Sunday, September 13, 2020

My Benjamins are holier than your Benjamins

 To be sure, Benjamin in the context of this article refers to the hundred-dollar banknote in American currency, adorned by the portrait of the multi-talented Benjamin Franklin. There was a time when a hundred dollars represented a purchasing power high enough to get the attention of a politician running for office. And so, the Benjamin as it was nicknamed, came to associate political campaigning with political donations.

 

For several decades, people spoke about that phenomenon in the American culture as readily as they spoke about aspiring politicians attending BBQ parties to meet their donors and prospective voters. But then one day, a polemical explosion was set off in America when the House Representative Ilhan Omar suggested that politicians are influenced by the Benjamins of the Jews.

 

Before you know it, big and small Jewish organizations reached out and commissioned their favorite pundits, and paid them (presumably enough Benjamins) to flood the public square with articles condemning Ilhan Omar for being so antisemitic as to suggest that politicians are influenced by Benjamins donated by Jews instead of saying that politicians vote in favor of Israel and the Jews because morality motivates them to empower the two who are solely talented to make the world a better place.

 

This left the public at large with the impression that when it comes to moral issues, money does not cause those who rely on donations to act according to the wishes of the donors. In other words, where the conscience plays a role, the Benjamin is stopped at the door of high ethics. But then, guess what happened my friend. Mitchell Bard who writes opinion pieces for the Jewish publication Algemeiner, wrote an article under the title: “Harvard Reaches a New Low,” and had it published on September 10, 2020.

 

Mitchell Bard began with a preamble that accuses academia of, “widespread abuses that include the substitution of propaganda for scholarship, the misuse of the classroom to promote personal agendas, and the normalization of antisemitism on campus.” In other words, Bard started damning both the institutions of higher learning and the individuals who run them before saying why he is doing it.

 

Now that he got this much vitriol off his chest, he decided to tell the readers what it is that's bugging him about academia. Are you ready for his revelation as to why he is steamed? Here it is: “Some people may believe universities are interested in education, but they are even more interested in money”.

 

Wow, did you get that? You must be baffled because you know what money means. It means the Benjamins, of course. So, there goes the notion that, where the conscience plays a role, the Benjamins are stopped at the door of high ethics. But what happened to those Jews? Are they pulling the old trick of running two contradictory discourses at the same time: One that applies to thee and one that applies to me? Maybe.

 

But what exactly did Harvard University do to merit being characterized as having reached a new low? Here is what the university did according to Mitchell Bard: “The sellout of academic values is exemplified by Harvard's acceptance of $1.6 million from the State of Palestine. Could it be a coincidence that, in a case study of the university's decline in standards, it hired Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians' chief negotiator?”

 

Do you know what the Harvard endowment is worth, my friend? It is worth $40 billion (that's a B.) And when you do the math, the result says this value is 25,000 times as large as the paltry $1.6 million donated by the State of Palestine. It is like having $25,000 in your pocket, and an income stream that keeps it replenished, and you sell your soul for one measly dollar? Yes, just one dollar. Would you do that? Can you imagine the honorable Harvard University doing something like that?

 

Moreover, given that nowadays, you can easily get 5 percent in dividend on your investment, do you know what 40 billion dollars would earn you? It would earn you $2 billion a year. Do you know what that says? It says that aside from the income stream Harvard gets from regular sources, it receives at least $1.6 million from its investments –– get this now –– every 7 hours throughout the day and the night, 365 days a year.

 

Unable to comprehend the enormity of the error he just committed; Mitchell Bard went on to blather the usual cowardly slander the Jews are known for. He attacked both Saeb Erekat and Nicholas Burns, the man that hired him. After spewing hate of the kind and volume that only a Jew would spew, Bard went on to suggest the following: “Perhaps Erekat can give a lecture on how to promote terror, which students can apply on the streets of the United States”.

 

Well, well, well. Given that terror is already on the streets of the United States without Saeb Erekat being there to promote it, a string of thoughts comes to mind. It goes like this: To maintain a firm grip on their colonies, the colonial masters of old used the “divide and rule” adage effectively. They pitted faction against faction by inciting and enabling each side to go after the other. This kept both sides in a weakened state and incapable of going after the colonial masters.

 

Considering that the Jews have done something similar in the political arena of America, pitting the two political parties against each other and becoming masters of the American ship of state, there is Mitchell Bard who now dreams of doing it on the streets of the nation. Given that there is already a police force; one that’s trained in Israel to kill American citizens by the “knee on the neck” method, all that's needed now, according to Bard, is to show the street gangs how to riot more destructively and kill members of that same police force.

 

But how to do that? Well, there is the Jewish method by which to pull off this kind of trick. It goes like this: You accuse someone of what you wish to accomplish. When everyone looks in that direction, you do what magicians do, and that is to play the sleight of hand when no one is looking at your hand. Bard got everyone looking at Saeb Erekat and Nicholas Burns, we should now expect that AIPAC will play the sleight of hand that will get blood running in the streets of America.

 

With this in mind, we should look out for the formation of Jewish groups who will pretend to help the street gangs leave the life of crime behind them, but in fact, incite and train them to do more serious crimes. And no one will be surprised to know that Mitchell Bard is directing this bloody operation. He just proved he has the talent for it.