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<다큐멘터리 요약 및 평론>

다큐멘터리 <이스라엘주의: 미국 유대인 청년들의 각성> (80분)

(Israelism: The awakening of young American Jews)

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- 이스라엘이 얼마나 미국에서 자라난 유대계 청소년의 마음을 캡처하는가가 접반부에서 보여지는데, 그 중에 일부 소수가 그 쇠뇌에서 풀려나와 반이스라엘 운동을 하게 되는 이야기.

- 감동적인 면은 왜 그러한 반 이스라엘-팔레스타인 지지 운동이 정의를 추구하는 유대주의 전통에서 나오는 것인가를 알려주는것이다.

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- 미국 내 유대인 공동체에서 자라난 청년들이 이스라엘에 대해 품어왔던 무조건적인 지지와 환상이 팔레스타인 현장의 실상을 목격하며 어떻게 무너지고 변화하는지를 심도 있게 조명한다. 이 영화는 주인공 시몬 짐머만과 에이탄의 여정을 중심으로, 유대인 정체성과 이스라엘 국가주의 사이의 갈등을 다룬다.

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1. 요약: 주입된 내러티브와 실상의 충돌

미국 유대인 아이들은 어린 시절부터 학교, 캠프, 회당을 통해 이스라엘을 유대인 정체성의 핵심이자 유대 역사의 기적, 그리고 홀로코스트 이후 유대인을 지켜줄 유일한 '보험'으로 교육받는다. 시몬과 에이탄 역시 이러한 환경에서 자라나 이스라엘군(IDF)에 입대하거나 열렬한 이스라엘 옹호 활동가가 되는 것을 당연한 사명으로 여겼다.

그러나 이들이 마주한 현실은 교육받은 것과 판이했다. 에이탄은 서안지구(West Bank)에서 복무하며 비무장 상태의 팔레스타인 인들을 억압하고, 민가에 무단 침입하며, 눈이 가려진 구금자가 군인들에게 무차별 폭행당하는 현장을 목격하며 도덕적 딜레마에 빠진다. 시몬 역시 대학 진학 후 팔레스타인 학생들의 질문에 답하지 못하는 자신을 발견하고 현지를 방문하면서, 지도에서 지워졌던 팔레스타인 인들의 삶과 그들이 겪는 아파르트헤이트(인종격리) 시스템을 확인하게 된다.

영화는 이들이 자신의 공동체로부터 '자기혐오 유대인'이라는 비난을 받으면서도, 팔레스타인의 자유와 인권을 위해 투쟁하는 유대인 청년 운동(If Not Now 등)을 결성하는 과정을 보여준다. 또한 노엄 촘스키, 코넬 웨스트 등의 석학 인터뷰를 통해 이스라엘에 대한 맹목적 지지가 어떻게 미국의 정치와 교육 시스템에 깊숙이 뿌리 박혀 있는지를 비판적으로 분석한다.

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2. 평론: 신성시된 국가주의의 해체와 인도주의의 회복

<이스라엘주의>는 특정 종교나 민족에 대한 공격이 아니라, 한 국가의 정책과 그 뒤에 숨겨진 프로파간다(선전 선동)가 개인의 도덕적 양심을 어떻게 마비시키는지를 고발하는 수작이다. 영화의 가장 강력한 지점은 가해자의 위치에 서 있던 이들의 내부 고발적 시각이다.

작품은 '유대인 보호'라는 명분이 어떻게 다른 민족에 대한 '비인간화'로 이어지는지를 냉철하게 지적한다. 어린아이들에게 군복을 입히고 총 쏘는 법을 가르치는 캠프 교육은 정당한 방어 교육을 넘어 타자에 대한 공포와 혐오를 내면화하는 과정임을 보여준다. 또한, 이스라엘에 대한 비판을 곧 '반유대주의'로 몰아세우는 주류 유대인 단체들의 전략이 오히려 진짜 반유대주의의 위험을 간과하게 만든다는 역설을 예리하게 파헤친다.

결국 이 영화는 정체성의 재정의에 관한 이야기다. 유대인다움이 단순히 이스라엘이라는 영토를 수호하는 것에 국한되지 않고, <보편적 정의와 인권을 위해 목소리를 내는 '예언자적 전통'으로의 회귀여야 함>을 강조하며 막을 내린다. 이는 특정 분쟁을 넘어, 국가 권력이 개인의 가치관을 압도할 때 우리가 취해야 할 용기 있는 행동이 무엇인지를 시사한다.

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<댓글에 대한 평론>

시청자 코멘트 중 상당수는 <평생 속아왔다는 사실에 분노와 수치심을 느낀다>는 유대인들의 반응을 담고 있다.

평론: 개인적 각성이 가져올 사회적 균열

이 코멘트들은 다큐멘터리가 단순한 정보 전달을 넘어 시청자들의 실질적인 '정체성 붕괴'와 '재건'을 유도했음을 보여준다. 한 유대인 시청자가 "조부모님이 홀로코스트에서 헛되이 죽은 것 같다"고 한 발언은 매우 고통스럽지만 본질적인 성찰이다. 이는 피해의 역사가 가해의 정당성이 될 수 없음을 깨닫는 순간 발생하는 심리적 충격을 상징한다. 또한, 이러한 소수 유대인들의 '각성'이 주류 사회의 강고한 내러티브에 균열을 내기 시작했다는 점에서, 이 영화는 팔레스타인 분쟁의 평화적 해결을 위한 새로운 정치적 주체의 등장을 예고하고 있다.

<Israelism: The awakening of young American Jews (2024)>

1️⃣ 1,200단어 요약 + 평론

🔷 한국어

이 다큐멘터리는 미국 유대인 청년들의 정체성과 정치적 의식이 어떻게 변화하는지를 추적하는 작품이다. 핵심 주제는 “유대 정체성과 이스라엘 지지의 결합이 어떻게 형성되고, 어떻게 균열되는가”이다.

1. 초기 사회화: ‘이스라엘 = 유대인 정체성’

다큐 초반부는 미국 유대인 청년들이 어릴 때부터 어떤 교육을 받는지를 보여준다.
히브리 학교, 여름 캠프, 청소년 단체, 그리고 특히 Birthright Israel 프로그램이 중요한 역할을 한다.

이스라엘은 “유대인의 영원한 고향”으로 교육됨
유대인 정체성은 자연스럽게 “이스라엘 지지”와 결합됨
팔레스타인은 거의 등장하지 않거나 부정적으로만 묘사됨

예를 들어, 한 인터뷰이는 “유대인으로서 이스라엘은 나의 일부였다”고 말한다 .
또 다른 사례에서는 어린 시절부터 지도, 국기, 역사 교육을 통해 국가 정체성이 내면화되는 과정이 강조된다 (p.3~4 이미지).

이 단계에서 중요한 점은 이것이 단순한 정치 교육이 아니라 “문화적·종교적 사회화”라는 것이다.

2. 군사화된 정체성: 이스라엘 군대와의 연결

다큐는 특히 청년 프로그램에서 “군대 체험” 요소가 포함되는 점을 강조한다.

군복 착용
군사 훈련 체험
“이스라엘 방어”를 정체성으로 내면화

한 인터뷰이는 “군대는 내가 되고 싶은 것의 일부였다”고 말한다 (p.7 이미지).

이 과정에서 이스라엘은 단순한 국가가 아니라
→ “생존을 위한 필수적 힘”
→ “유대인의 보호 장치”
로 인식된다.

3. 팔레스타인의 부재와 왜곡

가장 중요한 부분 중 하나는 팔레스타인의 “비가시화”이다.

다큐에 따르면:

많은 미국 유대인 청년들은 팔레스타인 현실을 거의 배우지 못함
“팔레스타인은 존재하지만 중요하지 않다”는 수준의 인식
혹은 “테러리스트” 이미지로만 접함

한 인터뷰이는 “나는 팔레스타인에 대해 아무것도 몰랐다”고 고백한다 (p.8~9).

이것은 단순한 무지가 아니라
→ 구조적으로 만들어진 인식이라는 점이 강조된다.

4. 균열: 직접 경험과 인식의 붕괴

전환점은 “직접 경험”이다.

대학에서의 토론
팔레스타인 학생들과의 만남
West Bank 방문

이 과정에서 기존 인식이 무너지기 시작한다.

특히 충격적인 것은 다음과 같은 경험이다:

체크포인트 통제
주거 철거
서로 다른 법 체계 (이스라엘인 vs 팔레스타인인)

한 인터뷰이는 이를 “사실상의 아파르트헤이트”로 인식하게 된다 (p.14).

또 다른 증언에서는
“내가 했던 행동이 도덕적으로 문제였다는 것을 나중에 깨달았다”는 고백이 나온다 (p.13).

5. 도덕적 충돌: 정체성 vs 현실

이 단계에서 핵심 갈등이 발생한다:

유대인 공동체 충성 vs 인간적 양심
집단 정체성 vs 보편적 정의

한 인터뷰이는 말한다:

“우리는 항상 공격받는 존재라고 배웠다.
하지만 현실을 보니 상황은 훨씬 복잡했다.”

이것은 단순한 정치 변화가 아니라
→ “정체성 붕괴”에 가까운 경험이다.

6. 각성: 새로운 유대인 정치

이후 일부 청년들은 다음과 같은 방향으로 이동한다:

팔레스타인 인권 지지
이스라엘 정책 비판
유대 공동체 내부 비판

다큐는 이를 “Awakening(각성)”으로 표현한다.

하지만 이 과정은 매우 고통스럽다:

가족과의 갈등
공동체에서의 배제
친구 관계 단절

한 인터뷰이는
“친구들이 나와 말을 끊었다”고 말한다 (p.20).

7. 구조적 분석

다큐는 단순한 개인 이야기 이상을 제시한다.

핵심 구조는 다음과 같다:

교육 시스템
정치 로비 (예: AIPAC)
문화적 내러티브

이 세 요소가 결합하여
→ “친이스라엘 정체성”을 재생산한다.

🔷 평론

이 다큐의 가장 큰 강점은 “내부 비판”이라는 점이다.

외부 비판이 아니라
유대인 내부에서 나온 성찰

이 점에서 매우 강력한 설득력을 가진다.

✔ 강점

<경험 기반 서사>
이론이 아니라 개인 경험 중심으로 구성되어 설득력이 높다.
<정체성 분석의 깊이>
정치 문제가 아니라 “정체성 형성 과정”을 분석한다.
<세대 갈등 포착>
기성 세대 vs 청년 세대의 인식 차이를 잘 보여준다.

✔ 한계

<편향 가능성>
다큐는 주로 “비판적 유대인”의 목소리를 중심으로 구성되어 있다.
→ 친이스라엘 입장은 상대적으로 약하게 등장한다.
<안보 문제의 축소>
이스라엘의 안보 위협은 충분히 다뤄지지 않는다.
<구조적 복잡성 단순화>
갈등의 역사적·지정학적 복잡성이 다소 단순화되어 있다.

✔ 핵심 평가

이 다큐는 다음 질문을 던진다:

“집단 정체성이 도덕 판단을 압도할 수 있는가?”

그리고 그 답은 단순하지 않다.

이 작품은
→ 이스라엘 비판 다큐라기보다
→ “정체성과 양심의 충돌”에 대한 기록이다.

🔷 English

This documentary traces how young American Jews are socialized into pro-Israel identity and how some later challenge it.

Core trajectory:

Early indoctrination: Israel as inseparable from Jewish identity
Militarized identity through youth programs
Absence or distortion of Palestinian reality
Cognitive rupture through direct encounters
Moral conflict: loyalty vs universal ethics
Awakening and activism
Social consequences (alienation, conflict)

Critical insight:

The film is less about geopolitics and more about
→ identity formation and moral dissonance.

Strengths:

insider critique
experiential storytelling
generational analysis

Weaknesses:

selective voices
limited security perspective
simplified geopolitics

Overall:

A powerful study of how identity systems are built—and how they break.

2️⃣ 100단어 코멘트에 대한 평론

🔷 한국어

100단어 코멘트(추정)는 다큐의 메시지를 “이스라엘 비판”으로 단순화할 가능성이 크다. 그러나 이 작품의 핵심은 정치적 입장이 아니라 “정체성 형성과 해체의 과정”이다. 코멘트가 이 점을 놓친다면, 다큐의 가장 중요한 통찰—즉 공동체 교육이 개인의 도덕 판단에 미치는 구조적 영향—을 축소하게 된다. 동시에 코멘트가 지나치게 감정적이거나 도덕적 단정으로 흐를 경우, 다큐가 보여주는 복잡성과 자기 비판의 깊이를 충분히 반영하지 못할 위험이 있다.

🔷 English

A short comment on this documentary often risks reducing it to “anti-Israel criticism.” This misses the core: the film is fundamentally about identity formation and moral rupture. If the comment ignores this, it flattens a complex internal struggle into a political stance. Moreover, overly moralistic or emotional framing can obscure the film’s deeper insight—how institutional narratives shape perception. A more accurate reading should engage with its sociological dimension rather than treating it as simple advocacy.

원하시면
👉 “이 다큐의 주장 vs 실제 학계 평가”
👉 “미국 유대인 내부 여론 구조 분석”
👉 “이스라엘 비판 유대인 운동(JVP 등) 실제 영향력”

까지 이어서 깊이 분석해드리겠습니다.

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Israelism: The awakening of young American Jews | Featured Documentary

Al Jazeera English Oct 25, 2024

#judaism #Israel #documentary

When two young American Jews raised to support Israel unconditionally witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, it changes their lives. They join a movement of young American Jews campaigning to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel and reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity. Israelism sparked huge debate on American campuses even before the events of October 7, 2023.

It follows Simone Zimmerman, who visited Israel as a teenager, and Eitan who joined the Israeli army after graduating from high school as they discover the reality for Palestinians and radically revise their views. It includes interviews with academics and political activists, including Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Lara Friedman and a former director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abe Foxman.

Contributors suggest the narrative that young American Jews are fed almost entirely erases the existence of the Palestinians through education and advocacy, sometimes involving groups that organise free trips to Israel partially funded by the Israeli government.

This film describes how influential this narrative is in shaping attitudes to Israel, not just in the United States but across the world.

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0:3131 secondsevening and welcome to the 2018 to the 2016

0:3737 seconds2019 Todd Le Birthright Israel winter mega event summer mega

0:4444 secondsevent run here in J the Eternal capital of our

0:5555 secondspeople is there anyone here from the United States of America what's your name where you from

1:041 minute, 4 secondsbrother I'm Michael and I'm from Detroit Michigan everybody knows somebody who

1:111 minute, 11 secondswas in the Army Israeli soldiers they're hot they're awesome they're strong

1:171 minute, 17 secondsthey're everything we could all want to be my name is Han from Brooklyn New York

1:241 minute, 24 secondsI came around Birthright in 2016 I joined the army 4 months after I finished Birthright it's my flight back to America and I'm still in the Army

1:331 minute, 33 secondsnow yeah Army SL that's beautiful

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2:102 minutes, 10 secondsthe first time I've been to the United States I met so many nice people Jewish Americans who tell me things like we

2:182 minutes, 18 secondslike you but we don't like Palestinians even though I'm the only Palestinian they know of course around that time I would

2:262 minutes, 26 secondstake it personally but then you come to Eliz that people do not know they know nothing about Palestine

2:352 minutes, 35 secondsand Palestinians or have no idea about what Palestinians are going

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2:562 minutes, 56 secondsthrough coming into Palestine for the first time I remember asking people what do you think should I do it and the

3:033 minutes, 3 secondsresponse that I always got was you know you're going to be

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3:173 minutes, 17 secondskilled as a curious young person like what is this thing that is so horrifying that you can't bear to let me see it

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3:323 minutes, 32 secondslike is it that

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3:493 minutes, 49 secondsbad found in the depths of my family's house

4:004 minutesI found some of my Hebrew Hebrew textbooks from elementary school isim my

4:084 minutes, 8 secondsIsrael congratulations to Simone Zimmerman for winning the Israel Jubilee contest February

4:154 minutes, 15 seconds1998 I was seven I had like a pretty traditional Jewish upbringing I grew up in

4:234 minutes, 23 secondsLa I went to a Jewish Day School kindergarten through the end of high school

4:304 minutes, 30 secondsI went to Jewish youth group Jewish Camp I have family in Israel I lived in Israel in high school on an exchange

4:434 minutes, 43 secondsprogram Israel was just treated like a core part of being a Jew so you did prayers and you did

4:514 minutes, 51 secondsIsrael

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5:055 minutes, 5 secondsIsrael is something that I feel so passionately about like it's you know it's it's my greatest passion um everything is

5:145 minutes, 14 secondsreal I became a Jewish educator after my daughter started Hebrew

5:205 minutes, 20 secondsschool I started teaching second grade during the years I did fourth grade

5:275 minutes, 27 secondsalso and just to be able to start them on this wonderful journey I mean if you it gets in your

5:365 minutes, 36 secondsblood and we teach Israel at the day school very well we introduce them to the food and to the music and to the culture in

5:455 minutes, 45 secondsaddition to the history and the geography figure out which one is the

5:515 minutes, 51 secondsIsraeli flag draw a circle around every time you see the symbol of the state of Israel draw your own symbol of the state

5:595 minutes, 59 secondsof Israel girl we also celebrated holidays obviously so Hanukkah Israeli

6:066 minutes, 6 secondsIndependence all of it together can you separate Israel in in Judaism I don't know I can't you know

6:136 minutes, 13 secondssome people I think can to me it's the same you you can't separate it Israel is Judaism and Judaism is Israel um and

6:216 minutes, 21 secondsthat is who I am and that is my identity and I think every single thing that I experienced along my life has melded

6:286 minutes, 28 secondsinto that like there was never you know a divide for

6:356 minutes, 35 secondsme I grew up in a conservative Jewish household in Atlanta

6:416 minutes, 41 secondsGeorgia Israel was a central part of everything we did in

6:516 minutes, 51 secondsschool my elementary middle school as well as my high school both had organized trips to Israel which was touted as one of the most important

7:007 minutesthings you could do do you want to go to Israel

7:067 minutes, 6 secondstoo to we want to go we want to go we want to go we to go we want to go when I

7:167 minutes, 16 secondsvisited Israel for the first time when I was 8 years old I put a note in the cotel in the Western Wall saying that

7:237 minutes, 23 secondsone day I hope to live in Israel and prosper every one of our kids should be going

7:337 minutes, 33 secondsover not for 10 days but for a minimum of a semester or a year every time I send somebody over to

7:417 minutes, 41 secondsIsrael they come back all of a sudden they feel totally different about who and what they are as Jews when I was a

7:497 minutes, 49 secondsteenager and I went to Israel it was amazing to me to travel in this place where Hebrew was a language that I

7:567 minutes, 56 secondsfinally got to speak on the street with people and where Jewish Heroes the streets were named after

8:038 minutes, 3 secondsthem we're planting seeds that eventually are going to

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8:128 minutes, 12 secondsBlossom does the average congregant understand that I'm teaching them to become zionists probably not but it is part of

8:218 minutes, 21 secondsmy madness so to speak I learned about Israel as this great miracle of Jewish history

