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Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week

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I never thought this would happen. It’s only 100 (mostly farmers) so far that have been approved, but it’s a start and a good example of “it’s the principle that counts.” Of course the usual refugee grifters (who are funded by the U.S. taxpayer), including HIAS, are pissed because they are White people and they are being fast-tracked compared to non-Whites.

Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week

The rapid relocation of the Afrikaners, who President Trump says have been racially persecuted in South Africa, stands in stark contrast to the virtual shutdown of all other refugee admissions.

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A group of White South Africans rallying outside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, earlier this year.Credit…Joao Silva/The New York Times
The Trump administration is working to bring the first group of white South Africans it has classified as refugees to the United States early next week, according to officials briefed on the plans and documents obtained by The New York Times.

Although the president halted virtually all other refugee admissions shortly after he took office in January, his administration hastily put together a program to allow in white South Africans, who he claims have been the victims of racial persecution in their home country.

The administration plans to send government officials to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia for an event marking the arrival of the South Africans, who belong to the white minority Afrikaner ethnic group, according to the memo from the Department of Health and Human Services. The administration initially planned to welcome the Afrikaners on Monday, but some officials familiar with the matter cautioned that the plans remained in flux, subject to flight logistics and processing of the group.

The arrival of the Afrikaners would cement Mr. Trump’s efforts to upend a program that for decades has allowed thousands of people fleeing war, famine and natural disaster to find safe haven in the United States.

While the program remains suspended for refugees across the world, such as Congolese families in refugee camps and Rohingya seeking safety, white South Africans were processed much faster than is normal for these cases.
Refugees can often wait years in camps around the world before they are processed and approved to travel to the United States. Before the first Trump administration, refugee resettlement took an average of 18 to 24 months, according to the American Immigration Council, an advocacy group for immigrants. Many refugees must wait years longer.

The Afrikaners, however, had to wait no more than three months.

The arrival of the white South Africans comes after Mr. Trump signed an executive order suspending refugee admissions when he came into office. Then, in February, Mr. Trump created an exception for the resettlement of Afrikaners, while also cutting all U.S. financial assistance to South Africa.

Mark Hetfield, the president of HIAS, a Jewish resettlement agency, said his organization was committed to welcoming Afrikaners.

“But we are profoundly disturbed that the administration has slammed the door in the face of thousands of other refugees approved by D.H.S. months ago, notwithstanding courts ordering the White House to let many of them in,” Mr. Hetfield said, referring to the Department of Homeland Security. “That’s just not right.”

Supporters of such measures say they are necessary to undo the vestiges of colonialism and apartheid, when the white-minority government brutally repressed Black South Africans and drove them off their land. The South African government has sparred with Mr. Trump and his officials, saying that they are spreading misinformation.

Within weeks of announcing that Afrikaners would be eligible for refugee status, the administration deployed teams to Pretoria, the South African capital, to screen White South Africans for consideration, according to the documents obtained by The Times. The teams studied more than 8,000 requests from people expressing interest in becoming refugees, and the U.S. government identified 100 Afrikaners who potentially could be approved. Trump administration officials have been directed to focus particularly on screening White Afrikaner farmers.

The resettlement of refugees is normally funded in large part by the State Department. But Mr. Trump suspended that program when he came into office.

So the administration will be relying more on another agency that has traditionally supported refugees: a refugee office in the Department of Health and Human Services. That office has been reaching out to organizations assisting refugees in recent days to prepare them for the arrival of the Afrikaners, according to a department memo obtained by The Times.

The administration is preparing to help the Afrikaners find “temporary or longer-term housing” and “basic home furnishings, essential household items and cleaning supplies,” according to the memo. The administration is also planning to help the Afrikaners secure “groceries, weather-appropriate clothing, diapers, formula, hygiene products and prepaid phones that support the day-to-day well-being of households,” the memo said.

