Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter 

When I get to the bottom, I go back to the top of the slide

Where I stop, and I turn, and I for a ride

‘Till I get to the bottom, and I see you again

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

-             Paul McCartney, John Lennon

By Gregg Wall (4-4-2026) 

Few are probably aware of this, but Helter Skelter, per Mr. McCartney, is about the fall of the Roman empire.  And that’s probably as good a lede as I can ask for this Easter weekend, 2026.  The U.S. empire is teetering, listing sideways.  Our not so sane POTUS Trump gave a speech this week, where he really didn’t say much of anything and looked like he was about to fall down the slide himself … Americans still don’t have a definitive answer as to why we are in Iran or the objectives that will pull us out.  What we do know is that Trump says he’s won, he’s very angry at European allies for not joining the Genocide twins (Messrs. Bibi & Trump) in the graveyard of Hormuz… even though Trump swears he needs no one… and it appears that Iran is very much in control over 20% of the world’s oil & gas flow. That’s what we know.

Speculation runs that Trump is pandering to the Evangelical Christian community with end times story telling & narratives to keep the Trump flock loyal.  Others posit the whole spectacle was originally about Trump attempting to put as much distance between himself and the Epstein debacle as possible, and given the wave of firings and rumored firings to come … Epstein does not appear to be far from the POTUS’ mind.  For those who are familiar with Whitney Webb’s work and the thinking of the billionaire set surrounding Trump, the attack on Iran seems very much to fall into line with the American oligarchy’s desire to dominate the earth… via dollar, energy, and military hegemony.  Their greed, hubris, and megalomania apparently knows no boundaries: corporate rule, dark enlightenment, freedom cities & fiefdoms, oligarchy rule, technates.   Trump likely felt Iran would fall like Venezuela, quick work would be made of it, the empire expanded, the empire riding high in the saddle.  There is of course, too, the Bibi angle, which might explain why Trump is so entirely vague about the time frame and objectives… the United States appears to have subcontracted its Middle East foreign policy to a man wanted for war crimes and genocide.  And why not, America has subcontracted its presidency to a con artist.

For my money, all four explanations are plausible: pander to Trump’s last remaining tribe of loyalists, Evangelicals; attempted escape from Epstein’s ghost; another power and resource grab in the Middle East by the American and Zionist oligarchy, perhaps at the prodding of Messrs. Musk, Thiel, and Palantir (coupled with hopes for a war bump and the easy expansion of a dying empire); and there’s no doubt or little doubt that Netanyahu appears to enjoy considerable hold over the Trump administration and the U.S. congress.  To date, Democrat leadership’s biggest concern centers around Trump’s lousy narrative management and selling of the war.  Per the usual, Dems have no problems with the genocide, the slaughter of schoolgirls, and soaring energy prices.  The American K-economy means the rich never feel any pain. 

What we do know… what Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called “known- knowns,” during the second Gulf War… is that Trump seems to believe the United States' obligation is to be continuously at war (enriching billionaires & warmongers, keeping Bibi happy, propping up a failing U.S. necro economy, seeking to keep oil and gas prices elevated, and preserving the petrodollar).  Trump said this week he’s really not in the business of taking care of the American people… with Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, that is the say the basics of government… but rather, America is in the business of waging eternal war & violence upon the planet.  That’s my Reader's Digest version of the President’s remarks.

What we do know is Trump has made a perfidious hash of his and his billionaire backers’ objectives, that is U.S. dollar, empire, energy, and military supremacy (land & resource theft).  With Trump in trouble in the polls, the dollar increasingly suspect, and sane Americans longing for peace & stability… Team Genocide, Trump, Bibi, and the Tech-Bros... appear to have sped up their schedule. But try as they might, the best laid plans of billionaires and pedos appears to be coming undone?

