When I’m out at a Flamy Grant drag music concert, a former community ed student’s wife comes up to me and first wants to know why “can’t you teach poetry at the college anymore?”
Apr 09, 2026
Alas, the first thing out of her mouth: “Was it antisemitism?” Ahhh, that thing. I told her the point of my piece went beyond my issues with a fucking VP of a community college who has gone after me in the community for “hate speech.”
December 2, 2025
Calling a public official, a dirty politician, no less (that’s what many of us call politicians), a piece of shit? That’s it, no? Bye-bye discourse. David Gomberg, Jew.
And so it goes:
And indeed, the queer and LGBT were out for the sit-down church concert (sedate, staid, and conservative sort of, LGBTQA+), 160 total, including allies like me, to see this indeed odd and surprisingly talented voices concert.
Both Heather and Flamy came from evangelical roots. And Pastor Bob got hit with threats of protests and Facebook posts about Den of Inequity. SO he printed up t-shirts.
Flamy Grant is an amazing singer, and his coming to No Bishop Barkley moment he told us was visiting Canyon Lands at age 25:
“I’m looking at these canyons, 180 degrees around, going on forever. The National Park has great explanations of how this once flatland was formed by water and wind.”
A subsiding basin and nearby uplifting mountain range (the Uncompahgre) existed in the area in Pennsylvanian time. Seawater trapped in the subsiding basin created thick evaporite deposits by Mid Pennsylvanian. This, along with eroded material from the nearby mountain range, became the Paradox Formation, itself a part of the Hermosa Group. Paradox salt beds started to flow later in the Pennsylvanian and probably continued to move until the end of the Jurassic.[61] Some scientists believe Upheaval Dome was created from Paradox salt bed movement, creating a salt dome, but more modern studies show that the meteorite theory is more likely to be correct.
A warm shallow sea again flooded the region near the end of the Pennsylvanian. Fossil-rich limestones, sandstones, and shales of the gray-colored Honaker Trail Formation resulted. A period of erosion then ensued, creating a break in the geologic record called an unconformity. Early in the Permian an advancing sea laid down the Halgaito Shale. Coastal lowlands later returned to the area, forming the Elephant Canyon Formation.
Large alluvial fans filled the basin where it met the Uncompahgre Mountains, creating the Cutler red beds of iron-rich arkose sandstone. Underwater sand bars and sand dunes on the coast inter-fingered with the red beds and later became the white-colored cliff-forming Cedar Mesa Sandstone. Brightly colored oxidized muds were then deposited, forming the Organ Rock Shale. Coastal sand dunes and marine sand bars once again became dominant, creating the White Rim Sandstone.
A second unconformity was created after the Permian sea retreated. Flood plains on an expansive lowland covered the eroded surface and mud built up in tidal flats, creating the Moenkopi Formation. Erosion returned, forming a third unconformity. The Chinle Formation was then laid down on top of this eroded surface.
Increasingly dry climates dominated the Triassic. Therefore, sand in the form of sand dunes invaded and became the Wingate Sandstone. For a time climatic conditions became wetter and streams cut channels through the sand dunes, forming the Kayenta Formation. Arid conditions returned to the region with a vengeance; a large desert spread over much of western North America and later became the Navajo Sandstone. A fourth unconformity was created by a period of erosion.
Mud flats returned, forming the Carmel Formation, and the Entrada Sandstone was laid down next. A long period of erosion stripped away most of the San Rafael Group in the area, along with any formations that may have been laid down in the Cretaceous period.
The Laramide orogeny started to uplift the Rocky Mountains 70 million years ago and with it, the Canyonlands region. Erosion intensified and when the Colorado River Canyon reached the salt beds of the Paradox Formation the overlying strata extended toward the river canyon, forming features such as The Grabens.[62] Increased precipitation during the ice ages of the Pleistocene quickened the rate of canyon excavation along with other erosion. Similar types of erosion are ongoing, but occur at a slower rate.
“I really had to decide: is that Baptist Church from North Carolina telling me the trutht hat the earth is around 6,000 years old, or do I believe that scientists and geologists of the National Parks Service? Here I am, seeing that Wind and Water, there, all those millions of years, and at age twenty-five, late in life, changing my perspective and worldview completely. I wrote a song, Canyonlands, about that revelation of millions of years of Wind and Water carving out Canyonlands.”
The 6,000-year age of the Earth is primarily attributed to 17th-century Irish Archbishop James Ussher (not Bishop Barkley), who calculated that creation began on October 23, 4004 B.C., based on biblical genealogies. This literal interpretation of Genesis is a cornerstone of Young Earth Creationism, which argues against mainstream scientific evidence suggesting a billions-of-years-old Earth.
So Flamy saw the light, so to speak: Here, from an interview: As someone who’s very in tune with humanity, just very conscious and wanting peace, wanting good things, do you try to engage the protesters or is it not worth the effort?
So, my experience started on social media. That’s where I would first encounter people who were mad about my existence. And so what I learned from social media I’ve tried to take into real life as well, which is just that I never engage with the intent of actually trying to debate or change the minds of these people. That’s just not going to happen. That’s not a realistic goal or realistic expectation,
But I do engage and my goal in doing so is to take the wind out of their sails — just take the piss out of it; show how small-minded and just small in general they are. And really, my purpose for engaging is so that anybody else watching, especially queer youth, get to see someone’s standing up to these assholes and just call it what it is, which is just a bunch of bluster and bullshit.
There’s no legitimate concern that anyone has raised about the drag community or about trans folks or about trans youth getting best practice medical care. It’s all just these fear-mongering talking points. At the risk of spotlighting them, because I don’t want to do that either, I want to just pull back the curtain and show the man, like, spinning the machine behind the curtain. Because that’s all it is. It’s just spin and it’s just fear-mongering talking points that they’re regurgitating and there’s no truth to any of it.
We have actual data that shows how much more likely a kid is to be harmed/molested in a church setting than they are in a drag show or by a drag performer or by a trans person. We have those hard numbers and yet there’s no outrage about what’s going on in churches across America. Every week, there is a new story about some pastor or youth pastor with an inappropriate relationship or who has child porn on his computer. And we don’t see the kind of response from people about that. So, yeah, it’s this weird dance of not actually trying to engage with them directly. It’s more to let the community, let the kids — especially who have to deal with this stuff — see someone in their corner, standing up for them, taking the piss out of it.
Heather was busted for singing in the capitol. My official statement on being carried out of the Tennessee State Capitol while singing. Special message at the end to the trans community 🏳️⚧️ I love you.
Tennessee RepubIicans just passed an unprecedented anti-trans bill that is a huge medical privacy violation, and puts thousands of community members in real danger. Don’t let them get away with this. Our trans neighbors need our help and protection NOW.
So, a very interesting night, for sure. Lots of songs about the hypocrisy of religion, and both Flamy and Heather talked about their bible school days. The crowd in Yachats was old, and many of the same-sex or trans couples were there.
AMERICAN TAXPAYERS ARE WHAT IS KEEPING ISRAELIS ALIVE & GENOCIDING WITH IMPUNITY…TAKE A GOOD LOOK IN THE MIRROR… ISRAEL NEEDS TO BE OBLITERATED…STAY ON THE FILES…
“WAKE UP, AMERICA!” Max Blumenthal’s TERRIFYING Revelation: Our Nation Has Been SECRETLY CAPTURED!
If my daughter converted to Judaism? FUCK. I had to frame and reframe this fucking thought experiment. She knows nothing of the world. She is amazingly ignorant but curious. Knows nothing about Max Blumenthal, or Mint Press News, or Drop Site News, or the thousands of other sources to pull the fucking scales off her FUCKING eyes.
So this woman, a non-Jew, has this wonderful UCLA professor daughter, and that daughter has two kiddos, and so, not only am I being told she converted to Judaism, but now she’s in the exceptionally radical form with the separation of the genders. Here I’m being confronted with this at a fucking church, dudes, and she is loud, and so am I, trying not to go to the real area where we can say unequivocally that Judaism is a Sodomite and Satanic cult.
I told her that her narrative frame is tied to a daughter and two grandkids, and I told her that many people are estranged from family because of the MAGA-Non-MAGA divide. I told her that, of course, I would have zero in Common with my Daughter’s Judaism, and I’d probe her, and see just how fucking Kool-Aid lobotomized by that fucking up religion.
Of course, this woman Goy had to tell me that Jews are special, that it’s not the same about other genocides.
She will never tap into the sources all people should tap into: The US and Israeli Political – Military Alliance Causing Utter Horror and Chaos The World Over
The US and Israeli political/military alliance, causing utter horror and chaos the world over, backed by their mass propaganda campaign, is controlled by 3 cults. It’s imperative we understand their coordination strategy and their end game, so we can dismantle and replace their self-destructive ideology with something worthy of humankind.
