Thank you for that extensive historical résumé of America’s actions that has led to death and destruction so that the elite class can grow. If Americans think it was for the interest of Americans why are regular Americans still in the position that they are where they can barely afford groceries or healthcare.
It was shocking but satisfying to put the extensive historical resume on paper, albeit there are surely things I've missed like Libya and Syria. Agreed, I almost think this is where the Republican "trickle down economics" comes into play a bit. Where if you exploit so completely and successfully, even if the elite hoard all the riches, they are able to pass enough down to the masses that they think they are benefitting. Besides that, probably just really strong propaganda?
Thank you for this important reminder and profound insight, Mr. Fisher. I agree that the 4th should be a day of reckoning with the past, learning from history and striving to do better going forward each day.
Thank you for your support, Aamir. Yes, I wish we could make reflection on the past and learning history part of what holidays mean. Something like not just getting the day off from work, but the workplace offering an extra few hours of vacation for completing a reading or small course of some sort.
No problem Albert and agreed. I think making reflection on the past and learning the history of why we have such holidays would be a valuable thing that would help deepen our understanding and appreciation and knowledge, and make us more educated, informed and less easily swayed citizens.
A few extra hours of vacation would be a good incentive in my view.
Amazing, no, while the murder spree continues in Occupied Palestine. You ask for a ceasefire? The Jews are a mafia, crazed, perverted, gleeful in their rape dungeons and their back-shooting and tent bombing, Fisher.
You can easily go to David Swanson's site and give your readers a better picture of the War Mongering USA, or listen to Gerald Horne talk about the counter-revolution of 1776. How is it that you fail to discuss the Minyan in the White House -- the outsized influence of Jewish Billionaires and Millionaires in Donald "I am the First Jewish President" Trump's Epstein office?
Manuel Funk and Nadja Rakowitz: Our solidarity goes to the victims of the war, war opponents, deserters, and healthcare workers on all sides. Current developments have also affected our association, where members hold diverse views. While we have faced criticism and (very) few resignations, we continue to engage in debate and education.
At this point, in Germany, public funds are being used not only for defense, but also for shaping public attitudes. The Bundeswehr (the German armed forces) now publishes official videos showing German soldiers at night, by firelight, shouting “hurrah” when their general tells them they are working toward becoming “capable of winning.” The German army wants to win again. Beware, Europe. When they discuss a possible war, officials speak of the “Eastern Front,” and the “enemy” in public debate is clearly Russia – often personalized as Vladimir Putin. In our view, this taps into old anti-Russian sentiments and is becoming increasingly irrational.
Nowadays, it is once again socially acceptable to express pride in a grandfather who “fought against the Russians back then” – that is, in the Nazi Wehrmacht or even the SS. Statements like this no longer cause scandal, and even politicians from parties such as the Green Party sometimes make them.
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Swanson:
Since 2001, the United States has been systematically destroying a region of the globe, bombing Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria, not to mention the Philippines. The United States has “special forces” operating in two-thirds of the world’s countries and non-special forces in three-quarters of them.
See also How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3: Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen by Nicolas Davies. From 2018, this article estimates 5 to 7 million people directly killed by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen.
See also How Death Outlives War by Costs of War. From 2023, this report estimates 4.5 to 4.6 million people killed directly or indirectly by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen.
The U.S. government provides weapons, military training, and/or military funding to almost every dictatorship and oppressive government on earth. See my 2020 book 20 Dictators Currently Supported by the U.S.
U.S. weapons are used on both sides of many wars.
In an attempt to quantify U.S. warmaking, I’ve copied below lists from these sources:
David Vine: The United States of War
William Blum: America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy
Dr. Zoltan Grossman: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions
James Lucas: U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People
William Appleman Williams: Empire As a Way of Life
Paul, thank you for providing these further sources, I look forward to reading them. I share your outrage at what is happening but caution against equating Israel with Jews, as that is a harmful generalization. We can call out those who are committing the horrors without equating them to a whole ethnic or religious group. Even the influence of Jewish billionaires as you point out is a huge piece of the Zionist apparatus but them being Jewish is not the point. Just like the extremist Christian nationalists are not representative of Christians and ISIS is not representative of Muslims.
Yikes, Albert. I'm 69, a real journalist of newspaper fame for, hell, since age 17, and still rocking it elsewhere, not to mention my Substack, which is rant for sure. Lived in many countries, and shit, have a few graduate degrees under my belt, but more importantly, I work with adults and kiddos with developmental disabilities, and worked with houseless or unhoused veterans and their families, as well as folk coming out of prison still in their substance abuse days.
So, damn, and my radio show. SHOOT. Books, as you can check out at the Amazon Monster.
So, thanks for the elementary school comments about Zionism versus Judaism, and then cautioning me to do what?
The Jewish Billionaires highlighted by Forbes and by Jewish State of Israel news organs always HIGHLIGHT their Jewishness, their Jewish history, and never ever anything mentioned about ZION or ZIONISM.
