Sometimes
It’s Those Who You Love Most Who You Hurt the Most– But in Bella’s Case I’ll
Make An Exception and Try To Kill Her With Kindness
Bellay and friends (AI Generated)
A few people have misinterpreted my
last blog to Brighton’s Bella Sankey. It wasn’t written out of hatred but
love. So I thought I’d make amends with a short letter to Bella.
Andrei Czolak didn't like my letter to Bella
It was favourably received by everyone I sent it to
with one exception, the hitherto unknown Cllr. Andrei Czolak, who gives brown nosing
a bad name. He let me know that he found my letter to Sankey ‘exceptionally boring and I’ve better things
to do with my time’ yet despite this he found time to read it. I guess one
can’t please all of the people all of the time.
And just to make sure he got in Bella’s good books
he copied her into his email. I just hope he gets his just rewards.
I thought it would only be fair if I shared it with readers
of my blog, strictly on the condition they no one shares my sweet words of
nothing to Bella!
Tony Greenstein
Monday,
19 October 2026
A Personal Letter to Bella Sankey
My dear Bella,
Below is a link
to an Open Letter to yourself and those of your colleagues who agreed to your abysmal
statement.
It is said
of George Washington that he never told a lie, whereas it could be said of you that
you’ve never knowingly told the truth.
Although you are not
Jewish you felt entitled to call the Green Party anti-Semitic because it passed
the Zionism is Racism motion. I am
not aware that you have any expertise on the subject of anti-Semitism, Zionism
or racism.
You wrote about ‘the dereliction of duty (which) has allowed
the Green Party of England and Wales to sit side by side with the British Union
of Fascists and the National Front.’
Anyone who knows anything
about British fascism would be aware that Oswald Moseley’s British Union of
Fascists ceased operations in July 1940, a mere 86 years ago. It might
therefore be a tad difficult to sit side by side with them now!
It’s not as if there is
any excuse for your ignorance. If you go to the Dome website there is a section
on Lewis Cohen and Fighting the Fascists at Brighton Dome which describes how,
when Oswald Moseley came to speak at the Dome, electricians had fixed the
wiring so that when Moseley spoke the only sounds coming out were the Marseilles.
You are not only an
ignoramus but a charlatan. You pick up bits of information which are then scattered
in your brain like scrambled eggs. These are the thought patterns of an
opportunist. That you are Leader of Brighton and Hove Labour Group speaks volumes
for the calibre of your colleagues.
As the author of the only book
about the history of the fight against fascism in Brighton and one of the
leaders of the anti-fascist struggle in this city, I am not aware of any contribution
you have made to that fight. [See Politics
of the far-right never welcome in city] Not least because the Labour Party is
the party of the Police who have always done their best to defend fascist
marches in this city.
Police protect fascist march in Brighton
I note that you worked for Liberty, Detention Action and Reprieve. You are the kind of person who
works for progressive organisations without possessing an ounce of commitment
to anything they stand for. Your support for the late unlamented Starmer says
everything.
Ambalavaner Sivanandan
Your empty headed
statement makes it clear that you are a racist, a Zionist and above all a
supporter of the imperialism which is responsible for refugees arriving in this
country. As the great anti-racist Ambalavaner Sivanandan said,
refugees are here because we were there in their countries.
Your statement defends
the Zionism that was responsible for the creation of a ‘Jewish’ racial state in
Palestine. A state that was born
in ethnic cleansing and terrorism and is now committing genocide.
I wonder how many more
Palestinian children have to be burnt
alive in their tent encampments by Israeli bombs for you to question
Zionism. Or how many more Palestinians have to die for the ‘right to exist’ of
a genocidal state?6 million?
Zionism was a creature
of European anti-Semitism and took on its colours. That is why, when Zionism
first arose, most Jews saw it as a form of Jewish anti-Semitism. As Theodor
Herzl, the founder of Political Zionism, wrote:
‘The anti-Semites will be our most dependable
friends, The anti-Semitic countries our allies.’
You have an uncanny
ability to write about things you know nothing about. You talk about ‘Jewish self-determination’. A completely
meaningless phrase. Jews are not a nation. Only nations have the right to
self-determination. Jews are members of many nations.
If you think Jews in
Britain are a separate nation from the British that is confirmation that it is
you who are anti-Semitic. Perhaps you might tell us what Christian or Muslim
self-determination is?
I prefer the opinion
of Boris Vladeck, the great American Jewish Labour leader, who called the
Zionist movement the ‘scab agent’ of Hitler’s
Germany, to your vacuous and empty headed rhetoric.
You talk of the ‘two
state solution’. There is no such solution. There is just apartheid in what is
now a Greater Israel. The so-called two state solution was a cover for the
theft and settlement of Palestinian land. That ship has passed.
The two state solution is
Partition. That turned out well in India/Pakistan and Ireland, to name but two
examples of this imperialist ‘solution’.As James Connolly said
of partition, it would create a carnival of reaction on both sides of the
border.
