@DropBear@theblower.au

David Pope
"The Echidna" newsletter
13th August 2025
@palestine@a.gup.pe

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#Palestine
#genocide

"P... A... L... E... S..."
Planet Earth sits in an optometrist's chair. Over its eyes is a phoropter, in the eyeholes of which are embedded two smoking missiles.

An eye chart reads:
"O
NE
STATE
ISRAEL"
in letters decreasing in size with every line.

A white-coated, blue-skinned Benjamin Netanyahu says:
"What if I pluck out your journalists?...
Is it easier to look away now?"

Among other things, the BlueSky Zionist accused someone of victim-blaming. That sparked a memory.

The image is from "The fate of the Jews" by Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht (1983).
Page 221
#Zionism
#EthnoSupremacism
#antisemitism

Zionists believed Jews had to be transplanted in order to be redeemed. Uri Avnery wrote, “Zionist literature, taught to every Jewish child in Palestine, depicted Jewish life in Eastern Europe as despicable, the whole tradition and folklore of the ghetto as cowardly, crooked, parasitical.”5 He noted that Jews were “depicted in Zionist schoolbooks in a way rather reminiscent of anti-Semitic literature,”6 and because of this, Israelis consider themselves “vastly superior” to diaspora Jews, “treating them at best with a paternalistic, rather colonial attitude.”7

Yehezkel Kaufman, professor of Bible studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, wrote that Jewish nationalism was built “on a foundation of anti-Semitism.” It blamed Jews themselves for their misfortunes and said they deserved to be hated. To shed their iniquities they had to leave the diaspora and become a nation and a people like all others. “The poison which flows from Jewish nationalist sources,” wrote Kaufman, “is perhaps the most dangerous of them all.”8

[paragraph deleted to make room]

He noted that every nation has its diaspora—those who emigrated—yet “none are considered slaves and dogs except the Jews—and by themselves.”10 He wrote, “Many Zionists . . . are completely convinced that in order to become ‘good Zionists’ we must first become ‘good anti-Semites,’ that we must first hate ourselves.” 11

Drop Bear
@DropBear@theblower.au

It looks like it would be more accurate to refer to Israel as Ashkenazi Zionist, rather than Jewish. Cradle-to-grave indoctrination.
"You must traumatize the children to make them loyal, so they don’t leave the country."
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/nurit-peled-elhanan-interview/
#Zionism
#EthnoSupremacism
#antisemitism

Drop Bear
@DropBear@theblower.au

I've been lurking on a BlueSky thread where a Zionist is saying that he can't be antisemitic because he claims to be Jewish. The Jerusalem Declaration: "Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish institutions as Jewish)" https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/ doesn't rule out antisemitism, by virtue of the perpetrator claiming to be Jewish.

Australian Zionist Mark Leibler provided a case study. The image is of a certified copy archived by the NSW state Parliament. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/other/21800/X%20post%20%E2%80%93%20Mark%20Leibler,%208%20February%202025.pdf

Would a court rule that the words "repulsive and revolting" and "vicious antisemites" aimed at Jews is antisemitic? Those words are certainly hostile and prejudiced. The apparent deletion of the post implies the answer. Leibler is a lawyer.
#AusPol
#antisemitism
#Zionism

[upside-down certification stamp, dated 19/05/2025]
Mark Leibler
@LeiblerMark
Nothing, but nothing, is worse than those Jews who level totally
unfounded allegations of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the
State of Israel. They are repulsive and revolting human beings. Their
relatives who were murdered by the Nazis - the role models for Hamas -
will undoubtedly be turning in their graves. Their avowed anti Zionism is
clearly no more than a cover for the reality that they are vicious
antisemites.
11:11PM - Feb 8, 2025 - 339.1K Views

Drop Bear
@DropBear@theblower.au

Among other things, the BlueSky Zionist accused someone of victim-blaming. That sparked a memory.

The image is from "The fate of the Jews" by Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht (1983).
Page 221
#Zionism
#EthnoSupremacism
#antisemitism

Drop Bear
@DropBear@theblower.au

I've been lurking on a BlueSky thread where a Zionist is saying that he can't be antisemitic because he claims to be Jewish. The Jerusalem Declaration: "Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish institutions as Jewish)" https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/ doesn't rule out antisemitism, by virtue of the perpetrator claiming to be Jewish.

Australian Zionist Mark Leibler provided a case study. The image is of a certified copy archived by the NSW state Parliament. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/other/21800/X%20post%20%E2%80%93%20Mark%20Leibler,%208%20February%202025.pdf

Would a court rule that the words "repulsive and revolting" and "vicious antisemites" aimed at Jews is antisemitic? Those words are certainly hostile and prejudiced. The apparent deletion of the post implies the answer. Leibler is a lawyer.
#AusPol
#antisemitism
#Zionism

Drop Bear
@DropBear@theblower.au

From @AdameMedia on Twitter
BREAKING: Spain and Switzerland CANCEL their F-35 fighter jet orders

Trump calls it “very unfair.”

Swiss leader Balthasar Glättli says: "Those who hurl rocks at us in trade shouldn't expect gifts in return."
#USpol
#Trump
#tariffs