"During the same event, DeSantis referred to the occupied Palestinian West Bank by its biblical name, “Judea and Samaria,” insisting it was “not occupied territory.”
"The event highlighted the long and obsessive battle DeSantis has waged to crush the free speech and freedom of association rights of Americans who support the call from Palestinian civil society to boycott and divest from Israel.
"Before he took up the mantle of “America First” as the governor of Florida and candidate for the Republican nomination for president, Ron DeSantis was one of the congressional point-men for a foreign apartheid state seeking to crush the First Amendment rights of American citizens.
"And while positioning himself as an immigration hardliner obsessed with hardening America’s southern border with Mexico, DeSantis has continually insisted that Israel is entitled to remain a borderless, constantly expanding entity, usurping as much territory it seeks from a stateless Palestinian population."
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Little wonder Kendallian’s here love DeSantis, and before him Trump, as they epitomize what Peter Viereck correctly called “thought control conservatives.” And aping Kendall, Viereck was predictably denounced here as a “Liberal,” presumably as one reason, for opposing Kendall, Burnham, et al., as “thought control conservatives.” As the last of Peter Viereck’s boosters, also criticizes him for in a recent book on Conservatism, for his criticism of the “thought control conservatives.” (Go figure, but chalk it up to the inconsistency of Conservative thought.)
But here is the Israeli fascists most dedicated servant! Ron Defascist! Explaining why Traditional Conservative love him, as Israel epitomizes today under its Right-wing government, the kind of governance that Traditional Conservatives made the centerpiece of their political theory; militarily aggressive, and repressive of anyone exercising “rights.” Explaining as well the enthusiasm that Yoram Hazony set off among American Conservatives as an Emissary of the Israeli Fascists, and their military expansionism disguised as good old American style settler colonialism, as ours was, and not the rapacious military expansionism as each actually was, and is, just as the European states were which we claimed to be different from in the 1800s. As John Quincy Adams did as Secretary of State in 1821, at the height of his support for Andrew Jackson’s military rapaciousness, when had he been honest about U.S. foreign policy, he would have said:
"But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. Not when we have the entire Western Hemisphere to conquer and place under our Empire first.”
So little wonder that Andrew Jackson has been made the subject of idolatry by The American Conservative mag’s “Scholar at Large,” Hillsdale College professor Bradley Birzer, in his panegyric to Jackson approvingly asserting he was a precursor to Trumpism. Which I agree with, but in the negative sense, in that each bears condemnation. Jackson was in fact the precursor to Trumpism, and also explains the Traditional Conservatives love of him, and of the identical type of fascists in Israel, as Zionists. All “cut from the same cloth!”
“In a popular quotation that is believed to be apocryphal, President Andrew Jackson reportedly responded: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”
Here’s a more true account of JQA, and why he saw no need (yet, at the time he was speaking) to go “abroad in search of enemies.” Though he did "evolve” in his thinking from 1821 in abandoning some of his hypocrisy:
All of which goes to the point that until we “grow up” and dispel our myths for what they are, fairy tales, and get over the “American Exceptionalist” ideology which they uphold, there’s no chance of breaking out of our “Imperialist” mindset, as each party’s imperialists/militarists manipulate those fairy tales in a way which will appeal to their particular constituency, but alway lead to the clamor for what is in fact, U.S. Militarist Rapaciousness, properly spelled: f-a-s-c-i-s-t, with the difference of the two Goldwaterite parties only in the velocity they call for in getting to the objective spelled out in U.S. Military policy documents going back to the end of the Cold War: Full Spectrum Military Dominance, of the World.
In the meantime, one party is ahead in the velocity they call for in that, indicated by relative military spending budgets each calls for, and amongst each party, some particularly “standout” in their call for “freedom of thought repression,” which Willmoore Kendall was so enthusiastic for as representative of “thought control conservatism,” and here that is fully on display here.
While posing as a defender of free speech, Florida’s Ron DeSantis has played point man on the Israel lobby’s crusade to criminalize American citizens for their exercising their constitutionally-protected right to boycott Israel.
Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has spent his career as an elected official pushing an array of laws attacking the free speech of American citizens who exercise their constitutionally-protected right to boycott Israel. One anti-boycott bill DeSantis championed sought to send violators to prison for 10 years.
At the same time, the governor has sought to position himself as a champion of the First Amendment. During a 2022 press conference, he stood behind a podium emblazoned with the phrase, “Gov. DeSantis Defends Free Speech.” Flanked by medical professionals bearing signs that read “free speech, free state,” and “science not censorship,” DeSantis slammed the censorship regime erected to enforce public compliance to Covid-19 restrictions.
Yet, when it comes to silencing critics of his major financial benefactors, and limiting the First Amendment rights of American citizens to choose where and where not to spend their hard-earned dollars, DeSantis is more pro-mandate than pro-Madison.
The most recent of DeSantis’ many assaults on the right to boycott camethis July 17, as he stood before a Christian Zionist group which supports Israel on the basis that it is the future landing pad for the Messiah.
Branding himself the “most pro-Israel governor in the United States,” the Florida Republican announced an official investigation into the financial ratings firm Morningstar over allegations related to Florida’s ban on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
“Today, I am happy to make — and this law just took effect at the beginning of July — I’m happy to announce for everybody, that Florida has formally instituted an investigation against Morningstar for violations of our anti-BDS law. We’re not letting them target Israel and get away with it, we’re using our tools to fight back,” DeSantis announced at a conference of Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Morningstar has been accused by the state of Florida of downgrading companies that are associated with Israel.
