22 November 2023

Angelic Israeli Schoolgirls Sing a Song of Annihilation on Israeli TV - How the Memory of the Holocaust is Being Used to Justify Genocide

The Zionists have Reported My Speech to the Demonstration to the Police – There’s Nothing They Would Like Than For Britain to Become Another Israel

Heidi Bachram is a 'journalist' on the Jewish Chronicle & an informer who monitors what we are saying in the hope that the Police will shut us down and criminalise us - she can be contacted on @heidibachram if you want to let her know what you think of her. Informing on people used to be a sin ( lashon hara) because informers led to the deaths of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust and in Spain - Zionism however encourages what is called 'evil talk'

Tony Greenstein Speaks to Demonstration Outside Brighton & Hove Council

Last Wednesday at short notice, Brighton & Hove Trades Council held a picket of Hove Town Hall. The purpose was to get Labour’s silent Councillors to emulate their colleagues in other towns and cities and make a clear statement in support of an immediate ceasefire.

For a month Labour councillors had kept silent, saying nothing about the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. I had written previously to all 38 Labour Councillors asking why they didn’t have the honesty or courage to speak out like over 600 of their colleagues nationally. I received no response.

Israeli children sing: "We will annihilate everyone" in Gaza

Hove Town Hall picket

In response to the forthcoming demonstration these cowards, led by Bella Sankey, finally issued a statement. They would have done well to save their breath. No mention of genocide, no mention of ethnic cleansing, no mention of the bombing of hospitals, instead these political vermin talked about Israel having ‘the right to take targeted action’ against the Palestinians, oblivious to the already 10,000 dead.

UN Human Rights Rapporteur Albanese destroys Kirsty Wark

Bella Sankey, Leader of Brighton & Hove Council, is one in a long line of Labour racists who prefer to avert their eyes when genocide is taking place

Not one councillor attended the demonstration. This is a far cry from the days when councillors were selected by members of the Labour Party. Today what we have is handpicked Starmer clones who hide behind empty phrases. They called for a ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ which is a meaningless phrase. Either there is an unconditional ceasefire or not.


Must Watch Video First Shown on Andrew Marr Show - Shot from Khan Younis

There was no recognition of the starvation siege of Gaza for 17 years, the stifling suffocation of the world’s largest open air prison camp (David Cameron) or indeed the international law right of a people under occupation to resist their occupiers. No doubt these councillor clones would queue up to support the right of Ukrainian people to resist the Russians but of course in that case it’s a NATO proxy war.

ITV - schools bombed in Gaza City

Israeli forces strike Al-Fakhoora School in northern Gaza

Also last week Killer Keir and his genocidal friend Peter Kyle, the Hove MP, abstained in parliament on an SNP amendment calling for an immediate ceasefire. But Palestine and genocide in Gaza produced the largest rebellion of Labour MPs to date, some 56, against Starmer’s support for genocide.

Woman on the genocide that Starmer supports

Labour's War Criminal Leader Doesn't Seem Eager to Engage with Critics

Starmer himself is incapable of defending a position that say that the way to peace is to continue to bomb hospitals, homes, journalists etc. Instead he resorted to a meaningless soundbite:

I wanted to be clear about where I stood, and where I will stand. Leadership is about doing the right thing. That is the least the public deserves.

If leadership is about doing the right thing then Killer Keir would resign.

Israel's fake evidence for its attach on Gaza's Main Hospital Al Shifa

Soldiers surround Al Shifa Hospital

Since last week Israel has invaded Gaza’s largest hospital Al Shifa claiming that it was a Hamas command and control centre. They found nothing other than what they had brought with them. That didn’t stop the news organisations treating Israel’s claims seriously.

BBC Ros Atkins questions Al Shifa as a control centre

Israel’s military even produced a Hamas Laptop but forgot to change the Hebrew language keyboard!! See IDF’s accidental unblurred video ‘shows laptop is their own’ On it was a photo of a hostage that Israel had previously distributed.

But that didn’t stop the IDF forcing people to strip naked, beating and firing at people inside a hospital. To call Israeli soldiers animals would be an insult to a rabid dog.

The demonstration was well attended. Over 300 demonstrators and members of RMT, Unite, UCU and other unions attended. There were a range of speakers and I spoke as a representative of Jewish Network for Palestine.

It would appear that amongst the crowd was the Jewish Chronicle’s racist correspondent Heidi Bachram who has reported me to the Police! Free speech and Zionism don’t go together as we can see from the persecution of those in Israel who oppose its genocidal war.

