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There’s a pet peeve of mine that throws me into a rage whenever I hear it.

I hear it again and again, from some of the otherwise best commentators on geopolitics, who are otherwise pretty incredible when it comes to international matters. Libertarian-Adjacent people and Foreign Policy Critics I’ve been following for almost a decade Like the Andrew Neapolitano Crowd, John Mearsheimer, Col Douglas MacGregor and the Wider Antiwar Libertarian space: Tom Woods, Dave Smith, Scott Horton, and most recently Daryl Cooper. 

 

Discrimination is a Right

BY KULAK

NOV 25, 2025

 

People I grew up listening to and who first introduced me to the nature of the regime… and who for a decade or more I’ve considered amongst the best commentators around…

All of them, almost to a one, have a verbal tick they repeat insistently and reflexively… a series of buried premises and axioms they probably couldn’t even express abstractly (and these are very skilled speakers and abstract thinkers)… an idea, a creed, a faith, they might not even have a name for (Indeed I’m not even sure I’ll find the true name by this essay’s end)… a buried belief, trained into them across decades of pop-culture, that overrides even their own religious and civic commitments. Something with no origin, or at-least not a stated one, in America’s Founding Values, their own stated abstract libertarian ideals… And which at-least the Stone Choir crowd might argue, (though Nietzsche might object) is not even natural to any traditional Christianity, and indeed was not found in any but the most obscure Christian tradition for the first 150 years of the American Republic.

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Now I’m starting with a Jewish/Israeli example, because the people I’m critiquing care so much about the war in the Middle-east, but this stretches oh so much further than that… As you will see.

The Archetypal example, I heard Andrew Napolitano say almost word for word explicitly on his show “Judging Freedom”, seemingly without realizing he had said it… I might be mixing up the episodes, but After a half hour interview about the released video of the rape of Palestinian Detainees (people detained without charge) by Israeli prison officials/interrogators, Israeli protestors rioting to free the (Guilty as sin) prison officials/rapists before turning them into minor national heroes and inviting them onto talk shows, and the Israeli state charging THE PROSECUTOR for releasing the video (while the rapist walks free)… Or I might have the specific instance wrong and Napolitano might have said it after an episode on the tens if not hundreds of thousands of Gazans who’ve been killed and the countless more who are malnourished in the midst of a humanitarian crisis… or It might have been after an episode on how Jeffery Epstein, a Mossad Operative (his accusation), Sex Trafficked hundreds of White American girls so as to blackmail Us Elites into committing treason…

(he’s actually said something approaching this exact line several times, it might have been all 3)

Napolitano, after discussing all that, turned to how Benjamin Netenyahu’s rhetoric and Zionist talking points were putting the American Jewish diaspora in a bad light.. And he commented that “the real problem”, “the real concern” was how Israel’s actions could fuel a rise in antisemitism. 

I swear I’m not making this up.

Napolitano and several of his various guests, people who otherwise are quite rational and with it (if a bit old), have said again and again, across months and years, offhandedly in tone or phrasing… That the “Real Danger” of the Gaza crisis is the specter of “antisemitism” and “fascism” in American and European young people…

That the real issue is NOT hundreds of thousands dead in the middle-east, or the systematic rape of Pallestinians and White American Children, but that White Americans have the correct emotions about these issues…

Ugh… no.

The real problem and real concern is the Hot war, tens if not hundreds of thousands dead, amputates and starving children, the risk of a wider regional war turning into nuclear world crisis, the Sex Trafficking of American Girls and the Treason of the American Elite on An industrial scale… Not to mention the presumably not inconsiderable number of shredded rectums and vaginas of poor Palestinian detainees… 

I tend to think that THAT is the “real concern”, not that young white people feel appalled in some correctly subtle and multicultural humanitarian manner. That actual deaths and warcrimes matter more than white American or European’s emotions and abstract thinking on the matter.

That actually burning someone alive or raping their children is a greater crime than looking in your heart of hearts and deciding that you really don’t like them.

I fly into a rage whenever I hear this sentiment stated… No matter how offhanded, or otherwise correct and knowledgeable the Gen-X or Boomer commentator is who says this (and they are ALWAYS over the age of 40)… This immediately ruins my day, and drives me nigh apoplectic.

Not even at Israel, but the boomer commentator themselves.

I have been driving hundreds of miles from home or out hiking hours through the woods listening to podcasts, and found myself yelling to the trees or seen my speed creeping up on the dashboard and had to pull over on the highway and shout profanities at this… This is why we lose!

