tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404418126474461662024-03-19T03:14:35.809+00:00Tony Greenstein's BlogSocialist, anti-Zionist, anti-racistTony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.comBlogger3388125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-75810517615005791642024-03-17T23:04:00.006+00:002024-03-18T03:23:30.779+00:00 Glasgow Palestine Solidarity Demonstration Against Genocide Overshadows Tiny SUTR March<p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #cc0000;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Stand Up to Racism/SWP</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 24pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> Are Taught a Lesson </span><span style="color: #800180;">You Can’t Stand Up to Racism While Marching With Zionists</span></span></b><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 16.5pt;"><o:p><span style="color: #800180;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga2bLUB0z2uflidlbWdv4NT845peqWhBC7TB6FeAA04jbxYvHHC95-8hrr0bPuThFe9d9UJfg__HlcYA62wzo-C7nDZav8mbefsAQJiQRNCdUzgvZFUcleHpo1Zhw1XYmwEdIeGR-MOkMMISSmw7JP4f3f7Uvz7yQvF8q60MClHwTsWR5BuENMhjbBFFQK" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2991" data-original-width="3956" height="485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga2bLUB0z2uflidlbWdv4NT845peqWhBC7TB6FeAA04jbxYvHHC95-8hrr0bPuThFe9d9UJfg__HlcYA62wzo-C7nDZav8mbefsAQJiQRNCdUzgvZFUcleHpo1Zhw1XYmwEdIeGR-MOkMMISSmw7JP4f3f7Uvz7yQvF8q60MClHwTsWR5BuENMhjbBFFQK=w640-h485" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DlyHHfhB0fk" width="320" youtube-src-id="DlyHHfhB0fk"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;">Tony Greenstein Speech at Glasgow Palestine March Against Genocide 16 March 2024</span></b></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ronnie Barkan, an Israeli Jew and supporter of Palestinian Action and myself were invited by <i>Scottish
Palestine Solidarity Campaign</i> to speak and address a demonstration in Glasgow City
Centre, on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There were a number of
other speakers from Glasgow’s Muslim and Palestinian communities in addition to
the Chair of Scottish PSC, Mick Napier, who was the master of ceremonies. We
also had children leading the chanting and one reading out her poem. Children
also led the demonstration to symbolise the appalling death toll of children in
Israel’s monstrous attack.
</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The civilian who was run over and mutilated by Israeli tank bulldozers was already in custody, with visible marks of bruising and restraints on what remains of his body. <a href="https://t.co/HzdKbZatdr">pic.twitter.com/HzdKbZatdr</a></span></p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) <a href="https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1763293315884064845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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speeches the march set off on a circular route back to its initial starting
point where there were more speeches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It is very clear that
Glasgow, like so many other towns and cities in Britain, has been energised by
the genocide and slaughter in Gaza and the complicity of Britain’s political
leaders – Sunak and Starmer in that slaughter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN2Q5D6qyXJHROjFonfaZTEmQQpzfHGkNpt7Nxf5I_MG6TvggVk4KALgf56CXWEb3dlqLW2VfyVAzKQnMPcFw-feQYYasuGmjBSPV07CRDm9d_ogrx757RFNcQZNRm7M6S8c39mdHG2ku05uKyDYMB8gcoi974equNrY3Kcrr1mRhu8xTHjKXbmJ5dflwK/s800/demonstration%20and%20march%20Glasgow%2016%20March%202024%20(31).jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN2Q5D6qyXJHROjFonfaZTEmQQpzfHGkNpt7Nxf5I_MG6TvggVk4KALgf56CXWEb3dlqLW2VfyVAzKQnMPcFw-feQYYasuGmjBSPV07CRDm9d_ogrx757RFNcQZNRm7M6S8c39mdHG2ku05uKyDYMB8gcoi974equNrY3Kcrr1mRhu8xTHjKXbmJ5dflwK/s16000/demonstration%20and%20march%20Glasgow%2016%20March%202024%20(31).jpg" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It is a sad reflection of
the state of Britain’s democracy that </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.map.org.uk/news/archive/post/1548-opinion-poll-shows-overwhelming-british-public-support-for-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">over 70%</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> of people support an immediate ceasefire whereas Starmer and Sunak
support the war crimes of Israel and go along with the narrative that Israel’s
war is against Hamas rather than against the Palestinians of Gaza as Israel’s
leaders themselves admit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpB-Ya3NnsUmPdkjyQiQMLzjiMKNq6Q427JKI5oq9PQ-zOrseqABFqbT1V1qUrLar7K46PPwO_4i1pNCtBKkaKjDDPoNIATzXg8YYCNBzFEXf36OJ2wJECRzPu8mbzgfzVVjc5TJaUOu1t34lW0HjxVbiUTk12w0ZhB1y47ktQRnVXvWTEGNeLSsrRp-kc/s4080/demonstration%20and%20march%20Glasgow%2016%20March%202024%20(6).jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpB-Ya3NnsUmPdkjyQiQMLzjiMKNq6Q427JKI5oq9PQ-zOrseqABFqbT1V1qUrLar7K46PPwO_4i1pNCtBKkaKjDDPoNIATzXg8YYCNBzFEXf36OJ2wJECRzPu8mbzgfzVVjc5TJaUOu1t34lW0HjxVbiUTk12w0ZhB1y47ktQRnVXvWTEGNeLSsrRp-kc/w640-h480/demonstration%20and%20march%20Glasgow%2016%20March%202024%20(6).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b>Glasgow Palestine Solidarity March Saturday March 16th </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/68-americans-gaza-cease-fire"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Nearly 70% of Americans</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> also support a ceasefire but this too has had no
effect on the President, Genocide Joe Biden or Congress. It shows how democracy in the West is a charade and that the people who rule us are those with the deepest pockets, like Sunak.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/frCvb2L7kk4" width="320" youtube-src-id="frCvb2L7kk4"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">
</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Glasgow Palestine Demonstration 16 March 2024</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The elites that
govern us do so in their interests not ours. Our views don’t count when the
interests of the corporations are at stake. The United States however suddenly
remembered about international law when the Houthis started attacking Israeli ships
in the Red Sea. It seems trade is more important than the mere death of thousands of Palestinians.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">So it is quite
understandable that Rishi Sunak, an empty politician devoid of a single
original thought, mediocre even by the standards of British politicians, when voters in Rochdale gave their verdict on Israel’s slaughter, came dashing
out of Downing Street, all scowl and rage, to berate us about the violent mobs
and hate stalking our streets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59Z1xkEkgJ_7y1M7J8w3kqrODTSQ9d2CoWmMDtb4NNBw4_SlnXCFSeJqFnxFYyeGZ88Hfrs73-yOpiO-DwjmKcyV0DE7E5hWMQX-VL8cDW4oXCQId7JnHiI6hPqp4qR3f7cy1YfDUxwEYY7VOrRDvyE-JnCL3XP4OZN2TBCyXnfXTk8f-Y7ZnLomPfHua/s4080/demonstration%20and%20march%20Glasgow%2016%20March%202024%20(16).jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59Z1xkEkgJ_7y1M7J8w3kqrODTSQ9d2CoWmMDtb4NNBw4_SlnXCFSeJqFnxFYyeGZ88Hfrs73-yOpiO-DwjmKcyV0DE7E5hWMQX-VL8cDW4oXCQId7JnHiI6hPqp4qR3f7cy1YfDUxwEYY7VOrRDvyE-JnCL3XP4OZN2TBCyXnfXTk8f-Y7ZnLomPfHua/w640-h480/demonstration%20and%20march%20Glasgow%2016%20March%202024%20(16).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Why Jewish children were,
he told us, afraid to wear their school uniforms such was the level of hate.
Anti-Semitism was just around the corner and even worse Jews couldn’t go into
the centre of London for fear of mobs of Palestinians and other anti-Semites.
Of course anti-Zionist Jews on the march are invisible because we don’t provide the moral
alibi that imperialism desires in its forever wars.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">If the majority of British Jews and their communal organisations in this country had any self-awareness or understanding of their role as stool pigeons they might realise that Jews are being used and manipulated by crooks like Sunak and Starmer in order to justify further attacks on democratic rights such as freedom of speech and the right to protest. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">However the Zionist leaders of the Jewish community are, like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Mirvis">Chief Rabbi Mirvis</a>, bought and paid for. With <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-new-support-to-keep-british-jewish-communities-safe">£15m being tossed to the Mossad Projec</a>t the <a href="https://cst.org.uk/about-cst">Community Security Trust</a> whose primary job is to keep British Jews fearful through the massage and manipulation of 'anti-Semitism' statistics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There is no evidence that anti-Semitism
is increasing, if only because the <a href="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism">IHRA misdefinition of anti-Semitism </a>has conflated anti-zionism and anti-Semitism
making any statistics meaningless. I suspect that virtually all the alleged incidents of anti-Semitism relate to Gaza and the claims of the Board of Deputies that British Jews <a href="https://bod.org.uk/bod-news/board-of-deputies-holds-solidarity-mission-to-israel/">support </a>genocide in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Very few incidents are likely to occur because of traditional anti-Semitism i.e. irrational hate or hostility to Jews as Jews because of stereotypes that they are rich or engaged in conspiracies against non-Jews. The familiar neo-Nazi tropes of a bygone age.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UxL9RR6iFAMWNRykeTA1ZQe5vZGe6dagpaZI-DjUXXnaum0or8fH4Mff91nhWpfYZkorrQsptzJVvRIXcWCHW-N8lJT4voTlKtY9XzdXyZHoiNcxvgD0URmriWsU0LQE2OtcBUAhZN-5nzHwMBNQ4jCSSx1mxBLhOxmtqwOzFTehAcE-jkzZQ6k899QX/s4080/demonstration%20and%20march%20Glasgow%2016%20March%202024%20(10).jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UxL9RR6iFAMWNRykeTA1ZQe5vZGe6dagpaZI-DjUXXnaum0or8fH4Mff91nhWpfYZkorrQsptzJVvRIXcWCHW-N8lJT4voTlKtY9XzdXyZHoiNcxvgD0URmriWsU0LQE2OtcBUAhZN-5nzHwMBNQ4jCSSx1mxBLhOxmtqwOzFTehAcE-jkzZQ6k899QX/w640-h480/demonstration%20and%20march%20Glasgow%2016%20March%202024%20(10).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">If there is an
increase in anti-Semitism then whose fault is that if not those who go out of
their way to associate British Jews with Israel’s crimes? It is Sunak and Starmer
who bear the responsibility for any increase in anti-Semitism for associating British Jews with the genocide that is taking place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Jews are the stool
pigeons, the pawns and pets thrown a bone by the British ruling class in exchange for their role in legitimising the crimes of British imperialism in the Middle East. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But if anyone was to
suggest that Jews bear a responsibility for Israel’s actions then that would be
called anti-Semitism under the <a href="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism">IHRA</a>
definition of anti-Semitism which gives as an example of anti-Semitism <i>‘</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i>Holding
Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.’ </i> This is usually called having your cake and eating it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Faced with the
unpopularity of Britain’s support for Israel what does Rishi do, with the full
support of that waste of space Starmer? He promises to bring in new laws to
make protests and demonstrations a criminal offence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And the
Islamaphobe-in-Chief of the Cabinet, Michael Gove, who engineered the infamous <a href="https://www.counterfire.org/article/trojan-horse-affair-michael-gove-s-islamophobic-witch-hunt/">Trojan Horse Affair</a>, promises to redefine
extremism so that anyone opposed to capitalism and war is, by definition an
extremist. Some people might say that supporting the bombing of hospitals and
torturing their doctors is a sign of extremism but who am I to question this
government fruitcake?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Stand Up to Racism & the SWP + the Police
Welcome & Protect Zionists on their 'antiracist' march<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">None of which excuses the
Socialist Workers Party in the guise of Stand Up to Racism for deciding, for a
seventh year in a row, that they would hold a March Against Racism in conjunction
with genocidal racists in Glasgow Friends of Israel and COFIS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This year they decided to hold their march and demonstration on the
outskirts of Glasgow outside the BBC Scotland offices and what a
miserable affair it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There were less than 300 of them with some 10 Zionists frothing at the
back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">At a time of genocide
Palestinians and their supporters had decided that unlike previous years it was
best to simply ignore them and their police minders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Instead people flocked to
the SPSC demonstration in the city centre and the SUTR/SWP and the massed ranks of
Scotland trade union officials, all 300 of them, were left to enjoy the company of far-right Zionists. This is proof
of one thing – that SUTR is a paper campaign backed by trade union bureaucrats
and just about no one else.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i0eKYIg0c0E" width="320" youtube-src-id="i0eKYIg0c0E"></iframe></div><p></p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: center;">
<yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">Stand Up to Racism march 2019 with Zionists - notice the close co-ordination between Police & stewards</span></yt-formatted-string></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">If you want to get some
idea of the extent of Israel’s war crimes you could do worse than turn to
Jonathan Cook’s </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-torture-executions-babies-die-sexual-abuse-crimes">War
on Gaza: Torture, executions, babies left to die, sexual abuse… These are
Israel’s crimes</a><span class="field"> in Middle East Eye. (see below).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="field"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Jonathan
asks ‘</span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Why is
the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against
Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities?’</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> and the
answer has to be that when it comes to the crimes of Western imperialism’s
watchdog in the Middle East anything goes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span class="field"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If in future years SUTR/SWP don’t
learn the lesson of this year then it’s clear that they are best ignored. The
SWP should be left with its Zionist friends to oppose ‘racism’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span class="field"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Tony Greenstein<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span class="field"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">The Zionist
Organisations that SUTR/SWP are Marching With - In Their Own Words<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwkvf7N7fH_KTcbkS0Zc1fUMxIW0Se9ZX7h_4sy1Et4UX-G0W056YQcCRLyJZ37EP5lKMKQ14ErQIPbb5CayR3mE-mUWxtjFyKAopJbS6Yx3VzsNQqWmctkYbW7vh988FDs1rYhQpKLIhelbxECXgaxddirX0pSwYoUBsBhDDBpNAJT4guHCRTtWuPcp-h/s428/Arabs%20fled.jpg" style="font-size: 18.6667px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwkvf7N7fH_KTcbkS0Zc1fUMxIW0Se9ZX7h_4sy1Et4UX-G0W056YQcCRLyJZ37EP5lKMKQ14ErQIPbb5CayR3mE-mUWxtjFyKAopJbS6Yx3VzsNQqWmctkYbW7vh988FDs1rYhQpKLIhelbxECXgaxddirX0pSwYoUBsBhDDBpNAJT4guHCRTtWuPcp-h/s16000/Arabs%20fled.jpg" /></a></p>
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by the General Teaching Council for posting </span><i style="text-align: left;">‘vile’
</i><span style="text-align: left;">anti-Semitic messages on Facebook using an alias, Stevie Harrison.</span></b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8PaHFKc0V9Rleh5BjPYAeeeBxRhRzfEvQ9YhPgtqxQZyWAEdY8Nu1qeluFp6dt-KHISsBgbGZowrUoX2swH-3DadUOS9ErQYgmRvOtpx_FgsMapzLTRdJhldaYQoVmNVuiFnSb3fyKCVQg1N0WwLlmCadZfYgW89WFW1x4SSBI0aHePu-qVaoYcv53y2g/s624/Glasgow%20FOI%20congratulate%20SUTR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8PaHFKc0V9Rleh5BjPYAeeeBxRhRzfEvQ9YhPgtqxQZyWAEdY8Nu1qeluFp6dt-KHISsBgbGZowrUoX2swH-3DadUOS9ErQYgmRvOtpx_FgsMapzLTRdJhldaYQoVmNVuiFnSb3fyKCVQg1N0WwLlmCadZfYgW89WFW1x4SSBI0aHePu-qVaoYcv53y2g/s16000/Glasgow%20FOI%20congratulate%20SUTR.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="300" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpIKi6aF0Yc2QRHH5LN08gdN5yvDl5_bDBb3k3Qf-j5cHrTdxMecc8HviNEP7Beh46YQLeEMa3GpRsOLF9MMFa9SPU-PbEmjegUxy6qpBUXhbt_iTXgO5sX1inLuuTvcih7VdK3rt__dUXZ9BkwJ0z1pHyMmwbob6FDihZfPeVM9xpn-YDeXpMSUjVH9Be/w400-h292/Razan%20al%20Najar.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b>Razan al-Najar was a medic tending to the wounded when Israeli snipers murdered her. The disgusting suggestion by GFI that she deliberately got herself killed or that Hamas raped/bribed her shows the depths to which SUTR's friends will sink. Israeli snipers killed over 300 and injured thousands of peaceful demonstrators at the Great Return march in 2018 and GFI support that. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFzZJ7wU01ymfkoi59glV1rcssWJQVvOePXF39H5x4GwZwO0Xa9VIX8G4qTwAP1Okj6Gaq_nVHNrezixFo3083RXI3Qujt0Jg-t-LpOCbqBwgqL3DVdQW1WOzOfg7E8u17lku9q3vlsh2HvKEILPG0oBk2XCh6gs6LaaWF47Lq8vvnx5lMlBhSAxw9MVPr/s400/Scottish%20Muslims%20withdraw.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="116" data-original-width="400" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFzZJ7wU01ymfkoi59glV1rcssWJQVvOePXF39H5x4GwZwO0Xa9VIX8G4qTwAP1Okj6Gaq_nVHNrezixFo3083RXI3Qujt0Jg-t-LpOCbqBwgqL3DVdQW1WOzOfg7E8u17lku9q3vlsh2HvKEILPG0oBk2XCh6gs6LaaWF47Lq8vvnx5lMlBhSAxw9MVPr/w640-h186/Scottish%20Muslims%20withdraw.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span class="field"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">See also:</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2021/03/why-does-stand-up-to-racism-refuse-to.html">Why does Stand Up To Racism refuse to stand up to racism
when it comes to Israeli Apartheid?</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/03/victory-brighton-and-hove-trades.html">VICTORY – Brighton and Hove Trades Council Votes To
Support the Palestinians and NOT to support SUTR’s March in London</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0cm 0cm;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 9pt 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2018/03/victory-in-glasgow-as-racist-cofis-kept.html"><b>Victory in Glasgow as Racist COFIS Kept Off Anti-Racist March</b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
</h3><h3 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2019/02/why-is-stand-up-to-racism-and-swp.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why is Stand Up To Racism and the SWP Welcoming Racist
Zionist Groups onto an anti-racist march?</span></a><span class="field"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://www.sacc.org.uk/press/2024/statement-glasgow-march-mark-anti-racism-day-2024"><span style="color: #38761d;">Statement
on the Glasgow march to mark Anti-Racism Day 2024</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.sacc.org.uk/"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Scotland Against Criminalising Communities
(SACC)</b></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj03KdZg2WB7NLjKWo7zxkgMRf3SdD4vmyZnnRYlb9BZwP2LYIbgC5IgRBx9XmbeFASRnQrxLk6ZxvHFB2rZG5ZUpPgltHDxGCFfRr2QQNVVneifg70GGaCuih2icJay0luW3I0_6DmnWa-v2bDOUiKOSpozA27xvSyO1Od2mbwU5Bw7x_MLR8xYuLjHjL-/s1400/gaza-palestinians-stripped-israeli-soldiers-december-2023-x.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1400" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj03KdZg2WB7NLjKWo7zxkgMRf3SdD4vmyZnnRYlb9BZwP2LYIbgC5IgRBx9XmbeFASRnQrxLk6ZxvHFB2rZG5ZUpPgltHDxGCFfRr2QQNVVneifg70GGaCuih2icJay0luW3I0_6DmnWa-v2bDOUiKOSpozA27xvSyO1Od2mbwU5Bw7x_MLR8xYuLjHjL-/w640-h360/gaza-palestinians-stripped-israeli-soldiers-december-2023-x.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table>
<h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-torture-executions-babies-die-sexual-abuse-crimes"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: x-large;">War
on Gaza: Torture, executions, babies left to die, sexual abuse… These are
Israel’s crimes</span></a><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Jonathan Cook, Middle East Eye</span></b></div><div><br /></div>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Hostages
tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors
beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">No, not
Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities
committed by <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a> in the five months since 7 October - quite separate
from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>
in <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/gaza-under-attack" target="_blank">Gaza</a> and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of
aid. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Last
week, an investigation by the Israeli <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-07/ty-article/.premium/27-gaza-detainees-died-in-custody-at-israeli-army-facilities-since-the-start-of-the-war/0000018e-1322-d950-a18e-f3bbaa370000" target="_blank">newspaper Haaretz disclosed</a> that some 27 Palestinians
seized off Gaza’s streets over the past five months are known to have died
during interrogations inside Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Some were
denied medical treatment. But most are likely to have been tortured to death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Three
months ago, a <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-12-08/ty-article-opinion/israeli-jails-must-not-become-execution-facilities-for-palestinians/0000018c-45ed-db23-ad9f-6dfd35930000" target="_blank">Haaretz editorial warned</a> that Israeli jails “must not become
execution facilities for Palestinians”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyxGa2Y4bx5IYIze0RblSVIBRT0MiH6ytHu4EXFvQyD-Md-QAJp5fQIdqOUMBeqQUabhLo2N_YxLLPep8TUBkG8p_Tuon32-nxkfhe4XB9nK70cc3Gw3jPxPWIdOlmQe9Z6TiXgtBdpwaSAcHJinHXbkQl2bMs0wFudx5KZRBOLYvtXB5sH07XiOtbPjsD" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyxGa2Y4bx5IYIze0RblSVIBRT0MiH6ytHu4EXFvQyD-Md-QAJp5fQIdqOUMBeqQUabhLo2N_YxLLPep8TUBkG8p_Tuon32-nxkfhe4XB9nK70cc3Gw3jPxPWIdOlmQe9Z6TiXgtBdpwaSAcHJinHXbkQl2bMs0wFudx5KZRBOLYvtXB5sH07XiOtbPjsD=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">Israeli soldiers inside an evacuated compound of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City on 8 February, 2024 (AFP)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><div><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></i></b></div>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Israeli
TV channels have been excitedly taking viewers on tours of detention centres,
showing the appalling conditions Palestinians are kept in, as well as the <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/we-are-the-masters-of-the-house-israeli-channels-air-snuff-videos-featuring-systematic-torture-of-palestinians/" target="_blank">psychological and physical abuse</a> they are subjected to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">An
Israeli judge recently called the makeshift cages in which Palestinians are
held “<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-03/ty-article/.premium/israel-police-are-holding-palestinian-prisoners-in-makeshift-cage-like-cells/0000018e-00ea-da4e-adbf-82fb03180000" target="_blank">unsuitable for humans</a>”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Remember,
a large proportion of the 4,000 or so Palestinians taken hostage by Israel
since 7 October - probably the vast majority - are civilians, like the men and
boys paraded through Gaza’s streets or <a href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/israel-hamas-war-video-appears-153300556.html" target="_blank">held in a stadium</a> stripped of clothing before being dragged
off to a dark cell in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg03C1IC7WVckRz9W7ez4Ch44dJ9sUnhIjCY7ADK2AagswfVbSnbaVWVvQl2msRd9h4z5Y1Pxu2DuragbiCH6EjmCvpbbadcOOWJYTtOuT1q-oZ5N89u5FNC8Y4wyTs4umQo83G4V_1W-qbj6qenU1g7Y0TsqiVU_LlcBo9BQI1dGBUtedsqzoRdFiITstJ/s597/Jews%20for%20Palestine%20and%20Police.jpg" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg03C1IC7WVckRz9W7ez4Ch44dJ9sUnhIjCY7ADK2AagswfVbSnbaVWVvQl2msRd9h4z5Y1Pxu2DuragbiCH6EjmCvpbbadcOOWJYTtOuT1q-oZ5N89u5FNC8Y4wyTs4umQo83G4V_1W-qbj6qenU1g7Y0TsqiVU_LlcBo9BQI1dGBUtedsqzoRdFiITstJ/s16000/Jews%20for%20Palestine%20and%20Police.jpg" /></a></span></p>
<h3 style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Women
abused<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">According
to Israeli media, many <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-12/ty-article/.premium/israel-detained-153-gazan-women-some-with-babies-says-palestinian-prisoners-club-head/0000018c-5d37-d03f-af9f-7d772cdf0000" target="_blank">dozens of Palestinian women</a> - including pregnant women -
have been seized too, but in their case off camera.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Presumably,
Israel has wished to avoid undermining its careful messaging that only Hamas
weaponises violence against women. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">But
according to United Nations legal experts, Palestinian women are suffering the
most degrading forms of abuse at the hands of the Israeli military. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Soldiers
are also believed to have taken photos of female detainees in degrading
circumstances and then uploaded them online<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">The <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/israelopt-un-experts-appalled-reported-human-rights-violations-against" target="_blank">experts observed</a> that Palestinian women and girls in
detention were reportedly being subjected to “multiple forms of sexual assault,
such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">"At
least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were
reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Soldiers
are also believed to have taken photos of female detainees in degrading
circumstances and then uploaded them online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Palestinian
women and girls in Gaza are also reported by their families to have gone
missing after contact with the Israeli army.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">“There
are disturbing reports of at least one female infant forcibly transferred by
the Israeli army into Israel, and of children being separated from their
parents, whose whereabouts remain unknown,” they said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Beatings,
waterboarding<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">A
separate report by the UN last week revealed that 21 of its staff -
humanitarian aid workers - had been snatched by Israel. They were then <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/09/world/politics/unrwa-report-israel-hamas/" target="_blank">tortured to extract confessions</a>, most likely false, of
involvement in Hamas’ 7 October attack. Their torture included beatings,
waterboarding and threats to family members.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Those
confessions were cited by western allies as the grounds - in fact, the only
known grounds - for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVtw8PKl-CE" target="_blank">cutting off funding</a> to the UN relief agency Unrwa, the last
lifeline for Gaza’s starving population. It was these claims, extracted through
torture, that helped Israel rationalise its imposing of a famine on Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Palestinian
men rounded up and stripped by Israeli forces in Gaza before being taken to an
undisclosed location (Screengrab/X)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/05/gazan-detainees-beaten-and-sexually-assaulted-at-israeli-detention-centres-un-report-claims" target="_blank">1,000 detainees</a> subsequently released, 29 were children,
one as young as six, and 80 women. Some were reported to have cancer and
chronic illnesses such as Alzheimer’s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">According
to the UN investigation, Palestinians reported severe punishment beatings,
being caged with attack dogs, and suffering sexual assault. Physical evidence -
such as broken ribs, dislocated shoulders, bite marks, and burns - was still
visible many weeks later. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Executions,
human shields<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">These
horrors, of course, are not just taking place in cells and interrogation rooms
inside Israel. Gaza is being subjected to astonishing levels of brutality and
sadism from Israeli troops - quite aside from the carpet bombing and enforced
starvation of civilians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Israeli <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/9/israeli-snipers-kill-21-civilians-outside-gazas-besieged-nasser-hospital" target="_blank">snipers have fired</a> into Gaza’s hospitals, <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/israeli-sniper-kills-everyone-who-moves-gaza-hospital" target="_blank">killing medical staff</a> and patients there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">The
Israeli military has used Palestinians as human shields, including one man sent
into a hospital, his hands bound, to announce an Israeli order to evacuate the
premises. Israeli forces <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/02/14/gaza-nasser-hospital-evacuation-israel-prisoner/" target="_blank">executed him</a> on his return.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Those
trying to follow such evacuation orders, waving white flags, have <a href="https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1722936274351161628" target="_blank">been shot at</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Medical facilities
have been repeatedly invaded by the Israeli military in stark violation of
international law. Those who could not be evacuated, such <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6jndMLmGJA" target="_blank">as premature
babies</a>, have been left to die unattended, even while Israeli soldiers were
occupying the building.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">This
week, the BBC interviewed medical staff who reported being tortured, savagely
beaten and having attack dogs set on them inside the Nasser hospital in Khan
Younis after Israeli soldiers stormed it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">One, Dr
Ahmed Abu Sabha, had his hands broken. He <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68513408" target="_blank">told
the BBC</a>: “They put me on a chair and it was like a gallows. I heard sounds
of ropes, so I thought I was going to be executed.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">The BBC
interviewed medical staff who reported being tortured, savagely beaten and
having attack dogs set on them inside the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">At
another stage, he and other detainees were beaten in the back of a truck, while
only in their underwear. They were taken to a gravel pit, where they were made
to kneel blindfolded. They believed they were about to be executed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">During
his eight days as hostage, Sabha was never questioned. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Dozens
more medics are believed missing, presumed to still be in Israeli
detention. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Photographs
published by the BBC also show patients in the grounds of Nasser hospital in
beds with their hands bound tightly above their heads. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Those who
died were left to decompose by Israeli soldiers. A doctor there, Dr Hatim
Rabaa, told the BBC: “Patients were screaming, ‘Please remove them [the
corpses] from here'. I was telling them, 'It isn't in my hands'."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Other
examples of murderous cruelty are documented daily. Unarmed Palestinians,
including those <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/26/middleeast/hala-khreis-white-flag-shooting-gaza-cmd-intl/index.html" target="_blank">waving white flags</a>, have been <a href="https://www.itv.com/news/2024-02-02/gaza-two-young-brothers-shot-dead-while-carrying-white-flag" target="_blank">shot dead</a> by Israeli soldiers. Palestinian <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-israel-palestine-forces-executed-family-home" target="_blank">parents have been executed</a> in cold blood in front of
their children. There have been<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-killed-new-israeli-massacre-palestinians-waiting-aid%C2%A0" target="_blank"> repeated episodes </a>of Israeli forces gunning down en
masse desperate Palestinians trying to reach aid, as happened yet again
this week. And even Israeli hostages trying to escape their captors <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67745092" target="_blank">have
been killed</a> by the very Israeli soldiers they were trying to surrender
to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">These are
just some of the cases of Israeli sadism and barbarity that have surfaced
briefly in western media coverage, soon to be forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Wiping
Gaza off the map<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">The
stomach-turning double standards are impossible to ignore. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">The
western establishment media has been chock full of the most lurid allegations
of savagery directed against Hamas, sometimes with little or no supporting
evidence. Claims that Hamas beheaded babies or put them in ovens - emblazoned
on front pages - were later <a href="https://www.declassifieduk.org/beheaded-babies-how-uk-media-reported-israels-fake-news-as-fact/" target="_blank">found to be nonsense</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">A
makeshift sign reading in Hebrew 'help, 3 hostages' using leftover food
reportedly shown by Israeli hostages before being shot dead by Israeli
soldiers, 17 December 2023 (AFP)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Accusations
against Hamas have been endlessly reheated to paint a picture of a supremely
dangerous and bestial militant group, in turn rationalising the carpet bombing
and starvation of Gaza’s population to “eradicate” it as a terrorist
organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">But
equally barbarous atrocities committed by Israel - not in the heat of battle,
but in cold blood - are treated as unfortunate, isolated incidents that cannot
be connected, that paint no picture, that reveal nothing of import about the
military that carried them out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">If Hamas’
crimes were so savage and sadistic they still need to be reported months after
they took place, why does the establishment media never feel the need to
express equal horror and indignation at the acts of cruelty and sadism being
inflicted by Israel on Gaza - not five months ago, but right now? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">This is
part of a pattern of behaviour by the western media that leads to only one
possible deduction: Israel’s five-month-long attack on Gaza is not being
reported. Rather, it is being selectively narrated - and for the most obscene
of purposes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">War
on Gaza: Israel's food-queue slaughter cannot go unpunished<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Through
consistent and glaring failures in their coverage, establishment media -
including supposedly liberal outlets, from the BBC and CNN to the Guardian and
New York Times - have smoothed the way for Israel to carry out mass slaughter
in Gaza, what the World Court has assessed as plausibly a genocide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">The role
of the media has not been to keep us, their audiences, informed about one of
the greatest crimes in living memory. It has been to buy time for US President
Joe Biden to keep arming his most useful of client states in the oil-rich
Middle East, and to do so without damaging his prospects for re-election in
November’s US presidential vote. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">If
Russian President Vladimir Putin <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-madman-script-same" target="_blank">was a madman</a> and a barbarous war criminal for invading
Ukraine, as every western media outlet agrees, what does that make Israeli
officials, when every one of them supports far worse atrocities in Gaza,
directed overwhelmingly at civilians? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">And more
to the point, what does that make Biden and the US political class for
materially backing Israel to the hilt: sending bombs, vetoing demands for a
ceasefire at the United Nations, and freezing desperately needed aid? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Worrying
about the optics, the president <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-netanyahu-hot-mic-gaza-885b97a75d15d15ae7f7a47d0125c918" target="_blank">expresses his discomfort</a>, but he carries on helping Israel
regardless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">While
western politicians and commentators worry about some imaginary existential
threat those brief events of five months ago pose to the
nuclear-armed state of Israel, Israel is quite literally wiping Gaza off the
map day by day, quite undisturbed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Hamas
‘started it’<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">There
have been two, largely implicit defences for this glaring imbalance in western
priorities. Neither stands up to even the most cursory scrutiny. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">One is
the argument that Hamas “started it” - insinuated in the endless claim that, in
destroying Gaza, Israel has been “responding” or “retaliating” to the violence
of 7 October.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">This is a
justification for killing tens of thousands of Palestinians and starving two
million more that should never have been let out of the playground. But worse,
it is patent nonsense. Hamas did not initiate anything on 7 October, except for
handing Israel a pretext to wreck Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Hamas
started nothing on 7 October. It was simply a new, and particularly gruesome
phase in what has been decades of Palestinian resistance to Israel’s
belligerent occupation of Gaza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">The
enclave has been under a crushing siege for 17 years, in which its land, sea
and air were patrolled constantly by Israel. Its population was denied the
essentials of life. They had no freedom of movement apart from inside their
cage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Long
before the current Israeli-induced famine, Israel’s trade restrictions had
ensured high levels of malnutrition <a href="https://www.map.org.uk/news/archive/post/1449-recovering-from-malnutrition-in-gaza-three-year-old-ayaas-story" target="_blank">among Gaza’s children</a>. Most exhibited too the scars of <a href="https://www.savethechildren.net/news/after-15-years-blockade-four-out-five-children-gaza-say-they-are-living-depression-grief-and" target="_blank">deep psychological trauma</a> from constant and massive attacks
by Israel on Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Biden
crows about building a “temporary pier” - <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/us-bidens-port-for-gaza-strip-aid-pier-building-could-take-60-days/" target="_blank">weeks or months</a> down the road - to bring aid into Gaza that
is desperately needed now. But there is a reason the enclave lacks a seaport
and airport. <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-11-21/ty-article-magazine/gaza-war-25-years-intl-airport-opened-second-intifada-israel/0000018b-e6fd-dffa-adef-e6fd35a10000" target="_blank">Israel bombed</a> the only airport back in 2001, long before
Hamas took charge of Gaza. It has been attacking and killing fishermen trawling
just off Gaza's coast for years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Israel
has refused to allow Gaza to connect to the world - and break free of Israeli
control - ever since. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Hamas
started nothing on 7 October. It was simply a new, and particularly gruesome
phase in what has been decades of Palestinian resistance to Israel’s
belligerent occupation of Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Bogus
narrative<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">The other
implicit defence of western establishments constantly stressing Hamas’
barbarism over Israel’s is that the nature of those atrocities is said to be
categorically different - in the apples and pears sense.<a name="a"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Hamas
supposedly demonstrated a degree of sadism in its killing spree on 7 October
inside Israel that marks it out from Israel’s far larger killing spree in
Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">That has
been the basis for every media interview that requires guests <a href="https://news.sky.com/video/palestinian-ambassador-refuses-to-condemn-hamas-attacks-on-israel-12980247" target="_blank">to “condemn” Hamas </a>before they are allowed to express
concern about the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. No one is asked to condemn
Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">In
Gaza, the hospital was our last place of sanctuary. Then Israel bombed it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">It is the
basis too for permitting Israeli spokespeople to claim unchallenged that Israel
targets only Hamas, not civilians, even while some three-quarters of Gaza’s
dead are women and children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">On the
BBC’s evening news at the weekend, presenter Clive Myrie made precisely this
preposterous assertion as he intoned that since 7 October, “Israel launched a
relentless bombing campaign targeting members of Hamas.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">But the
latest revelations of the 27 reported deaths in Israeli torture centres and the
testimonies of beaten medics from Nasser Hospital confirm how bogus this entire
narrative framing by the western media is - one intended to mislead and
misinform audiences. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Israel
claims it is targeting Hamas, but its actions tell an entirely different story.
Famine will kill off the sick and vulnerable long before it does Hamas
fighters. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">The truth
is, Israel is not primarily eradicating Hamas. It is eradicating Gaza. Its
crimes are at least as cruel and savage as anything Hamas did on 7 October -
and its atrocities have been carried out on a far larger scale and for far
longer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Western
establishments and their media have been waging a giant campaign of
misdirection for the past five months, as they have against Palestinians over
previous years and decades. Western publics have been encouraged to look in the
wrong direction. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Until
that changes, the men, women and children of Gaza will continue to pay the
heaviest of prices at the hands of a vengeful, sadistic Israeli military.</span></p><o:p></o:p><p></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-19071292540298141572024-03-13T18:22:00.003+00:002024-03-13T18:43:05.580+00:00Unite Members Lobby Executive to Demand that they Implement Union Policy & Oppose Israel’s Genocide<p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #c800ff; font-family: ""serif"","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For 5 months Sharon
Graham has Opposed All Solidarity with the Palestinians,
Following Starmer in Refusing to Campaign Against Israel's Ethnic
Cleansing</span></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXhxO3qndgJVonpvlffNAP_KQhgM0sKZEhy4Rrr3xuZFQq1pXBmFB_g4MEfVBs7dAQnZxOPTMcTbk4PF7M74asUes70jp5FxFusC5zPF9sZxzLA0bFJu9iGlgQhusuge9S8dDYLbyZXNjUWWGyhm00Svfv4jqWG38rG_mFInCdnVgW9ac0gB5bWwxjm6SM/s2016/Unite%20Lobby%203.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXhxO3qndgJVonpvlffNAP_KQhgM0sKZEhy4Rrr3xuZFQq1pXBmFB_g4MEfVBs7dAQnZxOPTMcTbk4PF7M74asUes70jp5FxFusC5zPF9sZxzLA0bFJu9iGlgQhusuge9S8dDYLbyZXNjUWWGyhm00Svfv4jqWG38rG_mFInCdnVgW9ac0gB5bWwxjm6SM/w640-h480/Unite%20Lobby%203.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f0OJiIT4NHE" width="320" youtube-src-id="f0OJiIT4NHE"></iframe></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Jonathan
Fluxman of Unite Doctors Criticises the Rape Narrative that Israel is using to
justify genocide<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last Monday at <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>midday about 50 Unite members from as far away
as Birmingham, held a lobby of Unite’s national executive which was due to meet
an hour later.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
lobby was noisy and vociferous and hundreds of leaflets were distributed.
Drivers passing by made clear their opposition to genocide in Gaza by honking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhArsTeHVT5BhR0iGIDPpsku1RdFYBuWrZP5uhYe7FU5OLqWadaRDX2o8iIOIM5ZkHktfVpq59TSzJwhE5u3yQXkZQOoMbmjvROEHMr55u6fpANLJ3FvKy49zp3J-vkgdF23icsYnPRvLLYPM4KN2Z1q_uOj1yzb_x1_vei3o7RhWbCB9ga5zz4tueGrzSz/s4080/Unite%20picket%2011.3.24%20(1).jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhArsTeHVT5BhR0iGIDPpsku1RdFYBuWrZP5uhYe7FU5OLqWadaRDX2o8iIOIM5ZkHktfVpq59TSzJwhE5u3yQXkZQOoMbmjvROEHMr55u6fpANLJ3FvKy49zp3J-vkgdF23icsYnPRvLLYPM4KN2Z1q_uOj1yzb_x1_vei3o7RhWbCB9ga5zz4tueGrzSz/w640-h480/Unite%20picket%2011.3.24%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><b>Jonathan Fluxman of Unite Doctors</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GMwWOKxs86M" width="320" youtube-src-id="GMwWOKxs86M"></iframe></div><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 24px;">Amandla the cry of Black South Africans when they fought apartheid</span></b></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">There
was an open mike and a number of demonstrators spoke including Jonathan Fluxman
of Unite doctors. Jonathan, who is from South Africa, condemned the false rape
narrative that has been used to demonise both Hamas and the attack of October
7.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">He
rightly drew our attention to the way rape has always been weaponised against indigenous
people as an excuse for murder e.g. in the Deep South and with the ‘Black
Peril’ in southern Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZYfSR7U16nYdtjpNWQsdCmy-JnS_o2FdOIa7_NoiwB76m5QlT_7vTE1GA2QMpSKgB8b_Q8nhR4_XM0MiaA6bq9YY91a3QlibWLqTMYJMc0HnxHcPaXrOrlSF91weKJhDIXUwScm49QeiGhaNee-gCI-LtRf4ipEPjgCNZhVgwqj4ukOkicu_4eLUBEw_y/s1600/Unite%20SE%206246.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZYfSR7U16nYdtjpNWQsdCmy-JnS_o2FdOIa7_NoiwB76m5QlT_7vTE1GA2QMpSKgB8b_Q8nhR4_XM0MiaA6bq9YY91a3QlibWLqTMYJMc0HnxHcPaXrOrlSF91weKJhDIXUwScm49QeiGhaNee-gCI-LtRf4ipEPjgCNZhVgwqj4ukOkicu_4eLUBEw_y/w480-h640/Unite%20SE%206246.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is a sad commentary on Unite, which has a long history of international
solidarity stretching from the Spanish Civil War, which Jack Jones a former
General Secretary of the TGWU (the precursor of Unite) fought in to the support
the union gave to the ANC and the fight against Apartheid in South Africa that
we needed to picket a Union Executive Meeting in order that the Union extends
solidarity to the Palestinians who have been slaughtered and ethnically
cleansed by the Zionist butchers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Sharon
Graham, the ‘non-political’ General Secretary of Unite, has chosen to side with
the Zionists and their anti-Semitism smears. As Gail Cartmail, her previous
spokesperson admitted, so-called ‘anti-Semitism’ has played a role in their
decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA47OU5oIBsDy17VQOIwzNfzBYIJxAU9VuuIFJ5mn90INf0W5FwLBi9Tj1CBPgF4PohTX2nMvdBZi3uDJzdsD9wOHptHbQuAoFek3I6rrFv_1JFOoBFii1HJSP4dmrKoLgzoHdZsZGrM3Zyb6AJ2hwYXr03wVOtPGXaPOpc3LDL2SV4yKklmw3jDodxB8f/s1600/Lambeth%20&%20Southwark%20branch.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA47OU5oIBsDy17VQOIwzNfzBYIJxAU9VuuIFJ5mn90INf0W5FwLBi9Tj1CBPgF4PohTX2nMvdBZi3uDJzdsD9wOHptHbQuAoFek3I6rrFv_1JFOoBFii1HJSP4dmrKoLgzoHdZsZGrM3Zyb6AJ2hwYXr03wVOtPGXaPOpc3LDL2SV4yKklmw3jDodxB8f/w480-h640/Lambeth%20&%20Southwark%20branch.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Graham
is a Zionist sympathiser. Even before October 7 she banned, at Starmer and the
Zionists’ behest, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jeremy Corbyn – The Big
Lie</i> from being shown on Unite premises<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.
</i>The far-right </span><a href="http://www.antisemitism.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Campaign
Against Antisemitism</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, an Israeli government<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>front, whose sole mission is to equate
opposition to the Israeli state and its genocide with anti-Semitism, <a href="https://antisemitism.org/following-caa-action-unite-union-cancels-bristol-screening-of-antisemitism-denial-film-and-launch-of-asa-winstansleys-book-weaponising-anti-semitism/">boasted</a>
of having entered into correspondence with Unite despite the denials of Cartmail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
reason given for the banning was they didn’t wish to offend Unite’s Jewish
members, despite the fact that Jews were prominent in the film. Clearly Graham
equates Jews with Zionism and goes along with the false anti-Semitism
narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1e3mxVX3AplhWnv15x5Q_cJENG1DkGq-xyA-ifu1ABa_X5SglQfEGtt920Ke5rFb_kGk2nTODa52Z5riwG-HqBKRa6tnrFZwq9Yg88VE9xhHXuCZlLu-imoVDmfjg7GsVXd_0LRwIBxLPMPcjPwfD3ifaW5KMqFaESb3tZ2yefxOV3LoKP_bqkAAqfCQD/s2016/U2ite%20Lobby%201.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1e3mxVX3AplhWnv15x5Q_cJENG1DkGq-xyA-ifu1ABa_X5SglQfEGtt920Ke5rFb_kGk2nTODa52Z5riwG-HqBKRa6tnrFZwq9Yg88VE9xhHXuCZlLu-imoVDmfjg7GsVXd_0LRwIBxLPMPcjPwfD3ifaW5KMqFaESb3tZ2yefxOV3LoKP_bqkAAqfCQD/w640-h480/U2ite%20Lobby%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If
the CAA is to be believed, and for once I do believe them, Unite under Graham
entered into correspondence with the CAA about banning the film. The CAA </span><a href="https://antisemitism.org/following-caa-action-unite-union-cancels-bristol-screening-of-antisemitism-denial-film-and-launch-of-asa-winstansleys-book-weaponising-anti-semitism/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">claimed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Following
correspondence with Campaign Against Antisemitism, the Unite union has </span><a href="https://archive.ph/EL7UG" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">cancelled</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
the </span><a href="https://archive.ph/ynpkE" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">screening</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
of a propaganda film about the antisemitic former </span><a href="https://antisemitism.org/politics/labour/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Labour
Party</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> leader </span><a href="https://antisemitism.org/politics/labour/jeremy-corbyn/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Jeremy
Corbyn</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> that was due to be shown alongside a
book signing and talk from Asa Winstanley.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Graham
was happy to speak with Ukraine flags fluttering around her but she hasn’t been
seen dead with a Palestinian flag. Unite has done absolutely nothing nationally
since Israel embarked on its genocidal campaign in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEji0CJj-I_GnIO8pS6CeuV8PcHK1EVcQQcuT-Ia4pWVXpO-ylczcfMXAN76R8oPyQNCI25cbyw6ESIU_Q-d9E7AG3Iwpt1CatEQNVpYs-Oe2lQ_ghL0f7dw1X9ynqoYSzgrGN_LH4-lQ4J6Ui1D-SxpFlvC2HtJs-VnPM3FixG02xMPpk0ZRpw3JbVib1eH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="334" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEji0CJj-I_GnIO8pS6CeuV8PcHK1EVcQQcuT-Ia4pWVXpO-ylczcfMXAN76R8oPyQNCI25cbyw6ESIU_Q-d9E7AG3Iwpt1CatEQNVpYs-Oe2lQ_ghL0f7dw1X9ynqoYSzgrGN_LH4-lQ4J6Ui1D-SxpFlvC2HtJs-VnPM3FixG02xMPpk0ZRpw3JbVib1eH=w407-h247" width="407" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is a disgrace that allegedly revolutionary groups like the SWP, Counterfire and
the Socialist Party have acted to protect Graham rather than calling her out.
Her attraction is that she supports militant action by workers in struggle,
which is fine, but strikes alone do not a world change. The question is whether
you challenge the imperialist consciousness of British workers who will never
overthrow the chains of capitalism whilst they have illusions in British imperialism.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaVYHNDbPQM4mkNV2cYGjg1ORV5XwPXDvOkwycE350dFDB4bBvyU2VipKZCX4hpESInPmx_2Rz_EifQerkxUqPEsPYbaApT9qIdQqiWTfubJuys0YkPGcqxfZUeO39ZISwNhXe4CdXayzLIriLzgOL2NhaysEMT3q-ft0qeBCZli_TvC6X8ptDjE3Nmf43" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="573" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaVYHNDbPQM4mkNV2cYGjg1ORV5XwPXDvOkwycE350dFDB4bBvyU2VipKZCX4hpESInPmx_2Rz_EifQerkxUqPEsPYbaApT9qIdQqiWTfubJuys0YkPGcqxfZUeO39ZISwNhXe4CdXayzLIriLzgOL2NhaysEMT3q-ft0qeBCZli_TvC6X8ptDjE3Nmf43=w640-h314" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Counterfire’s </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Richard
Allday, the ‘</span><a href="https://www.counterfire.org/author/richard-allday/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">angry
trucker’</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, dismissed the leaflet for the lobby as <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">negative,
insulting, confrontational and counterproductive. I’ve said it before: if the
intention is to get the Union to carry out Conference decisions, then let’s
concentrate on that and not turn it into a slanging match which will harden the
divisions which are part of the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlgaV0xsWyiPVtxbmgcJLkTEePCKW9Tgly_30o87Av-N0bxW4okek1Cz5IzjjpmxOlQGzY3D__w9JVTkdVkA-uNqbGvW_XlNz42YGpbAXQ4KSXX3nP2PSaDvrePSwerDAtPeZI91Gyyn8AnPGZC8dp9eorftfYrk0Rfal5Wo5P2XWdl2CIc933UPK9HXf-/s1600/Unite%20community%20H&Islington.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlgaV0xsWyiPVtxbmgcJLkTEePCKW9Tgly_30o87Av-N0bxW4okek1Cz5IzjjpmxOlQGzY3D__w9JVTkdVkA-uNqbGvW_XlNz42YGpbAXQ4KSXX3nP2PSaDvrePSwerDAtPeZI91Gyyn8AnPGZC8dp9eorftfYrk0Rfal5Wo5P2XWdl2CIc933UPK9HXf-/w480-h640/Unite%20community%20H&Islington.jpg" width="480" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Thus
ignoring completely Sharon Graham’s obstruction of all solidarity work
nationally. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">These
‘revolutionary’ groups claim to be Marxist and it is therefore instructive to
read what Marx <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1870/letters/70_04_09.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">wrote</span></a>
in April 1870 in a letter to Sigfrid Meyer and August Vogt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">"The
ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his
standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker, he regards himself as a
member of the ruling nation and consequently, he becomes a tool of the English
aristocrats and capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their
domination over himself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">He cherishes
religious, social, and national prejudices against the Irish worker. His
attitude towards him is much the same as that of the “poor whites” to the
Negroes in the former slave states of the U.S.A.. The Irishman pays him back
with interest in his own money. He sees in the English worker both the
accomplice and the stupid tool of the English rulers in Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">This
antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit,
the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling
classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working
class, despite its organisation. It is the secret by which the capitalist class
maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi099LpkRwPFSG7tIHodcVE9cKjnkMk5y89XATp_ZSDtDXpUNct6g_UjoSYpe4K_40wa-23b89vlMHfv4sUZ2t6dCxkkcGz_HnJ-Vfy0OxWPYrZoOyrweR3S61QhT_nMwKpO-A28SWgVHKq8RKazsnA4T_Zut3gVIf5SQyzmL1VoDhWGfzY6u7l_-6nYuRa/s1600/Unite%20Lobby%201.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi099LpkRwPFSG7tIHodcVE9cKjnkMk5y89XATp_ZSDtDXpUNct6g_UjoSYpe4K_40wa-23b89vlMHfv4sUZ2t6dCxkkcGz_HnJ-Vfy0OxWPYrZoOyrweR3S61QhT_nMwKpO-A28SWgVHKq8RKazsnA4T_Zut3gVIf5SQyzmL1VoDhWGfzY6u7l_-6nYuRa/w640-h480/Unite%20Lobby%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a name="a"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Our
present day Trotskyists fetishise strikes and ignore the fact </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">that
the fight against capitalism is a political struggle not simply economic. The
failure to oppose Zionism and Israel isn’t a mistake it is fundamental to
opposing British imperialism and its foreign policy and thereby capitalism
itself. Sharon Graham is an open British nationalist. She supports NATO in
Ukraine and the United States’s watchdog in the Middle East, Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcPDyAEug6a70Z_btgPBLiuMF5U7hX5ytlyzIAbO_iW_-Jwrd8j_4NFEmtLAOBD3T4ajvaKY6BFcgLGqg9ze8v44YU89ay6vCqFqJR9WTfREL9MvM_lbP2sMfTprO5mPxXR8Iq5bXUNPx9GauDuWhooisXPizlGYHLpz4KYUIzqkKoacfGcBBfqU5OB9s0/s2016/Unite%20Lobby%202.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcPDyAEug6a70Z_btgPBLiuMF5U7hX5ytlyzIAbO_iW_-Jwrd8j_4NFEmtLAOBD3T4ajvaKY6BFcgLGqg9ze8v44YU89ay6vCqFqJR9WTfREL9MvM_lbP2sMfTprO5mPxXR8Iq5bXUNPx9GauDuWhooisXPizlGYHLpz4KYUIzqkKoacfGcBBfqU5OB9s0/w640-h480/Unite%20Lobby%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Allday’s
post was in response to criticism of the complete inactivity of the national
leadership under Graham which has refused to have the national banner on the national
demonstration and which has failed to publicise them or indeed anything about
the genocide on Unite’s website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Indeed
Graham has gone out her way to obstruct the actions of others ‘advising’ Jim
Kelly of the London & Eastern Regional Secretary not to speak at the
national demonstration on 13 January 24. She has <a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2024/02/22/graham-suspends-official-who-refused-to-cancel-pro-palestine-labour-conference-fringe/">suspended</a>
a senior Unite employee, Simon Dubbins, who organised a Palestine meeting at
the Labour Party annual conference in Liverpool last October.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAqVvvYr3_FPKl_UP7enN0r63-cLz71KUCZhTkznq1EAAOizw-Z9jFRlrT_VuxVdDvAOpXkiNwNnhPqFbwAGPwp-c-kJU_B9dYhYk3qFFRwCog2YzRloqNsBtI3T9kTvNKatloVOn4wlbabtQhv1BwSWRlNT4H9y9YKWBLvrV308OHNTrkIePx-il7vffB/s1600/Unite%20Lobby%204.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAqVvvYr3_FPKl_UP7enN0r63-cLz71KUCZhTkznq1EAAOizw-Z9jFRlrT_VuxVdDvAOpXkiNwNnhPqFbwAGPwp-c-kJU_B9dYhYk3qFFRwCog2YzRloqNsBtI3T9kTvNKatloVOn4wlbabtQhv1BwSWRlNT4H9y9YKWBLvrV308OHNTrkIePx-il7vffB/w640-h480/Unite%20Lobby%204.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On
16 October 23 Unite put out a </span><a href="https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2023/october/unite-unreservedly-condemns-the-recent-appalling-acts-of-violence-in-israel-and-gaza-and-calls-for-the-protection-and-upholding-of-human-rights-under-international-law"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">statement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
which <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unreservedly condemned and expressed its
revulsion<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the recent appalling acts
of violence by Hamas against innocent civilians in Israel’ <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">But
it could only ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deplore the subsequent
suffering and loss of life being endured by civilians in Gaza.’ </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo1qfowMOahd6SGmDrQp7JPiz0J52Eb-nPFznJpKGuBmtPfphAZ6spMKfjFk2w_RxCdALZ1K0Fyi2i2hHglXT1D7ZG19_Tn3nY3v-YBH8YtlyzBt3jcAPp_5vG2ZlJkKtKXKr7TeBcqRdUPzUcltDvJg0Id8OKyoy-XMtXkqeKEiKiLrOuyq8ubBO9QWhe/s2048/Unite%20Lobby.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo1qfowMOahd6SGmDrQp7JPiz0J52Eb-nPFznJpKGuBmtPfphAZ6spMKfjFk2w_RxCdALZ1K0Fyi2i2hHglXT1D7ZG19_Tn3nY3v-YBH8YtlyzBt3jcAPp_5vG2ZlJkKtKXKr7TeBcqRdUPzUcltDvJg0Id8OKyoy-XMtXkqeKEiKiLrOuyq8ubBO9QWhe/w480-h640/Unite%20Lobby.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On
November 3<sup>rd</sup> after considerable pressure from activists including an
online petition Unite </span><a href="https://unitedleft.org.uk/unite-puts-out-updated-statement-on-palestine-following-special-ec/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">issued
a second statement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> which this time called for an immediate
ceasefire. The statement was however pitiably weak calling on ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all parties to respect international law</i>’
as if the Palestinians experiencing genocide were equally culpable as the
murderers. Nowhere did the statement mention genocide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Jim Kelly, Chair of London & Eastern
Region Unite Speaking to a London Trade union Rally for Palestine <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Unite
has done nothing to campaign for a ceasefire such as telling its sponsored MPs
that it wouldn’t continue to finance them if they didn’t support an immediate
ceasefire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Nor
did the statement mention the fact that Israel had imposed a Nazi style food,
water and fuel blockade on the Gaza strip resulting in starvation </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67670679"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">according
to the United Nations</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3T4KMgLbK8EsV6xxvso8b9E0Uw8hVaes28sJRstQF8KcVF9vRLPqdq9Od5OoXMP4Y5BZna2hmSj1ZlGRi55lRKDGLnLnEMYXDJzHFOLELirTyEtNqxBWWQbzwAAA5NC120tE1GYxUAUwi8zHiIqB-w8G6efsgTpCx6uxDWHStLPi08ZHcOZOTGfOSZTLd/s4080/Unite%20picket%2011.3.24%20(8).jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3T4KMgLbK8EsV6xxvso8b9E0Uw8hVaes28sJRstQF8KcVF9vRLPqdq9Od5OoXMP4Y5BZna2hmSj1ZlGRi55lRKDGLnLnEMYXDJzHFOLELirTyEtNqxBWWQbzwAAA5NC120tE1GYxUAUwi8zHiIqB-w8G6efsgTpCx6uxDWHStLPi08ZHcOZOTGfOSZTLd/w640-h480/Unite%20picket%2011.3.24%20(8).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On Monday
there were 2 motions to the Executive. Both were problematic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ruk9PeGnnS9bDf_jkRWEe0PDlAMBVfuL/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106404952768753573088&rtpof=true&sd=true"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Motion 1</span></a><span class="go"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> from the </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Passenger
National Industrial Sector Committee talked about Israel’s genocide being in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">retaliation
for the 7 October brutal atrocity carried out by Hamas.’</span></i><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> An uprising of an
oppressed people against 57 years of occupation was not a brutal atrocity. Israel’s
genocidal attack on Gaza was not a retaliation for October 7. 7 October was the
pretext for long standing Zionist plans for ethnic cleansing.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YbEkv5FJ1pDgidXwvgMTzQu5wdEdBkY5hDT1vEZPaLdRozNl1JEbs_cPqzPtgTmm6IgRQq_cqWB3MK829taFgGoMkTzRIQdFVxtvlZlij7oR1DDyeNZKJX3h1qTHe4MpkRO31PUz89uwMmFMtVJuN52gXkG9pFacjcc6d0fKibyX-l5vUyMHfYuRm4W5/s4080/Unite%20picket%2011.3.24%20(5).jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YbEkv5FJ1pDgidXwvgMTzQu5wdEdBkY5hDT1vEZPaLdRozNl1JEbs_cPqzPtgTmm6IgRQq_cqWB3MK829taFgGoMkTzRIQdFVxtvlZlij7oR1DDyeNZKJX3h1qTHe4MpkRO31PUz89uwMmFMtVJuN52gXkG9pFacjcc6d0fKibyX-l5vUyMHfYuRm4W5/w640-h480/Unite%20picket%2011.3.24%20(5).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cacy7miZyqDrFWP-KN9K7i-YUX1wmqf3/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106404952768753573088&rtpof=true&sd=true"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Motion
2</span></a><span class="go"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> from the </span></span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Unite LE Region </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">also calls
October 7 a <i>‘</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">retaliation for the 7 October brutal atrocity’</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. It also calls for a two-state solution.</span><span class="go"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="go"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Both motions call for a </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">national Unite presence at the national
demonstrations. That there be a prominent national speaker from Unite to speak
at all future marches/demonstrations and that <span style="color: black;">Unite’s
website and social media platforms advertise prominently all future PSC
mobilisations and that they call for Unite to urge members to join it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WTJatv8l77941Z0tJVM1ynzPD1F-poTlIAXc64OmPPQYWa2-i7MNKYiu_7tT6C4tmTMjHyWaXwA9x5Q9U5DFc06EolkKSN4D0o2Pxc7ExcEWfKVDY4v_x52trD9Mtp1vcHei13dHA6cPL3-SY7bDeMeI6NrWIPj8hl9VwtPLVXny5dMrd2ZzlNCUzgXn/s4080/Unite%20picket%2011.3.24%20(7).jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WTJatv8l77941Z0tJVM1ynzPD1F-poTlIAXc64OmPPQYWa2-i7MNKYiu_7tT6C4tmTMjHyWaXwA9x5Q9U5DFc06EolkKSN4D0o2Pxc7ExcEWfKVDY4v_x52trD9Mtp1vcHei13dHA6cPL3-SY7bDeMeI6NrWIPj8hl9VwtPLVXny5dMrd2ZzlNCUzgXn/w640-h480/Unite%20picket%2011.3.24%20(7).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The motion instructs Graham to write to all
branches nationally, urging members to join these marches and that resources
are in place to facilitate members wishing to travel to attend PSC
marches/demonstrations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">What the motions don’t do is talk about ethnic
cleansing, the Israeli state’s real aim in Gaza nor about the role of British
workers in facilitating the genocide by transferring arms to Israel. The key
demand, that workers refuse to handle weapons destined for Israel and better
still refuse to load or unload Israeli ships, is missing.</span></p><p></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-84743842172856204752024-03-11T02:25:00.003+00:002024-03-11T20:07:45.968+00:00How did Brighton Women’s Centre Celebrate International Women’s Day?<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 24pt;"><span style="color: #38761d;">By Banning <i><a href="https://www.parentsforpalestine.org/">Parents for Palestine</a></i> after Zionist objections. Presumably the Death of
25,000 women & children in Gaza isn’t enough</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfMWjYDzGD_zTGnflh-NUyMBRgX1MbWmDNYlCwewzT-JShUuNQrzr-VdXbi9QGUkdoWaJojZX-NTx100qaUC5qqtmCxH5zmITsw_AD2wkI7F0H51AfedYjvC7mmJrV2-o4hKRGIH6NwGFaiNbT23nRYzs46dwJt-_mHBoT5U7sxEV0joCZZIFtC7F3hLEF/s674/Eyal%20Karim.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="674" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfMWjYDzGD_zTGnflh-NUyMBRgX1MbWmDNYlCwewzT-JShUuNQrzr-VdXbi9QGUkdoWaJojZX-NTx100qaUC5qqtmCxH5zmITsw_AD2wkI7F0H51AfedYjvC7mmJrV2-o4hKRGIH6NwGFaiNbT23nRYzs46dwJt-_mHBoT5U7sxEV0joCZZIFtC7F3hLEF/w640-h302/Eyal%20Karim.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 9.0pt; margin: 9pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><br /></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: red;">Genocide in Gaza through the eyes
of Israeli soldiers</span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On 5 November 2023 Anita
Patel wrote a guest blog <a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/11/womens-place-uk-whitewashing-zionism.html"><span style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Women’s Place UK
: Whitewashing Zionism</span></a>. Anita wrote, in reference to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">their <a href="https://womansplaceuk.org/2023/10/28/israelpalestine/">statement</a> of 28<sup>th</sup>
October “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Israel & Palestine – Peace,
Equality, Freedom, Justice</i>”, that it was:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">an
evasive and impossible fudge, between advocates of apartheid, ethnic cleansing
and genocide on the one hand, and a people who are fighting for their survival
on the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The statement frames the
attack on Gaza as a conflict between two equivalent hostile parties, failing to
distinguish the oppressor and the oppressed, and making the same demands of
both those parties, on the grounds that all the women involved share the same
experience of war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is as though
Israeli women were not part of the oppressor and Palestinian women were not
part of the oppressed people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimou-jGuY4K_4_E5SlE7eA5sw8EFJ2zP1UMpEi9Vl-FfLKiDSKcTLHEv8chwPJvLo28TAYAvI2QsOYT6FJjwh2jKrSlGoJFHdUjP8JI-Lv_g3KyjhvIx8MdpkSpJzu1qiyRDba8pRMRvB1Qttdif4wY3b3JOkB3NqckGDDaOxcir2z5S6e3q7wWzIFJGVA/s793/Brighton%20Women's%20Centre.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimou-jGuY4K_4_E5SlE7eA5sw8EFJ2zP1UMpEi9Vl-FfLKiDSKcTLHEv8chwPJvLo28TAYAvI2QsOYT6FJjwh2jKrSlGoJFHdUjP8JI-Lv_g3KyjhvIx8MdpkSpJzu1qiyRDba8pRMRvB1Qttdif4wY3b3JOkB3NqckGDDaOxcir2z5S6e3q7wWzIFJGVA/w620-h640/Brighton%20Women's%20Centre.jpg" width="620" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">Brighton Women's Centre</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">BWC has provided a good example of how this statement
has been interpreted by radical and liberal/bourgeois feminists when they
banned Parents for Palestine from having a stall at their celebrations in Brighton
Dome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj48k6MmSc4a4X1eis6bD6y2O9krT0Jjwf_1xIXuBIg_0_cnGVrHS8-DhYZR6r8-L8TZ34wPoG4Xe0i4XSQNxFB1asjCR8pnb677en7N11u4pzx1VzOSdYD2Awu-qKM4DqoPmKoVBVugEv23j8B5_VfeP-s2rOvIottgXJp6RMCO615F8tUFcdhRKaI_Yl0/s1034/picket%20of%20Regavim.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="897" data-original-width="1034" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj48k6MmSc4a4X1eis6bD6y2O9krT0Jjwf_1xIXuBIg_0_cnGVrHS8-DhYZR6r8-L8TZ34wPoG4Xe0i4XSQNxFB1asjCR8pnb677en7N11u4pzx1VzOSdYD2Awu-qKM4DqoPmKoVBVugEv23j8B5_VfeP-s2rOvIottgXJp6RMCO615F8tUFcdhRKaI_Yl0/w400-h348/picket%20of%20Regavim.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I understand that it was Zionist Lobby group, <a href="https://www.uklfi.com/">UK Lawyers for Israel</a>, which in December
2019, <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/anti-occupation-jews-blockade-lecture-by-extremist-pro-settlement-group-in-london-mxrv5ejj">brought</a>
the far-right settler NGO Regavim to Britain, that objected. As Israel’s +972 Magazine wrote </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘<a href="https://www.972mag.com/british-jews-regavim/">Why are British Jews
opening their doors to far-right settler groups</a>?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xsc8E_nXBUs" width="320" youtube-src-id="xsc8E_nXBUs"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;"><b>Daniel Berke - LFI and Tommy Robinson's solicitor</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXcmes1RGsRjga6x_17KuA3sEeKw6lhp3KjWMYszp2mtJHkfJakpNqvRmNN8oztv4GKs8NodF0L0mjtpqz2r6GD4AtSHfMtpfNqyhtZuv4B9NHWv4vABA4vhMbHklJiKQxefO8PJABwoN8L0SIuKmiL8VoYQAfE2IhsMihw1Q2os7i7huZrSJLv6nCjS0p/s363/daniel%20berke.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="251" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXcmes1RGsRjga6x_17KuA3sEeKw6lhp3KjWMYszp2mtJHkfJakpNqvRmNN8oztv4GKs8NodF0L0mjtpqz2r6GD4AtSHfMtpfNqyhtZuv4B9NHWv4vABA4vhMbHklJiKQxefO8PJABwoN8L0SIuKmiL8VoYQAfE2IhsMihw1Q2os7i7huZrSJLv6nCjS0p/w442-h640/daniel%20berke.jpg" width="442" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.uklfi.com/">UKLFI</a> is
a far-right Zionist organisation. Listed among its <a href="https://www.uklfi.com/about-us-2/our-directors">Directors</a> is Daniel
Berke, lawyer for Tommy Robinson. As the film below makes clear he is politically
close to Robinson. Berke was also the solicitor for Jonathan Hoffman, the link
person between British fascists and far-right Zionists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regavim_(NGO)">Regavim</a> was founded in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">2006
by Bezalel Smotrich, the then leader of the far-right National Union party.
Smotrich calls himself a “<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-radical-settler-proud-homophobe-and-wunderkind-new-leader-of-israel-s-far-right-1.6846001" target="_blank">proud homophobe</a>” and is an open fascist. Today Smotrich is Israel’s
Finance Minister and the Gauleiter of the West Bank. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZYDo7UVMfC0rgOMI4K7QzHO-FzUTd8vHUcVzjgySuiws3rcDN76Z8q7OXaWGO-2n4TJFJuaMak9MAIrVNwNbkFm8fwcuCycgFVEw4uUrVFtu_mxCGUEgpC3A-Gb1JYyYAUGJeLtcZZiOQ5OoHAqk0Ysw0cF-aqlVbLpwaNk3oSJOqaYQZ3lLP5y3sa-qQ/s594/Huwara%20pogrom.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="185" data-original-width="594" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZYDo7UVMfC0rgOMI4K7QzHO-FzUTd8vHUcVzjgySuiws3rcDN76Z8q7OXaWGO-2n4TJFJuaMak9MAIrVNwNbkFm8fwcuCycgFVEw4uUrVFtu_mxCGUEgpC3A-Gb1JYyYAUGJeLtcZZiOQ5OoHAqk0Ysw0cF-aqlVbLpwaNk3oSJOqaYQZ3lLP5y3sa-qQ/w640-h200/Huwara%20pogrom.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In February this Judeo-Nazi <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-should-wipe-out-palestinian-town-of-huwara-says-senior-minister-smotrich/">called</a>
for the ‘wiping out’ of the Palestinian <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>town of Huwara where the settlers had staged a
pogrom.<a name="a"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Others involved in
alleging ‘anti-Semitism’ and support for Hamas were Sussex Friends of Israel and
its alter-ego the Sussex Representative Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW0Dwkv107hF_9bGis6vz_zpTKlI9FBnbYArLcIdI7HPxPu_yosqLtC2-jJz5ATg-AL1rG-rUKT6nrI7S81p4yQpRGvTsE5S-leJyiqadPZZ6ptDblcxVKrZ5Vv3rA__WBwAijrxug62Qb54nbO6OVP7jcpm-p8ff45g7BUdeJrOqva0gpIy_gsdm7fHLX/s1280/PSC%20Brighton%20WC%20shocked.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="976" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW0Dwkv107hF_9bGis6vz_zpTKlI9FBnbYArLcIdI7HPxPu_yosqLtC2-jJz5ATg-AL1rG-rUKT6nrI7S81p4yQpRGvTsE5S-leJyiqadPZZ6ptDblcxVKrZ5Vv3rA__WBwAijrxug62Qb54nbO6OVP7jcpm-p8ff45g7BUdeJrOqva0gpIy_gsdm7fHLX/w488-h640/PSC%20Brighton%20WC%20shocked.jpg" width="488" /></a></span></p>
<h3 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I have written before on the
theme of Zionist Feminism in articles such as <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2018/02/ahed-tamimi-exposes-refusal-of-western.html">Ahed
Tamimi Exposes the Refusal of Western Feminism to Come to Terms with Zionism
and Imperialism</a> and <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2020/12/how-identity-politics-turned-victims-of.html">How
Identity Politics Turned the Victims of Sabra & Chatilla into the
Antisemitic Oppressors of Zionist Feminists - A Reply to Erica Burman</a></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">BWC not only refused to
talk to P4P about the allegations, they refused to disclose who had made the
allegations or what they were. Instead they just went ahead and cancelled P4P’s
stall.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjthAgYlasxXm6HhNR3mfJsZByATzKYIkkFh82pojEiX17I2O-8vI09MbVFN-cDOhs6nN4PPYRHQbrJzOQbF5RPya5ypjf0X6wABaz7QfQbBhG8aeKhUHwRqxO86EjcHxAetV76ru1nSZRIDF9g2UwXP9ZZgTtwffnMF7OFGU8ImqEKnVB5P5E5WkvjXHg-/s1080/IWD%201.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjthAgYlasxXm6HhNR3mfJsZByATzKYIkkFh82pojEiX17I2O-8vI09MbVFN-cDOhs6nN4PPYRHQbrJzOQbF5RPya5ypjf0X6wABaz7QfQbBhG8aeKhUHwRqxO86EjcHxAetV76ru1nSZRIDF9g2UwXP9ZZgTtwffnMF7OFGU8ImqEKnVB5P5E5WkvjXHg-/s16000/IWD%201.jpg" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This is the kind of ‘justice’
that Palestinians receive in the West Bank where you can be detained without trial
(Administrative Detention) without knowing who has made the allegations or what
those allegations are. So well done BWC. You are certainly good Zionists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What BWC did was to cave
in to the supporters of genocide in Gaza taking their side. BWC has always been
a nest of right-wing radical and Zionist feminism and so it’s no surprise that
they were happy to cover for the supporters of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXGwow2Nh80i_JlTBUYOHrdQ5A8I7ZWKnF7KLA1s7ZFvtVjYWZtQTq_jdwho1p9eV4yEtdxfee_O07FZ8T0tngwNrbsfVE3-vWb36sN0Obha7Ov0YxBWtqSNmuR84wzAFGSup2KMQAVTgeudpCCCwkA-fu8OIEqEGGqjAYzv0d4F3hoorGL5JqYLrnCgw2/s1280/IWD%202.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="1280" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXGwow2Nh80i_JlTBUYOHrdQ5A8I7ZWKnF7KLA1s7ZFvtVjYWZtQTq_jdwho1p9eV4yEtdxfee_O07FZ8T0tngwNrbsfVE3-vWb36sN0Obha7Ov0YxBWtqSNmuR84wzAFGSup2KMQAVTgeudpCCCwkA-fu8OIEqEGGqjAYzv0d4F3hoorGL5JqYLrnCgw2/w640-h594/IWD%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">When I was Secretary of
the local Anti-Nazi League 40 years ago I wrote to them suggesting that we work
together in combating the National Front which was active in Brighton at that
time. Their response was that since fascists and anti-fascists were men they
were going to abstain!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In practice BWC has been
abstaining from the fight against racism and fascism ever since. Now they have
taken it a step further and openly declared their sympathies with those who are
perpetrating genocide in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFAEKA7A_w5RsuwdtxZSxZYModkIa_NadI9abdHX4Gb62KBLKuXaWThV-unjosh8s0kk58R3Rko4DFI0HCNU59bNp1C3RV9VFY4aHVSQr7-QpwK08pGlt07GGmz4RaJ5Q6ohoFON0UrbNtnh08vPP96IvM0tg0B_Lgzat71ewdkx9tXVTT0JBH-7Q3LmR6/s1729/Parents%204%20Palestine%20statement.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1729" data-original-width="979" height="1134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFAEKA7A_w5RsuwdtxZSxZYModkIa_NadI9abdHX4Gb62KBLKuXaWThV-unjosh8s0kk58R3Rko4DFI0HCNU59bNp1C3RV9VFY4aHVSQr7-QpwK08pGlt07GGmz4RaJ5Q6ohoFON0UrbNtnh08vPP96IvM0tg0B_Lgzat71ewdkx9tXVTT0JBH-7Q3LmR6/w641-h1134/Parents%204%20Palestine%20statement.jpg" width="641" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">🚨Harrowing scenes document the moment Israeli soldiers execute elderly civilian inside a home west of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> City. <a href="https://t.co/jZCv0v1nN8">pic.twitter.com/jZCv0v1nN8</a></span></p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">— Nour Naim| نُور (@NourNaim88) <a href="https://twitter.com/NourNaim88/status/1766186425198764468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 21.3333px; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 21.3333px; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DAy4mR5TnRI" width="320" youtube-src-id="DAy4mR5TnRI"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 21.3333px; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><b>Little Boy Describing the Execution of his Parents</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">According to the <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/israelopt-un-experts-appalled-reported-human-rights-violations-against">UN’s
Office of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Human Rights</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Palestinian women and girls
have reportedly been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family
members, including their children, according to information received. “<i>We are
shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of
Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while
fleeing. Some of them were reportedly holding white pieces of cloth when they
were killed by the Israeli army or affiliated forces,</i>” the experts said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The experts
expressed serious concern about the arbitrary detention of hundreds of
Palestinian women and girls, including human rights defenders, journalists and
humanitarian workers, in Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October. Many have
reportedly been subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, denied
menstruation pads, food and medicine, and severely beaten. On at least one
occasion, Palestinian women detained in Gaza were allegedly kept in a cage in
the rain and cold, without food.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2tfmZW4d-p6rf6rNJfBg9XggJaZxFRxMWfFnEngjqQiJvC5T7i9-wIVYcpz4eMdNMJ9gTJQDCX7Oo3UGsh6zw095raklxZpyBRzZj1HGZn_VqGJnVT_xoxlEzH2Y8LHY37pQwfHeDnN8euuORvqMjfqI6RMNOS6toJaTvBxHaxc6KPV1fmX7NfTtyerT1/s1165/UNHR%20Palestinian%20women%20and%20girls.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="1165" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2tfmZW4d-p6rf6rNJfBg9XggJaZxFRxMWfFnEngjqQiJvC5T7i9-wIVYcpz4eMdNMJ9gTJQDCX7Oo3UGsh6zw095raklxZpyBRzZj1HGZn_VqGJnVT_xoxlEzH2Y8LHY37pQwfHeDnN8euuORvqMjfqI6RMNOS6toJaTvBxHaxc6KPV1fmX7NfTtyerT1/w640-h198/UNHR%20Palestinian%20women%20and%20girls.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/22/claims-of-israeli-sexual-assault-of-palestinian-women-are-credible-un-panel-says">reported</a>
on 22 February that </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">there was <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/israelopt-un-experts-appalled-reported-human-rights-violations-against">evidence</a>
of at least two cases of rape of Palestinian women captives, alongside other
cases of sexual humiliation and threats of rape. Reem Alsalem, the UN special
rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said the true extent of sexual
violence could be significantly higher.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In 2020 Save the
Children <a href="https://www.savethechildren.net/news/stripped-beaten-and-blindfolded-new-research-reveals-ongoing-violence-and-abuse-palestinian">reported</a>
that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Palestinian children in the
Israel military detention system face physical and emotional abuse, with four
out of five (86%) of them being beaten, and 69% strip-searched, according to
new research by Save the Children. Nearly half (42%) are injured at the point
of arrest, including gunshot wounds and broken bones. Some report violence of a
sexual nature and some are transferred to court or between detention
centres in small cages, the child rights organisation said. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIYt743r5Lo4lIJnB5-ofd8pkPFXLtnVnEcpv4DEpHMJEDNwJ7gt9SI5sYpQdoLjJYWWWt1RG4lJfSYuBvxmjY5hVOXiqCm-EGeqNJ0BsR87OXOxEWR4bPpGo6OpnGtszHQKtL03vRo_CTvbG4B6Y7XKHcoBrcUItRl4ULP71iTJ4eMJR7O6MguA4HCqaF/s903/Eyal%20Karim%20and%20rape.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="903" data-original-width="787" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIYt743r5Lo4lIJnB5-ofd8pkPFXLtnVnEcpv4DEpHMJEDNwJ7gt9SI5sYpQdoLjJYWWWt1RG4lJfSYuBvxmjY5hVOXiqCm-EGeqNJ0BsR87OXOxEWR4bPpGo6OpnGtszHQKtL03vRo_CTvbG4B6Y7XKHcoBrcUItRl4ULP71iTJ4eMJR7O6MguA4HCqaF/w558-h640/Eyal%20Karim%20and%20rape.jpg" width="558" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><gu-island config="{"renderingTarget":"Web","darkModeAvailable":false}" data-island-status="hydrated" deferuntil="visible" name="SignInGateSelector" priority="feature" props="{"contentType":"Article","sectionId":"world","tags":[{"id":"world/israel-hamas-war","type":"Keyword","title":"Israel-Gaza war"},{"id":"world/israel","type":"Keyword","title":"Israel"},{"id":"world/palestinian-territories","type":"Keyword","title":"Palestinian territories"},{"id":"world/gaza","type":"Keyword","title":"Gaza"},{"id":"society/rape","type":"Keyword","title":"Rape and sexual assault"},{"id":"society/violence-against-women-and-girls","type":"Keyword","title":"Violence against women and 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women and children are also being starved to death by Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reports of sexual abuse and violence against
women by Israeli soldiers are rife, which is not surprising since the Chief
Military Rabbi of Israel, Eyal Karim has <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2016-07-13/ty-article/.premium/israeli-military-chief-stands-by-controversial-choice-for-top-rabbi/0000017f-dba2-d3ff-a7ff-fba2c6340000">ruled</a>
that rape is permitted in war.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFE42izUakXPhwbeks2XDblton-HhLjZN3Bwqyr74t32qgjeLzhkIHJzt4Y3XddsPg8kRDuZlBYZA3rQ3tV-cE_6Ca1-1g2KVow3lf7aSfmj51K99dNJdstfa4PvTzaHVZi0Shd0bANkLBYDg5h7ZABmxrc7bf3exiPVJ23hQgRbjWewGO4sqCd8MmJEti/s1191/Yazan%20Kafarneh.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="1191" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFE42izUakXPhwbeks2XDblton-HhLjZN3Bwqyr74t32qgjeLzhkIHJzt4Y3XddsPg8kRDuZlBYZA3rQ3tV-cE_6Ca1-1g2KVow3lf7aSfmj51K99dNJdstfa4PvTzaHVZi0Shd0bANkLBYDg5h7ZABmxrc7bf3exiPVJ23hQgRbjWewGO4sqCd8MmJEti/w640-h444/Yazan%20Kafarneh.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b>The haunted face of a 10 year old who died of starvation</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4827240,00.html">answer</a> to
a question on the religious website Kipa </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">when asked if soldiers
were permitted to rape women during war. Karim replied that, as part of
maintaining fitness for the army and the soldiers' morale during fighting, it
is permitted to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEkxs2u3WKGgKJOtEXwlzhOrrwknSg5UuzzyoOAVGvfVMKPtQz5fMqu0MjWBOwLsKaJddQfULXkYOsRmHrhcCW4vq1FKhYHK-uDbKoz2kDVMngp7TS7-gpZ5ROQt2f-gnUsPsPPUrM37cbqWUXxGW3-fpzWHspLygAnpZjCk0ip55rEgoz1i1KBfy9zU78/s2048/flour%20can%20cost%20%20you%20your%20life.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEkxs2u3WKGgKJOtEXwlzhOrrwknSg5UuzzyoOAVGvfVMKPtQz5fMqu0MjWBOwLsKaJddQfULXkYOsRmHrhcCW4vq1FKhYHK-uDbKoz2kDVMngp7TS7-gpZ5ROQt2f-gnUsPsPPUrM37cbqWUXxGW3-fpzWHspLygAnpZjCk0ip55rEgoz1i1KBfy9zU78/w480-h640/flour%20can%20cost%20%20you%20your%20life.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">"breach"
the walls of modesty and "satisfy the evil inclination by lying with
attractive Gentile women against their will, out of consideration for the
difficulties faced by the soldiers and for overall success."</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It is no surprise that
the sisters of BWC have, given the choice, chosen to side with those who have
forced Palestinian women to have caesarean sections without anaesthetic, who
are deprived of basics hygiene such as sanitary towels, wipes and above
all, of food. To these racist harridans, Palestinian women are lesser human
beings compared to their White counterparts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The fact that BWC lied when
it said in a statement that it had offered to speak to P4P when it hadn’t and
then accepted the allegations from the Zionists at face value demonstrates
beyond doubt where their sympathies lie.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHvhqjD6IXWxW1P-JPCAIM1arsMAE_FpWg6Eru2j4MWqWUJDhuWA4UYCS4bvHJ51lcYAipPLblnHgRUfMn7WxBD7lMCCziIkjuaAncYGyIC2Gencu45128vOOyga0CGqyyoYcB5Rets8mSG2PXsDQQW0foLPf_qPeiWfSYYhW-lwo6F87kTz7SbKjn5_dC/s4080/Zionist%20picket%20of%20IWD%20(1).jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHvhqjD6IXWxW1P-JPCAIM1arsMAE_FpWg6Eru2j4MWqWUJDhuWA4UYCS4bvHJ51lcYAipPLblnHgRUfMn7WxBD7lMCCziIkjuaAncYGyIC2Gencu45128vOOyga0CGqyyoYcB5Rets8mSG2PXsDQQW0foLPf_qPeiWfSYYhW-lwo6F87kTz7SbKjn5_dC/w640-h480/Zionist%20picket%20of%20IWD%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b>The Zionist Apologists for Rape & Violence Against Women</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Radical feminism has always given cover to imperialism,
be it in Ireland or Palestine so we shouldn’t be surprised. The darlings of
American feminists – </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/betty-friedan"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Betty Friedan</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letty_Cottin_Pogrebin"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Letty Pogrebin</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> and </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Andrea
Dworkin</span></a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">– were all Zionists.
