March 19, 2026
Baseball in Japan; The Indigeneity Follies
Thank you to the commenter who pointed out my historical blooper about the origins of baseball in Japan:
It really was lazy. I’m usually good at checking these assumptions but I didn’t, so I really appreciate the correction!
I would love to go to a baseball game in Japan. From what I’ve seen on YouTube it looks like an incredible experience. This alone would be worth the price of admission:
And look at this:
So Japan has the best baseball stadiums and the best baseball players. What next? Are they gonna steal hockey from us?
Another day, another anti-Israel spectacle in Australia. (But not antisemitic, no.)
Major Corporate Sponsor Withdraws from Sydney Biennale, Citing Alleged Hate Speech
On Tuesday, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies filed a police complaint over comments allegedly made by US electronic music producer Zubeyda Muzeyyen, who performs as DJ Haram, during a set at the Biennale’s opening night party last week at White Bay Power Station, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Muzeyyen is accused of having referred to a “Zio-Australian-Epstein empire,” making a tribute to “martyrs” and using the phrase “long live the resistance”—which the complaint says is “commonly understood” as a call for “acts of political violence.”
I’m not touching the issue of free speech here for now. Australia has a completely different approach to that; I think their approach is awful, but it is what it is and that’s not my point right now. I’m just underscoring that anti-Zionism is now the resting state of Australia’s cultural mandarins and the only response the Jews of Australia have is to appeal to the inherent restrictive power of Australian law, which puts them on the side of government control — not a good place to be.
Anyway, with this in mind I came up with a satirical speculative scenario. Yesterday I made the case that “Indigenousness” has never been the Jewish case for Israel. I’m going to expand on that in due course. But for now, I came up with this. Enjoy. It’s satire.
The Decision
May 15, 2026. Israel wakes up and declares: “We acknowledge that the Israel created in 1948 is was a settler-colonial state. As the indigenous inhabitants of Israel we declare kinship with other oppressed Aboriginals and we want to set things right. From hereon in, we are the ‘New Blak Israel.’”
The covenantal-historical justification is discarded in favor of a postmodern checklist: native populations, settler populations, historical displacement. All persons in Israel proper, Gaza, Judea and Samaria are given DNA tests and declared “Indigenous citizens of New Blak Israel.”
Textbooks, speeches, and PR campaigns rebrand the Children of Israel as “native,” junking the Exodus creation story. The Zionist narrative of return and redemption is replaced with a template borrowed from Indigenous campaigns in the Americas and Australia.
As a new member of the “Blak-Indigenous Coalition,” Israel brands the US a settler state and aligns with Russia.
The Consequences
They are immediate and devastating. US supporters recoil. Alliances shatter. Lindsay Graham has a heart attack on the floor of the Senate. Ted Cruz goes on Tucker Carlson to denounce the “New Blak Israel.” AIPAC self destructs. Most astonishingly, Jonathan Greenblatt is speechless for the first time in his life.
Funding and political backing—once anchored in recognition of a covenantal-historical identity—evaporate like dew under the noon sun. Rebranded as an Indigenous homeland, the charisma, moral authority, and narrative cohesion that fueled sympathy in the US are gone.
Cultural Fallout
Inside the country, citizens raised on millennia of covenantal identity are forced to reinterpret their lives as Indigenous. Festivals, prayers, and commemorations feel awkward; new customs like “Welcome to Country” and the Haka are mandated but don’t fit.
The psychological and cultural cost of adopting an alien framework proves that some categories—like Indigenousness—cannot simply be transplanted onto alien soil without leaching the soil of its nutrients.
Conclusion
The United States made a catastrophic error when it tore up the Great Plains grasslands and replaced them with crops that depended on steady rainfall in a region where rainfall was anything but steady. The result was the Dust Bowl. Indigeneity will be the same for Israel; an artificial framework that will strip a living society of its own grounded identity.
