I am 70 years old and have asked my adult children to please make sure my current and future grandchildren know that their grandma knew and called it out. In 30 years I’ll be dead but I want them to know when they ask about this ghastly time in our history, that grandma lost friends and family because she didn’t keep her mouth shut.
Yes. For at least the last 18 months if someone tried to excuse israel, then they are fundamentally not decent people and just not worth knowing. We all know this is wrong. Every single one of us.
Same here! This grandma has struggled to hold her own grandchildren after seeing all of the dead children AND adults in Gaza.
I've spent most of my waking moments sharing information & offering education about Palestine & its history for over a year now. I was late to my awareness, it was Aaron Bushnell's sacrifice that shocked me AWAKE.
I am doing the same work of information sharing & educating about this nightmare regime & history. I worry terribly for our children, their future looks very bleak if we don't succeed in our efforts. That's why I'm fighting in every way I'm able. 💪 Stands strong Grandma's!
I cried, I have done the same. I ask others what will they say to their children/grandchildren about this genocide. Many now understand what we have done and there is no explanation other than we are Monsters. : (
I'm right behind you in age, 68 yo here, not sure how long I have left on this earth, or the current state of global affairs, not sure how long any of us have left.
I wanted to say THANK YOU FOR NOT KEEPING YOUR MOUTH SHUT about the atrocious genocide! I feel supported by reading your comment and the other people's comments who are chiming in, too.
My parents would have been proud of the political involvement and activism I have been more involved in during my retirement. I wish they knew.
My kids will all figure it out, as will yours, and related family members will too.
Seems like this might take time, and when we're all gone or when it doesn't matter (to us who cry and get angry daily) anymore, they'll know we stood on the right side of humanity.
The only mistake is that Israel continues to exist. Its society is nothing but an abomination on the filthy tableau of human history, and neither the container nor its contents belong in the world.
Jews entered human history as slaves making bricks in ancient Egypt. They need to exit human history as naked, castrated slaves clearing broken bricks from Palestine.
This comment IS antisemitic. He talks about Jews, not Zionists. Just because Zionists cry wolf all the time and accuse anyone critical of Israel or Zionism as anti semitic doesn’t mean this historic prejudice no longer exists. Obviously it does given this writer’s comments. And 8 people liked it!!!
Demonizing a whole people is the problem , not the solution. It is what many Zionists do to Palestinians.
I would remind the writer that Israel could not do what it does without the arms and political support of the United States. Israel is a beachhead of the US empire. Biden said some years ago that if Israel didn’t exist, the US would have to invent it.
I see that the author was a soldier who participated in the genocidal imperialist war in Vietnam. I hope his own conscience is clear.
Exactly. Which is why many of my Jewish friends loathe Netanyahu. He is endangering the lives of Jews around the globe. MANY Jews are fiercely protesting this Genocide. Jewish students at Columbia U. and elsewhere have been expelled for protesting, for example.
A consequence of the Genocide of these bloodthirsty ZioNazis is the resurgence of TRUE antisemitism. Just as I cannot condone the Genocide, I cannot condone antisemitism. I myself have made comments that could be antisemitic by allowing my anger to get the better of me. TRUE antisemitism is a GIFT to the ZioNazis. They point their fingers at TRUE antisemitism and claim it justifies the GENOCIDE and that THEY are the victims.
I have asked posters to distinguish between Jews and ZioNazis, but they rarely listen. I suspect that SOME of them are actually ZioNazi trolls.
What's even worse than his 'racist comment' is the number of people that 'LIKED' it. That's one of the problems with Substack - too many racists (either the Nazi kind, the Zionist kind, the white-supremacist kind, or others like Hindutva ideology adherents, etc.)
I agree with you as usual : ) I will say I would rather not have Substack be the judge of speech. We as community can do that. I live in a bubble so seeing ultra opposing viewpoints is shocking to me however I read past them knowing we are in serious trouble. People are looking for ways to release the hate they feel and blame anyone and anything : ( I am not sure how this all ends although, Genocide Don with his Nuclear wet dreams is a clue. That really is the question isn't it, IF we are willing as a world to do nothing about a starvation genocide of more than one nation of people is this preparation for the ultimate conditioning of many Billion genocide? I have no clue how this all ends without the monsters winning IF the people of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa don't stop them financially. There are some brave, heroic and powerful people, that do not have the power to fight the monsters by themselves, The heroes of Yemen, Ibrahim Traoré : ) I would kiss their feet if I met them. I still have hope my friend, hope is sh it with out the power of people so I stand with you : )
Agreed. These are the consequences I feared the conflation of kind,loving, and caring Jewish people with the evil monsters Zionists. This will get worse before it gets better. Could it be this was the plan of the Zionists, first one then the others destruction? I hear Christian Zionists repeating what their pastors say, Trump is their Anti-Christ bringing us all to heaven : (
Sorry, not intimidated. Jews are actually genetically mixed - we are Middle Eastern and European (mostly southern Europe) per our DNA. Palestinians and Jews share common ancestry. In Israel, in the absence of cultural clues, you often can’t tell Palestinians and Jews apart. So, yes we are Semitic, including Ashkenazie Jews.
Most American Jews do not belong to synogogues. There has been plenty of Jewish participation in Palestinian Solidarity protests including antiZionist Jewish organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace. Pro Palestinian candidate for Mayor of New York city Zohran Mamdani has gotten a lot of Jewish support.
The attachment of many Jews to Israel is complex. Many have family living there. There is a culural/historical connection with the Levant that goes way back,our stories originated there and were carried with us, including ancient Hebrew which was used for trade and poetry, not just for religious purposes. Even Yiddish which is closer to German is written in Hebrew lettering. I had ancestors that lived in Palestine a couple of centuries ago prior to Zionism. Indeed, there was always a Jewish population there (including a few whose families lived there uninterrupted for thousands of years) though the large majority before the Zionist colonization were Palestinian Arabs, most with deep roots there over many millennium. Of course, all of this does not at all justify the Zionist ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians.