American feminism has until recently, and under the pressure of Black Lives
Matter and third world women, been a bastion of support for imperialist ventures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Nossel"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Susan Nossel</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">. former head of Amnesty USA justified the Afghan
war with feminist arguments.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Feminism
as a western movement has, by its very nature, viewed society as primarily divided
into men and women. Race and class has been largely absent from Western
feminist narratives and it is no accident that the racist trollops of Brighton Women
Centre have come to dominate the women’s movement and feminism.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFococMPdQmRXVwJu96AH0SyeoN755xk2FtKJz6enC_h7ispXeB3xfhiGryMGpFy5NqfB1iNl7M5iFaw9Aj4nFYkFABYRT4BwZhmtDr8pDTLVbcCTiI4yY8N8TEHgC-8lWG6cJctCHs_HdWvUIk0UHmnfaE3KOut5QZwj86a9apDJ2J6tEbK89PZ7bEBgz/s646/Palestinians%20beaten.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="620" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFococMPdQmRXVwJu96AH0SyeoN755xk2FtKJz6enC_h7ispXeB3xfhiGryMGpFy5NqfB1iNl7M5iFaw9Aj4nFYkFABYRT4BwZhmtDr8pDTLVbcCTiI4yY8N8TEHgC-8lWG6cJctCHs_HdWvUIk0UHmnfaE3KOut5QZwj86a9apDJ2J6tEbK89PZ7bEBgz/w614-h640/Palestinians%20beaten.jpg" width="614" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Western
feminists such as Betty Friedan fought hard against Palestinian demands for
liberation and in practice what was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>called second wave<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>feminism ended
up in the right-wing feminism of the ‘Blair
babes’ who voted overwhelmingly in Parliament for the Iraq War in 2003. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
election of 100 Labour Women MPs in 1997 resulted in a
situation where 25% of women MPs (mostly old-style socialists like Alice Mahon)
voted against the war compared to 40% of male MPs. So much for the sexist idea
that women are more peaceful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
more recent years it has been female Zionist <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MPs such as Margaret Hodge, Louise Ellman,
Luciana Berger and Ruth Smeeth who led the ‘anti-Semitism’ fight against Jeremy
Corbyn and the left in the Labour Party.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSTNHrrsbthQGNfc7a2pBUiPO56nN7l1SdCvqcFQ3ldMnq3zsITJLi0qWY6Ug687w5UGfXPjhWQcfxq6FBTEOUqltJmlx6OVhsH-UjrbrHlCaiyCuC5AWaQEPMNReGCBthzioisx38gGgIKLfxFEke0-hUIZ8rfpOybayEF_PjJjKgpLT9JZvmJX1bxRYz/s4080/Zionist%20picket%20of%20IWD%20(2).jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSTNHrrsbthQGNfc7a2pBUiPO56nN7l1SdCvqcFQ3ldMnq3zsITJLi0qWY6Ug687w5UGfXPjhWQcfxq6FBTEOUqltJmlx6OVhsH-UjrbrHlCaiyCuC5AWaQEPMNReGCBthzioisx38gGgIKLfxFEke0-hUIZ8rfpOybayEF_PjJjKgpLT9JZvmJX1bxRYz/w640-h480/Zionist%20picket%20of%20IWD%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">The Zionist counter-picket</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This
is why on Saturday March 9 we held a silent picket of the IWT
celebrations at the Dome. Opposite us were a group of Zionist women chanting ‘Rape
is not Resistance’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their message was
that the break-out from Gaza on October 7 had been an orgy of
rape. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4aJFcoKVVSk" width="320" youtube-src-id="4aJFcoKVVSk"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Dabke
at Womens Day Celebrations<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Allegations
of systematic rape have been the main narrative of the Israeli state in order to
demonise Hamas and justify its genocide in Gaza. BWC has gone along with this
false narrative. It has been <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/watch-debunking-israels-mass-rape-propaganda">comprehensively
debunked</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijyTcOBuoyQeIxCaKWERR7vDZJTwW8r8sDr5V8xKj8mYyZASh8NkmQKfj3myqqXcPN_XLKsO6ukYxTLFE0PmGEgj_yr8oMpL9e3JRJj0blhrTPtDI7ENRiGxnZb69qwdQ-ixj-StLXMkmKiVGxrU4yn9JR3D7HMNmskvMLwaJhTkUhfk5xqaQh09k0b3W4/s1599/Demo%20outside.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1599" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijyTcOBuoyQeIxCaKWERR7vDZJTwW8r8sDr5V8xKj8mYyZASh8NkmQKfj3myqqXcPN_XLKsO6ukYxTLFE0PmGEgj_yr8oMpL9e3JRJj0blhrTPtDI7ENRiGxnZb69qwdQ-ixj-StLXMkmKiVGxrU4yn9JR3D7HMNmskvMLwaJhTkUhfk5xqaQh09k0b3W4/w640-h480/Demo%20outside.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">Palestine Solidarity Lobby</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">However
allegations of rape have always been the stock-in-trade of racists and imperialists against
indigenous people from Southern Africa ‘<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Peril">the black peril’</a> to the
lynch mobs of the Deep South. Indeed allegations of rape and sexual assault
were common to Nazi propaganda against German Jews. So it’s no surprise that Brighton
Womens Centre has adopted this narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">URGENT! <br />Further to the disgraceful decision by <a href="https://twitter.com/BTNWomensCentre?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BTNWomensCentre</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/brightdome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@brightdome</a> to cancel a stall celebrating Palestinian women for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/InternationalWomensDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#InternationalWomensDay</a>, Parents 4 Palestine are calling for local people to join them in solidarity to protest.<br />From 10am outside <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brighton?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Brighton</a> Dome. <a href="https://t.co/QXIdDO4FrJ">pic.twitter.com/QXIdDO4FrJ</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— Brighton PSC (@BrightonPSC) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrightonPSC/status/1766379460981301494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On
Saturday March 8<sup>th</sup> Palestine solidarity activists and other
anti-racists therefore held a silent demonstration outside the Dome. Opposite
us was a small band of Zionists chanting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘rape
is not resistance’ </i>thereby playing into this deeply racist trope.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzcFAQzD2ddOFOIIdvxxkv3X_YP5rQkir_mxanzluuIfOI0gRwfYS5w1h4_jbGdb36J4M6M49JpZtUlP0UoSX2QOS9dShYqAsDczhnpxjV2TmzxyKBIbizcnAYPApdRzzsuMXBCFQ6BtOyV3cynb6C0D9RaqSCUMz8ayR18oILGWTIxTv-vltDFAosyg3M" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="625" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzcFAQzD2ddOFOIIdvxxkv3X_YP5rQkir_mxanzluuIfOI0gRwfYS5w1h4_jbGdb36J4M6M49JpZtUlP0UoSX2QOS9dShYqAsDczhnpxjV2TmzxyKBIbizcnAYPApdRzzsuMXBCFQ6BtOyV3cynb6C0D9RaqSCUMz8ayR18oILGWTIxTv-vltDFAosyg3M=s16000" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ironically
when a woman went up to them to say that she was a victim of rape and she found
their demonstration upsetting and disturbing a male Zionist told her that she
should be raped again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was reported
to the Police but the man in question was protected by the Zionist women thus
demonstrating that their concern was not rape but support for Israel’s genocide
in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowf9zZrCcO9F3H7oo4J8hGauGcWoMj1TuwVcnkwb0pyNYm8uiMP1fyyCc4nHKgAx9FvoZMfpVJolwAupnOqGeXQRu5a7xLgxsE_YXycQf9Vv2_ahp8p2v1CPQpJd2Ib754LTtbGTHIpBL5MRqDIn9mEWERhpKxMlnXu6LOeIgOF8XMK4za9_gMWLleoen/s2328/The%20man%20who%20hopes%20that%20a%20woman%20is%20raped%20again.jpg" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2328" data-original-width="762" height="1520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowf9zZrCcO9F3H7oo4J8hGauGcWoMj1TuwVcnkwb0pyNYm8uiMP1fyyCc4nHKgAx9FvoZMfpVJolwAupnOqGeXQRu5a7xLgxsE_YXycQf9Vv2_ahp8p2v1CPQpJd2Ib754LTtbGTHIpBL5MRqDIn9mEWERhpKxMlnXu6LOeIgOF8XMK4za9_gMWLleoen/w499-h1520/The%20man%20who%20hopes%20that%20a%20woman%20is%20raped%20again.jpg" width="499" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50DDk6dvZ81IxJrhEZHpd6LxCtl4nko57XS27RO7k27Ssfb9TjP0UjHK4VdX1wLrEfetW_626mOppgeBK3KzdV4Xf3jFia6lC-S6wKtp-pSZcTlrzLy9OqrIUk7_bSlRvVS7Y30hFdhxzyr1sFOiZD3Tt-PGucmduk925s0Nv_A8JxzgGclW0GDP6QuY6/s165/suspect.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="138" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50DDk6dvZ81IxJrhEZHpd6LxCtl4nko57XS27RO7k27Ssfb9TjP0UjHK4VdX1wLrEfetW_626mOppgeBK3KzdV4Xf3jFia6lC-S6wKtp-pSZcTlrzLy9OqrIUk7_bSlRvVS7Y30hFdhxzyr1sFOiZD3Tt-PGucmduk925s0Nv_A8JxzgGclW0GDP6QuY6/w535-h640/suspect.jpg" width="535" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">The 2 men suspected of telling a woman she should be raped again</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">People
may wish to consider whether a demonstration should be held
outside BWC to highlight their complicity in support for
genocide but in the meantime you might wish to contact these racists feminists at <a href="mailto:admin@womenscentre.org.uk" target="_blank">admin@womenscentre.org.uk</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">There
was an interesting discussion on <a href="https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/feminism/5024702-brighton-womens-centre-cancelled-a-stall-celebrating-palestinian-women-for-iwd">Mumsnet</a>
in the Feminism thread on BWC’s cancellation of P4P’s stall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Brighton Women’s
Centre cancelled a stall celebrating Palestinian women for #IWD <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="mt-1" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Fortitudinal · <span class="lgtext-sm">09/03/2024 12:06 </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What the fuck? Brighton Women’s Centre and the Dome
cancelled this stall at the last minute. How can they possibly justify this?
It’s heartbreaking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Brighton Women’s Centre is a captured male-including
organisation now anyway. A long way from its fantastic beginnings as a truly
feminist space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cynical, corporate-controlled bullshit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">TodayIsNotMyDay
· <span class="lgtext-sm">09/03/2024 14:38 </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">White / Imperial feminism strikes again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The ”we stand for ALL women” has always been bullshit,
but it has been a true mask off during this genocide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What reason did they give? That seems really weird.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">fakeprofile · <span class="lgtext-sm">09/03/2024 17:42 </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What is going on in Brighton?? The blatant misogyny on
display in recent years has been shocking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Fortitudinal · <span class="lgtext-sm">09/03/2024 18:26 </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I know. I don’t know if they gave any reasoning at
all. I suppose in a cowardly bid to avoid anything ‘controversial’ with regards
to Israel/Gaza?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It’s fucked up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">TodayIsNotMyDay
· <span class="lgtext-sm">Yesterday 12:59 </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It’s fucked up.</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It truly is.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How can someone keep a straight face and claim to
support women if they don’t support all women?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The women and girls are going through the worst anyone
possibly could*.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I think this IWD has turned into Valentine’s Day #2,
it’s mostly just another day to buy stuff and some chant about being strong
woman, without any actual substance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(*I do not mean
to make this into a competition who has it worst)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">ssd · <span class="lgtext-sm">Yesterday 13:09 </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That is really not on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">And
that is right. What Brighton Women’s Centre has done is really not on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tony
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donations. It has raised over £1,800 now which will enable me to purchase
Mailchimp and pay the regular maintenance contract etc. Please no one give
anything more</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", "serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><i>Tony Greenstein</i></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This
Blog is one of the longest anti-Zionist, Socialist and pro-Palestinian blogs in
existence. In that time I have published 3,384 blogs. The main Blog is on
Google’s Blogspot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">About
7 years ago I set up a shadow blog on <a href="http://www.tonygreenstein.com/">www.tonygreenstein.com</a>.
The reason for this were threats from Zionists that they were going to
put pressure on Google to take it down for ‘anti-Semitism’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">That
did not happen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but Google have removed a
number of blogs until I removed things that offended them. It is therefore
extremely useful to have a backup Blog in case Google were ever to remove the
blog in its entirety.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
have now been informed by the <a href="https://www.scip.org.uk/">Sussex
Community Internet Project</a> who maintain my blog that my shadow blog needs
urgently rebuilding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cost is £1,000
and I am therefore appealing to readers to contribute towards this cost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Unlike
many blogs I do not derive any income from the blog. On the contrary
I have subsidised it however I am asking viewers to help shoulder
the cost. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivCRpFEKBdD-VsFReO5BIUJ49qqsLYpje2WqIQ5NVatBfPxzMQwz1Vn_BtT4oiCO2VPLxWJbJL0WEce2y0lWhyphenhyphenE-w5oENOpQ8tq9TOJ11iPGbHGAYtKHBExLAK4LN4_fKnYZ2s2NxtFhNAqHWrGIvlW4rAVkCxxXSf1aMks9gyty7cOCio2PZXzYOZdi1a/s1273/banning%20flag.jpg" style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 48px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="1273" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivCRpFEKBdD-VsFReO5BIUJ49qqsLYpje2WqIQ5NVatBfPxzMQwz1Vn_BtT4oiCO2VPLxWJbJL0WEce2y0lWhyphenhyphenE-w5oENOpQ8tq9TOJ11iPGbHGAYtKHBExLAK4LN4_fKnYZ2s2NxtFhNAqHWrGIvlW4rAVkCxxXSf1aMks9gyty7cOCio2PZXzYOZdi1a/w640-h190/banning%20flag.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
blog has specialised in anti-Zionist analysis, in particular of the fascist wing
of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zionist lobby in Britain
focusing on people like Jonathan Hoffman and his band of fascists as well as
particularly poisonous sections of the Zionist Lobby such as the <a href="http://www.antisemitism.uk">CampaignAgainst Antisemitism</a>, the <a href="https://cst.org.uk/">Community Security Trust</a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and <a href="https://www.uklfi.com/">UK Lawyers for Israel</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I am particularly proud of my analysis of what was happening during the Corbyn era when I continually warned Corbyn that people like Ken Livingstone, Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth, Chris Williamson and myself were collateral damage and that he was the real target.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Unfortunately Corbyn did not listen until it was too late when he too was suspended and had the Whip withdrawn. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCU9eTtnoIBghQwqXGgY9PONQInpwTM1-UY-yocNnJKmYfxNLv4wftz8nYJvZOhD4qaJUs4BYXSa4oauPJVxFOj_CsVMX-JNn7mQOhNWitu220HfgkNHScb-sSR_rSMibHO_VEyg80b7NgDc1JL1LhKIArN-cIR0AllXnu8hCi5scHALop80n7IeQ5RIpA/s695/UK%20Ministers%20consider%20ban%20on%20MPs%20engaging%20with%20Palestine%20organisations.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="622" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCU9eTtnoIBghQwqXGgY9PONQInpwTM1-UY-yocNnJKmYfxNLv4wftz8nYJvZOhD4qaJUs4BYXSa4oauPJVxFOj_CsVMX-JNn7mQOhNWitu220HfgkNHScb-sSR_rSMibHO_VEyg80b7NgDc1JL1LhKIArN-cIR0AllXnu8hCi5scHALop80n7IeQ5RIpA/w572-h640/UK%20Ministers%20consider%20ban%20on%20MPs%20engaging%20with%20Palestine%20organisations.jpg" width="572" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I have also been extremely critical of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, of which I was the co-founder. Its recent actions in suspending officers of Manchester PSC, resulting in the whole branch going independent and its ultimatum to Birmingham PSC that they were not to invite Palestinian hero Leila Khaled as a speaker confirm me in my belief that PSC nationally has learnt no lessons from its refusal to take seriously the 'anti-Semitism' attacks on the Palestine solidarity movement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Today the government is threatening further attacks on the Palestine solidarity movement. In its dying days it is threatening all those who dare to exercise basic democratic rights. Sunak and his alter ego Starmer would be at home governing a fully fledged police state.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Mass marches of hundreds of thousands of people against genocide in Gaza are 'hate marches' whereas those supplying and supporting the genocide are bathed in love. This blog is part of the fightback against those who would abolish all remaining democratic rights. They intend to ban those they term as 'extremists' and they are blunt when they say that if you oppose capitalism you are an 'extremist'.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxUm0l8fUxKhRgc-lCG8p5_hbN3YBQK9hM9fhms7g2f769-1XFMFbIQBaH881mpfp6fVgZfx7Mhhrz0W4ELzSHYi5JCgiwlYi23hp6wNvBXsiLLRZScz3r3pfKtlRTbO8dKhyphenhyphenkVl2whj7QIm0X8JEJ7bMLbcNfkogIb8TrBTzg4jYfEBIhNuSNIbbX-tek/s681/UK%20plans%20to%20expand%20extremist%20definition.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="678" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxUm0l8fUxKhRgc-lCG8p5_hbN3YBQK9hM9fhms7g2f769-1XFMFbIQBaH881mpfp6fVgZfx7Mhhrz0W4ELzSHYi5JCgiwlYi23hp6wNvBXsiLLRZScz3r3pfKtlRTbO8dKhyphenhyphenkVl2whj7QIm0X8JEJ7bMLbcNfkogIb8TrBTzg4jYfEBIhNuSNIbbX-tek/w638-h640/UK%20plans%20to%20expand%20extremist%20definition.jpg" width="638" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Those who are opposed to genocide are now 'extremists' whereas those who support murdering 30,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, are 'moderates'. Michael Gove is intending to introduce further legislation to ban opponents of the racist Israeli state .</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">We learn that Sunak, smarting over the victory of George Galloway in Rochdale is threatening further attacks including the possible banning as 'extreme' of Palestine Action, a group that PSC has consistently failed to support. We are living in dark and dangerous times and despite my own recent arrest under the Terrorism Act 2000 I am determined not to cease publication of the blog.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY4-22_wXtGxHPDpK4V4XVllO_lNaiRK-wM6KMb6JAYmEIIbZVbSYeQWfSN43lrGj2FCoeduD0YCEMH1hEZ0DWF2_P5Hoj9D-cVpoQAYChFhn8qYsWr9Y89ZnyM4nAOthHme10lNmAim1tI1OjAAKxZFg6etKz2e95hUwdo54IW3hqpuWTypUv3xYQhuzt/s853/Hits.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="853" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY4-22_wXtGxHPDpK4V4XVllO_lNaiRK-wM6KMb6JAYmEIIbZVbSYeQWfSN43lrGj2FCoeduD0YCEMH1hEZ0DWF2_P5Hoj9D-cVpoQAYChFhn8qYsWr9Y89ZnyM4nAOthHme10lNmAim1tI1OjAAKxZFg6etKz2e95hUwdo54IW3hqpuWTypUv3xYQhuzt/w640-h124/Hits.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Despite
shadow banning and the use of algorithms by Facebook and Twitter I have
maintained a hit rate of over 50,000. Last month there were over 65,000 hits
compared to more than 100,000 at its height.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">These
attempts to suppress radical and Palestinian supporting sites have hit all such
sites such as The Canary, Skwawkbox, Electronic Intifada etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
have partly avoided the efforts to restrict the circulation of my blog by
maintaining a large email list though Google Groups recently took down one such
group which is why I want to start using Mailchimp to bypass these attempts.
Again this will cost money.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghbvIoqCKnscJDFoFB9HzDa0TE8JkKTVEn_4-YjgMMRfRl-AHjv8CBiLF-yyAPFcN06bjgYlsJMSYs3Y7uWcNipMIA_gHMLGPUNq03AAfiM8im37oNgGVfeRLZSphLDo4BVIJpJ0FGvaL3Jn8DASOO-6pvQXds_bQEOk1q1a5o12-lxDffTOjNYrJhMfhz/s1181/top%2020%20posts.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="884" height="838" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghbvIoqCKnscJDFoFB9HzDa0TE8JkKTVEn_4-YjgMMRfRl-AHjv8CBiLF-yyAPFcN06bjgYlsJMSYs3Y7uWcNipMIA_gHMLGPUNq03AAfiM8im37oNgGVfeRLZSphLDo4BVIJpJ0FGvaL3Jn8DASOO-6pvQXds_bQEOk1q1a5o12-lxDffTOjNYrJhMfhz/w628-h838/top%2020%20posts.jpg" width="628" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As
you can see from the top 20 posts – which range from an amazing 165,000 for an
article on Churchill to over 105,000 on the attack on and imprisonment of Ahed
Tamimi – the blog has remained a thorn in the side of the Zionists and is often
quoted by the Zionist press (very rarely favourably!).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">So
I am asking you for support to ensure that Google, Facebook and Twitter are not
able to affect its continuation. In the longer term I may well transfer to
substack whilst still maintaining a shadow blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shadow blog has about a third of the
hits of the blogspot but it is an essential guarantee that Google cannot take
my blog down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As well
as maintaining a blog I have brought out a book on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zionism During the Holocaust </i>about a period in history which the Zionists
prefer to rewrite if not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>forget. I also
contribute articles to a wide variety of publications as well as interviews,
talks etc. For example a forthcoming <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Al
Jazeera </b>film on the founder of the Stern Gang, Avraham ‘Yair’ Stern, who
proposed a military pact with the Nazis, interviewed me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I would
therefore appeal to you to help me continue this work. I would also like to
thank those who have made regular donations to help meet ongoing maintenance
costs which are about £750 per year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If you
are able to make a donation please transfer any donations to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b>Account:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Brighton & Hove Unemployed Workers Centre (business account)</b></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b>Account No:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>04094107</b></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b>Sort Code:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>090150</b></span></p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>Tony Greenstein </p>
<p>Blog, Financial Appeal, Zionism<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During the Holocaust, </p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-40335359178744718012024-03-09T04:05:00.006+00:002024-03-09T05:07:34.579+00:00LOBBY Unite's Executive Committee to Protest its Shameful Silence Over Genocide in Gaza<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Unite General
Secretary Sharon Graham Must Stop Obstructing Solidarity with the Palestinians</b></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Lobby Unite’s National Executive Monday March 11<sup>th</sup> @
12.00 p.m<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Unite House, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">128 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8TN (nearest tube Holborn)</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpCxvCk_ygUL-sarTAvrlM_kMZb7aFuBX3wHSQsaP67ZWxH0q_yuLx_1wnAQHyR6dTLc7qTmBFK-Smh-x2Id7_opn1Az3nuXE_USmrH1MkXeVF9vnN64zJgNz-ZdqwtO30Sx5vgNnXM93133do67Qh-MhgqHjXONicO4gdMNZNJxS12ZXDgKKW76Ot8Vrc/s1080/Unite%20Lobby.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpCxvCk_ygUL-sarTAvrlM_kMZb7aFuBX3wHSQsaP67ZWxH0q_yuLx_1wnAQHyR6dTLc7qTmBFK-Smh-x2Id7_opn1Az3nuXE_USmrH1MkXeVF9vnN64zJgNz-ZdqwtO30Sx5vgNnXM93133do67Qh-MhgqHjXONicO4gdMNZNJxS12ZXDgKKW76Ot8Vrc/w640-h640/Unite%20Lobby.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On
Monday at 12.00 p.m Unite members will lobby Unite’s Executive Committee in solidarity
with those experiencing genocide in Gaza and for an end to the obstruction of
General Secretary Sharon Graham.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Unite
has perhaps the best <a href="https://unitedleft.org.uk/unite-policy-on-palestine/">policy</a> of any trade
union on Palestine. Yet you would have to go to the United Left website to find
it. It is nowhere to be seen on Unite’s own website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On
16<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>October Unite put out a <a href="https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2023/october/unite-unreservedly-condemns-the-recent-appalling-acts-of-violence-in-israel-and-gaza-and-calls-for-the-protection-and-upholding-of-human-rights-under-international-law">statement</a>
which <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unreservedly condemned and expressed its
revulsion <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the recent appalling acts
of violence by Hamas against innocent civilians in Israel’ <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">But
it could only ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deplore the subsequent
suffering and loss of life being endured by civilians in Gaza.’ </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
difference in tone between ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">revulsion</i>’
at the loss of Israeli compared to ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deploring</i>’
the loss of Palestinian lives was no accident. Clearly Palestinian lives don’t
matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiNQPaPHO-3KXsms55Fa3OAgYPd9jK7jOL5X4-G4dbWH-51Z7uLnr0cFH50qcJGNDflmqf70mGTciCgVXwBoXbBpFbJJb9xCLqD4E0ZSY2iEdzWCNoFod8S1iA8NWpjslEFNaGXGNF11fHxRnsbfrZhjzwJqEL6F95yfsiFCzC8D2W08A0BlSUH8X5vV0D" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="1170" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiNQPaPHO-3KXsms55Fa3OAgYPd9jK7jOL5X4-G4dbWH-51Z7uLnr0cFH50qcJGNDflmqf70mGTciCgVXwBoXbBpFbJJb9xCLqD4E0ZSY2iEdzWCNoFod8S1iA8NWpjslEFNaGXGNF11fHxRnsbfrZhjzwJqEL6F95yfsiFCzC8D2W08A0BlSUH8X5vV0D=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #626262; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Large numbers of injured people are brought into Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after an Israeli attack on the courtyard of al-Ahli Arab Hospital. [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]</span></b><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This
despite 2,750 Palestinians <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-health-ministry-2750-palestinians-killed-9700-wounded-israeli-strikes-gaza-2023-10-16/">having
been killed</a> by October 16, the day when <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/10/17/photos-an-israeli-air-raid-on-al-ahli-arab-hospital-kills-an-estimated-500">Israel
bombed</a> Al Ahli hospital killing a further 500 Palestinians. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Since
then Israel has bombed every single hospital and health facility in Gaza,
murdering patients and doctors alike.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On
November 3<sup>rd</sup> after considerable pressure from activists including an
online petition<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unite <a href="https://unitedleft.org.uk/unite-puts-out-updated-statement-on-palestine-following-special-ec/">issued
a second statement</a> which this time called for an immediate ceasefire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The statement was however pitiably weak
calling on ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all parties to respect
international law</i>’ as if the Palestinians experiencing genocide were
equally culpable as the murderers. Nowhere did the statement mention genocide.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Nor
did the statement mention the fact that Israel had imposed a Nazi style food,
water and fuel blockade on the Gaza strip resulting in starvation <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67670679">according to the
United Nations</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyjJW1-NQ7Hcp38-PC04pDsE7sC-gBurtKc7lT5W4Fyf3g8S6qoqvS_cS8SmbwWBpW2tsyGcag3yFZQT3n7BKztY-HhQ8pc5SMRo_qxCmIsC3L0fa8pZkKKObQ85mCYkkep5HQHJ2R13x8pPbYEeg5luKZ1-nyU4W_1pM7hVZqoy6dqaoGgar_XzEwdOS1/s863/Unite%20letter%20to%20Graham.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="769" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyjJW1-NQ7Hcp38-PC04pDsE7sC-gBurtKc7lT5W4Fyf3g8S6qoqvS_cS8SmbwWBpW2tsyGcag3yFZQT3n7BKztY-HhQ8pc5SMRo_qxCmIsC3L0fa8pZkKKObQ85mCYkkep5HQHJ2R13x8pPbYEeg5luKZ1-nyU4W_1pM7hVZqoy6dqaoGgar_XzEwdOS1/w570-h640/Unite%20letter%20to%20Graham.jpg" width="570" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">A
<a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2023/12/30/unite-activists-sign-letter-to-graham-after-ban-on-union-banners-at-palestine-demos/">letter</a>
on December 19 to Sharon Graham said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You
have done nothing to publicise all the previous national demonstrations</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Are
you going to ignore the one on January 13 too? There has been no national Unite
presence on the marches to date. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
fact it subsequently turned out that Graham had actually prevented the national
Unite banner being taken on demonstrations. The letter demanded that Graham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">publicise all future demonstration, that you provide the resources
necessary for Unite members to attend, that Unite nationally is present on the
march together with its banner and that Unite has a speaker at the rally.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: red;">Jim Kelly, Chair of London & Eastern
Region Unite Speaking to a Palestine Trade union Rally <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Not
only were none of these things done but <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOZR4anI6C0">according to</a> Jim Kelly,
Chair of London and Eastern Region, Graham’s representatives had ‘advised’
Peter Kavanagh, the Regional Secretary, not to speak at a Palestine solidarity demonstration.
Kelly described how activists on Palestine had had to work in ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">an environment of silence and obstruction’ </i>by
union officials, in particular Graham.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Kelly
described how Graham had attempted to suppress attempts to mobilise solidarity
in support of the Palestinians. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
described an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘expectation that employees
will not speak alongside other General Secretaries’ </i>at demonstrations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVPUxjyQAOKNEiJfZlgl-_TNfARCo7ujW84cK_rZSsygWKJzG0u-AiuvAJkoHy1czixRjID5FdR3aigkRbMskjTcTutyyFAucma_Hym417maw0vkFAWtUohPs9kOMo4UGLtOYuwdA6XhGf3fngZElUZ4q3oLslVf-AV7N_rLCdO1C8ynVDruee8a86ipwF" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="800" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVPUxjyQAOKNEiJfZlgl-_TNfARCo7ujW84cK_rZSsygWKJzG0u-AiuvAJkoHy1czixRjID5FdR3aigkRbMskjTcTutyyFAucma_Hym417maw0vkFAWtUohPs9kOMo4UGLtOYuwdA6XhGf3fngZElUZ4q3oLslVf-AV7N_rLCdO1C8ynVDruee8a86ipwF=w640-h494" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Unite has
had no national presence at the London demonstrations calling for an End to
Genocide and solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. Nor has Unite done anything
to publicise thee demonstrations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Kelly
highlighted the activity of Unite branches <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">despite
</b>Graham’s attempts to stop solidarity. He mentioned St Mungo’s and
Doctors in Unite in particular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kelly
highlighted Graham’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘excellent’ speech
at the trade union rally in Cheltenham against the government’s anti-union laws
but pointed out that fighting racism and international solidarity were equally important for socialists.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Israeli Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu:<br /><br />“North Gaza is more beautiful than ever. Blowing up and flattening everything is amazing. Once we are finished, we will hand over the lands of Gaza to the fighting soldiers and settlers who lived in Gush Katif." <a href="https://t.co/lTlOEwnIce">pic.twitter.com/lTlOEwnIce</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— S p r i n t e r (@Sprinter99800) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sprinter99800/status/1720015962345267636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Since
October 7 over 30,000 Palestinians have been murdered in Gaza including at
least 13,000 children. Over 70,000 have been injured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hospitals, ambulances, homes have been bombed
in an attempt to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Israeli Ministers such as <span class="css-1qaijid">Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu </span>have openly
called for the annihilation of Palestinians <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-minister-renews-call-for-striking-gaza-with-nuclear-bomb-/3117351">suggesting</a>
dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza as well as <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-minister-calls-for-wiping-out-month-of-ramadan-/3152467">wiping
out</a> the month of Ramadan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Netanyahu declaring invasion: "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible"<br /><br />1 Samuel 15:3<br /><br />"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass" <a href="https://t.co/5QF9PkGhjJ">pic.twitter.com/5QF9PkGhjJ</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) <a href="https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1718360354764238929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">There
is a <a href="https://law4palestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Database-of-Israeli-Incitement-to-Genocide-DECISION-MAKERS.pdf">database</a>
of 500 genocidal statements by Israeli leaders including Prime Minister Netanyahu
who <a href="https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1718360354764238929?s=20">called
on</a> soldiers to ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">remember Amalek’</i>
the mythical biblical tribe whose extermination god ordered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Finance
Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the Gauleiter of the West Bank, has <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/there-are-2-million-nazis-in-west-bank-says-far-right-finance-minister-smotrich/">described</a>
2 million Palestinians in the West Bank as Nazis. This is a recipe for extermination.
This was after calling for the Palestinian town of Huwara to be ‘<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi5vbLC1eOEAxUyYUEAHXLPD50QFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofisrael.com%2Fisrael-should-wipe-out-palestinian-town-of-huwara-says-senior-minister-smotrich%2F&usg=AOvVaw38h2TCCtd9">wiped
out’</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
description of poor, homeless and starving Palestinians as ‘Nazis’ by those in
full combat gear armed to the teeth shows not only a complete disconnect from
reality but a fascist mentality.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqaF2NH8I2znBe6rbVdkSAFXivEuoec570V6mhEmRbEfuyqKliSWgSNQY7L8eUvUbZ3o18QK66N-L7dy0bMeQ9wHrxb4CTDG50EgXi9TvB80g-R-yx1o28SqD1DhUfmwMu3hZ08yXiot7VMANRLDCym9_ECJoAYtn4_4PCNldYNo1MY9V_1sh5i0N9RF4P/s1923/Starmer%20and%20Graham%20-%20The%20Big%20Lie.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1073" data-original-width="1923" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqaF2NH8I2znBe6rbVdkSAFXivEuoec570V6mhEmRbEfuyqKliSWgSNQY7L8eUvUbZ3o18QK66N-L7dy0bMeQ9wHrxb4CTDG50EgXi9TvB80g-R-yx1o28SqD1DhUfmwMu3hZ08yXiot7VMANRLDCym9_ECJoAYtn4_4PCNldYNo1MY9V_1sh5i0N9RF4P/w640-h358/Starmer%20and%20Graham%20-%20The%20Big%20Lie.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Sharon
Graham and the National Executive have openly ignored Unite policy in support
of the Palestinians which states that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The time
has now come to stop the Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and
for Unite to take a lead in taking bolder steps like those that were taken
against the South African apartheid regime.’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTChydDHvZ3_u0ReMCIjnGZzd5EeCZpsg72p4KUm2Z33wM1zEAJgxHON7DhVkh6ZdJkxgn5KXG5ghnlpr15Qg4KcXkSPkqdCZ7cyaQ57g3zMGtjZL0D6xGTJ_XDhhOvkovUiHuJRNe8AviitR_UKAJHm7ilV-zHMeQdKIP1YlCFbw7CM3UYj0gax1zpI9l" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="630" height="573" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTChydDHvZ3_u0ReMCIjnGZzd5EeCZpsg72p4KUm2Z33wM1zEAJgxHON7DhVkh6ZdJkxgn5KXG5ghnlpr15Qg4KcXkSPkqdCZ7cyaQ57g3zMGtjZL0D6xGTJ_XDhhOvkovUiHuJRNe8AviitR_UKAJHm7ilV-zHMeQdKIP1YlCFbw7CM3UYj0gax1zpI9l=w640-h573" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a name="a"></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Unite should
have been trying to persuade Unite workers not to handle arms shipments to
Israel. When it came to Ukraine Graham <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/04/dockers-on-merseyside-refuse-to-unload-russian-oil-stanlow-kent-netherlands-ukraine">gave
her full support</a> to dockers refusing to unload Russian oil. The Guardian
quoted Graham as saying that Essar, the owner of the Stanlow oil refinery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">may believe
that it is justifiable to transport Russian oil under a flag of convenience but
Unite does not. Unite urges the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, to close
this loophole immediately.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This
comes on top of Graham’s banning of the film <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Jeremy Corbyn – The Big Lie’</i> which showed how anti-Semitism had
been weaponised in the Labour Party against Jeremy Corbyn.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz4ULAAdoRx4ub85wtUG5jYs35uT8wDU2-GE7Sa4-QEaZi5wZuOVey6iMPwDqPcFsj9ef2nR_pt-oAoFH_IRLQ7D6fLnZQlXlbYz31UpvzJVA9oAfCiqlvCTM_rhyphenhyphenzEKa9dUg4o8v84g_95kssQH_wH1qvfDy0Vmh5n78WlVrjg6aRw_lbjPOR9iIhqupc/s1024/carpenter-graham-gaza.webp" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz4ULAAdoRx4ub85wtUG5jYs35uT8wDU2-GE7Sa4-QEaZi5wZuOVey6iMPwDqPcFsj9ef2nR_pt-oAoFH_IRLQ7D6fLnZQlXlbYz31UpvzJVA9oAfCiqlvCTM_rhyphenhyphenzEKa9dUg4o8v84g_95kssQH_wH1qvfDy0Vmh5n78WlVrjg6aRw_lbjPOR9iIhqupc/w640-h360/carpenter-graham-gaza.webp" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Former South-East
Regional Secretary Sarah Carpenter, who banned <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jeremy Corbyn – The Big Lie</i> from Unite premises in Portsmouth with a
series of lies, has just been appointed Graham’s new Chief of Staff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Carpenter
got off to a flying start when she </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">threatened Peter
Cavanagh, the union’s London regional secretary, with the loss of a
discretionary pension bonus if he did not pull back from his support for
Palestinians in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Carpenter,
<a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2024/03/07/excl-new-unite-chief-of-staff-threatens-london-sec-with-loss-of-pension-bonus-for-gaza-support/">according
to</a> Skwawkbox was appointed by Graham without the position being advertised
and without the approval of Unite’s elected executive. See </span><b><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2024/03/07/excl-new-unite-chief-of-staff-threatens-london-sec-with-loss-of-pension-bonus-for-gaza-support/">new
Unite chief of staff ‘threatens London sec with loss of pension bonus’ for Gaza
support</a></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEim-_q_I6pr3_WxGwam3UTRTYZir1QtwSHPIBAHmPg0j1Iai5pmRoyEFkH4B20wEtnl5j7ktPveB2jxsp2PIFerf0cqjHJ3dZmY9wUn49WUsFa-gp8KfGD1vDtceMBng5C0ttiJHwzs6MMG19ur-JhkdBHtNSKmj7bwLegdCkPVzCps4njBra122MaFfPav" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="1198" height="647" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEim-_q_I6pr3_WxGwam3UTRTYZir1QtwSHPIBAHmPg0j1Iai5pmRoyEFkH4B20wEtnl5j7ktPveB2jxsp2PIFerf0cqjHJ3dZmY9wUn49WUsFa-gp8KfGD1vDtceMBng5C0ttiJHwzs6MMG19ur-JhkdBHtNSKmj7bwLegdCkPVzCps4njBra122MaFfPav=w709-h647" width="709" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We demand that the National Executive instructs Graham to actively work for
an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, that she be present with the national banner on
future demonstrations, that she should speak at them and above all that she
should stop obstructing the work of others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">At a time when Israel is massacring Palestinians waiting for the
delivery of food and executing prisoners and torturing captives it is
outrageous that our General Secretary, by her silence and obstruction, is
effectively giving support to the genocidal war mongers in Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Unite and its predecessor union have a proud record of giving support to
the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. We expect it to do the same
against Apartheid in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBQJAF0-MDbbF6LgLTQwVfDqB816rrIoIvY2NfJQuBPkVcTqLEEiPfaZDHJDIFrvuuqUwwRWmtYtd5qz68cYJhYRpITpFMSgGetrRY95ItZ9Iw43-WwqFnArngo9EMOhInHUYLm6eALQ9rdYMYYrknXk6FtF7ngkuzucmPdohjFCNwoZIh1x9aipXegNvT/s758/SP%20backs%20Graham.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="758" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBQJAF0-MDbbF6LgLTQwVfDqB816rrIoIvY2NfJQuBPkVcTqLEEiPfaZDHJDIFrvuuqUwwRWmtYtd5qz68cYJhYRpITpFMSgGetrRY95ItZ9Iw43-WwqFnArngo9EMOhInHUYLm6eALQ9rdYMYYrknXk6FtF7ngkuzucmPdohjFCNwoZIh1x9aipXegNvT/w640-h436/SP%20backs%20Graham.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: x-large; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><b>The Shameful Support of the Left Sects for Sharon Graham's Refusal to Support the Palestinians</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">All the 'revolutionary' left sects - from the SWP to the Socialist Party - even Counterfire - are making excuses for Sharon Graham, complaining it's not her but the United Left on the Executive that is blocking her. This is clearly and obviously not true. It is Graham and Graham alone who has taken the decision not to have a National Unite presence on the demonstrations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSpkcZ_gE6ixC1l33P6jsviLuQoOm0PXSQxwD6k48uCGjuh8MP6YIHyyNz32770kokQAeKMZ1J0rMUighj6hmYEd2scWQxcdERYC5NAuYyCPzy-WCEbK0dKnU4tQBCPYxo9jv76Ug1pQEmQt4oNoJbLaARFnNMIJGC7Utgf10A5KGTN2rfmpg_Yn9QTwbP/s574/Richard%20Allday%20attack%20on%20lobby.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSpkcZ_gE6ixC1l33P6jsviLuQoOm0PXSQxwD6k48uCGjuh8MP6YIHyyNz32770kokQAeKMZ1J0rMUighj6hmYEd2scWQxcdERYC5NAuYyCPzy-WCEbK0dKnU4tQBCPYxo9jv76Ug1pQEmQt4oNoJbLaARFnNMIJGC7Utgf10A5KGTN2rfmpg_Yn9QTwbP/s16000/Richard%20Allday%20attack%20on%20lobby.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I have to confess I was surprised by the reaction on a Unite Palestine Discussion group by the opposition of <a href="https://www.counterfire.org/author/richard-allday/">Counterfire's Richard Allday</a>, a member of Unite's National Executive, to the lobby. I accused him of being a member of the SWP until he corrected me. Supporters of the SWP had also made it clear on the group that they didn't support the lobby.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzkY94-zljl7x4nhyr3Zxqm2zPUVcFUdkkV7RlPBc-gOwkSuw_FqccSdflIwHzkxjdcHH6kbTvIMwP34Zaxz9zUqT0FoI0ygjDMx7fQ_n47yRO106TXC06bqoZ47B7a6K72pJD_JZdFHe9PFqa683PDP7kvcgA5xvZiMylJ5MeYdGxhe5OBU5spRkqGx9w/s927/swp%20backs%20graham.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="927" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzkY94-zljl7x4nhyr3Zxqm2zPUVcFUdkkV7RlPBc-gOwkSuw_FqccSdflIwHzkxjdcHH6kbTvIMwP34Zaxz9zUqT0FoI0ygjDMx7fQ_n47yRO106TXC06bqoZ47B7a6K72pJD_JZdFHe9PFqa683PDP7kvcgA5xvZiMylJ5MeYdGxhe5OBU5spRkqGx9w/w640-h462/swp%20backs%20graham.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Because of her limited support for strikes, on a wholly non-political basis, whilst at the same time supporting Starmer against the left, the left sects have given their unqualified support to Sharon Graham's racism, British nationalism and support for imperialism. Karl Marx, who supported the Fenians and the Irish struggle for liberation, would turn in his grave if he saw who it was who were claiming to act in his name today. As Marx once said:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">'<i>a nation that oppresses another nation cannot itself be free'</i></span></b></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-11090338421761307172024-03-06T04:19:00.005+00:002024-03-06T04:39:55.239+00:00Galloway’s Victory Produced Panic & Fear in the Establishment Because Their Lies Are Increasingly Seen As An Attempt To Justify Their System of Legalised Theft<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;">When A Ruling Class Is Seen As Morally and Politically Bankrupt Then
That is When It is Both Weakest & Most Vicious</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgv0-M7LWn21aI7e6IZapJnlVelHWzEkp0Gu1v58eG1x8vLG23gEWPVVdEQ5zdlxU3PiybaRDRe6QZFw4DoxUgkC1fkDADVPcFC-TRl9V0pJDYqDc-dOms35U1zTQ6yAfoaYvXIaXfGsi8yUOGpWhsNap1RuKBEydbu_76niqT4eAoI1ZIDAqynatRBlQfR" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgv0-M7LWn21aI7e6IZapJnlVelHWzEkp0Gu1v58eG1x8vLG23gEWPVVdEQ5zdlxU3PiybaRDRe6QZFw4DoxUgkC1fkDADVPcFC-TRl9V0pJDYqDc-dOms35U1zTQ6yAfoaYvXIaXfGsi8yUOGpWhsNap1RuKBEydbu_76niqT4eAoI1ZIDAqynatRBlQfR=w600-h640" width="600" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b></div><p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8u_cZ-7WyB4" width="320" youtube-src-id="8u_cZ-7WyB4"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><span style="color: #660000;">Victory Speech</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The reaction of Rishi Sunak to Galloway’s election
victory last Friday morning was a sight to behold. He slithered out of 10
Downing Street to spew his venom at an audience that was no longer listening,bar the media circus that is little more than an echo chamber.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunak is an empty suit, a bundle of clichés, spewing
racism and threats of state violence under the pretext that he is combating <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘extremist disruption and criminality’</i>. What
he meant of course was the mass demonstrations against the genocide in Gaza
that he is encouraging and which <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles-id/7835">76%</a>
of the population support.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It is one of the hallmarks of the political dishonesty of our politicians that opposition to genocide is violence and support for genocide is making peace.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunak is the least impressive Prime Minister since
the last one,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Liz Truss, whose reign was
less than the lifespan of a lettuce.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdFBzKnYrxA"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdFBzKnYrxA"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HdFBzKnYrxA" width="320" youtube-src-id="HdFBzKnYrxA"></iframe></a></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Sunak’s speech<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunak demonstrated the moral and political <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/turpitude">turpitude</a> of an
elite that has systematically transferred the wealth of the UK from the poorest
to the richest. Sunak himself is the <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-net-worth-how-rich-b2229725.html">richest
man in parliament</a> and he is married to the tax-dodging daughter of a billionaire.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Comedian Tez with voting advice to British Muslims <a href="https://t.co/ZgqmXWXrej">pic.twitter.com/ZgqmXWXrej</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">— Andrew Feinstein (@andrewfeinstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewfeinstein/status/1764981805617229833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Every action of the government is designed to
impoverish the vast majority of people. The NHS is in chaos and underfunded,
schools are being privatised, welfare benefits have been systematically cut,
Brexit has reduced the volume of trade and yet according to Sunak and Braverman
the greatest threat to Britain comes from refugees. Racism and divide and
rule<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are the order of the day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Yet it is over Gaza that their moral depravity
shines out. In his speech Sunak mentioned October 7, when Palestinian fighters <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231215-israel-social-security-data-reveals-true-picture-of-oct-7-deaths">killed
1,139 Israelis</a>, a third of whom were military and police and half the
remainder were killed by Israel under the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-hq-ordered-troops-shoot-israeli-captives-7-october">Hannibal
Doctrine</a>, which stipulates that in the event of an Israeli being captured
it is better to kill both captor and captive than allow the latter to be exchanged
for Palestinian prisoners at a later date. A fact <a href="https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-is-the-real-story-of-october#:~:text=Haaretz%20and%20Kasher%20ascribe%20these,by%20commanders%20on%20the%20day.">carefully
hidden</a> by a compliant media.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9a4t3JKie_k" width="320" youtube-src-id="9a4t3JKie_k"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Galloway Interview with Sky TV</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">When genocide stalks Gaza, when Israel perpetrates
the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/3/5/the-blood-was-everywhere-inside-israels-flour-massacre-in-gaza">flour
massacre</a>, Sunak says nothing. One Israeli Jewish life is worth more than
100 Palestinian lives. Which is exactly the ratio of hostages killed that the Nazis
exacted <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when one of them were killed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiihgp3tosRUleDXA2AmOQo0nnRKO61bbxw2JuS8Vwmsoxj1KNp-xAlL4PQb5PzUFApQCQWur_1_GJJUq1aTbdmTPFfqcdRwRJiBAfIIjyj2Hu5SM3DL1FWj7nhB2gOHcUdiDUlvPT_GCsmCiDrjlCVfjSKTUYbw7gWRiY7PTllTVM7sO3_w6rqbjO3XILS/s1562/flour%20massacre.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="1562" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiihgp3tosRUleDXA2AmOQo0nnRKO61bbxw2JuS8Vwmsoxj1KNp-xAlL4PQb5PzUFApQCQWur_1_GJJUq1aTbdmTPFfqcdRwRJiBAfIIjyj2Hu5SM3DL1FWj7nhB2gOHcUdiDUlvPT_GCsmCiDrjlCVfjSKTUYbw7gWRiY7PTllTVM7sO3_w6rqbjO3XILS/w640-h334/flour%20massacre.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Israel is armed to the teeth by Sunak and the US government
and soldiers opening fire on starving people waiting for food does not disturb Sunak,
Starmer or our political elite in the slightest. Of course if Russia had
committed such an atrocity it would have filled the airwaves. Instead Sunak
condemned a non-existent violence on the streets of Britain as a pretext for removing
yet more of our rights to protest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-sFgbINC-Hs" width="320" youtube-src-id="-sFgbINC-Hs"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Aaron Bushnell’s Brave Sacrifice to Stop Biden’s
Genocide<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Rochdale is a constituency which has been held by all
3 major parties and was for much of the 19<sup>th</sup> century a stronghold of
radicalism and the supporters of free trade and opponents of the Corn Laws,
notably </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cobden"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Richard Cobden</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.
So it is not altogether a surprise that the voters of Rochdale have elected in
George Galloway another radical.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSoXEhia2AGmneDyOGn-5FPdSsIrUBXqGL-pSPHqtwsmMqmbgexmEFCx1xWeQTtoGBGtEnWpYMWw0tgeIzaajah552n7K97I8XvAM29LVzn5SRXldpze1PIItj9PSeQh2TIYMmTUA1qg8OzjDHDzwIbHu48vbTuI6kyOIgVoO-dYe8btzsNFoNTkGTlZg-/s1500/Galloway.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="1500" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSoXEhia2AGmneDyOGn-5FPdSsIrUBXqGL-pSPHqtwsmMqmbgexmEFCx1xWeQTtoGBGtEnWpYMWw0tgeIzaajah552n7K97I8XvAM29LVzn5SRXldpze1PIItj9PSeQh2TIYMmTUA1qg8OzjDHDzwIbHu48vbTuI6kyOIgVoO-dYe8btzsNFoNTkGTlZg-/w640-h360/Galloway.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">There was one issue above all other that dominated
the election and that was Gaza. As Galloway </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u_cZ-7WyB4"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">said</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> in his victory speech, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Keir Starmer this is for Gaza.’</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Sunak
leads an openly racist party. 58% of whose members <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/26/tory-supporters-lash-out-at-snake-sunak-over-lee-anderson-suspension">say</a>
that Islam poses a threat to this country. 43% of members <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/conservative-party-members-muslim-pm_uk_5d107c1fe4b07ae90d9fbc8c">don’t
want</a> a Muslim Prime Minister, a survey by YouGov
found. Substitute Judaism/Jewish for Islam/Muslim and you get a flavour of the
state of the Tory party.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="321" id="nyt_video_player" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.nytimes.com/video/players/offsite/index.html?videoId=100000009336313" title="New York Times Video - Embed Player" width="480"></iframe>
</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
same study found 45% believe there are “<i>areas
in Britain in which non-Muslims are not able to enter</i>” and 67% believe
there are areas “<i>that operate under
Sharia law</i>”. Conspiracy theories are rife in this racist party yet Sunak’s
only concern was the false claim that Jewish school students are <i>fearful’</i> to wear their uniforms <i>‘lest it reveal their identity</i>.’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sunak’s concern for British Jews, almost all whom are White, economically prosperous and not
subject to state repression or discrimination is touching but what he is doing
is using Jews as a moral alibi for his support for Israel as a ‘Jewish’ State. When you
are enabling genocide it helps to point to distract people’s attention by
pointing to a non-existent problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0SPvGCsiDqMs5e9VPg-0DEu1XSAlDD60ki0zB8dxo5g-CugFAnwlBGuIWGbfJRzVbhetwKHV3L-_SjhE_NEYqbNkXpZiIPrbZV0Bt69iupPQQfKOqvClj0gbIQ0ZzDtNX17AAUOA0gHSQPQQO91t-pIpB8G1jpImBfXexUc4msjY0-eHtnx3Y3s-rFnv0/s1024/Israel%20doesn't%20want%20peace%20Webbe.png" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="698" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0SPvGCsiDqMs5e9VPg-0DEu1XSAlDD60ki0zB8dxo5g-CugFAnwlBGuIWGbfJRzVbhetwKHV3L-_SjhE_NEYqbNkXpZiIPrbZV0Bt69iupPQQfKOqvClj0gbIQ0ZzDtNX17AAUOA0gHSQPQQO91t-pIpB8G1jpImBfXexUc4msjY0-eHtnx3Y3s-rFnv0/w436-h640/Israel%20doesn't%20want%20peace%20Webbe.png" width="436" /></a></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Sunak declared that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It is beyond
alarming that last night the Rochdale by-election returned a candidate who
dismisses the horror of what happened on October 7<sup>th</sup>, who endorses
Hezbollah and is endorsed by Nick Griffin, the racist leader of the BNP... you
cannot use that to call for the eradication of a state or any kind of hatred or
anti-Semitism.... It is the public’s expectation that they [the Police] will
not only manage these protests but police them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a name="a"></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We have had 30,000 killed and 70,000 injured in Gaza
and rising but this is not enough for Sunak who had nothing to say
about Palestinian deaths and injuries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Calling for the dismantlement of the Apartheid State
of Israel is anti-Semitic. Was the destruction of the Nazi and South African
states also racist?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TCGNUoiLu1w" width="320" youtube-src-id="TCGNUoiLu1w"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
</span></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Galloway at
University Debate Destroys Zionist Claims That He is Anti-Semitic <o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Sunak’s
real agenda was left to last. Unable to ban the mass demonstrations outright like
Braverman <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13054219/Suella-Braverman-calls-powers-ban-protests-outright-branding-pro-Palestine-demonstrations-hateful-marches.html">wanted</a>, he called for wholly peaceful mass protests not only to be
managed by the police but to be ‘policed’ by them. Which is code for coercion, violence
and harassment of marchers by arresting them for chanting things and holding
placards he doesn’t like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXMXZ0MUWnyzknU-7tBGgbvQiS-hMNOPWNZq0kvwKqrmoDUieMxE4Vw0wIbQFy6b0RD2c7HWU1ISiGWOLqXJmlXKVvD6dp_h7cq81bNgLwb-Atrk4VthRSIYqZ9WfhpZtlGSTFtmldEXFxK7GcyNpAhtOvouRbgNyfWZkwF_d2pGFJ0cVogcRnBUGFs2yF/s678/GazaWar_Day138_PC.png" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="678" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXMXZ0MUWnyzknU-7tBGgbvQiS-hMNOPWNZq0kvwKqrmoDUieMxE4Vw0wIbQFy6b0RD2c7HWU1ISiGWOLqXJmlXKVvD6dp_h7cq81bNgLwb-Atrk4VthRSIYqZ9WfhpZtlGSTFtmldEXFxK7GcyNpAhtOvouRbgNyfWZkwF_d2pGFJ0cVogcRnBUGFs2yF/w640-h430/GazaWar_Day138_PC.png" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Police
repression is Sunak’s response to the political crisis and the mass movement
that has arisen since October 7. No doubt the Met, a byword for corruption,
racism and misogyny will step up their harassment of protestors and if violence
breaks out it will of course be the fault of those who were harassed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtCVfhsxWcAQkMtE20aqG2qrAdPEQ82siF-ExcWIkkPLQX7J7kWugg0vW7L2b0MQAbhjIiw8SDfleyel8Fe8_lIu_hSkJo81YLaZTNlPi_VJu1MXjDgBYQtaGhbnwawo1cpLennnpaiMlx-9PZW8I7h0Ld7YpbwalJ5x9PDscWUxomGS_jK8ZtT7GLBV0/s1900/Lee%20Anderson.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1141" data-original-width="1900" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtCVfhsxWcAQkMtE20aqG2qrAdPEQ82siF-ExcWIkkPLQX7J7kWugg0vW7L2b0MQAbhjIiw8SDfleyel8Fe8_lIu_hSkJo81YLaZTNlPi_VJu1MXjDgBYQtaGhbnwawo1cpLennnpaiMlx-9PZW8I7h0Ld7YpbwalJ5x9PDscWUxomGS_jK8ZtT7GLBV0/w640-h384/Lee%20Anderson.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
irony of Sunak talking about racism is breathtaking. He has been forced to
suspend the former Vice-Chair of the Tory Party Lee Anderson whom he appointed
in the first place because he was a racist. Yet <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/lee-anderson-shouldnt-been-suspended-32267930">two-thirds</a>
of Tory members support him and Sunak himself refuses to call his attack on
Sadiq Khan for being in the grip of Islamists Islamaphobic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Not
surprisingly Starmer echoes every word Sunak says. There was a time when the
Labour Party was an Opposition party but today we have a choice of identikit
politicians whose only interest is in scapegoating minorities. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Starmer
has pursued a consistently racist and Islamaphobic policy in the Labour Party,
all in the name of opposing ‘anti-Semitism’. Both party leaders are committed
to Zionism and support genocide in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvtQe98ZBuAJ5xJb0Y398f7DaHwy3LX6owZEvOuw71H_F5JEc-tn7gVNumiTVRYqbZJjT1gWlUQz2pMhoH19JU8n2P8800TT85EG04XE25qg0W5Fog6l8rgrYLE-xmtuhE0umhMy9lhTJ0vh5k_1jxYaPWfQCnBDtuLZUWlXQdugc-IyqjoMjCf1uUvH7G/s676/Glasgow%20protesters%20rejoice.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="676" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvtQe98ZBuAJ5xJb0Y398f7DaHwy3LX6owZEvOuw71H_F5JEc-tn7gVNumiTVRYqbZJjT1gWlUQz2pMhoH19JU8n2P8800TT85EG04XE25qg0W5Fog6l8rgrYLE-xmtuhE0umhMy9lhTJ0vh5k_1jxYaPWfQCnBDtuLZUWlXQdugc-IyqjoMjCf1uUvH7G/w640-h516/Glasgow%20protesters%20rejoice.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Galloway condemned the SNP for supporting the protesters</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
victory of George Galloway should be welcomed by all those on the left who want
change. Of course Galloway is not the perfect socialist. His views on refugees
leave a lot to be desired as does his attitude to social oppressions and abortion.
But where he is right is in stressing the importance of class as opposed to
identity politics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Wd4T6sPzEZ5FW9KUhb2QXa2czb_3KrXazWX-kvbmp4aLD-LVRgSjLs0RnWeQ_JprxcHFJhMFwQXSyKM4TEni9K5j1Yr7HAh7hT2U9TXaBCNt4gzAx2uJXQo3GzWDnvX7iU3wSSsGVPUupKtqeESF1FSfzmjHGNVjua605iYIzMEbs2KNk1Jk3T5ptP8w/s1265/SWP%20&%20Galloway.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1265" data-original-width="751" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Wd4T6sPzEZ5FW9KUhb2QXa2czb_3KrXazWX-kvbmp4aLD-LVRgSjLs0RnWeQ_JprxcHFJhMFwQXSyKM4TEni9K5j1Yr7HAh7hT2U9TXaBCNt4gzAx2uJXQo3GzWDnvX7iU3wSSsGVPUupKtqeESF1FSfzmjHGNVjua605iYIzMEbs2KNk1Jk3T5ptP8w/w238-h400/SWP%20&%20Galloway.jpg" width="238" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Most
people on the left realised that Genocide in Gaza was the main issue in Rochdale
and supported Galloway. The SWP did not. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Nine
days before the election the <a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/what-we-think/galloway-is-not-the-answer-for-rochdale/">headline</a>
in Socialist Worker was ‘</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Galloway is not the answer for Rochdale - </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We need a better expression of Palestinian
liberation than George Galloway’s party</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Presumably
the SWP’s decision to march with Glasgow Friends of Israel on March 16 to mark
UN anti-racism day is what they mean by a better expression of Palestinian liberation!
Supporters of Israel’s genocide will be taking part in an ‘anti-racist’ march.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">10 days later the <a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/rochdale-by-election/#:~:text=George%20Galloway%20has%20stormed%20to,8%20percent%20of%20the%20vote.">SWP
headline</a> was ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Rochdale
by-election was a referendum on Rishi Sunak’s and Keir Starmer’s support for Israel’s
genocide.</i>’ which rather begs the question why, in that case the SWP did not
support him!<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihVon-qDh-5ui3oaOi8N4WF30uReAPpJRnc9fP8-_BWPkfeN38HoNGapd9AO-RXgYCo1a2aQYHMbmjp9onUdIOMG9FpUEguyHcoM4cTUcFfOlxugW2kLm5kNjbOArrdj8_eiMlbSk0BhUCVCG3EyTqlCqIG3EOBZCF0m91HyqQtEDmXq7tWJK-XGg4oZ3A/s976/azhar%20ali%20getty.webp" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihVon-qDh-5ui3oaOi8N4WF30uReAPpJRnc9fP8-_BWPkfeN38HoNGapd9AO-RXgYCo1a2aQYHMbmjp9onUdIOMG9FpUEguyHcoM4cTUcFfOlxugW2kLm5kNjbOArrdj8_eiMlbSk0BhUCVCG3EyTqlCqIG3EOBZCF0m91HyqQtEDmXq7tWJK-XGg4oZ3A/w400-h225/azhar%20ali%20getty.webp" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #45818e;">Azhar Ali</span></b></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The claims of Starmer that Labour would have won if
they had not </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68280098"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">suspended</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> their
candidate Azhar Ali is more Starmer’s lies. Nothing that Ali said was
anti-Semitic. Given the warning Israel had over October 7 it is quite
reasonable to believe that it might have let it happen. It certainly is not
anti-Semitic to propound such a theory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>truth as
everyone knows is that Ali was suspended because Starmer knew he was going to
lose and he decided that it was preferable to sack him than lose to Galloway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Never has it been so obvious that whatever else
Britain, America, Germany and the West is they are not democracies. Majorities
in every European country see Israel’s attack on Gaza as unjustified. Even in Germany
44% <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/48218-israel-palestine-fundamental-attitudes-to-the-conflict-among-western-europeans">oppose</a>
Israel’s attack to 35% who <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/48218-israel-palestine-fundamental-attitudes-to-the-conflict-among-western-europeans">support</a>
it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWEOaJAc8Jv4I7Qfe8bLHPgXsKKQwr08ewkkn9sseopjCr3ykMk-nuV9C9s7-NJqr-7aNuLbqeddgUvkA8ySR85t_EPSMHXwWu7UziLuU82vPoS84XiZl6sHCa3vdQaTT6-9xEQMlEIxoGm4EuTbnlFD-wU2FK7thmvaxRFmB2s4zJnrMRu4VKI0aD0FYu/s623/Daily%20Mail%20Braverman%20&%20banning%20protests.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="623" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWEOaJAc8Jv4I7Qfe8bLHPgXsKKQwr08ewkkn9sseopjCr3ykMk-nuV9C9s7-NJqr-7aNuLbqeddgUvkA8ySR85t_EPSMHXwWu7UziLuU82vPoS84XiZl6sHCa3vdQaTT6-9xEQMlEIxoGm4EuTbnlFD-wU2FK7thmvaxRFmB2s4zJnrMRu4VKI0aD0FYu/w640-h320/Daily%20Mail%20Braverman%20&%20banning%20protests.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Even in the US 68% <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/48218-israel-palestine-fundamental-attitudes-to-the-conflict-among-western-europeans">support</a>
a ceasefire and 43% oppose sending Israel weapons compared to 31% supporting
it. Yet the governments of nearly all the countries chose to ignore public
opinion. And when, as in the UK, the public is resolutely opposed to the government’s
policy the government attacks the marches as ‘hate marches’ and seeks to restrict
them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsY8jP3K0oQwx2kn2db_kSthrEy6KdQwJ2f8obHH_dUE5m46Foz07xOMeGfGhPFi3ngrxkRm0QEKigtAzjaKHLGgxgiw1qH9Iv03jzMDQ9_ryhRoAwl73xtnG6QqVgrJXHTiAIO00wZsBPWmHVVTYEpuQngSsLMSughro1lrHzQyCwjHw4jMbxGOcaXxYh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="703" height="569" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsY8jP3K0oQwx2kn2db_kSthrEy6KdQwJ2f8obHH_dUE5m46Foz07xOMeGfGhPFi3ngrxkRm0QEKigtAzjaKHLGgxgiw1qH9Iv03jzMDQ9_ryhRoAwl73xtnG6QqVgrJXHTiAIO00wZsBPWmHVVTYEpuQngSsLMSughro1lrHzQyCwjHw4jMbxGOcaXxYh=w640-h569" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b>Even the Economist is not impressed with Sunak's attack on the right to protest</b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Rochdale indicates that we face a profound
political crisis with both government and opposition in lockstep. You could not
put a piece of paper between Sunak and Starmer which is one reason why in
Rochdale the two main parties got just 20% between them. No wonder Sunak was so
furious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The question for the left is whether they can get
their act together to pose a unified challenge in the next election when the
main task will not be defeating Sunak so much as ensuring the defeat of
Starmer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We should be under no illusions that Starmer is the
main enemy. He stands for the continuation of the Tory attacks on the working
class and poor. There isn’t even one promise that he hasn’t broken. Not one of
his <a href="https://www.clpd.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Keir-Starmers-10-Pledges.pdf">10
pledges</a> that secured his election as leader that he hasn’t torn up.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMYyrHXEO2974bcy5mjxUL_gjm6cISWWgRzkJfvpuI3_drq88jtvqy3EmNPL0SSzlwzZ3lXc_SJTQo_cO6X6WxbfV491WzLVl6qtetjgE0a7DKwQVDWwxkkDswGpEtWLV7kO2sFJleI3i7Cee17LgQ0ijzKDwEs0HnkDBmqtf-lcKFNlqjUpD_rNfe-Re8/s631/Andrew%20Feinstein.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="587" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMYyrHXEO2974bcy5mjxUL_gjm6cISWWgRzkJfvpuI3_drq88jtvqy3EmNPL0SSzlwzZ3lXc_SJTQo_cO6X6WxbfV491WzLVl6qtetjgE0a7DKwQVDWwxkkDswGpEtWLV7kO2sFJleI3i7Cee17LgQ0ijzKDwEs0HnkDBmqtf-lcKFNlqjUpD_rNfe-Re8/w596-h640/Andrew%20Feinstein.jpg" width="596" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The <a href="https://labourheartlands.com/andrew-feinstein-launches-new-mass-movement-of-the-left-to-challenge-labour/">call </a>by Andrew Feinstein for a unified left,
the Collective, is welcome. What would be even more welcome would be if Jeremy
Corbyn, together with those MPs who Starmer has removed the whip from, were to
seize this opportunity to give a lead rather than cowering in the shadows. Corbyn
hasn’t even declared whether he will restand for parliament. One can only
wonder what is keeping him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-24945055252784900132024-03-02T05:19:00.062+00:002024-03-03T21:44:41.122+00:00Open Letter to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley from Anti-Racist Jews<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The Suggestion That Opposing Genocide is Anti-Semitic or ‘Threatening’
to Jews and MPs is not only Anti-Semitic But It Paves the Way to a Police State</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KE1H-0t1u4g" width="320" youtube-src-id="KE1H-0t1u4g"></iframe></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQRGyYJs4AdHhWeLkhQDqX5wkr7rySZTWYKx-5d2Gc-tRYntE6Z553KJP14K8iUBU6f1UfOpmimoEvUjQ4ObpKELDBcjkyLcatNoAmBC9Z3QZsfz_9DQASd-q4PO1xrUAQKxIQQ5baAT5wWB_bV8G5qJAzc8JB5wWHgBq8-eBnrQN1iQbe6eyNTK3meCCA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1725" data-original-width="743" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQRGyYJs4AdHhWeLkhQDqX5wkr7rySZTWYKx-5d2Gc-tRYntE6Z553KJP14K8iUBU6f1UfOpmimoEvUjQ4ObpKELDBcjkyLcatNoAmBC9Z3QZsfz_9DQASd-q4PO1xrUAQKxIQQ5baAT5wWB_bV8G5qJAzc8JB5wWHgBq8-eBnrQN1iQbe6eyNTK3meCCA=s16000" /></a></div></div></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">At 19.55 on February 16, on the eve of the last Palestine
Demonstration, the Metropolitan Police issued a </span><a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1758580869730623898"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">tweet</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
changing the time of the demonstration, putting it back by 1½ hours.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The timing was deliberately planned in order to
cause maximum disruption to those with pre-booked coaches and transport.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
pretext for this was in order to “<span class="css-1qaijid"><i>accommodate an event at a synagogue along the route</i>.” thus lending
credence to allegations that marches against Israel’s genocide were
anti-Jewish. The tweet reinforced this with the suggestion that <i>“the impact on nearby congregations will be
reduced</i>.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">There was no hint as to what this ‘impact’ might
have been but it doesn’t take much imagination to understand that what the
Police were doing was to reinforce the message from supporters of Israel’s genocide
that the demonstration was anti-Semitic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Below is a statement from 152 Jews calling this
intervention by the Police as an act of malice designed to reinforce the
message of Zionist groups and their lapdogs, Sunak and Starmer, that
demonstrations against genocide are ‘<i>hate
marches.</i></span></span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i>It’s correct that we’ve made it a condition that the march can’t move off until 1.30pm to accommodate an event at a synagogue along the route.<br /><br />We’ve also required organisers to move the form up point south on Park Lane (marked by the green dot below) and we’ve blocked the… <a href="https://t.co/jRnPkxw5fZ">pic.twitter.com/jRnPkxw5fZ</a></i></span></span></p><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i>— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1758580869730623898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2024</a></i></span></span></blockquote><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</i></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">We have entered the land of Orwell’s </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">double-speak</span></a><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> where language that </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">‘<i>deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts,
or reverses the meaning of words’</i> is employed by our rulers, the political
class and their media echo chambers to try and destroy what remains of our
democratic right to protest. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">O<span class="css-1qaijid">pposition to mass murder, ethnic cleansing and sexual
violence is bizarrely called <i>‘hate’ </i>and
support for the starvation of children and the deliberate murder of those queuing
for food is a sign of the love that these people feel!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">George Orwell wrote about this phenomenon of how the
ruling class uses language in an essay </span></span><a href="https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Politics
and the English Language</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> which is prescient. Orwell wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In our time,
political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things
like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and
deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended,
but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which
do not square with the professed aims of political parties. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Thus political
language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy
vagueness. Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants
driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on
fire with incendiary bullets: this is called <em>pacification</em>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Millions of
peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no
more than they can carry: this is called <em>transfer of population</em> or <em>rectification
of frontiers</em>. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in
the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is
called <em>elimination of unreliable elements</em>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Such
phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental
pictures of them. Consider for instance some comfortable English professor
defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say outright, ‘<i>I believe in killing off your opponents when
you can get good results by doing so’.</i> Probably, therefore, he will say
something like this:</span><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Orwell was writing at the time of the British Empire.
He was describing its ‘civilising methods’. Today we don’t need to conjure up
mental pictures of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. They are on the Internet and our
TV screens. That is what makes the Tory/Labour attacks on those who support the
Palestinians and oppose Israel’s massacre of civilians all the more despicables.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and all the
other war criminals who govern us cannot say they didn’t know. It is impossible
for them not to know. They can therefore reasonably be described as blood drenched
monsters. Cool, calculated political sadists for whom children starving and
being murdered is less important than defeating a resistance movement, Hamas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As we saw last night with the magnificent victory of
George Galloway in Rochdale, despite the opposition of sectarian groups like
the <a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/rochdale-by-election/">Socialist
Workers Party</a>, there is no constituency in Britain, besides MPs and Peers, TV
and tabloid journalists, who can be mobilised in support of genocide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.map.org.uk/news/archive/post/1548-opinion-poll-shows-overwhelming-british-public-support-for-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Support</span></a><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> for an immediate ceasefire commands the support of
71% of British people compared to 12% who wanted the blood letting to go on. This
is despite the unanimity of the press and broadcasting media, the </span></span><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231031-financial-times-joins-growing-call-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza/"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">FT </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">excepted</span></a><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, in favour of letting Israel’s genocidal rampage
continue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Even in the wake of October 7 and the mass
propaganda about Hamas ‘atrocities’ most of which have now been <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter">debunked</a>,
an opinion poll on 19<sup>th</sup> October </span></span><a href="https://yougov.co.uk/topics/travel/survey-results/daily/2023/10/19/e363e/1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">showed</span></a><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> that 76% of British people supported an immediate
ceasefire compared to 8% who didn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It is the rich and powerful, those who have access
to the airwaves who are the people who shout loudest for a continuation of the
genocide and ethnic cleansing. As Galloway <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/01/george-galloway-wins-rochdale-byelection">proved</a>
last night, Sunak, Braverman and Starmer’s support for a continuation of the bloodletting
commands next to no support.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB9ezB82f42k8LUzCeREJQ1_YJxNNXIpjPCBsAaAx9PbQTHvsuwrYY2Ee7RBoCF6TzX3dUieuD4Qoa95jnozNc6yOmzWZShEU6HNCUDdeQ8_5iOjKOtvOPFqPxkJn8g6cR5NN-ii4drUMDs3SNcSpFaNmKrAUgQQ3lR7bnlHnFCKGr7sp0qny1eYSt9FUV/s624/Mail%20-%20anti%20democracy.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="624" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB9ezB82f42k8LUzCeREJQ1_YJxNNXIpjPCBsAaAx9PbQTHvsuwrYY2Ee7RBoCF6TzX3dUieuD4Qoa95jnozNc6yOmzWZShEU6HNCUDdeQ8_5iOjKOtvOPFqPxkJn8g6cR5NN-ii4drUMDs3SNcSpFaNmKrAUgQQ3lR7bnlHnFCKGr7sp0qny1eYSt9FUV/w640-h246/Mail%20-%20anti%20democracy.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span class="css-1qaijid" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Only the Daily Mail could call for restrictions on the right to protest in the name of democracy - Vladimir Putin should pay attention to how the British Establishment justifies repression</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">So we have the pathetic Sunak <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/george-galloway-rishi-sunak-britain-prime-minister-rochdale-b1142716.html">slinking</a>
out of Downing Street to make an evidence free accusation that it was ‘intimidation’
that had led to the defeat of all the bourgeois parties. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Sunak complained that Galloway supported Hamas and
Hezbollah. Neither of these organisations have murdered 30,000 innocent people
and injured another 70,000. Neither of these organisations have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide">deliberately
starved</a> children to death and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-offers-incubators-fuel-gaza-hospital-outrage-grows-rcna125053">left</a>
babies to die in incubators. It is an indictment of the murderous twisted
values of Sunak and his puppet Starmer that they believe that Hamas is the
incarnation of evil whilst Israel is the symbol of all that is sweet and
saintly in this world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">These are the values of capitalism and imperialism.
No amount of blood shed is enough for these human vampires. Yet if their racist
Rottweiler in the Middle East suffers an attack from those it has occupied for
57 years then this is the incarnation of evil. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It is this perversion of human values that leads these
creatures to call demonstrations against genocide ‘hate marches.’ And it now
appears that the Police, who are an instrument of class rule, there to protect
property not people, who are using the pretext of ‘anti-Semitism’ to hem in the
marches and provoke confrontations. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">A number of people, myself included, have been <a href="https://news.met.police.uk/news/two-women-charged-with-terrorism-offence-as-police-appeal-to-identify-two-other-protestors-474789">arrested</a>
on the preposterous allegation that supporting the Palestinian right to resist
is somehow support for ‘terrorism’. The proscribing of Hamas’s political wing
in November 2021 by Sajid David was a nakedly political act. It had not an iota
of justification.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If you go to the </span></span><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations--2/proscribed-terrorist-groups-or-organisations-accessible-version"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">government
website</span></a><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> and see how the government
justified its proscription of Hamas’s political wing (its military wing was
proscribed in 2001) there is nothing saying why it was felt necessary to proscribe
the political wing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Throughout the Troubles in Northern Ireland from
1968 to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, whilst the IRA was proscribed Sinn
Fein remained legal despite calls from the Tory right to proscribe it. If Sinn
Fein had been proscribed then support for the IRA would never have been
channelled in a political direction and the peace agreement would never have
been signed. That is what that shallow political lightweight Sajid David was
doing when, with a stroke of the pen, he proscribed Hamas political wing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The government said that at the time when Hamas’s
military wing was proscribed in March 2001<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">it was HM government’s assessment
that there was a sufficient distinction between the so called political and
military wings of Hamas, such that they should be treated as different
organisations, and that only the military wing was concerned in terrorism. The
government now assess that the approach of distinguishing between the various
parts of Hamas is artificial. Hamas is a complex but single terrorist
organisation.</span><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Yet there is nothing to say why the government made this
assessment. Absolutely <b>nothing </b>to
justify proscribing the political wing. All it says is that:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Hamas commits
and participates in terrorism. Hamas has used indiscriminate rocket or mortar
attacks, and raids against Israeli targets. During the May 2021 conflict, over
4,000 rockets were fired indiscriminately into Israel. Civilians, including 2
Israeli children, were killed as a result. Palestinian militant groups,
including Hamas, frequently use incendiary balloons to launch attacks from Gaza
into southern Israel. There was a spate of incendiary balloon attacks from Gaza
during June and July 2021, causing fires in communities in southern Israel that
resulted in serious damage to property.</span><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Even assuming that the above attacks were
‘terrorist’ as opposed to resistance activities, why were they attributed to
Hamas’s 20,000 strong political wing? Hamas was the elected leadership of
Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza under the last free elections in
2005.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If Hamas is to be classified as ‘terrorist’ because
it killed 2 Israeli children then what should we call Israel which has murdered
15,000+ children in Gaza? The racist hypocrisy of this provision is nauseating.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Any normal person would classify Hamas as a
resistance group. That does not mean you have to support it. It is an Islamic
group. I’m an atheist. They are conservative socially and politically whereas
I’m a socialist. But terrorist? This is the label that was applied to all
colonial resistance to British imperialism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Terrorist’ was also the label that the Nazis
applied to the French and Polish Resistance. The Tory government and their
Labour echo chambers are no different in their approach to Hamas than the Nazis
occupiers in Europe were to the <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137443502_11">Maquis</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">There had, before the Police’s decision to impose
restrictions on the last Palestine march, been at least 9 previous such
demonstrations without any discernible impact other than on the <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1871079/suella-braverman-lee-anderson-Islamophia-tory">hysterical
Braverman</a>, the late and unlamented Home Secretary, who literally lost the
plot when she <a href="about:blank">accused</a> the Police of a pro-Palestinian
bias. No-one who is Jewish has been attacked or molested in any way prior to or
subsequent to the marches.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Braverman wasn’t the only person who lost the plot.
