Gotta say… I hate his views on what to do with a sibling with schizophrenia. Lock him up in a padded room? No dude.
He’s definitely a tankie🤡
That being said, if anyone has a doubt Israel is committing genocide - it’s because our media is censored (or they choose to be) and wants to avoid being called antisemitic. What’s happening over there can be viewed live. There are no excuses.
I’d rather be called “antisemitic” than be complicit in the U.S.-funded genocide.
“,The genocide makes me go a bit nuts every few days and break down crying,’ Rodriguez told the chat over a year ago.” This sentence caught my attention because several of us just said virtually the same thing on X when we saw the photo of hundreds of Palestinians in a giant cage waiting for food.
Thanks for this, Ken. I no longer question whether it was a false flag. I got a little nervous when I read the litany of people he hated because I’m not far behind him. (Now the FBI will visit me. 🤣)
I'm curious why he would shoot up outside a Jewish museum. He did not seem to know they were staffers before.
While he may not have been explicitly antisemitic, there are many who unfortunately conflate Israel and Jews (including Hamas). He seems to have been targeting Jews as he had no way of knowing if they were Israeli before shooting.
They were employed by the state of Israel, coming out of a networking event dedicated to Israel, and it was the same place where Aaron Bushnell self immolated. He's literally charged with murdering "foreign officials." You're overthinking it. If all he wanted to do was kill some random Jews he could have done so many times over in other places.
I’m guessing they were targeted bc they were employed by Israel and he knew they’d be there. Surely the details will come out in time, as I’m just speculating.
Murdering people in front of a museum provides more opportunity than trying to do so in front of an embassy, and there’s much less surveillance.
Hi. I run niche but culturally influential forum website Something Awful. I would very much like to know anything you know this persons online identity there. Shooting people is strictly against our rules and I would like to ban this person's account with extreme prejudice.
Thanks for the comprehensive check on him, good journalism at work enlightening the reader.
I found most significant that he appeared to be calm and reasonable in the period leading up to the murders. That shows his satisfaction with a specific course of action that, for him, resolved things and ended his anguish. At the individual level this is exactly like the group euphoria seen when a war breaks out - now we are going to settle things once and for all!
For me, what Israel is doing is predictable from what we know of human beings - that any group can do what the Nazis did. The reaction to the holocaust in Zionism has been to transfer the trauma of the holocaust to people who were not involved and were born free of the trauma only to be taught it so thoroughly that they see themselves as victims to the extent that killing the other is done without hesitation. Israel insists that the lesson of the holocaust is about Jews, not about humanity, and we see the result.
Trips by Israeli high school kids to Auschwitz have been educational in this transfer of trauma by making a forceful impression that Jews are separate from and despised by the other and must eternally, as Netanyahu has said, live by the sword, the avenging sword that will never let the Nazi experience leave the mind. It is a curse placed on the young by their elders and the Palestinians are the current fill-ins for the Nazis.
Uh, just who's the "we" you're referring to here, certainly you can't mean the IGF (Israeli Genocide Force) responsible for the deaths an estimated 186,000 Gazans per a June 2024 paper in The Lancet, about half of them being innocent children, a total which has been added to steadily since then, including recently 9 of 10 children in one Gazan family alone?
And I doubt you mean the 82% of Israeli society in general who support the forced expulsion of residents of Gaza, and the 47% who believe the Israeli government should adopt more aggressive policies against the Palestinians, according to a recent Penn State Univ. poll?
Umm if we are quoting polls, I'm sure there are hundreds of polls of Palestinian society who are ok with the death of the Jews. (And it's Palestine that is Judenrein, while Israel is not arab-free.).
I'm consistent: people do not deserve to be killed. Not children, not innocents, whether Israeli or Palestinian. People are allowed to hold horrible opinions and do not deserve to be killed unless they personally acted on them. War should be against combatant. You seem to be ok with October 7th.
And 186k is an insane retard number. Even Hamas doesn't claim that much.
I quoted a poll, readily available online, where is your quote, aside from residing somewhere in your imagination and convenient speculations, unsupported by any information?
