The State-Sponsored Genocide Of California’s Native Americans

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Between 1846 and 1873, the first 27 years that California belonged to the U.S., the Indian population in California went from 150,000 to 30,000, an 80% decline. In the 1880 census, there were 16,277 Indians. The preeminent historian of California, Kevin Starr, wrote in California: A History, “60 percent of the deaths [were] attributable to disease, the rest to murder.” (He adds that already California Indians “had been reduced by 90 percent since the arrival of the Spanish.”)

Madley quotes Indian Affairs commissioner John Collier from 1935, “The world’s annals contain few comparable instances of swift depopulation – practically, of racial massacre – at the hands of a conquering race.” The murders were committed by, among others, the army, ranchers, volunteer militias (roving death squads), and bounty hunters who were paid for Indian heads and scalps. (There was also a thriving slave trade in women and children.)

Madley calls it a “killing machine.” That killing machine was financed with the tax dollars of the state and federal governments and with the connivance of governors and U.S. senators. Extermination was openly advocated in newspapers. Madley says the slaughter in California “was more lethal and sustained than anywhere else in the U.S. or its colonial antecedents.”

Despite facing vastly superior numbers and weaponry, there was Indian resistance. That culminated in the Modoc War of 1873 in which 53 Modoc warriors from a lava bed stronghold held off 1,000 U.S. soldiers and militiamen for 8 months with a final death toll of 83 U.S. and 3 Modocs.

The facts are not in dispute. However, the right word to describe them is. Conservatives want to label it a “tragedy” but not a “crime.” At the opposite extreme is Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846 – 1873 (2012) by Brendan Lindsay covers the same area as Madley’s book but focuses more on the “processes and mechanisms of democracy” in that context. In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America (2014), Gary Clayton Anderson uses the definition of ethnic cleansing developed by the United Nations.

Madley uses the United Nations’ definition of genocide to make his case. In one of the few other reviews of his book, The New York Times chastised Madley in an otherwise positive review for “shedding more heat than light” by using genocide. I think Madley makes his case for genocide, though he doesn’t make the case for the practical advantages of using the term, so the controversy remains something of an academic teapot tempest. A more interesting question than nomenclature is how this could be so widely known inside the community of professional historians and so little known outside it. Madley describes it as “hidden in plain sight.”

The murder of the California Indians has not been completely absent from the public arena: Ken Burns’ 1996 documentary The West dealt with it extensively in one episode. As for the issue of Indian genocide generally: Hollywood director John Ford, responsible more than anyone else for making Indians the default villains of the formula Western, ended his career with Cheyenne Autumn (1964), in which he drew parallels, repeatedly and unmistakably, between the Holocaust and the mistreatment of Indians.

The Dystopian Results Of Canada’s Euthanasia Culture

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Last month, CTV ran a heartrending story about “Sophia,” a 51-year-old Toronto woman who suffered from a disorder known as “multiple chemical sensitivities,” which was aggravated by her neighbours’ cigarette smoke that would waft into her apartment and the chemical cleaners that were used in the hallways. Sophia spent two years petitioning her landlord, the Salvation Army, and all levels of government to make accommodations for her, or find a more suitable place for her to live. After repeatedly failing, she requested MAID — and was granted a state-sanctioned assisted death.

CTV also reported the story of a 31-year-old Toronto woman identified as “Denise,” who also suffers from chemical sensitivities and uses a wheelchair. Like Sophia, Denise has been applying for government assistance to find more suitable accommodations, but says that it was easier to apply for MAID. “I’ve applied for MAID essentially … because of abject poverty,” she said. And so far, she’s received all the necessary approvals, without anyone involved asking her about her efforts to find housing that is more accessible and free from the chemicals that aggravate her condition.

Whatever gloss about a dignified death advocates want to use to justify MAID, these are people suffering most of all from poverty. Euthanizing the poor can’t be what liberals who support physician assisted death had in mind. How much more common will cases like this be when MAID is extended to those with mental illness, who are disproportionately poor?

It’s clear that the regime has gone far beyond offering assisted deaths to competent adults suffering from “grievous and irremediable” conditions, which is what the Supreme Court said Canadians have a charter right to in 2015. It has also gone beyond the 2019 Quebec Superior Court ruling, which said that it was unconstitutional to limit MAID to those whose deaths were “reasonably foreseeable.” That is what the Liberals used to justify their much-less-restrictive law, Bill C-7 , which was enacted without appealing to the Supreme Court.

