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Stoking Antisemitism by Linda Goudsmit

https://goudsmit.pundicity.com/28892/stoking-antisemitism

 goudsmit.pundicity.com  and website: lindagoudsmit.com 

The controversy over Tucker Carlson’s antisemitic remarks at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service on September 21, 2025, demands answers to two foundational and separate questions:

1. Who gains from the assassination of Charlie Kirk?

2. Is Tucker Carlson advocating antisemitism?

To answer these questions, we must first examine the Judeo-Christian tradition itself. Our Founding Fathers were Christian men whose ethics and morality derived from their Judeo-Christian roots and then provided the infrastructure for our founding documents including the United States Constitution. So, who are the Jews and who are the Christians who still represent the originating Judeo-Christian tradition of our Founding Fathers?

Charlie Kirk was a born-again Christian who preached faith, family, and flag––the original triptych of commitments that support individualism and freedom in America’s constitutional republic, Canada, Western Europe, and Israel. The political assassination of Charlie Kirk had three tactical objectives:

1. To stop Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the American non-profit organization founded by Charlie Kirk in 2012, and end its mission of promoting the nation’s return to our Founding Fathers’ conservative policies and principles.

2. To stop Charlie Kirk from speaking and end his iconic “Prove Me Wrong” events on college campuses.

3. To stop young people from embracing Americanism and returning to their historical Judeo-Christian roots.

I speak as an American citizen, but what I am saying applies to Canada, Western Europe, and Israel. The world is at war: Globalism vs. Nationalism:

Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators. (Linda Goudsmit, Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier––Reality Is, 2024)

Jew-Hatred on Display, Even in America By Lynne Lechter

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/jew_hatred_on_display_even_in_america.html

In the 1950s, a golden age for Jewish people in America had arrived. 

Gone were the obstacles to higher education and the impediments to corporate employment. No longer were boycotts on suburban home purchases. Law firms opened to Jewish  attorneys. 

Nobody yelled when they saw a group of Jews: “OMG, here comes a group of young Jewish kids or men — quick! run to the other side of the street.”

Jewish people studied hard, and worked hard. They weren’t big drinkers.  They played sports but rarely professionally. For them, the  preferred professional apex was to become an attorney or a doctor.

In those days, parents were usually strict with girls. They did not go out without a male escort. They did not go to bars. They rarely played sports. Adult Jewish women, if they worked, mostly did so as secretaries, nurses or teachers. If they became pregnant, they did not work. Family life was everything.

These cultural standards evolved as both sexes went into other areas of employment, and women independently went to bars and traveled alone. For many, nabbing a husband was no longer their main concern.

All the time the golden age of America for Jews was expanding, within a few decades, a silent influx of Arab money was starting to fund academic chairs in leading private universities. The chairs were funded to create Arab studies departments.

Critical mass was reached in approximately the early 2010s when books emerged regarding lists of safe colleges and universities for Jewish students. But most Jewish parents and students ignored the warnings.

Concomitantly, many inner cities were experiencing growth of mosques, conversions from Christianity to Islam, and Islamic influence in public schools and universities.  Most ignored it. After all, that was the ideal of America.

Palestinian Leaders, Gulf States Such as Qatar, Have No Interest in Real Peace with Israel by Con Coughlin

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21926/palestinians-qatar-israel-peace

The main stumbling block to Trump’s repeated efforts to end the conflict in Gaza, though, remains the fact that Palestinian leaders, and Qatar, have no genuine interest in negotiating a permanent peace deal with Israel.

Qatar, as well as other Gulf States, which reportedly are expected to pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, will doubtless demand a role in its future governance. Such a concession, even if Israel were to monitor security, would be a monumental recipe for disaster.

