Truth has come and falsehood has perished

There is no online text of Jolani's speech. I literally listened to the entire speech and typed it out.

Truth has come and falsehood has perished

The Speech of Syrian President al Daraa at the UN

September 25, 2025

A land of ancient civilization and culture deserves to be a state of law. Protecting everyone, safeguarding rights, guaranteeing freedoms, and fostering life to flourish while turning the page of a wretched past. We are determined to restore Syria’s dignity, glory and honor. And in continuation of the Syrian story, I declare before you today the triumph of truth over falsehood. Truth has come, and falsehood has perished. Syria is reclaiming its rightful place among the nations of the world. This announcement is the echo of a great people’s will. A people who forged glory throughout the ages, who rose again from beneath the rubble to restore their rights and freedom and dignity. On behalf of the Syrian people, I extend gratitude to everyone who stood by the Syrian cause, who aided Syrians in their tragedy, and who welcomed them in their countries, and to all nations and peoples who rejoiced in the victory of the Syrian people’s will. And I particularly thank Turkey, Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and all Arab and Islamic states, the United States of America, and the European Union. And before I conclude, let me affirm. The suffering Syria endured, we wish upon no one. We are among the people most deeply aware of the horrors of war and destruction. For this reason, we stand firmly with the people of Ghaza. For this reason, we stand firmly with the people of Ghaza, its children and women and all peoples facing violations and aggressions. We call for an immediate end to the war. In conclusion, the Syrian story has not come to an end. It continues to write a new chapter, entitled Peace, Prosperity, and Development. And may the Peace of God be upon you. 

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim, in the name of God most Merciful most Compassionate: 

The Syrian story is filled with emotions, and it mixes pain with hope. The Syrian story is a struggle between good and evil, and between the weak, right cause, that has no supporter except God. Our story is one of the lessons of history, and it is an embodiment of noble human meanings and values in this eternal struggle between good and evil. We find in this Syrian story a new chapter of the struggle, one filled with creativity and determination and patience and torture and pain and sacrifice, and clinging on to noble customs and values and hard work and relying on God. All these are tools for truth against injustice and falsehood. 

Your Excellency, Mister Secretarial General, Madame President of the General Assembly. Your Excellency, may the peace of God be upon you. I come to you from Damascus, the Capital of History and the Cradle of Civilizations, a beautiful country that has taught the world the meaning of Civilization and values and coexistence, to be a beacon for the world.

Syria however for 60 years, fell under oppressive rule that disregarded the value of the territory it ruled over. For long years, we suffered under injustice and deprivation and oppression, and we rose - Bismillah - and in claiming our dignity, the previous regime has used the worst kind of torture against our people ; chemical weapons and bombardment and torture and prison and displacement and sectarian strife and using drugs against our people and the world.

It has torn our country apart, and brought forth fighters from around the world. The former regime killed around a million innocent people and displaced thousands and millions, and demolished 2 million homes. Ladies and Gentleman, the unarmed people were attacked, using chemical weapons. Our women and children have inhaled toxic gases. All this to silence truth. And with all this criminality, there was no language for solution. Despite the offers, the community had no choice but to organize itself, and to organize militarily and to oust a criminal regime. 

It was a military operation that was filled with mercy and good, and that prioritized tolerance, and that did not target civilians. It targeted justice without vengeance. We restored our right, and we became victorious for the sake of our grievances. We were victorious for the mothers of the martyrs, and for all of you people of the world, for the future of our children and yours. And we pave the way of the refugee, and we destroyed the trafficking of drugs. Accordingly, Syria has transported from an exporter of crises to opportunities for peace for Syria and the region. 

Ladies and Gentleman. This unique Syrian achievement and the solidarity between our peoples has led us to try to uproot sectarianism and to fight against attempts to divide our country once again. But the Syrian people are once again aware enough to understand, and to resist.

We reformed Commissions for fact-finding and granted access to UN fact finding missions. I guarantee to bring accountable anyone that is responsible for bloodshed. And in this context, the Israeli strikes and attacks against my country continue. And Israeli policies contradict the international supporting position for Syria, which threatens new crises and struggles in our region. For this purpose, and in face of this aggression, Syria is committed to dialogue, and we are committed to the disengagement of forces agreement of 1974, and we call on the international community to stand beside us in the face of these attacks. 

