Tony Greenstein's Blog: The Zionist – Fascist Alliance was Consummated at the Al Quds Demonstration

The Supporters of Tommy Robinson (Steve Yaxley Lennon) Joined Forces with the Board of Deputies Demonstration Against the Palestinians

For the past couple of years British Zionists have been trying to ban the annual Al Quds demonstration in London, which met yesterday at the Saudi Embassy. The pretext for trying to ban a demonstration in support of the Palestinians, which is organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission, was that the yellow flag of Hezbollah was being flown.

It is of course no surprise that London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan has joined in on the side of Jewish supremacists and racists. This disgusting Uncle Tom never hesitates to try and appease the supporters of Israeli Apartheid and Zionism. Not once did he speak out about the slaughter of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators earlier this month in Gaza.

The bourgeois Zionists joined forces with the boneheads in a common anti-Islamic cause

What makes it worse is that last year Darren Osborne, who was convicted of murdering an elderly worshipper at the Finsbury Park mosque, had attempted to drive his van into the marchers. The Police presence prevented this but it would seem that the Zionist Board of Deputies wants to complete what the fascist Osborne attempted. Mark Rowley, the UK’s most senior counter-terror officer said it was clear that Osborne had been motivated to attack Muslims by reading what Tommy Robinson had written about Muslims. Finsbury Park attacker turned violent by far-right posts from Tommy Robinson and Britain First, police say

Present yesterday were many of the same fascist thugs who the previous day had held a demonstration calling for the freeing from a 13 month prison sentence of Tommy Robinson (Steve Yaxley Lennon).

Bonehead looking lost

Gormless personified

On Saturday an estimated 15,000 members of the Football Lads Alliance had gathered in London. Like the EDL which Robinson founded, these fascists are ardent supporters of Zionism and Israel. Of course they don’t love Jews anymore and it was noticeable that supporters of Robinson were giving Hitler salutes. This is the company that the Board of Deputies and the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, which also campaigned against yesterday’s demonstration, keep.

It is a feature of the far-Right today that their hatred of Muslims has led to ardent support for Israel and Zionism. The fascist rally was addressed by the leader of the Dutch Freedom party Geert Wilders, for whom 'Israel Is West's First Line of Defense'

A lonely fash

Hoffman whitened up seemed out of sorts

Hundreds of these fascist thugs stayed over to the Sunday in order to try and attack the Al Quds demonstration and they linked up with a group of Zionist fascists who I have previously featured here and here.

Amongst the Zionist fascists was Mark Harringman, who emailed me asking me to take his profile down because it stopped him getting a job. Harringman tried to stick a camera in my face as a means of revenge!

Hoffman wasn't his normal ebullient self - perhaps he's having a late mid life crisis

When I went for a coffee I had to go through a group of these Zionists who seemed besides themselves, jeering and crowing. I lost count of how many times I was accused of being a ‘traitor’ – to whom I’m not sure. I thought accusing Jews of dual loyalty was anti-Semitic! The appropriately named Amanda Shitrit was particularly put out as she screamed and howled.

The CAA 'charity' rejoices in the unlawful attempt to block the progress of the march - it classifies a group of fascists as 'anti-terrorism activists'

My old friend Jonathan Hoffman’s face was plastered in white. Is White supremacy getting to him? His alter ego Thor Halland seems to have been absent altogether. Another missing face was Joseph Cohen. As I remarked to a friend who came with me, I just love their hate. It must really hurt them to come up against anti-racist and anti-Zionist Jews as they hang out with a bunch of boneheads and assorted thugs.

Still as the American alt-Right proves, with its founder neo-Nazi Richard Spencer declaring he is a White Zionist and other neo-Nazis like Sebastian Gorka falling over themselves to declare their love for Zionism and Israel, the political dividing lines have now been drawn. After all what is there not to like about Israel if you are a neo-Nazi or White Supremacist? Israel is the ideal ethno-nationalist state which deports anyone who is Black who seeks asylum there. It is a state at the forefront of hostility to Muslims.

He reminds me of an old slogan of ours 'Thick and dumb, Nazi scum'

The Zionist pretext for banning Hezbollah is that it is a ‘terrorist’ organisation. The real reason is that Hezbollah is the only Arab organisation to have successfully resisted Israeli aggression. It was the determination of Hezbollah that forced Israel to withdraw from Lebanon in 2000 and when Israel invaded and bombed Lebanon in 2006 Hezbollah inflicted a heavy defeat on the Zionist forces.