There are also questions about whether the existing system is putting to death those who are not competent enough to make such life-altering — indeed, life-ending — decisions. Police in Abbotsford, B.C., are currently investigating the case of Donna Duncan, who was euthanized despite the objections of her family doctor and two daughters, who say she was not of sound mind after suffering a head injury in 2020. Such concerns about mental competence will only increase once it becomes legal for people with mental health challenges to apply for MAID.

Google Manipulates Users’ Minds Without Leaving Paper Trail

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Google has the power “to censor content, to track our every move, to tear societies apart, to alter the human mind, and even to reengineer humanity,” Epstein writes in his report “Google’s Triple Threat,” which he details in his interview with Jekielek.

The methods Google uses are ephemeral and leave no paper trail, making it very difficult to track and prove that they’re using humans as pawns, manipulating us via ways that we can’t counteract. Ephemeral experiences occur briefly, then disappear, and include things like a list of suggested videos on YouTube, search suggestions, and topics in a newsfeed.

“They affect us, they disappear, they’re stored nowhere, and they’re gone,” Epstein said. “It’s the ideal form of manipulation. People have no idea they’re being manipulated, number one, and number two, authorities can’t go back in time to see what people were being shown, in other words, how they were being manipulated.”

Epstein and his team, however, have found ways to track Google’s invisible, almost subliminal, tools, including the search engine manipulation effect (SEME). According to Epstein:

“SEME is one of the most powerful forms of influence ever discovered in the behavioral sciences … It leaves people thinking they have made up their own minds, which is very much an illusion. It also leaves no paper trail for authorities to trace. Worse still, the very few people who can detect bias in search results shift even farther in the direction of the bias, so merely being able to see the bias doesn’t protect you from it.”

Research by Epstein and colleagues has found that biased search results can change people’s opinions and voting preferences, shifting opinions in undecided voters by 20 percent to 80 percent in certain demographic groups. Internal emails leaked from Google talk about “ephemeral experience,” and the company makes a point to engineer ephemeral experiences intended to alter the way people think.

Did Hitler Live In Exile In Argentina Until 1971?

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Basti’s theory of Hitler’s escape and particularly his route via the Canary Islands has also been backed up by veteran CIA agent Bob Baer, who claims to have proof the German leader faked his own death and fled to Tenerife.

Appearing on a History Channel series in January, Baer and his team analysed 700 pages of declassified information, with one stating: “American Army officials in Germany have not located Hitler’s body nor is there any reliable source that Hitler is dead.”

Circumstances of the dictator’s death were also clouded in 2009 when American researchers claimed DNA tests on a fragment of skull, said to belong to Hitler, revealed it actually belonged to an unidentified woman, the Guardian reported.

The skull fragment, complete with bullet hole, was supposedly taken from the bunker by the Russians and went on display in Moscow in 2000, where it was presented as irrefutable evidence Hitler had committed suicide.

Argentina was seen as something of a haven to leaders of the Third Reich, with ‘Angel of Death’ Joseph Mengele seeking refuge there
Argentina was seen as something of a haven to leaders of the Third Reich, with ‘Angel of Death’ Joseph Mengele seeking refuge thereKEYSTONE VIA GETTY IMAGES
Hitler biographer Werner Maser has also declared the fragment to be a fake, the BBC reports.

The post World War II connection to South America is widely known, with archaeologists last year stumbling upon what they believed were the ruins of a secret jungle lair built especially for Nazi leaders of the Third Reich, should they have been forced to flee Germany.

A series of stone ruins located in Argentina’s Teyu Cuare provincial park in the north of the country with its border with Paraguay were discovered by researchers hacking their way through the undergrowth with machetes.

In the event, the lair was not needed, as Argentinian president Juan Peron welcomed thousands of Nazis and Italian fascists to the country with open arms.

Joseph Mengele, a doctor who conducted barbaric experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp and Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann, were known to have fled there.

Eichmann was kidnapped by Israeli agents in 1960, taken to Israel where he was tried and executed.

In 2000 Argentinian President Fernando de la Rua issued a formal apology for the country’s role in harbouring Nazi war criminals.

