So well said, thank you. Logic completely fails in this — and every other instance — where corrupt entities like the US and Israeli fascist govts. attempt to impose stupidity on folks who choose to think their way through the propaganda
Nonetheless, you're a heroic and important voice. Every Jewish voice -- you remind me of a lifelong friend I'm privileged to still have in my life -- who speaks out in any fashion against Zionism is a message to the Christian Zionist idiots in the US and elsewhere that Zionism is not Judaism, but as Rabbi Dovid Weiss frames it, is actually a political movement "antithetical to" Judaism. Bless you.
And Jewish Voice for Peace kicks ass. They occupied Grand Central Station and have done other really uncompromising actions. They deserve a lot of respect.
I don't think they care, Jenny, else they wouldn't be ethically corrupt enough to be Zionists in the first place. Just watched Max Blumenthal interview and they were discussing a US rep's despicable treatment of Medea Benjamin, in a video where Medea gets called Jew hater and self-hating Jew, as well as Hamas supporter and supporter of genocide, SHE -- Medea is called the genocide supporter, NOT the congressional ULTRA-FUCKING-SCUMBAG whom she's confronting. These fucking idiot sellout congress shithead fucktard criminals chipmunk-brained cretins in congress (how many more epithets can I find) are hopeless, and I suspect that anti-Zionist Jews see how poor brave Medea gets slandered and maybe think twice about speaking out.
Yes, of course, but fungal mycelia are also more intelligent than the entire US congress. Metaphors, metaphors. Always more offensive if they contain a mammalian brain. No offense ever intended to any element of a natural system. Biologist here. Nature is my deity.
Marine Biologist here. I have net come across an insult to any other kinds of life. I would defend them the same way. I agree about the fungal mycelia but most people would not even know what they are.
Do they even care about what other Jews think, JennyStokes?
I am certain that they would use all their devious efforts and wealthy buddies to get any outspoken Jew to "shut the hell up" or we will find a way to shut you up.
Probably well funded by Adelson and her criminal moneyed sponsors from Las Vegas.
Particularly all those ex-IDF volunteers from most countries, dual-citizens thick on the ground in countries like the little Israel / USA bag carrier Australia, the UK, the USA, free to come and go as they please. These people are always on Israel's active military service list but hide under the title of Americans, Australians etc. In places like New York, the risk of physical danger seems to be always present, often with police support.
No one ever seems to question their loyalty to their chosen (or allocated) resident country which in places like the USA, now a 86% politically controlled part of Israel anyway, would be viewed as antisemitic and subject to arrest by the masked MAGA stormtroopers, a.k.a. ICE. or the current FBI, whose values seem to have become somewhat eroded since the commencement of Trumpets for World Domination, just 3 months ago........ 45 months to go.
Think on that one. ICE, masked and hidden from view and now seen as the norm.
It’s strange that we have no problem understanding hypocrisy when it comes to a lack of Christian behavior (TV ministers getting rich, priests abusing children, the so called “gospel of prosperity”) and how these people hide behind religion and call themselves Christians to get what they want but are no more Christian than a cat. We recognize that and call it out all the time. But Zionists posing as Jews get a free pass and I’ve rarely heard them called hypocrites.
The Holocaust sympathy and the antisemtic club is the Zionists power so the more people blame Jews for the current genocide the more it strengthens Zionism. Brilliant propaganda and evil to the core.
Yes on Jewish people need to speak up. I believe their speaking out carries much more impact than any other protesters.
They do not care. In fact, they see genuine antisemitism as a feature, not a bug, as long as it isn't a view held by persons of influence and authority.
There are studies which outline what makes people disliked as individuals. All are intuitively and empirically obvious, corroborated by experience. A useful exercise in this context is to ask if any of these do not apply to Israel. Spoiler alert needed?
The witty and urbane former Chief Rabbi of London once defined anti-semitism as disliking Jews more than is warranted.
I was a super hard core activist for decades jailed a hundred times for it, and ALL of my fellows became retarted in 08 regarding obummer. I tried to tell them all I had learned about 3rd gen CIA “obomber” before the election but none of the lefties could hear it. Still today they're clueless about him. I read both of tarpleys books about him… post modern coup the making of a Manchurian candidate https://www.voltairenet.org/article166759.html
I've got good news. Cornel West the blacktivist professor and politician campaigned hard for ibombya but eventually he smelled the BLACK coffee and turned the other cheek. He coined the term for Obama : WALL STREETS BLACK MASCOT, and the great beauty of that one is that since Cornel is black, it's not “racist” to say it! I gave Obama a rapper name: “Too White”
Social justice activists have quite a few blind spots, and really serious ones. Problem is, we SJWs ARE, much of the time, the more enlightened and compassionate people, and that appears to make us immune to questioning ANY of our views.
I'm pro-semitic. For decades, I've known more than most of my global-north kinfolk about the truth in Palestine, but of course the antisemitic label quickly gets thrown to shut down 'complicated' conversation. Since Oct 7th however, I've become much more pro-Jew because I've sought and liked lots of Jewish voices who are anti-Zionist anti-genocide. They tend to be of Mizrahi aka semite origin rather than Ashkenazi white Europeans who learned occupation and genocide from Nazi Germany. The white racist Israelis and their proxies are THE most "anti-Semitic", including to Arab and African Jews. Palestinians of course are Semites wanting to live in peace with others who are pro-Semitic, irrespective of faith, like it's been for thousands of years.
