VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel
$ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct “aid” and $ 130B in “Offense” contracts
Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State.
…by Jonas E. Alexis, VT Senior Editor
Daniel J. Flynn argues in his book Intellectual Morons that “When ideology is your guide, you’re bound to get lost. Ideology deludes, inspires dishonesty, and breeds fanaticism. Facts, experience, and logic are much better at leading you to the truth. Truth, however, is not everyone’s intended destination…PhDs, high IQs, and intellectual honors are not antidotes to thick-headedness.”[1]

Sadly, I have personally found this to be true over the years. I’ve interacted with historians, scholars, and writers of various stripes and I have been literally stunned by how they have no respect for serious scholarships, rigorous investigation, and ultimately a love for the truth.


Moreover, I have been amazed to see how they try to get around the obvious in order to preserve their cherished ideology. I sometimes discover that some of those people would astonishingly invent things out of thin air in order to rescue their own ideology from historical oblivion.[2] It was then that I realized that you simply cannot reason people out of an ideology that was not formed on the basis of reason and truth.

This is actually the awful case of Rich Swier, a man who has resolutely blocked his ears from anything that sounds like the truth. In fact, one can say that Swier is a classic representation of an individual who has been so blinded by his own wicked ideology that he cannot see anything else. I do not say this lightly, particularly after I corresponded with Swier on the Israel/Palestine issue and after I wrote a previous article about our interaction.

Yet in his recent article, Swier declares: “I have seen comments on social media and on the VT website saying that “Hamas was created by Israel. This is one the greatest of lies. This lie is similar to statements that Jews created the Nazis or funded the Bolsheviks. It’s like saying that blacks created slavery.” [The Jews did create the Nazi and funded the Bolsheviks as they were Jews]

How does one seriously answer a statement like this? If Swier for once stops following his own ideology, he would have discovered that no serious person said that Hamas was actually created by Israel. The argument is that if Israel wasn’t liquidating the Palestinians, particularly the people of Gaza, there wouldn’t be Hamas in the first place! We are not the only people who make this argument. Andrew Higgins, an Israeli official who had worked in Gaza in the 1980s, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009: [Many researchers know Israel has created Hamas so they had someone to blame for starting the war that Israel needed to get Palestine.]

“When I look back at the chain of events I think we made a mistake but at the time nobody thought about the possible results. Israel’s military-led administration in Gaza looked favorably on the paraplegic cleric, who set up a wide network of schools, clinics, a library and kindergartens. Sheikh Yassin formed the Islamist group Mujama al-Islamiya, which was officially recognized by Israel as a charity and then, in 1979, as an association.

“Israel also endorsed the establishment of the Islamic University of Gaza, which it now regards as a hotbed of militancy. The university was one of the first targets hit by Israeli warplanes in the 2008-9 Operation. Yassin’s Mujama would become Hamas, which, it can be argued, was Israel’s Taliban: an Islamist group whose antecedents had been laid down by the West in a battle against a leftist enemy. Israel jailed Yassin in 1984 on a 12-year sentence after the discovery of hidden arms caches, but he was released a year later.”[3]

Avner Cohen, one of the foremost Israeli historians who wrote book such as Israel and the Bomb and The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb (both books were published by Columbia University Press), told the Wall Street Journal in the same year: “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation.”[4] Israeli writer Shlomo Alegra of the Times of Israel agrees with both Higgins and Cohen.[5] Now how are people like Swier going to have a serious debate with people like Higgins and Cohen? Isn’t Swier going to look ridiculous? Hamas, by the way, stands for “Islamic Resistance Movement.”

So Swier has no moral, historical and even rational leg to stand on. But to buttress his Zionist ideology, he has to bring in Robert Spencer. Back in 2015, I wrote an entire article arguing that Alex Jones, Robert Spencer, Paul Joseph Watson, and Pamella Geller are all Zionist whores. And they still are.

In short, we know from past experience that Swier has no respect for historical scholarship whatsoever. This again makes one wonder how he was able to go through a Ph.D. program, which is supposed to be a rigorous scholarship. One is within reason to conclude that Swier seems to know the truth, but since he is operating under a wicked ideology which goes by the name of Zionism, he therefore has to be a prostitute, which is to say that he has to trade scholarship for falsehood. Keep in mind that one of the definitions of prostitute is using “yourself or your abilities or beliefs in a way that does not deserve respect.”

[1] Daniel J. Flynn, Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (New York: Crown Forum, 2004), 1.

[2] For examples of this, see Jon Wiener, Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower (New York and London: The New Press, 2005); https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2014/07/13/scientific-frauds-academic-gangsters-and-the-khazarian-theory-revisited/.

[3] Andrew Higgins, “How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas,” Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2009