Ladies and Gentleman, from the very moment the former regime fell, we set out a clear strategic policy built upon three pillars: Balanced diplomacy, security, stability and economic development. We filled the power vacuum, called for an inclusive national dialogue and announced a government of competence. We strengthened the principle of participation and established a national commission for transitional justice, and another for the missing, ensuring justice and fairness. We are now proceeding toward electing representatives of people in the legislative council. We restructured all civil and military institutions, dissolving all previous formations. Through intensive diplomatic activity, Syria restored its international relations, and forged regional and global partnerships, and achieved the lifting of most international sanctions. And we call now for the complete lifting of sanctions, so that they no longer shackle the Syrian people. Investment laws have been amended and major regional and international companies have already begun entering the Syrian market, contributing through investment and construction.

Syria today is rebuilding itself through establishing a new state, building institutions, and laws that guarantee the rights of all without exception. A land of ancient civilization and culture deserves to be a state of law. Protecting everyone, safeguarding rights, guaranteeing freedoms, and fostering life to flourish while turning the page of a wretched past. We are determined to restore Syria’s dignity, glory and honor. And in continuation of the Syrian story, I declare before you today the triumph of truth over falsehood. Truth has come, and falsehood has perished. Syria is reclaiming its rightful place among the nations of the world. This announcement is the echo of a great people’s will. A people who forged glory throughout the ages, who rose again from beneath the rubble to restore their rights and freedom and dignity. On behalf of the Syrian people, I extend gratitude to everyone who stood by the Syrian cause, who aided Syrians in their tragedy, and who welcomed them in their countries, and to all nations and peoples who rejoiced in the victory of the Syrian people’s will. And I particularly thank Turkey, Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and all Arab and Islamic states, the United States of America, and the European Union.

And before I conclude, let me affirm. The suffering Syria endured, we wish upon no one. We are among the people most deeply aware of the horrors of war and destruction. For this reason, we stand firmly with the people of Ghaza. For this reason, we stand firmly with the people of Ghaza, its children and women and all peoples facing violations and aggressions. We call for an immediate end to the war.

In conclusion, the Syrian story has not come to an end. It continues to write a new chapter, entitled Peace, Prosperity, and Development. And may the Peace of God be upon you.

The Long Majestic Emerald

 The Long Majestic Emerald - Dedicated to Franklin Park

to the tune of The Broad Majestic Sharon by the Pogues

The last time I saw you was down at the Behan

There was whiskey on Sunday, it was great to be seen

You sang me a song that was pure as the day

On a street leading up Arborway

I sat for a while at the shore at Back Bay

Where young lovers would meet while the grasses would sway

We walked cross the bridge where the mill used to be  

The Neponset churned round the old willow tree

CHORUS

Take my hand, and dry your tears, babe

Take my hand, forget your fears, babe

There’s no more pain, there’s no more sorrow

They’re all gone, gone in the years, babe

I sat for a while by the gap in the fence

Found a used up old vape and a needle all spent

Heard a woodpecker’s drum and the chime of the bells

And the crickets were humming way deep in the dell

And the next time I see you we’re back at the Behan

There’ll be whiskey on Sunday and friends that we’re seeing

For it’s silly to laugh and it’s vain to repent

About an old used up vape and a needle that’s spent

CHORUS

So I walked, as the day was dawning

Where small birds sang and leaves were falling

Where we once watched the diamonds dancing

Skipping stones, and laughing

And so I walked, as the day was dwindling

As large birds fly, and we weigh their meaning

So by the long, majestic Emerald

We gather here, and are assembled

CHORUS

We’re all here to save the park, babe

March 11, 2025

The Limitations of Your Love

The Limitations of Your Love

So many ways I've tried

So many tears I've cried

But now my heart has died from

The limitations of your love.

I believed in your white lies

While you compartmentalized

But now I've become wise to

The limitations of your love.

So let my heart fly free 

Into eternity

Cause I need someone who loves all of me.

You left me all alone

You made me sit at home

Guarding your comfort zone and

The limitations of your love.

My honor you did not defend

So I cannot pretend

That we are not near the end of

The limitations of your love.

I know that you did care

About the sweetness that we share

But the times that you're not there reveal

The limitations of your love.

So let my heart fly free

The way it's meant to be

Into Eternity

Cause I want someone who wants all of me.

November 2017

Aafia: The Mystery

Speech Given by Karina on the Boston Common

Most of the world has stopped thinking about the long-incarcerated detainees of the War on Terror that was declared by George W. Bush after 9/11/2001. In truth, Federal government and Israel-connected Homeland Security agents had already started investigating and raiding Islamic organizations and charities around the US earlier that year. Of all the Muslim political prisoners of the US, one person in particular stands out: the graceful, articulate and brilliant young Dr. Aafia Siddique.  