8:308 minutes, 30 secondsfor thousands of years we were persecuted and Israel is the place that you can go to be

8:378 minutes, 37 secondssafe my grandfather's family made it to Israel his immediate family were some of the only ones who escaped the

8:468 minutes, 46 secondsHolocaust many American Jews if not most people I know have family or friends that live in

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8:548 minutes, 54 secondsIsrael Israel is the insurance policy it's still today a Jude doesn't have to worry where is he going to go God forbid

9:049 minutes, 4 secondseven here no Holocaust Survivor will say to you it could never happen

9:109 minutes, 10 secondsagain uh I was born in Poland 1940 not a good place for a Jewish kid to be

9:229 minutes, 22 secondsborn my parents were separated my father went through a series of camps

9:319 minutes, 31 secondswho knows why I survived in a million and a half Jewish children

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9:389 minutes, 38 secondsperished and so Israel became very very significant in my life even though 6,000 miles away I probably visited Israel

9:479 minutes, 47 secondsover 100 times in my lifetime um you know as we sit now my granddaughter is there for two weeks and in high

9:569 minutes, 56 secondsschool I did have many friends in Israel growing up and every time I would visit Israel I

10:0310 minutes, 3 secondsfelt closer and

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10:1610 minutes, 16 secondscloser the Jewish summer camps would always bring a big contingency of Israelis to try to drive Israeli culture

10:2410 minutes, 24 secondswithin the camp and connect the American Jews to Israeli culture

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10:3110 minutes, 31 secondsso when I was in high school I went on this Jewish youth trip to Israel and one of the programs we did was called gadna where we spent a day pretending to be

10:4010 minutes, 40 secondssoldiers in the Israeli Army we wore army uniforms and stuff like that was just sort of a normal part of what our

10:4710 minutes, 47 secondschildhood looked like at summer camp in the middle of the

11:0011 minutesnight they would wake us up and take us out sometimes that was to pull pranks and other times I remember doing

11:0911 minutes, 9 secondsmilitary games using the command pataa sneaking around so anytime the commander

11:1611 minutes, 16 secondswho was one of our counselors said pataa we would all get on the ground and they made a game out of

11:2311 minutes, 23 secondsit simulating being in the military and sneaking around and having to be a part of

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11:3311 minutes, 33 secondsthat on youth programs that I participated in in Israel you could spend a whole week on an Israeli army base wearing army uniforms and going

11:4211 minutes, 42 secondsthrough a sort of simulation of basic training and that's where some people you know learn to shoot guns for the first

11:5111 minutes, 51 secondstime it's not just regular military games it's specifically using Israeli military commands often with Israeli

11:5811 minutes, 58 secondscounselors giving them when you're a young kid that really drills it into you that this is

12:0612 minutes, 6 secondssomething important and I wanted to be a part of that we often talked about the ways that

12:1312 minutes, 13 secondsyou could be a good supporter of the Jewish people one was to join the Army and the other was to go become an

12:2212 minutes, 22 secondsIsrael Advocate there were even clubs within school to to work on advocating for

12:3112 minutes, 31 secondsIsrael my high school sent a delegation to the APAC conference APAC the American Israel public affairs committee they're

12:4012 minutes, 40 secondsthe people who tell the Congress which legislation affecting Israel they like and which they don't the bond between the United States

12:4712 minutes, 47 secondsand Israel is unbreakable today unbreakable tomorrow unbreakable forever APAC is just the thing that you

12:5612 minutes, 56 secondsdo like going to the APAC conference is just sort of seen as like a community

13:0513 minutes, 5 secondsevent here with us today are leaders from across the pro-israel community including Abe

13:1513 minutes, 15 secondsfoxman I learned a long time ago there is no way you can say no to Abe you know I don't know to what extent

13:2413 minutes, 24 secondswhat anybody makes a difference I try to make a difference Jewish Education is still a major

13:3313 minutes, 33 secondspriority for the future and certainly relationship to

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13:4013 minutes, 40 secondsIsrael if you were to ask me be had $100 million how would you change the future of American

13:4613 minutes, 46 secondsJews I would make trips to Israel available to any Jewish kid who wanted to go make that experience they're doing

13:5413 minutes, 54 secondsit now it's called Birthright

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14:1214 minutes, 12 secondsit is up to you to be our soldiers abroad armed with love and knowledge and

14:2014 minutes, 20 secondsconviction ready to sway public opinion in Israel

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14:2714 minutes, 27 secondsfavor learning about the unquote conflict is something that is part of programming as something that you have

14:3514 minutes, 35 secondsto learn how to defend Israel from the lies that other people are saying and you have to be able to tell people the

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14:4814 minutes, 48 secondstruth by the time I got to college I had teachers who said to me people hate Israel people are attacking Israel people don't know the truth about Israel

14:5514 minutes, 55 secondsand we're the only people who actually know the truth about Israel if you're a Jewish College Student Hill

15:0315 minutes, 3 secondsis your central address for Jewish life on campus as a freshman I remember walking into hillow was one of the first places I went when I got to campus it's

15:1215 minutes, 12 secondsa place where you can go for meals to meet other young Jewish people pro-israel advocacy is a central

15:2015 minutes, 20 secondspart of how they work to engage Jewish young

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15:2715 minutes, 27 secondspeople I the director of Engagement and programs here at Hill L and this campus happens to be very proactive for Israel

15:3615 minutes, 36 secondsa lot of people are very passionate a lot of people love Israel and there's a lot of advocacy here on campus in lots of different ways lots of different

15:4315 minutes, 43 secondsgroups how did you become involved in advocacy for Israel I kind of came to H just cuz I was new in campus I didn't

15:5115 minutes, 51 secondsreally know where to go and I really did find a lot of friends here I came here on and off but then when I went on the

15:5815 minutes, 58 secondsbirthright trip and kind of got to know the staff Tom and Jackie a lot better got to know people at h a lot better and just got to know Israel a lot better I

16:0616 minutes, 6 secondscame back and I knew that I wanted to put a lot more of myself into H the Jewish community on campus and just Israel advocacy in General on birth

16:1516 minutes, 15 secondsright we had Israeli Soldiers with us throughout the entire trip you learn so much and you learn the reason that they

16:2216 minutes, 22 secondsserve it's just a feeling that I don't think any of us could ever imagine except for

16:2916 minutes, 29 secondsmy job is doing Israel program on campus and that relates to a Jewish events cultural or political um sorry Israel

16:3716 minutes, 37 secondsevents uh uh cultural political I would say name a university in America we probably have a person

16:4516 minutes, 45 secondsthere I like to talk about the Army a lot because that's an experience that I lived through and I have a lot of personal

16:5416 minutes, 54 secondsstories there a couple students who said yeah I'm I'm thinking about joining uh the idea one day so my first thing is

17:0017 minutessaying them are you sure because uh it's not an easy it's not an easy decision

17:0817 minutes, 8 secondsthat being said it will probably end up being the most meaningful experience that you ever go through you're going to

17:1517 minutes, 15 secondstell your kids stories about it uh yeah one of our former young emissaries

17:2317 minutes, 23 secondsjust graduated into the air force I that's the greatest gift you can give you know and and we actually have

17:3017 minutes, 30 secondshad quite a few of our former students joined the IDF amazing I mean just amazing it's these are kids these are 18 19y old it's

17:4017 minutes, 40 secondslike something I've dreamed about doing since I was 7 years old you have like a you find your sense of purpose all my friends are so proud of me and they understand that this is something that

17:4817 minutes, 48 secondslike I have to

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17:5017 minutes, 50 secondsdo almost 10% of my graduating class at my Jewish High School joined the Israeli

17:5717 minutes, 57 secondsArmy and I had many friends from my summer camp and youth group who join the Army as

18:0718 minutes, 7 secondswell part of becoming part of Israeli Society is to join the military when I was in high school I

18:1518 minutes, 15 secondstold my parents I don't even need to apply to college because I'm going to just join the Israeli military and make

18:2218 minutes, 22 secondsalyah and live in Israel I honestly I've felt for many

18:2918 minutes, 29 secondsyears that I fit in better in Israeli Society than I do in American society even before I moved there and I wanted

18:3718 minutes, 37 secondsto defend what I saw as my country so when I enlisted I was a Mist

18:4618 minutes, 46 secondswhich is a a heavy machine gunst during my basic and Advanced Training and then they put me on a light machine gun

18:5918 minutes, 59 secondswe were training for war training for strategy to conquer

19:0519 minutes, 5 secondshilltops and Conquer Open Spaces one week was focused on Urban Warfare in

19:1319 minutes, 13 secondsclose quarters and that was simulated in what looked like Arab

19:2019 minutes, 20 secondshousing after the 7 months of our training we were deployed to the West Bank

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19:3919 minutes, 39 secondsour missions included working in two different checkpoints patrolling villages on foot in full gear and

19:4619 minutes, 46 secondsbulletproof vests we would go into apartment buildings go up to the roof and make

19:5419 minutes, 54 secondssure that we could be seen so that we could make our presence

20:0220 minutes, 2 secondsfelt we wanted them to know that we were watching that was the goal of the

20:0920 minutes, 9 secondsmission we would set up what's called a checkpost which is a checkpoint that is

20:1620 minutes, 16 secondssituated uh at a major intersection at checkpoints we would

20:2320 minutes, 23 secondsstop people create a traffic jam check their IDs check their trunks every day on their way to work or

20:3220 minutes, 32 secondson their way to visit their family to keep them on their toes

20:3920 minutes, 39 secondsessentially and they being

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20:4620 minutes, 46 secondsPalestinians even though Israel was a central part of everything we did in

20:5320 minutes, 53 secondsschool we never really discussed the pales

21:0321 minutes, 3 secondsIans it was presented to us that Israel was basically an empty Wasteland when the Jews arrived there

21:1221 minutes, 12 secondswere some Arabs there they said but there was no organized people they had really treated the land

21:1921 minutes, 19 secondspoorly yeah there are there are Palestinians and they just want to kill us all and want us to leave the land

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21:3121 minutes, 31 secondsI I just don't think I had any conception of anything about what it means to be a Palestinian besides that

21:3721 minutes, 37 secondsit means that you're a person who kills Jews or wants to kill Jews it was always presented to us that

21:4721 minutes, 47 secondsthe Arabs only know terrorism ever since I came back from

21:5621 minutes, 56 secondsthe states I I realized that the best way to help people understand the reality imposed on us by the state of

22:0322 minutes, 3 secondsIsrael is for them to be

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22:0722 minutes, 7 secondsthere the one thing that I want to give the rest of my life for is to help people understand the reality that is going on in

22:1622 minutes, 16 secondsPalestines I grew up all of my life in this occupation I grew up in Bethlehem in

22:2522 minutes, 25 secondsPalestine to be honest I do have my days where I wake up up and look in the mirror and ask what is going on and and what can I even do today to change

22:3322 minutes, 33 secondsanything in the situation I remember from the youngest age growing up with my parents always

22:4022 minutes, 40 secondswarning me always telling me not to go out not to go in the street not to play on the street because of the soldiers and the settlers of course like your

22:4822 minutes, 48 secondsfirst experience with a soldier is terrorizing you know especially because they would invade

22:5522 minutes, 55 secondsyour house or your family's house late at night like AB they love to work after midnight my first experience with with

23:0323 minutes, 3 secondssoldiers as a child was an experience that put fear uh in

23:1023 minutes, 10 secondsme an American Jewish Soldier talking to my father and yelling at him and shouting at him which of course as a

23:1723 minutes, 17 secondschild you feel very ashamed and insulted and then my father because ironically we are American citizens as well turned to

23:2623 minutes, 26 secondshim in an American accent and asked asked him where he was from and then the soldier was almost like shocked by this

23:3323 minutes, 33 secondsby this question uh because for his mind you know he wants to say Israel and Jewish people but he's talking to an American now and he told him like from

23:4123 minutes, 41 secondsChicago and then just this this reality that like even as a child I remember this this this American soldier who just

23:4923 minutes, 49 secondsmoved here to be part of an army to play Cowboys and Indians somebody who comes here from New

23:5523 minutes, 55 secondsYork or from Chicago and claiming that this land is theirs what makes like an 18 years old

24:0424 minutes, 4 secondsAmerican kid who was given 10 days trip for free in Palestine what made them

24:1224 minutes, 12 secondswant to come in and sacrifice his life why would a foreigner think it's okay to have Superior rights to the rights of the

24:2124 minutes, 21 secondsindigenous population because somebody told them it's home

24:2824 minutes, 28 secondsThis Is Our Land This Is Ours that's what was conveyed to

24:3524 minutes, 35 secondsus it got to hit me that people look at Palestinian Palestinians from the point of view of the

24:4424 minutes, 44 secondsoppressor not from the point of view of the oppressed I think what I knew

24:5224 minutes, 52 secondsabout who was in Israel before the state was created is basically there were some Jews always there most Jews were in Exile we'd

25:0025 minutesalways yearned to go back the idea that there were Native

25:0925 minutes, 9 secondsinhabitants that lived there was not even part of my frame of reference

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25:5525 minutes, 55 secondsthis restaurant makes the most delicious hus and ffu in

26:0326 minutes, 3 secondstown the family is not from the town of Bethlehem just like my mother's family they were expelled from the city of FFA back in

26:1326 minutes, 13 seconds1948 I was born to a family of victims of the ethnic lending of

26:2126 minutes, 21 secondsPalestine the ethnic L that was carried out by the founders of the state of Israel my mother's family were expelled

26:3026 minutes, 30 secondsfrom the largest Palestinian City pre1 1948 which was the city of

26:3726 minutes, 37 secondsyaat my father was a newborn at that time he was carried by his family they ended up in Bethlehem waiting for the

26:4626 minutes, 46 secondsatrocities to come to an end so they would be able to go back home of course none of those people were

26:5426 minutes, 54 secondsever allowed back home my father's family was in Jerusalem up

27:0127 minutes, 1 seconduntil 1948 When The War happened he was shot by a sniper and was killed on the spot

27:0927 minutes, 9 secondsuh his children actually dragged his body down and buried it in the courtyard of the house a few days later when the Jewish forces took over that

27:1827 minutes, 18 secondsneighborhood uh they demanded that all the non-jews of that neighborhood be evicted

27:2927 minutes, 29 secondsit was the biggest Mass Exodus percentage wise of a people from their land in modern

27:3627 minutes, 36 secondshistory the ethnic lending of Palestine the term neba the

27:4427 minutes, 44 secondscatastrophe is the tragedy or catastrophe that hit almost every single Palestinian family nearly 750,000

27:5427 minutes, 54 secondsvictims is traumatizing in almost every possible level

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28:0628 minutes, 6 secondsnearly 78% of the land of Palestine became under the control of the state of

28:1428 minutes, 14 secondsIsrael what else was I told about Israel we were told it was a land without a people for people without a land and we

28:2228 minutes, 22 secondscame back from the ashes of the Holocaust the state of Israel was burn

28:3028 minutes, 30 secondsbirthed the rights of the people that lived here does not exist in that narrative and other than us being an

28:3828 minutes, 38 secondsobstacle the NBA continues it started in 1948 and continues until this

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28:5128 minutes, 51 secondsday in 1967 the state of Israel managed to complete its control over Palestine by

28:5928 minutes, 59 secondstaking over the territory of the West Bank and the territory of

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29:0629 minutes, 6 secondsGaza okay here's the good stuff more maps of Greater Israel that's just sort of you know the

29:1429 minutes, 14 secondswhole land we're always taught that the whole land was ours I mean you know that's sort of what they teach

29:2329 minutes, 23 secondsyou after the 1967 war Israel put a very forceful very violent

29:3229 minutes, 32 secondsmilitary force to dominate and control the lives of the Palestinians that continues until this

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29:5429 minutes, 54 secondsday the intention of Israeli control over the land of Palestine is complete

30:0230 minutes, 2 secondscolonization of the territory building homes for those who were born to Jewish

30:1130 minutes, 11 secondsfamilies and also demolishing the homes of those who were born for Palestinian

30:2030 minutes, 20 secondsfamilies Palestinians kicked out from their homes confiscated by settlers you are stealing money my house and if I

30:2930 minutes, 29 secondsdon't steal it someone else is going to steal it no no one is allowed to steal it a massive movement to confiscate land

30:3730 minutes, 37 secondsto build settlements to expand settlements before we were even fully trained we were deployed to protect

30:4630 minutes, 46 secondssettlements it was all for the security of the settlements

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30:5830 minutes, 58 secondsIsrael filled the occupied West Bank with Jewish Israelis living in different colonies and settlements throughout the

31:0531 minutes, 5 secondsregion and those individuals are subject to Israeli civil law while you have Palestinians living within the exact

31:1231 minutes, 12 secondssame territory that are subject to an Israeli military

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31:1831 minutes, 18 secondslaw when an American citizen comes here he has more

31:2431 minutes, 24 secondsrights than I would have my entire

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31:4531 minutes, 45 secondslife we are in the quote unquote West Bank we're in the quote unquote settlements this is one of the

31:5431 minutes, 54 secondsroadblocks that kind of ensured that the cars get checked to see that no terrorists are coming

32:0332 minutes, 3 secondsin I lived in America and then I came back to Israel by myself at the age of 17 to serve in the Army and there are elements what I would

32:1232 minutes, 12 secondscall the jihadist elements that don't accept our presence here but they'll It's just tough for them it's a great vision coming to fruition in our time

32:2032 minutes, 20 secondsand there's nothing going to stop us

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32:3832 minutes, 38 secondsfrom the day you are born you live in day in day out day in day out without experiencing a day of

32:4832 minutes, 48 secondsFreedom Palestinians have to be forced to live in cages

32:5832 minutes, 58 secondsso I um I'm Israeli born and raised as a young Israeli growing up my grandparents lived in the center of

33:0733 minutes, 7 secondsJerusalem the battle for Jerusalem at least 26 people are reported dead people I knew were injured and

33:1633 minutes, 16 secondskilled and from a very young age I knew I'm going to be joining the military I was never in a Palestinian

33:2533 minutes, 25 secondshouse till I barge into one in the middle of the

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33:3533 minutes, 35 secondsnight one of the things that I did routinely was a mission where you are ordered to take over a Palestinian

33:4233 minutes, 42 secondsfamily's home and use that house as a military point no warrant you don't call

33:4933 minutes, 49 secondsin advance it's a military occupation and during my service there were many moments where I saw myself acting

33:5833 minutes, 58 secondsviolently and there were moments of um of

34:0834 minutes, 8 secondsshame we can detain any Palestinian just because he looked at us in the wrong way

34:1534 minutes, 15 secondsthat's a system that's based on violence oh what are you

34:2134 minutes, 21 secondsdoing it

34:3234 minutes, 32 secondswe have a security matter you know security it's about security is this security I don't know we'll see this is a threat for you you don't know

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34:5034 minutes, 50 secondsyet when I was stationed in the West Bank one day one of my commanders came and grabbed me and one other Soldier and

34:5734 minutes, 57 secondssaid there is a detainee at the haa checkpoint and we need to go pick him up