There are lots of words in the dictionary that have more than one meaning.
Here is the beginning of a list:
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Arm – A limb of the human body, or a weapon or device used for a specific purpose.
Ball – A round object used in sports, or a formal social event.
Bank – A financial institution, or a raised area of land alongside a body of water.
Bark – The protective outer covering of a tree or the sound a dog makes.
Bat – A flying mammal or a piece of equipment used in sports such as baseball or cricket.
Bear – A large carnivorous mammal, or to carry or support something.
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Antisemitism is no exception except that it is exceptional in the number of secondary meanings.
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Here is meaning number 9 for Antisemitism:
Dictionary
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Antisemitism 9. (Noun) a slur; used by supporters of Genocide to intimidate and silence people of conscience; example, "you are an anti-semite if you don't support Israel" - a nonsense phrase heard in the halls of the US Congress that is clear evidence that such is their subjugation by Zionists that they are made to crawl on their bellies and utter nonsense and, disgracefully, support Genocide.
Anti-zionism is anti-racism. It's anti-colonialism. Its anti-apartheid. And its anti-genocide.
Now you know why the "white" colonial nations are all united as one in crushing all opposition to anti-zionism. Because what unites them: their so-called shared values....is white supremacy.
The apartheid state collapsed because: the South African people resisted and Cuba assisted them. And the west could no longer maintain that outpost. Mandela was a just leader of change.
While Mandela was president of South Africa....he was STILL on the US terrorist list. But there was not a single one of the criminal Boer government on that terrorist list, despite them having overseen: apartheid, colonial rule, and brutal mass murders of the local people. Not ONE of them on the US terrorist list. But President Nelson Mandela was:
But then why didn't "native" South Africans just get the treatment Palestinians are right nowc with full support of the "white supremacist" countries? Instead, the "white supremacist" countries sanctioned them.
The white supremacist countries came in very late and out of embrassment. The white supremacist are also the countries who colonized Africa in the first place. Which is how the South Africans ended up with Dutch colonizers calling themselves "Afrikaners" - what an orwellian name.
The colonialism and white supremacy continue even now. I suggest you want this video in which in the UK parliament someone stood up and demanded that the government must NOT relinquish its colonial rule over the people of Diego Garcia......because it is so useful in actions like bombing Yemenis.
The resistance to apartheid and sanctions was driven by ordinary individuals, not the state. It's why they jumped straight to making it illegal for local authorities to boycott repression. At the end of the day, skin colour is skin deep and anyone that takes it to mean anything serious is a fuckwit imo. The skin colour thing is just part of the divide and rule tactic, which is why they had signs in the sixties saying "No blacks, dogs or Irish". The Irish are some of the palest people on the planet. Before that it was "Wogs start at Calais". What colour were the kids forced up chimneys in the 1800s? Under the soot, that is. White. It's not about whiteness so much as power and money.
Succinctly put, Kojo. And the Zionist/racist/colonialist/apartheidist/genocidist fraternity sit under the umbrella of VICTIMHOOD, the permanent justification, allegedly, for their bloody handiwork.
I'm pro-Semitic which means pro-Palestinian and pro those 'self-hating' 'leftie' Jews who tend to be non-white Mizrahi Jews of Arab descent with fading history of living in (relative) peace with Semites of all faiths, for thousands of years. Descendants of Ashkenazi Jews from Europe tend to be the white supremacists in Israel and USA? Perhaps lessons from German colonialists and the 1904-1908 Namibian genocide guided the Zionist movement? Colonialism was 'a thing' many countries have grown beyond, slowly and painfully. Apartheid too. With UN help, 193 states in this world seem to have moved forward, except Israel and its proxy the USA.
The disgusting and absolutely false premise that criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza is fueled by antisemitism is no different than the early 2000s lie that criticism of America’s aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq was fueled by support for Al-Qaeda.
The establishment’s use of propaganda gets rebranded, but it never changes.
The recent pogrom right in the middle of NYC when a lone pro Palestine Jewish woman was being hounded and bullied by a horde of Zionists chanting 'Kill the Semites!' 'Kill the Semites!' ... Or actually the more PC version of it and the more palatable in the Western world 'Kill the Arabs!' 'Kill the Arabs!' went unnoticed by the mainstream media because the abnormal has been normalised in the land of the absurd and the grotesque! Who needs the Nazis when the offsprings of who defeated them are doing much better job than they could've ever dreamt of.
Sabby Sabs pointed out on her program that if that had been a group of BLACK men following that poor woman, the entire NYC police force would have been there arresting people.
No special protection for Blacks.
Nor Asians.
Not Hispanics.
Certainly not for Arab-Americans.
Only for the un-Chosen.
Those Zios pelted the woman with garbage and rocks, injuring her. She had blood running down her face.
Jenny, let me know when you figure out the difference between 'education' and 'critical thinking'. Lot's of people are educated, but few have critical thinking skills.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that it is the 'educated' that know how to successfully psychologically manipulate the 'uneducated' to do their bidding.
Education matters less than you think. MORALITY and CRITICAL THINKING (which is not taught even in most educational systems) is MORE impactful and necessary.
