Thank you! Thank you for taking a stand in support of free speech. Every word you penned is golden. And I pity those who find even one fault with what you wrote.
In London, there was a peaceful protest by Jews against the genocide in Gaza. Protesting the ideology of Zionism is not antisemitic. Will any of the U.S. President candidates do the right thing if elected? Aljazeera did an in-depth analysis of what happened the day of the Hamas attack. Hamas killed many young people at an event, they went through suburban streets shooting into the homes, murdering many. There was no evidence of rape or the beheading of babies. What Hamas did was done in the spirit of cowardice. If their goal was to take hostages as a bargaining chip to get release of their own people unfairly incarcerated, they could have done so without spilling blood. Instead, they were unorganized, reckless and murdered innocents. Israel has stooped to the same level, only at a much larger scale. Neither position is justifiable. Biblical ideology is being weaponized against the Palestinian people to justify destroying them. Humans can rationalize the most heinous acts, but the end does not justify the means. Speech is no longer free. France and Ireland plan to legally penalize those who speak on subjects ruled off limits. There are young global leaders trained under the ideology of Klaus placed strategically in European governments, so of course we are seeing the Great Reset take root. We are going in the direction of one global governance, and that will necessitate a suppression of the dissenters via censorship, surveillance, and disenfranchisement. Any Christian that supports killing thousands of civilians of any religion is missing the mark by a long shot. If we don't speak out, we too are guilty.
You're woefully uninformed about what really happened if you can allege there were no rapes or beheading of babies. Have you listened to the ZAKA personnel describe what they encountered? Many needed psychological counseling afterwards.
It would have been impossible to create what I saw. If you can find it check it out. I don't remember the name of the documentary, so I can't tell you.
I googled it, not convinced with any confession coming after detention by the IDF. PHRI described Israel’s prisons holding Palestinians from the West Bank and East Jerusalem held on security-related charges, the prison authorities “have been granted free rein to act however they see fit"... At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence…’ So, rape claimed by both sides.
Hard to know what to believe, but according to 'Hadas Ziv, director of ethics and policy at (PHRI), acknowledged numerous problems with the position paper she co-authored, “Sexual and Gender-Based Violence as a Weapon of War During the October 7, 2023, Hamas Attacks.” Ziv admitted credibility problems with sources and that she did not review all available evidence. She was “unaware” numerous sources had fabricated atrocity stories about Oct. 7. She quoted volunteers from Zaka, a scandal-plagued organization that collected human remains after Oct. 7, but Ziv did not realize Zaka openly talks of inventing stories...'
There is a move to muzzle their reporting, I think they provide much raw coverage that other outlets do not. I do not trust the NY times, Washington Post, CNN, so difficult to find reputable news sources. I am definitely not pro-Hamas; they are terrorists and acted from a position of cowardice on innocent civilians. Non-violence is the greatest tool at mankind's disposal - Gandhi
AlJazeera is run from Qatar. The same place the billionaire leaders of Hamas live. It is hardly unbiased. If you want the atrocities in Gaza to end, go after Hamas. Who hide behind their civilians, which is why they are being killed. Also stop believing any numbers of deaths put out by the Hamas-run Gaza ‘Ministry of Health’, whether of ‘children ‘ or anyone. In those numbers are all of their combatants. The ‘children’ are taught to hate Jews from the cradle. The boys are taught how to use military weapons before they hit puberty. Have you not seen the pictures of their displays in their schools? Dr Christian’s concerns are motivated by admirable concern-but in Gaza’s case, his target is misdirected.
Every news media is biased including those in Israel. I am convinced Hamas are terrorists, but my thinking is in line with South Africa's in regard to Israel.
Why don’t you clear up your confusion by travelling to, say, Egypt ie Cairo, and Israel ie Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Galil, and seeing for yourself? Which I did, yes, even this old woman. Go to Egypt first but even if you go to Israel first, their visa is removable so the Egyptians won’t refuse you entry for having it. Yes they will do that. Yes you can still do that. The flights are a bit thinner on the ground but you can still do it. Tourism had taken a hit and you would be helping out a ravaged economy-for the Israeli Arabs who relied on it too. Rather than relying on poor to no research and keyboard warriors.
I think a lay person is entitled to an opinion even if they have not travelled to warn torn countries. If that was a prerequisite, the comments would dwindle dramatically. I have opinions on the Holocaust despite not having travelled to Germany. However, I do listen to Jewish people who have travelled to Palestine, because I want to hear their point of view. I respect Gabor Mate on so many levels, he is one Jew that has spent time in Palestine and sees the apartheid situation for what it is. Also, Jeremy Hammond who wrote 'obstacle to peace' has spent time there, and I am in contact with him. These two people have not hardened hearts, it is apparent when they present, and it is obvious and precious when so many are callous. Your sarcasm exposes your intolerance of other points of view, too bad, that is the problem with this world, and you contribute to polluting this world with your hostility under the guise of 'goodness.' It is very off-putting to try and have a civilized back and forth commentary with such a personality. I respect your differing point of view, but I do not respect your sarcasm, its ugly.
