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Since I speak out against antisemitism, write in support of Israel, and warn about the spread of fascism, there are sometimes vile responses in the comment section to my essays. I should add I also receive emails on occasion that can be extremely disturbing and even threatening.

I've muted this guy Tim Holt @tholt. I am leaving his comments here as a testimony to what is happening in the world right now. He is some kind of troll, obviously. The thing is, a couple of years ago, nobody talked like this publicly. Now, there is so much public support for antisemitism, people are emboldened to say and even commit violent acts that they would have previously kept under control.

I would just say, I do not respond in like kind. As a follower of Jesus and as a martial artist, I use what measure of intellect I have to do battle. Prayer, meditation, and physical exercise keep me strong. I am not averse to physical battle. Martial arts training gave me a firm foundation in focus and discipline. Other fighting forms, such as boxing and Eskrima, gave me the practical training I needed to fight. My full-contact fighting days are behind me, but I am so thankful I had all those years of tough training. I never would have known back then how much it would help as I do battle with my—well, in the old days, I would say my pen, but now I have to say my computer!

As a Christian and a martial artist, I despise this type of cowardly commenting that so many people now engage in. We can choose to give in to the darker side of ourselves or choose to be a light in the darkness.

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How can you possibly “write in support of Israel, and warn about the spread of fascism” in the same sentence? Israel is the very definition of fascism in the world today. Not just my words, here is an Israeli:

https://youtu.be/jI2K5ZnOHUg?si=yywXBj2h0bYicaG_

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Jul 4Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

To all the slogan repeaters: "genocide" "open air prison" "mass starvation" -

It is your perfect right to hold and express any opinion you wish. I can tell you as someone who served in the IAF (Israel Air Force) that if Israel **truly** wished to commit genocide, it would do to Gaza what the US Air Force and the RAF did to Dresden in 1945. Gaza would cease to exist within a few hours.

ALL civilian deaths in Gaza are on Hamas. If you start a war, don't cry about the consequences

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You put it in a nutshell.

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You already have. 40 hospitals gone. 150+ journalists murdered. Schools bombed. Every single university destroyed. Lancet has the murder toll at 186,000. What would you call that if it happened to Israelis?

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Jul 4Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

That little weasel's throat would be cut before he had time to pee in his pants. These useful imbeciles have NO idea about the size and force of the fire they're playing with

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Absolutely!

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Jul 5Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

Great essay as usual. Along those lines, it is perplexing and incomprehensible how the secularist among us will launch into orbit at any perceived breach in their beloved wall of separation but never have any opinions about all the countries ruled by an Islamic theocracy. They actually seem to transition into a state of ecstasy about how we must be so inclusive of "them." Such dopes can go eat a fermented can of worms.

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The hypocrisy is astounding.

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Jul 5Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

As a child of the 80’s and 90’s the keffiyeh will forever only be associated with Arafat and terrorism. I cringe when I see people wearing it as virtue signaling (and we currently live in a multi-university city so it is a common sight). They have no idea.

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What you say is so important. I wrote "Professor Occupy" & the Bloody History of the Keffiyeh Scarf so that history would not be forgotten. Who knows, maybe some young person will read it and learn something! (I can hope!) https://khmezek.substack.com/p/meet-professor-occupy-and-the-bloody

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Jul 5Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

I think I read that but will go back and read again!!

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I had read that before. I think really the most insane (but probably unsurprising) part of your article was noting that Amazon cashed in on this trend. Which is ironic because aren't pro-Palestinian supporters also railing against capitalism . . .while also buying scarves from one of the ultimate behemoths of capitalism? Don't get me wrong - I really dislike over-consumption and the materialistic influencer-led economy that currently dominates our lives . . .but . . . but . .. this isn't a more obvious take away to people?

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Ya might find this interestin' Karen--I did--I'm usually non-interventionist (as in we shouldn't be fightin' others' wars) but given this angle an' how the Obama admin. appeased Iran an' how "Biden" (Obama's third term) is still doin' so--I see that not only is the US partly at fault for 10/7 (wow!) but also.... partly responsible.... if the Caliphate comes here... as ya warned... Ms Phillips well-explains the arena (this is short!)

https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/can-israel-afford-to-stand-up-to?