Advocates for refugees said the rapid mobilization to allow the Afrikaners to resettle highlighted the administration’s inaction on other refugees, even sometimes in the face of court orders.

“Thousands of refugees from across the globe remain stranded in limbo despite being fully vetted and approved for travel, including Afghan allies, religious minorities and other populations facing extreme violence and persecution,” said Timothy Young, a spokesman for Global Refuge, a resettlement agency. “We hope this development reflects a broader readiness to uphold the promise of protection for all refugees who meet longstanding legal standards, regardless of their country of origin.”

Earlier this week, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to lift the ban on refugees who were cleared for travel before Mr. Trump took office and to give them the opportunity to finally enter the country.

The rapid arrival of Afrikaners “flies in the face of the government’s claims that they aren’t able to process already-approved refugees, even after multiple courts have ordered them to do so immediately,” said Melissa Keaney, senior supervising attorney at the International Refugee Assistance Project, in a statement. “Thousands of refugees unlawfully stranded by President Trump’s refugee suspension are in limbo and are ready to restart their lives in the United States. There is no more time for excuses.”

Dr. Casey Means is Trump’s pick for Surgeon General.

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Great choice!!

Constantin von Hoffmeister: Germany: Defeat as Annihilation

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In Finis Germania, the Holocaust towers — a cyclone drawing the ancestral soul of a people into its endless orbit. No other grief permitted equal voice. History bends beneath this singular force until Germany wears only the mask of eternal villainy. The masque of fairness shatters, revealing a face sculpted by accusation, by inherited sin. Sieferle traces this metamorphosis, a ritual where the testimony becomes the void, and where the black hole of one narrative silences all others.

May 8 has become the axis of this ritual. Each year, officials gather. Each year, the same phrases spoken. The same flowers placed. The same guilt renewed. The same blade gleams. The ceremony requires repetition. Without it, the structure could collapse. Without it, memory might awaken. Without it, new generations might remember the old songs. The machinery continues because it must. Because memory sleeps, yet memory also waits.

Germany: Defeat as Annihilation

May 8, Denazification, and the Ritual of Perpetual German Guilt

May 8 returns, as seasons return, yet shaped by steel and fire rather than wind or harvest. Once, across forests and rivers, the German realm breathed in rhythm with the land itself. Knights gathered beneath banners adorned with ancient sigils. Peasants planted beneath the gaze of cathedrals whose spires kissed the clouds. Poets summoned spirits older than crowns or borders. These voices forged a people. Their hands shaped stone, their minds shaped destiny. That song now meets silence. May 8 does not bring spring. It brings ritual, a rehearsal crafted by the directors of forgetting. Flowers cover graves whose names dissolve from memory. Politicians speak, repeating phrases polished by long habit. Yet beneath each phrase lies the blade.

The blade once struck soldiers. Now it strikes meaning. What fell in 1945 exceeded armies and borders. The collapse swept through language, through birthright, through the marrow of being itself. Rolf Peter Sieferle walked this desolation, lantern in hand. Finis Germania rose from this wandering. A book shaped as lament, shaped as resistance. Not for conquest. For remembrance. Remembrance carried through shattered streets where once children played beneath eagles carved in stone. The imprint of Königsberg’s libraries reduced to ash. Of Breslau’s families driven across frozen plains. Of Stettin’s traders watching their guild halls dissolve into foreign hands. Marches stretched for miles. Elderly men gripping rusted medals. Mothers clutching infants wrapped in threadbare coats. Children whose lullabies became the rumble of distant artillery. The blade spared few. Those who marched did so beneath foreign orders, through snow and hunger. Roads became graves. Names became numbers. Suffering became silence.

