THEY'RE HERE: Israeli IDF Soldiers Allegedly Attack Protesters On US Soil

Clearly, Israeli soldiers are on the ground and active in the US. Will flaccid federal officials do anything about it?

Photos by Mark Taylor / DeMOCKracy.ink

By Mark Taylor
DeMOCKracy.ink (1/24/24)

The Guardian had a story on their website Tuesday (1/23) that should be an emergency wake-up call for everyone in the country: NYPD investigating alleged chemical attack on pro-Palestine Columbia University students

Follow the details of the story:

The incident happened at Columbia University last week (1/19): “Students protesting Israel’s bombardment of Gaza – which has killed more than 25,000 people, according to Palestinian health officials – reported being sprayed with a chemical that left many with symptoms such as nausea, abdominal pain, headaches and irritated eyes.

“Columbia’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) said eight students were a [sic] hospitalized as a result. Students reported their clothes and hair had a foul smell for hours after the protest.”

What about that spray?

Okay, so nasty shit happens at protests these days and reports of bear spray being used back and forth between protesters is common. But what about this very different noxious, sickening spray? What makes it so powerful that it sends victims off to the hospital in physical pain? Well, this spray is different.

The Guardian reports: “NYPD is investigating claims that the chemical unleashed on these students is “skunk”, an agent developed in Israel and used as a crowd control weapon, most commonly in the occupied West Bank.”

Hmm, that’s interesting. Now who would have ready access to such a despicable, cowardly Israeli military weapon?

The Guardian continues: “…the chemicals were sprayed by two students who are former Israeli soldiers, who mixed in with the crowd by wearing Palestinian keffiyehs.” [Emphasis added.]

Predictably, neither the NYPD or Columbia University — mindful of where much of their endowment funding comes from — had a comment about the identity of the assailants. One thing for certain, if these two were of military age, they are most likely reservists in the Israeli Defense Force. As such, they would be Israeli military and operating with an Israeli weapon against American citizens on American soil exercising their constitutional rights.

Is it reasonable to expect the modern surveillance state to quickly identify what happened, or even the threat these two represented before their attack? If you have any doubt, check out the John and Nisha Whitehead article below.

Some would consider what happened at Columbia an attack by a foreign force.

At least a rational, patriotic person would do so.

So what comes next?

How much you wanna’ bet, absolutely nothing comes of the investigations by the university or NYPD, much less federal law enforcement looking into members of a foreign military attacking Americans exercising their Constitutional First Amendment rights.

Columbia has an especially vile reputation regarding student protest of the U.S./Israeli genocide: “In November, the college banned two pro-Palestinian organizations, SJP and Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP), for allegedly violating campus procedures by holding “unauthorized” events. Demonstrations have persisted on campus nevertheless.”

As censorship and an ever-elastic definition of the term ‘antisemitism’ marginalizes and chokes off resistance to the U.S./Israeli genocide in Gaza, it’s clear the Zionist genocide is coming home to the U.S. It would be comforting to think U.S. officials will do something to stop it, but as we have seen with the US government’s obsequious, obedient, full-on-toe-licking support of the genocide — accelerating as you read this — there is absolutely no reason to expect U.S. officials to protect the citizen right of free speech and protest from foreign military attack in the United States.

Understand what is happening: The fascist Zionist purge of Americans is ramping up. They have captured the White House, congress and U.S. War Department. You can get a picture of the money involved here, and it’s totally bipartisan corruption. And expect it to get worse. Expect it to get increasingly militarized. Expect it to be coming closer to home. Don’t expect our bought-off government to do anything about it.

Rough times ahead. Unite. Resist. Stay strong.

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CITIZEN ACTION SUGGESTION:

Call your congressional representative and demand an investigation of this incident. I called my congressman, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), requesting a callback from a staffer while writing this. If I get a response I’ll let you know.

UPDATE: Rep. Gallagher responded with an email on 1/26/24. True to form, as he usually does with responses to letters or phone calls of concern I have sent, it was an empty list of platitudes, including this doozie: “Americans are sick and tired of broken promises from politicians. The American people are furious and Congress cannot continue with business as usual.”

Congressman, you have NO IDEA…

Not once did he address my concern about the Israeli Defense Force reservist attack at Columbia University. I called his office and left a message with a staffer calling him out on his callous disregard of a legitimate constituent concern. Gallagher constantly touts and markets off his time in the Marines, yet he clearly betrays all his “Semper Fi” self-promotion by not responding to a constituent concern about an attack by a foreign military force on American citizens on American soil exercising their Constitutional rights of free speech and protest.

What a Marine. Don’t look to him to protect us.

Who is his “Semper Fi” pledge really for? Well, his largest donor is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee super PAC.

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Update On Columbia University Incident

The Majority Report (1/31/24)

Prem Thakker, politics reporter at The Intercept, discusses his recent reporting on the use of chemical weapons on pro-Palestine demonstrators at Columbia University.

