Written By: Justin K.P.

Michigan’s Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, recently went on an apology tour for accurate and reasonable comments he made that were intentionally taken out of context by the Israel lobby.

In response to a story about a man running his car into the Temple Israel synagogue in a Detroit suburb and shooting a security guard, Abdul El-Sayed said, “hurt people hurt people”.

What Abdul El-Sayed was referring to is the fact that the man behind the attack, Ayman Mohammad Ghazali, had four relatives killed by the IDF during the Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign in Lebanon.

Clearly, Abdul El-Sayed was not justifying the attack, but making the correct point that terrorist attacks on civilians are often “blowback” for the terrorism the U.S., UK and Israeli governments carry out around the world.

This is a fact even acknowledged by the CIA, which coined the term blowback in 1954 to refer to “the unintended consequences of the US government’s international activities” on the public, in that case referring to the overthrow of Iran’s elected president, Mohammed Mossadegh, in 1953.

In this case, Abdul El-Sayed was making the correct point that Israel is endangering Jewish civilians by slaughtering civilians in Gaza, Lebanon and elsewhere in the name of the supposed “Jewish state”.

In fact, I would go even further than El-Sayed, and argue that Israel actively wants Jews outside of Israel to feel unsafe, to justify the narrative that Jews are only safe in Israel, and encourage them to make “Aliyah” to Israel.

This is the exact reason why the Israeli Mossad carried out terrorist attacks on Jewish places of worship in Iraq, Egypt, and Morocco during the early creation of “Israel”, and more recently, bombed the Rafinia Jewish Synagogue in Tehran.

Israel lobbyists knew full well the actual point Abdul El-Sayed was making, but intentionally took it out of context to make it look like he supported terrorism.

Their real problem with Abdul El-Sayed is that he opposes U.S. support for Israeli occupation and slaughter in Gaza and Lebanon, and the U.S/Israeli war on Iran.

This is why, in my opinion, it is a major moral and strategic misstep for Abdul El-Sayed to apologize for his comments.

In response to the disingenuous smears from the Israel lobby, Abdul El-Sayed said “context at the right time seems to also offer an asterisk on a moment of pain and a moment of trauma, a moment of frustration, a moment of sadness, a moment of anger that is more than justified. That wasn’t my intention. So I’m asking for forgiveness and a moment of grace”, to a group of Zionists at an event held by the Democratic Jewish Caucus.

“I understand and heard that people felt like it was justifying the attack, and I didn’t intend to justify it”, Abdul El Sayed added.

After doing this, the pro-Genocide Israel lobby (which never genuinely believed that Abdul El-Sayed was justifying terrorism) will continue to smear him, because their real problem with him is that he opposes U.S. funding to genocidal Israel, and U.S. wars for Israel like the one in Iran.

Case in point, many Zionist attendees of the Michigan Jewish Democratic caucus made clear they would still not support Abdul El-Sayed, openly stating that their actual issue with him is his anti-Zionist and anti-genocide views.

The Jewish Telegraph Agency reported :

“I’m a Mike Rogers supporter,” Troy Zukowski-Serlin, a Kalamazoo-based member of the Michigan Jewish Democrats board, told JTA on Sunday before El-Sayed’s speech. Despite his board position, Zukowski-Serlin said nothing would change his mind about voting for the Republican candidate: “It’s signed, sealed and delivered with me.”

His wife Michelle, who attended the event wearing a dress with an Israeli flag imprint, said she would be writing in Nessel, “my hero,” on the ballot.

The outlet added:

“He is moving, and I’m hopeful about that. And it’s making me feel more secure in his leadership,” Rabbi Josh Whinston of Temple Beth Emeth, a Reform synagogue in Ann Arbor, told JTA. “There’s still work to do.”

Whinston said he would also like to see El-Sayed address other comments he has made, including having referred to the Israeli government as “bloodthirsty.” Such language, the rabbi said, “puts us in harm’s way.”

Other Zionists at the event actively used the apology in an attempt to push Abdul El-Sayed into sending arms to Genocidal Israel.

The outlet noted:

Liz Fried, of Ann Arbor, was one of the attendees who went up to speak to El-Sayed afterwards. She told him that her children were soon to fly to Israel, and asked if he would support funding for the Iron Dome defensive system.

He wouldn’t, she recalled to JTA — a position he has held in public.

“I was upset,” Fried said. “He doesn’t care about the safety of my children.”

The director at the Jewish Federation of Ann Arbor, Rabbi Asher Lopatin, even wrote an op-ed openly stating he would not support Abdul El-Sayed even after his apology in front of his organization, explicitly because “El-Sayed has called Israel a ‘rogue’ state” and because of his “anti-Israel” views.

By apologizing, all Abdul El-Sayed did was cede ground and give in to smear merchants, who will continue to smear him because of his anti-genocide and anti-Zionist stance, their real issue with him.

Activist Kshama Sawant described the apology as a “statement of fealty to the Zionist lobby, to the war profiteers, and to U.S. imperialism.”

Even from a politically strategic standpoint, the apology was a misstep.

Journalist Ali Abunimah argued Abdul El-Sayed was following in the footsteps of Jeremy Corbyn’s failed run for Prime Minister in Britain, and the giving in to Israel lobby smears that helped sink his campaign, writing “Abdul El-Sayed, is following the Jeremy Corbyn strategy of appeasing unappeasable genocidal Zionists who weaponize fake ‘hurt’ over fake ‘anti-Semitism.’”

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee president and attorney Jenin Younes similarly argued that:

He’s (Abdul El-Sayed) not going to win Zionists over ever — they hate him just for being a Muslim Arab and opposing genocide— and this groveling is going to hemorrhage support from his prospective constituents.

One of the reasons Trump was popular was because he didn’t apologize and stuck to his guns. I hope El-Sayed’s campaign takes stock. This is not 1999. People want candidates with firm beliefs, and Americans are overwhelmingly against the genocide. No one wants to see this kind of pandering.

Abdul El-Sayed’s apology for his accurate comments is hard to see as anything other than a mistake.

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Written By: Justin K.P.

Throughout the proxy war in Ukraine, NATO has used the narrative of “Democracy” vs “Authoritarianism” to justify continuing to fuel the proxy war in Ukraine.

But while Ukraine is labeled as a shining example of Democracy by NATO states, it has jailed political opponents, suspended elections, forcibly drafted civilians to the front line, and whitewashed Nazi collaborating war criminals.

No case better shows the real face of the Ukrainian government, hidden by NATO states, than that of socialist writer Bogdan Syrotiuk.

Syrotiuk, a writer at the World Socialist Website, was recently sentenced by a Ukrainian court to 15 years in prison, on charges of “high treason … under martial law”.

But as the World Socialist Website noted, “the record of the case contains no act of treason—no espionage, no sabotage, no collaboration with any military force. The sole evidence presented against him consisted of his writings, published on the World Socialist Web Site, and his communications with the editors who published them”

Bogdan Syrotiuk was charged with “non-recognition of Ukraine’s legitimately elected political leadership and democratic processes” because he criticized the fact that “Elections have been canceled and basic democratic rights suspended” since the start of the proxy war in Ukraine.

He was also charged with “reinterpretation of national heroes and historical figures” over his opposition to “Stepan Bandera and the leaders of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) and the Waffen-SS Galicia Division—Nazi collaborators who supported Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and were implicated in the mass murder of Jews and Poles.”

The fact that Stepan Bandera was a Nazi collaborator who led genocidal massacres against Jewish and Polish civilians in Ukraine at the behest of Nazi Germany is a fact accepted by every credible historian.

In his article, Bogdan Syrotiuk criticized the Ukrainian state’s whitewashing of the OUN and Stepan Bandera, writing :

Historians now believe that almost 25,000 Soviet servicemen, policemen and frontier guards, two and a half thousand party workers, and about six hundred chairmen of collective farms and village councils were killed in this civil war by the OUN-UPA in the western areas of Ukraine. Among those murdered were 30 secretaries of district committees, 32 chairmen and deputy chairmen of the district executive committees, 37 secretaries of the regional party and Komsomol committees and hundreds of deputies of the local Soviets. According to historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, the OUN-UPA also murdered more than 20,000 Ukrainian civilians.

This does not include the many tens and even hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles in Ukraine who were slaughtered by Ukrainian fascists during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. Alas, the total numbers of people murdered by the Banderites have been silenced by history but the memories of their atrocities and the blood they spilled of the Soviet people in Ukraine are deeply engrained in the consciousness of the working class.

Bogdan Syrotiuk further called out the whitewashing of the OUN and Stepan Bandera in Ukraine, writing:

Today, just as then, the crimes of those who call themselves the ideological successors and followers of Bandera are almost too numerous to count. Like then, they are a bloody pack of jackals in the service of capital, running from one capitalist to another. But in changing their paymasters, they do not change their essence. There is nothing but backwardness and animal hatred in their faces and minds. Their ideas are reactionary.

Yet these very ideas of Bandera are today promoted not only by the imperialists and the bourgeois Ukrainian nationalists who want to justify the crimes of OUN-UPA, but also by those who call themselves Ukrainian national-communists, who want to justify all these horrors, by claiming that all this was caused by the policy pursued by Stalin in Western Ukraine.

But is it possible to justify those who turned the towns and villages of Western Ukraine into a real hell, who tortured mothers and children, who filled the wells with corpses of Ukrainians and Russians, Jews and Poles?

Yes, there were many among them who were intimidated, deceived, offended, and unjustly repressed, but there is no basis for portraying the fascist Banderites as fighters for “freedom” against Stalinism.

This historically accurate article was used as evidence in the case against Bogdan Syrotiuk and used to charge him with treason for “comparisons with fascists and Nazis” and “reinterpretation of national heroes and historical figures”.

Also cited to prove Bogdan Syrotiuk’s supposed “treason” was an anti-war speech he gave in favour of ending the proxy war in Ukraine, which was equally critical of NATO, the U.S. and Russia’s role in the war, saying, “This war was unleashed by US imperialism, NATO, and the Putin regime. It is an imperialist war, waged not in the interests of the proletariat of Russia, Ukraine and America but in the interests of capital in these countries. This war is the result of capitalism, a system stricken with a deadly disease. In anticipation of its impending death and bristling with weapons of mass destruction, capitalism is digging a grave for all living things, to bury them before they bury it.”

This anti-war speech, calling for the working class in Ukraine, Russia and the United States to unify in ending the war, was also enough for Ukraine to label Bogdan Syrotiuk as a traitor and send him to prison for 15 years.

We have been lied to about the nature of the Ukrainian state. We are told by NATO states that it is a Democracy, a propaganda line used to justify fuelling the war to use Ukraine to “weaken Russia”.

In reality, the Ukrainian government is a dictatorship, labeling its own citizens as traitors even for criticizing blood-soaked Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera and calling for an end to the proxy war, as Bogdan Syrotiuk did.

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Written By: Justin K.P.

There is a possibility that Benjamin Netanyahu will no longer be Prime Minister of Israel following the upcoming elections in October, with the opposition party Yashar led by former IDF Chief of the General Staff Gadi Eisenkot leading in many polls.

But removing Netanyahu and replacing him with Gadi Eisenkot will not change Israel’s genocidal nature.

In fact, it was Gadi Eisenkot who invented the Israeli military doctrine that functioned as the blueprint for the Genocide in Gaza, called the Dahiya Doctrine.

This Doctrine was invented by Eisenkot when he was Chief of Northern Command during the Israeli assault on Lebanon in 2006.

“What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on… We will apply disproportionate force on it (village) and cause great damage and destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases… This is not a recommendation. This is a plan. And it has been approved”, Eisenkot said, referring to the doctrine in 2008.

It was exactly this doctrine of collective civilian punishment which was used during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in 2008, which killed 1,400 Palestinians, including 300 children, and Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in 2014, which killed more than 1,500 Palestinian civilians, including 500 children.

This doctrine was eventually applied during the Israeli genocide in Gaza starting in October of 2023.

Gadi Eisenkot was also responsible for the mass slaughter of peaceful Palestinian protestors during the Great March of Return in 2018.

