"Primo Levi y Viktor Frankl: testimonio, barbarie y sentido", conferencia en el Centro Sefarad-Israel.
La conferencia consta de tres partes: 1) Obra de Viktor Frankl y tesis frankleanas; obra de Primo Levi y testimonio. 2) La Shoah como punto de inflexión en la historia de la humanidad, la filosofía y la teología (campos de exterminio -no de concentración- y masacres de los Einsatzgruppen). 3) Biografía comparada de Viktor Frankl y Primo Levi.
En esta conferencia sostengo que la muerte de Primo Levi fue una muerte accidental (no un suicidio), hablo de las tesis frankleanas (el sentido, el suprasentido y la esperanza), del valiosísimo testimonio de Primo Levi, desmenuzo el gigantesco complejo de Auschwitz y hablo de los seis campos de exterminio (VL) y las masacres de los Einsatzgruppen (para no caer en una visión poética de la Shoah al hablar de estos dos supervivientes). Con entrevistas y clips de Primo Levi y Viktor Frankl.
Centro Sefarad-Israel. C/ Mayor 69, Madrid. 14 de febrero de 2024
El Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi ha sido muy amable al publicar la conferencia en su agenda.
Hungarian Jewish women and children at the Judenrampe, just before selection. Auschwitz-Birkenau, May-June 1944. The Auschwitz Album. Yad Vashem
“Not all victims were Jewish, but all Jews were victims” (message of Elie Wiesel at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum).
Antisemitism, the oldest hatred, is very much alive today, 79 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, and three months after October 7.
Anti-Zionism is the new antisemitism. Distortion, stupidity, negationism, Islamism, idiocy, ignorance, and brainlessness are very fashionable nowadays, and they are revolting, stinky, repulsive, and unforgivable.
We remember the antisemitism of the common Germans, the world’s silence, the collaborators, the humiliation, the Judenstern, the ghettos, the massacres of the Einsatzgruppen, the deportations, the concentration camps, the extermination camps, and the 6,000,000 Jewish men, women and children who perished in the Shoah, trapped in the ghettos, suffocated inside the freight cars, massacred, shot, and gassed.
Never forget. We remember.
A Jewish mother hugging her little daughter and other Jewish victims being massacred by Einsatzgruppen. The original photo reads: “Ukraine 1942 – Judenaktion in Iwangorod”. Ukraine, 1942. Yad VashemThree homeless Jewish children in the Warsaw ghetto (1941–1943)Jewish children from the Łódź ghetto being assembled for deportation to Chełmno, 5-12 September, 1942. USHMMDeportation of Jewish men, women and children from Zamość (German-occupied Poland) to Bełżec, April 1942. Jewish women and children from the Szydłowiec ghetto (German-occupied Poland) being deported to Treblinka, September 23, 1942. Yad Vashem. Two little Lithuanian Jewish boys: Emanuel Rosenthal (b. 1942, 2 years old) and Avram Rosenthal (b. 1939; 5 years old) in the Kovno ghetto, 1944. They were murdered by the Germans in the Kinder Aktion of March 27-28, 1944. Photo by Holocaust survivor George Kadish (1910–1997). USHMMThe Gate of Death, entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Stanisław Mucha. Auschwitz-Birkenau State MuseumArrival of a transport of Hungarian Jewish men, women and children. Auschwitz-Birkenau, May-June 1944. The Auschwitz Album. Yad VashemHungarian Jewish women and children waiting for their “turn” to the gas chamber (grove closest to the crematorium). Auschwitz-Birkenau, May-June 1944. The Auschwitz Album. Yad VashemAn old Hungarian Jewish woman carrying a baby in her arms and three other Jewish children walking towards the gas chamber. Auschwitz-Birkenau, May-June 1944. The Auschwitz Album. Yad VashemDavid Olère. Dans la salle de déshabillage, 1946.David Olère. Après le gazage, 1946.Shoes from victims. Auschwitz, after the liberation. Auschwitz-Birkenau State MuseumHair from victims. Auschwitz, after the liberation. USHMMGlasses from victims. Auschwitz, after the liberation. USHMMTallitot from Jewish victims. Auschwitz, after the liberation. USHMM
The (antisemitic and shameful) UN has kept silent about Naama Levy. The (antisemitic and shameful) UN Women has kept silent about Naama Levy. The (antisemitic) "Me Too" community (whatever that was, because that movement died in the wake of its silence after the massacres of October 7) has said nothing about Naama Levy. How can they call theirselves feminists, even women, or humanitarians, or human beings, if they have kept silent about Naama's suffering? Shame on all of them. They are just a bunch of antisemitic hypocrites and terror apologists, a bunch of useless clowns.
