Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian comedian but deadly serious about the horrors facing the Palestinians. He says the antisemitism label is like a used condom. It no longer offers protection.
enough Arab genes would technically make you semetic by definition
(member of an ethnic group natively speaking semetic languages.)
the ADL has so corrupted the term that now "antisemetic" only refers to "antiZionist" or "antiJewish" as if either has more of a claim to semetism than the entire middle east
Refreshingly humorous in the satirical vein. In the end, when we have no physical power, our only strength is our ability to mock the follies and pretentions of power.
“Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” Mark Twain
When they have the guns, we have the subversive tool of humor, contempt clothed in ridicule. In using it, we both deride the powerful and lift our own spirits. And we need some of that.
The last days, I have been depressed in a way I have not been since the Cuban MIssile Crisis and waiting for the nuclear war to begin. Thank you, Caitlin (I know I have annoyed you in the past) for showing your ability to rise to the occasion. Today, more than ever, we need each other for divided we fall, united we stand against a force that that defeat everything but a united people armed with a sense of humor.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was depressing. So was the Iraq war. I remember feeling so much rage when the Iraq war started. The lies were very obvious to many of us then too. Anyway, I agree, it is really helpful and necessary to be able to deride those liars and have a sardonic smile now and then.
I imagine that's why people like Dave Portnoy insist jokes can only involve everyone except his group. The reality of humor cutting through bullshit is a weapon rigid ideology cannot defend itself from.
You are here to divide and weaken us. Thanks for that. And yes right now, I agree with AOC that Trump should be impeached for starting a war...sorry you disagree with her on that. And I also support the Sanders bill to halt arms shipments to Israel...sorry you don't support that. The Zionist lobby thanks you for doing their work to divide us so we are weak.
I know what you oppose, which is the same difference. You oppose those with some power trying to stop both Trump and Israel from their wars And that means you provide aid and comfort to the enemy. I am not lying. I am pointing out what it means to smear those who are fighting to end the wars.
Hold on a sec "dale ruff" as you're pulling a sleazy one here.
You say "I know what you oppose" followed by "You oppose those". You substitute whom with what. Rather shifty of you "dale ruff".
I'll repeat what I said quite a while ago to you which you seem to miss or choose to ignore. Those people whom you idolize are politicians. Whatever they do is what's safe for them to do at the moment. Effectively, they are allowed to voice topics that in the opinion of their handlers benefit them so they could keep at power.
As soon as the moment arrives when that same position becomes decisive at some vote or whatever - they'll flip on a dime. Do you not see it? Have you not seen it happen?
That's why I don't support any politician because they are way worse than prostitutes. They do not see things through. They'll be cheating you to keep you close and will drop you as soon as their hide is at stake.
Do you realize this "dale ruff" in your 80s as you claim?
IF you oppose those who support causes you support, you are hurting the cause. Only politicians can, with out support, end these wars. Your strategy is impotence.
Tammy Bruce; just another gaslighting whore for the warmongers in the white house who are currently bombing the shit out of Iran for the greater "good" of the lunatics in Israhell. Nothing to be proud of but hey, these people are merely shameless, mind controlled slaves who do as they're told. It's up to the rest of humanity to see through their B.S.
I can't believe some people are falling for these tired lies and untruths. You'd think the false Iraq has wmds story would have put an end to any kind of trust in American presidents.
I don't think anyone is falling for anything. Just because they make these loud, ridiculous assertions, and the corporate media repeats the loud, ridiculous assertions in bold print, doesn't mean anyone believes them. NO ONE wanted this war.
This is addressed to the highly paid CNN & MSNBC personalities. I'm appalled at your total lack of Journalistic Integrity in how you're covering the US Act of WAR against Iran having so many SINS of historical OMISSION.
You should know and report the JCPOA agreement with Iran WAS WORKING with the most intrusive conditions imposed on any Nation's Sovereignty to make sure Iran was not enriching uranium to make weapons. Iran was complying with the TERMS.
