An Open Letter to Liberal Democrat MPs – Why Are You Silent Over the Hunger Strikes? Have you lost your tongues as well as your conscience?

Despite Being the Third Largest Parliamentary Group with 72 MPs, only 4 Lib Dems have signed Early Day Motion 2386

An Israeli Calls Israel for What It Is - a State Resembling Nazi Germany

There was a time when the Liberal Party claimed, under Jo Grimond, to be a radical party of the left and a defender of civil liberties. With its marriage to the Social Democrats that went by the board.

In 2010 it got into bed with David Cameron’s Tories in the Coalition government and were virtually eliminated at the 2015 election after having gone back on their promise not to increase tuition fees. They also paved the way for Brexit.

Under Vince Cable, the Business  Minister, the Post Office was privatised and virtually given away to the private sector. Privatisation, which has transferred £200 billion from the public purse to the billionaire class since Thatcher pioneered it, was fully supported by the Lib Dems.

One thing is clear. The Lib Dems are not a left-wing party. Indeed the old adage holds that if you scratch a Liberal you’ll get a Conservative.

Under the lamentable Jo Swinson as leader they joined in the ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign against the Labour Left and Corbyn with gusto.  Their two most prominent pro-Palestinian figures – Baroness Jenny Tonge and David Ward MP - were both forced out of the party. The defeat of Swinson at the 2019 General Election by the SNP was the best result on a miserable night.

The Lib-Dems have an appalling record on Zionism and Palestine. They have given full support to the Apartheid, Jewish Supremacist State that has leading Jewish Nazis in the most powerful positions of Finance and Police. They have also been silent over the genocide in Gaza in contrast to Ukraine.

Jeremy Corbyn's Speech on the Hunger Strikes - Labour MPs Laugh as Young People Are Dying

A day ago I wrote to the 72 Lib-Dem MPs asking why only four of them have signed Early Day Motion 2386 calling on the government to intervene in the hunger strikes by 6  Palestine Action supporters to ensure that the Filton 24 are freed on bail. Andrew George was one of the original sponsors and the other three – Layla Moran (herself of Palestinian origin), Alistair Carmichael and Ian Roome signed very late in the day.

The Lib Dems have 11% of the total MPs in the House of Commons yet they only comprise 6.5% of the 62 who have signed. This for a party which purports to take a pride in supporting civil liberties.

The issues are quite clear. All the hunger strikers are unconvicted prisoners, charged with minor criminal offences such as criminal damage and yet they are being held under ‘terrorist’ conditions despite being completely peaceful. Bail has been refused repeatedly and one judge who did grant bail, Bobby Cheema-Grubb, had her decision immediately appealed to the reactionary Court of Appeal and found herself taken off further cases of this nature.

But then Liberals have always had a bad record in terms of basic democratic rights. It was a Liberal government under Asquith that gaoled the Suffragettes and passed the Cat and Mouse Act. MPs, including the wretched Yvette Cooper lionise the Suffragettes today but in their time they too were called terrorists. Indeed, in comparison with Palestine Action they were terrorists.

From 1912 to 1914 the Suffragettes orchestrated a widespread campaign of arson and bombings targeting churches, post boxes, railway lines, and the homes of politicians. This included an attempt to burn down the home of the Chancellor, David Lloyd George.

They invented the letter bomb, which injured several postal workers. They placed bombs on public transport and in crowded places like Westminster Abbey and the Theatre Royal in Dublin while audiences were present. Assaults on politicians and public officials with whips and other objects occurred and a fire at Portsmouth dockyard in 1913 killed two men, and other fires killed two men and several horses in rural Bradford.

According to the definition of terrorism in the Terrorist Act 2000 the Suffragettes were without doubt terrorists. But here is the strange thing. On the very day that the proscription of Palestine Action was voted on in Parliament, the Home Secretary, the vile hypocrite Yvette Cooper appeared in the Commons with other female Labour MPs in the purple colours of the Suffragettes.

And people still say we should respect the law that is passed by crooks and criminals like Starmer, Cooper and Lammy.

Ed Davey the Lib Dem leader is an Establishment politician from head to toe. As Post Office Minister he ignored the scandal of the Post Office workers, initially refusing even to meet Alan Bates their  organiser. Even after he met Alan he took the official view that nothing was wrong.