It is not Zack Polanski
or the Green Party which is anti-Semitic but you Bella. Of course you will
understand none of this because you trade in vacuous soundbites, which saves
you the trouble of thinking too deeply.
Zionism is racist
because it excludes and others the indigenous people of Palestine. That is why
Israel has just passed a death penalty law for Palestinians only. In the words
of Netanyahu Israel is not a state of all of its citizens, just its Jewish
citizens.
The Zionist Memorial to Israelis Who Died on October 7 - Most of them killed because of the Hannibal Directive
I note that you attended
on October 7, the memorial to Israelis who died when the Palestinians broke out
of their concentration camp in Gaza. You described them as innocent, despite
the occupation of Gaza for over half a century.
Yet you didn’t manage
to attend the march in
memory of the70,000+ Palestinians who have been murdered in Israel’s genocide. Presumably
the 38 Israeli Jewish children who died outweigh the 50,000 or more Palestinian
children who were deliberately murdered by Israel’s army. And then you have the
audacity to call others racist.
Hundreds march in Brighton
to mark three years of genocide in Gaza
You stand in a long
tradition Bella of British imperialism which singled out Jews and Zionism for a
role in the British Empire. I suggest you read Churchill’s Zionism v Bolshevismof February 1920. Churchill was nothing
if not an imperialist.
I have been active in
Brighton politics for over half a century. I have known many Labour councillors
who were people of principle. Joe Townsend, a Jewish councillor and
anti-Zionist who was on the Anti-Nazi League Steering Committee with me in the
70s. Francis Tonks who together with Jack Hazelgrove campaigned
to stop the Council from transferring Council Housing to an ALMO. The same type
of organisation responsible for the Grenfell fire.
Cllr. Francis Tonks
These people were
socialists who believed in and stood for a different kind of society to the
neo-liberal warmongering society that Labour presides over today. You are
merely a piece of detritus which will soon be forgotten. You stand for nothing
apart from yourself. You aren’t fit to shine their shoes.
I confess to what might
be called a conflict of interest. It seems as if the
only achievement of Brighton
Council is the closing
of Wellington House, the last Day Centre in Brighton for Adults with Learning
Difficulties. My son, Daniel, currently attends the Centre. You cynically held
a consultation having made the decision to close it regardless of the outcome.
I guess this is what is
meant by ‘self-determination’ but it would appear that it only applies to
racists, not the disabled. I guess this is the feminism of imperialism.
The
Green Party Passed Policy Saying That Zionism
is Racism – Your Response Assumed That All Jews are Zionists & that All
Jews Support The Genocidal Apartheid State
of Israel – THAT IS ANTI-SEMITIC
Introduction
When the Establishment Backlash against
the Green Party’s Zionism is Racism policy began, Bella Sankey leapt
straight in, borrowing from similar
threats by a previous leader, Warren Morgan, nine years ago. Whatever else
you can accuse Sankey of, originality is not one of them.
Sankey issued an illiterate
statement threatening to prevent the Green Party from booking Brighton
Conference Centre in the future.
Brighton's Conference Centre
Why? Because the motion ‘rejects the
right of the Jewish people to self-determination and rejects a two-state
Solution.’. Sankey is so ignorant that she doesn’t realise that in July
2024 the Knesset voted by 68-9 to reject
the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The Zionist ‘Opposition’ either voted for
the motion or abstained. The Times of
Israelreported:
‘the only ones to oppose the resolution
were lawmakers from the Arab-majority Ra’am and Hadash-Ta’al parties.’
Zionism could never accept a Palestinian
state. Settler colonialism is inherently expansionist and always denies the
rights of the indigenous population. Israel has a history of unprovoked attacks
and wars against the indigenous population and neighbouring states such as the Suez War of 1956, the 6 day war of 1967 and the Lebanon War of 1982. Israel has always looked for a pretext to expand its borders.
Israel is alone in the world in refusing
to define its borders. The Zionist ambition was always to create a Greater Israel from the
Litani River in Lebanon to the Nile in Egypt and to the Euphrates in Iraq.
That doesn’t stop political prostitutes
like Sankey from supporting a non-existent Two State Solution as a cover for the
continued colonisation of the West Bank.
Despite supporting a Two State Solution on
paper, Labour politicians have never backed this up with actions. Sanctions on
Iran and Russia are fine but never on Israel despite its war on the Palestinians.
Sankey is a racist who uses Jews and
‘anti-Semitism’ as a moral alibi for supporting imperialism. Because a majority
of Jews support Israel and its racist ideology, opposition to Zionism, is
deemed ‘anti-Semitism’.
Anti-Zionist Jews are always invisible. According
to this harpie
The Zionism
is Racism motion ‘dangerously conflates the ancient and enduring right of
Jewish self-determination with the actions of the Israeli government
This is the first time I have heard of
this ‘ancient right’ of Jewish people to colonise Palestine. This is a
racial myth on a par with the Nazi myth that the German people belonged to a
pure, ancient "Aryan" master race (Herrenvolk) that originated in Northern Europe.
