Jews (Nationality or Religion)
ILTV segment on the legislation that US President Donald J Trump just passed: changing the status of Jews to a Nationality as apposed to just a Religion.
Judaism is Not A Religion, Video Here: https://www.facebook.com/RudyRochman.Page/videos/239604023414335
This legislation is a step in the right direction because it allows for the targeting of the Jewish People and their homeland Israel, to be taken seriously and for legal consequences to follow. However, it is only a short-term accomplishment.
The next generation's future political and intellectual class are coming out of Universities, which have become institutions that spread the demonization, rejection, and hatred of the Jewish People (and any form of Jewish empowerment) to the masses.
Passing this bill may allow Jews and their allies to take actions now, but if they cannot communicate the story of the Jewish People in a language that resonates with the younger generation, eventually this legislation will be overturned, and the world has already seen what happens when anti-Semitism rises to the top, and to the masses, several times before.
Creating petitions, passing legislation, lobbying politicians, and demanding condemnation from insitutions is easier that impacting pop-culture and the way the youth sees the world. That is where the real fight is taking place, and we need to wake up to the reality that as of right now, we are not playing the game and doing are part to make sure that Jewish persecution NEVER happens AGAIN.
Am Israel, it is time to take our future into our own hands.
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JUST NOW: Jews Attacked on NYC Subway
Lihi Aharon got onto the NYC Subway station by Tribeca, Manhattan after her school’s induction ceremony. She got onto the number 2 train and immediately noticed a woman spreading her belongings onto several seats of the busy train.
She asked the woman if she could remove her stuff to sit, but she refused, claiming they were her seats and no one else could sit there.
A few moments later Lihi started to witness the woman insulting a religious Jewish elderly man that was also sitting nearby, realizing that this old man had been getting verbally attacked for a while.
The angry woman began reciting Islamic prayers and yelling horrid things like “it’s good the they killed Jews in New Jersey, they should have killed all of you”.
The Jewish man looked scared, but would not respond. Lihi proceeded to pulling out her phone and the woman began turning the attention onto her. Things quickly escalated and the woman got up and smacked the phone out of Lihi’s hands and began grabbing and striking at her face.
Lihi fought back and knocked the woman down refusing to be physically beaten. The woman lunged herself back at Lihi and the fight continued until they both found each other outside of the train as the doors opened. People started telling Lihi “your face is bleeding, your face is bleeding”, but Lihi was only focused on surviving this attack and finding a way to ask for help.
No one did anything. No words. No Actions. Just dozens of people watching as if they were the audience of a TV show.
Lihi quickly pushed the emergency button and cops arrived to the scene almost immediately. The woman was arrested and as the Police were talking the statements, she continued with her disgusting insults and profanities.
Although this woman may be Muslim, she does not represent all Muslims.
Apart from this being yet another anti-Semitic attack, something different happened this time. Lihi fought back. Lihi refused to just sit back and put her head down and succumbing to her attacker.
She reached out to my Facebook page and asked me to help her share this incident with the world on my platforms. At first I thought I was just going to report on the attack she mentioned, but when I got on the phone with her I quickly realized that this was about much more.
Lihi is an Israeli/Jewish hero and embodies the spirit which all Jews must learn from. Never be afraid and always stand up for yourself.
You may have a mark on your face for life Lihi, but you’ve also left a mark on all of us.
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Columbia University: A Message for Jewish Students
Today's generation of Zionists, or those that seek to protect Jewish Rights and advance Jewish history, need to evolve with the challenges that we currently face.
Every generation has a role to play, and it is time for ours to understand the challenges ahead of us. We must unite, organize, and rise together to overcome the attacks against the Jewish People and to achieve the collective aspirations we desire.
Every social movement that seeks to achieve justice in the world evolves with time, targeting the injustices that the newer generation faces, and ultimately seeking to mold a better world through social action.
We all have a role to play, which can manifest in many and different ways. If we want a better world for all, which includes a better world for the Jewish People, we must becomes players on the field, rather than fans on the sideline.
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West-Coast Campus Warfare Against Israel
We set out for some of the most notoriously anti-Israel college campuses on the West Coast in order to uncover and expose the amount of ignorance, misinformation, and alienation that was occurring in regards to Israel.
