Has Israel Caused the World to Go Mad?
Or is the international community exposing themselves as the Anti-Semites they have always been? Part I
I know I haven’t posted in quite a while, I thought that I could reduce my posts to once every two weeks but even that has been impossible with my baseball coaching duties as well as watching my son play this spring. I also have been dealing with a right knee that has been giving me lots of trouble. It seems I have advanced osteoarthritis and while it doesn’t sound too bad, the daily grind of limping around and constant pain is taking quite the toll on me. Baseball is over and other than a vacation in July, I’m ready to get back to my normal schedule.
Chris
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Countries and cultures are not equal
Everyone should know that there is no such thing as a perfect country. You have North Korea, Cuba and Turkmenistan, countries that are secular authoritarian dictatorships. Places like Iran, Afghanistan and Mauritania that are theological dictatorships. Failed states like Syria, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo or my personal favorite failed state, Somalia. As well as countries that are to one degree or another, democracies. These nominally democratic countries are comprised of groups of people that have different opinions on a wide range of topics and are led by people who have all the problems, hang-ups and foibles of the rest of their countrymen. In other words some countries are better than others.
In the world today it is considered xenophobic to say that the United States is a better country then Somalia or the England is a better place to live than Mauritania, but I believe that is total nonsense. It is quite simple and very apparent that the US is better than Somalia and the UK doesn’t hold black people in slavery like Mauritania does.
I also believe that Israel is a much better country than any other country in the Middle East, and better than most in the rest of the world. They have been a staunch ally of the US for years, they are the only democracy in the region, and ALL Israelis; Jew, Arab and Christian have the same rights and privileges of any other Western democracy. They have legally guaranteed religious freedom and a population that is 26.2% non-Jewish (including 18% Muslim). They have a poverty level only 1% higher than the US. Their GDP per capita (the amount of the gross domestic product per number of people in the country) is $54,930 (US is $74,324). On the The Economist Democracy Index, published by the Economist newspaper, they rank just below the US, (29th overall with a score of 7.85, for the US and 30th overall for Israel with a score of 2.79). The Middle East averages a horrible 3.31 for the other 19 countries in the area, and no other country in the region ranks higher than 5.51 (Tunisia, 82nd over all). Israeli democracy is strong, with a much better voter turnout than the US (37% of the US 71% for Israel).
The international community says that Israel isn’t interested in peace with the “Palestinians”, however, they have negotiated with the Palestinians for years, offering them more and more territory and all they wanted in return was a pledge of peace. Not only did the Palestinians reject an offer that would have given them all the territory they currently occupy but 4% of Israeli territory. The Palestinians rejected the offer and didn’t even have a counter offer. Because they think that all the territory “from the river to the sea” is the Palestinian state. In the world they imagine, there is no Israeli state and no Jews in the Middle East at all.
The international community says Israel is committing genocide, how exactly? They only engage in military activity when provoked by Palestinian terrorism, they announce where and when they will be conducting operations and tell the civilians to leave beforehand. They have the lowest ratio of combatant to non-combatant deaths of any country in the world. To top it off the population of Palestine was increased from 1.9 million in 1990 to 5 million in 2022, it’s hardly a genocide of the population rises 3 million in 30 years. If there are Palestinian deaths during operations in Gaza, it should laid squarely at the feet of Hamas. They have a long standing policy of embedding their forces inside the civilian population. This done for two connected reasons. First, they don’t care how many “innocent” Palestinians are killed, because, and this is the second reason, it will generate support for Hamas and condemnation of Israel from the international community when the IDF conducts operations inside Gaza and kills Palestinians civilians. Don’t believe me, just look at what they have said themselves. On October 19, 2023, Hamas senior leader Khaled Mashal stated that he views the current loss of civilian life in Gaza as essential: “No nation is liberated without sacrifices. In all wars, there are some civilian victims. We are not responsible for them.” A week later Hamas head Ismail Haniyeh, also commented on the loss of civilian life in Gaza. He said: “The blood of the women, children and elderly, we are the ones who need this blood, so it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit.”
Israel is also willing to trade thousands of convicted terrorists, for the return of a single Israeli captive and sometimes even the remains of a captured soldier. They do this with the full knowledge that most of those released will return to terrorism. This does not seem like the behavior of a totalitarian police state that wants to eradicate a whole people.
