Great article 👍💚. Almost all recorded episodes of genocide involved the powers of the day standing by, issuing platitudes whilst weighing possible benefits from doing nothing. We have always been ruled by scum and always will be unless we stop enabling sociopaths and narcissists
With regard to the comment about purity, the documentation of statements by the founders of the zionist project are very clear: they are white, Arabs and Palestinians (including Mizrahim) are not. They do not consider Indigenous (Arab) Jews as their equal, and other than their use as physical labor, they do not align with anyone--including non-white Jews--who is not ethnically European.
The intent of the zionist project was primarily racially motivated, and stated so quite clearly. One of the primary intentions was to "erase all evidence of the Oriental soul" as was reiterated countless times. This is a settler-colonial white mindset, and a template that can be applied to every settler-colonial project throughout history.
Well, of course the whole thing makes no sense. There is no reasoning with this nonsense. When people believe something deeply, have primitive psychology and are emotionally driven, there is no amount of evidence or logic that would convince them to examine their beliefs. It’s all crazy nonsense. My problem is that it is hurting so many people, and potentially all of us.
Judaism itself separates by race. The founders of Zionism are of European origin, and the blueprint, well documented was that the zionist project was to be a whites only project. Among Israelis of course there are Arab and Ethiopian jews, and that's a whole other long story, but understand as well that an Israeli can certainly be of color. Many of them are the ones on the front lines assigned to the dirty work. Many are foreigners brought in to work the front lines. Many are refugees from African countries. So they pit refugee against refugee, which is a very well-worn tactic. Same tactic as in Apartheid South Africa. If you remember, there were many Black South Africans in the armed forces who were placed on the front lines. We do that here in the US as well.
Zionists have never identified themselves as "not white," as you assert. They have not only identified themselves as white, but as above all non-jewish whites. No, NOT Judaism, Zionism. The conflation is a product of the zionist project, not the religion.
I fully agree with your assessment of their delay tactics. I think this 'telephone call' is pretty accurate! It is as calculated and barbaric as other genocidal violence we know about from history but while genocide is usually racial, as the horrors of Nazism, I am not sure this genocide is racially driven. These guys seem to me more business people than true racists. What excites them is profit and domination. They feel contempt towards humanity at large as I try to demonstrate here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-151891115
Thank you Ben. I am afraid this genocide is most definitely racially driven. Israel’s definition of Jewishness is racial. The governing principle behind Israel is that Jews (who are racially defined) cannot be safe among non Jews (also racially defined). Therefore Israel is necessary to keep Jews safe. The Palestinians, the indigenous people of Palestine had to be ‘cleansed’ because they are not Jewish and cannot mix with Jews. Setter-colonialism of all types has always been based on the idea that some ‘races’ are more entitled than others.
For the Zionists, definitely racially driven, but for their US and UK enablers, I think profit and domination are the key, although they’re exploiting the racist Islamophobia they’ve generated in their populations to get support.
They both want the same land. When did it become racial?
In UK we call such things = hate crime = racial discrimination etc because we lump it all together, here this may make sense because you have white vs brown.
But in Israel its brown vs brown (even Ashkenazi Jews are brownish)
Mizrahi Jews and some Ashkenazi Jews too look like are Arabs.
Race = Physical attributes. buy I’m not an expert on these legal terms.
Why race?
Update: you also have in Israel people (jews) from Ethiopia(!)... they look different.. but they are Jews...
And I also heard of some Arab soldiers in IOF taking part in Gaza genocide.
First, it is not that they ‘both want the same land’. The Palestinians already lived there when the first Zionists decided that they wanted Palestine for the future Jewish state (in the early days, they called it a ‘national home’). The intention has always been to remove the non-Jewish indigenous people, and replace them with Jews. This is what settler-colonialism is.
The racial definition is used in Israel because Hitler used it. The idea is that when the ‘next Hitler’ comes and decrees ‘once again’ that if you have some percentage of ‘Jewish blood’ you are therefore Jewish and have to die, then Israel would take Jews in to save them. That is why Jewishness is not defined by religious observance. If Israel said that a Jew is only someone who observes Jewish religion, and therefore secular Jews are not Jews, then they would not be able to help them when the ‘next Hitler’ comes for them. It is a fact that Hitler did not care if Jews did not practice Jewish religion at all, if they did not believe in god or anything. There were people in the Warsaw ghetto who went to Church on Sunday, but that Hitler considered to be Jewish.
A racial definition includes those who practice the religion, and those who do not. But of course race is a totally fictitious, and a very primitive and dangerous idea. When the Ethiopian Jews first came to Israel (I still lived there back then), there were issues with them, because in Israeli society they do not like black people. There used to be racism between Ashkenazi Jews-who associated themselves with white European ‘cultured’ people, and the Mizrahi Jews, that even in my childhood were still called Schwartze, ‘black’ in Yiddish and were seen as primitive. In my childhood this kind of internal racism was rife and ‘mixed’ marriages between the two groups were frowned upon. It was not just skin colour that gave people away. It was also their name, the fact that they could speak Arabic, the music they liked, and their cuisine.
