Truth Jihad Radio

Blake Archer Williams, who studied with UC-Berkeley professor Hamid Algar, has published a long list of books on topics related to Shia Islam. Today he discusses his new (introduced and translated) book Rational and Scriptural Proofs for the Validity of the Principle of Majority Rule in Islam by Masʿūd Imāmī. We may also veer off on a political tangent by considering Pepe Escobar’s new review of Emanuel Todd’s new book The Defeat of the West.

Note: The first 40 minutes or so covers philosophy and religion, while in the final 15 minutes we turn to current events, including the genocide in Palestine and the defeat of the West.

This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

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This week’s False Flag Weekly News featured J. Michael Springmann and I discussing the historic story “Israel Busted For Genocide.” Needless to say, we sided with the prosecution.

Then last night I appeared on Charles Moscowitz’s podcast and heard Charles’ brief for the defense. Though I like Charles Moscowitz, and have a fair bit in common with him both philosophically and politically, I find his take on Zionism infuriating. Moscowitz’s new book The Anti-Semitic Imagination goes over a long list of “conspiracy theories” and absolves organized Jewry of involvement in pretty much all of them. Even the conspiracy to invade, occupy, and ethnically-cleanse Palestine, according to Moscowitz, is really the Palestinians’ fault. It’s also the fault of “radical jihadist Islam.” (Eyeball roll.)

Below are excerpts from the two conversations.

Kevin Barrett and J. Michael Springmann on Zionist genocide

Kevin Barrett: Here’s the top war crime story this week: South Africa is leading the prosecution of Israel for genocide in The Hague.

Sam Husseini (listen to our interview) has been tirelessly pushing this idea for months. Now it finally happened. Shout out to South Africa for making it happen.

South Africa presented the case for the prosecution last Thursday, and then Friday was Israel’s response. The prosecution’s five-point accusation included mass killings of Palestinians, bodily and mental harm, forced displacement, a food blockade, destruction of the health care system, and preventing Palestinian births. All of these fit the definition of genocide under international law.

J. Michael Springmann: I think South Africa has it right. Genocide was defined at the convention in 1948, which the Israelis signed and which they got because of the way the Europeans treated the Jews.

Now they're claiming that the Palestinians are engaging in genocide against them, when in actual fact the definition is along the lines of trying to wipe out or displace or remove by threats, by statements, by actions and by killings, a people or an ethnic group or a religious group.

That it pretty much fits the Palestinians. They're Muslims. They're a coherent group of people. The Zionists have been working on this since the 20s and 30s with Plan Dalet cooked up by David Ben-Gurion, one of the terrorist leaders of the Haganah. He became a prime minister and he pushed through the genocide, the Nakba, the Holocaust against the Palestinians, in 1948 and subsequently.

So I think the case is strong. The court has jurisdiction. The only problem is that it doesn't have any power to enforce its decisions.

Kevin Barrett: That's right. But every nation on earth can say that it is enforcing international law once the decision gets handed down. So that means that, for example, the Yemeni government led by the Houthis would have a strong case that it has the right to impose a blockade on the Zionist entity to stop the genocide.

And of course, that story has been heating up this week. We have had more drone attacks on Israeli oil tankers. And then the Americans went just yesterday and started bombing Yemen. There have been two rounds of bombings. They've hit dozens of targets in Yemen. And the Yemenis are up in arms. There is drone footage of millions of people titting the streets.

Messing with Yemen is not a smart move, as the Saudis learned to their chagrin about seven or eight years ago. So is this going to be another case of a relatively poor and not that heavily armed country like Afghanistan kicking Uncle Sam's butt?

J. Michael Springmann: I think so. They've done a good job of flooding the Red Sea, which may become the Iron Bottom Sea if they hit enough ships with their missiles and drones. The foolish Americans and the British and the Canadians and the Australians and the Dutch have got themselves in the middle of a hornet's nest.

The Yemenis are battle-tested. Tor 10 years they've been fighting the Saudis, backed by the United States, and the Saudis couldn't win, even though they bombed school buses and funeral processions and wedding receptions and so forth. So the Yemenis are tough, they have weapons, they're not stupid, they've repurposed some Scud missiles to improve them and fire them at the Saudis.

And of course the lamestream media controlled by the Zio-Nazis—that's an insult to the Nazis actually—they keep claiming that the Iranians are doing all this, the Iranians somehow are backing Hamas and Hezbollah and the Ansar Allah freedom fighters and the people in Iraq and people in Syria. And you think that Iran is this great octopus, but in fact the Americans and the British are creating more problems for themselves, and sooner or later the Houthis are going to hit some very expensive warships and kill a lot of sailors

Kevin Barrett: Yeah, and then all bets are off. It could be World War III for all we know. And one of the real shameful things about this is that the United States is officially at war, conducting an act of aggression against Yemen, bombing Yemen, killing people. They already killed Yemenis last week. And they're doing this to protect a genocide. That makes them war criminals of the highest order. And every American leader with any responsibility whatsoever for this needs to be tried, convicted, sentenced and hanged until dead.

Israel’s Massacre of Journalists

Kevin Barrett: The Washington Post is the Anglo-Zionist Empire's propaganda organ, and even they admit that there's a horrific massacre of journalists going on. Wael Al-Dahdouh just lost his son. He lost most of his family a month and a half ago. And now the Zionists just targeted a car that his son was riding in and murdered him, too. There was a really touching film of his wedding video, the son's wedding video, with Wael the Father celebrating the wedding. And now here he is with his son's corpse.

The Zionists have murdered over 100 journalists, according to the Palestinian authorities, and at least 79 according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. About one out of every 10 reporters in Gaza has been murdered by the Zionists. I guess maybe there's something they're trying to hide.

