Hamas Propaganda-Stop the showing of this film

There's a documentary, Israelism, making rounds in community theaters and on college campuses,  sheer propaganda. It's biased and antisemitic. It has to be stopped. People will believe that Israel is an apartheid state despite two million thriving Arabs living ad prospering in Israel.

Here's what I wrote to a few dozen college deans across the country. Feel free to copy and paste, change, whatever, and send it off to ANYONE who might be sympathetic to this problem, persuasive, propaganda. Lies. . 

November 17, 2023

 

Dear Dean So and So,

 

I'm writing as a Jew and an academic, perhaps as an academic first. I understand the film Israelism is making the rounds in higher education. I am writing to urge you to personally censure a film that strongly insinuates Israel is an apartheid state, as opposed to a home to many, including two million Arabs living, working, yes thriving in Israel as physicians, nurses and judges. Israel is a free country.  

There is some important history of the land. I will keep it short. 

 

Yearning to return to the Promised Land Jews purchased property from the Turks in the twenty years previous to World War I.  Zionists drained swamps, desalinated water, planted orange grows, and developed a commercially viable environment. All the while living under the persistent threat of terrorism, deadly sneak attacks at night. 

When the British colonized Israel as a spoil of World War I to protect their oil interests, they invited hundreds of thousands of Arabs in neighboring lands to emigrate, to come to Israel to work, protect their oil interests, keep the Suez Canal open. Terrorism increased exponentially. 

 

After a horrific massacre in Hebron, a pogrom similar to the attack on October 7, wiping out an entire religious community, Jews armed themselves, readied for what would be the War of Independence in 1947, a war that began with an Arab terrorist attack that killed five Jewish people. 

 

The difference between then and now is that now we have the video. Hamas journalists taped vicious gang-rapes, gleeful dancing with body parts (breasts carved from brutally murdered women), decapitated heads propped up on guns waving in the air. Congress only just saw this footage on November 15, 2023, the day of the rally to show support for Israel in Washington. 

 

In the Quran it is written that the murder of just one infidel (a Christian will do), dying in the effort, earns the murderer an immediate place in the next life, a much better life.

 

Terrorism against Jews is and always has been about this, killing infidels no matter where they live. It is not about sharing land, not about apartheid, not about a desire for a parallel Arab state, or equality. It is about death to those who do not worship Muhammed. Thus we had 9-11, and they threaten that we will see more.

The Jewish State refuses to make annihilation easy. Shame on Israel, I suppose. But the bottom line is that Jews may be many things, suicidal we are not. Their mantra, straight from the Torah reads: Therefore choose life. (I did say I am writing as a Jew).

 

The idea is that we choose life. This is why this war feels interminably long, slow. The Israeli army takes every precaution to safeguard the lives of civilians rather than bulldoze or bomb institutions that house innocents as human shields.

 

I urge you to persuade your university’s administration to cancel the showing of Israelism, to be on the right side of history. This is not about free speech. The film is propaganda, the same sort of thing propagated in Nazi Germany. Never Again really is Now. Civilization has sunk to the lowest common denominator once again. Hate and violence are glorified. 

Higher education is a place to come to learn, not a stage for political agendas. Perhaps that’s just an opinion. But I urge you not to watch silently as schools become pawns, caught in the upswell of emotion driven by individuals who value death and the elimination of those who disagree with their beliefs. If we really believe in the value of diversity then this type of dogma—this time in the guise of antisemitism—Jew hating—should not have a place at the microphone. 

 

Begin by censuring Israelism —slick, engaging, watchable—very dangerous propaganda.  

Thank you,

therapydoc