The Post-Partisan Emporium

  No, there were no ‘antisemitic pogroms’ in Amsterdam. Here’s what really happened. Media claims of ‘antisemitic pogroms’ against Israeli fans in Amsterdam are the latest in a pattern of false narratives fueling anti-Muslim violence and justifying the genocide in Gaza. By   Sana Saeed   A crowd of Israelis tear down a Palestinian flag hanging on a building in the city of Amsterdam. Hundreds of Israelis and fans of the notoriously racist Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team had traveled to the city for a match in the city. Following a string of attacks and vandalism carried out by Israelis, the Maccabi fans were targeted in what the media dubbed an ‘antisemitic pogrom’. (Screenshot, X) “ Olé, olé! Olé, olé, olé! Let the IDF win and fuck the Arabs! Olé, olé! Olé, olé, olé! Why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there!” On the night of November 7th, there was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Amsterdam as young Dutch Moroccans on scooters descended onto the streets to assault...

  The Government Lies Just Keep On Coming Candidates don’t understand that a truly strong America means fundamental rights and no wars Philip Giraldi The Framers of the United States Constitution understood several things very clearly from their experience as a colonial vassal state with only limited legislative or self-governing authority under the rule of Britain’s King George III. That principle lesson learned, justifying a revolution, was that the leader or ruler of a nation must not be allowed to unilaterally initiate armed conflicts because war is the greatest calamity that can afflict a nation and its people. That was why the US president under the balance of powers had no ability under the Constitution to initiate a war on his or her own authority. It required an act of war approved by Congress with the legislature also providing the funding and most of the manpower through voluntary levies from the state militias as the national army was deliberately small. And why might a...

The State of Israel as "Cartoonishly Evil"?  Ron Unz Itamar Ben-Gvir, Convicted Terrorist and Current Israeli Minister of National Security Last week I published  an article  on the dramatic events in domestic American politics, including President Joseph Biden’s sudden disappearance from the presidential race and the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the candidate in his place. Nothing like this had ever previously happened in American political history and it came only a couple of weeks after a highly-suspicious assassination attempt had nearly killed former President Donald Trump, the opposing Republican candidate. But although the bulk of my article focused upon those matters, I also included a few paragraphs near the end presenting some shocking new disclosures in the ongoing Israel/Gaza conflict. As I wrote at the time: Politico  is one of America’s leading mainstream media outlets on politics and public affairs and ten days ago it published  a ...