The War On Iran – One Jewish Supremacist Crime Too Many?

I can’t say for certain what finally convinced me that the latest U.S.-Israel aggression against Iran will be remembered as a Jewish war crime – one that will probably mark an ugly, well-deserved end to an eighty-year “golden age” in Jewish diaspora history.

Maybe it was hearing America’s Secretary of State blurt out that Washington joined the attack because the leaders of the Jewish State had left his boss no choice.

Maybe it was watching that boss, the nominal Chief Executive, stammer some contradictory excuses for the assault and then palm it off on a cabal of Jewish advisers that included his sinister son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a former yeshiva student last seen hawking the blood-soaked ruins of Gaza as a real estate bonanza.

Maybe it was the spectacle of monarchist Iranian expats waving Israeli flags (yes, Israeli flags) as they danced in delight at the massacre of 168 of their country’s schoolchildren.

Maybe it was the fact that practically the first public messages in support of the slaughter came from Jewish organizations: by Sunday morning, Agudath Israel of America had praised Saturday’s sneak attack on Iranian civilians as “bold and decisive actions,” while the Orthodox Union didn’t even wait for sunrise to bless Donald Trump’s “noble mission” as well as “the brave women and men of the IDF” – the same folks who have killed more than 75,000 helpless human beings to make Gaza safe for Jewish supremacy.

Or maybe it was the staggering silence of the rest of Jewish officialdom while a crime of historic proportions was perpetrated in the name of Jews the world over – a silence broken only by slanders aimed at anyone who described it accurately. (The comically misnamed Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith even suggested it was anti-Semitic to report that Israel’s military was censoring news about the Iran war because – Israel’s military was censoring news about the Iran war.)

But it really doesn’t matter which detail was the final straw. The plain fact is that whoever is actually bombing Iran – a deranged U.S. President who thought he was stealing candy from a baby when he was actually being euchred into trashing what is left of his country’s economy, or a bloodthirsty Israeli satrap obsessed with being the region’s next Genghis Khan – there is no doubt about who is going to be held responsible.

When the “war” that was supposed to be over in no time (remember that?) has ebbed at last, leaving behind a broken Middle East, a wounded American working class and a Zionist movement irrevocably exposed as a latter-day Nazi cult, everyone will remember that nearly all of the people egging on the perpetrators were Jews.

True, there were some differences among them: some were Israel-worshiping Jews, for whom Iran stood in the way of Mideast Jewish supremacy; some were politically “active” Jews eager to divert attention from their history of draining Uncle Sam’s coffers with a mix of victim-posing and political bullying; still others were neocons for whom apartheid Israel was the brutal paradigm they wanted the United States to emulate.

But nearly all of them were Jews. And they will be remembered as such.

Yes, I know that many Jews have no interest in this criminal war; in fact, many have actively opposed it. But anyone who denies that Jewish institutions and Jewish elites played a central role in promoting the attack – or that most “active” Jews still support it – deserves a Donald Trump Prize for the Most Shameless Lie of the Decade.

Not that the usual suspects aren’t trying. As far back as 2017, Philip Giraldi showed how mainstream media refused to report the fact that the annihilate-Iran crowd was overwhelming Jewish:

[W]hat makes the war engine [against Iran] run is provided by American Jews who have taken upon themselves the onerous task of starting a war with a country that does not conceivably threaten the United States…. And while they are doing it, the issue that nearly all the Iran haters are Jewish has somehow fallen out of sight, as if it does not matter.

Surely if David Frum, Max Boot, Bill Kristol and Bret Stephens (to name just a few of the most notable anti-Iran warmongers) had been Muslims screaming for an assault on Israel, the Western press would have trumpeted their religious affiliations from the rooftops. Why should an organized, decades-long Jewish campaign to promote a criminal attack be spared the same treatment?

Yet the effort to suppress reporting on Jewish anti-Iran advocacy has been almost as intense as the advocacy itself. Philip Giraldi was fired by The American Conservative for writing the article I quoted above, after being attacked by pretty much the same Jewish-supremacist ideologues who had savaged Pat Buchanan for saying the same thing – in the pages of The American Conservative, no less – about the Iraq war years earlier.

In a similar vein, Rob Eshman, writing in the liberal-Jewish Forward, recently published a hit piece on Tucker Carlson claiming that the former Fox News host is an anti-Semite for attributing America’s assault on Iran to Israeli pressure; according to Eshman, the real motive for the attack was – wait for it – U.S concern about “Chinese power” in the Mideast. (Maybe someone should tell President Trump about this?)

Eshman’s may be the silliest, but it is far from the only recent attack on Carlson, whose chief sin appears to be having underlined the role of Lubavitch Hasidim in agitating for holy war against Muslims – including those in Iran – in order to build the prophesied Third Temple on the site of the Al-Aqsa mosque.

True to form, a Lubavitch spokesman leapfrogged over Carlson’s evidence (which is genuine) with aspersions against the truth-teller supplemented by the pious claim that Lubavitch only wants to bring about the Third Temple “through acts of kindness.”

That will be news to anyone familiar with the movement’s history. In 2017 – the same year Giraldi linked anti-Iran hysteria to Jewish propaganda – I published a piece detailing how the leader of Lubavitch, the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, “egged on Israel’s military assault against Lebanon in 1982…cheer[ed] on the American-led carnage in Iraq nine years later,” and “preached emphatically against the slightest easing of the oppressive conditions that had spurred the desperate (and overwhelmingly nonviolent)” first Intifada.

Lubavitch Hasidism also taught, I pointed out, that “only Jews are endowed with fully human souls.”

No wonder the editors of the Times of Israel, on whose blog space I originally published the piece, erased it without explanation hours later.

