The 1001 Laughs Palestine Comedy Festival is an annual event cofounded and directed by Palestinian-American comedian Amer Zahr. We had Amer on The Palestine Pod in 2021, the episode is called “Akhaduha Mafroosheh with Comedian Amer Zahr.” You can follow him here on Instagram. The festival is currently ongoing from August 10th - 15th with shows in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus, and occupied East Jerusalem.

The lineup for the Palestine Comedy Festival this year featured comedians Ahmed Al-Kadri, Bilal Sharmoug, Dana Alexander, Lana Salah, Maram Jafar, Nina Kharoufeh, and Noha Jadallah.

A few of the comedians (full disclosure - some are my friends) shared testimony of their mistreatment and abuse by the Israeli military from the moment they touched down in occupied Palestine.

Palestinian-American comedian Bilal Sharmoug shared his account on a highlight called “denied entry.” The only paperwork he and others were given as justification for their illegal detainment and deportation was that they were denied on the basis of “public security or public safety or public order considerations.” It appears the Israeli occupation can’t decide between the three so it hit them with the trifecta of bullshit.

Yemeni-American comedian Ahmed Al-Kadri detailed in a four part series the course of events surrounding his illegitimate detainment and deportation on Instagram. He’s not deterred and he plans to try again in the near future.

Lana Salah, Nina Kharoufeh, and Bilal Sharmoug are Palestinian-American comedians born into exile because european Jewish zionist terrorists displaced their ancestors. They were eager to go back to Palestine and perform for the indigenous people of the land. The people of Palestine were also eager to receive them. To share and connect, to laugh and heal. But of course the zionist occupation couldn’t allow for even a moment of relief without disruption.

To my knowledge only a fraction of the comedians slated to perform were not illegally detained and deported upon entry into occupied Palestine. These include Noha Jadallah, according to her Instagram video, Maram Jafar, and Dana Alexander based on recent stories they posted.

The comedy festival is still going forward with a mix of people performing in person and many who call in via Zoom. Because even as comedians born into exile Palestinians are forced to innovate and adapt under artificial unnecessary pressure in order to simply exist.

I am reminded of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin. Zakaria Zubeidi, one of the leaders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and one of the six political prisoners who miraculously escaped Gilboa death camp with only a spoon originally wanted to pursue theatre. The Israeli occupation made his participation in the resistance a fait accompli when “in 2002, during the Second Intifada, Zakaria's mother Samira and brother Taha were killed by Israeli snipers, and their family home, along with The Stone Theatre and much of the (Jenin Refugee) camp was bulldozed.”

I dream of a day where Palestinians can pursue theatre and comedy without interference because they’ve shaken off the Jewish supremacist occupation chains that shackle every aspect of their lives. One aspect of occupation is try to break the spirit of the native according to Fanon: “In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values. In the period of decolonization, the colonized masses mock at these very values, insult them, and vomit them up.”

People on twitter often talk about how the role of the artist is overstated but this shows that the fragile Israeli occupation fears being mocked. It fears jokes at its expense. Its image is so weak and its ego so fragile it can be shaken to its core by humor. I’m old enough to remember when Jews could take a joke. I lost my Instagram after one of my bits about an Israeli soldier being eaten by a shark went viral. They really hate to be embarrassed. Just the other day they disappeared the YouTube account of long standing movement comedian Tadhg Hickey. If you do standup and you oppose genocide the walls are closing in.

Palestinian poet, activist and author talks about the use of humor as a tool against colonialism in his book Perfect Victims. “Humor is a powerful rejection of genocide because the joker is mocking the racism that calls on him to “prove” his humanity.” One of the most prolific and profound Palestinian thinkers of all time Ghassan Kanafani, never fired a bullet himself but through his writing he inspired the minds of those on the front lines fighting against imperialism with guns and other appropriate weapons.

If performing standup is reason enough to kidnap someone, hold them in interrogation for hours, and then deport them then it speaks to the power of the artist. If the artist is a threat to “public safety” or “public order” then surely it's a worthy adversary to occupation. According to Ismatu Gwendolyn our role as artists is to help build a better world by helping people to imagine something greater than what we’ve been conditioned to accept.

I think about the Kurt Vonnegut quote a lot: “During the Vietnam War... every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.”

The zionist entity is crumbling, it’s lashing out violently, attempting to gobble up land, and exert political pressure. But fundamentally they’ve lost in the court of public opinion. They are mocked across the globe and they hate it. Their hasbara is ineffective despite spending more and more money on it. They are derided, they are treated as a pariah along their usual tourist destinations. This is the result of regular people having even the slightest interaction with Israelis directly and the bravery of the Palestinian resistance, Iran, Ansar Allah and Hezbollah who exposed the Jewish supremacist rapists for the cowards they are.

Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands once said “our revenge will be the laughter of our children.” As comedians, actors, cartoonists, and clowns, our role in support of Palestinian liberation is to keep the laser pointed at the illegitimate Jewish supremacist zionist colony so that one day inshallah in the near future we can laugh about it once it has fallen forever.

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So I’m sitting here in an association in Paris and next to me is a pile of potatoes and three women speaking Arabic. They are here in the belly of the beast of the country who colonized theirs. We communicate through a mixture of French, English, and the limited Arabic I know. We’ve built a frankly adorable sense of community. Comrades at made the point long ago that men need to do more mutual aid. Everybody wants to be a revolutionary, nobody wants to peel potatoes.

Mutual aid is sadly extremely gendered labor. If people do not eat they will starve to death. You can’t organize with or provide political education to someone who can’t focus because their stomachs are empty. I have been a part of a few mutual aid collectives in Los Angeles, and in Europe and it’s largely work done by cis and trans women. It’s also a space where you’ll find more Black and brown people than white people, usually.

Many people discovered politics recently. Perhaps it was Trump and you took umbrage because for the first time your rights started to be noticeably infringed. Perhaps it was the Al Aqsa Flood which woke people up from a grand slumber across the globe. Now people are going through the motions of getting involved in protests, but what gets rewarded by the bourgeois liberals that control the purse strings of the movement is displaying the aesthetic of revolution while shoehorning liberalism. That’s why Hasan will sing Red Sun in the Sky and take pictures reading Lenin, but still tells you to support the Democratic Party “strategically.”

Sadly we have far more cosplayers of revolution, than we do actual revolutionaries. Everyone wants to be so visible and people have seemingly forgotten that most revolutionary work goes unposted, without recognition, or attribution to the people doing it. It feels like everyone is gunning for the spotlight, and very few people want to do the necessary work that needs to be done off camera. Twitter user @prolepedestrian put it well, “everyone wants to be Lenin, nobody wants to be Bolshevik revolutionary #156,642”

Mutual aid, the parallel system from which the people can take their daily bread is a staple of revolutionary work. Though as comrade points out, sharing food by itself is not revolutionary.

The Black Panther Party utilized the Free Breakfast Program to feed the community and provide political education. This is true revolutionary work, the two in tandem. They asked children, “why are you hungry in the so called richest country on earth?” Soon after their parents started to volunteer and asked similar questions. The mutual aid collective is one of the few spaces where literacy is still welcome, where anti capitalist and anti colonial thought can be proliferated.

Lots of people are online right now tweeting about the crimes they want to do to the government (not the smartest legal strategy) very few people are actually going through with it. It feels masturbatory watching people post “angles” they would engage the US government from if their own house was raided or unload clips into the woods. They post viral videos to Tik Tok while outside their home, not online but in real life, people are being rounded up and children are being raped. Their guns pointed at a fiction, a hypothetical, when there’s no shortage of worthwhile targets offline. The military are currently doing “training” exercises right outside your house.

Many people feel defeated, exhausted, their morale is rotting for the world to see. They tweet about what Iran should have done. They have military strategy that Hezbollah surely hasn’t considered. They disrespect the Palestinian resistance who hand delivered explosives to Jewish supremacist rape squads too scared to get out of their tanks and even step foot on Palestinian soil. These people who spread doomerism, many of them aren’t engaged in community work and you can tell from their perspectives.

If you’re a shooter, don’t let this article get in your way. But if you’re not then shut the fuck up and start getting involved in mutual aid and direct action.

Mutual aid is the jumping off point to building community you trust. It is the visible legal (though sometimes ticketed and harassed) community work that can be done out in the open. Very few people start taking more serious actions without having first engaged in mutual aid. And everyone needs mutual aid as a support system for more revolutionary work. The people who take direct action need jail support and bail funds. They need a network of lawyers and press infrastructure to assist them as the full brunt of the oppressive state comes down against them. We see this with the Palestine Action and Prairieland cases.

Revolution isn’t one singular event that everyone is aware of at the time. Revolution is a practice. Are you committed to land back? How many people in your community have you fed? If the food supply was disrupted would you know where to get it? If the power went down would you have community to meet up with? Do you grow any crops?

For the record I am not an authority, and I certainly don’t have all the answers. I’m just a guy pointing out that you’re unlikely to find the answers if all you do is doom scroll. The revolution is not on the other side of a refresh of your notifications.

Allegedly Chamel AbdulKarim uploaded footage of himself explaining he isn’t paid enough to live as he burned down a warehouse facility that took up eleven blocks or 1.2 million-square-feet in Ontario, CA. You can support him here:

Has there ever been a stronger understanding of Marxism? Theory and praxis combined. A modern day Communist Manifesto! The conditions of capitalism are rapidly radicalizing people. People who may or may not have read Marx are getting more active than many of us who have. This action is a much needed reminder to the capitalist imperial class that it’s better to pay people more than it is to lose your entire inventory. It reminded the people, the proletariat, that they can do more than just march on a Saturday or “vote for Democrats” as if that’s a viable solution to upending colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy. As X user @FalconryFinance put it, “this is glory available to the common man.”

The flame in Ontario lit a torch that was quickly transferred to at least one worker we know of in New York. Reports indicate that a disgruntled worker set fire to the facility of their employer in Queens, NY.

A man being served either a warrant or an eviction notice barricaded himself in his home in Porterville, CA and gunned down a member of the Tulare Police Department. Someone was arrested after they allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI. An Indianapolis city councilman saw his home fired upon with 13 bullets by a community member upset about data centers.

