#yigal amir

[yanklbonkl]

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#i wonder if yigal amir is fucking proud of himself

[loving-n0t-heyting]

my objection to two-state solutions in israel stems less from a principled universal commitment to "decolonisation" maximalism and more (but not exclusively) from the facts that a) israel has repeatedly demonstrated its inability to accept compromise on any long timescales and b) what "compromises" israeli leaders have historically been willing to offer at even the heights of magnanimity have been insultingly lopsided to a degree no zionist would for a minute entertain were the tables flipped

if arafat had finagled an agreed upon "peace process" based around cutting up israel into an inland archipelago of jewish islets surrounded by a contiguous region controlled and patrolled by the PLO, it would not have taken yigal amir to scuttle popular israeli support. if at camp david he had insisted on retaking jerusalem and bisecting israel with a highway from gaza to the west bank, to be militarily shut down as palestinian leadership saw fit, you know damn well ehud barak would have said fuck it

the problem isnt simply with the abstract concept of a two-state solution, its that the concrete articulations of such a "solution" have always looked a lot more like israeli expansionism with a funny little hat than two sovereign states on equal footing, and there is no reason to believe future proposals will not follow a similar pattern unless drastic efforts are taken to reduce israels bargaining power

[david-goldrock]

The following is a song I love

It's a song about stereotypes and embracing complexities

the stereotypes are Israeli stereotypes, so near the ones that won't make sense, imma put an explanation in squigely brackets

[Verse 1] How easy it is to flow with the brain in automatic conditioning that do not require you to work hard Only to tag and bark, incite and sacrifice (something to a god) To the rating idols (also fake gods), items with full strength Everything is already arranged in our heads drawer by drawer- No, we cannot allow reality to prevent us from seeing that

Every leftist is a traitor Every Arab is a suicide terrorist Every haredi (ultra-Orthodox) robes in daylight {the Haredi population in Israel is often criticized for taking egregious amounts of money while they don't serve in the army and many don't work, that is often called שוד = robbery in daylight} And all the settlers murdered Rabin {After the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, many settlers were blamed for the assassination, both because they were a part of the demonstrations against him and the fact Yigal Amir, the assassinator, was a settler} All of Tel Aviv is vegan {Tel Aviv is the city with the most vegans in the world} All of Netivot is traditional- down to earth {I don't know this stereotype tbh} All the religious are primitive with a tassel and while doing so, they erased Darwin

[Chorus] Do not lock me up in any cage Don't summarize me on Wikipedia I am everything, I am nothing Infinite light clothed in a body So don't lock me up in any cage

[House 2] Call me Don Quixote who dares to challenge Put a bounty on my head and a guillotine in the square The demons their time had passed And the king is naked Erase everything you knew about me until today No, I am not the settler, not a representative of God Not a dos (slur for religious people) that excludes women Not a bridge between the sectors {Hanan Ben-Ari, the singer and songwriter, is often called "a bridge between the (secular and religious) sectors" because he is a figure both sectors feel attached and connected to} May The sectors burn, May the prejudices burn And everyone will have a chance to write their own story

Because if everything is visible and known in advance cliché by cliché No, we cannot allow reality to prevent us from seeing that Every Mizrahi is oppressed, Every secular is a dirty infidel All the women should be in the kitchen And all the Russians are in love with Stalin {which is the wildest stereotype on the list because, come on, they hate him so much} All the endings have ended {a hebrew saying meaning all hope is lost, a sentiment the singer despises} Every member of the Knesset is a pot of vermin All Ethiopians run (well) and those who don't, sing with Raychel {a joke about people who say they are not racist, and then talk about the Idan Raychel project, in which many ethiopian jews sang with him.}

[Chorus] Do not lock me up in any cage Don't summarize me on Wikipedia I am everything, I am nothing Infinite light clothed in a body So don't lock me up in any cage

