‘You have all the independence of a snarling dog on a leash but without
the charm’
Chris Ward was
parachuted in as candidate for Brighton Kemptown in the General Election. Out
went Lloyd Russell-Moyle, the equivocating ex-socialist MP.
Not one Labour
Party member voted for Ward. His only qualification was that he was a friend
and crony of Starmer. Therefore when I sent him a letter about Gaza I expected
no better from him than the letter which I copy below.
However I also
decided that it was time to respond to his turgid and repetitive prose,
dishonest in every strained syllable. Chris Ward was a political lobbyist in Hanbury
Strategya corporate lobbying group. Keir Hardie must be turning in his
grave at what his namesake has done to the Labour Party.
OK everyone, gather round, here's a lovely little story for you all.
Chris Ward - Keir Starmer's former chief of staff - was a longtime close friend.
He stayed at my parent's flat in Edinburgh. We got drunk together, made repetitive Alan Partridge-based gags.
The
only reason that you were selected to stand at the last election, in place of
the existing MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle, was that you were a crony
of Keir Starmer. I would no more expect an
independent opinion from you than I would expect it from a snarling dog on a leash.
Except that you have less charm than the average Rottweiler. You are a human dictaphone
ready to mouth whatever trite phrases Starmer pours into your ear holes at any time.
Israel
is, at this moment, starving and massacring 400,000 people in northern Gaza. It
has refused to allow the entry of food, fuel and water and it has barred
6 international medical NGOs. It has destroyed every hospital in the north
of Gaza and virtually every medical facility in the whole of Gaza.
In
Poland and Russia a similar policy, ‘death
by hunger’ was pursued by the Nazis and the Governor-General of Poland,
Hans Frank. Israel’s behaviour ranks with the worst atrocities of the Nazis. It
has just declared
UNWRA, the UN organisation responsible for feeding thousands of Palestinian refugees,
a terrorist organisation and banned it from working to alleviate the famine in
Gaza.
Puppets
like you can only repeat mindless, sanctimonious phrases about Israel being
under threat as some form of justification. Nazi Germany also claimed that Poland
was a threat as did Britain and America
when they invaded Iraq in 2003.
On
Tuesday 93 Palestinians were killed,
including 25 children, and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential
building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya. This was one of a series of
never ending massacres.
All
you can say is that the government is right to continuing to grant 92% of arms
export licenses. You are an accomplice
to genocide. Every single bullet should be embargoed, instead we are providing
parts for Israeli fighter jets in order that they can commit more atrocities
and massacres.
The Steve Bell cartoon banned by Guardian Editor, Kath Viner. Bell was the Guardian's prize winning cartoonist who Viner sacked. Razan al Najjar was a Palestinian medic, aged 21, murdered by an Israeli sniper in 2018 as part of the Great Return.
You
say you want to see ‘an immediate and
lasting ceasefire in Gaza, Israel, and Lebanon’ yet you continue to support
the supply of weapons that ensure that there will be no ceasefire. You are nothing but a tiresome dishonest hypocrite.
There
is only one way to call a halt to the genocide, a word that seems to be missing
from your vocabulary and that is to sanction all trade with Israel. Israel needs to be subject to the same
sanctions regime as South Africa was.
When
it comes to Ukraine you have no hesitation in supporting sanctions against
Russia but when it comes to Israel you say you don’t agree ‘all exports’ should be terminated.
Why? Because you support ‘Israel’s right to self defence’ which in
practice means its right to commit genocide.
If
you really believe the murder of thousands of civilians, including 16,000+
children, is acceptable for an occupying power, then you are sick in the head.
It is likely when the carnage is finally over that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians
will be dead thanks to monsters like you. All in the name of eradicating the ‘terrorist’
Hamas when the real terrorists wear Israeli military uniform.
Israel
has no more right to self-defence than Nazi Germany did when it occupied France,
Poland and Czechoslovakia, to name but three countries. It is the occupied people and they alone who
have an international
law right to self-defence not the aggressor. Every occupied people have the
right to self-defence against their occupiers. Why do you find this concept so
difficult to understand? Is it a mental
or political block that you suffer from?
The
International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel’s
occupation of Gaza and the West Bank are illegal. Israel should therefore get out of Gaza
without any preconditions.