Students were asked simple questions about Israel, Zionism, and the conflict. It is unfortunate, but also an alarming reality that most students on today’s campuses have been lied to and manipulated to believe inaccuracies, false claims, or cherry-picked facts purposefully taken out of context to delegitimize Israel.
We spent hours on each campus debating, but mostly having dialogues to reset the narrative. Israel has the facts on its side, but its people have not yet mastered the art of narrating the story of Israel to today’s youth by using the language they think and believe in.
The story of Israel is not the story of the cherry tomato, Waze, drip irrigation, or democracy in the Middle East. The story of Israel is the story of a 4,000-year-old native nation that was displaced from its homeland by a white imperial power called the Romans, maintained a constant presence in the land through the 2,000 years of colonization, and finally after generations of persecution and attempted exterminations, the Jewish People/Nation of Israel were able to create the most successful indigenous liberation movement that ever existed. A movement that has actually inspired and empowered minorities/persecuted & indigenous people throughout the world, and has the ability to continue to do so.
It is time to be a player for Israel, Not a fan.
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Video by Andrew Leibman
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Imperialism Vs. Zionism Debate
An interesting conversation sparked at Portland State University when a student came up to our Zionism table and began calling Israel "imperialistic".
"Imperialism" is defined as extending a country's power onto foreign lands through the use of diplomacy or force. The exact opposite took place with Zionism!
The establishment of Israel marked the liberation of indigenous Jewish land by the native Jewish People. Furthermore, the use of a military for the protection of their land and the refusal to be destroyed is NOT imperialism.
Zionism put into practice resulted in Jews having their homeland back and achieving their self-determination, which has inspired and empowered minorities throughout the world. The genocidal wars that the Arab countries and forces countlessly waged to eliminate the Jews and the continued failed Arab policies to live with the sole ambition of destroying the Jewish State are the very reasons for the status quo.
There are consequences for actions. These actions do not represent all Arabs or all Palestinians, but they very much so do represent their leadership, which has pocketed billions from foreign aid that was meant to help the very people they claim to represent.
There are many students today who don't believe in the formation of countries. However, "if your war against countries begins at the feet of the Jewish People and their country, you might just be an anti-Semite." -Matthew Finkelstein
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Zionist & Palestinians Come Together at AIPAC 2019 Protest
"You are not allowed to speak or engage with the protesters outside" they said.
So that is exactly what we did.
The anti-Israel protest outside of the AIPAC Policy Conference 2019 is a place to find some of the most anti-Semitic but also some of the most passionate voices about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
While most of the AIPAC attendees are there to participate at an event with access to a spectrum of ideas and just go to hear the interesting speakers inside, dozens of Zionists decided to go outside and engage with the different voices who were all there to protest Israel.
I have attended this conference almost every year over the past decade, and this is the first year that I saw so many young Jews going outside, holding their own, and having real conversations with the other side, breaking down the walls that the older generation told us we could never overcome.
We will be releasing a series of videos showcasing those conversations. Some of them were extremely anti-Semitic and inflammatory, but others were groundbreaking and allowed two sides that were taught to see the other as their enemy to respectfully engage with each other, agree on many things and even shake hands.
The people are the answer and the youth is the key. It is our generations turn to take the present into our hands and to decide what type of future we are to create. It is our generations turn to grow the courage to seek for true justice and to break out of the shells that we were instructed to hide in for too long.
Our hearts tell us to rise up and our minds are drawn to change, but we never questioned listening to the older generation that trained us to sit down and turn around.
The shift is here and this revolution will be televised.
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Video produced by Leibman Productions
In collaboration with J-TV: Jewish Ideas. Global Relevance.
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Unpacking Marc Lamont Hill's Anti-Semitism - Breakfast Club Interview
Marc Lamont Hill is an American reporter that recently got fired from CNN for making anti-Semitic statements. He is also a professor at Temple University, which publicly condemned his recent rhetoric.
The condemnation and firing are due to his most recent use of hate speech at the United Nations. Although he has the absolute freedom to say what he wants, he is not free of the social consequences that might follow.
If that wasn't enough, he then decided to go on the Breakfast Club radio show and spent almost an hour bashing the idea of Israel's existence saying things like "we don't need a Jewish State" or "Hamas, the group that they call terrorists" or that there was a relationship with Israeli Defense Forces and police brutality in America.