Jim Sweeney: “Balin” The story of Balin Miller, a 23-year-old climber of extraordinary talent, whose life ended on El Capitan.
Paul Haeder “Dream Tigers—What Would Neruda Say About Gaza?” An essay that places Pablo Neruda’s political awakening alongside the present devastation in Gaza, asking what poetry demands in times of mass civilian suffering.
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The outsized number of Jews in the millionaire and billionaire category, supporting Israel, and Israel's fucking influence in Latin America, for fuck's sake, it is their JEWISHNESS that they sell, so, hmmm..... Which rabbi are you digging? Remember, this is a Jewish Dude, Talmud and Torah DUDE, as the chief sicario of, hmm, The Commonwealth of Nations, formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is a voluntary association of 56 independent sovereign states. Spanning five continents, its members represent 2.7 billion people—roughly a third of the global population.
The Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and The Commonwealth, Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is a charlatan, which should come as no surprise given he is a Zionist, and Zionism is a racist ideology.
Mirvis has remained silent while the moral crisis of our age has raged on for a thousand days.
A thousand days of silence; a thousand days of indifference; a thousand days of apathy, unconcern; a thousand days of excusing a genocide; turning a blind eye to the rape of prisoners; the murder of children; the starvation of babies; turning a dense urban city to rubble; homes turned to dust; a thousand days of Israelis celebrating the death of children; dancing at the prospect of burning babies alive.
And then dismissing this silence with accusations of antisemitism.
Another religious leader was, once, silent about the moral crisis of his age.
Pius XII was Pope during the Holocaust, and like Rabbi Mirvis, remained silent to the suffering and murder of innocents.
It’s not known if Pius XII had any relatives in the Nazi army, but we do know that Rabbi Mirvis has a son serving in the IDF, in which Mirvis expressed great pride.
Was the son involved in any war crimes? Will the British Metropolitan Police investigate? It’s not difficult to find out – just contact the Hind Rajab Foundation and they will be able to say whether Mirvis’s son was involved in any war crimes.
When the Catholic Church began proceedings to beatify Pius XII there was understandable outrage that a Pope who was silent during the Holocaust was being considered for sainthood.
In the 1940s news did not travel as immediately and directly it does today; there were no live streamed videos; no social media to show the horrors of war and what it does to men, women and children. Pope Pius XII will not have seen videos of rape and sodomy; he will not have seen children being collected in plastic bags.
Ephraim Mirvis will have seen this and much more.
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Athens vs. Jerusalem in 4 lines:
Athens is the birthplace of (Western) philosophy; Jerusalem is the city of revelation.
Athens teaches you how to think for yourself; Jerusalem dictates what you say and how you think (tyranny of correctness masquerades as PC).
Every precious Western value originated in Athens. Sadly, every catastrophe is due to Jerusalemite immoral intervention…
Athens, Jerusalem and the Genocide
The best way to grasp the dichotomy between Athens and Jerusalem is to understand that Jerusalem has replaced ethics with litigation. Jerusalem is the institutional lack of ethics. It mimics ethics, deploying a set of Mitzvoth.
In Jerusalem, a genocide is kosher as long as you get away with it. How do they get away with it? They will do whatever it takes. They will dismantle the ICC's ability to operate; they will threaten the prosecutors; if needed, they will wipe out The Hague together with the UN.
Athenians fail to grasp Jerusalem until it is too late because Athenians project their own ethics. Humans find it very hard or even impossible to imagine an operation out of the ethical ‘box’. Even the worst criminals tend to sense guilt and empathy.
These two (guilt and empathy), are the exact elementary human features that we don’t find in Jerusalem.
Since the lack of empathy and guilt is widely considered a core and defining feature of psychopathy, we may have to reach the conclusion that we are dealing with a collective psychopathy.
I wish I was original here. Jesus realised it 2000 years ago. The Hebrew Prophets also saw it. The Jewish State is in big trouble right now because the whole of humanity is experiencing this epiphany right now…
Palestine Cause vs. Jewish Solidarity Terminology (Spin)
(As I explained it 10 years ago. Long before the Gaza Genocide)
The Right of Return has been at the core of the Palestinian cause. It positions the 1948 Nakba and the suffering of refugees as the primary issue; it places Gaza into historical context and highlights the gross injustices perpetuated and sustained by Israeli politics since 1948. It clearly illuminates the racist nature of the Jewish state and its immigration laws. The Right of Return offers a clear course of action that unites Palestinians in the region and in exile, but it evokes fear amongst Israelis, Zionists, and Jewish anti- Zionists.
For decades, Jewish solidarity has been shockingly effective in subduing the call for the Right of Return. It was gradually diluted and eventually drowned in a tsunami of duplicitous terminology designed to appeal to Jewish supporters at the expense of Palestinians and their essential rights.