Alon Misrahi - committed suicide
You
talk about the ‘appalling and sickening
attacks on October 7th’ but I notice that such adjectives are
not reserved for the actions of the Israeli military, the torture
camps, the mass
graves and the shooting
of doctors. To give but one example CNN recounted
the suicide of an Israeli soldier, Alon Misrahi and the experiences of his friend Zaken:
In
a testimony
to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in June, Zaken said that on many
occasions, soldiers had to “run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the
hundreds.”
“Everything squirts out,” he
added.
It
wasn’t of course ‘terrorists’ that were run over but women and children. There
are countless testimonies to the fact that Israel is burying its victims alive
and deliberately
shooting children in the head.
When
Israel began the attack on Gaza its Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant declared that ‘we are fighting human animals and will act accordingly’. In
a speech in Poznań (Posen) on 4 October 1943, Heinrich Himmler, who presided over the
Final Solution, praised
the Nazis as ‘the only people in the world who have a decent attitude
toward animals’ and who ‘will also take a decent towards these
human animals’ referring to the Jews.
CNN,
being another pro-Zionist propaganda outlet, covered the story not from the
point of view of the victims but the perpetrators. SS men too were traumatised
by their role in mass shootings. The SS even established a mental hospital in
the East to take care of them. That was the reason that the Nazis introduced
the gas chambers. But imagine if the press were to cover the holocaust from the perspective of what effect it had on the SS. This is the sublime logic of the war criminal.
Let
us also be clear about October 7. 1139 Israelis were killed, one-third of them soldiers
and the majority of the remainder by Israel itself as a result of putting the Hannibal
Doctrine into operation. But 1139 was a fraction of the deaths that Palestinians
in Gaza and elsewhere have suffered. In Operation
Protective Edge in 2014 twice as many Palestinians were killed without a
murmur from pipsqueaks like yourself.
You
of course are silent about Palestinian suffering because like your controller
Starmer, you are nothing if not an imperialist and racist.
Your
ignorance is only matched by your malevolence. Israel is an apartheid society,
just as South Africa was. It was
established by ethnic cleansing in 1948 and is now ethnically cleansing Gaza
whilst shills like you emit warm honeyed words of concern. Israel has always
been the aggressor in the region and it is not Israel but the Palestinians and
the Arab people who need the right of self-defence.
You
speak of the two-state solution. This nothing but a cover for continued
colonisation of Palestinian land. In case you hadn’t noticed the Israeli Knesset
voted
by 68-9 in July to support a resolution opposing two-states. What is it about
that which you don’t understand? A two-state solution would simply mean another
form of apartheid with a Palestinian bantustan.
In
2018 Israel passed as a basic (constitutional) law The Jewish Nation State Law
which declared that Israel is a state, not of its own citizens but only of its Jewish
citizens. In other words Israel is officially an apartheid state. In the words
of Benjamin Netanyahu, its Prime Minister,
“Israel
is not a state of all its citizens. According
to the basic nationality law we passed, Israel is the nation state of the
Jewish people – and only it.
When
Europe’s Jews, including members of my family, were exterminated in the fires
of Auschwitz and Treblinka, people could at least claim that they were ignorant
of what was happening. Today, with the Internet and modern means of
communication there is no excuse whatsoever for pretending that what is
happening in Gaza is not genocide. You are therefore nothing more than an
apologist for war criminals and people should understand you as such.
Keir
Starmer and David Lammy, along with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are war criminals
just as the Nazi war criminals who were executed at Nuremberg in 1947.
Apologists for genocide like you should be removed from parliament and given lengthy
prison sentences for justifying genocide. You are, Chris Ward, a despicable
human being who would, 80 years ago, have turned a blind eye to the Holocaust and
supported, like Labour’s Herbert Morrison, keeping out Jewish refugees.
My
only consolation is that after the next election you will no longer be an MP. I
would prefer a genuine Tory to a Starmer poodle.
Tony
Greenstein
Letter from
Chris Ward MP Justifying Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Dear
Tony,
Thank you for writing to me about the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
I agree that the situation in Gaza is intolerable. I want to assure you that I
continue to support an immediate and lasting ceasefire in Gaza, Israel, and
Lebanon, which sees hostages released, civilians protected, and aid flow in.
This is the only way to alleviate the heart-breaking suffering we are
witnessing on a daily basis, and I am acutely aware that there can be no
military solution to this dreadful conflict.
