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The Revolution Continues's avatar

" Everyone knows Israel lies about everything all the time. Trust in the media is at an all-time low, while awareness of the pro-Israel bias of the mainstream press is at an all-time high."

Now, here's the real magic--that even after decades of brainwashing/propagandizing/hasbara-ing the vast majority of us can see through the Zionist lies. Added bonus is a healthy skepticism of the mainstream media's and our governments' involvement with the apartheid state. We will come out of this horror better and smarter than ever. Trust in the people's magic!

Jim's avatar

The internet is the only reason the spell is being broken, and you can bet the farm that buying TikTok was just the beginning of the Zionist’s attempts to regain their precious victimhood.

Carolyn L Zaremba's avatar

That might not fly very far after the world has seen what it has seen.

N. Obody's avatar

The internet will be the reason the spell is re-asserted. Israel also influences the new X and Musk, who Netanyahu has called "a friend", and of course also Zuckerberg. As AI evolves the manipulation grows deeper. It doesn't have to be as obvious as the news.

Ali_H's avatar

You have a point - the original internet has consolidated and arguably vanished.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Magic is real - and the Zionists do use magic. And yes, we also use magic when we break free from the illusions placed on us.

I’ve written a lot about magic and here’s how 1) it’s everywhere and 2) how rich people use is:

https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/magic-magic-everywhere

https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/rich-people-do-magic

Aamir Razak's avatar

well said CA, may the people's magic continue to flourish and many more more people see through the deceptions, and realize the truth

Ali_H's avatar

I find it kind of ironic but not - that the uptick in real anti-Semitism is from the people who have just found out. Of course they are mad, and some, inevitably, are not so bright. When that hateful stupidity was directed at Palestinians and their supporters - it was a virtue to be cultivated. You reap what you sow.

Trudy Anrep's avatar

Zionists aren't even ethnically from the Levant region ,they are Parasitic infiltrators

ChatterX's avatar

Too many ppl still prefer to remain willfully ignorant of the fact that Zionism/Israel has always been the UK/US Imperialist colonial project

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youtube.com/watch?v=IZjSVkkAjVk

youtube.com/watch?v=vEGVSvL6yQU

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It has nothing to do with race/nationality/ethnicity or religion, these are all smoke and mirrors. It's pure Geopolitics.

youtube.com/watch?v=GFckhPstBtI

Trudy Anrep's avatar

Always is about greed and power

ChatterX's avatar

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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This is exactly what Capitalism is - constant concentration of Capital, for the sake of Capital itself.

The Unquenchable Worship of GREED

Sera's avatar

Playing the victim works as long as people let it work.

The tide is turning. Bari Weiss, and the flock of Zionist billionaires backing her, are embarrassing themselves more each day, with their cruelty, their greed, and their arrogance.

My fear is that when the world finally decides it’s had enough, the reaction to these evil people will also be disproportionate.

And so it goes….

gypsy33's avatar

What’s “disproportionate” about reactions to evil people?

Sera's avatar

It will be disproportionate because it will probably be applied to the wrong people. Collective punishment is always wrong.

I learned from my father, whose own father died in an earlier holocaust, that killing is wrong. As a child, I asked if he would feel bad if the killers died. He said no, they should be left in a small room with a loaded gun, so that they could express contrition with their last act. The world would be a better place without them.

But he would never let them turn him into a killer. I’ve lived by that philosophy all my life, and I am at peace with it.

Whatistobedone's avatar

I, too, have NO mercy for EVIL people. ICE, a prime example...teeny weeny titty baby NAZI goons, thugs. So, too, the Nazis participating in, enabling the genocide of the Palestinian people and culture. Being in touch with my shadow, I wish for the lot of them to burn in perpetuity - and never die - in the furthest reaches of hell...DARK thoughts for DARK people.

Just Sayn's avatar

Ice hides behind masks and political immunity. Zionism hides behind a religion, and coercion terrorism murder. Killing journalists and any one who speaks ill of them Charlie Kirk was an example and a message.

gypsy33's avatar

Uh-huh.