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This is a good piece, thank you. Yes, Israel is the only nation actually standing up to everyone, and that includes the United States. Most people really don't see what's going on here. Israel is fighting the battle we should all be fighting and increasingly they are doing it alone.

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Glad ya liked it--yes, a good piece! Yer right that Israel is tryin' ta do this alone--but it's SO strange that they are tryin' ta keep their nationhood--not be "subsumed" inta some global blob like YourUp... an' they take the worst heat from all the anti-NWO "truthers".... nothin' makes sense with that... (There mebbe globalist puppetmasters behind their curtains too--no doubt--but the overall effort is to be a sovereign nation... we git it, most don't....)

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Plus all the alphabet people who support Gaza and Hamas don’t know or realize that Israel is the only nation in the Middle East that has pride month and parades. And for 25+ years now.

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Jul 4Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

Powerful words, disturbing truths. Thank you, Karen!

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🙏

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Jul 5·edited Jul 5Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

Another excellent article. Thank you for bringing these important issues to people's attention and telling the real truth behind the lies Hamas puts out and that are so often mindlessly repeated on social media. Truth is the most powerful weapon we have to fight the propaganda.

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A lot of people sure do hate hearing the truth. But we keep saying it anyway!

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Jul 5Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

Good for you... and good for the rest of us.

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Jul 7Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

I find the similarities of people’s behavior in the book, “The Camp of Saints” and the people of the Western World today are identical. It is so strikingly similar. I am not intending to plagiarize here, but, the following is parts of an article from Epoch Times, which contains excerpts from the book. If you do not have a subscription to ET, you do not have access, that is why I have copied the following:

In the opening in the book “The Camp of Saints” A French radical appears on the Professor’s terrace—“Feet bare, hair long and dirty, flowered tunic, Hindu collar, Afghan vest.” In his ensuing conversation with the professor, he spews venom on Western civilization, France, the middle class, his family. The professor replies with a few counterarguments and questions, but his visitor remains undeterred in his bitter hatred of the culture that made him.

Finally, the professor says, “When they go smashing everything to bits, they won’t know any better. But why you?”

“Why? Because I’ve learned to hate all this. Because the conscience of the world makes me hate all this, that’s why.”

“Here we learn that political radicals, the Catholic Church, sympathetic officials, and those who blithely support them, whom Raspail calls “fellow travelers,” have hammered together and supported this flotilla of the poor and wretched. They spill onto the French beaches, sweeping the last vestiges of resistance before them as they make their way inland. European culture and government are soon eradicated,”

“Critics have either viciously assailed or vigorously applauded “The Camp of the Saints.” The former call it a racist tract, a handbook for white supremacists, a novel of xenophobic hatred and fear. Its defenders salute the author’s courage in speaking out against mass immigration into Europe, for turning the spotlight on the gulf between the world’s rich and poor, and for underscoring the ongoing destruction of the customs and beliefs of the West.”

The idea that goodwill and generosity unbuttressed by prudence can lead to evil and death is key to fully understanding “The Camp of the Saints.” The book is about mass migration written 50 years ago, by Jean Raspail.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-enemy-within-jean-raspails-the-camp-of-the-saints-50-years-later_5261625.html

Reminds me too, of the song, “One Tin Soldier.” I am not opposed to goodness and love, but it can blind you to danger.

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Thank you for sharing this. I do subscribe to The Epoch Times, but I didn't see this article. I just published my Reflections for a Sunday essay on Redemption, which touches on this topic, who should we save and who should we kill.

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Ya speak truth Karen--not sure how most've yer readers skew (likely some haters have left) but too many are "with" Hamas--- an' while absurdly pointin' fingers an' accusin' us chews of every evil one kin imagine includin' blood libel 10 ways 'til Sunday--they join in the call for "our" blood. Vampire jamboree!