The Zionists know that most British people don’t support genocide or the murder of school children. Hence the desperation of groups like the misnamed ‘charity’, the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism crying Enough is enough. The police must act.’ The Zionists know that they would be lucky to get 1% of our numbers on a demonstration.

Starmer's Double Standards - Some War Crimes Can Be Called Out - But Not Israeli Ones That's Antisemitic

The CAA is an Israel government front organisation. It was set up at the instigation of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs in July 2014 during the last major Israeli Blitzkrieg on Gaza as a way of undermining solidarity action through accusations of 'antisemitism'.

Its anguished crying now is a demonstration that the effect of solidarity action in the West is being felt in Tel Aviv. Because let's face it, if the eyes of the world were not on Israel they wouldn't even be attempting to pretend that Al Shifa is a Hamas base. The Zionist savages would have gone in and slaughtered everyone. 

Sky News Interview with Palestinian Journalist

The Zionist Belief in Free Speech! Bull and Bachram forget that Britain isn't (yet) quite in the same league as Israel when it comes to free speech

If we think 10,000 or 12,000 dead is bad just imagine what the situation would be if we weren't monitoring their every move? That is why the Zionist army has targeted journalists, in particular those of Al Mayden and Al Jazeera.  It's no accident that BBC and Western journalists haven't been targeted in the same way because the Israelis no they can rely on the BBC to lie for them. Not so with Al Jazeera and Al Mayden. Even the families of their journalists have been targeted whilst the yellow journalists in the West say, see and hear nothing.

Picket of  Hove Town Hall Against the Silence of Brighton & Hove Councillors

That is why the Israelis are so keen to get rid of Al Jazeera having already banned Al Mayden. They know they can rely on the BBC, CBS and Sky but not on the more independent Arab broadcasting stations.  This is ironic given that the West is fond of lecturing Arabs and third world peoples about democracy!

As for Jews being scared of entering London well 1,000 Jews not only made up the Jewish block on the demonstration but were also made very welcome!! There were thousands of Jews, albeit anti-racist Jews, on the march. The CAA became so hysterical that they wrote to Suella Braverman saying she should bring in the army. Clearly the CAA forgot that this is England not Israel! Mad and Bad as Braverman was she was not that mad.

The attack on Palestinian medical facilities and hospitals in Gaza is in flagrant breach of the Geneva Convention but when it suits them Western powers simply ignore international law. The leadership of the American Medical Association, which called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine refused to take a similar resolution on Gaza. Such is the complicity of Western doctors.

Israel has been running a propaganda war to back its genocidal war but occasionally things go wrong. One such instance was when 85 year old hostage Yocheved Lifschitz was released by Hamas. She shook their hands as she left and later said how humanely she had been treated by them. A marked contrast to how Israel has stripped people of their clothes and beaten them.

What was the government’s response? Fury that their message that Hamas are monsters had been undermined. According to Ha’aretz:

"They were very friendly to us," Lifshitz said, "they treated us gently and looked after us."

These statements sparked furty, with some accusing her of damaging the Israeli war effort by portraying Hamas in a generous light. An Israeli government source said that “Lifshitz’s statements about the humane treatment of the hostages at the hands of the Hamas terrorists harmed Israeli hasbara."

https://youtu.be/fXks8nMmxkw

Heidi's video of Tony Greenstein speaking

Heidi Bachram is one of those Jews who prostitute for Israel - no babies were killed by Israel's own statistics but telling the truth is 'hate' 

And there you have it.  Israel’s genocidal war is also accompanied by systematic lying. Ha’aretz reported that

While many criticized Lifshitz and her family for her statements, the lions share of the criticism was directed at the spokesperson of Ilichov Hospital, Avi Shoshan, for facilitating the press conference in the first place.

The hapless Shoshan is being made to pay the price for not realising that the truth was the last thing the Zionist leaders wanted to hear.

Senator Chris Coons Didn't Like Being Questioned on Why He Is a War Criminal - It was Bad Manners

A Wave of Repression Inside Israel Against Dissidents

But it’s not only in the Occupied Territories that there is a wave of terror. It is also taking place in what Zionists like to describe as ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’.

Israelis with a conscience like Dr Meir Baruchin are being locked up and persecuted under Israel's 'democratic' regime

Dr. Meir Baruchin, a civics and history teacher, in a Petah Tikva high school was not only fired by the local authority but spent 5 days in prison for “indicating a decision to commit treason.” And what was his treasonous behaviour? Spying for Hamas? Nothing so glamorous.

