Money intended for the victims of Israel’s merciless bombing of Gaza is being stolen and given to Israel’s racist Magen David Adom
I am pleased to announce that the school authorities have totally backed down now and the money will go, as originally intended, to a Palestinian charity, probably Medical Aid for Palestinians see here for school statement
The students of
Stretford High School decided that they would get together to raise funds for
the Palestinian victims of Israel’s genocidal bombing of Gaza. The Head
Teacher, Nicola Doward decided otherwise. The funds would be split between those
who murdered and those who were killed.
Nicola Doward - Headteacher at Stretford High
Let us recall what started
the attack on Gaza. It began in Sheikh Jarrar in East Jerusalem. Palestinian
refugees who have lived there since 1948, for 73 years, found that they were
subject to legal proceedings under the Legal
and Administrative Matters Law 1970 to evict them because the properties
were originally owned by Jews who fled to Israel when Jerusalem was
partitioned.
This is part of the Master
Plan to ‘Judaise’ Jerusalem and ensure it has a large Jewish majority. See Systematic
dispossession of Palestinian neighborhoods in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan by
Israel’s Peace Now.
However the 45,000
Palestinians who fled West Jerusalem cannot evict the Jews who took over their
homes. Why? Because Israel is a Jewish state and it is also why it is a racist
state.
Israeli Police have
since been laying siege to Sheik Jarrar and acting with vicious brutality. On
Saturday the veteran Al Jazeera reporter, Givara
Budeiri, was arrested
for the crime of reporting. During her arrest she was kicked and beaten and suffered
a broken arm.
Stretford High School
There
was the attack
on worshippers at Al Aqsa mosque. There was no equivalent invasion of a Jewish
synagogue by Palestinian protestors. This was totally one sided and relates to the continuous
attempts by Jewish settlers to encroach on Al Aqsa Mosque. Their desire is
to demolish
the mosque and build a Third Temple on the site.
Imagine
if Iranian police, firing stun grenades and sponge-tipped bullets, which have
taken the eyes of 3 Palestinians out, were to invade a Jewish synagogue in
Tehran. The cries of ‘anti-Semitism’ would resound far and wide. Yet the White
House, Keir Starmer et al said nothing.
This
is the background to the firing of rockets from Gaza, though most of them are just
fire crackers. Just 12 Israelis died, of whom 2 were Israeli Arabs and two Thai
workers. Jews have air raid shelters in Israel unlike non-Jews. At least 265
Palestinians were murdered by ‘precision’ bombings, including 67
children. 22 Palestinians were murdered
in the West Bank where there has been a reign of terror.
This
is the background to Doward’s decision to steal money collected for the
Palestinians. Doward has explained
her actions on Facebook and on the school’s website.
She says it is untrue:
i.
‘That I have donated money raised by the
school to 2 charities: 'one supporting Palestine, the other supporting Israel'….
We are donating the money to ONE charity: Red
Cross Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel Crisis Appeal.’
This
is dishonest. The Red Cross itself says that it is
‘supporting the work of the International Committee of the
Red Cross and our partner organisations the Palestine Red Crescent, and Magen David Adom in Israel.’
In
other words it is going to support both the Palestinians and their killers.
Israel does not need assistance. None of its hospitals were bombed. Israeli
bombing deliberately
targeted Palestinian hospitals, schools
and clinics in Gaza. This included Gaza’s only COVID testing clinic. The one
hospital they did not bomb Al Shifa had the roads
to it destroyed preventing ambulances reaching it. Israel took care to kill
as many doctors as possible. Dr Ayman Abu al-Auf, Shifa head of internal
medicine and head of its coronavirus response.
ii.
Nicola
Doward says that ‘people who want to sow
seeds of hate will not deter us.’ The only hateful person is Ms Doward. The
Israeli charity Magen David Adom, the Israeli Red Cross, is a thoroughly racist
organisation. It has a history, when attending to the shooting of Palestinian
‘terrorists’ i.e. civilians who resist the occupation of only attending to the Israeli wounded not Palestinians. This includes Palestinian children.