It's clear now that Noa Argamani (who has become a symbol of the Supernova music festival massacre) was kidnapped not by Palestinian Arabs members of Hamas, but by Palestinian Arab civilians (ordinary Gazans) who invaded Israel and decided to have some fun kidnapping Israeli women (and men). How civilized and innocent. We don't know if Noa and her boyfriend are dead or alive.
We also don't know if Naama Levy is dead or alive. But we are screaming: bring her home now. I hope from the bottom of my heart that she's still alive, that the IDF rescue her, and that those savage rapists, kidnappers and terrorists are caught and punished for all eternity.
Ceasefire my balls (and I'm a woman). This is what Israel is fighting against. And you should too.
All the valors have collapsed (again).
Where are the voices of the Me Too movement when it comes to Israeli and Jewish women?
Where are the voices of the UN when it comes to Israeli and Jewish men, women, and children?
Where are the voices of Amnesty International when it comes to Israeli and Jewish men, women, and children?
Shame on all of you.
Antisemitism is the oldest hatred.
Anti-Zionism is the new antisemitism.
Zero tolerance for antisemitism.
Jewish lives matter.
Bring them home.
I stand with Israel.
3,500 years of antisemitism is enough.
Wake up.
Has the world gone mad? No, it has always been like this (antisemitic and stupid), at least for the last 3,500 years. I read every day about the Holocaust, the biggest disruption in history, a turning point in the history of humankind, philosophy and theology. So, nothing surprises me.
I read every day about the six German extermination camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau (1 million Jewish men, women, children, and babies murdered in gas chambers –with Zyklon B); Treblinka II (925,000 Jewish men, women, and children, and babies murdered in gas chambers –with carbon monoxide); Bełżec (600,000 Jewish men, women, children, and babies murdered in gas chambers –with carbon monoxide); Sobibór (250,000 Jewish men, women, children, and babies murdered in gas chambers –with carbon monoxide); Chełmno (200,000 Jewish men, women, children, and babies murdered in gas vans –with carbon monoxide and exhaust gas); and Majdanek (60,000 Jewish men, women, and children shot and murdered in gas chambers –with carbon monoxide and Zyklon B). So, nothing surprises me.
I read every day about the massacres of the Einsatzgruppen (with the effective help of the Orpo, the Wehrmacht and the Schuma –mostly Ukrainian, Latvian and Lithuanian) who shot and killed 2,000,000 Jewish men, women, children, and babies. So, nothing surprises me.
I read every day about the ghettos, the deportations, the transports, discrimination and antisemitism in Germany in the 1930s and in the world in the 1940s. So, nothing surprises me.
Nothing compares the Holocaust. NOTHING. For understanding the unicity of the Holocaust, please read Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (CT: Martino Fine Books, 2019), Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination. Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939–1945 (London: Phoenix, 2008), Yehuda Bauer, Rethinking the Holocaust (USA: Yale University Press, 2002). Nevertheless, what is COMPARABLE to the Holocaust is the attitude of the world: the silence and the indifference, the excuse for discrimination and killing, and the ever lasting antisemitism. It doesn't surprise me, but it's shameful, revolting, and unforgivable.
After the massacres of October 7, 2023, we can all smell again that repulsive putrid odour. Do you know what it is? It's called antisemitism. It's truly disgusting, but it doesn't surprise me one bit.
1,400 victims (mostly Jewish and Israelis: men, women, children, and babies) were (in one sole day) brutally killed, mutilated, raped, and burnt. The massacres took place on October 7, 2023, at the Nova Music Festival near the kibbutz Re'im, at the kibbutzim Be'eri, Kfar Aza, Nir Oz, Holit, Ein HaShlosha, Nahal Oz, Kissufim, and Nirim, at the moshavim Yakhini and Netiv HaAsara, and in the town of Sderot. All these acts of terror and savagery were perpetrated by Palestinian Arabs members of Hamas (a Palestinian Islamist terrorist group democratically elected by the Palestinian Arabs in 2006 and who completely rules Gaza since then -for 17 years already, plays the victims, vowed to annihilate Israel and exterminate the Jewish people, and uses all European and USA money for guns, hatred, antisemitism and terror).
