A colleague and occasional radio guest wrote: \u201cConflating Jews with Zionists is what Zionists do best. How could you?!!! You are, effectively, on THEIR side when you repeat their most important fundamental lie.\u201d Other commentators made similar points, arguing for \u201cdamn the ZIONISTS!\u201d instead.<\/p>\n
My initial response was: \u201cDid you read the article? The title is in quotes! It is a translation of the Houthi slogan! The article is (dark) humor!!!\u201d My old friend admitted she hadn\u2019t read the article and was just reacting to the headline. Others had read it but still found it offensive. I asked whether I should engage in some \u201cliterary self-criticism.\u201d Several said \u201cyes!\u201d So here we go.<\/p>\n
Literary Self-Criticism<\/strong><\/h2>\nSome writers, like Joyce, Kafka, and Pynchon, have whole industries of scholars interpreting their oeuvres<\/em>. Others, like me, are condemned to self-exegesis, which I suppose is better than having no exegetes at all.<\/p>\nAs Mikhail Bakhtin might say if he were alive and employed by a university that paid him to interpret the works of Kevin Barrett, \u201cDamn the Jews!\u201d is polyphonic<\/a>. That means that the same phrase (\u201cdamn the Jews!\u201d) includes echoes of different, opposing voices that impose different meanings on those words. In the title of my article, I put that phrase in quotation marks, a sign that someone else is saying them, to help readers figure that out.<\/p>\nFrom a Houthi perspective, and indeed from an Arab and Muslim perspective generally, \u201cdamn the Jews\u201d or \u201ca curse upon the Jews\u201d or however you want to translate \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0639\u0646\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0648\u062f isn\u2019t shocking or controversial, any more than a circa-1944 American saying \u201cdamn the Germans\u201d would have been to Americans ears of that era. The Arab and Muslim worlds have effectively been at war with Israel and organized Jewry ever since the Jewish State\u2019s genocide of Palestine began in earnest in 1947-1948\u2014just like the American state was at war with the German state in 1944.<\/p>\n
If you were an American who said \u201cdamn the Germans\u201d in 1944, would anyone have taken offense? Would they have insisted \u201cyou should damn the Nazis, not all Germans! After all, there are good Germans and bad Germans\u2026\u201d I doubt it. Though there was and is a theoretical distinction between the German nation, consisting of all ethnically-German people, and the German state, few Americans cared much about that distinction in 1944, any more than most Arabs and Muslims care about the distinction between \u201cthe Jews\u201d and the Jewish State today. That\u2019s why saying \u201cdamn the Jews\u201d in an Arab or Muslim context is uncontroversial.<\/p>\n
Though I\u2019m living in Morocco, where few are bothered by the Houthi anti-Jewish slogan, I write for an international anglophone audience dominated by Americans, but including a fair number of Arabs and Muslims from around the world. So I am hyper-aware that a phrase like \u201cdamn the Jews\u201d is going to sound very different to different ears.<\/p>\n
Americans, whose government underwrites the genocidal Jewish State, and who get their views from the Jewish-dominated media<\/a>, have been trained to be hypersensitive to mythical <\/a>\u201canti-Semitism.\u201d In the USA, say anything remotely negative about Jews and your career and reputation will be destroyed. Americans internalize this taboo against \u201canti-Semitism\u201d and start sweating bullets when they hear something like \u201cdamn the Jews.\u201d It\u2019s a Pavlovian, emotionally-driven reaction. (Oddly, the same people who freak out about \u201cdamn the Jews\u201d are muttering \u201cdamn the Russians\u201d at cocktail parties. Don\u2019t they know that it isn\u2019t all<\/em> Russians?!)<\/p>\nPolyphony, specifically the tension between conflicting understandings of the same words, easily shades into humor. It\u2019s darkly funny, when you think about it, that Americans and Arabs\/Muslims react to \u201cdamn the Jews\u201d in such radically different ways. (It\u2019s also rather hilarious that Americans have been so completely and utterly brainwashed by the Jewish cowboys running herd on their goyim cattle<\/a>, in the immortal words of Revilo P. Oliver\u2014but that joke is on the Americans\u2026and the Jews, sorry, I mean the cowboys, are laughing all the way to the bank.)<\/p>\nSo to recap: My article \u201cDamn the Jews!