Life at War - Part 1: Learning to live with a constant fear of
death
I first met Tarneem at a Boycott Israel Network Weekend School about 2
years ago. She was a student at an old established university in England and
active in Palestine solidarity work.
A few weeks she contacted me from Gaza where she had returned to a very
different life. Gaza was at war and she wanted me to help in raising funds for
her sick mother who needed to get to Egypt if there was any chance of her
living.
In England she was a student of English and I asked her to write the article
below so that people can understand the life that she, her family and thousands
like her are living as Israel tries to pursue its ethnic cleansing and
genocidal project.
This is her story. It is a story of a living hell that the war criminals
who rule in the West – Genocide Joe Biden, David Cameron, Anthony Blinken and
Rishi Sunak – are fuelling with supplies of more weapons to kill more
civilians.
We learn today that Netanyahu is
afraid that the International Criminal Court will issue a warrant for him
and the other Judeo-Nazi War Leaders in Israel.
Biden we hear is doing his level best to put pressure on the Court’s
Prosecutor Karim
A. A. Khan KC not to issue any because Israel doesn’t recognise the ICC.
Strangely enough Biden welcomed the ICC issuing warrants against Vladimir Putin
even though Russia also doesn’t recognise the court.
The hypocrisy is breathtaking and demonstrates the collapse of any
pretence that international law has any meaning. Karim himself was happy to
issue warrants against Putin at a moment’s notice but has done his best to
delay having to take any action against Netanyahu despite the fact that
children have been deliberately targeted by Israel in this war. 500 children
have died in two years of war in Ukraine, 30 times that number in 6 months in
Gaza. The hypocrisy of our leaders is there for all to see but their only
apparent concern is for Israel’s hostages, never Palestinian hostages.
The photographs below were taken by Tarneem and depict her environment.
Enough of my observations, let Tarneem tell her story.
Tony Greenstein
Bombing has become a regular part of my life.
I was raised in Gaza. This is the place of my childhood and youth.
Every corner of this city has some emotional value for me and is associated
with countless memories. I returned to Gaza from the United Kingdom after
earning my master’s at Durham university, in early March to see my family, and
help my people. With the beginning of this war, I am trapped in this living
hell. Bombing and air raids had now become a part of my daily life. I would
like to say that I am used to the constant sound of bombing and the feeling of
the walls shaking, but I am not. For over six months, my family and hundreds of
thousands of Gazan families live in constant fear of death. Our days consists of
trying to stay alive and trying to find a way out. There are explosions and
aircraft flying overhead every day. The bombings are everywhere and are getting
closer than ever and sound bombs are the worst. We can think of nothing else,
and we can feel nothing else. The days of the week stopped to have any meaning,
I can’t tell whether it is Friday or Saturday, it is all just one long
nightmare. My sister tries to keep count of the days, but for me it is all a
blur.
One night, we all woke up terrified “I can't take this anymore. I can't even sleep anymore without jumping
at every little noise." I told my family. My brother, Ali, replied
"I feel like I'm constantly on edge.
It's destroying my well-being." The bombardments were very close to
the house. They usually increase in intensity once the sun goes down: it's
psychological warfare, at night everything is more terrifying for us.
How could I describe my home becoming a place of fear and terror? How
could I take more hours and long nights of relentless bombings, explosions, and
tank shelling? I was worried for my sister – she was so stressed because of the
bombings that I thought her heart would stop. Her fitness watch showed 180
heartbeats per minute, and I was so worried to see her like this.I told her it
would be stupid if she were to die from fear in the midst of all this! “Look! Who’s talking?”, my sister said.
Then my siblings followed up with a conversation about how I turn off all our
flashlights and remove batteries every time I hear a bombing.
Sister: "Did you hear
that? I think it's another bombing raid."
Brother: "Yeah, I heard
it. But seriously, does Tarneem really think turning off the lights will make
us invisible to the war planes?"
Sister: "Apparently so!
She acts like we're playing hide and seek with bombers."
Brother: "I swear, if we
turned off the lights every time we heard a bomb, we'd be sitting in the dark
all night.Let's just hope Tarneem doesn't ask us to start whispering
next."
Sister: "Oh, don't give
her any ideas!"
