Why are we Censored when Criticizing Israel? Opinion.

 

“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.” – Voltaire 

 Over the past week, a select few far-right podcasters, Israel firsters and the pro-genocide crowd, have submitted a request to X (formally known as Twitter) to silence anti-Israeli voices. This would include anti-war voices and staunch free speech advocates. Considering Israel refuses international journalists from entering Gaza to report on the slaughter, and murdering over 250 of them to boot, this should come as no surprise. What Israel has done and continues to commit is unadulterated genocide. This mass slaughter has reached, last time I checked, over 70,000 people, 30% of that number are children. There is no doubt that Israel is an ethno-supremacist regime, ethnic cleansing the Palestinian people. When they are confronted with any criticism, their default response is to scream “antisemitism” and assume the posture of the victim. What is truly concerning to many is that countries like the UK, Germany, US and Australia have installed laws framing any criticism of Israel as “hate speech” and punishing their population with prison time. What or who is behind this tyrannical oppression of free speech that, for many is a Right, enjoyed by citizens of any democratic society?  

 

The crackdown of free speech is coming down hard, as western governments are using “antisemitism” as a front to silence any criticism of Netanyahu and his regime of murderers, warmongers, rapists and pedophiles. Based on Voltaire's notion that to know who is controlling you are those you are not allowed to criticize comes into clear focus with the amount of censorship that has been imposed on the people of democratic nations across the planet.  

 

From a cursory glance of independent and social media, more people are becoming aware of the persuasive evil influence of Zionism. Despite governments attempts to silence our criticism of Israel’s crimes against humanity, many are taking to the streets, facing barbaric opposition from police. At this moment in time, the censorship and punishment of dissident voices give me hope that Zionism is losing its grip on the souls of humankind.  

 

What is disturbing is our politician's blatant unctuous behavior when it comes to Israel. It is argued that 90% of US politicians have been given money by the Israel lobby, APAC. In Australia, though the numbers have yet to be released, how much cash is flowing under the table to our politicians? What caring and intelligent human being can continue to not condemn what Israel has done in Gaza and currently Lebanon? In fact, no politician in Australia has uttered a single critical word against Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Therefore, keeping Voltaire’s adage in mind, the Zionists are in control of our government. This is a disturbing notion, but their lack of conscious, apparent obsequiousness and lack of criticism towards Israel leads me to no other conclusion.   

 

Zionism is an ethno-supremacist ideology, created by a fascist wealthy elite, using the Judaic religion as a front to justify their intentions of dominance around the planet. They’re a murderous regime who has no moral compass, viewing everybody else as inferior, and their cruelty knows no bounds.  

 

Western democracies are in a Zionist chokehold and desperately gasping for air. The scream of antisemitism and their default stance of victimhood is beginning to lose its power in the minds of the greater public. Our politicians must come out from under the Israeli threats of mass violence and obvious bribes and make a stand against these gangsters. Zionism is a cancer that must be removed before the entire world comes completely undone.  

 

Our governments are obviously under the control of this reptilian force known as Zionism. This becomes evident because we are not allowed to criticize them and are punished when we do so.  

 

Voltaire was indeed correct.  

 

The French writer and philosopher also wrote: 

 

“I might disagree with your opinion, but I am willing to give my life for your right to express it.”

Stefan Zweig – Confusion – Comment.

 

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was primarily a writer of the novella and short stories. The man’s popularity reached its peak in the 20’s and 30’s. Most famous is his auto-biographical text, The World of Yesterday, (1942) describing his life as an Austrian man during the fall of the Austrian Hungarian Empire. This period was a hotbed for creativity, writing, art, science and a sway towards upheavals in the political zeitgeist leaning towards fascism in the form of the Nazis in Germany. Zweig was forced to flee his home, and travel across Europe, ending in Brazil, where he and his young wife committed suicide. Confusion was first published in 1927, to be translated from the German in 2009. Mainly the text is a psychological study of the intense intellectual relationship between student and teacher, and through a blurred passion, deep secrets threaten to destroy everything in their cloistered world.  

A troubled student from Berlin is forced by his father to attend a small college outside the temptations of the big city. On his first day, he stumbles upon a lecture in progress that consumes him and inspires the boy to a passionate level of desire to gain knowledge. The lecturer’s words touch the boy igniting an obsessive admiration for the teacher, but there is a veil of darkness around the relationship. This “darkness’ comes in the form of perceived secrets, some underlying one’s real nature, something unmentionable in early 20th century Germany.  

The student is invited to live in the home of the professor and his young wife, in a room upstairs, where the walls are paper thin. Over a short time, the boy’s intellectual love for his teacher sparks an academic force for both, and the boy begins to take dictation for his teacher on his long-abandoned thesis. The boy is so enthusiastic that immediately after the dictation session, he returns to his rooms, edits and forms the day’s work. Like a young son desperately wanting their father’s approval, though late in the night, shows the professor his work. Expecting praise, the professor is curt and dismisses the boy’s eagerness. This only confuses the lad.  

The professor’s wife is twenty years his junior; a thin, attractive woman of athletic prowess, as the young man swims with her one afternoon though doesn’t recognize her to be his mentor’s wife. There is a connection between them, thus creating a confusing situation.  

The novella ends with a somewhat heart wrenching confession from the teacher to his student. Ironically this ‘secret’ is known throughout the town and university on one level or another. The novella ends somberly yet with the narrator expressing his admiration and love for his teacher. 

Zweig touches the many psychological issues: to thwart one’s desires of the heart; confusion in relationships when secrets underly one’s true intentions. The loneliness of forbidden love.  

A wonderful story of our daily battle between head and heart, that is at the essence of the human condition.