An ongoing editorial blog by author Miranda Armstadt on the shande that is the out-of-control antisemitism sweeping America today.
Attempting to chronicle the journey for Jews these days, as honestly as I can.
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As a journalist, I'm always gobsmacked at the questions other journalists don't ask.
From the beginning, the whole "ceasefire" concept was absurd. What do you think the entire point was for Ham ass and its moneybag, Iran, behind the brutal kidnappings, murders and horrific rapes of Israeli citizens?
Ham Ass entire raison d'etre is genocide of Jews. It makes no secret of this.
So why would they want a ceasefire? Do you actually think they give a flying fuck about regular people who live in Gaza? These are people who live and breathe the destruction of Israel and the eradication of Jews. You think they're laying down their AKs? If so, you are an idiot.
Do you think they kidnapped and raped and murdered for any reason but to create the exact scenario we have now, where Israel has no way to get hostages back without taking down many Gazans, and even then--how do they know where they are? Assuming any are still alive.
They are constantly moved in underground tunnels and Gazans' apartments. Even if you had the best intel on Earth, in the time it takes to organize an exfil, everyone can be moved.
You saw what an effort it was to get out, what? Three hostages? a few months back.
We are now coming up on ten months of captivity. Hostages who have survived the minimal and shitty nourishment and lack of any kind of medical care will be suffering from despair and wondering if they will ever be free.
If they're young, ten months is an eternity and time enough for brainwashing and manipulation to start to work. If they're women, they've been repeatedly raped and abused, and this becomes your only bargaining chip in an increasingly hopeless situation. Your entire way of thinking has to adapt to survive--which most of the hostages likely have not.
All these morons with their Pal flags wouldn't last three seconds in Gaza. They understand nothing about why Ham Ass did what it did in this carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign--but it has nothing to do with Gaza being "free"-- if you think that, you are not a student of the autocratic nature of Muslim governments.
I understand that Bibi cannot speak these obvious truths to families desperately clinging to hope for their loved ones. But that truth is Israel should probably wipe out Gaza, because the hostages are most likely already dead.
Am Yisrael Chai and fuck Ham Ass.
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Waiting for the post-SAG strike to finally bring us back some kind of normal TV series, I happened upon Peacock's 'Those About to Die.'
First, may I say there's more fake blood in this ten-episode first season than a John Wick flick. It's everywhere, all the time. But that's okay, I enjoy some gore here and there.
I found out something I didn't know when I Googled the real history of this first century CE drama. ("CE," for those who don't know, stands for "Common Era," and removes the Christ-cenrtic focus from historical timelines for us Jews and everyone else who ain't a Jesus follower. "BCE" is how we indicate "before the Common Era," FYI).
Anyhoo, it turns out Egyptian pharoahs weren't our only enslavers--a war with Rome, which resulted with Rome sacking the Second Temple (of Hanukkah fame) and destroying Jerusalem (POSSIBLY PROOF THAT YES, WE DID LIVE IN WHAT's NOW ISRAEL BACK IN THE DAY, YOU FUCKING IDIOTS!!) also resulted in our enslavement.
Rome did what people have been doing for thousands of years: they stole our shit and used it fund their own empire. They also took some 50-60,000 Jews as construction slaves on the massive project known today as the Roman Coliseum. Apparently many Jews had helped build the Second Temple, so oh how convenient for Rome.
Yeah, the whole fucking world owes us reparations, pay up already, motherfuckers.
'Those About to Die' makes very brief mention of these facts. It more prominently shows us a beautiful Emperor's consort who was a Jewish queen taken into custody, until Titus fell in love with her. Antisemitism was so pervasive in Rome, he eventually had to dump her: priorities.
I'm not really sure what to make of this series, which basically has two scenes that are regurgitated over and over:
1) plots to kill ____ (fill in the blanks, it changed daily)
2) Unbelievably gory gladiator fights, with what are thankfully mostly CGI-generated wild animals, from a gorgeous white lion to alligators.
SPOILER ALERT:
By the last scene, I was truly rooting for the male white lion to eat anyone and everyone and escape, but of course, that didn't happen.
I think I will get a T-shirt that says:
'Jews--y'all been hatin' on us for 3,000+ years already, give it up!' It should sell like hotcakes.
As for 'Those About to Die,' we are, as usual, an afterthought mention, even though we built the entire fucking thing. What else is new?
