I am going to be very blunt. As a Jewish American I believe that Israel is doing everything in its power to destroy my life here in the United States. Israel is systematically trashing the cordial relationship that I have had with my Christian neighbors by its wildly arrogant attitude towards anyone who dares to criticize or oppose in any way what Israel does. Israel is called the Jewish State but at this point there is little that is Jewish about it. Israel and its leading supporters in the West have betrayed the Jewish people by displaying incredible arrogance and demanding that its actions right or wrong be championed and underwritten by its allies, particularly the United States. Israel and its leading supporters are demanding that citizens of the United States subvert their patriotism to the United States in favor of patriotism for Israel. This sort of demand is falling very hard on the Jews of America and Jews like me really resent it.

Israel is tromping around like an insufferable spoiled child who has no idea what it is like to act in a civilized fashion. I want what I want and if I don't get it there will be hell to pay! That is Israel today. Tucker Carlson dares to challenge Israel's actions? Republican Rep. Randy Fine on behalf of the Israel lobby says Tucker Carlson is anti-MAGA and a Hitler who must be neutralized. Josh Hammer over at Newsweek says that Tucker is a "fox in the henhouse" and must be neutralized. Both of these people acting on behalf of the Israel lobby are literally calling for Tucker Carlson to be killed. And then there is the Charlie Kirk assassination, an actual killing, that occurred right on the heels of a full court press by supporters of Israel to shut Charlie up over his criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza. The whole handling of the investigation of this killing has been covered up by the FBI which has refused to allow the possibility of any foreign involvement in the act to be pursued. There is too much smoke here for there not to be a fire.

I am a Zionist, let that be clear. Very few know what a Zionist really is...particularly a Jewish Zionist. A real Jewish Zionist is a Jewish person who wishes for there to be a Jewish homeland just like the French have France (or did have France before the Muslim invasion). It is the idea of a homeland where the Jewish people can have self-determination and live comfortably in a culture that is guided by the tenants of the Torah...and it is a place of refuge in times of oppression and ostracism. Remember the Saint Louis. By the way, the State of Israel today IS NOT the Israel of the Bible (or of scripture if you will). In geo-political terms the State of Israel is just another secular state just like Burundi or Bolivia or Denmark and its leaders are not guided by the moral principals of the Torah...they are basically just a bunch of deep state actors like Obama or Macron or Starmer. It's really a shame because most Jews do not realize that what they perceive as a Jewish homeland is just another secular state entity engaging in realpolitik under the cover of a supposedly sacred image.

Today most people consider a Zionist to be any person outside of Israel who is an "Israel firster" where that person puts the patriotism for his own country behind that of Israel...a person who says that Israel is right even when it is obviously very wrong. This is AIPAC, this is the ADL, this is the ZOA...all organizations who say that if you oppose anything that Israel does you are an antisemite. This is all absolutely wrong. This is not what a true Zionist is.

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitism. Antisemitism is a word that is being used as a cudgel to insult and debase innocent people just like the word racism is being used today. You're a racist!! How many times have we heard those who stand up for their own people or their own community called racists? So it is with antisemitism...if you dare criticize Israel you're an antisemite!!

Antisemitism in reality is an outgrowth of a tribal dispute that has gone on for the last 2000 years between Judaism and its two offshoots, Christianity and Islam. There is no doubt that some of the criticism and invective directed towards Israel is rooted in antisemitism, but among critical thinkers this is generally not the case. However, this has not stopped Israel and its supporters from concentrating on the tribalist argument in defense given that it is most effective among the masses.

I am an America Firster and absolutely true to the principles of MAGA. I am also a strong supporter of Israel and a Jewish Zionist. I can be all of these things at once and not in any way sacrifice my loyalty to the United States of America as an American citizen. I always put the interests of my country, the USA, first ahead of all the other countries of the world including Israel. I am not alone. Most Jews in the USA are patriotic Americans just like me and are revulsed by the actions of the Israel lobby and Israel supporters who actually demand that we put our loyalty to the USA behind our affinity for the secular State of Israel.

By its present actions and those of its leading supporters, Israel is systematically destroying the Jewish people’s relationship with the rest of the world by demanding that Israel must be unconditionally championed and underwritten, right or wrong. For whatever reasons the world equates the nature of the actions of State of Israel with the nature of the Jewish people and this is now becoming really dangerous for the Jewish people. Jews are very aware of the conditions that can lead to deep hatred and possibly genocide and Israel today is fostering those conditions. It's undeniable.

So I say to the government of Israel and its supporters: BACK OFF. You don't own the United States and its citizens. You have your own interests and we have ours. You have no right to undermine our political system so that its actions do not reflect the will of the American people. To the extent that it is in our interest to back you, we should and will. But this cannot be unconditional, and you have no right to demand that it must be.

MAX