COMMENTARY / OPINION
Genocide is not a meme, so stop treating it like one. AVI TARANTO
In 10 years, millions will remember Israel as having committed a genocide it didn’t commit — and forget the genocides that actually did.
JUN 10, 2025
In the long history of human violence, genocide stands out as a uniquely horrifying category.
It is not simply war. It is not insurgency, or resistance, or collateral damage. It is the deliberate attempt to erase a people from existence. And so, when we use the word genocide, we invoke moral gravity of the highest order.
But what happens when the meme of genocide becomes cheapened? What happens when it is misapplied, algorithmically amplified, memetically inflated — used not to clarify truth, but to override it?
The term genocide is a memetic superweapon. Coined in the aftermath of the Holocaust, it carries the power of finality: To be accused of genocide is to be placed outside the circle of humanity. It is an accusation from which no nation easily recovers. It doesn’t simply describe death; it ascribes intent — and that is memetically irreversible.
But, as with any powerful meme, its overuse leads to dilution. Every time “genocide” is applied recklessly or falsely, its ability to mean anything at all is weakened. When every war becomes genocide, then genocide becomes just another word for war.
A meme, like a currency, must be backed by something real. Remove the backing (evidence, proportion, context) and you create the equivalent of moral counterfeit.
The war between Israel and Gaza is being reported — across major news platforms, university protests, and TikTok feeds — as the genocide of our time.
According to recent studies, the term “genocide” has been invoked in reference to Gaza more than all recognized genocides of the past two decades combined, including those in Rwanda, Syria, Darfur, Myanmar, and Xinjiang.
Pause for a moment. That should shock you.
Even if someone believed Israel was acting with excessive force, to leap straight to genocide (while ignoring actual genocides) is a memetic tell. It is not about accurate classification. It is about narrative override.
And override it does. Few bother to verify the numbers. Hamas’ reported death toll of over 54,000 goes largely unquestioned, despite being sourced from the same apparatus that has, for years, exaggerated or outright fabricated figures to shape global perception.
Recent analysis shows that at least 22,000 of the dead were fighters, and thousands more were likely natural deaths included in the total. What this means is staggering: Israel has achieved the lowest ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths in modern warfare history, especially in urban warfare. And yet the memetic narrative insists on the opposite.
This is Malicious Memetic Mimicry (MMM) in action: the mimicry of moral language to produce immoral results. The “genocide” meme here mimics humanitarian concern, but it functions as a weapon of psychological and geopolitical war.
When everything is genocide, nothing is. In a single year, the word has been emptied of its moral power and historical specificity. The Holocaust, the archetype of genocide, is now casually equated to a war Israel did not start and has repeatedly sought to avoid. Once that equivalence sticks, historical literacy collapses.
We are witnessing the manufacture of false memory at scale. In 10 years, millions will remember Israel as having committed a genocide it didn’t commit — and forget the genocides that actually did.
The “genocide” meme spreads because it is emotionally intuitive and structurally simple: good versus evil, oppressor versus oppressed. The West, already preloaded with postcolonial guilt and institutionalized moral relativism, has become a fertile host.
This simplification is not accidental. It is the outcome of narrative compression — a memetic process by which complex realities are flattened into emotionally viral tropes. The actual content is less important than the form: The meme must look like truth, even when it evacuates truth entirely.
And, for a generation trained to respond to optics, hashtags, and algorithms — more than facts or history — the aesthetic of the oppressed trumps the reality of oppression.
This is why Hamas and its global apologists have no need to win militarily. They only need to look like victims. They need children’s bodies. They need rubble. They need shock. Even if they engineer the deaths themselves, they win the war of memes if the world blames Israel.
While Hamas’ soldiers die in war, Jews around the world are attacked in cafes, schools, synagogues, and on the street. Not Israeli soldiers, but Jews. And it’s not because of anything they’ve done. It’s because the meme of “Israel as genocidal” now maps onto all Jews.
This is the logic of blood libel. It is memetically indistinguishable from medieval antisemitism, now cloaked in “anti-Zionism” but functionally the same: Dehumanize Jews, accuse them of child murder, justify punishment.
To call this “progressivism” is obscene. It is regression to the most ancient of hate.
Every time the West allows this narrative to metastasize, it plays into the hands of those who actually oppress and kill civilians at scale: Iran, Russia, China, Syria, North Korea. These regimes cheer when the West eats itself, when its students chant for Hamas, when its media spreads disinformation, when its intellectuals collapse under moral relativism.
They see what we do not: that the meme of “genocide” applied to Israel is not a humanitarian act. It is an act of civilizational sabotage.
Even if someone believed Israel was acting with excessive force, to leap straight to genocide (while ignoring actual genocides) is a memetic tell. It is not about accurate classification. It is about narrative override.
And override it does. Few bother to verify the numbers. Hamas’ reported death toll of over 54,000 goes largely unquestioned, despite being sourced from the same apparatus that has, for years, exaggerated or outright fabricated figures to shape global perception.
Recent analysis shows that at least 22,000 of the dead were fighters, and thousands more were likely natural deaths included in the total. What this means is staggering: Israel has achieved the lowest ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths in modern warfare history, especially in urban warfare. And yet the memetic narrative insists on the opposite.
This is Malicious Memetic Mimicry (MMM) in action: the mimicry of moral language to produce immoral results. The “genocide” meme here mimics humanitarian concern, but it functions as a weapon of psychological and geopolitical war.
When everything is genocide, nothing is. In a single year, the word has been emptied of its moral power and historical specificity. The Holocaust, the archetype of genocide, is now casually equated to a war Israel did not start and has repeatedly sought to avoid. Once that equivalence sticks, historical literacy collapses.
We are witnessing the manufacture of false memory at scale. In 10 years, millions will remember Israel as having committed a genocide it didn’t commit — and forget the genocides that actually did.
The “genocide” meme spreads because it is emotionally intuitive and structurally simple: good versus evil, oppressor versus oppressed. The West, already preloaded with postcolonial guilt and institutionalized moral relativism, has become a fertile host.
This simplification is not accidental. It is the outcome of narrative compression — a memetic process by which complex realities are flattened into emotionally viral tropes. The actual content is less important than the form: The meme must look like truth, even when it evacuates truth entirely.
And, for a generation trained to respond to optics, hashtags, and algorithms — more than facts or history — the aesthetic of the oppressed trumps the reality of oppression.
This is why Hamas and its global apologists have no need to win militarily. They only need to look like victims. They need children’s bodies. They need rubble. They need shock. Even if they engineer the deaths themselves, they win the war of memes if the world blames Israel.
While Hamas’ soldiers die in war, Jews around the world are attacked in cafes, schools, synagogues, and on the street. Not Israeli soldiers, but Jews. And it’s not because of anything they’ve done. It’s because the meme of “Israel as genocidal” now maps onto all Jews.
This is the logic of blood libel. It is memetically indistinguishable from medieval antisemitism, now cloaked in “anti-Zionism” but functionally the same: Dehumanize Jews, accuse them of child murder, justify punishment.
To call this “progressivism” is obscene. It is regression to the most ancient of hate.
Every time the West allows this narrative to metastasize, it plays into the hands of those who actually oppress and kill civilians at scale: Iran, Russia, China, Syria, North Korea. These regimes cheer when the West eats itself, when its students chant for Hamas, when its media spreads disinformation, when its intellectuals collapse under moral relativism.
They see what we do not: that the meme of “genocide” applied to Israel is not a humanitarian act. It is an act of civilizational sabotage.
There is something uniquely cruel and unmistakably intentional about accusing the descendants of Holocaust survivors of committing genocide. This is not a neutral misclassification. It is not an innocent exaggeration. It is a calculated memetic inversion, designed to sting. [Emphasis added]
Hamas, and many of its ideological allies, relish this inversion. They understand the psychology of trauma. They exploit it. To turn the Holocaust inside out — casting Israelis as Nazis, Jews as perpetrators — is to desecrate memory while inflicting new pain. It is a form of sadistic moral theater, and it works because it plays to an audience already primed to feel uneasy about Jewish power, Jewish trauma, and Jewish survival.
To accuse Jews of genocide in the shadow of the Holocaust is to strip them of their history, deny them their wounds, and blame them for surviving.
What’s more, the charge of apartheid against Israel has become another memetic staple of the current conflict: easily chantable, superficially resonant, and increasingly untethered from its original historical referent. It is designed to short-circuit discussion, not invite it. And like genocide, it is a term with genuine historical weight, cheapened through repetition until it functions more as a slur than a diagnosis.
The comparison to South African apartheid is not only false; it is maliciously misleading. Apartheid was a legal and territorial system of racial segregation, enforced by a white minority over a disenfranchised Black majority with no political rights or recourse.
By contrast:
- Arab citizens of Israel vote, serve in the Knesset, sit on the Supreme Court, work in hospitals, teach in universities, and protest freely.
- The West Bank is not sovereign Israeli territory; it is disputed land governed partially by the Palestinian Authority, with a history of failed peace offers and violent rejections.
- Gaza has been entirely free from Israel since 2005, and is currently ruled by Hamas, an explicitly antisemitic, theocratic, armed faction that rejects peace.
And yet, the meme persists.
Why? Because apartheid, like genocide, is a memetic wildcard. It offers moral clarity without historical complexity. It gives the user a sense of righteousness without requiring context, nuance, or evidence. It mimics the moral urgency of the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s, but its purpose here is not liberation; it is delegitimization.
This is not critique. This is rhetorical sabotage.
And it works. Because once a society is labeled “apartheid,” the normal rules of moral engagement no longer apply. Negotiation becomes appeasement. Defense becomes aggression. Coexistence becomes complicity.
The result is not peace. The result is a license to hate, draped in the language of human rights.
Just as the genocide meme inverts the Holocaust, the apartheid meme inverts the civil rights movement. It is a false analogy propped up by people who would never survive a day under Hamas rule — and yet feel empowered to condemn the only pluralistic democracy in the region as a racist regime.
Like genocide, apartheid was not merely a set of policies; it was a novel racial architecture, rooted in the pseudoscientific eugenics of the early 20th century. It sought not only to separate peoples, but to biologically and culturally justify domination through scientific discourse and bureaucratic precision. Its memetic uniqueness was its legibility — a systematic, codified regime of racial cruelty, unmatched in modern statecraft.
To invoke it casually is to engage in Scientific Malicious Memetic Mimicry: the appropriation of an empirically defined evil to emotionally justify an unrelated, far less clear-cut political agenda.
And perhaps most cynically, the accusation now comes loudest from South Africa itself, the nation that gave apartheid its name. In recent years, the South African government has wielded the apartheid accusation against Israel not as a defense of global justice, but as a domestic pressure valve.
Amid spiraling corruption, state collapse, and public disillusionment with the African National Congress’ post-apartheid failures, the symbolic projection of apartheid onto Israel offers a convenient external enemy.
It reframes South Africa not as a nation struggling under kleptocracy, but as a moral authority reasserting its legacy. Yet, in doing so, it diminishes that very legacy. It dilutes its own historical struggle by using its moral capital not to uplift truth, but to outsource blame.
When asking Western onlookers to resist a seductive moral narrative, a predictable script of deflection emerges: “You have to admit, it’s hell on Earth. Look at the children. Look at the rubble.”
A raw emotional appeal, used to justify memetic inversion.
“Israel is obviously guilty of war crimes tantamount to genocide.”
Translation: We don’t have proof, but it feels close enough.
“That’s just an excuse for Israel to commit atrocities.”
As if Jewish trauma itself were a con — millennia of persecution repackaged as villainy.
“What about Ben-Gvir and Smotrich?”
As if every government is reducible to its worst actors. As if their extremism defines Israeli society, rather than being checked and widely condemned within it.
“What makes you an expert?”
A classic dodge. From those who follow memes, not facts.
Let’s be clear: War is hell. This war, like all wars, has produced horrific suffering. But this war began not in ambiguity, but in massacre — on October 7, 2023 — when Hamas and allied groups broke through the border, slaughtered civilians, took hostages, and unleashed hell.
And in the aftermath? Many so-called civilians joined in. None of the hostages report having been helped. The societies that produced the Nazis and their collaborators conversely contained those with the courage and moral fortitude to save Jews. No Gazan has been named among the “Righteous Among the Nations.” Not one has entered the record having showed mercy.
Despite this, Israel has not granted itself carte blanche. On the contrary, it has undertaken more efforts to minimize civilian casualties — via leaflets, phone calls, humanitarian corridors — than any modern power in similar conflict. That includes the United States, the United Kingdom, and NATO. The civilian-to-combatant ratio remains the lowest on record for urban warfare of this scale.
Yes, Gaza has suffered tremendous destruction. That is not denied. But to call this genocide is to elevate the lie over the facts, and narrative over history. This is not genocide. This is a war Israel did not seek but now must finish, lest October 7th be repeated again, and again, and again.
This is not only about Israel. Or Jews. It is about whether the West can survive the collapse of its own moral language.
When genocide means “whatever is emotionally persuasive,” when victims are rebranded as villains, when truth is optional and memory is rewritable — we lose civilization itself.
Because civilization depends on categories: on the ability to distinguish between just and unjust, between war and massacre, between real suffering and manipulated spectacle.
In the fog of this memetic war, we must not be afraid to say: This is not genocide, the numbers have been manipulated, Hamas exploits its own people, accusing Jews of genocide is a desecration of history, and the moral compass of the West is spinning — and it is our duty to recalibrate it.
