Gateway Pundit reports what happened after Russian Israeli author Dina Rubina was scheduled for an event to discuss her books at Pushkin House in London in collaboration with the University of London.
Before she was “allowed” to speak, however, event moderator Natalia Rulyova demanded she clarify “her position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” saying other invited participants needed to “understand your position on this issue before responding”.
This is what Dina Rubina wrote in reply:
Dear Natalia!
You’ve written beautifully about my novels, and I’m so sorry for the time you’ve wasted, because apparently we have to cancel our meeting.
The universities of Warsaw and Torun have just canceled lectures by the wonderful Russian-speaking Israeli writer Yakov Shechter on the life of Galicia’s Jews in the 17th and 19th centuries “to avoid making the situation worse”. I suspected that this would affect me too, since academia is now the main breeding ground for the most disgusting and virulent antisemitism, disguised as so-called “criticism of Israel”. I was expecting something like this, and I even decided to write you an email about it… but I put it aside. It’s time for me to publish it.
This is what I want to say to all those who expect from me a quick and obsequious report on my position regarding my beloved country, which currently lives (and always has) surrounded by ferocious enemies who seek to destroy it. My country which is waging a just war today against a rabid, ruthless, deceptive and cunning enemy. The last time I apologised was in elementary school, in the principal’s office; I was 9 years old. Since then, I have been doing what I think is right, listening only to my conscience and expressing exclusively my understanding of the world order and human laws of justice.
Natalia, thank you for your efforts, and I personally ask you to send my answer to all those who are wondering.
On October 7, Saturday, the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, the ruthless, well-trained, well-prepared and well-equipped Hamas terrorist regime of Iran, Hamas, which rules in the Gaza enclave (which Israel left around twenty years ago), attacked dozens of peaceful kibbutzim and bombarded my country with tens of thousands of rockets. Hamas has committed atrocities that even the Bible cannot describe, atrocities that rival the crimes of Sodom and Gomorrah. Atrocities filmed by the way, by GoPro cameras, the murderers having taken the horror to the point of sending the images to their families or on social networks in real time.
For hours, thousands of happy, blood-drunk beasts raped women, children and men, shooting their victims in the crotch and heads, cutting off the women’s breasts and playing football with them, cutting off the babies from the wombs of pregnant women and immediately decapitating them, tying up and burning the small children. There were so many charred bodies that, for many weeks, forensic pathologists could not cope with the enormous workload of identifying individuals.
A friend of mine, who worked in the emergency room of a New York hospital for 20 years, then in Israel for 15 years, was one of the first to arrive in the kibbutzim as part of a team of rescuers and of doctors. She still hasn’t been able to sleep since.
While she is an emergency specialist, accustomed to dissected bodies and corpses, she fainted when she saw the macabre sight and vomited all the way back in the car. Among the Hamas militants, Palestinian civilians rushed in, participating in pogroms of unprecedented scale, pillaging, killing, dragging everything they could get their hands on. Among these “Palestinian civilians” were 450 members of this highly regarded organisation UNRWA (United Nations Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East).
Judging by the utter joy of the population (also captured by thousands of mobile cameras), Hamas is supported by almost the entire population of Gaza. But the essential is there for us. More than two hundred Israelis, including women, children, the elderly and foreign workers, were dragged into the beast’s den. A hundred of them are still rotting and dying in Hamas dungeons.
It goes without saying that these victims, who continue to be mocked, are of little concern to the “academic community”. But that’s not what I’m talking about right now. I am not writing this so that anyone will sympathise with the tragedy of my people.
During all these years, while the international community has literally poured hundreds of millions of dollars into this piece of land (the Gaza Strip) — UNRWA’s annual budget alone is equivalent to a billion dollars! — during all these years, Hamas used this money to build an empire with a complex system of underground tunnels, stockpile weapons, teach schoolchildren from primary school to disassemble and assemble Kalashnikov assault rifles, print textbooks in which hatred of Israel is indescribable, in which even math problems look like this calling for the murder of Jews with every word:
“There were ten Jews, the shahid killed four, how many are left?”
And now, when finally shocked by the monstrous crime of these bastards, Israel is waging a war of annihilation against the Hamas terrorists who so carefully prepared this war, who placed thousands of shells in all the hospitals, the schools, kindergartens…
The academic community, which was not concerned about the massacres in Syria, nor the massacre in Somalia, nor the mistreatment inflicted on the Uighurs, nor the millions of Kurds persecuted by the Turkish regime for decades, this very worried community which wears “arafatkas” [keffiyehs], the trademark of murderers, around their necks at rallies under the slogan “Liberate Palestine from the river to the sea”, which means the total destruction of Israel (and Israelis). “Academics”, as polls show, have no idea where this river is, what it is called, where certain borders are located.
