Mike Leavitt and I discuss the US government’s criminalization of journalism and the pre-Israel history of Palestine.
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Palestinian Converts to Judaism, Israelis Murder Him Anyway
It's no surprise. The entire nation is based on the idea of coveting and stealing other people's property, so they often have to also murder people too. Like it says in the Good Book.
Zionism versus Judaism
From the start, political Zionists identified their program with Judaism the religion (despite their secularism, even atheism). Also from the start, Jews -- including the most tradition-bound Jews -- vigorously disavowed that identification. They were shamed as...
Why I Pick on Israel
People close to me ask why I criticize Israel while ignoring the other bad governments in the world. (I guess they don't count the U.S. government as bad.) I have many reasons, but here's a big one: no other government (besides the U.S. government) claims to act in my...
Jesus in the Talmud Ch 1 w/2Bit Jason
Judaism and Christianity aren't compatible. Jason joins us to explore.
Something to Agree on?
Can't we all at least agree that this was an extremely clumsy sentence from Academy Award-winning Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer that invited misinterpretation? Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by...
TGIF: Is Israel Mad?
Has Israel gone mad? Or has it always been mad? What is the country thinking? The collective nouns seem reasonable in light of the widespread support in that country for the Israeli government's appalling military assault on the people of the Gaza Strip for the last...
Prophetic Jewish Anti-Zionists
When Peter Beinart, a self-described liberal Zionist, abandoned the two-state resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict and embraced one state with equal rights for all, he quickly drew the ire of orthodox Zionists, some of whom went so far as to describe Beinart as...
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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...