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Sympthsical's JournalThe Israeli Quotes That the Press Got Wrong
I highly, highly recommend reading this entire article. (Just put it in "reader view" in your browser). Why? Because every single quote highlighted by the author - who is no friend of Netanyahu or Likud - will be very, very familiar. You will have seen all of them spread breathlessly, incorrectly, and triumphantly by anti-Israel activists.
You will have seen them here, multiple times, brought up repeatedly - and continuing to this day - without correction.
Something to keep in mind, that primary sources are best. The media, social media, and a very strong anti-Israel operation make very sure the narrative is distorted to their liking, and they will not be doing the correcting for you. By the time you figure out what you're being told is wrong, they are long gone onto the next outrage that maybe isn't as outrageous as is being presented dishonestly to you.
Since I can do only four paragraphs. But seriously. Read the whole damn thing and admire just how much fuckery is spread around willfully.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/israel-south-africa-genocide-case-fake-quotes/677198/
(Non-paywall link, thanks Scipan) https://web.archive.org/web/20240122012035/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/israel-south-africa-genocide-case-fake-quotes/677198/
Politicians and lawyers are not always known for their probity, but journalists have fact-checkers. How did an error this substantial get missed so many times in so many places? One New York Times article that cited Gallant’s mangled misquote sourced the words to an op-ed in another outlet, which sourced them to an X post that featured an embedded TikTok video. But the cascade of media failures appears to have begun with a 42-second video excerpt of Gallant’s talk that was uploaded by Bloomberg with incomplete English subtitles. The clip, since viewed more than half a million times, simply skips over “There will be no Hamas” in its translation. (Bloomberg did not return a request for comment at press time.)
Unfortunately, this concatenation of errors is part of a pattern. As someone who has covered Israeli extremism for years and written about the hard right’s push to ethnically cleanse Gaza and resettle it, I have been carefully tracking the rise of such dangerous ideas for more than a decade. In this perilous wartime environment, it is essential to know who is saying what, and whether they have the authority to act on it. But while far too many right-wing members of Israel’s Parliament have expressed borderline or straightforwardly genocidal sentiments during the Gaza conflict, such statements attributed to the three people making Israel’s actual military decisions, the voting members of its war cabinet—Gallant, Netanyahu, and the former opposition lawmaker Benny Gantz—repeatedly turn out to be mistaken or misrepresented.
Take the claim, also cited by NPR’s Fadel among others, that Gallant referred to Gazans as “human animals.” The defense minister has used this harsh language several times, and it’s reasonable to wonder whom he’s referring to. But as can be seen from the same Bloomberg video, Gallant uses this phrase to talk about Hamas, telling soldiers who fought off Hamas on the devastated Gaza border: “You have seen what we are fighting against. We are fighting against human animals. This is the ISIS of Gaza.” (Hamas’s atrocities on October 7 have been likened to acts of the Islamic State by both Israeli and American officials, including President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.) One can certainly take issue with Gallant’s language—for one thing, a nonhuman animal never executed a grandmother in her home and then uploaded the snuff film to her Facebook page—but not with the fact that the defense minister’s words referred specifically to Hamas.
Pro-Palestinian protesters miss the civil disobedience portion of the program
Protesters were arrested and charged for blocking the Bay Bridge in San Francisco - not least for false imprisonment, which is what happens when you trap unwilling commuters on a bridge.
Now they're protesting . . . that they got charged for their protest.
In case anyone wondered what reality all of this is taking place in.
Jewish parents transfer children out of Oakland Unified over antisemitism concerns
Check out the highlighted part.
I sometimes suspect highly ideological adults should not be teaching children. Change my mind.
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CBS News Bay Area has confirmed the exodus of Jewish families comes following a string of actions by the Oakland teachers' union and the district itself that many say resulted in antisemitism and created a hostile environment for their students.
In the weeks following the October 7th attacks by Hamas on Israel, and Israel's subsequent ground invasion of Gaza, a group of unidentified OUSD teachers held a "teach-in" highlighting pro-Palestinian lessons.
. . .
"I just felt that there wasn't a path forward for Jewish families because I had reached out to OUSD and asked them to have a conversation about how they were going to keep Jewish families feeling safe and included," Rebecca explained. "When there were lesson plans that were being taught that said, 'Draw the Zionist bully,' or 'I for Intifada, J is for Jesus.' And to me, it felt like -- honestly -- we were being targeted and singled out and alienated."
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/jewish-parents-transfer-children-out-of-oakland-unified-over-antisemitism-concerns/
Also, try to imagine the reaction to J is for Jesus if it were a Christian teacher in a public school.
But if you're targeting the Jews, all is fair game.
Flyers call for boycott of San Francisco Jewish-owned businesses
Is it racism yet, or are we still on "Just criticizing the government!" I have decided to take their big-brained lead and am announcing my boycott of Panda Express in solidarity with Hong Kong. I will not have the crab rangoon of the oppressors in this household!
