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Paulo Kirk

Jul 13, 2026

The fact that they are hard-core Jews and hard-core Zionists and hard-core bastards, nah, not relevant, so says the No Kings Day geriatrics!

Twelve Democratic attorneys general filed suit Monday to stop Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, which is the parent company of CNN and other major media entities. California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the merger would lead to higher prices for customers, lower quality, and less content for audiences everywhere, from movie theaters to living rooms.

It’s worth mentioning that if this deal goes through, pro-Trump billionaire Larry Ellison and his son David would singlehandedly own CNN, CBS News, Warner Bros., and HBO Max. That’s a homemade right-wing media empire.

Kristen Welker - Wikiwand

It’s never relevant. Yes, Kristen Welker’s father, Harvey Welker, is Jewish, and her mother, Julie Welker, is Black. Jake Tapper is Jewish and has been open about his upbringing and faith. Raised in the Philadelphia area, he attended the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy (formerly Akiba Hebrew Academy). He has frequently woven his Jewish heritage into his personal and professional life.

Trump called into NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday to talk about the late Senator Lindsey Graham. But when host Kristen Welker asked him about the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Trump snapped at her.

“I don’t want to talk about it because I want to honor the life of Lindsey Graham,” Trump said. “I told you that before the call!”

Welker just said “yeah” and moved on. Journalist Tommy Christopher, writing on the Jim Acosta Show’s official Substack, said that sounded a lot like conditions had been set ahead of time for the interview, and that Welker obediently got back in line once Trump pushed back on her trying to step outside of the agreed-upon terms.

Jake Tapper: From Jewish Day School Troublemaker To Trump's Worst Nightmare  – The Forward

CNN host Jake Tapper caught similar heat for his own sit-down with Trump the same day, criticized for letting the president steer the conversation without much pushback at all. Like Welker, Tapper tried to get Trump to clarify the situation in the Strait of Hormuz. But Trump curtly responded, “don’t talk about it,” and told Tapper to “talk about the reason you asked me to speak.” Tapper meekly said “OK” and got right back in line.

Bari Weiss

  • Background: She was born and raised in a prominent Jewish family in Pittsburgh, attended a Jewish day school, and spent formative time in Israel.
  • Identity: She identifies publicly as a gay Jewish woman and an outspoken Zionist.
  • Public Work: Her Jewish identity is core to her public career. She is the author of the book How to Fight Anti-Semitism and started her career writing for Jewish media outlets.
Exclusive: New owner of CBS coordinated with former Israeli military chief  to counter the country's critics, according to leaked emails

Larry Ellison

  • Background: The billionaire co-founder of Oracle was born to a Jewish mother and raised in a Reform Jewish home by adoptive Jewish relatives.
  • Identity: He has stated on the record that he does not actively subscribe to or practice religious Judaism, but he maintains a deep personal and political connection to Israel. [1]
  • Philanthropy: He is a major donor to pro-Israel and Jewish causes, historically giving tens of millions of dollars to organizations like the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF).

David Ellison

  • Background: As the son of Larry Ellison, he was raised in the family’s Jewish heritage.
  • Connection: While he is less publicly vocal about his personal religious practices, his media ventures frequently align with his family’s pro-Israel stances. Under his leadership, his production company Skydance Media donated $1 million to Israeli humanitarian relief, and his acquisition of The Free Press further cemented his ties to prominent Jewish media figures.
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss reportedly allowed Israeli Prime  Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office to choose his interviewer for a highly  publicised 60 Minutes segment. Bari Weiss personally negotiated the booking  and offered

All fucking Jews who believe in Zionism and the Occupied Jewish State in the Country of Palestine, they need to be shot down like rabid DOGS.

Prosecutors in Minneapolis announced Monday that the Trump administration finally turned over evidence they’d been sitting on for months in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the two U.S. citizens federal agents killed this January. That includes body camera footage, statements, and Good’s damaged SUV.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty celebrated the development, but Attorney General Keith Ellison said it should never have taken this long. The new evidence was reportedly overturned after federal officials asked the state for evidence in a separate case involving an ICE agent charged with assault. The state basically said fine, but only if it goes both ways.

