If you call Israel
a racist state for targeting Palestinian children then Jennie Formby, Laura
Murray and Jon Lansman will suspend you for ‘anti-Semitism’
The report below from Mondoweiss is about a boy 8 years old, Malek Issa,
who was shot last week in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet by a policeman
whilst he was out buying a sandwich.
As the
video shows it was a normal bustling Saturday afternoon in Jerusalem when the
child was attacked by a psychopathic policeman.
Rather than
the officer being arrested and charged, as would be the case in a liberal
democratic state, which Israel pretends to be, the usual lies about ‘riot
control’ were provided by the Police PR department .
As the
video demonstrates there was no riot. Just an out of control Israeli animal.
The fact that the Police have already provided a series of lies as
justification guarantees that there will be no consequences or prosecution. After all the child is not Jewish so what
does it matter? Israel is a Jewish state and democratic rights, even for
children, only apply to Jews.
Let us be reasonable
and not make too much of a fuss. Otherwise you may find yourself accused by the
Jewish Labour Movement and its Siamese twin Labour Friends of Israel of ‘anti-Semitism’
for ‘singling out Israel’ and operating ‘double standards’ by only criticising Israel.
The IHRA definition
of ‘anti-Semitism’ which the Labour Party has adopted is quite clear:
‘Applying
double standards by requiring of it [Israel] a behavior not expected or
demanded of any other democratic nation.
is anti-Semitic.
Have you
criticised The Netherlands because its police blinded a child with a rubber
bullet? No? Then you are anti-Semitic. It’s no use
protesting that Netherlands police don’t shoot children in the face. That is
irrelevant. You have to treat Israel in
exactly the same as a liberal democracy and if you don’t you are ‘anti-Semitic’.
And if you
are a Labour Party member then Jennie Formby and her familiar, Laura Murray,
backed up by Jon Lansman, will suspend you for ‘anti-Semitism’. Because it is naturally assumed that all Jews
in Britain will be offended by criticism of the Israeli Police.
You will probably
say at this point that associating British Jews with what Israel does is also anti-Semitic.
Well it is but so is criticising Israel, since it is a Jewish state. Since British Jews identify with Israel they
make ‘take offence’. And guess what? Being
offensive to Jews, even racist Jews, is also ‘anti-Semitic’!
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| Justifying the murder of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, on the pretext they are members of Hamas, an Islamic party, is perfectly acceptable in the party of Formby, Lansman and Laura Murray |
Confused? Well of course you are because the Zionists
are allowed by the Right to have their cake and eat it. If you criticise Israel
in a way that is not the same as your criticism of other countries then that is
anti-Semitic.
Of course
defining criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic means Jews have an interest in Israeli
oppression. And that is certainy anti-Semitic! And just to confuse matters even
further the Board of Deputies, whose pledges the abysmal Long-Bailey has signed
up to, regularly issues statements supporting Israel’s latest war crime.
The death of Palestinian children is
not unusual. 56 were killed
in 2018. In 2019 33 were killed.
Although I don’t have the figures for children injured it must be in the
hundreds, perhaps over a thousand since on just one day in October, the 80th
Great Return march, 43 children were shot in Gaza.
As Nir
Hasson of Ha’aretz reported, in 2014, the police swapped their softer, blue
sponge-tipped bullets for the tougher black ones that cause more serious
injuries. Quite understandable as Palestinians are known to be thick-skinned.
Although Police regulations forbid officers from shooting at upper parts of the
body, and they are not permitted to shoot minors with these bullets, not a
single police officer has been charged with illegally shooting sponge-tipped
bullets.
The Justice
Department announced
that it has yet to decide whether to open an official investigation or summon
the officer in question just in case you were concerned.
The Labour
Right’s ‘anti-Semitism’ offensive and by Right, I include Lansman, Murray and
Formby, is designed precisely to prevent criticism of Israel as a racist state.
Because it is only a racist state that singles out the children of one ethnic group
for this special treatment.
I have
previously written to Jennie Formby asking why ex-NEC member Luke Akehurst,
Director of We Believe in Israel, a Zionist lobby group, has not been suspended
for supporting
Israeli snipers maiming and killing Palestinian demonstrators, children
included (over 70 have been killed in the Great Return demonstrations). Formby
has not responded which is not surprising since her position is indefensible.
However
although supporting the murder of Palestinian children is acceptable in today’s
Labour Party, posting a cartoon of a Palestinian being silenced by cries of ‘anti-Semitism’
is considered anti-Semitic. This is the reason that Mehmood Mirza, the
socialist candidate for a BAME position on the NEC, is the latest left
candidate to be suspended by the crooks and gerrymanders of Southside.
It is clear
that the witchhunt of socialists in the Labour Party is a racist one and it is
led by 3 racists – Formby, Lansman and Murray.
