Nothing spells “Israel” and “cultural appropriation” as good as a camel roaming the quads in celebration of Israel Appreciation Day.
The brilliant folks over at Highlanders for Israel as well as the Hillel chapter of the University of California – Riverside thought it would be a cool idea to bring to campus not just any old camel but a “LIVE CAMEL” for a rare “CAMEL OPPORTUNITY”, the first of its kind at this university.
According to the Facebook event page description, “it isn’t a real Israeli experience if you don’t ride a camel”.
A thorough search of declassified documents and archived testimonials reveals that exactly zero Israeli soldiers and paramilitary groups rode camels on their way to evict Palestinians from their homes in the late 1940s. The search also reveals that a grand total of zero Israeli soldiers launched air strikes in missile-equipped camels, that the same number of Israelis used camels in building the wall cutting through the West Bank, and that a whopping zero camels currently operate each of Israel’s checkpoints and border crossings. [Read more...]
It’s as if each walkout takes it one step further and no matter how much they prepare for it, Israel’s propagandists just can’t seem to stop what I see as a national campus awakening.
Five silly StandWithUs tweets
Whoever is behind StandWithUs’s Twitter account made my evening. Thanks for the laughs. Here are five of some of StandWithUs’s expert tweeter’s latest tweets.
The funny thing about this tweet is its comma placement. It reads as if it were a message signed, sincerely of course, by Hamas. Clearly, StandWithUs’s expert tweeter is not a grammarian. But, who, am, I, to, judge?
Update: StandWithUs never responded to my tweet asking them to correct me if I was wrong in saying that Israel controls Gaza’s air space, two land borders, and one sea border, while also negotiating control with Egypt over its fourth border. Instead, its expert tweeter told me that I’m bad at English and then gave me the “professionalism” talk.
#fact#israelunderfire“Actually, that’s exactly what it is. Since the structure is apparently mostly made of fencing, common sense says that there are gaps and spaces wide enough to let air in. So, special thanks to StandWithUs for the air circulation. But if the group is really that much of a stickler for terminology, “fresh air prison” might work just as well. Also, as a side note, how did StandWithUs manage to throw in such a dramatic hashtag?
#Israel is the only country that entered the 21st century with a net gain in trees – in land that is primarily desert!“Well, allow me to give StandWithUs another special thanks for making the desert bloom. I wonder if StandWithUs knows that deserts are natural biomes, that they do not represent empty voids of wasted territory waiting patiently for someone to give it a tree or two. I also wonder if StandWithUs is ever going to publish statistics about the number of trees Israel has uprooted, particularly those belonging to Palestinian farmers and landowners. Maybe “do your research” isn’t part of the job description for StandWithUs’s expert tweeter. [Read more...]