The academic environment is a breeding ground for the most disgusting and outrageous anti-Semitism
Dina Rubina March 8, 2024 (Translated from Russian @ https://shorturl.at/jruwC)
On March 7, exactly five months after the Palestinian terrorist attack on Israel, the Israeli writer Dina Rubina received a letter from London asking her to "formulate her position" on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Shortly before that, Pushkin House in London and the University of London - to participate in a meeting that was supposed to discuss literary topics. However, at the end of this week, the organizers of the meeting sent a letter to Rubina with the following text::
"Good afternoon, Dina
The Pushkin House advertised our upcoming conversation on social media and immediately received critical messages regarding your position on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. They would like to understand your position on this issue before responding in any way.
Could you formulate your position and send it to me as soon as possible?
Natalia!"
Dina Rubina's response below is a powerful and emotionally charged letter that unapologetically expresses her stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She condemns the horrific acts of terrorism committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians and strongly criticizes the academic community's perceived bias and hypocrisy in their treatment of the issue.
Rubina recounts in graphic detail the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas militants and sympathizers during their attack on Israeli kibbutzim, including rape, murder, and desecration of bodies. She laments the academic world's apparent indifference to these acts while actively condemning Israel's retaliatory efforts to destroy Hamas's terrorist infrastructure.
With profound indignation, Rubina rejects the demand to "formulate her position" on the conflict, asserting that her position is self-evident in the face of such appalling violence. She defiantly dismisses the "brainless intellectuals" who question her stance, unequivocally siding with Israel's right to defend itself against the existential threat posed by Hamas.
Rubina's letter is a raw and visceral expression of her unwavering support for Israel's cause and a scathing rebuke of those who fail to acknowledge the realities of the conflict. I highly encourage you to take the time to read this impassioned and thought-provoking response, as it provides a unique and unapologetic perspective on a complex and contentious issue.
Here is Dina Rubina’s open letter:
Dear Natalia,
You've written beautifully about my novels, and I'm sorry for the time you've wasted. But apparently, we'll have to cancel our meeting. The University of Warsaw and Toruni University have just canceled lectures by the remarkable Israeli Russian-language writer Yakov Shechter on the life of Galician Jews in the 17th and 19th centuries - "in order to avoid aggravation of the situation." I suspected that this would also affect me, since today the academic environment is the main breeding ground for the most disgusting and rabid anti-Semitism, hiding behind the so-called "criticism of Israel". I expected something like this, and even sat down to write you a letter about it three times... but I decided to wait, and so I did.
This is what I want to say to all those who expect me to give a quick and obsequious report on my position: my beloved country, which now (and always) lives in the ring of ardent enemies seeking its destruction; about my country, which is now waging a just patriotic war against a fierce, ruthless, deceitful and sophisticated enemy:
For the last time in my life, I made excuses in the head teacher's office, in the ninth grade of the school. Since then, I have been doing what I think is right, listening only to my conscience and expressing only my understanding of the world order and human laws of justice.
And so.
I'm really sorry, Natalya, for your efforts and the hope that you can make porridge with me — the kind of porridge that everyone will like.
Therefore, I ask you personally to send my answer to all those who are interested:
On Saturday, October 7, the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, the merciless, highly trained, carefully trained and well-equipped terrorist regime of Hamas, which rules in the Gaza enclave (which Israel left about 20 years ago), attacked dozens of peaceful kibbutzim, simultaneously throwing tens of thousands of rockets into the territory of my country. The atrocities that even the Bible can't describe, the atrocities and horror that pale in comparison to the crimes of Sodom and Gomorrah (captured, by the way, by the head and chest cameras of the murderers themselves and boastfully sent by them in real time to the Internet), can shock any normal person. For several hours, thousands of joyous and blood-intoxicated animals raped women, children and men, shooting victims in the crotch and head, cutting off women's breasts and playing soccer with them; cutting babies out of pregnant women's bellies and immediately beheading them, tying up and burning small children. There were so many charred and completely burned corpses that for many weeks pathologists could not cope with the enormous burden of identifying individuals.
My friend, who worked in the emergency room of a New York hospital for 20 years and then spent another 15 years in Israel identifying the remains, was one of the first to arrive at the burned and blood-soaked kibbutzim in a group of rescuers and medics… She still can't sleep. A medic who was used to cutting up corpses - she fainted from what she saw, and then vomited all the way back in the car. What these people saw is beyond description.
Together with the Hamas militants, the "civilian population" rushed into the holes in the fence, joining in pogroms of an unprecedented scale, robbing, killing, dragging everything that came to hand to Gaza with them. Among these" peaceful Palestinians " were 450 members of the United Nations scum from UNRWA. Everyone was there, and judging by the stormy total joy of the population (also captured in our inconvenient age by hundreds of mobile cameras) — there were a lot of people who wanted to, — Hamas supports and approves, at least before the start of real fighting, almost the entire population of Gaza... The main trouble is: our residents were dragged to the beast's lair, more than half of them two hundred, including women, children, the elderly, and worthless foreign workers. About a hundred of them are still rotting and dying in the dungeons of Hamas. Needless to say, these victims, who continue to be bullied, are of little concern to the "academic community.
But that's not what I'm talking about right now. I am not writing this to make anyone sympathize with the tragedy of my people.
For all those years when the world community literally poured hundreds of millions of dollars into this piece of land (the Gaza Strip) — and the annual budget of UNRWA alone is equal to a BILLION dollars! "over the years, Hamas has built an empire of sophisticated underground tunnel systems with this money, accumulating weapons, teaching elementary school students how to disassemble and assemble a Kalashnikov assault rifle, printing textbooks in which hatred of Israel cannot be described, in which even math problems look like this:" There were ten Jews, a Shahid killed four, how many are left? .. "- calling for the murder of Jews with every word.
And now, when, finally, shaken by the monstrous crime of these bastards, Israel is waging a war to destroy the terrorists of Hamas, who so carefully prepared this war, placed thousands of shells in all hospitals, schools, kindergartens... "- here the academic environment of the whole world reared up, concerned about the "genocide of the Palestinian people" - relying, data provided by... by whom, of course? That's right, all the same Hamas, all the same UNRWA ... the academic community, which did not care about the massacres in Syria, nor the massacre in Somalia, nor the mockery of Uighurs, nor the multi-million Kurdish people, persecuted for decades by the Turkish regime — - this same worried public, wearing "Arafat" around their necks — the trademark of the murderers,- rallies under placards "Free Palestine from the river to the sea!" - which means the complete destruction of Israel (yes, many of these "academicians", as polls show, have no idea where this river is, what it is called, where some borders pass...) - now this very public requires me to "express a clear position on the issue."
Are you serious?! Are you serious?!!
I'm a writer by profession, you know. All my life, for more than fifty years, I have been doing word folding. My novels have been translated into 40 languages, including, by the way, Albanian, Turkish, Chinese, Esperanto... and a hell of a lot of others.
Now, with great pleasure, without choosing too many expressions, I sincerely and with all the strength of my soul send all the brainless "intellectuals" who are interested in my position to the ASS. In fact, pretty soon you'll all be there without my help.
Dina Rubina's searing letter is not just a defense of Israel, but a rallying cry against moral equivocation and intellectual dishonesty in the face of terrorism and injustice. Her powerful words demand that we confront these harsh realities with unflinching honesty and courage.