Unfortunately, most of the viewers and the hosts of this show have no idea about the history and facts on the ground, and individuals like MLH are able to manipulate large audiences by getting them to the conclusion that Israel, is the source of all evils, which is exactly how anti-Semitism works.
This reaction video was made to serve as material for young Jews and their allies, and for them to be able to unpack prejudice and anti-Semitism that spreads as an ideological front to Jewish self-determination. I also hope that this video reaches Charlemagne, DJ Envy & Angela Yee so that they can get another perspective on the issue while addressing all of the malicious arguments that were made.
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Marc L Hill Tries To Blame Israel for US Police Brutality
In case you missed it, here is a short segment of the response to Marc Lamont Hill’s anti-Semitic rhetoric on the Breakfast Club radio show.
Watch as he tries to tie the suffering of people of color in America through police brutality, with Israel's existence and right to defend itself.
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FULL VIDEO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4chtLszvHwA&t=1697s
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Talking Sense Into Anti-Israel Jews
As we were tabling at San Francisco State University, we ran into 2 Jewish girls who were handing out anti-Israel flyers and approached them to have a respectful conversation.
Although a lot of what they said was just regurgitated information that has been force fed to them by today's growing wave of anti-Semitism, which preys on vulnerable Jews and forces them to turn their backs on their own people, we were able to have a genuinely productive conversation.
"Zionism" as a definition is the indigenous rights movement of the Jewish People to self-determine in the land of Israel, their native homeland.
"Zionism" put into practice is the most successful indigenous liberation movement that has ever existed where for the first time in history, a native people were successful in throwing out the colonial military forces (British) that were oppressing them and achieved their aspirations of reviving their civilization.
Too many of today's youth think that Zionism put into practice is the conflict and current status quo. Let me be clear. The word "Zionism" was created 100 years before the reestablishment of Israel. The ideas behind Zionism were born the second Judea/Israel was conquered by the Romans some 2,000 years ago.
The conflict and current status quo should never be blamed on Jewish independence, strength, or self-determination. The conflict and status quo is a direct result and the consequence of 3 failed genocidal attempts from the surrounding Arab countries to ethnically cleanse the Jews out of their land.
The conflict and status quo is a direct result and the consequence of too many failed Arab policies by leaders like Amin al-Husseini, Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashal who have used their positions as dictators and done everything in their power to produce Palestinian suffering in order to manufacture a conflict that has resulted in the deaths of thousands, for the sole purpose of receiving billions of dollars in aid and getting their personal pockets filled.
For these so-called "leaders", it is functional to keep Palestinians suffering because it allows their scam to continue and their pockets to run heavy.
Israel is more powerful than the Palestinians, which gives it an even greater responsibility to change the conflict and status quo, but the consequences of the wars and policies of these Arab leaders do not get to be blamed on Jewish self-determination just because they failed to destroy Israel and driving the Jews into the sea.
If you go "all in" and you lose, you don't get to blame the person who “called” for your loss.
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Israeli Zionist Runs For Gaza
On March 30th, 2019 Israeli-Zionist and professional tri-athlete Tom Wassermann bravely registered and participated in the GAZA 5K run in New York City. This event was organized to raise money for children suffering from mental health issues due to the conflict in Gaza over the past several years.
When it comes to the conflict, there is always a greater context that must be understood and definitely deep emotions that run through those affected from it on all sides.
Regardless of the context or narrative, one is associated to, innocent lives are affected on both sides and the only way to break out of this one Vs the other paradigm is for the populations on both sides to start seeing and valuing the humanity of the other.
Our goal was to prove that Israelis and Zionists could show solidarity with innocent children from Gaza suffering from the conflict, having nothing to do with political positions and without using this opportunity to point fingers or wage blame.
Change can begin when we can see each other's humanity especially passed the names and symbols that we carry.
Tom won 3rd place in the race, but things got violent and he was not able to stay long enough to receive his award since his safety was at serious risk. At first, many individuals came up to Tom congratulating him on his courage and efforts in participating with a message of coexistence. However, it didn't take long for people to begin swarming him with severe death threats and eventually punches were thrown at Tom.
We need to solve the injustices that both experience. We need to fulfill the aspirations that both need. The only we do that. Is together.
It takes two to challenge the status quo. Let's not wait for another generation. Our time is now.
