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Monday marks the first anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023 jihad massacre, in which Hamas operatives brutally murdered 1,200 Israelis. It is hard to imagine that only a year has passed since then, as the world has been utterly transformed since the Hamas paragliders landed amid revelers at the Nova Music Festival, and rampaged through the surrounding areas, kidnapping numerous Israelis and murdering even more. Almost immediately, the left’s well-oiled victimhood propaganda machine swung into action, beginning a barrage of lies and distortions that one year later has made Israel more isolated on the global stage than it has been since the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948.
It was easy to get the impression that the propaganda initiative was ready to go, just waiting for a trigger. The massacre of innocent Israelis may have seemed to be an unlikely trigger for an attempt to turn the entire world against Israel, but as it happened, the moment was right, and there was an unholy convergence of dark forces that were quickly able to make it seem as if the Israelis had murdered 1,200 “Palestinians” on Oct. 7, and not the other way around.
The first of these forces were the cadres of student activists who began to agitate for “Palestinians,” and in an increasingly open manner for Hamas itself and other jihad terror organizations, on campuses all across the country. These miseducated and self-righteous students had been skillfully and thoroughly propagandized, courtesy of the leftist professors who dominate virtually every college and university in the nation.
In that sense, the post-Oct. 7 propaganda war actually began in the 1960s, with the left’s Long March through the Institutions that transformed our nation’s colleges and universities from institutions of higher learning to the radioactive wastelands of far-left indoctrination and propaganda that they are today. When the Oct. 7 massacres happened, these thoroughly propagandized students, generously financed through unseen sources, were ready with claims that Israel was an illegitimate “settler-colonialist” entity, an apartheid state, an occupying power, and so on and on.
That deftly turned the attention away from what Hamas had done on Oct. 7, and focused it on what the Israelis were supposedly doing to the “Palestinians.” Oct. 7 then became an understandable incidence of an oppressed people lashing out at their oppressor. Never mind that it was all nonsense and falsehood. Never mind that in Israel, non-Jews have full equality of rights, and that Israel is the only state that has any legitimate legal claim to the territory it is supposed to be “occupying.”
Never mind that the Jews are the actual indigenous people of the area, and the Arabs are the actual “settler-colonialists.” All of that and much more had been deliberately withheld or obfuscated in the classes the students who filled the campus encampments had attended. They were dutiful bots of the anti-Israel propaganda machine in service of the jihad against Israel,while thinking they were on the side of justice and righteousness.
Hamas did its part by publishing demonstrably false casualty figures of “Palestinians” in Gaza. The establishment media did its part by repeating those casualty figures as if they were reliable. Even the UN published them without any warnings, caveats, or clear indication of their source. Israel, went the claim, had committed Oct. 7 massacres for years before Hamas carried out its own, and was still doing so. Here again, none of this was true, but after all these years of leftist media propaganda and miseducation, a significant segment of the American people are just as incapable as college and university students of winnowing out truth from falsehood and recognizing propaganda for what it is.
Then there was the Biden-Harris regime, with Old Joe and then Kamala Harris in a tight race with the left’s foremost figure of evil, Donald Trump. The party’s far-left base has been in a state of perpetual rage ever since Oct. 7, because even though the Biden-Harris regime has financed the jihad against Israel by sending $10 billion to Iran and one billion to Gaza, the likes of Rashida Tlaib and Nihad Awad of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have repeatedly demanded that the betrayal of Israel be more comprehensive and thoroughgoing. They have threatened to bolt from the Democrats’ shaky coalition if they don’t get this full betrayal.
That could cost Kamala Harris Michigan and Minnesota, and the election. As a result, first Biden and then Harris have cravenly endorsed and parroted the Hamas propaganda, and striven mightily to stymie Israel’s war effort and make sure it loses.
And so one year after Oct. 7, Israel’s foremost ally hates it, the rest of the world hates it, and only the hated state is standing against the bloodthirsty forces of jihad that, although Biden and Harris remain indifferent (at best) to the fact, hate the U.S. as much as they hate Israel, and will target us next. When these jihad forces do strike the U.S. directly, Harris will likely be ready with a fine package of aid for them.
Ham-A** and those who finance and support them should be declared Public Enemy #1 and Investigated
Execute the same way Hamas did hostages. All is fair in love and war. It is time to retaliate in kind as David did.
The West is overdue for another Reformation, similar to the Protestant Reformation 400 years ago but secular this time with the same punishment meted out to the communist/socialist schools, collages, universities & media that was meted out to the seminaries, convents, monasteries & catholic churches in the time of Oliver Cromwell, Henry VIII, Elisabeth I & Edward VI.
Let’s hate the Muslims back.
Let’s also hate their shills.
Let us NEVER turn the other cheek.
It is a sad truth that the Jews are always considered the guilty party.
I recommend Dennis Prager’s “Why the Jews” for an explanation of why.
Brilliant — cogent, insightful and incisive.
Robert Sencer is a w0rld-class treasure.and scholar.
Thank you!
“Never mind that the Jews are the actual indigenous people of the area, and the Arabs are the actual “settler-colonialists.”
There are no such things as ancient tribal rights or race rights. In reality only individual human beings exist and only individual rights exist.
Every Jew is in fact a sovereign individual, an individual and unique life, not a mere appendage of the Jewish tribe. So is every human being on earth.
The moral legitimacy of Israel rests on its defense of individual rights and individual human life.
Israel is fighting for it’s right to exist and you are going lecture them about abstract sovereign individual rights? You truly are a puffed up idiot.
