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TruthNews2day: PREMIERING 3/30 at 7:30PM ET: Natan Sharansky on Today’s ‘Evil Empires,’ the War in Ukraine, Soviet Communism, and the New Antisemitism
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Nayborhoodbully: “I don’t know who this Natan Sharansky is“… but he feels perfectly comfortable commenting on complex Jewish and Israeli affairs. What an idiot.
ItzikBasman: Natan Sharansky:
“In woke ideology, if you substitute the word race for class, you will get almost the exact same Marxist-Leninist dogma in which we were indoctrinated in schools that became the basis of hatred against dissidents and anyone who dared question the party line.”
ItzikBasman: Natan Sharansky:
“in woke ideology, there are good identities and bad identities…the most victimized identity is Palestinian…the worst…is Israeli…which represents the last colonial project. Intersectionality unites woke progressive theory with…primitive…antisemitism.”
ItzikBasman: I deleted 2 tweets of quotes I’d attributed to David L. Bernstein mistakenly.
They’re from the Foreward to his book Woke Antisemitism: How A Progressive Ideology Harms Jews.
Natan Sharansky wrote the Foreward and the 2 quotes are his.
I’ve tweeted them with proper attribution.
Nayborhoodbully: 1/2 44:46–45:11 Natan Sharansky on Bibi Netanyahu: I believe he has to make a major effort to broaden the government. For example, this reform is a good thing that you want me to go very far in making a serious compromise join my government I think that …
natan_sharansky: We must always remember the many incredible individuals who risked their lives to save the Jewish people during the Holocaust.
navmydreams: One of the best explanations of bitachon. Heard the story of Natan Sharansky this past motzash of his last words when he was sent to prison in Russia:
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Human rights activist, Israeli leader, & author who spent nine years in Soviet prisons as a Refusenik during the 1970s and 1980s.
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CUFI: "In dictatorships, you need courage to fight evil; in the free world, you need courage to see evil." - Natan Sharansky
RabbiShmuley: Debbie and me with living Jewish legend Natan Sharansky
dankatzradio: Natan Sharansky has spent his life fighting anti-Semitism. The Soviet Dissident and former political prisoner is traveling to San Antonio to talk about his life and the alarming state of anti-Semitism.
He'll appear at Trinity University's Laurie
Auditorium Tuesday May 21st at…
natan_sharansky: We are at a critical point in history where all people of good faith must stand against the rise in global antisemitism.
Mendy721: Natan Sharansky wrote a book about his stay in Russian prisons in which he talked about how the Russians always invoked the three D’s, discredit,double standard and demonize. Doesn’t that sound like Biden?
EINHumanRights: Ukrainian human rights activist Natan Sharansky to speak in S․A․
cyberalgo: “The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.”
—Natan Sharansky
ZevNadel: This is a man with beitsim & honour. President Herzog’s initiative is not perfect, but I support it | Natan Sharansky | The Blogs
all_israel_news: White House unwilling to invite Netanyahu to DC over concerns with Israeli government policies
Rachel_Solomon7: “….. and maintaining our cooperation with diaspora Jewry, as we rely on their support against insistent efforts to delegitimize Israel’s very existence.” -Natan Sharansky
all_israel_news: Natan Sharansky calls for supporting Herzog’s ‘opportunity to divert disaster
LeiblerMark: President Herzog’s initiative is not perfect, but I support it | Natan Sharansky | The Blogs
adamlevick: Natan Sharansky: President Herzog’s initiative is not perfect, but I support it
PAVELROMANOV71: Natan Sharansky: Setting a Vision
PAVELROMANOV777: Natan Sharansky: Setting a Vision
cyberalgo: “Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.”
—Natan Sharansky
shakimiki: Natan Sharansky is fond of observing, “The Left hates Israel but loves Jews, while the Right hates Jews, but loves Israel.”
Trocusti6613: Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.,Natan Sharansky,Society, Free, Question ,
AlawiteLeague: Former Health Minister of Israel Yuli Edelstein describes the Saudi/Iranian (Sunni/Shia) peace as "very bad for Israel & the Free World".
