I love how the lying media always says, "Hamas supporters"never do they say "Palestinian supporters" They want the people to believe protesters are mad because Israel wants to kill Hamas, its so fucked up now. Im for peace and Im for not blowing up innocent people and babies not being born in a war zone, Im for life.
Aleks of Black Mountain Analysis wrote this morning that America is Israel and Israel is America. I commented that it's the Anglo-Zionist Empire of Lies and Hate. I should have added that they control Congress through AIPAC, the American Israeli Political Action Committee.
Israel forces used NAPALM on June 8 1967. LBJ shut-up all the survivors. 34 killed, 208 wounded. 25 of the dead were NSA intelligence. The Six Day War took front page. End AIPAC & its affiliates control-power.
I'm acutely aware of the Liberty Incident. You nailed AIPAC. The D Party, R Party and AIPAC are cancers that must be excized to save the life of our nation.
Thank you for that good luck. Klaus I’ve gained literally dozens & dozens of approvals. This good luck is opening interview doors for USS Liberty survivor’s. Phil Tourney & Veterans for Peace witnesses. Some guy I’d never heard of Jocko Podcast 327, YouTube, interviewed survivor’s- 2 years ago. Someone on X referred me to it! We gotta do something! End AIPAC & its affiliates.
Israel controls Congress via AIPAC, the US controls Israel via aid. But neither party is really making the decisions, only enacting what they feel is expected of them. It's even scarier when you see that both sides are in thrall to the money, while the source of the money is intentionally obscure
It isn’t Israel that controls Congress. It maybe correct to say the some supporters of Israel control Congress, but is that their primary goal? I don’t think so. They hide behind declarations of “anti-semitism” and they plot to keep Fascism alive in Israel, but their primary goal is to steal American wealth.
As I was searching for more info on “who controls congress” I found a newspaper Capitol Hill Citizen founder Ralph Nader
https://www.capitolhillcitizen.com May/June issue is packed wth answers. For copies editor@capitolhillcitizen.com Was only $5.00 - delivered to my mailbox! Remember those newspaper mornings? Feet up on an ottoman, fresh squeezed orange juice, smell the coffee....and read this paper.
Every now & then a comment goes well on ice. Goebbles the chief propagandist, Himmler the ultimate exterminator. Sarcasm-facetious = chilled cocktail (silly me)
At a catholic church here in the Midwest, priest asked we all silence our mouths, ask for forgiveness and pray for Israel. I walked out. I’d presumed he’d eased dropped & heard several of us discussing reality - Gaza slaughter.
"It’s also important that everyone understand that every part of this is 100 percent cynical manipulation. The people pushing this narrative are fully aware that it is false. Everyone knew Jeremy Corbyn was a lifelong anti-racist who didn’t have an antisemitic bone in his body. Everyone knew there was no crisis of antisemitism in the Labour Party. But they pretended to believe otherwise because they didn’t want to see socialism and anti-imperialism gain a political foothold in the UK. The same thing is happening in the US and throughout the west right now regarding protests against the genocide in Gaza."
Of course. The truth of the allegations is irrelevant. In fact, those making the allegations surely knew that they were lies.
What matters is whether the allegations serve the Empire. What matters is the power to make people believe outrageous lies, or at least to conform as if they did.
This has been the US strategy for decades. The US is a wholly owned subsidiary of Israel. Billions of our tax money funds the Israeli universal healthcare system instead of a universal healthcare system here🤬 Biden is against it. Funding Israel is more important than taking care of US residents.
You're right on this point but it's more than just healthcare for American citizens. It's a systemic destabilization of basic needs. Housing, food, water, employment, living wage, everything that constitutes life sustainability. There's always money for the industrial military complex and proxy countries to gorge themselves on. American citizens are slowly becoming Gazans within our borders. I'm enraged by it! People slave away at multiple jobs to stay afloat and keep sliding further into a dystopic living environment. From the second your born until well after you die you're a host for these parasitic greedy bloodsuckers. This has got to end 🤬
Right there with you🫂 But the economy is great🙄 The economy is only great when the parasite class is making record profits🤬 and it's only bad when they aren't. The stock market is going to crash. It's going to be worse than the great depression. It's there revenge for FDR's New Deal.
Actually the US dollar is worthless already. We're printing funny money to prop up our international standing but it's only paper. This is why there's a push for national crypto currency (super fake invisible money in my mind) BRICS will end our world status shortly anyway.
