And Other Notes
Caitlin Johnstone – Caitlin’s Newsletter May 5, 2026
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Israel supporters really expect you to be intimidated when they mob your replies yelling at you and calling you names. Like oh no, the people who defend bombing hospitals think I’m bad.
Yeah sorry there’s nothing you can say to me to make me sit here and go along with the latest fake antisemitism scare or whatever the current narrative of the day happens to be. You don’t get to assault free speech throughout the western world to protect the information interests of a genocidal apartheid state and then demand I be silent about it. Yell, scream, call me names all you want — I’m going to call the bullshit what it is.
Good luck with your emotions about it.
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The other day I posted a 36-minute video on Twitter compiling various mainstream TV news reports about Jewish Zionists who were caught staging fake antisemitic incidents to advance their agenda, with links to each individual story. It got ten thousand shares and almost a million views. Normally when I have a tweet go viral criticizing Israel or Zionists I get high-profile hasbarists quote-tweeting me and calling me an antisemite, but nobody touched this one. None of them wanted to inadvertently bring more attention to that tweet than it was already getting.
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There are two types of people: ardent anti-Zionists, and everyone who ignored the video footage coming out of Gaza from 2023 to 2025.
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On social media I’m seeing Zionists trying to revive the debate about whether Israel is guilty of genocide, which is just silly. The debate is over, guys. It’s been over for a long time. Every relevant human rights group says it’s genocide. Zero comparable human rights groups say it’s not. The end. You lose.
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You listen to normies who aren’t super into politics describe why they’re anti-Israel and you realize most of them have just never been challenged on it by anyone around them or any of the media they consume.
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) May 2, 2026
I sometimes see Israel defenders saying that the average person who sides with the Palestinians lacks an intimate familiarity with all the facts about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Really that’s just saying the average Palestine supporter hasn’t been confronted by a trained hasbarist who’s learned to gaslight people into thinking genocide and apartheid aren’t happening. And it’s true, most haven’t. If they practiced arguing with such hasbarists extensively, though, they’d soon learn the hasbara arguments are fallacious and the claims are false.
An internet debate bro is always going to have an advantage over someone who doesn’t yet understand the debate. That’s why hasbarists do what they do; they’re taking their practiced debate tactics to people who aren’t familiar with them, like a Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner taking a kickboxer to the ground where he’s not familiar with the techniques.
But it doesn’t take much learning to understand that all their arguments are piss weak. That’s why all hasbarists eventually collapse into empty name-calling.
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So here’s the thing: you actually do need to work on your trauma. Your inner wellbeing is in fact your responsibility.
I totally get the increasing pushback against the liberal emphasis on trauma and inner peace because of the way it shifts the burden onto the individual and lets the system off the hook — but the truth is we need both. The need for collective revolution doesn’t excuse you from your responsibilities for your own actions as an individual, any more than your work as an individual takes the blame off the system for the abuses it inflicts upon the collective.
It is true that our society’s focus on individual healing is used to deemphasize the need for systemic changes, but it is also true that many on the left use the abuses of capitalism and the fucked up nature of our society as an excuse to blame all their misery on the system instead of taking responsibility for their own inner condition and doing the hard, scary, confrontational work necessary to heal.
It is true that a huge amount of our stress and psychological issues are at least partially due to the economic and social pressures inflicted upon us by an unjust system. But it is also true that there are plenty of miserable people who have all their material and financial needs met, because they haven’t healed their trauma and done their inner work. Utopia could dawn on us tomorrow and most of us would still find ways to make ourselves unhappy until we bring the inner tendencies which give rise to our suffering into consciousness.
We need both sides of the coin, and in fact each side of the coin complements the other. Just as a healthy system will lead to far less misery and dysfunction among individuals, doing your inner work as an individual will make you much more useful in bringing about the revolutionary changes necessary for the rise of a healthy system. You’re not going to be any use to anyone in a revolution where you’re too neurotic to function or get along with other people.
We all have problems that can’t be fixed under the current status quo, and we all have inner wounds we won’t be able to fully heal right away. But that doesn’t mean we are powerless. Our happiness and inner clarity isn’t fully bound to the whims of the ruling class. We can’t fix everything, but we’ve all got a responsibility to do what we can, in our community and in ourselves.
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very good
THE ELECTION
this is important
we have an election and we are very lucky to have such a choice
we have the rothschild labour party
the rothschild tories or the rothschild lib/dem/thingies
and now we even have the rothschild green party
the only real one we can vote for is rupert lowe
dont forget this
Another “hero” who thinks ragheads in gaza are victims but the ones invading your country are good. Lives in a huge house in the country too. Just a coincidence I’m sure.
“Trump is calling on ALL Americans, regardless of faith, to observe a national Sabbath from sundown May 15 to nightfall May 16 in honor of the nation’s 250th year…A president invoking Shabbat for the whole country.”
Sundown Friday to Sunrise Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath. Asking all Americans to observe that rightfully raises many questions about what he really means to achieve. This year’s 4th July falls on a Saturday but it would even be questionable if he asked Americans to observe a Sabbath for that at Friday sundown. The US government may be Jewish captured but the US is not a Jewish state.
https://x.com/jeremyunplugged/status/2051705800955949076
I pride myself on being a racist and an anti-semite. I wear those monikers like badges of pride. And whoever doesn’t like it, can kiss my Lilly White ass.
