Well written, well researched. I learned something, the archetypes analysis was particularly illuminating. Until 16 months ago I knew there was anti Semitism but I had no idea how deep in ran in Canada. I called Hamas Nazis to a man calling for the eradication of Israel at my university and my uni community did not abandon me, they went to war with me: organized defamation, sixteen months suspended, I went from Mr. Popular to the hated one. They put a gag order on me and then the VP and her Islamist friends went savage, I’m talking false criminal allegations, 1.3 million on Twitter from one post urged to write and ask for my firing. My accuser is a radical public anti semite but no matter. Unions? They refuse to help. I will be fired, they have spent hundreds of thousands of government money on lawyers, and being gagged and not a multimillionaire I literally have no defence. These people are savage. I am talking management. https://open.substack.com/pub/paulfinlayson/p/the-savage-machine-a-kafkaesque-nightmare?r=iy2ds&utm_medium=ios
Following your story, Paul. Everyone should be informed about this!
And everyone should read Hermann Rauschning's "The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West", published in 1939 by the former mayor of the German city of Danzig. He'd originally supported the Nazi Party but realized with horror what was going on, and wrote this book (free download - link below) captured the essence of it. A dear friend told me about it and now I recommend it to everyone. Even just the beginning is enlightening, because it's truly the same as what's going on here: the takeover of every institution by fanatical ideologues and cynical careerists, in the name of an utterly phony "revolution".
I think our left-liberal-progressives (and I was previously a lifelong left-leaner and even a "Fight the Right" young punk, and I'm still gay) have made the same deal with the devil as the German conservatives did with Hitler in the 1930s. They believe they can control the monster and exploit its popularity for their own ends. They're power-hungry and self-serving, entitled, arrogant, miseducated cretins - and it's horrible to see the truth. But ... what else ya gonna do?
I do not know what the solution will be, but I don’t think it is as simple as promoting an emotional narrative. If the whole world could not embrace the Bibas family and understand the tragedy, no story will convince them to change their minds. As you said, some view the atrocities of terrorists as evidence of the evil they are facing. There will have to be a massive effort at deradicalization, not only in the Middle East, but in the west as well.
this is the most frightening and depressing thing I've read in a while. And there's a LOT of frightening and depressing things for a Jew to read, so that says a lot.
The ratio of Muslims to Jews in the world is 120:1. Muslims and many others have been indoctrinated by anti-Zionist narratives since the time of Theodor Herzl and the first Aliyahs. These people also cast votes and have huge collective purchasing power. Their sheer numbers make them a formidable force in public opinion, especially since the Soviet KGB and Romanian intelligence came up with the Palestinian victim narrative for Yassir Arafat. Arafat was previously mentored by Haj Amin al-Husseini, who spent most of WW2 in Berlin broadcasting anti-Zionist propaganda to the world, especially to Middle East radio listeners and readers of print media. The real question is why Israel should not exist, given that Jews too inhabited the Ottoman empire and deserved their own country, according to Woodrow Wilson’s principle of the right of self-determination. The answer is that the Arab and Muslim worlds supported the creation of a large Arab caliphate (that included all of what would become the Mandate of Palestine) since 1915 (two years before the Balfour declaration) as per the McMahon-Hussein correspondence. When that became unfeasible, they supported a Greater Syria led first by King Faisal and then by the Mufti of Jerusalem mentioned above. Though that did not work for either (because Faisal was driven out by the French in 1920 and the Axis lost WW2), they succeeded in delaying the creation of Israel until 1948. This was a major factor in making the Holocaust possible, as most European Jews had nowhere to go. Palestinian Arabs are victims due to their own and pan-Arab leadership. as well as UNRWA, putting them in that position, one of multigenerational refugees who are not allowed to integrate and lead normal lives in the greater Arab society.
It’s not that Palestinians aren’t allowed to integrate - they refuse to, even in Muslim countries. They have caused catastrophe and civil war in the countries that had the kindness to let them in.