It was Donald Trump who pulled out of the agreement for no good reason except Netanyahu wanted it. Once Trump pulled out, Iran was no longer obligated to live by the terms of the JCPOA
The US Military operation is in VIOLATION of the VERY SAME International Law you demonize Russia for violating. It's a grave SIN you don't highlight that as much as you propagate and praise US Military power attacking a much weaker Nation.
You know Trump and Netanyahu are serial liars and Trump accusing Iran of being the bully in the Middle East is only projection. Trump proved he is the biggest bully not only in the Middle East but in the US, having intimidated so many Organizations and individuals like yourselves so you don't tell the whole Truth.
I recall that was one of the exhibits. The point was that, at the time, we were duly assured, on a bipartisan basis, that Israel had Secret Ways Of Knowing how Iraq was just chock-a-block with WMDs.
Of course, by the time that it came out that Israel either had no such intelligence mastery, or (more likely) were lying, the United States and its puppets were already stuck in.
the cartoon bomb was at the unga, 2012 (already trying for an iran war) . he claimed iraq was going for nukes before congress in 2002. bibi's lies (all deciders knew it was bogus) don't seem to be the deciding factor (although contributing).
You left Doctors Without Borders off the list of anti-semites because they’ve reported children as young as five being shot in the head or chest by IDF snipers.
That is odd. You'd think that anyone imprisoned by the current regime in Iran would be considered an ally by those who want regime change. I suppose in 5 years (if we still have a functioning civilization by then) we'll read in the books that it was cover for a specific assassination of some person on Israel's long, long hit list.
On May 22, we begin our fasting across the country while demanding:
1) a resumption of humanitarian aid, under UN authority, to Gaza
2) that the U.S. stop arming Israel NOW!
We can join or support or both. Surely, we must do more.
It’s not just Gaza, Israel is trying to distract us from. Israel just changed how land ownership works in the West Bank. Here’s what that means.
“The consequences of this decision paint a very grim outlook for the future,” said Abdallah Hammad from JLAC. “This will turn things upside down like never before, as it won’t be Israeli settlers demanding to get their outposts legalized. They will be legalized almost immediately, while Palestinians will be made into strangers, forced to justify their claim over the lands of their families and ancestors.”
“When I hear people talking about the risk of annexation, I tell them: this is annexation. It has already begun, and it is advancing.”
Read the details of this annexation the MSM will not tell you about in Mondoweiss:
Tammy Bruce was one of the most fanatical Israel supporters in media for years prior to being tapped for this role. Longtime Fox News contributor and host who pushed “beheaded babies,” called Israel “the most careful nation on the planet” militarily, etc.
What if this woman’s correct? Might one not argue that both countries are quite similar? Their leaders are war-mongering convicted felons. They both feel they are somehow genetically-superior to others that don’t share their views. And they are both on a slippery slope towards global feelings of repugnance.
>>"Might one not argue that both countries are quite similar?"
For all real-world intents, purposes, and consequences, the U.S. and Israel are the same. Just as California, Texas, New York, Florida, etc. are a part of the U.S., so also is Israel (albeit detached from the other states by a distance greater than that of Hawaii or Alaska).
Looking at the way the U.S. supports Israel unconditionally in the UN (among the myraid other ways), one would not be faulted for thinking that the U.S. and Israel are a 'distinction without a difference'.
They are both controlled by Global Capitalists (Zionists or otherwise).
True, Israel does seem to receive more funding from the U.S. Federal Govt. to obscene levels.
But instead of succumbing to 'easy-to-swallow narratives' like 'controlled by Zionists', try thinking through WHY Israel is so important to the U.S. Empire and WHY the U.S. Empire supports Israel unconditionally. (Hints: money, power, global hegemony, global capitalism, plausible deniability, attack-dog to do the Empire's dirty work, and the list goes on...)
It's debatable whether Israel is the tail that wags the dog or the other way around. The fact you can't find some kind of evilness or money grubbing activity anywhere in the world without a jew or many of them at the bottom of it is telling.
