Epstein and Zionism

The Epstein Fallout and the Politics of Elite Protection

The Jeffrey Epstein revelations are driving humanity insane. We are sick to our stomach. We cannot look at some of the emails. Teenagers. Children. Babies. Torture. This is globaalism. The Trump administration is riddled with the colluding partners of Epstein and no one is doing a damn thing. The US media is trying to focus on the tangential issues that don’t make people want to vomit. I can’t see a pizza ad without cringing. The whole racket is protected, or the whole racket falls, and officialdom and the politicians are hamstrung (or whatever the kosher version of that is).

Collective Guilt, War Narratives and Dangerous Generalisations

The Hamas spokesman said the point of the October 7 attack was “to show the world the true face of the Israeli.” But is what happened afterwards, intensified by the Epstein drop, showing the world the true face of the Jew? I hate even writing that line, even cowering behind a question mark, but it is a fair question; as fair as saying WW2 showed the true face of the German and the Japanese. The characteristics – “stereotypes” – are there for all to see: selfishness, arrogance, collusion – it’s all there (and worse of course we don’t need to go into specifics). So what follows is a collection of interesting interactions I have had with non-Morlock worshipping Jewish people over the years to get a sense of what they think about Palestine-Israel in particular and show that the characteristics can be separated from the extreme conduct of the elites.

Conversations with Israeli and Jewish Voices Beyond the Headlines

I spent part of Sunday morning on Youtube watching the livestream of a Nazarite Jew from Jerusalem answering comments, rapid-fire, on every subject religious, secular, personal, political. Having come across him before and having liked his outlook I kept watching far beyond my usual threshold for the random algorithmic streamers who I had scrolled through. He mentioned he was a working copywriter and a failed screenwriter – instant sympathy!

His attitude was ultra-tolerant – haters were perfectly OK and he would answer them too. Someone said his dreds looked like cat poo (he agreed, but being a Nazarite he could neither cut his hair nor comb it); why do Jews suck the blood from a circumcision? (they spit it out); why they worship Morlock/Baal/Satan (they don’t – and satan just means adversary in Hebrew); goyim is derogatory? (goy just means nation) and so on.

This was my church service for Sunday. As he sipped his coffee and raved away live from his flat in Jerusalem, I sipped my coffee and absorbed the global inter-cultural exchange as he unravelled the mysteries of the Torah in between fielding personal and antisemitic abuse – and all cheerfully.

His stance was not anti-Palestinian or anti-Arab, but it was Israeli in that his facts only let him down when it came to the Jewish state. This guy was born and raised in Israel mind you. So, he insisted that the word Palestine only became something after Arafat and the PLO in the 1960s and that the Romans created that term in connection with their expulsion to punish them. For someone so knowledgeable he didn’t even refer to the Philistines at all. And he had served in the IDF proudly, but no details of what that meant. Someone asked about the USS Liberty being bombed by Israel in 1967 and he insisted it was in the confusion of war and it was an accident, but then ended by saying he didn’t know. Mossad? The Mossad was just like any other intelligence agency, that spycraft was statecraft and he listed a few things that would be normal to be infiltrated including civilian industry. Espionage of everything was normal.

The Israeli State, National Mythology and Internal Dissent

His mentality vis a vis the Jewish state and Palestine is probably shared by Jews outside Israel too, and it did remind me of an discussion I had on a domestic flight with some young (18-20 year old) Israelis a few years ago whom I was seated amongst. There are two things that I recall distinctly from that conversation as we got deep into the Arab-Israeli situation. At one point the young woman I was speaking to next to me lowered her voice and looked around so as to make sure she wasn’t being observed and told me in a hushed, conspiratorial tone, that her older brother had told her the facts and that she and her friends knew the real story and not the state propaganda about the founding of Israel and in particular it wasn’t a gallant struggle alone, but a concerted and one-sided war.

The kids were smart enough to know when they were being lied to and didn’t buy the official mythology. However, they also knew it was unsafe to say so and that the eyes of the Mossad were, apparently, only about two or three rows behind us. How is that fear of handlers any different to the workings and intimidation of any other Middle Eastern dictatorship? No national of any other Western country would have whisper the truth of their state’s founding.

The other part of that conversation that will stick with me is when I tried to ask one of the young men about the settlements in the West Bank and what they thought of the people there. I meant the Jewish settlers and his views about their ideological religious extremism, but I obviously wasn’t clear. Not at all clear. Because he thought I meant the Arab Palestinians. And I know that because on hearing it a look of utter disgust flashed across his face – his whole face scrunched up like he had just been told to eat dog shit. Instant and complete revulsion. I explained that was not what I meant, but his expression had said it all; he didn’t have to say a word, his horror had told the truth without the niceties of a diplomatic narrative to blunt it. After that I proceeded to wind him up by asking if he would date an Arab, marry etc., like Maori and Pakeha do in this country, it’s worked out well, they should try it etc. Him: absolutely not, you don’t understand, we are totally incompatible, impossible, no way, never! Their handler would have been most pleased with his trenchant responses.

I left the Israeli kids with a thought: the “two state solution” is an antagonistic, colonial anachronism and the United Nations had no right to partition Palestine in the first place. New Zealand had no right to vote on that and it is our shame that we did. And what’s more what the UN has done the UN can undo. They didn’t like that at all, but that’s the deal isn’t it? The “one state solution” is permanently in the background of the Israeli mind and the population balance of the two sets of peoples are a constant existential spectre in their calculations precisely because they realise it is the logical outcome – a matter of demographics and a matter of time. Why would Israeli leaders and officials be so obsessed with the numbers and a single state scenario if they were confident of maintaining the two state status quo?

Diaspora Zionism and the Global Debate

I had an NZ Jewish (not Israeli) flatmate in Auckland twenty years ago who was studying International Relations and had done her dissertation on the Palestine-Israel situation which was basically two states with Jerusalem as a special zone from what I recall, not unlike the original 1947 UN partition plan. I put to her the Daton Accord for Bosnia could be a template with two or three autonomous sub-entities within a single state, but she could not accept this would be practical.

Her father was at MFAT, probably a diplomat (I can’t remember exactly), and this was the time of the Iraq invasion, 2003. As the military build-up was going on I was keeping a sweepstake (no money just guesses) on the flat calendar for when the invasion would occur. Any guests to the house I would get them to select a date. People were all over the place – a fortnight away, a few months, six months and someone put never. I got her Dad to name a date as well, and he got it exactly right. Make of that what you will.

After one of our discussions, or really a sequence of disagreements, she wanted to put me right: “All Jews are Zionists.” I paused and replied, “that’s exactly what a Zionist would say.” Now maybe I was being slightly glib, but maybe also not wrong. The Nazarite livestreamer had a more nuanced reply to a commenter on that issue: all Jews are Zionists in that they uphold the scriptural concept of being given and being right to return to that land, but modern “political” Zionism is something else again.

Documented Connections: What Is Known and What Remains Speculation

Robinson’s attempt to distance Epstein from Zionism omits documented connections between Epstein and prominent Israeli figures, as well as ongoing revelations about the convicted sex traffickers ties to Israel.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak acknowledged meeting Epstein multiple times after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, including visits to his Manhattan residence.

Recent reporting has also raised fresh questions. As reported by Middle East Monitor, newly released documents indicate that Epstein donated funds to the Israeli army and contributed financially to settlement projects.

Separately, numerous articles have argued that Western media outlets have downplayed or avoided sustained scrutiny of Epstein’s Israeli connections, despite their relevance to understanding his broader web of influence.