[bridge] A day will come one day A day will come one day

[chorus/outro] A day will come and you will not be lock me up in any cage You won't summarize me on Wikipedia I am everything, I am nothing I came naked and I such I will return So don't put me in any cage Do not put me in any cage

This is just for the irony

#טאמבלר ישראלי #טמבלר ישראלי #ישראל #ישראלבלר #ישראלים #עם ישראל חי #עברית #חרבות ברזל #ישר #ישראבלר #ישרבלר #musician #israel #acoustic #new music #songs #music video #tunes #musica #music #Youtube

[ghostpalmtechnique]

I have posted quite a bit about Israel/Palestine in the past couple of days, which is unusual. This is not because I suddenly developed opinions. This is because I would prefer to spend my time on matters that induce feelings other than despair. This is also because there are only so many times you can grit your teeth and exercise the virtue of silence before frustration boils over.

I am in favor of a two-state solution. This does not mean I am optimistic about a two-state solution. But I grew up when this was clearly understood as the liberal position. It was arguing against a right-wing position that was implicitly or explicitly in favor of ethnic cleansing. At least the right-wingers were self-aware about this, even if not all of them were honest about it. Now I am enmeshed in a social media milieu where a one-state solution is also a left-wing position. And it is still the position in favor of ethnic cleansing. Some of these leftists are naive about this. Some of them even have the decency to be appalled by the leftists who aren't. I am genuinely sorry for you that you had to find out this way that liberal Jews who warned you about this weren't making it up. It would have been nice to be wrong.

People say that the two-state solution is dead, so there's no point in talking about it. Maybe it is, but I would say better to engage in necromancy than engage with the alternatives that are plausibly in the cards.

I've never been to Israel, and I don't really have any desire to go, but if I do, it will perhaps be when Yigal Amir is dead, so that I can stop to spit on his grave. Few in history have stolen hope from so many as he did. Terrorism doesn't work to achieve constructive goals, but can be horrifyingly effective if your goals aren't constructive to begin with. I remember a different world, before some of you were born. Before the endless, sanguinary symbiosis of the Israeli far right and Hamas.

At some point, I may write a follow-up exploring the incoherence of the left-wing narratives about the legitimacy of nation-states. But it will have to wait. Forcing myself to write this much was already deeply unpleasant.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I Remember This. But not like it was Yesterday, so I looked it up on Wikipedia.

(and it breaks my heart).

Quotes (links to citations within the article are cropped out for readability; please see the full article for context):

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the fifth prime minister of Israel, took place on 4 November 1995 (12 Marcheshvan 5756 on the Hebrew calendar) at 21:30, at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. The assailant was Yigal Amir, an Israeli law student and ultranationalist who radically opposed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's peace initiative [With the Palestinians], particularly the signing of the Oslo Accords.

[Bold text my own addition]

Social Impact:

The assassination has been described as emblematic of a kulturkampf ("cultural struggle") between religious right-wing and secular left-wing forces within Israel. Ilan Peleg of the Middle East Institute has described Rabin's assassination as "reflecting a deep cultural divide within Israel's body politic [...] intimately connected with the peace process"

Due to the ultimate failure of further progress on the Oslo Accords, there is a popular view that the assassination was highly successful, with some calling it the most successful political assassination in modern history due to it achieving the goals of its perpetrator.

See Also: The Assassination of Anwar Sadat (1981), which I also remember

#Palestine #Israel #Egypt #Modern History #Sincere though Messy attempts at Peace #And those who would murder to prevent it #I remember #Wikipedia

[eretzyisrael]

By Judith Sudilovsky

A permanent exhibition gallery will present rare heritage treasures of the Jewish people and Israeli society on a rotating display, alongside items from the Islam & Middle East and the Humanities collections. 

A special display table for documents from the library’s archival collections was painstakingly created by permanent exhibit curators Netta Assaf and Yigal Zalamona to safely exhibit writings by great Jewish and Israeli writers, creators and thinkers, including S.Y. Agnon, Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Prof. Nechama Leibowitz, the poet Rachel, Leah Goldberg, Uri Zvi Greenberg, David Grossman, A.B. Yehoshua, Eli Amir, Jacqueline Kahanov, Rabbi A.Y. Kook, HaHazon Ish, and others.