The 186,000 figure, again since you didn't get the first time around, comes from The Lancet, a highly regarded medical journal. The paper in which the 186,000 figure is readily available online, but since it will upend your hasbara-steeped mind, you not only won't, you can't read it. Best to continue in steadily enveloping ignorance.
Further, "186k is an insane retard number. Even Hamas doesn't claim that much," how many does Israel claim, including the number of children terrorists, truly a new development in warfare, not even since the Children's Crusade in the 13th century? Being on the hi-tech end of military force, surely the Israeli Genocide Force would want to give close examination to this unprecedented development and devise means to counter it.
The Israelis have been pushing Palestinians out of the West Bank illegally, taking over their land, their property, for nearly 80 years now, and you make the galactically nonsensical remark that Palestine is Judenrein?
"I'm consistent: people do not deserve to be killed. Not children, not innocents, whether Israeli or Palestinian."
No, you're not consistent, you've failed to give reason or ascribe responsibility for the deliberate, intentional, planned, orchestrated, ruthless killings of innocents, not in the least tens of thousands of children - CHILDREN, if that hasn't yet been impressed upon you - and celebrated - CELEBRATED, LIVE-STREAMED- by IGF personnel, you know, members of "the most moral army in the world?
Oct. 7th. Do have have any - ANY - knowledge of history whatsoever? Are you banned from even mentioning the word"Nakba," not to mention the history leading up to it as well as the wretched history after it for the Palestinians? Are you at all aware that the founders of Zionism, Herzl, Jabotinsky, Ben-Gurion et al. explicitly called for the expulsion of Palestinians from the early 20th century? And on the infinitesimally tiny probability that you do know any of this, do you, might you consider it at least somewhat conceivable, that all that displacement from their lands, all that disruption in their lives, all the subsequent humiliations and degradations, all the impoverishment, all the stunting of life prospects, all at the hands and plottings of the Israelis, might, just might serve as some, just some pretext for Oct. 7th?
How long have you been an anti-Gazist, or do you proudly, unhesitatingly state, "Why even some of my best friends are Gazans"?
You're insane if you think the number is LESS than 180K dead with God knows how many maimed and wounded. This isn't rocket science. Israel has dropped a higher tonnage of bombs on a 20 or so square mile densely populated area in the past 20 months than were dropped by the Allies in all of WWII.
As far as October 7 - Are we "OK" with it? Only in the sense that history didn't begin - nor did the Israeli committed atrocities and massacres - on that day and even the UN says that any occupied people have the right to resist their occupation including with violent methods.
I bet you were "OK" with the Nazis putting down concentration camp revolts and killing all the Jews and others who took part, right? They should never have tried to end their own imprisonment and occupation, right?
Judenrein? You apparently don't know current or past history at all. It was the Israeli Zionists who set off terror attack after terror attack all throughout the ME set up as false flags to make Jews who were perfectly safe and thriving in places like Iraq, Iran and Egypt believe they were in danger and had to move to "Israel."
Tell us what "Hamas" claims, then. Provide a source and a link to the official "Hamas" count - and show us their methodology.
And no, no such polls of Palestinians indicating they want all Jews everywhere gone or dead. If you ever talked to one you'd know that in the region and beyond, the Zionists conflate Israel with all of Judaism and that's the parlance in Palestine as well. Thus when they say "the Jews" they mean Israeli Zionists who happen to be the people who have - on an industrial scale - murdered, expelled, and stolen from them for almost a century now. Get real and come out of the Zionism closet - you're clearly a Zionist apologist whether or not you're comfortable yet admitting it. "Israel" DOES NOT have "the right to exist" in its present form. Period.
This is why I say watch the entire video, here is a quote from one of the presenters:
Rami: “All rules have been completely dissolved and that is from Israel’s initiative from 1947 till today, the systematic attack of diplomats. They seem to want to call for global sympathy, yet they are the number one cause of death of diplomats, at least in recent history” [referring to the killing of 16 diplomats in the Israeli attack on Iran's embassy in Syria last year].
This is the ugly game that Israel is playing, feeling free to kill at will while expecting complete impunity. "All rules have been completely dissolved."
