"…the left doesn’t just have a Corbyn problem or a Tlaib problem or a Farrakhan problem. It has a big, fat Jew-hatred problem right in its ideological core.” NYU student, Tal Fortgang
Dec 10, 2023·edited Dec 10, 2023Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek
Greenwald unfortunately despises Israel and is a self hater or more accurately a hater of his Jewish identity. He picks his free speech rants very selectively. Disappointing because he is intelligent and a good investigative reporter. But his anti-Israel and anti-Jewish invective disqualifies him on both subjects. As for the elite globalist college cesspools, you are seeing the result of decades of Qatar based funding and brainwashing. One college President down. 2 more to go.
Well written & must needed timelines. I’m afraid that the division and manipulation of free thought may have reached the point of no return.
With the media signed on 100% any dissenting voice is immediately silenced and typically either the author slandered or worse, there may be little hope.
Division has occurred in my close circle that was tightly holding firmly against the horrors of Covid. Now it's Israel. I am broken hearted. I continue to see that one day I may stand alone with my husband. There are no guarantees in this world and God has no grand children.
Painfully obvious the battle is spiritual and many hearts are blinded, dead and dark, like their owner, who deceives and projects his vileness. Wake up, people🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the worldly forces of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
- Ephesians 6:12 TLV
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks lies he is just being himself—for he is a liar and the father of lies.
- John 8:44 TLV
And just as they did not see fit to recognize God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what is not fitting. They became filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents. They are foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree—that those who practice such things deserve death—they not only do them but also approve of others who practice the same.
Dec 11, 2023·edited Dec 11, 2023Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek
Wowee--this was powerful an' so thoughtfully researched, a mighty LightHouse against the tides, a bright light in the killer fog (literally!) offerin' a safe harbor for Jewish ships to land--an' I don't mean warships--I know you too want peace! I mean ordinary people, well-meanin' people..."my" people-- tho I feel I almost need to say most are good people--it's only the skunks that seem ta make it inta the funny papers and they become the symbols for all Jews. If Biden is rotten, nobuddy sez it's cuz all Catholics are rotten too... Anywho... bless ya fer clearly statin' that there IS a double standard! That Jews are threatened--an' from what ya shared've the Koran Christians too. Nobuddy sees it... The irony is that fer so long ADL made a mess'a things an' were so pitt-bull like (Soros-backed!) that they said Jews were cryin' wolf--that nobody hated 'em at all, they were just paranoid an' nutz. Glenn Greenwald can't see it perhaps, that puttin' the scandalous ADL aside, that Jews are AmeriKa's favorite scapegoat. Break a nail, blame a Jew (I wish I wuz jokin'...) He's in Brazil where there ain't no Jews ta observe bein' harmed. Trust me, when yer chased (I wuz as a kid 'fore we made it ta New Yawk), it's not just free speech. Anywho, we left NYShitty fer safety (all kinds...since I got daughters an' the subways became Rikers Island 2.0) but I know it's not made up, the hate, the threats--what they're doin' ta students--an' not just in college--my friend with a daughter in a Jewish high school reports the parents had ta pay fer private security--there've been threats, graffiti--not all famblies are deep pocketed (it's a myth that all "chews" are rich--in the US AND in Israel of course). I think I mentioned once that my friend's son no longer wears his yamulke ta Yeshiva U. Too risky. Thank you THANK YOU fer seein' this--fer callin' it right.
I frankly learned a LOT myself here--my scenty-mints bein' similar but my learnin' curve 'bout the Middle East is purdy steep--much I don't know even when I thought I knew a bunch. 'Specially appreciate the hist'ry lesson on how "ErrorRat" defaulted on Oslo (they make it sound like only Rabin's death--possibly at the hands of puppet NetAnYahoo--was the ONLY factor in that 2state peace deal not workin' out...hmmm--an' they blame Israel for no peace bein' reached--hmmm again)--I honestly didn't know just how many peace treaties got rejected--an' not by Israel either.
Yer SO right 'bout Glenn...it's sad-- I think he THINKS his stance'll save 'im. It's "Intercept-proof!" If Nazism returns full force, they won't care that he tried to defend Hamas (even if he wasn't gay...). He'd be gone right fast. That's whut he doesn't git--but I'm grateful that even some other liberals (heck, I wuz one too not that long ago!) finally woke up upon hearin' not just UPenn but Harvard an' the others spout that if it's Jews then genocide is A-ok (really?) Again' I'm all fer free speech but this is crossin' a line--if ya couldn't shout genocide fer all women or blacks or native americans--why jews?