Let’s examine some of the solidarity movement’s current terminology.
End Of The Occupation
The call for the ‘End Of The Occupation’ was the first indication that something had gone terribly wrong. On its face, the call appears humanist and peaceful, politically pragmatic and even populist. The truth of the matter is the complete opposite. The ‘End of the Occupation’ is a legitimization of Israel through the back door - it confirms that the Jewish State within the pre-1967 green line borders is a valid and legitimate political unit. ‘End Of The Occupation’ limits the solidarity discussion to the West Bank; it is nothing short of a spit in the face to 8.000.000 Palestinian refugees and a complete dismissal of their right of return.
Colonialism
Another grossly misleading term promulgated by the Jewish progressive solidarity campaigners is ‘colonialism.’ The term conveys the false image that Jewish nationalism is as bad as British or Dutch colonialism but not worse. Such a delusional vision of the Zionist project may also vaguely offer the prospect of a future ‘resolution’ in some sort of a ‘post-colonial’ phase. But Zionism is not colonialism nor has it ever been. Zionism is a movement with no precedent in history. Can you think of another historical moment when people ‘returned’ to an imaginary ‘homeland’ after 2000 years and asked the indigenous population to move out to make room for the former ‘residents?’ Colonialism requires a material and spiritual exchange between a ‘mother state’ and a ‘settler state.’ The Jewish State is a settler state, but there is no mother state to Zionism or Israel. When prominent solidarity activists refer to Zionism as ‘colonialism,’ they are either being intentionally misleading or simply displaying a unique form of ignorance that one would not expect from educated and highly motivated activists.
One may suggest that though Zionism is not a colonial apparatus, the relationships between Israel and its West Bank settlements establish a quasi-colonial correspondence between a ‘Mother’ and a ‘Settler’ affair.’ Wrong: The Jewish Settlements did not form a new state in the West Bank. What we see instead is an ideologically driven territorial expansion, a form of Judeo-centric Lebensraum philosophy and practice.
Settler Colonialism
In recent years, a new terminological spin popped up within the Palestinian solidarity ranks, namely: ‘settler colonialism.’ The criticism of the colonial paradigm struck a few of the so-called progressive anti-Zionist enthusiasts. They were pushed to revise their theoretical narrative. Their efforts brought forth a new ad hoc, deformed, dysfunctional theoretical baby. But the term ‘settler colonialism’ does not illuminate anything. It seems a desperate attempt to further conceal the truth of the Jewish National project.
Settler colonialism posits a situation in which superpower ‘A’ facilitates the settlement of ethnic group ‘B’ on land ‘C.’ This action may lead to grave consequences for the indigenous population ‘D.’ But this explanation is problematic. The A-B-C-D scenario has nothing in common with Zionism, Israel or the Jewish national adventure. It was the Zionists (B) who persuaded Britain, then a superpower (A), that a Jewish homeland in Palestine (C) was the way forward. In short, instead of the A-B-C-D chain of events that form ‘settler colonialism,’ when it comes to Zionism, there is a B-A-C-D chronology. It is the ethnic group ‘B’ that pushes superpower ‘A’ to act in its favour. Most importantly, no interpretation of colonialism, settler colonialism, provides any support to the Palestinian cause, nor does it further our understanding of the so-called ‘conflict.’
Apartheid
Another inapt concept ascribed to the Jewish State in a transparent attempt to divert attention from the unique genocidal reality on the ground is ‘Apartheid.’ The term suggests that Israel is only ‘just’ as bad as South Africa or the southern United States. The truth is worse. Apartheid is a racist system of exploitation, but Israel doesn’t want to exploit the Palestinians; it wants them ‘gone’ and it acts upon it eg the Gaza genocide. At least from an ideological perspective, Israel is a genocidal, racially driven, expansionist state like no other.
Tragically, this lethal exclusivism is consistent with Zionist philosophy and some radical, yet popular, interpretations of the Judaic call. The so-called ‘Jews in the movement’ are uncomfortable with a realistic rendering of Israeli politics. They much prefer Israel to be grouped with other vile regimes within a recognized historical pattern such as colonialism, apartheid, etc.
BDS
When the call for Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions of Israeli goods was established in 2005 in Ramallah, its first demand was for Israel to: “End[ing] its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantl[ing] the Wall”
This call didn’t leave room for interpretation. Back in 2005, the BDS movement disputed the legitimacy of the Jewish State.
But in 2010, its primary goal was changed significantly; it now reads:
“Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall”
There is no public record of the process that led to any of these changes. And as if to prove its deceptive nature, the change appears only in English and has never been integrated into any of the official BDS publications in Arabic. It is likely that most Palestinians were not aware of the change made on their behalf by people who claim to be their ‘grassroots’ representatives. My study suggests that the change in the BDS goal statement that de facto legitimizes the Jewish State took place at the time the BDS became popular amongst Jewish activists and accepted funds from liberal Zionist George Soros’s Open Society Institute. You can read more about BDS, Soros money promoting BDS campaign in a book Israel Palestine and the Queer International by Jewish activist Sarah Shulman.