Amazingly in 2012 MDA set up a
religious ethics committee headed by Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of
Safed. Eliyahu is a vicious racist who in 2010 issued
an edict forbidding Jews in Safed to rent homes to Arabs. Even worse he stated
that MDA must refuse to treat wounded ‘terrorists’ (for which read
Palestinians) and if necessary should poison their food in prison. Rabbi
Eliyahu also advocated the hanging
of Palestinian children yet MDA saw fit to appoint him nonetheless.
iii.
Jonathan
Cook, a former Guardian Reporter and winner of the Martha Gelhorn award, reported
that:
There is mounting evidence that Israeli ambulance crews are
withholding treatment from Palestinians injured during a wave of attacks over
the past six months, according to rights groups.
Physicians for Human Rights in Israel, a medical watchdog
group, found that wounded Palestinians had been left untreated for as long as
two hours.
In some cases, medical teams are suspected of failing to
tend to the injuries of suspected attackers as revenge, in the expectation that
they will die from their wounds….
Physicians for Human Rights (an Israeli
body) accused Israel’s leading medical bodies – the Israeli Medical
Association, which lays down ethical codes, and Magen David Adom, which supervises ambulance services – of ignoring
the evidence it has collected of such abuses.
Ha'aretz, a
liberal Israeli paper asked
Why Wasn't the Hurt Palestinian Assailant Treated? it went on to say that
‘Footage of terror attacks show Israeli medical staff standing by as
Palestinian assailants lie wounded on the ground; the incidents put the
national rescue service, which officially isn't meant to operate in the
territories, in an embarrassing position.’ As one Israeli medic said on Twitter
‘“To all who
ask, when I got to the scene today in Jaffa Gate, I helped the wounded
[Israelis], but not the hateful terrorist, although he suffered more critical
wounds.”
All
Palestinians who resist the occupation are routinely called ‘terrorists’.
Dr. Tslil Regev writing
in Israel’s +972 Magazine described how:
The video
clip released Thursday of an Israeli soldier shooting in the head an
incapacitated Palestinian man, who had stabbed and wounded a separate soldier,
doesn’t leave much room for speculation. Maybe it’s because I’m a doctor, but
when I watched the video I couldn’t take my eyes off the Magen David Adom (MDA)
medical team at the scene — treating the wounded soldier, completely ignoring
the man lying wounded on the street, evacuating the soldier in an ambulance,
and then boom. A murder.
Doward’s statement
went on to say that:
The appeal will help provide medical and humanitarian
assistance in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank including East Jerusalem,
supporting the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross and our
partner organisations the Palestine Red Crescent, and Magen David Adom in
Israel.
Ms Doward equates the Israeli
superpower with its victims who have been under occupation for over 70 years
(including Israeli Palestinians). Doward goes on to say that the ‘Red Cross is a 'neutral,
impartial, independent humanitarian Movement' who 'respond when people need us, no matter who or where they are.’
This is nonsense. The
Red Cross was set up to provide help for imprisoned soldiers, not civilians. It refuses to condemn
the racism of MDA and Israeli soldiers who, according to Medical Aid for
Palestine deliberately
delay Palestinian ambulances at check points.
The Red Cross never reveals information about human rights abuses which is why
the Americans uniquely
allowed them access to Guantanamo on condition they remain silent. The Red
Cross is trusted by the most brutal regimes for this reason.
Ms Doward is guilty of
‘bothsidism’. Treating the oppressed and oppressor as equals. As Paulo Freire, the famous
Brazilian educator and philosopher wrote:
‘Washing one’s hands of the conflict
between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to
be neutral.”
Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize
winner, Archbishop of Johannesburg and hero of the anti-apartheid wrote:
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have
chosen the side of the oppressor”
That is precisely what Doward has done.
She has chosen the side of the oppressed, donating money to a racist Israeli
organisation which, unlike the Palestinian Red Crescent, is overburdened with
money.
