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I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Me. . . . You shall be . . . a holy nation . We never considered ourselves simply a religious community. A Jew is a member of the Jewish people.

Paulo Kirk

Mar 02, 2026

Yikes: Exodus 19:4-6 cited above. Now I will take a hot and disinfecting shower!

Here, comments I made on some dude’s Substack, but in a nutshell: My god, these people still cut comments on their fucking Substack if they smell a whiff of parsing out the reality that New York and New Jersey are states with most of the Jews in the USA, and that the NJ governor is certainly influenced by Jew York and Jew Jersey.

Here, from Wolfnotes, first:

Shame On Sherrill – For Silent Support Of Trump’s Illegal War

The Gov. did not even call Trump’s war a War (passive voice “attacks”). She did not name Iran (“Middle East”). It sounds like the Gov. is concerned about Iranian self-defense retaliation on their US attackers.

She did not mention the fact that the war is illegal and not authorized by Congress, ratified Treaty, or the UN/International Law, which are high crimes and grounds for impeachment.

The Gov. did not mention the fact that Trump attempted to justify this war based on BIG LIES, which she surely knows as a former member of the House Armed Services Committee, an experience Sherrill touts.

Sherrill also brags about her experience as “a former Naval officer”, so surely she knows that members of the military pledge an Oath to the Constitution and that members of the military have an affirmative duty to disobey illegal orders and can be prosecuted for murder and war crimes for following illegal orders that kill people.

The entire US military chain of command – from Hegseth down to the drone operators – are now war criminals.

Nor did she condemn Trump for waging an illegal and immoral, unprovoked war of choice.

Sherrill stated that there is no known threat to NJ? What about NJ’s enlisted folks in harm’s way?

So, my first comment was:

Oh, no, what is antisemitic?

The most significant attack — and one with far-reaching consequences — Feb. 28 was on Beit-e-Rahbari, the residence of Ayatollah Khamenei, in a decapitation strike. It was successful. The Judeo-American alliance killed Khamenei along with several of his family members, including his daughter and granddaughter. Regime change in Iran has been at the top of the Israeli-American agenda, and the possibility of killing Khamenei was openly floated by the aggressors during the June war as well. They went ahead with it this time and did finish off the head of the Iranian state.

As the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei was not just a political head of Iran, he was also the preeminent spiritual leader of Shia Muslims. Deriving their theology and culture heavily from the Prophet’s grandson Hussein’s last stand against a numerically much-superior army of the tyrant Yazid in the Battle of Karbala in 680, in which he ascended as a martyr, martyrdom is seen as the highest ideal in Shia Islam. For good reason, the news of Khamenei’s martyrdom has brought millions of Iranian Shias into the streets pledging their support for the Islamic Republic. This same sentiment has poured into the streets of other countries with Shia populations, from the neighbouring Iraq to the much farther Pakistan and even in the intensively-surveilled police state of the Indian occupied Kashmir.

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Dang . . . This is antisemitic?

My new comment.

When families were finally directed to a gathering point to receive the bodies of their children, he slowly moved forward. When asked if he needed help, he shook his head silently and waited for his daughter’s body to be brought out.

“I cannot understand how a place where innocent children learn can be bombed like this,” Shariatmadar told Drop Site. “We are talking about small children who knew nothing of politics or wars. And yet they are the ones paying the highest price.”

Some 170 students were inside the building attending morning classes when the missile struck. At least 108 people were killed, according to the public prosecutor’s office in Minab, many of them schoolgirls between seven and 12 years old.

It was unclear if it was a U.S. or Israeli strike. On Saturday, CENTCOM’s spokesperson said they were “looking into” the reports.

“My heart is broken,” Shariatmadar said. “For Sara and for all the children we lost today. I want the world to know that the children are the real victims. Every day that passes without a solution increases the pain and the suffering for the families and for the children alike.”

Minab sits far from Tehran, but the school was adjacent to a naval base belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Hormozgan province, where the small city of Minab is located, borders the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most strategically sensitive waterways.

A resident of Minab, who spoke to Drop Site on the condition of anonymity, said explosions shook the city Saturday morning, sending residents into an immediate panic. Then reports started emerging that the school had been hit.

My next comment:

Oh, the power of an armchair and American exceptional BULLSHIT art.

