A FORMAL STATEMENT FROM DAS NIEL ON
US & ISRAEL
There is a lot of propaganda out there and I talk a lot of shit, toggling between satire and meaningful criticism, so I want to clarify my take here.
AN AMERICA LOVING AMERICAN
THIS IS MY HOME
MY JOB IS TO BE FREE
STATE CORRUPTION
I live for the culture and conflict that America allows without needing to worry about the government or our neighbors attacking us. I think America is the only place that understands the important of catharsis and letting people speak their minds, knowing that forgiveness can always recover what's been spoken, but it can never recover what's been done.
STATE CORRUPTION
MY JOB IS TO BE FREE
STATE CORRUPTION
Nearly every federal, state, and local agency is operating beyond the confines of the Constitution, which immediately nullifies the official justification for these decisions and actions. In short, most government agencies are not government agencies at all, but rather Mafia style legal institutions that have no nether to Constitutional legitimacy.
MY JOB IS TO BE FREE
MY JOB IS TO BE FREE
MY JOB IS TO BE FREE
Regardless of whatever unconstitutional decrees the morons getting bought by foreign influence (can someone say treason?) insist upon being the law of the land, I understand that the Constitution is. It's not my job to follow illegal laws, it's my job to live as an American securing the freedom of other Americans. Corrupt agencies must reveal it to stop me.
REJECTION OF SECULAR ISRAEL
I AM A CITIZEN OF YISRAEL
I identify as a citizen of Yisrael as defined in Genesis 32:28—one who wrestles with God and prevails through persistence, humility, and transformation—rather than as a participant in any modern nation-state bearing that name. For this reason, I reject secular Israel as a representation of my faith, not out of hostility, but because my covenantal identity is spiritual, ethical, and relational, rooted in lived alignment with God rather than territorial power or political authority.
REJECTION OF NATIONAL MANDATE
I am not opposed to a secular Israeli state as a political reality, nor do I deny the right of Jews to seek safety and self-determination. What I reject is the doctrine of “by any means necessary,” because nothing in our covenant teaches that joy, holiness, or Jewish continuity are contingent on domination, violence, or a single geography; we have always been capable of fully alive, faithful Jewish lives wherever it is safe to do so.
CONDEMNATION OF GENOCIDE
I condemn outcomes that celebrate suffering, because any result that requires the erosion of conscience has already failed, regardless of who claims victory. Among those who cheer violence today, I recognize no fellow Jews—not as an act of exclusion, but because rejoicing in bloodshed stands in direct violation of a covenant rooted in wrestling with God, reverence for life, and moral responsibility even when it is hardest to uphold.
WHAT IS A JEW?
IT'S COMPLEX
RECTANGLE:SQUARE:CUBE
NOT JUST ASHKENAZIM
"Jew" can refer to spiritual orientation, biological ethnicity, and/or political affiliation. It is precisely this ambiguous interchangeability that makes "Jew" such an explosive term. People can be expressing frustration with secular Israel, but it's interpreted as spiritual hate.
NOT JUST ASHKENAZIM
RECTANGLE:SQUARE:CUBE
NOT JUST ASHKENAZIM
Despite the near-total conflation with Ashkenazim in Western discourse, Jewish identity spans multiple lineages, cultures, and geographies. Reducing Jewishness to a single European-derived expression erases the peoplehood it claims to describe while creating internal oppression of Jews.
RECTANGLE:SQUARE:CUBE
RECTANGLE:SQUARE:CUBE
RECTANGLE:SQUARE:CUBE
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can be understood as a rectangle, square, and cube. Judaism establishes the covenantal foundation, Christianity adds emphasis on forgiveness and transformation; Islam integrates tawhid, community, and law into a total way of life. This means there are over 4 billion Jews thriving today.
UNRAVELING ANTISEMITISM
THE REAL TRAUMA
Innocent Jews have been persecuted for their faith and their community for thousands of years, and nothing about this trauma can be denied.
THE MODERN CONFLICT
The world is governed by a wholly unaccountable banking and corporate feudal empire with many leaders using the victimhood of other Jews to excuse their corruption.
A JEW IS A JEW
One path toward resolving antisemitism is acknowledging that being Jewish means something different for each Jew, to the point that real specificity is required. To recognize that a Jew is a Jew is to recognize that no assumptions can responsibly be made based on the label or a declaration of faith alone. This is not cultural erasure, but a pragmatic necessity when engaging with a 3,000-year-old civilizational tradition that has never been singular or static.
THE CONFLICT DISAPPEARS
When this distinction is acknowledged, much of the conflict dissolves on its own: grievances must become specific, evidence-based, and directed at actual actions and actors rather than collapsed into the abstraction of “the Jews.” At the same time, individuals caught acting in bad faith can no longer shield themselves behind accusations of antisemitism, allowing genuine hate to be named clearly and genuine wrongdoing to be addressed honestly without deflection.