US president Donald Trump once said: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue (a busy street in New York City) and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”
It is the latest version of the parable of the emperor’s new clothes, where anyone who dares to say “the emperor is naked!” instead of “the emperor is wearing the most beautiful clothing, that only the most intelligent will be able to see” must be “taken care of” somehow.
Sometimes this involves violence; more often it involves bribery. As we watch Zionists attempt to buy legitimacy throughout the world, we are witnessing the exploration of a broader question: How much money will it take to completely crush the truth?
There are many possible variants to the second half of that question.
To crush resistance to doing whatever we want to do.
To completely pervert the truth into whatever we want it to be.
To override all moral imperatives and the most basic semblance of human decency.
This question is important, because there now exists the technological capability to do these things at a scale the world has never experienced before.
At this point, the enemy is not just Zionism, but the tools and methods that they have perfected.
The Zionist goal is essentially to be a murderous criminal that not only wants to never be caught or punished, but also be able to hold their head up high and walk through society as if they were the most celebrated of socialites.
We can clearly see that this works up to a point. Let’s look at Eurovision, FIFA, and the Warner Brothers Discovery sale.
At time of writing, Iceland has become the fifth country to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest, following the initial announcement of four countries that bravely started this boycott: Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain.
Even more recently, 2024 Swiss Eurovision winner Nemo decided to return his Eurovision theory in protest of Israel’s inclusion – an inspiring move of spectacular courage on a personal level. This cannot be a boycott that was taken lightly, given how incredibly popular the European song contest is globally.
Spain aired a memorable video clip in conjunction with their boycott announcement, with a split screen showing Israel’s past Eurovision performance on one side, juxtaposed with Israel’s brutally cruel bombardment and genocide in Gaza on the other.
Why is Israel allowed to participate in Eurovision, when Russia was kicked out of Eurovision for its invasion of Ukraine?
Eurovision is a celebration of everything that is beautiful and joyous about humanity. It brings together people from all over the world, creating unity through music.
It was the right decision to exclude Russia, in the aftermath of its illegal war that has caused immense death and suffering among civilians in the Ukraine – the very opposite of all that is beautiful and joyous.
How can it then be the right decision to include Israel, when they have caused even more brutal, cruel, and vicious death and suffering on a populace that is unable to defend itself?
Here again, we are wrestling with the question of how much money it takes to crush human decency. Surely Eurovision’s governing body, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) must be aware that people will be asking: how much did the decision makers at the EBU sell their souls for?
It is especially baffling given that the five countries that have announced their boycott – Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain- are all actually in Europe itself. But somehow their collective concerns, representing about 73 million actual Europeans, seem to be less important than some nine million non-European Israelis in the Middle East?
Similarly, why is Israel allowed to remain in international tournaments by the European football governing body UEFA, and consequently the global governing body FIFA?
FIFA’s decision on Russia was swift and decisive, banning them less than a month after Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. When it comes to Israel however, FIFA suddenly sang a very different tune, spouting nonsense about how they “cannot solve geopolitical problems” and must promote “peace and unity” through football.
This tune changed again recently, when FIFA president Gianni Infantino recently announced the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, with its first recipient being US President Donald Trump. This is obviously a ploy to curry favour with Trump, who seems to have a strange obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
As a brief aside, while I stand by these criticisms of FIFA, I agree with their decision to take decisive action against Malaysia’s attempt to pass off seven footballers as Malaysian, when they were clearly not. And especially with alleged forged documents. It is also concerning that there is now an attempt to blame FAM bureaucrats for this fiasco, instead of those who are ultimately responsible.
That said, the manner in which FIFA, and probably Infantino in particular, is bowing down to Zionist interests and putting them well above all notions of human decency, is shamefully appalling.
So a simple question remains: how does Israel get away with all this?
I argue that the answer is simple: They buy people off.
They have used this strategy to great effect in America. In a representative democracy, a few people are elected by many people, and these few people make a lot of big decisions.
The Zionist strategy is simple: control those few politicians with money, and you can get a government to dance any way you want them to.
Obviously, America is not the only Zionist target. Earlier this week, the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) Rachel Reeves had the gall to say that progressives should unapologetically be Zionists.
This kind of talk is exactly why the Labour party has plummeted pathetically down in public opinion polls, showing that they’ve learned precious little from the decisive defeats of so-called “progressives” like Kamala Harris in America.
Time and again, politicians make the most appallingly unpopular statements in favour of Israel; and time and again, the only logical explanation must be that financial gain seems to far outweigh even voter support.
Pushback from the public is sometimes ascribed to there being distressing information being broadcast on the news, such as children being bombed and entire populations being wiped out.
What is the Zionist solution to that conundrum? Equally simple: Buy the news.
The Israeli Defense Forces largest private donor, Larry Ellison, is already en route to buying TikTok, in order to control the narrative about Gaza. Now, the Ellison family (through Paramount) is making a move to buy over Warner Bros – who owns, among other things, CNN.
If Warner Bros is sold to Netflix instead, this would still be bad for consumers, as all monopolies are bad for consumers. But if it is sold to Paramount, it is likely to be just as bad, with the added disadvantage of CNN and every news outlet under Warner Bros becoming another Zionist parrot.
It’s starting to become a tale as old as time: just buy everything and everyone that says that the emperor is naked, until every media platform is singing the praises of the emperor’s new invisible clothes.
These developments are yet another imperative to start thinking about designing and overhauling how media platforms work and are funded. If not, we will forever be beholden to whoever has the most money.
Nathaniel Tan is a strategic communications consultant. He can be reached at nat@engage.my. The views expressed here are solely the writer’s own.
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