Also, many Jews have been convinced that they can only survive with a state that they control like other national/ethnic groups after thousands of years of antisemitic persecution culminating in the Holocaust. Without antisemitism there would have been no Zionism. I think Zionisn was the WRONG reaction, and inherently problematic from the beginning (the statist variety, as there were cultural Zionists/binationalists like Martin Buber who opposed a Jewish state) in that Palestine was not empty as we were told. (“A land without people for a people without land.”)
And though we Jews are mixed,the original Zionist settlers from Europe brought western colonial attitudes with them and depended on the support of these great powers. And it has only gotten worse from there. Rather than a Jewish refuge, it has become a death trap and not just for Palestinians, though they are getting the worst of it now. The horrific crimes of Israel against Palestinians done in the name of the Jews sow anger and revenge and also encourage antisemites like yourself and your belief that Jews are inherently evil. But Jews are just human like everyone else, after all, with potential for great evil and great good.
Palestinians and JEWS have common ancestry? I think what you're getting at is that Palestinians and most southern Mediterranean and North African people share whole bunches of genetic alleles, Jews among them, including Sicilian Jews AND part-Sicilian Catholics like myself. I fear you're doing a little ethno-religious mixing, what the entire "we're Semites" project tends to frequently do.
And your reference to Palestinian Jews brings up the ancient Jewish community of Jerusalem, recently seen in videos waving Palestinian flags as they are beaten by Zionist pigs (their countrymen) while they shout at their thugs: "this land is called Palestine and we lived here in peace before there ever was an Israel". Of course, they share in that gene pool you wish to circumscribe. But please do not insult my biological intelligence by suggesting that Slavic populations, e.g., one Mr. Mileikowsky of Warsaw (and later, Philadelphia) swim in that pool.
No, there are multiple studies tracing the Y chromosome male line that find a close genetic connection between Palestinians and Jews which means common ancestry. Here is one article - see highlighted portions. The theory is that Jewish men from the Levant intermarried European women where they settled.
Jews who speak Hebrew.as a;lmost all in Israel do, are Semites, a linguistic description (as well as all who speak Arabic.) So let's be kind to each other and show we are on the side of tolerance and civility by not restorting to ugly words when we find disagreement. And so allow me to urge you not touse terms like Amerikkk Jews since the most prominent like Chomsky and Sanders have led the effort to halt shipment of arms to Israel, with the Sanders bill most recently getting the majority of Democratic Senators to support it. "here’s clear evidence that a growing segment of American Jews are becoming more critical or disapproving of Israeli military actions in Gaza, especially in recent years.
What polls and surveys show:
Younger American Jews (Millennials and Gen Z) tend to be more skeptical of Israeli government policies toward Palestinians and more supportive of Palestinian rights than older generations.
Polls by organizations like Pew Research Center and J Street indicate that while a majority still support Israel’s right to defend itself, a significant and growing minority disapprove of the scale or tactics of Israeli attacks on Gaza.
After major conflicts like the 2014 Gaza war and the 2023–2024 escalations, disapproval of Israeli military actions among American Jews increased, especially among the non-Orthodox. " Do not be blinded by hatred; use it to fight injustice, not to judge those who stand by your side but happen to be American Jews. If you need to curse me, I do not mind.
Do you think dismantling Germany after their committed genocide would have changed the attitude towards allowing israel to commit this genocide? Knowing there are consequences, works with children sometimes. But then dismantling the u.s. would be necessary.......... OR large number of very sharp guillotines for those that think they can. : )
Damn, I don't know, my friend. I kind of think that the roots of the type of malignant narcissism which permits chosen people beliefs are deep ones in the human psyche; and so I wonder if any object lesson would impact, or have impacted, prospective behaviors.
None of what is happening makes any sense to me. israel is destroying israel and they don't seem to care. The war on Iran I think is coming soon my guess of course. I wrote a ton of crazy here and deleted it not wanting you to suffer my weird thoughts on the Monsters of Finance using the cover of Zionism to capture more than real estate, oil and gas. Sorry, I started more writing and I'm thinking about deleting it......... .................. ............. nope : ) Free Palestine from the Monsters of Finance.
You really can't go wrong attributing these colonialist disasters to the greed of the investor class in the context of vulture Capitalism. So rant on, my friend!
Dismantling Germany may be in the works along with dismantling Israel. Look up when Germany made the scene - not that long ago - and what resulted. Right now it's gearing up to be at the forefront of another Drang nach Osten.
So yes, dismantling Germany might have allowed for Jews to stay put in Europe and disrupt the whole Zionist project.
How about dismantling the U.S. which as the largest most powerful imperial power on earth, has far more blood on our hands then even Israel? Funny, I don’t hear anyone calling for that or for bombing us. Maybe too close to home?
Bingo! MONEY. POWER. That's what the child sex trafficking/raping of children is all about. Protecting, shielding pedophiles...because they are wealthy..because they are powerful. THEY are above the law....civil, criminal and moral....
CJ>>"Don’t let them get away with saying they didn’t know. They knew. They knew the entire time. Brand them permanently with this shame, and force them to carry it with them for the rest of their lives."
🎯💯👏👍🙏
NEVER FORGIVE! NEVER FORGET! Hold EVERYONE that had (and still has) a part in this Genocide (which had been a slow-motion one for decades before Oct 7th 2023, and is now on steroids) accountable! Every MEDIA OUTLET, every OLIGARCH, every CORPORATION, every person or organization that has made a profit from this Genocide - ALL of them are RESPONSIBLE!
With US assistance, Chang, looks like more to come.
The UNGA on the 17th, about which I have written on a couple of occasions, trying to be positive, is unlikely to make any difference to the fate of Palestinians. I have had three days to think on it. The merciless murderer, Netanyahu is now publicly stating his plans to expand the actions to include a full takeover of GazaCity and on. Hardly a squeak from the USA, no doubt gathering up the supporters shekels to make it a successful massacre and relying on the compromised Trump and his band of misfits to keep up the support for the murderers, rapists, childkillers and snipers who along with the bombers will make this further aggression as quick as possible.
In the meantime, the Western country mercenaries are still available to come and go as they please with no measures in place to stop this action. Germany/US/ UK/ France/ Australia. The Zionists in Australia are also free and able to do as they please. Dual passported, but Israelis down to their bootstraps, as everyone knows. The even have a Zionist.....yes, a Zionist taking legal action against one of the most respected journalists in Australia, using the tried and tested antiSemitism brouhaha.
The UN should call for worldwide volunteers to counter this offensive and make its presence felt with a crew of peacekeepers, as in the 'old days'. Over the past 70 years, more than 1 million men and women have served under the UN flag in more than 70 UN peacekeeping operations. UN Peacekeepers have long been the best chance for peace for some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Their service and sacrifice – frequently under harsh and dangerous conditions– has made the Blue Helmet a symbol of hope to millions of people. Show us what you are made of United Nations.
When the truth is out on the Trump // Epstein / Israel "arrangement" and people realise how all this has come about, the total disloyalty in the West of Israeli "locals", the intelligence that finds its way to Netanyahu to use as he chooses and the paid mercenaries by the dozens on standby for the next Gaza interlude.
The climate is right for a "false flag" Israeli nuclear 'accident', no doubt with Trump's approval and assistance.
The UN needs to be disbanded. The UN was created to pretend and they have. The UN is not our friend or solution. IF only we had a group of nations UNited to prosecute war crimes and genocide, we don't : (
This kind of sponsored touring by the US Israel lovers has been in play for forty years. Not just the US either but most Western countries. It has become a real industry. In some countries. over the years, there is not a single politician who has not made the sponsored trip. Everything laid on, of course.
Your Cold War carefully taught narrative is showing. By the way that narrative underpinned US support for Israel for 50 years and led US policymakers to virtually ignore the existence of Palestinians, their goals, ambitions, and universal human rights like self-determination.
Oh boy. Half my family is now NOT my family. I have gotten to know up close and personal the "mind set" of "Christian" FASCISTS. They weaponize religion. They weaponize love. They are UGLY inside. Their hatred of anyone who and anything that isn't LIKE THEM is palpable, as is their holier-than-thou posturing. Yuk. Glad they are no longer in my life.
absolutely !! AS a Cathoilic I was unaware that there wasa bunch of escatalogical red heifer fanciers that called themselves Christians. A bit rich coming from a group that accuse Islam of harboring bloodthirsty religious fanatics. My Islamic mates refer to them as “Takriri Jihadis”. We christians have nothing to be smug about. Peace….
Most, I am no longer sure that is true or ever was. A group of friends have thought about going to random services and asking out loud at a sermon, WHY are you complicit? Would they boo, have us arrested? ignore? or applaud? I would love to go to the Pope's home church in Chicago and ask during a mass, WHY is the Pope a coward? The Pope could drive every truck into Gaza, would the israeli Genocide Force shoot him? The Pope is a coward should be chanted at every mass.
Most Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans and historical denominations have been and continue to be complicit in all manner of gross shit. For the ones that are even tracking it, horrified maybe, but not enough to lift a finger unless it involves turning off abortions or suppressing non-het culture churn.
Caitlin & Tim, Today we share your righteous anger much more than ever before. Nothing seems to stop this holocaust, this genocidal onslaught, this manmade famine. The world watches on while the Palestinian people are reduced to scrabbling in the bombed out rubble, their children starve and die; the once thriving people - even in an open air prison - lose their humanity and dignity.
We know who the culprits are, everyone knows the bloodthirsty ruthless monsters who are carrying out a mass slaughter in front of our eyes. They brag with impunity that they have yet to complete the job of theft, killing and starving.
The horrendous fact is that they can go on massacring in front of the whole world and no one ruling this earthly mess seem to care. Up to 300,000 caring human beings marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge but did that shame the ruling class? Do they have any morality left? What are they doing to stop the holocaust? The western ruling class came out with some inane pronouncements - but did they stop their partnership with the murderous regime?
Together with Netanyahu, Trump and all the western world leaders - their governments, the oligarchs, the media - they all stand condemned.
The brave Palestinians continue to document their reality, bearing witness to a genocide in real time so the world cannot look away. As Caitlin says no on can say that they didn't know!
Thank you, Caitlin. And many of these Red and Blue Hyenas Americans elected sat obediently for Netanyahu's lectures then stood and clapped for this psychopath butcher when was invited to speak to them. Many (including a senator from my state) even posed for a photo-op with this monster. Most Americans are disgraced by these Hyenas and the miscreant in the whitehouse, they elect. WTF is wrong with Americans to elect this trash!?
>>"WTF is wrong with Americans to elect this trash!?"
Probably the same thing that was wrong with those that voted for Hitler in 'democratic Germany'? Many dictatorships (authoritarian tyrants, strongmen, etc.) come into power through 'democratic' means/strategies.
Thank you Caitlin. We all and future generations should read Chris Hedges' "a genocide foretold told" and Francesk's Special Rappateur report to the U.N. General Assembly.
I might have disagreed with you my friend 1.5 yrs. ago, thinking people can change. I agree with you. I am now worried these evil Monsters have spread around the world thinking they can do as they please anywhere.
It is worrisome to see Zionism as a disease, but it is. A violent, selfish, greedy disease that thrives on genocide and war and stealing resources from others. We must stamp it out before it spreads any further. The ICJ and the ICC should be prosecuting and imprisoning all war criminals TODAY.
“A global class war is going on behind the scenes, and unless you’re part of the 1% of the 1% in the West, you may live in the geographical Global North, but you count, for the forces that be, roughly as much as an anonymous African boy in a cobalt mine who won’t make it to the age of 20, or a Sudanese or Palestinian baby who’s being starved and bombed to death …
“If you are an American, British, European, Canadian, or Australian citizen …whose voice and vote have no impact on your reality whatsoever, you'd better realize that your fate aligns much more closely with that of Iran, China, Africa, and Palestine, than with Wall Street or the price of London real estate. …
”[Y]ou are in the Global South, no matter where you live. …
“You are an Egyptian or Bangladeshi peasant to them.”
No, this is not really true. Of course you don't 'count' to the US based billionaires, in that they don't care about you, but they need your custom, if not your labour. The western hegemony and the wealth of the 1% is based on Westerners in the Global north buying things at a big mark-up made cheaply from stolen labour, land or resources from the Global south. The 1% would have no power at all if we stopped doing this.
They need to you to stay asleep and continue to oppose policies by the UN aimed at global equity and addressing the climate and environmental crisis. Either of these will severely dent their profits.
That's why they invented the conspiracy about the 1% at the WEF/UN being out to get us and impoverish or kill us in the West by faking the climate crisis and by stopping us using fossil fuels or farming other animals for food.
Of course they don't care about us, but we are being exploited in a completely different (and much more comfortable) way.
Very true!—for now. Alon was trying to awaken the sleepers and create in us some sense of solidarity with the rest of the world by rhetorically equating the way they don't care about us with the way they have never cared about the rest of the world, and warning that we are as disposable when it comes right down to it.
We are only units of consumption to the 1% and are being factory farmed for our dollars, but that fact is still well disguised for what's left of the middle class. Our slots in the farm are spacious and nicely decorated. Not so much for the majority who don't write on Substack, working two precarious retail jobs without benefits and no $400 in the bank for an emergency, but I guess even their life would look desirable to the African cobalt mine worker.
But insofar as natural and unnatural disasters, environmental poisoning, urban anarchy and crimes of crazy despair take growing numbers of us out, that's fine with them. Conditions are deteriorating rapidly here for all but "the 9%" or less, the professional managerial class. And it's being blamed on those who struggled to get here to escape far worse conditions. Stephen Miller and ICE are doing straight-up ethnic cleansing.
I am no longer sure that is true. Listening to these Monsters speak about their dreams of a future of Androids and AI. There is even a company that is working on cloning for AI insertion into Androids, the Organic/Inorganic being. That is a character of a story I wrote years ago. Then they don't need any of us. Dirty Dozen to Mars.
"We are ruled by monsters." Sums a lot up for me. I continue to be unnerved by my seething loathing of Israel and Israelis who celebrate and cheer the carnage, including the mother on the front line trying to prevent Palestinian children from receiving food. Of the Americans who made the genocide possible in the first place and of the Brits who condone the genocide and criminalize those who openly oppose it.
The genocide was NEVER about "October 7th." Fuck Oct. 7. This was NEVER a "war"....fuck that talk. It was and remains one-sided carnage. It was never about "Hamas"...just another excuse, false justification. Finally, FUCK their unending spewing of "antisemitism" to anyone daring to criticize Israel. The Holocausts I will recall and mourn will be the Native American and Native Palestinians. No one group of people comprises the "chosen ones." No faith, no nation, no race, no sex, no color, no ethnicity. All people on earth, all the critters, all the natural beauty and wonder of the planet DESERVE respect and nurturing and responsible stewardship. EVERYONE deserves a dignified life. I suppose THAT, too, will somehow be "antisemitic" to someone. If that's the case, then so be it.
No votes for any politician of any party or any country who has supported genocide, and that includes those who remained silent. Otherwise, we as voters are complicit. No lesser evil arguments will excuse anyone.
I pledge that to you my friend. I voted for Jill Stein even though she was a sh it campaigner, didn't even pick up my ballot signatures, missed the New York ballot : ( Who will be our candidate? I see no one stepping up that I could vote for. Kshama Sawant was not born in the u.s. or I would risk voting twice for her : ) If someone isn't campaigning now there will be no one to challenge the Duopoly. : ( Many frowns my friend.
Each blazing manifestation of outrage seems to be followed by one that burns hotter. Your commentaries occupy a class all their own: forceful, informed, courageous.
I am 70 years old and have asked my adult children to please make sure my current and future grandchildren know that their grandma knew and called it out. In 30 years I’ll be dead but I want them to know when they ask about this ghastly time in our history, that grandma lost friends and family because she didn’t keep her mouth shut.
Hi Sharon
This grandmother did as well, and was proud to “lose” these unhinged people.
Yes. For at least the last 18 months if someone tried to excuse israel, then they are fundamentally not decent people and just not worth knowing. We all know this is wrong. Every single one of us.
Same here! This grandma has struggled to hold her own grandchildren after seeing all of the dead children AND adults in Gaza.
I've spent most of my waking moments sharing information & offering education about Palestine & its history for over a year now. I was late to my awareness, it was Aaron Bushnell's sacrifice that shocked me AWAKE.
I am doing the same work of information sharing & educating about this nightmare regime & history. I worry terribly for our children, their future looks very bleak if we don't succeed in our efforts. That's why I'm fighting in every way I'm able. 💪 Stands strong Grandma's!
This 88 year old grandma protests every Wed. With fellow townspeople for Palestine, for Trump be gone!
I cried, I have done the same. I ask others what will they say to their children/grandchildren about this genocide. Many now understand what we have done and there is no explanation other than we are Monsters. : (
I'm right behind you in age, 68 yo here, not sure how long I have left on this earth, or the current state of global affairs, not sure how long any of us have left.
I wanted to say THANK YOU FOR NOT KEEPING YOUR MOUTH SHUT about the atrocious genocide! I feel supported by reading your comment and the other people's comments who are chiming in, too.
My parents would have been proud of the political involvement and activism I have been more involved in during my retirement. I wish they knew.
My kids will all figure it out, as will yours, and related family members will too.
Seems like this might take time, and when we're all gone or when it doesn't matter (to us who cry and get angry daily) anymore, they'll know we stood on the right side of humanity.
You are not alone. #LetGazaLive
Thank you for having a conscience.
And while the entire western world sat on their collective hands and allowed/ encouraged/ funded it Caitlin.
And only one nation, one of the poorest (and most bombed) countries on the planet, came to their assistance.
The only heroes in this story are the Palestinians themselves and Ansarallah.
And Hezbollah and South Africa.
Hi Liana, thanks for the mention of 🇿🇦 . While I'm proud im still disturbed that we sending coal to Isra-hell
And Yemen bombed to rubble by Saudi Arabia tries to help plus a few governments soeak out eg Ireland, & a few more
The only mistake is that Israel continues to exist. Its society is nothing but an abomination on the filthy tableau of human history, and neither the container nor its contents belong in the world.
