Well good afternoon, Threaders, Threadheads, and all in between. Late coffee still good.
As we return to life without the DNC and continue on our hard path to Roevember, having lost any real “scandal” or “debacle” they can pin on the Harris campaign, the MSM is pissed the so called “uncommitted” failed to deliver the 1968 style convention they so wished for. The frustration and disappointment are real.
A few inescapable aspects of our day to day were on my mind yesterday as I was reminded of what the “uncommitted” movement really is, of how “the sucker” is essential for the success of any kind of authoritarian rule, of how propaganda went from a subversive art form to blatant brainwashing and, this morning, of how antisemitism has been normalized and integrated in our social activism.
We have a real long way to go, way past November 5, to resolve all these questions that pop up in our lives like insidious mushrooms resistant to all herbicides known to man. The long term bets by both Christian Nationalists and fundamentalist Islamists to infiltrate our society have become apparent the last year in ways they haven’t before. The former we are going to defeat at the ballot box and, although endemic, it has an external quality to it.
Regardless of how rooted in our society its host of choice was the GOP and as such it feels like a familiar fight against a threat from outside our democratic body, since it has all the familiar characteristics of the dichotomy our political system became. The latter, however, is much more veiled and its host was the liberal body politics. We failed to diagnose it in its early stages and it has now metastasized. That is, believe it or not, a much greater threat.
Many watch the “uncommitted” as this alien aspect of our lives and correctly say it has long been funded by foreign interests, such as the Chinese, the Russians and, in particular, the Iranians. The incorrect analysis is how that funding is applied. Here is the point where our understanding of both threats colide and obfuscate the nature of the fundamentalist Islamic one.
This happens because the Christian Nationalists are based on a diminishing faith while the Islamic radicals are rooted in an expanding one. The first does require “paid actors”, the second not so much if at all. When we see pro-Hamas protests you can bet 9 out of 10 times the elements who stand out as chaos agents are true believers, not paid actors. The radical Islamic level of indoctrination puts its Christian counterpart to shame. Global Intifada is a mantra born in the late 1960s.
In the 1970s, as “Palestine” was made into the “official” designation of what was called “the Arab state” by the 1947 UN partition resolution, a concerted effort was made by Islamic fundamentalists to insert their ideals into Western Societies by indoctrination of their most vulnerable sectors: left leaning organizations and universities. Their success with the liberals was reduced to a few fringe radical factions where it persists to this day.
On that portion of our society their success was limited to communists, “environmental warriors”, anarchists and similar small movements but in the Universities they were much more successful as we can see for ourselves today. The Palestinians who still long for peaceful coexistence in the Middle East are appalled by the actions of these suckers who allowed themselves to be brainwashed into thinking the main obstacle to peace in the region is Israel.
Of course religious Zionism and the radical elements of Jewish society that feed on war itself to prevail are part of the problem, as illustrated by the current Israeli government opposed by most Israelis, but they never talk about a much worse element in the destabilization of the region: radical Islam. When the DNC allowed time for Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin to speak they knew exactly what their politics were: NONE.
They were advocating for the release of their beloved son Hersh and all the other hostages in Gaza and in their humanity they also advocated for the end of the war and the despair among the innocent Palestinians, for there may be outnumbered but they do exist, especially in the form of children too young to be anything else but children. This is the way. And because of their humanity Rachel and Jon were greeted with love and compassion at the DNC. “Unexpected”, as Rachel later said.
Using them as an excuse, the “uncommitted” demanded time for a “Palestinian” to speak “for Palestine”. That alone reveals they are not serious people. Nobody spoke “for Israel” at the DNC. Those who think that’s what Rachel and Jon did are not serious people. At all. So the request started on the wrong foot but let’s look at their background. For the last year these people have been violently advocating for the destruction of Israel and Jews around the world.
They burn US and Israeli flags, call for the death of America, for global intifada and, of course, accused Biden of genocide and Harris of killing babies. They were doing it on the streets of Chicago at the same time they sniffled on SM, and the MSM that would give them air, about how unfairly they were being treated. They are comparing their plight to the one Fannie Lou Hamer spearheaded for Black people representation at the DNC, back in the 1960s, and the MSM nods and agrees.
In contrast, the Bring Them Home movement has never shown any signs of violence or claimed for the destruction of anything as they march for the release of the hostages. With the exception of very few voices, mainly in the fringes of SM, the implementation of a single Jewish state is NOT part of their movement. Period. While the “poor uncommitted” were playing victim inside the DNC, outside their minions were smashing car windows at their “checkpoints”. Free Palestine, baby.
When humanity is selective it’s not humanity. In the case of those picking and choosing which causes to advocate for or which victims to cry for when it comes to the Middle East it’s not just inhumane but antisemitic. Even one of our most prestigious social activist institutions has been infiltrated by these chaos agents: Planned Parenthood. I shit you not.
In a shameful press release PPH declared they will no longer include in their investment portfolio “companies that profit from violence and war”. And they added: “such as the devastating loss of life and sexual & gender-based violence happening in Gaza.” Why they didn’t pick the Ukraine or Saudi Arabia or Turkey and picked Israel to define who exactly they are keeping out says everything. There are plenty more companies making more millions from war in the Ukraine.
In their eyes, defending the Ukraine is justified, defending Israel is not. The “weapons exclusion” they talk about HAD to explicitly mention “the Jews”. All other weapons are good or at least not worth mentioning. That, my thriends, is pure antisemitism. In Planned Parenthood. How’s that for embedded? And then you wonder about our Universities. Open your eyes. Don’t be a sucker.
We’re not going back!
* “Don’t be a sucker” - 1947 US War Department reel.