It was last Thursday when I came across in, of all places, the Detroit Jewish News which carried a story with the line, “His [Yaron Lischinsky’s] final post on social media was a repost of a message condemning the United Nations’ false claim that 14,000 infants in Gaza were facing imminent starvation, labeling it a modern-day blood libel.”
Huh? Where did that come from? A repost to boot? What's an aspiring diplomat doing trading in nonsense such as that, a notion borne out nowhere else in the fact-based media? That kinda raises eyebrows.
Fantastic job again Ken and I hope there were no trips from the FBI this time! Showing the other side of this story is appreciated especially with it being dominated by conspiracy theories.
Yes, but based on my interactions with her the other day- it’s not in good faith. She's here to cause trouble. If “she” is even real. 🤦♀️ She sounded like a maga bot from 2020.
I find it interesting that these murders have essentially fallen off the radar given the overwrought claims of anti-semitism which are endlessly being flogged by the MSM (I haven't checked rightwing media and don't intend to). It makes me wonder why this is, especially given the fact that the male victim had what I would consider a rather sus background in "diplomacy".
They say history doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes. This - all of it really - is rhyming really hard for me right now with the case of Herschel Feibel Grynszpan and Nazi Germany. I'll leave it to any interested readers to look him up, but famous Marxist Leon Trotsky issued a statement that is very germane to the present situation. Down to the false flag accusations and all. Some excerpts highlighting how acts such as this are not just weaponized after the fact, but are *provoked* by TPTB, in a broadside against Stalinism and Nazism at the same time.
>>"It is clear to anyone even slightly acquainted with political history that the policy of the fascist gangsters directly and sometimes deliberately provokes terrorist acts. What is most astonishing is that so far there has been only one Grynszpan. Undoubtedly the number of such acts will increase.
...
All the more revolting in its police stupidity and inexpressible violence is the campaign now being conducted against Grynszpan by command of the Kremlin in the international Stalinist press. They attempt to depict him as an agent of the Nazis or an agent of Trotskyists in alliance with the Nazis. Lumping into one heap the provocateur and his victim, the Stalinists ascribe to Grynszpan the intention of creating a favorable pretext for Hitler’s pogrom measures.
...
The Stalinists shriek in the ears of the police that Grynszpan attended “meetings of Trotskyites.” That, unfortunately, is not true. For had he walked into the milieu of the Fourth International he would have discovered a different and more effective outlet for his revolutionary energy. People come cheap who are capable only of fulminating against injustice and bestiality. But those who, like Grynszpan, are able to act as well as conceive, sacrificing their own lives if need be, are the precious leaven of mankind.
Our open moral solidarity with Grynszpan gives us an added right to say to all the other would-be Grynszpans, to all those capable of self-sacrifice in the struggle against despotism and bestiality: Seek another road! Not the lone avenger but only a great revolutionary mass movement can free the oppressed, a movement that will leave no remnant of the entire structure of class exploitation, national oppression, and racial persecution. The unprecedented crimes of fascism create a yearning for vengeance that is wholly justifiable. But so monstrous is the scope of their crimes, that this yearning cannot be satisfied by the assassination of isolated fascist bureaucrats."<<
So it's more accurate to call him a tankie misanthrope than an antisemite lol
pretty much
Chuckled a bit at his rant against PSL 🤣
Same! PSL is ick.
Gotta say… I hate his views on what to do with a sibling with schizophrenia. Lock him up in a padded room? No dude.
He’s definitely a tankie🤡
That being said, if anyone has a doubt Israel is committing genocide - it’s because our media is censored (or they choose to be) and wants to avoid being called antisemitic. What’s happening over there can be viewed live. There are no excuses.
I’d rather be called “antisemitic” than be complicit in the U.S.-funded genocide.
“,The genocide makes me go a bit nuts every few days and break down crying,’ Rodriguez told the chat over a year ago.” This sentence caught my attention because several of us just said virtually the same thing on X when we saw the photo of hundreds of Palestinians in a giant cage waiting for food.