J. Michael Springmann: Yeah, they're trying to hide the truth. And if you notice in the picture there, as in all the other pictures, the journalists that have been murdered, like the Al Mayadeen journalist and her cameraman, were all wearing “PRESS” emblazoned across their their flak vest in English and Arabic on their helmets, and yet somehow that this makes them targets instead of protecting them from the crazed creatures that are occupying Palestine and attempting to destroy the rest of the world.

Kevin Barrett on Charles Moscowtiz’s Podcast (Excerpts)

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Charles Moscowitz: Kevin, thanks for joining me.

Kevin Barrett: Hey, it's good to be with you, Charles.

Charles Moscowitz: So before we get into the subjects of the day, I wouldn't mind hearing a little bit about your story and how you arrived at where you are in terms of writing a book like Truth Jihad, your point of view, how it is you became Muslim.

Kevin Barrett: It's kind of a long, convoluted story, but basically, I came from a family of lapsed Unitarians, and that's as lapsed as it gets. We didn't even go to church to sing Kumbaya.

Charles Moscowitz: Can I just interject briefly here, because I did, when I was on conventional radio, I used to do a segment on religions, and I'd have various people from all religions join me, and I had someone from the Unitarian Church join me. And I asked her, could you give me a thumbnail sketch on what it is that the Unitarians believe in? Are there any basic principles? And she said to me, funny, you should mention that we have a convention next month, we're going to be figuring that out.

Kevin Barrett: Well, I think they figured it out. And they said, “we don't have any principles.” They actually have an atheist minister now in Madison, Wisconsin, where I went to church maybe two or three times at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed church in Madison when I was a kid.

So I grew up in a very secular materialistic family, and I had spiritual experiences as a teenager, and knew there was a lot more to life than what the materialist paradigm was presenting. I read widely, looked into Buddhism as well as all sorts of other things when I was young, but I never really got monotheism. When my parents sent me to go to church with a Catholic next door neighbor to see what the Catholics do, it didn't make any sense to me at all. The notion of this patriarchal God with Jesus as his son who died as redemption for everybody else's sins, this whole story didn't make any sense to me. But at the same time, I understood that there's a real spiritual dimension to life. And so I looked into Buddhism, which did make a fair bit of sense.

And then in 1989 through the grace of God, what many would call a coincidence or synchronicity, I happened to walk into a class taught by Dr. Jacob Needleman (and wound up reading Traditionalist authors like Guénon, Schuon and Lings, who became Muslims because they understood that Islam was the best-preserved authentic revealed religion as well as the one that is most rationally defensible).

And the more I looked into it, the more I was convinced that that was the case. Islam also happened to have a very powerful mystical tradition and Sufism is a big part of that. And I very much related to that as well.

So that's how I came to Islam. I said, I better go study Arabic and Islamic studies to figure out what the heck I got myself into. So I went back to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent years learning Arabic and studying comparative religion and mostly Islam in the context of North Africa and Sufism.

I'd probably still be teaching that stuff today, except 9/11 happened. And in late 2003, I heard David Ray Griffin, one of my great heroes—he's a brilliant scholar, not so much a theologian as a guy who studies empirical reality and tries to figure out scientific questions—looked into 9/11.

I looked into it, and I saw they (the 9/11 truthers) were right. And so I was very angry and upset again, and I flashed back to my JFK days and said, am I going to spend 6 or 7 years getting tenure and just let this thing go? Hell no.

So I started doing teach-ins on the University of Wisconsin campus, became locally notorious. I had the first three mainstream pro-9/11 truth op-eds published in a mainstream newspaper in Madison, the Capital Times, and got involved in 9-11 Truth, brought Dr. Griffin to speak in Madison in 2005. I became kind of a figure in the 9/11 Truth movement.

And then in 2006, when the opposition research guys decided to try to shut down 9/11 truth, because they couldn't ignore it anymore, they came after me. And so I was basically beat up in mainstream media as “that evil 9/11 truth professor who's corrupting the youth of Athens.”

That made me permanently unemployable in the American academy. I lost a tenure-track job as well as any other possibility of employment. And so since then I've just been a freelance troublemaker and alternative media type guy like you.

Charles Moscowitz: Exactly. And I think that people generally are coming around to viewing 9/11 as having more to it than what we were conventionally fed by the media.

And in my own experience, when I ran for Congress in 2004 against Barney Frank, I discovered that he had authored this amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act, which basically forbade the United States from denying visas to people who were involved in terrorist activities. And it also had the effect of preventing all of our various so-called national security agencies from talking to each other and exchanging information, which, you know, led me to think that there's something bigger going on here. There was some kind of an establishment agenda…

I discovered… there is a peaceful element, or at least an element within Islam, as expressed by the Mufti of Rome, Palasi, who says that Islamic texts, including the Quran and the Hadith, they recognize the, quote, people of the book, which is the Islamic word for the Jews, as being sovereign in that tiny little swath of beachfront known as Israel. And that there's a religious side to that in that such sovereignty will result in the… I mean, I suppose it's similar to Christianity in the coming of the Mahdi or the coming of the final prophet and the ushering in of a messianic era.

And his work has not been refuted by Islamic scholars.

I don't think it's certainly the mainstream.

But I'm wondering what you think of that, and will you lie, will you come down on that question?

Kevin Barrett: Well, you and I actually, Charles, are on totally polar opposite sides of that question, even though maybe our philosophical framework isn't so different. That is, your ideas about the core values of Judaism, which I respect as the core values of Islam and indeed all monotheism…

(But) I couldn't come up with somebody who more exemplifies what I would say is the absolutely, just utterly wrong position on Zionism, as you.

My view of it—and I realize this is probably going to sound shocking or strange to you— agrees with Sheikh Imran Hussein's interpretation of eschatology. And essentially, as I see it, Charles, Zionism is Antichrist or Dajjal. It's a false messiah.