Oil & Gas supremacy seems to be in doubt with Europe and Asia, indeed the world, suffering higher O&G prices and shortages.  Economies already on tenterhooks could be reeling this summer as they ride down the bottom of Mr. Trump’s Helter-Skelter slide.  China appears to be most prescient having invested heavily in green and renewable energy and best positioned to handle the energy shock.  Europe looks like it maybe fleeced, compelled to buy overpriced American energy, or make peace with Russia and go back to that energy relationship.  One thing is clear, being dependent upon oil and gas is sheer treachery.  Americans and Canadians appear out of luck per the usual.  Even though both countries are swimming in oil… America’s and Canada’s rabidly neoliberal economies, global commodification of O&G, and far-right politicians ensure the good citizens of both countries will be royally ripped off, while oil & gas profits soar.  In short, there’s no better advertisement for clean, green energy than President Epstein.

Dollar supremacy … forget about it. As reported in the FT the world can’t dump Treasuries fast enough.  Trump, who sent the national debt soaring in his first term, is back for a repeat performance in his second term.  And just this week, Trump reminded everyone that he wants a $1.5 trillion War budget next year.  The idea of hoarding and cornering the market on the world’s oil & gas supply -- to backstop the U.S. dollar -- seems to be running into the wall of insane prices, energy shocks, economic contagion, endless wars to lift prices, and a burning planet with record high temperatures in the month of March.  Here in Alberta, Canada, the federal and provincial governments like to pretend the U.S. owned Canadian oil & gas sector isn’t running up hundreds of billions in liabilities and sticking Canadians with the bill… while the American robber barons haul Alberta tar south for processing and obscene profits.  What a scam.  And what is Donnie doing?  Well, both the American and Canadian governments are cornering the market on vast oil & gas liabilities in the trillions and trillions of dollars.  It’s quite deranged, insane, and entirely unacceptable.  It’s just more privatized profits for Big Oil & Gas and the oligarchy… more massive debts placed upon the backs of the public & taxpayer.  And, ultimately, yet another burden placed upon both nations' currencies.  The once proud dollar now has two millstones hanging about its neck: the national debt and massive oil & gas liabilities (that the Oil majors will never make good on).

Military supremacy… the Iranians are making short work of that myth.  As mentioned in my last piece, the Iranians have rained drones and missiles down upon: Middle East oil & gas infrastructure; US military installations (thirteen bases out of commission, per the NY Times and Grayzone news); Tel Aviv with God’s chosen fleeing the promised land (in what JP calls a reverse Exodus?); and U.S. military hardware.  At the same time, Iran owns The Strait and is exacting tolls in Chinese Yuan.  Goodbye petrodollar?  Donnie is said to have 50,000 troops in the region, two to three aircraft carriers in transit or entering docks for repairs, and a special contingent of U.S. Marines to storm Iranian shores and enter the jaws of annihilation?  Let us pray that invasion never takes place.  Meanwhile, failing Donnie’s purge has extended beyond his cabinet to include some high-ranking brass at the Pentagon.  Separately, Trump keeps holding what appears to be fictional negotiations, which are frequently refuted by the Iranian gov.  This Good Friday, the Iranians rebuffed Trump and a 48-hour ceasefire.  Looks like Iran is playing to win and will be the tollbooth operator for 20% of world oil & gas energy for the foreseeable future. The loss of this war, particularly the loss of The Strait, could finish off Trump.  

Meanwhile, Bibi continues his genocides in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West bank… where slaughtering unarmed women and children comes easy; meanwhile, the Israeli Knesset has decided to make hanging Palestinian prisoners great again.  

What’s that? … I hear the Martini shaker. Time to wrap up this piece and place a bow on it. 

But the best part of all, perhaps blowback and karma, is Trump has illustrated for all the world to see what a complete fraud the pedo billionaire class is.  What a desperate and lethal clown Trump has become as his approval rating takes a swan dive into the abyss. Trump seemingly can’t miss a day without declaring victory over Iran, but then, says the job isn’t finished in the same breath.  What job is that POTUS Epstein?  Carpet bombing, murdering women and children, genocide, as directed by your masters: Israel, Bibi, Thiel, Palantir, Adelson, Musk, Wall St.?  The ultimate goal… a craven attempt to deflect from Trump’s Helter-Skelter administration, the ongoing fall of the empire, de-dollarization, a lousy economy, the alienation of the public and allies, and Epstein?

