You speak truth to dangerous, ignorant hatred and misinformed knee jerk antisemitism, Zibby. "Because I’ve seen many of you all happily use Jews to advance your own careers. You have no qualms watching the movies we make, taking the medicine we create, reading the books we write, eating the food we make, using the technology we’ve invented, and then throwing us under the bus." I am a Zionist mother who grieves for every mother who has lost a child, Palestinian and Jewish and Christian and atheist and Muslim.
And especially "no one from Hamas will roll out a red carpet for you after they’re done trying to eliminate us and have moved on to you." Because so many in the pro-Pally crowd are folks we've spent a lifetime standing up for, having their backs time and again.
This is what I posted that day : I began the day in tears, trying to make sense of the murder in DC of two young Israeli Embassy employees. Before going out to meet friends for lunch, I made sure I was wearing my necklace with my small Star of David charm. I want it known I’m a Jew. But I am afraid like so many. Make no mistake, I am 100% against what Netanyahu continues to do in Gaza. I am appalled by the ferocity of the attacks on both Gazans and Palestinians on the West Bank. And the attacks on innocent people in Israel on Oct. 7 was shocking, terrifying and devastating. But I believe in co-existence, a two state solution. Today I am horrified that two people who have nothing to do with politics or policy were murdered because they were Jews. I worked at the Israeli Embassy for over three years, 1992-1995, in the press office, mostly on the Oslo Peace Accords. I walked inside the gates and the front doors on Van Ness Street sometimes seven days a week during intense negotiations and national emergencies. Today I closed my eyes and tried to imagine what was happening inside that beautiful building. So many young, idealistic people, older hardened diplomats, Americans and Israelis. I visualized the hallway I’d walk down to the left of the entrance, on the first floor, to my office. My window, overlooking the back, didn’t open. Just a little gadget slid open to allow fresh air to come in. The stairs leading up to the higher diplomats offices, the fancy furniture in the Ambassador’s suite. I imagined the stunned staff. The tears. The fears. Today I feel that pain, uniquely Jewish pain. Tomorrow I will continue to feel the pain of the Palestinians too, but today I only have space for this. https://www.thefp.com/p/welcome-to-the-global-intifada?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&r=7ov09
Spot on. I don't get it either. Every single day brings some other outrage, atrocity or astonishment. I've been shocked over the last week that not one non-Jewish friend (even ones who are not remotely part of this "Palestine" garbage) so much as mentioned the grotesque, tragic murder of the young couple in D.C.
Maybe not being on Instagram or TikTok spares me. Other than the indifference or obliviousness, the worst I saw was a high school friend posting about his daughter's graduation ceremony at Brown. I smiled, "liked" the post, and was about to post my heartfelt congratulations ... until I noticed on one of the pics she's holding a "Palestine" flag. Three days after the murder of a young couple barely older than her.
I just don't understand it, and I am wondering when people will realize this ideology is utterly worthless. It's a total waste of their time and energy, it rots their brains, and anyone who respects them for it is a loser anyway. I don't know how or when the fever will break. In the meantime, focus on the positive: the march of 56,000 for Israel in Toronto yesterday, the voices of outrage from both sides of the political spectrum over these vile antisemitic murders, and that the very existence, success and spirit of the Jewish people eats away at the lives of these miserable little antisemites & antizionists like a cancer. They don't get to win.
This makes me feel less alone. The blatant Jew hatred from some other lawyers whom I fought with to get asylum for immigrants astonished me. All lives matter except Jewish lives. I grieve too for the Gazan babies who asked for none of this. Thank you Lisa.
Thank you for so vividly voicing how so many of us feel. It is incomprehensible how supposedly enlightened people, many of whom are Jews, have abandoned all reason and self-respect in pursuit of some misplaced and twisted desire to be accepted by those who hate them. We must stand, hand in hand, with our worldwide, precious, Mishpacha to support Israel, for if we do not, who will?
Thank you Zibby for writing and sharing this. I can only hope your message reaches those who truly need to hear it. I share in your frustration and pain, and I am grateful to know that someone like you continues to speak out. You give me hope that voices like ours can still make a difference.
You speak truth to dangerous, ignorant hatred and misinformed knee jerk antisemitism, Zibby. "Because I’ve seen many of you all happily use Jews to advance your own careers. You have no qualms watching the movies we make, taking the medicine we create, reading the books we write, eating the food we make, using the technology we’ve invented, and then throwing us under the bus." I am a Zionist mother who grieves for every mother who has lost a child, Palestinian and Jewish and Christian and atheist and Muslim.
