How insane that a symbol of oppression of Jews by the Nazis became a symbol of oppression by the Jewish Zionists… I can’t ever look at it again the same way after what I’ve learned the past couple of years. Especially seeing it branded on flesh - that is despicable. The artwork you posted with the Israeli flag being cut in half with the resistance symbol is really powerful!! Great piece - I need to read it again to fully process the article! Hope to see you soon on Zoom 💜 We should talk!!
Oh, you “can’t ever look at it the same way” after what you’ve “learned”? No—you didn’t learn. You absorbed propaganda, you parroted lies, and now you’re dressing up your ignorance in emotional language like it’s some kind of moral revelation.
Let me explain something slowly, so even your self-righteous, deluded mind can process it:
The Star of David is not a “symbol of oppression.” It’s a symbol of Jewish survival—a people who crawled out of gas chambers, rebuilt their homeland, and refused to die on your terms. The only thing despicable here is your ability to look at that symbol and see anything but 3,000 years of resilience.
And don’t you dare invoke Holocaust imagery while you glorify the very people who would’ve lined Jews up in front of pits just like the Nazis did. You are not an ally. You are a collaborator with modern-day fascists—Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the same people who burn Jews alive and call it “resistance.”
Your “art” is trash. Your symbolism is stolen. Your take is historically illiterate and morally bankrupt.
You “can’t look at it the same way”?
Good. Because now when you see it, maybe you’ll understand it’s not for you.
It’s for the Jews who carry it through fire, war, exile, and slander—from Auschwitz to Sderot.
We won’t let you redefine it.
We won’t let you shame it.
And we sure as hell won’t let you erase it.
You want to process something?
Process this: The Jewish people are done being your victim, and your Zoom calls won’t change a damn thing.
Call it what it is: you’re disgusted by Jews who defend themselves.
I’m disgusted by Jews, who let themselves be molded into simps for Christian Zionists and then have the gall to say you’re “defending yourself” by carrying out the same Nazi propaganda as well as their maniacal behavior. Except Israel is worse because you’re egos are bigger than Hitler and are making the rest of us Jews as unsafe as we’ve ever been. You just don’t wanna reconcile the fact that when you look in the mirror, you know you’ve been co-opted by lies and propaganda. Everyone in the world can see it except you and your Zionist friends. You’re being used and you have been since the idea of Israel was created.
Oh, look — another self-loathing keyboard prophet who thinks their Jewish last name gives them a license to spit on the Jewish people from the safety of exile.
You think you’re brave because you can write a bitter paragraph accusing Jews of “being molded into simps” by Christians? Let me explain something very clearly: Jewish sovereignty isn’t a fashion trend, it’s a 3,000-year-old blood covenant. We didn’t survive inquisitions, pogroms, gas chambers, and Islamic caliphates so you could sit in your Brooklyn coffee shop spewing recycled Marxist nonsense about “Nazi behavior.”
You want to talk about propaganda? You swallowed every drop of it from the BBC, Al Jazeera, and TikTok teenagers in keffiyehs who wouldn’t know the Tanakh from a takeout menu. You think you’re “fighting for truth” while parroting the exact Soviet disinformation that tried to erase Zionism as racism and strip Jews of our indigenous identity.
Let me guess — you think Israel’s the reason you’re unsafe? Not the mobs chanting “Death to the Jews” in London? Not the campus lunatics who want Jews banned from Hillel? No, it’s the Jews in Jerusalem defending their land, their children, their Torah — they’re the threat in your twisted mind. What a joke.
You say we’ve been “used”? No — we finally stopped being used. That’s what Zionism is. We stopped begging pharaohs, popes, and presidents for scraps and came home with a rifle in one hand and a siddur in the other. And yeah, that pisses off people like you — because it means the ghetto Jew is gone, and the sovereign Jew doesn’t need your permission.
So don’t project your cowardice on us. You don’t speak for Jews. You speak for nothing. And Israel will keep thriving — without your approval, and in spite of your disgrace.
But let us at least be accurate… King David never had a star,.. but baal did, and still does, under the name of remphan. One of his other names is satan.
