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Jun 2

Zionism is Not Judaism And Never Has Been

June 1st, 2025
By Tyler Popp
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*many will be angry at this piece*

Zionism, the drive for a Jewish state, is often pegged as the root of what’s called antisemitism, but is it really hatred of Jews, or backlash against a political ideology?

Over the past 20 months, the Gaza conflict has shown how Zionism, especially under Benjamin Netanyahu, fuels resentment that endangers Jews worldwide. Worse, Zionism can be seen as antisemitic by lumping all Jews as Israel supporters. Traditional voices like Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, alongside secular and anti-Zionist Jews like Norman Finkelstein, Dr. Gabor Maté, and Alon Mizrahi, call this out, standing with Palestinian and Muslim protesters globally.
Yet, Israel smears these critics as “self-hating,” ignoring the growing deep divide within Jewish communities. Zionism drives this mess and clashes with Judaism’s spiritual core.

Zionism’s Redefinition of Jewish Identity

Zionism, born in the late 1800s, flipped Jewish identity from a faith rooted in Torah to a nationalist project. Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro puts it sharply: “Zionism was not about giving Jews a state; it was about redefining Jewishness itself as a nationality, something entirely foreign to the Torah, which sees Jews as a religious community bound by covenant, not a political nation-state.” This shift ties every Jew to Israel’s actions, whether they agree to it or not. When Israel bombs or starves kids in Gaza, the world often blames Jews globally, not just Zionists. Shapiro warns, “Zionism’s insistence that Israel speaks for all Jews puts a target on every Jew’s back, whether they live in Brooklyn or Buenos Aires.” Norman Finkelstein agrees, stating, “Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.” By lumping all Jews into a political agenda, Zionism fuels resentment mislabeled as antisemitism, endangering Jews who aren’t tied to Israel’s choices.

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Anti-Zionism, Not Antisemitism

Since October 2023, Israel’s Gaza offensive has killed tens of thousands, perhaps many more, and triggered global outrage. Protests at universities like Columbia and UCLA in 2024 targeted Israel’s policies, not Jews as a group. In fact, many of the protestors WERE jews. Yet, incidents like synagogue vandalism get tagged as antisemitic. A 2018 Pew survey shows younger, educated Americans (under 39, postgraduate degrees) are least antisemitic but also least pro-Israel, so the backlash is most likely political. Shapiro argues, “Antisemitism today is often a reaction to Israel’s policies, not to Jews as a religious group. The conflation of criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews is a deliberate tactic to deflect accountability.” Gabor Maté, a Holocaust survivor, adds, “I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland… and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.” This isn’t about hating Jewishness. It’s about opposing Israel's actions, but the conflation makes Jews scapegoats for state policies. And that suits zionists just fine.

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May 26

Western Media’s Dirty Little Secret: How Often Do They Downplay Israel’s Atrocities?

Let’s Expose the Numbers
The Big Picture: 70-80% of the Time, They’re Softening the Blow

By Tyler Popp
Monday May 26th, 2025

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Empirical research indicates that Western media downplays Israeli atrocities in 70-80% of cases, particularly in incidents involving civilian casualties. This estimate is derived from studies spanning 2018 to 2025, which consistently identify three primary methods of minimization: the use of neutral imagery, passive or euphemistic headline phrasing, and narrative framing that justifies Israeli actions. The prevalence of these practices is more pronounced in U.S. media (70-80%) compared to European outlets (55-65%), though both exhibit the trend to varying degrees.
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Trick #1: Hiding the Horror with Pretty Maps

Western media frequently employs neutral or abstract imagery when reporting on Israeli military actions, a choice that diminishes the emotional impact of the events. A 2021 study by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) analyzed British media coverage and found that 62% of articles about Israeli military actions used neutral imagery, such as maps or military equipment, compared to 38% for Palestinian actions, which more often featured images of violence or destruction. Similarly, a 2023 report by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) examined U.S. media coverage of the 2021 Gaza conflict, revealing that only 29% of articles about Israeli airstrikes included images of Palestinian suffering, while 67% of articles about Palestinian rocket attacks depicted Israeli victims or damage.
This pattern is evident in historical and recent examples. During a March 2025 Israeli assault on Gaza that killed over 412 Palestinians, outlets such as CNN and BBC predominantly used maps or stock images of IDF soldiers, despite the availability of photographs showing civilian casualties, as documented by the Al Jazeera Media Institute. This editorial choice prioritizes detachment over the human toll, effectively shielding audiences from the reality of the violence.

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May 20

Reporters Without Borders -RSF
A Betrayal of Press Freedom, Propped Up by Western Imperial Hypocrisy

An exposé by Tyler Popp
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
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In the sordid arena of global journalism, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) postures as a guardian of press freedom, but its actions expose a far uglier reality: it is a servile instrument of Western imperialist agendas, cherry-picking cases that align with NATO’s propaganda while abandoning journalists who dare to expose the empire’s crimes. Bankrolled by the Open Society Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the European Council, and cozy with tech giants like Google and Meta, RSF’s hypocrisy is starkly revealed in its selective outrage over high-profile killings like those of Jamal Khashoggi and Shireen Abu Akleh, American citizens, contrasted with its deafening silence on journalists targeted by Ukraine’s Myrotvorets hit list or persecuted for reporting on Palestine, Syria, and Iraq. This exposé dissects RSF’s corrupt funding, its role as a NATO mouthpiece, and its shameful neglect of journalists like Kit Klarenberg, Ritchie Medhurst, Sarah Wilkinson, Eva Karene Bartlett, Gonzalo Lira, and others, laying bare an organization that betrays the very principles it claims to uphold.
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Funding: A Cesspool of Western Elite Control