Chang, Jenny's heart is in the right place. I am sure she means what you are saying when she says that " 97% of Americans have no education". The kind of "education" she is referring to is the conditioning and brainwashing that goes on in educational institutions.
We gain critical thinking, moral behaviour and loving kindness in spite of the indoctrination.
Thanks to Caitlin & Tim we meet and share good values in these pages. Thank you too for being lucid and critical.
Indu, I think you misunderstood Jenny's comment. Jenny is saying that the educational quality is very low in the U.S. - she is NOT talking about the conditioning/brainwashing/indoctrination - in fact she is talking about the OPPOSITE - i.e. normal education like geography, history, etc.
Jenny STILL does not understand the difference between EDUCATION and CRITICAL THINKING.
BTW, if you follow many of Jenny's comments, the problem is NOT with Jenny's heart, but with her head (for whatever reason she seems to have comprehension issues - as observed by quite a few commentators).
>>"We gain critical thinking, moral behaviour and loving kindness in spite of the indoctrination."
I'd have to disagree with you on the critical thinking part. I would say that less than 5% of the human population seems to have adequate critical thinking skills (IMHO) (I used to be in the 95% section before I made a lot of effort - including reading books, watching videos, etc. to work on own thinking skills - which is a never-ending process till the end). Most people cannot be bothered to put in the time/work/effort as it requires an honest and objective evaluation of one's own belief systems and introspection.
Interesting Chang that you have to keep disqualifying me in decidedly inhumane terms.
As far as my first comment is concerned: I was EDUCATED well in each school I attended and was aware of any brainwashing particularly in England with regard to the Empire.
I do not think in the way you do is that bad?
I have lived a full life in many countries and listened and learned that education (with thought) is indispensable.
What use is 'critical thinking' if you don't know where Iran is on a map?
You are so pedantic sometimes that you assume we all need to be the same as you?
A NORMAL EDUCATION does not contain (and is not considered to impart) critical thinking skills. One has to specifically focus on a different set of skills to be able to think critically.
Until you understand that 'education' is NOT 'critical thinking' you will continue going down the wrong paths in your comprehension of arguments (as you have been doing here on Substack).
Nope - you gain critical thinking by explicitly working on 'critical thinking' skills.
"Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness."
When I was a kid nobody locked their doors or their cars. If you went hunting or fishing you left the keys in the truck in case someone had an emergency. Nobody touched what wasn't theirs. It was only when people started moving out from the city to our areas that things started to change. It seemed like city people lived by a different set of rules that lacked the morality of country folk. As for critical thinking, we got that from the WWII vets who had seen the horrors that government caused and spoke out against it. They never talked about the horrors they saw but they were determined to keep us from knowing what they had had to do. Curiously it was the government hand in hand with the movie moguls that brought it to the kids. Far too many of us were captured by the Hollywood bullshit that glamourized killing and promoted racism. Very few of us weren't suckered in by it. Those of us who weren't were the ones blessed with the gift of critical thinking.
Peter, critical thinking doesn't come automatically/naturally or otherwise because of life experiences, events, even formal or informal education, etc. One has to specifically study 'critical thinking' - which includes understanding how human minds work & think - the logical fallacies, biases, heuristics, human cognitive errors, and more that trip up EVERY HUMAN on the planet.
This movement is like a fox tolling for geese. The fox puts on a lavish display. He rolls around on the ground chasing his tail and performing all sorts of seemingly pointless actions. Geese, like people are curious. As the fox's actions get more absurd the geese get drawn in by their curiosity. When the geese get close enough the fox suddenly pounces and the game is over. Sound familiar to anyone?
I’m sick of the term “antisemitism,” and I’m sick of the fact that we keep using it. Why do we have to create something specific for one group of people? That’s a tactic used by Jewish lobbies. The other day, a narcissistic, “pro-Palestinian” Jew told me that Zionists hide behind Judaism and I am not to use the expression"Jews" in my posts. Obviously she sees herself as a “chosen one,” which can't be associated with Israels evilness. So, instead of blaming the majority of her Jewish society for the atrocities they are committing, it's the Palestinians who shouldn't name his oppressors by their name. If the Palestinians say they hate the Jew, they hate the one who invaded and killed them. No, she wants us not to use the word “Jew.” Jews are the chosen people. We can’t bring their name into what they do. Even though Israeli society, besides the indigenous Palestinian population, is jewish, we can't tell the genocidal society bye it's name.
Why can they do that? Why can they hide behind the forever protected Judaism????? That’s the simple question. Why can Jews kill and do whatever they want to others, without facing consequences or even the slightest criticism? Why is it okay to hide behind an invented protective anti-ism? Why is that ok???
I’ve said it a million times before: the problem is the Jewish supremacist, narcissistic, racist narrative in the world. It’s time to stop. We should fight this for real. No human is better than another. And when you see injustice, call it out and act on it—don’t treat Jews as a superior, untouchable class, as almost all of you in the pro-Palestinian movement do.
Fuck this world where the victims are to blame for hating their occupier.
Norm Coleman, chairman of the Republican Party Jewish coalition, said that The masters of the universe are Jews”, so what is the point of arguing with your masters?
