Trump and his Zionist backers have driven the penultimate loyal American out of the US Congress. Thomas Massie has represented the Fourth District of Kentucky in the House of Representatives since 2012. The Fourth District includes Louisville’s suburbs that extend over northeastern Kentucky. The Suburbanites fell victim to the Israeli-Trump propaganda…
Is Zionism not, to some extent, an excrescence of Judaism? Why the near-religious divide between Zionism and Judaism? And, am I permitted at all even to ask? ~ilana Pro-Palestine commentators and activists, Jews and non-Jews, are religious about maintaining a bifurcation—a divide—between Judaism and Zionism. Advocates of this duality…
Ed Gallrein wins the Kentucky Primary, possibly the most expensive in House history. Yesterday the Times of Israel published a good analysis of the Kentucky Republican primary between beloved incumbent, Thomas Massie, and challenger, Ed Gallrein. As the report’s opening paragraph put it: A closely-watched Republican congressional…
Two weeks ago, something happened. Something that would have dominated headlines for a month in 2005. Something people would have talked about at dinner, argued about at work, and processed over time. But you can’t remember what it was. Can you? That’s not a memory problem. That’s what I’ve…
One of the main political developments of the past decade has been the rise of populism, even if its roots can be traced further back, perhaps to the 1990s and the rise of the Freedom Party of Austria under Jörg Haider. The larger breakthroughs, however, came in the 2010s…
I have been in contact with a friend who is privy to a source in West Asia that has some interesting insights into the behind the scenes activity to prevent a new US attack on Iran. Russia and China are busy trying to erect a new security architecture in…
Set the scene. A massive military presence halfway around the world. American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines on a wartime footing under a social media lockdown. Old and angry, the US President publicly threatens to “end” things for another country, and then does it. In the proud tradition of another…
The magnet effect is real—and fatally undermines the “housing first” narrative. os Angeles hosts the nation’s largest unsheltered homeless population. In recent years, despite billions in city and county spending, L.A.’s once-pristine streets have become littered with tents, drugs, and feces. City leaders have made elaborate promises about managing the homeless…
On Insects As a Delivery System, and “Beneficial Bloodsucking.” A few summers ago I gave consideration to moving to Florida or Texas. This was 2021 when it felt like there was a collective madness in my hometown of New York City. If you remember that moment, you remember the…
Instead of the carrot-and-stick approach, Trump may use the stick and stick approach. The senator from South Carolina has taken an idea from the Zionist playbook. It’s called the “Circle of Death.” In Gaza, the Zionists use yellow lines. The lines are invisible and when hapless Palestinians—men, women, children—straggle…