I believe China sold that debt recently to unload our currency because it's worthless. The only thing keeping up this facade is the US taxpayers who'll always be paying this obscene interest rate. The FED has no intention of lowering it... It's like all the other extreme prices we're paying 😒🤬
Corbyn’s mistake, which was a tragedy for all of us, was to refrain from confronting the lies and liars. Did he once say out loud « these accusations are leveled at me because I support Palestine’s right to exist » ? I don’t think so. He even threw his allies under the bus, people like Chris Williamson. Because he never addressed the lies he came across as weak, and enabled the Israel lobby to define who he is. He’s now been vindicated by a genocide, but he’s allowed deceitful, autocratic, Zionist Starmer to take over the Labour Party, and the Brits are now faced with the same lack of choice as Americans.
George will certainly spice things up a bit! I hope we get a few more Workers Party candidates elected, and Andrew Feinstein, of course to see off Starmer. If we could get Streeting dumped too that would be excellent, but you can't be that lucky, can you? Too many people believe what the MSM tells them and don't bother to do their own thinking, let alone research.
But there weren't any outright lies to confront - it was all innuendo, smearing, inference, guilt by association and fake news. I was a member of the party for 50 odd years, and even I didn't realise the depth of hatred in the party for socialism - I was amazed that the right wing were prepared deliberately to work against the chance to become the government with Corbyn as leader because of it, and likewise never thought they would stoop to weaponising anti-semitism against him of all people, because it was so unlikely to work. But unsurprised that our news media loved it - and it was probably the media that made it work.
There will never be peace if Israel stills illegally occupies more and more land and build illegal settlements. A few months ago in the West Bank ,they removed hundreds of Palestinian families from their homes to build a parking lot for an amusement park. If Palestinians retaliate they are imprisoned. That is why you have thousands of Palestinian prisoners who are locked up for decades. That is why Hamas wants exchange of hostages for these prisoners. As long as the U.S. allows these illegal settlements to continue without repercussions, then U.S. is fully to blame for this war.
"....People get into left-wing politics exactly because they oppose racism and injustice. Nobody who actually understands the pro-Palestine movement sincerely believes all these peaceniks and commies have suddenly morphed into Jew-hating Nazis in contradiction of their entire worldview. ..."
No, this argumentation is repeating the mistakes that make the gaslighting work.
They are not a "pro-palestine" movement, otherwise there would have been protests for the past 40 years of occupations.
They are an anti-genocide movement. They have been motivated an coalesced around a will to stop an ongoing genocide.
When you allow an anti-genocide movement to be mis-labelled as "pro-palestine", what you do is fall into the trap of being by implication.....ANTI-ISRAEL. From there you have failen into the trap and now you are an anti-semitic movement.
It's about stopping genocide. Don't keep stepping into the trap they set for you.
I disagree. If the genocide stops, and there’s a « permanent » ceasefire, there’s still the problem of an occupying entity filled with people who deny Palestinians’ right to self determination . They call them ‘Arabs’ and as such believe they should just emigrate to another Arab country.
It is very important to be pro Palestine, and because the genocide has lifted the veil of respectability/pathos that Israel has used for 75 years, there’s no better time to support Palestinians.
BTW go look at the real map of Palestine and understand that it’s not a viable country. Neither is an apartheid based nation of Israel. Do at the end of the day, something entirely different has to replace this current status. Based on shared human values. Not more division.
This is about restoring humanity and human values. It’s not a football match where we shall choose sides. Only in the brainless mainstream media do such inane and useless framings take root.
Of course the genocide must stop immediately. But we can identify as pro Palestinian while calling for an end to the slaughter. It’s not a matter of taking sides.
Not sure what you’re on about but I’ll continue to support Palestinians’ right to their own country , an end to the occupation & apartheid, and an end to the genocide.
"They are not a "pro-palestine" movement, otherwise there would have been protests for the past 40 years of occupations."
There *have* been pro-Palestine protests. They have been ruthlessly suppressed and hidden from MSM. What's different is that, with such a clear genocide under the watch of independent and countless amateur reporters, a tipping point has finally been reached. But the failure of past protests is *how* we got to genocide.
Interesting point. I get the sense that the core groups have always and for a long time been "pro Palestinian". But the genocide has broadened that concern and organizing and transformed into a multi-pronged movement: anti-war, peace, anti-empire, et al.
I've been looking for the next phase, after the campus encampments were crushed or diluted by the summer recess. I will be going to DC on 7/24? to protest Netanyahu delivery to Congress, so expect that to be a huge event. And are your working on this?, see:
I'm on a different continent so won't make it to DC, but am doing my bit locally 🇵🇸 I believe Netanyahu shouldn't be allowed into the US due to "moral turpitude" but hey, I forgot, law doesn't apply to him.
