Most American Jews are chumps. They were fooled by October 7th, and now support "Israel" more than ever. Don't know if Israeli Jews are still fooled by that betrayal, but American Jews certainly are.
And if you don't know what I am talking about then you too are a chump.
An entrepreneur and corporate honcho, Greenblatt and the others in those pro-Israel orgs are basically business people raking in shekels from conflict. Conflict of both overt war and also of the theatrical friction between Israel and the US. It's perverse and disgusting. Lowbrow.
The man who attempted to bomb the Michigan synagogue was predictably and immediately labeled a terrorist. Contrast that with the deaths of hundreds of Lebanese civilians at the hands of Israel. Those will never be labeled terrorist attacks.
If that wasn’t false flag I’ll not only eat my cowgirl hats, but my six pair of cowgirl boots as well. Notice not one hair on one head of a Jew was touched?
Why would anyone who legitimately wanted to unlive people just run their vehicle into a doorway? 😂😂😂
Antisemitism? Who cares? 80 years of continuing support for lies, propaganda, land theft, apartheid, corruption, murder, brutal occupation, war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people. Reap what you sow. The pathetic cynical victimhood is a laughable joke.
i care about real antisemitism. I don't think it is moral to hate someone for being Jewish. But people are getting all mixed up these days because the Israelis themselves conflate their Zionist, Nazi behaviour with Judaism. Zionism and what is happening in Israel are not part of Judaism. What is happening in Israel is a murderous colonialism called Zionism.
I second what Susan just wrote. Every religion has its extremists, and extremist interpretations that lead to all sorts of horrific consequences - the multiple Christian Crusades for example, or the 6th century Totemism of the Huns and their persecution of Buddhists.
Sadly, people will lump the Zionists in with all those who practice Judaism - maybe even subconsciously.
Yes, the great majority of Jewish people in Israel are Zionists. Have seen anywhere from85 to 90%. I guess those not identifying as Zionists have already left with the Iran war.
Don't forget there are a good number of Christian Zionists in America so it gets very confusing.
We can hate whom we want. So long as it's not acted on. Why are we indicting people for having emotions? Jews made that up. Jews hate Muslims but Muslims are not such sooks that they have to come up with a term that chastises anyone outside their race for it. Zionists caused the Nazis to rise, they've been behind almost all the atrocities that happened to the world for the last century.
....soooo sick of the the "antisemitic" bull shit schtick. They can and do find SOME "reason" to label anything and anyone they fancy "guilty" of "antisemitism" .... I'm pretty much sick of that shit and now ignore them or plug my ears. Whaa whaa whaa. I CHOOSE to mourn the Palestinians.
Which means Zionism isn't really Zionism. Israel isn't really Israel. If you were a REAL Israeli leader you would be dealing with this. But this NEVER happened. "ISRAEL" was always supposed to be in a permanent war. This is not a homeland but a soldier-land for Western capital & empire - dressed as a "Jewish State"... Israel has always been a fraud.
Yes it was created for the colonial West to get an easier foothold into the Middle East to control it. Somehow the Zionists flipped the coin and have been controlling the Middle East ever since and they let the US pay for it. How sweet it is.
They have free healthcare with our money while we have an insane ultra expensive healthcare system.
To the best of my knowledge it is not, in effect, fully free (healthcare). They do pay a certain premium (a month) probably means-tested. There is also data that one in 6 Israelis bribe doctors in order to "improve" the care they get... which means if you don't bribe - it may not be so good... (just google: black medicine in Israel).
It is my thinking that international elites run "Israel" as their financial game. This sort of scheme is dirty but laundered by being the "biblical homeland of the Jews"... You can't argue that this presentation has worked - without actually providing normalcy for the Jewish collective. The exploitation of history and gullibility of people for the benefit of top-tier criminals.
I think "Israel" is wrapped with lots and lots of "ideology" as a shield and with plausible deniability but under the hood it is like an int'l a mafia operation, pretending to fight for its national existence. Every time the guns go off: "Israel is at existential fight for life"...
All Israeli prime ministers behaved like this. It is at this time they ask everyone to increases contributions. The whole thing from start to finish is a fraud. A very good one - but a fraud it is.
This is not my area. My general thinking is that money & power is the primary driver of corruption and organised crime. If there was something else that produces more for them, then "Zionism" would not be so fashionable in elite circles. Probably, as suggested in the comment above, it is a foothold into the middle east. I have not researched the 'esoteric' sides of Zionism, it may have importance, I just don't know and have zero knowledge of it.
There is a major problem with blaming Zionists for attitudes toward Jews and the problem is reality and the facts.
Israel was conceived, founded and has functioned in terrorism and atrocities for more than a century and the reality is, most Jews have not only supported it from the start they have funded it. Yes, there were some Jews, a tiny minority who rejected Israel from the start but most did not. Yes, there are growing numbers of Jews who now reject Israel as a liability but again, MOST DO NOT.
There are many intelligent, educated decent people who are followers of Judaism and I know some of them, who have always supported Israel and sent their kids on camps to learn what? How to kill Goyim and how to hate Palestinians?
They have also supported the truly evil Birthright scheme, teaching their children that they have a right to Palestine even thought they and none of their ancestors for thousands of years have ever lived there.
Jews have played a major part along with Zionists and Israelis in infiltrating Governments, politics and media throughout the Western world, to compromise the rights of citizens and to push the Israeli agenda.
So, while we must applaud the minority of Jews with ethics and principles, we cannot let Jews in general or their religion off the hook because they have played a major part in the atrocity that is Israel and the countless atrocities it has committed. It is and always has been a terrorist State founded and functioning in supremacist hatred, violence, theft and destruction. And most Jews have not only allowed that to happen they have helped it to happen.
Until a majority of Jews categorically reject and condemn Israel and all it stands for, then they and their religion will be tainted by association.
Again, Zionism cannot exist without the pre-existing condition of Judaism. Christian Zionists are supporters of a Jewish political ideology for their insane Christian reasons.
you say nothing quite authoritatively. Christian Zionists support Zionism because they think it will bring on Armageddon and then the Rapture. They don't usually support any part of Judaism. They support Zionism because their Christian bible tells them to do so. At least that is their excuse. As far as I have heard, the bible says nothing of the sort.
No shit, Sherlock. They're hate-filled bigots, which is why I used the word "insane" to qualify it. And correct, the Bible makes no mention of the bullshit they preach. That is thanks to Israeli propagandizing televangelists and Americans being uncivilized. My point still stands. Stop talking to me.