I think that it began with Shabtai Zvi and Jacob Frank, who you agree are false messiahs and false prophets. And I agree with the Neturei Karta people from the Jewish viewpoint that God is asking all of us to be the best people that we can and to offer complete and perfect justice to everybody regardless of their nominal faith or ethnicity or religious affiliation or what have you. And I think Zionism is an expression of a pernicious and toxic Jewish supremacism that has been part of the shadow side of the Jewish faith.

And from a Muslim perspective, we would say that emerges in part because of what we see as inaccuracies in the Torah, leading to abominations in the Talmud.

And I think that the notion of a chosen people is, well, problematic. Of course, it can be interpreted in a way that encourages good behavior, which is your interpretation, and I honor that. But it also lends itself to interpretations that basically create a kind of supremacism that denies the rights of others and denies the viewpoints of others.

And I think your book's approach to Zionism horrifically denies the viewpoint and the rights and the human dignity of others, non-Zionists and non-Jews, especially Palestinians, who are the victims of genocide. And they didn’t start being the victims of genocide on October 7th. The’ve been victims of genocide nonstop ever since the earliest Zionists, who were mostly atheists and satanists, showed up in Palestine with a supremacist attitude. Rather than being immigrants who were going to work with the local people and help them and be part of their community, these people were supremacists who said, “it's going to be a Jewish state. Jews are going to rule. Jews are the chosen people here. And we're ultimately going to have to expel these native Palestinians.” And all the founders of Zionism knew they were going to have to commit genocide, that is expel, destroy, the local Palestinian community.

Now that’s unacceptable, Charles. And I’ll tell you one of the reasons why. Not only because it requires genocide against the Palestinians, but also because that holy land is holy to all of us. It’s holy to Christians, to Jews, and to Muslims. Whoever has custody over that land has to administer it with perfect justice for all faiths. No special dispensations for any faith.

The monotheists today consist of about 15 million Jews, 2 billion Muslims, and 3 billion Christians. So there are five billion monotheists today (who honor Abraham and the prophets) who are Muslim and Christian. And there are 15 million who are Jewish. All of those five billion plus people have equal rights to being equal citizens in every possible sense in that holy land.

If I said, “it should be a Muslim state in which only Muslims are allowed to immigrate there, only Muslims are allowed to have the best property, Muslims are going to put up checkpoints so all the non-Muslims basically have to go through apartheid checkpoints to go to the store every day, Muslims are going to be shooting non-Muslim children for sport, which happens on a regular basis in Israel as the Israeli Defense Forces literally murder Palestinian children for sport on a constant basis and never face any consequences…

If the Muslims acted like this against the Jews and the Christians in that holy land, it would be an abomination.

So, the fact that this grotesquely deluded and egotistical and egocentric and arguably tribally psychopathic group of 15 million of the world's 5 billion monotheists has seen fit to invade the Holy Land and commit genocide against the people who live there and erect a supremacist, apartheid, genocidal entity there and call it some kind of quasi-messianic entity and bow down and worship this genocidal entity as a golden calf–that's Antichrist, that's Dajjal, that's the False Prophet, that's another Shabtai Zvi.

So I think that you've made a terrible mistake. I think you're a good man, I think your basic values are good. But I think you've made a horrific mistake by grossly misinterpreting Israel, reading the history from a very, very biased viewpoint, an utterly one-sided viewpoint, that denies the story of the other, denies the humanity of the other, denies the facts that we all should be agreeing on, and instead replaces them with big lies and propaganda that are completely false about the history of what's happened there.

(How did Charles Moscowitz respond? Listen to the full podcast)

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

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This week’s False Flag Weekly News featured J. Michael Springmann and I discussing the historic story “Israel Busted For Genocide.” Needless to say, we sided with the prosecution.

Then last night I appeared on Charles Moscowitz’s podcast and heard Charles’ brief for the defense. Though I like Charles Moscowitz, and have a fair bit in common with him both philosophically and politically, I find his take on Zionism infuriating. Moscowitz’s new book The Anti-Semitic Imagination goes over a long list of “conspiracy theories” and absolves organized Jewry of involvement in pretty much all of them. Even the conspiracy to invade, occupy, and ethnically-cleanse Palestine, according to Moscowitz, is really the Palestinians’ fault. It’s also the fault of “radical jihadist Islam.” (Eyeball roll.)

Below are excerpts from the two conversations.

Kevin Barrett and J. Michael Springmann on Zionist genocide

Kevin Barrett: Here’s the top war crime story this week: South Africa is leading the prosecution of Israel for genocide in The Hague.

Sam Husseini (listen to our interview) has been tirelessly pushing this idea for months. Now it finally happened. Shout out to South Africa for making it happen.

South Africa presented the case for the prosecution last Thursday, and then Friday was Israel’s response. The prosecution’s five-point accusation included mass killings of Palestinians, bodily and mental harm, forced displacement, a food blockade, destruction of the health care system, and preventing Palestinian births. All of these fit the definition of genocide under international law.

J. Michael Springmann: I think South Africa has it right. Genocide was defined at the convention in 1948, which the Israelis signed and which they got because of the way the Europeans treated the Jews.

Now they're claiming that the Palestinians are engaging in genocide against them, when in actual fact the definition is along the lines of trying to wipe out or displace or remove by threats, by statements, by actions and by killings, a people or an ethnic group or a religious group.

That it pretty much fits the Palestinians. They're Muslims. They're a coherent group of people. The Zionists have been working on this since the 20s and 30s with Plan Dalet cooked up by David Ben-Gurion, one of the terrorist leaders of the Haganah. He became a prime minister and he pushed through the genocide, the Nakba, the Holocaust against the Palestinians, in 1948 and subsequently.

