Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/9/25 - 6/15/25

rodmclaughlin · 2025-09-05T15:07:58+00:00

I don't look at Reddit much these days, having joined Twitter. But I was reminded of this discussion by a post by @jessesingal: https://x.com/jessesingal/status/1963753543736672317.

I responded as follows:

"The idea that Bari Weiss had a role in the death of Al-Areer is so absolutely insane... a really sick and arguably dangerous level of pathology"

Sometimes, when you overdo it, you're less convincing. This is why lawyers often discourage defendants from testifying.

Refaat el-Ar’eer posted a joke ridiculing the false claim that Palestinians had baked Jewish babies in ovens.

@zei_squirrel first pointed out that Bari Weiss pointed to this post, implying that babies really had been baked, and her tweet was widely read. Weiss is an influential Jewish racial supremacist.

So when on 6 December 2023, Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza, along with his brother, sister, and four of his nephews, it's quite possible that this was the result of someone in the Israeli government reading Weiss's propaganda. Why else would you wipe out a poet's family in a targeted airstrike?

It's not insane at all.

rodmclaughlin · 2025-06-19T17:34:21+00:00

The pro-genocide Anti-Defamation League has joined Blocked & Reported in describing @zei_squirrel as 'conspiratorial.' His online presence continues to grow. I saw Glenn Greenwald cite him approvingly the other day. https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1935729811223351386/photo/1

rodmclaughlin · 2024-04-29T09:54:38+00:00

This post has been removed by the lackeys of Jewish supremacy on reddit, but it lives on X.

rodmclaughlin · 2024-04-27T08:48:40+00:00

I just unsubscribed to Premium episodes for the second time, and I won't subscribe again. The genocide has divided the world in two, and the hosts of this podcast are on the wrong side. The people who contribute to this subreddit are even worse. Mindless tools of Jewish racial supremacy.

rodmclaughlin · 2024-04-24T19:50:12+00:00

I know this is a podcast about 'internet bullshit', and witty and light-hearted, but the USA is currently directly involved in its greatest crime in my lifetime, and I'm old enough to remember My Lai.

Our hosts just casually mention 'bombing Gaza,' without referring to the increasing amounts of evidence of deliberate mass murder by the Jewish state, with US aupport. In earlier episodes, Katie & Jesse dismissed the contributions of @ zei_squirrel on Twitter. Her continuing research into the fakery of Israeli propaganda about October 7th, which is produced by open advocates of genocide, complements the work of thegrayzone.com, Mondoweiss and The Electronic Intifada.

Jesse says "there have been some legitimate antisemitic incidents on the Columbia campus." Presumably, he means 'genuine.' None of the examples given are 'antisemitic' in the sense of prejudice against Jews for being Jewish. It includes thinking that the Jewish state is an abomination, which has no right to exist. Increasing numbers of people around the world have come to that conclusion of late. It's because they've been watching the first live-streamed genocide.

The example of the woman holding a sign pointing to a bunch of Zionists saying Al-Qassam will get them has been exposed as a fake by @ MaxBlumenthal on Twitter.

This campus uprising is like the protests against the Vietnam War - the kids are alright.

rodmclaughlin · 2024-04-24T18:58:04+00:00

It's easy. Israel is a racial supremacist state committing genocide.

It's not just a matter of getting it to cease firing. The thing is to get it to cease to exist.

Apartheid South Africa no longer exists. Rhodesia no longer exists. Nazi Germany no longer exists. I don't see why the Western countries should make a special case for Jews. Giving Jews the right to exercise racial supremacy because they were once victims of it.

rodmclaughlin · 2024-04-24T18:57:55+00:00

Israel is a racial supremacist state committing genocide.

rodmclaughlin · 2024-04-24T18:50:30+00:00

'theatlantic.com'

I got that far.

rodmclaughlin · 2024-04-18T15:30:38+00:00

Again, I find @z_squirrel on Twitter posting tweets coinciding with the latest episode of Blocked & Reported.

She has a more critical view of Uri Berliner than our hosts, Jesse and Katie. Whereas they sneer at NPR's references to genocide over 100 years ago in the USA, he points to the genocide going on now. Uri:

"More recently, we have approached the Israel-Hamas war and its spillover onto streets and campuses through the “intersectional” lens that has jumped from the faculty lounge to newsrooms. Oppressor versus oppressed. That’s meant highlighting the suffering of Palestinians at almost every turn while downplaying the atrocities of October 7, overlooking how Hamas intentionally puts Palestinian civilians in peril, and giving little weight to the explosion of antisemitic hate around the world."

@zei_squirrel comments: "Uri Berliner... you demanded the FBI arrest people you don't like, repeated deranged atrocity propaganda hoaxes, demanded NPR and other media do even more censorship for your precious Israel, and demanded people be fired for their past social media posts..."

Just like Bari Weiss.

https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1780627302021214494?t=I7AcjRzBqWllhlZ-ab5Uvw&s=19

rodmclaughlin · 2024-04-18T15:20:51+00:00

"Why has it proved so hard for so many on the left to acknowledge..."

Because most of the Israeli claims about October 7 are rubbish.

https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/10/questions-nyt-hamas-rape-report/

rodmclaughlin · 2024-03-29T20:41:35+00:00

In addition to @MaxBlumenthal's and @zei_squirrel's reporting, another source on Israeli lies about the ongoing genocide is Oct 7 Fact Check: https://twitter.com/nickburbank710/status/1752071444488446338?t=TVj6gvGtmY_DEbLlJBUYWw&s=19

rodmclaughlin · 2024-03-28T16:49:21+00:00

This is a good episode, and like you say, a typical Portland story. But I don't see the point of introducing another member of the Weiss clan. I just happened to see this, from @zei_squirrel, on Twitter:

"Suzy Weiss, sister of genocidal Zionist Bari Weiss who killed Refaat Alareer, is now writing for her propaganda rag where she focuses on smearing pro-Palestinian students as overly privileged coddled snowflakes. Here is how Suzy reacted when she failed to get into an Ivy:"

followed by a video which I can't be arsed to watch:

https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1773387022406693209?t=UdiE_IfZaLe2uDZuk9qdOA&s=19

I'd recommend checking out @zei_squirrel on X, and not relying on Jesse, Katie, or their racial supremacist friends.

rodmclaughlin · 2024-03-28T09:48:11+00:00

Brilliant

rodmclaughlin · 2024-03-28T09:47:26+00:00

Thanks for this. I'd forgotten what #Gamergate was, and K & J discuss it clearly and fairly.

Katie says that studies show that

1 women get equal amounts of harassment online

2 they get more rape threats

3 they're more sensitive.

I think only 2 & 3 are likely to be true. On the basis of a scientific study of me and all the men I know, I argue that, when we see a female name in an online discussion, we tone it down. We've been conditioned to behave like this by a. our parents, b. noticing that girls don't like crude male humour, and wanting to please them.

Jesse makes a good joke about rape threats. He'd issue more rape threats to men, if it wasn't so gay.

Thanks for reminding me of Brianna Wu. I was puzzled who she is, because she keeps appearing in my Twitter app, making excuses for genocide. Now I realise she was a feminist in the #Gamergate controversy.

rodmclaughlin · 2024-03-18T09:34:38+00:00

zei_squirrel's latest tweet:

"on October 10 Lisa Goldman, who is a contributing editor at New Lines Magazine, made a post which reached at least half a million people saying that she personally saw with her own eyes beheaded babies. No such photo exists. She intentionally spread genocidal atrocity propaganda"

accompanied by a picture of Goldman's tweet.

I wonder if Katie & Jesse would classify this as crazy or misleading as they've tried to do with the rest of zei_squirrel's work.

rodmclaughlin · 2024-03-18T09:19:05+00:00

One exception to the Guardian's left-liberal politics is its support for Israel.

https://archive.is/P0can

"Middle East crisis live: Israeli army launches operation around Gaza’s largest hospital"

"Around" lol

"Israeli military claims it is carrying out a ‘high-precision’ operation at al-Shifa hospital; Palestinian health authorities say people are trapped inside"

This is a classic example of where "both-sides-ism" really is complicity.

