The Antisemitism Cudgel

By Rory Cripps

Silly me! For years I believed that an antisemite is someone who hates Jews simply because Jews are Jews. You know, kind of like Hitler and his Nazis hated Jews or the tiki torch carrying “Jews will not replace us” crowd hates Jews. But apparently I misunderstood the definition of antisemite because I’ve recently learned, by watching MSNBC and CNN, from Zionists such as Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) ubiquitous CEO Jonathan Greenblatt that anyone who doesn’t support Zionism and Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian women, children, and babies is an antisemite. To quote journalist and author, Chris Hedges, “We’ve gone from the absurdity of criticizing Israel as a form of antisemitism to criticizing genocide as a form of antisemitism.”

For those of you who don’t know who ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt is, just tune into MSNBC, CNN, and the rest of the American mainstream media and Greenblatt will be there. He’s all over the place like a bad flu. He’s that guy with the shaved head who no doubt wakes up throughout the night to check under his bed for antisemites more often than an old man with an enlarged prostate wakes up at night to piss. And as we now know, once guys like Greenblatt and his Zionist cronies (ADL, AJC, BINAI BIRTH, etc.) label you an antisemite and sink their teeth into you they never forget and you’ll forever be deemed an antisemite. In other words, you’re toast, and there’s a good chance that you can kiss your jobs and careers goodbye as was recently the case with Harvard University’s president Claudine Gay and University of Pennsylvania’s president Liz Magill.

So now that I know for certain that I’m an antisemite in perpetuity because I don’t support Zionism and Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian women, children, and babies, I’ve got nothing to lose! Indeed, I’m liberated to say whatever I want about Israel, Jews, and Zionists. I mean, WTF? No matter what I say will be deemed antisemitic! And as Janis Joplin sang, “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”.

I’ll start off by saying that you Zionists can take your “antisemitism” cudgel and shove it because it doesn’t mean squat to me and it increasingly doesn’t mean squat to the millions of Gen Zers and Gen Yers who have enough sense to not watch the pro-Israeli/anti-Palestinian propaganda spewed all over the American mainstream media. Those Gen Zers and Gen Yers are smart enough to know that Zionists such as Greenblatt have an axe to grind and that they’re nothing but mouthpieces for Israel and that Greenblatt and his Zionist ilk are not only opponents of free speech but they’ll murder free speech whenever free speech is used to criticize Israel.

Here are some of my “liberated” antisemitic thoughts: at times I use the words Zionist(s), and Jew(s) interchangeably because there’s no evidence to suggest that most Jews, to one degree or another, are not Zionists. And if most Jews are not going along with and fully supporting the slaughter and genocide of the Palestinian people, or at least tolerating it in the name of Zionism and Israel, then they’ve got a funny way of showing it. According to a survey taken by The Israel Democracy Institute 75 percent of Jewish Israelis support the continued bombing of Gaza and are opposed to any reduction in the bombing. In other words, the vast majority of Jewish Israelis fully support Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinians in Gaza and many of them think that the slaughter has not gone far enough. That, in spite of what left-leaning apologist Jews who host podcasts on YouTube would have us believe. You know the type: those apologists who seem to think that Ukraine should lay down its arms, prostrate itself before Putin, and allow Russia to take over Ukraine.

And for anyone who’s still reading this rant, one of the sure-fire ways to establish your antisemitic bona fides is to simply bring up the topic of dual citizenship. Your mere implication that some American-born Jews are dual citizens, whether they are or not because they have an Israel can do no wrong mentality and a deeply emotional and fanatical attachment to Israel that borders on the pathological, is enough to elicit outrage and cries of antisemitism from Zionists. But good luck if you want to know how many American-born Jews actually hold dual citizenship status with Israel! You’ll have to dive deep into the bowels of Google and swim around in the murk. You’ll see estimates ranging from 500,000 to 750,000 American-born Jews and 10 to 25 percent of Israel’s total population holding dual citizenship status.

The pertinent question here is not how many American-born Jews hold dual citizenship status. The pertinent question is why are so many American-born Jews perceived to be holding dual citizen status with Israel? What’s the mass psychology behind that perception? Could it be that many Americans perceive Jews as wielding undue influence on the U.S. government and as having the mainstream media eating out of the palms of their hands? Why is it that Americans believe Jews comprise as much as 30 percent of the U.S. population when the facts are that Jews only comprise a little over 2 percent of the U.S. population?

Every Zionist in the U.S. Congress from Senate leader Charles Schumer on down has demonstrated time and again, via their voting records, that they’re de facto lobbyists for Israel, yet they deny that they hold dual citizenship with Israel. They may not be dual citizens in the technical sense, but if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it just may be a duck.