So I think the case is strong. The court has jurisdiction. The only problem is that it doesn't have any power to enforce its decisions.

Kevin Barrett: That's right. But every nation on earth can say that it is enforcing international law once the decision gets handed down. So that means that, for example, the Yemeni government led by the Houthis would have a strong case that it has the right to impose a blockade on the Zionist entity to stop the genocide.

And of course, that story has been heating up this week. We have had more drone attacks on Israeli oil tankers. And then the Americans went just yesterday and started bombing Yemen. There have been two rounds of bombings. They've hit dozens of targets in Yemen. And the Yemenis are up in arms. There is drone footage of millions of people titting the streets.

Messing with Yemen is not a smart move, as the Saudis learned to their chagrin about seven or eight years ago. So is this going to be another case of a relatively poor and not that heavily armed country like Afghanistan kicking Uncle Sam's butt?

J. Michael Springmann: I think so. They've done a good job of flooding the Red Sea, which may become the Iron Bottom Sea if they hit enough ships with their missiles and drones. The foolish Americans and the British and the Canadians and the Australians and the Dutch have got themselves in the middle of a hornet's nest.

The Yemenis are battle-tested. Tor 10 years they've been fighting the Saudis, backed by the United States, and the Saudis couldn't win, even though they bombed school buses and funeral processions and wedding receptions and so forth. So the Yemenis are tough, they have weapons, they're not stupid, they've repurposed some Scud missiles to improve them and fire them at the Saudis.

And of course the lamestream media controlled by the Zio-Nazis—that's an insult to the Nazis actually—they keep claiming that the Iranians are doing all this, the Iranians somehow are backing Hamas and Hezbollah and the Ansar Allah freedom fighters and the people in Iraq and people in Syria. And you think that Iran is this great octopus, but in fact the Americans and the British are creating more problems for themselves, and sooner or later the Houthis are going to hit some very expensive warships and kill a lot of sailors

Kevin Barrett: Yeah, and then all bets are off. It could be World War III for all we know. And one of the real shameful things about this is that the United States is officially at war, conducting an act of aggression against Yemen, bombing Yemen, killing people. They already killed Yemenis last week. And they're doing this to protect a genocide. That makes them war criminals of the highest order. And every American leader with any responsibility whatsoever for this needs to be tried, convicted, sentenced and hanged until dead.

Israel’s Massacre of Journalists

Kevin Barrett: The Washington Post is the Anglo-Zionist Empire's propaganda organ, and even they admit that there's a horrific massacre of journalists going on. Wael Al-Dahdouh just lost his son. He lost most of his family a month and a half ago. And now the Zionists just targeted a car that his son was riding in and murdered him, too. There was a really touching film of his wedding video, the son's wedding video, with Wael the Father celebrating the wedding. And now here he is with his son's corpse.

The Zionists have murdered over 100 journalists, according to the Palestinian authorities, and at least 79 according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. About one out of every 10 reporters in Gaza has been murdered by the Zionists. I guess maybe there's something they're trying to hide.

J. Michael Springmann: Yeah, they're trying to hide the truth. And if you notice in the picture there, as in all the other pictures, the journalists that have been murdered, like the Al Mayadeen journalist and her cameraman, were all wearing “PRESS” emblazoned across their their flak vest in English and Arabic on their helmets, and yet somehow that this makes them targets instead of protecting them from the crazed creatures that are occupying Palestine and attempting to destroy the rest of the world.

Kevin Barrett on Charles Moscowtiz’s Podcast (Excerpts)

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Charles Moscowitz: Kevin, thanks for joining me.

Kevin Barrett: Hey, it's good to be with you, Charles.

Charles Moscowitz: So before we get into the subjects of the day, I wouldn't mind hearing a little bit about your story and how you arrived at where you are in terms of writing a book like Truth Jihad, your point of view, how it is you became Muslim.

Kevin Barrett: It's kind of a long, convoluted story, but basically, I came from a family of lapsed Unitarians, and that's as lapsed as it gets. We didn't even go to church to sing Kumbaya.

Charles Moscowitz: Can I just interject briefly here, because I did, when I was on conventional radio, I used to do a segment on religions, and I'd have various people from all religions join me, and I had someone from the Unitarian Church join me. And I asked her, could you give me a thumbnail sketch on what it is that the Unitarians believe in? Are there any basic principles? And she said to me, funny, you should mention that we have a convention next month, we're going to be figuring that out.

Kevin Barrett: Well, I think they figured it out. And they said, “we don't have any principles.” They actually have an atheist minister now in Madison, Wisconsin, where I went to church maybe two or three times at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed church in Madison when I was a kid.

So I grew up in a very secular materialistic family, and I had spiritual experiences as a teenager, and knew there was a lot more to life than what the materialist paradigm was presenting. I read widely, looked into Buddhism as well as all sorts of other things when I was young, but I never really got monotheism. When my parents sent me to go to church with a Catholic next door neighbor to see what the Catholics do, it didn't make any sense to me at all. The notion of this patriarchal God with Jesus as his son who died as redemption for everybody else's sins, this whole story didn't make any sense to me. But at the same time, I understood that there's a real spiritual dimension to life. And so I looked into Buddhism, which did make a fair bit of sense.

And then in 1989 through the grace of God, what many would call a coincidence or synchronicity, I happened to walk into a class taught by Dr. Jacob Needleman (and wound up reading Traditionalist authors like Guénon, Schuon and Lings, who became Muslims because they understood that Islam was the best-preserved authentic revealed religion as well as the one that is most rationally defensible).

And the more I looked into it, the more I was convinced that that was the case. Islam also happened to have a very powerful mystical tradition and Sufism is a big part of that. And I very much related to that as well.