Now, prosecutors in Houston say they’re getting the same runaround in trying to investigate last week’s fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the father of three with no criminal record who was killed while he was on his way to work. They don’t even know the names of the officers who pulled the trigger.

At least nine people have died at the hands of ICE since their newest enforcement campaign began. And nobody’s been charged in any of those killings.

Michael Savage Brings Bigotry and Anti-Semitism to the Airwaves

Nah, it doesn’t matter that Stephen Glosser-Miller or Michael Weiner Savage are Jews!

Yes, conservative talk radio host Michael Savage is Jewish. He was born Michael Alan Weiner in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish immigrant parents.

Family and Personal Background

  • Parents: His father, Benjamin Weiner, was a Jewish immigrant from Russia, and his mother, Rae, was from Montreal, Canada.

Trump on Sunday shared a video calling for “hardcore communist bastards” to be deported, notably naming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani(D).

Conservative pundit Michael Savage’s 49-minute-long video, which he posted on July 4, claims that democratic socialist candidates running as Democrats have been turning the U.S. into a socialist country through, for example, the launch of “free” programs. Savage claimed the country was turning into Cambodia under the dictator Pol Pot.

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“That is exactly what Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists will do to you,” Savage said. “Forget the smirks, forget the smiles, forget the bulls— that it’s like Denmark and Norway. These are hardcore communist bastards who must be stopped, criminalized and deported. I’m clear as a bell on this. We will fall if they are not deported.”

Trump’s sharing of the message is notable given his relationship with Mamdani. While Trump has been hammering Democrats for moving toward “communism” with the advancement of several democratic socialist candidates, he has at times complimented Mamdani. Trump famously had a friendly meeting with Mamdani at the White House after the democratic socialist won his city’s mayoral race last year.

Savage said Mamdani, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) “and the other scum who should be criminalized and deported –– I’ll send them to Uganda … before they spread the cancer.” The pundit railed against democratic socialist candidates who recently won Democratic primary elections across the country.

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God, I hate JEWS. From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free of JEWS.

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Congress, the fucking AIPAC sodomized cunts:

Trump has formally notified Congress that the United States has entered a “new” war with Iran, triggering a new 60-day War Powers clock that allows military operations to continue without congressional authorization. In a July 10 letter, Trump said the renewed conflict began with U.S. strikes on July 7 and that American forces remain prepared to take additional military action as needed. The announcement follows Trump’s declaration that the ceasefire with Iran is over, as fighting intensifies around the Strait of Hormuz, where U.S. forces have struck more than 300 Iranian military targets in the past week. The move is expected to reignite congressional battles over presidential war powers after bipartisan majorities in both the House and Senate previously voted to oppose continued military action without explicit approval from Congress.

Fucking Banana Republic: Darline Graham Nordone will finish out the term of her older brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, who adopted and raised her following their parents’ deaths.

Gov. Henry McMaster’s appointment Monday comes a day after word of Graham’s sudden death, at the age of 71, stunned not only South Carolinians but people around the globe.

“It’s my honor to ask his little sister to finish his work,” the governor said in making his announcement at the Statehouse. He took no questions from reporters.

Graham Nordone, who heads the state Commission for the Blind and has spent her career helping people with disabilities find jobs, will fulfill the term that expires in January. Voters will decide through a special GOP primary next month who will be on the November ballot for the next six-year term.

Darline Graham Nordone, center, accepted the appointment by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, right, at the Statehouse Monday, July 13, 2026, to serve out the remainder of the term for her late brother Sen. Lindsey Graham. (Photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)

“Lindsey has always been there for me, and now, I’ll be there for him,” she said.

The brief news conference ended with her speaking to her brother: “I miss you more than I can even put into words. But I’m going to do this. I got it.”