After five disastrous attempts by five countries to help them, not one single Muslim country will now permit them to live there. They are savage people.
It is bewildering and frustrating to see that barbarian terrorists can have a sophisticated, coordinated multifaceted communications strategy while Israel and the Jewish people do not. This seems like it can be repaired. What's stopping us?
I don't agree that the onus is on the Israeli and pro-Israel side to better communicate and emotionally connect. We all heard the stories, witnessed the images of October 7 of youths being gunned down, women being snatched, raped and brought into Gaza, dead bodies of Jews being paraded through Gaza and spat upon all to the cheers of Gaza residents, Shiri Bibas clutching her babies while running in terror and then finding out they were all brutally murdered etc. If none of those things emotionally resonated with Israel's detractors, what on earth do you think will? How about the fliers of the hostages? Instead of connecting emotionally with Israelis, they were torn down. The problem isn't with Israel's communication skills or lack thereof, the problem is that we're dealing with a younger generation largely emotionally stunted, sociopathic, heartless, soulless and morally depraved. Do they even have real human contact, or do they spend most of their time on their phones scrolling through TikTok?
Something that gives me hope is the billions of Indians and Iranians who genuinely love Jewish people. And all
the Christians in America.
Before October 7, even I thought we controlled the media. Now I find out we don’t! We are getting hammered all over the world by media propaganda and lies
Yes. You have thoroughly documented the current situation. Perhaps only the victims and the Jewish people who feel these truths are able to tell stories with feelings, as is necessary. Those who do not feel pain, cannot relate the feelings of pain.
Has anyone noticed how hard it is to find Israel on Google maps. West Bank is written with large letters and it is difficult to find Tel Aviv and even Israel.
Interesting article but two things; one is that they also received billions of dollars from USAID to help in the propaganda war although much of that money went to actually fund cement for tunnels and the families of terrorists. But second, we have a constant stream of people who pop up to inform us that the Israeli Government, Jews, us, whomever are the problem because we don't have good PR or we don't know how to address the public, etc, etc, etc. Heard it all before and it's crap. There aren't enough Jews in the world even with support from sympathetic allies to make a dent in the barrage of stuff put out by China, left-wing westerners and Muslims. That's just the reality and pretending that it's our fault is offensive.
Agree. I have decided that it's their problem not mine. But I have the luxury of being retired so professionally it doesn't affect me but that's not true for many others
I hate to say that I agree with you. There are too many people in too many countries and too much dissemination of people and ideas. I don't know what to do.
I can certainly identify with your frustration dealing with the emotional responses to the immoral positions. Dealing with architypes does describe behavior and how easily individuals can be sucked in. I found Alfred Adler's psychological ideas of human behaviour very helpful in understanding what makes people take different positions in their interactions. Homo Sapiens biologically want to be SUPERIOR and not INFERIOR. Starting with Abraham not sacrificing his son Isaac, he preached the sanctity of human life. I find this to be the FOUNDATION of Judaism. It frees most Jews religious or not, to focus on Learning, Creating and Contributing to society. Other cultures, race, nationality, religious, etc inherently sense this, and compare, compete and often combat with Jews, not wanting to be Inferior.
This is the basis of war since Sapiens evolved. Teaching and preaching the Sanctity of Life may help modern humans realize the stupidity and fallacy of making war.
They have successfully manipulated Western humanitarianism and empathy. These things have become the new alters of the West, filling the void that the demise of Christianity has left behind. But folk are blindly faithful to them and only see the arguments/discourse/propaganda that aligns with them. Hamas et al. have masterfully exploited this weakness.
