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Daniel Rosenblatt's avatar

It is the same old story. We as Jews are responsible for the atrocities that are perpetrated against us. I know and understand that we need to keep telling our side of the story although no one seems to listen. But after 5786 years of fighting just for the right to exist while others get the same privilege on a gold plate is exasperating to say the least. Who was responsible for flying aircraft into the World Trade Center. It was NOT Israel but to hear how terrible we Jews are I would not be surprised if they turn that piece of history around and some how find a way to blame us. The irony is that one day the West will wake up and realize that they are now ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood and they will wonder how it happened. Then they will have to fight just to survive. I wonder who they will blame then? Themselves for their folly or some how find a way to blame the Jews for that also.

Steve Boronski's avatar

They already blame the Jews for the takeover of this I am sure.

MR's avatar

They do. They claim that it is entirely Jewish organizations like HIAS that have pushed for open borders and promoted importing Muslims.

Realistacular's avatar

Amnesty and HRW have done nothing even remotely comparable to assist the people of Iran.

Amnesty even refused to agree with the statement “Stop Arming Iran.”

They have no credibility.

Sam Hilt's avatar

Nachum, every word you write about the NGOs is true. Gerald Steinberg's "NGO Monitor" has been shining a light on the wholesale corruption of the NGO enterprise for more than 20 years. His indictment of the failure of these professional do-gooders reaches the same conclusions that you do, albeit with less eloquence.

What's needed as a next step is an in-depth investigation of the process of subversion. In other words, how exactly did the bad guys manage to transform these benevolent start-ups into leading engines of antisemitic warfare? One of the better known stories of such subversion was the eventual (forced) resignation of Robert L. Bernstein from Human Rights Watch, the NGO which he had founded. There are similar tales to be told of how Oxfam, Amnesty International, and all the others who started out as shoe-string idealistic crusaders all became big-budget promoters of Jew-hatred around the world.

Even if Trump succeeds in insulating the US from the nefarious influence of all the captured globalist entities like the WHO, the UN, the ICC, IMF, etc., the do-gooder NGOs will remain like a festering wound. Their remaining power resides in the "halo effect," the residual belief that they are still a force for good. They need to be de-consecrated and exposed as the snakes-in-suits that they have become. And, as we establish their replacements, we need to proceed with a better understanding of how to protect them, and how to prevent them from suffering the same fate as their disgraced predecessors.

Steve Boronski's avatar

The very concept of NGO is fundamentally flawed, all of them receive government (taxpayer) money which means they are Government Organisations.

Zevik's avatar

Except that government organizations are ultimately answerable to voters. NGOs are not.

Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Like so called “feminists” I can no longer trust “human rights” orgs. Great article.

Weisshorn Ent's avatar

Thank you, Nachum Kaplan, for this well-researched expose about the weaponisation of ideas that were once lofty but are now are deadly.

Michelle's avatar

NGOs are not fit for purpose.

ryan's avatar

How does Israel counter B'tselem, breaking the silence and other NGOs ostensibly operated by Israel Jewish anti Zionists ? Then there are the American versions. All back the "Palestine narrative" and deny that Arab terrorism exists or that it any thing less than "legitimate resistance" Now even Birthright Israel and ADL are damned as "white supremacists" And the NY Times, the New Yorker, NY Review of Books, LA Times and WAPO are right on board.

Dawn's avatar

So very sad & true. The day of people truly trying to make a difference and help the world see & help are unfortunately OVER. Praise the Lord!!!HE KNOWS and his reward will come ‼️🙏❤️🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇱🙏❤️😺

Robin Alexander's avatar

I don't know if "Western excess" is the reason for this shameful cartel. Maybe Western self-hate? It really has to stop. Just stop giving a sh*t.

Malcolm's avatar

Jews love to preach from the moral high ground which they continually claim as being above the rest, but please tell me where or what it has gotten us, our enemies grow in size and veracity by the day, they gain more ground in one week than we have managed to defend in over 5000 years, so when is it exactly that point in time when we are going to get the message????

Let me make this very clear for you, the entire Europe hates Jews and the very existence of Israel, the same goes for the islamists, Russia, China, Canada, Australia, and Africa, and watching Jews try to deal with and defuse this hate is like watching a deer try to fend off a pack of hungry wolves, guess who wins, definitely not the deer!

So here are my questions and they are based on the very reality that we are never going to win the propaganda war, why does the Soros family and their evil cabal of American leftest followers still breath air, why is that Khameini and his leadership are still alive, why does the muslim brotherhood still exist, why are we not cutting the heads off of these deadly Jew hating snakes starting with those morally bankrupt regimes in Qatar, Iran Europe, and wherever else this filth hide?

GOD is not coming to help us, he already has by providing us the capability to do what we need to do, its time to take this fight into their homes, make them fear us, fear will win, we need the courage to instill it in our enemies to the point where they are too afraid to come out of their own homes, when I was a cop I learned from a mobster that fear controls, use it to its maximum as a deterrent and go by mobster rules, speak only once, break bones the second time around, and bury them the third time with no exceptions, an extremely healthy dose of fear controls even the bravest of evil doers, its time for them to run and hide.

Jane Stuart's avatar

Please don't be so quick to state that God is not coming to help you. He watches over you 24/7. There are many Christians who believe God made a covenant with the Jewish people, way back when and the covenant stands today. The Jews are His chosen people. Don't ask me why they have had such a hell of a time over the centuries. I just know God is inscrutable and unfathomable sometimes. But I also believe He has a special love for the Jewish people. You don't have to believe it but I'm telling you it is true.