There are some small wins to celebrate Bill, but there's still a long way to go:
Maybe the same US law applies to Netanyahu as to the Biden Administration. Would that someone would apply for an arrest warrant against him: 18 U.S. Code § 1091 is the statute that brought the Genocide Convention into US criminal law.
Kudjoe, You seem to be making a valid point. Elements of the present protest movement maybe about stopping a genocide right here, right now. If they call themselves anti-genocide, the other side by implication becomes pro-genocide. But will the compliant media portray it as such? They are feeding the uninitiated a diet of pro-Palestine = anti-Israel= anti-semitic. If more of us don't wake up this prevailing orthodoxy will take root.
This is what Caitlin is saying. The political left-wing worldview always recognised the injustice of the settler-colonial apartheid Israel and its Western backers. From way back they have been and are pro-Palestine ( just like Jeremy Corbyn ) on the side of the occupied and oppressed. On the side of justice and human rights. The Israeli genocide of the Gazans make it imperative that we are more pro-Palestine than ever before.
And beyond actual Palestinian most of the foreign support was from anti apartheid abd BDS organizations.
It’s the epitome of current left wing incompetence to let yourself be taking an anti genocide and any apartheid stance and then be lazy enough to accept deceitful mis-lavmbelling designed to make the movement look bad.
It’s the same way that the incompetent PR for universal health care let it be labelled “Obamacare”.
The left has to stop falling into these elementary traps.
Excellent, spot-on piece. Thanks, Caitlin. I love the way your writing forensically, concisely, takes these masters of bullshit to the cleaners and exposes what they are: narcissitic, sociopathic, degenerate agents of evil; the worst that human beings have to offer - if, indeed, they are human.
Corbyn is running as an independent and I really think that’s the only way we get out of this entire mess, just step away from the cynical machinery and prop people up on our own. Bernie should have run as independent too.
Hopefully there will be a sufficiently effective campaign, and enough constituents who vote with their conscience, for a Feinstein victory. I'd love to see Starmer lose his seat.
That would probably give us Angela Rayner as PM though which is only slightly less bad than Starmer. (Unless she's been playing the long game and is actually a sleeper agent for the real Left and turns out to be a Socialist after all. Not holding my breath on that one to be honest).
Sadly I am a Canadian. But will hold fingers crossed for Feinstein. I have heard him speaking and he sounds like a solid choice for sure. Wish we had someone like him here.
When these Zionists and their congressional toadies resort to the dirtiest, most despicable trick in the book, namely accusations of antisemitism against critics on the left or anywhere in the political spectrum, it shows only that they have no argument! Antisemitism has become a virulent scourge, not because it is supposedly rising or spreading, but because organizations such as the ADL, the Zionist/Israeli lobby and Israeli operatives are doing to others exactly and openly what they do not want done to them: namely, intimidate, slur, slander, libel, defame, extort, persecute and destroy. Antisemitism is being weaponized against the left in order to discredit leftist critics, and to ensure that leftist politicians, like Jeremy Corbyn, do not get elected or re-elected. It is also being weaponized, as Max Blumenthal pointed out in a recent webinar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSxqoqdPxH0&ab_channel=TheGrayzone) with him and Israeli historian Ilan Pappé in order to manufacture panic within the Jewish diaspora and make them feel unsafe. To quote Max, "If we Jews flourish in the diaspora as we're doing in the United States where we continue to enjoy a Golden Age, it negates the very justification for Zionism." Later in the interview, Ilan Pappé makes the trenchant point that one is not supporting terrorism by supporting the Palestinians, one is supporting terrorism by supporting Israel and the western coalition that enables Israel to commit genocide. I would say that if the worst thing you can be called is an antisemite, the second worst is a terrorist or a supporter of terrorism. One can only hope that people stop apologizing, shrinking and caving in, and start pushing back and loudly proclaiming: Enough of this shit!
Meanwhile actual anti-semitism goes on by stealth. Keir Starmer has expelled more Jews from the Labour Party than all other leaders in its history, supposedly to ‘counter’ anti-semitism.
At least he's right when he says he's changed the Labour Party permanently, but he's really rubbish at cos-playing a socialist.