During the same event, DeSantis referred to the occupied Palestinian West Bank by its biblical name, “Judea and Samaria,” insisting it was “not occupied territory.”
The event highlighted the long and obsessive battle DeSantis has waged to crush the free speech and freedom of association rights of Americans who support the call from Palestinian civil society to boycott and divest from Israel.
Before he took up the mantle of “America First” as the governor of Florida and candidate for the Republican nomination for president, Ron DeSantis was one of the congressional point-men for a foreign apartheid state seeking to crush the First Amendment rights of American citizens.
And while positioning himself as an immigration hardliner obsessed with hardening America’s southern border with Mexico, DeSantis has continually insisted that Israel is entitled to remain a borderless, constantly expanding entity, usurping as much territory it seeks from a stateless Palestinian population.
If DeSantis has his way, Americans who disagree with Israel’s apartheid regime and actually seek to do something about it could face as much as ten years in prison.
Text of the DeSantis-sponsored Export Administration Anti-Discrimination Act advising 10 year prison terms for Israel boycotters
DeSantis allies with pro-armageddon preacher who urges war on Iran, says Hitler was “half-Jewish”
The CUFI organization which hosted the announcement of DeSantis’ anti-BDS crackdown was founded by Pastor John Hagee, a pro-armageddon Texas-based faith healer who has argued that the Antichrist is gay, has “fierce features” and is “partially Jewish… as Adolph Hitler was.”
CUFI has been funded by Concert, a “public benefit company” used as a money laundering front for the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs to help pro-Israel advocacy groups in the United States circumvent Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) laws.
At the Christian Zionist group’s conference, DeSantis vowed there would be a “new sheriff in town” after he entered the Oval Office, and he would immediately move to sever funding from “United Nations entities that are targeting Israel.” The pledge echoed the anti-UN “Promoting Equality and Accountability at the United Nations Act of 2017” which DeSantis co-sponsored as a member of Congress.
DeSantis in Jerusalem
While Florida had an anti-BDS law on the books when DeSantis took office, he expanded the law this May on the basis of cracking down on “woke” business practices.
This March, he took the trip to Jerusalem that has become a rite of passage for presidential contenders. There, he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who hailed him as a “friend of Israel,” and commented, “We talked about Iran. We talked about Israel-U.S. relations.” DeSantis reciprocated the Israeli Prime Ministers’ remarks, calling him a “great friend of Florida.”
After giving a keynote address at Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance, which is built on a historically significant Muslim graveyard, DeSantis signed a bill recategorizing a slew of acts as anti-Semitic hate crimes. At a glitzy dinner after the event, DeSantis kibbitzed with Miriam Adelson, the widow of deceased Likudnik mega-donor and CIA asset Sheldon Adelson.
Not surprisingly, DeSantis has relied heavily on Israel lobby donors like Adelson to advance his political career.
On Foreign Affairs Committee, DeSantis’ seat was controlled by the Israel lobby
DeSantis introduced the Export Administration Anti-Discrimination Act in 2018 in a bid to fine and imprison American citizens for up to 10 years for engaging in boycotts of Israel, or for furnishing information used in a boycott. Soon after entering office as Florida’s governor, he attempted to sanction Airbnb over its refusal to list properties in the illegally occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Accountability Act that DeSantis sponsored in 2013 denied the existence of Palestine altogether, prohibiting any “U.S. government document from referring to the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority” as Palestine until the Secretary of State certifies that the Palestinian Authority has “ceased to participate in any boycott of Israel,” among six other provisions.
In 2015, DeSantis co-sponsored the United States-Israel Trade and Commercial Enhancement Act which sought to declare that “principal U.S. trade negotiating objectives for trade agreements with foreign countries” include discouraging “politically motivated actions to boycott, divest from, or sanction Israel.” The bill also directed the president to issue annual reports to congress on BDS.
Later that year, DeSantis co-sponsored the Boycott Our Enemies not Israel Act, which sought to require potential U.S. government contractors to certify that they are not boycotting Israel or Israeli companies.
DeSantis is also listed as a co-sponsor of the 2017 Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which sought to amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to “declare that it shall be U.S. policy to oppose” boycotts against Israel.
Later in 2017, DeSantis signed on to a bill to withhold funds from three United Nations bodies, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, until the State Department certifies they have renounced “anti-Israel” rhetoric.
Just months before resigning from Congress to focus on his gubernatorial campaign, DeSantis sponsored the Export Administration Anti-Discrimination Act prohibiting “boycotts of countries that are friendly to the United States” and imposing “a penalty for an intentional or knowing violation of such prohibition.” While the bill sought to ban boycotts against a broadly-defined set of countries, Israel was the only country named in it. The bill noted that more than $45 billion in goods and services are traded between the United States and Israel annually and that the United States funds Israel to the tune of $10 billion every year.
The Export Administration Anti-Discrimination Act and Palestinian Accountability Act are the only bills DeSantis sponsored while serving as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Several bills sponsored or co-sponsored by DeSantis propose penalties for Americans engaged in boycotts of Israel of up to 10 years in prison and as much as one million dollars in fines. Simply furnishing information which could be used to further a boycott qualifies as another act which could land Americans in jail under a DeSantis legal regime.