Indeed the otherwise intelligence, awareness, and not inconsiderable daring of the speakers somehow makes this vastly worse.

How much do you have to hate your own white children and grandchildren?!

That when presented with amongst the worst, most unrepentant, systematic, and depraved crimes I’ve ever heard any of these people allege anyone doing, their primary thought is not for the victims, or justice, or thousands of dead Americans across decades of terror wars and the trillions of wasted dollars, and the lies and crimes we have been made complicit in… but for the innocent youth of their only families and communities… as a threat.

This is almost worse than the most obscene hypocrisies you see from leftist journalists… Responding to some horrific corruption or crime with “Right Wingers Pounce on prime minister’s under-aged homosexual affair” or “Right Wingers Politicize massacre of 12 year old girls by migrant”… Dodging the crimes by their precious protected politicians and migrant rapists by making the story not the crime, but Right Wingers’ reprobate degeneracy in noticing it. However, Say what you will about the leftist magazines, they at-least tend to have prominent examples of some right-winger “Pouncing”.

Napolitano and the Boomer Libertarians and Conservatives often don’t even have such an example, they do this even when they have no example of innocent white western teenagers saying anything. Expressing concerns that it “could” produce antisemitism.

I’m reminded of an old comedy skit I once saw where a high-strung narcissistic child at a family dinner screamed and tossed her dinner against the wall, that she couldn’t stand it anymore, and shouted that she hated her father and mother and everyone there… Only for the father to round about on the red headed step-child who’d said nothing all dinner “Don’t you dare get any ideas from this boy”.

 

READ MORE:

https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/discrimination-is-a-right-in-praise

 

GUSNOTE: NOTE TO KULAK

Andrew Neapolitano Crowd, John Mearsheimer, Col Douglas MacGregor and the Wider Antiwar Libertarian space USE THE COVER OF "... how Israel’s actions could fuel a rise in antisemitism..." AS A BORDERLINE MEANS TO REMAIN ON YOUTUBE WITHOUT HAVING THE CENSORSHIP ALGORITHM TAKE THEM OFF THE AIR... ESPECIALLY AFTER HAVING EXPOSED THE DREADFUL GENOCIDE COMMITTED BY ISRAHELL... SO WE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO BE ANTI-ZIONIST WITHOUT BEING A BASTARD TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE, OF WHOM STILL TOO MANY BEHAVE LIKE ATROCIOUS HUMANS WHILE DISPLAYING SOME COMPASSION TOWARDS THEMSELVES...

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

university semites....

 

University antisemitism watchdog. Rails run for Segal pick Greg Craven?

by Andrew Gardiner

 

Not content with one antisemitism envoy, the Federal Government appointed a university antisemitism watchdog in a questionable process. Andrew Gardiner reports.

There are red flags aplenty around university anti-Semitism watchdog Greg Craven, an academic with many links to staff at the office that chose him.

A rushed selection process – with careful written submissions giving way to brazen backing for one candidate – isn’t how you’d think high-profile appointments happen in Australia. But when the issue at stake is antisemitism, and there’s a need to placate powerful pressure groups, checks and balances fly out the window.

FOI documents seen by MWM reveal just such haste in the appointment of Craven as leader of the controversial University Report Card Project (URC), part of the government’s crackdown on antisemitism following the October 7 attacks.

Craven – a retired Catholic academic who once accused universities of “moral complicity” in the spread of antisemitism – is now in charge of monitoring those very same seats of learning.

How did officialdom arrive at this point?

Flawed selection process

MWM approached the relevant parties, Home Affairs (DHA) and the office of the Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism (ASECA), about the rush to appoint Craven. We queried the apparent absence of ‘business plan’ documents backing his candidacy and – importantly – the conflict-of-interest for at least two of ASECA’s six staff members.

Neither office responded to our questions, but here’s what we’ve learned so far under Freedom of Information (FOI):

  • After an open market tender for the position brought no bids, DHA went to a “limited tender” process on October 20 last year. ASECA picked five “eminent individuals” and declared a strong preference for “working our way down the list”, one by one, until they found a taker;
  • At the top of that list was Craven, a clear ASECA favourite for the job, “given his standing both as a former university administrator and as a respected jurist”.
  • once the former Australian Catholic University (ACU) Vice Chancellor showed an interest, he was pretty much assured of the job, with no evidence on hand ASECA even spoke with the other four names on its list;
  • As part of the limited tender process, DHA had asked for “a strong and well-documented business case” in support of Craven. It seems that never happened, ASECA instead telling DHA “time is of the essence … to get this rolling before the end of the year”;
  • On November 14, Craven got the job. It seems nobody else came under serious ASECA consideration.

