For several years, I have understood that there has been a great contradiction between what we have been told to believe and how the Zionists in Israel have used fear and propaganda to dehumanize Palestinians over the past 75 years. I began to realize just how the lands of the western hemisphere were stolen from the aboriginal peoples and declared the rightful lands of European Judeo-Christian Monarchs, the Catholic church, and their feudal enforcers. Just as European history has intentionally blinded us to the truth of the brutality of theft, rape, and genocide across the Americas and the Caribbean, it has been Zionist propaganda that has done the same in Palestinian lands we refer to as Israel.
The mantra, ‘Israel has a right to exist and defend itself,’ is what has been instilled in us through Western media since the United Nations partitioned the land that was once known as Palestine, formally a part of the Ottoman Empire. But we have seldom seen the Western nations listen to Muslim or Arab entities’ declarations that the Palestinian people have a right to a state of their own and the right to defend themselves against aggression, violence, and subjugation. Once the UN declarations of 1947 created Israel, Zionists were supported militarily by Britain and the US to expel millions of Palestinians from their ancestral homes. Most people who moved onto those lands were Europeans who practiced Judaism but were not necessarily connected to the area genetically.
What they brought to the area was a hatred for Arabs that is not so different from the hatred Hitler and Ayran Germans held for German Jews. What has worked for the Zionists is the victimhood Jews have enjoyed for over 70 years due to the fragmentation and tribalism of surrounding Arab nations that has allowed Israel’s right-wing to conflate any critical view of their thuggery with antisemitism. The Palestinian people are victims of Zionist aggression and betrayal from other Arab and Persian nations (tribes): Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Iran, Iraq, UAE, and others. That betrayal includes other Palestinians: Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and the former Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
It is important to understand what is overlooked in the United States during the protests of Israel’s response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks. Iran and Russia had a direct hand in training and supplying resources for the attack. President Biden is weighing how to provide for Israel’s security while trying to offer protections for the populace that Hamas is willing to put at risk in this war.
Many parts of the coalition that elected Biden in 2020 hold him responsible for what is happening in Gaza. It is an uninformed position that lacks comprehension and critical review. Why? A 2nd Trump Presidency would see him turn his back on Palestine, Eastern Europe, and Asia to allow Russia, China, and possibly North Korea to do whatever they want as long as he is financially compensated.
https://history.howstuffworks.com/world-history/zionism.htm
Zionism is a nationalist movement that successfully established an independent state for the Jewish people in 1948 and continues to support Judaism’s claim to Israel, its ancient homeland. It is also one of the most complex and controversial political ideas of the past 150 years.
Although Zionism draws its name from the biblical Mount Zion, it isn’t primarily a religious movement. True, many of the Jewish people have yearned for a return to Abraham’s “Promised Land” for 2,000 years, but the leaders of the modern Zionist movement weren’t driven by messianic zeal. In fact, most were secular and even agnostic Jews who identified the Jewish people as a nation rather than a religion. Zionism for them meant the creation of an independent political state for the Jewish nation.
Zionism itself wouldn’t be problematic if the Jewish people were the only people with claims on the Holy Land. Palestinian Arabs, who comprised the majority of people living in the land known as Palestine for centuries under the yoke of both the Ottoman and British empires, feel that the land should be rightfully theirs.
The result is one of the thorniest and most hotly debated political issues in the modern world. Zionists and other supporters of Israel argue that the safety and continued existence of the brutally persecuted Jewish people depends on the existence of a Jewish state, and the rightful place for that state is Judaism’s ancestral homeland.
Meanwhile, Palestinians and their supporters cast Zionism as an imperialist (or worse, racist) movement that forcefully colonized Arab lands and subjugated the native Palestinian people as second-class citizens. Beyond those already striking divisions, decades of war and sectarian violence have inflicted deep emotional wounds that turn any discussion of Zionism into a potential minefield.
(In other words Israel is a racist political entity stolen from Palestinian Arabs by Europeans who observed Judaism. In America we have always accepted the conflation of Zionism and Judaism just as racist here hope to successfully conflate the policies of racist Christian Nationalism with Christianity )
Political Disinformation
Progressives and Minority voters are being targeted via social media by Russian, Chinese, and North Korean propagandists to take a shortsighted view of the circumstances in favor of Trump.
It’s clear that Trump and Republicans are using social media to try to manipulate minority voters. Recently, Trump supporters posted a series of AI generated memes purportedly showing Trump surrounded by Black supporters.
Note that the guy on the right in the first image has 3 arms. Note that no one in either of the next two images have on any MAGA apparel. The manipulation goes deeper with Trump stating that Blacks like him because they have also been victimized by an unfair criminal justice system, except Blacks go to jail first then to court. Trump goes to court where judges seem reluctant to put him in jail. Then he praises police for their brutality against minority suspects.