It is no coincidence that Zionism arose in
the late 19th century, at the end of the colonial era. There is
nothing about this ‘right’ that is ancient. It derives from Christian Zionist Restorationism
which believed that
the "return" of Jews to Palestine was necessary in order to ensure the
Second Coming of Jesus.
Between the middle of the 19th
century and the First World War about 2.5 million Russian Jews emigrated. They
were fleeing poverty and pogroms. It is estimated that 75,000 emigrated to Palestine,
the rest to the United States, Britain and the rest of Europe.
However half of the First Aliyah
(1882-1903) of 35,000 are estimated to have left again and up to 80% of the 40,000
who made the second Aliyah (1904-14).
In other words of the 75,000 who went to Palestine
barely 1%, some 25,000 stayed. There
were no immigration barriers to a Jew going to Palestine. No passports. But to
most Russian Jews, Jerusalem was in the United States not Palestine. See here
The belief in the ‘return’ of the Jews was
anti-Semitic because it was based on the belief that Jews were ‘semites’, strangers who did not belong in
Europe.
Sankey's statement wanders off into a meaningless word salad in which we
are told that
We can condemn the Israeli government’s actions and stand firmly for
Palestinian freedom without vilifying Jewish self-determination and a two-state
Solution.
If this racist nonentity had been around
200 years ago she would have told people that we can support the rights of the
slave owners whilst supporting the rights of the slaves. No doubt she would
have defended Black people in South Africa whilst supporting Apartheid, which
after all was merely Separate
Development.
Sankey as an individual isn’t worth a
barrel of warm spit. Sankey symbolises the degeneration of the Labour
Party. A party without principle. Look how Burnham, having said that
Labour got Gaza wrong, changed his tune, attacking Polanski and the Green
Party.
You can’t support both the right of the
oppressor and the oppressed You have to make a choice. In practice Sankey like
Burnham has chosen Zionism and Israel.
After three years of genocide, torture
camps, mass rape, the starvation of children and the murder of doctors, health
workers and journalists, this misfit comes out in defence of Zionism, which is
the basis of Israeli Apartheid and Jewish Racial Supremacy.
Zionism explains why Genocide and Ethnic
Cleansing takes place. War and Expansion is in the DNA of Zionism
Anyone who claims to oppose either and supports
Zionism is a rank hypocrite and Sankey is nothing if not a hypocrite.
I therefore decided to pen an Open Letter
to Sankey. Not because she will understand it but because she embodies everything
that is wrong with a Labour Party that has embraced the politics of war and
imperialism in order to climb into bed with Donald Trump.
It is no accident that Trump, a venal
racist who believes
Haiti and African countries are ‘shit
holes’ and who describes
Somalis as ‘garbage’ is nonetheless so
concerned about ‘anti-Semitism’ that he has tried to defund the US’s major
universities like Harvard.
Bella Sankey is typical of those without
any discernible talent, who make a career out of other people’s misery in NGOs.
They hold nothing in the way of political principles. Sankey was previously
Director of Detention Action,
Deputy Director of Reprieve and Director
of Policy of Liberty
(formerly the NCCL).
Bella Sankey was handpicked by the former Chair of the Jewish Paedophile/Labour Movement Ivor Caplin
Liberty in particular has been the
breeding ground for a whole raft of New Labour politicians such as Patricia
Hewitt and Harriet Harman. Bourgeois feminists whose only goal is achieving
equality amongst the oppressor.
In her role as Leader of the Labour Group
on B&H Council Sanky had no trouble making her peace with Starmer. When the
Genocide in Gaza started she backed Starmer’s refusal to call a ceasefire.
Sankey owes her position to Labour Zionist Paedophile, Ivor Caplin.
Tony
Greenstein
Open Letter to the Racist Leader of Brighton & Hove Council
Dear Bella Sankey,
Ever since the Green Party
passed a resolution declaring that Zionism is Racism, there has been a racist
firestorm in the press and among the political class. All are agreed. It is
anti-Semitic to describe Zionism as racist. The assumption being that all Jews
are Zionists and that Zionism is integral to Jewish identity.
Your threat to ban the Green
Party from Brighton Conference Centre is reminiscent of Warren Morgans attempt
in 2017. It was unsuccessful then and you will be unsuccessful now.
The wonderful Miriam Margoyles is right - Hitler
achieved a post-humous victory in the establishment of the Israeli state
That the Jewish Greens were
divided on the issue has barely been mentioned. That a child survivor of
the Holocaust, Stephen Kapos, spoke
in support of the resolution has also been ignored.
There was a time when the Labour Party could be described as an
anti-racist party. Those days are gone. Instead Burnham bends over backwards
to agree with Tory MP Harriett Baldwin who urged him to "rule out co-operating" with the
Green Party.
NAZA interview with film producers
It was therefore natural Bella that you wanted a share of the limelight
even though your understanding of Zionism is approximately zero.