Only in your feeble mind are there no such things as ancient tribal rights or race rights. Tell that to the IDF.
The Jews are the actual indigenous people of the area and the Arab Muslims are the squatters.
Somehow I don’t think Israeli Jews really give a sh*t what you have to say.
“Human Rights don’t exist without ownership.” Ayn Rand
Don’t worry Mr. Spencer… the college DEI Czars are protecting Jews from those thousands of their fellow students who has Jewphobia, and even charging many with Hate Crimes approved by DOJ’s Garland as directed by Biden and Kamala, and her Jewish husband.
Israeli flags will be flying high on every campus, even in public schools all the way to pre-K. Yellow ribbons too.
When tent sleeping, camel using Arab Muslims realized that the oil in
their sand could make them obscenely rich – it changed the course of
human history. They found a way to make backward, barbaric Islam –
which cannot thrive in the modern ever-evolving world of Western
civilization – rise again. They appealed to the greed in global tyrannists
by giving those globalists payoffs in academia – in political donations –
in Hollywood, to mention just a few.
So now the two forces assailing the world today – global tyrannists AKA
global Communists and Islam – work hand in hand to bring down the
West including Israel. The Commies look the other way at justifiable
criticism of Islam by screaming “Islamophobia” and tolerating Palestinian
protestors burning American flags, denouncing this country and
terrifying our Jews – while the Muslims keep all that cash always dangling
in front of them.
Mr. Spencer is quite right. If – Almighty God forbid – Commie Kamala gets
in, “When these Jihad forces do strike the U.S. directly, Harris will likely be
ready with a fine package of aid for them.” Kamala and her cronies have
half-wrecked America already. It’s too expensive to even live, great cities
are destroyed, crime is terrifying, illegals are pouring in and overrunning
communities like cockroaches. She cares only about power and money.
Not about our wrecked country, nor about our suffering southern Americans
from monster storm Helene – nor about any Americans at the mercy of
murderous Muslim jihadists.
ALBUQUERQUE NM. Last spring, a mob took over UNM’s Student Union, State Police made 16 arrests, all charges dismissed even with $40,000 in damages! Their attorney, AHMAD ASSED, who organized a PRO-HAMAS protest/march about twelve years ago… HE’S NOW THE PRESIDENT OF THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF NM. His UNM classmate in the ’80s, JOSEPH MASSAD, radical professor at Columbia and at last count, had 37,000 signatures TO GET HIM FIRED! This group, ANSWER and The Party for Socialism and Liberation led by Joel Marcos Gallegos/FB/”Marxist-Leninist”!)
It’s sad and even tragic that those naïve and brainwashed young college and university students non–Muslims Americans, who are taking part in this Red/Green alliance, throughout the United States, who are protesting against the State of Israel and who likewise greatly favor Hamas are people who are ,rightly , described ,as the “useful idiots” of the leaders of Hamas and their jihadist members who are dedicated to the cause of conquest for the cause of Islam.
Those Americans who aren’t Muslims the stooges of those Hamas chefs and the other Muslim terrorist, For those of Hamas view all people who are not Muslims as inferior creatures to them and refer to them .
Behind their backs as , “Kafirs,” which is the Islamic derogatory term for “disbelievers.”
It’s tragic that those non-Muslims pro-Hamas America protesters against Israel are so very deluded by Hamas that this Islamic terror / murder organization so easily manipulates and uses them as their tools.
Those poor young people are ,truly, their useful idiots.
In addition, speaking about Useful idiots, those “students” are so very viciously anti-Israel is because they are both brainwashed and ignorant.
One example of this ignorance was revealed by a .Newsmax reporter walked over to one of those “student” protesters who was holding a sign that read “From the River to the Sea” and asked her “What river ?” and she replied “I don’t know.” Then the reporter asked her “Which sea ?” To that question, she answered “I don’t know.”
Iran’s top Muslim cleric leader, Ayatollah Khamenei,is ,without doubt ,is very happy and glad those in high positions in institutions of “higher education” brainwashed and manipulated those poor naive and misinformed college young people to be his useful idiots to attempt to fulfill that Islamic goal of destroying the State of Israel and then replacing her with an Islamic “state.”
Another terrible harsh and tragic reality is that Khamenei,couldn’t care less about those American college people who he only uses as his stooges. that Ayatollah ,because of his religion shiite Islam even dislikes those non-Muslim youth who are his tools and he even hate those Sunni Muslims who are also they his tools.
Those college young people who have been led astray deceived and are now being used should not be scorned but instead they should be pitied.
They need their adzeses kicked so that their closest relatives are either the flounder or cod and they see only with one eye in one direction at a time. Picasso illustrated the general idea.
Many of those poor misled university and college “student protesters “ against the nation that is the Jewish State of Israel who how up the signs that read “Free Palestine” don’t know or understand that history reveals that the ancient Philistines recorded in the Bible and history reveals the people who came from the Greek Islands and some parts of the mainland Greece. They have no connection, at all, the to the Arab /Muslim of modern times who called themselves the “Palestinians.”
From those ancient people, the Philistines, the word “Palestine” .came into being.
There is no genuine ethic group or race who are the “Palestinians.”
Early in the last century a anyone living in that land, Arab or Jew, who lived in that land was called a ”Palestinian.”
Only after 1964 did the Arab/Muslims start to refer to themselves , exclusively , by the word “Palestinian.”
The reason for that is that they felt that by giving themselves that title they would appear to have some kind of valid claim on that land.
Indeed , there never was a “Palestinian state.”