We laughed, knowing deep inside that this is a mental trauma that
might last forever but anything to lighten the mood in this chaos was welcomed.
There is no time to deal with our PTSD, it’s never post for us, always chronic.
Not knowing how long it will last makes this nightmare even worse.
I will ask for some help later as it is impossible to do it now and, to be
honest, I do not have time for it at the moment. I, now, spend my time caring
for my mother, she is going through a lot more, but we support each other as
much as we can. My beloved mother, 66 years old, needs urgent medical
treatment. She requires two CT scans yearly for her upper thigh to monitor her
condition, but she hasn't been able to receive any since October 2023.
Unfortunately, even if the war in Gaza were to end, the necessary medical
facilities and procedures would still be lacking. To make matters worse, there
is no PET scan available in Gaza either. Her condition has been worsening, and
she has been experiencing excruciating pain in her leg. We have managed to
obtain some painkillers and vitamins, but the lack of nutritious food and
essential medicines in Gaza is putting her health at serious risk. I am
extremely worried about her, and I need to get her out of here.
Another day filled with the relentless sounds of bombing and
airstrikes. I lay still in bed, my niece Mary sleeping beside me. With my
seasonal allergy, I couldn't help but sneeze. Little did I know, this sneeze
would evoke a heart-wrenching reaction from Mary.
Instantly, Mary's hands shot to her ears, her eyes tightly shut in a
futile attempt to block out the cacophony of noise. Panic surged within me as I
feared I had disturbed her sleep, but her mother's calm voice reassured me
otherwise. "Mary thinks your sneeze
was bombing," she explained softly, her gaze filled with a mixture of
sadness and resignation. "She does
that every time there is bombing while she is sleeping."
The trauma inflicted by the constant barrage of explosions weighed
heavily on us all, even seeping into our sleep. And for Mary, so young and
innocent, the horrors of war were incomprehensible, yet painfully palpable in
her instinctive reaction to the slightest disturbance.
As I lay here in the darkness, listening to the distant rumble of
explosions, I can only hope and pray for a future where peace reigns and the
sounds of war are nothing but a distant memory.Nevertheless, I find relief
writing about my experience. The greatest source of support in these times is
the messages of love and hope that I receive from people who know me and knows
the reality about Gaza. Just realising that there are people who reject all the
atrocities happening in Gaza makes me hopeful that things will get better one
day. There is nothing more terrifying than seeing your loved ones suffering and
your hometown being destroyed.
Facing the
chaos of trying to come terms with a new life
Every morning in Gaza begins with uncertainty. Our so basic and so
earthly human desires are our suffering and today is no different. With each
passing moment, I am reminded of the harsh reality of life in a war-torn city.
My mind races with the endless list of tasks that should be completed each day.
One pressing dilemma is always water. Our tanks on the roof are empty, and the
thought of another day without a drop of water weighs heavily on my mind. Water
is needed for cooking, drinking, for a quick sponge bath and some essential
laundry, which feels like some great extravagant luxury. A normal visit to the
toilet must be planned, pre-planned, and precisely thought out so that one does
not spend more water – it’s a constant balance between normal human urge,
maintaining one’s sanity, and losing it all in a jiffy.
We need water in our tanks, but to pump it up, we need a water
engine. And that engine needs fuel, which is scarce and expensive. Perhaps we
can run the engine on electricity, I think to myself. But alas, electricity has
been a luxury since the war began. Luckily, we have solar panels, a rare
blessing in these troubled times. However, on cloudy days like today, there's
not enough sunlight to power the engine. In the end, we are left with no choice
but to rely on the one precious cylinder of cooking gas we have. It's a meager
supply, one that we waited in line for hours to get. But in this unforgiving
world, every drop of water is worth its weight in gold. This means that we’ll
cook using firewood today, because we need to save the resources we have. Every
day is a day of choosing your new priority. Is it water? Is it charging
batteries and phones? Is it food and cooking?
As I write this, I can't help but wonder what tomorrow will bring.
Will it be another day of impossible choices, another day of fighting to
survive? So many close friends have been killed, will it be my turn tomorrow?
Only time will tell.