Those Mizrahi Jews and the cultures they brought with them are well assimilated into society by now, and they are just as Zionist as the original Ashkenazi Zionists. (‘Ashkenaz’ in Yiddish is the name for Germany. Mizrahi, comes from the word mizrach, which means East in Hebrew.)
The first Zionists were not religious at all, but still saw themselves as racially Jewish. They effectively adopted their persecutors’ definition of Jewishness, and the state of Israel continues to do this to this day. Back then in Europe, your ‘race’ was written on your papers, and Jews were considered a race.
If there was no racial basis to Zionism, there would be no problem living alongside the Palestinian people and not creating a ‘Jewish state’. Jews and Palestinians cannot legally marry in Israel. Marriages are only allowed between racial Jews.
The recent ‘Jewish nation law’ is racially based and says that Israel is basically only for Jews and Jewishness is defined by blood. My birth certificate says that my ‘nationality’ is Jewish, and ‘nationality’ on the birth certificate is not the same as citizenship. It is a euphemism for race. I hope this helps clarify things a bit for you. I am not surprised this is confusing. The world has largely moved on from ‘race science’ and formal racism, and Israel has been very good at obscuring this issues, although, it is there in plain sight. It is hardly surprising that people are confused by this.
I disagree that jews are a race. Would you please list israel's criteria for calling them a race? After all israel prohibits DNA analysis. And there are no common outstanding traits that would define jews as a race, given the diversity of the diaspora.
I agree completely that Jews are not a race, but this is the definition of Jewishness by the Israeli state. It does not make sense but it is the law in Israel. If you want to get married you have to bring proof that your mother and grandmother were Jewish. I come from Israel. I lived there for 27 years. My birth certificate is Israeli. I don’t understand why people are arguing with me about facts… 🤔 Of course race is a bogus concept all nation states have at least formally abandoned. Israel is the last country in the world that conditions citizenship and marriage on ‘blood’… it is crazy but it is what it is. The world should have rejected Israel and marginalised it on this alone…
Thank you. I read your comment more broadly than you meant it. You said the genocide is racially defined which I misinterpreted to mean that Jews are a racial group - but what I now see that you meant is that Israel sees Jews as a racial group and uses that to inform its policies and genocide. Sorry for my confusion, I love your stuff!
I am aware of all this but by now so many Jews have had intermarriages... What about people who converted to Judaism?.. I know of orthodox Judaism but from this to genocide there is quite a distance... Don't get me wrong I am repulsed by these laws just like you but for me we have here a technical question: what is this killing all about? What you are basically saying is that the world Jewish religion (and the Jewish people) of say 15million are committing genocide on religious grounds against 1.5Bn Muslims. This is quite a statement - which the implications of it are too terrible to imagine - I remain sceptical about the real truth behind it. It is still possible but my reading of it is of a "simple" criminality (i.e. money, power, domination)
In Israel only particular conversions are accepted. Not all coverted people would be accepted as citizens or seen as Jews. No, I did not say it was on religious grounds. I said it was on racial grounds… Israel has hijacked the definition of Jewishness. Most observant Jews would never harm anyone. They might be insular, but they are not harmful. There are religious Jews who object to Zionism on theological grounds as I am sure you know. There is of course also ‘simple’ criminality, psychopathy, you name it. The things is Jews or no Jews humans are humans and there are all kinds of humans out there capable of great deeds, and terribly depraved deeds. Please do read some of my other articles, because I have discussed some of what you raise quite extensively elsewhere. Either way, it is absolutely OK to be sceptical, and think for yourself and draw your own conclusions. Thank you so much for reading and commenting, Ben.
1) why are you calling Palestinians "Muslims"? They are being killed and expelled not because they are Muslims - they are also Christians, atheists, secular and all that. They are being killed for being NOT JEWISH.
Zionists define Jews as a race. Not as religion. Weizmann and Ben Gurion were building The Jewish State, not The Judaic State.
Zionist extermination of Palestine and replacing it with Israel is not done by "15 million" but by the whole Western world leadership, directed by the World Zionism. Which is mostly not even in Israel. Israel is only their military outpost.
The great historian Thomas Suarez (The State Of Terror, Palestine Hijacked) wrote:
"Zionist singular, unwavering purpose—explicitly planned by Israel’s architects—is and always has been to replace the Palestinians with an imported, ethnically-predicated population.
When Israel tells us that it is “the Jewish state” we are expected to embrace the term as something venerable, indeed something to be defended. Yet the cynical term has
always hid the starkly different truth in plain sight: that Israel defines Jews in racial terms and exists to forge a pure "Jewish” (sic) supremacist state from the river to the sea. Thus Israel’s very raison d’être requires that marriage in Israel between the “races” (Jews versus non-Jews, as defined by the state) is illegal, requires that it kills or expels non-Jews river to sea, requires that it erases Palestinian cultural identity by hijacking it as its own.