As the Institute for Middle East Understanding documented :

• Eisenkot was chief of staff of the Israeli military in 2018 when Israeli snipers killed at least 189 unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza, including 35 children, three paramedics, and two journalists, and wounded more than 6,000 others, during the Great March of Return. As noted by the Israeli rights group, B’Tselem.

• “Over the course of the protests, the Israeli military implemented an open-fire policy of using live fire against unarmed protestors who posed no threat to the well-armored soldiers on the other side of the fence or to anyone else.”

• An independent U.N. commission of inquiry into the protests concluded there were: “reasonable grounds to believe that during the Great March of Return, Israeli soldiers committed violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. Some of those violations may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity.”

Gadi Eisenkot opposes any kind of sovereignty for Palestinians, recently telling Israel Hayom “The two-state solution is a grave mistake” and “Anyone who thinks about a two-state solution after Oct. 7 is simply delusional.”

As for the West Bank, journalist Séamus Malekafzali noted in the Nation that he has espoused support for “maintaining settlements in the West Bank, opposing full annexation not because it is against international law or morally wrong, but because the new Arab population would endanger the Jewish majority in Israel.”

As for Lebanon, Gadi Eisenkot has positioned himself as more extreme than Netanyahu.

Malekafzali noted that, “In some respects, Eisenkot has gone even further than Netanyahu. He criticized the original ceasefire agreement in Lebanon that still allowed Israel almost total freedom of action, and in March, advocated‘maximum force in minimum time,’ hoping to cause religious strife in Lebanon by ‘humiliating’ the Shia population by forcing them into Christian areas.”

In reality, Gadi Eisenkot, if he is able to win a majority or minority government in October, will be a more suitable face for the Israeli occupation than Benjamin Netanyahu.

While he likely will shy away from the same genocidal rhetoric as Netanyahu and the Likud coalition, this will only be done for propaganda purposes.

In reality, he is the creator of the doctrine the Gaza genocide is based on, and engineered the slaughter of Palestinian protestors during the Great March of Return.

He will put a more respectable face on Israel, while continuing to deny any kind of sovereignty for Palestinians and pushing forward with an Israeli occupation of South Lebanon.

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Written By: Justin K.P.

Journalist Max Blumenthal, the editor of the Grayzone news, who has focused his investigative journalism on exposing the inner working of Zionism and the U.S. empire, has unsurprisingly made himself a long list of powerful enemies throughout his career.

He is currently facing a coordinated campaign spearheaded by the totalitarian Zionist Laura Loomer to silence his reporting due to his journalism on the genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran.

Max Blumenthal’s on the ground reporting on Iran seemed to have stuck a nerve with the Israel lobby, given that he documented the fact that the U.S. and Israel had repeatedly struck civilian infrastructure in the country, including by visiting and filming the destroyed ruins of a “densely populated residential neighborhood in eastern Tehran” and finding “children’s clothes in the rubble” as well as the ruins of the Rafinia Jewish Synagogue in Tehran and Iran’s Azadi Stadium an “indoor volleyball and wrestling complex which hosts international competitions”.

Max Blumenthal faced attacks from the Trump White House connected Laura Loomer after his reports from Iran, who wrote on X to Max Blumenthal, “You’re a shill for Islam and communism, and I hope you’re raided in a heavily armed raid by the FBI at 5 am and that SecRubio strips you of your passport for aiding the Iranian regime as they chant Death to America.”

Following this attack, when Blumenthal returned from Iran, at Dulles International Airport, he was met by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) who, “interrogated Blumenthal about his trip, searched his belongings, and demanded that he provide access to his smartphones. When he refused to open his phones, CBP officers forced him to turn them over for detention.”

Max Blumenthal stated at the time, “It was precisely because of my journalism that I was targeted by the Trump administration, The US government is clearly threatened by my reporting from Tehran, where I showed the massive crowds of mourners and ferocious public backlash to the assassination of [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei, exposed US and Israeli war crimes against civilians from the ground, and conducted candid interviews with officials and negotiators. The seizure of my devices was a clear act of intimidation aimed at deterring me and others from doing further critical reporting from Iran about the illegal war ravaging the country, which is likely why my interrogators from CPB demanded to know if I would be returning to Tehran any time soon”.

Blumenthal eventually had his devices returned to him, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee filed a lawsuit on his behalf against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney S. Scott, and Acting CBP Deputy Commissioner Ronald D. Vitiello, arguing they violated his Fourth and First Amendment rights.

Civil liberties attorney Jenin Younes noted that, “In Max’s case, Laura Loomer, a close ally of President Trump, called for Max to be arrested while he was still abroad because of his journalism and viewpoints. Loomer boasted about reporting Max to federal authorities, and effectively took credit for the seizure of his phones. Given Loomer’s well-documented influence over President Trump, there is a strong likelihood that her targeting led to the unlawful search and seizure. The government cannot allow politically connected individuals to weaponise law enforcement against journalists because they object to what those journalists report”.

As I documented in my previous article, Laura Loomer apparently successfully got the British right-wing pundit Milo Yiannopoulos- who she had a long-running feud with- arrested by ICE because he overstayed his visa issued in 2019.

While it seems to be true that Yiannopoulos did overstay his visa, Loomer clearly targeted him because he was harshly critical of her, including by leaking private messages where Loomer claimed to have a “chemical imbalance”.

Loomer spent the rest of the day calling for critics of Israel across the political spectrum to be either deported or investigated, including by writing that:

• Foreign policy analyst and founder of the Quincy Institute think tank Trita Parsi, should be “next up” on the deportations list, following a longstanding campaign spearheaded by Loomer attempting to get Parsi deported over his opposition to the war in Iran and criticism of the Israel lobby’s influence on U.S. foreign policy.

• Calling to “deport” political commentator and streamer “Hasan Piker and his Turkish mom”.

• Calling for the DOJ to “investigate” former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.

• Calling for Attorney General Todd Blanche to investigate podcast hosts Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.

The one thing linking these pundits and journalists-all of whom have a wide variety of differing views- are that they are critical of Israel and opposed the war on Iran.

Today, Loomer ramped up her campaign to silence Max Blumenthal, going even further and getting three Israel First representatives to sign a letter calling to investigate Blumenthal, explicitly for his factual journalism.

Loomer excitedly shared the letter on X , claiming that it will be the “beginning of the end for Max Blumenthal and his publication, the Grayzone News “.

The letter was signed by Representative Randy Fine, a vile radical Zionist who has said that “Muslims should ‘be destroyed’” and fellow hardline Zionist representatives Keith Self and Randy K Weber.

The letter addressed to Secretary Rubio and Attorney General Blanche thanks them for investigating the activists Calla Walsh, Jackson Hinkle, and Christopher Helali, all of whom visited Iran and reported on the war from the ground.

The letter added that they should “add to your investigation an additional American, Max Blumenthal” for supposedly “participating in Ali Khamenei’s funeral in Iran” when in reality, Blumenthal reported on the funeral as a journalist, as did multiple mainstream media outlets.

The article also claimed that Max Blumenthal is “known for his denial of the atrocities of the October 7th massacre committed by Palestinian terrorists, calling some details of the massacre ‘manufactured’ by the Israeli government, casting doubt on the victims’ testimonies.”

In reality, Max Blumenthal was one of the first English-language reporters at the onset of the Israeli genocide in Gaza to question the claim that Hamas fighters committed “mass rape” on October 7th, which was being used to manufacture consent for the mass slaughter in Gaza.

It has since been shown that no evidence exists of rapes occurring on October 7th, and all available evidence points to the fact that no rapes occurred.

The Israeli paper Haaretz acknowledged that “at Shura Base, to which most of the bodies were taken for purposes of identification, there were five forensic pathologists at work. In that capacity, they also examined bodies that arrived completely or partially naked in order to examine the possibility of rape. According to a source knowledgeable about the details, there were no signs on any of those bodies attesting to sexual relations having taken place or of mutilation of genitalia” while the UN noted that “The mission team, specifically the forensic pathologist and the digital analyst, reviewed over 5,000 photos, around 50 hours and several audio files of footage of the attacks” and noted that “In the medicolegal assessment of available photos and videos, no tangible indications of rape could be identified“ and Moran Gez the Israeli prosecutor focusing on October 7th admitted that “in the end, we don’t have any complainants” of rape occurring on October 7th.

Max Blumenthal was also one of the first reporters in the English language to report that Israel issued the Hannibal Directive on October 7th, the controversial military doctrine which calls on the IDF to kill Israeli hostages to prevent a hostage exchange.

This too was later proven correct, with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz confirming this fact, then Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant admitting that the Hannibal Directive was issued “in various places” on October 7th, and video footage from October 7th airing on Israeli TV showing Israeli officials admitting that the order was given to “bomb the entire Gaza border with artillery” and “on Gaza. Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted”.

The letter also accused Blumenthal of “making excuses for Iran’s oppression of its people.”

In reality, Max Blumenthal exposed the fact that what was presented as “peaceful protests” in Iran prior to the U.S./Israeli war were actually violet riots backed by the Mossad and CIA .

This too has been vindicated. Israeli media has admitted that Israeli and U.S. intelligence was “arming the protesters in Iran with live firearms, which is the reason for the hundreds of regime personnel killed” that Israel “set up its own poison machine” in Iran to infiltrate the protests while Trump boasted that “he United States sent guns to the Iranian protestors … we sent them a lot of guns, we sent them through the Kurds and … the Kurds kept them, ‘we sent guns to the protests, a lot of them’”.

The letter, clearly spearheaded by Loomer, has one clear motive: to silence Max Blumenthal in retribution for his accurate reporting on the Gaza Genocide and Iran war, and factual debunking of the propaganda used to justify them.

This story, however, is far bigger than Max Blumenthal.

It shows that the Israel lobby has lost the argument and public opinion, and so its final option is to turn to totalitarianism in a desperate attempt to intimidate opponents of Zionism into silence.

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Written By: Justin K.P.

British right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was detained by ICE and set for deportation, apparently for staying after his visa to enter the country, issued in 2019, had expired.

Given that Milo Yiannopoulos has been known for his staunch opposition to illegal immigration, many were quick to note the irony in this development.

But there may have been a more nefarious motive behind his deportation.

Milo Yiannopoulos had long been heavily critical of the extremist Zionist pundit Laura Loomer, who has been attempting to use her influence within the Trump White House to crack down on her political enemies.

In March, Loomer publicly called for the Trump administration to deport Milo Yiannopoulos and quote-tweeted her call after his detention, claiming that he was “LOOMERED”, and calling it “one of the best Loomerings of all time”.

This is far from the first time Laura Loomer has used her connections with the Trump administration to crack down on her political opponents.

Drop Site News reported that Loomer successfully got two Iranian women living in California detained by ICE over false claims that they were relatives of the late Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.

Loomer also spearheaded a campaign to get the anti-war foreign policy analyst Trita Parsi deported from America over his opposition to the U.S./Israeli war on Iran and the Israel lobby in the United States.

Loomer also got the Customs and Border Protection to seize the devices of Max Blumenthal at the Dulles International Airport, because he reported on the U.S/Israeli war on Iran on the ground, including at the sites of U.S./Israeli war crimes committed .

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), filed a lawsuit on behalf of Max Blumenthal, and the organization’s president and civil liberties attorney Jenin Younes noted, “In Max’s case, Laura Loomer, a close ally of President Trump, called for Max to be arrested while he was still abroad because of his journalism and viewpoints. Loomer boasted about reporting Max to federal authorities, and effectively took credit for the seizure of his phones. Given Loomer’s well-documented influence over President Trump, there is a strong likelihood that her targeting led to the unlawful search and seizure. The government cannot allow politically connected individuals to weaponize law enforcement against journalists because they object to what those journalists report”.

The same is likely true for Milo Yiannopoulos.

Perhaps most disturbing is the fact that the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos seems to have emboldened Loomer, and she is using it to advance bogus arrests against critics of Zionism and the war on Iran.

“Next up: Trita Parsi”, Loomer wrote on X following the deportation of Milo.

Loomer also followed the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos with tweets calling to “deport Hasan Piker and his Turkish mom”, for the DOJ to “investigate disgraced former Congresswoman Marjorie Traitor Greene” as well as Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.

It seems likely that the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos is part of Loomer’s broader lawfare campaign against her critics, which she is using her connections to the Trump administration to carry out.