It is devastating that even the call for BDS has become an instrument to legitimise the Jewish State within its pre 1967 borders.
A Jewish Solidarity Pet
The logical conclusion of this analysis is pretty devastating. Two decades of Jewish left hegemony within the pro-Palestinian movement has reduced the Palestinians and their plight into a mere ‘solidarity pet.’ The Palestinians have been instrumental in an internal Jewish political show that has led nowhere. The Palestinian cause and the Right of Return have been watered down and replaced by terminology that was set to derail the solidarity movement and has succeeded remarkably.
Though it is no surprise that people who identify politically and primarily as Jews (JVP, IJAN, JFJFP, J-big, Mondoweiss, etc) are also primarily concerned with Jewish interests, it is legitimate to ask how these Jewish interests have succeeded in dominating the solidarity movement of another people. How is it possible that the Palestinian solidarity movement has been dominated by concerns to do with Jewish sensitivities, almost totally dismissive of the Palestinian cause? How is it possible that it is Jewish voices that dominate the battle against the Jewish State? Would Nelson Mandela allow a bunch of recovered Afrikaners run the Anti- Apartheid struggle on his behalf?
Would Malcolm X let ex KKK militants dominate the terminology of his campaign? How did it happen to the Palestinians that their solidarity discourse is attuned to the voice of the oppressor rather than the victim?
I believe that the ability to articulate these questions, or even staying reading this post up to this very final sentence, may suggest that deep in your heart you know the answer
Also the Beyond Israelism podcast is another great one to check out. I'm sure you are aware Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappe, and Gabor Mate are some of the greatest advocates for Palestinian freedom and are Jewish.
I hope you can see that ranting your resume and backing up your antisemitism is not a good look. It sounds like you've done some great work in your life so don't let a harmful false equivalence tarnish that.
There you go, not a good look, your empty signifier, "antisemitism."
Blumenthal, Halper, Pappe, Finkelstein, the Mates . . . Miko Peled speaks in support of the motion that This House Believes Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide
Numerous U.S. states and the federal government have recently passed legislation combating antisemitism, primarily by adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism for civil rights enforcement and educational standards.
Key recent legislative actions include
Federal Action: The Antisemitism Awareness Act has advanced in Congress, directing the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights to utilize the IHRA definition when investigating discrimination complaints in federally funded programs.
Missouri (April 2026): Governor Mike Kehoe signed HB 2061, making Missouri the 18th U.S. state to codify the IHRA definition into K-12 and higher education.
California (October 2025): Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 715 and SB 48, which establish new Offices of Civil Rights and Antisemitism Prevention Coordinators to protect K-12 schools.
Oklahoma (May 2025): The state legislature passed bills SB 942 and SB 991, mandating that public schools and colleges integrate the IHRA definition into their conduct codes.
Ohio (December 2024): The Senate passed SB 297, expanding ethnic intimidation and violence laws while adopting the IHRA definition to protect Jewish students on campuses.
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Thanks for nothing. Hmm, ADL?
A new report from the Anti-Defamation League shows California, with over 1 million Jewish residents, is the top state fighting antisemitism. Under Governor Newsom’s leadership, the state launched the Golden State Plan to Counter Antisemitism — a first-of-its-kind, statewide framework to combat antisemitism through education, prevention, security, and community partnership.
Israel has ZERO right to exist, you know that, and that's antisemitism a la U$A.
Peled, along with various international activists and several sovereign nations, argues that Israel's establishment in 1948 resulted in the unjust expulsion of Palestinians. From this viewpoint, a state built upon ethnic or religious supremacy is fundamentally illegitimate and must be transformed into a universal democracy.
And so, anti-Zionism? Antisemitic...
Federal and state governments have not made anti-Zionism illegal YET, but they have passed laws and resolutions penalizing actions associated with it. Over 35 states have "anti-BDS" laws that prohibit state contracts and public investments in companies that boycott Israel. Federally, the U.S. House passed resolutions condemning anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism and advanced legislation to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism for civil rights enforcement.
Thank you for that extensive historical résumé of America’s actions that has led to death and destruction so that the elite class can grow. If Americans think it was for the interest of Americans why are regular Americans still in the position that they are where they can barely afford groceries or healthcare.
It was shocking but satisfying to put the extensive historical resume on paper, albeit there are surely things I've missed like Libya and Syria. Agreed, I almost think this is where the Republican "trickle down economics" comes into play a bit. Where if you exploit so completely and successfully, even if the elite hoard all the riches, they are able to pass enough down to the masses that they think they are benefitting. Besides that, probably just really strong propaganda?
But you're not even aware that you are complicit in this travesty every time you use the bogus term "America."