I take antisemitism very seriously. Jewish Greens say they feel unsafe in your Party. People are rightly resigning in disgust at your antisemitic motion.
Your assertion that the Green’s Zionism is Racism policy threatens the
safety of British Jews, is risible. To call you a lying, mendacious opportunist
would be an understatement.
Jews were the first anti-Zionists. Until the Holocaust anti-Zionism was the default position of
Jewry. Most Jews who died in the Holocaust were not Zionists. Today Jews are
turning away from this hateful, racist ideology. 44% of young Jews (aged 20-30) define themselves as non or anti-Zionist.
Palestinian children aged 12 are arrested and held,
without trial and with little food or access to lawyers, for months on end. A
Jewish child cannot be held under the age of 14 and they have access to social
workers etc. This is the racism that the vile Sankey and her fellow Labour
Councillors support.
Zionism was originally a
Christian not Jewish ideology. I realise that you are a few sandwiches short of
a picnic but even you must agree that Apartheid is racism.
Different laws for different
people in the same territory is the quintessential definition of Apartheid. On
the West Bank there are two sets of laws– civil law for Jewish settlers and
martial law for Palestinians. Thousands of Palestinians, including children aged 12, are detained without
trial, often for years on end. No Jewish settler can be detained.
In pre-67 Israel there are over 100 laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens. Since Israel is
the fulfillment of the ‘Zionist dream’ that makes Zionism racist and you a
bare-faced liar.
Benjamin Mosr interviewed by Piers Morgan on why there can be no 2 state solution
If calling Zionism, the
ideology of the Israeli state, racist is ‘anti-Semitic’ that means that
anti-Semitism, which used to be based on fantasies and phobias, is now true. The
alternative is that it is you who is anti-Semitic.
Anti-Semitism
is not difficult to define. It is ‘hostility to or prejudice and
discrimination against Jews as Jews.’ You were quoted
as saying that the ZIR motion was “divisive, discriminatory and
wrong” Yes calling out racism is divisive. Not all of us wish to unite with
racists. I was brought up to oppose not appease racists.
Not content with this
incontinent drivel you were quoted as saying that ‘It undermines everything our City of Sanctuary
stands for’. At no point did you explain why the motion was any of
these things. You simply asserted it.
You are a deceitful and
dishonest opportunist. You rode on the back of the anti-Semitic press attacks on
Zack Polanski, the Jewish leader of the Green Party, including their use of
anti-Semitic cartoons.
Labour has an appalling record
on Palestine. Historically it was more supportive of Zionism than the Tory
Party. Its War Aims Memorandum
pre-dated the Balfour Declaration.
Genuine Antisemitism is Fine - But Anti-Zionist is Not Fine
Another anti-Semitic cartoon from the same press that is concerned with 'anti-Semitism' - note Zack's elongated nose
For three years, this lousy
Labour government has supplied Israel with the weapons to perpetrate a
Genocide. There was not one word of protest from you. But when Zionism, the
racist doctrine which enabled the Genocide, was criticised you leapt to its
defence using Jews as the pretext for British support for Israel’s war crimes.
Israel
has the right to starve Gaza
Starmer openly
supported Israel’s denial of food, water and fuel to Palestinians in Gaza.
For months, whilst Palestinians were being slaughtered, this rotten Labour
government opposed a ceasefire as did Brighton and Hove Labour Group.
Kill them or leave Tara from Texas - This is Israel's settler ideology which Sankey defends
Burnham
became Prime Minister because Starmer had become discredited beyond repair. Although
Burnham admitted
that ‘we got it wrong’ on Gaza the
only thing that changed was the optics. British weapons are still killing
Palestinian children, the RAF flights are still supplying the terrorist IDF with
intelligence and British diplomats have assured
the United States that Miliband’s proposed sanctions are ‘symbolic’.
The Vile Sankey Uses a Palestinian Student for a Photo Opportunity
It
is also clear, despite your pathetic attempt
to pretend that you are a friend of the Palestinians, that when the Zionist
wolves howl you jump to attention like a vixen.
Today we remember the innocent victims who suffered trauma, terror, torture, kidnap & murder on 7/10/23 & their loved ones. In Palmeira Square in Hove tonight we bore witness to the lives lived & lost. A moving memorial, full of love, longing & hope for a better future 🕯️ https://t.co/zJpo6yny3z
On
October 7, 2026 you remembered
the death of the Israelis who occupied Gaza for 57 years, most
of whom were killed by Israel as part of the Hannibal
Directive. Did
you march with Palestine Solidarity Campaign on October 11 to remember the Palestinian
victims? You chose to be seen with the supporters of the Genocide. 38 Israeli
children died on October 7, 3.3% of total Israeli deaths. Thousands of
Palestinian children have died, at least one-quarter of total deaths.
British doctors returning from Gaza
have testified that Israeli snipers compete with
each other to murder and maim Palestinian children. Yet about this you kept
your mouth tightly shut (for once). October 7 was the start of a Genocide
that may have seen hundreds of thousands of Palestinians killed.
