Brian W. Tobin, Ph.D.’s Post

“Hauling the Jews in to plead their case before a special tribunal and face the charge that they are the real Nazis has been the fantasy of every antisemite since the first gavel hit a soundblock in Nuremberg in 1946. It is the dark fantasy behind the insistence over decades on speaking of controversial Israeli actions always in terms of "war crimes." This, and not a poor grasp of complex legal arguments, is the reason every Israeli military action in the last half century has been criticized as "collective punishment" or "disproportionate." As long as the Shoah looms large in the civilized conscience, there will be those among us who project our fears and our discomfort in the most transparent way. “The damage from this obsession is enormous, both to the cause of human rights and to the people this obsession claims to care about, the still-stateless Palestinians. “That it is impossible today to enter the milieu of people who care about global justice, climate change, international law, or world health without being committed to the theology of a uniquely evil Jewish state standing in the path of world peace is a moral travesty, but it is not an accident. A panoply of bad actors from decidedly non-progressive regimes have benefited enormously from turning the kinds of post-1945 institutions that should be protecting the world's most vulnerable into talk shops of Israel hatred. Every well-meaning institution and every progressive cause that has been colonized by anti-Israel activism has emerged from it hollowed out and irrelevant. “If the Genocide Convention goes the way of, say, the UN Human Rights Council, and becomes a meaningless provision used by failing regimes and wealthy petro-dictatorships to mobilize hatred against Israel and distract from their own problems, we will all be poorer for it.” Superb piece by the brilliant Shany Mor, not only exposing the entire non-sensical notion of accusing Israel of genocide rather than lauding it for defending against it, but also looking at the dark forces that drive this process: https://lnkd.in/dmQx6UMc

Morally, has there ever been an ideology as diabolical as Zionism? What kind of person invents and spreads the notion of ethnic superiority and ethnic cleansing? If Mankind has a weakness, it is racism. It seems that, wherever you look, racism is lurking under the surface. It's the magic card that wins friends and elections. In Israel, though, it's not below the surface. It's worn with pride. It's worn with self-satisfaction. It's a badge of honour. Racism is built into the Israel legal system. The country openly runs an apartheid system and acts with complete disregard to the suffering of the indigenous Palestinians. Until we push back against the evil of Zionism, they will keep acting as if they are above the law. They will continue to oppress, continue to ethnically cleanse, and continue their brutal occupation. On the 24th of July, the genocidal prime minister of Israel will speak to the United States' Congress. How is this acceptable? Why do we reward him? How can we allow this? The only public building he should be allowed inside is a courtroom in Nuremberg.

“The USA’s and the West’s Moral High Ground Has COLLAPSED, in Gaza” And is now buried under the rubbles, along with the thousands of Palestinians civilians slaughtered by the zionists apartheid Israeli occupation regime’s forces, and its co-conspirators, enablers, and financiers of the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and in the occupied Palestinians territories of the West Bank and in east Jerusalem. “Ethnic cleansing of All Palestinians, is the only purpose for this genocide against humanity” Former British Labor Party, Jeremy Corbyn, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, explains in a few words the main goal of this fascist apartheid Israeli occupation regime’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians. I have published several posts on this matter, right in the beginning of this ongoing genocide, which shed the light on the United State’s vision, for the “New Middle East, and the zionists apartheid Israeli occupation regime’s plans for the entire region, which we’re now seeing it unfolding in real time, and in front of our eyes. What we have been witnessing, happening in Palestine, for two months is not a war, is not self defense, and is not a Hamas’s issue. It is rather a destruction of the entire Palestinians population, a wholesale slaughter of the entire Palestinians people, a pre-orchestrated plans for the extermination of the entire Palestinians population, and a continuation of the systematic ethnic cleansing of the entire Palestinians population, all of which started decades ago. Since October 7, 2023, the Biden administration, Western leaders, and the zionist apartheid Israeli occupation regime started a pre-planned campaign to dehumanise Palestinians, to justify their pre-orchestrated evil plans to get rid of the Palestinians case, once and for all. Since day one, they all declared it to be “War-On-Terror,” they all declared it, “War between the civilized world and the barbaric world,” they all started making allegations and lies about Palestinians, and declared their full, unconditional support for the zionist apartheid Israeli occupation regime’s right to “Defend itself.” All of which is done without regards to international laws, or to human rights laws, or any laws for that matter. It is, on the contrary, a broad daylight violations of all of the above, which undermined the “High Moral Ground,” of the United States and Western countries, “The Civilized World.” Joe Biden and his administration, as well as most of the US politicians, and many Western leaders have literally “Lost their Moral Compass.” Their hypocrisy and double standards are now being seen in everything they do, and in every word they utter out of their mouths. “The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom, and their tongues speak justice” “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.”

