Wishing You A Happy New Year and Let’s Hope It is a Better Year Than Last Year

  Please Join Me in Protesting Against Israel’s  Racist Ambassador Tzipi Hotoveli this Friday 5.30 pm, Swiss Cottage

Hin & Ajam on their treatment as captives in Gaza – compare this to Israel’s torture of Palestinian captives

This Friday I will again be speaking at the weekly picket outside Hotoveli’s residence in Swiss Cottage.  I intend to elaborate on my comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany in the light of the destruction of Kamal Adwan hospital and the torture and murder of its doctors including its Director, Dr Hussam Abu-Safiya, who refused to abandon his patients or fellow doctors.

On Friday October 4^th I was one of four Jewish speakers at the protest outside the Israeli Ambassador’s residence at Swiss Cottage. At the end of the protest I was arrested by the institutionally racist Metropolitan Police for a ‘racially aggravated’ offence.

What they were effectively accusing me, as a Jewish person? Anti-Semitism! You couldn’t make it up. Being racists, the Met Police think in strictly racist terms. Jews are therefore expected to support the ‘Jewish state’ and if they don’t they must be anti-Semitic! Such is the way that simple minds work.

This mentality found its absurd culmination in the decision of the Met to ‘protect’ the Jewish Bloc on the 9 December Palestine demonstration in London. The Police have a colonial attitude to policing society. They divide people into racial categories. So the Palestine demonstrations must be inherently anti-Jewish. They can’t get their heads around the fact that many Jews are anti-Zionist.

On October 4 the police objected to my comparing the Zionists to the Nazis and in particular my reference to a Jewish Chronicle article some 5 years ago in which I was reported as saying that Israel is ‘Hitler’s bastard offspring’ .

What the Met were doing was turning the ‘non-legally binding’ IHRA definition of anti-Semitism into a criminal offence. One of the illustrations of ‘anti-Semitism’ in the IHRA is:

Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

Today it is more obvious than ever that Israel and Nazi Germany share the same racial supremacist ideology and practice.

On 13 November I was informed, after having been held for several hours in a cell, that I was not going to be charged. I have instructed solicitors to bring a claim for wrongful arrest and unlawful imprisonment.

October 4^th was, although the Police were not aware of it, the 88^th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street when up to 200,000 people, including Jewish and non-Jewish workers, prevented the Metropolitan Police from allowing the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists marching through the Jewish East End of London. 

The Board of Deputies, Zionists and Jewish Chronicle urged Jews to allow the anti-Semites and fascists to march - and the police did their best to help them

East End Jews ignored the call from the Jewish Chronicle, the Board of Deputies and the Zionists for Jews to stay at home and let the fascists and British Nazis march. The Zionists, who today run the Jewish Supremacist State of Israel, have never fought genuine anti-Semitism, which is hatred or hostility to Jews as Jews. Instead they have redefined anti-Semitism as hostility to the State of Israel.

It is no surprise that the Metropolitan Police, which is as racist as their predecessors, therefore arrested me. Whereas the Met in the 1930s was riddled with supporters of the British Union of Fascists and in the 70s and 80s had large numbers of supporters of the National Front, today they fall over themselves to support Jewish racial supremacists, i.e. the Zionists.

Two weeks after I was arrested Professor Haim Bresheeth, an Israeli anti-Zionist was also arrested and held overnight in Holborn Police Station. Haim is suffering from cancer but despite this was kept in a cold cell all night, not given access to his medication and abused by police officers. The police are not proceeding with charges again him either.

Whilst I was awaiting to hear whether I would be charged I had restrictive bail conditions imposed on me preventing me attending the weekly picket outside Hotoveli’s residence and also taking part in any Palestine solidarity demonstration in London.

After successfully appealing against my bail conditions

I appealed against these bail conditions and on 1 November at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court I succeeded in having the ban on me attending Palestine solidarity demonstrations in London lifted.

Dr Abu-Safiya has according to accounts from fellow prisoners been whipped with an electric cable before being taken to Israel’s main torture camp, Sde Teiman.

Israel’s bombing and destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital, its murder of doctors, its torture of doctors and its forcible evacuation of patients is a war crime. YET THAT PITIFUL, PATHETIC WAR CRIMINAL, KEIR STARMER, HAS SAID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

We should perhaps remind ourselves that when Israel’s hostages were released in October 23 as part of an exchange for Palestinian prisoners, many of them testified about how humane their Hamas captors had been. Yocheved Lifshitz 85 gave a press conference at Ichilov Hospital, where she was taken to, explaining why she shook hands with her captors.  Other prisoners also  testified as to their humane treatment.

Avi Shoshan, the hospital employee who facilitated the press conference was immediately suspended and forced to resign, because as Ha’aretz explained:

Her statements caused an uproar in Israel, with some government and diplomatic figures accusing the conference organizers of damaging the country's advocacy efforts by portraying a positive image of Hamas.

In other words telling the truth about what actually happened when Israel’s hostages were in captivity, that Hamas were not monsters like most Israelis, was ‘damaging’ Israel’s propaganda, sorry ‘advocacy efforts’. 

And there you have it. Everything about October 7 is a propaganda narrative.  Truth doesn’t come into it as was show by the false story of beheaded babies. The fact that Hamas treated its captives well compared to Israel’s torture of prisoners, is simply disregarded.

Another hostage, Danielle Aloni, said her 5 year old daughter  Emilia, “felt like a queen.” Not one Palestinian prisoner has said the same about their treatment. On the contrary about 70 prisoners have died under torture including Dr Adnan al-Bursh who was literally raped to death by the beasts who ran the facility.  

These monsters even went on Israeli TV to boast of their deeds and 65% of Israelis said that they opposed their prosecution. When there were attempts at arresting them, the Military Police were attacked by hundreds of far-right demonstrators, including members of the Knesset. Meir Ben-Shitrit, the chief rapist even became a media star.

Israel is a depraved society run by corrupt monsters like Netanyahu. Yet Biden and Starmer are happy to turn a blind eye and repeat ad nauseum that Israel is the Middle East’s ‘only democracy’

It is because most ordinary people see through these lies that the Metropolitan Police see it as their duty to try and prevent free speech by arresting those who call the war criminals out.

This Friday I will explain to the demonstration and any police who happen to attend, just why comparisons between Israel, Zionism and the Nazis is valid. That after all is what my book was about. And the police, above all, need educating!

Berlin's Jewish Hospital after liberation from the Nazis

I will end with this thought. Whereas Israel has attacked every single hospital in Gaza and destroyed most of them, even the Nazis left untouched the Jewish hospital in Berlin to the end of the war. What does that say about Zionism?

Tony Greenstein