\u201d playfully addresses the humorous incongruity between the way two cultures \u201chear\u201d the Houthi slogan in general, and its fourth line in particular. The standard translation \u201cA curse upon the Jews\u201d is hilarious, as my article attempts to convey, because it is simultaneously so clunkily archaic and so \u201canti-Semitically\u201d transgressive. That\u2019s why I offered the Houthis tongue-in-cheek PR advice, and solicited my readers to offer more.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\nThe Moral of the Story<\/strong><\/h2>\nSo my article did not damn all Jews. It skewered Americans and Westerners for their complicity in Zionist genocide, sought to help them become conscious of the pro-Jewish brainwashing that has led them to complicity in genocide, gently teased the Houthis and their translators, and generally sought higher awareness through laughter, sort of like Swami Beyondanonda <\/a>does, but in a darker key.<\/p>\nExcerpt from Yesterday\u2019s Richie Allen<\/a> Interview (whole show archived above)<\/strong><\/p>\nRichie Allen: You converted to Islam, you\u2019re a Muslim. What does it mean to you knowing, does it mean anything, that so many Jewish people completely condemn and abhor this and say not in their name and yet they never get a chance when talk TV shows here in the UK and radio shows want to discuss it. As far as people are concerned Jewish people are all for this (genocide) but they\u2019re not Kevin, not the Jewish people I know.<\/strong><\/p>\nKevin Barrett: Not the Jewish people I know either. I have probably a disproportionate share of Jewish radio guests. People who are always concerned about issues related to Jewish power often harp on the disproportionate presence of Jews in this or that sector, with of course the media being the number one focus. But hey, my radio show is part of the media, and I\u2019m pretty sure that more than 2% of my guests have some kind of Jewish background.<\/p>\n
And I suppose that\u2019s just because I look for the most interesting people who have something worthwhile to say that\u2019s outside the box. And there are probably, it\u2019s just going to be a little bit disproportionately people of Jewish background. And that\u2019s cool with me. And the vast majority of those people are pretty much as horrified as I am, if not more so.<\/p>\n
I think this does illustrate, Richie, the way that Jewish tribal power has always had a kind of an inner layer as well as an outer layer that kind of bleeds off into the surrounding communities. And the inner lair is fanatically tribal and utterly brainwashed. That\u2019s \u201cour Uncle Mortimer who reads the New York Times every morning and the only thing he cares about is, is it good for the Jews?\u201d And then there\u2019s somebody else in the family that is a much more critical thinker and much more open-minded and probably is going to go off and marry a non-Jewish person. And in another couple of generations, their descendants may not even count themselves as Jewish anymore, but the descendants of Mortimer certainly will.<\/p>\n
And so you\u2019ve had this tribal power configuration passed down through the centuries. And today let\u2019s face the fact, Richie, that yes, if we poll Jewish people in the West, we\u2019re going to find a very large number that are against this genocide. Not so in Israel, of course. But at the same time, the powerful part of the Jewish tribe, let\u2019s say Jewish tribal power, is pro-genocide. That is, the Biden administration, as liberal and democratic as it\u2019s supposed to be, is pro-genocide. They have power. And on the other side, the Republican Jews, who are getting vast amounts of (Jewish-Zionist) money, are even more rabidly pro-genocide. So the Jews with power are largely pro-genocide, and the Jews without power are largely anti-genocide.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\nCheck out the stories False Flag Weekly News will cover, then watch the show after 1 pm Eastern tomorrow, HERE<\/a>. Cat McGuire will be the commentator.<\/p>\nPoll Result: No Paywall Wins!<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe comments and emails were overwhelmingly anti-paywall. I was moved by the people whose financial circumstances make it hard for them to support my work. Here is one example:<\/p>\n
Hi Kevin, we have met on a number of occasions and events but not for some time. I live in Seattle. I was at an event on Mercer Island and later at a Methodist church in the university district the last time. It has been at least 10 plus years. Before that I saw you at a couple of 9\/11 events. I gave you some cash at those times. I agree you should earn an income. Now I live on a pension and savings so I\u2019m stingy with my money. So what\u2019s the solution.<\/p>\n