All the other Muslim War On Terror prisoners who were extrajudicially rendered in Afghanistan or Pakistan and sold for bounty to the US have been male (to my knowledge). Everyone at Guantanamo is male. All of the Afghan militants held in Bagram prison are male. Only Aafia Siddique is female. Long before anyone knew her name, she was known as the “Grey Lady of Bagram.” She and her children were held and abused for years, separately, inside the walls of the US military prison in Afghanistan. 

After the US invaded Afghanistan they dropped leaflets down from airplanes offering between $2000-6000 per head for any suspected terrorists. As a result, a market was created for kidnappers. Thousands of random men were detained and handed over to the US for interrogation. Aafia Siddique was disappeared in Pakistan in the spring of 2003.

In the recently published book, “Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found in Guantanamo,” Mansoor Adayfi, a Yemeni tourist thus detained without charge, explained that while there were a handful of prisoners there that actually knew Osama bin Laden or belonged to some kind of Islamic fighting group, the vast majority were completely innocent, non-violent people being held for years and years and brutally humiliated and tortured in an attempt to force them to confess to being people they were not, and that they had committed crimes they knew nothing about. 

It has always been a mystery as to why Aafia and her children were abducted while on their way to visit relatives. Was she the victim of a vindictive ex-husband’s slander? Did someone utter her name while being waterboarded? Was it her charity efforts as part of the Muslim Students Association to collect boots and winter clothing to send to displaced families fleeing war?

Aged 34, speaking fluent English, having earned a PhD in Child Development at MIT and Brandeis before returning to her native country of Pakistan, Aafia with her gentle eyes and happy demeanor does not fit the profile of an Islamic terrorist. It seems unlikely that this arrest, made most likely by ISI, Pakistani security services, was a random error in judgment.

An important clue emerged as a result of the Peace and Justice Foundation’s recent series of Freedom Rallies in various cities to support and raise awareness of US political prisoner Dr. Aafia Siddique. While most of America has forgotten her, or has no idea who she is, a very enthusiastic detractor crawled out of the woodwork: Sam Westrop, director of the Zionist extremist hate group that stalks Muslim leaders, “Islamist Watch.” He published a very dangerous hit piece on Aafia’s supporters in both the Middle East Forum and National Review, https://www.meforum.org/62644/american-islamists-advocate-for-lady-al-qaeda - publications with long and close connections to Bush-era neocons and anti-Muslim smear campaigners Daniel Pipes and Steve Emerson, who facilitated the imprisonment and deportation of Muslim and Arab academics for their political views by feeding false intelligence to the US government via their “think tank” the Investigative Project and other extreme right-wing racist organizations whose main objective is trying to prevent Palestinians and American Muslims attain political equality. After these groups failed to prevent local Muslims from building the golden-domed Roxbury Mosque, https://rense.com/general76/who.htm I had totally forgot about them. 

But here Sam Westrop was, taking pictures of protesters without asking their permission and trying to get an interview with Mauri Saalakhan, the primary organizer of the event. Sam’s intense enthusiasm for the cause of undermining the case to free Aafia Siddique after 18 years really made it crystal clear that taking her down was one of his organization’s pet projects. 

But why did the pro-Israel lobbyists target this cute little grad student? Westrop leaves us a very important clue by linking to a press conference, covered by CNN, two years after she was abducted.  http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/05/26/terror.threat.transcript/ US Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller on May 27, 2004 displayed Aafia’s face alongside 6 men declared as America’s Most Wanted. Americans were to be “on the lookout” for them. Mueller claimed, “Aafia Siddique is an al Qaeda operative and facilitator, she attended colleges in the Boston area, and is believed to have left Boston in January of 2003.” Literally that’s all they could come up with. Bent over in agony from bullet wounds to her stomach, Aafia was sentenced to 86 years in US Federal prison by Judge Richard Berman for “attempted murder” of heavily armed US soldiers in an Afghan police station in 2008 as she allegedly tried to escape from custody. Her supposed “crime” was committed in Afghanistan by a Pakistani citizen. So by what stretch of the imagination should she go to trial in the United States? Keep in mind that al Qaida is not even known for recruiting female militants. The neocons have always been known to use the labels “al Qaeda” and “Islamofascist” extremely loosely. 

