Parachuted in by Blair, Louise Ellman, a dedicated supporter of Israeli
child abuse finally gets the message that she isn’t wanted
Speaking to the Jewish Chronicle after finally resigning from the Labour Party,
Louise Ellman said it "sounded very
credible" that Jeremy Corbyn had once dubbed her "the Honourable
Member for Tel Aviv".
Jewish Chronicle article on my attack on Ellman |
I don’t know whether Jeremy Corbyn has
ever called her the Member for Tel Aviv but there is certainly nothing
honourable about this wretch. As the Jewish Chronicle’s Daniel Sugarman noted:
Mr Greenstein was expelled from Labour in February
over abusive behaviour that included writing blog posts about veteran Jewish
Labour MP Louise Ellman as the MP for “Tel Aviv South” and a “racist supporter
of the child abuse of Palestinian children”.
When Apartheid in South Africa existed
we
used to call the Tory MP for Luton North, John
Carlisle, a supporter of the Apartheid regime who died earlier this year, ‘the
member for Bloemfontein West’. He was also called
the MP for Johanneburg!
These are some of the techniques used on children and adults - they are legal in Israel and the Dame approves |
I doubt that that was racist. So why should it be racist or anti-Semitic to
describe Louise Ellman as the MP for Tel Aviv?
Louise Ellman is however a despicable
supporter of Israel’s abuse of Palestinian children.
On 6th January 2016 there
was a Parliamentary Debate ‘Child Prisoners and Detainees: Occupied Palestinian
Territories’
It was introduced by Sarah Champion
MP who cited a report from British lawyers in June 2012 concerning Palestinian children
held in Israeli military custody. Facilitated and funded by the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office the Report found that Israel was in breach of six of its
legal obligations under the UN convention on the rights of the child and two
obligations under the fourth Geneva convention.
Ellman consistently defended Israel's treatment of Palestinian children, including torture |
The report concluded
that if the allegations of abuse were true, Israel would also be in breach of
the absolute prohibition against cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment. In other words Israel tortures
children and Ellman defends it. Indeed Israel barely denies it since it is
legal under Israeli law.
Eight months
after the UK report was published, UNICEF released its own
assessment of the military detention system for children. Based on over 400
sworn affidavits from children as young as 12 who were detained by military
courts, UNICEF concluded that,
One of the reasons for my expulsion was calling Dame Ellman a supporter of Israeli child abuse |
“the ill-treatment of children who come in contact
with the military detention system appears to be widespread, systematic and
institutionalized throughout the process, from the moment of arrest until the
child’s prosecution and eventual conviction and sentencing”.
None of this stopped Dame Ellman intervening 3 times during the debate
to defend the Israeli military’s treatment of children:
‘does she accept that the
context in which these situations occur is an organised campaign conducted by
the Palestinian authorities of incitement, to try to provoke young Palestinians
to carry out acts of violence towards other civilians, some of which result in
death, including the death of young children?’
The idea that Palestinian children
have to be incited to attack the military occupation, because otherwise they
would fall in love with soldiers who tear gas them is one of Ellman’s pet
themes.
Ms Champion responded that:
‘this debate is about the different treatment of
Palestinian and Israeli children, and the breach of human rights and
international law.’
The late Jo Cox MP also intervened:
‘evidence from Military Court Watch suggests that
65% of children continue to report being arrested at night in what are
described as terrifying raids by the military.’
This did not deter Ellman who
intervened again:
‘Does my hon. Friend really believe that the
solution to this horrendous conflict between two peoples—the Israeli and the
Palestinian people—can be found by encouraging individual child Palestinians to
commit acts of violence against other human beings?’
And then this despicable MP
intervened a 3rd time:
‘I note my hon. Friend’s comments that a child
should not be detained, and I assume that she means in any circumstances.
Suppose a child was involved in an act of violence that resulted in the deaths
of other human beings. That is what has happened with young Palestinians
throwing stones—people have been killed. In those circumstances, surely she
thinks that there should be detention.’
Military arrests of children of which
there are hundreds each year are a method of coercing and intimidating Palestinian
communities.
Two years later, on 7th February 2018, there was another
debate on Palestinian
Children and Israeli Military Detention. Ellman made a speech supporting the
Israeli military. She spoke of
‘the Palestinian Authority’s incitement
of young people to hate and kill, as is happening on the west bank today. Such
incitement is specifically in breach of the Geneva conventions.’
In fact the Palestinian Authority is a Quisling Authority which works
with the Israeli military to prevent acts of resistance. Ellman went on:
‘We
must remember that 75% of the offences committed by Palestinian minors are
violent crimes, including murder, attempted murder, shooting, making and
throwing Molotov cocktails, and attacking soldiers. Thirty per cent. of
assailants in the terror attacks of 2016 were under 18 years old. The youngest
was 11. For example, in June 2016, 13-year-old Hallel Ariel was stabbed to
death by Nasser Tarayrah, a 17-year-old Palestinian, who climbed into her home
and stabbed her repeatedly in a frenzied attack in front of her younger
siblings.’
Ellman was referring to the death of an Israeli settler child. She ‘forgot’
to mention the 32 Palestinian children killed
in 2016. A further 14 were killed
in 2017 and in 2018 56 were killed,
the highest for four years. However as these were Palestinian children who had
died they were of no account to this racist.
Ellman did however mention the death of one settler baby ‘Yehuda Haim Shoham, aged five months.’ Jewish
children are mentioned by name. Palestinian
children aren’t mentioned at all.
The reason Ellman has been forced to resign is not that she is Jewish. Some of her major critics in Liverpool
Riverside CLP have been Jewish. It’s
because she is a racist and a Zionist. See The
Riverside scandal: Louise Ellman and the war on Riverside Labour Party
It is difficult for the yellow press and the BBC to get their heads round
that Ellman is hated because of who she is not because she is Jewish..
The BBC tonight carried another lying
report about Ellman’s resignation. Once
again it carried nothing from her critics. No doubt the BBC will claim that
this like all other reports are within BBC Guidelines.
It is a great pity that Jeremy Corbyn
thanked Ellman for her services to the Labour Party, since no one can remember
any. Given she blamed Corbyn for her resignation it is a pity he even mentioned
this execrable woman. The only service she has done the Labour Party is her resignation
from it.
Tony Greenstein
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