Thanks for this, Ken. I no longer question whether it was a false flag. I got a little nervous when I read the litany of people he hated because I’m not far behind him. (Now the FBI will visit me. 🤣)
I'm curious why he would shoot up outside a Jewish museum. He did not seem to know they were staffers before.
While he may not have been explicitly antisemitic, there are many who unfortunately conflate Israel and Jews (including Hamas). He seems to have been targeting Jews as he had no way of knowing if they were Israeli before shooting.
They were employed by the state of Israel, coming out of a networking event dedicated to Israel, and it was the same place where Aaron Bushnell self immolated. He's literally charged with murdering "foreign officials." You're overthinking it. If all he wanted to do was kill some random Jews he could have done so many times over in other places.
I’m guessing they were targeted bc they were employed by Israel and he knew they’d be there. Surely the details will come out in time, as I’m just speculating.
Murdering people in front of a museum provides more opportunity than trying to do so in front of an embassy, and there’s much less surveillance.
Hi. I run niche but culturally influential forum website Something Awful. I would very much like to know anything you know this persons online identity there. Shooting people is strictly against our rules and I would like to ban this person's account with extreme prejudice.
I wonder how many people using the term "tankie" actually know what it meant (when it was relevant).
I was about to ask: What is 'tankie?'
Thanks Ken. Great reporting. I'd be interested to know how he got to this point, but I don't trust the MSM to report that accurately.
Thanks for the comprehensive check on him, good journalism at work enlightening the reader.
I found most significant that he appeared to be calm and reasonable in the period leading up to the murders. That shows his satisfaction with a specific course of action that, for him, resolved things and ended his anguish. At the individual level this is exactly like the group euphoria seen when a war breaks out - now we are going to settle things once and for all!
For me, what Israel is doing is predictable from what we know of human beings - that any group can do what the Nazis did. The reaction to the holocaust in Zionism has been to transfer the trauma of the holocaust to people who were not involved and were born free of the trauma only to be taught it so thoroughly that they see themselves as victims to the extent that killing the other is done without hesitation. Israel insists that the lesson of the holocaust is about Jews, not about humanity, and we see the result.
Trips by Israeli high school kids to Auschwitz have been educational in this transfer of trauma by making a forceful impression that Jews are separate from and despised by the other and must eternally, as Netanyahu has said, live by the sword, the avenging sword that will never let the Nazi experience leave the mind. It is a curse placed on the young by their elders and the Palestinians are the current fill-ins for the Nazis.
Meanwhile, for a revealing look at the other side of the ledger, namely "the two young diplomats," that will never make into the MSM, I urge you to check out the latest entry on reason2resist.substack.com here: https://reason2resist.substack.com/p/victim-of-washington-shooting-spread
Addendum: There's upfront acknowledgement of Ken's work on the manifesto.
So they deserved to die? That is what you are implying.
If XK isn’t implying it, I’m applauding it. Yes. Yes, they deserve to die.
Ok, that's insane. We want less death, not more.
Tell that to Benjamin Netanyahu and all of Israel.
"We want less death, not more. "
Uh, just who's the "we" you're referring to here, certainly you can't mean the IGF (Israeli Genocide Force) responsible for the deaths an estimated 186,000 Gazans per a June 2024 paper in The Lancet, about half of them being innocent children, a total which has been added to steadily since then, including recently 9 of 10 children in one Gazan family alone?
And I doubt you mean the 82% of Israeli society in general who support the forced expulsion of residents of Gaza, and the 47% who believe the Israeli government should adopt more aggressive policies against the Palestinians, according to a recent Penn State Univ. poll?
So eliminating those, whom do mean?
Umm if we are quoting polls, I'm sure there are hundreds of polls of Palestinian society who are ok with the death of the Jews. (And it's Palestine that is Judenrein, while Israel is not arab-free.).
I'm consistent: people do not deserve to be killed. Not children, not innocents, whether Israeli or Palestinian. People are allowed to hold horrible opinions and do not deserve to be killed unless they personally acted on them. War should be against combatant. You seem to be ok with October 7th.
And 186k is an insane retard number. Even Hamas doesn't claim that much.
I quoted a poll, readily available online, where is your quote, aside from residing somewhere in your imagination and convenient speculations, unsupported by any information?