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Produced by Leibman Productions
Narrated by Rudy Rochman רודי רושמן
Ran by Tom Wassermann
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Nazi Destroyed By Proud Jew
Outside of the 2019 AIPAC Policy conference, a Nazi by the name of Chris Dorsey showed up to broadcast his evil ideology and to let the world know that he believes that “all Jews should be lawfully executed”.
It is important to comprehend that he is not just one “crazy person” that should be ignored and disregarded. He is one of many thousands who hold such views, which are currently lurking in the shadows waiting for a time to come where they can act upon their beliefs.
Freedom of speech is a very important part of today’s modern societies. However, no one should be free from the social consequences that come from such hate speech. In other words, Chris and his minions should have the freedom to say what they want, but the society as a whole must reject his ideas and those alike should suffer the social consequences for holding such views.
While today’s Nazis are working to change minds and to bring masses closer to their ideas, what are we doing? It was not too long ago in Europe that too many said “nothing would happen”, “just ignore them”, “don’t worry, this is just temporary” or “there is nothing we can do about it”.
Anti-Semitism grows because it is allowed to grow. It is the responsibility of Jews and those who value humanity, to make sure that anti-Semitism is kept down, and if it begins to rise, it means we are failing.
Saying “Never Again”, does not mean that the Holocaust (or something like it) won’t happen again. Saying “Never Again” is taking the commitment in each generation to make sure that nothing remotely close to Jewish persecution ever happens again.
Anti-Semitism exists on both extremities, on the far-right and on the far-left. Jews are accused of being the “evil controlling-capitalists” in one breath and the “horrible globalist-communists” in another. We see anti-Semitism spreading again today, but nothing is new. We do not need to relearn the lessons that our grandparents’ generations learned the hard way.
It is our time to make a stand, to strengthen and to empower the youth, to take the next chapter of Jewish history in our hands, and to ideologically destroy any movement that seeks to limit or persecute our identity, people, rights and aspirations.
Am Israel will Chai, but it is our job to maximize the ‘Chai’ (LIFE) and to minimize the ‘Mavet’ (DEATH).
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Lost Jews Debate Zionist Jew
Jewish self-determination meets Jewish self-destruction.
At the 2019 AIPAC Policy Conference we set out to speak with some of the most fundamental and violent individuals against Israel. Among the crowd were Neturei Karta & the Satmar Jews.
These "Lost Jews" make up less than .1% of the total Jewish People, which Jews as a whole make up around .02% of the world's population. The conclusions and ideas of Neturei Karta and the Satmar Jews stem from deep emotional, psychological and generational traumas from living 2,000 years in the diaspora with tremendous pain and suffering. This has caused them to reject any form of Jewish empowerment, and to ultimately believe that Jews must remain oppressed and live in persecution, "since that is G-d's will".
A "debate" is a competitive match of ideas that is utilized to clarify or strengthen one or more positions. In order to successfully come to a debate, one must understand the rules of engagement and the context and basis for which the ideas are being articulated.
Neturei Karta and Satmar are religious-orthodox fundamentalists who use the Torah (Judean Bible) to justify their claims and positions in standing against Israel and attempting to counter any form of Jewish empowerment or self-determination.
As an individual free-thinking Jew who is independent and subscribes only to the collective of the Nation of Israel, I avoid using the Torah (Judean Bible) to justify any claim for Israel's legitimacy. The vast majority of the world does not believe in the Torah (Judean Bible), or at least in the Jewish version/interpretation of it, so why would I use scriptures to narrate or explain my people’s positions? There are plenty of valid claims for Israel‘s right to exist on its own that are based on accepted world facts and history, that sourcing scriptures for justification in a secular non-Jewish world is completely counterproductive.
That being said, when talking with individuals who base their positions on scriptures, it is often necessary to know and even use such scriptures in order to get such individuals to understand how their logic is wrong and to disprove their claims.
It is import to remember that these Jews have a “shtetl mindset”, which is remanent of the way many of Jews displaced in Europe for 2,000 years saw the world pre-1948.
Jews were not only physically broken in their diaspora, but had also been mentally broken and acquired a sort of Stockholm syndrome, where they mostly believed there was no way for them to fight back and to take their future into their own hands, thus concluding that it had to be from G-d that they were suffering and they must remain in pain until G-d liberates them.
Thankfully, most of the Judean Population has since evolved out of mental diaspora through the movement of Zionism, that sparked Jewish liberation, both physically and mentally.
