As the State Department is now defining the term ‘anti Zionism,’ Pompeo appointed Elan
Carr as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism with the ultimate goal to
intimidate and criminalize critics of Israel’s foreign policy objectives.
In describing his responsibilities, Carr’s stated priorities will be to “reduce the feelings of
insecurity”, review “indoctrination of anti semitic textbooks” and “focus
relentlessly on eradicating this false distinction between anti Zionism and anti-semitism.” It
takes living in a simulated reality to not grasp the distinction between criticism of Israel’s apartheid
policy toward the Palestinians and its belligerent foreign policy in the Middle East and a genuine
prejudice or discrimination based on one’s religious preference or ethnic differences.
At his press briefing, Carr was immediately in the weeds and lost total
control of the narrative before being shut down by the State Department official spokesman.
As a one dimensional thinker, Mr. Carr never described who or how anti-semitism will be identified. Will
the State Department issue a weekly list of anti-Semitic offenders and what will be the penalty? Will State
provide a list of forbidden anti-semitic words? How will deliberate intent be determined? If a non-jew
utters words like apartheid, yenta, yarmulke or illegal settlements, will they be considered proof of
anti-Semitic? Will the Nazis still be permitted to march in Skokie? Will the tech giants rewrite their
algorithms to search for ‘banned’ words?
- On April 10th, Omar
Barghouti
, a prominent Palestinian human rights defender and a co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions ( BDS)
Movement was denied entry
by the US Consulate before departing Ben Gu
rion Airport despite having valid travel documents and having visited the US previously. Barghouti
responded that
“
Supporters of Israeli apartheid in the US are desperately trying to deny US lawmakers,
media, diverse audiences at universities, a bookstore and a synagogue, their right to listen,
first-hand, to a Palestinian human rights advocate calling for ending US complicity in Israel’s crimes
against our people.”
- In a 2016 report, the International Criminal Court
chief prosecutor
Fatou Bensouda
initiated an investigation into possible war crimes in Afghanistan involving the torture of 61
prisoners committed by the US Army and the torture and rape of 27 prisoners committed by the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) at CIAprison sites in Poland, Romania and Lithuania.
In
response to the ICC inquiry in 2018, Bolton warned
“We will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the United States. We will sanction their
funds in the US financial system, and we will prosecute them in the US criminal system. We will do the
same for any company or state that assists an ICC investigation of Americans,”
In March 2019, Pompeo repeated the ICC
threats with no apology in a straight forward defense of torture and war criminals.
“Since 1998, the US has declined to join the ICC because of its broad unaccountable
prosecutorial powers and the threat it poses to American national sovereignty. We are determined to
protect the American and allied
military and civilian personnel from living in fear of unjust prosecution for actions taken to defend
our great
nation. I’m announcing a policy of US visa restrictions on those individuals directly responsible for
any ICC investigation of US personnel. These visa restrictions may also be used to deter ICC efforts to
pursue allied personnel, including
Israelis without allies consent. These visa restrictions will not be the end of our
efforts.We are prepared to take additional steps, including economic sanctions, if the ICC does not
change course,”
After the Court responded that it would continue its investigation with “war crimes and crimes
against humanity were, and continue to be, committed by foreign government forces in
Afghanistan,” Reference to ‘allied” personnel and Israeli involvement in US war crimes remains
impenetrable. True to his word, in early April Pompeo revoked the
visa for Bensouda .
In a devastating setback for the ICC, its pre-trial
chamber recently refused to approve the investigation from moving forward citing a lack of US
cooperation. Certainly the Pompeo – Bolton threat to
criminally prosecute and personally sanction the Court’s judges or that the US would ‘use any
means necessary ” had nothing to do with that decision. Bensouda says she will appeal the
chamber’s decision.
- After the January meeting with North Korea ended in failure, NK’s Deputy Defense Minister, who took
part in the meeting, revealed that while Trump had shown a willingness to lift some sanctions based on
NK’s moratorium on missile tests, he was later overridden by Pompeo and Bolton who brought “an
atmosphere of hostility and mistrust” to the table with their “gangster like behavior.”
As the zio-neocons continue to move on Venezuela and/or Iran as uncontrollable malevolent fiends, loose
cannons with no concept of international law or the need for global harmony, men of no conscience and no
morality, it is only a matter of time before cosmic law balances the scale.
Renee Parsons has been a member of the ACLU’s Florida State Board of Directors and president of the ACLU
Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist for
Friends of the Earth and staff member of the US House of Representatives in Washington DC. She can be found
on Twitter @reneedove31
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