Rabbi Mali, who runs the pre-military Bnei Moshe Yeshiva in Jaffa has stated that killing Palestinian children is a religious duty
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://t.co/9YLUuU9ktP https://t.co/0SrFcIW4as
According to UNICEF 21,289 Palestinian children have died and 171,230 Palestinians
have been injured, including 44,500 children. Most of those injured will die
because Israel has destroyed virtually every Palestinian hospital and clinic.
You are no different to those who, in the 19th century,
following a Black slave uprising mourned the deaths of the White slavers.
It speaks volumes that Labour's corrupt MPs have so little understanding of the democratic process that they have asked the Police to investigate the right of the Green Party to oppose Zionism. Note these scumbags have never once suggested the same for the racist Reform Party.
Jewish ‘self-determination’
You said
that the Zionism is Racism policy ‘rejects the
right of the Jewish people to self-determination’. The motion did not
mention Jewish self-determination. Self-determination means the right of
a nation to form a state. Jews are neither a nation nor a race. They are a
religion. That is the only common factor between Indian, Argentinean and
British Jews. They neither speak the same language nor share the same
territory.
Zionism has never been about Jewish ‘self-determination’ and nor
did it describe itself as such until recently. Perhaps you might be so good as
to tell us when it was that Zionism described itself as Jewish
self-determination?
The only people who claimed that Jews were part of the same
transnational nation/race were anti-Semites (& Zionists). That was the
basis of the world
Jewish conspiracy theory. The Nazis held that ‘International Jewry’ was a
single, unified, biological race-nation. ‘Jewish self-determination’ is utterly
meaningless.
Naturally the Telegraph, when attacking anti-Semitism, does it with an Islamaphobic & anti-Semitic cartoon. Note Zack's elongated nose. Even Julius Streicher, the Editor of Der Sturmer, hanged at Nuremberg could not have bettered this one.
Zionism is not a
Jewish Ideology
Zionism was not a Jewish but a Christian idea, the product of the
Reformation. Christian
Zionism predated Jewish Zionism by four centuries. The ‘Jewish Return to
Palestine’ was based on the anti-Semitic idea that Jews did not belong where
they lived.
It was because Zionism accepted that Jews did not belong where
they lived that most Jews saw it as a form of Jewish Anti-Semitism. It is no
wonder that a political prostitute like you Bella should find it so attractive.
Anti-Zionism began with Jews and today it is coming back Bella, in
the face of opposition from racist non-Jews like you. When Jewish Zionism first
appeared in the 19th century, Jews of all denominations – from
Reform to Orthodox rejected it. The 1845 Frankfurt Conference
of Reform Jewry and The
Pittsburgh Platform of 1885 rejected Jewish nationalism:
We consider
ourselves no longer a nation but a religious community, and therefore expect
neither a return to Palestine,...nor the restoration of any laws concerning a
Jewish state".
Orthodox Jews were
equally hostile to the secular heresy of Zionism, which was not a religious but
a reactionary political movement. As Gil Troy wrote
in the Jewish Journal:
Reform and
Orthodox rabbis, who rarely agree on anything, agree on one thing: they do not
want the Zionists in their city.
That
was a reference to the Jews who, when they learnt that the First Zionist
Congress in 1897 was to be held in Munich, rose up in protest. The Congress had
to be moved to Basel, Switzerland.
When the British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston and the Earl of
Shaftesbury, a Christian Evangelist, asked the Board of Deputies in 1840 to
support the ‘return’ of Jews to Palestine they received no support. In 1842 the
Board passed
a resolution opposing the idea. Their concern was Jewish Emancipation,
which came in 1858, not accepting that they were strangers.
Only
reactionary colonial cranks such as you Bella were attracted to Zionism. Most
Jews bitterly opposed Zionism and remained so till the Holocaust. As Israeli
novelist A B Yehoshua said in a lecture to Jewish students:
‘Anti-Zionism
is not the product of the non-Jews. On the contrary, the Gentiles have always
encouraged Zionism, hoping that it would help to rid them of the Jews in their
midst. Even today, in a perverse way, a real anti-Semite must be a
Zionist.’
Theodor Herzl, the founder of Political Zionism
found his only supporters in anti-Semites. Herzl wrote in
his Diaries that
‘The
anti-Semites will be our most dependable friends, The anti-Semitic countries
our allies.’
Support for Zionism was the policy of the British Establishment
long before British Jews supported it. Its most ardent supporter was Arthur James
Balfour, a self-confessed anti-Semite. In 1905 Balfour proposed the Aliens Act in
order to keep Jewish refugees out of Britain. In 1917 he authored the Balfour Declaration.
When the War Cabinet approved the Balfour
Declaration, the only dissenting voice was its only Jewish member, Sir
Edwin Montagu. Zionism was supported
by non-Jewish racists like you Bella long before Jews supported it.
