipedia, Democracy Now, Al Jezerra), the various Jewish villages, Kibbutzim, and Moshav in Judea/Samaria are not illegal under International Law precisely because 1) The land they stand upon was purchased prior to the 19 year occupation by Jordan, by the Jewish National Fund. 2) Yes, some lands were confiscated by Israel from Jordanian residents after the Six Day War, but those very lands had been purchased by the JNF prior to Jordans occupation, so therefore Israeli residents were simply reclaiming what was taken from them.


“palestinian resistance?”


While the horrors on October 7, 2023, were still taking place, some people worldwide were already posting things on social media like “This is what resistance looks like.”   If “palestinian” “resistance” is beheaded babies, families immolated alive, women bound and raped, innocent people executed in amphetamine-driven frenzies of mass murder, and the kidnapping of people ranging in age from 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz, down to nine-month-old Kfir Bibas, then, as McCartney and Lennon said, you can count me out. If that is the “resistance,” there is not a decent person on the planet who should be onside with that manifestation of “palestinian” nationalism. But I’ve got a bigger bone to pick. It’s the idea that the “palestinian” movement is, in any sense, a “resistance.” The assumption that many people in the West have succumbed to is that the panorama of violence that represents the “palestinian” movement writ large is a response to something.

Resistance, by definition, is a reaction. Of course, “palestinian”ism is an extraordinarily reactionary movement . There is no explanation for how or why people who call themselves Progressive should in any way be affiliated with the “palestinian” movement as it is constituted today. It is, only by the most liberal interpretations, a nationalist movement. It is a misogynistic, homophobic, genocidal, antisemitic ideology appropriating a regalia of social justice, progress and national self-determination. In that political sense, it is reactionary. But it does not represent “resistance.” Had “palestinian” (and the broader Arab and Muslim) leaders ever been willing to live in peaceful coexistence with Jews, there would be nothing to “resist.” Had the “palestinian” and Arab leadership accepted the partition resolution in 1947; had they not launched genocidal war in 1948 and again in 1967; if they had accepted the invitation for a “palestinian” state in 1967, instead of responding with the famous three no’s; if they had accepted any of the endless opportunities to live in a “palestinian” state alongside a Jewish state, there would be peace and “palestinian” self-determination today.

There isn’t, of course.

And that has precious little to do with either Israel’s existence or any imagined intransigence on the part of successive Israeli governments. Labor or Likud, hawk or dove — not one has been able to find a way to negotiate peace and a two-state solution with the “palestinian”s. That’s not the fault of Israelis. That’s the fault of “palestinian”s and their allies. In other words, the “palestinian” violence that we saw on October 7, which is a perpetuation of the aggressive antisemitic violence we have seen for decades masquerading as “resistance,” is not a reaction to anything Jews or Israelis have done — indeed, it is the cause of whatever Israelis have done. The root of this conflict is “palestinian” and Arab/Muslim intransigence, the refusal to tolerate so much as the idea of Jewish national self-determination. This is why there is a conflict. The use of the term “resistance” implies that their behavior is defensive. It’s not. Their side started this conflict, perpetuates it, and could end it today. The “palestinian”s and their allies are the only ones who can make peace because they are the only ones making war.

The defense, such as it is, against this reality, is that the “palestinian” resistance” is valid because, basically, “the Jews came in and stole their land.”  I’ve never understood how anyone with any knowledge of archaeology or history, or the meaning of the term “indigeneity,” can accuse the people who were in a place first of “stealing the land” from people who came later, especially when there exists a near 100 year history of legal land sale and acquisition (and the existence of substantiating legal documents, and deeds of sale).. That’s not how indigeneity works. Even when the “palestinian” movement condescends to “resist” peacefully, as they do through the BDS movement, that is still not resistance. It is aggression. Because what they are ostensibly resisting is not Israeli occupation or tyranny or anything else. It is the existence of Israel. The ones who are resisting, in this instance, are Israelis. Since 1948, at the latest, Israelis have been resisting incessant attempts by “palestinian”, Arab and Iranian-backed terrorists, as well as, at intervals, the combined militaries of all neighboring states, to commit genocide and eradicate the Jewish presence in the Middle East. This is why I get my back up when I see the word “resistance” misappropriated by “palestinian”s and their allies. They are not “the resistance.” We are. We are the real resistance. Jews, Israelis and their allies have, for 76 years, been resisting forces that seek the destruction of the Jewish state and, in many cases, the annihilation of the Jewish people.

