Israel Thrives: About Us

I guess it started when I was working on my dissertation.

Laurie and I had moved back to San Francisco from State College, Pennsylvania, and I was teaching at City College of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. A buddy of mine pointed me toward Daily Kos and I joined (under the nom de blog "Karmafish") because I was disgusted with the Bush II administration and opposed to the war in Iraq. At the time I did not know a whole lot about the ongoing Arab-Muslim war against the Jews in the Middle East, but one thing that I learned quickly was that there is an awful lot of hatred, particularly coming from the progressive-left, toward the Jewish state of Israel.

After they banned me for mocking them in the spring of 2010 in a brief satirical piece entitled, “Breaking: Jew Builds Second Bathroom in East Jerusalem,” I started up this joint. Shortly thereafter Doodad, another Daily Kos refugee, showed up, along with Oldschooltwentysix to lend a hand. Later Daniel Bielak also dropped in and recently Geoffff, from Australia, and Jay in Philadelphia, has joined the crew.

And now (May 8, 2013) I want to welcome Empress Trudy and Ziontruth to our front page, as well.

While we don't always agree on the politics, we are pro-Israel, pro-Jewish, and opposed to the rise of political Islam in the Muslim Middle East because of the genocidal nature of that movement. Although Israel Thrives is non-partisan, we tend to be highly critical of the progressive-left due to its acceptance of anti-Semitic anti-Zionism as part of its larger coalition.

Our purpose is simply to think aloud on the Arab-Israel conflict, and American foreign policy in that part of the world, and we hope that you will drop in to say “hello” and maybe share your thoughts.

Mike Lumish, PhD

Editor, Israel Thrives

Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

How's that for a kick in the head to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

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