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SvennoJ on 25 October 2024
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Contrast the lives of those children to the indoctrination in this video.
(Also where the link came from for the Rafah tunnels)

Israelism - A never-ending war for the Holy Land? | Israel Palestine War | ENDEVR Documentary



Two young American Jews – Simone Zimmerman and Eitan – are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs. Eitan joins the Israeli military. Simone supports Israel on ‘the other battlefield:’ America’s college campuses.

When they witness Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinian people with their own eyes, they are horrified and heartbroken. They join the movement of young American Jews battling the old guard over Israel’s centrality in American Judaism, and demanding freedom for the Palestinian people. Their stories reveal a generational divide in the American Jewish community as more young Jews question the narratives their synagogues and Hebrew school teachers fed them as children.

Indoctrination already starts in kindergarten. Israel and Zionism are taught to be equivalent to Judaism.

On trips to Israel kids get enrolled in youth programs getting introduced and used to being part of the IDF. Including handling and firing assault rifles.



Advocating for Israel and working with Aipac is stimulated in high school, continues in University. The us against them, us or them mentality is drilled in along the way. "Everyone is out to get you, you have to defend Israel".

I have a lot of personal stories there a couple students who said yeah I'm thinking about joining uh the IDF one day so my first thing is saying them are you sure because uh it's not an easy it's not an easy decision that being said it would probably end up being the most meaningful experience that you ever go through. You're going to tell your kids stories about it.

One of our former young emissaries just graduated into the air force I mean that's the greatest gift you can give you know and and we actually have had quite a few of our former students join the IDF amazing. I mean just amazing it's these are kids these are 18 19y old it's like something I've dreamed about doing since I was 7 years old.

You have like, you find your sense of purpose. All my friends are so proud of me and they understand that this is something that like I have to do almost 10% of my graduating class at my Jewish High School joined the Israeli Army and I had many friends from my summer camp and youth group who join the Army as well part of becoming part of Israeli Society is to join the military when I was in high school just join the Israeli military and make aah and live in Israel.


Then the documentary reveals the IDF practices in the West Bank, becoming part of the oppression. And that's really the first time Palestinians are mentioned at all. They're just Arabs that want to kill us.



This occupation I grew up in Bethlehem in Palestine. To be honest I do have my days where I wake up and look in the mirror and ask what is going on and and what can I even do today to change anything in the situation. I remember from the youngest age growing up with my parents always warning me always telling me not to go out not to go on the street not to play on the street because of the soldiers and the settlers of course.

Your first experience with a soldier is terrorizing you know. Especially because they would invade your house or your family's house late at night like after they love to work after midnight. My first experience with with soldiers as a child was an experience that put fear in me. An American Jewish Soldier talking to my father and yelling at him and shouting at him which of course as a child you feel very ashamed and insulted.

And then my father because ironically we are American citizens as well turned to him in an American accent and asked him where he was from. And then the soldier was almost like shocked by this by this question uh because for his mind you know he wants to say Israel and Jewish people but he's talking to an American now and he told him like from Chicago.

And just this this reality that like even as a child I remember this this this American soldier who just moved here to be part of an army to play Cowboys and Indians somebody who comes here from New York or from Chicago and claiming that this land is theirs. What makes like an 18 years old American kid who was given 10 days trip for free in Palestine what made them want to come in and sacrifice his life why would the Foreigner think it's okay to have Superior rights to the rights of the indigenous population because somebody told them it's home. This is our Land. This Is Ours.