Yes, Trump and the oligarchy’s timeline have moved up, because the American people are fed up, allies are consistently saying NO to Trump, and it’s increasingly clear that many of these cretins… the oligarchy… belong in prison, stripped of their assets.  Think of the intel America’s friends, neutral parties, and prospective adversarial powers are picking up on Trump and the U.S. military’s failings in Iran?  How to waste the U.S. military at pennies on the dollar?  Trump truly is an idiot and allies who purchase America’s grossly overpriced weapons should take note.  As for Iran, given the betrayal and treachery surrounding the American and Israeli governments, which fooled Iran twice… breaking off negotiations and tearing up a prior nuclear agreement without cause… why would Iran negotiate with a walking baboon, an orange orangutang?  Why?  Iran needs a performance bond and hundreds of billions in bullion as collateral and to backstop any agreement with Messrs. Netanyahu and Trump.  Trump’s credibility is finished.

American billionaires -- Trump and his posse of freaks, misfits, and pedos -- are an abomination.  Nor did they happen by magic or via the wonders of the “free market.”  American billionaires are manufactured with endless state welfare, the billionaire tax code, corporate welfare, FED money printing, robbing the public to keep the house of cards upright, transferring money from public services and transportation into privatization schemes and the pockets of a greedy few… rigged/insider markets, front running trades as POTUS Failure manipulates markets with an endless series of lies. Grants of monopoly, the gutting of the regulatory state, privatized profits – socialized costs, under a cloud of failure and decay, gifts of research and patents with no taxpayer compensation and no public say in how publicly funded research and technology are used… these are a few of America’s billionaire aristocracy’s favorite things.  Endless for-profit wars… these are just a handful of ways that a predatory few have become fabulously wealthy.  Trump and billionaires are all welfare queens, endlessly feeding off the taxpayer and the state. 

As humanity curses Trump in one breath, Americans and the world, in some twisted turn of fate, may eventually come to praise Caesar as an inflection point within humanity’s evolutionary arc.  Trump has eliminated for all times… the myth of the billionaire class… the infallibility and supremacy of the great white pedo male.  Trump has trashed the fairy tale surrounding the greatness of billionaires as preeminent leaders and businessmen.

The billionaire myth is burning on the ash heap of history, the Helter-Skelter presidency has been crucified… by Caesar’s own hand, the nails hammered in by Trump himself.  It’s up to humanity, writers, and historians to ensure Caesar, the empire, the myth of the billionaire are interred into the grave and remain buried.  All of it, consigned to hell, never ever again to see resurrection or the light of day. 

Happy Easter. 

Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2026

Was it always this way?

Was it always this way?

“It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are incapable of fulfilling this duty use the smokescreen of war to hide their failure and, in the process, line the pockets of a select few – the same ones as always; the only ones who profit when the world stops building hospitals and starts building missiles,” Spanish PM Sanchez said.

 

-      A lone battle: Why is Pedro Sánchez the only European leader to take on Trump?, Guardian

 

Many observers thought Canada was turning to a principled foreign policy, championing universal liberal values such as democracy, justice, human rights and the rule of law. It seemed as though Canada was coming to the defence of a rules-based order, and this was helping it regain significant international prestige.  So it came as a shock when Carney offered immediate support to an illegal U.S.-Israel war of aggression against Iran on Feb. 28.

 

-       Respecting international law depends on who breaks it: Why Canada backed the war against Iran, The Conversation

 

By Gregg Wall (3-7-2026)

If anyone had any doubts about where PM Carney stood… ethically, morally, politically… all doubt was erased this week.   On the 28^th of February Carney came out with full throated support for Team Genocide’s latest war with Iran… where the spirits of 160 Iranian school girls were promptly dispatched & released by American bombs and munitions.  Carney, on world tour, drumming up trade, backpedaled and qualified his endorsement “with regret”, saying international law must be respected, only to backpedal yet again, stating he would support the Americans if called upon (in some capacity).  Carney appears to have missed the obvious contradiction of calling out the end of the rules-based order/international law last January at Davos and asking the Americans & Israelis to abide by same in their latest assault upon the planet.