Sorry if I don’t have your perfect little morals where “evil people” are concerned.

Sera's avatar

You really aren’t in a position to be condescending. Not having morals isn’t something to boast about, nor is the pretense that you are in a position to decide who is evil.

There are no good people or bad people, only good acts and evil acts.

“They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at another time.”~Blaise Pascal

Whatistobedone's avatar

No...I am old. Most of my life I had tried not to think in black and white terms. I had always understood there was "gray" between the two extremes. I no longer see it that way. People who commit genocide, celebrate it, and the terrorists of ICE are EVIL incarnate. To me, just my old-person take on it, I see, hear, agonize over their inflicting death and horror on others... because they can and because they think they are centers of the universe.

There is nothing noble here. "Humans" [sic] who perpetrate such cruelty and terror upon others deserve no consideration of their " good side." THERE IS *NO* GOOD SIDE. They are deformed...twisted homunculi.

Sam's avatar

Whatistobedone, I'm also old and I also have changed my understandings of the many different kinds of people who make up the world. For instance, I can say now that I'd want the nations of the world to build a military force that would destroy all of Israel's government, military, and strategic infrastructure, bring the fascist state to its knees and allow the armies of the surrounding nations to establish the One State solution to all of the Palestinian homeland, imposing a single, secular democratic state to all there who are Jews, Palestinians and others, along with the latter refugees who are now living in squalor outside those territories, with a restriction imposed on any Israeli Jew who would want to emigrate to another country. I know it sounds impossible and too ideal, but it explains my current sentiments.

Ali_H's avatar

When they cross certain lines that is true. For example - IDF and RSF. IDF operatives - privileged, educated background - plenty of life choices. RSF - impoverished villagers - poor education - if any - few life choices. Possibly totally coerced. Until they go out and start murdering - there is a scale of evil intent and it's pretty grey. Some are worse - a lot worse - than others. But once they start killing? It black and white as far as I'm concerned - their respective back stories no longer count. From the perspective of those being murdered - the world would be better off without the murderers. And those pushing the whole thing along.

Sam's avatar

Sera, I understand your position because not long ago, I was there. But now I realize something I didn't realize before, and that's the fact that there's a big difference between thinking about killing while in an armchair and the actual act of killing someone who is actually attacking you with a deadly weapon. So, I ask you, wouldn't you fight back if you were in the act of someone attacking you? If you're being honest, you'll reply that you would let that person kill you without giving any resistance. Any other response indicates that you cannot think outside the comfort of your armchair.

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

I didn’t think that was what Sera was saying. Not to speak for her, but my reaction is that she was speaking against revenge and retribution, not against self-defense, the real self-defense not the pretend one.

gypsy33's avatar

Who the fuck are YOU to judge my “morals”, bitch?

Just Sayn's avatar

An evil act requires a perpetrator. Such that the US has so indoctrinated it soldiers to kill people in boats 100s of miles from zUS with ZNO evidence but they are told that illegal orders and moral acts do not have to be carried out. Yet they do it. That is evil. Killing children with snipers, starving and using food distribution as bait is evil, bombing hospitals is evil. NO sane person could argue otherwise.

David Baird's avatar

Sera, I hope it IS proportionate to the utter hell that's been unleashed on Gaza.

staircase whit's avatar

I just read Defector's article on her. Recommended. Very interesting/sickening.

TR's avatar

I think you meant "justified".

Feels like Truth's avatar

This is vital.Caitlin perfectly names the "magic system" used to silence dissent. It is unconscionable that in Australia, citizens now fear professional ruin and legal harassment for demanding justice and speaking against genocide. The campaign of intimidation—the lawfare, the character assassination lists from a foreign power—is an assault on our democracy itself. This coercion must be named and rejected. Our right to protest and speak without fear is non-negotiable.

Gothic Bluebird's avatar

Unfortunately it's not just professional ruin and legal harassment, it now involves lengthy gaol time for criminal offences which have retrospective application remove procedural fairness and reverse the onus of proof. Dark times indeed.