No evidence of rape??!! Did you not see the photos of the young women with bloody pants? Did you not watch any of Hamas' own videos in which they bragged about doing just that? Good lord.
I wrote on the Aljazeera documentary only. Hamas are terrorists, no question. There are lots of lies being spread, that is why I wrote about Hadas Ziv, and that is why it is difficult to discern the truth despite images posted. Lots of AI generated propaganda that seems real but is not. I respect your opinion, and you are entitled to it.
I generally refer to info from Jeremy Hammond who writes on the subject, spent time in the Middle East, and has written several books, and is a very honest man that I have been in contact with. That is as close as I can get short of travelling to Palestine. So, as far as videos not posted by him, it is difficult to discern what is true or not. If you watched the documentary though it was well done. But, perhaps Aljazeera generated the footage using AI and it was not raw, I don't know for sure. That is why opinions are only opinions and not facts. Overall though I think the Palestinians have been treated deplorably for decades, there are many in prison and there are claims of rape. I don't know if that is true or not either. Both sides make such claims.
We can all argue for the right to free speech and how awful war is, especially on innocent lives (such as the victims of Oct. 7).
Please recognize, too, that what’s happening on college campuses has crossed that line into threatening the lives of students and professors.
When protests aren’t “peaceful” and the rights of students to safely attend their classes, dangerous repercussions can follow. This becomes reminiscent of Nazi Germany:
“Eighty of them occupied the university buildings. They denied Jewish students entry into the buildings and chased those inside off campus.”
This quote was not given by a student at the University of Minnesota, Columbia, or MIT this week. This eyewitness account was given at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main on April 1, 1933.
Gazans were living in peace, that is, under the rule of terrorists when 1400 Jews were brutally slaughtered. Furthermore, their inane chants of from the river to the sea…sound like they wish to wipe out the little tiny country of Israel which is about the size of NJ. Then there are the chants of Hitler had it right, we are Hamas, while blocking Jewish students from campus. They are being paid by Soros to raise hell! Perhaps they would be willing to change places with the hostages for a truly eye opening experience. Really.
1. Civilians are coincidently-killed in all wars. Israel is more careful than any other combatant group in trying to avoid civilian casualties. Do your research.
2. If Hamas had not attacked Israel there would be no Gaza war and no Gazan casualties.
3. Respectable analysis does not cherry-pick one fact/ one dimension to dwell on. Life is multi-dimensional. This piece disappoints.
I fail to understand why it is Israel’s sole responsibility to minimize civilian deaths. They are ethical and careful, but they were the ones attacked, murdered, tortured, raped and held hostage. Israel must eradicate Hamas. There is no choice or they will do it again and again. How do we know? They say it! Where is the US, the UN, neighbors in the region with help and solutions for Palestinian civilians? Egypt just built their wall higher!
The vast majority of protestors are not “anti-Jewish” or “anti-Zionist” or “anti-semites.” In fact, many of the college students protesting are Jewish.
Just like the vast majority of people who are against experimental MRNA injections with no long term safety data are not “anti-vaxxers.”
The Intelligence Community-controlled MSM uses these over-simplified caricatures to divide us into xenophobic tribes. And we fall for it every time. Divide and conquer.
One can simultaneously be horrified by (1) Hamas’ barbaric attack which killed hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians; and (2) the IDF’s desire to turn Gaza into a parking lot and the accompanying murder of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians.
If being ignorant of, or even comfortable with, your country’s leaders initiating violence against an innocent population means you are guilty of that violence, then the US electorate better hope that the countries of Iran, Congo, Guatemala, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and many others never have the ability to turn the US into a parking lot. Because we stood by and cheered the “Mission Accomplished” BS in the Middle East for 2 decades.
Using the same logic that Israel has the right to equate Palestinians in Gaza with Hamas, would give the Italian government the right to flatten Sicily for the crimes of the Mafia, and Russia the right to flatten Ukraine for the Moscow Concert Hall shooting that murdered over 100 innocent civilians.
Israel has the right to exist and defend itself. The USA shouldn’t be funding the murdering of innocent civilians. You people are not stupid. You should not be amplifying these IC tactics of overly simplified caricatures of good vs evil. We want students protesting against the US funding of violent foreign escalations, whether they be in Ukraine or Gaza.
Where were all these free speech advocates throughout the lockdowns and mandates. Although this cause is worthy these protests appear to be more a psyop
On point. Many of the same folks either in the protests, or in solidarity with the protests, and claim the state (or its affiliates) is now immoral or evil were more than happy to comply with the state during covid, or worse, happy to use the power of the state against others. As far as I'm concerned, their activism isn't borne of awareness of existential tyranny but rather a superficial ideological bent.
Eloquently written. But, as Ecclesiastes 6:11 says; “The more the [ eloquent ] words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?”
The writer never boils the issue down to its foundational problem: Hamas is the Gazan’s problem and tormentor. Not Israel. The writer doesn’t get that evidently nor do the “noble” protesters. When the problem is mis-diagnosed, “how does that profit anyone”.
Avi Shlaim University of Oxford. ...' is an Israeli and British historian of Iraqi Jewish descent. He is one of Israel's "New Historians", a group of Israeli scholars who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism.' His talks are excellent on the subject.
