When I started out as a campus activist in 2001, I felt the need to defend Israel and make sure that Jewish students could feel proud to be associated with Israel and the Jewish community. I support Israel’s right to defend her citizens, when attacked, even though I don’t think that war accomplishes anything in terms of peace.
On campus, I did not want the claims of “Israel is an apartheid state” and “Zionism = racism” to label Jewish students. I also knew that those toxic, provocative slogans did nothing to serve Palestinian advocacy. Their type of criticism of Israel promoted more anti-Semitism than it did attention to an important issue. I got branded as a right extremist because I wasn’t afraid to wear an Israeli flag on my shoulders and protest a rally that I thought spread lies about my people and made Jewish students feel ashamed. But when graffiti swastikas showed up on the Jewish Student Union building, my previously labeled “Zionist fascist” ass didn’t look so extreme anymore.
My past as an activists for Jewish students and Israel doesn’t mean I can’t criticize Israel. Now, working in an organization that teaches me more on a daily basis about co-existence and existing inequality than I could ever have learned on my own, and living, voting as an Israeli, I know that as a responsible citizen, I must criticize Israel. Like this controversial NYT Op Ed suggests, I too love to “hate” Israel
I freakin’ warned you not to vote for Bibi!!
I freakin’ pleaded with you to vote for Tzipi, as a vote against Bibi!!
And now that many of you didn’t listen, Bibi appointed Avigdor Lieberman as
foreign minister. Lieberman is a serious racist. He’s practically proud of how classically fascist he is. He is already advancing a seemingly pluralist but secretly homophobic civil marriage law that would override the legally recognized common-law marriage, a law ahead of its time, which grants those of us who do not want to get married, or cannot because they are same-sex couples the same rights as married couples. Lieberman will do away with that great political advancement, if he can, under the guise of a pluralist law.
Lieberman will do more damage than good (if he does any good at all)- I have no doubt about that. God forbid we get into another war, I don’t even want to know the things he will say when negotiating diplomatically to world leaders. And at a time when we need to keep our friends close and our ‘enemies’ closer, there could not be a worse non-diplomat than Lieberman.
To the good people at the Foreign Ministry: Good Luck! You’ll need it!

My public declaration on the current Israeli Politi-fuck we find ourselves in:
- I want to go on record as saying that Lieberman does not represent us.

- I want to go on record as saying I told you so about Bibi, we only got 21 women in the entire Knesset (120 members).
- I want to go on record as furious that out of 30 ministers, only 2 of those positions are filled by women. Out of 7 deputy ministers, 3 are women.
So, ladies, is Bibi telling us that these female Members of Knesset (MKs), some of whom have been Knesset members for over 5 years, are not qualified to be ministers. Yet brand new MKs and Shas leaders with their fake academic degrees and faith in a hundred year old rabbi to help them make their decisions- they are qualified?! Or, is Bibi just the boys club circle-jerk leader I fucking told you he would be?
Oy. What a mess.
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