Click on this image to view my video slideshow set to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. Elchanan Poupko is a self-described New England-based eleventh-generation rabbi, teacher, and author. Poupko has nearly 29,000 followers on LinkedIn. Below is a recent LinkedIn post followed by some comments. These screenshots are from a 27.10.24 LinkedIn post I knew … Continue reading Revisited: Genocide in Gaza/الإبادة الجماعية في غزة/רצח עם בעזה
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Smotrich: Israel’s future is ‘to expand to Damascus’
Israeli Minister of Finance and leader of National Zionism, Bezalel Smotrich, speaks to the press during a party meeting in Jerusalem on 5 February 2024. I give Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich credit for one thing: his brutal honesty. No code or dog whistle, just speaking candidly about the "Greater Israel" project. I first saw … Continue reading Smotrich: Israel’s future is ‘to expand to Damascus’
I Had a Dream: From Vietnam to Gaza
Click on the image for a video slideshow I created set to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. And now a word from my conscience and a clarion call from my moral compass... My latest for CounterPunch. Here's how I kick off this 3000+-word essay. Israel has reached an unimaginable peak of evil. And indeed many … Continue reading I Had a Dream: From Vietnam to Gaza
Genocide in Gaza
I created a slideshow of injured, dying, displaced, and dead Palestinians set to Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. It’s my way of reflecting on and processing the Israeli-planned and -executed carnage that is occurring in Gaza. Click on the image below to access the video. Follow this link to access the video on my Vimeo … Continue reading Genocide in Gaza
Rhetorical Checkmate
Source: Wikipedia LinkedIn is becoming like Facebook except I reserve non-business posts and comments for truly serious and literally existential issues like the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. You can start with my comment followed by Johanna's indignant response, and my response to her response. Crickets after the latter. Like many, you'll notice she trots … Continue reading Rhetorical Checkmate
I Had a Dream: From Vietnam to Gaza
A boy carries a humanitarian aid package provided by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees: UNRWA) in central Gaza City [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP] “There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.” – Cornel West I recently … Continue reading I Had a Dream: From Vietnam to Gaza
Bystanders No More.
Helping people speak up about human rights in Palestine. Screenshot Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing? -Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926-2022) To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors. -Marek Edelman (1919/1922-2009) – last surviving leader, Warsaw ghetto uprising I love this … Continue reading Bystanders No More.
“I can’t stand the dehumanization. I can’t stand the oppression. I can’t stand the arrogance.”
Related to my last blog post, I took the liberty of copying/pasting this LinkedIn post. Peace, MAA Yehia Elkhouly This picture here is the reason why I have been losing sleep over the plight of Palestinians. I can’t stand the dehumanization. I can’t stand the oppression. I can’t stand the arrogance.Two stories in the same … Continue reading “I can’t stand the dehumanization. I can’t stand the oppression. I can’t stand the arrogance.”
I Stand With…
the exploited, weak, oppressed, and victims of state-sponsored violence, including genocide, NOT the oppressors, exploiters, and murderers. It's really that simple. That black and white. There are no gray areas. There is no moral equivalence here. What Hamas did last October was barbaric but the 2.1 million people living in Gaza are not Hamas. The … Continue reading I Stand With…
Aaron Bushnell, Requiescat in Pace
LinkedIn Screenshot Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now. -Aaron Bushnell, on the morning of 25 February 2024 From the moment I learned of … Continue reading Aaron Bushnell, Requiescat in Pace
An International Educator in Vietnam 
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