So why are they turning into (or being turned into) a international pariah? As I said in an earlier post, anti-Semitism might be the one thing the world has in common. Read that post by clicking below.
As the post says, Jews have been the most persecuted group in the history of the world. Since 1949, there is, and has only been, one place in the world where they haven’t been persecuted, and that is Israel. I’m starting to believe that the world hates Israel because it is a safe haven for Jews. There used to be countries that supported Israel, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom were at the top of that list, but something happened after October 7, 2023. I’m not really sure what it was, but it allowed the world to give free reign to all their anti-Semitic tendencies.
The World Explodes in Anti-Semitic Violence
After the October 7, pogrom, you would have thought that the Western world would have shown solidarity with our only Middle Eastern ally, a country that suffered 1,200 people killed and another 240 kidnapped, but you would have been wrong. It was exactly the opposite. Pro-Palestinian protests broke out all over the world and it became increasingly obviously that a vocal, (and growing), minority was taking this opportunity to express their previously hidden anti-Semitism.
There are three different groups of people involved in these protests; the obvious agitators sent by Iran and their proxies, the “educated elite” who think they understand what is going on, but really have no clue, and the people who are just joining in because it is the “cool” thing right now.
All of these groups are anti-Semitic to some degree or another, obviously the first group, the provocateurs, are full blown anti-Semites, willing to do whatever it takes to wipe Israel from the face of the earth. They have arrived over the last two decades through foreign student initiatives, recruitment efforts from American companies and more recently, through the wide open southern border. They are akin to the Cold War era Soviet subversion agents, slowly working to change the culture in the US through demoralization and destabilization. Demoralization targets three areas of society: its ideas, its structures, and its social institutions. The targeted institutions include religion, education, media, and culture. In each realm the old ways of thinking, the old heroes, are discredited. Those who are captured by this, come to doubt themselves and their ability to discern reality itself.
Once inside, it is very difficult to escape the mosh pit of civilizational self-loathing. Maybe you can climb to the top for a while by being the white person who hates white people most loudly, or the straight person who goes to the most freak parades, but most people give up. The ultimate intended outcome is that the afflicted willingly embrace self-destructive behaviors and ideas. Thus, all moral constraints can be abandoned in the pursuit of “just” and “virtuous” causes. We are seeing their efforts bear the most fruit among the second group, the educated.
College students, faculty and the “elite”, may not seem as openly anti-Semitic as the provocateurs, but are using this incident to express long-buried beliefs. They have believed for a long time, although they would never say so publicly, that Jews control the world and this fits nicely with the popular idea (at least on college campuses and among the elite) of intersectionality, which says the interconnected nature of social categories such as race, class, or gender expression create overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. This, however, does not apply to Jews, and recently it has been decided, without any real research, that all Jews are white (even though 73% of Israeli Jews are from a Middle Eastern ethnic background), and therefore an oppressor class. This gives believers in intersectionality carte blanche to treat them as oppressors and therefore, anything done to them is justified. These unproven beliefs along with a lack of understanding of the “Palestinian problem” have led to large and widespread protests against the entirely justified Israeli response to the October 7, massacre.
Two days after the massacre a mob of around 1,000 people demonstrated outside the Israeli embassy in London, chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Elsewhere in England a demonstrator held a green flare in the air and screamed “Let there be bloodshed now. Hamas is a freedom movement, Israel is an apartheid state”. In New York City there were similar demonstrations with marchers waving placards justifying the rape and murder of women and children as “resistance by any means necessary”. In Australia, on the steps of the iconic Sydney Opera House, a mostly Muslim mob chanted “Gas the Jew,” “fuck the Jews” and “fuck Israel”. Watch an Australian news report about the demonstration below.
One needs to understand what is really happening at these demonstrations. They aren’t just anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian marches they are large mobs of people whipped into a bloodlust over their hatred of Jews and their hope that the killing of Jews will now be acceptable. As well as their belief, that because of their efforts, Israel itself may finally face extinction.