Join the resistance. We’ve been waiting for you.

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Israel is NOT an apartheid state, and never has been.


Israel has been accused of maintaining an “apartheid” government.  “Apartheid” was the system of racial discrimination and oppression that was  prevalent in South Africa until the early 1990s. The characteristics of apartheid were:

  • Whites could not marry non-whites.
  • Education for black citizens was very rudimentary, mostly consisting only of reading, writing and arithmetic, and a very slanted history was taught.
  • Blacks were barred from higher education, and instead were instructed in trades.
  • Effectively, this resulted in Blacks not being qualified to serve as Judges, Municipal or provincial offices, Doctors, teachers, nurses or any other “profession.”
  • Blacks could not vote in national elections.
  • Blacks could not own private property.
  • Blacks were restricted to living in racially segregated areas.

How does the present situation in Israel compare to South Africa?

The first thing is that it’s not a racial thing. Jews and “Palestinians” are members of the same race, and skin color varies in the same degrees among “Palestinians” as it does among Jews.

  • Jews and Palestinians may marry each other.
  • Education for Jews and Palestinians is equal, with STEM subjects being taught equally between them.
  • Palestinians may attend any University they choose, and enter any profession they choose.

Palestinians in Israel, both Moslems and Christians, can become teachers in Israeli schools, there are Arab citizens of Israel, including Palestinians, who work as teachers in Israeli schools.

Palestinians in Israel, both Moslems and Christians, can go to work in Israeli hospitals, there are many Arab citizens of Israel, including Palestinians, who work in Israeli hospitals. Etc. etc. etc.

Palestinians in Israel, both Muslims and Christians, are individuals with full civil rights…

A particular case is the Israeli army:

In Israel, most Jewish citizens are subject to compulsory military service. However, there are some categories of Jewish citizens who are exempt from military service in the Israeli army. Here are some examples:

Religious Students: Students studying in yeshivas (Talmudic schools) and following a full-time religious studies program may be granted exemption from military service.

Ultra-Orthodox Women: Ultra-Orthodox women may be exempt from military service, although they are expected to be involved in alternative community service.

Furthermore, military service is not Mandatory for Arab Islamic Israeli citizens. However, Arab Israeli citizens have the option to voluntarily enlist in the Israeli army, if they wish, to access the opportunity to gain educational or employment benefits after military service. There are also Arab Israeli citizens who choose not to enlist for political or ideological reasons.

Israeli citizens of the Christian faith also have the right to voluntarily join the Israeli army. Military service is not Mandatory for Christian citizens, but those who wish to enlist may do so.

In the Israeli army there are also units specifically made up of Christian soldiers, such as the “Bedouin Brigade” which also includes Arab Christian soldiers.

“Do all Arab Israelis have to serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), even though they cannot become officers?

Arab Israelis can become officers in the IDF and some of them do. There are zero ethnic or religious qualifications in Israel for any military rank or for any political office.

There are very few Israeli Arab officers in the IDF, not because of some discrimination as your question suggests, but because there are relatively few Israeli Arabs who volunteer to join the IDF when none of them are required to do so.

 

Here is a list of the current Palestinian Arab members of Israel’s Knesset (Parliament) and the political parties they represent.