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Written By: Justin K.P.

Legendary Journalist Seymour Hersh just published another major story on his Substack quoting sources who alleged the possibility that the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was an asset of the Israeli Mossad, as well as the U.S. F.B.I., potentially for blackmail operations.

According to Hersh, “I have been told that specific evidence about Epstein’s connections to foreign and domestic intelligence services, particularly Mossad and the FBI, though they do exist in government files, have yet to be the subject of materials made public by the Trump administration’s Justice Department and have not come under scrutiny by Congress and the media.”

One “well-informed international source I’ve known for a long time” told Hersh that “if all the details were to come out about Epstein and Israel it could cause problems for the past and present members of some in the Trump administration, as well as for senior officials in prior Democratic administrations”.

According to the source, in the 1980s, a Mossad agent was sent “to fly to New York City, buy off-the-shelf listening devices and cameras and covertly install them in a room of Epstein’s apartment in New York City.”

He reportedly “was explicitly told to purchase off-the-shelf camera equipment in New York for the risky mission, but, as he sadly related to his friends, he didn’t follow those instructions and instead relied on the high-end equipment on which he had trained for Mossad.”

The Mossad agent reportedly said, “that his operation had been compromised and the FBI caught him and immediately realized—given his nationality and the use of expensive Israeli gear—that Israel was aware of Epstein’s client list and its obvious blackmail and extortion potential in the world of international trade and intelligence collection”.

Hersh’s source raised the possibility that following the FBI uncovering the Israeli plot, Epstein “provided the FBI with any of the tape recordings or videos” and may have even gone “further, and supplied both Israel and the FBI with films and recordings”.

Hersh reported that “Epstein’s ties as an ongoing asset to the FBI kept him out of trouble and also left a large and politically devastating collection of recordings and films that have yet to be discussed publicly or even acknowledged by the Justice Department or the FBI, as well as by the Trump White House” though he added the caveat that “no one I spoke to for this report mentioned any specific information linking Trump to the Epstein whorehouse”.

One senior U.S. official told Hersh that, “there was yet to be a serious nonpartisan investigation of the role of some senior members of the FBI who knew of and abetted Epstein’s collection of compromising videos.”

Hersh’s source’s allegation of the Mossad using Jeffrey Epstein for blackmail purposes has long been echoed by the former Mossad agent Ari Ben-Menashe who has argued that “Epstein was recruited by (Ghislaine and Robert) Maxwell and then by Ehud Barak who was director of military intelligence at the time then Prime Minister … and then they started work compromising people … and my understanding is they compromised quite a number of American politicians and other politicians as well”.

Giving a specific example, Ari Ben Menashe alleges that the Mossad used compromising material on then-President Bill Clinton obtained from Jeffrey Epstein to sabotage a U.S. deal with Iran.

Within the Epstein files, a confidential human source of the FBI, Charles Johnson, who worked for Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s attorney, alleges that he “shared phone calls between Dershowitz and Epstein during which he/she took notes. After these calls, Mossad would then call Dershowitz to debrief. Epstein was close to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak and trained as a spy under him.”

The possibilities become even broader after the allegations from Seymour Hersh’s sources.

They raise the possibility that not only was Epstein recruited by Mossad, but the FBI learned of its plot to use compromising material on powerful figures and joined the Mossad in the blackmail operations, instead of stopping it.

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Written By: Justin K.P.

Israel has long armed and backed Criminal gangs in Gaza affiliated with ISIS to help carry out it’s genocide.

Most notably, early in the genocide in Gaza , Israel armed the ISIS linked drug smuggling gang led by Yasser Abu Shabab, to loot aid going into Gaza.

While Yasser Abu Shabab was later killed in an internal coup, his gang, branded as the “popular forces” by Israel, has been continued to be backed by the IDF, now led by Ghassan al-Duhaini, a former “commander in a terrorist group in Gaza that was associated with al-Qaeda”.

A new investigation in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed that Israel’s arming of terrorists gangs in Gaza to carry out its dirty work is even more extensive than previously reported.

According to the investigation, terrorist gangs backed by the IDF were deployed in six areas across Gaza, including “Beit Hanoun, Shujaiyeh, Deir al-Balah, Khan Yunis and Rafah”.

One IDF officials admitted to Haaretz that the terrorist gangs banked by Israel carried out looting and burning of homes, telling the paper, “We saw them arrive in two or three pickup trucks … They just ran and shot at people, They entered every structure, looted everything they could get their hands on, came out with piles of stuff – and then burned down the house.”

Another “militia commander in the Deir al-Balah area confirmed his cooperation with the IDF in expelling Gazans” saying ‘We convey the Israeli side's messages to people – to leave the place’”.

“The State of Israel, the IDF and Shin Bet sending armed, trained militias to commit war crimes” one Israeli Air Force officer admitted to the paper.

Another IDF militant admitted to the paper, “IDF sends militiamen to hard-to-reach areas deep inside Hamas-controlled territory, including to retrieve drones used for smuggling. ‘They’re told, ‘Bring us the drone and keep whatever is inside.’ Whether it’s weapons or drugs, they take everything.’”

These terrorist gangs, according to Haaretz “have become an operational arm of the IDF and Shin Bet inside Gaza.”

The paper quoted Senior military officials in Israel who admitted the terrorist gangs in Gaza armed by Israel are, “former gang leaders and drug dealers who exploited the chaos and the power vacuum in Gaza for personal gain”, not to mention the fact that many have previously has ties to ISIS, as the former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman acknowledged in June of last year.

The investigation added that “The militias' bases are located just hundreds of meters from IDF outposts. They have call signs on the army's radio network, appear on briefing maps, and their gunmen are marked in the IDF's command-and-control systems” and that “Soldiers told Haaretz that the army had built temporary compounds for the militias, complete with mobile structures.”

According to the investigation, Israel put the most resources into building up the compound controlled by the ISIS linked Abu Shabab gang writing that “Satellite imagery and videos from the ground show a particularly significant expansion in the Abu Shabab militia compound in eastern Rafah. It showcases heavy engineering machinery at work, the paving of a new training yard and new mobile structures fitted with Tornado air conditioners. It has also shown off a playground with artificial turf, a mosque, a food store with fully stocked shelves and a clothing shop” and adding, “IDF sources said some of the equipment comes from Israel.”

The Abu Shabab gang’s current leader, Ghassan al-Duhaini, previously joined “the Army of Islam, or Jaysh al-Islam a Gaza-based Salafi jihadist group with a similar ideology to al-Qaeda that declared its allegiance to ISIS in 2015” and has admitted that he , “adopted Salafi jihadism” and was “close to Jabhat al-Nusra (Syrian Al Qaeda) during the war in Syria”.

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The Israel lobby is currently slandering film actor Mark Ruffalo for calling out the Zionist motives behind David Ellison’s Skydance buying Paramount.

On Instagram, Ruffalo called out David Ellison’s father, Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, for “using [Oracle] to fund his son David’s Warner Bros acquisition” and adding that the genocide in Gaza “was built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle”.

For this, the Zionist lobby began a smear campaign against Ruffalo, with Israel lobbyists like Jonathan Greenblatt writing, “Mark Ruffalo, your acting might be convincing on screen, but careless and hateful words like yours continue to put Jewish communities around the world at risk while antisemitic incidents are far too common.”

But this smear campaign was initiated because Mark Ruffalo told the hidden truth about the Paramount/Skydance merger.

While the merger has been widely criticized, few have been willing to tell the truth that the main motive behind the merger is to produce Israeli propaganda targeting Americans.

As Ruffalo noted, Larry Ellison, the father of Skydance head David Ellison, is deeply connected to Israel, and it’s information war targeting Americans.

In 2017, Ellison gave the largest private donation to IDF terrorists in history, donating $16.6 million to the Friends of the IDF at a single charity event.

During Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial in 2020, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Larry “Ellison has recently come forward to help Netanyahu in a matter of pressing concern to the latter: his legal representation in Case 2000, in which Netanyahu is charged with trying to strike a deal that would have given him positive coverage in Israel’s second largest newspaper, in exchange for hurting its freebie rival Israel Hayom” adding that “In recent years Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also been numbered among his friends.”.

According to another Haaretz article in 2021, when Netanyahu was out of power, “Ellison, who has known Netanyahu for a considerable time, invited the Netanyahu family to come on vacation last month on Lanai, the Oracle founder’s privately owned Hawaiian island. The tech billionaire is known to have personally entertained the Netanyahus at least once during the visit, but sources said that he and the former prime minister … also held several other conversations in private” adding that Ellison, “asked former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to join the board of directors of the company” Oracle.

As for Oracle, journalist Alan Macleod reported that, “Oracle has signed multiple lucrative contracts with the Israeli national security state”, and noted that “Oracle sees itself as an activist organization, one whose goal is the advancement of the Israeli colonization project,” quoting the company’s Israeli American CEO, Safra Catz, saying, “this is a free world, and I love my employees, and if they don’t agree with our mission to support the State of Israel, then maybe we aren’t the right company for them. Larry and I are publicly committed to Israel and devote personal time to the country, and no one should be surprised by that”.

Benjamin Netanyahu himself has directly confirmed Larry Ellison’s part in his information war targeting Americans.

Referring to American’s declining support for Israel, Netanyahu said, “We have to secure that part of the base of our support in the United States, we’re going to have to use the tools of battle, the weapons change over time, we have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefields in which we are engaged, and the most important ones are the social media” adding “and the most important purchase that is going on right now is TikTok number one, and I hope it goes through because it can be consequential”, referring to the possibility of Oracle owning TikTok.

David Ellison is just as connected to Israel as his father. The Jerusalem Post reported that David “quietly donates quite a bit to the State of Israel and the IDF”.

David Ellison’s Skydance buying Paramount was done primarily to turn CBS News, the outlet owned by Paramount, into a state media propaganda organ for Israel.

After owning CBS News, David Ellison installed Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, an open and proud propagandist for Israel who has described herself as a “Zionist Fanatic” and has boasted that “my Zionist activism is connected to my journalism”.

Weiss, who also edited the Free Press, has published open genocide denial articles denying the well-documented starvation in Gaza and massacres at the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites.

Bari Weiss, once installed at CBS News, has fired any reporter who has ever done any reporting that paints Israel in a bad light. Variety reported that “one staffer says that the ax conspicuously fell on those whose reporting featured an anti-Israel bent, including foreign correspondent Debora Patta, who had been covering the war in Gaza for the past three years.”

Debora Patta was replaced at CBS with correspondent Chris Livesay, who, the New York Post reported, “complained of being sidelined because of his strong support for Israel”.

Weiss also promoted Tony Dokoupil as the evening news anchor at CBS News, to reward him for previously accusing the author Ta-Nehisi Coates of writing a book that “would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist” because the book criticized Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.

Most recently, Weiss fired journalist Claire Day from her position as head of CBS News London bureau chief because she “clashed with editor-in-chief Bari Weiss over the network’s coverage of Iran and Gaza”.

Claire Day was replaced by Shayndi Raice, a Zionist who has been described as “much more sympathetic to the Israeli perspective than the Palestinian”.

The Zionist lobby may smear Ruffalo for his accurate comments, but the reality is the Skydance/Paramount merger has primarily been about advancing Israel’s information war to secure American funding for Israel, and manufacture consent for wars for Israel.

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As the U.S. and Israel continue to wage war on Iran, the Guardian published an open letter signed by a number of academics- mostly U.S. and UK-based- condemning Iran’s internal policies.

The letter accused Iran of engaging in “deepening criminalization of the working class and unemployed, the targeting of Kurds, Arabs, and Baloch, and the scapegoating of Afghan migrants: all desperate attempts to kill the spirit of people they cannot contain” called to “reject the false binary of imperialism and hollow anti-imperialism” and even called on anti-imperialists in the West to focus their energy on critiquing Iran’s internal issues as Western governments wage war on Iran, writing, “We invite global civil society and anti-imperialist activists and organizations to extend their unconditional support and solidarity to all incarcerated kin fighting for our collective liberation, to build relationships with Iranian political prisoners and uplift their voices, to put pressure on the Islamic Republic by challenging its narrative, and to call upon that government to immediately stop all the executions and free all political prisoners.”