Jewish interest are also masters at the box office, the mortgage lenders, the largest corporations, pharmaceuticals, military productions… etc,,,, etc,,, etc…. My masters , in spades. Oh…forgot… masters of the Unites states of Israel.
Agreed 100%. If the wealth owned by Aipac interests doesn’t own the U.S. I’d be surprised. They also own the majority of the U.S. government legislative branches… and that condition in my opinion exists in many other countries…
As the owners of the planet, they make the rules of life and if we don’t follow them, evictions confirm that what the Masters of the universe dictate, is law…….
He also said that Zios are currently losing "the digital war".
Quote:
The remarks came as Coleman lamented that pro-Israel propagandists are “losing the digital war” in battle for the hearts and minds of younger generations, and called for more stringent censorship of pro-Palestinian speech.
“A majority or Gen Z have an unfavorable impression of Israel. And, my friends, I think the reason for that is that we’re losing the digital war. They’re getting their information from TikTok, and… and we’re losing that war.”
“We’ve got to get our digital sneakers on, so that the truth can prevail over the lies. And when we do that, the future of Israel will be stronger because a majority of all Americans will support Israel. We’ll make that happen, we have to make it happen. Thank you, Baruch hashem.”
I look forward to seeing this re-tweeted by every Senator and member of the House of Representatives. Who knows - maybe President Trump and JD Vance will also re-tweet it?
It has been the official message from most Israeli and American politicians, lobbyists and spokespeople for decades that if you disagreed with any Israeli position you were an anti-semite. So their entire propaganda and legal apparatus has been used for 80 years (and still is being used) to intentionally conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, . This type of messaging does not work very well on readers of this Substack, but it has worked very well on the masses. It will take a lot of effort and time to undo that conditioning.
"If you don’t want anyone to commit genocide against Palestinians, then that means you want to commit genocide against Jews. There is no third possibility."
It actually seems like a more sinister version of Imperialism's long standing two party trick which completely rules out a left opposition to the Democrats. If you don't support Kamala (Obama, Biden, Hillary), you're obliviously a racist, hard right lunatic. There is no third possibility.
Israel itself is Antisemitic to the nth degree.
It creates disrepute for itself, and for generation after generation.
The World has heard the message of Israel loud and clear:
Picture the flag of Israel planted atop a mountain of rubble, human corpses, flesh and bones.
An Israeli soldier holds the flagstaff, proudly puffs up his chest to the max
and boasts in a shout:
"We are the Jewish State
and we are monsters!"
Israel itself is Antisemitic to the nth degree.
The World has heard the message of Israel loud and clear!
"The World has heard the message of Israel loud and clear:"
But will anyone do anything about it?
😂😅😆🤣
That’s the way it is!
Ignorance and hypocrisy are rampant.
The new Secretary of Education will fix everything with A-One.
Apparently, in spite of having no animus towards Jewish people, I now am an antisemite.
A few years ago, we were duly assured that the only reason anyone could not support Obama was racism.
I guess that's special pleading and double standards for ya. Now the effort is bipartisan. Oh well, sticks and stones and all that.
So well said, thank you. Logic completely fails in this — and every other instance — where corrupt entities like the US and Israeli fascist govts. attempt to impose stupidity on folks who choose to think their way through the propaganda
Do the Zionists know what they are doing to the Jews in the world who don't support Zionist Israel?
I would hope to hear MORE Jewish voices against these maniacs.
I am a Jew who does not support Zionist Israel, but too chicken to speak out but on this site, and am not influential. Free Palestine!
Nonetheless, you're a heroic and important voice. Every Jewish voice -- you remind me of a lifelong friend I'm privileged to still have in my life -- who speaks out in any fashion against Zionism is a message to the Christian Zionist idiots in the US and elsewhere that Zionism is not Judaism, but as Rabbi Dovid Weiss frames it, is actually a political movement "antithetical to" Judaism. Bless you.
Dear Helen,
Please find it in your heart to speak out! As a Jewish individual, your voice is of utmost importance!
Jewish Voice for Peace and Not In Our Name are two anti-zy0nist Jewish-run organizations that speak out all the time.
And Jewish Voice for Peace kicks ass. They occupied Grand Central Station and have done other really uncompromising actions. They deserve a lot of respect.
Yes I have heard of these Groups. But is that enough?
I don't think they care, Jenny, else they wouldn't be ethically corrupt enough to be Zionists in the first place. Just watched Max Blumenthal interview and they were discussing a US rep's despicable treatment of Medea Benjamin, in a video where Medea gets called Jew hater and self-hating Jew, as well as Hamas supporter and supporter of genocide, SHE -- Medea is called the genocide supporter, NOT the congressional ULTRA-FUCKING-SCUMBAG whom she's confronting. These fucking idiot sellout congress shithead fucktard criminals chipmunk-brained cretins in congress (how many more epithets can I find) are hopeless, and I suspect that anti-Zionist Jews see how poor brave Medea gets slandered and maybe think twice about speaking out.
hey, chipmunks are intelligent creatures. these scum have no brains.
Yes, of course, but fungal mycelia are also more intelligent than the entire US congress. Metaphors, metaphors. Always more offensive if they contain a mammalian brain. No offense ever intended to any element of a natural system. Biologist here. Nature is my deity.
