Since there is no way for anyone to follow posts on Blogspot, I am going to stop posting here and post on my Substack. I won't take this Blogspot site down because there are many posts of historical interest that detail what Israel has been doing to the Palestinians since 2010, showing how life for the natives has always been oppressed in any way that Israel can think of to make it so. Scroll down and see the posts listed at the bottom of the righthand column.
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I am a big fan of Glenn Greenwald and have been for many years because of his relentless attack on hypocrisy of all kinds. He has just put up a show that covers in part the desire of Trump to deport any foreign students who participated in the pro-Palestinian campus protests last year. The entire program is worth viewing/reading but the follow excerpt I found on point in light of my appeal to all Americans to wake up, see the tight grip of Zionism on the US and work to break that grip, which is what I am doing. The entire Greenwald program is here.
"We are vastly approaching a situation where a condition to remain in the United States is expressing love and support for Israel or at least remaining silent. Our academic institutions are being cleansed of the right to criticize Israel. We went over those new antisemitism definitions at Harvard. Today, there was a finding that a graduate student had violated the rules of Columbia because they linked to documents and literature on astronomy in Gaza as part of a course, and that is now no longer allowed. These are graduate students, not just adults in college but graduate students! Our institutions are being cleansed of the right to criticize the state of Israel. By the way, you're allowed to criticize the United States all you want. Just not Israel."
The police arrived, again, today, due to this or that caller being uncomfortable with my presence standing for the Palestinians. It's a good sign I am reaching new people. Of course the police acted as they always do, explaining that they cannot tell me to leave but would I consider it? NO!
I put the following comment up on the FB page of the Ohio Democratic Party upon receiving a funding appeal for a candidate for Ohio governor named Amy Acton. I await a response.
I have received a request for funds for Amy Acton for governor of Ohio. I am an American who stands for liberty and justice for all and against its opposite, Zionism. I was appalled to see PA governor Shapiro happily signing US bombs that were intended to destroy Gaza and kill Palestinians. It is of critical importance that US politicians not be pro-Israel because that position cannot be held by anyone who honors our Pledge of Allegiance to liberty and justice for all. Will you assure me that Amy Acton is not a supporter of Israel?
The holocaust has been horribly exploited by Israel. In the US, Zionists have pressed to have individual states mandate holocaust education before high school in public schools, Illinois is one, no mention of the Nakba of course.
The holocaust should create remorse for the millions who died in the event, but this should not transfer to Israel, to those who shelter under this remorse (and guilt) to do horrible things to others while expecting to be excused for it as eternal victims. Netanyahu is among the worst holocaust exploiters as he spreads carnage and death freely while thinking it is righteous.
I cannot believe the many helpless people who died at Auschwitz would approve of what has been done using them as a cover. Morally, Netanyahu has nothing to stand on as he declares himself the leader of the "forces of light"!
I'm displaying two new signs that continue the theme that ethnic cleansing Zionism and liberty and justice for all are antithetical. Rather than continue to tally the thousands of dead killed by Israel, I made a sign that is another truth teller - that from the very start of the country of Israel in 1948, the expulsion of the natives has been a must.
As usual, but surprising to me when I first started the vigil, I had two people come up and talk to me on the sidewalk, both of them very supportive as is always the case. Zionists will only say something after passing, getting a jab in without any intention to try to defend the indefensible. I accept the verbal assaults without responding, my signs speak for humanity
Tech note - the clamps you see in the photos allow me to place a new sign over an old one so that I don't have to do any re-stringing.
The chilling thing that stands above all since Oct 7 is the willingness of the Israeli people, the great majority of them, to approve of the slaughter of the Palestinians. So much hatred was exhibited by the settlers stopping aid and by IDF troops having fun with destruction that the reality of what teaching "they only want to kill us" can do to a generation that goes on the attack in full self-righteous battle array, no doubts, no hesitation, to get them all and make everything rubble.
Smotrich and BenGvir only prove that Jews are human beings like any others, capable of the lowest behavior as well as (certainly not those two) the best. Anti-semites are fools who cannot see this, but anti-Zionists have been proven correct. Jews and Arabs live in peace in the US, but to claim a land exclusively, Israel has hit rock bottom, and pulled down the US with it. The world is disgusted.
For background, read Max Blumenthal's account of Israel in his book, Goliath, written in 2013. The subtitle is "life and loathing in greater Israel. What Israelis showed they could do in 2024 was long in the making. My review of the book is here.
