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Perhaps the most bizarre of the lunatic antisemites who have slithered into the public consciousness, chiefly through their social media postings, is one Dan Bilzerian. He is bad enough, all by himself, in his hysteria and hate, but he has also attracted a crowd of admirers who have been prompted to add, by his example, their wretched mite of antisemitic nonsense.
After receiving many complaints about antisemitic content on X, Musk vowed to clamp down on antisemitism, yet Bilzerian still appears on the site, still spews his venom unconstrained. Musk can do what he likes on X; he’s free to keep on, or keep off, anyone he wishes. He has decided that he is, and will remain, a free-speech absolutist. He can, of course, post speech — lots of it — that contradicts or mocks those posters, such as Dan Bilzerian, with whom he disagrees. “Fighting speech with more speech” – you’ve heard that homely bit of free-speech wisdom many times.
More on Bilzerian found here: “Who Is Dan Bilzerian? The Israel-Obsessed, Jew-Hating Misogynist That the Media Made,” by Rachel O’Donoghue, HonestReporting, August 29, 2024:
American poker player, businessman, and social media influencer Dan Bilzerian’s recent contributions to the social media platform X have followed a disturbing pattern: a video of himself on a podcast denying the Hamas atrocities of October 7, a graphic filled with fake Talmud quotes, and a two-word reply to a post urging America to stand firmly against Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group: “Fuck You.”
Ah, the sparkling wit we’ve come to expect from the illustrious ranks of social media influencers who are using the Israel-Hamas war as an excuse to spew antisemitism. Among these beacons of intellectual discourse, we find Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Jake Shields, and Jackson Hinkle—an impressive lineup of personalities united in their shared fondness for anti-Jewish bigotry.
But let’s refocus on Bilzerian.
Dan Bilzerian first stumbled into the spotlight during the rise of social media in the mid-2000s, where he generously shared an insight into his luxury lifestyle with impressionable young followers worldwide. His Instagram, boasting 32 million followers, sticks to a simple formula: a slew of staged photos featuring Bilzerian surrounded by scantily clad women.
Though Bilzerian claims to have amassed his fortune as a professional poker player, this claim—like much of what he says—is doubtful. Other professionals in the poker world dispute his supposed mastery of the game, and it’s far more plausible that his wealth stems from a hefty inheritance from his father, convicted fraudster Paul Bilzerian.
Yet, despite Bilzerian’s shaky relationship with the truth, his repugnant views on women, and his dubious financial history, the media inexplicably did, and continue, to try and elevate him into the echelons of stardom.
A Monster of the Media’s Making
Journalists from even the most reputable publications have helped Bilzerian build his brand over the years. Take GQ contributing editor Chris Ayres, for example, who penned a feature for the glossy men’s magazine in 2019 titled, ‘Instagram king, womaniser, and wannabe cannabis multibillionaire: we spend a day with Dan Bilzerian,’ where he sounded almost in awe of his subject.
Or the interview with Men’s Health in which Bilzerian was asked how he manages to live a “rock star lifestyle” while maintaining a “cover star body,” yet somehow wasn’t questioned about why anyone should be taking fitness advice from a man who admitted that cocaine and Viagra binges led to him having two heart attacks.
Of course, these are just a couple of examples in a sea of press coverage that initially gave a platform to what was then clearly an unpleasant individual—an individual who has recently revealed himself to be an antisemite and who now has a mega-platform from which to spread incitement against Jews.
Good job, media. Who could’ve seen that coming?
Joining the Ranks of Influencer Antisemites
Seriously, the media really should have seen it coming, considering Bilzerian has been posting antisemitic comments on what was then Twitter as far back as 2011, including a tweet blaming Jews for the September 11th Al-Qaeda attacks.
However, like many other influencers, Bilzerian’s sudden interest in Israel only really ignited after the October 7 Hamas massacre that sparked the current war in Gaza.
This year, he’s posted dozens of disturbing comments about the Jewish state, including conspiratorial claims that Israel murdered U.S. soldiers, that Israel’s Mossad controls the U.S. government, and that Israel orchestrated October 7 as a pretext to seize land in Gaza….
The only US soldiers killed in the Middle East — other than those who died in the Iraq War — have been killed by Arabs, not Jews. There were, for example, the 241 military personnel, mostly Marines, who were blown up in their barracks in Beirut by Hezbollah in 1983. There are the dozens of US soldiers in both Syria and Iraq who have died during the last few years after being fired upon by the pro-Iranian militia in Iraq, the Kata’ib Hezbollah. There was Taylor Force, an American soldier stabbed to death by a Hamas terrorist in Jerusalem in 2016.
As for Bilzerian’s charge about Mossad controlling the US government, we are again in Protocols-of-the-Elders-of-Zion territory, with “Jews who control the banks,” or “Jews who control the media,” or “Jews who control the government.” If Mossad controls the US government, as Bilzerian claims, why haven’t their agents eliminated him? Or at the very least, shut him down. What’s holding them back?
Elon Musk is determined, it appears, to remain true to his free-speech absolutism. So here’s some free advice to the richest man in the world. Hire a few dozen people, properly informed about the history of the Jews, about antisemitism, about Israel and the Palestinians, about the texts and teachings of Islam about non-Muslims, especially Jews, and let that Rapid Response Team be at the ready, whenever antisemitic tweets appear on X, to answer back at once with facts and figures.