The US supports Israel because it is a parasitic relationship, with the parasite leeching vitality from the host. Sure, there's other reasons why Israel is important to the neocon, but at the end of the day it's a classic parasitic relationship.
Globohomo is Jewish at its core. But it isn't the only game in town and competes with neocons and other ethnic factions like the Chinese who have their own long game and aren't (yet) controlled by jews.
>>"The fact you can't find some kind of evilness or money grubbing activity anywhere in the world without a jew or many of them at the bottom of it is telling."
That's YOUR belief, YOUR narrative, not a fact. "money grubbing activity" exists in EVERY country of the planet - even in countries that does not have any Jews or Zionists.
Again, this is NOT about Jews (though the Zionists have definitely done their best to conflate Jews with Zionism - and have succeeded it seems). But this IS about money (and how it works in the system of Capitalism globally).
I see no difference between your attitudes towards Jews and that of Nazis. I guess you haven't been reading (or absorbing) much of Caitlin's articles.
Guess I shouldn't have left my copy of Mein Kampf laying around, or should have been quieter with the "Seig Heils". Or perhaps it was my Chaplin mustache... Ad hominums after only several replies? And accusations of being a... "Nazi"? Really that's the best you can do?
Although I do believe in solidarity with my race, and that my government should be making decisions in the best interest of its own citizens, so I guess that potentially does make me a Nazi...
Jewish antisocial behavior long predates the Nazis by the way, and whatever was or wasn't done to them by the Nazis - along with many other European governments - wasn't done for no reason. We can split hairs over whether the globalist dog is wagging the Israeli tail or the other way around, but it doesn't hide the fact that Israelis - Jewish, Zionist, whatever - aren't doing evil things to almost all of their neighbors and that American/globalist actions seem to uniquely be for the benefit of Israelis/jews/zionists and not the other way around.
I will without fear or favour and with willingness go on this list I suppose this list is long enough to wrap around the World 8 times and growing every day. I freely admit I will be on a list with lots of Nut 🥜 Jobs and Nazis I’m ok with this it will just like being a member of the IDF the Knesset and Mossad. I will also add Trumps Trumpet of Truth which is everyone who voted for him in fairness the voters did not have a great deal of choice. Just like us in the UK Dumb and Dumber or give up hope all ye who vote for us.
Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian comedian but deadly serious about the horrors facing the Palestinians. He says the antisemitism label is like a used condom. It no longer offers protection.
HaHaHa - this made my day. Thank you!
Excellent. thanks.
Oh no, my girlfriend has Arab genes on her father's side, Palestinian even. I fear that you'll have to add me to that antisemitism list, Caitlin.
enough Arab genes would technically make you semetic by definition
(member of an ethnic group natively speaking semetic languages.)
the ADL has so corrupted the term that now "antisemetic" only refers to "antiZionist" or "antiJewish" as if either has more of a claim to semetism than the entire middle east
Hi SD
From what I understand, Vin’s GF is Palestinian with some Moorish tossed in on her father’s side.
True Semite.
Vin, do you know how fortunate you are? Palestinian women are so full of PASSION !
😉
O my goodness yes, gyp dear. I've quickly become aware of this glorious fact. Thank you very VERY much.
My pleasure, Vin. 😁
I needed a smile in this time of horror. Thank you both : )
Keep calm, Vin
Sure, but fresh (young) Jew gash tastes like lox on a bagel with some cream cheese on a Sunday morning.
Very happy to be there too, Caitlin. No reason like Vin, but quite simply..........
....humanity.
PS. I also like Palestinian Kunāfah for lunch. AntiSemitic? I do hope I qualify..
BANG the semite outta her !
I have some GERMAN DNA (going back to the chimps), so I am obviously on that Heeeb/Zio list if I cannot be turned into a cowardly, venal fool !
Refreshingly humorous in the satirical vein. In the end, when we have no physical power, our only strength is our ability to mock the follies and pretentions of power.
“Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” Mark Twain
When they have the guns, we have the subversive tool of humor, contempt clothed in ridicule. In using it, we both deride the powerful and lift our own spirits. And we need some of that.