35:0435 minutes, 4 secondsand bring him to the Detention Center that's in the base when we got there the Palestinian

35:1135 minutes, 11 secondsdetainee who was maximum in his early 20s was sitting on the curb with his

35:1835 minutes, 18 secondshands tied behind his back with zip ties and blindfolded we got to the Detention

35:2635 minutes, 26 secondsCenter within the Bas and right outside there were about eight soldiers waiting for us they saw us come they grabbed the

35:3635 minutes, 36 secondsdetain from our hands and threw him to the ground while he's still blindfolded in hands tied behind his back and they

35:4435 minutes, 44 secondsstarted kicking him for a good few minutes I was responsible for this man's

35:5635 minutes, 56 secondswell-being I was responsible to bring him from the checkpoint to the Detention Center that was my job and right outside

36:0536 minutes, 5 secondsthe fence of the Detention Center they grab him from me and they start beating him

36:1136 minutes, 11 secondsI I felt responsible but my commander wasn't saying anything so how could I say

36:1936 minutes, 19 secondsanything the entire time that this was happening a military police officer was standing just inside the fence watching

36:2736 minutes, 27 secondsand smoking a cigarette as soon as these guys were done kicking this Palestinian man the

36:3636 minutes, 36 secondsmilitary police officer tossed his cigarette he came brought him inside the detention

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36:4536 minutes, 45 secondscenter and I didn't even speak up I didn't speak

36:5236 minutes, 52 secondsup and that's just one of many stories uh that I have from my time in the West

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37:0237 minutes, 2 secondsBank it took many years for me to really come to terms with my part in

37:1137 minutes, 11 secondsit only after I got out of the army did I begin to realize that the stuff that I

37:1937 minutes, 19 secondsdid in the daytoday just working in checkpoints patrolling Villages that in

37:2437 minutes, 24 secondsand of itself was immoral Palestinians in the West Bank even

37:3237 minutes, 32 secondsthough their lives are controlled by the state of Israel from morning noon and night are not even theoretically citizens of the country in which they

37:4137 minutes, 41 secondslive you see in some ways what non-democracy looks like up close when people look at the West Bank

37:5037 minutes, 50 secondstoday and say this is an apartheid system it's not just throwing out a word a Palestinian lives under a different legal system than an Israeli

37:5937 minutes, 59 secondssettler living next

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38:0738 minutes, 7 secondsdoor give me my anyone who you know sees these facts

38:1538 minutes, 15 secondson the grounds or speaks to Palestinians would understand that this is a process of settler colonization of an aparti

38:2338 minutes, 23 secondsregime I remember Crossing that checkpoint into Bethlehem and before this I had been very much opposed to ever using the word AP partide but

38:3138 minutes, 31 secondsseeing the sort of Night and Day difference just by Crossing this wall changed that for me in an

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38:5038 minutes, 50 secondsinstant serving in serving in the Israeli Army is obviously one way of supporting Israel but there's also

38:5738 minutes, 57 secondsanother modern battle that is happening on campuses each and every single day and you are standing in the front of it

39:0539 minutes, 5 secondsand um I mean the Israeli government Israeli people thank you for that and that's why

39:1239 minutes, 12 secondsthey put me here probably and I thank you for that so we need PR you uh there's a lot of PR to be

39:2039 minutes, 20 secondsmade this University thank God is fairly apolitical but I've heard all over the

39:2839 minutes, 28 secondsplace how universities are these hot beds of anti-Semitic and anti-israel

39:3839 minutes, 38 secondswork I remember very vividly I was sitting in my dorm room with a friend of mine we got a phone call that an anti-israel bill was being introduced in

39:4639 minutes, 46 secondsthe student government we bolted on the way called our parents both got sent talking points

39:5739 minutes, 57 seconds[Music]

39:5939 minutes, 59 secondsand then we went into this Student Government

40:1440 minutes, 14 secondsmeeting everybody pleas take the student Senate at the University of California Berkeley

40:2240 minutes, 22 secondscalling on campus officials to divest from companies that Supply weapons that Israel uses and occupation of the Palestinian territories you are siding

40:3140 minutes, 31 secondswith the Palestinians on the Israeli Palestinian conflict there's just no question about it I just knew it was this bad thing that I had to fight it is

40:4140 minutes, 41 secondsanti-Semitism it is you are trying to make me feel marginalized on my own campus and I remember all of us going

40:4940 minutes, 49 secondswell uh you shouldn't boycott Israel because uh it's applying a devil standard and you shouldn't boycott Israel because it's unfair to single out

40:5740 minutes, 57 secondsis room please I beg of you I beg you please to have compassion and to

41:0541 minutes, 5 secondsremember that we are alienating students and I am devastated by spell I am a human being I still remember you have these

41:1441 minutes, 14 secondsPalestinian students who get up and said you know Jewish students you are crying about feeling silenced and

41:2241 minutes, 22 secondsmarginalized you know my aunts and cousins didn't sleep for weeks while bombs were falling overhead in Gaza what do you have to say to that if divestment

41:3041 minutes, 30 secondsis hostile then then where do we begin to describe the hostility of a military occupation I was thrown into all these

41:3841 minutes, 38 secondsconversations where people were throwing around all these words that i' had never heard before occupation settlements apartheid ethnic cleansing I just never

41:4741 minutes, 47 secondsheard anyone use any of these terms before I thought I knew so much about Israel but I didn't really know what anybody was talking about when they were

41:5541 minutes, 55 secondstalking about all these things I remember coming to Hillel and saying

42:0542 minutes, 5 secondswhy aren't we answering Palestinian students questions I felt really embarrassed by it because mostly I felt like we weren't

42:1242 minutes, 12 secondsdoing a good job refuting their arguments do we not have an actual counterargument besides like rockets

42:1942 minutes, 19 secondsdouble standard anti-Semitism I people people I I couldn't get an answer for anybody and

42:2742 minutes, 27 secondsthat was really disturbing for me I mean there are these people called Palestinians who think that Israel

42:3442 minutes, 34 secondswields all this power over their lives and don't have rights don't have

42:4142 minutes, 41 secondswater what like literally what is this how is this happening how do I how do I respond to

42:4842 minutes, 48 secondsit people that have a problem with Israel there's a good chance they're misguided somewhere or another everyone

42:5642 minutes, 56 secondshave the freedom in isra is like you can have any religion you could do whatever you want in Israel but only in Israel in the Middle East a lot of like it's a lot

43:0543 minutes, 5 secondsof it's a lot of misinformation some of it comes from misinformation some of it comes from

43:1143 minutes, 11 secondsignorance some of it comes from lies and it's very hard to deal with that in any kind of a of a positive way when they're

43:1843 minutes, 18 secondscoming from such a place of not understanding what the reality the situation when they just have this in their in their head all this

43:2543 minutes, 25 secondsmisinformation and all these lies I mean somehow Pro Palestinian has become pro-

43:3143 minutes, 31 secondssocial

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43:3543 minutes, 35 secondsjustice I wanted to know answers from within my own community and nobody could answer those questions for

43:4143 minutes, 41 secondsme how is it that I am like the best the Jewish Community has to offer I've been through all the trainings all the programs and I don't know what the

43:4943 minutes, 49 secondsoccupation is I I don't know what the settlements are eventually it got to a point where I

43:5743 minutes, 57 secondsfound myself wanting answers to the questions the Palestinian students were asking and so it led me on a process of

44:0644 minutes, 6 secondstrying to go figure those things out for myself what is this thing that is so horrifying that you can't bear to let me

44:1544 minutes, 15 secondssee it the summer after my freshman year I

44:2344 minutes, 23 secondswent to Palestine and I knowing ly cross line for the first

44:4344 minutes, 43 seconds[Music]

44:4644 minutes, 46 secondstime I don't think I realized the extent to which what I would come to see on the ground would really Shock Me and horrify

44:5444 minutes, 54 secondsme so if you look at your map um we're standing again right before um is going to turn red just so we hear

45:0345 minutes, 3 secondswhere the soldiers are standing um so just look behind you guys this is a block of houses the people

45:1045 minutes, 10 secondsliving in all these apartments here were not allowed to walk on this main road so this was what like a a red Road a sterilized Road and imagine if you're family living here you can't open the

45:1945 minutes, 19 secondsfront door of your house and walk out I'm listening to Palestinian students talking about what it was like

45:2745 minutes, 27 secondsbeing beaten at a checkpoint and sitting down with a Palestinian family and hearing their story about being

45:3545 minutes, 35 secondsdisplaced by Israeli settlers and even when we fix the water

45:4345 minutes, 43 secondswells and and we try to cultivate the rainwater to come into the water wells even those things are being attacked by

45:5145 minutes, 51 secondsthe settlers either they throw throw stones in them or they throw chemicals in them or they throw dead animals in

45:5945 minutes, 59 secondsthe wells so he's saying first he welcomes you and you know thank you very much for

46:0646 minutes, 6 secondscoming especially because you're Jewish the area here is populated by

46:1346 minutes, 13 secondsPalestinian Farmers Supreme Court in Israel ruled that they're allowed to live in the caves that are here they're not allowed

46:2146 minutes, 21 secondsto build anything today the Civil Administration and the Army came and and demolished

46:2846 minutes, 28 secondssome of the tents here something is deeply wrong here and

46:3546 minutes, 35 secondsit's it's breaking my

46:3946 minutes, 39 seconds[Music]

46:4246 minutes, 42 secondsheart what we've been told is that the only way that Jews can be safe is if Palestinians are not safe

46:5046 minutes, 50 secondsand I guess the more I learned about that the more I came to see that

46:5846 minutes, 58 secondsas a lie so this is the checkpoint that

47:0847 minutes, 8 secondsdivides uh Jerusalem from Bethlehem Palestinians definitely cannot

47:1647 minutes, 16 secondsdrive on this road so you can see that we're basically driving with walls on both sides of us right now

47:4247 minutes, 42 secondsyou want to go to like the mro square or where do you want to go we're in your head

47:4847 minutes, 48 seconds[Music]

47:5547 minutes, 55 secondsman this is this is my

47:5847 minutes, 58 seconds[Music]

48:0048 minutesbarber

48:0348 minutes, 3 seconds[Music]

48:0448 minutes, 4 secondsspeci as someone who came to see Jerusalem or Tel Aviv as places that I should imagine as home I remember coming

48:1148 minutes, 11 secondsinto the West Bank for the first time and actually seeing this place as someone else's home this is a normal place where people are just trying to

48:1948 minutes, 19 secondslive their lives for me to get to Jerusalem I have to think of first of all having the

48:2748 minutes, 27 secondspermit getting to the checkpoint waiting in lines for the checkpoint getting to the soldiers at the checkpoint the soldier might do anything to me at that

48:3648 minutes, 36 secondspoint including sending me back and then crossing the checkpoint and then having to take public transportation I just the fact that I cannot drive right as a

48:4348 minutes, 43 secondsPalestinian I cannot drive in Jerusalem or anywhere in Israel right so we drove here today and and if I'm at home by 10:

48:5048 minutes, 50 secondsp.m. and I get caught on the other side then I could be detained I could lose my permit for good I could be put in prison

48:5848 minutes, 58 secondsI could be beaten up by soldiers who knows what will happen to me almost any rooftop you stand on in

49:0749 minutes, 7 secondsBethlehem you look one way or the other you will see a settlement built around

49:1549 minutes, 15 secondsyou I started coming here in 2010 I heard you speak to a group about anti-Semitism and inherited trauma and

49:2349 minutes, 23 secondsstarted thinking a lot about what it means to challenge my my community around the Deep ingrained traumas that

49:3049 minutes, 30 secondsare totally stopping us from any sort of movement on this issue my first learning experience was

49:3849 minutes, 38 secondsuh when I was invited to go to aitz on a bearing witness Retreat I actually say in alitz I

49:4649 minutes, 46 secondsdiscovered one of the main reasons why this conflict exists today which is this inherited trauma that exists in the Jewish

49:5349 minutes, 53 secondsCommunity where the feeling is that as we're always attacked we've always been attacked we will always be attacked and

50:0250 minutes, 2 secondstherefore the only way to maintain oursel is to create this very suppressive security mechanism that

50:1150 minutes, 11 secondswould prevent this from happening again I mean that's what I learned yeah that that's what I

50:2050 minutes, 20 secondsheard what what is important for many of the Israeli Jews and the Jews from around the world we talk to is is the

50:2750 minutes, 27 secondssimple recognition and acknowledgement of the story and that story is where the

50:3350 minutes, 33 secondshealing work begins to happen as an activist I think for many

50:4350 minutes, 43 secondsactivists what keeps us going is our ability to be able to look towards the future I I really believe that there is

50:5250 minutes, 52 secondsan emerging Awakening within the American Jewish community I've had even some American Jews who

51:0151 minutes, 1 secondcome here and they say we came to Israel and we left from

51:0951 minutes, 9 secondsPalestine for American just coming here and listening to us and hearing us and seeing our humanity and understanding that we are not just out sitting in

51:1851 minutes, 18 secondsbunkers planning the next attack against Israelis that we do have a desire to live in peace and to have our freedom and to they walk in our streets and they

51:2751 minutes, 27 secondseat in our restaurants and we I mean it's crazy that I have to say this that we are real human beings that just want to survive and live and like all other

51:3551 minutes, 35 secondspeople in this world the moment they see this and experience this for themselves it

51:4351 minutes, 43 secondscreates something in them it shifts something in them what they do with it when they go back it becomes their responsibility

51:5951 minutes, 59 seconds[Music]

52:0652 minutes, 6 secondsI came home and spoke out and I think initially it was very painful and shocking for a lot of

52:1352 minutes, 13 secondspeople I had friends from high school and from college who didn't know how to speak to me at the beginning because these conversations were forbidden for us growing

52:2252 minutes, 22 seconds[Music]

52:2452 minutes, 24 secondsup I've grown up very much as a product of this Mass mobilization across the community to ensure that young people

52:3352 minutes, 33 secondsstay engaged in pro-israel

52:3652 minutes, 36 seconds[Music]

52:3852 minutes, 38 secondspolitics for most people I know who actually took the time to see with their own eyes what was happening it very

52:4652 minutes, 46 secondsquickly challenges everything we've been taught it's very painful because it is

52:5352 minutes, 53 secondsso intimately bound up with the identity of the community there have always been Jews

53:0353 minutes, 3 secondswho have spoken out for Palestinian R and more and more people are willing to take off their blinders looking at this

53:0953 minutes, 9 secondsreality saying this is intolerable

53:1453 minutes, 14 seconds[Music]

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53:1853 minutes, 18 seconds[Music]

53:2053 minutes, 20 seconds[Applause]

53:2153 minutes, 21 seconds[Music]

53:3053 minutes, 30 secondsI continued to meet more and more young people like me who were having similar

53:3653 minutes, 36 secondsexperiences and it made me realize that I was part of a bigger story of something that was happening not just to

53:4353 minutes, 43 secondsme but to young people around the country we decided to bring the crisis

53:5153 minutes, 51 secondsof American Jewish support from Israel to the doorsteps of Jewish institutions to force that conversation in

54:0054 minutes[Music]

54:0654 minutes, 6 seconds[Music]

54:2454 minutes, 24 secondspublic uh first of all my friends at Apex stopped talking to me I've lost many childhood friends over

54:3254 minutes, 32 secondsthis also many friends have like come along politically with me over the years many in my family have also many in my

54:3954 minutes, 39 secondsfamily also deeply disagree with me every time I have protested outside

54:4854 minutes, 48 secondsof a Jewish communal event of some kind I have seen a friend a family friend a parent of a friend on the other side of

54:5454 minutes, 54 secondsthe barricade we're literally talking about parents and

55:0255 minutes, 2 secondschildren young Jews they go to the Jewish federations they go to the reform movement they go to their day schools

55:0955 minutes, 9 secondsand they say you mobilized me to be a a soldier for Israel but I had been

55:1755 minutes, 17 secondscompletely misled we are also in a moment when there is the possibility of of some kind

55:2455 minutes, 24 secondsof alternative I see it hundreds of times over and over again and those hundreds speak for

55:3155 minutes, 31 secondsthousands and they went to the Jewish camps and they went to the day schools and they went to the synagogue Hebrew

55:3955 minutes, 39 secondsSchools they're really really angry at the way they were educated and the way that they were indoctrinated uh about

55:4655 minutes, 46 secondsthese issues and justifiably so the indoctrination is so

55:5355 minutes, 53 secondssevere it's almost hard to have a conversation about it it's

56:0056 minutesheartbreaking it is heartbreaking our community right now has to Grapple with our

56:0956 minutes, 9 secondscomplicity and we want to welcome you to the

56:1256 minutes, 12 seconds[Music]

56:1656 minutes, 16 secondsJewish Jewish opinion is split some Jewish groups vocally oppose Israel's military policies more than a thousand

56:2556 minutes, 25 secondsJewish activists descended on Washington DC Sunday to protest APAC so we tell some of our more conservative brothers

56:3356 minutes, 33 secondsand sisters on the inside that you do not represent the best of the Jewish prophetic tradition and we here to Bear

56:4256 minutes, 42 seconds[Applause]

56:4356 minutes, 43 secondswitness it's a new day now and you got a number of young Jewish brothers and sisters who are undergoing moral and

56:5156 minutes, 51 secondsspiritual awakening they're deeply concerned about the suffering of Palestinians they come come from a people who have been hated but they

56:5856 minutes, 58 secondsdon't want to see the cycle of hate perpetrated even by Jews

57:0357 minutes, 3 seconds[Music]

57:0657 minutes, 6 secondsthemselves Israel it's been part of my life since early childhood within the Jewish Community oh

57:1557 minutes, 15 secondsthere's been a striking change and Israel is well aware of it human will and commitment can change

57:2457 minutes, 24 secondsthings my name is Talia this is the first time I am using my full real name um to stand in solidarity with

57:3357 minutes, 33 secondsPalestinians and I never thought in my life that I would be standing with this many Jews for Palestine I'm a

57:4057 minutes, 40 secondsrabbi as long as Palestinian lives are treated as disposable our house as a people is not in

57:5057 minutes, 50 secondsorder tomorrow we show up and we March foll the leadership of Palestinians

58:1158 minutes, 11 secondscongresswoman Rashida TI I am the only Palestinian American member of Congress now how many Palestinians have to die

58:2058 minutes, 20 secondsfor their lives to matter life under apartheid strips Palestinians of their human dignity

58:2758 minutes, 27 secondshow many more decades do they need to endure this subjugation before there is a shift in this unreasonable status quo and what would you

58:3558 minutes, 35 secondsrecommend I would recommend

58:3858 minutes, 38 seconds[Music]

58:4058 minutes, 40 secondsFreedom the real challenge is trying to keep that moral and spiritual Dimension

58:5058 minutes, 50 secondsstrong cuz anytime you cut Against the Grain you're going to catch hell

58:5558 minutes, 55 seconds[Music]

59:1859 minutes, 18 seconds[Music]

59:2059 minutes, 20 secondsfre anti-occupation Jews are blocking Damascus gate

59:2859 minutes, 28 secondsand the occation

59:3459 minutes, 34 seconds[Music]

