All of western liberalism’s much-vaunted institutions, its legal, political and cultural, have collapsed in on themselves to protect a genocidal, apartheid ethno-state.
I've worked in the industry for almost twenty years, and have been to LA a bunch of times, pretty much annually. Years ago, I was stunned when I tried to schedule a trip around Yom Kippur and couldn't get any meetings on that day. I went to see an Arab colleague at a big agency and it was him and a few others in the office, but everyone had taken the day off. He said, "Oh yeah, everyone's off during Jewish holidays. Even when they're not Jewish. No work gets done and no one important is around."
When Oct 7th happened, this agency forced all employees to attend a session with a Rabbi, regardless of their faith. Their CEO came out loud and proud in the press with racist rhetoric against Palestinians. My Arab colleague had an Israeli flag baseball cap dropped on his desk. I saw other Arab colleagues and Muslims demoted or fired for speaking up for Palestine.
There is so much fear because this industry is riven with Zionism. They will speak up against Russia, no problem, but they can't speak up for Palestine because some very powerful people in Hollywood will have them blacklisted and they won't work again. I've seen it. On the ground, there are many artists, representatives, and industry folk who are pro-Palestine, but they are muzzled by fear. Coupled with an extraordinarily rough time in the industry since COVID and the strikes, people are trying to keep their heads down and stay employed.
I don't excuse it and I don't like that there are a tiny handful of people who are risking their livelihoods to protest Israeli brutality while everyone else hides behind them. Until we can move power out of Hollywood and away from Zionists, this will continue to happen. It is very disappointing but it doesn't surprise me at all.
Aiyana, the facts you describe above are the result of the humongous power of the US Jewish Lobby, the largest single-issue, political force that the world has ever seen. In just the USA, it consists of nearly 450 Jewish political organizations that spend upwards a billion political dollars annually, possess billions of dollars in endowments, and are funded by the Jewish community and Israel. By funding and membership, AIPAC and the Christian Zionist supporters of Israel are only a drop in the bucket compared to the entire lobby, which concerns itself of many political issues beyond Israel, and the "Israel Lobby" is only part of the entire lobby. Here's the proof, the data, the smoking gun that illustrates these facts: https://iwasathought.substack.com/p/the-jewish-lobby
I've always felt it, intuitively and from around the edges as a lifelong film buff, but really appreciate your stark, inside, concrete examples. It's pretty settled that "The Jews Invented Hollywood," as (Jewish) Neal Gabler wrote, but it seems the cultural control is much more dominant today; certainly way more overt.
You want to know an insane example of selective outrage like this?
In 2024, Hannah Ritchie (who markets herself as an environmentalist but works for Our World in Data, the progress liberals you've written about before) wrote about a book festival boycott.
A group called Fossil Free Books arranged the boycott, citing two reasons:
- Baillie Gifford, the sponsor, invests in fossil fuels.
- They invest in the war machine, particularly those companies supporting/profiting from the genocide in Gaza.
Ritchie criticised the boycott, comparing it to book-burning and wrote a long, rambling column on her substack where she didn't mention Gaza once. She only focused on the fossil fuel investment (she literally argued that they only invest 2% of their portfolio into fossil fuels, which is lower than the industry average), and just pretended the genocide wasn't a major reason for the boycott.
Read their statement, made on the anniversary of the Nakba, and then the article Ritchie wrote (or as much as you can before being sick). It’s genuinely mind-blowing. I couldn’t stop thinking of that while reading this post and it exposes the kinds of people you’ve written about before.
Yeah, pretty much every mainstream environment has still said nothing on Gaza. I remember being blocked by Michael Mann on Twitter for calling him out for his silence 😅
I've been following the likes of Mann, Elizabeth Kolbert, Naomi Oreskes, and others for years but will no longer support anyone's work in environmental spaces unless they've used their platforms to speak out against genocide. They all had lots to say when Russia invaded Ukraine, like those you discussed here.
OK so now we have to add Wim Wenders to the nearly endless list of celebrated cultural personalities who by selling their souls to the zio mafia expose their moral bankruptcy. Such a disappointment to see my heroes come crashing down off their pedestals. Gutless sycophants the whole lot of them.
I know. As I got rid of Neal Young and Joni Mitchell CDs because of their "covidian totalitarianism" (which I believe overlaps with this same dynamic), and Chomsky books for that AND his Epstein dynamics, my copy of "The American Friend" must inevitably be tossed into the dust bin.