The opposite point of view is ably articulated by Alan Dershowitz who has visited the war zone. According to him, the care taken by Israeli to avoid civilian deaths in the urban war is far superior to that of any other country, including the United States. Hamas uses their own civilians as human shields, just like they put their military tunnels below civilian hospitals. There's more than a little truth in this cartoon: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9G2sSqWwAAuekj?format=jpg&name=small
There are no "Rocky Mountain Peoples" just as there are no Gazans or Palestinians, per se. Nor is there a Rocky Mountainstine or a Rocky Mountain Nation.
These tribes of Gaza have a brutal and violent criminal history. They have conducted war crimes and violent marauding across Jordan and Egypt, clashing with the militaries of both during the last century. Their children certainly suffer but they suffer most as being a commodity; another form of strategic weapon to be deployed in the violent acting out over the next fit of distemper and serial cruelty.
The great lesson of palestine is the lesson of paradox.
These lands were owned and ruled by the Imperial Ottoman state for 900 years. Owned and controlled by Turks for 900 years until the British crushed the hegemony and took it for themselves. How much harm the Brits created is another topic worthy of scrutiny.
I pity the children. I pity all children who suffer from reprehensible and irresponsible parents.
The malignancy that is Gaza and its legacy stands as tribute to man's ability to stage and conduct a horror of self-inflicted tragedy. This is not to say the tribal leaders are not brilliant. They have milked and bilked the governments of the west for trillions of dollars over the decades.
That so little has trickled down to needy children and families of the UN Camps is indeed a crime.
We have yet to face the bitter truth. The governments of the west have paid the tribal leadership to do what the tribal leadership has continued to do for decades: keep the money, cheat the poor, blame Israeli state and reap millions in profits per month from the perpetual harvesting of hatred-for-hire.
This has more to do with Turkish history than with jews or arabs. All three are exhausted by the Criminal Gangs of Gaza and the malignancy that is "palestinia" by fiat of UN and NGO funding.
They have not built a refuge from jewishness or turkish history. They have built a Dachau-on-the-Desert and placed the Capos in charge.
You bet your ass the children and their families pay a terrible price. How else to measure the level of depravity in a culture but by the way they treat their own children.
What to do about the parents? Have you seen the videos of these grade school children in school plays dressed in intifada costume explosive vests and plastic AK-47s? Have you see the standing ovation given by the parents when they find the jew behind the tree and ceremonially kill them?
What kind of savages do this? There is good reason the sophisticated Arab nations won't let these tribal refugees cross the border into their countries. There is a good reason why the sophisticated Arabs are desperate to keep them where they are and as calm as possible.
If only that could work. It didn't. Trillions of dollars later, it still failed to work.
The NGO subsidy money is more important than the children. The tribal crime syndicates are more important than the children. If this was not the dominant truth, they would behave differently and peacefully assimilate into the historical and cultural reality that surrounds them all on sides, i.e., the jewish and arab states that have no illusions about the cultural tragedy created by the UN and NGOs of the west who fund the gangland-run criminal enterprise called "Gaza."
Where is mention of the incessant launching of thousands of rockets into Israel from Gaza over many years aimed indiscriminately at civilian areas ?
Where is mention of the atrocities by Gazans - as well as Hamas - on October 7 2023 ?
Where are protests over 500,000 Syrians killed in that civil war? And the many thousands of civilians killed in the Iraq war? In the fight against ISIS in Mosul? In the Sudan war? In Nigeria at the hands of radical Islamic gangs?
Nowhere !!
When it’s the Jews going after genocidal radical terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah - and taking great pains to avoid non militant deaths, like dropping millions or warning leaflets, making millions a of phone calls, creating safe passage roads etc, all to the detriment of any military advantage of surprise, plus actually supplying their enemies with humanitarian aid ( unheard of in other wars ), so categorically no genocide - the protesters pour out …
It is antisemitism pure and simple - and that inflamed by propagandist lies about the extent civilians deaths gushing from a taqqiya practising terrorist Hamas
And the protesters are anything but peaceful - both actually violent and also hatefully inciting violence with calls for genocide and other acts of war and terror
I am cancelling my subscription because you allow for this anodyne and apology for hate speech and hate groups, which is not acceptable under the rubric of true free speech.
I feel the same way. My views have changed and my eyes wide open after the “peaceful protests” during the Summer of Love which was allowed to happen in blue state$.
John h, when you say your are cancelling your subscription, does that really make sense? I really like the first sentence Dr. Christian writes in this article. For me, we may not agree always with someone but we should encourage free speech because sometimes, just sometimes we come out learning something we didn't know. I like to use the phrase, "let's not throw out the baby with the bath water". Have a wonderful day.