But as yet there has been no formal comment or evidence of Hitler’s own presence in the

Eduard Hodos: Chernobyl And The Third Khazaria

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Read this and consider if  Putin, the great benefactor of Chabad from all accounts, is only denazifying the Ukraine or is he playing a necessary role in the desertification of the Ukraine that Hodos speak about below:

Eduard Hodos:

It bears mentioning that Chernobyl has always been regarded by members of the sect [Lila: Chabad Lubavitch] as a sacred place of requital and punishment. You see, it was there that Bogdan Khmelnitsky wiped out the “Chernobyl branch” of Chabad’s forefathers by fire and sword. And it’s no accident that the catastrophe which took place at Chernobyl, which the whole world regards as a “tragedy” and a “catastrophe”, is referred to by Lubavitchers as “The Chernobyl Wonder”. It’s no accident either that beginning in the 1990’s — the period of the establishment of the Third Khazaria — Lubavitchers “opened season” on ritual bacchanalias in Pripiat’, the epicenter of the Chernobyl Wasteland. [Unfortunately the author doesn’t elaborate on these “ritual bacchanalias”. — Editor]

That’s why my theory of a planned diversion, the generous financing of which was able to guarantee the well-known consequences at Chernobyl, has a perfect right to exist.

But let’s return to the Third Khazaria, at whose foundations lies the “desert ideology” posited by my theory. What’s the essence of this ideology, whose very name deprives us of any hint of optimism?

Well really, to understand what I’m talking about, all you need to do is remove your “blinders”, take a look around you, and try to make sense of what you see. I hope it won’t be necessary for me to strain myself in depicting the obvious “achievements” of the generously-financed Third Khazarian “experiment”, which has ravaged our land like a tornado.

All of us are like addicts who were deprived of the “needle” of our socialist “stagnation”, writhing for more than ten years in the hellish “withdrawal” of Khazarian “reforms”. We continue to hope against hope that soon, very soon, things will get better — the main thing is to be patient. But with every day the number of those who were unable to survive their Khazarian “overdose” rises.

In my books I’ve repeatedly attempted to show just what kind of fate is being prepared for us who are still — for the time being — alive on this [post-Soviet] land. On our holy, long-suffering land, over which the Khazarian Sword of Damocles once again hangs.

To support my words I’ll once again cite a passage from my previous book. I’m referring to an article in the newspaper “Argumenty i Fakty” which I used in The Jewish Syndrome-2 and which will help you achieve understanding of the “desert ideology” of “The Third Khazaria”.

The name of the article is “The Country’s Dying. Quietly, but Quickly” (cited here in shortened form):

The decline of Ukraine’s demographic indicators was first established in 1993. Since that time one can observe a steady escalation in the crisis. Today we’re witnessing the lowest birth rate for the whole postwar period; it lags the death rate by nearly a factor of two. In the first nine months of 2001, 260 000 fewer people have been born in the Ukraine than have died. Adding to this figure data about the active emigration of our countrymen abroad, authors of numerous publications on the given topic have come to the following conclusion: Given the current rate of population decline, every 25-30 years the population of the country will decline by half, so if yet another 50-60 years pass the world map will be deprived of the mighty ox-shaped contours of the Ukraine, which is striving so mightily today to integrate itself into Europe!

There’s yet another “spicy” detail in the experts’ forecasts: the sharp reduction of the native population could trigger an intensive influx of immigrants, mainly from the Asian and African continents, and the proportional weight of the non-European population (which is not suffering at all from the demographic point of view — the only problem is in finding living space) will grow at a rate comparable with the dying-out of the native population. Racism is ugly and a sin, but once the Moors have move in to occupy the Dnieper you won’t be singing “We’re not dead yet…” any longer.

Optimists love to remind us that a few developed countries have an even lower birth rate than us. Yes, Italy, Spain, San Marino and Hong Kong are breeding even more slowly. But their process of depopulation is accompanied by a corresponding decrease in mortality and the rise in average life-expectancy. If we compare the last-mentioned criteria in the Ukraine to that of developed countries, we see that our “fleeting life” is more nine years more fleeting than that of Western Europeans’ and twelve years more than the Japanese’.