In a leading article Arresting Arabs and Left-wingers: How Israel Intends to Crack Down on Domestic Dissent Over Gaza War Ha’aretz explained that the pretext for Baruchin’s arrest was a

posts in which he objected to Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip and discussed the deaths of Gazan civilians. ... The posts included photographs of dead Palestinians, including young children, frequently accompanied by the statement “this doesn’t interest the Jews.” And with a few exceptions, he’s right. Even during peacetime, Israeli public opinion has almost no interest in innocent Palestinian victims. During wartime, the prevailing view is that there is no such thing.

In another post, on October 8, Baruchin listed the names and ages of six Palestinians killed in the West Bank, aged 14 to 24. “They were born under occupation and lived under it all their lives,” he wrote. “They never knew a single day of true freedom ... They were executed by our wonderful boys.” Judge Oren Silverman justified keeping him in detention for another four days due to such statements. According to Silverman, they sufficed “to establish a reasonable suspicion.”…

Baruchin isn’t alone. Over the last month, dozens of Arab Israelis have been arrested over alleged incitement. Both the police and the prosecution are party to this move, which significantly curtails freedom of expression in Israel. Even if some of these statements are uncomfortable for Israelis to hear, they should be permitted as long as they don’t constitute genuine incitement.

Just as in South Africa the attack on the rights of Black people led to restrictions on the rights of Whites too. The neo-Nazis who have taken over the ‘Jewish’ state are also attacking left-wing Jews.

We are seeing a second Nakba in the making and the Zionist lobbyists are working overtime to justify it and explain it away

What is happening in Gaza is the fufilment of far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Decisive Plan. As Orly Noy explains Palestinians have a choice – emigration or annihilation.

Official Israeli Statistics Give the Lie to the Allegation of Decapitated Babies  No Babies Died

Tales of Hamas Barbarities on October 7th

Most of us will be familiar with the tales of Hamas barbarities in Al Aqsa Flood. Decapitated babies, raped women and so on. This is atrocity propaganda. Joe Biden, the corrupt and senile liar who is nominally President of the United States, first alleged that he had seen photographs of beheaded babies. This was a lie and later the White House was forced to ‘walk back’ this allegation.

From The Times to the tabloids they screamed about murdered Israeli babies - yet this was a lie - NO baby was murdered - at least by Palestinians.  Thousands of Palestinian children including babies have been murdered by Israel yet THERE ARE NO HEADLINES CONDEMNING THIS - This is the Colonial Racism that the British Press Used to Justify Barbarities in previous centuries

Likewise there is no credible evidence of rape or naked Israeli women being paraded in Gaza City. There is a long history of the uprisings of colonial people being portrayed as the work of savages. Britain portrayed the Mau Mau rising in Kenya in this fashion. This is how racism operates in justifying colonialism.

But now Israel has released partial figures there is a different story. No babies were killed. 7 children between 4 and 9 and 10 between 10 and 17 were killed. These were 17 too many but they pale in comparison with Israel’s barbarism in Gaza. More than twice as many Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank alone this year compared to last year.

 NAZI statements such as those of Rabbi Maroz above are common in Israel yet the IHRA definition of antisemitism has been forced on us to prevent comparisons between yesterdays and todays murderers

Of course to racists like Haidi Bachram no amount of Palestinian blood is enough. As Netanyahu explained a few weeks ago, the Palestinians are Amalek and the good Lord has commanded the Israelites to wipe them out to every last child. This is the genocidal mentality that is in play today even though Starmer, Sunak and the media pretend that Israel is just another western democracy.

Gradually a picture is being built up of what really happened on October 7. It was a daring and well planned raid aimed at destroying Israel’s Gaza Division. Its second objective was capturing hostages in order to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli gaols. Both are quite legitimate war time objectives.

But when Hamas fighters went into Kibbutz Be’eri to capture hostages, the Israeli army took the decision that instead of allowing a future prisoner exchange they would kill all the potential hostages along with their captives.

Picket of  Hove Town Hall Against the Silence of Brighton & Hove Councillors

Ha’aretz reporter Nir Hasson interviewed Tuval, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, who happened to be away that day and this is his description

“His voice trembles when his partner, who was besieged in her home shelter at the time, comes to mind. According to him, only on Monday night and only after the commanders in the field made difficult decisions — including shelling houses with all their occupants inside in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages — did the IDF complete the takeover of  the kibbutz. The price was terrible: at least 112 Be’eri people were killed. Others were kidnapped. Yesterday, 11 days after the massacre, the bodies of a mother and her son were discovered in one of the destroyed houses. It is believed that more bodies are still lying in the rubble.”

