And please, don't talk to me about 2 Jewish people being shot in cold blood in Washington if you aren't going to talk at least as loudly about the thousands of children and adults being murdered in cold blood in Gaza.
Just as with the near-immediate falsehoods of rapes and beheaded babies emanating from the genocidal entity’s Office of Hasbara on Oct. 7th, so too has it swung into action on the two Israeli embassy staffers shot in DC. Of course there has been the de rigueur turning on of the antisemitism fire hose, but also getting government officials (well, can’t really call it “government,” as that now means Trump henchmen and -women) to spout the trope.
Case in point, Pam Bondi on CNN this morning speaking to reporters in Washington, DC, from the scene of the fatal shooting said, “No parents should have to be called and told that their children were violently murdered leaving a religious event at the Jewish Museum.”
It’s not my faith, but a Jewish religious event? on a Wednesday? at a museum? Time to corroborate. Even mainstream ABC News got it right: “During a press conference on Thursday morning, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar… said the pair were attending a Jewish conference of the American Jewish Committee when they were gunned down ‘in a horrific terrorist attack.’”
Well, I suppose technically correct, the AJC is part of the religion of Zionism.
They take the ideology so far that it is a religion unto them. I mean, where some Israel/Zionism rabbis even come up with justifications for shooting and the starving children to death, that tells you the type of god they worship and who they say guides them in their "defense" of Israel.
Any ideology can be like a religion, but it is still not a religion. There are Christian zionists, Jewish zionists, probably zionists of other religions too. I think it is important to be careful not to be antisemitic in the real sense, especially now with all these fake accusationsof anti semitism because people oppose a genocide.
"If you can't detect the sarcasm, you've misunderstood." -Lily Allen
"The word 'antisemite' has become so meaningless that now whenever someone uses it you have to ask them 'What kind? The Hitler-was-right kind or the stop-bombing-children-and-hospitals kind?'" -Caitlin Johnstone
"I have maintained a position for myself of a distinction between Jews and Zionists (as I’ve written), the former representing the life of the mind, humanity, compassion, social justice, achievement, and culture, among the other attributes. The Zionists are the result of a mutant, twisted, freakish DNA, and represent the antitheses of all those human, and humane, qualities." -XK [Me, an excerpt from a longer post I submitted somewhere else, some time ago]
“If you take any metric—number of UN workers killed, number of medics killed, number of journalists killed, proportion of civilians to combatants killed, proportion of children killed, proportion of women and children killed—if you take any metric, Israel for the 21st century is in a class all its own.” -Norman Finkelstein
"Yesterday Israel began the celebration of its 77th Independence Day, 'with gratitude for being able to live free in our land despite the constant threats to our survival here,' in the words of one delusional resident Zionist, and with military strikes across Gaza that killed 47 people and wounded 61.
"For the sake of the Palestinians, for the sake of the world, may there not be a 78th." -XK [Me again, in a more recent post]
Finally finally, another post of mine which which sums up my position:
"I once naively held this now-forlorn hope, that if it should ever come about, a just peace for Palestine would require not only that the 'state' of Israel be dismantled (for the sake not only of the Palestinians and other peoples in the region, but for humankind as a whole) and the land rightfully returned to its indigenous owners, but that the Zionists be compelled to develop (using their own money, not US aid) a site encompassing the entirety of their now-former capital of Tel Aviv to establish, akin to 'The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe' in Berlin, 'The Memorial to the Murdered, Maimed, Orphaned, Displaced, and Dehumanized People of Palestine.'
"Along with its complacent defecation on all that is decent and human in civilized life, the legacy of Israel and Zionism is the diminishment to the point of near oblivion of any sense of justice and hope for the rest of us."
Now the FBI is (has been directed to get) in on the act, this from the NYT:
"Live Updates: Slaying at Jewish Museum Was Targeted Antisemitic Violence, F.B.I. Says
"The killing of two Israeli Embassy aides was condemned by U.S. officials. The suspect, from Chicago, had a history of pro-Palestinian activism, including a social media statement scheduled to post after the shooting."
They won't. They are blinded by fear of becoming one of the powerless, like you and me.
When I heard, maybe 20 years ago, that there were billionaire Americans: I was horrified.
