Vegan Parfait

This is an easy to make treat!   You can multiply the recipe depending how many you are making.   Each makes ones.   

Ingredients:

One vegan yogurt (I used So-Delicious Coconut)

One oreo cookie crumbled

A few slices of pear (cut similar to picture).   

A handful of trail mix

Just follow the picture and arrange as seen.   I like to go in the order oreo, pear slices and then trail mix. Enjoy!   

   And check out my other recipes:

Cinnamon Apple Bread Easy WFPB Pumpkin Cookies

Lime Flavored Rice

Marinated Black Beans

Mayo (vegan)

Mint Salad (WFPB)

No Grate Potato Latkes

No Knead Basic Bagels

Paprika Hummus

Post-frost vegetables only soup (or beverage)-vegan and gluten free

Quinoa Instapot Stew

Roasted Potatoes

Spaghetti with Peppers

Tomato stew with carrot tops

Tofu with Green Onions

Vegan Cheese and Banana Pepper Bread

Veggie Crumbles Lettuce Wraps

Rachelle Kaufman is the vegan author of several books.  She hasn't written a cookbook as of yet and doesn't know if she will.  But she has written the awesome vegan fiction novel: Bubble Burst: The Truth About the Dairy Farm. 

Zionist Psychology 101

 There was an excellent #SARS2 thread recently on the psychology of COVID denial.   See: Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA on X: "As a clinical health psychologist, I notice that many people are using psychological defense mechanisms to downplay the risk of COVID. These are my Top 7 examples: 🧵 https://t.co/Fkal1FUw1w" / X (twitter.com)

So, as an MSW and someone who was in raised and left Zionism, I've decided to apply the same to Zionism. I'll go through and explain the defense mechanisms Zionists use.

#1 – Denial – Pretending a problem does not exist to provide artificial relief from anxiety.

• Accusing Gazans of making up images or stories.
• Making videos mocking Gazans.
• Claiming Gazans have plenty of resources like food, water or electricity (even though the government of Israel has publicly stated cutting these off).  
• Using the term war, instead of genocide or Holocaust.     
• Saying media coverage is biased towards the Palestinians.   
• Citing the Israeli government or IOF (IDF).    
• Obsessing over one lie or misprint in a newspaper and generalizing it to everything related to Gaza or Palestinians.   
• Dehumanizing Palestinians.

#2 – Projection – When someone takes what they are feeling and attempts to put it on someone else to artificially reduce their own anxiety.

• Americans (or others in the diaspora) posting pictures of Israeli flags, especially as profile pictures.
• "Stand with Israel"
• Calling criticism of Israel antisemitism (could also be #3 displacement) 

#3 – Displacement – When someone takes their anxiety and redirects their discomfort toward someone or something else.

• Irrational angry outbursts.
• White people who are unhappy with their own lives taking out their anger on Gazans.
• Telling Gaza supporters to go to Gaza.
• Shaming, guilting or exiling Jews who don't support genocide ("What is wrong with you", You aren't really a Jew, etc).
• Calling criticism of Israel antisemitism (could also be #2).
• Blaming Hamas instead of Israel.
• University witch hunts.

#4 – Compartmentalization – Holding two conflicting ideas or behaviors, such as caution and incaution, rather than dealing with the anxiety evoked by considering the incautious behaviors more deeply (hypocrisy)

• Talking about reducing civilian "casualties of war" (when it is actually a genocide).
• Rabbis or others stating concerns about the conditions of Palestinians while stating they support Israel.
• Asking for understanding for those who "aren't ready for a ceasefire" rather than being concerned about how many people will die because of that.

#5 – Reaction formation – expressing artificial positive feelings when actually experiencing anxiety

• Talk of how Gaza will be better when the "war" is over.
• Articles about how a child in Gaza got medical care in Israel at sometime.
• Talking about how the Jewish community is coming together to support each other (even though the opposite is true).

#6 – Rationalization – Artificially reducing anxiety through a weak justification.

• Citing Hamas
• Citing Oct 7
• Citing Hostages
• Claiming Israel is the only "safe" place for Jews (It isn't).
• Zionist vegans citing Israel has more vegans than Palestine.
• Citing or in many cases misciting issues like LGBQT rights or women's rights to justify killing Gazans.
• Also, not Zionists but the silent: Not speaking up because it might offend people.
• Also, not Zionists but the silent: Being more concerned with feelings of others than deaths.

#7 – Intellectualization – using extensive cognitive arguments to artificially circumvent genocide anxiety

• Long rambling threads trying to justify genocide.
• Long rambling articles trying to justify genocide.
• Think tanks funded by or affiliated with AIPAC.

Other posts on Zionism:

 Lessons from the Hungarian Holocaust: Even with a ceasefire Israel will still continue to kill.

Today's Zionism is in violation of Judaism.

Rachelle Kaufman is the author of a number of books including Amazon.com: An American Jew in Budapest eBook : Kaufman, Rachelle.   Having been brainwashed that "Israel is always right" from childhood, Rachelle has overcome that brainwashing to see the truth.   

Today's Zionism is in violation of Judaism.

 

This post may just be a messy train of thought.  I think the point I would like to make though is Jewish doesn't equal Zionist.   

In fact, Zionism is in direct violation of the Torah, at least in the way Zionism is currently being carried out. Today's Zionists disobey and ignore at least half of the ten commandments.

• Thou shalt not kill (self explanatory)
• Remember the Sabath Day, keep it holy (Zionists can't even stop killing on the Sabbath)
• Thou shall not steal (food, water, homes, electricity, etc)
• Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor (Let's be honest, there are a lot of Zionist lies)
• Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house (which I would take to include the land the house is built on)

But I would also like to make a point of, don't play into the hands of the Zionists.   The Zionists work very hard to convince Jews that Jewish=Zionist.   When describing the behaviors (etc) of Zionists make sure you say Zionists and not Jews.     

On a similar note, I highly recommend against using antisemitic/ anti-Jewish symbols like swastikas.   Yes, because I would say most Jews including anti-Zionist Jews find it hurtful, but more importantly it plays into the Zionists, by equating Jews with Zionists. That a Jew has to be a Zionist is what the Zionists want all Jews to think.    I do want to mention though, I think the use of swastikas is actually limited to a very small number of individuals, but Zionists will play it up and try to make it seem common-perhaps another reason to not do this.   

I also hope Jews who are reading this will learn from this.   And if they are Zionists or perhaps not sure if they are or aren't, they will consider this.    And consider all the ways that modern Zionism is violating Judaism.   

Rachelle Kaufman is the author of a number of books including Amazon.com: An American Jew in Budapest eBook : Kaufman, Rachelle.   Having been brainwashed that "Israel is always right" from childhood, Rachelle has overcome that brainwashing to see the truth.