I am also concerned about the flow of aid being allowed into Gaza, and I
support the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary’s calls to Israel to guarantee
support for those in desperate need on the ground. The Government is working
tirelessly to help resolve this and secure a diplomatic breakthrough, which
ultimately can see a peaceful two-state solution, including the formal
recognition of Palestine. An immediate cease-fire is the first step to
achieving this.
Regarding the export of arms to Israel, the Government’s recent decision to
suspend certain arms exports to Israel – including those that could be used in
Gaza – followed a careful review of Israel’s compliance with International
Humanitarian Law (IHL), given grave concerns about the conduct and consequences
of the war for civilians. I support this, but I do not agree that all exports to Israel should be
halted. Israel faces a number of extremely hostile regional and local threats –
as witnessed by the appalling and sickening attacks on October 7th - and I
support Israel’s right to self-defence.
I believe that the Government is taking the right approach by assessing each
export license against IHL while supporting Israel’s right to self-defence. I
hope this approach, allied with strong diplomatic pressure on both sides to
reach a ceasefire, can help lead to the peaceful and immediate cessation of
violence we all want to see.
The term 'Holocaust' should be used by those who have endured it, not by those who have inflicted it. Any group can become perpetrators.
The publication of Howard Jacobson's Blood
Libel article, which attacks those mentioning the killing of Palestinian children, indicates where Viner's sympathies lie.
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Channel 4 Broadcast on the Horrors in Gaza
The
Guardian’s refusal to oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza, to call for an arms ban
and its support for Starmer puts it in the camp of the genocidaires.
Kath
Viner cancelled American Palestinian Susan Abulhawa’s article,
that Guardian US commissioned because it mentioned the word ‘holocaust’. Vinter
refused to see that Holocaust can happen to anyone, anywhere and at any time.
It is not confined to Jews. The Guardian’s Zionism puts it in the camp of the murderers
not the murdered.
Viner
approved though of Howard Jacobson’s attempt
to justify the extermination of Palestinian children as a ‘blood libel’. But Palestinian
children are being exterminated,
along with their parents. Jacobson’s calling this a ‘blood libel’ meant that there
must have been some truth to the original Christian allegation that Jews killed
non-Jewish children in order to use their blood to bake matzot at Passover.
It is one
of the ironies of Israel that it is determined to fulfil even the wildest
fantasy of Christian anti-Semitism. Jews were alleged
to poison wells in medieval Europe yet Israel
has done exactly
that. Jews were alleged to deliberately
infect non-Jews with the plague yet Israel has deliberately introduced typhus
into the water systems of Palestinians during the Nakba. It was named ‘Cast Thy Bread’.
The
lesson of the Holocaust is not that Jews are perpetual victims but that any
group of people, given the right set of circumstances, can be become genocidaires
and and oppressors. Viner’s horror is not at what Israel is doing in Northern
Gaza but at how it is described. Viner, despite her youthful support of the Palestinians,
is continuing the Guardian’s historical
support under CP Scott for Zionism.
The
Guardian is a liberal paper and liberals, almost without exception move to the
right when capitalism or imperialism is under attack. The German Democratic
Party collapsed into the Nazi party. Its co-founder Hjalmar Schacht was
‘central’ in pressurising
President Hindenburg to appoint the first Nazi government. He then became
Hitler’s President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics. In Britain Lloyd-George, the
last Liberal Prime Minister, wrote of Hitler:
Although the Guardian rejected a letter from over 1,000 signatories it was accepted by the Morning Star
“He
is a born leader of men. A magnetic, dynamic personality with a single-minded
purpose, a resolute will and a dauntless heart. ...The old trust him; the young idolise him....
It is the worship of a national hero who has saved his country from utter
despondency and degradation. ... He is the George Washington of Germany - the
man who won for his country independence from all her oppressors.... This great
people will work better, sacrifice more, and, if necessary, fight with greater
resolution because Hitler asks them to do so. Those who do not comprehend this
central fact cannot judge the present possibilities of modern Germany." “I
Talked to Hitler," Daily Express, November 17, 1936
Israel Burns Women
and Children Alive at Al Aqsa Hospital
Last
Wednesday Israeli planes bombed
the tent encampments at Al Aqsa Hospital. Four people, including 20 year old Shaaban
al-Dalou, on a drip at the time, were burnt alive. This was a Nazi-style
massacre. It has been followed up by repeated massacres.