As we have seen, and continue to see, American college campuses are a breeding ground for this kind of hatred. It started right after the pogrom, with Pro-Palestinian groups on campus glorifying the slaughter as “resistance to the vile occupation” (even though there hasn’t been a permanent IDF boot on the ground in Gaza since 2005). A group of 31 Harvard organizations blamed Israel for the Hamas massacre, stating that they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence”. “Gaza solidarity encampments” appeared on over 100 campuses around the US. At UCLA, a Jewish girl was knocked unconscious by a mob. On the Berkeley campus, the founder of Students Supporting Israel was repeatedly punched in the head, with one “protester shouting “Go back to Europe, colonizer.” At George Washington university, they called for the “final solution” and posted signs saying they wouldn’t leave until Jews “go back to their real homes”.
At Columbia it escalated to a whole new level. Columbia student Khymani James was barred from the campus for saying “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and the university should be grateful that he wasn’t murdering them. He defied the ban and was seen in the illegal encampment. Outside the campus gates, a man in a black balaclava and holding a banner depicting an Israeli flag soaked in blood with the word “Nazis” on it, was ranting that Jews have total control of everything, inflation is a result of greedy Wall Street Jews and what is happening in Gaza is the result of Jews controlling America.
On April 17, 2024 at 4 am, hundreds of protesters occupied Columbia’s South Lawn, the next day over 100 students were arrested for the illegal occupation and students were informed they will be expelled for participating in the “protest”. It kept going back and forth with the administration saying that police will move in and students will be arrested and expelled. The “students” (it was later discovered that many of the people involved, were neither enrolled at Columbia or even college age people) would call the university president’s bluff, and she would relent and push back the deadline to dismantle the tent city. Columbia’s president Minouche Shafik was a spineless simp, when she totally caved to the mob by considering “new proposals on divestment and shareholder activism” and launching “educational and health programs in Gaza and the West Bank”. Because as she said, the protesters were “also fighting for important causes; the rights of Palestinians, and the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza”.
In the early hours of April 30, the Columbia occupation took another step away from “peaceful protest” when dozens of protestors occupy Hamilton Hall, breaking windows to gain entry and barricading entrances to keep others out. The mob covered the building’s cameras in order to evade identification, and were prepared to take hostages as they were carrying duct tape and zip ties. However, the building was mostly empty. The only staff in the building were the janitors. A famous picture emerged from the initial invasion, it showed Mario Torres, a facilities worker, pushing an “protestor” against a wall, defending himself and the building.
The keffiyeh draped, hoodie-wearing criminal was later identified as 40-year-old trust fund brat named James Carlson, who owns a townhouse in Brooklyn worth $2.3 million, hardley an oppressed person, a Columbia student or even a Columbia grad. In fact it appears he is a professional rabble rouser. His rap sheet dates back to at least 2005, when he was charged in San Francisco for participating in the violent “West Coast Anti-Capitalist Mobilization and March Against the G8,” where protesters cracked a police officer’s skull, nearly killing him, and attempted to set a police cruiser ablaze.
According to Columbia and New York City officials, 30% of the people that entered Hamilton Hall weren’t students. The militants were obviously planning on a long stay, but in a monumental oversight, they forgot to bring enough food and water, leading to an unreal scene. Group spokesman Johanna King-Slutzky, stated that the university had an obligation to bring in food and water to the illegal encampment, pleading “do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation? … This is like basic humanitarian aid”. The occupation of Hamilton Hall was the straw that broke the camel’s back, and by that evening hundreds of NYPD officers advanced on the encampment and Hamilton Hall, arresting 109 people both inside and outside of Hamilton Hall, including James Carlson. After the sweep, Columbia personnel disassembled the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment”. Nonetheless the damage had been done, both to Jews on campus and the reputation of Columbia.