The misnamed <i>Campaign Against
Antisemitism, </i>which was set up at the behest of Israel’s dirty tricks
Minister of Strategic Affairs last time there was Israeli a major attack on
Gaza, in the summer of 2014, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/07/no-grounds-to-ban-pro-palestine-march-in-london-on-armistice-day-met-believes">called
for</a> the military to be called in! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The CAA even had the galls to say they were doing it
in order to </span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">“uphold the values that our country
stands for”.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span class="css-1qaijid">That is the contempt that Zionists have for democratic
rights. But the CAA probably thought that they were still in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Since Braverman’s resignation the Police have been
slowly caving in to the raucous and racist Tory and Zionist lobby with Police officers
seeing their role as monitoring the slogans and speech of demonstrators. As if
the average thick plod is capable of understanding political nuance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/palestine-protest-israel-gaza-war-hamas-b2453462.html">most
ludicrous arrests</a> were of four members of an obscure Stalinist group who
had been selling a book on Nazi-Zionist collaboration with the Star of David
intertwined with the Swastika. What business is it of the Police to decide that
an artistic front cover of a book infringes the law? Since when were the police the arbiters of
what is acceptable? This takes us back
to the early 60s when the publishers of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Penguin Books,
were <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/10/d-h-lawrence-lady-chatterleys-lover-trial">prosecuted</a>
for gross indecency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I just hope that those arrested follow through with
their threats to sue the Met for false arrest and malicious imprisonment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In recent years the Met have increasingly taken upon
themselves the roles of deciding what is and is not acceptable politically. We
all remember the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/12/coronation-protest-arrests-police">pre-emptive
arrests</a> of protesters at the Coronation of Charles III. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The mere fact that the Police took it upon themselves
to decide that supporting Republicanism was an arrestable offence points to a
deeper malaise in the police. Their ingrained right-wing bias.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUVtuBdHr8X8Yl1eeqIELtnPk32Nau4xmPESakyQ8aliVlduneeMpTWiWLUgt6tVE_3h0xKv120SEgz_sc0_Q-MgwEpuoC8X71GUwla5m_-rXHcgECy1r6S9S3fnVerkTMr0wAD0h6oAbGfWmIjluB7OQZXrZ05vlPMXgkUg9iF4lMBh0-4Nj7pby5pajl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="1191" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUVtuBdHr8X8Yl1eeqIELtnPk32Nau4xmPESakyQ8aliVlduneeMpTWiWLUgt6tVE_3h0xKv120SEgz_sc0_Q-MgwEpuoC8X71GUwla5m_-rXHcgECy1r6S9S3fnVerkTMr0wAD0h6oAbGfWmIjluB7OQZXrZ05vlPMXgkUg9iF4lMBh0-4Nj7pby5pajl=w640-h452" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/29/spy-cops-operations-against-leftwing-groups-unjustified-judge-finds">Undercover
Policing Inquiry</a> into police malpractices, including rape by deception, revealed
the Met’s Special Demonstration Squad, which infiltrated political groups
concentrated <b>solely </b>on left-wing
groups despite the fact that it is the far-right that has indulged in
terrorism, bomb making and in the case of Darren Copeland the <a href="https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/04/30/admiral-duncan-pub-soho-bombing/">bombing</a>
of the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho, which killed 3 people a quarter of a century
ago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3itfHYrdTsSdxbMl740IyMvQF2sycoSWBM40XVDFOVw13Nkv-Tx13RlQD_5yBYJgxFBBy3H98XHxWi-7MI9PboRoeyP1y5jDeceuiN_qkWA2l9dE4tHOF1ZQvARvXda2qKBfrlc7e-8aDRH5X_vVvB_V2_HuIP7RtFcjJ8Ql48m8vKJRRNcpkNyIGlrbw/s500/The%20Admiral%20Duncan%20Old%20Compton%20Street.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="375" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3itfHYrdTsSdxbMl740IyMvQF2sycoSWBM40XVDFOVw13Nkv-Tx13RlQD_5yBYJgxFBBy3H98XHxWi-7MI9PboRoeyP1y5jDeceuiN_qkWA2l9dE4tHOF1ZQvARvXda2qKBfrlc7e-8aDRH5X_vVvB_V2_HuIP7RtFcjJ8Ql48m8vKJRRNcpkNyIGlrbw/w480-h640/The%20Admiral%20Duncan%20Old%20Compton%20Street.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The pathetic excuse given for their political
prejudice was that the police were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/19/uk-police-took-high-level-decision-not-to-go-undercover-in-far-right-groups-in-1970s">too
frightened</a> to infiltrate fascist groups. Which, if true, just goes to show how
nice we are and how we are the opposite of Braverman’s rhetoric!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Of course the Police response to accusations of bias
is that they are only ensuring observance of the law without fear or favour.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If that is the case then it is strange that another
law seems to have gone by default. I
refer to the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/contents">International
Criminal Court Act 2001</a>, which makes it an offence to commit war crimes, be
it in this country or abroad. It also makes someone who is <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/52">ancillary</a>
to, i.e. helps someone commit a war crime equally guilty of the offence, wherever
it is committed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Given that Sunak, with the support of his faithful
lapdog Starmer, has been supplying the Israelis with weapons with which to
commit war crimes isn’t it about time that Sunak and Starmer shared a cell
together?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">With a bit of luck this would do wonders for penal
reform as they might get to experience that which they wish to inflict on
others. It would, I am sure, be an extremely popular measure since everyone
knows that politicians are the biggest crooks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Speaking of which isn’t it about time that the
Police started prosecuting Tory Ministers who set up the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/12/use-of-vip-lane-to-award-covid-ppe-contracts-unlawful-high-court-rules">VIP
channel</a> for their friends and cronies who took advantage of the COVID
crisis to trouser <a href="https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2024/02/09/nao_pandemic_fraud_data/">billions
of pounds</a>? It would make a change from prosecuting shop lifters for petty
theft.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As the letter below shows, the Police are fully
aware that hundreds of Jews have taken part in the marches, many of them as
part of a Jewish bloc. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8vtRNw88gS9pRPeaRYrwPZNRIUUZjeSYCM6lTlh22tl25tbxgsTvDDg2WcM4CwsCDU8R2sW1CGNvSVyxfhtcyPtWT2S0PBVYpzu4O8quBQWMxOe6S70vYfwzMFD0GQaDyVfVnjQ6NtttXhqKMuTpLtWtb58rM03lSwP2Ar6JUw1gKjfqzN0rvLqMIRhT/s1088/Police%20separate%20marchers.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1088" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8vtRNw88gS9pRPeaRYrwPZNRIUUZjeSYCM6lTlh22tl25tbxgsTvDDg2WcM4CwsCDU8R2sW1CGNvSVyxfhtcyPtWT2S0PBVYpzu4O8quBQWMxOe6S70vYfwzMFD0GQaDyVfVnjQ6NtttXhqKMuTpLtWtb58rM03lSwP2Ar6JUw1gKjfqzN0rvLqMIRhT/w640-h550/Police%20separate%20marchers.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I know that the habits of colonial divide and rule tactics
die hard because at an earlier march the Police suddenly </span></span><a href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/policing-jews-palestine-protests-reveals-ignorance-and-racist-assumptions"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">interposed</span></a><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> themselves between the Jewish bloc and the rest of
the march, because they believed that Jews were in danger from non-Jewish demonstrators.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This is not mere stupidity but a consequence of the
false propaganda that the right churns out. The idea that there is anything
anti-Semitic about pro-Palestinian marches is levelled by supporters of Israeli
genocide in the absence of anything with which to defend what I <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/infamous-anti-israel-activist-tony-greenstein-called-jewish-state-hitlers-bastard-offspring-ypojyokh">called</a>
Hitler’s bastard offspring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; tab-stops: 6.0cm;"><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Because the Met operate within a racist and right-wing
milieu, they have convinced themselves that the marches are inherently
anti-Semitic. They seriously believed that demonstrators would attacks Jews who
support the Palestinians, whereas in fact Jews opposed to genocide have been
welcomed on the marches. This is part of the racist mindset of a police force
that is notorious for the racists, bigots and Islamaphobes who make up its
ranks.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; tab-stops: 6.0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Tony
Greenstein</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-5783202861222156032024-02-27T00:47:00.005+00:002024-02-27T00:47:37.787+00:00 Brighton Demonstration Against L3 Harris Arms Factory Saturday February 24th<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">500 People Having Written to Brighton & Hove Councillors Demanding That
They Don’t Grant L3Harris Planning Permission to Help Israel Commit Genocide</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyzXorumnIfujQC6zs1SEa98VNLnFvT6_O4tGjhFNpCxqRhhtCsJEMnQvv9HpOtzzUKIx_EQdc7-0wNZloeJUuGjCSTlDjV-lwYs82L17_9mg2sunjFYcQLvwnVIdct6TxrR1BihLv7AznOukI5wtmjQY3Q1RvJPWl4a8KmL8-K3c6_3EK4BsA9nzy6jC-/s4080/picket%20of%20L3Harris%2024.2.24%20(10).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyzXorumnIfujQC6zs1SEa98VNLnFvT6_O4tGjhFNpCxqRhhtCsJEMnQvv9HpOtzzUKIx_EQdc7-0wNZloeJUuGjCSTlDjV-lwYs82L17_9mg2sunjFYcQLvwnVIdct6TxrR1BihLv7AznOukI5wtmjQY3Q1RvJPWl4a8KmL8-K3c6_3EK4BsA9nzy6jC-/w640-h480/picket%20of%20L3Harris%2024.2.24%20(10).jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a3McaVPjjFg" width="320" youtube-src-id="a3McaVPjjFg"></iframe></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On
Saturday in Brighton 300 people held a demonstration at The Level and then
marked 2 miles to an out of the way arms factory owned by L3 Harris on Brighton’s
Moulsecoomb Estate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPkwB0Zi0zBPT94KeZ-P3TCJl7-ZBGEa1d5AM3rM9Ujg_WyvIH7QkFDddcn2A0adsH9JdGFbi7wqHbyFLfaE9lHoBceWhsXR0eQ4vp4c8CKQcmZ5zcqTxdxqtwxPLgpsyeynpBeDcxowsIBI4HYGW8-RfgJuaaaZOY6pRoDzXc_KNote4rLZMCTrwo1mBA/s976/Activists%20cleared.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="684" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPkwB0Zi0zBPT94KeZ-P3TCJl7-ZBGEa1d5AM3rM9Ujg_WyvIH7QkFDddcn2A0adsH9JdGFbi7wqHbyFLfaE9lHoBceWhsXR0eQ4vp4c8CKQcmZ5zcqTxdxqtwxPLgpsyeynpBeDcxowsIBI4HYGW8-RfgJuaaaZOY6pRoDzXc_KNote4rLZMCTrwo1mBA/w280-h400/Activists%20cleared.jpg" width="280" /></a></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Previously the factory was called EDO-MBM. It
too supplied weaponry to Israel. It was the subject of a major campaign ten
years ago and also a </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/30/activists-arms-factory-acquitted"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">famous
trial</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> in which all the protesters, who had caused over £¼
million damage <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were acquitted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
trial was presided over by an extremely sympathetic Judge Bathhurst Norman,
whose summing up, as the Guardian reported, quoted favourably<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-4cudl2" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the testimony by Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for
Brighton Pavilion, that "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all
democratic paths had been exhausted</i>" before the activists embarked on
their action.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdz4D5_XCMDpntMiac93SGuish6g0yS0mxQlBGjd_2SF6qaPKZOjYOsVOBgSwiPLZPhnAnUVmLscVUnGXmKMiA9ibozvkNOF22nTj6mXjsAz_4-o4um03fK4MLwkgXyAdSma3EoikPtUdQYzNc-1VS3YNigexaUnEfmCz5LPfvkxWfsHhWOH3F1Z7uE8EF" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="629" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdz4D5_XCMDpntMiac93SGuish6g0yS0mxQlBGjd_2SF6qaPKZOjYOsVOBgSwiPLZPhnAnUVmLscVUnGXmKMiA9ibozvkNOF22nTj6mXjsAz_4-o4um03fK4MLwkgXyAdSma3EoikPtUdQYzNc-1VS3YNigexaUnEfmCz5LPfvkxWfsHhWOH3F1Z7uE8EF=w611-h640" width="611" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Bathhurst
Norman, who was born in Haifa during the British Mandate, was later reprimanded
by the judicial authorities, after a Zionist complaint, for the sympathy he had
shown with the defendants.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtVertL74vXYbP94onTGo6lppumf1wy96y2WKuvZfZxoav4X_xTAoD5o5C67Cx4KAackzyqmAnx1ZrvXcQYETjoDKKiSsnPm8tOBnq4XUa1845cjZ2rZj8IaH73AQ_cu1npnL_M4tJGjBQXtW6MfJxh05kWuT16XsspwhTjPj1xuTqikbACG0gYKUONS2X/s621/Anya%20&%20Ruby.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="621" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtVertL74vXYbP94onTGo6lppumf1wy96y2WKuvZfZxoav4X_xTAoD5o5C67Cx4KAackzyqmAnx1ZrvXcQYETjoDKKiSsnPm8tOBnq4XUa1845cjZ2rZj8IaH73AQ_cu1npnL_M4tJGjBQXtW6MfJxh05kWuT16XsspwhTjPj1xuTqikbACG0gYKUONS2X/w640-h532/Anya%20&%20Ruby.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish Chronicle </i>was certainly not
amused. It </span><a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/anti-israel-protesters-guilty-of-trespassing-u6swvfs2?reloadTime=1658534400011"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">reported</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">
that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">That case became notorious following the comments of
Judge George Bathurst-Norman. He was formally reprimanded by the Office for
Judicial Complaints after telling the Hove Crown Court jury: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You may well think that hell on earth would
not be an understatement of what the Gazans suffered at that time [during
Operation Cast Lead].”</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Telling
the truth has always been frowned upon by the judicial authorities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfJT8ejIBPosvPxaZOCuJUFIUli6IUJMZ6pjkPsga08I6yBX2OPsP-T7JDfv5iBhcAPa5tQXuAHesuuYIXaSgGfOyszNfdGt5B863jijkipX1p3ZeSceBNN_L0hodT8uU44H1_OZisuu4vNNaswlz76mRSt2UiqLEElcjlthELzUXV7NpF9MHh0UdV1yPj/s976/BBC%20Picket%20of%20L3.webp" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfJT8ejIBPosvPxaZOCuJUFIUli6IUJMZ6pjkPsga08I6yBX2OPsP-T7JDfv5iBhcAPa5tQXuAHesuuYIXaSgGfOyszNfdGt5B863jijkipX1p3ZeSceBNN_L0hodT8uU44H1_OZisuu4vNNaswlz76mRSt2UiqLEElcjlthELzUXV7NpF9MHh0UdV1yPj/w640-h360/BBC%20Picket%20of%20L3.webp" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">L3Harris
is the 12th largest weapons manufacturer in the world. It makes bomb release
mechanisms for F-35 fighter jets being used by Israel to kill Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRxfJEpt7DDv48UM4pgxCrDeGuOFdiZvIUNrqjou7Xy13EImBJnxL5EtfxvBoMjtImUUqhNUE3UFwtUJ7Aq05569e1_dEm_8ASpZrzI_50hk4BFD0OXL_b2HGBOfjqfEBkGBM3mExtQhtjjQZd4Jb_9WuH5UKs28xhtYWALyYGWGENmT6hMW80AyVr3J_d/s4080/picket%20of%20L3Harris%2024.2.24%20(23).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRxfJEpt7DDv48UM4pgxCrDeGuOFdiZvIUNrqjou7Xy13EImBJnxL5EtfxvBoMjtImUUqhNUE3UFwtUJ7Aq05569e1_dEm_8ASpZrzI_50hk4BFD0OXL_b2HGBOfjqfEBkGBM3mExtQhtjjQZd4Jb_9WuH5UKs28xhtYWALyYGWGENmT6hMW80AyVr3J_d/w400-h300/picket%20of%20L3Harris%2024.2.24%20(23).jpg" width="400" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Picket of L3Harris Arms Factory in Brighton <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">L3Harris
is a major US weapons developer, which has facilities in the Massachusetts
cities and towns of Northampton, Ayer, and Wilmington. L3 Harris supports
Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland, US militarism
and imperialism, and the US government's regime of tracking, detentions, and
deportations of Black and Brown migrants.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSBJijNmXSAiBd7Pbt7CXYAsIyp-0OROWUftUXXmlB3K58ZQ1ICIvzaWwyGVd_2UfukVdoo1Y_gH5fGn4BXIl6jZRiZBM6yjEx_qDYaGpdrz0G65vsO9sjKyv6wRng7uq53JiwCnKWMznJt7jvU4lfizf2Dzyq6obyjy-FCpv5fj592vM0AdrmZNsqKE61/s794/Argus%20report.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="612" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSBJijNmXSAiBd7Pbt7CXYAsIyp-0OROWUftUXXmlB3K58ZQ1ICIvzaWwyGVd_2UfukVdoo1Y_gH5fGn4BXIl6jZRiZBM6yjEx_qDYaGpdrz0G65vsO9sjKyv6wRng7uq53JiwCnKWMznJt7jvU4lfizf2Dzyq6obyjy-FCpv5fj592vM0AdrmZNsqKE61/w309-h400/Argus%20report.jpg" width="309" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Support
for the Israeli ethnic cleansing<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As </span><a href="https://investigate.afsc.org/company/l3harris-technologies"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">reported</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> by AFSC
Investigate, L3Harris is a </span><a href="https://www.l3harris.com/sites/default/files/2020-12/L3Harris-F-35-Mission-Partner-Highlights-Infographic-sas.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">top
supplier</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> of component parts for Lockheed Martin F-35 warplanes, which Lockheed Martin
sells to Israel, manufacturing a total of 1,600 components for each of Lockheed
Martin's F-35s. Israel </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2021/05/26/israels-bombardment-of-gaza-methods-weapons-and-impact/?sh=2b74e4bc2f44"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">used</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> its
fleet F35 warplanes during its May 2021 bombing campaign against Palestinians
living in Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkWVdUNVaLK9zBPa-ljHI9vSVVUHfdQk1icZRrFQDd0Wh21at-wpZVyVvw_iHFDGDS3kG1CaQf9HrOpVOhbsg89Yig1TlgqWqc7SsaEApf7-Bo3J8th2K5wUmcrnNhh_8zy_SQS-5jvv8_-IzdVA9vBLSpZ3Snls0yYpw_2cmEES74UJzRWztof_dLa4ET/s762/BBC%20picket.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="762" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkWVdUNVaLK9zBPa-ljHI9vSVVUHfdQk1icZRrFQDd0Wh21at-wpZVyVvw_iHFDGDS3kG1CaQf9HrOpVOhbsg89Yig1TlgqWqc7SsaEApf7-Bo3J8th2K5wUmcrnNhh_8zy_SQS-5jvv8_-IzdVA9vBLSpZ3Snls0yYpw_2cmEES74UJzRWztof_dLa4ET/w640-h406/BBC%20picket.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">L3Harris
also </span><a href="https://investigate.afsc.org/company/l3harris-technologies"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">produces
components</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> for Boeing's Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) guided bombs, or
"smart bombs," which enable increased precision in striking targets.
These JDAM-guided bombs have been directly linked to the killing of at least 44
Palestinian civilians in </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000007787471/israel-airstrikes-gaza.html?searchResultPosition=1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Israel's bombing
of al-Wahda street</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> in May 2021. L3 Harris has also previously </span><a href="https://whoprofits.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/old/mahsomim-english-web_final.pdf%20;%20https:/whoprofits.org/company/l-3-communications/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">supplied</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Israel
with "SafeView body scanner machines," which Israel used at the Qalandia,
Bethlehem, and Sha’ar Efraim (Irtach) military checkpoints in the West Bank,
and the Erez checkpoint in the Gaza Strip. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI2BTnAaiqkl0x4i8X1XAJUndUA7ZToslt6JQ492onA3_-F_gnjNEuZjaVoMYgQgQH3mUmrvZ05J2PVPRF6UyVawDXudPyo3fqF6btGPNlg0KVS10hZ8aYiCMyvcAtATK1pFOtKqMhR5LdwvFh_-3HAymILtp_GVqGvfkQXVRjw-LqR3TVcGuqR_yQEx5m/s494/JC%20report%20on%20EDO-MBM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="494" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI2BTnAaiqkl0x4i8X1XAJUndUA7ZToslt6JQ492onA3_-F_gnjNEuZjaVoMYgQgQH3mUmrvZ05J2PVPRF6UyVawDXudPyo3fqF6btGPNlg0KVS10hZ8aYiCMyvcAtATK1pFOtKqMhR5LdwvFh_-3HAymILtp_GVqGvfkQXVRjw-LqR3TVcGuqR_yQEx5m/w640-h286/JC%20report%20on%20EDO-MBM.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Together
with its so-called "separation wall," Israel's military checkpoints function
to immiserate Palestinians who refuse to leave their land to make space for
Zionist settlement expansion. Israel's checkpoints also function to fragment
Palestinian society, physically separating Palestinians from one another and preventing
Palestinians from moving freely across their land to travel to work, to tend
their farmland during the day, and to visit loved ones.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUxlSCOXiNzz-Nt4C-JvfK5cgmAZvIPfwKkAExs5jXM-k8LS921MTYzs055641ti2FpBp7PtjgeteKLHEPS7OaJMql3ynaU_D9Fy5Te4RV8tkYiit9YS_xGqn0QDbmWvzUPWqPFj-7AAG72E1P7j4t8Z_o1kVXgSX-SRNZV7ynDc3jyBqkTNdajY-ypIj/s4080/picket%20of%20L3Harris%2024.2.24%20(24).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUxlSCOXiNzz-Nt4C-JvfK5cgmAZvIPfwKkAExs5jXM-k8LS921MTYzs055641ti2FpBp7PtjgeteKLHEPS7OaJMql3ynaU_D9Fy5Te4RV8tkYiit9YS_xGqn0QDbmWvzUPWqPFj-7AAG72E1P7j4t8Z_o1kVXgSX-SRNZV7ynDc3jyBqkTNdajY-ypIj/w640-h480/picket%20of%20L3Harris%2024.2.24%20(24).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">L3Harris </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200620092056/https:/www2.l3t.com/mapps/assets/img/mega-menu/L3M_DS_Marine-Experience_011117i.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">manufactured</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> the
management systems for the Israeli Navy’s fleet of Sa’ar 5 and Sa’ar 6
warships. Israel uses these warships to enforce its naval blockade on the Gaza
strip, which </span><a href="http://www.un.org/unispal/humanitarian-situation-in-the-gaza-strip-fast-facts-ocha-factsheet/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">denies</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> the
nearly 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza access to basic resources necessary
to maintain water, sewage, electric, medical and other civilian infrastructure,
significant amounts of which Israel destroys each time it bombs Gaza and which
Palestinians cannot rebuild due to this blockade. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzhHefZPTohWB1RjitAr6TzwUn2ekxxzCbJnHZcinoDp0pkSbUr9E_abx-UFDLtjaR_b-qlp6TAQWLUn0egWSWIz5Ylqjdce2k1fG-cqbeXpHhV0BJtug_gVtsAAM9sPGBn44R_4_w6Aj1ykE6ZtCb9JIAu_d1WCLcwcclxz1PiaNcsysmaAy4etaXZyN/s4080/picket%20of%20L3Harris%2024.2.24%20(21).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzhHefZPTohWB1RjitAr6TzwUn2ekxxzCbJnHZcinoDp0pkSbUr9E_abx-UFDLtjaR_b-qlp6TAQWLUn0egWSWIz5Ylqjdce2k1fG-cqbeXpHhV0BJtug_gVtsAAM9sPGBn44R_4_w6Aj1ykE6ZtCb9JIAu_d1WCLcwcclxz1PiaNcsysmaAy4etaXZyN/w640-h480/picket%20of%20L3Harris%2024.2.24%20(21).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Israel
then delays or denies Palestinians access to exit permits necessary to leave Gaza,
</span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/01/palestinian-baby-dies-after-treatment-delayed-by-israeli-blockade-of-gaza"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">preventing
Palestinians from receiving life-saving medical care</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, which Palestinians
cannot provide for themselves as the result of Israel's naval blockade which
prevents resources from coming into Gaza along with Israel's bombing campaigns
which destroy what infrastructure Palestinians attempt to construct in Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Accordingly,
L3Harris bears responsibility not only for equipping the warplanes Israel has
used to kill and injure thousands of Palestinians during its bombing campaigns
against Gaza, but also for equipping the warships Israel uses to enforce its
naval blockade of Gaza, which causes the mass preventable illness, death, and
suffering amongst the people of Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0dhSc7pJesNbQi4bQTtnsWMFuaM-WBmlALAfFYwp7JztIcg_wCW5m4M8bLQOhRah7EdFci0sl2A2vhHCE2XEemDKzK1E0xXk3v_IZmZ7dCHzm1e0zl38eErq8w4zEG9BJruaO2W558MsEl7O0os99m2CdMqd3n2DU-PNMNNPaOX8YdpJhjI_0fEtszV52/s4080/picket%20of%20L3Harris%2024.2.24%20(27).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0dhSc7pJesNbQi4bQTtnsWMFuaM-WBmlALAfFYwp7JztIcg_wCW5m4M8bLQOhRah7EdFci0sl2A2vhHCE2XEemDKzK1E0xXk3v_IZmZ7dCHzm1e0zl38eErq8w4zEG9BJruaO2W558MsEl7O0os99m2CdMqd3n2DU-PNMNNPaOX8YdpJhjI_0fEtszV52/w640-h480/picket%20of%20L3Harris%2024.2.24%20(27).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Support
for the US militarism and imperialism<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">L3Harris
has </span><a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/12b896e2-1ad1-3536-da90-51b17b1b316b-P/all"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">derived
$36.15 billion</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> to date through US Department of Defense (DoD) contracts
for the provision of products and services to the US Army, US Navy, US Air
Force, and other branches of the US military. Recent L3Harris business dealings
with the US DoD include </span><a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220127006108/en/US-Marine-Corps-Awards-L3Harris-750-Million-IDIQ-Contract-for-Multi-Channel-Radios"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">this $750
million contract</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> to equip the US Marines with "multi-channel
handheld and vehicular radio systems," as well as this </span><a href="https://www.govconwire.com/2021/09/l3harris-books-947m-services-contract-for-air-force-ew-countermeasures-program/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">this
$947.3 million contract</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> to support the US Air force's "aircraft
electronic warfare system initiative."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZiMqReVRYyesv28WMgpKaDDd0jQ5FMGv4y46Nf27f81EHVA6bcZHpEbPqEhW37aWY3XoU9WOYEqMOMJOCHL6THS4ICjffJKT6T0_IfkqFOI0-0o9gAwjrLDjQs8DgBMfwtdTfJV6xGeBWCugAYbvduLheiI8IIpTcV8_nL8Ijjgvn2vHsNKO9My9QSW5-/s4080/picket%20of%20L3Harris%2024.2.24%20(4).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="4080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZiMqReVRYyesv28WMgpKaDDd0jQ5FMGv4y46Nf27f81EHVA6bcZHpEbPqEhW37aWY3XoU9WOYEqMOMJOCHL6THS4ICjffJKT6T0_IfkqFOI0-0o9gAwjrLDjQs8DgBMfwtdTfJV6xGeBWCugAYbvduLheiI8IIpTcV8_nL8Ijjgvn2vHsNKO9My9QSW5-/w640-h480/picket%20of%20L3Harris%2024.2.24%20(4).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #7f6000;">Support
for US tracking, detentions, and deportations of migrants<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As </span><a href="https://investigate.afsc.org/company/l3harris-technologies"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">reported</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> by AFSC
Investigate, L3Harris equips the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (a sub-agency within DHS) with
advanced surveillance technologies, which DHS and ICE use to enforce the US
government's brutal regime of tracking, detentions, and deportations of Black
and Brown migrants. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Over the
past decade, L3 Harris has provided DHS and ICE with </span><a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/23829138"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">tens of millions of dollars worth</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> of </span><a href="https://www.eff.org/sls/tech/cell-site-simulators"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">cell-site
simulators</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, known as "Stingrays," and subsequently provided DHS and ICE
with an upgraded version of The Stingray known as "The Crossbow." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Stingrays
and Crossbows mimic cell phone towers to make cell phones connect to them, </span><a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/ice-records-confirm-that-immigration-enforcement-agencies-are-using-invasive-cell-phone-surveillance-devices/)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">allowing</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> DHS and
ICE to pinpoint the location of mobile devices or to identify phone numbers in
their certain area, and thereby enabling DHS and ICE to more effectively track
the movements of the migrants they target. In 2019, the US Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201003191339/https:/www.harris.com/press-releases/2013/05/harris-corporation-awarded-45-million-department-of-homeland-security"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">awarded</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> L3
Harris a 5-year contract worth a potential $3 billion for "tactical
communication networks," by extending the contract DHS had previously established
with L3 Harris in 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This is reprinted from </span><a href="http://mapliberation.org/plain/entities/L3Harris.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Mapping Project</span></a><o:p></o:p></b></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-35977995905589852632024-02-19T05:55:00.003+00:002024-02-19T07:43:30.569+00:00BBC Panorama Could Have Shown How Israel’s Main Purpose in Gaza is Ethnic Cleansing Instead It Decided to ‘Expose’ British Muslims Support for Hamas!<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: x-large;">Instead of a Documentary on the Bombing
of Every Hospital &University in Gaza the BBC Employed Islamaphobe John
Ware as its Witchfinder General</span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiy1M4_ocu_-K9z7XRDzZZWc9aROalOVTInFtkpBfV9HFwtyhFja3f_rYcJTkCkIwDbnsZr8SA3_SldeDZ9ZDmUJoG-tvw-71h1pBfsAbReZSJ_YP3wA7BemO9ColuQDZj_2e91KDr-WAGvBRXif7YMUxwQowxXggGy7tR99uW1EUXDmXkgAtPOE1DeecDa" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="648" height="835" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiy1M4_ocu_-K9z7XRDzZZWc9aROalOVTInFtkpBfV9HFwtyhFja3f_rYcJTkCkIwDbnsZr8SA3_SldeDZ9ZDmUJoG-tvw-71h1pBfsAbReZSJ_YP3wA7BemO9ColuQDZj_2e91KDr-WAGvBRXif7YMUxwQowxXggGy7tR99uW1EUXDmXkgAtPOE1DeecDa=w721-h835" width="721" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">You might think that at a time of genocide in Gaza Panorama
might devote a programme to exposing Israeli lies about October 7 or how ethnic
cleansing, not defeating Hamas, is the main reason for Israel’s Nazi-style blitzkrieg.
Not a bit of it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Today Panorama will give a helping hand to Israel’s killers
by ‘exposing’ how British Muslims support Hamas. All with the aid of its
favourite Islamaphobe John Ware. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm5CSRHXxXbMeEiHh0Ao4MpJ0LuqvB77jvN3iwI7P90P9skzJ0jPjD5dS1FY3I0OUa4UsWWMMXSziA8T1_svIa4Xk0G7hNY37R4eNQXybkAuBaZBuT_Am3DucMAkYA4VG3gY3SkPBHx6CfFKJdy611rVpYdyBN3oDqmkAYxQ25L_dXn_kWvr-lWljFMwZj/s640/Is%20BBC%20racist.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="640" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm5CSRHXxXbMeEiHh0Ao4MpJ0LuqvB77jvN3iwI7P90P9skzJ0jPjD5dS1FY3I0OUa4UsWWMMXSziA8T1_svIa4Xk0G7hNY37R4eNQXybkAuBaZBuT_Am3DucMAkYA4VG3gY3SkPBHx6CfFKJdy611rVpYdyBN3oDqmkAYxQ25L_dXn_kWvr-lWljFMwZj/w640-h318/Is%20BBC%20racist.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In July 2019, shortly before the General Election Panorama broadcast
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006p8c">Is Labour Anti-Semitic</a>? </i>It
didn’t need the question mark since it had already made up its mind. It was a
hatchet job on the Corbyn left and who better to front it than Ware?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpO4OXYEvGk" width="320" youtube-src-id="xpO4OXYEvGk"></iframe></div><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Ella Rose was nominated for an Oscar for her starring role as John Ware's fake victim of antisemitism</b></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The program attracted over 2,000 complaints yet Ofcom refused to
investigate it. The British Establishment was determined to run with the
‘labour anti-Semitism’ narrative and it brooked no opposition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If ever there was a reporter unfit to present a documentary on alleged
racism in the Labour Party then it is Ware. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The programme failed to explain that the Jews interviewed all happened
to be members/officers of the Zionist Jewish Labour Movement. It didn’t even
give their names. Not one anti-Zionist Jew or member of <a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/">Jewish Voice for Labour</a> was
interviewed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmFjcDz0aaPHLRpgsmyI_nACpu5JL0zNBDkwsEktRaIKVO-1sm5by70O-yJrQ_mYgltNDe2fFv1n53idlmvfSDU1WEIjn3oWXZ-7FqUjPVcC5hagAqdR4-05s3xK1OOz_Y9Z6KTiIEQ3q0lfIDQXPQbklQKN_7vqOi_TAztms_FLaX7_5COHfsRDjTw9dY/s640/ella%20rose.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="640" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmFjcDz0aaPHLRpgsmyI_nACpu5JL0zNBDkwsEktRaIKVO-1sm5by70O-yJrQ_mYgltNDe2fFv1n53idlmvfSDU1WEIjn3oWXZ-7FqUjPVcC5hagAqdR4-05s3xK1OOz_Y9Z6KTiIEQ3q0lfIDQXPQbklQKN_7vqOi_TAztms_FLaX7_5COHfsRDjTw9dY/w640-h496/ella%20rose.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On Monday Panorama will broadcast <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wkqz">Hamas’s Secret
Financial Empire</a></i>s by John Ware and producer Leo Telling. It attacks
British Palestinians for funding Hamas. It relies on Israeli intelligence sources
and is will be about as reliable as the Israeli allegations that Gaza’s
hospitals were Hamas military bases.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Claims of rape by some mainstream media are false, spurious and evil. <br />They feeds into the genocidal narrative adopted by Zionists to justify the crimes committed by the terrorist apartheid state. <br /><br />Try another one. <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Genocide?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Genocide</a></span></p><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— Anas Altikriti أنس التكريتي (@anasaltikriti) <a href="https://twitter.com/anasaltikriti/status/1728732876542214600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Asa Winstanley of Electronic Intifada </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/planned-bbc-smear-uk-palestinians-will-rely-israeli-spy-source">documents</a>
how:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">As “evidence” of such
“support” for “terror,” the producer cited four posts to X (formerly Twitter)
by Altikriti, where he called into question some of Israel’s most high-profile
atrocity propaganda about the Palestinian military assault on 7 October.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">These Israeli narratives
have been widely <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/worse-isis-debunking-israeli-propaganda/38941">discredited</a>
and <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-general-killed-israelis-7-october-then-lied-about-it/43176">called
into question</a> across the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 1cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">While the producer conceded that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“there is currently no evidence (at least,
of which we are aware) that 40 babies had been beheaded,”</i> he claimed to
have <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“gathered evidence</i>” of other
crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Telling’s
equivocal wording comes despite the fact that the “40 babies” claim has been <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/biden-lied-about-seeing-photos-beheaded-israeli-children">definitively
proven to be a total fabrication</a></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, and
not simply an unproven claim.</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Allegations of rape made by Israel are false. It’s a lie. Just like the 40 beheaded babies was a lie. Just like every other allegation made Israel turns out to be a lie, including the mass slaughter of Israeli citizens on the 7th of October. That too was a lie. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Genocide?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Genocide</a></span></p><span style="font-size: 16pt;">— Anas Altikriti أنس التكريتي (@anasaltikriti) <a href="https://twitter.com/anasaltikriti/status/1732111209992720577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></span></blockquote><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXW0qb78_gIQ3z66itlkoI-3O3F_3lZ3o4noLlxKdjXJ5XnWZNmvySI1bK1ytck18fINsKa_BNbpA1kA0e6f22G70tb9jdAeVGf3CHmga-Ssw7ZEhb5ofkHvCTa-D0ivRjX6AAKHw7mwzJbTkv8e_hgxmTSkQ-fJFpXYPb1a1g-UbwjHeFCnxhjaqynGzU/s1056/decomposing%20bodies.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="1056" height="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXW0qb78_gIQ3z66itlkoI-3O3F_3lZ3o4noLlxKdjXJ5XnWZNmvySI1bK1ytck18fINsKa_BNbpA1kA0e6f22G70tb9jdAeVGf3CHmga-Ssw7ZEhb5ofkHvCTa-D0ivRjX6AAKHw7mwzJbTkv8e_hgxmTSkQ-fJFpXYPb1a1g-UbwjHeFCnxhjaqynGzU/w640-h602/decomposing%20bodies.jpg" width="640" /></a> </p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Just one baby, Mila Cohen (10 months) was <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231215-israel-social-security-data-reveals-true-picture-of-oct-7-deaths">killed</a>,
by a stray bullet, 36 children in total. Compare that to the 15,000+
Palestinian children who’ve been murdered including 4 babies who were <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-alshifa-hospital-israel-hamas-b2445799.html">left
to die</a> by the Israeli military in Al Shifa when the ventilators were turned
off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their bodies were left for wild
animals to devour. </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">See
CNN’s </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/08/middleeast/babies-al-nasr-gaza-hospital-what-we-know-intl/index.html">Infants
found dead and decomposing in evacuated hospital ICU in Gaza. Here’s what we
know</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">In 2002, Chris Hedges wrote about Israelis in Gaza for Harper's: "Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport." <br /><br />Israel, again, breaking new ground... <a href="https://t.co/RUVfe16zRL">https://t.co/RUVfe16zRL</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/1625231116171878400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Of course every child is one too many but whereas Hamas went out
of their way not to kill children there is </span><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230513-gaza-israel-confesses-to-intentionally-killing-children-to-pressure-resistance/" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">evidence</a><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">
that Israeli is deliberately rounding up children like mice and then executing
them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It seems that the hatchet job that Panorama is intending will be
as factually inaccurate as all Ware’s previous programmes. Winstanley describes
how<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Putting the program’s
allegations to Altikriti, the producer described one of the campaigner’s tweets
as a response to “a post by UK women.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Yet the tweet
Telling cites was actually a response to a pro-Israel lobby group, <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/we-believe-israel">We Believe in
Israel</a>, which was spreading the Israeli propaganda about rape. The group is
actually run by a man, <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/luke-akehurst">Luke Akehurst</a>, and
the post in question does not quote women. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Is this like the 40 beheaded babies story?<br />Where’s your evidence that anyone has committed rape or targeted women specifically?<br />From what we’ve seen and heard from released hostages (all women, incidentally) is that they we treated with extreme respect and never harmed. <a href="https://t.co/9KTrcl5GwW">https://t.co/9KTrcl5GwW</a></span></p><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">— Anas Altikriti أنس التكريتي (@anasaltikriti) <a href="https://twitter.com/anasaltikriti/status/1722574227608322429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
programme is going to broadcast how prominent British Palestinians like Anas
Altikriti are supporting Hamas. Proof of this is their doubting of Israeli
atrocity propaganda such as the story about 40 beheaded babies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The ‘evidence’ for Ware’s accusations in the program is Israel’s
Secret Police <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shin Bet</i> who are
notorious for routinely using torture and abusing Palestinian children.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqn4g9VYy2U_VlODFU4RiymLlGO03cnwezx_xdyVVjE3_6wBIIuk8k3iPxUR4in6y4x8eoWTgCH8N0h9yAL9fyhUYsO8HJplNnKYuvtEtwO8ZQ8ruwkZwVLM5x_Rjrp30vQ5PMKk9XuzUl_YwnEZXAkeX0PflGVOsCgECgjsqGfg2yhLkxYL2lnjb4imQ8/s1346/Rica%20Bird%20Guardian.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1346" data-original-width="704" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqn4g9VYy2U_VlODFU4RiymLlGO03cnwezx_xdyVVjE3_6wBIIuk8k3iPxUR4in6y4x8eoWTgCH8N0h9yAL9fyhUYsO8HJplNnKYuvtEtwO8ZQ8ruwkZwVLM5x_Rjrp30vQ5PMKk9XuzUl_YwnEZXAkeX0PflGVOsCgECgjsqGfg2yhLkxYL2lnjb4imQ8/s16000/Rica%20Bird%20Guardian.jpg" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">During <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Is Labour
Anti-Semitic<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></i>Ware described the
interview by Labour Party staff member Ben Westerman of a Jewish member Helen Marks. It was witnessed by another Jewish member Rica Bird. A tape recording
proved that Westerman <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/28/panoramas-antisemitism-claim-against-us-was-unfounded">lied</a>
when he alleged that Rica had asked if he was from Israel. She had asked what
branch of the Labour Party he was from.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSKxD2TznLOv8GAapkLUS81YswTFh0pf6VLrvK5viNn6gqL5Rc_Zmvqv5nzEAvCoD_e5K-GXDCd141Da3wjRxm2JD8aXS0IFizNgvxtSSjUDlOYh8VetYRh6a0qJ_8Y9G4CY1MJ5ZcbI4oyBxlN3H57wMh3sWNm1zZinvVhOSt0daA9R0z9fy_fQ3cH6d/s1074/Ware%20rewriting%20history%20of%20Corbyn%20years.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1074" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSKxD2TznLOv8GAapkLUS81YswTFh0pf6VLrvK5viNn6gqL5Rc_Zmvqv5nzEAvCoD_e5K-GXDCd141Da3wjRxm2JD8aXS0IFizNgvxtSSjUDlOYh8VetYRh6a0qJ_8Y9G4CY1MJ5ZcbI4oyBxlN3H57wMh3sWNm1zZinvVhOSt0daA9R0z9fy_fQ3cH6d/w640-h430/Ware%20rewriting%20history%20of%20Corbyn%20years.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">After having denied that Westerman lied for so long Ware <a href="https://fathomjournal.org/rewriting-the-history-of-the-corbyn-years-part-3-agenda-broadcasting-from-al-jazeeras-the-labour-files/">finally
admitted</a>, in the Zionist journal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fathom
</i>(where else?) that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">it cannot be ruled out that
Westerman’s recollection has erred’</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> and that he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘misremembered’. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrgJBONCTi66MvLK0g8W2qDuGhxq_Rr_CtS-36c2M2G_EoBiL27hzfc-pbpMj9KLr8lQOtiYjDr240oU7-ZK9atv-C1JwBnJ6JIgxN1Dmo8IYyhyphenhyphenyuRn_FApdmI7b8PExdoIHKpdfhYTlpbsEUFtB9q0J5bx4xxR7lGh66mqXEExC4xHTHZFeZqgSon2_3/s760/Lenga.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="760" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrgJBONCTi66MvLK0g8W2qDuGhxq_Rr_CtS-36c2M2G_EoBiL27hzfc-pbpMj9KLr8lQOtiYjDr240oU7-ZK9atv-C1JwBnJ6JIgxN1Dmo8IYyhyphenhyphenyuRn_FApdmI7b8PExdoIHKpdfhYTlpbsEUFtB9q0J5bx4xxR7lGh66mqXEExC4xHTHZFeZqgSon2_3/w640-h576/Lenga.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This
came after the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/archive-2022">finally
admitted</a> that the interview with Izzy Lenga, a JLM officer, <a href="https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/bbc-admits-to-editing-out-crucial-information-from-is-labour-antisemitic-panorama-341503/">had
been cut</a> so as to suggest holocaust denial was a feature of Labour Party debate
rather than her alleged experiences at University. However the admission was
tucked away in Corrections & Clarifications rather than being broadcast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
programme had two ‘expert witnesses’ Dave Rich from the Zionist <a href="https://cst.org.uk/">Community Security Trust</a> and the <span style="color: #333333;">second witness was Professor </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://fathomjournal.org/author/alan-johnson/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Alan
Johnson</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">. Johnson is not Jewish
and he has no special knowledge of anti-Semitism. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">He is </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://fathomjournal.org/the-left-and-the-jews-time-for-a-rethink/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Editor
of Fathom</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, the journal of </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.bicom.org.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">BICOM</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, the main Israeli </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">propaganda
organisation in Britain. He is a Zionist. Why was this information concealed?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The only conclusion is that Ware deliberately set out to mislead
viewers. By not providing Johnson’s political and professional background Ware paraded
Johnson as a neutral expert when he was nothing of the sort?</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is a testament to how dishonest <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Is Labour
Anti-Semitic </i>was that over 4 years later John Ware is still forced to defend
it.<span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Arzu Merali’s </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/banality-and-boredom-anti-muslim-witchhunts-or-beware-john-ware"><span style="color: #2288bb;">documented</span></a><span class="field"><span style="color: #333333;"> how </span></span><span style="color: #333333;">Ware's
2005 "<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/4171950.stm">A
Question of Leadership</a>" attracted over 600 complaints in just its
first week protesting about its hostile and one-sided nature.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH6QOWw_f5Lb0I15FrH1x1R7e35aPo0aKzme2j8sN32u6hYVTknblpJBVBWfK_5185iFOekGk8x26Yd2jQjxKPSujtCdW2CEfJL6-EQ2v6H2aL37Bd-46w9i2q0qxS6X544NaXgpeA9UwN0MA51QLImGX11D9iM-EQ3fYCnZU2vfyfcBD1jggygCfYFlgD/s568/John%20Ware.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="526" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH6QOWw_f5Lb0I15FrH1x1R7e35aPo0aKzme2j8sN32u6hYVTknblpJBVBWfK_5185iFOekGk8x26Yd2jQjxKPSujtCdW2CEfJL6-EQ2v6H2aL37Bd-46w9i2q0qxS6X544NaXgpeA9UwN0MA51QLImGX11D9iM-EQ3fYCnZU2vfyfcBD1jggygCfYFlgD/w592-h640/John%20Ware.jpg" width="592" /></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"><b>John Ware - the BBC's Go to Islamaphobe</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The Muslim Council of Britain <a href="https://mcb.org.uk/john-wares-panorama-programme-%C2%96-a-witch-hunt-against-british-muslims/">described</a>
the programme thus:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">John Ware’s team have made a
deeply unfair programme using deliberately garbled quotes in an attempt to
malign the Muslim Council of Britain and with the barely concealed goal of
drawing British Muslims away from being inspired in their political beliefs and
actions by the faith of Islam. It is unfortunate that just when Britain’s 1.6
million Muslims are beginning to make progress in terms of their political
participation in the mainstream, there are those who are purposefully trying to
sabotage that process,’said Sir Iqbal Sacranie, Secretary-General of the Muslim
Council of Britain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">It seems that
to qualify as so-called ‘moderates’ Muslims are required to remain silent about
Israeli crimes in Palestine, otherwise they are automatically labelled as
‘extremists’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">And that is the gist of it. Ware’s agenda is to defend the
Israeli state at all costs. Arzu described Ware as ‘</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">someone
who has made a career out of exceptionalising Muslims</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.’<span style="color: #222222;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One senior ex-Panorama journalist
described the programme as <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">the most disgusting Panorama that I have
ever seen. The presenter was acting like a prosecuting attorney, not a
journalist.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7HS1FX3Anu10i9Rklr9VLQEB2OO8Vn4DxYFYAUyy3gYaJiOvUcuAWfBzhZh7TfsAKSXjmzjxAuC5JzdmcdkvDpgGTm34VKN__on4X45l4fm8Dn7dJOcHExc9cDXAk3E9ZGUoMj9bculKCt5BzOVZaF3PtFTqOuIEix3I8cLSyuuwkM08G8zuwTxizrSsv/s480/Bunting.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="480" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7HS1FX3Anu10i9Rklr9VLQEB2OO8Vn4DxYFYAUyy3gYaJiOvUcuAWfBzhZh7TfsAKSXjmzjxAuC5JzdmcdkvDpgGTm34VKN__on4X45l4fm8Dn7dJOcHExc9cDXAk3E9ZGUoMj9bculKCt5BzOVZaF3PtFTqOuIEix3I8cLSyuuwkM08G8zuwTxizrSsv/w640-h272/Bunting.jpg" width="640" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Guardian's Madeleine Bunting called the
documentary, which dubbed all Muslims as ‘extremist’, as an example of the ‘</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/aug/22/religion.politicalcolumnists">McCarthyite
absurd’</a>. <span style="color: #222222;">Bunting described Ware’s journalistic
method as being one of ‘<i>Branding moderates as extremists’</i> and gave as an
example his targeting of Sir Iqbal Sacranie of the MCB. She described his
behaviour as McCarthyite. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ware doesn’t so much investigate as pillory and scapegoat,
substituting his own prejudices for reporting. Ken Livingstone’s description of
Hitler having supported Zionism was termed a ‘cranky’ version of history. Since
when is it a presenter’s job to pass judgement on a particular view of history?</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">One wonders what John Ware would call the memo that the German
Zionist Federation <a href="https://www.commentary.org/articles/reader-letters/american-jews-and-the-holocaust/">sent</a>
on 21<sup>st</sup> June 1933, to Hitler?</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">On the foundation of the
new state, which has established the principle of race... fruitful activity for
the fatherland is possible. Our acknowledgement of Jewish nationality provides
for a clear and sincere relationship to the German people and its national and
racial realities....’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Zionist historian, David Cesarani, wrote in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/16/final-solution-the-fate-of-the-jews-1933-1949-david-cesarani-review">The
Final Solution</a>:</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The efforts of the
Gestapo are oriented to promoting Zionism as much as possible and lending
support to its efforts to promote emigration.’</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Maybe Cesarani was also a ‘crank’? Or perhaps the crank is Ware?
Ware is a relic of the days of Empire when we ‘civilised the natives’. He <a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-bbcs-war-on-corbyn-panorama-would.html">wrote</a>
of his<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">horror... that some migrants to this
country had brought with them a lot more than just their possessions</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">They didn’t understand democracy and dissent. One can only
wonder at where they may have got it from! Britain’s former colonies were not a
model of democracy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5QAgNKTvkjf3cZJ5ZmbXxi-HIKHYZbmD4gjzyxNfJ_TuT6AcMH8nbxfQnVwQ-O4VQpJEGix1RQGvmO06fnAR3309UFDb3TseMazXNMhQ-_F4M8-pazVj8Xbm0GofumYs22RDHjQ0jw_V3YPumwNv9VKnWZggsVOBibZ1PTf7WRyX8v5NuLSUOrl8WFkC/s565/Dan%20Dowling%20-%20Shulamit%20Aloni.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="565" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5QAgNKTvkjf3cZJ5ZmbXxi-HIKHYZbmD4gjzyxNfJ_TuT6AcMH8nbxfQnVwQ-O4VQpJEGix1RQGvmO06fnAR3309UFDb3TseMazXNMhQ-_F4M8-pazVj8Xbm0GofumYs22RDHjQ0jw_V3YPumwNv9VKnWZggsVOBibZ1PTf7WRyX8v5NuLSUOrl8WFkC/s16000/Dan%20Dowling%20-%20Shulamit%20Aloni.jpg" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Racism oozes out of everything Ware writes. He described Islam
as an <i>‘ideology’</i> which is what Tommy Robinson and the far-Right says.
Since the Chief Rabbi <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/03/ken-livingstone-and-the-hard-left-are-spreading-the-insidious-vi/">stated</a>
that Judaism and Zionism are </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">intertwined<span style="color: #222222;">
does not the same apply to Judaism? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In an article for a right-wing magazine Standpoint (27.6.17) </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/july-august-2017/features-july-august-2017-john-ware-enough-is-enough-extremism-self-doubt/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Enough
is enough of terror — but also of our self-doubt</span></a> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ware wrote of Western civilisation being ‘<i>based on
Christianity, which enshrines individualism and freedom.’</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">One can only wonder what Torquemada’s victims would have made of
that. Perhaps Martin Luther’s </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_antisemitism"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">fulmination</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> that ‘<i>the Jews are our misfortune’</i> is Ware’s idea of civilisation?
This was <a href="https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/nazi-propaganda-newspaper">emblazoned</a>
on the masthead of the Nazi paper <i>Der Sturmer.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In the </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y2unjapc"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">article</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> for Standpoint Ware wrote that the Tory Party’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘family quarrel over Europe... risks letting in a Labour leader
whose entire political career has been stimulated by disdain for the West,
appeasement of extremism, and who would barely understand what fighting for the
revival of British values is really all about.</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">These bigoted remarks should have rendered Ware as unfit to
comment on a greyhound race let alone the Labour Party. Yet the BBC was and is
more than happy to employ him.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ware is of the opinion that the alternative to British values ‘<i>is
a diffuse mush with nothing particularly special to defend at all.’ </i>Islamaphobia
is just <i>‘powerful ammunition’ </i>for discrediting Prevent. But it is in the
final paragraph that we understand Ware’s motivation when he lambasted the Tory
party for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘risk(ing) letting in a Labour leader whose entire political
career has been stimulated by disdain for the West, appeasement of extremism,
and who would barely understand what fighting for the revival of British values
is really all about.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This is the man who the BBC believed was the most suitable
person to present a programme on ‘Labour anti-Semitism’. The MCB got it right
when they described Ware as ‘<i>an agenda-driven pro-Israeli polemicist.</i>’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbBLGbD3UD9T-9S04lwDvhlTKiuFv7LALJ2WyAVKafaFNvpSX4i74GV54Rg7nfMbQvWOUe7S365uw_Z72tskpT9gmZTQDPIIrdf3CB23bfIGnvEWyCQ_7o0XS6jDN2CRbLycgpPqDhGGreGDwBamjCp2kG4M4zsAQeE3gTZ9_uQYuvEFbprndYBOMkP588/s640/Ware%20in%20JC%20make%20my%20day.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="640" height="566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbBLGbD3UD9T-9S04lwDvhlTKiuFv7LALJ2WyAVKafaFNvpSX4i74GV54Rg7nfMbQvWOUe7S365uw_Z72tskpT9gmZTQDPIIrdf3CB23bfIGnvEWyCQ_7o0XS6jDN2CRbLycgpPqDhGGreGDwBamjCp2kG4M4zsAQeE3gTZ9_uQYuvEFbprndYBOMkP588/w640-h566/Ware%20in%20JC%20make%20my%20day.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In an article </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/analysis/jeremy-corbyns-gold-standard-code-on-antisemitism-is-far-from-black-and-white-ftak9ng3">Jeremy
Corbyn’s gold standard code on antisemitism is far from black and white</a><b> </b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">in the Jewish Chronicle Ware demonstrated his ignorance, not
only about Islam but Zionism too. He opined that <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘any suggestion that ethnic cleansing was a principle war aim by
the Jews in 1948 ... is highly contested. The Jews had accepted the UN
partition plan. The Arabs had not.... The Arabs’ war aim was the destruction of
the Jews’ emergent state fuelled by a religious Jihad. Survival was the Jews’
war aim.’</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ware knows nothing about
the Nakba. He referred to Arab war plans but the Arab armies only invaded in
May 1948 as a consequence of the expulsion by then of over 300,000 Palestinian
refugees. The ethnic cleansing was well under way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQeSWmoeupKt2wIQMKBjwWZ8iyhhdfkAOHaQnnBfHFtlkTEH-q4vrb_lK7KLotD6AUzroMmyQITNrr0sgGurQ-43Yr4NGCQ2J35qtKhq6w9hfcH9EeLJMwJIrDDUZp6WaHHghV5i0Qic9HSl2gzHSocIVi_ahfKXmtbMTEPGUgwEuSMoDtolnQzjuslMi/s787/weitz.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="472" height="1001" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQeSWmoeupKt2wIQMKBjwWZ8iyhhdfkAOHaQnnBfHFtlkTEH-q4vrb_lK7KLotD6AUzroMmyQITNrr0sgGurQ-43Yr4NGCQ2J35qtKhq6w9hfcH9EeLJMwJIrDDUZp6WaHHghV5i0Qic9HSl2gzHSocIVi_ahfKXmtbMTEPGUgwEuSMoDtolnQzjuslMi/w600-h1001/weitz.jpg" width="600" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Josef Weitz, Director of the Jewish National Fund’s Colonisation
Department <a href="https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/110670/TheRefugeesOf1948.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y">wrote</a>
in his diary in 1940, reprinted </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">on 29.9.67 in the
Israeli Labour Party daily <em>Davar</em><span style="color: #222222;">:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">"Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room
for both peoples together in this country...We shall not achieve our goal of
being an independent people with the Arabs in this small country. The only
solution is a Palestine, at least Western Palestine [west of the Jordan river]
without Arabs...And there is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here
to the neighbouring countries, to transfer all of them; not one village, not
one tribe, should be left...Only after this transfer will the country be able
to absorb the millions of our own brethren. There is no other way out."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://matzpen.org/english/1970-03-15/middle-east-documents/">Commenting</a>
on what he had written in his diary 27 y</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">ears later Weitz wrote
that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when the UN passed a
resolution to partition Palestine into two states, the War of Independence
broke out to our great good fortune; and in this war a twofold miracle
happened: a territorial victory and the flight of the Arabs. In the Six Days’
War one great miracle happened: a tremendous territorial victory; but most of
the inhabitants of the liberated territories remained ‘stuck’ to their places
which may destroy the very foundation of our state.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ware cannot help but be aware of the Zionist penchant for ethnic
cleansing. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that if you want to establish a
‘Jewish’ state in a land where two-thirds of the population are Palestinian
then you have to expel them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: red;">John Ware
compliments me when he says <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Greenstein must be one of the most
disagreeable individuals I’ve ever set eyes on’</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ware never makes any distinction between Zionists, Israelis and
Jews. He is clearly unaware of the Post-Zionist Israeli Historians such as
Benny Morris or Ilan Pape otherwise he would not have written such junk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In the same <a href="https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/analysis/jeremy-corbyns-gold-standard-code-on-antisemitism-is-far-from-black-and-white-ftak9ng3">article</a>
Ware makes his own views crystal clear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">So deeply into Labour’s Left has anti-Zionism morphed into
antisemitism (sic) — itself a Corbyn legacy — that Jewish Labour members are
avoiding meetings. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">When Ware embarked on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Is
Labour Anti-Semitic? </i>his mind had long been made up. Even New Labour’s
David Blunkett had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/24/broadcasting.politics">savaged</a>
Panorama’s <i><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3103065.stm">The Asylum
Game</a></i> and Ware, for <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-4cudl2" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">playing
into the hands of a "Powellite anti-immigration agenda" ... <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-4cudl2" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">He
particularly singled out for criticism the BBC1 Panorama special, the Asylum
Game, and its writer and presenter, John Ware, for producing a "poorly
researched and overspun documentary" which repeated unchallenged the
claims of "the rightwing anti-immigration pressure group, Migration
Watch".<a name="a"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In another <a href="https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/why-the-i-word-has-closed-down-debate-on-extremism-k2m621wo">article</a>
for the Jewish Chronicle in November 2016 </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Why the I-word has closed
down debate on extremism</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ware defended the notorious Islamaphobe Douglas Murray,
Associate Director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jackson_Society">Henry Jackson
Society</a> and on the board of the far-Right <a href="https://powerbase.info/index.php/Gatestone_Institute">Gatestone Institute</a>.
Gaby Hinsliffe in a Review of Murray’s <i>The Strange Death of Europe</i> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/06/strange-death-europe-immigration-xenophobia">described</a>
how <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The rightwing journalist and
commentator cites Enoch Powell and wants to protect white Christian Europe from
‘outsiders.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">’ <a name="_ftnref33"></a><a href="file:///C:/Documents%202019/blog/@2019%20posts/July%202019/@Panorama%20Labour%20AS/Is%20Labour%20AS.docx#_ftn33" title=""><span style="mso-bookmark: _ftnref33;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[33]</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _ftnref33;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _ftnref33;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ware wrote in the </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/why-the-i-word-has-closed-down-debate-on-extremism-1.47153"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Jewish Chronicle</span></a> that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Islamophobia — however it is defined — will abate when terrorism
carried out in God’s name ceases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ware quoted favourably Murray’s assertion that the term “Islamophobia”
was <i>‘a meaningless idea – a crock</i>.” Ware explained the difference
between anti-Semitism and what he termed ‘(authentic) Islamophobia’. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘The former is entirely irrational,
the latter reactive.’ <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Which is exactly how anti-Semitism used to be defended. Ware
blamed Muslim radicals <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">who have brought it on their fellow Muslims — by their promotion
of Islam as a political ideology.</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh04_lyEAjzMM97XNnVuViTAmDC3ArZG2qquGgq041US-HDS-tzj0GNn6MyCd9jPmROiSGn1cdzgasomybibvZ_4uFFW2aT3WABUfYliLK0bu8Klz3Ju7vyO4P3pra-6jBf9tbWIchr1DRDFu_hOkmqNXC0HJxBAunerQ4uvNuw-O6ZvMpU5aZLJo0Y_8fB/s976/Tories%20and%20Islam%20as%20threat%20BBC.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="812" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh04_lyEAjzMM97XNnVuViTAmDC3ArZG2qquGgq041US-HDS-tzj0GNn6MyCd9jPmROiSGn1cdzgasomybibvZ_4uFFW2aT3WABUfYliLK0bu8Klz3Ju7vyO4P3pra-6jBf9tbWIchr1DRDFu_hOkmqNXC0HJxBAunerQ4uvNuw-O6ZvMpU5aZLJo0Y_8fB/w532-h640/Tories%20and%20Islam%20as%20threat%20BBC.jpg" width="532" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">What is surprising is that if the BBC and Panorama were
seriously interested in exploring racism in British political parties, and the
same is equally true for the <a href="https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre/news/investigation-antisemitism-labour-party-finds-unlawful-acts-discrimination-and">EHRC</a>,
then there is plenty of scope for a programme about the Tory Party. More than
half of Conservative Party members <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48912065">questioned</a> for a
poll believed Islam is a threat to British life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 1987 Ware
tried to discredit former army intelligence officer </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/21164/Bloody+Sunday%3A+Violence+flows+from+nature+of+the+state" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Colin Wallace</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">on Panorama. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Paul
Foot, who was a brilliant investigative journalist dismissed Ware as a shoddy reporter.
As the article </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/as-smears-continue-against-the-labour-left-be-proud-to-stand-up-for-palestine/">A
long history of lies against the left</a> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">explained<b>
<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">In 1987 Ware reported for a
Panorama documentary that tried to discredit former army intelligence officer <a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/21164/Bloody+Sunday%3A+Violence+flows+from+nature+of+the+state" target="_blank">Colin Wallace</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Wallace had exposed a “dirty
tricks” campaign against Labour prime minister Howard Wilson.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Ware claimed
Wallace was a fantasist. But as investigative journalist <a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/954/Paul+Foot+1937+2004" target="_blank">Paul
Foot</a> wrote, Ware’s own report was riddled with obvious errors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Wallace’s <a href="http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/7th-april-1990/25/letters-the-real-colin-wallace">letter</a>
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Spectator</i> showed how Ware was
cavalier in his approach to facts and an establishment journalist: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">John
Ware, the former Sun reporter who now works for the BBC, no doubt owes much of
his skill and flair as a writer to his days with his old newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ware
was defending the British army against allegations of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>illegal activity. As in Palestine Ware went
out of his way to defend the colonial authorities. Ware is the go to
‘journalist’ whenever colonial malpractice needs defending. It’s no surprise
that the BBC, the old Voice of the British Empire, should solicit his services
much as someone solicits a prostitute.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As Robin
Ramsay of The Lobster <a href="https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/14/the-smearing-of-colin-wallace/">explained</a>
Colin Wallace, who was framed for the murder of a man in Arundel (and later
cleared) was subject to a concerted attempt at discrediting him. But for Paul
Foot’s investigation this would have stuck.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 2015 Ware produced a documentary
</span><em><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5009108/"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jeremy
Corbyn: Labour’s Earthquake</span></a> </span></em><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">on
Corbyn’s first leadership campaign. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It featured claims from right wing Labour figures that a
Corbyn victory would lead to left wing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“thuggery
and intimidation”.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-s-team-send-complaint-to-bbc-over-its-hatchet-job-panorama-programme-10495955.html">described</a>
how <em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Panorama lied
when they told Corbyn’s team that </span></em>their film was about the Labour
leadership campaign as a whole, including all four candidates. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘A
source in Mr Corbyn’s campaign accused the BBC of conducting "a complete
hatchet job" on Mr Corbyn.’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ware produced
a number of films attacking Muslims and Palestinians. One <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007ch41">suggested</a> that Palestinian
charity Interpal funded terrorism. Others have targeted the Muslim Council of
Britain and Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Interpal </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/daily-mail-owner-pasy-120-000-in-damages-and-apologises-to-interpal-trustees.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #2288bb; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">successfully sued</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">the Daily Mail in 2019
and was awarded £120,000 for alleging it funded terrorism. Ware also attacked <a href="https://www.mend.org.uk/">Mend</a> accusing it of antisemitism due to its
members’ criticisms of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jun/06/britishmuslimsbracedformor"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Panorama or Propaganda</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> Faisal Bodi documented Ware’s Islamaphobic journalism. Arzu
Merali also documented the Islamaphobia of Ware in </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/banality-and-boredom-anti-muslim-witchhunts-or-beware-john-ware"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The banality and boredom of
anti-Muslim witchhunts. Or beware John Ware</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> for <i>Middle East Eye</i>, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/aug/21/bbc.broadcasting"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">'It's the last chance for
Panorama'</span></a> Ware was quoted by James Silver as being:</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A notorious pro-Israeli Islamophobe”</i>, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">desperate to discredit Muslims”</i> with “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a track record for displaying unfairness and
twisting the truth”</i>. Panorama's leading reporter, John Ware, is not quite
public enemy number one for many British Muslims - that is an accolade no doubt
held by Bush or Blair - but postings such as these on the Muslim Public Affairs
Committee website show he comes a close second.<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a name="b"></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It says everything about the
impartiality of the BBC, with its much vaunted ‘balance’, that it has continued
to employ John Ware, a bigot for all seasons, whenever it has wanted to attack
either the left or Muslims. We can therefore expect no better of Ware’s expose
tomorrow of British Muslims and Hamas. Ware is a known liar and that is why the
BBC employs him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPEGtlnyTcTL7ijWelI-lIYQ2DsViogu8DotB-EnMY9sGrN9NwhxImjv8HhYnr31D1DKrLdanjRwTfBJxbjEgK7-I9SGnUmIgm3vmLAyEWk7WGGzJkLpPi_uf0kcg-dauGu-xJWRZ_N0_RJbxbi1ndMfzLnH6ZQrAJb2is8_Cm4TwNnFjwD3xm98arzZBW/s638/war%20saves%20jc.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="638" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPEGtlnyTcTL7ijWelI-lIYQ2DsViogu8DotB-EnMY9sGrN9NwhxImjv8HhYnr31D1DKrLdanjRwTfBJxbjEgK7-I9SGnUmIgm3vmLAyEWk7WGGzJkLpPi_uf0kcg-dauGu-xJWRZ_N0_RJbxbi1ndMfzLnH6ZQrAJb2is8_Cm4TwNnFjwD3xm98arzZBW/w640-h614/war%20saves%20jc.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ware not only writes for the anti-Palestinian Jewish Chronicle he
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/apr/23/jewish-chronicle-saved-by-consortium-after-messy-takeover-battle">owns
part of it</a>. In 2020 when the JC was going bankrupt Ware was part of a
consortium which put in a bid to save it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">When two members of the consortium, William Shawcross and Rabbi
Jonathan Hughes were contacted by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/mystery-over-secret-consortiums-bid-for-jewish-chronicle-and-jewish-news/">Jewish
News</a> </i>they said that they didn’t know who was funding the bid. Clearly Ware
has a lot invested, personally and politically in supporting both Zionism and Islamaphobia.
As such he is about the worst person imaginable to be producing documentaries
on Muslims for the BBC. It is like asking Nick Griffin of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">British
National Party </i></b>to produce a documentary on British Jews.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The JC, <a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/11/emergency-appeal-jewish-chronicle-is.html">according
to ABC</a>, the media industry’s auditor, had a paid sale of only 6,371 for
May/June 2023. If it was any other paper the JC would have been allowed to go
to the wall but it is considered too valuable a propaganda organ by the Zionists
to be allowed to die a natural death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">To say that there is a conflict of interest between Ware as
owner of the JC and Ware as BBC journalist is to put it mildly. Tomorrow night
we can look forward to more of the same. I suggest that people get on the
phones and start making complaints to the BBC now. To make a complaint <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint">go
here</a> and to phone in a complaint ring </span><span class="hgkelc"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">0843 254 8737</span></b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Tony Greenstein <o:p></o:p></span></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-75584624253382781112024-02-16T08:24:00.003+00:002024-02-16T08:26:29.694+00:00Brighton Station Demonstration Against Genocide in Rafah<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #ffaa00;">As Israel Murders Patients in Nasser Hospital – They Don’t Even Pretend
It’s a Hamas Base – 500 People in Brighton Demonstrate Their Disgust At Our War
Criminal Rulers</span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAo2pq8Zn1iAfL3CJhFvM347wiN3Ep9JZOQdx-NP87VT3kKL5oTn37qLVQ-xQoPWws1ZWytRfCYwFx2vCyVObMeSLP_q8VD1HclrNKiX0h-C2IrVu4oxKKVAyFJDs2EoDFCkKz9HKM-6kZZx_LER6xHyyTQ9mVEzYae0a99YH_0dnJGy9swp4VKPlpjXv5/s2048/Tanushka.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="885" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAo2pq8Zn1iAfL3CJhFvM347wiN3Ep9JZOQdx-NP87VT3kKL5oTn37qLVQ-xQoPWws1ZWytRfCYwFx2vCyVObMeSLP_q8VD1HclrNKiX0h-C2IrVu4oxKKVAyFJDs2EoDFCkKz9HKM-6kZZx_LER6xHyyTQ9mVEzYae0a99YH_0dnJGy9swp4VKPlpjXv5/w664-h885/Tanushka.jpg" width="664" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I used to ask myself if there was anything that the Nazi-Zionist
Government in Jerusalem could do that would invoke Western sanctions. Gaza and
Rafah prove that there is nothing its Racist Rottweiler can do that would cause
the United States to penalise Israel.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5Mi9h61fDmQdqhvEBMMTFcxQ8AqkiYNzYBbyVtt_b3s_FB8vkDgdrU0AWecF0_5meCJseL64ku4OtTCMYW8t-P7pq6xBRydPAk5vSaAzROC9MqatJZjYexd2R00KvpFFsIrWu7Zk-VZxHtOxhXhkUkARSwr6cx4w5RHKYkauImYnzRxO3UgWyKw9lhbs/s2048/station%20sit%20in%203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5Mi9h61fDmQdqhvEBMMTFcxQ8AqkiYNzYBbyVtt_b3s_FB8vkDgdrU0AWecF0_5meCJseL64ku4OtTCMYW8t-P7pq6xBRydPAk5vSaAzROC9MqatJZjYexd2R00KvpFFsIrWu7Zk-VZxHtOxhXhkUkARSwr6cx4w5RHKYkauImYnzRxO3UgWyKw9lhbs/w480-h640/station%20sit%20in%203.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://youtu.be/B7aWk9R9ABQ"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B7aWk9R9ABQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="B7aWk9R9ABQ"></iframe></a></b></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: medium;">Brighton Station Demonstration</span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Human rights are for Russia, China, Cuba and Iran.
They are irrelevant when it’s Israel. International law has been shown to be a
paper tiger as the International Court’s ruling on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">plausible genocide</i> has not only been ignored but the subject to
retaliation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTtR6i4gR4hBVTJGVP7Byj7qfZt0IA2lBvxwQhiK3xqnzG_GnUrcTzAM6pFXwqE3zzcVwOut26rw6xAtwFGk7cfUSZPjualFySaw-KfhCwBtNXHm7Sy1e3dMpREPNw9mKufvODGG7DL8ABSuITmgvmPTkx1eiQpnZVH613YroXV-0cE8U1FVkEqhkYr7Xz/s812/Naledi%20Pandor%20threatened.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="812" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTtR6i4gR4hBVTJGVP7Byj7qfZt0IA2lBvxwQhiK3xqnzG_GnUrcTzAM6pFXwqE3zzcVwOut26rw6xAtwFGk7cfUSZPjualFySaw-KfhCwBtNXHm7Sy1e3dMpREPNw9mKufvODGG7DL8ABSuITmgvmPTkx1eiQpnZVH613YroXV-0cE8U1FVkEqhkYr7Xz/w640-h466/Naledi%20Pandor%20threatened.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Indeed Israel is now <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-intelligence-threatening--harassing-south-africa-s-f">making
threats to the life</a> of South Africa’s Foreign Minister, Naledi Pandor, and
her family. Israel is the quintessential definition of a terrorist state.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Rami Igra, previously head of the Captive & Missing Division in the Mossad, says there are no uninvolved civilians in Gaza over the age of four, the "humane" Kan reporter Ayala Hasson agrees but clarifies that the 0-4 year old children are innocent and deserve humanitarian aid. <a href="https://t.co/y1NtMoJtpW">pic.twitter.com/y1NtMoJtpW</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) <a href="https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1757837275830907052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On the bogus excuse that 12 members of UNWRA took
part in the October 7 breakout, as if what members of staff do in their spare
time is of any relevance, Biden, Sunak and the rest of the blood-soaked western
leaders decided to stop funding UNWRA thus contributing to Israel’s Death by
Hunger strategy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrXV9qs-3rbJLSJBqylE0fXzaUKjWqZcR3UuFKSMs92nZXEpaA5cBnw3Z-LA0I6icGwLd8_Dit9A8GkO0gLzqVadF8mjFB0S1ixBXVtjwE3EJ4LQlpjvOrlbCQNP5qx3ptuEOPAvq1JWVzNOdfVqrwTUjFqn7ADwJ7npGoW-r5Ms2XyxktFHENpZeKj_Qs/s1600/station%20sit%20in%202.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrXV9qs-3rbJLSJBqylE0fXzaUKjWqZcR3UuFKSMs92nZXEpaA5cBnw3Z-LA0I6icGwLd8_Dit9A8GkO0gLzqVadF8mjFB0S1ixBXVtjwE3EJ4LQlpjvOrlbCQNP5qx3ptuEOPAvq1JWVzNOdfVqrwTUjFqn7ADwJ7npGoW-r5Ms2XyxktFHENpZeKj_Qs/w640-h480/station%20sit%20in%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aAZYMIBaDic" width="320" youtube-src-id="aAZYMIBaDic"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">Brighton Station Demonstration</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As I pointed out in my speech to the sit-in, it was
the Nazi Governor of Poland, Hans Frank, who openly boasted of their tactic of
starving the Jewish ghettos. 83,000 died in the Warsaw Ghetto alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGDehhAeUf5ppaZYHFXh0INFBumy-foFrdZi_w2xUlAgua5M5JqGsM7j1jeDtkWad1qlTPI296C-ctqHQS526MiAsSWiRCm15bSahXu14Pny7WbwKMTzdQFegJC9tPLi2zWb2VyIub1tO_QqYDPMjcaDSu29wOWBfdfvbSknbWxHz4nB49CZDKQeq6gZw/s834/kirklees%20councillors%20resign.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="834" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGDehhAeUf5ppaZYHFXh0INFBumy-foFrdZi_w2xUlAgua5M5JqGsM7j1jeDtkWad1qlTPI296C-ctqHQS526MiAsSWiRCm15bSahXu14Pny7WbwKMTzdQFegJC9tPLi2zWb2VyIub1tO_QqYDPMjcaDSu29wOWBfdfvbSknbWxHz4nB49CZDKQeq6gZw/w640-h562/kirklees%20councillors%20resign.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Support for genocide is causing Labour Party leader
Keir Starmer a headache as <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68283477">more
local councillors resign</a>, this time in Kirklees. ‘Anti-Semitism’ has proven
a handy pretext to disown <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>its candidate
in Rochdale to avoid a humiliating defeat in the by election.<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Powerful words by 102 years old philosopher Edgar Morin, one of France's most revered intellectual figures, as well as a Jewish WW2 resistant who fought as a lieutenant in De Gaulle's France combattante.<a href="https://t.co/0xmKJX0Uu4">pic.twitter.com/0xmKJX0Uu4</a><br />Here are his words on Gaza: "I am both astonished…</span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) <a href="https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1757971532218044827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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Genocide</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shall see
next Wednesday when the SNP put down a motion calling for an immediate
ceasefire whether the death of around 15,000 is enough for Mogadon Man or
whether he, Rachel Reeves, Peter Kyle and the other monsters on Labour’s front
bench prefer to see yet more kids killed.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/M_YiTsEDX2Y"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M_YiTsEDX2Y" width="320" youtube-src-id="M_YiTsEDX2Y"></iframe></a></div><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><b>Irish MP Speak Out
Against Genocide in Gaza<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The sit-in was the biggest of the 3 that have been
held so far in Brighton. I was pleased to address the demonstrators after a Palestinian
woman, Tanuksha. There were a number of other speakers and the chanting made it
clear to the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hundreds of passengers what
the feeling in Brighton & Hove was.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">There was one obnoxious passenger but the Police
quickly removed him and another obnoxious woman on a bicycle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tony Greenstein <o:p></o:p></span></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-87307242871320394812024-02-14T07:08:00.007+00:002024-02-14T07:35:13.176+00:00 Why Socialists Should Support George Galloway’s Candidature in the Rochdale By-Election<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #2b00fe; font-size: 28pt;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">There is one and only one
issue – Labour’s Silence on Genocide in Gaza and the Attack on Rafah</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ZcM2mwyrHuzK9Fpcwu_NwwASRh4KBH6SECeHWI04bS1Fd3SiGwQEZLu5uAaR3ycZ5bFy7ZhSeL26i_IupIIgfnFwUTEN_CTMMmQZq0XfpzyypWVSfoXA-wqDRQpQ0AV7EzukgdOVOZXocMQJXCpzcn1dM3T2_CFoPHvnwvJCzCbVxYXj-Zc-WH1nnM5x/s1500/Galloway.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="1500" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ZcM2mwyrHuzK9Fpcwu_NwwASRh4KBH6SECeHWI04bS1Fd3SiGwQEZLu5uAaR3ycZ5bFy7ZhSeL26i_IupIIgfnFwUTEN_CTMMmQZq0XfpzyypWVSfoXA-wqDRQpQ0AV7EzukgdOVOZXocMQJXCpzcn1dM3T2_CFoPHvnwvJCzCbVxYXj-Zc-WH1nnM5x/w640-h360/Galloway.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Whatever
else you can say about George Galloway he is not without controversy. Politically
he has a long record of forming alliances and then falling out with his
partners – whether it is the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/oct/28/otherparties.observerpolitics">SWP
in Respect</a> or the Stalinist Communists Party of Great Britain - Marxist
Leninist in his Workers Party.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I say ‘his’
because the Workers Party revolves around George. It is very much his baby and
it is highly unlikely that the membership would overrule him on any major issue
or indeed have the means to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">🚨Twitter deleted the post, so reposting to expose Israeli army crimes!<br /><br />Last video of kids martyrs of Husouna family massacre<br />They fled from Gaza to Rafah in search of safety, escaping shelling<br />Israeli army killed them inside their tent along with all family members last night ! <a href="https://t.co/hlW7qWqFJx">pic.twitter.com/hlW7qWqFJx</a></span></p><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">— Nour Naim| نور نعيم (@NourNaim88) <a href="https://twitter.com/NourNaim88/status/1757337611658469605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><b>This is what war criminals Keir Starmer & Peter Kyle Support</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">George is
politically eclectic. He is a brilliant speaker, an old-fashioned orator in an
age when the leader of the Labour Party freezes like <a href="https://www.indy100.com/politics/keir-starmer-liverpool-the-sun">a rabbit
caught in a car’s headlights</a> whenever anyone gets to challenge him as <a href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/working-people-are-under-attack-and-starmer-part-problem">Audrey
White did</a> when Starmer ventured into Liverpool.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">George is not
someone that socialists find easy to support. He is anti-abortion for a start and
dismissive of issues of sexual orientation and sexual oppression -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all of which he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>puts into a basket called ‘wokery’. There is
a distinct impression that he panders to some very basic prejudices such as
homophobia and transphobia in the belief th at if you ignore these issues then
you will get basic workers’ unity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9g3EzV01HJho8prCWpjS1gzvgHiQ_7JAI0r6ZyfZIuA_N_dXGJ9P05DEFUMIYKzTXLyFrVdhuRFcBn0o5dcqCDhB8cOrZA2OgQvX3nOR4nVNURvGJOquH8pc2No8olMpejvHkxfESCp5HzxmJX3wiZvrHHkT5JEYhYnAZ7cZIB9lrYvAxFiN2OSxJ5uyH/s676/Glasgow%20protesters%20rejoice.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="676" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9g3EzV01HJho8prCWpjS1gzvgHiQ_7JAI0r6ZyfZIuA_N_dXGJ9P05DEFUMIYKzTXLyFrVdhuRFcBn0o5dcqCDhB8cOrZA2OgQvX3nOR4nVNURvGJOquH8pc2No8olMpejvHkxfESCp5HzxmJX3wiZvrHHkT5JEYhYnAZ7cZIB9lrYvAxFiN2OSxJ5uyH/w640-h516/Glasgow%20protesters%20rejoice.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Likewise George’s
attitude to race which is most evidenced in his failure to oppose the Tories
scapegoating of asylum seekers. George <a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/19305897.george-galloways-immigration-comments-reveal-just-far-fallen/">disgracefully
attacked the SNP</a> for having supported demonstrators in Glasgow <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/13/glasgow-residents-surround-and-block-immigration-van-from-leaving-street">who
freed two refugees</a> who were seized by the Home Office’s Border Unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">He was also
vehemently pro-Brexit and was quite prepared to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2TxR8NR4iU">support a racist like Nigel
Farage</a>. Indeed he <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/17/gall-m17.html">tried</a> to
become a candidate in the European elections for the Brexit Party.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">He even <a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/why-george-galloway-is-voting-conservative-in-scotlands-may-election/">formed
an alliance</a> in Scotland with Tories and that he even <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiSvZ1J09RA">shared a platform</a> with David
Clews, a member of the Patriotic Alternative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdJXuSnQ0xAd1h2xyuxiomEKCMHzONAkNk2LvrMkyK4MN7jhoj7cnbeXrB732pUBa3BysUxCKt4pQFhYiHNCpmS2GieuGgVwspnhbMFmGFf0r4tHC9Vl3hVXk46FHHMfNPs4up-etHSRGOMJCDitt_V_FSNWvvN8dgS8qYyF3qqjbRD4rco1tu0ks3n99a/s624/Labour%20HQ.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="624" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdJXuSnQ0xAd1h2xyuxiomEKCMHzONAkNk2LvrMkyK4MN7jhoj7cnbeXrB732pUBa3BysUxCKt4pQFhYiHNCpmS2GieuGgVwspnhbMFmGFf0r4tHC9Vl3hVXk46FHHMfNPs4up-etHSRGOMJCDitt_V_FSNWvvN8dgS8qYyF3qqjbRD4rco1tu0ks3n99a/w640-h446/Labour%20HQ.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Deserted</span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So what are
his pluses?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">George has
been a consistent anti-imperialist and was expelled from the Labour Party as an
MP for opposing the Iraq War. When summoned to Congress to address allegations
regarding oil sanctions he turned in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dD48d-yjxc">fine and memorable
performance</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On the
issue of Palestine George also has a good record. There was a time when he supported
the two-state solution. I know because I debated the issue with him at my old
college St Mary’s in Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. But as he later admitted I
was right and he was wrong on this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So I
understand why it is that many people refuse to support Galloway because of his
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">de facto </i>alliance with racists and
reactionaries. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7uBOQ7czSOxdSVe8IFhTLUr3kmfDQyChZ41CuJkeEt08ZhhreMEZ9l1Tef_C1t2bJ3fxF25C_XpJ4NlgzHauIPHBv42J0kAydAUbJwXoW_xjNSHrlidAjE1I6nih9IWsoAYrVPEj4HnWATjuhLa1nOfVhP0R3xzXqDGYi4VbJLrVIN3osEy_sUzarZOMG/s2145/Mark%20Brown's%20letter%20Scottish%20National%20refugees.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2145" data-original-width="684" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7uBOQ7czSOxdSVe8IFhTLUr3kmfDQyChZ41CuJkeEt08ZhhreMEZ9l1Tef_C1t2bJ3fxF25C_XpJ4NlgzHauIPHBv42J0kAydAUbJwXoW_xjNSHrlidAjE1I6nih9IWsoAYrVPEj4HnWATjuhLa1nOfVhP0R3xzXqDGYi4VbJLrVIN3osEy_sUzarZOMG/s16000/Mark%20Brown's%20letter%20Scottish%20National%20refugees.jpg" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Letter in the Scottish National from anti-racist campaigner Mark Brown</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">However the
by-election in Rochdale is not about Galloway but what he stands for on the one
key issue in Britain and indeed the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>US and British imperialism’s support for the genocide in Gaza. All other
issues pale by comparison. The lives of thousands of Palestinians hang in the
balance at this moment and Galloway’s disgraceful opportunism over refugees,
Brexit and Farage are minor by comparison.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Galloway
and only Galloway is able to win this election. If Galloway wins the election
it won’t be his previous positions that are highlighted in Britain against the
racist imperialists Sunak and Starmer but his position on an immediate
ceasefire in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This is the
key dividing line in British politics. It is the most crucial issue that we
face today. It would be utter sectarianism for anyone on the left to ignore
this. We cannot choose who our representatives are sometimes. Galloway’s
victory will be a victory for the Palestinians. What he thinks about Brexit or
refugees is frankly irrelevant at this time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixgUu_2jCq4a2E0wkCB-T7XF08MMp7jHtp2EYhBE7CgYgcYZ8cl8_ug1UmuFe6f3znk04nfq2eFEUIy1omOfx0yWqBAUg9BfoYnC9_PDykww8neAM_Hv0xysP-jSvzuewz2X3lXQiv74IfmLldQngNxEgjgxXWlEkUcCVZqkJPGXcmsdoDRyqBnIGMQ4e3/s976/azhar%20ali%20getty.webp" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixgUu_2jCq4a2E0wkCB-T7XF08MMp7jHtp2EYhBE7CgYgcYZ8cl8_ug1UmuFe6f3znk04nfq2eFEUIy1omOfx0yWqBAUg9BfoYnC9_PDykww8neAM_Hv0xysP-jSvzuewz2X3lXQiv74IfmLldQngNxEgjgxXWlEkUcCVZqkJPGXcmsdoDRyqBnIGMQ4e3/w640-h360/azhar%20ali%20getty.webp" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A defeat
for Starmer’s candidate, Azhar Ali is now certain now that the Labour Party has
<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68280098">withdrawn</a> its
support for him, allegedly over his ‘anti-Semitic’ comments about Israel having
been forewarned of the October attacks but in reality because of the
realisation that he was going to lose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We need Galloway’s
victory to make it crystal clear to that apology for a human being, the robotic
Keir Starmer that support for genocide is unacceptable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">GENOCIDE IN
GAZA IS THE ONLY ISSUE IN THE ROCHDALE BY-ELECTION</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-88803520392539164722024-02-11T02:27:00.003+00:002024-02-23T14:55:53.739+00:00 What do you do when you find that a friend has become a racist?<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">When Jean Calder joined with the supporters of genocide in Gaza to
oppose ‘anti-Semitism’, she symbolised the problems of Western feminism</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaYVnoAjuahLP8JS8YSMbe4w2EpUSRA2az6p70QpKX3qkTlmzG_C1B-zLGFOd2t3rc0MGzqRKFDoy-YV2FlA-FnxZCymVj2OkgqY1PEE9f5ebF5kd_9ggfBUGaLefORDFiQ0nG-OjrPUzTnQX8asXriXuyIVf_1KYVd3QTiHJf1AV1Zw_j7bI5wcu0vYAd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="752" height="595" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaYVnoAjuahLP8JS8YSMbe4w2EpUSRA2az6p70QpKX3qkTlmzG_C1B-zLGFOd2t3rc0MGzqRKFDoy-YV2FlA-FnxZCymVj2OkgqY1PEE9f5ebF5kd_9ggfBUGaLefORDFiQ0nG-OjrPUzTnQX8asXriXuyIVf_1KYVd3QTiHJf1AV1Zw_j7bI5wcu0vYAd=w640-h595" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Braverman’s
dream (& apparently Jean Calder’s)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This
blog is a follow up to Anita Patel’s <a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/11/womens-place-uk-whitewashing-zionism.html">Women’s
Place UK : Whitewashing Zionism</a>. When you’ve been friends with someone for
40 years it comes as a shock to realise that they have become an ageing reactionary,
an Islamaphobe in particular. All in the name of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-wave_feminism">second wave feminism</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
don’t often write blogs about those I know personally and I’m doing it now
because, as the old saying used to go, the personal is political or at least it
can be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Jean
was <a href="http://www.electionscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Brighton-1973-1995.pdf">elected</a>
to Brighton Borough Council for the Labour Party in 1987. Her husband, Andy
Winter was elected in the following year. At that time she was a socialist. I
can remember her speaking vehemently in opposition to the Gulf War in 1991 and
Tony Benn praising the speech. I accompanied her on a fact finding trip to
Northern Ireland. She was a strong supporter of the Republican movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Although
not actively involved in the Palestine solidarity movement she was always
opposed to Zionism and the oppression of the Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">When
six Labour Councillors were suspended at the beginning of the 90’s for refusing
to implement the Poll tax she and Andy were amongst them. 30 years though is a
long time in politics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW0rxmq3oQvmerKEcWk6-e8qziGgqSr9SnMJGzg0Hzyy_uBUmtj69FB3i4Q3Z-b9m6wxYs88AHAroe7rKRiCzMlFhsI3siWc0C_NPI650efNAnOFvyXkG7xwgj_viY1po8wfbQB3IKgnQDhgDmoUaO6YhgTRmk2_Y8qqV_ddWcN_6lOYXjFmEZfWPCJZYw/s1160/water.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1160" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW0rxmq3oQvmerKEcWk6-e8qziGgqSr9SnMJGzg0Hzyy_uBUmtj69FB3i4Q3Z-b9m6wxYs88AHAroe7rKRiCzMlFhsI3siWc0C_NPI650efNAnOFvyXkG7xwgj_viY1po8wfbQB3IKgnQDhgDmoUaO6YhgTRmk2_Y8qqV_ddWcN_6lOYXjFmEZfWPCJZYw/w640-h468/water.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: medium;"><b>Israeli teens tik tok video mocks the lack of drinking water in Gaza - Jean Calder & Andy Winter have no problem with these neo-Nazi videos</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Over
the years Jean’s feminism, increasingly framed by the belief that Islam was
uniquely misogynist, seemed to drive her to the right and like Fay
Weldon and other feminists Jean became increasingly Islamaphobic. I can
remember her support for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering">banning</a> by
France of face covering by Muslim women. When I pointed out that this was an
invitation to racist and sexual attacks by men on women she seemed unperturbed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">We
also had disagreements on transgender people. Although I accept that you can’t
just say that a transwoman is a woman biologically, clearly people can identify
gender wise with the opposite sex. Jean had difficulties accepting that there
were many people who genuinely felt that they had been born in the wrong body
and that transgender people were a vulnerable minority who were being targeted
by the Right and far-Right. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-sdHaSJC6VLF7A43EiTrqkOroqXJoeoQb0HMJe1Fv0-7ZnOh9ujXHyfVoTtYKyZHircFiaQwoNvKuFUGHufUu90lonxyUUh2ZwqjJ_jEDrEO9YCw4BeGvKjB3MzqcTHUam9r3s4JFVP4f3uDLC0UnsRlrwuGb7kPWR-j4oE4f5KbJ0KWN9AFt_1dSHneC/s640/Bigot%20demonstration%20against%20Drag%20Queens%204.8.22%20(24).jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-sdHaSJC6VLF7A43EiTrqkOroqXJoeoQb0HMJe1Fv0-7ZnOh9ujXHyfVoTtYKyZHircFiaQwoNvKuFUGHufUu90lonxyUUh2ZwqjJ_jEDrEO9YCw4BeGvKjB3MzqcTHUam9r3s4JFVP4f3uDLC0UnsRlrwuGb7kPWR-j4oE4f5KbJ0KWN9AFt_1dSHneC/w640-h480/Bigot%20demonstration%20against%20Drag%20Queens%204.8.22%20(24).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Jean
is not alone in this. There are many feminists who see transgender women as
their enemy. This was brought home to me at the <a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2022/08/diana-video-srchttpsd2w1kj8hn2ph92.html">picket
of the drag queen</a> Aida H Dee at Brighton & Hove libraries in 2022 when
feminists joined fascists in trying to prevent parents taking their children to
listen to story telling. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">When
Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Labour leader in 2015 I expected Jean to welcome it.