Iran, like most countries, no doubt has internal issues that need to be solved, but asking Western academics to focus on those issues as the West wages a brutal war on Iranian civilization at the behest of Israel seems badly timed, to put it mildly.

Furthermore, the letter made no mention of the open meddling that Israel and the United States has done in Iran’s internal politics and disputes, including the U.S. sanctions on Iran designed to make Iran’s “economy collapse” which is why “the people took to the streets” in January, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent boasted.

The letter did not mention the fact that Israeli media has boasted that the Mosssad was “arming the protesters in Iran with live firearms, which is the reason for the hundreds of regime personnel killed” and that Israel “set up its own poison machine” in Iran to infiltrate the protests, nor did it mention the fact that Trump boasted that “The United States sent guns to the Iranian protestors … we sent them a lot of guns, we sent them through the Kurds and … the Kurds kept them, ‘we sent guns to the protests, a lot of them”.

The intentions behind the letter seem more suspicious given that it was published in the Guardian, a pro-war propaganda outlet which has manufactured consent for the war on Iran from day one.

The Guardians “rights and freedom” section, sponsored by the CIA-linked billionaire Pierre Omidyar, published endless atrocity propaganda claims in the lead-up to the Iran war, including the widely debunked claim that Iran killed tens of thousands of peaceful protestors in a matter of days in January.

More recently, the Guardian ran a smear piece on the journalist Bushra Shaikh for her reporting on the U.S. Israeli war on Iran on the ground, including by linking to a petition set up by pro-war Zionists calling for the British security state to investigate Shaikh for her reporting.

What makes the letter in the Guardian even more questionable is the fact that it appears that many of the signatories were tricked into signing it.

The historian Robin D. G. Kelley, whose name originally appeared on the letter, took his name off, saying that “the circumstances in which we were asked to sign the letter were a bit shady” and that “what appeared in print wasn’t exactly what I had initially seen”, implying that the letter was changed after getting signatures.

Even more shady is the fact that the authors of the letter appear to have fabricated the signature of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Journalist Vijay Prashad obtained a message written from prison on a paper plate where Mumia Abu-Jamal writes, “Iran is showing the world (especially the 3rd world) how to fight against the Empire. Their drones are rewriting the rules of war. And countries across the Global South are studying this phase of the war for that use! They remind me of Vietnam, a poor country that whipped the most powerful army on earth... That’s where we are today”.

Given that this is his actual view, it makes it highly unlikely that Abu-Jamal would sign a letter which accuses Iran of “hollow anti-imperialism”.

Who is behind this shady letter is yet to be seen, but it certainly has many hallmarks of a pro-war psy-op.

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Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has been making the rounds on the podcast circuit, giving interviews on popular shows such as Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan, the Tucker Carlson show, CandaceOwens and the Left Hook with Wajahat Ali.

Throughout these various appearances, Hunter Biden has been accurately taking on Benjamin Netanyahu for the genocide in Gaza.

“If it’s anti-semitic to point out that Bibi Netanyahu is evil incarnate, then I don’t know what to say to people anymore,” Hunter Biden correctly said on the Tucker Carlson podcast, adding, “open your eyes. Open your heart for one minute.”

In his interview with Wajahat Ali referring to the genocide in Gaza, Hunter Biden said, “I will call it a genocide. I don’t know any other definition that fits when one group of people, their stated goal is the extermination of another group of people. I think it’s ridiculous that we continue to debate whether or not it’s a genocide. I think Bibi Netanyahu is evil incarnate,” adding that the Gaza genocide is “unforgivable forever and throughout time”.

While these statements are correct, it is hard not to see this as a way to put the entirety of the burden for the genocide on Benjamin Netanyahu, whitewashing the fact that it could not have been carried out without support from Joe Biden.

This is bolstered by the fact that in his interview with Wajahat Ali, Hunter Biden claimed that his father “believes all the things that I just said” and pretended that Joe Biden put pressure on Netanyahu, adding that Joe Biden “did his best to curtail and to curb the most awful instincts of Netanyahu”.

Hunter Biden’s comments in this context seem more to be part of an effort to whitewash the Democratic Party and Joe Biden’s direct complicity in the Gaza genocide.

The reality is, Joe Biden and his administration hold just as much responsibility for the slaughter in Gaza as Benjamin Netanyahu does.

Brown University’s Cost of war project has calculated that during the first year of the genocide in Gaza, the Biden administration spent $17.9 billion in military funding for Israel and another $3.8 billion in the second year, with an additional $9.65 - $12.07 Billion spent on military campaigns to protect Israel, including the Biden administration’s bombing of Ansar Allah in Yemen for it’s blockade on the Red Sea in an attempt to pressure an end to the Genocide.

While financing the military equipment used to carry out the Genocide in Gaza and bombing resistance groups attempting to stop the genocide, the Biden administration never once pressured Israel to accept a ceasefire.

This was outright admitted by multiple U.S. and Israeli officials on Israeli TV on a special aired on Israel’s Channel 13.

The former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Michael Herzog, in the special admitted, “God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period, because it could have been much worse. We fought for over a year, and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted”.

The former U.S. ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, similarly admitted, “At the most significant political peril of Joe Biden’s political career, the easiest thing for Joe Biden would have been, if he was worried about the votes in Michigan, is to basically be a little soft; he refused to do it. There was enormous pressure within the White House on him to change his position. When I hear comments about ‘he wasn’t good enough, or he didn’t have Israel’s back,’ am I disgusted by it? One hundred percent. Is it true? 100 percent no”.

When Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that “soldiers were killed during the war in Gaza from a lack of ammunition due to a partial embargo that was imposed by the Biden administration”, multiple Biden administration officials came out to clarify that they gave unconditional support to Israel’s Holocaust in Gaza.

Amos Hochstein, a top Biden advisor admitted in response, “After more than $20 Billion military support, largest in Israel history, 2 aircraft carriers rushed to the region, deterring a massive regional war, defeating Iran missile/drone attack x2, defending israel at most vulnerable moments, after SAVING countless lives of Israelis - only acceptable response to POTUS Biden and American people is THANK YOU.”

Similarly, the Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President of the United States, Philip H. Gordon, admitted in response, “Hard to overstate the damage to US-Israel relations done by the sense of entitlement and ingratitude reflected in comments like these and Netanyahu’s own recent statements. Baseless misdirection to suggest that Israeli soldiers’ deaths in Gaza were caused by some phantom US ‘embargo’ (when in fact Biden resisted enormous pressure to condition aid, as required by U.S. law, even as Israel rebuffed calls to facilitate more humanitarian assistance and reduce civilian casualties)”.

The reality is that Joe Biden’s backing of the genocide in Gaza is also “unforgivable forever and throughout time” despite his son’s attempts to whitewash these facts.

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Last month, “intelligence” was relayed by Israel that Iran was supposedly planning on assassinating Trump, which resulted in him “secretly flying out of Turkey in an alternate military aircraft”.

But the claims of an Iranian assassination attempt against Trump relayed by Israel were deemed to be bogus even by U.S. intelligence.

The Washington Post reported that “The assassination threat was relayed by the Israeli government to the CIA, where analysts did not view the intelligence as compelling and conveyed that skepticism to Trump administration officials”.

The article added, “Another official called the reports of threats against Trump’s life ‘Israeli-derived, not U.S.-generated, and viewed as low confidence.’”

The article added, “Some U.S. intelligence officials saw Israel’s sharing of the warning about threats to Trump’s life as designed less to inform than to influence the president’s decision-making and U.S. policy in the region, a current and a former U.S. official said” with the report quoting one official saying it “fit a broader pattern of Israeli intelligence reporting that some officials see as designed as much to shape presidential decision-making as to inform it”.

Indeed, fabricated claims of Iran planning to assassinate Donald Trump seem to have been Israel’s most successful deception deployed to get Trump to carry out its preferred policy on Iran.

Journalists Max Blumenthal and Ken Silva have documented how the FBI recruited Pakistani national Asif Merchant to take part in a sting operation supposedly surrounding an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump, in what Ken Silvia called “at the very least… a highly controlled FBI sting operation that never posed a threat to Trump” if not “a case totally fabricated by the undercover agents”.

Since then, Benjamin Netanyahu has repeated baseless claims of Iran trying to assassinate Trump in an attempt to get him to go to war with Iran.

In June of 2025, Benjamin Netanyahu baselessly claimed that Iran was behind the assassination attempts against Trump by Thomas Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania, and by Ryan Routh at Mar-a-Lago, claiming that Iran “tried to assassinate President Trump twice”.

This deception seems to have influenced Trump’s decision to bomb Iran for Israel in June of last year, with the White House tweeting “I was the hunted- now I’m the hunter” in reference to the bombing.

Fabricated claims of Iran trying to assassinate Trump were also a large part of Israel’s campaign to get Trump to enter a full-scale war on Iran this year.

According to Reuters, before the bombing , “Netanyahu, ‌determined to move forward with an operation he had urged for decades, argued that there might never be a better chance to kill Khamenei and to avenge previous Iranian efforts to assassinate Trump”.

It was also a key talking point of the late Neo-con Zionist senator Lindsay Graham, who joined Benjamin Netanyahu is lobbying Trump for the war.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “Graham likened Iran’s leader to Adolf Hitler and told Trump that Iran was in a historically weak position. They talked about the regime’s efforts to assassinate Trump in 2024. ‘If you think Trump forgets stuff, you’d be mistaken,’ Graham said.”

Yet again, Israel has fabricated claims of Iran trying to assassinate Trump in an attempt to get him to ramp up the Iran war.

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Amit Segal, the Israeli journalist with close ties to the Israeli Likud party, has openly boasted about Israel’s takeover of South America and plans to use it as an Israeli base of international cover and influence.

“Israel may never have had a better month diplomatically,” Segal boasted, adding, “, if Vice President JD Vance is to be believed, Israel had a single ally left in the world. Yet in the space of a few weeks it seems to have found several new ones, above all in South America.”

Segal boasted that “Over the past month, Colombia’s new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, has moved to reverse wholesale the hostile posture of his predecessor, the leftist Gustavo Petro, who had severed ties with Israel and halted Israeli arms imports over the war in Gaza. In July and August 2026, Bogotá ordered the full restoration of diplomatic relations, pledged to move Colombia’s embassy to Jerusalem, and withdrew from South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Then, on Monday, Colombia became only the second country in the world, after the United States, to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights,” in reference to the newly elected Abelardo de la Espriella, whomTrump and likely Israel helped win in Colombia .

Trump admitted to favouring Abelardo de la Espriella in the Colombian election, and former left-wing president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, “has accused the Israeli cyber-intelligence firm BlackCore of deploying half a million bot accounts to flood Colombian voters with disinformation ahead of the June run-off, which De la Espriella won by less than a single percentage point.”

Netanyahu boasted after the election of Abelardo de la Espriella, “Israel’s friends continue to win. Long live the Isaac Agreements!”, in reference to the initiative created by Israel and the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, “aimed at strengthening political, economic and cultural cooperation between Israel and Latin America”.

Segal added, “Venezuela, improbably, has moved in the same direction. On Tuesday, the two countries announced they had agreed to renew consular relations, 17 years after severing all diplomatic ties in 2009 under Hugo Chávez. The thaw followed Israel’s dispatch of an aid delegation—led by the Foreign Ministry and the IDF’s Home Front Command—after the double earthquake that killed thousands in Venezuela in late June”, the result of the Trump administration’s kidnapping of Venezuelan president of Nicolas Maduro, done with strong support and lobbying from Israel.

Amit Segal boasted that the Israeli-influenced shift in South America would prevent Israel from being isolated internationally, boasting, “Vance’s advice about not alienating Israel’s most important ally still holds. His claim that it was Israel’s only one is aging rather less well. As Milei would put it: ¡Viva la libertad, carajo! (‘Long live freedom, goddamnit!’)”

Perhaps most disturbing is the graphic posted by Segal alongside the tweet, featuring a map of South America with Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolvia, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile in blue, with Israeli and American flags on them, effectively portraying them as Israeli?American colonies, and with Brazil, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana marked in red for not sucumbing to being U.S./Israeli proxy states.