Knesset member Portrait Party(s)
Mansour Abbas United Arab List
Hamad Amar Yisrael Beiteinu
Youssef Atauna Hadash
Yasir Hujeirat United Arab List
Waleed Alhwashla United Arab List
Iman Khatib-Yasin United Arab List
Ayman Odeh Hadash
Waleed Taha United Arab List
Ahmad Tibi Ta’al
Aida Touma-Suleiman Hadash

Here is a list of current Palestinian Arab Justices of the Israeli Supreme Court:

Khaled Kabub
(2022-date)

 

Abdel Rahman Zuabi
Born in the village of Sulam in 1932 (when under British rule). A graduate of Tel Aviv University, Zuabi served for over two decades as a judge in the district court in Nazareth (of Israel’s north). In 1999 he was appointed for a 9-month term to the Israeli Supreme Court of Justice and thus became the first Israeli-Arab in Israel’s highest court. Later he returned to the Nazareth court until his retirement.

Salim Joubran
He was born in the German Colony in Haifa to a Maronite Christian family, originally from Lebanon. A graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he was a member of Israel’s Supreme Court of Justice from 2003 to 2017. In 2013 he was also the head of the Central Election Committee of the 20th Knesset (in which Netanyahu won his second consecutive term).

George Karra
Born in Jaffa to a Christian-Arab family and graduated from the Tel Aviv University. He is currently serving as a member of Israel’s Supreme Court of Justice, taking the seat of Salim Joubran since 2013. Karra was the judge who convicted former Israeli President Moshe Katsav for rape.

Hana Mansour-Khatib
She was born in the Arab village of Tira. A graduate of the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, in 2017 she was appointed to serve as one of the nine Qadis of the Israeli Shariah court and thus became the first woman to assume this role in Israel. Her appointment was met with mixed opinions from Islamic leaders in Israel.

 

MDs (Medical Doctors)
Under an apartheid regime, these people would not be allowed to serve as Doctors nor would they have been allowed the required education:

By the end of 2021, Arab physicians constituted 24% of Israeli doctors aged 67 and younger. That same year, 43% of new licenses for physicians were awarded to Arab and Druze doctors. The share of Arab citizens in other healthcare professions is also considerable..

 

Dr. Aziz Daravish
Director of the Emergency Department at Hadassah-Ein Kerem Medical Center
Arab, Muslim

 

Dr. Rania Okbi
The first Bedouin Doctor in history,
Proud Israeli

 

Dr. Masad Barum
General Director of Western Galilee Hospital
Arab, Muslim

 

Palestinians in Israel, both Moslems and Christians, can join the police force. There have always been Arab police officers serving the Arab communities but the last few years an increase of influx has been observed:

Jamal Hakrush is deputy commissioner in the Israel Police. He is Arab Muslim.
In the picture below Hakrush is getting his new rank’s insignia from then Israel Police General Commissioner Roni Alsheikh and Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan.

Sabrin Saadi
Israeli Police Officer
Arab Muslim

Presence of Arab women in Israel Police increasing

 

Other offices / Professions, that would be denied Palestinian Arabs under an apartheid government:

George Dick
Ambassador of the State of Israel to Norway
Arab, Muslim

Reda Mansour
Israeli historian and Poet
Former Ambassador of the State of Israel to Ecuador
Druz

 

Dr. Jacob Hanna
Biologist, Director of Stem Cell Research, Weismann Institute;
Arab Christian

 

Lucy Harish
TV Presenter and News Anchor for Israeli Television
Arab, Muslim

Ashraf Brik
Professor at University Ben Gurion
Recipient of Israeli Prize for Excellence in
Chemistry among Youth 2011
Arab, Muslim

Ala Wahib
IDF Major
Arab Muslim

An officer and a Muslim Zionist
“From the age of zero I was told that Israel stole Palestine from us, but when I was 14 I woke up. I discovered that Jews are not bad,” says Ala Wahib, an operations officer at a key IDF training base, and the highest-ranked Muslim officers in the Israeli army.