So that's how I came to Islam. I said, I better go study Arabic and Islamic studies to figure out what the heck I got myself into. So I went back to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent years learning Arabic and studying comparative religion and mostly Islam in the context of North Africa and Sufism.

I'd probably still be teaching that stuff today, except 9/11 happened. And in late 2003, I heard David Ray Griffin, one of my great heroes—he's a brilliant scholar, not so much a theologian as a guy who studies empirical reality and tries to figure out scientific questions—looked into 9/11.

I looked into it, and I saw they (the 9/11 truthers) were right. And so I was very angry and upset again, and I flashed back to my JFK days and said, am I going to spend 6 or 7 years getting tenure and just let this thing go? Hell no.

So I started doing teach-ins on the University of Wisconsin campus, became locally notorious. I had the first three mainstream pro-9/11 truth op-eds published in a mainstream newspaper in Madison, the Capital Times, and got involved in 9-11 Truth, brought Dr. Griffin to speak in Madison in 2005. I became kind of a figure in the 9/11 Truth movement.

And then in 2006, when the opposition research guys decided to try to shut down 9/11 truth, because they couldn't ignore it anymore, they came after me. And so I was basically beat up in mainstream media as “that evil 9/11 truth professor who's corrupting the youth of Athens.”

That made me permanently unemployable in the American academy. I lost a tenure-track job as well as any other possibility of employment. And so since then I've just been a freelance troublemaker and alternative media type guy like you.

Charles Moscowitz: Exactly. And I think that people generally are coming around to viewing 9/11 as having more to it than what we were conventionally fed by the media.

And in my own experience, when I ran for Congress in 2004 against Barney Frank, I discovered that he had authored this amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act, which basically forbade the United States from denying visas to people who were involved in terrorist activities. And it also had the effect of preventing all of our various so-called national security agencies from talking to each other and exchanging information, which, you know, led me to think that there's something bigger going on here. There was some kind of an establishment agenda…

I discovered… there is a peaceful element, or at least an element within Islam, as expressed by the Mufti of Rome, Palasi, who says that Islamic texts, including the Quran and the Hadith, they recognize the, quote, people of the book, which is the Islamic word for the Jews, as being sovereign in that tiny little swath of beachfront known as Israel. And that there's a religious side to that in that such sovereignty will result in the… I mean, I suppose it's similar to Christianity in the coming of the Mahdi or the coming of the final prophet and the ushering in of a messianic era.

And his work has not been refuted by Islamic scholars.

I don't think it's certainly the mainstream.

But I'm wondering what you think of that, and will you lie, will you come down on that question?

Kevin Barrett: Well, you and I actually, Charles, are on totally polar opposite sides of that question, even though maybe our philosophical framework isn't so different. That is, your ideas about the core values of Judaism, which I respect as the core values of Islam and indeed all monotheism…

(But) I couldn't come up with somebody who more exemplifies what I would say is the absolutely, just utterly wrong position on Zionism, as you.

My view of it—and I realize this is probably going to sound shocking or strange to you— agrees with Sheikh Imran Hussein's interpretation of eschatology. And essentially, as I see it, Charles, Zionism is Antichrist or Dajjal. It's a false messiah.

I think that it began with Shabtai Zvi and Jacob Frank, who you agree are false messiahs and false prophets. And I agree with the Neturei Karta people from the Jewish viewpoint that God is asking all of us to be the best people that we can and to offer complete and perfect justice to everybody regardless of their nominal faith or ethnicity or religious affiliation or what have you. And I think Zionism is an expression of a pernicious and toxic Jewish supremacism that has been part of the shadow side of the Jewish faith.

And from a Muslim perspective, we would say that emerges in part because of what we see as inaccuracies in the Torah, leading to abominations in the Talmud.

And I think that the notion of a chosen people is, well, problematic. Of course, it can be interpreted in a way that encourages good behavior, which is your interpretation, and I honor that. But it also lends itself to interpretations that basically create a kind of supremacism that denies the rights of others and denies the viewpoints of others.

And I think your book's approach to Zionism horrifically denies the viewpoint and the rights and the human dignity of others, non-Zionists and non-Jews, especially Palestinians, who are the victims of genocide. And they didn’t start being the victims of genocide on October 7th. The’ve been victims of genocide nonstop ever since the earliest Zionists, who were mostly atheists and satanists, showed up in Palestine with a supremacist attitude. Rather than being immigrants who were going to work with the local people and help them and be part of their community, these people were supremacists who said, “it's going to be a Jewish state. Jews are going to rule. Jews are the chosen people here. And we're ultimately going to have to expel these native Palestinians.” And all the founders of Zionism knew they were going to have to commit genocide, that is expel, destroy, the local Palestinian community.

Now that’s unacceptable, Charles. And I’ll tell you one of the reasons why. Not only because it requires genocide against the Palestinians, but also because that holy land is holy to all of us. It’s holy to Christians, to Jews, and to Muslims. Whoever has custody over that land has to administer it with perfect justice for all faiths. No special dispensations for any faith.

The monotheists today consist of about 15 million Jews, 2 billion Muslims, and 3 billion Christians. So there are five billion monotheists today (who honor Abraham and the prophets) who are Muslim and Christian. And there are 15 million who are Jewish. All of those five billion plus people have equal rights to being equal citizens in every possible sense in that holy land.

If I said, “it should be a Muslim state in which only Muslims are allowed to immigrate there, only Muslims are allowed to have the best property, Muslims are going to put up checkpoints so all the non-Muslims basically have to go through apartheid checkpoints to go to the store every day, Muslims are going to be shooting non-Muslim children for sport, which happens on a regular basis in Israel as the Israeli Defense Forces literally murder Palestinian children for sport on a constant basis and never face any consequences…

If the Muslims acted like this against the Jews and the Christians in that holy land, it would be an abomination.