He was the 16th Knesset speaker as well as the co-founder of "Yisrael BaAliyah" party along with Natan Sharansky before it's merger with Likud
educatedandfree: Change out "soviet" for American in Natan Sharansky's speech and ask yourself, after Assange and Taibbi and Shellenberger and Chansley and the January 6th prisoners whose 4th and 5th amendment rights have been repeatedly violated, "Are we the baddies now?"
MilkeMark: 1/2 When Ronald Reagan labelled the Soviet Union as an evil empire in 1983, he was criticized by those who thought it was overreach. Years later, Natan Sharansky, a dissident in a Soviet gulag in 1983 said he and his fellow inmates cheered when they heard what Reagan said.
cyberalgo: “I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.”
—Natan Sharansky
AlbertoPriego: Natan Sharansky appointed chair of Combat Antisemitism Movement
DavidCranmerUn1: Nordex operations, which started out as a KGB money-laundering front in the late 1980s.
Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet refusenik, head of the Russian emigré party Yisrael B'Aliyah, and a Sharon Cabinet minister, took millions of dollars from Loutchansky. Sharansky
Ostrov_A: Human rights icon Natan Sharansky on the judicial reform: Israel is still a democracy and will not ceasing being one even if proposed laws are passed. But laments that “the greatest security threat facing Israel is that the two sides are not talking to each other.”
flatbush711: I have always considered Natan Sharansky to be one of smartest men alive in the modern era. He was a Prisoner of Zion in the Soviet Union. He was charged, tried, convicted & sentenced for allegedly spying for the U.S. DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) FALSE
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zimmee: So, on the left: Benny Begin, Dan Maridor, Natan Sharansky, Roni Alsheikh, Yoram Cohen, Bogie Yaalon, Elyakim Rubinstein, too many (orthodox) rabbis to count, Yehoram Gaon, ... it gives new meaning to the "left".
RussRLGNWatch: How Can Jews Support Ukraine After the Holocaust?
An exchange between Bernard-Henri Lévy and Natan Sharansky, from the recent Tablet event in partnership with the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine:
cyberalgo: “Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat’s regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.”
—Natan Sharansky
cyberalgo: “When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.”
—Natan Sharansky
AlamoRabbi: Mr. Sharansky is a human rights activist, past Chairman of the Jewish Agency, Israeli leader, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and author who spent nine years in Soviet prisons in the 1970’s and 1980’s. More:
AntigoneJournal: "Tyrants have on occasion employed great intellects to effect and justify their crimes. The Communist regime that persecuted Natan Sharansky, among many other, worse enormities, has had many erudite and eloquent apologists." How Antigone still inspires:
Tracking_Power: Irwin Cotler was Anatoli/Natan Sharansky’s lawyer when he was a Soviet ‘dissident’.
Sharansky was part of a Zionist regime intelligence op run by the secretive Nativ agency (aka the ‘office with no name’).
Did Cotler know?
MintPressNews: Zionists regularly accuse people of antisemitism to bypass reasonable criticisms of Israel's apartheid policies.
This rhetorical weapon was sharpened over decades. Two of its pioneers were Canadian politician Irwin Cotler and Israeli MK Natan Sharansky.
MintPressNews: INVESTIGATION: The Israel Lobby has weaponized identity to silence criticisms of Israel and they have two politicians to thank for the success of this strategy — Canadian politician Irwin Cotler and Israeli MK Natan Sharansky.
DCStolinsky: Human-rights activist Natan Sharansky spent 9 years in Soviet prisons. He asks:
"Can you express your individual views loudly, in public, without fear of being punished legally, formally, in any way? If yes, you live in a free society; if not, you're in a fear society."
natan_sharansky: Join the second day of the Kyiv Jewish Forum where I will discuss the World Jewry's role in Ukraine.
ArminRosen: What an honor it was to moderate this discussion with Natan Sharansky, Ksenia Svetlova and David Harris for the Kiev Jewish Forum
RealEMBASSYKID: On this day in 1986 Soviet prisoner Natan Sharansky was freed after eight years of forced hard labor and captivity. Read …about negotiations between Regan and Gorbachev to free political prisoners.
namgayzam: "Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society."