Totally obvious. The Israeli flag to Palestinians is the same as the Nazi flag was to Jews. Zionists are used to defacing Palestinian-owned buildings with their version of the swastika. They even made a point to mark land they destroyed with it so that it can be seen from space.
Well done mostly, glad you're sticking the rotting flesh of Palestine in daces if your fellow Jews who sit around and do nothing a bout a largely Jewish problem. Thank you for that.
However, how could anyone ever believe that a symbol invoking the name of an ancient genocidal king who worshipped a psychopathic deity ever be considered sacred?
I don't know as much as some about Judaism, but is there anything truly sacred, ie unselfishly compassionate and loving toward others, in the Torah and Talmud and therefore worth bringing to the fore in the fight against fascist genocide? Maybe that could replace the vile star.
I wrote my journalism degree dissertation about how the British media covers Israel and Palestine, I included an appendix where I essentially defended Palestinian children who were accused of being antisemitic for calling Israelis "Jews". I explained that the Star of David has been weaponised by the self-proclaimed Jewish State; the line between Judaism and Zionism is deliberately blurred by Israel.
I even explained how the publication did not condemn Ukrainian children in Russian-occupied Mariupol for calling their oppressors "Russians". The media is more concerned with the language used by victims of a decades-long genocide than with the actual genocide.
How can we expect Palestinian children, who are born into an Apartheid system and have likely seen their friends and family harmed and killed, to differentiate between the Jewish people colonising them and Jewish people who aren't Israeli? Why must Palestinians be held to such a high standard?
It seems dishonest to compare Arab anti-Zionism (often because Israel has directly attacked its neighbours) and European antisemitism; Palestinian resistance is not a continuation of WW2-era antisemitism. When Israeli hooligans sing about there "being no schools in Gaza because there are no children in Gaza", they can't get mad when people hate them for celebrating the slaughter of children.
What right do we in the West have to condemn Palestinians who try to resist their occupier? If Israel was about "atoning" for European antisemitism, why didn't Europe hand over some land for the project? The Palestinians (and Arabs more broadly) didn't commit the Holocaust, yet they appear to receive more punishment and condemnation than the Europeans who perpetrated the Holocaust.
My grandparents were born under Japanese occupation in southern China, they likely experienced Hell on Earth in China until they left in the 1960s (not just because of the occupation, but we know that Japanese occupation was brutal). I suspect that many in my grandparents' generation weren't keen on Japan because Japan committed atrocities against China and other Asian countries. Would anyone condemn people born under Japanese occupation for despising their oppressor?
This is what history taught by Howard Zinn and Herbert Marcuse looks like namely the false notion that there was anything more than warring tribes who killed each other off in wars or via disease with no sense of government or personal rights in both North America and the Land of Israel before the founding of the U.S. and the State of Israel which made a similarly lawless desert bloom I think the author tragically knows less about American and Jewish history especially before and after 1948 than our children and grandchildren
You wrote a pseudo-poetic tantrum that reads like Mein Kampf had a baby with Tumblr—and now you think you’ve discovered something profound?
You’re not “deep.” You’re not “woke.” You’re not even political.
You’re just another genocidal moron who can’t stand the fact that Jews stopped dying quietly and started shooting back.
You say the Star of David disgusts you?
Good. That means it’s doing its job.
Because it wasn’t made to make Nazis, jihadis, and Jew-haters like you feel warm and fuzzy. It was made to remind you that we are still here, and no matter how many warped metaphors you puke onto the internet, you will never erase us.
You claim it’s “painted on corpses”? No.
What you’re describing are the blood-soaked fantasies of Hamas propaganda, which you—like the brainwashed clown you are—regurgitate without a single original thought.
You compared it to the swastika?
Are you out of your goddamn mind?
Jews wore that star as they were marched to their deaths, while the swastika flew over ovens, bullets, and gas.
But sure—tell me again how it’s the Jews who are genocidal, while your beloved Hamas dismembers toddlers with bare hands.
You parrot the same stale, deranged trope: “Zionism = evil.”
Newsflash, dumbass: Zionism is Jews refusing to be stateless, helpless punching bags. Zionism is not asking your permission to live.
