Jewish Voice for Peace at University of Michigan posts pro-Hezbollah, pro-terrorist propaganda

The misnamed Jewish Voice for Peace chapter at the University of Michigan posts pro-Hezbollah and pro-terrorist messages on its Instagram page.

“Zionism is terrorism, not Judaism”

“‘Death to Israel’” is not just a threat. It is a moral imperative and the only acceptable solution. May the entire colony burn to the ground for good.” From the @disorientalizing Instagram page

“Palestinians install the picture of Martyr Nasrallah next to Martyr Ismail Haniyeh in Jenin Camp.” Source:from @unityoffields and @nycresistswithgaza on Instagram; original video at https://www.instagram.com/p/DAd5CaBuTT1

Once again, the mock "apartheid wall," now at U Michigan
 

From "Here4theKids and Amanda Gelender" - Jewish "Anti-Zionists" - Stop Throwing the Palestinian Armed Resistance under the Bus. "We don't side with colonizers just because they are Jewish"

Dr. Maura Finkelstein has just lost her job at Muhlenberg College because she threatened Zionists. It's hard to imagine that Jewish students would feel safe (or for that matter be safe) in her classes, unless they were avowed anti-Zionists.

And now the most absurd of all -
Tashlich on Sunday, October 6 

(It should be done on the afternoon of Thursday, the first day of Rosh Hashanah)
What should the well-dressed anti-Zionist wear to this event?
A kaffiyeh (of course), a tallit (also of course), and other "ritual attire"?
Possibly tefillin, like the arm holding the shofar in the photo?
And the slogan of this Tashlich? The decidedly non-Jewish
"Mourn the dead, fight for the living" (quote from the union activist Mother Jones)
instead of the theme of Tashlich.

From MyJewishLearning on Tashlich:

On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Jews traditionally proceed to a body of running water, preferably one containing fish, and symbolically cast off their sins. The Tashlich ceremony includes reading the source passage for the practice, the last verses from the prophet Micah(7:19), “He will take us back in love; He will cover up our iniquities. You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”

Hezbollah retaliation against Israel seems to have started tonight

This photo taken from a position in northern Israel shows a Hezbollah drone intercepted by Israeli air forces over north Israel on August 25, 2024 (Jalaa Marty, AFP) 

Has the Hezbollah retaliation started? Some headlines tonight from Haaretz:

IDF Launches Wave of Lebanon Strikes as Israel Braces for Major Hezbollah Escalation

Haaretz
1 minute ago
Hezbollah: The launches are part of the response to the assassination of Fuad Shukr

Hezbollah announced that the launches to Israel's north are part of the response to Israel's attack on Beirut that led to the death of Fuad Shukar.
According to the announcement, Hezbollah began an air attack "deep in Zionist territory and towards a specific Israeli military target that will be announced later."
Hezbollah also announced that "the Islamic resistance in Lebanon now and at these moments is at the highest level of readiness and will stand firm and expect any offense or Zionist aggression, especially if civilians are harmed, the punishment will be severe and very harsh."

Haaretz
2 minutes ago
IDF: 150 rockets have been launched from Lebanon so far

Haaretz
6 minutes ago
Haifa municipality opens public bomb shelters across the city

Haaretz
7 minutes ago
Rocket sirens sound over Safed and surrounding towns

Haaretz
10 minutes ago
Israel Emergency Services: No information received of casualties in the north

Haaretz
13 minutes ago
Rocket sirens sound in Israel Golan Region

Rocket sirens sound in the northern Israeli city of Katzrin.

Haaretz
30 minutes ago
Rocket sirens sound over northern Israeli town of Acre and surrounding areas

Jonathan Lis
30 minutes ago
Israel's security cabinet expected to meet at in the coming hours

Haaretz
32 minutes ago
Rocket and hostile aircraft sirens sound non-stop across Israel's north

Haaretz
42 minutes ago
Hostile aircraft intrusion and rocket sirens sound across northern Israel

Adi Hashmonai
45 minutes ago
Tiberias Municipality calls on residents to stay near protected areas

Haaretz
46 minutes ago
Israel's Airport Authority: Air activity at Ben Gurion Airport will be suspended due to security situation

Fadi Amun
53 minutes ago
Wave of attacks reported in southern Lebanon
Lebanese media report a wave of attacks in various centers in Lebanon's south. According to reports, the IDF attacked Tayr Harfa, Deir Seryan, Beit Yahoun among others.