These insane protests aren’t just limited to college campuses. There have been examples of protestors shutting down traffic and disrupting regular life all over the country. On May 15, hundreds of protestors shut down the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge in California for hours. 38 people were arrested on the Bay Bridge and 28 on the Golden Gate, but given California’s lax enforcement of their own laws, it is unclear if the criminals will face any real punishment. On the same day another group of criminals shut down the expressway to O’Hare Airport for an hour, causing many people to miss flights, 40 were arrested. The Brooklyn Bridge and the Hamilton Fish Newburgh-Beacon Bridge were also targeted by protestors that day. New York, which is even more lax than California, didn’t arrest anyone, just issued 48 summonses for disorderly conduct. Protestors also blocked the road to the Seattle-Tacoma Airport where 46 people were arrested, but once again, the chances are, they will not face any real punishment. Protests even reached into smaller cities and communities: police arrested 10 people who blocked the entrance to a Pratt & Whitney plant in Middletown Connecticut, and seven were arrested trying to block access to a Boeing plant in St. Charles County Missouri, outside of St. Louis. These protests were organized by a shadowy group called A15 Action, a pro-Palestinian group whose leaders remain anonymous. I have no evidence for this, but I would bet my next paycheck, that this group is receiving money from Iran and Qatar as well as left-wing groups like George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.
It has not gotten any better across the pond. One British man took a brave step to demonstrate that Britain’s Jews have been abandoned by the Metropolitan Police. Please watch the video below.
Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, tried to cross the road in central London where anti-Israel demonstrators were marching. He had been to synagogue and was wearing a kippah (same thing as a yarmulke). He was stopped by a police officer and in a confrontation that went viral, the officer said: “You are quite openly Jewish, this is a pro-Palestinian march. I’m not accusing you of anything but I’m worried about the reaction to your presence.” If he chose to remain, he would be “causing a breach of peace” and arrested for antagonising a large group of people, the officer added. Falter’s encounter with the Metropolitan Police illustrated two important things. Firstly, those supposedly “peaceful” marchers against Israel pose a real threat to Jews; secondly, in attempting to protect Falter himself (under threat of arrest), the Met showed how it was failing to protect Jews in general. In both the United States and Britain authorities failed to grasp the difference between protecting freedom of speech and facilitating intimidation. The police were ordered to allow the two sides to have their say and keep them apart to prevent violent disorder (of course this was a one way street as we have seen many instances of Jews being injured during these protests). The perverse logic used to move Jews away from the protests is this: If the goal is to prevent violence on the streets, than if the Jews weren’t present there wouldn’t be any threats against them. So it’s the Jews who are hustled away and arrested if they object.
You may be thinking “what about the other European countries?” After the October 7, Hamas pogrom, France and Germany banned all pro-Palestinian marches because they immediately understood that these would involve marchers that support Hamas and would include anti-Jewish incitement. There were small protests, but nothing like what was seen in the UK or the US.
As summer heats up so do the protests
The protests haven’t stopped either, they’re still going on all over the country. On Saturday, June 8, thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the White House to protest President Biden’s response to Israel’s operations in Gaza. At least one demonstrator held a canister that released green and white smoke near the southern side of the White House. The demonstrator, who was dressed as Spiderman shouted along with a crowd: “Biden, Biden, we can’t wait! We’ll see you at the Hague!” (The Hague is home to the International Criminal Court) and “Biden, Biden, you’re a sellout. Pack your bags and get the hell out!”. They also held up Palestinian flags and signs bemoaning what they erroneously describe as a genocide in Gaza. One sign read; “Biden, you got blood on your hands,” Click here to see the morons.
The demonstration was organized by a coalition of groups including Code Pink and the Council on American Islamic Relations (radical feminists and Islamists, intersectionality makes for some strange bedfellows). This protest is aimed at the president after he said the recent strikes by Israel in Rafah do not violate the US’s red line, when it comes to support for its “ally” (below we will see that the United States is not much of an ally right now). The protesters held a red banner around the perimeter of the White House to symbolize the red line that they believe Israel has crossed. There is footage to social media showed police using pepper spray on protesters, who attempted to help those protestors who were arrested. Click here to watch it on X.
Olivia Reingold, a reporter for The Free Press (the Substack started by Beri Weiss and Nellie Bowles that has exploded into the preeminent non-legacy media company. You should definitely subscribe), attended the protests in New York City on June 10, as a reporter and her account is chilling. This article is behind the paywall so I have quoted the entire thing. Please click on the underlined phrases to see the footage that goes along with the article.
All credit goes to Olivia Reingold and The Free Press.
