Allison Josephs Speaks on Rosie O’Donnell Podcast About the War in Israel

You do hard things Allison! Power to you 🙂
When I heard you talking about, “how would I have fared in the holocaust” some thing clicked in my brain. I though, “oh, THAT’S why I felt I had to give birth at least once without an epidural”. At the time when people asked me why i bothered, i wasnt sure. I said, i need to know i can do it without- what if im stuck once in a forest? As if!!
I definitely grew up as a second generation holocaust survivor and, after your talk, I can more clearly see where this was coming from.

Kol Hakavod to you, Allison! While I had to fight the urge to throw my laptop against the wall out of frustration, as I listened to Rosie, you kept your cool and presented the Israeli side do knowledgeably, capably and eloquently. Rosie, on the other hand, represented the skewed views of the “socially conscious” left, who as we used to say, try to be so open minded that their brains fall out. She is living in la la land, while you had a steady handle on the situation. Hats off to you as you present our views so ably to the crazy world out there!

Allison:

I am listening to your interview with Rosie O’Donnell. Your expressing how Jews feel is perfect. When I ran marathons and my body would start breaking down, I would think, how did my father survive the death march to Dachau. If my father survived, I will complete this marathon.

I liked your responses. You brought up the most important points about this conflict. What I was thinking the whole second half of the talk is how can a person claim that her friend’s relatives and friends are committing a genocide and then be offended that they call her antisemitic?

Allison, I felt and shared your frustration as you and Rosie (whom I love) discussed the terrorists and Israel’s response, yet she seemed only to parrot the talking points of those who either know nothing about the larger context if this issue, have not looked into this beyond what “social media” feeds them, or those who are actively working to promote ham*s’s lies. She did not address your points other than to toss out ideas that have been used since October 7 to minimize the horror and pivot to sympathy for “all those poor women and children” in Gaza—y’know, the ones who *weren’t* tortured and murdered with joyous zeal on GoPro feeds.
Moreover, though pacifism is a lovely concept, we don’t have the privilege of living by this idealistic concept as decidedly non-pacifists call for our end, worldwide. She offered no alternate way Israel could act while condemning its self-defense.
To paraphrase what you said, we will not apologize for refusing to be eliminated, Never Again.