Yaniv Kubovich
1 hour ago
IDF: Hezbollah will launch rockets at Israel soon; striking proactively to remove the threat
The IDF reported that it detected preparations by Hezbollah to fire missiles into Israel and that Israeli fighter jets are proactively attacking to remove threats. According to the IDF's announcement, Hezbollah will launch rockets in the coming hours, and possibly missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, at Israel.

It was also reported that later, instructions will be distributed in some regions of the country, and the public is asked to follow the instructions on the of the IDF Spokesperson's platforms as well as the Home Front Command.

Haaretz
2 hours ago
Rocket sirens sound in Israel's Upper Galilee
Rocket siren's sounded in the northern Israeli towns of Dovev, Baram and Ein Yaakov.

Regev and Goldwasser

It's just been announced - the bodies have been positively identified as those of Regev and Goldwasser, and the army has sent officers to their families to give them the official announcement of their deaths.

In about an hour and a half, the handover of the Lebanese, including Samir Kuntar, will occur.

What can one say?

End of the Second Lebanon War

Two years and four days after it broke out, as Yaron Dekel of Israel Radio just said, "The Second Lebanon War has just ended."

Hizbollah just handed over two black coffins to the Israelis at Rosh Ha-Nikra, on the border between Israel and Lebanon. The Hizbollah spokesman announced, "Here are Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser." He was asked - "Are they alive or dead?" He said: "Now you will know their fate."

The Israelis will now proceed with making sure that these are indeed the bodies of Regev and Goldwasser, and when they do so, they will hand over to Hizbollah Samir Kuntar and the other Lebanese terrorists.

An article in today's New York Times says, "Hezbollah has said it carried out the 2006 raid in a bid to win the release of Mr. Kuntar, whom Hezbollah celebrates as a hero. Past attempts to secure his release include the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in 1985."

Freeing Samir Kuntar

Haaretz reports on how the exchange will be conducted tomorrow to return Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser to Israel, in exchange for five Lebanese terrorists. They were abducted on July 12, 2006 - the attack by Hizbollah that sparked the Second Lebanon War. It's unclear whether Regev and Goldwasser are still alive - a couple of weeks ago the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, was asking the military rabbinate to declare them dead, and there was a report in today's Haaretz that said that one of them was killed during the abduction two years ago. The Lebanese government has announced that tomorrow will be a national holiday to celebrate the "liberation of prisoners from the jails of the Israeli enemy and the return of the remains of martyrs."

I wrote about Kuntar before, on August 10, 2006, and about the horrendous crime he committed. It's disgusting that the Lebanese government is celebrating him.

One of the other things that Hizbollah is giving to Israel is a report on Ron Arad, an Israeli pilot who was shot down over Lebanon in 1986 and hasn't been heard from since. Olmert rejected the report that Hizbollah has already delivered, saying that it's unsatisfactory and didn't give Israel the information it needs about him.

If Regev and Goldwasser are still alive, then it will be worthwhile to set Kuntar free. Their lives and freedom are more important than he is. But if they are not - then is it worth it to set free this murderous, unrepentant terrorist?

Bradley Burston says it better than I can:

For Israelis, even after all these years, the release of Kuntar is a form of self-inflicted torture. So heinous, so unpardonable were his crimes, that American Jewish author and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, himself a veteran of the IDF, wrote on The Atlantic Monthly's Website last week, "As unbelievable as this sounds, Israel is actually thinking of swapping Samir Kuntar in a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah. Kuntar is perhaps the most terrible person held in an Israeli prison, a man who crushed the skull of a Jewish child against a rock. Sometimes, these prisoner exchanges don't seem worth it."

What are they for, these prisoner exchanges? Perhaps only for this: that when sending their troops into battle, Israeli commanders can continue to look them in the eye and say with candor and in good faith that if they are taken prisoner, Israel will spare no effort to bring them back.

It may be all we have left to endure this torture. But it may also be the essence of what we are.

Today's dead

1) Terrorist attack on Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Kiryat Moshe kills eight yeshiva students, one as young as 15.

2. Islamic Jihad terrorists blew up an IDF jeep on the Gaza border, attacked a rescue crew and killed one soldier. About the roadside bomb that blew up the jeep - "Israeli officials said that the explosive device was large, shaped and sophisticated. They suggested that it was built by militants who had received weapons training in Iran, the main sponsor of Islamic Jihad." Could this be one of the explosively formed penetrators that have been so devastating against American armored vehicles in Iraq? They were used by Hezbollah in the Lebanon war in 2006.

3. Workers at Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha came under fire from the same group of Islamic Jihad terrorists.

4. A Palestinian terrorist was killed by a Israeli airstrike on a rocket-launching team.

5. Seven Qassams were fired into Israel, two hit houses in Sderot, including that of Elisheva Turjeman.