Tuvia Tenenbom > Quotes

“Out of the seven billion people now living on the earth, there are about fifty thousands souls who agree with these settlers. Practically everybody else is certain that they are the greatest obstacle to peace. Personally, I have never understood why. Let’s say that the land is divided between Arabs and Jews, and let’s say that the Arabs get the whole of the West Bank. Why, I want to know, can’t the Jews still live there? There are millions of Arabs living in proper Israel, why can’t a few Jews with skullcaps live with the Arabs? In what book of law is it decreed that a land must be free of Jews? Anyway, I go to meet the”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

“There’s no point in arguing with a fanatic man, as there would be no point in arguing with an intellectual, intellectual just being a nicer word than fanatic.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

“Amazing how this system works! People land in this country with cameras in order to find bad Jews. If this guy had dedicated the amount of energy he’s spending here to South Central LA, he would have found quite a number of horrible images to show to the world, but I guess he’s too scared to walk around South Central’s streets.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

“Being pro-Israel, how strange, does not necessarily mean lack of anti-Semitism. You can love Israel and still think that there are a bunch of Jews out there who control world markets and world finance.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, The Lies They Tell

“While the cowboys are disappearing, the Indians stick around.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, The Lies They Tell

“It is the fate of the Jew, don’t you know, to love those who hate him.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Hello, Refugees!

“How far a Jew will go – and how far European diplomats will go – to find fault with Jews is really remarkable.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch the Jew!

“Man’s reality is rarely logic’s best friend.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Careful, Beauties Ahead!

“5 Broken Cameras, the Oscar-nominated film about the Bil’in protests, “shows life in one Palestinian village,” the New York Times writes in a glorifying review of this film. If you sit in New York and watch a docu-film you may believe that what you see is real. When you are here in Bil’in, and if you understand Arabic, you know better. “The Bil’in protests” is a show, a show of “Allah is with you. Kill them!” Personally, I don’t believe in “Death to the Arabs” and I don’t believe in “Death to the Jews,” even if the latter has been nominated for an Oscar.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

“I don’t have a gun, only a cigarette. And a cigarette is even less welcome than a gun. There are many more No Smoking signs in this city [Chicago] than No Gun signs.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, The Lies They Tell

“Let’s say that the land is divided between Arabs and Jews, and let’s say that the Arabs get the whole of the West Bank. Why, I want to know, can’t the Jews still live there? There are millions of Arabs living in proper Israel, why can’t a few Jews with skullcaps live with the Arabs? In what book of law is it decreed that a land must be free of Jews?”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

“human rights activists are the biggest racists there are.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

“The Jordan Valley has not only gorgeous mountains but it also has endless roads, and Atef talks unto me. The mountains, he says, used to be green. Who turned them brown? Well, the Israelis. There used to be waters under the mountains, he explains to me, but the Israelis stole them. It is possibly true, and it’s also possibly true that Mecca used to look like Hamburg but then some Jews stole all the trees.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch the Jew!

“It is mind-boggling to me how people who say they love Palestinians so much and dedicate their lives for preserving Palestinian identity and culture, don’t even entertain the thought of studying this culture. They know Kant, they know Nietzsche, they know Sartre, they know Aristotle, but they know no Quran, no Hadith, and no Arabic.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

“In addition to her settler expertise, she tells me that she’s also an expert on Judaism, which she classifies as a “pagan religion.” I ask her if she has ever studied Judaism, a question that makes her raise her voice in anger. For years and years and years, she yells at this offender of her high stature, she has been studying Judaism over and over and over. I light up a cigarette, inhale and exhale, look at her and ask her: Could you tell me, please, what the “Vision of Isaiah” is? That’s the most basic question one could ask and any student of Bible 101 could have answered this question in his sleep, but this learned lady has no clue. What vision? What Isaiah? I am befuddled by her lack of knowledge but everybody at this table asserts beyond doubt that I lack the mental capacity to understand higher concepts.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

“It is on this occasion that I grasp one basic reality: activists, on the Left or on the Right, by their very nature don’t relate to people as humans.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch the Jew!