It’s been established that our demographic decline is determined above all by the use of birth control among women. But why is this happening? If in Europe the maternal instinct has been “deadened” by the ideals of career and emancipation, our far less feminized women are hindered by the fear of miscarriage or giving birth to a “defective” child: The quantity of unhealthy young women has risen sharply.

A certain “stability” is observed by the experts only in the primary causes of death, which have remained unchanged over the course of decades. First place among causes of death in the Ukraine is occupied by circulatory diseases. Second place — by malignant tumors. Next come accidents, poisoning, trauma and respiratory failure.

To round out the above-mentioned factors which are leading to the “emptying” of our country one can add epidemiological data: tuberculosis, which takes 9 000 lives annually, and social pathologies resulting from the low standard of living. Even more alarming than tuberculosis are HIV-related diseases. Their “advance” seems to indicate that an AIDS explosion may lie ahead.

 

Falsifying the History of the Russian Revolution

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Today, it is fashionable to assert that Bolshevism was a Russian phenomenon and that any reference to Judeo-Bolshevism is an anti-Semitic slander.

Yet, even the critics are forced to admit the “over representation” of Jews among the ranks of the revolutionaries. How they fudge the admission is to create a straw-man, which is that defenders of the term Judeo-Bolshevism make a complete identity between communism and the Jews, as though there were no other impetus behind the revolution at all.  The philo-Semites then call this identification Nazi.

Now, while Nazis may indeed make such assertions, it would be hard to ascertain, since that would involve reading Nazi tracts, which, in this age of censorship and guilt by association, can hardly be undertaken without attracting the very opprobrium that such research seeks to avoid. So, in the first place, that is an assertion impossible to refute.

Secondly, it is a lie, in so far as non-Nazi individuals also make similar assertions about the Jews and the revolutionaries, but do not make the two identical. The argument that they do is a straw-man. What non-Nazi usage of the term Judeo-Bolshevism asserts is not the pure identity of the two, nor, on the other hand, “over-representation,” which is a lie of a different kind.

The Jews were not merely over-represented in the Russian revolution; they dominated the revolution. And while all revolutionaries were not Jewish and all Jews were not revolutionaries, in the same way as all Germans were not Nazis nor were all Nazis Germans [some were of Jewish ethnicity], it is absolutely the case that the Russian revolution is inextricably linked to the Jews as a group, that Jews financed, led, and propagandized for the revolution, committed its worst excesses and boasted of all this among themselves, even if those facts are now being obfuscated among non-Jewish peoples.

Douglas Reed, a veteran journalist and reliable observer of international affairs, stated without equivocation [and in this he is supported by the ardent Zionist and part-Jewish Winston Churchill]:

The Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, which wielded the supreme power, contained 3 Russians (including Lenin) and 9 Jews. The next body in importance, the Central Committee of the Executive Commission (or secret police) comprised 42 Jews and 19 Russians, Letts, Georgians and others. The Council of People’s Commissars consisted of 17 Jews and five others. The Moscow Che-ka (secret police) was formed of 23 Jews and 13 others. Among the names of 556 high officials of the Bolshevik state officially published in 1918-1919 were 458 Jews and 108 others. Among the central committees of small, supposedly ‘Socialist’ or other nonCommunist parties… were 55 Jews and 6 others.”

Douglas Reed, The Recompense of Zion, Durban, 1978,  p. 274, cited in Vladimir Moss, “The Russian Jewish Revolution,” Academy.edu, Feb-March 2017.

In April 1917, almost half the members of the Petrograd Soviet bureau were Jews and on October 23, 1917, 5 out of the 12 members of the Bolshevik Central Committee were Jews, according to Enzo Traverso, “Intermezzo: The Jews and the Russian Revolution 1917-1937,” in “The Jewish Question,” Brill, October 2, 2, 2018.

Consider that the Jews constituted only around 2% of the population of the Soviet Union at the time, even though the Soviet Jews were still the largest Jewish population in the world, according to the Jerusalem Post, surely not an anti-Semitic outlet:

The roughly three million Jews of the Soviet Union at the time of the revolution constituted the largest Jewish community in the world, but they were only around 2% of the USSR’s population. They were concentrated in the Pale of Settlement (a western region of Imperial Russia) and in Ukraine and Belarussia, where they were 5% to 10% of the population, whereas in Russia itself the 1926 census found only 600,000 Jews.

