👏👏👏👏👏👏 An epic monologue, Ted and the one that we desperately need right now in western civilization! Antizionism is antisemitism, period. End of story. If you deny the Jewish people the right to self-determination while being fine with it for all others, that is antisemitism! Oh, so the Irish, Italians, Germans, Poles, Greeks, Czechs, Russians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Finns, Swedes, Slovaks, Bosnians, South Koreans, Algerians, Moroccans, Tunisians, Senegalese, Libyans, Nigerians, and Samoans can all have states and no one disputes that ever but Israel’s existence is contested all the time?
But Israel gets labeled a settler-colonial or ethno-state? It reeks of a double standard! I block all antizionist creators on Substack. I will NOT tolerate them being in my feed! Especially not after the Bondi Beach Shooting. I left a Substack page I had supported since it’s early days and broke it off with and blocked the creators whom I had made friends with, because they refused to accept Israel’s right to exist and claimed Zionism was a form of identity politics comparable to Nazism. That I simply could not have! I have many Jewish friends and professional connections. Every time something happens to Jews in the news cycle I fear for you Ted, for Liza Libes, for Daniel Serret-Clarke, for Nacham Kaplan, for Joshua Huffman, and many others.
I will use an example, my internet friend Liza Libes whom Ted knows well and has had on his show, I have sent at least two messages too urging her to keep herself safe. I simply can’t even bring myself to even think about what happened at Bondi Beach happening to any of these folks I know online. Antizionists are just as guilty as Jihadists of putting the Jewish people in danger. Hanukkah is a Zionist holiday plain and simple! It’s not just about some vague message of spreading light. It’s about the Jewish people taking action, defending themselves and fighting for their freedom when threatened or oppressed by an enemy. The Maccabees didn’t sit around and say woe as me when they were living under the domination of the Hellenistic Greek Empire and the cruel tyrant King Antiochus IV. They took up arms and gave the Greeks a good thrashing. They recaptured Jerusalem, retook the Second Temple and cleansed it. Hanukkah is a celebration of the unbreakable and ironclad spirit of the Jewish people! They have always fought darkness with light. While others destroy they build.
When they are oppressed, they fight back. The Jewish people returned to their ancient homeland, turned a desert into a garden, liberated it from the British Empire and the Arabs, and made it into a regional power with one of the best militaries in the world and a first-world, developed industrialized nation with high rates of happiness, social solidarity and the highest birth rates in the western world. Israel is the indispensable nation! A world leader in science, technology, medicine, engineering, water, agriculture, and environmentalism.
The Jewish people built all that with their own two hands! Christians and Muslims treated them like absolute s*** and refused to ever accept them. They were murdered, tortured, expelled, raped, robbed, and victims of pogroms and genocide. Both Hitler and Stalin tried to wipe them off the face of the Earth just in different ways. But none of their enemies succeeded or are here today. But the Jewish people did and are! The Jewish people and their allies must fight on alone and we will win! No more cowering while Jihadism and mass immigration run amok! No more ignoring antisemitism! No more terrorists being let into the country! We have more than enough darkness. This holiday season, spread light! Spread joy! Spread comfort! I salute Ahmed al-Ahmed for his courage! The problem isn’t Islam, it’s Islamism!
Anthony Albanese is a moral disgrace, I call on him to resign! Moral courage, he does NOT have! Many western leaders do not. Charlie Hebdo happened and that cartoon doesn’t exist anymore because the West cowers at the altar of political correctness and radicalism. Enough! Radical leftists are no better. Antifa, Communists, Socialists, Redneck Revolt, BLM, and Students for Justice in Palestine are garbage. They are useful idiots for Jihadists. As to the Sydney Police, you are all a disgrace and you should all be fired and lost your badges! I’m a Lutheran and I think it’s ridiculous and shameful Jews can’t go anywhere without being harassed or can’t where their Star of David necklaces or kippa. It’s not acceptable especially in the western world! We need moral clarity now more than ever which is why I’m subscribed to Ted!
It is so crucial right now, we spread education on the Jewish people and antisemitism! So I’ll leave some resources down below!