The former and recently assassinated Supreme Leader of Iran, Khomeini, was anything but an evil man

Paulo Kirk

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Mar 1

The former and recently assassinated Supreme Leader of Iran, Khomeini, was anything but an evil man

Evil is a term better reserved for those who blockade entire countries even unto death; or for those who steal the wealth of formerly sovereign nations; or for those who call for a return to colonization of the global majority; or for those who aid and abet their allies’ genocides and their seizure of the territory of their victims; or for those who ass…

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The former and recently assassinated Supreme Leader of Iran, Khomeini, was anything but an evil man.

Evil is a term better reserved for those who murder dozens and dozens of elementary schoolgirls, or who murder people in small boats without evidence and without any kind of due process.

Evil is a term better reserved for those who blockade entire countries even unto death; or for those who steal the wealth of formerly sovereign nations; or for those who call for a return to colonization of the global majority; or for those who aid and abet their allies’ genocides and their seizure of the territory of their victims; or for those who assassinate the leaders of other countries with whom they pretend to be negotiating; or those who would block evidence of crime and corruption on the part of elites; or for those who kill US citizens merely because they are protesting these and comparable evils.

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More:

New York and New Jersey hold the highest concentrations of Jewish people in the U.S. As of 2022–2024 data, New York State is home to approximately 1.67 million to 1.79 million Jews, while New Jersey has a population of roughly 581,000 to 626,000. Together, these states contain over 25% of the total U.S. Jewish population.

Yikes, that’s AI Google. Now, there are tons of Jewish organizations and obbying groups who are applauding the Murder Incorporated of the Jewish State of Murdering and Raping and Maiming and Starving Occupied Palestine.

I doubt your governor is going to be humane and justice-driven enough to speak out on that Trump Murder Boy and his Cap’n Crunch and his Department of War Crimes.

Please do not remove this comment. Israel is a terrorist state, called Nazis by Jews like Finkelstein and Pappe.

bill wolfe

You seem to misunderstand what I wrote: (and Zionism is not the jewish religion – it is a racist imperial ideology)

“After years of US funding and support of an Israeli genocide in Gaza, I won’t even pretend that US government officials give a rats ass about the people of Iran and have any objections to US military murders of Iranian civilians, including women and children, and slaughtering Iranian troops (a la “turkey shoots” in Iraq).”

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Paul Haeder

Crazy, after four college degrees and world travel and working in unions and as a real newspaper journalist to be now lectured on what real Judaism is and what it isn’t! Whew, I just turned 69 and now I see. Well, not really. 19 million Jews worldwide and hands down they go to synagogues and listen to rabbis and most believe in the apartheid State of Jewish Israel to have a right to exist. Oh, is that pre- 1969 nakba boundaries. Is that a better mowing of the lawn?

Gilad Atzmon, yep, listen to his jazz and his take on his former birthplace and religion.

Cheers….

bill wolfe

All that education and you fail to understand the difference between religious belief and political ideology and power.

A large fraction of the MAGA base call themselves Christian Nationalists. Are they practicing the tenets of Christianity or power politics?

Perhaps you need one of those multiple-choice fake IQ/logic tests:

Christian Nationalism is to Christianity like Zionism is to:

a)

b)

c)

d)

You win the prize today (and it is pathetic to open a communication with a claim to some college education).

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Paulo Kirk

Whatever, and in today’s world, yep, let’s look at what Christianity’s history is and Judaism’s history is. Let’s look at their books, the Torah and Old Testament.

MAGA? The average person in MAGA goes to the churches, dude, the tens of thousands of churches of many denominations, and alas, they are following the tenets of their religion, what their pastors and ministers spew out.

Religion is not in some silver-lined box. Religion is what it is as people practicing it see it, embrace it and “develop”/”Devolve” it.

Read, dude:

Judaism and Zionism Are Inseparable by Ammiel Hirsch

Judaism absent Jewish peoplehood is not Judaism; it is something else. Whenever Jews abandoned their ideological — or practical — commitment to Am Yisrael, they eventually drifted away. This was precisely the accusation leveled by Reform Zionist Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver toward his anti-Zionist colleagues in the pre-war years. By continuing to insist that the Jews are “no longer a nation, but a religious community” (Pittsburgh Platform, 1885), Reform rabbis were, Silver contended, reconstituting “Paul’s insistence upon a religious creed entirely divorced from nation and land.” In a scathing critique, he noted that this declaration of Reform rabbis “was the first of its kind ever made by an assembly of Jewish religious leaders,” implying that had the Reform movement continued down this path, we, too, like the early Christians, would have eventually drifted away from Jewish civilization.