How Un-American! Why would an American need to be THAT Effen rich??
I raised 3 kids while going to college, $12.50 a credit at Rutgers. We were low income. We had all we needed. A house, cars, medical, colleges, weddings...(I was very good at budgeting and started a business in the computer field)
I could see into the future. Only the billionaires would have security, clean air, food, ....in their disgusting bubbles. It won't work out for anyone. They will be stuck with relatives...right to their last day on earth. What a nightmare.
Gave up on them s-o-o-o l-o-n-g ago I can't even remember the particular inanity that set me off. Same goes for the PBS News Hour, except for the half-hour weekend edition, when the broadcast newscasts are preempted by endless college and professional football, basketball (men's and women's), hockey, volleyball (the skimpier the women's required bikinis the better), swimming and diving, and golf events (is ping pong only in my imagination, or did I see it?).
There was a time when I regularly tuned in to "All Things Considered" back in the days of Bob Edwards and Susan Stamburg, but was the program actually that good then or was it that far back when I was so naive?
An update: Because (once again) the regular local and national newscasts were preempted by idiotic UFL football and PGA golf, I got about half of the PBS News Weekend program. They actually had good, informative coverage of the laws and initiatives on taxing sugary soft drinks, and the rather significant effects being realized, in particular fewer cavities, resulting from enacted legislation.
Precisely the kind of information that the Trump regime wants to keep from us.
I gave up on NPR altogether in 2016 when they couldn't even mention that Bernie Sanders was running for president in their newscasts about the primary. Kept following the Dem official line that Bernie didn't even exist. (Maybe he doesn't? He's turned out to be quite a Dem apologist.)
Yes. I only listen to strategic programs like “On Point,” and others. They help me improve my skills at exposing the obfuscations that NPR promotes. I have never given them a dime.
For a little while, I still listened to Code Switch, hoping that, as a show about race and racism, they would eventually have an episode about Palestine. By December 2023 it was clear they were too afraid to go there and I uninstalled the app. My mother claims that they talk about Palestine on her local station (the Tampa one) and that Democracy Now is fair minded, but I just can't watch that one either. I'm too radicalized to watch anything with the word "democracy" in it 🔻
I listen to Throughline and Code Switch. Few to none (even the fairly good shows) EVER getnto the core point/s. That being the dreadful governance, fake leadership and the murderous, warmongering mass killing.
A tad lengthy to be placed at the base of the Statue of Liberty, or even at the Lincoln Memorial, but nonetheless words that should be "enshrined forever" somewhere prominent in this country before the ship of state slips beneath the waves.
A very touching poem, Diane. IMO you balance the actual facts of the barbaric cruelty of the Zionists in the ongoing extermination of Palestinians while exposing the apologists who support the Zionist manipulation of Gentile minds that they are the perpetual "victims" of prejudice by non-Jews. I feel sorry for honest, non-violent Jewish people who are probably ashamed about being associated with the ones mentioned above.
When white nationalists and supremacists gathered in Charlottesville, Va., they marched with tiki torches and chanted: “The Jews will not replace us.”
Well, it looks like they had a point.
The Jews ARE replacing us.
New laws are going into effect that make "antisemitism" a crime. It's a crime against the US government which is controlled by Jews.
Several years ago, I thought to myself: The Jews will be the cause of WW3. Where the hell did that come from? I had not, until recently, been paying much attention to world events. I concentrated on literature, philosophy and arts.
The MAY (???) be some good news on the horizon. The Israeli people themselves are losing patience with Bibi, and many are appalled by the genocide: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj422k1zzd9o
And please, don't talk to me about 2 Jewish people being shot in cold blood in Washington if you aren't going to talk at least as loudly about the thousands of children and adults being murdered in cold blood in Gaza.
Oh yes, there'll be all kinds of howling, sobbing, weeping and accusations of antisemitism will be flying around like shrapnel!
Just as with the near-immediate falsehoods of rapes and beheaded babies emanating from the genocidal entity’s Office of Hasbara on Oct. 7th, so too has it swung into action on the two Israeli embassy staffers shot in DC. Of course there has been the de rigueur turning on of the antisemitism fire hose, but also getting government officials (well, can’t really call it “government,” as that now means Trump henchmen and -women) to spout the trope.