Sorry, but the entire premise of the Israeli State of Hate is that the Jewish God gave them Palestine. The fact some deranged Christians believe the same thing is irrelevant.
If a State claims to represent every Jew on earth and most Jews accept or even promote that claim then they are accountable for what that State does.
That is the reality. If most Jews had rejected that claim from the start they would not be stained with a century and more of terrorism and atrocities - rape, murder, torture, theft, destruction.
Germans were not allowed to say they did not know and get a free pass and in this modern age Israelis CANNOT claim they did not know and neither can their supporters. Ergo, because with modern technology there is no reason NOT TO KNOW WHAT IS BEING DONE IN YOUR NAME, you are responsible equally for what is done in your name.
Let us not kid ourselves, if a Muslim state existed in the same way a Jewish state claims to exist and committed the same atrocities and most Muslims funded it and refused to condemn or reject it, no-one would be trying to shift the blame with words like conflate. Muslims and their religion would be held accountable and rightly so. Same for Jews.
The horrific slaughter of Israel’s foundation in 1947/48 and its 78 years of sadistic cruelty and bestial savagery have been documented and anyone can find out the facts. I did 50 years ago.
Common sense says if a State or group claim to represent you and your religion you want to know EXACTLY what they do or plan to do in your name. The fact many, maybe most Jews failed to do that is not an excuse and does not let them off the hook.
I am not conflating, I am stating facts. If most Jews support and fund Zionism then they are joined at the hip and no need to conflate. And the reality is most Jews have always supported and funded Zionist Israel and MOST still do.
It's necessary to understand their religion in an anthropological sense, because it is not "like Christianity but with different costumes". The religion permeates every aspect of their self-concept, even to the point of affecting how their culture thinks about reality. (To give one example, "Jewish wisdom" is the source of the destabilizing idea that words can alter reality, as though words operate like mystic charms; they think their rabbis argue with god and change reality).
Their very beliefs in being "a race", in having been great kingz in Jerusalem, in having wandered the desert, in having any sort of continuous attachment to Palestine for thousands of years are ALL and SOLELY religious beliefs.
Their religion has layers and is rooted not just in the Talmud, but in worship of their rabbis, in Kabbalah, and in tribal superstition and a sort of ritual-generation engine. It is not all that similar to Christianity, Islam, or any of the religions that worship stable gods. It is more like Santeria, in certain ways, and it is also like modern day cults which worship specific "messiah" figures and which we easily recognize as cults. But we are not allowed to call this tiny religion a cult, right? Therefore, the sect, not cult, of Sabbateanism in the late 1600s fed Hasidism, which became the religious powerhouse of Zionism in the 1800s. From the get-go, a full 1/3 or more of the Zionists were Hasidics; Herzl adapted his programme to them because he knew that without them he would have nothing.
When some hasbara tries to claim that "some Reform and some Orthodox rabbis were against Zionism at some point” and therefore Zionism isn't Jewish, they are trying to mystify with shoddy references, and also trying to entangle the world in their internecine squabbles as to what a good Jew does. This is none of the world's concern.
In this article, which is one of a series, Frank doesn't go so far back as to delve into Sabbateanism, but she does point in that direction.
The follozving is the second of a series of articles tracing briefly the rise of
Modern Zionism
CHAPTER II There is no blank page between the history of Israel's past and that of the present in the Diiaspora. The persecutions of the first centuries continued into the later centuries, at times most barbarous, at others somewhat mitigated. With the last century open murder and rapine have ceased in the enlightened countries, but the demon Anti-semitism oppresses more to-day perhaps than formerly, since its methods are not open in attack. In spite of all, however. Israel miaintains steadfastly its old beliefs. Judaism has not conceded one iota of its principles, and the Jews remain today as distinct a people as in former years. The potent forces in Judaism, the idea of the restoration and the Messianic era, still continue ; only the Jews of today see more practical plans for their realization than formerly. The contrast, therefore, between the early conceptions of the Messianic era, and those developed during the centuries of itineracy which followed, with the consequent absorption of Occidental culture, is marked. The Israelites have always predisposed to fraternize with strangers, and they turned passionately toward the acquisition of Occidental culture. Is it not but natural, therefore, that the new Jewish culture should have questioned the Messianic conceptions developed in the earlier period of restlessness and mysticism? Throughout the first years of the Diaspora, the Israelites expected some miraculous intervention to put an end to the exile, and give the signal for the glorification of Israel. In the elarly opinion, the Messiah was to gather the children of Israel around him, march to Jerusalem, and there, after overcoming the hostile powers, restore the temple worship, and set up his own dominion. In their adversity and affliction they thought for the time only of the material blessings thiat might ensue, and forgot Israel's greater mission. Later, however, from fanciful and materialistic views exclusive and perhaps coarse notions of individual well-being, revenge and relief from an oppressing enemy, the hope took nobler expression in the idea of a stable, national government^ based on the principles of pure morality and lofty ideals, universal brotherhood and peace, of perfect righteousness and purest religion, God reigning in Zion, and spreading his radiance over the whole world.
Towtards the close of the 18th century, with the growing tendency toward toleration, and the influence of Moses Mendelssohn, Jewish thought was turned into new channels. The slumbering genius of the Jew was aroused and revived from its abjection. With the influence of Mendelssohn the Jewish race received its impetus for a rejuvenessence, threw off the lethargy which possessed it during the Dark Ages, and sprang from the narrow and isolated Ghettos into the world of culture. With the new Jewish culture came self-knowledge and self-respect, and gradually developed a broader race consciousness and correspondingly historical interest in Palestine. By the side of this influence came the strong sentiment of cosmopolitanism which swept over Europe the last part of the 18th century and first half of the 19th century. It was a natural reaction against the arbitrary grouping of nationalities which ignored all racial dififerences and was based simply upon political necessities. Then a counter-reaction set in. Cosmopolitan ideas were rejected as opposed to personal freedom, and there sprang- up the sordid sentiment of national exclusiveness. A desire for national solidarity made itself felt, and all dependent European nations took up the banner of national independence. The unification of Italy under Victor Emanuel, the uniting of the various Germaii principalities into a powerful nation under Bismark, the action of Switzerland, Hungary, and the various Balkan States, and the attempt of Ireland to free itself from British rule, were bound to react upon the Jews. In fact, many of them sympathized and aidded those who fought for this racial freedom. It is therefore but natural that a longing for racial freedom and communal life should have been aroused in their own hearts.
