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First hour: Is animosity against Jews atavistic, irrational, and deplorable? Or can it arise for understandable reasons? In his new article “Gaza and the Antisemitism Hoax” Ron Unz writes:
“With perhaps 20,000 Gazan Palestinians having now been slaughtered by Jews, I don’t doubt that the miserable survivors currently feel a great deal of hostility towards the group responsible, but how could we possibility expect anything else? Do we gain any extra insight by labeling this animosity ‘anti-Semitism’?”
That’s a very good question. So are the other questions raised in the article about “notorious outbreaks of anti-Semitism” that turned out to be less mysterious, irrational, and deplorable than meets the eye.
So is the whole notion of anti-Semitism a gigantic hoax? If so, will people ever lose their fear of being branded with a pejorative term that turns out, on closer examination, to be meaningless…and almost psychopathically manipulative?
Second hour: The war in Ukraine may be winding down, while Zionist genocide in Gaza, opposed by Palestinian resistance, commands the world’s attention. Are the two wars, taken together, demonstrating to the world that the era of US hegemony is over? If so, what comes next?
Former World Bank economist Peter Koenig takes the pessimistic view that globalist one-world control freaks are on their way to imposing Orwellian technologies on the entire planet. For details, see his recent articles: