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Yehuda Kaploun, Donald Trump’s nominee for Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, plans to attack the First Amendment

In an article titled “Why Are Americans Being Placed Under a Speech Tsar?”1 Paul Craig Roberts warns about a significant threat to the fundamental constitutional right of free speech by the Jewish lobby.

Yet for all its seriousness, there’s hardly any discussion about it in the mainstream press. No surprise there. Lying by commission, or in this case, omission, is the whole point of the mainstream press, liberal or conservative.

In his piece, Roberts writes,

President Trump’s alliance with Israel is giving us Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun as  Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.  The Special Envoy’s job is to suppress free speech if it involves criticism of any Israeli policy, including the ongoing genocide of Palestine and its remaining people. 

To give you some sense of the anti-American arrogance of this unbelieving rabbi, see this recent video2 where he comments about a man who dared protest him, saying that he “will be quite sorry shortly that he did that.” Kaploun made no allegations that the man did anything illegal. Simply the act of protesting him was enough to elicit this dark threat.

In his article “Christians and the Civil War,”3 John Robbins noted that the 1796 Tennessee Constitution “prevented ministers from holding legislative office. If the phrase ‘separation of church and state’ means anything, it must mean that the same person cannot hold office in both church and state.”

If Tennessee prohibited a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ from holding office, how much more is an unbelieving rabbi unfit to hold public office, all for the purpose of throttling Americans’ God-given, Constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech.

The seriousness of the Zionist threat to American liberty was underscored by Professor John Mearsheimer. In an appearance on Judging Freedom on 3/13/2025, Mearsheimer said,

The truth is, Judge, that the single greatest threat to freedom of speech in the United States at this point in time is Israel and its supporters here in the United States. It’s truly amazing the extent to which Israel’s supporters are going to enormous lengths to shut down free speech, not only on university campuses but all across the country.4

If Americans are going to retain their most cherished rights, they must insist on the separation of synagogue and state.

  1. Why are Americans Being Placed Under a Speech Tsar?” by Paul Craig Roberts ↩︎
  2. Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, Trump’s Israeli-born Chabadnik nominee for US Anti-Semitism Czar, says his being protested is an example of ‘anti-Semitism’ and says a man who protested him “will be quite sorry shortly that he did that.” Apparently, the Trump Administration wants Americans to be ruled by a modern-day Sanhedrin. ↩︎
  3. Christians and the Civil War” by John W. Robbins. ↩︎
  4. Judging Freedom with Andrew Napolitano, 3/13/2025 ↩︎

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Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, addresses the U.S. Congress on July 24, 2024 in Washington. Josh Morgan, USA Today.

All three religions – Romanism, Islam, and Judaism – are false, militant, and violent. 

  • John W. Robbins, “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century”

In a piece I have cited several times before in this space, John Robbins commenting on the coming religious wars of the 21st century noted that “the religious right in America has embraced both Romanism and Judaism as saviors of the West, foolishly ignorant of the fact that they, as forms of unbelief, are destroyers of the West and causes of the collapse [of the West].” [1]   

As I have noted previously, Robbins does something in his article that I have never seen done by any other writer.  Rather than taking sides with Romanism, Judaism, or Islam, he describes all three as “medieval…false, militant, and violent.” But unlike Robbins, many Evangelicals do take sides with either Romanism or Judaism against the secularists and Islam. 

In America, one likely would not find those who claim to be Christians, at least those of the “religious right” variety, embracing Islam.  Unlike Romanism and Judaism, Islam is viewed with suspicion by the religious right due to events such as 9/11, the influence of dispensationalism, and the work of the Israel lobby.

One may be tempted to question Robbins’ characterization of Romanism, Islam, and Judaism as destroyers of the West.  After all, didn’t Christianity Today run a piece in 2015 titled “From Antichrist to Brother in Christ: How Protestant Pastors View the Pope”? Further, American Christians are constantly told that they have a Biblical obligation to support the state of Israel and the Jews as “God’s chosen people.”[2]

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Tucker Carlson’s post on X from May 2, 2024, commenting on the Antisemitism Awareness Act. In another post on X, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) noted, “Speaker Mike Johnson was so eager to please AIPAC that he didn’t read the bill he rushed to the floor.”

As if it weren’t enough for the GOP to betray America and its voter base by voting to send money to fund wars in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, they followed it up with another outrage last week by helping to pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act (AAA) that, among other things, logically implies that the New Testament is antisemitic and illegal.

The bill has not yet passed the Senate or been signed into law by the President, so it’s not law yet.  But if it does become law – and I think it’s likely that it will – your Bible will be considered legally antisemitic.  At least as far as the Department of Education (DOE) is concerned.  Based on my reading of the bill and the comments of others, it appears that the bill empowers only the DOE to “take into consideration the definition of antisemitism” used in the bill.

“But,” someone may argue, “the AAA has a sentence that reads, “Nothing in this Act shall be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the First Amendment.” To which the proper response is, yes, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act has explicit language prohibiting racial quotas, too.  But in 1968, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) implemented Affirmative Action anyway, which is the system of racial quotas Americans have suffered under for over 50 years now.  There is no reason for Americans to believe that this language against restrictions on the First Amendment will have any bearing on how the DOE administers the AAA. As has been pointed out by others, the way lawmaking works in our technocratic, bureaucratic state, Congressional bills are little more than authorizations for the Executive Branch departments to make rules pursuant to the authorization.  I have no doubt that the DOE will use AAA to infringe upon Americans’ God-given, Constitutionally-guaranteed right of free speech.

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The Religious Wars of the 21st Century by John W. Robbins, The Trinity Foundation, 2006.

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South Dakota Governor signs bill attacking the First Amendment.

Last week we looked at the foolish and dangerous law signed by South Dakota Kristi Noem that incorporates the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) “working definition of antisemitism” into state law. According to the IHRA’s definition, “claims that Jews kill[ed] Jesus” are considered antisemitic.

The problem with this is that the Word of God clearly and repeatedly teaches that the Jews did, in fact, kill Jesus Christ.  Stephen the deacon went even further in his description of the Jews who put him on trial.  He called the “betrayers” and “murderers” of Christ.  Any law that criminalizes, or, potentially criminalizes, teaching what the Word of God says is unjust, as it contradicts the Word of God.  Thus, there are good reasons for opposing South Dakota’s “model legislation,” which the Governor says will be replicated in states nationwide.

Now I doubt the South Dakota state police will be kicking down church doors next Sunday and dragging Christian ministers out of their pulpits for preaching from Acts 7:52. More likely, the South Dakota law will function similarly to a law recently passed in Georgia.  There, Governor Brian Kemp signed a bill in January of this year.  According to one of the supporters, “the definition will only come into play after someone has committed a crime.” [1] This is still objectionable, dangerous, unconstitutional, and unchristian as it criminalizes speech, if only indirectly, and is, in my opinion, designed to conceal the tyrannical intent behind such laws of attacking the First Amendment, if only indirectly.  But who’s to say charging Christian ministers for preaching the Word of God is not the end goal of those who promote legislation of this sort? Given the attacks on free speech throughout the West, preventing Christian pastors from honestly teaching about the role the Jews played in the murder of Christ may very well be the end goal of those who lobby for such legislation.

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South Dakota Governor signs bill attacking the First Amendment.

“Because Christianity is neither Romanism nor Judaism nor Islam, there is no need for the United States, a historically, if not currently, Christian nation, to be involved in the religious wars of the twenty-first century.  But because of the influence of American citizens (and non-citizens) who are Jews, Catholics, and Dispensational Evangelicals, we are already involved.  In fact, because of our foreign policy of interventionism developed in the twentieth century, and because of our more recent policy of pre-emptive war, the United States has become the primary target of militant Muslims worldwide. And not of Muslims only. Agents of both Israel and Rome are active in the United States, both gathering intelligence and influencing policy. The U. S. government is manipulated by foreign interests. Both Israel and the Vatican see the United States as their proxy in this religious war”[1] (emphasis mine).