What territory did the Mandate for Palestine originally assign to the future Jewish National Home? When were the “Palestinian people” invented? Who started the Arab-Israeli wars of 1948, 1967, and 1973? What is in the Hamas Charter? What does UNSC Resolution 242 say about the territory Israel won the Six-Day War? In how many ways, and to what extent, does the IDF warn civilians in Gaza to move away from sites about to be targeted? What did Winston Churchill say about Islam? What did Zuheir Mohsen, leader of the Palestinian terror group As Saiqa, say about the soi-disant “Palestinian people”? Why has no one until Dan Bilzerian ever come up with the bizarre charge that “the Jews killed 13 American Presidents”? What proof is there that “Mossad runs the U.S. government”? How many Arab states, covering what land area, now exist, and how does that area compare to the size of tiny Israel? In what countries are Arabs still enslaving black Africans? Who said that non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings”? What Muslim figure had sexual intercourse with his nine-year-old wife? Who said “war is deception”? Who said “I have been made victorious through terror”?
That ever-alert truth squad should eventually wear down the Bilzerians of this world, who will take their hysteria and hate elsewhere. Good riddance.
The Left has raised misanthropes and xenophobes to the highest levels of admiration.
I sure would like to Parachute him out of a plane at 20:000 feet without a Parachute over the Gobi Desert so not even the Vultures should want him for their Din Din
Awww, let the vultures eat. ~
Why should we want to Poison them with awful Globalists UN/Globalists
As far as hezbollah goes, that will be more tunnel warfare. As far as this guy goes, air drop him into gaza and see how long he lasts against the IDF. Online smack talk vs. combat realities. He is as nothing.
Another historically inaccurate account!! We should be used to it by now but such continued reckless stupidity only serves to advance evil!
Should we clap for your articulated idiocy?
And to think…..I am the one who has been censored on this site today.
Seb here proves the point I tried to make this morning, before my contributions were removed.
Censor: what do you make of Seb’s unstudied idiocy here?
Thousands of years in Europe for Jews?
Hundreds of years in the holy land for muslims?
Read Mark Twain to get a sense of the desert which the Jews made bloom.
Triggered? You must confuse the informed and educated with your usually sophomoric, pacifier-toting, tantrum throwing fans who can’t read above 5th grade level and who, like you, believe Snopes.
Make no mistake, this animal was WHELPED from a SWINE (pig).
Everyone who lived in the area called Palestine were called Palestinians. That would be Christians, Druze, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Atheists etc. who lived there for hundreds of years. Even Golda Meyer was a Palestinian because she lived there. The Arabs who lived there when Israel was invaded in 1948 were persuaded to leave by the invading armies whose plan was to kill the Jews more easily and give the spoils to returning Arabs. But they lost.
Israelis quite rightly refused to let those Arabs come back to a country they would not fight for, at a time of invasion.
Jews are a small, clear genetic group, who usually share the same religion which shapes their culture and they’ve always been present in that land. By the mid 19th cent they were the largest ethnic group.
The Turks were in control of the land until the first world war, not the Arabs.
Palestinian Arabs are identical to Egyptians, Jordanians and Syrians etc. and so are their traditions, culture, religion and cuisine. Why haven’t any of these nations taken them in?
I am an observant Jew.
Elon Musk is right. Fighting speech by censoring speech is dangerous. Speech was censored during COVID; it was censored during the last Presidential race, which many think could have been won by Trump if free speech (especially on Hunter’s laptop) had not been censored by the mainstream media..
Facebook’s meglamaniac and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently admitted that Biden administration and FBI flunkies persuaded him to censor speech. If free speech were allowed to be censored, it is unlikely we would know this.
Censoring speech-and especially certain speech-can not only be dangerous to Constitutional precepts, it can be lethal to our nation.
Just think: We can reply to the horrendous bouts of antisemitic-screeds because our free speech on Front Page isn’t hampered. If censorship is allowed, Front Page (theoretically) would be able to censor our views.
Free speech is essential to freedom. Just think of the poor people in China or other communist nation where any speech antagonistic to the propaganda-swill the Government feeds the people is outlawed (ie. censored).
Don’t kill the whole person in order to take out the pimples and swine who indite antisemitism. After all, they are self-identifying themselves.
Free speech is important not only for others-but also for ourselves.
Long live the Bill of Rights.
You conveniently ignore the existence of Sephardic/Mizrahi jews who lived in the same region long before Mohammed raped his first underage girl. Also Muslims are a religious group. Syrians, Jordanians, etc are just labels, made by British and French colonizers who carved the region into artificially formed countries. Re indigenous people, sure, Muslims have found a creative way to become ‘indigenous’: they simply invade the land and slaughter its infidel population. In a few places on planet Earth – Spain, Portugal, Russia and now Israel – this trend has been reversed, as the surviving descendants of the conquered infidels fought back and eventually took back their ancestral lands. It only took 800 years for Spaniards to push the Muslims back to the Moroccan deserts, and 300 years for Russians to push back Mongolian invaders. I wonder how long will a new Reconquista take when Muslims become a majority in Europe? 🤔
If the Jews were running the World methinks they would have a bigger country.
If the Jews are running the News Media then they are doing a really bad job of speaking out in their own defense.
Historical FACTS prove that Jews lived in that area long before muhamad, may piss be upon him, met his wee fallen angel in a cave while stoned on Hashsih or Opium.
Never heard of this guy, but he reminds me of that annoying Kansas City tight end.
Since the Romans destroyed the Second Temple and thereby ended the Second Jewish Commonwealth, Jews the world over (Europe, Persia, Turkey, North Africa, etc) have been yearning to return to The Holy Land and live in a Jewish state there. Our daily prayers, most written hundreds of years ago, bear that out.
Also, they used to exhibit the mentally ill at carnival sideshows, in between the 70 yr. old strippers