All of this.
And especially "no one from Hamas will roll out a red carpet for you after they’re done trying to eliminate us and have moved on to you." Because so many in the pro-Pally crowd are folks we've spent a lifetime standing up for, having their backs time and again.
Thank you for your bravery and clarity and voice.
I don't understand this upside down world. How there isn't outright outrage by everyone, I just didn't get
This is what I posted that day : I began the day in tears, trying to make sense of the murder in DC of two young Israeli Embassy employees. Before going out to meet friends for lunch, I made sure I was wearing my necklace with my small Star of David charm. I want it known I’m a Jew. But I am afraid like so many. Make no mistake, I am 100% against what Netanyahu continues to do in Gaza. I am appalled by the ferocity of the attacks on both Gazans and Palestinians on the West Bank. And the attacks on innocent people in Israel on Oct. 7 was shocking, terrifying and devastating. But I believe in co-existence, a two state solution. Today I am horrified that two people who have nothing to do with politics or policy were murdered because they were Jews. I worked at the Israeli Embassy for over three years, 1992-1995, in the press office, mostly on the Oslo Peace Accords. I walked inside the gates and the front doors on Van Ness Street sometimes seven days a week during intense negotiations and national emergencies. Today I closed my eyes and tried to imagine what was happening inside that beautiful building. So many young, idealistic people, older hardened diplomats, Americans and Israelis. I visualized the hallway I’d walk down to the left of the entrance, on the first floor, to my office. My window, overlooking the back, didn’t open. Just a little gadget slid open to allow fresh air to come in. The stairs leading up to the higher diplomats offices, the fancy furniture in the Ambassador’s suite. I imagined the stunned staff. The tears. The fears. Today I feel that pain, uniquely Jewish pain. Tomorrow I will continue to feel the pain of the Palestinians too, but today I only have space for this. https://www.thefp.com/p/welcome-to-the-global-intifada?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&r=7ov09
Spot on. I don't get it either. Every single day brings some other outrage, atrocity or astonishment. I've been shocked over the last week that not one non-Jewish friend (even ones who are not remotely part of this "Palestine" garbage) so much as mentioned the grotesque, tragic murder of the young couple in D.C.
Maybe not being on Instagram or TikTok spares me. Other than the indifference or obliviousness, the worst I saw was a high school friend posting about his daughter's graduation ceremony at Brown. I smiled, "liked" the post, and was about to post my heartfelt congratulations ... until I noticed on one of the pics she's holding a "Palestine" flag. Three days after the murder of a young couple barely older than her.
I just don't understand it, and I am wondering when people will realize this ideology is utterly worthless. It's a total waste of their time and energy, it rots their brains, and anyone who respects them for it is a loser anyway. I don't know how or when the fever will break. In the meantime, focus on the positive: the march of 56,000 for Israel in Toronto yesterday, the voices of outrage from both sides of the political spectrum over these vile antisemitic murders, and that the very existence, success and spirit of the Jewish people eats away at the lives of these miserable little antisemites & antizionists like a cancer. They don't get to win.
Well said - people need to educate themselves about the situation in Israel!
Your people will be my people.
Ruth knew what she was getting into and she went anyway.
I guess we all know what we are getting into when we convert.
Still hurts to discover old friends are antisemitic
https://open.substack.com/pub/marlowe1/p/the-book-of-job-chapter-1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=sllf3
Yes the world has gone mad.
This makes me feel less alone. The blatant Jew hatred from some other lawyers whom I fought with to get asylum for immigrants astonished me. All lives matter except Jewish lives. I grieve too for the Gazan babies who asked for none of this. Thank you Lisa.
Thank you for so vividly voicing how so many of us feel. It is incomprehensible how supposedly enlightened people, many of whom are Jews, have abandoned all reason and self-respect in pursuit of some misplaced and twisted desire to be accepted by those who hate them. We must stand, hand in hand, with our worldwide, precious, Mishpacha to support Israel, for if we do not, who will?
Brilliant. Spot on. Too much to quote. Thank you for your voice. 🙏
Thank you Zibby for writing and sharing this. I can only hope your message reaches those who truly need to hear it. I share in your frustration and pain, and I am grateful to know that someone like you continues to speak out. You give me hope that voices like ours can still make a difference.
"Didn't everyone learn about how the Holocaust happened?"
All the "Free Free Pookistein" folks know EXACTLY what they're doing. They know exactly where it all leads to.
YOU'RE the naive one, not them.