Under these influences there arose gradually, especially among* the younger generation, a sentiment in favor of Jewish national existence, which carried in its wake many of the brightest and most advanced Jews of the day. The historian Joseph Salvador as early as 1830 believed in the possibility that a congress of European powers might restore Palestine to the Jews, and the founders of the Alliance Israelite Universelle took an interest in colonizing work in Palestine. Rabbi Hirsch Kalischer of Thorn, Germiany, may be called the first practical Zionist. So early as 1836 Kalischer explained his position with regard to the repatriation of Palestine and the Messiah. He believed that the redemption would have its beginning in ta natural way, unaccompanied by miracles and wonders. There would first be required the desire of the Jews to settle in Palestine, and the assured protection of the nations in maintainine their independence. His book "Derishat Ziyyon" deals with the religious and theologiclal problems involved. He advocated the colonization of Palestine, the cultivation of land there, and the founding of an agricultural school and of a Jewish military guard. With the Jewish state and worship reestablished in Palestine, then, he believed, would God show his miracles and fulfill the promises of the Prophets. Kalischer travelled extensively in aid of these ideas ; caused the first colonization society to be established in Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1861 ; and exerted some influence in the colonizing work of Charles Netter and the founding of the agricultural school Mikweh Israel.
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(I will continue the rest of it, in a reply to this comment).
[please excuse typos: this is copied from a PDF and I am not correcting all character errors].
The colonization of Palestine was persistently urged. Soon Kalischer succeeded in winning many of the more modern and more cultivated over to his belief. Noted among the men whom he interested was Moses Hess, the famous socialist of his time. In the year 1862 Hess wrote his book "Rome and Jerusalem," which, in truth, may be called one of the foundation works in Zionist literature. In this book Hess maintains that the Jewsh nationality cannot be destroyed, and that if emancipation be incompatible with Jewish nationality, the Jews should renounce all claims to emancipation. He saw in the Jewish colonization of Palestine the only solution of the Jewish problem. The idea of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine gained support among some of the most orthodox rabbis ; and in several of the cities societies were founded for the purpose of studying the Hebrew language. Two years after the appearance of Hess' "Rome and Jerusalem" Heinrich Graetz published an essay in which he declared that the Jewish nation was its own Messiah, and should bring about its own rejuvenescence and redemption without waiting for the coming of a single person or redeemer. His ideas proved too radical for many of the orthodox, and his book enorendered violent conflict. David B. Dob Baer Gordon, another leader in the movement, published in his paper "HaMiaiggid" a number of articles, the first of which appeared in 1871. on the colonization of Palestine as the basis for the future regeneration of Judiasm. In the course of time the various activities developed into a strong- movement and (assumed the name of Lovers of Zion. As a result of the recrudesence of national sentiment in Europe, and the liberation of Servia, Bulgaria and Roumania, the desire for liberty grew stronger with the Jews and toward the end of the seventies in the 19th century, the national movement gained still further ground.
Through the efforts of Henry Dunant larg-e Jewish organizations such as the Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Anglo-Jewish Association in London were persuaded to take an interest in the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, but no response was forthcoming. Laboring untiringly, Dunant succeeded in founding two societies for that purpose, the International Palestine Society, and in 1876 the Syrian and Palestine Colonization Society. Attempts were made by various statesmen and financiers to interest the Turkish Sultan for the colonization of Palestine by the Jews, pleading the advantage of such projects not only to the Jews themselves, but to the Ottoman and Occidental countries. Noted among these were the attempts of Sir Moses Montefiore, as early as 1840, and those of Lawrence Oliphant in 1879 and 1882. whose plans, however, failed to evoke any response. Writers continued in their plea for Palestine's repatriation b)' the Jews. In 1879 there appeared a series of articles by Ben Yehudah proposing the colonization of the Holv Land and the gradual centralization of the Jews there : and Isaac Rulf in 1883 wrote on the same lines. In Russia the national sentiment especially called forth an enthusiastic response, and literary expression was given to national hopes by such brilliant writers as Moses Lob Lilienblum, Perez Somlenskv, and Lev Osipovitch Levanda. With the large influx of Jews into the United States the Zionist movement soon found ex pression here, and soread quickly, lii the years 1882 and 1883 Emma Lazarus wrote a stirring series of ar-
ticles pleading for an independent Jewish nationality and a Jewish home in Palestine.
The general weve of national sentiment spreading over Europe conceded at last political right to the Jews, and with the close of the 19th century the majority of the enlightened nations had accorded them political emancipation. Tiiis, however, did not grant them social equality, not only were Jews excluded from all Christian society; but Christian contempt followed them in all their pursuits. At the very time when their own dormant national feeling had been awakened, and the Jewish masses became thrilled with fervoi for Israel's restoration, the monster Anti-semitism unsheathed its sword and followed them remorselessly. From 1881 it spread from eastern Europe over the whole continent, leaving no place untouched. In Germany it gained its strongest foothold, and in a short time Austriia, France, Russia and many of the southern provinces became strong centers of AntiSemitism. Refuge was at first taken in the hope that the culture and enlightenment of the time would surely give place to broader and more sympathetic treatment. But when Antisemitism received more or less co-operation from the governments, the hope was seen to be futile.
The majority, fortunately, continued in the hope that if redress was not obtainable, surely, in the near future, the g"ap between their civil and social position would be filled. However, a few Jews of Germany, and of the capital cities in most Europeian countries proposed a solution of the vexing problem troubling them. The magnificence of the court fascinated them, the brilliance and wit of the salon drew their Jewish genius almost in spite of them and in their despondency many of the wealthier and more educated decided upon assimiliation. Apostasy thereafter became a common occurrence. Many Jewish youths and maidens, fascinated by the novel experience of aflfiliation with the great, unknown Christian world, washed in
the waters of baptism, and subsequently passed forever from Judaism A writer of the time offers consolation, with the reflection that the converts "are but chips shaved off from an unwieldly colossus ; the colossus is only strengthened by their removal." Happily, time has proven him right. The conversion to Christianity, however, did not give these proselytes the social freedom and happiness they sought. The waters of baptism did not succeed in washing off their earmarks of Semitism : nor did assimilation with the Christian peoples about them succeed in disguising their Jewish identity. Anti-semitism did not restrict itself to pursuing the isolated Jews ; it followed the assimilated also. The distinctness and individuality which they themselves denied and sought to hide, were observed, and regarded as a menace to national solidarity. Jew-baiters persisted in the view that the Jews were an obstacle in the amalgamation of the races, and the formation of homogeneous unions.