Leaked phone calls previously revealed that Israel helped install Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura as president of Honduras and was behind Trump’s pardoning of the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted Drug trafficker, with plans to have him eventually installed as president. “The Prime Minister of Israel is going to give us support. We are very grateful to him; they had a lot to do with them. They had everything to do, in fact, they with my departure and negotiation”,Juan Orlando Hernández was heard boasting to Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura in the leaked phone call.

In another call, Juan Orlando Hernández boasted that “Argentine President Javier Milei would have contributed 350,000 dollars to form a regional communication team aimed at launching a media campaign against the presidents of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro”.

An investigation found that “In one of the sound files, Hernández stated ‘that as part of that group’ or continental entity, Milei’s role is important, because he contributes thousands of dollars for the construction of those fake news sources”. As noted above, Javier Milei spearheaded the Issac Accords initiative to further Israeli influence in South America.

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A clip from the documentary film “Defamation,” released in 2009, about the ADL’s strong ties to the Israel lobby, contains a clip that seems deeply relevant to current developments in Venezuela.

In the film Isaac Herzog, the current Israeli president, who was then the Israeli “Minister in Charge of Anti-Semitic Affairs,” is filmed meeting with Abraham Foxman, then National Director of the Israel lobby group ADL (Anti-Defamation League).

The conversation goes as follows:

Isaac Herzog: I wanted to ask, since we met last about the issue of Venezuela, because I heard voices kind of saying it’s not so bad and Latin America is not so bad, but I’m not convinced.

Abraham Foxman: You have good reason not to be convinced. It is getting, and little by little, as long as oil money …

Isaac Herzog: I’m told that by our experts it’s the only- except for Iran- it’s the only government propagating anti-Semitism today around the world … so are you pressing in any way?

Abraham Foxman: We’ve talked to Jesse Jackson, who has a relationship, but it’s not for camera, but there are other plans we’ll talk about it in a minute.

This discussion was likely in the context of then Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez breaking off ties with Israel in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza after Israel slaughtered hundreds of Palestinians civilians during “Operation Cast Lead”.

The oil giants Chevron and Exxon Mobil had pushed for regime change in Venezuela since 2001, after Hugo Chavez “passed a law called the Organic Hydrocarbons Law, which asserted state ownership over all oil and gas reserves, held upstream activities of exploration and extraction for the state-controlled companies, but allowed private firms – including foreign firms – to participate in downstream activities (such as refining and sale)” which “deeply angered the US-owned oil companies – particularly ExxonMobil and Chevron – which put pressure on the government of US President George W. Bush to act against Chávez.”

This resulted in extensive CIA interference in Venezuela, including a short-lived U.S. backed coup against him in 2002.

But the clip shown in “Defamation” shows that since 2009, the Israel lobby, including the ADL, joined the oil lobby in pushing the U.S. towards regime change in Venezuela.

Years later, Israel made connections to María Corina Machado, a U.S. puppet in the Venezuelan opposition, to further the regime change goal in Venezuela.

This included her signing an “Inter-Party Agreement” with the ruling Israeli Likud party in 2020, which promised to“forge an alliance between our two parties to cooperate on political, ideological, and social matters, as well as advancing cooperation on issues related to strategy, geopolitics and security, among others, in order to create an operational partnership”.

The Israeli newspaper Ynet reported that Machado has “close ties with the state and the Likud party”.

“We rely on Israel’s support in dismantling Maduro’s crime regime and in the transition to democracy”, Maria Corina Machado admitted to Israel Hayom, implying Israeli involvement in the regime change operations.

While the Trump administration ended up deciding that interim Venezuelan president Delcy Rodriguez would be an acceptable puppet leader rather than Maria Corina Machado, she seems to have made the same deal with Israel that Machado did.

Reversing years of solidarity shown by Venezuela with Palestine, the Delcy Rodriguez administration recently announced:

The Governments of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the State of Israel announce that, following the visit of the Israeli humanitarian delegation to Venezuela in response to the double earthquake that occurred on June 24, and in follow-up to discussions held between high-ranking officials of both countries, the two nations have agreed to allow the continuation of bilateral technical cooperation stemming from the emergency and recovery efforts following the double earthquake. Furthermore, the two nations agree to establish a coordination mechanism to facilitate the provision of consular services to their respective citizens residing in the other country, as needed. Both governments recognize the importance of the bond between the State of Israel and the Jewish community residing in Venezuela, which constitutes a significant historical bridge of friendship between the two countries.

The apparent involvement from the Israel lobby in pushing for regime change in Venezuela seems to have paid off and reversed the country’s support for Palestine.

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It looks more and more likely that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC), the Democratic New York representative, will run for president in 2028.

She recently stated that she “hasn’t ruled out the possibility” of running for president in 2028.

If AOC runs as president, the most important question to ask is what will an AOC presidency’s foreign policy look like?, the most important focus of a United States president.

All indications show that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would govern as a liberal imperialist, supporting liberal Zionism, propping up the CIA’s meddling machines such as USAID and NED, supporting militaristic alliances like NATO, and supporting imperialist wars in the name of Democracy and humanitarianism.

Liberal Zionism.

While AOC has offered criticism of Israel’s genocidal wars of conquest, she is in no way an anti-Zionist.

Until recently, AOC openly supported sending supposed “defensive” weapons to Israel.

On X, she even openly boasted about voting against Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment to cut off defensive arms being given to Israel, writing on X:

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it.

What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to continue.

I have long stated that I do not believe that adding to the death count of innocent victims to this war is constructive to its end. That is a simple and clear difference of opinion that has long been established.

I remain focused on cutting the flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide in Gaza.

Forget supporting a weapons embargo or sanctions on Israel; as late as July 2025, AOC was still defending the policy of sending “defensive arms” to Israel as it conducted a genocide, protecting Israel from any repercussions for committing genocide.

As Jewish Currents noted, “By almost entirely negating the ability of militant groups in Gaza to respond to Israel’s incursions, the purportedly defensive Iron Dome allows Israel to strike without fear of repercussion”.

Furthermore, AOC made clear during the Biden presidency that she cared more about her position within the Democratic Party than stopping the Israeli Genocide in Gaza.

As the Biden administration was giving Israel a blank check to carry out its Holocaust in Gaza, AOC lied and claimed that then Vice President Kamala Harris was “working tirelessly to secure a cease-fire in Gaza and bringing the hostages home”.

In reality, as the former U.S. ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, admitted on Israeli TV, “At the most significant political peril of Joe Biden’s political career, the easiest thing for Joe Biden would have been, if he was worried about the votes in Michigan, is to basically be a little soft; he refused to do it. There was enormous pressure within the White House on him to change his position. When I hear comments about ‘he wasn’t good enough, or he didn’t have Israel’s back,’ am I disgusted by it? One hundred percent. Is it true? 100 percent no”.

On the same TV episode, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Michael Herzog admitted, “God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period, because it could have been much worse. We fought for over a year, and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.”

AOCIA.

Another major issue with AOC’s foreign policy positions is that she seems to support the CIA meddling in countries around the world in the name of promoting “Democracy”.

At the Munich security conference, where AOC laid out her foreign policy vision, she laid out her opposition to what she called an “age of authoritarianism” and said that America should not walk away from it’s “commitment to democracy”, on the world stage.

While this may sound fine on paper, the framing of the world as being a fight between “democracy” and “authoritarianism” is mainly a propaganda tool of the Neo-conservatives and their interventionist agenda.

Countries that go along with the Neo-conservative agenda, such as the UK- which has arrested thousands of citizens for supporting Palestine Action, a non-violent direct action group, or Ukraine, an outright dictatorship are labeled as free democracies, while countries that do not bow down to U.S. economic and foreign policy dictates are labeled as “authoritarian” and in need of regime change.

U.S. “democracy promotion initiatives”, such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)- in reality cutouts of the CIA-have backed coups against elected governments that did not bow down to the CIA’s demands across the world.

Some recent examples include the short-lived coup against Hugo Chavez in Venezuela in 2002, the coup against Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti in 2004, the coup against Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine in 2014, the failed coup attempt against Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua in 2018 and the judicial coup against presidential candidate Calin Georgescu in Romania in 2024.

The same organizations that backed these CIA coups, the NED and USAID, are strongly supported by AOC.

“First and foremost, I think we need to revisit our commitments to international aid not just USAID but the the dozens of global compacts that the current secretary of state and President Trump have withdrawn from, They are looking to withdraw the United States from the entire world so that we can turn into an age of authoritarianisms of authoritarians” AOC said at the Munich security conference, referring to the organization responsible for overthrowing multiple elected government around the world.

As for the National Endowment for Democracy, AOC voted against an amendment, brought forward by U.S. representative Eli Crane to cut funding to the NED, an organization that not only funded the aforementioned coups, but whose current leader, Damon Wilson admitted to fuelling the riots that led up to the U.S/Israeli war in Iran, and more recently admitted to meddling in Nicaragua with the intention of regime change.

There is little doubt that a president AOC would pump up and fund the NED and USAID to meddle and back coups in countries going against U.S. dictates around the world in the name of a “commitment to democracy” against an “age of authoritarianism”.

Supporting War In The Name Of ‘Democracy’.

To add evidence that AOC’s rhetoric of “Democracy” vs, “Authoritarianism” is a cover for warmongering, she has explicitly supported the Neo-con proxy war in Ukraine using this exact rhetoric.

As I documented in a recent post, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was intentionally provoked by the United States through expansion of NATO eastwards and threats to welcome Ukraine into NATO, backing a coup against Ukraine’s government in 2014, sparking a civil war against ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine and blocking the Minsk Accords, the peace deal that would have ended the war. The U.S. and UK then went on to block a peace deal that Russia and Ukraine agreed to negotiated by Turkey in April of 2022, all in order to use Ukraine to weaken Russia.

Amanda Sloat, a top Biden administration official, outright admitted that the U.S. could have ended the proxy war in Ukraine and all the “the destruction and the loss of life” that came with it, but chose not to, saying, “We had some conversation even before the war started, about what if Ukraine comes out and just says to Russia, ‘fine, you know, we won’t go into NATO if that stops the war, if that stops the invasion,’ which at that point it may well have done. I guess if you want to do an alternative version of history, one option would have just been for Ukraine to say in January of 2022, ‘fine, you know, we won’t go into NATO, we will stay neutral.’ Ukraine could have made a deal around March/April of 2022 around the Istanbul talks. There is certainly a question, almost three years on now, would that have been better to do before the war started, would that have been better to do in Istanbul talks, it certainly would have prevented the destruction and the loss of life”.

AOC supported this war, by voting for every arms package sent to Ukraine during the avoidable proxy war.

She reported the same Neo-Con babble about supporting “Democracy” to justify her support of the war, saying to the House Oversight Committee, “The core and the key that we have here geopolitically and in stability, is in supporting Ukraine in this moment. Having U.S. military assistance and broader global assistance to Ukraine should be one of our top geopolitical priorities. Whether your interest is in China, whether the interest is in anywhere else there, all of the focus here is in Ukraine, and in supporting and ensuring that Putin and an authoritarian regime in Russia does not prevail in changing the geo-political order, rule of law, and functioning democracy worldwide” and adding, “Anything that impedes the swiftness and the urgency of our ability to get that support to Ukraine is overall contributing to the volatility of our situation”.

At the Munich Security Conference, AOC said “we shouldn’t reward imperialism. And I don’t think that we should allow Russia to continue or any nation to continue violating a nation’s sovereignty and to continue to be rewarded” in repose to a question about continuing the proxy war in Ukraine.

AOC’s main foreign policy advisor Matt Duss, who likely would have a high position in an AOC administration is also a strong supporter of the proxy war in Ukraine, writing, “The Biden team clearly did not seek this war (in Ukraine), in fact, they made a strenuous, and very public, diplomatic effort to avert it [an outright lie, as documented by the Amanda Sloat admissions above]. Having been unable to do that, they’ve acted with restraint and care not to get drawn into a wider war with Russia while also making clear the stakes of the conflict for the U.S., for Europe, and for the international system”, in defence of the Biden administration’s proxy war.

Liberal Imperialism.

AOC’s record shows that she will not put a full stop to the U.S/Israel relationship, while continuing endless coups and proxy wars like the one in Ukraine, if they are sold by the deep state in the name of “democracy” and “countering authoritarianism”.