Displayed items commemorating moments from history include the first draft of “Jerusalem of Gold” by Naomi Shemer; the note found on poet and fighter Hannah Szenes (Senesh) on the day of her execution by Nazi firing squad; a letter sent as a young man by Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, to Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz and his response; and writer Stefan Zweig’s suicide note.

Small details

Funding for the new building came from the Israeli government in partnership with Yad Hanadiv – the Rothschild Foundation, the Gottesman Family of New York, and individual donors from Israel and abroad.

The architects, who are not Jewish, invested great energies in learning about Jerusalem, Israelis, and Jewish culture and traditions before they started the project. 

Once the work began, project manager Ephrat Pomerantz worked in close coordination with the Swiss architectural firm and local executive architects Mann Shinar to bring to life the vision the library staff had when they first embarked upon the renewal project 30 years ago to make the NLI more accessible and independent of the Hebrew University.

#national library of israel

[gregor-samsung]

"Nel 1993, sulla scia del cosiddetto processo di pace di Oslo, il Primo Ministro israeliano ritenne che la creazione di un’Autorità Palestinese responsabile dell’amministrazione della vita quotidiana dei palestinesi nei Territori Occupati avrebbe messo a tacere le crescenti critiche nei confronti di Israele. Il ragionamento di Rabin era semplice: se i palestinesi si fossero assunti la responsabilità di autoamministrarsi, Israele non sarebbe piú stato legalmente responsabile delle violazioni dei diritti umani commesse nei Territori Occupati. Ciò avrebbe reso superfluo l’operato di istituzioni quali l’Alta Corte di Giustizia israeliana e di organizzazioni come B’Tselem – attori che Rabin aveva descritto come “anime sensibili” che incarnavano una certa compassione umanitaria per i palestinesi. Si può considerare la dichiarazione di Rabin come l’antecedente del dibattito israeliano sulla “minaccia dei diritti umani”, poiché sembra che la sua aspirazione fosse di contrastare quelli che già considerava dei pericolosi tentativi di interpretare l’occupazione israeliana come una questione di diritti umani. Sperava che l’accordo sui due stati potesse ovviare alle critiche in materia di diritti umani tramite la creazione di una nuova struttura giurisdizionale in grado di regolare i rapporti tra israeliani e palestinesi. Due anni dopo, Rabin venne assassinato da un colono israeliano.

Non poteva sapere che nel corso dei decenni successivi – durante e dopo il fallimento del processo di pace – ci sarebbe stato un incremento esponenziale di attività a favore dei diritti umani sia da parte israeliana che da parte palestinese. Rabin non poteva prevedere che quello dei diritti umani sarebbe diventato il lessico dominante utilizzato da attori diversi, spesso in conflitto tra loro. Né poteva immaginare che nel 2010, quindici anni dopo il suo assassinio, un diverso gruppo di “anime sensibili” conservatrici avrebbe fondato numerose ONG per i diritti umani – Regavim, il Legal Forum for the Land of Israel e Yesha for Human Rights – e che queste ONG avrebbero impiegato il vocabolario dei diritti umani in un’istanza presentata all’Alta Corte di Giustizia per la revisione del processo a Margalit Har-Shefi, la donna condannata nel 1998 per non aver impedito al suo amico Yigal Amir di assassinare Rabin.* "

*Dan Izenberg, “State Attorney Rejects Har-Shefi Retrial Petition”, in Jerusalem Post, 17/10/2010.

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Nicola Perugini, Neve Gordon, Il diritto umano di dominare, traduzione di Andrea Aureli, edizioni nottetempo (collana conache), 2016¹; pp. 166-167.