God damn, some crazy UCLA professor is going Ivanka? Kushner? What the fuck? Mechitza: (separation) at the Western Wall – and the unity of Israel | The Jerusalem Post
The barriers in those synagogues.
Settler-colonialism is, by its very nature, a policy of elimination. As Patrick Wolfe argued, “The distinction between dominion and occupancy illuminates the settler-colonial project’s reliance on the elimination of native societies.” (Wolfe, P. (2006). Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native. Journal of Genocide Research, 8(4), 387–409).
Colonialism and its instruments, or an apartheid regime, would qualify as ‘dominion’, whereas settler-colonialism is a policy of erasure, removal, and replacement — elimination of the native — which takes place in many forms, not just killing. Wolfe stated the obvious, and the only reason he had to state it is because the reality of what settler-colonialism is and was is deliberately obscured. A home invasion, with the intent of replacing the existing inhabitants with the invaders’ people, cannot be spun to be anything other than what it is, an act of elimination.
Legal frameworks are created after an event or a phenomenon has been identified. You don’t need laws against theft in a society where theft doesn’t exist. You only need a law against a particular human behaviour once it’s been perpetrated and recognised, and society decides that it’s something it doesn’t want. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was based on what the Nazis did. There were many genocides throughout human history, but the Nazi genocide was committed by a ‘modern and civilised’ society using the most advanced technology available at the time, and the full legal, bureaucratic, and technological machinery of a modern state. The UN Convention reflects what the Nazis did and defines those particular actions as genocide. ‘We recognise they did certain things, we think that was bad. We don’t want it to happen again, so we’re going to make a rule that says you can’t do those things, and if you do, there will be consequences.
The Convention says:
“… genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
If you want to split hairs, you can try to examine Israel’s actions against each of the items to test whether or not what Israel is doing qualifies as genocide. Genocide scholars around the world, including in Israel itself, have already agreed that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide.
There are currently around 7 million people identified as Jewish in the USA, with 400,000 in Canada, a similar number in France, 300,000 in the UK, nearly 200,000 in Argentina, 130,000 in Russia, 125,000 in Germany and 120,000 in Australia.
If they had wanted to go and live in Israel they would presumably have already done so by now – and recent events would hardly have made them feel more motivated to settle there.
So in the absence of the carrot, there is only the stick – and what better stick than the tried and tested one of anti-semitism?
In truth, the fear of anti-semitism is permanently used as a weapon against the Jewish diaspora, to make them cling to the Zionists for protection.
The assimilation of anti-Zionism with anti-semitism partly serves that purpose, making Jewish people think that others feel hatred towards them rather than towards ZIM.
If anti-Zionism is successfully merged with anti-semitism, and more and more Gentiles start talking in terms of “the Jews” rather than of the Zionists, life would really become more uncomfortable for Jewish people and they might be tempted to answer Israel’s call to go and occupy the Lebensraum beyond its current borders.
Not being anti-semitic is the only possible moral stance for a decent and humane person to take – as is the rejection of any kind of supremacism.
But it is also a strategic necessity in the battle against ZIM – falling into the trap of identifying our enemy as “the Jews” is to play right into the hands of the Judeo-supremacists.
I’m in the April 8 edition with the following:
This is what got this student’s goy wife to wrangle me at a drag and lesbian concert!
Poetry in a Time of Genocide and ICE
by Paul Haeder
April is National Poetry Month, but I am with words, but without a venue to rejoice in the power of poems, and the creators, artists, many of whom were and are the first light in the dark to understand the harsh realities of our world.
I’ve been told I can no longer teach writing courses in the local college’s community education program. My past students have emailed me several times wanting more classes facilitated by me.
I still write, still compose, driving force into short stories and poems.
For someone like Irish novelist Edna O’Brien, she’s voicing what many of us hold in our hearts: “I would die now if tomorrow morning I could not write.”
Recently, I was at the Gleneden Side Door Restaurant, and lo and behold, one of the servers announced she is part of an open mic regular meet-up in Lincoln City. Check out various sources and find open mics in Yachats, Newport, Lincoln City – all ages, youth, queer, and LGBTQ.
The restaurant’s GM, Jake, talked about Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac as touchstones in his life. He opened up about growing up in Seaside, and alas, he related how he struggled big time with substance abuse. He was young when he got caught up in chemical and alcohol abuse. He’s now sober, but he calls those writers as guides in his life, then, and maybe now.