AOC if she is elected president, may make some changes to U.S. foreign policy, but she will no doubt continue the U.S. empire, only under a more liberal “pro-Democracy” guise.

Written By: Justin K.P.

Becoming more of an international pariah, Israel has been quietly but rapidly expanding its influence across South America, hoping to use it as its new base of international influence and diplomatic protection.

The Israeli newspaper Ynet late last year quoted Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar saying that “2026 will be ‘the year of Latin America’” for Israel.

The article quoted Amir Ofek, deputy director general for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Foreign Ministry of Israel, saying, “We hope and believe that 2026 will be the year of Latin America, a year that will look different diplomatically, one in which we see a positive change in the relations of the continent’s countries with Israel”.

This was in reference to Israel normalizing ties with the new U.S. backed Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, a country which under the MAS-led government cut ties with Israel in 2009 over its bombardment of Gaza .

Under the new U.S. backed president Rodrigo Paz, Ynet noted, “ Bolivia announced it was canceling its visa requirement for Israelis, a move expected to put the country back on the map for Israeli travelers in the region. After intensive talks … the two foreign ministries agreed on the text of an accord and a joint statement.”

This is just a part of a far larger U.S. backed Israeli plan to turn every South American government into Israeli puppet states.

Using the one million dollars he was given from the Zionist “Genesis Prize for his unwavering support of Israel”, the Israeli-aligned president of Argentina, Javier Milei launched the “Issac Accords”, an initiative “aimed at strengthening political, economic and cultural cooperation between Israel and Latin America”.

The project was launched alongside Genesis Prize Foundation Co-Founder and Chairman Stan Polovets and former US Ambassador to Costa Rica, Fitz Haney.

Hanley boasted to the Jerusalem Post that “Our goals are ambitious but clear: create frameworks for trade, tourism, education, and technology that connect Israel and Latin America’s leading democracies in practical, mutually beneficial ways”.

With Israel becoming more and more of a pariah state internationally, the Isaac Accords are designed to turn South America into Israel’s base of influence.

Hanley and Polovets told the Jerusalem Post, “Unfortunately, too many traditional allies are dealing with internal divisions and rising public antisemitism that make open support for Israel politically difficult. Meanwhile, Latin America is part of the emerging Global South, which is demanding a stronger voice internationally. It represents a quarter of that bloc’s countries and 10 per cent of its population. Engaging Latin America isn’t about replacing Europe – it’s about expanding Israel’s circle of friends. These are democracies that admire Israel’s innovation and resilience”.

The initiative did not simply include making inroads with governments in South America, but overthrowing governments in solidarity with Palestine, and replacing them with pro-Israel ones.

Ynet boasted that in Honduras, President Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura has “declared an intention to warm relations with Israel”.

Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura was effectively installed as president of Honduras by Donald Trump shortly after he pardoned the former president of Honduras and convicted drug trafficker, Juan Orlando Hernández.

As the outlet Canal RED reported:

Hours before the November 30, 2025 elections, President Donald Trump announced through his social network that he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced in 2024 to 45 years in prison for conspiring to import cocaine to the United States and for having received money from ‘Chapo’ Guzmán to finance electoral fraud. New York prosecutors had described Honduras as a “narco-state” during his term, while Juan Orlando was syndicated for accepting millions in bribes from cartels to protect them from the law.

In that same announcement, Trump explicitly supported the candidate of the National Party of Honduras, Nasry “Tito” Asfura, threatening to cut off aid if he was not elected. What seemed like political support covered up a more sinister agreement: the return of Juan Orlando for economic and military control of Honduras

Leaked phone calls show that this was all part of an organized plot, with financing from Israel, to eventually have Nasry Asfura, give power over to Juan Orlando Hernández.

Juan Orlando Hernández is heard on a leaked phone call telling Nasry Asfura “The pardon money … came out of a council of rabbis, and of a people who supported Israel,” adding, “I want to think that you are not going to make a side of me because, thanks to me, you are sitting in that chair. President, it will be me. And I look forward to your support. Because that’s what we talked about with President Trump”.

He added, “The Prime Minister of Israel is going to give us support. We are very grateful to him, they had a lot to do with them. They had everything to do, in fact, they with my departure and negotiation”.

Last week, Honduras “restored full ambassadorial representation with Israel, marking a major diplomatic”.

In April of this year, Israel, the United States, and Argentina officially announced the Issac Accords long planned by Javier Milei, in an official announcement calling to “strengthening cooperation between Argentina, Israel and like-minded partners in the Western Hemisphere”.

Like in Honduras, the Issac Accords include running propaganda campaigns against governments in South America that do not go along with Israeli demands.

Leaked phone calls show that “Argentine President Javier Milei would have contributed 350,000 dollars to form a regional communication team aimed at launching a media campaign against the presidents of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, according to the audio recording of a conversation held between the former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández and the current Honduran authorities” and that “In one of the sound files, Hernández stated ‘that as part of that group’ or continental entity, Milei’s role is important, because he contributes thousands of dollars for the construction of those fake news sources”.

Along with Javier Milei, Trump also openly interfered in the Colombian election , openly favouring current president Abelardo de la Espriella, openly saying that he “would be tremendously successful in leading Colombia to grow the Economy, Create Jobs, Promote Trade, Stop Illegal Immigration, Crack Down on Crime and Drugs, and Restore LAW AND ORDER.”

This interference has certainly paid off for Israel, with Colombia becoming “only the second country, after the US, to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967 and annexed in 1981 in a move the UN Security Council declared void. The reversal came from Colombia’s new right-wing president Abelardo de la Espriella, backed by Trump, who is rapidly undoing the pro-Palestinian policies of leftist predecessor Gustavo Petro: restoring ties, planning a Jerusalem embassy, and quitting South Africa’s ICJ genocide case”, as Drop Site News reported.

This context, as well as other recent developments, adds new context to Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro.

Israel wanted regime change in Venezuela because, as the Miriam Adelson-funded Israel Hayom newspaper explained, “Since Hugo Chávez’s rise to power, Venezuela has become one of the most hostile countries to Israel and Zionism in Latin America. Chávez … severed diplomatic relations with Israel during Operation Cast Lead in 2009, accused Israel of ‘genocide against the Palestinian people’ and compared its policies to Nazi conduct. His successor (Maudro) continued the anti-Israeli line with even more intensity. Thus, Venezuela, which previously maintained warm relations with Israel and even purchased security technologies from it, became a center of hostile propaganda toward Zionism and the Jewish state”.

The U.S. installed successor to Nicolas Maduro, Delcy Rodriguez, has reversed this after Israel sent IDF militants to Venezuela under the guise of helping with recovering from the earthquake.

Since this, the Venezuelan government led by Delcy Rodriguez released a statement saying:

The Governments of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the State of Israel announce that, following the visit of the Israeli humanitarian delegation to Venezuela in response to the double earthquake that occurred on June 24, and in follow-up to discussions held between high-ranking officials of both countries, the two nations have agreed to allow the continuation of bilateral technical cooperation stemming from the emergency and recovery efforts following the double earthquake. Furthermore, the two nations agree to establish a coordination mechanism to facilitate the provision of consular services to their respective citizens residing in the other country, as needed. Both governments recognize the importance of the bond between the State of Israel and the Jewish community residing in Venezuela, which constitutes a significant historical bridge of friendship between the two countries.

Israel, along with the United States and Argentina, will continue to support right- wing Zionist governments in South America to expand Israel’s influence.

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Investigative journalist Eli Clifton and political scientist Ian Lustick have released a detailed history of the Israel lobby’s influence on U.S. foreign policy titled “Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power”.

The book contains a detailed history of the Israel lobby’s influence over various U.S. administrations going back to its creation.

Among the book’s most interesting revelations is how the Israel Lobby pushed anti-Iran propaganda in the United States in order to destroy U.S. diplomacy with Iran.

This campaign- the book noted- began when the Obama administration was negotiating the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, aka the JCPOA.

The authors note that Israel Lobby groups attempted to end the deal with Iran, writing “The Republican Jewish Coalition, whose board included Sheldon Adelson and Home Depot cofounder Bernie Marcus, immediately attacked Obama as ‘misguided’ and ‘giving cheer to Tehran’s rogue regime and causing alarm among our friends in the region, including Israel, Saudi Arabia and most other Gulf States.’”

The Republican Jewish Coalition, the book noted, was joined by other Zionist lobby groups, such as The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) in trying to prevent U.S. diplomacy with Iran.

The authors wrote, “The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a heavy promoter of the Iraq War and the Global War on Terror before that, followed suit the next day, opposing the proposed deal as ‘a gamble on Western optimism.’ It was joined by a shadowy pressure group, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI). ‘Tonight’s events are a disappointment for those of us who have worked to pressure Iran’s economy and impose the toughest sanctions in history on Iran—the same sanctions that brought the regime to the negotiating table,’ its statement said. ‘Those touting this agreement do not appear to understand the fragility of sanctions, or the dangers of rolling them back and easing the economic pressure on Iran.’”

These groups, the book noted, were “funded by a small, overlapping set of donors with deep ties to Israel”.

United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) it noted, “according to a 2013 document, received $500,000 from the Adelsons that year alone. Another $843,000 was contributed by a series of trusts controlled by billionaire precious metals speculator Thomas Kaplan, a citizen of the United States, France, the Republic of the Seychelles, and the United Arab Emirates, and his wife, Daphne Recanati, the daughter of Israeli financier Leon Recanati.”

The book noted that Thomas Kaplan told former Israeli Prime Minister and Jeffery Epstein’s Israeli handler Ehud Barak that “A nuclear Iran ‘represents a psychological threat that will have untold consequences on the Israeli economy and population flows’” in a leaked email.

As for the FDD, the book noted that it was “formed originally in 2001 as Emet (‘Truth’ in Hebrew) with a mission that included ‘provid[ing] education to enhance Israel’s image in North America.’ That name and mission, while submitted to the IRS in its founding documents, was nowhere to be found on its website. By the time the JCPOA debate was occurring, the group had also removed evidence of its advocacy for the Iraq War. Articles with statements including ‘that Saddam still has weapons of mass destruction cannot be seriously doubted’ and language claiming ‘we know Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction’ were long removed, focusing attention on the alleged threat posed by Iran instead. Al Jazeera hidden cameras captured Sima Vaknin-Gil, the director general of Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, speaking in blunt terms about Israel’s relationship with the FDD. ‘We have FDD. We have others working on’ projects including ‘data gathering, working on activist organizations, money trail,’ said Vaknin-Gil to an audience of American pro-Israel advocates in 2016. ‘This is something that only a country, with its resources, can do the best’”.

The Israel Lobby cutout ,the book noted, “wasn’t just a producer of research papers and op-eds advocating against the JCPOA and for more sanctions and military threats against Iran. It also served as an important element of an echo chamber informing the public and Congress about Middle East policy,” noting that, “In an eighteen-month period preceding and immediately following the signing of the JCPOA in 2015, FDD staff and fellows provided congressional testimony opposing the deal seventeen times.”

The FDD was also primarily funded by Israel’s first billionaire donors, the book noted, writing “a misfiled document revealed that Bernie Marcus contributed $10.7 million, Paul Singer contributed $3.6 million, and Sheldon Adelson contributed $1.5 million in a five-year period ending in 2011. The three men were the three largest donors to the FDD in that time frame, the only period in which the group’s top donors have been disclosed.”

Meanwhile, the book documented how AIPAC’s messaging became more explicitly anti-Iran.

In 2010, the book noted, “AIPAC-contracted telemarketers were directed to say: ‘Iran is rejecting international calls to end its nuclear pursuit.’”

It added, “By 2014, the emphasis had shifted to warning about Iranian president Rouhani’s diplomatic engagement with US and European diplomats. The script read: ‘Regional dangers continue to grow for Israel. In Iran, President Rouhani’s rhetoric continues to charm world leaders, while the regime has not slowed its nuclear pursuits.’”

This was ramped up further in the following years.