Last night, I went to New York City’s Union Square to cover a rally against the “massacre in the Nuseirat Camp regions of Gaza.” That’s what pro-Palestinian protesters are calling the operation that freed four Israeli hostages and killed at least a hundred Palestinians—a mix of Hamas combatants and civilians caught in the chaos as Hamas fired RPGs at the hostages. All around the country, similar anti-Israel protests sprung up to rouse those furious at the hostage rescue operation.
I had been at this particular protest in Union Square for about 45 minutes, watching and taking notes, when a man wearing a neck gaiter, sunglasses, and a Hezbollah flag fashioned as a headscarf suddenly pointed at me. “She’s a Zionist!” he shouted. “Get her out of here.”
Immediately, dozens of protesters swarmed me, hoisting their keffiyehs high in the sky and boxing me in to block my view. Many of them were completely shrouded in keffiyehs and masks. A chorus of voices surrounded me, shoving me. “Get the fuck out,” a woman yelled into my ear. “The people are saying we don’t want you here.”
A man holding a sign that declared “Long Live October 7th” shouted over the crowd, “Get in her face, make her leave.”
One man fired an air horn into my ears. A girl lurched at my notebook, grabbing it and ripping apart the metal spine. “You’re not writing anything down,” she said, tearing the pages and throwing them into the air. “Get the fuck out—get the fuck out!”
In the context of these protests across the country this week, this was very mild. For anyone visibly Jewish who happens to be near one of these mobs, or anyone like a security guard trying to keep peace, the interactions are often much more harrowing. Here are a few data points of the escalation over the last 24 hours.
(Note: the program will not let my block quote the bullet points but they are from her story)
Yesterday at UCLA, a crowd of pro-Palestine protesters, most with makeshift shields, swarmed a security guard. As he tried to flee, one smacked him over the head with a smartphone, causing him to bleed.
Later that night on campus, a masked protester berated UCLA Chabad Rabbi Dovid Gurevich, calling him a “pedophile rabbi,” adding that “Israel is full of pedophiles.” When Gurevich asked why he wouldn’t reveal his face, the man replied, “If I show my face, I’ll have to fucking kill you.” Other protesters shouted at the rabbi and others: “Go back to Poland or Ukraine,” “Go back to Europe,” and “Death to fucking Zionism.” Twenty-five protesters were arrested.
More scenes were captured on video in Union Square in New York. One man yelled at a small crowd that had come out to support Israel, “I wish Hitler was still here, he would’ve wiped all you out.”
On Wall Street, the protest mob chanted “Israel go to hell” outside an exhibition memorializing the Nova Music Festival, where Hamas murdered 364 innocents. As the crowd took its “citywide day of rage for Gaza” downtown via the subway, one protester proclaimed on the train, “Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist. This is your chance to get out.”
Anti-Israel protesters, who have been marching regularly in major cities across the world ever since Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, killing more than 1,200 civilians, claim they are for peace. And yet, they find creative ways to justify the violence of Hamas. I’ve been to 18 of these protests so far, and it’s not unusual to spot the symbols of terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, and even Nazi swastikas.
Many believed the protests would die out once college students had dismantled their encampments and gone home for the summer. But instead, with the heat of summer, protesters have spilled into the streets and become even more brazen and confident in what they’re saying out loud.
To be clear: I was in a public park, doing my job as a journalist, simply trying to document the movement as it is. When a mob prevented me from doing so, threatening violence and grabbing my things, I filed a police report for harassment.
The protesters have a right to march. They have a right to scream vile things—and we have a right to watch, to listen, and to report on what they’re saying. That’s the deal you make when you host a rally on a public sidewalk in America or take over the quad of a public university. You cannot demand that only comrades be allowed to see what you’re doing.
“I’m just going to write down your quotes as they really are,” I tried to reason with the protesters last night. “I want to speak with you. Will you speak with me?”
“Free Palestine,” one girl replied, flipping me off.
This is the current state of affairs in regards to the “protests” regarding the massacre of Israelis by a bloodthirsty band of barbarians bent on the total annihilation of Israel, Jews around the world and Western culture and values. Next week I will finish this examination of how the world has shown it’s true face and revealed themselves as the anti-Semites they really are.
Please pass this along to anyone who would be interested. We all can do our little part to help Israel and Jews in our areas. The simplest but maybe the hardest is to speak out when you see people espousing these ridiculous ideas. Lies can only be combated with the truth.
Chris