21-minute video.

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WATCHLISTED: Whether On The Right Or Left, You’re Probably Already On A Government Extremism List

“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.”
— Hunter S, Thompson

By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute (1/23/24)

According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve:

a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials,

b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,”

c) shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops,

d) purchased tickets to travel by bus, cars, or plane,

e) all of the above.

In fact, if you selected any of those options in recent years, you’re probably already on a government watchlist.

That’s how broadly the government’s net is being cast in its pursuit of domestic extremists.

We’re all fair game now, easy targets for inclusion on some FBI watch list or another.

When the FBI is asking banks and other financial institutions to carry out dragnet searches of customer transactions—warrantlessly and without probable cause—for “extremism” indicators broadly based on where you shop, what you read, and how you travel, we’re all in trouble.

Clearly, you don’t have to do anything illegal.

You don’t even have to challenge the government’s authority.

Frankly, you don’t even have to care about politics or know anything about your rights.

All you really need to do in order to be tagged as a suspicious character, flagged for surveillance, and eventually placed on a government watch list is live in the United States.

This is how easy it is to run afoul of the government’s many red flags.

Americans go wrong is in naively assuming that you have to be doing something illegal or harmful in order to be flagged and targeted for some form of intervention or detention.

In fact, all you need to do these days to end up on a government watch list or be subjected to heightened scrutiny is use certain trigger words (like cloud, pork and pirates), surf the internet, communicate using a cell phone, limp or stutter, drive a car, stay at a hotel, attend a political rally, express yourself on social media, appear mentally ill, serve in the military, disagree with a law enforcement official, call in sick to work, purchase materials at a hardware store, take flying or boating lessons, appear suspicious, appear confused or nervous, fidget or whistle or smell bad, be seen in public waving a toy gun or anything remotely resembling a gun (such as a water nozzle or a remote control or a walking cane), stare at a police officer, question government authority, or appear to be pro-gun or pro-freedom.

It’s just a matter or time

We’re all presumed guilty until proven innocent now.

It’s just a matter of time before you find yourself wrongly accused, investigated and confronted by police based on a data-driven algorithm or risk assessment culled together by a computer program run by artificial intelligence.

For instance, a so-called typo in a geofence search warrant, which allows police to capture location data for a particular geographic area, resulted in government officials being given access to information about who went where and with whom within a two-mile long stretch of San Francisco that included churches, businesses, private homes, hotels, and restaurants.

Thanks to the 24/7 surveillance being carried out by the government’s sprawling spy network of fusion centers, we are all just sitting ducks, waiting to be tagged, flagged, targeted, monitored, manipulated, investigated, interrogated, heckled and generally harassed by agents of the American police state.

Without having ever knowingly committed a crime or been convicted of one, you and your fellow citizens have likely been assessed for behaviors the government might consider devious, dangerous or concerning; assigned a threat score based on your associations, activities and viewpoints; and catalogued in a government database according to how you should be approached by police and other government agencies based on your particular threat level.

Before long, every household in America will be flagged as a threat and assigned a threat score.

Electronic prison

Nationwide, there are upwards of 123 real-time crime centers (a.k.a. fusion centers), which allow local police agencies to upload and share massive amounts of surveillance data and intelligence with state and federal agencies culled from surveillance cameras, facial recognition technology, gunshot sensors, social media monitoring, drones and body cameras, and artificial intelligence-driven predictive policing algorithms.

These data fusion centers, which effectively create an electronic prison—a digital police state—from which there is no escape.

Yet this crime prevention campaign is not so much about making America safer as it is about ensuring that the government has the wherewithal to muzzle anti-government discontent, penalize anyone expressing anti-government sentiments, and preemptively nip in the bud any attempts by the populace to challenge the government’s authority or question its propaganda.

As J.D. Tuccille writes for Reason, “[A]t a time when government officials rage against ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ that is often just disagreement with whatever opinions are currently popular among the political class, fusion centers frequently scrutinize peaceful dissenting speech.”

These fusion centers are the unacknowledged powerhouses behind the government’s campaign to censors and retaliate against those who vocalize their disagreement and discontent with government policies.

It’s a setup ripe for abuse.

For instance, an investigative report by the Brennan Center found that “Over the last two decades, leaked materials have shown fusion centers tracking protestors and casting peaceful activities as potential threats. Their targets have included racial justice and environmental advocates, right-wing activists, and third-party political candidates.”

One fusion center in Maine was found to have been “illegally collecting and sharing information about Maine residents who weren’t suspected of criminal activity. They included gun purchasers, people protesting the construction of a new power transmission line, the employees of a peacebuilding summer camp for teenagers, and even people who travelled to New York City frequently.”

This is how the burden of proof has been reversed.

Although the Constitution requires the government to provide solid proof of criminal activity before it can deprive a citizen of life or liberty, the government has turned that fundamental assurance of due process on its head. …

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