The conditions for revolt are inevitable. The capitalist imperial pedophile class is guilty on a scale and magnitude that is hard to communicate with words. Genocide of indigenous people on Turtle Island, crimes against humanity to Black people stolen from Africa, everyone in the global South and the global majority the US bombed, poisoned, razed, raped, psychologically and physically tortured. According to a study in the Lancet, US and EU sanctions have killed 38 million people since 1970. The US and Israel are losing the war of aggression they started against Iran and they are now facing an increasing threat of class consciousness from the public they once pacified with high fructose corn syrup and AI slop.

In a Unity of Fields interview with Ray Luc Levasseur, former political prisoner and co-founder of the Sam Melville-Jonathan Jackson Unit/the United Freedom Front, a clandestine revolutionary organization active from 1975-1984, Ray said, “I don’t make a fetish out of nonviolence.” And “to us, those Third world national liberation struggles were a cutting edge of resisting and fighting back against US imperialism as it spread throughout the world. Each one of those countries that liberated itself was going to weaken US imperialism to some degree. And our role in part was to be supportive of those struggles. International solidarity, if you need a term for it. That was how we considered ourselves; they’re the vanguard, we’re the rear guard. The rear guard because we’re in the Belly of the Beast, we’re the US, we have some responsibility politically, morally, personally to do something, to attack the same system that’s being attacked by these revolutionary movements.”

In this moment that means support for Iran, Yemen, Palestine, Iraq, and Hezbollah. Everyone doing that “two things can be true at once” nonsense is doing intellectual cover for US imperialism and pedophiles. The Axis of Resistance is the only group taking the appropriate actions to challenge the global pedophilic Jewish and white supremacist order and our job in the west is to support them and disrupt the supply chain.

Mao discusses the likelihood of people turning towards socialism in his work, On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People:

People all over the world are now discussing whether or not a third world war will break out. On this question, too, we must be mentally prepared and do some analysis. We stand firmly for peace and against war. But if the imperialists insist on unleashing another war, we should not be afraid of it. Our attitude on this question is the same as our attitude towards any disturbance: first, we are against it; second, we are not afraid of it. The First World War was followed by the birth of the Soviet Union with a population of 200 million. The Second World War was followed by the emergence of the socialist camp with a combined population of 900 million. If the imperialists insist on launching a third world war, it is certain that several hundred million more will turn to socialism, and then there will not be much room left on earth for the imperialists; it is also likely that the whole structure of imperialism will completely collapse.”

If you are someone who is disillusioned by the political theatre of left vs. right, Dem vs. Rep, Fox vs. MSNBC now is your time to shine. If you suspect both political parties serve the same satanic system, it’s time to tap in and get to work. Learn about land back, bartering, and mutual aid. Join direct action networks. You’d be surprised at how close you could be to making a difference.

UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, is one of many of these western influencers who condemn the Palestinian and Iranian resistance and regurgitates US imperial talking points about the leadership of Iran which they call “a regime.”

Despite being sanctioned by the US she still runs cover for the baby raping pedophiles by describing Iran as a “regime (that) is illiberal and brutal.” For her, liberalism a partner to fascism, is a positive identifier. Sadly, she is not alone. She is a representative of a large swath of people who have been expressing this CIA talking point of “two things can be true at once.” They all have the same script just like zionist bots…isn’t that strange to you?

“Two things can be true at once” they say, “Iran is a brutal regime AND the US/Israel shouldn’t bomb Iran and stage a coup.” Here’s the thing, the two truths are a lie. Only one of those things is actually true, the US and Israel should not bomb Iran and stage a coup. If you’re someone who was or is saying the first part that sentence or you’re maligning Iran’s government as they battle US imperialism on the front lines, then you’re a part of laying the foundation to justify the bombs we see dropping on Iranian school children. You’ve “nuanced” your way into walking lock step with war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and pedophile rapist Donald Trump. Are you not embarrassed?

The martyrdom of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei was a dark day not just for Shias in Iran but for Muslims and revolutionaries worldwide. His death is a catalyst for people to investigate the lies they were told about Shiites and Islam. Many people will devote their life to the cause of justice as a result of his efforts.

The Palestinian martyr Nizar Banat who was murdered by the PA in 2021 makes it very clear: “to those (Palestinians) who disapprove of Iran, where did you get your rockets from habibi? Don’t you applaud the rockets and cheer for them in support of the resistance? Where did you get the rockets that protected Gaza from? You should be ashamed of yourselves!!”

Some of you are so disconnected from the teachings of the martyrs of Palestine I’m disgusted by your hubris. I’m ashamed to have been in community with some of you, and others I spotted from a mile away and never let you close.

Don’t take it from me listen to the martyr Yahya Sinwar, former head of Hamas. “If Iran’s support for the Palestinian resistance had not existed we would never have achieved this capacity….The Arab nation has abandoned us. They abandoned us in our hardest and most painful moments. While Iran has supported us with weapons, equipment and expertise.”

Some of you fucking idiots in the west would still fix your grubby little mouths to speak negatively about Iran. These walking nose jobs talk about the “brutality” of Iran meanwhile the group of cannibal baby eating rapists they’re aligned with do ritual human sacrifice openly, bombing both a girls and boys school in different villages of Iran. The casualties are in the hundreds of children. It makes no difference to them, they’re busy dancing with Israelis in the streets like it’s 9/11.

They tell you to center Iranian voices, but the only voices they’re listening to are fascists from Beverly Hills. Never mind when you actually listen to Iranian women in Iran they always condemn US imperialism and Israel.

At this point, we do not need more regurgitations of CIA talking points dressed up as “nuance.” We don’t need to center and cater to the feelings of a diaspora population that fled because of their connections to the US backed dictator and his brutal secret police. We do need people of principle, people who are willing to stand up to the international crime syndicate of baby eating pedophiles. We need people who are guided by justice and are not distracted by the temporary luxuries of capitalism and Jewish Supremacy. We need people who are willing to confront US and Israeli ghouls, and strike back with missiles. We need more people who are not afraid of vocalizing unpopular stances before they are popular. Simply put, we need more people like former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Allah yerhamo, and all the people he inspired to walk in his footsteps.

In the publication Revolutionary Adventurism Lenin warns against the actions of a lone few who are not connected to building revolutionary working class consciousness. He specifically talks about “assassinations” and “terrorism” as being disconnected and counterproductive to the revolution. But when is violence and/or an escalation of tactics the reasonable thing to do?

From Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson: “In a nonviolent movement there must be a latent threat of eruption, a dormant possibility of sudden and violent action if concessions are to be won, respect gained, and the established order altered.”

There has always been a group of people intellectually ahead of the masses. The inner core of professional revolutionaries, whom Lenin tasks with educating and organizing the working class by his own admission must be further ahead in the process of revolution than those they seek to mobilize. There exists in every time period, people who built up the working class and actively tore down the power structure before it was popular in the minds of the masses. History remembers them fondly but they are despised during their lifetime. Sometimes, it was the actions of these individuals that helped propel the consciousness of the working class forward.

For example, did General Harriet Tubman wait until public opinion supported the killing of white human traffickers responsible for enslaving African people, raping them, and eating their babies? No, she addressed the material conditions and anticipated acting with greater urgency while the masses caught up. The underground railroad is proof of organizing the working class. An information and resource network of people, businesses, and safe houses. But General Tubman famously carried a pistol to protect herself both from white human traffickers and anyone who was an obstacle to freedom.

I am not joking when I say that if General Harriet Tubman were alive today some of you would take to a fascist owned website to call her an adventurist. With the rise of social media and the commentary class people are so quick to classify any act of resistance against the pedophile predator class as an act of adventurism. They dismiss direct action and other escalations in favor of permitted “protests” where people livestream their inefficacy with pride! How many Arrest Netanyahu parades should we have? Will they stop eating and raping babies now that we’ve done a lap around their office on a Saturday while organizers of the protest actively discourage property damage?

I saw a No Kings Protest right next to a Chase Bank in Studio City in 2025 and though there were thousands of people there, not a single person thought to touch the bank. I think I saw a “protestor” sweeping the dust away from the entrance. Contrast that with the burning of the Bank of America at UC Santa Barbara in the 70’s and it indicates that someone has to make the first move or nobody will. The culture of “American protest” is so drastically dulled, so disgustingly commercialized, now Tik Tok influencers make get ready with me to go “fight fascism” videos.

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Let’s examine what some people might call modern day adventurism. Luigi Mangione is alleged to have assassinated healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Though the assassination didn’t upend the for-profit healthcare system it inarguably sent shockwaves throughout the globe and caused the company United Healthcare to backtrack on an unpopular policy proposal of putting limits on anesthesia.

More importantly it reminded the people that violence is an option, and it’s theirs to claim if they choose. It proved that even a big-wig healthcare CEO was still human, and he faced a pre-existing condition of being allergic to lead. In allegedly taking action against a CEO, Luigi exposed much of the public supports this type of action. This chain of events inspired other people to take what they perceive as similar actions. It sparked conversations around class consciousness in a way that many organizations have been unable to do for years with book clubs. He allegedly applied reasoned understanding of theory into action which is known to communists as praxis. Believe it or not there was once a time when communists applauded executing fascists instead of being a part of organizations that condemn such actions. Is this an example of adventurism or was it a reasoned escalation of tactics?

The people in these supposed “revolutionary” organizations are really good at illustrating the CIA sabotage handbook. Having conferences, endless meetings with no action, and getting people to vote for Democrats who immediately betray their progressive promises. Meanwhile vanguard organizations like Palestine Action receive much less support and enthusiasm. It’s because many people are still enjoying the benefits of the system. They don’t truly want to see the system overthrown, they don’t care about the urgency of upending a system that protects a class of rapist pedophiles, they are not willing to sacrifice comforts of the Super Bowl Half time show or access to BDS products like Coca-Cola and Starbucks.

Palestine Action just won a slurry of different landmark legal cases in the UK. They fought the insane proscription as a terrorist organization and won. The Filton 24 are exonerated, and six of the members beat their frame job case of “aggravated burglary.” Revolutionary comrade liberated himself from UK dungeons. Palestine Action is basically undefeated in court, they’ve managed to shut down multiple weapons manufacturers, force the sale of real estate, and generated enough property damage to impact the bottom line of businesses connected to genocide. Should they have waited for the workers at these factories to achieve class consciousness, and seize the means of production or was there a moral imperative to shut them down? Is this so called adventurism or is it a reasoned escalation of tactics?

