Alon Mizrahi I without equality there’s no freedom @alon_mizrahi – 3 May 2024
Some perspective on the new and hilariously named ‘Antisemitism Awareness Act’, and two predictions
First, let’s remember reality (always important when dealing with propaganda, and I’ll touch on this in a sec). In real life, Israel and Netanyahu don’t have anywhere to go. Wherever Israel and Netanyahu look in real, head reality, there is a very serious wall of opposition. Iran and Hizbullah tower over Israel’s ambitions (read: delusions), Egypt and Jordan, pliable as they are, cannot be just swept aside, and politically as well as geographically, Israel and Netanyahu can expand nowhere.
A heavy wall of ideological and military resistance makes any major advance impossible. Even Rafah is going to be pricey, and killing another 20,000 Palestinians will only make Israel’s situation more dire while providing absolutely no benefit.
So where can Netanyahu and Israel go? In reality, nowhere. But there is one place where he (and the deranged beliefs that he represents) can make substantial gains, and that’s America. Or, to be more precise, American consciousness. Knowing he has hypnotic power over American lawmakers and absolute control over mainstream media, Netanyahu knows he can create an illusion of progress by making American public life crazier and crazier, haunted, paranoid, and clinically insane. So this is where he concentrates his efforts at the moment. By throwing America in an antisemitic scare, he can present his and Israel’s war as a heroic war of defense waged by brave fearless warriors, rather than a campaign of senseless killing that has no purpose.
Netanyahu exploits his (and his Zionist followers) unlimited access to American consciousness to distort how his idiot’s murder crusade is perceived, and he cannot care less if America is destroyed in the process. As a matter of fact, I think he’ll enjoy it very much. This is both ancient Jewish revenge, but also a sense of self-affirmation in a license to do whatever the hell you want (If you can kill and annihilate with impunity, then you must really be God’s chosen one).
But there is an even more sinister aspect to this onslaught on America (which is just beginning). This is the political objective of destroying the American left, which is connected deeply to the Palestinians, but also sees fighting Islamophobia as an important part of its mission. So by presenting Palestinians and Muslims, and their American sympathizers, as antisemites, Netanyahu can employ the full force of the American state to completely crush them. This is the strategic aspect of this effort, of which ‘Antisemitism Awareness Act’ is a nig first step.
Netanyahu needs Americans to see Arabs as Muslims, and those who support them, as enemies of the state, which is the American wording for dehumanization. Legislation is not enough: violence is needed, and it will suddenly and spontaneously (of course) start to appear soon. American Jews will all of a sudden be under a great and imminent threat, and it will be used to delegitimize, criminalize, and punish a political camp.
– Predictions
I was asked yesterday what I think was going to happen in America. So the rise of violence and tensions between Jewish and Arab and Muslim communities, and far-left activists, is my first prediction. I have two more.
1. The deep connection between Israel and the US became a symbiosis and now is a complete unity. This unity is not making Israel strong anymore. It only makes America weak, as it absorbs and embraces Zionist views as its own. One major aspect of this is victimhood. Soon you’ll start to hear what you never heard before: American politicians speaking as if they were victims of dark, conspiratorial, global forces. This will be part of the shift America is undergoing from (at least partially, if not mostly) reality-based discourse to one completely dominated by fantasy and fiction (and this is why resistance must bring up reality first, always).
2. As the protest spreads and becomes radicalized by establishment brutality, thousands will be arrested, and then more. If the war is not seen as coming to an end, and as freedom of speech continues to be crushed in America, new legal mechanisms for detaining large numbers of people will be discussed and perhaps implemented. I have no doubt Israel is already providing guidance on this issue. Some of these new measures will bear a prominent resemblance to Israel’s ‘Administrative Detention’.
– It is really hard to see how this Zionist takeover of American consciousness is going to end. I don’t know American society enough, and this is really unchartered territory. I do know, though, that reversing from this back to normalcy is going to be long and painful. But you have to fight for your future and your country, that’s all I know.
Alon Mizrahi I without equality there’s no freedom @alon_mizrahi – 3 May 2024