Case in point, Pam Bondi on CNN this morning speaking to reporters in Washington, DC, from the scene of the fatal shooting said, “No parents should have to be called and told that their children were violently murdered leaving a religious event at the Jewish Museum.”
It’s not my faith, but a Jewish religious event? on a Wednesday? at a museum? Time to corroborate. Even mainstream ABC News got it right: “During a press conference on Thursday morning, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar… said the pair were attending a Jewish conference of the American Jewish Committee when they were gunned down ‘in a horrific terrorist attack.’”
Well, I suppose technically correct, the AJC is part of the religion of Zionism.
You are being sarcastic, right? Zionism is an ideology. Like Nazism. Not a religion.
They take the ideology so far that it is a religion unto them. I mean, where some Israel/Zionism rabbis even come up with justifications for shooting and the starving children to death, that tells you the type of god they worship and who they say guides them in their "defense" of Israel.
Any ideology can be like a religion, but it is still not a religion. There are Christian zionists, Jewish zionists, probably zionists of other religions too. I think it is important to be careful not to be antisemitic in the real sense, especially now with all these fake accusationsof anti semitism because people oppose a genocide.
A few comments...
"If you can't detect the sarcasm, you've misunderstood." -Lily Allen
"The word 'antisemite' has become so meaningless that now whenever someone uses it you have to ask them 'What kind? The Hitler-was-right kind or the stop-bombing-children-and-hospitals kind?'" -Caitlin Johnstone
"I have maintained a position for myself of a distinction between Jews and Zionists (as I’ve written), the former representing the life of the mind, humanity, compassion, social justice, achievement, and culture, among the other attributes. The Zionists are the result of a mutant, twisted, freakish DNA, and represent the antitheses of all those human, and humane, qualities." -XK [Me, an excerpt from a longer post I submitted somewhere else, some time ago]
“If you take any metric—number of UN workers killed, number of medics killed, number of journalists killed, proportion of civilians to combatants killed, proportion of children killed, proportion of women and children killed—if you take any metric, Israel for the 21st century is in a class all its own.” -Norman Finkelstein
"Yesterday Israel began the celebration of its 77th Independence Day, 'with gratitude for being able to live free in our land despite the constant threats to our survival here,' in the words of one delusional resident Zionist, and with military strikes across Gaza that killed 47 people and wounded 61.
"For the sake of the Palestinians, for the sake of the world, may there not be a 78th." -XK [Me again, in a more recent post]
Finally, I urge you to read this rather lengthy but rewarding excerpt from Ilan Pappe's "Ten Myths About Israel" which can be found here: https://www.huckmag.com/article/zionism-is-not-judaism-myths-about-israel
Finally finally, another post of mine which which sums up my position:
"I once naively held this now-forlorn hope, that if it should ever come about, a just peace for Palestine would require not only that the 'state' of Israel be dismantled (for the sake not only of the Palestinians and other peoples in the region, but for humankind as a whole) and the land rightfully returned to its indigenous owners, but that the Zionists be compelled to develop (using their own money, not US aid) a site encompassing the entirety of their now-former capital of Tel Aviv to establish, akin to 'The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe' in Berlin, 'The Memorial to the Murdered, Maimed, Orphaned, Displaced, and Dehumanized People of Palestine.'
"Along with its complacent defecation on all that is decent and human in civilized life, the legacy of Israel and Zionism is the diminishment to the point of near oblivion of any sense of justice and hope for the rest of us."
Now the FBI is (has been directed to get) in on the act, this from the NYT:
"Live Updates: Slaying at Jewish Museum Was Targeted Antisemitic Violence, F.B.I. Says
"The killing of two Israeli Embassy aides was condemned by U.S. officials. The suspect, from Chicago, had a history of pro-Palestinian activism, including a social media statement scheduled to post after the shooting."
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter's performance can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AxeAHw24Jc.
It's NOT antisemitism; It's anti-genocide!!!!!
Sad about the young couple; it's just collateral damage caused by Zionist Jews and all their supporters.
Expect more of this.
If the powers that be want to blame someone, they should look in the mirror.
They won't. They are blinded by fear of becoming one of the powerless, like you and me.
When I heard, maybe 20 years ago, that there were billionaire Americans: I was horrified.
