Ezra Klein and the liberal Zionist laundering of the ongoing genocide through "agency"

In his interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ezra Klein repeatedly—over and over again—launders the ongoing genocide by blaming Palestinians for it. He does this through the term "agency," the favorite liberal and pseudo-intellectual buzzword used to justify all their genocidal mania.

This is the magic of "agency": it turns everything into whatever you want while pretending you are making an objective, fair, and reasonable analytical point. It allows you to posture as intellectually honest and serious. That is who Ezra Klein is. He is the paragon of moral virtue, the quintessential New York Times liberal. He determines what is just and unjust for the world today and throughout history. The Ezra Kleins embody virtue.

So, are Palestinians being subjected to genocide by Ezra Kleins? That, in their moral framework, is virtue. That is moral necessity. That is the height of morality itself.

Why? Because "agency," a pseudo-intellectual concept I have thoroughly dismantled before.

Hamas did it. It's all because of Hamas and the Palestinian resistance. If it weren’t for them and their "agency," there wouldn’t be a genocide right now. And you can’t possibly deny "agency," so you should all agree that the genocide is actually Moral and Good and Civilized.

Here’s the problem, Ezra. Jews had "agency" under Nazi Germany. You can’t deny that. In fact, they had more "agency" in Weimar Germany, leading up to Nazi rule, than Palestinians have ever had under Israeli genocidal apartheid. There were Jewish ministers in government, like Rudolf Hilferding. Jews were leading political figures in major parties like the Social Democrats, which were governing parties. The Weimar Constitution itself was drafted by Jewish lawyer Hugo Preuss. Leading scientists and scholars at the top German universities included Jews like Einstein and Husserl.

There was a ton of "agency" here, right, Ezra? And yet Hitler rose to power. The Nazis took control and instituted anti-Semitic policies that eventually led to the Holocaust.

So, by your logic—the logic you apply to Palestinians who dare resist their genocide, their occupation, their apartheid—you ascribe such great power to "agency" that you make it the causal element behind their destruction. By that standard, Jews in Nazi Germany caused their own genocide. Jews in Weimar had significant agency. There were Jews in the Soviet Union in top positions with agency. Jews in the U.S. had agency. And by your framework, that agency must have causally influenced the rise of the Nazi movement and the broader views of the German public.

You can't deny all that agency. That’s part of reality, right, Ezra? And surely it must have played a role in shaping Nazi ideology, just as you claim Palestinian resistance is responsible for Israeli genocide. The Nazis and a significant portion of the German public believed that Jews wielded their agency in nefarious ways. This mirrors the Israeli Zionist perspective, which holds that Palestinians are sub-human and that their mere resistance justifies extermination.

Yet you refuse to analyze these claims historically. In fact, you explicitly tell Coates that we shouldn’t—that we must engage only with feelings and "lived experiences," which are raw and impervious to real history, facts, and objective reality. We must accept the genocidal Zionist Israeli perspective as the universal reality. Because agency. That is the Israeli agency. Which we also are not allowed to deny.

Why do you not extend that logic to the Nazis and their lived experiences with Jews? The Nazis also had agency. The German public that supported the Nazi movement had agency. They had lived experiences, which, by your own logic, should be considered separate from historical analysis and objective reality—just as you insist we do for Israel’s genocide.

So let’s set aside history for a moment, as you demand we do for your precious Israeli death and rape cult. Let’s apply your own logic to Nazi Germany, which murdered your people, Ezra.

And when we do, we must conclude—by necessity, as dictated by our acceptance of "agency"—that the Jews were responsible for their own genocide, much more so than Palestinians ever could be, given their comparatively lower level of agency leading up to and after the Nakba.

Anyone who says this is a moral monster. They are a Nazi. This is literally what Nazis say, except they didn’t have the pseudo-intellectual, incoherent term "agency" to launder it.

Do you see what the liberal Zionist moral universe actually consists of when you apply it universally, rather than just to their precious genocidal Israeli death and rape cult? When you turn it back on them?

It is literal Nazism. It is pure, unfiltered Nazism. And yes, it is true: Ezra Klein, the good liberal at The New York Times, along with Noah Smith, Matthew Yglesias, Jeffrey Goldberg—all these good liberal Zionists—are modern-day Nazis. And they rule over the US-NATO-Israeli empire, the Fourth Reich.

That is the reality of our situation.

To be clear, everything Ezra Klein says in that interview is a brazen, shameless lie. He paints the Palestinian resistance, including Hamas, as rabid, irrational, sub-human beasts purely out for death and destruction. He inverts reality to launder Zionism, as detailed in this thread, which includes a detailed overview by Colter Louwerse of the many times Hamas has offered a diplomatic resolution including laying down their arms which has been repeatedly refused by Israel:

The same offer was again made last year, and was once again dismissed by everyone including genocidal Zionists like Ezra Klein:

The Ezra Kleins of the world ignore all this, and instead hysterically shout: How dare they resist my Zionist genocide and occupation? How dare they respond to decades of Zionists like me—mass raping, maiming, and killing their babies, children, women, and men—by retaliating in kind? And to such a marginal extent that, when you compare casualty figures to our actual mass killing sprees, their response is barely visible?

No, that’s not how it works. We kill, we rape, we maim. We throw your babies into ovens and then fabricate hoaxes to launder our crimes, making it part of our wedding rituals to take photos of those babies and stab them with knives.

That’s what we Ezra Kleins, Matthew Yglesiases, and Noah Smiths do to you.

And you dare respond? You dare think you are human and allowed to even consider resisting as we occupy, genocide, and rape you to death?

No, that’s not how the Zionist Nazi moral universe works. They are human; you are sub-human.

At one point, Ezra Klein claims that Hamas is worse than Netanyahu. You can only say this if you are a Zionist ethnic supremacist who believes Palestinians, Lebanese, and Yemenis are sub-human. Hundreds of thousands maimed, burned alive, tortured, and raped to death—they're all nothing to Ezra Klein compared to the Palestinian resistance daring to resist occupation, genocide, and apartheid.

At another point, Ezra Klein asserts that Hamas knew what Operation Al-Aqsa Flood would cause—namely, the mass murder and rape of their people—because everyone supposedly knows how genocidal and depraved the Ezra Kleins of the world are. Or at least, they should know—solely when it benefits the hasbara propaganda line that launders genocide by blaming it on Hamas and their so-called "agency," a variation of the classic and depraved "human shields" trope. But by that logic, Ezra Klein and Zionists should have known that their occupation, apartheid, and genocide of Palestinians for a century would lead to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—ergo, they are morally absolved completely. Especially since every Israeli is actually, by definition, a human shield.

But again, Ezra Klein can't even comprehend applying this as a universal standard, because he is a Zionist Nazi. He believes he and his people—and by "his people," he solely means Zionist Jews—are superior to all other forms of life on this planet, and that those they maim, rape, and kill are sub-human. These are the genocidal Zionist liberal scum who run the liberal New York Times, CNN, AP, Reuters, Guardian, and Washington Post.

Finally, another genocide-laundering lie Ezra Klein constantly repeats in that interview is this myth of a good, virtuous, liberal-left Israel with sincere peace seekers who were thwarted by the evil of Hamas and the Palestinian resistance in the 90s forcing them to become genocidal.

This is yet another brazen shameless lie that liberal genocidal Zionists like Ezra Klein have fabricated and spread to launder their own sadistic pathological bloodlust, and project it onto those they occupy, rape and murder.

Israel has always been a death-cult that has resolutely opposed any peace deal in favor of continuing its occupation, apartheid and genocide, as detailed by Norman Finkelstein and Zbigniew Brzeziński of all people: