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Richard Luthmann's avatar

This isn’t protest—it’s narrative warfare. What Goldberg exposes is the quiet genius of the Gaza Playbook: take a foreign conflict, strip it of context, and redeploy it to delegitimize American law itself. ICE becomes the IDF. Borders become apartheid. Enforcement becomes violence. And anti-Zionist Jews are used as ideological human shields to preempt criticism. I’ve covered lawfare for years, and this fits the pattern perfectly: collapse distinctions, provoke confrontation, manufacture martyrs, then dare institutions to respond. Once sovereignty is criminalized everywhere, no democratic system—Israel’s or America’s—can survive the onslaught.

Bob Goldberg's avatar

Thank you Richard ! High praise from someone of your talent and track record.

Barry Lederman, “normie”'s avatar

Are all the confrontations, here with law enforcement and in Israel on multiple military fronts, are being exploited by Islam to establish a Caliphate in Europe and US?

EKB ✡️ 🕎 🇺🇸's avatar

While the leftist fringe Jewish groups are joining with the antiICE crowd, you cant blame the violent protest in Minneapolis on these groups. Its like saying its all the Jews fault. This is the left wing playbook funded by antiAmerican agitators. The Prohamas groups that are part of the protests are there because they hate America. Fullstop. They are funded by Qatar and probably China through that Singham guy. None of this is the Jews fault simply because the idiots of Code Pink and JVP are involved.

Former Jersey Girl's avatar

Agreed. The fake Jewish groups are just one of the many anti-West participants in the bloc of misfits protesting the cause du jour. . First it was all Free Palestine, then pro-Maduro, then climate BS. The protests can only be done sequentially, not simultaneously.

MR's avatar

In my liberal city it is the Reform congregation along with supposedly “pro-Israel/Jewish groups marching “in solidarity with the Minneapolis anti-ICE protesters.” Not just “fake and fringe Jewish groups”—for “moral reasons.” Some rabbis even held what they called “Moral Minyans” outside nearby ICE facilities during the George Floyd Era. They are marching along with the same people who accuse Israel of genocide and call ICE the gestapo.

Former Jersey Girl's avatar

They still haven’t learned the lesson of 10/7 that the “alliance” was one-way.

MR's avatar

And the cause was not “moral.”

bxpansive's avatar

It doesn't matter. They will be blamed and all Jews will be lumped in. Sometimes rightly I believe, unfortunately. Sometimes just because people need to keep things simple - get rid of them all rather than expend limited energy sorting through a bunch whining people.

Liora Jacob's avatar

One of the more Orwellian moments: twice a white anti ICE protestor called a black ICE officer a “n*gger”. Entirely shameless.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Ephraim Shalom's avatar

In reply to Irwin Weiss' comment, when a “demonstrator” refuses a law enforcement officer’s order to stop & exit her vehicle & hits him with it, or when an anti-ICE agitator shows up to “demonstrate” with a concealed FIREARM, both of them crossed the line by making poor decisions, and they suffered the consequences of CHALLENGING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS who are trained in what to look for - yet you only smear ICE officers as “murderers”? 🤣🤣 Get serious.

ANDREW LAZARUS's avatar

ICE are not law enforcement officers in that sense. They have no right to be stopping US Citizens for traffic violations. They are supposed to be chasing illegal aliens, not provoking riots.

As for the firearms, I don't like the current understanding of the Second Amendment, but it's very clear—as usually conservative pro-gun groups pointed out—that protestors are allowed to go armed if compliant with local registration laws.

Ephraim Shalom's avatar

Andrew, you're a retired mathematician & Software Engineer who apparently understands almost nothing about either law enforcement or firearms, so here's a tip sheet for you - I suggest you commit it to memory so you don't end up like anti-ICE "protesters" who TARGETED officers with a moving vehicle or CONFRONTED ICE officers while armed.

1. Whether you agree or not, the FACT is that ICE officers are law enforcement officers trained in the proper handling of firearms.

2. DON'T challenge them face-to-face unless you WANT them to rearrange yours.

ANDREW LAZARUS's avatar

ICE's remit is the removal of illegal aliens.

They are interfering with US citizens without a ghost of probable cause. All their detentions of US citizens are being dismissed or the defendants acquitted. Doesn't bother you that people are arrested but no valid case can be brought against them? You want to live that way?

