On behalf of what’s left of my once-proud profession, I offer my heartfelt apology to the millions of American victims of a hoax that falsely now underpins the rolling destruction of the world as we know it.
FACT: There is no rise of “antisemitism” in the United States.
FACT: The world is justly horrified by the widening crime against humanity of our time: The State of Israel’s ongoing genocide of mostly civilian Arabs, not only in Gaza, where 70,000 civilians have been slaughtered, but also in Southern Lebanon, where more than 700,000 civilians have been displaced, and of course in Iran, where the State of Israel is half of a criminal tag team with the United States of America: our country.
FACT: Most reporters are either too uneducated or too intimidated by the long arm of the Trump revenge machine to point out that the State of Israel is not the Judaism faith, thus both perpetuating and tacitly legitimizing this dangerous untruth.
In the first reports today of the “terrorist” who drove his car into a synagogue in Michigan, CNN initially stated that the driver, a naturalized American citizen of Syrian descent, with no criminal record of any kind, was motivated to commit his “antisemitic act” by the fact that his family in Syria had just been killed by an Israeli missile. Later, when law enforcement and the Governor, et.al., gathered to decry the scourge of antisemitism in the United States, the driver was suddenly said to have had “Hezbollah sympathies,” though there was no evidence he had ever been in contact with the group. The fix was in.
The Pew Research Center reported that as of 2024-2025 naturalized citizens made up approximately 7% to 8% of the total U.S. population. The American Immigration Council further reports that, regarding immigrants, its research shows that immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated than U.S.-born individuals and have lower rates of felony arrests than the U.S.-born.
So, Donald, Pam, and Pete: Where are the real murderers, rapists, and perpetrators of these crimes? Look no further than out your front door at your fellow “natural-born” young citizens, beset by poverty, lousy educations, unemployment, the crumbling institutions that used to help them, and unfettered access to the violent fantasy world of the Internet, designed to ensnare young minds at their most vulnerable, all to make the tech bros even richer. The problem is us. Not the outsider. So it’s up to us to fix it, and the clock is ticking.
Perhaps we should ask ourselves what we would do if, having left our loved ones in the far-away land of our birth to seek a better life in free America, only to see them slaughtered back home by an Israeli missile, probably supplied by the United States (but certainly launched with its support and impunity), what would you do? Would you turn the other cheek and somehow desperately try to accept your unbearable loss? Or would you take whatever meager tools you could muster and sacrifice your own body, your own self, to show the world your rage and your pain to the adopted country that betrayed you?
They’re literally trying to pass laws which enshrine antisemitism. The laws seek to make the IHRA definition of antisemitism a part of hate crimes. The IHRA says criticism of Zionism is antisemitic. This implies that all Jewish people are part of an international cabal that supports Israel.
In fact, Jewish people, being human beings, have the full range of thoughts when it comes to the continued existence of Israel. To say they all think the same is actually antisemitism.
It is a fact that the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was a rabid anti-semite who considered any Jewish person that wasn’t a Zionist to be a subhuman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzl%27s_Mauschel_and_Zionist_antisemitism
Luckily, the Zionist state is being destroyed as we speak. A couple of strikes on their water desalination and pumping plants, as well as their power plants, will end it. Then the Zionists will move on to their new targets – Ukraine, Argentina, and the US.
Your concluding paragraph, Fash, is unfounded and, I daresay, anti-Semitic.
Nope. If I had said “Christian nationalists have their eye on Idaho” would that make me anti-Christian? anti-white? Nationalism is a political ideology, not a religion, not an ethnicity, not a race.
From the Israeli press – “Secret plan for reverse migration to Ukraine” – https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/leaked-report-israel-acknowledges-jews-in-fact-khazars-secret-plan-for-reverse-migration-to-ukraine/
Meanwhile, in Argentina, the president converted to Chabad, a virulently Zionist sect that believes all non-Jews will be slaves once the messiah arrives. He then got a law passed that allowed foreigners to buy damaged land. Then they started having big forest fires. Then they arrested Israelis who were setting the fires. There is a long history here as well.