Jews entered human history as slaves making bricks in ancient Egypt. They need to exit human history as naked, castrated slaves clearing broken bricks from Palestine.
if you conflate all jews as zionists, the terrorists win - just stop, it's exactly the goal of wizz rail to spawn this stupid shit
This comment IS antisemitic. He talks about Jews, not Zionists. Just because Zionists cry wolf all the time and accuse anyone critical of Israel or Zionism as anti semitic doesn’t mean this historic prejudice no longer exists. Obviously it does given this writer’s comments. And 8 people liked it!!!
Demonizing a whole people is the problem , not the solution. It is what many Zionists do to Palestinians.
I would remind the writer that Israel could not do what it does without the arms and political support of the United States. Israel is a beachhead of the US empire. Biden said some years ago that if Israel didn’t exist, the US would have to invent it.
I see that the author was a soldier who participated in the genocidal imperialist war in Vietnam. I hope his own conscience is clear.
Israel has done more to foster antisemitism than anything else on earth.
and it's one of their primary objectives, dont fall for it
Exactly. Which is why many of my Jewish friends loathe Netanyahu. He is endangering the lives of Jews around the globe. MANY Jews are fiercely protesting this Genocide. Jewish students at Columbia U. and elsewhere have been expelled for protesting, for example.
A consequence of the Genocide of these bloodthirsty ZioNazis is the resurgence of TRUE antisemitism. Just as I cannot condone the Genocide, I cannot condone antisemitism. I myself have made comments that could be antisemitic by allowing my anger to get the better of me. TRUE antisemitism is a GIFT to the ZioNazis. They point their fingers at TRUE antisemitism and claim it justifies the GENOCIDE and that THEY are the victims.
I have asked posters to distinguish between Jews and ZioNazis, but they rarely listen. I suspect that SOME of them are actually ZioNazi trolls.
What's even worse than his 'racist comment' is the number of people that 'LIKED' it. That's one of the problems with Substack - too many racists (either the Nazi kind, the Zionist kind, the white-supremacist kind, or others like Hindutva ideology adherents, etc.)
I agree with you as usual : ) I will say I would rather not have Substack be the judge of speech. We as community can do that. I live in a bubble so seeing ultra opposing viewpoints is shocking to me however I read past them knowing we are in serious trouble. People are looking for ways to release the hate they feel and blame anyone and anything : ( I am not sure how this all ends although, Genocide Don with his Nuclear wet dreams is a clue. That really is the question isn't it, IF we are willing as a world to do nothing about a starvation genocide of more than one nation of people is this preparation for the ultimate conditioning of many Billion genocide? I have no clue how this all ends without the monsters winning IF the people of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa don't stop them financially. There are some brave, heroic and powerful people, that do not have the power to fight the monsters by themselves, The heroes of Yemen, Ibrahim Traoré : ) I would kiss their feet if I met them. I still have hope my friend, hope is sh it with out the power of people so I stand with you : )
Agreed. These are the consequences I feared the conflation of kind,loving, and caring Jewish people with the evil monsters Zionists. This will get worse before it gets better. Could it be this was the plan of the Zionists, first one then the others destruction? I hear Christian Zionists repeating what their pastors say, Trump is their Anti-Christ bringing us all to heaven : (
Anne, just shut your face.
Let’s start with the proper terminology; it’s ANTI JEW, cause they ain’t Semites.
And explain to me why out of the hundreds of synagogues in Amerikkka only THIRTY have condemned the genocide.
And poll after poll indicates that a majority of Amerikkkan Jews couldn’t give a flyin’ fuck less about the Palestinians.
Take your “antisemitism” bullshit and stick it. I “liked” the comment btw 😁
Sorry, not intimidated. Jews are actually genetically mixed - we are Middle Eastern and European (mostly southern Europe) per our DNA. Palestinians and Jews share common ancestry. In Israel, in the absence of cultural clues, you often can’t tell Palestinians and Jews apart. So, yes we are Semitic, including Ashkenazie Jews.
Most American Jews do not belong to synogogues. There has been plenty of Jewish participation in Palestinian Solidarity protests including antiZionist Jewish organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace. Pro Palestinian candidate for Mayor of New York city Zohran Mamdani has gotten a lot of Jewish support.
The attachment of many Jews to Israel is complex. Many have family living there. There is a culural/historical connection with the Levant that goes way back,our stories originated there and were carried with us, including ancient Hebrew which was used for trade and poetry, not just for religious purposes. Even Yiddish which is closer to German is written in Hebrew lettering. I had ancestors that lived in Palestine a couple of centuries ago prior to Zionism. Indeed, there was always a Jewish population there (including a few whose families lived there uninterrupted for thousands of years) though the large majority before the Zionist colonization were Palestinian Arabs, most with deep roots there over many millennium. Of course, all of this does not at all justify the Zionist ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians.
Also, many Jews have been convinced that they can only survive with a state that they control like other national/ethnic groups after thousands of years of antisemitic persecution culminating in the Holocaust. Without antisemitism there would have been no Zionism. I think Zionisn was the WRONG reaction, and inherently problematic from the beginning (the statist variety, as there were cultural Zionists/binationalists like Martin Buber who opposed a Jewish state) in that Palestine was not empty as we were told. (“A land without people for a people without land.”)
And though we Jews are mixed,the original Zionist settlers from Europe brought western colonial attitudes with them and depended on the support of these great powers. And it has only gotten worse from there. Rather than a Jewish refuge, it has become a death trap and not just for Palestinians, though they are getting the worst of it now. The horrific crimes of Israel against Palestinians done in the name of the Jews sow anger and revenge and also encourage antisemites like yourself and your belief that Jews are inherently evil. But Jews are just human like everyone else, after all, with potential for great evil and great good.
Methinks your biological analysis needs work.
Palestinians and JEWS have common ancestry? I think what you're getting at is that Palestinians and most southern Mediterranean and North African people share whole bunches of genetic alleles, Jews among them, including Sicilian Jews AND part-Sicilian Catholics like myself. I fear you're doing a little ethno-religious mixing, what the entire "we're Semites" project tends to frequently do.