Before the war I used to buy bread, now I make it. Before the war,
I used to come back from work to home, and then I would relax on my bed and
talk to my mum about my day, now it is not just boredom – it's anxiety, tension
all the time. Before the war I used to have a group call with my international
friends, now I struggle to search for a good signal daily to update them about
my situation. Before the war I used to have a hot shower and sleep to release
the fatigue of the day, now there is a lack of gas, lack of water, a symphony
of relentless bombing and drones hovering over my head all night long.
Every day is Gaza is a battle against food shortages, sanitation crisis,
and blackouts, andon top of all this is the ever-present fear of death. It’s been
half a year since this nightmare began, and the situation gets worse every day.
People in Gaza die each day because of shelling, bombing and due to the lack of
all basic needs – food, water, healthcare. Innocent civilians struggle through
unbearable conditions and hardships every day, every hour, and every minute. Yet,
amidst the chaos, there remains a glimmer of hope. And so, we press on, facing
each new day with courage and determination, uncertain of what the future may
hold.
Writer’s
note:
You can donate
to my mother’s evacuation fundraising campaign through this link:
The Campaign Against Antisemitism only gets
away with their Lies because Press & Politicians Render Invisible the Thousands
of Jews Who Take Part in the anti-Genocide Demonstrations
Sky News Extended Video Showed the Duplicity & Dishonesty of Falter
Gideon Falter’s attempt to play the ‘victim of
anti-Semitism’ card ignominiously collapsed this week as he was shown to be a
charlatan and a liar. Sky News video
of his confrontation with the Police, unlike the carefully edited one the CAA released, shows that his claim of
wanting to cross the road was a lie and that he was trying to walk into the
march, with bodyguards, and provoke a confrontation.
Falter was going out of his way to say ‘I am Jewish’ not for religious reasons
but as a way of pretending that hostility to him was on account of his being
Jewish rather than a supporter of genocide.
Even John Mann Criticised Gideon Falter
I forgot that I actually did take a short video of the Gideon Falter incident on the Palestine march last weekend. He had clearly come over from a small pro Israeli protest to try to antagonise people with his video guy to capture it. pic.twitter.com/VBQ5HHAFZo
As the Guardian noted,
in footage of the incident, Falter appeared to be accompanied by a security
guard as he was confronted by police officers. When asked by an officer what
his intentions were and how many people were in his group he said: “I’m just waiting for a couple of people and
then we are planning to carry on our way.”
When asked to confirm that footage showed Falter accompanied by a
security guard, the CAA said
it couldn’t comment. In fact it seems that he was accompanied by a whole bevy
of Israeli security.
The claims that the Palestine demonstrations
in London were anti-Semitic or that Jews were afraid to go near them falls down
on one simple fact. Thousands of Jewish people have taken part in them. No one
has been attacked. We have always been welcomed on the march.
Ben Jamal
of PSC and Falter Discuss The Failed Scam
Holocaust Survivor Message to US Campus Protesters:
This survivor of the Holocaust is against Genocide in Gaza & conflating Jewishness with Zionism, which does nothing but increase antisemitism.
Your protests are so persistent, large and global that eventually the Western… pic.twitter.com/IDCH0NTO6m
a
group representing Holocaust survivors, who attended the same pro-Palestinian
demonstration as Falter, disputed his claim that the march was a no-go zone for
Jews.
The
group, which included Stephen Kapos, a Holocaust survivor from Budapest, and
four other child survivors, said in an email:
“Throughout [Falter’s]
interactions with the police, we were standing only a few yards away from him,
yet we experienced nothing but warmth and solidarity from the pro-Palestine
demonstrators and not a hint of antisemitism.
“Our group was ‘openly
Jewish’ in that we all wore placards saying that, as descendants of Holocaust
survivors, we oppose the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
“Every major pro-Palestine
demonstration in London has included a large Jewish bloc which has received
nothing but support and warmth from their fellow demonstrators.”
The Guardian only printed excerpts from the press release. The original
is below:
It has been widely reported that
Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, was
threatened with arrest when he approached a pro-Palestine demonstration on 13
April in the Aldwych area of London.