Zionism openly collaborated with anti-Semites. Alfred Rosenberg, who was hanged for war
crimes by the Nuremberg Tribunal at Nuremberg wrote in
1919 that
Zionismmust be vigorously supported in order to
encourage a significant number of German Jewsto leave for Palestineor other destinations [Francis
Nicosia, The Third Reich and the Palestine Question]
Zionism
accepted the anti-Semitic idea that Jews did not belong where they lived. That
was why the Jews of Poland rejected Zionism as the war approached. In 1938 in Warsaw
out of 20 Jewish Council seats, 17 were won
by the anti-Zionist Bund and just one by the Zionists. Isaac Deutscher wrote:
The most
fanatical enemies of Zionism were precisely the workers…. To them anti-Semitism
seemed to triumph in Zionism, which
recognised the legitimacy and the validity of the old cry ‘Jews get out!' The
Zionists were agreeing to get out.
European
Jews had no right to colonise Paletine and displace the Palestinians because of
a biblical myth. European Jews had no connection with Palestine. The idea that
we can rearrange the world on the basis of racial fantasies about what happened
2,000 years ago is no different from Hitler’s thousand years Reich.
The
early Zionists described Zionism as a colonial project. When Herzl drafted
a letter in 1902 to Cecil Rhodes, he invited him to “help make history”.
It doesn’t
involve Africa but a piece of Asia Minor … How then, do I happen to turn to you
since this is an out the way matter for you? … Because it is something
colonial,”
The
Jewish settlements in Palestine were called colonies. The Jewish Agency had a
Colonisation Department. Other Zionist organisations include the Jewish
Colonial Trust and the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association. Of course historically
the Labour Party supported the British Empire.
Labour Party Anti-Semitism
Unlike
accusations of anti-Semitism against the Left, Anti-Semitism was rife amongst
the Labour Right. The first Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, wrote that:
The rich plutocratic Jew is the
true economic materialist. He is the person whose views upon life make one
anti-Semitic. He has no country, no kindred. Whether as a sweater or a
financier, he is an exploiter of everything he can squeeze. He is behind every
evil that Governments do and his political authority, always exercised in the
dark, is greater than that of Parliamentary majorities... He detests Zionism
because it revives the idealism of his race
This was printed in a pamphlet by Poalei Zion (which renamed itself the Jewish Labour Movement). Zionists never had any objection to genuine anti-Semitism.
Herbert
Morrison, who was Home Secretary in the wartime coalition government, opposed the
immigration of Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution. InOctober 1942 Morrisonreceived a delegation including Eleanor
RathboneMP and Lord Astor, asking him for
visas for 2,000 Jewish childrenand the elderly in VichyFrance. Morrisonrefused. On November 11 the Nazis overran
Vichy Franceand these Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Morrison was
the uncle of Peter Mandelson.
Your
friends in the Daily Mail described the Green Party as the ‘first openly anti-Semitic party in the UK’, forgetting the time when it supported the
anti-Semitic British Union of Fascists & National Socialists with a headline‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts’.
In
the 30s the Mail ran a campaign against Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, with
one particularly notorious
headline of August 20, 1938 ‘German
Jews Pouring Into This Country’. You and the Daily Mail make good companions, combining as you do Zionism and Anti-Semitism.
You
described the Green Zionism is Racism motion as ‘a flagrant attack on the right of religious freedom’.Have
words have lost all meaning or are you a political Humpty Dumpty? Zionism is a
political ideology. Declaring Zionism is racist has no connection with Jewish religious
worship.
The Jewish Religion Today in Israel IS a Racist
Religion
The
Jewish religion in Israel is used to legitimise the most extreme racism. Rabbis
use the most racist and chauvinist sections of the Talmud to justify ethnic
cleansing and genocide.
Rabbi Dov Lior, the Head of the Rabbinical Council in the West Bank once said that “a thousand
non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail”. Rabbi
Yaacov Perrin, at
the funeral of Baruch Goldstein, who
on 25 February 1994 killed 29 worshippers in the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron told mourners that one million Arabs “are not worth a Jewish
fingernail.”
Until recently Israel’s Police Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, had a picture of
Goldstein displayed in his front room. This is the leader of the third largest
bloc in the Knesset. But you Bella Sankey and your fellow Labour racists fail to
mention that Israel is governed by open racists and genocidaires.
Dov Lior and dozens of Israeli rabbis, including the military
rabbis, endorsedTorat HaMelech,
a religious guide to how to kill non-Jews. It was written by two rabbis,
Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur in 2009. The following are extracts from the book:
If we kill a gentile who has violated one of the seven
commandments [the Noahide laws], there is nothing wrong with the murder.
Shapira wrote that babies and children of Israel’s enemies may
be killed, since “it is clear that they will grow to harm us." Which is
what Himmler said when justifying killing Jewish children.
‘Anywhere where the presence of a gentile poses a threat to
Israel, it is permissible to kill him, even if it is a righteous gentile who is
not responsible for the threatening situation.”
