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Antisemitism Claims Mask a Reign of Political and Cultural Terror Across Europe, by Jonathan Cook

Antisemitism has become a weapon aimed at anyone who questions or criticizes Israel. From Jonathan Cook at unz.com:

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has run a fascinating long report this week offering a disturbing snapshot of the political climate rapidly emerging across Europe on the issue of antisemitism. The article documents a kind of cultural, political and intellectual reign of terror in Germany since the parliament passed a resolution last year equating support for non-violent boycotts of Israel – in solidarity with Palestinians oppressed by Israel – with antisemitism.

The article concerns Germany but anyone reading it will see very strong parallels with what is happening in other European countries, especially the UK and France.

The same European leaders who a few years ago marched in Paris shouting “Je suis Charlie” – upholding the inalienable free speech rights of white Europeans to offend Muslims by insulting and ridiculing their Prophet – are now queuing up to outlaw free speech when it is directed against Israel, a state that refuses to end its belligerent occupation of Palestinian land. European leaders have repeatedly shown they are all too ready to crush the free speech of Palestinians, and those in solidarity with them, to avoid offending sections of the Jewish community.

 

Someone Interfered In The UK Election, And It Wasn’t Russia, by Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin Johnstone does great work exposing and commenting upon the depredations of government. However, her sympathies are apparently with the leftists and socialists, which means either that she believes in still more government, or perhaps governments stocked with the “right” people. Both are pipe dreams if she thinks they’re going to improve the lives of the average people for whom she purports to speak. There’s no disputing that Jeremy Corbyn didn’t receive fair treatment from the British press and the powers that be, but even if nobody had said a bad word about him he never had a chance against Boris Johnson this election, especially with his straddle on Brexit. Sometimes people vote against people who want to “solve” their problems through government, usually when they’re well and rightly sick of the government they already have. From Johnstone at medium.com:

Ladies and gentlemen I have here at my fingertips indisputable proof that egregious election meddling took place in the United Kingdom on Thursday.

Before you get all excited, no, it wasn’t the Russians. It wasn’t the Chinese, the Iranians, Cobra Command or the Legion of Doom. I’m not going to get any Rachel Maddow-sized paychecks for revealing this evidence to you, nor am I going to draw in millions of credulous viewers waiting with bated breath for a bombshell revelation of an international conspiracy that will invalidate the results of the election.

In fact, hardly anyone will even care.

Hardly anyone will care because this election interference has been happening right out in the open, and was perfectly legal. And nobody will suffer any consequences for it.

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