In this video, Jewish self-determination meets Jewish self-destruction.
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In collaboration with J-TV: Jewish Ideas. Global Relevance.
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Israeli & Palestinian Activists Come Together
At the 2019 AIPAC Policy Conference, many protesters rallied outside to voice their opposition to the State of Israel. Most were vehemently against any form of Jewish empowerment and were not interested in any sort of dialogue that included talking about Jewish rights, suffering, or aspirations.
After spending hours debating individuals from different backgrounds, we finally came across a young Palestinian independent activist who was willing to engage in dialogue focused on building a better future for all peoples living in the region.
Today, most activists, or individuals in power, use one group's suffering as a tool to attack the other side and illustrate their vision of the future as a zero-sum game. In other words, most who are "pro-Palestinian" are actually just anti-Israel and use the Palestinian cause to mask their true intentions, and most who are "pro-Israel" never actually learn about Palestinian struggles nor take their future as human beings into consideration.
Although there was plenty that the two of us disagreed on, we were also able to find a lot of common ground, especially on our outlook for the region's future and bringing both sides together.
To resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it will take both the Israelis and the Palestinians. Those currently in power have no interest in changing the status quo, so change can only truly begin with the people, particularly the younger generation.
It is the responsibility of those who live in the region to write a better future and to understand that life will only get better for one side when the other side is no longer the antagonist of their own storyline.
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Video Produced by Leibman Productions
In collaboration with J-TV: Jewish Ideas. Global Relevance.
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i24 News - Israel on Campus Interview
Interview en Français (English Subtitles)
i24 NEWS hosted Noam Ohana, Benjamin Canet and Rudy Rochman to discuss today's political climate regarding Israel on college campuses.
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Origins Of "Palestine"
Where does the word "Palestine" come from? How has it evolved through time? What does it mean in today's geopolitical context?
Filmed in 2018
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Confused Protesters Hit With Reality
Outside of every AIPAC Policy Conference exists a large protest of anti-Israel individuals. Although these individuals gather to counter the support for Israel, they are definitely not a monolithic group and some have extremely dangerous views, while others are sold lies in order to get them to reject Jewish self-determination or empowerment.
Unfortunately, many of these protesters don’t even know what they are doing there, and have been manipulated into believing that everyone attending the conference has a fixed set of wicked opinions, that corporate interest groups choose who gets to participate in the conference, that a solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being secretly developed inside while intentionally leaving Palestinians out of the conversation, and that Israelis/Zionists are political abstract monsters that represent the source of evil in this world.
This is without mentioning the fact that most of these protestors have absolutely no understanding of what Zionism represents in theory and in practice, nor do they have much factual knowledge on the region’s history and conflict. Instead, they are subconsciously trained to repeat the same empty blanket statements rather than thinking critically and realizing that the conflict cannot be understood through a lens that views the solutions to the problems as a zero-sum game.
Although many Palestinians are there that truly care about their own future, most of the protesters are just riding off of Palestinian suffering as political ammunition to attack Israel’s legitimacy, to demonize Israel, and to hold double standards that causes the world to conclude that Israel/the Jewish People are a problem that needs to be eradicated.
If one truly cares about Palestinians, they must not be pro-Palestinian as a cover for being anti-Israel. There is no solution where one or both populations disappear, so the only way to move forward is for both sides to find organic ways to come together and establishing a reality that both can exist without the cost for existence being the other.
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Video Produced by Leibman Productions
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EXPLOSIVE! Israeli & Palestinian Debate at UC Berkeley
Most of my debates and conversations usually stem from engaging individuals at an event or college campus in order to exchange ideas and perspectives. This time around, as a group of us Israeli friends were walking by the UC Berkeley entrance gate, an extremely aggressive man ambushed us with insults and profanities.
How did this happen?
Well, one of the individuals walking by me was wearing a t-shirt with the word “Israel” on it, which was enough to trigger one of the biggest Israel Vs. Palestine showdown debates at UC Berkeley, and ultimately causing this man to turn into a shameful aggressor who was unwilling to have any sort of reasonable or respectful dialogue.
This occurrence happened organically and is a perfect example and microcosm of how the conversation surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict takes place on college campuses and amongst the next generation’s intellectual class. Unfortunately, very few people still care about the truth or study the history of the region with concrete facts. What matters today, is being able to manipulate narratives and to intentionally play on an audience’s emotions to vilify and to demonize the side that you are against.