Because, if we don’t, the truth will not just be forgotten. It will be forbidden.
[Ed.: Genocide:
Getting Gazans wrong: Understanding support for Hamas and the Oct. 7 attacks Moshe Phillips
Policies concerning refugees, foreign aid and ceasefires must be informed by the reality that a large segment of Gaza’s population supports a terror group.
June 10, 2025 JNS – Leila Fadel on NPR’s Morning Edition on June 5 interviewed Graeme Groom, a British surgeon who worked recently at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Groom’s comments were entirely one-sided and naive. “The current campaign is directed almost exclusively at the blameless and defenseless,” he said.
The outrageously false accusation that Israel is specifically targeting civilians echoes some of the darkest periods in Jewish history, when blood libels were a regular occurrence.
Far too many pundits and bureaucrats at the United Nations, European Union and nongovernmental organizations strive to portray Gazans as unwilling captives of Hamas—trapped under an oppressive regime with no power and no responsibility. This view fails to take into account the complicated and troubling reality that a significant portion of Gazans support Hamas and its violent actions, including the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
In March 2024, a survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR), which is based in Ramallah, found that 71% of Gazans said Hamas was “correct” to launch the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, which included mass killings and kidnappings of Israeli civilians. This view is still above 50% as of now (PCPSR, May 2025). Moreover, 64% of Gazans opposed the disarmament of Hamas (United With Israel, May 2025). This shows not only support for Hamas’s past actions but also a commitment to continued Hamas terrorism.
These murderous views are echoed beyond Gaza as well. In the same PCPSR poll, 88% of Arabs in Judea and Samaria, where Hamas does not govern, also rejected the idea of disarming the group.
This demonstrates that an Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweet posted on X on April 22 was entirely correct: “The Palestinian Authority isn’t educating children, it’s indoctrinating them. Maps without Israel. Teachers praising martyrdom. Textbooks that glorify terror. As long as they teach hate, there’s no hope for peace. Stop ignoring it. Stop funding education that leads to terror.”
The Oslo Agreement says that Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority henchmen must “apprehend, investigate and prosecute perpetrators and all other persons directly or indirectly involved in acts of terrorism, violence and incitement” (Annex I, Article II, 3-c of Oslo II). The P.A. has ignored that obligation for three decades now.
The P.A. has never taken any tangible actions against incitement. A recent study from Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) reviewed P.A. school curricula and found that the P.A. continues to “espouse some of the worst views against Jews and Israel in their textbooks.”
Returning to Gaza, some may respond, as professor Ilya Somin did in an October 2023 article in Reason, by comparing Gazans to Russians living under Vladimir Putin’s regime—people with limited freedom who are not morally culpable for their government’s atrocities. But this analogy only holds if public opinion runs sharply against the ruling power. In Gaza’s case, significant public backing for Hamas is the truth.
That said, dissent does exist in Gaza, and it is dangerous. Criticizing Hamas can result in imprisonment or worse. International reports, such as those from The Times (London), have documented voices within Gaza who resent Hamas and blame it for the destruction visited upon their society. These individuals exist, and their suffering is real. But dissenters remain a minority, and they do not disprove the fact that widespread support for Hamas continues, as measured in credible polls.
Policies concerning refugees, foreign aid and ceasefires must be informed by the reality that a large segment of Gaza’s population supports a terrorist organization. Acknowledging this is essential if Israel is to be successful in its effort to destroy Hamas and prevent future Oct. 7-type attacks that Hamas has repeatedly and consistently pledged to carry out. We cannot afford to misunderstand the extremism that endures among the Gazan majority—doing so risks allowing the terrorist organization to survive. The international community must recognize that Gazans are not victims of Hamas; they are full participants in shaping their society’s situation. They elected Hamas, and they support Hamas. It is time to stop getting Gazans wrong
MOSHE PHILLIPS Moshe Phillips, a veteran pro-Israel activist and author, is the national chairman of Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI). A former board member of the American Zionist Movement, he previously served as national director of the U.S. division of Herut and worked with CAMERA in Philadelphia. He was also a delegate to the 2020 World Zionist Congress and served as editor of The Challenger, the publication of the Tagar Zionist Youth Movement. His op-eds and letters have been widely published in the United States and Israel.
Qatar: the Real Perpetrator of the October 7th Massacre by Bassem Eid
June 10, 2025 Special to IPT News
How did Hamas do it on October 7? This time, I don’t mean to ask how they had so little humanity as to butcher over 1,200 innocents in Israel in a single day of horrors, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Nor do I refer to the level of brainwashing or innate evil necessary to kill 370 young people at a dance party, to rape and genitally mutilate screaming women and girls, or to drag 250 hostages – including 12 Americans – back to Gaza. No, at present, I am speaking of practical and, ultimately, financial capability: how was Hamas able to afford the trucks, the motorcycles, the assault weapons and grenades, the paragliders and massive tunnel networks that enabled their terroristic invasion on that black day? To a large extent, the answer can be found at a single address: Qatar, the absolute monarchy on the Arabian peninsula that is the beating heart of modern terrorism financing.
According to a newly revealed report by the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, one of the reasons that enabled Hamas to build up its forces for the October 7 onslaught was “the flow of money from Qatar to Gaza and its delivery to Hamas’s military wing” This occurred in partnership with the better known bête noire of the United States and Israel in the Middle East, the rogue state of Iran, which has been officially designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the U.S. State Department since 1984. Overall, the Shin Bet determined that Hamas’s achievement of strike capacity “was to a large degree due to the strategic buttress provided by Iran and the use of the funds that came in from Iran and Qatar.”
What explains the deep involvement of Qatar in antisemitism and international terrorism? In a word: ideology. Qatar’s official version of Islam is the stark form called Wahhabism. Since the 1990s, Qatar has positioned itself as the major funder of the radical front for Islamist political theocracy known as the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Hamas, which Qatar has heavily funded, is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and its 1988 founding charter commits it to the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic theocracy in its place. Qatar was the primary physical residence and base for Hamas’s international leadership from 2012 until late 2024, when American pressure grew too great in the wake of the October 7 massacre,.
Qatar’s reach stretches far beyond direct terrorism – its persuasive reach has astonishing access through Qatar’s state-owned media corporation, Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera has become a household name worldwide, and many Westerners are surprised to learn that the channel, which has provided media access for radical figures from Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden, is the property of the Qatari government and, as such, has never once voiced criticism of the Qatari state or its royal family. Not only Israel but also several Arab states have scrutinized Qatar’s Al Jazeera for its platforming of Hamas, for which it provides highly slanted positive coverage and boosting.
So why is Qatar, a small maritime state, so powerful when it seems so vulnerable on a map? Because unlike Iran, with its regular “Death to America” chants, Qatar has never publicly positioned itself in opposition to the American-led international order. Far from it: the largest United States air base in the Middle East, al Udeid Air Base, which played a critical role in the fight against ISIS, is hosted by Qatar. The Qatari government has contributed billions of dollars to the base’s development. The United States military’s Central Command (CENTCOM), responsible for security in the Middle East and Central Asia, maintains its forward operating headquarters in Qatar.
Indeed, Qatar’s “soft power” globally, including in the United States, goes far beyond media reach or security cooperation. The wealthy Qatar Development Fund, a state-owned investment entity, has poured resources into critical and sensitive United States infrastructure. Notably, Qatar has invested billions in U.S. higher education, with research indicating that Qatar-funded groups are behind many of the antisemitic and pro-Hamas “protests” that have roiled U.S. campuses since Hamas launched its war on October 7, 2023. Much of this Qatari funding has not been reported to the U.S. Department of Education, as required by law, with Yale University, for example, having allegedly concealed millions of dollars in Qatari investments that are believed to have fueled anti-Israel attitudes on campus.
Qatar is wealthy and powerful mainly because the United States and its allies have allowed it to be, and the consequences are now plain for all to see. Unlike Iran, Qatar is not a large, mountainous country with millions of inhabitants; it is a small, low-lying peninsula with a total population under 3 million, of whom about 90% are foreign noncitizens. It is an absolute monarchy whose ruling al Thani dynasty retains a complete monopoly on political power. Now, it is upon the U.S. Congress to designate Qatar for what it is – a major state sponsor of terrorism – and to impose sanctions on its ruling class. Doing so would compel change and dry up one of the primary financial sources of instability in today’s world. Failing to change the status quo risks leading to more horrors like those the Qatari-sponsored terrorists perpetrated in Israel on October 7, 2023.
Bassem Eid is a Jerusalem-based Palestinian political analyst, human rights pioneer and expert commentator on Arab and Palestinian affairs. He grew up in an UNRWA refugee camp. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @realbassemeid
Jewish anti-Zionists Moshe Phillips
There is a close relationship between the Reconstructionist movement and Jewish Voice for Peace extremists. Op-ed.
Jun 10, 2025, 6:45 AM (GMT+3) Israel National News – (JNS) The murder in Washington, D.C., of Israeli embassy staff members Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, last month by an anti-Israel extremist has drawn statements from American rabbis across the spectrum of political and religious thought. Yet one response stands out for its disturbing nature.
Rabbi Brant Rosen of Chicago, co-founder of the Rabbinical Council of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and spiritual leader of Tzedek Chicago, responded by stating: “These were two Israeli embassy workers, so they were representatives of a country that is engaged in a genocide,” referring to Palestinian Arab deaths amid a war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza that followed the terrorist massacre of 1,200 people in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the kidnapping of some 250 others.
Tzedek Chicago, founded in 2015, describes itself as “an anti-Zionist Jewish congregation based on core values of justice, equity and solidarity.” In other words, Rosen positions himself well outside the mainstream of American Jewish life.
JVP does not support a two-state solution. JVP calls for an end to the State of Israel as we now know it.
JVP’s rabbinical council has only 41 members—out of an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 rabbis in the United States, not including ordained rabbis working outside synagogues and campus organizations. Yet despite their small numbers, JVP rabbis have gained an outsized influence in discourse since Oct. 7. By contrast, the pro-Israel Coalition for Jewish Values says its “Rabbinic Circle is composed of over 2,500 traditional Orthodox rabbis.”
If the American Jewish community holds that some individuals and organizations cross lines into what can generously be called renegade territory, then JVP surely qualifies.
What’s more troubling is that the Reconstructionist movement, which is the home of many JVP leaders, has so far failed to disassociate itself from these persona. This inaction should prompt the Reform and Conservative movements to re-examine their relationships with Reconstructionist institutions. Yet this reckoning has not occurred.
Let’s examine the close, even affirming, relationship between the Reconstructionist movement and JVP extremists.
Brant Rosen, Linda Holtzman and Brian Walt—all members of the JVP Rabbinical Council—are graduates of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) and have held or continue to hold high-profile roles within major Reconstructionist organizations. All three are featured on ReconstructingJudaism.org, the movement’s official website.
Another affiliated site, Ritualwell.org, serves as a liturgical resource for the movement. Rosen’s “A Jewish Prayer for Nakba Day” is published on the site and includes the phrase “from the river to the sea”—a slogan that is widely recognized as rejecting Israel’s existence. Walt’s bio on ReconstructingJudaism.org notes explicitly that he is a member of JVP’s Rabbinical Council.
According to ReconstructingJudaism.org, Holtzman serves as an RRC professor and director of student life (though it is unclear how current the listing is), despite her long-standing involvement with JVP. Walt was chosen to present at the Reconstructionist Israel Convening this past December in a session titled “Reflecting on Israel, despite being a senior JVP leader.”
Rosen’s nearly 2,600-word screed, titled “Why I’ve Broken From Zionism,” remains publicly available on ReconstructingJudaism.org. In it, he disavows any connection to the Zionist movement.
This is not a case of guilt by association.
The Reconstructionist movement offers JVP-affiliated rabbis a degree of legitimacy that amounts to tacit approval of their anti-Zionism. This stands in stark contrast to broader American Jewish opinions. As a Gallup staffer noted in 2019, “95% of Jews have favorable views of Israel.”
In early May, Deborah Waxman, head of the two most prominent Reconstructionist institutions, gave a major interview upon announcing her retirement. In it, she stated: “The Reconstructionist movement has long supported a two-state solution, and many of our leaders have advocated for Palestinian national aspirations even when it came at a personal cost.”
But key movement figures contradict Waxman’s statement openly.
Rosen is a past president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association. Holtzman currently serves on its board. Walt wrote back in 2012 in a nearly 6,700-word essay: “The daily reality in Israel violated each of these core values. And I could no longer be a Zionist.”
Walt is also currently listed as a member of the J Street Rabbinic and Cantorial Cabinet on its website. And he is not alone in belonging to both J Street’s rabbinic body and JVP’s. Mordechai Liebling, one-time executive director of Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, is another, as are Alan LaPayover, Rebecca Alpert and others.
Both J Street and the Reconstructionists claim to be for a two-state solution, but how do they reconcile the involvement in their organizations of JVP’s anti-Israel rabbis?
It’s easy to see just how radical JVP really is with even a very quick review of their website, where they call for the removal of Jews from Israel. The section reads: “We imagine Arab, Middle Eastern and Southwest Asian/North African Jews having ethical and safe access to return to their original homelands.”