I am cancelling the McCullough subscription, not that of the author of the article, with whom I have no subscription - an article which contains overt calumnies and slanders against Israel - because he allows dissemination of this thinly disguised diatribe against Israel and the democratic West posing as an article for free speech …
I had subscribed in admiration for Dr McCullough in his sterling efforts to fight the ill advised practices visited on millions during the Covid panic and his continuing scientific enlightening articles on that subject and other medical issues
I found the insertion of the offensive article out of place and unnecessarily provoking
I seriously doubt Dr McCullough is antisemitic - he has excellent tenor in his own writings
The provocative article - which was re-posted likely , in my opinion, by his colleague and not by McCullough himself - was written by another author, Francis Christian, who does seem to portray animus for Israel and ignores truths about the rabid demonstrations and demonstrators he lauds
I will probably resume my subscription to McCullough’s Substack after a suitable interval if such repostings and disseminations cease
Please believe me when I say I support true free speech - but not demonstrations that block roads and bridges, interfere with innocent life, block access, assault opponents, trespass, and call for genocide and violence …
I have not heard one chant of ‘spare the children’ from American youth or one of the highly coordinated protests that implore Hammas to ‘let aid through’.
One question is how far should peaceful protests be allowed to go. Do protesters (who are not always students of a university) have the right to set up encampments on university grounds and build fences to keep out of the encampments anybody they don't like? This is what's happened at UCLA in Los Angeles. The protesters allow people with cameras they deem supportive to enter their large encampment, but if they suspect a person with a camera including legitimate media is not supportive of their side, then they prevent that person with a camera from filming in the encampment. They have effectively claimed public space as their own, and the University has allowed this. Major media cannot enter this space without being blocked. That's not legal, but they do it anyway. There are no police there, and the University is essentially siding with the protesters in allowing them to what they want with the rights of other people being taken away.
Across town USC decided they would not have protester encampments on their grounds. They called the police and had 93 people arrested when they failed to follow police orders to clear an encampment. It's called trespassing. Protesting within limits is allowed, like it should be. But if protesters want to break the law they need to accept the consequences. USC closed off the campus to non-students. There is no encampment at USC because this private university is willing to use legal means to make their campus safe for all their students. One major difference here, USC has perhaps more Jewish supporters who contribute money to this private University. UCLA being a state owned university is not dependent in any way on Jewish contributions. So the large scale encampment at USC lasted maybe a day, then they ran out of people willing to be arrested. Nobody is being arrested at UCLA.
These “peaceful protests” are blocking roads in NYC, airports, highways and more. They have set up tents all around Columbia U and there are demands for the president of the college to resign. It is totally out of hand and NYC police are told to stand down. It’s disgusting the virtue signaling from the liberal media liberal Jews and progressives on the left and this includes Dr M and all his freedom movement friends, who are liberals.
Yes, I was surprised and disappointed in Dr. M for posted this liberal propaganda! I may have to rethink my subscription next year. However, if he stuck to medical and not liberal talking points it would be great! He is a top notch doctor that I respect, for that!
Why no mention about the lack of freedom of speech for all who protested and/or refused to be injected with an experimental genetic jab with so many side effects? Dr McCullough was one of the first victims
Unfortunately the protests are not peaceful in many cases. They are also stained with antisemitism which , as it turns out, is the whole reason for the state of Israel to begin with. Antisemitism dates back to the days of Constantine and it never goes away. Read "Prequel."
Dr. Christian, I always enjoy your writing. I agree that peaceful protests should be allowed; however, many of these protests over Israel/Palestine are not peaceful. There are many at these protests chanting things like "death to the Jews" etc. I do not agree with this even if it is deemed "free speech". I pray for peace in the Middle east. I pray for the killing to stop. I pray for all the innocent lives lost. This is all heartbreaking.
And to think that when the freedom convoy arrived in Ottawa and there was only peace and love and laughter, that got stamped as terrorizing. We know there is extreme prejudice and we know when a protest is deemed 'acceptable' and 'politically correct'. I'll leave it here.
From a Canadian, that is not extreme prejudice, that is hatred for those who won’t go along with their psychotic agendas. I would go so far as to say they are possessed with an evil they don’t understand and cannot rid themselves of because of their pride and avarice.
Thank you! Thank you for taking a stand in support of free speech. Every word you penned is golden. And I pity those who find even one fault with what you wrote.
No thank you.
So much for free speech if you refuse to listen to any other view but this one. Ironic.
In London, there was a peaceful protest by Jews against the genocide in Gaza. Protesting the ideology of Zionism is not antisemitic. Will any of the U.S. President candidates do the right thing if elected? Aljazeera did an in-depth analysis of what happened the day of the Hamas attack. Hamas killed many young people at an event, they went through suburban streets shooting into the homes, murdering many. There was no evidence of rape or the beheading of babies. What Hamas did was done in the spirit of cowardice. If their goal was to take hostages as a bargaining chip to get release of their own people unfairly incarcerated, they could have done so without spilling blood. Instead, they were unorganized, reckless and murdered innocents. Israel has stooped to the same level, only at a much larger scale. Neither position is justifiable. Biblical ideology is being weaponized against the Palestinian people to justify destroying them. Humans can rationalize the most heinous acts, but the end does not justify the means. Speech is no longer free. France and Ireland plan to legally penalize those who speak on subjects ruled off limits. There are young global leaders trained under the ideology of Klaus placed strategically in European governments, so of course we are seeing the Great Reset take root. We are going in the direction of one global governance, and that will necessitate a suppression of the dissenters via censorship, surveillance, and disenfranchisement. Any Christian that supports killing thousands of civilians of any religion is missing the mark by a long shot. If we don't speak out, we too are guilty.
You're woefully uninformed about what really happened if you can allege there were no rapes or beheading of babies. Have you listened to the ZAKA personnel describe what they encountered? Many needed psychological counseling afterwards.
I saw the footage presented by Aljazeera; it was very informative. Check out their documentary.
Rita, be careful who you trust. Footage presented by Aljazeera doesn't make it factual.
It would have been impossible to create what I saw. If you can find it check it out. I don't remember the name of the documentary, so I can't tell you.
Google Manar Qasem. Many media sources reported his rape confession. Did Aljazeera cover the story?
I googled it, not convinced with any confession coming after detention by the IDF. PHRI described Israel’s prisons holding Palestinians from the West Bank and East Jerusalem held on security-related charges, the prison authorities “have been granted free rein to act however they see fit"... At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence…’ So, rape claimed by both sides.
Hard to know what to believe, but according to 'Hadas Ziv, director of ethics and policy at (PHRI), acknowledged numerous problems with the position paper she co-authored, “Sexual and Gender-Based Violence as a Weapon of War During the October 7, 2023, Hamas Attacks.” Ziv admitted credibility problems with sources and that she did not review all available evidence. She was “unaware” numerous sources had fabricated atrocity stories about Oct. 7. She quoted volunteers from Zaka, a scandal-plagued organization that collected human remains after Oct. 7, but Ziv did not realize Zaka openly talks of inventing stories...'
Aljazeera is a Muslim rag that is as one sided as Christian's article! Never believe Aljazeera!
There is a move to muzzle their reporting, I think they provide much raw coverage that other outlets do not. I do not trust the NY times, Washington Post, CNN, so difficult to find reputable news sources. I am definitely not pro-Hamas; they are terrorists and acted from a position of cowardice on innocent civilians. Non-violence is the greatest tool at mankind's disposal - Gandhi
Aljazeera does show raw coverage, but of their choosing, just like our msm, that will support and further their cause in the Middle East!
All the media outlets do it on both sides yes.
AlJazeera is run from Qatar. The same place the billionaire leaders of Hamas live. It is hardly unbiased. If you want the atrocities in Gaza to end, go after Hamas. Who hide behind their civilians, which is why they are being killed. Also stop believing any numbers of deaths put out by the Hamas-run Gaza ‘Ministry of Health’, whether of ‘children ‘ or anyone. In those numbers are all of their combatants. The ‘children’ are taught to hate Jews from the cradle. The boys are taught how to use military weapons before they hit puberty. Have you not seen the pictures of their displays in their schools? Dr Christian’s concerns are motivated by admirable concern-but in Gaza’s case, his target is misdirected.
Every news media is biased including those in Israel. I am convinced Hamas are terrorists, but my thinking is in line with South Africa's in regard to Israel.
Why don’t you clear up your confusion by travelling to, say, Egypt ie Cairo, and Israel ie Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Galil, and seeing for yourself? Which I did, yes, even this old woman. Go to Egypt first but even if you go to Israel first, their visa is removable so the Egyptians won’t refuse you entry for having it. Yes they will do that. Yes you can still do that. The flights are a bit thinner on the ground but you can still do it. Tourism had taken a hit and you would be helping out a ravaged economy-for the Israeli Arabs who relied on it too. Rather than relying on poor to no research and keyboard warriors.
I think a lay person is entitled to an opinion even if they have not travelled to warn torn countries. If that was a prerequisite, the comments would dwindle dramatically. I have opinions on the Holocaust despite not having travelled to Germany. However, I do listen to Jewish people who have travelled to Palestine, because I want to hear their point of view. I respect Gabor Mate on so many levels, he is one Jew that has spent time in Palestine and sees the apartheid situation for what it is. Also, Jeremy Hammond who wrote 'obstacle to peace' has spent time there, and I am in contact with him. These two people have not hardened hearts, it is apparent when they present, and it is obvious and precious when so many are callous. Your sarcasm exposes your intolerance of other points of view, too bad, that is the problem with this world, and you contribute to polluting this world with your hostility under the guise of 'goodness.' It is very off-putting to try and have a civilized back and forth commentary with such a personality. I respect your differing point of view, but I do not respect your sarcasm, its ugly.
No evidence of rape??!! Did you not see the photos of the young women with bloody pants? Did you not watch any of Hamas' own videos in which they bragged about doing just that? Good lord.
I wrote on the Aljazeera documentary only. Hamas are terrorists, no question. There are lots of lies being spread, that is why I wrote about Hadas Ziv, and that is why it is difficult to discern the truth despite images posted. Lots of AI generated propaganda that seems real but is not. I respect your opinion, and you are entitled to it.
If you think that actual videos are "AI generated propaganda", then how can you ever discern what is true?
I generally refer to info from Jeremy Hammond who writes on the subject, spent time in the Middle East, and has written several books, and is a very honest man that I have been in contact with. That is as close as I can get short of travelling to Palestine. So, as far as videos not posted by him, it is difficult to discern what is true or not. If you watched the documentary though it was well done. But, perhaps Aljazeera generated the footage using AI and it was not raw, I don't know for sure. That is why opinions are only opinions and not facts. Overall though I think the Palestinians have been treated deplorably for decades, there are many in prison and there are claims of rape. I don't know if that is true or not either. Both sides make such claims.
