2025
The Jewish Chronicle
Hannah Einbinder and her fellow antizionist Jewish peers like Ben Platt and Ilana Glazer have enjoyed successful careers off their Jewish identities yet jump at every opportunity to denounce the Jewish state in their desperation to be seen by their liberal comrades as ‘good Jews’. Meanwhile, visibly Jewish couples are gunned down in the streets, synagogues in London are defaced with faeces, Holocaust survivors are firebombed and Jewish families on holiday are mauled by dogs, all whilst hearing the chants of “Free Palestine” as the underscore to the horror and violence unleashed on them.
Birthright Israel Foundation
When I first arrived in Israel, the thing I noticed immediately was a feeling of relief. My shoulders finally relaxed, after almost 2 years of being on high alert in the UK. When I left Ben Gurion Airport and saw graffiti on the wall, my stomach automatically dropped because in the UK, when graffiti mentions Israel, it’s almost always hateful. Here, it wasn’t. Though it’s perhaps a relatively small thing, seeing graffiti that wasn’t inciting terrorism or featuring antisemitic imagery was a symbol of something much bigger.
The Telegraph
Tomer, a gay Israeli playwright, is showcasing his play ‘Sharif’ about LGBTQ+ Palestinians at theatres in London and the US. “Finding actors has been difficult, some actors don’t want to work with me because I’m Israeli. I want this play to highlight the challenges of life for LGBTQ+ Palestinians which I believe is an important topic that can present a unique opportunity for Israeli and Palestinian collaboration. Some actors see my name and then pull out of the audition process, not wanting to work with me.”
The Jewish Chronicle
I don’t know of any other minority who is so constantly gaslit by their adversaries’ insistence on telling them what is and isn’t hateful. Criticism of the Israeli government is not antisemitic. Congrats on figuring that out. Questioning whether the state of Israel has a right to exist? Definitely not okay. Comparing Zionism with Nazism? Very much antisemitic. It’s as if they can’t quite let the pesky Jews be comfortable shredding the trauma of the Holocaust. They have to bring it back to us in this ugly comparison of a totally incomparable situation.
The Jewish News
Without meaning to sound hyperbolic I felt as though I was in the presence of something divine. Something bigger than me. Of course Eli himself is a simple, normal man by his own description but what he represents – well, it’s beyond words. We’ve all had experiences with people who move us in some way. Film stars, musicians. I understand what it’s like to be starstruck, to not believe that someone you admire is standing in front of you. This was not that. Eli is not a celebrity. He’s not a martyr. But being in that room tapped into something on a different frequency that I had not felt before; perhaps it’s the same feeling people describe when they visit the Kotel or a glimpse of what it might have felt like at Mount Sinai.
The Jewish Chronicle
The choice was very simple. My gay network had gone but my Jewish one had not. I love being gay and still support the causes I did when I first came out. I continue to stand with the LGBT+ community as they fight for their rights but I now do this from the back rows. Now the bulk of my political energy is spent protecting the Jewish community.
The Jewish Telegraph
Having experienced it myself, and having read the many stories of others, it’s clear to see that the Jewish people, whether they are religious, secular, the direct descendants of Holocaust survivors or the rebellious children of rabbis, have once again come together in the joy and despair of being part of this wonderful, neurotic, talented, spirited, chosen people.
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