George Kenny is clearly on a roll! Only a week ago he had a fantastic show about Bosnia (which I hope you all listened to) and now he follows up with yet another truly excellent interview with Jeffrey Blankfort on the topic of the Israel Lobby. Listening to these two interviews, I was reminded of the words of George Orwell “In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act“. By this criteria, George’s “Electric Politics” clearly deserves the honor of being called a “revolutionary” podcast.
In this latest interview, George and Jeffrey Blankfort touch on a painful subject for many progressives, including myself: the fact that Noam Chomsky has a totally mind-boggling “blind stop” on two of the most important, I would even say *defining*, issues determining the nature and goals of the US Empire: the role of the Israel Lobby (or “Zionist Power Configuration” or ZPC as James Petras refers to it) and the truth about 9/11. In this interview, George and Jeffrey do not touch upon the issue of 9/11 (although George himself fully understands that 9/11 was an ‘inside job”), but only on the first ‘blind spot’ of Chomsky. Both George and Jeffrey Blankfort clearly have a great deal of admiration for Noam Chomsky, as do I, but they value the truth and the voice of their own common sense and conscience even more and they refuse to simply bow to Chomsky’s otherwise undeniable moral authority.
Interestingly, both George and Blankfort also clearly understand that the only a “One State” solution can truly bring piece to the Middle-East and that this means a total defeat of the Zionist ideology.
George Kenny is doing a fantastic job with his podcast and website. If you appreciate his work and if you can afford to, please drop by on his website and donate a little something (or a big something!) to support him and his work. And if you cannot, then send him a little note of gratitude and of support.
Fighting against empire is an often discouraging activity, and those who do have the courage to do so need all the kinds words and support we can give them!
The Saker
PS: Jeff Blankfort is a radio program producer with KPOO in San Francisco, KZYX in Mendocino and KPFT/Pacifica in Houston. He is a journalist and Jewish-American and has been a pro-Palestinian human rights activist since 1970. He was formerly the editor of the Middle East Labor Bulletin and co-founder of the Labor Committee of the Middle East. He was also a founding member of the Nov. 29 Coalition on Palestine. He won a sizable lawsuit against the Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in February 2002 for its vast illegal spying against him, as well as other peaceful political groups and individuals (including anti-Apartheid groups/activists). Blankfort sends out an influential annotated/commented emails of articles appearing mostly in the US press about Israel, Palestine, Middle East, Neocons, and the Zionist lobby. Many of his articles can be found here.
I first came across Jeff Blankfort when watching archives of Mark Green’s Flashpoint. You can see interviews with both Jeff Blankfort and Kevin MacDonald by clicking on the TV Interviews link on Persecution Privilege and Power.
You can find an interview of Jeff Blankfort here:
Jerusalem Calling.
If my memory serves me correctly, the host Allison Weir takes a call from Joachim Martillo in the second segment. Martillo’s unfinished opus magnum, Judonia, is required reading for those wanting to understand Judaism and Jewish politics from the perspective of an insider.
Blankfort’s expose of Noam Chomsky is legendary: Noam Chomsky, Great Master of the Lie.
I have yet to listen to the latest interview with Blankfort, but I feel a one-state solution would be catastrophic. The Jews in Plaestine would become a hated minority. Their fate would be much like that of Eugene Terre’blanche in South Africa.
You can read about the fate of the White minority in South Africa here or listen to radio program describing it here.
@Nationalist: thanks for all your links! I need to run somewhere today, but I will read all your docs very carefully. One short question: how would you compare Martillo’s Judonia (which I have not read yet), with Hoffmann’s excellent “Judaism discovered”?
Thanks!
The Saker
I actually have a copy of Hoffman’s book but I’ve not yet read it. I have perused it though and it seems to be a lot of recycled content. I know Israel Shamir wrote a very critical review of Hoffman for being a bit of prude.
To me the notion that the Talmud distorted the true meaning of the Old Testament is somewhat specious. If one can overlook the sancrosanct mystique that surrounds the OT, one sees that a great deal of it is nationalistic propaganda for the Hebrew people – and not very idealistic or sophisticated propaganda either.