Marine Biologist here. I have net come across an insult to any other kinds of life. I would defend them the same way. I agree about the fungal mycelia but most people would not even know what they are.
They are not stupid. They are simply sociopaths.
Yes I saw this.
Do they even care about what other Jews think, JennyStokes?
I am certain that they would use all their devious efforts and wealthy buddies to get any outspoken Jew to "shut the hell up" or we will find a way to shut you up.
Probably well funded by Adelson and her criminal moneyed sponsors from Las Vegas.
Particularly all those ex-IDF volunteers from most countries, dual-citizens thick on the ground in countries like the little Israel / USA bag carrier Australia, the UK, the USA, free to come and go as they please. These people are always on Israel's active military service list but hide under the title of Americans, Australians etc. In places like New York, the risk of physical danger seems to be always present, often with police support.
No one ever seems to question their loyalty to their chosen (or allocated) resident country which in places like the USA, now a 86% politically controlled part of Israel anyway, would be viewed as antisemitic and subject to arrest by the masked MAGA stormtroopers, a.k.a. ICE. or the current FBI, whose values seem to have become somewhat eroded since the commencement of Trumpets for World Domination, just 3 months ago........ 45 months to go.
Think on that one. ICE, masked and hidden from view and now seen as the norm.
Every bit the NAZI Stormtroopers of yesteryear
It’s strange that we have no problem understanding hypocrisy when it comes to a lack of Christian behavior (TV ministers getting rich, priests abusing children, the so called “gospel of prosperity”) and how these people hide behind religion and call themselves Christians to get what they want but are no more Christian than a cat. We recognize that and call it out all the time. But Zionists posing as Jews get a free pass and I’ve rarely heard them called hypocrites.
Funny how most of the "Christians" you mention also support the Zionist scum. They are all part of the same evil cabal.
The Holocaust sympathy and the antisemtic club is the Zionists power so the more people blame Jews for the current genocide the more it strengthens Zionism. Brilliant propaganda and evil to the core.
Yes on Jewish people need to speak up. I believe their speaking out carries much more impact than any other protesters.
They do not care. In fact, they see genuine antisemitism as a feature, not a bug, as long as it isn't a view held by persons of influence and authority.
There are studies which outline what makes people disliked as individuals. All are intuitively and empirically obvious, corroborated by experience. A useful exercise in this context is to ask if any of these do not apply to Israel. Spoiler alert needed?
The witty and urbane former Chief Rabbi of London once defined anti-semitism as disliking Jews more than is warranted.
I was a super hard core activist for decades jailed a hundred times for it, and ALL of my fellows became retarted in 08 regarding obummer. I tried to tell them all I had learned about 3rd gen CIA “obomber” before the election but none of the lefties could hear it. Still today they're clueless about him. I read both of tarpleys books about him… post modern coup the making of a Manchurian candidate https://www.voltairenet.org/article166759.html
I voted for "Ibombya"* one time, having an inkling he was more of the same--just another sociopath--
*a late friend of mine coined that term, but "Obummer" and "Obomber" will suffice, too.
I've got good news. Cornel West the blacktivist professor and politician campaigned hard for ibombya but eventually he smelled the BLACK coffee and turned the other cheek. He coined the term for Obama : WALL STREETS BLACK MASCOT, and the great beauty of that one is that since Cornel is black, it's not “racist” to say it! I gave Obama a rapper name: “Too White”
Social justice activists have quite a few blind spots, and really serious ones. Problem is, we SJWs ARE, much of the time, the more enlightened and compassionate people, and that appears to make us immune to questioning ANY of our views.
I'm pro-semitic. For decades, I've known more than most of my global-north kinfolk about the truth in Palestine, but of course the antisemitic label quickly gets thrown to shut down 'complicated' conversation. Since Oct 7th however, I've become much more pro-Jew because I've sought and liked lots of Jewish voices who are anti-Zionist anti-genocide. They tend to be of Mizrahi aka semite origin rather than Ashkenazi white Europeans who learned occupation and genocide from Nazi Germany. The white racist Israelis and their proxies are THE most "anti-Semitic", including to Arab and African Jews. Palestinians of course are Semites wanting to live in peace with others who are pro-Semitic, irrespective of faith, like it's been for thousands of years.
There are lots of words in the dictionary that have more than one meaning.
Here is the beginning of a list:
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Arm – A limb of the human body, or a weapon or device used for a specific purpose.
Ball – A round object used in sports, or a formal social event.
Bank – A financial institution, or a raised area of land alongside a body of water.
Bark – The protective outer covering of a tree or the sound a dog makes.
Bat – A flying mammal or a piece of equipment used in sports such as baseball or cricket.
Bear – A large carnivorous mammal, or to carry or support something.
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Antisemitism is no exception except that it is exceptional in the number of secondary meanings.
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Here is meaning number 9 for Antisemitism:
Dictionary
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Antisemitism 9. (Noun) a slur; used by supporters of Genocide to intimidate and silence people of conscience; example, "you are an anti-semite if you don't support Israel" - a nonsense phrase heard in the halls of the US Congress that is clear evidence that such is their subjugation by Zionists that they are made to crawl on their bellies and utter nonsense and, disgracefully, support Genocide.