People sitting in front of their ring lights checking their notifications, or those organizing protest parades might look at that and call it adventurism, many would suggest it’s a necessary escalation of tactics. People engaged in revolutionary struggle understand urgency and duty in a way that people who promote calling your representatives, voting for democrats, or waiting till the midterms do not comprehend or care about.

This is the part where everyone gets upset with my analysis and starts to point the finger at me. Well who are YOU?!? What have you done?

The need for someone to fed post in order to levy criticism against a cabal of pedophile rapists and the inadequate response from the public should help you realize you’re triggered because you still identify with the system. You love the settler colony known as the United States. You believe the lies America told you about elections and you’ll probably vote for Gavin Newsom because you’re an idiot who believes in the argument of harm reduction. You’re somehow still unmoved by the fact that politics are controlled by cannibalistic baby raping pedophiles. You’re nostalgic for a time when it was Obama vaporizing a wedding party in Yemen and all you had to complain about was his tan suit.

Much of the pro-Palestine movement is rejoicing at the election of Zohran Mamdani. A guy who has taken the brave stance of “Israel has the right to exist as a state with equal rights.” Oh wait, that’s a liberal zionist position.

Anti-zionists do not agree that Israel has a right to exist even as a state with equal rights, we are not JVP or Zeteo. The goal is not to coexist with the colonizers who are currently raping Palestinian political prisoners to death. Fanon says “the native’s work is to imagine all possible methods for destroying the settler” (The Wretched of the Earth).

The goal is to liberate Palestine not live with the pedophiles blowing up churches and mosques.

“Oh but don’t you realize he’s just saying that he probably doesn’t believe it. He knows they won’t be able to exist that way.” People are pulling ligaments doing mental gymnastics and reading coffee grounds to interpret his words in a way that doesn’t make it sound zionist.

If you’re willing to read between the lines and go off of past behaviors because you recognize Zohran is placating zionists in his city who control the levers of power and might assassinate him, then fine, but just say that. Let’s stop doing all this interpreting of what he said and normalizing his incorrect position which perpetuates zionism. Politicians are not above critique and it’s actually good to challenge them when they seek to placate fascists doing a genocide.

A little background on me, I used to work in municipal politics. I managed a successful campaign for city council. The candidate was one of the co-founders of Iraq veterans against the war in a very pro-military town of Torrance, CA. I understand electoral politics because I’ve knocked thousands of doors, I’ve trained volunteers, and I’ve phone banked late into the night. This was from 2012 - 2014 when I was active in electoral races ranging from the municipal to the federal level. I actually do understand what it means to vocalize an unpopular position well before people are ready to hear it. It’s important to stand on the principle of the issue. Even if people disagree, they respect the backbone.

Here comes the “let people feel joy” crowd. The unofficial cry of the Syrian “revolution” I believe. I often think of the interview with the guy who said “I toppled Saddam’s statue – now I want him back.” Sometimes we’re too busy “feeling joy” to notice the colonialism and imperialism happening around us.

As if me and the few others who have read George Jackson, Assata Shakur and Franz Fanon just sit around trying to think of ways to stop the masses from feeling joy. It’s not our fault you find joy in a rejuvenation of the settler colony. As people who care about liberation that deeply upsets us.

I would refer you to the article Voting is Not Harm Reduction An Indigenous Perspective:

• “To organize from a position that voting is an act of damage limitation blurs lines of the harm that settler and resource colonialism imposes. Under colonial occupation all power operates through violence. There is absolutely nothing “less harmful” about participating in and perpetuating the political power of occupying forces. Voting won’t undue settler colonialism, white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, or capitalism. Voting is not a strategy for decolonization.

I personally feel joy when the settler colony falters, when it loses legitimacy, when there are tangible land back victories on Turtle Island. Not when there’s a renewed vigor in the lies of colonialism. They put a South Asian face on a system of white terrorism and suddenly I’m supposed to let the dopamine flow? I think not. Anyone who questions these developments is a radical agitator guilty of “dividing the left.” Dividing the left from whom exactly, the CIA?

There are those that will say “this is why the left never wins” and it’s nice of them to admit that Zohran is not a leftist or does the left never win anything? It can’t be both. Mamdani said his goal is to get people back into the Democratic party. He’s cozied up to AOC and Bernie all the time now and his politics will go the same way.

Mamdani used to attend the protests of WOL (Within Our Lifetime) and utilized them to give passionate speeches about Palestine. His digital campaign even invokes the footage occasionally. His rhetoric was fierce, just like AOC when she used to say ABOLISH ICE but then did nothing about it once in office.

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Just like her he’s since walked back his rhetoric and spread imperialist talking points that buttress US clandestine operations against Venezuela as catalogued by Calla Walsh. One of the co-founders of WOL, Nerdeen Kiswani has become one of Mamdani’s fiercest critics as she remains faithful to the Thawabit and the Palestinian resistance.

Many of us are unable to “feel joy” at the victory of Zohran Mamdani, and it’s because we don’t see value in the continuation of the settler colony known as the United States just as we don’t see value in the perpetuation of the settler colony known as Israel. Perhaps we underestimated the distance that needs to be covered for politically educating the masses. People on Turtle Island are still unwilling to reckon with settler colonialism at home, and for that reason we will never free Palestine by voting for the mayor of New York City.

Is it not strange to anyone else that our world is run by a bunch of rapists and pedophiles?

The fact that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad asset is now well known. I remember the days when you were called crazy for even suggesting it. Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, was also a confirmed spy for the settler colony occupying Palestine. Though the files haven’t dropped we have enough testimony, video, and other evidence to piece together a web of some of the most dispicable individuals the world has ever known. Trump, Andrew, and Bill Clinton are among those with photos that haven’t yet been scrubbed from the internet. MBS is connected through flight logs.

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Another criminal known for his frequent visits to Epstein island was a former PM of the pedophile colony Ehud Barak. His real name is Ehud Brog but like many others he changed it to sound less Lithuanian.

According to Virginia Giuffre, she was first trafficked to Ehud Barak on Epstein’s island when she was 18 in 2002. Ehud Barak “raped me more savagely than anyone had before,” Giuffre said. Imagine standing out for depravity at an island of pedophile rapists. How are these the people responsible for making decisions for the rest of us?

Virginia Roberts Giuffre was likely murdered by the underworlds hitmen. She said in 2019, “I am making it publicly known that in no way, shape or form am I suicidal. I have made this known to my therapist and GP — If something happens to me — in the same of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quieted.”

The corporate media who runs cover for the mass pedophile ring would have you believe she committed suicide in April of 2025 just months before her book was set for publication. You can read the full account of her abuse in her book titled Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice.

In the year 2025, this is type of person CNN platforms and looks to for guidance. We live in a world where the victims of rape are murdered and disappeared while the rapists and murders are platformed and elevated. The people who challenge the power structure are cast aside, mocked, and destroyed financially. Those who uphold the power structure are embraced, celebrated, and rewarded with jobs at places like AIPAC or one of its subsidiaries.

(Screenshot from CNN coverage in April 2025)

Giuffre becomes one of over two dozen people connected to the Epstein case to die mysteriously after challenging the world power structure. Virginia is the third Epstein victim who was likely murdered in the coverup after the chilling deaths of Carolyn Andriano, and Leigh Skye Patrick.

So called Israel is a safe haven for pedophiles. Through a loophole being utilized by many American Jews, they avoid prison sentences for crimes of which they are convicted. Don’t want to go to jail? Come colonize Palestine! You did a heinous crime against a child? Guess what, if you fly to Palestine and do even more heinous crimes against the Palestinians you’ll be fine! You might even get paid to do it. It’s a tactic being employed by some of entertainments mildest sensations like “disgraced Hollywood directors Brett Ratner and Bryan Singer.”

The strategy to evade accountability for crimes against children was similarly employed by Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a division head at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, who was arrested in a police sting operation aimed at online users seeking to sexually prey on children. He should have gone to jail in Nevada for 1-10 years but instead he was swiftly returned to the safe haven for pedophiles.

According to the pedophile colonizers own media “tens of thousands of pedophiles operate in Israel every year, leading to about 100,000 victims annually, according to an Israeli pedophile monitoring association.” About 60 percent of convicted sex offenders in Israel have committed offenses against children under the age of 13. The prince of the pedophile colony, Yair Netanyahu (Milekowsky) once accused the Wexner Israel fellowship of being a “cult of pedophiles.” He was later sued and forced to remove the posts and apologize. The lady doth protest too much.

This is what you can expect from a society where the Knesset debated the legitimacy of raping Palestinian prisoners to death, where every day “Israelis” stormed a prison to free an Israeli rapist, and then turned the rapist into a celebrity.

Where is Chris Hanson when you need him?

Every day there’s a new massacre in Palestine, Yemen, Sudan, and the Congo. In conjunction ice raids target an entire apartment building in Chicago dragging naked children out in the middle of the night. There have only been two days so far in 2025 when police did not kill someone in the colonial entity known as The United States. The police have inflicted colonial life ending violence on 997 people in the year 2025 alone. The non-violent flotilla members attempting to break the violent Israeli siege on Gaza are captured at gunpoint, tortured, humiliated, and deprived of food, water, and medicine. This is of course a fraction of the colonial violence imposed on Palestinian hostages daily. Palestinian political prisoners are abducted for years with no media attention, no support from outside governments, and very few people working to humanize their stories.

What do most western influencers tell you to do? Call your representatives!!! Hit the streets for marches that are sometimes coordinated and approved by police. This is liberal bourgeois nonsense. It reminds me of when I was shot by the LAPD/LASD with rubber bullets in 2020 and I did in fact call my Congressman Ted Lieu to press him about it. He didn’t even have the courage to talk to me directly. He had one of his underlings suggest I report it to the police. YOU MEAN THE GUYS WHO SHOT AT ME?!?! They are aware, I saw them high-five.

The political class is acutely aware of the violence and is hoping you will be satiated by non-violence. The calls that never reach them and the emails that get archived and deleted by an intern. They are banking on your fatigue with engaging in these futile efforts.

Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael) critiqued the strategy of non-violence in 1967, “Dr King’s policy was that non-violence would achieve the gains for Black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are non-violent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good you only made one fallacious assumption, in order for non-violence to work your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.” This is true for the zionist entity as well.

This sentiment was no doubt influenced by Franz Fanon on page 48 of The Wretched of the Earth, “colonialism is not a thinking machine nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence. At the decisive moment the colonist bourgeoisie which up till then has remained inactive comes into the field. It introduces that new idea which is in proper parlance a creation of the colonial situation: non-violence. In its simplest form this non-violence signifies to the intellectual and economic elite of the colonized country that the bourgeoisie has the same interests as them and that it is therefore urgent and indispensable to come to terms for the public good. Non-violence is an attempt to settle the colonial problem around a green baize table, before any regrettable act has been performed or irreparable gesture made, before any blood has been shed.”

Field Marshall for the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, George Jackson, further underscored this line of thinking in his communications with his mother in 1967 in a collection of writings known as Soledad Brother, Prison Letters of George Jackson. “In a nonviolent movement there must be a latent threat of eruption, a dormant possibility of sudden and violent action if concessions are to be won, respect gained, and the established order altered. That nonviolent theory is practicable in civilized lands among civilized people, the Asians and Africans, but a look at European history shows that anything of great value that ever changed hands was taken by force of arms.”

I think a large part of the problem is that people in the west have been conditioned to see protests as an aesthetic that doesn’t really challenge the power structure. We bring our cell phones to take photos and livestream the marches which in turn make us an extension of the surveillance state. It’s become more about being seen than enacting a change. I am guilty of this as well. It’s long past-time for people to put our phones away and connect with likeminded individuals offline. Find mutual aid and direct action networks near you and get to work, time is running out.

Have you noticed that many of the people who are booked regularly for TV interviews to “represent” Palestine have a vitriolic “hatred” for the Palestinian resistance? Above and beyond the trite “do you condemn Hamas” litmus test asked by every talking head propping up genocide, there is a desire by the guest to convey their theatrical disdain for the only group of people standing between Palestinians and total annihilation.

Some condemn the Al Aqsa Flood, calling it a war crime; they talk disrespectfully about a logical act of resistance that adhered to the Islamic Rules of War. Some never even mention the resistance and their entire persona repackages the steadfastness of Palestinian fighters as a capitalist aesthetic that can be monetized. Others lack subtlety and outright say they “hate Hamas.”

Mehdi Hasan for example, Mehdi is seen by many as a staunch advocate for Palestine through his platform Zeteo, but what do the martyrs of Palestine have to say about him?

Whether he’s selling tickets to his debates with zionists which goes against the academic boycott, debating Nazis on Jubilee, or shilling for the Democratic Party you can almost always find Mehdi somewhere meddling his way into the spotlight. The Palestinian poet and martyr Refaat Alareer had little patience for Mehdi and that was in October of 2023. Mehdi has since doubled down on his disdain for Hamas and Refaat was martyred for his dedication to Palestinian liberation and his uncompromising stance in support of the resistance. One of them was martyred by the Israeli occupation and the other continues to debate zionists for profit.

Probably a coincidence.

Another individual I’ve seen recently making the rounds is Ana Kasparian of TYT.

In her own words she “loathe(s) Hamas…” but has “love for the Palestinian people.” A disgusting rhetorical device often employed by liberal zionists. These types of mental gymnastics are actually way more common than you’d think. She says she has love for the Palestinian people, as if Hamas is not made up of indigenous Palestinians, 80% were orphans because of the Israeli occupation. How can you possibly love a people but only as the victim? Who are these “innocent people” she refers to? It couldn’t possibly be the people responsible for the Nakba, or the 75+ years of dispossession and rape of Palestinians? Are those the innocents? Never mind the reporting that the IOF killed it’s own settlers using the Hannibal Directive, she speaks here about her concern for the “innocent people” killed by Hamas. This is no ally to the Palestinian cause.

If you don’t support Palestinian resistance, you don’t support a free Palestine. You want Palestinians to be skulls that you can share as an image, but Palestinians deserve dignity, Palestinians deserve freedom. And how do they get that? It’s not by going on Piers Morgan.

(Credit Habibi House Podcast - February 2024)

We are seeing this shift by liberal zionists to try and posit that it’s easy and obvious to support Palestinians, but to draw the line at supporting the resistance. Some brain rotted idiot in Ana’s comments regurgitates her thoughts, normalizing the position that isolates Palestinian resistance fighters despite them having widespread popular support as demonstrated from every prisoner of war exchange.

Every time a talking head or spokesperson who claims to represent Palestine condemns the resistance they contribute to a large scale media campaign to dehumanize Palestinians so much that a mere mention of the name Hamas justifies the extermination of the Palestinian people under the pretext that they are intangibly connected to Hamas, or they thought the word Hamas. It’s this brainwashing campaign that has primed the American and global public to accept 500,000 dead Palestinians and the destruction of over 90% of the infrastructure in Gaza. It’s a notion that is truly ridiculous to anyone with a functioning brain and yet, it’s the justification put forth by multiple states responsible for the Israeli Holocaust against Palestinians.

Another person who has benefited significantly from their appearances “defending” Palestine while condemning the resistance is Bassem Youssef.

Bassem has actually gone as far as to say “I fucking hate Hamas” during the first of one of his many interviews with fascist Piers Morgan. I couldn’t be bothered to fish for the screenshot but I remember it clear as day because it stuck out to me distinctly. How is it possible to advocate for Palestinians while undercutting and maligning their resistance?

That’s like saying “I support Algerians just not their resistance to French colonialism” or “I support enslaved people, just not Nat Turner.” Imagine someone got on TV and said “I support the end of South African apartheid but I absolutely hate the ANC.” They would sound stupid, because they are. It’s not just incompetence, it’s malice. They are further ostracizing the brave individuals of the Palestinian resistance by telling people that it’s possible to support Palestine without embracing the resistance. It’s a mental checkpoint many will never pass.

These capitalist influencers are all people with connections to the entertainment apparatus and that’s how they maintain access and relevancy. The large agents and managers who themselves are aligned with Saudi Arabia and the US intelligence apparatus watch closely as their clients jump through all the right hoops to keep their careers. That’s why you even see a comedy festival in Saudi Arabia with all of America’s biggest talent!

The Thawabit very clearly outlines that if you cannot show support for the Palestinian resistance, then you should shut the fuck up about Palestine. Palestine has no shortage of spokespeople, many of them are martyrs now.

Study the words of the people who gave their life for the liberation of the land and the people, not those who stand to benefit monetarily from interviews, debates, or aesthetics.

Read Ghassan Kanafani, Nizar Binat, Refaat Alareer and many more. Read principled comrades in the struggle for decolonization like Assata Shakur, George Jackson, and Che Guevara. Let go of this capitalist influencer class of controlled opposition that disrespects those who put their bodies and lives on the line to liberate Palestine.

The Jewish supremacists are scrambling, and many of them are trying to occupy space within the Palestine solidarity movement. They try to turn the Palestinian liberation struggle into a civil rights issue where all Palestinians need are equal rights. If only Palestinians could vote alongside the terrorists who stole their land, raped and murdered their family, then everything will be okay!

Palestine is a working-class liberation movement. It is anti-capitalist. It is guided by principles known as the Thawabet, it is not dictated by western capitalist influencers or the colonizers who stole the land.

The pattern works like this, a Palestinian will document and share their lived experience. This will be ignored for many years until some Jew in the west or some so called “Israeli scholar” saunters in years late and says essentially the same thing but watered down. They expect an immediate reward, to be absolved of all their sins, their complicity. They still plan to live in Palestine inside a stolen home as an occupier but with a bit of a clearer conscience, as they’ve “done their part” by not only stealing the land but stealing the scholarship also. This is Jewish supremacy extending into “solidarity activism.”

On July 15th 2025, Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University wrote an oped in the New York Times. And he was really feeling himself. He was expecting some type of praise. But he’s not even the first so-called “Israeli scholar” to call it genocide, that was Raz Segal on October 13th, 2023 when he called it a Textbook Case of Genocide”. Raz Segal was himself stealing from Palestinian scholars like Refaat Alareer who had been calling it genocide long before the Israeli occupation forces martyred him along with his brother, his sister, four nephews, and a neighbor. Here is Professor Alareer’s response to a JVP post about large-scale theft and pillaging by zionists terrorists in 1948.

How is it that the largest and most visible face of “Jewish antizionism” is a group that does not support the Palestinian resistance? A group that has over 11 million dollars sitting in their coffers fundraised off the backs of starving Palestinian people. Why is none of that money going to help people in Palestine? Why is that huge social media presence you’ve built solely on portraying Palestinians as helpless victims only you can save being used to boost fundraisers of the people being starved to death by Israelis in Gaza? Does anyone else have questions about why one of the founders of JVP’s spouse has ties to israeli cybersecurity firms? Or why the group facilitated a fundraiser for the IOF in the Bay Area. I can tell you from personal experience, I’ve been in meetings with “antizionist jews” who are really zionist jews in organizing spaces, and I’ve been shouted down, dismissed, and told to stop “causing division.” Which is crazy cause I thought zionists love dividing stuff.

Israelis act like once they’ve said something well then it must be true. Except Palestinians have been saying it for years. Zionist Jews believe that their extremely delayed validation of Palestinian lived reality means more because they’re Jewish supremacists who do not see Palestinians as human beings, or credible narrators of their own story. That’s why you see a bevy of “well look even Israeli’s are saying it” posts about the things Palestinians have described for decades. Guess what, nobody gives a fuck! I’ve never thought “you know who is a trusted source of information, zionists.”

Another instance of Jewish supremacy in the Palestine solidarity movement comes from the abduction of the crew aboard the Handala. The juxtaposition between the treatment of the Jewish people on the ship versus a Black labor leader like Chris Smalls of the Amazon Labor Union is stark. My friend, Palestinian organizer Nerdeen Kiswani, cofounder of Within Our Lifetime, broke it down on X.