Israel
has attacked all Gaza’s hospitals using the lie that they are Hamas bases. This
is worthy of Goebbels himself. Israel has now set
fire to the Indonesia Hospital. Israel even bombed
Rafah’s water reservoir. No doubt there was a Hamas base there too!
Palestinians
are being forced to take
part in death marches just like the survivors of Auschwitz were forced on
death marches. Israel is determined to follow in the footsteps of the Nazis. In
Nazi Germany, just like Israel today, ethnic cleansing was followed by
extermination.
To be fair to the BBC, they have done what I was calling for them to do and fully exposed the Israeli lie about a Beirut hospital being a Hamas HQ. (I am not claiming to have prompted this). But why did the BBC never do this in Gaza using local staff? https://t.co/EvXtc653ii
The BBC's Olga Guerin
Disproves Israeli Allegations that a Lebanese hospital is a Hezbollah Base
The
reason Shaaban died? So Israeli settlers can settle the Gaza Strip. To achieve
this Israel is prepared to kill as many Palestinians as it takes. On Monday
senior Israeli ministers, including 10 Likud MKs, attended a conference
aimed at doing just that.
200,000
people have been trapped in Jabalia refugee camp for nearly 3 weeks without
food or water. This is what the Nazi Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank,
called ‘death by hunger’. Starvation was
a
central strategy in the Nazi genocide against the Jews. Frank was hanged at
Nuremberg for his crimes. Unfortunately Netanyahu, Biden, Blinken and Starmer
won’t suffer the same fate.
The First Moments of
Massacre in Northern Gaza
Israel
gets away with its crimes because ‘journalists’ like Viner enable it to
preserve its monopoly on ‘holocaust’. The holocaust is reified, not to fight
the danger of racial supremacy but to repeat it.
Israel
claims to inherit the memory of the Jews who died in the holocaust. In reality
it inherits the memory of those who killed them. Despite the holocaust being
central to Israel’s identity, holocaust survivors in Israel live in poverty,
their reparations stolen.
Israel
uses the memory of the Jews who died in the holocaust as a justification for
their war crimes. It imagines that the women and children it is murdering in
Gaza are Nazis and that they are the Jews of the camps. What greater
desecration of their memory can there be?
At a conference promoting Israeli resettlement of Gaza, attendees (among them government ministers) express a desire for the Palestinians to be ethnically cleansed from the land. Some have other ideas.
A Message to Israel's
Exterminators - We'll keep exposing your lies
The
victims of the Nazis didn’t fly planes and bomb the SS. It was the other way
around. The victims of the Nazis didn’t have tanks and machine guns. It is part
of the Israeli sickness that they are unable to see that when they call for the
extermination of the Palestinians they are stepping into the shoes of the Schutzstaffelnot
its victims.
For the Zionists actual Holocaust survivors are irrelevant - their reparations stolen most live in poverty
In her 9
years as Editor Viner has made the Guardian
into an Establishment echo chamber. What was once a (relatively) radical
publication has found a comfortable niche in Starmer’s Dystopia.
Viner became
Editor because of her antagonism to Janine Gibson, who brought to the Guardian the
revelations
of Edward Snowden about the extent of surveillance by the US and British security
services of their own citizens. As Michael Wolff wrote
in USA Today
Gibson's pitch
was to wholly align herself with Rusbridger and Snowden — proudly promising
more of the same. Kath Viner, who had taken over for Gibson in New York ... pitched
decidedly against Gibson and, in a sense, against Snowden....
Viner was Prepared to Acquiesce to the Secret Services Over Their Spying on Citizens
For years the Guardian had refused to
co-operate with the D-Notice system, whose purpose was to spike stories about
the Intelligence Agencies by putting pressure on editors. In the wake of the
Snowden revelations the Guardian’s deputy editor Paul Johnson, took his place
on the D-Notice Committee. Kennard and Curtis wrote
about how
On 20 July 2013, GCHQ
officials entered
The Guardian’s offices ... six weeks after the first Snowden-related article
had been published.
... Guardian deputy editor
Paul Johnson, along with two others, spent three
hours destroying the laptops containing the Snowden documents....