The religious sensibilities of loyal Jews became outraged by the action of their more "enlightened" brethren. Salvation began to be looked for from other quarters. Another solution was proposed. It was determined to make Judaism acceptable to the Christians; and the "Berlin religion" with its many "reforms" resulted. Some of the most sacred traditions and hopes were stricken from the reform synagogue ritual. The Hebrew language was dispensed with in the services. All references to the Messiah and Israel's restoration were omitted from the prayer-book. Judaism was declared to be wholly religious, and in no way national. It was contended that Israel's redemption lay in renouncing the hope for renationalization in Palestine, and in accepting gratefully the citizenship of the nations among whom the Jews lived : otherwise, they would be suspected of disloyalty and their position made even more miserable and unbearable. It was a critical moment for Judaism. The pious were ready to forfeit their citizenship for the retention of their cherished hope ; the reformed unhes-
itatingly relinquished the glorious ideal for political and legal enfranchisement.
This new religion naturally became the horror of the pious, and made them all the more solicitous to keep aloof from external tendencies. They clung more tenaciously to their traditions. But with the emancipation of the Jews in Germiany in 1848. the reform movement acquired new strength and became more staple and permanent. The chasm between the old and the new became greater, and a reconciliation was out of the question. The separation which has continued to this day was inevitable; but it has brought much good as well as harm in its wake. The self-defence of the reformed Jews led the conservative to seek practical methods for defence. They began to consider their position in the world their prospects as individuals and as a community, and their historic nationality sprang to the foreground.
With the acquisition of Occidental culture, political enfranchisement, and the prominence attained by Jewish magnates and statesmen, redemption began to be looked for from practical sources. The vague notions of a Messiah and a Messianic age assumed a more definite shape. The confused hope of a Messianic period imperceptibly merged into a more natural course of deliverance from present misery, and fitted itself to present-day realities. The Jews became deeply conscious that they could be helped only by themselves; that if they could not help themselves, they could not be helped at all. They came to understand that their redemption would come about by voluntary activity on their own part, with the permission and assistance of non-Jewish rulers, as, in the time of Zerubabbel and Ezra the reestablishment of the Jewish commonwealth was effected in a perfectly natural way, and insured by the great power of the world. They saw their salvation in Zionism: — that great national movement of the Jews, and understood that if it could not protect and deliver them to-day, it would be the salvation of their children.
‘Anti-semitism’, yeah, right. How many ‘Israelis’ are actually Semitic, themselves, when 2/3 of the population of ‘Israel’ are allergic to the most prominent species of olive trees that have been growing in Palestine for thousands of years?
The pattern of creating, arming, and then citing the existence of the very enemies the US manufactured is not an accident. It is the business model of perpetual war envisioned by the Dulles brothers and never abandoned.
Israel and the IOF have contributed more to antisemitism than anyone of any other culture, religion or nationality possibly could have done. What do they expect when they murder children, the parents of children, when they starve people, destroy hospitals always using the same worn out lies that it is Hamas, that the children they murder will grow up to be terrorists. of course people are going to hate the Israelis, especially if they have had their family members murdered by them as the attacker in Michigan had last week had 4 relatives murdered in Lebanon.
This didn’t happen in Detroit proper. It SUPPOSEDLY happened in the wealthy suburb of Bloomfield Hills, known to many of us here in the Mitten as Jewfield Hills. You thinks the cops there ain’t gonna go along with the narrative?
I have explained previously how Zionists love and need antisemitism.
Antisemitism also is useful to convince any Jews that waver jn their support of Israel that ethnic solidarity is their only protection, that they'll be blamed for Israel's crimes whether they support Israel or not.
Yep, the European and American diaspora are about as Semitic as Bjorn Borg and Søren Kierkegaard. It's expanded so far beyond a religion/ethnicity/race or whatever, it's just a vibe now.
So "trafficking in hateful conspiracy theories” is what Zionists call committing an ethnic cleansing/genocide of the Palestinian people? They really are trying to muddy the waters, aren't they? They're going to cause more and more people to hate everything to do with the Jewish faith. It's entirely uncalled for. Zionist founder Theordore Herzl truly hated his own Jewishness and it shows even today through his followers.
It's terrifying that Jews the world over will be targeted for Israel's actions. It's also interesting that the temple that was attacked in MI hosts seminars with the IDF front group, Jewish National Fund, whose main initiative is to "integrate young people with disabilities into the IDF and Israeli society." And the temple also screened Zio-in-chief Debra Messing's "documentary" about antisemitism in the US, called "October H8te", and also has all sorts of pro-Israel and "progressive Zionist" resources on their site, and a bunch of links to Hasbara youtube videos. https://www.temple-israel.org/israel
Greenblatt IS correct that diaspora Jews should Not be blamed for the 'holocaustic' actions of Netanyahu's Government of Israel.
Israel's Proportional Representation system allows 1 tiny Zionist party (there are others) to wag-the-dog by threatening to leave the Coalition govt unless Netanyahu does viscious things to Palestinians.
This pleases Netanyahu who is using War to avoid being jailed for his criminal corruption.
The tragedy to me is that our worldwide civil-human rights evolved from ancient 'Old Testament' Jewish history.
How can Israel be doing such evil things to their fellow Palestinian citizens, whom they conquerred in 1973?
How can Western countries stand back and allow it to happen, then be suckerred to donate $$ to help Palestinians recover, only to happen again, and again?
"Zionism offered itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, but became the main reason for its continued presence."
Ilan Pappé
Israeli historian
Or, to state it another way, made antisemitism the solution to Zionism.
Most American Jews are chumps. They were fooled by October 7th, and now support "Israel" more than ever. Don't know if Israeli Jews are still fooled by that betrayal, but American Jews certainly are.
And if you don't know what I am talking about then you too are a chump.
An entrepreneur and corporate honcho, Greenblatt and the others in those pro-Israel orgs are basically business people raking in shekels from conflict. Conflict of both overt war and also of the theatrical friction between Israel and the US. It's perverse and disgusting. Lowbrow.
Shameless shysters.
The man who attempted to bomb the Michigan synagogue was predictably and immediately labeled a terrorist. Contrast that with the deaths of hundreds of Lebanese civilians at the hands of Israel. Those will never be labeled terrorist attacks.
Hi Nancy
If that wasn’t false flag I’ll not only eat my cowgirl hats, but my six pair of cowgirl boots as well. Notice not one hair on one head of a Jew was touched?