These two foundational principles of Judaism — nationhood in the Land of Israel — accompanied us throughout the centuries of dispersion. Unlike every nation of antiquity that lived by our side, we did not disappear when our national sovereignty was dissolved. Miraculously and unprecedentedly, we learned to adapt and survive. But at no time was separation from the Land of Israel considered permanent. At no time did we abandon the dream of return. At no time did we consider dispersion to be a blessing. At no time did the rabbis sever Torah from Israel, or God from the people. At no time was tikkun olam — the universal demand to do what is just and right — ripped from the moorings of klal yisrael — the centrality of Jewish peoplehood. It was never one or the other. One without the other diminished both. It was all part of a unified whole. Loyalty to the Jewish people absent concern for all the families of the earth is a distortion of Judaism. And tikkun olam divorced from Jewish peoplehood is not Jewish universalism; it is just universalism. To contend that the Hebrew prophets cared only about repairing the world, and not about the well-being of the Jewish people as a people, is to misunderstand and disfigure the entire prophetic tradition.

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Your war mongering guv? Yep, another Jewish-influenced believer in genocide.

Mikie has spent her time in Congress voting to send billions of American taxpayer dollars overseas to fund Israeli war crimes and genocide. She even voted for AIPAC’s main censorship bill in an attempt to CRIMINALIZE criticism of the Israeli government!

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Oh, another Jewish rabbi quoted here:

Even as Jewish anti-Zionism seems to be intensifying, in particular among the younger generations in America, anti-Zionist Jews constitute a small minority of our people. On the Right, this minority is composed largely of Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews, whose lifestyles and values are outside the mainstream of world Jewry. On the Left, they are largely so-called progressive Jews, who, whether by word or deed, are regurgitating the old, discarded Classical Reform rejection of Jewish peoplehood. In truth, Jewish anti-Zionism is an anachronism. The majority of the world’s Jews already — or will soon — live in Israel. With every passing year, Israel becomes stronger, and its influence on world Jewry increases. Israel is here to stay. Anti-Zionism is a luxury of secure Jews, those who do not feel threatened by widespread Jew-hatred. It is hard to find any anti-Zionist Ukrainian Jews. To the contrary, Israel is preparing to absorb tens of thousands of immigrants from Russia and Ukraine in years to come.

“Zionism is the return to Judaism even before the return to the Land of Israel,” Herzl said to the delegates of the First Zionist Congress. It was an astonishing insight, a prophecy we now know to be true: By reviving the Jewish nation, Zionism revived Judaism itself. It is impossible to envision Judaism today without the State of Israel. Zionism restored the Jewish people to history, propelling us back to the future.

On my first glance at the Tel Aviv skyline in final descent above Ben Gurion Airport, the white city slowly emerging from the azure sea, I often recite to myself these words from Amos 9:14:

I will restore My people, Israel. They shall rebuild ruined cities and inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards and drink their wine. They shall till gardens and eat their fruits. And I will plant them on their own soil, nevermore to be uprooted from the soil I have given them.

Ruined cities are rebuilt, the people restored, nevermore to be uprooted from the soil of the Promised Land.

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Just minutes ago, Paulo Kirk

David Miller is an amazing scholar and journalist:

Tracking Power update

War with Iran is coming

Why have Western governments been waging an economic warfare against Iran for almost five decades?

The Islamic Republic of Iran was subject to a focused Mossad-inspired attack on the 8th and 9th of January.

The Islamic Republic has never wavered in its support for the Palestinian people’s struggle against Zionist oppression and has been a bulwark against the Greater Israel project.

That’s why Benjamin Netanyahu’s desperately trying to persuade the United States to mount a full-scale war against Iran.

So, in our first report, Latifa Abouchakra explains how the West’s economic warfare campaign provides a backdrop to the riots that have recently been in the news.

Our next report looks at why the United States pulled back from the brink of a full-scale war with Iran at the eleventh hour.

Joining us as our guest contributor today is the independent researcher and writer, Dr Phil Bevin, who publishes his material on a range of topics via his Patreon account and various other publications.

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In the Navy, I was on a mission to protect our country. Now, I’m announcing my candidacy for governor on a mission to get things done for New Jersey.