The 186,000 figure, again since you didn't get the first time around, comes from The Lancet, a highly regarded medical journal. The paper in which the 186,000 figure is readily available online, but since it will upend your hasbara-steeped mind, you not only won't, you can't read it. Best to continue in steadily enveloping ignorance.
Further, "186k is an insane retard number. Even Hamas doesn't claim that much," how many does Israel claim, including the number of children terrorists, truly a new development in warfare, not even since the Children's Crusade in the 13th century? Being on the hi-tech end of military force, surely the Israeli Genocide Force would want to give close examination to this unprecedented development and devise means to counter it.
The Israelis have been pushing Palestinians out of the West Bank illegally, taking over their land, their property, for nearly 80 years now, and you make the galactically nonsensical remark that Palestine is Judenrein?
"I'm consistent: people do not deserve to be killed. Not children, not innocents, whether Israeli or Palestinian."
No, you're not consistent, you've failed to give reason or ascribe responsibility for the deliberate, intentional, planned, orchestrated, ruthless killings of innocents, not in the least tens of thousands of children - CHILDREN, if that hasn't yet been impressed upon you - and celebrated - CELEBRATED, LIVE-STREAMED- by IGF personnel, you know, members of "the most moral army in the world?
Oct. 7th. Do have have any - ANY - knowledge of history whatsoever? Are you banned from even mentioning the word"Nakba," not to mention the history leading up to it as well as the wretched history after it for the Palestinians? Are you at all aware that the founders of Zionism, Herzl, Jabotinsky, Ben-Gurion et al. explicitly called for the expulsion of Palestinians from the early 20th century? And on the infinitesimally tiny probability that you do know any of this, do you, might you consider it at least somewhat conceivable, that all that displacement from their lands, all that disruption in their lives, all the subsequent humiliations and degradations, all the impoverishment, all the stunting of life prospects, all at the hands and plottings of the Israelis, might, just might serve as some, just some pretext for Oct. 7th?
How long have you been an anti-Gazist, or do you proudly, unhesitatingly state, "Why even some of my best friends are Gazans"?
You're insane if you think the number is LESS than 180K dead with God knows how many maimed and wounded. This isn't rocket science. Israel has dropped a higher tonnage of bombs on a 20 or so square mile densely populated area in the past 20 months than were dropped by the Allies in all of WWII.
As far as October 7 - Are we "OK" with it? Only in the sense that history didn't begin - nor did the Israeli committed atrocities and massacres - on that day and even the UN says that any occupied people have the right to resist their occupation including with violent methods.
I bet you were "OK" with the Nazis putting down concentration camp revolts and killing all the Jews and others who took part, right? They should never have tried to end their own imprisonment and occupation, right?
Judenrein? You apparently don't know current or past history at all. It was the Israeli Zionists who set off terror attack after terror attack all throughout the ME set up as false flags to make Jews who were perfectly safe and thriving in places like Iraq, Iran and Egypt believe they were in danger and had to move to "Israel."
Tell us what "Hamas" claims, then. Provide a source and a link to the official "Hamas" count - and show us their methodology.
And no, no such polls of Palestinians indicating they want all Jews everywhere gone or dead. If you ever talked to one you'd know that in the region and beyond, the Zionists conflate Israel with all of Judaism and that's the parlance in Palestine as well. Thus when they say "the Jews" they mean Israeli Zionists who happen to be the people who have - on an industrial scale - murdered, expelled, and stolen from them for almost a century now. Get real and come out of the Zionism closet - you're clearly a Zionist apologist whether or not you're comfortable yet admitting it. "Israel" DOES NOT have "the right to exist" in its present form. Period.
But did they condemn the IDF?
This is why I say watch the entire video, here is a quote from one of the presenters:
Rami: “All rules have been completely dissolved and that is from Israel’s initiative from 1947 till today, the systematic attack of diplomats. They seem to want to call for global sympathy, yet they are the number one cause of death of diplomats, at least in recent history” [referring to the killing of 16 diplomats in the Israeli attack on Iran's embassy in Syria last year].