[Note: As a Holocaust researcher, I don't buy the incoherent narrative of "Hamas is bad"; "Palestinians or Gazans are good". Sorry, but no. In the same way that the vast majority of common Germans supported Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s, the vast majority of Gazans (who democratically elected Hamas in 2006) supports Hamas. Who actually is Hamas? Hamas is a Palestinian Arab Islamist terrorist group. It's true that, as in Germany in the 1930s, antisemitism and indoctrination in Gaza -at school (where mandatory history textbooks don't show the State of Israel) and at the camps for children and youth –a means for indoctrination in Jihad and martyrdom, with anti-Zionist songs and military training– reaches every child in Gaza. Indeed, children in Gaza are taught to glorify terrorism. In this shocking video (a kindergarten graduation in Gaza), we can see the "violent indoctrination of young kids –their aspirations are to become martyrs and kill Jews and make Palestine free of Jews 'from the river to the sea'"–writes Melissa Chapman; and adds: "When you support 'Free Palestine' you support this kind of child abuse". So, you can't blame those poor children who are taught to hate and kill, but you can blame the adults. Wake up].
Coming back to the massacres: even Holocaust survivors were killed in the massacres of October 7: 91-year-old Romanian-born Holocaust survivor Moshe Ridler and 90-year-old Czech-born Holocaust survivor Gina Semiatich were shot (Gina in the head) by Palestinian Arabs members of Hamas.
Furthermore, 240 hostages (men, women, children, and one 9-month-old baby) have been kidnapped by Hamas; hostages which, as I'm writing this, are suffering a complete violation of human rights, fear, torture, or death. And does (some part of) the world care? Not at all. We have seen how rotten people tolerate and even support these abominable acts of terror, chanting putrid slogans in the streets (even in university campus): "Free Palestine"; "Free Gaza"; "Kill the Jews". Incredible. Unthinkable. Repulsive. And even worse: some "people" (actually, animals) are ripping the posters of the hostages. After the Holocaust, humanity can't fall lower than that, can it? The world hasn't really changed since the Holocaust, has it?
But, the funny thing is that the world HAS CHANGED since the Holocaust: we now have hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo, and many feminist and LGTBIQ+ movements who care for the rights of all, right? WRONG. I didn't see a single Black Lives Matter, Me Too, Feminist, LGTBIQ+ or Muslim organization publicly and openly condemning the terrorist attacks of Hamas of October 7 (which included raping –where are the voices of the so-called "feminists"?– kidnapping, mutilating, burning, and massacring), supporting Israel and caring for the suffering of the Jewish people. Not a single one. And that's actually funny, because women rights in Gaza are actually non-existent, LGTBIQ+ people are beaten and murdered in Gaza only for being who they are, and when George Floyd was murdered, all the world was appalled and condemned (unequivocally) that act of racism.
For all the (ignorant, antisemite, stupid) Westerners who "protest" about something they know NOTHING about, holding flags that are now stained with blood, here's a message from Mosab Hassan Yousef (indoctrinated by Hamas, now working for Israel) –somebody who really knows what he's talking about.
[Here, 5 things you need to know about Hamas, and 5 more things you need to know about Hamas (by Yoseph Haddad)].
So, Black Lives Matter, Women Lives Matter, LGTBIQ+ Lives Matter, but Jewish Lives Don't Matter? Shame on you. You hypocrites. You antisemites.
Here, a bit about the "conflict" (simply explained, in 10 facts).
I'll leave you with this heartbreaking testimony of Holocaust survivor Eliahu Rosenberg about the process of extermination of Jewish men, women, and children in Treblinka II, only 80 years ago, in the heart of Europe. As I said, NOTHING compares the Holocaust, but the attitude of (a big part of) the world is, sadly, very similar.
Wake up.
