Dispatches from
STEPHEN LENDMAN
L ong ago, anti-Semitism was an issue in America, very much so when I grew up. No longer. Today it’s in vogue to be Jewish.
Ship flank showing part of the damage. The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty has never been properly investigated.
The measure aims to “codify the definition as one adopted by the US State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.” It disgracefully conflates justifiable criticism of Israel with attempts to “delegitimize” its status as a Jewish state, along with wanting it held accountable for crimes of war, against humanity and other human rights abuses. America and Israel partner in each other’s high crimes. Each fascist regime supports the other.
Netanyahu: He typifies the virulent Jewish supremacist/expansionist model of leadership in Israel, even if his predecessors were not as liberal as the myth would have it.
STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
All three of the semitic religions: judaism, christianity and islam are equally engaged in the politics of war and retribution…. all three of these religions are believers in violence to promote their particular versions of god. There will never be peace between these three religions…. The most effective way to deal with all the endless holy wars, quarreling, crusades, inquisitions, genocides, forced conversions, forced land grabs and violence to to leave this archaic tradition. There are no rights or wrongs…. just violence after violence after violence. Any support for one or other of the quarreling cousins just fuels the flames… Read more »
I am not a jew. I am not a christian. I am not a Muslim… because these three religions founded on the righteousness of violence will be battling with each other, as they have for thousands of years. The victims and the perpetrators change from one century to another, but there are always perpetrators and victims. Bertrand Russell understood the myth of righteousness: “The essence of the conception of righteousness, therefore, is to afford an outlet for sadism by cloaking cruelty as justice” Supporting any one of these three self-righteous religions over the other two may temporarily shift the balance… Read more »