There are countless other examples of this, but the last one I’ll focus on for now is the recent appearance of Peter Beinhart on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. As the Palestinian people are being exterminated, we can’t get a Palestinian on the show? We gotta settle for a centrist liberal zionist Jew? A guy who wrote a book written better by Palestinians twenty years ago? A guy who is monetizing the suffering of the Palestinian people. Jewish supremacist zionists always find a way to monetize the suffering of Palestinians. Whether it’s fundraising through the NGO space or hawking a book, they never fail to cash in on the corpses they helped to exterminate. Then there’s the centering of Judaism and/or antisemitism as a means of running cover for the Holocaust. It didn’t become more difficult to be Jewish because zionist jews are engaged in mass extermination of Palestinians. It became more difficult to be Palestinian. Zionist jews who masquerade as “anti-zionist” have this tell-tale sign of prioritizing the feelings of the colonizer over the lived experience of the colonized. It’s truly disgusting. They think their feelings take priority over the lived reality of the victims of colonialism.

They make videos about how you shouldn’t ask Jewish people their thoughts on Palestine. Dude, shut the fuck up!!! There are Palestinian people blown to pieces and buried under the rubble, but you’re upset someone is gonna ask you how you feel about that?

I’ve learned so much from getting deleted off Instagram three times total now. First in 2021, The Palestine Pod page disappeared, we lawyered up through Pal Legal and got the account back almost immediately. We had a “sympathetic representative” from the company tell us our account got caught in a digital checkpoint by mistake. Everything is by mistake, nothing by design. It seems like the only design is mistakes. Digital checkpoint, you say? They’ve got Jewish supremacy that extends online.

The second time I lost my account was May 28th, 2025 the day I was supposed to release my first comedy special, The Challal Special, which is free on YouTube. I lost my main account of nearly 100K followers. I immediately started reaching out to the journalists I’ve known and worked with over the years. A long-time comrade, OMAR ZAHZAH who wrote about us getting censored in 2021 took up the task immediately and for him I’m eternally grateful. He pitched a story to Mondoweiss that came out July 1st and by July 2nd my backup account with 12K followers was also disabled. I’m also eternally grateful to accounts like Eye on Palestine, Palestine Pixel, , The Sameer Project, Watermelon Brigades, Seaster Jones, Amanda Seales, Mish Mish and Wissam Nassar who came to my assistance, realizing the story was larger than just any single comedian being censored.

I was likely targeted again by Jordana Cutler, Meta’s Israel and Jewish Diaspora policy chief. Because in the Mondowiess interview I compared her to the Nazi Minister of Information, Joeseph Goebbels. I made this comparison because she controls what the people hear and see, what we think and feel. She decides what information is suitable for public consumption and what goes to a dark place people never hear about. Seems like I called her bluff, and she proved me right.

The foremost victims of her censorship are not comedians or influencers in the west. It’s Palestinian journalists on the ground who are trying to report the war crimes daily and they’re being targeted with drone strikes, and then their uploads fail as they try to tell the world about it. Their posts are targeted for deletion, and their accounts censored for trying to speak up. Palestinian, Pulitzer Prize winner Mosab Abu Toha had his SubStack account censored recently and called it out on X.

The infrastrcture of censorship is so vast, so odious, that it spans from the journalist on the ground in Palestine all the way to the standup comedian in the West who vocally criticizes the genocide. It’s the same hand that squeezes both of our throats closed as we try to undercut the zionist narrative.

I so appreciate the outpouring of support I’ve received from people in Palestine, particularly the journalists and artists there. I message with my friend Mish Mish a clown in the Gaza circus every day. When he first heard about my deletion, he was worried there would be an interruption to our established communication pattern. I also heard from Wissam Nassar, an award-winning photo-journalist in Gaza. He understands how frustrating it is to have your account taken down. I’ve helped him regain his account before. The words of these lions help sustain me at a time when it feels lonely.

I will say I’ve received some nasty feedback from western influencers who provide “advice” about what they’d do if they lost their account. It’s no need. It’s not something they’ll ever experience as they don’t post anything disruptive. Their entire lives are advertisements for capitalism and consumption so I don’t think they’ll ever have the issue.

Ultimately, what I’ve learned is there is way more power in my voice than I thought, and that’s true for everyone of us. If we all spoke up in a way that made Meta executives uncomfortable, we would become an ungovernable society. It’s only because so few of us are willing to take principled stances that the repression and censorship has its desired impact.

It’s as Malcolm X always said, “we’re not outnumbered were out organized.”

If you’ve ever seen Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, you’re familiar with a scene where a fat bloated man enters a restaurant. He barely fits into the chair, and he immediately requests a bucket to vomit into. Before the waiter can even start telling him the daily specials, the man starts to vomit into the bucket. This is America, bloated after stealing the worlds resources and trying to swallow everyone’s minerals and precious metals wholesale.

The man continues to vomit, and everyone in his general vicinity is understandably put off from enjoying their meals. The wretched stench of his presence engulfs the entirety of the restaurant, making his neighbors and those around him weary of his presence. He requires constant assistance, monopolizing the resources of the restaurant to focus on him.

The waiter opens the menu, and again the man vomits. This is the American colony, bloodletting. It thrashes back and forth violently as it does so, leaving the bodies of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people in its wake. The vomit also represents the flight of the settlers from the United States. We’ve seen thousands of people head to a variety of destinations to escape repression in the United States, whether it’s the professor who wrote the book on fascism, Tik Tok influencers, or political dissidents, many people are choosing to desert this failing settler colonial project. Many have found tranquility outside of this capitalist hellscape. They find that life moves slower elsewhere, that not everyone is as anxious or grumpy or frustrated all the time. They’ve recognized this tinder box has everyone on edge because we live in a constant state of stress. We likely feel the energetic consequence of having genocided the native people and built condos on top of their stolen lands. A history that most US settlers still refuse to grapple with.

There are numerous trending videos instructing people how to apply for alternative citizenship, which countries will pay you to move there, and how to explore digital nomad culture. In many ways, it’s simply US settlers exporting colonialism, gentrifying neighborhoods in Mexico City or Southeast Asia, but for some, it’s a welcome return home to their ancestral countries of origin.

I have a friend I used to do comedy with here in Los Angeles. She’s from Jamaica and we are still connected via Tik Tok after I was permanently banned from Meta’s platform Instagram.

She and I exchange messages occasionally. I am following her journey. She’s returned home to Jamaica and works as a pineapple farmer alongside her family. It’s beautiful and I love to see her videos. She’s no longer consumed by a capitalist rat race to produce money for corporations. She enjoys her afternoons frolicking through fields of bountiful fruit and vegetables, providing sustenance for herself and her community. It’s healing just to witness it. There is so much more to life than this disgusting racist settler colony, many of us were born into.

Back to the restaurant analogy, even though the man is covered in vomit, clearly in a state of disrepair, the waiter pretends like everything is fine. This is the general public. The people who will spend today slamming beers and burgers, discussing bread and circus, Love Island and professional sports, as the empire crashes down around them. They prefer the appearance of tranquility at the expense of everything and everyone else.

The customer vomits on the floor, and the cleaning crew, as Americans desecrate the land they stole, and degrade the indigenous communities they stole it from. The corporations poison the water and spray the crops with chemicals. The state apparatus sweeps up hard-working individuals from construction sites, taco stands are left abandoned after the gestapo pulls up and tears families apart.

The settlers mock the death of the natives because it’s easier to make insensitive jokes than it is to grapple with our culpability in perpetuating land theft, genocide, settler colonialism, and erasure of Indigenous identity. They don their Beyonce Buffalo soldier outfit, and blast the music of a capitalist billionaire to drain out the screams of missing indigenous women and children.

America is almost over. The nightmare has lasted for a few hundred years, but it’s inevitably coming to a close. I’m reminded of the TS Elliot poem,

“This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.”

The empire is going down, and it won’t be a huge explosion but a slow distribution of its bile pouring out over other nations, as even its own settlers lose hope in the failed colonial project, and seek “the American dream” somewhere in Europe.

Serendipitously, I overhear a guy on the phone teasing his friend, “I’m like you work at a hedge fund and you’re voting for Zohran.” Yes! That’s what I was trying to point out in my last article. It is very logically consistent for the establishment to support Zohran because he is a liberal running in the Democratic Party. He intends to bring people back under the umbrella of the party. Bernie is tired, AOC is next in line but they need to pick a successor.

The election is being discussed everywhere all over the US and even all over the globe. I’ve seen more information about this guy, Zohran who has said numerous times he believes in “Israel’s right to exist” than any of the martyrs of Palestine on any of these pages who claim to be politically active and “practical organizers.”

They purposefully misrepresent my points, “you can do political organizing AND mutual aid!!!” Yes I know I’ve done them both simultaneously. I’ve gotten a candidate elected as a campaign manager in a municipal election and then watched what happens once they take office. I’ve also been a part of various mutual aid efforts that provide over 150 meals for the people of Skid Row weekly, and another that provides groceries every week for hundreds of undocumented families in Downtown Los Angeles.

That’s why I’m sharing my opinion that one is effective and one is a drain of energy that ultimately brings people back into the fold of the Democratic Party. You know, the people responsible for the genocide in Palestine. Mamdani even says as much himself. From the article “Why Communists Can’t Support Zohran Mamdani”

Another comment was “who is this white guy” and “he must be CIA." If I was in the CIA I would be doing so much better in comedy. If I was CIA I would have already been on Netflix but instead, I’m a guy who had my account of nearly 100K followers disappeared from Meta for my support of Palestinian resistance and liberation. American political education has one thing in common with Al Qassam, it’s below ground.

Do you think I’m the first person to critique liberalism? Did I claim to be the sole proprietor of these thoughts? Does anyone remember Kwame Ture anymore? Today is Kwame Ture’s birthday and I wish more people were familiar with his messages, his ideas of anti-capitalism, anti-racism, decolonization, and revolutionary theory/action.

My criticism of Zohran is shared by Black revolutionaries of the past and present. If you’re on Tik Tok you likely know St. Louis-based organizer, CJ who goes by @iamcj__2. He had virtually all the same criticisms. I’d encourage you to watch his videos.

To the people who told me I’m overstepping because I’m not Palestinian, if it’s a Palestinian messenger you require I present to you the martyr Nizar Banat, “either you’re a zionist or you’re not.”

If the people who devoted their energy to canvassing for Mamdani made it their PRIMARY concern to besiege weapons factories like Pal Action they could force the hand of change instead of trying to prop it up. Apply the same gusto to the campaign to disrupt drone manufacturing at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

It’s true you CAN do political organizing and direct action/mutual aid, but many of you do not.