The Pro-Israel voice on college campuses focuses on showcasing the story of Israel and its successes over immense struggles in order for the world to understand and accept their identity and right to exist.
Sadly, the “Palestinian voice” on college campuses does not focus on promoting Palestinian culture or grass-root efforts to building unity in the region, but rather focuses their energy and resources on demonizing Israel’s image and attacking its legitimacy in the eyes of the world. I used quotations around “Palestinian voices” because Palestinian voices have been hijacked by individuals who claim to represent the Palestinians on campuses, but in reality only cherry-pick instances of Palestinian suffering, when it has to do with Israel, to pursue a political and anti-Semitic agenda of destroying the Jewish State.
In other words, they are not “pro-Palestinian” voices, they are masked “anti-Israel” voices pretending to destroy Israel for the sake of Palestinians.
They use the same strategies that Adolf Hitler used to convince Europe that the Jewish People were the world’s problem and had to be exterminated. Hitler did this by finding the source of suffering in Europe (the economic situation) and blaming that on the Jews, turning them into everyone’s enemy and source of suffering. This strategy is used on campuses today by anti-Israel activists reaching out and building coalitions with every minority group in order to convince them that Israel is either causing the same pain they suffer from to others, or even worse, that Israel is actually the direct cause of their community’s suffering.
When people say that anti-Zionism is today’s evolved form of anti-Semitism, it is not because people can, or want to be critical of Israeli policies and disagree with certain politicians. All citizens of all countries criticize their governments and politicians, including Israelis. This has nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with legitimacy and identity. Anti-Zionism is really a movement that seeks to keep the Israeli-Palestinian conflict going in order to undue and attack anything that empowers the Jewish People, especially their own indigenous liberation movement.
Anti-Israel individuals like the man in this video actually prevent Palestinians and pro-Palestinian activists from being able to engage with Israelis and pro-Israel activists in finding common ground, humanizing both sides, and being able to develop real grassroots relations that are crucial for the growth of a better future and changing the status quo.
Knowledge is power. Knowing the facts is extremely important, but if you do not understand the other side’s strategy, and are unable to communicate your message to your market, then you and your facts will fall together. We must empower the next generation, to be stronger than our own in order for them to write a better future.
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Life Of An Arab-Muslim In Israel
Perceptions of someone or something are usually just constructed off of one's acquired knowledge and experiences. Too many people have deep and internal xenophobic sentiments against other human beings, individuals or collectives, because they are either not informed or were exposed to false information.
In Israel, 20% of the population are Israeli-Arabs, yet their voices, stories, struggles, aspirations, or even accomplishments are rarely broadcasted or revealed to the rest of the world.
Mohammad Kabiya - מוחמד כעביה is an Israeli Muslim Arab Bedouin that lives in Ka'abiyye Village, Israel. He served in the IDF in the Search & Rescue Unit and today works to integrate Israel’s minority communities into the larger society, while being a voice that so many need.
This is just one of many beautiful stories that the world needs to see.
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Support Our Work On Patreon!
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3 Israeli Leaders Unite & Discuss The Future Of Israel On Campus - Part 1
Rudy Rochman רודי רושמן, Adela Cojab & Justin Feldman Explain How To Lead The Next Chapter Of Jewish History - Part 1: On JBS News By Brooke Goldstein
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Anti-Semitism On Campus Explained
A lot of people always ask or attempt to understand how the Jews are being targeted on college campuses today.
The answer is simple. There is a group on most campuses, that targets every minority group around, and attempts to get everyone to the conclusion, that Israel (the Jewish People) represents, and is directly connected to, everything negative that any individual experiences and is the cause for every minority group's collective struggle.
Thus getting people to the conclusion, that the only way they can ever achieve justice, whether for the individual or the collective, is to rid or attack the source of the problem, which has become Israel (the Jew).
JEWS. HEBREWS. ISRAEL. Call it what you want, but the second you blame everything on one people, one place, one civilization, one identity, and one nation, or pretend to care about Palestinians as a cover for attacking Jews, it is called anti-Semitism.
It just changes forms with time, but it's the same thing that every generation of Jews has experienced.
It is time to understand it and deal with it.