We cannot simultaneously accept Israel's “right to exist” and campaign for it to stop its crimes. If we accept this alleged right to exist, we have endorsed those crimes. “
>You are correct, but Israel positioned itself as a disruptor in the Muslim world / Arab world - Palestinians are part of the Islamic Umah.
2. Zionists define Jews as a race.
>No. They defined them as a people, as a nation. Not sure where this is plucked from. There may be some Jews who think like that but Zionism didn't think like that. They regarded Jews as a group of people (a nation) that can develop under independent self-rule (i.e. via a national political unit - a state)
3. Zionist extermination of Palestine and replacing it with Israel is not done by "15 million" but by the whole Western world leadership, directed by the World Zionism. Which is mostly not even in Israel. Israel is only their military outpost.
>100% correct.
4. When Israel tells us that it is “the Jewish state” we are expected to embrace the term as something venerable.
>100% correct. This was the thin legitimacy cover for the whole project.
5. "Zionist singular, unwavering purpose—explicitly planned by Israel’s architects—is and always has been to replace the Palestinians with an imported, ethnically-predicated population.
> This is only 50% correct. Israel could have moved honestly towards 2 state solution after 67. But it didn't. It refused. It was after more and more wars. So the real purpose of Israel is not really clear. There is a contradiction between a Jewish State and an imperial outpost.... These are clearly two separate aims that cannot be combined (easily). So, Israel is simply one big FRAUD towards its own citizens.
Once Zionism transformed from: Version-A: "independence to Jews" into - Version-B: "safety to Jews" the big Fraud was complete. Zionism-Version-A ended its job in 1948. Whether Zionism was planned to become Version-B from the start (from before 48) we don't really know, but it could have been so, in case Zionism was an imperial fraud from its inception (which may have been the case).
6. that Israel defines Jews in racial terms and exists to forge a pure "Jewish” (sic) supremacist state from the river to the sea. Thus Israel’s very raison d’être requires that marriage in Israel between the “races” (Jews versus non-Jews, as defined by the state) is illegal, requires that it kills or expels non-Jews river to sea, requires that it erases Palestinian cultural identity by hijacking it as its own.
> This is not born out of Zionism Version-A.
It is born out of Zionism version-B (which is messianic criminal endeavour)
I’m watching Al Jazeera and 100 people have been killed across Gaza in the last 24 hours, mostly women and children.
I’m watching Kamal Adwan hospital staff and others frantically digging with their bare hands people out of smashed buildings overnight. So many wrapped bodies on display.
While I watch the next report where US cynically vetoed the 4th attempted ceasefire by the UN Security Council 14 to 1. Absolutely no shame.
We watch the live streamed genocide and Palestinians die as we f..k about providing insane cover for the killing.
The inhumanity on display is breathtaking. It’s depraved sadism, it’s insane power flexing in front of us all.
F..k you all, we will keep killing whenever and how ever we want.
Far out. It’s way too much. Only true hard core psychopaths can maintain this insanity for so long.
Whilst I agree that our leaders in the West have been instrumental in setting up and supporting the genocidal rampage being conducted by Israel in Palestine I don’t feel that they are that disconnected from their populations. Indeed I believe they know that whilst some manifest against the horrors being committed in their name by the ‘most moral army in the world’ many, many more are at best non-committal and many are actually in favour of it. It was the same for the war in Iraq. In other words the people in the West - overall - are as heartless as their leaders, something these leaders have known all along and have chosen to exploit. The reason for this is, in part, due to the ongoing pro-Israel, pro-settler/colonialist mentality that still prevails in these former empire-builders and holders and which has been subtly and extensively exploited by Jew-dominated media over the last century. (Now I finally ‘get’ the fascination of the weekly, 30-minute westerns I watched avidly as a child). There is also the question of self-interest both by those too insecure as well as those too comfortable in our populations that don’t want to change the status quo especially when they see the reach and impact of the pro-Israel authorities. And finally there are those who are ‘ok’ with bullying and killing as evidenced by all those who enjoy the ‘sport’ of ‘hunting’ wildlife with a view to killing it.
So if you’re hopiing for the cavalry to arrive (apologies for the unintended colonialist metaphor!) in the form of ‘the people’s army’ to take back control of our governance and lead it in a more reasonable and compassionate direction you will be waiting a long time. And I agree, after the Palestinians the tyrants will be ‘coming for us’. And that’s when the purely self-interested amongst us will show their true colours (and they have been working on this for a while now, in plain sight and yet unseen in our societies).
I wish I could be more positive. But I fear we are in a situation where ‘we don’t fight against the tyrants to win we fight against the tyrants because we feel we have to’ is all we have.
And we thought that the practice of ritual sacrifice - of live human beings, in great numbers - was a thing of the past.