It is clear that Israeli troops, whose only previous fighting experience is killing civilians in the West Bank resorted to overwhelming firepower according to the Dariya Doctrine that Israel espouses. In order to prevent the taking of hostages they simply killed the captured Israeli hostages. See also Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says. And October 7 testimonies reveal Israel’s military ‘shelling’ Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles

Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says

Contrast this Israeli cowardice with the Iranian Embassy siege in London in 1980 where the SAS stormed the building and rescued all but one of the 23 hostages. Israel simply resorts to overwhelming firepower even if it kills its own citizens in the process.

Picket of  Hove Town Hall Against the Silence of Brighton & Hove Councillors

Israeli soldiers are most adept at the abuse of Palestinian civilians including openly torturing them (& putting the videos on social media). See Cigarette Burns, Beatings, Attempted Sexual Assault: Settlers and Soldiers Abused Palestinians

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As Israel targets hospitals, schools, mosques and churches, Labour leaders like Starmer and Nandy refuse to call for an immediate ceasefire. They are accomplices to genocide and should be treated as such. 

Picket of  Hove Town Hall Against the Silence of Brighton & Hove Councillors

On Saturday Israeli air raids killed and injured hundreds of Palestinians at two UNRWA schools, Al Fakhoura and Tall az-Zaatar in the Jabalia refugee camp. At least 50 people were killed in the attack on Al Fakhoura, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

How anyone can claim that Israel is not embarked on genocide and ethnic cleansing after these atrocities defies explanation. After having told Palestinians to move south they are now being told to move to the West of Gaza. It is crystal clear what Israel’s plan is. The forcible eviction of Palestinians from Gaza. Ethnic cleansing is the strategy and western leaders are complicit in this including that execrable dummy Keir Starmer.

Key Developments

Ø   Israeli forces ordered the immediate evacuation of Al-Shifa’ hospital on Saturday morning — leaving only 120 patients in critical state and five doctors on the premises.

Ø   Civilians flee Al-Shifa’ carrying people in wheelchairs and gurneys, amid reports that Israeli forces barred men from entering southern Gaza.

Ø   Israeli forces reportedly took the bodies of 18 Palestinians from Al-Shifa’, with no information on their whereabouts.

Ø   An Israeli airstrike on al-Fakhura school in Jabalia refugee camp on Saturday has killed at least 50 people.

Ø   Scores of deadly Israeli airstrikes pummel Gaza schools, mosques, and homes, killing at least 26 in the southern town of Khan Younis.

Ø   The WHO says Gaza’s health system is “on its knees”.

Ø   Fighting continues between Palestinian resistance groups and Israeli ground forces in northern Gaza and Gaza City.

Ø   In the West Bank, Israeli forces bombed the Fatah party headquarters in Balata refugee camp, killing five.

Ø   At least two other Palestinians die in the West Bank after being shot by Israeli forces, while armed confrontations continue in several areas of the occupied territory.

Ø   Palestinians raise the alarm about growing Israeli settler threat of takeover of Palestinian homes in the Old City’s Armenian Quarter in occupied East Jerusalem.

Ø   The International Criminal Court said on Friday that five countries had sent referrals requesting it investigate whether Israel’s actions in the wake of October 7 constituted crimes.

Key Developments

Ø   In hospital raid, Israeli forces took captive dozens of displaced people, relatives of patients and the injured inside Al-Shifa, after stripping them of their clothes, blindfolding them, and taking them to “unknown” locations.

Ø   The buildings of the nephrology and the internal medicine departments at Al-Shifa Hospital were the first to be stormed by Israeli forces. Israeli forces also detonated a medicine storehouse at the hospital.

Ø   Genocide Joe Biden backs Israeli accusations of a Hamas command underneath Al-Shifa Hospital, which Hamas denied. Hospital staff have called on independent, third-party investigators to come to the hospital and investigate the claim, which they also say is false.

Ø   Hamas: White House adoption of false claims of command center under Al-Shifa is a “green light to the [Israeli]  occupation force to commit more massacres against civilians.”

Ø   Health official: Israeli forces shot at Palestinians who left the Al-Shifa complex through the “safe corridor” which they set up.

Palestinian Voices in European Parliament

Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining

However as the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining. It is an ill-wind that blows no good. So it would appear is the case in Israel’s ground war.

After having pummelled Gaza from the air for 3 weeks Israel’s ground troops went in. We must bear in mind that these troops are more used to fighting women and children in the West Bank than armed guerillas. Shooting an unarmed civilian is not the same as confronting a well armed guerilla.

The war cabinet has lost the north” was a short tweet on Saturday by former Israeli Foreign Minister, the fascist Avigdor Lieberman. According to the Palestine Chronicle:

The Israeli military has been unable to establish permanent and defensible military bases inside Gaza. Countless Israeli tanks have been blown up or damaged in direct hits, especially using Yassin 105 anti-artillery missiles, along with other improvised RPGs.