So, the fact that this grotesquely deluded and egotistical and egocentric and arguably tribally psychopathic group of 15 million of the world's 5 billion monotheists has seen fit to invade the Holy Land and commit genocide against the people who live there and erect a supremacist, apartheid, genocidal entity there and call it some kind of quasi-messianic entity and bow down and worship this genocidal entity as a golden calf–that's Antichrist, that's Dajjal, that's the False Prophet, that's another Shabtai Zvi.

So I think that you've made a terrible mistake. I think you're a good man, I think your basic values are good. But I think you've made a horrific mistake by grossly misinterpreting Israel, reading the history from a very, very biased viewpoint, an utterly one-sided viewpoint, that denies the story of the other, denies the humanity of the other, denies the facts that we all should be agreeing on, and instead replaces them with big lies and propaganda that are completely false about the history of what's happened there.

(How did Charles Moscowitz respond? Listen to the full podcast)

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Ron Unz‘s new article “American Pravda: Israel and the Holocaust Hoax” opens with a review of Tom Segev’s The Seventh Million: Israel and the Holocaust. Unz notes that Segev’s research confirms Lenni Brenner’s argument that intense Nazi-Zionist cooperation throughout the 1930s set the stage for the creation of Israel. But Segev’s account of the Holocaust draws heavily on such highly dubious sources as the sadomasochistic fantasist and “Auschwitz survivor”  Yehiel De-Nur, whose ludicrously pornographic accounts of life in the camps were eagerly devoured by the founding generation of Israel.

Unz notes:

“In reading Segev’s account of the role of the Holocaust in Israeli society and the sort of outrageous Holocaust stories that dominated the narrative in that country, I couldn’t avoid noticing a strong connection to much more recent events.

“The surprisingly successful Hamas attack on October 7th was deeply embarrassing to the Israelis, and pro-Israel propagandists soon began heavily emphasizing ridiculous hoaxes such as the claims of forty beheaded babies or a baby roasted in an oven. All of these frauds were provided by extremely disreputable characters, but eagerly accepted and promoted by leading Western political elites and media outlets.”

Is the canonical account of the Holocaust, like the “beheaded and roasted babies” myths of October 7, the product of mentally disturbed fantasists like Yehiel De-Nur and Yossi Landau? Is there something about Jewish culture that favors the production of sadomasochistic fantasy as a response to tribal trauma? And/or something about Jewish power that forces the whole Western world to accept such insane fantasies as historical reality? Let’s ask Ron Unz…

Links to free Unz ebooks:

Holocaust Denial

Jews and Nazis

Understanding World War II

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Ron Unz‘s new article “American Pravda: Israel and the Holocaust Hoax” opens with a review of Tom Segev’s The Seventh Million: Israel and the Holocaust. Unz notes that Segev’s research confirms Lenni Brenner’s argument that intense Nazi-Zionist cooperation throughout the 1930s set the stage for the creation of Israel. But Segev’s account of the Holocaust draws heavily on such highly dubious sources as the sadomasochistic fantasist and “Auschwitz survivor”  Yehiel De-Nur, whose ludicrously pornographic accounts of life in the camps were eagerly devoured by the founding generation of Israel.

Unz notes:

“In reading Segev’s account of the role of the Holocaust in Israeli society and the sort of outrageous Holocaust stories that dominated the narrative in that country, I couldn’t avoid noticing a strong connection to much more recent events.

“The surprisingly successful Hamas attack on October 7th was deeply embarrassing to the Israelis, and pro-Israel propagandists soon began heavily emphasizing ridiculous hoaxes such as the claims of forty beheaded babies or a baby roasted in an oven. All of these frauds were provided by extremely disreputable characters, but eagerly accepted and promoted by leading Western political elites and media outlets.”

Is the canonical account of the Holocaust, like the “beheaded and roasted babies” myths of October 7, the product of mentally disturbed fantasists like Yehiel De-Nur and Yossi Landau? Is there something about Jewish culture that favors the production of sadomasochistic fantasy as a response to tribal trauma? And/or something about Jewish power that forces the whole Western world to accept such insane fantasies as historical reality? Let’s ask Ron Unz…

Links to free Unz ebooks:

Holocaust Denial

Jews and Nazis

Understanding World War II

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Scientist Josh Mitteldorf, trained in physics and accomplished in biology, is not afraid to ask taboo questions about such incendiary issues as UFOs, ESP, free energy, weaponized weather, hidden history, and of course the kinds of political conspiracies discussed on this show. Among his recent posts is “Anomalies, mysteries, conspiracies…maybe they are all related.” It ends with this remarkable hypothesis:

“The story of our universe is the story of Consciousness creating a domain for itself and a playground for its myriad dissociated aspects. A very particular set of scientific laws was needed to make life possible, and the kind of life we know, based on our particular chemistry of nucleotides and proteins, is unique. Maybe the Earth was seeded with life by alien civilizations billions of years ago, and humans were created as a hybrid species several million years ago. Since then, various ET tribes have clashed in their plans for earthlings. Some want to enslave us, and appear to us as gods to be worshiped, or make deals with our leaders, giving them technology in exchange for fealty. Others want to empower humanity and see where we will go on our own. The present era is one in which these forces have come to a head. The enslavers (following Enlil) have superior mechanical technology, and have traded this to a group of humans that have vast underground bases with anti-gravity and zero-point energy technologies. The liberators (following Enki) have superior mental technologies and have been leading our psyches toward emergent transcendence, even as the enslavers are making every effort to damage our nervous systems and poison our cultures so that we do not have the spiritual capacities that would support our transcendence. The fundamental tension that makes life interesting is between Yin and Yang, Right brain and Left brain, Female and Male, cooperation and competition, Satan and Jehovah, Prometheus and Atlas, Enki and Enlil.”