Did you know that the first step in all mental programming begins with trick vocabulary?
People are too dumb to know that they are celebrating pure fascism. Truly amazing how gullible most people are.
Thank you.
Thank you for this important reminder and profound insight, Mr. Fisher. I agree that the 4th should be a day of reckoning with the past, learning from history and striving to do better going forward each day.
Thank you for your support, Aamir. Yes, I wish we could make reflection on the past and learning history part of what holidays mean. Something like not just getting the day off from work, but the workplace offering an extra few hours of vacation for completing a reading or small course of some sort.
No problem Albert and agreed. I think making reflection on the past and learning the history of why we have such holidays would be a valuable thing that would help deepen our understanding and appreciation and knowledge, and make us more educated, informed and less easily swayed citizens.
A few extra hours of vacation would be a good incentive in my view.
Celebrating their own demise.
Amazing, no, while the murder spree continues in Occupied Palestine. You ask for a ceasefire? The Jews are a mafia, crazed, perverted, gleeful in their rape dungeons and their back-shooting and tent bombing, Fisher.
You can easily go to David Swanson's site and give your readers a better picture of the War Mongering USA, or listen to Gerald Horne talk about the counter-revolution of 1776. How is it that you fail to discuss the Minyan in the White House -- the outsized influence of Jewish Billionaires and Millionaires in Donald "I am the First Jewish President" Trump's Epstein office?
https://davidswanson.org/warlist/
Then the Krauts:
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/01/31/militarization-is-spreading-through-germanys-health-sector/
Manuel Funk and Nadja Rakowitz: Our solidarity goes to the victims of the war, war opponents, deserters, and healthcare workers on all sides. Current developments have also affected our association, where members hold diverse views. While we have faced criticism and (very) few resignations, we continue to engage in debate and education.
At this point, in Germany, public funds are being used not only for defense, but also for shaping public attitudes. The Bundeswehr (the German armed forces) now publishes official videos showing German soldiers at night, by firelight, shouting “hurrah” when their general tells them they are working toward becoming “capable of winning.” The German army wants to win again. Beware, Europe. When they discuss a possible war, officials speak of the “Eastern Front,” and the “enemy” in public debate is clearly Russia – often personalized as Vladimir Putin. In our view, this taps into old anti-Russian sentiments and is becoming increasingly irrational.
Nowadays, it is once again socially acceptable to express pride in a grandfather who “fought against the Russians back then” – that is, in the Nazi Wehrmacht or even the SS. Statements like this no longer cause scandal, and even politicians from parties such as the Green Party sometimes make them.
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Swanson:
Since 2001, the United States has been systematically destroying a region of the globe, bombing Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria, not to mention the Philippines. The United States has “special forces” operating in two-thirds of the world’s countries and non-special forces in three-quarters of them.
See also How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3: Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen by Nicolas Davies. From 2018, this article estimates 5 to 7 million people directly killed by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen.
See also How Death Outlives War by Costs of War. From 2023, this report estimates 4.5 to 4.6 million people killed directly or indirectly by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen.
The U.S. government provides weapons, military training, and/or military funding to almost every dictatorship and oppressive government on earth. See my 2020 book 20 Dictators Currently Supported by the U.S.
U.S. weapons are used on both sides of many wars.
In an attempt to quantify U.S. warmaking, I’ve copied below lists from these sources:
David Vine: The United States of War
William Blum: America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy
Dr. Zoltan Grossman: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions
James Lucas: U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People
William Appleman Williams: Empire As a Way of Life
Paul, thank you for providing these further sources, I look forward to reading them. I share your outrage at what is happening but caution against equating Israel with Jews, as that is a harmful generalization. We can call out those who are committing the horrors without equating them to a whole ethnic or religious group. Even the influence of Jewish billionaires as you point out is a huge piece of the Zionist apparatus but them being Jewish is not the point. Just like the extremist Christian nationalists are not representative of Christians and ISIS is not representative of Muslims.
Yikes, Albert. I'm 69, a real journalist of newspaper fame for, hell, since age 17, and still rocking it elsewhere, not to mention my Substack, which is rant for sure. Lived in many countries, and shit, have a few graduate degrees under my belt, but more importantly, I work with adults and kiddos with developmental disabilities, and worked with houseless or unhoused veterans and their families, as well as folk coming out of prison still in their substance abuse days.
So, damn, and my radio show. SHOOT. Books, as you can check out at the Amazon Monster.
So, thanks for the elementary school comments about Zionism versus Judaism, and then cautioning me to do what?
The Jewish Billionaires highlighted by Forbes and by Jewish State of Israel news organs always HIGHLIGHT their Jewishness, their Jewish history, and never ever anything mentioned about ZION or ZIONISM.