The thing that isn't immediately obvious but really is true is that Zionists have always used the cry of "Antisemitism!" to promote their cause. A cause which in and of itself is intrinsically antisemitic. They deliberately conflate Judaism - Jewishness - with Zionism (promotion of and a belief in the State of Israel as "The Jewish State", a home for, exclusively, people of Jewish extraction). The majority of Jewish people in the diaspora have no interest in going to live in Israel. The Zionist's objective, however, is for all Jews to do so. The Zionists' plan is to "encourage" all people of Jewish extraction to "return" "home" to Israel by making them fearful within their community in their actual home. Fearful of being subjected to the scourge of anti-Semitism. So they promote it. They even play-act it out, pretending they're non-Jews being rabidly anti-Semitic. We've seen this captured on videos during demos in London, and I'm pretty sure also during university Peace protests in the US.
A valuable and eye-opening talk, "Justifying Slaughter: How the Cult of Messianic Zionism Conquered the West", was given by Thomas Suárez to UMass-Amherst on 16 April and is available on YouTube - I urge anyone genuinely interested in this topic to watch it. It's just under an hour long. You can see it here: https://youtu.be/RksThaJJ3eg?si=j8T-INfBONjLDkaS
Speaking of Socialism, I saw an ad for a corporate right wing think tank (Heritage Foundation, I think) campaign. The ad began by noting the steep rise in support for Socialism, particularly among younger people, but blamed it on social media disinformation. In response, the campaign pledged to "educate" the public about the disasters of Socialism. I hit "skip" the ad before it ended, but I should have listened and saved it.
The corporate right is well funded and organizing against Socialism. That alone should be news.
Your "left/right" ideological dichotomy is restricted to cultural issues. Yes, all those corporations are "right".
Google and read Prof. Nancy Fraser's work on "Progressive Neoliberalism" to clarify the role of cultural/identity politics in covering for corporate right wing economic policies.
David Harvey also has an essential primer you would benefit from:
And people must not fall for it. Being anti-genocide does not make a person anti-semitic. 'Never again' means never again for anyone.
I love how the lying media always says, "Hamas supporters"never do they say "Palestinian supporters" They want the people to believe protesters are mad because Israel wants to kill Hamas, its so fucked up now. Im for peace and Im for not blowing up innocent people and babies not being born in a war zone, Im for life.
Me too🫂
Then you shouldn’t support PalestiNazis, Hamas and their Iranian puppeteers!
Aleks of Black Mountain Analysis wrote this morning that America is Israel and Israel is America. I commented that it's the Anglo-Zionist Empire of Lies and Hate. I should have added that they control Congress through AIPAC, the American Israeli Political Action Committee.
Send this link to out to Aleks
http://www.thenationreport.org/the-uss-liberty-fifty-years-of-us-cover-up/
Israel forces used NAPALM on June 8 1967. LBJ shut-up all the survivors. 34 killed, 208 wounded. 25 of the dead were NSA intelligence. The Six Day War took front page. End AIPAC & its affiliates control-power.
I'm acutely aware of the Liberty Incident. You nailed AIPAC. The D Party, R Party and AIPAC are cancers that must be excized to save the life of our nation.
Dr. Jill Stein is the one to do that excising.
Will she?
The "Devil's Chess Club" video from this week talks about how RFK was going to go after JFK's murderers when he took the Presidency.
I'm just saying we need to be realistic, or at least be aware of the possibility
Thank you
By whom, you and all the racist, homophobic and misogynistic Islamist?
Good luck with THAT !!!
Thank you for that good luck. Klaus I’ve gained literally dozens & dozens of approvals. This good luck is opening interview doors for USS Liberty survivor’s. Phil Tourney & Veterans for Peace witnesses. Some guy I’d never heard of Jocko Podcast 327, YouTube, interviewed survivor’s- 2 years ago. Someone on X referred me to it! We gotta do something! End AIPAC & its affiliates.
🤞🤞🤞💪💪💪👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹
Israel controls Congress via AIPAC, the US controls Israel via aid. But neither party is really making the decisions, only enacting what they feel is expected of them. It's even scarier when you see that both sides are in thrall to the money, while the source of the money is intentionally obscure
It isn’t Israel that controls Congress. It maybe correct to say the some supporters of Israel control Congress, but is that their primary goal? I don’t think so. They hide behind declarations of “anti-semitism” and they plot to keep Fascism alive in Israel, but their primary goal is to steal American wealth.
Don’t let them get away with this crime!
As I was searching for more info on “who controls congress” I found a newspaper Capitol Hill Citizen founder Ralph Nader
https://www.capitolhillcitizen.com May/June issue is packed wth answers. For copies editor@capitolhillcitizen.com Was only $5.00 - delivered to my mailbox! Remember those newspaper mornings? Feet up on an ottoman, fresh squeezed orange juice, smell the coffee....and read this paper.