[Edizione originale: The Human Right to Dominate, Oxford University Press, 2015]

P.S.: Ringrazio @dentroilcerchio per avermi consigliato la lettura di questo saggio che esamina e denuncia l’uso strumentale dei diritti umani da parte dei gruppi dominanti.

#Nicola Perugini #Neve Gordon #Il diritto umano di dominare #libri #leggere #genocidio #crimini contro l’umanità #saggi #diritto internazionale #citazioni #giurisdizione universale #Stati nazionali #letture #saggistica #Medio Oriente #Israele #Gaza #Conflitto arabo-israeliano #cisgiordania #sionismo #Accordi di Oslo #Yitzhak Rabin #Bill Clinton #Yasser Arafat #anni '90 #questione israelo-palestinese #Territori Occupati #palestinesi #Gerusalemme #Yigal Amir

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Israel once had a great leader. Yitzhak Rabin. He was assassinated.

By Yigal Amir, an Israeli Orthodox from a Yemenite Jewish family.

“The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was the culmination of an anti-violence rally in support of the Oslo peace process. Rabin was disparaged personally by right-wing conservatives and Likud leaders who perceived the peace process as an attempt to forfeit the occupied territories and a capitulation to Israel's enemies.” — Wikipedia :: [via: Ellen Geller]

* * * *

"The Prophets sought to convey: that morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty but all are responsible."

-Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Ellen Geller #Yitzhak Rabin #peacemakers #peace #evil #good and evil #Rabbi Abraham Joshus Heschel

[arcticdementor]

Sin has changed; crime has changed. We bring a different sensibility to our reading of the sacred texts of the past, even the Torah. There are passages in it which to our modern minds command "Crimes, the kind of crimes which our age would call "crimes against humanity," though, alas, the world, even now, shows that they are still committed! I think of the problematic section in Mattot which contains the commandment to exact revenge against the Midianites by slaying every male and every female old enough to engage in sexual intercourse. I am thankful that there are no Midianites at present. I used to think that were they suddenly to appear, no Jew would he willing to carry out such a commandment. Then Or Baruch Goldstein appeared on the scene, and he was followed by Yigal Amir and now I am not sure. It is because I have a different sense of what is a sin and what is a crime and because I bring a different ethic and a different sense of history to the reading of the past, that I produce different answers to the question of sins and crimes. If on the simplest ethical level, "what I forbid another, I forbid myself and what I permit myself, I permit to another," I find that the commandment to commit genocide against the Midianite unacceptable. To accept the commandment to do the same to the Hittite's the Amorite's, the Canaanite's the Peruzzite's, the Hivite's, and the Jebusite's" seems to me to make permissible the Holocaust, the attempted genocide of the Jewish People. To argue that for us, such a commandment was/is permissible because it is written in a book which we hold to be sacred is to forget the Holocaust against us was first intimated in a book, Mein Kampf, held sacred by Nazis! What was a crime against us surely would be a crime by us. —Leonard Kravitz, in Crime and Punishment in Jewish Law: Essays and Responsa, edited by Walter Jacob & Moshe Zemer (1999)

#leonard kravitz #quote #book quote

[infosisraelnews]

Un homme a appelé la police : j'ai l'intention d'imiter Yigal Amir et de blesser le Premier ministre

Hier (mercredi), un homme d’une cinquantaine d’années (vivant actuellement dans la région de Jérusalem) a appelé la ligne d’assistance de la police du district de Jérusalem et l’a menacé de vouloir  “répéter l’acte de Yigal Amir et blesser le Premier ministre”.   Avec l’ouverture de l’enquête par le commandement du district de Jérusalem et le commissariat de Moriah, le suspect a été localisé à…

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#menace contre netanyahu #ygal amir

[specieism]