I'm not a historian. I'm just a Doctor in Philosophy. I'm a Holocaust researcher (specialized in Viktor Frankl) and I can't stand antisemitism. Tergiversating the truth, denial, revisionism, defamation and antisemitism are extremely repulsive. Here are some important facts for these turbulent times.
FACT 1) The "Palestinian" Arabs (or shall I say the Gazan Arabs and the West Bank Arabs?) didn't build a country in "Palestine" (and won't) because they opposed both partition plans: firstly, the Peel Report (1937); and secondly, the UN Resolution 181 (1947).
In the Peel Report, the Palestinian Arabs were offered by the British 80% of the land; the Jewish people were offered 20% of the land; the Jewish Agency agreed; the Palestinian Arabs refused and condemned the partition.
In the UN Resolution 181, the Palestinian Arabs were offered 43% of the land, and the Jewish people were offered 57% of the land; the Jewish Agency agreed; the Palestinian Arabs refused. Why were the Jewish people offered more land? Because 6 million Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by the Germans in the Holocaust, so a big wave of survivors was expected to emigrate to that tiny piece of land. Also, because Jordan was actually part of the British Mandate for Palestine and it was created in 1921 –then it was named the Emirate of Transjordan– and because "Palestinians" and "Jordans" are actually two branches of the same family (this land was renamed in 1946 the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan and in 1949 the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan –after Jordan, yes, Jordan, not Israel, annexed the West Bank).
Here are the maps of the two partition plans (1937 and 1947), accepted by the Jewish Agency and unanimously rejected and condemned by the Palestinian Arabs:
FACT 2) The "Palestinian" Arabs sadly don't want peace nor partition: like spoiled little brats, they want either all or nothing; all or war; all or terror. They rejected both partition plans (1937 and 1947) and, also, numerous offers (by the international community and by Israel) for building a state. They are the bullies; not the victims.
FACT 3) In 2000 (the Camp David summit), the Palestinian Arabs were offered another opportunity to build a state (Gaza + the West Bank + East Jerusalem as its capital). What did the Palestinian Arabs did? They turned the offer down and started an "Intifada" (meaning: suicide bombing and terror against Israeli civilians). This offer was never given by Egypt nor Jordan when they controlled Gaza (1949–1967) and the West Bank (1949–1967) –where were the "protests" of the world then?
FACT 4) In 2005, Israel fully withdrew from Gaza in exchange for peace. How did Gazas reacted to this gesture? By starting a terror campaign with rockets and missiles targeting Israeli civilians.
FACT 5) In 2008, the Palestinian Arabs were offered by Israel another opportunity to build a state. They refused again. Olmert said to Abbas: "Remember my words, it will be 50 years before there will be another Israeli prime minister that will offer you what I am offering you now. Don’t miss this opportunity". And Abbas (surprise, suprise) did miss it.
FACT 5) Let's go a bit back. In 1917, the British Empire issued the Balfour Declaration: a historic statement of sympathy for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel. The recognition of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination was then supported too by France, USA, Italy, Japan, and China, and rejected by the Arabs: "This rejection of the legitimate and internationally-mandated and recognized claim of the Jewish people to a national homeland in the Holy Land is the bedrock – the ground zero - of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is the thread which connects every war, every atrocity, every diplomatic maneuver and every terrorist act initiated by the Arab side, from 1917 to today" (Balfour Declaration. Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
FACT 6) But let's go to the beginning. Here are some maths: Judaism exists for at least 3,500 years (more if you count the TaNaKh); Islam, only for 2,633. Can't do the math? The Jewish people are the INDIGENOUS people of that tiny land. Not the Palestinian Arabs. The Jewish (and Israeli) people are NOT the occupiers, NOT the invaders, NOT the thieves (you can't occupy your own land, you idiot; you can't invade your own land, you idiot; you can't steal your own land, you idiot), but JUST the native people of the Kingdoms of Judea & Israel (kingdoms that date from 1,100 BCE. (Actually, in the 13th century BCE, Pharaoh Merneptah already mentioned "Israel" in the Merneptah Stele -in your face, Gazan Arabs & West Bank Arabs!)
So, can't you count? The Jewish people were in that tiny land at least 1,500 before the Arabs and before the Muslims.
Furthermore, "Palestine" was never EVER a state:
Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state.
