Here is an article from the Associated Press on the NBC News website. The focus is Germany’s current attempt to bring former Nazis to justice, specifically former members of the “Einsatzgruppen”, who were “SS units and police personnel who followed behind the regular army as it pushed into the Soviet Union in 1941, slaughtering perceived racial or political enemies in mass executions. Estimates vary, but experts agree they were responsible for well over 1 million killings.”
Notice the wording – “perceived racial or political enemies.” The article is illustrated with a photo that shows, “a German firing squad shooting Soviet civilians in the back as they sit beside a mass grave in the Babi Yar ravine …”
What’s missing from these descriptions – and from the entire article? Two words: “Jew” and “Jews.” The article mentions Nazis, death squads, the Holocaust, Sobibor, Auschwitz, the Wiesenthal Center, but no mention of Jews. Even later in the article, the Babi Yar massacre is described as, “… the shootings of nearly 34,000 people at Babi Yar, …”
According to eye-witness accounts of the massacre, area Jews and only Jews were ordered to report to Babi Yar, where they were murdered and buried in mass graves. The Associated Press has denied the Judaism, not only of the 34,000 victims at Babi Yar, but of all the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. This goes way beyond President Obama’s description of Jewish victims of the 2015 Hypercacher Kosher Supermarket attack in Paris, “… or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a Deli in Paris.“
This may seem like a petty issue, one that would only be noticed by a thin-skinned obsessive. But it is actually very important. We know that as Jews we have and will always have more than enough enemies. They want to get rid of us. They will use any method they can think of, and they’re constantly coming up with new methods. Here we see instead of Holocaust denial – Jew denial. Sure, the Holocaust was real. But Jews? Who? The AP has separated Jews from the Holocaust, the major twentieth century trauma in Jewish history. The AP has tried to strip our identity from us. We are no longer unique. We are anonymous, just one of the crowd – unless somebody needs a scapegoat.
Jews and Jewish concerns have been minimized in other ways. Jews are separated from Israel with lies about an “indigenous Palestinian People,” Ashkanazi Jews being descendents of Khazars, not being “real” Jews. There are attempts to separate Zionism and even Jews from Judaism, our enemies redefining Judaism for us so that we are redefined right out of existence. Palestinians and Iranians insist that Jews have no connection to Jerusalem or any of our holy sites. The Palestinian foreign ministry recently accused Israel of lying about a Jewish history in Jerusalem. They’ve been joined by UNESCO, a United Nations agency that recently passed a resolution denying Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem. Wait. Did I say “Israeli?” According to the UN, it’s now “Occupied Palestine.” Israel is the occupying power. The UN is trying to vote Israel out of existence, and that’s nothing new.
This AP report has written Jews out of existence. No Jews, no Israel. Fake news has been joined to fake history. If they can’t murder all of us, the UN, UNESCO, Iran, along with journalists under their control will merely try to erase our existence.
The very last paragraph of the article gives details on these 34 incidents:
Of the 34 incidents between Election Day and Nov. 27, 18 have been anti-Semitic in
nature, compared to five in the same period last year. Five of the
incidents have been anti-gay, and five others, anti-white. Two targeted Muslims and one was anti-black.
FACT: Half of all racist attacks in France target Jewish people, even though Jews make up less than 1% of the population.
We stand with the French Jewish community in their fight against anti-Semitism. Please pray for G-d’s protection over them, and for all Jews who are the target of racist attacks worldwide.
The ridiculous assumption behind this Gal Gadot nonsense is that the presumed way for her to have been a ‘good Jew’ – forgetting the fact that her service has already been completed and that she has tickmarks on ‘her rifle’ (which is not really likely anyway because Israel has the IWI Tavor as its standard which has a plastic body, not wooden one, which she doesn’t get to keep) for about as many Palestinians she’s killed (absolutely none, she was never in combat) – would be for her to refuse to serve in the IDF. As a fitness instructor. Which would bring about the end of the ‘Zionist Entity’ because, idk, Israelis would be too out of shape to defend their borders? Or something? If there is logic at the base of this argument I certainly don’t see it.