Did ASECA thumb its bureaucratic nose at integrity rules by greasing the rails for ‘their guy’? Adding urgency to that question are revelations at least two ASECA staff members enjoyed collaborative working relationships with Craven at ACU.

ASECA’s Damien Freeman (a legal academic) had close professional ties with his former Vice Chancellor, working with Craven on such issues as Indigenous constitutional recognition during the Voice referendum (2023). “Greg Craven and I argue along similar lines (on the Voice) in a paper we wrote this year”, Freeman told Quarterly Essay.

Another ASECA staffer, Ashley Midalia, isn’t an academic, so any affinity with Craven isn’t documented in quarterly journals. But a man in his position (director of Government, Policy and Strategy at ACU during Craven’s tenure) was expected to work closely with his Vice-Chancellor in areas like high-level external relations, lobbying, policy advocacy and strategic advice.

Did these ASECA staffers declare apparent conflicts-of-interest, removing themselves from any and all decision-making around Craven’s appointment? Given that they represent one-third of anti-Semitism envoy Jillian Segal’s six-strong staff, such recusal may have been impractical.

Business case missing

Was DHA’s request for a “strong and well-documented business case” for Craven (surely a central element in any limited tender process) simply ignored? Finally, and most importantly, could other agencies simply skate around some of the fundamental requirements for integrity in government?

With Canberra under siege from Zionist and other pro-Israel groups since the October 7 attacks, it appears exceptions can be made.

What are Australian taxpayers getting for the more than $265,000 per annum they pay Craven? Through the URC mechanism, he’ll be monitoring universities on their performance in three specific areas:

  • how well they train their staff in combating anti-Semitism and hate speech;
  • how fair and accessible their complaint processes are;
  • how effectively they respond to pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupying buildings and open spaces (encampments) – pastimes ASECA says “may incite discrimination”.

If the third of these measurables triggers alarming memories of what happened at last month’s anti-Herzog rallies, you’re not alone. Deploying police to quell protests against what the International Criminal Court calls genocide (which universities would have to do to meet URC targets) seems both counterintuitive and draconian to many.

“Pressuring universities to crack down on peaceful protest and criticism of the state of Israel has nothing to do with combatting hatred, and everything to do with stifling criticism of Israel’s genocide. This is a Trumpian attack”, Students for Palestine co-convener Bella Beiraghi said.

“Agents of intolerance”

Re-casting students as agents of intolerance takes the kind of imagination you’ll find in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, which critics argue conflates hatred of Jews with criticism of Israel or Zionism.

Yet 39 universities across Australia, the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and ASECA itself have adopted criteria for anti-Semitism which jibe closely with those of the IHRA, as has the the Bondi Royal Commission.

Amnesty International calls it “a direct attack on fundamental freedoms, stifling freedom of speech, expression, assembly, academic debate, and protest”. Further, it “omits one compelling fact: the recent upsurge (in both anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism) is likely linked to Israel’s war on Gaza”, as UNSW’s Louise Chappell points out.

Questionable tender process

Thanks to a questionable tendering process, much of the enforcement of these new rules (which govern what you can and can’t say or do on the campuses of a free country) falls to a man who harbours deep suspicions of many academics and the universities they work for. “A large majority of academic staff and students have sympathies with the left (and will) find it very hard to confront the large parts of the left (which) are anti-Semitic”, Craven told News Corp.

Not stamping out anti-Semitism on campus was, he added:

one of the greatest failures of Australian universities in their history

“Every time you see a chanting, vicious protest on a university campus (and) nothing is done about it, that’s telling (students) it’s not wrong”.

Observers say the appointment of Craven or someone like him was inevitable the moment Segal (a woman with conservative ties and conflicts of her own) got the ASECA job. “You cannot be the face of a national strategy against hate while your own family trust donates $50,000 to Advance Australia, a far-right lobby group which itself fuels other forms of racism and bigotry”, the Lebanese Muslim Association’s Gamel Kheir said.

Sarah Schwartz of the more progressive Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) sees the power of Zionist pressure groups (and Canberra’s acquiescence in the face of it) at the root of a crackdown which has robbed Australians of some of their right to free expression. “We urge the PM to reject voices less interested in addressing anti-Semitism than in fulfilling a pro-Israel wish-list.”

https://michaelwest.com.au/university-antisemitism-watchdog-rails-run-for-segal-pick-greg-craven/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.