The Freedom Movement's Enslavement

The Freedom Movement's turn to antisemitism is a tragedy destined to propel the Great Reset rather than repel it.

It is impossible to consider the responses to the events of October 7^th, 2023, without situating them within the context of the past four years. The inauguration of what I refer to as the Covidian Cult unleashed a wave of state abuses worldwide that characterised so well Georgio Agamben’s ‘state of exception as a paradigm of government.’[1]

The twin forces of lockdown and subsequent mass roll-out of experimental and frequently mandated injections, saw the formation of clandestine resistance groups morphing into a loosely defined, ad hoc sceptical ‘freedom movement.’ Our world became divided into binaries of ‘awake’ and ‘asleep,’ ‘sceptics’ and ‘conformists.’ The ‘awake’ contingent articulated the importance of the Nuremberg Code, developed in the wake of WWII, as a guarantor of human rights against not just forced medical experiments, but the requirement for fully informed consent for all medical procedures.

Over time, there has been amongst the ‘freedom movement’ a cognitively dissonant cultural identification with, and subsequent rejection of, abstract notions of Jewishness or Jewish experience. In what follows I discuss the freedom movement’s curious about turn in the wake of the October 7^th atrocities.

I know of a non-Jewish ‘awake’ family that participated in a Passover Seder meal where Pharaoh, construed as a composite of rich ‘philanthropist’ and overreaching state, leaned luxuriously at the expense of ordinary people. They leaned on cushions with their glasses of kiddush wine and drank to “next year in freedom.”

The strong identification with the Israelite escape from Egyptian slavery coincided with Jordan Peterson’s high profile round table series on the Exodus.[2] The identification with the enslaved Israelites, the ancient Jews if you like, seemed prescient, natural. At the Passover Seder, it was noted that the Israelites’ desire to return to Egypt notwithstanding its slavery, mirrored the present-day enslavement to technology, perceived as a tool of oppression, with QR coded vaccine passports and planned programmable, time limited digital currency.

Other biblical stories took on new hues, such as Noah in ‘lockdown,’ and the Tower of Babel representing the planned one world government. And although rooted in Jewish and Christian culture the understanding was not predicated upon belief in any deity. All of this while churches and synagogues dutifully closed their doors to appease the new pagan cult.

Cult sceptics have received the sobriquet ‘far right,’ yet the ‘freedom movement’ comprises all political, religious, and ethnic backgrounds, all ages, and classes (and, yes, Jews). Many are highly educated and others not. What brings them together is a shared concern to halt the authoritarian direction into which we have jarringly lurched since March 2020. In Agamben’s words, ‘…for a careful observer it is difficult to decide whether we live today, in Europe, in a democracy that uses increasingly despotic forms of control, or in a totalitarian state disguised as a democracy.’[3]

The funnelling of all ‘Covid’ decision making into one single compelled narrative underpinned by a confected notion of ‘the science,’ overturned decades of accumulated research and even the scientific method itself.[4] As Clare Craig has detailed, science is ‘the exploration of uncertainty’ rather than ‘the maintenance of unshakeable beliefs with exaggerated certainty.’[5]

Given the intensive widening of inequalities since the cult’s genesis it was astonishing to observers that this consensus was ostensibly supported by most factions on the left of politics.[6] This would have to include a sizeable proportion of the Jewish population who were (for a variety of reasons) predisposed to matters of purity, hygiene, disease, and a desire to protect the vulnerable. Add to that the ever-present desire to fit in with mainstream society which is rarely far from the British Jewish mindset. In common with the educated middle class, Jewish leaders trusted the government whom they assumed had everyone’s best interests at heart. Thus, from the freedom movement’s distant perspective, the corporate Jewish community gave the outward appearance of aligning itself with powerful elites. This enabled a new thread to be sewn into the tapestry of old prejudices that were about to be reawakened.