Johnson claims
that the destruction of the computers was “purely
a symbolic act”, ... Yet the episode did change something. As the D-Notice
Committee minutes
for November 2013 outlined: “Towards the
end of July [as the computers were being destroyed], The Guardian had begun to
seek and accept D-Notice advice not to publish certain highly sensitive details
and since then the dialogue had been reasonable and improving.”
during the last two years of
Rusbridger’s editorship, The Guardian published about 110 articles per year
tagged as MI6 on its website. Since Viner took over, the average per year has
halved and is decreasing year by year.
“Effective scrutiny of the security and intelligence
agencies... appears to have been abandoned,” ... in recent years, it “sometimes seems The Guardian is worried about upsetting the spooks.”
Shabaan Al Dalu 19, a boy on a drip, was burnt alive by Israeli planes in the tents surrounding Al Aqsa Hospital Yet Keir Starmer Phoned Netanyahu to Ask if he was alright after Hezbollah bombed his house - We are governed by war criminals
A second former Guardian journalist
added:
The Guardian
no longer seems to have such a challenging relationship with the intelligence
services, and is perhaps seeking to mend fences since Snowden.”
In March 2015 Viner became editor.
Her impact was felt amost immediately when Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of
the Labour Party. Instead of welcoming Labour’s first radical leader the
Guardian began
to run stories, even before he was elected, about ‘anti-Semitism’. I
organised a letter
from Jewish Labour Party members 3 days later. Since then, however, the letters
page has been largely closed to Jewish anti-Zionists.
During the Corbyn years hundreds of articles
alleging ‘anti-Semitism’ appeared. Jonathan Freedland wrote about nothing else.
Virtually every ‘journalist’ on the paper contributed their bile. Slowly but
surely this had its effect.
The Guardian also began attacking Julian
Assange, whose Wikileaks revelations had provided the Guardian with scoop
after scoop.
His reward was a Brutas-like betrayal. As John Pilger wrote:
The Guardian has exploited
the work of Assange and WikiLeaks in what its previous editor called "the
greatest scoop of the last 30 years". The paper creamed off WikiLeaks'
revelations and claimed the accolades and riches that came with them.
... a
hyped Guardian book led to a lucrative Hollywood movie. The book's authors,
Luke Harding and David Leigh, turned on their source, abused him and disclosed
the secret password Assange had given the paper in confidence, which was
designed to protect a digital file containing leaked US embassy cables.
When CNN does mention Israeli atrocities it is in terms of what effects it has had on the perpetrators - in the case of the above it was running over hundreds of Palestinians - dead or alive - Guy Zaken complained he could not eat meat any longer because of what he had seen “Everything squirts out,”- the SS also suffered traumas but most decent people concentrate on their victims not the murderers.
No shred
of evidence has ever been produced for this claim, which WikiLeaks and Manafort
have both vehemently denied, and the story has been widely regarded as fake
from virtually the hour of its publication. Luke Harding, the lead journalist
on the story, and his editors Paul Johnson and Katharine Viner, have never
apologised or retracted the story; nor have they responded to the many
challenges about it. ... the Guardian has a disreputable record in publishing
nasty, abusive and derogatory pieces about Assange.
Viner and the Guardian’s ‘journalists’ were enthused
by Starmer. This empty suit, lacking any charisma, the embodiment of the secret
state, without a radical bone in his body, was what they had dreamt of. It is difficult
for most people to understand how Starmer, a politician who can barely string a
sentence together, who lacks any warmth or compassion, who can’t think on his
feet and with all the appeal of a constipated worm, can excite anyone but the
Guardian’s bought ‘journalists’ received him in raptures. Why? Because the change
he promised was no threat to the system.
Starmer was elected
on less than 34% of the vote. Just 1.6% more than Corbyn in 2019 and 6% lower
than Corbyn in 2017. But no one at the Guardian dared point this out. Even in his
own seat, Holborn & St. Pancras, despite Labour’s victory, his personal vote
plummeted.
Tame ‘journalists’ like Rafael Behr provided
the word salads that eased Starmer’s path to No. 10. It was change without
change, which is what the Guardian has always stood for.