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Why Are Jews Indigenous to Israel?
What Makes Jews Indigenous to the Land of Israel?
Most of the world thinks that Judaism is just a religion. A religion that may have originated in the land of Israel, but that has since spread all across the globe.
Unfortunately, this couldn't be farther from the truth. Judaism is not a religion that spread across borders and across peoples, it is a preservation tool that a specific people created in order to safeguard their identity as they were being torn apart from their native lands. A preservation tool that always sought to one day reunite the Jews with their homeland to restore their civilization. Jews, Hebrews, Israelites, are all synonyms for one people that were forced to cross many borders, and not a belief system that spread onto other nations.
As long as Jews continue to define their culture and identity by western terms designated to describe actual religions, the misunderstanding of who the Jewish People really are will only continue.
Jews must narrate their own story.
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Stop Abusing Palestinian Suffering!
You can be Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian. Anyone that says otherwise is perpetuating an ideological war of weaponized nationalism.
Palestinian suffering is real, and it is happening on too many fronts. A true representative of the Palestinian People, or activist that fights for Palestinian rights, is one that cares about all forms of Palestinian suffering, and not just about cherry-picking certain instances of Palestinian suffering when it can be manipulated as political ammunition against another people.
More often than not, “Palestinian activists” do not actually care about solving or fixing injustices that Palestinians experience. It is functional for them to keep Palestinians as victims, and to strategically only talk about suffering that can be used as a tool to attack Israel’s legitimacy and identity.
Their “anti-normalization” policy is proof. The reality is that there is no future where the Israelis or the Palestinians just disappear. So refusing to engage with Israelis and demonizing Israel only serves as fuel to this seemingly everlasting conflict.
Such voices are only using and abusing Palestinians in order to pursue their true agenda, which is to counter Israel/Jews. These movements not only cause further separation between Israelis and Palestinians, but hijack all spaces that real Palestinian activists need in order to create the necessary dialogue to move forward and policies to change the future.
Video by Andrew Leibman
Featuring Jonathan Karten
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Conversation: Israeli "Settlements" & Expansion
Too many today have willingly engaged, or been tricked into, an ideological front attempting to minimize Jewish identity, disconnect Jews from their native land/culture, and demonizing the very idea of Jews living and being empowered in their homeland.
Judea & Samaria, also referred to as the “West Bank” (British name), is the cradle of Jewish civilization. Jews rebuilding their cities and villages is not an act of colonization. To the contrary, it is an act of decolonization. Jews returning to their native homeland and reviving their civilization is an act of justice that undoes the injustices that were committed against them.
There have always been non-Jews living in Israel. Even when we go back thousands of years, non-Jews were a minority, but they lived as equals in Judea/Israel. Palestinians/Arabs, Christians, Druze, Bedouin, Cherkesim, Armenians, or any other non-Jewish minority group living in Israel, has the right to full equality. The problem today is with Gaza and Judea & Samaria (West Bank).
There is a 3-part-occupation in Judea & Samaria that forces both Israelis and Palestinians to suffer while preventing both sides from ultimately achieving justice and a sense of self-determination.
The reality is that the status quo is unjust to all players on the ground, and in order to move forward and obtain a better future, we must end the injustices that all sides experience while creating a reality that helps those involved achieve their aspirations.
The injustices on either side were caused by a series of wars. The only way that we move forward is for both sides to stop illustrating their narratives as completely opposing to one another. Justice for Israel is not the defeat of Palestinians and justice for Palestinians is not the defeat of Israel. If you are pushing such a view, your ideas are the fuel that allows this conflict to live on.
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Verbal Attacks Turn To Proactive Conversation
Angry anti-Israel protestors verbally attack Israeli for wanting to engage in conversation at a protest right outside of an Israel conference.
Most anti-Israel protestors are aggressive and sometimes even violent, but all of them genuinely think they are on the side of justice. There is no doubt that many of these people do not actually care about Palestinians, but rather are fueled with a hatred towards Israel & Jews, and just use Palestinian suffering as a tool to attack Jewish self-determination.
However, there are many who truly do care, and if you are persistent, you may also find common ground with such individuals and even start real conversations with future leaders about creating a better future that does not use one people's suffering as a tool to inflict pain on the other.
It is time to start speaking and engaging with each other to create the reality that we truly seek to achieve. We are writing the future that our children will live in now.
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