The Reconstructionist movement has had more than a decade to address this issue and has consistently failed to act. It has not distanced itself from its most radical figures, nor has it publicly disavowed the positions of JVP’s rabbinic leadership.
Unless this changes, it’s time for American Jews to seriously re-evaluate the place the Reconstructionist movement occupies in the larger communal tent.
Moshe Phillips, a veteran pro-Israel activist and author, is the national chairman of Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI). A former board member of the American Zionist Movement, he previously served as national director of the U.S. division of Herut and worked with CAMERA in Philadelphia. He was also a delegate to the 2020 World Zionist Congress and served as editor of The Challenger, the publication of the Tagar Zionist Youth Movement. His op-edsare posted frequently on Arutz Sheva.
Where do you sign up to be a useful idiot for the Islamists? Giulio Meotti
Greta Thunberg in the Tristes Tropiques of Gaza.
Jun 9, 2025 Israel National News – Take the poster promoting the Pride March in Paris: seven individuals, each of a different color, who seem to rejoice at having strangled and put a white man on a leash. “Against the reactionary international” and “Queers of all countries, let’s unite,” the poster reads. Karl Marx in woke sauce.
An Islamic veil. A Palestinian Arab flag. A hanged white man. And all this is financed by the city of Paris and the Île-de-France region.
In “Why we strike” again Greta Thunberg, once environmental champion, now a militant in the ranks of the pro-Gaza movement, explained: “The climate crisis is not just about the environment. colonial, racist and patriarchal systems of oppression created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all”.
Let’s reread it carefully: the climate crisis is the result of Western racism, colonialism and patriarchy, which must be dismantled (along with Zionism). We are in the heart of the mania of the West submerged in self-hatred.
And to satisfy her many fans and gain new media attention, Greta, now a woman, has set sail from Italy to the Gaza Strip together with a group of terrorist supporters, including those who dance at the news of the attacks. Israel stopped the boat and will deport them back to their countries.
They are the zombie children of the revolution and they are lucky that Israel stopped them before reaching Gaza.
Cocktails, selfies in the sun, dives into a sea of selective indignation… On board, pro-Hamas MP Rima Hassan cooks for the revolution (organic and gluten-free), while Greta immortalizes herself in the golden sunset. And they post these videos.
Enjoy the joys of a woke sunbath.
“How do you become a useful idiot for the Islamists?” asks in Le Point Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud. “What is happening in this phenomenon of ‘self-substitution’ that leads to supporting positions that offend common sense and to believing that Kabul is more beautiful than Paris? Perhaps he wants to reach the supreme nirvana of the guilt-ridden intellectual, that is, to deny himself completely, to punish himself until he leaves only ashes. His ambition goes beyond politics and falls back into the intimate. He dreams of chaos, of course, but above all of revenge, punishment, pain, the wounding of ‘his’ with a sense of belonging that he rejects. He has chosen to be stupid out of passion. He has Kabul syndrome: seeing victims everywhere, she doesn’t see the Taliban anywhere.”
Eli Sharabi, the hostage who left Gaza skin and bones and without a wife and daughters (who were killed), has just told us that the terrorists, in exchange for food, wanted them to read the Koran. He refused, preferring to go hungry. (As an aside, he also wrote that when one of the four hostages with him was offered a date, he refused it unless the others got one as well.)
In 1985, Claude Lévi-Strauss, the author of the monumental “Tristes Tropiques”, articulated a vision of the West that is now completely out of fashion:
“I began to reflect at a time when our culture was attacking other cultures and at that time I set myself up as their defender and witness. Today I have the impression that the movement has reversed and that our culture has ended up on the defensive in the face of external threats, among which is the Islamic explosion. And suddenly I found myself an ethnological and firmly resolved defender of my own culture.”
As Lévy-Strauss wrote in a letter to the philosopher Raymond Aron: “I had to meet Islam to understand the danger that threatens us today. France is in the process of becoming Muslim.”
When these white Hamas useful idiots turn back to Europe, they will find their countries becoming like Gaza. Good luck to them.
Giulio Meotti is an Italian journalist with Il Foglio and writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author, in English, of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter and of “J’Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel” published by Mantua Books, in addition to books in Italian. His writing has also appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Gatestone, Frontpage and Commentary
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Beware of the Ayatollah Regime’s Negotiation Tactics Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
June 9, 2025
US negotiation vs. Iranian negotiation
A self-destructive step undertaken by US negotiators has been the assumption that negotiation with the Ayatollah regime (and any other terroristic regime) can be based on Western negotiation tactics.
Contrary to US negotiation tactics, which aim to advance reconciliation, the Ayatollah regime’s 1,400-year-old negotiation tactics are driven by a vision, which mandates the crushing/subjugation of the “infidel.”
While US negotiation tactics strive for a binding accord, the Ayatollah regime’s negotiation tactics strive for a tentative accord, to be abrogated whenever politically or militarily opportune.
US negotiators tend to focus on future (speculative?) scenarios, as well as statements made by Iranian negotiators, rather than on the Ayatollah regime’s (well-documented) rogue track record, fanatical ideology, the 1979 Constitution and books written by Ayatollah Khomeini – the Supreme Founding Leader – which have driven the Ayatollah regime since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Since 1978/79, US negotiation with the Ayatollah regime have failed to moderate the regime, while yielding a powerful tailwind, dramatically bolstering the anti-US capabilities of the Ayatollah regime.
Ayatollah regime’s negotiation tactics
*Taqiyyah is an Islamic-sanctioned tactic of dissimulation (Quran, Surah 3, verse 28 and Surah 16, verse 106), in the face of a superior power, concealing one’s true belief and intention, in order to mislead the militarily superior “infidel” via deceptive tongue, while the heart remains steadfast. Under dire strategic circumstances, taqiyyah is not merely permissible; it is obligatory.
*Khod’eh is an Iranian tactic of misinformation and disinformation, rather than outright deception. Khod’eh intends to manipulate the “infidel,” causing the “infidel” to misjudge the true position of the “believer.”
*Kitman is deceit by omission (half truth), evasion, silence and making ambiguous statements, paying lip-service to the “infidel.”
*Taarof employs subjective (cultural, emotional, psychological, philosophical, religious) meaning of words, rather than objective literal (dictionary) definition of words. Knowingly, introducing false assumptions (not an utter lie…).
Islamic negotiation tactics in action
*In 1978-79, Ayatollah Khomeini coaxed the US into facilitating the toppling of the pro-US Shah, while expediting the Islamic Revolution. Khomeini displayed his mastery of the 1,400-year-old Islamic negotiation tactics: taqiyyah (religiously legitimized dissimulation), khodeh (trickery, rather than outright lies), kitman (hiding one’s true intentions) and taarof (ambiguity and ostensible politeness, aiming to confuse).
Thus, Khomeini, whose legacy has dominated Iran’s domestic and external policy, immersed President Carter with moderate statements, leading Carter to assume that Khomeini was committed to human rights and liberty, including women’s rights and free press; did not intend to export the Islamic Revolution beyond Iran; was anti-Communist and therefore, potentially pro-US; and that Khomeini would be preoccupied with tractors not with tanks. The US Ambassador to Tehran assessed that Khomeini would be an Iranian edition of Gandhi. Therefore, Carter pressured Iran’s military – which was not duped by Khomeini’s moderate statements and opposed his return to Iran from his exile in France – to support Khomeini’s toppling of the Shah and assuming control of Iran. However, upon seizing power, Khomeini executed a large number of top military officers, seized the US Embassy, held 50 Americans hostage for 444 days, and transformed Iran from “The American Policeman of the Gulf” to the world’s leading epicenter of anti-US terrorism, wars, drug trafficking, money laundering and the proliferation of advanced military systems.
*In December 1988, following US-PLO negotiation, the US recognized the terrorist organization as the official representative of the Palestinian people, defining it as an important step in the peace process, and authorizing the opening of a PLO office in Washington, DC. The US based its game-changing policy on the supposed PLO acceptance of UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, ostensibly recognizing Israel’s right to exist, and purportedly renouncing terrorism. However, consistent with Islamic negotiation tactics – and leveraging the US State Department’s alternate Palestinian reality – the PLO ignored its presumed commitments, intensified anti-Israel terrorism, recognizing Israel verbally (when addressing Western interlocutors, not Muslim audiences), but actively pursuing the destruction of the Jewish State.
*In 1993, Yasser Arafat, the arch-Palestinian terrorist, inundated Israel with peaceful talk, which led Israel to believe that he was transformed from an anti-Israel terrorist to a leading peacemaker, ushering in Peace Now and a New Middle East. Therefore, Israel committed a dramatic gesture, which no Arab country had ever contemplated, allowing Arafat to relocate from Tunisia – along with some 100,000 Palestinian terrorists from Sudan, Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon – to Gaza, Judea and Samaria. Moreover, Israel supplied Arafat with military hardware, lobbied President Clinton to extend foreign aid to Arafat’s Palestinian Authority, and paved the road to according him the Nobel Peace Prize. As expected, upon entering his new domain, Arafat launched an unprecedented wave of Palestinian terrorism against Israel (which is still raging!), and instructed his deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, to establish the Palestinian hate-education school system, which has become the most effective production line of terrorists, including suicide bombers.
*In 2013-2015, the US negotiators of the JCPOA were impressed by the polished, moderate and pragmatic pronouncements made by Iranian officials, which convinced them that the Ayatollah regime was on a peaceful path. Notwithstanding the signed JCPOA, the Ayatollah regime persisted in the development of nuclear capabilities, while bolstering its anti-US conventional and ballistic capabilities, expanding cooperation with anti-US terror organizations, intensifying collaboration with Latin American drug cartels and anti-US governments, and establishing terror sleeper cells on US soil.
*Since 1978, the US has been engaged in on-again, off-again negotiations and economic sanctions, assuming that financial and diplomatic bonanza, as well as maximum pressure crippling economic sanctions would induce the Ayatollah regime to embrace peaceful coexistence with its Sunni Arab neighbors, adopt good faith negotiation and abandon its 1,400-year-old fanatic, imperialistic, apocalyptic vision. However, this US policy has been the chief engine of the Ayatollah regime’s surge to a top global strategic posture, evolving into a clear and present threat to the US homeland and national security.
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The REAL insurrection TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 09, 2025
By now you’ve all seen the footage of the invasion of California – the riots, looting, arson and other criminal acts. This is a real insurrection. The question is – who is behind it? What I hope to do is cover some points that the fake news won’t tell you – in a 10 minute read.
As slimy California Governor Newsom was on TV telling Trump to get out of Los Angeles and that he had it covered, the Democrat Mayor of LA, Karen Bass, unintentionally admitted on CBS LA that the LAPD was “overrun” and couldn’t handle the thousands of rioters – so Trump sending in the National Guard actually helped the situation.
A Curious Case of Selective Outrage Syndrome JOSHUA HOFFMAN
It’s never really been about helping Palestinians; it’s about blaming Jews. Let’s not get it twisted.
JUN 09, 2025
An IDF soldier offers Greta Thunberg a sandwich and bottle of water on Monday, after her anti-Israel flotilla was stopped by Israel. (photo: Israel Foreign Ministry/X)
“I’m in the mall the other day. I went by that store, Lululemon. I walk by and in the window of every Lululemon, there’s a sign that says, ‘We don’t support racism, sexism, discrimination, or hate.’ And I’m like, ‘Who gives a f*ck?’ You’re just selling yoga pants. I don’t need your yoga pants politics.”
That’s comedian Chris Rock, from his recent Netflix special. And while he was aiming for laughs, he stumbled into a far more serious truth: Everyone’s a social justice warrior when it costs them nothing.
“I’m all for marginalized people getting their rights,” added Rock. “The thing I have a problem with is the selective outrage.”
That phrase — selective outrage — perfectly sums up the world’s current obsession with Gaza and its equally impressive silence on basically every other humanitarian disaster happening at the same time.
Yemen? Where more than 10 million children are starving due to a brutal civil war that’s killed hundreds of thousands? Silence. India? A U.S. government commission has recommended placing it alongside China, North Korea, and Iran for religious freedom violations. Not one Western protest. Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Nigeria, Afghanistan? Shrugs all around.
Even in terms of media coverage, the bias is glaring. One 2014 New Yorker article about global conflict gave Nigeria and Ukraine a sentence each. ISIS got four. Israel and Gaza? Thirty. That’s selective outrage at work — where Jews, and only Jews, must explain themselves not just for defending themselves, but for existing at all.
And into this moral circus sails Greta Thunberg.
Yes, Greta’s back — this time not just as the anti-capitalist mascot of Gen Z, but as a passenger aboard the Gaza-bound Madleen, a ship intercepted by Israeli forces earlier this week. Despite repeated warnings, Greta and 11 other self-proclaimed activists tried to break a legal maritime blockade intended to prevent weapons from reaching Hamas — the same group that murdered, raped, and kidnapped Israeli civilians on October 7th.
Apparently, Greta and Co. thought a “symbolic amount of aid” would justify a literal act of provocation. You can’t make this stuff up. This isn’t activism; it’s moral cosplay.
Greta, who only recently got her high school diploma at age 20 after years of skipping class to yell at adults, now believes she’s qualified to dictate foreign policy in a war zone she clearly doesn’t understand. And why not? In the age of social media, emotion is expertise, and hashtags are credentials.
But this isn’t just about Greta. She’s a symptom of a much larger problem.