Thanks for the article. This event should be naturally boycotted, but not sure they don't care too much for money... Spain is more courageous, let's see now with Eurovision in May what will happen ?
The Eurovision Song Contest is facing an “existential” crisis as a growing band of countries threatens to boycott the 2026 edition if Israel is allowed to take part.
Good article, hypocrisy, ref Gaza - Western government buy it wholesale (hypocrisy).
I'm unconvinced there is a big distinction between judaism & zionism. I have some quotes from orthodox rabbis (the sort that condemn the political existence of Israel) - they place jews as the chosen ones and the rest of us as little better than servants. One could thus argue that their "theoretical view" is given concrete expression by the everyday realities for Israeli arabs (= 2nd class citizens). A Youtube video of a town in the USA, inhanbited by 30,000++ orthodox jews has a similar flavour - non-jews do all the work (with the male jews doing "work" such as "praying").
Most western institutions have been penetrated by zionists (who may or may not be jews), this gives a flavour to the "position" of a given institution vis-a-vis Israel and Gaza. The current situation ref zionist/judaism vs "us lot" is untenable, given the core attitudes of judaism (all based on "god" and jews being chosen by god) and the education of jews both in Israel and in other countries which reflect their core tennets. My fundamental tennet: live & let live, with the implication that +/- we are equal if not in abilities, then certainly in rights. The problem is that this is not something zionism & its judaism substrate, supports.
Mike, I share the same instincts. A helpful fact is that virtually all Jews believe that Israel is necessary for the survival of Judaism - for all time. This is a secular belief, and since there's no other dominant belief by Jews as a group, we must call Judaism collectively a secular religion. But to do that necessitates that we also refer to Judaism as a cult, like any other cult, with unusual secular beliefs.
The fact that Judaism consists of some members who describe themselves as "religious" and some who describe themselves as "non-religious," confuses Gentiles as well as Jews in their understanding of just how do we classify "Judaism"? Thus, I think "Cult" is the best description I've seen.
An additional observation is that a major part of Judaism - even some within the traditional orthodox beliefs - has effectively turned away from the traditional Jewish god as the means to provide salvation on this planet. In a sense, we have been witnessing a de-facto schism within Judaism, but no one, not even Jews, seem to be aware of it.
Thanks, much appreciated. Sometimes I ask myself "am I mad" with my view of zionism/judaism. Many people still view jews through the prism (?) of the 1942-1945 holocaust and utterly ignore what was going on in Palestine before then and events afterwards - largely glossed over (poor jews - the eternal victims of history etc). Sites such as Nate's & those commenting show that we are not alone nor mad. I like the characterisation of judaism as a "cult". As for the jewish god, we should not forget that once upon a time he had a wife. (there is a video on Youtube which discusses this).
and we must not collapse the distinction bewteen israel and zionism that was created by the hydra of western colonial empires that act in lock boot step and merely pass the torch.
The Berlinale's BOA may also be catering to wealthy Jewish donors which is preventing them from speaking out about the egregious slaughter by Israelis of innocent Gazians.
Isra-trash-el is no "great ally" of the US, they are just blood sucking maggots and nothing more for the tax free money they steal from this country and the destruction and division they cause within it.
The Russians did not invade Ukraine in its entirety but only the region of Donbass where the murders of Ethnic Russians were taking place for the previous 10 years or so (14,000 murdered and counting). And they were ethical and careful about doing minimum damage as far as affecting the civilian realm. So NO, they never bombed a hospital or school. That's fake criminal news put out by the satanists who don't mind eating innocent children they kidnapped. In fact I was so impressed I fell in love with the country as I came to find out few facts about these people. For example one time they asked Putin why he didn't not bomb such critical something, I think it might have been a nuclear reactor but I could be wrong. And his answer was something along the lines of "considering that we're in the middle of the winter, that would have caused a close by hospital and the entire region to lose power, so they would not have any heat for quite some time, so that's not an option."
This Guy seems to care about Ukraine more than that little b*tch scumbagsky does‼️‼️
Putin in his address on Feb 24 b4 the SMO was launched used the word "humiliated" in describing what the Russian people felt in witnessing how their brothers and sister were treated. Apparently to the West, those people or Russians in general were not human any more than Palestinians are to them, today. IF Russia really wanted to do what the West Falsely accuses it of doing to Ukraine, it would have done it and wrapped the entire thing in 3 weeks flat. But Russia is very SELF-restrained and SELF-grounded country. They are basically the Wise sage in the room. I have reasons to believe that it if was not for them and the Chinese, we aall would have been whipped by WW III, already...