The victors named this progress. They named it justice. Yet each proclamation dripped heavy with anticipatory annihilation. Justice measured by tribunals where victors judged the vanquished. Justice blind to the corpses of those expelled from Silesia, from Pomerania, from East Prussia. Cattle cars once carried victims to camps. Now they carried Germans to exile. No plaques marked their journey. No memorials shaped from sorrow. The past was rewritten. History bent to serve a single purpose: perpetual guilt. Sieferle traced the machinery behind this bending. A machinery as precise as clockwork. A machinery named denazification. An operation that reached beyond punishing ideology. It reached towards annihilating legacy itself.

Symbols forbidden. Books burned or rewritten. Monuments removed or renamed. Veterans silenced. Scholars dismissed. Teachers replaced by those who followed the victors’ script. Children gathered in classrooms where maps excluded heritage. Lessons taught repentance alone. Heroes dismantled. Legends dissolved. The harvest, once sacred, reduced to supply chains. The oath, once sworn to kin and ancestor, reduced to bureaucratic approval. The Volk redefined as confessors without absolution. An inheritance of guilt wrapped in paper, bound by foreign decree. The cycle became eternal. Each generation required to repeat the confession. Each generation shaped to accept this burden.

Cities rose from debris yet rejected their own reflection. Dresden rebuilt with scars displayed as virtue. Königsberg renamed by conquerors, its essence sealed beneath Soviet monuments. Danzig’s gates opened beneath foreign flags. Victors built memorials for their sorrows. Other sorrows ignored. A hierarchy of grief enforced through law, through media, through silence. To mourn forbidden losses became dangerous. To recall forbidden stories became subversion. Sieferle named this transformation. A people severed from its past floats without direction. Without roots, survival becomes drift. Without heritage, survival becomes mimicry.

Continues at: https://substack.com/@eurosiberia

Lorenzo from Oz: Jews can’t afford the Jewish lobby

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Notice particularly: “Here’s the thing, however. Who did the most to promote the notion of the entitled victim? Who pioneered the notion of the entitled victim as the basis for driving people out of public life, out of their livelihoods? Who? The Jewish lobby; that is, Jewish activists allegedly operating in defense of the Jewish community.”

There were two, interlocking, ideas motivating this feral activism arising out of the academy. One is de-colonisation. Helen Dale provides a pertinent discussion thereof. It is noteworthy that the 2017 Hamas Charter directly plays into Western academic postcolonial rhetoric, unlike its original 1988 Charter. This particular set of toxic nonsense I will not be dealing with here.

Though, to be clear, the problem with decolonisation isn’t only that it is now giving cover to anti-Semitism. As I will discuss in a later post, the problem with post-colonialism as a framing, and a basis for decolonisation arguments, is that they are not true in the same way that phlogiston or geocentrism aren’t true, and so shouldn’t be taught at university — any university.

The other motivating idea is the notion of the sacred victim, of the moral purity of the oppressed. That Israelis are oppressors and Palestinians are the oppressed and the oppressed are entitled to do whatever in their struggle against their oppressors. Who is the oppressed, and who are the oppressors, is all that one needs to know, that is the only morally salient fact.

This is the concept of the entitled victim at its most feral. It has become clear that to many people, including many academics, there is literally nothing Hamas can do to de-legitimise its cause.

Victim entitlement

Here’s the thing, however. Who did the most to promote the notion of the entitled victim? Who pioneered the notion of the entitled victim as the basis for driving people out of public life, out of their livelihoods? Who? The Jewish lobby; that is, Jewish activists allegedly operating in defense of the Jewish community.

Careful what you wish for: the Sorcerer’s Apprentice being trampled by his creations, from Fantasia (1940).

This post is not about the Israel-Palestine contentions: that I have discussed here, here and here. My concern here is with the dynamics of debate and activism within Western societies. I will touch on aspects of the arguments for Israel that exemplify problems with arguments mounted by Jewish activists within Western countries.

Nor is this a post about Jews: it is about Jewish activists2 and their activism. It is about the dynamics of discourse and activism. In particular, the pioneering role — and huge unintended consequences — of the feral catastrophising that has been a feature of the Jewish activism for decades. A catastrophising that, as is so common in activism, feeds the flow of donations.