Orange chicken? More like Red Chicken, amiright?
It's not that they're dumb - which they are - it's that they're trying very hard to foment generalized antisemitism using Palestine as their excuse. People who cannot or will not disassociate themselves from this movement are complicit, IMO.
It is not hard to say no to antisemitism, but people are being so, so quiet about it for some reason.
Jewish man who lost 5 family members on 10/7 booed at S.F. council meeting
https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/19467lj/san_francisco_jewish_man_who_lost_5_family/Watch the video.
"It'S jUst CritCisM of isRael, y0u guYs!"
Jewish students sue UPenn for discrimination, antisemitic climate
Lengthy and interesting reading. Particularly for those who think "It's just pro-Palestinian protests"
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/08/business/students-claim-university-of-pennsylvania-civil-rights-antisemitism-on-campus/index.html
One of the plantiffs in the lawsuit says that on October 9, while walking on campus wearing garb that identified her as Jewish, including a Star of David, she walked by a group of pro-Palestine protestors.
One of the protestors yelled to her, “you are a dirty Jew, don’t look at us,” she said.
Other protestors joined in, taunting Davis with: “keep walking you dirty little Jew,” “you know what you’ve done wrong,” it says.
The suit claims “Jewish students have been forced to endure deliberate and targeted harassment by Penn’s faculty.”
The administration earned it.
"Journalist" tries to doxx a child - it does not go well.
Oh, let's just go with the broad strokes of media and social media stupid.
A Deadspin journalist, Carron J. Phillips, very misleadingly posts a picture of a child wearing face paint at a Kansas City Chiefs game.
https://deadspin.com/roger-goodell-kansas-city-chiefs-fan-black-face-native-1851048905
He goes on a very long rant about this clearly klannish child, and the NFL needs to do something, and maybe social media should speak out (hint hint hint).
Except the child isn't wearing blackface. He is wearing black/red - team colors. Which this "journalist" never checked or knew and hid.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_-cF-GXAAArqoI?format=jpg&name=small
The "journalist" then doubles down, calling the child anti-Black and anti-Native. Welp. Turns out, the child is Native American. His grandfather even sits on the board of the Chumash Tribe in California.
The "journalist" has not apologized, and many on Twitter are jumping in to, I dunno, fire the child from the first grade? Who knows. Phillips, however, is getting absolutely roasted all over the place for it.
Can we just admit social media was a mistake and encouraging this "getting" of people online has officially gone full derp? But hey, Deadspin is about to have itself a nice lawsuit.
"I'm a Jew at 'The Guardian.' I Don't Feel Safe at Work."
What people are being real, real - disconcertingly - quiet about. Read the whole thing.
I don’t understand. I know people, Israelis, who were murdered. They did not “die,” as if in some kind of accident. I saw footage of terrorism. It was not an “assault.”
. . .
I go back the next day. I look at the front page. A photo of Gaza and “violence escalates.” Israelis “dead” but Palestinians “killed.” If they can’t empathize with the Jews now, they never will.
I email the editors. I tell them that my newspaper’s coverage has been upsetting. They tell me that their thoughts are with my family but they stand by the paper’s reporting.
https://www.thefp.com/p/jew-at-the-guardian-dont-feel-safe
Jury finds John Hopkins liable for $220 million in Maya Kowalski case.
There's a Netflix documentary, Take Care of Maya, about this. The conduct of the staff at the hospital is completely vile. The jury agreed and took them to the cleaners. Watching the verdict being read is rough viewing. Maya, her father, and her brother completely break down.
These people drove a wife and mother desperately trying to care for her daughter straight to her death.
The Kowalski family previously alleged that the hospital played a role in separating Beata's daughter Maya from her family, which contributed to Beata's death by suicide.
As a child, Maya was diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a rare neurological condition that causes excruciating pain in response to the slightest touch, PEOPLE reported previously. In 2016, she was checked into Johns Hopkins Children's Hospital for debilitating stomach pain. While there, hospital staff reported Beata to the Department of Children and Families after she requested Maya be treated with ketamine, saying the drug had helped her daughter in the past.
Due to her requests, Beata was accused of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Through a psychological evaluation, it was eventually determined she did not have the mental illness, however, she was placed in state custody and remained in the hospital away from her family for more than three months, PEOPLE previously reported.
https://people.com/take-care-of-maya-trial-hospital-found-liable-mothers-suicide-munchausen-by-proxy-accusations-8400157
UCLA Protesters: "Beat that effing Jew!"
They didn't say effing. It's a pinata of Netanyahu. Which, meh. Good job, Super Serious Adults I Definitely Want to Hire Someday. But at about 23 seconds in . . . And the crowd cheers.
So . . . when do we acknowledge that maybe - just maybe - there's a real big problem going on here on our campuses?
Silence is becoming complicity.
https://twitter.com/AYM_Higher_/status/1722471983823130635
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