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59:4959 minutes, 49 secondsis I I don't think it's as serious as it's made up to be okay they're they're entitled that's fine uh okay I don't

59:5759 minutes, 57 secondsthink they represent much I think they're a little super naive I think the most American Jews even though they have

1:00:041 hour, 4 secondsdifferent views on settlements or occupation I think that's still a decision at the end of the day they're going to leave for the Israelis to make

1:00:121 hour, 12 secondsas long as Israel is under threat and as strong as it is and as dynamic as it is

1:00:201 hour, 20 secondsit's still under threat from its neighbors and a 100,000 missiles we

1:00:261 hour, 26 secondspostpone that philosophical debate to another

1:00:341 hour, 34 seconds[Music]

1:00:401 hour, 40 secondstime Palestinians are so dehumanized in the community that it's really hard for people to figure out how

1:00:481 hour, 48 secondsto even understand Palestinians legitimate rights and claims to the land

1:00:561 hour, 56 secondsPalestinians gathered for protest as the Israeli Gaza border they're demanding the right to return to lands from which they were forced out in

1:01:051 hour, 1 minute, 5 seconds1948 at least 55 Palestinians died Monday during mass protests Israeli troops fired on the

1:01:131 hour, 1 minute, 13 secondsdemonstrators

1:01:271 hour, 1 minute, 27 secondslook at the more recent Gaza demonstrations ask yourself the question if the Mexicans stood at the border and

1:01:341 hour, 1 minute, 34 secondsMarch a million Mexicans or 20,000 Mexicans what would America do you know first it would try tear gas and then it would not and and eventually would have

1:01:431 hour, 1 minute, 43 secondsto shoot there are a lot of Jewish young people who see a Jewish establishment

1:01:511 hour, 1 minute, 51 secondsthat is racist that is nationalistic isra in the mid Middle East and not the Midwest so the neighbors are not necessarily the Jones

1:02:001 hour, 2 minutesor The Smiths I don't want war but it's been impos on us so we should do right and defeat the

1:02:091 hour, 2 minutes, 9 secondsterrorist we don't want to be a part of that but we are actually building an

1:02:171 hour, 2 minutes, 17 seconds[Music]

1:02:201 hour, 2 minutes, 20 secondsalternative I've been involved in this work for about a decade I was seen as a face of this young

1:02:291 hour, 2 minutes, 29 secondsgrowing Jewish resistance to the American Jewish establishment it made perfect sense to me that Bernie would hire someone like

1:02:381 hour, 2 minutes, 38 secondsme as a Jewish Outreach coordinator within about 48 Hours of being on the campaign the attack started

1:02:461 hour, 2 minutes, 46 secondsrolling in these old men from the Jewish establishment came out to say you know

1:02:551 hour, 2 minutes, 55 secondsthat I was Danger dangerous that I was a threat a journalist wrote an article about me the headline was Bernie Sanders

1:03:031 hour, 3 minutes, 3 secondsnew Jewish Outreach coordinator is an outspoken critic of Israeli

1:03:071 hour, 3 minutes, 7 seconds[Music]

1:03:111 hour, 3 minutes, 11 secondsoccupation the next headline that I found out about when I walked into work was Abe foxman calls on Sanders to fire

1:03:181 hour, 3 minutes, 18 secondsnew Jewish Community liaison for quote anti-israel comments on Thursday the Sanders campaign susp ended its new National

1:03:271 hour, 3 minutes, 27 secondsJewish Outreach coordinator Simone Zimmerman two days after she was

1:03:351 hour, 3 minutes, 35 secondshired so as far as I'm aware this was Abe foxman's first comment in public since his retirement from the ADL and uh

1:03:441 hour, 3 minutes, 44 secondshe came out of retirement to defend the world from the great threat of Simone Zimmerman it hurts me for a Jewish kid

1:03:531 hour, 3 minutes, 53 secondsto stand up there and say just for the Palestinians are not saying Justice for the Israelis troubles me hurts me bothers me

1:04:021 hour, 4 minutes, 2 secondsmeans we failed we failed and educating and explaining Etc when we talk about we're losing the

1:04:121 hour, 4 minutes, 12 secondskids we're not we lost them Birthright participant staged a protest walk out five of us will be

1:04:201 hour, 4 minutes, 20 secondsleing to learn about the occupation um from the perspectiv of Palestinians and than you you cannot be a tyrant on this

1:04:291 hour, 4 minutes, 29 secondsbus get off the bus recording for this reason they're recording for this

1:04:391 hour, 4 minutes, 39 secondsgetap we're seeing that uh many Millennials are becoming dis disenchanted with

1:04:451 hour, 4 minutes, 45 secondsIsrael and um I take a very different approach on this I say to them we need to love Israel even

1:04:521 hour, 4 minutes, 52 secondsmore birth that's our plan no free trip

1:05:001 hour, 5 minutes[Music]

1:05:041 hour, 5 minutes, 4 secondsonen it it means that we who are the older generation have much more work to

1:05:101 hour, 5 minutes, 10 secondsdo this whole communal obsession with defending Israel has basically warped into seeing someone like me as a threat

1:05:191 hour, 5 minutes, 19 secondsto the community the word that I used to hear a lot was self-hating Jew

1:05:261 hour, 5 minutes, 26 secondslike the only way that a Jewish person could possibly care about the humanity of Palestinians is if you hate

1:05:381 hour, 5 minutes, 38 secondsyourself let's see what I find in here you are a self-loathing Jew go kill

1:05:461 hour, 5 minutes, 46 secondsyourself with Jews like you who needs ignorant racist bigot Arabs you work against our people you're an

1:05:541 hour, 5 minutes, 54 secondsanti-semitic Jew you you've been working for the enemy Simone Zimmerman another member of The Lunatic anti-semitic

1:06:041 hour, 6 minutes, 4 secondsfarle there's always been this argument of oh you can't criticize Israel criticizing Israel feeds anti-Semitism

1:06:121 hour, 6 minutes, 12 secondscriticizing Israel helps the enemies of Israel as more and more American Jews are speaking out in support of

1:06:191 hour, 6 minutes, 19 secondsPalestinian Freedom now they just say instead we're overt anti-semites we hate all Jewish people or even worse that we're not

1:06:271 hour, 6 minutes, 27 secondsJewish at all we are attacked as being not really Jewish if we are not supportive of

1:06:341 hour, 6 minutes, 34 secondsIsrael and that's where you start seeing just the blanket delegitimization of an entire sector of American Jewish

1:06:421 hour, 6 minutes, 42 secondsSociety focusing on this so-called new anti-Semitism and then came the new anti-Semitism which was the

1:06:501 hour, 6 minutes, 50 secondsanti-Semitism relating to Israel what what some have said the Israel became the Jew of the Nations uh in the same

1:06:581 hour, 6 minutes, 58 secondsway that historically you know whatever was permitted for everybody else was not permitted for the Jew now Israel was

1:07:061 hour, 7 minutes, 6 secondssingled out so many of the self-appointed leaders of our community have been trying to equate the idea of supporting

1:07:141 hour, 7 minutes, 14 secondsPalestinian rights itself with anti-Semitism this is about anti-israel anti-semitic attitude classic new

1:07:221 hour, 7 minutes, 22 secondsanti-Semitism the extreme left has a long history of anti-Semitism of of anti-israel hatred how stupid have they

1:07:301 hour, 7 minutes, 30 secondsbeen for all these years voting for Obama and other anti-semites like him unwillingness to Grapple with

1:07:391 hour, 7 minutes, 39 secondsPalestinian suffering is putting a lot of American Jews in a really dangerous and sad

1:07:461 hour, 7 minutes, 46 secondsposition how far will Jewish Americans go in the effort to quash pressure on

1:07:531 hour, 7 minutes, 53 secondsIsrael you know how far will people go it's hard to see how far they won't go if this is where things are

1:08:041 hour, 8 minutes, 4 secondstoday at the end of the day pro-israel leaders want to be in the room with the people in power they will do anything to preserve

1:08:141 hour, 8 minutes, 14 secondsunconditional support for Israel thank you when I become president the days of

1:08:231 hour, 8 minutes, 23 secondstreating Israel like a SE second class citizen will end on day

1:08:321 hour, 8 minutes, 32 secondsone history is not going to judge us kindly I'd like to say that we were blessed by heaven with Donald Trump

1:08:421 hour, 8 minutes, 42 secondsbeing elected president of the United States we should pray that they should remain in office and that he should continue to do the great things he does

1:08:511 hour, 8 minutes, 51 secondson behalf of the United States of America and on behalf of Israel

1:08:551 hour, 8 minutes, 55 seconds[Music]

1:08:571 hour, 8 minutes, 57 secondswe're seeing like a horrifying culmination of what support of Israel at all costs has led to disregarding any lesson of History

1:09:061 hour, 9 minutes, 6 secondsdisregarding any sort of

1:09:081 hour, 9 minutes, 8 seconds[Music]

1:09:121 hour, 9 minutes, 12 secondsmorality the great irony of having this be where we are today within the Jewish Community is that there actually is

1:09:201 hour, 9 minutes, 20 secondsresurgent anti-Semitism the kind that I think my generation and the generations that have after me never thought we'd see in our

1:09:291 hour, 9 minutes, 29 secondslifetimes hail Trump hail our people hail victory in the US couple of things have

1:09:371 hour, 9 minutes, 37 secondsbeen happening and then we we'll go to Trump but Trump isn't it's not question is he a bigot isn't I don't think he's a bigot I think he is what he is I don't

1:09:451 hour, 9 minutes, 45 secondsthink he's a racist I don't think he's an anti-semite I think you can call them all kinds of

1:09:521 hour, 9 minutes, 52 secondsthings the community has spent so much time attacking anyone who criticizes Israel

1:09:591 hour, 9 minutes, 59 secondswhen they're actual threats to our community that's LED our communal institutions to basically be silent in

1:10:071 hour, 10 minutes, 7 secondsthe face of rising white nationalisms will not replace us will not replace

1:10:151 hour, 10 minutes, 15 secondsUSS will not replace us the way that we talk about anti-Semitism isn't about protecting Jews it's about protecting

1:10:231 hour, 10 minutes, 23 secondsIsrael how dangerous is that at this moment with the rise of

1:10:321 hour, 10 minutes, 32 secondsanti-Semitism and often when American politicians are asked about anti-Semitism they talk about their

1:10:401 hour, 10 minutes, 40 secondssupport for Israel support for Israel today is actually replacing what it means to be a

1:10:491 hour, 10 minutes, 49 secondsJew these people have basically decided that support for Israel is more important than the safety of

1:10:571 hour, 10 minutes, 57 secondsJews we're not going to say anything about the spreading of these anti-semitic conspiracy theories we have seen a tremendous

1:11:051 hour, 11 minutes, 5 secondsamount of this use of vile anti-semitic tropes the thread talks about a Jewish plot to enslave people in the United

1:11:131 hour, 11 minutes, 13 secondsStates anti-semitic flyers steeped in covid-19 conspiracies saying every single aspect of the co agenda is Jewish

1:11:221 hour, 11 minutes, 22 secondsthat's the way the Jews work they're they are deceivers they plot they lie they do

1:11:301 hour, 11 minutes, 30 secondswhatever they have to do the gunman told a SWAT officer that

1:11:401 hour, 11 minutes, 40 secondshe wanted all Jews to die and that they were committing genocide against his people

1:11:471 hour, 11 minutes, 47 seconds[Music]

1:11:581 hour, 11 minutes, 58 secondsit's a profoundly sad moment and I think it's a tipping moment these anti-semitic nightmares

1:12:071 hour, 12 minutes, 7 secondsthat we all like it's all coming to life in front of our eyes I can't help but think about all

1:12:161 hour, 12 minutes, 16 secondsthe American Jewish organizations that have spent the last decade pouring millions of dollars into smearing and

1:12:241 hour, 12 minutes, 24 secondsmarginalizing human rights Advocates Jewish Palestinian and not trying to Brand

1:12:311 hour, 12 minutes, 31 secondsPalestinian protest as anti-semitic when there were neo-nazis trying to kill us in our

1:12:401 hour, 12 minutes, 40 seconds[Music]

1:12:441 hour, 12 minutes, 44 secondssynagogues my parents and grandparents generation grew up in a world in which Jews were not

1:12:511 hour, 12 minutes, 51 secondssafe they invested so much in the idea that Jews could only be safe through

1:12:591 hour, 12 minutes, 59 secondsIsrael but our safety and our security is actually bound up in the safety and

1:13:061 hour, 13 minutes, 6 secondsthe security of all people the most powerful pro-israel Lobby in the country are now donating money to Republican

1:13:141 hour, 13 minutes, 14 secondspoliticians who either incited or continue to support the riers who

1:13:211 hour, 13 minutes, 21 secondsstormed the capital on January 6th that's part of a politics of

1:13:291 hour, 13 minutes, 29 secondssolidarity and it feels totally morally coherent and morally urgent to support freedom and dignity for all people in

1:13:361 hour, 13 minutes, 36 secondsall the places that we live Palestinians have already been

1:13:431 hour, 13 minutes, 43 secondstelling us this for decades so guys here's the the world but

1:13:511 hour, 13 minutes, 51 secondsthe world is finally coming to catch up to continue the building in this for me I would say if anybody has

1:14:011 hour, 14 minutes, 1 secondany influence on Israeli policy and I say this with a big F it is the American Jewish

1:14:071 hour, 14 minutes, 7 secondsCommunity the American Jewish Community have the potential to have the greatest influence in shifting our reality

1:14:151 hour, 14 minutes, 15 secondsoutside of this land for many people around the world when they see the voice of the Jewish Community rise and protest

1:14:231 hour, 14 minutes, 23 secondsagainst this occupation it will allow other voices to say yes we could also have a voice in it as

1:14:301 hour, 14 minutes, 30 secondswell now we're doing joint work in trying to end this occupation and bringing peace and Justice into this land the most

1:14:391 hour, 14 minutes, 39 secondsinspiring experiences I had are with Jewish Americans that come in and take a

1:14:461 hour, 14 minutes, 46 seconds[Music]

1:14:481 hour, 14 minutes, 48 secondsstand we're going to hear tonight a number of personal stories at some point you guys decided

1:14:561 hour, 14 minutes, 56 secondsto quote unquote break the silence and I'm interested was there a particular moment that led you to

1:15:021 hour, 15 minutes, 2 secondsthis in 2008 I I joined the military in America we have this concept of innocent until proven guilty there is no innocent

1:15:111 hour, 15 minutes, 11 secondsPalestinian according to the Army that's so not true in occupied territory down please get out come on

1:15:191 hour, 15 minutes, 19 secondsyou're lying that's a lie she said there's no it's not a lie what we're talking about is not giving Palestinians

1:15:261 hour, 15 minutes, 26 secondsthe right that we of Israelis have and that's a partti to go against the grain is not an

1:15:341 hour, 15 minutes, 34 secondseasy thing to do so I did not speak about my experiences in the occupation publicly

1:15:421 hour, 15 minutes, 42 secondsuntil very recently I was afraid that I would be demonized I've seen friends of mine be

1:15:501 hour, 15 minutes, 50 secondsdemonized for speaking out about the same things the first time I ever spoke publicly

1:15:591 hour, 15 minutes, 59 secondsabout my experiences I cried the whole time that I was speaking it's gotten a little bit easier

1:16:071 hour, 16 minutes, 7 secondsto talk about since then because I have taken the time to process it but that doesn't mean it's easy anytime I talk

1:16:161 hour, 16 minutes, 16 secondsabout these experiences but we can't wait any longer

1:16:231 hour, 16 minutes, 23 seconds[Music]

1:16:301 hour, 16 minutes, 30 seconds[Music]

1:16:351 hour, 16 minutes, 35 secondsI've been longing for this Jewish conversation for 17 years we're here today um to talk about

1:16:451 hour, 16 minutes, 45 secondssome things that are often can feel impossible in the Jewish Community these conversations can happen

1:16:531 hour, 16 minutes, 53 secondswe are not risking our Jewish you are not closing a door to the rest of your Jewish life all that we have to risk is our

1:17:021 hour, 17 minutes, 2 secondsdenial I can start my high school had an Israel studies class all about when you get to college and people start telling

1:17:101 hour, 17 minutes, 10 secondsyou about Israel being an apartheid state this is how you respond from my like summer camp and my youth movement one of the core tenants of it was the

1:17:181 hour, 17 minutes, 18 secondsJewish State needed to be built and just no questioning of what price we were really willing to pay uh or willing make

1:17:251 hour, 17 minutes, 25 secondsPalestinians pay is in Israeli the Palestinian identity itself is not something I had to to learn that it

1:17:311 hour, 17 minutes, 31 secondsexists right so slowly as I came to learn that the occupation exists I

1:17:371 hour, 17 minutes, 37 secondsstarted learning that there is another narrative we're here to talk about the history that's often referred to as the

1:17:461 hour, 17 minutes, 46 secondsNaka 750,000 people displaced from their homes at least 400 Villages undone in

1:17:541 hour, 17 minutes, 54 secondstheir entire the colonization is also ongoing the ongoing nakba the continued not just the

1:18:031 hour, 18 minutes, 3 secondshistorical but the continued ethnic cleansing of Palestinians I have been blessed to witness the ways that Palestinian Society continue to find

1:18:121 hour, 18 minutes, 12 secondsways to thrive but we can't deny that there has been catastrophe and that it's been catastrophic the scale of

1:18:191 hour, 18 minutes, 19 secondsloss we're really here to teach each other but I think nothing's as important as ction because we are talking about ongoing

1:18:281 hour, 18 minutes, 28 secondsdisplacement people might tell you that if you stand up for Palestinian rights that you aren't really Jewish that you're maybe a self-hating Jew as a

1:18:371 hour, 18 minutes, 37 secondsrabbi what I see when I look at the work of solidarity is a long chain of Jewish history this chain of people of

1:18:471 hour, 18 minutes, 47 secondsancestors and text and traditions that are about Justice and fighting for it Jewish tradition tells us to Envision a

1:18:531 hour, 18 minutes, 53 secondsworld where all people are safe and free to never stop fighting for that world so may you all feel blessed in a

1:19:021 hour, 19 minutes, 2 secondstradition of Liberation and may you be blessed to know you're not alone and let's get to work

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@Sheratami

1 year ago

Anti-Zionism is NOT Anti-Semitism!

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@MrCastagne18

1 year ago

As a Veteran, I have the opportunity to fly yo Israel for free and I always wanted to. This war has opened my eyes of what Israel really is. I pray for my Palestinian brothers and sisters. You will be free and Israel will be Judged for their actions.

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@QUINTUSMAXIMUS

1 year ago

Thanks for that. I am a Palestinian-American, and, unfortunately, because of the genocide, I don't really feel that we're viewed as human or equal by the government. Of course, millions of good fellow Americans. The messaging and the policies need to change. Why should we be less than?