The Bronx anti-war coalition has a core group of dedicated supporters but it doesn’t get anywhere near the amount of energy and resources as a liberal operation like JVP. One supports the resistance the other does not. Are you noticing a pattern? The Bushwick mutual-aid group is already providing services to people in need, but many of you would rather be door-knocking and soliciting donations for a Democrat.

If people spent their time building and maintaining existing mutual aid kitchens then we wouldn’t need a politician who promises but may not deliver on municipal-owned grocery stores.

Need I remind you Obama also cloaked himself in the Palestinian cause before murdering a wedding party in Yemen, sending billions of dollars to the settler colony, and facilitating the theft of more Palestinian land during his two terms, same story for AOC, Mamdani’s new bestie.

I hope I’m wrong but for all this pattern recognition you all talk about many of you can’t recognize the pattern of politicians selling out the public once they get elected.

American politics is circular, dizzying even. Every few years it’s weapons of mass destruction this a bright new political candidate that. The cast members and locations themselves are not the main focus, sometimes it’s Iraq then it’s Iran….sometimes it’s Obama, AOC, then it’s Zohran Mamdani. No matter the projection onto the cave wall, we’ve seen this one before. They all serve the same capitalist imperial system. To everyone on the cast, they just want to put on a good show and get called back next season. It’s only the people in the countries the US destroys who bear the brunt of the drama.

The Internet is abuzz again, a brand new cast member just dropped. It’s Zohran Mamdani the likely winner of the mayoral election in New York City. A young up and coming outspoken politician, who captivates people with fiery speeches defeated the establishment candidate Andrew Cuomo and moves on to face Andrew Cuomo again and incumbent criminal Eric Adams in the general election.

Objectively Zohran has run a successful intergenerational, interracial, interfaith ground campaign that has lit up New York municipal politics in a way I haven’t seen in years, not since the rise of AOC. Mamdani, a young, cool “outsider" like Obama and AOC utilized social media against an out-of-touch older corrupt disgraced insider. The script is familiar, it’s another copy-paste. There must be a writers’ strike in NYC. This show of theater gives the US settler hope in the hollow rickety electoral system, so they never fully devote their potential revolutionary energy to building alternatives, direct action, and mutual aid. It gives the settler a glimmer of optimism to endure the hellscape because the racist colonial project still has a few gallons before E.

During AOC’s rise, she went as far as to say we need to abolish ICE, a call she’s dusted off after years of inactivity while her party held the levers of power. While families were ripped apart, children were kept in cages, and Biden deported 4.44 million individuals in 2021-22 alone. Then she told us to vote for him. She said the quiet part out loud and once Mamdani flagellated himself at the alter of AIPAC, AOC’s endorsement flowed shortly after. AOC said, “the US, our responsibility, is to the stability and security of the region. That means being able to support Israel in its defensive capacities."

Mamdani took a slightly harsher rhetorical tone saying he would arrest Netanyahu, and was repeatedly interrogated about whether or not he would visit the occupation of Palestine and he stood firm that he would not. That said, a zionist is someone who believes in the continuation of the brutal settler colony known as Israel. Mamdani when pressed by sycophantic sellout Stephen Colbert, said “I believe Israel has a right to exist and a responsibility to uphold international law.” This is the guy zionists are freaking out about and threatening white flight over.

Now comes the part where people “explain how politics works” to me. They say he “had to say that to get elected.” I know dummy that’s the problem. He’s still working to appease zionists. Is lying to your constituency because you know it’s what they want to hear, even if it’s not what you truly believe, the hallmark of a great leader?

People don’t say about President Thomas Sankara, man he knew how to pander! Was President Fidel Castro’s appeal that he would bend over backward for whoever was in front of him? He wore military fatigues to the UN because he wasn’t someone who let outside pressure impact his feelings on the inside, his speeches, or his actions.

Also, it’s not even true. Nation states don’t have a right to exist, that’s why we don’t hear a lot about Rhodesia. States do not have the right to exist but the Palestinian people do. An anti-zionist would have said explicitly, “states do not have a right to exist, people have the right to exist.”

Mamdani has popular policy proposals which include free buses, a rent freeze, and municipally owned grocery stores. If he’s able to deliver these they would certainly benefit the living conditions of the people of New York. That said, these petty bourgeoisie “victories” come at the expense of indigenous people on Turtle Island, people in the Congo, Sudan, Palestine and Latin America. They serve to benefit a group of people for whom the standard of living is already among the highest in the world. I don’t want to get paid more so I can watch the live-streamed genocides on a slightly better phone, I’d like to stop the genocides.

This situation reminds me of the weapons manufacturing workers who were negotiating better pay. They’re like we want to make a living wage killing people.

At the First Jewish Labor Congress in 1919, a national gathering in New York of representatives from Jewish-led unions claiming to represent five hundred thousand workers — delegates debated Zionism and passed a measure that explicitly rejected the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine. The resolution called for the establishment of “a free, independent republic in which no nationality, whether a minority or majority people, shall have any special rights.” But ultimately, the Jewish labor movement was used as a tool to colonize Palestine, at the expense of the indigenous Palestinian people.

So if the question is do I want a higher wage, at the expense of indigenous suffering the answer is no. I want us to stop pretending the US isn’t also a failed settler colony that needs to be fully dismantled and returned to native control, just like Israel.

The hasbara twitter and tik tok propagandists are telling you “they’re burning Jews in the streets of the US” but the fact is, nobody died from the Colorado incident. Whereas the US and Israelis have burned Palestinian journalists, medics, elderly, and children to death for the last two years. Imagery is released every single day of children with third-degree burns, and flesh wounds more gruesome than every grizzled war-time doctor is used to.

Above is an image from when Israel burned many Palestinian journalists to death and killed another by bombing their tent. Their names were:

• Ahmed Al-Agha, contributor for BBC Arabic

• Mohammed Fayeq, freelance photojournalist and drone operator

• Abdullah Al-Attar, freelance photographer for Anadolu Agency

• Ihab Al-Bardini, camera operator contributing to US channel ABC

• Mahmoud Awad, camera operator for Al Jazeera

• Majed Qudaih, correspondent for Radio Algérie

• Ali Eslayeh, photographer for West Bank-based site Alam24

The massacre raised the death toll of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel during the last year and a half to 234, a number that is now outdated because this happened in April 2025. Newton's Third Law of Motion, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

The attacks at the DC Embassy, and in Boulder Colorado are not attacks on the Jewish religion. They are the logical conclusion enacted on supporters of a fascist ideology known as Zionism. An ideology that is responsible for 75 + years of colonization, bloodshed, and nearly two years of live-streamed genocide.

There’s a reason people are enjoying videos coming out of Thailand where Israeli tourists, known worldwide for being the rudest and most entitled of any travelers, get beaten up by the locals after provoking them and disrespecting Thai culture. It’s because there’s been no accountability. There’s been no accountability in the courts, there’s been no accountability on the ground, and that breeds resentment. Not of a religion that tells its followers not to kill, or to steal, but of a group of fascists masquerading around in Jewish paraphernalia. The only thing that’s left is the people’s accountability. In the absence of structural legal accountability, we are seeing an organic, spontaneous, and combustible form of street justice emerge.

Israelis are so disliked in Thailand that their ambassador had to put out a statement asking them to behave respectfully, an impossible task for any Israeli. One incident saw a group of occupation terrorists attack a hospital in the Northern Thai town, Pai. The embassy had to remind them they’re only allowed to siege hospitals in Palestine. For the optics of the fascist settler colony their Ambassador asked them to refrain from their normal terrorist duties. I’ve traveled in Thailand and found Thai dogs to be more polite than Israeli adults.

Jewish people are not under attack. Fascist people are. But why do you think the ADL and other agents of the occupation are so hell-bent on making the Jewish community believe we are under attack? On reinforcing the false premise that Jews need Zionism to be safe? Does their budget benefit from Jewish fear?

In both the Boulder Colorado and DC Embassy operations you have the assailants making the intellectual distinction between Judaism and Zionism. A distinction that is only made in the Palestine solidarity movement, cognizant of the rampant and stale accusations of antisemitism. If there’s any confusion about Judaism and Zionism that’s a direct result of the messaging of the settler colony, its agents, and the actions of the majority of the Jewish population who have been complicit in this genocide.

How can Jewish people expect Palestinians or anyone outside of our community to make a distinction between Judaism and Zionism when many Jewish people don’t, especially the Jewish people in charge of the fascist government. Judaism has a huge fascism problem, and almost nobody is doing anything to address it, it’s called Zionism.

Imagine a girl who just had her house demolished, the IOF officer branded her brother in the face with a Star of David and she says, “yahoods destroyed my house and tortured my brother.” Westerners and liberal zionists are aghast, not at the house demolition or the carving into a person’s face, those have become normalized, just the linguistic mixup. They’d be quick to correct her and say “uhm actually ZIONISTS destroyed your house and tortured your brother, Judaism has nothing to do with it.” Westerners do a far better job policing the tone of Palestinians and allies than policing the large-scale takeover of fascism in our communities.

Israeli government officials like May Golan make statements like, “I am personally proud of the ruins of Gaza…And that every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did.” Does that sound like a statement that’s compatible with Judaism? Is it perhaps statements like that, which might lead people to be upset with or mistake Zionism for Judaism? If you had to classify that quote in one of two ways would it be a teaching of Judaism or a statement of fascism?

She’s a Likud official which is a continuation of the Irgun the zionist terrorists responsible for the Nakba, and the current political party in charge of the fascist settler colony. They are ideological heirs to Jabotinksy and Menachem Begin who were both virulent fascists. Jabotinksy studied under Mussolini. These are the people responsible for the first instance of terrorism in Palestine, the bombing of the King David Hotel. The people responsible for Nakba, and the people still doing a Holocaust to the Palestinian people, and the people of Congo and Sudan.

Jordana Cutler is another former Likud official who worked for Netanyahu and now serves as the Public Policy Director, for Israel and The Jewish Diaspora at Meta. She gave a speech at a JNS event where she talked about living the “zionist dream” and nearly one month later she disappeared my Instagram account in an instance of blatant censorship. The use of state power in connection with the private sector to discriminate against Jewish people’s ability to freely express themselves and organize used to be called antisemitism but now that it’s being done by zionists cosplaying as Jews it’s called “content moderation”.

