Jewish Zionist Melanie Phillips, at pro-Israel conference in NYC, calls on Jews worldwide to put the "the Jewish people and the Jewish nation" first.
"Diaspora Jews need also to realize you are not just Americans with Judaism added on. In Britain, they're not just British Jews with Judaism added on…You are part of the Jewish people and the Jewish nation, and that should come first. First and foremost, you are Jews. Everything else is secondary."
This is almost exactly what Jonathan Pollard said after fleeing to Israel.
Israel is facing a "mental health tsunami", with an estimated two million people in need of support following two years of war and an "unprecedented outbreak of mental illness".
A recent extensive report published by Israeli news outlet Yedioth Ahronoth highlights a severe shortage of therapists and services to handle the crisis.
There has been a dramatic rise in individuals seeking psychological help since the October 7, 2023. Diagnoses of depression and anxiety in 2024 were double those in 2013, while cases of PTSD surged 70% each month from October 2023 to the end of 2024.
The crisis is particularly acute within the military, with thousands of soldiers and reservists seeking help. One report noted a 1000% increase in requests for psychological treatment from reserve forces.
We speak with Professor Haim Bresheeth-Žabner, a filmmaker, photographer and a film studies scholar. He is retired from the University of East London and is now at SOAS, the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. He is also an occasional contributor to EI.
Professor Bresheeth-Žabner’s last book was titled, An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defence Forces Made a Nation, published by Verso in 2020.
This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada's livestream on day 727 of the Gaza genocide. Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer and Asa Winstanley were joined by writer and filmmaker Haim Bresheeth-Žabner. The full broadcast is available to watch on YouTube, Rumble and Twitter/X, or you can listen to it on your preferred podcast platform:
“The Nazi Holocaust was not based on sadism, on cruelty. It was a functional genocide. And because it was so functional and so industrialized it required a very small number of people to kill large numbers of human beings. It was totally mechanized with the latest technology, mainly killing by gas, and was very efficient. Then a major part of the population in Germany did not even knew about it. The genocide in Gaza is very different. It is actually done by hundreds of thousands of Israeli military. This is the Most democratic genocide that we have seen in our lifetime,” aldus de zoon van joodse Holocaust-overlevenden, professor Haim Bresheeth-Žabner, filmmaker, photographer and a film studies scholar, retired from the University of East London, where he worked since since early 2002.
His books include the best-selling Introduction to the Holocaust (with Stuart Hood, 2 reprints since 1997), the first version was titled Holocaust for Beginners (1993) and was also reprinted a number of times; This title was also published in Turkish, Croatian and Japanese translations, and is being translated into other languages.