 

Arabs vote in Israel
Palestinian Arabs in Israel, both Moslems and Christians, participate in the elections… in September 2021 there were 15 Arab members of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.

Do not think that this is the same model posing and the same children in the frame – the aunts are different and the children are different and none of them are Jews, all without exception are Arabs.
Where the Israeli emblem is not visible, there are inscriptions in Hebrew – I tell you this in case it suddenly seems to you that it was filmed in Jordan or Gaza. No, no, it’s all in Israel.

 

 

 


Why are so many on the left anti Israel and anti Zionist?


 

Israel was founded by a group of indigenous people who were displaced for millennia. The Jews have been one of the most prosecuted and marginalized groups throughout history. They experienced one of the most horrific genocides of the 20th century and half of the European Jews were killed by the Nazis (in fact the word “genocide” was coined to describe that very policy).

Israel is the only example of successful decolonization in human history. It is the only state which revived a previously unspoken language (Hebrew) in the region with LGBTQ rights and democracy.

The vitriol for Israel among many of the hard left is somewhat surprising. Is this due to anti-Semitism? Or perhaps a false dichotomy between oppressed and oppressors? I am genuinely confused by why so many in the west prefer to defend the right to self-determination of a religious state with almost no concern for LGBTQ people and democratic values.

In the past I have opined that Left Wing anti-Semitism was the result of the “bandwagon fallacy.”  This is the propagation of false narratives by means of the popularity of the speaker. For example. Noam Chompsky is well thought of in progressive circles. His opinion is that Israel is an aggressor state simply because it possesses superior armaments and well trained troops. Israel is the “bad guy” because it has the ability to answer armed aggression with superior force.  Progressives who admire Chompsky pile on to protect him, not bothering to ascertain for themselves the truth in the form of the historical record Chompsky says it so it must be true. Every time a famous progressive piles on, the truth becomes even more diluted and the false narrative becomes even more affected. So after Chompsky came Michael Moore and then Amy Goodman, and suddenly you have an anti-Israel/anti-Zionism cult firmly entrenched.

That narrative, as much as it may have some truth in it, is an oversimplification of the facts. As you know, propagating anti-Zionism was a component of Soviet foreign policy after 1950 and Israeli socialists’ rejection of Stalinism and Soviet-alignment (with Israel drifting towards the USA before ultimately solidifying an alliance with America about a decade later). The Soviet Union also found alignment with the Arab world and its shared interest in petroleum exporting to be far more useful that anything Israel could provide, and the PLO proved to be useful proxies, which is why you get historical oddities like Fatah participating in the 1979 Uganda–Tanzania War. Much of western Anti-Zionism still works from the playbook outlined in Yuri Ivanov’s 1970 book Caution: Zionism! : Essays on the Ideology, Organisation and Practice of Zionism

Todays leftwing hatred of Israel and antisemitism is part of the tradition of the New Left. The New Left defined itself not only in opposition to western societies during the cold war, but also against the Soviet Union. Trotskyists quite often played an unfortunate role. there is certainly the case that individual accusations mediated via the PLO had an influence on the New Left. (Annie Kriegel has shown this to some extent with regard to France), but one should not make the mistake of believing that the tropes used to rationalize hatred for Israel are the reason. Often – as strange as it may sound – the Moscow-affiliated groups or parties like the DKP in Western Germany were more moderate than groups of the New Left, because despite spreading aggressive antisemitic propaganda, the destruction of Israel was not the program. What makes things worse today is that the dominant trends on the left are postmodernism and postcolonialism, not Stalinism or spontaneous. There is a tradition, but the whole thing takes place within a different conceptual framework.

In the beginning of the 80’s, at a same time that the Soviet-Arab alliance was already in place, and that the UN had already a strong anti-Zionist lean, a new kind of theoretical position started to gain momentum in left-wing academia: decolonization. What we’re seeing now is the anti-Zionist institutional structure created by the Soviet-Arab alliance (e.g. UNRWA, PLO/Fatah) being used by the ideological tenets of decolonization.

