NOTE: A very controversial conversation took place 3 years ago between Ari Fuld, HY"D and Sarah Tuttle-Singer...Judean Rose, the author of this post documenting the conversation, is concerned that Ari's voice will continue to speak, and I am concerned because this post went away from its original site because of other people's baseless accusations (now you don't see it anymore!).
This post is reprinted by permission.
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It’s not that Ari Fuld
was a prophet, it’s that he was speaking the truth. That’s how I look
at the confrontation between Ari and Sarah Tuttle-Singer that happened
on Jerusalem Day, 2016. Tuttle-Singer wanted to know why Jews only come
to the Arab section of Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day, “davka.” She saw the Jerusalem Day parade as a provocation.
Ari explained that it’s dangerous
for Jews to go there on regular days, because “they’re looking to
stab.” That Ari was, himself stabbed, proves the point she denied. That a
video of the confrontation disappeared off the face of the earth after
Ari’s murder, suggests that Sarah Tuttle-Singer or perhaps her
followers, don’t want to take any chances that you will come across this
truth.
That was my conclusion after I went digging for the three-year-old
video. We’d spent Yom Haatzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, at the home
of close friends. As often happens, we got to speaking of Ari Fuld,
HY”D, who was stabbed to death 8 months ago while speaking on his phone
at the Gush Etzion shopping center. Ari was a friend and warrior for
Israel. The pain of his absence still feels way too keen and fresh.
Our friend mentioned that she’d never seen the much-talked-about
Jerusalem Day video in which Ari confronts Sarah Tuttle-Singer, the
leftist new media editor at the Times of Israel. STS, as we call her for
short, had happened by as Ari was filming a spot about the celebrations
in “East” Jerusalem, a part of Jerusalem that is for the most part,
populated by Arabs. Ari debated Jewish rights to the land of Israel with
the popular blogger until she said she didn’t want to be on camera
“like this.” At that point, always the gentleman, Ari immediately
stopped rolling. You see a brief fade out and then the film moves on to
something else.
I promised I’d find the video for my friend and send it on. Some time
elapsed until I remembered my promise. I then went to Google and
searched “Ari Fuld confronts Sarah Tuttle-Singer.”
There were three videos, none of them the one I sought, then a Jewish Press article which I knew was the right one. The title was “Confronting the Left at the Jerusalem Day Parade [video].” I thought “Bingo!” but when I opened the link, the video was gone. Inside
the piece, Ari had also linked to his Facebook post of the video, but
when I clicked on the link, I got the error message: “Sorry, this
content isn’t available right now.”
I had only watched that video a month or so ago, and now? Poof! It was gone.
I knew what I think happened. STS or her minions had reported the video and Facebook had removed it.
Some background is appropriate here: Ari expressed to me that felt
hounded by STS and her followers in the last several months of his life.
He told me he was gathering information on STS, creating a dossier. Ari
said that STS had written to his employers at the news station where he
worked, accusing him of disgusting things I'd rather not write here. He
said he had the email. His impression, as he expressed it to me, was
that she was going for the throat, attempting to cut off his livelihood
to make it difficult for him to support his family.
Why haven’t I shared this information before? Because Ari told me these
things on Facebook Messenger, and this account, one of many Ari was
forced to create, was “disappeared” by Facebook, pending "verification”
that the account was real. As a result, I can no longer see the messages
he sent me. |
| The "Ari Y Fuld" account and the vestiges of our correspondence as in this photo, are now gone. |
I wrote Facebook support several times, telling them that Ari was real,
had been murdered by terrorists, that his messages were dear to me and
important, but all I received in return were rote replies that let me
know that Facebook didn’t care and wasn’t listening.
Ari was constantly in Facebook jail
the last few years of his life. He’d no sooner set up a new account
than it would be reported as a fake and taken down. The left very much
wanted to silence him. And with the disappearance of the video of Ari
confronting Sarah Tuttle-Singer on Jerusalem Day 2016, it appears that
the left had finally succeeded in this task.
I was wrecked at the thought that Ari had been persecuted and silenced
even after death, so I dug further. I posted queries on Facebook groups
dedicated to Ari’s memory, asking if anyone still had a copy of the
video. Those who attempted to respond found that they too, could no
longer access the clip as it had been removed by Facebook.
I went back to Google and hunted some more until I found a single, very poor copy of the original film. I shared it on Facebook. And then I downloaded it for posterity. Twice. My husband downloaded it, too.
I went back to Google and hunted some more until I found a single, very poor copy of the original film. I shared it on Facebook. And then I downloaded it for posterity. Twice. My husband downloaded it, too.
We did this quickly. Because evil works fast. You always have to take
that screenshot, something I should have done with what Ari told me in
that Messenger conversation. I failed him then.
But now there are three copies of the Jerusalem Day video in private
files belonging to me and to my husband. No one can take them from me,
from us. No one can silence Ari. Or the truth.
Here is one of those copies [interview with Sarah Tuttle-Singer begins @0:45 - HDG]:
What did he say, what did she say that was so frightening to the left that they campaigned to disappear the video? It was this:
Sarah Tuttle-Singer: How often do you think that the people who march
through here go and, and, buy things, buy um, you know, eat at these
restaurants, talk to the shopkeepers?
Ari Fuld: That is a great question and I’ll answer you.
Sarah Tuttle-Singer: Okay.
Ari Fuld: Number one: not too many times because the food’s not kosher, one. In terms of buying things, personally, I bought a lot of stuff in Bethlehem until the Oslo accords happened.