The last days, I have been depressed in a way I have not been since the Cuban MIssile Crisis and waiting for the nuclear war to begin. Thank you, Caitlin (I know I have annoyed you in the past) for showing your ability to rise to the occasion. Today, more than ever, we need each other for divided we fall, united we stand against a force that that defeat everything but a united people armed with a sense of humor.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was depressing. So was the Iraq war. I remember feeling so much rage when the Iraq war started. The lies were very obvious to many of us then too. Anyway, I agree, it is really helpful and necessary to be able to deride those liars and have a sardonic smile now and then.
I think we walked together in those protests my friend. I will always be at your side.
Thank you. That was so wonderfully said.
I imagine that's why people like Dave Portnoy insist jokes can only involve everyone except his group. The reality of humor cutting through bullshit is a weapon rigid ideology cannot defend itself from.
You yourself have been supplying abundant humor in your relentless support and defense of certain democrats. Thank you for that!
You are here to divide and weaken us. Thanks for that. And yes right now, I agree with AOC that Trump should be impeached for starting a war...sorry you disagree with her on that. And I also support the Sanders bill to halt arms shipments to Israel...sorry you don't support that. The Zionist lobby thanks you for doing their work to divide us so we are weak.
😂 thank you for keeping up humor 😂
But I'd rather you don't lie about me. You don't know what I support. So don't join a few liars and smear artists of the forum.
I know what you oppose, which is the same difference. You oppose those with some power trying to stop both Trump and Israel from their wars And that means you provide aid and comfort to the enemy. I am not lying. I am pointing out what it means to smear those who are fighting to end the wars.
Hold on a sec "dale ruff" as you're pulling a sleazy one here.
You say "I know what you oppose" followed by "You oppose those". You substitute whom with what. Rather shifty of you "dale ruff".
I'll repeat what I said quite a while ago to you which you seem to miss or choose to ignore. Those people whom you idolize are politicians. Whatever they do is what's safe for them to do at the moment. Effectively, they are allowed to voice topics that in the opinion of their handlers benefit them so they could keep at power.
As soon as the moment arrives when that same position becomes decisive at some vote or whatever - they'll flip on a dime. Do you not see it? Have you not seen it happen?
That's why I don't support any politician because they are way worse than prostitutes. They do not see things through. They'll be cheating you to keep you close and will drop you as soon as their hide is at stake.
Do you realize this "dale ruff" in your 80s as you claim?
IF you oppose those who support causes you support, you are hurting the cause. Only politicians can, with out support, end these wars. Your strategy is impotence.
Love it don’t stop talking about GENOCIDE and Israel’s lapdog DJT!
I salute all hippie moonbats worldwide!
Tammy Bruce; just another gaslighting whore for the warmongers in the white house who are currently bombing the shit out of Iran for the greater "good" of the lunatics in Israhell. Nothing to be proud of but hey, these people are merely shameless, mind controlled slaves who do as they're told. It's up to the rest of humanity to see through their B.S.
seeing through it will not suffise. coordinated action is necessary.
I can't believe some people are falling for these tired lies and untruths. You'd think the false Iraq has wmds story would have put an end to any kind of trust in American presidents.
I don't think anyone is falling for anything. Just because they make these loud, ridiculous assertions, and the corporate media repeats the loud, ridiculous assertions in bold print, doesn't mean anyone believes them. NO ONE wanted this war.
I tweeted this to these people yesterday but they don't listen. Certainly not Morning Joe or Wold Blitzer this am:
@amanpour @FareedZakaria @AriMelber @allinwithchris @AliVelshi @AymanMSNBC
@jaketapper @wolfblitzer @andersoncooper @kaitlincollins @abbydphillip
@smerconish @AlexandraSSharp @PnPCBC @davidfrum @aaronjmate @mehdirhasan @richardhaass @tondamacc @BrianJBerletic
This is addressed to the highly paid CNN & MSNBC personalities. I'm appalled at your total lack of Journalistic Integrity in how you're covering the US Act of WAR against Iran having so many SINS of historical OMISSION.
