A Trial Has Been Scheduled for My Counter-Claim Under Virginia's Anti-SLAPP Law
I believe I am entitled to damages
My counter-claim under Virginia’s anti-SLAPP law is set to go to trial three weeks from today, according to the state court website. Here’s where I’m at.
I’ve been more or less constantly defamed by Israeli assets for more than a decade now. There are two instances in which I have been denied a job because I suspect they have threatened a future employer. I had to leave my job at the end of 2022 because I didn’t want to impose on them the publicity risks of the suit against me which has now been dismissed. I strongly suspect my privacy has been invaded. None of this happened because I was wrong, it happened because I was right. I believe I am owed significant damages.
The way these defamation campaigns work is they target you, defame you, isolate you, blacklist you, bankrupt you, and ideally drive you to suicide. It has worked on others. It won’t work on me. This is the sort of thing Joel Zamel specializes in, it’s the ground-level view of some of their military-grade information operations deployed in the U.S. Much of this is illegal.
The man who sued me has a connection to the Lansky family and there is reason to believe at least one of his artifacts is a fraud. Over the past year, during which I have been forced to write in an independent capacity, I have broken several stories of national significance. I was served just days before the statute of limitations for defamation expired, on the cusp of serious civil unrest in Israel. If ever there were an instance that the anti-SLAPP law should apply, this is clearly one.
Despite this more or less constant harassment for more than a decade, I have a long record of having published both advocates for the state of Israel and Jewish writers. I’ve let them have their say, and over the past year, in part because I have been left with no choice, I’ve been able to say what I really think. Everything I’ve laid out here over the past year is a moderate point of view.
I don’t approve of ethnic cleansing and I don’t think it’s in the interest of this country to be backing this Israeli government, which doesn’t even have the support of the people of Israel—their lavender-haired prime minister recently removed himself to the führerbunker of a billionaire specializing in tax avoidance. Does this seem like a serious country to you? I struggle to come up with a fair assessment of the situation that doesn’t involve the admission that the Israeli state, as currently constituted, is a menace to free societies the world over. Much of the world is already treating it that way.
It’s also true that the Israel lobby is one of the most indecent, lawless, and indeed criminal forces in American public life. I refuse to be badgered into conceding that it’s somehow bigoted to hold this country to the same standard as any other. It is hard not to come to the conclusion that they are impossibly difficult to work with.
By any reasonable standard I qualify as an expert in extremism, having been quoted by the Southern Poverty Law Center, interviewed by the foreign press, and had a master’s thesis approved by a public university. But for raising questions about some of these extremism cases, I have been defamed as a Nazi. I do not think it’s responsible for federal law enforcement to farm out their extremism-watching to an institution as closely associated with a foreign government as the ADL has been, and it’s time for the suits at the FBI and DHS to admit that, given the number of their cases that have been corrupted by the Israelis.
Good luck 👍🏻