“Namely, the Bedouin issue could well transform itself into the “Second Coming” of the “Palestinian Rights” religion. Various Israeli governments have known this and they have all acted erratically on this issue. If history is any guide, no final Knesset vote on it will take place before both Jesus and Muhammad have arrived on the same camel at the gates of Jerusalem. But don’t tell this to anybody here, for they will be very offended.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

“This American habit of naming streets and cities for the people their ancestors murdered is something I don’t really get. Imagine Germany getting into this habit. Would be fun. Berlin would be called Abraham and Hamburg would be named Sarah.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, The Lies They Tell

“The truth is that America is not the only country or culture on the planet that was founded on the fresh blood of those who came before. Every country, every nation, every culture was founded by butchers. Sorry, that’s life. Western people who today fly high the flag of human rights are the very children and grandchildren of yesterday’s rapists and murderers. I know. Most of my family was murdered by them in cold blood long before I was born.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, The Lies They Tell

“Artists, sorry to say this, are a bunch of selfish, egocentric kids who will sell their souls to the highest bidder.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch the Jew!

“As for anti-Semitism, nobody knows anything anymore. For months, the “anti-Semitism row” featured on a continuous basis in the media, and suddenly it disappeared, and so did all the anti-Semites of Britain. Haven’t you heard the story? A gigantic fish jumped out of the sea into the island, scooped up all the anti-Semites, swallowed them one by one, and then vomited them all into the depths of the sea. Yeah.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, The Taming of the Jew

“The Irish, passionate island people, are willing to die for every inch of their land but can’t decide where their land starts and where it ends. They remind me of the Israelis, who have a similar problem. They should marry one another, the Irish and the Israelis, I think; it will be so much fun to watch. The Scots, this island’s habitual complainers, will never forgive the English for making them drop the kilt. They should marry the Palestinians, and together they could breed as many complainers as possible, leading a life of perpetual tragedies, which is exactly what they want. The English, the mightiest of the four nations on this island, are the biggest actors on the planet, though not necessarily onstage, and you can count on them to fool you. They are doing well, thank you, and don’t have to marry anyone. They will find a way to make children from the trees; don’t you worry about them. The Welsh? Well, they are the friendliest, warmest of the bunch, and the best kissers to boot. Yeah!”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, The Taming of the Jew

“I’ve been around in the world and have seen many Israeli- or Jew-haters on our globe. But never before have I encountered this kind of hatred – so simplistic, so potent.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, The Taming of the Jew

“Something changed in me as well, I tell Ivan. When we first met, I thought that the issue was Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-Semitism, but now, after having interviewed many British people, I have come to the conclusion that the issue is not Jeremy Corbyn, but the people. It’s the people who are anti-Semites, and it doesn’t matter what Jeremy Corbyn is or is not.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, The Taming of the Jew

“He [an organizer for the German Catholic Day event] also tells me that it's wonderful that Germany opens its doors to so many refugees because now Germany can prove how great it is, unlike the Israelis who are “occupiers” and violate human rights. Germans are good, Jews are bad. What else is new?”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Hello, Refugees!

“In America we build prisons based on third-grade test scores. So, if the test scores in the area are bad we know we need more prisons.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, The Lies They Tell

“If I get this right, he’s saying that the reasons why Europe is involved so deeply in this conflict are two: (1) The desire to erase the “central rallying point for the Arab states and also for Iran against Israel.” (2) The desire to eventually solve the Sunni-Shi’a conflict.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

“The issue most impacted by the harsh change, at least for the people around me, was the most intimate, the sexual: who may sleep with whom and who may not, who can touch whom and who cannot, what may one do with the other, if anything, and what exactly are humans supposed to do with their sexual organs, if anything. That’s on the left side of politics, where the Puritans are more commonly known as Progressives. On the right side of politics, an equally senseless phenomenon soon came into view. Many of the anti-vaxxers, for example, were to be found on the right side of American politics, and they claimed that more people were dying from taking COVID vaccines than from the coronavirus itself. If people who followed them ended up in the cemetery, so be it; they didn’t care. It was bizarre, totally ridiculous, dangerous, and poisonous. They had not one iota of sense or science to prove what they were saying, but they were viewed as righteous, truth tellers, and world savers. They lived in a bubble of lies, and no force in the world could stop them.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Careful, Beauties Ahead!

“If I get this right, there is a third reason why Europe is involved here: (3) Europe is trying to atone for its colonial past by issuing dictates to a non-European country. That the same mouth utters these three reasons while not wearing a burka is a testimony to the genius of European diplomacy. I go back home and tell the cats about the three reasons why the EU is sponsoring the ex-Jew Itamar. They are stray cats and they have seen the worst, but when they hear what I’ve just told them they meow so loud that I immediately conclude they would never be diplomats. Maybe after I give them some kosher milk I should go to meet the EU’s greatest evil: settlers.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

“As strange as it may sound, Americans would sooner drop missiles on a foreign country than tell you who they voted for in the last election.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, The Lies They Tell