Here’s another sure-fire way to establish your antisemitic bona fides: equate the 700,000 Jewish so-called settlers to the settler colonialists that ravaged the indigenous Ulster Irish in the 1800s by murdering them and starving them, or the White Afrikaners that imposed apartheid on the indigenous Black South Africans in the 1900s, or the White Northern European settlers that were given carte blanche by the U.S. government to massacre Native Americans. That equating really gets the American Jewish Committees’ (AJC) Zionist panties in a wad!

So how about those 700,000 Jewish settlers, anyway? Well, many of those settlers are from America’s Zionist heartland—Brooklyn. Apparently those settlers hate Palestinians to the point of deeming Palestinians subhuman, and they do in fact treat Palestinians as subhuman: yep! I bet those settlers hate Palestinians just as much as Hitler and his Nazis hated Jews. Those settlers are real pieces of work! And they prove it by seizing the homes of Palestinians at gunpoint, threatening the lives of Palestinian women, children, and babies, using Palestinians for target practice, bulldozing Palestinian homes even when those homes are occupied, and  committing countless other atrocities. And they do it all with the blessings of the Israeli government to the point where the Israeli government even provides them with U.S.-manufactured assault rifles to drive off pesky Palestinian grandmothers.

Make no mistake that the Jewish settlers are an appendage of the Israeli government in the same vein that the American settler colonialists in the 1800s were an appendage of the U.S. government under the Indian killer and genocidal maniac President Andrew Jackson. If I were to call those Jewish settlers brutes, thugs, and parasites and say that they’re using similar methods and tactics against the indigenous Palestinian people that Hitler and his Nazis used against the settlers’ own Jewish ancestors, or similar methods and tactics that Andrew Jackson and his white supremacist Second Amendment militias used against the indigenous Native Americans, would you accuse me of being even more of an antisemite than what you’ve already accused me of being? Again, take your antisemitic cudgel and shove it!

Now in all seriousness (just in case I wasn’t serious enough in my above antisemitic rant), according to some recent estimates, there are a little over 15 million Jews throughout the world, most of whom live in Israel (7.2 million) and in the U.S. (6.3 million), and there are about 1.8 billion Muslims throughout the world. Did you get that? It bears repeating: there are a little over 15 million Jews throughout the world, most of whom live in Israel (7.2 million) and in the U.S. (6.3 million) and there are about 1.8 billion Muslims throughout the world. In other words, Jews make up 0.2 percent of the world’s population and Muslims make up 24 percent of the world’s population. That translates into 120 Muslims per one Jew. Why is it, and how did it come to be, that the U.S. government bends over backwards for Israel to the point of aiding, abetting, and funding Israel’s genocide (look up the definition of genocide) of the Palestinian people (the vast majority of whom are Muslims) and in the process gaining the enmity of 1.8 billion Muslims?

Why do Zionists have so much clout here in America to the point where they’re given carte blanche by the U.S. government to do and say anything they want with impunity, including behaving like Nazis while claiming that they’re victims of Nazis? Why did Israel have to drop over 30,000 U.S.-produced bombs on Gaza? I mean, that was a waste of good bombs, wasn’t it? Indeed, all the gaslighting regarding “Israel’s right to defend itself” put forth by Israel, the Biden administration, and the American mainstream media is enough gas to blow up all of Gaza by simply lighting a match when any one of the above farts. WTF is going on here? What’s the rationale for America’s continued rabid support of Israel? What’s the rationale for America’s shameless bolstering of Israel’s propaganda and outright lies? Does Israel have blackmail “tapes” of American politicians plooking goats and little boys? Does Israel take that $3.8 billion dollars of American taxpayer money that the U.S. government gives it every year and turn around and use that money to buy off the U.S. Congress and destroy the election chances of any politician that doesn’t kiss its tuchus? Do the rubes, crackers, and imbeciles in the Evangelical Zionist movement who comprise much of the Republican voter base and who are useful idiots and shills for Israel actually believe that BS about Jews being God’s chosen people, the end times, and the second coming? Why are Americans required to sign anti divestment and boycott pledges? WTF is going on here that compels America’s fanatical, support of Israel?

 By all modern-day standards, definitions, and under international law, Israel is an apartheid state, engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide. To quote Palestinian-American Journalist Ali Abunimah, ” . . . if it comes to massacring babies and children and elderly people and destroying schools and hospitals and infrastructure, Israel is by far the world champion.” Before you Zionists call Palestinians human animals and terrorists and all that other vile and hateful crap that you call them, you need to look at yourselves in the mirror—but don’t look for too long because the mirror will no doubt shatter to bloody pieces. If you’re God’s chosen people, then I’m an atheist: there is no God.