Thank you David, and sadly I have to agree with you, and everything you feel and think is valid. I think we, the ‘ordinary’ public are probably split in two. One part includes those who are just focused on physical survival and think that staying alive is what life is all about. They are currently holding all the power in the world.
The other part of humanity wants more and better out of life. We want purpose, the peace and safety to grow to our potential, collaboration, learning from one another, enriching ourselves. The survivalists live with chronic anxiety, which is inheritable given that humans cannot live only for survival.
The others, whilst yearning for more, have been duped by the survivalists in power to believe that theirs is just a pipe dream, and it is not possible. I see this division in my work all the time, and it often also appears inside one individual.
I do know what is possible for us given the right knowledge and conditions. The survivalists are lying to us for their own benefit.
We don’t need a majority, just a sizeable minority to make a real difference. I do not imagine a ‘war’ or a ‘revolution’, at least not in the style we have had in the past. As I said to someone else in a private comment, what we need is a movement of people all around the world who embody what we want in themselves, and who place growth towards potential at the heart of their ‘platform’. I am not an organiser or a politician. But do hope that capable people can take up those ideas and do something with them. I do my bit in my sphere of influence.
I’m reminded of the song If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next by the Manic Street Preachers , title from a poster printed during the civil war fighting Francos fascists in Spain.
If anyone thinks that they won’t do to us what they are doing to the Palestinians needs to give their head a wobble. We are only ever one or two steps from being wiped out by the hegemonic forces they only tolerate us whilst we prove to be useful to them and their ways.
It’s time to stop helping them oppressing us.
They think we’re frightened of living in ruins but they don’t understand we already do and when we have had enough we will smash all the bourgeoise palaces which we built for them and we will fashion them for us the workers. (With apologies to Mr. Durutti)
Thank you Jez. This is one of my favourite songs of all times. It’s all true but either way fear is our real problem. When humans experience fear, it shuts down their higher, executive functions. They are then easier to control and manipulate. If we want to change the world we must integrate ourselves, and help integrate children and young people. If it sounds a bit cryptic, please look at my short book Therapy Without A Therapist. 🙏
I couldn’t agree more. Hijacking the Limbic system is one of the most effective methods of control we face by ad execs and politicians alike. But of course globalisation has rendered much of modern life free of meaning as the evil twins Neoliberalism and Globalisation have simultaneously showered us with cheap debt and cheap goods manufactured overseas. Now that that the myth is becoming visible the fear we feel is all too palpable as the fabric of society has been stretched and worn thin.
Palestine is the issue of our time. It has revealed so much about our broken “democracies” and corrupt, morally bankrupt politicians. Justice for Palestinians will only be achieved as a result of grassroots organization, protest, and movements for change in the US and Europe.
It is so true that until the Palestinians are free, none of us will be truly free. By reforming our political systems and voting in better people, we can change things both in our countries and in Palestine. Palestine is the rocket fuel for global positive change. As you say, Avigail, the excruciating question is whether we can move quickly enough to ensure there will be a Palestine and Palestinians left by the time we get there.
Yes, wait till there aren’t any more Palestinians left, then award BiBi a Nobel Peace Prize for the Final Solution, like Good Nazis. And we can’t do anything about it!just watch it on our phones. And tell me there is a loving God!
Great article. Anyhow, since I’m part Indian I guess I wouldn’t count in a number of places as racially pure, a term which I find despicable. The Jewish raving about their murderous invented god is simply unbelievable though. It’s like a form of mass insanity which is supported by our disgusting leaders because they want what they can steal from the Middle East. They should all be in jail but nothing will happen to any of them unfortunately.
If they were an individual you would consider them criminally insane and all those who help Israel would be accessories to murders and fellow conspirators. And yet in the international sphere, it is a jungle. The criminally insane and their helpers are in charge. Thank you for reading and for your comment.
Right on point. Yes, we need to rethink our activism. How about what Franco Berardi proposes? Quit, desert, stop participating. Stop buying and paying. Refuse to give money to the criminals
Please contact our Senators who voted yesterday against arming Israel's genocide. I've put together a list of their phone numbers and emails at the link below to make it easy to send them a simple THANK YOU.
Great article 👍💚. Almost all recorded episodes of genocide involved the powers of the day standing by, issuing platitudes whilst weighing possible benefits from doing nothing. We have always been ruled by scum and always will be unless we stop enabling sociopaths and narcissists
That’s right. It’s disgusting and shameful for a species with such potential to behave like this. Thank you Brendan🩷
Avigail, fortunately the rest of the world is taking action.
Organizations like BRICS are becoming stronger, and the west is weakening in every way: economically, societally, militarily.
Here in the west, we should know that we have international allies who are also sick of this contemptible behaviour.
All of this is happening, but not fast enough for the dying Palestinians.
I know and this is what I think too.