Well written, well researched. I learned something, the archetypes analysis was particularly illuminating. Until 16 months ago I knew there was anti Semitism but I had no idea how deep in ran in Canada. I called Hamas Nazis to a man calling for the eradication of Israel at my university and my uni community did not abandon me, they went to war with me: organized defamation, sixteen months suspended, I went from Mr. Popular to the hated one. They put a gag order on me and then the VP and her Islamist friends went savage, I’m talking false criminal allegations, 1.3 million on Twitter from one post urged to write and ask for my firing. My accuser is a radical public anti semite but no matter. Unions? They refuse to help. I will be fired, they have spent hundreds of thousands of government money on lawyers, and being gagged and not a multimillionaire I literally have no defence. These people are savage. I am talking management. https://open.substack.com/pub/paulfinlayson/p/the-savage-machine-a-kafkaesque-nightmare?r=iy2ds&utm_medium=ios
Following your story, Paul. Everyone should be informed about this!
And everyone should read Hermann Rauschning's "The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West", published in 1939 by the former mayor of the German city of Danzig. He'd originally supported the Nazi Party but realized with horror what was going on, and wrote this book (free download - link below) captured the essence of it. A dear friend told me about it and now I recommend it to everyone. Even just the beginning is enlightening, because it's truly the same as what's going on here: the takeover of every institution by fanatical ideologues and cynical careerists, in the name of an utterly phony "revolution".
I think our left-liberal-progressives (and I was previously a lifelong left-leaner and even a "Fight the Right" young punk, and I'm still gay) have made the same deal with the devil as the German conservatives did with Hitler in the 1930s. They believe they can control the monster and exploit its popularity for their own ends. They're power-hungry and self-serving, entitled, arrogant, miseducated cretins - and it's horrible to see the truth. But ... what else ya gonna do?
Best regards.....
https://archive.org/details/revolutionofnihi027970mbp
I do not know what the solution will be, but I don’t think it is as simple as promoting an emotional narrative. If the whole world could not embrace the Bibas family and understand the tragedy, no story will convince them to change their minds. As you said, some view the atrocities of terrorists as evidence of the evil they are facing. There will have to be a massive effort at deradicalization, not only in the Middle East, but in the west as well.
Exactly. No Jew deserves empathy, ever, and that's our fundamental problem.
this is the most frightening and depressing thing I've read in a while. And there's a LOT of frightening and depressing things for a Jew to read, so that says a lot.
The ratio of Muslims to Jews in the world is 120:1. Muslims and many others have been indoctrinated by anti-Zionist narratives since the time of Theodor Herzl and the first Aliyahs. These people also cast votes and have huge collective purchasing power. Their sheer numbers make them a formidable force in public opinion, especially since the Soviet KGB and Romanian intelligence came up with the Palestinian victim narrative for Yassir Arafat. Arafat was previously mentored by Haj Amin al-Husseini, who spent most of WW2 in Berlin broadcasting anti-Zionist propaganda to the world, especially to Middle East radio listeners and readers of print media. The real question is why Israel should not exist, given that Jews too inhabited the Ottoman empire and deserved their own country, according to Woodrow Wilson’s principle of the right of self-determination. The answer is that the Arab and Muslim worlds supported the creation of a large Arab caliphate (that included all of what would become the Mandate of Palestine) since 1915 (two years before the Balfour declaration) as per the McMahon-Hussein correspondence. When that became unfeasible, they supported a Greater Syria led first by King Faisal and then by the Mufti of Jerusalem mentioned above. Though that did not work for either (because Faisal was driven out by the French in 1920 and the Axis lost WW2), they succeeded in delaying the creation of Israel until 1948. This was a major factor in making the Holocaust possible, as most European Jews had nowhere to go. Palestinian Arabs are victims due to their own and pan-Arab leadership. as well as UNRWA, putting them in that position, one of multigenerational refugees who are not allowed to integrate and lead normal lives in the greater Arab society.
It’s not that Palestinians aren’t allowed to integrate - they refuse to, even in Muslim countries. They have caused catastrophe and civil war in the countries that had the kindness to let them in.
After five disastrous attempts by five countries to help them, not one single Muslim country will now permit them to live there. They are savage people.