And it is this same public which asks me “to express a position clear on the issue”. Are you really serious!
As you know, I have been a professional writer for over 50 years. My novels have been translated into 40 languages, including Albanian, Turkish, Chinese, Esperanto, and many more.
Now, with great pleasure, without choosing my expressions too much, I sincerely and with all the strength of my soul send to all the brainless “intellectuals” who are interested in my position to go f**k themselves.
By the way, please know that there are still those of us in the West (even white and Christian) who DO SEE AND UNDERSTAND your plight and the truth, even if we haven’t yet figured out a way to turn this ship around. To that end I really think we here in the USA need to start a grass-roots new political party/movement from the bottom up. It will take years so it’s a long-term, not short term plan, but I really don’t think we can do without it any longer. I’m just not political and not sure how to do it. 🤷♀️🤔 Israel 🇮🇱 🇺🇸
One very small point. In fact, England did take in German and Austrian Jews in the late 1930’s. But when England entered WW2, these Jews and others were rounded up and sent to concentration camps on the Channel Islands and held there for a few years, because England thought there might be subversives within that population. This unbelievable and little known story is told in a terrific book titled “The Island of Extraordinary Captives” which I highly recommend.
This line: "When Jews have no hope for safety in this world but for the coming of the Messiah,
then you will get a government with desperate messianics." is by far the most brilliant. A very accurate and clear description of reality. Desperation breeds all kinds of things.
“Is there something about being on the progressive left which doesn’t make people understand the blindingly obvious?”
Yes, utopian fantasy. And willingly refusing to wake-up, grow-up, and deal with reality. (And sadly- plain, basic Stupidity. Which apparently really can’t be fixed.)
Backed by an equally deplorable desire to engage in hate and blood-lust, unabashedly, enshrined in constant lies. (So they can “feel better about themselves” even as they debase themselves and others.) In other words, Evil. “The evil men that do to one another.”
Everything you said is true. Europe traded Jews for Arabs. It’s not working out well. But they don’t want to switch course.
So the Marxist flavored idiot idea of the month parade continues and the decadent, silly countries are gradually crumbling. It will be gradual until it isn’t. The United States is embarrassing itself with show trials straight out of the USSR and Red Guard spasms of political correctness. The Palestinian terror cause has been swept up into the grab bag of absurd destructive revolutionary nonsense which is dominating the mindshare of the imbeciles in power.
Jews have to do what they’ve always done - survive. Luckily Israel has nuclear weapons, but that may not be enough to hold off the messianic Mullahs if they get some. All of this did not have to happen, but the Commies and the crooks are making the rules at the monent and are in league with the Islamists despite outward protestations.
The world hasn’t changed and it’s sad. The hatred is irrational and baked into the cake apparently. But nothing for it but perseverance.
It's the money. Pure and simple. The money steals the land and it's resources. Everything, until eventually destroying life itself. And obviously they couldn't care less. And the ignorant don't get the real concept of capitalism either. As long as they're comfortable with the side effects.
Superb writing, Daniel. Thank you, I've subscribed. Do not feed the trolls. All the "financial system" Jew hating conspiracists and the Khazar conspiracis deserve a quick "fuck off" and an immediate block. You'll never convince them and they are intellectually unable to engage in a dialog. Yishar koach, brother! עם ישראל חי 🇮🇱
Daniel, the audience that you are addressing is not listening. You of all people know that this is true. There is importance in getting things like this down "for the record," but the cold hard truth is that we are alone in this war against Iran. Best get ready.
No one controls the financial system. It’s anarchic. The trouble with conspiracy theorists is that they yearn for order even malign order in the face of chaos. As for the diatribe presented by the lead author, if you think utterly biased self-pitying nonsense is going to change any minds you are delusional. What the IDF is doing is despicable. I suggest someone needs to work out a solution before the whole mess drags the world into the war Christian fascists want.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different result. The world isn’t going to change because we wish it would. Israel and Jews need to do what we need to do. The rest is immaterial. It’s an abusive relationship. To expect decency is absurd at this point. We won’t get it.
Blame your ancestors, it's all in the history books. Y'all just won't admit anything. What's happening is because of an illusion made up by corrupt human beings on this earth. I'm not in agreement to what is happening, it's horrifying to witness the pure lack of consciousness those holywars are waged upon. Any war for that matter. We're in the same boat and religious freaks are sinking my ship.
Gateway Pundit reports what happened after Russian Israeli author Dina Rubina was scheduled for an event to discuss her books at Pushkin House in London in collaboration with the University of London.
Before she was “allowed” to speak, however, event moderator Natalia Rulyova demanded she clarify “her position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” saying other invited participants needed to “understand your position on this issue before responding”.
This is what Dina Rubina wrote in reply:
Dear Natalia!
