When I was sixteen I went on March of the Living to visit Poland—where my grandparents escaped but their families died in concentration camps—and then to Israel, where I was born.
Watching Hamas and all its supporters lie about anything without even blinking, twisting around terms and history, and too many people feeding into their lies - is something I never thought I would see in my lifetime
That is why I do not have the priviledge of "just teaching Hebrew"
I do not see it as political any more than it would be if we were in Germany of 1939
I lived my entire life in the aftermath of the Shoah. My family went through it. I translated my family member's book about her survival story. I used to sit on her lap as a child and hear her stories. And I personally heard dozens of others' stories, every year
My main content is always teaching you Hebrew & the love of Israel, the language, and my culture
But post Oct 7, with all that it brought & still does, if you don't understand why I post this content as well, you do not understand what it means to be persecuted. To be Jewish. To be an Israeli. I do. That is all Artist: @itzikahunna
Why would a community in crisis turn its back on its own people, stealing free aid, attacking and killing aid truckers only to then sell it to other community members who supposedly have nothing?
The west has to wake up. These people do not share our mentality. They are showing it in every thing they do.
They have showed it on Oct 7 as teachers, nurses, doctors, women and endless "innocent civilians" cheered and aided in the looting, raping, killing, kidnapping, hiding, and torturing of women, children, babies, elderly...
And they are showing it in every single thing they do since.
All we need is to look and see.
Because the west is next. They are showing this too, very clearly.
"What is truly antisemitic is the equating of Zionism with Judaism": Jewish activist Rachel Shapiro arrested today in Berlin after her speech calling for a free Palestine.
"We stand, as a Jewish value, with the oppressed, always", is how she concluded her speech before the German police took her away.
@ramonita While German politicians (including @GrueneBundestag) solemnly repeat "Never Again Is Now" to each other in blind support of a murderous and illegal war, German police violently drags Jews off the street for exercising their right to free speech. It's sickening.
The chart below summarizes how very little time #Hitler needed to abolish democracy and have the first #Jews deported to a #ConcentrationCamp: 👉less than only three months!👈
Fellow Berliners, #Saturday there's another protest against the rise of the extreme right in #Germany and #Europe .
You might have noticed these have been everywhere in Germany, and we need to keep showing that parties like the #AfD are not just a protest party, but a danger to society.
Show that #NeverAgain has not been forgotten, 13:00 this Saturday (3 Feb) in front of the #Bundestag
Israelis are making TikToks eating and making fun of starving people in #Gaza for #UNRWA funding being pulled. I think if half of you were on #TikTok you would have a very different view of things. The cruelty is unimaginable and the hashtag #staythirsty (as in dehydrated) is trending.
One of the more popular slogans of the protests in #Germany against right wing movements is #NieWiederIstJetzt which can be translated as #NeverAgainIsNow and I think that is a slogan that should be promoted in the US too.
A cool thing I just noticed: If you turn #NeverAgainIsNow into an acronym, you land at NAIN. Which phonetically sounds almost like "Nein", the German word for No. I like! You can loudly chant "We say NAIN" and German people will understand immediately :)
@andrewstroehlein That is why i think that #NeverAgainIsNow is very to the point. It takes away the abstractness of never again, which feels like talking about another time than now. In German you have #NieWiederIstJetzt. To my shame nobody posts #NooitMeerIsNu in my language Dutch.
Today hundreds of thousands protested across Germany over far-right AfD’s mass deportation meetings. Around 30,000 people came together in my home town of Bonn alone. I feel proud.
We joined 15.000 people in Heidelberg today with friends and the entire family to protest against fascism and the AfD. The first big protest for the kids. It was so good to see so many people united against Nazis ✊ #NeverAgainIsNow