RE:
https://kyaq.org/finding-fringe/
https://www.newportnewstimes.com/opinion/commentary-bombs-bursting-in-air-busting-our-science-programs-literacy-and-safety-nets/article_48da0473-46cd-4758-8744-aa60fc826f63.html
https://www.amazon.com/Cirque-Literary-Journal-North-Pacific/dp/B0H3F911TF
In this issue, find:
Jim Sweeney: “Balin” The story of Balin Miller, a 23-year-old climber of extraordinary talent, whose life ended on El Capitan.
Paul Haeder “Dream Tigers—What Would Neruda Say About Gaza?” An essay that places Pablo Neruda’s political awakening alongside the present devastation in Gaza, asking what poetry demands in times of mass civilian suffering.
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The outsized number of Jews in the millionaire and billionaire category, supporting Israel, and Israel's fucking influence in Latin America, for fuck's sake, it is their JEWISHNESS that they sell, so, hmmm..... Which rabbi are you digging? Remember, this is a Jewish Dude, Talmud and Torah DUDE, as the chief sicario of, hmm, The Commonwealth of Nations, formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is a voluntary association of 56 independent sovereign states. Spanning five continents, its members represent 2.7 billion people—roughly a third of the global population.
The Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and The Commonwealth, Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is a charlatan, which should come as no surprise given he is a Zionist, and Zionism is a racist ideology.
Mirvis has remained silent while the moral crisis of our age has raged on for a thousand days.
A thousand days of silence; a thousand days of indifference; a thousand days of apathy, unconcern; a thousand days of excusing a genocide; turning a blind eye to the rape of prisoners; the murder of children; the starvation of babies; turning a dense urban city to rubble; homes turned to dust; a thousand days of Israelis celebrating the death of children; dancing at the prospect of burning babies alive.
And then dismissing this silence with accusations of antisemitism.
Another religious leader was, once, silent about the moral crisis of his age.
Pius XII was Pope during the Holocaust, and like Rabbi Mirvis, remained silent to the suffering and murder of innocents.
It’s not known if Pius XII had any relatives in the Nazi army, but we do know that Rabbi Mirvis has a son serving in the IDF, in which Mirvis expressed great pride.
Was the son involved in any war crimes? Will the British Metropolitan Police investigate? It’s not difficult to find out – just contact the Hind Rajab Foundation and they will be able to say whether Mirvis’s son was involved in any war crimes.
When the Catholic Church began proceedings to beatify Pius XII there was understandable outrage that a Pope who was silent during the Holocaust was being considered for sainthood.
In the 1940s news did not travel as immediately and directly it does today; there were no live streamed videos; no social media to show the horrors of war and what it does to men, women and children. Pope Pius XII will not have seen videos of rape and sodomy; he will not have seen children being collected in plastic bags.
Ephraim Mirvis will have seen this and much more.
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Athens vs. Jerusalem in 4 lines:
Athens is the birthplace of (Western) philosophy; Jerusalem is the city of revelation.
Athens teaches you how to think for yourself; Jerusalem dictates what you say and how you think (tyranny of correctness masquerades as PC).
Every precious Western value originated in Athens. Sadly, every catastrophe is due to Jerusalemite immoral intervention…
Athens, Jerusalem and the Genocide
The best way to grasp the dichotomy between Athens and Jerusalem is to understand that Jerusalem has replaced ethics with litigation. Jerusalem is the institutional lack of ethics. It mimics ethics, deploying a set of Mitzvoth.
In Jerusalem, a genocide is kosher as long as you get away with it. How do they get away with it? They will do whatever it takes. They will dismantle the ICC's ability to operate; they will threaten the prosecutors; if needed, they will wipe out The Hague together with the UN.
Athenians fail to grasp Jerusalem until it is too late because Athenians project their own ethics. Humans find it very hard or even impossible to imagine an operation out of the ethical ‘box’. Even the worst criminals tend to sense guilt and empathy.
These two (guilt and empathy), are the exact elementary human features that we don’t find in Jerusalem.
Since the lack of empathy and guilt is widely considered a core and defining feature of psychopathy, we may have to reach the conclusion that we are dealing with a collective psychopathy.
I wish I was original here. Jesus realised it 2000 years ago. The Hebrew Prophets also saw it. The Jewish State is in big trouble right now because the whole of humanity is experiencing this epiphany right now…
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Gilad Atzmon:
Palestine Cause vs. Jewish Solidarity Terminology (Spin)
(As I explained it 10 years ago. Long before the Gaza Genocide)
The Right of Return has been at the core of the Palestinian cause. It positions the 1948 Nakba and the suffering of refugees as the primary issue; it places Gaza into historical context and highlights the gross injustices perpetuated and sustained by Israeli politics since 1948. It clearly illuminates the racist nature of the Jewish state and its immigration laws. The Right of Return offers a clear course of action that unites Palestinians in the region and in exile, but it evokes fear amongst Israelis, Zionists, and Jewish anti- Zionists.