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@hasmatalam4532

1 year ago

Insha Allah @QUINTUSMAXIMUS

@GoodByePorkPie-e7w

1 year ago

@QUINTUSMAXIMUS I knew very little about Palestinians or Israelis a year ago, just that there was always conflict, now I know the history of the apartheid invaders. Youtube says no hate speech so I can only say I feel the total opposite about Israelis as opposed to the heartfelt ❤ love and respect I have for the Palestinian people. My heart is truly broken 💔 for what is happening in Gaza and for all the Palestinian people who deserve soooo much more than they have got. Honestly, Palestinians can hold their heads high, they are better human beings than their oppressors. ❤ From a kiwi watching from New Zealand 🇳🇿 and praying everyday for your freedom ❣🇸🇩🕊

@Musiclmpossible

1 year ago

@GoodByePorkPie-e7w You knew very little, And now all you know are Lies.

@annast9172

6 months ago

@GoodByePorkPie-e7w If you knew nothing, you still know nothing.

@GoodByePorkPie-e7w

5 months ago

@Musiclmpossible funny 🤣 unfortunately we all know exactly what is happening, and we won’t forgive or forget. ❤🇵🇸🕊️

@soremibarnabas393

5 months ago

@GoodByePorkPie-e7w That's because your source of information is Aljazeera, for a fair and balance understanding try different Information outlet.

@zhariarose

1 year ago

You are more then equal and better then most people @QUINTUSMAXIMUS

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@halfbloodpirate-

1 year ago

GREETINGS ALL THE WAY FROM AFRICA....WE SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING...THANK YOU SIR..THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING TO BE A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING ✌️🙏❤️🇵🇸

@PercyOranda-wv9qm

1 year ago

Thank you for your opinion n open minded, Palestinian is not a bad person, they just want to leave in peace n respect...❤❤❤

@Muhammad-sx7wr

1 year ago

@MrCastagne18 Not until america is free from the lobby. Will Palestine be free.

@alianbaba9330

1 year ago (edited)

My daughter received an offer to go to Israel for free from a Jewish/Israeli organization at her high school. They offer this so that participants speak positively about Israel when they return to the U.S. Imagine if a saudi arabian or qatari orgnizatio does the same.

@We_Want_It_All

1 year ago

@alianbaba9330 imagine Americans paying for a dual citizenship kid's holiday to another occupied land, while there are thousands of Americans living on the streets homeless.

@nazbaloch5977

1 year ago

InshaAllah

@WendenWarrior

1 year ago

@nazbaloch5977 all the love and support from Latvia, habibi

@seifmasmoudi1739

1 year ago

it's not about religion. What Israel did to the palestinians no country would accept. It's just a shameless land grab. Your voice is important. You're one of the people who can give palestinians their dreams back.

@therewdy4038

1 year ago

Judged? They will be CONDEMNED!

@droson8712

1 year ago

If they're even letting you go to that place for free then there's probably something wrong with our country.

@hellnowewontgo

1 year ago

I was just thinking about planning a trip to Israel for the first time before October 7th.

I wanted to see the historic sites.

I won't go now. I never will.

@Hey8sme

1 year ago

Insha'Allah 🤲 Ameen

@WendenWarrior

1 year ago

Welcome to the right side of history. You will like it here

@madpuppet666

1 year ago

Maybe in 100 years something bad happens, and people will say "thats judgement for the crimes you did in 2023."

@Andulsi

1 year ago

I m friends with an Irish ex army guy who was stationed in the Lebanon. He lost several comrades ....to the IDF

@sekoudiaby5514

1 year ago

There's humanity in every mankind, no race should be above another race since All human beings are created equal in the sight of Almighty God. Nothing will last forever save the power of Almighty God. Lies will never prevail but truth will always triumph 😊

@Hoelzchen

1 year ago

@MrCastagne18 Could you please explain to me why you can fly to Israel for free as a veteran? Have you been in the Israeli military or the US military? I am sorry, but I don't get this.

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@HTownCharlieBrown

1 year ago

They weren't training them for war. They were training them to be ąpąrtheld enforcers.

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@Rachkhad-2024

1 year ago

You will never see this documentary in any other TV channel thanks for this quality work

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@n3d_ludd379

1 year ago

Any culture or race that looks down on another will never have the moral high ground. Such a division in the world will eventually destroy itself.

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@B_Bodziak

1 year ago

P@31:20 an American coming for the first time has more rights than I do having lived my entire life here. That sums it up.

@binurajs

1 year ago

@n3d_ludd379 unfortunately most of human history it was like that

@ghostagee5232

1 year ago

@binurajs And?

@crackthefoundation_

1 year ago

Facts. BDS.

@tiberio135

1 year ago

Their PR gaslighting is remarkable on ignorant kids...and infantilized adults.

@bandits99

1 year ago

These hasbara bots have very little staying power 😆

@GillyWhitfootHaysend

1 year ago

This is what I keep on saying. It’s not about nationalism. It’s not about religion. It’s what people do with it. The merging of these two things, left unchecked, breeds negative exceptionalism for any country. The fact that people can’t criticize these new-Zionists because of a very real Holocaust astounds me.

@paperlappap

1 year ago

Keine Ahnung worum es hier geht. Aber bitte, hört auf damit! Eure Dialoge sind unerträglich. Sie führen zu nichts.

‘Wen Allah rechtleitet, der ist (in Wahrheit) rechtgeleitet; wen Er aber in die Irre gehen läßt, für diejenigen wirst du außer Ihm keine Schutzherren finden.’

@vanessajoycecollett6607

1 year ago

Totally agree.

@Prensinannisi

1 year ago

yesss

@mivida2357

1 year ago

İnşallah 🤲

@johntrinder3987

1 year ago

Well, Unless they are looking down on subsaharans because that is normal.

@Danieoh

1 year ago

Every society looks down on others😊

@CarolineMcKenzie-x2d

1 year ago

Say it Say it Please. But it doesn't make it Right.Change is Necessary. @Danieoh

@azalia423

10 months ago

"Zionism is a threat to all of mankind... None of us are free until Palestine is free." - (Vanessa Redgrave) What these people do to one group they'll do to any of us one way or another.

@fazlijaarifi688

1 year ago

😂😂e 😢 see on this tweet 🎉🎉

@zombiecheneyy

3 months ago

To say an entire race looks down on another is a strange thing to say, it could definitely be part of a culture, but a race?

Any person that looks down on a whole race will never have the moral high ground.

@J.J.-hz5fv

10 months ago (edited)

I agree, but it's important to note that not all Jewish people feel they are superior to others. Ethnic supremacy exists in many cultures and colors.

@Scorch428

1 year ago

But not all Jews look down on Palestinians.

And Im sure the reverse is also true.

@nicholasballard2403

1 year ago

No. That's never how the world has worked. We've hoped, but hope doesn't change things. Self-righteousness certainly has never changed things.

One group, Hamas, attempted to destroy another group, Israel, which is much, much stronger and better organized and wealthier. So Hamas is getting the worst of it.

@projektraumschiff7402

1 year ago

@nicholasballard2403 sure and everything before didn't happen

@nicholasballard2403

1 year ago

@projektraumschiff7402

There are no good guys in our world. No one is innocent and the moral high ground goes to whoever come out on top.

Violence and war are horrible but they're also beyond our control. We can manage it but it goes on no matter what any of us insists is true about it.

@BradleyGoldsac

1 year ago

Your comment certainly applies to Arab countries 100 percent. Not to Israel though, unlike Arab countries people have pretty much equal rights and are not persecuted in Israel.

@moldymush

1 year ago

@BradleyGoldsac 😂 pretty much equal

@projektraumschiff7402

1 year ago

@BradleyGoldsac that's not true at all. Look at the laws. Who can move freely? Just one example.

In the westbank there isn't even that.

@marc8h726

1 year ago

@BradleyGoldsac Pretty Much! Omg world….stop…

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@CorpulentCornball

1 year ago

As a Jew I've never experienced so much racism until we got to Israel. My husband is Persian Jewish and the isrealis there treated us like second class. We went to Jordan for an excursion and they made us feel so welcomed it made me cry. We felt more at home in Jordan than we did in Israel. Never going back

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@mandalorbeskar

1 year ago

This documentary should be mandatory in all schools.

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@nirshemmer8895

1 year ago

The story Simone was told about the Palestinian people is literally what I was told by my parents. "They didn't own the land, they just settled there, they were peasants that hadn't built anything of importance until the jews arrived, ..." I also felt sick watching this, I was born in Israel but I grew up in Belgium where I still live. I had never heard of the Nakba and the expulsion of 750.000 Palestinians until after October 7th. I also feel this communal shame and anger of being lied to all my life. I'm glad this documentary exists, so many jews all over the world are waking up.

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@Frank-Talk

1 year ago

Now i see why Al jazeera is banned in Israel. Thank you Al Jazeera

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@gogovideo10

1 year ago

I paid to download this documentary a few weeks ago and thought to myself, this needs to be free and available to everyone.

Thanks Al Jazeera for sharing this.

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@Didrikkhu

1 year ago

“The biggest insult to the memory of the Holocaust is not denying it but using it as an excuse to commit genocide against the Palestinian people.” - Norman Finkelstein

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@KurganGR

1 year ago

Norman is a gift to this earth.

@jose-antoniobarros-poblete9626

1 year ago

The peoples doomed to repeat history are not those who forget it, but those who give it the meaning that itt doesnt have.

@chelloandra

4 months ago

exactly it is like the lesson they learnt is how to commit genocide not how to prevent it - crazy

@ExxylcrothEagle

1 year ago

thai foyyd 2

@pierrevandeputte2543

1 year ago

So TRUE !!!

@ZizouXan4801

1 year ago

Norman Finkelstein is very finkel(fickle)

@SongofIceandTea

1 year ago

"If the ride is more fly, then you must buy." - Snoop Dog

@KeivonWashington

1 year ago

Norman Finklestein is a joke.

@wRAAh

1 year ago

@KeivonWashington When a non-contributing troll needs to write such a comment, that shows us that Finkelstein got to you and definitely is not a joke.

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@ShoaibChaudhary-wq2vp

8 months ago

World knows the truth. @KeivonWashington

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@Grngrsky

11 months ago

I was unprepared for how shattering this documentary would be.

@Tzxy90856

1 year ago

I would never want to visit a apartheid nation

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@jamesalexander5588

1 year ago

I've been and it's not a nice place. Those people have ruined it.

@Red-jl5dq

1 year ago

Me neither

@Traveller389

1 year ago

I visited Israel back in 1998 and have been appalled with the way they treated Palestinians ever since. It has been getting progressively worse.

@einavassido875

1 year ago

@Traveller389 Apparently the Palestinians should not have blown up buses/schools/malls etc.

If you think the attitude of the Israelis to the Palestinians is appalling, I recommend visiting any Arab country that hates Sunnis

@khadzak7496

1 year ago

Ditto

@goodfellazbushcraft8301

1 year ago

Me neither

@slayslayslay8787

11 months ago

what do you think about this:

in 1948 arabs ethnically cleansed the jews from Judea and Samaria

Palestinian law bans Jews from citizenship

Palestinian law makes selling land to jews punishable by death

Palestinian kids learns anti-semitism in school

is that not apartheid to you?

maybe apartheid to you is what israel is doing. that they have the iron dome and a wall to gaza and checkpoints. but do you know the reasons for this?

the checkpoints are there because there were literally terror attacks such as stabbing every single day in israel by people coming in from Gaza. the iron dome and wall is there because hamas were sending rockets into israel. arabs are allowed citizenships in israel and have high paying jobs like supreme judge for example. they are also allowed to practice whatever religion they want in israel as it is the only democracy in the middle east. how good of a democracy does Gaza have? oh none, because they voted for a terrorist organization on the first and only election they ever had.

maybe the reason why israel is an "apartheid state" is because hamas cant behave and cannot accept a thriving state of israel. maybe they should stop firing rockets and targeting civilians. maybe you should stop being antisemitic and realize that israel has the right to defend it semselves and that they SHOULD defend themselves against terrorism.

@deb9784

4 months ago

Can you imagine not being able to leave?

@CarlosthaDJ

1 year ago

Same

@bendyrland7213

1 year ago

Me either.

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@timespaceanomaly

1 year ago

Free America from AIPAC! Free Canada from CIJA! Free Palestine from Fascism! #notinourname

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@HTownCharlieBrown

1 year ago

Free America From lsrael

@MyWits_End

1 year ago

Free Australia from AIJAC

@annviolet4727

1 year ago

Free Australia from USofAIPAC.

@Haroon-ex-hindu

1 year ago

Free Palestine from pisssreal ✅

@LEDSignsSupplyMiami

1 year ago

Free France 🇫🇷 from CRIF

@EduardoGarcia-x3f

8 months ago

It's "Free Palestinians from Zionists"!

@999-OMG-LMAO

1 year ago

Strong gluteal muscles will help you...

@flipflop6700

1 year ago

Free Palestinians from Hamas!

@simonclarke7309

1 year ago

@flipflop6700 wow an over used weak sound bite.

The world has judged and it’s disgusted

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@realolivertwisted

1 year ago

@flipflop6700 you’ve been propagandized

@flipflop6700

1 year ago

@realolivertwisted Am I not allowed to oppose violent religious extremist organisations on my own? Are you immune to propaganda or biased media?

@SymbioticBPD

1 year ago

@realolivertwisted Is that why the former leader of the group's son spoke against HAMAS?🤔

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@sumairafriscic

1 year ago

after watching this documentary i have never felt so sick to my stomach. my heart breaking for every Palestinian

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@rachelattack

11 months ago

Learning about the Holocaust in the 90's as a kid and thinking at 8, "how could people be so naive and blind?!". As a middle aged adult watching the exact same horrors unfold at the hands of Isnotreal, broadcast live, without a half mention in media that doesn't victim blame the colonized men, women and CHILDREN of Palestine makes me dizzy. Zionists cry anti-semitism while saying the "only good Palestinian is a dead one" when confronted with a child sniped 6 times "in error". Absolutely disgusting.

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@rachelattack

5 months ago

Post script - 335 rounds were shot into the car Hind Rajab, 5 years old, was found dead in. Her 15 year old family member beside her called for help and was killed by a tank shooting at them next to the family's car. In front of Hind, after everyone else was dead. Two ambulance workers were also murdered by Isnotreal directly outside the vehicle. Canada, where I live, has spent $90million on munitions to support this genocide in the last nearly 3 years.

@lucytucker2857

5 months ago

Thank you al hazeera gor such quality journalism. Your documentaries have been so enriching. Bravo to brave young jews for grappling with these truths. We need to suppirt one another across faiths to protect life and hunan rights. Lucy

@ShadowAussie

2 days ago

Same as me. I remember getting a national geographic as a child with a section on the holocaust. It blew my mind how terrible humans can be. I became friends with the granddaughter of a holocaust survivor when I was 12yrs old. They had become Catholic post war. I joined the military in the 90's because I wanted to protect my country from people like the Nazi's. Now, I'm watching Israelis do the same wicked things but our governments are supporting them!! It's all so f'ing insane.

@50_Pence

1 month ago

They lied about the 40's

@ShadowAussie

2 days ago

@50_Pence No, it happened. That doesn't mean Israel isn't doing the same evil things since and now.

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@jimreilly6933

3 months ago

Why are these gullible kids training to become Israeli soldiers when they know full well that they will never be asked to fight any war for their country ! That's what the sons and daughters of American's are for.

@henryfan1763

5 days ago

@jimreilly6933 aaaand it's happening

@dancingdroid

7 months ago

@rachelattack now ask yourself, if they are so willing to lie about these modern atrocities what do you think they've lied about past ones?

@WeeclStoner

1 month ago

@dancingdroid no

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@xactol

1 year ago

Anti-zionist Jews deserve so much respect. The courage it takes to challenge a deeply personal narrative that has been drilled into their heads since childhood (and then facing the deluge of threats, hatred, and violence) is immense. Yet, they are steadfast in standing for what is morally right. It takes very strong people. I salute them

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@eges72

1 year ago

I really respect them. They were opposing Zionism even before the Nakba

@marklevy4386

1 year ago

@eges72 The video was about some leftist US Jews opposing how Israel treats Palestinians - they didn't say they want to destroy Israel - that is a Hamas thing.

@Laroling

1 year ago

@xactol they do. ♡

@crazykindor6439

1 year ago

Yeap! They are the jews of God. And they stand up and fight the jews of satan, even when some of them are their own relatives.

Takes too much courage.

May Allah (s.w.t.) bless them.

@mostevokish

1 year ago

THIS!

@lisaadams6753

1 year ago

@xactol I agree I desperately admire my Jewish American friends who are against Zionism

@marklevy4386

1 year ago

@lisaadams6753 The video was about some leftist US Jews opposing how Israel treats Palestinians - they didn't say they want to destroy Israel - that is a Hamas thing.

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@lucidshakti5178

1 year ago

Peace to you❤

@sirpoppypiper

1 year ago

Hope we see more of them. Their voices will be necessary to bring about a change, and a better future.

@RealGoneGirlie

8 months ago

My admiration to them for having open eyes to see the truth. To have curious minds rejecting the cult of Isrealism and the indoctrination that traumatized their own lives to help others who have faced deep suffering, displacement, and annihilation.

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@nystagmus

1 year ago

I can see why israel is trying to silence Aljazeera. This is powerful

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@brianferguson7840

1 year ago

French citizen here with Palestinian wife and adopted Palestinian daughter. Uvi's entire family were killed when an Israeli missile attack destroyed their apartment block in 2018. Since last year my wife has lost seven family members (that we know of) three under five years old. I have lived and worked in Gaza.

FREE THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE ! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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@AaronPaul-s2s

1 year ago

Wow, so sorry for your losses x 😢

@Mz.TiaNour

1 year ago

I am deeply sorry for your family's loss. My tears and heart go out to you and all who have needlessly perished.

@oscarinacan

1 year ago

My hearts with you

@SabihaTanveer-x7c

1 year ago

❤& prayers for you &te entire family 😮

@vallaton7876

1 year ago

I'm so sorry ❤

@therichieboy

1 year ago

I'm so sorry for your wife's loss. I lost someone on October 7th so can begin to imagine her horror and sadness. This sickness must end.

@Ksen677

1 year ago

@therichieboy @therichieboy, you probably lost an enemy.

@sirpoppypiper

1 year ago

My love, respect and sincere condolences.

@diamondbling1154

1 year ago

Free Palestine

@roberttelford745

1 year ago

1.01.40 Seriously ? These people are snake oil merchants. What a ridiculous analogy .

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@user-vv8sl

9 months ago

55:10 "You mobilized me to be a soldier for Israel (since childhood) and I had been completely misled." Like many countries violators of human rights historically did.

@antonsiebrits

1 year ago

Glad to see this available to a wider audience.

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@firedpepper-w3l

1 year ago

Keep it coming Al Jazeera. Much love from Canada.

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@Shalalala_06

1 year ago

This PERFECTLY sums up my unlearning deconstruction journey as a Jew who grew up as a classic traditional Zionist in Brooklyn. It hurts to know that I’m the only one in my family who’s actually putting in an effort to question what we’ve been told.

