Show-down at the Kol Shofar Synagogue: An Expose on Jewish Racism

By Arthur Topham
RadicalPress.com
January 16, 2009

The trouble with you
Is the trouble with me
You got two good eyes
But you still don’t see.
~ The Grateful Dead/Casey Jones

Yet we must also respect those who simply protest anything less than full immediate denouncement of openly-declared racism, as Zionism defines itself to be, and as practiced for decades by the ‘Jewish State’ constantly expanding the turf of its supremacy. In all other cases of openly-declared state-racism, the ordinary, moderate response is to give the racist policies primary emphasis and absolute Zero tolerance. Delaying that frankness does perpetuate the cover-up which has managed to keep the gory Elephant of Zionist racism the best-kept secret in our living-room of ostensible egalitarianism.
~ Dave Kirsting, concerned Marin County, California resident

One of the great joys and blessings of being a publisher is the opportunity it provides for connecting up with interesting people from around the world.

Whether it’s a short congratulatory note from Noam Chomsky; a friendly request for further info on Richard Warman from David Icke; a polite, personal invite from Jeff Rense for an interview; a gentle email from Layla Anwar; or a long, intensely humorous and perspicacious hand-written letter, replete with comic drawings!, from my dear American sister Carolyn Chute (author of The Beans of Egypt Maine and other exceptional books on the human condition), all of them and many more comprise a legacy of intimate contacts. It’s these brief interludes with companion souls in the seemingly endless struggle to achieve peace and justice for all that help to compensate for the otherwise interminable and at times exasperating amount of energy expended in the operation of a thus far free and alternative news media.

In some respects each new day is like Christmas morning for a child raised in the belief that gifts are a result of living in harmony with a loving God and treating each other as we would like to be treated. And there is no gift so precious as that of discovering new friendships and realizing one is not alone, either in their feelings, their perspective or in the physical world that we all share.

One such gift for me was an email on Christmas day from a cyber friend who lives in Marin County, California. His name is Dave Kirsting. Dave has been a part of my Radical Press List Serve for some time and receives the assorted articles and analysis of global political events that I pass on to subscribers. On this occasion Dave was writing in regards to a short article of Layla Anwar’s http://www.arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/ entitled, Jingle Bells and all that Stuff… which I had sent out on December 24th.

As this is an article about Dave and his personal experiences with political Zionism as they pertain to the Arab – Jewish predicament in the Middle East and how such explosive events tend to spread out over the globe like ash from an active volcano only to settle in small communities everywhere where one finds the Zionist mindset, I will let him do most of the talking (so to speak). Dave is, in my humble opinion, a very articulate, caring and astute thinker, aware of certain basic truths that I feel need to be shared with a much greater audience.

His initial email:

“Thank you Arthur, and Merry Christmas, and thanks for all your work.

Myself, I am so unusual as to see all discussions and arguments as pleasant gifts to me, regardless of how others may feel or how they often interpret kinds words in the fair game of dialogue. I recall once sending a comment to you regarding what I saw as perhaps a word-choice oversight, what could be called an ‘error’ and a ‘correction,’ and you responded so sensibly as to leave that lesser paradigm floating along somewhere below. This is why I always welcome emails from RadicalPress.

I am sitting here drinking my meticulously selected and brewed and consequently superb coffee on Christmas morning, waiting for my friends (including the most magically delightful woman I have ever met) to arrive in a few hours for our lascivious indulgence of lavish gift-giving, my Druidic solstice-tree all sparkling with lights and ornaments (alongside my lofty view of Mount Tamalpais, amid the blowing trees, swirling white clouds, and sparkling sunlight of Southern Marin’s characteristically colliding micro-climates), to celebrate the arrival of full consciousness, a couple thousand years ago, when East met West, the discovery of a loving universe, or ‘God,’ the primacy of self-honesty, the proffered escape from wrathful paradigms, denials, and conceits, as it was all voluntarily embraced by the best of the Celts, wherever this new dimension of ever-returning life was superimposed over the message already inherent in their sacred evergreens.

Ms. Anwar is fundamentally correct, though a few semantic adjustments should be made, so her meaning will be clear enough for anyone willing to understand

For one thing, the truth has always been almost 100% lost in human denial, as exploited through the concerted efforts of Zionist atheists.

The Christened one always said his perfect advice could be understood by all but would be honored by terribly few. The forces that killed him, with his consent, have always remained in power and continue to try and kill his message, but they cannot do so, any more than they could even retain possession of his body, after it was dead.

The blame can’t be placed on any ‘leadership,’ as those of us who have always struggled directly among the people can attest. Unwilling to recognize their errors and vanities, most people are willingly susceptible to the open violations of due process by which Zionists embedded in the various peace movements quash any germination of political understanding. This infects virtually everyone – certainly every Arab and/or Palestinian discussion-list – as ‘leading’ Zionists, like Jeff Blankfort, Jeffrey Halper, Richard Becker, and all the others pose themselves as the most ‘radical’ ‘critics of Israel – with the added advantage of being ‘Jewish’ or ‘leftist’ and therefore more credible – and firmly prevent any pithy understanding of the flaming racism which they consistently ‘overlook.’ We who have won the only recorded victories against Zionism, by using the same principles taught to all children in US public schools, have been kicked off every Palestinian and Arab discussion-lists for saying unflattering – but meticulously logical and polite – things about the (mis)leading Jewish defenders of Palestine. Saying that an argument that ends with ‘end the occupation’ and/or ‘two-state peace’ is an essentially Zionist argument is reduced to ‘How dare you call our brave, Jewish, media-connected hero a Zionist?!?!’

The front lines of the anti-Zionist effort are way deep inside the ‘peace movement’ and deep inside the ostensible ‘anti-Zionist effort,’ and Bush is the natural figurehead of this problem, nothing like its cause.

‘The leaders’ are not responsible; we get the only ‘leaders’ that can be elected while Zionism holds the swing votes in every contest and in every decision of every ‘peace and justice’ organization. Progress cannot begin anywhere until it begins in our dialogue with terminally distracted Palestinian and Arab leadership and in our efforts within the long-dormant ‘peace movement.’ All other blame is a mere distraction, far to the rear of the real front lines and often intentionally extracting attention from them. The worst disparagement of the real fighters comes from the ‘Palestinian’ and ‘anti-Zionist’ side of the struggle, and this is exactly what the most cynical Zionists mean when they laugh about how they ‘control both sides of the debate.’

But the point of Christmas is that freedom is an individual issue.; ‘Narrow is the way and strait the gate that leads unto life and few there be who find it.’ ‘Those who have ears, let them hear.’ And we who really do live at the actual center of world events and who make a good living by creating the most revolutionary changes – in the way children are raised – are also able to express the true meaning of Christmas in the sparkle and decadent pleasures of a God who truly loves all of us. It’s up to us. The full luck of this perfect situation is accessible only to those who care to see it all. The Whole Truth loves us and it won’t go away.”

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