For decades, Jewish solidarity has been shockingly effective in subduing the call for the Right of Return. It was gradually diluted and eventually drowned in a tsunami of duplicitous terminology designed to appeal to Jewish supporters at the expense of Palestinians and their essential rights.
Let’s examine some of the solidarity movement’s current terminology.
End Of The Occupation
The call for the ‘End Of The Occupation’ was the first indication that something had gone terribly wrong. On its face, the call appears humanist and peaceful, politically pragmatic and even populist. The truth of the matter is the complete opposite. The ‘End of the Occupation’ is a legitimization of Israel through the back door - it confirms that the Jewish State within the pre-1967 green line borders is a valid and legitimate political unit. ‘End Of The Occupation’ limits the solidarity discussion to the West Bank; it is nothing short of a spit in the face to 8.000.000 Palestinian refugees and a complete dismissal of their right of return.
Colonialism
Another grossly misleading term promulgated by the Jewish progressive solidarity campaigners is ‘colonialism.’ The term conveys the false image that Jewish nationalism is as bad as British or Dutch colonialism but not worse. Such a delusional vision of the Zionist project may also vaguely offer the prospect of a future ‘resolution’ in some sort of a ‘post-colonial’ phase. But Zionism is not colonialism nor has it ever been. Zionism is a movement with no precedent in history. Can you think of another historical moment when people ‘returned’ to an imaginary ‘homeland’ after 2000 years and asked the indigenous population to move out to make room for the former ‘residents?’ Colonialism requires a material and spiritual exchange between a ‘mother state’ and a ‘settler state.’ The Jewish State is a settler state, but there is no mother state to Zionism or Israel. When prominent solidarity activists refer to Zionism as ‘colonialism,’ they are either being intentionally misleading or simply displaying a unique form of ignorance that one would not expect from educated and highly motivated activists.
One may suggest that though Zionism is not a colonial apparatus, the relationships between Israel and its West Bank settlements establish a quasi-colonial correspondence between a ‘Mother’ and a ‘Settler’ affair.’ Wrong: The Jewish Settlements did not form a new state in the West Bank. What we see instead is an ideologically driven territorial expansion, a form of Judeo-centric Lebensraum philosophy and practice.
Settler Colonialism
In recent years, a new terminological spin popped up within the Palestinian solidarity ranks, namely: ‘settler colonialism.’ The criticism of the colonial paradigm struck a few of the so-called progressive anti-Zionist enthusiasts. They were pushed to revise their theoretical narrative. Their efforts brought forth a new ad hoc, deformed, dysfunctional theoretical baby. But the term ‘settler colonialism’ does not illuminate anything. It seems a desperate attempt to further conceal the truth of the Jewish National project.
Settler colonialism posits a situation in which superpower ‘A’ facilitates the settlement of ethnic group ‘B’ on land ‘C.’ This action may lead to grave consequences for the indigenous population ‘D.’ But this explanation is problematic. The A-B-C-D scenario has nothing in common with Zionism, Israel or the Jewish national adventure. It was the Zionists (B) who persuaded Britain, then a superpower (A), that a Jewish homeland in Palestine (C) was the way forward. In short, instead of the A-B-C-D chain of events that form ‘settler colonialism,’ when it comes to Zionism, there is a B-A-C-D chronology. It is the ethnic group ‘B’ that pushes superpower ‘A’ to act in its favour. Most importantly, no interpretation of colonialism, settler colonialism, provides any support to the Palestinian cause, nor does it further our understanding of the so-called ‘conflict.’
Apartheid
Another inapt concept ascribed to the Jewish State in a transparent attempt to divert attention from the unique genocidal reality on the ground is ‘Apartheid.’ The term suggests that Israel is only ‘just’ as bad as South Africa or the southern United States. The truth is worse. Apartheid is a racist system of exploitation, but Israel doesn’t want to exploit the Palestinians; it wants them ‘gone’ and it acts upon it eg the Gaza genocide. At least from an ideological perspective, Israel is a genocidal, racially driven, expansionist state like no other.
Tragically, this lethal exclusivism is consistent with Zionist philosophy and some radical, yet popular, interpretations of the Judaic call. The so-called ‘Jews in the movement’ are uncomfortable with a realistic rendering of Israeli politics. They much prefer Israel to be grouped with other vile regimes within a recognized historical pattern such as colonialism, apartheid, etc.
BDS
When the call for Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions of Israeli goods was established in 2005 in Ramallah, its first demand was for Israel to: “End[ing] its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantl[ing] the Wall”
This call didn’t leave room for interpretation. Back in 2005, the BDS movement disputed the legitimacy of the Jewish State.
