Caitlin Johnstone

So obnoxious how rightists spent weeks loudly demanding that we all pretend this guy wasn't a disgusting piece of shit just because someone gave him a free tracheostomy.

I've never seen a logically sound argument that it's anti-semitic to deny that Jews have an extra special connection to the land of Israel. It's where their religion comes from, so in that sense they have the same connection that Christians have, but beyond that the only arguments to be made are claims based on nothing but blind religious faith.

You can tell me that Israel is mentioned all the time in Jewish prayers and Jewish scriptures etc, but that's just telling me about Jewish religious beliefs. Telling me I'm an anti-semite if I don't accept those religious beliefs as true is exactly the same as telling me I'm an anti-semite if I don't stay in my house and pray on Saturday. Jews can believe whatever they want to believe, but it violates my freedom of religion to demand that *I* believe what they believe. That's the same as telling me I'm Islamophobic if I don't wear a hijab.

You can tell me that all Jews everywhere are descended from the biblical Israelites, but that's (A) another blind-faith belief based on nothing but religious assertion and (B) irrelevant since all westerners can trace their heritage back to many different countries they aren't allowed to lay claim to.

So there's really no case to be made. And yet "antisemitism" watchdog groups throughout the western world assert that it is an antisemitic offense to deny that Jews have a unique connection to the land of Israel. They have no argument. They are wrong.

Pretty crazy how the western world went “it’s bad that our governments are backing a genocide in Palestine” and a few loud Zionist Jews said “this discussion should obviously center us and our feelings at all times and in all ways” and the west went “ah yes true, good point.”

Palestinians in Gaza are being flooded out of their tents while SNL tells Babylon Bee jokes pretending to believe that anyone who humanizes them must hate Jews. It’s not just the American news media that’s propaganda; it’s all American mainstream entertainment.

Society conditions men to be horrible because for thousands of years civilizations around the world have needed men to go kill other men in wars for the powerful, so everything kind and gentle in them needed to be snuffed out. Those cultural habits live on to this day.