It sure looks like these right wing Zionist criminals were intimately involved in providing false intelligence to the US government in order to help the US create an illusion of “doing something” against the “Islamic threat” while simultaneously getting rid of a popular Muslim community organizer and public speaker. Boston neocon fingerprints are all over this case. Their time-worn approach, which they also used against the Roxbury mosque, was to feed fake terrorist allegations to the media, while simultaneously creating court cases over lesser crimes like money laundering or even civil infractions such as parking zoning laws. Similarly, at Aafia’s trial there was zero mention of her belonging to any terrorist group even though news agencies had claimed that she had gone to LIberia to sell diamonds in order to raise funds for al Qaeda.

In 1996, Professor Noam Chomsky said fondly of Aafia, who was his student, “Aafia Siddique is an Institute in her self. She will bring change wherever she goes.”

Did the FBI target Aafia as the next Malcolm or the next H Rap Brown? 

Aafia Siddique was an enthusiastic Muslim community organizer who was diligently engaged in outreach to explain Islam to her American fellow students, a philosopher who taught feminist theory based on theology, and who encouraged her fellow Muslim students to upgrade their religion. She was very much part of the movement to modernize Islamic political and moral thought to make it make sense for this century. She was a Hafiz of the Quran. She was also an idealist. Katherine Ozment describes in Boston Magazine how far-fetched seem the claims that this young mother and student had the time or the resources, let alone the desire to join al Qaida. https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2006/05/15/whos-afraid-of-aafia-siddiqui/  

Retired Professor Chomsky issued a statement to be read at the Freedom Rally in Boston that took place on October 23, 2021:

“The US “war on terror” has left a shameful record of torture, vicious brutality, brutal crimes of state, still continuing.  Aafiaa Siddiqui’s ordeal is one of the most disgraceful chapters of this trail of horror.  She should be freed and compensated to the extent that it is at all possible. And we should all be asking ourselves whether we want this is what we want our country to be.”

Polite Discussion on Zionism: Is it Possible?

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Talking to Jews (or Not)

The very sweet Prof. Kevin MacDonald thoroughly analyzes my last blog entry:

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Polite Discussion on Zionism: Is it Possible?

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• World View

  Apr 25, 2007

  The Zionist philosophizes that the Palestinian is not a human
  (Israel was a land without a people). The Anti-Zionist argues that
  the Palestinian is a human being. So what is the moderate viewpoint?
  The Palestinian is a quasi-human? That seems to be the American
  Progressive Jewish position. Amazing isn't it?
  
  
  Polite Discussion on Zionism: Is it Possible?
  Karin Friedemann - ummyakoub @ yahoo.com
  April 25, 2007
  World View News Service
  
  
  I found http://www.realisticdove.org/ very interesting because it is
  the first time I have come across a progressive Jew so honest about
  his racism. Usually when confronted, these confused souls just get
  indignant and refuse to speak to you for a few months. I always
  wondered how a person could think that Israel has a "right"
  to "security" and shrug off this amazing assumption with the
  accusation that anyone who has questions about your definitions is
  accusing you of being an evil murderer. Why would any sane person
  think that he has the right to live unharrassed on someone else's
  stolen property? Even the cute kids waving Israeli flags are
  participating in a criminally insane political ideology.
  
  Progressive Jews want to make the bottom line "Jews are nice
  people." But that is not the bottom line. As Hillel mentioned, the
  bottom line is that you don't do to others what you don't want
  others to do to you. What would we expect if our neighbor, with or
  without warning, bulldozed our house?
  
  First, we would call the police. If the man with the bulldozer
  failed to stop bulldozing the house, the police officer would have
  the duty to disable the vehicle and he might even shoot him. I'm
  talking about American law. The bulldozer man would be stopped. He
  would be considered a criminal. He would be put on trial. He would
  go to prison. If he had killed people in the process of bulldozing
  the house, he might even be executed. The owner of the house that
  was bulldozed would be entitled to damages plus extra for pain and
  suffering. The law requires that his property be restored to the
  original state that it was in. That includes replanting the trees
  and fixing the pavement around the house.
  
  The emotional defensiveness of Jews is actually quite amusing, where
  they want to argue that the bulldozer man was not evil, he was not a
  murderer. The family that moved into the stolen property are just
  innocent idealists. They may be misguided, or mistaken, but for some
  reason Jews want to argue that they are not evil. What they are
  really saying is that they don't want Jews to be held legally
  accountable for their actions. They want to enjoy the privilege of
  being "protected" from the laws that apply to other people.
  
  A law does not cover the "evilness" of a criminal. It covers actions
  and consequences.
  
