I was not planning on sending a newsletter this week, but not even 24 hours ago, two Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky, a proud Zionist Jew who was a practicing Christian, whose family made aliyah from Germany to Israel, and his girlfriend, Sarah Milgrim, an American Jew, were brutally murdered, at point blank range, outside the Jewish Museum in D.C., while at an American Jewish Committee (AJC) Young Diplomats event.
Two beautiful souls who were set to become engaged in Jerusalem, Israel next week. My heart absolutely breaks for their immediate families. And because Jews are a race, Jews worldwide feel the pain when even one Jew is killed.
The subhuman terrorist, who was shouting ‘free free Palestine’ while being taken into custody, was immediately identified as 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago. Not an Arab most likely given the name. And therein lies the root cause of the antisemitic virus strain we are dealing with today, which has nothing to do with the antisemitism (2,000 years of Christian antisemitism), which culminated in the Holocaust. We are also not dealing with classic Muslim antisemitic lies, that Jews are ‘inferior infidels’ and are ‘the sons of apes and pigs.’ Those still remain and for centuries were the cause of murdered Jews across both Arab and Arab-colonized lands.
What this, the most vitriolic strain in terms of its pervasiveness, has been, since 1967, is the success of the KGB’s Operation SIG campaign, and not one Jewish organization or leader, or even Israeli diplomats, politicians, or any Israeli Prime Minister have done a damn thing to push back against the antisemitic lies part of that propaganda tool, and in fact, have upheld the lies.
For those unfamiliar with Operation SIG, it was created as a backlash to Israel not becoming a vassal Communist state of the USSR and instead aligning with the U.S. during the Cold War. Israel also had the ‘gall’ to win the Six Day War in 1967, which the USSR was convinced beyond measure that it would militarily emerge the victor, by funding Arab armies to attack a tiny nation with a still-fledgling army.
Israel won that war for the same reason Israel won the war in 1948 against the same Arab armies (after brave Jews spent 20 years fighting the British occupiers to drive them out of Israel) — that Jews were defending their homeland, that Israel is not just some country for Jews, it is literally from where Jews emerged from, 4,000 years ago from the Semitic tribes in Judea & Samaria, and then in warrior-fashion, expanded their territory.
The antisemitic Operation SIG campaign utilized Arabs and Western liberals as useful idiots.
Its aim was to steal 1,812 years of Judean history IN Israel (of the 4,000 years) when Jews IN Israel were called Palestinians, while Israel was under various occupations, and appropriated it to the Arab occupiers (no Arab occupier stepped foot in Israel until the 7th century AD, with the majority only coming in between the World Wars).
It lied that Jews are not indigenous to Israel, that Jews are racially White, and that ‘all Jews’ came ‘from Europe’ post Holocaust to steal land from the ‘indigenous’ ‘Palestinians’ aka Arab occupiers. It also painted Israel as a ‘Nazi state’ and a ‘colonizer’ of its own land.
That propaganda was then spread across the Arab world and eventually into liberal Western Academia. Into NGOs, and into the halls of governments.
So when Jews say Palestine, NOT meaning Israel from 136 AD – 1948, Palestinians to NOT mean Jews IN Israel from 136 AD – 1948, or Palestinian-Arabs (Arab occupiers themselves revolted in the 1930s when the British occupiers attempted to call them that, as the moniker was so closely associated with Jews), then those Jews AID in the very antisemitism that has been murdering Jews since 1967.
Many on this very newsletter listserve work for Jewish organizations that uphold the aforementioned antisemitic lies. If you truly care about ‘fighting antisemitism’ then it is incumbent upon you to speak up and change course. This is also coupled with organizations not succumbing to the watered down, ‘all hate’ and focusing on the Holocaust as if that is going to prevent the current virus of Jew-hatred.
*And if not working for a Jewish organization, but are a member of one, equally as important to speak up especially as a donor.*
And yes, putting Palestinians in double quotes or single quotes or saying ‘so called Palestinians’ and the equally as egregious ‘Palis’ are all part of the antisemitic propaganda. Unless, again, you mean Jews IN Israel from 136 AD – 1948.
While the Holocaust is important to remember and to teach, it only matters to Jews and those liberal Israel-haters who are against living Jews in the Jewish homeland but pat themselves on the back for ‘caring’ about murdered Jews from WWII – and only because they falsely believe that the Nazis were ‘right wing.’
There are three major strains of antisemitism, and it is time to finally start pushing back on the current predominant form, and certainly not aiding in it.
The murders last evening were also of course the result of chants to ‘globalize the Intifada.’ Antisemitic university excuse- for- Presidents all have Jewish blood on their hands, as do antisemitic Mayors like the joke in Chicago who has worn keffiyas (a modern-day symbol of Nazism, plus a garment that was literally stolen from Judeans as a symbol of our identity and then bastardized). More ‘mainstream’ Mayors like NYC’s Eric Adams also has Judean blood on his hands by allowing all the pro-terrorist protests to continue. It is no American’s right to march chanting to genocide Jews and to assault Jews for the past 19 months. He is now pandering to libtard Jews who believe his ‘Antisemitic Task Force’ will do anything after unrelenting Jew-hatred since the Jewish genocide.
What needs to happen, and I have vocally criticized the current Trump Administration for not going far enough – freezing, not pulling, $400 million from Columbia, when they have a near $15 billion endowment, does absolutely nothing. Freezing, not pulling, federal funding from the litany of other universities also has no real effect. The federal response should be as follows:
All federal funding pulled from the 60 identified schools on the ’hot list’ identified by Leo Terrell’s Taskforce to Combat Antisemitism. Further, ALL students and faculty who are involved with JVP, yes a Jewish group, IFNotNow (another Jewish terrorist group), SJP, CAIR, Within Our Lifetime, JStreet, MSA, and all the other alphabet soup Jew-hating groups have to be on the FBI’s terrorist watch list, included on the no-fly list, and for the leaders of those groups on all campuses, hefty fines issued, enough to bankrupt most of their families, along with actual prison time for the violent instigators. Only then, will antisemitic actions not be seen as permissible.