Anywho, bless ya Karen--I know you'll have ta stand tall against an onslaught of ugly--if ya don't mind my sayin' it, yer a mensch! THANK YOU. It's been weird cuz I've seen so many folks on the jabs-bad 'er "save america" side--I thought it wuz a side I understood--howl 'bout all the bad "chews"--one I thought was so GOOD on all things biotech (like how bad AI, etc an' our WBAN are) just shared a jaw-dropper from some skeery preacher named Father Nathaniel--omg, it's witherin', the level of hate against all k___s vs the universally unequivocally "good gentle" Palestinian people includin' those in Hamas. Don't look 'im up if ya got food in yer stomick. Even Max Igan (SO good about the jabs bad), same deal against the Jews... Many regular comments are now showin' their "stripes...."
Another voice ya may like--one of wisdom too, a gentle soul, is that've Gad Saad...a Jewish Iranian Professor in Canada--
The Genesis and Rise of Jew-Hatred (THE SAAD TRUTH_1627)
I mebbe a crackpot but I kin spot a gem in a bucket've crawdads any day--keep on shinin' with yer truths--with much gratty-tude from a "wild" Daisy pushin' up thru the cracks in the sidewalk--
There are so many misconceptions, I will have to write more about this. I visited Israel and I can say it was one of the best experiences of my life. I will write about it as soon as I can get around to it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Greenwald and a number of other anti-Great Reset, anti-totalitarian writers like CJ Hopkins and Michael Rectenwald have taken up this antisemitic position - it's heartbreaking and utterly infuriating.
an' many blessin's back at'cha--I'm a mite bee-hind in my readin' so I missed yer quote--but I got that essay bookmarked! (it's a long'un but I'll git to it soon!)
Spend a lot of time protesting against the Saudi-backed war in the Yemen, do you? Hundreds of thousands of dead Muslims in that one. Have you even heard of it? No of course not, because it cannot be blamed on Jews. Your hypocrisy can be seen from space.
What you write all makes sense if you leave out the major issue driving the antisemitism we see rising pretty much anywhere. Do you ask "Why now?" what is changing? Why would people be so upset with Israel when it was the victim of an horrific assault by Hamas invaders on October 7th? Why is Greenwald taking his position? Is he self-hating? Irrational? Racist? What the world has seen is gross brutality and a flagrant violence against humanity in the Israeli response to Hamas. We see helpless civilians driven under rocket fire from homes. We see all... ALL hospitals (including WHO facilities) destroyed; people starved, massive slaughter. It's called war, but it is not. One side has dropped TONS of bombs flattening the entire North of a people's homeland and is well on the way to flattening the rest. I am sorry Karen, this is shocking and ugly in the extreme and is not supportable. If LA, for example, has a gang problem with people being kidnapped and murdered, the response is not to flatten the city and kill thousands of residents to root them out. No one would accept that. Another thing to think about is the incredible damage the atrocities the world is witnessing is having on Israel and its future. As this continues all will have to abandon Israel - even the US. More and more people will have a repulsion to Israel like they have had to Pol Pot's Cambodia, Idi Amin's Uganda, and other cruel and genocidal tyrants. Israel becomes extremely vulnerable without international support... which it is driving away. If you are a true supporter of the long-term survival of that country you will reject what is happening as suicidal. If you are a moral being you will repel in disgust at what is happening. If you are a humanitarian you will, likewise, be repulsed. So, maybe the energy behind the backlash against Jews is fueled by the outrage people feel at the horror Israel has been visiting on Palestinians for decades that has now exploded into full view. All people... jewish included... should condemn the slaughter of innocents, the collective destruction of the whole for a small group of criminals in their midst. I believe that if the world saw the rejection of this by Jews around the world that the hostility towards innocent Jews would abate. But they do not and it gives the impression that this group is OK with crimes against humanity. Not good. This does NOT make Israel safe. Does Israel have a right to protect itself from being attacked? Absolutely. Should it take attackers and mete out justice? Absolutely. Should it visit atrocities on a whole group of non-combatant civilian residents? Absolutely not. Yes, Hamas and other terror groups are dangerous and call for genocide. They warrant a vigorous response - within the law and targeted at the perpetrators, not the entire population. It is NOT OK to pursue a threat of genocide with actual genocide. Do support Israel. Do decry attacks on innocent Jews. Do raise alarm at call for ANY group of people to be 'wiped out'. But not with a blind eye to the the attrocities that are the driving force behind these trends. Oh, there is so much more to say...