Little do they know that they--with their support--are tellin' the world they wanna be ruled by Hamas, by The Muslim Brotherhood, by those that'll pay 'em back (like the kind dentist) with their own death. Don't folks LISTEN to what is bein' said? Here ya go---Muslim Brotherhood leader tellin' the world THEY will RULE it-- This just in (3 min)--an'nuther vampire speaks:

https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/1807138970289275317

Strangely my mind keeps playin' the Bette Boop theme song "I wanna be loved by you..." an' imaginin' all the woke kool kollege SJWs beggin' to be loved by those GeeHaw'd-istas, by those that would strike them down an' take a scimitar ta their heads an' lop 'em off as infidels. It's kinda like a death wish--callin' for those vampires--such a good analogy. Me, I'll wear the garlic necklace!

Coverage of the speech:

https://www.israelunwired.com/the-islamic-speech-that-might-finally-wake-up-the-western-world/

"Islamic Speech Exposes the Truth"

"How much more will it take for the world to wake up to the truth about Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and radical Islam? It’s most definitely not a joke. This is what they believe, and this is what they plan to do. This leader of the Muslim Brotherhood makes it clear in his radical Islamic speech what Muslims are told to do. They want to take over the world. They want to destroy all that is good. "

"This speech was even given in English! How can the Western World ignore the truth any longer? Do they not believe it? Do they think these radical Muslims actually want peace? If the average person can be aware of these warnings, world leaders can and should most definitely be aware. They must stand strong against the face of radical Islam. We can already see the way radical Muslims are trying to take over different parts of the Western World. "

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Never believed we be here now... My children now know what is to be hated for who they are--tho' neither has done anythin' bad nor harmed a hair on anyone's head. My granny warned me the golden age of tolerance would end one day--thank God it wasn't in her own lifetime. BUT... what a bizarre world that the vampires are celebrated an' those whose blood they wanna drain (an' spill) are vilified. Today--if we let on we're chews--we're told "it's our own dang fault" an' "we deserve it" an' that "zionists are evil and must be eradicated." (oy)

Few know the term "zionism" has many meanings. Most chews are zionists in the original simple/philosophical way--JUST wantin' a home for the joos--so the majority of AmeriCons & Euro-Peons hatin' "only" the zionists are indeed hatin' on the chews too whatever lies they tell themselfs.

They condemn all joos except "the good ones"--to them they are ONLY the vocal anti-zionists -- those who want Israel razed an' gifted to "Palestinians" from river to sea-- Sadly there are even joos that have joined, that make up this self-destructive group of "noble" anti-zionists--I guess most groups have some self-destructive members.... I believe those joos doin' so wanna be accepted in order to survive. However abandonin' or condemnin' their own won't save them--didn't with Hitler or Stalin.

It's like BLM goin' round---forcin' folks to pump a fist for BLM or get punched. So the Anti-Zionists bully kids, "good people" (includin' some joos) ta pump their fists for Gaza--or else risk gettin' canceled or bein' called a "zionist stooge / pig." Yes they used "pig" recently--cute (not kosher!). Same M.O., different "cause."

Sure I know the ADL is a Soros-co-opted lapdog now, ADL is Hell-bent on destroyin' Israel by actin' like a pittbull goin' after anyone that says "boo" about the state or NetAnYoohoo. Thus the world thinks all joos are the ADL an' this all joos attack folks that criticize Israel when the oppy-sit is true--joos in Israel have a national pastime of critiquein' their gubbamint an' the rest of us the world over join' 'em. Anywayz, too many folks think all joos cannot bear criticism which is beyond false--we are the race of self-deprecation! lookit any jooish comic... (I'd find this funny if folks didn't take it so seriously !)

So I'm all FOR crticizin' Israel like I do AmeriKa (even tho' I'm proud ta be American--so far proud ta be permitted ta be one). Frankly, I have lotsa gripes against BBGun an' also those in Israel's leadership who have co-opted zionism in strange an' unpredictable ways-- But it's original meanin'--just a HOME for us chews "just in case"--or "when needed"--is STILL what most chews believe in--so I'm an' old skool Zionist, not a political one. Original definition. (Even knowin' that even the original roots of zionism have some rot--as did the roots of America--an' just about all countries--sigh) Folks all like these labels to make their "teams" (sigh)

Anyway, I hope folks'll listen to that short clip--to me it's chilling (talk 'bout makin' yer blood run cold). LISTEN to what they say--be they globalists or those who want to rule the world. They ain't kiddin'--like Martin Niemoller said, first it's the jews...