When we examine the evolution of those patterns of debate and activism, we can see that Jews in the West — as we watch the horrid dynamics of the entitled victim turn Jews into objects of hatred and abuse — are suffering the unintended consequences of the entitled-victims arguments mounted by the Jewish lobby and its catastrophising feral activism.

To criticise the Jewish lobby, and its activism, is most definitely not “blaming the victim”. The activists are not the group. One of the problems with activism is precisely the conflation of the activists with the group they claim to be speaking for.

Jewish activists need Jews in general to be as fearful as possible, to keep the donations flowing. They are, in effect, paid to generate as much paranoia as possible.

Feral catastrophising is a status, social-leverage and income play that Jewish activists may have pioneered, but has since become much more widespread. For instance, Michael Shellenberger does an excellent job of demolishing feral climate-change catastrophism.

As an aside, past Christian shaming and shunning of gays and lesbians is a limited analogy for entitled victim catastrophising, as such targeting of gays and lesbians did not rest on Christians claiming entitlement on the basis of victimhood.3

Pioneering illiberal advocacy

Many of the patterns now being wielded against support for Israel and against Jews were pioneered by Jewish activists.

When the central claim of Zionism — that Jews were not safe in Europe — was proved to be catastrophically true, there was a huge surge in support for the Zionist cause. Both in motivating Jews to move to Israel and in garnering Western sympathy.

Unfortunately, two very bad arguments for Zionism gained more salience. One was that Jews were entitled to land occupied by their forebears up to two millennia earlier. This was a nonsense argument that is not accepted for any other group anywhere. A famous animation of this land is my land expresses the folly of this argument.

The other bad argument is that the horror of the Holocaust was such that Jews were entitled victims. That the horror of what was done to Jews entitled surviving Jews, and future generations of Jews, to trumping moral claims. This argument of multi-generational entitled victimhood — applied to a new set of victims — is now being used to excuse or pass over horrors perpetrated against Jews.

The kidnapping and trial of Adolf Eichmann trial — which Hannah Arendt famously characterised as a show trial — was the peak of legitimating Israel on the basis of harm done to Jews. Given that the Holocaust happened on a different continent — as Arab, Palestinian and Muslim commentators have bitterly observed — Israeli PM Ben-Gurion went so far as to claim the trial was about anti-Semitism everywhere. As Arendt observed, the Nuremberg Trial defendants were indicted for crimes against humanity, not some specific subset of Nazi victims.

Victims may be entitled to restitution for harms done to them.4 They may be appropriate objects of sympathy and help. But they do not thereby have claims against people who have done them no harm.5 Not even against people who may share some category with those that did them harm but who themselves did not participate in the harm, nor choose to benefit from it. (To be human is to have benefited from harm done to others: we are all the descendant of groups that wiped out, or otherwise displaced, other groups.)

Ruminating about trauma is generally not psychologically healthy and is far from an automatic response to trauma. As a paper on the subject (pdf) notes:

many Jewish-Israelis report that they are preoccupied with the Holocaust and fear that it will happen again, though most of them were not direct victims. However, this was not always the case, since in the early years after the Holocaust, although the survivors were suffering from severe post-trauma, the Holocaust was not prominent in Israeli discourse and was even considered, to some extent, contradictory to the Israeli identity. Israeli society only adopted a victimhood identity in the 1960s and 1970s, and the Holocaust became prominent in the Israeli narrative … partially as a result of the Eichmann trial, where victims spoke out during the televised proceedings.

Jewish activism simultaneously maintains two contradictory, and false, claims about the Holocaust:

  1. The Holocaust was absolutely unique horror (it wasn’t).
  2. It could happen anywhere (it couldn’t).

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Scott Greer: Can’t Cancel This ‘Karen’

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The new online environment undermines the Left’s ability to punish “offensive” behavior

In the past, it would be completely over for such a person. Recent years have witnessed a bevy of “Karens” get ruined over public disagreements with blacks. One could face unemployment and criminal charges just for arguing over a dog, so just imagine the consequences for saying the forbidden word.

