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Ian Mark Sirota's avatar

I feel this. It is horrible and so heartbreaking to watch.

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Debbie Weiss's avatar

Thank you, Ian, for letting me know this resonated.

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Les Vitailles's avatar

Thomas Sowell has mentioned that the only thing Jews can do to end Antisemitism is to fail. As long as Jews succeed, antisemitism will continue.

Israel's amazing success, in economy (GDP 60% larger than Iran), high technology, science (6 scientists working in Israeli universities have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry since 2000), desalination, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, advanced materials imply the root cause of antisemitism will persist.

19% of all Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and 25% of all Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Medicine were awarded to Jewish scientists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates

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Debbie Weiss's avatar

Excellent points, thank you! My dad is a retired nuclear physicist and talks about how many other physicists are Jewish. ( And how many well known people came from his old high school in Brooklyn).

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Joost Becker's avatar

Keep safe and strong All !!

Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱

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Debbie Weiss's avatar

Thank you as well!

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Michael Golden's avatar

Thank you, Joost! 🔯👊

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Julie Zuckerman's avatar

Thanks Debbie, and good luck with your writing. Which publishing house explicitly stated it doesn’t publish Zionist authors?

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Debbie Weiss's avatar

I heard about this publishing house from a Facebook post in a private group called “Never Alone Book Club.” It was some time last year but I did post on that group and will reply if I get an answer. It was a small, new house if I recall. (There were too many posts to scroll through back to last year).

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Erika Dreifus's avatar

I'm wondering which new publishing house this is, too.

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Nancy F's avatar

The least you can do to still be considered even vaguely acceptable is to denounce Netanyahu. But that was almost two years ago.

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Debbie Weiss's avatar

It did feel like every acceptable statement had to start with a denunciation. Then you could say something else.

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Les Vitailles's avatar

Few kappos survived the Holocaust, a lesson worth keeping in mind today.

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Valerie Hiltz's avatar

How awful! It saddens my heart. The world is so off kilter.

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Debbie Weiss's avatar

I so agree!

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

WATCH NOW: 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' – The Full Film They Didn't Want You To See zeteo.com/p/watch-now-...

This is unbelievable. I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race that can participate in these atrocities. Sickening. Criminal.

Gaza and the Palestinians are being systematically erased. Do Israelis expect us to believe that every citizen is Hamas. This is utter genocide of an entire innocent population to justify revenge on a radicalized few. Indiscriminate retribution against women and children, who are flesh and blood like your own loved ones.

Netanyahu is undeniably a war criminal deserving of the harshest of punishments. That so many enthusiastically condone and follow his orders is a scary reality.

That America's Commander in Chief can witness the carnage and not only assist in its execution, but gleefully see the devastation as a golden real estate opportunity speaks volumes of the perilous times ahead for the US.

That Trump can openly support another attempted genocide perpetrated by Putin in Ukraine, further demonstrates his corrupt criminality and lack of a soul.

Whenever I think of the despicable actions of Adolph Hitler in the past, I cannot help myself from condemning Netanyahu, Putin and Trump as the Hitlers of the present

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Debbie Weiss's avatar

John, I disagree with the analogies you make here. But the point I want to make is that when we speak up about anti-semitism, we get rhetoric against Netanyahu in response. Notably absent is compassion related to the terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens which began all of this. Second, not supporting a particular government does not excuse racial discrimination. We don’t have to accept antisemitism in this country (and elsewhere) because the current Israeli leader is problematic. You wouldn’t want people conflating your views with those of our current president.

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Cindy Rubin's avatar

John, you are either naive or you have an agenda per both of your postings. In the end, it seems you just tuned into Middle-east news specifically targeting Israel.

This video might help you begin learning more about Gazan / Westbank Muslims. The video is by a moderate Muslim who grew up in Gaza and finally was able to compare and contrast.

Today, Israel is at war, with a Gazan Muslim community that never wanted peace with Israel. (Let me repeat that: never.) **If you do not understand that then you do not know the history when the British divided up our ancient lands. (The Israelites accepted for the sake of peace...now, do your homework,)

▪︎ Yes, you are absolutely buying into the Gazan Muslim's propaganda.

▪︎ Yes, war is never pretty but not once did you reference what began this war: October 7th Massacre.

In my humble opinion, you need to do your homework before you have an opinion sharing negative propaganda against a truly great nation, country, and faith. --Good luck and please do your research on Democratic Israel before you side with the folks who are actually listed on the USA's foreign terrorist list . gov list for years now.

Am Yiseral Chai: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. ♡

Here is the link, if it is not live then copy and paste it in your browser to open it.

https://youtu.be/pPzIRijp9Jo?si=tAxFwrLHJ2MParA_

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Debbie Weiss's avatar

Really well said, Cindy. Thank you.

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Kip🎗️'s avatar

You're a moron and a liar. This "documentary" was literally made in conjunction with Hamas. This has been established for months, and it's the reason why even the BBC, which made it, ended up not airing it.

Go fuck yourself, you shriveled, impotent jerkoff neo-Nazi.

You're welcome.

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Nancy F's avatar

The video has been removed. I will the willful ignorance and hatred in your heart will be removed as well.

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

Don’t be an ostrich and bury your head in the sand Nancy. The evidence is before your eyes. I’m sorry you don’t want to see it. This is not Christianity.

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Kip🎗️'s avatar

This idiot actually cites Mehdi Hasan.

Jew-haters are all the same. He proves the point of your essay.

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