Mr. Falter is reported to have
said that his interactions with police officers “show that the Met believes
that being openly Jewish will antagonise the anti-Israel marchers and that Jews
need protection, which the police cannot guarantee. Instead of addressing that
threat of antisemitic violence, the Met's policy instead seems to be that
law-abiding Jewish Londoners should not be in the parts of London where these
marches are taking place. In other words, that they are no-go zones for
Jews."
We are writing to disagree
strongly with these claims. This is because throughout his interactions with
the police we were standing only a few yards away from him, yet we experienced
nothing but warmth and solidarity from the pro-Palestine demonstrators and not
a hint of antisemitism.
Our group was “openly Jewish” in
that we all wore placards saying that, as descendants of Holocaust survivors,
we oppose the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Indeed, one of us, Stephen Kapos, is a
child survivor of the Holocaust who wasinterviewed by Sky News and the BBC's Leigh Milner at the
time.
Every major pro-Palestine
demonstration in London has included a large Jewish bloc which has received
nothing but support and warmth from their fellow demonstrators. Claims that these
protests are no-go zones for Jews are completely untrue.
Haim Bresheeth (son of two
survivors of Auschwitz),
Mark Etkind (son of a survivor of
the Lodz ghetto and Buchenwald)
Stephen Kapos (survivor of the
Holocaust in Budapest)
Peter Kapos (son of a Holocaust
survivor)
Yosefa Loshitzky (daughter of survivors of the
Holocaust in Poland)
It is no surprise that when Ben Jamal mentioned the presence of thousands
of Jews on the march, including the Jewish bloc, Falter refused
to continue the interview. Zionists like him can’t face the fact that many Jews
do not support genocide and the murder of children by the Nazi-style mass
assassination factories of Israel.
Falter ducks debate with Ben Jamal as he is thrown by
references to anti-Zionist/anti-racist Jews
Met
insiders were apparently dubious that Falter had been out merely for a stroll
and just happened across the march. Falter has said he had been walking in the
capital after attending synagogue and was not there to counter-protest.
Falter
was filmed on the north and south sides of Aldwych in different encounters with
officers. In one video on the north side, he said he wanted to “carry on my
way” and was asked how many people were with him. He said he was waiting for a
couple of friends.
In
another, on the south side, he said he wanted to walk on the north side. An
officer says he had already been seen “walking against the march”
Gideon Falter, CEO of Campaign against antisemitism is seen in discussion with the police during the Pro Palestine March on Saturday. He brought his own security detail. pic.twitter.com/U6HlA89yOD
Falter’s purpose was to provoke an incident and then spin it as
anti-Semitic. When a Policeman said that he was ‘openly Jewish’ what he meant was that he openly supported Israel. Unfortunately
the Police have imbibed, as I said in a previous
blog, the idea that the marches pose a threat to Jews. The officer’s
remarks were therefore logical given what they have been told rather than
anti-Semitic.
If Falter had been a Muslim and tried to walk into a Zionist march the
Police wouldn’t have spent 13 minutes arguing with him and simply pushed him
back when he tried to push past. He’d have been arrested.
How long do you have to wait for a march to arrive, with a film crew and bodyguard, before you can no longer claim to have ‘stumbled’ across it?
On a previous demonstration the Police interposed
themselves between the Jewish bloc and the rest of the march because they
believed them to be in danger! This is the product of the media equation of
being Jewish and supporting Israel. They cannot handle the fact that thousands
of Jews today are anti-Zionist and opposed to the existence of a racist,
apartheid ‘Jewish’ state.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism
The CAA was founded in the summer of 2014
during Operation
Protective Edge when 2,200 Palestinians died, including 550 children.
The CAA was founded at the instigation of
Israel’s dirty tricks Ministry of
Strategic Affairs. Its mission was to portray opposition to Israel’s attacks
on Gaza as motivated by anti-Semitism.
Falter, who chairs
the CAA, is a
board member of the Jewish National Fund UK. The JNF has a long history of supporting ethnic cleansing in Palestine. An openly racist
organisation, it controls 93% of Israeli land which is off limits to
Israel’sPalestinian population.