At this point the West is gravely ill, it seems to suffer from a Turbo Cancer-schizophrenia or worse. Everything is corrupt inside and outside. To the exception of few pockets and people here and there. Take for example Minneapolis. I viewed a vid on you tube just recently where several locals all said the same thing & elaborated, not knowing one another, as in "whatever you think is happening in Minneapolis, it's lot worse!!!" And it is‼️The ICE goons are now going to residential buildings, yanking the manual pull down stations of the fire dept when there is no fire, and as Residents start to run out of the building❓⁉️ They start knabbing them‼️‼️ they grab anybody they can put their hands on. children and parents are afraid to go to school or work, etc. Some are staying with friends and are afraid to go home‼️‼️This is Terrorism on Broad day light. The ICE detention centers are "for profit" btw, so it's incentivizing for them to capture innocent people so they could make some criminal money out of them regardless of their immigration status as if they don't steal enough money from the people already.
They are buying more abandoned warehouses to convert into detention centers according to John Whitehead as apparently they are on a mission to have a nationwide network of those places to emprison anybody who opposes them:
"All of western liberalism’s much-vaunted institutions, its legal, political and cultural, have collapsed in on themselves to protect a genocidal, apartheid ethno-state."
We can be more precise, more truthful, and braver:
All of western liberalism’s much-vaunted institutions, its legal, political and cultural, have collapsed in on themselves to protect a genocidal, apartheid Jew-state.
you got the pocket-dial story a bit wrong. the nutritionists was the one pocket-dialed and he believed that the noises constituted a threat. this is a dumb thing to think.
I've worked in the industry for almost twenty years, and have been to LA a bunch of times, pretty much annually. Years ago, I was stunned when I tried to schedule a trip around Yom Kippur and couldn't get any meetings on that day. I went to see an Arab colleague at a big agency and it was him and a few others in the office, but everyone had taken the day off. He said, "Oh yeah, everyone's off during Jewish holidays. Even when they're not Jewish. No work gets done and no one important is around."
When Oct 7th happened, this agency forced all employees to attend a session with a Rabbi, regardless of their faith. Their CEO came out loud and proud in the press with racist rhetoric against Palestinians. My Arab colleague had an Israeli flag baseball cap dropped on his desk. I saw other Arab colleagues and Muslims demoted or fired for speaking up for Palestine.
There is so much fear because this industry is riven with Zionism. They will speak up against Russia, no problem, but they can't speak up for Palestine because some very powerful people in Hollywood will have them blacklisted and they won't work again. I've seen it. On the ground, there are many artists, representatives, and industry folk who are pro-Palestine, but they are muzzled by fear. Coupled with an extraordinarily rough time in the industry since COVID and the strikes, people are trying to keep their heads down and stay employed.
I don't excuse it and I don't like that there are a tiny handful of people who are risking their livelihoods to protest Israeli brutality while everyone else hides behind them. Until we can move power out of Hollywood and away from Zionists, this will continue to happen. It is very disappointing but it doesn't surprise me at all.
Thanks for this great little insight. Unsurprising, as you say
Aiyana, the facts you describe above are the result of the humongous power of the US Jewish Lobby, the largest single-issue, political force that the world has ever seen. In just the USA, it consists of nearly 450 Jewish political organizations that spend upwards a billion political dollars annually, possess billions of dollars in endowments, and are funded by the Jewish community and Israel. By funding and membership, AIPAC and the Christian Zionist supporters of Israel are only a drop in the bucket compared to the entire lobby, which concerns itself of many political issues beyond Israel, and the "Israel Lobby" is only part of the entire lobby. Here's the proof, the data, the smoking gun that illustrates these facts: https://iwasathought.substack.com/p/the-jewish-lobby
I've always felt it, intuitively and from around the edges as a lifelong film buff, but really appreciate your stark, inside, concrete examples. It's pretty settled that "The Jews Invented Hollywood," as (Jewish) Neal Gabler wrote, but it seems the cultural control is much more dominant today; certainly way more overt.
So adroitly stated:
"riven with Zionism"
You want to know an insane example of selective outrage like this?
In 2024, Hannah Ritchie (who markets herself as an environmentalist but works for Our World in Data, the progress liberals you've written about before) wrote about a book festival boycott.