People like you make Flat Earthers look like geniuses!
Yep Israel controls congress. Watch RyanDawsonFilm How Israel Stole the Atomic Bomb
On Musks X it’s #NUMEC
There are people who really do believe this. I have no idea how many, but I think more than a few. The other day, I was out for a walk and I saw a house flying an Israeli flag, and also something else. It was an American flag, but the red-and-white stripe field was replaced with the blue Star of David! Pretty clear statement. There are places selling them online, pic from one of them at link: https://flagwix.com/products/jewish-flag-american-jewish-israel-grommet-flag-trv1957gf/?attribute_size=3x5+ft.&attribute_type=With+Flagpole+Mounting+Rings&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwmrqzBhAoEiwAXVpgov-z_c-7ID9P9RpFbgvYOGdmO6RylI0eHPmYMQUMAROmtE8Gj3ZIgRoCm0MQAvD_BwE
We are in for the battle of and for our life’s
I am sure that’s what Himmler and Goebbles thought in April 1945!
Every now & then a comment goes well on ice. Goebbles the chief propagandist, Himmler the ultimate exterminator. Sarcasm-facetious = chilled cocktail (silly me)
If I were you, don’t drink and answer messages you don’t understand.
Partially sincere idea indeed !!
The wrong thing about it: Who orders must even pay for this crap !!!
If entirely sincere, who orders and flies this "gem" on his property should be remunerated by AIPAC in CNY, RMB or Rubles ...
and be shunned from the neighborhood for good with black tarp !!!
We gotta do something!
At a catholic church here in the Midwest, priest asked we all silence our mouths, ask for forgiveness and pray for Israel. I walked out. I’d presumed he’d eased dropped & heard several of us discussing reality - Gaza slaughter.
"It’s also important that everyone understand that every part of this is 100 percent cynical manipulation. The people pushing this narrative are fully aware that it is false. Everyone knew Jeremy Corbyn was a lifelong anti-racist who didn’t have an antisemitic bone in his body. Everyone knew there was no crisis of antisemitism in the Labour Party. But they pretended to believe otherwise because they didn’t want to see socialism and anti-imperialism gain a political foothold in the UK. The same thing is happening in the US and throughout the west right now regarding protests against the genocide in Gaza."
Of course. The truth of the allegations is irrelevant. In fact, those making the allegations surely knew that they were lies.
What matters is whether the allegations serve the Empire. What matters is the power to make people believe outrageous lies, or at least to conform as if they did.
There are people who still think the holocaust is a lie. Corbyn, you and them have a lot in common.
This has been the US strategy for decades. The US is a wholly owned subsidiary of Israel. Billions of our tax money funds the Israeli universal healthcare system instead of a universal healthcare system here🤬 Biden is against it. Funding Israel is more important than taking care of US residents.
You're right on this point but it's more than just healthcare for American citizens. It's a systemic destabilization of basic needs. Housing, food, water, employment, living wage, everything that constitutes life sustainability. There's always money for the industrial military complex and proxy countries to gorge themselves on. American citizens are slowly becoming Gazans within our borders. I'm enraged by it! People slave away at multiple jobs to stay afloat and keep sliding further into a dystopic living environment. From the second your born until well after you die you're a host for these parasitic greedy bloodsuckers. This has got to end 🤬
Right there with you🫂 But the economy is great🙄 The economy is only great when the parasite class is making record profits🤬 and it's only bad when they aren't. The stock market is going to crash. It's going to be worse than the great depression. It's there revenge for FDR's New Deal.
Actually the US dollar is worthless already. We're printing funny money to prop up our international standing but it's only paper. This is why there's a push for national crypto currency (super fake invisible money in my mind) BRICS will end our world status shortly anyway.
And China holds a lot of our debt. Yep.
I believe China sold that debt recently to unload our currency because it's worthless. The only thing keeping up this facade is the US taxpayers who'll always be paying this obscene interest rate. The FED has no intention of lowering it... It's like all the other extreme prices we're paying 😒🤬
No they are selling US treasuries because they do not want to underwrite a US war of aggression waged on them, including seizing their assets.
Crap😬
This is so sick. How can the travesty continue? Does the average Us citizen not understand what is going on (and perhaps with their tax payments…)
I'm going to say no. Too many of them don't care, they don't do politics, and too many don't have the time to keep informed.