It’s about how the West (its media, its protest culture, its influencers) has developed a pathological obsession with Israel. In the words of Yemeni activist Luai Ahmed:
“Everyone is silent about Yemen, yet everyone is a human rights activist about Gaza.”
There’s a reason for that. And it has nothing to do with actual concern for Palestinians.
Let’s start with identity politics: the bizarre impulse to collapse all global conflicts into one giant game of Oppressor versus Oppressed, with no regard for history, context, or common sense.
To some in the “progressive” West, Palestinians have become the go-to projection screen for every grievance: colonialism, capitalism, racism, even climate change. (Yes, Greta literally said “there’s no climate justice without Gaza.”)
It’s pure narcissism masquerading as solidarity.
So-called “pro-Palestinian” activists aren’t supporting Palestinian society; they’re ignoring it. They’re silent on the honor killings, child soldier indoctrination, LGBT persecution, and the total lack of democracy or women’s rights in Gaza. Because none of those facts fit their Instagrammable story of “resistance.”
Even worse, they outsource their morality to terrorists. The same people who beheaded babies on October 7th are now being defended as “freedom fighters” by TikTok stars and Ivy League students.
And that’s not an exaggeration. According to a recent Palestinian poll, more than 70 percent of Palestinians support terrorism against Israel. The numbers are obvious. But numbers don’t trend. Outrage does. The selectivity here is the key.
In Nice, France, a terrorist killed 84 people in 2016. Twitter trended with #PrayForNice. But when a twin bombing killed almost 300 in Baghdad the same year? Crickets. Not even a trending hashtag. Facebook let people in Paris mark themselves “safe.” When Beirut was bombed? Nothing.
And then there’s the United Nations, which condemned Israel more than every other country on Earth combined, including North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China. American politician John Kerry, no Zionist, called it an “obsession.” He was being diplomatic.
Let’s also address the Palestinian leadership problem. The greatest oppressor of Palestinians is often their own leadership. Hamas violently took over Gaza in 2007 from the Palestinian Authority in a bloody coup. Since then, it has diverted billions in aid to build terror tunnels instead of schools and hospitals. It indoctrinates children in hate, censors dissent, and jails or murders critics.
If you truly stood with Palestinians, you’d demand elections in Gaza. You’d call out Hamas for crushing dissent, jailing journalists, and turning Gaza into an open-air prison of its own making. You’d see that the cage isn’t built by Israel; it’s built by Hamas.
Meanwhile, Western activists infantilize Palestinians, stripping them of all agency and responsibility. In their narrative, Palestinians are always acted upon, never actors. They’re not moral beings capable of choice, only eternal victims. That’s not justice. That’s condescension.
Let’s do a thought experiment: Imagine for a moment if Jewish terrorists broke into Palestinian homes, filmed themselves beheading children and raping women, then broadcast it proudly. Imagine Israel putting children in front of tanks, then crying victim. Would the outrage be “selective” then — or universal? Would Greta still be sailing in to “stand in solidarity”?
And what about civilian deaths? The West holds Israel to a moral standard it applies to no one else. In Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, U.S. and coalition forces killed far more civilians than Israel has in Gaza. But there were no protests. No boycotts. No international outrage. Apparently, civilian deaths only count when Jews are involved.
When Hamas fires rockets from hospitals and schools, hoping Israel fires back, that’s not resistance. That’s a war crime. But when civilians die as a result, you blame Israel, not the terrorists who used them as shields. Even in the realm of empathy, Jews are the exception.
During the Holocaust, the New York Times buried stories about Jewish genocide. Today, it buries the Jewish perspective behind euphemisms like “violent settlers” or “occupied territories” and refuses to name antisemitism unless it can be paired with Islamophobia in the same breath.
Social media is worse. Its algorithms reward outrage, not accuracy. That’s why you see rubble in Gaza but not footage of Israeli families slaughtered in their homes. Why you see posters of dead children but not Hamas operatives using UN clinics as rocket depots.
There’s even algorithmic antisemitism: Jewish suffering simply doesn’t perform.
Let’s talk about Israel’s diversity, a reality the outrage machine ignores. The IDF includes Druze, Bedouins, Ethiopian Jews, and Arab Muslim citizens. Israeli Arabs serve in parliament, work as doctors and judges, and enjoy full legal rights. Yet none of this matters to people shouting “apartheid” — because they’ve already chosen their villain.
And what about the rest of the Arab world? Jordan doesn’t want Gaza’s refugees. Egypt keeps its border with Gaza shut. Lebanon segregates Palestinians in refugee camps. But no one boycotts them. No one screams “occupation” at Cairo or Amman. Why? Because it’s never really been about helping Palestinians; it’s about blaming Jews.
“Pro-Palestinian” protests in the West have gone from inconvenient to dangerous. Ceasefire chants now routinely shut down bridges, storm synagogues, and harass Jewish students on campus. And they do it all with self-righteous fury.
Hence where we are: moral nuance replaced by mob antics. Empathy isn’t real unless it’s loud, performative, and exclusive.
Chris Rock wasn’t joking when he said the world is full of “people pretending to care.” The outrage isn’t consistent. It’s curated. And it’s almost always aimed at Jews. Hayder Alasadi, an Iraqi ex-Muslim and founder of the Iraqi-Israeli Association for Peace, said it best:
“Don’t tell me you give a damn about civilians. What you are doing is simply Jew-hating and Israel-hating, using ‘innocent Palestinians’ as a card to demote Israel… You are not protesters. You are hate-filled, uneducated, and uncivilized.”
And let’s be clear: “Pro-Palestinian” doesn’t mean pro-peace, pro-democracy, or even pro-Palestinian. It means anti-Israel, and too often, anti-Jewish. If you truly cared about Palestinian lives, you’d fight to free them from Hamas. You’d fight for elections, free speech, and dignity in Palestinian society. You’d acknowledge that Hamas isn’t “resisting”; it’s ruling through fear.
But that takes courage. And courage, like consistency, is in short supply.
So, stop pretending. Stop chanting what you don’t understand. Stop performing your pain. And above all, stop telling Jews to die quietly.
You scream “Free Palestine!” while Jews are intimidated and harassed from displaying their identity. You cry “genocide” while Hamas livestreams executions. You don’t want peace; you want to feel righteous while the world burns.
Chris Rock said it best: “I’m all for justice. I just can’t stand the selective outrage.”
Neither can we. Because, when it’s only the Jews you scream about, it’s not outrage; it’s obsession, and a curious case of Selective Outrage Syndrome.
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The Sesame Street Seduction by Linda Goudsmit
June 9, 2025
No stranger has ever seduced a child with spinach. Predators understand that seducing a child requires offering something the child wants or providing something that engages the child. So it is with educational seduction.
Preschool educational television program Sesame Street, originally created to help young children from low-income families prepare for school and stimulate their desire to learn, first aired in November 1969. The show was spectacularly successful with children from all socio-economic backgrounds across America, who watched their beloved Muppet characters, and learned letters, numbers, geometric forms, classification, ordering, problem-solving, and social interactions. Sesame Street revolutionized children’s programming and proved that children could learn through visual media. Edutainment, a new genre in television programming was born.
After decades of success teaching foundational skills in reading and mathematics, and helping children learn through music, iconic characters, and repetition, Sesame Street at 55 years old is no longer recognizable––Sesame Street has gone woke. The astonishing educational success of Sesame Street made it a prime-time target for those who understood how easily the programming could be repurposed and used for anti-American, anti-family woke indoctrination. Education is a dual-use industry, and the fall of Sesame Street represents the capture of the American education industry at the pre-school level. Sesame Street is now a favored edutainment weapon of the globalist War on America that targets our nation’s youngest children.
Globalist Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) articulated the power of educational indoctrination. “Chapter 15, Obama’s Grand Plan: Fundamental Transformation” from my 2022 release The Collapsing American Family: From Bonding to Bondage, further explains how educational indoctrination is the long-range tactical strategy for globalism’s strategic goal to rule the world:
The value of educational propaganda in the globalist campaign is described in chilling detail by English aristocrat Lord Bertrand Russell in his 1953 classic, The Impact of Science on Society.81 Educational indoctrination is the primary instrument for eliminating objective reality, dismissing the American family, subverting American culture, and destroying America from within. Russell unapologetically explained the process that drives a society to madness:
It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.
Education should aim at destroying free will so that pupils thus schooled, will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. . . . Influences of the home are obstructive; not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten; in order to condition students, verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. . . . It is for a future scientist to make these maxims precise and to discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen. (pp. 27–28, Routledge Classics, 2016 edition)
Russell echoed Lenin’s statement: “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
John Dewey (1859-1952) considered to be the Father of American Education, was an unapologetic globalist who advanced Russell’s elitist position that the purpose of education is social engineering with the goal of establishing a new social order. Dewey considered education a social process, and the school a social institution where social reform should take place. His formula eliminates the development of critical-thinking skills in children. Without critical-thinking skills, individuals are easily manipulated and indoctrinated; like children, they simply accept what they are told.
“Chapter 6, John Dewey: The Father of Weaponized Education in America” also from my 2022 release The Collapsing American Family: From Bonding to Bondage, exposes how education is a dual-use industry that can be exploited for political gain.
Dewey’s influence on American education is unprecedented. His progressive educational reform movement remains the foundation of American education. Its anti-American political goals have been wildly successful in transforming American education from a source of American strength and prosperity to a weapon of mass American destruction.
History validates Dewey’s deception and its value as a weapon in the war on America. The coda16 to education reformer Bruce Deitrick Price’s October 1, 2012, American Thinker article, “John Dewey is a Fraud'” exposes Dewey’s arrogant and deceitful scheme for social engineering:
John Dewey, the world-famous educator, was retained circa 1920 by the new [Vladimir Lenin] Russian government to advise on the implementation of his progressive ideas throughout the USSR. Circa 1932, the communist government realized that Dewey’s progressive education had created a generation of ignorant delinquents. The communists in Russia banished Dewey’s ideas from their country. Meanwhile, the communists et al in the United States celebrated Dewey and his policies.
The globalists embraced both the communists and John Dewey and continue to exploit Dewey’s progressive ideas to weaponize education against America in order to collapse America from within. Sesame Street is now an active participant in the captured and weaponized American education industry, designed to break down traditional American values and replace them with communism. It is essential for the reader to recognize that Marxism, socialism, and even the word democracy as written by Karl Marx, are all synonyms for communism. Why do the globalists want communism? Because communism rejects individualism, embraces collectivism, and provides the top-down binary socio-political infrastructure required for the globalist Unistate.
Five of the forty-five communist goals listed by W. Cleon Skousen in his 1958 book, The Naked Communist are of particular interest:
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy.”
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence
of parents.
The deceitful tactic the globalists have chosen for introducing communism in the Sesame Street seduction, is multiculturalism. This is how it works.
In June 2025, with the gentle and inclusive words, “On our street, everyone is welcome. Together, let’s build a world where every person and family feels loved and respected for who they are,” Sesame Street honored LGBT Pride Month. One might even think that recognizing LGBT Pride Month with its LGBT poster of the multicolored Muppet characters’ arms and hands clasped in the formation of the LGBT flag would be sufficient. But you would be wrong. Sesame Street is seducing your children with lovable characters and verses set to music and repeatedly intoned and grooming them to become woke citizens of the globalist Unistate. Homosexuality is presented to preschoolers as a cultural variation that demands multicultural acceptance.
Consider this disturbing report published June 3, 2025, on LifeSiteNews, “Sesame Street ‘Pride Month’ posts reinforce Republican legislators’ push to defund PBS“:
“PBS is grooming children on American taxpayers’ dime. This is unacceptable. Congress must defund them and hold the executives accountable,” added Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona. Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and the House Republican Study Committee (RSC) issued similar denunciations.
A staple of children’s edutainment programing multiple generations of Americans have grown up with, Sesame Street and its current creators have for years hijacked the beloved property to feed impressionable children the social agenda of adult liberals, from introducing a same-sex couple with a child to teach preschoolers that “families come in all forms” to vaccinating Elmo to promote COVID-19 shots.
Last month [May 2025], President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut federal funding to PBS and National Public Radio (NPR), though it has been challenged in court. On Tuesday, the White House submitted to Congress a rescission package requesting it codify the elimination of $9.4 billion for PBS, NPR, and foreign aid.
The social engineering on Sesame Street is not a new phenomenon introduced in 2025, and neither are the debates about what should and should not be included in its programming. On November 15, 2019, USA TODAY published an opinion piece by Naomi Moland titled “After 50 years, it’s past time to bring human LGBTQ+ characters to America’s Sesame Street.” Moland, a faculty member at the School of International Service at American University, is in a same-sex marriage. She advocates making homosexuality familiar and normalizing same-sex marriage so that children perceive same-sex marriage as a marriage like any other. Interestingly, in the article she reports that Sesame Street is viewed in 150 countries, acknowledges that Muppets are not sexual, they are puppets, and that making them sexual might hurt Sesame Street’s standing around the world:
Sesame Workshop needs to find a way to include gay characters on the American version of the program without jeopardizing its international programming. Just like it has “localized” the program to children’s needs in other countries, the American Sesame Street should reflect American culture by including openly LGBTQ+ human characters. Other international versions, which are co-created by Americans and local producers, will need to decide how to handle the issue in their own countries. …
It is surprising that the American Sesame Street has avoided talking about gay families. Since the program’s inception, it has celebrated all kinds of families: interracial families; single parents; military families; families with an incarcerated parent; and families struggling with addiction. In the U.S., where gay marriage is legal nationwide and 61% of Americans approve of gay marriage, presenting an LGBTQ+ family is a logical next step (perhaps overdue) in Sesame’s celebration of diverse families. …
In the meantime, Sesame Workshop needs to bring LGBTQ+ human characters onto Sesame Street. The creators would be following their own localization policies by tailoring the American program to address American culture, which is certainly ready to celebrate — and debate — a human LGBTQ+ family. But big parts of our planet aren’t. We need to respect their cultures, too, if we want Bert, Ernie and Sesame Street to remain on the world’s airwaves.
