{"id":286413,"date":"2024-04-26T07:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=286413"},"modified":"2024-04-27T05:11:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T05:11:03","slug":"students-are-taking-the-lead-in-denouncing-gaza-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=286413","title":{"rendered":"Students Are Taking the Lead in Denouncing Gaza Atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip Giraldi \u2013 The Unz Review Apr 25, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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If you were wondering why or how the mainstream media coverage of what is taking place in Gaza is so slanted as to make it look like a real war between two well-armed and competitive adversaries instead of a massacre of civilians, wonder no longer! A leak has exposed a New York Times<\/em> internal document that provides editorial guidance<\/a> about words that should not be used in any article relating to Gaza or to Palestine. They include \u201cgenocide,\u201d \u201cethnic cleansing,\u201d \u201coccupied territory,\u201d and even \u201cPalestine\u201d itself. The intent is clearly to eliminate any words with negative connotations what might be applied in some fashion to Israel and to what Israel is doing, even going so far as to not include any suggestion that Palestine itself might be considered a legitimate political entity. At the same time the media is letting be heard arguments that Israelis killing Palestinians is justified as they are all \u201cterrorists,\u201d even the little ones who will grow up to become enemies of Israel and Jews worldwide.<\/p>\n

To a large extent, it is the Zionists themselves that created the need to censor the language being used to describe developments between Israel and its neighbors and that is because Israel, which de facto and illegally occupies all of historic Palestine, made itself de jure \u201cthe nation state of the Jewish people\u201d back in 2018 in spite of its Christian and Muslim citizens which, at the time, amounted to something like 20% of the population. To put it simply, a Jewish state cannot also be a democracy for all of its citizens any more that the US can be a Christian state, so it is necessary to divert attention away from that paradox. And there are other degrees of unpleasantness that spring from that necessity, including the fact that devout Jewish believers actually do follow the ten commandments, including \u201cThou shall not kill!\u201d while Israel has been doing nothing but killing since its foundation as well as plenty of violations of \u201cThou shall not steal\u201d and \u201cThou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor!\u201d So instead of behaving better and trying to live peaceably with its neighbors, the \u201cJewish state\u201d opted instead to cultivate a partly mythical saga of victimhood referred to as the \u201cHolocaust\u201d and to label all of its lethal overreactions as legitimate \u201cright to defend itself\u201d responses. This in turn has spawned another line of defense, what has become the virtual industry which might be referred as the pursuit of \u201cantisemitism.\u201d And to make it really dangerous for the average American citizens who still believe that it is possible to criticize the behavior of foreign countries, the chant of \u201cantisemitism\u201d has been picked up wholeheartedly by the politicians and it is being turned into laws particularly at state levels to punish people who attempt to criticize Israel. National level politicians in Congress are also submitting draft laws that would apply similar restraints throughout the country so it will inevitably be goodbye the First Amendment\u2019s guarantee of freedom of speech.<\/p>\n

