‘Holocaust inversion’ is a term that immediately calls to mind the worst crimes against humanity in history. It describes when the horror of the Holocaust is used as a weapon against the very people that suffered it (usually the Jewish people, though hatred against Roma people and other targets of Nazi ire should not be overlooked). It is as evil and pernicious as its twin in deplorability, Holocaust denialism. And today, it is everywhere…

“A friend in need…”

When Israel called for support in the wake of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, I and all decent humans across the globe showed up for the people of the Jewish nation. We didn’t check to see if our favoured political opinions had majority support among the electorate of the only democracy in the Middle East. Some things transcend politics. Atrocity transcends politics…

I have written several times before about the absurdity of UN resolutions demanding unilateral statehood recognition for the territory of ‘Palestine’. Not once in history has the former Arab partition or ‘Palestine’ as it is now known as wanted “independence” on the terms the rest of the world wants for it. Many times it has been offered, and many times it has been rejected. Because to accept statehood within the boundaries of the territory of ‘Palestine’ is to reject the claim they lay to the entirety of the Jewish nation…

…is an interesting thought experiment. Formulated by Leibniz, the original line of reasoning follows an appeal to the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing and all-benevolent God and the reconciliation of such an idea with the ‘Problem of Evil’ (Hume puts the problem as such: Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?). If this reality is in actuality the “best” possible somehow, then God can actually be all three positive traits at the same time without breaking the rules of reasoning…

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

—ostensibly Mark Twain

There is a surprising amount of fiction out there about ‘the eternal cycle of history’ or something similar. The Mass Effect games, the Wheel of Time series, Mr. Nobody (starring Jared Leto), Cloud Atlas, and on ad infinitum. What has happened before will happen again, barring some completely unforeseen deus ex machina sweeping in to smash the cycle (like Commander Shepard, for example)…

It is a strange period of time to live in. All periods of time are strange in their own ways; but we in the present moment have the unique position of knowing our history and of seeing it repeat in front of our eyes. It is as if the entire Jewish nation has become its own Alfred Dreyfus in the eyes of the world. Countless “democratic” resolutions in the United Nations condemn Israel more than the Islamic Republic of Iran, the People’s Republic of China, and the Russian Federation combined. Supposedly “impartial” NGOs like Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross seemingly care about everyone except the Jewish and Israeli victims of October 7th; not one humanitarian visit by any to the hostages of Hamas terrorists. It is a sick joke that the world is playing, blaming Jews for all the problems of the world yet again in history and dismissing their suffering as secondary or somehow “deserved”…

It is self-evident that our present moment is rife with intolerance. I have experienced it firsthand in several forms throughout my life. There are many still among us that are not content with leaving well enough alone in the lives of their neighbors and many that actively take measures against others for no other reason than the identity of their victims…

It is hard to put into words the levels of depravity that occurred on October 7th, 2023 and the utter atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists. It is harder still to reconcile the things that I have seen and witnessed from that day with the fact that I still want to maintain faith in humanity. It is just too horrible to comprehend. I cannot fit it into my paradigm of the world as an Alan Watts-esque “life as a game and dance” philosophy. But some things cannot be ignored. It is a choice between either sleepless nights as a result of acceptance of reality; or, denial of it…

Imagine if you will growing up in an active warzone. Picture the Blitz of London; or, for a more contemporary example, life for the past years in Ukraine. Now imagine a lower intensity but constant bombing and terrorism campaign against your home stretching out over decades, and one that occasionally escalates into unimaginable horror and tragedy…

I have written many times about the unbelievable historical miracle that is the modern nation of Israel. You may consider this article a synthesis of various things I have learned that I believe vital to understanding the Jewish nation and its place in history and in the ever-present moment…

After being involved in this fight for so long, I’ve learned a thing or two about the enemies of the tolerant society. It is no longer surprising to me to see antisemites lie even when the truth is presented directly in front of their faces. We’ve all heard the more egregious accusations of “genocide”, “apartheid”, and “ethnic cleansing” thrown ad nauseam against the Jewish state. No less evil are the assertions that Israelis kill Palestinians to harvest their organs or that Jews are “white colonialist”, “settler”, “occupiers” of the land they are indigenous to…