The book noted that, “the threat of an Iranian nuclear weapon continued to appear in AIPAC’s fundraising scripts even as the group worked against the JCPOA—a joint agreement with the US and other world leaders that sought to limit Iran’s uranium encroachment with verifiable safeguards and put in place provisions to extend Iran’s breakout time to produce enough highly enriched uranium or plutonium for a nuclear weapon from two to three months to one year or more” with the 2015 AIAPC script reading, “Iran continues to pose a grave threat of attaining a nuclear weapons capability”.

The book added that, “After the signing of the JCPOA in 2015, the fundraising scripts became even more vivid in the violence and existential threats described and either ignored or stood in direct opposition to the foreign policy agenda undertaken by the Obama administration. The 2016 script read: ‘… and Iran continues to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of striking the U.S’”.

The authors added that, “Iran had not in fact developed such a missile”.

While the Zionist lobby did not initially get its way on the Iran deal, the book documents how the lobby made inroads with the Trump 2016 campaign, eventually getting him to rip up the deal.

The book meticulously documented how Trump in 2016 changed his platform after massive funding from pro-Israel donors.

“ (Sheldon) Adelson told reporters that Trump ‘will be good for Israel.’ Trump’s support for Israel was not mentioned in Adelson’s endorsement of Trump later that month in a Washington Post op-ed. But he once again acknowledged the centrality of US policy in the Middle East as a driving motivation for his political engagement, characterizing himself as ‘hawkish on Israel’ and having ‘waged battles’ over the Iran nuclear deal, ‘an issue of paramount importance to me personally and to many others around the world.’ In an email sent to fellow Republican Jewish leaders, Adelson urged them to support the presumptive nominee, saying he was convinced Trump would be a ‘tremendous president when it comes to the safety and security of Israel.’”, the book noted.

The book noted how Trump changed his 2016 platform after major donations from the Israel Lobby, writing, “The Adelsons and Marcus quickly came around, donating $25 million and $7 million, respectively, to support Trump’s general election candidacy. That flow of support from the pro-Israel billionaires came alongside a flurry of movement from the campaign to bring Trump’s platform in line with that of his new biggest donors. Just before the July GOP convention and Trump’s formal nomination, the Republican Platform Committee unanimously omitted any reference to a two-state solution from the party’s Israel planks. Trump met with Netanyahu in September and promised that, if elected president, he would ‘recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel.’ The campaign reported that Trump agreed with Netanyahu that peace between Israelis and Palestinians required ‘the Palestinians [to] renounce hatred and violence and accept Israel as a Jewish State.’ Six days before the election, Trump’s ‘Israel Advisory Committee’ published a position paper proposing a break from the Israel policy of previous Republican and Democratic administrations, celebrating ‘the unbreakable bond between the United States and Israel’ based on ‘shared values of democracy, freedom of speech, respect for minorities, cherishing life, and the opportunity for all citizens to pursue their dreams.’”

The book added, “As for ‘never Trump’ pro-Israel donors who held out on endorsing Trump, even Paul Singer, who had warned that Trump’s policies would lead to a ‘widespread global depression,’ ultimately made amends with the new president-elect. Singer donated $1 million to the president-elect’s inaugural committee.”

Trump, during his first term, enacted every policy these pro Israel donors demanded, including by ripping up the Iran deal, the book noted, writing, “Trump, in his first term, enacted a series of wish-list items for Israel, including a unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and, at the repeated urging of the Adelsons, the promised move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.”

(Emphasis: Mine)

The destruction of U.S. diplomacy with Iran, bought by Zionist donors like Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, Bernie Marcus and Paul Singer, eventually led to the U.S. war on Iran for Israel.

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Delcy Rodriguez, the “interim president” of Venezuela installed by the United States after kidnapping President Nicolas Maduro, is destroying and spitting in the face of the political revolution started by Hugo Chavez’s election in 1999, dubbed the Bolivarian Revolution after Simon Bolivar.

Anti-imperialism was always at the forefront of Hugo Chavez’s and Nicolas Maduro’s agenda, first and foremost, solidarity with the Palestinians suffering under Israeli occupation.

In 2009, after Israel’s bombardment in Gaza dubbed Operation Cast Lead, which killed 1,400 Palestinians- including 300 children, and which a UN inquiry called “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorisea civilian population”, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez severed “ties with Israel in protest against its war in the Gaza Strip”, with Chavez saying, “Venezuela ... has decided to break off diplomatic relations with the state of Israel given the inhumane persecution of the Palestinian people”.

Throughout his presidency, Chavez continued to end all diplomatic relations with Israel and stood by the besieged Palestinians, saying in 2009, “It is not that the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They are doing it openly. Remember the last Israeli aggression against Gaza. What is it if not genocide? I think that’s hard to believe. It was a savage attack against an innocent people. The Israelis were seeking an excuse to exterminate the Palestinians. I think we must condemn this aggression and impose sanctions against Israel”.

This solidarity was continued by his successor, Nicolas Maduro, who, as the Miriam Adelson-funded Israel Hayom newspaper complained, “continued the anti-Israeli line with even more intensity.”

Palestine was such an important cause for Maduro that he shouted “long live free Palestine!” as he cast his vote in the 2024 election.

Even as Trump was ramping up his campaign to kidnap Nicolas Maduro, he reiterated his support for the Palestinian cause in November of 2025, saying, “We will not abandon this sacred cause until the ultimate goal is achieved: Palestine will rise, free and independent. We will only reach real peace when justice is served for the crimes and genocide committed. Only then can we begin to recover from the rubble and devastation”.

For this reason, Israel- increasingly trying to spread its influence in South America- supported the U.S. regime change campaign in Venezuela.

Middle East Eye noted in 2019 that “Israel wants to see Maduro overthrown in Venezuela,” noting that “Solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination was at its height during the Chavez years up until today, with the leadership making outspoken criticism of Israel’s flagrant violations of international law. Venezuela severed diplomatic ties with Israel in 2009 over its military campaign in Gaza”.

As Israel Hayom complained, “Venezuela, which previously maintained warm relations with Israel and even purchased security technologies from it, became a center of hostile propaganda toward Zionism and the Jewish state”.

Israel made connections with the CIA asset in the Venezuelan opposition, Maria Corina Machado, because, as Israel Hayom boasted, she “promises to change her country’s attitude toward Israel from one extreme to another, and doesn’t hide her sympathy toward us. In recent years, she spoke about her intention to establish Venezuela’s embassy location in Jerusalem and stood with the Jewish state after the October 7 massacre, while Maduro supported Hamas”.

Israel, however, seemed to have made the same deal with interim president Delcy Rodriguez.

Israel used the devastating earthquake in Venezuela as a opportunity to get the country to abandon it’s long held solidarity with the Palestinians, sending IDF militants to the country under the guise of helping rebuild from the devastation caused by the earthquake, who were welcomed and even praised by Delcy Rodriguez.

Benjamin Netanyahu praised the delegation for carrying out a “rare strategic objective by assisting an estranged government” with the goal of “restoring relationships”.

The Israeli newspaper Ynet boasted that “The dispatch of the Israeli delegation has already created a kind of diplomatic breakthrough, including the first phone call in years between a senior Venezuelan official and a senior Israeli representative. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil spoke with the head of the Israeli aid mission, Yoed Magen, Israel’s designated ambassador to Mexico, who also handles the Venezuela portfolio at the Foreign Ministry”.

Venezuela’s chief Rabbi, Yitzhak Cohen, who played a large role in bringing the Israeli delegation to Venezuela, hoped that this would lead to normalization of ties between Israel and Venezuela, saying, “We offered the president of Venezuela the possibility of having the Israeli delegation come to assist in the disaster. She gladly accepted our assistance and gave all the necessary approvals for the delegation’s arrival. This was the first step. Although there are no diplomatic relations between the two countries, Israel took a wonderful step by providing humanitarian aid to Venezuela …We hope, and are almost certain, that this will move another step forward. There is no doubt that this was a moving gesture”.

Venezuelan political scientist Carlos Eduardo Pina argued that these moves were done to appease Israel and its lobby in the U.S., writing, “Maria Corina Machado, the leading opposition figure and Rodriguez’s main rival, has built a strong alliance with Israel over the years, especially with Prime Minister Netanyahu. If Rodriguez can win Netanyahu over at Machado’s expense, Machado could lose one of her most important sources of support, both internationally and in Washington, where pro-Israel lobbying networks hold significant influence. To this end, Rodriguez has adopted increasingly Israel-friendly positions while courting sectors of Venezuela’s Jewish community with strong ties to Israel”.

Israel’s goals seem to have succeeded in Venezuela, with the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela releasing a statement saying :

The Governments of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the State of Israel announce that, following the visit of the Israeli humanitarian delegation to Venezuela in response to the double earthquake that occurred on June 24, and in follow-up to discussions held between high-ranking officials of both countries, the two nations have agreed to allow the continuation of bilateral technical cooperation stemming from the emergency and recovery efforts following the double earthquake. Furthermore, the two nations agree to establish a coordination mechanism to facilitate the provision of consular services to their respective citizens residing in the other country, as needed. Both governments recognize the importance of the bond between the State of Israel and the Jewish community residing in Venezuela, which constitutes a significant historical bridge of friendship between the two countries.

Venezuelanalysis reported that this statement came after a meeting between Venezuelan foreign minister Félix Plasencia and Yitzhak Cohen, where Cohen “requested that Venezuela reestablish diplomatic ties with Israel.”

While Chavez cut off diplomatic relations with Israel over its 2009 slaughter in Gaza, Delcy Rodriguez had taken the first steps to normalize relations with Israel, and it continues its genocide in Gaza, expansion in the West Bank, and ethnic cleansing of Lebanon.

Israel seems to have gotten exactly what it wanted by supporting regime change in Venezuela.

Given Chávez and Maduro’s long-standing solidarity with Palestine, it is hard to see these moves as anything but a betrayal of the Bolivarian revolution.

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The Israeli Shin Bet has apparently forcibly disappeared Artyom Kirpichonok, a Russia-based historian with Israeli citizenship who has been critical of Zionism.

According to friends of Kirpichonok, “Kirpichonok arrived in Israel last week on a flight from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, to attend an event to which he had been invited. After landing, however, he did not contact any of them and has not been heard from since. Reports indicate he arrived at Ben Gurion Airport from Yerevan on Aug. 2.”

Ynet noted that, he , “was born in St. Petersburg and immigrated to Israel in the 1990s. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and returned to live in Russia about 15 years after moving to Israel. He later adopted a strongly critical stance toward Israel and frequently wrote against the country and Zionism.”

Apparently, Artyom Kirpichonok’s disappearance was due to an arbitrary arrest and detention by the Israeli Shin Bet.

The former Russian lawmaker Daria Mitina alleged that “Our worst fears have been confirmed… Artem Ivanovich Kirpichenok is in prison, in the hands of the Israeli secret police Shabak”.

One friend and colleague of Artyom Kirpichonok, Nika Dubrovsky, wrote in Counterpunch that “What we know is that he was arrested by the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret police. There has been no contact with him since. There has been no official reason for his detention.”

According to Dubrovsky, “On August 2nd, Kirpichenko landed in Tel Aviv. A lawyer hired by his friends has since confirmed that he is being held by the Shin Bet — Israel’s internal security service” adding , “it’s so obvious he posed no danger to the authorities whatsoever: he wasn’t a member of any party, he never took any practical action on anything — partly because he was an extremely impractical person.
His only crime was his opinion on various political questions. A thoughtcrime, in other words: ‘the essential crime that contained all others in itself,’ as Orwell wrote.”

She added that many had attacked his blog posts critical of Israel, including “Ukrainian and Russian expats, former Soviet citizens living in Israel, who apparently couldn’t leave his blog alone”.

The researcher Volodymyr Ishchenko raised the possibility that Artyom Kirpichonok was even lured to Tel Aviv by the Shin Bet under the guise of a “fake invitation to an event”.

What is clear is that the Israeli Shin Bet disappeared a historian with Israeli citizenship simply because he was critical of Zionism.

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The radical Israel-first Zionist Ben Shapiro has just put out a trailer for a Zionist propaganda film he is producing with his Daily Wire company titled “Run Hide Fight: Infidels”, which is not exactly subtle about its propaganda message.