This will be a campaign we build together. We all have a place and a say in New Jersey’s future.

I’m Mikie Sherrill and I’m asking you to join us. New Jersey — let’s build something

Judaism and Zionism Are Inseparable by Ammiel Hirsch

The Jewish story begins in Genesis chapter 12:

And God said to Abram: “Go forth from your native land  .  .  .  to a land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation  .  .  .  and you shall be a blessing .  .  .  and all the families of the earth shall bless themselves through you.” And Abram passed through the land  .  .  .  and God said, “I will assign this land to your offspring.”

From this point forward, and forevermore, the Torah establishes two foundational principles of what became Judaism:

Nationhood and national territory.

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The people of the world who are confused about ZIonism, Israel, Judaism, well, they ARE the enemy: Here, some good writing.

The West did not save Iranian women. It buried their daughters.

Liz Loh-Taylor Mar 02, 2026

The Woman the Empire Invented

The United States and Israel keep inventing women they claim to save.

These women are always far away. Always flattened. Always spoken about, never listened to. They exist as justification, not as people.

Iranian women are the latest version.

We are told they are uniformly oppressed. Permanently silenced. Frozen in submission. The people telling this story have never walked Iranian streets. They have never sat in Iranian cafés. They are afraid to go. Fear does the work for them.

A friend of mine has just returned from Iran.

Women in crop tops and leggings.
Women fully veiled.
Women working.
Women not.

It looked no different to Lebanon. Complexity. Contradiction. Choice mixed with constraint. Real life.

I have spoken to countless women myself. Muslim women. Hijab. No hijab. Across borders and contexts the West collapses into caricature. They argue politics. They work. They study. They love. They disagree with their governments and with each other. They defy the flat image painted for them by people who have never listened long enough to hear them speak.

That reality is inconvenient.

So Washington and Tel Aviv erase it. They reduce Iranian women to a single helpless image. A woman who needs saving. A woman who gives moral cover to pressure, sanctions, and war.

This is an old trick.

Afghanistan was bombed to save women. Then abandoned.
Iraq was invaded to free women. Then left in ruin.
Libya was destroyed in the name of protection.
Syrian women became refugees in a proxy war sold as concern.

The script never changes.

Women are turned into symbols.
Symbols are weaponised.
Real women pay the price.

I have seen what this looks like on the ground.

In Tyre, Lebanon, I met a Shia woman. She did not ask to be saved. She spoke about women sending their sons to the front line. Not because they love war, but because they refuse a future lived in fear. She said they will keep sending them so the next generation does not grow up looking over their shoulders. So they can live with liberty on their own land.

This is what Israeli–US power leaves behind when it speaks the language of protection. Women are not rescued. They are left to carry the cost.

Then there was Iman. I met her in Egypt. A Palestinian in exile.

She did not ask to be saved either.

She holds a university degree. Another course is already lined up. She translated for me from Arabic to English with precision. Not serviceable. Perfect. She is opinionated. Clear. Unafraid of argument.

She does not need saving from her culture.
She does not need saving from her people.

She only needs saving because the West destroyed the conditions of her life.

First, the empire invents the woman who needs saving.
Then it destroys the women who do not.

Which brings us to Iran. And to a girls’ school.


You Do Not Save Women by Killing Girls

An Israeli–US bomb hit a girls’ elementary school in Iran.

Girls aged seven to twelve.
In class.
At their desks.

This is not rhetoric. It is fact.

The same United States and Israel that claim they must attack Iran to save women have killed girls in a school.

Read that again.

This is not a tragic contradiction. It is the truth breaking through the lie.

When Washington and Tel Aviv talk about women’s rights, this is what it produces. Not safety. Not futures. Rubble.

These girls were not threats.
They were not symbols.
They were children.

And they were expendable.

The response will be familiar. Investigations. Statements. Language designed to manage outrage rather than confront what happened.

But no statement resurrects a child.

You do not save women by killing girls.
You do not liberate societies by bombing schools.
You do not claim feminism while practising empire.

We have seen this ledger before.

Gaza.
Afghanistan.
Iraq.
Libya.

Iran is not an exception. It is confirmation.

The United States and Israel do not act to protect women. They act to preserve power. Women’s suffering is invoked when useful and discarded when inconvenient.

Iranian women do not need missiles.
They do not need myths.
They do not need empire speaking in their name.