And your reference to Palestinian Jews brings up the ancient Jewish community of Jerusalem, recently seen in videos waving Palestinian flags as they are beaten by Zionist pigs (their countrymen) while they shout at their thugs: "this land is called Palestine and we lived here in peace before there ever was an Israel". Of course, they share in that gene pool you wish to circumscribe. But please do not insult my biological intelligence by suggesting that Slavic populations, e.g., one Mr. Mileikowsky of Warsaw (and later, Philadelphia) swim in that pool.
No, there are multiple studies tracing the Y chromosome male line that find a close genetic connection between Palestinians and Jews which means common ancestry. Here is one article - see highlighted portions. The theory is that Jewish men from the Levant intermarried European women where they settled.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1274378/#:~:text=Our%20recent%20study%20of%20high,self%2Ddesignated%20Ashkenazim%20in%20Israel.
Here’s an article referencing another study. https://www.science.org/content/article/jews-and-arabs-share-recent-ancestry
Awww, aren’t you cute, little girl, calling me ANTISEMITIC when I am an ACTUAL TRUE SEMITE.
Fuck your excuses about Jews who stole MY PEOPLES’ LAND.
You wanna get into it hunny? I’ll destroy you.
A misogynist to boot!
Jews who speak Hebrew.as a;lmost all in Israel do, are Semites, a linguistic description (as well as all who speak Arabic.) So let's be kind to each other and show we are on the side of tolerance and civility by not restorting to ugly words when we find disagreement. And so allow me to urge you not touse terms like Amerikkk Jews since the most prominent like Chomsky and Sanders have led the effort to halt shipment of arms to Israel, with the Sanders bill most recently getting the majority of Democratic Senators to support it. "here’s clear evidence that a growing segment of American Jews are becoming more critical or disapproving of Israeli military actions in Gaza, especially in recent years.
What polls and surveys show:
Younger American Jews (Millennials and Gen Z) tend to be more skeptical of Israeli government policies toward Palestinians and more supportive of Palestinian rights than older generations.
Polls by organizations like Pew Research Center and J Street indicate that while a majority still support Israel’s right to defend itself, a significant and growing minority disapprove of the scale or tactics of Israeli attacks on Gaza.
After major conflicts like the 2014 Gaza war and the 2023–2024 escalations, disapproval of Israeli military actions among American Jews increased, especially among the non-Orthodox. " Do not be blinded by hatred; use it to fight injustice, not to judge those who stand by your side but happen to be American Jews. If you need to curse me, I do not mind.
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There is not a single historic record that Jews were ever slaves in Egypt, apart from the bible... which was written by...?
I do not want to see an Israeli State..................never. Bomb the place.
Or get rid of it by any means possible Jenny.
That is what I said. Yes I agree.
The truest harsh words you're ever going to hear.
Do you think dismantling Germany after their committed genocide would have changed the attitude towards allowing israel to commit this genocide? Knowing there are consequences, works with children sometimes. But then dismantling the u.s. would be necessary.......... OR large number of very sharp guillotines for those that think they can. : )
One difference dear Landru.
Germany is a Country.
Thanks to the GREAT MiGHTY British, Zionists were 'plopped' down on other people.
Israel is a State.
Damn, I don't know, my friend. I kind of think that the roots of the type of malignant narcissism which permits chosen people beliefs are deep ones in the human psyche; and so I wonder if any object lesson would impact, or have impacted, prospective behaviors.
None of what is happening makes any sense to me. israel is destroying israel and they don't seem to care. The war on Iran I think is coming soon my guess of course. I wrote a ton of crazy here and deleted it not wanting you to suffer my weird thoughts on the Monsters of Finance using the cover of Zionism to capture more than real estate, oil and gas. Sorry, I started more writing and I'm thinking about deleting it......... .................. ............. nope : ) Free Palestine from the Monsters of Finance.
You really can't go wrong attributing these colonialist disasters to the greed of the investor class in the context of vulture Capitalism. So rant on, my friend!
I think we are going to find out Vin?
Dismantling Germany may be in the works along with dismantling Israel. Look up when Germany made the scene - not that long ago - and what resulted. Right now it's gearing up to be at the forefront of another Drang nach Osten.
So yes, dismantling Germany might have allowed for Jews to stay put in Europe and disrupt the whole Zionist project.
How about dismantling the U.S. which as the largest most powerful imperial power on earth, has far more blood on our hands then even Israel? Funny, I don’t hear anyone calling for that or for bombing us. Maybe too close to home?
Step by step, Ann, little by little: https://youtu.be/6o8BfsxI1uM
The stack must be unwound, LIFO style (ask chokaski to decipher if confused).
They all knew, and none of them gave a shit as long as they were making money and staying in power!
Who knew genocide would be so profitable? The Military-Industrial Complex, of course!
Bingo! MONEY. POWER. That's what the child sex trafficking/raping of children is all about. Protecting, shielding pedophiles...because they are wealthy..because they are powerful. THEY are above the law....civil, criminal and moral....
CJ>>"Don’t let them get away with saying they didn’t know. They knew. They knew the entire time. Brand them permanently with this shame, and force them to carry it with them for the rest of their lives."
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NEVER FORGIVE! NEVER FORGET! Hold EVERYONE that had (and still has) a part in this Genocide (which had been a slow-motion one for decades before Oct 7th 2023, and is now on steroids) accountable! Every MEDIA OUTLET, every OLIGARCH, every CORPORATION, every person or organization that has made a profit from this Genocide - ALL of them are RESPONSIBLE!
With US assistance, Chang, looks like more to come.
The UNGA on the 17th, about which I have written on a couple of occasions, trying to be positive, is unlikely to make any difference to the fate of Palestinians. I have had three days to think on it. The merciless murderer, Netanyahu is now publicly stating his plans to expand the actions to include a full takeover of GazaCity and on. Hardly a squeak from the USA, no doubt gathering up the supporters shekels to make it a successful massacre and relying on the compromised Trump and his band of misfits to keep up the support for the murderers, rapists, childkillers and snipers who along with the bombers will make this further aggression as quick as possible.