Gov. Kristi Noem, a favorite of conservatives and a possible running mate for Donald Trump in 2024, recently signed a bill “requiring the consideration of the definition of antisemitism when investigating unfair or discriminatory practices.” 

The bill, titled “An Act to require the consideration of the definition of antisemitism when investigating unfair or discriminatory practices,” reads,

In reviewing, investigating, or deciding whether an alleged violation of this chapter
is antisemitic, the Division of Human Rights must consider the definition of antisemitism.
For the purposes of this chapter, the term “antisemitism” has the same meaning as the
working definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance
Alliance on May 26, 2016, including the contemporary examples of antisemitism identified therein.

Nothing in this section may be construed to diminish or infringe upon any protected
right under U.S. Const., amend. I or S.D. Const., Art. VI, § 5, or to conflict with any
federal, state, or local discrimination law.

Pay special attention to the second paragraph. It notes, “Nothing in the section may be construed to diminish or infringe upon any protected right under U.S. Const., amend I….” This is typical of the double-speak of our time where it is almost a sure-fire guarantee that any statement by a politician, academic, or journalist almost certainly means the exact opposite of what it claims to mean.  This bill is surely an attack on the First Amendment to insulate Jews and Israel from criticism. 

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My Comments: Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington University, a Democrat, and frequent guest on Fox News. He’s also one of the most consistent defenders of the First Amendment at a time when the principle of free speech has few defenders and a man who’s writings on the subject deserve the attention of all who love liberty.

In this post, he argues against the extreme views of some Democrats who want to destroy democracy in order to save it.

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Below is my column in the Hill on the Maine decision and how it is illustrative of Justice Louis Brandeis’ warning of the danger of zealots. Shenna Bellows has long embraced extreme political and historical viewpoints, including denouncing the electoral college as a “relic of white supremacy.”  Challengers knew that they “had her at hello”…
— Read on jonathanturley.org/2024/01/02/destroying-democracy-to-save-it-maine-shows-the-danger-of-zealots-in-our-legal-system/

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The Wittenberg Church Door where Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses, October 31, 1517.

In two days, we will mark the 506th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing his 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door. 

Luther wasn’t the first to push back on the theological and political abuses of the Roman Church-State.  John Wycliffe in England had done so 150 or so years earlier.  Jan Hus, another reformer, was murdered by the Church-State in 1415, just 102 years before Luther’s famous act.

Predating these men were the Waldenses, Italian Christians who left the Roman Church-State and built their own civilization in the valleys of the Alps.   According to Wylie in his History of the Waldenses, “When their [the Waldenses] co-religionists on the plains entered within the pale of the Roman jurisdiction, they retired within the mountains, and spurning alike the tyrannical yoke and the corrupt tenets of the Church of the Seven Hills, they preserved in its purity and simplicity the faith their fathers had handed down to them.”[1]

As our nation, as the whole of the formerly Christian West, turns more and more away from its historic Protestant roots and more and more toward tyranny of various stripes, I cannot help but wonder if we twenty-first century Protestants will not have to follow in the footsteps of the Waldenses to escape what appears to be a coming wave of persecution in our own time.

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Special Counsel John Durham Exonerates Donald Trump of ‘Russiagate‘” by Paul Craig Roberts, 5/16/2023

Durham Report Condemns the FBI’s Russia Probe – But Don’t Expect It to Make a Difference” by Johnathan Turley, 5/17/2023

Hunter Biden Faces no ‘Retribution After IRS Probe Team DisbandedSputnik, 5/18/2023

IRS removes ‘entire investigative team’ in Hunter Biden probe, whistleblower claims retaliation: report” by Bradford Betz, 5/15/2023

Ron DeSantis Flies To Israel To Destroy Free Speech In Florida” Gab News, 4/27/2023

Ron DeSantis Flies To Israel To Destroy Free Speech In Florida” by Andrew Torba 5/27/2023

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