The myth survives.
The girls do not.

The West did not save Iranian women.
It buried their daughters.

For the record,
Liz

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I guarantee the above, written by Liz would not be allowed in MANY U$A colleges.

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Inside Texas A&M’s Scramble to Censor Its Curriculum

By Jasper Smith and Megan Zahneis

The policy, passed by the system’s Board of Regents in December, marked an expansion of a November rule that prohibited “advocacy” of the same subjects. It came as a “gut punch,” as one administrator described it to another in an email, to representatives of the university’s College of Arts and Sciences, who now had weeks to “mitigate” the relevant material in their syllabi and apply for limited exemptions, or face canceling classes students had already enrolled in.

While the policy was originally drafted to head off one academic-freedom controversy — in which an instructor was fired after a student secretly recorded her teaching about gender — it quickly sparked another. A philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to remove readings from Plato from his syllabus, a move that drew criticism from across higher ed.

Back to the Navy Pilot Cunt: She even voted for AIPAC’s main censorship bill in an attempt to CRIMINALIZE criticism of the Israeli government!

Whoops, insert AOC for Mikie . . . . another fucking Talmudist Cunt: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voted for a resolution on Wednesday which endorses a bogus Israel lobby definition of anti-Semitism.

In backing the measure, she broke with several other members of the so-called Squad, the dwindling group of progressive Democrats in Congress, and sided with the Anti-Defamation League, a powerful Israel lobby group that welcomed the resolution’s passage.

Fucking Jews, dudes, these are JEWS pushing this, not some fucking fabricated rice paper shield called “zionist”:

In the United States, where the First Amendment protects free speech, criticism of Israel cannot be outlawed outright.

But the EU has called for the IHRA definition to be used by law enforcement agencies as a tool to “better recognize anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic crimes” and to “assess security threats.”

Israel and its lobby have also pushed for the IHRA definition to be adopted by private institutions, including schools and universities in the United States, where it has become increasingly common to use the pretext of combating anti-Semitism to crush student protests against institutional complicity in Israel’s genocide.

A number of college campuses across the US have already adopted the IHRA definition. Its further normalization and embrace by public officials, especially self-identified progressives such as Ocasio-Cortez, lends it further credence.

Even without it being codified as the law of the land, the IHRA definition is already a danger to free speech and advocacy for Palestinian rights, which is why Casca’s assurance that Ocasio-Cortez opposes its “codification” is a deflection.

They, the Jews and their Jew Wannabe Christian Zionists, are coming for us:

Does any discussion of white privilege violate policy, even if the instructor is explicit that the goal of discussing privilege is not to assign guilt or blame, or to tell any individual student that they are an ‘oppressor’?” Would a reading that describes a privilege walk “violate policy even if the reading is criticizing that approach?

Reflecting on the flooding of the timeline with Bafta’s N-word coverage Kehinde opens by saying that we’ve missed the point. We focus on the spectacle and not the real issue. Of course, the BBC shouldn’t have aired the N-word and the Bafta’s should have shown more care… but we expect too much from a racist system.

Speaking of a racist system, Kehinde addresses the Green Party’s win in the Gorton and Denton by election. Thankfully, Reform’s less than mediocre White male candidate Matthew Goodwin lost out but the far right party remains a threat, particularly if they make a coalition with the next Prime Minister of the UK….Kemi Badenoch

He is then joined by Dr. Wandia Njoya, a prominent Kenyan scholar, public intellectual, and social commentator known for her critical analysis of education, culture, and politics in Africa. She is an Associate Professor of Literature at Daystar University in Kenya, where she has also served as the Head of the Department of Language and Performing Arts. Wandia holds a PhD in French from Pennsylvania State University. Her scholarly work focuses on French and African literature, film, gender issues, and the interrogation of “what it means to be human” in the modern world.

Dr. Njoya is one of the most vocal critics of Kenya’s Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). She argues that the system prioritizes “practicality” and neoliberal productivity over genuine critical thinking and the arts. She frequently writes about decolonising the African mind and the academy, drawing inspiration from figures like Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Thomas Sankara, and Malcolm X. Her blog, Wandia Njoya, has won multiple awards from the Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) for its commentary on social issues. She is a regular contributor to The Elephant, where she publishes analyses on political elite culture, gender, and education.

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Another kick-ass Palestinian woman.

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