Lester Golden
1 min readNov 23, 2023

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Tonight I'll play basketball in the firehouse--Voluntarios Bombeiros de Ramalde. Tomorrow tennis in the Club Sportivo Nun'Alvares and basketball at the Castelo do Queijo beachfront court. Despite the beauty, gentility and kindness of life in Porto, my professor friends have told me of the explosion in anti-semitic vitriol in the universities here, as at Cornell, Harvard, Columbia. Fortunately, I'm aposentado/reformado and don't have to listen to people wishing me dead as Jewish students and profs do.

Hamas hides weapons, supplies and terrorists in mosques: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/31/why-hamas-stores-its-weapons-inside-hospitals-mosques-and-schools/

That makes them military targets under the Geneva Convention. https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml

You fail to note the asymmetry of:

1. The near global string of murderous stabbings, mass shootings, bombings and invasions of synagogues, individual Jews, kosher markets, rabbis and their families, "fuck the Jews, rape their daughters", "gas the Jews" demos, constant harassment of Jewish kids walking to school by pro-Palestinian Jew haters. Result: all Jewish institutions everywhere have police guards.

2. The number of Jews attacking Muslims or Muslim institutions outside the West Bank and Gaza is a very simple number: zero. Do mosques abroad need protection from Jews: never. Number of Jews passing out candy or celebrating Palestinian deaths: zero.

Israel, apartheid state? Listen to this Bedouin Israeli Arab talk about his integration into Israeli society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF-j1_zRAAw

Or listen to Sophia Khalifa, Bedouin Arab Muslim, daughter of an illiterate mother, MS in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University and MBA Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLzsIFPVVKw&t=103s

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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