It started with the Soviet disinformation campaign but later morphed into the post-modern/ post-colonial leftist movement with the likes of Edward Said (supposedly Palestinian scholar who coined the term, “the other” in Orientalism) at Columbia University. This scholarship was never controlled by the Soviet Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_from_the_Standpoint_of_Its_Victims

The Soviets did a good job at planting the seed for current anti-Western sentiment, though.

  • After 9/11 and the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan, leftists started to see Islam as oppressed and under attack by the western powers (hence the birth of the term “Islamophobia” and the crucifixion of progressive comedian Bill Maher). Israel (with support from the US) vs. the Palestinians feeds right into this narrative. Leftists love to “center” the voices of the oppressed, so the Palestinian narrative (and even the Hamas narrative) was allowed to spread through leftist movements without people even questioning it. They don’t like it when you question the perspective of the oppressed. Therefore, the far left was pretty much hijacked by an Islamist supremacist narrative. What I find most astounding in all this is the Islamic embrace of so very many policies that progressives traditionally protest (LGBTQ persecution,  and the subjugation of women being two tips of that iceburgh)  
  • Israel’s shift to the right and specifically Netanyahu’s premiership have changed Israel’s global reputation. As I said, it was founded by leftists, but it’s no longer perceived as progressive, which is honestly fair given the current leadership (even though it’s still more progressive than any other middle eastern regime).
  • Plain old anti-Semitism and ideas about Jewish power. Leftists in the US see themselves as opposed to corporate interests, wall street, “the rich”, etc. And they think Jews represent all of those things. They see Jews as having white privilege and Muslims as oppressed people of color, even though it’s an extremely skewed way to look at the world. Many of the leftists in the US likely resent the American Jewish community for its perceived economic/political success and blame them for the problems facing other communities in America. Many of them disparagingly label Jews as “white” and blame us for white supremacy (even though white supremacists hate Jews). It’s pure antisemitism.

Western Leftist thought still revolves around Soviet-Era ideas including several Anti-Semitic notions about Jews.

The racialization overlay of two Middle Eastern groups as if they’re more distinct than they actually are is an American idea that millennial and Gen Z Europeans have adopted. Hatred of Israel is something like the lowest common denominator of a left that has disintegrated into various splinter groups, grotesque sects and tendencies that have nothing to say to each other and sometimes hate each other more than almost anything else. the campaign against Israel offers mobilization potential and a resource for permanent moral indignation (on which the left is essentially based). n this sense, the rejection of Israel is understood as something very fundamental that is part of being on the left.
The “origin” of the current hatred of Israel is the New Left: the New Left “borrowed” its radicalism: it was dependent on movements outside Europe for its own revolutionary self-image. when Vietnam and South America became blunt, the Arabs provided this outside influence for the New Left. So the campaign against Israel has something to do with the crisis of the left and the leftist political framework.

If you look for example at Western Germany, as is well known, it was in West Germany that leftwing antisemitism became the most violent. (If this is largely unknown: Jeffrey Herf undeclared wars against Israel is half about West Germany. There is little new in it in the sense of a state of research, but in English it runs solid basic information) the student movement / the SDS in protest against the “emergency acts” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Emergency_Acts) In May 1968 had connections to society even outside of the university. The emergency acts are passed, i.e. the left loses. the student movement withdraws to the university, the SDS disintegrates. Unity was maintained by many local SDS groups by reorganizing themselves as “palestine committees”. something similar was seen in the UK in the early 00s with anti-apartheid activists: they simply switched from South Africa to activism against Israel.

Postmodern trends are quite important for the intellectual underpinning of the leftwing hatred of Israel now days. Basically it is the case that Pauline substitution theology is being repeated in a very striking way. Two things are important here: 1. Inability to understand antisemitism, 2. That postmodernism itself contributes to antisemitism.

