This is good: Israeli bulldozers demolish a dormitory in Harvard Yard so as to build another settlement. A Harvard satirical publication plays off the fake eviction notices posted on Harvard students’ doors by Palestinian solidarity activists, which so outraged the Anti-Defamation League. I wonder if the ADL will find that this satire also intimidates pro-Israel students?
It looks like comics are leading the way: Stephen Colbert and Saturday Night Live and the Onion are all on to the fact that the special relationship has made our foreign policy a laughing stock. Fools rush in where Chris Matthews fears to tread.
From Satire V (and thanks to Ahmed Moor):
The government of Israel yesterday demolished the freshman dormitory Wigglesworth, three days after eviction notices appeared on the doors of various suites within the building. Sources within the Israeli government suggest that there are plans to build a new settlement on the site, replete with solar panels, underground shopping centres, and an adult entertainment facility they plan to call Gaza Striptease.
Israeli officials have justified this sudden move by declaring that Harvard Yard is legitimately part of the Jewish Holy Land, that they are merely asserting their rightful territorial claims, and that residents of Wigglesworth were given prior warning. Many students, however, claim that they had thought the eviction notices “were meant to be a joke,” and were thus unprepared for the demolition.
Abe Liu (‘15/’16/’17/etc.), who lived on the sofa in Wigglesworth basement, exclaimed, “We thought it was just the Palestine Solidarity Committee trying to get publicity for their event. We didn’t actually believe Israel was planning to demolish our homes and seize the land that is rightfully ours. I was trying and failing to get swipe access into Annenberg last night, and when I came back, I saw these bulldozers had flattened my home.””
The best comics can always turn one joke into two, and this might be the best example I’ve ever seen of it.
Remember when a lot of the American comics were Jewish? Well, they still are. Yessir, and many laughing about Israel, too. (But have they burned their AIPAC cards yet?)
Quick, someone call Sara what’s-her-name who was having a fit along with the ADL the other day over these mock eviction notices.
You know, I really don’t understand the pervasive collective psychosis among American Jews (Or any other group of non-Israeli Jews).
I mean, here you are, living comfortably and lazily in a western country, with fellow Jews in high positions in both the government and the media, and yet it doesn’t bother you one bit that other human beings are suffering every waking hour because you choose to support some remote desert country that your parents always told you was YOUR HOMELAND.
The logical, mental and psychological contortions required to maintain that state of mind — especially in adults — boggle me.
I once spoke with an American Jew. She and her parents were all born and raised in the US. She told me that when she visited Israel for the very first time, she felt a sense of peace and tranquility overcome her. When she described the experience she sounded like a child who got a pony for her birthday. And when she stepped off the plane, she explained, she felt that she was finally home.
“Home?” I thought to my self. “You’re from California, you nit wit.”
Now try to imagine the amount of brainwashing the average American Jew undergoes from birth at the hands of his or her delusional Zionist Jewish parents.
I try to think what it would be like if my parents had told me that the moon were made of cheese and that one day, I too, could get a chunk of cheese from the moon, if I only supported cheese factories and cheese labor unions.
I’m trying to wrap my head around the sickness, the psychosis, but I can’t seem to fathom the depths of the delusional thinking involved.
RE: “Sources within the Israeli government suggest that there are plans to build a new settlement on the site, replete with solar panels, underground shopping centres, and an adult entertainment facility . . . Israeli officials have justified this sudden move by declaring that Harvard Yard is legitimately part of the Jewish Holy Land . . .” ~ Satire V
MY COMMENT: Beautiful! Take that, Dershowitz! ! !
i love this!!!! go harvard sjp!