They should list primary and secondary meanings by era. Clearly this should be the primary meaning in our current maniacal era.
I am adding this to my Websters!
Great! Which dictionary?
Anti-zionism is anti-racism. It's anti-colonialism. Its anti-apartheid. And its anti-genocide.
Now you know why the "white" colonial nations are all united as one in crushing all opposition to anti-zionism. Because what unites them: their so-called shared values....is white supremacy.
If that's true, why did so many "white supremacist" nations join together to end apartheid?
The apartheid state collapsed because: the South African people resisted and Cuba assisted them. And the west could no longer maintain that outpost. Mandela was a just leader of change.
While Mandela was president of South Africa....he was STILL on the US terrorist list. But there was not a single one of the criminal Boer government on that terrorist list, despite them having overseen: apartheid, colonial rule, and brutal mass murders of the local people. Not ONE of them on the US terrorist list. But President Nelson Mandela was:
https://truthout.org/articles/nelson-mandela-was-only-removed-from-the-us-terrorist-list-in-2008/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Terrorist_Group_Profiles.pdf
That's what white supremacy looks like.
But then why didn't "native" South Africans just get the treatment Palestinians are right nowc with full support of the "white supremacist" countries? Instead, the "white supremacist" countries sanctioned them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during_apartheid
The white supremacist countries came in very late and out of embrassment. The white supremacist are also the countries who colonized Africa in the first place. Which is how the South Africans ended up with Dutch colonizers calling themselves "Afrikaners" - what an orwellian name.
The colonialism and white supremacy continue even now. I suggest you want this video in which in the UK parliament someone stood up and demanded that the government must NOT relinquish its colonial rule over the people of Diego Garcia......because it is so useful in actions like bombing Yemenis.
Its disgusting.
The resistance to apartheid and sanctions was driven by ordinary individuals, not the state. It's why they jumped straight to making it illegal for local authorities to boycott repression. At the end of the day, skin colour is skin deep and anyone that takes it to mean anything serious is a fuckwit imo. The skin colour thing is just part of the divide and rule tactic, which is why they had signs in the sixties saying "No blacks, dogs or Irish". The Irish are some of the palest people on the planet. Before that it was "Wogs start at Calais". What colour were the kids forced up chimneys in the 1800s? Under the soot, that is. White. It's not about whiteness so much as power and money.
The only place white supremacy was ended south Africa
Succinctly put, Kojo. And the Zionist/racist/colonialist/apartheidist/genocidist fraternity sit under the umbrella of VICTIMHOOD, the permanent justification, allegedly, for their bloody handiwork.
Exactly!
I'm pro-Semitic which means pro-Palestinian and pro those 'self-hating' 'leftie' Jews who tend to be non-white Mizrahi Jews of Arab descent with fading history of living in (relative) peace with Semites of all faiths, for thousands of years. Descendants of Ashkenazi Jews from Europe tend to be the white supremacists in Israel and USA? Perhaps lessons from German colonialists and the 1904-1908 Namibian genocide guided the Zionist movement? Colonialism was 'a thing' many countries have grown beyond, slowly and painfully. Apartheid too. With UN help, 193 states in this world seem to have moved forward, except Israel and its proxy the USA.
If you don't support the state (of Israel, America or anywhere) then obviously you are a terrorist.
No dear zionists have been terrorists since before 1948
75 yrs of genocide misery murder arrested without charges in gulag tortured raped. The scum of the earth.
who are you calling "dear"?
The disgusting and absolutely false premise that criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza is fueled by antisemitism is no different than the early 2000s lie that criticism of America’s aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq was fueled by support for Al-Qaeda.
The establishment’s use of propaganda gets rebranded, but it never changes.
The recent pogrom right in the middle of NYC when a lone pro Palestine Jewish woman was being hounded and bullied by a horde of Zionists chanting 'Kill the Semites!' 'Kill the Semites!' ... Or actually the more PC version of it and the more palatable in the Western world 'Kill the Arabs!' 'Kill the Arabs!' went unnoticed by the mainstream media because the abnormal has been normalised in the land of the absurd and the grotesque! Who needs the Nazis when the offsprings of who defeated them are doing much better job than they could've ever dreamt of.
Hi Rachid
Sabby Sabs pointed out on her program that if that had been a group of BLACK men following that poor woman, the entire NYC police force would have been there arresting people.
No special protection for Blacks.
Nor Asians.
Not Hispanics.
Certainly not for Arab-Americans.
Only for the un-Chosen.
Those Zios pelted the woman with garbage and rocks, injuring her. She had blood running down her face.
LAWSUIT TIME!
It is astounding is it not how pathetic critical thinking skills are among people?!
How people are willing to be fed pablum and led along by others. If you tell a lie often enough and loud enough, it becomes truth in the eyes of many.
What utter garbage.
I think though that the lie is not being swallowed quite so easily anymore. Light always cuts through darkness and then darkness flees.
It is beyond disappointing how so many Americans have been taken in by Trump and Vance and believe they are some sort of saviors.
Thank you for your courage and outrage Caitlin. The world needs many more like you. I share your writings every chance I get.
Education. 97% of Americans have no education.
Jenny, let me know when you figure out the difference between 'education' and 'critical thinking'. Lot's of people are educated, but few have critical thinking skills.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that it is the 'educated' that know how to successfully psychologically manipulate the 'uneducated' to do their bidding.