As for the US, Jewish people of all ethnicities, races, religions, and beliefs live here freely and in safety. And yet, we’re constantly being told – often by anti-woke warriors – that we have to worry about anti-semitism more than anything else – and they include criticism of Israel. 38 states have anti-BDS laws. Our foreign policy regarding going to war is dictated by Israel – as openly stated by the current Secretary of State.
Marilyn Davin, i cannot find any sense in what you’re saying. In one paragraph you say that “the State of Israel is not the Judaism faith,” and call the contrary statement a dangerous untruth; yet next you are excusing a terrorist driving his car into a synagogue. (You even put “terrorist” in quotation marks, as if such an act is not terrorism.) He drove it into a synagogue, a house of worship, with peaceful people inside, sharing their cultural practice. It was not a branch of the Israeli government or its military. His was an act targeting people of a certain culture, not people complicit in war crimes.
It seems you are conflating Judaism as a faith with the actions of the State of Israel.
How do you figure?
When is it a “house of worship” and when is it a house where genocide and wars of aggression – the two highest crimes known to humankind – are practiced?
The synagogue in question sponsors speakers from the IDF. It does fundraisers for the IDF. A recent one featured a program for integrating people with autism into the IDF – turning people with a medical condition into terrorists. They screen Zionist terrorist propaganda films like the lie-filled “October H8te” nonsense that Debra Messing, noted Zionist, made. Oh, and what’s this? They are a member of the World Zionist Congress. They deny that Israel is an apartheid state. They deny that there is an occupation. They advocate against BDS (non-violent resistance).
It’s absolutely disgusting that you would hide behind words like “worship,” “peaceful people,” and “cultural practice,” when what is really going on is terrorism and massive crimes against humanity. The man’s family was killed by Zionist aggression, so he targeted a Zionist outpost. If it had been your family, you’d be calling him a hero instead of siding with criminal Zionists.
You’re a hard man, Fash.A braver revenge would have been someone truly responsible for defending genocidal policies, not simple parishoners. By your logic, a suicide attack on a Christian church would also be justified because America is a nominally Christian nation but also engaged in genocidal attacks on Iran.
I like YOUR logic, Bruce!
If it was a Christian church with Nazis inside plotting or supporting terrorism and genocide, I would have no tears for them either.
There are MANY anti-Zionist synagogues. And there are also many which are ardently Zionist and who take actions to support terrorism.
For the record, I’ve only ever advocated two things on these pages:
1) Plant/tend your gardens
2) Be nice to your neighbors
I know that voting won’t help because the two monopolist parties are both fully committed to criminality and terrorism.
I don’t advocate the taking up of arms, or ramming your car into the bad guys. That won’t make a positive difference, and could make things worse.
But I’m also not going to condemn someone who lost their family to Israeli aggression and decided to take it out on some Zionists. I’m not going to condemn the freely elected government of Gaza for doing what they think is necessary to free themselves – especially since most of the world refuses to support them. I live in the country that is the number one perpetrator and supporter of terrorism, and most of the people I know including friends and family vote for the terrorist filth -every time. Americans have ZERO moral authority to tell Palestinians or anyone else how to resist the genocide to which they are being subjected.
I admit that i didn’t look into the practices and opinions of the higher-ups in this particular synagogue.
I was addressing the author of this post, Marilyn Davin, to see how she could square her apparent revulsion– at the confusion of a culture/religion with the militaristic actions of a state– with her seeming support of the terrorist act.
Even if what you say is true, that the synagogue had strong ties to Zionism, the terrorist himself would have had more success in his propaganda war if he had attacked an official representative of the state of Israel, rather than a gathering place for those of Jewish/Israeli identity. Then even ignorant little know-nothings like me would feel that his anger was well-directed toward the war machine, rather than perpetuating more violence upon women, children, and men in a synagogue– symbol of a culture and heritage.
First, here are some of the activities of that particular synagogue – https://www.temple-israel.org/israel
I agree with you that there are numerous other targets this person (who you call a terrorist without calling the people who killed his family terrorists) could have chosen that would have been better and wouldn’t have invoked the pearl-clutching of “omg he attacked a god place where they do god stuff!”