At that same conference on that same stage and podium there was a guy by the name of Norm Coleman, Chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition who said “the masters of the universe are Jews”. Jordana had no issue with this statement because it was said in support of the fascist ideology of Zionism.

Anti-zionist Jews, those who support the Palestinian resistance, and want to see all of historic Palestine liberated are very rare. Mostly you get a ton of normalizers who want to sell a book or movie. The amount of Israelis who have refused occupation service is negligible, and there exists no real apparatus to challenge the fascist settler colony from within.

When nearly every synagogue hoists the terrorist flag, fundraises for the occupation, and even hosts stolen land auctions, it begs the question, do you think people are there to protest because it’s a synagogue or because the people inside are selling stolen land and supporting a holocaust? If you are someone who only views your “Jewish identity” through the lens of a fascist political ideology then you are more fascist than you are Jewish. You are a fascist first, and a terrible Jew second. You are also a fascist who wants a monopoly on violence. Nobody is attacking the Neturei Karta, except for zionists.

Image from 2014 (Berlin)

I’ve seen this all play out many times with the accounts of Palestinian journalists on the ground and activists in diaspora. Sada Social documented over 23,000 digital violations against Palestinian content on social media platforms over a year, with Meta accounting for over half of the violations. 7amleh recorded 238 cases of pro-Palestinian censorship, mostly on Facebook and Instagram, as of October 2023.

It’s not even my first time having my Instagram account deleted without recourse. It happened in 2021 at the same time they took down Nerdeen Kiswani’s account. We did an episode of The Palestine Pod about it called Erasure (Ep 48). Nerdeen has since been permanently banned from the platform. I can confirm she doesn’t miss it.

If you google my name you still see the results for the shell of my Instagram page which had amassed over 90K followers. The next result is of course my canary mission profile. I’ve been on there since October 6th, 2023 which is a point of pride because I’m not one of these people who popped up after the Al-Aqsa flood to hawk a book that’s already been written better by Palestinians.

The zionists have been trying to apply economic pressure to me for years. Best of luck idiots, I already don’t make any money. They’ve already reached out to every major comedy club in Los Angeles trying to make sure I don’t get booked there. Guess what, I already don’t get booked there. Zionists regularly send me death threats and threats of violence, they’ve put fraudulent charges on my credit card, and now they’ve destroyed my ability to connect with my community online.

On my now defunct Instagram profile I was collaborating with mutual aid projects to provide water and food in Gaza. I was boosting fundraisers, educating the people about the history of Jewish anti-zionism the Palestinian liberation movement, and helping people envision a better world.

The censorship was a part of a platform-wide sweep that also saw Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey deleted with an account that boasted over 300K followers, he was booted from Tik Tok and demonetized on Youtube as well. Popular Twitch streamer Hasan Piker was de-platformed from Twitch briefly for covering the shooting of the two Israeli embassy workers.

The thought police are closing in and their narrative is so fragile they will go to great lengths to hide anything that undercuts Zionism. Being fully disappeared means they were so threatened by what I have to say that they took extreme action. They weren’t satisfied with the typical tactics of shadow banning, purging followers, or taking down individual posts. The disappearance of my account is an admission that my very existence is so upsetting to their narrative they feel the need to get rid of me entirely, something I share with Palestinians.

They hate to see a white Jewish man in a keffiyeh speak fondly of the Palestinian resistance. They can’t stand someone who says all of Palestine is occupied and settlers should go back where they came from. They don’t want someone with a large platform telling you Palestinians have the right to return to Palestine, to their houses they have the keys for with land deeds dating back to the Ottoman Empire. They’d rather you didn’t think critically about a Jewish person who despises Zionism and wants to see the downfall of the zionist settler colony in his lifetime. You’ll notice none of the normalizers had their accounts disappeared.

To be frank it’s an honor to have had my social media account terminated for the cause of Palestinian liberation. It’s an honor to have been able to sacrifice something.

I often think about the Palestinian bedouin tribe who has had their village demolished over 119 times by the IOF. Each time they say the same thing, “we will rebuild.”

I will never stop speaking about Palestinian liberation whether it’s to an audience of 90K or 9. I will die on this hill. Long live the Palestinian resistance, long live the intifada, and all glory to the martyrs of Palestine.

The Nazis are still in power, and too many people are scared to say it. So far the President of Colombia (the country not the school), Gustavo Petro has shown the courage needed to meet the moment.

Many people falsely believe that the Nazis existed in a small space and time in 1940’s Germany and they were “eradicated” perhaps even by the Americans! Historians remember it was communist Russia who sacrificed for the initial delay of a fascist worldwide empire. Some people are so deeply brainwashed they could see a Nazi rally walking down their street and say "it’s good we took care of those Nazis!”

The thing about the Nazi German government is that they were replicating policies of the United States colonial government to Native American and Black communities including mass extermination, land theft, and forced starvation. Tactics we see still being used by Israel against Palestinian people, India against the Kashmiris, in the Sudan, in the Congo, and in Yemen or wherever colonialism attempts to destroy the way of life for native people.

All of these atrocities that inspired Hitler happened long before World War Two and the centering of Jewish people and the Holocaust is deeply racist, dare I say a Jewish supremacist ideology.

Do the piles of dead Indigenous children they often dig up not register because Hollywood hasn’t made 70 films about them? Are the entire generations of Black people stolen from Africa and enslaved to build the wealth from which we all still benefit on your radar at all?

The eugenics ideology that continues to inspire white supremacists worldwide to this day emanates from the 1920’s in Pasadena, California where Ezra Seymour Gosney founded the Human Betterment Foundation (HBF).

California is responsible for upwards of 20,000 sterilizations up until 1979 when the practice was outlawed in state hospitals and it was 2010 before it was repealed from the books in state prisons.

There were a number of American businessmen who were responsible for the rise of fascism in Germany including Prescott Bush (grandfather to W), Henry Ford, Walt Disney, etc. They tried to employ Smedley Butler to help overthrow the US government in what was exposed as The Business Plot.

After the second world war the United States incorporated Nazis directly into the power structure through operation paperclip where over 7000 Nazi families were recruited by the US government and placed within the government apparatus. They ranged from SS spies to Nazi scientists and they found a new home in the USA. Israel had it’s own operation paperclip where it recruited war criminals to work with the Mossad.

Nazis also fled in mass to Argentina, which explains their current leader. There are entire towns that are built in the style of German architecture and many of the residents still speak German. La Cumbrecita, Bariloche for example.

There’s a fairly straight-forward Nazi to Nato pipeline as well where many former Nazis ended up being the head of or in prominent positions in Nato. Which explains their hostility towards Russia!

Werner Von Braun is a Nazi who helped create NASA, and now people opine his “complicated” legacy. Brother ew. He’s a nazi, that’s not complicated. But now that we’ve got Elon Musk doing full sieg heils at the podium its a through line of Nazis in control of the space program.

The Nazis weren’t defeated in the second world war. They were dispersed. The nazi power structure sacrificed a few people in Germany for the Nazi power structure worldwide.

The Nazis are still in power, and the United States was full of Nazis before Germany. The US is still full of Nazis as is demonstrated from the Nazi rallies, the Nazis in the military and the police force.

So we should probably do something about that.

The motivation for false flags are threefold:

1. To garner national support for and justify overseas military invasions.

2. To create a united frenzy and constrict domestic civil liberties while justifying discrimination against a perceived other, while disregarding human life abroad.

3. To stimulate all sectors of the economy that profit from the military-industrial complex - from insider trading to weapons manufacturers.

The tactic is old as combat itself. In the past century up until modernity, the colonial entity known as the United States has engaged in false flag terrorism many times for these very reasons.

Historically, public support for US military occupations has required an event of “terror” reported with provocative pictures and hyperbolic headlines. In the First World War the US declared neutrality and was content to simply supply both sides with weapons. On May 7th, 1915, newspapers informed Americans about the death of US citizens on the sunken passenger line, The RMS Lusitania. The response was a national outcry. The declaration of war was followed by unprecedented espionage legislation in 1917. Carnegie steel and ammunition industries prospered handsomely as manufacturers of materials vital to the war effort.

During the Second World War, the US again adopted an isolationist strategy, initially only trying to sell weapons to both sides. Hawaii had already been colonized by the US government and held the status of an occupied territory. Hawaii would not achieve statehood (despite the indigenous people’s desire to maintain their autonomous kingdom) until 1959. Yet on December 7th, 1941, Japan launched an attack on the US military base located at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Again the newspapers in the US left the public in a state of shock. The American public reacted to what appeared to be a premeditated offensive strike on their military. Robert B. Stinnett argued in The Day of Deceit that based on declassified cables, FDR had been informed about the impending attack down to the very last detail. He deliberately failed to intervene to manufacture consent for US engagement in the war. Some newspapers had even reported a possible attack. The Hilo Tribune Herald printed a headline “Japan May Strike Over Weekend”

How is it possible the Hilo Tribune had more access to signals intelligence than the President of the United States? FDR had ample time to order a section of the naval fleet away from the base. Stinnett explains that integral aspects of the base were left unharmed, including the power station, shipyard, maintenance, fuel and torpedo storage facilities, submarine piers, and the intelligence headquarters, which remained untouched.

War was declared the next day and legislation was passed to put US citizens of Japanese descent into concentration camps, forcing the entire community to forfeit their livelihood. Coca-Cola played an influential role in the war effort and was rewarded with unprecedented international expansion. The capitalist class once again found themselves empowered by a wartime economy.