Books:
• A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson
• Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country in the World by Noa Tishby
• Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis
• Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Hostage by Eli Sharabi
• Jews vs. Romans: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World’s Mightiest Empire by Barry Strauss
• A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
• A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Established of the State of Israel by Walter Laqueur
• American Judaism: A History by Jonathan D. Sarna
• Lincoln and the Jews: A History by Jonathan D. Sarna
• When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan D. Sarna
• Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius
• Holocaust: A History by Deborah Dwork
• History on Trial: My Day in Court With a Holocaust Denier by Deborah E. Lipstadt
Films/Documentaries:
• Schindler’s List
• Shoah
• Europa, Europa
• Image Before My Eyes
• A Yiddish World Remembered
• Screams Before Silence
• We Will Dance Again
• Hope in the Holy Land
• Frontline: Memory of the Camps
• The Devil’s Arithmetic
• The Jewish Cardinal
• Miracle at Midnight
• Defiance
• Uprising
👏👏👏👏👏👏 An epic monologue, Ted and the one that we desperately need right now in western civilization! Antizionism is antisemitism, period. End of story. If you deny the Jewish people the right to self-determination while being fine with it for all others, that is antisemitism! Oh, so the Irish, Italians, Germans, Poles, Greeks, Czechs, Russians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Finns, Swedes, Slovaks, Bosnians, South Koreans, Algerians, Moroccans, Tunisians, Senegalese, Libyans, Nigerians, and Samoans can all have states and no one disputes that ever but Israel’s existence is contested all the time?
But Israel gets labeled a settler-colonial or ethno-state? It reeks of a double standard! I block all antizionist creators on Substack. I will NOT tolerate them being in my feed! Especially not after the Bondi Beach Shooting. I left a Substack page I had supported since it’s early days and broke it off with and blocked the creators whom I had made friends with, because they refused to accept Israel’s right to exist and claimed Zionism was a form of identity politics comparable to Nazism. That I simply could not have! I have many Jewish friends and professional connections. Every time something happens to Jews in the news cycle I fear for you Ted, for Liza Libes, for Daniel Serret-Clarke, for Nacham Kaplan, for Joshua Huffman, and many others.
I will use an example, my internet friend Liza Libes whom Ted knows well and has had on his show, I have sent at least two messages too urging her to keep herself safe. I simply can’t even bring myself to even think about what happened at Bondi Beach happening to any of these folks I know online. Antizionists are just as guilty as Jihadists of putting the Jewish people in danger. Hanukkah is a Zionist holiday plain and simple! It’s not just about some vague message of spreading light. It’s about the Jewish people taking action, defending themselves and fighting for their freedom when threatened or oppressed by an enemy. The Maccabees didn’t sit around and say woe as me when they were living under the domination of the Hellenistic Greek Empire and the cruel tyrant King Antiochus IV. They took up arms and gave the Greeks a good thrashing. They recaptured Jerusalem, retook the Second Temple and cleansed it. Hanukkah is a celebration of the unbreakable and ironclad spirit of the Jewish people! They have always fought darkness with light. While others destroy they build.
When they are oppressed, they fight back. The Jewish people returned to their ancient homeland, turned a desert into a garden, liberated it from the British Empire and the Arabs, and made it into a regional power with one of the best militaries in the world and a first-world, developed industrialized nation with high rates of happiness, social solidarity and the highest birth rates in the western world. Israel is the indispensable nation! A world leader in science, technology, medicine, engineering, water, agriculture, and environmentalism.
The Jewish people built all that with their own two hands! Christians and Muslims treated them like absolute s*** and refused to ever accept them. They were murdered, tortured, expelled, raped, robbed, and victims of pogroms and genocide. Both Hitler and Stalin tried to wipe them off the face of the Earth just in different ways. But none of their enemies succeeded or are here today. But the Jewish people did and are! The Jewish people and their allies must fight on alone and we will win! No more cowering while Jihadism and mass immigration run amok! No more ignoring antisemitism! No more terrorists being let into the country! We have more than enough darkness. This holiday season, spread light! Spread joy! Spread comfort! I salute Ahmed al-Ahmed for his courage! The problem isn’t Islam, it’s Islamism!
Anthony Albanese is a moral disgrace, I call on him to resign! Moral courage, he does NOT have! Many western leaders do not. Charlie Hebdo happened and that cartoon doesn’t exist anymore because the West cowers at the altar of political correctness and radicalism. Enough! Radical leftists are no better. Antifa, Communists, Socialists, Redneck Revolt, BLM, and Students for Justice in Palestine are garbage. They are useful idiots for Jihadists. As to the Sydney Police, you are all a disgrace and you should all be fired and lost your badges! I’m a Lutheran and I think it’s ridiculous and shameful Jews can’t go anywhere without being harassed or can’t where their Star of David necklaces or kippa. It’s not acceptable especially in the western world! We need moral clarity now more than ever which is why I’m subscribed to Ted!