The best solution I can think of is to go no-paywall, and trust the honor and generosity of the people who can afford to subscribe. If you\u2019re one of my paid subscribers, from now on you\u2019ll be a patron, not a customer, and your subscription fee will be a gift, not a purchase. You\u2019ll be helping me reach a larger audience, and you\u2019ll be helping those among my audience who are hard-up to read and spread my work. So\u2026thank you! May your kindness and generosity be rewarded.<\/p>\n
As Mikhail Bakhtin might say if he were alive and employed by a university that paid him to interpret the works of Kevin Barrett, \u201cDamn the Jews!\u201d is polyphonic<\/a>. That means that the same phrase (\u201cdamn the Jews!\u201d) includes echoes of different, opposing voices that impose different meanings on those words. In the title of my article, I put that phrase in quotation marks, a sign that someone else is saying them, to help readers figure that out.<\/p>\n From a Houthi perspective, and indeed from an Arab and Muslim perspective generally, \u201cdamn the Jews\u201d or \u201ca curse upon the Jews\u201d or however you want to translate \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0639\u0646\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0648\u062f isn\u2019t shocking or controversial, any more than a circa-1944 American saying \u201cdamn the Germans\u201d would have been to Americans ears of that era. The Arab and Muslim worlds have effectively been at war with Israel and organized Jewry ever since the Jewish State\u2019s genocide of Palestine began in earnest in 1947-1948\u2014just like the American state was at war with the German state in 1944.<\/p>\n If you were an American who said \u201cdamn the Germans\u201d in 1944, would anyone have taken offense? Would they have insisted \u201cyou should damn the Nazis, not all Germans! After all, there are good Germans and bad Germans\u2026\u201d I doubt it. Though there was and is a theoretical distinction between the German nation, consisting of all ethnically-German people, and the German state, few Americans cared much about that distinction in 1944, any more than most Arabs and Muslims care about the distinction between \u201cthe Jews\u201d and the Jewish State today. That\u2019s why saying \u201cdamn the Jews\u201d in an Arab or Muslim context is uncontroversial.<\/p>\n Though I\u2019m living in Morocco, where few are bothered by the Houthi anti-Jewish slogan, I write for an international anglophone audience dominated by Americans, but including a fair number of Arabs and Muslims from around the world. So I am hyper-aware that a phrase like \u201cdamn the Jews\u201d is going to sound very different to different ears.<\/p>\n Americans, whose government underwrites the genocidal Jewish State, and who get their views from the Jewish-dominated media<\/a>, have been trained to be hypersensitive to mythical <\/a>\u201canti-Semitism.\u201d In the USA, say anything remotely negative about Jews and your career and reputation will be destroyed. Americans internalize this taboo against \u201canti-Semitism\u201d and start sweating bullets when they hear something like \u201cdamn the Jews.\u201d It\u2019s a Pavlovian, emotionally-driven reaction. (Oddly, the same people who freak out about \u201cdamn the Jews\u201d are muttering \u201cdamn the Russians\u201d at cocktail parties. Don\u2019t they know that it isn\u2019t all<\/em> Russians?!)<\/p>\n Polyphony, specifically the tension between conflicting understandings of the same words, easily shades into humor. It\u2019s darkly funny, when you think about it, that Americans and Arabs\/Muslims react to \u201cdamn the Jews\u201d in such radically different ways. (It\u2019s also rather hilarious that Americans have been so completely and utterly brainwashed by the Jewish cowboys running herd on their goyim cattle<\/a>, in the immortal words of Revilo P. Oliver\u2014but that joke is on the Americans\u2026and the Jews, sorry, I mean the cowboys, are laughing all the way to the bank.)<\/p>\n So to recap: My article \u201cDamn the Jews!\u201d playfully addresses the humorous incongruity between the way two cultures \u201chear\u201d the Houthi slogan in general, and its fourth line in particular. The standard translation \u201cA curse upon the Jews\u201d is hilarious, as my article attempts to convey, because it is simultaneously so clunkily archaic and so \u201canti-Semitically\u201d transgressive. That\u2019s why I offered the Houthis tongue-in-cheek PR advice, and solicited my readers to offer more.