But in 2010, its primary goal was changed significantly; it now reads:
“Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall”
There is no public record of the process that led to any of these changes. And as if to prove its deceptive nature, the change appears only in English and has never been integrated into any of the official BDS publications in Arabic. It is likely that most Palestinians were not aware of the change made on their behalf by people who claim to be their ‘grassroots’ representatives. My study suggests that the change in the BDS goal statement that de facto legitimizes the Jewish State took place at the time the BDS became popular amongst Jewish activists and accepted funds from liberal Zionist George Soros’s Open Society Institute. You can read more about BDS, Soros money promoting BDS campaign in a book Israel Palestine and the Queer International by Jewish activist Sarah Shulman.
It is devastating that even the call for BDS has become an instrument to legitimise the Jewish State within its pre 1967 borders.
A Jewish Solidarity Pet
The logical conclusion of this analysis is pretty devastating. Two decades of Jewish left hegemony within the pro-Palestinian movement has reduced the Palestinians and their plight into a mere ‘solidarity pet.’ The Palestinians have been instrumental in an internal Jewish political show that has led nowhere. The Palestinian cause and the Right of Return have been watered down and replaced by terminology that was set to derail the solidarity movement and has succeeded remarkably.
Though it is no surprise that people who identify politically and primarily as Jews (JVP, IJAN, JFJFP, J-big, Mondoweiss, etc) are also primarily concerned with Jewish interests, it is legitimate to ask how these Jewish interests have succeeded in dominating the solidarity movement of another people. How is it possible that the Palestinian solidarity movement has been dominated by concerns to do with Jewish sensitivities, almost totally dismissive of the Palestinian cause? How is it possible that it is Jewish voices that dominate the battle against the Jewish State? Would Nelson Mandela allow a bunch of recovered Afrikaners run the Anti- Apartheid struggle on his behalf?
Would Malcolm X let ex KKK militants dominate the terminology of his campaign? How did it happen to the Palestinians that their solidarity discourse is attuned to the voice of the oppressor rather than the victim?
I believe that the ability to articulate these questions, or even staying reading this post up to this very final sentence, may suggest that deep in your heart you know the answer
You should check out this page for a great source of Anti-Zionist Jews who also agree a single state with the right of return is the only option: https://substack.com/@peoplemustbefree?utm_source=global-search
Also the Beyond Israelism podcast is another great one to check out. I'm sure you are aware Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappe, and Gabor Mate are some of the greatest advocates for Palestinian freedom and are Jewish.
I hope you can see that ranting your resume and backing up your antisemitism is not a good look. It sounds like you've done some great work in your life so don't let a harmful false equivalence tarnish that.
There you go, not a good look, your empty signifier, "antisemitism."
Blumenthal, Halper, Pappe, Finkelstein, the Mates . . . Miko Peled speaks in support of the motion that This House Believes Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide
https://youtu.be/cQ9JP1dOncg?si=lzwVAmWFWvUeCAsP
Yikes. WHich anti-semitism will Fisher abide by?
Numerous U.S. states and the federal government have recently passed legislation combating antisemitism, primarily by adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism for civil rights enforcement and educational standards.
Key recent legislative actions include
Federal Action: The Antisemitism Awareness Act has advanced in Congress, directing the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights to utilize the IHRA definition when investigating discrimination complaints in federally funded programs.
Missouri (April 2026): Governor Mike Kehoe signed HB 2061, making Missouri the 18th U.S. state to codify the IHRA definition into K-12 and higher education.
California (October 2025): Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 715 and SB 48, which establish new Offices of Civil Rights and Antisemitism Prevention Coordinators to protect K-12 schools.
Oklahoma (May 2025): The state legislature passed bills SB 942 and SB 991, mandating that public schools and colleges integrate the IHRA definition into their conduct codes.
Ohio (December 2024): The Senate passed SB 297, expanding ethnic intimidation and violence laws while adopting the IHRA definition to protect Jewish students on campuses.
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Thanks for nothing. Hmm, ADL?
A new report from the Anti-Defamation League shows California, with over 1 million Jewish residents, is the top state fighting antisemitism. Under Governor Newsom’s leadership, the state launched the Golden State Plan to Counter Antisemitism — a first-of-its-kind, statewide framework to combat antisemitism through education, prevention, security, and community partnership.
Israel has ZERO right to exist, you know that, and that's antisemitism a la U$A.
https://youtu.be/-8M0mYzD8ZY?si=krqqV1JjRME4Im5H
Peled, along with various international activists and several sovereign nations, argues that Israel's establishment in 1948 resulted in the unjust expulsion of Palestinians. From this viewpoint, a state built upon ethnic or religious supremacy is fundamentally illegitimate and must be transformed into a universal democracy.
And so, anti-Zionism? Antisemitic...
Federal and state governments have not made anti-Zionism illegal YET, but they have passed laws and resolutions penalizing actions associated with it. Over 35 states have "anti-BDS" laws that prohibit state contracts and public investments in companies that boycott Israel. Federally, the U.S. House passed resolutions condemning anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism and advanced legislation to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism for civil rights enforcement.
Oh, shit, those false equivalences . . . .