CENTURIES-OLD TROPES OF JEWISH POWER INFLUENCE OUR PERCEPTIONS OF CURRENT EVENTS. EVEN THE SEEMINGLY UNDENIABLE “TRUTH” AT THE HEART OF THE DAVID-VERSUS-GOLIATH MOTIF IS A LIE.
Chomsky and Pappe. Sadly, we have always had creatures like that amongst our tribe. As old as the Bible. In fact there were many in the upper reaches of the Biden/Obama regime. And it doesn’t go unnoticed. We all know the names of those anti-American scoundrels.
Klain,Zeitz, (Biden’s Chiefs of Staffs) Blinken (Secretary of State), Garland,(Attorney General) and Mayorgas DHS Secretary). You can make a strong case that the aforementioned individuals were the five most influential figures in the regime
Too bad we can't just revoke the Jewishness of these people. In my opinion they are mosers. My father didn't train to be a paratrooper in WWII so he could have conversations with Nazis. And that's what he said about any Jew who disparaged Jews: "Don't pay any attention to them, Carol, they aren't real Jews, they are mosers."
Chomsky is one of the Israelphobes go to Jews. They just love it when they can point to an antizionist Jew. They just love to Jew-wash their antisemitism. But Chomsky is in general a vile human being. He is a radical leftist in the pattern of an Angel Davis, and the Weather Underground. He has steadfastly refused to condemn even the likes of Pol Pot. What he says about the Iranian Islamists take with a grain of zatar.
Khalidi would have done better to have worked to lift the Palestinian people into freedom and democracy. Instead he spent his life excusing Palestinian kleptocrats, terrorism and recalcitrant islamism, all the while working to commit genocide against the Jewish state and trafficking in a medieval type of antisemitism. He might actually have done something productive with his life. He chose not to.
We try to figure out why it is so easy to fall back into Jewish conspiracy theories and to glom onto the blood libels. If Jung is correct and we all have genetic memories passed down generation after generation, then the Jew hatred we see today is merely the latest manifestation of thousands of years of hate, making those who perpetrate it feel warm and cozy. These antisemitic conspiracies theories cause a feeling of the same kind of comfort the haters get when they go home. It grounds these inadequate people with a certainty because then they don't have to figure out how they could be responsible for their own failures.
People should really grow beyond their own baser instincts. They just choose not to.
I find it interesting that similar tactics of minimization and denial have historically been used against women. If we are beaten up by domestic partners, then we must have provoked the attack and can prevent more by just behaving properly. If we say we were sexually assaulted, we are lying. If we say we are oppressed, we are told that just as seen on TV and in films women are disproportionately judges, police chiefs, and military leaders. And if we are concerned about the nonstop violence against us, we are paranoid and need therapy. Israel is the world's most successful de-colonization project! But like any woman who achieves success against all the odds, they are endlessly criticized as behaving inappropriately and taking too much power.
However these points all being valid, we would be remiss to not mention the worst of the worst. And that person, if you have not read her screed, is Naomi Klein.
Can I throw in Norman Finkelstein? If we could excommunicate him or strip him if his Jewish heritage (along with those previously mentioned) it would save a lot of lives. He is the child of Holocaust survivors and wrote a book about how it has been exaggerated and that Jewish people live to pull out the Holocaust card for pity. I am happy he has lost his teaching job but he is such an attention whore that he is all over social media spewing his lies. Pro Palestinians love be to quote him and Chomsky because of their heritage. Howard Zinn is another one...okay I'll stop. I'm working myself into a state!
I was thinking about her as I read this, I’ll never get over the utter contempt that she showed for the Jewish community in the Guardian. I’ve never read any of her books, and now never plan to.
As a starting point, it is helpful to keep in mind that no human being is truly powerful. We are all mortal and vulnerable. Within this framework, antisemites find comfort in imagining that Jews are rich and successful--and that this somehow explains everyone else's misery. This bias has likely led to some denial of opportunities to Jews who were assumed to be already "privileged." In the extreme case of the Nazis and in some other cases, it has led to the Jews losing their lives or practically everything they had. Declaring the other person as "privileged" is rarely a sound basis for a relationship of any kind. I remember hearing a story, in a documentary about the Holocaust in which a young Holocaust survivor made it back to his home right after the liberation of Auschwitz and the new owners (who of course never purchased the house from the dead Jews) held him by the collar of his shirt and demanded to know: where is it?. He noticed that the wall boards were missing. Naturally, the "new owners" were looking for the hidden money that every Jewish family has behind the wall. But they could not find it and blamed the Jewish survivor for failing to disclose where it was hidden. . .