For the Jews to be only over-represented in the Revolution, we need find them to be represented above 2% in the Soviet bureaucracy. Even double their actual proportions in the population would only mean about 4% of the Soviet administration would have been Jewish. But the proportion of Jews was not anywhere near 4%. It was 50% [the Petrograd Soviet Bureau], over 66% [Soviet secret police central committee], 75% [Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party] and over 85% [Bolshevik state high officials in 1918]. That is, the Jews were represented at all levels of the Revolution at a rate more than 20 times greater than their representation in the population. And that is a conservative estimate.

Judeo-Bolshevism, therefore, is not a racist characterization at all.

It is an accurate description of the nature of the revolution in Russia. Those who attack or characterize the description as anti-Semitic are apologists for crimes that are arguably quantitatively and qualitatively worse than those of the Nazis. The critics of the term Judeo-Bolshevism need to apologize for white-washing the monstrous crimes of their co-ethnics and slandering honest historians.

 

Shameful Silence From UK/US On Abu Akleh Murder

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Although Israel denies responsibility for Abu Akleh’s death, eyewitness accounts from fellow journalists who were with her at the time and video footage confirm the generally-held belief that this was a deliberate murder to stop her from reporting on the truth of the situation in Palestine.

If this had happened to any other journalist almost anywhere else in the world there would have been an outpouring of solidarity from the West. The precious issue of press freedom would be top of the agenda on mainstream news channels.

However, from Britain and the US there has been a shameful silence. Both countries are yet to decide on whether or not they will launch an independent investigation into Shireen’s murder. Indeed, their responses to the killing of Abu Akleh suggest strongly that they have no intention of pursuing a legitimate investigation if it involves Israel in any way, shape or form. Nevertheless, journalists around the world must continue to fight for justice and accountability.

Lila: The shameful complicity of Western Christians in the crimes of Israel and its faux Jewish enablers is proof that not Christ but anti-Christ, mammon, and race worship, are enthroned in churches and synagogues in the West.

Dugin Promotes Patriotic Queer, Nationalist Androgyne

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Log cabin Republicans, move over, Sasha’s here.

Counterpunch

Given what we know about Dugin’s far-right affiliations, it is tempting to imagine that his presentation of sex and gender in the Fourth Political Theory will take those of the previous three in more extreme directions. But this is not the case. Having given an overview of gender in the previous three political theories, the very first thing Dugin states is, “The Fourth Political Theory represents an aspiration to overcome the gender construction of the three political theories of modernity.” In other words, Dugin signals from the start that he does not wish to perpetuate traditional understandings of gender.

Dugin initially grapples with the attributes of gender in the Fourth Political Theory, first through the process of negation (in other words, what it is not): “In the face of this construction of ‘man’ as he who possesses reason, wealth, responsibility, city, white skin color, and so on, we revolt. This image of man must die; he doesn’t have a chance to survive, as he is closed inside modernity’s historical deadlock.” So, traditional masculinity is gone. Dugin then looks to positive attributes of gender in the Fourth Political Theory: to the “pre-logical” world of children, madness, intellectual transgression and, more generally, those who are “non-White/European, insane, nonurban or defined by a constructed landscape … the ecologist or aboriginal.”

It is in his discussion of the gendered subject of the Fourth Political Theory that Dugin starts to sound eerily like a queer theorist as he suggests it should be in a state of “between.” Dugin opts for the model of “Dasein,” referring to Heidegger’s understanding of existential being, which “can somehow be sexualized, but that sex which it has cannot be either male or female. It may make sense to speak about it in terms of the androgyne.” Even then Dugin does not want us to get stuck in the rut of thinking the androgyne is a combination of a binary sex or gender: “Should we say that the Fourth Political Theory may be addressed to the androgynous being, and its gender is the androgyne? Perhaps, but only if it is possible not to project onto the androgynous the obviously split models of sex as halves of a whole.” He wants us to think of the androgyne “not as a result of a combination of the man and the woman,” rather “primordial, untouched unity.”

GA Election Fraud: 1.7 Million Ballot Images Destroyed

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In their press conference on Monday VoterGA reported that they have identified more illegal actions from the 2020 Election in the state.