People are always upset with Israel. Every time they defend themselves, they are vilified for it--and of course that statement right there will anger a lot of people. I've written so much already about the corruption of Netanyahu and the United States' responsibility for terrorism, I mean, I've written many essays about it, my most recent being THE BIG PICTURE: How Anthrax & the War on Terror Brought Us to the Brink of WWIII https://khmezek.substack.com/p/the-big-picture-how-anthrax-and-the. And I agree, terrorism won't end and hatred toward Israel will increase. I have studied the Bible, and it says it clearly there. Evil doesn't end. It just moves elsewhere. This piece was about something specific, not about many of the points people are raising in the comments, and I stuck to that topic. I can't explain the same things over and over in every essay that I've already focused on in other pieces. Many people will never see that Zionism is a convenient excuse for hatred of Jews. In fact, that number will continue to increase. And raising this point brings out so much anger in people towards me. You should see the emails, not just the comments. Why so much hatred? I would never say to anyone of my subscribers who disagrees with me that because they hold a different view, they must celebrate the death of innocent children, be scum, etc., etc.. Again, once must ask, why so much hatred? Because, as I said time and time again, we are being pushed toward extremism and hatred of one another. We are being forced into narrower and narrower boxes, only listening to those who agree with increasingly narrow views. The menticide is growing. Just wait for 2024.
Yes, I have read and understand your writings thoroughly. Zionism has been a focal point for hating Jews, absolutely. I have zero hatred towards you and none towards Zionists or Jews (mom is a Jew) or Palestinians. Carving Israel out of Palestine was at the expense of local residents and it gave political hay for neighboring despots to take the focus off of them and on to Israel... that was some of the hate you speak of. Others use Zion to organize groups and use Jews as a bogeyman. The latter had to make stuff up to generate the hate, the former had a host of refugees as a tool to do it. What we see now is an explosion of anti Israel feelings (hate, if you will) and that is directly from the response after Oct. 7. Israel had different options that could have garnered a lot of international support for their plight with the threats coming from Hamas. They blew that support like we did after 9/11. (Do you recall that Iran offered us help? And that Le Monde's headline on 9/12/01 was something like: "We Are All Americans" - in english!) Netanyahu and his crimes are a perfect... perfect... device for splitting up the camps and generating mentacide. How is a person like me to react to his carnage, Karen? It is totally horrible. So, I offer you peace and not conflict by saying this: Israel and her people are precious and must be safe and Jews around the world safe as well. Palestinians are also precious and must be safe and have a home... (in the place they used to inhabit) just like their neighbor has. The killing is evil on all sides and must stop. The criminals on both sides should be shut down and held to account. Is there any force in the world that can do that? That is a good question. Peace be upon you.
I have not been able to respond until now, but I wanted to say just a couple of things. I appreciate your good spirit. Thank you!
I agree, who wouldn't, that the killing is evil on both sides and must stop. However, this is the history of the human race. By the end of 2021, deaths in the war in Yemen had reached almost 400,000. Where were the protests? I'm at a loss. It is clear the masses are manipulated by the media and follow blindly in their protests. Total hypocrisy, if you ask me.
As for Palestinians, unfortunately, a study by a Palestinian University (Not Jewish mind you. I have to source but no time to put it here, sorry, perhaps I will write a piece about it) determined that 70% of Palestinians support Hamas. In videos taken by Hamas you see them celebrating these horrible acts that Hamas committed. What should Israel do? What would you do?
Arab nations do not support the Palestinians. Why is that? The Abraham Accord was a threat to the Hamas/Palestinian cause, which is not an independent state but to exterminate all Jews. Is there no outcry for this? Here also are some facts about the actual history:
One of the Arabs' best-kept secrets, skillfully obscured over the years, is the true reason behind their refusal of the 1947 UN partition plan:
For those less familiar, here's a quick summary:
After WWII, the British, looking to exit the complicated situation they found themselves in in the Middle East, planned to hand back the mandate they had received from the UN.
The UN dispatched the UNSCOP committee to determine the region's future. The committee proposed several plans, with the well-known Partition Plan eventually being accepted by the majority of its members.
The Jewish community accepted this plan, and a majority of UN members voted in favor of it.
However, the Arabs rejected it, similarly to their earlier refusal of the Peel Commission's recommendations (a topic for another post).