With regard to the comment about purity, the documentation of statements by the founders of the zionist project are very clear: they are white, Arabs and Palestinians (including Mizrahim) are not. They do not consider Indigenous (Arab) Jews as their equal, and other than their use as physical labor, they do not align with anyone--including non-white Jews--who is not ethnically European.
The intent of the zionist project was primarily racially motivated, and stated so quite clearly. One of the primary intentions was to "erase all evidence of the Oriental soul" as was reiterated countless times. This is a settler-colonial white mindset, and a template that can be applied to every settler-colonial project throughout history.
This is absolutely 100% correct.
Well, of course the whole thing makes no sense. There is no reasoning with this nonsense. When people believe something deeply, have primitive psychology and are emotionally driven, there is no amount of evidence or logic that would convince them to examine their beliefs. It’s all crazy nonsense. My problem is that it is hurting so many people, and potentially all of us.
Judaism itself separates by race. The founders of Zionism are of European origin, and the blueprint, well documented was that the zionist project was to be a whites only project. Among Israelis of course there are Arab and Ethiopian jews, and that's a whole other long story, but understand as well that an Israeli can certainly be of color. Many of them are the ones on the front lines assigned to the dirty work. Many are foreigners brought in to work the front lines. Many are refugees from African countries. So they pit refugee against refugee, which is a very well-worn tactic. Same tactic as in Apartheid South Africa. If you remember, there were many Black South Africans in the armed forces who were placed on the front lines. We do that here in the US as well.
Zionists have never identified themselves as "not white," as you assert. They have not only identified themselves as white, but as above all non-jewish whites. No, NOT Judaism, Zionism. The conflation is a product of the zionist project, not the religion.
I fully agree with your assessment of their delay tactics. I think this 'telephone call' is pretty accurate! It is as calculated and barbaric as other genocidal violence we know about from history but while genocide is usually racial, as the horrors of Nazism, I am not sure this genocide is racially driven. These guys seem to me more business people than true racists. What excites them is profit and domination. They feel contempt towards humanity at large as I try to demonstrate here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-151891115
Thank you Ben. I am afraid this genocide is most definitely racially driven. Israel’s definition of Jewishness is racial. The governing principle behind Israel is that Jews (who are racially defined) cannot be safe among non Jews (also racially defined). Therefore Israel is necessary to keep Jews safe. The Palestinians, the indigenous people of Palestine had to be ‘cleansed’ because they are not Jewish and cannot mix with Jews. Setter-colonialism of all types has always been based on the idea that some ‘races’ are more entitled than others.
For the Zionists, definitely racially driven, but for their US and UK enablers, I think profit and domination are the key, although they’re exploiting the racist Islamophobia they’ve generated in their populations to get support.
They both want the same land. When did it become racial?
In UK we call such things = hate crime = racial discrimination etc because we lump it all together, here this may make sense because you have white vs brown.
But in Israel its brown vs brown (even Ashkenazi Jews are brownish)
Mizrahi Jews and some Ashkenazi Jews too look like are Arabs.
Race = Physical attributes. buy I’m not an expert on these legal terms.
Why race?
Update: you also have in Israel people (jews) from Ethiopia(!)... they look different.. but they are Jews...
And I also heard of some Arab soldiers in IOF taking part in Gaza genocide.
First, it is not that they ‘both want the same land’. The Palestinians already lived there when the first Zionists decided that they wanted Palestine for the future Jewish state (in the early days, they called it a ‘national home’). The intention has always been to remove the non-Jewish indigenous people, and replace them with Jews. This is what settler-colonialism is.
The racial definition is used in Israel because Hitler used it. The idea is that when the ‘next Hitler’ comes and decrees ‘once again’ that if you have some percentage of ‘Jewish blood’ you are therefore Jewish and have to die, then Israel would take Jews in to save them. That is why Jewishness is not defined by religious observance. If Israel said that a Jew is only someone who observes Jewish religion, and therefore secular Jews are not Jews, then they would not be able to help them when the ‘next Hitler’ comes for them. It is a fact that Hitler did not care if Jews did not practice Jewish religion at all, if they did not believe in god or anything. There were people in the Warsaw ghetto who went to Church on Sunday, but that Hitler considered to be Jewish.
A racial definition includes those who practice the religion, and those who do not. But of course race is a totally fictitious, and a very primitive and dangerous idea. When the Ethiopian Jews first came to Israel (I still lived there back then), there were issues with them, because in Israeli society they do not like black people. There used to be racism between Ashkenazi Jews-who associated themselves with white European ‘cultured’ people, and the Mizrahi Jews, that even in my childhood were still called Schwartze, ‘black’ in Yiddish and were seen as primitive. In my childhood this kind of internal racism was rife and ‘mixed’ marriages between the two groups were frowned upon. It was not just skin colour that gave people away. It was also their name, the fact that they could speak Arabic, the music they liked, and their cuisine.
Those Mizrahi Jews and the cultures they brought with them are well assimilated into society by now, and they are just as Zionist as the original Ashkenazi Zionists. (‘Ashkenaz’ in Yiddish is the name for Germany. Mizrahi, comes from the word mizrach, which means East in Hebrew.)