The current unrest of pro-Palestinian \u201cencampments\u201d and \u201cliberated zones\u201d at 33 college campuses in the US protesting against what is clearly a genocide taking place in Gaza by calling for a ceasefire and a halt to institutional investment in Israel as well as a suspension of ties to Israeli government educational bodies. The movement is, as a consequence, being assiduously labeled a manifestation of \u201cantisemitism\u201d by Congress, by Joe Biden in the White House and by nearly all of the mainstream media. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responding to the unrest, is saying, inevitably, that \u201cantisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities<\/a>\u201d similar to Nazi rallies in the 1930s and he called for a major security crackdown<\/a> on the demonstrators. And it should be observed how the reaction by the universities has been fairly consistent, i.e. to shut down Palestinians groups or speakers on campus while leaving Jewish groups supporting Israel\u2019s actions alone, indicating clearly that this has not been an even-handed response to political unrest. The House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has made his pro-Israel sentiments very clear, spoke at<\/a> Columbia University, where the movement began, on Wednesday and dismissed suggestions that the protests were legally protected free speech. He was addressing what he thought were \u201cJewish students\u201d but was nevertheless heckled by demonstrators as he said the university must restore order on campus and had \u201cfailed to protect Jewish students amid concerns about antisemitism on and around campus. This is dangerous. We respect free speech, we respect diversity of ideas, but there is a way to do that in a lawful manner and that\u2019s not what this is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Columbia University administration, Johnson asked plaintively whether \u201cThey cannot even guarantee the safety of Jewish students? They\u2019re expected to run for their lives and stay home from class? It\u2019s just, it\u2019s maddening.\u201d If the Speaker had done a little more investigating he would have learned that nearly all alleged instances of \u201cantisemitism\u201d on campus have been greatly exaggerated by organizations like the Anti-Definition League (ADL), whose Director Jonathan Greenblatt has been a prime rabble rouser in calling for criminal charges against all those he accuses of \u201chating Jews.\u201d Neither Greenblatt nor Johnson, himself a Christian Zionist, is evidently troubled at all by the fact that Israel has slaughtered likely well upwards of 40,000 unarmed civilians, including many children. It is a death toll that includes the torture and killing of prisoners execution style, mass graves of victims and the deliberate destruction of hospitals, schools and churches. It even encompasses the removal of organs from captives and cadavers for transplant, for which product Israel has a well-known and highly developed international clientele. But such details are regarded as unproven or even as an irrelevancy to Greenblatt and Johnson, as is the reality that many American Jews<\/a> possessing consciences are participating in the demonstrations. They presumably will soon be labeled as \u201cself-hating Jews\u201d to make the approved narrative complete.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to ignore what a monster Israel has become under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his band of thugs. When Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir responded to reports<\/a> that Israel has run out of jail room for its circa 10,000 Palestinian prisoners by saying the solution was to take some of them out and kill them to make more room, there was no response from Washington. Perhaps a better solution would be to free the majority of those prisoners, who are being detained without charges, since imprisoning people without due process is considered to be unacceptable in most \u201crule of law\u201d civilized countries, which Israel and Joe Biden\u2019s US consider themselves to be but manifestly are not.<\/p>\n

So, I welcome the student rebellion against Israeli atrocities even though they have already been confronting a massive wave of oppression from the school authorities and even from alumni who are withholding donations and also forming groups that will advise prospective employers of the names of students who are regarded as anti-Israel, presumably denying them employment after graduation. The universities themselves are engaging in suspension or expulsion of the protesters, including an email sent<\/a> by Princeton University to all students on Wednesday threatening that students participating in Pro-Palestinian protests like those at Columbia, Yale and other universities would be subject to \u201carrest and being immediately barred\u201d from campus followed by expulsion. Meanwhile the civil authorities will be called upon to continue to arrest protesters, when necessary, using both police and the National Guard resources. It all recalls the shooting of nonviolent student demonstrators at Kent State University<\/a> 54 years ago! Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a major recipient of Israel Lobby money, is advocating<\/a> that demonstrators, whom he describes as \u201cpro-Hamas criminals,\u201d be confronted by angry citizens who ought to \u201ctake matters into [their] own hands\u201d and directly punish the offenders.<\/p>\n

And meanwhile the government of this fair country, which has become the full-time defender of Israel, will be bleating in unison that the demonstrators are \u201cantisemites\u201d and even Hamas-aligned \u201cterrorists,\u201d demeaning them to such an extent that anything done to them will be considered okay by the media and opinion makers. There will not be a critical word uttered about what Israel is doing apart from vague Biden-esque appeals to take some \u201chumanitarian\u201d steps to kill less, which are routinely ignored by Netanyahu. On the contrary, Congress and Biden are rewarding Israel for its behavior with their recent foreign aid grant of $26 billion to rearm the Jewish state, which an in-debt Washington can no longer afford even though Biden claims that<\/a> the gift will \u201cmake the world safer\u201d and be remembered as a \u201cgood day for world peace.\u201d Ironically, part of the money is intended for \u201chumanitarian aid\u201d which might suggest something for the Palestinians, but as the US refuses to deal with the UN assistance agency (UNRWA) and most certainly will not work with what remains of existing formerly Hamas government in Gaza, Israel will no doubt limit and control the aid, just as it is doing now, before pocketing all of the leftover cash. How Israel treats the United States as a chattel, a source of money, weapons and unlimited political cover without providing anything at all in return apart from constant unrest and complicity in crimes against humanity is what the real tale should be all about. One can only hope that the courage of the students who have begun some pushback with their encampment at Columbia will produce some understanding among the American public of how uncritical deference to Israeli \u201cneeds\u201d and interests has seriously corrupted the United States and might well lead to the brink of ruin for both countries.<\/p>\n

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

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One can only hope that the courage of the students who have begun some pushback with their encampment at Columbia will produce some understanding among the American public of how uncritical deference to Israeli \u201cneeds\u201d and interests has seriously corrupted the U.S. and might well lead to the brink of ruin for both countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286414,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286413\/revisions\/286414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}