  If international law were followed, the Israeli "government' would
  never have kicked out any Palestinians. The entire existence of
  Israel is based on the condition made by the UN that Palestinians
  would remain in their homes and receive equal citizenship in the new
  nation state. That condition was not followed. Therefore, there is
  no legal basis for any assumption that Israel has a right to exist,
  according to the UN. In fact, Israel does not really exist. It is a
  figment of imagination, the defensive mechanism of the neurotic
  Jewish collective consciousness. I agree that we need to stop
  arguing about isms but the next step is to follow the laws that
  already exist to solve the problems. Don't wait for the world
  community to force Israel to do it. Why don't we, as Jews, just do
  it? Why are progressive Jews wasting their time feeling emotionally
  threatened by a one state solution? The real problem is that we are
  feeling emotionally threatened by any solution. Because a solution
  means that a lot of Jews need to be prosecuted.
  
  The refugees need to be given back their property with extra for
  damages. Even if they fled their homes because Arab leaders told
  them to get out of the fighting zone in 1948, they have the legal
  right to return to their homes as soon as the fighting stops. Small
  wonder why Israel continues to attack people day after day.
  
  The refugees need to be given full civil rights. Full water rights,
  full road rights, and the full right to criminally prosecute. Every
  Jewish family in America that has any property in the Holy Land
  needs to be prosecuted as part of an organized criminal network.
  Especially if both the Palestinian and the Jewish persons are
  American citizens. For example one friend of mine, after her family
  was forced off their land by gunpoint, New York Jews bought the
  land, bulldozed everything, and planted orange trees. She knows
  where they live. She knows their names. Anyone who buys or sells
  stolen property is a criminal. They need to be prosecuted. Any Jew
  who owns stolen property in the Holy Land should have his property
  seized including their US assets and Progressive Jews should insist
  on it instead of doing these mental "I'm not evil" gymnastics.
  
  The Jews need to give back what they stole. I am not sure why that
  is so confusing to people. There needs to be a world tribunal like
  the Nuremburg trials to determine what was done and who was
  responsible, and to put an end to this nonsense. But failing that,
  the US legal system could solve the problem within a year if they
  just prosecuted this obnoxious real estate mafia. Why are
  Progressive Jews not lobbying for criminal penalties on Jews who
  invest in property that was cleared of its original owners by force
  in the Holy Land? There is enough room in all of Bush's new prisons
  for all these shady real estate agents. This is a simple matter of
  holding people legally accountable for the harm they cause others.
  
  It is exactly the same issue with dispute over the Roxbury Mosque.
  Some shady white Jewish real estate dealers were furious that the
  black community benefited from this piece of land next to the subway
  station that they wanted to develop, so now they are engaging in
  extra-legal trickery and character assassination to try to get that
  piece of real estate away from the people who own it.
  
  Once the Palestinians get their land back and all the Zionist
  organizations' assets are confiscated to repair all the damage they
  have done, then we can talk about whether or not "the Jewish People"
  have the right to "self-determination" in the form of an
  ethnocentric nation state.
  
  I learned when I was a kid that the way to get self-determination -
  ie, the ability to do what you want when you want how you want - is
  to behave yourself. The Jews are not behaving themselves, and there
  is nothing okay about it. When a progressive Jew starts
  whining, "You think I'm evil!!" he or she breaks the heart of the
  human being who is trying to have peace with this person. It ends
  all rational discussion. It ends all hope for peace.
  
  Sometimes Palestinians find it easier to deal with right wing
  Zionists than left wing because at least they are honest. A
  Palestinian can say to a right wing Jew, "You stole my property."
  The right wing Jew will say, "Yeah, and what are you going to do
  about it? My religion says I can steal your property." Then the
  Muslim can with dignity say, "Well my religion says that God curses
  the man who puts another man out of his home, and that I have the
  right to fight you." So that actually can be done in the context of
  a polite dialogue. A peace plan is even potentially possible.
  Because then the Jew can say, "Well, I don't want you to kill me and
  I can see why you would think that I deserved it, because if you did
  the same thing to me I would certainly kill you. So let's make a
  deal. I'll let you live in the garage." This is still insulting
  behavior, but it's in the process of being made less sadistic.
  
  On the other hand, if a Palestinian says to a progressive Jew, "You
  stole my property!" The progressive Jew will usually shut down
  entirely. I have seen a fifty year old man start crying and
  insisting he's not evil. This is the behavior of someone who is
  guilty as sin. Like when you accuse your husband of adultery and he
  starts guilt-tripping you about how you don't believe in him
  (hypothetical but common scenario).
  
