There is some, actually.
I’m not an expert in being victim to my attackers. I don’t know how to do that - to be a victim.
Someone I love and respect who is going through her own personal trial asked me yesterday how I dealt with being blacklisted. So I responded thus. I told her I leaned in. I leaned the fuck in. I went harder. I ignored all the panic and the fear and the anger inside me and went from one fight into another fight into another fight. Some people tried to tell me that you don’t always have to be in fight mode — you shouldn’t have to be. Maybe that’s true for some people, but it is not true for me. I got blacklisted for doing this work and this work is so important that I only ever get a few months off from it before something completely nuts happens again.
But this. This moment is the moment now. I get to go to a war now and prove that what I've been saying all along is right. And with that said, I’m going. I’m going to Israel and I arrive on Christmas morning, and I will be reporting at the border. So please, if you’re not already now, consider upgrading your subscription here to support my work, and consider spreading the word, because history is happening now, and it must be documented.
Fuck em all. Fuck the establishment. Fuck the elite. Fuck the grifters and the users and the fakes. We only live once and I don't care about being hated by arseholes for saying what people will remember in the future. That’s how I feel about all of this. That is the good news. I’m sorry if you were looking for something else, but to me this is very good news.
Fear is real but you cannot let fear win. You have to trust your gut, and listen to your heart. Haters, usurpers, users, people who come into your life and violate your identity and your relationships, those people want you to be afraid. They want you to be a victim that they can take advantage of. They don’t want you to be who you are, to remember who you are, to better your circumstances, to defend your fucking life! Give those people hell. To hell with them. I was verbally attacked again while I was out running this morning, but I still love being Jewish. It doesn't work whatever they're all doing. It doesn’t work on me anyway.
I’ve talked a lot about what we’ve lost, and all of that has been necessary. The shift has been seismic. There’s also been a seismic shift in the conversation. We can’t talk about a two-state solution any more in the same way we used to. October 7 changed everything. It’s time to get realistic about what people say when they say they support a Free Palestine. Hamas showed us what that meant on October 7. So no, there’ll be no Free Palestine until those who are calling for one agree that Israel will not incur a genocide as a result.
Israel is under rocket fire at the moment. To everyone who has Gaza relief links in their bio, this is where their money goes. Hamas intercepts every truck of aid going into Gaza to make more rockets. Note also: they call for a ceasefire of the Gaza crisis but they care not that regardless of any ceasefire in Gaza, Hamas will continue every single day to target innocent civilians indiscriminately all over Israel unless Hamas are disarmed. They don’t care about any of this because they just want Israel wiped off the map. They support Hamas. Hamas will continue to plan its genocide of Jews and will continue to use its own Palestinian population as tools of war. They should be calling for an end to Hamas. They are promoting and funding terrorism.
I have been doxxed this past week by a racist who is committed defiantly to the notion that they are not the racist. I am, according to them. Of course, it’s not “racist” to target and harass Zionists (read: most Jews), it’s liberation. It’s not at all “racist” to stalk and publicly libel Zionists (read: most Jews) or doctor fake tweets or make huge intellectual leaps to defame and DARVO us as racists, it’s The Work.
For those who are committed to Palestinians, and a peaceful resolution to the conflict, I ask: where is your amplification of the voices who want peace? Where is your support of John Aziz or Bassem Eid or Mosab Hassan Yousef who I had the pleasure of doing a speaking engagement with recently? Where is your amplificatin of brave voices like Elica Le Bon or Masih Alinejad or Yasmine Mohammed or Hussain Abdul-Hassain? Or are you just obsessively bullying Zionists (read: most Jews) as a front for your own anti-Jewish racism? It’s not about amplifying anything other than yourselves, and silencing Jews and/or *any* Arabic people who want a resolution. Because you don’t want a resolution. You want “From the river to the sea”. You want genocide.
Social justice movements such as BLM, Me Too, climate change etc, have all weaponized the victimhood of Palestinians to demonize Jews, because without Jews, society would be perfect according to them. For them, the Palestinians must remain victims. The alignment with Hamas is astounding. They ARE Hamas. It’s Nazism 2.0. And they can’t get enough of it.
Putting aside all the losses for a second. We also must consider what we’ve gained. I believe we’re the silent majority. So speaking of my personal experience since October 7, I have gained almost 10,000 subscribers to this – now bestselling #1 newsletter, Blacklisted. My online engagement is at an all-time high. I reach 1.5 million accounts on Instagram alone per month. On the streets of LA, I am recognized for my work. My name is in buildings I never imagined it would be in. I don’t care about me or my own personal infamy. I care about us. I care about the Jewish people. I care about the goddamn truth. I care about history and accuracy and honesty.
We are telling the truth. We are fighting the propaganda. Even if they’re too scared to say it, we’re what people are thinking. Remember this.
Something I've come to realize recently is that being smart isn't enough. Being intelligent isn't enough. There are a lot of intelligent people around who can sound clever and do well, but it's not sufficient. What is required is a good heart.
If all you have is an intelligent brain, you're of no use to the world and other people, because your heart won't make the right calls. The only people you can depend on aren't just the smart people, but the people who listen to their heart, which is the scariest thing of all. Particularly in times of extreme tests and trauma. How do you trust your heart? Well, the truth is – you just have to.
Of course you're going to Israel. I would have been shocked had you *not*. I know I sound like a Jewish mother -- even though I'm only one of those things -- when I say, "גיין געזונט", go in good health, etc. and so on.
Re: The silent majority. I was just saying the other day that when we see these hateful Hamas-hugging "protestors" out and about, disrupting, destroying, defacing; the narcissism, the ego, the maniacal need for repulsive grandstanding of those who are at the helm (always with the shrieking harridan voices, blasting bullshit through bullhorns), we must remember that if, say, 1,000 of them are at a "march" or plunking their ridiculous asses down on a highway (because that frees Palestine, in case you weren't hip to the scene), there are millions that are NOT. They are the loudest, they are the most obnoxious, they are the ones who get the attention because they're shrieking their heads off and creating mayhem. The mayhem minority. Our voices are far quieter, but we're greater in number, and we are, too, greater.
So, off to Israel you go, dearest Eve. Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em all. Not one ugly, coarse, maniacal voice they have is anywhere as strong and fierce and motherfuckin' intelligent as yours.
You are a true inspiration in these darkest of times my friend. The brave see you.