Israel Shahak wrote what I regard as a much better book.
I would strongly recommend E. Michael Jones’ book the “Jewish Revolutionary Spirit”. His chapter on the lynching of Leo Frank, a wealthy Jewish pedophile who raped and murdered a girl who toiled for $1.38 a day in his pencil factory, is a must read. That lynching was the pivotal event that gave birth to the ADL of B’nai Brith and to the reincarnation of the Ku Klux Klan.
I don’t know where to find that chapter online, but it was published in Jones’ “Culture Wars” magazine. You can hear excerpts of it on Radio Istina, but be warned, the host of that podcast is not only vulgar, he is so angry he borders on being genocidal at times.
Anyway, the point that emerges is that there is a larger “Jewish agenda” and it is bigger than just concern for Israel’s well-being. In large measure Jewish politics is about enforcing the demographic displacement and dispossession of the Euro-Christian majority in all Western lands.
But that is a topic for another day.
@nationalist:Israel Shamir wrote a very critical review of Hoffman for being a bit of prude.
Yeah, I saw that too and I thought that Shamir was totally wrong on that one. He picked on aspect of a huge magnum opus and used that to attack Hoffman himself, which I find rather unelegant. The book itself is extremely interesting and I would highly recommend it.
To me the notion that the Talmud distorted the true meaning of the Old Testament is somewhat specious.
I actually find this notion crucial to unmaksing one of the many lies of rabbinical Judaism (which I normall call Phariseic Talmudism): that is that somehow today “Judaism” is in any way a continuity of the religion of Abrahan, Isaac and Jacob. All of modern Judaism has its roots in the sect of the Pharisees and the invention of the Kabalah in the Middle-Ages and its almost an exact *inversion* of the religion we associate with the Old Testament.
As for the Old Testament itself, it is not a text which in itself contains its own hermeneutics – the sola scriptura of Luther is a fancy and quite mistaken idea. The Old Testament always has, and still is, open to interpretation. You CAN read it as a prescription for genocides by Jews, but that is only one possible understanding thereof. I absolutely do NOT believe that the religion of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (“true, historical, pre-rabbinical Judaism”, if you want) understood its sacred writ as a license to hate, murder, and self-worship. That is the “contribution”, so to speak, of Rabbinical Judaism following the Exile.
Israel Shahak wrote what I regard as a much better book.
I have a great deal of respect of Shahak, but his books are highly superficial if compared to Hoffmann’s. More importantly, Shahak falls is the same trap of identifying modern rabbinical Judaism with the religion of the OT.
In large measure Jewish politics is about enforcing the demographic displacement and dispossession of the Euro-Christian majority in all Western lands.
Sadly, I don’t believe that there is even not bit of Christianity left in Europe, at least not the the Papist or Reformed countries (and “official” Orthodoxy is not in much better shape, but at least is still giving occasional signs of life). The West is fundamentally post-Christian by now, and even though it likes to fancy itself as the cultural heir to Christianity or, worse, to some imagined “Judeo-Christian tradition” (talk about a nonsensical concept!), the West has become fundamentally pagan.
Heck, France used to be called the “Oldest daughter of the Church” (“Church” here refers to the Papacy, of course). Well, now in terms of practicing believers France has a Muslim majority. While the Papacy seems to spend all its time deal with sexual issues, and while the innumerable Reformed sects continue to bask in their own dogmatic chaos, Islam, weather Sunni or Shia, actually present a real spirituality which has long displaced any form of Christianity in Western Europe.
All that’s left of Western Europe’s Papist past is a typically Frankish lack of culture, a propensity for colonial condescension and racism and an indifference to violence directed at “brown” people. Hadly signs of Christianity, IMHO.
http://ia301526.us.archive.org/3/items/TheJewishRevolutionarySpiritAndItsImpactOnWorldHistoryselections_857/jonesRevJujuSelectionsEtc..pdf
I used to subscribe to culture wars, and jones is a very astute fellow. Millitant though.
@oldman: thanks a lot for the link. I will read the book ASAP!
Kind regards and many thanks,
Saker