So far, though, Tucker Carlson has proved harder to erase – and that’s the real story here. Buchanan, Giraldi and plenty of more marginalized writers (including yours truly) have been telling the truth about Jewish warmongering for years. What is different now is that Jewish propagandists are having much more trouble airbrushing themselves out of history.

Why the change? There are several reasons, but I think we can identify a few of the most important:

The stakes for the United States are too high.

In the past, when Jewish elites wanted war, they generally saw to it that the body counts listed only the sort of people Noam Chomsky calls “unworthy victims” – Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims.

This time, American taxpayers are being fleeced and American soldiers are dying to keep an indicted foreign fraudster out of jail.

Anyone who doubts that should remember that Trump has already called for a preemptive pardon of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu (who is lucky the Nuremberg Tribunal was dissolved 80 years ago) so that, in Trump’s words, he can “focus on the war and not on the fucking court case” into massive alleged corruption during his term as Prime Minister.

How many Americans are likely to agree that deep-sixing a “fucking court case” against the Jewish State’s gangster-in-chief is worth the lives of slain U.S. soldiers? Or the $2 billion a day the United States is reportedly throwing away on a self-defeating killing spree while working class Americans can’t afford health care, home ownership or even the gasoline to drive themselves to work?

The Jewish supremacists’ role is too blatant to be ignored.

There is no longer any plausible deniability for the Jews who incited this crime. Everyone – even a reader of mainstream media – knows that Jewish propagandists and professional influencers invested decades of labor into promoting the attack on Iran; now that they’ve got what they wanted, it’s too late to pretend they had nothing to do with it.

Even their favorite tactic – fending off facts by whining about “anti-Semitism” – is too obviously cynical to work these days, judging from the failure of a raft of media hatchet jobs, from the right via National Review to the left via PBS, to silence coverage of a former key counterterrorism official after he said out loud what everybody knew: that Israel and its mouthpieces had drawn the U.S. into a bloody, pointless conflict.

The reflexive screams of “anti-Semitism” seem only to be proving what a children’s story proved a long time ago: that crying “wolf,” in the end, benefits no one but wolves.

They’re not fooling anyone about the reasons for the attack.

Predictably, Jewish propagandists are still clinging to shopworn fabrications to support the assault. The “religious” Jewish Press claims that Iran had to be prevented from “exporting revolution,” while Lubavitch’s website weirdly insists that Iran was plotting “the genocide of the Jewish people” – while steadfastly refusing to acknowledge the actual genocide Israel is perpetrating in Gaza.

But these lies are intended only for the faithful. Polling data suggest that most Americans aren’t buying them. And once the excuses are stripped away and the facts clearly exposed, what’s left is a crime – with a bunch of Jewish publicists futilely propping it up.

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All of this means one thing: the Jewish elites who used to get away with murder have finally overplayed their hand. Their role in this latest Mideast lunacy is too blatant to hide; the costs they are foisting on the American public are too huge to rationalize.

So what comes next? Personally, I wouldn’t bet a red cent that the media will succeed in gaslighting overworked American wage earners into believing that Jewish publicists and Jewish political influencers had nothing to do with the self-destructive massacre for which Donald Trump squandered their future. You only have to watch the recent antics of Pete Hegseth, that grotesquely overgrown bantam rooster trying desperately to sound like Douglas MacArthur, to know that the domestic propaganda for this “war” is already faltering.

And so is the government’s control over mainstream media, judging by the administration’s clumsy threats to punish broadcast news outlets for telling too much truth about the progress of the assault.

In a word, the times they are a-changing – and the only real question is what sort of names a disillusioned public will use to describe the powerful Jews who goaded the United States into a disastrous crime. Parasites? Manipulators? Con artists who sold American lives to promote a Jewish-supremacist state in the Mideast?

Why not all of the above?

After all, facts are facts. In May 2024, months after the ordinarily docile International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt the killing machine that had annihilated enough Gazans to amount to a “plausible” case of genocide – a body count that has more than doubled since then – the National Council of Young Israel in the U.S. actually had the chutzpah to call the slaughter a “supremely ethical” project that had “achieved the lowest civilian death ratio in the history of urban warfare.”

Young Israel’s only complaint was that Joe Biden’s gift of more than ten billion U.S. taxpayer dollars to the murderers to keep the genocide in high gear wasn’t enough.

What if some of the Americans robbed of those funds were to start calling the Jewish lobby what they would call anybody else so greedy and so vicious?

Or there was that prominent Israeli rabbi who recently blessed one of the Israeli soldiers caught on video savagely gang-raping a Palestinian detainee at Israel’s dungeon at Sde Teiman – a sickening blasphemy that not a single mainstream Jewish organization, as far as I know, has condemned.

Again: what if Americans (and others) were to start calling Jews who tolerated that what they would call Muslims guilty of the same thing?

I think we are going to find out. I think the Iran assault will prove one crime too many for the Jewish supremacists. If I’m right, Jewish impunity is at an end; Jewish accountability is just around the corner.

And for this Jew, the change can’t come soon enough. I’m tired of watching so-called Jewish leaders turn my religion into a form of organized crime. I’m sick to death of rabbis who bless atrocities and of self-described “religious” Jews pledging their loyalty to a bunch of genocidal gangsters.

On top of their long list of crimes, these people defame me and my religion every single day – and have done it for decades. It’s time they had to answer for it.

Michael Lesher is an author, poet and lawyer whose legal work is mostly dedicated to issues connected with domestic abuse and child sexual abuse. His latest nonfiction book is Sexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities (McFarland & Co., 2014); his first collection of poetry, Surfaces, was published by The High Window in 2019. A memoir of his discovery of Orthodox Judaism as an adult – Turning Back: The Personal Journey of a “Born-Again” Jew – was published in September 2020 by Lincoln Square Books.

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