Not a bit of it. She had some grudge against Corbyn over <a href="https://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/23340550.islington-childrens-homes-abuse-scandal/">child
abuse</a> in Islington children’s homes although this was the responsibility of
the Council leader Margaret Hodge, who engaged in a <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/with-a-past-like-hers-margaret-hodge-might-show-a-bit-more-humility-10098871.html">cover
u</a>p. She was then rewarded by being made Children’s Minister by Tony Blair. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">There
were other things that disturbed me such as a hostility to refugees because Jean
saw them as single men. I pointed out that when Jews came to Britain from
Czarist Russia in the 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> centuries the men
usually came first and when settled brought their families over.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVPXb0nxw5fk1T1mnxC1F36FLXNqWZh3ZIrmixNIpocJkbY0rIwKOmOdVEXxN7h4ZTdPqRDDta0vAEGPE3NJCUpdQj6BoOCFg_AdFeEBlUutfqqtX-6cFNw6bQWe6ltMBTRmnaeJR0mDeuG53UYFnHIAfjGkSg-fdojZo4sqlDOtM5gj4IZZQrNhnb8PC7/s676/Braverman%20&%20antisemitism.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="676" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVPXb0nxw5fk1T1mnxC1F36FLXNqWZh3ZIrmixNIpocJkbY0rIwKOmOdVEXxN7h4ZTdPqRDDta0vAEGPE3NJCUpdQj6BoOCFg_AdFeEBlUutfqqtX-6cFNw6bQWe6ltMBTRmnaeJR0mDeuG53UYFnHIAfjGkSg-fdojZo4sqlDOtM5gj4IZZQrNhnb8PC7/w640-h240/Braverman%20&%20antisemitism.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It
all came to a head when we were having coffee in the Pavilion Gardens with
friends when Jean started joking about Suella Braverman, who lost her job as
Home Secretary trying to prevent the demonstrations against genocide in Gaza. All
in the name of anti-Semitism of course.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
turned round and said that as far as I was concerned Braverman was a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘racist bitch’</i>. True it was sexist but
if you find racism amusing then you can hardly protest against sexism. That was
the last time we talked or met.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
then discovered that Jean had been busy writing articles for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Brighton & Hove News</i>, an anti-Palestinian
and racist Internet rag as well as on her own blog. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM5ynkB8ubHNPk1x9d4d1IQkXub5ZC-35BIcMvWPwNoBH5SDhoLTagDWFLoYuYR4Uy8ySMCeK7tA-DfKG9kROMA3nw8bsMSDzX7fn0CrPxM1_gzD-zIzhzH6bjPxMYh8uNDEL-qma0pC8pgUi3Bkarb5fMxkewB3vi5gt1DZOAyfGgBidXab5SbkB6nUN9/s1162/neo-Nazi%20humour%202.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="1162" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM5ynkB8ubHNPk1x9d4d1IQkXub5ZC-35BIcMvWPwNoBH5SDhoLTagDWFLoYuYR4Uy8ySMCeK7tA-DfKG9kROMA3nw8bsMSDzX7fn0CrPxM1_gzD-zIzhzH6bjPxMYh8uNDEL-qma0pC8pgUi3Bkarb5fMxkewB3vi5gt1DZOAyfGgBidXab5SbkB6nUN9/w640-h492/neo-Nazi%20humour%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Israeli Teens Get Their Kicks from Palestinian suffering</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
article Jean wrote <a href="https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2023/12/22/the-vital-light-from-candles-in-the-heart-of-hove/">The
vital light from candles in the heart of Hove</a> (on her own blog <a href="https://jeancalder.co.uk/international-issues/the-canary-in-the-coalmine/">The
Canary in the Coalmine</a>), a cliché from Jonathan Freedland, the Guardian’s
Zionist gatekeeper. Her articles were an exercise in superficiality. In Yiddish
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/schmaltz-2020-08-28/">schmaltz</a>
– </i>an exaggerated sentimentality. Fat but no meat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Apparently
Jews have a most sensitive antennae when it comes to racism and anti-Semitism
is the most dangerous of all forms of racism. A virus no less. Freedland coined
this reactionary metaphor when he fronted the fake anti-Semitism narrative
against the left when Corbyn was elected labour leader. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is reactionary because it divorces racism from society. Instead of poverty, housing
shortages, pervasive driving racism we have instead a virus that persists
regardless of the political and social climate. And if anti-Semitism is a virus
then presumably its target is also pathological. Eternal anti-Semitism was the
handmaiden of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/der-ewige-jude">Eternal
Jew</a></i>, (D</span><b><i><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">er ewige Jude)
</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">which
the Nazis produced.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC919JgAiis2oLkIVyh98hpPT8HHaBnLiyR1Wdw7yaBj03Dv7NlrfXy89E0beCv-hYTFBoKUGIx91uGn8BBvsENNXbx6Gu2nW9oMBs6Pg34GfaxWOjI3dWYQ-9zKz3KcDZz3LztRSq316enDrwmWB33cvCMSvvCRUAv-xoFWMMy9hph23pjyJkBRxwz0SC/s1920/cars%20destroyed.webp" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC919JgAiis2oLkIVyh98hpPT8HHaBnLiyR1Wdw7yaBj03Dv7NlrfXy89E0beCv-hYTFBoKUGIx91uGn8BBvsENNXbx6Gu2nW9oMBs6Pg34GfaxWOjI3dWYQ-9zKz3KcDZz3LztRSq316enDrwmWB33cvCMSvvCRUAv-xoFWMMy9hph23pjyJkBRxwz0SC/w640-h360/cars%20destroyed.webp" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As
Leon Pinsker, one of the earliest Zionists wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘Judeophobia
is a mental disease. As a mental disease it is hereditary, and as a disease
transmitted for two thousand years it is incurable.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This
was the basis for the Zionist belief that anti-Semitism could not be fought. If
anti-Semitism was incurable or a virus, then there was no point fighting it. Zionism
accepted anti-Semitism as the norm, the constant in the relationship between non-Jews
and Jews and this laid the basis for the Zionist solution which was to escape
from anti-Semitism not fight it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
vast majority of Jews in Czarist Russia disagreed and fought anti-Semitism which
was why so many became revolutionaries. Zionism appealed to the most
reactionary Jews and it is with them that Jean Calder has found a political
home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Anti-Semitism
today has changed. Now it is the false anti-racism of the Right, having been redefined,
not as hostility to Jews but as hostility to Zionism. It is not surprising that
this ‘anti-Semitism’ is the only form of racism that Jean’s hero Suella
Braverman was <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/suella-braverman-speaks-out-against-antisemitic-from-the-river-to-the-sea-chant-ha7lskfk">concerned</a>
about. The woman who said it was her <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/19/rwanda-dream-could-still-become-a-nightmare-for-suella-braverman">dream</a>
to see asylum seekers deported to Rwanda was apparently concerned about
‘anti-Semitism’ when it came to marches against Israel’s genocide.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB14vs_v_bfo1iWDq95aZqJkKM2kCdecezhdnkHK_ZxJH0xXmTOTJmSkU97ZbqtGMH_BjSsgJ_LwhuKNh2twmnZ58Y2ZLLklnI8puQu3BDUEQefNahcfyctj0oL0jr3x6fIsEktsx32QKp96BZVsxMSXYADI5xe7kxac-Mfj5rtOaNuNZJHbAjGksrSAJT/s894/Bannon%20and%20Jews.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="894" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB14vs_v_bfo1iWDq95aZqJkKM2kCdecezhdnkHK_ZxJH0xXmTOTJmSkU97ZbqtGMH_BjSsgJ_LwhuKNh2twmnZ58Y2ZLLklnI8puQu3BDUEQefNahcfyctj0oL0jr3x6fIsEktsx32QKp96BZVsxMSXYADI5xe7kxac-Mfj5rtOaNuNZJHbAjGksrSAJT/w640-h138/Bannon%20and%20Jews.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Braverman
was treading a well worn path. Even Donald Trump, when not accusing Jews of
being <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49417157">disloyal</a>
to ‘their country’ (Israel not America!) was <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-anti-semitism/">concerned</a>
about anti-Semitism. Even Steve Bannon, when not <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/293532-bannons-ex-wife-he-didnt-want-the-girls-going-to-school/">fretting</a>
about his daughter going to school with Jews, was <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/steve-bannon-cuts-off-politician-who-tweeted-anti-semitic-rhetoric/">opposed</a>
to anti-Semitism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
her <a href="https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2023/12/22/the-vital-light-from-candles-in-the-heart-of-hove/">article</a>
Jean was moved to tears that a small group of Zionists had set up a memorial to
remember the Jewish victims of October 7. Not once did she ask why it was that there
were no candles or words of sympathy for the thousands of children that Israel
has murdered in its genocidal attack on Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If
Calder had retained any of her previous critical faculties she might have
questioned the sincerity of these mourners. After all if they were really
concerned about Israel’s captives in Gaza then they would have joined us in
calling for a ceasefire. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
families of these captives have been unanimous in expressing their fear that it
is Israeli bombs, not Hamas, that will kill them. In an article <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/renewed-strikes-on-gaza-bring-fear-to-families-of-israeli-hostages">Renewed
strikes on Gaza bring fear to families of Israeli hostages</a> the Guardian told
how <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘<span class="dcr-1qvd3m6">The family of Tal Haimi, who is being held hostage by Hamas,
fear that he could be injured or killed by Israeli airstrikes’. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="dcr-1qvd3m6"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The Zionists that Calder embraced are
the most vociferous supporters of the Israeli war on Gaza. Whenever BHPSC has demonstrated
in favour of a ceasefire they have opposed us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="dcr-1qvd3m6"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">CNN
<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/09/middleeast/israel-rejects-deal-hostage-families-anger-intl-cmd/index.html">reported</a>
that<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Many,
including the families of those hostages still held by Hamas, direct their
anger toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who dismissed the
terms of a ceasefire and hostage deal put forward by Hamas in forthright terms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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killed Israelis on 7 October, says Israeli air force colonel<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiohaRKaWl2nwEoETtOFJ9Z7LIOYnMd2oaDGLGQjYPzCaG_Obszka810LpsPT2KEcFW7Z9ItIS87REpoB0f5TWJZyjjFf5hXa9AM7BwOwf_VXsD3qkcwtIlabOBZsTUZmPZuQ49ginzpL9_dAScVUySw8Ze9fjUZ9FflDr-C13elVFlAMrygYaAcdUwB811/s919/Bachram.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="919" data-original-width="614" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiohaRKaWl2nwEoETtOFJ9Z7LIOYnMd2oaDGLGQjYPzCaG_Obszka810LpsPT2KEcFW7Z9ItIS87REpoB0f5TWJZyjjFf5hXa9AM7BwOwf_VXsD3qkcwtIlabOBZsTUZmPZuQ49ginzpL9_dAScVUySw8Ze9fjUZ9FflDr-C13elVFlAMrygYaAcdUwB811/w429-h640/Bachram.jpg" width="429" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">These
Zionists no doubt included <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish
Chronicle</i> columnist Heidi Bachram who <a href="https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/brighton-palestine-marches-are-not-about-peace-a-balloon-for-a-missing-child-unleashed-fury-ahur41qo">described</a>
events in solidarity with the people of Gaza as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘chilling and threatening’</i> and the chant ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">From the river to the sea Palestine will be free’</i> as ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">genocidal’</i>. Bachram <a href="https://twitter.com/HeidiBachram/status/1724917554013933666">boasted</a>
of having reported me to the police for a speech outside Hove town hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Free speech and Zionists don’t go together.
Calder said that she<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">lit a candle
and listened as a man said Kaddish for the dead. ... I realised that not since
I was a child had I prayed for the Jewish people. I didn’t think I still needed
to. I grew up among racists in Apartheid South Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">And
therein lies the irony. Although Calder left Apartheid, Apartheid has not left
her. She says that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Individual
Jewish people are not responsible for the actions of the Israeli government,
yet they are being condemned as if they are.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Perhaps
the reason that a few people wrongly blame Jews for what Israel does is because
her Zionist friends insist that Israel is a Jewish state. Every time Zionists defend
the actions of Israel in the name of British Jews that cannot help but
reinforce the notion that Jews are responsible for what is happening in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: small;">Washington Post plans hit piece over
EI's accurate reporting about 7 October, with Ali Abunimah<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;">Hamas<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Calder
said that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">We
also need to question why there have been so few public statements of
solidarity in response to the Hamas attack. Faced with the horror of
Palestinian casualties in Gaza, many non-Jewish progressives have focused on
that, preferring to forget the events of 7th October.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Calder’s
article on 22 December was over two months after October 7, when <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1220211690/gaza-death-toll-20000-killed-israel">over
20,000 Palestinian civilians</a> had already been murdered. Why I wondered was
she more concerned about less than 1200 Israeli dead, a third of them soldiers,
than over 20 times that number of Palestinian civilians? People living under
occupation are entitled to resist their oppressors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">An Israeli soldier publishes an advertisement for his barber shop from Gaza next to executed Palestinian civilians in Gaza, attaching it to a viral Israeli music comparing Palestinians to animals and "Amalek." <a href="https://t.co/GYiwxB4tsZ">pic.twitter.com/GYiwxB4tsZ</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1754960546703532401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231215-israel-social-security-data-reveals-true-picture-of-oct-7-deaths">final
tally</a> of Israeli dead shows that 695 Israeli civilians, including 36
children, as well as 373 security forces and 71 foreigners died, giving a total
of 1,139. This figure is dwarfed by the numbers killed by Israel, 27,000+ in
Gaza today plus at least 10,000 under the rubble. Yet Calder has nothing to say
about dead Palestinians. 37 Israeli children compared to over 11,000
Palestinian children died. Even the Nazis only shot 100 hostages in reprisal
for 1 dead soldier. Calder writes that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The cruelty of
the Hamas atrocities was live-streamed and publicised by mocking perpetrators.
Even for me, a non-Jew, the assaults brought back terrible images of
anti-semitic atrocities of the 1930s and 1940s, many filmed by nazi bureaucrats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;">How Israeli army ordered troops
to fire on Israelis on 7 October, with Asa Winstanley<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This is untrue. The Nazis killed Jews because they
were Jews. Hamas killed Israelis, not because they were Jews but because they
were their oppressors having occupied Gaza for over half a century. In fact
Israeli Palestinians and Thai workers also died on October 7 so Calder’s
assertion is simply a lie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The Lying Israeli Narrative of October 7 that Calder
& Winter Have Accepted<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">There is
no doubt that some Israeli civilians were killed by Hamas and other groups,
including freelancers. Any murder of civilians is to be condemned but the
breakout from Gaza, the international law right of resistance should not be
condemned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Just as
we would support the slave revolts in Haiti in 1791 despite the fact that every
single French person was killed, so too with October 7. But it is now becoming
increasingly clear that most Israeli civilians were killed by the Israeli
military.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: medium;">What we’re now learning about 7
October, with Ali Abunimah<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">According
to Israel’s own statistics of the 1,139 people killed by Palestinian militants,
one third – 373 – were soldiers. These were clearly legitimate targets. The
question is who killed the 695 Israeli civilians and 71 foreigners?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On 18
November <i>Haaretz</i> <a href="https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2023-11-18/ty-article/0000018b-e1a5-d168-a3ef-f5ff4d070000">reported</a>
that Israeli police were conducting an investigation into the attack on the
Nova music festival and that an Israeli attack helicopter killed some of the
attendees See <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles-id/13111">Israel admits it
killed its own at Nova music festival</a>. In a follow up on 12 January 2024
The Cradle shows how <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles-id/18526?fbclid=IwAR165AUBk_qBHHL0B05KEy83Nhf0RlhqltPp31l6nsWGzU1K35fdOnNHu5k">Israeli
forces trapped and killed ravers at the Nova Festival</a>.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">At 6:42 am, a
mere 12 minutes after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was launched, the Southern
District Commander of the Israeli Police, Amir Cohen, <a href="https://idsf.org.il/en/stories-of-valor/rescued-lives/">gave</a> an order
code-named “Philistine Horseman,” sending police officers and Border Police who
were on alert to the sites of various battles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: medium;">Tank fires on Israeli civilian
home in Kibbutz Be'eri, 7 October 2023<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This
included members of the <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/inside-yamam-top-secret-israeli-anti-terrorism-operation">Yamam</a>,
and <a href="https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/hy00kfidwt">Tequila</a>
commando units that have no police duties but conduct military and
counter-terrorism operations, <a href="https://dawnmena.org/u-s-impose-leahy-law-sanction-on-yamam-israels-national-counter-terrorism-unit-for-extrajudicial-killings/">including</a>
undercover assassinations in the Gaza Strip and occupied-West Bank. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">According to a senior Israeli officer
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/world/middleeast/hamas-israel-attack-gaza.html">speaking</a>
with the <i>New York Times</i>, the first formal reinforcements to southern
Israel came from commandos that arrived by helicopter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;">Israeli teen ”burned completely”
by Israeli tank fire at kibbutz<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Sagi
Abitbol, a policeman working as a security guard at the festival, was among the
first to confront Hamas fighters near Nova, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfpd6Khjfcc">witnessed</a> the early
arrival of these helicopters. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">During the fighting, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/authorities-name-44-soldiers-30-police-officers-killed-in-hamas-attack/">59
Israeli police officers</a> were killed, <a href="https://t.me/southfirstresponders/419">including</a> at least 17 at the
Nova festival. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Israel admits to "immense"
amount of "friendly fire" on 7 October, with Asa Winstanley<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">There is a
very detailed <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-hq-ordered-troops-shoot-israeli-captives-7-october">article</a>
in Electronic Intifada of 20 January which suggests that some of the civilians
were actually plain clothes members of Shin Bet, 10 of whom were killed.
Winstanley tells how the military <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">instructed all its fighting units to perform
the <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/hannibal-directive">Hannibal
Directive</a> in practice, although it did so without stating that name
explicitly,”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNkmw8iS9VJai0ohVdu1o9bE2BSICcSOR01cZ2g44bpVwjrOqLW8O2soYvT22vWBpnZAzaojCUjM2TjALXNBNxZst_w4GWSysoqbszqVJdHxIwSahBf5mmCh-Gdc4QV4S-7wKbI3abRCv9Yz6vS9EGpzjXdeezyW-XwMmcpaL-P24YZVvZKX_iPa1AyTwP/s768/Kibbutz%20Be'eri%20House.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="768" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNkmw8iS9VJai0ohVdu1o9bE2BSICcSOR01cZ2g44bpVwjrOqLW8O2soYvT22vWBpnZAzaojCUjM2TjALXNBNxZst_w4GWSysoqbszqVJdHxIwSahBf5mmCh-Gdc4QV4S-7wKbI3abRCv9Yz6vS9EGpzjXdeezyW-XwMmcpaL-P24YZVvZKX_iPa1AyTwP/w640-h450/Kibbutz%20Be'eri%20House.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b>Kibbutz Be'eri homes that Israeli tanks fired shells at killing all inside, Israelis included</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/11/3/whats-the-hannibal-directive-a-former-israeli-soldier-tells-all">Hannibal
Directive</a> states that in the event of Israelis being taken captive, both
they and their captors should be killed. The revelations came in <a href="https://w.ynet.co.il/yediot/7-days/time-of-darkness">a new investigative
article</a> by Ronen Bergman and Yoav Zitun, two journalists with extensive
sources inside Israel’s military and intelligence establishment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">They also
revealed that “some 70 vehicles” driven by Palestinian fighters returning to
Gaza were blown up by Israeli helicopter gunships, drones or tanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231224-mother-and-daughter-detail-hamas-humane-treatment-during-the-time-they-were-held/"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mother
and daughter detail Hamas’ humane treatment during the time they were held</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Hamas <a href="https://x.com/Aldanmarki/status/1712738101108384185?t=bKtrSB9shk6OF4QrZzUqyA&s=08"><span style="color: #2288bb;">explicitly instructed</span></a> its operatives not
to kill women, children and the elderly. You can hear this at approximately
3:04. Confirmation of this comes from the <strong><i><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Times of Israel</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
of 9 October which <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/death-toll-from-hamas-onslaught-passes-600-over-100-kidnapped-as-israel-strikes-gaza/?utm_campaign=daily-edition-2023-10-09&utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Daily+Edition"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">quoted</b></a> the mother of two children. </span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">At 8:20 a.m., terrorists entered Dvir’s home, he lunged at them
with an axe, tried to protect my two kids who were with him, and was murdered
in front <span class="il">of</span> their eyes,” she posted. “His
partner Stav also tried to protect them, but was murdered as well. The
terrorist calmed down my Daria and Lavi, covered them in a blanket, took
lipstick and wrote on the wall: ‘The al-Qassam [Brigades] people don’t murder
children.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCcUg1EEkm1MU2gBZg-qUmXJDlwC9N0k-Yn1jan9DpqOYJZqgoIQdW0vZLBJqgFHQm_LNHzKEsW-kUBz5OQ1HjAMnt-31XnPlqz6JGLTIF76h8qQS_wYTY2ah64elW9aEDBIb-c8mg5O02uaek4VSdNwETFHvpYn6emSimGVukGrLyVPw-C1sK66BX-JU4/s520/40%20beheaded%20babies.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="520" height="557" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCcUg1EEkm1MU2gBZg-qUmXJDlwC9N0k-Yn1jan9DpqOYJZqgoIQdW0vZLBJqgFHQm_LNHzKEsW-kUBz5OQ1HjAMnt-31XnPlqz6JGLTIF76h8qQS_wYTY2ah64elW9aEDBIb-c8mg5O02uaek4VSdNwETFHvpYn6emSimGVukGrLyVPw-C1sK66BX-JU4/w640-h557/40%20beheaded%20babies.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;"><b>All Britain's Prostitute Press ran with the '40 Babies Lie' - Not one has retracted the story or apologise - the myth therefore continues</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Yet the Israeli government has painted a narrative that says
Hamas deliberately killed children. At first there was the story of the <a href="https://www.declassifieduk.org/beheaded-babies-how-uk-media-reported-israels-fake-news-as-fact/">40
beheaded babies</a>. Almost all the British media published this fake story and
variations on it. It was all a lie. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Jo Biden even said that he had personally seen the pictures
until it was <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/12/white-house-walks-back-bidens-claim-he-saw-children-beheaded-by-hamas">walked
back</a> by his own spokespersons. Yet what was Calder’s response over 2.5
months into Israel’s genocide:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Since 7th
October I have expected some form of public statement of solidarity from
churches and faith leaders, an expression of grief or horror at what happened
that day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">See
<a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861">Israeli
forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says</a><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Solidarity
with whom? Those perpetrating a genocide? Yes there certainly should have been
a public statement from Calder’s Church of England<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but Justin Welby has refused to condemn
Israel’s genocide. Coming from a man who has <a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-revd-stephen-sizer-crucified-by.html">previously
covered</a> for child abuser John <span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Smyth
who was </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/welby-changes-his-tune-about-link-to-sex-abuse-camp-zdp06nl8b"><span style="background: white; color: #2288bb;">described</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> by Welby in 2017 as </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/justin-welby-church-england-john-smyth-abuse-claims"><span style="background: white; color: #2288bb;">"charming" and
"delightful</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">."</span>
that is not altogether surprising. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hamas Rape 'Daily' Episode Over Internal Roil on Reporting</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPU_95D-EiHJa04JrI0A6uZeU-c3eMl_C8O2qpIjJp16rtMz-3VWUv_ZvCNnIprO5PtQg8F3Oz-FIoKW_sPrycFCuppBnUQ9znumYXht3tynRm50NSGtca6BZOWUCl9CFZTDAfi69bP-sE7Aq9-Xrj1Xvmz-z2bhoNhmQfxvk22X1JQa912eaNDLpDLEfi/s1318/Image8.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="1318" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPU_95D-EiHJa04JrI0A6uZeU-c3eMl_C8O2qpIjJp16rtMz-3VWUv_ZvCNnIprO5PtQg8F3Oz-FIoKW_sPrycFCuppBnUQ9znumYXht3tynRm50NSGtca6BZOWUCl9CFZTDAfi69bP-sE7Aq9-Xrj1Xvmz-z2bhoNhmQfxvk22X1JQa912eaNDLpDLEfi/w640-h336/Image8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Calder’s
entire focus is on October 7. Like the good ‘Christian’ that she is, she
dismisses support for those being starved to death or murdered as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘worthy and necessary.’ </i>but a
distraction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUnLnv_obbXbR7zW_EE884gE_HswoLhBwoC8FBNuSD1vQRer0i974YsQIoWMmOt6DDK2qs_LNSIt5aRmIvJkPraKlm9yiu2heVubYY5Skvm1nf4vGahr6Sr85mLW2O1PuaTYrpsn8egc8_nsDoxOaDwngswkhav94017azS0WiJA-J4UAh5TMnii-S_NJC/s1158/Palestinian%20child.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="1158" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUnLnv_obbXbR7zW_EE884gE_HswoLhBwoC8FBNuSD1vQRer0i974YsQIoWMmOt6DDK2qs_LNSIt5aRmIvJkPraKlm9yiu2heVubYY5Skvm1nf4vGahr6Sr85mLW2O1PuaTYrpsn8egc8_nsDoxOaDwngswkhav94017azS0WiJA-J4UAh5TMnii-S_NJC/w640-h514/Palestinian%20child.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Israeli Teens Mocking Palestinian Children's suffering</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Calder
pays lip service to Palestinian suffering, including 75 years of occupation,
dispossession and forcible exile of Palestinian refugees. According to her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘nothing the Israeli state has done provides
justification for the atrocities of that day.’<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">A
17 year<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>siege of Gaza, where nothing
could enter or leave without Israel’s permission, where Israeli leaders used
the phrase <a href="https://logicmag.io/policy/the-genocide-industry-mowing-the-lawn/#:~:text=The%20phrase%20%E2%80%9Cmowing%20the%20lawn,civilians%2C%20rebuilding%20increasingly%20less%20of">‘mowing
the lawn’</a> to describe their periodic attacks on Gaza – <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/mde150212009eng.pdf">Operation
Cast Lead</a> in 2008/9 when 1400 Palestinians including 300 children were
killed, <a href="https://www.btselem.org/download/201305_pillar_of_defense_operation_eng.pdf">Operation
Pillar of Defence</a> in 2012 when 174 civilians died and <a href="https://www.amnesty.org.uk/gaza-operation-protective-edge">Operation
Protective Edge</a> in 2014 when 2,200 civilians including 551 children died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
the past 15 years, until the latest conflict 6407 Palestinians and 308 Israelis
<a href="https://thewire.in/world/chart-6407-palestinians-and-308-israelis-killed-in-violence-in-last-15-years">have
died</a>. Calder might think the attack on October 7 wasn’t justified but most
people would say that the continuing murder of Palestinians, is justification
in itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRlzfVe9f4Wora0x__3X14IdXcbJUKLd4zQWTpoFVU3spTC_dpgHwb3BimBIjwBD0TYZoNp8VtFhlToQ8QEPdW3BDzVLHZa_0b94_bv05Bz0SwZMcmfS2O0oJUm5GDdaEWzD5Jmt87cFStNfViDv9smCD8WxYg3tZ-EAguJzk5b8A84nMLAftdzw_KYGPD/s864/Razan.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRlzfVe9f4Wora0x__3X14IdXcbJUKLd4zQWTpoFVU3spTC_dpgHwb3BimBIjwBD0TYZoNp8VtFhlToQ8QEPdW3BDzVLHZa_0b94_bv05Bz0SwZMcmfS2O0oJUm5GDdaEWzD5Jmt87cFStNfViDv9smCD8WxYg3tZ-EAguJzk5b8A84nMLAftdzw_KYGPD/w534-h640/Razan.jpg" width="534" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">During
the <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2018/10/gaza-great-march-of-return/">Great
Return protests</a> beginning in March 30 2018 some 234 Palestinians were
killed by Israeli snipers and more than 33,000 were wounded. Orly Noy <a href="https://www.972mag.com/gaza-return-march-idf/">wrote</a> about Razan
al-Najar, the 21 year old medic who became a symbol of Israeli atrocities when
she was gunned down by a sniper:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Razan
a-Najjar died about two-and-a-half years ago, but I can still <a href="https://www.972mag.com/in-memory-of-razan-al-najjar/" target="_blank">clearly
see her</a> in my mind’s eye. The 21-year-old paramedic was shot and killed by
Israeli soldiers during one of the <a href="https://www.972mag.com/gaza-return-march-organizer-well-ensure-it-doesnt-escalate-to-violence-on-our-end/134104/" target="_blank">Great Return March</a> protests in Gaza on June 1, 2018.
Witnesses say she was shot as she made her way toward the fence that separates
Israel and the Gaza Strip to tend to the wounded, donning a white medical coat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPl2lkVDgX4bN8jW_Cf0U1y2kcVp8Nxss-zfsUTd0chjBTWKitWdhZkvM1gA235ctIxpT9vwtvxEEIWilZd30t4_y7bYXa1opX01MaFIW1l88ZYvLx8fQpajPGRKHDeUB29_6BfsJAs4Y226euMw9kAt7PPpSLF99Mly-4z3eYzQ8KVtjgK2I4bKWe8tN/s650/steve-bell-in-praise-of-razan-al-najjar-censored.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="650" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPl2lkVDgX4bN8jW_Cf0U1y2kcVp8Nxss-zfsUTd0chjBTWKitWdhZkvM1gA235ctIxpT9vwtvxEEIWilZd30t4_y7bYXa1opX01MaFIW1l88ZYvLx8fQpajPGRKHDeUB29_6BfsJAs4Y226euMw9kAt7PPpSLF99Mly-4z3eYzQ8KVtjgK2I4bKWe8tN/w640-h388/steve-bell-in-praise-of-razan-al-najjar-censored.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;"><b>The Guardian refused to print this cartoon by Steve Bell - it was anti-Semitic because the hearth might remind people of Auschwitz furnaces!!</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Israel’s
B’tselem, in a Report ‘<a href="https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/publications/202112_unwilling_and_unable_eng.pdf">Unwilling
and Unable: Israel’s Whitewashed Investigations of the Great March of Return</a>
wrote that ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not a single Israeli soldier
or civilian was killed in the Great March of Return protests</i>’. Peaceful
demonstrators had been murdered by Israeli snipers in dug outs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpeville_massacre">Sharpeville
Massacre</a> in South Africa, which reverberated around the world after police
opened fire on unarmed demonstrators, 69 people were killed and 180 injured.
Yet Calder believes that the thousands of Palestinians murdered by Israel up
till October 7 provided no justification. Why this disparity? Because
‘anti-Semitism’ and the Holocaust justifies every barbarity. Over 30,000 have
been murdered but still Calder believes that we should focus on October 7.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA56TnZVHPfqN5AUKKT4MPnn9D0sMedhW7YAFULLUQ0ojousQKziKua70no06Q3NOzc9Kb0gLGm-4RxhiwCO7imehMxsRRL3MXqXKB6MKMt64Goehcpc3QZy7da92lBKtydblZmMbbek3-xQjRS6vnWH1PHUE0pXde_3jupmK_nDCVX_EDc314ciI9ZuUU/s1182/Btselem%20This%20is%20Apartheid.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="1182" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA56TnZVHPfqN5AUKKT4MPnn9D0sMedhW7YAFULLUQ0ojousQKziKua70no06Q3NOzc9Kb0gLGm-4RxhiwCO7imehMxsRRL3MXqXKB6MKMt64Goehcpc3QZy7da92lBKtydblZmMbbek3-xQjRS6vnWH1PHUE0pXde_3jupmK_nDCVX_EDc314ciI9ZuUU/w640-h228/Btselem%20This%20is%20Apartheid.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
know this because I have WhatsApped her but she has not responded. Andy Winter,
also a South African exile, was no better. He wrote an <a href="https://andywinterbn1.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/the-terrible-cycle-of-violence-upon-violence-killings-upon-killings-continues-in-israel-and-gaza/">article</a>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘The terrible cycle of violence upon
violence... continues in Israel and Gaza’</i>. The cliché ‘cycle of
violence’ is designed to obliterate the causes of that violence which is the
Zionist nature of the Israeli State. As B’tselem found in its <a href="https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is_apartheid">Report</a>
there is ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A regime of Jewish supremacy
from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea’. </i>Winter condemns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The
appalling terrorist attacks on men, women and children in southern Israel a
week last Saturday, followed by the unfolding humanitarian crisis and the
killing of men, women and children in northern Gaza almost defy words <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Although
condemning what he calls ‘terrorists’ Winter calls the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>genocide an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘unfolding humanitarian crisis’. </i>Presumably this has been caused by
an Act of God or some other natural disaster, Having failed to call out
genocide and ethnic cleansing for what it is he lays into the BBC, the Voice of
Israel: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">But there are
words. Terrorism is just one, a word that the BBC shamefully refuses to use
when describing the attacks and murders on October 7.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This <a href="https://andywinterbn1.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/the-terrible-cycle-of-violence-upon-violence-killings-upon-killings-continues-in-israel-and-gaza/">article</a>
appeared first in the <a href="https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23863948.can-ceaseless-cycle-killing-israel-palestine-end/">Argus</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">We have
two White South Africans failing to recognise what is obvious to Black S
Africans and Palestinians. That not only is Israel an apartheid state but it is
far worse than S Africa ever was. The Apartheid regime there did not murder Black
South Africans by the thousand. It did not bomb the shanty towns from the air. It
did not have the exterminationist mentality of Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTMJyUr3BYIz6rhCnQyWMNPdmwLFqmJZ59UV4jC5TUiRJ4SkqOGDt5lCcSE0aKsF0L2o-e-a8w1ykJa33Wt3_wfjwPB1LYbI4ACYREW4OGTtnc_T1b20fHrez0WLv6hpbeWNm2mS4RWImPWc1EWAgOA4dQ85WgI2fyCJfkvTNltncj0TAbcfDCLwzQ5_EB/s934/Andrew%20Feinstein%20-%20Apartheid%20in%20Israel%20is%20worse.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="934" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTMJyUr3BYIz6rhCnQyWMNPdmwLFqmJZ59UV4jC5TUiRJ4SkqOGDt5lCcSE0aKsF0L2o-e-a8w1ykJa33Wt3_wfjwPB1LYbI4ACYREW4OGTtnc_T1b20fHrez0WLv6hpbeWNm2mS4RWImPWc1EWAgOA4dQ85WgI2fyCJfkvTNltncj0TAbcfDCLwzQ5_EB/w640-h494/Andrew%20Feinstein%20-%20Apartheid%20in%20Israel%20is%20worse.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As Andrew
Feinstein, the former Jewish ANC MP <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-apartheid-far-more-brutal-than-anything-we-saw-in-south-africa-says-former-politician/3102328">said</a>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Israeli Apartheid is far more brutal
than anything we saw in South Africa’. </i>Navi Pillay, a former UN human
rights chief <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/u-n-official-says-suffering-of-palestinians-so-much-worse-than-south-african-apartheid/">said</a>
the same as did Israel’s most famous poet Yitzhak Laor who <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/2009-11-08/ty-article/israels-apartheid-is-worse-than-south-africas/0000017f-e38f-d38f-a57f-e7dffe540000">remarked</a>
that ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the system preserving this
apartheid is more ruthless as it is equipped with the lie of being 'temporary.'</i>
So too <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/mandelas-grandson-on-visit-israel-is-the-worst-apartheid-regime-515397">did</a>
Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghMmYuuD_YWE-U6Du5Tpji7Tc8yMb7f93d4DJt2adetYuvmi7m8kYoFPK-rXLe0g6EHMnVfJypfRnxpX1iGrPpu03iy-x3RftTAE-MwU8k-80M8c_csQekSXst17lTKbhEdxXVuAlE0JzkTb4cCrGTJBbM_xULh9hEFSqkN2tr5Psk6BPsN4oGSD83LIip/s672/torture%20image.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="672" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghMmYuuD_YWE-U6Du5Tpji7Tc8yMb7f93d4DJt2adetYuvmi7m8kYoFPK-rXLe0g6EHMnVfJypfRnxpX1iGrPpu03iy-x3RftTAE-MwU8k-80M8c_csQekSXst17lTKbhEdxXVuAlE0JzkTb4cCrGTJBbM_xULh9hEFSqkN2tr5Psk6BPsN4oGSD83LIip/w640-h460/torture%20image.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b>Torture is rampant - Israel doesn't even bother to hide its brutality</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Archbishop
Desmond Tutu <a href="https://www.foreignaffairsreview.com/home/remember-the-true-desmond-tutu">told</a>
one activist that <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Israel’s
apartheid is even worse than South Africa’s. We never had F-16s bomb our
Bantustans killing hundreds of children. Remember that. <a name="a"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The reasons for
this lie in the different political economies of the two states. S Africa needed
Black people in order to exploit their labour. Israel as a Jewish state aimed
to be as Jewish as was possible, hence its policy was not exploitation but
ethnic cleansing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9dieImnVkuRby4gvyzXyi4w0XA9YMbhmHHnJz7FhoYg-2ZwsgPde92FRdqlMlWnCD85da0v-Iry7W_oKZyB-fsjemrHgqZ3KoSbw13rI1kKSAV06eVVG_F9y4wVGTPNoabXfHuVnLroG4B0NRog8FHFMwqo8ucbcKe6k4wJrsuaPjb9aeSrIYA7v3y9wi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="314" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9dieImnVkuRby4gvyzXyi4w0XA9YMbhmHHnJz7FhoYg-2ZwsgPde92FRdqlMlWnCD85da0v-Iry7W_oKZyB-fsjemrHgqZ3KoSbw13rI1kKSAV06eVVG_F9y4wVGTPNoabXfHuVnLroG4B0NRog8FHFMwqo8ucbcKe6k4wJrsuaPjb9aeSrIYA7v3y9wi=w400-h333" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><b>Youtube is lying - what they really mean is that they don't want people to see Israeli children singing a song of extermination - now why would that be?</b></span><br /><br /></span><p></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: medium;">Israeli children sing song of
annihilation on Israel's national broadcaster Kan<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Israel’s
Exterminationist Mentality<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Despite
its many problems today South Africa demonstrates that the legacy of the
struggle against apartheid lives on. It was South Africa not any of the
miserable Arab regimes which took Israel to the International Court of Justice.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Perhaps the
most iniquitous of the 11 examples in the <a href="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism">IHRA
misdefinition of anti-Semitism</a> is the 10<sup>th</sup> which states that <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy
to that of the Nazis’ is anti-Semitic.’</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The rationale
being that a Jewish state can’t behave like the Nazi state and that it is
offensive to accuse Jews of behaving like Nazis. It is testimony to the
intellectual poverty of both the political class and academia that this
illustration has attracted so little attention and has been given a free pass.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Nazism
was neither original nor ideologically coherent. Racial hygiene, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/rassenhygiene">rassenhygiene</a></i>
formed the basis of its racial politics and was based on social Darwinism.
Survival of the fittest between species was applied to racial differences
within humanity. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6L5dyCVcAhaK04YmhGda5Uemf98Y6Qh5QUmbD8FfWIv6ABQURrN3sIDZbhGpf1RjJXOaDSFG9GL0ptca6DCPW96vW1skrDWxLeDLsiyYGfqGJPzFsj49F5GW3GhvCRBralVp68GMvQQfIryuUwG4hjhswAZC8qRBKNukk25LfBAsnGDP8hyjuA1Hc4oav/s975/Wave%20of%20settler%20violence.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="968" data-original-width="975" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6L5dyCVcAhaK04YmhGda5Uemf98Y6Qh5QUmbD8FfWIv6ABQURrN3sIDZbhGpf1RjJXOaDSFG9GL0ptca6DCPW96vW1skrDWxLeDLsiyYGfqGJPzFsj49F5GW3GhvCRBralVp68GMvQQfIryuUwG4hjhswAZC8qRBKNukk25LfBAsnGDP8hyjuA1Hc4oav/w640-h636/Wave%20of%20settler%20violence.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Eugenics,
as Hitler readily acknowledged came from the United States where laws providing
for compulsory sterilisation were passed in over 30 states.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">What
happened in Germany could, given the right set of circumstances, happen in any
state. To suggest Jews are immune from this is to suggest that racism is
biologically inherited and that some people are immune from this by virtue of
their racial inheritance. This in itself is racist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Extermination
and genocide has been only too prevalent in the 20<sup>th</sup> century
beginning with the Herero/Nama people in Namibia to the Armenian genocide, the
extermination in Cambodia, Rwanda and now genocide in Gaza. Anyone who believes
that Israeli Jews are exempt from the social, economic and political laws
governing every other society is by definition a racist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
warnings have been flashing in Israel for a long time. Opinion polls have long
shown that a <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2016-03-08/ty-article/pew-almost-half-of-israeli-jews-back-transfer-or-expulsion-of-arabs/0000017f-e797-df2c-a1ff-ffd7f01d0000">majority</a>
of Israeli Jews favour the deportation of Israel’s Arab citizens. Mobs, led by
Israel’s current Police Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, march through Jerusalem each
year <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-arrest-6-in-jerusalem-on-assault-charges-mob-chants-death-to-arabs/">chanting</a>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Death to the Arabs’.</i> Mobs in Germany
and Poland used to chant <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Death to the
Jews’. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
January 2018 Ze’ev Sternhell, a child survivor of the Nazi ghetto of Przemyśl<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Poland <u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></u>wrote an <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2018-01-19/ty-article-opinion/.premium/in-israel-growing-fascism-and-a-racism-akin-to-early-nazism/0000017f-dbd2-db5a-a57f-dbfa4bcc0000">article</a>
for Ha’aretz <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In Israel, Growing Fascism
and a Racism Akin to Early Nazism.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></i>Maybe
the racists who compiled the IHRA would call the late Sternhell an anti-Semite too?
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwDPwBodnPgitRvZFOe1Su2QDuGDzHPUv0LVkmqWZI2uKnfP4rb-jBJfgHqxcl-ZsC2MzSQJQv9-0em63UE9qvm2VeXZMoePXeDkY8ngfXFPOx0wsEcDMSpdLUKzY2nK5Dat7-cIYP_wtOqV80hOdVlIQUt0MN4Pl5bG2GZ7KOrxgN8a_PRT7gU1K9JgwV/s1536/destruction.webp" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1536" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwDPwBodnPgitRvZFOe1Su2QDuGDzHPUv0LVkmqWZI2uKnfP4rb-jBJfgHqxcl-ZsC2MzSQJQv9-0em63UE9qvm2VeXZMoePXeDkY8ngfXFPOx0wsEcDMSpdLUKzY2nK5Dat7-cIYP_wtOqV80hOdVlIQUt0MN4Pl5bG2GZ7KOrxgN8a_PRT7gU1K9JgwV/w640-h426/destruction.webp" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #985215; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: x-large; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The Nazi and Genocidal Statements
of Israel’s Zionist Leaders<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The South African <a href="https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2024/01/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf">Application</a>
to the ICJ gives the lie to those who claim it is ‘anti-Semitic’ to say that
Israeli leaders cannot be compared to the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On 9 October Defence Minister Yoav
Gallant <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/remarks-by-himmler">described</a>
the Palestinians as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘human animals’. </i>On
October 4 1943 Himmler, the Head of the SS in a speech to senior SS officers justifying
the Holocaust <a href="https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1513">called</a> the
Jews ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">human animals</i>.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On 16 October 2023, Netanyahu described
the attack on Gaza as a “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a struggle
between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity
and the law of the jungle.’</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On 28 October 2023 Netanyahu <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/benjamin-netanyahu-amalek-israel-palestine-gaza-saul-samuel-old-testament/">invoked</a>
the Biblical story of the Amalek:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“you
must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do
remember”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The ancient Israelites wiped out every
man, woman, child and suckling infant. Its Hitlerite nature is crystal clear. On
10 November 2023, Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Police Minister stated that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“when
we say that Hamas should be destroyed, it also means those who celebrate, those
who support, and those who hand out candy — they’re all terrorists, and they
should also be destroyed.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On 1 November 2023, Amichai Eliyahu,
Israel’s Heritage Minister <a href="https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2023/11/358737/more-beautiful-than-ever-israeli-minister-delights-in-gaza-genocide">posted</a>
on Facebook:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“The
north of the Gaza Strip, more beautiful than ever. Everything is blown up and
flattened, simply a pleasure for the eyes.’ <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Haaretz: Israeli Army directly involved in publicising its brutal treatment of Palestinians. No other army in the world publicises its atrocities. The aim is to terrorise Palestinians certain of the West"s complicity, unafraid of US&EU public opinion<a href="https://t.co/RH3JRefeoK">https://t.co/RH3JRefeoK</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) <a href="https://twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1754415343315873981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Nissim Vaturi, the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Deputy Speaker of the Knesset </span>‘<a href="https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1749485392036876309">tweeted’</a><b>
o</b>n 7 October 2023 that: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“[n]ow
we all have one common goal — erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the
earth. Those who are unable will be replaced.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Giora Eiland, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a Reservist Major General, former Head of the National Security Council,
and adviser to the Defence Minister<b> </b></span><a href="https://fathomjournal.org/opinion-a-new-turning-point-in-the-history-of-the-state-of-israel-most-people-dont-understand-that/">wrote</a>:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Israel
should not allow any economic assistance. The people should be told that they
have two choices; to stay and to starve, or to leave. If Egypt and other
countries prefer that these people will perish in Gaza, this is their choice.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“These animals can no longer live.”<br /><br />Ezra Yachin, a 95-year-old Israeli army reservist, is seen inciting “every Jew with a weapon” to kill Palestinians and “erase the memory of them” <a href="https://t.co/LUQs0XoR5U">pic.twitter.com/LUQs0XoR5U</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1712918166437806294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On 11 October 2023, 95-year old Israeli
army reservist Ezra Yachin — a veteran of the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948 —was
called up for reserve duty to “boost morale” amongst Israeli troops ahead of
the ground invasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-veteran-ezra-yachin-soldiers-erase-children">message</a>
was broadcast on social media inciting other soldiers to genocide while being
driven around in an Israeli army vehicle:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“Be
triumphant and finish them off and don’t leave anyone behind. <i>Erase the
memory of them. Erase them, their families, mothers and children. These animals
can no longer live </i>. . . Every Jew with a weapon should go out and kill
them. If you have an Arab neighbour, don't wait, go to his home and shoot him .
. . We want to invade, not like before, we want to enter and <i>destroy what’s
in front of us, and destroy houses, then destroy the one after it. </i>With all
of our forces, <i>complete destruction</i>, enter and destroy. As you can see,
we will witness things we’ve never dreamed of. Let them drop bombs on them and
erase them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">When I <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/infamous-anti-israel-activist-tony-greenstein-called-jewish-state-hitlers-bastard-offspring-ypojyokh">said</a>
that Israel was ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hitler’s bastard
offspring’</i>, much to the Jewish Chronicle’s chagrin, I was not exaggerating.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">🚨 Urgent: The Palestine Red Crescent ambulance was discovered bombed the Tal al-Hawa area of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> City, resulting in the killing of crew members Yusuf Zeino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun, who had been missing since a rescue mission for the child Hind Rajab 12 days ago.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotATarget?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NotATarget</a>❌… <a href="https://t.co/dCgfeevTd8">pic.twitter.com/dCgfeevTd8</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) <a href="https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS/status/1756223629912613294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Because Zionism draws no universal
lessons from the Holocaust Israelis now see themselves in the position of the
Nazis. Only pathetic white liberals like Calder and Winter, cannot or will not
see it. Israel has absorbed the lessons of the holocaust but not the ones
anti-racists might wish. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Professor Yehuda
Elkana, a child survivor of Auschwitz, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2018-04-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/its-time-to-abolish-the-march-of-the-living/0000017f-e125-d38f-a57f-e777afd00000">wrote</a>
in an article for Ha’aretz in March 1988:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">a profound existential <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i>Angst<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">”</i> 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</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;background:white'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt'> XE "<span class=ind>Hitler</span>"
</span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;background:white'><span style='mso-element:
field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">. Two nations, metaphorically
speaking, emerged from the ashes of Auschwitz</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;background:white'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt'> XE "Auschwitz" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;background:white'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">: a
minority who assert, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i>this must never
happen again,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">”</i> and a frightened and
haunted majority who assert, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i>this
must never happen to us again.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">”</i> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">[</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">‘<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Need to
Forget,’</span> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ha’aretz,</i> 2.3.88]</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">When
Hitler came to power his programme was not to exterminate the Jews but to expel
them. It was only when he couldn’t expel them that the Nazis turned to
extermination. So it is with Israel today. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgAbg6DffnLjx3UYv1Zz0mcoIh-ZAWrbjgSPQNm36F-O_fU3FuRbqyl-vqBCnOW8KwXBzCDlg1RxFtARA0C5HiutsmE6CsA3yNK6tjn2wTZ9TnDstk0I_ZgKE0r4aUvYJ_HcSrTOL0ZB2ujyyATcFsCVRpa-OcLPdqWWfOPYGeDT7BQYal2mT9cb-mOpi/s928/Exterminate%20Gaza.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="694" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgAbg6DffnLjx3UYv1Zz0mcoIh-ZAWrbjgSPQNm36F-O_fU3FuRbqyl-vqBCnOW8KwXBzCDlg1RxFtARA0C5HiutsmE6CsA3yNK6tjn2wTZ9TnDstk0I_ZgKE0r4aUvYJ_HcSrTOL0ZB2ujyyATcFsCVRpa-OcLPdqWWfOPYGeDT7BQYal2mT9cb-mOpi/w478-h640/Exterminate%20Gaza.jpg" width="478" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Adam Keller, an Israeli peace activist <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/640441812647446166/5275931911088349950"><span style="color: #2288bb;">wrote</span></a> describing how <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘the word ‘<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">extermination’</span> with
all its resonance of Auschwitz has entered the language of Israeli politics.’</i>
Keller described how the streets of Tel Aviv were flooded with red stickers
reading <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">"<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Exterminate Gaza</i>!".
Not "Destroy!", not "Flatten!" – but clearly and explicitly
"Exterminate Gaza!". "Le-Ha-Sh-Mid!" -
"Exterminate!" Every Jewish Israeli knows from a young age exactly
what this word means. …. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Roy Sharon, a radio and TV commentator on the
main Israeli broadcasting corporation, spoke very explicitly of his desire to
see <i>“a million dead bodies in Gaza”</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Israel’s <span style="background: white;">Ambassador
in London Tzipi Hotoveli described all Palestinians as Nazis and <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-may-kill-600000-civilians-says-ambassador">compared</a>
what Israel was doing to the British bombing of Dresden and Hamburg where
600,000 were killed. She wanted to murder a similar number of Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Yet these white liberal
racists can only mouth ‘anti-Semitism’ as if they can only hold one idea at a
time in their heads. British Jews are not victims of racism. They are
privileged and White. Racism operates at the level of the state. Anti-Semitism
in Britain is a prejudice, it has no power behind it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijpNx3gn9pObr4ZvQlsJ5um38nvUMZHB7ufs1Q6pu-XWLGgxrH0oXafECjYFeNCCNOHYyS2q5ckVFXnFYd9MiQFuuE77QqDR1ZcZyhC942BQQPUP_nGzqk1uoZnvxnrcQazJpy3en-Dm7ZhiJrGJ_DLNZ4qaBPadzqL9xNjHn2IwQ0XkmJYTvOvPemj1us/s1150/dancing%20with%20destruction%20in%20the%20background.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="1150" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijpNx3gn9pObr4ZvQlsJ5um38nvUMZHB7ufs1Q6pu-XWLGgxrH0oXafECjYFeNCCNOHYyS2q5ckVFXnFYd9MiQFuuE77QqDR1ZcZyhC942BQQPUP_nGzqk1uoZnvxnrcQazJpy3en-Dm7ZhiJrGJ_DLNZ4qaBPadzqL9xNjHn2IwQ0XkmJYTvOvPemj1us/w640-h530/dancing%20with%20destruction%20in%20the%20background.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Israeli Teens Get Their Kicks from Palestinian suffering</b></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I would go further. British Jews
are probably the most racist section of the White population. Islamaphobia and
anti-Arab racism is extremely high amongst them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It may be uncomfortable for
someone who is Jewish to be confronted with anti-Semitic stereotypes but we
should remember that one of the reasons that there has been an increase in
anti-Semitism is precisely because it is a ‘Jewish’ state that is committing
these atrocities. That is why Jewish people have a duty to proclaim that what
is happening is ‘not in our name’ as the Jewish Bloc chanted on the
demonstrations in London.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">When white liberals like
Winter and Calder equate anti-Semitism in Britain with the genocidal racism of
the Israeli state they are effectively condoning this genocide. British Jews do
not suffer economic discrimination, state violence, deportations, attacks on the
streets or police stop and search. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
inability of white liberals to recognise Zionism for what it is, a genocidal
ideology and movement, and their recourse to ‘anti-Semitism’ as a justification
for their position demonstrates that when you scratch a liberal you get the
same old racism.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4TOlMkEC-i9Dfvp_c1Xmo3hH6lWJbwUSrwxsdEAmZrwVP8PlxKYdD5Sq519QGmHbhB3HoPvlIqGEnzLAI60DWfPq1_OXX7suQyJolM1yi8Ar8ioP5P1vvAlAfl9F22XorOQuQDhPLLDZXliZknjQA7PVs2g-pijk6Mx2hmqaQjCG6sOw49koszZe1VChb/s1900/beatings%20stripped.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1900" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4TOlMkEC-i9Dfvp_c1Xmo3hH6lWJbwUSrwxsdEAmZrwVP8PlxKYdD5Sq519QGmHbhB3HoPvlIqGEnzLAI60DWfPq1_OXX7suQyJolM1yi8Ar8ioP5P1vvAlAfl9F22XorOQuQDhPLLDZXliZknjQA7PVs2g-pijk6Mx2hmqaQjCG6sOw49koszZe1VChb/w640-h384/beatings%20stripped.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Calder’s
feminism has racism embedded in it. I can only recommend that Calder and other
White feminists, steeped as they are in the sisterhood of imperialism, read
Nesrine Malik’s excellent <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/05/gaza-war-women-west-mothers-babies-medical">article</a>
on the war against women in Gaza. Malik quotes the charity <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Care</i> on the conditions women in Gaza face:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“There is no
doctor, midwife or nurse to support women during labour. There is no pain
medication, anaesthesia or hygiene material when women give birth.” Babies are
born on the ground in the wilderness, umbilical cords cut with whatever sharp
object there is to hand, and tins filled with hot water keep the newborn warm.
C-sections, painful in the aftermath even when drugs are plentiful, are being
performed <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-hospital-procedures-without-anaesthetics-prompted-screams-prayers-2023-11-10/">without
any anaesthesia</a> at all, <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/27/1209140259/giving-birth-amid-gazas-devastation-is-traumatic-but-babies-continue-to-be-born">by
surgeons</a> who do not have any water to wash their hands, let alone sterilise
them, and no antibiotics for any resulting infections. In some cases, according
to Washington Post reporting, C-sections <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/21/gaza-childbirth/">were
performed</a> on women postmortem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIiVKH-Lp0e3-ruaA60c7yy6rHuIouJW8gAOY8WoSdTx9VmlPiQG07N3mLlEXue8rgWBu8GcYsbdWiuzkMAqHvEg9IxiYX8u69wDacxBZIY7UCc6M-2ivt2Ruy1T14c66yzPdRuuFiHlRBj68ZlokrWoPWAMGpVq3fyNvarpGgMAPrFd5B-1Nvt3ElTwZq/s678/women%20in%20cages.png" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="678" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIiVKH-Lp0e3-ruaA60c7yy6rHuIouJW8gAOY8WoSdTx9VmlPiQG07N3mLlEXue8rgWBu8GcYsbdWiuzkMAqHvEg9IxiYX8u69wDacxBZIY7UCc6M-2ivt2Ruy1T14c66yzPdRuuFiHlRBj68ZlokrWoPWAMGpVq3fyNvarpGgMAPrFd5B-1Nvt3ElTwZq/w640-h430/women%20in%20cages.png" width="640" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;"><b>Women captives in foreground</b></span></p>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Neither Calder nor
Winter allowed the word ‘genocide’ to pollute their articles. Not once did
Calder refer to women in Gaza. Her concern was with sentimental mush on a Hove
lawn.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Fahya Falash in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Palestine Chronicle: </i><a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/transported-in-cages-shocking-details-of-how-israel-treats-female-gaza-prisoners/"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Transported in Cages’ – Shocking Details of
How Israel Treats Female Gaza Prisoners</a> quotes Palestinian lawyer Hassan
al-Abadi as saying that he was particularly disturbed by the way Israeli forces
transported the female detainees from Gaza to the prisons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to Abadi, they were placed in
trucks carrying cages similar to those used for animal transport. <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“This detail particularly hurt me: these women have been transported in
animal trucks. They have been tied, blindfolded and stripped of their head
covering, as a way to humiliate them,” al-Abadi said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Since
Calder is so fond of reminiscing about the Holocaust she might care to remember
that when Jews were deported to Auschwitz they too were transported in animal trucks.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Abadi also
said that when the female detainees arrived at the prison, their clothes were
stained with blood. Most of them were also bleeding from their hands, as the
plastic chains had been tightly tied around their wrists for days.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqZcTxQWc1C-n5B07rkzLQDq3FAasYGmK84Kdii0KiGb_7lOUc-p5r2zKzJjukWBA-7G83QZyi3hWbEqCMgtZz-7r-uq7u3DHpvuQsZXjFjgxagyYGyatFanzXi7S68bsKHz1eOtE35egRAD0zt7J2Su7hy74EH6nbKoNLR8azmg5WXM5gVDEA4g7d9hp7/s640/times%20&%20babies.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="638" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqZcTxQWc1C-n5B07rkzLQDq3FAasYGmK84Kdii0KiGb_7lOUc-p5r2zKzJjukWBA-7G83QZyi3hWbEqCMgtZz-7r-uq7u3DHpvuQsZXjFjgxagyYGyatFanzXi7S68bsKHz1eOtE35egRAD0zt7J2Su7hy74EH6nbKoNLR8azmg5WXM5gVDEA4g7d9hp7/w638-h640/times%20&%20babies.jpg" width="638" /></a></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;"><b>Murdoch's <i>Times </i>has not retracted its 40 Babies Beheaded Story - instead it continues with fake news - only one baby died on October 7, killed by Israel!</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Upon
their arrival, they were distributed into three rooms, each containing six iron
beds. Most of them were reportedly forced to sleep on the floor without pillows
or mattresses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“The prisoners
told me that the food is also very bad and that the Israeli guards deliberately
leave it on their cells’ doors for hours, until it turns cold. The water has a
rusty taste as well,” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">According to
al-Abadi, these women not only suffer due to the extremely cruel conditions of
their detention but because they are constantly concerned about their
families. They do not know the fate of their children as Israel relentlessly
bombards Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">They are not
allowed to hear the news or follow what is happening in any way. They are
isolated from the outside world and don’t know anything<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">But there
are other forms of violation carried out by Israeli authorities. Al-Abadi told how
the prison administration prevents these women from bringing along sanitary
pads <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Therefore
during their period they are forced to wash their clothes daily and wear them
when they are still wet, as the prison administration does not provide them
with additional clothes. They only have what they were wearing when arrested.</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Rimal Neighborhood, Gaza city |<br /><br />Israeli soldier Yosee Gamzoo publish a picture showing him torturing a Palestinian civilian in West Gaza city.<br /><br />I blurred the gunshot on his leg. He is handcuffed and undressed. <a href="https://t.co/A4urfpU6Sf">pic.twitter.com/A4urfpU6Sf</a></span></p><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) <a href="https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1754291866588090601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Israel doesn’t
consider men and women detained in the Gaza Strip to be prisoners of war under
the so-called “unlawful combatants” law. Therefore, it prevents them from
having contact with lawyers and human rights institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“The female
detainees from Gaza are even forbidden from talking to the rest of the
prisoners and they have to communicate in secret.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Winter and Calder, comfortable
as they are with their hackneyed clichés about canaries might cast a glance at
Yuval Abraham’s article in Israel’s +972 Magazine ‘<a href="https://www.972mag.com/israel-torture-camp-gaza-detainees/">Inside
Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees</a>’ before setting pen to paper.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1JG171LdyAApx2Wl_EmmuSX9skJpEQhfLIv-wkr9OojzyzvC5zcAz4vq5VRCI-0l6KWKEXoiY0o6YVpDHvYOhBvAG1qm7zxWlmkXRsqZD15XoegbPFkxwtNe66uXXfO_fvlBTr9Qwrj6rDwnDtbW-yh5teuAmXg8xs4eiejqksxiuRB6rsDh8O3yeoFDY/s1429/dragging%20body.webp" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1163" data-original-width="1429" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1JG171LdyAApx2Wl_EmmuSX9skJpEQhfLIv-wkr9OojzyzvC5zcAz4vq5VRCI-0l6KWKEXoiY0o6YVpDHvYOhBvAG1qm7zxWlmkXRsqZD15XoegbPFkxwtNe66uXXfO_fvlBTr9Qwrj6rDwnDtbW-yh5teuAmXg8xs4eiejqksxiuRB6rsDh8O3yeoFDY/w640-h520/dragging%20body.webp" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On
February 4 in <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-02-04/ty-article/.premium/israeli-army-its-admits-staff-was-behind-graphic-gaza-telegram-channel/0000018d-70b4-dd6e-a98d-f4b6a9c00000">Israeli
Army Admits Running Unauthorized Graphic Gaza Influence Op</a> Ha’aretz
revealed that a Telegram Channel displaying the vilest videos and stills of the
abuse of Palestinians was distributed by them, after having originally denied
it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="rz" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">They
uploaded thousands of videos and still images of the killing of terrorists and
destruction in the Strip, and encouraged the channel's followers to share the
content so that "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everyone can see
we're screwing them."<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="rz" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">An
October 11 post read: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Burning their
mother… You won't believe the video we got! You can hear their bones crunch.
We'll post it right away, get ready."</i> Photos of Palestinian men
captured by the IDF in the Strip and the bodies of terrorists were captioned: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Exterminating the roaches…
exterminating the Hamas rats… Share this beauty."</i> A video of a soldier
allegedly dipping machine gun bullets in pork fat is captioned: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"What a man!!!!! Greases bullets with
lard. You won't get your virgins."</i> Another caption was: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Garbage juice!!!! Another dead
terrorist!! You have to watch it with the sound, you'll die laughing."<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="rz" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On October 14, alongside the caption "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Exclusive video of a good night, don't forget to share and repost"</i>
was a video of an Israeli vehicle repeatedly driving over the body of a Palestinian.
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Very good, Gershon!!! Run him over
run him over!!!! Screw the bastards! Flatten them," </i>the accompanying
text read.</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Hamas published yesterday an 18-minute long pre-recorded press conference in English about their side of the story.<br /><br />This has received zero media attention anywhere in the western press.<br /><br />So in the interest of full transparency, here is the entire press conference. <a href="https://t.co/Cd5SyYjImJ">pic.twitter.com/Cd5SyYjImJ</a></span></p><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">— روني الدنماركي (@Aldanmarki) <a href="https://twitter.com/Aldanmarki/status/1712738101108384185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Jordanian Medial Syndicate member Dr Bilal Azzam who visited Gaza, says Palestinian doctors were tortured and abused by israeli troops <a href="https://t.co/2qyPi3d805">pic.twitter.com/2qyPi3d805</a></span></p><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) <a href="https://twitter.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1755637229970424223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="rz" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This is an official production of the Israeli army. The abuses described,
which appeal to the sadistic appetite of the average Israeli, are not the work
of lone rangers or odd balls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
represent the official mindset of the army which sought deniability but was
forced to admit to its ownership of the contents when it was shown that the
information could only have come from official sources.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="rz" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This demonstrates that the abuses, the tortures, the humiliations are
official Israeli policy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="rz" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It is easy to virtue signal about ‘anti-Semitism’. Starmer and Sunak do
it all the time. Israel is gearing up to perpetrate its biggest ever massacre
in Rafah where Israel’s plans to transfer over a million Palestinians into
Egypt. Yet all this pair of mediocrities do is harp on about how terrible October
7 was. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="rz" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">There was a time when Andy Winter and Jean Calder were dissonant anti-establishment
voices. Those times have long gone. Today they write for local right-wing rags
reflecting the views of the British Establishment in all its murderous glory as
it extinguishes ancient liberties and freedom of speech. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="rz" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Anti-Semitism is the false anti-racism of the Right and those who hark
back to a past genocide do so in order to justify another genocide. A false
memory of the past is used to shape the present and manipulate the future. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="rz" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As to the question in the title of this essay the answer is simple. You can’t
be friends with people who are proud to be racists. We no longer have anything
in common.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="rz" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Tony Greenstein <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/an-open-letter-to-israelis-from-israelis-we-deserve-the-truth-about-october-7/">An
open letter to Israelis from Israelis: We deserve the truth about October 7</a><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkUhjqblQd4OhFRyn2wAAt7JlZ3aCEnYVQZBNQi32YWdVhPCPOmPMflonDKYIrMQWiCSVknX26E40tg5cyT2JYdRBsuLKnfMt2aaF3MCrOO-5N93zU2vypj0HW6DjT0lFNlTJ14Jm9jiNuznnhkzcMoMYpJlkap2VkIgLHc3u5k7LpcPjFVHeZttcETyP/s3766/An%20open%20letter%20from%20Israelis.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3766" data-original-width="820" height="3028" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkUhjqblQd4OhFRyn2wAAt7JlZ3aCEnYVQZBNQi32YWdVhPCPOmPMflonDKYIrMQWiCSVknX26E40tg5cyT2JYdRBsuLKnfMt2aaF3MCrOO-5N93zU2vypj0HW6DjT0lFNlTJ14Jm9jiNuznnhkzcMoMYpJlkap2VkIgLHc3u5k7LpcPjFVHeZttcETyP/w662-h3028/An%20open%20letter%20from%20Israelis.jpg" width="662" /></a></div>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-22866432089282386422024-02-06T10:21:00.003+00:002024-02-06T11:30:40.411+00:00Bristol University has just been found to have unfairly dismissed Professor David Miller - Yet Palestine Solidarity Campaign REFUSED to support him<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Arial Black","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">We
Need a New Palestine Solidarity Organisation since <i>PSC </i>is neither Democratic, Anti-Zionist or Politically Coherent</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGqwz16fjKIEPkhFuAhM214m20PSe1rjxp-Pldl6FVQx1nugngLVEQQPu3VFnU4hGmB48OY_EgIoWFxXtUeD2QVZxRwjoZT1O21Ac5yhbwTxh07ElksN8E6p_gRV0zZKHw_WB25FG8W3Cqr-ITXjWolINz39pja4Ho2EVF5jKxKrilbYjWgc4p56nm7DC8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="990" height="617" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGqwz16fjKIEPkhFuAhM214m20PSe1rjxp-Pldl6FVQx1nugngLVEQQPu3VFnU4hGmB48OY_EgIoWFxXtUeD2QVZxRwjoZT1O21Ac5yhbwTxh07ElksN8E6p_gRV0zZKHw_WB25FG8W3Cqr-ITXjWolINz39pja4Ho2EVF5jKxKrilbYjWgc4p56nm7DC8=w640-h617" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
1982, just before Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Operation Peace
for Galilee</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, a group of about 15 of us decided, at
a meeting held at the University of London Union, to form Palestine Solidarity
Campaign. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">PSC
then was anti-Zionist calling for a democratic, secular state in Palestine. This
was a very different period from today. There was a radical Labour
administration at the Greater London Council under Ken Livingstone which gave us
support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was the Miners’ Strike in
1984-5. PSC fitted into all of this activism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
decay in PSC began with the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/13/what-were-oslo-accords-israel-palestinians">Oslo
Accords</a>, the single greatest political defeat for the Palestinians since
the Nakba. It led to the legitimisation of Zionism as the United Nations
overturned </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_3379"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Resolution
3379</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
of 10 November 1975, which stated that Zionism was a form of racism. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy3lIktUIqIYUesRGfkvUsPRNJ-2U78hpaRmr3J07yDWy1ffaXg3K5euAcF8DbqpEl8kdzjkiytgiy3YLQgxTpj2bZQc_rt_Ef0cm1xxOFPxxZxRoLExb57q7Eh-HIf7D58jQqHzb4pM3d52ntb_IRmi4qHVRV-O390bhaKjm0Cb77fP-g9qXX1_j6ub8u/s714/Caroline%20blog%202021.jpg" style="font-family: "Arial Black", "sans-serif"; font-size: 26.6667px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="714" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy3lIktUIqIYUesRGfkvUsPRNJ-2U78hpaRmr3J07yDWy1ffaXg3K5euAcF8DbqpEl8kdzjkiytgiy3YLQgxTpj2bZQc_rt_Ef0cm1xxOFPxxZxRoLExb57q7Eh-HIf7D58jQqHzb4pM3d52ntb_IRmi4qHVRV-O390bhaKjm0Cb77fP-g9qXX1_j6ub8u/w640-h576/Caroline%20blog%202021.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b>Caroline Lucas, Brighton's Green MP, signed a statement with Tory racists calling for David Miller to be Sacked</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As
a result of Oslo, on 16 November 1991 the UN passed </span><a href="https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-180327/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Resolution
46/86</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> overturning Resolution 3379. In exchange for minor
concessions the PLO agreed to recognise the Israeli state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
1993 PSC voted at an Emergency AGM to endorse the Oslo Accords believing that
Israel was going to agree to a Palestinian state. As I </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B36f4b3OvRxKS1lRd29NQnNsUUE/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-au_TO8LHHTCachLS81h6uA"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">predicted</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
at the time, the Oslo Accords, with the Palestinian Authority as </span><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230713-how-the-palestinian-authority-became-a-sub-contractor-for-israeli-security/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Israel’s
military subcontractor</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, substituted the faces of Israeli police
for Palestinian ones.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
resigned from PSC and it wasn’t until 2005 that I rejoined at the invitation of
PSC’s then General Secretary, Betty Hunter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On
6 April 2022 I </span><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2022/04/i-have-resigned-from-palestine.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">resigned</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
again when PSC removed opposition to Zionism from a new Constitution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In August 2022 I </span><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2022/08/my-conversation-with-ben-jamal-of.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">posted</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
an email exchange I had had with Ben Jamal, PSC’s Director concerning the
reasons for my resignation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtOuvYBCL3W-0E9ALyShJf1Lla1VfH-3gqmhD8mnAdFgtGqroY8q-ZwbMu-Kl6Pt_fNset36tf5pOqWzJNkhexSpt4VI_w9aUTgtkUoUg5kGU96tmQril4U_cvHTigW2y4JuiuMdkhKoGroJVRAZnV1RdJ8CyPSBeRAH3nKgotuW2V-ISGHL33PSZJ5_sm/s640/David%20Miller.jpg" style="font-family: "Arial Black", "sans-serif"; font-size: 26.6667px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="640" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtOuvYBCL3W-0E9ALyShJf1Lla1VfH-3gqmhD8mnAdFgtGqroY8q-ZwbMu-Kl6Pt_fNset36tf5pOqWzJNkhexSpt4VI_w9aUTgtkUoUg5kGU96tmQril4U_cvHTigW2y4JuiuMdkhKoGroJVRAZnV1RdJ8CyPSBeRAH3nKgotuW2V-ISGHL33PSZJ5_sm/w640-h372/David%20Miller.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
did not take this step lightly but I felt that to remain a member of an organisation
which was politically bankrupt and which consistently tried to appease the
British Establishment and the Zionists was pointless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Imagine
the Anti-Apartheid Movement confining itself to opposing human rights abuses by
the South African state whilst taking no position on Apartheid itself. By
refusing to oppose Zionism, PSC refuses to oppose the ideology of the Israeli
state that lies at the heart of its Jewish supremacist policies and ethnic cleansing.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">PSC’s Disastrous Failure to
Oppose the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Attacks on Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Left<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">PSC’s
most egregious error was to ignore the Zionist attacks on Corbyn and the newly
resurgent Labour Left. Corbyn had been PSC’s main parliamentary supporter. The
failure to stand up to those crying ‘anti-Semitism’ was a fatal error that led
to a serious defeat for the whole Palestine solidarity movement. It stemmed
from PSC’s desire to present itself to Britain’s pro-Zionist Establishment as a
safe and trustworthy pair of hands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
March 2016 I was singled out by the Jewish Labour Movement<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and </span><a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/notorious-anti-zionist-tony-greenstein-is-suspended-from-unison-union-for-three-years-l6r6w5bc"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">suspended</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
by the Labour Party. I </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/10kozSY-mGCVQfRma1Qq_T_3Po5wFBF_N/view?usp=sharing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
to PSC Secretary Ben Sofa on 11 April 2016 asking why PSC had been silent over
the ‘anti-Semitism’ attaacks. Ben </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WtJsr7zcWHFNAjygkTHK9N4qH2M3ijr5/view?usp=sharing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">responded</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
on 20 April in what was a master class in complacency. He wrote that <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">‘I make no apology for the fact that we do not engage in every debate
some would wish to involve us in.’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">First
I was suspended, then Jackie Walker, Ken Livingstone and Marc Wadsworth. More
were to follow as Corbyn buckled. Throughout this time PSC did absolutely
nothing. As far as they were concerned what was happening in the Labour Party
was a foreign country yet, as we have seen, the Zionists’ ‘anti-Semitism’
campaign spread into virtually every area of society. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">PSC
seemed oblivious to how false allegations of anti-Semitism were being used to
undermine solidarity with the Palestinians. They preferred engaging in routine activities
to taking on the Zionist enemy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6q1bBoFrCqwq6TulOeobawgqW7iJv5Fl1IMJeXvHgTWDK4W1sOFRV9hDpAbl5d9RC2bG0RROVGjEiwA5euGGyOBCJebssv3BoBvvSJHZ6E-xGqWFmHhsBFKbPYAWhebFesJOwLTFhson5bPtmzFGiXyV_2XkqLBI36wJo35u7V_6Zs439Ovc73_oJdBEs/s490/ihra%20no%20bds%20yes.jpg" style="font-family: "Arial Black", "sans-serif"; font-size: 26.6667px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="490" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6q1bBoFrCqwq6TulOeobawgqW7iJv5Fl1IMJeXvHgTWDK4W1sOFRV9hDpAbl5d9RC2bG0RROVGjEiwA5euGGyOBCJebssv3BoBvvSJHZ6E-xGqWFmHhsBFKbPYAWhebFesJOwLTFhson5bPtmzFGiXyV_2XkqLBI36wJo35u7V_6Zs439Ovc73_oJdBEs/w640-h512/ihra%20no%20bds%20yes.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">When
the Zionists, who at first pretended that their opposition to ‘anti-Semitism’
had nothing to do with Palestine, proposed that Labour adopt the </span><a href="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">IHRA
definition of anti-Semitism</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, which conflated anti-Zionism and
anti-Semitism, PSC continued to do nothing. Seven of the IHRA’s 11 ‘examples’
of anti-Semitism were to do with Israel not Jews. PSC refused to even support a
picket of Labour’s National Executive in September 2019 which approved the
IHRA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As
Stephen Sedley, a Jewish former Court of Appeal Judge wrote in </span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n09/stephen-sedley/defining-anti-semitism"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Defining
Anti-Semitism</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, the IHRA <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘fails the first test of any definition: it is indefinite.’ <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">PSC
confined themselves to writing letters to local authorities urging them not to
adopt the IHRA. PSC made a written submission to the Chakrabarti Inquiry and it
helped commission an </span><a href="https://freespeechonisrael.org.uk/ihra-opinion/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Opinion</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
on the IHRA from Hugh Tomlinson QC and that was it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: red;">PSC’s Alliance
with the Trade Union Bureaucracy<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">PSC’s
main achievement had been in the trade union movement. Most trade unions were affiliated
to it. PSC could have used these affiliations to fight back against the
adoption of the IHRA by increasing numbers of civil society groups at the
behest of the </span><a href="https://www.jewishlabour.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Jewish
Labour Movement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> and the Israeli Embassy funded </span><a href="https://www.lfi.org.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Labour Friends of Israel</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.