The shocking assumption intrinsic in Moland’s self-serving op-ed is that Americans want progressive cultural changes that accept homosexual marriage as a marriage like any other. First, Moland’s progressive ideas require definition. What does progressive education actually mean? Progress toward what?? Most Americans use the word progressive in its colloquial sense to mean advancing toward something embraced by traditional American culture. John Dewey, however, makes it very clear that progressive education is designed to replace America and traditional American culture with a globalist new world order. The extraordinary success of Dewey’s progressive educational indoctrination is apparent in the 61% approval statistic Moland cites above. The article begins and ends with these words:
In Pew Research Center polling in 2004, Americans opposed same-sex marriage by a margin of 60% to 31%. …Support for same-sex marriage has steadily grown over the past 15 years. And today, support for same-sex marriage remains near its highest point since Pew Research Center began polling on this issue. Based on polling in 2019, a majority of Americans (61%) support same-sex marriage, while 31% oppose it.The increase in the share of adults who favor same-sex marriage over the past 15 years is due in part to generational change. Younger generations express higher levels of support for same-sex marriage.
Similarly, progressive education seeks to redefine the word family. Operating on the principle that familiarity brings acceptance, on June 16, 2021, Sesame Street introduced the first married same-sex couple and their daughter to be recurring characters in an episode titled “Family Day.” The introduction of a same-sex couple designed to familiarize preschoolers with same-sex couples was reviewed on June 22, 2021 in a LifeSiteNews article titled “Sesame Street introduces ‘married’ dads in ‘Family Day’ propaganda episode“:
In yet another display of LGBT cultural aggression, long-running children’s program Sesame Street has introduced a same-sex couple with a child to teach preschoolers that “families come in all forms. …”
The concerted effort to infuse children’s shows with LGBT characters and messages appears intended to, at a minimum, force families into discussions for which parents may feel their children are too young, as well as set up conflicts between the shows’ feel-good presentation of controversial issues and parents’ own values.
This is “grooming, plain and simple,” The Federalist’s Joy Pullmann wrote in response to Blue’s Clues’ recent “pride” parade segment. “It is training children to be comfortable with things they should be uncomfortable with and remain unexposed to until puberty and following, for their own well-being. To allege otherwise is gaslighting.”
Lessons about families from different cultures, different countries, different races, and different religions are very different than lessons about same-sex couples, same-sex marriage, and same-sex families. The insidious campaign to sexualize children is an unacceptable intrusion into family life and assault on parental authority, that is reflected in progressive education’s campaign to sexualize Muppets on Sesame Street, and inappropriately introduce sexual concepts to children who are far too young.
From Lenin to Russell to Dewey to Sesame Street, the communist intrusion into American education has gotten younger and younger. Sesame Street’s woke communist edutainment advances communist goals 24, 25, 26, 40, and 41, dramatizing that before the age of ten; in order to condition students, verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. The Sesame Street seduction is social engineering on a pre-school level that manifests Lenin’s statement: “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
The communist goal has always been to eliminate parental authority and substitute the authority of the state––and its unseemly 21st-century partner is Sesame Street. There is nothing innocent or compassionate about the Sesame Street seduction that tactically exploits homosexuality as multiculturalism, in order to effect communist goals 24, 25, 26, 40, and 41.
Contempt before investigation TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 08, 2025
I never would have guessed it – but, so far, the two members of the Trump administration that have impressed me the most are Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, and Scott Bessent, the first openly gay Treasury Secretary and former Soros ally.
I’m guessing there could be a big battle between JD Vance & Marco Rubio for top dog in 2028. I’m pretty sure JD knows he has competition. This was Trump last night with Rubio.
JD Vance is connected to Team Elon, Rand Paul (Koch Libertarians) and Peter Thiel. That’s not speculation – that’s fact. All you need to do is follow Elon’s X feed.
Last weekend, before Elon was removed from the White House and he started his apparent drug-fueled rant against Trump – he was meeting with Thiel and the tech bros in Silicon Valley – likely to try to figure out damage control after Trump said that Elon had big problems & that while he wished him well, he wanted nothing more to do with him.
JD Vance, meanwhile, was trying to soften Elon’s words and give him a pass while still trying to show allegiance to Trump:
VANCE: “I think Elon’s heart is in the good place, in the right place. I think he got into this for the right reasons. I think he’s frustrated. I think he’s an emotional guy.”
I thought that was a little odd from JD Vance, but what do I know?
I’m not sure where Rubio’s allegiances lie anymore. But, Rubio knows where all the bodies are buried from his time on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee or SSCI and so far his actions and words have been in support of MAGA and America First.
I’m going to watch both Rubio & Vance closely over the next year and look at what they do – not just what they say. I suggest you do, too. Rubio is slowly catching up to Vance in the polls. I have no allegiance to one or the other – just truth.
If you missed it – several major left-wing and right-wing publications are now reporting that Trump privately called Elon a “big-time drug addict” with “big problems” and that Trump said his “relationship with Musk is over. I don’t want to fix my relationship with Elon. I just wish him well.”
Meanwhile, Elon is removing all his nasty posts about Trump and posting lots of hearts on his X feed. Go look it up.
That’s a sure sign he is embarrassed by what he did. Everything he has done over the past few weeks is, IN MY OPINION, CLASSIC ADDICT BEHAVIOR.
A few people are now angry with Trump for allowing Musk in the White House in the first place. They say that Trump should have known better – that the richest man in the world would turn on MAGA after he bought Twitter and gave MAGA $238 MILLION.
Well, here’s what I say to that. The American people let the Democrats steal the White House from Trump and then let demented Biden run the White House for 4 years and did nothing but complain on social media. Sure, we voted for Trump, but Trump is the one who did all the heavy lifting. We basically left Trump alone to fix it all by himself and he did, in spite of all the arm-chair quarterbacking from the rest of us.
I know very few people who put anything of value on the line to save America. Trump did.
He took a bullet for us and kept on going – despite all odds. He used Elon and his money to help get elected and then removed him from the White House when he showed he couldn’t be trusted. Let’s take that win.
New reporting says that Elon allegedly elbowed Scott Bessent in the ribcage, and Wiles feared he was on drugs and removed Elon from the White House. Trump said “that’s too much.”
How many of you have family with addiction problems and know that they become different people when using and high? Be honest. This is nothing new. Trump’s own brother died of alcoholism. My gut says that Trump thought he could help Elon with his drug problems. I believe Trump has a soft heart for addicts. I noticed that once Elon left the cocoon of Mar-a-Lago it all fell apart.
PS: I try not to be close-minded and shut off possibilities that never occurred to me. If I was, I would never have considered Trump in 2016 – but I did after researching all the contenders (including Hillary) with an open mind. I know way too many people with confirmation bias who refuse to consider any alternative that contradicts their existing viewpoints. That’s the height of ignorance, IMHO.
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation. Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.”
Record Profits from the Endless Gaza “War” CHANANYA WEISSMAN
A critical collection of facts and analysis – please share!
JUN 08, 2025
Last week’s Amalek and Erev Rav program was filled with important information that should be at the center of public attention. Since the media exists specifically to distract and mislead us, it depends on ordinary people like you and me to connect the dots and spread the information that matters most.
Since not many people will watch a 35-minute presentation (though I hope you will reconsider), I’m going to write up the most essential facts from the program, which should be enough to jolt people out of their delusions that the endless “war” between Israel and Hamas has anything to do with good versus evil, saving hostages, defeating our enemies, making us safer, fighting for the land and people of Israel, a milchemes mitzvah, right vs. left, leftists vs. Bibi, or any of the other silly narratives that people believe because the truth is much less comfortable for them.
Click the bold hyperlinks for the sources.
Item #1: The rich are getting richer from the “humanitarian aid” program to Gaza. For example, one of Israel’s largest food wholesalers sold 7,000 tons of wheat to the UN in a deal worth over $2 million, to be sent to Gaza.
Meanwhile, ordinary Israelis are watching food prices spiral ever upward as they are driven deeper into poverty. No aid trucks for them.
Item #2: Our BFF’s in the United States have unveiled a massive new plan to feed the poor suffering people in Gaza, because they are so charitable, and have absolutely no agenda or ulterior motive. “We need to do right by Gaza. The people there are suffering,” said Trump.
We were further informed that the cost per 750-calorie meal would be $1.30, with a whopping 58 cents for the actual food and the rest to have it delivered. This was “consistent with industry benchmarks” for humanitarian aid.
Item #3: Here’s an IDF photo of a food kit:
Item #4: As of 2003, the average cost to feed an American prisoner was $2.32 for Florida and $2.45 for California (California is more liberal, after all). Current numbers are not significantly higher. Dog food is more expensive.
Item #5: This situation has been exacerbated by the privatization of the American prison system, which has turned it into a for-profit industry.
Key quote: “Incarcerated people in Washington do not receive minimum requirements for fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean protein, or milk….Incarcerated people are fed more than the recommended amounts of refined starches, added sugars and sodium.”
The emphasis is on shaving down the costs to maximize profits, at the expense of the basic nutrition of the prisoners. The corporations do not exist for the sake of the inmates; the inmates exist for the sake of the corporations.
Item #6: While Israeli citizens are being driven to poverty, Israel delivered over 1.3 million tons of aid to Gaza as of March, 2025. We are also reassured that “shipments are closely inspected for security purposes”.
Item #7: “Since the start of the war, Israel has denied entry to only 1.6% of trucks seeking to enter Gaza.”
Item #8: While it was being reported that Israel had cut off aid to Gaza, an eyewitness at the border crossing reported:
I can confirm that there is NO shortage of aid and fuel trucks entering Gaza from Egypt. I personally have never seen the volume of trucks crossing any border or port, with the exception of Rotterdam…[including] 6 brand new Emirati field hospital SUV’s, a Cadillac, a Land Cruiser, and 4 GMC’s.
Also I saw ammonia tankers entering,” adding sarcastically, “and you know that ammonia is for civilian use only, right? Not as a key component of rocket fuel.
By the way, trucks that are marked as containing edibles are not x-rayed.
It was one of the security agents that pointed out the ammonia tankers on the other side of the X-ray area. I asked the agent how do we know what is in those boxes, he just shrugged.
Item #9: “Report: Israel contributed NIS 700m to Gaza aid mechanism it claims not to fund — Prime Minister’s Office denies Kan’s assertion that funds were transferred quietly to prevent public from knowing”
The Israeli government has transferred hundreds of millions of shekels to fund the new humanitarian aid mechanism in the Gaza Strip, Kan news reported Wednesday, contradicting government officials who have insisted that Israel has no part in its funding.
According to the report, the government approved the transfer of NIS 700 million (some $280 million) last month to an unclear source, identified by the government only as “the defense establishment.”
Citing unnamed officials, Kan reported that the money was being used to fund the new aid mechanism, run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and that the decision to transfer the funds was made under the radar in an attempt to keep the public from finding out.
Item #10: While Israel is reportedly working feverishly to feed Gaza with Israeli tax money, Israeli has the highest military spending per capita of any country.
All that for a singularly unlikely “intelligence failure” on October 7, 2023.
Israeli citizens are getting hosed.
Item #11: “RAFAEL USA provides advanced air defense weapon systems that protect deployed and maneuvering forces and Forward Operating Bases, population centers, and strategic sites against short- to medium-range aerial threats. Originally developed for the IDF, these solutions are precisely customized to meet U.S. Military requirements.
“RAFAEL USA has been an integral part of the American defense landscape for the past 28 years.”
And here you thought all that “military aid” was charity, a one-way street.
RAFAEL Reports Record 2024 Results with 27% Growth in Sales. Sales reached $4.8 billion in 2024 — a 27% increase year-over-year — with approximately half of sales to international customers. RAFAEL reported $8.23 billion in new orders and a net profit of $257 million. Order backlog rose to $17.76 billion.
Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Chairman of Board of Directors, RAFAEL, said: “RAFAEL concludes another year of outstanding achievements—demonstrating once again the company’s vital contribution to Israel’s security and its significant impact on the national economy.”
Yoav Tourgeman, CEO and President of RAFAEL, added: “2024 was a historic year for RAFAEL…”
While expanding its global footprint, RAFAEL remains firmly focused on its core mission: strengthening Israel’s national security—especially during a year defined by complex operational demands. In 2024, RAFAEL achieved record performance across sales, orders, and development milestones.
I’m getting mixed messages here. Are they primarily focused on Israel’s national security, or achieving historic profits? Which is it?
And what if there is a conflict between the two?
Read on.
Item #13: What about that “global footprint”?
RAFAEL serves over 20 NATO countries, fostering global partnerships with 30 subsidiaries and joint ventures.
