Yakov Hirsch
Mondoweiss
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The ‘Democratic Majority for Israel’ is a hate organization
The Democratic Majority for Israel group has been celebrated by Biden and Pelosi though it spreads a vicious lie with a tweet saying that Rep. Rashida Tlaib is complicit in terrorism because she is appearing with Mohammed El-Kurd, the face of resistance to the expulsions of Palestinians from Jerusalem. → Read More
Bret Stephens’ malign view of the Squad as antisemitic is distorting the politics of Israel
Rashida Tlaib had sound reasons to call Israel an apartheid state. But politicians and journalists won’t defend her because pro-Israel journalists have viciously attributed all criticism of Israel to antisemitism. → Read More
The very ahistorical Yair Rosenberg should not speak for the Jews on antisemitism –
Pro-Israel writers dismiss all criticism, opposition and even enmity to Israel and its actions as springing from an ancient malady, antisemitism. They seek to erase the true history of the Israeli occupation and discredit critics. → Read More
Bari Weiss’s narrative of Jewish victimhood just lost again –
Saying the dehumanization of Palestinians is a cancer in the Jewish community, Peter Beinart no longer defers to guardians of the communal victimhood discourse. → Read More
Where is Jeffrey Goldberg? –
Jeffrey Goldberg, Jennifer Rubin, David Frum, Bret Stephens and the other American Bibi-ists went from All Netanyahu all the time to No Netanyahu ever, Yakov Hirsch explains. Because they can’t be leading the moral charge against Trump's “evil plan to crush the press, while offering obfuscation about Netanyahu’s actual evil plan to crush the press, as they once did, when they were empowering the… → Read More
Netanyahu’s holy war, and the coming Jewish schism
Netanyahu’s most impressive achievement is that he has associated his politics and even himself personally with sacred Jewish history and its hallowed lessons. That is why Jimmy Carter and now John Kerry must be vilified for pointing out the apartheid treatment of Palestinians. Netanyahu's sacred construction is about to crash to the ground. Jeffrey Goldberg has already jumped ship. → Read More
Azaria will be convicted, Barak will take on Netanyahu, and Goldberg will have to break his silence –
The real struggle in Israeli leadership is not Netanyahu cowering before settlers, but over who can control a discourse based on Jewish persecution and alleged Palestinian hatred of Jews. Jeffrey Goldberg has propagated that discourse in the U.S. The inevitable conviction of army medic Elor Azaria on manslaughter charges next month represents a crisis for that discourse at last. → Read More
ADL’s Greenblatt is the one who needs to express ‘contrition’ for accusation of Keith Ellison
If Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti Defamation League is really concerned about Keith Ellison ‘implying” stereotypes about Jewish power, then why is he exercising the most intrusive cultural, moral, and political power against Ellison? Because he is more concerned with maintaining a social construction of reality that serves Israel: Hasbara culture. → Read More
Here’s the gossip: Beinart is about to replace Goldberg as most important Jewish journalist
Here's the juice from Yakov Hirsch: Six years ago Peter Beinart came to realizations about Israel and the US Jewish community that Jeffrey Goldberg tried to suppress but that he is now expressing himself. For this reason Beinart is about to replace Goldberg as most important Jewish journalist and leader of the Trump opposition. → Read More
When Sanders changed political reality. And hasbara culture slapped him down. –
One of Bernie Sanders's greatest foes in the presidential primary was hasbara culture, an aggressive and proselytizing construction of reality from a minority of the Jewish community that Sanders threatened with statements that changed the political discourse on Israel. Hasbara culture helped to undermine the insurgent senator. → Read More
When Sanders changed political reality. And hasbara culture slapped him down. –
One of Bernie Sanders's greatest foes in the presidential primary was hasbara culture, an aggressive and proselytizing construction of reality from a minority of the Jewish community that Sanders threatened with statements that changed the political discourse on Israel. Hasbara culture helped to undermine the insurgent senator. → Read More
The power of hasbara culture –
Why do media bystanders shut their mouths when they see critics of Israel smeared as diseased anti-Semites. Because of hasbara culture, a Jewish-Zionist ethnocentric way of looking at the world that is both aggressive and highly politicized. → Read More
Should Jeffrey Goldberg come with a warning label?
Jeffrey Goldberg paints critics of Israel as vessels of Jew hatred -- including Jimmy Carter, Jill Stein, and a Norwegian band that supports boycott. And his fixation on the Holocaust caused him to be wrong in his reporting on Iran. So it is absolutely fair to bring up his Jewishness in critiquing his journalism. → Read More
ADL throws Netanyahu under the bus to try to make new friends –
The new head of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, seized the opportunity to throw Netanyahu under the bus for his Ethnic cleansing video, in an effort to reach out to young American progressives. It won't work. Young progressives don't like Israel, and the ADL does. → Read More
Jeffrey Goldberg will be silent till he finds a way to spin all the bad-for-the-Jews news from Israel
Jeffrey Goldberg needs to maintain his status as the go-to journalist on all things Jewish/Israeli. But he can't open his mouth about recent news because it all reflects badly on Jews and Israel. Still the world hungers for his enlightenment. → Read More
It’s war between Netanyahu and the generals (and the PM may just have lost the corporal)
Warnings of a civil war among Jews in Israel reflect the divide over the manslaughter trial of Elor Azaria, with Israeli generals determined to prosecute the medic. The generals want Benjamin Netanyahu gone; and a comment by Jeffrey Goldberg indicates that the Prime Minister may have lost an important American ally. → Read More
Video intifada –
The world might be deaf to Palestine but it is not blind. And recent videos clearly documenting grotesque use of force by Israelis against Palestinians have the power to do more to end Israeli impunity and Netanyahu's campaign of dehumanization of Palestinians than any other form of information. → Read More
The politics of Jewish ethnocentrism –
How can Bret Stephens, who is so sensitive to any slight he perceives against Jews, use the phrase “disease of the Arab mind” when writing about an Egyptian Olympian, and hundreds of millions of ot… → Read More
Netanyahu’s Academy-award performance of dehumanization is why the conflict persists
Mr. Netanyahu, I have a question: How long will “the world”, who unlike you believes the Palestinians are human beings like the rest of us, continue to just look on as you talk the talk and walk the walk of the most dangerous demagogues in history? A meditation on Netanyahu's video dehumanizing Ayoub Sroor, a helpless Palestinian father in the occupation. → Read More
Black Lives Matter will defeat the Israel lobby (because the lobby can’t debate reality) –
Black Lives Matter is not going to use careful and precise language about Israel, and nor should it. Black Lives Matter sees the ugly reality and has taken on the conflict directly, and it is not going to be bullied by the Israel lobby; and when the fight gets out in the open, Israel's action will be in the spotlight. → Read More