Dr. McCullough,
We can all argue for the right to free speech and how awful war is, especially on innocent lives (such as the victims of Oct. 7).
Please recognize, too, that what’s happening on college campuses has crossed that line into threatening the lives of students and professors.
When protests aren’t “peaceful” and the rights of students to safely attend their classes, dangerous repercussions can follow. This becomes reminiscent of Nazi Germany:
“Eighty of them occupied the university buildings. They denied Jewish students entry into the buildings and chased those inside off campus.”
This quote was not given by a student at the University of Minnesota, Columbia, or MIT this week. This eyewitness account was given at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main on April 1, 1933.
Yes, we need to protect our freedom.
Gazans were living in peace, that is, under the rule of terrorists when 1400 Jews were brutally slaughtered. Furthermore, their inane chants of from the river to the sea…sound like they wish to wipe out the little tiny country of Israel which is about the size of NJ. Then there are the chants of Hitler had it right, we are Hamas, while blocking Jewish students from campus. They are being paid by Soros to raise hell! Perhaps they would be willing to change places with the hostages for a truly eye opening experience. Really.
Agree.
Exactly!
1. Civilians are coincidently-killed in all wars. Israel is more careful than any other combatant group in trying to avoid civilian casualties. Do your research.
2. If Hamas had not attacked Israel there would be no Gaza war and no Gazan casualties.
3. Respectable analysis does not cherry-pick one fact/ one dimension to dwell on. Life is multi-dimensional. This piece disappoints.
I fail to understand why it is Israel’s sole responsibility to minimize civilian deaths. They are ethical and careful, but they were the ones attacked, murdered, tortured, raped and held hostage. Israel must eradicate Hamas. There is no choice or they will do it again and again. How do we know? They say it! Where is the US, the UN, neighbors in the region with help and solutions for Palestinian civilians? Egypt just built their wall higher!
Agree.
The vast majority of protestors are not “anti-Jewish” or “anti-Zionist” or “anti-semites.” In fact, many of the college students protesting are Jewish.
Just like the vast majority of people who are against experimental MRNA injections with no long term safety data are not “anti-vaxxers.”
The Intelligence Community-controlled MSM uses these over-simplified caricatures to divide us into xenophobic tribes. And we fall for it every time. Divide and conquer.
One can simultaneously be horrified by (1) Hamas’ barbaric attack which killed hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians; and (2) the IDF’s desire to turn Gaza into a parking lot and the accompanying murder of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians.
If being ignorant of, or even comfortable with, your country’s leaders initiating violence against an innocent population means you are guilty of that violence, then the US electorate better hope that the countries of Iran, Congo, Guatemala, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and many others never have the ability to turn the US into a parking lot. Because we stood by and cheered the “Mission Accomplished” BS in the Middle East for 2 decades.
Using the same logic that Israel has the right to equate Palestinians in Gaza with Hamas, would give the Italian government the right to flatten Sicily for the crimes of the Mafia, and Russia the right to flatten Ukraine for the Moscow Concert Hall shooting that murdered over 100 innocent civilians.
Israel has the right to exist and defend itself. The USA shouldn’t be funding the murdering of innocent civilians. You people are not stupid. You should not be amplifying these IC tactics of overly simplified caricatures of good vs evil. We want students protesting against the US funding of violent foreign escalations, whether they be in Ukraine or Gaza.
Where were all these free speech advocates throughout the lockdowns and mandates. Although this cause is worthy these protests appear to be more a psyop
than organic.
Absolutely with brand new tents and camping equipment for all!
It looks like all those tents were purchased from the same place. Great organizational skills on the part of these students. And were they paid, too?
On point. Many of the same folks either in the protests, or in solidarity with the protests, and claim the state (or its affiliates) is now immoral or evil were more than happy to comply with the state during covid, or worse, happy to use the power of the state against others. As far as I'm concerned, their activism isn't borne of awareness of existential tyranny but rather a superficial ideological bent.
Eloquently written. But, as Ecclesiastes 6:11 says; “The more the [ eloquent ] words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?”
The writer never boils the issue down to its foundational problem: Hamas is the Gazan’s problem and tormentor. Not Israel. The writer doesn’t get that evidently nor do the “noble” protesters. When the problem is mis-diagnosed, “how does that profit anyone”.
Agree
I disagree, Hamas and Israel are the problem. Watch documentaries on the West Bank.
And so is the hatred coming from the Palestinians. And who voted for Hamas?
Israel wanted Hamas in place at the time. Jeremy Hammond explains the history very well.
The zionjist entity and its hateful / genocidal ideology of zionism is the problem
Avi Shlaim University of Oxford. ...' is an Israeli and British historian of Iraqi Jewish descent. He is one of Israel's "New Historians", a group of Israeli scholars who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism.' His talks are excellent on the subject.
