I love it when your article arrives while I’m waiting for the bus 🚎! This person sounds annoying and stupid and is unfortunately influencing children and parents. This sort of idiocy is common in many public schools but fortunately not where I teach. We keep politics out of the classroom.
It’s inappropriate and abusive to try to call awareness about ostensible starvation or anything else horrible by sharing the information with small children.
Is that what she is doing?
That’s like the adult stranger asking the child to find the puppy.
Adults don’t need help from children to solve global problems.
Adults are supposed to protect small children from the knowledge of things that are too awful for them to comprehend.
And there are so many more. So many artists who have basically destroyed my ability to appreciate their work. And for what? None of them have helped a single Palestinian, much less a Jew or an Israeli, in any measurable way.
You had to do it...HUH. Bring up that insufferably annoying Ms Rachel. ARGGGGG. I would rather have root canal work done without Novocaine than listen to her! If you like there is someone over on Medium who is just bonkers. I wish the person a happy life. I had to laugh when she wrote that I am a NAZ-Xionist Xionist, is that something new? Love the Barny cartoon!
And please keep writing. Tragically, it's necessary, but it is NOT "repetitive." It would be far more disturbing if you or anyone else gave up on speaking out.
I appreciate that, thanks. Lately I’ve been feeling burned out from it — but I’m sure I’ll refuel soon. Thanks for the support, it’s readers like you who keep me going.
I heard that Ms Rachel is doing this to get back at Kipi, because they were an item but then he dumped her because her voice was so annoying. That’s word on the rehov anyway.
Be careful - the word on campus at Columbia is that Rechov Sumsum will brainwash you into thinking that Israel actually exists and that Jews aren’t genocidal. Best to stick with Ms Rachel in that case.
I was futzing around with ChatGPT, trying to come up with a definition of antisemitism that I agree with. I've decided to share it here, because of your claim that Ms. Rachel isn't an antisemite. A definition of terms is (in my opinion) the best way to start any contentious discussion (as accusation of antisemitism generally are). I'd love feedback from your audience and yourself on this definition, so far I've felt comfortable using it and applying it, as it meets my internal feelings, but I'm open to change: (the rest was created with the help of ChatGPT)
My definition of antisemitism is the following:
Criticism of Israel is antisemitic if it meets any of these conditions:
1. It fails to acknowledge the role of violent terrorist actors targeting Israel (such as Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Houthis) in causing civilian deaths;
2. It does not condemn such terrorist violence.
3. It holds Israel to a standard not applied to other nations.
4. It minimizes Jewish suffering through moral selectivity or disproportionate outrage.
In addition, antisemitism also includes conduct toward Jews that does not relate to Israel, such as:
1. Stereotyping Jews.
2. Mockery or exclusion of Jews from cultural, social, or professional spaces.
3. Denial of Jewish identity or Jewish history.
4. Use of antisemitic tropes, even implicitly.
Antisemitism is evaluated based on behavior, not on claimed intent. Post hoc explanations, self-justifications, or declarations of innocence are irrelevant. What matters is the pattern of conduct and its actual impact.
Ignorance is not an excuse. People are responsible for the consequences of their words and actions, regardless of whether they understood those consequences at the time.
An apology does not erase past antisemitism, but it allows for the possibility of revaluation, so long as that apology acknowledges the antisemitism. Whether a person remains antisemitic depends on whether they continue to meet the criteria above in word or deed.
(end of ChatGPT)
By my standard, Ms Rachel is absolutely an antisemite, and that fits my gut feeling very well.
I think that antisemites come in degrees and it's sometimes important to distinguish between them. Nuance can be a vital tool. My point is that when you line up a Ms. Rachel next to a Mehdi, there are differences -- with the latter influencing the antisemitism of the former.
I agree there are differences, but I think people are too ready to let off the light antisemites, just because there are so many foaming at the mouth antisemites.
If these morons actually “ cared” about Palestinian children, they’d do their homework and turn their wrath on Hamas, Fatah, PLA and the psychopathic Islamist culture that brutalizes their own children.
The Palestinian leaders are bloodthirsty barbarians and criminals (not to mention terrible at actual governing), but you have to give them credit for being PR geniuses.
They've known for decades now that if they can only get enough of their own babies and children killed or wounded, and then pose them for the cameras, they will make the average Western liberal putty in their hands, easy to manipulate and propagandize. Western liberals see a wounded child and immediately feel tremendous guilt and shame and want the suffering to stop, mostly so they can get back to shopping and scrolling their phones. Also, now that morality is displayed through lazy virtue-signalling, caring about "Palestinian babies" has become shorthand for proving you're a Good Person, which is why Palestinian babies are the new must-have item for our age of conspicuous compassion and why Hamas is the new BLM.
The best thing that could happen to Israel now would be for a white cop to kill a black guy or for Trump to ship a thousand migrant families to Guantanamo Bay—Western liberals will only relinquish their newest sacred victim when they have a new one to fetishize.
She’s probably already booked on Joe Rogan.
HAHAHA!!! Do you honestly think that Joe Rogan will put up with this woman's voice for an extended interview?
He's willing to sit there next to Dave Smith, so probably ...