Here’s a funny anti-ugly American poem by Charles Bukowski:
a model
I have to be like that
man who entered the
restaurant
tonight,
he parked right in
front
blocking a good many
parked cars,
then slammed his car
door,
walked in,
his shirt hanging out
over his big
gut,
and he saw the
maitre d’,
said, “Hey, Frank,
get me a fu**ing
table by the window!”
and then followed
him
along.
I have to be like
that man.
this way’s not
working.
for over 70 years
now.
For me, the voices of wars, the children upheaved, the death cleaved to ancient lands, places we should all embrace as wonderful memories to rise again — Palestine, Lebanon, Damascus, Tehran, Baghdad – talk to me deeply.
Poets I read are both dead and alive, and one amazing educator, a Palestinian, Susan Abudana, tells the story of her heart and the tears of her people in Palestine. She lives and works in the US. She’s the author of the international bestseller “Mornings in Jenin” and founder of Playgrounds for Palestine. Here’re part of “For Samer Issawi: a poem.”
O’ Native son, my brother
Fly over this country your wish
And pour the Adan from your wings
Let the church bells chime from your smile
And the walls fall by your kiss
Our tears will rain and the wadis flood
Until another thousand years
Have sunk in Jerusalem’s mud
We will harvest the olives with your name
And your heart will forever stake our claim
Imagine the daily struggle young people, mothers, and those old and disabled, have in war-torn places just getting a cup of water, let alone shelter, medicine, and food. Contrast this with workers at the Raytheon campus in Tucson, which is a major manufacturing site for missiles, employing approximately 13,000 people.
My old stomping grounds, Tucson, is home to the Tomahawk missile, now built by “regular” folk at the Raytheon plant.
This is the conundrum of living in a capitalist society, where we have so many silos, between those who understand the cost of those Tomahawks ($4 million each) to the national coffers, but also those who understand the toll on countries where Tomahawks seek the heat of humanity.
The benefit of warlords (in this case, a division of RTX Corp), that is, the offensive weapons cartels, is they are a driver for the Tucson economy, contributing about $2.6 billion.
It is akin to working in a meat-packing plant, except that blood, guts, wailing cows, and the stench greet the blue-collar laborer. In Tucson, there are offices and clean air-conditioned assembly lines to stitch together the mainframes, the engines, the telemetry, and computer hardware and software for these death machines, including the Patriot Interceptor missiles ($6 million each).
Poets drill down on these dualities, these juxtapositions of the reality of life in America. For April, my Wednesday show (Voices from the Edge, KYAQ.org, 8 pm; rebroadcast 3 pm Thursdays), I’ll showcase poetry and poets. April 1 had Russ McSpadden talk about his book, “Borderlings.”
“These are poems of witness, essential soul testimony from the scenes of a paranoid society’s crimes. And they offer glimpses of how we stay human without looking away: cultivating wonder, raising children, fighting like hell for the beauty still woven all around and through us.” – Logan Phillips
The concept of “borders,” especially now under Trump-Miller and Company, has been expanded beyond the US-Mexico border. We have moving borders, wherever that violent organization ICE goes, whether it’s Minneapolis or Denver.
It takes a poet to define our times, for sure. The words of Mahmoud Darwish, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, and Mourid Barghouti certainly soar above the English romantics. Through their politically-charged verses and lyrics of hope, Palestinian poets sparked a flame of cultural resistance that continues to burn brightly today.
Poetry has historically been Palestine’s most beloved art form. The social historian Dorothy Benson described poetry as an “essential ingredient” of Arab culture that has been passed down since the establishment of Islam in the region.
“If I Must Die”
If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze—
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself—
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale
– By Refaat Alareer ( Sep. 1979 –6 Dec. 2023)
Israel has just killed a 13-year-old child inside an educational tent in Beit Lahia, north Gaza. The girl’s name was Ritaj Rihan.
It’s about time we take Iran seriously. Unlike the Epstein Genocidal Alliance, the Iranians say what they mean and mean what they say!
Here is Iranian President Pazeshkian’s message earlier today:
“The repeated attacks by the Zionist entity on Lebanon constitute a blatant violation of the initial ceasefire agreement and a dangerous indication of deception and lack of commitment to potential agreements. Continuing these attacks will render negotiations meaningless; our hands will remain on the trigger, and Iran will never abandon its Lebanese brothers and sisters.”
A renowned psychologist warns that Trump’s mental “deterioration” is “accelerating” with clear signs of “frontotemporal dementia,” and yet he still “has the nuclear button.”
“He’s more like an out-of-control mental patient—only here is somebody who has the nuclear button,” Dr. John Gartner told The Daily Beast podcast.
