September 2024
Holocaust survivor Veronika Cohen marks her 80th birthday by protesting outside an Israeli prison. Her protest is aimed at exposing the degrading treatment faced by Palestinian prisoners, as well as bringing attention to Israel’s systematic use of administrative detention – which allows for indefinite detention without charge or trial – during the Gaza war.
Full story:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/holocaust-survivor-veronica-cohen-80th-birthday-protest-israeli-prison

On 4/13/2024 at 8:31 PM, DramatistDreamer said:

I’m unsure if anyone remembers when I posted in the politics thread about the possibility that this war could go beyond its borders. Back then, the concern was mainly Hezbollah as there was a lot of rockets being fired into Lebanon but in the back of my mind, the possibility of this conflict expanding into Iran has been active and overall, the idea that this war could get much much worse.

Again.

Sadly, this was a preoccupation that I mentioned almost a year ago.

 

Some of you might think this belongs in the politics thread, but there is a reason I am posting this here. I don't normally read Newsweek - it's kind of trash now - but I found this really compelling

Donald Trump Is a Clear and Present Danger to American Jews | Opinion - Newsweek

This comment I found quite interesting

"Even the best of friends question each other. The people of Israel themselves are so deeply divided over everything that when I visited over the summer there was talk of a civil war."

For those who know more about Israel than I do and the Jewish culture here and perhaps in Israel, I want to understand what's happening in Israeli society.

I follow a blog and in discussions about the Gaza, a secular Jewish person made a post sometime back about the divisions in Israeli society itself and some of the more conservative Israeli Jewish citizens refer to their own citizenry, the secular Jews as Kapos.  We all know where that comes from.  But does it explain why Israeli has taken such a radical right turn? Or has the radical right really gained that much influence over Israeli society or at least seem to?

And I also know the birth rates of more the more conservative Jews there has increased while in the more secular Jewish population, it has dropped.