Qatar has a history of funding effectively all radical Islamic terrorist groups — from ISIS to Al-Qaeda to Hamas to the Taliban –and appears solidly committed to furthering the policies of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Even if Hamas is not included in a future Gaza, there is always room theoretically for a clone of Hamas with a different name. As Egypt and Islamist groups continue smuggling weapons into the “new” Gaza, there will undoubtedly be endless friction with Israel, not to mention the Palestinians whom the current negotiators insist stay in place. With sufficient incentives, many countries might be glad to spare them years of living in rubble.

The best idea, and in the long run far less expensive militarily and diplomatically, would be if Trump would return to his original idea of Gaza as a kind of US-Israeli “Riviera” protectorate, preferably with a US military base. Then one would not even need any further Abraham Accords: a US military presence should be sufficient to deter aggression and keep peace — as it has done so successfully in Qatar.

Not all Arab states might like this approach. It certainly would deprive them of the opportunity, should the winds change, of trying again to destroy Israel.

So even if, as Trump insists, Hamas is excluded from any future negotiations on the future of Gaza and the Palestinians, the likelihood of his administration having any positive talks with so-called “moderate” Palestinian leaders, such as Abbas — or any prospects of a true, long-term peace if Arab countries are allowed to run Gaza — sadly, the end to decades of hostility will continue to be non-existent.

There is one major drawback to US President Donald Trump’s latest effort to end the Gaza conflict: Palestinian leaders and some Gulf Arab states — in particular Qatar (such as here, here, here, here and here) — have absolutely no intention of agreeing to, or implementing, a lasting peace deal with Israel.

For nearly eight decades, Palestinian leaders have consistently rejected offers to end hostilities with Israel.

While Mahmoud Abbas, the so-called “moderate” leader of the Palestinian Authority, has said he is willing to work with the Trump administration on a peace plan for Gaza, the chances of any negotiations with the Palestinians reaching a successful conclusion are remote if their track record is anything to go by.

Bill Maher says to bring back ‘old America,’ the left must tone down their radical progressivism ‘Real Time’ host listed issues from men in women’s sports to immigration that damage party’s reputation with average Americans By Marc Tamasco

https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-says-bring-back-old-america-left-must-tone-down-radical-progressivism

On Friday’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher argued that to get back to what he called “old America,” Democrats must scale back their more radically progressive ideology.

“If we are ever going to get back to the old America, that’s got to be the Democrats’ part of the bargain. Stop coming up with radically new and often terrible ideas and then, in the next breath, insist there be no debate about any of it,” Maher said.

The “Real Time” host began the segment by criticizing some Democrats’ support for men competing in women’s sports, adding that there’s “a lot of stuff like that on the left.”

“And when conservatives see it, they say, ‘I’m sorry. We’re just not going to go along with reinventing society, often pointlessly, even if we have to cancel democracy to do it,'” he said.

Maher continued, firing off a list of issues he argued are damaging the Democratic Party’s reputation with the average American.

“Transing kids by self-diagnosis with no age limit, no parental notification, and no acknowledgment of social contagion. Not doing it. Asylum now covers any reason for anyone to come to America. Not doing it. Homelessness is a lifestyle. Natural immunity doesn’t count anymore. Whiteness is toxic. Penises in women’s prisons. Welcoming the intifada. We’re not doing it,” the late-night host railed.

Another issue Maher raised is Democrats’ unwillingness to debate these topics with Republicans, often dismissing anyone who disagrees as “bad, stupid, and deplorable.”

Comey Indictment: Retribution or Justice? James Comey’s indictment marks a turning point, raising the question: is Trump seeking revenge on his foes—or finally delivering long-denied justice? By Roger Kimball

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/28/comey-indictment-retribution-or-justice/

In the matter of James Brien Comey Jr., how finds the court? I do not mean a court of law. I mean the tribunal of history.

Granted, we will be hearing from a Virginia court of law about JBC quite soon. On Thursday, Comey became the first former FBI director in history to be indicted by a grand jury for a felony. The charges? Lying to Congress and obstructing justice. (For the legal eagles among you, the statutes in question are USC 18 §1001 and USC 18 §1505.)