He explained that the president has been “showing signs of frontotemporal dementia since 2019” and his “rate of deterioration is accelerating,” which should alarm everyone because of the enormous power that Trump has at his fingertips.
Gartner said that the cognitive deterioration is moving so rapidly that Trump is “not the same man he was four weeks ago.” Given that he’s currently waging an illegal and bloody war against Iran and flirting with another one against Cuba, that should terrify every sane American.
“What is most disturbing for the world is that people with frontotemporal dementia lose all judgment, all inhibition, all ability to inhibit their behavior, and they become disinhibited and aggressive,” said Dr. Gartner.
Over the weekend, Trump supercharged the concerns about his rotting mind with a truly insane Easter Truth Social post—
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F*ckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah,” the President of the United States, a supposed Christian, wrote.
Dr. Gartner said that the post “shows the interaction” between frontotemporal dementia and malignant narcissism. While Trump has long been prone to cursing and violent rhetoric, he is growing “more coarse and more abrasive.”
“Now instead of just saying liars and losers, he’s using the word ‘f*ck,’” said Dr Gartnet. “Just that level of cursing is so unpresidential. It’s just showing how he’s losing all the internal controls, and he’s more like an out-of-control mental patient, only here is somebody who has the nuclear button.”
“My fear is that Donald Trump is getting off on this. He is getting sadistic pleasure from scaring the world and blowing things up,” said the doctor. “He’s a raging id with no frontal lobes and no guardrails.”
Beyond the obvious outbursts of mental illness, Trump regularly gets confused while speaking, loses his train of thought, and forgets who people are. Were he a regular American, his family would already have him committed to a psychiatric nursing facility. Instead, he’s dropping bombs all around the world.
Gartner previously laid America’s Trump problem out in the starkest terms imaginable—
“We’re in a hell of a lot of trouble. Us, America, but the world is in a hell of a lot of trouble because the most powerful man in the world is both evil and demented,” he said.
Read this so you understand the scale of Trump’s betrayal.
NEW/Jew YORK TIMES | How Trump Took the U.S. to War with Iran
On February 11, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House Situation Room — a venue rarely used for in-person sessions with foreign leaders — and delivered an hour-long classified briefing to President Trump and his senior advisers.
Netanyahu argued Iran was “ripe for regime change.” His four-part plan promised Iran’s missile program would be destroyed within weeks, the Strait of Hormuz would be kept open, minimal retaliation against U.S. interests, and Mossad-fomented domestic unrest to “finish the job.” He also raised the possibility of Kurdish fighters entering Iran from Iraq. At one point, the Israeli team played a video montage of potential post-regime leaders — among them Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah.
Trump’s response was swift. “Sounds good to me,” he told Netanyahu. Israeli officials took it as de facto approval.
The next day, U.S. intelligence pushed back. CIA Director John Ratcliffe used a single word to describe the regime-change scenarios: “farcical.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio translated: “In other words, it’s bullshit.”
Rubio’s own position was narrower: “If our goal is regime change or an uprising, we shouldn’t do it. But if the goal is to destroy Iran’s missile program, that’s a goal we can achieve.”
When Trump turned to Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, for his read on the Israeli pitch, Caine was candid: “Sir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed. They know they need us, and that’s why they’re hard-selling.”
Caine flagged weapons depletion and Strait of Hormuz risks persistently — but stopped short of recommending against the operation.
Trump absorbed all of it and moved past it. Regime change, he said, would be “their problem.”
Vice President J.D. Vance mounted the most sustained opposition, telling colleagues the war would be “a disaster.”
Vance — a Marine Corps veteran who had publicly opposed war with Iran before the 2024 election — warned of regional chaos, mass casualties, soaring gas prices, depleted U.S. munitions stockpiles, and a fracturing of Trump’s political base. He argued: “A war against a regime with enormous will for survival could leave the United States in a far worse position to fight conflicts for some years.”
He had been in Azerbaijan during Netanyahu’s Feb. 11 presentation and was not present for the initial pitch. He was for no strikes at all — but knowing Trump was likely to intervene, he tried to steer toward more limited action. When a large-scale campaign appeared inevitable, Vance argued it should at least be carried out with overwhelming force.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the most enthusiastic advocate. On February 26 — the day before Trump’s final order — he told the group: “We’re going to have to take care of the Iranians eventually, so we might as well do it now.”
In the final Situation Room meeting, Trump went around the table. Each adviser stated their position. The risks had been named. The divisions were clear. Then Trump said: “I think we need to do it.”
