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stop tolerating antisemitism

EVERY DAY, ZIONISTS BOTH “LIBERAL” AND “CONSERVATIVE” PUT CORPORATE PROFITS AND MILITARY LETHALITY AHEAD OF JEWISH SAFETY. THEY CLAIM TO DO IT OUT OF A LOVE OF JUDAISM. THIS INCLUDES SITTING POLITICIANS, CANDIDATES, PARTY LEADERS AND STRATEGISTS, HIGH PROFILE MEDIA COMMENTATORS, BUSINESS LEADERS, PRESIDENTIAL “FRONTRUNNERS,” AND THEIR FANS AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC. WE ARE USED TO SAYING THESE PEOPLE ARE BAD AT POLITICS, BECAUSE THEY ARE. BUT RARELY DO THEY GET ACCUSED OF ANOTHER THING THEY CLEARLY ARE: RAGING ANTISEMITES. CONTINUING TO CONFLATE JEWS WITH ISRAELI MILITARY POLICY IS PUTTING JEWS IN IMMEDIATE DANGER. CONTINUING TO TOLERATE IT IS PUTTING JEWS IN IMMEDIATE DANGER.

Constantly conflating Jews with the genocidal and illegal policies of the Israeli government, and of its criminal funders in the U.S. government, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Paying Israelis to commit a genocide, in the hopes that American weapons, oil, real estate, and AI profits will go up, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Throwing the lessons of the Holocaust in the trash, to bring back genocide, illegal military occupations and forced relocation as acceptable business models, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Arresting and beating up Jews, for pointing out that genocide and apartheid are not tenets of their faith, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Democrats teaming up with avowed white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the White House, in Congress, and among the billionaire class, to pay Israel billions of dollars to turn itself into one of the most hated countries on Earth, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Calling someone antisemitic for opposing genocide, and thus stripping that term of any meaning by applying it to virtually the entire human race, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Saying that Israelis are inherently exempt from or incapable of rationally explaining their violent, racist, or criminal policies and behaviors, or pretending that these policies and behaviors are so insubstantial when done by Israelis that self-defense or retaliation is completely unforeseeable, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Calling Judaism, a ~5000 year old West Asian religion, from whose history and teachings we could all benefit, the same thing as Zionism, a ~100 year old racist European settler colonial movement that collaborated and still collaborates with Nazis, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Investing in Israeli wars, prolonging Israeli wars, and encouraging Israel to permanently base its economy on wars, thus deliberately making Israelis less safe, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Paying Israelis to turn fellow Semites into experimental test subjects for the R&D of American weapons and AI companies, to increase those companies’ profit margins or expand their investment bubbles, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

For Democratic politicians and pundits to demand that their own voters abandon their values, and stop having feelings about genocide and apartheid, when trends are clearly moving in the opposite direction, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Holding the majority of the global population, who disagrees with with Zionism’s racist political program, at gunpoint with weapons of mass destruction, funded against their will by the American taxpayer, college student and pension holder, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Restarting Hitler’s political programs of elective world war, illegal invasions, illegal military occupations, collective punishment, torture, mechanized mass killing, impunity for war crimes, racial final solutions, and ethnic supremacy propaganda is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Resurrecting Nazi propaganda by saying that Palestinians are “a people without a home, who don’t have the right to food, fair trials, their own property, self-defense, or votes,” against whom “international law does not apply,” and asking “why other countries won’t just take them all,” is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Deploying the most militarized law enforcement agency in world history against Americans, including Jews, who are trying to stop a genocide being committed in their name and with their money, to spare the rich and powerful any potential emotional discomfort, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Ranking people with West Asian ancestry on their deservedness to be alive, on the basis of their wealth or their proximity to whiteness, is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Committing, enabling, investing in, or excusing genocide, apartheid, forced removal, and permanent war profiteering in the name of Judaism is not just bad political strategy. It is blatant antisemitism.

Now that this Amerisrael mass killing experiment is underway, with test runs in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, it cannot be allowed to prove itself as workable, profitable, or consequence-free. If it does, not only will those populations be annihilated, but the experiment can hardly be expected to limit itself to Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. There are billions in profits at stake. This formula will be deployed again and again, against anyone who stands in the way of capitalists. In the end, being white or Jewish will not protect you. Those Israelis, Americans and Europeans clinging to this fantasy will watch it vanish once the price of fooling you and keeping you alive exceeds the price of letting you die.

This planet’s life forms, the only ones whose existence we know of in the universe, have evolved and survived partly because of an instinct for survival. What those who claim that investing in the genocide of brown people on the other side of the planet isn’t really all that bad are forgetting, and must now be told, is that human and nonhuman life forms on our planet have rarely died quietly and aren’t likely to start now. They will go to any lengths to survive, and rightly so. What Zionists and U.S. politicians like to call terrorism is actually a perfectly natural, predictable and legal response to war crimes and military occupation.

Americans may suffer from low morale, nihilistic malaise, and endless corporate disinformation, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the world does. Every day this continues, the population of our planet is pushed closer to open revolt against the people, companies, countries, and economic systems responsible for their suffering and potential annihilation. According to polls as well as common sense, topping that list are the U.S., Israel, their capitalist system, and the fossil fuel, weapons, and Big Tech corporations that have become so wealthy at so much cost to everyone else. Once the rage of generations has been unleashed, can you imagine how furious it will be? Those who fantasize that their current lack of consequences will last forever should not expect mercy from people who just want to survive our attempts to slaughter them. We need to start making peace now, atone for our crimes, offer reparations, and begin the multi-generational healing process.

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