Picket of  Hove Town Hall Against the Silence of Brighton & Hove Councillors

It is noticeable that there has been very little coverage of how the ground war is going from the Zionist side. According to satellite images analyzed by Al-Jazeera, 383 military vehicles entered Gaza at the start of the ground operation on October 27.

According to the Al-Jazeera analysis unit, 88 of these military vehicles had ‘disappeared’ between November 1 to 10. On November 8, Abu Obeida had announced that 136 military vehicles had been destroyed fully or partially. But the spokesman of the Resistance was referring to the entirety of the Gaza Strip, not just the northern parts. Since then, dozens more armored vehicles were also destroyed. See Military analysis unraveling the mystery of disappearance 88 Israeli vehicles in Gaza

On November 12, Abu Obeida declared that the number of vehicles destroyed fully or partially by the Palestinian Resistance since the beginning of the ground operation amounted to more than 160. In addition to the 62, declared on November 17, Al-Qassam said that it had destroyed 17 additional military vehicles on Saturday, November 18, alone.

Indonesia Hospital is the latest hospital to come under attack from Tel Aviv's war criminals

If true this would mean that 239 of the original 383 military vehicles which entered Gaza according to satellite images remain. It is impossible to verify these figures but it is clear that there has been no easy or quick progress by Israel’s troops and equally true that they are taking heavy casualties.

Even Israel admits to over 60 soldiers killed which means that about 200 have been injured.

It has also been announced that there will be 4 day ceasefire whilst hostages are exchanged. The question is whether or not this will be extended.

Tony Greenstein

Israel tortures its victims in the open now - this is from soldier's social media accounts

5 comments:

  1. Excellent article Tony. We llive in fascist times. The fascists are supporting the fascists and I can’t think of how this freak show is going to end. One typo I noticed and thought I should mention, was the harrowing video was shown on Not The Andrew Marr Show, (not the Andrew Marr Show, as is printed in your article).
    Thanks again. I learn so much from your blogs.
    Vassa Nicolaou

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  2. Well put together Tony - Very moved by the gentleman from Sheffield and his son who were in Khan Younis - and the joyful spirit of the kids being entertained by that wonderful clown to shield them from the abject trauma of the airstrike that hit them earlier - as for that Sky News interviewer, you can't get a more disingenuous attempt at thanking the Palestinian lady for giving her perspective - of the propagandising of Hamas as killers, whereas those killed by the Israelis have merely "died" - but a question arose about the BBC Ros Atkins piece where he questioned the Zionist narrative about Al Shifa being used as a Hamas Control Centre - the question a friend of mine asked was why the BBC would have let that cat out of the bag - my response was that possibly the acrid stench of all this has finally pervaded the BBC studio and they want to be seen as distancing themselves from all this - particularly as the mounting evidence could lead to the indictment not only of Netanyahu and his coterie of racist thugs, along with Biden, Sunak & Co, but also to proceedings being taken against their supine media lapdogs for being 'accessories to genocide' - by the way, the promo-video for Israel's possible entry for the Eurovision Song Contest was taken down when persons unknown realised how damaging it would be to any claims they might make in denial of the genocide they are committing. In the meantime I am doing my best to refrain from reading any of the nonsense others might send me, and instead focussing my mind on your excellent book. And in conclusion here, I can recommend a book that you might find of interest - it is called "Dark Crusade - Christian Zionism and US Foreign Policy" the author of which is Clifford Kiracofe, who was formerly a Senior Professional Staff Member of the US Senate on Foreign Relations. Amongst other dark secrets, he uncovers are the perverse doctrines of premillenial dispensationalism which underly the biblical heresies by means of which Netanyahu is attempting to sanctify the genocide he is conducting, aided and abetted fully by his Western colonial accomplices primarily in the USA but also here in Europe. The ISBN of Kiracove's book is 978 1 84511 754 2 and is published by I.B. Taurus & Co. Ltd, 6 Salem Road, London W2.

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  3. Apparently the song lyrics have been change - they're not saying what yourself and the team at Electronic Intifada claim. At least that's what one of the youtube commentators says.
    Having said that, there is an Israeli pop duo who have just released a song that says the same type of thing, and then there are those videos of that degenerate, Stuart Seldowitz, harassing an Egyptian food vendor.

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  4. I have no doubt that the Electronic Intifada translation is accurate. Having experienced their checking process on an article I submitted I can testify that no other journal or paper I've written for has such a verification process in place

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    1. Thanks Tony, it's good to have information from someone whos got actual insight into how they run things.

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