Palestinian
boy, 8, loses eye after being shot by Israeli police in Jerusalem
The story of a Palestinian boy who lost an eye after being shot in the
face by Israeli police has angered Palestinians across the occupied territories
who see the incident as another tragic example of Israel’s wrongful targeting
of Palestinians with excessive force.
Eight-year-old Malek Issa was on his way home from buying a sandwich on
Saturday afternoon in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya when
he was shot in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet fired by an Israeli
police officer.
Issa’s family told local media that the boy had left a restaurant and
was headed home when he was shot by police, allegedly at point blank range.
While Israeli police claimed that their officers were engaging in “riot
control” measures in Issawiya, video footage of the moments before the
shooting, published by Haaretz, shows what appears to be normal activity
in the street.
Amid a number of unassuming pedestrians and vehicles, a child in a blue
hoodie, purportedly Issa, can be seen dashing across the street and
disappearing around the corner, out of sight of the camera.
Moments later, all the pedestrians in view of the camera suddenly duck
their heads, seemingly in response to the gunshots, and beginning running. A
group of young men are then seen rushing out from the side street where Issa
had entered, carrying his flailing body into a civilian car to be taken to the
hospital.
By Tuesday, the family of Issa reported that his condition had
stabilized, but that he had lost sight in his left eye, and would be needing
surgery likely to remove his eye and to stop internal bleeding.
In a video published by the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, a
Palestinian NGO in the neighboring town of Silwan, Issa’s father Wael says his
son “escaped death” and that there was likely no brain damage — something the
family feared would happen due to the severity of his injuries.
#العيسوية #اصابة الوالد: " اصابة مالك كانت قاتلة… نجا من الموت..
لكنه فقد بصره في العين اليسرى "آخر تطورات الحالة الصحية للطفل مالك عيسى
8سنوات والذي اصيب السبت بعيار مطاطي وهو في طريقه الى منزله عائدا من مدرسته ..
برفقة شقيقاته حاملا حقيبته المدرسية وبعض السكاكر!! #تفاصيل#Issawiya#InjuryThe
child's father: "Malek's injury was fatal … He survived … but he lost his
sight in the left eye."The latest development of the health condition of
the boy, Malek Issa, 8 years old, who was wounded with a rubber bullet on his
way home from school .. accompanied by his sisters, carrying his school bag and
some candy !! #details
Posted by Wadi Hilweh
Information Center – Silwan مركز معلومات وادي حلوه -سلوان on Tuesday,
February 18, 2020
Wael added that there was fear that if doctors could not control the
internal bleeding, the inflammation from Malek’s left eye could spread to his
right eye.
No stone throwing or ‘rioting’ preceded shot
Israeli police told the media that the officer in question claimed to
have fired his weapon at a wall for “calibration” purposes, and that he thought
Issa was hit by an alleged Palestinian stone-thrower.
In a report, Haaretz
quoted eyewitnesses who said Israeli policemen were just “standing there”
in the neighborhood, and that no stone throwing or “rioting” was happening.
The witnesses said that the officer was knowingly aimed at the boy and
fired directly at him. One witness, a local bus driver, said that when he
confronted the officer over what he had done, “he told me to move on,” while
his fellow officers threatened to beat the bus driver up.
According to Haaretz, the Justice Ministry’s unit for
investigating police officers took statement from eyewitnesses, but was not yet
undertaking an official investigation, but rather a “probe” into the incident.
As of Wednesday, the policeman in question had not yet been summoned by
the ministry to give an official statement on the matter.
It remained unclear if the officer was still on active duty following
the shooting.
An all too common occurrence
The shooting of Issa struck a chord with Palestinians across the
occupied territory due to the chilling familiarity of the incident.
Stories like Issa’s are not uncommon: a
10-year-old boy suffered severe brain damage after being shot in the head
with live ammunition in Kafr Qaddum last fall; a 14-year-old boy lost his
leg after being shot while playing soccer with his friends last spring; a
15-year-old boy lost
a portion of his skull after being shot in the head in 2018.
In each of the cases listed above, the Palestinian boys who were injured
were reportedly engaged in mundane activities, like Issa, and were still
targeted by Israeli forces. Additionally, in each case, no wrongdoing was found
on part of the soldiers or officers responsible.
Palestinians and human rights groups have long criticized Israel for its
excessive use of force against Palestinians and the lack of accountability for
the Israeli soldiers who commit such crimes.
In East Jerusalem, residents complain of over policing of their
neighborhoods by Israeli police, unnecessary stops and searches of minors and
young men, and frequent raids and arrests.
Over the past year, Issawiya
has been subject to an increased Israeli police presence, daily raids,
including on schools, and the forceful arrest of residents.
In June, a 21-year-old youth from the town was shot dead during
protests. Rights groups later said that he posed no direct threat to soldiers
at the time.
Locals alleged that the number of arrests in the last half of 2019 is as
high as 600, with child arrests in Issawiya making up 41 per cent of all child
detentions recorded in East Jerusalem.
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