It’s depressing how few people can capture any nuance on this issue. We need to move past 2 competing Disney stories. In the Fairy Tale Mr. Stevens would tell us noble Zionists fleeing persecution founded a democratic paradise of freedom beset by the irrational violent hatred of benighted Arabs. In this story, the Nakba, Yigal Amir’s bullet, the incompatibility of a military occupation with self rule, Bibi’s support for Hamas, and the genocidal statements of top Israeli cabinet ministers, and so much more are footnotes scarcely worth mentioning. In the other fairy tale, Jews either weren’t in Palestine or existed in perfect harmony with Muslim neighbors throughout the Middle East until vicious Zionists showed up and started stealing everyone’s land. ln this version, early attacks on Israel, the million Jews who fled there after fleeing/being expelled from their homes, Hamas’s brutality, the trauma of suicide bombings, and Oct 7 are also trivial things. We just need to abolish the state of Israel, have a reverse Nakba, and then universally enlightened peace loving Palestinians will create the true democratic paradise. We need our opinion “leaders” to abandon their childish binaries of good guys and innocent victims to wrestle with some hard realities. If you want a categorical evil to stop, we have one in the ongoing slaughter in Gaza. End that and then give us grown up takes on what a real peace might look like instead of nationalist fairy tales.

[dialogue-queered]

21 Nov 2023

Joshua Leifer.

Extract: On a dark October night in 1995, Netanyahu stood on a balcony overlooking Jerusalem’s Zion Square. A banner reading “Death to Arabs” had been unfurled before him. An inflamed crowd of tens of thousands stood below him. Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister at the time, was pushing for a negotiated settlement with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and this was a protest organised by the Oslo Accords’ rightwing opponents. At the time, Netanyahu was the 46-year-old elected leader of Israel’s rightwing Likud party. He was widely seen as a brash new face in a tired political scene still dominated by veterans of Israel’s founding.

A savvy political operator, Netanyahu had staked his political future on opposing the Oslo peace process. That summer, he had joined a demonstration that featured a mock funeral procession for Rabin, replete with a coffin and a noose, where protesters chanted “Death to Rabin”. In the streets of Jerusalem that October night, demonstrators brandished signs denouncing Rabin as a traitor. They held aloft pictures of him in the uniform of the Nazi SS, and in PLO chair Yasser Arafat’s keffiyeh. They chanted “in blood and fire we will expel Rabin”, and, again, “Death to Rabin”.

One month later, a religious nationalist law student named Yigal Amir fired two shots into Rabin’s back, killing him and the vision of territorial compromise he represented. Outside the hospital where Rabin’s death was announced, a crowd of the prime minister’s supporters chanted “Bibi is a murderer”. It was, of course, Amir who pulled the trigger. But Netanyahu was among the most prominent figures who had fuelled the atmosphere of violence in which Amir did the deed.

In 1996, the Labor party leader and Rabin’s successor, Shimon Peres, called elections in the hope of reaffirming a popular mandate for the Oslo peace process. According to the polls, it was a safe bet. Netanyahu’s popularity had begun to flag in the aftermath of Rabin’s assassination. But after a string of suicide bombings in the months before the May elections, Netanyahu’s fortunes began to improve. He hammered Peres on the perils of territorial compromise, framed his dovish opponent as weak and warned that Peres “would divide Jerusalem”. By a threadbare margin – less than 1% of the vote – Netanyahu staged a surprise upset. He became the youngest prime minister in Israel’s history.

#benjamin netanyahu #israel #yitzhak rabin #2023 #palestine

[jhavelikes]

A savvy political operator, Netanyahu had staked his political future on opposing the Oslo peace process. That summer, he had joined a demonstration that featured a mock funeral procession for Rabin, replete with a coffin and a noose, where protesters chanted “Death to Rabin”. In the streets of Jerusalem that October night, demonstrators brandished signs denouncing Rabin as a traitor. They held aloft pictures of him in the uniform of the Nazi SS, and in PLO chair Yasser Arafat’s keffiyeh. They chanted “in blood and fire we will expel Rabin”, and, again, “Death to Rabin”. One month later, a religious nationalist law student named Yigal Amir fired two shots into Rabin’s back, killing him and the vision of territorial compromise he represented. Outside the hospital where Rabin’s death was announced, a crowd of the prime minister’s supporters chanted “Bibi is a murderer”. It was, of course, Amir who pulled the trigger. But Netanyahu was among the most prominent figures who had fuelled the atmosphere of violence in which Amir did the deed.