983 sub-postmasters were falsely convicted. A quarter, 236, were gaoled. The only thing that can be said in Davey’s defence is that the Judges who sentenced the sub-postmasters never once asked how it was that there were so many dishonest postmasters still less questioned the ‘computer is right’ law that led to their convictions. At least 13 involved in the affair took their own lives.

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However the Lib Dems have denied any responsibility at all. After all Ministers were lied to by their officials and that absolved them of any need to have made further enquiries.

One thing that the Lib Dems emphasise is that unlike the Conservatives and Starmer Labour, they are committed to civil liberties. Policy Paper 44 on their website is titled ‘Protecting Civil Liberties’ and it has this to say:

Liberal Democrats believe that everyone, whoever they are, should have civil liberties. Civil liberties are rooted in freedom of speech and expression, freedom of association and freedom of movement. They depend on equality of treatment before the law.

Yet this a lie. We have seen the Police banning demonstrations, rerouting them away from the BBC on the pretext that a synagogue was nearby, on the assumption that Jews support Genocide, and it would now seem the Met are banning repeat demonstrations with legal powers that they don’t have.  We have seen the Police conducting dawn raids on Palestine solidarity activists on the pretext that they have supported a proscribed organisation, Hamas. Yet throughout this wave of repression the Lib Dems have said nothing.

When it came to the proscription of Palestine Action, the first protest group to be classified as a ‘terrorist’ group the Lib Dems excelled themselves. The official party position was to abstain but 6 MPs Andrew George, Tom Gordon, Tessa Munt, Manuela Perteghella, Al Pinkerton, and Luke Taylor voted ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Their reason for doing so was that Starmer Labour, in its normal dishonest way, bundled the proscription with two neo-Nazi groups thus depriving MPs of the opportunity of voting for each group specifically.

Of course the principled thing to do would have been to vote ‘no’ to the bundle, as the purpose of the proscription wasn’t to outlaw groups which don’t even operate in the UK but to proscribe Palestine Action. But this is typical of the Lib Dems. When it comes to radical or uncomfortable groups they abstain or simply go absent.

It is clear that there has been political intervention at the highest levels in this matter. We know for a fact that the Israeli Embassy has intervened and been consulted on the whole question of Elbit prosecutions and on the banning of Palestine Action.

We also know that The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre and the Proscription Review Group were both against the proscription of Palestine Action. So the internment of the hunger strikers and the Filton 24, because that is what it is, is completely unjustified yet the Lib Dem MPs have sat on their hands.  Why?

Because the Lib Dems are committed as a party to supporting the Apartheid State of Israel. Israel is a state that has an official policy of using torture against Palestinian detainees, which is in illegal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Israel is at the present time incarcerating nearly 10,000 Palestinian prisoners, a third of them without even a trial, before a military court. The military courts themselves have a 99.74% rate of conviction.

Even the Nazi Peoples’ Courts, which were explicitly political, acquitted more defendants than Israel’s military courts. The acquittal rate in 1940 was 7.3%. It then fell to around 5% until 1944, when it rose to almost 12%. This is the state that the Lib Dems support uncritically, a racist police state and a Jewish supremacist state with ethno-nationalism at its heart.

That above all is why the Lib-Dems have been silent over the Genocide in Gaza and the Hunger Strikes in particular.

Tony Greenstein

Open Letter to Sir Mark Rowley, Metropolitan Police Commissioner – Yesterday You Were Anti-Semitic, Today you are Anti-Palestinian

Rowley Has Decreed that ‘Globalise the Intifada’ is A Crime – Today I Repeated It Twice in A Speech As Sussex Police Looked On

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The attack on Jews at a Chanukah celebration in Australia has become the pretext for a crackdown on civil liberties and democratic rights. Mark Rowley, Metropolitan Police Commissioner is to the fore in calling for the suppression of the Palestine solidarity movement.

Sir Mark Rowley, the Heinrich Müller of the Met

Rowley, as part of his efforts to use British Jews as the Trojan horse for a Police State has repeatedly refused to meet with anti-Zionist Jews or the Palestine Coalition whilst meeting with pro-Genocide Zionist groups. For him, anti-racist Jews are as much the enemy as Palestinians. 

Written evidence to Parliament by Palestine Solidarity Campaign states that

The MPS has so far refused repeated requests for an in-person meeting with representatives of the Jewish bloc and on at least two occasions the police have sought to prevent them joining the march on the grounds that, being Jewish, they were assumed to be counter demonstrators.

When people call out the racism of the Metropolitan Police we should remember that it began with colonial policing of the Irish, then moved onto Jews and is now manifested in  anti-Muslim and anti-Black racism.

