Hedges is not just anti Israel. He has called for a moratorium on arms shipments to Ukraine. Hedges describes himself as a socialist and an anarchist. The man knows much less than you do Kelli about Israel and the war in Gaza. He did not deserve any prize for his writing, except perhaps the booby prize for stupidity.
I really do wonder what goes on in their demented minds? Do they believe their own bullshit? Is it a mental illness? Evil? It’s hard to understand even though we are watching it happen everyday in real time.
Socialists in general seem to hate Israel, probably because they oppose the particularity of individual democractic nations in general. But Israel is worse for them because it's not just an individual democractic nation with a capitalist economy, it's also a Jewish state. The Jews embody particularity.
Israel is a success. Socialists are failures. That has a lot to do with it too. This excludes of course socialist leaders who make good money from their grift (AOC, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren) and of course trust funders like Zohran Mamdani.
It was even like that in the Soviet Union, as I understand it. The leaders had access to Western goods, etc. while the general population had very little.
Thank you Kelli for another succinct and fact based article. You claim you’re not a journalist but you’re so much better than many actual ‘journalists’.
I honor you for having read his stuff and taken the time to respond so rationally and authentically with facts and details. Me: these people are just shitheads. That’s it
When a so- called "journalist" gets his information from the U.N., The ICJ, and no doubt, The Gaza Ministry of Health; you know it's going to be worthless. I watched proceedings at ICJ when South Africa brought charges of Genocide against Israel. You could NOT listen to the real data and imagine it proved anything but Israel is innocent. Who was guilty but South Africa in their barbaric murders of White farmers. They will soon be screaming FAMINE, just like Zimbabwe. I've seen film in Gaza of shrouded babes, that were exposed as dolls. I watched film from Gaza with a man and well dressed deceased toddler, across his lap, lamenting to the sky, when suddenly the " dead" child reached up and scratched his foot, going right back to " playing dead"! Even the horrific U.N., who refused to even ADMIT Israeli women were raped to death ( before being shot in their faces or genitals); were forced to admit the death tolls from Gaza were grossly inflated. The ONLY Genocide where the birth rate has INCREASED since the Operation began. We saw Israeli hostages, 3 for 100+ terrorists, come out looking starved, injured, vision trouble while the prisoners set free from Israel, got off busses, smiling with warm, clean jackets and baseball caps. Many Israeli hostages still had bullits in them, have undergone multiple surgeries since coming home, many to dead family. Yarden Bibas said he was told many times he could get " better wife, better children" while in captivity like an animal, by animals. The guy claiming to be a journalist, is a liar. Thanks for the warning, Kelli. He writes nothing I want to read.
Thank you Michael. It’s scary that people believe what they read without questioning anything. That is why it’s so irresponsible that these Gronks call themselves Journalists.
Brilliant piece of writing Kelli and 100% on the money. Again it's drivel like what you have critiqued by this so called Pulitzer prize winning fiction writer who still calls himself a journalist rather than that which he really is which is a propagandist.
It's crap like that which he's written which is why the media is no longer trusted by a large majority of the public across western countries but these left wing progressive woke activists can't help themselves but to spin lies and frame everything in the leftist narrative of victimhood.
Keep up the good work of telling the Truth and reality of a situation, even the bad stuff. It's important to know what's real.
What is really telling as someone messaged the article to me thinking it was a brilliant truth bomb by a legitimate journalist. That I could debunk so easily. People are so easily led. Thanks for your support Mike.
I wised up to the hypocrite Hedges years ago. This was in Berkeley, where he was hectoring a (paying) audience in a "progressive" church to take to the streets and fight fascism. He also explained that, as a new father, he would not be able to join us.
Hedges is another Jew hating liar using his platform for hyperbole and propaganda. Thank you for your courage and commitment. We should all send this to him. Am yisrael chai
I agree, all of us should send him a copy of your post and ask him to “reconsider his dribble.” Maybe send it to him every morning so he can have it with his morning coffee. Maybe he will become interested?