Carney... the Goldman Sachs bankster, Central Banker extraordinaire, and Brookfield private equity chairman… has been showing his cards now for some time: elected by Trump; kowtowed to Trump ever since; dealing with Alberta’s far-right government; cutting deals with the oil patch – just this week giving Alberta charge over O&G regulatory matters; trashing environmental and green standards on behalf of American owned Alberta O&G; passing C-5 which basically trashed rules, regs, and fast tracked corporate control, domination, and violence over Canada.  What a guy.  So, it should have surprised no one that Carney endorsed 160 souls of children wafting up to the heavens, now “with regret.”  

Into the void and the vacuum left by Carney, and his coalition of middling powers, charged the PM of Spain, Mr. Sanchez, who earned Trump’s rage for not supporting Netanyahu’s latest war efforts by forbidding US bases in Spain from being used to bomb Iranian targets.  PM Sanchez said “No To War.”  Trump knows that he needs the EU, Canada, and Five Eyes nations more than he’s let on and immediately threatened Spain with the elimination of trade.  Fortunately for Spain, it does very little, or relatively little trade with the Americans.  Macron and Starmer also pushed back on Trump’s latest conflict.  Rebellion and dissent are contagious.  As for Trump, he slides lower and lower in the polls: his economy is shambolic, his tariffs a disaster, DOGE a failure, debt and deficits soar, and affordability and gas prices are about to become a huge headache for the failure in the White House.  And the ghost of Epstein is everywhere.  Dems in Congress appear to be sharpening their knives, zero interest in acknowledge the duopoly’s laundry list of failures, but sharpening their knives… the Ides of March is so very close.  November is so very far away.  Every day new chaos, new hell as Trump desperately attempts to shake the Epstein files.  

 

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, signs a memorandum of understanding with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in Calgary, Alta., on Nov. 27. (Credit: Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press files) 

 

Was it always this way?   Have nation-states always kowtowed to the American government?  Have U.S. allies always backed off repeatedly on taxing American tech behemoths, went along with the United States' latest war or Middle East assault, latest land & resource grab, greater theft of oil and gas resources, terms of trade dictated by U.S. multinationals and Wall St.?  If we Google that question, that answer is affirmative, going back to WW2.  To be sure, America doesn’t always get its way, but my guess is America gets its heavy-handed way more often than not.

Why would any nation, middle power or great power, tolerate U.S. hegemony that has devolved into tyranny over time, culminating in Donald Trump?  What are the opportunity costs for Europe and Five Eyes nations, the foregone jobs & tax revenue, the industries it doesn’t dare encroach upon for fear of upsetting the United States, the money spent on the military at U.S. direction, the debt and deficits to fund military spending at U.S. direction… knowing full well that money could be better invested and spent elsewhere or saved for a rainy day?  The tech industry the Americans forbid Canada and Europe from starting up, under the guise or premise that it’s a threat to national security?

America has been blessed, and cursed by a great many gifts, not the least of which is exorbitant privilege, a great and wonderful stolen land that it has poisoned.  All that, and a voter base that has been thoroughly brainwashed into believing socialism is bad, bootstraps and rugged individualism are good.  This, as America’s billionaire class owe their vast wealth to endless socialism, government… debt, deficits, and money printing… and economic, fiscal, judicial, monetary, regulatory, and tax policy capture and control. 

And there’s the U.S. military which sucks up a greater and greater percentage of discretionary spending.  Americans have been fed the narcotic of exceptionalism… and yet, Americans see, that we are anything but exceptional.  No, we are losers.

There are signs of dissent, signs of rebellion everywhere… from Minnesota to the Capital of Spain, Madrid, and of course, BRICS.  Trump and the oligarchy… Adelson, Musk, Thiel, in particular… are in a race against time.  But the public doesn’t share the oligarchy’s dreams of technates, spheres of influence, billionaire autocracy, freedom cities, global domination and control.  And the public certainly does not support Israeli/Zionist occupation.  We’ve arrived: twilight's last gleaming, the sun setting on an empire that is long past its prime, a bankrupt empire the majority of the American people increasingly regret every waking moment.  For Americans, the empire is ever present, often unnamable for many, a dark presence, watching & waiting, a nightmare, seen in grocery store aisles and gas stations with skyrocketing prices, soaring rents, the cryptic knowledge that the nation is completely off the rails and terminal.  The pain and suffering delivered to other nations, rebounds and returns home, as blowback, payback, retribution.  The Super Bowl flyovers, the star-spangled deceit, and the mutilated bodies of US service personnel returning in flag draped caskets… courtesy of a U.S. government, oligarchy, & two-party leadership that could not possibly care less.  What the trash in the White House refers to as “losers.”