* Finally today, DHS Secretary Noem has revoked Harvard’s ability to continue its Foreign students program. Again, great baby step, but we need the full force of the American government to squash the violent antisemitism on college campuses. Losing accreditation is another powerful option.
Instead, Jews on both sides of the aisle have been crying that President Trump is making Machiavellian moves with both Syria (Israel was kept abreast of all developments, and in fact, then engaged in peace talks with Syria separately in Azerbaijan, moderated by the UAE) and Qatar. Qatar, a terrorist Gulf state that needed to be pivoted away from Iran and China (which is also a terrorist nation). Neither President Trump nor anyone on his team is unaware the nature of Qatar. Universities have been accepting money from Qatar for decades without nary a voice of concern. And yes, I agree that accepting the Qatari plane, which was first initiated by Jihad Joe’s team, was a shady look. However, in the Middle East refusing gifts is seen as an affront. With 58 hostages still remaining in Gaza, who knows the ramifications of refusing the plane.
America embedded the largest military base in the Middle East in Qatar. To dismantle it, would make Qatar a rogue terrorist military state like Iran. I do disagree about ‘peace talks’ with Iran; the regime should have been overthrown years ago by both America and Israel, not directly, but by aiding the 80% of Iranians who are against their own terrorist regime.
But when the most recent Pope and the newly chosen Pope (same antisemitic continuation) post on social media about the fake humanitarian crisis (I don’t recall other warzones having full restaurants, markets, and even numerous operating ice cream shops), that is also incitement. If Israel truly wanted to win this war, there would have been a full siege over a year ago.
Weakening Hamas will not prevent a future Jewish genocide, even if Israel will take over Gaza militarily; Bibi has not mentioned anything about Israel reclaiming its land and obliterating the murderous Arab occupiers – as the Allies proceeded against the population in Nazi epicenters during WWII. That, history applauds, but god forbid Jews take action against those who have been murdering Jews in our very homeland. If Israel will allow any Arab group to administer Jewish Gaza post-war, we will be looking at more Jewish genocides. How no one can understand that is beyond comprehension.
It is also incitement against Jews when the defeated-by-Islam nations of France, Spain, and the UK lie that Israel is enacting some ‘genocide’ – last I checked, a genocide means an extermination attempt of a group solely based on religion, faith, or race. The Arab occupiers in Jewish Gaza being bombed to avert the next Jewish genocide, does not fit that definition whatsoever, especially when the IDF has been targeting known terrorists. Blame Hamas for using human shields, from within a population that even recently has overtly supported this particular terrorist organization, voted for it enthusiastically, and prior to Hamas, was championing Fatah, and other terrorist groups hell-bent on murdering Jews.
But where are the Zionist Jews and allies? Your silence is deafening to push back against the antisemitic lies. No programming by any Jewish organization, across the sector, has risen to the occasion to properly educate their constituency effectively, so that at the very least Zionist Jews are not aiding in the very lies that have been murdering Jews since 1967. It’s been an abject failure from all.
I was tuning in to FOX News not long after the news of the murders broke. The program invited on five prominent Jews to comment. Not one used that opportunity to dispel any of the lies fueling the murderous propaganda.
Jews and our allies need to expunge the following from their vocabularies, unless meaning, again, Jews IN Israel from 136 AD – 1948:
- Palestinians
- Palestine (unless meaning Israel from 136 AD – 1948)
- Palestinian-Arabs; this is a historically nonsensical term; Arab occupiers, in any part of Israel (which includes Jordan), never called themselves that and like mentioned, revolted when the British occupiers attempted that moniker. They called themselves Arabs and until the mid 1940’s, even preferred the term, ‘South Syrians.’
- West Bank
- Settlements
- Settlers
- Green line (unless explaining how it was a halt line and never any antisemitic border marker)
- Disputed territories (EMET of all organizations along with StandwithUS both use those antisemitic terms).
- Palis
- So-called Palestinians
- Gazans – this term upholds the falsehood that the Arab occupiers in Jewish Gaza are FROM Gaza. No Jew who lived in Gaza from 145 BC – 2005, with very brief interruptions, was ever called a Gazan, as Jews are not ‘from Gaza.’ Jews conquered Gaza twice, in both 145 BC and 100 BC, and the territory was officially added to the Kingdom of Judah, long-ago affirmed as part of the map of Israel, which was certified as the Jewish homeland by the San Remo Accords in 1920, before Churchill stole 78% of our homeland in 1922.
* Most of the Arab occupiers in Jewish Gaza are from Egypt and the others are former Israeli-Arabs (who came to Israel from 25 different nations), who fled to Gaza once Egypt seized control, in order to help the Arab armies kill Jews faster. Some were forced to flee to Gaza by the very same Arab armies.
* Zionism fact of the week: When Emir Faisal, the Arab representative to the League of Nations in 1918, was asked if the Arabs had any interest in Palestine, he replied no, that is Jewish land, and Arabs do not want one inch of it. He even managed to convince members of the French delegation to change their minds on granting sovereignty to Jews in their homeland, Israel (Palestine as it was called from 136 AD – 1948. The Romans took the Greek term for Judea – a term in use by the Greeks, Palestina, dating back to the 5th century BC)