And let’s be clear—your “revulsion” isn’t righteous. It’s the itch of a coward who thought Jews were supposed to stay quiet and weak.
You miss the Jew who begged. You hate the Jew who fights.
So cry about the Star.
Scream into your empty soul about checkpoints, tanks, drone strikes.
As for the symbol: it dovetails well with the fragmented enclosures into which the Palestinians are crammed, doesn't it? It is closed off on every side, shifting at right angles from the way the swastika was open on all
sides towards limitless expansion. Not that Zionists don't dream of that also. Recently they have been trying to fractally infill Palestine, I think so their butchery is less visible.
Not all people who are currently of the Jewish faith have any lineal relationship to David, to the extent he even existed. I suggest seeking a symbol that doesn't reify that adopted "lineage" because those fantastic claims as to one belief-in-transmuted-stories uber alles are at the root of the problem. Expect no more support from America in the future if not, at least. It is time we remember exactly why our 1St Amendment forbids our federal government from making any laws respecting an establishment of religion. It doesn't say only within the USA. It includes adopted beliefs about worshiping a symbol of some unrelated king, rabbinical traditions, or anything even remotely related. The boomers are going and this has been a last hurrah for ignoring 1A.
Terrific. Two points: Eventually we need to win back our symbols, including the star. But in the meanwhile, we need to cultivate alternative symbols: the chai in Hebrew? A piece of matzo around the neck? The menorah has been taken as one of the symbols of the state, but that isn't as pervasive, perhaps that?
Hilton, it’s so lovely to hear from you and thank you for taking the time to read the piece.
I think the most central aspect for me is that Jewish faith and faith symbols can’t be “reclaimed” in a vacuum while Israel and Zionism still exist. All my love to you and thank you for the support you provided to me in the early years of my anti-zionist organizing 🖤
How insane that a symbol of oppression of Jews by the Nazis became a symbol of oppression by the Jewish Zionists… I can’t ever look at it again the same way after what I’ve learned the past couple of years. Especially seeing it branded on flesh - that is despicable. The artwork you posted with the Israeli flag being cut in half with the resistance symbol is really powerful!! Great piece - I need to read it again to fully process the article! Hope to see you soon on Zoom 💜 We should talk!!
Oh, you “can’t ever look at it the same way” after what you’ve “learned”? No—you didn’t learn. You absorbed propaganda, you parroted lies, and now you’re dressing up your ignorance in emotional language like it’s some kind of moral revelation.
Let me explain something slowly, so even your self-righteous, deluded mind can process it:
The Star of David is not a “symbol of oppression.” It’s a symbol of Jewish survival—a people who crawled out of gas chambers, rebuilt their homeland, and refused to die on your terms. The only thing despicable here is your ability to look at that symbol and see anything but 3,000 years of resilience.
And don’t you dare invoke Holocaust imagery while you glorify the very people who would’ve lined Jews up in front of pits just like the Nazis did. You are not an ally. You are a collaborator with modern-day fascists—Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the same people who burn Jews alive and call it “resistance.”
Your “art” is trash. Your symbolism is stolen. Your take is historically illiterate and morally bankrupt.
You “can’t look at it the same way”?
Good. Because now when you see it, maybe you’ll understand it’s not for you.
It’s for the Jews who carry it through fire, war, exile, and slander—from Auschwitz to Sderot.
We won’t let you redefine it.
We won’t let you shame it.
And we sure as hell won’t let you erase it.
You want to process something?
Process this: The Jewish people are done being your victim, and your Zoom calls won’t change a damn thing.
Call it what it is: you’re disgusted by Jews who defend themselves.
And we’re disgusted by you.
I’m disgusted by Jews, who let themselves be molded into simps for Christian Zionists and then have the gall to say you’re “defending yourself” by carrying out the same Nazi propaganda as well as their maniacal behavior. Except Israel is worse because you’re egos are bigger than Hitler and are making the rest of us Jews as unsafe as we’ve ever been. You just don’t wanna reconcile the fact that when you look in the mirror, you know you’ve been co-opted by lies and propaganda. Everyone in the world can see it except you and your Zionist friends. You’re being used and you have been since the idea of Israel was created.