You should know and report the JCPOA agreement with Iran WAS WORKING with the most intrusive conditions imposed on any Nation's Sovereignty to make sure Iran was not enriching uranium to make weapons. Iran was complying with the TERMS.
It was Donald Trump who pulled out of the agreement for no good reason except Netanyahu wanted it. Once Trump pulled out, Iran was no longer obligated to live by the terms of the JCPOA
The US Military operation is in VIOLATION of the VERY SAME International Law you demonize Russia for violating. It's a grave SIN you don't highlight that as much as you propagate and praise US Military power attacking a much weaker Nation.
You know Trump and Netanyahu are serial liars and Trump accusing Iran of being the bully in the Middle East is only projection. Trump proved he is the biggest bully not only in the Middle East but in the US, having intimidated so many Organizations and individuals like yourselves so you don't tell the whole Truth.
ISRAEL IS LEADING THIS WORLD TO ARMAGEDDON
https://rayjc.com/2025/06/16/israel-is-leading-this-world-to-armageddon/
Am I the only cat who remembers Netanyahu's testimony before Congress in the run up to the War On Iraq?
Feral,
As a cat in a woman’s body:
Are you referring to the Ziofilth exhibiting the picture of the cartoon bomb?
I recall that was one of the exhibits. The point was that, at the time, we were duly assured, on a bipartisan basis, that Israel had Secret Ways Of Knowing how Iraq was just chock-a-block with WMDs.
Of course, by the time that it came out that Israel either had no such intelligence mastery, or (more likely) were lying, the United States and its puppets were already stuck in.
the cartoon bomb was at the unga, 2012 (already trying for an iran war) . he claimed iraq was going for nukes before congress in 2002. bibi's lies (all deciders knew it was bogus) don't seem to be the deciding factor (although contributing).
You left Doctors Without Borders off the list of anti-semites because they’ve reported children as young as five being shot in the head or chest by IDF snipers.
If israel declared war on the usa, how could anyone tell?
CNN & MSNBC is reporting Israel bombed Ervin prison in Tehran. Why? Were the bombs so precise it didn't kill any prisoners?
That is odd. You'd think that anyone imprisoned by the current regime in Iran would be considered an ally by those who want regime change. I suppose in 5 years (if we still have a functioning civilization by then) we'll read in the books that it was cover for a specific assassination of some person on Israel's long, long hit list.
To allow prisoners to escape if possible? israel a new country of old monsters.
We can’t allow ourselves to forget the horror of what’s happening to Palestine.
Fasting for Gaza
https://www.fosna.org/2025gazafast
Organized by Veterans for Peace
On May 22, we begin our fasting across the country while demanding:
1) a resumption of humanitarian aid, under UN authority, to Gaza
2) that the U.S. stop arming Israel NOW!
We can join or support or both. Surely, we must do more.
It’s not just Gaza, Israel is trying to distract us from. Israel just changed how land ownership works in the West Bank. Here’s what that means.
“The consequences of this decision paint a very grim outlook for the future,” said Abdallah Hammad from JLAC. “This will turn things upside down like never before, as it won’t be Israeli settlers demanding to get their outposts legalized. They will be legalized almost immediately, while Palestinians will be made into strangers, forced to justify their claim over the lands of their families and ancestors.”
“When I hear people talking about the risk of annexation, I tell them: this is annexation. It has already begun, and it is advancing.”
Read the details of this annexation the MSM will not tell you about in Mondoweiss:
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/israel-just-reopened-land-property-registration-in-the-west-bank-heres-what-that-means/?ml_recipient=157093614016529524&ml_link=157093523619841740&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-06-13&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines+RSS+Automation
Tammy Bruce was one of the most fanatical Israel supporters in media for years prior to being tapped for this role. Longtime Fox News contributor and host who pushed “beheaded babies,” called Israel “the most careful nation on the planet” militarily, etc.
