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EKB🎗️'s avatar

You know there is no nuance. This is straight good versus evil. Too many Jewish Americans have never dealt with any kind of antisemitism never mind lethal islamist antisemitism, and they still cant handle the fact that there are billions of people on this planet that want us dead (both as Americans and as Jews). And no I do not feel sorry for them, while I pity them I can't stand them. It's people like them that will get the rest of us killed.

Good list and I am sure everyone has more to add to it. But let's not get stuck on caring what these people think or say. They don't want to listen. We need to keep on doing what we are doing.

Sorry you had to give up your yoga studio though.

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Michael Gease's avatar

I stand with you, April, as I stand with Israel.

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Hāns's avatar

April, thank you, you hit the nail on the head, and trust me you can be Jewish and still get all the above in small city provincial New Zealand..... This made me giggle, "I’m sure tomorrow someone will say something even stupider..." The depth and breadth of Stupid knows no end

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April's avatar

Today was pretty quiet. I picked up my cat's thyroid medicine, wrote an article with some quotes from my Israeli friends, and went to the Aldi store. I also chatted with my two most pro-Israel friends from my previous life.

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Jill's avatar

At this point we will call you an honorary Jew - so no need to say that you aren't Jewish!

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S. Levin's avatar

Sorry. I love April too, but there's no such thing as an honorary Jew (or being a little bit pregnant...).

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The Spiked Quill's avatar

That's so annoying, your background should be irrelevant when making sense of it.

Azerbaijan and Armenia are fighting over something, if you strongly side with one side does anyone ever say but you're not Armenian or Azerbaijani?

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S. Levin's avatar

Perfect!

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Richard Feinman's avatar

and don’t forget: Do you know what the Iran-Iraq was about?

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Suzanna Eibuszyc's avatar

Connecting the dots: the pro Palestinian and the Red-Green alliance of the woke army. With the end goal being to destroy the United States and Capitalism. Temple University a meeting of students for justice for Palestine. They are not hiding anything. Posted by MEMRI TV Videos. Israel is doing the dirty work for the rest of the western world.

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April's avatar

Absolutely. Are you in the Philly area? I am. I'm looking for in person friends... my woke former friends aren't so friendly anymore.

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Suzanna Eibuszyc's avatar

I am not in Philly but we have a daughter who lives there. She is not political, she is trying to survive. Next time we visit I would love to meet you. I would love to gift you my book, memoryisourhome, you can also find my writings on substack memoryisourhome I teach classes to adults, European history, the Holocaust, WWI-WWII and my own experiences growing up after the war under communism, we escaped at the end of 1960s. I also teach classes on archeology and history of the land of Israel. I spent time in Israel excavating with Tel Aviv university. xxxxx

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April's avatar

Wow, that's amazing! I'll check out your work! I majored in history at college at Yale and was always most interested in WWI-WWII era. Read tons of holocaust literature, literature of those who lived under communism, and fictional dystopias. They always sounded way too familiar! Have you heard about the anti-communist film festival that my friend Mark Judge is working on?

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Suzanna Eibuszyc's avatar

I have not heard of Mark Judge.

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Kip🎗️'s avatar

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Thank you for this. Grateful it showed up in my feed today.

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April's avatar

Thank you ! Glad you liked it.

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Elizabeth Hamilton's avatar

What rose is that?

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April's avatar

Hi Elizabeth and thank you for subscribing! I don't know what kind it is. My hobby is to take pictures of the flowers in my neighborhood and anywhere, so I just grab a pic wherever I can!

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George Cervenka's avatar

Thank you for your work.

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April's avatar

Thank you all!

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Will Linden's avatar

Even worse, if you are “Jewish” enough for anti-semites, but not for “the” Jews (because halakah says so.)

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Richard Feinman's avatar

It has always been that Jews, from New York for example, visit Israel and are surprised that it is a country — it has thieves and prostitutes and even religious divisions. And remember, the US was the bad guys in the Vietnamese, and many of “us” were opposed to the war and, as in all wars, had ambivalence about our boys being soldiers. There was undoubtedly analogous situation in Israel on October 6. Hamas did not want any support from Israelis. As things are, there are no good guys in this. Only third parties can help. Israel is sill not one thing.

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Liba's avatar

Wow. All I can say is good for you.

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