Starmer
is the product of the war against Corbyn. The poisonous articles by Freedland
and co. took their toll. We were told that ‘The
roots of Labour’s antisemitism lie deep within the populist left. Political
Editor Jessica Elgot, a free transfer from the Jewish Chronicle, thought that Panorama’s
hatchet job, Is Labour Anti-Semitic was
pure gold although it hasn’t fared well since July 2019 as key witnesses
such as Ben Westerman, have
been shown to be liars.
The Guardian under Viner, the youthful Palestinian
supporter, had made its bed with Zionism as the British state made clear that Zionism
was its adopted policy.
these are passages from Boris Johnson's novel "72 Virgins" - as we see the character's claim in the first quote that the media is run by a "Jewish cabal" who manipulate voting and statistics seems to be confirmed as the author's own view in the second quote#antisemitismpic.twitter.com/hL4jYSZ8Lv
Boris
Johnson’s overtly racist, anti-Semitic novel in 2004, 72
Virgins, didn’t disturb Viner in the slightest. According to its reviewer
Had it have
been written by any other author, Seventy-Two Virgins could be taken as being
moderately offensive but Johnson’s characteristic charm and wit make it
hilarious and satirical.
Clearly
the references to ‘the Jewish cabal who
run the American media complex’ or the ‘Jewish oligarchs’ who fiddled the
figures in Russian elections were side splitting. One can only imagine what
Freedland would have written if Corbyn had been the author!
Not once
did the Guardian ask why there was so little evidence of actual anti-Semitism.
Not once did the Guardian question the motives of the Board of Deputies and the
various Zionist groups. Viner cynically and cowardly saw her role as dividing
the left by conflating anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Her concern over racism
began and ended with ‘anti-Semitism’. Rivka Brown quotes
one current Guardian staffer as saying
“Kath takes
the Board of Deputies very seriously,” said one current Guardian staffer,
“[and] read[s] the shit out of the rightwing press.”
Katherine
Viner is to journalism what Donald Trump is to politics. When
Palestinian American author Susan Abuhalwa said that “Israel is committing the holocaust of our time.” she
spiked the article. It is Israel’s monopoly over the holocaust, thanks to
people like Viner, that has enabled Israel to get away with war crimes on the
scale of the Nazis. Gaza is Israel’s Auschwitz. It is a death camp.
Thousands of children and women are now left homeless after being forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Gaza by the Israeli occupation army. pic.twitter.com/vbwTGhhm4o
Rivkah
Brown wrote
about discontent amongst Guardian staff over her double standards on Palestine. The
article wassubtitled ‘Please
pass on my deepest fuck you.’ It was Abuhalwa’s
parting shot. If the Guardian and its ‘journalists’ (can we really call Marina
Hyde & Ralph Behr, in all their shallowness, journalists?) had any
integrity they would tell Viner the same.
Susan Abuhalwa and Jacobson
It
is a long standing Zionist theme that only Jews suffered in the holocaust. The ‘Jewish’
State claims copyright on ‘holocaust’. It is this which has given Israel immunity
for its atrocities, the tortures, the rapes and child murder.
In
subscribing to this false narrative Viner, Freedland, Hyde et. al. have actively
contributed to the genocide. The Western media have played a crucial role in
normalising genocide in Gaza with the BBC shamelessly
broadcasting Israel’s ‘defence’ at the International Court of Justice
whilst omitting South Africa’s case!
The
Zionists argue that only anti-Semitism was responsible for the holocaust. Nothing
to do with anti-communism, eugenics or living space (lebensraum). As Sybil Milton, the child of Jewish refugees and Senior
Resident Historian at the US Holocaust Museum wrote:
the validity of the eugenic interpretation
does not fit into the arguments of those historians positing anti-Semitism as a
central motivation in Nazi policy.The preoccupation with anti-Semitism…
has limited our ability to see the connections between Nazi ideology, German
social policy, and Genocide. [Sybil Milton, The Context of the Holocaust,
pp. 269, 270, 276].
Those
who say that ‘holocaust’ only applies to Jews provide Israel with its
exceptionalism. Jews can never be safe because they are Jews and thus Israel is
engaged in permanent war. Eternal anti-Semitism is the mirror image of the
Nazis’ Eternal
Jew. It accepts the Zionist fable that Jews can never live with others. As
Hannah Arendt noted there must be something about Jews themselves which
attracts this.
It
also means dismissing the mass murder of the Gypsies, Disabled and other victims
and ignoring German imperialism’s search for new territories and ‘living space’.