See here for receipts: https://decensorednews.substack.com/p/tammy-bruce-trump-rubio-state-dept-spokesperson
What if this woman’s correct? Might one not argue that both countries are quite similar? Their leaders are war-mongering convicted felons. They both feel they are somehow genetically-superior to others that don’t share their views. And they are both on a slippery slope towards global feelings of repugnance.
>>"Might one not argue that both countries are quite similar?"
For all real-world intents, purposes, and consequences, the U.S. and Israel are the same. Just as California, Texas, New York, Florida, etc. are a part of the U.S., so also is Israel (albeit detached from the other states by a distance greater than that of Hawaii or Alaska).
Looking at the way the U.S. supports Israel unconditionally in the UN (among the myraid other ways), one would not be faulted for thinking that the U.S. and Israel are a 'distinction without a difference'.
They are limbs off the same octopus. An octopus based in the mid Atlantic, in offshored tax-haven islands.
They are both controlled by zionists? Although I don't believe any other state gets showered with taxpayer largesse to the degree the 51st state does.
>>"They are both controlled by zionists?"
They are both controlled by Global Capitalists (Zionists or otherwise).
True, Israel does seem to receive more funding from the U.S. Federal Govt. to obscene levels.
But instead of succumbing to 'easy-to-swallow narratives' like 'controlled by Zionists', try thinking through WHY Israel is so important to the U.S. Empire and WHY the U.S. Empire supports Israel unconditionally. (Hints: money, power, global hegemony, global capitalism, plausible deniability, attack-dog to do the Empire's dirty work, and the list goes on...)
It's debatable whether Israel is the tail that wags the dog or the other way around. The fact you can't find some kind of evilness or money grubbing activity anywhere in the world without a jew or many of them at the bottom of it is telling.
The US supports Israel because it is a parasitic relationship, with the parasite leeching vitality from the host. Sure, there's other reasons why Israel is important to the neocon, but at the end of the day it's a classic parasitic relationship.
Globohomo is Jewish at its core. But it isn't the only game in town and competes with neocons and other ethnic factions like the Chinese who have their own long game and aren't (yet) controlled by jews.
>>"The fact you can't find some kind of evilness or money grubbing activity anywhere in the world without a jew or many of them at the bottom of it is telling."
That's YOUR belief, YOUR narrative, not a fact. "money grubbing activity" exists in EVERY country of the planet - even in countries that does not have any Jews or Zionists.
Again, this is NOT about Jews (though the Zionists have definitely done their best to conflate Jews with Zionism - and have succeeded it seems). But this IS about money (and how it works in the system of Capitalism globally).
I see no difference between your attitudes towards Jews and that of Nazis. I guess you haven't been reading (or absorbing) much of Caitlin's articles.
Oh no, you found me out!!!
Guess I shouldn't have left my copy of Mein Kampf laying around, or should have been quieter with the "Seig Heils". Or perhaps it was my Chaplin mustache... Ad hominums after only several replies? And accusations of being a... "Nazi"? Really that's the best you can do?
Although I do believe in solidarity with my race, and that my government should be making decisions in the best interest of its own citizens, so I guess that potentially does make me a Nazi...
Jewish antisocial behavior long predates the Nazis by the way, and whatever was or wasn't done to them by the Nazis - along with many other European governments - wasn't done for no reason. We can split hairs over whether the globalist dog is wagging the Israeli tail or the other way around, but it doesn't hide the fact that Israelis - Jewish, Zionist, whatever - aren't doing evil things to almost all of their neighbors and that American/globalist actions seem to uniquely be for the benefit of Israelis/jews/zionists and not the other way around.
👏👏
Thank you.
I will without fear or favour and with willingness go on this list I suppose this list is long enough to wrap around the World 8 times and growing every day. I freely admit I will be on a list with lots of Nut 🥜 Jobs and Nazis I’m ok with this it will just like being a member of the IDF the Knesset and Mossad. I will also add Trumps Trumpet of Truth which is everyone who voted for him in fairness the voters did not have a great deal of choice. Just like us in the UK Dumb and Dumber or give up hope all ye who vote for us.