On Sunday at midday I shall be one of 3 Jewish speakers at a webinar Scottish PSC is holding on the the killings in Australia. London’s Gestapo Commissioner Rowley, alongside his Manchester understudy Stephen Watson, announced that the chant ‘Globalise the Intifada’ was now an arrestable offence. In response I penned an open letter to Rowley.

Never has your racism @metpoliceuk been so clear. In your statement you say 'Our thoughts are with those who lost their lives, their families and those injured.'

When have you ever made a similar statement in respect of the thousands of Palestinians, nearly half of whom are… https://t.co/IgDnbp8wWT

— Tony Greenstein tonygreenstein.com (@TonyGreenstein) December 18, 2025

Dear Mark Rowley,

You issued a statement recently which said that ‘Antisemitic hate crime has surged, protests have intensified, and online abuse has grown since 2023.’ This is the method of Nazism. Juxtaposing completely different phenomenon.  Everything equals everything.

Your concern about racism is touching, even novel, given that you have turned a blind eye to it for so long. In February 2025 you told BBC's Today programme: "The public can have confidence in us." Your only gift is knowing how to lie. The very police station Charing X, whose racism and misogyny led to the sacking of your predecessor, Cressida Dick, was the subject of a Panorama programme Undercover in the Police which confirmed that you were a liar. Racism and sexism were everywhere.

As long as the Metropolitan Police are led by a racist there is no hope of reform. You have made it clear that the only racism you are interested in is ‘anti-Semitism’ – a prejudice not a form of racism. Attacks on Mosques and Muslims and Black people are no concern of you. The only ‘racism’ that concerns you is that against privileged White people .

The implication of your remarks were clear. Protests against genocide were responsible for the growth of anti-Semitism and on-line abuse. Such a sleight of hand is worthy of Goebbels and is indicative of nothing so much as your own dishonesty.

There is no evidence of a growth of anti-Semitism, unless you redefine it as opposition to Zionism, ethnic cleansing and genocide. But let us assume I am wrong and there is a growth in anti-Semitism, why is that?

The Israeli government and the Zionist movement have branded all opposition to the genocide in Gaza as ‘anti-Semitism’. If you oppose starving children you are anti-Semitic. Is it any wonder that some people believe them and then target Jews?

No one knows better than you the history of the Metropolitan Police. From the murder of Stephen Lawrence to the murder and rape of Sarah Everard and the canteen culture of Charing Cross Police, to say nothing of all the Black people you have murdered in the line of duty (Roger Sylvester, Mark Duggan, Chris Kaba et al.).

Senior Police officers even agreed to the police spying on the Stephen Lawrence Defence Campaign. A fish rots from the head down and the precondition of the Metropolitan Police reforming itself is your replacement.

When anti-Semitism was a genuine form of racism in the 1930s, anti-Semitism was rife amongst the Police. Today when Jews are the moral alibi and the pretext for the British ruling class support for Israel then ‘anti-Semitism’ is a concern of the Police.

When I asked Google’s AI ‘were the Metropolitan police antisemitic during the 1930s and sympathetic to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists ’, which was led by Sir Oswald Moseley, the results were instructive and shed a light on your concern about ‘anti-Semitism’ now.

It is also instructive to refer to Daniel Sonabend’s book ‘We Fight Fascists’ about the fight of the mainly Jewish Anti-Fascist 43 Group after 1945 and the anti-Semitism of the Metropolitan Police.

It describes how the head of 'G' Division, Superintendent Charles Satterthwaite shouted 'Fucking Jew bastard!' at a Jewish anti-fascist Murry Silver as he repeatedly  beat him, whilst two of his officers held Silver against the wall.  Satterthwaite was described by one member of the 43 Group, Lennie Rolnick as a 'first class anti-Semite who would have done well at Belsen (concentration camp)’.

Historian Dave Renton found that anti-fascists were three times as likely to get arrested as fascists.  Sonabend asked why this was and his answer was ‘Widespread anti-Semitism in the Metropolitan Police force’. Nor was Satterthwaite the only officer who made regular reference to the faith of the anti-fascist disruptors he was arresting. Two young Group members from the East End, a hairdresser's assistant called Vidal Sassoon and his friend Mo Levy, had a particularly nasty run-in with the law, which Sassoon described in his autobiography.