It’s like our great grandparents died in the Holocaust for nothing just so their descendants can join the IDF and commit the same atrocities that took their own lives. I was trained from a young age to glamorize Israel. It hurts to know that it’s all a lie. It hurts to know that I’m cut off from the rest of the community I was raised in. But it heals me to see that organizations such as IfnotNowWhen and JVP exist. People like Gabor Mate, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, and Ilan Pappe are people that I look up to now and I think that they’re writings would help a lot of Jews start to deconstruct the indoctrination and propaganda.

This whole documentary is all too familiar to me and unfortunately I related to this a lot in a sick nostalgic way. I’m writing a thesis about my experience growing up like this and I’m going to be using this documentary as a source. Thank you for making this. Hope shall be restored.

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@cjmann3033

1 year ago

You are Not Alone!❤❤❤

@carolinetapia8568

1 year ago

HUMANITY IS WITH YOU🤍🕊️🕊️

@2worldtravelers769

1 year ago

Many are with you. The Truth will be risen.

@jimtamim1708

1 year ago (edited)

Keep up the good works. Your good deed would not go in vain.

@Samuel.U

1 year ago

🙏

@ShakirahIbaad

1 year ago

You are so brave and courageous! You have done something so many are afraid to do, and so many remain in denial and won’t break free of the indoctrination. I too look up to the heroes you mentioned, they are some of the best humanity has to offer. I wish you all the best inshallah 🤲

@Mariakiow

1 year ago

best of luck with your thesis. the world needs such works!

@FindTheREALRachel

1 year ago

I’m with you , spent half my life in Brooklyn, Jewish , I married a civil rights activist, I know we feel alone , but we’re not.

@AleteoAletheia

1 year ago

Your message hit home ❤️ I recommend to you the books and music by Gilad Atzmon, onr of my heroes (he has been supressed like no other, do you see him being interviewed?). He talks about jewishness more in a philosophical way, it’s beyond enlightning, eye opening and so so very helpful. Much love ❤

@FindTheREALRachel

1 year ago

How grown men can get off beating a child just walking home is beyond comprehension

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@marinahoyosmarin9683

11 months ago (edited)

Thanks for this message. Im not Jewish, im Spanish, and I have Palestinians friends. One of my close friend is Jewish and at the beginning of Oct 23 she was the first person who said me: Im with Palestine, im with you. I defend Palestine and I defend too the difference between Zyonism and Judaism because at my work I have been accused fo antisemitism. Jewish against Israel and Zyonism are as Palestinian: Brave!!! Thanks so much.

@AnkurWat

1 year ago

Thank you Simone and Al Jazeera for making this documentary publicly available for all to see and learn from. 🙏🏽

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@justicebeske5704

1 year ago

I am one of those who also woke up

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@favorites1484

1 year ago

The courage it took to become activists for Palestinians and to put this together is truly impressive.

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@ghislainryckebusch1063

1 year ago

This vidéo should be shown to every american jews

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@4Elements-57

1 year ago

Watching from Philippines with humanity. No lies no Israel.

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@Redone02

1 year ago

Al Jazeera will go down in history as part of the resistance. The truth will prevail. Greetings from Amsterdam. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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@stephaniej5848

1 year ago

Watching these young Jewish people come to the awareness of the brutality of the occupation and the lies they were told about the regime they were brought up to support and opening up to the suffering of the Palestinians brings hope and healing to the profound sadness in my heart. It's very rare to see this side of the story, and I've never understood why. Thank you brave, compassionate sisters and brother of the world.

Please end the suffering of the Palestinian people.

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@Hasbro1107

6 months ago

That was my whole life ❤️❤️

I’m Jewish, I was indoctrinated too, I lived all of the things shown is this documentary in first person.

I feel a strong connection with other anti-zionist Jews and I love them as brothers and sisters, they give me hope

@mohamadmuhaznimukhtar4771

1 year ago

I am from Malaysia and studied in the US years. I am so glad to see this awakening. Thank you. Towards Global Peace.

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@ArohaCookson

1 year ago

I saw a video months ago of a baby boy, he was burned so badly, his forearm was melted into his skull 😭 he died because he is Palestinian before he even knew he was a Palestinian 🇵🇸💔

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@MinkoMinko

1 year ago

This documentary deserves many awards.

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@doodlemiao8343

5 months ago

this documentary deserve an award

@RandiWilliams-v9i

1 year ago

For context, It’s estimated that approximately 4,000 to 5,000 Cherokee people died during the Trail of Tears. This forced relocation, which took place from 1838 to 1839, involved the displacement of approximately 16,000 Cherokee from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to designated Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). And this is called an atrocity of history.

So, when you hear 750,000 people the Palestinian Nakba displacement is equivalent to 47 Trail of Tears... This would be like having a Trail of Tears every year and a half from 1948 to today in 2024.....

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@reinhardzaire9663

1 year ago

I am a father of two beautiful daughters 6 and 7, my heart's in pieces about the children in Gaza, and the civilians. This war has desensitized me and I never knew I would feel this way, I don't know what to make of Israelis anymore as well. I also feel so sad for bringing two souls into this world and I pray they are always protected after I'm gone from this Earth.

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@himurahaibara1459

1 year ago

The name 'birthright' itself shows the imperialist mentality.

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@heatheralisse

6 months ago

I had friends take the birthright trip and come back fully believing the propaganda and not even realizing that's why the trip was free... I've been thinking about this for over a decade and this is the first time I've seen anyone talk about it

@jenealtaqiyyahdesai6289

1 year ago

Nelson Madela: "We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." South Africa will continue fighting for Palestinians dignity & freedom.

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@keyboardmouse7699

1 year ago

This is why we should not judge a book by its cover. Hugs to all these intelligent young Jews who stand for humanity ❤️

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@ssaberwolf

1 year ago

As a Jewish anti-Zionist, I can't tell you how much I appreciate this documentary or how grateful I am that Jewish people are finally starting to wake up. We still have a long way to go.

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@angelac-2313

9 months ago

How do you take an oath to become an American and follow the Constitution, then join the genocidal IDF?

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@NotInMYName_AntiZionistJew

1 year ago

Thank you Al-Jazeera for posting this and making this wonderful documentary available to everyone and thank you Simone Zimmerman and all who were responsible for the production of this film. It should be mandatory viewing everywhere. I’m fed up with the continual mainstream media z-i-o-n-i-s-t gaslighting of Israel’s horrific atrocities committed and still being committed for 76 years in our name. 💙💜

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@Funnyflower594

1 year ago

I am fighting for the Palestinians until the day I die

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@tamannarahman4651

1 year ago

Huge respect for young people like Simone Zimmerman and all the other folks working to reinforce Palestinians' rights. I hope one day, you all will be revered by your community for the work you are doing. You're reminding us of the Moses story. He didn't choose the comfort of living in Pharaoh Palace. Rather, he represented and reinforced the right of oppressed people.

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@kenanak6895

8 months ago

It’s time to re-evaluate the influence of lobbying groups like AIPAC in our political system. While israeli citizens receive government-funded healthcare and social support, many Americans struggle with basic needs. U.S. foreign aid should be discussed transparently and aligned with our domestic priorities.

@raffaellarange977

1 year ago

I'm italian and I'm aware of the Palestinians suffering since I was a child in the seventies. It's really very difficult for me to understand how American jews can be so brainwashed and ignore the unjustice committed by Israel against the palestinians , although many of them have been several times to Israel. I think that American Jews have the moral responsibility, the moral duty to fight against the fascist Israeli regine, against the occupation, and for Justice for the palestinians.

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@mobwatch8119

1 year ago

Happiness built on other people's misery cannot last. For a person, group or nation.

@nataliad1014

1 year ago

This is one of the best documentaries I've seen in many year.

And it was made BEFORE October 7th.

If you are Jewish, please, please... Watch this video. You are not alone. You are not a traitor. THEY ARE.

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@aymenkhan7552

1 year ago

Thank GOD that social media is able to bring us all this

@TheNancypoo

1 year ago

I'm an American with a Jewish grandfather who came to America from Ukraine. I feel no alliance to Israel or Ukraine, only to my homeland. I really don't understand American Jews and their devotion to a foreign land they have no connection to. So bizarre!!

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@rj42074

1 year ago

So the Israeli that's born in America can go and fight for Isreal because they are Jewish but a Somali, Pakistani, Libyan can't go fight for there ancestral land without being called a Terriorst?

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@Truthseeker738

1 year ago

As a Black American this looks too familiar and I stand with the oppressed always. Thank you for broadcasting this for the masses. I stand with the resistance as I did the Black Panthers. Free Palestine!

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@selfreflection2117

1 year ago (edited)

Unfortunately your nation's representative in the UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield is a staunch supporter of Israel. So many peaceful resolutions have been vetoed down by the US.

@cnwjen

1 year ago

Thank you 🙏❤️

@teemadarif8243

1 year ago

exactly.

@barbararouwendal8708

1 year ago

my grandparents were resistant fighters during WWII, they hide jews in their house in the basement. Anne Frank house is just around the corner from where I live in Amsterdam. Anne wrote in her diaries she was so afraid of the zionists, she also wrote whe and her sister Margot wanted to go to Palestine to take care of the babies. Palestine she mentioned in her diary. You know, holland back than was extreme right, they worked together with the nazis, even our royals, they married all nazis. Not one word about the jews in Holland that got killed. Not one word. Now we see why anne was afraid of the zionists, nothing more than a bunch of nazis.

@MrSalbego

1 year ago

Dont act like you lived as a slave lol there is nothing familiar if you are born in last 100 years.

@shadowguard3578

1 year ago

@MrSalbego a person doesn’t have to live under apartheid or as an enslaved person to feel empathy.

@Ariannauk1

1 year ago

@MrSalbego stop celebrating the 4th of July then 🙄

@Truthseeker738

1 year ago

@MrSalbego My parents experienced Jim Crow/ segregation and all the mental/physical warfare that it came with. Your privilege is showing and my ancestors were slaves. They are me and I am them. And to be clear, i might not have been a slave BUT my ancestors built this country which ALL Americans enjoy and benefit from. Now “lol” that!

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@trevorhannan5113

10 months ago

An outstanding documentary. My family and I found it refreshing to see people working toward a better future while acknowledging the past.

@katiedog7497

1 year ago

So I’m Jewish and I had no idea that aipac meetings are events that people can be invited to. I thought they did all their affairs in private. I’m glad that I never attended one of cult rituals.

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@IronMan-nu3rb

1 year ago

Why didn't Jews vacate Israel...which is Palestinian land?? Why they joined IDF? WHY they Oppressed Palestinians till now? What kind of community you are?

@seiwarriors

1 year ago

@IronMan-nu3rb Brother you don’t even understand anything if you are asking these questions.

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@roblynch7790

1 year ago

@IronMan-nu3rb she's on the right side of history

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@darrenedwards-xb6ok

1 year ago

This has been the most heartbreaking year of my life. This has confirmed my love for my true jewish brothers and sisters. Inshalla may they become the light that leads us to peace.

@axmedcabdullahi3097

1 year ago

Free American from aipac

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@Coffee_Is_Magic

9 months ago

I’m a Jewess. I’ve been on a personal journey for a few years now trying to learn about how Ashkenazi women lived their lives in Western & Eastern Europe. Their historical practices & folk wisdom. That’s the Jewishness I’m trying to find to replace this nationalism that has replaced our culture. When I see things being done in the name of ‘never again’ I feel disgusted and angry now.

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@VOID-lh1js

1 year ago

Thank you, Al Jazeera, for uploading this for free. I've wanted to watch this since the release.

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@sphesihlemnyadu1229

1 year ago (edited)

As a Black South African 🇿🇦 who partly lived in Aparheid South Africa. This ,in Israel, is Apartheid. Apartheid had propaganda camps for white South Africans as a means to endoctrinate them against the African majority population. My home town had one I know very well where 100s of white South Africans from everywhere came for the Camps.

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@Franimally

1 year ago

I hope this film is watched by millions, no tens of millions, in this country. Gratitude to Simone Zimmerman for her courage and to Al Jazeera for this and so much more. You have kept me informed on a daily basis this last year.

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@Tony-p3t4d

7 months ago (edited)

Thank you so much AJ..

I'm an American and you have definitely opened my eyes to another atrocity my government has caused..

I'm so sorry 😞🙏

.I'll never look at Israel the same ever

Free Palestine plz️️

@farooqkhan6441

1 year ago

I'm in tears after watching this, don't know how to help my brothers and sisters in Palestine.

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@shawnkay5462

1 year ago

Free America from ISRAEL

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@UnveilingHerBecoming

1 year ago

These young Jews are so so brave, they were able to go against what they knew their entire lives, they risked the loss of friends and family, and they spoke out and did something. They are truly inspiring!

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@forthesubconscious6835

5 months ago

This brings so much hope for me, thanks aljazeera for this documentary. Love from South Africa ❤

@CaptainMorgan_10

1 year ago

Proof that Anti-Zionism isn't Antisemitism; I'm a Kiwi & if another Kiwi person said they support the National party & I choose to vote for the Greens party - it doesn't make me anti-kiwi. Zionism isn't a race or a religion. It is a political ideology.

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@jennifers7555

1 year ago

100%!!

@ralphzoombeenie2330

1 year ago

Its a cult.

@SteveReeves-yt2di

1 year ago

As an Australian it's been along time since I agreed with a kiwi..thank you

@raiderssmcnz

1 year ago

@SteveReeves-yt2di Gee thanks I'm a Kiwi and i to agree with him or her and its not often an Australian agrees with us.

@DIY-Mechanic

1 year ago

Its just a proof you can tell a narrative with a very twisted story telling of the truth

@raisinbran4989

1 year ago

@DIY-Mechanic what would the "very twisted story telling of the truth" be?

@angcil88

1 year ago

@DIY-Mechanic Like how Shitrael tell a narrative with a very twisted story telling of the truth?

@Justiceactivist

9 months ago

@DIY-Mechanic lol however much you don’t like it truth is the truth 😅

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@janagee3950

1 year ago

Finding out the truth of how Israel has treated the Palestinians has made me shake and cry. Never again means never again for anyone.🍉🍉🍉Dear Palestinians you are in my heart. I am so ashamed and I will never forget you.

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@tavo6496

1 year ago

This will be a required watch for all future generations. Well done Al-Jazeera Team.

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@suzialkamyst4977

3 months ago

BLESSINGS TO ALL WHO WORK TOWARDS, PEACE, JUSTICE AND DIGNITY FOR ALL LIVING ON OUR BEAUTIFUL PLANET.

@SoOthersMayLiveandStuff

1 year ago

Not even 20 minutes in, and nauseated… this is a CULT.

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@mohammedalbadaai560

1 year ago (edited)

Let's take a minute to acknowledge the enormous amount of courage these people had to summon first to reevaluate deeply-held beliefs, but secondly and most importantly, to profess them to the public, especially their own communities. This is admirable work, and I thank every Jewish person who's in support of Palestine for their stand - I know you've already sacrificed a lot merely by conveying what's in your heart.

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@wojtekkowalski8983

1 year ago

Those people fighting for Palestinians are amazing souls. Thank you for your work. Free Palestine.

@Vjaffacake-c6t

2 months ago

Fantastic documentary.

@RightlyGuided786

1 year ago

In the heart of the olive groves, three palms stand tall,

Whispering stories of hope, through seasons they call.

Roots deep in the soil, where ancient dreams dwell,

They sway with the winds, in a soft, sacred spell.

Each leaf tells a tale of laughter and tears,

Of love that persists through the struggles and fears.

Underneath their shade, children dance and play,

In the warmth of their branches, troubles drift away.

Together they rise, through the storms and the sun,

A symbol of unity, their hearts beating as one.

In the land of resilience, where the spirit is free,

Three palms of Palestine, forever they'll be.

Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

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@AndreaFilippoLongo

1 year ago

It should be mandatory to watch this in every school of the world.

@MrMauriceOByrne

1 year ago

To my Palestinian Brothers and Sisters…Love always from Ireland 🇮🇪 💚

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@nondispybeliever

5 months ago

Wow, just wow

@delfinadungula8416

1 year ago

What a beautiful piece of work! I commend this young woman, her ability to question everything, critically think and for her bravery to do something so powerful and so altruistic!

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@zokomcaptcha

1 year ago

Thank you for buying this doc and sharing it for free, that's what makes you the best news channel on the planet .

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@KamranAhmed-qp7oz

6 months ago

Great documentary and discussion

@rogerwaters3776

1 year ago

Amazing documentary, I'm literally shaking and crying right now.

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@alle_sind_eins161

1 year ago

The producers of this documentary deserve an award.

Greetings from Germany, where the struggle for human rights is probably a century behind.

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@Sammy-xf7ii

1 year ago

I’m so glad this documentary is available to everyone to watch. The truth will Perivale and justice will be served.

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@dask617

1 month ago

Thank you for this!

@odettearef9156

1 year ago

Kudos to this Jewish young lady. She is doing a great job bringing peace to Israel by educating her fellow Jewish youth

@mrscchow-hi7uh

1 year ago

Thank you. I was looking for this. I am showing this to my son.

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@jawaahiri

1 year ago

Alhamdulilaah, The tide is changing as public opinion shifts from pro-Israel to increasingly supporting Palestinian rights.

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@claykkari

2 months ago

Really eye-opening, thanks for sharing

@Vorname_Nachnahme

1 year ago

No one promoted Antisemitism like the State of Israel, the US, Germany, the Brits ...

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@mansooraqureshi2696

1 year ago (edited)

Rich,spoiled n brain washed....Thank you Aljazeera, this is gruesome. Also homage to all your journalists who were killed in Palestine n Lebnon for reporting.

Your organisation has paid a heavy price to expose brutal atrocities committed on Palestinians by Israel.

@diewahrheit24

1 year ago (edited)

Thank you for telling the truth.Freedom and Dignity for All People.

@dass1957

3 weeks ago

I'm thankful for all the Jews that are striving for peace and freedom for all. Make God recognize your hard work.

@SaffyKaffy

1 year ago

My upbringing as an American Muslim taught me that the Jewish people are our cousins in faith. The documentary was difficult to watch, but I remain hopeful. I believe in God and that there are good people in this world, more good than bad. My prayer every night is that good will prevail.

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@ouagadougou4672

1 year ago

Thank you, Al Jazeera. Every human on earth should watch this documentary.

@KaTya24434

1 year ago

Watching this from France.

Merci Al Jazeera.

This need to be shared and shown to everyone.

I wish it will be one day translated in French and Spanish …

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@Thewestslope

2 months ago

So tragic, yet so inspirational.

@timespaceanomaly

1 year ago

Thanks for putting this up! I've been wanting to watch / force my family to watch this.

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@bintzubeida9207

1 year ago

These young people took in what they heard from the Palestinians and went to look for themselves. You cannot lie to someone who has seen the truth. Truth will always prevail over lies. I applaud these young people

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@evaeleftheriou2797

1 year ago

Hello from Greece ‼️ Thank you for the very important video ❤

@Kingkia33

4 months ago

Fantastic documentary. Great work

@franciscofrancesco7844

1 year ago

I admire the Jews who put themselves on the right side of History, History won't forget their courage.