A group called Fossil Free Books arranged the boycott, citing two reasons:
- Baillie Gifford, the sponsor, invests in fossil fuels.
- They invest in the war machine, particularly those companies supporting/profiting from the genocide in Gaza.
Ritchie criticised the boycott, comparing it to book-burning and wrote a long, rambling column on her substack where she didn't mention Gaza once. She only focused on the fossil fuel investment (she literally argued that they only invest 2% of their portfolio into fossil fuels, which is lower than the industry average), and just pretended the genocide wasn't a major reason for the boycott.
Read their statement, made on the anniversary of the Nakba, and then the article Ritchie wrote (or as much as you can before being sick). It’s genuinely mind-blowing. I couldn’t stop thinking of that while reading this post and it exposes the kinds of people you’ve written about before.
https://x.com/fossilfreebooks/status/1790659934381605047/photo/2
https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/book-festival-funding
That's unreal. She's awful, always has been
Yeah, pretty much every mainstream environment has still said nothing on Gaza. I remember being blocked by Michael Mann on Twitter for calling him out for his silence 😅
I've been following the likes of Mann, Elizabeth Kolbert, Naomi Oreskes, and others for years but will no longer support anyone's work in environmental spaces unless they've used their platforms to speak out against genocide. They all had lots to say when Russia invaded Ukraine, like those you discussed here.
Has Peter Kalmus? I think so. One of very few
Yeah he has been one of the rare ones to talk about it and call it for what it is
Can add 99 percent of the 60s-70s "countercultural" music/film/theater "anti-heroes" to the silent enabler/supporter mix.
OK so now we have to add Wim Wenders to the nearly endless list of celebrated cultural personalities who by selling their souls to the zio mafia expose their moral bankruptcy. Such a disappointment to see my heroes come crashing down off their pedestals. Gutless sycophants the whole lot of them.
S i g h . . .
"zio mafia"
first I've seen this
thank you
ZIM -- ziosatanic imperialist mafia
https://substack.com/@paulcudenec/p-182176222
I know. As I got rid of Neal Young and Joni Mitchell CDs because of their "covidian totalitarianism" (which I believe overlaps with this same dynamic), and Chomsky books for that AND his Epstein dynamics, my copy of "The American Friend" must inevitably be tossed into the dust bin.
Thanks for the article. This event should be naturally boycotted, but not sure they don't care too much for money... Spain is more courageous, let's see now with Eurovision in May what will happen ?
The Eurovision Song Contest is facing an “existential” crisis as a growing band of countries threatens to boycott the 2026 edition if Israel is allowed to take part.
fantastic. you said it clear and succinct. i think i feel the tide turning.
Good article, hypocrisy, ref Gaza - Western government buy it wholesale (hypocrisy).
I'm unconvinced there is a big distinction between judaism & zionism. I have some quotes from orthodox rabbis (the sort that condemn the political existence of Israel) - they place jews as the chosen ones and the rest of us as little better than servants. One could thus argue that their "theoretical view" is given concrete expression by the everyday realities for Israeli arabs (= 2nd class citizens). A Youtube video of a town in the USA, inhanbited by 30,000++ orthodox jews has a similar flavour - non-jews do all the work (with the male jews doing "work" such as "praying").
Most western institutions have been penetrated by zionists (who may or may not be jews), this gives a flavour to the "position" of a given institution vis-a-vis Israel and Gaza. The current situation ref zionist/judaism vs "us lot" is untenable, given the core attitudes of judaism (all based on "god" and jews being chosen by god) and the education of jews both in Israel and in other countries which reflect their core tennets. My fundamental tennet: live & let live, with the implication that +/- we are equal if not in abilities, then certainly in rights. The problem is that this is not something zionism & its judaism substrate, supports.
Mike, I share the same instincts. A helpful fact is that virtually all Jews believe that Israel is necessary for the survival of Judaism - for all time. This is a secular belief, and since there's no other dominant belief by Jews as a group, we must call Judaism collectively a secular religion. But to do that necessitates that we also refer to Judaism as a cult, like any other cult, with unusual secular beliefs.
The fact that Judaism consists of some members who describe themselves as "religious" and some who describe themselves as "non-religious," confuses Gentiles as well as Jews in their understanding of just how do we classify "Judaism"? Thus, I think "Cult" is the best description I've seen.