So, why then did the Arabs reject the partition proposal?
Primarily, they were confident in their ability to swiftly defeat the Jews, eliminate them, and seize the entire territory.
This conviction also had a significant contribution to the Nakba as it led them to advise many Arabs to temporarily vacate their homes during the conflicts, expecting to return post-victory - a victory that, of course, never materialized.
Yet, this is not the core reason.
Pay close attention now:
The primary reason Arab leaders rejected the UN's partition proposal was their own disbelief in the Palestinian people's right to self-determination. In fact, they were opposed to it! Indeed, that's exactly as it sounds.
Arab leaders never recognized Palestinians as an ethnic group with self-determination rights, but rather as a part of the larger Arab nation.
As those knowledgeable in history (and not propaganda) understand, there were originally no 'Palestinians', only Arabs.
The Arabs' national goal was to create Greater Syria, covering today's Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Israel, a vision outlined in the McMahon-Hussein correspondence of 1915-1916.
Therefore, they rejected any proposal that independently defined the Palestinians, as such a distinction simply did not exist.
(Interestingly, this truth is widely recognized in the Arab world. While not often acknowledged publicly, it occasionally surfaces, as seen in a video I'll share in the comments)
So next time Palestinian history, culture, or their right to self-determination is discussed, remember that while the world, Jews included, were willing to acknowledge this, the refusal came from the Arabs themselves, who recognized the idea of a Palestinian nation as a UN fabrication. -- Oren Barsky
Thoughtful, nuanced response to a clearly biased essay.
If Hamas’s violence and wish for the destruction of a Zionist regime - note: not Jews/Israelis - is deemed ‘terrorism’ and them labelled ‘terriorists’, then the leaders of Israeli government are no less terrorists for their dehumanising of Gazan civilians and ethnic cleansing rhetoric.
That’s without even touching on the Israelis snopers shooting dead peaceful protesters, mosque raids, brutality, etc...
Poor students whinging about nasty emails while children in their thousands are torn limb from limb - what happened to you Karen? You got lost in the darkness, my friend. It makes me nauseous.
By "exponents of genocide," I presume you're referring to the Medical Pharmaceutical Covid-Con perps..?? That's quite a large number(!) .. easily qualifying as yet another genocide.
Do you suggest this purge be carried out by government thugs or local lynch mobs?
Today everyone's a Cracker and Genocide/Holocausts are Equal Opportunity.
I cannot understand how anyone can back the very-functionally-genocidal Israeli government who've killed way over 10000 concentration camp enclosed civilians since October, any more than I understand how anyone can back the wanna-be-genocidal-but-lacks-proper-weaponry-to-pull-it-off Hamas government who killed a portion of the 1400ish Israeli casualties since October 7 (hamas killed the part of that group that was not Hannibal Doctrined into extinction by the IDF themselves.)
I totally understand how anyone can back the noncombatant civilians on either side of the concentration camp fences around Gaza and the West Bank though. both governments suck, both say publicly they want as many of the other side dead as they can manage, but Israel is the one with billions on billions of dollars worth of US weaponry, US satellite surveillance access, and straight up US military backing.
in a situation like this one, the group with higher tech firepower, total control over ingress/egress to the conflict area, and 10x the civilian casualty count absolutely deserves to be called out at least as much as the side fighting inside the concentration camp fences. whether that calling out is by "liberals," "conservatives," or "independents," speaking out against genocide is critically important.
as far as the Jewish people worldwide being in danger because of the situation, they have the Zionist Israeli government's violent and genocidal actions to thank for angering other ethnic groups to the point of (potentially misdirected in many cases) retaliation.
I have to agree with the reader who noted this essay is way beyond the length of an average 3000 word writing. This essay could be made into 2 short stories.
Has any of the readers of this essay ever gone beyond the norm to come up with the reasons why elitist Jews have been hated in many lands across the planet over the passed couple of centuries???
Greenwald unfortunately despises Israel and is a self hater or more accurately a hater of his Jewish identity. He picks his free speech rants very selectively. Disappointing because he is intelligent and a good investigative reporter. But his anti-Israel and anti-Jewish invective disqualifies him on both subjects. As for the elite globalist college cesspools, you are seeing the result of decades of Qatar based funding and brainwashing. One college President down. 2 more to go.
Well written & must needed timelines. I’m afraid that the division and manipulation of free thought may have reached the point of no return.
