How do you feel about it? Were any of you there?

That new AI generated 'music video' from the Israeli Government. That was actually awful to look at. What on earth were they thinking?

This is the definition of Zionism I have always understood and used:

Zionism is simply the idea that Jews have the right to self-determination, or the idea that Israel should (continue to) exist.

I recognize that Zionism is a remarkably broad political ideology encompassing a wide range of political perspectives and beliefs. However, critics of Zionism often narrow its definition to a hyper-specific, and inaccurate or unrecognizable, set of political positions.

I want to refute these mischaracterizations with the most accurate definition of Zionism, supported by reputable historical and academic sources. What do you consider the most accurate definition of Zionism, and what reputable sources would you recommend to support it?

I have been told by several people that to bring prescribed controlled substances, for Ambien, Klonopin and Carisoprodol, to israel for a 10 day tour, all I need is to bring them in their original pharmacy bottles. A few people have said to get a doctor’s note and ChatGBT even recommends getting a certificate from a Department of Health. What’s your best advice? I have been taking these drugs for many, many years and could not go 10 days without them.
Thanks for your help.

This is a comment I saw under a video explaining how Netanyahu is actually fairly
Liberal by Israeli standards
Is this off?

I just seen Israeli man saying Israeli government provides Gaza with a free water but Gazans aren't grateful at all.

Is it true?

I don’t think this problem is going away and every day seemingly brings another altercation with foreign authorities or US journalists. The consensus I’ve seen from Israelis seems to be that the settlers are fanatical at best, terrorists at worst. What’s the solution here?

This is inspired in part by this NYT opinion piece:

https://archive.ph/2026.10.09-050725/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/opinion/israel-elections-palestinians.html

Specifically this portion:

Nor would change be easy. Reversing a trajectory five decades in the making with a public that has moved to the right and a security establishment increasingly enmeshed with the settlement project is a heavy lift. Just curbing settler violence, which is not a politically difficult issue, would take more than periodic arrests of bad apples. It would require pulling settler-heavy reserve battalions from West Bank duty and cutting off the funding and land that sustain illegal outposts. It requires an Israeli government willing to treat settler violence as a governance failure rather than a public relations problem.

Hey! Forgive my ignorance. Is it safe for a solo 30f to visit? Any specific celebration around New Years?

I live in New Zealand. The Chinese friends around me always express their hatred for Israel. But I don't understand all this. Because I don't think Jews show much hostility to Chinese people. This favourability even reached 66% in 2019. This is a very high proportion. Spain's favourability to the Chinese is only 38%. But since October 7th. There are many anti-Jewish remarks on the Internet in China that are manipulated by people on a large scale. These are often extreme. What do you think of Chinese people? Are there any Chinese in Israel? How are they integrating? Do you think the Chinese and communist China are separated?

Yesterday, football hooligans in Croatia chanted slogans, which are too horrifying to write.

I (not Jewish, I'm Slav from Balkan) read this forum often, so I know about 70% of people here do not agree with my opinions on current situation in Israel. My sincere question is: do you see a difference between chants made by Croatian hooligans and someone with keffiyeh in, IDK, Amsterdam, chanting Free Palestine?

https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/16/croatias-leaders-slam-pro-nazi-chants-ahead-of-ajax-match-in-southern-city-split

Hi! I am writing my Master's thesis on Israeli-public facing civil society organisations (CSOs) with a focus on how CSOs with different theories of change understand their role in conflict transformation. Inspired by Bar-Tal's theory of socio-psychological barriers to peace, I'm doing a two-step analysis with first analysing the way selected CSOs present their goals, limitations etc online, and then interviewing a select few from the list.

I was wondering whether there was an Israeli person here (living there or having moved abroad doesn't matter!) that could verify my interpretations, given my outsider position to the research topic (I'm Polish!)? :)

After living in Israel for some time, I noticed something rather strange and a bit refreshing. Unlike in the US, South Korea or other "western/eastern" countries (even South Africa to some degree), there seems to be comparatively very little "male-female conflict discourse" in Israel, like say over women being paid less/sexually harassed or men being excluded from higher education/the dating market.

Could this be because Israelis have many other issues to deal with and/or do Israeli men and women generally get along better?

https://x.com/paginghezbollah/status/2110396460877709673?s=46&t=YRh59JXhCHDFoUYvch0TKA

I’ve been working on compiling a comprehensive list of organizations dedicated to building peace and fostering cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians. So far, I’ve found the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP) to be an excellent starting point, particularly because of its extensive network of peacebuilding organizations.

I’m wondering if there are any other umbrella organizations or networks with similar goals that I should look into. I’m also interested in independent NGOs and grassroots initiatives that aren’t affiliated with larger networks and may have been overlooked.

If anyone knows of additional organizations or useful resources, I’d really appreciate your suggestions!

ALLMEP’s website: https://www.allmep.org/

I made aliyah from the US 10 months ago. Growing up I used to enjoy going to movies in the US but I'd stopped going in recent years because the decorum of people in movie theaters has gotten so bad: Talking throughout the movie, cell phone screens illuminating the theater, ringer and notification noises going off repeatedly, people yelling at the screen, general rudeness, etc. Couple the consistently worsening theater experience with the steadily increasing quality of home theater tech and it just became an easy decision not to go see movies in theater. The only exception I'd make for this area movies where I could assume that people in the theater would behave (art house films, documentaries and the like) and even then I'd get burned periodically.

So what can I expect should I want to catch a movie in an Israeli theater?

Did they never feel as if Morocco was their actual home? Moroccan Jews have been living in Morocco for 3000 years, long before the Islamic conquest. Even this Jewish man in the video sounds 100% Moroccan Berber, so they deffo assimilated into the culture. I just wish Moroccan Jews could come back and live in Morocco. We also saw them as Moroccan, just with a different faith. Because of the Zionist movement, the judeo-Berber language is endangered, with only around 200 Jews still speaking it, as Israel encourages assimilation into Israeli culture. I really wish they saw Morocco as their home and Judaism as just their faith. I wish they never felt the need to create their own Jewish state. There’s soo much Jewish history in Morocco, so it’s a shame there are barely any Jews left there. It honestly feels like Moroccan Jews chose Israel over Morocco.

I want to know something once and for all here, can you explain to me in your own words what made October 7 happen?

It seems to me that you never learned the true lesson here, the lesson isn't about "bibi" or "right wing".
The lesson isn't specifically this tired line
"giving Hamas Qatar money was a mistake".
even if you believe that Hamas was allowed to stay in power to weaken the PA- it's still not the real issue because that decision is also part of the same conception-

The conception that made that decision seem rational in the first place, but i have never seen a leftist actually what it is.

Can you explain what the problem/conception was without "bibi", without "right wing"?

Because it doesn't seem that the israeli left has truly abandoned that conception...

— Azerbaijan

— Kazakhstan

— UAE

— Bahrain

— Morocco

— Albania

— Senegal