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PART 3 - The ONLY 3 Facts You Need to Know About Israel, Palestine, and the Jews
If you only watch one video about Israel, Palestine and the Jews, it should be this.
Welcome to part three of my three part series.
The only three things you need to know about Israel, Palestine and the Jews.
If you missed parts one or two, you can find the links in the description below.
I suggest you check those out first.
But if you wanna be weird and watch 'em out of order, I don't care.
None.
Do you boo.
There's a cartoon I saw online once that I often think back to, to ground me as I
undertake the work of Jewish advocacy in a world that can be less than kind to Jews.
It's an image of one guy standing in front of a sea of thousands of people
staring him down, and the guy says, yes, I'm saying that all of you are wrong.
This is what moral clarity feels like in 2026.
At times, you will be placed at odds with the majority.
You will be told you are brainwashed when in fact you
have resisted the brainwashing.
To be right in this work is to stand against a tide of people
who are convinced you are wrong.
Which brings me to the third and final pillar of our mental Iron dome.
A concept that I'm coining the Jeremiah Effect.
That's right, adeem Crack.
Open those Bibles because Hebrew school is in session.
We're gonna flip to the book of Jeremiah, which can be found in
the section of the Tenah or Hebrew Bible called ne are prophets.
Jeremiah lived during the final decades of the Kingdom of Judah,
a k, a, biblical Israel, and he was present for one of the most
catastrophic moments in Jewish history.
The destruction of Jerusalem and the first temple by the Babylonians in 5 86 BCE.
Jeremiah's defining trait was his moral clarity in isolation.
He warned Judah that its corruption would lead to destruction.
While all the other leaders assured a future of peace and security as
a reward for his stance, Jeremiah was ridiculed, beaten, imprisoned,
and ostracized by his own community.
Yet he refused to deny what he knew to be true.
Without expectation of success or popularity, and he remains steadfast
in his compassion for his people grieving their impending doom,
even as he warned them of it.
Truth vs. The Inversion of Reality
We spoke last week about inversion, how all of the libels Jews are
accused of are actually heinous acts, being committed against Jews
by those who seek to destroy us.
One of the oldest inversions is that the Jews are a secret cobble of conspirators,
plotting to control our minds and take over the world, when in reality it is our
enemies who conspire, who work together to concoct and skillfully disseminate
a malicious and demonizing narrative meant to turn the world against us.
Just think about it objectively for a second, which sounds more plausible.
That 15 million Jews needed to be propaganda by day school teachers and
the Israeli government into a false understanding of our own history, values,
and lived experience in order to trick us into supporting Jewish sovereignty in
the world's only Jewish state where the majority of us live and or are otherwise
in some way personally connected to.
Or that Israel's 2.2 billion enemies used propaganda on billions of other
unsuspecting non-Jews around the world in their openly stated mission to destroy
the little Jewish country that could.
This inversion of reality where the truth seems isolating and consensus
seems false is not accidental.
It is the cost of refusing a lie that hypnotizes the many.
This is what it feels like and we must prepare ourselves mentally to be faced
with that feeling and not thrown by it.
The Anti-Zionist Ecosystem and Institutional Bias
Now, you may wonder as I have, how can this happen?
How can so many be so wrong on something so easy to get right?
Well, I want to try to help answer that in a couple of ways.
First, as we covered last week, is the closed loop anti-Zionist ecosystem.
On the one hand, you've got social media and academics, both of which have
been heavily and strategically pumped full of foreign money from the likes of
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Iran.
Why?
Because those are the two arenas where our young people spend all
of their time at school and online.
No wonder Gen Z is the most anti-Jewish generation we've seen in nearly a century.
On the other hand, you've got institutions like the UN or legacy media outlets or
human rights organizations, to which we mistakenly ascribe an aura of moral
perfection and unimpeach ability.
In this, we fall prey to a number of cognitive biases, authority bias,
institutional trust bias, status quo bias.
Because these institutions possess the mantle of authority, because we assume
good faith from established systems, and because we assume if they've been around a
while, it means they must be working well.
We treat such institutions uncritically like heavenly
bodies, incapable of wrongdoing.
But in fact, institutions are of course just groups of people.
Nothing more, nothing less.