  • The “Conservative” Comment (2020): During a South Carolina Senate debate, Graham stated that young African Americans and immigrants can “go anywhere” in the state, but “just need to be conservative, not liberal.” Critics argued this conditioned inclusion on adopting a specific political ideology.
  • The “Iranian” Comment (2018): On Fox and Friends, while discussing the possibility of taking a DNA test, Graham mused, “I’ll probably be Iranian. That’d be, like, terrible.” The remark was widely condemned as bigoted by Iranian-American advocacy groups. [
  • Denying Systemic Racism (2021): During a Fox News Sunday interview, Graham strongly denied the existence of systemic racism in the United States, pointing to the election of President Barack Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris as proof that the systems are not racist.
  • Comments on Palestinians (2024): Graham faced intense criticism from civil rights organizations after a social media post where he characterized Palestinians in Gaza as “the most radicalized population on the planet who are taught to hate Jews from birth.”

“It is absolutely disgusting for Senator Graham to state on Fox and Friends that it would be ‘terrible’ to discover that he had Iranian ancestry from a DNA test. This is not the first time that Graham has made bigoted remarks about Iranians. In 2015, he said, ‘I know Iranians are liars’ based on his experience in his dad’s pool hall.

Those columns were never kind, and they were never dull, because Graham was reliably good for a click. Lots of them. Every time his name went in a headline, readers showed up in droves, and the comment sections read like a dime novel.

I’ve thought a lot over the years about why that was, and I think there were three reasons.

Related: Lindsey Graham Clicks Up His Heels at Mar-a-Lago

The first is the oldest rumor in Washington: that Lindsey Graham was gay. I want to be careful here, because I have no idea whether that was true. He was, in the old-fashioned phrase, a “confirmed bachelor,” who never married, never seriously linked to a woman in public life, and that vacuum was enough for people to fill in the blank themselves.

I’m not going to pretend I know what was true in Graham’s private life. But I will offer my personal opinion. My grandfather used to say, “Where there’s fire, there’s smoke,” reversing an old axiom when he knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that a rumor about someone was true.

That’s what I’ll say about Graham. He always denied it, but I always snickered when he did.

Related: ‘Never Seen a Vagina’: Lindsey Graham’s Sexuality Is a Joke

In June 2020, “Lady G“ trended on social media after adult film performer Sean Harding alleged that Graham hired male sex workers. And in September of 2024, far-right provocateur and lunatic Laura Loomer publicly urged Graham to come out of the closet, after he publicly criticized Donald Trump’s campaign style.

Related: Trump ally Laura Loomer goes after Lindsey Graham: ‘We all know you’re gay’

The second reason is simpler and requires no speculation at all. Graham earned a lot of anger from LGBTQ+ people through his own virulent votes and his virulent words. He was a reliable “no” on protections and bills for our community for the better part of three decades.

And for a lot of people, the depth of the rage aimed at Graham stemmed from the theory that a man voting against us so consistently must be working something out about himself in public, at our expense. I can’t tell you if that hypothetical was right. I can tell you it’s the reason his name showed up in this publication as often as it did.

The third reason is the one that actually defines his legacy, and it has nothing to do with any of that. It’s Donald Trump.

Graham spent 2016 warning anyone who’d listen that Trump was a con man who’d wreck the Republican Party. Then, somewhere along the way, he became Trump’s golfing buddy, his most reliable defender on cable news, and the “Trump whisperer“ of the Senate.

That was supposed to be a compliment, I think?

Then came January 6, 2021. And for one night, Graham found something that looked like he grew a pair. “All I can say is count me out,” he said from the Senate floor as the Capitol was still being cleaned up. “Enough is enough.”

A lot of us watched that and thought maybe, finally, this was the moment he’d stop bending to Trump. Two days later, a mob of Trump supporters cornered him at Reagan National Airport, screaming “traitor“ in his face as security walked him out.

Related: Lindsey Graham, GOP Drive Off the Cliff in Cartoonish Clown Car

That afternoon scared the bejesus out of Lindsey. He melted like butter, and realized breaking with Trump, even briefly, even for the right reasons, cost him more than staying loyal ever would.

So, true to form, Lindsey got back on his knees. As soon as Trump started clawing his way back into power, Graham was one of the first Republicans back in line, right alongside the then-spineless House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

And in these last two years, he went further than ever, becoming Trump’s loudest cheerleader, particularly on the Iran war, at one point telling South Carolinians to prepare to send their “sons and daughters“ into a Middle East conflict he never once wavered on, even as members of his own party recoiled and even as the war grew costlier and messier by the month.