 

But this story is very different. Hendrix is receiving a surprising level of support, earning nearly $700,000 for her GiveSendGo and becoming a hero to many on X. Obviously, she’s also earned a lot of condemnation. But, unlike Karens in the past, she has many defenders. It’s also for a greater “offense” against liberal dogmas. Arguing with a black person or calling the cops on them is bad, but using the n-word is worse than murder in progressive opinion. A black person can justify killing someone on this basis–and it’s worked in court before.

Hendrix’s support would have been impossible just a few years ago. Her story illustrates the new timeline we’re in and the relative weakness of “cancel culture.”

It’s worth remembering the Karen hysteria of the Peak Woke era. Karen became a popular slur to attack white women. Karens, for the most part, were women who confronted potential troublemakers in their community. Black activists and the press saw them as a plague that reinforced society’s alleged racism. As Time magazine put it, “the ‘Karen Meme’ confronts the violent history of white womanhood.”

A large number of white women saw their lives ruined merely for confronting a black person. The most famous example is “Central Park Karen.” Amy Cooper was a standard AWFL (affluent white female liberal) living in New York in May of 2020. She took her dog for a walk in Central Park when a black bird watcher (possibly the only one in the world) yelled at her and threatened her dog for messing up his activity. The bird watcher, Christian Cooper (no relation obviously), began recording Cooper as she pledged to call the cops on him. Since it’s considered a grave sin to call the cops on a black man “doing nothing wrong,” this Karen had her life ruined. This incident occurred the same week as George Floyd’s death. It was the biggest story in the country before riots broke out over the latter event. Every major outlet covered Central Park Karen and condemned her. She lost her job, she faced criminal charges, and her name was permanently ruined. There were no fundraisers for her or any real support. Nearly every American supported her cancellation. Her accuser ended up getting his own bird watching show as part of the publicity.

Amy Cooper’s story shouldn’t even have been local news, much less the biggest national news story. This was merely an argument between two strangers, something that happens every minute. The only reason why it became a matter of attention is to reinforce new social norms. If you’re white, you’re not supposed to argue or confront a black person. That’s racist to do so and you will be dubbed a “Karen” and have your life ruined. Cooper was a necessary sacrificial victim to our society’s racial cult.

But that’s not at play in Shiloh Hendrix’s story. While it has received a level of media coverage it doesn’t deserve (this is still just two strangers arguing in a public place), it’s far from the biggest story in the country. It’s a local news story that parts of social media have taken a deep interest in. Normies no longer care about these kinds of stories, and that’s for the better. …

Continues at Scott Greer’s Substack.

Are You Tired of Hearing About Antisemitism? Simply stop killing Gazans and the anger directed at Jews might end

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Excerpts from Philip Giraldi at Unz.

One might well ask how a group composed of little more than 3% of the US population has managed to gain control of the nation’s foreign policy, its legislature and executive branches, its media, its entertainment industry, its financial institutions, and its elite universities while also making the United States subservient to the wishes of a monstrous small state located seven thousand miles away and composed of its coreligionists? Well, it helps to have a great deal of money liberally applied to corrupt the existing political and economic systems, but that is not necessarily a good place to start as one might reflexively be accused of wielding a trope much favored by antisemites when discussing Zionist Jews, the group of which we are speaking. Alternatively perhaps, one might take an oblique approach by observing how the highly privileged and protected Zionists in question get rich living in America while having true loyalty to apartheid Israel, something that normally might be considered untenable if not borderline treasonous.