Malcolm's avatar

From your mouth to God's ears, but as can be seen by the current state of our planet, evil is winning the war on the righteous and He is nowhere to be found while both Christians and Jews are getting slaughtered by the world's reigning evil.

Sarah's avatar

No, Europe does not hate the Jews, and why do you lump them together as if they are a homogenous group. I would say that the majority of people in my country support Israel. So, I don't know where you get your information from.

Malcolm's avatar

And what country would that be as other than Poland every single country in Europe has had its streets flooded with Jew hating people calling for the destruction of Israel and the Jews since October 7, while all of their zealot politicians have condemned every move that Israel has made to protect itself from the evil produced by Iran and Qatar and every other islamist nation, so yes while there are groups within these nations that support Israel, they are far less in numbers and less vocal than the detractors, politicians and the islamists that they have allowed to overrun their countries?

Sarah's avatar

Oh, I know that. All I'm saying is that this does not reflect the views of so many ordinary people in Europe. Our MSM here (and I presume elsewhere) has been captured by the Culural Marxists, but most people are aware now and find their news elsewhere. Even in random conversations, one comes to realise that so many people reject MSM propaganda. The majority of people do not go flooding the streets, shouting anti-Semitic chants; it's just that their voices are the loudest, sadly, and our MSM promotes this deliberately, in order to give that 'wrong' impression to the world.

Sam Hilt's avatar

The challenge we're facing is that noisy minority is highly motivated and the based majority is quiet and unseen. The silent sane majority hasn't yet figured out how to assert itself in the public space. So the activist "Free Palestine" goons have a free hand to control the narrative.

Malcolm's avatar

And that s all it takes for evil to flourish and win, this happens when good people stay quiet and do nothing, it killed over 55 million in WWII, it will take the lives of over 3 billion the next time around, and it will be here within the next 20 years!

Robin Alexander's avatar

100%. I agree, I agree, I agree.

Mark Simmons's avatar

It’s not just the NGO’s mentioned. Organisations like Oxfam, Save The Children and MSF, bored with their primary role of relieving suffering without fear or favour have also become mouthpieces for terrorism. In fact these extremely rich organisations whose executives can boast six figure salaries, have a symbiotic relationship with evil and have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. We’ll pretend to care about your people so you can spend their money on weapons, terrorist infrastructure, mansions, luxury cars and rich lifestyle.

Sam's avatar

This is an enlightening article with many important facts and examples, yet it carries the byline: “Now Israel is starting to fight back, as it should.”

But where, exactly, are the facts or examples showing how Israel is fighting back? After reading the piece, I’m left with the opposite impression—and even greater concern that Israel isn’t fighting back at all. This is the same Israel that managed to lose the PR war to a terrorist like Sinwar.

This is an excellent website, and I’m a subscriber. Still, like many Zionist Jewish charities, media outlets, and organizations, it excels at diagnosing the problems and lamenting our situation while offering little—if anything—about how to fight back, unify, and organize to actually change the narrative. More importantly, there is almost nothing about how to defend ourselves—and I mean literally defend ourselves—from blood libel that is now translating into real-world hostility and violence in the streets.

Upstream's avatar

While I share your frustration, Sam, I get the impression the anti-Israel echo chamber is massive and is massively funded beyond what Israel can finance. I suppose we really should commit in droves to joining organizations that do good work at countering the HR NGO's. Canary Mission, FLAME, CAMERA already exist and could probably be much more effective if many more Jews voluntered and donated to them. On the other hand, as mentioned above, such organizations need to have mechanisms in place to expel members who advocate for the moral inverse of the organization's goals.

Sam's avatar

I could repost this every week:

Every diaspora Jew must read "Betrayal:The failure of American Jewish Leadership. It documents comprehensively how mainstream establishment Jewish organizations have abandoned their mission. For a generation, they have failed and are doubling down on their patronizing refusal to represent Jews today. Consistently the toadies appointed by super-moneyed donors to organizations align themselves with un-Jewish politics. It benefits them personally and socially to hobnob with the political- media- academic- entertainment doyens who are themselves in thrall to destructive ideologies and demagogues.

The book's compilation names names—the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, Jewish Community Relations Councils, the Union for Reform Judaism and others, basically, a group of self-protective “cronys” all failed, unelected, donor-funded, of major American/worldwide Jewish organizations

Jews pour hundreds of millions into these organizations that have little or nothing to show for themselves. It is time to replace those failures with real leadership, real ideas, and real passion.

Estimates of more than 12,000 Jewish nonprofits worldwide—federations, agencies, synagogues, community centers—spanning every imaginable cause: education, social justice, Israel, community life. Billions of dollars. Endless panels. Countless statements.

And yet, in the face of an open, accelerating explosion of antisemitism and anti-Israel hatred, there is no unified strategy, no coordinated response, no real show of power. Just fragmentation, timidity, and institutional self-preservation.

We demand nothing of ourselves and excuse everything from our “guilt charities” so long as they sound compassionate and offend no one. They hoard resources, issue press releases, and congratulate themselves—while the situation gets worse by the day.

This is failure and it demands a reckoning.

Unity is not optional. Accountability is not optional. We must demand coordinated action and support it with more than checks and slogans. This requires sustained pressure, political muscle, legal force, and disciplined, unapologetic confrontation.

Sam Hilt's avatar

From your lips to God's ears......

IsraelActivistCalendar's avatar

Defund HRW, PBS, the UN & MAGA!

Malcolm's avatar

WTF has MAGA got to do with it, were it not for Trump we would be up shits creek in worse ways than we are now, so STFU with your idiot leftist bullshit!

IsraelActivistCalendar's avatar

The tiny Jewish settlement of Ganim was removed in the name of “peace”. It should be restored.