Corbyn’s mistake, which was a tragedy for all of us, was to refrain from confronting the lies and liars. Did he once say out loud « these accusations are leveled at me because I support Palestine’s right to exist » ? I don’t think so. He even threw his allies under the bus, people like Chris Williamson. Because he never addressed the lies he came across as weak, and enabled the Israel lobby to define who he is. He’s now been vindicated by a genocide, but he’s allowed deceitful, autocratic, Zionist Starmer to take over the Labour Party, and the Brits are now faced with the same lack of choice as Americans.
George Galloway!
George will certainly spice things up a bit! I hope we get a few more Workers Party candidates elected, and Andrew Feinstein, of course to see off Starmer. If we could get Streeting dumped too that would be excellent, but you can't be that lucky, can you? Too many people believe what the MSM tells them and don't bother to do their own thinking, let alone research.
But there weren't any outright lies to confront - it was all innuendo, smearing, inference, guilt by association and fake news. I was a member of the party for 50 odd years, and even I didn't realise the depth of hatred in the party for socialism - I was amazed that the right wing were prepared deliberately to work against the chance to become the government with Corbyn as leader because of it, and likewise never thought they would stoop to weaponising anti-semitism against him of all people, because it was so unlikely to work. But unsurprised that our news media loved it - and it was probably the media that made it work.
There will never be peace if Israel stills illegally occupies more and more land and build illegal settlements. A few months ago in the West Bank ,they removed hundreds of Palestinian families from their homes to build a parking lot for an amusement park. If Palestinians retaliate they are imprisoned. That is why you have thousands of Palestinian prisoners who are locked up for decades. That is why Hamas wants exchange of hostages for these prisoners. As long as the U.S. allows these illegal settlements to continue without repercussions, then U.S. is fully to blame for this war.
"....People get into left-wing politics exactly because they oppose racism and injustice. Nobody who actually understands the pro-Palestine movement sincerely believes all these peaceniks and commies have suddenly morphed into Jew-hating Nazis in contradiction of their entire worldview. ..."
No, this argumentation is repeating the mistakes that make the gaslighting work.
They are not a "pro-palestine" movement, otherwise there would have been protests for the past 40 years of occupations.
They are an anti-genocide movement. They have been motivated an coalesced around a will to stop an ongoing genocide.
When you allow an anti-genocide movement to be mis-labelled as "pro-palestine", what you do is fall into the trap of being by implication.....ANTI-ISRAEL. From there you have failen into the trap and now you are an anti-semitic movement.
It's about stopping genocide. Don't keep stepping into the trap they set for you.
I disagree. If the genocide stops, and there’s a « permanent » ceasefire, there’s still the problem of an occupying entity filled with people who deny Palestinians’ right to self determination . They call them ‘Arabs’ and as such believe they should just emigrate to another Arab country.
It is very important to be pro Palestine, and because the genocide has lifted the veil of respectability/pathos that Israel has used for 75 years, there’s no better time to support Palestinians.
No it’s about stopping genocide. Immediately.
Next step is another process.
BTW go look at the real map of Palestine and understand that it’s not a viable country. Neither is an apartheid based nation of Israel. Do at the end of the day, something entirely different has to replace this current status. Based on shared human values. Not more division.
This is about restoring humanity and human values. It’s not a football match where we shall choose sides. Only in the brainless mainstream media do such inane and useless framings take root.
Of course the genocide must stop immediately. But we can identify as pro Palestinian while calling for an end to the slaughter. It’s not a matter of taking sides.
You are not a salesperson for the movement. No one is.
Furthermore you 2nd and 3rd sentences are contradictory. Not logical.
It’s this kind of muddling that end up in the trap.
Not sure what you’re on about but I’ll continue to support Palestinians’ right to their own country , an end to the occupation & apartheid, and an end to the genocide.
No you don’t know. . That’s correct.
"They are not a "pro-palestine" movement, otherwise there would have been protests for the past 40 years of occupations."
There *have* been pro-Palestine protests. They have been ruthlessly suppressed and hidden from MSM. What's different is that, with such a clear genocide under the watch of independent and countless amateur reporters, a tipping point has finally been reached. But the failure of past protests is *how* we got to genocide.
Interesting point. I get the sense that the core groups have always and for a long time been "pro Palestinian". But the genocide has broadened that concern and organizing and transformed into a multi-pronged movement: anti-war, peace, anti-empire, et al.
And that's why we chant "In our millions, in our billions, we are All Palestinians"
Intersectionality writ large. People are realising it's us vs. the few and this could be a tipping point... Love, Dx
I've been looking for the next phase, after the campus encampments were crushed or diluted by the summer recess. I will be going to DC on 7/24? to protest Netanyahu delivery to Congress, so expect that to be a huge event. And are your working on this?, see:
Start Organizing A Real Resistance Now!
https://bwolfe.substack.com/p/start-organizing-a-real-resistance
bill wolfe, we will cheer you on from outside. I am going overboard but why not make a citizen's arrest and hand him over to the ICC?