Why would anyone who legitimately wanted to unlive people just run their vehicle into a doorway? 😂😂😂
Antisemitism? Who cares? 80 years of continuing support for lies, propaganda, land theft, apartheid, corruption, murder, brutal occupation, war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people. Reap what you sow. The pathetic cynical victimhood is a laughable joke.
i care about real antisemitism. I don't think it is moral to hate someone for being Jewish. But people are getting all mixed up these days because the Israelis themselves conflate their Zionist, Nazi behaviour with Judaism. Zionism and what is happening in Israel are not part of Judaism. What is happening in Israel is a murderous colonialism called Zionism.
I second what Susan just wrote. Every religion has its extremists, and extremist interpretations that lead to all sorts of horrific consequences - the multiple Christian Crusades for example, or the 6th century Totemism of the Huns and their persecution of Buddhists.
Sadly, people will lump the Zionists in with all those who practice Judaism - maybe even subconsciously.
And then there are the Christian Zionists who are just as crazy and vile as the Jewish Zionists.
The "Christian" Zionists are an insane cult of very sad and angry people, IMO. I wrote about them this week: https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/jesus-is-comingto-kick-genocidal
Yes, the great majority of Jewish people in Israel are Zionists. Have seen anywhere from85 to 90%. I guess those not identifying as Zionists have already left with the Iran war.
Don't forget there are a good number of Christian Zionists in America so it gets very confusing.
We can hate whom we want. So long as it's not acted on. Why are we indicting people for having emotions? Jews made that up. Jews hate Muslims but Muslims are not such sooks that they have to come up with a term that chastises anyone outside their race for it. Zionists caused the Nazis to rise, they've been behind almost all the atrocities that happened to the world for the last century.
Susan, shut yer pie hole.
THEY ARE NOT FUCKING SEMITES.
Get it yet?
I agree with you but please, everyone is entitled to express themselves. And if they make no sense, everyone is also entitled to tackle them.
....soooo sick of the the "antisemitic" bull shit schtick. They can and do find SOME "reason" to label anything and anyone they fancy "guilty" of "antisemitism" .... I'm pretty much sick of that shit and now ignore them or plug my ears. Whaa whaa whaa. I CHOOSE to mourn the Palestinians.
Which means Zionism isn't really Zionism. Israel isn't really Israel. If you were a REAL Israeli leader you would be dealing with this. But this NEVER happened. "ISRAEL" was always supposed to be in a permanent war. This is not a homeland but a soldier-land for Western capital & empire - dressed as a "Jewish State"... Israel has always been a fraud.
Yes it was created for the colonial West to get an easier foothold into the Middle East to control it. Somehow the Zionists flipped the coin and have been controlling the Middle East ever since and they let the US pay for it. How sweet it is.
They have free healthcare with our money while we have an insane ultra expensive healthcare system.
To the best of my knowledge it is not, in effect, fully free (healthcare). They do pay a certain premium (a month) probably means-tested. There is also data that one in 6 Israelis bribe doctors in order to "improve" the care they get... which means if you don't bribe - it may not be so good... (just google: black medicine in Israel).
It is my thinking that international elites run "Israel" as their financial game. This sort of scheme is dirty but laundered by being the "biblical homeland of the Jews"... You can't argue that this presentation has worked - without actually providing normalcy for the Jewish collective. The exploitation of history and gullibility of people for the benefit of top-tier criminals.
I think "Israel" is wrapped with lots and lots of "ideology" as a shield and with plausible deniability but under the hood it is like an int'l a mafia operation, pretending to fight for its national existence. Every time the guns go off: "Israel is at existential fight for life"...
All Israeli prime ministers behaved like this. It is at this time they ask everyone to increases contributions. The whole thing from start to finish is a fraud. A very good one - but a fraud it is.
Zionism is the vril.
This is not my area. My general thinking is that money & power is the primary driver of corruption and organised crime. If there was something else that produces more for them, then "Zionism" would not be so fashionable in elite circles. Probably, as suggested in the comment above, it is a foothold into the middle east. I have not researched the 'esoteric' sides of Zionism, it may have importance, I just don't know and have zero knowledge of it.
There is a major problem with blaming Zionists for attitudes toward Jews and the problem is reality and the facts.
Israel was conceived, founded and has functioned in terrorism and atrocities for more than a century and the reality is, most Jews have not only supported it from the start they have funded it. Yes, there were some Jews, a tiny minority who rejected Israel from the start but most did not. Yes, there are growing numbers of Jews who now reject Israel as a liability but again, MOST DO NOT.
There are many intelligent, educated decent people who are followers of Judaism and I know some of them, who have always supported Israel and sent their kids on camps to learn what? How to kill Goyim and how to hate Palestinians?
They have also supported the truly evil Birthright scheme, teaching their children that they have a right to Palestine even thought they and none of their ancestors for thousands of years have ever lived there.
Jews have played a major part along with Zionists and Israelis in infiltrating Governments, politics and media throughout the Western world, to compromise the rights of citizens and to push the Israeli agenda.
So, while we must applaud the minority of Jews with ethics and principles, we cannot let Jews in general or their religion off the hook because they have played a major part in the atrocity that is Israel and the countless atrocities it has committed. It is and always has been a terrorist State founded and functioning in supremacist hatred, violence, theft and destruction. And most Jews have not only allowed that to happen they have helped it to happen.
Until a majority of Jews categorically reject and condemn Israel and all it stands for, then they and their religion will be tainted by association.
It is wrong to conflate Judaism with Zionism. Period.
It is more wrong to pretend Zionism can exist without Judaism.
have you heard of Christian Zionists? They are not Jewish.
Again, Zionism cannot exist without the pre-existing condition of Judaism. Christian Zionists are supporters of a Jewish political ideology for their insane Christian reasons.
you say nothing quite authoritatively. Christian Zionists support Zionism because they think it will bring on Armageddon and then the Rapture. They don't usually support any part of Judaism. They support Zionism because their Christian bible tells them to do so. At least that is their excuse. As far as I have heard, the bible says nothing of the sort.
No shit, Sherlock. They're hate-filled bigots, which is why I used the word "insane" to qualify it. And correct, the Bible makes no mention of the bullshit they preach. That is thanks to Israeli propagandizing televangelists and Americans being uncivilized. My point still stands. Stop talking to me.
so why is Israel sitting in Palestine if it has nothing to do with the Jewish religion and its deranged God?
The fact lunatic Christians support the Zionists does not let Jews who support them off the hook.
Sorry, but the entire premise of the Israeli State of Hate is that the Jewish God gave them Palestine. The fact some deranged Christians believe the same thing is irrelevant.
What of the Christian “Zionists” without Jews?
If a State claims to represent every Jew on earth and most Jews accept or even promote that claim then they are accountable for what that State does.
