The First Ever JP Conference

On June 10, Dave Gahary from Money Tree Publishing mentioned that a conference is being organized for the end of June 2024 that will address the “Jewish Problem” in the wake of events unfolding in Gaza. He floated the idea that I could attend as well in order to present my thoughts on this topic. I indicated that I might be interested. Hence, he put me in touch with the organizer of the event, a man I know to this day only by his “nom de guerre”: Khanverse.

In an email a day later, Khanverse revealed that the conference will be held somewhere in Kentucky, and mentioned as some of the other prospected speakers former Congresswoman Dr. Cynthia McKinney, Dr. E. Michael Jones, former 25-year CIA analyst and chief of the Bin Laden Unit Dr. Michael Scheuer, as well as Dave Gahary himself. I knew of Dr. Jones, whose recent skeptical writings on the orthodox Holocaust narrative were favorably reviewed by CODOH blogger Hadding Scott in two articles not too long ago. (Search the CODOH website for his name to locate various contribution about him). A quick internet search for Mrs. McKinney and Dr. Scheuer revealed them as controversial but respectable individuals, while Dave Gahary has become a good friend of mine mainly due to his unwavering support during CODOH’s and Castle Hill’s Santomauro crisis. More individuals unknown to me were mentioned in Khanverse’s email, but I did not bother checking all their backgrounds. Having four of the other five featured speakers check out as respectable individuals sufficed to assume that this event would be what I felt comfortable associating with and contributing to.

The event started on Sunday, June 30, with roughly an hour delay at a venue in Kentucky. While such a heavy delay is merely a concern, it sure was annoying to the online audience who must have been staring at their computer screen to see the event, meant to be streamed in real time, finally get off the ground. This delay also proved to be indicative of what was to come.

Dr. McKinney was the first to speak. Her presentation focused on her experiences with Jewish pressure groups during her political career in Georgia and as a member of Congress. Like others before her, such as Paul Findley (They Dare to Speak out), Pete McCloskey or Jim Traficant, she had a very interesting insider story to tell.

Next in line was Dr. Jones, who spoke about the domino effect that may be triggered by just one prominent person breaking the taboo of naming Jewish power and influence by its real name, rather than using misnomers such as “neo-cons.” Once the taboo-enforced defenses are breached by one courageous individual, many more are willing to follow the example, making the taboo collapse, and the Jewish stranglehold on Western societies evaporate. The downside of Dr. Jones’s presentation was that he read it to a large degree from a printout. Dr. Jones has an academic writing style, which is fine for articles in journals and for books. However, a real-life presentation to a wider, non-academic audience requires natural speech in everyday language.

I was next in line. I will not comment on my own performance. I have posted this video section from this event elsewhere, together with a transcript, so you can assess it yourself.

David Gahary spoke briefly about the events unfolding after the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally, documenting the predominantly Jewish role in the post-event legal crackdown on rally organizers and participants.

After that, a long string of speakers followed who were somehow associated or acquainted with the event’s organizer. Except for the last speaker of the day, neither had a properly prepared speech addressing a specific topic. They used their time primarily to express their own attitudes and views on the general topic of “the Jewish Problem.” Since time had already progressed into the evening at that point, the master of ceremonies, together with the event’s organizer, should have reined them in to make sure that things could be wrapped up within a reasonable time frame. Unfortunately, that did not happen.

Toward the trailing end of this string of self-reflective ramblings, a certain Mr. Christopher Wood took the stage to give his spin on the issue. Almost his entire speech consisted of a screaming performance at a decibel level that was physically painful to listen to. Clearly, he tried to compensate for the lack of meaningful content in his sermon by sheer loudness. But the worst was yet to come: At the end of his speech, he stiffened his posture and gave a Hitler salute. At that point, I was tempted to get up, walk over to the microphone Mr. Wood had just left, and state that I would leave this conference instantly, because I have the policy of not contributing in any way, not even by my presence, to an event that endorse in any way, shape or form – even if merely by the use of symbols and gestures – any dictatorial, totalitarian, authoritarian and tyrannical system of the past or present.