How Un-American! Why would an American need to be THAT Effen rich??
I raised 3 kids while going to college, $12.50 a credit at Rutgers. We were low income. We had all we needed. A house, cars, medical, colleges, weddings...(I was very good at budgeting and started a business in the computer field)
I could see into the future. Only the billionaires would have security, clean air, food, ....in their disgusting bubbles. It won't work out for anyone. They will be stuck with relatives...right to their last day on earth. What a nightmare.
Accurate. I just heard an NPR story about this topic. Antisemitism is their gaslighting word. Not 1 word about Palestine. Hypocrites All.
That's why I quit NPR in October 2023, and refuse to go back. So they're still doing those shenanigans, huh?
Gave up on them s-o-o-o l-o-n-g ago I can't even remember the particular inanity that set me off. Same goes for the PBS News Hour, except for the half-hour weekend edition, when the broadcast newscasts are preempted by endless college and professional football, basketball (men's and women's), hockey, volleyball (the skimpier the women's required bikinis the better), swimming and diving, and golf events (is ping pong only in my imagination, or did I see it?).
There was a time when I regularly tuned in to "All Things Considered" back in the days of Bob Edwards and Susan Stamburg, but was the program actually that good then or was it that far back when I was so naive?
An update: Because (once again) the regular local and national newscasts were preempted by idiotic UFL football and PGA golf, I got about half of the PBS News Weekend program. They actually had good, informative coverage of the laws and initiatives on taxing sugary soft drinks, and the rather significant effects being realized, in particular fewer cavities, resulting from enacted legislation.
Precisely the kind of information that the Trump regime wants to keep from us.
NPR = Not Particularly Reliable.
I gave up on NPR altogether in 2016 when they couldn't even mention that Bernie Sanders was running for president in their newscasts about the primary. Kept following the Dem official line that Bernie didn't even exist. (Maybe he doesn't? He's turned out to be quite a Dem apologist.)
Yes. I only listen to strategic programs like “On Point,” and others. They help me improve my skills at exposing the obfuscations that NPR promotes. I have never given them a dime.
For a little while, I still listened to Code Switch, hoping that, as a show about race and racism, they would eventually have an episode about Palestine. By December 2023 it was clear they were too afraid to go there and I uninstalled the app. My mother claims that they talk about Palestine on her local station (the Tampa one) and that Democracy Now is fair minded, but I just can't watch that one either. I'm too radicalized to watch anything with the word "democracy" in it 🔻
I listen to Throughline and Code Switch. Few to none (even the fairly good shows) EVER getnto the core point/s. That being the dreadful governance, fake leadership and the murderous, warmongering mass killing.
A tad lengthy to be placed at the base of the Statue of Liberty, or even at the Lincoln Memorial, but nonetheless words that should be "enshrined forever" somewhere prominent in this country before the ship of state slips beneath the waves.
Nice thought!
Great poem, Diane. I'm so with you.
Good company!
Yes, I feel the same way.
Thank You Diane
Sigh! You don't have to talk to me about these hypocrite genocidaires. : -(
Agreed 100%!!
A very touching poem, Diane. IMO you balance the actual facts of the barbaric cruelty of the Zionists in the ongoing extermination of Palestinians while exposing the apologists who support the Zionist manipulation of Gentile minds that they are the perpetual "victims" of prejudice by non-Jews. I feel sorry for honest, non-violent Jewish people who are probably ashamed about being associated with the ones mentioned above.
Exactly!
This the human race, is going down to compete annihilation.
Tell young people: DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN!
There is no good future for them.
When white nationalists and supremacists gathered in Charlottesville, Va., they marched with tiki torches and chanted: “The Jews will not replace us.”
Well, it looks like they had a point.
The Jews ARE replacing us.
New laws are going into effect that make "antisemitism" a crime. It's a crime against the US government which is controlled by Jews.
Several years ago, I thought to myself: The Jews will be the cause of WW3. Where the hell did that come from? I had not, until recently, been paying much attention to world events. I concentrated on literature, philosophy and arts.
I think I intuited it. It was in the air.
The MAY (???) be some good news on the horizon. The Israeli people themselves are losing patience with Bibi, and many are appalled by the genocide: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj422k1zzd9o
❤️🔥