With the media signed on 100% any dissenting voice is immediately silenced and typically either the author slandered or worse, there may be little hope.
Division has occurred in my close circle that was tightly holding firmly against the horrors of Covid. Now it's Israel. I am broken hearted. I continue to see that one day I may stand alone with my husband. There are no guarantees in this world and God has no grand children.
Painfully obvious the battle is spiritual and many hearts are blinded, dead and dark, like their owner, who deceives and projects his vileness. Wake up, people🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the worldly forces of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
- Ephesians 6:12 TLV
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks lies he is just being himself—for he is a liar and the father of lies.
- John 8:44 TLV
And just as they did not see fit to recognize God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what is not fitting. They became filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents. They are foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree—that those who practice such things deserve death—they not only do them but also approve of others who practice the same.
- Romans 1:28-32 TLV
Wowee--this was powerful an' so thoughtfully researched, a mighty LightHouse against the tides, a bright light in the killer fog (literally!) offerin' a safe harbor for Jewish ships to land--an' I don't mean warships--I know you too want peace! I mean ordinary people, well-meanin' people..."my" people-- tho I feel I almost need to say most are good people--it's only the skunks that seem ta make it inta the funny papers and they become the symbols for all Jews. If Biden is rotten, nobuddy sez it's cuz all Catholics are rotten too... Anywho... bless ya fer clearly statin' that there IS a double standard! That Jews are threatened--an' from what ya shared've the Koran Christians too. Nobuddy sees it... The irony is that fer so long ADL made a mess'a things an' were so pitt-bull like (Soros-backed!) that they said Jews were cryin' wolf--that nobody hated 'em at all, they were just paranoid an' nutz. Glenn Greenwald can't see it perhaps, that puttin' the scandalous ADL aside, that Jews are AmeriKa's favorite scapegoat. Break a nail, blame a Jew (I wish I wuz jokin'...) He's in Brazil where there ain't no Jews ta observe bein' harmed. Trust me, when yer chased (I wuz as a kid 'fore we made it ta New Yawk), it's not just free speech. Anywho, we left NYShitty fer safety (all kinds...since I got daughters an' the subways became Rikers Island 2.0) but I know it's not made up, the hate, the threats--what they're doin' ta students--an' not just in college--my friend with a daughter in a Jewish high school reports the parents had ta pay fer private security--there've been threats, graffiti--not all famblies are deep pocketed (it's a myth that all "chews" are rich--in the US AND in Israel of course). I think I mentioned once that my friend's son no longer wears his yamulke ta Yeshiva U. Too risky. Thank you THANK YOU fer seein' this--fer callin' it right.
I frankly learned a LOT myself here--my scenty-mints bein' similar but my learnin' curve 'bout the Middle East is purdy steep--much I don't know even when I thought I knew a bunch. 'Specially appreciate the hist'ry lesson on how "ErrorRat" defaulted on Oslo (they make it sound like only Rabin's death--possibly at the hands of puppet NetAnYahoo--was the ONLY factor in that 2state peace deal not workin' out...hmmm--an' they blame Israel for no peace bein' reached--hmmm again)--I honestly didn't know just how many peace treaties got rejected--an' not by Israel either.
Yer SO right 'bout Glenn...it's sad-- I think he THINKS his stance'll save 'im. It's "Intercept-proof!" If Nazism returns full force, they won't care that he tried to defend Hamas (even if he wasn't gay...). He'd be gone right fast. That's whut he doesn't git--but I'm grateful that even some other liberals (heck, I wuz one too not that long ago!) finally woke up upon hearin' not just UPenn but Harvard an' the others spout that if it's Jews then genocide is A-ok (really?) Again' I'm all fer free speech but this is crossin' a line--if ya couldn't shout genocide fer all women or blacks or native americans--why jews?
Anywho, bless ya Karen--I know you'll have ta stand tall against an onslaught of ugly--if ya don't mind my sayin' it, yer a mensch! THANK YOU. It's been weird cuz I've seen so many folks on the jabs-bad 'er "save america" side--I thought it wuz a side I understood--howl 'bout all the bad "chews"--one I thought was so GOOD on all things biotech (like how bad AI, etc an' our WBAN are) just shared a jaw-dropper from some skeery preacher named Father Nathaniel--omg, it's witherin', the level of hate against all k___s vs the universally unequivocally "good gentle" Palestinian people includin' those in Hamas. Don't look 'im up if ya got food in yer stomick. Even Max Igan (SO good about the jabs bad), same deal against the Jews... Many regular comments are now showin' their "stripes...."