He didn’t hedge. He didn’t quietly back away the way politicians usually do when a war turns unpopular. He dug in, the same way he dug back in with Trump, and with his sexuality. That kind of warped and delusional thinking makes a person a very lonely figure.

And it was so bad, the boot-licking, that he said Trump should be pope.

I think that’s the real story of Lindsey Graham, and that is a man who seemed to need, above almost anything else, to keep his seat and keep his proximity to power, and who was willing to abandon whatever principle stood in the way of either one.

And perhaps abandoned whatever personal reasons stood in the way as well.

I’ve written hard-hitting columns after the deaths of people who did real harm to the LGBTQ community after they died: Rush LimbaughPat Robertson, Anita Bryant, James Dobson, and I didn’t go easy on them just because they’d died.

Related: For Anita Bryant, there will be no orange juice in hell

Graham deserves the same treatment, since his record toward us was just as damaging.

But instead of confronting his sexuality — if there was a question to confront — he took it out on the rest of us, and for that there is zero sympathy, and why, just because he died, we don’t need to say good things about him.

He was, by every account, personally alone, while his politics ended up being just as isolated. He Velcroed himself to Donald Trump, peeling away when it was politically necessary, only to stick right back to him, even at the cost of making himself look small and sycophantic.

Lindsey Graham died a lonely man. Whatever else gets written about him this week, I don’t think that part is up for debate.

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Butt fucked cunts, man: Several Democrats paid tribute to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina following his death Saturday evening due to an aortic dissection, according to preliminary findings by the Medical Examiner of the District of Columbia. Many said despite their disagreements, Graham was willing to find ways to bridge differences to bring together members of the Senate.

Butt fucking AmeriKKKans:

“In an increasingly isolationist America, Sen. Graham was one of the last titans of the Senate who favored a muscular and engaged U.S. foreign policy,” said Paul Foldi, a former diplomat and top Republican staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “He is irreplaceable.”

This is what syphilitic capitalism looks like:

“His moral flexibility over the last few years has been disappointing to many who saw him as a principled patriot,” Dan Baer, a former State Department official under President Barack Obama who is now at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace.

Matthew Kroenig, a vice president at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., said Graham once told him there was no point in trying to defy Trump.

“As a good politician, he recognized Trump commanded the Republican Party and the Republican base, and if you tried to work against him you’d get nothing done,” Kroenig said.

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, July 10, 2026. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

But fucking ZioAzovNaziLensky:

On Friday, shortly after returning from a trip to Kyiv, Graham announced an agreement with the Trump administration to move forward on a package of sanctions against Russia.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Graham, whom he met twice in the past week, had visited Ukraine 10 times since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, and “was here with our people when it was most needed.” He said that “Lindsey was a true defender of freedom and the values that make our world safer.”

Graham also drew tributes for his longtime commitment to NATO and trans-Atlantic friendship at a time when those ties have been under severe strain.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pose for a group photo with heads of states and governments ahead of the Coalition of the Willing summit on security guarantees for Ukraine at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, France, Monday, July 13, 2026. (Teresa Suarez/POOL photo via AP)

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Graham was “a powerful advocate for America who believed strongly in the NATO Alliance and was actively working to bring an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine.” Rutte’s predecessor, Jens Stoltenberg, lauded the South Carolina senator’s “tireless commitment” to NATO and the trans-Atlantic bond, and his “staunch support” for Ukraine.

Graham commanded respect on NATO’s eastern edge, where Russia’s intentions are viewed with deep concern.

Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said that “Estonia will remember him as a steadfast friend, a strong supporter of NATO’s eastern flank, and an unwavering advocate for Ukraine.” Latvian counterpart Baiba Braže said that he was “among the strongest supporters of NATO and trans-Atlantic relations (and) assistance to Ukraine in countering Russian aggression.”

FUCKING truth about the butt fucker:

Iranian state television announced Graham’s death during a live broadcast in openly hostile terms.