THANK YOU THANK YOU Karen--you are indeed a brave lady!

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Jul 4Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

Vampires will reside in Hell for ETERNITY🔥 🩸🔥

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Jul 5Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

RE Margaret Atwood in Surfacing I thk I loved that bk but I don't remember much.

"Imagine how many problems would be avoided if people stopped being as stupid as the young man in that photo."

*****I speak from experience here. U can’t mention that a lg part of US problem is plain ol stoopid. U B bigot. TA-boo, baby. Even if u got research links…

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oh so true!

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Nov 17Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

“Apparently, Islamists are okay when they are invading Israel and killing Jews, but not okay when they are invading, let’s say France, or Germany, or Great Britain. It’s okay for Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran, and all the rest, to join forces and impose Sharia Law on the one democratic nation in the Middle East, but not okay to impose it on any western nation.

The only explanation for such illogic is a hatred of Jews. This hatred of Jews is so overpowering, it blocks the minds of those promoting it from seeing that they are defending vampires like Yahya Sinwar who would suck the blood out of them, too, given half a chance.”

No, it’s ok to invade and take down the UK, Europe, and America to these same people. They may be “useful idiots” but they really believe that the West is systematically bad and so is capitalism, they want both destroyed and replaced with “socialism” for all. It’s the other people who are aware of all this who object and some are becoming more aware, but how many? Is it enough?

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Nov 18Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

I meant they include Israel with the west because of all our western democratic & Judeo-Christian values, and hate all of us to death.

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Nov 18Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

Yep, it’s the long march through the institutions that made people believe America and the west are inherently bad (that includes Israel btw. Judeo-Christian values/culture.) I don’t believe the Marxists have won, but it will take a long term concerted effort, plus probably war 😬 (which I don’t want but it seems unavoidable at this point because idiots yet again let things go too far) to overcome.

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You are absolutely right. The only explanation is a deep rooted hatred of Jews. I'm not sure of the UK can be saved at this point. And Europe? It could just all come tumbling down. It's insane, it like the West is committing mass suicide.

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Aug 7·edited Aug 7Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

Nope. No more falafel for me! Not from the shop down the street nor from any of the food trucks.

Because now I get what’s been happening every time I order from there. When I walk in, they’re so sweet. Then, as soon as I’ve paid and placed my tip in the jar, I can sense the sneer emerging . It is very real, just like this . . . .

“I met so many men like this in Luxor, Egypt. They knew how to flatter western women. But underneath the flattery, they hate you. As long as they can get something out of you, they hide their true selves, but once your use has ended, they will toss you in the gutter. To them, you are less than a dog, and they don’t treat dogs very well, either.”

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Jul 12Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

It’s my opinion that many on the atheist global left today are actually likely candidates to eventually convert to Islam. Today, they scoff at G-d and religious sentiment. Yet, their adherence to secular leftist doctrine is a replacement for a spiritual void in their own lives. Global Leftism is their religion, but it’s a uniquely unfulfilling one. They adhere to it because it feels to them like the strong horse at this moment. Were Islam appear like the strong horse — and in many European countries that seems to be the trajectory — these global leftists will become equally fanatic adherents of Islam.

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Jul 8Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek

As long as we don't rekindle the light that's within each of us, we'll remain the puppets of an evil far greater than ourselves: the vampires who are everywhere among us, especially in positions of responsibility, whatever our tribe. Instead of believing that we are better than others, that our god, our beliefs or our people have the right to massacre others, we must all, whatever group we belong to, remember that we are first and foremost humans. All humans, apart from these vampires, want to live in peace. Vampires, on the other hand, do their utmost to ensure that evil reigns and that we continue to kill each other or to appropriate the wealth of others. Our real enemy is not the other, but the vampires among us, especially in our own camp, whether we're on the red, yellow or blue team.

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