Thoughts and not beliefs, with the occasional wild speculation
JAZ Connect aims to bring greater and increasing visibility to the many anti-Zionist Jews whose voices are currently excluded from mainstream media. How many Jewish anti-Zionists can you name? If only a handful come to mind, you don’t have the full picture. There are hundreds of thousands of anti-Zionist Jews, and hundreds of Jewish anti-Zionist …
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Two influential Jewish Americans promote two of the most pernicious anti-Semitic tropes. In a castigating plea, Harvard professor Ruth Wisse urged Jews everywhere not only to unflinchingly support Israel but to “stand and salute” Benjamin Netanyahu as their leader, warning: “Don’t you dare minimise our leader, don’t you dare call him a chicken shit.” Wisse …
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just accused UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney of “siding with Hamas” following the shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC. This, despite all three leaders, along with many others, publicly condemning the attack. The context is telling. …
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Zionism is as far from Judaism as the edge of the observable universe is from Earth. Zionism is the antithesis of Judaism, and a Zionist the antithesis of a Jew.
And the Little Ones Shall Fall First: On Gideon’s Chariot and the Slaughter of the Innocents Delivered at the Church of Holy Optics, Third Sunday in the 19th month of the Genocide Beloved brothers, sisters, and stakeholders in the Heavenly Brand, We gather today in solemn reflection and holy disbelief at the news from the …
A forensic breakdown of an Israeli spokesman’s public unraveling under real journalism. In an interview with Yama Wolasmal, David Mencer, Israel’s chief international propagandist, visibly crumbles under the pressure of straightforward, honest questioning. I prompted ChatGPT 4o to critique the interview, using the auto-generated transcript available at the YouTube video page: Prompt to ChatGPT: Critique …
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David Mencer is Israel’s chief international propagandist. In an interview with Nick Robinson of BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Mencer expressed the repugnant claim that the picture of a starving child in Gaza, a 6 month old baby called Siwar Ashour, is “a political PR tool of Hamas.” To all right thinking people, Mencer is …
Slogans capturing the spirit of the struggle, as and when they occur. As with South Africa, so with Palestine. FREEDOM
We have spoken softly, respectfully, even pleadingly. We have used the language our oppressors demanded. We have appealed to law, to reason, to shared humanity. We have condemned antisemitism, affirmed Jewish dignity, and insisted that our struggle is against Zionism, not Jews. And still, they call us haters. Still, they smear us as antisemites and …
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In July 2024 the word Gaza was painted in red over the plinth bearing the statue of Anne Frank in the Netherlands. Frank was the innocent Jewish girl murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust, who left her diaries as testament to the world. The Western colonial media clamored to denounce this as an act …