The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his image | Benjamin Netanyahu | The Guardian

[healthstyle101]

Iran funded terror proxies launch war against Israel amid surprise invasion against Jewish state

Iran-Backed Conflict Erupts with Israel JERUSALEM, Israel - A new conflict has erupted in the Middle East, and Iran is reportedly a key player in the recent hostilities, according to Israeli officials and Middle East experts. In a recent statement on social media, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, expressed strong views about Israel. He referred to Israel as the "usurper regime" and emphasized the strength of the Palestinian resistance movement. Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Lior Haiat, pointed out that Iran has been backing Palestinian militant groups, such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, encouraging them to launch attacks on Israel. He stressed that Iran is playing a significant role behind the scenes in this conflict. Iran's Tehran Times, which is under Iranian government control, openly declared support for the Palestinian militants in their conflict against Israel. The Iranian Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi described the war as "glorious" and claimed that it has caused casualties on the Israeli side. The recent military actions by Iran-backed Hamas come shortly after the release of funds to Iran by the Biden administration, which raised concerns about the potential use of these funds. Yigal Carmon, the founder and president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), had previously warned of a possible conflict backed by Iran and its proxy groups. This recent outbreak of hostilities is seen as part of Iran's broader strategy to create multiple fronts of conflict against Israel. Experts suggest that one of the motives behind this is to hinder diplomatic relations between Israel and other countries in the Middle East. Brigadier General Amir Avivi, a former deputy commander of the Israel Defense Forces' Gaza Division, highlighted Iran's financial support for Hamas, viewing them as an Iranian proxy. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz blamed Tehran for the war against Israel and expressed his support for Israel's right to self-defense. The U.S. State Department has long designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism. The $6 billion in unfrozen, sanctioned money sent to Iran is of concern, as experts suggest it could potentially be used to support militant groups like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah. The situation remains complex, with Iran's involvement in the conflict raising concerns in the region and beyond. Read the full article

[nataliesnews]

Erev Yom Kippur 24.9.2023

....Yesterday at Sheik Jarrah was one of the most  violent demonstrations I have seen there. At Balfour I saw violence but this was in a very concentrated period and I was right next to it.  I have often seen police violence but today at Sheikh Jarrah was the worst in a long time. As we walked from the car, I said to Varda  about the police  "You can see that they are gearing up to attack ''" and before we got there, a whole pack of them descended into the crowd to grab a Palestinian flag which someone had painted on a piece of cardboard. There were more police there than had been for a long time and also a bunch of gorillas in plain clothes. You could see by their body language that they were looking for any excuse to attack. And they did. 

I saw them throwing down two women to the ground.

 But I was careful not to get caught up in one of the attacks . But  what happens is that suddenly the police decided to attack one person in particular and go into the crowd like bulldozers pushing anyone aside or to the ground who they think are in their way ,. and one of my friends was  pushed by them as they tried to get past to get a flag and knocked her head badly on a boulder. When the police came past and we were helping her you could see the happy smiles on their faces. .When I saw the surge was coming towards me, I got into a sort of niche and a Palestinian stood before me but they did not reach us.

When I looked at the police and their undercover provocateurs, I had  this horrible thought. That I could see them in the SS.

We have Jews who want to build the third temple. The Germans wanted to build the Third Reich. Is this what we have become?

I have to keep looking at this placard which someone sent. The day of memory and Holocaust day.  And then I think but what sort of Israel will I leave behind me. 