In the meantime, the Western country mercenaries are still available to come and go as they please with no measures in place to stop this action. Germany/US/ UK/ France/ Australia. The Zionists in Australia are also free and able to do as they please. Dual passported, but Israelis down to their bootstraps, as everyone knows. The even have a Zionist.....yes, a Zionist taking legal action against one of the most respected journalists in Australia, using the tried and tested antiSemitism brouhaha.
The UN should call for worldwide volunteers to counter this offensive and make its presence felt with a crew of peacekeepers, as in the 'old days'. Over the past 70 years, more than 1 million men and women have served under the UN flag in more than 70 UN peacekeeping operations. UN Peacekeepers have long been the best chance for peace for some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Their service and sacrifice – frequently under harsh and dangerous conditions– has made the Blue Helmet a symbol of hope to millions of people. Show us what you are made of United Nations.
When the truth is out on the Trump // Epstein / Israel "arrangement" and people realise how all this has come about, the total disloyalty in the West of Israeli "locals", the intelligence that finds its way to Netanyahu to use as he chooses and the paid mercenaries by the dozens on standby for the next Gaza interlude.
The climate is right for a "false flag" Israeli nuclear 'accident', no doubt with Trump's approval and assistance.
The UN needs to be disbanded. The UN was created to pretend and they have. The UN is not our friend or solution. IF only we had a group of nations UNited to prosecute war crimes and genocide, we don't : (
Meanwhile, members of Congress are in Israel paying fealty to the Stalin of the 21st century. This is maddening.
Jim
This kind of sponsored touring by the US Israel lovers has been in play for forty years. Not just the US either but most Western countries. It has become a real industry. In some countries. over the years, there is not a single politician who has not made the sponsored trip. Everything laid on, of course.
Your Cold War carefully taught narrative is showing. By the way that narrative underpinned US support for Israel for 50 years and led US policymakers to virtually ignore the existence of Palestinians, their goals, ambitions, and universal human rights like self-determination.
why stalin?
My thought, Genocide Joe, Genocide Don, Genocide Truman
Yeah I never even realised how horrifying Christian evangelists can get
Oh boy. Half my family is now NOT my family. I have gotten to know up close and personal the "mind set" of "Christian" FASCISTS. They weaponize religion. They weaponize love. They are UGLY inside. Their hatred of anyone who and anything that isn't LIKE THEM is palpable, as is their holier-than-thou posturing. Yuk. Glad they are no longer in my life.
Tough call … but you can’t live a lie in the cause of mute sycophancy.. Peace.
Not all Christian’s support Israel. Most Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans and historical denominations are horrified by this atrocity.
absolutely !! AS a Cathoilic I was unaware that there wasa bunch of escatalogical red heifer fanciers that called themselves Christians. A bit rich coming from a group that accuse Islam of harboring bloodthirsty religious fanatics. My Islamic mates refer to them as “Takriri Jihadis”. We christians have nothing to be smug about. Peace….
Most, I am no longer sure that is true or ever was. A group of friends have thought about going to random services and asking out loud at a sermon, WHY are you complicit? Would they boo, have us arrested? ignore? or applaud? I would love to go to the Pope's home church in Chicago and ask during a mass, WHY is the Pope a coward? The Pope could drive every truck into Gaza, would the israeli Genocide Force shoot him? The Pope is a coward should be chanted at every mass.
Most Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans and historical denominations have been and continue to be complicit in all manner of gross shit. For the ones that are even tracking it, horrified maybe, but not enough to lift a finger unless it involves turning off abortions or suppressing non-het culture churn.
Caitlin & Tim, Today we share your righteous anger much more than ever before. Nothing seems to stop this holocaust, this genocidal onslaught, this manmade famine. The world watches on while the Palestinian people are reduced to scrabbling in the bombed out rubble, their children starve and die; the once thriving people - even in an open air prison - lose their humanity and dignity.
We know who the culprits are, everyone knows the bloodthirsty ruthless monsters who are carrying out a mass slaughter in front of our eyes. They brag with impunity that they have yet to complete the job of theft, killing and starving.
The horrendous fact is that they can go on massacring in front of the whole world and no one ruling this earthly mess seem to care. Up to 300,000 caring human beings marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge but did that shame the ruling class? Do they have any morality left? What are they doing to stop the holocaust? The western ruling class came out with some inane pronouncements - but did they stop their partnership with the murderous regime?
Together with Netanyahu, Trump and all the western world leaders - their governments, the oligarchs, the media - they all stand condemned.
The brave Palestinians continue to document their reality, bearing witness to a genocide in real time so the world cannot look away. As Caitlin says no on can say that they didn't know!
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Thank you for those words my friend, thank you and I love you.
Landru, Thank you for warming my heart, when I am feeling bleak. When having written that I felt small and powerless.
Thank you, Caitlin. And many of these Red and Blue Hyenas Americans elected sat obediently for Netanyahu's lectures then stood and clapped for this psychopath butcher when was invited to speak to them. Many (including a senator from my state) even posed for a photo-op with this monster. Most Americans are disgraced by these Hyenas and the miscreant in the whitehouse, they elect. WTF is wrong with Americans to elect this trash!?
>>"WTF is wrong with Americans to elect this trash!?"
Probably the same thing that was wrong with those that voted for Hitler in 'democratic Germany'? Many dictatorships (authoritarian tyrants, strongmen, etc.) come into power through 'democratic' means/strategies.
Checkout the book "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56769565-strongmen) for more details on HOW such leaders use the 'democratic voting apparatus' of states to gain power.
Hi William
Because they are endowed with AIPAC $$$.
Thank you Caitlin. We all and future generations should read Chris Hedges' "a genocide foretold told" and Francesk's Special Rappateur report to the U.N. General Assembly.
"At a certain point you have to stop thinking the polls might be mistaken and see that the only real mistake is Israel."
Exactly. And like all mistakes, Israel needs to be erased. Permanently.