 

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/our-false-partners

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.26613/jca/5.1.97/pdf

 


Backlash from a member of my tribe (yes, really).


(NOTE): I posted this “meme” to my Facebook timeline. I thought it innocent enough:

(NOTE): But, I immediately got some backlash – from a member of my own tribe:

(A.E.): You also “win” by having the courage to say I appreciate the equal rights of Palestinians. I don’t need to diminish them by saying there’s no such thing as a Palestinian. Or to call their homeland Judea and Samaria. Nor do I have to fantasize about a Third Temple with messianic crazies conducting pogroms to kick them out of their villages. Maybe I should as myself as I lay t’philin, would I have supported Bibi bombing the Gazans if 10,000 Israeli Jews had been living among them? And if not, what does that say about what we did? Enjoy your matzah ball, and Hag Hanukkah sameach!

(NOTE): My meme was addressing anti-semitism. It said nothing about the situation in Israel. Yet, someone  couldn’t restrain themselves, or perhaps they’re feeling so guilty about betraying their own people, that the words just gushed forth from them. It’s hard to tell. But, here was my response:

(MOI)“… I appreciate the equal rights of Palestinians…” and you’re right, they should have equal rights, but in fact, those palestinian arabs who have Israeli citizenship enjoy those equal rights. They also serve in govt.offices, as doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, members of the Knesset, judges (including judges on the Israeli Supreme Court) and many proudly serve with the IDF. I can document this.

(A.E.) Israeli Arab/Palestinian citizens do not have complete equal rights. Perhaps later, I shall document instances, but with the New Year obligations, my time doesn’t permit.
(MOI)“….by saying there’s no such thing as a Palestinian…” I was in Israel is 1974. The only people identifying themselves as “palestinian” were a lot of older Jewish Israelis, who were there prior to 1948. My understanding is that the palestinian “identity” began picking up in popularity circa 1968, but has taken a real foothold since about 1980, but mostly among younger folks.
Judea/Samaria was never called “the West Bank” beforel Jordan took over that territory in 1948, and only after they ethnically purged the region of every Jew, every Kibbutz and every Synagogue. At least 90% of that region was bought and paid for with Jewish National Funds. You can view deeds issued by the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate for Palestine to the new Jewish landowners between 1900 and 1947 in the Israel Museum.
In June 1967 Judea/Samaria was liberated by the IDF and restored to it’s legal and rightful owners, ending 19 years of Jordanian occupation.

This is all in accordance with what really happened (I like to call it “history”) rather than the banal poppycock has that spewed forth from the bowels of antisemitic propagandists (on the Right and the Left) over the past few decades.

Lastly, you speak of “crazies who fantasize about a Third Temple” and now we can finally agree. Xtian Nationalists, are all proposing that “perhaps a small nuclear device could be placed under the Dome of the Rock…” and usher in the rebuilding of the Temple, and then Jesus will come back and begin his world dictatorship. That is absolutely the ONLY reason fundagelicals pay lip service to Israel.  And what will happen when he doesn’t come back?

(NOTE): 
Whenever I bring up the facts about the Jewish National Fund, I never get a reaction. That just gets left behind, because, well, they have no answer for it, it disqualifies their argument, so it’s better that they just not address it at all.  There is another reason (and this is specifically true for those opining from the Left): they don’t believe in real property. They don’t believe real property should be owned, or bought and sold. What really astonishes me is that many of them are owners of real property themselves.  Can you say the word: “hypocrite?”

 


Judaism = Zionism, Zionism = Judaism


Zionism is an integral, inseparable, and essential part of Judaism and has been such for almost 3,000 years.

Judaism, as a religion, was developed and evolved in the Middle East (AKA, the Levant), especially in the land of Judea (AKA, “Palestine”), and specifically within 7,000 sq. miles of Jerusalem.  We’re talking about an area about the size of New Jersey.

Judaism is named for the territory known as Judea.