In its
entry on the Charity Commission website JNF-UK stated that:
THE
OBJECTS ARE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, AND THE FURTHERANCE OF ANY OTHER PURPOSES
WHICH ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW, WITHIN THE STATE OF ISRAEL AS
CONSTITUTED FROM TIME TO TIME, ESPECIALLY SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS BENEFIT
PERSONS OF JEWISH RELIGION, RACE OR ORIGIN
The
CAA only became a charity because the Charity Commission at the time was headed
by Islamaphobic
bigot William Shawcross. In 2012, as Director of the Henry Jackson Society,
Shawcross said:
Europe and Islam is one of the greatest, most
terrifying problems of our future. I think all European countries have vastly,
very quickly growing Islamic populations
That is why the many complaints which had been
made against the CAA for being a political organisation have been rejected. Its
aim between 2015-19 was to remove Corbyn as Labour Leader.
Falter has become ever more hysterical at the
support that the Palestinians in Gaza have received from people. Falter even called
for the ‘home secretary
to trigger draconian powers and even send in the army to “uphold the values that
our country stands for”.
Falter
forgot that he wasn’t in Israel where bringing in the army is quite normal to
prevent Palestinians demonstrating! The total number of people who have taken part in
the London marches, is probably in the region of 2-3 million. What irks Falter
and the CAA is that millions of people are repelled by Israel’s continued
genocidal attacks on defenceless Palestinians. War crimes are not popular.
Opinion polls have consistently shown that over
70% of British people support an immediate ceasefire and oppose Britain
selling arms to Israel.
The only support that Israel has received is
from the British Establishment. Nowhere was this more evident than in Sunak’s panicked reaction to
George Galloway’s victory in the Rochdale by-election when he dashed out of
Downing Street to froth about mobs roaming the streets and Jewish children
afraid to walk the streets.
If we had a genuine media in this country as
opposed to a prostitute press, then the obvious question to ask would be why
Sunak and Braverman have expended so much effort in demonising refugees coming
to Britain and devising the ludicrously expensive Rwanda scheme whilst at the
same time bleating on about ‘anti-Semitism’.
The CAA has specialised in targeting anyone
who opposes Zionism and the Israeli state, in particular Jewish people. Since 2014 the CAA had produced an ‘anti-Semitism barometer’
telling us how anti-Semitism is increasing in Britain. Despite everything they
found that anti-Semitism was more common on the right than the left. As their
2017 Anti-Semitism
Barometerconcluded:
‘Supporters of left-wing political parties
and ‘remainers’ are less likely to be antisemitic than those on the right or
supporters of the ‘leave’ camp’.
Daniel Allington - King's College's Fake Academic
It therefore decided to invent a new measure
of anti-Semitism which was signed off by academic-for-hire Daniel Allington of
King’s College, London who was willing to
prostitute himself and King’s by producing bogus ‘research’ that would fit the
CAA’s predetermined conclusions that anti-Semitism was a left-wing problem.
What the CAA
needed was to invent a set of questions that would 'prove' that it is the Left who
are the real anti-Semites. Step forward Allington who was more than willing to
use his academic credentials to ‘prove’ that the far-Right was really benevolent
to Jews.
From 2015 to
2018 the CAA used Yougov to ask a series of statements that were allegedly
anti-Semitic in order to show that the level of anti-Semitism was high in
Britain. They were:
1.“British
Jewish people chase money more than other British people.”
2.“Having
a connection to Israel makes Jewish people less loyal to Britain than other
British people.”
3.“Jewish
people consider themselves to be better than other British people.”
4.“Compared
to other groups, Jewish people have too much power in the media.”
5.“Jewish
people talk about the Holocaust just to further their political agenda.” or in
2015 “Jews talk about the Holocaust too much in order to get sympathy.”
6.“Jewish
people can be trusted just as much as other British people in business.” or in
2015 “In business, Jews are not as honest as most people.”
7.“I am
just as open to having Jewish friends as I am to having friends from other
sections of British society” or in 2015 “I would be unhappy if a family member
married a Jew.”
It is arguable that a majority of these statements are not
anti-Semitic since there is a factual basis to them. But even if some people
believe such generalisations about Jews, it doesn’t mean they are hostile to
Jews, which is the classic way of understanding anti-Semitism.