From Jonathan Tobin of the JNS: "Many Jews believed they could always count on enlightened liberal opinion in this country not only to condemn expressions of right-wing Jew-hatred in the strongest terms but to also isolate it. Instead, they have watched with amazement and concern as the mobs engaging in antisemitic invective have been defended or rationalized in mainstream liberal media like The New York Times and MSNBC as idealists or, at worst, emotional kids whose actions are an understandable reaction to Israeli atrocities. In doing so, those who are taking this line aren’t just repeating and spreading Hamas propaganda and blatant falsehoods. They are accepting the premise that opposition to the existence of the one Jewish state on the planet is somehow the natural political position of those who call themselves progressives." Those who remain seduced by "progressivism" need to wake up before it's too late. The overt Jew-hatred remains tolerated if not acceptable among the wider left.

In my opinion, very well written.

Israel stands firm and ready. In the court of public opinion, the Jewish state has become a pariah. The sloppy media flagrantly disregards fact in favor of fiction. Many journalists are nothing more than two-bit hacks couched in an ancient brand of Jew hate. Their eagerness to fault the State of Israel is all too apparent. But Israel remains resolute. Now that the wheels are coming off the Biden administration, it is clear that there never was a pro-Israel policy in effect. The fork-tongued approach to Israel’s legitimate concerns was overshadowed by Biden’s anxiety to placate the growing masses of left-wing woke mobs. The moral rot of progressives who rabidly support a pro-Hamas agenda of Judenrein in the Middle East and globally is all too apparent. With the commander-in-chief clearly not in control of his faculties, let alone the agenda, it is crystal clear that anti-Israel agitators are pulling the strings. But they’re doing so ever so cunningly, feigning support for the Jewish state while embracing the Sharia law mobs swarming Dearborn, Michigan. Everything comes into sharp focus when we step back and take stock. Desperate and scared, Democrats are running around in circles, attempting to placate Jewish voters with empty platitudes. We are sick of the double talk. We see through the rhetoric. We demand that our leaders stand up against radical Islamic hate, no matter the consequences. If Biden is going to lose the election for standing with Israel against terrorism, at least he will have bowed out with dignity. The duplicity in Dem circles is nauseating. Millions of pro-Israel supporters in America have had it with this government's Israel bashing. Israel’s not a political pawn. It is the Jewish national homeland. We’re going nowhere. Not for woke pro-Hamas mobs or progressive antisemites. Am Yisrael Chai! #StandWithIsrael #DestroyHamas

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿. 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: #Holocaust refers to “the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and those fascist and extreme nationalist partners and other collaborators who participated in those crimes. However, sometimes “Holocaust” is extended to include other targeted groups such as Roma and Sinti, communists, socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, persons with disabilities, Slavic peoples, and Soviet prisoners of war. Other times, the term is used as a universal symbol of suffering or simply to gather public attention, which leads to distortion. We use “Holocaust” only to refer to the Nazi-led and supported persecution and extermination of vulnerable groups in Europe between 1933-1945. The term “𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲” can lead to similar confusion. There can be tensions between the legal meaning in the Genocide Convention, other scholarly definitions, and the popular use to signify the most serious forms of harm – but that’s not technically genocide. 𝗪𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲 “𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲” 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁, 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹, 𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰, 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹, 𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽. 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿.

The accompanying picture? It's the US Constitution's Bill of Rights, whose First Amendment provides for freedom of religion, speech and assembly (https://lnkd.in/dpBTBKk6). Today, it's under attack. Jewish students at US universities live in fear, while school administrators studiously avoid dealing with the matter (https://lnkd.in/dPthDWRX). Synagogues and Jewish cemeteries are being vandalized (https://lnkd.in/dV2u2TsY). For the third time this month, Jewish American reggae singer Matisyahu had a concert cancelled owing to threats of violence from pro-Hamas demonstrators (https://lnkd.in/dJ4zXt7r). At yesterday's Oscars, only one man, Avi Arad, had the courage to wear a yellow ribbon as a reminder of the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas (https://lnkd.in/dYS4GgQH). Heroism reenacted in Hollywood blockbusters? It's just that, i.e. reenacted. Heroism in La La Land is celluloid thin. Worse still, President Biden, fearful of losing in November, is suddenly cowing to America's radical left and threatening Israel with an arms embargo (https://lnkd.in/dvCFNxe6). Yes, it's even worse in the UK, where Members of Parliament fear for their personal safety (https://lnkd.in/dTYzirXw), but this is hardly reason for consolation. We are witnessing the demise of Western Civilization.