"At the very moment Khalidi was poo-pooing Jewish fears of genocide in 1967, something tectonic was happening. The world’s perception of the Israeli-Arab conflict inverted almost overnight. Viewing Israel as a fledgling upstart courageously standing against the entire Arab world, which was the prevailing perception from 1948 on, was recast with the beginning of the occupation as an Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which flipped the dynamic. This new perception of Israeli power not only erased global sympathy for Israel (and to some extent Jews), but directly reassigned it to Palestinians. In the David and Goliath motif, the actors switched roles."
This "new perception" was one which was given wings by the Soviet Union's propaganda machine and inculcated into various Soviet clients in what we used to call the "third world" and, eight years later saw the passage of the infamous "Zionism equal racism" resolution in the UN General Assembly.
While the ongoing war to eradicate Israel started out very much as the Arab - Israeli conflict, most Sunni Arab states haven't rushed to Hamas's aid, except for Qatar, Kuwait and Oman, all three very small, very rich oil exporting countries. What it has become is Israel against Iranian proxies, with Turkey and some other non-Arab, non-Muslim "third world" countries like South Africa playing various supporting roles. So much so that some senior Hamas officials have expressed their bitter disappointment in fellow Arabs who have stayed relatively neutral, not wishing to empower Iran or the Muslim Brotherhood.
I'm not an American so forgive me if I'm wrong, but, as I see it the N word is considered harmful and violent because it conjures slavery, it reminds black people that they were slaves with the subtext that they could, or should be again. Right? There's collective memory at play here, which makes that word worse. If I said, relax guys, it just means black in Latin, I would have been rightfully called a gaslighting racist idiot. Nobody would call the victims of my slur shrill, hysterical, or paranoid.
Why, then, does Jewish collective memory not count? Why is it that everyone but the Jews gets to define anti semitism?
And also who the hell cares who's the Goliath? Don't we want wars to end? Does that not mean that someone has to be weak enough to surrender?
I don't know, this whole thing about how this is all driven by concern for innocent civilians sure as shit reads a lot like abortion haters who are all about saving lives and children as they condemn children and mothers to a life of misery. You don't care about Palestinians, you hate Jews. You don't care about children, you hate women. And I don't care if you truly believe yourself when you speak, hater. Your capacity for self deception doesn't make your argument any better.
Ah yes, Chomsky and Pappe, two of the Jew-haters’ absolute FAVOURITE “As a Jew” Jews. I despise them both.
Chomsky and Pappe. Sadly, we have always had creatures like that amongst our tribe. As old as the Bible. In fact there were many in the upper reaches of the Biden/Obama regime. And it doesn’t go unnoticed. We all know the names of those anti-American scoundrels.
I don't know who they are. Please reveal so i can hate them as well.
Klain,Zeitz, (Biden’s Chiefs of Staffs) Blinken (Secretary of State), Garland,(Attorney General) and Mayorgas DHS Secretary). You can make a strong case that the aforementioned individuals were the five most influential figures in the regime
Too bad we can't just revoke the Jewishness of these people. In my opinion they are mosers. My father didn't train to be a paratrooper in WWII so he could have conversations with Nazis. And that's what he said about any Jew who disparaged Jews: "Don't pay any attention to them, Carol, they aren't real Jews, they are mosers."
There is a lot to despise, frankly.
Brilliant analysis thank you
Chomsky is one of the Israelphobes go to Jews. They just love it when they can point to an antizionist Jew. They just love to Jew-wash their antisemitism. But Chomsky is in general a vile human being. He is a radical leftist in the pattern of an Angel Davis, and the Weather Underground. He has steadfastly refused to condemn even the likes of Pol Pot. What he says about the Iranian Islamists take with a grain of zatar.
Khalidi would have done better to have worked to lift the Palestinian people into freedom and democracy. Instead he spent his life excusing Palestinian kleptocrats, terrorism and recalcitrant islamism, all the while working to commit genocide against the Jewish state and trafficking in a medieval type of antisemitism. He might actually have done something productive with his life. He chose not to.
We try to figure out why it is so easy to fall back into Jewish conspiracy theories and to glom onto the blood libels. If Jung is correct and we all have genetic memories passed down generation after generation, then the Jew hatred we see today is merely the latest manifestation of thousands of years of hate, making those who perpetrate it feel warm and cozy. These antisemitic conspiracies theories cause a feeling of the same kind of comfort the haters get when they go home. It grounds these inadequate people with a certainty because then they don't have to figure out how they could be responsible for their own failures.
People should really grow beyond their own baser instincts. They just choose not to.
Excellent and fierce. You help me with every post.
Me too.