All the nonsense about Hezbollah being a ‘genocidally, anti-Semitic’ organisation should be treated with a very large pinch of salt. Hezbollah isn’t a leftist organisation politically but nor are its opponents. However it is a lie to say that it is hostile to Jews as Jews. Many Jews such as Norman Finkelstein have met with its leaders. This is, once again, an attempt to transplant European anti-Semitism to the Arab world. Anti-Semitism was not a phenomenon in the Arab world and even today anti-Jewish expressions are the consequence of imperialism and the Zionist colonisation not because of an adherence to racial doctrines.

Mark Harrigman - in your face

Nor is Hezbollah a ‘terrorist’ organisation. Apart from the fact that the definition of a ‘terrorist’ organisation is that it lacks a mass base and therefore substitutes violence for political activity, Hizbollah has never planted bombs in the cities of Europe or any other country. It has fought in Syria at the invitation of the Syrian government, a mistake in my view, but it is no more a terrorist than any other group or state fighting in Syria such as the Russians or the Americans.

Hezbollah (and Hamas) are often painted by Zionist propagandists as the equivalent of Al Nusra/Al Quaeda (which Israel supports in Syria) or ISIS (which they are strongly suspected of supporting). However both groups have come into conflict with these Jihadist groups, in particular ISIS. It is noticeable that when an offshoot of the Yemen Al Qaeda group carried out the Charlie Hebdo murders in France and then followed up with the murder of 4 French Jews in Paris, that both Hamas and Hezbollah condemned these killings.

A slightly intellectual looking fascist - anyone know his name?

Hezbollah’s rhetoric about wiping Israel off the face of the earth is crude but what they really mean is eliminating Zionism and the Israeli state not the people who live in Israel. Hezbollah came into existence as a result of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 when over 20,000 people were killed and 100,000 were injured as Israel bombed and devastated Lebanon’s cities. This is the real terrorism. The reality is that behind the rhetoric is a pragmatic approach which has seen a 12 year ceasefire on the Lebanon border, which Israel has not for once broken because Hizbollah’s rockets undoubtedly act as a deterrent.

Mark Harrigman - not exactly one of the Zionist intellectual elite

As Metropolitan Police Commander Jane Conners wrote in a letter to that disgusting supporter of Israeli child abuse, Louise Ellman, MP for Tel Aviv South and Liverpool Riverside: “Purely holding a flag does not necessarily incite religious or racial hatred.” It’s obvious really. Hezbollah, which is a Lebanese national liberation movement has both a political and a military wing, just as in Ireland the IRA was the military wing and Sinn Fein was the political wing. Kurdish groups do likewise.

This one was giving out 'free Tommy Robinson' flyers

Nonetheless, I think the organisers of the march (which because it was so delayed I couldn’t stay for) need to consider the wisdom of having the Hezbollah flag flying when the march is about Palestine. Tactically it may be better to just have Palestinian flags flying. The question of Hizbollah flags is a pretext however what is essential is that it isn't used as an excuse to ban the demonstration as a whole.

Nonetheless the idea that the demonstration, which has been held for over 30 years, should be banned is an outrage. Even more so when the people who are calling for a ban are the very same ones who are happy to go on demonstrations with real fascists and Muslim hating anti-Semites.

Melanie - a picture of stupidity - whenever she sees me she calls out but is reluctant to engage in conversation - a former model I believe

A real charmer

If anyone is genocidal it is the representatives of Israel, such as its rabbis who regularly compare the Palestinians to the Biblical Amalek. For example the Chief Rabbi of Safed, Shmuel Eliyahu, said in 2007 that Israel “must kill 100,000, even a million” people in Gaza if that was necessary to stop Palestinian resistance fighters from firing rockets into Israel by way of retaliation. Eliyahu also justified rape by Israeli soldiers in war because otherwise they would lose their motivation to fight! [Rabbi who urged Gaza genocide excused rape by soldiers] Or Israel’s fascist Defence Minister Lieberman who recently said that ‘there are 'no innocent people' in Gaza as 30 Palestinians martyred.

It seems as if it was away day for the fascist OAPs

Lieberman has previously told of how he dreams of being able to drown thousands of Palestinian prisoners and cut off the heads of Arab Israelis. This is a man who can actually put his threats into action. The wilder statements of Hizbollah are just empty rhetoric.

That is why the hypocrisy of ‘Labour Zionists’ such as the Jewish Labour Movement is so nauseating. Today there is no excuse for anyone pretending to be a socialist and a Zionist. That is why the removal of the JLM and Labour Friends of Israel from the Labour Party is an absolute priority.