Let’s have some greater context here. This mess really blew up – as far as I personally saw it, since I’m not massively invested in comics or the films – when Gal Gadot came up with this quote that was deemed so offensive:
So, okay, we’ll break it down together. Really analyse it. Work out where the people who hate Gal Gadot have found their ammunition.
“I am sending my love and prayers to my fellow Israeli citizens.”
She sent love and prayers to “Israeli citizens.” Not politicians, not “Israeli Jews,” but all ordinary people who are Israeli and live in Israel. All of the Israeli citizens.
“Especially to all the boys and girls who are risking their lives protecting my country against the horrific acts conducted by Hamas […]”
Here’s her extra love to the IDF soldiers. But there’s a catch: she specifically says that she was sending “love and prayers” to the people protecting Israel against Hamas. Hamas, the terrorist organisation that wants to murder all Jews. There’s no mention of Palestinians. No mention of the West Bank or Gaza Strip. No mention of “one people is better than another.” No demonisation of Palestinians. No claim that all Palestinians are evil or terrorists. All that she says is that Hamas are bad, nothing else.
“[…] who are hiding like cowards behind women and children […]”
Since this post has been about Hamas, she’s saying, essentially, that Israel shall overcome Hamas’ horrific acts.
“Shabbat Shalom!”
The photo that she posted is clearly of her lighting the Shabbat candles with her daughter, as she’s Jewish.
“#weareright”
She believes that Israel is in the right against Hamas, as Hamas is what she’s talking about.
“#freegazafromhamas”
This is more proof of context. This is all about how much she despises Hamas, not Palestinians in general, with no mention of the West Bank at all.
“#stopterror”
Surely, this is a good thing. Terrorism is always bad.
“#coexistance [sic]”
This is Gal Gadot’s only mention of general Palestinians in the quote above. “Coexistence” instead of terror. Again, a good thing. She doesn’t demonise Palestinians. She’s angry at Hamas.
“#loveidf”
This is her supporting the IDF in their duties. In context, it’s all about how she supports the IDF in their struggle against Hamas, and obviously how proud she is of their work against terrorism.
Broken down, it’s not an evil sentiment. It’s not a racist statement. It’s about supporting the IDF against Hamas – and everyone in their right mind, even the worst of antisemites, should be against Hamas for all of their evils. Pro-Palestinians should be against Hamas for what they’re doing to their own people.
The lie, as shown above, is then spun that because Gal Gadot was drafted, she must be a murderer.
Instead, during an interview talking about whether she was “too slim” to play Wonder Woman, she said:
“My mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard. I was a dancer for 12 years. I did tennis, basketball, volleyball, dodgeball, you name it.” […] “[In the IDF] I was a gym trainer on one of the bases in Israel. So my boot camp was longer than other boot camps. It was four months and all about sports, waking up at 6:30 a.m. and going for a run, doing push-ups…”
Ga Gadot never saw any action. She was stationed at a base, in Israel, as a “gym trainer.”
The reaction of Gal Gadot playing Wonder Woman is a perfect example of antisemitism that isn’t even thinly veiled as “anti-Zionism.”
From the facts, an Israeli woman drafted into her national army and ended up as a gym instructor, nothing else, then shows that she’s anti-Hamas, has been warped and manipulated into blatant lies that she kept a kill count on her rifle, actively tried to kill Palestinians, is racist, is evil and other horrific lies.
There was absolutely no excuse to lie about her, aside from the fact that others hate her simply for being a Jewish Israeli. You can guarantee that if she were an Arab Israeli, then none of this would have happened. She is targeted and hated for being a Jewish Israeli woman, nothing else.
There are not only people making up lies like that, but also those that see those lies and happily decide to take them as fact without doing any research for themselves. They’ve decided that Gal Gadot must be an evil murderer, just for the fact that she’s a Jewish Israeli, and then will happily spread that lie because they feel justified in their racism.
The deliberate lies about Gal Gadot are examples of antisemitism. As shown, that’s just a fact.
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