Last month we did a post on a group of Jewish kids declaring they won’t be ethnically cleansed from their “native land.” And though they live in California, they weren’t talking about California: but Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank. Within hours of our post, the video got pulled.
Well, it’s back. A Bay Area group Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers, evidently connected to the Rimon Club that originally posted the video, reposted the video as of Monday.
And the bloggers say this of the video:
Made by high schoolers in the San Francisco Bay Area, this is a proud unapologetic declaration of Jewish and Zionist values. Watch it, and know that the Zionist ideal is safe in the hands of the next generation. The kids are alright.
The Bay Bloggers acknowledge what our commenters said at the time: that the video is an attempt to challenge Jewish Voice for Peace’s 2011 video, Young Jewish and Proud, below:
The Bay Bloggers say:
JVP’s attempt at creating the veneer of a youth movement, ‘Young Jewish and Proud’ was meet with well deserved skepticism. With Intactivist activist Mathew Taylor, (just this side of 40) and Rachel Roberts, now an attorney for the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) among their spokespeople, the movement was ripe for ridicule, and ridicule came n torrents.
The kids in the new video appear to be affiliated with Rimon’s Club Z. There are a lot of photos up at their site featuring some of the kids in the video. Back when we posted originally, our commenters wondered whether children were being indoctrinated in nationalist propaganda. These pictures underscore that concern.
Photo: Rimon’s Club Z
Photo: Rimon’s Club Z
It seems as if Club Z is a Zionist boot camp for young teens, with connections to Masha Merkulova, a pro-Israel activist. The group’s Home page and “Learn Page” link to a revisionist history, featuring Howard Grief, who spoke at a settler conference, arguing that the 1920 San Remo conference gave Jews sovereignty over all of historical Palestine. (More on Grief here).
it’s quite sad to see adolescents children been indoctrinated and lets face it abuse by elders supporting a heinous ideology call zionism. i honestly feel sorry for the children rather then anger. the video gives a very stark reminder of how far down zionist propaganda is prepared to go.
i go as far to say that these children are more victims to continious zionist atrocities.
the music is really weird too. very end of times music. i’m not getting the upshot of that. it was probably added later and not the kids doing but it’s still weird.
Home … birth … native … deep roots … Middle Eastern … Judeans … Israelites …
An interesting perspective coming from kids whose parents and club organisers chose the Bay Area over Israel, when leaving the FSU. I guess indoctrinating your kids (or allowing them to be indoctrinated by others) to claim their “birthright” of ethnic supremacism, territorial expansionism and racial hatred is the next best thing to actually having to live in the (ugh) Middle East.
Looking at those pictures made me really sad because it is just so clear that the point of this “Club Z” is really to erode the kids’ abilities to make a distinction between Zionist/nationalist politics and the rituals of the Jewish religion. Seeing pictures of the kids making challah and lighting Chanukah candles interspersed with pictures of them wrapped in Israeli flags reminded me of my own childhood attending Hebrew school [at a liberal Reform synagogue in Southern California, no less!]. When I was in probably third or fourth grade, we were given maps of Israel that had no Green Line (just as they are in most Israeli school textbooks) and we were taught about the geography of Israel and the different cities like Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem (although now that I think about it, West Bank cities such as Hebron and Bethlehem were conspicuously absent from the curriculum). There was no mention of conflict, no mention of the word “Palestinians” – just a rosy portrait of this wonderful place for Jews. My synagogue also celebrated Israeli Independence Day, and seeing Israeli flags around was commonplace. Although I’m not sure I would call it indoctrination, that sort of thing definitely tends to foster a strong connection between a person’s Jewish identity and their “support for Israel” and feeling like Israel “belongs” to them. It makes it easier to understand why on so many college campuses many Jewish students may react reflexively and defensively to criticism of Israel by SJP groups. When you are raised in a community that tells you, implicitly or otherwise, that supporting this “Jewish state” is part of being Jewish, it’s really hard to break away from that.
RE: “Last month we did a post on a group of Jewish kids declaring they won’t be ethnically cleansed from their ‘native land’. And though they live in California, they weren’t talking about California: but Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank. Within hours of our post, the video got pulled. Well, it’s back. A Bay Area group Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers, evidently connected to the Rimon Club that originally posted the video, reposted the video as of Monday.” ~ Annie Robbins and Phil Weiss
ATTENTION RIMON CLUB & “PRO-ISRAEL BAY BLOGGERS” : Your “native land” is most likely Khazaria, and it is located in central Asia, not in the Middle East! The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people, many of whom apparently converted to Judaism beginning in the 8th century.
KHAZARIA.COM (A Resource for Turkic and Jewish History in Russia and Ukraine) – http://www.khazaria.com/
WIKIPEDIA [Khazars] – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars
ALSO SEE: “New Study Shows Yeshiva University Researcher, Others Appear To Have Cooked The Genetic Books To ‘Prove’ Middle Eastern Origin Of The Jewish People When One May Not Really Exist”, by Shmarya Rosenberg, FailedMessiah.com, 12/29/12
SOURCE – http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2012/12/new-study-shows-yu-researcher-others-appear-to-have-cooked-the-genetic-books-to-prove-middle-eastern-789.html