Natan Sharansky
Salions: Natan Sharansky & Bernard- Henri Levy discuss hope for Ukraine's future victory over Putin as critical for hope for the West and hope for Democracy incl. delaying PRC China attack against Taiwan.
BulwarkOnline: "Natan Sharansky voiced his profound disappointment at 'how far back Putin took Russia'—most recently causing it, he said, to slide back not only to Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union but in the direction of the Stalin regime."
OG_Mkhedari: Both, BHL and Natan Sharansky, are giants who always defended human rights.
So their support means a lot here.
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ChidzaSachidza1: The threshold test for a free society: Natan Sharansky is the Town Square Test: If a person cannot walk into the middle of the town and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment or physical harm, then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society
JewishNewsUK: Drawing parallels between Jews and cartoonists, Dr. Colin Shindler speaks to Jewish News' Jenni Frazer about Golda Meir, Soviet Jewry and Natan Sharansky
M_Lipshutz: Natan Sharansky survived horrific antisemitic oppression in the former Soviet Union. He was heroic. But sadly that does not confer automatic expertise on political and cultural trends in the United States. He doesn’t understand most American leftists and progressives.
pmddomingos: Can you express your views in public without fear of being punished in any way? If yes, you live in a free society; if not, you're in a fear society. (Natan Sharansky)
powerrrrre: "The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you."- Natan Sharansky
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HadassahMag: Jewish history is studded with great personalities, but Sharansky is in a class by himself.
Godgift64107811: Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
-Natan Sharansky
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j_bubbie: Jews? You mean Un-Jews
CombatASemitism: We’ve voiced our opinion about the pressure being put on Barcelona to cut ties with Israel’s cultural and technological center, but let’s see what the people of Tel Aviv have to say!
sachinnhnaa: "The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you."- Natan Sharansky
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JasonBedrick: Since hatred against Jews is more often thinly veiled as mere “anti-Zionism,” it is helpful to be familiar with the three-pronged test developed by refusenik Natan Sharansky to determine when criticism of Israel crosses the line from legitimate to antisemitic.
zombyboy: If I wrote about this stuff for a living, I would definitely be taking a trip to see this: Bernard-Henri Lévy and Natan Sharansky debating and discussing some of the biggest issues facing us today.
OrangeuGoing: EVENT ALERT! Bernard-Henri Lévy and Natan Sharansky – “Freedom and Tyranny” with The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
TrueQuotation: The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement. — Natan Sharansky
KenRoth: "The State Department should speak up loudly for China’s dissidents. Jimmy Lai and Qin Yongmin...should be as familiar to Americans as Andrei Sakharov and Natan Sharansky were in the 1970s. Their names...raised at every...meeting with Chinese officials."
JustinSayfie: “the State Department should speak up loudly for China’s dissidents. Jimmy Lai and Qin Yongmin, among others, should be as familiar to Americans as Andrei Sakharov and Natan Sharansky were in the 1970s.”
WilliamYang120: Finally, human rights. At every opportunity, the State Department should speak up loudly for China’s dissidents. Jimmy Lai and Qin Yongmin, among others, should be as familiar to Americans as Andrei Sakharov and Natan Sharansky were in the 1970s."
shaifranklin: It’s not just the IHRA working definition, functionally State Department long ago adopted Sharansky’s “3 Ds” as a test of antisemitism. Here are my caveats on that dangerously simple approach:
RomanBronfman: Close friend and political adviser to Natan Sharansky (director general in israel-ba-aliya party and director general in two Israeli ministers under Sharansky: Industry&Trade and Interior).
DameOlder: Natan Sharansky: Antisemitism has become 'mainstream'
JComm_NewsFeeds: Natan Sharansky: Antisemitism has become 'mainstream': Combat Antisemitism Movement outlines plan to fight antisemitism, as Board Chair Natan Sharansky warns antisemitism has gone mainstream.
ArutzSheva_En: Combat Antisemitism Movement outlines plan to fight antisemitism, as Board Chair Natan Sharansky warns antisemitism has gone mainstream.