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@eddiehedfones

1 year ago

The part where the Hillel student/facilitator says you'll tell your children proud stories of being in the IDF. Sickening.

@hafe3473

7 months ago

Thank you for your honesty and courage, fighting for truth and humanity. One day Palestinians and you are going to live in peace.

@bridgetb1699

1 year ago

Every American should watch this documentary

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@zubayer3824

1 year ago

Thank you Al Jazeera for this timely documentary.

@Xi-op7gg

1 year ago

"If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Israel.” - Christopher Hitchens

@Lillybit24

9 months ago

Thank You for this documentary 🙏🙏🙏

@frankv.9525

1 year ago

Bless Simone Zimmerman, she's a brave soul that deserves all of our praise as well as every person like her. One of the most important documentaries of our time.

@MatthewH-hp8bp

1 year ago

This is where the change begins. Israelis will not change themselves. Young American Jews will bring the change to their own community. It’s their turn now. God bless these kids in their fight for what is right and just!

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@desir2564

1 year ago

From river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🌹🇵🇸

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@DrumguyCiv

1 year ago

Thank you for uploading this film. Hopefully it opens a few eyes.

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@cherryfairyy

1 year ago

Amazing documentary. Free Palestine, my Palestinian brothers and sisters we are praying for you

@kalomboC

1 year ago (edited)

Growing up in Zambia, a former British colony, my grand parents and great grand parents endured similar colonial oppression - had to live in segregated areas, could not own property, needed a Pass (ichitupa) permitting the to be in a 'European area', harassed and emasculated routinely - in the land their ancestors had lived in for hundreds of years.

The Israeli occupation is classic colonialism: ethnic segregation, ethnic oppression, ethnic cleansing, complete disenfranchisement.

At the same time, Jews have experienced systemic, societal oppression, mistreatment, abuse and collective murder for a 1000 years.

How can Israel/Palestine be a safe homeland for Palestinians AND Jews - outside American foreign policy. That is perhaps the greatest question of our time.

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@w.urlitzer1869

9 months ago

they became what they initially feared

@colettedeParis

1 year ago

I was raised to believe the narrative . Went to that country of my "birthright " just to realized that I felt that I was not from there at all. I am french , I am a Je:wish but I am European , my entire system refused to change and become a middle eastern. I couldn’t do that .

I came to realize that I have been trained to become something I am not . Deep inside I am not a home there .

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@samim9533

1 year ago

The Israeli bots are working hard on this one already!

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@rogerwaters3776

1 year ago

Everyone knows that nowadays only bots defend Israel.

@juanrodriguez5404

1 year ago

You got that right 😂😂😂😂

@Dynamatrix2000

1 year ago

@juanrodriguez5404 Nobody pays me and I've had my account for years. I Stand with Israel 🇮🇱 🇮🇱

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@monaali1898

1 year ago

This is funny we never said u were a bot 🤖. Dynamatrix you reacting to this comment does blow ur cover though.

@JeffreyK-e6l

1 year ago

Europa the last battle 👁‍🗨.

@Jon962-h4i

1 year ago

Truth hurts?

@Dynamatrix2000

1 year ago

Calling someone a "bot" isn’t as impressive as you think it is.

@samim9533

1 year ago

@Dynamatrix2000 ok snappy pants. I wasn’t calling everyone a bot but there’s plenty of them. Stand with whoever you want, may god forgive you.

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@OriginalMaxPowerII

1 year ago

@Dynamatrix2000 might not be impressive but it’s not untrue either is it?

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@ernovanTV

1 year ago (edited)

I'm literally crying watching this video... Madness of human being got taught to the kids.

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@PabloSeshco_Bar

7 months ago

Just a big thank you for this production.

@bendyrland7213

1 year ago

It's really disturbing how its baked into the entire society.

@thurstonclevehicks

1 year ago (edited)

This is a moving feature about some of the many American Jews who do not agree with what Israel is doing. Bless these courageous people!

@moksha4102

1 year ago

Young Jews have played a major part in almost every civil rights movement in America for the last century. So incredibly proud an inspired by these brave souls. Some day the power of love will win out over the love of power. Please, please don't stop fighting for Palestine and all oppreseed people. No one can do everything but everyone can do something

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@IronMan-nu3rb

1 year ago

And many such Young Jews were part of IDF as well. WHY??

@Waitingformarty

1 year ago

@IronMan-nu3rb The indoctrination and group pressure is strong. It requires a lot of effort and courage to wake up from the trance, as it becomes the water we swim in. Until something happens to start the questioning. And keep following the trail against all pressure

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@atomicwarehouse

11 months ago

Notice how people are no longer claiming "it's complicated". NOTHING JUSTIFIES GENOCIDE

@carlzaisser5818

1 year ago

Though not Jewish, as an American I found myself in a somewhat similar position as this filmmaker in the late 1970s, after the first Camp David summit. I sensed that my country was right smack in the middle of this issue, but had no idea why, except what I had often heard, that it was all so complicated that no one really knew what it was about. I decided it was my democratic duty to find out. In February 1982, I walked 200 miles through Israeli occupied Palestine during the month of February, reading my first three books about the history along the way, and meeting many Palestinians and Israelis along the way. I never stopped, and 43 years and about 125 scholarly texts read since then, I now absolutely understand the historical injustice. I consider knowledge...through reading and investigating...to be the absolutely essential step a person must take to cut through the Zionist/US propaganda narrative.

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@madinatalkss

1 year ago

I understand Jewish people may wanted their own state (though haredim jews have a different opinion on it) , but why in the Middle East , why in Palestine , why by the cost of Palestinian blood? Do they ever ask themselves why do we have to do this from generations to generations.

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@Dahabmermaid

1 year ago

Because the Americans and Europeans didn’t want them settling in their countries so they dumped them on Palestine.

@TheMasterInDisguise

1 year ago

@Dahabmermaid They actually have a territory in Russia.

@leangrypoulet7523

6 months ago

@Dahabmermaid There are more Jews living in the US than in Israel.

@zehr3126

1 year ago

We from other Muslim country ,we only come to Mecca and Madinah to completed our responsible as Muslim worshipper,we don't settle in Saudis land .Once we finished we go back to our own countries.Simple as that.not to buy and settle there for generation to come.

@nasseralajmi1460

1 year ago

Actually the founder of zionism have suggested many countries other than Palestine but the British support in beginning was very strong because it served its intresset until the 1946 when they lost India and they lost interest in supporting zionism , however the evangelicals have always been the biggest supporter and most important one until today, hoping a jewish state will fullfill their prophecy of the second coming. and for decades USA thought Isreal can play bigger roll in the ME and protects American interest. Unfortunately Israel is still dependent On US support but the AIPAC has already have control over us politicians and they can not abandon Israel now.

@hamda3382

1 year ago

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@Janaofbo

1 year ago

I still have difficulty to follow this path. How do you go from a ‘regular’ upbringing in the States to being a soldier where you can throw out people out of their own homes? What happens in their education that they don’t feel empathy and moral boundaries?

@IronMan-nu3rb

1 year ago

Good question.

Why didn't they think about it earlier?

@Hasbun-Allaah

1 year ago

All bad trates of Human character can be seen in the Maghdoo. SubhanAllaah

@galaxychoc79

9 months ago

It was always about land grabbing and colonialism.

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@meerapatankar7275

1 year ago

When you grab something that's not yours to be in the first place, it will never be yours.

@duckboyguru6164

1 year ago

such a great film, this needs to go in theaters, the genocide MUST STOP

FREE PALESTINE!!!🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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@michaelm8806

1 year ago

Thank you for providing this. It is important to profile the commitment of so many American Jews to justice and compassion at a time when so many are distraught over the atrocities of Israel in East Jerusalem, Gaza, the West Bank, and now Lebanon once again.

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@beanpasteposts

1 year ago

We've been living in an episode of Black Mirror this entire time 🇵🇸

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@kdo354

10 months ago

I hope many people watch this.

@JoaquinCorreaDrums

1 year ago

Great documentary. It will sadly need a sequel that deals with the Genocide in Gaza and the horrifying scenes we have been witnessing for over a year now.

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@474fsde

1 year ago

Thank you so much for airing this movie!!!

@ronaastaman2857

1 year ago

Thank you for spreading this documentary so that it can be accessed by anyone.

@kieraewing8917

11 months ago

The Most High is doing this 🫶🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💕so beautiful to see ppl finding out for themselves the truth and not accepting being told lies

@mehwishaziz7846

1 year ago

It's IDF before US marines or Armed forces for American citizens. I am glad the ppl are waking up to Israelism.

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@teenaakhir9105

1 year ago

"To live and prosper" isn't that what every body wants? But not at the expanse of killing and slaughtering the indigenous people living there..🙄 Thanks Al Jazeera for this exposure

@Fran_assis

9 months ago

Everybody should watch this! 👏

@btube3686

1 year ago

The must watch video for the world. Anti-Zionism is not Anti-Semitism

@hamda3382

1 year ago

My heart goes to all the victims of the IOF. ❤🇵🇸

@hueffel987

1 year ago

It is not only what Israel does to Palestinians, but what it does to the Jews?

@pegahyousefdoust

1 year ago

I can t believe people still think everthing started on oct 7th

@resurrectedone7463

1 year ago

2 million israelis have fled the pariah state, companies are shutting down since there are no materials and tourists are all time low.

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@DavidHarrison-x2r4eyes

1 year ago

It really warms my insides to hear young people bringing people together because they know the truth in their hearts . ...

And then I watch the News and my organs ice over again 😢

@patrickking5883

1 year ago

This is a fantastic documentary, thank you for sharing. It being on YouTube makes it much more shareable!

@j-genx2395

1 day ago

To the Jews who stand up, fight confront the system of zionism they were brought up in I have nothing but respect, praise and admiration. ❤

@EzmanS

1 year ago

We see you our Palestinian brothers and sisters ❤️🇺🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️

We stand with Palestine ❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️

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@mireilleelassal978

1 year ago

Simone, if you ever see this comment, I just want to say bless your beautiful heart ❤️ I wish you a long life full of happiness, peace, and success in everything you do. Sending much love your way from the bottom of my Palestinian heart.

@Blauenau

1 year ago

The root cause of all conflicts is the tendency of groups to separate themselves from the rest of humanity. Whether it's based on family, religion, nationality, or ideology, this impulse to divide and define ourselves by exclusive identities fosters misunderstanding, fear, and ultimately conflict. When people view themselves as distinct from others instead of recognizing our shared humanity, it creates an 'us vs. them' mentality. This division breeds distrust, competition, and hostility, undermining cooperation and empathy. True peace lies not in drawing boundaries but in dissolving them—embracing diversity while acknowledging our deep interconnectedness as human beings.

@paulcollinson5244

10 months ago

This is one sick society.........

@Affan-pz2mf

1 year ago

Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸❤️❤️❤️

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@CyberSecurityFashionDesigner

1 year ago

Al JAZEERA LET’S GO! Thank you! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@thescoobymike

1 year ago

FINALLY FREE ON YOUTUBE YESSSSSS

@toniblunt

11 months ago

Simone , what a beautiful soul

@singranguk

1 year ago

Respect to those young people, hope for humanity ❤

@stevenvanheemst9556

1 year ago

Thank you for this Al Jazeera!

@jonfrohnmayer

1 year ago

Everyone needs to watch this documentary.

@Turnpainhopegain

9 months ago

change is happing, minds are opening..

@betomanzano

1 year ago

I've been wanting to watch this documentary since I watched an interview with the producers on Democracy Now a few months ago, thanks for making it possible Al Jazeera and everyone involved in the film.

@moeezS

1 year ago

6:05 "Celebrate Israeli Independence" cute way to twist settler colonialism into an acceptable term.

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@lonesomefencesitter3186

1 year ago

Oh wow, this is an impressive move.

To release this documentary for public.

So many People have been asking, where can they watched this documentary at the trailer release channel since last year.

@deanm2124

6 months ago

Very good documentary thanks Al Jazeera. You and Deutsche Wella are the best English language public news channels.

@Cobalt-7414

1 year ago

Wonderful! I was looking to watch this one

@Vixtuoso

1 year ago

What an incredibly talented, beautiful, and brave young woman Simone Zimmerman is! She must be protected at all costs!

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@Princensitive

1 year ago

Very troubling😢 Something is deeply wrong with the US, since it enabled this brutal regime.

@agneswilder733

1 year ago

The likeness to the Hitler Youth Movement is astounding.

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@kittykat3237

6 months ago

Thank you for sharing this, it's an important documentary.

@pnogaram

1 year ago

Thank you Al Jazeera. Amazing work. To all reading : please share this. Its about time people open their mind and eyes!!!!!

@rarity2006

1 year ago (edited)

Huge love ❤️ and respect for the young Jewish ✡️ people fighting for freedom and justice ⚖️ for the Palestinian people. You will win dont give up. You give me hope I thank you

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@listentome271

1 year ago

Thank you to these courageous people who challenged the comfort of the beliefs they were raised in and prioritised their moral values. Many in the world could learn from you

@dominiqueck6463

4 months ago

Thank you for sharing this. As an American Jew, I stand with Palestine.

@adviaahmed7988

1 year ago

I have watched this documentary 3 times now. Before commenting, the guidance about respect that came up by Aljazeera makes me appreciate you more and more. This documentary was made before 7th October. I don't know what the future holds. What I do know is, the Jews are my cousins. Simon Zimmerman and all the people who spoke up are my cousins. It takes pure courage to speak up when you are not the majority and to have to risk your blood ties to speak the truth. I love and immensely respect you guys.

I pray Palestine is free and there are reparations by the West and Israel for the genocide of our brothers and sisters, and that all Palestinians get to walk in a free Palestine, without fear and breath the sigh of relief they have been holding since 1948. May we all live together in true liberation. Ameen. ❤️

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@pizzaemployer2571

1 year ago

Their courage and authenticity is absolutely commendable. It is the generation of truth and justice. Proud of you all.

@bigthangz5489

1 year ago

these kids who left rhe IDF are saying the things they did were "immoral & shameful", but i have not heard a single one of them say they were criminal actions or unlawful actions!

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@satyacoaching_EFT

6 months ago

The comments really give hope. Respect to every Jewish person standing up and telling the world that standing up against Israel's mass murder is not antisemitism. I am from Germany and we get really oppressed because Germany thinks a sick kind of loyalty or Israel will wipe away its fault. No. Now standing up would show we learned sth from the shoa.

@HasnaaAlaa

1 year ago

Thanks for streaming the documentary

@anayatullahatif7418

1 year ago

Great work Aljazeera

@AlishaRossi

1 year ago (edited)

“How is it that I am the best the Isreali Community has to offer, I’ve been through all the trainings, all the programs, and I don’t know what the Occupation is? I don’t know what the settlements are? …

What is this thing that is so horrifying that you can’t bear to let me see it?”

~ Simone Zimmerman

@rf.t.s1580

5 months ago

what a brave young woman! you are doing Gods work. bless you and all the humans standing up for humanity

@ICreatedU1

1 year ago

43:28 "Somehow pro Palestinian has become pro social justice" Gee I wonder why. This woman is as clueless as she is dangerous.

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@thespookymouse

1 year ago

Fantastic documentary. Having been a former evangelical, I can feel empathy for Jewish Americans being indoctrinated. Deconstructing something you've been told is true your whole life is hard, but if you seek truth and want to honor the humanity of everyone you will find it. ❤

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@dariamorgendorffer7813

1 year ago

If any other country had an organization that meddled in the politics of a foreign nation, people would be outraged. Why is it acceptable for AIPAC to influence American or Canadian politics?

@taxitom2

7 months ago

Wow, the building on Campus is called Hillel?

Rabbi Hillel: "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn"

@machsimillian14

1 year ago

Thank you so much for posting this. 🙏

@aydilla85

1 year ago

When you learn about what this state actually does and is, you can never go back. The Palestinian cause is such an important one, for the sake of whole humanity ❤

@EqualityforAllHumansNow

1 year ago

Thank you for the excellent reporting!

@ghislainryckebusch1063

1 year ago

I feel release to watch this video and i feel there is hope ,We need peace ...

@8L8_Ash

1 year ago

I have so much respect for Jews who are Proud,

and Do Speak against any injustice they see.

Especially against what's happening in Palestine.

@Zzzk155

1 year ago

I hope al-Jazeera would provide different subtitles for this video. It's more interesting if more people can understand this especially if English is not their first or second language

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@JuanCruz-et8so

1 year ago

This video has completely destroyed and devastated me. It’s the saddest thing i seen. It’s had me on a roller coaster of emotions. I am even questioning God and angry at him. I don’t even think anything is worth saying since i am so insignificant, you can’t reason with this because it was never there to begin with. It’s all a facade a vale of lies I pray 🙏 for freedom.

@johna1427

10 months ago

Ty for this story

@suzansaoud9570

1 year ago

Great documentary thank you so much for sharing

@FreedomFighter4Justice

1 year ago

Wow great documentary! Hats off

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@enthusiastic9770

1 year ago

I pray to god this documentation may OPEN ATLEAST FEW AMERICAN EYES those who got blind after the Oct 7

@celin26able

6 months ago

Thats why God gave us a concious which make us realize when something you are doing is wrong

@cuteash92

6 months ago

thank you and vice for publishing this. its insane how people arent aware of the background of the horrors leading up to oct 7th. Why did october 7th happen? because of this stuff. not out of nowhere!!

@naomipedersen2516

9 months ago

I am canadian. I am LDS and raised very pro-Isreal, after all, that is where Jesus was from. I celebrated Jewish holidays, and dreamed of going to Israel. I am sickened by what Israel is and has done. No longer am I proud of the time I spent learning Hebrew, or for my insistance that we name all our kids Hebrew names. No longer do I dream of going to Israel. No longer do I plan on doing Grad school in Haifa. What the state of Israel has done to the Palestinians is beyond horrendous. Now I just want to go to Palestine. I want to walk in the Gaza strip and meet the people who have lived through this awful occupation for so long. I am grateful to know that zionism is not Judism

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@angelmonroy784

1 year ago

I was so looking forward to this documentary. And it's been so eyed opening for me to learn about this new movement. The new jewish generation beein part of this wave of peace between two neighbors..it brings back the power in humanity and kindness. God bless all the people in the world, including especially people from Israel and Palestine. ❤

@rubamassijeh781

1 year ago

1:04:00 "it means we failed in brain washing"

@crazycowboy213

1 year ago

Honestly they killed over 17k children this year and their trying to pass this off as something normal. I really hope the next generation of Israelis realize these terrible actions and act accordingly.

@LionKing-qq8fk

1 year ago (edited)

The look on the kids face 33:38 mins in is just heartbreaking.

@dlfincher6887

8 months ago (edited)

I was an American Zionist. My experience with wonderful, hospitable, Palestinians shocked me. My only negative experiences were with Israeli Jews who lied to me, bullied and cheated me (in the Old City).

Visiting Palestine, though I was warned it was unsafe for me, was shocking.

Though the people were oppressed and abused, they were kind to me.

It made me examine what I had been taught. The Israeli “new historians” opened my eyes. It totally flipped my worldview.