And as we know, people are flawed, inherently unequal in moral character,
and aptitude, all susceptible to bias and mental weakness, and all
of whom have their own agendas.
To dismiss this intrinsic reality of institutions is to be either naive or
blissfully cocooned in the privilege of a life as yet untouched by the wicked
machinations of these organizations.
Now, nice for you.
All of these entities share sight and a yes and each other off
the same lies and distortions.
Pinging the desired anti narrative back and forth, helping it bloom, unfettered
within a massive, faux progressive echo chamber of their own design.
Why We Fall for Propaganda: Cognitive Biases
But wait, you may be saying 18-year-old dodos who use TikTok
like Google are one thing.
But what about my friends, my family, my teachers, my colleagues.
I know they studied Nazi Germany in school.
I know they learned how dangerous and effective propaganda can be.
So how is it possible for them to still fall prey to it?
Or on the flip side, they may say, well look at all these intelligent
people who say Israel bad Palestine.
Good.
How could they possibly all be wrong?
And my answer to both of these groups is the same.
And it's actually a question, what do you think Nazi Germany looked like?
What do you think it means when we say that all of the
politicians and intelligentsia and academics and journalists
all saying the same anti-Jewish tune this, it looked like this.
And there's the rub.
Because of the way our brains work, we are essentially only able to study
history as spectators, never from the view as participants in its next chapter.
Why drum roll please?
Four Cognitive biases.
Honestly, that could also be the name of this show.
I find these absolutely fascinating.
The first is historical exceptionalism.
We arrogantly assume that our moment is fundamentally different
from the past, even when structural conditions are basically the same
and the warning signs identical.
We believe humans of the past were constrained by ignorance, primitive
norms, or yes, even duped by propaganda.
But not us.
We are enlightened, informed and morally superior, totally removed from those
other people who, by the way, were basically just like our grandparents.
As a result, we treat history as interesting, but not diagnostic.
There's moral self-licensing.
Because I learned the history, I would never repeat it or the
they were monstrous fallacy.
If I were there, I would've acted differently than bullshit.
History clearly teaches us again and again that our most catastrophic failures
were carried out by ordinary people, not uniquely evil monsters from another world,
and that these ordinary people were acting within societal norms, not outside them.
The last cognitive bias I'll touch on because this is getting a bit
long and things always feel better in threes, is temporal distance bias.
Cognitive psychology teaches us that events far away in time are
processed abstractly while events close to us are processed concretely.
Thus, we analyze history at a remove with a clear sense of causality and
morality while we experience the present emotionally and situationally.
Our pesky brains resist collapsing those two modes into one.
So the exact same pattern may be understood entirely differently,
simply depending on when it occurs.
Building Your Mental Iron Dome
So as you cling to your sense of what's right and true, you will be told you are
biased, emotional, reactionary, blinded by your identity, or paid by apac.
You are not unless you know you work at apac.
The confusion, the isolation, the sense that reality has inverted.
These are not signs of error.
They are symptoms of rectitude.
The Jeremiah effect names this experience.
Understand it, expect it, be ready for it, or it will shake you.
And that is why embracing it is the final pillar of our
impenetrable mental fortification.
Palestinian anti-Zionism.
The Jeremiah effect, full comprehension and command of these three concepts
will safeguard your moral clarity in an impregnable fortress that
not even Dave Smith can get into.
And that douche Muppet is everywhere for some reason.
And now, armed with your very own mental Iron Dome, the greatest Jew hate
defense system in the world, I need you to get out there and reclaim the
truth from those who seek to deny it.
You're not required to convince everyone.
You're not required to win the internet.
In fact, you don't need to win the argument at all.
You just need to make sure you've got the armor to withstand
the fight day after day.
Ignorance, laziness, and hate are their weapons.
Clarity is ours, and when you need a reminder, recall the cartoon
I mentioned at the beginning.
Truth doesn't need a crowd.
It needs people willing to stand still when the crowd moves and when you
feel alone, remember, you're not lost.
You're early.
All of history's great movements.
Had to start somewhere.
And now that we've got you ready to be a part of this one.
The only question is, will you?
This concludes my three part series.
The only three things you need to know about Israel, Palestine and the Jews.
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