Israel365News: Combat Antisemitism Movement outlined its plan to fight antisemitism in the coming year as Advisory Board Chair Natan Sharansky issues warning that antisemitism has become ‘mainstream’
davidberens: Jews selectively condemning Jew hatred depending on which side of the political spectrum it emanates from do not demonstrate a desire not to be a victim. And to quote Natan Sharansky
timgungoll1: “Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected!”
Natan Sharansky. When government officials used social media to shut down dissent and free speech, we were not a free society, we became a fear society!
timgungoll1: Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
Natan Sharansky.
cyberalgo: “On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.”
—Natan Sharansky
JewishonCampus_: On the first night of Hanukkah, Jewish on Campus hosted Natan Sharansky and Vlad Khaykin to discuss the history of Soviet Jewry and its application to the Hanukkah story. Read more on the second event in our webinar series through the link below.
MomentMagazine: Watch the full conversation:
JewishonCampus_: Thank you to Natan Sharansky and Vlad Khaykin for their participation in this discussion and their dedication to fostering our movement for Jewish students.
Stay tuned for future events in the Jewish on Campus webinar series.
JewishonCampus_: Last week, Jewish on Campus hosted the second event in our webinar series, “Soviet Jewry: A Modern Day Hanukkah Story,” with Natan Sharansky, former refusenik from the Soviet Union, and Vlad Khaykin from the Anti-Defamation League.
cyberalgo: “I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.”
—Natan Sharansky
CombatASemitism: Several groups have claimed Jesus as their own & tried to erase his Jewish origins. Medieval Christendom & Nazi Germany both renounced Jesus' Jewish heritage and ritual practices (e.g. the "Aryan Jesus"). Erasing the Jewish roots of Christianity is antisemitic. RT if you agree!
blob_watcher: Always just genuinely fascinating and horrifying to me, how much Russia produces citizens and exiles that absolutely despise their homeland, and denigrate it and wish it to die.
eg Vladimir Lenin. Ayn Rand. Natan Sharansky. Sergei Brin.
2022moshiachnow: Alexander Machkevitch, was given 'Herzl Prize' at ceremony in Herzliya, Israel by Knesset member Benjamin Ben-Eliezer. Ron Lauder was on hand as were Natan Sharansky and Malcolm Hoenlein. Machkevitch urged for punishment against those who denounce Israel.
ScrupulousAthei: "I was a loyal Soviet citizen until the age of 20. What it meant to be a loyal citizen is to say what you are supposed to say, to read what you are permitted to read, to vote the way you are told to vote and, at the same time, to know that all this is a lie." -Natan Sharansky
christmass2022: Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews: Bernstein, David L., Sharansky, Natan: 9781637587676:
JewishonCampus_: In less than 2 hours, Jewish on Campus will sit down with Natan Sharansky and Vlad Khay in the second event in our webinar series “Soviet Jewry: A Modern Chanukah Story.” Don’t miss it. Register below.
JewishonCampus_: The second event in the Jewish on Campus webinar series is fast approaching. Join us this Sunday, December 18, at 1 p.m. EST for “Soviet Jewry: A Modern Chanukah Story” with Natan Sharansky and Vlad Khay.
Join the Movement. Register below.
slowhoneybee: Hillel, they say, "refuses to have partnerships with groups that 'delegitimize, demonize, or apply a double standard to Israel.'" WSJ doesn't seem to realize they just cited Natan Sharansky's 3D test for antisemitism.
jaleelappleseed: Natan Sharansky, The Genesis Prize Foundation, and Start-Up Nation Centr...
JudeanRabbi: Finally, anti-Zionist antisemitism usually involves one or more of Natan Sharansky’s 3 D’s: demonization, delegitimization (general, not regarding a specific policy or policies), & double standards.
cyberalgo: “The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.”
—Natan Sharansky
TCJewfolk: Natan Sharansky Headlining Zoom Event. PLUS: TC Teens Building Bridges, Meet Robert Dorfman, & Our New Jewish Advice Column! -
Howard_Lovy: Many question whether anti-Zionism is antisemitism. Well, many antisemites use anti-Zionism as a "respectable" cover. My interview with Natan Sharansky, who was imprisoned under the "anti-Zionism" of the USSR, should answer some questions.