Another where a lot of disinformation has been published is with Trump’s v Biden’s perceived support of HBCU’s. I am providing clarifying information to refute the disinformation.
Finally, there is a lot of talk about ‘Project 2025’. This is a plan by rightwing corporations and think tanks to roll back the rights of Americans who are not Christian males of a certain economic class. I have provided images that summerize their agenda on various topics. We should take every one of them seriously.
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Fact Check:
The Instagram post attempts to compare Trump and Biden’s handling of HBCU government funding, saying, “Say what you want about Trump… but he permanently funded HBCUs. Biden defunded them by $30 billion dollars. The black community was manipulated for votes.”
Trump did sign the FUTURE Act into law in December 2019. That bipartisan bill permanently authorized $255 million a year for HBCUs and other minority-serving educational institutions, according to Forbes. (RELATED: Did Joe Biden Cancel $250 Million For Historically Black Colleges And Universities?)
The post’s claim about Biden “defunding” HBCUs by $30 billion, however, doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. The $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, a key piece of Biden’s domestic agenda that is still being negotiated in Congress, originally proposed $45 billion in new, additional funding to HBCUs and minority-serving institutions, according to the Associated Press. That new funding has since been reduced to $2 billion in a more recent version of the legislation, the outlet reported Oct. 5.
“The Build Back Better Act proposes a new $2 billion fund for HBCUs and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) research infrastructure,” Victor Santos, senior director for government relations at the public HBCU-representing Thurgood Marshall College Fund, told Check Your Fact via email. “This is a brand new pot of money that has not previously existed. The bill also includes a $27.5 billion tuition-assistance fund for students at HBCUs and MSIs.”
Santos added that “there has been a decrease based upon the original proposals set forth by the administration, but again, these were not existing programs but new programs and the original figures presented were aspirational goals.” (RELATED: Would Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda ‘Cost Zero Dollars’?)
“In addition, dollars would have been and still are competitive grants between HBCUs and MSIs. There are 569 Hispanic Serving Institutions or HSIs (one type of MSI) and only 101 HBCUs. HSIs include schools like the University of Miami, University of California, and the University of Texas. It is likely that even from the larger number originally proposed aspirationally – HBCUs would have only received a small percentage,” Santos went on to say. “The Build Back Better Act also includes a $1.45 billion increase in mandatory appropriations for HBCUs and MSIs over 10 years.”
Walter M. Kimbrough, president of Dillard University, called the “$30 billion HBCU cut” claim a “lie” and said “there has not been a cut in funding” in an Oct. 5 tweet thread. Dillard University is an HBCU.
“Fact: ‘Each year, the federal government disperses about $1 billion to HBCUs through a mix of 15 programs such as Pell Grants and research and development contracts.’ You CAN’T cut 30 from 1. Simple math,” Kimbrough said in one tweet.
The White House on Oct. 9 put out a fact sheet detailing its “Investments and Support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities,” including requesting a “total of $887 million for HBCU-specific funding in Higher Education Act (HEA) Title III funds” in Biden’s fiscal year 2022 budget and providing “over $4 billion in relief funding to HBCUs” through the American Rescue Plan.
“The only words the president contributed were his signature, ‘Donald J. Trump,’” Rep. Alma Adams, D-N.C., an original sponsor of the bill, told Inside Higher Ed in August.
Total funding for the program has trended up under Trump. However, the president’s budget proposals for the last three years show the White House repeatedly requested less in discretionary funding through the program than Congress provided.
The White House has also tried to trim funding for federal TRIO programs, which are designed to provide services to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/01/trump-black-americans-policies-433744
Lil Wayne set social media ablaze Thursday when the self-proclaimed “best rapper alive” revealed meeting privately with President Donald Trump, joining the pantheon of past-their prime Black male rap stars — Ice Cube and 50 Cent — in embracing the president.
“Just had a great meeting with @realdonaldtrump @potus besides what he’s done so far with criminal reform, the platinum plan is going to give the community real ownership,” he tweeted alongside a now-viral photo of the rapper and the president side by side, smiling and offering a thumbs up.
The morning after Philadelphia police fatally shot a Black man, 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr., Trump praised officers as “the most incredible people on earth.”
Later that day, his campaign rolled out a new ad, “Uphold the Law,” a 30-second spot that falsely accused Biden and Kamala Harris of fanning flames while American cities burned, “refusing to strongly condemn violence” — the narrator says — and “supporting bail funds that helped let rioters, looters and dangerous criminals out of jail.”
The Real Objective of a 2nd Trump Presidency: Kill Democracy and empower White Male Autocratic Rule
A Reasonable Point of View 