There is an evil that clouds the brains of otherwise intelligent people when it comes to Israel and to most issues concerning Jews. It's as if their critical thinking skills are broken. When confronted these brain addled folk who have the audacity to mention genocide and Gaza in the same sentence, I provide a simple fact and ask a simple question. Fact: hamas and their cronies slaughtered 1200 folk in Israel on October 7th, and wounded hundreds more. Why is it that in 1.5 years of war, with Israel having massive arms, planes, tanks, missiles, navy ships at their disposal, there isn't one day where they killed 1200 Gazans, nor is there one day where they killed half that many, 600. Why is that? The brain addled genocide nonsense spouters have no answer. The answer is obvious to anybody whose brain isn't infected by the Jew hating evil which clouds the mind of so many.
Hedges has made an entire career attributing every ill on the face of the earth to Israel and the Jews. You'd have to look hard to find a writer more antisemitic. I don't know if he was ever a good journalist but he certainly has a mania, an axe to grind, and a severe lack of real curiosity.
awesome article. you are a great writer, clearly stemming from both talent and hard work. and caring enough about truth to hold accountable those who have abdicated their duty to uphold it.
Hedges is not just anti Israel. He has called for a moratorium on arms shipments to Ukraine. Hedges describes himself as a socialist and an anarchist. The man knows much less than you do Kelli about Israel and the war in Gaza. He did not deserve any prize for his writing, except perhaps the booby prize for stupidity.
I really do wonder what goes on in their demented minds? Do they believe their own bullshit? Is it a mental illness? Evil? It’s hard to understand even though we are watching it happen everyday in real time.
Socialists in general seem to hate Israel, probably because they oppose the particularity of individual democractic nations in general. But Israel is worse for them because it's not just an individual democractic nation with a capitalist economy, it's also a Jewish state. The Jews embody particularity.
Israel is a success. Socialists are failures. That has a lot to do with it too. This excludes of course socialist leaders who make good money from their grift (AOC, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren) and of course trust funders like Zohran Mamdani.
It was even like that in the Soviet Union, as I understand it. The leaders had access to Western goods, etc. while the general population had very little.
Thank you Kelli for another succinct and fact based article. You claim you’re not a journalist but you’re so much better than many actual ‘journalists’.
Thank you so much Elizabeth 🙏🏻🙏🏻🤍🤍🎗️🎗️
I honor you for having read his stuff and taken the time to respond so rationally and authentically with facts and details. Me: these people are just shitheads. That’s it
Yes you are right.
I agree. I stopped a long time ago. Pointless but I managed to break my own rule today.
Hedges is a master at lying and hyperbole. He works closely with Al Jazeera.
https://open.substack.com/pub/luckym/p/the-chris-hedges-style-guide-for?r=gah8d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
It’s pretty obvious he’s on someone’s payroll. What a chump!
When a so- called "journalist" gets his information from the U.N., The ICJ, and no doubt, The Gaza Ministry of Health; you know it's going to be worthless. I watched proceedings at ICJ when South Africa brought charges of Genocide against Israel. You could NOT listen to the real data and imagine it proved anything but Israel is innocent. Who was guilty but South Africa in their barbaric murders of White farmers. They will soon be screaming FAMINE, just like Zimbabwe. I've seen film in Gaza of shrouded babes, that were exposed as dolls. I watched film from Gaza with a man and well dressed deceased toddler, across his lap, lamenting to the sky, when suddenly the " dead" child reached up and scratched his foot, going right back to " playing dead"! Even the horrific U.N., who refused to even ADMIT Israeli women were raped to death ( before being shot in their faces or genitals); were forced to admit the death tolls from Gaza were grossly inflated. The ONLY Genocide where the birth rate has INCREASED since the Operation began. We saw Israeli hostages, 3 for 100+ terrorists, come out looking starved, injured, vision trouble while the prisoners set free from Israel, got off busses, smiling with warm, clean jackets and baseball caps. Many Israeli hostages still had bullits in them, have undergone multiple surgeries since coming home, many to dead family. Yarden Bibas said he was told many times he could get " better wife, better children" while in captivity like an animal, by animals. The guy claiming to be a journalist, is a liar. Thanks for the warning, Kelli. He writes nothing I want to read.