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Scientist Josh Mitteldorf, trained in physics and accomplished in biology, is not afraid to ask taboo questions about such incendiary issues as UFOs, ESP, free energy, weaponized weather, hidden history, and of course the kinds of political conspiracies discussed on this show. Among his recent posts is “Anomalies, mysteries, conspiracies…maybe they are all related.” It ends with this remarkable hypothesis:

“The story of our universe is the story of Consciousness creating a domain for itself and a playground for its myriad dissociated aspects. A very particular set of scientific laws was needed to make life possible, and the kind of life we know, based on our particular chemistry of nucleotides and proteins, is unique. Maybe the Earth was seeded with life by alien civilizations billions of years ago, and humans were created as a hybrid species several million years ago. Since then, various ET tribes have clashed in their plans for earthlings. Some want to enslave us, and appear to us as gods to be worshiped, or make deals with our leaders, giving them technology in exchange for fealty. Others want to empower humanity and see where we will go on our own. The present era is one in which these forces have come to a head. The enslavers (following Enlil) have superior mechanical technology, and have traded this to a group of humans that have vast underground bases with anti-gravity and zero-point energy technologies. The liberators (following Enki) have superior mental technologies and have been leading our psyches toward emergent transcendence, even as the enslavers are making every effort to damage our nervous systems and poison our cultures so that we do not have the spiritual capacities that would support our transcendence. The fundamental tension that makes life interesting is between Yin and Yang, Right brain and Left brain, Female and Male, cooperation and competition, Satan and Jehovah, Prometheus and Atlas, Enki and Enlil.”

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Broadcast live on Ofogh TV, Tehran, Monday, January 8, 6pm GMT

Ofogh TV: Hello, Mr. Kevin Barrett, I hope you are all right. How are you?

Kevin Barrett: It's good to be with you. Thank you. I'm doing well.

Ofogh TV: Mr. Barrett, three Ministers of the Zionist regime are threatening that they will not be present in Netanyahu's cabinet meeting. What is your comment?

Kevin Barrett: There is a crisis in Netanyahu's government. There's a split between the Zionist faction associated with the Supreme Court and the Rothschild banking empire, and the fanatical settler movement around Netanyahu. And that split has worsened during the past week.

The possibility of an investigation of the events of October 7th has reached a point that it can't be denied. And likewise, the Zionists are losing on the battlefield. They're unable to make significant military gains. All they can accomplish is mass murdering civilians. And now they are being prosecuted in the World Court for genocide. Israel is in a desperate situation, and this conflict in its government is reaching a crisis level. And that's one reason that Israel is lashing out with terrorist attacks and assassinations.

Ofogh TV: Recently, Zionists have been talking about another phase of war. What do they mean when they are talking about third phase of war, another phase of war? What is your comment?

Kevin Barrett: I think that the Zionists have been told by various world powers that they cannot continue to mass murder the people of Gaza the way they have been doing it for the past three months. And so they have to imagine a different way of of pursuing their objectives. The Netanyahu faction would like to finish killing and expelling the people of Gaza and later the West Bank. But I think that both a faction in Israel and the majority faction even in the Western countries opposes this. And of course the world opposes it as well. So they're admitting that what they've done thus far has failed. But they can't admit it directly. So they are simply saying that "we're going to do something different." And I think Netanyahu is still trying to provoke a wider war in the region to save his political career. And the other faction is trying to prevent him from doing that.

Ofogh TV: My last question, Mr. Barrett. The Zionist regime is continuing its terror policy. Please tell us your anticipation about the destiny of the war and this terror by the Zionist regime.

Kevin Barrett: The Zionists are failing militarily, so all they can do is mass murder civilians and conduct assassinations and terror attacks, such as the horrific slaughter at the anniversary of General Qassem Soleimani's martyrdom in Kerman. So they're they're desperate. They they can't "get their hostages back" and they can't "defeat Hamas." And those are their two stated objectives in this war. Since they have failed in achieving those objectives, they're going to have to find a way to back down. But Netanyahu can't back down. He's the one who framed those hopeless, impossible objectives. So he is trying to turn this into a bigger regional war that would allow him and his extremist friends to kill and expel more Palestinians. And that's what he's trying to achieve. But the whole world is against that. So whether the radical extremist faction around Netanyahu is capable of defying the entire world and provoking an even bigger war in order to accelerate their genocide remains to be seen.

Ofogh TV: Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Kevin Barrett. Thank you very much indeed.

Kevin Barrett: Thank you.

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Broadcast live on Ofogh TV, Tehran, Monday, January 8, 6pm GMT

Ofogh TV: Hello, Mr. Kevin Barrett, I hope you are all right. How are you?

Kevin Barrett: It's good to be with you. Thank you. I'm doing well.

Ofogh TV: Mr. Barrett, three Ministers of the Zionist regime are threatening that they will not be present in Netanyahu's cabinet meeting. What is your comment?

Kevin Barrett: There is a crisis in Netanyahu's government. There's a split between the Zionist faction associated with the Supreme Court and the Rothschild banking empire, and the fanatical settler movement around Netanyahu. And that split has worsened during the past week.

The possibility of an investigation of the events of October 7th has reached a point that it can't be denied. And likewise, the Zionists are losing on the battlefield. They're unable to make significant military gains. All they can accomplish is mass murdering civilians. And now they are being prosecuted in the World Court for genocide. Israel is in a desperate situation, and this conflict in its government is reaching a crisis level. And that's one reason that Israel is lashing out with terrorist attacks and assassinations.

Ofogh TV: Recently, Zionists have been talking about another phase of war. What do they mean when they are talking about third phase of war, another phase of war? What is your comment?