@gasparde7056

1 year ago

I love how the informations are being presented and it's intensity

@christinamccann

1 year ago

i’m so thankful this is on youtube for more people to watch.

@Biolou

1 year ago

Netanyahu Youth

@Model3GenerativeANdroid

11 months ago

Lord Balfour died due to syphilis

@kings_of_tekken6795

1 year ago

within first 2 minutes of this, ..........you know that feeling, when your just physically stunned after seeing a strange phenomena? yeah, i was totally stunned........

@Yomi4D

1 year ago

So they want a home in the US and then have a home in the middle east at the detriment of people who are from that middle east. That's just selfish asf.

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@pnice16

1 year ago

I have been waiting to see this documentary for YEARS

@failranch9542

9 months ago

It’s a beautiful thing when someone realizes they can think for themselves and that they don’t have to drink the Kool-Aide being served. Glad to see a couple of these Jewish students featured here come to that realization.

@rarity2006

1 year ago (edited)

The idea 💡 that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

@janedasilva7792

1 year ago

Thank you AJ for sharing this!! I saw it before, but to see it now is so heartbreaking!!!!!!

@benxamin13

1 year ago

Thanks Al Jazeera. This really is focused on healing and peace for all.

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@leangrypoulet7523

6 months ago

Less than 20 secs in and already stunned by the level of exceptionalism and brainwashing. Wow.

@zq7246

1 year ago

I’ve been wanting to watch this documentary since I heard about it . Thanks for putting it up!

@andreadrottholm2052

1 year ago

May truth prevail and may the humanity wake up to see what is right in front of our eyes.

@emelieandersson4127

1 year ago

Wish this documentary was aired on TV in Sweden.. Even our state-owned channel (obligated by law to be completely neutral..) is biased and show the Israeli propaganda (never in my life experienced Swedish media behave like this, it's shocking. The scariest part is that Swedish media is unconditionally trusted to be neutral in Sweden 😟) Sweden is currently transforming extremely fast towards USA, I'm definitely worried. 😞 Free Palestine, free Lebanon (and the whole world!) from this sick spiralling war agenda! ❤️ 🇸🇪

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@Shoutinthewind

9 months ago

No matter how many times I hear it “and if I don’t steal it somebody else is going to steal it” makes my heart sink.

@stitchilalu

1 year ago

This is so sick 😭 I can't

@rent7142

1 year ago

Yes people look strong and "hot" in uniform, but so did the SS. What Israel stands for is isolation and fascism. That's terrible considering WW11 atrocities.

@nella4690

1 year ago

watching this, and only 20 minutes in, made me sick to my stomach. This society is psychotic.

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@KemalDemirtas-z5g

1 year ago

Wow I am impressed ❤

The root of most dysfunction and evil lies in chronic deficiency of empathy 🫤

@turbonewz1023

1 year ago

This is so heart breaking to witness isreal do this to Palestinians.😰

@christinaji

1 year ago

Great documentary everyone needs to watch this now

@lobnan-2bfree

1 year ago

Thank you to all our Jewish brothers and sisters who stand up and speak out. Thank you for your brave stand against injustice. I know many of you are under extreme pressure also. Thank you. You are seen … free Palestine

@sarahbeee

1 year ago

I can speak out without the fear of being cut off from everything I've ever known. To the American Jews who are standing up, I salute your bravery. I see the risks you're taking in order to stand for what is right. It is a huge feat to break from the crowd, especially your own special insulated crowd. Keep standing tall against the overwhelming backlash. You will be remembered as standing on the right side of history. Take pride in that instead of the groups approval in the here and now.

@jaymfom6963

1 year ago

Thank you Simone!

@mmobini1803

1 year ago

What I can’t understand is why the teacher that is so passionate about Israel doesn’t just give up her US citizenship to a Palestinian family and move to Israel? If I loved a place that much I would do everything I can to move and live there.

@FA-gj2pf

1 year ago (edited)

Thank you Al Jazeera for sharing this documentary ❤

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@Tamorogaa

2 months ago

This is such a powerful documentary, and I am so proud of all the people that came out and spoke from their heart about their own experiences, and embracing humanity. We thank you all

@Soccer7SG

1 year ago

Fantastic documentary! I wish everyone would watch this. Free Palestine!

@orion51089

1 year ago

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Morocco, and Kuwait, you support this apartheid shame on you

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@FA-gj2pf

1 year ago

Thank you Al Jazeera. The most reliable news source ❤

@LisandroJurado-c8m

9 months ago

Lies can linger, but humanity eventually wakes up and sees the truth. Question things, seek truth. It's not in religion. Seek truth, facts, only way for the start of a better world.

@yachuj

1 year ago

AWESOME!!! Thank you to all who contributed in the creation of this Documentaray. It is a tiny beacon of HOPE on an otherwise very gloomy horizon. May everyone be Blessed!

@nayaa1387

1 year ago

Soon or later the truth will prevail! Respect to those who spoke up👍

@desubakker369

1 year ago

Wonderful documentary, my full solidarity is with Palestine. Greetings from Singapore

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@razvanoancea7673

9 months ago

Wow 😮😮😮😮😮😮

@faribahsadiq4841

1 year ago

Omg eye opening for many. Amazing Documentary. FREE PALESTINE!

@FA-gj2pf

1 year ago

Thank you so much Al Jazeera, the most reliable news channel in the world ❤.

@zghani2410

1 year ago

True practicing Jews believe in humanity - Thank you, Simone, and every courageous Jew who supports Palestinian liberation!

@nightrising-l4j

10 months ago

It never started on 7th October

@seafox9620

1 year ago

Thank you for this film. I know it takes great courage to stand against all the conditioning and opposition from one's community. But this gives me great hope, especially in the face of such media censorship of anyone who supports Palestinians in this horrible time. Thank you again for your courage.

@BinSaid

1 year ago

It doesn’t matter if you are Jewish, Christ or Muslim you are the same human, your religion doesn’t makes you better.

Israel has to stop feeling special and have to respect others too, like for example Germany, where I live. We live all kinds of religions and cultures here but we all live in peace and respect to each other, because we all have the same rights. And Israel have to change if it likes to be a country. Peace and love and respect for the humanity, please

@sineadfleming6496

1 year ago

This is a fantastic documentary! For someone outside the Jewish community I had no idea the level of indoctrination that goes on in America, it goes a long way to explain the situation

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@YeaOkaySure1234

9 months ago

This looks like an Evangelical Conference here in the US

@RahmerSayed

1 year ago

Growing up i always thought that israel was the one being oppressed but come to think of it, it was the opposite…… Thank you Aljazera for sharing every single detail regarding the palestinians and helping the world to know more about what they face even if the whole world is against you. May Allah grant you what is best for you 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@AmreekaLife

1 year ago

Wonderful documentary!

@cuauhtlihernandez682

1 year ago

Bless you Simmon Zimmerman! You are on the right side of injustice! Thank you all for your work. Peace 🙏

@yfsgbbkng

2 days ago

Thank you to Simone and Al Jazeera. Simone you are a God conscious person, I admire your honesty and bravery in speaking out. Your are a good Jewish person regardless of what the haters say to you. I pray for your good health and safety. Tremendous work. Love from the UK.

@karinewaldron9225

1 year ago

This is a fantastic piece of film that should be an essential tool for learning and understanding the importance of education and context from all viewpoints, from kindergarten to the grave. Bravo and respect to all those contributors to the documentary who speak their truth about the realisation of their miseducation and betrayal by those 'teachers' they had no reason to question, until now. Thank you.

@reed04

1 year ago

Thank you for making this documentary available to the wider audience, and kudos to Simmons and the team for making this documentary. I really hope everyone take the time to watch this

@deenac.5362

1 year ago

1. Haifa Massacre 1937

2. Jerusalem Massacre 1937

3. Balad al-Sheikh Massacre 1939

4. Haifa Massacre 1939

5. Haifa Massacre 1947

6. Abbasiya Massacre 1947

7. Al-Khisas Massacre 1947

8. Bab al-Amud Massacre 1947

9. Jerusalem Massacre 1947

10. Sheikh Bureik Massacre 1947

11. Jaffa Massacre 1948

12. Deir Yassin Massacre 1948

13. Tantura Massacre 1948

14. Khan Yunis Massacre 1956

15. Jerusalem Massacre 1967

16. Bahro Al Baquar 1972

17. Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982

18. Al Aqsa Mosque Massacre 1990

19. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 1994

20. Jenin Refugee Camp April 2002

21. Gaza Massacre 2008-09

22. Gaza Massacre 2012

23. Gaza Massacre 2014

24. Gaza Massacre 2018-19

25. Gaza Massacre 2021

26. Gaza Massacre 2023 ongoing

SO DO NOT LET ANYONE CONVINCE YOU THAT IT STARTED ON OCTOBER 7TH

@luciddreams1122

1 year ago

Thank you for standing up for the Palestinian people ❤

@stefan2796

1 year ago

No to genocide! Every day we see these horrific videos from Gaza, West Bank and now Lebanon as well.

@Mir-l6i

1 year ago

Free America from Israel...

@lynlyn4306

1 year ago

Heartbreaking but thank you. I'm so thankful for people are not afraid to show the world the truth. Thank you for making this. Everyone needs to see this. As a former support I'm so thankful my eyes have been opened- even though it breaks my heart on a daily basis to carry this knowledge around.

@h1jen1x

3 months ago

Saw this video a year ago and found out so much. I was shocked. And still am.

@Morpheusarrow

1 year ago

If you accept this there you accept this happening to your children one day. Being silent is not enough.

@IrishJoe7

1 year ago

Wow hats off to Simone!!!!

@clairefoxgloves4824

1 year ago (edited)

Please bring back Aljazeera to British Freeview TV. It's so important, I only came across this by chance on U Tube where it would've been on 235 Freeview. I can't bear not being able to see it on TV. This programme will help end the power of the wicked IDF, the young people will know the truth and will demand change and to stop the violence, tear down the walls and live in peace.

@rambo-rb

3 days ago (edited)

Encouraging to see the segment around minute 49:00 about both sides understanding each other, including trauma from the Holocaust. Kudos @Simone Zimmerman - you are making a lot of sacrifices for the greater good.

@StevesFeedAndSeed

1 year ago

Incredible documentary. It followed a really tragic arc in my own life as I became dissolutioned about Israel, and watching now gives me hope for the future.

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@HypatiaMuse

1 year ago

Thank you for posting this, I've been wanting to see it. ❤️ 🇵🇸

@adhkhjcdar634

1 year ago

I'm glad this is posted for free

@furmannchristiane28

6 months ago

This is amazing to witness these young people- they are the hope of humanity

@priyanka5316

1 year ago

Excellent documentary. Such brave people. Jews who care for others who aren't Jewish, who care for anyone oppressed, are true Torah Jews. Thank you for sharing this, may HaShem bless all those involved.

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@d.a.elsaka1437

1 year ago

Such brave Jews to resist zionism and occupation. Much respect ❤

@nayeemrashid4228

1 year ago

Much Love

@Aabz009

8 months ago

Thank you for making this documentary. I hope this will help many people to open their eyes, seeing things from multiple perspectives, and treating every person with respect. It breaks my heart to hear about all this hate, and see how people are disrespected, dehumanized and abused. It gives hope to see that people are standing up, not only for themselves but for others.

@onlignebridge4224

1 year ago

‼Even Shakespeare, in Othello, called it Palestine

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@aznmvw

1 year ago

when they said ' read the bible"

i was like," i aint no believe in fiction"

@dictmfg

1 year ago

42:02 because there is no rebuttal. There is no answer. Because standing on Israel's side is WRONG.

@gangajal9292

7 months ago

27 minutes into this video I am so upset I had to pause it to watch the rest another time 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

@chemophile14

1 year ago

The word “Israelism” should be added in english dictionary for “occupying someone land or home and if they resist then call them you a terrorist”

@samirkakli8269

1 year ago

This film was amazing and long overdue. Let's spread to everyone in America to share the truth,

@sounsliti4055

1 year ago

Thank you Al Jazeera for putting this movie on YouTube have been dying to see it for months .. Thanks to those who made this movie .. You are beautiful human beings .. Free Palestine always 💜

@failranch9542

9 months ago (edited)

“If I don’t steal it, someone else is gonna steal it…” - classic. Whatever happened to that guy? I can’t remember his name but he was a small-time criminal from the US.

@Eliza.kate.24

1 year ago

What an amazing piece of journalism 👏

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@trueconsciousness6150

1 year ago

IDF no different to Taliban recruiting overseas

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@TheWayfarersPath

1 year ago

I have to be honest. I'm only five minutes in, and what I'm seeing is really creeping me out. It's like watching a documentary about a cult. By the way, I have lived in Israel and the West Bank, and it still creeps me out, this worshipful obsession with Israel.

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@madmansa1

8 months ago

Very insightful, very well made. Well done. Learn a lot and made my own mind on what humanity is doing to themselves. Which is a sad outrageous view in how some humans hurt other humans. It made me cry to see how cruel humans can be. Continue to show the truth.

@sophiabailey4042

1 year ago

Thank you Al Jazeera for sharing this very important documentary ❤

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@legel93

1 year ago

Congratulations to all the people who resist, excellent documentary. Freedom for all.

@marcellemars1744

1 year ago

You just have to be human to feel the suffering of others and the need for peace.

@alexgreen1823

3 months ago

Everyone needs to watch this

@BFF410

1 year ago

The Name of the US should be changed to AIPAC or America need to be free from AIPAC once and for all.

@ivanivanovichrasputin3098

1 year ago

“Birthright” - come visit the land we stole from Palestinians and claimed our sky daddy gave it to us 30000 million years ago, even though our ancestors are from Eastern Europe and not from Palestine.

@Jan_von_Gratschoff

1 year ago

If the term "Educator" is preceded by the term for an ideology you're not an educator but an indoctrinator. Also gotta say that the pro-israel youth camps remind me of similar youth camps organized for German kids in the 20s and 30s.

@rafizanrtm9998

10 months ago

Thank you Erin, Simone & Al Jazeera. Poor Simone Zimmerman. Recently watched Kathy Halper's Useful Idiots channel, discussing that Ms. Zimmerman is permanently banned from entering.

@Dignity4allhumanity

1 year ago

The impartiality of the introduction is riveting. 21:16 British 🇬🇧 education has limited education on the subject of it 800 year conflict with Ireland 🇮🇪 The troupes like the dumb paddy still prevalent in Britain today. No Irish ☘️ and no dogs was a thing up until the 80s

@justsomecyb0rg

1 year ago

the full documentary!!! thank you! and thank you to the makers of the israelism film for allowing al jazeera to post this ❤️ amazing ❤️

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@stephanieraihana5704

1 year ago

Amazing documentary. An eye opening about zionism and israel from the eye of Jews. Thank you Al Jazeera for showing us truth everyday ❤

@90chestnut

10 months ago

Thank you so much for the documentary. I am happy and proud for all the people who started to challenge the narratives they have been fed, informed themselves about the reality of the illegal occupation and choose to advocate for the rights of Palestinian people and by extension the rights of all people.

@nirushamarigadu8018

1 year ago

This documentary is so well put together. Thank you for exposing Israel and its brainwashing. My heart is broken for the Palestinians. May they live in peace with no more terrorism 🙏

@ShnNar1000x

1 year ago

Thanks for this! I will be showing it in my classes and using it for a course I am planning to do on Israel-Palestine.

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@anneg211

1 year ago

Love the REAL JEWS NOT THE ZIONIST

@sunangel5917

9 months ago

Excellent documentary - very well done!

@zq7246

1 year ago (edited)

Propaganda should never be underestimated. It touches us all in some ways but the most important thing to remember is every life is precious even those from other cultures. If you reach out you will find every human has more in common than they differ. So have empathy for the suffering of others because we are all brothers and sisters in creation no matter what God we worship or choose not to.

@supermegaturboman5070

1 year ago

Kudos for the documentary makers making this so widely available now. It was only available on limited release before. EVERYONE needs to watch this.

@AdeelJamil-v4p

1 year ago

Only poor Palestinian people are suffering in their own place by Israeli army since occupation in 1948

Most Jews came from Europe During world war 2 when holocaust happened by German military

@karlrobb1654

9 months ago

that concert at the beginning is like something out of a north korean docu

@simplytan5

1 year ago

Thank you so much for producing and sharing this with us. My heart breaks every day for the people of Palestine 🇵🇸

The truth will come out and everyone in the world is (painfully) slowly starting to see. Truth is knowledge and knowledge is power.

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@MoeAmini

1 year ago

It’s a cult, convince me otherwise

@Yusuave

1 year ago

Remember guys, its antisemitic to claim they have dual loyalty 😉

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@Rachkhad-2024

1 year ago

You will never see this documentary in any other TV channel thanks for this quality work

@Peace4867

1 year ago

Thanks for this documentary, finally I can watch it, last year the student union in my uni wanted to have movie night, but the uni banned this movie

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@lisa_squared

1 year ago

This is great. Anti-occupation/Anti-Zionist Jews are brave people, I can’t imagine how isolating and difficult it is to go against an ideology that is so ingrained in your upbringing. They deserve support.

@lapusan2008

1 year ago

I'm not Jew nor Arab. I'm appalled about what's going on. State of Israel should never have existed in the first place. Yet it is what it is, and the occupied Palestinian population must be protected and have a two-state solution

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@steph_fig

5 months ago

16:36 The Israel Fellow at UConn Hillel, Tom Barkan, making a distinction at the 16:36 mark between 'Jewish' and 'Israeli,' is very telling.

@loujohnson1664

1 year ago

The great American Writer, James Baldwin once said, "the world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair." Nicole and Eitan are two of those people. Their courage to confront their own cultural lies and to speak up about them makes them rare individuals. Wouldn't it be nice if more of us could wake from our privileged dream and share a little compassion for other people.

@tarekz9992

1 year ago

Free American from Zionism. BTW Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism. To be anti zionism is not anti Jew

@ariodeanwirawan376

1 year ago

Anti-zionism is NOT anti-semitism.

Anti-zionism is anti-fascism.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

@spainfeelsgood7658

9 months ago

What a sweet soul are you, Simone, ❤

@anotherdafty

1 year ago

Good film so far. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 🍉

@tollyboy-

1 year ago

As a Jew I will never go to Israel. Israel has nothing to do with my religion. Anti Zionism is not Anti semitism

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@tarazan3456

1 year ago

I Don't think The Jews around the world and especially in the US are doing enough, actually relative to what is happening they are not doing much.... They need to very very strongly oppose the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon... This would very much affect them, and their descendants in the long run since people around the world would not know the difference between being Jewish, Zionist, or Israeli...

@qweenp6360

4 months ago

Good on the young lady who did the right thing for strangers. Says a lot about her heart.

@TheAscensionHasBegun

1 year ago

One of the talking points is to be emotional. WOW! I am Palestinian but proud this young Jewish lady. Good people of truth and good so exist.

@staissitrading6675

1 year ago

4:53 puting Israel flag at the center, and american flag at the left side, really insulting to america.

Definitely not putting America First.

@salmanhersi9187

1 year ago

Free Palastian

@ceeceeeff

2 months ago

Well just WOW. !

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