Recent reports suggest that there are upwards of 23,000 Americans serving in the Israeli Army (IDF), most of whom are presumably dual nationals with Israeli citizenship. Under existing law, they should all lose their US citizenship but that will not happen as Congress and the White House have both been bought. Indeed, they are being given a golden handshake by the US Congress with a new bill currently in Congress which would extend some US military benefits to the notional American citizens who are currently carrying out the Gaza genocide as members of the IDF. One such clown Congressman Brian Mast, who served in the IDF, even parades around Congress in his Israeli military uniform and no one says squat.

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Ron Unz’s recent article recent article Trump vs. Harvard in a Political Wrestling Match examines the issue of Jewish supremacism and, among other factors, identifies the various mechanisms used by Jews to enhance their enrollment at top universities. He mentions in passing how Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner got into Harvard without having the level of academic achievement that normally would have been a prerequisite. It was possibly accomplished through an institutionalized “Harvard Price,” an under the table donation of several million dollars from the wealthy Kushner family. I personally recall attending an elite university in the 1960s and hearing Jewish classmates boast of how “they” comprised 40% of the first-year students. A friend of mine at Yale told me of similar boasting among the “Sons of Eli.” Forty per cent participation for 3 per cent of the population is certainly an astonishing rate of success.

Unz uses available educational data bases to demonstrate that the disparity was not due to greater intelligence or academic performance among the Jewish applicants. He concludes that “Based on these figures, Jewish students were roughly 1,000% more likely to be enrolled at Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League than white Gentiles of similar ability. This was an absolutely astonishing result given that under-representation in the range of 20% or 30% is often treated by courts as powerful prima facie evidence of racial discrimination.”

Based on my own contact with Jews in the academic world and in government, I would prefer to describe the Jewish success with universities as a product of gaming the system, i.e., producing incentives outside academia itself to make the candidates more attractive. Whether such maneuvering might be described as corruption of the process depends pretty much on where someone stands outside the system, but the fact is that it is far easier for a Jewish high school graduate to get into an elite university than it is for a comparably educated and intelligent white Christian. And if you throw into the hopper all the “minority” other applicant groups that get preferential treatment, white males who are not Jews are definitely at the bottom of list when acceptance time comes around.

Beyond cash incentives, one might also conclude that Jews are exceptionally good at self-promoting and on translating their largely fictional collective victimhood into a sympathy vote that gives them a considerable edge as they move through education and high-profile careers. The problem is that that aggressive self-promotion does not stop at the level of personal aggrandizement and opens the door to large scale group interference in both foreign and domestic government policies that run strongly contrary to the interests of most Americans. I am of course referring to groups like the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC)and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) which serve as lobbies and support structures for the apartheid Jewish state Israel, which is currently carrying out a genocide in Gaza, without any accountability or consequences as required by current US law under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA). President John F. Kennedy was trying to get such groups to register when he was assassinated in 1963.

Other Jewish national organizations are also on board in supporting Israel as are the numerous Christian Zionists, which means that killing tens of thousands of people in the Middle East is a matter of no consequence, except that once more the Israeli Jews must be and are widely portrayed as the victims. The US is complicit in the arming of Israel and the killing and actually condones it even though a majority of American voters do not support the Jewish state. Likewise, the Jewish dominated press and other media looks the other way as the slaughter goes on, as it no doubt will, and one expects that upwards of 2 million Palestinians will eventually be deported to whatever shithole is willing to accept them under pressure from the US. Otherwise, the “Justice” recommended by Israel’s Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is now in the United States on a “visit,” will likely be pursued, i.e. a bullet to the back of the head of every Palestinian.

And then there is the issue of the “crime” of antisemitism, which is the only thing that the Justice Department seems to think is worth addressing, to the point where people who have done nothing beyond expressing their concern over what is going on in the Middle East are being arrested without any charges being filed and detained while being processed for deportation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has publicly announced that he has authorized the arrest and deportation of 300 students for their criticism of Israel. The US House of Representatives has obligingly passed a measure equating criticism of the racist, Jewish supremacist ideology of Zionism with what they describe as a hate crime “antisemitism.” Meanwhile the Israel Lobby and its politician choral society are constantly using the Jew-controlled media to sing about how Hebrew students fear going to school due to the presence of all the “antisemites.”