You’ve written beautifully about my novels, and I’m so sorry for the time you’ve wasted, because apparently we have to cancel our meeting.
The universities of Warsaw and Torun have just canceled lectures by the wonderful Russian-speaking Israeli writer Yakov Shechter on the life of Galicia’s Jews in the 17th and 19th centuries “to avoid making the situation worse”. I suspected that this would affect me too, since academia is now the main breeding ground for the most disgusting and virulent antisemitism, disguised as so-called “criticism of Israel”. I was expecting something like this, and I even decided to write you an email about it… but I put it aside. It’s time for me to publish it.
This is what I want to say to all those who expect from me a quick and obsequious report on my position regarding my beloved country, which currently lives (and always has) surrounded by ferocious enemies who seek to destroy it. My country which is waging a just war today against a rabid, ruthless, deceptive and cunning enemy. The last time I apologised was in elementary school, in the principal’s office; I was 9 years old. Since then, I have been doing what I think is right, listening only to my conscience and expressing exclusively my understanding of the world order and human laws of justice.
Natalia, thank you for your efforts, and I personally ask you to send my answer to all those who are wondering.
On October 7, Saturday, the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, the ruthless, well-trained, well-prepared and well-equipped Hamas terrorist regime of Iran, Hamas, which rules in the Gaza enclave (which Israel left around twenty years ago), attacked dozens of peaceful kibbutzim and bombarded my country with tens of thousands of rockets. Hamas has committed atrocities that even the Bible cannot describe, atrocities that rival the crimes of Sodom and Gomorrah. Atrocities filmed by the way, by GoPro cameras, the murderers having taken the horror to the point of sending the images to their families or on social networks in real time.
For hours, thousands of happy, blood-drunk beasts raped women, children and men, shooting their victims in the crotch and heads, cutting off the women’s breasts and playing football with them, cutting off the babies from the wombs of pregnant women and immediately decapitating them, tying up and burning the small children. There were so many charred bodies that, for many weeks, forensic pathologists could not cope with the enormous workload of identifying individuals.
A friend of mine, who worked in the emergency room of a New York hospital for 20 years, then in Israel for 15 years, was one of the first to arrive in the kibbutzim as part of a team of rescuers and of doctors. She still hasn’t been able to sleep since.
While she is an emergency specialist, accustomed to dissected bodies and corpses, she fainted when she saw the macabre sight and vomited all the way back in the car. Among the Hamas militants, Palestinian civilians rushed in, participating in pogroms of unprecedented scale, pillaging, killing, dragging everything they could get their hands on. Among these “Palestinian civilians” were 450 members of this highly regarded organisation UNRWA (United Nations Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East).
Judging by the utter joy of the population (also captured by thousands of mobile cameras), Hamas is supported by almost the entire population of Gaza. But the essential is there for us. More than two hundred Israelis, including women, children, the elderly and foreign workers, were dragged into the beast’s den. A hundred of them are still rotting and dying in Hamas dungeons.
It goes without saying that these victims, who continue to be mocked, are of little concern to the “academic community”. But that’s not what I’m talking about right now. I am not writing this so that anyone will sympathise with the tragedy of my people.
During all these years, while the international community has literally poured hundreds of millions of dollars into this piece of land (the Gaza Strip) — UNRWA’s annual budget alone is equivalent to a billion dollars! — during all these years, Hamas used this money to build an empire with a complex system of underground tunnels, stockpile weapons, teach schoolchildren from primary school to disassemble and assemble Kalashnikov assault rifles, print textbooks in which hatred of Israel is indescribable, in which even math problems look like this calling for the murder of Jews with every word:
“There were ten Jews, the shahid killed four, how many are left?”
And now, when finally shocked by the monstrous crime of these bastards, Israel is waging a war of annihilation against the Hamas terrorists who so carefully prepared this war, who placed thousands of shells in all the hospitals, the schools, kindergartens…
The academic community, which was not concerned about the massacres in Syria, nor the massacre in Somalia, nor the mistreatment inflicted on the Uighurs, nor the millions of Kurds persecuted by the Turkish regime for decades, this very worried community which wears “arafatkas” [keffiyehs], the trademark of murderers, around their necks at rallies under the slogan “Liberate Palestine from the river to the sea”, which means the total destruction of Israel (and Israelis). “Academics”, as polls show, have no idea where this river is, what it is called, where certain borders are located.
And it is this same public which asks me “to express a position clear on the issue”. Are you really serious!
As you know, I have been a professional writer for over 50 years. My novels have been translated into 40 languages, including Albanian, Turkish, Chinese, Esperanto, and many more.
Now, with great pleasure, without choosing my expressions too much, I sincerely and with all the strength of my soul send to all the brainless “intellectuals” who are interested in my position to go f**k themselves.
(From Melanie Phillips Substack)
Bravo!