The trade unions controlled the Labour Party. PSC could have supported Corbyn
against his Zionist detractors but they chose not to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">When
PSC held a trade union conference in October 2019 I distributed leaflets opposing
<a name="a"></a>the IHRA at the conference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Prior to this I had </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fkJ5OY6hc5E3NQApE5qndlt7RM43hSNo/view?usp=sharing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">written</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">,
as had Brighton and Hove PSC, to Ben Sofa and Ben Jamal, PSC’s Director, asking
that the IHRA be placed on the agenda of the conference. What was Jamal’s
response? To throw me out of the conference for not having permission to
distribute the leaflets! Suffice to say the IHRA was not on the agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgym6fNQy4koVMvrWaRFbWVRYO-gnJ3uUuOtPhrS6ho-Wh6sQtYO-8XPtfgVvga31pjOYopZnC_u0cCy2c7w4RckvUjnFb_UfgGu2qZ1FVJqDYu5IYjx-a_n33KJKAWkUBtX97nlpNgw_v4JcvZX2FLzMufjdJ4gqFujPxY3uEPqwLsE5epscwNPnbOsd9V/s1045/David%20Miller%202.jpg" style="font-size: 20pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="1045" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgym6fNQy4koVMvrWaRFbWVRYO-gnJ3uUuOtPhrS6ho-Wh6sQtYO-8XPtfgVvga31pjOYopZnC_u0cCy2c7w4RckvUjnFb_UfgGu2qZ1FVJqDYu5IYjx-a_n33KJKAWkUBtX97nlpNgw_v4JcvZX2FLzMufjdJ4gqFujPxY3uEPqwLsE5epscwNPnbOsd9V/w640-h380/David%20Miller%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #274e13;">The IHRA and the
Sacking of David Miller<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">At
a time when the IHRA was being used to </span><a href="https://freespeechonisrael.org.uk/interference2017/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">attack</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
activists and academics, PSC sat on the sidelines. Over 150 local authorities
had adopted the IHRA. </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/03/uk-council-refused-to-host-palestinian-event-over-antisemitism-fears"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Big
Ride for Palestine</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> was banned by Tower Hamlets council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">One
particularly outrageous case was where the misnamed <a href="http://www.antisemitism.uk/">Campaign Against Antisemitism</a> </span><a href="https://antisemitism.uk/caa-exposes-lecturer-as-author-of-sickening-holocaust-article-but-university-of-bristol-defends-academic-freedom/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">attempted</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
to get Rebecca Gould, an academic at Bristol University sacked, because of an </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wnYCRx-oqb9Md8ANIl7PZBp1yrUi5mw0/view?usp=sharing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">article</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Beyond Anti-Semitism’</i> which she had
written on how the Holocaust and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘the
spectre of anti-Semitism’ </i>is used to suppress discussion of Palestinian
oppression. Even Kenneth Stern, the person who drafted the IHRA, </span><a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20171107/106610/HHRG-115-JU00-Wstate-SternK-20171107.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">condemned</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
this attack as ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">McCarthy like’</i> and ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chilling’.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEBevlXp6PKvbyRI-Giq2ffMBTEOQdEevBpwGOjSI24vybWGQ-WolGjDY_fbfivKhcaf3dSfYGtD9NpDiT-wjYzQX0BUdnDnHRXu_-chIAkZxhV6BFw535DY4AYsgqwbykArgWFPfkXrBnT3ENOyogO-lNsu8yYucfAopjaawDq5wsaO_KNGLZcW158Px6/s622/CAA%20target%20Rachel%20Gould.jpg" style="font-family: "Arial Black", "sans-serif"; font-size: 26.6667px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="622" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEBevlXp6PKvbyRI-Giq2ffMBTEOQdEevBpwGOjSI24vybWGQ-WolGjDY_fbfivKhcaf3dSfYGtD9NpDiT-wjYzQX0BUdnDnHRXu_-chIAkZxhV6BFw535DY4AYsgqwbykArgWFPfkXrBnT3ENOyogO-lNsu8yYucfAopjaawDq5wsaO_KNGLZcW158Px6/w640-h474/CAA%20target%20Rachel%20Gould.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Also
at Bristol University Professor David Miller was dismissed as a result of a Zionist
witchhunt. PSC <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">refused</b> to support
David because his research was into the Zionist lobby. Instead they put out an </span><a href="https://palestinecampaign.org/protectingpalrights/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">anodyne
statement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> which implicitly criticised him:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When addressing such issues, it is crucial to apply
depth, context, and clarity, and to avoid narratives that oversimplify the
interlinks between groups which oppose actions in support of Palestinian
rights, and Israeli state actors. Doing so obscures our understanding of the
way political actors’ function. At worst, it can risk drawing on anti-Semitic
tropes about Jewish power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Whilst some have criticised Professor
Miller for lacking such depth and clarity in the way he has couched his
remarks, those leading the call for Professor Miller to be sacked are
straightforwardly asserting that to define Zionism as a movement and political
ideology that is racist is inherently anti-Semitic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjznLqdFPtNi9_hP_fIXa6jttUBGH6YjZD3j40mXcRshyUfAHULkMB0qh0t4Ki1sVVq08gnn1t35GTdgo2siaeFAbo1xOD5TRF9uKOCoXeYz6M2V2Z7pZh5PBeY4lEothJ-Z96nA8ArtA4KTnywx74iHLkVJoRhNelv2Kmzmz15ccJOUpD4b6U_u_oe1Bj2/s400/rebecca%20gould.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="400" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjznLqdFPtNi9_hP_fIXa6jttUBGH6YjZD3j40mXcRshyUfAHULkMB0qh0t4Ki1sVVq08gnn1t35GTdgo2siaeFAbo1xOD5TRF9uKOCoXeYz6M2V2Z7pZh5PBeY4lEothJ-Z96nA8ArtA4KTnywx74iHLkVJoRhNelv2Kmzmz15ccJOUpD4b6U_u_oe1Bj2/w640-h476/rebecca%20gould.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">After
Miller’s dismissal PSC put out another </span><a href="https://palestinecampaign.org/psc-statement-on-bristol-universitys-sacking-of-professor-david-miller/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">statement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
which instead of condemning his dismissal called it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘deeply concerning and sets a dangerous precedent’</i>. It also failed
to call for his reinstatement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Today
David Miller has been vindicated after an Employment Tribunal <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/feb/05/uk-professor-suffered-discrimination-due-to-anti-zionist-beliefs-tribunal-rules">ruled</a>
that he had been unfairly dismissed and that anti-Zionism was a protected
belief under the </span><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Equality
Act 2000</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexhERW60a5C_ZjmcOQK020o-BOada4hBj06QlCVDfxnGtu8QXyi40Ud6bbzZTo_4laTYqSOtlLCwjii6nFRoW3RGEprSeOEyjUBpGeuKDRHdctAtm2ZIyRrwvJUDgnzCzhbVGlIvMOvM5up-xd01n5bGqfqJn6S5I3_ig7xJ8UyPl_Lcpj4dRe4-0uO-y/s3238/Letter%20to%20Caroline%20Lucas%20re%20David%20Miller%206.2.24.jpg" style="font-family: "Arial Black", "sans-serif"; font-size: 26.6667px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3238" data-original-width="1363" height="1367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexhERW60a5C_ZjmcOQK020o-BOada4hBj06QlCVDfxnGtu8QXyi40Ud6bbzZTo_4laTYqSOtlLCwjii6nFRoW3RGEprSeOEyjUBpGeuKDRHdctAtm2ZIyRrwvJUDgnzCzhbVGlIvMOvM5up-xd01n5bGqfqJn6S5I3_ig7xJ8UyPl_Lcpj4dRe4-0uO-y/w577-h1367/Letter%20to%20Caroline%20Lucas%20re%20David%20Miller%206.2.24.jpg" width="577" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b>I have written asking Caroline Lucas to Apologise for Her Previous Support for David Miller's Dismissal</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Internationally
the Zionist campaign to target anti-Zionists via the IHRA was proceeding apace.
The Bundestag in May 2019 </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/world/europe/germany-bds-anti-semitic.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">condemned</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
BDS as ‘anti-Semitic’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Why
then did PSC confine its activities to making paper submissions and writing letters?
The reason was PSC didn’t want to offend the trade union leaders who had given the
IHRA their support and they didn’t want to jeopardise their affiliations by
going to rank and file trade union members.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK4doExP5wxqkBGnR-abI6F2xIjkCDV6nQZVeP5m71P1nbfIOmWDoTkiZ_62YoT7av6LZAzJoNgr0-FyCRzAE3llh0wzfL2EFwXAvTqUQOxF1c2FqHiqSQJ8r9WsLoXc5Huwl1p-c4cPxhzF9gxs4UZz07P8oCzBVGGj4xq9WB2uLq-cYdBiGkcL4kPJCD/s860/Lisa%20Nandy%20speaking%20on%20PSC%20platform.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="634" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK4doExP5wxqkBGnR-abI6F2xIjkCDV6nQZVeP5m71P1nbfIOmWDoTkiZ_62YoT7av6LZAzJoNgr0-FyCRzAE3llh0wzfL2EFwXAvTqUQOxF1c2FqHiqSQJ8r9WsLoXc5Huwl1p-c4cPxhzF9gxs4UZz07P8oCzBVGGj4xq9WB2uLq-cYdBiGkcL4kPJCD/w472-h640/Lisa%20Nandy%20speaking%20on%20PSC%20platform.jpg" width="472" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b>One of the most despicable of Starmer's supporters Lisa Nandy, a vociferous supporter of Israel's genocide in Gaza that PSC put on its platforms</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Two States or a Unitary State? A
Failure to Explain What PSC Wants to Achieve<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">PSC
accepted that Israel was an Apartheid State but it refused to draw the obvious
conclusions, namely that if Israel was an apartheid, state, then it had to go.
It was afraid of saying that a Jewish state was an inherently racist state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This
was not a difficult thing to do. In January 2021 B’tselem, had not only </span><a href="https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is_apartheid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">declared</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
that Israel was an apartheid state but that there was a </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean
Sea. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Jewish Supremacy
was not a phrase PSC used.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosTo7futxWrhw9diyL7EMvUSnYAsPQf3CMAxJeNe2c1m9kBYDSPzFlQfNw4x3GN9EzSuzTXXoRF8ICpkDKNu9hk3JeOBCLv5WOveJw7IJUttxKO0zDEwgbonWOvacbdA7muHcOf9hTkfpn-M_sUw7KEClywHguedB3KweYIKN4k0hydDl3cIYOwi4k5vN/s716/nandy%201.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="632" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosTo7futxWrhw9diyL7EMvUSnYAsPQf3CMAxJeNe2c1m9kBYDSPzFlQfNw4x3GN9EzSuzTXXoRF8ICpkDKNu9hk3JeOBCLv5WOveJw7IJUttxKO0zDEwgbonWOvacbdA7muHcOf9hTkfpn-M_sUw7KEClywHguedB3KweYIKN4k0hydDl3cIYOwi4k5vN/w353-h400/nandy%201.jpg" width="353" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">This was followed up in April 2021 by Human
Rights Watch which </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">declared</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> ‘</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">A
Threshold Crossed - Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and
Persecution</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A year later Amnesty International </span><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">produced</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
a Report, ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Israel’s apartheid against
Palestinians’</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Declaring
for a unitary, democratic secular state was not difficult, except that PSC,
under the control of a tiny ex-Trotskyist group Socialist Action, alongside
various remnants of what had been the International Marxist Group, were
unwilling to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
2009 I </span><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/search?q=socialist+action"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">pointed
to</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
the role in PSC of the secretive Socialist Action<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>group which with Jon Lansman had colluded in
the ‘anti-Semitism’ witch-hunt in the Labour Party which the Jewish Chronicle
then </span><a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/secret-sect-giving-psc-mask-of-respectability-op6o1b8c"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">cited</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is_apartheid">Btselem</a>,
which started life as a liberal Zionist group, declared that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘More than 14
million people, roughly half of them Jews and the other half Palestinians, live
between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea under a single rule.’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb0C3e0sRA2cQPimiXyTqMWh6OuBJLyYgqRk8bVYXJXJ4jJXk89PL1FKH5eK_bitwtF1owJ5Brq92fXx6004H9oxMPZQEe2dv4L_YaD1uo5Uehk7NqUxkFxBNXGxOTSe0xmEwlDXbegjeyT3xtKElshOL-F_5cw3GcdRa6Ck9c4TyUzLZ1zUJGkzsyfn4l/s400/Jenny%20Tonge.jpg" style="font-family: "Arial Black", "sans-serif"; font-size: 26.6667px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="373" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb0C3e0sRA2cQPimiXyTqMWh6OuBJLyYgqRk8bVYXJXJ4jJXk89PL1FKH5eK_bitwtF1owJ5Brq92fXx6004H9oxMPZQEe2dv4L_YaD1uo5Uehk7NqUxkFxBNXGxOTSe0xmEwlDXbegjeyT3xtKElshOL-F_5cw3GcdRa6Ck9c4TyUzLZ1zUJGkzsyfn4l/w596-h640/Jenny%20Tonge.jpg" width="596" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>When Jenny Tonge Came Under Criticism From the Right-Wing Press PSC Abandoned Her</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">There
is already a single state in Palestine but one in which half the population
have no civil or political rights. PSC Executive’s pretext for refusing to
declare in favour of a unitary state was that it was up to the Palestinians to
decide this question but Palestinians are in no position to make any decision
but it is clear that given the choice Palestinians want to live in the whole of
historic Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">An
</span><a href="https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/what-do-palestinians-want"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">article</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Washington institute for Near
Eastern Policy </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>explained that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the two-state solution (this) is no longer a popular
position among Palestinians. Less than 40 percent of the Palestinian public—in
the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem—supports it over one-state
alternatives. Support for a two-state solution has declined steadily since
2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Further, most Palestinians believe that
a two-state solution is unlikely to emerge from the conflict. Instead, a
majority of them say they prefer to reclaim all of historic Palestine,
including the pre-1967 Israel. A one-state solution with Arabs and Jews holding
equal rights comes in second. Similarly, <a href="https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/823">recent polling</a> from PCPSR
finds support among Palestinians and Israeli Jews for a two-state solution<strong> </strong>has
dropped to 43 percent and 42 percent, respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">But
even if Palestinians did support a two-state solution then that would only be
because a state in the whole of Palestine was deemed impossible to achieve. PSC
is not addressing Palestinians but British people. When people ask what we
would like to see we should be clear – one state with equal rights for Jews and
Arabs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">One
state was the demand of the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa. Only far-right
White racists wanted a White state. The two-state solution in Palestine, which
the West supports, is an apartheid neo-colonial solution. It leaves a racist
Jewish state intact.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEOW33PXlP_MJAtMW3SSRgJj9XgEdfilbvwlA8FTd6xB66rk231zD0ntlzZljUIrgiHn4LaxVr3l-szQJS_kDsZdgvCxX5cxudunESSSrp8oxvzkuSewdq9FVT6Zano2yj7GQpYiheDTcBG9E1usg7yyKv-hel9YaMqKWNRJ_FlOvAQny-4VrceWRIIrde/s640/Thornberry%20&%20Nandy.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="640" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEOW33PXlP_MJAtMW3SSRgJj9XgEdfilbvwlA8FTd6xB66rk231zD0ntlzZljUIrgiHn4LaxVr3l-szQJS_kDsZdgvCxX5cxudunESSSrp8oxvzkuSewdq9FVT6Zano2yj7GQpYiheDTcBG9E1usg7yyKv-hel9YaMqKWNRJ_FlOvAQny-4VrceWRIIrde/w640-h318/Thornberry%20&%20Nandy.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
real reason why PSC won’t support a one state solution is the trade unions. All
Britain’s unions support 2 States. This allows them to support both the
Palestinians and the Zionists. Not for the first time trade union leaders have
faced both ways. On the one hand supporting Israel and on the other supporting its
victims.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">We
saw this during the height of the false anti-Semitism campaign. Dave Prentis,
the General Secretary of UNISON, pledged his support for the Palestinians and
on the other hand </span><a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2018/08/why-labour-must-adopt-full-ihra-definition-anti-semitism"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
in the New Statesman ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why Labour must
adopt the full IHRA definition of anti-Semitism.’</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Why
could Prentis and other union leaders do this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because historically the unions have been supporters of British imperialism.
Instead of confronting unions with the choice of supporting an apartheid state
or a democratic state, two states allows them to face both ways at the same
time. They can support Israel (dressed up as opposition to ‘anti-Semitism’) and
also support the Palestinians. It enables people like Prentis to work openly
with the JLM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-JOu7ipifUOKgcrUuoAl7H5fgkKzfPXZxbhGfVnkbHDDTNTgLxou26J2tK3iRYpzV3QfJgoZxeSvlk1_9aQg9Mm592Ja1BeC9vD2mTgg7l6pf1Ryyxl90AhhrOwFWmmt_5q3khw549yOgDRecBJh-mVI-HYuknAWO-GdX5SjncCBdAaynjik7aqBJDLuA/s790/palestine%20demonstration.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="790" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-JOu7ipifUOKgcrUuoAl7H5fgkKzfPXZxbhGfVnkbHDDTNTgLxou26J2tK3iRYpzV3QfJgoZxeSvlk1_9aQg9Mm592Ja1BeC9vD2mTgg7l6pf1Ryyxl90AhhrOwFWmmt_5q3khw549yOgDRecBJh-mVI-HYuknAWO-GdX5SjncCBdAaynjik7aqBJDLuA/w640-h366/palestine%20demonstration.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Palestine Solidarity Campaign is
a Human Rights NGO not a Political, Campaigning Organisation<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Because
PSC supports a two-state solution i.e. a ‘Jewish’ state and a Palestinian
state, it sees its role as primarily one of opposing human rights abuses and in
the current context Israel’s genocide. It allows the field to be clear for the
Zionists and their ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Since
October 7 there have been a number of very large demonstrations in support of
the Palestinians in Gaza. PSC has been one of </span><a href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/who-are-the-six-groups-organising-the-pro-palestinian-protests-113037580.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIWjiMDFmp5Qf_cl9Xim5hgWWgn-AD_kHjS4snwuh02xU_lxq6qC0ixADEvtBf3qoy1-Uaf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">6
organisations</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> - CND, Stop the War Coalition, Friends
of Al Aqsa, the Palestinian Forum and the Muslim Association of Britain
organising the demonstrations. By itself PSC is incapable, given its past record,
of mobilising more than 5,000 people. In reality the demonstrations built
themselves as people spontaneously joined them, appalled as they were by the
continuing genocide in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">PSC’s Strategy
of ‘Mainstreaming’<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #990000;">Emily
Thornberry at Labour Friends of Israel dinner<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
strategy of PSC is to mainstream the issue of Palestine. What this means is
attempting to get the British state to adopt a pro-Palestinian position by
winning over the Establishment. It is doomed to failure, as we have seen over
Gaza, because it fails to take account of the fact that the British state is an
imperialist state. The British Establishment is committed to its financial,
economic and political interests world wide. Palestinians come very far down
their list of priorities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7lsQa4xQEjEbaK5Nqp3k5XNjw5PiP2XkUaZ1kuMODr895q-iMURIo76W5mhyphenhyphenq3wKEEYYrEmFxCsB_JtcI_sTWhRwKs2XxBJHJJJhzqs-PinYmzJYQGbjrmdUIEfq9Zx9K7oU-O28kk28ltydnkLXO7HsSA9t0FoMiRvVpRjzWPFQFjN7HTv3hkDXeCPF/s750/Thornberry%20at%20LFI.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7lsQa4xQEjEbaK5Nqp3k5XNjw5PiP2XkUaZ1kuMODr895q-iMURIo76W5mhyphenhyphenq3wKEEYYrEmFxCsB_JtcI_sTWhRwKs2XxBJHJJJhzqs-PinYmzJYQGbjrmdUIEfq9Zx9K7oU-O28kk28ltydnkLXO7HsSA9t0FoMiRvVpRjzWPFQFjN7HTv3hkDXeCPF/w640-h426/Thornberry%20at%20LFI.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Anti-imperialism
plays no part in PSC’s politics. That is why PSC has put on its platform vile Zionists
like Emily Thornberry who </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRaFmJuKBBo"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">declared</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
at an LFI dinner that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'Israel is a Beacon
of Freedom and Democracy' </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>before
going on to </span><a href="https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/emily-thornberry-defends-israel-and-says-antisemites-will-be-drummed-out-of-the-labour-party"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">say</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
that supporters of the Palestinians (who she called ‘anti-Semites’) should be ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">drummed out of the party.’<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I support the Palestinians that is enough and I support Hamas against the Israeli army <a href="https://t.co/ICv99vWQAW">https://t.co/ICv99vWQAW</a></i></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">— Tony Greenstein (@TonyGreenstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyGreenstein/status/1724633665810898969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></i></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiUknjuPkJMzOJ8zcbhKqph3mE4Caq1ztR7vBSjNP_zbtV6OnLf093qdlPBX2oYNLEa_CTMbAVLPht_GSiKA6e9ee6f7gB_3jr4f4gaoX3sgNKjRtiuhSoXPp6Y15B422OApojOh267RUlRrvRchCHzjWnybvT9pxKuVLO5NO-PaWhW8VLmwhv_1N6Cq-6/s976/PALESTINE%20ACTION.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiUknjuPkJMzOJ8zcbhKqph3mE4Caq1ztR7vBSjNP_zbtV6OnLf093qdlPBX2oYNLEa_CTMbAVLPht_GSiKA6e9ee6f7gB_3jr4f4gaoX3sgNKjRtiuhSoXPp6Y15B422OApojOh267RUlRrvRchCHzjWnybvT9pxKuVLO5NO-PaWhW8VLmwhv_1N6Cq-6/w640-h360/PALESTINE%20ACTION.jpg" width="640" /></a> </p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;">Palestine Solidarity Campaign as
a Wannabee Establishment Group<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">PSC
and its Director Ben Jamal reacted with horror when <a href="https://www.palestineaction.org/">Palestine Action</a>, which was set up
about 4 years ago, began a campaign of direct action against Elbit’s arms
factories and those who were trading with it. They immediately attacked it, got
the <a href="https://bdsmovement.net/bnc">Boycott National Committee</a> to do
the same and issued bogus legal advice about the dangers of PSC branches
supporting Palestine Action.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gDGsfGUFKceNXoCQZCfAV9_aNBcLZw_P6ll7V1d5yA51ATu74Z2F8dyDo-FE5ZYo0E_zrjAadfzwdXmIMJn4RPyDkA9a_AYFGhg0ObCSKhz66QPE2R-ZMAPmLWLMwYzjMyi4e13cwWjEvf7_I4LpxsUN315L7TGHqmbPRrg9Fyiucf31iaHu1IeMJee1/s1282/PSC%20Legal%20Warning%20re%20Palestine%20Action.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="1282" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gDGsfGUFKceNXoCQZCfAV9_aNBcLZw_P6ll7V1d5yA51ATu74Z2F8dyDo-FE5ZYo0E_zrjAadfzwdXmIMJn4RPyDkA9a_AYFGhg0ObCSKhz66QPE2R-ZMAPmLWLMwYzjMyi4e13cwWjEvf7_I4LpxsUN315L7TGHqmbPRrg9Fyiucf31iaHu1IeMJee1/w640-h412/PSC%20Legal%20Warning%20re%20Palestine%20Action.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">However
the popularity of PA amongst PSC activists led PSC’s Executive to have to accept
support for PA at the 2022 conference. However PSC have done zilch to implement
that policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVYEqkYuOhH-yOvChMS5aOkRrOEad9r7YICUTSmJ6t9r21CAQIyROLDdqzRhrEJ4-nbhnyH6FYw8OOTqStIzuDBjqOVv9qvJCvYhxA3HhEnMZqvwqcBLeZmJ0cQnECmrA6vTEBW6JpU3Iil-BT80l6n5OGmTmgRh9aGGEudtszfEgfpPrvyrtmkNPxu9e7/s792/Mick%20Napier%20&%20TG%20arrested.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="792" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVYEqkYuOhH-yOvChMS5aOkRrOEad9r7YICUTSmJ6t9r21CAQIyROLDdqzRhrEJ4-nbhnyH6FYw8OOTqStIzuDBjqOVv9qvJCvYhxA3HhEnMZqvwqcBLeZmJ0cQnECmrA6vTEBW6JpU3Iil-BT80l6n5OGmTmgRh9aGGEudtszfEgfpPrvyrtmkNPxu9e7/w640-h366/Mick%20Napier%20&%20TG%20arrested.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">When
Mick Napier and I were arrested under the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/contents">Terrorism Act 2000</a>
before Xmas Electronic Intifada <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/anti-terror-arrests-uk-over-support-palestinian-resistance">contacted</a>
them. What was their reaction?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No one is available to comment</i>’. The British
State is using ‘terrorism’ against Palestine solidarity activists and PSC has
nothing to say about this attack on our freedom to speak out on Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7I5MZyTdFuB-jyFrxbFaio13DyBDdP5L0TJZfCEQFBUDUn3Tej3EgiGHgfelpjLWVYON9trI16VQvw5KBd_a1GBsEfXu9FF0fEW-tsD3ps5QTUds9zY9OKwaVxSd81JqP3v-cm3sM6x22-5RmYNz7ZFzsmhMG1tbOBRdjSx4aB95gR-mVbA8jiQx3tGx4/s786/Manchester%20PSC.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="786" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7I5MZyTdFuB-jyFrxbFaio13DyBDdP5L0TJZfCEQFBUDUn3Tej3EgiGHgfelpjLWVYON9trI16VQvw5KBd_a1GBsEfXu9FF0fEW-tsD3ps5QTUds9zY9OKwaVxSd81JqP3v-cm3sM6x22-5RmYNz7ZFzsmhMG1tbOBRdjSx4aB95gR-mVbA8jiQx3tGx4/w640-h512/Manchester%20PSC.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This statement from the Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign is appalling. <br /><br />And certainly one for the authorities.<br /><br />It is right there on their website: <a href="https://t.co/PWZLSsKaeO">https://t.co/PWZLSsKaeO</a><br /><br />"The brave fighters gave us all a glimpse of a liberated Palestine"<a href="https://twitter.com/PSCupdates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PSCupdates</a> @ManchesterPSC <a href="https://t.co/SgSnlNeYab">pic.twitter.com/SgSnlNeYab</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1717187507610120395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">PSC Attacks Its
Own Members<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">PSC took
fright when the 7 October breakout from Gaza concentration camp happened. They demanded
that Manchester PSC take down a post from its website supporting the breakout. Harry
Cole, political editor of <em>The Sun</em>, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1717187507610120395"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">called</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> the Manchester post “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">appalling</i>” and suggested it was a matter
for the police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Despite
the branch complying with PSC’s demands, PSC decided to suspend the officers of
Manchester PSC anyway. As a result Manchester PSC has formally cut ties with
PSC nationally and is now an independent group. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See </span><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/uk-palestine-solidarity-campaign-punishes-manchester-branch"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">UK Palestine Solidarity Campaign
punishes Manchester branch</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrj6uVzpVDmyqtg-02RI8A-5aCYzlCW8MzArW6smflc4ipOnVI92DzPLBmT-Z0WFrtNAI7MgcLjJpqbWUt3Et_f-9TcUWT0DGWmHyM5HUv2ZZSxWr8Lz6ocIKYWe3GI2fAQOOQRwcZPTlYpfK5sAmkTrv3AuZ4RH3X5g_GTZyvwj29nj6K-kIfG18t000C/s698/Abbas%20-%20sacred.jpg" style="font-family: "Arial Black", "sans-serif"; font-size: 26.6667px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="616" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrj6uVzpVDmyqtg-02RI8A-5aCYzlCW8MzArW6smflc4ipOnVI92DzPLBmT-Z0WFrtNAI7MgcLjJpqbWUt3Et_f-9TcUWT0DGWmHyM5HUv2ZZSxWr8Lz6ocIKYWe3GI2fAQOOQRwcZPTlYpfK5sAmkTrv3AuZ4RH3X5g_GTZyvwj29nj6K-kIfG18t000C/w564-h640/Abbas%20-%20sacred.jpg" width="564" /></a></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;">PSC Refuses
to Condemn the Palestinian Authority<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Despite
its role as Israel’s military subcontractor, arresting Palestinians and handing
them over to Israel, PSC has refused to utter a word of criticism of this
Quisling Authority. A third of the PA’s budget goes on security, the highest in
the world. Its security forces operate on behalf of the Israeli military. The
PA are used to suppress demonstrations and opposition by Palestinians to Israel’s
occupation. Mahmoud Abbas, its notional ‘President’ considers cooperation
between the Israeli state and the PA as ‘</span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-vows-to-uphold-sacred-security-coordination-with-israel/"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">sacred</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBc06Zvmws7lD4_Xw9gDpfb6mTs1sIB5eWYPm7KLeGO5hdzYwEHo-4tZTPVyCewckTy6aDhuoSNArE6hf7pXzBzEi6AlnASjFTm8apKr0Ax9i9igCJhq3WkPkXWisMY_vbpR6MXdtGkAhwXnw7CPcdMLnIyeKDl_pI2NXz3XMUdF2khifxxhG7EnBfylcW/s646/Nizar%20Banat.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="634" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBc06Zvmws7lD4_Xw9gDpfb6mTs1sIB5eWYPm7KLeGO5hdzYwEHo-4tZTPVyCewckTy6aDhuoSNArE6hf7pXzBzEi6AlnASjFTm8apKr0Ax9i9igCJhq3WkPkXWisMY_vbpR6MXdtGkAhwXnw7CPcdMLnIyeKDl_pI2NXz3XMUdF2khifxxhG7EnBfylcW/w628-h640/Nizar%20Banat.jpg" width="628" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
security services of the PA are a bunch of thugs who in August 2021 </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/31/nizar-banats-death-highlights-brutality-of-palestinian-authority"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">murdered</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> Palestinian activist Nizar Banat. My
resolution to PSC AGM condemning his murder was opposed by PSC Executive and the
sheep present voted it down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
invasion of Gaza by Israel and the resulting genocide have created a mass
movement in support of the Palestinians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That movement will not always be around although Israel’s image will
have been irreparably damaged. It is important that the opportunity should be
taken now, when most groups that have sprung up – from Parents for Palestine to
School students groups – have no connection with PSC to take steps to form a
genuine, anti-imperialist solidarity movement and not a glorified NGO. We have
no time to lose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Tony
Greenstein <o:p></o:p></span></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-4722748810995955582024-01-28T11:00:00.004+00:002024-01-28T11:00:53.057+00:00Hugely Successful Holocaust Memorial Day Meeting Last Night - Israel and Zionism Represents the Perpetrators not the Victims of the Holocaust<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #990000;">The Israeli State,
instead of being Recompense for the Extermination of Europe’s Jews, is the Embodiment
of the Nazi Policies of Lebensraum and Racial Resettlement</span></span></b> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJk_h-rFL54vMchNgPDu1C96pW_pbfOUk9jkcykUgFcaEagkbuok7msszEmEsppcYN3Sx10tCS2Tme6LCTEMB8mY827vRICnvGU71co3infBTMNXde6DqzdFC0ua_uyqo3YDexjZIVmcSX6rnfOOg0JCAN_Oq3gwFfSZacPPDlKrhz0VaZ0vqgmti7ET6F/s1280/Himmler's%20October%2043%20speeches.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="1280" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJk_h-rFL54vMchNgPDu1C96pW_pbfOUk9jkcykUgFcaEagkbuok7msszEmEsppcYN3Sx10tCS2Tme6LCTEMB8mY827vRICnvGU71co3infBTMNXde6DqzdFC0ua_uyqo3YDexjZIVmcSX6rnfOOg0JCAN_Oq3gwFfSZacPPDlKrhz0VaZ0vqgmti7ET6F/w640-h218/Himmler's%20October%2043%20speeches.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Holocaust Memorial Day
Meeting 27.1.24.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Above is the recording of our hugely
successful Holocaust Memorial Day meeting last night. 333 people attended from
25 countries and every continent including 218 from the UK, 38 from South
Africa, 27 from the United States and 12 from Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Instead of this being a typical Zionist Holocaust
Memorial Day meeting, using the memory of the Holocaust to reinforce the racist,
genocidal Israeli state, there were a series of speakers who spoke of the liberation
of humanity from the imperialist order which led to the Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">The meeting was chaired by Esther Giles from the Socialist Labour Network. </span>Speakers included the foremost Israeli historian
of the Nakba, Ilan Pappe; Ronnie Kasrils,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the former leader of the ANC’s military wing, Umkonte we Sizwe and
former Police Minister under Mandela. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgunuDGaGj3Ld0mFpbfvjkIDIbsVcNDriQUyo4e0-jf2-9uSCyf5gHxSJWLZD4rOaLdJd73ebJ2Or1h8_JsUZIPmX_sO7Jxbo_B9JP_WfF57IOjzDfit2Q-mHRiJVeYjZElcy9FFpC9jTvlhckZ9j8N0FQx2-Cbno4cBMhv5X-8WK21xsA4DaXtCNhEKvaM/s1900/Pro-Palestinian%20demonstrators%20outside%20the%20international%20court%20of%20justice%20on%20Friday.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1900" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgunuDGaGj3Ld0mFpbfvjkIDIbsVcNDriQUyo4e0-jf2-9uSCyf5gHxSJWLZD4rOaLdJd73ebJ2Or1h8_JsUZIPmX_sO7Jxbo_B9JP_WfF57IOjzDfit2Q-mHRiJVeYjZElcy9FFpC9jTvlhckZ9j8N0FQx2-Cbno4cBMhv5X-8WK21xsA4DaXtCNhEKvaM/w640-h384/Pro-Palestinian%20demonstrators%20outside%20the%20international%20court%20of%20justice%20on%20Friday.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Ghada Kharmi, a Palestinian doctor who
was expelled with her family from Jerusalem in 1948 and a prolific author and academic, the latest book being One State, Suzanne Weiss, who as a
child was hidden by the Jewish resistance from the Nazis in Auvergne, France;
Stephen Kapos, who was hidden by the Holy Cross church group from the Nazis and
the fascist Iron Cross in Budapest and Tony Greenstein from the SLN and Jewish Network for Palestine, the first Jewish member
of the Labour Party to be expelled and author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zionism During the Holocaust.</i></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We intend to repeat this meeting next
year. Never Again must the Zionists be allowed to lay claim to the memory of
the Jewish dead of the Holocaust. They represent the perpetrators not the
victims of the Holocaust.</span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">When Yoav Gallant, Israel’s Defence
Minister, called Palestinians <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Human
Animals’ </i>he was <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/exterminationist-mindset-heinrich-himmlers-october-1943-speeches">repeating</a>
word for word Himmler’s October 1943 Speeches in Poznan, Poland calling Jews <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Human Animals’. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It is important that we do not allow the
Zionists to colonise HMD and thus trash the memory of the Jews and others who
died at the hands of the fascist barbarians. There is no one and nothing that
is closer to these fascists than the regime in Tel Aviv whose closest friends today
are those very same fascists – from our own Tommy Robinson to people like Geert
Wilders, Germany’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Afd </i>and Norway’s <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2011/8/2/islamophobia-zionism-and-the-norway-massacre">Anders
Breivik</a>, to say nothing of Trump and Bannon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">The
United States and its British Poodle Cut Food Aid to those Already Starving<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Channel 4
Interview with Chris Gunnis, former spokesperson for <o:p></o:p></span></b><b style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">UNRWA</span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It was no surprise that the war criminals
who govern us – Biden, Sunak, Scholtz and the rest immediately cut of all aid
to UNWRA, the UN agency responsible for feeding the Palestinian refugees. Israel
has <a href="https://www.jns.org/israel-wants-unrwa-out-of-gaza/">long desired</a>
to eliminate UNWRA altogether. It is as Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the <span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">UNWRA</span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b>said, collective punishment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But even if the allegations are true,
even if some <span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">UNWRA</span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b>staff did participate in October 7, so what? Resistance
against an occupier is allowed under international law and is the right of any
occupied people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaxhOO4P_uGl5RBDZAW94xUTp8jJ9HrU-8AOphpU_mJfwbWseM2nI77_evNNwMCWGS3mbl5G_L5-LEFSuGN9gq2D-DoeOX4kC_tVR5uzfmcV_VPMqHw7y1JgPk3fi0h-M6L1tPHCaEcaajEI9vpO7Bvu6PA0npxuKyxCpdfxLhsU5all3l8JNw5nTiR5rU/s958/Ad%202%202024.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="958" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaxhOO4P_uGl5RBDZAW94xUTp8jJ9HrU-8AOphpU_mJfwbWseM2nI77_evNNwMCWGS3mbl5G_L5-LEFSuGN9gq2D-DoeOX4kC_tVR5uzfmcV_VPMqHw7y1JgPk3fi0h-M6L1tPHCaEcaajEI9vpO7Bvu6PA0npxuKyxCpdfxLhsU5all3l8JNw5nTiR5rU/w640-h472/Ad%202%202024.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Most people will understand what the
real motive is behind this decision. The leaders of western imperialism don’t
even bother to hide their anger at the decision of the International Court of
Justice at the Hague, weak as it was, that the case that the United States said
was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-lambasts-meritless-south-african-request-for-icj-to-charge-israel-with-genocide/">meritless’</a>
</i>was upheld by the ICJ who considered genocide <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘plausible’</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The decision to attack <span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">UNWRA</span> is clearly
in retaliation for against the decision to go to the ICJ. Such is the nature of
the ‘rules based order’. See below two articles from Mondoweiss. Naturally Israel’s
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/26/israeli-officials-accuse-international-court-of-justice-of-antisemitic-bias">response</a>
was to accuse the ICJ of anti-Semitism!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The go to explanation for all criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHIXnIErxDo5BgaqlzFUPtzxaCNJ-B_yvpmnPSeW-zda2WlT8kHgoe5WZUcwyfhONzybvo2b1hgiBJ5_RNw6FVg5PzT37ohpCrNHC-WuG9qPOmuwnPHq9JjWBBOEnwmUvr4s8nCxgYUU3C4v0dFPuh_hM2qTNSa-huQiEiX01-xtbR42M3C5PxtlTf8XkK/s1900/Israel%E2%80%99s%20deputy%20attorney%20general%20Gilad%20Noam%20and%20lawyer%20Malcolm%20Shaw%20in%20The%20Hague%20on%20Friday.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1900" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHIXnIErxDo5BgaqlzFUPtzxaCNJ-B_yvpmnPSeW-zda2WlT8kHgoe5WZUcwyfhONzybvo2b1hgiBJ5_RNw6FVg5PzT37ohpCrNHC-WuG9qPOmuwnPHq9JjWBBOEnwmUvr4s8nCxgYUU3C4v0dFPuh_hM2qTNSa-huQiEiX01-xtbR42M3C5PxtlTf8XkK/w640-h384/Israel%E2%80%99s%20deputy%20attorney%20general%20Gilad%20Noam%20and%20lawyer%20Malcolm%20Shaw%20in%20The%20Hague%20on%20Friday.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Never before has it been so obvious that
Western support has nothing to do with Jews or anti-Semitism and everything to
do with Western interests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">However in their desire to support the
West’s attack dog in the Middle East the west’s war mongers are risking setting
the whole of the region on fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If the Arab regimes, the Houthis apart,
weren’t so cowardly and subservient to the West, the genocide in Gaza could have
been stopped in its tracks long ago. An oil embargo, as in 1973, would have
forced the United States to reign in their racist Rottweiler.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tony Greenstein</span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-113-a-day-after-icj-ruling-u-s-and-allies-withdraw-funding-to-unrwa/?ml_recipient=111534606096794734&ml_link=111534540210570402&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-01-27&utm_campai"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">UNRWA once again in the crosshairs</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">On the very day that the ICJ ordered for Israel to ensure the
unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, Washington saw fit to <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/biden-cuts-off-life-saving-aid-to-palestinians-based-on-israeli-allegations-against-unrwa/">cut
off all funding to UNRWA</a>, the United Nations agency for Palestinian
refugees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The decision came after Israel claimed that 12 UNRWA workers
had been involved in the October 7 attack. UNRWA has said that it has <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/serious-allegations-against-unrwa-staff-gaza-strip">terminated
the contracts</a> of these workers as it commissions an <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/horrified-allegations-implicating-un-staff-7-october-terror-attacks-israel-secretary-general-orders-investigation-termination-staff-found-be-involved">independent
investigation</a> into the allegations — but the United Kingdom, Australia,
Italy, and Canada have <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-canada-australia-united-states-funding-unrwa-united-nations-hamas-israel/">followed
the U.S.’s lead</a> and pulled their funding of the organization.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjedb9uOfgqbWxLt-Wg9HPMFWau3DJYYam69g7Im0Fu7tQsOD85IRugfbJQqg3itSqtpmxsqeOl5vOgq02BPxQBX8GFqzTu3sG-3zUMu3gKJWidcNAx-t2Fl5oRvVGgKO9UXvmqN02xtaHxU5JmWOgm5LHO1sb-YmrMiPvw-uhoMLPc9P2FiPgQROeSE3HB/s600/Pro-Palestinian%20protesters%20in%20front%20of%20the%20International%20Court%20of%20Justice%20prior%20to%20the%20judges'%20ruling%20on%20emergency%20measures%20against%20Israel%20on%20Friday.webp" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="600" height="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjedb9uOfgqbWxLt-Wg9HPMFWau3DJYYam69g7Im0Fu7tQsOD85IRugfbJQqg3itSqtpmxsqeOl5vOgq02BPxQBX8GFqzTu3sG-3zUMu3gKJWidcNAx-t2Fl5oRvVGgKO9UXvmqN02xtaHxU5JmWOgm5LHO1sb-YmrMiPvw-uhoMLPc9P2FiPgQROeSE3HB/w640-h445/Pro-Palestinian%20protesters%20in%20front%20of%20the%20International%20Court%20of%20Justice%20prior%20to%20the%20judges'%20ruling%20on%20emergency%20measures%20against%20Israel%20on%20Friday.webp" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In an election year during which he is trying to convince the
American public that he is the only alternative to the return of Donald Trump
to the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden is following his predecessor’s
lead, as Trump had partially suspended funding to UNRWA in 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“We call on
the countries that announced the cessation of their support for UNRWA to
immediately reverse their decision, which entails great political and
humanitarian relief risks, as at this particular time and in light of the
continuing aggression against the Palestinian people, we need the maximum
support for this international organization and not stopping support and
assistance to it,” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Hussein
al-Sheikh <a href="https://twitter.com/HusseinSheikhpl/status/1751185380160741646">wrote on
X</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hamas, meanwhile, called on the United Nations “not to yield
to the threats and blackmails.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“We stress the
importance of the role of these agencies in providing relief to our people and
documenting the crimes of the occupation, which exceed the most horrific crimes
known to humanity in our modern era,”</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">JEREMY CORBYN: Britain joining other countries in suspending funding for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UNRWA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UNRWA</a> amounts to collective punishment.<br /><br />FOLLOW OUR LIVE BLOG:<a href="https://t.co/qfIcCqdo1Q">https://t.co/qfIcCqdo1Q</a> <a href="https://t.co/RjPYGNnJI4">pic.twitter.com/RjPYGNnJI4</a></span></p><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) <a href="https://twitter.com/PalestineChron/status/1751376515491667998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the movement said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Even as the U.S. appears steadfast in siding with Israel,
Biden is <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/palestinians-are-taking-the-biden-administration-to-court-this-week/">facing
legal trouble at home</a> over his administration’s failure to stop the ongoing
genocide in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Palestinians <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/01/26/palestinians-biden-genocide-lawsuit-ccr/">testified
on Friday</a> in front of a federal court, in a case brought forth by the
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against Biden, Secretary of State Antony
Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, arguing that the three
high-ranking officials are liable under U.S. law for complicity in Israel’s
violations of the Genocide Convention. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9GeDKn1tEddVTYCUItXgrsSKWoAjRS96KFJdxJWjiXZR5PKZ9rXFlQuLjpMhGoBMacaR3oQJk27zB5vISTG2POWm1T7LZQsNUJB4p1KgWRv0sn6imFYl7x6hVPMaXV9Ax93yICrW_0tW-eMPHDYjnz3Tl5rFna4Is5TUl2a2SnERqTokZOfgY6TcHxBaW/s1061/unwra.jpg" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1061" data-original-width="839" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9GeDKn1tEddVTYCUItXgrsSKWoAjRS96KFJdxJWjiXZR5PKZ9rXFlQuLjpMhGoBMacaR3oQJk27zB5vISTG2POWm1T7LZQsNUJB4p1KgWRv0sn6imFYl7x6hVPMaXV9Ax93yICrW_0tW-eMPHDYjnz3Tl5rFna4Is5TUl2a2SnERqTokZOfgY6TcHxBaW/w506-h640/unwra.jpg" width="506" /></a></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/biden-cuts-off-life-saving-aid-to-palestinians-based-on-israeli-allegations-against-unrwa/?ml_recipient=111534606096794734&ml_link=111534540217910436&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-01-27&utm_campaign=Dai"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Biden cuts off
life-saving aid to Palestinians based on Israeli allegations against UNRWA</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The State Department has paused funding for
UNRWA after the Israeli government accused 12 employees of being involved in
the October 7 attack.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The State Department <a href="https://www.state.gov/statement-on-unrwa-allegations/">paused</a>
additional funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after the Israeli government accused 12 UNRWA
workers of being involved in the October 7 Hamas attack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A press statement from State Department spokesperson Matthew
Miller said the Biden administration was “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">extremely
troubled by the allegations.”</i> Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken
with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to emphasize the necessity of a thorough and swift investigation of
this matter.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">UNRWA has already terminated the staffers and opened an
investigation into the allegations. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The
Israeli authorities have provided UNRWA with information about the alleged
involvement of several UNRWA employees in the horrific attacks on Israel on
October 7,”</i> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-palestinian-refugee-agency-investigates-staff-suspected-role-israel-attacks-2024-01-26/">said</a>
UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“To protect
the agency’s ability to deliver humanitarian assistance, I have taken the
decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these staff members and
launch an investigation in order to establish the truth without delay.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">UNRWA COMMISSIONER-GENERAL: <br /><br />The suspension of the agency's funding is shocking and threatens humanitarian work in the region, especially in Gaza. <br /><br />I call on countries that suspended funding to reconsider their decisions.<br /><br />FOLLOW OUR LIVE BLOG:<a href="https://t.co/qfIcCqdo1Q">https://t.co/qfIcCqdo1Q</a> <a href="https://t.co/GLM6gfpgqr">pic.twitter.com/GLM6gfpgqr</a></span></p><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) <a href="https://twitter.com/PalestineChron/status/1751354757514469446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Many have noted that UNRWA provides life-saving aid to more
than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Based on
unproven allegations alone, the U.S. has cut off funding to UNRWA, one of few
groups which provides crucial on the ground aid to Palestinians,”</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <a href="https://x.com/codepink/status/1750954946965500308?s=20">said</a> the
antiwar group CODEPINK. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Yet, as Israel
commits war crime after war crime, the U.S. continues sending weapons.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The US is
collectively punishing Palestinians, who rely on UNRWA to survive, based on
Israeli allegations against 0.0004% of UNRWA’s staff. Outrageous,”</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <a href="https://x.com/theIMEU/status/1750947848546623753?s=20">said</a> the
Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Biden administration’s announcement comes on the same day
that the UN’s top court <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/icj-orders-israel-to-prevent-genocidal-acts-in-gaza-and-punish-calls-for-incitement/">ordered</a>
Israel to prevent genocidal acts Gaza and a U.S. court began hearing a <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/palestinians-are-taking-the-biden-administration-to-court-this-week/">lawsuit</a>
accusing Israel of genocide.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">NEW: The State Department has put a temporary hold on funding for UNRWA, the main UN agency in Gaza, following allegations that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks in Israel <a href="https://t.co/HXtr7AzISa">pic.twitter.com/HXtr7AzISa</a></span></p><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobbieGramer/status/1750895411563213272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">NEW: The State Department has put a temporary hold on funding for UNRWA, the main UN agency in Gaza, following allegations that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks in Israel <a href="https://t.co/HXtr7AzISa">pic.twitter.com/HXtr7AzISa</a></p>— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobbieGramer/status/1750895411563213272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Commentators questioned the State Department’s timing across
social media. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“So, the US
State Dept drops a rather significant statement on (unsubstantiated) allegations
against UNRWA workers and pulling funding on the day of the ICJ ruling which
finds sufficient evidence for plausible genocidal acts—- and decides there’s no
need for a press briefing,” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://x.com/SanaSaeed/status/1750934131335127284?s=20">wrote</a> AJ+’s
Sana Saeed. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Honestly, this would be
masterful manufacturing of the news if it wasn’t so transparent.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The US chose
to stop funds to UNRWA only an hour after the ICJ decision,” <a href="https://x.com/imanabid_/status/1750932413331415324?s=20">tweeted</a> <em>USCPR</em> Organizing
& Advocacy Director Iman Abid. “Israel kills over 33,000
Palestinians and the US still continues to negotiate an increase in funding to
Israel. I don’t know what more you need to know about this administration.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant praised the move on
Twitter. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Major changes need to take
place so that international efforts, funds and humanitarian initiatives don’t
fuel Hamas terrorism and the murder of Israelis,”</i> he wrote. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Terrorism under the guise of humanitarian
work is a disgrace to the UN and the principles it claims to represent.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In December, UNRWA <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/un-refugee-agency-says-142-employees-killed-in-gaza-since-oct-7/3091486">announced</a>
that Israel’s onslaught against Gaza had killed 142 employees of the
organization. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-75716053024161289942024-01-27T07:57:00.001+00:002024-01-27T08:33:35.177+00:00Israel’s Shame is Germany’s and the West’s Shame<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #26ac35; font-size: x-large;"> <b><span lang="EN-US">On the Eve of Holocaust
Memorial Day Israel has been Found by the International Court of Justice To
Have Been Perpetrating a Genocide</span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZh_X3XeiO50eh6cn1HDywGdRVwF8OhyhGdyeyS0ZXYKwImfCcuH87q7Nrobs4dH-5CzvfcJzq4txw0WudZ0geW8ON4njVasZDQgZm5x_5DkSnFFrE9J6IDu1U5AWo1Z0lcMjIOpSCys9tlbZbfJh5muFc7O8He9s-m6y6nYfzLtvCLcozXBpD1PZd_DPz/s958/Ad%202%202024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="958" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZh_X3XeiO50eh6cn1HDywGdRVwF8OhyhGdyeyS0ZXYKwImfCcuH87q7Nrobs4dH-5CzvfcJzq4txw0WudZ0geW8ON4njVasZDQgZm5x_5DkSnFFrE9J6IDu1U5AWo1Z0lcMjIOpSCys9tlbZbfJh5muFc7O8He9s-m6y6nYfzLtvCLcozXBpD1PZd_DPz/w640-h472/Ad%202%202024.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 150%;">Register in advance
for this webinar </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4OVfKnMtTn6ic1nULGxV6g"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 150%;">here</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/mr49ufvh"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 150%;">http://tinyurl.com/mr49ufvh</span></b></a></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FRsprNTNiNM" width="320" youtube-src-id="FRsprNTNiNM"></iframe></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">ICJ interim ruling on
genocide case against Israel - Live<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It is a comforting myth, not least to the German State,
the heir to the Nazi murderers, to believe that the State of Israel was gifted
to the Jews in compensation for the Holocaust. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Like all such myths it carries within it the danger that
it will imbue those who claim to inherit the memory of those who died, with the
power to repeat what happened before. And thus it has come to pass that Israel has
been found to have perpetrated genocide in Gaza in the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>name of the Jewish Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It is a myth that Israel was created because of the Holocaust.
If that were true why is there no Roma or Gypsy state? Why have the Gypsies and
Roma not been offered compensation equivalent to Germany’s reparations to Israel?
The Gypsies continue to be hounded and persecuted in Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIEvVsiBnI_jK_bcIdksDzMBxKFEggOg3LBm8SHidGq6IGJ2vmOQOLWVo1hl-xVPnwPJvjGt3uoZK0aJvlWZJP7y4b5j9mAoFIXBipRwQ7Pm9kSmJxj5nx8lCUahJYC0avEURvj0GAXxfYSxBsfInN3vnZLHW_38zojYs8PjqO52qdMG06iFqGza4bj2E-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIEvVsiBnI_jK_bcIdksDzMBxKFEggOg3LBm8SHidGq6IGJ2vmOQOLWVo1hl-xVPnwPJvjGt3uoZK0aJvlWZJP7y4b5j9mAoFIXBipRwQ7Pm9kSmJxj5nx8lCUahJYC0avEURvj0GAXxfYSxBsfInN3vnZLHW_38zojYs8PjqO52qdMG06iFqGza4bj2E-=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In fact the colonisation of Palestine by Zionist settlers
began in 1882 not 1945. The Holocaust was, as far as the Zionist leaders were
concerned fortuitous in that it enormously strengthened their project. As Noah
Lucas, a critical Zionist historian wrote in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Modern History of Israel</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">‘As the European holocaust erupted,
Ben-Gurion saw it as a decisive opportunity for Zionism... In conditions of
peace,… Zionism could not move the masses of world Jewry. The forces unleashed
by Hitler in all their horror must be harnessed to the advantage of Zionism.
... By the end of 1942… the struggle for a Jewish state became the primary
concern of the movement.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Even now Germany refuses to compensate Namibia for
the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">massacre of more than 70,000 Herero and
Nama people between 1904 and 1908, which was the 20<sup>th</sup> Century's
first genocide.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Genocide | People and Power</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is no surprise that Namibia’s <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67974067">anger</a> boiled over
when Germany offered to join Israel’s case at the ICJ. It was in Namibia, then
a German colony, that Germany’s extermination program for the Herero and Nama
people became the<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-germanys-extermination-program-for-black-africans-a-template-for-the-holocaust/">
template for the Holocaust</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV6Iqbr7EvrY-RIOKtzMuGy8hxR7kLcmFq0EgsTXQN_Hw_rS9da_QB1NJjfEdD5mL-UZrhNNsyZF0P4TF-a2TfogLc0e12IURZM0ObTO2Bb6G4pdPTVn6WQ_Sg0MZ15EUQ5oZKCdzQ2Gl2Ep1AelWltxRsG6fOJLRkvF6KwJkANeydIHCUJpsBg3n06MHg/s605/Eugen%20Fischer.webp" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="605" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV6Iqbr7EvrY-RIOKtzMuGy8hxR7kLcmFq0EgsTXQN_Hw_rS9da_QB1NJjfEdD5mL-UZrhNNsyZF0P4TF-a2TfogLc0e12IURZM0ObTO2Bb6G4pdPTVn6WQ_Sg0MZ15EUQ5oZKCdzQ2Gl2Ep1AelWltxRsG6fOJLRkvF6KwJkANeydIHCUJpsBg3n06MHg/w640-h426/Eugen%20Fischer.webp" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Eugen
Fischer was the Nazi doctor who <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-germanys-extermination-program-for-black-africans-a-template-for-the-holocaust/">helped
pioneer</a> eugenics in the Third Reich. As director of the Kaiser Wilhelm
Institute for Anthropology (1927-42) Fischer provided the ‘scientific’ rationale
for the Nazi’s war of extermination. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/shark-island">Shark Island</a> in SW
Africa Fischer ran medical breeding experiments on the camp’s inmates. Racist
ideas developed in the colony were brought back to German institutions along
with the Africans’ skulls. In 1939, Fischer declared <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">When a people
wants … to preserve its own nature, it must reject alien racial elements,… The
Jew is such an alien and, therefore, when he wants to insinuate himself, he
must be warded off.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJqOkV-jTLRHvvTCBzIN42Bxe1OISGkHP7BUx0_KEbgVR-k07QxVQpSuFi-aRMkfGio-usvCU9NDRIwMWGLelxtpB1rUnLmgpe5X35BoAzygoT8sIqIUFfbeRx5_sIHYse__CU2ZP-1duolwtHBTYoXtghhg9ihyC_3a00Jo07DLxdMHflVN5l4mXyZ1vw/s610/Namaqua%20heads.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="610" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJqOkV-jTLRHvvTCBzIN42Bxe1OISGkHP7BUx0_KEbgVR-k07QxVQpSuFi-aRMkfGio-usvCU9NDRIwMWGLelxtpB1rUnLmgpe5X35BoAzygoT8sIqIUFfbeRx5_sIHYse__CU2ZP-1duolwtHBTYoXtghhg9ihyC_3a00Jo07DLxdMHflVN5l4mXyZ1vw/w640-h398/Namaqua%20heads.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Fischer
<a href="https://museeholocauste.ca/en/resources-training/herero-genocide-namibia/">conducted</a>
medical experiments on children born from the rape of African women. <strong>His
research inspired Adolf Hitler and in the 1930s, Fischer taught his racist
theories to Nazi doctors.</strong> One of his students, Joseph Mengele, was
responsible for the medical experiments in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTjd6MSvqXmQ3Ooax1AP6eaZ_zWFQ8NmLGpI1Xp9gooKhWLlW9J0JnXkMx0n77Yovw-kg7ep8qEpX_w_kUcdt2IOaaYmU7kO5GhkYez20HNv-jbPHv6giNccGhELGL72nF6mhqpVkneOZ3_KsxKKmD_vJn4z2PN9uB0XRKRfgOJc-QwL4jv_U4_0xxZ7Fg/s916/Nambia%20a%20template%20for%20the%20holocaust.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="821" data-original-width="916" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTjd6MSvqXmQ3Ooax1AP6eaZ_zWFQ8NmLGpI1Xp9gooKhWLlW9J0JnXkMx0n77Yovw-kg7ep8qEpX_w_kUcdt2IOaaYmU7kO5GhkYez20HNv-jbPHv6giNccGhELGL72nF6mhqpVkneOZ3_KsxKKmD_vJn4z2PN9uB0XRKRfgOJc-QwL4jv_U4_0xxZ7Fg/w640-h574/Nambia%20a%20template%20for%20the%20holocaust.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is therefore appropriate that the German state, which never de-Nazified, has
offered its support to Israel at the ICJ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
March 1988 Professor Yehuda Elkana, a child survivor of Auschwitz, wrote an <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yVzFEH5In9Dlrlc3TYWb2_4aon7TLnh2/view?usp=sharing">article</a>
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ha’aretz, </i>The Need to Forget. Elkana,
who later became Rector of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_University" title="Central European University">Central European University</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest" title="Budapest">Budapest</a>,
before Netanyahu’s friend, Viktor Orban, the anti-Semitic Prime Minister of Hungary,
closed it down wrote of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">a profound existential "Angst" fed by a particular interpretation
of the lessons of the Holocaust and the readiness to believe that the whole world
is against us, and that we are the eternal victim. In this ancient belief,
shared by so many today, 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."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizCFWf7lZSJzUXE-VqouOqJpdFXmI3ihjXmJHQ7qmXl3_JHEN0zhkjntgVqnZJKnxsT9AnqfGXdXVZbGUmKgUuY8lP37fsCAGnDTuP7jdyGUn7Qn47XBLxUVja3I9EteoBw7r77a994oVfZh9UkWfHumBGBNRGbticNNHWe_XxjDL0utcx4aN0fD8kFj5d/s1502/Elkana.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1502" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizCFWf7lZSJzUXE-VqouOqJpdFXmI3ihjXmJHQ7qmXl3_JHEN0zhkjntgVqnZJKnxsT9AnqfGXdXVZbGUmKgUuY8lP37fsCAGnDTuP7jdyGUn7Qn47XBLxUVja3I9EteoBw7r77a994oVfZh9UkWfHumBGBNRGbticNNHWe_XxjDL0utcx4aN0fD8kFj5d/w320-h400/Elkana.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Elkana described how Israel sent children on
repeated visits to Israel’s holocaust propaganda centre, Yad Vashem asking:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">What did we want those tender youths to do with the experience? We
declaimed, insensitively and harshly, and without explanation: "Remember!"
"Zechor!" To what purpose? What is the child supposed to do with
these memories? Many of the pictures of those horrors are apt to be interpreted
as a call to hate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Israel also sends thousands of schoolchildren to Poland every year to
visit Auschwitz. As <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ha’aretz </i>columnist
Gideon Levy <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2019-05-02/ty-article/.premium/let-us-forget/0000017f-f89e-d2d5-a9ff-f89ecc1a0000?lts=1706328621588">observed</a>,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Remembering
the Holocaust is now for nationalists only. There’s no universal conclusion or
moral lesson. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUlfRUUWPRE6dRFxSm9Wg5qF7VskwUrUboI84-VElk5629ZGrlDu7aBI-Ht_m1Id42VzJRRg1jYQs3KCnrkhGdEpVFYCknryV4DgHNuyN1nTF51bzM_okm79XoXRUxgy10ojDCKSrw7R1FUzJeHf6eE1vcok7S4_kfhnUh1suWpniImYN9i4UF3SEQTopa" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="826" height="561" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUlfRUUWPRE6dRFxSm9Wg5qF7VskwUrUboI84-VElk5629ZGrlDu7aBI-Ht_m1Id42VzJRRg1jYQs3KCnrkhGdEpVFYCknryV4DgHNuyN1nTF51bzM_okm79XoXRUxgy10ojDCKSrw7R1FUzJeHf6eE1vcok7S4_kfhnUh1suWpniImYN9i4UF3SEQTopa=w640-h561" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Levy remarked, prophetically:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I have yet to hear a single teenager come back from Auschwitz and say
that we mustn’t abuse others the way we were abused. There has yet to be a
school whose pupils came back from Birkenau straight to the <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/ty-tag/gaza-0000017f-da27-d718-a5ff-faa74c9e0000"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Gaza</span></a>
border, saw the barbed-wire fence and said, Never again. The message is always
the opposite. Gaza is permitted because of Auschwitz.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Elkana told how Thomas Jefferson wrote that democracy and worship of the
past are incompatible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Democracy fosters the present and the future. Too much of
"Zechor!" (Remember) and an addiction. to the past undermine the
foundations of democracy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Elkana’s conclusion caused uproar in Israel:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">we must learn to forget! Today I see no more important political and educational
task for the leaders of this nation than to take their stand on the side of
life, to dedicate themselves to creating our future, and not to be preoccupied
from morning to night, with symbols, ceremonies, and lessons of the Holocaust.
They must uproot the domination of that historical "remember!" over
our lives.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If we are going to commemorate the Holocaust every Holocaust
Memorial Day then we have to ask ‘to what purpose?’ If the Holocaust is going to
be used, as Israel uses it, to justify its genocide in Gaza and maybe the West
Bank too, then Elkana is right. It is best forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We have seen Israeli politicians <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/israel-gaza-palestinians-holocaust">proclaim</a>
that the breakout from Gaza on October 7 was the greatest massacre of Jews since
the Holocaust. Not only is this factually wrong but it is morally and
politically wrong too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Israel sees October 7 through the prism of the Holocaust
because it wants to avoid discussing the real reasons of what happened that day.
I leave to one side the question of what actually happened, as opposed to the
myth of organized rapes, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/27/biden-ignored-staff-warning-on-hamas-beheading-babies-claim-report">beheaded
babies</a> and all the rest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikRH7xz7RBa2-Vbz3Q3PQbwzu_FiVCNndOwEZwlsZQUZClYUQCa3jgQFd7rRIzFqDYNAfq1dS_5uTKbKDjYwM9qSB1fkRdJkB-gTipUps5Ops6N87td_0Vkt7pewN36XXyXT3WCzBmI5DNxQFvnRiA2FcPUQppqQmJhgelkdZ9fhjvGNQi62qfQK3tZV1i/s708/Gutterez.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="647" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikRH7xz7RBa2-Vbz3Q3PQbwzu_FiVCNndOwEZwlsZQUZClYUQCa3jgQFd7rRIzFqDYNAfq1dS_5uTKbKDjYwM9qSB1fkRdJkB-gTipUps5Ops6N87td_0Vkt7pewN36XXyXT3WCzBmI5DNxQFvnRiA2FcPUQppqQmJhgelkdZ9fhjvGNQi62qfQK3tZV1i/w584-h640/Gutterez.jpg" width="584" /></a></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It is no wonder that when Antonio Gutterez, the UN
General Secretary, said that October 7 did not happen in a vacuum Israel’s leaders
<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-united-nations-antonio-guterres-hamas-attack-vacuum-comments/">went
berserk</a>, calling for his resignation. Israeli leaders want people to
believe that the events of October 7 happened, not because of Israel’s occupation
of the Gaza Strip for 57 years and its siege of 17 years but because Palestinians
are consumed by hatred of Jews. In other words our old friend, ‘eternal anti-Semitism.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We are supposed, according to the Zionists, to
ignore the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the murder of 30,000+ people including
15,000 children, the murder of 120 journalists, hundreds of doctors and health
workers, the destruction of hospitals and homes and instead focus solely on the
700 Israeli civilians, the majority of whom appear to have been murdered by Israel
as a result of its <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-hq-ordered-troops-shoot-israeli-captives-7-october">Hannibal
Doctrine</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGKs6af15KS27k7AeIJGN8R1GXDKcw4Qv1KuohOZbbCz2ryW_4T1OdNjbIeLolejZpQ5Gl_Ft5YfGmNXGxw78tSiQ6eH3ksxmGnHwYvRaWNeLVBb0o8RwwRgLtNTEanVE-QHblwYsMZzmUGUTRKzlf3uad7qZ0g5Z-7cA3fZHeLF8e0X_RBSv6vkWlY4XO/s760/protest%20outside%20ICJ.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="760" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGKs6af15KS27k7AeIJGN8R1GXDKcw4Qv1KuohOZbbCz2ryW_4T1OdNjbIeLolejZpQ5Gl_Ft5YfGmNXGxw78tSiQ6eH3ksxmGnHwYvRaWNeLVBb0o8RwwRgLtNTEanVE-QHblwYsMZzmUGUTRKzlf3uad7qZ0g5Z-7cA3fZHeLF8e0X_RBSv6vkWlY4XO/w640-h466/protest%20outside%20ICJ.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The decision of the ICJ, despite the fact that it
didn’t order a ceasefire, is welcome. Those who, even now, ignore the death
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Palestinians and instead can only remember
October 7 should be treated as the racists and genociders that they are.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI_4K-jgejIgOShZNlZgbDriBwAYkJ-VN2gs41cUYwPq5oE3QrMogtCFjqX0frTjl2Ys1fOc0KjK5d1Y8FkfZtopeWMnDx9I23pF7a_za-WlfxjgDL46JSYOxm2ioojxMtiMf9ZEquHBAyRqKW-QJiqqKzITu8xAsDQjcdiO-i92C6F5QBkwnSG_ANlgGE/s634/South%20Africa%20Israel%20relationship.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="622" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI_4K-jgejIgOShZNlZgbDriBwAYkJ-VN2gs41cUYwPq5oE3QrMogtCFjqX0frTjl2Ys1fOc0KjK5d1Y8FkfZtopeWMnDx9I23pF7a_za-WlfxjgDL46JSYOxm2ioojxMtiMf9ZEquHBAyRqKW-QJiqqKzITu8xAsDQjcdiO-i92C6F5QBkwnSG_ANlgGE/w628-h640/South%20Africa%20Israel%20relationship.jpg" width="628" /></a></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On a personal note, I have myself put an end to a 40
year friendship with someone who wrote in a <a href="https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2023/12/22/the-vital-light-from-candles-in-the-heart-of-hove/">local
right-wing rag</a> that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘nothing the
Israeli state has done provides justification for the atrocities of that day.’</i>
The whole article concentrated on attacking Hamas comparing it to ISIS as <a href="https://www.wsj.com/video/israels-netanyahu-calls-president-biden-compares-hamas-attack-to-isis/D9EC521E-E241-4D76-BF92-23ECBFAE4654">Netanyahu
did</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As the video below from two Israeli hostages show,
Hamas’s treatment of its captives is incomparably better than Israel’s
treatment of Palestinian prisoners, especially given Israel’s carpet bombing of
Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V9Kvs4puV5w" width="320" youtube-src-id="V9Kvs4puV5w"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Hin & Ajam Were 2 Prisoners of Hamas</span></b></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
article railed against an anti-Semitic doctor in Durban without mentioning that
the South Africa Jewish community wholeheartedly supported Apartheid. South
Africa and Israel became <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/07/southafrica.israel">close
military partners</a>. Those Jews, like Ronnie Kasrils and Joe Slovo, who joined
the ANC and opposed Apartheid were ostracized by this right-wing Zionist Jewish
community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Tonight
the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SocialistLabourNetwork/">Socialist Labour
Network</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JewishNetworkforPalestine/">Jewish
Network for Palestine</a> are holding a meeting on Holocaust Memorial Day. Our
message is that Never Again applies to everyone, including the Palestinians
currently fighting to live in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">We
should also remember the record of the Zionist movement during the Holocaust when
they not merely prioritized the building of a ‘Jewish’ State over the rescue of
Jews from the Holocaust but they actively opposed all rescue attempts where the
destination wasn’t Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Historian
Christopher Sykes wrote of the 1938 Evian Conference that Roosevelt called to
find a solution to the Jewish refugee problem and the Zionist attitude to it,
that: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="margin-left: 21.3pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">From the start they regarded the whole enterprise with hostile indifference...
If the 31 nations had done their duty and shown hospitality to those in dire
need then the pressure on the National Home and the heightened enthusiasm of
Jews with Palestine would both have been relaxed. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This was the last thing that the Zionist leaders wished for</b>…. Even
in the more terrible days ahead they made no secret of the fact, even when
talking to Gentiles, that they did not want Jewish settlements outside
Palestine to be successful... The Zionists wanted to do something more for Jews
than merely help them to escape danger…. that such was the basic Zionist idea
is not a matter of opinion but a fact abundantly provable by evidence... [my
emphasis - <i>Crossroads to Israel</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">]</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Nor
should we forget the response of David Ben-Gurion to the Kindertransport, a
scheme whereby the British agreed, after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht">Kristallnacht</a> in November
1938, to admit 10,000 unaccompanied Jewish children to England. He was furious
that they weren’t going to Palestine and in a speech to the Israeli Labor Party’s
[Mapai] Central Committee on 9 December 1938, he <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/466197">explained</a> his reasoning: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><a name="d"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">If I knew</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> that
it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over
to England, and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I
would opt for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of
these children, but also the history of the People of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Likewise
Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel and then President of the Zionist
Organisation told Malcolm MacDonald, the Colonial Secretary that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘‘We shall fight you - and when I say fight
I mean fight.’<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">We
have to reclaim the Nazi Holocaust for everyone, not just for Jews people or
the Israeli state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Tony
Greenstein <o:p></o:p></span></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-19383094839991816582024-01-26T07:17:00.010+00:002024-01-26T23:50:40.526+00:00Day of Judgement for the International Court of Justice<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 36pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;">October 7 Seen in Context</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOu_k97kq-qomo2RfcqS3lBqpxmaWgq9IRWgHCV2HylcAsK8u1tILruAEZ3D3DdQx-WmbDaA0_Lk5MLjjNvWihCicwqTz-Am2kSpBvgZKtlEHerM-ERmg5Rqzlw0soxhTxbJDs2rGbiKATqRrVWR7TFpzj-OuE6lKgVn9QzJoYjDDIeC-WNmUJ7gnhZjOU/s770/Judges%20at%20the%20ICJ.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="770" height="685" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOu_k97kq-qomo2RfcqS3lBqpxmaWgq9IRWgHCV2HylcAsK8u1tILruAEZ3D3DdQx-WmbDaA0_Lk5MLjjNvWihCicwqTz-Am2kSpBvgZKtlEHerM-ERmg5Rqzlw0soxhTxbJDs2rGbiKATqRrVWR7TFpzj-OuE6lKgVn9QzJoYjDDIeC-WNmUJ7gnhZjOU/w685-h685/Judges%20at%20the%20ICJ.webp" width="685" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 72pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">UPDATE<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Well the decision of the ICJ is now out. It is better than I
had hoped for but my prediction that the Court would balk at taking the
decisive step of ordering Israel to desist by issuing an injunction has proven
correct. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The decisiveness of the 15-2 majorities surprised me. On one
vote even Israel’s Aharon Barak voted with the majority yet Uganda’s vile
Christian Judge Julia Sebutinde voted against anything that might relieve the present
catastrophic situation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But at the end of the day Israel has said it doesn’t accept the vote and the United
States, its main backer has said nothing. Western talk of human rights is now
shown to be a sham.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In accepting that there is a ‘plausible’case for genocide
this is clearly a victory for South Africa and the Palestinians. It is just a
pity that they judges of the ICJ didn’t have the courage of their convictions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
</p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tony Greenstein <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ttrJd2aWF-Y" width="320" youtube-src-id="ttrJd2aWF-Y"></iframe></div>
<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: red;">ICJ:
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh's powerful closing statement in South Africa case against
Israel</span></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #8899a6;">Justice Sebutinde ruling at the International Court of Justice does not represent the Government of Uganda’s position on the situation in Palestine. She has previously voted against Uganda’s case on DRC. Uganda’s support for the plight of the Palestinian people has been expressed…</span></span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #8899a6;">— Adonia Ayebare (@adoniaayebare) <a href="https://twitter.com/adoniaayebare/status/1750895305753850001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></span></span></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Today
is the day that the International Court of Justice makes its decision. I hesitate
to speculate as to what the decision might be. Will they issue an interim injunction
to Israel to desist from its genocidal activities or will it end up with a
fudge or compromise instructing Israel to protect the civilian population and
take more care. In which case Israel will proclaim that they are already doing
that. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
hesitate to make a prediction but nonetheless I will. The Court has come under
an immense amount of political pressure.
The United States has already <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/01/05/u-s-rejects-meritless-south-africa-icj-case-against-israel/">said</a>
that the case that South Africa has brought to be <i>‘“meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in
fact whatsoever.”.</i> The UK under Sunak has played its traditional role, which
is one of being America’s faithful lapdog and Keir Starmer has played his
normal role of follow my leader.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/SaraYafi/status/1750506900163363049?s=20">https://twitter.com/SaraYafi/status/1750506900163363049?s=20</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><code><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><blockquote
class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en"
dir="ltr">Happy to report that this video garnered more than
100,000 views within the first couple of hours on IG. <br><br>Over
the last 111 days, since October 7, Isræl has consistently denied targeting
civilians. Well, in this video, I am going to show you that in the history of
its… <a
href="https://t.co/076QZ2QcYp">pic.twitter.com/076QZ2QcYp</a></p>&mdash;
Sara El-Yafi (@SaraYafi) <a
href="https://twitter.com/SaraYafi/status/1750506900163363049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January
25, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async
src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"
charset="utf-8"></script></span></code><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Well the
decision of the ICJ is now out. It is better than I had hoped for but my
prediction that the Court would balk at taking the decisive step of ordering Israel
to desist by issuing an injunction has proven correct. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The
decisiveness of the 15-2 majorities surprised me. On one vote even Israel’s Aharon
Barak voted with the majority yet Uganda’s vile Christian Judge Julia Sebutinde
voted against anything that might relieve the present catastrophic situation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But at the end
of the day Israel has said it doesn’t
accept the vote and the United States, its main backer has said nothing.
Western talk of human rights is now shown to be a sham.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In accepting
that there is a ‘plausible’case for genocide this is clearly a victory for South
Africa and the Palestinians. It is just a pity that they judges of the ICJ didn’t
have the courage of their convictions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tony
Greenstein <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttrJd2aWF-Y"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttrJd2aWF-Y</span></a></span></p>
<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">ICJ:
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh's powerful closing statement in South Africa case against
Israel<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://twitter.com/adoniaayebare/status/1750895305753850001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1750895305753850001%7Ctwgr%5Eb03652460355af52cf44a34a04c7002c8502e227%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2024%2F1%2F26%2Fwho-is-julia-sebutinde-the-judge-against-all-icj-rulings-in-israels-case">https://twitter.com/adoniaayebare/status/1750895305753850001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1750895305753850001%7Ctwgr%5Eb03652460355af52cf44a34a04c7002c8502e227%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2024%2F1%2F26%2Fwho-is-julia-sebutinde-the-judge-against-all-icj-rulings-in-israels-case</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #8899a6; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><blockquote
class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en"
dir="ltr">Justice Sebutinde ruling at the International Court of
Justice does not represent the Government of Uganda’s position on the situation
in Palestine. She has previously voted against Uganda’s case on DRC. Uganda’s
support for the plight of the Palestinian people has been
expressed…</p>&mdash; Adonia Ayebare (@adoniaayebare) <a
href="https://twitter.com/adoniaayebare/status/1750895305753850001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January
26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async
src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"
charset="utf-8"></script></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Today
is the day that the International Court of Justice makes its decision. I hesitate
to speculate as to what the decision might be. Will they issue an interim injunction
to Israel to desist from its genocidal activities or will it end up with a
fudge or compromise instructing Israel to protect the civilian population and
take more care. In which case Israel will proclaim that they are already doing
that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
hesitate to make a prediction but nonetheless I will. The Court has come under
an immense amount of political pressure.
The United States has already <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/01/05/u-s-rejects-meritless-south-africa-icj-case-against-israel/">said</a>
that the case that South Africa has brought to be <i>‘“meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in
fact whatsoever.”.</i> The UK under Sunak has played its traditional role, which
is one of being America’s faithful lapdog and Keir Starmer has played his
normal role of follow my leader.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/SaraYafi/status/1750506900163363049?s=20">https://twitter.com/SaraYafi/status/1750506900163363049?s=20</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><code><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><blockquote
class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en"
dir="ltr">Happy to report that this video garnered more than
100,000 views within the first couple of hours on IG. <br><br>Over
the last 111 days, since October 7, Isræl has consistently denied targeting
civilians. Well, in this video, I am going to show you that in the history of
its… <a
href="https://t.co/076QZ2QcYp">pic.twitter.com/076QZ2QcYp</a></p>&mdash;
Sara El-Yafi (@SaraYafi) <a
href="https://twitter.com/SaraYafi/status/1750506900163363049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January
25, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async
src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"
charset="utf-8"></script></span></code><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ttrJd2aWF-Y" width="320" youtube-src-id="ttrJd2aWF-Y"></iframe></div>
<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">ICJ:
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh's powerful closing statement in South Africa case against
Israel</span><b style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Today
is the day that the International Court of Justice makes its decision. I hesitate
to speculate as to what the decision might be. Will they issue an interim injunction
to Israel to desist from its genocidal activities or will it end up with a
fudge or compromise instructing Israel to protect the civilian population and
take more care. In which case Israel will proclaim that they are already doing
that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
hesitate to make a prediction but nonetheless I will. The Court has come under
an immense amount of political pressure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The United States has already <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/01/05/u-s-rejects-meritless-south-africa-icj-case-against-israel/">said</a>
that the case that South Africa has brought to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘“meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in
fact whatsoever.”.</i> The UK under Sunak has played its traditional role, which
is one of being America’s faithful lapdog and Keir Starmer has played his
normal role of follow my leader.</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Happy to report that this video garnered more than 100,000 views within the first couple of hours on IG. <br /><br />Over the last 111 days, since October 7, Isræl has consistently denied targeting civilians. Well, in this video, I am going to show you that in the history of its… <a href="https://t.co/076QZ2QcYp">pic.twitter.com/076QZ2QcYp</a></span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— Sara El-Yafi (@SaraYafi) <a href="https://twitter.com/SaraYafi/status/1750506900163363049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">There is no doubt that if the decision were made
on purely legal grounds then South Africa would win hands down. That is the <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/experts-assert-strong-evidence-in-south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel/3104185">opinion</a>
of international law experts. However this is not a court that bases its
decisions on legality. It is a political court and its judges are political
appointees.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Therefore,
although I would love the court to come to a clear-cut decision instructing Israel
to stop its genocidal attacks my fear is that the court will fudge the decision
and engage in meaningless soundbites. It will criticize Israel without having
the courage to issue an injunction instructing it to stop the genocide that is
taking place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Children About
To Be Shot<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
sincerely hope that I am wrong but I fear otherwise. Israel has already made it
crystal clear that it will defy an injunction to stop committing genocide. That
means a decision instructing it to desist from further military activities it
will go to the Security Council for enforcement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
United States will then veto the resolution and under the <a href="https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/ufp/ufp.html">Uniting for Peace resolution
377 (V)</a> it will then go to the General Assembly. It is anyone’s guess what
could happen then but theoretically the General Assembly could suspend Israel’s
membership of the United Nations. If Israel was suspended it is likely that the
United States would walk out and the British poodle could follow them.<a name="a"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCWQSOTLzpfLzu8UZm5I7Wk8H3jrZeL83uuQ9FY1xgI_X3c40YBI4Hbab4s3fry75bxEwA0GnrCBCuGUCwPCDRCaSvoPpJUrWHA0uDt0m9AZUVMDhewYTFm-KUd1c5pMNfW-I609-f0UOp-6rTaft15rE_qfXaRzUXmtDhLwSwA0LKhZXhti_E_1-EI5Mw/s864/body%20bags.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="864" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCWQSOTLzpfLzu8UZm5I7Wk8H3jrZeL83uuQ9FY1xgI_X3c40YBI4Hbab4s3fry75bxEwA0GnrCBCuGUCwPCDRCaSvoPpJUrWHA0uDt0m9AZUVMDhewYTFm-KUd1c5pMNfW-I609-f0UOp-6rTaft15rE_qfXaRzUXmtDhLwSwA0LKhZXhti_E_1-EI5Mw/w640-h362/body%20bags.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This
scenario must be playing on the minds of the ICJ which is why I don’t believe
that they will deliver the verdict that most people want. No one doubts that
legally South Africa has clearly met the test of showing intent on Israel’s
part to commit genocide. Indeed it is already doing just that and its
spokespersons, from the President and Prime Minister down have made their
genocidal intentions clear to all. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">No
one doubts that Irish lawyer </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Blinne Ni Ghralaigh made a devastating closing
speech. If it was simply about the case that South Africa made then it would
win hands down but my fear is that this court will allow political
considerations to intervene.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Murder of Man With White Flag<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">If however the ICJ does do
as I predict then that will be seen as the death of international human rights
law. If the highest court in the world cannot implement the law when there is
such an egregious example of genocide taking place under its very eyes, then
international law is meaningless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The other question I have
posed is how October 7<sup>th</sup> will come to be seen in years to come.
Again I hesitate to make predictions but I am convinced that we are seeing the beginning
of the end of Zionism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Zionism was always an
unnatural political creature and Israel even more so. Israel, even its Jewish part,
has never been able to decide what its identity was. Was it Jewish first or Israeli
first? This is a question on which Israeli Jews themselves are split.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhli6bx4Bc_oA3NglQT035HjIkaYysWzq3RV851JBq8vaI39WKV12qb5Cm8AUHlYVnDwAowL6oBNlqBE6zQxRpulLqGn_ZvwD-xBwvBA38nWzJ0fznc87J3nY5KkumKYuRx6Bul4PAg5UVcuUNzidrkWazKfSNFjoi4y-CbTLrDH1Zl0S0mKb0HpUdk-zhG/s768/ICJ-1.webp" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="768" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhli6bx4Bc_oA3NglQT035HjIkaYysWzq3RV851JBq8vaI39WKV12qb5Cm8AUHlYVnDwAowL6oBNlqBE6zQxRpulLqGn_ZvwD-xBwvBA38nWzJ0fznc87J3nY5KkumKYuRx6Bul4PAg5UVcuUNzidrkWazKfSNFjoi4y-CbTLrDH1Zl0S0mKb0HpUdk-zhG/w640-h410/ICJ-1.webp" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #a64d79;">International Court of Justice</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">October 7 has also made ‘normalisation’
between the treacherous and corrupt Arab regimes and Israel that much harder
though one cannot put it past creatures such as Saudi Arabia’s MBS to plough on
nonetheless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">However the rise of the
Houthis and Hezbollah coupled with the fierce resistance of Hamas and the other
militias in Gaza has destroyed the myth of invincibility that the Israeli state
likes to cloak itself with. Israel may be a nuclear power but despite the
wishes of certain far right Israeli ministers it is unlikely to want to create
a radioactive desert in the Middle East.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It is just possible that Israel
pre-1967 could have turned into a normal bourgeois state, albeit one with
repressive and authoritarian tendencies. After 1967 and the conquering of the
territories with the growth of what Yeshayahu Leibowitz called the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Judeo-Nazis </i>this became impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Today we see the far right
settler parties driving Israel’s political agenda and we saw, pre-October 7 the
massive demonstrations in Israel over the judicial reforms. What October 7 postponed
will not go away. We are seeing the symptoms of those divisions in the growing
political crisis in Israel over the hostages as it becomes clear that Netanyahu,
Smotrich and Ben Gvir wish to pursue their war aims regardless of its effect on
the hostages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Given the choice between
killing Palestinians and saving the hostages Netanyahu and co. unhesitatingly choose
the former.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The relatives of the
hostages though are becoming more and more desperate as they know that the
longer the war goes on, the more of them will die. These divisions roughly
correspond with the divisions over the judicial reforms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The current government has effectively
declared war on the Palestinians, not only in Gaza but the West Bank. The Palestinian
Authority is barely able to survive as the Israeli government ignores this
Vichy style administration that the Oslo Accords gave birth to. It is doubtful
that this bastard child of Oslo will long survive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ever since July the war on
Jenin in particular, but also Nablus and Tulkarem has gone on. I am told that
there hasn’t been one peaceful night in Jenin since July. I know because I
fundraise for the Al Tafawk Children’s Centre there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There is now a war between
the settlers, armed by Ben Gvir and the Palestinians. A war whose purpose is
ethnic cleansing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I once asked myself if there
is anything that Israel could do which the United States would sanction it for.