On February 27, 22 minutes before the operational deadline set by Caine, Trump issued the formal order: “Operation Epic Fury is approved. No aborts. Good luck.”
Jewish State and ceasefire are contradictions in terms.
Iranians celebrating their victory in Tehran, no one is seen celebrating in Tel Aviv or in Washington
And let it be known that dirty cult = what if your daughter had converted to Judaism (Irish, Scottish and German roots, man, with family still over there) = hates its own:
Nir Rosen is an American journalist of Jewish and Israeli origin. While he was born and raised in New York City, he spent parts of his childhood in Israel and holds Israeli citizenship.
Background and Upbringing
- Education: As a child in New York, he attended an Orthodox Jewish day school.
- Family Ties: He has extended family in Israel and has written about visiting the country during his youth and early adulthood.
- Linguistic Skills: He is fluent in Hebrew, as well as Arabic and Serbo-Croatian.
Relationship with Identity
Rosen is known for his deeply critical stance toward Israel and Zionism, often describing his relationship with his heritage as complex and painful.
- Anti-Zionism: He has identified as a staunch anti-Zionist and has publicly called for the dismantling of the Israeli state.
- Controversial Views: Some critics have described his writing as expressing a profound rejection of his own identity, noting his sympathetic reporting on groups such as Hezbollah and his harsh critiques of Jewish nationalism.
People attend the funeral ceremony of Popular Mobilization Forces members killed in a U.S. airstrike on a base in Iraq’s Anbar province, at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq on April 1, 2026. Photo by Karar Essa/Anadolu via Getty Images.
In the shadow of its wars in Iran and Lebanon, the U.S. has conducted devastating attacks on the security forces of its Iraqi ally.
“It Seems Like Blind American Ignorance”: The New U.S. War on Iraq, Posted by Internationalist 360° on April 9, 2026 by Nir Rosen
And here, from the JewLantic magazine: Goldberg the prison guard in Is-RAW-Hell.
Nir Rosen, the journalist who infamously mocked Lara Logan (and who was completely dismantled by Anderson Cooper last night), has been saying hugely outrageous things for years, as I’ve documented here. He is sympathetic to the Taliban; he thinks al Qaeda poses no threat to America; he wishes Americans would “get over” 9/11; and he thinks Israel is an “abomination” that should be destroyed. After I posted about his previous statements, I was flooded with e-mails from Goldblog readers who told me I missed the nuttiest thing Rosen ever said. It came in an article about his Israeli origins, in which he called his homeland a place of “bloody nationalism, paranoid identity and violent religion.” In reading this treatise on Israel and its sins, it becomes clear that Rosen (who attended an Orthodox Jewish day school in New York) feels the sort of hate for Israel and Judaism that one associates with the hardest core of Hamas.
Two Jews, another dustup. What a fucking religion, man.
Key Points of Conflict:
- Public Disagreements: Goldberg and Blumenthal have often clashed, with Goldberg attacking Blumenthal’s work as extreme or antisemitic, while Blumenthal characterizes Goldberg as a defender of Israeli state policies.
- Blumenthal’s “Jerusalem” Video: In 2009, Goldberg criticized a video by Blumenthal (”Feeling the Hate”) that showcased anti-Arab sentiment among young Israelis, with Goldberg, in turn, highlighting “anti-Jewish” comments in the video’s comments section.
- 2011 Quote Controversy: Blumenthal was accused by Goldberg of mischaracterizing a quote from academic Karen J. Greenberg regarding Israeli training of US police, which Blumenthal denied, claiming Greenberg was intimidated by “pro-Israel forces” represented by Goldberg.
- Ideological Split: Blumenthal has described his work as exposing the “occupation at the root of the conflict,” while critics like Goldberg have accused him of engaging in extreme anti-Zionist rhetoric.
- Opposition to Liberal Zionism: Blumenthal has been strongly critical of liberal Zionist voices in the US, arguing they fail to confront Israeli actions
What would I do if my daughter called me up one day and said,
“Communist dad, anti-imperial dad, atheist dad, dad who questions all religions, dad who knows there should be no Jewish State of Israel, no two-state solution, who believes Jews in Palestin should go back to Ukraine and Germany and Poland and Russia, well, dad, I am now converted as a conservative Jewish woman. I hope you can visit our synagogue soon.”
[All About Joe Biden’s Catholic & Jewish Interfaith Family]
[Trump’s Jewish grandkids light Hanukkah candles]
Paul Haeder, Author 