A lovely interpretation of the poem by the "Messy Times" Spotify podcast. Thanks Christopher Messina.
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messytimes/episodes/Reading-Daniel-Clarke-Serrets-Pure-Jewish-Anger-e2kp8cb
*Note it's "desparate messianics" not "despotic messianics"
By the way, please know that there are still those of us in the West (even white and Christian) who DO SEE AND UNDERSTAND your plight and the truth, even if we haven’t yet figured out a way to turn this ship around. To that end I really think we here in the USA need to start a grass-roots new political party/movement from the bottom up. It will take years so it’s a long-term, not short term plan, but I really don’t think we can do without it any longer. I’m just not political and not sure how to do it. 🤷♀️🤔 Israel 🇮🇱 🇺🇸
One very small point. In fact, England did take in German and Austrian Jews in the late 1930’s. But when England entered WW2, these Jews and others were rounded up and sent to concentration camps on the Channel Islands and held there for a few years, because England thought there might be subversives within that population. This unbelievable and little known story is told in a terrific book titled “The Island of Extraordinary Captives” which I highly recommend.
This line: "When Jews have no hope for safety in this world but for the coming of the Messiah,
then you will get a government with desperate messianics." is by far the most brilliant. A very accurate and clear description of reality. Desperation breeds all kinds of things.
Thanks Faith. Consider subscribing.
“Is there something about being on the progressive left which doesn’t make people understand the blindingly obvious?”
Yes, utopian fantasy. And willingly refusing to wake-up, grow-up, and deal with reality. (And sadly- plain, basic Stupidity. Which apparently really can’t be fixed.)
Backed by an equally deplorable desire to engage in hate and blood-lust, unabashedly, enshrined in constant lies. (So they can “feel better about themselves” even as they debase themselves and others.) In other words, Evil. “The evil men that do to one another.”
Everything you said is true. Europe traded Jews for Arabs. It’s not working out well. But they don’t want to switch course.
So the Marxist flavored idiot idea of the month parade continues and the decadent, silly countries are gradually crumbling. It will be gradual until it isn’t. The United States is embarrassing itself with show trials straight out of the USSR and Red Guard spasms of political correctness. The Palestinian terror cause has been swept up into the grab bag of absurd destructive revolutionary nonsense which is dominating the mindshare of the imbeciles in power.
Jews have to do what they’ve always done - survive. Luckily Israel has nuclear weapons, but that may not be enough to hold off the messianic Mullahs if they get some. All of this did not have to happen, but the Commies and the crooks are making the rules at the monent and are in league with the Islamists despite outward protestations.
The world hasn’t changed and it’s sad. The hatred is irrational and baked into the cake apparently. But nothing for it but perseverance.
Ignorance is educable, but Stupidity really can’t be fixed, unfortunately. And apparently it’s widespread. Throughout history and throughout humanity.
It's the money. Pure and simple. The money steals the land and it's resources. Everything, until eventually destroying life itself. And obviously they couldn't care less. And the ignorant don't get the real concept of capitalism either. As long as they're comfortable with the side effects.
Superb writing, Daniel. Thank you, I've subscribed. Do not feed the trolls. All the "financial system" Jew hating conspiracists and the Khazar conspiracis deserve a quick "fuck off" and an immediate block. You'll never convince them and they are intellectually unable to engage in a dialog. Yishar koach, brother! עם ישראל חי 🇮🇱
Next year in the Holy Land.
Thank you !
Thanks Rachel.
Daniel, the audience that you are addressing is not listening. You of all people know that this is true. There is importance in getting things like this down "for the record," but the cold hard truth is that we are alone in this war against Iran. Best get ready.
No one controls the financial system. It’s anarchic. The trouble with conspiracy theorists is that they yearn for order even malign order in the face of chaos. As for the diatribe presented by the lead author, if you think utterly biased self-pitying nonsense is going to change any minds you are delusional. What the IDF is doing is despicable. I suggest someone needs to work out a solution before the whole mess drags the world into the war Christian fascists want.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different result. The world isn’t going to change because we wish it would. Israel and Jews need to do what we need to do. The rest is immaterial. It’s an abusive relationship. To expect decency is absurd at this point. We won’t get it.
Don’t worry. You are the Great Un-nameable’s chosen favorites, right? I wouldn’t pay any mind to the rest of humanity…
The main way we are chosen is by the UN for special treatment.
Blame your ancestors, it's all in the history books. Y'all just won't admit anything. What's happening is because of an illusion made up by corrupt human beings on this earth. I'm not in agreement to what is happening, it's horrifying to witness the pure lack of consciousness those holywars are waged upon. Any war for that matter. We're in the same boat and religious freaks are sinking my ship.
Sorry no. This is all bullshit.
Which bit?
In ten years the West won't exist.