As Milton explained:
‘The
emphasis on antisemitism and the exclusivity of the Jewish fate has, for
obvious political reasons, also been the official Israeli interpretation’ and
that this had ‘profoundly influenced the historiography of the Holocaust.’ [Milton,
Gypsies and the Holocaust, p. 377].
Milton defined the holocaust as ‘the
mass murder of human beings because they belonged to a biologically defined group.’
Zionist
exceptionalism has led to Israelis talking
of ‘annihilating’ and ‘exterminating’ Palestinians whilst at the same time calling
them Nazis. Israelis make no connection between their own genocidal talk and what
the Nazis did in the holocaust because the holocaust has been stripped of all
meaning, depoliticised and isolated from any social or economic context. Only Zionists
could proclaim their desire to exterminate and yet pose as victims of racism!
Yehuda
Bauer, the principal Zionist holocaust historian long argued that only the Jews
suffered a holocaust. This meant Bauer explaining the extermination of the Roma
because of their ‘asocial conduct’.
In a debate with Bauer, Milton’s response was withering:
Defining an entire ethnic group as anti-social and criminal is a
classic example of racism. I do not know why Mr. Bauer does not understand
this. [Milton, Correspondence: Gypsies and the Holocaust, p. 517].
Instead
of understanding the racial, imperial and eugenic origin of Nazi ideas, Nazi
anti-Semitism was ascribed to a demonic obsession with Jews. It is this which
Viner has signed up to.
Zionism,
havingdone nothing to rescue Europe’s
Jews during the holocaust and having obstructed the rescue efforts of others, exploited
the holocaust after the war. Imperialism has used the murder of Europe’s largely
anti-Zionist Jewish population as its moral alibi.
Most
journalists, the Guardian’s included, know nothing about the Holocaust or the
Nazis rise to power. This is also true of most Zionists. The Holocaust is
simply something to exploit politically.
Viner’s
reservation of the holocaust for Jews alone omits capitalism and the role
that IBM for example played in the holocaust. Those who reserve Holocaust for Jews
wish to preserve it in aspic, divorced from the society which created it. The
West played a major part in helping prepare the way for the holocaust. Roosevelt
spoke about the:
understandable
complaints which the Germans bore towards the Jews in Germany, namely that while
they represented a small part of the population, over 50% of the lawyers,
doctors, school teachers, college professors, etc. in Germany were Jews..
Had
Viner been alive in the 1930s she would have been the first to echo Roosevelt,
a liberal hero, in his opposition to relaxing the immigration barriers. It is
far easier to see the holocaust in terms of irrational Jew hatred than the
racism of Western society.
The
Zionist explanation that the holocaust was due to irrational Jew hate is ahistorical.
Hitler praised America’s record in eugenics in the development of his own
thinking. In Mein Kampf he wrote:
At
present there exists one state which manifests at least some modest attempts
that show a better appreciation of how things ought to be done in this matter. It
is not, however in our model German Republic, but in the U.S.A., that efforts
are made to conform, at least partially to the counsels of commonsense. By
refusing immigrants to enter there if they are in a bad state of health, and by
excluding certain races from the right to become naturalised citizens, they
have begun to introduce principles similar to those on which we wish to ground
the People’s State. (p.247)
It is Israel’s
sense of victimhood which is driving Gaza’s holocaust. This is the typical
settler colonial belief that they are the victims of those whose necks they
place their boots upon but in Israel’s case it is magnified by the holocaust that
Zionism did nothing to prevent.
Yehuda
Elkana, a child survivor of Auschwitz and Rector of the Central European University
wrote
in Ha’aretz in March 1988 about:
a profound existential “Angst” fed by a particular interpretation of
the lessons of the holocaust … that we are the eternal victim. In this ancient
belief… I see the tragic and paradoxical victory of Hitler. Two nations,
metaphorically speaking, emerged from the ashes of Auschwitz: a minority who
assert, “this must never happen
again,” and a frightened and haunted
majority who assert, “this must never
happen to us again.”
I
don’t doubt that Viner has fooled herself into thinking that there is a
straight line between being co-editor of the Tears
of Rachel Corrie, the young American activist who Israel murdered and her
role today. No doubt a salary
of over half a million pounds a year provides the lubricant for her
conscience, even whilst the Guardian begs its readers for donations. There is a
Yiddish word for that – Chutzpah!