Call it karma, irony, or just good old-fashioned just desserts: whatever your literary preference, there is a delicious symmetry in the fact that USC 18 §1001—which prohibits making “any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement” to a government official—was the statute under which Comey tormented and bankrupted General Mike Flynn, Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor for a few weeks in 2017.

Comey later entertained a live audience with an account of how that went down. It wasn’t typical, Comey admitted, but it was early days in an administration that looked disorganized. So he just called Flynn, said he wanted to send over a couple of agents, told him he needn’t bother having legal counsel around, and the rest was filed under “entrapment.”

Connoisseurs of narcissistically infused bathos will find much to savor in James Comey. No sooner was he indicted than the author of A Higher Loyalty, starring James Comey, took to Instagram to emit a moist declaration of his innocence, his defiance, his . . . well, his “higher loyalty.”

That bizarre clip is saturated with emetic, self-righteous sentimentality. Do not be disarmed. James Comey is an object lesson in the psychological truth that cloying sentimentality can easily cohabit with a malign vindictiveness. That aspect of Comey’s character was on view in 2023 when he sat down with Jen Psaki to talk about the hundreds upon hundreds of people rounded up in the aftermath of the January 6 outing at the Capitol. “Get them all,” Comey snarled. “Find everybody who went into that building. Find them all. . . . We will punish everyone who went in there. . . . We will hunt you to the end of the earth, even for a misdemeanor, and make you pay.” I wonder if it is true that Comey’s favorite reading is that sermon by Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?

US policy on Iran – Waking up to Reality? Yoram Ettinger

http://bit.ly/4nr3zOg

*As far as Iran’s Ayatollah regime is concerned – notwithstanding US statements, and independent of Israel’s existence – the war against “the infidel” West, “The Great American Satan” and the “apostate” Sunnis is not over!

*According to the Ayatollah regime, since the June 2025 12-day-war, there is a temporary ceasefire, while Iran persists in its subversive, terrorist and war-like endeavors: attempting to topple the pro-US regimes in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco; supporting Hezbollah, Hamas and Houthi terrorists; undermining the US strategic posture in Latin America (since 1980) through a tight collaboration with drug cartels, terror organizations and all anti-US governments; and expanding – in collaboration with China and Russia – its network of sleeper cells on US soil.

*Since June 2025, China, North Korea and possibly Russia have been involved 24/7 in restoring and upgrading Iran’s air force, air defenses, ballistic and nuclear capabilities. China has focussed on Iran’s ballistic and air defense capabilities, supplying guidance systems, microprocessors, ground-to-air missiles, components and scientific expertise, paid for by Iranian oil at a discounted price. North Korea has provided Iran ballistic and nuclear assistance, as well as underground infrastructure expertise. Notwithstanding its preoccupation with the war against Ukraine, Russia is partaking (so far, in a limited manner) in the restoration of Iran’s air force and air defense infrastructures, directly and via Belarus.

*The key challenge facing the US is to avoid – rather than repeat – critical blunders, highlighted by the 1978/79 US embrace of Ayatollah Khomeini, which launched the US diplomatic (negotiation) option toward the Ayatollah regime. The 48-year-old self-destructive US negotiation option, which has been accompanied by reversible and by-passable economic sanctions, catapulted the Ayatollah regime from a 2nd class strategic power to a primary regional and global power. It has transformed Iran from “The American Policeman of the Gulf” to the leading epicenter of anti-US Islamic terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, the US’ soft underbelly.

*The survival of the apocalyptic, imperialistic Ayatollah regime on the one hand, and the US goal of preventing, minimizing and ending war and terrorism, on the other hand, constitutes an oxymoron.  

