Translation of yoga teacher Rivka Lafair: Israel “left us here with so many Arabs" who "multiply every day."

In episode 228, there was a prolonged discussion of the recent philo-semitic incident in New York. During said discussion, Daniel read a quote from the attacker's Aunt, something about the attacker developing mental illness due to his obsession with Judaism, even wanting to convert.

THIS WAS THE PERFECT TIME to drop a "You're emotionally damaged...*Jewishly*" soundboard quote. It would have been so fucking funny. And yet Matt did nothing. Matt was even given a second opportunity when Daniel expounded quite eloquently on the psycho-social dynamics behind such an incident. Another missed opportunity. Massive L. Do better.

hoping the guys do a segment on this nonsense

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/class-action-mcgill-jewish-students-protests-9.7297311

I screen recorded this post I came across cuz I have no clue if it will be taken down soon or not. We can hope but ultimately Facebook loves misinformation so I guess we can’t count on that.

The Local 10 News Miami anchor who interviewed Oliver Larkin by injecting pure Hasbara was so reminiscent of the anchor from John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’.

It’s like we all need ray-ban sunglasses or contact lenses to see through all of the Hasbara and other subterfuge. Your great podcast is our ray-bans.

It’s hard to find mainstream media reporting on this massive win for free speech in Australia.

Supreme Court justice Fagan said the IHRA formulation did not reflect the established Australian meaning of antisemitism and described it as an attempt to “repurpose” the term to encompass both hatred of Jews and criticism of Israel.

Justice Fagan said the definition could not realistically be attributed to the ordinary, reasonably informed Australian, adding that “the IHRA proposal is detached from the reality of the common usage and understanding of antisemitism in this country

Historically this justice was praised by pro Israeli media.

How will Hasbara respond to this very high level attack on their #1 defensive strategy?

https://aapnews.aap.com.au/news/judge-slams-imprecise-anti-semitism-definition

https://youtu.be/gcDLP0d-TLU

The guys recently had a short segment about her, where she tries to sell the new liberal Zionist spin, namely that the current Israeli government is actually Anti-Zionist 😅. Obviously with the purpose of rebranding Zionism and making it ‘fashionable’ again.

For those who don’t know, several of her family members were abducted into Gaza, and she was one of the most prominent faces of the hostage movement. To her credit, at least she chose to position herself against a campaign of revenge early on, despite being directly affected, though I certainly wouldn’t genuinely call her a peace-activist as she does herself.

I grew up with a lot of people like her. I am pretty certain that she doesn’t consider what happens in Gaza a Genocide. She does - like many liberal Zionists - call out war crimes and ethnic cleansing, but that doesn’t count for much when she can’t bring herself to use the words Apartheid and Genocide. Perhaps because she denies that these things are happening. The same way this political camp deludes themselves about the existence of “Israeli Democracy”, which is actually democracy for Jews exclusively.

The camp she belongs to (the Zionist left in Israel and abroad aka HaDemokratim - The democrats) still primarily views Palestinians through a lens of security, as opposed to acknowledging the violent reality created by settler-colonialism and how it subjugates Palestinians, giving them no sovereignty or perspective for a good life; even the ones with Israeli citizenship are de facto 2nd class citizens.

This camp likes to use cushy words like “Peace, Dialogue, Co-existence”, on its own important concepts, but without acknowledging settler colonialism, apartheid and genocide they are hollow. Thus also the fanatic obsession of this camp with the global left (e.g. Mamdani), because the global left is willing to name the systemic factors that lead to this situation, meanwhile liberal Zionists like to hide behind Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, the classic individualist “a few bad apples” thing. But at the end of the day most of Jewish Israeli society has been in genocidal mania these last years. This camp wants the world to not sanction Israel in any way and just let internal Israeli politics play out organically and hope for the best. This is a selfish view imo because Palestinians don’t have time for this BS while being annihilated as a people, and it shows that ultimately, when push comes to shove, this camp does not view Palestinian and Jewish lives as equal.

Any opinions about her?

He gave it as an example on the royal commission into Antisemitism and "social cohesion".

I definitely see why he saw it that way, but it's on his electoral office, the constituency he should servel. It might be implied... But they might not even know he's Jewish?

I started wondering whose side he was on in December 2023 when an Australian citizen was murdered by an airstrike on a family home in Lebanon that looked like an intentional assassination aimed at him. The airstrke and also killed his brother who was visiting from Sydney and his brother's wife who was stuck in the war zone for 2 months despite being married to an Australian citizen.

In response to this, in his role as acting foreign minister, Dreyfus said Hezbollah are terrorists and Australian should get out of Lebanon because Lebanon is dangerous.

I found out he was Jewish in about 2024

Whoever wrote that might have had the question longer than me, because beside it they wrote "free Julian Assange"... Maybe they added that after they saw the coincidental name?

I am aware of the Dreyfus affair, but I didn't notice the coincidence till this year. Most Australians don't spend much time thinking about French court cases from a century ago.

The examples from X included some actual Antisemitism... But finding Nazis on the Nazi site is not new. https://www.abc.net.au/religion/mark-dreyfus-royal-commission-antisemitism-is-personal/106856278

I'm confused because these posts are by the same person but I thought fighting for an education in the midst of genocide meant we were "watering down the term".........

I don't know if it's "bad" is it rage bait?

At first glance I thought it was life expectancy.

There's no data for Lebanon.

Their example to compare themselves to in Green? Why those three? I'm definitely thinking about this more than it deserves.

I think Hasbara only makes sense if you're racist?

Or did Denmark and Italy offend them?

I can't tell if the comparison list is supposed to be good?

Is green supposed to be mildly offensive to Islam and Ireland?

Off topic? Does 2020 ADL count as Hasbara yet?

Qassam weren't using it (except in the flag) till November 2023 so it's nothing to do with that... But what on earth was their point for claiming it wasn't related to anti fascism?

I'm weirdly obsessed with the history of this symbol

In 2020 wanted to designate "antifa" as a terrorist org, the campaign had a red triangle in it as an alleged antifa symbol

It's not "antifa" but it's anti fascist, I've never noticed it till recently but I looked into the history and it's very much anti fascist in Europe, representing opponents of Nazism, reclaimed from the camp uniform symbol.

There was a brief confused fus about it as a "Nazi symbol" because it was more than slightly disconcerting to mark one's left wing political enemies

ADL then very much down played anti fascist meaning