At the height of the Covidian episode, the spirit of WWII was frequently invoked. The public was encouraged to see ‘fighting the virus’ as part of a war effort. Sacrifices were required, and even rationing. Boris Johnson feigned a Churchillian affectation in the attempt to add gravitas and sentiment. A further compelling observation at this time was the freedom movement’s early identification of Holocaust parallels. In addition to intensive propaganda and censorship, the highly coercive ‘vaccine’ rollout, that broke every rule in the Nuremberg Code, was ripe for slogans such as Vaccine Macht Frei. There was some logic and poignancy to this given that it had been made clear that freedom from lockdowns was conditional upon vaccination. Some mistook this as a trivialisation of the Holocaust.[7] On the contrary. It underscores the very point of Holocaust education; to warn, to prevent. Given the ubiquity of creative and philosophical responses to the Holocaust it is inevitable that its warnings penetrate. As Robert Eaglestone has written, the Holocaust is a “horizon that orients our time.”[8]

Clearly, our society had not reached Nazi levels of barbarity in 2020-21. However, neither had Nazi Germany in 1933. And we now know that people died as a consequence of various state mandates including lockdowns and vaccines. The extent of vaccine harms is well documented not least as a result of Pfizer’s own documents as analysed by Naomi Wolf and her team of 3,250 volunteers.[9]

In Bodies of Others, Wolf acknowledges the difficulties that ensue when making comparisons with Nazi Germany. Notwithstanding, she draws attention to the preparation of the psychological ground for what would follow, where new norms and policies were culturally policed. She describes the “short slide from creating a two-tier society to embracing eugenics to identifying ‘life unworthy of life’ to using the language of ‘hygiene’ and public safety to set up the first Nazi euthanasia programs.”[10] Additionally, in her later discussion on the Pfizer debacle, she argues that given the newly revealed findings, the comparison with Dr Mengele “is not excessive.”[11]

Furthermore, Vera Sharav, a Holocaust survivor, continues to warn the world about the darker intentions of the new world order, making clear the parallels she sees with WWII Nazi regime.[12] So this is far from some fanciful fringe idea. Serious-minded people are seeing comparable analogies and are conspicuously not trivialising the Holocaust. Rather, they are attempting to prevent another one.

Why is this not common knowledge? Where once a free press would have been holding the powerful to account, it is now in an age of digital media and plummeting audience share, grasping at financial straws and subsequently beholden to powerful forces. In short, the press has been bought. This abdication of responsibility paved the way for alternative media outlets to begin publishing for the dissenter cause. Without the steadying presence of experienced editors, less responsible agents amplify a sensational mix of enticing conspiracy theories that have circulated in the wake of the unprecedented power grab from government and big business. People searched frantically for answers only to discover obfuscation and censorship from the mainstream. Lacunae were rapidly opening up only to be filled by the likes of David Icke and other crass conspiracy theorists peddling wearisome stereotypes about Jewish conspiracies. Icke has form in this area, and he and his son, Gareth became a seductive source of information for the lazy or less educated. (One ‘tell’ is the Palestinian flag that Gareth Icke displays on his social media platforms).

There are memes and videos in circulation that purport to reveal the secrets of a distinct caste of Jews, the Khazars, who supposedly hijacked ‘the real’ Judaism many centuries ago. As is typical of conspiracy theories, a grain of truth is spun into a lurid saga. There were Turkish Khazars who adopted Judaism. However, in the conspiracy world the Khazars are interchangeable with ‘Zionists’ hell bent on plundering the western world and creating slaves out of non-Jews. Naturally, a video on the internet saves you the trouble of doing any authentic research. This is how so many in the ‘freedom movement’ allowed themselves to become distracted from the activities of the main players such as Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, the WEF, UN, WHO and the Rockefellers and succumbed to these odious conspiracy chimeras instead.

Additionally, the fantasists took something from the State of Israel’s speedy introduction of injectables in December 2020 and the infamous ‘green pass’ seen by sceptics as deeply troubling. As other nations rapidly followed with vaccine passports and systems of apartheid, the unvaccinated, in situations reminiscent of incremental Nuremberg laws for Jews, were confined to separate parts of the street. They were made to walk in designated lines at the supermarket, and in some cases were forbidden even to enter shops. One Lithuanian reported the inability to enter a supermarket, a religious supplies store, a bookshop, library, craft supply shops, hairdressers and more.[13]

The ‘freedom movement’ grappled with the dichotomy that on one hand, the newly instigated two-tier society resembled what we had learned about the onset of the Holocaust, and on the other, the nation state that was created in its wake (Israel) is now fostering a comparable system.

