He said more words than there were people in the audience that understood the joke.

Is this the oldest Mania ever?

Saying that Israeli and Jew are the same does nothing to refute my point that that criticizing Israel doesn’t make me an anti Semite, and don’t even compare the threat of death facing an Israeli farmer most likely living on illegally sized land to a Palestinian living in gaza. You can shout about hamas using human…

You do realize that there are Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel who would be happy to spit on you and beat the crap out of you for being gay, right? Just like there are Palestinians in the occupied territories who would be perfectly happy to ignore you.

When was the last time one of those rockets actually killed someone? Ever since Israel installed the iron dome I don’t think the rockets have produced more than a handful of fatalities compared to the thousands killed by Israeli strikes.

Nothing I said had anything to do with anti semitism just because I criticize Israel for leveling a section of gaza every few months doesn’t make me anti Semitic. 

Self-determination means people decide for themselves. Meaning, again, you cannot decide on their behalf. Yes, there are consequences, but you cannot decide their right to exist, have a state, based on their democratically or even not democratically determined choices. I mean, unless you agree with US policies of…

Ah yes the old “they’re terrible so we can be terrible too” excuse.

Oh sister, here we go with “where’s the other side”? Are the non-Zionist folks endowed by similar rights, in your mind, to demand that every time a Zionist shill gets up and parrots the “land without a people” talking points that *we* get an equal voice in the convo? Every freakin’ time we have to have an all-Zionist…

I’m not calling for the dissolution of Israel either but Zionism requires Palestine as an independent free state to never be able to happen and is the opposite of a two state solution.

And that only refers to Israeli Arabs. The situation of Palestinians is far more dire.

I’m not saying her attending Harvard was opportunistic. I’m questioning the teachers she had there because her worldview is so damn skewed.

Why wouldn’t someone want to find out about a writer who has said a lot of problematic stuff online? She appears on FOX News too which also makes her suspect in my mind. Stop trolling in such an obvious manner.

Will Palestinians be allowed to refuse Israel its statehood if they allow the Lieberman or Bennett as PMs, or one of the whole range of far-right parties? Or does this only go one way?

This was an incredible article, I’ve only recently learned of Ms. Odeh, but throughout the article, I couldn’t help thinking about Assata Shakur—I was pleasantly surprised to see the author make that connection at the end of the article. Fascinating stuff, and while I generally agree with the author’s position, I’m…

How can any of this not be by design or inherent? If it is not set in law that is merely because Israel has no formal Constitution at all: and so human rights are not enshrined there. When confiscation of Palestinian property is happening en masse, houses bulldozed (needless to say this does not happen to Israelis),…

The problem is Zionism is it is a Jewish State first perspective. You do not address the right of return, reparations, illegal land (and water) acquisitions, illegal settlements, the militarized assault against (Palestinian) civilians. To support Israel/call yourself a Zionist, you fundamentally support the oppression…

No second-class status?

Here is an excellent primer on the Israel/Palestine solution disseminated by Jewish Voice for Peace. It is only a few minutes long, and is civil and historically accurate.

Self-determination means Palestinians get to decide who leads them, not you. Anti-colonialism 101. Solidarity 101.