VoterGA announced today their dropbox video survey team determined that 102 Georgia counties were unable to produce dropbox surveillance videos from the November 2020 election. The team obtained admissions from 72 counties that all of the videos intended to monitor drop boxes for ballot trafficking were destroyed. VoterGA volunteers made the determinations by submitting Open Records Requests (ORR) for the videos from each county. Thus, video monitoring is missing for 181,507 cast ballots.

At a November 9, 2021 press conference, VoterGA announced that their ballot image analysis team determined at least 70 Georgia counties were unable to produce all the original ballot images from the November 2020 election. Digital ballot images are created automatically by the Dominion voting system for results tabulation. The team obtained admissions from 56 counties that most or all of their ballot images were unavailable. A total of 1.7 million images were destroyed.

According to state and federal law, all elections records must be retained. In fact, federal law requires a 22- month retention period for election records while state law requires a 24-month retention period for election documents that are formerly considered to include videos or electronic digital files. [USC 52 20701, O.C.G.A. 21-2-73].

Alice Walker’s Real Crime

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Weaponisation of Jewish texts
For decades, Israeli political, cultural and religious leaders have been shaping the social, legal and psychological landscape with repugnant guidance – inhumanity they serve to their public as divinely ordained truth. Some examples: In 2010, Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur wrote The King’s Torah, a rabbinical instruction manual outlining acceptable murder of Gentile babies, children and adults in which it claimed that the commandment “thou shalt not kill” applies only to Jews. The book was widely distributed throughout Israel from their yeshiva, which was funded by the Israeli government and by US tax-exempt charities.

In 2016, Israel’s chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef declared publicly that non-Jews should not be permitted to live in Israel except as servants to Jews. In March 2018, the same chief rabbi compared black people with monkeys and later defended this racism as being supported by the Talmud.

In April 2018, a translation of rabbi Ophir Wallas’ lecture revealed he was teaching upcoming soldiers that they are religiously permitted to commit genocide against Palestinians, but that fear of international condemnation is preventing it.

These are not proclamations by fringe Israelis. They are not poems by writers with no material power. Rather, they constitute a deeply embedded ethos of a huge swathe of Israeli society, including politicians, generals and spiritual leaders with extraordinary power – with planes, bombs, tanks, bulldozers, and toxic chemicals they use on Palestinians regularly.

They aren’t just hurting people’s feelings, but spurring real and profound injury to millions of human beings, every hour of every day, one generation after another, producing the soul-crushing statistics of an ancient people’s slow erasure from this world.

Selective condemnation
Yet those denouncing Alice Walker and calling on Palestinians to do the same did not once take up space in the New York Times, New York Magazine, or other prominent media venues to denounce the dissemination of the worst ideas from Jewish texts, which continue to inspire violence against Palestinians, their properties and holy places, including the increasing “price tag” assaults.

Nor have Palestinians called on allies to do so. We who are killed, humiliated, and destroyed in visible and invisible ways by Israel’s notions of Jewish supremacy do not expect our allies to prove over and over where they stand.

We also never point to the religious teachings Israelis consistently use to justify their barbarism. We take painstaking care to always make the distinction between the awful political ideology of Zionism and the religion to which it clings.

That Alice Walker used literary creativity to highlight the specific religious sources verifiably used to promulgate hatred does not make her racist and it is not a reason to turn on a beloved elder.

The real offence
Ms Walker’s real offence is her defiant support for Palestinian liberation. It is her unapologetic endorsement of BDS, the international Boycott, Divest and Sanction campaign against Israel.

Only weeks before the Zionist machines began clawing at Ms Walker, they were trying to skewer Professor Marc Lamont Hill.

Before them, there was Jimmy Carter, Jeremy Corbyn, Desmond Tutu, Roger Waters, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, Helen Thomas, Richard Falk. And before them was a whole generation of black revolutionaries. The list is too long to go on.

Their crime isn’t that they’re actually anti-Semitic. It is a sinister violation of public imagination to put any of these individuals under the same word as the attacker who opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue, or the white nationalists who chanted “Jews will not replace us”, or those who paint swastikas on their bodies and fly Nazi flags.

Alice Walker’s legacy has been one of love, defiance, and living one’s truth. She is a towering cultural figure, a civil rights leader, an ardent feminist, and a brave champion of human rights. She is also imperfect and not beyond criticism. But an anti-Semite she is not.