In the past 75 years, strategies for false flags and the required public deception have become more potent. Through gory media the US population has been desensitized to extreme violence, now primed to accept even more blatant lies. They are in such a hypnotic stooper they are unable to even acknowledge evidence that runs counter to their spoon-fed narratives. Mark Twain understood the creation of a foreign foe and the underlying implications. In “Mysterious Stranger” (1910), Twain said, “the statesman will invent cheap lies…every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”

False flag terrorism has slowly entered the mainstream lexicon. According to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, on February 19th, 2011, an Indiana deputy prosecutor Carlos F. Lam resigned after emails surfaced where he suggested to Wisconsin Governor Walker that: “Employing a false flag operation would assist in undercutting any support that the media may be creating in favor of the unions.” The deputy prosecutor casually proposed an attack as a tactic to draw attention away from other social issues, namely labor organizing. An attack would scare people and galvanize support for authority in reaction to a perceived crisis. The government acts as the savior. In doing so, the government would associate opinions of dissent with buzzwords like communism or terrorism. These terms are reserved for people based on looks, or opinions expressed. That’s why Israeli spokespeople who go on television and call for the entire extermination of the Palestinian people are called “analysts” but any Palestinian or advocate for Palestinians who suggests Palestinians have a right to self-defense are labeled as “terrorists” or “terrorist sympathizers.”

An elitist think tank to which many high-ranking Bush Administration advisors belong, recorded the following sentence in Section V of Rebuilding America’s Defenses, entitled “Creating Tomorrow’s Dominant Force.” The document reads “…the process of transformation even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.” Nothing brings about a change in approval ratings like a false flag event. According to ABC News/Washington Post Poll before 9/11, George W. Bush had an approval rating of 55%. After the twin-towers fell, Bush’s approval rating skyrocketed to an unprecedented 86%.

On August 2nd, and August 4th, 1964 the US government alleged that North Vietnamese torpedo boats supposedly engaged the USS Maddox off the coast of Vietnam in an area known as the Gulf of Tonkin. This incident allegedly led to two torpedo battles. The US media described the attacks as “unprovoked” and omitted the USS Maddox was carrying supplies for the militants in South Vietnam. On August 5th, 1964, the Washington Post headline read, “American Planes Hit North Vietnam After Second Attack on Our Destroyers: Move Taken to Halt New Aggression” New York Times reported: 'President John­son has ordered retaliatory action against gunboats and "certain sup­porting facilities in North Vietnam" after renewed attacks against American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.' Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, previously unreleased documents indicate the first attack was exaggerated, and the second attack was completely fabricated. These events were nonetheless used to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. This legislation was responsible for committing the US to the occupation of Vietnam.

In a New York Times article, Robert J. Hanyok wrote, “90 percent of the intercepts of North Vietnamese communications relevant to the [second] supposed Aug 4th 1964 attack were omitted from the major agency documents going to policy-makers. The overwhelming body of reports, if used, would have told the story that no attack had happened. So a conscious effort ensued to demonstrate that an attack occurred.” The government and media lied to the public, to manufacture consent for the US military occupation of Vietnam. When people dissented domestically and began to protest, students and teachers were brutally beaten, arrested, and maligned by police and those in power. It’s a cycle we are seeing play out once again with the occupation of Palestine.

This is further evidenced in the documentary, The War at Home. US military returned from the jungles of Vietnam with firsthand experience of the lies told by those who sent them there. They were disillusioned by the deception of their government. One individual said he would not fight for the United States ever again unless he was going to be fighting to remove the government that lied to him and others like him to profit from an unjust military occupation. It reminded me of the book by Major General Smedley D. Butler, “War is a Racket.”

Vietnam was highly connected to the sale of military technology. Biochemical companies like Monsanto received very profitable contracts to produce deadly substances like Agent Orange. Now they control most of our food system! Yummy, tastes like cancer. This substance was dispersed indiscriminately over the region. According to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400,000 people being killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects. Meanwhile, Monsanto and other biochemical companies benefited from the increased funding and access they received.

On September 11th, 2001 history once again repeated itself. This time, the attack was so personal to the American psyche that ANY discussion about the subject is heavily discouraged by the powers that be in the public sphere. To achieve such a massive deception, three avenues needed manipulation.

1. The investigation - Covered by not allowing an independent body to conduct the 9/11 Commission report.

2. The interpretation - Controlled by the media who viciously attacked anyone who questioned the Governments “official story”

3. The prosecution - Controlled by the morally decrepit judicial system which has always been based on white supremacy and what is best for advancing the agenda of the capitalist class.

The official story of the government which I will refer to here as the US government’s conspiracy theory of those events was laid out through the 9/11 Commission Report and the mainstream media. They claim that nineteen men of mostly Saudi descent associated with Al-Qaeda were responsible. The 9/11 Commission Report was published in June of 2004. Yet miraculously, reports of the accused and their affiliations surfaced almost immediately. In the US government’s conspiracy theory, these men hijacked two passenger airplanes and flew them into WTC Buildings 1 and 2.

But the 9/11 Commission failed to address WTC Building 7. This building also collapsed but was not struck by a plane. The US government conspiracy theory is that the building collapsed due to fires. However, according to the Institute of Northern Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, it’s not possible that Building 7 collapsed due to fire. The government conspiracy theory does not account for the anomaly that the BBC announced the collapse of Building 7 long before it happened, nor the reports that five of the alleged hijackers were trained at US military bases. Even fewer people are keen to discuss that Israeli spies were seen video-taping, dancing, and celebrating the attacks of 9/11. They were later deported from the country after the CIA and the FBI intervened on their cases. Extremely normal stuff!

Numerous corporations and three-letter agencies benefited from the destruction of various incriminating documents housed in WTC Building 7. The Securities and Exchange Commission had offices in WTC 7. The attack conveniently crippled hundreds of fraud investigations, each containing major corporations and millions of dollars worth of fraud. These investigations would have exposed the SEC for having inadequately regulating the market — allowing such actions to continue unabated by law or oversight. Other notable Building 7 tenants included the IRS, US Secret Service, The CIA, American Express Bank International, Standard Chartered Bank, Federal Home Loan Bank, and the NAIC Securities office. All these organizations benefited from the destruction of classified documents and implicating records. Not to mention the missing 2.3 trillion dollars that went missing the day before announced by Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon.

9/11 was used as a pretense to garner popular support to invade and occupy Iraq and Afghanistan. General Wesley Clark stated, despite having no evidence of any connection to Saadam Houssein the Pentagon had a plan to take out 7 countries in 5 years. FBI spokesman Rex Tomb was quoted saying, “the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Osama Bin Laden to 9/11.” Immediately after 9/11 the Bush administration signed the PATRIOT ACT. The legislation authorized the indefinite and indiscriminate detention of immigrants without due process, in violation of the Fifth Amendment. It allowed for inspection by law enforcement of a private home or business without the owners’ permission in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The bill further expanded cyber security agencies jurisdiction to rifle through private financial records without the need for a court order or any articulable reasonable suspicion.

9/11 was a cash cow for weapons manufacturers. I imagine Dick Cheney celebrates every year by looking at his bank account and laughing at the rest of us. The event boosted both public and private spending for paramilitary, biometrics, surveillance, prisons, civil defense, and security industry executives. After 9/11 the budgets for agencies like Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) skyrocketed. “The USA has increased its military spending by 81 percent since 2001, and now accounts for 43 percent of the global total, six times its nearest rival China,” said Sam Perlo-Freeman, the head of SIPRI’s Military Expenditure Project.

In addition to security contracts, many people found ways to benefit monetarily from 9/11, especially those who were privy to the plan before the public. Unidentified insiders manipulated the financial system and received millions. In a paper published by The Journal of Business entitled, “Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001” it explains “many observers maintained that the AMR and UAL option activity leading up to September 11 constitutes strong evidence that there had been trading on advance knowledge of the attacks.”

The insider trading further consisted of put options, short sale deals, and hedged directional investments. WTC tenants and WTC insurance companies in Chicago and London profited handsomely as a result of their court claims. “Recent litigation in the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals approved a verdict requiring American Airlines and United Airlines along with two airport security firms…to pay a $1.2 billion settlement for damage caused to property during” 9/11. “…The plaintiffs in the case are the owners of the World Trade Center and numerous insurance companies.”

Six months before 9/11 the WTC complex was leased to a private sector developing agency The Silverstein Group for the price of 3.5 billion dollars. Larry Silverstein took out a large insurance policy on the building specifically covering acts of terrorism. In court, Silverstein’s lawyers argued he was entitled to double the insurance payout because each plane constituted its own terrorist attack. Courts later ruled it was one.

The only litigation challenging the Bush Administration and the Governments’ conspiracy theory of the events on 9/11 was filed in the Second Court of Federal Appeals, and heard from April 5th to April 27th, 2011. The case involved a Pentagon employee, an eyewitness to the attack on the Pentagon. “United States Army Specialist April Gallop and her young son were injured in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon.  Plaintiffs brought a civil action against Vice President Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, General Richard Meyers, U.S.A.F. (Ret.) and John Does 1-X, alleging their complicity in the catastrophe”

The government alleges a plane stuck the Pentagon. April Gallop argued there was no plane, and Dick Cheney was to blame for the entire assault. One of the three presiding Circuit judges was named John M. Walker and he just so happened to be a cousin of George W. Bush. He did not recuse himself despite the blatant conflict of interest. Unsurprisingly the case was unanimously dismissed without a presentation of evidence or testimony of the eyewitness, and those bringing the case were sanctioned $15,000 for allegedly “frivolous” claims.

When Obama claimed he ordered the assassination of Osama bin Laden, he tried to capitalize on the same fervor and unity felt after a false flag. Kristen Breitweiser, a 9/11 widow and activist said it best, “with regard to Osama bin Laden’s death and people celebrating. Riding the wave of false patriotism - unity felt by the population and the reverence for the government…Can it ever be a true victory when so many don’t even seem to comprehend the magnitude of what has been lost along the way? Or even what the future might hold?”

As someone who has lived through the future since she published that article in 2011, I can tell you what’s been lost is greater than anything we could have ever imagined. All of these events laid the groundwork for the US to conduct a livestream genocide in Palestine, assassinate heads of state, install dictators, and destroy entire civilizations. It’s enough to make anyone with a conscience stop to think, “are we the baddies?”

President and CEO of Norfolk Southern, visited East Palestine Ohio the site of the catastrophic chemical spill gave the following quote, "I'm here to support the community" he said from an undisclosed location via Zoom. "I stand with the people of East Palestine," he continued, seated in what appeared to be a Presidential Suite. 

"Safety is one of our biggest concerns," he said. "We don't always get it right with transporting vinyl chloride, but when it comes to MY safety, we take all the necessary precautions." 

The corporate PR representative for Norfolk Southern apologized to Israel for inadvertently bringing attention to Palestine. "We wish it could have happened anywhere else."