The Amidah:
The central prayer of Jewish liturgy, the Amidah prayer mentions Jerusalem and Zion five times.  The prayer calls for the restoration off Jerusalem to the Jewish nation.

…  and next year in Jerusalem:
At the end of Yom Kippur and at the end of the Passover Seder, the phrase, “….and next year in Jerusalem” is repeated by attendees.  Yom Kippur is the holiest day of he Hebrew Year. Jerusalem is mentioned 669 times in the Tenakh (the Jewish Bible, consisting of the Torah, the books of the Prophets and the wisdom books).In all synagogues in North America, the “Ark” (an elaborate cabinet containing the Torah scrolls) is placed on the eastern wall, so that congregants are facing Jerusalem when they face the Ark to pray.


Genocide is happening all over our planet


These are some recent reports I found on Genocide Watch. You won’t find many of these, if any, on Progressive web sites. Could it be because the Jews aren’t involved in any of them? It’s just a thought.  

1-Renewed genocide in Darfur and Sudan
– The U.N. Security Council or General Assembly should apply the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Principles and authorize a U.N. Peacekeeping Force with a mandate to stop attacks against civilians by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)and Sudanese Armed Forces. – Both Generals Hemedti and Burhan should be charged and tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. – The genocidal RSF must be defeated, disbanded, and disarmed. The Sudanese Armed Forces must be replaced by a disciplined, multi-ethnic police force with international accountability. – Omar Al-Bashir must be extradited from a Sudanese military prison to the ICC to face trial for genocide and crimes against humanity.

2-Jihadist genocide of Christians in Nigeria – The U.N. and Nigerian government should establish a Commission of Inquiry to investigate attacks on civilians and report to the Nigerian government and U.N. Human Rights Council. – The Nigerian Army and police should establish a Strike Force, trained by international counter-terrorism experts, to investigate and arrest leaders of Boko Haram, ISWAP, and Fulani jihadists. – Nigerian religious leaders should form a network of monitors to provide warnings of attacks. – The U.N., E.U., and U.N. should support Nigerian police to protect civilians targeted by Islamist extremists. – The Nigerian government should implement land use management plans to reduce competition for resources between farmers and Fulani herders.

3-Russian genocide in Ukraine – Russia must withdraw its forces and stop its attacks on Ukraine. – The U.S. and NATO must supply Ukraine with battle tanks, artillery, drones, and ample ammunition to defeat Russia and drive Russian forces out of Ukraine. – The U.S. and NATO should supply Ukraine with cruise missiles and jets to destroy Russian missile and air bases inside occupied Ukraine and inside Russia. – Vladimir Putin must be overthrown as President of Russia. – Putin’s imperialist aggression against Ukraine must be stopped and rolled back. – The U.S. and NATO should abandon their gradualist approach and fully support Ukraine’s defence.  – Russian assets in European and U.S. banks should be seized and used to pay for Ukraine’s defence.

4-Slow genocide of Hazara Shias in Afghanistan – The U.S. and E.U. should release funds from Afghan assets to support U.N. World Food Program relief.  – The Taliban government should be recognized only when it stops murdering Hazaras and former government employees, when women are allowed to return to their jobs, and girls are allowed to return to their schools. – The U.N. Assistance Mission (UNAMA) mandate of March 2023 (UNSC resolution 2678), accompanied by UNSC resolution 2679 mandating human rights monitoring, with quarterly reports to the U.N. Secretary General and to the U.N. Security Council should be fully implemented. – Hazaras should be accorded preferential asylum status in the U.S., Canada, and the E.U.

5-Genocide in North Korea – The United Nations Human Rights Council should condemn the DPRK in its regular Universal Periodic Reviews, and strongly support the U.N. Special Rapporteur on North Korea. – U.N. member states should demand that North Korea submit reports on the measures it has taken to comply with the human rights treaties to which the DPRK is a party. – U.N. members should support the South Korean government’s protection of North Korean escapees. – U.N. members should support South Korean efforts to undermine the Kim communist monarchy in the DPRK, and bring about its peaceful internal overthrow.

