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Marcie's avatar

Thank you for writing this piece. 🎯🎯

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Giulia Beccarelli's avatar

Very true, and the same double standards are always applied by the so-called social warriors anti-this-and-that when the religion of peace is the fascist, racist and suprematist ideology involved. Somehow, its victims have been the problem for 14 centuries, all over the world.

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Beth Lewis's avatar

"when the only thing the Palestinians need freedom from is their own obsessive hatred." Succinct. Great line.

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Liz Wagner's avatar

Palestinianism is pure, genocidal Jew-hatred. It’s meant to erase Jews and everything Jews brought into this world. The moral exceptionalism is, itself, an expression of genocidal Jew-hatred, meant to unashamedly convey depraved indifference to Jewish life.

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Carlavanwalsum8@gmail.com's avatar

Excellently expressed…

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Pete Ross's avatar

Marketing. The jihadis have a huge advantage cuz no heritage of intellectual honesty to grapple with.

Also 911Hoax & CovidHoax was big mistakes cuz now nobody believes nothing.

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Debkin's avatar

What should be obvious is that this extends to their treatment of their own people. Woman steps out of bounds in her behavior. Rape her. It’s excused. Someone opposes Hamas toss him off a building. Jews are just the canaries in the coal mine. The west is not the west anymore bc it doesn’t uphold the values it was built on

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Louis Bell's avatar

Hey man, was scrolling Instagram today, saw one of your posts, and noticed you’d unfollowed me. I’ll be honest, it stung a bit. Then I found your Substack and ended up diving into your writing. It’s clear how much conviction and care you put into it. I wanted to respond, not out of argument, but out of respect for the weight of what you're holding and sharing.

I can feel the pain in your writing. It’s real, and I understand that Jewish history holds profound trauma, and the fear of being erased is real. But pain and fear can cloud clarity.

Condemning violence doesn’t require denying another people’s history, identity, or legitimate suffering. Palestinians aren’t a monolith. Most are not terrorists. Most are not saints. Like all people, they exist in complexity—something your writing seems to refuse to grant them.

You say the world excuses Palestinian violence. I see a world struggling to hold both truths: that Jewish lives matter and must be protected—and that Palestinian lives do too. That what Hamas does is horrific, and that daily structural violence and decades of dispossession by the Israeli state also deserves moral scrutiny. The IDF and Hamas are two sides of the same coin.

Criticism of Israel or Isaleli policy isn’t antisemitism. And Palestinian liberation doesn’t require Jewish annihilation. That framing is rooted in fear, not fact. It’s precisely the kind of narrative that locks people into the eternal cycles of distrust, hate and senseless violence.

If you believe in Jewish moral tradition, or any moral tradition for that matter, apply it universally. The strength of any group, religious or otherwise, isn’t in how fiercely they defend their own, but in how bravely their extend humanity to the other.

I say all this with no personal stakes in either side, and from a place of compassion. I stand for all people—Jewish, Palestinian or other. Just sharing my thoughts as inspired by your writing.

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”

— Rumi

Peace and love.

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Edward Nathan Schwarz's avatar

The pot calling the kettle black. - 9/11 was an inside job - controlled demolition and Israel Mossad had a hand in on it - setting up the demolition ordinances (Dancing Israelis).

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Sara L.P.'s avatar

But how do we break out of this echo chamber and serially stop the bullet train that has swept the globe

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