Commentingon these questions Anshel
Pfeffer wrote in Ha'aretz that:
take for example the statement that “Jews think they are better than other people.” Of course it’s not
the thing that one should normally be caught saying in public - but is it
anti-Semitic? For a start, many Jews do subscribe to the Jewish notion of “the
chosen people,” and for that matter it’s not only Jews; members of many if not
most nations, religions and ethnicities believe they are better than the
others. That’s natural and normal national pride. Even if this view runs
counter to liberal orthodoxy, believing that Jews think of themselves that way
can certainly be a fair and honest assessment.
The same can be said of another of the survey’s
statements: “Jews talk about the
Holocaust too much in order to get sympathy.” That’s a rather nasty
accusation but the fact is too many Jews, both political leaders in public
appearances and ordinary Jews on social media, are often too quick to bring up
the Holocaust in order to make a point. The sad truth is that many Jews have
cheapened the memory of the Holocaust by using it in an inappropriate fashion.
Holding that opinion doesn’t necessarily make you an anti-Semite.
Pfeffer accused the CAA
of an ‘eagerness to see the anti-Semitism in Britain, which inarguably exists,
as much more widespread than it really is’. There are no prizes for guessing why.
About the ‘finding’ that 56% of British
Jews agree that “the recent rise in anti-Semitism in Britain has some echoes
of the 1930s.” Pfeffer wrote that
‘If the majority of British Jews and the authors of the
CAA report actually believe that, then it’s hard to take anything they say
about contemporary anti-Semitism in their home country seriously.’
He went on to say that
‘To compare today’s Britain, for all its faults, with the
Jews’ situation in 1930s exhibits a disconnect from reality which borders on
hysteria.’
In 2018 the
CAA employed Allington to fix their Antisemitism Barometer. In 2018 it still concluded
that anti-Semitism was more prevalent on the right than left. The problem was
what to do about this? Allington added 6 new questions with the sole
intention of skewing the results. Allington embarked on what can only be
called an act of academic fraud. His ‘research’ valueless. He decided what his conclusions
were first and fitted the ‘evidence’ around them.
The 2019 Antisemitism Barometer was the first to
show that ‘anti-Semitic views were most widespread on the far-left.'
What had changed in one year? Had people
on the left and right suddenly changed their opinions? Was there really a shift
in peoples’ attitudes to Jews? Of course not. All that happened was that under
the guidance of two dishonest academics -
Allington and David Hirsh
- the CAA had added a new set of 6
questions, all of which were to do with Israel not anti-Semitism. They were:
1.Israel and its supporters are
a bad influence on our democracy.”
2.Israel can get away with
anything because its supporters control the media.”
3.Israel treats the Palestinians
like the Nazis treated the Jews.”
4.I am comfortable spending time
with people who openly support Israel.”
5.Israel makes a positive
contribution to the world.”
6.Israel is right to defend itself against
those who want to destroy it.”
The fraudulent nature of these questions
is immediately obvious. They have nothing at all to do with Jews but with a
racist state that calls itself ‘Jewish’. The CAA conceded
that Question 5 had nothing to do with anti-Semitism but they added it anyway
‘Although… not antisemitic in itself, analysis showed
that it was in fact a very good predictor of a respondent’s responses to other
statements and therefore a good indicator of anti-Zionist antisemitic attitudes
in general.’
Question
number 4 is particularly egregious. I didn’t find myself comfortable spending
time with supporters of Apartheid in South Africa or indeed racists generally. Did
this make me a racist? I would be equally unhappy spending time with defenders
of General Pinochet in Chile. Does that make me anti-Chilean? Perhaps not
liking spending time with Nazis means you are an anti-German racist.
You can see
where equating Israel with a Jew leads. Question 6 says that if you don’t
accept Israel’s ‘right to defend itself
against those who want to destroy it’ you are anti-Semitic. This assumes
that Israel is the victim whereas today it is clear that Israel is a genocidal
state.
On the basis of Allington's 'research'
the CAA concluded that:
‘Among the very left-wing, 42% believe that Israel’s supporters
are damaging British democracy, and 60% believe that Israel treats the
Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews, which directly evokes one of the
examples of antisemitism in the International Definition of Antisemitism.’
By Quoting Israel’s First Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion Jackie Walker Became a Holocaust Denier!