Item #14: Rafael is a government-owned corporation, owned by the State of Israel.
A weapons manufacturing company that is owned by the State of Israel is earning record profits during a never-ending war with little Gaza, which Israel and its allies/customers are also working earnestly to prop up and continue feeding at least the bare minimum to ensure it doesn’t collapse.
Are you starting to see a connection?
A conflict of interest of this magnitude rivals that of a medical system being funded by drug manufacturers, hospitals being paid thousands of dollars for everyone who “tested positive” for Covid being placed on a ventilator, and paid even more for giving them Remdesivir, paid even more if the official cause of death was Covid, and paid even more for every Covid shot they administered.
It rivals that of the very people charged with saving the lives of patients also being offered massive amounts of money for the patients’ organs if they don’t make it…
The State of Israel’s weapons manufacturing industry, which sells to 20 NATO countries, is earning record profits. You’re not.
RAFAEL publishes its financial results for the third quarter of 2024:
Sales volume in the third quarter of 2024 (July-September) amounted to 4.5 billion NIS, an increase of 36% compared to the same period last year.
The order backlog reached a record high, crossing the 60 billion NIS mark for the first time in history. Net profit since the beginning of 2024 stands at more than half a billion NIS3.
RAFAEL’S Chairman, Dr. Yuval Steinitz: “Amazing results.”
Rafael’s CEO, Yoav Tourgeman, added: “…The ‘Iron Swords’ war has entered its second year, and Rafael’s employees are still all mobilized for the war effort to continue providing the defense establishment with a decisive technological advantage.”
Hamas has zero tanks and zero planes. We don’t have a “decisive technological advantage?”
Hamas pulled off October 7 with paragliders and Toyota pickup trucks, while the IDF was mysteriously absent for hours on end. The subsequent “war” has stretched on for nearly two years, while upwards of 20,000 IDF soldiers have been maimed and killed, and the average Israeli family is struggling to hold it all together.
Meanwhile, Rafael has achieved “amazing results” — financial results, anyway.
Nice Freemason logo they got there.
Here are a few of the audit’s key findings, the vast majority of which were negative:
Sales and profits were way down.
The middle point is most significant. Rafael’s primary source of funding is the Defense budget, and their biggest customer is the same Ministry of Defense.
In other words, Israeli tax money is being used to fund the state’s weapons manufacturing corporation, which then sells weapons to the state at massive profit.
These profits are not returned to the Israeli taxpayers. Don’t be silly.
Rafael also has sales and revenue “targets” that the state expects them to meet. The state auditor was not pleased with their performance:
The state auditor had some recommendations, first and foremost:
The only way a weapons manufacturing company can increase its sales and revenue is with a greater demand for weapons.
There is nothing that causes a greater demand for weapons than ongoing wars and the constant threat of war.
Can there be any greater conflict of interest than a state ostensibly trying to end a war with a favorable outcome as soon as possible, while ALSO owning a weapons manufacturing company with major financial targets to meet?
Keep in mind that war is not only necessary for selling weapons to yourself and 20 NATO countries, but for research and development.
You need lots of crash test dummies for this. Click here to join the IDF.
This report came out in February 2023, right around the start of the “Gaza” war.
Another interesting note in the report:
If what they revealed is so interesting, I wonder what they concealed for “business reasons”.
Israel Aerospace Industries reports record-breaking financial performance for Q3 [the third quarter of 2024], with $25 billion order backlog, 60% rise in net profit and 16% increase in revenue…as demand for defense technologies surged during the ongoing war in Gaza and Lebanon.
Israel Aerospace Industries is state-owned by the government of Israel.
Israel Aerospace Industries will distribute a high dividend of approximately 1.6 billion shekels to the State of Israel for 2017-2023 profits. The distribution, one of the largest in the company’s history, reflects the company’s business performance and its contribution to the state treasury. The company’s board of directors will consider an additional distribution for 2024 profits in the coming weeks. Israel Aerospace Industries is the largest defense company in Israel.
To be clear, the taxpayers who fund IAI are not getting a refund as part of the 1.6 billion shekel dividend.
In the early stages of the “war”, Hamas fighters were hungry, tired, and broken. They were ready to turn over Sinwar and surrender. A superior urged them to wait until the next day before taking action. Hours later, they were informed that their wives had been kidnapped and beheaded in a mosque in Rafah, and warned not to continue with their folly.
The next day a large delivery of “aid” arrived.
We were that close to the “war” ending shortly after it began.
How serendipitous.
You need lots of crash test dummies on both sides of the border, after all, to meet those targets.
Item #21: Israeli citizens are paying upwards of 70% taxes when all the smoke clears, paying more for defense per capita than anyone else in the world, sending their loved ones into death traps, and raising worldwide charity to feed them, too.
Like privatized prisons and humanitarian aid, why spend any more money on expendable peasants than absolutely necessary? Why should the government buy food and basic gear for soldiers when you will? It cuts into profits.
There’s surely more to the puzzle than this, but, as always, follow the money. The Gaza “war” has nothing to do with hostages, security, or making your life better.
It’s a capricious scam exploiting the peasants on both sides of the border, grifting money from tax-paying citizens and charitable people, to meet financial “targets” of the rich and powerful, all while continuously robbing the peasants of their freedom and independence, and using them as disposable crash test dummies for their shiny new weapons.
Why is anyone still participating in this charade, cheering it on, “sacrificing” for it, and demanding that more people — especially yeshiva students — do more of the same?
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Why Iran Will Never Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons by Amin Sharifi
June 8, 2025 at 5:00 am
- Iran’s ruling elite, bluntly, believes that both its survival and its mission depend on acquiring nuclear weapons. They saw what happened to Libya and Ukraine when their leaders gave up their nuclear weapons, and understood that this was not the way to go.
- The regime’s goal is the bomb.
- Iran’s Supreme Leader is not just a political figure, but is considered divine, with a legitimacy given not by man but by Allah.
- “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.” — Qur’an 8:60 (Sahih International Translation).
- This verse is used by the IRGC not just as a call for defense, but as a religious endorsement of nuclear armament. In this view, nuclear weapons are not only permitted, but also necessary. They are both a shield against the regime’s many enemies and a divine tool for the end-times struggle they believe is coming.
- Iran’s leadership sees deception not as dishonorable, but as strategic. The Islamic doctrine of taqiyya, or religiously sanctioned deception, allows lying to infidels in the name of survival or victory.
- The regime’s lack of response to Soleimani’s killing revealed something essential: the mullahs understand only strength.
- Iran’s nuclear program must be completely and permanently dismantled. Even if ideology were not part of the equation, Iran’s corruption, mismanagement and incompetence would still make it unfit to operate any nuclear facility. Senior officials are appointed through favoritism, cronyism or family ties. Industry is collapsing. Accountability is nonexistent.
- The day we wake up to hear that Iran is about to use its nuclear bomb will be the day the world changes forever.
Iran’s nuclear program must be completely and permanently dismantled. Even if ideology were not part of the equation, Iran’s corruption, mismanagement and incompetence would still make it unfit to operate any nuclear facility. Senior officials are appointed through favoritism, cronyism or family ties. Industry is collapsing. Accountability is nonexistent.
Iran’s ruling elite, bluntly, believes that both its survival and its mission depend on acquiring nuclear weapons. They saw what happened to Libya and Ukraine when their leaders gave up their nuclear weapons, and understood that this was not the way to go. To Iran’s rulers, their nuclear program is not just a policy objective to protect the continuation of their regime, but the centerpiece of Iran’s ideology and propaganda.
Despite having some of the world’s richest oil and gas reserves, the regime has accepted crushing sanctions and economic ruin, all under the excuse of pursuing nuclear power. The regime’s goal is the bomb.
Many different groups were involved in the 1979 revolution that overthrew the monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, but Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini quickly eliminated his rivals and imposed an Islamist system unlike anything else in modern history: Velayat-e-Faqih, or “the rule of the Islamic jurist.” In this vision, drawn from a radical interpretation of Twelver Shiism, political power belongs not to the people, but to Allah, and through Him to the clerical class acting as representatives of the Twelfth Iman, known as the “Hidden Imam.” This belief forms the foundation of the Supreme Leader’s authority. Iran’s Supreme Leader is not just a political figure, but is considered divine, with a legitimacy given not by man but by Allah.
In Iran, the Supreme Leader is the only absolute ruler. He appoints the judiciary, controls the military, dictates foreign policy, and approves or rejects all applicants for election candidacy. Elections exist, but are meaningless ceremonies. Presidents and parliaments do not govern, they obey. What is absent from the Islamic Republic of Iran is a “republic.”
The West still fails to grasp this regime’s worldview. It is not just authoritarian, it is theological. It sees the world in binary terms: believers and infidels, Shiites and non-Shiites. It also believes that history is heading toward a final confrontation, in which Iran will be prepared militarily and spiritually to lead. That is why the Iranian nuclear program is not negotiable. It is holy, sacred.
Iran’s private militia, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), embodies the most radical interpretation of the Quran. For example, Surah al-Anfal, verse 8:60, which commands Muslims:
“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.” (Sahih International Translation)
This verse is used by the IRGC not just as a call for defense, but as a religious endorsement of nuclear armament. In this view, nuclear weapons are not only permitted, but also necessary. They are both a shield against the regime’s many enemies and a divine tool for the end-times struggle they believe is coming.
Iran’s leadership sees deception not as dishonorable, but as strategic. The Islamic doctrine of taqiyya, or religiously sanctioned deception, allows lying to infidels in the name of survival or victory. Combine this with their reading of Islamic sources such as the Islamic Prophet Mohammed’s saying that “war is deceit”, therefore, any agreement, verbal or written, is ultimately meaningless to a regime that views deception as doctrine.
Western diplomats still behave as if they’re dealing with a conventional authoritarian state. They’re not. They’re dealing with an absolutist religious movement that uses treaties as cover and smiles as strategy. The Obama Administration’s 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement with Iran never involved real concessions from the Islamic Republic. It was an Iranian delay tactic, a calibrated pause to outlast and outmaneuver naive Western governments.
The silence of then US President Barack Obama during Iran’s 2009 Green Movement protests betrayed millions of Iranians fighting for freedom. Instead of supporting the people, he chose to preserve nuclear negotiations, a decision that allowed the regime to survive and rebuild.
By contrast, President Donald J. Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA in 2018 and his killing of IRGC Quds Force commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani represented a break from this pattern of appeasement. The regime’s lack of response to Soleimani’s killing revealed something essential: the mullahs understand only strength.
The Biden administration revived the failed engagement policies, and Iran became bolder than ever. From backing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, to direct launching ballistic missiles and drones at Israel in 2024, the Iranian regime acted without fear. If these events did not convince the West of the consequences of compromise with Tehran, what will?
When Iran released a video simulating the assassination of Trump, it clearly never expected him to return to power. But now, Iran’s goal is simple: survive the next four years by dragging out talks and buying time to acquire nuclear bombs and rebuild the air defenses that Israel destroyed.
While the West was playing this game of hide-and-seek bogus diplomacy, Iran managed to deploy more advanced centrifuges, enrich uranium to higher levels (weapons-grade), build and expand deeper underground facilities, and find more sophisticated ways to conceal its nuclear progress.
Here is the bitter truth: A new deal with Iran might look like a solution. In reality, a deal will only give Iran more time and more cover to evade whatever it agrees to. The regime will invent distractions to advance its program underground. Another war. Another proxy. Another crisis.
Iran’s nuclear program must be completely and permanently dismantled. Even if ideology were not part of the equation, Iran’s corruption, mismanagement and incompetence would still make it unfit to operate any nuclear facility. Senior officials are appointed through favoritism, cronyism or family ties. Industry is collapsing. Accountability is nonexistent.
Nobody wants to see a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster caused by Iranian incompetence or something even worse, caused by ideological intent.
Iran’s regime cannot be reformed. Most especially, it cannot be trusted. It will never voluntarily give up its nuclear ambitions. Those ambitions are not just political. They are theological.
The day we wake up to hear that Iran is about to use its nuclear bomb will be the day the world changes forever.
Amin Sharifi is an expert in international relations and the Middle East. He is presently based in Sweden.
Is Trump ‘Going Wobbly’ on Iran? by Majid Rafizadeh
June 7, 2025 at 5:00 am Gatestone Institute
- Uh oh. US President Donald J, Trump has reportedly fired a “slew of pro-Israel officials in America First ‘course correction,'” and that “Trump is looking for an Iran dove to take over as Middle East chief at National Security Council, while pushing for nuclear deal,” according to Middle East Eye.
- Iran uses it centrifuges to enrich uranium to high levels. Highly enriched uranium is needed only for nuclear weapons. No highly enriched uranium, no nuclear bombs. Even one uranium-enrichment centrifuge in Iran’s possession is a nuclear weapon waiting to happen.
- If the US Congress could please pass a bill as soon as possible preventing the US from allowing centrifuges in Iran, it would be an enormous benefit to US and global security.
- Meanwhile, America’s enemies — Russia, China, North Korea and Venezuela — are waiting to see if the US actually has any real backbone before deciding if it is safe for them to go on offense again.
- This is not warmongering — it is the last resort when diplomacy fails and survival is on the line. Israel and the US have every right to defend themselves – and the region – against a regime that openly seeks their extermination.