The modern State of Israel was established through the Balfour Declaration of 1917, a document that signaled British support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. This was not an act of divine fulfillment, but a political deal made between the British government and influential figures like Baron Rothschild.
Inside the police operation to defend Jews from rising antisemitism
Story by Amy-Clare Martin and Annabel Bate
oh god this made me laugh
what about defending the palestinians who are being bombed and starved to death ?
eh what about defending them ?
you-dirty-little-racist-shit-jewboys ?
Am I “antisemitic”?
According to the principles leaders of the Jewish tribe most of us would be for exposing the crimes of Israel and in particular genocide and the Israeli land grabs and ethnic cleansing of non-Jewish people in the Levant.
It being the case that despite the fact that many Jewish people are opposed to those very crimes, if a goy person condemns Israel for the same crimes he or she is condemned as an “antisemite” and a hater of Jews. However, as few Jews are “Semites”, but most Palestinians and non-Jewish people in the Levant are by blood, then why do they keep using the term “antisemite” in reference to themselves? Why, also, are critics of Israel and other exploitive traits which are apparently supported by the majority of Jews, and certainly by the majority of Israeli Jews and the majority of American Jews who support Israel, being labeled as spreaders of hate information who have to be silenced?
What are we doing here? Are we trying to be “rational” once again with people who want us to suppress the facts and reason itself? Just like in Covid and when the facts are so blatant for anyone see if they would only look? Are we not dealing with people who in their view can do no wrong simply because they have the power and the money to say and do what they want, people who even take credit for starting the war against Iran, think they have an absolute right to get rid of the unwanted in their midst, and behave as if there should be no consequence to any of their crimes. Are we not to think that Gaza is a prelude to what they intend for all non-compliant non-Jews in the Levant and in Iran? Are not their efforts to suppress free speech much like pouring gasoline on the fires of protest which they instigated?
Are they so in control of the media, our government and finances that unless we comply and shut up with their designs they will snuff us out as well?
Is it the case that Jews are pushing the non-Jewish inhabitants all over the Middle East off of their lands for Jewish settlements, using the pretext that they need an exclusive homeland from the ravages of neo-Nazi-like antisemitism driving them from their cushy homes and jobs in the West, where they claim to own and control our nations? Why if they are so exclusive in their thinking and pursuits that they expect those whom they regard as inferior and whom they exclude to include them in their likes? If we are to revile and condemn an Eichmann and Nazi Germany for their his crimes against Jews, how is it that we must refrain from condemning Netanyahu and Israel for their crimes against non-Jews?
Right now I happen to think that the USA is the crime capital of the world which has institutionalized every major crime under the sun. I happen to think, know and say that all of the major mass deceptions and wars of plunder since WWII were hatched in that nation. I suppose I could be called and “anti-American”, but the only thing I despise are their wrongs, which is no different from all of the good Americans trying to expose the evils and cleanse their nation, whom we regard as superbly “pro-American”. The reason I find them “good” is because I subscribe to the same universal value system telling me what is morally right and wrong.
Now, if an American were to say that Canada is an amoral, spineless, commie shitass nation, then as a Canadian I would likely think I had an ally. If he came from a better nation and wanted to send a few divisions of the Marines up here to clean it out I likely would welcome them, and even help them. However, in the present state of the US and it being more of the “great Satan” of the world, as well as a few degrees more advanced in criminality, I would think that any effort to “free” Canada from its evils coming from the US right not would be more like an Israeli land and resource grab. In that regard I would have to say that person or nation wanting to conquer Canada to propagate or supplant its own much more corrupt value system would be “anti-Canadian”.
The same can be said for the Jews. If our criticisms are “corrective” that we hope that they will behold a better value system of fair play, trust building, and not that of dominance, exploitation and exclusiveness in walking over the faces of people they regard as inferior, then “true Jews” (those with a better value system) ought to welcome their allies in exposing the evils which are destroying them as well as their victims.
“It got ten thousand shares and almost a million views…” – WOW Caitlyn, I got no shares and see millions of former Australians turned Zionist subjects in less then 4 decades – thanks to the “Entertainment Industry” which of course is/are Zionist. And then C. …. stone goes on: “On social media I’m seeing Zionists trying to revive the debate…” “Social media”, Zionism, capitalism and communism is one unit. But surely Caitlyn knows that fairly well through her “Australian communist past” and it sticks even as an famous Ozzie millionaire and “Spirit guide” on social media: “But that doesn’t mean we are powerless. Our happiness and inner clarity isn’t fully bound to the whims of the ruling class. We can’t fix everything, but we’ve all got a responsibility to do what we can, in our community and in ourselves.”
No, it doesn’t mean “WE” are powerless but WE are definitely hypnotised by millions of different views that enter the little huh-man birdie brains just to create some comfort in what to believe in because all (in life) is so freaking confusing.
How about some great communism and a touch of divine spiritual guidance with that?
That surely will to defend Zionism for good!
The definition of anti-semitism needs to be taken out of the hands of the jews. They will always attach an overly broad, nefarious, and self-serving meaning to the term. Change its definition, and it can become something that is viscerally understood, respected, and promoted. Here’s my definition of the term, which stands in stark contrast to the definitions advanced by the ADL, SPLC, AIPAC, and the hundreds of other jewish supremacist organizations and criminal syndicates.
“Anti-semitism is a natural, wholly-justified response to jewish predation, which exists in many forms, namely: territorial, financial, sexual, cultural, moral, spiritual, intellectual, and corporeal. In short, it’s self-defense.”