The opposite point of view is ably articulated by Alan Dershowitz who has visited the war zone. According to him, the care taken by Israeli to avoid civilian deaths in the urban war is far superior to that of any other country, including the United States. Hamas uses their own civilians as human shields, just like they put their military tunnels below civilian hospitals. There's more than a little truth in this cartoon: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9G2sSqWwAAuekj?format=jpg&name=small
Where were the protests of the Oct 7 attack on innocent people? The radical Marxists have joined forces with the radical islamists.
And the radical Islamists would be happy to kill the radical Marxists after the 'useful idiots' wear out their welcome.
Exactly
There are no "Rocky Mountain Peoples" just as there are no Gazans or Palestinians, per se. Nor is there a Rocky Mountainstine or a Rocky Mountain Nation.
These tribes of Gaza have a brutal and violent criminal history. They have conducted war crimes and violent marauding across Jordan and Egypt, clashing with the militaries of both during the last century. Their children certainly suffer but they suffer most as being a commodity; another form of strategic weapon to be deployed in the violent acting out over the next fit of distemper and serial cruelty.
The great lesson of palestine is the lesson of paradox.
These lands were owned and ruled by the Imperial Ottoman state for 900 years. Owned and controlled by Turks for 900 years until the British crushed the hegemony and took it for themselves. How much harm the Brits created is another topic worthy of scrutiny.
I pity the children. I pity all children who suffer from reprehensible and irresponsible parents.
The malignancy that is Gaza and its legacy stands as tribute to man's ability to stage and conduct a horror of self-inflicted tragedy. This is not to say the tribal leaders are not brilliant. They have milked and bilked the governments of the west for trillions of dollars over the decades.
That so little has trickled down to needy children and families of the UN Camps is indeed a crime.
We have yet to face the bitter truth. The governments of the west have paid the tribal leadership to do what the tribal leadership has continued to do for decades: keep the money, cheat the poor, blame Israeli state and reap millions in profits per month from the perpetual harvesting of hatred-for-hire.
This has more to do with Turkish history than with jews or arabs. All three are exhausted by the Criminal Gangs of Gaza and the malignancy that is "palestinia" by fiat of UN and NGO funding.
They have not built a refuge from jewishness or turkish history. They have built a Dachau-on-the-Desert and placed the Capos in charge.
You bet your ass the children and their families pay a terrible price. How else to measure the level of depravity in a culture but by the way they treat their own children.
What to do about the parents? Have you seen the videos of these grade school children in school plays dressed in intifada costume explosive vests and plastic AK-47s? Have you see the standing ovation given by the parents when they find the jew behind the tree and ceremonially kill them?
What kind of savages do this? There is good reason the sophisticated Arab nations won't let these tribal refugees cross the border into their countries. There is a good reason why the sophisticated Arabs are desperate to keep them where they are and as calm as possible.
If only that could work. It didn't. Trillions of dollars later, it still failed to work.
The NGO subsidy money is more important than the children. The tribal crime syndicates are more important than the children. If this was not the dominant truth, they would behave differently and peacefully assimilate into the historical and cultural reality that surrounds them all on sides, i.e., the jewish and arab states that have no illusions about the cultural tragedy created by the UN and NGOs of the west who fund the gangland-run criminal enterprise called "Gaza."
Yes yes and yes. If they wanted peace there would’ve been peace years ago. This is profitable just like the mRNA bs and the border bs.
Perfectly said!
Well said.
Thank you for sharing clarity and truth.
Where is mention of the incessant launching of thousands of rockets into Israel from Gaza over many years aimed indiscriminately at civilian areas ?
Where is mention of the atrocities by Gazans - as well as Hamas - on October 7 2023 ?
Where are protests over 500,000 Syrians killed in that civil war? And the many thousands of civilians killed in the Iraq war? In the fight against ISIS in Mosul? In the Sudan war? In Nigeria at the hands of radical Islamic gangs?
Nowhere !!
When it’s the Jews going after genocidal radical terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah - and taking great pains to avoid non militant deaths, like dropping millions or warning leaflets, making millions a of phone calls, creating safe passage roads etc, all to the detriment of any military advantage of surprise, plus actually supplying their enemies with humanitarian aid ( unheard of in other wars ), so categorically no genocide - the protesters pour out …
It is antisemitism pure and simple - and that inflamed by propagandist lies about the extent civilians deaths gushing from a taqqiya practising terrorist Hamas
And the protesters are anything but peaceful - both actually violent and also hatefully inciting violence with calls for genocide and other acts of war and terror
I am cancelling my subscription because you allow for this anodyne and apology for hate speech and hate groups, which is not acceptable under the rubric of true free speech.
I feel the same way. My views have changed and my eyes wide open after the “peaceful protests” during the Summer of Love which was allowed to happen in blue state$.
John h, when you say your are cancelling your subscription, does that really make sense? I really like the first sentence Dr. Christian writes in this article. For me, we may not agree always with someone but we should encourage free speech because sometimes, just sometimes we come out learning something we didn't know. I like to use the phrase, "let's not throw out the baby with the bath water". Have a wonderful day.
