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The Holiest Hatred
We should think deeply about the aesthetics of anti-Zionist ritual – about how much it owes to the liturgical imagination of Christian Europe, where the sacred victim is elevated for adoration and the scapegoat is driven back into exile. Christ is paraded before the crowd in agony, while the Jew is cast out as the enemy of love.
In the anti-Zionist moral cosmology, the “suffering Palestinian” has become the consecrated victim whose pain redeems the sins of empire, while the Jew, displaced from that role, is rendered the contaminant to be expelled. This figure functions as the key symbol through which anti-Zionism unifies all the world’s evils into its constructed image of “Israel,” the source of all wrong. The claim that Jesus was Palestinian is not only a silly anachronism. It’s also a symbolic anchor.
Like the coming together of two rivers, the Islamist figure of the shahid – the martyr, suicide bomber, and human shield – now flows seamlessly into the icon of the Palestinian Christ, until West and East resonate together in one shared cult of death.
These symbols, tropes, and rhetorics form the backbone of anti-Zionist ideology: its sacrament of accusation, its passion play rewritten for the age of NGOs, academic conferences, and algorithmic amplification.
Anti-Zionism has gone institutional, now woven into the worldview of Western elites, which frames the expulsion of the Jewish state from the community of nations not as a tragic necessity, but as a redemptive consummation -proof that the world still knows how to purify itself through pogroms and revolution.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/holiest-hatred-antisemitism
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The whole essay is superb. Historical context, analogies that illuminate the threat we all face today. This whole dynamic was a Soviet construct.
Kansas State University ‘Civil Rights’ Administrator Is Part of Secret Marxist Group That Says It Has ‘No Sympathy’ for Dead Jews
At a group meeting, the investigator, Derron Borders, lamented that the assassination of two Israeli embassy staffers would not spark a broader ‘movement’
https://freebeacon.com/campus/kansas-state-university-civil-rights-administrator-is-part-of-secret-marxist-group-that-says-it-has-no-sympathy-for-dead-jews/
This is unbelievable. It’s like donating your blood until you’re dead:
The left wants to replace the Northern Europeans because we are catching on to their scams and are rejecting them, they want to replace us with people who will continue to vote for them until the left has enough control to stop the phony elections.
2 Israelis hurt in brawl around paintball match at Dutch holiday park; Boy, 15, arrested
https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/22/2-israelis-hurt-brawl-around-paintball-match-dutch-holiday-park-boy-15-arrested
Two Israeli tourists were injured in a brawl that started in a paintball game at a holiday park in Westerhoven, Noord-Brabant, on Thursday. One of the two men sustained a serious head wound, the police said on Friday. A 15-year-old boy was arrested. According to the police, the incident appears to involve “violence with a potentially discriminatory context.”
The police said that a fight broke out between a group of tourists from Israel and a group from Maarssen during a paintball game at the resort. They disagreed about how the game was being played, the police said. The argument escalated into a fight that spilled onto the terrace.
“Heavy blows were exchanged,” the police said. Witnesses reported that “discriminatory and possibly threatening slogans were shouted.” The police intervened, and calm returned.
Two Israeli men, aged 37 and 41, were injured in the brawl, the police said. One sustained a significant head wound. Paramedics treated them at the scene.
The police arrested a 15-year-old boy. He is suspected of assault and attempted aggravated assault.
The brawl happened at the Center Parcs resort De Kempervennen, NOS reported. According to the broadcaster, this is the second incident involving Israelis at a Center Parcs resort this week.
Earlier this week, Israeli tourists were filmed at Center Parcs de Eemhof in Zeewolde, and the footage was posted online by pro-Palestinian activist groups with the message to “make it clear they are not welcome.”
The Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI) has filed a complaint against the activist groups that posted the footage online, accusing them of inciting hatred.
Central European frenemies:
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/trump-very-angry-ukraine-repeatedly-attacking-russian-pipeline-hungary-slovakia
Suspect arrested for killing girl biking home from Amsterdam; Same man held in sex crime
https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/22/suspect-arrested-killing-girl-biking-home-amsterdam-man-held-sex-crime
Police in Amsterdam announced the arrest of a 22-year-old man in the murder of a 17-year-old girl who was biking home from the city to Abcoude early Wednesday morning when she was attacked. The man was already taken into custody on Thursday evening at a shelter for asylum seekers in the capital on suspicion of sexually assaulting another woman just after midnight on August 15.
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Teen called police about her assailant just before she was killed near Amsterdam
https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/21/teen-called-police-assailant-just-killed-near-amsterdam
I love Gordon Chang as an optimist, relish realistic pessimists who see China as on the brink, I worry.
How China Is Preparing for a Conflict With India
Thank You.
This helps explain part of China’s economic problem, they are spending capital they need for food to establish a better military position in the West. All of this is very worrying but may not be as dangerous as many fear since it looks like China is about to collapse economically which (if it occurs) will stop all of the building. The collapse will also allow its neighbors to make moves to remove the dams that are destroying their nations. The thing that scares me is the possible scenario where China’s enemies decide to use military force to remove the dams over night. This would cause floods that are literally on biblical scale and create zones of destruction that are literally nightmares experienced while you are awake.
I think that most of the people who will read this agree that a series of wars that will be called WWIII are coming in the relatively near future, these wars will last for several decades with brief rest periods while everyone rearms. The end is hard to predict but I think that in the end the forces of freedom and individual rights will win.
The Mark Levin Show – Podcast – 8/22/25
58:42… War Russia & Ukraine
https://cumuluspodcastnetwork.com/pods/the-mark-levin-podcast/