“I congratulate the great nation of Iran on Lindsey Graham, the warmongering and anti-Iranian U.S. senator, having gone to hell,” the anchor said.

“Israel has lost one of its greatest friends. America has lost a great patriot. I have lost a beloved friend,” Netanyahu said.

Butt fucker with ZERO lube:

Butt plugs for the uniformed Mercenaries:

America’s Dilemma at 250

A Budget of the Pentagon, By the Congress and For the War Profiteers Bill Astore Jul 13, 2026

Note to Readers: The short essay below represents a joint effort of the Eisenhower Media Network, or EMN, an organization of former military and government officials who seek a wiser course for America and a more peaceful world. I’ve been a member since EMN’s founding.

In Common Sense, Thomas Paine challenged Americans to question an institution that had long seemed beyond challenge. He wrote, “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” Two hundred and fifty years later, those words apply just as well to America’s defense budget. What has become accepted through habit is neither sustainable nor accountable. Only the American people can change it.

The “defense of custom” now comes from the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned against in his farewell address. Years earlier, in his famous “Cross of Iron” speech, Eisenhower observed: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed… Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

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Note: These fucking “retired” and “turning over a new leaf” fucking ex-CIA or ex-Uniformed Mercenaries are a fucking bunch of liars and sad sacks.

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You see, Astore can come off as someone working in Air Force Education, but he’s just the fucking paint on a Tomahawk. Same fucking nut and bolt of death, these fucking ex-Colonels and ex-Captains and ex-CIA operatives. Fucking Air Force paint for Tomahawks.

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Chemical formulators like Spectrum Coatings have historically partnered with defense programs to develop specialty and primer coating systems for the BGM-109 Tomahawk Cruise Missile.

Over the past decade, Spectrum Coatings has developed a full line of environmentally friendly coating systems.

William J Astore, Author at Fair Observer

William J. Astore is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who served for 24 years. Beginning his military career as an ROTC cadet, he spent his tenure from the late 1980s to the 2000s primarily teaching military history at the U.S. Air Force Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School.

Following his retirement, Astore transitioned into academia and public commentary, frequently writing for outlets like TomDispatch and operating his own newsletter, Bracing Views. He is a prominent critic of American militarism and serves as a senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network, an organization of veteran military and national security professionals advocating for foreign policy restraint.

William J. Astore | The Nation

[A 24-year Air Force Lieutenant Colonel (O-5) retiring today under the High-36 system receives an estimated gross pension of $7,442 per month (or $89,300 annually). ]

Yeah, Jews HUNTING jews (lower case “j”?)

Upon Blumenthal’s return from Iran, US agents seized his devices and subjected him to extended questioning. “Our reporting at The Grayzone has clearly become a problem for this criminal cartel,” he commented.

On July 10, 2026, American journalist Max Blumenthal was traveling back to the United States from Iran, which he had visited to report on the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the largest gathering in human history. While in Iran, Blumenthal interviewed members of Iran’s negotiation team, top political officials, academics and average citizens for a series of video and print reports for this news outlet, which he founded.

He also documented several US and Israeli war crimes from the ground, including the destruction of an entire neighborhood in Eastern Tehran which left at least 40 civilians dead.

Upon reentering the country at Dulles International Airport, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) interrogated Blumenthal about his trip, searched his belongings, and demanded that he provide access to his smartphones. When he refused to open his phones, CBP officers forced him to turn them over for detention. Other journalists and travelers have been threatened with the loss of their passports for a month for failing to hand over their devices.

Blumenthal entered Iran exactly as reporters working for establishment media outlets like CNN and NBC did – on a press visa granted by the Iranian Foreign Ministry. While in Tehran, he participated in official press events alongside those mainstream reporters, who were also in the country to cover the Ayatollah’s funeral. When journalists from CNN, NBC, and other American outlets returned to the US, however, they were not subjected to the same harassment Blumenthal experienced, nor were they required to give the US government their electronic devices.

