Zionist is a foreign language. It is not readily accessible, because it seems to be counter-intuitive.

Some prominent translations highlight the difficulty:

• "antisemitism": any criticism of Israel;
• "terrorism":any resistance to Israeli oppression, aggression, ethnic cleansing and genocide;
• "globalise the Intifada": kill all Jews;
• "apartheid": doesnt compute, not in the lexicon; and
• "genocide": doesnt compute, not in the lexicon.

Western political leaders learn stock Zionist phrases by rote and repeat them without understanding. Terrified, they do understand that life is easier by doing so.

Zionist is a difficult language to learn, which is why its important to brainwash children from a young age hence theimportanceof Jewish faith schools.

The ready key to grasping this peculiarity is that the language, of course, is all about the concept and the state of Israel. Israel is the promised land (peculiarly, the messiah is yet to come). Israel is a secular entity that is adorned with religious trappings to ensure the support of the faithful.

I ignore the Murdoch media to save my mental health. Yet the "Nine" papers (especially the Sydney Morning Heraldand Melbourne Age) regularly publish op-eds and letters from people who are evidently fluent in Zionist. They are for Israel ber alles.

For example:

A.F. (SMH, 18 December 2025): Lets not forget that for extremists, Israels existence alone was cause for violence and hatred long before Israels military campaign in Gaza began. The continuation of that antisemitism has been fed by the constant demonisation of Israel, with lies about genocide and rallies demanding Israels destruction. This needs to end.

S.C. (SMH, 19 December 2025): The perpetrators of the Bondi atrocity would have realised that the Government had taken a softly-softly approach to rising antisemitism. Would this have anything to do with the Middle Eastern vote?

G.F. (SMH, 20 December 2025): There have been calls for greater education in our schools and universities regarding the Holocaust. I fully support the idea, and would add the history of Israel from thefirst Zionist conference in Switzerland in 1897to the present day.

A.S. (SMH, 9 January 2026): President Herzog is the legitimate head of state of the internationally recognised democratic state of Israel, rightfully invited to commiserate with Australians after the appalling terrorist atrocity at Bondi, in which predominantly Jewish people were murdered and injured.'

G.F. (Age, 5 March 2026): Iran openly boasted in the recent negotiations with the US about having a large enough stockpile of enriched uranium to be able to make 11 nuclear bombs within ten days. [Widely reported but false:Steve Witkoff made it up.]

G.H. (Age, 12 March 2026): Sending a surveillance aircraft and a handful of defence personnel to the United Arab Emirates is the correct thing to do in the face of Irans unjustified aggression

And so on...

The Zionist language is rather cloistered. It is more conducive to catechisms than to facilitating intelligence.

At the same time Zionist facilitates a certain fertile, if quarantined, imagination.

Thus:"There is no such thing as Palestine"; "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East"; "the IDF [Purity of Arms]is the most moral army in the world"; "Hamas uses civilians as human shields"; aid workers killed by the IDF in March 2025 were "Hamas terrorists";and etcetera.

A recent masterpiece of Zionist literature is the SegalReport,'Special Envoys Plan to Combat Antisemitism', July 2025. Jillian Segal is a Professor of Zionist and knows of which she speaks a wise selection as antisemitism envoy by rote-learner Prime Minister Albanese in July 2024.

Learning another language is normally an exciting and enlightening affair. But the novice with Zionist is readily confronted with a dilemma. Nothing makes sense. Translations into conventional English defy intelligence, common sense. Indeed, they inhibit the capacity to think morally, to act humanely. Worse, it is a colonising language intended to disarm the capacity of other languages to convey meaning. Quadrant magazine hassigned upfor the linguistic battle.

The Segal Report is a mini-Exhibit A for mind control exhortation. The Segal Report demands that all those in authority and in positions of influence (teachers, media personnel) learn Zionist and cater to its norm. It demands a permanent surveillance and censorship operation to stamp out contrary thought.

I have previously analysed the travesty that is the Segal Report (21 August 2025and23 August 2025). The Report immediately received sober and damning critique from UNSW legal academicLouise Chappelland governance analystJason Masters. Sensing the threat to university life in general, a petition organised under 'Academics against racismreadily gathered over 1,000 signatures demanding that the Labor Government bin the toxic Segal Report. Water off a ducks back.

At the Lenin Shipyard

By coincidence, I recently read American-born Canadian Stan Perskys 1981At the Lenin Shipyard: Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union.

In August 1980, revolt against myriad grievances merged into the nucleus of the Solidarity movement. Against which the state declaimed "your strikes are threatening anarchy"and "chaos".

The Communist Partys central committee labelled the movements leaders "antisocialist elements":

The 80-year oldCardinal Wyszinskiwas wheeled out to lecture the rebels on the need for order, duty and responsibility (he was later brought around to the cause).

Members of Solidaritys fledglingInter-Enterprise Strike Committee(MKS) noted the immense irony and hypocrisy of the party hard-liners. The Polish Constitution guaranteed freedom of speech, the press and religion, yet the population was submerged in repeated censorship into political, social and cultural life. Add ongoing economic hardship. Pro-Solidarity activists were asking themselves: how can they continue to talk such transparent bullshit at us.

Persky brings the readers attention to an article by a Polish expatriate in Paris, Michael Szkolny (ps.), published in the London Review of Books, March 1981, titledRevolution in Poland; there we read:

A process of conceptual embezzlement precisely.

Antisemitism and terrorism

In the current case, "antisemitism"and "terrorism", and so on, have been twisted out of substantive utility for reasonably minded people. The acknowledged collapse of "social cohesion"in Australia supposedly claims as dominant victims the local pro-Israel gauleiters, whereas they themselves are responsible for it. One doesnt build social cohesion by denying victims of and critics of Israel a voice.

We know about the Hasbara the pro-Israel propaganda apparatus. It is a dense network to behold (c.f. my 'The Pro-Israel Propaganda Complex' augmenting the list an ongoing enterprise). We are exposed to claims as to why Israel is the purist embodiment of millennia of Jewish longing, achieved and maintained only by repelling barbarian antagonists. But it is no longer a matter of rational detachment and sieving of argument and evidence. It becomes a matter of obligation to adhere to such claims. Beyond that, it becomes a matter of believing such as no alternative explanation is conceivable. We are to be subject to an Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Academic Marc Owen Jones (Evidencing alethocide: Israels war on truth in Gaza, Foundation for Middle East Piece,March 2025) has coined a new term: "alethocide" the killing of truth.

Conceptual embezzlement and alethocide. We all know of the adjective Orwellian but isnt that a weapon of authoritarian regimes? Rather, its inside the tent. We are its perpetrators and its subjects.

Rashid Khalidi, a towering figure in Middle East scholarship, on his retirement from Columbia University has delivered thequintessential indictmentof the academys capitulation to the Zionist lobby. Khalidi was due to give a course, as post-retirement special lecturer, in Middle East history to 300 enrollees but has cancelled the course.

Khalidi notes:

Jillian Segal would have been reading the Columbia University script with approval.

The Australian Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion (sic) was established on 8 January 2026. In theLetters Patentblurb we read:

Are you kidding? Who planted that bomb? Does CommissionerVirginia Bell ACrealise that her long nurtured reputation is at stake?

Its all over. Zionist is now the official language of Australia. What is the point of a Royal Commission anyhow, especially now that Dennis Richardson (with specialist orientation to the background of the Bondi murderers)has pulled out. Will it be less a Royal Commission than an Inquisition?

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