I'm on a different continent so won't make it to DC, but am doing my bit locally 🇵🇸 I believe Netanyahu shouldn't be allowed into the US due to "moral turpitude" but hey, I forgot, law doesn't apply to him.
There are some small wins to celebrate Bill, but there's still a long way to go:
https://substack.com/@dx23/note/c-58762339
Maybe the same US law applies to Netanyahu as to the Biden Administration. Would that someone would apply for an arrest warrant against him: 18 U.S. Code § 1091 is the statute that brought the Genocide Convention into US criminal law.
Yes, please! Can someone in the US please make this happen? I'd more than happily contribute to a crowdfunder for the legal costs.
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
Thank you - well written & digestible.
Kudjoe, You seem to be making a valid point. Elements of the present protest movement maybe about stopping a genocide right here, right now. If they call themselves anti-genocide, the other side by implication becomes pro-genocide. But will the compliant media portray it as such? They are feeding the uninitiated a diet of pro-Palestine = anti-Israel= anti-semitic. If more of us don't wake up this prevailing orthodoxy will take root.
This is what Caitlin is saying. The political left-wing worldview always recognised the injustice of the settler-colonial apartheid Israel and its Western backers. From way back they have been and are pro-Palestine ( just like Jeremy Corbyn ) on the side of the occupied and oppressed. On the side of justice and human rights. The Israeli genocide of the Gazans make it imperative that we are more pro-Palestine than ever before.
That’s all wrong. It’s an anti genocide movement.
And beyond actual Palestinian most of the foreign support was from anti apartheid abd BDS organizations.
It’s the epitome of current left wing incompetence to let yourself be taking an anti genocide and any apartheid stance and then be lazy enough to accept deceitful mis-lavmbelling designed to make the movement look bad.
It’s the same way that the incompetent PR for universal health care let it be labelled “Obamacare”.
The left has to stop falling into these elementary traps.
Chris Hedges on fire for about 20 minutes at a talk in Blackburn, England just yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjgFyvxv1QA
Glad you posted his speech. I thought it was one of his best.
Nero's guests today become Nero's victims tomorrow.
What a great and powerful speech! Thanks for the link.
I am blocked? WTF?
It’s on his substack with a transcript.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=778851&post_id=145690355&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1o7ey8&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDExMjI5MjgsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE0NTY5MDM1NSwiaWF0IjoxNzE4NTM1NjkxLCJleHAiOjE3MjExMjc2OTEsImlzcyI6InB1Yi03Nzg4NTEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.llEzfcqjIAOXwM8Zu2s-DiGHi2lhWorMl1EEhR32sZk
Thanks - I was objecting to the fact that I'm blocked by Jamenta - I can not like his comments.
Thanks - I was objecting to the fact that I'm blocked by Jamenta - I can not like his comments.
Excellent, spot-on piece. Thanks, Caitlin. I love the way your writing forensically, concisely, takes these masters of bullshit to the cleaners and exposes what they are: narcissitic, sociopathic, degenerate agents of evil; the worst that human beings have to offer - if, indeed, they are human.
Corbyn is running as an independent and I really think that’s the only way we get out of this entire mess, just step away from the cynical machinery and prop people up on our own. Bernie should have run as independent too.
I hope that Andrew Feinstein wins Holborn and St Pancras
https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/parl.holborn-and-st-pancras.2024-07-04/holborn-and-st-pancras/
Even Nick The incredible Flying Brick deserves to get more votes than the Labour candidate.
Andrew Feinstein is an excellent candidate. What a pity there are so many others diluting the anti Starmer vote.
Hopefully there will be a sufficiently effective campaign, and enough constituents who vote with their conscience, for a Feinstein victory. I'd love to see Starmer lose his seat.
That would probably give us Angela Rayner as PM though which is only slightly less bad than Starmer. (Unless she's been playing the long game and is actually a sleeper agent for the real Left and turns out to be a Socialist after all. Not holding my breath on that one to be honest).
thank you to introducing me to Nick The Incredible Flying Brick, of whom I had not been previously aware as a viable political option.
We should all start to deviate from all presented 'inevitable options' and just raise general ruckus until something changes.
Wonderfully, Nick has not always come last in the elections he has stood in.
https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/2323/nick-the-incredible-flying-brick
But seriously, if you are a constituent in HASP vote Feinstein!