<\/p>\n So my article did not damn all Jews. It skewered Americans and Westerners for their complicity in Zionist genocide, sought to help them become conscious of the pro-Jewish brainwashing that has led them to complicity in genocide, gently teased the Houthis and their translators, and generally sought higher awareness through laughter, sort of like Swami Beyondanonda <\/a>does, but in a darker key.<\/p>\n Excerpt from Yesterday\u2019s Richie Allen<\/a> Interview (whole show archived above)<\/strong><\/p>\n Richie Allen: You converted to Islam, you\u2019re a Muslim. What does it mean to you knowing, does it mean anything, that so many Jewish people completely condemn and abhor this and say not in their name and yet they never get a chance when talk TV shows here in the UK and radio shows want to discuss it. As far as people are concerned Jewish people are all for this (genocide) but they\u2019re not Kevin, not the Jewish people I know.<\/strong><\/p>\n Kevin Barrett: Not the Jewish people I know either. I have probably a disproportionate share of Jewish radio guests. People who are always concerned about issues related to Jewish power often harp on the disproportionate presence of Jews in this or that sector, with of course the media being the number one focus. But hey, my radio show is part of the media, and I\u2019m pretty sure that more than 2% of my guests have some kind of Jewish background.<\/p>\n And I suppose that\u2019s just because I look for the most interesting people who have something worthwhile to say that\u2019s outside the box. And there are probably, it\u2019s just going to be a little bit disproportionately people of Jewish background. And that\u2019s cool with me. And the vast majority of those people are pretty much as horrified as I am, if not more so.<\/p>\n I think this does illustrate, Richie, the way that Jewish tribal power has always had a kind of an inner layer as well as an outer layer that kind of bleeds off into the surrounding communities. And the inner lair is fanatically tribal and utterly brainwashed. That\u2019s \u201cour Uncle Mortimer who reads the New York Times every morning and the only thing he cares about is, is it good for the Jews?\u201d And then there\u2019s somebody else in the family that is a much more critical thinker and much more open-minded and probably is going to go off and marry a non-Jewish person. And in another couple of generations, their descendants may not even count themselves as Jewish anymore, but the descendants of Mortimer certainly will.<\/p>\n And so you\u2019ve had this tribal power configuration passed down through the centuries. And today let\u2019s face the fact, Richie, that yes, if we poll Jewish people in the West, we\u2019re going to find a very large number that are against this genocide. Not so in Israel, of course. But at the same time, the powerful part of the Jewish tribe, let\u2019s say Jewish tribal power, is pro-genocide. That is, the Biden administration, as liberal and democratic as it\u2019s supposed to be, is pro-genocide. They have power. And on the other side, the Republican Jews, who are getting vast amounts of (Jewish-Zionist) money, are even more rabidly pro-genocide. So the Jews with power are largely pro-genocide, and the Jews without power are largely anti-genocide.<\/p>\n Check out the stories False Flag Weekly News will cover, then watch the show after 1 pm Eastern tomorrow, HERE<\/a>. Cat McGuire will be the commentator.<\/p>\n The comments and emails were overwhelmingly anti-paywall. I was moved by the people whose financial circumstances make it hard for them to support my work. Here is one example:<\/p>\n Hi Kevin, we have met on a number of occasions and events but not for some time. I live in Seattle. I was at an event on Mercer Island and later at a Methodist church in the university district the last time. It has been at least 10 plus years. Before that I saw you at a couple of 9\/11 events. I gave you some cash at those times. I agree you should earn an income. Now I live on a pension and savings so I\u2019m stingy with my money. So what\u2019s the solution.<\/p>\n The best solution I can think of is to go no-paywall, and trust the honor and generosity of the people who can afford to subscribe. If you\u2019re one of my paid subscribers, from now on you\u2019ll be a patron, not a customer, and your subscription fee will be a gift, not a purchase. You\u2019ll be helping me reach a larger audience, and you\u2019ll be helping those among my audience who are hard-up to read and spread my work. So\u2026thank you! May your kindness and generosity be rewarded.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe Moral of the Story<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nPoll Result: No Paywall Wins!<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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