*Contrary to the Western state of mind, the Ayatollah regime is not driven by “Money Talks” and enhancing standard of living, but by Shiite (Twelver) Islam and history (e.g., the 680 AD Battle of Kerbala, the 939 AD disappearance of the Hidden 12th Imam, etc.), which have determined the Ayatollah’s vision, Constitution, strategy, tactics, school curriculum and mosque sermons, which have become the most effective production line of anti-US terrorists.

*While the US considers negotiation with Iran as a step towards reconciliation and peaceful coexistence, the Ayatollah regime considers negotiation as a way to avoid further military setback, stalling, restoring capabilities, and resuming efforts to advance a fanatic, apocalyptic, imperialistic vision. 

Abba Eban was wrong about the Palestinians By Ruthie Blum

https://www.jns.org/abba-eban-was-wrong-about-the-palestinians/

Following the Geneva peace talks in December 1973, then-Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban quipped that the Palestinians “never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

It’s a clever line that’s been quoted for decades, particularly by those who have agreed to all kinds of deals that they hoped would solve the “conflict.”

But it’s time to put the false rhetoric to rest and acknowledge that the Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza haven’t missed a single opportunity to pursue the goal of eliminating the State of Israel. Groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad make no bones about this objective.

Their rivals in Fatah, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s faction, are sneakier and more patient. They follow PLO chief Yasser Arafat’s “plan of stages,” which involves accomplishing the same mission, but more methodically—by playing the “peace” game. And pulling the wool over the eyes of the West.

In this respect, the P.A. is more dangerous than Hamas. While the latter is designated as a terrorist organization by the European Union and other countries now recognizing a Palestinian state, the former continues to be treated internationally as a legitimate entity and potential partner for peace with Israel.

Not by the Palestinians, of course. They hate and ridicule Abbas, which is why he’s refused to hold elections for the past two decades.
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed out during his speech on Friday before the United Nations General Assembly—after the P.A. observers and fellow Muslim rejectionists staged a silly walkout, then ran to watch the presentation on TV in another room—”Nearly 90% of Palestinians supported [Hamas’s] Oct. 7 attack.”
He went on to stress to the “leaders of France, Britain, Australia, Canada and other countries [that] unconditionally recognized a Palestinian state” that the Palestinians—”both in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria, the ‘West Bank,’ as you call it”—not only supported the atrocity, but “celebrated [it]. They danced on the rooftops; they threw candies … just the way they celebrated another horror: 9/11.”

Netanyahu proceeded to excoriate the leaders recognizing a Palestinian state for conveying the “very clear message [that] murdering Jews pays off.”

He continued, “When the most savage terrorists on earth are effusively praising your decision, you didn’t do something right; you did something wrong. Horribly wrong. Your disgraceful decision will encourage terrorism against Jews and against innocent people everywhere. It will be a mark of shame on all of you.”

What Kneecap said is far worse than you think The collapse of their case is good news, but we still need to talk about their unhinged Israelophobia. Brendan O’Neill

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/27/what-kneecap-said-is-far-worse-than-you-think/

I’m glad the terror case against Kneecap has been thrown out. No one, not even tossers in tea cosies, not even crap rappers in Provo fancy dress, should be dragged to the dock for what they say. Yes, even if what they’ve said is ‘Up Hamas, up Hezbollah’. Freedom of speech must include the freedom to gush over neo-fascists. The liberty to utter is meaningless if it doesn’t cover the liberty of lowlifes to sing the praises of armies of anti-Semites. It’s gross, I know, but speech often is. Better that we trust ourselves to handle vile ideas than that we invite the state to infantilise us by reprimanding those we find offensive.

Here’s the main reason I’m happy the case collapsed: because now the court with real moral authority – the court of public opinion – can do its job. We don’t need wizened judges to tell us which ideas are ‘good’ and which are ‘bad’. We can decide for ourselves, through free, frank debate. And in the case of Kneecap, that’s exactly what we should do. The state’s case against them may have withered on a technicality, but the court of public opinion’s judgment upon these darlings of the Israelophobic bourgeoisie should be ferocious indeed.