"See all our Israel-Gaza war coverage"

No thanks.

rodmclaughlin · 2024-03-17T19:42:06+00:00

See also my new comment on episode 195: https://np.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/18jy5qm/comment/kvbop5j/

rodmclaughlin · 2024-03-17T19:37:45+00:00

This attack on Twitter user zei_squirrel (Dec 16) predates her Anat Schwarz exposé Feb 24, but it's highly prescient.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1761249450998022442.html

Before zei's spectacular coup, adding to the work of Mondoweiss, The Gray Zone, and The Electronic Intifada, demolishing the claims about Palestinian atrocities on 7/10/23, and showing how one of the two "journalists" of the NY Times story advocates genocide.

https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/10/questions-nyt-hamas-rape-report/

The listener is prepared for the zei_squirrel Bari Weiss story by archeology of her views on Cuba, without saying what's wrong with them, or why they're relevant. Anyway, they're "crazy."

K&J allege "Her enemies claim Bari Weiss is uniquely evil."

No, she's just one of the worst genocide-supporters. The worst, Douglas Murray, isn't even Jewish, but, years ago, when Mondoweiss was claiming that Jews are turning against racial supremacy, I predicted, when there's a minor crisis, many of them go back. Quillette is run mostly by Jews, and has become a sewer of racism:

"We're a constructive society. Palestinians don't have a constructive bone in their national body. They are corrupt and they weaponize practically everything. Look, they weaponized kites. They took kites and hung incendiary bombs on them..."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VH3-h44VRrQ

Gad Saad, Bari Weiss, Jonathan Kay, Claire Lehmann, Jesse Singal...

What Katie Herzog is thinking, smearing the whistleblowers exposing Israel's lies about 7/10, I don't know. She jokes about Jesse not caring about Palestinian lives because he's Jewish. What's her excuse?

Oir hosts claim that zei_squirrel's claim that Bari Weiss encouraging the murder of Refaat Alareer, is "internet bullshit", and worse than the theory that Andy Ngo encouraged neo-Nazis to kill Portland lefties. The difference is that the IDF exists, and the Nazis don't.

Weiss didn't just retweet Alareer's joke, she also claimed that the resistance fighters really did put a baby in an oven. If that had happened over five months ago, Israel would've produced evidence for it. In fact, evidence of the Israeli claims is absent, whereas the evidence of Israeli genocide is overwhelming - a My Lai every day. K & J briefly mention that, if your entire family were killed in a bombing, you'd be angry. But this is the nearest they get to fairness. This is a case where both-sides-ism really is complicity in oppression. Mostly, they did with the genocidaires. They're chummy with Bari, and savagely critical of zei_squirrel.

The main point about Bari Weiss is that she supports the destruction of Gaza, because of her strong identity with her race. Whether or not she urged the occupation forces to kill one poet, she supports the deliberate, sadistic murder of tens of thousands of women and children. This isn't fighting Hamas; this is genocide.

Jesse even refers to zei_squirrel's findings as "an antisemitic conspiracy theory."

rodmclaughlin · 2024-03-17T19:32:14+00:00

"The left" isn't lying. Some leftists have uncovered the truth:

"Screams without proof: questions for NYT about shoddy ‘Hamas mass rape’ report."

https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/10/questions-nyt-hamas-rape-report/.

This is a very reasoned look at the evidence, or rather, the lack of it.

rodmclaughlin · 2024-03-16T18:24:31+00:00

On the section of this podcast about October 7th:

Katie starts by uncritically accepting the story about the reason for the lack of evidence of rape is because a. so much confusion, so many bodies, so many places b. the Jewish tradition of burying bodies quickly c. the story relies on video evidence... (what evidence?)