  The other reaction is to get maliciously angry and start doing
  character assassination via gossip so that none of the other
  progressive Jews will greet that person who brought up the "touchy"
  subject. But they will be told that this person is an "enemy of
  peace" - so that it will be politically correct to shun them the
  same way that we avoid eye contact with skinheads and Bible
  thumpers. Progressive Jews are the most amazingly idealistic people
  on the planet. They want to be able to continue to sit on someone
  else's stolen property (or at least vacation on it) and not only
  they think they have a "right" to travel around unharmed, ride the
  buses, shop and eat pizza while the people they made homeless have
  no water or food - but they want their victims to LIKE them. The
  Jews are the only conquerors in the history of the planet that
  expected the conquered people to LIKE them! If they don't like us,
  we feel offended and outraged. And what Jews consider as "liking
  behavior" is never mentioning the property they stole.
  
  It's amazing. I've discussed some of this with Avigail Abarbanel, an
  ex-Israeli psychiatrist in Australia. She views Zionism as a mental
  illness that can be treated. But Zionism is just a symptom of a
  deeper problem, the delusional belief that you have "rights" which
  do not exist. Like a kid thinking he has the right to hit his
  sister. It's a failure to apply the Golden Rule to one's personal
  sense of responsibility in certain situations. The inner conflict
  that arises from these "situational ethics" certainly does create a
  clinically diagnosable mental inability to process certain types of
  information that trigger the neurotic or sometimes even psychotic
  defensive reaction.
  
  Unfortunately, when it comes to Israel, Jews are defensive in the
  sense that they cannot process the type of information that is
  necessary to create peaceful behaviors. For example, if a Jew and
  Palestinian live next door to each other in New Jersey, the Jew
  being the "owner" of a condo built on the Palestinian person's
  property, don't you think the Jew should offer to give it back, if
  he expects the other's friendship? If the Palestinian, as is normal,
  invites the Jew over for tea and politely doesn't bring up the
  subject, does the Jew feel that this means it's OK what he did? That
  he can forgive himself? That is what Jews want after all. We want to
  be forgiven without apology for everything we have done AND
  everything we are about to do. Is this a rational approach to peace?
  Is it working?

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Talking with Jews (or not)
Kevin MacDonald


A topic that is not discussed enough is the screaming, in-your-face, hostile aggression that people must withstand when they dare to trample on Jewish sensibilities. We are not talking about the sophisticated rationalization one sees in the op-ed pages of the mainstream media, or even the smear techniques of organizations like the ADL or the SPLC. We are talking about interpersonal aggression. There is something absolutely primal about it.

Now comes a refreshingly frank blog post by Karin Friedemann, an ethnically Jewish anti-Zionist. She notes the “violent intolerance” that defenders of Israel show towards people with different opinions.

American Jews are actually being trained since childhood to interact with non-Jews in a deceitful and arrogant manner, in coordination with each other, to emotionally destroy Gentiles and Israel critics in addition to wrecking their careers and interfering with their social relationships. This is actually deliberate, wicked, planned behavior motivated by a narcissistic self-righteous fury….
The problem is that Gentiles are taught through emotional pressure and violence via the media and the school system to be very sensitive to Jewish suffering so when a Zionist becomes outraged at them for challenging their world view, the Gentile really has to fight against his own inner self in a huge battle against his "inner Jew" making him feel inadequate and intimidated. But the Jew doesn’t care how much he or she hurts others. Jews only care about what's good for the Jews. …

I once reduced a 50 year old man to hysterical sobbing tears because I told him gently and lovingly that Jews were not that unique. I just told him the Jews, like everyone else, have had good times and bad times. Times when they were slaughtered and other times when they slaughtered others. Just like everyone else. Guess what he did next. He emotionally abused me in an insulting way and then cut off all further communication. Jewish behavior is so predictable that it's truly scary. …

If you mention cutting off the money or if you mention the possible compromise of living with Palestinians as equals in one state they become very angry and start using bullying tactics, unless they have some reason to fear you, in which case they shun you and complain about you to the authorities, try to get you arrested or try and destroy your career or social status through character assassination. …

Zionists all believe in the myth of "1000 years of Jewish suffering" and feel that the world owes them compensation for their ancestors' "unique" suffering. It's a criminally insane viewpoint. They cope with the contradictions between their belief that they are the good guys and what Jews are actually doing to their neighbors, both in the Middle East and in the US, by developing mental health issues. Most Zionists are functional schizophrenics.

