A World Gone Mad

Really, this stuff is making me want to scream.  No, let me correct that.  This stuff is making me scream.

According to a fair number of commentators, protesters, bloggers, social media gurus, and young progressive left types, it is not antisemitic to be anti-Zionist.  Now, being a Zionist means believing that the state of Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state.  Therefore, anti-Zionism means Jews have no right to self-determination and no right to a homeland.  It means denying history when asserting that the Jews in Israel are settler-colonialists instead of being indigenous.  It means that protests against Israel are peppered with masked people crying out “Death to the Jews” and “By any means necessary.”  It has also meant the desecration of synagogues in Europe, Canada, the UK, South America, and the United States.  It has meant denying Jewish students the right of association on US college campuses, the willful vandalism of campus Hillel locations, attacks on Jews, including students, who display outward indicators of their religion such as wearing a kippot or having payos (side curls) or distinctive hats, or wearing a Star of David.  It also means that being an “anti-Zionist Jew” is an oxymoron unless you are so orthodox that you believe only God can return the Jews to Zion.

Let me submit that denying a group peoplehood, calling indigenous people settlers, and attacking members of the predominate faith outside of the borders of the country they are objecting to qualifies as antisemitism.

Waving the picture of Sinwar and Haniyeh – leaders of a terrorist organization whose charter demands the killing of Jews — and supporting that organization as it continues to murder hostages kidnapped from their homes is tantamount to approving of those murders and agreeing with the objective of killing Jews.

Based on the recent retrieval of 4 hostages (alive) by the IDF, Hamas ordered a change in how the hostages guards should behave.  The Hamas spokesperson, Abu Ubaida, did not provide details of what the orders entail but that the instructions were given to those tasked with guarding the hostages.  “Let it be clear to everyone that, following the incident in Nuseirat, new instructions have been issued to the Mujahideen tasked with guarding the prisoners,” Ubaida said in the statement, which was also reported on by the Jerusalem Post. “These instructions outline how to handle the situation if the occupation army approaches the location where the prisoners are being held.”

In light of the murder days ago of the six hostages in Rafah as the IDF approached, does anyone have any doubt about what those instructions entail?  .  Don’t believe The New York Times.  As it is obvious that The New York Times lacks the cojones or chutzpah to call it like it is, I will:  Those hostages did not “die” (as the Times reported), they were murdered by Hamas.  Because Hamas got pissed off that the Israelis had the audacity to rescue 4 of its kidnapped citizens.

I do not know about you, but the willful, purposeful, and celebrated killing of Jews wherever they are qualifies as antisemitism.  I truly hope that is not a surprise to anyone reading this.

Denying Israel’s right to exist means one must believe that the Palestinians do have the right to the entire land of Israel.  And that means you believe the Palestinians are the only indigenous peoples in that piece of geography.  That latter assertion is not only historically inaccurate, but biblically inaccurate – the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Koran all indicate Jews living in what is now Israel thousands of years ago.  It is also scientifically inaccurate.   DNA research puts Middle Eastern Jews and Yemeni Jews in a cluster including (today’s) Palestinians, Druze, and Bedouins.  According to the Ashkenazi Genome Consortium, Ashkenazi Jews are an “even mix” meaning “a sex-biased process, where Middle Eastern Jewish men married European non-Jewish women.”  To say Jews are not indigenous is a bullshit claim based on political agendas and perspectives, but not on facts.  It is simple, convenient, and totally fabricated.

And now to the topic of who is actually promoting, and acting upon the genocidal impulse.  As I said, the murder of all Jews is part of Hamas’ charter.  Hamas is the duly elected government of Gaza and recent polls show 75-80% approval ratings from the Palestinian people.  The Palestinians are supporting the same people who are using them, their children, their schools, and their hospitals to kill Israeli civilians…..and they have allowed it since Hamas won the 2006 election and proceeded to murder their Palestinian brothers belonging to Fatah, the party they beat by 3 percent.  They have not had an election in Gaza since.