Zvika Fogel, of Ben Gvir’s Religious Zionism, declared that
“if it is one Israeli mother crying, or a thousand Palestinian
mothers crying, then a thousand Palestinian mothers will cry.”
Daniel Blatman, a holocaust historian at the Hebrew University
and Chief Historian at Poland’s Warsaw Ghetto Museum wrote
‘Israel’s Government Has neo-Nazi Ministers. It Really Does Recall Germany
in 1933’. Gvir, Smotrich and other members of Netanyahu’s
coalition are no different from the Nazis.
The neo-Nazi Zionist right in Israel is growing because that is the
logic of Zionism. Zionism is a settler colonial movement based on Jewish
Supremacy. But Bella Sankey sees, says and hears nothing.You are apolitical harridan.
Another Anti-Semitic Cartoon Attacking Polanski that Sankey Has Nothing to Say About
Israel is a Racist State, Zionism Is Its Ideology
Zionism is Racist because the Zionist
movement colonised Palestine and displaced the Palestinians. Racism justified its
colonial project. It was only Christian racists like Bella Sankey who loved
Zionism because it accorded with ideas about a millenarian era and the End
Times. Christian Zionists believed that the Jews had to ‘return’ in order that
Christ could return.
You say ‘We can condemn
the Israeli government’s action and stand firmly for Palestinian freedom …’
But you can’t if you support the very Zionism that denies Palestinians freedom.
You are a devious, deceitful racist who thinks she can run with the fox and
hunt with the hounds.
Racism in Israel is off the scale. That’s not because of
Netanyahu but because of Zionism. A Jewish state is a throwback to medievalism.
A state which defines its ethnicity in terms of religion is automatically
racist & potentially genocidal.
The Christian ethno nationalist states in Europe – Romania,
Slovakia, Croatia and Hungary - were the most eager to participate in the Holocaust.
Israel is modelled on these states which is why neo-Nazis the world over, like
Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk are devoted Zionists.
You profess to be an anti-racist Bella Sankey yet it is clear
that you are not only a racist but like most racists you are a few sandwiches
short of a picnic. You accuse the Green Party of
“sit(ting) side by side
with the British Union of Fascists and the National Front and other extremist
actors.”
It is clear that you know nothing about Britain's fascists either. The British
Union of Fascists hasn’t existed since 1940
it would be remarkable if anyone sat alongside them. The National Front, is
barely alive. The most prominent neo-Nazi in Britain, Tommy Robinson, is a self-declared Zionist and was a guest of the Israeli government. These are the people who you and fellow
Labour Party members are keeping company with.
Tommy Robinson Explains Why He Is
A Zionist
From Germany’s Alternative
for Germany to France’s National
Rally and Hungary’s Viktor Orban, today’s anti-Semitic and racist parties
are pro-Zionist. That is who you are sitting with with Bella Sankey.
The far-right love Zionism because they identify with its ethno-nationalism.
Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, who organised the Unite the Right Charlottesville march, which declared that ‘the Jews will not
replace us,’declares that he is a White Zionist.
Sankey and fellow Labour Councillors Were Appointed by Ivor Caplin, the former Chair of the Jewish Paedophile/Labour Movement
When you equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism all you
prove is that you are a politician for hire, a political prostitute. We should
not forget that you and other Labour councillors were selected
and approved, not by party members but
by Ivor Caplin, who was the SE Selection Board of Labour.
Caplin, former MP for Hove, was caught and arrested in a paedophile sting in January 2025. The CPS and Police
decided not to prosecute him. Whereas I was prosecuted for ‘terrorism’ for 3
tweets and a blog, Caplin who sought to have sex with under-age boys has not
been prosecuted.
Israeli racism, which is a consequence of Zionism, isn’t a
product of October 7. In Marriage
to an Arab is National Treason a poll in
2007, 16 years before October 7, over half of Israel’s Jewish population held
marriage of a Jewish woman to an Arab man was ‘national treason’. Note that the
respondents didn't object on religious but racial grounds.
75% didn’t approve of apartment buildings being shared with
Arabs, 60% said they would not allow an Arab to visit their home, 40% agreed
that “Arabs should have their right to vote for Knesset revoked” and
over half agreed that Israel should encourage its Arab citizens to leave the
country.
55% said “Arabs and Jews should be separated at entertainment
sites”. Over 56% said they believed that Israel’s Arab citizens posed both
a security and a demographic threat to the country.
Israel's Burning Alive of 3 Year Old Marya Ghanem's Parents and the Saving of the Child
This child is the victim
of the Israeli state, that Caroline Lucas and the Green MPs are defending
In 2025 a poll found that 82% of Israeli Jews supported
the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, some 60% wanted to kill every Palestinian in Gaza
and 56% wanted to expel all Arabs. The genocidal statements of Israeli politicians
are ignored.
The Witchhunt is On Against Greens Who Support the Motion as With the Attack on a Councillor in Norfolk
MK
Michal Woldiger (Religious Zionism), said:
What is being
done in Gaza, it's a pity that worse isn't done. There are no innocents. Yes,
children should be killed. Because they serve as a human shield.