The Zionists have a very long history of attacking their own people in order to gain sympathy. In the Israeli press, for example, they openly discuss the fact that most of the people who died at the Oct 7 music festival were killed by the IDF, but for some reason that isn’t covered in our press.
So I have no idea if this attack was authentic or a false flag, and in the end I don’t care. What matters is the liberation of Palestine and the 100% elimination of Israel and its ideology of genocide and terror called Zionism.
I wonder if has occurred to you, Fash, that your blood libel-like reasoning is roughly the same as Shicklegruber’s?
Please point out where I have engaged in so-called blood libel. Facts are facts.
Herr Shicklegruber wanted a Europe with zero Jewish people in it. There are some weirdos who want a Palestine with zero Jewish people in it. Oddly, one of them is Fatah/PLO/PA leader Abbas who stated as much in 2013.
But that’s not Hamas’s position – Hamas are moderates by the way – nor is it the position of most anti-Zionists. Hamas even makes a distinction between people who have “made aaliyah” (moved to Israel) and people who were born there. They want one country called Palestine, with Muslims, Christians, and Jewish people living there in peace – the way it was before Zionism came along. At the same time, they want Zionism to be banned – just like Nazism is banned in Germany.
It’s legal to be German in Germany. It’s not legal to be a Nazi in Germany. The same principle will be applied to Palestine and former “Israelis.”
Even beyond that, Hamas has stated they will enter into a long term truce (50 or even 100 years) if Israel returns to the 1967 borders. I personally would not be that gracious.
Attempts to link Palestinian liberation with the works of Herr Shicklegruber will fail in light of the facts on the ground. Meanwhile, our own DHS is clearly inspired by the failed painter, using slogans like “One of ours, all of yours” which is a reference to the Nazi’s massacre in Lidice in 1942 which included the murder of over 80 children. The Department of Labor chimed in with “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage” – a reference to “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” .. and of course Hillary was on board with “Stronger Together” – a reference to fasces such as the ones that adorn the Congressional podium.
So I hate to be the one to tell you this dear Mr. Editor, but when it comes the ringing phone of Nazism, the call isn’t coming from the heroes of Palestine. As the classic line from When a Stranger Calls said: The call is coming from inside the house.
Hamas is, of course, a reliable source. And where did I associate the Palestinians with Nazis? BTW, Hamas imposed themselves on Gaza by force, and murder any Gazan who opposes them. You defend the indefensible time and again
Hamas is, of course, a reliable source.
I can cite pages of demonstrable lies from the Zionist regime. Please provide examples of Hamas dishonesty.
Hamas imposed themselves on Gaza by force
False.
The election of 2006 was free, fair, and internationally observed, including being observed by the EU and The Carter Center. Hamas won 74 of 132 seats. In second place was Fatah, backed by the US and Israel, with 45 seats. The rules require 7 seats be reserved for Christians. In Gaza, Hamas won 15 out of 24 districts while Fatah only won 6. In the West Bank, Hamas won 30 out of 42 districts, while Fatah won only 12. A clear, free, and fair victory for Hamas.
So what happened next? Well, your country – the one where most of our friends and relatives vote for terrorists every time – along with the state that runs your country, Israel, decided they didn’t like the outcome of the free and fair Palestinian election. So they did what they always do. They backed a coup – this time a coup by Fatah against Hamas. A violent coup. A deadly coup. And the coup succeeded in the West Bank, where the kleptocratic Fatah government rules to this day – giving away vast swaths of the land to the Israeli settlers. But the coup did not succeed in Gaza, and thus Hamas remains in power there.
The reason there have not been more recent elections is because of the actions of your government, the one which most of our friends and relatives endorse with their vote. You’re in no place to criticize Hamas – it is YOUR country that are the medieval terrorists who kill all who oppose them. Have you heard of a place called Abu Ghraib? You don’t like Hamas acting like a prison gang? Well, why is your country imposing a prison on them? (And by the way, who killed the hostages in Attica?)
Your opinions on the matter are clearly fed by NYT nonsense and a generational load of Zionist propaganda crap. But that’s to be expected, and thankfully the polling shows that younger generations aren’t falling for it. Actions are more important than ill-informed opinions, though, so I continue to applaud you for refusing to vote D/R.