- Unfortunately, Trump has repeatedly given Iran reason to bet on that. First, Trump told Hamas in January that they had to deliver all the hostages or “all hell will break out.” When Hamas did nothing of the kind, Trump’s dramatic response was — nothing. Even better, Trump seemed to “throw Israel under the bus.” How perfect!
- Then, on March 7, Trump sent Khamenei a letter saying that Iran had two months to dismantle its nuclear program… Hmm. It is now June and Iran has been enriching more uranium than ever. No wonder Iran’s regime assumes it is holding a royal straight flush.
- Iran’s regime saw what happened to Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi when he gave up his nuclear arsenal. Iran’s regime saw what happened when Ukraine, thanks to the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 – signed by Ukraine, Russia and the US – gave up its nuclear arsenal. The lesson they surely learned was: No nukes, no power. Iran will not voluntarily give up what it must see as its insurance policy for ruling Iran forever.
Iran uses it centrifuges to enrich uranium to high levels. Highly enriched uranium is needed only for nuclear weapons. No highly enriched uranium, no nuclear bombs. Even one uranium-enrichment centrifuge in Iran’s possession is a nuclear weapon waiting to happen. Pictured: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian looks on as a ‘Qasem Soleimani’ missile is displayed during a military parade in Tehran, on September 21, 2024. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
Uh oh. US President Donald J, Trump has reportedly fired a “slew of pro-Israel officials in America First ‘course correction,'” and that “Trump is looking for an Iran dove to take over as Middle East chief at National Security Council, while pushing for nuclear deal,” according to Middle East Eye.
The threat posed by Iran’s nuclear ambitions, however, is no longer a distant concern — it is a rapidly escalating crisis with the most severe and immediate implications for Israel, the oil-rich Sunni Arab Gulf States, and North and South America. Trump appears to be scurrying to back down from “or there will be “all hell to pay,” and is possibly on the verge of letting Iran keep its uranium-enrichment centrifuges. Not an option.
Iran uses it centrifuges to enrich uranium to high levels. Highly enriched uranium is needed only for nuclear weapons. No highly enriched uranium, no nuclear bombs. Even one uranium-enrichment centrifuge in Iran’s possession is a nuclear weapon waiting to happen.
If the US Congress could please pass a bill as soon as possible preventing the US from allowing centrifuges in Iran, it would be an enormous benefit to US and global security.
Meanwhile, America’s enemies — Russia, China, North Korea and Venezuela — are waiting to see if the US actually has any real backbone before deciding if it is safe for them to go on offense again.
While Western nations thousands of miles away continue to treat Iran’s nuclear program as a remote diplomatic puzzle, Israel, a sovereign nation and the only democracy in the Middle East (just as Ukraine is a democracy, and what Russia really cannot tolerate) is forced to live every hour aware of Iran’s open, repeated and proud intentions to “wipe” it off the map. Iran has repeatedly called for “Death to Israel.”
Iran’s regime, through its proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, as well as direct Iranian ballistic missile attacks last year — has acted of that intent.
Iran’s regime has also made no secret of its calls for “Death to America.”
Iranian official Ayatollah Ahmad Khatemi announced in March 2025:
“America and the European troika of Germany, France, and England… We are telling you very clearly, the [Iranian] people are telling you that if you do not stop your threats, the great Iranian people – through its resistance – will wipe you off the face of history and politics.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has straightforwardly stated in 2023, “When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan – it is a policy,” apparently with plans to assassinate presidential candidate Trump in 2024, as well as several senior US officials and a journalist.
In addition to repeated vows of “Death to America,” the Islamic Republic of Iran has made its genocidal ambitions toward Israel a cornerstone of its ideological identity. Khamenei has been refreshingly clear: “Israel will not see the next 25 years.”
In 2012, then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad labeled Israel a “cancerous tumor,” and famously called for it to be “wiped” off the earth.
These statements have been echoed by generals in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who vowed to “annihilate” Israel. IRGC commander Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami vowed, “planning to break America, Israel, and their partners and allies. Our ground forces should cleanse the planet from the filth of their existence.”
This is not exactly the language of diplomacy — it is the language of genocide and war.
That Israel was previously excluded from crucial negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program for the Obama administration’s 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) “nuclear deal” was not only an insult but a catastrophic blunder. The most endangered nation was not at the table. The result? A disastrous deal that gave Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief, while leaving its nuclear infrastructure largely intact. That gift to Iran was accompanied by then President Barack Obama’s promises of nuclear weapons for Iran, conveniently “not on my watch” but after it – in fact, this coming October.
The West negotiated from a position of delusion, treating Iran as if it were a misunderstood power rather than a regime with rapacious, blood-curdling goals. Meanwhile, a dismissed Israel had to watch the entire process from the sidelines — its warnings ignored by foreign bureaucrats with no skin in the game.
The latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has made it clear that Iran is not just enriching uranium to weapons-grade — it is rapidly moving toward a nuclear bomb, if it has not already succeeded in acquiring one. This week, the IAEA announced that Iran had enough highly enriched uranium for 10 nuclear weapons, and is doubtless stalling for time to rebuild its air defenses, which Israel struck last October.
Negotiations with Tehran nevertheless continue, led by Steve Witkoff, a real estate developer who was rescued from a bad $523 million business deal by Qatar, which, purely by coincidence, happens to an ally of Hamas and Iran.
The horrific October 7, 2023 massacre by Hamas — backed, funded, and trained by Iran — was not a stand-alone slaughter. It was part of a broader Iranian strategy to destabilize, terrorize, and ultimately destroy both Israel and America.
If the world is serious about preventing World War III— and a nuclear-armed Iran could trigger exactly that, complete with international nuclear arms races — there are only two acceptable paths forward. The first is what is often referred to as the “Libyan model” — a complete dismantlement of Iran’s entire nuclear program, including all centrifuges, enrichment capabilities, infrastructure and weaponization research, with full “anytime, anywhere” inspections – to which Iran has never agreed and which it does not appear particularly eager to agree to now.
The second path is, well, to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program for them, by force.
This is not warmongering — it is the last resort when diplomacy fails and survival is on the line. Israel and the US have every right to defend themselves – and the region – against a regime that openly seeks their extermination.
Anything less would be another Obama type of fraud. At the moment, Iran has, as usual, been deploying its delay tactics most expertly, presumably in the hope of outlasting or outfoxing the US. Trump appears trying to be contorting himself into anything to avoid confronting Iran militarily. Trump’s backing down is precisely what Iran must be counting on.
Unfortunately, Trump has repeatedly given Iran reason to bet on that. First, Trump told Hamas in January that they had to deliver all the hostages or “all hell will break out.” When Hamas did nothing of the kind, Trump’s dramatic response was — nothing. Even better, Trump seemed to “throw Israel under the bus.” How perfect!
Then, on March 7, Trump sent Khamenei a letter saying that Iran had two months to dismantle its nuclear program… Hmm. It is now June and Iran has been enriching more uranium than ever. No wonder Iran’s regime assumes it is holding a royal straight flush.
There is no middle ground that works. Any deal that allows Iran to maintain its centrifuges is an enrichment program about to break out. It is also a reward for deception. Iran has lied repeatedly to international inspectors, violated multiple UN Security Council resolutions, and built covert nuclear sites for decades. Giving Iran billions in sanctions relief while letting them keep their bomb-making war machine is not diplomacy — it is a betrayal of the West.
Iran’s rulers believe that, with nuclear weapons, they would be untouchable — able to carry out attacks or threaten to, fund terror, and blackmail the world with impunity. At the top of Iran’s hit list are Israel and the US. Iran’s regime saw what happened to Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi when he gave up his nuclear arsenal. Iran’s regime saw what happened when Ukraine, thanks to the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 – signed by Ukraine, Russia and the US – gave up its nuclear arsenal. The lesson they surely learned was: No nukes, no power. Iran will not voluntarily give up what it must see as its insurance policy for ruling Iran forever.
When it comes to the Iranian nuclear threat, Israel does not just understand the stakes — it lives them. Any deal made without Israel’s acquiescence is not only illegitimate — it is worthless. Its voice is not optional, it is indispensable. Trump would do the world a favor to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program for once and for all — and let Israel in.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, is a political scientist, Harvard-educated analyst, and board member of Harvard International Review. He has authored several books on the US foreign policy. He can be reached at dr.rafizadeh@post.harvard.edu
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10 Basic Misunderstandings About the Israel-Gaza War JOSHUA HOFFMAN
Israel doesn’t oppose peace. It opposes suicide. Every nation has the right (and the obligation) to neutralize a threat that has already murdered its civilians and promises to do it again.
JUN 07, 2025 The Future of Jewish
The Israel-Gaza war has become one of the most hotly debated and deeply misunderstood conflicts of our time.
It fills headlines, fuels protests, and floods social media feeds, yet much of the world thinks it knows what’s going on — and couldn’t be further from the truth.
This isn’t just about competing narratives, or a matter of interpretation, or too many moving parts. It’s about willful distortion, emotional manipulation, and centuries of historical amnesia.
So, let’s clear the smoke. Here are 10 of the most basic — and dangerous — misunderstandings about the Israel-Gaza war:
1) It’s not a war over land or even resources.
It’s a war, which was started by the Palestinian side on October 7, 2023, over Israel’s existence.
This is not about 1967 borders, settlements, or checkpoints. Hamas, which governs Gaza, has been clear since its inception in 1988: The terror group’s goal is the complete destruction of Israel.
That’s not speculation; it’s in Hamas’ self-published charter. They don’t want compromise. They want erasure. “From the River to the Sea” is not a territorial demand; it’s a genocidal call.
Peace can’t begin until that truth is acknowledged.
2) Israel was not and is not in control of Gaza.
The common refrain that Israel has “occupied Gaza since 1948” is not just misleading; it’s historically false.
After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War — the war started by Arab nations rejecting the United Nations Partition Plan that would have resulted in a Jewish state and a Palestinian state side-by-side — Egypt took control of Gaza. Not as a benevolent steward for a future Palestinian state, but as a military occupier.
From 1948 to 1967, Egypt ruled Gaza with an iron fist, kept Palestinians stateless, and refused to integrate them or grant them citizenship. There was no call for a Palestinian state in Gaza during that time. No protests. No UN outcry. No BDS movement.
Why? Because Israel wasn’t involved yet — and somehow, when Arabs controlled Palestinians, the world didn’t seem to care.
In 1967, during the Six-Day War — launched preemptively by Israel in response to the mobilization of Arab armies — Israel captured Gaza from Egypt. That’s when the “Israeli occupation” began. But again, it was the result of a defensive war, not a colonial plan.
Fast forward to 2005: Israel unilaterally withdrew every soldier, every settler, every synagogue from Gaza. It handed over full governance to the local Palestinian population. Gaza could have become a Palestinian state. Instead, Hamas took over, murdered its rivals, and turned Gaza into a jihadist fortress.
So, when people chant “Free Gaza,” it’s worth asking: Free it from what, or whom? From Israel, which withdrew? Or from Hamas, which hijacked it?
If you want to understand Gaza, you have to start before 2005. You have to start with the decades the Arab world used it as a pawn, and the decades the West pretended not to notice.
This is one of the most ignored facts in modern diplomacy.
3) Civilian casualties are tragic, but context matters.
Every innocent death is unfortunate; no one in Israel celebrates dead civilians.
But blaming Israel without mentioning Hamas’ strategy is dishonest. Hamas embeds itself in civilian infrastructure — schools, hospitals, mosques — not by accident, but by design. It’s a deliberate tactic: provoke a response, show the aftermath, weaponize the grief.
The IDF gives warnings before strikes to minimize civilian casualties, even as Hamas and other Palestinian facts hide behind Palestinian civilians. Hamas deliberately targets Israeli civilians. One is called self-defense, the other is called use of human shields and terrorism.
And, while we’re at it, let’s stop it with the myth of Hamas’ “fireworks” or “homemade rockets.” Hamas’ arsenal includes Iranian-designed missiles with increasing range and lethality. They aim at civilians. The only reason more Israelis haven’t died is because Israel builds defense systems to protect its people.
4) Proportionality doesn’t mean matching death counts.
This isn’t a sporting event. Proportionality in war refers to whether military force used is appropriate to the objective, not whether the same number of people die on both sides.
If one side builds shelters and the other uses its people as shields, the death toll reflects choices, not morality. A higher death count in Gaza doesn’t mean Israel is in the wrong. It means Hamas started a war they couldn’t possibly win and then chose to hide behind civilians when Israel rightfully retaliated.
5) The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is real — and Hamas is responsible.
Billions of dollars have been poured into Gaza for decades. But instead of schools and hospitals, Hamas built tunnels, bought rockets, and created a military-industrial complex underground.
Civilian casualties are not just an unfortunate consequence; they are Hamas’ well-calculated strategy. Hamas wants images of dead children in your social media feeds. That’s why they launch attacks from apartment buildings and hide behind ambulances. It’s not just cynical. It’s genocidal theater.
To add insult to injury, Hamas steals the aid, hoards it for its fighters, and then sells the leftovers to civilians — turning humanitarian relief into a source of revenue to fund more terrorism. It’s a mafia with a flag. Instead of building a future for its people, Hamas exploits their misery and monetizes their hunger.
It’s not that Gaza is poor; it’s that its rulers prioritize killing Jews over caring for Palestinians. If you want Palestinian liberation, start by demanding Hamas’ downfall. Don’t confuse the arsonist for the firefighter.