In
February, Deputy Knesset Speaker Nissim Vaturi (Likud) said,
in an interview with Radio Kol Barama,
Who is innocent in Gaza?
Civilians went out and slaughtered people in cold blood. The children and women
must be separated, and the adult [men] in Gaza must be killed. We are being too
considerate.
"Very soon we will turn Jenin
into Gaza." MK Moshe Saada (Likud) said:
"Yes, I'll starve Gazans, yes, this
is our obligation; to impose a totally full blockade" (Haaretz, 27.4.26)
Finance
Minister Bezalel Smotrich
called to expel civilians from Gaza and promised:
"We will destroy what remains of
Gaza." National Security Minister Ben-Gvir regularly
declares that "There
are no noncombatants" in Gaza.
These are your friends Bella. When you declare
Zionism is not racist you are whitewashing Jewish Nazis. The calls for genocide,
war crimes and extermination by Israeli Ministers make it official policy.
Yair Lapid - Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset
The
‘Opposition’ in Israel is just as bad. ‘Centrist’ Opposition Leader, Yair
Lapid, said
that:
My principle
says maximum Jews on maximum land with maximum security and with minimum
Palestinians.”
Benjamin Netanyahu told Israelis to ‘remember
Amalek’ and Smotrich explained that
There are no half measures. Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat – total annihilation.
‘You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven’ – there’s no
place under heaven.
Finally let us consider Zionism’s inherent racism.
Yosef Alziadna was one of the great heroes of October 7th. That morning he was asleep in bed when a friend called him to help. Alziadna drove past Be'eri under fire, reached the party grounds and packed 30 people into his 14-seat minibus. Today, the State of Israel destroyed his storage shed and chicken coop, tore out what was left of his nephew's house (the nephew had already knocked it down himself to avoid a forced demolition), and damaged land. This is how Israel treats its Palestinian citizens. No matter how much you serve the Zionist regime, you will remain subhuman to them.
The Middle
East Eye, Jerusalem Post,Times
of Israel and Guardian printed variants on this story about a Bedouin who is an
Israeli citizen. He lives in the Negev in Israel’s semi-desert south where few
people live. It is home to most Bedouins.
They live in a number of villages and half of them are
unrecognised which means that they receive no facilities like Jewish local
authorities do. No electricity, running water, sewerage etc. No Jewish
settlements are unrecognised.
Most of those living in these
villages were moved 60+ years ago from their lands and dumped in the middle of
the Negev. Israel is now looking to put more Jewish towns in the Negev so they
are trying to evict more Bedouin villages. This is called Judaisation of the
Negev. It is like the Nazis’ ‘deJewification’.
They are called squatters because
the land they are on is state land. Being a Jewish state it is Jewish state
land and non-Jews and Arabs can’t access it.. They have no entitlement to it.
In Israel the State and the Jewish National Fund own 93% of land. Hence the demolition
of villages such as Umm
al-Hiran.
Three years after the Palestinian attack on October 7, Israeli authorities demolished
properties belonging to a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Yousef
Zyadna, who rescued 30 Israelis from the Nova music festival during the 2023
attacks.
Zyadna, a minibus driver subsequently received
an award for his heroism at an event at Israel's Friends of Zion museum.
Israeli news site Local Call reported that Israeli
authorities razed a warehouse and chicken coop belonging to Yousef while his
nephew's home was demolished.
Dozens of bulldozers arrived in Zyadna’s
neighbourhood near the city of Rahat, where they demolished homes and other
structures. This is the racism that you Bella Sankey defend.
And just one last thing Sankey. You support the non-existent
right of Jews in Brighton & Hove to ‘self-determination’. How about you
putting your money where your mouth is? My son goes to Wellington House, the
last day centre in the city to cater for adults with a learning disability.
Your administration is set on closing the Centre and you
manipulated the vote among Labour’s tame councilors to achieve this, even
though it is estimated to ‘save’ barely £300,000. Marketisation was the verbal
rhetoric behind the proposed closure. You walk, talk and act like the Tory you
are.
Since you support self-determination for Jews who are among the
most prosperous of Brighton & Hove residents, how about supporting self-determination
for Brighton & Hove’s disabled community. Or would that go against your ‘feminist’
credentials? You really are contemptible.
Let me educate you since your colleagues are incapable of it.
Zionism has never opposed anti-Semitism. It arose out of a belief that anti-Semitism
was inherent in every non-Jew like you. So when the BUF decided on October 4 to
march through the Jewish East End of London, up to 300,000 Jewish and non-Jewish workers opposed them.
The Board of Deputies and the Zionists, whose mouthpiece was the
Jewish Chronicle vigorously opposed
the anti-fascists mobilization. So did the right-wing scum in the Labour Party
who were more concerned to oppose communism than fascism. Which is why when the
Board of Deputies held a rally against ‘anti-Semitism’ recently they invited
Nigel Farage but not the only Jewish leader of a political party, Zack Polanski.
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