Oh, look — another self-loathing keyboard prophet who thinks their Jewish last name gives them a license to spit on the Jewish people from the safety of exile.
You think you’re brave because you can write a bitter paragraph accusing Jews of “being molded into simps” by Christians? Let me explain something very clearly: Jewish sovereignty isn’t a fashion trend, it’s a 3,000-year-old blood covenant. We didn’t survive inquisitions, pogroms, gas chambers, and Islamic caliphates so you could sit in your Brooklyn coffee shop spewing recycled Marxist nonsense about “Nazi behavior.”
You want to talk about propaganda? You swallowed every drop of it from the BBC, Al Jazeera, and TikTok teenagers in keffiyehs who wouldn’t know the Tanakh from a takeout menu. You think you’re “fighting for truth” while parroting the exact Soviet disinformation that tried to erase Zionism as racism and strip Jews of our indigenous identity.
Let me guess — you think Israel’s the reason you’re unsafe? Not the mobs chanting “Death to the Jews” in London? Not the campus lunatics who want Jews banned from Hillel? No, it’s the Jews in Jerusalem defending their land, their children, their Torah — they’re the threat in your twisted mind. What a joke.
You say we’ve been “used”? No — we finally stopped being used. That’s what Zionism is. We stopped begging pharaohs, popes, and presidents for scraps and came home with a rifle in one hand and a siddur in the other. And yeah, that pisses off people like you — because it means the ghetto Jew is gone, and the sovereign Jew doesn’t need your permission.
So don’t project your cowardice on us. You don’t speak for Jews. You speak for nothing. And Israel will keep thriving — without your approval, and in spite of your disgrace.
Oh, look another genocidal maniac bye-bye!
Spot on
As always, Amanda, you see through all the fog and strike at the heart of an issue. Thank you for your critically important writings.
This is so kind, thank you 🌹
But let us at least be accurate… King David never had a star,.. but baal did, and still does, under the name of remphan. One of his other names is satan.
Totally obvious. The Israeli flag to Palestinians is the same as the Nazi flag was to Jews. Zionists are used to defacing Palestinian-owned buildings with their version of the swastika. They even made a point to mark land they destroyed with it so that it can be seen from space.
Well done mostly, glad you're sticking the rotting flesh of Palestine in daces if your fellow Jews who sit around and do nothing a bout a largely Jewish problem. Thank you for that.
However, how could anyone ever believe that a symbol invoking the name of an ancient genocidal king who worshipped a psychopathic deity ever be considered sacred?
I don't know as much as some about Judaism, but is there anything truly sacred, ie unselfishly compassionate and loving toward others, in the Torah and Talmud and therefore worth bringing to the fore in the fight against fascist genocide? Maybe that could replace the vile star.
I wrote my journalism degree dissertation about how the British media covers Israel and Palestine, I included an appendix where I essentially defended Palestinian children who were accused of being antisemitic for calling Israelis "Jews". I explained that the Star of David has been weaponised by the self-proclaimed Jewish State; the line between Judaism and Zionism is deliberately blurred by Israel.
I even explained how the publication did not condemn Ukrainian children in Russian-occupied Mariupol for calling their oppressors "Russians". The media is more concerned with the language used by victims of a decades-long genocide than with the actual genocide.
How can we expect Palestinian children, who are born into an Apartheid system and have likely seen their friends and family harmed and killed, to differentiate between the Jewish people colonising them and Jewish people who aren't Israeli? Why must Palestinians be held to such a high standard?
It seems dishonest to compare Arab anti-Zionism (often because Israel has directly attacked its neighbours) and European antisemitism; Palestinian resistance is not a continuation of WW2-era antisemitism. When Israeli hooligans sing about there "being no schools in Gaza because there are no children in Gaza", they can't get mad when people hate them for celebrating the slaughter of children.
What right do we in the West have to condemn Palestinians who try to resist their occupier? If Israel was about "atoning" for European antisemitism, why didn't Europe hand over some land for the project? The Palestinians (and Arabs more broadly) didn't commit the Holocaust, yet they appear to receive more punishment and condemnation than the Europeans who perpetrated the Holocaust.