That is the reality. If most Jews had rejected that claim from the start they would not be stained with a century and more of terrorism and atrocities - rape, murder, torture, theft, destruction.
Germans were not allowed to say they did not know and get a free pass and in this modern age Israelis CANNOT claim they did not know and neither can their supporters. Ergo, because with modern technology there is no reason NOT TO KNOW WHAT IS BEING DONE IN YOUR NAME, you are responsible equally for what is done in your name.
Let us not kid ourselves, if a Muslim state existed in the same way a Jewish state claims to exist and committed the same atrocities and most Muslims funded it and refused to condemn or reject it, no-one would be trying to shift the blame with words like conflate. Muslims and their religion would be held accountable and rightly so. Same for Jews.
The horrific slaughter of Israel’s foundation in 1947/48 and its 78 years of sadistic cruelty and bestial savagery have been documented and anyone can find out the facts. I did 50 years ago.
Common sense says if a State or group claim to represent you and your religion you want to know EXACTLY what they do or plan to do in your name. The fact many, maybe most Jews failed to do that is not an excuse and does not let them off the hook.
I am not conflating, I am stating facts. If most Jews support and fund Zionism then they are joined at the hip and no need to conflate. And the reality is most Jews have always supported and funded Zionist Israel and MOST still do.
Americans support Zionism too.
May 1914, Celia Frank published the 2nd of a series of articles about Zionist Origins, in The Maccabaean, the American Zionism mouthpiece. https://archive.org/details/no5maccabaean24zionuoft/page/142/mode/2up.
Before I proceed to the quote:
It's necessary to understand their religion in an anthropological sense, because it is not "like Christianity but with different costumes". The religion permeates every aspect of their self-concept, even to the point of affecting how their culture thinks about reality. (To give one example, "Jewish wisdom" is the source of the destabilizing idea that words can alter reality, as though words operate like mystic charms; they think their rabbis argue with god and change reality).
Their very beliefs in being "a race", in having been great kingz in Jerusalem, in having wandered the desert, in having any sort of continuous attachment to Palestine for thousands of years are ALL and SOLELY religious beliefs.
Their religion has layers and is rooted not just in the Talmud, but in worship of their rabbis, in Kabbalah, and in tribal superstition and a sort of ritual-generation engine. It is not all that similar to Christianity, Islam, or any of the religions that worship stable gods. It is more like Santeria, in certain ways, and it is also like modern day cults which worship specific "messiah" figures and which we easily recognize as cults. But we are not allowed to call this tiny religion a cult, right? Therefore, the sect, not cult, of Sabbateanism in the late 1600s fed Hasidism, which became the religious powerhouse of Zionism in the 1800s. From the get-go, a full 1/3 or more of the Zionists were Hasidics; Herzl adapted his programme to them because he knew that without them he would have nothing.
When some hasbara tries to claim that "some Reform and some Orthodox rabbis were against Zionism at some point” and therefore Zionism isn't Jewish, they are trying to mystify with shoddy references, and also trying to entangle the world in their internecine squabbles as to what a good Jew does. This is none of the world's concern.
In this article, which is one of a series, Frank doesn't go so far back as to delve into Sabbateanism, but she does point in that direction.
Now to the quoting.
Here's the link again:
https://archive.org/details/no5maccabaean24zionuoft/page/142/mode/2up
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Published in 'The Maccabaean', May 1914
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ZIONIST ORIGINS
By CELIA FRANK
The follozving is the second of a series of articles tracing briefly the rise of
Modern Zionism
CHAPTER II There is no blank page between the history of Israel's past and that of the present in the Diiaspora. The persecutions of the first centuries continued into the later centuries, at times most barbarous, at others somewhat mitigated. With the last century open murder and rapine have ceased in the enlightened countries, but the demon Anti-semitism oppresses more to-day perhaps than formerly, since its methods are not open in attack. In spite of all, however. Israel miaintains steadfastly its old beliefs. Judaism has not conceded one iota of its principles, and the Jews remain today as distinct a people as in former years. The potent forces in Judaism, the idea of the restoration and the Messianic era, still continue ; only the Jews of today see more practical plans for their realization than formerly. The contrast, therefore, between the early conceptions of the Messianic era, and those developed during the centuries of itineracy which followed, with the consequent absorption of Occidental culture, is marked. The Israelites have always predisposed to fraternize with strangers, and they turned passionately toward the acquisition of Occidental culture. Is it not but natural, therefore, that the new Jewish culture should have questioned the Messianic conceptions developed in the earlier period of restlessness and mysticism? Throughout the first years of the Diaspora, the Israelites expected some miraculous intervention to put an end to the exile, and give the signal for the glorification of Israel. In the elarly opinion, the Messiah was to gather the children of Israel around him, march to Jerusalem, and there, after overcoming the hostile powers, restore the temple worship, and set up his own dominion. In their adversity and affliction they thought for the time only of the material blessings thiat might ensue, and forgot Israel's greater mission. Later, however, from fanciful and materialistic views exclusive and perhaps coarse notions of individual well-being, revenge and relief from an oppressing enemy, the hope took nobler expression in the idea of a stable, national government^ based on the principles of pure morality and lofty ideals, universal brotherhood and peace, of perfect righteousness and purest religion, God reigning in Zion, and spreading his radiance over the whole world.
Towtards the close of the 18th century, with the growing tendency toward toleration, and the influence of Moses Mendelssohn, Jewish thought was turned into new channels. The slumbering genius of the Jew was aroused and revived from its abjection. With the influence of Mendelssohn the Jewish race received its impetus for a rejuvenessence, threw off the lethargy which possessed it during the Dark Ages, and sprang from the narrow and isolated Ghettos into the world of culture. With the new Jewish culture came self-knowledge and self-respect, and gradually developed a broader race consciousness and correspondingly historical interest in Palestine. By the side of this influence came the strong sentiment of cosmopolitanism which swept over Europe the last part of the 18th century and first half of the 19th century. It was a natural reaction against the arbitrary grouping of nationalities which ignored all racial dififerences and was based simply upon political necessities. Then a counter-reaction set in. Cosmopolitan ideas were rejected as opposed to personal freedom, and there sprang- up the sordid sentiment of national exclusiveness. A desire for national solidarity made itself felt, and all dependent European nations took up the banner of national independence. The unification of Italy under Victor Emanuel, the uniting of the various Germaii principalities into a powerful nation under Bismark, the action of Switzerland, Hungary, and the various Balkan States, and the attempt of Ireland to free itself from British rule, were bound to react upon the Jews. In fact, many of them sympathized and aidded those who fought for this racial freedom. It is therefore but natural that a longing for racial freedom and communal life should have been aroused in their own hearts.