This is, of course, largely a convenient fiction largely created by the media, and it is rather Jews who have been beating up peaceful demonstrators. And it is extremist Jewish-funded groups that have been stirring the pot, going after anyone who is perceived as anti-Israeli. One of the groups, Canary Mission, has run a massive disinformation operation for years, publishing the names and photos of thousands of alleged pro-Palestine activists, while another group, Betar, openly encourages targeting of student activists and brags that it has “provided names of hundreds of terror supporters” to the Trump administration. Ross Glick, the head of Betar’s US branch, believes that “Foreign students on visas in the US shouldn’t have the right to free speech.” Jews, however, should be allowed to behave with complete freedom to include carrying out murder, war crimes, and human rights violations targeting those it sees as opponents.

To be sure, protesting against any of the horrors that Israel is engaged in is regarded to be one symptom of “antisemitism” which is ipso facto considered to be something like a capital offense, even though it is pretty much generated in America by the impunity and savagery with which Israel behaves towards the rest of the world. And the parameters of what might constitute a legitimate search for “antisemites” is expanding. The US State Department will now demand from foreigners wishing to travel to the United States information on their social networking sites. Those sites will be screened for anti-Israel content and the visas will be refused. This is an extension of the anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) policies now in place in 38 states in the US where a job or services will be denied to citizens if they will not sign a pledge or promise not to support the movement to boycott or punish Israel. The situation is even worse for those foreigners who are currently going through screening to become US permanent residents as it is the issue of one’s views of Israel alone that could easily determine who is allowed to become a future citizen and who is rejected.

Indeed, protecting Jews is a full-time job of the Trump Administration, even more so that under Genocide Joe Biden. Antisemitism comes up in speech after speech and fully ninety per cent of the discretionary Homeland Security Agency grants already go to Jewish groups or buildings, to the tune of more than $400 million. Interestingly, the government also appears to be constructing a data base of Jews to protect them further. The personal cellphones of dozens of current and former Barnard College employees rang last Monday evening with a text message that said it was from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, part of a review of the employment practices of Barnard. A link led to a survey that asked respondents if they were Jewish or Israeli, and if they had been subjected to harassment.

Another attack on free speech in America that is Israel related, apart from what is going on at the universities which are being destroyed from within by the government demands to protect Jews, is the role of how research institutes have traditionally been able to engage in fraternal discussions to seek action and share information with any country or government entity in the world. But researchers and university employees who engage in certain nonviolent protests or political expression over human rights conditions in Israel and Gaza may now risk loss of employment and other civil and criminal penalties, according to a new policy unveiled by the National Institutes of Health on April 21st. The agency, the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, touches virtually every corner of the scientific community but it will now be silent over what is happening in Gaza, where every hospital has now been destroyed by Israeli-American bombs.

So there you have it. Let’s stop making excuses for Israeli behavior that depicts Jews as the perpetual victims while seeking to falsely label Israel’s enemies as the war criminals and racists. We will leave those attributes to Israel itself. Better still, arch-Zionist Donald Trump should pick up the phone in the Oval Office and call Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to tell him that America has become tired and the game is over. America will no longer be sacrificing its own interests to support a genocide and no longer will be footing the bill and providing the weapons to carry out the slaughter. “Goodbye Bibi! And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!”

Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.

Philip Giraldi: More Exciting News from the White House

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Excerpted from Philip Giraldi at Unz.

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My principal complaint with the government Jewish agenda is that it creates two classes of people before the rule of law, i.e. those who are Jews and must be protected and the rest of us who, on the contrary, will face the consequences if we so much as criticize Israeli or Jewish behavior. Ironically, we can criticize our own country or any other country in the world, but not Israel. If we are a legal resident or a student on an educational visa who crosses the line we can have that status erased and be deported without any due process. It also means that any encounters with law enforcement or government that has any taint of being critical of Jews can lead to two level justice, as many foreign students in the US are currently discovering.