You don't bother to list an occupation. I suggest you put down "bootlicker".

Ephraim Shalom's avatar

You consider assault with a motor vehicle and challenging ICE officers while armed "lack of probable cause" - yet both "victims" CHOSE to disobey orders to stop their vehicle and/or challenged ICE officers while armed. When they disobeyed orders or challenged LE officers while armed, they opened a door & they had to face whatever came through it. Their choices, their poor decisions. If you could find a way to extricate your head from your derrière, you might have noticed the similarities. Congratulations-you've lost. Don't bother to reply - you have nothing intelligent to offer.

ANDREW LAZARUS's avatar

Why did you bother to reply? You already made clear your renunciation of the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments of the Bill of Rights, because of the frisson you feel when armed goons walk by.

All of ICE’s “obstruction” cases fall apart. They are trying to criminalize protest.

Bobby's avatar

Why bring a gun to a protest unless you think that you might use it? Give me another reason, Andrew, and while you’re at it, tell me about the last time you had to confront a person carrying a gun? Thought so.

Sandra's avatar

The ICE agents took the gun away from Alex Pressi and had him pinned down and I didn’t see him resisting. Then ICE shot and killed him. How can ICE justify that? Arrest the guy if they think he was getting in the way.

ANDREW LAZARUS's avatar

Look, I don't agree with current Second Amendment jurisprudence, but as it stands it's very clear. Lots of people carry every time they leave the house. They don't need reasons. What was Kyle Rittenhouse's reason?

Video makes clear that Pretti had the gun holstered, wasn't brandishing it, wasn't even reaching for it. That's all entirely lawful. So, why did ICE kill him?

The gun groups got rather upset at the idea you can't carry guns to a protest. I guess they were worried Democratic officials might say that about their protests, and, to be clear, on current law, that would be just as wrong.

I have no idea if people I "confront" are armed, unless they draw. I've never been drawn on. I will say that a local nutso who was harassing me DID draw on the local PD in another situation, and after several months in the hospital (he lost the shootout), he's now on trial.

Frederick Roth's avatar

Plenty of videos have since surfaced showing Pretti in physical confrontation against other personnel - visibly showing him wearing the weapon on those occasions. They likely logged him as an agitator from past encounters and that's likely why the border patrolmen were aggressive toward him.

While I don't believe his shooting was justified the situation should never have been allowed to get to this point of confrontation. Local cops should've separated the groups precisely to avoid such outcomes - the failure to do so is on the local politicians.

It is also disingenuous to call this protest since this group's objective is active interference with policing operations. BTW the Rittenhouse instance wasn't demonstrating but protecting businesses from being looted. so presence of guns there had a different rationale.

ANDREW LAZARUS's avatar

I don't think you are saying that inappropriate lethal force can be used on a protestor because he kicked out your taillight the week before—which is good.

The ICE agents aren't doing anything related to their alleged duties of apprehending illegal aliens. You can tell that from the fact that Minnesota is a target-poor environment for them.

Liora Jacob's avatar

One of the more Orwellian moments: twice a white anti ICE protestor called a black ICE officer a “nigger”. Entirely shameless.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Irwin Weiss's avatar

There are numerous essays arguing that one cannot be pro-Jewish and antiZionist.

Myself… I am anti ICE murderers and pro Jewish and Pro Zionist. I don’t see these views as incompatible.

If you are opposed to violence and murdering people because of their religion and ethnicity, then you would be anti ICE and anti-Hamas.

The wacky American leftists who equate complaints about ICE and Anti-Israel rhetoric have lost the ability to reason.

The Holy Land News's avatar

What goes around, comes around.

Monica McMillen's avatar

Soros should have been hung at Nuremberg.

Googie1262's avatar

I started a sub stack recently to write about all I am seeing. I am NOT a journalist by profession. I was a schoolteacher for 35 years in NYC ..31 in the public schools. It all came together post 10/7. With a child and 2 grandchildren living in Israel, I had to speak up. I immediately saw the pattern in the protests following Renee's Good's death. My substack is titled " A Familiar Playbook" I think my family and friends think I have lost my mind. I. know I have not. Glad to see people screaming this from the rooftops! https://zionlioness.substack.com/p/a-very-familiar-playbook?r=nmg3q

Puck's avatar

Article brings to mind:

Verband nationaldeutscher Juden (Association of German National Jews)

Der deutsche Vortrupp (The German Vanguard)

Trzynastka (Group 13, Warsaw Ghetto)

Their leaders were not spared.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" ~ George Santayana (1905)

"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history," ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Ardath N Blauvelt's avatar

What a terrible expose. How does one forgive Jewish betrayal by Jews?