One evening in Kilburn, we chased the fascists into a pub and were ourselves chased by the police. They arrested three of us. It took a long time to get to the police station which was only a few streets away. Two policemen held one of my comrades, Mo Levy, while a sergeant pounded him, beating him everywhere but the face, at the same time calling us 'dirty Jew bastards', 'fucking Yids who Hitler missed' and 'sons of foreign whores'.

Sonabend writes that

Knowing they were dealing with an institutionally anti­ Semitic organisation, the 43 Group's leadership were keen not to provoke the police. In fact, they went out of their way to be cooperative.’ 

Have the Police changed?  Yes in the sense they are no longer anti-Semitic, because the Jews are no longer on the left nor are they working class. Note that Sonabend described the Met as ‘institutionally anti-Semitic’ just as Black people in the 1980s and 1990s were to describe the Met as institutionally racist.

Jews have changed and the focus of the Met’s racism has changed but that is all. The Metropolitan Police have changed the target of their racism but they are still the same old  uniformed racists.

Today support for Israel and Zionism is the political rationale for their Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism. Israel is the most anti-Muslim country in the world and has formed an alliance with anti-Muslim racists such as Tommy Robinson, who was an Israeli government guest recently as well as individuals such as Dutch fascist, Geert Wilders.

In your statement Mark you said that ‘Our thoughts are with those who lost their lives, their families and those injured,’ referring to Jewish victims of the Australian attack. Over 100,000 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds of thousands injured in Gaza.  Children have been starved to death.  Yet you haven’t even acknowledged the death and destruction in Gaza. Your thoughts are with Australian Jews but not Palestinian children. What other explanation for this is there other than racism? Palestinian lives don’t matter because they are an indigenous people, the victims of western colonialism.

In your pathetic statement you say of Jewish people that

Jewish children attend schools behind fences, guarded by security and routine police patrols. No community should have to live like this. That must change.’

Really?  If Jews are under siege it is a siege of their own and your making.  You are deliberately making Jews into targets as a justification for the British State's support for Genocide. They are your colonial pets, hostages for your own malevolent intentions. Jews are the justification for the State's increased repression.

You say ‘Current laws are inadequate’.  Really?  You have been given more and more powers yet always you are dissatisfied. Perhaps when we have a fully fledged police state you will be satisfied? Or maybe when juries are finally abolished so that servile judges can be relied upon to rubber stamp your arrests and prosecutions.

It is not for you to comment on the adequacy of the law. Still less is it for you to define that law. For most people the laws are already too repressive and we know from past experience that it will be trade unionists, climate protesters, housing activists - indeed anyone bar employers and the rich who will feel their effects. 

What you want is a police state where people like you dictate the political agenda.  And speaking of dictating the political agenda you have all but outlawed chants such as “globalise the intifada”. Well I for one will make sure to include at least one mention of how the Intifada should be globalised. 

That is why today at a demonstration in Hove outside the offices of Vile Kyle MP, I repeated the slogan ‘Globalise the Intifada’ to make it clear that we, not you, will decide what we say.  Sussex police officers just looked on. So are we to have different laws now for different cities?   The Intifada is an Uprising against an Illegal Occupation. It has nothing to do with British Jews, much as you would like to lay the blame for Israel’s genocide on Jews.

We will not allow you to dictate what we are allowed to say and not say. You are paid to implement the law not to make the law.

We refuse to be stampeded into a police state by those who use Jews as the pretext for abolishing freedom of speech. When the Police decide what we are allowed to say and not say then we are already on the road to dictatorship.

It is time to move on Mark Rowley. You belong in a museum alongside all the other dinosaurs such as your role model, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Muller. As long as you are head of the Metropolitan Police we can expect a continuation of the racism that led the Met 30 years ago to covering up for the killers of Stephen Lawrence.

Tony Greenstein

Lammy is Happy to Allow the Hunger Strikers To Die & for the Zionist Genocide to Continue – Globalise the Intifada

The Met Police Offered Sympathy to the Victims of the Sydney Attack but none to the Palestinian Victims of Israeli Genocide – this is what Police Racism is All About

PALESTINE DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE JUSTICE MINISTRY IN SUPPORT OF THE HUNGER STRIKERS 17 December 2025

Zarah Sultana is to be congratulated for taking the initiative last night and standing outside HMP Bronzefield whilst the scumbags that Sodexho employs were denying medical treatment and refusing to call an ambulance to Qesser Zuhra.

Eventually, after a number of arrests and the usual police violence coupled with energetic protests by those who had congregated outside an ambulance was called.