Before the British mandate, there was the Muslim Ottoman Turkish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic Mameluke state of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Islamic Mameluke state of Egypt, there was the Ayyubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Ayyubid Empire, there was the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid Caliphates, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Umayyad and Fatimid Caliphates, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Sasanian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Sasanian Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean dynasty, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Hasmonean dynasty, there was the Seleucid Empire, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Seleucid Empire, there was the Macedonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Macedonian Empire, there was the Persian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
Before the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
Before the reign of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there were independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.
In that tiny piece of land, there was everything but a Palestinian state
FACT 7) Right after the proclamation of the Israeli Independence (May 14, 1948), five Arab nations (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia –under Egypt) invaded Israel. Israel won the war and gained some land (can't expect to star a war and not lose land when you lose the war). After the war, the Gaza Strip fell under Egypt (not Israel), and the West Bank fell under Jordan (not Israel).
FACT 8) The PLO (who called for Israel's destruction) was born in 1964, three years before the Six-Day War, and launched several terrorist attacks (always aiming at Israeli civilians): 35 terrorist attacks in 1965; 41 terrorist attacks in 1966; 37 terrorist attacks in the first 4 months of 1967, and so on, and so on, and so on. This will actually never end. We can see this now.
It is actually this terrorist organization (the PLO) who gave shape to the (invented and murderous) "Palestinian" identity. They are just Arabs. Muslim Arabs. Gazans and "West Bankers". Most probably: just Jordanians.
FACT 9) Nasser (a fervent antisemite who called for the "eradication of Israel") said in 1965: "We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand; we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood", and on May 37, 1967: "Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel". At the beginning of June 1967, 425,000 Arab troops from Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq were ready to attack Israel.
FACT 10) In six days (5 to 10 of June, 1967) Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and gained the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights (can't expect to provoke a war and not lose land when you lose the war). Olé to Israel, as we say in Spanish.
FACT 11) On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria (aided by nine Arab states) attacked Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish people (the Palestinian Arabs fought together with the Egyptians against Israel). Israel won again. Olé again.
FACT 12) In 1967 the Arab League summit vowed the 3 No's to Israel: “No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel”. If this is not blunt antisemitism, then I'm a fish. Bullies!
FACT 13) As I mentioned before, Israel fully withdrew from Gaza in 2005; in 2006 there were democratic elections in Gaza and the West Bank, and Hamas (an Islamist terrorist murderous cowardly group that has vowed to exterminate the Jewish people and that loves to kill and kidnap Israeli men, women, children, and babies) won by the majority of the votes. Yep, the Gazas democratically elected Hamas. Who do you think Hamas are? Hamas are Palestinian (Gazan) Arab terrorists. Furthermore, ordinary Gazans love terrorism and antisemitism (anti-Zionism), and are part of Hamas or support Hamas.
Right after the democratic victory of Hamas in the elections of 2006, Hamas (or shall I say the Gazans?) started a "civil war" with Fatah (or shall I say the West Bank Arabs?) and then "took control" of Gaza in 2007. Hamas (not Israel) has ruled Gaza since 2007, for 16 years, producing nothing (no education, no infrastructure, no schools, no hospitals, no employment, no universities, no culture) but weapons, destruction, indoctrination, antisemitism, terror, and terrorism.
FACT 14) There are MANY terrorist organizations in Gaza and in the West Bank (not only Hamas) that exist with only one purpose: to annihilate Israel and to kill the Jewish people. These Palestinian Arab terrorist Islamist organizations are: Hamas (ew!), Palestinian Islamic Jihad (ew!), the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (ew!), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (ew!), and ISIS-Sinai (ew!). These Palestinian Arab terrorists kill with suicide bombings, shootings and stabbings, and have fired tens of thousands of rockets to Israeli civilians and Israeli houses.
Below, a video from 12 years ago, short and clear ("Debunking the Palestine Lie") for the ones who know NOTHING about the "conflict" and support terrorism and antisemitism:
If you don't fully stand with Israel and with the Jewish people now, if you don't fully condemn the brutalities perpetrated by Palestinian Arabs members of Hamas and ordinary Gazans (or condemn them with a "but", in a conflict you know nothing about), you are supporting terrorism, Islamism, dictatorship, antisemitism, and anti-Zionism (the new antisemitism, since 1948). And it's OK, really, nobody cares: the world is full of racist people and even fuller of antisemitic people. But you have to know what you are, what you are defending and what you are destroying when you write stupid slogans or excuse terrorism (terrorism exclusively against Jewish people, of course).