An overarching perception percolating the freedom movement is that we have been fooled about a great deal for a long time. There is a growing awareness of the psychological strategies adopted by the government to manipulate its population as outlined by Laura Dodsworth’s A State of Fear, 2021.[14] Some now distrust the most basic things that they had learned in life. Charles Eisenstein writes about ‘highly educated people’ who believe the earth is flat; that it is not so much a loss of trust in science and journalism as a ‘loss of trustworthiness.’[15] Naturally, it is not that big a step to take from ‘How do you know the earth is actually round?’ to ‘How do you know that the Holocaust actually happened?’ This destabilisation of knowledge is one Hannah Arendt pointed to as precisely the symptom of a totalitarian society in the making.[16]

Furthermore, the world-wide economic pressure is pointed to as ‘proof’ that Jewish bankers are behind the misery. And the ‘evidence’? None other than the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is cited to underpin the secret knowledge. Furthermore, there is the frequent use of the word ‘cabal,’ alluding to Kabbalah, which is additionally cited as the occult Jewish ‘magic’ used to conjure power.

If they could but see it, the ‘freedom movement’s’ earlier instinctive identification with the victims of Nazi oppression was closer to the mark. Sticking relentlessly to the facts and relying upon credible sources would have been a far more effective strategy. However, in our postmodern mediated world, it is as if one inhabits a film containing a narrative twist to show that the Jews, far from being victims, were the ones to blame all along. The irony is that much of the antisemitic poison has originated from some of the very globalist groups the freedom movement has held to be responsible for the Great Reset and the planned new world order. The United Nations is a prime example given its frequent anti-Israel bias.

David Icke may appear cogent on the Great Reset; however, for the rest of his oeuvre he is more of a pied piper figure luring the unsuspecting into the abyss. This might suit those in power in a bid to evade scrutiny. It is therefore possible to see, as Karen Harradine and Norman Fenton have identified, the weaponisation of antisemitism as a method of destabilising and discrediting the freedom movement.[17]

A further example in this vein concerns Andrew Bridgen, who as an MP, cited a Jewish Israeli consultant cardiologist who had claimed that deaths from the vaccine represented ‘the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.’[18] As a result, he was accused of antisemitism and of demeaning the Holocaust. In a gross misreading of Bridgen’s intent, the Board of Deputies (of British Jews) added their own criticism in this vein. In the way that Icke’s modus operandi deflects illumination of the true culprits, in the case of Bridgen, the rapid switch of focus from vaccine harms and excess deaths to antisemitism was an attempt to obfuscate the real point and portray him as a racist antisemite.

For some, it may be a matter of inconvenience that many of the so-called conspiracy theories emanating from 2020 have subsequently been borne out. That ‘lockdowns’ were about herding people towards taking a vaccine; vaccines would become mandatory; there would be vaccine passports; programmable digital currencies; ‘smart’ 15-minute cities – were all at one time, disparaged as mere ‘conspiracy theories.’ Yet these things have come to pass or are in progress. Furthermore, many of the proposed Great Reset policies bear an uncanny resemblance to the Protocols including the eventual dissolution of the nation state and abolition of private property.[19] To some in the freedom movement, it is logical to consider, if the early conspiracy theories have actually happened, why should I not believe that this one has some credibility?

Our societies now seem to be permanently ensconced in Agamben’s state of exception. Catastrophe and chaos appear at every juncture. The weaponisation of fear continues. The war in Ukraine (serious as it is) was mediated as if a piece of state sponsored theatre with ubiquitous Ukrainian flags appearing as though conjured to order, and, it was noted, right at the point that the Covid restrictions were relaxed. Therefore, it is entirely predictable that sceptics were inclined to see recent events unfolding in Israel as part of that theatre accounting for some of the appalling responses to the pogrom of October 7^th.

A further tragedy is the perceived failure of Israel to call out injustice and refuse to play along with the bio-medical industrial complex. Had Israel taken Sweden’s path, or modified its approach to vaccines, or even allowed questioning, it would have represented for the ‘freedom movement’ all of the right instincts. As it happens, Netanyahu’s belligerent support of Pfizer (effectively allowing Israel to become an experimental laboratory) only serves to shore up some of the antisemitic stereotypes that a fearful and vulnerable public see playing out. Where the likes of David Icke get to appear as the misunderstood anti-hero, Netanyahu looks to be on the take and in cahoots with the very successors of the Nazi medical and scientific cadre to boot in the form of Big Pharma. It is inevitable that this would not play well.

