She’s Just Not Into You
Soon after 7 October, I started posting about antisemitism and Israel on The Times of Israel blogs. A while later, I started writing on Substack, which I preferred, because I felt able to write about Western culture and politics more generally, plus, I’m having some success in monetizing my writing (see my biography below for my Substack details). For a while, I also liked the social media aspect to Substack Notes, although now I’m trying (with moderate success) to steer clear of that.
Lately, I’ve been checking in on The Times of Israel blogs again and I’ve noticed that they lean much more left/peacenik than Jewish Substack, or perhaps just more than the Jews I’ve found or who have found me on Substack.
I was pondering the insanity of a headline like “The Zionist case for Palestinian statehood” and that it can appear almost 700 days to the day after 7 October. After 700 days of war. 700 days of captivity for the hostages. The mind boggles.
If the Jewish left (particularly in the diaspora, but also still in Israel) was a person and the Palestinians were a person, the Jewish left would be arrested for obsessive stalking.
“Hi, Fatima, it’s Leila. You know that creepy Jewish guy I told you about, Mr Peace Now? Well, he’s hanging around outside our house again. Yeah, still with the flowers. He says he “just knows that we’re perfect partners” for each other. He says he doesn’t want to control me, just to “lie side by side in equality.” Gross.
This is all because, when I was in America years ago, he got me drunk and I said I sort of might like him one day. Just to get rid of him! I told him I didn’t mean it enough times in the years afterwards. But he still holds me to it.
I got my brothers to beat him up so many times, but he doesn’t get the message that I’m not interested, that I actually can’t stand him. He told me we have “chemistry.” I said, “Yeah, the kind they use to make bombs out of fertilizer.”
Guys, we’ve all been there. She’s just not into you. Try talking to someone with a more similar background, a nice Religious Zionist girl or even a Haredi one. You might find that you have more in common than you think, certainly more than with the people who tell you constantly that you’re a cancer to be exterminated.
