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The Israeli population is the most propagandized population in the whole world. The Israeli state has perhaps the most sophisticated and hermetically sealed system of indoctrination in the whole world. Through a coordinated interlocking directorate of state military institutions, a subservient corporate media and educational institutions co-opted by the government, the population is subjected to a relentless barrage of misinformation about the true nature of Israel. This is a state-led program of institutionalized propaganda, operating under the formal rubric of Hasbara, effectively filtering out the grim truth about the occupation and the structural violence inherent in state policy. It ensures that the population views the occupation through the lens of historical necessity rather than a senseless campaign of genocidal violence.

In my view, if we're looking for those truly committed to the rigorous, evidence-based critique that Chomsky pioneered, the mantle falls squarely on the shoulders of Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté. Currently, there are very few journalists willing to challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of Western regimes. Modern journalism basically serves as a stenographic conduit for manufactured consent. I can't think of anyone else beside these two.

There's a good reason why Israeli firms are mostly concentrated in the biotech and military sectors. It was a calculated effort to insulate the domestic economy from the effects of international sanctions. It was the deliberate engineering of a resilient, autarkic economy designed to sustain a campaign of mass genocide with impunity.

The escalating hostility toward China isn't some organic groundswell of American public opinion. By framing an entire nation as an existential threat, the public is conditioned to fear and hate them. This engineered animosity functions as a necessary mechanism of social control. It provides the ideological cover needed to justify a future war of aggression against a powerful adversary that can unleash senseless destruction upon them.

I'm sure many are aware of the growing hysteria represented in this sub to treat the US as a largely innocent bystander manipulated by Israel via Epstein to explain the things the US does. Not only is this entirely ignorant of US political history and motivations -- i.e. entirely ignorant of Chomsky's life's work -- it amounts to a genocide denial, because it functions only and in so far as it ignores the genocides that have been supported by the US and undertaken by other countries, like Indonesia.

Is the Indonesian genocide supported by the US also the result of Indonesian manipulation of the US? Why is the US able to support a country engaging in genocide without being manipulated in the case of Indonesia, but not in the case of Israel? In reality, on both instances, the US supports genocide because such support is aligned with their own interests in the region and their own internal parochial economic concerns. AKA the Military Industrial Complex.

Why does US attacks on Iran predate US support of israel? US aggresion towards Iran as standard foreign policy starts in the 1950s. US support of Israel as standard foreign policy starts in the 1970s.

I suspect those who push the "Esptein did it" analysis of US foreign policy simply are entirely ignorant of these historical facts.

The other reason to stop with this ignorant Hysteria is that it aids recent book burning of Chomsky's books by his publisers in relation to Epstien. It builds up the Epstein mythos and hysteria which directly leads to publishers destroying Chomsky's books as has recently happened. It needs to stop in this sub. And I think the mods need to start taking strong action against it. Because as it stands, I think this sub is actively harming Chomsky's work and ideas. It has become more of an anti-chomsky sub than a chomsky sub.

I would also encourage people, who are tired of this nonsense here, to seek out alternative subs, like /r/NoamChomsky and /r/SeriousChomsky. Full Disclosure, I mod these subs, But you'll also see som familiar faces from this sub in the mods list there.

The escalating hostility toward China isn't some organic groundswell of American public opinion. By framing an entire nation as an existential threat, the public is conditioned to fear and hate them. This engineered animosity functions as a necessary mechanism of social control. It provides the ideological cover needed to justify a future war of aggression against a powerful adversary that can unleash senseless destruction upon them.

“'UNRAST Publishing will remove Noam Chomsky’s works The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal, Hope in Times of Decay, The Terrorism of the Western World, and Focus on Palestine from its catalog and will no longer distribute them.' . . .  I find that book burning and indeed human cancellation, guilt by association, and guilty until proven innocents are nothing to applaud."

The prevailing orthodoxy that Israel functions as essentially an unsinkable aircraft carrier and that Israel is merely the junior partner in this relationship between Israel and America is a nonsensical fabrication. American legislative and executive branches have been effectively captured by a sophisticated network of private influence and domestic lobbying. It is no surprise that Jeffrey Epstein was found to be part of a network of spies using compromising leverage as a means to attain comprehensive institutional capture. In a way, it is America who is the junior partner in this relationship between Israel and America.