During his weekly sermon, Israeli Chief rabbi used the Hebrew term for nigger before going on to call a black person a “monkey.”

Israeli media outlet Ynet reported last weekend that five staunch supporters of Israel, including Alan Dershowitz, sent a letter to Netanyahu “imploring him to reconsider (a) plan that will see illegal African migrants sent to Uganda or Rwanda, warning of the 'incalculable damage' it could have on Israel and Jews' 'moral standing.'

When I was a young Israeli I learned from our leading military leaders that Israel was not afraid of wars. They said “we know how to deal with tanks, infantry, airplanes. Even ballistic missiles won’t knock us down.” But they added, “if the Palestinians decide one day to march to Jerusalem we won’t be able to offer a military answer.”   

GA: If Zionism was initially all about the 'promised land', Neoconservatism stands for the shift towards a 'promised planet.' How do we bridge the gap between the nationalistic aspiration and the  globalist agenda?   From Yahweh to Zion by  Laurent Guyénot offers some interesting answers. Guyénot doesn't attempt to tell us what Yahweh is but instead what the notion of Yahweh represents within the contexts of Judaism, jewish culture, Jewish politics and Jewish identification.  Guyénot's offers a  very important contribution. I hope that is books are made of fire resistant materials.   

I am back in Beirut at the Fourth Global Convention of Solidarity with Palestine. Last night I,  along with  9 others thinkers, activists and warriors was honored by The Global Campaign to Return to Palestine for our contribution for the cause.

The charge of ‘antisemitsm’ has become a noise -- a whiny repetitive background disturbance. We have learned to live with it, to accept that some people are just inherently upset and there is nothing we can do to change them or to help them out

Zionism vowed to fix diaspora Jews by means of a ‘homecoming.’ It promised to make the ‘new Hebrews’ into ‘people like all other people.’ The project has been a total failure. Israel is a humongous racist ghetto. It is a country like no other. It has managed to amplify every symptom Zionism was born to eliminate.  

 The fact that such a Hasbara video wasn’t restrained and became viral within some Jewish and Israeli circles indicates that we are facing a collective that seems to lack the capacity to understand the consequences of its own actions.

In this week's The Sun Will Rise, Roshan Muhammed Salih, Jafar Hassan and myself looked into  Benjamin Netanyahu's political fate and the criminality within Israeli political elite. Very interesting discussion. I was very happy to meet mr. Hassan. I am getting familiar with his work. 

The Book of Esther is there to form the exilic identity. It is there to invoke PRE traumatic stress,  It sets the conditions that turn 'Judeocide' into a valid constant threat. But it also offers a survival  strategy to encounter such an imaginary threat. 

 Shabbatai Zvi's  followers  (Donmeh) who converted to Islam began to pray like Muslims in the mosques and secretly like Jews in hidden synagogues.  They also began to use two names, one Jewish which they used with Jews and another Muslim one used in public...

It is full of inspiring thoughts. Instead of answers you will find questions (some are from Atzmon himself, some are my own):

·       What can society do to make sure that its ‘deplorables’ can get by in dignity? Could  equality within borders be an alternative to global capitalism?  How far does the social super-structure he describes really comply with the material basis of global financial capitalism? Is the fact that Jews play such an important role a critical component when we are talking about certain capitalist structures? What are the chances and risks of returning to the Athenian tradition of reason?

Henryk Zielinski,  said during an interview  that Jews have “a completely different system of values, a different concept of truth.” “For us,” he said. “the truth corresponds to facts. For the Jew, truth means something that conforms to his understanding of what’s beneficial..."

Devon Nola digs into the character of AZZ caricature Tony Greenstein,  A very funny read ...

It seemed there was nothing this enterprising quartet couldn't do to make the most of a wide range of material. The gig also illustrated how live music based on recorded material can sound refreshingly different.

According to the annual report of the Swiss Jewish Lobby CICAD, 2017 brought along 150 “acts of anti-Semitism.”*  Apparently yours truly is responsible for 2 incidents...

I promise to improve my record in 2018...

Economic immigration presents tough issues to many countries. If Israel is unable to deport the remaining 40,000 African immigrants, it may find itself a little more a country like all others.