Yet almost as soon as he arrived in Tehran, with the Khamenei funeral underway, Blumenthal was immediately subjected to defamatory attacks by Trump-aligned individuals and Israeli organizations supportive of war on Iran. Leading the charge was Canary Mission, an anonymous doxxing outfit based in Israel, which portrayed Blumenthal as an “extremist” who had traveled to Tehran to “honor” the Ayatollah – when he had, in fact, reported on the funeral as a journalist.

Founded in 2015 to ruin the lives and career prospects of university students involved in Palestine solidarity activity, Canary Mission has since been used by the Trump administration to select international students for arrest and deportation. An investigation by the independent outlet Drop Site revealed that the outfit was based out of an Israeli non-profit called Megamot Shalom. Among the top supporters to Megamot Shalom is the Wexner Foundation. Established by the billionaire lingerie tycoon Les Wexner, the foundation that featured Jeffrey Epstein as a trustee until the wealthy sex offender died in prison under mysterious circumstances.

Laura Loomer, a close ally of President Donald Trump, followed Canary Mission’s lead by calling for the US military to massacre attendees of Khamenei’s funeral, including Blumenthal and all other journalists covering the event. She then smeared Blumenthal as a “shill for Islam and communism” for reporting from Iran. Loomer escalated by wishing for the journalist to be swatted, jailed and denationalized: “I hope you’re raided in a heavily armed raid by the @FBI at 5 am and that @SecRubio [Secretary of State Marco Rubio] strips you of your passport for aiding the Iranian regime as they chant Death to America,” she tweeted at Blumenthal.

An apparent victim of botched facial surgeries, Loomer is credited with compelling Trump to fire numerous holdovers from previous administrations. These include the National Security Council’s top Iran expert, Nate Swanson, who correctly warned that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz if the US attacked it.

[Trump’s pardon of Joseph Schwartz follows his pardon of Philip Esformes, the king of Medicare fraud



Esformes was a Chabad cultist who relied on Alan Dershowitz and the lawyer who got a pardon for Jared Kushner’s father



Schwartz seems to have hired Laura Loomer to lobby for him]

Gilad Atzomn:

It is not ‘self-determination’ or ‘apartheid’! It is the most documented genocide in human history.

This screenshot tells you a lot about the Jewish fake Zionist vs. ‘anti’ debate.

The so-called ‘Zionist ‘ is not telling us what Zionism is. He/She are telling us instead what Zionism ‘represents’. It ‘aspires’ at ‘Jewish self determination’. What do we learn from it?

1. In the Jewish universe, there is no distinction between the ‘self’ and the Volk (All of Israel are responsible for one another). The self-determination of the ‘self’ determines the fate of the Volk.

2. If the Jewish State is a fruit of ‘self-determination ’, it confirms that the Jewish nationalist adventure is a new substance rather than a continuation of any historical entity.

Why do I mention it? Because the early Zionists admitted that this was the case, they re-defined the Jewish existence. The shift in Israeli nationalist discourse into Judaic rights on the so-called Jewish ‘ancestral’ land is the product of the growing influence of rabbi Kook’s philosophy and the significance he attributed to the holiness of Eretz Yisrael.

Then we read the so-called ‘anti’ voice. Peter Beinart, whom I like occasionally, seems not to know that in the Jewish universe there is no distinction between the self and the volk. However, Beinart correctly points out that determination of the self shouldn’t be celebrated at the expense of the other. This is of course correct, but it isn’t exactly the Judaic teaching that inspires him to say that. The Old Testament, which is the core inspiration as far as the Jewish State is concerned, is all about Jewish celebration at the expense of others. The Talmud is not different in that regard.

Furthermore, it isn’t the ‘denial’ of citizenship of the indigenous (apartheid) that makes the Jewish state into the most hated state around. It is the brutal genocide, the systematic eradication of Palestine and Palestinians; it is the collective enthusiasm to eliminate every civilisation in that part of the world and beyond.

The Jewish anti Zionist campaign has a mission. It is there to restrict the solidarity terminology so it fits with Jewish sensitivities: Apartheid as opposed to genocide, colonialism as opposed to human sacrifice orgy. BDS as opposed to Palestinian liberation from the Golan Heights all the way to the Red Sea..

I keep telling you all of that because it is very easy to fall into their terminological traps…

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