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Friday, February 03, 2023

"If you love Israel, it is your obligation to hate Israel"

The Forward has an op-ed by David Enoch, a professor of philosophy and law at Hebrew University:If you want to support Israel, boycott its new government....Even if the justification of boycotts has in the past been questionable, I think that American Jews owe it to Israel, and to Israelis like myself, to promote such measures now. After the disproportionate Israeli military...

Ever notice that only Zionist trips to Israel are obligated to be "balanced" but not anti-ZIonist trips?

One of the more disingenuous parts of groups like IfNotNow demnding that Zionist organizations like Birthright include an anti-Zionist point of view is that no one - and I mean no one - ever even considers politely requesting so-called "pro-Palestinian" groups include the Zionist narrative in their discussions. The reason this comes up is a small article in the PLO website....

J Street: From Blocking Back to Quarterback? (Daled Amos)

"Our No. 1 agenda item is to do whatever we can in Congress to act as the president’s blocking back." J Street co-founder Jeremy Ben-Ami, "The New Israel Lobby," September 9, 2009 And in order to do whatever they could in Congress to support Obama, J Street took -- and continues to take -- a different approach than AIPAC. AIPAC supports the policy of whoever is elected...

The bizarre defense of "Breaking the Silence" espionage

Two weeks ago we reported about the Israeli Channel 2 report showing how "Breaking the Silence" asks many questions from former soldiers that had nothing to do with human rights and sound a lot like intelligence gathering against Israel. Here is the full report with English subtitles: It is fascinating to see how the Left is defending this. At first, Haaretz put out a...

Watch English subtitled section of Breaking the Silence "espionage" video; Haaretz defends group

Last week we discussed the video expose from Israel's Channel 2 on how Breaking the Silence was acting in ways that look startlingly like espionage against the IDF. Now part of the report has been subtitled in English by My Truth: Meanwhile, Haaretz is defending the group in a fact-free editorial: Breaking the Silence has become the biggest threat to Israel’s security,...

How will left-wing "Zionists" respond to the BTS bombshell? (update)

Arutz-7 reports: Channel 2 news broadcast highly incriminating video evidence Thursday evening filmed with hidden cameras by nationalist group Ad Kan, which shows ultra-leftist group Breaking the Silence engaged in what appears like espionage activity against the IDF. ‘Breaking the Silence has crossed another red line,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said after the...

BtS spokesperson's lies refuted by his former army-mates

Avner Gvaryahu is the public face of Breaking the Silence, writing articles in Western media about how immoral the Israeli army is, and relating it to his own army experiences. Now his fellow soldiers wrote a letter saying that he is full of it. From My Truth: Hey Avner, It’s us, your friends from the army, from the Orev unit. We have also decided to break our silence....

Here's the full video with English subtitles exposing Ezra Nawi and his underhanded methods: (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); The...

The testimony that "Breaking the Silence" does not accept

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Breaking the Silence understands why Arabs would want to stone them. It's Israel's fault.

From Haaretz: A left wing NGO's bus was the victim of a rock throwing attack near Hebron in the West Bank Friday, lightly wounding three. The assailants who carried out the attack in south Mount Hebron were Palestinian children, Breaking the Silence told Haaretz. The three wounded were participating on a Breaking the Silence tour at...

Breaking the Silence cares so much (ElderToons)

From an idea by Renato: ...

Real Breaking the Silence 4: Matan Katzman

From Facebook: I'm breaking the silence. Here is my report, continuing an important initiative under the Hashtag #האמת_שלי (Hebrew for #My_Truth). ** Beit Hanoun, the Gaza Strip, 2006. Operation "Autumn's Clouds". We're entering a home. At the entrance, we meet a man and his wife. We take them to a side room and offer them something to drink. We ask the man if he has...

Real Breaking the Silence 3: Yet another IDF soldier speaks

From Avihai Shorshan, translated on Facebook by Tomer Elias: I'm also breaking the silence. Here is my report, nothing special, just the tip of the iceberg. During our operation in the Kasbah of Schem, while we were stationed inside a house for an ambush, an old man, one of the residents of the home started feeling pains in his chest. Because the Red Sahar are a group...

(Part 1 here) Shachar Eilenberg, an IDF soldier who fought in Gaza, wrote down some of his experiences on Facebook in response to the "Breaking the Silence" release of anonymous "testimonies." Operation Protective Edge - Khirbat Ikhza'a In the early morning hours we identify two kids walking near a house we were staying in. Four combatants quickly accompany Company...

IDF soldiers refute allegations of Breaking the Silence

From Shai Levy in Mako: I'm flooded with messages from IDF soldiers and officers. Not long after "Breaking the Silence" published the testimonies of IDF soldiers who fought in Operation Protective Edge , I was approached by the same soldiers and officers in every way possible: phone, messaging, Whatsapp and even through email. Everyone sent a clear message, "They stuck...

Soldier describes how immoral Hamas is

Looking at more of the "Breaking the Silence" testimonies, here's an example where the leftist group is trying hard to pretend that the IDF is doing something immoral - but in fact it is Hamas that is trying to get the IDF to kill civilians. There was this mentally handicapped girl in the neighborhood, apparently, and the fact that shots were fired near her feet only made her laugh (earlier in his testimony the soldier described a practice of shooting...

Here's an example of a "Breaking the Silence" testimony

Today, the leftist group Breaking the Silence released a report on how awful the IDF was during the Gaza war. As usual, the stories have no context and no details, so it is difficult to know what exactly happened. But I went to the BTS site to see testimonies from Gaza last year. Here was the first one I saw: There were a few times where it was just too much and I had to say something. Because in two months of fighting, people make mistakes,...

"Breaking the Silence" silences IDF soldier (video, now with subtitles)

From Arutz-7: Far-left anti-IDF group Breaking the Silence received a taste of its own tactics on Friday, after a nationalist from the Samaria Residents' Council "participated" in a "witness testimony" propaganda event. Breaking the Silence events usually feature "testimony" from (alleged) former IDF soldiers, who spin personal stories about the Israeli military's activities in Judea and Samaria. Accusations usually include systemized abuse of...