Choose Your Words (Part One)
A glossary of words and phrases misemployed by the "pro-Palestinian" crowd
The Jewish holiday of Shavuot was celebrated this week, from sundown on Sunday until sundown on Tuesday.
In addition to marking a Biblical agricultural festival, Shavuot more importantly commemorates the Revelation at Mount Sinai, when God proclaimed the Ten Commandments to Moses.
This past Sunday, the sun set over Boulder, Colorado at 8:24 local time.
That was just about seven hours after a shirtless lunatic shouting, “Free Palestine,” “End Zionists!,” "F**k you, Zionist,” and "You all deserve to die" hurled two Molotov cocktails at a group marching in peaceful support of the hostages whom Hamas has held in brutal captivity for over 600 days, during which time at least 76 have died.
Police later discovered that he had 16 more of the incendiary devices left over.
Though his makeshift flamethrower accomplished nothing more than to set its operator on fire, Mohamed Sabry Soliman injured 15 people in his unhinged attack, six of whom required hospitalization, including 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, Barbara Steinmetz.
After his arrest, Soliman told investigators that he’d been planning the attack for the past year because he “wanted to kill all Zionists and wished they were all dead.”
The group he targeted is the Boulder chapter of “Run For Their Lives,” which has met each Sunday since October 7, 2023, marching silently and peacefully. No chants. No provocative banners. Just quiet respect for and solidarity with those still imprisoned.
Incidentally, about a quarter of the marchers each week have been non-Jews.
Free Palestine. End Zionists.
Last month, as he was being taken into custody after murdering two young Israeli diplomats in cold blood, Elias Rodriguez shouted at onlookers, “I did it for Palestine. I did it for Gaza,” and then chanted, “Free, free Palestine.”
It wasn’t yet 24 hours after the unspeakable killings of Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim before prominent Palestinian-American author and activist Susan Abulhawa saw fit to post to X: “Now we’re supposed to feel bad for two genocide cheerleaders after watching these colonizer baby killers slaughter people by the hundreds every day for two years.”
Her unthinkably callous and hateful screed continued, “Natural logic: when governments fail to hold Israel accountable for an actual holocaust being committed before our very eyes, no genocidal Zionist should be safe anywhere in the world.”
Having, first, the balls to employ the word “holocaust,” she intentionally modified it by claiming that the Jewish state is guilty of an “actual holocaust,” clearly implying that the historical holocaust with which we’re all familiar —you know, the one that Barbara Steinmetz of Boulder survived— wasn’t, in fact, “actual.”
While her distorted intellect has also allowed her to compare Israel and Jews to Nazis, Abulhawa is impressivley well educated, so her abuse of the terms “colonizer” and “genocide” was hardly unintentional.
Okay, so let’s begin by addressing a few of the words that have been shouted and written by the “pro-Palestinian” mob for quite some time, particularly since October 7.
They’re usually spoken or written in ignorance by inveterate protesters and haters. However, in many cases, the use of these terms and phrases is quite calculated and entirely deliberate.
You might be surprised by some of what you’re about to read.