Sam's avatar

"This coercion must be named and rejected."

This coercion is not being properly named, so it cannot be rejected. The proper name is Judaism, not Zionism. Political Zionism is a product of Judaism, people. Zionism is a political philosophy, akin to fascism. Zionism itself does nothing. People do everything. It's the people who murder in the name of Zionism that are the wrongdoers. Jews are committing genocide and ethnic cleansing on Palestinians. We cannot bring perpetrators to justice unless we identify who they are. Identifying a political philosophy is not identifying the perpetrator. First off, it's the Jewish political leaders both inside and outside Israel who are the primary perpetrators. Second, it's the diaspora Jewish community, who overwhelmingly support their leaders. Deal with this.

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

There are far more Christian zionists than Jewish ones. Christian Zionism far pre-dates political zionism, and yet leaving them out sounds as if you would absolve them.

Power, Profits, and Prophets are all in this mix, and are found among all faiths, non-faiths, ethnicities, and racial groups.

Sam's avatar

Joy, nothing you wrote has relevance to my arguments.

Abe3's avatar

Christian zionism is much to blame but Zionists are willing to accept all the money and weapons

David Baird's avatar

Steven, all I can say is bloody oath, cobber!

Davina's avatar

Nah, not magic, money, money, money, we do know that jews love money, they were thrown out of the temple by Jesus because of their love of money, money to them comes before anything else. Those Americans that went to israel to kill Palestinians did it for money, you can bet that if the bombs were falling equally on israel like they were in Gaza those big brave fat-arsed Americans would have stayed home - they went because the money was good and the chances of injury were negligible.

No magic, just cheating the system by using the overused victim card even when they are not the victims but the perpetrators. It always strikes me tgat is what they do when on first meeting they tell you they are jews, no people from any other religion does that, it's getting the victim status in before you find out they are dishonest, because That's what the victim card is about, just like the dishonest use of antisemitism when they are not semites, have never been semites -- they are getting their kicks killing actual semites, whose Semitic ancestry goes back centuries. So, no magic there either, just lies.

Carolyn L Zaremba's avatar

Oddly enough, my friends who happen to be Jewish, including my former fiance and his family, never thought this way and never supported Zionism. My former fiance's parents visited Israel and were appalled at the apartheid. His father, who came from Russia, said that what Israel was doing was not the answer to anything. The Palestinians had nothing to do with Hitler's destruction of European Jews, so the Israelis cannot even legitimately claim that they are avenging the six million. Hasbara all down the line.

gypsy33's avatar

Davina!

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Sam's avatar

Davina, you say what must be said, though the way I would say it is that Judaism itself is a cult, a cult with an effective business model. Like all cults, it's maintained by its leaders who throw their followers under the bus for their own greed. Their followers, like all followers, are hoodwinked into supporting their leaders.

Davina's avatar

Well they've been getting hoodwinked for millennia, if we use your analogy, which would mean they are somewhat slow in understanding what is being done in their name. Could it not just be that ^they like people to think they are being hoodwinked^ because it let's them continue supporting their genocidal leaders in their quest to make humanity their slaves?

Sam's avatar

Davina, good point. I guess we'll never know to what extent Jews or anyone else who succumbs to childhood indoctrination for their entire adult lives are guilty/responsible for their resulting wrongdoing. I've concluded that the vast majority of Jews cannot see through their Jewishness to their own humanity nor the humanity in others. The business model of their political leaders is simply too strong to disassemble. In my view, this is a moral indictment, and I suggest they simply wake up, reject all that childhood indoctrination, and act on their humanity and the humanity of others.

Ali_H's avatar

In all religions you will find some people who are focused on cherry picked interpretations of interpretations, ignoring anything that might restore balance. Taking heed of any mitigating scripture is seen as weak - although in terms of faith it most certainly is not. At this point it becomes a cult. Particularly if there are leaders who promise lavish freebies - more so if they actually deliver - better still if there is historical trauma to help drive it.