The description of the film reads, “When radical Islamic terrorists hijack a liberal college’s pro-Palestine encampment to enforce barbaric Sharia law on students and execute infidels in a makeshift caliphate, a ragtag band of red-blooded students, a security guard tired of ‘Uncle Tom’ smears and a Delta Force vet must arm up to save their clueless peers and keep America from surrendering to the enemy on its own soil”.

The film trailer shows an anti-genocide protest being taken over by ISIS-style militants, and a retired Delta Force soldier played by actor Jonathan Majors- a convicted domestic abuser - who warns the protestors that “Islam will conquer the West”.

The implication of the film’s message is clearly that Americans need to give billions to Israel and fight all of Israel’s wars in the Middle East, to protect America from “radical Islam”.

What makes the film particularly interesting is that it is a prime example of the propaganda Israel has used to draw Americans into its wars in the Middle East since 9/11.

Preying on Islamophobia and ignorance of Middle East geopolitics, Israel has used war on terror rhetoric against “radical Islam” to manipulate U.S. foreign policy in its favour.

Benjamin Netanyahu himself admitted that the 9/11 attacks were “very good” for Israel because it would “strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we’ve experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror”.

This, in effect, meant collaborating with American Neo-conservatives to push for wars in Israel’s interest in the name of the “war on terror” response to 9/11.

In 1996, American Zionists advising Netanyahu, many of which including David Wurmser, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith ended up in key positions in the Bush administration- wrote a paper to the newley elected Netanyahu titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” which advocated for Israel abandoning the two state solution and instead overthrowing governments in the region seen as too sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, fir a foremost, “removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right”.

Following the start of the U.S. “war on terror,” Israeli intelligence worked hand in hand with the Zionist Neo-cons behind the clean break to cook up the WMD deception used to justify the war in Iraq, while Israeli lobby groups pushed for the war.

Saddam Hussein- a secular Baathist leader- has no connection to 9/11 or Al Qaeda, and the regime change war gave rise to ISIS, but it fulfilled the “important Israeli strategic objective” of removing a leader seen as too sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.

Israel continued to manipulate the conversation around the war on terror, portraying nationalist resistance groups fighting Israeli occupation such as Hamas or Hezbollah in the same league as sectarian fanatical death squads like Al Qaeda and ISIS.

Influential Israel lobby groups rebranded themselves as “counterterrorism” groups to further this propaganda campaign.

Most notably the influential Foundation for Defence of Democracies think tank initially registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a group dedicated “to provide education to enhance Israel’s image in North America and the public’s understanding of issues affecting Israeli-Arab relations”, but following 9/11 rebranded into the Foundation for Defense of Democracies with the goal of “develop[ing] educational materials on the eradication of terrorism everywhere in the world”.

Zionist funded lobbyist groups such as the Foundation for Defence of Democracies that drove the war on terror rhetoric helped spread the propaganda claim that Israel’s enemies were in league with Al Qaeda and ISIS.

But the reality is, groups like Hamas in Gaza are not fighting to establish an Islamic caliphate, but to liberate Palestine from Zionist occupation.

As Politico noted, “Hamas is a nationalist organization” which “seeks a state that would ultimately be like any other in the international community, with a seat at the United Nations and in regional organizations like the Arab League” and “Its objectives are local”, while “The Islamic State, on the other hand, has transnational goals and is a fundamentalist religious organization. ISIS seeks to build a global caliphate grounded in its literalist interpretation of scripture. Rather than aspiring to be a member of the global community of nations, ISIS sought to conquer states and subdue their citizens under threats of intimidation and death. Had ISIS succeeded in consolidating its territorial base in Iraq and Syria, it would have sought to undermine and destroy the United Nations, not join it.”

To add insult to injury, Israel and its Neo-conservative allies have often collaborated with Al Qaeda and ISIS against national resistance groups fighting Israeli occupation like Hamas and Hezbollah.

In Syria, Israel collaborated with ISIS, seeing it as a tool to be used against Hezbollah. As author Max Blumenthal documented in his book “The Management of Savagery” on the fraudulent U.S./Israeli “war on terror”:

At the Likud Party-linked Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, its director, Efraim Inbar, promoted the Islamic State in Syria as a boon to Israel’s strategic deterrence. In an op-ed entitled ‘The Destruction of Islamic State Is a Strategic Mistake,’ Inbar argued, ‘The West should seek the further weakening of Islamic State, but not its destruction.’ Instead, he insisted, it should exploit ISIS as a ‘useful tool’ in the fight against Israel’s true enemy, Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah, which operates on Israeli frontiers from southern Lebanon. ‘A weak IS is, counterintuitively, preferable to a destroyed IS,’ Inbar concluded. Inbar went on to argue for prolonging the conflict in Syria for as long as possible on the grounds that extended sectarian bloodshed would produce ‘positive change.’

While Israeli military honchos took satisfaction from the bloodshed of Syria’s civil war, ISIS commanders tiptoed around the Israeli military. During a public forum in Israel, the ever-candid former minister of defense, Ya’alon, revealed that an ISIS cell operating alongside the rebels in southern Syria had accidentally launched a mortar into Israeli-controlled territory. ‘On most occasions, firing comes from regions under the control of the regime,’ Ya’alon commented. ‘But once the firing came from ISIS positions—and it immediately apologized.’ Pushed by Israeli media to clarify his statement about ISIS formally apologizing to Israel—an open admission of an Israeli backchannel to the jihadists—Ya’alon refused further comment.

In Gaza, Israel has similarly collaborated with ISIS-linked figures against Hamas, which fought off the presence of ISIS in Gaza.

Israel openly admitted to arming the criminal gang in Gaza formerly led by Yasser Abu Shabab, a drug smuggler who previously pledged his allegiance to ISIS.

After Yasser Abu Shabab was killed in an internal coup, Israel had continued to back the group, now with military drones now led by Ghassan al-Duhaini, who had admitted that he “adopted Salafi jihadism” and had previously joined the Gaza-based group Jayshal-Islam, “a Gaza-based Salafi jihadist group with a similar ideology to al-Qaeda that declared its allegiance to ISIS in 2015”.

The U.S. neoconservative foreign policy establishment has similarly collaborated with al-Qaeda-linked groups in service of Israel’s goals.

Most notably, the CIA spent a billion dollars a year arming al-Qaeda-linked rebels in a dirty war against the Hezbollah-aligned former Assad government in Syria , eventually leading to former Al Qaeda leader Ahmed Al Sharaa being installed into power.

In 2012, then-Hillary Clinton advisor Jake Sullivan wrote “AQ [Al Qaeda] is on our side in Syria” in an email.

Leaked emails and documents show that this billion-dollar dirty war fought in collaboration with Al Qaeda was done to aid Israel.

Journalist Aaron Mate uncovered a 2003 state department report which stated that “The Syrian government, the report acknowledged, has ‘provided tangible and beneficial CT [counter-terrorism] cooperation, in particular with respect to information-sharing’” but added that, “Syrian officials continue to distinguish between terrorism and what it considers to be ‘legitimate’ armed resistance undertaken by people living in occupied territories for the sake of national liberation. For this reason, Syria does not recognize Hizballah or the Palestinian rejectionist groups as terrorist organizations, and thus refuses to take actions against them consonant with the actions it has taken against other terrorist organizations/individuals.”

A declassified State Department cable from 2015 referring to the dirty war wrote that “The best way to help Israel deal with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad…It is the strategic relationship between Iran and the regime of Assad in Syria that makes it possible for Iran to undermine Israel’s security”, adding, “Victory will not come quickly or easily, but it will come. And the payoff will be substantial. Iran would be strategically isolated, unable to exert its influence in the Middle East. The resulting regime in Syria will see the United States as a friend, not an enemy…And a new Syrian regime might well be open to early action on frozen peace talks with Israel. Hezbollah in Lebanon would be cut off from its Iranian sponsors since Syria would no longer be a transit point for Iranian training, assistance, and missiles. America can and should help them [Syrian rebels] - and by doing so help Israel”.

Similarly, Israel has portrayed Iran as a threat to America, supposedly imposing Islam on the West, in order to manufacture consent for a war on Iran for Israel.

Netanyahu himself claimed during a 2024 speech to Congress that Iran has “maniacal plans to impose radical Islam on the world”.

In reality, Iran has similarly fought off Al Qaeda and ISIS, but is seen as an enemy for Israel because it supports regional resistance groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah fighting off Israeli occupation.

Since 9/11, Israel has created a coordinated propaganda campaign portraying any group or government that gets in the way of the greater Israel project as a radical Islamist threat to the West to manipulate U.S. foreign policy in its favour. Ben Shapiro’s new propaganda film is just the latest in this long-running propaganda campaign.

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Written By: Justin K.P.

After a years-long legal battle, the UK-based anti-Zionist academic David Miller has secured a major free speech victory against the Israel lobby currently occupying Britain and using endless lawfare to silence critics of Israel.

One of the many tools used by the British Zionist lobby to silence dissent in Britain has been to get people fired for expressing anti-Zionist beliefs.

David Miller just took this tool away from it.

For context, as journalist Freddie Ponton reported, Miller, a former professor at Bristol University, faced complaints from the Zionist lobby groups Bristol Jewish Society and the Union of Jewish Students for giving a lecture where he identified the Zionist movement as “one of the forces involved in fostering” Islamophobia.

In 2021 Miller “spoke at an online event titled Building the Campaign for Free Speech” where “He described Zionism as racist and Israel as a settler-colonial society. He also placed Bristol Jewish Society and the Union of Jewish Students within the wider organisational structure of the Zionist movement.”

Following this, “The university received a large volume of demands for disciplinary action” and “The Union of Jewish Students called for his suspension, while Conservative MPs used a parliamentary hearing to describe the university as a ‘hotbed of antisemitism’”, as Ponton reported.

For these expressions of Anti-Zionist beliefs, Miller was “dismissed for ‘gross misconduct’” in February 2021.

Miller brought this case to the Employment Appeals Tribunal, which ruled in 2024 that “David Miller’s dismissal over his anti-Zionist beliefs amounted to unlawful direct discrimination by the university”, a ruling that the University of Bristol appealed.

Now, the Employment Appeals Tribunal released its judgment, which not only sided with David Miller on all accounts, but codified into law that Anti-Zionism is a protected belief under the Equality Act of 2010.

The ruling found that “The decision to dismiss the claimant and the refusal of his appeal against that dismissal were each found to be unlawful acts of direct discrimination. The dismissal was held to be unfair, and wrongful.”

The ruling also found that anti-Zionist speech is protected under the Equality Act of 2010, and that firings over anti-Zionist believes will legally be seen as “unlawful acts of direct discrimination”.

It ruled that “It was coherent to describe as ‘racist’ an ideology that promoted the establishment of a state for only one race of people (Group A) in a territory that contained a large number of people of a different race (Group B). If the ideology was said also to involve the migration of members of Group A into the territory with the support of an imperial power to dislodge an indigenous population comprised of Group B, it could legitimately and coherently be described as colonial and imperialistic” in reference to Miller’s opposition to Zionism.

It also ruled that Anti-Zionism was a protected belief and not synonymous with antisemitism, ruling that it “accepted the claimant’s evidence that he (David Miller) did not oppose or hold antipathy towards Jews or Judaism” from his anti-Zionist advocacy.

This ruling now codifies into law the freedom to express anti-Zionist beliefs in the UK without losing employment over it.

As David Miller noted, “The legal precedent set by this case is now binding across the United Kingdom. It establishes that the articulation of anti-Zionist critique is fully protected under British employment law. It ensures that no academic can be summarily dismissed because their research happens to offend the political sensitivities of a genocidal apartheid state or its domestic advocates.”

This precedent, Miller noted, takes away the Zionist lobby’s power to have citizens fired over anti-Zionist beliefs, writing “The Zionists via the University of Bristol tried to make an example of me to deter others; instead, through their own arrogance and legal failure, the university has helped secure a binding legal shield that will protect the movement for Palestinian liberation and the dismantling of Zionism for generations to come.”

The former UK diplomat Craig Murray said this current legal precedent will “affect so many employment cases, notably in the NHS” in reference to the UK Zionist lobby’s campaign to get anti-Zionist doctors fired from the NHS.

While the UK lobby will continue to use the terrorism act to have anti-Zionists arrested, this ruling takes one of the major tools used in its wide-scale censorship campaign away.

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