With a weary inevitability, come October 7^th everything was in place to posit Hamas as the freedom fighters whose violence acted out the revenge fantasies of people who feel powerless to defend themselves from an all-powerful oligarchy or state bullies. The tragedy being that the ‘freedom movement,’ imagining itself as a cohort of critical thinkers, suddenly swung in the wrong direction, coached no doubt by those nefarious conspiracy videos and openly antisemitic ‘under the line’ comments in various online forums. It is as if a torpedo had been shot through the ‘freedom movement,’ dividing and weakening it. A cynic might almost believe it to have been planned. Because now, given the continuing violence and demonstrations there is further ‘justification’ for more draconian censorship and state control of media outlets.

Mattias Desmet posited the idea that people who followed the Covidian narrative were caught up in a mass, as in a mass psychosis.[20] The same could be said of 1930s Germany. Arguably now, many in the ‘freedom movement’ have been caught up in a new mass, one that seeks to sympathise in an abstract sense with the Palestinian cause. This is because they have been cynically propagandised to identify with Palestinians as ‘freedom fighters’ rather than the ancient Israelites of the Exodus, principal victims of WWII or even the Hans and Sophie Scholl White Rose resistance.

The devastating response to October 7^th has brought us to a serious juncture. The perception of Israel’s nationhood may require some recalibration. The name Israel means the Jewish People after all. What does Israel in its widest sense stand for? The State of Israel is frequently affirmed as a secular democracy with western European underpinnings. The people of Israel have religious, cultural and historical connections with the biblical Exodus, that great expression of freedom from slavery.

The WEF Great Reset project has little sympathy for either of these identities with its vision for a one world government, the dissolution of the nation state and the incremental disavowal of democratic norms.  Schwab’s programme is as much a swipe at Israel’s biblical identity as it is at any crude expression of nationalism. Hatred of Israel is then par for the course. It is no wonder that media optics shone their headlights towards Israel’s enemies and so many, from all sides cheered along.

Likewise, the freedom movement, so mindful of the threat posed by the encroachment of the New World Order, needs to reshape its own vision and purge its blind spots. If the Nuremberg Code exists, and exists for you, then the reasons for it also existed. Those things really happened and must never be casually dismissed. If the Nuremberg Code counts for anything, it must be the shoring up of human rights in the context of democratic and free nations with distinct and diverse identities.

Scott M. Lieberman / AP.

Postscript. This is a slightly modified version of an essay which was submitted to the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA) in 2023. Regrettably, its receipt was never acknowledged. This was perhaps by accident, however, even a follow up email did not elicit a reply. I naturally take from this that it was rejected.  Given that the publication for which it was destined aimed to discover and learn about the specific rise of antisemitism since the October 7^th attacks, this is, in my view deeply regrettable. This is because an opportunity to address a particular strand of antisemitism was missed by the centre.  Additionally, it is equally regrettable that the (ad hoc and informally constituted) ‘freedom movement’ has chosen (in part) to put the hatred of Jews and Israel over and above contesting the very real attempt to execute a revolutionary, world-wide ‘great reset’ with its deliberate aims of de-growth and the destruction of economies and lives. That this horrendous ‘reset’ has already broken the most basic aspects of the Nuremberg Code is a point that the movement should be ramming home at every opportunity. Instead, it chooses to focus upon chimeras and ghosts from the past, but nothing you can underpin with any substance. There is nothing so real as the current catastrophe where millions are dead. One might even tentatively suggest that we are in the middle of another holocaust hidden in plain sight.

Bret Weinstein’s frightening extrapolation of ‘vaccine’ deaths from leaked data from New Zealand would form but one strand to which one could point to this new barbarism, one in eight hundred severely injured along with millions dead worldwide (his original estimate was 17 million deaths and counting). And not a shred of official concern.