Education matters less than you think. MORALITY and CRITICAL THINKING (which is not taught even in most educational systems) is MORE impactful and necessary.
Chang, Jenny's heart is in the right place. I am sure she means what you are saying when she says that " 97% of Americans have no education". The kind of "education" she is referring to is the conditioning and brainwashing that goes on in educational institutions.
We gain critical thinking, moral behaviour and loving kindness in spite of the indoctrination.
Thanks to Caitlin & Tim we meet and share good values in these pages. Thank you too for being lucid and critical.
Indu, I think you misunderstood Jenny's comment. Jenny is saying that the educational quality is very low in the U.S. - she is NOT talking about the conditioning/brainwashing/indoctrination - in fact she is talking about the OPPOSITE - i.e. normal education like geography, history, etc.
Jenny STILL does not understand the difference between EDUCATION and CRITICAL THINKING.
BTW, if you follow many of Jenny's comments, the problem is NOT with Jenny's heart, but with her head (for whatever reason she seems to have comprehension issues - as observed by quite a few commentators).
>>"We gain critical thinking, moral behaviour and loving kindness in spite of the indoctrination."
I'd have to disagree with you on the critical thinking part. I would say that less than 5% of the human population seems to have adequate critical thinking skills (IMHO) (I used to be in the 95% section before I made a lot of effort - including reading books, watching videos, etc. to work on own thinking skills - which is a never-ending process till the end). Most people cannot be bothered to put in the time/work/effort as it requires an honest and objective evaluation of one's own belief systems and introspection.
Interesting Chang that you have to keep disqualifying me in decidedly inhumane terms.
As far as my first comment is concerned: I was EDUCATED well in each school I attended and was aware of any brainwashing particularly in England with regard to the Empire.
I do not think in the way you do is that bad?
I have lived a full life in many countries and listened and learned that education (with thought) is indispensable.
What use is 'critical thinking' if you don't know where Iran is on a map?
You are so pedantic sometimes that you assume we all need to be the same as you?
I forgive you for being so unenlightened.
Jenny, please see my other comment here -> https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/anti-zionism-is-anti-semitism/comment/113926659
A NORMAL EDUCATION does not contain (and is not considered to impart) critical thinking skills. One has to specifically focus on a different set of skills to be able to think critically.
Until you understand that 'education' is NOT 'critical thinking' you will continue going down the wrong paths in your comprehension of arguments (as you have been doing here on Substack).
Indu, many people are unclear and don't understand what 'critical thinking' really is.
Here is my response to Jenny on what it is and how to build those skills further -> https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/anti-zionism-is-anti-semitism/comment/113926659
Thanks Indu.
"We gain critical thinking, moral behaviour and loving kindness in spite of the indoctrination."
I completely agree.
Nope - you gain critical thinking by explicitly working on 'critical thinking' skills.
"Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness."
Here are some resources for you Jenny ->
(1) https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/intersections/202409/critical-thinking-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters
(2) A course that you (and others) can take on critical thinking (free) -> https://www.coursera.org/articles/critical-thinking-skills
(3) FSU Lectures-Critical Thinking Course ->https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL447DFE6900523895
(4) Critical Thinking videos (by Center for Innovation in Legal Education) -> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpbtRdN7xWUcPT0qWBfC52FubQxcgdgjk
There are many more resources, but this should be a good start.
When I was a kid nobody locked their doors or their cars. If you went hunting or fishing you left the keys in the truck in case someone had an emergency. Nobody touched what wasn't theirs. It was only when people started moving out from the city to our areas that things started to change. It seemed like city people lived by a different set of rules that lacked the morality of country folk. As for critical thinking, we got that from the WWII vets who had seen the horrors that government caused and spoke out against it. They never talked about the horrors they saw but they were determined to keep us from knowing what they had had to do. Curiously it was the government hand in hand with the movie moguls that brought it to the kids. Far too many of us were captured by the Hollywood bullshit that glamourized killing and promoted racism. Very few of us weren't suckered in by it. Those of us who weren't were the ones blessed with the gift of critical thinking.
Peter, critical thinking doesn't come automatically/naturally or otherwise because of life experiences, events, even formal or informal education, etc. One has to specifically study 'critical thinking' - which includes understanding how human minds work & think - the logical fallacies, biases, heuristics, human cognitive errors, and more that trip up EVERY HUMAN on the planet.
Here is my response (with some learning resources) to Jenny -> https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/anti-zionism-is-anti-semitism/comment/113926659
If you prefer reading books, here are some suggestions ->
(1) The Art of Thinking Clearly (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248196-the-art-of-thinking-clearly)
(2) A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54879347-a-field-guide-to-lies)
(3) Thinking, Fast and Slow (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow)
No DECENT education Jenny; I can attest to that from spending two years at a public high school.
It was pretty bad when you knew more than the fresh-faced teacher who just got his/her teaching degree.
I didn’t spend one day of my life attending college, but I do have common horse sense—-something many college-educated people are sorely lacking.
Totally agree with you Gypsy but then you know we are on the same wavelength.
Travelling and being born in Sri Lanka has opened my eyes but I still needed the foundation of especially Geography and History.
Read the above comments from our fav. pedant Mr. Chang Chokaski.
This movement is like a fox tolling for geese. The fox puts on a lavish display. He rolls around on the ground chasing his tail and performing all sorts of seemingly pointless actions. Geese, like people are curious. As the fox's actions get more absurd the geese get drawn in by their curiosity. When the geese get close enough the fox suddenly pounces and the game is over. Sound familiar to anyone?
I’m sick of the term “antisemitism,” and I’m sick of the fact that we keep using it. Why do we have to create something specific for one group of people? That’s a tactic used by Jewish lobbies. The other day, a narcissistic, “pro-Palestinian” Jew told me that Zionists hide behind Judaism and I am not to use the expression"Jews" in my posts. Obviously she sees herself as a “chosen one,” which can't be associated with Israels evilness. So, instead of blaming the majority of her Jewish society for the atrocities they are committing, it's the Palestinians who shouldn't name his oppressors by their name. If the Palestinians say they hate the Jew, they hate the one who invaded and killed them. No, she wants us not to use the word “Jew.” Jews are the chosen people. We can’t bring their name into what they do. Even though Israeli society, besides the indigenous Palestinian population, is jewish, we can't tell the genocidal society bye it's name.
Why can they do that? Why can they hide behind the forever protected Judaism????? That’s the simple question. Why can Jews kill and do whatever they want to others, without facing consequences or even the slightest criticism? Why is it okay to hide behind an invented protective anti-ism? Why is that ok???
I’ve said it a million times before: the problem is the Jewish supremacist, narcissistic, racist narrative in the world. It’s time to stop. We should fight this for real. No human is better than another. And when you see injustice, call it out and act on it—don’t treat Jews as a superior, untouchable class, as almost all of you in the pro-Palestinian movement do.
Fuck this world where the victims are to blame for hating their occupier.
TELL IT, Laith!
👍👍👍
Norm Coleman, chairman of the Republican Party Jewish coalition, said that The masters of the universe are Jews”, so what is the point of arguing with your masters?
Jewish interest are also masters at the box office, the mortgage lenders, the largest corporations, pharmaceuticals, military productions… etc,,,, etc,,, etc…. My masters , in spades. Oh…forgot… masters of the Unites states of Israel.
I have been told many times in comments that: The USA owns Israel. Completely the other way round in my opinion.
Money is what get's the Zionists wanking, not religion!
Agreed 100%. If the wealth owned by Aipac interests doesn’t own the U.S. I’d be surprised. They also own the majority of the U.S. government legislative branches… and that condition in my opinion exists in many other countries…
As the owners of the planet, they make the rules of life and if we don’t follow them, evictions confirm that what the Masters of the universe dictate, is law…….
He also said that Zios are currently losing "the digital war".
Quote:
The remarks came as Coleman lamented that pro-Israel propagandists are “losing the digital war” in battle for the hearts and minds of younger generations, and called for more stringent censorship of pro-Palestinian speech.
“A majority or Gen Z have an unfavorable impression of Israel. And, my friends, I think the reason for that is that we’re losing the digital war. They’re getting their information from TikTok, and… and we’re losing that war.”
“We’ve got to get our digital sneakers on, so that the truth can prevail over the lies. And when we do that, the future of Israel will be stronger because a majority of all Americans will support Israel. We’ll make that happen, we have to make it happen. Thank you, Baruch hashem.”
This is terrifying.
And what's worse, perhaps, is that Norm looks like one of the sane(r) ones.
Why?
Not terrifying, CC: INFURIATING.
We will fight them and as more Amerikkkans come to the conclusion that a shitty little country is running OUR government, they will rebel.
See Coleman’s remarks.
Levi,
If you have a mortgage, and your credit score qualified you, then odds are that “the masters of the universe” are on duty..
When did he say that? Link?
a link:
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/28/masters-universe-jews-us-senator-israel/
Absurdities, atrocities & all that.
Incessant lying's a dawdle when you murder children daily.
Everything about Zionism is an abomination.
Anyone who disagrees is Hamas actually Caitlin
I look forward to seeing this re-tweeted by every Senator and member of the House of Representatives. Who knows - maybe President Trump and JD Vance will also re-tweet it?
It has been the official message from most Israeli and American politicians, lobbyists and spokespeople for decades that if you disagreed with any Israeli position you were an anti-semite. So their entire propaganda and legal apparatus has been used for 80 years (and still is being used) to intentionally conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, . This type of messaging does not work very well on readers of this Substack, but it has worked very well on the masses. It will take a lot of effort and time to undo that conditioning.
"If you don’t want anyone to commit genocide against Palestinians, then that means you want to commit genocide against Jews. There is no third possibility."
It actually seems like a more sinister version of Imperialism's long standing two party trick which completely rules out a left opposition to the Democrats. If you don't support Kamala (Obama, Biden, Hillary), you're obliviously a racist, hard right lunatic. There is no third possibility.
I am regularly told that I am."blinded by hate" and that is why I refuse to fall in line for Team D.
Keep those claws out, Feral!
Hilarious! or is it unhilarious? Thanks for making me laugh... and cry!
But:
Happy May Day! Workers of the world unite!
Hi Helen
May Day evolved from us Pagans celebrating the end of winter. We call it Beltane.