An additional observation is that a major part of Judaism - even some within the traditional orthodox beliefs - has effectively turned away from the traditional Jewish god as the means to provide salvation on this planet. In a sense, we have been witnessing a de-facto schism within Judaism, but no one, not even Jews, seem to be aware of it.
Thanks, much appreciated. Sometimes I ask myself "am I mad" with my view of zionism/judaism. Many people still view jews through the prism (?) of the 1942-1945 holocaust and utterly ignore what was going on in Palestine before then and events afterwards - largely glossed over (poor jews - the eternal victims of history etc). Sites such as Nate's & those commenting show that we are not alone nor mad. I like the characterisation of judaism as a "cult". As for the jewish god, we should not forget that once upon a time he had a wife. (there is a video on Youtube which discusses this).
Thanks, I'll check out that wife of G-d.
and we must not collapse the distinction bewteen israel and zionism that was created by the hydra of western colonial empires that act in lock boot step and merely pass the torch.
there are more than five eyes would be my guess.
The Berlinale's BOA may also be catering to wealthy Jewish donors which is preventing them from speaking out about the egregious slaughter by Israelis of innocent Gazians.
Isra-trash-el is no "great ally" of the US, they are just blood sucking maggots and nothing more for the tax free money they steal from this country and the destruction and division they cause within it.
The Russians did not invade Ukraine in its entirety but only the region of Donbass where the murders of Ethnic Russians were taking place for the previous 10 years or so (14,000 murdered and counting). And they were ethical and careful about doing minimum damage as far as affecting the civilian realm. So NO, they never bombed a hospital or school. That's fake criminal news put out by the satanists who don't mind eating innocent children they kidnapped. In fact I was so impressed I fell in love with the country as I came to find out few facts about these people. For example one time they asked Putin why he didn't not bomb such critical something, I think it might have been a nuclear reactor but I could be wrong. And his answer was something along the lines of "considering that we're in the middle of the winter, that would have caused a close by hospital and the entire region to lose power, so they would not have any heat for quite some time, so that's not an option."
This Guy seems to care about Ukraine more than that little b*tch scumbagsky does‼️‼️
Putin in his address on Feb 24 b4 the SMO was launched used the word "humiliated" in describing what the Russian people felt in witnessing how their brothers and sister were treated. Apparently to the West, those people or Russians in general were not human any more than Palestinians are to them, today. IF Russia really wanted to do what the West Falsely accuses it of doing to Ukraine, it would have done it and wrapped the entire thing in 3 weeks flat. But Russia is very SELF-restrained and SELF-grounded country. They are basically the Wise sage in the room. I have reasons to believe that it if was not for them and the Chinese, we aall would have been whipped by WW III, already...
At this point the West is gravely ill, it seems to suffer from a Turbo Cancer-schizophrenia or worse. Everything is corrupt inside and outside. To the exception of few pockets and people here and there. Take for example Minneapolis. I viewed a vid on you tube just recently where several locals all said the same thing & elaborated, not knowing one another, as in "whatever you think is happening in Minneapolis, it's lot worse!!!" And it is‼️The ICE goons are now going to residential buildings, yanking the manual pull down stations of the fire dept when there is no fire, and as Residents start to run out of the building❓⁉️ They start knabbing them‼️‼️ they grab anybody they can put their hands on. children and parents are afraid to go to school or work, etc. Some are staying with friends and are afraid to go home‼️‼️This is Terrorism on Broad day light. The ICE detention centers are "for profit" btw, so it's incentivizing for them to capture innocent people so they could make some criminal money out of them regardless of their immigration status as if they don't steal enough money from the people already.
They are buying more abandoned warehouses to convert into detention centers according to John Whitehead as apparently they are on a mission to have a nationwide network of those places to emprison anybody who opposes them:
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/locked_down_rounded_up_warehoused_the_rise_of_americas_concentration_camps
Thank you so much Nate for such therapeutic plateform. You are a definitely a LIGHT worker. And I mean that in the Best Way possible ❤️🔥🔥✨🏆🎖️🎯🇺🇲💯‼️
"All of western liberalism’s much-vaunted institutions, its legal, political and cultural, have collapsed in on themselves to protect a genocidal, apartheid ethno-state."
We can be more precise, more truthful, and braver:
All of western liberalism’s much-vaunted institutions, its legal, political and cultural, have collapsed in on themselves to protect a genocidal, apartheid Jew-state.
you got the pocket-dial story a bit wrong. the nutritionists was the one pocket-dialed and he believed that the noises constituted a threat. this is a dumb thing to think.