Diana van Eyk's avatar

I think that magic is called money. And our governments are awash in it. Money shouldn't be allowed in our governments, and Israel shouldn't be allowed so much influence on our politicians.

How can we call our systems democracies when so many of them are influenced by Israel and money?

Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>"How can we call our systems democracies when so many of them are influenced by Israel and money?"

We can't call it a democracy, and we shouldn't - because that would be a lie. IMO, such systems are more accurately described as plutocracies (some of which are authoritarian, others less so).

Ned B.'s avatar

What makes magic mystifying is the magician's misdirection and narrative control of the illusion.

Ali_H's avatar

To me - the term "gaslighting" sums it up. The words amount to very little without the performance.

Kat Taylor's avatar

Justice for Palestine 🇵🇸

Simon G's avatar

It is worth remembering Jews are only around 0.2% of the world's population, Zionists less, yet their influence is huge.

Harry Ziboo's avatar

Amazing when you see it.

Sean Griobhtha's avatar

The United States cannot claim moral authority while it abandons its own veterans and legislates preferential protections for those who willingly enlist in foreign militaries. Every American who fought in undeclared CIA proxy wars—from Iran to Colombia, Mexico, and across Latin America—did so under the banner of U.S. interests, often coerced by circumstance or recruited into conflicts they did not fully understand. They returned home carrying the same wounds as any soldier: PTSD, moral injury, fractured families, and broken bodies. Yet Congress has never extended them the dignity of recognition, never legislated advanced benefits, never even authorized the VA to treat their trauma. To now elevate mercenary service in the Israeli Terrorist Forces above the sacrifices of these forgotten veterans is not simply preferential — it is a desecration of justice.

https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/constitutional-moral-and-ethical

Dan Mage's avatar

I met one person who was down in Central America with Oliver North. He didn’t talk about it much, but when he did, it was in the context of the common definition of “criminality”.

“It was terrible what we did, there is no reason no excuse….”

We were in a program designed to teach us to be “good citizens” again. The very worst of us looked silly, amateurish next to the “heroes” who ordered this man and other like him to do things they could barely speak of. (and I knew more than one combat veteran, good people, and crazy, strung out like me) yes the cult of torture and death damages anything and everything it touches.

PForty7's avatar

It's not magic. It took decades of hard work, persistence, and flat out lying. If you want the blow by blow details of how this project took hold in America - and it's in America that it matters - read Kathleen Christison's book, "Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy".

Covering all this with a veneer of "magic" might be clever prose for a Substack article, but it's just a lie. There is no magic there.

Carolyn L Zaremba's avatar

Read Shlomo Sands' "The Invention of the Jewish People" or anything by Ilan Pappe.

Henri Mellett's avatar

The point is the effect on us of the hard work of prestidigitation.

Tenggara's avatar

But the magic is still not wearing off fast enough. Now we have the added magic of the “Bored” of Peace, a gathering of every Marvel villain there ever was

Judy Bancroft's avatar

And totally unaccountable…..

J M Hatch's avatar

That bat shit crazy look should come with a flock of flying monkeys.

Mary W Maxwell's avatar

Five dollars says Caitlin Johnstone is going to bring this whole thing down.

Mary W Maxwell's avatar

Hurrah for 'Straya!

Loam's avatar

This is the magic system of Zionism: Buying off the US Congress with the money that the US Congress gives to Israel. It's "magic" not because the trick is brilliant, but because those who witness it (Americans in general) are extraordinarily foolish or blinded by propaganda.

Luke's avatar

It is most definitely magic. Let me give you an example. Have you ever seen a rabbit pulled from the hat faster than H Lutnick fell from the sky only to land on Trump’s lap?

I didn’t think so. The odds of each happening are along the same lines.

Jim's avatar

The same Lutnick that was nextdoor neighbors with Jeffrey Epstein? Strange coincidences, aren’t they?

Luke's avatar

We gotta be sure it’s the same guy 😉