Well observed. Never underestimate the longstanding and deep-seated hatred, nurtured for centuries.
It is bewildering and frustrating to see that barbarian terrorists can have a sophisticated, coordinated multifaceted communications strategy while Israel and the Jewish people do not. This seems like it can be repaired. What's stopping us?
I don't agree that the onus is on the Israeli and pro-Israel side to better communicate and emotionally connect. We all heard the stories, witnessed the images of October 7 of youths being gunned down, women being snatched, raped and brought into Gaza, dead bodies of Jews being paraded through Gaza and spat upon all to the cheers of Gaza residents, Shiri Bibas clutching her babies while running in terror and then finding out they were all brutally murdered etc. If none of those things emotionally resonated with Israel's detractors, what on earth do you think will? How about the fliers of the hostages? Instead of connecting emotionally with Israelis, they were torn down. The problem isn't with Israel's communication skills or lack thereof, the problem is that we're dealing with a younger generation largely emotionally stunted, sociopathic, heartless, soulless and morally depraved. Do they even have real human contact, or do they spend most of their time on their phones scrolling through TikTok?
Something that gives me hope is the billions of Indians and Iranians who genuinely love Jewish people. And all
the Christians in America.
Before October 7, even I thought we controlled the media. Now I find out we don’t! We are getting hammered all over the world by media propaganda and lies
Yes. You have thoroughly documented the current situation. Perhaps only the victims and the Jewish people who feel these truths are able to tell stories with feelings, as is necessary. Those who do not feel pain, cannot relate the feelings of pain.
Exactly.
Has anyone noticed how hard it is to find Israel on Google maps. West Bank is written with large letters and it is difficult to find Tel Aviv and even Israel.
A brilliant and comprehensive explanation of current antisemitism in a nutshell. A must read for all interested in this topic.
Interesting article but two things; one is that they also received billions of dollars from USAID to help in the propaganda war although much of that money went to actually fund cement for tunnels and the families of terrorists. But second, we have a constant stream of people who pop up to inform us that the Israeli Government, Jews, us, whomever are the problem because we don't have good PR or we don't know how to address the public, etc, etc, etc. Heard it all before and it's crap. There aren't enough Jews in the world even with support from sympathetic allies to make a dent in the barrage of stuff put out by China, left-wing westerners and Muslims. That's just the reality and pretending that it's our fault is offensive.
Well argued and thorough. But when push comes to shove i dont believe its possible to win the propaganda war against anti-Semitism.
Agree. I have decided that it's their problem not mine. But I have the luxury of being retired so professionally it doesn't affect me but that's not true for many others
I hate to say that I agree with you. There are too many people in too many countries and too much dissemination of people and ideas. I don't know what to do.
I can certainly identify with your frustration dealing with the emotional responses to the immoral positions. Dealing with architypes does describe behavior and how easily individuals can be sucked in. I found Alfred Adler's psychological ideas of human behaviour very helpful in understanding what makes people take different positions in their interactions. Homo Sapiens biologically want to be SUPERIOR and not INFERIOR. Starting with Abraham not sacrificing his son Isaac, he preached the sanctity of human life. I find this to be the FOUNDATION of Judaism. It frees most Jews religious or not, to focus on Learning, Creating and Contributing to society. Other cultures, race, nationality, religious, etc inherently sense this, and compare, compete and often combat with Jews, not wanting to be Inferior.
This is the basis of war since Sapiens evolved. Teaching and preaching the Sanctity of Life may help modern humans realize the stupidity and fallacy of making war.
Martin Nash, M.D.
This is an excellent essay about contemporary anti Semitism
Really great article, very informative and sad to see what is really happening in the West.
They have successfully manipulated Western humanitarianism and empathy. These things have become the new alters of the West, filling the void that the demise of Christianity has left behind. But folk are blindly faithful to them and only see the arguments/discourse/propaganda that aligns with them. Hamas et al. have masterfully exploited this weakness.