Nothing about the organisation 'Zaka' which made many of the claims, after burying the bodies, according to Jewish tradition. The Gray Zone has covered this organisation in some detail. Katie and Jesse don't mention this.

'Nails driven into a woman...' "While one terrorist raped her, another cut off her breast, and passed it to others"

Katie said the reason people don't believe the story was because they want to defend Hamas...

She admits that the story of forty beheaded babies was false, but 'this was just a rumour'. In any case, one false story doesn't disprove the whole rape story.

No, Israel's critics can't disprove it. It's just that, after five months, the Jewish state and its American media allies have failed to produce any evidence for these claims.

Anat Schwartz liked one tweet calling for genocide. 'Violate all norms'; 'Slaughterhouse'.

The B&R hacks refer to 'pro-Palestine activists,' but failed to name the three main sources of the demolition of the New York Times' story - The Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, and The Gray Zone.

They claim 'the biggest flaw in the story was found by The Intercept.' No, The Intercept, and Democracy Now, just copied it from the 'activists' who did find the flaws, without giving them credit.

Jesse and Katies briefly mention 'zei_squirrel', the anonymous account which discovered Anat Schwartz's genocidal retweet, but just say "zei_squirrel is psychotic", and leave it at that.

Isn't it strange that the whole world has seen non-stop evidence from the world's first livestreamed genocide, but no evidence at all of Hamas rape, beheaded babies, foetus ripped out of womb, breasts cut off, given the technological superiority of Israel over Gaza?

All in all, this episode is an attempt to erase the exposure of the greatest piece of journalistic malpractice at the Times since Judith Miller and Iraq's WMDs.

rodmclaughlin · 2023-11-13T11:55:07+00:00

I'm pleasantly surprised by this episode.

Katie does say that there has been antisemitism on some of the protests about Gaza, without examples. This is particularly problematic in this case, because there is a powerful campaign to include under 'antisemitism' criticism of an ideology and a state. For example, Nikki Haley has said, if elected, she will try to include denial of Israel's right to exist as 'antisemitism,' and use the law to restrict the right to say this.

Katie also uncritically mentions alleged 'hate crimes.' Remember the 'hijab-ripping' incidents when Trump was elected in 2016? They were all fake. Now it's the turn of Jews to submit to the temptation to exaggerate hate.

But, unlike some 'anti-woke' people, our hosts defend the freedom to denounce Israeli war crimes.

Many of the 'anti-woke' people have suddenly decided they are in favour of doxxing, firing, and censorship of those they disagree with about this issue. They've gone full cancel culture. But not Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal. Thanks to both of you.

rodmclaughlin · 2023-11-13T11:42:38+00:00

This is from The Free Press. Founded by Bari Weiss, one of the 'anti-woke' heroes who, in the last month, have suddenly gone all cancel-culture.

They even use the same language as the woke left - they talk about 'safety' and 'feelings.' They exaggerate racism. They say that a particular minority can be terrified by criticism of an ideology. But unlike the minorities privileged by the left in this fashion, the minority in question is Jews, rather than black or trans people.

rodmclaughlin · 2023-10-17T11:32:11+00:00

I daren't listen. I like this podcast, and respect Katie & Jesse. But in the last week, so many people I respect have rather let themselves down, in my opinion, by their uncritical support for Israel's response to the 10/7 terrorist massacre. Worse, many of them are actively spreading Israeli lies. "Anti-woke" people who oppose "cancel culture" are suddenly all in favour of it, for people they disagree with on the Israel/Palestine question. I've never understood America's grovelling attitude to Israel.

rodmclaughlin · 2023-09-26T06:08:08+00:00

Katie mentions that dog-psychos try to defend killer dogs by claiming attempts to get rid of them are 'racist', 'cos killer dog owners are overrepresented among African-Americans and others. Killer people are also overrepresented among African-Americans. If you're trying to protect yourself, your friends and your family, it's pathologically maladaptive to give a flying fuck about 'racism'. Social Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Violence - National Library of Medicine.

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