If we are going to hold the German civilian population (from 1933 to 1945) as complicit in their support of the Nazis and the Holocaust, then we should be holding the Palestinian civilian population complicit in the Intifada (I, II, and III), terrorist bombings, October 7, and the murder of innocent Israelis and Jews across the globe.

Instead, the United Nations, through UNRWA and other NGOs, has been supporting the education and propaganda efforts of Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups for decades which have enabled the teaching of Palestinian children to hate Jews, Israelis, and Americans. 

A Palestinian child who entered first grade in 2006 – after 18 years of indoctrination, is now the 20-something masked with the keffiyeh who is murdering kids at a music festival, raping women, torturing men, brutally murdering parents in front of their children, indiscriminately murdering the babies and the grandparents, and celebrating their “victory” back home by calling their mothers (who are proud of this) and bragging about all the Jews they have murdered.

Is it tragic that Palestinian civilians are getting killed?  Of course, but this is a war against an existential enemy committed to the destruction of Israel, an enemy supported by the vast majority of its people who believe their flawed cause justifies “by any means necessary.”  But is Israel committing “genocide”?  Have they explicitly called for the death of all Palestinian?  Of course not.  Instead, they provide civilians with advance warnings;  they provide electricity, food, and water to civilians  even though  Hamas often confiscates those supplies; they halted military operations to allow the vaccination of children.  These are not the actions of a nation committed to genocide by “any means necessary.”

I must admit, convincing the world that Israel is no longer the David of 1967 but is now the Goliath of 2023 has been a masterful exercise in public relations, identity politics, and the exploitation of far-left liberal views of the world.  

The other PR coup — There has never been a Palestinian state in all of history.  But the propaganda would make that very hard to discern.  The term “Palestinian” really did not come into play until after the establishment of Israel and even more so after the 1967 war as Israel recaptured the West Bank illegally seized by Jordan in the 1948 war.  “Palestinians” were Arabs living in Mandatory Palestine (the mandate administered by the British after the WWI defeat of the Ottoman Empire).  They Arabs living in Mandatory Palestine gave up the State of Palestine offered by the United Nations at the urging of their Arab neighbors and in the hope of defeating the new State of Israel.  They lost.  And were abandoned by their Arab brethren.  Thus, they became Palestinians – committed to the destruction of Israel under the fiction that their “land” had been taken away.  The fact that most of the world’s governments believe this fiction is the PR achievement of the 20^th century.

Hamas has played the world perfectly.  Murder Jews, get your supporters in Iran, and other Arab countries to fund your atrocities and foment protests in the US and Europe, exploit the concept of intersectionality to its completely illogical extreme  and let the useful idiots of the far left and the white supremacists of the far-right spout your falsehoods, accusations, and complete lies and fabrications to demonize the State of Israel.  Inciting Western liberals and conservatives to condemn the only democratic country in the Middle Eastern and North Africa while each and every neighboring country has denied the Palestinians a refuge, using their cause to divert attention from their religious zealotry and authoritarian repression is quite an accomplishment.

How else can you get a normally intelligent LBGTQ+ college student to hold up their “Queers for Gaza” banner?  That’s like having the Lakota or Apache college student holding up their “Native Americans for Smallpox” banner. Or get seemingly reasonable intelligent Americans to hold up pictures of Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar in “solidarity.”  That’s like holding up a picture of Osama Bin Laden.  It defies logic, reason and ignores history and facts.

But don’t fool yourself.  Hamas’ temporary moment in the sun does not mean being on the side of morality, righteousness, or history.  What it does mean is how easily manipulated the American public appears to be….by Russian propaganda, Chinese influence, Iranian misinformation, American stooges like Tucker Carlson and grifters like Donald Trump.  And, yes, with the help of the other useful idiots in the population repeating the self-defeating anti-Western rhetoric of all of the above.

I plan on doing all I can to prevent Hamas, and the antisemites, the autocratic governments looking to undermine our confidence and commitment, and our own home grown anti-Western useful idiots and fascist wannabees from ever being able to declare victory.  I invite you to do the same if you value your freedom.