I am cancelling the McCullough subscription, not that of the author of the article, with whom I have no subscription - an article which contains overt calumnies and slanders against Israel - because he allows dissemination of this thinly disguised diatribe against Israel and the democratic West posing as an article for free speech …
I had subscribed in admiration for Dr McCullough in his sterling efforts to fight the ill advised practices visited on millions during the Covid panic and his continuing scientific enlightening articles on that subject and other medical issues
I found the insertion of the offensive article out of place and unnecessarily provoking
I won't cancel my subscription, but I'm wondering if Dr. McCullough is anti-semitic. Seriously.
I seriously doubt Dr McCullough is antisemitic - he has excellent tenor in his own writings
The provocative article - which was re-posted likely , in my opinion, by his colleague and not by McCullough himself - was written by another author, Francis Christian, who does seem to portray animus for Israel and ignores truths about the rabid demonstrations and demonstrators he lauds
I will probably resume my subscription to McCullough’s Substack after a suitable interval if such repostings and disseminations cease
Yes, I know who wrote it. But why are we subjected to it through Dr. McCullough's website? It is his responsibility.
I’m finding out that a lot of those in the so called medical freedom movement are not so righteous:(
We have free will, thankfully. I wish you a good day John.
Please believe me when I say I support true free speech - but not demonstrations that block roads and bridges, interfere with innocent life, block access, assault opponents, trespass, and call for genocide and violence …
agree.
Free speech will always provoke someone, yet we fight for that right.
I don't support college students right to threaten and physically harm other college students.
Never, but free speech within the contexts of the law, yes, I support even if I completely disagree.
I will not defend with my life someone's right to say hateful, offensive, violent, etc. words. What a foolish idea.
Throw these 'elite' violent children off the college campuses and let the Jewish students go back to school without fear.
Sadly it is not happening just on campuses.
I agree, I would like to see more peaceful Oxford style debates on these topics. It would be an educational opportunity, one worth paying for.
Good comment. I think you go to far in giving up your subscription.
I have not heard one chant of ‘spare the children’ from American youth or one of the highly coordinated protests that implore Hammas to ‘let aid through’.
Nope.
One question is how far should peaceful protests be allowed to go. Do protesters (who are not always students of a university) have the right to set up encampments on university grounds and build fences to keep out of the encampments anybody they don't like? This is what's happened at UCLA in Los Angeles. The protesters allow people with cameras they deem supportive to enter their large encampment, but if they suspect a person with a camera including legitimate media is not supportive of their side, then they prevent that person with a camera from filming in the encampment. They have effectively claimed public space as their own, and the University has allowed this. Major media cannot enter this space without being blocked. That's not legal, but they do it anyway. There are no police there, and the University is essentially siding with the protesters in allowing them to what they want with the rights of other people being taken away.
Across town USC decided they would not have protester encampments on their grounds. They called the police and had 93 people arrested when they failed to follow police orders to clear an encampment. It's called trespassing. Protesting within limits is allowed, like it should be. But if protesters want to break the law they need to accept the consequences. USC closed off the campus to non-students. There is no encampment at USC because this private university is willing to use legal means to make their campus safe for all their students. One major difference here, USC has perhaps more Jewish supporters who contribute money to this private University. UCLA being a state owned university is not dependent in any way on Jewish contributions. So the large scale encampment at USC lasted maybe a day, then they ran out of people willing to be arrested. Nobody is being arrested at UCLA.
These “peaceful protests” are blocking roads in NYC, airports, highways and more. They have set up tents all around Columbia U and there are demands for the president of the college to resign. It is totally out of hand and NYC police are told to stand down. It’s disgusting the virtue signaling from the liberal media liberal Jews and progressives on the left and this includes Dr M and all his freedom movement friends, who are liberals.
Yes, I was surprised and disappointed in Dr. M for posted this liberal propaganda! I may have to rethink my subscription next year. However, if he stuck to medical and not liberal talking points it would be great! He is a top notch doctor that I respect, for that!
Why no mention about the lack of freedom of speech for all who protested and/or refused to be injected with an experimental genetic jab with so many side effects? Dr McCullough was one of the first victims
Yes, Dr. McCullough was a target. Confusing that we're reading this incomplete, emotional article by Christian here on Dr. McCullough's website.
Unfortunately the protests are not peaceful in many cases. They are also stained with antisemitism which , as it turns out, is the whole reason for the state of Israel to begin with. Antisemitism dates back to the days of Constantine and it never goes away. Read "Prequel."
Dr. Christian, I always enjoy your writing. I agree that peaceful protests should be allowed; however, many of these protests over Israel/Palestine are not peaceful. There are many at these protests chanting things like "death to the Jews" etc. I do not agree with this even if it is deemed "free speech". I pray for peace in the Middle east. I pray for the killing to stop. I pray for all the innocent lives lost. This is all heartbreaking.
And to think that when the freedom convoy arrived in Ottawa and there was only peace and love and laughter, that got stamped as terrorizing. We know there is extreme prejudice and we know when a protest is deemed 'acceptable' and 'politically correct'. I'll leave it here.
From a Canadian, that is not extreme prejudice, that is hatred for those who won’t go along with their psychotic agendas. I would go so far as to say they are possessed with an evil they don’t understand and cannot rid themselves of because of their pride and avarice.