Gideon Levy on one of the
most brutal cruel tyrannies on earth
Gideon
Levy wrote in
Ha’aretz, that Gaza is permitted because of Auschwitz. If
true then it’s not only permissible but it is mandatory to compare Gaza to
Auschwitz and the holocaust. But rather than debate these things out Viner act
as a gatekeeper to ideas with which she feels uncomfortable. I don’t know what
skills a Guardian editor should possess but clarity of thought is clearly not
one of them.
Gideon
Levy takes his life in his hands every day. As do the journalists who operate
in Gaza, given that Israel has murdered
over 140 of them. The only risk that Guardian journalists take is being knocked
over in the rush for a seat in a restaurant.
When Israel’s
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant declared that the
Palestinians were ‘human animals’ he
was repeating the exact
phrase that Himmler used at Poznan on 4 October 1943 when
justifying the extermination of Jews. Two days later on 6 October 1943, Himmler
explained why Jewish children also had to die:
‘I
did not assume to have the right to exterminate the men… and have the avengers
personified in the children to become adults for our children and
grandchildren.’
Israel’s
justification for killing Palestinian children is the justification that
Himmler used for killing Jewish children. Yet this does not disturb mainstream
journalists whereas comparing Gaza with the Holocaust does. What explanation
can there be other than racism?
On March
7 Rabbi
Eliyahu Mali of the Shirat Moshe pre-military Yeshiva in Jaffa explained that
"Today's
terrorists are the children of the prior [military] operation that left them
alive. The women are essentially the ones who are producing the
terrorists," he said, adding that when someone comes to kill you, you
should be quick to kill them. "It's not only the 14- or 16-year-old boy,
the 20- or 30-year-old man who takes up a weapon against you but also the
future generation. There's really no difference,"
Even a
Guardian editor should be able to understand the comparison. Those whose
justification for genocide in Gaza was the Nazi holocaust have turned Gaza into
a death camp and they have done it in the name of the holocaust. Cowardice has
become the principal virtue of the Guardian’s ‘journalists’ and its editor.
Michael Rosen's Letter to the Guardian about Jacobson was rejected by its Letters Editor, Rory Foster
Although Viner
spiked Susan Abuhalwa’s article she was proud to carry Howard Jacobson’s ‘blood
libel’ justification for
Israel’s genocide. The full measure of Jacobson’s senile viciousness was
demonstrated in his interview with
Isaac Chotiner in the New Yorker.
However
Viner and her senior editors are not just monkeys smiling upon Gaza’s holocaust.
Their hypocrisy extends even wider. It has nothing to do with Jews despite the name.
I refer to Nick Cohen, who was previously a long-standing Observer journalist.
The
Guardian was quick
to leap on the bandwagon of the #metoo movement. Yet at the same time
Viner, Freedland and co. covered up Cohen’s sexual attacks on women in the
Guardian newsroom. The big question is why he was paid off instead of being sacked?
According to the New
York Times‘In his farewell, editors
praised his “brilliant” and “incisive” coverage.’ Which is not how I
remember this boring Islamaphobe and war monger.
In
October 2021, freelance journalist Lucy Siegle accused him of having groped her
in the office when she had been a newly-recruited admin assistant. Siegle toldThe Independent that, in some
ways, the Guardian’s handling of her complaint – which she first raised in 2018
– had been more injurious to her than her encounter with Cohen.
The
NYT reported
that Cohen was paid a financial settlement for quitting and agreed to
confidentiality.
In 2018, Ms Siegle had reported Mr. Cohen to The Guardian for groping
her in the newsroom, but nothing had happened. ...
“It just amplified this sense that #MeToo is nothing but a convenient
hashtag for the British media. The silence on its own industry is just really
conspicuous.”
Not long after Siegle lodged her complaint with the Guardian, records
show that. Cohen began working with a freelance copy editor, a single mother
with autism. She became another of Cohen’s victims. Cohen offered to send her an
explicit photograph which the woman declined.
In the following days, Cohen turned cold. In messages, she apologized if
she had misread the situation. Eventually, she told him continuing to work
together “would be at a cost too high for
my own mental health.”
Given that Viner is the Guardian’s Global Editor-in-Chief as well as its
first woman editor, the real question is why she hasn’t resigned?