And yet, the resistance carries on.  And on that note, let’s praise the courage and the will of PM Sanchez.

Let’s celebrate dissent & rebellion, let’s celebrate the word, NO, the Iranian people that Trump pretended to care about.  Let’s acknowledge the Iranian military that will not go quietly into that good night, let’s celebrate the ticking of the clock, the soaring U.S. national debt, and yes, even the clown in the White House - who foolishly hastens us all to the end of a lie. 

Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2026

Ethical & Moral Collapse

Ethical & Moral Collapse

 

UNITED NATIONS, May 23 (Reuters) - United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Friday said Israel has only authorized for Gaza what "amounts to a teaspoon of aid when a flood of assistance is required" and again signaled that the U.N. won't take part in a new U.S.-backed distribution plan.

 

-             Israel has only authorized a 'teaspoon' of aid for Gaza, UN chief says, Reuters

 

Gregg Wall (5-24-2025)

 

How many innocent babies, children, and women lie dead in Bibi Netanyahu’s Gaza concentration camp & morgue?  Aljazeera says at least 61,709 dead, 17,492 of these children, with 111,588 injured, as of February 3, 2025; but Trump, attempting to rationalize a future Trump Plaza - Gaza and a real estate boom, places the body count much higher, suggesting several hundred thousand dead, perhaps closer to 500,000.  That was mid-February.  For Trump, the number of dead is reason to complete the job of ethnic cleansing, not halt it... paving the way for a real estate developer’s dream & profits.  Gazans are starving now, in an entirely engineered and manufactured crisis.

 

The lies, misinformation, and bodies surrounding the West’s genocide in Gaza are piling up so fast and so high, it’s challenging to keep track.  But one thing can be counted on:  Western leaders continue to support mass murder, fund and support the State of Israel’s pogrom, with intelligence, logistics, material support, and military equipment.  And the Western corporate media, particularly the United States press, has come down almost universally on the side of the Israeli government.  Even America’s Palantir is said to be planning and organizing bombing raids and drone strikes… atrocities that would have, should have ceased long ago but for the complete ethical and moral collapse of the West. 

 

Just this week, Monday to be precise, Messrs. Carney, Macron, and Starmer… leaders of Canada, France, and the UK, respectively…  came forward with condemnation and threats to take “concrete steps” if Israel did not stop its military offensive and starvation campaign inside Gaza.  The leaders also took the opportunity to express support for formal recognition of Palestine and a two-state solution.  But as is often the case, the words ring hollow.  Why not announce recognition of Palestine, why not announce immediate support for splitting the State of Israel and Palestine in two or along U.N. recognized borders, along with a demand at the U.N. for an international peace keeping force?  The banker, Macron, has made plenty of observations about Israeli and Western barbarism before, expressed concerns, made recommendations with zero, or limited, follow through against the Israeli government (against Bibi’s reign, who is wanted for war crimes in the Hague).   

 

This week, here in Canada, the Globe and Mail tried to put a political spin on PM Mark Carney’s & friends’ condemnation and threats.  Carney, also a banker – see a pattern, was praised by the Globe and Mail (G&M) for showing independence from the United States and not toeing the Trump, Netanyahu party line.  The paper went onto to note, Carney will likely have scored points with the Global South, namely Brazil and South Africa, and greased the skids for election to the UN Security Council.  Who knows, G&M went onto to note:  ... “it‘s possible that Mr. Carney’s decision was also based on humanitarian concerns – that he was picking a fight on behalf of children and other helpless civilians.”  Gee, cast in this light… it’s as if the point of the entire exercise, from Team Carney, Macron, and Starmer, was about absolving themselves from obvious war crimes and scoring political points with the right countries and organizations.  Saving children and women, that’s an afterthought.