The first Zionists were not religious at all, but still saw themselves as racially Jewish. They effectively adopted their persecutors’ definition of Jewishness, and the state of Israel continues to do this to this day. Back then in Europe, your ‘race’ was written on your papers, and Jews were considered a race.
If there was no racial basis to Zionism, there would be no problem living alongside the Palestinian people and not creating a ‘Jewish state’. Jews and Palestinians cannot legally marry in Israel. Marriages are only allowed between racial Jews.
The recent ‘Jewish nation law’ is racially based and says that Israel is basically only for Jews and Jewishness is defined by blood. My birth certificate says that my ‘nationality’ is Jewish, and ‘nationality’ on the birth certificate is not the same as citizenship. It is a euphemism for race. I hope this helps clarify things a bit for you. I am not surprised this is confusing. The world has largely moved on from ‘race science’ and formal racism, and Israel has been very good at obscuring this issues, although, it is there in plain sight. It is hardly surprising that people are confused by this.
In short - hell on earth (and I'm not even joking)
There are apparently still issues with Mizrahim:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/9/20/invention-of-the-mizrahim
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-israeli-education-system-has-failed-mizrahi-jews
And there are lots more articles on the subject:
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=7007c42d54e7c1db&hl=en-us&q=mizrahi+schools+%22bias%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwis6K-5_uuJAxXwDzQIHQokI2sQ5t4CegQIJxAB&biw=375&bih=547&dpr=2
I disagree that jews are a race. Would you please list israel's criteria for calling them a race? After all israel prohibits DNA analysis. And there are no common outstanding traits that would define jews as a race, given the diversity of the diaspora.
I agree completely that Jews are not a race, but this is the definition of Jewishness by the Israeli state. It does not make sense but it is the law in Israel. If you want to get married you have to bring proof that your mother and grandmother were Jewish. I come from Israel. I lived there for 27 years. My birth certificate is Israeli. I don’t understand why people are arguing with me about facts… 🤔 Of course race is a bogus concept all nation states have at least formally abandoned. Israel is the last country in the world that conditions citizenship and marriage on ‘blood’… it is crazy but it is what it is. The world should have rejected Israel and marginalised it on this alone…
Thank you. I read your comment more broadly than you meant it. You said the genocide is racially defined which I misinterpreted to mean that Jews are a racial group - but what I now see that you meant is that Israel sees Jews as a racial group and uses that to inform its policies and genocide. Sorry for my confusion, I love your stuff!
It is easy to do. No worries. Thank you fior everything. 🙏
I am aware of all this but by now so many Jews have had intermarriages... What about people who converted to Judaism?.. I know of orthodox Judaism but from this to genocide there is quite a distance... Don't get me wrong I am repulsed by these laws just like you but for me we have here a technical question: what is this killing all about? What you are basically saying is that the world Jewish religion (and the Jewish people) of say 15million are committing genocide on religious grounds against 1.5Bn Muslims. This is quite a statement - which the implications of it are too terrible to imagine - I remain sceptical about the real truth behind it. It is still possible but my reading of it is of a "simple" criminality (i.e. money, power, domination)
In Israel only particular conversions are accepted. Not all coverted people would be accepted as citizens or seen as Jews. No, I did not say it was on religious grounds. I said it was on racial grounds… Israel has hijacked the definition of Jewishness. Most observant Jews would never harm anyone. They might be insular, but they are not harmful. There are religious Jews who object to Zionism on theological grounds as I am sure you know. There is of course also ‘simple’ criminality, psychopathy, you name it. The things is Jews or no Jews humans are humans and there are all kinds of humans out there capable of great deeds, and terribly depraved deeds. Please do read some of my other articles, because I have discussed some of what you raise quite extensively elsewhere. Either way, it is absolutely OK to be sceptical, and think for yourself and draw your own conclusions. Thank you so much for reading and commenting, Ben.
1) why are you calling Palestinians "Muslims"? They are being killed and expelled not because they are Muslims - they are also Christians, atheists, secular and all that. They are being killed for being NOT JEWISH.
Zionists define Jews as a race. Not as religion. Weizmann and Ben Gurion were building The Jewish State, not The Judaic State.
Zionist extermination of Palestine and replacing it with Israel is not done by "15 million" but by the whole Western world leadership, directed by the World Zionism. Which is mostly not even in Israel. Israel is only their military outpost.
The great historian Thomas Suarez (The State Of Terror, Palestine Hijacked) wrote:
"Zionist singular, unwavering purpose—explicitly planned by Israel’s architects—is and always has been to replace the Palestinians with an imported, ethnically-predicated population.