The answer that I have drawn is no. Whatever protestations made by Biden and
Blinken they continue to arm Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The key question that is
posed today is how to get rid of the ‘Jewish’ settler-colonial state, a state
of Jewish supremacy and Apartheid. War with Lebanon seems increasingly likely
and if that happens the conflagration is likely to spread to Iraq and Iran. The
whole region is slipping inexorably into war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Houthis have shown the
way but others in the region are not far behind. The Abraham Accords have been
show to be built on sand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The reality is that if the
repressive and rotten Arab regimes had taken a leaf out of the Houthis book and
embargoed the oil, as they did in 1973, then the United States would have
stopped the genocide in its tracks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Above all the question of Zionism
and its demise is integrally liked with the death of the Arab regimes, especially
Egypt and Saudi Arabia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Tony Greenstein <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">See also </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/25/what-will-the-icj-announce-on-israel-gaza-war">What
will the ICJ announce on Israel’s Gaza war? The possible scenarios</a></span></p></div>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-6103351309447467382024-01-25T07:13:00.007+00:002024-01-25T07:15:31.070+00:00EXCLUSIVE – Professor Justin Stebbing of Imperial College, London Sent Me An Email Saying How Much He Hates Jews and Why They Should All Be Gassed<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 32.0pt;">When Challenged Stebbing Claimed That His
Emails Were <i>‘Pure Irony’</i></span></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqyaKexXAcDxzrsLqQsvaIwJzUsFY0mSsbS_Xe3Wk-CctzOw40stds6vHIGvbNNy5xBjzPYbnlcqu-svOMy7X1Ppcyzk4Ki46KuBM424RDfFN-c-7R1vg71NZen5_w_J8Xaal08ikCIPONRkaY5G7gcGGsdMCRZWKC7mQsC_TFQxklBzimrVZ4xplpxzZ/s318/Justin%20Stebbing.jpg" style="font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="318" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqyaKexXAcDxzrsLqQsvaIwJzUsFY0mSsbS_Xe3Wk-CctzOw40stds6vHIGvbNNy5xBjzPYbnlcqu-svOMy7X1Ppcyzk4Ki46KuBM424RDfFN-c-7R1vg71NZen5_w_J8Xaal08ikCIPONRkaY5G7gcGGsdMCRZWKC7mQsC_TFQxklBzimrVZ4xplpxzZ/s1600/Justin%20Stebbing.jpg" width="318" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
have become used to receiving racist and anti-Semitic emails and posts. Often
my first task is to work out whether they come from neo-Nazis or Zionists (or
both). But on this occasion it seemed clear that it was the former.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Th_lKPWpbT4H0z7ihlgUp03bwf-kptL8h8ruvGeMEOKeqmaNuKZoHAzatPO6JLgQ4az9hzStzCt0Ve_FIRnu9Y-Pw-wb57tZl7DaiiiWm07P5GshjTer9dCx-c6mEwsgsOnjyDcpv7p7CmZuRZge43-juBY-AdggW2A37xqiEv1yH0OdOADtwDwzp2F3/s857/Gas%20all%20Jews.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="857" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Th_lKPWpbT4H0z7ihlgUp03bwf-kptL8h8ruvGeMEOKeqmaNuKZoHAzatPO6JLgQ4az9hzStzCt0Ve_FIRnu9Y-Pw-wb57tZl7DaiiiWm07P5GshjTer9dCx-c6mEwsgsOnjyDcpv7p7CmZuRZge43-juBY-AdggW2A37xqiEv1yH0OdOADtwDwzp2F3/s16000/Gas%20all%20Jews.jpg" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">At
15.36 on Sunday I received an email from Stebbing thanking me for having made
him hate Jews. Since I’d never even heard of him I assumed that this was just
another racist crank with time on his hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Possibly it was a neo-Nazi who took my criticism of Zionism and Israel to
mean that I was anti-Jewish. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoBf3MZlDqAWjwwR3DHI8cAzwI_8EMhEiZZ_MjriDkBWAAuXZlLtmmH5K32fgtH4vWCT0VS30dh8Rj0gquJ_hDkF7IVTAB-pR3vr-TjwnzTFIJm_d7Kk9d9ya-q5316RXUw2jG4D-Wkatnel5eyxp3dOG0jcHLne0kUxiN4fOr-_SH0SYC_si37eyFv2uW/s538/Camp%20Auschwitz.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="538" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoBf3MZlDqAWjwwR3DHI8cAzwI_8EMhEiZZ_MjriDkBWAAuXZlLtmmH5K32fgtH4vWCT0VS30dh8Rj0gquJ_hDkF7IVTAB-pR3vr-TjwnzTFIJm_d7Kk9d9ya-q5316RXUw2jG4D-Wkatnel5eyxp3dOG0jcHLne0kUxiN4fOr-_SH0SYC_si37eyFv2uW/w400-h358/Camp%20Auschwitz.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">After
all Zionists claim that to be Jewish is to be a supporter of Israel so maybe
Stebbing or whatever his real name was, had taken them at their word. Maybe it
was one of those Trump supporters who <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/10/politics/man-camp-auschwitz-sweatshirt-capitol-riot-identified/index.html">stormed</a>
Capitol Hill wearing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘camp Auschwitz sweat
shirts.’<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">My
immediate reaction was to make a complaint to the Police who quickly issued me
with a crime number. I then circulated it amongst friends, one of whom googled
the name and told me that there was a professor at Imperial College, London
with the same name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyWG3uJkYE5uutycaS6UX0imynzBbC9qvET6x5G1pLqm9WZ17RTQn0NifgfXC0JBuJVXf7kwal-CYCbHXTeRo4pvAi8AMjx4rJW9l6j5Ttg0H9CEvzUT0nYInRcKYHfeOJ4a0KcZKejMofXW2w1V4qt9MrsWEYrqLXGLN-bZ_VaxPPmfXFij98s4U1-OZr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyWG3uJkYE5uutycaS6UX0imynzBbC9qvET6x5G1pLqm9WZ17RTQn0NifgfXC0JBuJVXf7kwal-CYCbHXTeRo4pvAi8AMjx4rJW9l6j5Ttg0H9CEvzUT0nYInRcKYHfeOJ4a0KcZKejMofXW2w1V4qt9MrsWEYrqLXGLN-bZ_VaxPPmfXFij98s4U1-OZr=s16000" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Stebbing
then emailed me a second time with a link to a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html">New
York Times article</a>, which has since been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VvGF9vYnlw">discredited</a>, alleging
that Hamas had weaponised sexual violence. I informed the Police and thought
nothing of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
also circulated it to members of Brighton & Hove Palestine Solidarity
Campaign one of whom suggested that I should contact Professor Stebbing to
inform him that someone was distributing anti-Semitic emails in his name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtfmZhDVt8yAUr0gPR5DIbhYMn66PK5gLn8daQXE-0wSGStYpqFQ0NLv8DjFytocTgJsiL-NbyKYJuF-w6OWyzUarAEYzOSwsa8XIPbTK4Up62IBxoP1XGSkUgjqNP-KSJ6yNEwYwrT_X6sc1Kfum3XjcbUcoh6rVuaU2H3-4qJek0iu7SYJWq2Z14oKpx/s518/George%20Yousef.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtfmZhDVt8yAUr0gPR5DIbhYMn66PK5gLn8daQXE-0wSGStYpqFQ0NLv8DjFytocTgJsiL-NbyKYJuF-w6OWyzUarAEYzOSwsa8XIPbTK4Up62IBxoP1XGSkUgjqNP-KSJ6yNEwYwrT_X6sc1Kfum3XjcbUcoh6rVuaU2H3-4qJek0iu7SYJWq2Z14oKpx/s16000/George%20Yousef.jpg" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I therefore emailed Stebbing at 18.52 on
the 22 January to inform him that <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">You
will not know me though I am a well known anti-Zionist Jewish activist. I won't
even begin to (go) into the mentality of Zionists who do this kind of thing but
it is not, by any means, unique.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I have been sent the following emails in your
name. I assume that this is not you but someone impersonating you. Nonetheless
they are vile and I have reported them to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the
Police in Sussex.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
two emails I had previously circulated had come from a gmail account but the
email I received back from Professor Stebbing was from his Imperial College
email address.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">You could have knocked me down with a
feather when Stebbing replied that the emails were from him and it was no
impersonation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">My e mail was pure irony, but as always here the response to the
crime is blamed. I have zero doubt that in WW2, you would have been thrilled to
gas all Jews. That was the point I was making.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I have no doubt you
understood this.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Israel gassed its own captives<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Stebbing’s
emails were apparently ‘pure irony’. There was nothing at all in the first
email to suggest irony. As far as I was concerned it was mere assertion. His
second email referring to the NYT article arrived over 5 hours later.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA9eDutieoLX4xSQl7-L-pzFv90D6KAgGDdBfOeqDOobqJ8cOkEf627Rn-JgRG_q6g2KX-Xpx_qRNIF20u4Sn5nu_to_Qy1_0ttCKi3eOPXkWOuOJlC1a0WP05O7EqvlHSDw5X-uKCwoqHOH3I4OEYOzc9OK6v659_8nhzEQHsVBZnkEZ0718UgxSGV8RV/s1252/idf%20killed%20sherman.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="1252" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA9eDutieoLX4xSQl7-L-pzFv90D6KAgGDdBfOeqDOobqJ8cOkEf627Rn-JgRG_q6g2KX-Xpx_qRNIF20u4Sn5nu_to_Qy1_0ttCKi3eOPXkWOuOJlC1a0WP05O7EqvlHSDw5X-uKCwoqHOH3I4OEYOzc9OK6v659_8nhzEQHsVBZnkEZ0718UgxSGV8RV/w640-h342/idf%20killed%20sherman.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">What
he was saying was that when he said he supported gassing Jews, what he really
meant was that I did. Except that I don’t. It is Israel which at this present
time is <a href="https://www.newarab.com/news/israels-use-poison-gas-gaza-must-be-probed-haaretz">pumping</a>
poison gas into tunnels and killing Jewish captives in the process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUqlslhGGBoZWn3wS-UrFHalg4VSwcaCGv1yIA8qWfEcgGaJl8YhgKNNg3OQY6FZw8RSp2h7Vbr2M-Yx1RHKMlX9EnPLa-gZAnmlOTZfTj-S6CnEBoo5NwEMokOuI34UE5bCSR_a7JtGxtzejn3jLh_CGW1MEz66W0xFQ4yIy4UpHnXptNPDp_USiHZlt5/s834/haaretz%20poison%20gas.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="834" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUqlslhGGBoZWn3wS-UrFHalg4VSwcaCGv1yIA8qWfEcgGaJl8YhgKNNg3OQY6FZw8RSp2h7Vbr2M-Yx1RHKMlX9EnPLa-gZAnmlOTZfTj-S6CnEBoo5NwEMokOuI34UE5bCSR_a7JtGxtzejn3jLh_CGW1MEz66W0xFQ4yIy4UpHnXptNPDp_USiHZlt5/w640-h608/haaretz%20poison%20gas.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">But
even when the second email arrived there was no reason why I should assume that
his first email was ironic. Perhaps whoever sent the email had read the NYT article
alleging that Hamas raped his victims and approved of what had allegedly
happened. The email was headed ‘friends’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Having
falsely said that I had contacted him previously, Stebbing then accused me of
being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘<span style="color: black;">the most
anti-semitic person I have ever encountered in my life.’</span></i><span style="color: black;"> But he hadn’t encountered me before. I had the feeling
that maybe Stebbing had mental health problems in that he assumed that other
people understood his disconnected thought processes. Or maybe the illness he
was suffering from was an extreme form of Zionism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">A further email from Stebbing claimed that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">you
know i don't think jews should be gassed but you do - that was my ironic point
you miss, repeatedly but suspect you know this<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzCNRahyB6bcotPZsKzg8gUMKIDszRIIkdJqilpq8o3EcFmblm-JVzTp6bM1tQq2eJzqE_OJ8wIQUk0O4Zm4UEuhe-xDpmnCSGmJGIZHVLwFja2jRdee9_WE7ougu3bdJk0W6CADnJwrRJaHDODuCAYIm_lQ8unp1cK9iWCMXofkVZ4CACW3bQ4YLsxeKI/s907/Richard%20Spencer%20white%20zionism.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="907" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzCNRahyB6bcotPZsKzg8gUMKIDszRIIkdJqilpq8o3EcFmblm-JVzTp6bM1tQq2eJzqE_OJ8wIQUk0O4Zm4UEuhe-xDpmnCSGmJGIZHVLwFja2jRdee9_WE7ougu3bdJk0W6CADnJwrRJaHDODuCAYIm_lQ8unp1cK9iWCMXofkVZ4CACW3bQ4YLsxeKI/s16000/Richard%20Spencer%20white%20zionism.jpg" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Again there was an assumption that I knew what he thought despite
not knowing who had sent the emails. Why should I know anything about someone I
had never met? All I knew was what he had sent me. His claim that I believe Jews
should be gassed is a typical evidence-free Zionist libel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Finally
I told Stebbing that I assumed he was not Jewish because no one who was Jewish
would make a ‘joke’ about those who were exterminated in the death camps. Like
most Jews I had relatives who had been murdered by the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">However
I was wrong. Stebbing is not only Jewish but a Zionist and for most Zionists
the Holocaust is something to be weaponised. That is what is happening now with
the genocide in Gaza. As I have written previously, during the Holocaust the Zionist
movement was focused on one thing and one thing only – creating a ‘Jewish’
state. All else, including rescue of Jewish refugees, was put to one side. It
was a distraction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">At
this point I emailed Imperial College authorities informing them of Stebbing’s
emails and suggesting that he was not fit to teach students given his deep
racism and anti-Semitism, itself not uncommon among Zionists.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxv855oHShtglNVcSYqYnALenK-XZFuWMujrIHSsPXSlXHg3qEsh6VTD_rL2u0NNkUDa1MGKr9vsEiw1Qk7CT7_yZyER0J7DYTo5US9cm4qypelnCC7UtIg4cR5ylpiWHtKwzcSkeNCoNe8oRCZktfBrvSbiO-9FwcmwPG2gSDoKdsIJ2GeUolw90jkhuw/s813/breivik.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="813" height="592" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxv855oHShtglNVcSYqYnALenK-XZFuWMujrIHSsPXSlXHg3qEsh6VTD_rL2u0NNkUDa1MGKr9vsEiw1Qk7CT7_yZyER0J7DYTo5US9cm4qypelnCC7UtIg4cR5ylpiWHtKwzcSkeNCoNe8oRCZktfBrvSbiO-9FwcmwPG2gSDoKdsIJ2GeUolw90jkhuw/w640-h592/breivik.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: red;">Anders Breivik, Norway's Mass Murderer</span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">The following morning I received an
acknowledgement from Joanna Ivison, Secretary to the President of Imperial
College, Hugh Brady. I have heard nothing since. I assume that Imperial College
has policy on racism, including anti-Semitism albeit that Imperial has adopted the
IHRA misdefinition of anti-Semitism which doesn’t cover genuine, far-right anti-Semitism
of the Breivik/Trump kind. However if Imperial don’t suspend Stebbing and
proceed to remove him altogether then they will have a lot of questions to answer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">People
then started to find out more about Stebbing. In December 2021 he was <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/justin-stebbing-london-cancer-doctor-harley-street-suspended-misconduct-b973007.html">suspended</a>
for 9 months and nearly struck off the medical register. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Stebbing
had admitted adopting a “cavalier” approach in the way he treated some patients
and having sent ‘inappropriate’ emails to a dying patient he nicknamed LMT
(Little Miss Trouble). Stebbing had treated patients at the end of their life
with aggressive treatments and had raised false hopes. Stebbing himself has <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o2477">since admitted</a>, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-01-22/ty-article-opinion/.premium/this-mothers-questions-about-the-death-of-her-soldier-son-in-gaza-must-be-answered/0000018d-2dc8-daf5-a1bf-add85e850000">“I
should not have treated any of these individuals; they were too sick to be
treated.”</a> An article detailing the nature of the case for his suspension is
on the British Medical Journal <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2022/11/13/saviour-or-sinner-why-the-case-of-justin-stebbing-matters/">blogs</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Sharon Beattie, QC for the GMC argued that Stebbing should be
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>struck off because he posed an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'ongoing risk'</i> to patient safety and
that he'd embarked on a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'persistent
course of conduct'</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'persistent
dishonesty'</i> which he'd attempted to cover-up. Shades of his behaviour
today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxbqFB5j1NXmQ4ZRcmFYroAk5bwFIdd3VmWVGhO9Z4gzlJ4N60Xo09vmpod843aLTfF2LJPMG1SlpDNmUPWLoRb_rRPPTdwKWoW28Q_dWT91a-u0DKgwSKxsu_1XBnDyGEuHbl02keeu30L1KrKYc3GaMb2nXqwCDaiGZIEgmBslMTQ9ygizA5PlZSCXqJ/s641/Mail%20on%20Stebbing.jpg" style="font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="641" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxbqFB5j1NXmQ4ZRcmFYroAk5bwFIdd3VmWVGhO9Z4gzlJ4N60Xo09vmpod843aLTfF2LJPMG1SlpDNmUPWLoRb_rRPPTdwKWoW28Q_dWT91a-u0DKgwSKxsu_1XBnDyGEuHbl02keeu30L1KrKYc3GaMb2nXqwCDaiGZIEgmBslMTQ9ygizA5PlZSCXqJ/s16000/Mail%20on%20Stebbing.jpg" /></a></span></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">However these are medical matters though it is interesting
that the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10348097/Why-brilliant-doctor-frozen-career.html">leapt
to his defence</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">What
isn’t in doubt though is that he sent a virulently anti-Semitic email to me, that
he made assertions about me that are not based in fact and that he doubled down
on them. Furthermore all his emails subsequent to the first two were sent from
an Imperial College email address thus bringing Imperial College into disrepute.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Tony
Greenstein <o:p></o:p></span></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-10530504462518952302024-01-24T05:18:00.003+00:002024-01-24T05:25:28.493+00:00Open Letter to the BBC's Director General - Tim Davie - Why I Shall Not Be Paying My TV Licence & Why You Should Not Pay Yours<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #621e7d; font-size: x-large;"> <b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">What the BBC
Means By Impartiality is NOT Broadcasting South Africa’s Case for Genocide But instead
Broadcasting Israel’s Defence!</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #621e7d; font-size: x-large;"><b style="text-align: center;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #621e7d; font-size: x-large;"><b style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh21Pvn7XCESwxG_wbCqtIBOPOVGyNGvQVuaj9Ef0eVKQt2egSW91NpxLOleAjf0_NY7mzVTGCZ29nlVRWPkilyIL8iPKjXoabDYw5zFj0lI9Mohgc7kc5-Y4kuwnNH5YPQdJar0wuAptNeTh3KJGTjOMZQzDc8v1r9OKqq7jO7sN3VoxirTnqKLKVJ6Kw0/s979/Desmond%20Tutu%20and%20neutrality.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="979" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh21Pvn7XCESwxG_wbCqtIBOPOVGyNGvQVuaj9Ef0eVKQt2egSW91NpxLOleAjf0_NY7mzVTGCZ29nlVRWPkilyIL8iPKjXoabDYw5zFj0lI9Mohgc7kc5-Y4kuwnNH5YPQdJar0wuAptNeTh3KJGTjOMZQzDc8v1r9OKqq7jO7sN3VoxirTnqKLKVJ6Kw0/w640-h186/Desmond%20Tutu%20and%20neutrality.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><p></p>
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on BBC</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="mailto:tim.davie@bbc.co.uk"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">tim.davie@bbc.co.uk</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Dear
Mr Davie,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On 11 January
the <a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/home">International Court of Justice</a>
heard South Africa’s <a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf">application</a>
that <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘acts and
omissions by Israel . . . are genocidal in character, as they are committed
with the requisite specific intent . . . to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a
part of the broader Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">and that
this was in clear contravention of the United Nation’s <a href="https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf">Convention
on Genocide</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Paragraphs
101-107 of the Application gave numerous examples of the Genocidal Intent of
Israeli military leaders, senior politicians and also their effect amongst Israel’s
soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">For
example Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant’s <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/defense-minister-announces-complete-siege-of-gaza-no-power-food-or-fuel/">declaration</a>
of 9 October that <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSgaKMkDi5yw7L8OxPIItBvlJ0vZLakT1o8fRAhAtxl7dEYw_T4wZIY62Fgp99NrtEEPn8W1DEOTpcTvZmya2GJxh_aIMJ9rvjEu4sEixalbQEzOi4UMX_xOcOZ04lZEeBmBh5qubUe_huE_TFUygQeOtJN3riX6hTX8sO1opzVUkEFASKeWEJb1EWEUQd/s768/ICJ-1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="768" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSgaKMkDi5yw7L8OxPIItBvlJ0vZLakT1o8fRAhAtxl7dEYw_T4wZIY62Fgp99NrtEEPn8W1DEOTpcTvZmya2GJxh_aIMJ9rvjEu4sEixalbQEzOi4UMX_xOcOZ04lZEeBmBh5qubUe_huE_TFUygQeOtJN3riX6hTX8sO1opzVUkEFASKeWEJb1EWEUQd/w640-h410/ICJ-1.webp" width="640" /></a></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b>International Court of Justice at The Hague</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I have ordered a
complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no
fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting
accordingly,” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Israel’s
Prime Minister Netanyahu implored his listeners: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">you must <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">remember what Amalek
has done to you, says our Holy Bible." with reference to I Samuel 15:1-34 <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly
destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman,
infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass" <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Viewers
saw Irish KC <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Blinne
Ní Ghrálaigh's powerful closing speech in South Africa case. All independent
observers are agreed that South Africa’s case was overwhelming. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQVkKizGk5HHSSP4K6nShhbgpuEfzpJWhJESqF0jG2AWxHmehjVxsIEErGbBkmG3Jp3vgiB_LUzTl5cCiDJyt59iFjVyroOdNTscPAJw37iAbG3Urj4VXrjQbEUEVCB19dtjM88VoAOCYMPzxqO0aIYpZj91nHSvvYOcOEvUlUcr2rMk_9wylC0KhPcWmQ/s999/Exterminated%20by%20gas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="621" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQVkKizGk5HHSSP4K6nShhbgpuEfzpJWhJESqF0jG2AWxHmehjVxsIEErGbBkmG3Jp3vgiB_LUzTl5cCiDJyt59iFjVyroOdNTscPAJw37iAbG3Urj4VXrjQbEUEVCB19dtjM88VoAOCYMPzxqO0aIYpZj91nHSvvYOcOEvUlUcr2rMk_9wylC0KhPcWmQ/w398-h640/Exterminated%20by%20gas.jpg" width="398" /></a></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>3 Israeli hostages die because Israeli used banned chemical weapons, poison gas, to try and kill Hamas militants</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="dcr-1ipjagz"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As Nimer Sultany
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/12/israel-gaza-genocide-south-africa-the-hague">wrote</a><span class="dcr-1ipjagz"> in The Guardian:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span class="dcr-1ipjagz"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">T</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">he
powerful <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/explainer-what-is-the-icj-and-what-is-south-africas-claim-against-israel">case
brought by South Africa against Israel</a> at the international court of
justice under the genocide convention is a wake-up call for many western
governments and media outlets that uncritically supported Israel’s savage war.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Maayan Sherman, mother of an Israeli soldier who was one of three hostages found dead in a Gaza tunnel in December, says they were killed when Israel flooded the tunnel with poison gas. She compared his death to the gassing of Jews in the Holocaust, calling it 'premeditated… <a href="https://t.co/Wykk9Czhrf">pic.twitter.com/Wykk9Czhrf</a></span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1747796821252997195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">I say viewers, but of course
not those who watch BBC because you took a decision, in the interests of ‘balance’,
not to broadcast the case that South Africa<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>was presenting. Instead you decided, in line with previous practice, only
to broadcast Israel’s defence the next day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">ICJ:
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh's powerful closing statement in South Africa case against
Israel<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">BBC’s viewers
were therefore unable to judge for themselves the case that Israel was
responding to, which is exactly what you intended, because in your view the
people of Gaza have no case.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBh3vI-Ihg5HmjH2MwX32QuFNTJHkByS_7pn-v7xe-jV-H7d9B5R9cV0FNGuzTmx0RFEp40HDyogTsfA2OEa_2Dmlo9OC96xsVWBnCEx7kkP1VxaVNDM9i5-rpWE_iRsyG51T0MMnQo0Nh3uuB2-FkCZXBvwOXvI8YCVjbF9C4OaYVheB6j7b9RJeTiMXe/s520/40%20beheaded%20babies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="520" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBh3vI-Ihg5HmjH2MwX32QuFNTJHkByS_7pn-v7xe-jV-H7d9B5R9cV0FNGuzTmx0RFEp40HDyogTsfA2OEa_2Dmlo9OC96xsVWBnCEx7kkP1VxaVNDM9i5-rpWE_iRsyG51T0MMnQo0Nh3uuB2-FkCZXBvwOXvI8YCVjbF9C4OaYVheB6j7b9RJeTiMXe/w640-h556/40%20beheaded%20babies.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
murder of 15,000+ children, 120 journalists, innumerable doctors and health
workers, the attacks on all of Gaza’s hospitals – all on the pretext that Hamas
was using them as their military bases counted for nothing because the BBC is
nothing if not a spokesperson for British and US foreign policy. Their view and
yours is that however many civilians are murdered, South Africa’s case is ‘<a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/01/05/u-s-rejects-meritless-south-africa-icj-case-against-israel/">meritless’</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If this
was China or Russia then it would be a different story. If Russia had said that
the Ukrainian resistance was hiding behind civilians or using hospitals as
bases then the BBC would be the first to call this out for what it was. But as
a <a href="https://inews.co.uk/news/tim-davie-the-bbc-boss-and-former-tory-candidate-who-has-to-face-nadine-dorries-after-backing-jess-brammar-1203178">failed</a>
Conservative candidate you know where your loyalties lie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Those who wanted to listen
to South Africa’s charges had to turn to </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Al Jazeera. The <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">BBC decided that the injustice that Post Office
managers have experienced was more important.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Israel’s ‘defence’
consisted primarily of accusations that South Africa was perpetrating a ‘blood
libel’, i.e. ‘anti-Semitism’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">If the BBC was going to broadcast Israel’s
defence then you were under a duty to broadcast the South Africa’s allegations
of genocide. This is so elementary that it hardly needs stating. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">They answered 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/nGhsKV3HZF">pic.twitter.com/nGhsKV3HZF</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">— Born to misbehave💜🔥 (@equidistante_) <a href="https://twitter.com/equidistante_/status/1747306662887575891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2024</a></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJN0jpersIxHHy4dfKTGR6ZH08ZjLPoSEUiuQDn9MLmwSVWeIKvu-hREg8tBaXcLvsQGor8jXAqjJ2adhyphenhyphenV8tN9f9_8KtJlqMoo95RhUUdfczXb70uPYqG1pErw0P4sKBShSrIfwFljsU_O6vFwLtaFyZwugFK3D4TIJmRJ2_26crwwXe7C3oJWpIk7a3f/s520/BBC's%20Lucy%20Williamson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="520" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJN0jpersIxHHy4dfKTGR6ZH08ZjLPoSEUiuQDn9MLmwSVWeIKvu-hREg8tBaXcLvsQGor8jXAqjJ2adhyphenhyphenV8tN9f9_8KtJlqMoo95RhUUdfczXb70uPYqG1pErw0P4sKBShSrIfwFljsU_O6vFwLtaFyZwugFK3D4TIJmRJ2_26crwwXe7C3oJWpIk7a3f/s320/BBC's%20Lucy%20Williamson.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b>The BBC's Lucy Williamson shows viewers the destruction in Kibbutz Be'eri but she never thinks to ask how Hamas caused it given they had no heavy weaponry</b></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">October 7 Breakout from Prison Gaza<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The BBC has acted as
the Voice of Israel. News coverage repeatedly goes back to the events of
October 7 whilst carefully omitting the fact that <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-tank-fired-shells-building-housing-hostages-7-october-report">Israeli
tanks fired on houses in Kibbutz Be’eri</a> killing both Israeli hostages and
their Hamas captors. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The same is true of
the Nova festival and the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/18/hamas-had-not-planned-to-attack-israel-music-festival-israeli-report-says"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">firing on cars</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> escaping from the festival by Apache helicopters. All of this is ignored
by the BBC which prefers to accept the Israeli version of what happened that
day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8FTnwxcQNxfNRFVFdZAZW8fKUa86EhCpAgzZcH11nRPbwsCJGwQaF7LWmNClBGdxb6odAmyTRi_56va5HVuKvb49_QOVkion5ToEWcO5V8iKunFp38-t4MCHunlr6flZKFZ9ZHEyJgJFXmrMyubSkjUmSTyBMVRAFChXDKQgyOBZNj9-KAllNU7LnLmI/s840/Hannibal%20Directive.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="840" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn8FTnwxcQNxfNRFVFdZAZW8fKUa86EhCpAgzZcH11nRPbwsCJGwQaF7LWmNClBGdxb6odAmyTRi_56va5HVuKvb49_QOVkion5ToEWcO5V8iKunFp38-t4MCHunlr6flZKFZ9ZHEyJgJFXmrMyubSkjUmSTyBMVRAFChXDKQgyOBZNj9-KAllNU7LnLmI/w640-h316/Hannibal%20Directive.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">There is plenty of
information on how Israel’s military took the decision to implement the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive">Hannibal Directive</a>
and kill its own hostages, rather than allow them to be taken captive and
exchanged for the Palestinian hostages that Israel holds. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The BBC, it seems, made sure viewers got a live-stream today of Israel's defence against genocide in Gaza but deprived viewers yesterday of South Africa's detailed case for accusing Israel of genocide.<br /></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigDbVj1d0odRgZ9mXD2RH3WtJzS22pR4sqvaeEE_GwEV5ZV7NxfHH3C_eR596IGSO-Q42kU3-UojBigrNA_imLYpLVDAMm1UHnBM0Fc7D_n-tWW-ZG8Lh6iB3XIW2zS7IzNRxmZL7XwaM0p2Q2IJ4p2Y9TYqq3A0KfAP02hM-zevvE6hhWB6xdtUmw8T1U/s816/IDF%20tanks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="816" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigDbVj1d0odRgZ9mXD2RH3WtJzS22pR4sqvaeEE_GwEV5ZV7NxfHH3C_eR596IGSO-Q42kU3-UojBigrNA_imLYpLVDAMm1UHnBM0Fc7D_n-tWW-ZG8Lh6iB3XIW2zS7IzNRxmZL7XwaM0p2Q2IJ4p2Y9TYqq3A0KfAP02hM-zevvE6hhWB6xdtUmw8T1U/w640-h232/IDF%20tanks.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br />I guess that counts as 'BBC balance'. <a href="https://t.co/yPZiYBonVG">https://t.co/yPZiYBonVG</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1745874540155044332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">See for example The
Cradles’ <a href="https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/18526?fbclid=IwAR165AUBk_qBHHL0B05KEy83Nhf0RlhqltPp31l6nsWGzU1K35fdOnNHu5k">How
Israeli forces trapped and killed ravers at the Nova Festival</a>, Ha’aretz’s <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-06/ty-article/.premium/families-of-israelis-killed-in-beeri-home-hit-by-tank-fire-on-october-7-demand-probe/0000018c-de77-daf6-a5df-df7f22d60000">Families
of Israelis Killed in Be'eri Home Hit by IDF Tank on October 7 Demand Probe</a>,
Electronic Intifada’s <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-child-burned-completely-israeli-tank-fire-kibbutz/41706">Israeli
child “burned completely” by Israeli tank fire at kibbutz</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">🚨BREAKING: ISRAELI HOSTAGE EXPOSES DISTURBING ACCOUNT<br /><br />In a shocking revelation, Israeli hostage Yasmin Porat has raised disconcerting questions about the tragic events of October 7.<br /><br />The Testimony:<br /><br />In an exclusive interview, Porat disclosed that Israeli forces eliminated…<span> </span><a href="https://t.co/LkKSSWkGIO">pic.twitter.com/LkKSSWkGIO</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1716337785789927642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2023</a></span></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIe3Z22olXnfdrwH_nxEUkOXbCCrs6w_peD-6bjPUpIEVbxn6PQ8b7Rf8ciMeCsxeRICoE-qnA4HPPWepetNfHEGpq0HZywJhXxooFcHHyfs0OzgfnnVrPf3ElDS7EmS2i-CjfAqr7LUYR2vv5Gy4zXFmcAPkE1HBZIiAbSEjJpZoRPkH1gK4ssHYfNd6x/s1150/Israeli%20child%20burnt%20to%20death.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1150" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIe3Z22olXnfdrwH_nxEUkOXbCCrs6w_peD-6bjPUpIEVbxn6PQ8b7Rf8ciMeCsxeRICoE-qnA4HPPWepetNfHEGpq0HZywJhXxooFcHHyfs0OzgfnnVrPf3ElDS7EmS2i-CjfAqr7LUYR2vv5Gy4zXFmcAPkE1HBZIiAbSEjJpZoRPkH1gK4ssHYfNd6x/w640-h440/Israeli%20child%20burnt%20to%20death.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Electronic Intifada
and others <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861">published</a>
the interview with Yasmine Porat, a survivor of Kibbutz Be’eri but the BBC have
never even referred to it or similar interviews.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">While the eyes of the world were glued to the live images of South Africa’s trial against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), most Western media refused to broadcast the historic event. It is only the second time in the history of the Genocide Convention that one… <a href="https://t.co/4H9MPF5rYy">pic.twitter.com/4H9MPF5rYy</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">— red. (@redstreamnet) <a href="https://twitter.com/redstreamnet/status/1745505246325907502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Electronic Intifada’s
article on how </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-hq-ordered-troops-shoot-israeli-captives-7-october">Israeli
HQ ordered troops to shoot Israeli captives on 7 October</a>,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">the Times of Israel’s <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-officer-recounts-ordering-tank-fire-on-beeri-home-during-hostage-standoff-on-oct-7/">IDF
officer recounts ordering tank fire on Be’eri home during hostage standoff on
Oct. 7</a> likewise made no impression on BBC coverage of Israel’s genocidal
war on Gaza’s Palestinians.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="Style5" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Interview with Yasmine Porat on </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Kan's Haboker Hazeh radio program on 15 October 2023<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Whilst information on
how many if not most civilian deaths on October 7 is easily available, not
least from the Israeli press, including </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1716337785789927642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1716337785789927642%7Ctwgr%5E1a26716b8378b7809304edc1f8c62d2c161f1f76%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.financial-world.org%2Fnews%2Fnews%25"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">interviews</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> with the hostages, the BBC has done nothing to question the Zionist
narrative that Israeli deaths on October 7 were solely the work of Hamas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">An <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/an-open-letter-to-israelis-from-israelis-we-deserve-the-truth-about-october-7/">Open
Letter from Israelis to fellow Israelis demanding the truth about October 7<sup>th</sup></a>
at the end of October demanding </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">an inquiry into the
events of October 7 was ignored. They wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Israel’s domestic and
international rhetoric now contains something much more akin to Nazi <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMVs7akyMh0">extermination</a>
propaganda. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">We know what the purpose of
this propaganda is. More than 8,500 indigenous Palestinian children, women, and
men have been exterminated – and the number rises as we write. Many are trapped
under the rubble of their homes, dying slowly. Others are facing thirst,
starvation, and infectious diseases. At the same time, senior Israeli figures,
even our president, keep howling that there are ‘<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/israeli-president-says-no-innocent-154330724.html">no
innocent civilians</a>’ in Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Make no
mistake, what Israel is doing in Gaza now will haunt Israelis for decades. Now
is the time to make sure all Israelis understand this. And this understanding
should start with full disclosure about the events of October 7, 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Not one word has left
the lips of BBC interviewers about the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-17/ty-article/.premium/unlawful-unethical-horrifying-idf-ethics-expert-on-controversial-hannibal-directive/0000018d-186c-dd75-addd-faedd2b80000"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Hannibal Directive</span></a> despite
widespread discussion in the Israeli press such as </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">for example Ha’aretz’s </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-17/ty-article/.premium/unlawful-unethical-horrifying-idf-ethics-expert-on-controversial-hannibal-directive/0000018d-186c-dd75-addd-faedd2b80000">'Unlawful,
Unethical, Horrifying': IDF Ethics Code Author on Alleged Use of 'Hannibal
Directive' During Hamas Attack</a>’. In this article Asa Kasher, the
philosopher who wrote the Israeli Military’s Code of Conduct, told how <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘allegations that the infamous operational
order may have been used on October 7 must be investigated immediately’.</i>
The BBC is simply not interested in such facts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
did a google search on the Hannibal Directive and BBC. I came up with nothing.
I went to the BBC’s own site and searched on ‘Hannibal Directive’. The nearest
I came up with was a story <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67978836">Hannibal Mejbri:
Manchester United midfielder joins Sevilla on loan</a>! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">These
omissions are not accidental but deliberate policy decisions by BBC News, under
your direction. You are deliberately distorting and slanting the news in such a
direction as to support Israel’s narrative that October 7 was an unprovoked
attack as Hamas sought to indulge in murder and rape. Your claim of ‘balance’
is nothing but a lie. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ5ilECQHftbrwPGcF9IoJiuw1vv_kAPXzy3bAP4WDjuk4ReyJ7Z7q6Y2px22z_1hkLzq4enygjlPP1AB3CD1Y_KuE00S7cybYVjK-lrse-YcbaHOLX2Vd_GS_RZZQ2J3WKaA56BiOHumo6HNxoPJK8JpiOP0TpPVG7MxFUg5ANOtX1VBm7P9SEO-ESGPp/s1040/tanks%20fire%20on%20Kibbutz%20Be'eri.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="1040" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ5ilECQHftbrwPGcF9IoJiuw1vv_kAPXzy3bAP4WDjuk4ReyJ7Z7q6Y2px22z_1hkLzq4enygjlPP1AB3CD1Y_KuE00S7cybYVjK-lrse-YcbaHOLX2Vd_GS_RZZQ2J3WKaA56BiOHumo6HNxoPJK8JpiOP0TpPVG7MxFUg5ANOtX1VBm7P9SEO-ESGPp/w640-h490/tanks%20fire%20on%20Kibbutz%20Be'eri.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As Jonathan Cook, a former Guardian
journalist <a href="https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2023-11-02/bbc-october-7/">wrote</a>
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What the BBC fails to tell you about
October 7</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘<span class="css-1qaijid">It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be
repeating so credulously the Israeli military’s account….<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Simply repeating that
narrative without <em>any caveats</em> has by now reached the level of
journalistic malpractice. And yet that is precisely what the BBC does night
after night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Just a cursory look at the
wreckage in the various kibbutz communities that were attacked that day should
raise questions in the mind of any good reporter. Were Palestinian militants in
a position to actually inflict physical damage to that degree and extent with
the kind of light weapons they carried?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">And if not,
who else was in a position to wreak such havoc other than Israel?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The BBC has repeated
every lie that Israel’s propagandists have conjured up in order to excuse
Israel’s genocidal orgy in Gaza. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Instead you</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">preferred to faithfully follow the Israeli narrative on October 7. See for
example </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67629181">Israel Gaza: Hamas
raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> and </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67613153">Hamas planned
sexual violence as weapon of war - Israeli campaigner</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">A counter-narrative such as that from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Mondoweiss’s article </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/despite-lack-of-evidence-allegations-of-hamas-mass-rape-are-fueling-israeli-genocide-in-gaza/">Despite
lack of evidence, allegations of Hamas ‘mass rape’ are fueling Israeli genocide
in Gaza</a> has made no impression on the BBC’s coverage.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhTAT7yNODf3IMMhDZnCL8gViS0PHNQ0TJcR8RwfKnBF70gjorQb4NmsqpQ0M3gaxK9kFG2VCvmEG1AjJpReS9kuELyAkAAjHKT8alikppREfVC0uQAKfjCkgNaXMR47BFtyXC0leKlAF3sZCIHTog3qQ5B4OcN-fOrDW8t9FGZlpT3wqRulEuVE3yXvp/s620/fighting%20in%20Khan%20Younis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="590" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYhTAT7yNODf3IMMhDZnCL8gViS0PHNQ0TJcR8RwfKnBF70gjorQb4NmsqpQ0M3gaxK9kFG2VCvmEG1AjJpReS9kuELyAkAAjHKT8alikppREfVC0uQAKfjCkgNaXMR47BFtyXC0leKlAF3sZCIHTog3qQ5B4OcN-fOrDW8t9FGZlpT3wqRulEuVE3yXvp/w610-h640/fighting%20in%20Khan%20Younis.jpg" width="610" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">We should be grateful that
the Palestinian armed resistance in Gaza is taking such a toll of the Zionist
SS militias that have wreaked such havoc. Like the German SS, their Israeli
equivalent are more at home killing children and doctors than confronting armed
guerrillas which is why they are having to cover up their real casualties,
something which the BBC has also not reported on. The BBC has totally failed to
cover the actions of the Palestinian resistance so the increasing number of
Israeli casualties must come as something of a surprise.</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The BBC reports on what appears to be an attempt by the IDF to rearrange guns and equipment they found in al-Shifa Hospital for embedded media. <br /> <a href="https://t.co/4uhMElsndz">pic.twitter.com/4uhMElsndz</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">— Richard Hall (@_RichardHall) <a href="https://twitter.com/_RichardHall/status/1725498963174752490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The BBC has repeated the
Israeli lie that Hamas operates from the hospitals of Gaza. There was just </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ros-atkins-bbc-presenter-israel-hamas-gaza-palestinians_uk_655b452de4b0ce6a31bde20e"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">one exception</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> to this – Ros Atkins BBC Fact Investigation into Israel’s justification
for its attack on Al Shifa Hospital.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The BBC has always
been the Voice of the British Establishment since the days when it refused to
allow the Archbishop of Canterbury to broadcast during the 1926 General Strike
because he favoured compromise. The Catholic Archbishop of Westminster was though
<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ourbeeb/general-strike-to-corbyn-90-years-of-bbc-establishment-bias/">allowed</a>
to broadcast because he held the strike to be sinful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">What the BBC fails to tell you about October 7:<br /><br />It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military’s account of that day. My latest: <a href="https://t.co/EJKNpYYzUM">https://t.co/EJKNpYYzUM</a> <a href="https://t.co/lp6DoBrZWG">pic.twitter.com/lp6DoBrZWG</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1720063663590006884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2023</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">As the BBC’s own history admits:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="sc-gueyoa" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">During
the strike Reith vetted almost all the bulletins, while also dealing with the
political aspects. He decided to refuse the Archbishop of Canterbury's request
to appeal for an end to the strike; but allowed reporting of TUC statements. He
helped Baldwin write a speech to the nation, which was delivered from Reith's
home in Westminster.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Lord Reith’s own diary
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/18/-sp-bbc-report-facts-impartial">recalls</a>
a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">cabinet meeting on 11 May which took the view that
the government should be able to say <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">that they did
not commandeer [the BBC], but they know that they can trust us not to be really
impartial”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">And
this remains the situation today. Through control of the license fee and
appointments such as yours, the government can maintain a pretence that the BBC
is independent.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">When the Miners were
confronting the government its Director-General was writing the Prime
Minister’s speech! And nothing had changed when it came to the Miner’s strike
of 1984-5. During the Orgreave clashes it reversed footage of police attacks on
the miners to show the miners attacking first. In 1991 the BBC <a href="https://www.bigissuenorth.com/news/2014/06/bbc-websites-reverse-view-of-orgreave/#close">apologised</a>
for having <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘inadvertently reversed’ </i>the
footage.<a name="a"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">This was about as
inadvertent as the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50546115">editing out</a>
of laughter at Boris Johnson when he responded to a question about the
importance of politicians telling the truth.</span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">We have come to expect
that the BBC will faithfully follow the establishment narrative whether it is
on Israel, strikes or any other issue involving a challenge to the rich and
powerful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">However what the BBC
is not entitled to do is to expect us to pay for what is an Establishment
propaganda station.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">As the late, great
John Pilger, who was banned from appearing on the BBC in his later years, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvTDNBBKK88">said</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">the BBC is and has
been the most refined propaganda service in the world.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">In </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">his 2010 documentary, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mDuxFnn2RY">The War You Don’t See</a>,
John <a href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/john-pilger-fighting-justice-right-end">confronted</a>
Fran Unsworth, head of newsgathering at BBC News and ITV News editor in chief,
David Mannion, on the failure of their reporters to challenge the lies that had
come from government and intelligence sources without which the Iraq war could
never have been prosecuted. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It was the
collusion of the corporate media in refusing to challenge the misinformation from
the Foreign Office and US State Department that led to the death of over a
million Iraqis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The same
is true today. Israel could not get away with genocide in Gaza if the BBC and the
corporate media did not give credence to their lies and excuses. It is as if
you would have both sided <a href="https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/24/the-start-of-the-second-world-war-germany-invades-poland/">Hitler’s
claim</a> that the invasion of Poland was a reaction to Poland’s attack on Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">BBC News, by giving
credence to Israel’s absurd lies and cavorting with its propagandists, have
blood on their hands. What you call ‘balance’ is neutrality between right and
wrong and you always manage to come out on the wrong side. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">In the Russia/Ukraine
war you have had no difficulty taking sides, erasing the history of NATO’s provocations
and its expansion into Eastern Europe in the process. This despite the <a href="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early">promises</a>
made to Gorbachev that there would be no expansion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">But when it comes to
Palestine you adopt a fake neutrality which in practice means you treat
Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank as if it was a normal state of
affairs. You never refer, unlike </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Al Jazeera, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">to the West Bank and East Jerusalem as occupied. You treat Israel’s
racist colonial police force as if it was Dixon of Dock Green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">As Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the great hero of
the South Africa struggle against Apartheid, which the BBC did nothing to help
when it continued to broadcast South Africa’s all-white cricket team, <a href="https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00016497">said</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“If
you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the
oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that
you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Tony
Greenstein <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-38320816772748722132024-01-20T16:23:00.244+00:002024-01-22T00:13:37.845+00:00The Nazification of Israel – When Israelis Talk about Extermination and Annihilation It’s Easy to Understand Why the German State Supports Them<div style="border: 3pt solid windowtext; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 4.2pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1pt 4pt;"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 3.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial Black","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Holocaust Memorial Day
Meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 3.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt;">Saturday 27 January 7 pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 3.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt;">Register </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt;"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4OVfKnMtTn6ic1nULGxV6g"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">here</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 3.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/4ka2x3ss"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">http://tinyurl.com/4ka2x3ss</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 28pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: #5900ff;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 25pt; line-height: 150%;">Never Again means Never Again for Everyone</span></b> </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Palestinians Included</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsFNpYXEC82eLu6_2RfM9EDdiR7p9aIOdxTlLSgdRiDf4jG_iK2l4IrKRG7TAYbvKGx7agp5rU-KNjDopHxzj7ZQMnL7CjliOqjV6QCJaM1YkjLp0kUZBOeJNsC1ondWQOfEViHrtTUHXhspm48HR63J2Kvb3c0rj32NLCCLrMghwJpj9UPt8kpzzRk_kS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="958" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsFNpYXEC82eLu6_2RfM9EDdiR7p9aIOdxTlLSgdRiDf4jG_iK2l4IrKRG7TAYbvKGx7agp5rU-KNjDopHxzj7ZQMnL7CjliOqjV6QCJaM1YkjLp0kUZBOeJNsC1ondWQOfEViHrtTUHXhspm48HR63J2Kvb3c0rj32NLCCLrMghwJpj9UPt8kpzzRk_kS=w692-h510" width="692" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zM2fXTkjU2E" width="320" youtube-src-id="zM2fXTkjU2E"></iframe></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Yeshayahu
Leibowitz<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfqfbi6_Et0bCb7ni577tUSPCPhnz4khoI-CzkKG788spR0oSm1N6onNWxpdqkEbKxwqGovXT5tq9PP_Vfa2R8SUtWaZHs-BqkDECpp8LYu1vyi8SXR7-uqHj8W_FvNRanlS8pWm4eBmjT0FbqJn6_c009Mg-usZHCemnOm0LIR35WUHbKnIW2jykbphXA/s826/Yad%20Vashem%20chair%20refuses%20to%20condemn%20genocide%20calls.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="826" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfqfbi6_Et0bCb7ni577tUSPCPhnz4khoI-CzkKG788spR0oSm1N6onNWxpdqkEbKxwqGovXT5tq9PP_Vfa2R8SUtWaZHs-BqkDECpp8LYu1vyi8SXR7-uqHj8W_FvNRanlS8pWm4eBmjT0FbqJn6_c009Mg-usZHCemnOm0LIR35WUHbKnIW2jykbphXA/w640-h160/Yad%20Vashem%20chair%20refuses%20to%20condemn%20genocide%20calls.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Yad Vashem is Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Museum.
Its is devoted to using the Holocaust, not as a way of warning the world of
the dangers of fascism and racism but as a means of creating a particular Zionist narrative of the Holocaust as a means of legitimising the Israeli state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As I show in my book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://asawinstanley.substack.com/p/long-history-of-zionist-nazi-collaboration">Zionism
During the Holocaust</a>, </i>Yad Vashem distorts and manipulates the
historical record in order to magnify Zionist resistance during the Holocaust
whilst at the same time erasing the much larger role that anti-Zionist Jews
(the vast majority of European Jews) played. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In particular Zionism has glossed over and condoned
the collaboration of Zionist leaders with the Nazis. It has <a href="https://www.yadvashem.org/press-release/19-july-2007-08-48.html">rehabilitated </a>the
most notorious of their collaborators, Rudolf Kasztner, the leader of Hungarian
Zionism and the representative of the Jewish Agency in Hungary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">After the war Kasztner went to Nuremberg to <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13531049708576104">testify </a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">in favour </b>of several Nazi war criminals
including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/05/archives/nazis-on-trial-swear-they-were-jews-protectors.html">Hermann
Krumey</a>, Eichmann’s second in command in Hungary who was in charge of the mechanics
of the deportation process. Some 437,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to
Auschwitz. Nearly all died in its gas chambers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOQ4skMlAZCLWCEPxn4BdIKG4ClJJasieTGgNcHUL1GH9RrObIhoJDV-pg98Swg1Qj2PXSfV8cUw08F9HlOAhbCQ9XawcAWMgCBjzL_y8BP2VOp7e1h3c_QYc3Bo_fN509XicaJCgxGNS2RWe1-9tAyBI3_BrN8vAzKN78bjqxUjGhCI5GHepJjUvJjq3P/s966/Leibowitz%20Judeo%20Nazis.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="966" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOQ4skMlAZCLWCEPxn4BdIKG4ClJJasieTGgNcHUL1GH9RrObIhoJDV-pg98Swg1Qj2PXSfV8cUw08F9HlOAhbCQ9XawcAWMgCBjzL_y8BP2VOp7e1h3c_QYc3Bo_fN509XicaJCgxGNS2RWe1-9tAyBI3_BrN8vAzKN78bjqxUjGhCI5GHepJjUvJjq3P/w640-h446/Leibowitz%20Judeo%20Nazis.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/19/obituaries/yeshayahu-leibowitz-91-iconoclastic-israeli-thinker.html">Yeshayahu Leibowitz </a>was an Orthodox Jews, he turned down the Israel Prize and Professor at the Hebrew University Jerusalem - he was a polymath and had doctorates in medicine and philosophy. President Ezer Weizman described him as the 'spiritual conscience of Israel.' He called the settlers of the West Bank 'Judeo-Nazis'</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Earlier this year 50 leading holocaust researchers
in Israel <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-17/ty-article/.premium/yad-vashem-chairman-rejects-request-to-condemn-calls-for-genocide-in-gaza/0000018d-17a7-d695-a3dd-57a778100000">wrote</a>
to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani_Dayan">Dani Dayan</a>, Yad
Vashem Chairman, asking him to speak out against those in Israel, including the
Prime Minister himself, who were openly calling for genocide in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUASiOzRbcjHicKG3VPRtxZMfCi15-ipr4_AI9Oaor3hSzBMYN6edf9z63OkZrWt5xbjeFQBUPrEeN3eFe9wl0SWqWx6lzNsyxsbAUTe9YSIaYAy4EfspRMqsBGW-viPExn_uyJICmDpqPkavyqT_6gKli5VgWKxsl0yUmnaO4dC0RdQP7W7gmCAH04KF/s986/Leibowitz.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="986" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUASiOzRbcjHicKG3VPRtxZMfCi15-ipr4_AI9Oaor3hSzBMYN6edf9z63OkZrWt5xbjeFQBUPrEeN3eFe9wl0SWqWx6lzNsyxsbAUTe9YSIaYAy4EfspRMqsBGW-viPExn_uyJICmDpqPkavyqT_6gKli5VgWKxsl0yUmnaO4dC0RdQP7W7gmCAH04KF/w640-h498/Leibowitz.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dayan himself is no slouch when it comes to racism.
Former Chair of the Yesha Settlers Council he stood for the Knesset for the
racist <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tehiya </i>settler party and then
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish Home. </i>That a racist such
as this could be Chairman of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Museum is in itself
proof of the poison at the heart of Israel’s abuse of the memory of the
Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">You might think that it was a no-brainer for the
Chair of Israel’s holocaust memorial centre to condemn calls for the
extermination and murder of Palestinians. It’s like asking the Pope to condemn
abortion. But no, you would be wrong. In Israel you can shed tears over the
extermination of the Jews (but not the Disabled, Gypsies or Gays) but you can also be, at
one and the same time, an out and out racist towards every other victim.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjabXDKVVUILYC1-M5Q36pZI9jt6H_VaiuEIQjWfi7lBnhbhzvnbTJJKBjV92Xl4Y3OYNPMWLWvSwVNX1tQ5X4jxpb9xM-KLQgwRKplZ-VYWrYjrSBZo6b80Oy1GksHiQ6T4lcgJZ_Pw0M3A4rQXBmif7XgZvfW1G4OhSZszXcbXYQ1-NKFGGPNlPL-Fdgh/s618/Gaza%20and%20soldier.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="618" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjabXDKVVUILYC1-M5Q36pZI9jt6H_VaiuEIQjWfi7lBnhbhzvnbTJJKBjV92Xl4Y3OYNPMWLWvSwVNX1tQ5X4jxpb9xM-KLQgwRKplZ-VYWrYjrSBZo6b80Oy1GksHiQ6T4lcgJZ_Pw0M3A4rQXBmif7XgZvfW1G4OhSZszXcbXYQ1-NKFGGPNlPL-Fdgh/w640-h438/Gaza%20and%20soldier.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dayan claimed
that those calling for genocide in Israel were marginal, despite them including
the President and Prime Minister. He doubled down on this: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 21.3pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">the
State of Israel does a lot within the constraints Hamas imposes on us to comply
with the proper moral standards and the laws of war.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">He then let slip the real reason that
Yad Vashem won’t be condemning a genocide that has already claimed over 30,000
lives, notwithstanding those dying of hunger and disease.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">"Our area
of concern is the Holocaust, and only the Holocaust," <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">And there you have it. As far as Zionism
and the Israeli state is concerned, there are no lessons to be learnt from the
Holocaust other than that Jews are perpetual victims of anti-Semitism, even
when genocide is being carried out in their name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbkx-XO5tqlX5QlYS4o9cGSfRAHZKZUbLT44UiiLCt4RM94zvX3UndfeSyv9lcGLYE1bhgsZ2gfmt5o2b0u6fsrnrGS_u1Ycc-7kOmCo-MSkq_PkV026-XuFOEcuk5QKTn-w39qOXwm5CiJ1R3H6pYQt2zJ-FWD5Fwms3bOJa8nJNeghiBNC1efk5ZLXSI/s942/Gaza%20city.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="942" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbkx-XO5tqlX5QlYS4o9cGSfRAHZKZUbLT44UiiLCt4RM94zvX3UndfeSyv9lcGLYE1bhgsZ2gfmt5o2b0u6fsrnrGS_u1Ycc-7kOmCo-MSkq_PkV026-XuFOEcuk5QKTn-w39qOXwm5CiJ1R3H6pYQt2zJ-FWD5Fwms3bOJa8nJNeghiBNC1efk5ZLXSI/w640-h456/Gaza%20city.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">South Africa
and the International Court<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">We
should therefore be grateful to South Africa for doing what none of the
corrupt Arab regimes (except for the Houthis) are doing. Despite the howls
of Genocide Joe and his poodles Sunak and Starmer that their claims were <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/4398781-israel-gaza-blinken-genocide-case-meritless/">‘meritless’</a>
it has put Israel, and with it the United States and the West on trial.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
South African <a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf">Application
Instituting Proceedings</a> is meticulous and well worth reading. The meat of
South Africa’s case can be found in paragraphs 100-109 on pages 59-70.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZo4MqnxWBarzR0hUuiVgLYVclHPASLBIEUQLhJuZcyS6ijrGdH9frEvIoYJQq7I3LAc7yyBhuzqcMq1STLLDMns5PWZbK9meRzs6ZH0mjh5QLCSNURXmzYt3A6Vhh2XvWpFdnGA2FAsJMG9abSq2R83zQQUNxNxwmc8cX8SdDAWWpFGySx_sOVXH_vfbA/s756/CHILDREN%20OF%20darkness.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="756" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZo4MqnxWBarzR0hUuiVgLYVclHPASLBIEUQLhJuZcyS6ijrGdH9frEvIoYJQq7I3LAc7yyBhuzqcMq1STLLDMns5PWZbK9meRzs6ZH0mjh5QLCSNURXmzYt3A6Vhh2XvWpFdnGA2FAsJMG9abSq2R83zQQUNxNxwmc8cX8SdDAWWpFGySx_sOVXH_vfbA/w640-h528/CHILDREN%20OF%20darkness.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">To
take but a few examples Netanyahu, in the Knesset on 16 October 2023 <a href="https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/excerpt-from-pm-netanyahu-s-remarks-at-the-opening-of-the-knesset-s-winter-assembly-16-oct-2023">described</a>
Israel’s attack on Gaza as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">“a struggle
between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity
and the law of the jungle”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">On 28 October 2023, as Israeli
forces were preparing the ground invasion of Gaza, Netanyahu <a href="https://www.livemint.com/news/world/pm-netanyahu-invokes-amalek-theory-to-justify-gaza-killings-what-is-this-hebrew-bible-nation-11698555324918.html">told</a>
Israelis that: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">“you must
remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember”.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Netanyahu again <a href="https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/spoke-pmo031123">referred</a> to
Amalek in a letter<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of 3 November 2023 to
Israeli soldiers. The relevant biblical passage <a href="https://929chapters.com/2010/01/13/1-samuel-15-%E2%80%9Csaul%E2%80%99s-war-with-amalek-god-rejects-saul%E2%80%9D/">reads</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Now go,
attack Amalek, and proscribe all that belongs to him. Spare no one, but kill
alike men and women, infants and sucklings, oxen and sheep, camels and asses”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The message
could not be clearer. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmTXFmo1QmtBDgOGbnDH__hIqJOVDHbcvQkWwS4XY6fd-DU4rxYK6_vyljd1aubavp2d90uodScvYVwD4LFC9iUsf0qZZmrqeti_L7nmR0FAdboqlpKeqmGeRy48RmFnSsAfcsXWLtxNg8n0pwQCz2gGiiO7B06Za-ZOcZwcMJhxRHVWDfUYLGD84Kdv1V/s873/gaza%20hospital%20screams.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="873" height="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmTXFmo1QmtBDgOGbnDH__hIqJOVDHbcvQkWwS4XY6fd-DU4rxYK6_vyljd1aubavp2d90uodScvYVwD4LFC9iUsf0qZZmrqeti_L7nmR0FAdboqlpKeqmGeRy48RmFnSsAfcsXWLtxNg8n0pwQCz2gGiiO7B06Za-ZOcZwcMJhxRHVWDfUYLGD84Kdv1V/w640-h564/gaza%20hospital%20screams.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Israeli Labor Party President
Yitzhak Herzog <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/16/the-language-being-used-to-describe-palestinians-is-genocidal">was
explicit</a>. Israel should not distinguish between fighters and civilians,
referring to Palestinians in Gaza, over one million of whom are children, as: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">an
entire nation out there that is responsible. It’s not true this rhetoric about
civilians not aware not involved. It’s absolutely not true. … and we will fight
until we break their backbone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">"There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals.”<br /><br />said Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. <a href="https://t.co/7kXsATH7Ho">pic.twitter.com/7kXsATH7Ho</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">— NoComment (@nocomment) <a href="https://twitter.com/nocomment/status/1711676482265981371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2023</a></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JV6b2Nvc0SJ_CSlrvHUK2xOyjLzHMhEpWYFP_vqU14M-azRJbeaOv9VMNkiFwo0FScTeVJDels3RYSMJ6ZIo2yFw8bZeWQEe6-FPco5aQZUDTZM4GcMrtlfhXVL5MZYQ-L3_DWELUq_XvHdbeU_PP4gE5eGj2hng7y24thaKShfBhYWwqQQJLhNO9Gi4/s1064/Israel%20condemns%20SA.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="1064" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JV6b2Nvc0SJ_CSlrvHUK2xOyjLzHMhEpWYFP_vqU14M-azRJbeaOv9VMNkiFwo0FScTeVJDels3RYSMJ6ZIo2yFw8bZeWQEe6-FPco5aQZUDTZM4GcMrtlfhXVL5MZYQ-L3_DWELUq_XvHdbeU_PP4gE5eGj2hng7y24thaKShfBhYWwqQQJLhNO9Gi4/w640-h138/Israel%20condemns%20SA.jpg" width="640" /></a> </p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">On 9 October 2023, War
Minister Yoav Gallant <a href="https://twitter.com/nocomment/status/1711676482265981371">stated</a> that
Israel was imposing a complete siege on Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">No
electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting
human animals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">In referring
to ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">human animals’</i> Gallant was
repeating, word for word, Himmler’s description of the Jews. Himmler </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/remarks-by-himmler"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">said</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">, in a
speech in Posen/Posnan on October 4 1943 that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">We Germans,
who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude towards
animals, will also assume a decent attitude towards these human animals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is not known whether Gallant was aware of this but the very fact that he used
the same words as the man responsible for implementing the Final Solution is
sufficient in itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEics4fqUqX3zkzWSQyPujoP7N15TKSmJTnb5-t6ZfByj9R7Ds3jiDBlSWCU7_tb4RsY4TP-OdpOvSBLh_SEFmF6eJG2XbG8TUEf1k27QKoVGPeG0cfMMDEZNXDFp4pfktAZRjYiO0YeUXNp4MSdIY9PD5HUUj-tZv9a0ldUZ7EshL_WXzdXOpwfcb89vHe3/s774/Palestinian%20man%20sits%20on%20rubble.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="774" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEics4fqUqX3zkzWSQyPujoP7N15TKSmJTnb5-t6ZfByj9R7Ds3jiDBlSWCU7_tb4RsY4TP-OdpOvSBLh_SEFmF6eJG2XbG8TUEf1k27QKoVGPeG0cfMMDEZNXDFp4pfktAZRjYiO0YeUXNp4MSdIY9PD5HUUj-tZv9a0ldUZ7EshL_WXzdXOpwfcb89vHe3/w640-h486/Palestinian%20man%20sits%20on%20rubble.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On 10 November the Kahanist
Minister of Police and Security, Itamar ben Gvir, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/we-should-be-worried-israel-faces-peril-at-the-hague-in-gaza-genocide-case/">clarified</a>
that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">when we say
that Hamas should be destroyed, it also means those who celebrate, those who
support, and those who hand out candy — they’re all terrorists, and they should
also be destroyed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">There are
many more such statements from Israeli leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Nor
was it a case of politicians engaging in rhetorical outbursts. On the ground in
the Gaza Strip soldiers were assimilating these messages and acting
accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Gaza (not Hamas). Wipe out the "Seed of Amalek" (not solely Hamas). No "uninvolved civilians" (not solely Hamas) = Genocidal intent toward all Palestinians. <a href="https://twitter.com/CIJ_ICJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CIJ_ICJ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ICJ_org?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICJ_org</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dotherightthing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#dotherightthing</a> <a href="https://t.co/JJBkQVEhje">https://t.co/JJBkQVEhje</a></span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— PrayingforPermanentCeasefire (@GangstaOtter) <a href="https://twitter.com/GangstaOtter/status/1746370222301262104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Videos
from the field of soldiers dancing and <a href="https://twitter.com/GangstaOtter/status/1746370222301262104">singing</a> “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wipe out the seed of Amalek</i>,” or saying,
“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">With God's help,”</i> Gaza City's
Shujaiyeh neighborhood “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">will be the late
Shujaiyeh”</i> or “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We've taken down 30
houses. Wonderful.</i>" <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Israeli
liberals, in the form of Ha’aretz newspaper <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-01-12/ty-article-opinion/israel-is-paying-the-price-for-its-bigmouths/0000018c-fa2b-dd94-a9cc-faeff2700000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=author-alert&utm_campaign=Haaretz%20Editorial&utm_te">complained</a>
that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Israel Is Paying the Price for Its
Bigmouths’.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv9ZSEFsZpmVhRMo4c61q2tbrcfCC0yyTs9yxY9Jmr4TcjPpLJ-YC_uM47IdWv-ZpwMbkpxGeb9dNXdO71cmtUFXzaJEuIy0fAZpZuZKAQndzogIdkNe2QeMjbvIdrfFcZKN5alpXfBC660npomYQK215US6rdjfjBJDj8r51629tKBHPHpZmnqGZNPsGl/s1204/Gazans%20starving.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="676" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv9ZSEFsZpmVhRMo4c61q2tbrcfCC0yyTs9yxY9Jmr4TcjPpLJ-YC_uM47IdWv-ZpwMbkpxGeb9dNXdO71cmtUFXzaJEuIy0fAZpZuZKAQndzogIdkNe2QeMjbvIdrfFcZKN5alpXfBC660npomYQK215US6rdjfjBJDj8r51629tKBHPHpZmnqGZNPsGl/s16000/Gazans%20starving.jpg" /></a></i></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ha’aretz
liberals would <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-01-12/ty-article-opinion/israel-is-paying-the-price-for-its-bigmouths/0000018c-fa2b-dd94-a9cc-faeff2700000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=author-alert&utm_campaign=Haaretz%20Editorial&utm_te">rather</a>
t<a name="n"></a>hat the ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bigmouths’</i>
kept quiet and let the soldiers get on with genocide. Instead the far-right
(which today means most Israelis) boasts of their intentions knowing full well
that the western media can be relied on to say nothing or brush it off.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ha’aretz
<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-04/ty-article/.premium/gaza-genocide-case-at-the-icj-has-an-unwitting-ally-israeli-politicians/0000018c-d479-d4e1-ad8f-fcf93ae90000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=author-alert&utm_campaign=Alon">complained</a>
that South Africa’s Genocide Case at the ICJ had an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Unwitting Ally: Israeli Politicians</i> and asked its readers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Can you imagine a defendant
presenting the court with an amicus curiae to assist it and the prosecution in
their case against him? That's what the Israeli government is unwittingly
doing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Israel has a
very impressive gallery of utterly unimpressive politicians. It also parades a
messianic collection of fools for ministers who just can't keep their mouths
shut and are proud of their verbose gibberish. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Gle30-OJPtefRpbBda2MQ0SZ9m9GWgJlIOVSlI4weJtoR0_Kv7Tlyhf5tXaceY1hNK-oOTeSntrlG1vgFwsZ7XCyuXeipqwh7HXJJy9U119UInTnI5Hq0Vx5zjDSz6Ir6VM9W-9rwk4NpO8QInqpLHZspWBXXOYn7qdwi8mqjxi86BQiR6p8v3spk9NH/s640/Israelis%20accused%20judiciary%20of%20ignoring%20incitement%20to%20genocide.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="640" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Gle30-OJPtefRpbBda2MQ0SZ9m9GWgJlIOVSlI4weJtoR0_Kv7Tlyhf5tXaceY1hNK-oOTeSntrlG1vgFwsZ7XCyuXeipqwh7HXJJy9U119UInTnI5Hq0Vx5zjDSz6Ir6VM9W-9rwk4NpO8QInqpLHZspWBXXOYn7qdwi8mqjxi86BQiR6p8v3spk9NH/w640-h614/Israelis%20accused%20judiciary%20of%20ignoring%20incitement%20to%20genocide.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Incitement to Genocide<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On 3 January, well before the launch of the ICJ proceedings a group of
prominent Israelis <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/03/israeli-public-figures-accuse-judiciary-of-ignoring-incitement-to-genocide-in-gaza">accused</a>
the country’s judicial authorities of ignoring <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“extensive and blatant”
incitement to genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza by influential public
figures.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In a letter to the attorney general and state prosecutors, they demanded
action to stop the normalisation of language that breaks both Israeli and
international law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“For
the first time that we can remember, the explicit calls to commit atrocious
crimes, as stated, against millions of civilians have turned into a legitimate
and regular part of Israeli discourse. Today, calls of these types are an
everyday matter in Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The letter quoted Ben Gvir and Yitzhak Kroizer, MK for Otzma Yehudit, who
in a radio interview <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-11-06/ty-article/.premium/fire-israels-far-right/0000018b-a11c-dc0b-a1cb-e5de69890000">explained</a>
that: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“The
Gaza Strip should be flattened, and for all of them there is but one sentence,
and that is death.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Tally Gotliv of Likud <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231010-israel-mk-says-use-doomsday-weapons-against-gaza/">demanded</a>
the use of a nuclear bomb on Gaza for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“strategic
deterrence before we consider inserting ground troops, doomsday weapon</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 28pt; line-height: 56px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAHXz3g_cFI9ikZ3GEDohqE6dUQJxgybKnIcNHUMdPadyOf1sEslV4QtUQ6jLJfVyw811JGySdSvoky8tyW0USP_qlT97I8bfXp7fMw3Q6_4sRd6djhLw-FZwCTRa-wrqSvuGYEopsNk-fgC5TXOo3mtcpfM9RV3Y4kBBDuoHMHN4zA50FmzAjcc0v4gU6/s1200/Boaz_Bismuth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAHXz3g_cFI9ikZ3GEDohqE6dUQJxgybKnIcNHUMdPadyOf1sEslV4QtUQ6jLJfVyw811JGySdSvoky8tyW0USP_qlT97I8bfXp7fMw3Q6_4sRd6djhLw-FZwCTRa-wrqSvuGYEopsNk-fgC5TXOo3mtcpfM9RV3Y4kBBDuoHMHN4zA50FmzAjcc0v4gU6/w266-h400/Boaz_Bismuth.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></b></span></p><p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>Boaz Bismuth</b></span></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Likud MP, Boaz Bismuth <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaz_Bismuth">evoked</a> the mythical
biblical massacre of the Amalek nation saying: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It is forbidden to take mercy on the cruel, there’s no place for any
humanitarian gestures,”</i> adding that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The
memory of Amalek must be erased.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Among other commenters cited is journalist Zvi Yehezkeli, who <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-has-a-moral-obligation-to-support-south-africas-genocide-case/">said</a>
on Channel 13: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“[We]
should have killed many times 20,000 people, [we] should have begun with a blow
of 100,000.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Palestinian Israelis who expressed sympathy for the people of Gaza have
been routinely arrested. Michael Sfard said <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">I
never could have imagined that I would need to write such a letter. The fact
that this type of talk has completely left the far, unimportant fringes and
came into the mainstream in such a massive way, for me it’s incomprehensible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> Sfard is naive. Such language has long entered the mainstream. It
wasn’t long ago that Ben Gvir and Otzma Yehudit were considered beyond the
pale. Today they are outflanked by many in Likud.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1lpi6p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In 1984 when Rabbi Meir Kahane, whom Gvir venerates, was elected to
the Knesset he was shunned – by all parties. In 1988 his party, Kach, was
banned altogether yet today the Religious Zionism bloc is the third largest
group in the Knesset.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">Israeli
Genocide is NOT the result of October 7<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">We
should not fall into the trap of believing that Israeli genocide in Gaza is simply
a reaction to the breakout on October 7. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">October
7 provided the opportunity for Israeli leaders to fulfill their life’s ambition
of ethnically cleansing Gaza. Up to then the intention had been to concentrate first
on the Palestinians of the West Bank but to Israeli leaders it was a once in a
lifetime’s opportunity and they took it with both hands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As
the <a href="https://www.izs.org.il/">Misgav Institute</a> <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/israeli-think-tank-lays-out-a-blueprint-for-the-complete-ethnic-cleansing-of-gaza/">explained</a>
in a position paper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">There is at the
moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in
coordination with the Egyptian government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Holocaust has been harnessed to Israeli settler colonialism and October 7
compared several times to the Holocaust itself. It is claimed that this was the
largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust itself. I have dealt with this lie
<a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2024/01/zionism-during-after-holocaust-how.html">previously</a>.
It assumes that Hamas attacked Israelis because they were Jews and not because
they were occupiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The BBC and other media outlets keep revisiting the crimes Hamas committed on October 7, but have failed to report on growing evidence that Israel killed its own citizens that day, often in grotesque fashion.<br /><br />My latest article can be read here: <a href="https://t.co/MHxdUxRrCV">https://t.co/MHxdUxRrCV</a></span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1735663904087294294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLEi1oTiXoVKNT7HsBfoIcstfxFa_QO4wRzaxeyXI776VtxgAWRd8UE0ZP4JjhDbO4OAEMzyurrFHAB4GXnDE9H5nMfZVvk5i7T9IEvFNFiECv1uVeM22XHSxygaEYw-HmQ6Nz4t7gIGV6DsnZdjLbaiEuP6wkA58vGaVcRvkrUPtC1Nlm3btqNPLEA3Rq/s748/injured%20boy.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="748" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLEi1oTiXoVKNT7HsBfoIcstfxFa_QO4wRzaxeyXI776VtxgAWRd8UE0ZP4JjhDbO4OAEMzyurrFHAB4GXnDE9H5nMfZVvk5i7T9IEvFNFiECv1uVeM22XHSxygaEYw-HmQ6Nz4t7gIGV6DsnZdjLbaiEuP6wkA58vGaVcRvkrUPtC1Nlm3btqNPLEA3Rq/w640-h470/injured%20boy.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">That
Israel was intent of using October 7 for political purposes is clear from their
attempt to rewrite what happened that day. They deliberately concocted fables
about 40 beheaded babies, a baked baby, a baby hung from a clothes line and most
importantly the mass rape of Israeli women. Jonathan Cook has <a href="https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-the-guardians-hamas-mass-rape?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=476450&post_id=140841474&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=j3i2u&utm_medium=email">shown</a>
how this false narrative, peddled by the New York Times and The Guardian, has
no basis in fact. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Guardian rested its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/evidence-points-to-systematic-use-of-rape-by-hamas-in-7-october-attacks?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">story</a>
on a whole series of improbable events and in particular the Zaka volunteers, a
group of Jewish religious extremist men who previously had invented the story
of the beheaded babies, which is still doing the rounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ha’aretz
of 4 December 2023 described a number of examples of Zaka volunteers inventing
atrocities. One volunteer described how a </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">6 or 7 year-old boy was found shot in the safe room.
He also described how, in House 426 on Kibbutz Beria he had found a woman whose
abdomen had been split open and a foetus cut out. Nir Hasson and Liza Rozovsky <a href="https://archive.is/H6rAm#selection-5665.0-5665.227">commented</a> that <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">no children 6 or 7 or near those ages were killed on Be'eri. House 426 is in
the Ashelim neighborhood, which largely houses kibbutz veterans – older people.
House 426 is also a two-family house where elderly families lived;</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRBrU8L3H3ArHQhfLQ8-2fkme8m5swKOiddRFzNsg0D12o_-lwETJ3H925PJgL5N2x-fGhdrdyYHfnLBh7JlD-q0ltamsT3d3HYzhlLcLymKbruqn0LOmUmqYIJL7WARuHmrQdLWKuuBjfeJZpkBffaCjfNqhSjcsYWBdE21N6NwtqkNrktATR0ToEZ12p/s746/families%20of%2013%20killed%20demand%20%20inquiry.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="605" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRBrU8L3H3ArHQhfLQ8-2fkme8m5swKOiddRFzNsg0D12o_-lwETJ3H925PJgL5N2x-fGhdrdyYHfnLBh7JlD-q0ltamsT3d3HYzhlLcLymKbruqn0LOmUmqYIJL7WARuHmrQdLWKuuBjfeJZpkBffaCjfNqhSjcsYWBdE21N6NwtqkNrktATR0ToEZ12p/w520-h640/families%20of%2013%20killed%20demand%20%20inquiry.jpg" width="520" /></a></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Guardian however had no problem relying on these lying messianic nuts. Zaka has
been plagued by allegations of wrongdoing for years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Its
founder <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Meshi_Zahav" title="">Yehuda
Meshi-Zahav</a> and the main figurehead for more than 30 years was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZAKA">forced to resign</a> after multiple
accusations surfaced of his having committed sexual assaults against women,
girls and boys over several decades. All with the knowledge of others in Zaka.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The same
is true of the New York Times. On December 28 the NYT published a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html">report</a>
on gender-based violence committed by Palestinians during the October
7 attack. The story concluded that Hamas fighters engaged in systematic rape
and sexual violence against Israeli women.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The story
repeated October 7 testimonies that had already been discredited. The <em>Times</em>
investigation hinged predominantly on alleged rape of “Gal Abdush,” who was
described by as “The Woman in the Black Dress.” The only problem was that the
Abdush family themselves <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/family-of-key-case-in-new-york-times-october-7-sexual-violence-report-renounces-story-says-reporters-manipulated-them/">said</a>
that there was no proof that their daughter was raped, and that Times reporters
interviewed them under false pretenses.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm-vOVJmi7wfPehlE5cs4Cb2YMPzulRAnm3fBp2HkSqrwozV5nUK71SS_9W07uH7xrLNKLHByMLMFWvwIMYS9k4dQHD3a6gXdQ-3DnIVY7uCgbAFwPbZwwCs-Hl2F4g4W5grkp0z7UGXTDe_A2riOlK3kX3A5IYaGwALeJFF-dcVASVU67WZVbYDyg4fMf/s946/Hamas%20protected%20hostages.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="946" height="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm-vOVJmi7wfPehlE5cs4Cb2YMPzulRAnm3fBp2HkSqrwozV5nUK71SS_9W07uH7xrLNKLHByMLMFWvwIMYS9k4dQHD3a6gXdQ-3DnIVY7uCgbAFwPbZwwCs-Hl2F4g4W5grkp0z7UGXTDe_A2riOlK3kX3A5IYaGwALeJFF-dcVASVU67WZVbYDyg4fMf/w640-h630/Hamas%20protected%20hostages.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
allegations that Hamas fighters took time out to serially rape a woman at the
Nova festival, cut off her breast and play football with it defies logic. The
purpose of the attack was to capture Israelis in order to exchange them with
Palestinians in Israeli prisons. They were in a hurry to capture the hostages
as quickly as possible before the arrival of the Israeli army. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">What the
Guardian and NYT did was indulge in the familiar depiction of indigenous people
as violent sexual predators which was how Jews were portrayed in Nazi Germany
and Black people in the Deep South.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It is highly
unlikely that Hamas, with its strict moral codes, would indulge in such
behaviour. This is not speculation. Hin and Ajam, captive mother and daughter, testified
they were treated with kindness and respect and in their own words like Queens.