Sadly I am a Canadian. But will hold fingers crossed for Feinstein. I have heard him speaking and he sounds like a solid choice for sure. Wish we had someone like him here.
When these Zionists and their congressional toadies resort to the dirtiest, most despicable trick in the book, namely accusations of antisemitism against critics on the left or anywhere in the political spectrum, it shows only that they have no argument! Antisemitism has become a virulent scourge, not because it is supposedly rising or spreading, but because organizations such as the ADL, the Zionist/Israeli lobby and Israeli operatives are doing to others exactly and openly what they do not want done to them: namely, intimidate, slur, slander, libel, defame, extort, persecute and destroy. Antisemitism is being weaponized against the left in order to discredit leftist critics, and to ensure that leftist politicians, like Jeremy Corbyn, do not get elected or re-elected. It is also being weaponized, as Max Blumenthal pointed out in a recent webinar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSxqoqdPxH0&ab_channel=TheGrayzone) with him and Israeli historian Ilan Pappé in order to manufacture panic within the Jewish diaspora and make them feel unsafe. To quote Max, "If we Jews flourish in the diaspora as we're doing in the United States where we continue to enjoy a Golden Age, it negates the very justification for Zionism." Later in the interview, Ilan Pappé makes the trenchant point that one is not supporting terrorism by supporting the Palestinians, one is supporting terrorism by supporting Israel and the western coalition that enables Israel to commit genocide. I would say that if the worst thing you can be called is an antisemite, the second worst is a terrorist or a supporter of terrorism. One can only hope that people stop apologizing, shrinking and caving in, and start pushing back and loudly proclaiming: Enough of this shit!
Meanwhile actual anti-semitism goes on by stealth. Keir Starmer has expelled more Jews from the Labour Party than all other leaders in its history, supposedly to ‘counter’ anti-semitism.
At least he's right when he says he's changed the Labour Party permanently, but he's really rubbish at cos-playing a socialist.
If being anti-Genocide is being anti-Israel, have the ZioTurds really thought their argument through?
The thing that isn't immediately obvious but really is true is that Zionists have always used the cry of "Antisemitism!" to promote their cause. A cause which in and of itself is intrinsically antisemitic. They deliberately conflate Judaism - Jewishness - with Zionism (promotion of and a belief in the State of Israel as "The Jewish State", a home for, exclusively, people of Jewish extraction). The majority of Jewish people in the diaspora have no interest in going to live in Israel. The Zionist's objective, however, is for all Jews to do so. The Zionists' plan is to "encourage" all people of Jewish extraction to "return" "home" to Israel by making them fearful within their community in their actual home. Fearful of being subjected to the scourge of anti-Semitism. So they promote it. They even play-act it out, pretending they're non-Jews being rabidly anti-Semitic. We've seen this captured on videos during demos in London, and I'm pretty sure also during university Peace protests in the US.
A valuable and eye-opening talk, "Justifying Slaughter: How the Cult of Messianic Zionism Conquered the West", was given by Thomas Suárez to UMass-Amherst on 16 April and is available on YouTube - I urge anyone genuinely interested in this topic to watch it. It's just under an hour long. You can see it here: https://youtu.be/RksThaJJ3eg?si=j8T-INfBONjLDkaS
Well said Tony Troughton-Smith! (and thank you for the link)
Speaking of Socialism, I saw an ad for a corporate right wing think tank (Heritage Foundation, I think) campaign. The ad began by noting the steep rise in support for Socialism, particularly among younger people, but blamed it on social media disinformation. In response, the campaign pledged to "educate" the public about the disasters of Socialism. I hit "skip" the ad before it ended, but I should have listened and saved it.
The corporate right is well funded and organizing against Socialism. That alone should be news.
they know that socialism = unions = losing their corporate grip
And the corporate left is well funded against ___
complete the sentence wolfie and then do the balancing. Use fair scales 😉
"corporate left" is an oxymoron.
So it doesn't exist? Are you saying Google is right? NYT is right? Microsoft is right? Apple is right? ...
Who's left then (besides you, of course)?
Your "left/right" ideological dichotomy is restricted to cultural issues. Yes, all those corporations are "right".
Google and read Prof. Nancy Fraser's work on "Progressive Neoliberalism" to clarify the role of cultural/identity politics in covering for corporate right wing economic policies.
David Harvey also has an essential primer you would benefit from:
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-brief-history-of-neoliberalism-9780199283279?cc=us&lang=en&
Cut out bullshit and answer the question: who is left? Introduce your superior terminology, if needed.
Very little.