My take:

· These tactics are not restricted to critics of Zionism. As one who has experienced a barrage of hostile email from my faculty colleagues, I can certainly attest to this. One quickly notices that assertions of the legitimacy of white identity and interests will also result in a barrage of hostility. This despite the fact that support for racial Zionism is strong throughout the entire Jewish political spectrum (see below). A correspondent sent me the following recently:
I have encountered many liberal, politically correct Jews who react vociferously (almost violently) to the most innocuous comments about any topic related to Israel or Jews. One Jew upon my mentioning that my wife and I had been to Russia spent several minutes virtually frothing at the mouth about Russians. Another upon hearing me say I was sympathetic to the problems of the Palestinians demanded to know who I was and how dare I say such a thing. Often zero tolerance for any difference in opinion.

· The media constantly present images of Jewish suffering—most recently the endless glut of Holocaust movies. But the media ignore instances, such as the early decades of the USSR and now in Greater Israel, where Jews have inflicted horrible suffering. Right now I am reading E. Michael Jones’ The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Effect on History. It is striking to read his account of Jewish violence against non-Jews in the ancient world, particularly the persecution of Christians whenever Jews had the power to do so. Long before Christians had any influence on Roman policy, Christians’ complaints about Jews were not stereotypes based on historical memory but resulted from direct experience with Jews: “Origen understood that Jewish calumny helped to cause Christian persecution, and that Jewish hatred was a fact of life for the Christians, continuing unabated after the repeated defeats of Messianic politics” (i.e., the defeats of Jewish rebels at the hands of the Romans in 70 and 135 ad) (p. 69). This is the basis of my concern on what will happen to whites when Jews become part of a hostile elite in white-minority America.

· Non-Jews absorb these media images and as a result feel inadequate, emotionally intimidated. Eventually they identify with the aggressor, much like a browbeaten hostage or, as Friedemann suggests, an abused spouse. Or they maintain their friendships but studiously avoid talking about anything related to Israel. Non-Jews do the bidding of their “inner Jew” because they have internalized images of Jewish suffering. They therefore aid and abet Jewish brutality and aggression.

· Non-Jews who persist in criticizing the organized Jewish community are threatened with loss of livelihood and social ostracism. As I noted in a previous article the organized Jewish community does not believe in free speech. It is important to keep in mind that when Jews were dominant in the first decades of the Soviet Union, the government controlled the media, anti-Semitism was outlawed, and there was mass murder of Christians and the destruction of Christian churches and religious institutions.

As Friedemann notes, the situation is nothing less than a sign of serious mental health issues for the mainstream Jewish community: “Most Zionists are functional schizophrenics.”

I think this is what happens when people who deal with Jewish issues finally realize that there is no hope for dialogue and begin to think of what to do next. Honest people finally realize that when it comes to critical issues like Israel and multicultural America, the divisions among Jews are an illusion. (Friedemann herself has renounced her Jewish identity.) As Friedemann’s husband, Joachim Martillo, notes, “Jews, who want to be decent human beings, have no choice but to renounce being Jewish and serve the anti-Zionist struggle (right now).”

Exhibit A for this right now is the murderous Israeli invasion of Gaza. We know (see, for example, John Mearsheimer’s article in The American Conservative) that this invasion occurred after a prolonged period when Israel restricted supplies into Gaza and then attacked tunnels between Gaza and Egypt. We know that the invasion was designed to “to inflict massive pain on the Palestinians so that they come to accept the fact that they are a defeated people and that Israel will be largely responsible for controlling their future.”

The tone of Mearsheimer’s article suggests a dramatic shift in attitude where the usual inhibitions on public discourse are finally beginning to fall, even for a respected academic:
There is … little chance that people around the world who follow the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will soon forget the appalling punishment that Israel is meting out in Gaza. … [D]iscourse about this longstanding conflict has undergone a sea change in the West in recent years, and many of us who were once wholly sympathetic to Israel now see that the Israelis are the victimizers and the Palestinians are the victims.

The gloves are coming off. This is what happens when smart and honest people who work hard to get the scholarship right are nevertheless smeared as anti-Semites guilty of the vilest misdeeds. Not surprisingly, Abe Foxman — a premier defender of the racial Zionist status quo in Israel — devoted an entire book to smearing Mearsheimer and Walt. Quite simply, there is no point to talking to such people or taking seriously what they say about us.