Sartre said in Réflexions sur la question juive (written after the Liberation of Paris in 1944) that only the antisemite makes the Jewish person "Jew", meaning, the object of their irrational hatred. As the Jewish World Congress says, "If you are more upset about Israel responding to terrorism than terrorism itself, it's time to check your moral compass"; "If you only speak up against Israel as it takes military action against terrorism, but not against the terrorists who massacred Israeli towns, you are engaging in antisemitism". Antisemitism is a strong irrational force that has existed for millennia. And it will not disappear any time soon. If you support de the 3 D's (Delegitimization, Demonization, Double Standards) then you are embracing the putrid gigantic mass of antisemitic people.
Below, a great video by Oren Cahanovitc (28 minutes, but really worth it) that debunks the misinformation and false facts around the never ending conflict:
[October 19 update: Here's another video that explains with clear language and facts what's happening today in Gaza –only 16 minutes.]
[October 20 update: here is Hamas explained from inside –sorry that comes from Fox News, folks, but since the "Left" turned antisemitic and got rotten, that's what there is]:
If after the slaughtering, savagery and kidnapping of hundreds of Jewish/Israeli men, women, and children, you still excuse the massacres of October 7 perpetrated by Palestinian Arabs members of Hamas (a terrorist Islamist group –which was voted by the majority of the Palestinians in 2006 and which rules Gaza from 2007) and ordinary Gazans, or write stupid, insulting and pathetic slogans like "free Palestine", you are either a tremendous ignorant in history or a putrid antisemite (most probably both).
Read about the Partition Plans of 37 (Peel Report) and 47 (UN Resolution 181) – unanimously rejected by the Arabs. Read about the wars of 48, 67 and 73. Read about the suicide bombers. Learn about the 3 NOs of the 1967 Arab League summit (“No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel”). Read about Hamas and Fatah. Say no to terrorism. No to Islamism. No to savagery. No to Sharia Law. No to barbarism. Learn about the 3 Ds that makes YOU antisemite: Delegitimization, Demonization, Double Standards.
Black lives matter but Jewish lives don't matter? You hypocrites.
In 50 years, the Spanish terrorist group ETA murdered 853 people. In 1 day, Hamas murdered 1,400 men, women, children, and babies in the most savage ways, and kidnapped 222 men, women, children, and babies. These massacres are the "equivalent" of eight (eight!) 11M (the Islamist terrorist attacks in Madrid on March 11, 2004, where 193 people died). I don't see the Spanish people openly supporting Israel, the Jewish people, and democracy. Shame on you. If you don't stand against Hamas you are supporting terrorism.
Antisemitism is hatred. Antisemitism is defamation. Antisemitism is anti-Zionism (read Jean Améry). Antisemitism is indifference. Antisemitism is excusing terrorism. Antisemitism is double standards. Antisemitism is silence.
The world has become crazy. Enough. Am Israel Chai.
Below, an awesome and clear video about the history of Gaza, by professor Henry Abramson, PhD in Philosophy (University of Toronto) and Dean of the Lander College of Arts and Sciences in Flatbush, New York (Touro University) and a wake up call from Ben Gleib:
Coup de chance is another masterpiece by Woody, the master of cinema. The cast (Lou de Laâge, Melvin Poupaud, Niels Schneider, and Valérie Lemercier) is absolutely great, the script (Woody) is brilliant, the cinematography (Vittorio Storaro) is gorgeous, and the direction (Woody) is, as always, impecable.
This is a movie about love, betrayal, control, and luck. Amazingly written and beautifully shot. A masterpiece (in French) with a flavour of the great French cinema from last century (Truffaut, Lelouch, Godard), with a bit of Hitchcock (you can actually spot a Hitchcock book on a shelf in one scene –I only discovered it the second time I saw the movie), and with a wonderful soundtrack (jazz from the 60s: Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island" and Nat Adderley).
No explosions, plastic people or a 200MM budget; just absolutely pure excellent cinema. Bravo, Woody. You are the best! 10/10.
Antonia Tejeda Barros 