At the same time, sympathy for suffering should never blind us to cruelty. You can criticize Israeli policies without defending barbarism. On October 7th, Hamas didn’t just attack military bases. They butchered children. They raped women. They beheaded families. They live-streamed it. That is not resistance. That is evil. If you can’t condemn that without adding an asterisk, your brain is broken.
6) Israelis don’t want war. They want to live in peace and quiet.
War is not the Israeli preference; it’s the last resort. No country would tolerate rockets on its cities or terrorists tunneling into kindergartens. Israelis dream of peace, but that dream has limits: not at the expense of their survival. Every war Israel has fought has been defensive. That’s not opinion. That’s history. Don’t hate the player; hate the game.
As far as the goal of this war for Israel, it isn’t revenge; it’s security. Israel’s war aims are clear: Dismantle Hamas’ military capability, remove its leadership, and ensure it can’t repeat October 7th. That’s not vengeance. That’s survival. No country can endure while terrorists openly pledge to repeat mass murder.
7) ‘Resistance’ and ‘revolution’ doesn’t mean slaughtering civilians.
Some try to sanitize terrorism by calling it “resistance.” But real resistance targets tyranny, not toddlers.
When you massacre peace activists, burn whole families alive, and kidnap young children and Holocaust survivors, that’s not revolution. That’s a pogrom. And anyone who justifies it — or celebrates it — is morally bankrupt.
8) Pop culture isn’t just talking about this war. It’s nefariously shaping it.
News outlets routinely cite Hamas-run health ministries, run clickbait headlines that invert cause and effect, and fail to show the atrocities of October 7th in full. That’s not journalism. That’s narrative manipulation. The world sees what the media chooses to show — and Hamas knows exactly how to exploit it.
Meanwhile, Israel is condemned at the UN more than all other countries combined. Infrastructure of the UN agency for so-called “Palestinian refugees” (like schools) are routinely used to store Hamas weapons. UN “experts” parrot Hamas casualty figures without verification. Israeli victims are barely mentioned. When an institution loses moral clarity, it loses credibility. The UN, sadly, has done both.
9) Don’t be fooled by Far-Left Israeli media and politicians. They don’t represent the country.
One of the most common tricks in anti-Israel discourse is citing a handful of Israeli voices — often from fringe media, academia, or Far-Left political circles — as if they speak for the nation. “Even Israelis are saying it,” the argument goes, as if that settles the matter.
But here’s the truth: These voices represent a tiny, unrepresentative sliver of Israeli society. Their views are often amplified by international media not because they’re accurate, but because they serve a preferred narrative.
Many of these commentators are permanent fixtures in elite bubbles, disconnected from the daily reality of Israelis who have been personally affected by decades-long Palestinian terrorism. Their politics are often self-serving, designed to appease foreign donors, international institutions, or maintain social status within “progressive” circles.
They thrive on being “the dissenters” — the ones who “speak truth to power.” But too often, they end up speaking comfort to terrorists and fueling anti-Israel campaigns abroad that result in Diaspora Jews being attacked and harassed, synagogues being vandalized, and Israeli civilians being demonized.
Just because someone holds an Israeli passport doesn’t make them a reliable or moral authority on this war. Every society has its extremists. Every free country has its self-loathing intellectual class. Israel is no different.
So, the next time someone tries to end a debate with, “Even Israelis admit it,” remember: Some Americans still support communism, some Brits defended the Nazis, some French romanticized the Khmer Rouge, some Germans denied the Holocaust, and some Canadians joined ISIS.
Fringe voices don’t prove the truth. They prove the importance of knowing what’s mainstream — and what isn’t.
10) Ceasefires in this conflict don’t bring peace.
Calls for “ceasefire now” sound compassionate — until you realize what they actually enable. That’s because ceasefires in this conflict don’t end violence. They pause it — just long enough for Palestinian terrorist organizations to regroup, reload, and rearm.
Over the past 15 years, nearly every ceasefire has followed the same script:
- Palestinian terror groups escalate with rocket attacks and/or terrorism.
- Israel responds militarily to defend its citizens.
- International pressure mounts on Israel to “de-escalate.”
- A ceasefire is brokered.
- Palestinian terror groups use the “quiet” to rebuild their terror infrastructure (while the world looks away).
- A new wave of violence begins, stronger and deadlier than the one before.
This isn’t a bug in the system; it’s the game plan. Palestinian terror groups view ceasefires not as steps toward peace, but as breathing room. They restock weapons, dig deeper tunnels, and produce propaganda to rewrite the narrative. They hold onto hostages. They indoctrinate more children.
Meanwhile, the world pats itself on the back for “stopping the bloodshed,” ignoring that it has merely postponed it — and enabled the next round.
And let’s be clear: Israel doesn’t oppose peace. It opposes suicide. Every nation has the right (and the obligation) to neutralize a threat that has already murdered its civilians and promises to do it again.
You don’t defeat terrorism by calling timeouts. You defeat it by removing its ability to strike. A ceasefire that leaves Hamas, for example, in power isn’t a peace plan. It’s a countdown.
If Hamas were disarmed, there would be a much greater chance of peace. If Israel were disarmed, there would be genocide. This is the clearest test of moral clarity, and all you need to know.
God’s Five Stones Foundation Strategy Paper Outlining Our Role in Implementing President Trump’s Plan to End Voter Fraud by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., Co-Founder, God’s Five Stones Foundation
JUN 07, 2025
June 3, 2025
God’s Five Stones Foundation is deeply involved in playing a key strategic role in implementing President Trump’s strategy to mandate an end to voter fraud this year to prevent the Democrats from stealing majorities in the U.S. House and Senate during the 2026 mid-term elections.
After Trump took office for his second term, God’s Five Stones Foundation began working directly with Peter Ticktin, the President’s attorney, to implement what President Trump has disclosed to him as his plan of action:
- Dr. Andrew Paquette’s investigations, as extensively documented on our website, have proven to President Trump conclusively that the State Board of Elections (SBOE) voter registration systems are contaminated beyond repair. Every SBOE voter registration database that Dr. Paquette has examined is contaminated with algorithms (secret codes) that permit them to cast false votes that are counted.
- Despite numerous previous failed efforts to get the courts to outlaw voter fraud, exposing the presence of cryptographic algorithms in the SBOE database demonstrates how SBOE computers have been hacked, and election fraud crimes have been committed. Dr. Paquette’s investigations into the SBOE algorithms have yielded incontrovertible mathematical proof that election fraud originates within the SBOE computers. Paquette’s proof lends credibility to the work done by Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, and Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, which suggests that foreign nations have also penetrated election data on the computers used to tabulate votes in federal elections.
- Dr. Paquete’s indisputable proof that secret codes are in the SBOE computers constitutes, for the first time, a National Security Emergency that allows the President of the United States (POTUS) to remedy the situation by executive action, bypassing the courts.
Peter Ticktin and General Michael Flynn have now officially joined God’s Five Stones 501(c)3 tax-exempt foundation.
Peter Ticktin is now the lead attorney representing Colorado political prisoner Tina Peters in her effort to be free. General Flynn has co-authored his first published article with Jerome Corsi, as seen here. The co-authored article, published for the first time, outlines President Trump’s plan (as outlined in the next section of this confidential white paper) to secure elections before the 2026 midterm elections. Dr. Corsi and Peter Ticktin speak by phone daily to strategize the next steps. General Flynn is already a strong voice in the danger that fraudulent election activity poses to our fundamental freedoms, as outlined in the above-referenced article we co-authored.
Gateway Pundit recently published this photograph of attorney Ticktin meeting with Department of Justice attorney Ed Martin in Mr. Martin’s DOJ office in Washington, D.C.:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/tipping-point-january-6th-narrative-shattering-as-trump/
President Trump’s Plan
In August or September, we cautiously anticipate that President Trump may invoke Article II powers as Commander-in-Chief to order all states to implement a system of Voter IDs, requiring Proof of Citizenship, requiring paper ballots and hand counting to replace the use of computers.
President Trump outlined in his Executive Order issued on March 25, 2025, entitled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.” That executive order called for the creation of Voter IDs, the requirement of Proof of Citizenship, and the insistence that paper ballots be used to replace the electronic voting machines.
On April 11, during a televised Cabinet meeting, Gabbard announced, “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your [i.e., President Trump’s] mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in our elections.”
With this announcement, Gabbard made clear that we are now at war with foreign nations who would seek to influence our elections. The inevitable conclusion is that the investigation into election fraud is now a national security investigation. This investigation will culminate in President Trump exercising his authority as Commander-in-Chief by bypassing obstructionist federal judges in a decision that the Supreme Court of the United States cannot overrule.
God’s Five Stones Foundation Action Plan
God’s Five Stones Foundation urgently needs $250,000 in additional funding this year to continue working with Peter Ticktin to provide President Trump with the SBOE data he needs to establish our SBOE voting system must be completely revamped.
With this level of additional funding, we will be able to:
- Continue working with General Flynn on a national basis to supply voting data analysis to the Election Integrity Task Force that President Trump tasked White House attorney Alina Habba to create. Habba, in turn, instructed Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Security, to head the Task Force. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel are providing DHS and FBI staff to constitute the Task Force.
Begin working with the DOGE Election Integrity Task Force to take a serious look at Dr. Paquette’s work, as presented in three articles published in American Thinker: here, here, and here. With the assistance of Peter Ticktin, we will impress upon the DOGE teams that Dr. Paquette’s Wisconsin research leaves no doubt that cryptographic algorithms in the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) database allow for the criminal creation and voting of hundreds of thousands of false “modified duplicate” votes.
Have attorney Peter Ticktin, General Flynn, and Dr. Paquette continue to publish articles as co-authors and be on all available media with Dr. Corsi, highlighting key developments in both Gabbard’s and DOGE’s Task Force criminal investigations.
Our Need for Additional Funding Is Urgent
Of the approximately $175,000 that we have raised since the fund’s inception on June 10, 2024, God’s Five Stones Foundation has reached its last $20,000 in donations. We are running out of money just as the success we have worked for over the past two years to achieve is within reach. The first phase of our work involved supporting and promoting Dr. Paquette’s analyses. In this second phase of our work, we will be better able to compensate Peter Ticktin, General Flynn, and Dr. Andrew Paquette. Peter Ticktin will be able to continue briefing us on President Trump’s plan to obtain secure elections by the 2026 midterms. General Flynn has been able to expand his efforts to lend political weight to our media efforts to explain that the election fraud Dr. Paquette has uncovered adds to the concern that foreign nations may well be penetrating SBOE servers to access and alter voting data, creating a national security emergency that as a free people we cannot risk ignoring.
Please note that Dr. Paquette has produced the only indisputable evidence of election fraud, as the algorithms embedded in the SBOE databases involve complex mathematical codes that are apparent to experts. The many challenges in the courts have failed. There may be legitimate reasons why election computers alter votes during the complex process of tabulating a national presidential election. Obtaining legal standing can be challenging once an election has been certified. We, however, have proof that secret codes in the SBOE voter registration database permit the creation and voting of false “modified duplicate” voters, which is inherently illegal and a clear violation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA, 2002). Federal legislation makes it unlawful for SBOE databases to contain the millions of duplicate voter records that get their own “legitimate” state Voter ID number.
President Trump based his March 25 Executive Order in large part on Peter Ticktin’s affirmation that Dr. Paquette’s analysis was valid. We now have whistleblowers coming forward with documentary evidence that a late influx of mail-in ballot fraud (the exact criminal activity Dr. Paquette argued the algorithms permit) has allowed the Democrats to steal down-ballot elections in 2024. President Trump has repeatedly claimed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stole the 2020 presidential election. We at God’s Five Stones Foundation need to expand our efforts in this second phase of our activities to make public the evidence that supports President Trump’s claim.
Conclusion
The first phase of our work has been essential to the creation of the Tulsi Gabbard Election Integrity Task Force and the investigations currently being conducted by DOGE. We do not expect the criminals behind the massive election fraud we are presently witnessing to give up easily. Please help us continue this battle to a victorious conclusion.
In this second phase of our efforts, we must be able to act swiftly to capitalize on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to establish election integrity before the pivotal 2026 midterm elections. President Trump If the Democrats steal majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, radical anti-Trump Members of Congress will destroy President Trump’s last two years in office with a repeat of the 2020 non-stop impeachment actions.
Given government processes tend to be slow in their proclivity “to grind exceedingly fine,” the private action of God’s Five Stones Foundation is needed now more than ever to spur the political system to action, given that the 2026 midterm election campaigns are already beginning.
We must expand our efforts to be on all available media and to meet in person with key government officials, including Alina Habba, Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, and Ed Martin. Time is of the essence if we are to win the election security battle. God’s Five Stones has the flexibility to affect quick action, spurring the public to support President Trump’s inspired instinct to solve complex problems by exercising the Commander-in-Chief’s Article II authority to utilize the efficiency of executive action to secure election integrity.
President Trump’s re-election in 2024 gave us a reprieve from the radical Democrats’ determination to destroy America. If we lose our right to fair elections, we lose our freedoms. The peril has never been more frighteningly real. The time to act is now. Your donations to us at God’s Five Stones Foundation have never been more critical.
Gen. Flynn: The Deep State Is Boxing Trump in, Pushing US Toward ‘Final Military Conflict’