It was band member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (aka Mo Chara) who found himself in court. He was charged with expressing support for a proscribed terror group following the emergence of footage showing him holding up the Hezbollah flag at a gig in London in November 2024. Footage also showed the band hollering ‘Up Hamas, up Hezbollah!’ to the glee of the Israel-hating rich kids in their audience. Today, the chief magistrate at Woolwich Crown Court decreed that the charges against Mo Chara were ‘null’ because they were not brought within the statutory time limit.

Now that the state has finally butted out of this speech-related scandal, we the people can have our say. I’ll kick it off: what Kneecap said is even worse than you think. They didn’t just wave the Hezbollah flag, which would have been sickening enough given Hezbollah is an avowedly racist movement devoted to violently excising the ‘cancerous’ Jews from the Middle East and pushing them back to ‘Germany, or wherever they come from’. No, they also smiled – smiled – following the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.

For two years now, Kneecap have openly flirted with the ideologues of violent Israelophobia. On 8 October 2023, just hours after Hamas raped and butchered more than a thousand Jews in southern Israel, they posted a beaming pic of themselves on social media. ‘Solidarity with the Palestinian struggle’, they said, sporting wide grins and with a Palestine flag hanging in the background. As Jewish grandmothers were being dragged into dank tunnels in Gaza, as the blackened corpses of young Jews were being disentangled by early responders, Kneecap were smiling. They saw a pogrom and they said ‘Solidarity’.

They said ‘Up Hamas’ just a year after Hamas killed more Jews in one day than anyone else since the Nazis. They said ‘Up Hamas’ after it had been established that Hamas had thrown grenades at Jewish children, had beaten to death young Jewish women and had boasted to their families back in Gaza about how many Jews they had slaughtered with their own hands. They said ‘Up Hamas’, a movement founded with the express aim of exterminating Israel’s Jews, and which as recently as 2021 was inciting people to buy ‘five-shekel knives’ and ‘cut off the heads of Jews’.

One of the Kneecap trio – the one who’s nearly 40 – posed with a book consisting of the collected speeches of Hassan Nasrallah, the late leader of Hezbollah. This is a book that refers to Jews as the ‘descendants of apes and pigs’.

The Blind Leading the Dumb—and the Hateful America’s schools are collapsing not from lack of funding but from a teacher pipeline that churns out ideology instead of knowledge—leaving students functionally illiterate. By Stephen Soukup

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/27/the-blind-leading-the-dumb-and-the-hateful/

About three decades ago, when I was part of the Washington research team of a now-defunct brokerage house, I worked (with my then-boss) on a report about the state of the American education system. The results—unsurprisingly—were not good. The system was in disarray, with towns, cities, and even the federal government spending more and more tax dollars on education every year and getting worse and worse results. The educational and political establishments had convinced the American people that the problem with education was that they simply weren’t spending enough money on it and that, if they did, the people who broke the system in the first place could fix it and, by extension, could fix the country as well. Unfortunately, the data showed definitively that this was untrue.

Based on our research, we concluded that something more obvious—and more uncomfortable—than funding was the real root of the problem with American education. It was obvious because… well… it just was. It made perfect sense. It was uncomfortable because it hit close to home. We knew that what we had learned would likely be taken as insulting or, at the very least, overly provocative by a number of our clients and other readers, including friends and even family. My mom was a teacher. We both had friends who were teachers or whose spouses and/or kids were teachers. Like almost everyone, we had fond memories of that one (or more) special teacher who, when we were kids, helped us in some unique way or influenced us profoundly. Teachers are, for good reason, heroic figures in much of American history. And yet, everything we read and heard and studied indicated that teachers were an enormous part of the problem with American education.

To be clear, the main culprits in our story were teachers’ colleges, not individual teachers. Still, the colleges were a problem because they were churning out inferior products, which, of course, meant that many of the teachers in the American education system were not up to the job—the absolutely imperative job of preparing the next generations of Americans for intellectual and professional life.