Another voice ya may like--one of wisdom too, a gentle soul, is that've Gad Saad...a Jewish Iranian Professor in Canada--
The Genesis and Rise of Jew-Hatred (THE SAAD TRUTH_1627)
Interview with his Muslim friend Brother Rasheed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDD7GM3sxW8
Gad Saad On Israel-Hamas War And Growing Anti-Semitism On US Campuses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXzIiomV4rw India Today
Hamas vs. Israel - On Proportionality, Colonialism, Lies, & Vigorous Debates (THE SAAD TRUTH_1611)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey-UYsPQ19s
I mebbe a crackpot but I kin spot a gem in a bucket've crawdads any day--keep on shinin' with yer truths--with much gratty-tude from a "wild" Daisy pushin' up thru the cracks in the sidewalk--
Thank you. I quoted Gad Saad in my last essay. He's such a good voice. God bless.
Just finally heard it--ann'uther great essay--an' yes, a gentle good voice in the chasm! Blessin's back yer way!
There are so many misconceptions, I will have to write more about this. I visited Israel and I can say it was one of the best experiences of my life. I will write about it as soon as I can get around to it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Greenwald and a number of other anti-Great Reset, anti-totalitarian writers like CJ Hopkins and Michael Rectenwald have taken up this antisemitic position - it's heartbreaking and utterly infuriating.
Glen shocked me too. Aaron Mate, less, because he's a bit of a nepo-baby.
an' many blessin's back at'cha--I'm a mite bee-hind in my readin' so I missed yer quote--but I got that essay bookmarked! (it's a long'un but I'll git to it soon!)
Haha, I'm known to be long-winded.
Stick it up your stupid Zionist ass. It is NOT anti-Semitic to protest the deaths of tens of thousands.
Spend a lot of time protesting against the Saudi-backed war in the Yemen, do you? Hundreds of thousands of dead Muslims in that one. Have you even heard of it? No of course not, because it cannot be blamed on Jews. Your hypocrisy can be seen from space.
You just proved her point! Such hatred.
What you write all makes sense if you leave out the major issue driving the antisemitism we see rising pretty much anywhere. Do you ask "Why now?" what is changing? Why would people be so upset with Israel when it was the victim of an horrific assault by Hamas invaders on October 7th? Why is Greenwald taking his position? Is he self-hating? Irrational? Racist? What the world has seen is gross brutality and a flagrant violence against humanity in the Israeli response to Hamas. We see helpless civilians driven under rocket fire from homes. We see all... ALL hospitals (including WHO facilities) destroyed; people starved, massive slaughter. It's called war, but it is not. One side has dropped TONS of bombs flattening the entire North of a people's homeland and is well on the way to flattening the rest. I am sorry Karen, this is shocking and ugly in the extreme and is not supportable. If LA, for example, has a gang problem with people being kidnapped and murdered, the response is not to flatten the city and kill thousands of residents to root them out. No one would accept that. Another thing to think about is the incredible damage the atrocities the world is witnessing is having on Israel and its future. As this continues all will have to abandon Israel - even the US. More and more people will have a repulsion to Israel like they have had to Pol Pot's Cambodia, Idi Amin's Uganda, and other cruel and genocidal tyrants. Israel becomes extremely vulnerable without international support... which it is driving away. If you are a true supporter of the long-term survival of that country you will reject what is happening as suicidal. If you are a moral being you will repel in disgust at what is happening. If you are a humanitarian you will, likewise, be repulsed. So, maybe the energy behind the backlash against Jews is fueled by the outrage people feel at the horror Israel has been visiting on Palestinians for decades that has now exploded into full view. All people... jewish included... should condemn the slaughter of innocents, the collective destruction of the whole for a small group of criminals in their midst. I believe that if the world saw the rejection of this by Jews around the world that the hostility towards innocent Jews would abate. But they do not and it gives the impression that this group is OK with crimes against humanity. Not good. This does NOT make Israel safe. Does Israel have a right to protect itself from being attacked? Absolutely. Should it take attackers and mete out justice? Absolutely. Should it visit atrocities on a whole group of non-combatant civilian residents? Absolutely not. Yes, Hamas and other terror groups are dangerous and call for genocide. They warrant a vigorous response - within the law and targeted at the perpetrators, not the entire population. It is NOT OK to pursue a threat of genocide with actual genocide. Do support Israel. Do decry attacks on innocent Jews. Do raise alarm at call for ANY group of people to be 'wiped out'. But not with a blind eye to the the attrocities that are the driving force behind these trends. Oh, there is so much more to say...