Tonight's demonstration outside the Injustice Ministry

I’m not leaving until HMP Bronzefield accept an ambulance to transfer hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah to hospital for urgent medical care that she desperately needs. pic.twitter.com/AVpPFOT6lE

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) December 17, 2025

I repeatedly rang HMP Bronzefield last night and was left speaking to an answer phone or a phone that just kept ringing. Clearly the duty of care to prisoners at this privatised prison is non-existent.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Of course @johnmcdonnellMP is right - the hunger strikers are innocent yet David Lammy refuses to act. For shame. @Prisoners4Pal pic.twitter.com/jytBbtS3nI

— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) December 16, 2025

Tonight I attended a demonstration outside the Justice Ministry which Palestine Solidarity Campaign had belatedly called. The Police presence was heavy and intimidating but nonetheless a thousand people gathered to show their solidarity. The Police had earlier banned the demonstration from Downing Street as it might ‘interfere’ with a Chanukah celebration in Trafalgar Square.

Tonight's demonstration outside the Injustice Ministry

Once again the racist Metropolitan Police use ‘anti-Semitism’ as the excuse to attack Palestine solidarity and then they claim they are not political.

In a joint statement with Manchester Police, the Met has also banned the use of ‘Globalise the Intifada’ slogan. This despite their admitting that the CPS has ruled against it legally. Thus we see the police state in formation as a nakedly political police takes over.

The Palestine Solidarity movement must now make this slogan, just as we made, ‘Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea’ our slogan. Let the Met try and arrest us all.

have you ever offered any sympathy to the 100,000+ Palestinian victims of genocide @metpoliceuk? you are becoming more and more a political police force https://t.co/6s2dJ4owTD

— Tony Greenstein tonygreenstein.com (@TonyGreenstein) December 17, 2025

The Met and GMP offered their condolences to the victims of the Australian terror attack. When have they ever offered their condolences to the Palestinian victims of the Zionists?

Their racism is on display for all to see. It stretches from Stephen Lawrence all the way to Palestine.

The BBC reported tonight that two of the hunger strikers, Jon Cink and Umer Khalid, have ended their hunger strike. I say this reluctantly but I believe that now is the time to end all the hunger strikes. They have served their purpose, which is highlighting the gross injustice of opponents of genocide being remanded in custody whilst the supporters of the genocide are free to peddle their lies.  We do not want to see anyone die and it is quite clear that Starmer and Lammy are quite prepared to allow them to die.

Tony Greenstein

The Massacre of Jews in Sydney, Australia Should Be Condemned Without Reservation by all Supporters of the Palestinians

The Responsibility for their Deaths Belongs to those Governments and Zionist Groups Which Deliberately Associate Jews with the Genocide in Gaza

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The attack on a Chanukah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach should be condemned by all supporters of the Palestinians and anti-Zionists. It was an anti-Semitic attack without any justification.

The fact that Zionist organisations in Britain and Australia deliberately set out to associate Jews with Israel’s genocide in Gaza is no excuse for attacks on Jews as Jews.

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This association is not limited to Zionist organisations. The British government under war criminal Starmer also does its best to draw the link between Jews and Israel’s atrocities. They deliberately use Jews in this country, as does the Australian government, as the moral alibi for Israel’s atrocities.

The Metropolitan Police, whose origins lie in colonial policing in Ireland, are to the fore in associating Jews with Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza. Their pretext for preventing a Palestine solidarity demonstration near the BBC in January was the presence of a Jewish synagogue nearby. In doing this they deliberately associated Jews with Israel’s murder of children and Palestinian civilians.

The Met is so stupid that their officers even formed a ‘protective cordon’ around the Jewish Bloc on the Palestine march in December 2023 to ‘protect them’ from other marchers on the assumption that being Muslim or a Palestinian supporter made one anti-Semitic.

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— AZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_) December 14, 2025

Thus was born the lie that led to two individuals in Australia taking the lives of 16 Jewish people. It is ironic that the death toll may have been more but for the heroic actions of Ahmed al Ahmed, a local fruit shop owner, in taking a rifle from one of the attackers. Ahmed was himself shot twice in the process.

The Muslim Hero of Bondi Beach - Ahmed al Ahmed

Ahmed is a Muslim from Idlib in Syria, thus giving the lie to the accusation that there is a connection between being a Muslim and anti-Semitism. It is noticeable that mainstream news coverage fails to mention this fact though they are normally eager to mention the religion of killers (as long as they are not Christian).