When Israel tells us that it is “the Jewish state” we are expected to embrace the term as something venerable, indeed something to be defended. Yet the cynical term has
always hid the starkly different truth in plain sight: that Israel defines Jews in racial terms and exists to forge a pure "Jewish” (sic) supremacist state from the river to the sea. Thus Israel’s very raison d’être requires that marriage in Israel between the “races” (Jews versus non-Jews, as defined by the state) is illegal, requires that it kills or expels non-Jews river to sea, requires that it erases Palestinian cultural identity by hijacking it as its own.
We cannot simultaneously accept Israel's “right to exist” and campaign for it to stop its crimes. If we accept this alleged right to exist, we have endorsed those crimes. “
1. why are you calling Palestinians "Muslims"?
>You are correct, but Israel positioned itself as a disruptor in the Muslim world / Arab world - Palestinians are part of the Islamic Umah.
2. Zionists define Jews as a race.
>No. They defined them as a people, as a nation. Not sure where this is plucked from. There may be some Jews who think like that but Zionism didn't think like that. They regarded Jews as a group of people (a nation) that can develop under independent self-rule (i.e. via a national political unit - a state)
3. Zionist extermination of Palestine and replacing it with Israel is not done by "15 million" but by the whole Western world leadership, directed by the World Zionism. Which is mostly not even in Israel. Israel is only their military outpost.
>100% correct.
4. When Israel tells us that it is “the Jewish state” we are expected to embrace the term as something venerable.
>100% correct. This was the thin legitimacy cover for the whole project.
5. "Zionist singular, unwavering purpose—explicitly planned by Israel’s architects—is and always has been to replace the Palestinians with an imported, ethnically-predicated population.
> This is only 50% correct. Israel could have moved honestly towards 2 state solution after 67. But it didn't. It refused. It was after more and more wars. So the real purpose of Israel is not really clear. There is a contradiction between a Jewish State and an imperial outpost.... These are clearly two separate aims that cannot be combined (easily). So, Israel is simply one big FRAUD towards its own citizens.
Once Zionism transformed from: Version-A: "independence to Jews" into - Version-B: "safety to Jews" the big Fraud was complete. Zionism-Version-A ended its job in 1948. Whether Zionism was planned to become Version-B from the start (from before 48) we don't really know, but it could have been so, in case Zionism was an imperial fraud from its inception (which may have been the case).
6. that Israel defines Jews in racial terms and exists to forge a pure "Jewish” (sic) supremacist state from the river to the sea. Thus Israel’s very raison d’être requires that marriage in Israel between the “races” (Jews versus non-Jews, as defined by the state) is illegal, requires that it kills or expels non-Jews river to sea, requires that it erases Palestinian cultural identity by hijacking it as its own.
> This is not born out of Zionism Version-A.
It is born out of Zionism version-B (which is messianic criminal endeavour)
I know I always say this, but I cannot thank you enough. I need your words so much right now.
🙏 Thank you!!
FROM The GNOSTIC CATHALIC MASS
O Lion and O Serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us.
O Lion and O Serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us.
O Lion and O Serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us.
Gods AA.
I’m watching Al Jazeera and 100 people have been killed across Gaza in the last 24 hours, mostly women and children.
I’m watching Kamal Adwan hospital staff and others frantically digging with their bare hands people out of smashed buildings overnight. So many wrapped bodies on display.
While I watch the next report where US cynically vetoed the 4th attempted ceasefire by the UN Security Council 14 to 1. Absolutely no shame.
We watch the live streamed genocide and Palestinians die as we f..k about providing insane cover for the killing.
The inhumanity on display is breathtaking. It’s depraved sadism, it’s insane power flexing in front of us all.
F..k you all, we will keep killing whenever and how ever we want.
Far out. It’s way too much. Only true hard core psychopaths can maintain this insanity for so long.
doesnt say much for us. If our leaders treat us that way time to get rid of them
Whilst I agree that our leaders in the West have been instrumental in setting up and supporting the genocidal rampage being conducted by Israel in Palestine I don’t feel that they are that disconnected from their populations. Indeed I believe they know that whilst some manifest against the horrors being committed in their name by the ‘most moral army in the world’ many, many more are at best non-committal and many are actually in favour of it. It was the same for the war in Iraq. In other words the people in the West - overall - are as heartless as their leaders, something these leaders have known all along and have chosen to exploit. The reason for this is, in part, due to the ongoing pro-Israel, pro-settler/colonialist mentality that still prevails in these former empire-builders and holders and which has been subtly and extensively exploited by Jew-dominated media over the last century. (Now I finally ‘get’ the fascination of the weekly, 30-minute westerns I watched avidly as a child). There is also the question of self-interest both by those too insecure as well as those too comfortable in our populations that don’t want to change the status quo especially when they see the reach and impact of the pro-Israel authorities. And finally there are those who are ‘ok’ with bullying and killing as evidenced by all those who enjoy the ‘sport’ of ‘hunting’ wildlife with a view to killing it.