People are always upset with Israel. Every time they defend themselves, they are vilified for it--and of course that statement right there will anger a lot of people. I've written so much already about the corruption of Netanyahu and the United States' responsibility for terrorism, I mean, I've written many essays about it, my most recent being THE BIG PICTURE: How Anthrax & the War on Terror Brought Us to the Brink of WWIII https://khmezek.substack.com/p/the-big-picture-how-anthrax-and-the. And I agree, terrorism won't end and hatred toward Israel will increase. I have studied the Bible, and it says it clearly there. Evil doesn't end. It just moves elsewhere. This piece was about something specific, not about many of the points people are raising in the comments, and I stuck to that topic. I can't explain the same things over and over in every essay that I've already focused on in other pieces. Many people will never see that Zionism is a convenient excuse for hatred of Jews. In fact, that number will continue to increase. And raising this point brings out so much anger in people towards me. You should see the emails, not just the comments. Why so much hatred? I would never say to anyone of my subscribers who disagrees with me that because they hold a different view, they must celebrate the death of innocent children, be scum, etc., etc.. Again, once must ask, why so much hatred? Because, as I said time and time again, we are being pushed toward extremism and hatred of one another. We are being forced into narrower and narrower boxes, only listening to those who agree with increasingly narrow views. The menticide is growing. Just wait for 2024.
Yes, I have read and understand your writings thoroughly. Zionism has been a focal point for hating Jews, absolutely. I have zero hatred towards you and none towards Zionists or Jews (mom is a Jew) or Palestinians. Carving Israel out of Palestine was at the expense of local residents and it gave political hay for neighboring despots to take the focus off of them and on to Israel... that was some of the hate you speak of. Others use Zion to organize groups and use Jews as a bogeyman. The latter had to make stuff up to generate the hate, the former had a host of refugees as a tool to do it. What we see now is an explosion of anti Israel feelings (hate, if you will) and that is directly from the response after Oct. 7. Israel had different options that could have garnered a lot of international support for their plight with the threats coming from Hamas. They blew that support like we did after 9/11. (Do you recall that Iran offered us help? And that Le Monde's headline on 9/12/01 was something like: "We Are All Americans" - in english!) Netanyahu and his crimes are a perfect... perfect... device for splitting up the camps and generating mentacide. How is a person like me to react to his carnage, Karen? It is totally horrible. So, I offer you peace and not conflict by saying this: Israel and her people are precious and must be safe and Jews around the world safe as well. Palestinians are also precious and must be safe and have a home... (in the place they used to inhabit) just like their neighbor has. The killing is evil on all sides and must stop. The criminals on both sides should be shut down and held to account. Is there any force in the world that can do that? That is a good question. Peace be upon you.
I have not been able to respond until now, but I wanted to say just a couple of things. I appreciate your good spirit. Thank you!
I agree, who wouldn't, that the killing is evil on both sides and must stop. However, this is the history of the human race. By the end of 2021, deaths in the war in Yemen had reached almost 400,000. Where were the protests? I'm at a loss. It is clear the masses are manipulated by the media and follow blindly in their protests. Total hypocrisy, if you ask me.
As for Palestinians, unfortunately, a study by a Palestinian University (Not Jewish mind you. I have to source but no time to put it here, sorry, perhaps I will write a piece about it) determined that 70% of Palestinians support Hamas. In videos taken by Hamas you see them celebrating these horrible acts that Hamas committed. What should Israel do? What would you do?
Arab nations do not support the Palestinians. Why is that? The Abraham Accord was a threat to the Hamas/Palestinian cause, which is not an independent state but to exterminate all Jews. Is there no outcry for this? Here also are some facts about the actual history:
One of the Arabs' best-kept secrets, skillfully obscured over the years, is the true reason behind their refusal of the 1947 UN partition plan:
For those less familiar, here's a quick summary:
After WWII, the British, looking to exit the complicated situation they found themselves in in the Middle East, planned to hand back the mandate they had received from the UN.
The UN dispatched the UNSCOP committee to determine the region's future. The committee proposed several plans, with the well-known Partition Plan eventually being accepted by the majority of its members.
The Jewish community accepted this plan, and a majority of UN members voted in favor of it.