A story last week out of Crown Heights Brooklyn illustrates precisely what I mean. Israel’s monstrous Security Chief Itamar Ben-Gvir, who believes in killing all Palestinians if it becomes necessary to remove them, was in town being cheered on by a large crowd of the indigenous Ultra Orthodox Jews. A local resident, a woman in her thirties, wondered what all of the noise was about and went out to take a look. She was immediately set upon by a large crowd of roughly one hundred, which screamed at her that she was a “Palestinian demonstrator,” which was not true. She “feared for her life as she was chased, kicked, spit at and pelted with objects by [the] mob of Orthodox Jewish men. She recalled how ‘They were shouting at me, threatening to rape me, chanting death to Arabs. I thought the police would protect me from the mob, but they did nothing to intervene.’ As the chants grew in intensity, a lone police officer who had joined her sought to escort her to safety back towards her apartment. They were followed for blocks by hundreds of men and boys jeering in Hebrew and English. Video shows two of the men kicking her in the back, another hurling a traffic cone into her head and a fourth pushing a trash can into her. She was beaten and kicked and even had a large garbage can thrown on top of her.” The woman later recalled how “I felt sheer terror. I realized at that point that I couldn’t lead this mob of men to my home. I had nowhere to go. I didn’t know what to do. I was just terrified.” After several blocks, the officer moved the woman into a police vehicle which prompting one assailant to yell, “Get her!” but the crowd erupted then in cheers as she was driven away. Interestingly, there were many police officers in the immediate area, presumably to protect all the rioting Jews from attacks by antisemites, but they had not intervened while the woman was being pursued apart from the one officer who came to her assistance.

The entire episode was filmed by bystanders and one would think that the Jews who had beaten the woman would face some consequences, but as is always the case when it is Jews/Israelis who are committing crimes there is the presumption of antisemitism at play and nothing happens. I could find nothing in the subsequent press coverage that suggests that anyone was arrested or even detained. I have previously suggested that this has also been the pattern connected to the past year’s demonstrations over the slaughter in Gaza. The universities and local police are quick to detain those normally peaceful demonstrators regarded as pro-Palestinians but when those individuals are in turn physically attacked by Jewish organized groups the Jews are not subjected to the same standard of law enforcement. To put it mildly, there is absolutely no mandate to protect Palestinians or ordinary Americans who become victims in the violent counterattacks on peace encampments staged by local Jews and, reportedly, including some Israeli army veterans in incidents at both Columbia University and the University of California at Los Angeles. Have any violent Israelis been arrested or deported? No? Apparently, the US “justice system” is focused on serving Israel at the expense of the US Constitution’s protection of free speech and free association.

The “Jewish Exemption” that is in practice at all levels of US and local government is readily discernible nearly everywhere to include the media coverage of Israeli atrocities. Israel, has, for example, its own completely illegal nuclear arsenal obtained through theft and deception from the United States, but nobody in the US government is allowed to mention that and it rarely comes up in the press. And no one is permitted to enforce American laws if they impact on Israel, like the Leahy Law which forbids military assistance to any country that violates human rights “with impunity.” Israel clearly is qualified to be sanctioned by that standard, but no US Administration has dared to enforce the law for fear that the powerful Israel Lobby will retaliate.

My point is that every time one turns around currently the government is doing something to exempt Jews or Israel from the consequences of their own behavior while at the same time the folks who criticize that behavior are being punished with denial of free speech and crippling penalties that will in some cases diminish their prospects for the rest of their lives. This has got to stop and all Americans must be treated the same under law. Jews are the most protected and coddled tribe that goes to make up what we Americans call a “country” but they are not the only ones here. It is time that the corrupted political class in this nation begin to realize that.