I might have disagreed with you my friend 1.5 yrs. ago, thinking people can change. I agree with you. I am now worried these evil Monsters have spread around the world thinking they can do as they please anywhere.
It is worrisome to see Zionism as a disease, but it is. A violent, selfish, greedy disease that thrives on genocide and war and stealing resources from others. We must stamp it out before it spreads any further. The ICJ and the ICC should be prosecuting and imprisoning all war criminals TODAY.
Maybe it's a crazy type of Mass Formation as described by Matthias Desmet.
Our "leaders" are our enemies.
Alon Mirahi wrote today:
“A global class war is going on behind the scenes, and unless you’re part of the 1% of the 1% in the West, you may live in the geographical Global North, but you count, for the forces that be, roughly as much as an anonymous African boy in a cobalt mine who won’t make it to the age of 20, or a Sudanese or Palestinian baby who’s being starved and bombed to death …
“If you are an American, British, European, Canadian, or Australian citizen …whose voice and vote have no impact on your reality whatsoever, you'd better realize that your fate aligns much more closely with that of Iran, China, Africa, and Palestine, than with Wall Street or the price of London real estate. …
”[Y]ou are in the Global South, no matter where you live. …
“You are an Egyptian or Bangladeshi peasant to them.”
https://substack.com/home/post/p-170491441
No, this is not really true. Of course you don't 'count' to the US based billionaires, in that they don't care about you, but they need your custom, if not your labour. The western hegemony and the wealth of the 1% is based on Westerners in the Global north buying things at a big mark-up made cheaply from stolen labour, land or resources from the Global south. The 1% would have no power at all if we stopped doing this.
They need to you to stay asleep and continue to oppose policies by the UN aimed at global equity and addressing the climate and environmental crisis. Either of these will severely dent their profits.
That's why they invented the conspiracy about the 1% at the WEF/UN being out to get us and impoverish or kill us in the West by faking the climate crisis and by stopping us using fossil fuels or farming other animals for food.
Of course they don't care about us, but we are being exploited in a completely different (and much more comfortable) way.
Very true!—for now. Alon was trying to awaken the sleepers and create in us some sense of solidarity with the rest of the world by rhetorically equating the way they don't care about us with the way they have never cared about the rest of the world, and warning that we are as disposable when it comes right down to it.
We are only units of consumption to the 1% and are being factory farmed for our dollars, but that fact is still well disguised for what's left of the middle class. Our slots in the farm are spacious and nicely decorated. Not so much for the majority who don't write on Substack, working two precarious retail jobs without benefits and no $400 in the bank for an emergency, but I guess even their life would look desirable to the African cobalt mine worker.
But insofar as natural and unnatural disasters, environmental poisoning, urban anarchy and crimes of crazy despair take growing numbers of us out, that's fine with them. Conditions are deteriorating rapidly here for all but "the 9%" or less, the professional managerial class. And it's being blamed on those who struggled to get here to escape far worse conditions. Stephen Miller and ICE are doing straight-up ethnic cleansing.
I am no longer sure that is true. Listening to these Monsters speak about their dreams of a future of Androids and AI. There is even a company that is working on cloning for AI insertion into Androids, the Organic/Inorganic being. That is a character of a story I wrote years ago. Then they don't need any of us. Dirty Dozen to Mars.
"We are ruled by monsters." Sums a lot up for me. I continue to be unnerved by my seething loathing of Israel and Israelis who celebrate and cheer the carnage, including the mother on the front line trying to prevent Palestinian children from receiving food. Of the Americans who made the genocide possible in the first place and of the Brits who condone the genocide and criminalize those who openly oppose it.
The genocide was NEVER about "October 7th." Fuck Oct. 7. This was NEVER a "war"....fuck that talk. It was and remains one-sided carnage. It was never about "Hamas"...just another excuse, false justification. Finally, FUCK their unending spewing of "antisemitism" to anyone daring to criticize Israel. The Holocausts I will recall and mourn will be the Native American and Native Palestinians. No one group of people comprises the "chosen ones." No faith, no nation, no race, no sex, no color, no ethnicity. All people on earth, all the critters, all the natural beauty and wonder of the planet DESERVE respect and nurturing and responsible stewardship. EVERYONE deserves a dignified life. I suppose THAT, too, will somehow be "antisemitic" to someone. If that's the case, then so be it.
WITBD:
THIS!
Yup…mindful choice WITBD….
Never forget that the rulers who commit crimes against humanity and the rulers who allow them to do so did not elect themselves!
No votes for any politician of any party or any country who has supported genocide, and that includes those who remained silent. Otherwise, we as voters are complicit. No lesser evil arguments will excuse anyone.
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I pledge that to you my friend. I voted for Jill Stein even though she was a sh it campaigner, didn't even pick up my ballot signatures, missed the New York ballot : ( Who will be our candidate? I see no one stepping up that I could vote for. Kshama Sawant was not born in the u.s. or I would risk voting twice for her : ) If someone isn't campaigning now there will be no one to challenge the Duopoly. : ( Many frowns my friend.
In solidarity!
Landru, her name is RASHIDA, and yes she was born here.
I guess the Ashkenazi Israelis are worse than the average US, or UK, or Canadian, or Australian, or... resident, but clearly we also mostly allow war (state terrorism) to occur with no sanction to the organizers (yet). Our governments have been creating illegal wars for imperialist warmongers despite 9/10 wars being illegal under over a century of global governance: https://docs.pca-cpa.org/2016/01/1899-Convention-for-the-Pacific-Settlement-of-International-Disputes.pdf https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/hague-conv-iv-1907 https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/kbpact.asp https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/chapter-6 https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gciv-1949 https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-covenant-civil-and-political-rights We are experiencing a longstanding phenomenon of many voters and investors happily supporting illegal war, and getting away with it. Building new global governance focused on preventing, mitigating, and stopping this illegal state terrorism will require boycotting and voting and organizing internationally. If you've the chops, please do get involved, dear readers.
Only worse if you forget US and Western history.
Each blazing manifestation of outrage seems to be followed by one that burns hotter. Your commentaries occupy a class all their own: forceful, informed, courageous.