In our report, titled “The Dumb Leading the Blind,” we noted the difficult truth that the nation’s education schools had largely become a dumping ground for college students who couldn’t hack it in any other degree program. That wasn’t—and isn’t—to say that all students who wanted to be teachers were dumb. Far from it. Most were smart and earnest and dedicated and resembled the heroic teachers of American lore. At the same time, however, what they were being taught was mostly nonsense: bland, simplistic, often trite twaddle that was disguised and legitimized as “educational theory.” Ed. School curricula were so preposterous and so lacking in academic rigor that almost anyone could—and did—pass without much effort. A multi-decades-long effort by educational “reformers” to shift the focus of teacher instruction away from subject matter and to cognitive theory and epistemology had meaningfully dumbed down the curricula. In turn, students who failed out of other colleges ended up earning degrees in ed. schools because it was shockingly easy to do so. Meanwhile, smart and earnest students were denied a proper education by their instructors, who taught down to the lowest common denominator.

All of this, we argued, suggested that American K-12 education would, in the long run, grow even worse, even more expensive, and even more controversial. And that could only bode ill for the nation as a whole.

Thank You, President Trump: Turning Decades of Iranian Impunity Into Accountability by Majid Rafizadeh

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21924/trump-iran-accountability

Oil sales are a lifeline for the Iranian economy, funding both domestic governance and external operations, including support for proxy militias. If these funds were curtailed, the regime would struggle to maintain its internal stability while simultaneously attempting to sustain influence abroad. Such an economic squeeze would heighten domestic discontent, increase political pressure on leaders, and force Tehran to consider its options in a more constrained and exposed position than ever before.

Iran is apparently aware that it faces an administration under Trump that is determined to maintain the pressure until meaningful, verifiable changes occur. Tehran’s desperation underscores the effectiveness of the strategy: when authoritarian regimes are confronted with coordinated, uncompromising pressure — duress — they are forced to confront their vulnerabilities and recalibrate their behavior.

Understanding the “language” of authoritarian regimes has been a critical factor in Trump’s success. Maximum pressure is not subtle; it is a direct communication that dictators understand. It combines visibility of consequences, clarity of demands, and the credible threat of continued escalation. For Iran, this has meant that there is no ambiguity about the costs of pursuing nuclear weapons, maintaining proxy operations, or destabilizing the region. Force, coordinated international sanctions, and strategic diplomacy have created an environment where the regime cannot rely on its previous strategies of coercion or intimidation. This approach demonstrates that sustained, multidimensional pressure can achieve outcomes that decades of negotiation and partial agreements could not.

The future for the Iranian regime, under continued maximum pressure, depends on the EU maintaining a firm stance as well. Iran’s nuclear program must be dismantled entirely, financial and military support for proxy groups curtailed, and no concessions offered that could weaken the credibility of the strategy.

This historic moment represents an opportunity to reshape the region, limit the threats posed by Iran, and reinforce the principle that force, when applied strategically, remains a decisive tool in addressing state-sponsored aggression and nuclear proliferation – also in countries other than Iran.

The Iranian regime finds itself in a situation it has never faced in its more than 40 years of ruling. The pressures it is now under are the result of a coordinated and relentless approach by President Donald J. Trump, whose policies are systematically targeting every pillar of the Iranian state that supports its nuclear ambitions, regional influence and financial stability.

The strategy, often described as “maximum pressure,” is applying economic, military, and diplomatic force in a way that previous administrations, despite decades of involvement in Middle Eastern affairs, could not or did not. This approach has forced the Iranian leadership to confront the consequences of its actions while leaving no room for misinterpretation about the seriousness of U.S. resolve. The result is an Iranian regime that is significantly weakened, isolated, and desperate for relief, yet it faces the U.S. under the Trump administration and Israel united in maintaining the pressure until its nuclear program is completely dismantled and its destabilizing influence curtailed.