I love it when your article arrives while I’m waiting for the bus 🚎! This person sounds annoying and stupid and is unfortunately influencing children and parents. This sort of idiocy is common in many public schools but fortunately not where I teach. We keep politics out of the classroom.
It’s inappropriate and abusive to try to call awareness about ostensible starvation or anything else horrible by sharing the information with small children.
Is that what she is doing?
That’s like the adult stranger asking the child to find the puppy.
Adults don’t need help from children to solve global problems.
Adults are supposed to protect small children from the knowledge of things that are too awful for them to comprehend.
She can go and hang out with fellow know-nothings Wallace Shawn, Ilana Glazer, Mark Ruffalo, Roger Waters, Jonathan Glazer, etc., etc.
And there are so many more. So many artists who have basically destroyed my ability to appreciate their work. And for what? None of them have helped a single Palestinian, much less a Jew or an Israeli, in any measurable way.
She is a classical example of a useful idiot
You had to do it...HUH. Bring up that insufferably annoying Ms Rachel. ARGGGGG. I would rather have root canal work done without Novocaine than listen to her! If you like there is someone over on Medium who is just bonkers. I wish the person a happy life. I had to laugh when she wrote that I am a NAZ-Xionist Xionist, is that something new? Love the Barny cartoon!
"This episode brought to you by the letters STFU"
I missed this the first time 🏅
And please keep writing. Tragically, it's necessary, but it is NOT "repetitive." It would be far more disturbing if you or anyone else gave up on speaking out.
I appreciate that, thanks. Lately I’ve been feeling burned out from it — but I’m sure I’ll refuel soon. Thanks for the support, it’s readers like you who keep me going.
I heard that Ms Rachel is doing this to get back at Kipi, because they were an item but then he dumped her because her voice was so annoying. That’s word on the rehov anyway.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I seem to remember an episode of Rehov Sum Sum where Kipi spoke out against genocide. It was highly educational
Be careful - the word on campus at Columbia is that Rechov Sumsum will brainwash you into thinking that Israel actually exists and that Jews aren’t genocidal. Best to stick with Ms Rachel in that case.
I was futzing around with ChatGPT, trying to come up with a definition of antisemitism that I agree with. I've decided to share it here, because of your claim that Ms. Rachel isn't an antisemite. A definition of terms is (in my opinion) the best way to start any contentious discussion (as accusation of antisemitism generally are). I'd love feedback from your audience and yourself on this definition, so far I've felt comfortable using it and applying it, as it meets my internal feelings, but I'm open to change: (the rest was created with the help of ChatGPT)
My definition of antisemitism is the following:
Criticism of Israel is antisemitic if it meets any of these conditions:
1. It fails to acknowledge the role of violent terrorist actors targeting Israel (such as Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Houthis) in causing civilian deaths;
2. It does not condemn such terrorist violence.
3. It holds Israel to a standard not applied to other nations.
4. It minimizes Jewish suffering through moral selectivity or disproportionate outrage.
In addition, antisemitism also includes conduct toward Jews that does not relate to Israel, such as:
1. Stereotyping Jews.
2. Mockery or exclusion of Jews from cultural, social, or professional spaces.
3. Denial of Jewish identity or Jewish history.
4. Use of antisemitic tropes, even implicitly.
Antisemitism is evaluated based on behavior, not on claimed intent. Post hoc explanations, self-justifications, or declarations of innocence are irrelevant. What matters is the pattern of conduct and its actual impact.
Ignorance is not an excuse. People are responsible for the consequences of their words and actions, regardless of whether they understood those consequences at the time.
An apology does not erase past antisemitism, but it allows for the possibility of revaluation, so long as that apology acknowledges the antisemitism. Whether a person remains antisemitic depends on whether they continue to meet the criteria above in word or deed.
(end of ChatGPT)
By my standard, Ms Rachel is absolutely an antisemite, and that fits my gut feeling very well.
I think that antisemites come in degrees and it's sometimes important to distinguish between them. Nuance can be a vital tool. My point is that when you line up a Ms. Rachel next to a Mehdi, there are differences -- with the latter influencing the antisemitism of the former.
I agree there are differences, but I think people are too ready to let off the light antisemites, just because there are so many foaming at the mouth antisemites.
If these morons actually “ cared” about Palestinian children, they’d do their homework and turn their wrath on Hamas, Fatah, PLA and the psychopathic Islamist culture that brutalizes their own children.
The Palestinian leaders are bloodthirsty barbarians and criminals (not to mention terrible at actual governing), but you have to give them credit for being PR geniuses.
They've known for decades now that if they can only get enough of their own babies and children killed or wounded, and then pose them for the cameras, they will make the average Western liberal putty in their hands, easy to manipulate and propagandize. Western liberals see a wounded child and immediately feel tremendous guilt and shame and want the suffering to stop, mostly so they can get back to shopping and scrolling their phones. Also, now that morality is displayed through lazy virtue-signalling, caring about "Palestinian babies" has become shorthand for proving you're a Good Person, which is why Palestinian babies are the new must-have item for our age of conspicuous compassion and why Hamas is the new BLM.
The best thing that could happen to Israel now would be for a white cop to kill a black guy or for Trump to ship a thousand migrant families to Guantanamo Bay—Western liberals will only relinquish their newest sacred victim when they have a new one to fetishize.