6-Genocides of ethnic minorities in Myanmar – ASEAN should scrap its failed 5-Point Consensus, which legitimizes the Tatmadaw’s rule.  – ASEAN should recognize the National Unity Government (N.U.G.) as the legitimate government of Myanmar. – The Tatmadaw must be defeated and overthrown by the National Unity Government. – The N.U.G. must release Aung San Suu Kyi and other detained officials, end the state of emergency, hold elections, and install a democratically elected Myanmar government. – Rohingyas must be recognized immediately as citizens of Myanmar. – Rohingyas should return to Myanmar only if they are guaranteed safety by a strong international force. –

7-Persecution of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and India: – Bangladesh should allow the Rohingyas living in Bangladesh access to education, health care, freedom of movement, and employment.  – Bangladesh authorities must stop pressuring Rohingyas to return to Myanmar.  – India should halt its deportations of Rohingyas to Myanmar. – Bangladesh should become an Intervening Party in the ICJ’s Gambia v Myanmar case. – The U.S. and E.U. should donate much more financial support to assist Rohingya refugees.

8-Chinese genocide of Uyghur Muslims – The U.S., E.U., and U.N should embargo imports of goods produced by Uyghur forced labor. – The U.S. should outlaw investments in Chinese companies that use Uyghur forced labor. – The U.S. and E.U. must ban export of technology (AI, facial recognition) used in the Uyghur genocide. – The U.S. and E.U. should reduce their dependence on Chinese products. – U.N. members should ensure that Uyghurs receive fair adjudication of asylum requests. – The U.S. and E.U. should support resistance groups to overthrow Chinese Communist Party tyranny.

9-Genocide in Ethiopia – Ethnicity-based genocidal massacres of Tigrayans, Amhara, Anuak. Ogadeni, Somalis and other ethnic groups by Ethiopian Defense Forces and ethnic militias must stop. – Eritrean forces must leave Tigray immediately and stop their massacres of Tigrayans. – Journalists, civil society, and relief organizations must be granted access to all of Ethiopia.

10-Genocide in Democratic Republic of Congo – Neighboring countries, including Rwanda, must stop their support for M-23 militias. – The U.N. Peacekeeping Operation (MONUSCO) should be reinforced, not withdrawn from DRC.  – The African Union should prepare forces to intervene to stop the coming war and genocide. – NATO countries should be ready to give financial and logistical support to AU forces. – The U.S. and E.U. should ensure safe delivery of humanitarian aid in Eastern D.R.C.

Ten reports of ongoing genocides through out planet Earth, but you don’t know about many of these.  You only know about what’s happening in Israel/Palestine, because American college students are only demonstating against Israel’s role in the Hamas war going on in Gaza.  The above atrocities do not involve the Jews, so these are  eally not worth taking about are they?


C’est moi


 

 

This is the blog of Ellis “El” Arseneau, “purveyor of unconventional wisdom”, which is to say MY BLOG.  Herein you will read both opinions and facts. One thing you will not read here is lies. Herein I tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but truth (so help me Hashem).

As of today, 18 August 2024, this site is undergoing a resurrection.  Vile antisemites, who  call themselves “palestinians” (except that there is no such thing, and hasn’t been a thing, since May 1948, when the UK abandoned their “Mandatory Palestine.”) Prior to 1948, people living in what is now the Jewish State of Israel, did in fact call themselves Palestinian, and they carried passports and other identifying papers stating such.  Beginning in May 1948, folks living in the newly independent State of Israel began calling themselves  “Israelis.” , these despicable inbreds hacked into this site and destroyed my database, so for about the last three months, this site was gone.

Well folks, we’re back. Back to being us. Back to telling the truth about a lot of things, including the truth about Israel.

If you don’t like it, you can’t have any.  

You can read my short auto-biography by clicking this link.