Kevin Barrett: I think that the Zionists have been told by various world powers that they cannot continue to mass murder the people of Gaza the way they have been doing it for the past three months. And so they have to imagine a different way of of pursuing their objectives. The Netanyahu faction would like to finish killing and expelling the people of Gaza and later the West Bank. But I think that both a faction in Israel and the majority faction even in the Western countries opposes this. And of course the world opposes it as well. So they're admitting that what they've done thus far has failed. But they can't admit it directly. So they are simply saying that "we're going to do something different." And I think Netanyahu is still trying to provoke a wider war in the region to save his political career. And the other faction is trying to prevent him from doing that.

Ofogh TV: My last question, Mr. Barrett. The Zionist regime is continuing its terror policy. Please tell us your anticipation about the destiny of the war and this terror by the Zionist regime.

Kevin Barrett: The Zionists are failing militarily, so all they can do is mass murder civilians and conduct assassinations and terror attacks, such as the horrific slaughter at the anniversary of General Qassem Soleimani's martyrdom in Kerman. So they're they're desperate. They they can't "get their hostages back" and they can't "defeat Hamas." And those are their two stated objectives in this war. Since they have failed in achieving those objectives, they're going to have to find a way to back down. But Netanyahu can't back down. He's the one who framed those hopeless, impossible objectives. So he is trying to turn this into a bigger regional war that would allow him and his extremist friends to kill and expel more Palestinians. And that's what he's trying to achieve. But the whole world is against that. So whether the radical extremist faction around Netanyahu is capable of defying the entire world and provoking an even bigger war in order to accelerate their genocide remains to be seen.

Ofogh TV: Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Kevin Barrett. Thank you very much indeed.

Kevin Barrett: Thank you.

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I finally figured out why Alan Dershowitz is such a good defense lawyer. He thinks like a cornered rat.

A cornered rat, like a psychopath who has been caught, shifts into frenzied overdrive in search of an escape route. That’s what Dersh’s mind does, but in the world of legal strategems rather than the physical world. Even if the state has his client dead to rights, Dersh will put up a maniacally vicious fight, biting and clawing in search of an exit.

It would be unfair to say that there is something vaguely ratlike about Dershowitz’s physiognomy. Yet if you search Google Images for “Alan Dershowitz rat” you can’t help but notice a certain resemblance.

Comparing humans to vermin isn’t very nice. In this case, it’s an insult to vermin.

Dershowitz has been defending Israel’s slow-motion genocide of Palestine for decades. Now that the genocide is accelerating, so is Dersh’s genocide advocacy. He is currently under consideration to lead Israel’s defense against charges of genocide brought by South Africa.

Coincidentally, the day after Dersh was named as potential lead defender of genocide, his name showed up 137 times in a newly-released batch of Jeffrey Epstein papers. Compare that to Bill Clinton’s 73 mentions and Donald Trump’s four.

Previously, Dershowitz’s defense against charges of abusing sex-trafficked underage girls was “I kept my underwear on.” Now he says the only people objecting to his apparent involvement in rape, statutory rape, blackmail, and treason are “radical feminists”:

“Where are all those radical feminists when it comes to the Hamas rapes of young Jewish girls, sexual abuse, beheadings?”

That’s a classic example of the “cornered rat defense.” When the prosecution has you nailed seven ways from Sunday, start screaming outrageous lies about the imaginary crimes of your enemy, which (you claim) are much worse than your own. That’s undoubtedly the defense the ratlike lawyer will employ to defend his ten-thousand-ton rabid rat client, the genocidal pseudo-state of Israel.

Israel as Cornered Rat

Cornered rats, of course, can be dangerous. Especially ten-thousand-ton rabid ones.

That is the lesson we learned last week, as Israel was forced into a corner by several adverse developments:

*The US sent home its lead aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford., sending a message to Israel: “Sorry, we’re not going to all-out war with Iran for you.”

*The Israeli Supreme Court dealt wannabe-dictator Bibi a body blow, striking down his “no judicial review” law.

*The Economist, flagship for the Rothschild-and-friends banking empire that also controls the Israeli Supreme Court, called for Bibi’s head on a platter, saying he had “botched” the war.

*Facing the obvious fact that it can’t “defeat Hamas and free the hostages” Israel announced a major pullout from Gaza.

But the cornered rat immediately lashed out:

*Using its fake-Islamic militia ISIS, Israel murdered almost 100 innocent Iranians in a terrorist attack on the annual mourning ceremony for the martyred General Soleimani.

*The Zionist rats bombed a building in Beirut, murdering Hamas’s hostage negotiator, Saleh al-Arouri. (The clear message: “We don’t want our stinkin’ hostages back!”)

*A whole chorus of Israeli leaders called for a “voluntary migration” of Palestinians — whose homes, water and electricity and sewage systems, markets, hospitals, and pretty much everything else Israel has destroyed — to…get this…the Congo!

Congo, of course, is the poster-nation for genocide. Belgian genocidaires killed more than 10 million people there under Leopold II. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness tagline, “exterminate all the brutes,” became the title of the greatest book on genocide ever written which later become an HBO series.

So when the cornered Israeli rat squeals “send them to the Congo” the translation is “send them to the gas chambers.”

Israel has become openly, nakedly, unashamedly genocidal. By murdering 30,000 innocent Palestinians and destroying their means of life in an effort to cause so much pain and suffering that the survivors, assuming there are any, will be compelled to leave their homeland, Israel has unmasked itself as a rabid rat that the whole world can see needs to be exterminated.

Unfortunately this cornered rabid rat has nuclear weapons. The world needs to find a way to disarm it quickly and cleanly, before its final frenzy leads to millions of deaths.

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