Under these influences there arose gradually, especially among* the younger generation, a sentiment in favor of Jewish national existence, which carried in its wake many of the brightest and most advanced Jews of the day. The historian Joseph Salvador as early as 1830 believed in the possibility that a congress of European powers might restore Palestine to the Jews, and the founders of the Alliance Israelite Universelle took an interest in colonizing work in Palestine. Rabbi Hirsch Kalischer of Thorn, Germiany, may be called the first practical Zionist. So early as 1836 Kalischer explained his position with regard to the repatriation of Palestine and the Messiah. He believed that the redemption would have its beginning in ta natural way, unaccompanied by miracles and wonders. There would first be required the desire of the Jews to settle in Palestine, and the assured protection of the nations in maintainine their independence. His book "Derishat Ziyyon" deals with the religious and theologiclal problems involved. He advocated the colonization of Palestine, the cultivation of land there, and the founding of an agricultural school and of a Jewish military guard. With the Jewish state and worship reestablished in Palestine, then, he believed, would God show his miracles and fulfill the promises of the Prophets. Kalischer travelled extensively in aid of these ideas ; caused the first colonization society to be established in Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1861 ; and exerted some influence in the colonizing work of Charles Netter and the founding of the agricultural school Mikweh Israel.
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(I will continue the rest of it, in a reply to this comment).
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https://archive.org/details/no5maccabaean24zionuoft/page/144/mode/2up
[please excuse typos: this is copied from a PDF and I am not correcting all character errors].
The colonization of Palestine was persistently urged. Soon Kalischer succeeded in winning many of the more modern and more cultivated over to his belief. Noted among the men whom he interested was Moses Hess, the famous socialist of his time. In the year 1862 Hess wrote his book "Rome and Jerusalem," which, in truth, may be called one of the foundation works in Zionist literature. In this book Hess maintains that the Jewsh nationality cannot be destroyed, and that if emancipation be incompatible with Jewish nationality, the Jews should renounce all claims to emancipation. He saw in the Jewish colonization of Palestine the only solution of the Jewish problem. The idea of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine gained support among some of the most orthodox rabbis ; and in several of the cities societies were founded for the purpose of studying the Hebrew language. Two years after the appearance of Hess' "Rome and Jerusalem" Heinrich Graetz published an essay in which he declared that the Jewish nation was its own Messiah, and should bring about its own rejuvenescence and redemption without waiting for the coming of a single person or redeemer. His ideas proved too radical for many of the orthodox, and his book enorendered violent conflict. David B. Dob Baer Gordon, another leader in the movement, published in his paper "HaMiaiggid" a number of articles, the first of which appeared in 1871. on the colonization of Palestine as the basis for the future regeneration of Judiasm. In the course of time the various activities developed into a strong- movement and (assumed the name of Lovers of Zion. As a result of the recrudesence of national sentiment in Europe, and the liberation of Servia, Bulgaria and Roumania, the desire for liberty grew stronger with the Jews and toward the end of the seventies in the 19th century, the national movement gained still further ground.
Through the efforts of Henry Dunant larg-e Jewish organizations such as the Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Anglo-Jewish Association in London were persuaded to take an interest in the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, but no response was forthcoming. Laboring untiringly, Dunant succeeded in founding two societies for that purpose, the International Palestine Society, and in 1876 the Syrian and Palestine Colonization Society. Attempts were made by various statesmen and financiers to interest the Turkish Sultan for the colonization of Palestine by the Jews, pleading the advantage of such projects not only to the Jews themselves, but to the Ottoman and Occidental countries. Noted among these were the attempts of Sir Moses Montefiore, as early as 1840, and those of Lawrence Oliphant in 1879 and 1882. whose plans, however, failed to evoke any response. Writers continued in their plea for Palestine's repatriation b)' the Jews. In 1879 there appeared a series of articles by Ben Yehudah proposing the colonization of the Holv Land and the gradual centralization of the Jews there : and Isaac Rulf in 1883 wrote on the same lines. In Russia the national sentiment especially called forth an enthusiastic response, and literary expression was given to national hopes by such brilliant writers as Moses Lob Lilienblum, Perez Somlenskv, and Lev Osipovitch Levanda. With the large influx of Jews into the United States the Zionist movement soon found ex pression here, and soread quickly, lii the years 1882 and 1883 Emma Lazarus wrote a stirring series of ar-
ticles pleading for an independent Jewish nationality and a Jewish home in Palestine.
The general weve of national sentiment spreading over Europe conceded at last political right to the Jews, and with the close of the 19th century the majority of the enlightened nations had accorded them political emancipation. Tiiis, however, did not grant them social equality, not only were Jews excluded from all Christian society; but Christian contempt followed them in all their pursuits. At the very time when their own dormant national feeling had been awakened, and the Jewish masses became thrilled with fervoi for Israel's restoration, the monster Anti-semitism unsheathed its sword and followed them remorselessly. From 1881 it spread from eastern Europe over the whole continent, leaving no place untouched. In Germany it gained its strongest foothold, and in a short time Austriia, France, Russia and many of the southern provinces became strong centers of AntiSemitism. Refuge was at first taken in the hope that the culture and enlightenment of the time would surely give place to broader and more sympathetic treatment. But when Antisemitism received more or less co-operation from the governments, the hope was seen to be futile.
The majority, fortunately, continued in the hope that if redress was not obtainable, surely, in the near future, the g"ap between their civil and social position would be filled. However, a few Jews of Germany, and of the capital cities in most Europeian countries proposed a solution of the vexing problem troubling them. The magnificence of the court fascinated them, the brilliance and wit of the salon drew their Jewish genius almost in spite of them and in their despondency many of the wealthier and more educated decided upon assimiliation. Apostasy thereafter became a common occurrence. Many Jewish youths and maidens, fascinated by the novel experience of aflfiliation with the great, unknown Christian world, washed in
the waters of baptism, and subsequently passed forever from Judaism A writer of the time offers consolation, with the reflection that the converts "are but chips shaved off from an unwieldly colossus ; the colossus is only strengthened by their removal." Happily, time has proven him right. The conversion to Christianity, however, did not give these proselytes the social freedom and happiness they sought. The waters of baptism did not succeed in washing off their earmarks of Semitism : nor did assimilation with the Christian peoples about them succeed in disguising their Jewish identity. Anti-semitism did not restrict itself to pursuing the isolated Jews ; it followed the assimilated also. The distinctness and individuality which they themselves denied and sought to hide, were observed, and regarded as a menace to national solidarity. Jew-baiters persisted in the view that the Jews were an obstacle in the amalgamation of the races, and the formation of homogeneous unions.