I refrained from such a theatrical move, though. Maybe I shouldn’t have.

At that point, the entire purpose of the conference – unite those in civilized opposition to Jewish abuse of power – had collapsed, just by one simple gesture. No reasonable person wants to associate with people giving the Hitler salute.

I found out later that Mr. Wood had no substantial background in anything that would have qualified him to address the audience. In fact, I got the impression that the second half of the event was an attempt of Khanverse to give almost everyone in the room an opportunity to speak. Such a “I love you all” approach to a conference had to make it run off track, and not just timewise. That was a really bad way of organizing such an event. While I couldn’t figure out ahead of time why so many “special guests” were listed as speakers for the second half of the event, now it became clear that they were not special at all, other than being special to Mr. Khanverse, maybe.

Evidently, Mr. Wood had announced to Khanverse that he planned to do the salute at the end of his screeching spree, and Khanverse is said to have endorsed it. If that is so, what was he thinking, scuppering the potential effectiveness of his own event in such a fashion?

It was already around 10 pm when the last “proper” speaker, African American Ayo Kimathi, took the stage for his PowerPoint-supported presentation. If you thought Mr. Wood’s hysteria was rock bottom, Mr. Kimathi tried hard to beat him at that.

I admit that my own presentation exceeded the time limit imposed on all speakers by Khanverse, who had asked for not more than 15 to 20 minutes. Also counting the Q&A session to my presentation, it reached a full hour. Attendees later told me that it felt like my presentation was done within the blink of an eye. Being filled to the brim with interesting insights, it made the audience forget space and time. If anyone was offended by the length of my presentation, I apologize. I found out only the next day that my PowerPoint show with the ensuing discussion had lasted that long. Nobody complained while it was unfolding, so I was blissfully unaware. Had I been asked to cut it short, I would have done so. But no one asked me to.

Excuse my self-defending diversion here, but it is needed to explain what happened at the very end of the event, when Mr. Kimathi took the stage. Why he was given the most-disadvantageous slot at the very end is a mystery to me. Be that as it may; when he started, it was already 10 pm. He rambled on sheer endlessly for roughly an hour – without any Q&A session. He blamed pretty much everything under the sun and moon on the Jews: Covid vaccines, which he mischaracterized as attempts at mass murder, as well as the Ukraine-Russian war, which he mischaracterized as a war between Jews (Ukraine) and Gentiles (Russia), assigning the role of innocent victims to the invading, plundering and mass-murdering Russian army. None of this was backed up with anything, not even an attempt at sound reasoning. It was an utterly unbearable performance. When asked after almost an hour to wind it down, he defiantly decided to disregard this request in utter disrespect to the event’s organizers as well as the suffering and dwindling audience. As a justification for this defiance, he implied that he was asked to stop merely because he was being discriminated against due to his dark skin pigmentation.

After all the nice verbal hugging by everyone at the conference throughout the event, invoking racial unity in the face of the common enemy, here he was, the black man, abusing the theme of “we Jews no, sorry, blacks are eternally persecuted” to ignore the request to wrap up his out-of-control rantings.

Dr. McKinney is an African American, too, but in contrast to Mr. Kimathi’s presentation, her contribution was concise, lucid, enlightening and generally well done. This isn’t a matter of skin pigmentation. It’s a matter of soundness of mind and plain and simple decency. Neither Mr. Wood, with little if any skin pigmentation, nor Mr. Kimathi, with lots of pigmentation, were well equipped with either.

I had to submit my presentation beforehand. I assumed that this happened so it would find the organizer’s approval. That would make perfect sense, considering the sensitivity of the topic. But as the malperformances by Mr. Wood and Mr. Kimathi demonstrate, there was no quality control at all. That backfired big time. There was also no attempt by the organizer to rein in anyone getting off track, nor was there any sign of damage control. Maybe Khanverse did not see anything wrong with any of this.

Would I contribute to such an event again?

Not in this kind of uncontrolled format.