I have taken this from my Facebook page, posted in January 2022. I am sharing it now because current circumstances encourage me to do so.
It is a useful example of how too many Israeli Jews all too often think and of what they have been taught. They have been subjected to Hasbarah all their lives, they have no idea of the truth. Their compassion extends only to themselves: they define self-pity.
And this individual was clearly very angry with me for something I’d said in a previous comment. I didn’t assume for one moment that my words would make any difference to her; but if we don’t speak of what we know we stand no chance of making a difference to anybody.
[‘Neshema’: soul or spirit, Hebrew]
Comment: ‘…….,yes you are anti Semitic even though you claim to be a Jew, just like the Jews of “breaking the silence”. You have turned against your own people, spreading lies and propaganda coming from Jew-haters in the PA and Arab media. Your arrogance is breathtaking! Your progressive agenda means more to you than the innocent Jewish blood spilled by the knife wielding, car ramming, rock throwing Arabs who rejoice and celebrate when a Jew, child or mother , young father or grandparent is attacked and killed. You do not have a Jewish neshama.
…….you repeat lies on this site? Israel has been more than kind to the Arab
Citizens of israel. Those who call themselves Palestinians, a name created for them by Yasser Arafat, live under the cruel domination of Hamas in Gaza and the PA in parts of Judea and Samaria.
Hamas uses aid money to increase terrorism using their own people as human shields when attacking israel.
PA used aid money to pay murderers of Israelis! Anyone who criticizes the PA is arrested and tortured.
You are biased and one sided. That is anti Semitism.’
My reply: You accuse me of not being a Jew! Why? Because YOU cannot accept the truth of what Israel is doing, because YOU won’t even dare to find out the truth because you are so frightened of what you might learn!
Not only am I a Jew, but I am one of an increasingly great number of Jews, inside as well as outside of Israel, who have come to understand the painful truth of what Israel is doing in our name; and we resent it, we are shamed by it!
And believe me, it has not been easy for those of us who were raised to the idea that Israel was our homeland to come to terms with the terrible things Zionist Israel has done so that it can be our homeland.
I understand, as any feeling human being would, never mind any Jew, what the Jews of Israel have endured.
But what the Palestinians have had to endure and are enduring at the hands of Israel is infinitely greater; the suffering of Palestinian men, women, children, families has over the last seventy years reached almost incalculable levels.
And it is because I am a Jew I understand this suffering; as should you, as should every Jew.
A nation which oppresses a people in its charge because it does not fit a particular racial or religious profile is a nation committing crimes against humanity. Does that have a familiar ring to it? It should.
So before you accuse me of lies, consider the bitter lies you have been taught to believe by the Israeli government: there is a lack of neshama if ever there was one.’