If there were any truth in these allegations, then both women would have come
back to Israel to tell a tale of rape and torture, yet they <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231224-mother-and-daughter-detail-hamas-humane-treatment-during-the-time-they-were-held/">did
the exact opposite</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Yocheved
Lifshitz <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hostage-released-hamas-yochaved-lifshitz-gaza-palestinians/">told</a>
how she had been treated humanely. So angry were the Israeli authorities at her
testimony that the person who arranged her press conference at Ichilov hospital
was <a href="https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-773332">sacked</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Chen Goldstein-Almog
<a href="https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/freed-israeli-hostage-says-hamas-protected-them-during-israels-air-strikes-16374456">told</a>
how the main danger came from Israeli air strikes: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Our guards, our captors ... were on top of us, protecting us with
their bodies from the strikes,"</i> Chen said. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"We were very valuable to them,</i>" she added. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The Israeli
woman recalled asking her captors if they were going to kill them <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"and they would tell us: We will die
before you."</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Pj5UOPeyu1HLwbCat8qbxUzDZ826OmUAYyHuDiePD6C6f56IAFwZifr8ZT3JahkxqBhupLkh3mWHjiZY3jBGwg6AZkr3urrYCTn26qmhT2pP7gP6NUtxHL6cljA8FTMZxAWeUhiuNLgfC8l5THN8Mw4eGHoG03fCnuRw9bCnOlsrhBAQoFdideNtKhvO/s634/Yocheved%20Lifshitz%20holds%20hands%20with%20Hamas.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 37.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="634" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Pj5UOPeyu1HLwbCat8qbxUzDZ826OmUAYyHuDiePD6C6f56IAFwZifr8ZT3JahkxqBhupLkh3mWHjiZY3jBGwg6AZkr3urrYCTn26qmhT2pP7gP6NUtxHL6cljA8FTMZxAWeUhiuNLgfC8l5THN8Mw4eGHoG03fCnuRw9bCnOlsrhBAQoFdideNtKhvO/w640-h358/Yocheved%20Lifshitz%20holds%20hands%20with%20Hamas.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></span></p><br />
<p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span>If It’s Not the Holocaust
Then Why Israel’s Hysterical Genocidal Reaction to October 7?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In my
view the Holocaust is a red herring, a means of winning sympathy. The reaction
of Israelis to October 7 was the typical reaction of settler colonials to the nightmare
scenario of the natives, who they’ve mistreated for so long, getting their
revenge. Exactly this same horrific nightmare was common to whites in southern
Africa. Having trodden on Black people for so long they expected them to exact
their revenge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">And
sometimes this nightmare comes true. One only has to think of the <a href="https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/slavery-and-the-haitian-revolu">revolt
of Black slaves</a> in Santo Domingo/Haiti in August 1791 who killed every
single White French person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The Holocaust
is merely the prism through which these fears are refracted. It is one more
attempt to portray the Zionist settlers as the victim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Those who
condemn October 7 and I certainly don’t, should note the thousands of
Palestinians who have been slaughtered since 1948.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That the death of a few hundred Israelis by
comparison evokes such condemnation in the West merely indicates the
hypocritical racism of the imperialist media – the BBC, NYT and all the other White
journalists and pundits.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdDKDYqH2rvbIfSztcUlHcWf3XU0XJx9m499TfMrlHwiqqES3ATMbqMffKhOO5ddMt3-VVQeoB80psUk7n6Mh5w6okpi0TcpMNoljhSp5oKXth4uLuncJ90rEKdX_lP9AjwRE-pOSG9RMwp2O9Q2Bx-XdQeqAku5_gFhE-v0BtVkLBFaq78HcwCoEFOfKY/s774/Hannibal%201.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="774" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdDKDYqH2rvbIfSztcUlHcWf3XU0XJx9m499TfMrlHwiqqES3ATMbqMffKhOO5ddMt3-VVQeoB80psUk7n6Mh5w6okpi0TcpMNoljhSp5oKXth4uLuncJ90rEKdX_lP9AjwRE-pOSG9RMwp2O9Q2Bx-XdQeqAku5_gFhE-v0BtVkLBFaq78HcwCoEFOfKY/w640-h550/Hannibal%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">What Did Happen on October 7, 2023?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Slowly
but surely the truth is coming out about what happened on October 7. It is
almost certain that apart from the near 400 military deaths, many of whom
were also victims of ‘friendly’ fire, that the majority of civilians were
killed by Israel and its <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/11/3/whats-the-hannibal-directive-a-former-israeli-soldier-tells-all">Hannibal
Dir</a><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/11/3/whats-the-hannibal-directive-a-former-israeli-soldier-tells-all">ective</a>
which decrees it is better to shoot one of your own citizens than to let them
be taken hostage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As
Israel’s <a href="https://www-ynet-co-il.translate.goog/news/article/yokra13754368?_x_tr_sl=iw&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true">Y-Net
put it</a>, the order went out to prevent ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">terrorists
from returning to Gaza "at all costs", even if they have hostages
with them.</i>’ In other words kill both hostages and captives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Times of Israel</i> <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/families-of-13-people-killed-in-october-7-kibbutz-beeri-firefight-demand-probe/">reported</a>
that families of 13 people killed at Kibbutz Be’eri have demanded an
investigation <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">due to the
likelihood that at least some of the civilians were killed by army fire,
including tank fire, at the house where they were being held hostage by
terrorists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">None of
these facts, the murder of its own civilians, is mentioned either by the BBC or
Guardian even though it’s common knowledge in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">General
Barak Haram <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/22/world/europe/beeri-massacre.html" target="_blank">told</a> the NYT that he gave orders to a tank commander to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“break in, even at the cost of civilian
casualties.” </i>As result a tank fired shells at a house, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">only one
person emerged alive from the carnage — Hadas Dagan. The remains of 13 hostages
and dozens of terrorists were ultimately recovered and identified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;">See <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-06/ty-article/.premium/families-of-israelis-killed-in-beeri-home-hit-by-tank-fire-on-october-7-demand-probe/0000018c-de77-daf6-a5df-df7f22d60000">Families
of Israelis Killed in Be'eri Home Hit by IDF Tank on October 7 Demand Probe</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://t.co/LOiXEhghJx">https://t.co/LOiXEhghJx</a><br /><br />They played this card 3 years ago…</p>— Rubashov (@Rubashov86182) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rubashov86182/status/1745846653884440720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0yuZlPcRONn_loCSOB-Q-YQ1EWGW2rh5s8NxHO0T4MAsswEMtEL3VAENgXC3maV9z-clnpf1Eu938Z5gBL29sKmbBeE2q3uFU2i72QzCYQ1M0oT5z4gam4rOEFgBHGn98SGVinXDpuyYdgpZIOjRYQ-17Rh2Y-Z4rOLKGLSiVKJmeJhs9mstnhbio3HbT/s994/hans%20globke.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="994" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0yuZlPcRONn_loCSOB-Q-YQ1EWGW2rh5s8NxHO0T4MAsswEMtEL3VAENgXC3maV9z-clnpf1Eu938Z5gBL29sKmbBeE2q3uFU2i72QzCYQ1M0oT5z4gam4rOEFgBHGn98SGVinXDpuyYdgpZIOjRYQ-17Rh2Y-Z4rOLKGLSiVKJmeJhs9mstnhbio3HbT/w640-h386/hans%20globke.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Germany and Its Support for Israel at the ICJ<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
lesson that Israel drew from the Holocaust was not an anti-racist one but its opposite.
Zionism was a racial preservation project whose aim was to preserve and ‘purify’
the Jewish ‘race’. It is little wonder that the German state loves Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
lessons Germany drew from the Holocaust were also not anti-racist ones. How
could it be otherwise when the German state was not deNazified after the war? <a href="https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/231/trial-of-former-nazi-hans-globke/">Hans
Globke</a> was Chancellor Konrad Adenaeur’s closes advisor. To the German state
Israel was the living embodiment of the Jewish holocaust dead because Israel was an ally of
imperialism. Noone of course had asked whether those who died in the Holocaust were in agreement with this, because most European Jews at the time hated Zionism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Globke
was a senior civil servant in the Reich Ministry of Interior. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/27668518?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents">According
to</a> Daniel Rogers Globke was involved in drafting legislation that required
Jews to add either "Israel" or "Sara" to their legal names
in order to brand them publicly. He was heavily involved in drafting legal
ordinances allowing the confiscation of the property of Jews and the removal of
their citizenship, an essential precondition to extermination.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjri1PLpIex2NMWV1QXua3HYm1IE5wP_fpoGRyVKcY2xjNhXnr90wJ7xphrAEfu4IswP_k4SpzncipdsK8dmzkAWOhowOALGdwUm4Ktukmiszx_vJ47vuQHryZUTkcQzqEcOaCe3XNdpviKslF6Se2ZnyNdI2snXJq8krihKgaSq_6zgKNA8Kmjhc6g59Fr/s692/Scholtz%20&%20Netanyahu.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="692" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjri1PLpIex2NMWV1QXua3HYm1IE5wP_fpoGRyVKcY2xjNhXnr90wJ7xphrAEfu4IswP_k4SpzncipdsK8dmzkAWOhowOALGdwUm4Ktukmiszx_vJ47vuQHryZUTkcQzqEcOaCe3XNdpviKslF6Se2ZnyNdI2snXJq8krihKgaSq_6zgKNA8Kmjhc6g59Fr/w640-h598/Scholtz%20&%20Netanyahu.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
a sordid deal between David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister and
Adenaeur, ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">extraordinary precautions’ </i>were
taken to keep<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Globke’s name out of the
Eichmann trial, according to Ian Lustick’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Holocaust in Israeli Political Culture. </i>This was part of the deal by which
Germany paid Israel reparations and supplied it with weaponry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is often thought that Germany’s support for Israel is simply because of its
guilt over the holocaust but Germany has no guilt over the Roma. Nor does it
have any guilt over the presence in the German parliament of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alternative for Germany </i>which is <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/top-afd-aide-dismissed-over-neo-nazi-scandal/">riddled
with neo-Nazis</a> and holocaust deniers. A party whose leading members have <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jacob-rees-mogg-afd-germany-far-right-twitter-brexit-alice-weidel-a8848826.html">advocated</a>
shooting refugees. The AfD is also the most pro-Zionist party in Germany!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 21.3333px; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlqsWiUbH2BJWoE0wZtqDjfs3rrAOSqsgSQ9ZLSUHnMw_Pzmf9rjGqwZRWG8LHUYbaljUfOgNk6B_GC3Ekxul65eQolLC5BljePPoqy_3BpeZNlyLZOrjelvNfEoO9v5juB7njf2N86ZQzA0bnYbEhN1bXaPUAOVqH1YaHZpA0nWxqhte5QBclhfQUmoaK/s652/wife%20of%20Hamza%20Yousef.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 37.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="642" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlqsWiUbH2BJWoE0wZtqDjfs3rrAOSqsgSQ9ZLSUHnMw_Pzmf9rjGqwZRWG8LHUYbaljUfOgNk6B_GC3Ekxul65eQolLC5BljePPoqy_3BpeZNlyLZOrjelvNfEoO9v5juB7njf2N86ZQzA0bnYbEhN1bXaPUAOVqH1YaHZpA0nWxqhte5QBclhfQUmoaK/w630-h640/wife%20of%20Hamza%20Yousef.jpg" width="630" /></a></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">The
Nazification of Israel <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">What the war on Gaza has done is accelerate
the move to the right in Israeli politics. The Zionist left has all but
disappeared. Democratic freedoms, even for Jews, are now being eroded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">When the Joint List’s only Jewish MK Ofer
Casif supported Germany’s application to the ICJ a petition was <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi_pNTH3uqDAxU8hP0HHcVjAoUQFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofisrael.com%2Fliveblog_entry%2Fmk-starts-process-to-expel-far-left-lawmaker-who-supports-genocide-charges-against-isr">immediately
signed</a> by 70 members of the Knesset calling for his expulsion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Whereas Israeli Jews are free to incite hate
against Israel’s Palestinian minority, the slightest protest or indication of opposition
to Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza can result in arrest. D</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">ozens
of Palestinian citizens of Israel are <a href="https://time.com/6333939/israeli-arab-lawmaker-aida-touma-sliman-anti-war-gaza/">estimated
to have been arrested</a> for speech-related offenses. One woman was <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/11/9/palestinians-arrested-for-terrorism-over-whatsapp-status#:~:text=Video%20shows%20the%20moment%20a,and%20universities%2C%20since%20October%207.">reportedly</a>
charged with inciting terrorism over her WhatsApp status, which read, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">may God grant them victory and protect them.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://www.idcommunism.com/2023/11/israel-communist-party-leading-member-mohammad-barakeh-detained-after-announcing-anti-war-protest.html">According
to</a> Aida Touma-Sliman, a Hadash MK, what is taking place is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘an attack on the entire Arab population.” </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoDri-EvLkhsWB9WMAbc2okD1ZO0SlxNXPXjZxZx7GN5HgPEAiRKpSDi9MdM1t5Kt52-o7TytUeP5BFpAgYSHWc7P-U2IodMH6fu08r-BkWoxQgtx6Pf7DytTq8Ae9CQkHrFb3F-EKQQsiRMBYMoyqrR63c4GyBWmu7lh6cILsa5YW5q-BZY8Plj-B4DP/s840/East%20Jerusalem%20resident%20denied%20citizenship.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="840" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoDri-EvLkhsWB9WMAbc2okD1ZO0SlxNXPXjZxZx7GN5HgPEAiRKpSDi9MdM1t5Kt52-o7TytUeP5BFpAgYSHWc7P-U2IodMH6fu08r-BkWoxQgtx6Pf7DytTq8Ae9CQkHrFb3F-EKQQsiRMBYMoyqrR63c4GyBWmu7lh6cILsa5YW5q-BZY8Plj-B4DP/w640-h246/East%20Jerusalem%20resident%20denied%20citizenship.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Israeli Palestinians have no freedom of speech. Palestinians living in annexed East Jerusalem are residents not
citizens of Israel and two-thirds of those who apply for citizenship are rejected.
For example a Palestinian woman who applied for citizenship was <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-18/ty-article/.premium/east-jerusalem-resident-could-be-denied-citizenship-due-to-posts-critical-of-israel/0000018d-1cf9-db77-ad9f-dffb40820000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=author-alert&utm_c">told</a>
by Varda Cohen,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> head of the Population Authority's
Registration and Status Team</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">"the
ministry is considering refusing the application in question, in light of the
content you post and share on social media. The posts show a clear nationalist
consciousness that is inconsistent with the application to receive Israeli
citizenship, recognition of the state's goals, and declaring allegiance to its
flag."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is welcome that hundreds of Israelis have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gphP0VcNCk&t=2s">signed</a> a petition
organized by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gphP0VcNCk&t=2s"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Anat Matar</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> supporting the application by South Africa to
the ICJ. However they represent a tiny minority of Israeli Jews, less than 1%
and mostly from academia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">It
is also welcome that </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">a group called the
"pro-human camp coalition" published a <a href="https://www.amnesty.org.il/2023/12/13/%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%94-%D7%94%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%96%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%95/">letter</a>
signed by public figures, artists and academics, declaring their commitment to
fight the dehumanization of Gazans, Palestinians and Muslims:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Signatories
include one of Israel’s top scientists, the Royal Society member </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/david-harel"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Prof David Harel</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">,
alongside other academics, former diplomats and , former members of the
Knesset, journalists and activists.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIpKV_kKWm7K2z1D5M9yK562HX9UNEcxlk3yjAr84ZjOkxUOIK36XyxrKvH-MyuLvTeOw3OHSrRu8ZjYSx47Pde4WYzgTyCFUIWArcpQBh9eS9LiFDsVmBb7dA_ITy6mT4PzLf9YuOp3O1d6HGex7guYGjLIzNSO-K-9JfxF5RL4R-VeA3lq92DuGS-AdD/s810/Israeli%20police%20fascists%20attack%20Arabs.jpg" style="font-size: 37.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="810" height="622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIpKV_kKWm7K2z1D5M9yK562HX9UNEcxlk3yjAr84ZjOkxUOIK36XyxrKvH-MyuLvTeOw3OHSrRu8ZjYSx47Pde4WYzgTyCFUIWArcpQBh9eS9LiFDsVmBb7dA_ITy6mT4PzLf9YuOp3O1d6HGex7guYGjLIzNSO-K-9JfxF5RL4R-VeA3lq92DuGS-AdD/w640-h622/Israeli%20police%20fascists%20attack%20Arabs.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Represented
by the human rights lawyer </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/michael-sfard"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Michael
Sfard</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, their 11-page letter contains multiple examples
of “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the discourse of annihilation,
expulsion and revenge”.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The
letter contrasts the lack of action on even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“the
gravest and most dangerous instances of incitement against residents of Gaza”</i>
with an intense campaign against incitement “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">whose potential victims are Israeli Jews</i>”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Huge resources have been devoted to tracking down
people over speech that authorities interpreted as supporting Hamas, the letter
notes. By late November, 269 investigations had been opened and 86 indictments
filed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It is quite amazing the number of
criminal investigations, when it comes to Palestinian citizens of Israel, most
of them completely anonymous, many of them almost with no audience,” Sfard
said. “The gap between that and the freedom and impunity for those who advocate
all kinds of things – ethnic cleansing, killing civilians, bombarding civilian
areas, and even genocide – doesn’t square up, and that’s something for the
authorities to explain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The
language of genocide risks influencing how Israel wages war, the letter says. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Normalised discourse which calls
for annihilation, erasure, devastation and the like is liable to impact the
manner by which soldiers conduct themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The
letter was sent before South Africa </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/29/south-africa-accuses-israel-of-committing-genocide-in-gaza"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">filed
a case at the international court of justice</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> accusing
Israel of genocide and of failing to stop incitement to genocide. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Come to the meeting on 27th January. We are determined to reclaim the memory of the Holocaust from the Zionists whose only objection to what happened is that Jews were the victims.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Tony
Greenstein <o:p></o:p></span></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-18771948912921957332024-01-18T02:39:00.001+00:002024-01-18T02:51:17.826+00:00 Zionism – During & After the Holocaust - How Zionism Fought to Prevent Jews Being Rescued During the Holocaust<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1e596e; font-size: x-large;"> <span face=""Arial Black", "sans-serif"">Israel has Weaponised the Nazi Genocide of Jews to Justify its Genocide
of Palestinians</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1e596e; font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsydIomTl_PWfKhhMo8BsYrOx5DJtofpgQS8z5nx37cxCpvvcVNfjPI-lsn5EEesbYKkEx2QLfCwH1A6EZiBKD-UtIRBG5IsOn5tFF0gnYjT01YTfLD1j0irh8eAmyPdytIVuG1ysf3yiKZmVVuLK30mqRQpq96SeXvwf7Uau3dpl5d7On_WjMO9LxCG7m/s1531/Flyer%202%2018.1.24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="829" data-original-width="1531" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsydIomTl_PWfKhhMo8BsYrOx5DJtofpgQS8z5nx37cxCpvvcVNfjPI-lsn5EEesbYKkEx2QLfCwH1A6EZiBKD-UtIRBG5IsOn5tFF0gnYjT01YTfLD1j0irh8eAmyPdytIVuG1ysf3yiKZmVVuLK30mqRQpq96SeXvwf7Uau3dpl5d7On_WjMO9LxCG7m/w640-h346/Flyer%202%2018.1.24.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #800180; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""Arial Black", "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";">Zionism – During & After the Holocaust</span></b></span></i></p><div style="border: 3pt solid windowtext; margin-left: 1cm; margin-right: 32.55pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1pt 4pt;"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 3.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Thursday 18 January 7.00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 3.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 3.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 28px;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Tony Greenstein & Tom Suarez</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Register <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AplKR6yjRimAcaO9o2GZ4w">here</a>:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AplKR6yjRimAcaO9o2GZ4w&source=gmail&ust=1705601142563000&usg=AOvVaw0EXr9FRGnGahFfO9mwNK4I" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AplKR6yjRimAcaO9o2GZ4w" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://us02web.zoom.us/<wbr></wbr>webinar/register/WN_<wbr></wbr>AplKR6yjRimAcaO9o2GZ4w</span></a></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V9Kvs4puV5w" width="320" youtube-src-id="V9Kvs4puV5w"></iframe></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial Black", "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><o:p><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hin & Ajam - Two Israeli Captives Who Said They Were Treated Like Queens - Compare that to Palestinian Prisoners Who Speak of Beatings and Torture</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Almost
immediately after the October 7 breakout of the Palestinian resistance from
Gaza and the <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231215-israel-social-security-data-reveals-true-picture-of-oct-7-deaths">death</a>
of 1,139 Israelis [695 civilians, 373 military and 71 foreigners], <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-a-holocaust-scholar-thinks-comparisons-with-the-oct-7-hamas-massacre-are-valid/">we
were told</a> that October 7 was the biggest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust.
This was wrong on two levels. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisLTpByiIInBAhO7YuLwf18plaQs_9Ex2YOEmNwvkkRTMZPqvPfPYIs-2zwSpmRi9dcT2MWfJgcLPKUiW0rc-Uk_jd6amw3iazBK1iwci1wEMhAivRelJtNfa1JUPMYVCOaC1wGEg2gB_QHuwB37LTKHqnUz7KjHq0VNj7FtrW_fCKTwQTJl9-8MOsC_nu/s788/israel%20aided%20junta.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="788" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisLTpByiIInBAhO7YuLwf18plaQs_9Ex2YOEmNwvkkRTMZPqvPfPYIs-2zwSpmRi9dcT2MWfJgcLPKUiW0rc-Uk_jd6amw3iazBK1iwci1wEMhAivRelJtNfa1JUPMYVCOaC1wGEg2gB_QHuwB37LTKHqnUz7KjHq0VNj7FtrW_fCKTwQTJl9-8MOsC_nu/w640-h206/israel%20aided%20junta.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Factually
it was wrong. It was the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/mar/24/guardianweekly.guardianweekly1">cold-blooded
murder</a> of up to 3,000 Argentinian Jews under a neo-Nazi Junta (1976-83)
that was the largest loss of Jewish life. However mentioning this would be
inconvenient since Israel had a <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2016-03-21/ty-article/argentine-israelis-disclose-jerusalems-junta-ties/0000017f-f738-d5bd-a17f-f73a8c4f0000">close
relationship</a> with the Junta, supplying it with weapons and training whilst
ignoring the plight of Argentina’s Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">But
secondly it is wrong because Israelis died on October 7, not because they were Jews
but because they were occupiers. There is therefore not only no comparison but
to even make the comparison trivialises and minimizes the Holocaust itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPMv16R25sik7cPu2ePIOGPo2KrBOR0sxXw_N9tFDscOcjcOUZQlpga-OEfpvp_RfEzChj8JcbrZpjNac0p06uWp3-t53bCsE-eK2xO8Nt7PfuzXphkafLWsK5xU-LnhXHJqW39UBxMholEt5wKrkCObiLZFFxPFGTEtEtt3Q2IBxHn2ll-wL_VI4rCO4k/s900/Jews%20targeted%20in%20Argentina.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="900" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPMv16R25sik7cPu2ePIOGPo2KrBOR0sxXw_N9tFDscOcjcOUZQlpga-OEfpvp_RfEzChj8JcbrZpjNac0p06uWp3-t53bCsE-eK2xO8Nt7PfuzXphkafLWsK5xU-LnhXHJqW39UBxMholEt5wKrkCObiLZFFxPFGTEtEtt3Q2IBxHn2ll-wL_VI4rCO4k/w640-h136/Jews%20targeted%20in%20Argentina.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It was in Argentina that Jews died because they were Jews but about this Israel was
remarkably unconcerned, refusing point blank to condemn the Junta’s anti-Semitism
even to the extent of turning away Jews trying to escape to Israel (so much for
Israel as a Jewish refuge from anti-Semitism) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">None
of this should come as any surprise to those acquainted with Zionism and the Holocaust.
When I brought out my <a href="https://bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/stockItem/searchByAuthor?author.id=37931&author.name=Tony%20Greenstein">book</a>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zionism During the Holocaust – The Weaponisation
of Memory in the Service of State and Nation </i>a year ago little did I know
that Israel would launch a genocidal attack on Gaza using the Holocaust as its
pretext.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Tomorrow
I will give a talk alongside Tom Suarez, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60320657-palestine-hijacked">Palestine
Hijacked</a> </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/State-Terror-Thomas-Suarez/dp/191107203X">A
State of Terror</a> </i>on Zionism and the Holocaust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whereas 99% of Jews saw the rise of Hitler as
an unmitigated disaster and immediately launched a Boycott of Nazi Germany, the
Zionist leaders saw events in Germany as a manifold blessing and were
determined to get the most out of it. The first thing they did was to conclude,
in August 1933, a trade agreement, Ha’avara with the Nazis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Noah
Lucas, a perceptive Zionist historian noted in his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Modern History of Israel </i>(pp. 187-8) that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘As
the European holocaust erupted, Ben-Gurion</span></i><!--[if supportFields]><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></i><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>
XE "Ben-Gurion, David" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></i><![endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>saw it as a decisive opportunity for Zionism</span></i><!--[if supportFields]><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span></i><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>
XE "Zionism:holocaust" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></i><![endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">... In
conditions of peace,… Zionism could not move the masses of world Jewry. The
forces unleashed by Hitler</span></i><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "<span class=ind>Hitler, Adolf</span>"
</span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in
all their horror must be harnessed to the advantage of Zionism. ... By the end
of 1942… the struggle for a Jewish state became the primary concern of the
movement.’</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">According
to Yechiam Weitz, an Israeli historian, in the eyes of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime
Minister, the war was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘a rare opportunity
to achieve the “Zionist solution”... to the problem of the Jewish people.’</i>
[</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jewish
Refugees and Zionist Policy during the Holocaust</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">, p. 355]</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This
meant for example that in Hungary the leader of the Zionist movement, Rudolph Kasztner,
chose to suppress the <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-vrba-wetzler-report-auschwitz-protocols">Auschwitz
Protocols</a>, a document that proved that the deportation trains were not
going to a fictitious resettlement area, Kenyermeze but to an extermination <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>camp Auschwitz. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This
later became the subject of a libel trial in Israel when Kasztner sued someone
who accused him of collaboration, losing badly. In the <a href="https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1112/why-ken-livingstone-was-right/">words</a>
of Attorney-General Chaim Cohen, who was also Kasztner’s lawyer:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">If in Kasztner</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "Kasztner, Rudolf" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">’s opinion, rightly or
wrongly, he believed that one million Jews were hopelessly doomed, he was
allowed not to inform them of their fate; and to concentrate on the saving of
the few. He was entitled to make a deal with the Nazis for the saving of a few
hundred and entitled not to warn the millions ... that was his duty… It has
always been our Zionist tradition to select the few out of many in arranging
the immigration to Palestine</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt'><span style='mso-element:
field-begin'></span> XE "Palestine:selectivity" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>... Are we to be called traitors? [Ben Hecht, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Perfidy, </i>p.159]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 1.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1.15pt 12pt 1cm; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Eichmann</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "<span style='layout-grid-mode:
line'>Eichmann, Adolf</span>" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">,
the chief exterminator, knew that the Jews would be peaceful and not resist if
he allowed the Prominents to be saved, that the Train of the Prominents</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "Train of the Prominents (TotP)"
</span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was organized on Eichmann</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "<span style='layout-grid-mode:
line'>Eichmann, Adolf</span>" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">’s
orders to facilitate the extermination of the whole people. … if all the Jews
of Hungary</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "Hungary" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are to be sent to their death he is entitled
to organize a rescue train for 600 people. He is not only entitled to it but is
also bound to act accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Throughout
the world, attempts at rescue met with obstruction by Zionist leaders who would
cry ‘what about Palestine’ knowing full well that the British were barring Jews
from entering Palestine. To the Zionists the Jewish refugees from Hitler were a
battering ram to open the gates of Palestine to Jewish settlers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">According
to their ‘logic’ if Jews could find an escape somewhere else, what was the
point of a Jewish state. As a pro-Zionist historian Christopher Sykes, son of
Sir Mark Sykes of the Sykes-Picot treaty wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘from the very beginning of the Nazi disaster, the Zionist leadership
determined to wrest political advantage from the tragedy.</i>’ (Crossroads to Israel
p.137).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a name="a"></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
July 1938 President Roosevelt called a conference at Evian to discuss the Jewish
refugee question. It was more a face saving operation by Western leaders than a
serious attempt to find a solution to the danger that Germany’s remaining Jews
were in. But the Zionists were afraid that the conference might find a
solution. Sykes wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Stylenormalbook1LinespacingDouble" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Sykes</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "<span style='letter-spacing:
-.2pt'>Sykes, Christopher</span>" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="margin-left: 21.3pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">From the start they regarded the whole
enterprise with hostile indifference... If the 31 nations had done their duty
and shown hospitality to those in dire need then the pressure on the National
Home and the heightened enthusiasm of Jews with Palestine</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "Palestine" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would both have been relaxed. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This was the last thing that the Zionist
leaders wished for</b>…. Even in the more terrible days ahead they made no
secret of the fact, even when talking to Gentiles, that they did not want
Jewish settlements outside Palestine to be successful... The Zionists wanted to
do something more for Jews than merely help them to escape danger…. that such
was the basic Zionist idea is not a matter of opinion but a fact abundantly
provable by evidence...[<i> Crossroads to Israel</i>, pp. 188-9. [my emphasis]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Quote1" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7fWOlkgh4wGwpEwkOtkmkClZwbmIT0oFdyEVWBEiPOF32-fAV9DFAALtQYZZIFRXoUxYXi1sWgSVabihstdBxYZmuhDYjHSUWzzAwaGgQsNKUKoire8xbMuGKgzoxbiDv8e60j_f7XP97v7zEdm0I4YmpdhEU6vRYmNm7yXZMWdkEDYZDH5Z--_2g3Z1M" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2501" data-original-width="1896" height="951" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7fWOlkgh4wGwpEwkOtkmkClZwbmIT0oFdyEVWBEiPOF32-fAV9DFAALtQYZZIFRXoUxYXi1sWgSVabihstdBxYZmuhDYjHSUWzzAwaGgQsNKUKoire8xbMuGKgzoxbiDv8e60j_f7XP97v7zEdm0I4YmpdhEU6vRYmNm7yXZMWdkEDYZDH5Z--_2g3Z1M=w721-h951" width="721" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><b>From <i>Jewish State or Israeli Nation, </i>Boaz Evron</b><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="Stylenormalbook1LinespacingDouble"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">A meeting of the
Jewish Agency Executive </span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>XE "Jewish Agency Executive" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">on
June 26, 1938 decided to: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">belittle the [Evian] Conference</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "Evian Conference" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as far as possible and to cause it to decide
nothing…. We are particularly worried that it would move Jewish organizations
to collect large sums of money for aid to Jewish refugees, and these
collections could interfere with our collection efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Boas Evron, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish State or
Israeli Nation</i>, fn 3, p. 260 quoting </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">letter by Georg Landauer to Stephen Wise,
13.2.38. This shocking letter was written at the behest of Chaim Weizmann, the Zionist
Organisation and Israel’s first President.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Stylenormalbook1LinespacingDouble"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ben-Gurion pulled
no punches at the meeting: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Stylenormalbook1LinespacingDouble" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘No rationalizations can turn the
conference from a harmful to a useful one. What can and should be done is to
limit the damage as far as possible.' <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Stylenormalbook1LinespacingDouble" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Menachem
Ussishkin</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-element:
field-begin'></span> XE "Ussishkin, Menachem" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the Zionist Executive at the same meeting cited
the fears of the future Chairman of the JA Rescue Committee, Yitzhak Gruenbaum</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "Greenbaum, Yitzhak" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">He hoped to hear in Evian that Eretz Israel remains the main venue for
Jewish emigration. All other emigration countries do not interest him… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The greatest danger is that attempts will
be made to find other territories for Jewish emigration</b>. (my emphasis)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Stylenormalbook1LinespacingDouble" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
JA</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span style='mso-element:
field-begin'></span> XE "Jewish Agency" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was worried that Evian</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "Evian Conference" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>might succeed. ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Its wish was for the conference to fail abysmally.’</i>[Shabtai Beit
Zvi, p.166, Post Ugandan Zionism on Trial] In a letter to Stephen Wise</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "Wise, Stephen" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of 13 June 1938, George Landauer</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE "Landauer, George" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">,
later Director of the <span class="glossaryterm">JA’s </span>Central Bureau for
the Settlement of German Jews</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span> XE " Central Bureau for the
Settlement of German Jews" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">,
wrote of his concern that: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="margin-left: 21.3pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Even if the Conference will not place
countries other than Palestine</span><!--[if supportFields]><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt'><span style='mso-element:
field-begin'></span> XE "Palestine" </span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the front for Jewish immigration, there
will certainly be public appeals which will tend to overshadow the importance
of Palestine.... it may bind Jewish organizations to collect large sums of
money for assisting Jewish refugees, and these collections are likely to
interfere with our own campaigns.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Quote1" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOBB5ca2CPJaB6wFrG4L02VEiryoY2BLf3svTfsoFTCX0Hwx3AoEWW7lfGnzm1FApAwYyh8F4DEMS4RZCj-GVGR9YQKfsXdqItT2Adg-T1WRriemfWZnbf630_GiEZCiYGpDEaqC_YHTb7uyGFm6dT2v1hI8feC870zpqw1hgRxrnqRGanmMoKhou1DYEb/s1067/Hitler's%20Bastard%20Offspring.jpg" style="font-size: xx-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1067" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOBB5ca2CPJaB6wFrG4L02VEiryoY2BLf3svTfsoFTCX0Hwx3AoEWW7lfGnzm1FApAwYyh8F4DEMS4RZCj-GVGR9YQKfsXdqItT2Adg-T1WRriemfWZnbf630_GiEZCiYGpDEaqC_YHTb7uyGFm6dT2v1hI8feC870zpqw1hgRxrnqRGanmMoKhou1DYEb/w640-h574/Hitler's%20Bastard%20Offspring.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1.15pt 12pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Yet despite having done its best to obstruct rescue of Jewish
refugees during the war, the Zionist movement hasn’t hesitated to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>exploit the holocaust since then for the
purpose of creating a racial supremacist state based on the same principles as Nazi
Germany. That is why I <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/infamous-anti-israel-activist-tony-greenstein-called-jewish-state-hitlers-bastard-offspring-ypojyokh">stated</a>
four years ago, to the Jewish Chronicle’s fury, that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Israel was Hitler’s bastard offspring</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Quote1" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 1.15pt 12pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAeoLg1zru8zLIdKlA_3i2VNIMq-y7vezwB-m7F69LB3I2EbxhoEm5XAw8wfG8Td6Ewqf8Vf28S49EeavAuaM0siQp8KjI7LoIf60XO87omRqQiGOa0G3yZnT29ceHUdq12I6S6YQPX8SzSSCVXJ-2eXZr4cfnGyOAi1cURP0oqNyCKWl_UabhnvEhSV_Z/s907/JC%205.2.93.%20Marcus%20Retter.jpg" style="font-size: xx-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="907" data-original-width="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAeoLg1zru8zLIdKlA_3i2VNIMq-y7vezwB-m7F69LB3I2EbxhoEm5XAw8wfG8Td6Ewqf8Vf28S49EeavAuaM0siQp8KjI7LoIf60XO87omRqQiGOa0G3yZnT29ceHUdq12I6S6YQPX8SzSSCVXJ-2eXZr4cfnGyOAi1cURP0oqNyCKWl_UabhnvEhSV_Z/s16000/JC%205.2.93.%20Marcus%20Retter.jpg" /></a></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1.15pt 12pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In a long letter to the Jewish Chronicle of 5 February 1993,
Marcus Retter, a close associate of Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld, who was Chair
of the Chief Rabbi’s Rescue Committee, described the ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tireless efforts</i>’ of Selig Brodetsky, President of the Board of
Deputies and Lavy Bakstansky, General Secretary of the Zionist Federation of
Britain, to sabotage<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr Schonfeld’s
rescue efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Quote1" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 1.15pt 12pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKaOLZkuRlN77g8ULYcv2beoc5UCNIwidZob8da4Qhs3WRm13Bj5gyVT4lv7TdSgVDCoVAqcu-Gn3d3Yfh3XvaCLC6AYBv4UDSwqRWZ9ippJsNnEe3MgLwEVN4IgGC1VA5MnpppwHy4rMrmoKIY6cX2y5dRPtrxu4JgytipPEHsdwvupMGB8KQLase_bk/s1341/Dr%20Schonfeld%20letter%20JC%2029.1.43.jpg" style="font-size: xx-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1341" data-original-width="657" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKaOLZkuRlN77g8ULYcv2beoc5UCNIwidZob8da4Qhs3WRm13Bj5gyVT4lv7TdSgVDCoVAqcu-Gn3d3Yfh3XvaCLC6AYBv4UDSwqRWZ9ippJsNnEe3MgLwEVN4IgGC1VA5MnpppwHy4rMrmoKIY6cX2y5dRPtrxu4JgytipPEHsdwvupMGB8KQLase_bk/s16000/Dr%20Schonfeld%20letter%20JC%2029.1.43.jpg" /></a></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1.15pt 12pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Dr Schonfeld, in a letter to the Jewish Chronicle of 29
January 1943 described how his efforts to mobilize MPs, Peers and Bishops were
met by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘persistent attempt on the
part of Professor Brodetsky and some of his colleagues to sabotage the entire
move.</i>’ </span></p><p class="Quote1" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 1.15pt 12pt 0cm; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7SJ3GkWcBnJ--aHnP0TS38HWeKesPjujtciIUN_nvy0lJB40WRxVSSzEOmeCrwLaqGDlb75abuvDjlW8BIvAAOaXzpjd8NlmzTgd8jdvtxs8Z62873UbKJrML66VgozPo6dHVHQF1v9FmVzgHOkv4X37qNMYU15yZWk8PylVA-9V6pHrFiytWxstHawze" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1680" data-original-width="684" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7SJ3GkWcBnJ--aHnP0TS38HWeKesPjujtciIUN_nvy0lJB40WRxVSSzEOmeCrwLaqGDlb75abuvDjlW8BIvAAOaXzpjd8NlmzTgd8jdvtxs8Z62873UbKJrML66VgozPo6dHVHQF1v9FmVzgHOkv4X37qNMYU15yZWk8PylVA-9V6pHrFiytWxstHawze=s16000" /></a></div><p></p><p class="Quote1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1.15pt 12pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The next week Brodetsky replied. Far from denying Schonfeld’s allegations
Brodestsky justified them because <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 1.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1.15pt 12pt 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The intervention of an unauthorized</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">individual, however well intentioned, in
a situation of this sort, naturally brings confusion and may have damaging
effects…’ </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1.15pt 12pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">What these damaging effects were Brodetsky didn‘t inform<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>the JC's readers but we can guess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 1.15pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 1.15pt 12pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It is no surprise that those who scabbed on the Jewish Holocaust
should now draw the conclusion that one holocaust justifies another.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="margin-left: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">See
you tomorrow at 7 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="margin-left: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Quote1" style="margin-left: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">Tony
Greenstein <o:p></o:p></span></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-75334578698850792492024-01-13T04:00:00.005+00:002024-01-13T04:03:10.061+00:00The Zelensky Regime and the Ukrainian Secret Police Have Murdered Gonzalo Lira in its Torture Chambers<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Gonzalo Lira - Another Victim of American Wars for Democracy</b></span></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRUYxaRuC-KB4ODuJoKkJJ3IuGfIqBQeJh3j5r28QeVMbfFfr_BcnAfR5ZRwlgV4mX9AZVQw9D-qVqvXkj4hFI0f9-Wyv6AFMuo_HkhMZ8cEwHvuzfVpP7bog1ZZJImV3ZTlXZfmy2zM684K00vwF_ZvP-60hvO3vy6T5O8s59B1nADtFGOFnJhID6tWOK" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRUYxaRuC-KB4ODuJoKkJJ3IuGfIqBQeJh3j5r28QeVMbfFfr_BcnAfR5ZRwlgV4mX9AZVQw9D-qVqvXkj4hFI0f9-Wyv6AFMuo_HkhMZ8cEwHvuzfVpP7bog1ZZJImV3ZTlXZfmy2zM684K00vwF_ZvP-60hvO3vy6T5O8s59B1nADtFGOFnJhID6tWOK=w640-h426" width="640" /></a><br /><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">On 18 April 2022 I wrote a <a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2022/04/gonzalo-lira-chilean-blogger-from.html">blog</a>
after Gonazalo Lira a Chilean/American citizen disappeared from his home in
Kharkov. Because of the threats that had preceded his disappearance and the
gloating of the Azov Battalion and other fascist groups over his demise, I
feared that he had murdered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In fact he resurfaced and
at first it would appear that he had been detained by the Secret Police (SBU)
who are <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/640441812647446166/7533457869885079249">well
versed </a>in the arts of torture. After having been bailed he tried to make a
run for it and cross to Hungary. It now appears from his <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/640441812647446166/7533457869885079249">twitter
feed </a>(see below) that he may have crossed the border and then been extradited
back to Ukraine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRl3FsDexuGusAfL943pDvk-dqdO_EEZeShonxBZJGMLhaqhGi4zFBxSrzJYOghIX8_IRPR-sENtJwefmfODZN5ZDmVsUKQHWfU6MVcjJImH-5GyzHyG0ox4BFUl4iVbrQBeYXgTv5WCpmDu72xg88oVX96bqmg_naj6ryhtu5j_Exx4Hc-ddFzFytKd7M" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="535" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRl3FsDexuGusAfL943pDvk-dqdO_EEZeShonxBZJGMLhaqhGi4zFBxSrzJYOghIX8_IRPR-sENtJwefmfODZN5ZDmVsUKQHWfU6MVcjJImH-5GyzHyG0ox4BFUl4iVbrQBeYXgTv5WCpmDu72xg88oVX96bqmg_naj6ryhtu5j_Exx4Hc-ddFzFytKd7M=s16000" /></a></span></p><p>
</p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Either way he seems to have
foolishly advertised what he was doing on Twitter whilst doing it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If he was extradited back
to Ukraine by Hungary this would be ironic as Gonzalo was a supporter of Orban.
Indeed he was a strange creature politically. He was a Trump supporter, prone
to making rash predictions, though getting it right on the essentials of the
conflict in Ukraine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
</span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Gonzalo was no progressive
on social or areas of sexuality. One of his tweets </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1628010990045372418">read</a></span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">“See what they do with their own peoples—the destruction of the family, cultural and national identity, perversion, mockery of children, and pedophilia are declared the norm.”<br /><br />Putin’s critique of the West is not wrong.<a href="https://t.co/M3X1ZbyyyB">pic.twitter.com/M3X1ZbyyyB</a></p>— Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) <a href="https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1628010990045372418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</div><br /><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Gonzalo had imbibed all the
prejudices and bigotry that you would come to expect from a Trump supporter.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Nonetheless Gonazalo's
murder by the Zelensky's secret police thugs is an outrage and a condemnation of
the morality of Western 'democratic' governments. Gonzalo rightly <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/640441812647446166/7533457869885079249"><span style="color: blue;">believed </span></a>that Biden's Princess of Darkness,
Victoria Nuland, an Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department and
the go to person in Biden's Administration if you want to organise a coup or
destabilise a government, harboured a hatred of him because he was an American
who had spoken out against US foreign policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9wDzAQu5x1MwyxCNen_hjDDsv2aucLHtzWscQ_8upGPSGgAH5ZQrHcF4Q1LmXaIzziiwMCLIVP0Wdv-K-0kS4UaQXntpiXiOxs9ynT2YkY2EVvAJ6ZDENXmZap7GfBZn_KNd28Rkte4xeL56w1XHe9PWU_9MX1O_BXyZ0q3XCda3XTfMHhMb-RaV7VHHJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2042" data-original-width="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9wDzAQu5x1MwyxCNen_hjDDsv2aucLHtzWscQ_8upGPSGgAH5ZQrHcF4Q1LmXaIzziiwMCLIVP0Wdv-K-0kS4UaQXntpiXiOxs9ynT2YkY2EVvAJ6ZDENXmZap7GfBZn_KNd28Rkte4xeL56w1XHe9PWU_9MX1O_BXyZ0q3XCda3XTfMHhMb-RaV7VHHJ=s16000" /></a></div><br /><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The US State Department,
which could easily have secured his release, preferred to see him murdered.
When <a href="https://tass.com/world/1731827?utm_source=google.co.uk&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google.co.uk&utm_referrer=google.co.uk">confirming</a>
his murder the State Department had the gall to offer their <i>‘</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><i>sincerest condolences to the family on their loss."</i>
Throughout his detention and illness the US Embassy had <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/12/gonzalo-lira-dies-ukrainian-prison/">done
absolutely nothing</a> to help him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">And the US State Department would return me too. I'm not a black lesbian druggie, or a transgender grifter. Besides, Victoria Nuland hates my guts, or so I'm told.<br /><br />I'm hoping the Hungarians will read my indictment and say, “This is bullshit—we’re not sending him back.”<br /><br />24/</span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) <a href="https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1686140936185675776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Gonzalo’s original arrest for what he had blogged
was due to the <i>Daily Beast </i>which had
gone as far as <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/online-censorship-ukraine-russa-google-facebook-twitter/280304/">contacting</a>
the Ukrainian authorities seeking his arrest. Such is the yellow press in
Britain and the United States.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It is unfortunate that
Gonzalo believed the nonsense written about Orban's opposition to US
imperialism. Orban's regime is an authoritarian and racist one. It is an ardent
supporter of Netanyahu and his bombardment of Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">US journalist Gonzalo Lira died in a hospital in Kharkiv on January 11, 2024, following a long period of torture and neglect in a Ukrainian prison.<br /><br />“I cannot accept the way my son has died. He was tortured, extorted, incommunicado for 8 months and 11 days and the US Embassy did… <a href="https://t.co/bdmgIggc1B">pic.twitter.com/bdmgIggc1B</a></p>— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1745886072368730619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Today the US authorities issued a
statement that he had died from pneumonia. His father has claimed he died from
torture and neglect.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: x-large;">Tony Greenstein</span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">See the Greyzone’s </span><b><span style="color: #161616; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/12/gonzalo-lira-dies-ukrainian-prison/">American
citizen Gonzalo Lira dies from neglect in Ukrainian prison</a> </span></b><span style="color: #161616; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
<span style="color: #161616; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Mint News </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/online-censorship-ukraine-russa-google-facebook-twitter/280304/">AN
INTELLECTUAL NO-FLY ZONE: ONLINE CENSORSHIP OF UKRAINE DISSENT IS BECOMING THE
NEW NORM</a></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-13726834601744597622024-01-12T06:45:00.004+00:002024-01-12T21:20:46.738+00:00The Death of the Greatest Film Journalist that the British Media Rejected - John Pilger 1939-2023<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1345a9;"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 36.8px;">True to form</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 36.8px;"> – the Guardian’s Obituary Fails to Mention Pilger’s </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 36.8px;">Searing Criticisms of their Treachery Over Julian Assange</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1345a9;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ70ksWePeVnRFv0mgxsSQTHbEAXdST9lWEYZq9v_raUzZ-L5HEmI15S31DDCSNLOuSWhyH1ZeaC90nLZhoSsT-oopTnjLy2hdyPBkGPy6Rbcu7ixQUS7WDqjLivU7XU0eUSVyNeoehTjkvoyTA-KExpuEokkXcvVv6m9Un5TuE3fhCaZ2NLAK5BXKwEZ9/s778/pilger%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ70ksWePeVnRFv0mgxsSQTHbEAXdST9lWEYZq9v_raUzZ-L5HEmI15S31DDCSNLOuSWhyH1ZeaC90nLZhoSsT-oopTnjLy2hdyPBkGPy6Rbcu7ixQUS7WDqjLivU7XU0eUSVyNeoehTjkvoyTA-KExpuEokkXcvVv6m9Un5TuE3fhCaZ2NLAK5BXKwEZ9/s16000/pilger%202.jpg" /></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1345a9;"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 36.8px;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bUfz-q5QtHU" width="320" youtube-src-id="bUfz-q5QtHU"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: center;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>John Pilger In His Own Words: The
Late Great Journalist In A Never Before Released Interview</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m
not sure if he was trying to send a message, asking me to pick up the baton,
but John Pilger died on my birthday! I can’t think of anyone today who even
approaches Pilger’s record of campaigning journalism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I
had a premonition that John Pilger was not long for this world when someone
mentioned that during the genocide in Gaza his voice had not been heard. It’s
not hard to imagine what Pilger would have made of the ongoing genocide in Gaza
and the pretence that it is all about destroying Hamas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5R7e50fr3PG2_sv7cX7wB7byGGWzaun6ir4NIq53WDqPDLAgkLOwbmShQmY7SrWByyOCZtYcwJAtDiwUdh86E8KVgWaaDvaMZYbW339JrdbyNoPzoLcOhRrD20Yoq_iGZfLlJnVbSZ7RruYosrO-TFR-VnOUpc5bdlZRaPCOQQ_hEwg7AYqHT4GxmQmk1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="946" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5R7e50fr3PG2_sv7cX7wB7byGGWzaun6ir4NIq53WDqPDLAgkLOwbmShQmY7SrWByyOCZtYcwJAtDiwUdh86E8KVgWaaDvaMZYbW339JrdbyNoPzoLcOhRrD20Yoq_iGZfLlJnVbSZ7RruYosrO-TFR-VnOUpc5bdlZRaPCOQQ_hEwg7AYqHT4GxmQmk1=w640-h172" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger
would have instantly seen through the lies of the war criminals who rule us, Blinken,
Biden, Sunak and Starmer, and his invective would have been all the sharper for
that. We live in a world of lies where there is a pretence that Israeli
genocide and its attacks on ambulances, hospitals, homes and children, are all
about Hamas rather than the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/16/the-language-being-used-to-describe-palestinians-is-genocidal">ethnic
cleansing that Israeli politicians openly proclaim</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger
was a staunch supporter of the Palestinians. Not for him the vile and
fabricated accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ against anyone who criticises this
wretched apartheid state. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Zionist lobby reacted with their usual cries of ‘anti-Semitism’ when he
produced <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_YL8R-B1Tc&t=40s"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Palestine
is Still the Issue</i></b></a> for ITV in 2002<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgovRoZkNVs0hBI4VAoPGwivmLz7aa7IzwIGhlvwePO0Y29XyR7mSZCLi0bkF-pJ12LffktkhOf7FKXEMmr6s_xqlU2a2Vv3AKYKBzJatCODSZtl2Iz6uVc_wfRcV7bV1SClNrZexEuQNbi7Rw6GSamzzXNUD2UlTel7iIBAIhbQUfVamxwCqT6V8jSxqlj/s624/Israeli%20children%20call%20for%20murder%20of%20Arabs.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="624" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgovRoZkNVs0hBI4VAoPGwivmLz7aa7IzwIGhlvwePO0Y29XyR7mSZCLi0bkF-pJ12LffktkhOf7FKXEMmr6s_xqlU2a2Vv3AKYKBzJatCODSZtl2Iz6uVc_wfRcV7bV1SClNrZexEuQNbi7Rw6GSamzzXNUD2UlTel7iIBAIhbQUfVamxwCqT6V8jSxqlj/w640-h456/Israeli%20children%20call%20for%20murder%20of%20Arabs.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: red;">Palestine is
Still the Issue (2002) - John Pilger<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/sep/23/television.middleeastthemedia">Why
my film is under fire</a> Pilger described how <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The pro-Israel lobby intimidates
journalists to ensure that most coverage remains biased in its favour. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Does
anyone imagine that Pilger’s article would get past its Zionist gatekeeper, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Freedland">Jonathan Freedland</a>,
today? Freedland and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guardian </i>Editor
Kath Viner would argue that accusing the ‘victims’ of ‘anti-Semitism’ of making
false allegations was itself anti-Semitic, even if those ‘victims’ were rich and
powerful supporters of genocide. To Freedland Palestinians are never victims.
Only Jews merit that title.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pilger described
how Michael Green, Chairman of Carlton TV, attacked his 2002 film </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_YL8R-B1Tc&t=40s">Palestine is Still
the Issue</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">in the Jewish Chronicle. Green </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">was rebuked for that by
Carlton’s Factual Department.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">John
Pilger's Legendary Career Praised by Fellow Journalists<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pilger </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">was
recruited by the <em>Mirror</em> in 1963 and became chief foreign correspondent</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> before
he was sacked at the behest of the Zionist spy and thief who owned the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mirror</i>, Robert Maxwell, at the end of 1985.
He briefly returned when Piers Morgan was editor. None of this was mentioned in
the Mirror’s </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/john-pilger-dies-aged-84-31778390"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">obituary</span></a>.
He was also their war correspondent in Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Biafra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger
also wrote for the New Statesman, where he had a column from 1991 to 2014, and
the Independent. His last piece for the Statesman was in 2014. As it moved to
the right his message became uncomfortable to its Blairite Editor, Jason Cowley.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mirror </i>was not the only paper which was
selective in what it said. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Guardian</i>
ran the most </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/01/john-pilger-obituary"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">dishonest
obituary</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">. It described Pilger’s journalistic history thus:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">He left the
Mirror in 1985 and wrote for other papers, including the Guardian. He was a
supporter of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">And
that was it. No explanation as to why he hadn’t had an article published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Guardian</i> since 2019.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For that we have to turn to his <a href="https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=277808">interview</a> with KPFA in 2018
where he described how his<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">last
appearance was in the Guardian which 3 years ago got rid of people like me in
what was pretty much a purge of those who were really saying things the
Guardian no longer says anymore. That has happened right across the liberal
media.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger
was an anti-imperialist and his obituary writers found that hard to deal with.
That meant he opposed US foreign policy and the devastation that it has
wrought. Not a subject for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Guardian!</i>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyWVh4kRyg4"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">The War on Democracy</span></a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyWVh4kRyg4"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">- Latin America</span></a>
Pilger <a href="https://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-on-democracy"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">described</span></a>
how serial US intervention, overt and covert, had toppled a series of governments
in the Latin American region since the 1950s. The democratically elected
Chilean government of Salvador Allende, for example, was ousted by a US backed
coup in 1973 and replaced by the military dictatorship of General Pinochet.
Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador have all been invaded by
the US. Pilger said of the film that it was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“about
the struggle of people to free themselves from a modern form of slavery".</i>
These people <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">describe a
world not as American presidents like to see it as useful or expendable, they
describe the power of courage and humanity among people with next to nothing.
They reclaim noble words like democracy, freedom, liberation, justice, and in
doing so they are defending the most basic human rights of all of us in a war
being waged against all of us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6SSGWpRrjPyn-XGBt1hLCBztMp5-QnmIm6WxKe69VkTDLQYwfDgc8451l-y1JAaZJPxULslh5Tb0VweT5_fV-vECSsInlWJdhxX4JRj_I11moHQOKKMGL7LGnYMIYLZKO2xBvEQEKZR6Z4fOfuWSEb0m8EDxWuWsixPDnwGO8wEbBB9ykT1SRgoo2jnJ/s1240/pilger.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1240" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6SSGWpRrjPyn-XGBt1hLCBztMp5-QnmIm6WxKe69VkTDLQYwfDgc8451l-y1JAaZJPxULslh5Tb0VweT5_fV-vECSsInlWJdhxX4JRj_I11moHQOKKMGL7LGnYMIYLZKO2xBvEQEKZR6Z4fOfuWSEb0m8EDxWuWsixPDnwGO8wEbBB9ykT1SRgoo2jnJ/w640-h384/pilger.jpg" width="640" /></a></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">The Quiet Mutiny - World in Action (1970)<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Vietnam War was instrumental in disillusioning many of us who had grown up on
American rhetoric of freedom and democracy. His first film <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krcNTkAgRrA"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">The Quiet Mutiny</span></a>,
was made by Granada TV’s World in Action (1970).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The film <a href="https://johnpilger.com/videos/vietnam-the-quiet-mutiny"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">broke</span></a>
the story of insurrection by drafted troops in Vietnam. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The First Casualty</i>, Phillip Knightley described Pilger's
revelations as among the most important reporting from Vietnam. The soldiers'
revolt – including the killing of US in Indo-China.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Vietnam: The Last Battle - John Pilger (1995) - Vietnam War
Documentary<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In <a href="https://johnpilger.com/articles/vietnam-the-last-battle-john-pilger-reports-from-saigon"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Vietnam</span></a></span></b><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;"><a href="https://johnpilger.com/articles/vietnam-the-last-battle-john-pilger-reports-from-saigon"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">: The Last Battle Pilger</span></b></a></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> returned to Vietnam 20 years after
the US had left only to find <span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color"><span style="color: #131313;">ilosing
many of the gains it had fought for as it was drawn into the globalised market economy
while imperialist control exerted itself through the World Bank, the IMF and
other global institutions. It is called ‘market socialism’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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Killing the Children of Iraq 2000<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger campaigned
against the Iraq War and what led up to it in his film <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j55oZNp5-j0"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Paying the Price Killing
the Children of Iraq 2000</span></a>. Pilger <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/04/weekend7.weekend9"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">described</span></a>
the bombing of Iraq and sanctions as ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a
war against the children of Iraq’</i>. The US sanctions killed half a million
children but when asked about it US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
replied: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"This is a very hard
choice, but we think the price is worth it."</i> When Pilger questioned
her spokesman James Rubin about this, he claimed Albright's words were taken
out of context.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: red;">Year
Zero: The Silent Death Of Cambodia<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Year Zero: The Silent Death of
Cambodia</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <a href="https://johnpilger.com/videos/year-zero-the-silent-death-of-cambodia"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">alerted</span></a>
the world to the horrors wrought by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The film was
originally broadcast on commercial TV in Britain and Australia without
advertising, which was unprecedented. The British Film Institute listed it as
one of the 10 most important documentaries of the 20th century.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger
revealed that as many as 2m people out of a population of 7m were killed or
starved by the Khmer Rouge. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘The genocide
of Pol Pot was begun by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger</i>.’ US bombing of
Cambodia from 1969 to 1973 caused such turmoil that the rise of the Khmer Rouge
to power in 1975 was made inevitable. Pilger says <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘The new
rulers of Cambodia called 1975 Year Zero, the dawn of an age in which there
would be no families, no sentiment, no expressions of love or grief, no
medicines, no hospitals, no schools, no books, no learning, no holidays, no
music, no song, no post, no money; only work and death... For me, coming here
has been like stumbling into something I could never imagine and what follows
is the first complete film report by Westerners from the ashes of a gentle
land.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Nothing had prepared us,</span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">’ he said. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">There was no
power, no drinking water, no shops, no services of any kind. At the railway
station, trains stood empty at various stages of interrupted departure.
Personal belongings and pieces of clothing fluttered on the platforms, as they
fluttered on the mass graves beyond. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">At Tuol
Sleng extermination centre, where men, women and children were tortured and
killed, black-and-white photographs of the victims stare out of the screen.
Outside, deserted streets are interrupted by the lone figure of an infant – his
parents almost certainly dead or missing – weaving his way down the middle of
the road. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO0jyoTJlKLkceAzjtpK-j-9PqmB1q8fKRqjdO7WjWaAF_wWMt5K2exckh4U_xY-ybGzR4umgaQqPVxMHdrXazT3L7kMn0LNEktmFHWp5NzNXgTKyboB8nHSbPXtuFMyRCWqW5KaR7-oapTJn9zvs5MmJ-e4HEqBYmgqMQWt49LY1gtBG9-is8vqGQiS8e/s1200/pilger%203.jpg" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO0jyoTJlKLkceAzjtpK-j-9PqmB1q8fKRqjdO7WjWaAF_wWMt5K2exckh4U_xY-ybGzR4umgaQqPVxMHdrXazT3L7kMn0LNEktmFHWp5NzNXgTKyboB8nHSbPXtuFMyRCWqW5KaR7-oapTJn9zvs5MmJ-e4HEqBYmgqMQWt49LY1gtBG9-is8vqGQiS8e/w640-h360/pilger%203.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger's
spontaneous, vivid reporting of the power politics that caused such suffering
is a model of anger suppressed. He described how, as a means of punishing the
Vietnamese, whose army had liberated Cambodia the US and its allies declared a
blockade on stricken Cambodia. Unicef’s representative, Jacques Beaumont, said,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 21.25pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 21.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘In one of
the very poor barracks with practically nothing, there was already 54 children
dying. One of them was sitting in the corner of the room with swollen legs
because he was starving. He did not have the strength to look at me or to
anybody. He was just waiting to die. Ten days later, four of these children
were dead and I will always remember that, saying: “I did not do anything for
these children, because we had nothing.”’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The Red
Cross representative, François Bugnion, took Pilger aside and asked him if he
could contact ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">someone in the Australian
government who can arrange for an aircraft to fly in a truck, food and drugs to
save thousands of lives while the politics are being ironed out’.</i> The
Australian ambassador in Bangkok didn’t respond. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Near the
end of the film, he refers to a starving boy whose screams can be heard rising
and falling in agony. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Of course,</i>’ he
says directly to the camera, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘if you're
in Geneva or New York or London, you can’t hear the screams of [this] little
boy.’<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Year
Zero’s broadcast in Britain had a phenomenal public response. 40 sacks of post
arrived at the ATV studios in Birmingham, with £1m in the first few days. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘This is for Cambodia,</i>’ wrote an
anonymous Bristol bus driver, enclosing his week’s wage. An elderly woman sent
her pension for two months. A single parent sent her savings of £50. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Frontline
News <a href="https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/obituary-australian-born-investigative-journalist-and-documentary-filmmaker-john-pilger-dies-at-84/article67695288.ece">described</a>
how Pilger won an International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences award
for his 1979 film <i>Year Zero: The Silent Death Of Cambodia</i>, which
revealed the extent of the Khmer Rouge’s atrocities.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Screened
in 50 countries and seen by 150 million viewers, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Year Zero</i> was credited with raising more than $45 million in
unsolicited aid for Cambodia, which helped rescue normal life: it restored a
clean water supply in Phnom Penh, stocked hospitals and schools, supported
orphanages and reopened a desperately needed clothing factory, allowing people
to discard the black uniforms the Khmer Rouge had forced them to wear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Year Zero
won many awards. Pilger himself won the 1980 United Nations Media Peace Prize
for ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">having done so much to ease the
suffering of the Cambodian people’</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger
made a total of five documentaries on Cambodia. Their later films reported on
the American and British governments' back-door support for the exiled Khmer
Rouge. In 2008, the former SAS soldier Chris Ryan, then a bestselling author,
lamented in a newspaper interview that <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">when John Pilger, the foreign correspondent,
discovered we were training the Khmer Rouge in the Far East [we] were sent home</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[<a href="https://johnpilger.com/videos/year-zero-the-silent-death-of-cambodia"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Year
Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia</span></a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger
opposed the hypocrisy and deceit of US and British imperialism. No more obvious
a case was there than the islanders of Diego Garcia. In <a href="https://johnpilger.com/videos/stealing-a-nation"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Stealing A Nation -
Diego Garcia (Chago´s Island)</span></a> in 2000 Pilger described<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>how <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘there are
times when one tragedy one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its
democratic facade and helps us understand how much of the world is run for the
benefit of the powerful and how governments often justify their actions with
lies.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17OPvurq97I"><span color="windowtext">described</span></a>
how a government that called itself civilised <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘tricked
and expelled its most vulnerable citizens so that it could give their homeland
to a foreign power for a military base.’ <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger
was referring to how Chagos Island was handed over the United States behind the
backs of the islanders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One of Pilger’s most important films in terms of the
impact it had was his 1994 film </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1I_QbBwzpQ"><span color="windowtext" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘In Death of a Nation: The East
Timor Conspiracy’</span></a></span><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. Portugal decolonised in 1974. Independence was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Timor">declared</a> by Fretilin on 28
November 1975 and the Indonesian military invaded East Timor on 7 December 1975
and did not leave till 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Indonesian government subjected the people of East Timor to routine and
systematic torture, sexual slavery, extrajudicial executions, massacres, and
deliberate starvation <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_0Xf1qe40u1ZKFQ_BNDlZ66nt52MGQqOCtes6HqjbeuSav8oxu57WWqIXFNM3TU-mBYEh0T6Ww1yB3SeRchJQOWhnZJRPoFaGn2NkPvAJDdy_LxnAix7Ro3inusUWi8zmBtLPPBPiAlYkEcnaalaqAsnuZBwhFtVdQmMmlNSkfT-wM1lmNiOGeSKgK2AZ/s1014/East%20Timor%20-%20death%20of%20a%20nation.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="1014" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_0Xf1qe40u1ZKFQ_BNDlZ66nt52MGQqOCtes6HqjbeuSav8oxu57WWqIXFNM3TU-mBYEh0T6Ww1yB3SeRchJQOWhnZJRPoFaGn2NkPvAJDdy_LxnAix7Ro3inusUWi8zmBtLPPBPiAlYkEcnaalaqAsnuZBwhFtVdQmMmlNSkfT-wM1lmNiOGeSKgK2AZ/w640-h450/East%20Timor%20-%20death%20of%20a%20nation.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
1996 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to two men from East Timor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Filipe_Ximenes_Belo" title="Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo"><span color="windowtext">Carlos Filipe
Ximenes Belo</span></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ramos-Horta" title="José Ramos-Horta"><span color="windowtext">José Ramos-Horta</span></a>,
for their ongoing efforts to end the occupation. In 1999 a referendum resulted
in an overwhelming majority in favour of independence. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8yrxeXJYw83wYWiwnFOZ4YTeBy4EHwZxbBaRzbahIW2RYCrx-RnIopHoWy484zRTpdGT420_qNUaCnK-asRH2FsPKrayK3vRW2lRjDM8g_xht2hk1c5VImrer7jj8EML14eV7-Cs75jYoeYI3gCxPG_iRIIYiUsAWQXJHMX414AvY75_jaBMT-OHdVJT/s1200/Pilger%20Mirror.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8yrxeXJYw83wYWiwnFOZ4YTeBy4EHwZxbBaRzbahIW2RYCrx-RnIopHoWy484zRTpdGT420_qNUaCnK-asRH2FsPKrayK3vRW2lRjDM8g_xht2hk1c5VImrer7jj8EML14eV7-Cs75jYoeYI3gCxPG_iRIIYiUsAWQXJHMX414AvY75_jaBMT-OHdVJT/w640-h360/Pilger%20Mirror.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Indonesia’s
invasion had been supported by the US and Australia. Once again the US, whilst
preaching freedom support dictatorship. Australia has as is clear with the <a href="https://marxistleftreview.org/articles/aukus-and-the-us-alliance-australian-imperialism-in-the-indo-pacific/">Aukus
Pact</a>, been the US’s main ally in the Pacific and a local imperialist power
in its own right. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Country – 1985<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_xeIuSDy9zVK2oWX7OD2-9BLHoMGiD1HGDMvUipjrG_ERjPFYgnE6F_AcTVApg2CQ-RC8hdovab6S3i_3TwU7XIu47iAJFK6-QVb3B_fTSvRYmEa35K4qex80so2nllAqwvSfPuGAvDm37ey92_dfAv8Vrk1Qtatg1u6QBQX9QA0Al9cm8LJl8jMBbaN8/s1392/Aboriginal%20man%20died%20police%20brutality.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="1392" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_xeIuSDy9zVK2oWX7OD2-9BLHoMGiD1HGDMvUipjrG_ERjPFYgnE6F_AcTVApg2CQ-RC8hdovab6S3i_3TwU7XIu47iAJFK6-QVb3B_fTSvRYmEa35K4qex80so2nllAqwvSfPuGAvDm37ey92_dfAv8Vrk1Qtatg1u6QBQX9QA0Al9cm8LJl8jMBbaN8/w640-h336/Aboriginal%20man%20died%20police%20brutality.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It
isn’t surprising, given that Pilger was Australian, that he was particularly
concerned with the question of the Aboriginal people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
<a href="https://johnpilger.com/videos/the-secret-country-the-first-australians-fight-back">First
Australians Fight Back</a> Pilger <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzjW6RjQQi4"><span color="windowtext">describe</span></a>d
<span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color">how <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As children, we were given to understand that we
were merely innocent bystanders to the slow and natural death of an ancient
people, the First Australians, rather than the inheritors of a history every
bit as rapacious as that of the United States, Latin America, Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #38761d;">John Pilger - The Last Dream - Secrets 1988<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
the Last Dream Pilger returned to Australia to make a special, three-part
documentary, The Last Dream, screened at the time of the country’s bicentenary
in 1988. Reflecting on 200 years of White Australia, it is an antidote to the
celebrations that followed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh81Ivw1WcHGjQTA1Sr94k5GSsZJoFkx8zeatvVxm7gy3Wf0bO_C2Y8tYYAFdFeB46A0pAZpCbFUrrANxNsRpzonLo2qICFBEJ2Km7IKPFmZ5Wb7bF8Jk5RveTah9j1FwML6-frQR_dIASlK2JdjdjDmQ9_Xp_XcyMvn0hFPRu8fGWJAr-6BzQm2XchaRm/s470/gough%20whitlam.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="470" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh81Ivw1WcHGjQTA1Sr94k5GSsZJoFkx8zeatvVxm7gy3Wf0bO_C2Y8tYYAFdFeB46A0pAZpCbFUrrANxNsRpzonLo2qICFBEJ2Km7IKPFmZ5Wb7bF8Jk5RveTah9j1FwML6-frQR_dIASlK2JdjdjDmQ9_Xp_XcyMvn0hFPRu8fGWJAr-6BzQm2XchaRm/w640-h486/gough%20whitlam.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">Gough Whitlam - Australian Prime Minister Overthrown in a CIA/British Coup</span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Secrets
was the second of the trilogy and Pilger <a href="https://johnpilger.com/videos/the-last-dream-secrets"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">focused</span></a>
on the treatment of the Aborigines. Pilger remarks that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">This film is
about another Australia, an Australia behind the beer-can images and well-worn
stereotypes, a place of secrets. The story of my country has been, and remains,
an epic cover-up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Highlighting
Aboriginal deaths in police custody, he noted that Australia has the highest
rate of imprisonment for black people in the world and likens film of the
funeral of a black who died from head injuries while being held by police to
scenes in the South African township of Soweto. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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(2003) - John Pilger<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
his 2003 film <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1exWvGLLyQ">Breaking
the Silence : Truth and Lies in the War on Terror</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pilger <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/20/afghanistan.weekend7">describes</a>
the lies and falsehoods that preceded the invasion of Afghanistan. Tony Blair
promised that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">To the Afghan
people, we make this commitment. We will not walk away... If the Taliban regime
changes, we will work with you to make sure its successor is one that is
broadbased, that unites all ethnic groups and offers some way out of the
poverty that is your miserable existence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>George Bush had said a few days earlier: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The oppressed
people of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>
will know the generosity of America and its allies. As we strike military
targets, we will also drop food, medicine and supplies to the starving and
suffering men and women and children of Afghanistan. The US is a friend of the
Afghan people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_xKpF7J9ZE9r4Pk8w2f5F0hbexWJN-_s20bbgQgMidpEE_iglwyOatP800Pu80VSG4n_pKEAZivXBxhmu5HzLZIZTzLRWL6j2tP7GDxPE9wT3ihe0dPfyuKDgmSrI9MGUphltHZt1IZvxGuRZ2jZeNXyTByMeZusVbluLWtjmUKMNuStItDMOIlf5wf0/s620/Pilger%20&%20Mandela.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="620" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_xKpF7J9ZE9r4Pk8w2f5F0hbexWJN-_s20bbgQgMidpEE_iglwyOatP800Pu80VSG4n_pKEAZivXBxhmu5HzLZIZTzLRWL6j2tP7GDxPE9wT3ihe0dPfyuKDgmSrI9MGUphltHZt1IZvxGuRZ2jZeNXyTByMeZusVbluLWtjmUKMNuStItDMOIlf5wf0/w640-h384/Pilger%20&%20Mandela.jpg" width="640" /></a></p>
<p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Almost every word they spoke was a lie as we can see with Biden’s scuttle
from Afghanistan but they prepared the way for the conquest of both Afghanistan
and Iraq. It was also the start of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘War
on Terror’</i> which was a war against Muslims at home and state sponsored
terrorism abroad. Pilger described Kabul as <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">a
glimpse of Dresden post-1945, with contours of rubble rather than streets,
where people live in collapsed buildings, like earthquake victims waiting for
rescue. They have no light and heat; their apocalyptic fires burn through the
night. Hardly a wall stands that does not bear the pock-marks of almost every
calibre of weapon. Cars lie upended at roundabouts. Power poles built for a modern
fleet of trolley buses are twisted like paperclips. The buses are stacked on
top of each other, reminiscent of the pyramids of machines erected by the Khmer
Rouge to mark Year Zero.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-1kas69x" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It could be Gaza today that Pilger was describing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color"><span style="color: #131313; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coming
War on China</i></b> was c</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">ompleted in the month Trump
was elected President. The film <a href="https://johnpilger.com/videos/the-coming-war-on-china">investigated</a>
the manufacture of a ‘threat’ and the beckoning of a nuclear confrontation <span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color"><span style="color: #131313;">and
tells how w</span></span>hen the US decided that China was a threat to its
imperial dominance, two-thirds of US naval forces were transferred to Asia and
the Pacific. This was the ‘pivot to Asia', announced by Obama in 2011. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Seldom
referred to in the Western media, 400 American bases surround China with ships,
missiles and troops, in an arc that extends from Australia north through the
Pacific to Japan, Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Chapter 1
is set in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, which the US took over as a UN
‘trust territory’ in 1945 with an obligation to ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">protect the population’s health and wellbeing’</i>. From 1946 to 1958,
the US exploded the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb every day in the islands,
contaminating its people and environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Filmed on
irradiated Bikini Atoll, which cannot be safely inhabited today, perhaps ever,
Pilger described the testing in 1954 of the world's first hydrogen bomb,
codenamed Bravo, which vaporised an entire island. The inhabitants had been
moved to a nearby atoll, Rongelap, where the ‘unexpected’ fallout endowed them
with multiple cancers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The film
is a portrayal of US imperialism in all its ugliness. An ugliness that the BBC
is dedicated to hiding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">When
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks could win readers and prizes for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guardian</i>, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NYT </i>and other 'papers of record', he was celebrated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">When the
dark state objected and demanded the destruction of hard drives and the
assassination of Julian's character, he was made a public enemy. Vice President
Biden called him a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'hi-tech terrorist'</i>.
Hillary Clinton asked, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'Can't we just
drone this guy?'</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">🗣Julian Assange in conversation with John Pilger<br /><br />An interview with Julian Assange & John Pilger recorded during the filming of John Pilger's film 'The War You Don't See’<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JulianAssange?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JulianAssange</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Assange?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Assange</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeAssange?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FreeAssange</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeAssange2024?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FreeAssange2024</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JohnPilger?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JohnPilger</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoWar?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoWar</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#USA</a> <a href="https://t.co/3kAgznecvo">pic.twitter.com/3kAgznecvo</a></i></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">— Australian Assange Campaign (@AssangeCampaign) <a href="https://twitter.com/AssangeCampaign/status/1743361984492429632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2024</a></i></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</i></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The
ensuing campaign of abuse and vilification against Assange - the UN Rapporteur
on Torture called it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'mobbing'</i> --
brought the liberal press to its lowest ebb. Pilger called them <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vichy journalists</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">This
was a 68-minute interview with Julian Assange, recorded during the filming of
John Pilger’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mDuxFnn2RY">THE WAR YOU
DON’T SEE</a>. We owe it to Pilger to ensure that Assange is freed from
Belmarsh prison.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Governments and Media roles in War Propaganda | THE WAR YOU
DON'T SEE | <o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The War You Don't See</i>, <a href="https://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-you-dont-see"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Pilger
returned</span></a> to the subject of war reporting and its role in the making
of wars. This ‘drum beat’ was the theme of Pilger's 1983 documentary, a history
of war journalism from the Crimea in the 19th century (‘the last British war
without censorship’) to Margaret Thatcher's Falklands War in 1982.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mDuxFnn2RY"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">The War You Don’t See</span></a>
analyses propaganda as a weapon in Iraq and Afghanistan. The title refers to
censorship by omission – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘the most
virulent form of censorship,</i>’ and the collusion of journalists in nominally
free societies such as Britain and the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9h9-8wJKQ8F5uNWwMvtLRl52WR7nFtkTv6G6rVOlQWPUcbJcFuzlAIjRuE_zeZGagchIS-1WuEzAZOSqt_dzIumR75Vo95M-I6yVaMPmBqocHzhA3wCpFvxKvwGkR-2q0sRuEmhps2dsFWSHYFlHLPofPC1P4-3nDNBTnk-zRmPhjjrP0Z4zUUPaMUanV/s2017/pilger.webp" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1522" data-original-width="2017" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9h9-8wJKQ8F5uNWwMvtLRl52WR7nFtkTv6G6rVOlQWPUcbJcFuzlAIjRuE_zeZGagchIS-1WuEzAZOSqt_dzIumR75Vo95M-I6yVaMPmBqocHzhA3wCpFvxKvwGkR-2q0sRuEmhps2dsFWSHYFlHLPofPC1P4-3nDNBTnk-zRmPhjjrP0Z4zUUPaMUanV/w640-h482/pilger.webp" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The film
begins with shocking footage from Iraq in 2007. A US Apache gunship opens fire
on a Baghdad street, killing in cold blood two Reuter journalists, along with civilians.
There is no provocation – the victims are unarmed. One of the Apache crew
comments ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nice’</i> as he murders people
at a safe distance. Titled ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Collateral Murder’</i></b>, the video was
leaked to WikiLeaks by Chelsea Manning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Selling’
the 2003 invasion of Iraq is the centrepiece of Pilger's film. The news media
is exposed as a source of illusions, such as a non-existent link between Saddam
Hussein and the attacks of 9/11. A CIA witness says the primary aim of
intelligence supplied by the Pentagon is to manipulate public opinion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jul/20/politics">The New Rulers of
the World</a> (2001)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New Rulers of the World</i> </b>in July 2001 Pilger <a href="https://johnpilger.com/videos/the-new-rulers-of-the-world"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">explained</span></a>
that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“A small
group of powerful individuals are now richer than most of the population of
Africa. Just 200 giant corporations dominate a quarter of the world’s economic
activity... The famous brands of almost everything from running shoes to baby
clothes are now made in very poor countries with cheap labour, at times
bordering on a form of slave labour.”</span></em><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Globalisation
had become a topical subject by the time The New Rulers of the World was
screened. More than a million people opposed to the increasing gap between rich
and poor had staged a series of anti-capitalist demonstrations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">John
Pilger’s documentary brought together several themes that run throughout his
work – the way in which superpowers use small countries as pawns in their
global strategies, the courting of dictators by the West to open the doors to
valuable resources and the exploitation of workers to provide riches in which
they do not share. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The film
puts the story of multinationals’ global domination into a political context
and demonstrates how the West has increased its stranglehold on poor countries
by using the might of the IMF, World Bank and World Trade Organisation to
control their economies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">Utopia<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Utopia
was Pilger’s fourth film about the Aborigines. Released in 2013 Utopia broke
what amounted to a national silence about the brutalising of Indigenous people.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">New
footage is juxtaposed with that of his earlier films. The point was made that
little has changed for many of those excluded from white Australia's wealth,
regardless of an official apology for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'wrongs
past and present'</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The material
comfort of Whites contrasted with the First Australians who died from
Dickensian diseases in their 40s and were imprisoned at a rate six times that
of blacks in apartheid South Africa. Western Australia, the richest state had
the highest incarceration rate of juveniles, mainly Indigenous, in the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger
takes a journey from million-dollar properties in Sydney and Canberra to the
ironically named Northern Territory region of Utopia, where communities are
without basic services, such as fresh running water. In Darwin, he shows
shocking footage of police routinely mistreating a seriously ill Aboriginal man
who is left to die in a cell, his cries for help unheeded. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">A former
prisons minister describes 'racking and stacking' Aboriginal prisoners. A shadow
Labor Party minister becomes abusive when Pilger asks him why, after 30 years
in Parliament, he has not alleviated the poverty of his black constituents.
Utopia also revealed a new ‘stolen generation’ of children taken from their
mothers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://johnpilger.com/videos/thalidomide-the-ninety-eight-we-forgot">Thalidomide:
The Ninety-Eight We Forgot</a></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, his 1974 programme for ITV,
helped win compensation for children who suffered birth defects when expectant
mothers took the drug. He went on to have his own half-hour documentary series
on ITV from 1974 until 1977.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZKfYEcOtri4YoOKwb9rjJzs4Y9196UzZi8cXvyDcnWQuBqMMZyxAKfjjtF_1rsujRXh1AFUO-MAO3R0L_xdLY2cWv5W8kdVNURe7d6Tmdi5XkT3Y30skKwiCYlA4SoXoRvAVtqPCKw710KmB0gv_-sV0v6HQBD4nuJgr4zGzaxdfpHqf02XCwx0KAUEE/s867/Pilger%20&%20Leni%20iefenstahl.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="867" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZKfYEcOtri4YoOKwb9rjJzs4Y9196UzZi8cXvyDcnWQuBqMMZyxAKfjjtF_1rsujRXh1AFUO-MAO3R0L_xdLY2cWv5W8kdVNURe7d6Tmdi5XkT3Y30skKwiCYlA4SoXoRvAVtqPCKw710KmB0gv_-sV0v6HQBD4nuJgr4zGzaxdfpHqf02XCwx0KAUEE/s16000/Pilger%20&%20Leni%20iefenstahl.jpg" /></a></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">‘This is a war of propaganda’: John Pilger on Ukraine and
Assange | <o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/07/john-pilger-silencing-the-lambs-how-propaganda-works/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">Silencing
the Lambs — How Propaganda Works</span></a> Pilger told how i<span style="color: black;">n the 1970s he met Leni Riefenstahl, whose films glorified
the Nazis. She told him that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“patriotic
messages</i>” of her films were dependent <em>not</em> on “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">orders from above</i>” but on what she called the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“submissive void</i>” of the German public.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Did that include the liberal, educated
bourgeoisie? he asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Yes, especially them,</i>” she said. Pilger
noted that ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I think of this as I look
around at the propaganda now consuming Western societies.’ </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger
described<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>how i<span style="color: black;">n
his lifetime, the USA has overthrown or attempted to overthrow more than 50
governments. It has interfered in democratic elections in 30 countries. It has
dropped bombs on the people of 30 countries, most of them poor and defenceless.
It has attempted to murder the leaders of 50 countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has fought to suppress liberation
movements in 20 countries. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The extent and scale of this carnage is largely
unreported and those responsible continue to dominate Anglo-American political
life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger described how his friend, Harold Pinter, a
Jewish anti-Zionist, in the years before he died in 2008, made two extraordinary
speeches, which broke a silence. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“U.S.
foreign policy</i>,” he said, is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“best
defined as follows: kiss my arse or I’ll kick your head in.’ </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature,
Pinter said: </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant,
vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You
have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of
power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a
brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger described how he asked Pinter if the
“hypnosis” he referred to was the “submissive void” described by Leni
Riefenstahl. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">It’s the same.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>It
means the brainwashing is so thorough we are programmed to swallow a pack of
lies. If we don’t recognise propaganda, we may accept it as normal and believe
it. That’s the submissive void.”</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/07/john-pilger-silencing-the-lambs-how-propaganda-works/"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">described</span></a>
the news from the war in Ukraine as not news, but a one-sided litany of
jingoism, distortion, omission. Pilger described how he had never known such
blanket propaganda. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In February 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine as a
response to almost eight years of killing and destruction in the
Russian-speaking region of Donbass on their border. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In 2014, the United States had sponsored a coup
in Kiev that got rid of Ukraine’s democratically elected, Russian-friendly
president and installed a successor whom the Americans made clear was their
man. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In recent years US “defender” missiles have been installed in
eastern Europe, Poland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, accompanied by false
assurances by James Baker’s to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in February 1990
that NATO would never expand beyond Germany. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">NATO on Hitler’s Borderline</span></strong><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ukraine is the frontline. NATO has reached the borderland
through which Hitler’s army stormed in 1941, leaving more than 23m dead in the
Soviet Union. Last December, Russia proposed a far-reaching security plan for
Europe. This was dismissed, derided or suppressed in the Western media. Who
read its step-by-step proposals? </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The history, the lies, the peace proposals, the solemn
agreements on Donbass at Minsk counted for nothing. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Report on Hostility of Mariupul’s population to the Ukrainian Army</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pilger
asked when will writers stand up, as they did against the rise of fascism in
the 1930s? When will film-makers stand up, as they did against the Cold War in
the 1940s? When will satirists stand up, as they did a generation ago? (<a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/07/john-pilger-silencing-the-lambs-how-propaganda-works/">This
is taken</a> from an edited version of an address to the Trondheim World
Festival, Norway, 6.9.22.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The Guardian and Julian Assange<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">It is no surprise that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guardian</i>
passed over its relationship with Assange in one sentence. Pilger had been a
bitter critic of the paper. Pilger <a href="https://johnpilger.com/articles/justice-for-julian-assange-is-justice-for-all"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">wrote</span></a>
about how it had been open season on Assange for more than a decade. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘In
2011, The Guardian exploited Julian's work as if it was its own, collected
journalism prizes and Hollywood deals, then turned on its source.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In a Guardian book by David Leigh and Luke Harding, Assange is quoted as
saying during a dinner in a London restaurant that he didn't care if informants
named in the leaks were harmed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Neither Harding nor Leigh were at the dinner. John Goetz, an
investigations reporter with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Der Spiegel</i>,
actually was at the dinner and testified that Assange said nothing of the kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Lecturing a group of City University students, David Leigh mocked the
very idea that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Julian Assange will
end up in an orange jumpsuit".</i> His fears were an exaggeration, it was
paranoia he sneered. Edward Snowden later revealed that Assange was on a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"manhunt timeline".<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCqZsD1daDPNbzhpHjkufu-tX4pVZV3mUkJMUmGQTOSzlZtUlYvT-xy4rYW7Midcwhwy5ZBE9Buxzw5oBnt1fFfHaVls6qCp_NnLPeBY25FST9Rko9Hw_bB_9eisaJKm_MTgS3ZbWf40p9iLfoAvKA8rTHV14zrCn0raWDuOjgfE4714Bx_ojqIrOrzl5a/s646/James%20Ball%20and%20Assange.jpg" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="646" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCqZsD1daDPNbzhpHjkufu-tX4pVZV3mUkJMUmGQTOSzlZtUlYvT-xy4rYW7Midcwhwy5ZBE9Buxzw5oBnt1fFfHaVls6qCp_NnLPeBY25FST9Rko9Hw_bB_9eisaJKm_MTgS3ZbWf40p9iLfoAvKA8rTHV14zrCn0raWDuOjgfE4714Bx_ojqIrOrzl5a/w640-h314/James%20Ball%20and%20Assange.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Another despicable Guardian journalist was James Ball who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/10/julian-assange-ecuador-embassy-wikileaks-us-sweden"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">wrote</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘The
only barrier to Julian Assange leaving Ecuador’s embassy is pride. The
WikiLeaks founder is unlikely to face prosecution in the US...’ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><a name="a"></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Luke Harding was outside the Ecuadorean embassy on the
evening Julian sought asylum. Standing with a police line he gloated <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Scotland Yard may well have the last
laugh."<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The
campaign was relentless. Guardian columnists scraped the barrel. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"He really is the most massive
turd,"</i> wrote Suzanne Moore of a man she had never met. Suzanne Moore, a
right-wing feminist <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/04/wikileaks-was-future-once-then-it-became-julian-assange"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">commented
</span></a>in the New Statesman after the arrest:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘O frabjous
day! We are all bored out of our minds with Brexit when a demented looking
gnome is pulled out of the Ecuadorian embassy by the secret police of the deep
state. Or “the met” as normal people call them.’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3gKzuMKrzlzFqUWkLhLNHznX2JIVtxUJQH0rEyA75oG1YSWnd82HEEr-sOetKTZtU-QTaSFsOhmi4qdPGCnOtOgwgQ2GcRcV4wp2ZeA_ps9lMfQPxv5u6OtN8UaZSGp4CLuVpEav8ovfApCbqk7ANsB4qUGE2LMJqg3_6GDpbvpu_6L7sS13PSpjNnhip" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="679" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3gKzuMKrzlzFqUWkLhLNHznX2JIVtxUJQH0rEyA75oG1YSWnd82HEEr-sOetKTZtU-QTaSFsOhmi4qdPGCnOtOgwgQ2GcRcV4wp2ZeA_ps9lMfQPxv5u6OtN8UaZSGp4CLuVpEav8ovfApCbqk7ANsB4qUGE2LMJqg3_6GDpbvpu_6L7sS13PSpjNnhip=w616-h640" width="616" /></a></p>
<p class="p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></p><p class="has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-dbc504538bd89f92adbbd2bec674eafa" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">The Guardian’s Smear Article Attacking Assange – It was Totally Without Foundation</span></strong></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger <a href="https://johnpilger.com/articles/justice-for-julian-assange-is-justice-for-all"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">wrote</span></a>
that Julian Assange’s only crime was revealing government crimes and lies and
so performed one of the great public services of his lifetime. Pilger <a href="https://johnpilger.com/articles/eyewitness-to-the-trial-and-agony-of-julian-assange"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">wrote</span></a>
in 2020 how a decade previously <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">the
Guardian exploited Assange's work, claimed its profit and prizes as well as a
lucrative Hollywood deal, then turned on him with venom. Throughout the Old
Bailey trial, two names have been cited by the prosecution, the Guardian's
David Leigh, now retired as 'investigations editor' and Luke Harding, the
Russiaphobe and author of a fictional Guardian 'scoop' that claimed Trump
adviser Paul Manafort and a group of Russians visited Assange in the Ecuadorean
embassy. This never happened, and the Guardian has yet to apologise. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger <a href="https://johnpilger.com/articles/the-stalinist-trial-of-julian-assange-whose-side-are-you-on-"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">spoke</span></a>
of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">the Judases on the Guardian </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">who flirted with Julian, exploited his landmark
work, made their pile then betrayed him, have nothing to fear. They are safe
because they are needed. (my emphasis)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger, in <a href="https://johnpilger.com/articles/julian-assange-must-be-freed-not-betrayed"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">JULIAN
ASSANGE MUST BE FREED, NOT BETR</span></a><a href="https://johnpilger.com/articles/julian-assange-must-be-freed-not-betrayed"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">AYED</span></a>
told how in 2011, David Leigh told journalism students at City University that
Assange was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"quite deranged"</i>.