 

And in the UK, a country that has been providing air and weapons support for the American/Israeli genocide all these many months, was said to have held up on condemnation for political reasons.  Namely, that the Labour party had faced allegations of antisemitism during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership (which in retrospect, now looks increasingly like a smear campaign directed at, and to remove, the lefty, Corbyn).

 

In response to international pressure, Israeli leadership let less than ten trucks cross the border initially, at the same time the UN reported 14,000 babies are on the verge of starvation and death.  As of Friday, the Israeli government now claims about three hundred trucks have been permitted to cross into Gaza, after eleven weeks of Israeli blockade, but the UN claims only a third of those truck have actually delivered to warehouses and the trucks allowed in amount to a “teaspoon,” versus the aid that is required to turn the situation around.  Meanwhile, the bombing, murder, and mayhem from the United States and Israel continues.  The Israeli government and its military leadership are so unhinged that warning shots were fired at international diplomats, including Canadians, visiting the Jenin refugee camp.

 

Lost in all this was the thousands of Israeli citizens, and thousands of pilots, reservists, and troops protesting Bibi’s war and genocide, some refusing to serve.  Lost in all this is the majority of Israelis, now, want the hostages brought home and the war… ahem, genocide… to end, many fearful that Israel is now a pariah state.  There is rebellion brewing in Israeli society but one would not know this from American politicians and many of the American press, who still trot out the AIPAC/ADL party line, to wit: Israel has right to defend itself against terrorism and do you condemn Hamas.  No few in number repeating some of the vitriolic rhetoric used inside the Israeli Knesset itself.  Trump, of course, promised to end the war on the campaign trail but has supported Bibi’s ethnic cleansing campaign, since entering office.  And the latest wrinkle, just as Carney, Macron, and Starmer raised their voice this week and the media started to criticize the Israel gov, two employees of a Jewish Museum in Washington were gunned down.  Beyond a doubt a deplorable and repugnant act, but the American MSM and Netanyahu used the event, to once again conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism, as cover for America’s and Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.  Netanyahu has accused Carney, Macron, and Starmer of fueling antisemitism.

 

So just to recap, three world leaders (members of the G7) went on the offensive this week against the Israeli government and called out the campaign in Gaza and the West Bank, simultaneously, Western media seemed increasingly willing to criticize Israel’s genocide & draw attention to the man-made famine inside Gaza… moreover, Western diplomats were shot at this week by Israeli soldiers.  Israeli society also appears to have turned the corner, with the majority supporting an end to the war and bringing the hostages home.  And out of the blue comes the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers and the news cycle, seemingly, turns 180 degrees on a dime.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conveniently left out of all this by the American & much of the Western press, but widely covered in the Israeli MSM, are the events leading up to Oct 7 itself: Bibi’s fourteen years of support for Hamas; how Bibi, on trial for corruption charges and facing possible prison, had the most to gain from Oct 7; how the Hamas attack was launched from the Gaza concentration camp, under the Israeli government’s oversight, supervision, & control; how the Israeli government knew and was repeatedly warned of the pending attack for a up to a year in advance; and how Israel murdered its own under the Hannibal directive on October 7^th.  Arguably, the end goal of all these events was to stir up Israeli public support for destroying Palestinian homes & livelihoods, the pogrom aimed at Palestinian women & children, and annexing Gaza…  and with the aim, the clearest goal of all, propping up Netanyahu on the Israeli throne.  That’s right, so much of this ocean of blood is about gratifying the egos of diseased, old, white men.  All this, with blind deference by the American government, from the Biden and Trump administrations.

 

The world is watching, the complete ethical and moral collapse of Israel, the United States, and the West.  Bibi & the Western MSM uses the term, antisemitism, like a weapon to keep Western leadership in line, with the same expertise that the Israeli gov and artificial intelligence sends drones into Gaza to murder starving women and children in tents.  The term, antisemitism, has been completely weaponized by the entirely corrupt American and Israeli governments and Western MSM.  As for the tens of thousands of victims, including the two Israeli staffers, it’s clear that this is the natural outcome of a radical, white supremacist ideology called Zionism… a hate based belief system, not unlike America’s de facto policy of Manifest Destiny, colonialism, and hatred of indigenous peoples, globally, that goes on to this very day (but was clearly self-evident at the nation’s founding).  