I find it interesting that similar tactics of minimization and denial have historically been used against women. If we are beaten up by domestic partners, then we must have provoked the attack and can prevent more by just behaving properly. If we say we were sexually assaulted, we are lying. If we say we are oppressed, we are told that just as seen on TV and in films women are disproportionately judges, police chiefs, and military leaders. And if we are concerned about the nonstop violence against us, we are paranoid and need therapy. Israel is the world's most successful de-colonization project! But like any woman who achieves success against all the odds, they are endlessly criticized as behaving inappropriately and taking too much power.
However these points all being valid, we would be remiss to not mention the worst of the worst. And that person, if you have not read her screed, is Naomi Klein.
Can I throw in Norman Finkelstein? If we could excommunicate him or strip him if his Jewish heritage (along with those previously mentioned) it would save a lot of lives. He is the child of Holocaust survivors and wrote a book about how it has been exaggerated and that Jewish people live to pull out the Holocaust card for pity. I am happy he has lost his teaching job but he is such an attention whore that he is all over social media spewing his lies. Pro Palestinians love be to quote him and Chomsky because of their heritage. Howard Zinn is another one...okay I'll stop. I'm working myself into a state!
I was thinking about her as I read this, I’ll never get over the utter contempt that she showed for the Jewish community in the Guardian. I’ve never read any of her books, and now never plan to.
As a starting point, it is helpful to keep in mind that no human being is truly powerful. We are all mortal and vulnerable. Within this framework, antisemites find comfort in imagining that Jews are rich and successful--and that this somehow explains everyone else's misery. This bias has likely led to some denial of opportunities to Jews who were assumed to be already "privileged." In the extreme case of the Nazis and in some other cases, it has led to the Jews losing their lives or practically everything they had. Declaring the other person as "privileged" is rarely a sound basis for a relationship of any kind. I remember hearing a story, in a documentary about the Holocaust in which a young Holocaust survivor made it back to his home right after the liberation of Auschwitz and the new owners (who of course never purchased the house from the dead Jews) held him by the collar of his shirt and demanded to know: where is it?. He noticed that the wall boards were missing. Naturally, the "new owners" were looking for the hidden money that every Jewish family has behind the wall. But they could not find it and blamed the Jewish survivor for failing to disclose where it was hidden. . .
"At the very moment Khalidi was poo-pooing Jewish fears of genocide in 1967, something tectonic was happening. The world’s perception of the Israeli-Arab conflict inverted almost overnight. Viewing Israel as a fledgling upstart courageously standing against the entire Arab world, which was the prevailing perception from 1948 on, was recast with the beginning of the occupation as an Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which flipped the dynamic. This new perception of Israeli power not only erased global sympathy for Israel (and to some extent Jews), but directly reassigned it to Palestinians. In the David and Goliath motif, the actors switched roles."
This "new perception" was one which was given wings by the Soviet Union's propaganda machine and inculcated into various Soviet clients in what we used to call the "third world" and, eight years later saw the passage of the infamous "Zionism equal racism" resolution in the UN General Assembly.
While the ongoing war to eradicate Israel started out very much as the Arab - Israeli conflict, most Sunni Arab states haven't rushed to Hamas's aid, except for Qatar, Kuwait and Oman, all three very small, very rich oil exporting countries. What it has become is Israel against Iranian proxies, with Turkey and some other non-Arab, non-Muslim "third world" countries like South Africa playing various supporting roles. So much so that some senior Hamas officials have expressed their bitter disappointment in fellow Arabs who have stayed relatively neutral, not wishing to empower Iran or the Muslim Brotherhood.
I'm not an American so forgive me if I'm wrong, but, as I see it the N word is considered harmful and violent because it conjures slavery, it reminds black people that they were slaves with the subtext that they could, or should be again. Right? There's collective memory at play here, which makes that word worse. If I said, relax guys, it just means black in Latin, I would have been rightfully called a gaslighting racist idiot. Nobody would call the victims of my slur shrill, hysterical, or paranoid.
Why, then, does Jewish collective memory not count? Why is it that everyone but the Jews gets to define anti semitism?
And also who the hell cares who's the Goliath? Don't we want wars to end? Does that not mean that someone has to be weak enough to surrender?
I don't know, this whole thing about how this is all driven by concern for innocent civilians sure as shit reads a lot like abortion haters who are all about saving lives and children as they condemn children and mothers to a life of misery. You don't care about Palestinians, you hate Jews. You don't care about children, you hate women. And I don't care if you truly believe yourself when you speak, hater. Your capacity for self deception doesn't make your argument any better.
Oh yeah and fuck Chomsky, Cambodian lives matter
Another insanely good article by you, Pat. I hope to heck you keep all your stuff organized so you can refer to it easily, when you WRITE your BOOK.
Pat, once again you have revealed the middle-eastern mind. You so perfectly put your finger on the pulse.
Evil ones
Very informative and thought-provoking
Thanks Pat - much appreciated - I intend to sign up soon - keep up the excellent work/