Columbia University recently laid off three professors--who they failed to name publicly--for blatantly antisemitic text exchanges made during a week that was supposed to focus on combating antisemitism.
You'll find words like "perceived," "Jewish students take offense," "over texts about Jews" in the news stories about this episode.
The word "antisemitic" is avoided like an Egyptian plague, which is what President Minouk Shafik has on her hands: a plague of insanely left, Jew-hating professors, hell-bent on sharing their bile with their students and turning them against Israel and those who support its existence (Zionists).
Meanwhile, any pushback from Jews is immediately condemned as a "fundraising ploy" or "propaganda."
Isn't it ironic, when Qatar's multibillions--pouring into Ivy League universities for two decades now--and the biggest propaganda machine on Earth--Iran--are behind the Jew haters.
This isn't new. The Nazis did the same thing, and so has every country that's hosted pogroms, the Inquisition, and every other form of annihilation against Jews over the millennia. The goal is not JUST to eradicate, but to blame the victims and glorify the perpetrators.
Columbia Dean Josef Sorret--who got to keep his job for nothing more than an "apology" which I am sure was as heartfelt as Biden's self-awareness--is represented like this in a biographical piece on him on Columbia's website:
"... His parents were not observant in any theological sense, but rather were a prototypical secular Jewish family. After they divorced, both of my parents eventually became born-again Christians, on what folks think of as Pentecostal or Charismatic terms. "
Note the use of the word "prototypical," as if such a thing exists in Jewish culture. But this is standard for the goyishe world, which enjoys reducing us to a 'Seinfeld' stereotype, because they are too lazy and too stupid to do any research.
I don't know what the fk kinda Jew becomes a Pentecostal Christian, but it's almost unheard of, so this indicates to me there was nothing "proptypical" about his parents and their relationship to Judaism or Jewish culture.
Perhaps it explains his unconscious self-hatred. He is, it appears, black and who knows what.
It's time for Jews to consistently throw verbal rocks at these insulting actions, or lack thereof.
While we are on this topic, let's clarify who is the biggest existential threat to Jews right now, and it's not the far-right. In fact, I have never felt any threat at all from the far-right.
The so-called "progressive" (which might as well be called "antisemitic") left are the ones who hate Israel, hate Jews, and REALLY hate when we stand up for ourselves.
As for Columbia, it's time for these colleges to lose their accreditation. I can only imagine the uproar if a racist professor or dean was allowed to keep his job with no more than a tweeted apology.
Fuck you, Minouche Shafik, Josef Sorret and all your leftie, terrorist-loving colleagues. I hope the Egyptian plagues of the Bible come for you.
Am Yisrael Chai.
I recently went to hear Mossan Yousef--the now middle-aged son of one of the founders of the Ham Ass movement--speak about the realities behind the so-called "Palestine" movement. I took notes, to make sure I didn't forget any salient points.
First, let me say, I do not envy his life. He is a dead man walking to all the pro-Pals, and despite 10 years as a Shin Bet (Israel's FBI) undercover agent (which I'm impressed he survived), there are still those who doubt he's really changed teams.
I won't get into any specifics of where I heard him speak, but the security was, frankly, more than I've seen anywhere, ever. Having attended many events aimed specifically at Jews and never having seen anything close to this level of visible and plain-clothes firepower, I found myself thinking, do you need to be a converted terrorist to get real protection in America?
At least we were not subjected to a single green and red flag.
He does not mince words. And he's certainly a dynamic and experienced speaker with a best-selling book about his life published in 2014. The problem with dynamic speakers is what they're proposing doesn't always make any practical sense.
Let's begin with his supposition-- that modern Middle Eastern Islam is essentially a 7th century step back into a world of extreme violence, sexual subjugation (including children, which he says is common) and a never-ending desire to eradicate Jews and Israel from the face of the Earth.
He says this comes out of Islamic scripture, but like all scripture, has been "interpreted." He points out you have a problem when you are constantly told "it's a religion of peace" when all evidence points to the contrary, and that's not just toward Jews. He says Hindus in India are also constantly subjected to abuse.
One thing that struck me as interesting is, he has converted to Christianity. He says Ramallah in the West Bank of Gaza is majority Christian. In fact-checking this, it turns out that before 1946 during the British Mandate, it was majority Christian Arabs, but has since become majority Muslim.
