{"id":306742,"date":"2025-04-13T06:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T06:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306742"},"modified":"2025-04-15T06:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:37:54","slug":"makow-i-used-to-be-a-zionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306742","title":{"rendered":"Makow- I used to be a Zionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=306544\">Life is routine at this Tel Aviv cafe while a genocide takes place 30 miles away<\/a><\/em><em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HenryMakow.com \u2013 April 11, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>When I was in my twenties, I used to lull myself to sleep\u00a0by imagining I was gunning down &#8220;Palestinian terrorists&#8221;\u00a0who were attacking my kibbutz.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>by Henry Makow PhD<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>I considered immigrating to Israel <\/strong>in 1972 and lived there for nine months.<\/p>\n<p>I went to Labor Zionist summer camps as a youth.<\/p>\n<p>In 1970, I huddled in a bunker at <em>Kibbutz Ashdod Yaakov<\/em> during a mortar attack.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this because I hung out with Zionist Jews when I was young. They were good people.<\/p>\n<p>Charming, warm, funny, smart. I never encountered a pejorative attitude to Gentiles.<\/p>\n<p>What has happened to you?<\/p>\n<p>How can you participate or condone this genocide?<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t you see that the Hamas attack was orchestrated by Netanyahu to justify ethnic cleansing?<\/p>\n<p>The IDF stood down for seven hours to allow the trauma brainwashing to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas was funded by Israel to avert the two-state solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Can&#8217;t you see? You have been duped.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zionists funded Adolf Hitler to trauma brainwash Europe&#8217;s Jews. <strong>Zionists foster antisemitism to control their fellow Jews.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many Jews oppose Israeli barbarism and support the two-state solution. Not all are Soros&#8217; Communist puppets.<\/p>\n<p>Many like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/wkVzs9GCTzA\">Max Blumenthal <\/a>and the folks at <em>Electronic Intifata\u00a0<\/em> are courageous and principled people whom I admire.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CONSIDERED ALIYAH<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrymakow.com\/2025\/04\/makow---i-used-to-be-a-zionist.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in my twenties, I used to lull myself to sleep by imagining I was gunning down &#8220;Palestinian terrorists&#8221; who were attacking my kibbutz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":306546,"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":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","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\/306742","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\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306743,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306742\/revisions\/306743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/306546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}