My grandparents were born under Japanese occupation in southern China, they likely experienced Hell on Earth in China until they left in the 1960s (not just because of the occupation, but we know that Japanese occupation was brutal). I suspect that many in my grandparents' generation weren't keen on Japan because Japan committed atrocities against China and other Asian countries. Would anyone condemn people born under Japanese occupation for despising their oppressor?
This is what history taught by Howard Zinn and Herbert Marcuse looks like namely the false notion that there was anything more than warring tribes who killed each other off in wars or via disease with no sense of government or personal rights in both North America and the Land of Israel before the founding of the U.S. and the State of Israel which made a similarly lawless desert bloom I think the author tragically knows less about American and Jewish history especially before and after 1948 than our children and grandchildren
You brain-dead, antisemitic sewage leak.
You wrote a pseudo-poetic tantrum that reads like Mein Kampf had a baby with Tumblr—and now you think you’ve discovered something profound?
You’re not “deep.” You’re not “woke.” You’re not even political.
You’re just another genocidal moron who can’t stand the fact that Jews stopped dying quietly and started shooting back.
You say the Star of David disgusts you?
Good. That means it’s doing its job.
Because it wasn’t made to make Nazis, jihadis, and Jew-haters like you feel warm and fuzzy. It was made to remind you that we are still here, and no matter how many warped metaphors you puke onto the internet, you will never erase us.
You claim it’s “painted on corpses”? No.
What you’re describing are the blood-soaked fantasies of Hamas propaganda, which you—like the brainwashed clown you are—regurgitate without a single original thought.
You compared it to the swastika?
Are you out of your goddamn mind?
Jews wore that star as they were marched to their deaths, while the swastika flew over ovens, bullets, and gas.
But sure—tell me again how it’s the Jews who are genocidal, while your beloved Hamas dismembers toddlers with bare hands.
You parrot the same stale, deranged trope: “Zionism = evil.”
Newsflash, dumbass: Zionism is Jews refusing to be stateless, helpless punching bags. Zionism is not asking your permission to live.
And let’s be clear—your “revulsion” isn’t righteous. It’s the itch of a coward who thought Jews were supposed to stay quiet and weak.
You miss the Jew who begged. You hate the Jew who fights.
So cry about the Star.
Scream into your empty soul about checkpoints, tanks, drone strikes.
None of it changes one reality: We. Are. Home.
And your meltdown only proves one thing:
We won.
Excellent…
Truly is. Star of Remphan (MOLOCH)
I applaud your trenchant criticism.
As for the symbol: it dovetails well with the fragmented enclosures into which the Palestinians are crammed, doesn't it? It is closed off on every side, shifting at right angles from the way the swastika was open on all
sides towards limitless expansion. Not that Zionists don't dream of that also. Recently they have been trying to fractally infill Palestine, I think so their butchery is less visible.
Not all people who are currently of the Jewish faith have any lineal relationship to David, to the extent he even existed. I suggest seeking a symbol that doesn't reify that adopted "lineage" because those fantastic claims as to one belief-in-transmuted-stories uber alles are at the root of the problem. Expect no more support from America in the future if not, at least. It is time we remember exactly why our 1St Amendment forbids our federal government from making any laws respecting an establishment of religion. It doesn't say only within the USA. It includes adopted beliefs about worshiping a symbol of some unrelated king, rabbinical traditions, or anything even remotely related. The boomers are going and this has been a last hurrah for ignoring 1A.
Amanda,
Terrific. Two points: Eventually we need to win back our symbols, including the star. But in the meanwhile, we need to cultivate alternative symbols: the chai in Hebrew? A piece of matzo around the neck? The menorah has been taken as one of the symbols of the state, but that isn't as pervasive, perhaps that?
Glad to see that you're still going strong.
Hilton, it’s so lovely to hear from you and thank you for taking the time to read the piece.
I think the most central aspect for me is that Jewish faith and faith symbols can’t be “reclaimed” in a vacuum while Israel and Zionism still exist. All my love to you and thank you for the support you provided to me in the early years of my anti-zionist organizing 🖤