By refusing to research in any meaningful or even an open-minded sense and relying on hearsay, rumour, internet memes and videos to underpin nasty prejudice, the ‘freedom movement’ risks (nay, is) colluding with the very forces it seeks to resist. The ‘awake’ claim to be critical thinkers having resisted the overwhelming forces of propaganda during the rise of the Covidian Cult. Yet they refuse to apply the same skillset to this risible situation. Yes, it is highly likely that the British Army’s 77^th Brigade’s mischief has adroitly pointed people towards the very prejudice it knows they ache to believe. That oh so simple and familiar answer to all the world’s ills. (The Jews!) But even when warned of the trap, there are those that choose to wallow in filth rather than examine matters carefully.

I have made my objections to the Israeli state’s forced ‘vaccine’ and passport project clear. It will always remain a mystery to me why the ‘freedom movement’ chose not to focus on that aspect and did not have much in the way of sympathy for the victims of the October 7^th attacks. Campaigning for the return of hostages might have done more to bring the retaliatory violence to an end than anything we have actually seen from the ‘freedom movement.’ ‘Freedom for me, but not for thee,’ might have been the deeply ironic motto. Moreover, it has been a very strange paradox to witness people who describe themselves as ‘patriots’ now taking – on this one issue alone - a decidedly left-wing stance. It is truly bizarre. Antisemitism has most definitely been weaponised in the various states of exception inflicted upon the people. Is there to be no examination of Hamas’s cruel exploitation of its own people, and children? Should Israel ever get the benefit of the doubt? If we really care about the Palestinian people, oughtn’t we to tread more carefully?

It is time to calm down and reflect upon what we value and where we stand on the issues of freedom, democracy and how to live a good life, how to live well. Living well might mean the adoption of Islam for some, but I doubt if the ‘freedom movement’ is planning for this course of action.

The very concept of the ‘nation’ is biblical in origin (and therefore, in an essential sense, Jewish as well as Christian). This is one reason why the left despises the state of Israel. The left despises Israel’s love of nationhood, its identity, its democracy, its statehood, its biblical roots with the story of Exodus and the choosing of life (L’chayim!), and its related championing of the family. Above all, the left despises Israel’s rejection of Soviet communism in favour of the land of the free and the home of the brave. In other words, Israel rejected the Russian ‘great reset’ and chose freedom. Historically then, Israel is the very embodiment of an authentic ‘freedom movement.’ And yes, on some matters, it has work to do. No nation is perfect.  

It really is time for both the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA) and the ‘freedom movement’ to wake up before the not-so Great Reset has fully taken root.

Thank you for reading.

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[1] Georgio Agamben, State of Exception, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2005.

[2] Available on the Daily Wire and YouTube.

[3] Georgio Agamben, Where are we Now? The Epidemic as Politics, 2^nd Ed., London, Eris, 2021, 69.

[4] Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, The Covid Consensus, London, Hurst and Company, 2021, 312.

[5] Clare Craig, Expired: Covid the Untold Story, Publishing Aloud Ltd., 2023, 154.

[6] Covid Consensus, 2021, 285-340.

[7] Jewish News online. 4^th March 2021.

[8] Robert Eaglestone, The Holocaust and the Postmodern, Oxford, OUP, 2004, 12.

[9] Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age, London, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2023, 92-100.

[10] Naomi Wolf, The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, Covid-19 and The War Against the Human, Florida, All Seasons Press,2022, 289.

[11] Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast, 2023, 98.

[12]. holocaust_survivor_vera_sharav_warns_about_history_repeating_itself_in_north_america

[13] A Look Back at the Demonisation of the Unvaccinated – The Daily Sceptic (accessed 4^th December, 2023)

[14] Laura Dodsworth, A State of Fear: How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the Covid 19 Pandemic. London: Pinter and Martin, 2021

[15] Charles Eisenstein, The Coronation, Essays from the Covid Moment, London, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022, 44.

[16] Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, London: Penguin, 1951.

[17] Karen Harradine and Norman Fenton, (2023) Anti-Semitism and the Freedom Movement, TCW Defending Freedom, in five parts October 13^th - 19^th   Karen Harradine Norman Fenton - The Conservative Woman

[18] "There is Nothing At All Anti-Semitic About His Statement": Andrew Bridgen Defended by Jewish Israeli Academic Whose Article He Tweeted – The Daily Sceptic  

(accessed 26^th Nov, 2023)

[19] Norman Cohn, Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 1967 reprinted, London, Serif, 1996, 66-74.

[20] Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, London: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022.