Seldom right but never in doubt

Michelle and Troy Zukowski-Serlin, 2 Jewish Dems from Kalamazoo who were sitting in front of the crowd, have informed press of several anti-Israel protesters who jumped on their chairs, shouting things like "f**k you" and "eat my p**sy" during different remarks today.

Everything you read about Israel being a colonialist, apartheid state was invented in the 1960s in the Soviet Union. Indeed, the idea of a separate Palestinian people did not exist until the Soviets rebranded Egyptian Yasser Arafat as "Palestinian" and launched the PLO. They did this to justify their ongoing persecution of Soviet Jewry and to rename it "anti-Zionism" to give it international acceptability. Now, a new generation repeats this invented story. However, we Jews have Emet-Truth on our side. No matter how many lies they tell, the truth will always be our best defense. Don't give in and don't give up. I've devoted my life to Emet-Truth, and it is the subject of my upcoming book.

This is a misunderstanding of the situation. Gaza receives among the most aid per capita of any place on earth. The food is limited because Hamas never developed a real economy that includes food production. Instead, the entire population is reliant on food aid. Hamas fully controls the aid because the aid groups coordinate with them so, while there is no shortage overall, there is always a restriction on who gets it. Hamas uses that control to also control and abuse the population.

Suggesting a positive political endgame for Palestinians isn't hard to do. I've done it. Many others have too. And these endgame suggestions would be fantastic tools in the hands of anyone looking to impose specific demands on Israel, or on Abbas or Hamas, or to offer a better future for Palestinians of the sort that might peel some away from Hamas. Palestinians have shown repeatedly that they have the tools to shape Israeli politics. But they are told by ideologues foreign and domestic that they must never use these powers, because doing so would commit the unforgivable sin of actually engaging and acknowledging the dastardly Jews. Sorry, Israelis. So no one is ever interested in endgames. The suggestions always land with a thud. The activists dismiss them out of hand as distractions from the main task. Because the main task, the purpose of the whole rabid, unprecedented campaign, unseen in scale, duration or intensity in any conflict or country or even atrocity in generations, is not to find any solution for Palestinians. The purpose is to project all Western criminality and self-abnegation and all the anxieties of this moment of social disarray onto the familiar old scapegoat and then, as in the days of old, destroy that scapegoat. It's a civilization-spanning purification ritual couched, like all such rituals in the history of Christendom and the West, as a call to righteousness and truth. And the bulk of the costs of all this blind hatred masquerading as righteousness isn't paid by Israelis or Jews, though they are paying steep costs that will only grow steeper, because this hatred is never satisfied. No, they're paid by Palestinians. They, not we, are trapped in this obsessive radicalization against Israel. They, not we, are herded by comfortable foreigners living out anti-imperialist noble-savage fantasies into ever more rounds of zero-sum war. There *are* political endgames, and they're worth fighting for. But they require a pro-Palestinian campaign that's more than just an updated version of the anti-Jewish purges of old.

HEARTBREAKING: Rachel Goldberg-Polin, whose son was executed by Hamas in 2024, shares: “When they came to tell us that Hersh had been executed, then I realized that those 330 days had been the good part, because he was alive. And now I'm in this place... How do I walk through this place without a piece of me here?” May Hersh's memory forever be a blessing. 🕯️💔

DNC Chair Ken Martin (following Finance chair Chris Korge) trying to calm nerves on lagging RNC in fundraising. "We don’t need to outraise Republicans," Martin said. "We just need to raise enough money to be in the ring to be able to compete and fight back."

Bernie Sanders-founded group, Our Revolution, has announced its endorsement of Tom Steyer for California Governor.

This year, we remember the 25,648 soldiers who fell defending our country. May their memories be a blessing 🥀 🕯️

Antiques Roadshow is appraising Pearl Jam concert posters so it is time for me to make a reservation at the graveyard