Loading ...I’m not really sure who she is. I did Google her and am not much the wiser but she obviously thinks her opinions are worthy, but she was interviewed on The Raw Deal, which I’ve never heard of, and she seemed to think that it is important that she clarified some things that were said, or not said, about Israel which might have been misconstrued. It wasn’t what she thought that interested me, but her comment in the last paragraph, viz: “I am, however, Jewish. One third of my tribe resides in the state of Israel and roughly 50% reside in the US, the country of my birth”
My tribe.
Does that sound as though being American is more important to her than her tribal allegiance? As you may be aware, some Jews were shot at Bondi Beach a couple of weeks ago, and the reaction of her tribe was similar. “We are Australian Jews, and we demand more protection at synagogues and other Jewish tribal gatherings”. And the authorities responded, the state of New South Wales immediately allocating a further 350 police to patrol those areas. “Wooohooo” went all the criminals. Everybody is bending over backwards to be not anti-semitic. It is much more important to divert significant resources to protect one tribal group, a very small one, at the expense of the rest of the population and at the risk of being considered ‘anti-semitic’.
Anti-semitic. What does that mean?
Semitic : of, relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Maltese and Amharic.
So to be anti-semitic is to be against a language group? Anybody who calls someone anti-semitic truly has a screw loose.
Ok, ok, I know that a new meaning originated with a German whacko and it has been warped into meaning ….. what? It is used as the slightest provocation. It is a woke term, surviving the death of DEI, to be used by Jewish people or their supporters at anyone not supporting the …… what? The state of Israel? Zionism? Jews? Israelis? The elimination of Christians and Arabs on the West Bank, even though those Christians and Arabs are semites? And the shooters at Bondi were semites. How can the shooters be anti-themselves?
So you can see how that tribe has hijacked the narrative here. Just as during covid the definitions of words were changed to enable people to be cancelled, so has semite been mangled to enable the cancelling of, for example, Charlie Kirk. Permanently.
Tribal. Like Somalis. To be anti-corruption in Minnesota is to be racist, white supremacist. Those terms are really losing traction now.
Tribal. Like the Brits flying the Union Jack, or the English the George Cross. Racist and colonialists to the core.
Anti-semitic. A word that means whatever the tribe (and its supporters, and they are Legion) determines it means for any particular situation.