The religious sensibilities of loyal Jews became outraged by the action of their more "enlightened" brethren. Salvation began to be looked for from other quarters. Another solution was proposed. It was determined to make Judaism acceptable to the Christians; and the "Berlin religion" with its many "reforms" resulted. Some of the most sacred traditions and hopes were stricken from the reform synagogue ritual. The Hebrew language was dispensed with in the services. All references to the Messiah and Israel's restoration were omitted from the prayer-book. Judaism was declared to be wholly religious, and in no way national. It was contended that Israel's redemption lay in renouncing the hope for renationalization in Palestine, and in accepting gratefully the citizenship of the nations among whom the Jews lived : otherwise, they would be suspected of disloyalty and their position made even more miserable and unbearable. It was a critical moment for Judaism. The pious were ready to forfeit their citizenship for the retention of their cherished hope ; the reformed unhes-
itatingly relinquished the glorious ideal for political and legal enfranchisement.
This new religion naturally became the horror of the pious, and made them all the more solicitous to keep aloof from external tendencies. They clung more tenaciously to their traditions. But with the emancipation of the Jews in Germiany in 1848. the reform movement acquired new strength and became more staple and permanent. The chasm between the old and the new became greater, and a reconciliation was out of the question. The separation which has continued to this day was inevitable; but it has brought much good as well as harm in its wake. The self-defence of the reformed Jews led the conservative to seek practical methods for defence. They began to consider their position in the world their prospects as individuals and as a community, and their historic nationality sprang to the foreground.
With the acquisition of Occidental culture, political enfranchisement, and the prominence attained by Jewish magnates and statesmen, redemption began to be looked for from practical sources. The vague notions of a Messiah and a Messianic age assumed a more definite shape. The confused hope of a Messianic period imperceptibly merged into a more natural course of deliverance from present misery, and fitted itself to present-day realities. The Jews became deeply conscious that they could be helped only by themselves; that if they could not help themselves, they could not be helped at all. They came to understand that their redemption would come about by voluntary activity on their own part, with the permission and assistance of non-Jewish rulers, as, in the time of Zerubabbel and Ezra the reestablishment of the Jewish commonwealth was effected in a perfectly natural way, and insured by the great power of the world. They saw their salvation in Zionism: — that great national movement of the Jews, and understood that if it could not protect and deliver them to-day, it would be the salvation of their children.
{To he concluded.)
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Excellent post. Most Jews support everything Israel is doing while hiding behind the worn out anti semitism shield.
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‘Anti-semitism’, yeah, right. How many ‘Israelis’ are actually Semitic, themselves, when 2/3 of the population of ‘Israel’ are allergic to the most prominent species of olive trees that have been growing in Palestine for thousands of years?
Correct. Aren't Palestinians also Semitic?
Let's at least correct it to "Anti-Jewish".
Lorne: Unequivocally NO to the “also” bit.
I’m Palestinian-American. *I* am a Semite with ancestry from the Levant.
THEY are most assuredly NOT Semites. They’re motherfucking Europeans.
BTW, did you skip out on History 101? The Nakba occurred in 1948!
Good one!
The pattern of creating, arming, and then citing the existence of the very enemies the US manufactured is not an accident. It is the business model of perpetual war envisioned by the Dulles brothers and never abandoned.
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/trust-nothing-they-say-the-exposed
Those institutions are financially aiding “Israel” genocide too
Israel and the IOF have contributed more to antisemitism than anyone of any other culture, religion or nationality possibly could have done. What do they expect when they murder children, the parents of children, when they starve people, destroy hospitals always using the same worn out lies that it is Hamas, that the children they murder will grow up to be terrorists. of course people are going to hate the Israelis, especially if they have had their family members murdered by them as the attacker in Michigan had last week had 4 relatives murdered in Lebanon.
You forgot to put “attacker” in quotes.
This didn’t happen in Detroit proper. It SUPPOSEDLY happened in the wealthy suburb of Bloomfield Hills, known to many of us here in the Mitten as Jewfield Hills. You thinks the cops there ain’t gonna go along with the narrative?
I have explained previously how Zionists love and need antisemitism.
Antisemitism also is useful to convince any Jews that waver jn their support of Israel that ethnic solidarity is their only protection, that they'll be blamed for Israel's crimes whether they support Israel or not.
Cynical? Yes. And it works.
Feral, no Greenies for you until you stop referring to jews as “Semites “.
Yep, the European and American diaspora are about as Semitic as Bjorn Borg and Søren Kierkegaard. It's expanded so far beyond a religion/ethnicity/race or whatever, it's just a vibe now.
So "trafficking in hateful conspiracy theories” is what Zionists call committing an ethnic cleansing/genocide of the Palestinian people? They really are trying to muddy the waters, aren't they? They're going to cause more and more people to hate everything to do with the Jewish faith. It's entirely uncalled for. Zionist founder Theordore Herzl truly hated his own Jewishness and it shows even today through his followers.
It's terrifying that Jews the world over will be targeted for Israel's actions. It's also interesting that the temple that was attacked in MI hosts seminars with the IDF front group, Jewish National Fund, whose main initiative is to "integrate young people with disabilities into the IDF and Israeli society." And the temple also screened Zio-in-chief Debra Messing's "documentary" about antisemitism in the US, called "October H8te", and also has all sorts of pro-Israel and "progressive Zionist" resources on their site, and a bunch of links to Hasbara youtube videos. https://www.temple-israel.org/israel
Greenblatt IS correct that diaspora Jews should Not be blamed for the 'holocaustic' actions of Netanyahu's Government of Israel.
Israel's Proportional Representation system allows 1 tiny Zionist party (there are others) to wag-the-dog by threatening to leave the Coalition govt unless Netanyahu does viscious things to Palestinians.
This pleases Netanyahu who is using War to avoid being jailed for his criminal corruption.
The tragedy to me is that our worldwide civil-human rights evolved from ancient 'Old Testament' Jewish history.
How can Israel be doing such evil things to their fellow Palestinian citizens, whom they conquerred in 1973?
How can Western countries stand back and allow it to happen, then be suckerred to donate $$ to help Palestinians recover, only to happen again, and again?
Maybe we can just quit “meticulously crafting” arguments, Caitlin.
Fuck that shit. I call em like I see em, I lost my filter a looong time ago, and I don’t give a flyin fuck who I offend.
Truth is that the majority of AmeriKKKan jews support Jizzrael.