Agree with every word Brenda 🙌🏼
John Milton said "let truth and falsehood grapple. Whoever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter."
You out-grappled him, Kelli! ❤️
Thank you Michael. It’s scary that people believe what they read without questioning anything. That is why it’s so irresponsible that these Gronks call themselves Journalists.
The term “journalist” is joining “politician” as a badge of dishonor. Nobody believes them anymore.
Brilliant piece of writing Kelli and 100% on the money. Again it's drivel like what you have critiqued by this so called Pulitzer prize winning fiction writer who still calls himself a journalist rather than that which he really is which is a propagandist.
It's crap like that which he's written which is why the media is no longer trusted by a large majority of the public across western countries but these left wing progressive woke activists can't help themselves but to spin lies and frame everything in the leftist narrative of victimhood.
Keep up the good work of telling the Truth and reality of a situation, even the bad stuff. It's important to know what's real.
What is really telling as someone messaged the article to me thinking it was a brilliant truth bomb by a legitimate journalist. That I could debunk so easily. People are so easily led. Thanks for your support Mike.
Hedges hates Jews. Does that adequately sum it up?
I wised up to the hypocrite Hedges years ago. This was in Berkeley, where he was hectoring a (paying) audience in a "progressive" church to take to the streets and fight fascism. He also explained that, as a new father, he would not be able to join us.
Ha!!! What a douche bag.
The mechanism behind this was once described by Hannah Arendt in response to propaganda during WW2...
"This constant lying is not aimed
at making the people believe a lie,
but at ensuring that no one believes
anything anymore.
A people that can no longer distinguish
between truth and lies cannot distinguish
between right and wrong.
And such a people, deprived of the power
to think and judge, is, without knowing
and willing it, completely subjected
to the rule of lies. With such a people,
you can do whatever you want.
Hannah Arendt
German historian and philosopher
(1906- 1975)
This journalist is a puppet...
Very true. Thank you Jan.
Sometimes you out do even yourself. All your stuff is great, but this one was just so dead on accurate.
Thank you so much Brian.
Hedges is another Jew hating liar using his platform for hyperbole and propaganda. Thank you for your courage and commitment. We should all send this to him. Am yisrael chai
I agree, all of us should send him a copy of your post and ask him to “reconsider his dribble.” Maybe send it to him every morning so he can have it with his morning coffee. Maybe he will become interested?
Absolutely spot on Kelly.. sadly Hedges is the kind of "journalist" who would be welcome at the BBC.. 🤦♂️
Welcomed in most places unfortunately.
There is an evil that clouds the brains of otherwise intelligent people when it comes to Israel and to most issues concerning Jews. It's as if their critical thinking skills are broken. When confronted these brain addled folk who have the audacity to mention genocide and Gaza in the same sentence, I provide a simple fact and ask a simple question. Fact: hamas and their cronies slaughtered 1200 folk in Israel on October 7th, and wounded hundreds more. Why is it that in 1.5 years of war, with Israel having massive arms, planes, tanks, missiles, navy ships at their disposal, there isn't one day where they killed 1200 Gazans, nor is there one day where they killed half that many, 600. Why is that? The brain addled genocide nonsense spouters have no answer. The answer is obvious to anybody whose brain isn't infected by the Jew hating evil which clouds the mind of so many.
And why has nobody worried that Israel will use their nukes?
Hedges has made an entire career attributing every ill on the face of the earth to Israel and the Jews. You'd have to look hard to find a writer more antisemitic. I don't know if he was ever a good journalist but he certainly has a mania, an axe to grind, and a severe lack of real curiosity.
awesome article. you are a great writer, clearly stemming from both talent and hard work. and caring enough about truth to hold accountable those who have abdicated their duty to uphold it.
Thank you so much Maximus 🙏🏻🤍🎗️☺️