We know that the government of Israel is firmly in the hands of the racial Zionists — followers of Vladimir Jabotinsky and his view of the racial distinctiveness and superiority of the Jewish people. Indeed, the only question in the Israeli election is which brand of racial Zionism will form the next government. One knows that racial Zionism has completely won the day in Israel when Kadima — the party of Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni and the Gaza invasion — is now described by Benjamin Netanyahu as the party of the left. (The LA Times dutifully calls it “centrist” but, as Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery writes, Livni “cries to high heaven against any dialogue with Hamas. She objects to a mutually agreed cease-fire. She tries to compete with Netanyahu and [Avignor] Liberman with unbridled nationalist messages.”) Indeed, Netanyahu’s only worry is that the openly racist Liberman — a disciple of the notorious Meir Kehane — will take away too many votes from Likud.

The situation is analogous to a US election where Pat Buchanan is the candidate of the far left. (I can dream.)

Avnery analogizes the election to a joke where a sergeant tells his men: “I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that you are going to change your dirty socks. The bad news is that you are going to exchange them among yourselves.”

Once again we see at work the general principle that within the Jewish community, the most extreme elements carry the day and pull the rest of the Jewish community with them. As I noted in "Zionism and the Internal Dynamics of Judaism," "over time, the more militant, expansionist Zionists (the Jabotinskyists, the Likud Party, fundamentalists, and West Bank settlers) have won the day and have continued to push for territorial expansion within Israel. This has led to conflicts with Palestinians and a widespread belief among Jews that Israel itself is threatened. The result has been a heightened group consciousness among Jews and ultimately support for Zionist extremism among the entire organized American Jewish community."

The fanatics keep pushing the envelop, forcing other Jews to either go along with their agenda or cease being part of the Jewish community. Ominously, if elected, Netanyahu promises that a top priority will be "harnessing the U.S. administration to stop the threat" of Iran's nuclear program.
Incidentally, E. Michael Jones (The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Effect on History, p. 42ff) has expanded this argument to the ancient world. He shows how the Jewish community was pulled in the direction of fanaticism by the Zealots who expelled the followers of Jesus from the synagogue and adopted a disastrous path of revolution against Rome, leading ultimately to the defeats of 70 and 135 a.d.

A good example of the schizophrenia described by Friedemann comes from the fact that around 80% of American Jews voted for Obama but around the same percentage blames Hamas for the escalation of violence and believes that the Israeli response was “appropriate.” These results of the poll on the Gaza invasion were proudly announced by Abraham Foxman of the ADL, an organization that is one of the principal forces in promoting a post-European America. The Jewish left is a pillar of multi-cultural America but strongly supports racial Zionism in Israel.
This same schizophrenia was on display at a recent presentation at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles by Chris Hedges and Mark Potok — he of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The program dealt with the usual bogey-men of the organized Jewish community: Christian fundamentalists, skinheads, David Duke, and (I am gratified to report) The Occidental Quarterly. In a comment on the alliance between Christian conservatives and Zionists, an audience member mentioned (to stifled applause) that “There are Jewish fascists.” But the moderator, Ian Masters, saved the day when he stated that “the vast majority of American Jews are secular and liberal” — a comment that brought much applause, presumably because it reassured the many Jews in the audience that they weren’t like THOSE Jews. For his part, Potok, that stalwart warrior against white America, expressed his support for what he sees as a beleaguered Israel on the verge of apocalypse at the hands of the Arabs. Schizophrenia indeed.
The politicians who are running Israel are, if anything, more racialist and nationalist than anything even remotely on the horizon in American or European politics. As Avnery notes:
In every other country, Liberman’s program would be called fascist, without quotation marks. Nowhere in the Western world is there a large party that would dare to advance such a demand [to annul the citizenship of Arabs]. The neo-fascists in Switzerland and Holland want to expel foreigners, not to annul the citizenship of the native-born. …

When Joerg Haider was taken into the Austrian cabinet, Israel recalled its ambassador from Vienna in protest. But compared to Liberman, Haider was a raving liberal, and so is Jean-Marie le Pen. Now Netanyahu has announced that Liberman will be “an important minister” in his government, Livni has hinted that he will be in her government, too, and Barak has not excluded that possibility.

The optimistic version says that Liberman will prove to be a passing curiosity. … There is also a pessimistic version: Fascism has become a serious player in the Israeli public domain. The three main parties have now legitimized it. This phenomenon must be stopped before it is too late.
So I have a suggestion for the Foxmans, the Potoks, the neoconservatives, and the secular Jewish liberals of the world: If you want to fight racism and ethnic nationalism, start in your own backyard. And my suggestion for the rest of us is to get rid of what Friedemann calls the “inner Jew.” I know it’s hard to do. But once you tune out the screaming hostility (and assuming you don’t fear losing your job), it’s easy. Just don’t expect a pleasant or rational conversation.


Kevin MacDonald is a professor of psychology at California State University–Long Beach.

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