This is the ugly game that Israel is playing, feeling free to kill at will while expecting complete impunity. "All rules have been completely dissolved."
He also frequently retweeted IOF propaganda and justified the targeting of hospitals in Gaza.
It was last Thursday when I came across in, of all places, the Detroit Jewish News which carried a story with the line, “His [Yaron Lischinsky’s] final post on social media was a repost of a message condemning the United Nations’ false claim that 14,000 infants in Gaza were facing imminent starvation, labeling it a modern-day blood libel.”
Huh? Where did that come from? A repost to boot? What's an aspiring diplomat doing trading in nonsense such as that, a notion borne out nowhere else in the fact-based media? That kinda raises eyebrows.
No, I'm not saying that, but watch the entire video, ~45 mins.
Fantastic job again Ken and I hope there were no trips from the FBI this time! Showing the other side of this story is appreciated especially with it being dominated by conspiracy theories.
The total corruption of our political system, coupled with the ongoing support of apartheid Israel's genocide probably radicalized this young man
Elite Jews voted for Hitler too. Will you EVER learn?
Samatha is MAGA y'all, don't fall for her BS. Yes she pays to be here. 💀
She does happen to be correct about the elite Zionists/Jews and Hitler. Also the Haavara transfer agreement.
Yes, but based on my interactions with her the other day- it’s not in good faith. She's here to cause trouble. If “she” is even real. 🤦♀️ She sounded like a maga bot from 2020.
Oh nooooo Samantha!! This doesn't align with MAGA’s rules of engagement. 🥴 Quite the change in rhetoric from calling people libtards!
If you're not “pro-israel” then you're either a “radical left lunatic” (me) or you're a straight-up neo-nazi.
Which is it?
I find it interesting that these murders have essentially fallen off the radar given the overwrought claims of anti-semitism which are endlessly being flogged by the MSM (I haven't checked rightwing media and don't intend to). It makes me wonder why this is, especially given the fact that the male victim had what I would consider a rather sus background in "diplomacy".
They say history doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes. This - all of it really - is rhyming really hard for me right now with the case of Herschel Feibel Grynszpan and Nazi Germany. I'll leave it to any interested readers to look him up, but famous Marxist Leon Trotsky issued a statement that is very germane to the present situation. Down to the false flag accusations and all. Some excerpts highlighting how acts such as this are not just weaponized after the fact, but are *provoked* by TPTB, in a broadside against Stalinism and Nazism at the same time.
>>"It is clear to anyone even slightly acquainted with political history that the policy of the fascist gangsters directly and sometimes deliberately provokes terrorist acts. What is most astonishing is that so far there has been only one Grynszpan. Undoubtedly the number of such acts will increase.
...
All the more revolting in its police stupidity and inexpressible violence is the campaign now being conducted against Grynszpan by command of the Kremlin in the international Stalinist press. They attempt to depict him as an agent of the Nazis or an agent of Trotskyists in alliance with the Nazis. Lumping into one heap the provocateur and his victim, the Stalinists ascribe to Grynszpan the intention of creating a favorable pretext for Hitler’s pogrom measures.
...
The Stalinists shriek in the ears of the police that Grynszpan attended “meetings of Trotskyites.” That, unfortunately, is not true. For had he walked into the milieu of the Fourth International he would have discovered a different and more effective outlet for his revolutionary energy. People come cheap who are capable only of fulminating against injustice and bestiality. But those who, like Grynszpan, are able to act as well as conceive, sacrificing their own lives if need be, are the precious leaven of mankind.
Our open moral solidarity with Grynszpan gives us an added right to say to all the other would-be Grynszpans, to all those capable of self-sacrifice in the struggle against despotism and bestiality: Seek another road! Not the lone avenger but only a great revolutionary mass movement can free the oppressed, a movement that will leave no remnant of the entire structure of class exploitation, national oppression, and racial persecution. The unprecedented crimes of fascism create a yearning for vengeance that is wholly justifiable. But so monstrous is the scope of their crimes, that this yearning cannot be satisfied by the assassination of isolated fascist bureaucrats."<<
Why did he travel to this specific location in DC when there's an Embassy of Israel in Chicago?