Fred Litwin

My new book, A Heritage of Nonsense: Jim Garrison's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, is now available. MY book contains nine conspiracy stories which I debunk. onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/a-heritag…

Never ever trust China. During his official visit to Manila in 1995, Want Yi, then Chinese official, said that China has no plan to build any military facilities at the Mischief Reef. Guess what, a full-scale military base with an airstrip has been built.

Heute wurde ein Demonstrationsteilnehmer von der Parade des Pride Bonn ausgeschlossen, weil er eine Regenbogenflagge mit Davidstern mitgeführt hatte. Nach Darstellung des Betroffenen erschien dieser mit einer Regenbogenflagge, auf der ein Davidstern abgebildet war. Die Flagge sollte nach eigenen Angaben Solidarität mit queeren Jüdinnen und Juden ausdrücken. Bereits wenige Minuten nach Beginn der Veranstaltung sei er von der Versammlungsleitung aufgefordert worden, die Flagge einzurollen. Als Begründung sei ihm zunächst mitgeteilt worden, dass auf der Demonstration keine Nationalflaggen erwünscht seien. Der Teilnehmer widersprach dieser Einordnung und erklärte, dass es sich nicht um die Flagge eines Nationalstaates handle, sondern um eine Regenbogenflagge mit einem Davidstern als Symbol jüdischer Identität. Daraufhin habe die Versammlungsleitung ihre Begründung geändert und erklärt, religiöse Symbole seien auf der Demonstration ebenfalls nicht erwünscht. Auch dieser Argumentation widersprach der Betroffene. Er erklärte, der Davidstern sei in diesem Zusammenhang kein religiöses Symbol, sondern stehe als Symbol für das jüdische Volk. Nachdem keine Einigung erzielt werden konnte, sei die Polizei hinzugezogen worden. Nach Angaben des Teilnehmers habe die Polizei schließlich entschieden, ihn von der Demonstration auszuschließen. Zur Begründung sei angeführt worden, das Zeigen der Flagge könne provozieren und die Sicherheit der Veranstaltung gefährden. Ich bin etwas verwundert über den Pride Bonn, denn dort war es kein Problem, mit der palästinensischen Flagge zu demonstrieren.

Facts never matter in conspiracy theories. Roger Waters peddles outright lies laced w/ “the Jews did 9/11” nonsense. Tucker Carlson isn’t just giving him a platform — he’s amplifying it, because it’s profitable and because he agrees. This is how dangerous falsehoods spread.

I'm half-Syrian, half-Lebanese, and here's why I can't stand people like Greta Thunberg. She quit school to chase climate activism while millions of children in my region quit school because their families can't afford it. She skips university "for Palestine" while our youth can't afford tuition, transport, or a functioning country to build a future in. She's never had a job; our people can't find one. She travels around the world (on a bicycle, of course) and sails to Gaza on a whim; our people can't get a visa to leave the misery they were born into. She has the luxury of adopting foreign causes; we don't have the luxury of just one problem. Millions of us live abroad because that's the only way to build a sustainable life. She acts like suffering belongs to Palestinians alone, while everyone in the Middle East lives in hell too, and it's not because of capitalism or climate change. It's because of a destructive ideology that uses the Palestinian cause as its tool. And like Khamenei, like Sinwar, like Arafat before her, she wears the keffiyeh — the uniform of that ideology, not a symbol of peace. Then there's the shirt: "Yalla Intifada." The First Intifada (1987–1993) began as a mostly grassroots uprising — strikes, boycotts, stone-throwing — and still killed roughly 1,100 Palestinians and 160 Israelis. The Second Intifada (2000–2005) was a different animal entirely: a sustained campaign of suicide bombings that ripped through Israeli buses, cafés, and markets, deliberately targeting civilians. It left close to 3,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis dead. "Intifada" doesn't mean "ceasefire." It doesn't mean "peace talks." It means uprising by force, and the second one was defined by terror attacks on ordinary people. So while Greta claims to be protesting an alleged genocide, the slogan on her chest is a celebration of the exact kind of violence that killed thousands, most of them Palestinian. She isn't standing against death. She's wearing merchandise for it. @GretaThunberg #Intifada #Israel

NEW @Jewishinsider via @HaleyCohen19: “New poll commissioned by Blue Square Alliance finds increasing apathy towards antisemitism” jewishinsider.com/2026/07/robert…

It’s jaw dropping to see Vice President JD Vance go on the podcast circuit to trash his own President’s foreign policy. Has any VP ever openly contradicted and undermined his President like this before?

JD Vance claims the people online disagreeing with his Iran deal were part of an Israel-funded op. I was one of the people disagreeing online. I’m a nobody. I was not paid. I was not part of an op. I’m just a normal conservative American who thinks granting legitimacy and cash to a terrorist death cult sworn to kill us is a bad idea. In fact, the majority of American conservatives think this. We thought it when Obama did it, and we think it now. Vance’s dismissal of honest disagreement from his core constituency of Christian conservatives as a “foreign op” is extremely insulting.