At the one place next to a Palestinian house there is a stone bench on which I can sit and suddenly a guy came up to me and handed me spectacles. I thought someone must have dropped them so I tried to put them somewhere safe in my rucksack but afterwards he came and told me that they were  his and I was the safest place he could leave them. Only thing is afterwards I saw the police charging into the crowd where he was although he did not have a sign or anything and grabbed him, throwing him to the floor and I think they arrested him...for no reason whatsoever. I don't know what happened to his glasses. I always wear an old pair when I go to a demo. 

See the video below. The guy in the green is the one who asked me to look after his glasses. But it will also show you the violence of the police

Last night at the Saturday demonstration I sat next to a 89 year old woman who said that even in 1948 things had not been so bad. I am so sick at all that is happening here. I don't understand how all these settlers and people on the right who support the assassin, Yigal Amir, and the murdered of the family at Doma can go to shul to repent. 

These are two of the signs last night...the one saying that our young men should not be serving in the occupied areas and another a little girl who sat in the road chalking the sign which said, "I have love and it will win." I wish I could be so sure.  

I keep thinking back to the siren going off 50 years ago/  I was with friends in Tel Aviv and we were so sure it was a glitch. In fact Elisheva had just said that she was going to warm the lunch (we don't fast) and being Yom Kippur, I said to her, "Eli. I think God must have heard you"  Only when we came out of the front door and all the neighbours were down there and they said to us that we were at war did we realise what was happening. Don't forget that being Yom Kippur no one thought of putting on a radio. My friend said.,"I forgot to do the washing." and her husband said to her, "Don't be a damn fool. By night we could be refugees" 

#Erev Yom Kippur 24.9.2023

[popculturelib]

Schmear the Queer #1 is a 2001 fanzine/perzine by Scott Berry, featuring articles written by queer Jews about being queer and Jewish. A transcription of the introduction is below the read more.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

(introducing schmear the queer)

welcome to the first issue of schmear the queer. a new queer-n-jewish fanzine. perhaps journal, but definitely not a magazine. what’s the difference? this endeavor is committed to including as wide a variety of voices and visions as possible, with no regard whatsoever for target marketing, advertising revenue or focus groups. if you appreciate these priorities and like what you see here, then please spread the word and better yet, submit something to the next issue. i decided to put this together a couple years ago when i was meeting other jewish activist & artist types and we would kibbitz about how many wonderful queer jews we all knew and how there should be outlets for us: potlucks, film festivals, ‘zines and the like. so, here’s something, and i hope you like it. issue #2 is going to be the “superhero/heroine” issue. as all folks who do ‘zines say: i hope to put out 3 or 4 issues per year, but it’s largely up to you> (sic) the more interest there is, the more issues will materialize.

i'd like to think that some wide conceptions of what is queer and/or jewish were used to put this thing together. obviously Jewishness is cultural, religious, aesthetic and gastrointestinal. and queerness is definitely related to sexuality, but I also think to being an outsider. the call for submissions stated “queer-n-jewish are how you define them”, and I hope that future issues continue to explore the overlaps, similarities, and differences.

the title of this ‘zine comes from my childhood, a grade school experience at edward j. dekeyser elementary school in sterling heights, michigan. the version of dodge ball that was played during recess where there were no boundaries and people could get as close to you as possible and hit you with that awful red ball [overinflated, of course] was called ‘smear the queer’…guess who got smeared?

this issue is dedicated to three women whose lives ended much too soon: my mother, elsie rachelle miller berry; my nana, clare jane abrahams miller pecis; and my cousin rachelle [shellie] ethel kasoff leitson.

special thanks to all the contributors, and all who contributed. to jesse sanford for office access, all who helped design pages, may height for the cover, all of the readers who have given so generously of their time. my heartfelt appreciation to brian kay, who has assisted me along the way with editing suggestions, and his usual candor, verve, wit and wisdom.

- scott berry

new york

may 2001

hand silkscreening: matt height/artstrike press

on the cover: yigal amir

page layout: rodrigo chazaro, john fanning, sarit m., jesse sanford

shiksa goddess ‘zine insert: brian kay

#bgsu #pride month #schmear the queer #zines