Eva's avatar

You don’t.

Treachery is unforgivable.

bernie davis's avatar

America has been invaded by the world wide Muslim religious war ...

blackdog1955's avatar

I hate these guys and gals.

bxpansive's avatar

A. For Americans who want the US to survive as America and not a 'woke' 'progressive' dictatorship followed by a Muslim caliphate, they will have to get rid of anything Jewish: that's just the way it will be and perhaps needs to be framed - it may be Penny wise and pound foolish, but you seem to lead to that conclusion.

A1. The Jewish facade will be discarded like it always has been by the Left, LgbtQxyz, etc, in any case - by Left and Muslim, and by the Right in order to galvanize organization against the Left and Muslim use of Jewish principles and symbols.

B. Where is similar organization by pro American Jews? Where is similar organization by Evangelicals, Catholics, Latinos, Protestants?

They are all fragmented: the Vatican supports Muslim wealth and numbers. Evangelicals might have their USA group but the Left is attacking them effectively. Many Protestants think Catholicism isn't Christianity and the Latino are trying to make a living and not get deported.

And the Ultra Orthodox are anti Israel and pro Muslim in their behavior. Certainly they don't give shit about non orthodox. And the young non orthodox are pro Left and Muslim. So a few sane Jews are screwed by everyone. Maybe the elite Jews have their compounds and can screw Israel if they get there.

C. The Left has educated the majority of citizens for 50yrs to doubt the 'right' of America to exist - there's the Arab palestinian (small p) playbook. Brezmanov explained the subversion of the US in his 1983 lecture and it appears accurate.

The citizens doubt the validity of the US. The citizens.

D. Trump, I believe, has tried to strengthen the US to the best of his ability, but his zeal has not been backed up by competence or by the people who voted for him.

Even Texas is allowing the Muslim cities to be built with US legal support and govt money. You talk about Lefty zones in Minnesota - the Cedar area in mpls is already Muslim only or has an excellent organization to get there. But TX FL have whole cities Muslim only. The Christian elites are selling out America. They already outsourced the jobs and national security interests: steel, mining, pharmaceuticals, shipbuilding, manufacturing.

I think you illustrated the coming take over by the Left and Muslims and I just added fuel to it. I'd like to think we are crying wolf but I don't think so - the Left and Muslims are organized and Christians and Jews are selling each other out. And things just move so damn fast - that's different from previously by orders of magnitude, I think.

bxpansive's avatar

The Left and Muslims will eat each other alive after they destroy the US. They always have and always will.

The best path forward for Americans is to get the Left and Muslims fighting among themselves. Destroy their present cohesiveness.

Daniel Kupke's avatar

Do you take in concideration that the name, "Jew", is a curse. Return to and identify yourselfs by your name given by your mother, Leah and farther, Yisrael. Don't eccept this curse being spoken over you by the world. Stand upright as Yahudah, without explanation or excuse. Don't recognize a being or government that doesn't call you by your birth name. The name "Jew" is not a name it is not a person, it is a religion. Yahudah should suffice to stand with the Truth and not religion. Stand with Torah.

Three religions are according to my understanding, referenced in Zakaryah 5.

Zeḵaryah (Zechariah) 5:3 TS2009

[3] And he said to me, “This is the curse that goes forth over the face of all the earth: ‘everyone who is stealing shall go unpunished,’ on the one side, according to it, and, ‘everyone who has sworn falsely shall go unpunished,’ on the other side, according to it.”

O

https://bible.com/bible/316/zec.5.3.TS2009

One side is Christianity, the other side, Jewdaism and third Islam, wrongness.

1: Christianity - just believe -stole the Torah- giving recognition to an idol

2: Jewdaism - swear, no name no recognition to YEHOVAH - no Torah - sworn falsely

3: Islam - just wrong