I do not say this lightly: As a new and virulent strain of antisemitism spreads via algorithmic media and artificial intelligence, my life's work an an historian has been a failure. What now? A new essay with John-Clark Levin for @TheFP

So @VP Vance: Maybe you are right. And if you have concrete evidence that Epstein ‘clearly had connections to the highest levels of American intelligence’ or the Mossad, release it immediately—with full transparency so the public and independent investigators can examine it. Absent proof, the administration shouldn’t peddle conspiracy theories from the highest office. Speculation fuels distrust; sunlight and facts cut through it. Evidence first. Do you have it?

A 70-year white male leader of an important medical institution is humiliating himself before the whole world because he is subject to the same power that now holds millions of elementary schoolchildren in its grips. The same false dogmas he must parrot and defer to are being taught to millions of schoolchildren as the only truth. If an eminent physician and institutional leader cannot resist the enforced lies, what hope does your 11-year old daughter have? If the Democrats regain power and pass the Equality Act, the same power that compels him to lie and abase himself will be inflicted onto every American citizen.

Then They Came for Macau: The Au Kam San Case Signals an Escalation of Repression bitterwinter.org/then-they-came… A dissident’s trial reveals how a quiet city enforces the National Security Law with far‑reaching consequences. It is the first case tried under the new law.

I can't believe this is real. The Chancellor of UC San Francisco testified under oath that a "vast majority of pregnancies are in women." Implying some pregnancies occur in men. When asked directly whether a non-biological woman has ever had a baby, he refused to answer. This is the head of one of the top medical schools in the country.

You often hear “why don’t the IDF allow journalists into Gaza”. Here’s an interesting perspective. About a month ago, the IDF offered the chance of a visit to a captured Hezbollah tunnel. Amongst those who accepted were me and a small pack of journalists from Israel, Greece, the USA and Germany. You will notice that no major media outlets have really picked up on the story since October. There’s a reason. Hezbollah put out a statement saying that any more major outlet accepting the offer would put their colleagues in Beirut in danger from Hezbollah repercussions. Of course, Hezbollah are a major terrorist organisation and this is what you’d expect. But there’s a serious lack of journalistic integrity in properly reporting neither the scale and sophistication of the tunnels, nor the threats themselves. It means the world is only seeing the IDF airstrikes, and not understanding the “why”. It’s all part of the very effective media war these groups are fighting. It also shows how journalists are not safe from these terror groups. It goes a long way to explaining how Hamas in Gaza might also treat international journalists, how those journalists react to threats, and therefore why they’re not allowed in. today.lorientlejour.com/article/143124…

To the folks dumping on Feuerstein: watch “confessions of a Nazi Spy,” 1939, starring, directed and produced by Jews, about the domestic Nazi threat. Not ONCE does it mention the word Jew, because its makers believed it would diminish its effect. Representation is not one thing.

And the world watches.

This is hilarious The campaign lasted a few hours and then “Diva” and “Scene” magazines (the “media partners”) were instructed to delete their articles, and the whole campaign was canceled

“Stories involving needles keep coming up" Jewish patients in Australian hospitals keep experiencing the same thing: once the medical professional treating them realizes they are Jewish, they reportedly struggle to insert IVs. “It is an easy way to make someone suffer, and there is always an explanation: ‘I couldn’t find the vein,'" said Nurit Haddad, a mental-health nurse in New South Wales, who said she had heard multiple similar stories. That is not the only example of antisemitism in Australian hospitals. After the Bondi Beach attack, one doctor allegedly described those who attended a memorial as “Zionists supporting genocide.” In Sydney, a Jewish women who gave birth via caesarean section was allegedly left for hours without pain relief. She was reportedly lying in her own blood, while her newborn cried beside her. In Melbourne, a woman was reportedly mocked for seeking mental health support after her family members in Israel were killed in Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel. “This is not a competition of tragedies,” she said. “We are all suffering, and I simply needed help dealing with my grief.” “Patients are extremely vulnerable in hospital,” one midwife said. “Doctors, nurses and midwives hold enormous power over them.” These are only some of the stories that have recently come to light. Medical antisemitism must be stopped.

The rise and fall of wokeness: DEI commitments in corporate securities disclosures filed with the SEC. To me this seems a trailing indicator; most other measures of wokeness take off well before 2019 and peak in 2020 or 2021. But the shape! That's what a moral fashion looks like.

A newly released letter shows that Hamas head Sinwar believed Israel might respond with nukes to an Oct. 7-style invasion, yet carried it out anyway. This shows not only his fanaticism, but Israel's fatal misreading of who they were dealing with. jpost.com/middle-east/ar…

Lindsey Graham: "I am unapologetically supportive of Israel. If you don't get that supporting Israel is beneficial to the United States, you should probably flunk out of college" One of the greatest friends of the Jewish people. May he rest in peace.