RSF’s financial underpinnings are a putrid swamp of Western influence, rendering its claim to impartiality a grotesque farce. The Open Society Foundation, fueled by George Soros’s billions, pumps money into RSF, tethering it to neoliberal agendas that prioritize Western hegemony over genuine press freedom. The NED, a U.S.-funded front notorious for orchestrating regime change, further compromises RSF’s independence with its history of meddling in global politics. The European Council, representing EU bureaucratic interests, ensures RSF parrots NATO’s geopolitical line. While direct funding from Google, Meta, or the Knight Foundation is less explicit, RSF’s digital journalism initiatives and partnerships with these tech giants suggest a shared mission to shape global narratives. In 2005, RSF was exposed for accepting funds from the Center for a Free Cuba, linked to USAID and NED, sparking accusations of serving as a neocon tool against Havana. This financial web transformed RSF into a mouthpiece for Western interests, incapable of defending journalists who challenge imperialist narratives without jeopardizing its own funding.
The hypocrisy is nauseating: RSF cloaks itself in the mantle of press freedom while its purse strings are pulled by entities that thrive on censorship and repression. How can an organization claim neutrality when its budget is beholden to the very powers that silence dissent? The answer is simple and clear: it cannot. RSF’s funding is a deliberate handcuff, ensuring its advocacy serves the West’s geopolitical chessboard, where cases like Jamal Khashoggi’s 2018 murder are weaponized to vilify Saudi Arabia, while journalists like Gonzalo Lira, love or hate him, are killed by a NATO ally, and are erased from its narrative. This financial servitude exposes RSF as a propagandist, not a protector of truth.

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Apr 24, 2024

The Manipulation of Reality in Society to Serve the Empire

A breakdown of how organisations like the Psy-Group, the Integrity Initiative, ARC, Albany, Zinc, and other companies work with governments to create alternate realities in order to manufacture consent, and undermine opposition.
This will not only reveal how past operations have been used to construct alternate realities in public discourse relating to international events, but also how the current Israeli operation in Gaza and the West Bank is being framed in the media as a understandable and benign action by Israel.
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Excerpts from OpHMGTrojanHorse leaked exposée, and Sage Journals' article entitled
"Propaganda through ‘reflexive control’ and the mediated construction of reality"

First let's examine the actions of this organisation as we know them in the Media.
The now defunct organisation was a private firm made up of former Israeli intelligence operatives. It was founded and directed by CEO Royi Burstein, a former lieutenant colonel in the Israel Defense Forces.
The primary service provided by Psy-Group to their clientele was Perception Management

What exactly does that mean?
According to the US DOD:

Actions to convey and/or deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning as well as to intelligence systems and leaders at all levels to influence official estimates, ultimately resulting in foreign behaviors and official actions favorable to the originator's objectives. In various ways, perception management combines truth projection,[1] operations security, cover and deception, and psychological operations.[2]
'Perception" is defined as the "process by which individuals select, organize, and interpret the input from their senses to give meaning and order to the world around them".[3] This definition overlaps with the higher-order perceptual processes as defined biologically (the lower-order biological processes are not susceptible to management; these low-level processes include underlying perceptual categorization performed prior to conscious categorization.[4]). Components of perception include the perceiver, target of perception, and the situation. Factors that influence the perceiver include:

Schema: organization and interpretation of information based on past experiences and knowledge
Motivational state: needs, values, and desires of a perceiver at the time of perception
Mood: emotions of the perceiver at the time of perception
Factors that influence the target include:

Ambiguity: a lack of clarity. If ambiguity increases, the perceiver may find it harder to form an accurate perception
Social status: a person's real or perceived position in society or in an organization
Impression management: an attempt to control the perceptions or impressions of others. Targets are likely to use impression management tactics when interacting with perceivers who have power over them. Several impression management tactics include behavioral matching between the target of perception and the perceiver, self-promotion (presenting one's self in a positive light), conforming to situational norms, appreciating others, or being consistent.[3]

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Sep 9, 2023

1. @LauraLoomer's biggest story of a lifetime was lifted from articles I did 2 years ago
The Gateway Pundit did a word for word article
Millie Weaver plagiarized the same for a shorter article
I was contacted by Yacov Appelbaum XRVision to run the ID and background for Dubynyn
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and the people around him.
Every photo and story is running my work

The story is Ukrainian Azov at the 2021 Capitol riot.

Loomer identifies Sergey Dubynyn through an interview with Jacob Chansely and calls him a spy, but was he?
Chansley didn't think that at
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the time and from prison the only information he could get about Dubynyn stemmed from
my work.

That's where her story stops. She knows nothing about the event.

What's wrong with this besides ethical and moral considerations?
If you peg the actors wrong, no investigations
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Mar 27, 2023

The unrest in Israel has been blamed on US psyops by some, and others blame it on an internal power grab that is opposed by the people. What is the truth?
We may never find out.
But the discussion around this topic is very telling.
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"To be an enemy of the US is dangerous. To be a friend is fatal."
~Kissinger
As the EU can attest to, the US is never above damaging its allies for the sake of their own geopolitical interests. They spy on, interfere in their politics, and compromise politicians in order to
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have those politicians back policies that actively work against the best interests of their own country for the sake of US "interests".
In countries that are developing, or countries who are not firmly in their grasp, the US, through orgs like USAID and the NED, foment
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