As a Jew, I know more than a little about Christianity's extremely dark past with genocide when it comes to my people. Three hundred years of the Inquisition alone saw an estimated 150,000 Jews murdered, often burned at the stake. The rest of Europe was rife with pogroms and exiles of their own when it came to Jews. And some 200,000 more Jews chose to convert in Spain rather than die, with some continuing to practice Judaism in secret.
But that's another kind of murder, akin to what American conquerors did to the natives: where you kill their entire culture and sense of being.
His takeaway was that the current crop of "Palestinians,"--which he says is an ideology, not a place per se--are the new Nazis. I cannot disagree, except that their numbers far, far exceed the Nazis.
There are an estimated two billion Muslims on Earth right now--they are just behind Christianity, which is probably losing steam, on that front. Jews number just over 15 million...or .2% of the global population.
As in all such cultures, a combination of poverty and propaganda from a very young age (children are often kidnapped, he says), helps to form this "black and white" vision of righteousness. Since Jew-hatred is built into the Koran, it's an easy sell, I suppose.
And since violence is the only power--much like a gang or cartel--it's what everyone uses to control everyone else. He says he saw the light while doing time in an Israeli prison, where the Ham Ass leaders also imprisoned would torture and kill anyone who crossed them behind bars. I suppose he was able to see a different approach from the Israelis. That's his story, anyway.
I didn't come away from his talk feeling hopeful, even though he has the zeal and fervor of a Baptist preacher. Given oil money and the enormous backing of Iran and Qatar ... the incredible convenience of keeping women often uneducated and legally bound to obey their husbands (which crosses way beyong Gaza and is the entire Muslim Middle East) ... and the chaos (his word) in which they are raised, we would indeed have to off them all to eradicate this way of thinking.
Meanwhile, they intentionally sacrifice their own children to make Israel look bad. (Remember, he grew up in this world, and probably knows more about it than the nonbinary scarf-wearers stateside).
Honestly, I am glad I am coming down the back nine of life. I do not see anything good up ahead. He says like all chaos-based movements, they will aim to interrupt academia, banking, transportation and daily life, and we have already seen this in spades.
Not really sure what to say in summation, except that the future doesn't look bright.
Y'all, I'm gonna say this again: stop talking about us like we're not in the room. I am sad that far too many Jews get sucked into this RIDICULOUS conversation, which can, and HAS, only be/been used to ghetto-ize us, tell us where we do or don't belong, and discredit our claim to Israel.
So sit yasefs down, cause this Jewess 'bout to tell you what's what and who's who.
If you do one of those DNA sites, they will group us as an ethnicity--either Ashkenazi, meaning from the mostly Eastern European countries of Russia/Poland/Germany/Austria et al--or Sephardic, meaning you are descended from the Jews who were kicked out of Spain in 1492 by the delightful (sarcasm) Isabella and Ferdinand and probably ended up in Morocco or environs in North Africa.
Thus why many descendants of the latter are some degree of tan and of the former (like myself) have no melanin to speak of and burn in the sun in under 1.2 minutes.
Does anyone get this obsessed with the race of Hindus, or Buddhists or Christians or atheists for that matter? Of course not. I return to the point that the ONLY REASON people go there with Jews is to discredit us. Either as "white colonizers" or "brown people who really should align with other brown people." That's pretty much the size of it.
So, listen up, kids, here's the deal: WE DON'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK how you try to pigeonhole us. 99% of you have no idea what a Jew even is, as witness when I read questions on Quora or Reddit like "Do Jews accept Jesus as the Messiah?"
People: we were here way before the Christians. We are not defined by what Christians do or do not believe. We have our own beliefs and books of worship. So, try reading something yourself. And stop thinking you are the sun around whom every Jew must circle. You are a spinoff of our sun, or son, yuk yuk. Making a lil jokey poo at all y'alls expense.
It just gets old. The yapping about us like we don't exist separate from YOUR definitions and YOUR beliefs. We don't owe you shit.
I am a Jewess. My ancestors lived in Europe for at least the last three or four centuries. If you think you can trace your own heritage back 3,000 years, yippee. I wish to god I could meet my forbears from 2,000 years BCE (google that if you don't know what it means).
I don't have to define myself to you. Now fuck off.
Miranda Armstadt
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