Zionism Is Antisemitic

There are certain voyages upon which civilization embarks with such confidence that one is tempted to suspect it has mistaken a fog bank for a lighthouse. Among these is the long and bewildering expedition of Zionism, a political creed that, after spending more than a century insisting it speaks for Jews everywhere, has somehow arrived at the extraordinary destination of convincing millions that the surest way to protect Jewish people is to identify them entirely with the conduct of a state and the ambitions of its rulers.

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In the Heartless Theater of State, All the Actors Are Clowns—And the Audience, Mercifully Awake

It is the middle of August, the heat of late summer suffocates the cities and plains alike, and across the ever-decaying carcass of Empire, the Theater of the Absurd plays on with a kind of deranged endurance. Washington, bloated with money and ancient lies, hums like a ruptured hive. At its epicenter, men in power—saturated in entitlement and perfume-thick delusion—howl, blubber, and bellow their way through another “historic week” of crisis-management, which is to say, performance art stitched together by lobbyists and sugar-addled interns.