Deceit and dishonesty are programmed into the CAA’s DNA and Falter is
their Dr Strangelove. The CAA will therefore print the most outrageous lies if
that serves its purposes. Anything and everything in the hands of the CAA can
be distorted into becoming anti-Semitic.
A vivid example of this was on 7 February 2017 when the CAA
put up a post"Jackie Walker posts text asking whether Hitler can really be blamed for
the Holocaust". The opening sentence of their post said that it ‘leaves open the possibility that he was
justified.’
Linger over those last few weasel words, ‘leaves open
the possibility’ hint, hint, nudge, nudge. She didn’t actually say it but we all know
that she meant to say!
Jackie Walker was the Black-Jewish activist who was
expelled from the Labour Party after having been targeted repeatedly by the
racist Jewish Labour Movement.
Jackie Walker was the ideal target. She was Black. Even worse,
she claimed to be Jewish when every Zionist knows that is impossible.
You may think that the CAA would have difficulty with the
following quote. However that is to underestimate the skills of the CAA.
Any
normal person would ask how on earth anyone could conclude from the above that
Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust.
Unfortunately
for the CAA the quote was from Nahum Goldmann’s The
Jewish Paradox – A Personal Memoir1978 p.99. Goldmann was a former President of the World Jewish Congress and World
Zionist Organisation! Goldmann was quoting directly from David Ben-Gurion, the
first Prime Minister of Israel.
Like most
Zionists the CAA knows nothing about the history of Zionism except that which
they are spoonfed. The quote is included in the Wikipedia entry on David
Ben-Gurion. See my blog
at the time
Of course
the CAA deleted the post when they realised their mistake but not before it had
been widely distributed and commented upon by people like Jack Mendel, a Jewish News‘journalist’. Dishonesty pervades everything
the CAA touches. It is a Midas touch in reverse.
When you live in a permanent haze of Zionist propaganda and
lies, nothing seems real. It is a wilderness of mirrors. The CAA are no more
interested in eradicating genuine anti-Semitism than Rishi Sunak is in
redistributing wealth. The CAA have no case for remaining a charity. They provide absolutely no public benefit and
nor are their purposes charitable.
Dishonesty and plain old-fashioned lying are their main
attributes. That they are treated as a serious organisation by the mainstream
media is testament to the inability of organisations like the BBC to
investigate who they are dealing with. Britain’s rabid tabloid press is more
than happy to take these imposters at their word.
How the CAA Manipulates Statistics
As a Zionist organisation the CAA believes that the ‘real home’
of Jews is in Israel, not Britain. This is what Netanyahu told
French Jews after the murder of 4 Jews in 2015. The CAA therefore conducted an
unscientific poll of British Jews in order ‘prove’ that most Jews were thinking
about leaving Britain for Israel. It
found that:
58% of Jews believed that they had no
future in Europe.
More than half of British Jews feel
that antisemitism now echoes the 1930s
1 in 4 British Jews has considered
leaving the country in the past two years because of rising antisemitism.
45% of Jews questioned feel their
family is threatened by Islamist extremism.
77% of Jews questioned have witnessed
antisemitism disguised as a political comment about Israel.
84% of Jews consider boycotts of
businesses selling Israeli products to be intimidation &
82% say that media bias against Israel
fuels persecution of Jews in Britain.
These were loaded questions. Contrast this witha rigorously controlled, academic surveyof the British Jewish community by the Department of Sociology
at City University (November 2015). This found that nearly a quarter, 24%, of
British Jews supported sanctions to bring about a peace settlement. There was a
‘sizeable minority’ supporting sanctions (34%-41%) among the young, the highly
qualified academically and those who are not affiliated to a synagogue). The survey
even found that whilst 59% identify as a Zionist nearly a third, 31%, didn’t
see themselves as Zionists.
Even the Jewish Chroniclepoured
cold water on the CAA’s ‘findings’ with its own Survation poll. Some 88% of
British Jews stated that they had no intention of emigrating. Jewish Chronicle 14.1.15.
The CAA poll was junk but it served its purpose, which was to
whip up fears of anti-Semitism among Jews. Zionist organisations see their goal
as ‘helping’Jewish people to emigrate to Israel.