 

Antisemitism has been deliberately conflated with Zionism and anti-Zionism, especially by the American and Israeli governments, so that allegations of same issuing forth from Netanyahu’s, Trump’s, or Biden’s mouths have been rendered a mere propaganda tool, a verbal assault weapon designed, purely, to keep the public & world leaders deferential and in full support of the Israeli state.  That is to say in some instances and some contexts, the word, antisemitism, has been rendered virtually meaningless.  The term, antisemitism… in the context of being used by Christian charismatics & evangelicals… likewise is used to provide cover, support, and drive fear for the continuation of the mass murder that is being live streamed throughout the world for going on two years.  And in American and Israeli leadership’s mind, strengthen the Zionist state.  (In the case of the extremists in America’s fascist, Christian charismatic & evangelical denominations, all of this is supported with the goal of bringing about the end times, the second coming.  Ideas and a genocide that are diametrically opposed to the teachings of Christ.  Christ would not condone the mass murder of women and children… is America’s evangelical Christian community insane?)

 

Make no mistake about it, real antisemitism, like all racism and islamophobia, is disgusting and must always be condemned.

 

However, condemnation and protest against Zionism, itself, like American & Western barbarism and colonialism, is entirely legitimate and should be encouraged, not attacked (which is why Trump’s crackdown on 1A and the Constitution are obscene).  Anti-Zionism, as the world is quickly discovering, is inevitable, given the ever-growing list of crimes and ever-rising body count of women & children inside Gaza and the West Bank and throughout the Middle East.  (By the way, none of this is news.  Analysts and scholars... like Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Norman Finkelstein, Erin Galvin, and Rania Khalek, and many other brave souls... have been condemning Zionism for abuse and as a fascist movement.  And they are one hundred percent correct.)

 

Antisemitism… along with Islamophobia, misogyny, & racism… must always be condemned.  And no small measure of the antisemitism that afflicts the world is the outcome of the American and Israeli governments’ deliberate policies in Palestine.  Arguably, the goal of antisemitic blowback is the de facto policy of the Israeli government, again to provide legitimacy or rationalization for decades of colonialism, genocide, and the Zionist project.  Antisemitism, fostered and produced by the State of Israel and the United States, as a direct result of government policy, leaves some of Jewish patrimony with the belief that Israel and Zionism are all that can be counted on and is their salvation.  Therefore, completing the cycle, the circle of Zionist violence.  In brief, Netanyahu uses racism directed at Jewish people as a weapon, a cudgel to keep Western leadership controlled and in line and to keep the Israeli public and those of Jewish ancestry fearful and in line.  But used in this capacity, dripping with misappropriation and hate, coming from both the American and Israel governments, ultimately, charges of antisemitism are no more powerful than Hitler or white supremacist ravings about Jews or “the other.”

 

At the end of the day, Zionism is political ideology no less virulent than white supremacy and right-wing nationalism, that uses antisemitism, Jewish people, the Holocaust, and the Jewish faith as shield for its colonial projects, extremism, & violence.  As such, it is time for the American, Israeli, and Western governments to be held fully accountable by the world, so that the plague of antisemitism and racism does not spread further.

 

And it’s time for world leaders… like Messrs. Carney, Macron, and Starmer… to actually walk the walk and not merely, talk the talk (for purposes of political expediency and to provide a smoke screen to hide their own special brand of cowardice).  Nothing less than the moral degradation & disintegration of the Western world, and any claims to moral superiority, are on full display… claims that are presently burning on the ash heap of history.

 

Finally, Israeli Zionists are not the only ones to claim victim status… take a look around, from White Supremacists to Conservatives and Christian evangelicals… many “leaders” are quick to sell fear & victimization as way to keep the flock frightened and in line, build up a political or religious following, and strengthen the leader's hold over their followers.

 

Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2025