I’m still thinking about the admission in the UK’s “antisemitism” review contradicting widespread claims by the western political/media class that antisemitism is rising to dangerous levels throughout our society.
We discussed this yesterday, but as a reminder, the UK’s Department for Education released a review led by David Bell which the British press have been citing as evidence that rising antisemitism is an urgent problem in schools throughout the nation — claims which have been thoroughly debunked by outlets like Middle East Eye and Double Down News. That review contains the following quote:
“British attitudes relating to Jewish people and Israel show two broad trends. Anti-Jewish attitudes are typically less prevalent and have remained more stable, whereas anti-Israel sentiments are more prevalent and have been increasing.”
A few months ago I said, “You’re being told there’s a dangerous explosion of Jew hatred to cover up the fact that there’s actually a very healthy explosion of Israel hatred.” The Bell review is here admitting that my assertion is correct.
I just can’t get over what a massive admission this is. If we lived in a world where politicians and media cared about facts, THIS would be the leading story. “ANTI-ISRAEL ATTITUDES INCREASING, ZERO INCREASE IN ANTISEMITISM.” That’s the actual headline here.
The pro-Palestine movement has been so successful in separating opposition to Israeli atrocities from hatred toward Jews that there has been zero increase in public hatred toward Jews throughout three years of genocide. That’s an incredibly impressive achievement in activism and education regarding a mass atrocity we’re always told is a super duper complicated issue that’s almost impossible to understand.
This one fact, by itself, completely destroys just about every argument the hasbarists have ever made about the pro-Palestine movement. People who’ve been taking a stand against the Gaza holocaust have been absolutely impeccable with their messaging, taking great care to help the public understand the distinction between the religion of Judaism and the apartheid state of Israel.
If mainstream pundits and politicians actually cared about truth and morality, they would be falling all over themselves to apologize and correct the record on the narrative they’ve been pushing that the pro-Palestine movement is responsible for a surging epidemic of antisemitism in our society. They would be telling everyone that it turns out there is in fact no epidemic of antisemitism, and the pro-Palestine movement has conducted itself with saintly meticulousness in ensuring that hatred toward the Jewish faith gains no purchase within their ranks or their message.
But mainstream pundits and politicians do not care about truth or morality. They care about promoting the interests of a genocidal apartheid state, no matter how many lies they need to tell in order to do so.
This is why instead of seeing headlines about the Bell review’s finding that there has been zero increase of antisemitism among British people, we’ve been seeing headlines falsely claiming that British schoolchildren are evil antisemitic Nazis who must be brought to heel.
“Holocaust school lessons to be improved after ‘shocking’ antisemitism review,” reads a headline from the BBC.
“Report reveals vast scale of antisemitism in English schools,” blares Sky News.
“Education secretary promises change after report shows ‘shocking scale’ of antisemitism in schools,” says ITV News.
People who support Israel are disgusting, manipulative liars, and the western political/media class are the very worst among them.
Weaponized “antisemitism” allegations kill orders of magnitude more people than actual antisemitism in today’s world, because they are used to crush all resistance to wars and genocidal atrocities which have amassed a mountain of corpses since Israel’s founding. If our politicians and news media actually cared about facts and morality, they’d be focused on eliminating the exponentially more dangerous threat.
If anything this gives me so much hope for humanity. The fact that the general populace has managed to keep a religion and the acts of a genocidal ethnostate separate despite the barrage of propaganda attempting to conflate the two is truly astounding if you really think about it. As a whole, the humans are choosing what is right over what is egoically gratifying. The sway of propaganda is losing its hold. The humans are choosing to hold to the correct moral view when it would be so much easier to collapse into bigotry.
We can take enormous hope from all of this. We are waking up. Mark my words. We are waking up.
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