The
CAA’s Islamaphobia
Under the title Profile of British Muslim Antisemitism the
CAA published a highly racist and offensive cartoon of a
typical Muslim male. It has since deleted it. Islamaphobia is an integral part
of Zionism. One of the campaign’s stated
objectives is to “promote racial harmony.”
In practice, its activities are designed to achieve the exact opposite. The CAA
consistently targets Muslims.
“Littered
with flaws”
The CAA published
a report
in 2016 on “British Muslim anti-Semitism.” (also deleted). It included a ‘profile’
of the kind of person that the campaign was targeting. The profile was highly racist.
According to the CAA, the typical Muslim anti-Semite was likely to be a
first-generation immigrant and living in public housing.
If someone
had posted a similar portrayal of Jews, the CAA would have been the first to
claim “anti-Semitism.” The report alleged that “many British Muslims reserve a special hatred for British Jews.”
“On every
single count, British Muslims were more likely by far than the general British
population to hold deeply anti-Semitic views,” it added.
The
conclusions were based on a poll
conducted for Channel 4. Yet even the Community
Security Trust, a staunchly pro-Israel group, raised doubts about the
conclusions which the CAA drew.
“This latest poll showed
something else that is interesting, and is not specific to Muslims: that people
who believe anti-Semitic things about Jews rarely think of themselves as anti-Semitic.”
“What is
perhaps curious, though, is that this is not reflected in a more basic question
that was asked in the same poll about how favorable or unfavorable Muslims feel
towards Jewish people as a religious group,”
Asked
what their feelings were towards Jews: on a sliding scale from 0-100 – where 0
is the least favourable, British Muslims scored 57.1. This hardly suggests
rampant anti-Semitism.
The CAA
specialises in distorting statistics. In its annual “anti-Semitism barometer” report
for 2015, it claimed that an opinion poll showed that “almost half (45 percent) of British adults believe at least one of the
anti-Semitic statements shown to them to be true.”
The
questions were carefully chosen to elicit the required answers. One statement
was that “Jews’ loyalty to Israel makes
them less loyal to Britain than other British people.” Is it surprising
that one in five people believe this given that Jewish anti-Zionists are
regularly accused of being “traitors”?
Clearly
many Zionists believe that their first loyalty is to Israel. In 2013 Israel’s
ministries for foreign affairs and immigrant absorption distributed a
questionnaire to American Jews asking where their loyalties would lie in the
event of a crisis between the two countries.
In January 2015 the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in London found that the CAA’s
“barometer” report was “littered with flaws” and the group’s work “may even be rather irresponsible.”
The IJPR
criticized the way that the CAA had used data collected by YouGov to make the “rather sensationalist claim that almost
half of all British adults harbor some sort of anti-Semitic view.” YouGov
had been commissioned to undertake the poll by the CAA.
According to
the IJPR,
a far more
accurate and honest read” of the data would “highlight the fact that between 75
percent and 90 percent of people in Britain either do not hold anti-Semitic
views or have no particular view of Jews either way, and only about 4 percent
to 5 percent of people can be characterized as clearly anti-Semitic.
In 2009 Foreign Office diplomat Rowan Laxton was accused by Falter of having shouted out, whilst
exercising by himself in a gym, ‘fucking Israelis, fucking Jews’ after
having seen on a TV screen footage of an elderly Palestinian man killed by
Israel in Gaza.
Laxton, who is High Commissioner to the
Republic of Cameroon, was prosecuted under s.5 of the Public Order Act for
using ‘threatening, abusive or insulting
words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour …’ in a public place. The
Police were not inclined to prosecute at first but Falter leaked it to the Daily
Mail and put the Police under pressure. Laxton was convicted by Westminster
Magistrates Court and was then suspended by the Foreign Office.
Laxton appealed to Southwark Crown Court who
acquitted him of using the phrase ‘fucking Jews’. In other words Gideon Falter
was a liar who had tried to ruin someone’s career for expressing their emotions
about an Israeli attack on Gaza which killed 1400 civilians.The death of Palestinians is not something
which disturbs Falter in the slightest. As Professor Geoffrey Pullum noted in The diplomat, the bishop, the bomber,
and the fruit bat the
Daily Mail which reported the initial conviction did not report Laxton’s
successful appeal.
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