Lynn Pollack is a board member of "Jewish Voice for Peace," who lives in Obamaland, Chicago. She wrote this piece Latkes and Laments, and kindly shared it with Adam Horowitz:
Some 25 friends had said they were coming, desserts and veggie dishes in hand to complement my offerings. I’d asked that people bring alternate Hanukkah songs or lyrics. I was determined that we wouldn’t be singing anything that glorified military victory. And I didn’t want to laud God too much, either, lest we offend the devoutly non-religious among us.
But the news that Saturday morning was stunning. Israel had launched a devastating attack on Gaza and already nearly 200 were dead, many hundreds wounded. (This on top of a year that had already seen – or not seen -- more than 400 people in Gaza killed by Israel, including 75 children, according to B’tselem.) [emphasis Mondo's]
My phone started ringing as friends in Jewish Voice for Peace, at the American Friends Service Committee, the Arab-Jewish Partnership for Peace and Justice in the Middle East and others called in shock. Was the party still on? I told people that we might as well get together and eat. That’s what Jews do when tragedy hits. We’d turn it into a shiva/wake, I said, craft press releases between courses and make signs for a demo after dessert.
In a bit of a daze, I called up Al Jazeera on my laptop, pulled out my great grandmother’s latke smasher, and began peeling potatoes. People drifted in, old friends and complete strangers, and we cheered ourselves up with the plentiful and inventive food offerings. The latkes, I was told by two different guests, were even better than their mothers’. My mother’s, not so much. Two menorahs, ready to light, sat on the dining room table. We riffed on the game of dreidel, spinning the words to mean “A great tragedy is happening there” instead of “A great miracle happened there."
We discussed lighting the menorahs. Some suggested we omit it, that we not disturb the darkness on this awful day. But ultimately, we decided to light the candles. One by one, our guests lit a candle and spoke of their hopes for peace, for an end to the suffering of the people in Gaza, hopes for a true miracle. Some gave thanks for the comfort and support of like-minded friends.
One Jewish woman spoke of her relief and gratefulness in finding other Jews equally appalled at the situation. Toward the end of the evening, two friends, newly acquainted, a Jewish-American woman and a Palestinian-American woman put on some dance music and spun around the room in their own orbit, grasping at some joy on a bleak day. In another room, new signs were crafted from old ones. Stop the siege in Gaza became Stop the Massacre in Gaza. And we were ready, fed and united, for a demo the next day.
The jewish voice for peace is a joke. Always has been. But I can see where Phil Weiss thinks that there representative of something. In his pro-hamas circles. Where shooting Jews is "charming". well why not. What's actually kind of interesting is that when he dies, no one will sit shiva. Has it should be.
Shut the fuck up already. You and your vapid dumbshit excuses for anything Israel does.
The rockets killed 15 people in EIGHT YEARS, MORON!
15 in 8 years vesus 300+ dead and 1000+ injured in ONE DAY.
Shut the fuck up and go back under the rock you slithered from.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98794206
The link I posted above brings you to a discussion the moderator on NPR's All Things Considered has with Ahmed Yusuf, political adviser to the Hamas Prime Minister Haniyeh. He says, "This is not about rockets because no rockets have been fired." He later goes on to say that collaborators were told by Israel to fire rockets from Gaza into Israel.
What do you think?
Yeah, good point, LD, war should only be fought like a tee-ball game–everybody gets an equal chance. After all, we destroyed every city in germany, but only because they destroyed every city in America. Right?
But back to the shiva. So crazed leftists in love with their dead-mothers (OY!) went from hating Israel and feeling bad about being Jewish to REALLY hating Israel and feeling REALLY BAD about being Jewish. Yup, the world sure is a changing! It's Obamatime!
Meanwhile, Israel is kicking Hamas' ass. And
Nobody. Who. Matters. Cares.
To Phil Weiss and all posters on the blog,
I've finally seen the light. You guys were right all along. And has long has I live and breathe, I will never write another stupid post attacking justified criticism of Israel. Now I can finally take the point of this 50mm machine gun (that's what "on the point" meant all along!) out of my ass and stop waiting for ed.
I'm also making New Year's resolutions. I will NOT post any more under the name of JIM HAYGOOD, has he is now my idol. His laser-like comments were always right on, but my calcified brain had trouble reconciling them with the anti-gentile programming that I received my entire life. I will also NEVER say that Phil Weiss is not a Jew, has I now realize that HE is the real Jew, and I am but a shadow of a Jew. I am the anti-Jew, the apostate, the Amalek.
Signed,
Sword of Giddy-getting off the point of the
50 mm.
JVP need to examine their continuing and utterly average observance of the so-called Jewish religion. In my opinion, this religion in its post-Ezra form is based on a lie, as enunciated in the Shema, namely, that JHVH is Elohim, whereas in fact JHVH is a demon from the blackest pits of Hell.
Whoa Rowan, I thought it was anti-zionism has opposed to anti-semitism. Nothing to do with Jews just the evils of Israel. Are things different in your gin soaked, addled, socialist mind. ( Stalin is dead by the way )
And LD, Jackoff called it. So, a bunch of Phil Weiss types who hated being Jewish and hated Israel now REALLY hate being Jewish and hate Israel. So what. I know you'd like the Jewish body count to be higher but that's not really the goal for Israel. That's the goal of the lads of jihad. So, no, the fact that Israel hit a Hamas graduation ceremony doesn't particularly bother me.
It is a nation gone mad.
So speaks the asshole who doesn't think anybody died at Treblinka
Gideon, dear boy, there is nothing remotely 'anti-Semitic' about my point, which is perfectly logical: JHVH apparently inspired the first invasion of Palestine, of which this 'zionism' is just a cheap, non-supernaturalist replica. Just like the first time, though, every 'victory' turns into a nightmare, because JHVH is nothing but an imposter. The Jews may at any time return to their original religion, the worship of the God of Abraham, Elokim. If I hated them, I would not bother to point this out, would I?
Rowan, your statements lately are the best evidence that there has never been a "new" antisemitism but only an update to contemporary preoccupations.
"After all, we destroyed every city in germany, but only because they destroyed every city in America. Right?"
Terrific point Jackoff! As I've always said 1939 Germany and present day Palestine – practically the same beast!