So if you’re hopiing for the cavalry to arrive (apologies for the unintended colonialist metaphor!) in the form of ‘the people’s army’ to take back control of our governance and lead it in a more reasonable and compassionate direction you will be waiting a long time. And I agree, after the Palestinians the tyrants will be ‘coming for us’. And that’s when the purely self-interested amongst us will show their true colours (and they have been working on this for a while now, in plain sight and yet unseen in our societies).
I wish I could be more positive. But I fear we are in a situation where ‘we don’t fight against the tyrants to win we fight against the tyrants because we feel we have to’ is all we have.
And we thought that the practice of ritual sacrifice - of live human beings, in great numbers - was a thing of the past.
Thank you David, and sadly I have to agree with you, and everything you feel and think is valid. I think we, the ‘ordinary’ public are probably split in two. One part includes those who are just focused on physical survival and think that staying alive is what life is all about. They are currently holding all the power in the world.
The other part of humanity wants more and better out of life. We want purpose, the peace and safety to grow to our potential, collaboration, learning from one another, enriching ourselves. The survivalists live with chronic anxiety, which is inheritable given that humans cannot live only for survival.
The others, whilst yearning for more, have been duped by the survivalists in power to believe that theirs is just a pipe dream, and it is not possible. I see this division in my work all the time, and it often also appears inside one individual.
I do know what is possible for us given the right knowledge and conditions. The survivalists are lying to us for their own benefit.
We don’t need a majority, just a sizeable minority to make a real difference. I do not imagine a ‘war’ or a ‘revolution’, at least not in the style we have had in the past. As I said to someone else in a private comment, what we need is a movement of people all around the world who embody what we want in themselves, and who place growth towards potential at the heart of their ‘platform’. I am not an organiser or a politician. But do hope that capable people can take up those ideas and do something with them. I do my bit in my sphere of influence.
We just lost the first 3 Senate resolutions votes so yeah they are kicking the can down the road to hell.
I’m reminded of the song If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next by the Manic Street Preachers , title from a poster printed during the civil war fighting Francos fascists in Spain.
If anyone thinks that they won’t do to us what they are doing to the Palestinians needs to give their head a wobble. We are only ever one or two steps from being wiped out by the hegemonic forces they only tolerate us whilst we prove to be useful to them and their ways.
It’s time to stop helping them oppressing us.
They think we’re frightened of living in ruins but they don’t understand we already do and when we have had enough we will smash all the bourgeoise palaces which we built for them and we will fashion them for us the workers. (With apologies to Mr. Durutti)
Thank you Jez. This is one of my favourite songs of all times. It’s all true but either way fear is our real problem. When humans experience fear, it shuts down their higher, executive functions. They are then easier to control and manipulate. If we want to change the world we must integrate ourselves, and help integrate children and young people. If it sounds a bit cryptic, please look at my short book Therapy Without A Therapist. 🙏
I couldn’t agree more. Hijacking the Limbic system is one of the most effective methods of control we face by ad execs and politicians alike. But of course globalisation has rendered much of modern life free of meaning as the evil twins Neoliberalism and Globalisation have simultaneously showered us with cheap debt and cheap goods manufactured overseas. Now that that the myth is becoming visible the fear we feel is all too palpable as the fabric of society has been stretched and worn thin.
A rupture is due.
Palestine is the issue of our time. It has revealed so much about our broken “democracies” and corrupt, morally bankrupt politicians. Justice for Palestinians will only be achieved as a result of grassroots organization, protest, and movements for change in the US and Europe.
It is so true that until the Palestinians are free, none of us will be truly free. By reforming our political systems and voting in better people, we can change things both in our countries and in Palestine. Palestine is the rocket fuel for global positive change. As you say, Avigail, the excruciating question is whether we can move quickly enough to ensure there will be a Palestine and Palestinians left by the time we get there.
Thank you 🙏
Yes, wait till there aren’t any more Palestinians left, then award BiBi a Nobel Peace Prize for the Final Solution, like Good Nazis. And we can’t do anything about it!just watch it on our phones. And tell me there is a loving God!
Great article. Anyhow, since I’m part Indian I guess I wouldn’t count in a number of places as racially pure, a term which I find despicable. The Jewish raving about their murderous invented god is simply unbelievable though. It’s like a form of mass insanity which is supported by our disgusting leaders because they want what they can steal from the Middle East. They should all be in jail but nothing will happen to any of them unfortunately.
If they were an individual you would consider them criminally insane and all those who help Israel would be accessories to murders and fellow conspirators. And yet in the international sphere, it is a jungle. The criminally insane and their helpers are in charge. Thank you for reading and for your comment.
Right on point. Yes, we need to rethink our activism. How about what Franco Berardi proposes? Quit, desert, stop participating. Stop buying and paying. Refuse to give money to the criminals
Please contact our Senators who voted yesterday against arming Israel's genocide. I've put together a list of their phone numbers and emails at the link below to make it easy to send them a simple THANK YOU.
https://substack.com/@dirtpath/note/c-78202905?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=xxpxy