However, the Arabs rejected it, similarly to their earlier refusal of the Peel Commission's recommendations (a topic for another post).
So, why then did the Arabs reject the partition proposal?
Primarily, they were confident in their ability to swiftly defeat the Jews, eliminate them, and seize the entire territory.
This conviction also had a significant contribution to the Nakba as it led them to advise many Arabs to temporarily vacate their homes during the conflicts, expecting to return post-victory - a victory that, of course, never materialized.
Yet, this is not the core reason.
Pay close attention now:
The primary reason Arab leaders rejected the UN's partition proposal was their own disbelief in the Palestinian people's right to self-determination. In fact, they were opposed to it! Indeed, that's exactly as it sounds.
Arab leaders never recognized Palestinians as an ethnic group with self-determination rights, but rather as a part of the larger Arab nation.
As those knowledgeable in history (and not propaganda) understand, there were originally no 'Palestinians', only Arabs.
The Arabs' national goal was to create Greater Syria, covering today's Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Israel, a vision outlined in the McMahon-Hussein correspondence of 1915-1916.
Therefore, they rejected any proposal that independently defined the Palestinians, as such a distinction simply did not exist.
(Interestingly, this truth is widely recognized in the Arab world. While not often acknowledged publicly, it occasionally surfaces, as seen in a video I'll share in the comments)
So next time Palestinian history, culture, or their right to self-determination is discussed, remember that while the world, Jews included, were willing to acknowledge this, the refusal came from the Arabs themselves, who recognized the idea of a Palestinian nation as a UN fabrication. -- Oren Barsky
Many blessings to you.
Thoughtful, nuanced response to a clearly biased essay.
If Hamas’s violence and wish for the destruction of a Zionist regime - note: not Jews/Israelis - is deemed ‘terrorism’ and them labelled ‘terriorists’, then the leaders of Israeli government are no less terrorists for their dehumanising of Gazan civilians and ethnic cleansing rhetoric.
That’s without even touching on the Israelis snopers shooting dead peaceful protesters, mosque raids, brutality, etc...
Poor students whinging about nasty emails while children in their thousands are torn limb from limb - what happened to you Karen? You got lost in the darkness, my friend. It makes me nauseous.
Bored by this fake war in Israel/Gaza. Import all these pukes to The Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St.Paul where they'll have the 2nd Amendment.
Will make for great news vidz. Once a few get elected to Congress, they can have shootouts on the House Floor.
By "exponents of genocide," I presume you're referring to the Medical Pharmaceutical Covid-Con perps..?? That's quite a large number(!) .. easily qualifying as yet another genocide.
Do you suggest this purge be carried out by government thugs or local lynch mobs?
Today everyone's a Cracker and Genocide/Holocausts are Equal Opportunity.
Hate is Great. Have Fun With Dick and Jane.
Thanks for your comment. Political Correct revisionists are overshadowing our history. May they rot in the swamp.
I cannot understand how anyone can back the very-functionally-genocidal Israeli government who've killed way over 10000 concentration camp enclosed civilians since October, any more than I understand how anyone can back the wanna-be-genocidal-but-lacks-proper-weaponry-to-pull-it-off Hamas government who killed a portion of the 1400ish Israeli casualties since October 7 (hamas killed the part of that group that was not Hannibal Doctrined into extinction by the IDF themselves.)
I totally understand how anyone can back the noncombatant civilians on either side of the concentration camp fences around Gaza and the West Bank though. both governments suck, both say publicly they want as many of the other side dead as they can manage, but Israel is the one with billions on billions of dollars worth of US weaponry, US satellite surveillance access, and straight up US military backing.
in a situation like this one, the group with higher tech firepower, total control over ingress/egress to the conflict area, and 10x the civilian casualty count absolutely deserves to be called out at least as much as the side fighting inside the concentration camp fences. whether that calling out is by "liberals," "conservatives," or "independents," speaking out against genocide is critically important.
as far as the Jewish people worldwide being in danger because of the situation, they have the Zionist Israeli government's violent and genocidal actions to thank for angering other ethnic groups to the point of (potentially misdirected in many cases) retaliation.
I have to agree with the reader who noted this essay is way beyond the length of an average 3000 word writing. This essay could be made into 2 short stories.
I think we all must read the Sherlock Holmes News only. Nothing else.
Has any of the readers of this essay ever gone beyond the norm to come up with the reasons why elitist Jews have been hated in many lands across the planet over the passed couple of centuries???