Elie Wiesel, an Auschwitz survivor in
his speech
accepting the Nobel Peace Prize conveyed the same message:
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never
the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented”
And if Doward is hard of hearing
perhaps the words
of Martin Luther King Jr. will resonate:
“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain
neutral in times of great moral conflict…[an individual] who accepts evil
without protesting against it is really cooperating with it” –
In her smug and self-righteous
statement Doward said that ‘people who want to sow seeds of hate will not deter us.’ In
subverting the desire of her students to help the Palestinians, who are the
real victims in favour of a bogus neutrality, it is she who is guilty of
hatred. Her liberal piety is neutrality in the face of injustice. Doward has
projected her own hate onto others.
For more about how Palestinians
in Israel are subject to lynchings and racist attacks as the Police look on see
Zion Square assault
Doward’s
students may be younger than her but they are wiser.
The International Committee of the Red
Cross
As someone who is
Jewish I have never given a penny to the Red Cross and never will. Why? Because during the Holocaust it refused
to give any aid or comfort to the victims of the Nazis until the very end, in
Hungary in late 1944. Indeed it was worse than that. It conducted
visits to the Thereisenstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps and then gave
them a clean bill of health.
The
ICRC refused to provide any protection for Jews since they accepted the Nazi
designation of them as stateless criminals.[i]
According to its President Max Huber they could not be seen to be ‘intruding into the domestic policy’ of
the Nazis.
There
were discussions throughout August 1942 about the murder of Jewish civilians
yet at the ICRC executive of 14th October 1942 the pro-Nazi former foreign
minister of Switzerland, Philip Etter, ‘opposed
even the anodyne Huber draft’ calling for the humane treatment of
civilians, not even Jews, arguing that it
could be interpreted as a violation of neutrality.’ Etter’s view prevailed.[ii]
The Dutch Red Cross made no effort to communicate with deported Jews although
they did send an ambulance to the Eastern front ‘to comfort the Dutch Waffen-SS volunteers.’ [iii]
The
ICRC attitude changed only at the very end of the war. Louis de Jong condemned
the IHRC for its ‘almost total lack of
concern for the Jews’ disasters.’[iv]
As
the US Holocaust Museum details
the ICRC allowed itself to be taken in by ‘beautification’ of Thereisenstadt.
Just before their visit most inmates were deported to Auschwitz and after the
visit more were deported. The ICRC made no attempt to document the names of the
inmates or to ensure that those they spoke to were protected.
As
Samuel Moyne wrote
in the Wall Street Journal Carl Jacob Burckhardt, the effective head of the ICRC,
harbored a
traditional anti-Semitism and such hatred of communism that he regarded German
Nazism as a bulwark of civilization and a necessary evil. As early as April
1933, the ICRC was receiving desperate letters from inmates of German
concentration camps, including one from Dachau pleading: “‘I beg you again in
the name of the prisoners—Help! Help!’” Yet ... during this period Burckhardt
was given an inspection tour “and
officially lauded the commandant of Dachau for his discipline and decency.”
It wasn’t just
willfully repeating the Germans’ propaganda that stained the ICRC. Nor was it
only the fact that, knowing the Nazis had confirmed their policy of mass
extermination of the Jews at the 1942 Wannsee Conference, the ICRC did nothing
to intervene. What was more difficult to defend was Burckhardt’s sympathies
with and efforts on behalf of Nazi actors after Germany’s defeat. He opposed
the Nuremberg trials, labeling them “Jewish revenge.” ... After the Holocaust,
the ICRC—by then helmed by Burckhardt—even abetted the flight of Nazis such as
Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele by providing them with travel papers.
See How the Red
Cross Failed Europe's Jews & American POW's
This is the organisation that Nicola
Doward has entrusted with money meant for the Palestinians
Tony Greenstein
[i] Arthur Morse, p. 38, While 6 Million Died, Secker Warburg, London 1968
[ii] Lacquer, The Terrible Secret, pp. 62-3.
[iii] Henry Mason, Testing Human Bonds Within Nations: Jews in the Occupied Netherlands, p. 338.
[iv] Louis de Jong Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, 862-864 cited by Henry Mason, Imponderables of the holocaust, p. 105.
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