Sarah Tuttle-Singer: Okay.
Ari Fuld: But you just can’t walk through because it’s dangerous.
Sarah Tuttle-Singer: I do all the time.
Ari Fuld: Well, you don’t exactly look like a Jew.
Sarah Tuttle-Singer: Well, sometimes I do and sometimes, I mean--
Ari Fuld: Well, it doesn’t matter. As of right now, you look like a tourist.
Sarah Tuttle-Singer: Do you know what language I speak to the shopkeepers?
Ari Fuld: Completely irrelevant. You asked me a question, I’m answering it.
Sarah Tuttle-Singer: Sure, I understand, but--
Ari Fuld: The reason that Jews don’t walk through here is ‘cause it’s dangerous. Because the Muslims who are here are looking to stab. If it were not dangerous--
Sarah Tuttle-Singer: No they are not. They are not looking to stab.
Here is the one case where I wish that Sarah Tuttle-Singer had been right. That they were not
looking to stab. Because had she been right, Ari would not have been
stabbed and murdered. He would still be alive. His wife would have a
husband, his children a father. And Israel would still have its warrior.
But Sarah Tuttle-Singer was wrong. Many of the Muslims here were/are
indeed, looking to stab, and they stabbed Ari Fuld to death. This is the
truth that someone so desperately wanted to hide that they reported
every single copy they could find. Perhaps this copy escaped notice, or
perhaps the quality is so bad, they didn't think it could hurt them.
It isn't just her contention that it isn't true that they are looking to
stab and the subsequent stabbing murder of Ari that would be
bothersome. It would also be this admission by Sarah Tuttle-Singer,
captured on film, that Jews did not steal Arab land:
Ari Fuld: Did we take Palestine from the Arabs?
Sarah Tuttle-Singer: I don’t think so. I think this is my home.
Ari Fuld: That’s not what I asked you. Historically, did we take Palestine from the Arabs?
Sarah Tuttle-Singer: No.
Where that quiet “no” is pronounced, STS looks unhappy. Ari had cut
through the bull and gone straight to the facts. She'd been caught up
short, ensnared by logic:
“Did we take Palestine from the Arabs?”
“No.”
The truth was, is, and always will be as simple as that. Nothing else really matters.
Ari had demonstrated that "facts don't care about your feelings." You
want to be an empath? Fine: show empathy for your own. Because Western
notions of social justice are not Jewish and certainly not Tikun Olam.
Because supporting the other side out of sympathy for the underdog is
wrong. Because their narrative is a lie and demonizes our people. And
because all too often, they're looking to stab and murder Jews like Ari
Fuld.
Here is what someone knew that people would take away from this clip:
when you support the Arab narrative, you not only support a lie, but
undermine Jewish rights and threaten the very existence of the Jewish
people.
In the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t disappearing video, Sarah
Tuttle-Singer was caught up short by the truth. Something that Ari stood
for. But the left doesn’t like the truth. And that is why the left
tries so hard to silence Ari’s voice, even as it calls from the grave.
The truth messes with the left’s image of themselves as the ones who
dole out empathy to the disenfranchised. They don't care that in so
doing, they disenfranchise themselves and their own people. They figure
the Jews are privileged, we can take it. We’re the ones with the
stronger position, the ones who are sovereign.
But what happened to Ari proves that this is a lie. He was made of flesh
and blood, and flesh and blood is no match for cold steel. Which shows
that when you empathize with those who lie, you strengthen the hand of
hate: the hand that takes Jewish lives.
At the moment that the knife took Ari’s life, who deserved the left’s
support? Was it those who claim the Jews stole their land? Was it the
terrorist who murdered Ari? Or was it Ari, the one who insisted on
spreading the truth? And before he was murdered? Who deserved the left's
support then, in the time leading up to the dreadful event?
I think we know. I think Sarah Tuttle-Singer knows, though she may be
loath to give in and face the simple truth in black and white: Ari was
right. He was right all along.
But it takes courage to be like Ari, to display the strong courage and
conviction that is so lacking in the left. In today’s world, you need to
be brave to speak out against the lies that drive the hands that wield
the knives. It’s a lot easier, more familiar perhaps, to hide the truth
and go on as usual.
It’s so much simpler to write to Facebook support and report a video, to
hide the evidence from view. Especially ... as a lone truth-teller
bleeds out on a shopping plaza in the Gush.
NOTE FROM EOZ [original site owner and moderator - HDG]: I edited this article to ensure that there is no direct
accusation of Tuttle-Singer being behind the removal of the video, since
there is no evidence of that.
UPDATE: Varda and Sarah Tuttle-Singer (and I) had a lengthy discussion on Twitter about this article. Sarah vehemently and repeatedly denied having had anything to do with Ari's being fired, saying she never sent an email nor asked anyone to send an email to his employer.
https://twitter.com/TuttleSinger/status/1134187676867993600
***UPDATE: Varda and Sarah Tuttle-Singer (and I) had a lengthy discussion on Twitter about this article. Sarah vehemently and repeatedly denied having had anything to do with Ari's being fired, saying she never sent an email nor asked anyone to send an email to his employer.
https://twitter.com/TuttleSinger/status/1134187676867993600
The original post was taken down on Friday afternoon. Thank G-d I got it all except the accompanying commentary. Commenting on this copy of the post is not allowed due to the commenters' part in the original controversy, resulting in its takedown. Again, my main concern, joined with that of Judean Rose, is that Ari Fuld's voice be heard because he can no longer defend himself in THIS WORLD.
Happy Yom Yerushalayim -HDG