Even the Jerusalem Post was forced to describe Ahmed as belonging to the ‘righteous among the nations’, that group of non-Jews who risked their own lives to save Jews during the holocaust, though they too failed to mention his religion.

Ahmed would not however have been awarded the title of ‘righteous among the nations’ by Yad Vashem, Israel’s holocaust propaganda museum. Yad Vashem has supported the genocide in Gaza by denying that it is a genocide, like good holocaust deniers. Khaled Abdul Wahab, the ‘Arab Schindler’, who rescued many Tunisian Jews, was denied the award because he was an Arab.

In 2009 on the BBC’s Big Questions I said that

Of course there’s no justification for antisemitism, but there’s also no justification for the Board of Deputies calling rallies in support of the invasion of Lebanon and Gaza in the name of the British Jewish community. That causes antisemitism. It associates every Jewish person with the terror in Lebanon and Gaza.

That is exactly what happened with the massacre in Sydney. The New South Wales Board of Deputies is vocal in its support of Israel’s genocide. It is highly likely that those who committed this atrocity did so because they associated Australian Jews with the horrors of Gaza.  The hypocrisy of Netanyahu in attributing the massacre to anti-Semitism when he and his bastard state have been the prime agents in causing that anti-Semitism is nauseating hypocrisy.

The reality is that Zionism and the Israeli state have no problem with anti-Semitism in other countries because it stimulates Jewish immigration to Israel. In my book, Zionism During the Holocaust I quoted Abraham Shpadrong who wrote in Davar in July 1952 that:

… if I had the power, as I have the will, I would select a score of efficient young men… and I would send them to the countries where Jews are absorbed in sinful self-satisfaction. The task of these young men would be to disguise themselves as non-Jews, and plague these Jews with anti-semitic slogans, such as 'Bloody Jew,' 'Jews go to Palestine,' and similar 'intimacies.' I can vouch that the results, in terms of considerable immigration to Israel from these countries, would be ten thousand times larger than the results brought by thousands of emissaries who have been, for decades, preaching to deaf ears.

Nor was this an isolated example. In Israel people such as the notorious racist rapper Yoav Eliasi (The Shadow) justified the murder of 11 Jewish people in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Yotam Kipnis wrote about how ‘Eliasi blamed American Jews for the Pittsburgh murders and European Jews for the Holocaust’.

Eliasi wrote on Facebook that the Pittsburgh murderer Bowers “was a man fed up with subversive progressive Jewish leftists injecting their sick agendas” into the US.  He added that HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society,

brings in infiltrators that destroy every country. The murderer was fed up with people like you. Jews like you brought the Holocaust and now you’re causing anti-semitism. Stop bringing in hate money from Soros.

Eliasi is known for his far-right views and is a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party. He is also a Jewish anti-Semite but one Netanyahu likes.

It is ironic that whereas the ‘anti-Semitic’ Hamas condemned the Pittsburgh massacre, the Israeli government and Netanyahu in particular were hesitant to do so. These were the wrong sort of Jews. Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Blau, refused even to recognise that those killed were Jewish, because they were Reform Jews.

Another aspect of Zionist ideology is the belief that the Jews of Europe were responsible for the Holocaust. By choosing to live amongst non-Jews they brought the disaster on themselves. Zionism holds that all non-Jews are inherently anti-Semitic.

These are the sick fantasies that Zionists harbour amongst themselves but seek to hide from the glare of publicity. There will be many in Israel who will welcome what happened in Australia.

That is why any supporter of the Palestinians who welcomes the massacre of Jews in Sydney, notwithstanding that many of them will have supported the genocide in Gaza, needs their head examining. The massacre can only strengthen the genocidaires, not weaken them.

Supporting the massacre in Sydney, apart from being an immoral and racist, terrorist attack on civilians, would be the height of stupidity and irresponsibility. It strengthens not weakens Zionism.

It is irrelevant if London-born rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed, was a genocide supporter. Pictures of Schlanger celebrating with members of the murderous IDF do not justify what happened. That Schlanger was a despicable racist who was pictured with an Israeli rifle makes no difference. He died in Australia not in Israel.

We should leave it to Israel to take pride in the massacre of children and civilians and we should also note the hypocrisy of our own British politicians and members of the judiciary like Stephen Males and Karen Steyn who ruled that the government can export parts for the F35 and other weapons despite the fact that they would be used to commit war crimes. The crimes of British judges are many.

Tony Greenstein