When a student asked why, Leigh replied, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Because
he doesn't understand the parameters of conventional journalism".</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pilger commented that it was<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 1.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">precisely
because he did understand that the "parameters" of the media often
shielded vested and political interests and had nothing to do with transparency
that the idea of WikiLeaks was so appealing to many people, especially the
young, rightly cynical about the so-called "mainstream".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A Guardian
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/20/the-guardian-view-on-extraditing-julian-assange-dont-do-it">editorial</a>
on Assange’s extradition said<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It is not a question of how wise
Mr. Assange is, still less how likable. It's not about his character, nor his
judgement. It's a matter of press freedom and the public's right to know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pilger
commented in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://johnpilger.com/articles/the-lies-about-assange-must-stop-now">THE
LIES ABOUT ASSANGE MUST STOP NOW</a> that <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">w</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">hat the
Guardian is trying to do is separate Assange from his landmark achievements,
which have both profited the Guardian and exposed its own vulnerability, along
with its propensity to suck up to rapacious power and smear those who reveal
its double standards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Kevin
Lygo, managing director of media and entertainment at ITV <a href="https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/obituary-australian-born-investigative-journalist-and-documentary-filmmaker-john-pilger-dies-at-84/article67695288.ece"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast;">described</span></a>
Pilger as “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a giant of campaigning
journalism</i>” who offered viewers a level of analysis and opinion that was
rare in mainstream television. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">He had a clear, distinctive
editorial voice which he used to great effect throughout his distinguished
filmmaking career. His documentaries were engaging, challenging, and always
very watchable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">He eschewed comfortable
consensus and instead offered a radical, alternative approach on current
affairs and a platform for dissenting voices over 50 years,” he added.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><b><i>Tony Greenstein</i></b></span></p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-690565721308912962024-01-02T05:26:00.004+00:002024-01-02T13:07:07.926+00:00An Open Letter to Stephen Fry whose 'Alternative' Xmas Message on 'Antisemitism' Flew in the Face of Everything He Once Stood For<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #7300ff; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fry's Message Was an Embrace of the British Establishment’s Support
for Genocide in Gaza under the Pretext of Opposition to Antisemitism</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJH95JNKFpgc3epkyzTJdkc5qF2Sz5ENLFT3mExN6MOoMOTC-VWW8ZtJrjJFq4KQ78V2No-4bU29wYk4s_X38dXp9ZIHVz42RNOR9xqaR8RXldOyQcn8WmOSYrWeLaW7IQLELBx5PG_JEREHPcmee4DgxPRpeS2L1utDAxy-NzHfVFi9EdEE-sSgQaQW-S/s910/Mint%20News.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="910" data-original-width="582" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJH95JNKFpgc3epkyzTJdkc5qF2Sz5ENLFT3mExN6MOoMOTC-VWW8ZtJrjJFq4KQ78V2No-4bU29wYk4s_X38dXp9ZIHVz42RNOR9xqaR8RXldOyQcn8WmOSYrWeLaW7IQLELBx5PG_JEREHPcmee4DgxPRpeS2L1utDAxy-NzHfVFi9EdEE-sSgQaQW-S/s16000/Mint%20News.jpg" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stephen Fry’s Xmas Message on Behalf of the British Establishment</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Dear
Stephen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As
you are all too aware, ‘anti-Semitism’ is the standard defence, the only
defence, that Israel has for its genocide and sadism in Gaza today.
‘Anti-Semitism’ is the stock response to torture, imprisonment and abuse of Palestinian
children and the creation of a state which Netanyahu </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/10/benjamin-netanyahu-says-israel-is-not-a-state-of-all-its-citizens"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">boasts</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
is a state, not for all its citizens but only those who are Jewish. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">When
I refer to sadism I mean things like Israel’s <a href="https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/55520292/posts/5054774320">removal</a>
of anaesthetics from aid lorries resulting in over 1,000 Palestinian children
having to undergo amputations without anaesthetic. This is what your
‘Alternative’ Xmas Message was condoning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Fortunately
we were privileged to have a genuine Alternative to the Establishment’s Xmas
that you delivered and it was by a fellow Jewish comedian, Alexei Sayle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alexei had a few choice words for you and it
is this that I am pleased to publish. As an aside you mentioned how, as a Gay
man attitudes in Britain, especially amongst those you hang out with, have
improved immeasurably in the past 25 years. I wonder whether the radicalism
that was engendered all those years ago led you to support the Palestinians
whereas acceptance by the Establishment of your sexuality has resulted in you
turning your back on the oppressed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3ZTzsWDtm_E" width="320" youtube-src-id="3ZTzsWDtm_E"></iframe></div><p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Alexei Sayle’s Xmas Message</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">There
has been a trend in recent years for elderly Jewish comedians to bloviate
without going through any artistic process on various topics.... <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Now
the other elderly Jewish comedians follow the line that entirely plays into the
establishment ruling class narrative. They are an alternative to nothing. .. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">One
of the elderly Jewish comedians has urged us to stand with the Jewish people.
Well fair enough. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The
Jews I’m going to stand with are those of the Jewish bloc who I’ve marched with
on all the pro-Palestine demonstrations. Over 1000 Jews and we’ve always been
greeted with love, kindness and support. ... <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We
were marching with thousands of people – Muslim, Christian, Atheist, Black,
white, brown, gay, straight, trans you name it. Everyone was marching together
wanting an end to war and slaughter. In their leaflet the young Jews said ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">instead of looking to Israel to make Jews
safe, we look instead to solidarity, freedom, justice and equality for
Palestinians and Jews everywhere</i>’... <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If
you see anybody advocating for Israel on the TV or radio. One of their
repellent spokespeople say, then they will be lying because that’s what they
do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They lie and they lie and they
lie.... So let’s keep Palestine in our hearts and minds this Xmas. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">As
Caitline Johnson </span><a href="https://archive.ph/NRwWP#selection-1274.0-1274.1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">writes</span></a>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">concerning
the ‘anti-Semitism’ smear against those who oppose Israeli war crimes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">If I saw someone murdering a
child, there are many things I might say and do, but the very last thing that
would ever occur to me would be to wonder what religion he is. It’s the
silliest, most nonsensical narrative in mainstream politics and media today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Your
‘new’ anti-Semitism has nothing to do with traditional anti-Semitism. Its sole
concern is about defending Israel – right or wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/summary/anti-Semitism"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Anti-Semitism</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
historically was hostility, prejudice or discrimination against Jews. In 2005 a
campaign was launched by Israeli and Zionist academics to redefine
anti-Semitism as anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel. The resulting was the </span><a href="https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitions-charters/working-definition-antisemitism"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">IHRA
misdefinition of anti-Semitism</span></a>,<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> a definition which
anti-Semites like Victor Orban of Hungary </span><a href="https://abouthungary.hu/news-in-brief/hungarian-government-to-promote-ihras-working-definition-of-anti-semitism"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">supports</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ-kPipQwl6y9uwGfUuagqF13_iD9PMcl9rqXUa1mAuCVj2TvsK6mWRpNvXoD5lFmzRZt_u4-SDaR4iUgMxXFYCGcJ4pNbHrH261bd9rI-w7vH7MRkDZoT240VppbEjhv3ZKzcj6tFujSbpZZH7RfeEXtE8CWIAuRyyWX46lY8wZ1JHTtxEUE5pm_UbEyP" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1487" data-original-width="793" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ-kPipQwl6y9uwGfUuagqF13_iD9PMcl9rqXUa1mAuCVj2TvsK6mWRpNvXoD5lFmzRZt_u4-SDaR4iUgMxXFYCGcJ4pNbHrH261bd9rI-w7vH7MRkDZoT240VppbEjhv3ZKzcj6tFujSbpZZH7RfeEXtE8CWIAuRyyWX46lY8wZ1JHTtxEUE5pm_UbEyP=s16000" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">When Stephen Fry
was an Anti-Racist<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
February 2007 you signed the </span><a href="https://ijv.org.uk/declaration/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Founding
Statement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> of <a href="https://ijv.org.uk/">Independent Jewish
Voices</a>. You were number 217 on the </span><a href="https://ijv.org.uk/signatories/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">list of signatories</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">,
I was number 259. A total of 735 Jews signed the declaration which said: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 49.65pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.65pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Human rights
are universal and indivisible and should be upheld without exception. This is
as applicable in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories as it is
elsewhere....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 49.65pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -13.65pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">5.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The battle
against anti-Semitism is vital and is undermined whenever opposition to Israeli
government policies is automatically branded as anti-Semitic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Instead
of standing up for Palestinians who are being massacred in Gaza, you have
chosen to support their killers. This is shameful. You are famous as a comedian
but what you have done is no joke. By propagating a false narrative of
increasing ‘anti-Semitism’ you have sought to distract attention from the
21,000 who have been murdered, including 9,000+ children, on to British Jews
whose idea of discrimination is not getting a good seat in a restaurant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Stephen Fry gets it half right. <br /><br />Antisemitism is intolerable on any grounds.<br /><br />What is also intolerable is weaponising antisemitism to cover for crimes of genocide by Israel against Palestinians. <br /><br />Criticism of Israeli crimes is necessary for peace.<br /><br /> <a href="https://t.co/w0D6gwGzyq">pic.twitter.com/w0D6gwGzyq</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— Stewart Mills (@StewartMills) <a href="https://twitter.com/StewartMills/status/1739444929888485434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2023</a></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oZ0d72b2NpWnemD2HBmkIZ3dfnM-jhDAClwPwS3ahNuavsGFOwh0KDqEEgkIXjqRjp31tdX2SHOASeR9NxtXo6zKVKoV_FnNjwdKQf4MjVYGnabAjShliZ-f9njfQl_VrSsqJylbQYn6q0gwlj7_FDz4hwu-vfTR4ixYLyi6dA_QtFFEY5Bf4r7S9xiB/s868/children%20tortured.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="868" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oZ0d72b2NpWnemD2HBmkIZ3dfnM-jhDAClwPwS3ahNuavsGFOwh0KDqEEgkIXjqRjp31tdX2SHOASeR9NxtXo6zKVKoV_FnNjwdKQf4MjVYGnabAjShliZ-f9njfQl_VrSsqJylbQYn6q0gwlj7_FDz4hwu-vfTR4ixYLyi6dA_QtFFEY5Bf4r7S9xiB/w640-h580/children%20tortured.jpg" width="640" /></a> </p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">You’ve
held hands with those who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/a-hidden-universe-of-suffering-the-palestinian-children-sent-to-jail">torture
children</a>, <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-bomb-ambulance-convoy-gaza-hospital-al-shifa/">bomb
hospitals & ambulances</a> & <a href="https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-christians-gaza-bethlehem-christmas/">murder
church worshippers</a>. It wasn’t always like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLB-EdhoHucKjeos9XN_exDiv_THjU2RJhvMtra0dcqnvIxf5LqAfDXYycwoBZsNLjvW-59de10wXliOWDdPWylmgxtHxQ9wg1D24NpqWBfCAvlXZC2P2-HoZty05z8Z08wuzR1yhEEs1FW-XbKlUfSCDoMfM7HngvQ07Jqt4vrxw-ppA4rMQ5qh_x8phx/s3514/We're%20not%20celebrating%20Israel's%20existence%20-%20FRY.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3514" data-original-width="640" height="2919" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLB-EdhoHucKjeos9XN_exDiv_THjU2RJhvMtra0dcqnvIxf5LqAfDXYycwoBZsNLjvW-59de10wXliOWDdPWylmgxtHxQ9wg1D24NpqWBfCAvlXZC2P2-HoZty05z8Z08wuzR1yhEEs1FW-XbKlUfSCDoMfM7HngvQ07Jqt4vrxw-ppA4rMQ5qh_x8phx/w534-h2919/We're%20not%20celebrating%20Israel's%20existence%20-%20FRY.jpg" width="534" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
April 2008 you signed a letter with 104 other Jews, including me, headed </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/30/israelandthepalestinians"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary</span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The letter said: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We cannot celebrate the
birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of
another people from their land. We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state
that even now engages in ethnic cleansing, that violates international law,
that is inflicting a monstrous collective punishment on the civilian population
of Gaza and that continues to deny to Palestinians their human rights and
national aspirations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">We will celebrate when Arab
and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="dcr-rysp4a" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzwwNOzSUKbSDz7Y_tI3S0_okY8ilQwR6iHoGPUWw5Kol40RRvy1metDZgeFiL7ApbdoQ-6jjWkHz__cY6XQBq8hDzBZMoy8eATEvInx4O-u44I7v-ZkaZDnOlyDlPMupH1KeX9jW3Kt7cLk-vLoQEYjilk66r08dBPbuOKZ_q7muHF7aJ2mkSpQMFD9l/s979/Israel%20bombs%20ambulances.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="979" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzwwNOzSUKbSDz7Y_tI3S0_okY8ilQwR6iHoGPUWw5Kol40RRvy1metDZgeFiL7ApbdoQ-6jjWkHz__cY6XQBq8hDzBZMoy8eATEvInx4O-u44I7v-ZkaZDnOlyDlPMupH1KeX9jW3Kt7cLk-vLoQEYjilk66r08dBPbuOKZ_q7muHF7aJ2mkSpQMFD9l/w640-h550/Israel%20bombs%20ambulances.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">How
is it that in the intervening years you have parted company with anti-racist Jews
in favour of racist Jews (Zionists)? Why do you think that </span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/tommy-robinson-poland-edl-right-rally-anti-semitism-islam-signs-holocaust-attendance-a8053356.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">neo-Nazi</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
Tommy Robinson, ex-member of the </span><a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/holocaust-denier-is-bnp-special-guest-acpeyivd"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">holocaust
denying</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> BNP </span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tommy-robinson-edl-antisemitism-march-b2452934.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">wanted
to join</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> the Zionist march against anti-Semitism<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>recently? He <a href="https://www.everand.com/article/399761532/Far-Right-Tommy-Robinson-Declares-Himself-A-Zionist-In-Leaked-Video">says</a>
he is a Zionist. I think we can believe that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: x-large; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Zionism’s
Anti-Semitic Supporters<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Have
you ever wondered why neo-Nazis and White Supremacists admire Zionism and Israel?
Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 young members of Norway’s Labour Party in 2011
was an <a href="file:///C:/Users/Tony/OneDrive/Documents%202023/Blog/December%202023/Stephen%20Fry/offered%20sympathy%20for">ardent</a>
</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Tony/OneDrive/Documents%202023/Blog/December%202023/Stephen%20Fry/offered%20sympathy%20for"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Zionist</span></a> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Or
neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, founder of the alt-Right, who </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/11/05/charlottesville-trial-richard-spencer/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">organised</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">
the ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jews Will Not Replace Us’ </i>march
at Charlottesville. That hasn’t stopped him claiming that he is a </span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2017-08-16/ty-article/richard-spencer-to-israelis-im-a-white-zionist-respect-me/0000017f-e2ed-d75c-a7ff-feed950d0000"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">White
Zionist</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">What
is it that attracts racists and anti-Semites from Trump and Bannon to Bolsonaro
and Orban, to the Israeli state if not its ethno-nationalism and Islamaphobia?
Why is it that the fascist Geert Wilders, who has just won the election in
Netherlands, </span><a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b147f634t"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">sees
Israel</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> as the last defence of civilisation?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">By
supporting the Zionists’ false accusation of ‘anti-Semitism’ you have also
joined hands with Zionism’s anti-Semitic supporters. You have become, not
everyone’s favourite uncle but an aged bigot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_H5Tcio7c1EybeQXfHtmQVsRY4aoCuxF5s_Fv8195oWTbgEW-p5dJ2dSJPXwkjCiZ-Jm412RlYtThBAsjxjEc3ZhYxvJbkJ4oRl1uY0f8UCjdNWxG3Q0jk3rt1ufS9d-qespeVmfzyi8czHAgbwnWQivUaeY1c4IpsoLcqWGdprwxTzbsa_qTnkzSRRy4/s640/World%20Court%20ICJ.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_H5Tcio7c1EybeQXfHtmQVsRY4aoCuxF5s_Fv8195oWTbgEW-p5dJ2dSJPXwkjCiZ-Jm412RlYtThBAsjxjEc3ZhYxvJbkJ4oRl1uY0f8UCjdNWxG3Q0jk3rt1ufS9d-qespeVmfzyi8czHAgbwnWQivUaeY1c4IpsoLcqWGdprwxTzbsa_qTnkzSRRy4/w640-h400/World%20Court%20ICJ.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">The International Court of Justice at The Hague</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="color: #38761d;">False Accusations
of Anti-Semitism </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If
you have any doubt Stephen about the weaponisation of anti-Semitism then the
Times of Israel article </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/blood-libel-israel-slams-south-africa-for-filing-icj-genocide-motion-over-gaza-war/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">‘Blood libel’: Israel slams South Africa for
filing ICJ genocide motion over Gaza war’</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> should convince even the most obtuse Zionist. It
might even convince you. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">South Africa’s crime? <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/29/south-africa-files-case-at-icj-accusing-israel-of-genocidal-acts-in-gaza">Filing
a claim</a> at the International Court of Justice against Israel. Zionism is
once again using Jewish victims of anti-Semitism past in order to justify
present day war crimes. This illustrates just how cynical Zionism is towards actual
anti-Semitism. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/blood-libel">Blood Libel</a> was the
false accusation made against the Jews of Medieval Europe that they baked
matzot, unleavened bread, with the blood of Christian children. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">There is nothing false or imagined about
Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. If referring to Israel’s war crimes in Gaza is a
‘blood libel’ then that can only mean that the accusations against Jews in
times gone by were also true. This is Zionist anti-Semitism and this is what your
Christmas message amounted to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Stephen
Fry’s Failure to Understand Anti-Semitism <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Despite saying that you </span><a href="https://britishjewishtheatre.org/?page_id=1071"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">consider yourself</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> Jewish you clearly weren’t brought up as one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I noticed in your Xmas Monologue that you
said that as a child you were almost </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7uUGJhiehM"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">unbearably</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> fascinated by Xmas trivia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">In my Orthodox Jewish family Xmas was not
celebrated. My rabbi father used to spit on the ground every time Jesus name
was mentioned. Jesus was the ultimate heretic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">You are an atheist which implies that your reason
for claiming to be Jewish is political or racial. In practice you have become a
Jewish nationalist. It is no surprise that you claim that you are racially or
genetically Jewish. 52% Ashkenazi no less! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4532gTzl_Nx8j4ojD3ZseGrsYjneHAWI4-ybvyVTPVGHVoxVtvLx8FT1U8N_e6LNTqnmomIzMNouNHQ81LUV5IC-1ik0A6DFIFJwNPwF0aSEzZaBz3j7o_RWV8h2kqkMunMgvKGAiSOjQiASDkWlorEbPPNW8G6XMoo6LPVeGmMhLThXA38NZqv-d8QR8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="927" height="923" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4532gTzl_Nx8j4ojD3ZseGrsYjneHAWI4-ybvyVTPVGHVoxVtvLx8FT1U8N_e6LNTqnmomIzMNouNHQ81LUV5IC-1ik0A6DFIFJwNPwF0aSEzZaBz3j7o_RWV8h2kqkMunMgvKGAiSOjQiASDkWlorEbPPNW8G6XMoo6LPVeGmMhLThXA38NZqv-d8QR8=w627-h923" width="627" /></a></div><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;"><b>It seems that Fry's Zionism has gone hand in hand with toleration of child abuse</b></span><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">You began your Xmas message by recalling how
you grew up as gay and saw a ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">long and
lonely’ </i>life <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘exclusion, exile and
disgrace’</i> ahead because of the homophobia of the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Yet, as you observe, during your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘short lifetime’ </i>society has <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘moved towards an understanding and
acceptance’ </i>of those who are gay. Yet when it comes to anti-Semitism, which
was widespread in the 1940s and 50s you refuse to accept that attitudes have
changed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">You begin your rant by asserting that
anti-Semitism is a ‘light sleeper’ and you go on to say that it has now <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘woken up’. </i>But has it? Anti-Semitism is
not a person but a political phenomenon. Racism never sleeps but it does change
and anti-Semitism has changed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuacuQzkmUcTXF8F7egjnDFdh9tjasVVMJ-HfKn-t0lnuUtSxptOt9wnEsMUZ-3Ky0mArQq-6FwM0lSK2dMtF6HJIizFGiexWkEAqYjhPHNqcqoCLXxTvNGCqU1qO5dBkJBoBiC3PBezKT9XyUxf4Nx67jFdpmEkGxjOfKC0HRGawnjWU8-ztStxaqGy4Q/s752/buf.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="752" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuacuQzkmUcTXF8F7egjnDFdh9tjasVVMJ-HfKn-t0lnuUtSxptOt9wnEsMUZ-3Ky0mArQq-6FwM0lSK2dMtF6HJIizFGiexWkEAqYjhPHNqcqoCLXxTvNGCqU1qO5dBkJBoBiC3PBezKT9XyUxf4Nx67jFdpmEkGxjOfKC0HRGawnjWU8-ztStxaqGy4Q/w640-h530/buf.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">In the 1930s there was a large anti-Semitic fascist
party, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://depts.washington.edu/chid/intersections_Autumn_2010/Bret_Rubin_The_Death_of_British_Fascism.pdf">British
Union of Fascists</a>, </i>led by a member of the aristocracy Sir Oswald
Moseley, which was supported by many other members of that class. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The British Establishment then was riddled
with anti-Semitism. In October 1936 the BUF decided to stage a march through
the Jewish East End and the Metropolitan Police, which contained many fascist
sympathisers, tried to baton their way through the 200,000+ Jewish and
non-Jewish working class demonstrators. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKeYQuOLFSJvo53T9lqjSEzyq-tzmPNchYClr0nYFXgnmjzUeugLyCXnqV-nL4_I_KBAYDVwkgqwRap3IB3ark5KCBY7P902qyYTlNK6GWNzLdDqCKSE-Yz5SOpZ9IgeznI98_O6Iu3mbl_eaVV90Yu4CBO8Gxl8w-gesmTxNHU9_urJUkpzRZ4_rv7Dl1/s640/Cable%20Street%20JC%202.10.36-1.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="640" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKeYQuOLFSJvo53T9lqjSEzyq-tzmPNchYClr0nYFXgnmjzUeugLyCXnqV-nL4_I_KBAYDVwkgqwRap3IB3ark5KCBY7P902qyYTlNK6GWNzLdDqCKSE-Yz5SOpZ9IgeznI98_O6Iu3mbl_eaVV90Yu4CBO8Gxl8w-gesmTxNHU9_urJUkpzRZ4_rv7Dl1/w640-h448/Cable%20Street%20JC%202.10.36-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">This became known as the </span><a href="https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/2016/10/05/the-battle-of-cable-street/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Battle of Cable Street</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">. However your friends in the Board of
Deputies and the <i>Jewish Chronicle</i>, </span><a href="https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/10/remembering-the-battle-of-cable-street"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">were strongly opposed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> to Jews taking part in counter-demonstrations
to fascism. They advised Jews to ignore the fascists and stay at home.
Moseley’s Blackshirts were genuine anti-Semites not today’s fake variety.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Your Support for Israel’s Genocide<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">You refer in your tirade to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘the horrendous events’ </i>of October 7,
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘the Israeli response.’ </i>Let us
stop there. The latest casualty figures for October 7 are 1,147 and of those
one-third were soldiers and the majority of the civilians were, it seems, <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-general-killed-israelis-7-october-then-lied-about-it/43176?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=035bde53fe-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-035bde53fe-260782605">killed
by the Israeli military</a> when tanks fired shells at kibbutz houses in order
to prevent anyone being taken prisoner and swapped for Palestinian prisoners in
Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Whilst you condemn the events of October 7 as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘horrendous’ </i>you say nothing about the murder
of over 20,000 people, 9,000+ of whom were children. These deaths and the
massive number wounded do not seem to trouble you in the slightest. It seems
that you have become a Jewish exceptionalist and racist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">You assert that October 7 and Israel’s attack
on Gaza (the word ‘genocide’ never passes your lips) has led to a rise,
according to the Metropolitan Police, of 1350%.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">If this is true, then it is clear that
strenuous efforts must be made <b>not</b> to associate British Jews with what
Israel does. The advent of a ‘Jewish’ state has been a disaster for Jews
everywhere. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgidclc2c2FtSRWk2OFg7di5SlOH93Y-P7K7Od7-AVZqeWAC_-OR43Jgcp2RZpLHOXMfbYjUoY-8bU_u89xv13Wl0TLkvXB4LnbPfcqIEa_kD_aePIfSIG4phGT4isLXZXjT4mRJtG1_weVyh0xtfDMY145UpXPDUi8w5TxpQg_gUJvpCifx6khe4CVKIFl/s586/board%20of%20deputies%20gaza%20return%20march%202018.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgidclc2c2FtSRWk2OFg7di5SlOH93Y-P7K7Od7-AVZqeWAC_-OR43Jgcp2RZpLHOXMfbYjUoY-8bU_u89xv13Wl0TLkvXB4LnbPfcqIEa_kD_aePIfSIG4phGT4isLXZXjT4mRJtG1_weVyh0xtfDMY145UpXPDUi8w5TxpQg_gUJvpCifx6khe4CVKIFl/s16000/board%20of%20deputies%20gaza%20return%20march%202018.jpg" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">But the Board of Deputies has <a href="https://bod.org.uk/bod-news/board-of-deputies-thanks-uk-government-for-stand-against-who-on-israel/">gone
out of its way</a> to support the attacks of the Israeli state on Palestinians.
Since the Board claims to represent British Jews is it any wonder that some
people take them at their word and attack Jews because of what Israel does?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">In 2018 when Israeli snipers murdered over 300
unarmed Palestinians in Gaza the Board chose to </span><a href="https://twitter.com/boardofdeputies/status/979727351511769088"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">criticise</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> Hamas not the killers. A subsequent </span><a href="https://bod.org.uk/bod-news/board-of-deputies-reacts-to-violent-scenes-and-loss-of-life-at-israel-gaza-border/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">statement</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> placed all the blame on the victims. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">An </span><a href="http://www.ijan.org/new-opinions/open-letter-to-the-board-of-deputies-of-british-jews/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Open Letter</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> by over 100 Jews made our position crystal clear:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">We are
appalled that the Board of Deputies (BoD) which claims to be “</span><a href="https://www.bod.org.uk/the-board-and-political-parties/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">the
voice of British Jews</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">,” has once again attempted to
justify the massacre of unarmed Palestinian people by the Israeli
military. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Is Anti-Semitism On the Increase in Britain?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">There are good reasons for doubting that there
has been a massive increase in anti-Semitism. By its <a href="https://www.met.police.uk/notices/antisemitism/antisemitism-and-how-we-define-it/">own
admission</a>, the Metropolitan Police are using the IHRA definition of
anti-Semitism. As such its statistics are worthless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">If someone is attacked because they support
Israeli genocide is that an anti-Semitic attack? Obviously not. The person has
been attacked for their politics not their religion or race. I don’t condone
attacking anyone, not even Zionists, but any such attacks are not anti-Semitic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">If however someone is attacked for no other
reason than that they are Jewish, on the assumption that they support Israel’s
genocide, then the attack is anti-Semitic. The blame for the attack lies
equally with your Zionist friends as with the attackers because they gave
people the idea that all Jews support war crimes against Palestinians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">We should ask ourselves why the Met are so
eager to inflate the number of anti-Semitic incidents when in the 30s they
operated as an adjunct to the BUF? Have they changed? All the evidence is that
the Met are as racist now as they were 90 years ago. The only difference now is
that their racism is directed at Muslim and Black people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitlmJdFImuvJwxDuTUEO5rrTCWBKPSLAROGJVT81hTmy9uAes5hb8xCVUNt3Qw68P82ztcw9SRcdJ9smMaLdGdsEdGEI_azA-yl6CBrqbk9YPCgJrkgeRmQoDgdw58ugjSPURgGlfeacLb-fJGukNA2pSZ5_KL9KKf1dgIbSBYIyxwdXZPQTHdRpF611I_/s990/braverman.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="990" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitlmJdFImuvJwxDuTUEO5rrTCWBKPSLAROGJVT81hTmy9uAes5hb8xCVUNt3Qw68P82ztcw9SRcdJ9smMaLdGdsEdGEI_azA-yl6CBrqbk9YPCgJrkgeRmQoDgdw58ugjSPURgGlfeacLb-fJGukNA2pSZ5_KL9KKf1dgIbSBYIyxwdXZPQTHdRpF611I_/w640-h426/braverman.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #13a216; font-size: large;">The Black Widow!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">There are many other differences. Suella
Braverman, the most racist Home Secretary Britain has ever had was </span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/suella-braverman-home-secretary-mark-rowley-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-b2446019.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">vociferous</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> in her opposition to anti-Semitism (in fact
anti-Zionism). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">xxxx
</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Israeli soldiers harassment of a Palestinian worker at Al Huda Gaz station in Al fawar camp in Hebron area. <a href="https://t.co/HktNtHK20q">pic.twitter.com/HktNtHK20q</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">— Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti (@MustafaBarghou1) <a href="https://twitter.com/MustafaBarghou1/status/1741416159067378091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2023</a></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtk9DGjj24YudB6WeCcaeNKmjtPolFLi4x6Fd99nzekGiR8DA8IF9Ph1dmSzfHlP4___V2zC9zifXhNCZLXC0puvRo8j1pvf_ZNjiUARKnj4_pD9lwQZf06lwokFCrqUGkwLZQN8AIxaATUBP2_iaTyeTwKQecDpd60XpB0VuK9dMLNe-kwbDK57J-OIXC/s2400/Braverman%20with%20CST.JPG" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2400" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtk9DGjj24YudB6WeCcaeNKmjtPolFLi4x6Fd99nzekGiR8DA8IF9Ph1dmSzfHlP4___V2zC9zifXhNCZLXC0puvRo8j1pvf_ZNjiUARKnj4_pD9lwQZf06lwokFCrqUGkwLZQN8AIxaATUBP2_iaTyeTwKQecDpd60XpB0VuK9dMLNe-kwbDK57J-OIXC/w640-h426/Braverman%20with%20CST.JPG" width="640" /></a> </p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">In 1936 Home Secretary </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simon,_1st_Viscount_Simon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Sir John Simon</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">, insisted on the fascists being allowed to
march on the Jewish East End. In March 2023 Braverman was the </span><a href="https://cst.org.uk/news/blog/2023/03/29/cst-annual-dinner-2023"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">guest of honour</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> at the Annual Dinner of the <a href="https://cst.org.uk/">CST</a>, a Mossad Project that compiles statistics
of anti-Semitic incidents. The CST work closely with the Met. Their statistics
are, in the immortal phrase of Disraeli, ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lies,
damned lies and statistics</i>’. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">You paint a picture of anti-Semitism today that
bears no relation to reality: swastikas daubed on buildings, shop windows
smashed, Jewish schools forced to close. It seems as if Nazi Germany is around
the corner. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘There is real fear stalking
the neighbourhoods of Britain’. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">You say of your Jewish grandparents that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">I’m glad they aren’t alive now to read newspaper
stories that would have reminded them of the 1930s Europe that they left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a name="a"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">I am reminded of what Anshel Pffefer </span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2015-01-14/ty-article/.premium/disturbing-trend-among-u-k-jews/0000017f-dc06-db5a-a57f-dc6ecbe60000"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ha’aretz</i>
during the height of Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign. This was when the
</span><a href="http://www.antisemitism.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Campaign Against Antisemitism</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> was </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">claiming that polls showed more than half of British Jews
felt that anti-Semitism echoed that of the 1930s. Pfeffer </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/.premium-1.637071"><span style="background: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">observed</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> that if the CAA and British Jews <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">actually
believe that, then it’s hard to take anything they say about contemporary
anti-Semitism in their home country seriously.”</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Pfeffer added that such a belief showed <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“</span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">a
disconnect bordering on hysteria … not only are they woefully ignorant of
recent Jewish history but have little concept of what real anti-Semitism
is.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuISAdyK9uJ6RVa88T8eKXTxseaApmE_zNkmj5v1wEnOyWutbrqrhKuScZGFUMdVAQ00zlHyoS6Xz13AR6xovgyjFsl7EKDHmrNBxL6W9fce9gyjQqELdDVAdn4DVuYUIZh0MF9S2eyIzSsRwcjFeEe2VH4TazWP1tjcCrD7SUBqTsg6Zq62ego4Z_gGAQ/s1024/lowkey%20and%20fry.png" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="487" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuISAdyK9uJ6RVa88T8eKXTxseaApmE_zNkmj5v1wEnOyWutbrqrhKuScZGFUMdVAQ00zlHyoS6Xz13AR6xovgyjFsl7EKDHmrNBxL6W9fce9gyjQqELdDVAdn4DVuYUIZh0MF9S2eyIzSsRwcjFeEe2VH4TazWP1tjcCrD7SUBqTsg6Zq62ego4Z_gGAQ/s16000/lowkey%20and%20fry.png" /></a></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Twice in recent years you have </span><a href="https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/blog/2023/10/12/israel-under-attack-open-letter/"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">signed letters</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> for Israeli lobby group CCFP/Stand
with Us. As Black rap artist, Lowkey, </span><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2023/12/27/makers-of-frys-alternative-video-members-of-idf-pre-military-feeder-group/"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">asked</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Can Stephen Fry be an authority on racism if he puts his name on the
letters of a lobby group which functions as a proxy of a racist regime,
exacting a genocidal war on the Palestinians?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">The statement that you signed in 2007, began:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">We come together in the belief that the broad spectrum of opinion among
the Jewish population of this country is not reflected by those institutions
which claim authority to represent the Jewish community as a whole. We further
believe that individuals and groups within all communities should feel free to
express their views on any issue of public concern without incurring
accusations of disloyalty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The Producers of Your video
were involved in recruiting and training members of the Israeli Defence Force<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The producers of Stephen Fry's controversial Christmas message were members of a Zionist youth group that funnels members into the Israeli military.<br /><br />Fulwell73 was founded by Leo Pearlman, Benjamin Turner, Gabe Turner, and Ben Winston.<br /><br />All of whom were members of the Zionist… <a href="https://t.co/K3tDhBLC7B">pic.twitter.com/K3tDhBLC7B</a></span></b></p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1739716951813791915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2023</a></span></b></blockquote><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">What makes your behaviour even worse Stephen is
that your video was produced by </span><a href="https://www.fulwell73.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Fulwell73
Productions</span></a><span class="css-1qaijid"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">, which was founded by 4
members of B'nei Akiva, which runs pre-military programmes to enrol members in Israel’s
occupation forces. They have also spoken at events for Israel lobby group, the
Jewish Leadership Council.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">When I was a child, I was a member of Bnei
Akiva, which was then the youth group of the National Religious Party which was
in coalition with the Israeli Labor Party. After 1967 and the occupation of the
West Bank the NRP moved steadily to the settler right and was part of the
Greater Israel Movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Bnei Akiva functions as an adjunct to the
far-right neo-Nazi settler movement in Israel. This is who produced your
Alternative Christmas Message and this Stephen is who you have allied with.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Channel 4 should hang its head in shame for
allowing fascists to produce their ‘alternative’ Christmas message. Perhaps
next year they will invite the KKK to say what White Xmas means to them?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">I’ve been crying since morning nonstop till I saw this message from Alexei Sayle, a British Jewish comedian. <br /><br />He restored me. <br /><br />The best <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Christmas?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Christmas</a> message you will hear in these dark days <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://t.co/9tYYVOhQQu">pic.twitter.com/9tYYVOhQQu</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">— Abier (@abierkhatib) <a href="https://twitter.com/abierkhatib/status/1739610945167483144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2023</a></span></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi720ji0vQqtlBOX3m5IH9MspCeh8t5BjsuEosGOoIn02-s7LkNZZlND_41HIoE_mJPAB_6Wv40On3X33VXUYd7U7IGo0bwt_kRFtm8XZwovVvvPMvKLKpuB1iQ3_4gcr_KG895YH_edKtkrBo9T_lwO5OETmWzkYViGSh9k82RNmCwxct4xjqb1UH9fVwV/s838/Tamara%20Hood%20attacks%20Fry.jpg" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="838" height="618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi720ji0vQqtlBOX3m5IH9MspCeh8t5BjsuEosGOoIn02-s7LkNZZlND_41HIoE_mJPAB_6Wv40On3X33VXUYd7U7IGo0bwt_kRFtm8XZwovVvvPMvKLKpuB1iQ3_4gcr_KG895YH_edKtkrBo9T_lwO5OETmWzkYViGSh9k82RNmCwxct4xjqb1UH9fVwV/w640-h618/Tamara%20Hood%20attacks%20Fry.jpg" width="640" /></a> </p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">At least some people have retained
their integrity in this sordid affair. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Tamara Abood, a former Channel 4 commissioning editor, who is
now a psychotherapist working with people in the entertainment industry, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/30/channel-4-executive-outcry-attack-stephen-fry-antisemitism/">criticised</a>
Channel 4’s decision to screen the message.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">She was also <a href="file:///C:/Users/Tony/OneDrive/Documents%202023/Blog/December%202023/Stephen%20Fry/%E2%80%9CThe%20asymmetry%20of%20the%20conflict%20was%20not%20remotely%20reflected%20in%20what%20Stephen%20Fry%20had%20to%20say">critical</a>
of Fulwell 73, the production company that made the programme:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“The asymmetry
of the conflict was not remotely reflected in what Stephen Fry had to say. It
was carefully worded lip service.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Ms Abood
added that Channel 4’s broadcast about anti-Semitism “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">demonstrates where the power lies”</i>. Her LinkedIn post was ‘<a href="https://deadline.com/2023/12/jewish-tv-producers-appalled-tamara-abood-stephen-fry-1235683817/">liked’</a>
by Deborah Williams, the head of Creative Diversity Network, a diversity and
inclusion charity to the Zionists chagrin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">In
response to criticism by racist former colleagues Abood </span><a href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/former-channel-4-executive-causes-185733207.html"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">observed</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Historically the spectre of anti-Semitism has been used to silence
debate and I see a lot of that on here.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">If
British Jews were treated even a hundredth as badly as Palestinians by Israel
then you would have good reason Stephen to complain of anti-Semitism. As it is
you should shut your mouth and keep it shut.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz1qzMJYLicgJ5yCdNq6_0epaPtPlWv4Xs0dbsdHmn6R2WenSCx18GF7YgpX34ngdVqxCh88dc9bPhJYMVoUSrNQvqjAVKQz8b4q8OdOCbCOPOwg06l0c3r-teIDOjuoUwh1Ae-XgCYbZ1L126dnzZ16ddyVunUjarCjQCKqRld8fG-uBTdJDn2Bl5zy6t/s956/Palestinian%20Christians%20fear%20being%20buried%20under%20the%20rubble.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="956" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz1qzMJYLicgJ5yCdNq6_0epaPtPlWv4Xs0dbsdHmn6R2WenSCx18GF7YgpX34ngdVqxCh88dc9bPhJYMVoUSrNQvqjAVKQz8b4q8OdOCbCOPOwg06l0c3r-teIDOjuoUwh1Ae-XgCYbZ1L126dnzZ16ddyVunUjarCjQCKqRld8fG-uBTdJDn2Bl5zy6t/w640-h638/Palestinian%20Christians%20fear%20being%20buried%20under%20the%20rubble.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Just
imagine that you were told that the British state only belonged to its
Christian citizens and that Jews were considered a fifth column. You would be
the first to complain. Yet your ‘alternative’ Xmas message had but one purpose
– to reinforce the false ‘anti-Semitism’ message that criticism of what Israel
does equals hatred of Jews. In making that claim it is you, not Israel’s
critics, who is anti-Semitic .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">xxxx
</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">A scene of what had occurred on October 7th.<br /><br />Our tanks attacked! <a href="https://t.co/CoZ3MR0fyl">pic.twitter.com/CoZ3MR0fyl</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) <a href="https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1741162787995296057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Stephen.
You were once considered a national treasure. Today you are a national
disgrace mouthing the same platitudes as Braverman whose concern over
‘anti-Semitism’ was in inverse proportion to her racism against everyone else. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Braverman’s
demonization of refugees crossing the Channel was a genuine example of racism.
Your invocation of anti-Semitism was fake and contrived. Your Xmas message a mixture
of maudlin, lachrymose sentiment totally at odds with the experience of Jews in
Britain today<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Tony
Greenstein<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-59324546697362623142023-12-25T04:37:00.005+00:002023-12-25T23:29:13.679+00:00Festive Greetings to My Readers but Spare a Thought for the People of Gaza Who Face a Bleak Xmas & New Year Because of Israeli & US War Criminals<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: red;">Thank you for the Solidarity you have Shown to Mick Napier and Myself as
Britain’s Police Try to Criminalise Palestinian Solidarity</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">If the Rotten & Corrupt Arab Regimes Followed the Example of the
Houthis in Yemen & Cut Off the Oil then Israel’s Genocide Would Be Stopped Instantly</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtSmvsXMp7AA9its2-5ZP-y0WfPAkpdfVSrBe8GR6h8fV8pjQel9ot-jpFCOkzgHdRtdWOzBASLYaKnj3TR3q1C2OMKwUv4e9MrzidUsgwmVdSl6dD2jn1ipacl6YUt8q1kwJ7PVFl9F0jaginnwcRJ4dbFOwqhBO0bpW2y5x1sGlyHh8lZbyXYEAPkHJV/s617/No%20freedom%20of%20speech.png" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="617" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtSmvsXMp7AA9its2-5ZP-y0WfPAkpdfVSrBe8GR6h8fV8pjQel9ot-jpFCOkzgHdRtdWOzBASLYaKnj3TR3q1C2OMKwUv4e9MrzidUsgwmVdSl6dD2jn1ipacl6YUt8q1kwJ7PVFl9F0jaginnwcRJ4dbFOwqhBO0bpW2y5x1sGlyHh8lZbyXYEAPkHJV/w640-h442/No%20freedom%20of%20speech.png" width="640" /></a></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/benjamin-zephaniah-too-black-too-strong"><span style="color: #38761d;">Christmas Has Been Shot</span></a></span></h3><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Benjamin Zephania</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div><b>
Christmas has been shot away this year,
<br />There are too many choppers chopping up the sky
<br />Too many bullets in the air for good tidings,
<br />There will be no Christ and no mass
<br />And darkness has fallen upon the land.
<br />No one shall make a joyful noise unto the Lord
<br />Or serve the Lord with gladness,
<br />No one shall come before his presence with singing,
<br />And Palestinian Christians who want to declare
<br />The name of the Lord in Jerusalem
<br />Or glorify the boy in Bethlehem
<br />Have been told to piss off to Jordan,
<br />Syria or Iraq.
<br />
<br />All the saints have been told
<br />To wait for the resumption of peace talks
<br />And the angels of the Lord have been told
<br />To wait until the Americans are ready
<br />Because Zion means something else now,
<br />And yes it was written that the truth shall flow
<br />From the mouths of babe and suckling,
<br />But babes and sucklings beware
<br />The soldiers have orders to kill,
<br />And the spirit of King Herod is alive.
<br />They’re not doing Christmas this year,
<br />It has been shot away
<br />‘And anyway
<br />Christ is no messiah,’ said the soldier
<br />‘This is our Promised Land.’
<br />
<br />What we see over Bethlehem this year
<br />Is a spineless, skeleton of a Christmas,
<br />A Christmas that has been occupied, strangled
<br />And driven to tears, crying tear gas and burning,
<br />It’s a Christmas that has no songs or sermons
<br />Except the song of the bomber;
<br />As loud as dying
<br />As quiet as death.
<br />Welcome to the birthplace of his holiness
<br />Welcome to the humiliation of the natives,
<br />Here even flowers are shot down
<br />If they fly the local flag,
<br />You will not hear the bells of Christmas
<br />And you will not hear the women sing.
<br />‘And let me tell you something else,’ said the soldier
<br />‘No virgin gave birth here – we wouldn’t allow it.’
<br />
<br />Sorry gentiles
<br />It looks like it’s gonna be a cold Christmas,
<br />Ain’t no spirit of the Lord moving over the manger
<br />Just a nuclear power
<br />Flying in from Tel Aviv via Washington DC.
<br />The power of the almighty has come for sure
<br />To suck Christmas dry
<br />And to blow Christmas away.
<br />There will be no mercy
<br />And no rejoicing
<br />And no worshipping any little Black Palestinian boy,
<br />And no crosses
<br />And no three wise women or men
<br />And no Arab shepherds,
<br />Because Christmas has been done in
<br />Christmas is coughing and choking
<br />Christmas has been hit by bullets from the west,
<br />So if you want to do Christmas this year
<br />Take a bible,
<br />Sit indoors,
<br />And do your own thing,
<br />Just don’t do it in Bethlehem. </b> </div></div></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">One thing
is for sure. Nothing will ever be the same after the October 7<sup>th</sup> break-out
from Gaza Concentration camp. ‘Normalisation’ by Saudi Arabia is off the
agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The venom
attached to the death of 1,200 (but probably lower) number of Israeli deaths is
in marked contrast to the indifference if not delight at the genocidal murder
of Palestinians in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Yesterday anti-Zionist Jewish activist Tony Greenstein was arrested at his home by British anti-terror police for a tweet (below).<br /><br />Police seized his phone and laptop and held him for nine hours. His electronics were not returned on his release. <a href="https://t.co/bpbDP20cfW">pic.twitter.com/bpbDP20cfW</a></span></p><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) <a href="https://twitter.com/kennardmatt/status/1737814157129343488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 21, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6JPDDdVLrvNKivLQbej1o7vOd3g3N854MQuZPQeoIA1DNinHGoNeXLKmlz87HjuiFYVMwVSyjeCeyLkc-NKbxhBtG6ZXMTWFB80c7Gf3h59mWHzm-wGSQh9CNvsqOZCZfrhbNUruOBjZWSX6ENht6vAe7ryHw1ds26bT-tl8z1siolEuqjSliT7IUGftl/s1166/Premature%20babies.jpg" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="1166" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6JPDDdVLrvNKivLQbej1o7vOd3g3N854MQuZPQeoIA1DNinHGoNeXLKmlz87HjuiFYVMwVSyjeCeyLkc-NKbxhBtG6ZXMTWFB80c7Gf3h59mWHzm-wGSQh9CNvsqOZCZfrhbNUruOBjZWSX6ENht6vAe7ryHw1ds26bT-tl8z1siolEuqjSliT7IUGftl/w640-h166/Premature%20babies.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">There has
been an adamant refusal by the mass media to publish the fact that one-third of
the casualties were Israeli soldiers whom it was perfectly reasonable for Hamas
to attack. International law recognises the right of an oppressed people to
wage war on their oppressor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rTQcjyhPOIk" width="320" youtube-src-id="rTQcjyhPOIk"></iframe></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Nor has
there been an inkling of recognition that, as Israeli survivors like Jasmine
Porat have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTQcjyhPOIk">testified</a>,
a majority of the remaining civilian deaths were caused by Israeli firepower.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSe4e6nV3tUHR1WbKyO4O8V717Apc-HXkIl109_p5HpycbA_sFOIQQGsaUGuMjxveMSAhahgXWYgcdoHoKaqKdTQEEqWEF-ssoZoihWXOOil25g29Iv0Nv65r1xYXPJWb083Is4bN_YHemo9xh84qVkfSHsqBoY0PhQ65ZQUAdBpSE1t5Sqx7qPJrIrFqk/s806/Cochav%20Elkayam-Levy.jpg" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="806" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSe4e6nV3tUHR1WbKyO4O8V717Apc-HXkIl109_p5HpycbA_sFOIQQGsaUGuMjxveMSAhahgXWYgcdoHoKaqKdTQEEqWEF-ssoZoihWXOOil25g29Iv0Nv65r1xYXPJWb083Is4bN_YHemo9xh84qVkfSHsqBoY0PhQ65ZQUAdBpSE1t5Sqx7qPJrIrFqk/w640-h396/Cochav%20Elkayam-Levy.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #783f04;">One of the main purveyors of false stories of rape is ex-IDF spokesperson Cochav Elkayam-Levy whom the BBC naturally took to their bosom</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Instead we
have had <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67629181">fake
stories of rape and torture</a> of Israelis and <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/13/watching-the-watchdogs-babies-and-truth-die-together-in-israel-palestine">40
beheaded babies</a> spread far and wide. The <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-alshifa-hospital-israel-hamas-b2445799.html">death
of premature babies in Al Shifa hospital</a>, directly caused by Israel, hasn’t
merited so much as a response. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEo0xSF2r0dpwH_xOQvSAn_o2PRxlqeLqVKAqzRIac1xqR6iRuuyAm0q5kGRBEJcim2c2YfZzR3uFpNxKtfELeu2_jcpMKaxWnDIWo00sGft0hB8_8EoshyphenhyphenT8qsUlcMU2cYLPUmhmLoTh1_vCvOP8OJsOsMDUKPbNB4KFNimz4bnoNYhyphenhyphenhSVp467W2DfVc/s1262/humane%20treatment%20of%20hostages.jpg" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="257" data-original-width="1262" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEo0xSF2r0dpwH_xOQvSAn_o2PRxlqeLqVKAqzRIac1xqR6iRuuyAm0q5kGRBEJcim2c2YfZzR3uFpNxKtfELeu2_jcpMKaxWnDIWo00sGft0hB8_8EoshyphenhyphenT8qsUlcMU2cYLPUmhmLoTh1_vCvOP8OJsOsMDUKPbNB4KFNimz4bnoNYhyphenhyphenhSVp467W2DfVc/w640-h130/humane%20treatment%20of%20hostages.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Israeli Anger Over the Truth of How Hamas Treats Its Prisoners Led to the Dismissal of the Hospital Employee Who Facilitated a Press Conference that Yochev Lifshitz Spoke At</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The fact is
that numerous <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231129-israel-angry-over-footage-depicting-hamass-treatment-of-released-israeli-hostages/">Israeli
hostages testified to their humane treatment</a> by Hamas in marked contrast to
the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/21/idf-executed-palestinian-men-in-front-of-their-families-un-confirms">reports</a>
of summary execution of civilians by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2T5ErJys0">Israel and widespread
torture of prisoners.<o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2T5ErJys0">As
Peter Oborne so rightly says</a></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">, if Jesus was alive today his days
would be numbered at the hands of the Zionist military. Gaza has
definitively proved that the ‘human
rights’ concerns of Western leaders when it comes to the Uighars of China and
women in Iran are utter hypocrisy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sW2T5ErJys0" width="320" youtube-src-id="sW2T5ErJys0"></iframe></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxWapUuDNq2quTsELBT3REcGqPwqTvCzFWbFhdSVx7-oqgK7oEqlL9OLDEbDy6taXqwc0QRNyqGfq-jyl70oYvHfo28WE7x4xo8UAYZ-acvPKARhZZzQYnN7LzZCEFfnXkHZejmrDNQ45URhiFxWAFFe7dZnmxYM6AY3Hw3JpRyxY8qybJ4508R_1shtj-/s778/Israeli%20army%20executions.jpg" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="778" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxWapUuDNq2quTsELBT3REcGqPwqTvCzFWbFhdSVx7-oqgK7oEqlL9OLDEbDy6taXqwc0QRNyqGfq-jyl70oYvHfo28WE7x4xo8UAYZ-acvPKARhZZzQYnN7LzZCEFfnXkHZejmrDNQ45URhiFxWAFFe7dZnmxYM6AY3Hw3JpRyxY8qybJ4508R_1shtj-/w640-h614/Israeli%20army%20executions.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Every
abomination from attacks on residential homes to the murder of over 100
journalists to mass torture, murder of doctors and the bombing of ambulances
and schools has been applauded by Genocide Joe Biden and his pet puppets Sunak
& Starmer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The
outpouring of rage over Russia’s sorely provoked invasion of Ukraine stands in
marked contrast to the silence of western leaders over the slaughter of 10,000+
Palestinian children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If there is
one conclusion that cannot be avoided now it is that the ‘Jewish’ State of Israel,
as an apartheid, genocidal state has got to go. Reform is impossible. Racism
and murder is part of Israel’s DNA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIE4VdukggWbsgxG7G-qZjhu9wsu99HHI_zu8mnjMoHjYpRPQLdhHFyMvRnSq1-IXe1QQVZqvm5Uazn2nGPWWhPOVZ0kUF45MIBhy-HiD-WFIEiyGM9ruJ7HFnsSiI3PHGoKxzO8TAR1g5ASrF_RHGHISQ9hcBjDZ1NJY5torTKirUOXGv0CGJOCd92Svu/s680/Genocide%20Joe.jpg" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="585" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIE4VdukggWbsgxG7G-qZjhu9wsu99HHI_zu8mnjMoHjYpRPQLdhHFyMvRnSq1-IXe1QQVZqvm5Uazn2nGPWWhPOVZ0kUF45MIBhy-HiD-WFIEiyGM9ruJ7HFnsSiI3PHGoKxzO8TAR1g5ASrF_RHGHISQ9hcBjDZ1NJY5torTKirUOXGv0CGJOCd92Svu/w550-h640/Genocide%20Joe.jpg" width="550" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This should
have been obvious all along. A Jewish ethno-nationalist state is, like all ethno-nationalist
states, inherently racist. Zionism with its goal of a Greater Israel was never
going to be content to stay within the 1948 Armistice Lines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">What is
also clear is that the different wings of Zionism, from ‘left’ to ‘right’ are
artificial. From Meretz to Otzmah Yehudit there is a consensus that the Arabs
are outsiders in Israel. Ben Gvir wants ‘radical’
solutions such as expulsion but that was also the recipe of the Labour Zionists
in 1948.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The
difference this time around is that the whole world is watching. After 1948 the
Zionists concocted a fiction that the Palestinian refugees left voluntarily
because of the orders of Arab rulers despite being begged to stay. This time
there can be no pretence as the United States and European powers turn a blind
eye to Zionist desires to rid Gaza of its population.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The war
against the Palestinians of Gaza has also brought into being a mass movement in
support of the Palestinians. Despite the best attempts of the state to repress
the movement and ban its marches, it has succeeded in mobilising over a million
people in Britain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR8BjirfBIACJgqnfTiAOPNY6TBywgshdO5OkMwrnKr97JSwMbSi6B9OR0fl04AmrJZraRl9Bf1j99zZUuUsSU7yhVvoKjsOQgZFupswpPs7IP67vTqB86e9Ee69MtJxIFSdPnfrqN_qeWvyWy-aeRM9PSBRj6fs3Lb3Gnh53O1AvvFFMLveokpy8pGrnE/s896/war%20crime.jpg" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="592" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR8BjirfBIACJgqnfTiAOPNY6TBywgshdO5OkMwrnKr97JSwMbSi6B9OR0fl04AmrJZraRl9Bf1j99zZUuUsSU7yhVvoKjsOQgZFupswpPs7IP67vTqB86e9Ee69MtJxIFSdPnfrqN_qeWvyWy-aeRM9PSBRj6fs3Lb3Gnh53O1AvvFFMLveokpy8pGrnE/w422-h640/war%20crime.jpg" width="422" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We have to
capitalise on this and ensure that the movement in support of the Palestinians
and in opposition to Zionism grows in the coming months. Just as the struggle
against Apartheid in South Africa 30 years ago created a mass movement so must
the struggle against Zionism in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">What is
also clear is that we must create a national solidarity movement. <a href="https://palestinecampaign.org/">Palestine Solidarity Campaign</a> is not
fit for purpose. It has jettisoned anti-Zionism and tried to appeal to the ‘mainstream’
of British politics. In that it has been wholly unsuccessful. Its refusal to
say what it stands for, its failure to condemn the discredited two-state
solution has mean that it has nothing to say on the ‘right to exist’ of the Israeli
state. PSC has also refused to condemn the Vichy-style Palestinian Authority
that the West supports.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">PSC’s
failure to call-out the fake anti-Semitism smear campaign has meant that its
affiliated trade unions have faced two-ways. Supporting the Palestinians whilst
also support Israel’s ‘right to exist.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">As you know
Mick Napier and I have been <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/anti-terror-arrests-uk-over-support-palestinian-resistance">arrested</a>
on ‘suspicion’ of supporting Hamas, which is proscribed as a ‘terrorist’ organisation
on the say so of one man, Home Secretary Sajid David in 2021. We have since
learnt of other arrests for the same ‘crime’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So I want
to make my position crystal clear. Although I don’t and never have supported
Hamas politically, I support their and all Palestinians’ right to resist the Israeli
military occupation and I hope that as many Israeli soldiers in Gaza are killed
as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Xi7oifj6yJgmZ0T8fNSgIdWGx44H1-Gp7ndQBjZwU7v8CJC0OQpbZRjOhp1LZtbUIkkiNQoLL5aO9WvG0B2X4A3Da5mY8HfJRpAwdUJT5nykzC_VAibF3hFjijPVKbjE3bmFL89vwYfLJTbhYrXdYoq2nsnZRLEx-vGFHdwlVzyP57xdfGpRTCbHU14i/s817/pope%20condemns%20Israel.jpg" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="817" height="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Xi7oifj6yJgmZ0T8fNSgIdWGx44H1-Gp7ndQBjZwU7v8CJC0OQpbZRjOhp1LZtbUIkkiNQoLL5aO9WvG0B2X4A3Da5mY8HfJRpAwdUJT5nykzC_VAibF3hFjijPVKbjE3bmFL89vwYfLJTbhYrXdYoq2nsnZRLEx-vGFHdwlVzyP57xdfGpRTCbHU14i/w640-h628/pope%20condemns%20Israel.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I also
reject the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations--2/proscribed-terrorist-groups-or-organisations-accessible-version">designation
of Hamas as a ‘terrorist’ group</a>. It is nothing of the sort. This
designation is political and is not based on anything so much as factual
evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Nazification
of Israel proceeds apace. Gaza today is little more than a death camp where 2
million people are being subject to slow starvation, where water is not allowed
in and where all civilian infrastructure is being destroyed on the presence
that it contains Hamas headquarters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSlBI3rYTXoMjxz9SfKaNLgxicwYFCm2UisvYfsmBhZTq8FOMMAVeuTOs7qEK6r6a7v_sE4JAkaHMGjK9Mic1ZbBvziXB1N2Z0Hen1O3I5LawxkS7U7rjOmI_LGceZqcmEEN1apAq1By6Y2hthQuI2ncj_uh-JRAIcnA8V1gmcxr5QAdS8k6cFVQwRO3sS/s790/israel%20kills%202%20christian%20women.jpg" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="790" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSlBI3rYTXoMjxz9SfKaNLgxicwYFCm2UisvYfsmBhZTq8FOMMAVeuTOs7qEK6r6a7v_sE4JAkaHMGjK9Mic1ZbBvziXB1N2Z0Hen1O3I5LawxkS7U7rjOmI_LGceZqcmEEN1apAq1By6Y2hthQuI2ncj_uh-JRAIcnA8V1gmcxr5QAdS8k6cFVQwRO3sS/w640-h606/israel%20kills%202%20christian%20women.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A few days
ago Israel even <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/17/israeli-forces-kill-two-christian-women-in-cold-blood-inside-gaza-church">invaded</a>
a Christian church killing two worshippers, meriting a <a href="https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2023/22-december/news/world/pope-condemns-assault-on-gaza-church-after-idf-snipers-kill-two-women">rare
rebuke</a> from the Pope. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Israel today
has learnt the lessons of the Holocaust well. Exterminating people is not wrong
per se as long as it’s not Jews who are dying. The level of racism in Israeli society
today is far, far higher than in Nazi Germany where anti-Semitism was always
confined to a minority, certainly before 1933. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Happy Yuletide
and New Year<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Tony Greenstein</span> </p>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-640441812647446166.post-31053053018708483412023-12-24T02:33:00.000+00:002023-12-24T02:33:10.706+00:00On Wednesday 7 am I was arrested by the Sussex Stasi for a Tweet in Support of the Palestinian Resistance to Genocide<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Orwell’s Prediction that Freedom of
Speech & Association Would Be Attacked by the State in the name of ‘Fighting
Terrorism’ is Coming True</span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijosWSK1MWyQlvDiHppCyyrWIjlD8CCAl5hUoQq1LqaRJSLGqvTPmVoWvfs1uA7sfLrJnxltbyAJqYWKAobvTROPpsgD4ZwB0rhhq5vG37ek6VF4Q-8yG9vTzjwmoWj9_XOU9SFybixBEph6n-xKjrEdK2o7J_aRAA0Rl7BTABUTklHi5YEs81hQ69KN6z/s1200/tony%20&%20mick.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijosWSK1MWyQlvDiHppCyyrWIjlD8CCAl5hUoQq1LqaRJSLGqvTPmVoWvfs1uA7sfLrJnxltbyAJqYWKAobvTROPpsgD4ZwB0rhhq5vG37ek6VF4Q-8yG9vTzjwmoWj9_XOU9SFybixBEph6n-xKjrEdK2o7J_aRAA0Rl7BTABUTklHi5YEs81hQ69KN6z/w640-h360/tony%20&%20mick.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I had only just
gone to bed, having finished a blog criticising Unite’s racist General
Secretary Sharon Graham when I heard my front door bell ringing. Curious as to
who was calling this early in the morning I hurriedly dressed and answered the
door only to find the filth had decided on an early morning raid.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmjJOfvJjdqcAaB3gbnU3KYCs0wLZBNoiqI3i_ephkiTN173oTa0U-rq6kjsKLfeJrcUzq4HG44fD59Znu3aUiC1bAf_m7HiNu0WpRFvYdyLGAo34wtaRDw1Kdy9DiicMtyjeXb-Aq12XnHTMg8lzpACtYY0e2-H4TpKAHrIZbwirRii-XHeOzEgKIASf/s561/Areopagitica_bridwell.jpg" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="399" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmjJOfvJjdqcAaB3gbnU3KYCs0wLZBNoiqI3i_ephkiTN173oTa0U-rq6kjsKLfeJrcUzq4HG44fD59Znu3aUiC1bAf_m7HiNu0WpRFvYdyLGAo34wtaRDw1Kdy9DiicMtyjeXb-Aq12XnHTMg8lzpACtYY0e2-H4TpKAHrIZbwirRii-XHeOzEgKIASf/w456-h640/Areopagitica_bridwell.jpg" width="456" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Areopagitica </i>is Milton's famous essay </span><span style="font-family: CeraPro; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">that passionately defends freedom of speech and expression - perhaps Sunak and Starmer might care to read it?</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A plain clothes
cop dressed in an ill-fitting, crumpled grey suit announced that they had come
to </span><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2023/12/20/exclusive-greenstein-arrested-by-anti-terror-cops-for-one-tweet/"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">arrest me</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> on ‘suspicion’ of having committed an offence under
</span><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/section/12"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">s.12 (1A) of the Terrorism Act 2000</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">At the behest of the Zionists & apologists for Genocide Sussex Police Arrested Tony Greenstein on suspicions of 'terrorism</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I support the Palestinians that is enough and I support Hamas against the Israeli army <a href="https://t.co/ICv99vWQAW">https://t.co/ICv99vWQAW</a></p>— Tony Greenstein (@TonyGreenstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyGreenstein/status/1724633665810898969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</b></div><div><b style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">My offence was
having </span><a href="https://twitter.com/TonyGreenstein/status/1724633665810898969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1724633665810898969%7Ctwgr%5Ec5483073246973c91a7a3b2153d1d00a2773b9b0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fblogs%2Fas"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">tweeted</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, in response to a Zionist, that: <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘I support the Palestinians that is enough
and I support Hamas against the Israeli army <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">After having
detained me in a police van the Police then proceeded to steal my laptop,
desktop computer, two external hard drives and two mobile devices. Why you
might ask did they need to remove all my electronic equipment?<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE8c4CTUN_TXkqsix61Y-Ro61cosiHRWzxnEIWIcBicbfkK8NEROWH09yZaW8rLPFSaCxTuNdj-6tskVcJyGfvHUk_KQ8HkWLrvaVvUe78aduupPW7Zp2b1ZeCNMsjjQ52jFAtqBRsWYQIpGgbGpZpQtLazTn8tyktp-e1MjC0oRNx20TtuYvlMc5ATWmK/s402/Death%20of%20Tyndale.webp" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="402" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE8c4CTUN_TXkqsix61Y-Ro61cosiHRWzxnEIWIcBicbfkK8NEROWH09yZaW8rLPFSaCxTuNdj-6tskVcJyGfvHUk_KQ8HkWLrvaVvUe78aduupPW7Zp2b1ZeCNMsjjQ52jFAtqBRsWYQIpGgbGpZpQtLazTn8tyktp-e1MjC0oRNx20TtuYvlMc5ATWmK/w640-h480/Death%20of%20Tyndale.webp" width="640" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">William Tyndale was another martyr in the cause of free speech - he was <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">executed by strangulation and then burned at the stake at Vilvoorde in 1536</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If they were so confident
of the flimsy case against me what need was there for my computers and phones?
After all I wasn’t being arrested for having engaged in terrorism or planting
bombs etc. My ‘crime’ was that I was alleged to have given my support to a
proscribed organisation, Hamas. An allegation that I deny incidentally.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNflt7YjlfXVt5r0bAtMl7o9YWNxnkhFLnoIteD3A6eHssgyUuntlh8l3LR1SAhoe4OzWTYkkvfsRH3sBQsVRHJl-3e_0u4Rdp_V8vp4lNeMcYyuECxeiygfLS_uiQvGCwAqVFbT2yU9xARXV3HoCEy1dLtGEM7GtvfBOuY432UIZO-PfbzcWY4hCQ7-_d/s487/John%20Lilburne.webp" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNflt7YjlfXVt5r0bAtMl7o9YWNxnkhFLnoIteD3A6eHssgyUuntlh8l3LR1SAhoe4OzWTYkkvfsRH3sBQsVRHJl-3e_0u4Rdp_V8vp4lNeMcYyuECxeiygfLS_uiQvGCwAqVFbT2yU9xARXV3HoCEy1dLtGEM7GtvfBOuY432UIZO-PfbzcWY4hCQ7-_d/s320/John%20Lilburne.webp" width="263" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">John Lilburne, leader of the Levellers, imprisoned by Cromwell. The Levellers <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Leveler-English-history">appealed </a>to reason against arguments drawn from precedent or biblical authority </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The real reason
for the Police thefts is that they are engaged on a fishing expedition and are
using a solitary tweet as an excuse for an intelligence gathering exercise.
There is nothing on my computers that will enable them to press further charges
that they can’t obtain from the 3,000+ blogs that I have done in 15 years.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What is on my
computers is confidential medical information on my autistic son and myself. As
well as phone numbers/contacts of people on the left and in the Palestine
solidarity movement. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc1KF7y5nxP0s4v5V9e4UUZ_ju4jQ2GV1AGWEij7yV5KFP3nj7zEoyhs00K401Hl1bHWDsuOHjKq7_vZfwp68-3Y1yFrmEbUu8p5DRBLOEMM86caudQAeee_mZhjgQ66TIpEEjhjqJm_SrMCbIulKYO3aFkcp14lP2x-kfSk-OCRBIkYznFfg3Hu7MRar4/s1170/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum_1.jpg" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc1KF7y5nxP0s4v5V9e4UUZ_ju4jQ2GV1AGWEij7yV5KFP3nj7zEoyhs00K401Hl1bHWDsuOHjKq7_vZfwp68-3Y1yFrmEbUu8p5DRBLOEMM86caudQAeee_mZhjgQ66TIpEEjhjqJm_SrMCbIulKYO3aFkcp14lP2x-kfSk-OCRBIkYznFfg3Hu7MRar4/s320/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum_1.jpg" width="205" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: times;">The <span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum">Index Librorum Prohibitorum</a></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">, (Index of Forbidden Books) was first published in 1559. Publication continued till 1966 and it contained thousands of heretical books</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is not the
action of a police force in a democratic state. They are sending out a warning
that they are perfectly prepared to abuse the enormous powers that this Government
has given them and which Starmer, the leader of the so-called Opposition would
give them, in order to gather intelligence on their enemies on the Left and in
the Palestine solidarity movement. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgESfWKhtn9Sced9Oa1zznwR47ig5gChsCcVok050xNhIymZJRrH_S1uMg9SmohzWmpQPae7is5FUt4EtBmbqd6lwel09Chp2FT_M-GSSj4HmHlmd8dq_K21zNcV5fzoxLUUrKzTIp-Mi40pCkRiU_SlRctGX4OMo7_B2JQb4jFd2FX249MplkQth2pyNsl/s750/Tony-Greenstein-outside-Wolverhampton-Crown-Court.jpg" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="750" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgESfWKhtn9Sced9Oa1zznwR47ig5gChsCcVok050xNhIymZJRrH_S1uMg9SmohzWmpQPae7is5FUt4EtBmbqd6lwel09Chp2FT_M-GSSj4HmHlmd8dq_K21zNcV5fzoxLUUrKzTIp-Mi40pCkRiU_SlRctGX4OMo7_B2JQb4jFd2FX249MplkQth2pyNsl/w400-h286/Tony-Greenstein-outside-Wolverhampton-Crown-Court.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Those who are
deemed to be the leadership of the radical section of the Palestine solidarity movement
are particularly at risk. It is no accident that at almost the same time my
comrade and friend Mick Napier, founder of Scottish PSC, was also arrested on
very similar charges and given even more stringent conditions for his bail.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But they are
wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The movement has far outgrown
Mick and myself. It is led by thousands of people who are appalled by Israel’s
genocide in Gaza and the complicity of the West’s leaders, not least Sunak and
Starmer.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtZw4jGu2-fOr9tNn5ocQu12grszqwCNMi4WRQWYTCggTEC6scrEspWyzdMynT7aM8MiCM5J0A_N3h9-9zN47CEBiQ9ON3NqJBr9UxMRwD6zaVVhaCL9hFNo7VzPePUf_bC-dvxdZS2WkFFOtCz_Isrrgl4YdHnDvwhGmsGyzqrFvVArZQbFOWnSmhEEPc/s424/Mary%20Wollstonecraft.webp" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtZw4jGu2-fOr9tNn5ocQu12grszqwCNMi4WRQWYTCggTEC6scrEspWyzdMynT7aM8MiCM5J0A_N3h9-9zN47CEBiQ9ON3NqJBr9UxMRwD6zaVVhaCL9hFNo7VzPePUf_bC-dvxdZS2WkFFOtCz_Isrrgl4YdHnDvwhGmsGyzqrFvVArZQbFOWnSmhEEPc/s320/Mary%20Wollstonecraft.webp" width="264" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"><a class="md-crosslink" data-show-preview="true" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/A-Vindication-of-the-Rights-of-Woman" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</a></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"> was the counterpart to Thomas Paine's 'Rights of Man' - a supporter of the French Revolution</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></b></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt;">The Legal Basis for the Stasis’s Early Morning Raid<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The whole basis
of the early morning raid on my home is fraudulent. The <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/contents">Terrorism Act 2000</a>
was enacted in order to prevent acts of terrorism such as the bombing of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Arena_bombing">Manchester Ar</a>ena,
for which we <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/02/manchester-arena-attack-families-accuse-mi5-of-devastating-failure">have
to thank MI5</a> who employed the bomber as its agent. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjALY75qrPv80rIdwiPL_AUsSKvLUEntPiRViVdOM0paCPPQ8qZT8cMbKVvjQJ9mlABCauWBnYLDHamI-v5RMEM1dhbpjDMZbAbmpyEEZswqaiqHNzmHFD10K1u06WSLUsVhLpUoL2_laPWMhRsiCe_1sgkarP7Awn4fWK3TPhRAwitFnaey6d-6tVHxr0c/s1067/Orwell%20at%20BBC.jpg" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjALY75qrPv80rIdwiPL_AUsSKvLUEntPiRViVdOM0paCPPQ8qZT8cMbKVvjQJ9mlABCauWBnYLDHamI-v5RMEM1dhbpjDMZbAbmpyEEZswqaiqHNzmHFD10K1u06WSLUsVhLpUoL2_laPWMhRsiCe_1sgkarP7Awn4fWK3TPhRAwitFnaey6d-6tVHxr0c/w480-h640/Orwell%20at%20BBC.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">George Orwell</span></b></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It is now being
used, along with Prevent, not to prevent terrorism but to label political
opposition to the foreign policy of the British Government as ‘terrorism’. As
Orwell wrote so perceptively:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">political speech and writing are largely the
defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in
India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan,
can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most
people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political
parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism,
question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenceless villages are bombarded
from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle
machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called <em>pacification</em>.
Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the
roads with no more than they can carry: this is called <em>transfer of
population</em> or <em>rectification of frontiers</em>. People are imprisoned
for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of
scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called <em>elimination of unreliable
elements</em>. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without
calling up mental pictures of them.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7oFK0r4xw5xMExjC_H0nXvZMhKgwl2bohXdw8B4j3UthNDDL1-xOvRX76XgpA4j3WHQ9zWieAo_Q7Gjaj3f8vogK9yzFJbmkbsxD_XVBQpo2f0rqGRXy0uxFvVlrwStUG8SLhoFYzu3FZkrE2Lqj1V8SsR4FGOpeUTmC_QuPc8Rw9yVb-VQ1lH3zzHIq_/s547/Peterloo%20Massacre.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="547" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7oFK0r4xw5xMExjC_H0nXvZMhKgwl2bohXdw8B4j3UthNDDL1-xOvRX76XgpA4j3WHQ9zWieAo_Q7Gjaj3f8vogK9yzFJbmkbsxD_XVBQpo2f0rqGRXy0uxFvVlrwStUG8SLhoFYzu3FZkrE2Lqj1V8SsR4FGOpeUTmC_QuPc8Rw9yVb-VQ1lH3zzHIq_/s320/Peterloo%20Massacre.webp" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #073763; font-size: medium;">Peterloo Massacre of demonstrators in Manchester by the army - the local magistrates had summoned in the yeomanry to prevent a mass meeting</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Clause 1A of
Section 12 of the Terrorism Act was inserted in April 2019 by the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/3/contents">Counter-Terrorism
and Border Security Act 2019</a>. It is the kind of provision that Generals
Franco and Pinochet would have been proud of. What it does is criminalise the
expression of opinion. It creates what Orwell would have called a ‘thought
crime’. It reads:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A person commits an offence if the person—<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 2.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 2cm; text-indent: -1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(a)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>expresses an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed
organisation, and<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 2.0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 2cm; text-indent: -1cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(b)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>in doing so is reckless as to whether a person to whom the
expression is directed will be encouraged to support a proscribed organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Note the weasel
wording. The first part doesn’t say you support a proscribed organisation. What
you say merely has to be ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">supportive’ </i>of
such an organisation. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRB3-CtHuRwvxD5Cek8wCbqf67FcC0u-SsLheJpJhyAoCywp9lj5IQoO65Dp_HBfq2kSw28zbyATyZ1i2G6VLRg1B319d1-3HuZk371ukdp36wI184yqXv4qTibC1d0ZPznB3LDlDu0rwZ23x-S4GunSQibDws-o32UhQvr_wYQpqSW-6Oa_Pb4JR_iBbC/s485/William%20Tyndale.webp" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRB3-CtHuRwvxD5Cek8wCbqf67FcC0u-SsLheJpJhyAoCywp9lj5IQoO65Dp_HBfq2kSw28zbyATyZ1i2G6VLRg1B319d1-3HuZk371ukdp36wI184yqXv4qTibC1d0ZPznB3LDlDu0rwZ23x-S4GunSQibDws-o32UhQvr_wYQpqSW-6Oa_Pb4JR_iBbC/w528-h640/William%20Tyndale.webp" width="528" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b>William Tyndale</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The second part
of this clause is even more slippery. You don’t have to have an intent to
encourage others to support a proscribed organisation. You merely have to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘reckless’ </i>as to whether or not someone
will be encouraged to give their support. <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And how can you
just whether someone is reckless? It is entirely subjective and its only effect
can be to intimidate people into silence for fear of saying the wrong thing. It
is a dictator’s dream.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The list of
proscribed groups can be found </span><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations--2/proscribed-terrorist-groups-or-organisations-accessible-version"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. A group can be proscribed under </span><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/section/3"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">section 3</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> of the Act on the basis of a decision by one person
– the Home Secretary. There is no requirement that the decision be objectively
justified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a nakedly political
decision.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What is the
justification for proscribing Hamas? There are 3 paragraphs. The first gives a
potted history of Hamas. Prior to 2021 only the military wing of Hamas was
proscribed but under Israeli pressure the government agreed to proscribe its political
wing too. <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is justified by saying that <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
government now assess that the approach of distinguishing between the various
parts of Hamas is artificial. Hamas is a complex but single terrorist
organisation</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We are not told what has changed
between 2001 and 2021 which justified this decision for the simple reason that nothing
had changed. The decision was political not factual. It follows that any
prosecution under this section must also be political.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The second<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>paragraph attempts to justify Sajid<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Javid’s decision in 2021 to proscribe Hamas’s
political wing saying:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hamas commits and participates in terrorism. Hamas has used
indiscriminate rocket or mortar attacks, and raids against Israeli targets.
During the May 2021 conflict, over 4,000 rockets were fired indiscriminately
into Israel. Civilians, including 2 Israeli children, were killed as a result.
Palestinian militant groups, including Hamas, frequently use incendiary
balloons to launch attacks from Gaza into southern Israel. There was a spate of
incendiary balloon attacks from Gaza during June and July 2021, causing fires
in communities in southern Israel that resulted in serious damage to property.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is a truly
pathetic justification. It was Israel which broke the ceasefire in May 2021 as
it has done on all previous occasions. There is no mention of Israel dropping
2000 lb bombs on peoples’ homes killing scores of children. Even prior to the
current genocide some 551 children were killed in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.amnesty.org.uk/gaza-operation-protective-edge">Operation
Protective Edge</a> </i>in 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">According to
this definition Israel is a terrorist state but Israel has not been proscribed.
Quite the contrary. The British government is not only supplying it with
weapons but it has members of the armed forces operating in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The dishonesty is
obvious. The number of children killed by Israel is greater than those killed
by Hamas by a factor of thousands. Over 8,000 children have been murdered so
far in </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/daily-briefing-oct-9-day-3-of-operation-swords-of-iron-ongoing-hamas-infiltration/"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Operation Iron Swords</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. The case for designating Israel as a
terrorist entity is overwhelming. As Lord Carrington, Thatcher’s Foreign
Secretary once observed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘one man’s
freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.’</i><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The arrest of
not just me, but <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231221-scottish-activist-arrested-for-involvement-in-pro-palestine-protests/">Mick
Napier</a> of Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-67410037">Haneen Barghouti</a>
– a Palestinian student at Sussex University – and others that I am aware of,
is strongly suggestive of the fact that the State, knowing that Israel’s
genocidal war on the Palestinians is very unpopular, has decided to brand
critics of the war and in particular supporters of the right of Palestinians to
resist, as supporters of ‘terrorism’.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The right of an
oppressed people under occupation to resist the occupation and engage in wars
of national liberation is a right <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/7/20/palestinians-have-a-legal-right-to-armed-struggle">recognised
under international law</a>, specifically in the <a href="https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%201125/volume-1125-i-17512-english.pdf">Additional
Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, as a protected and
essential right of occupied people everywhere</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Terrorism
Act 2000, if it had been in operation at the time, could just as easily have
been used to proscribe the French and Czech resistance to the Nazis. It would
certainly have been used to proscribe the African National Congress in South
Africa which was classified by the United States as a terrorist organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In August 1988
the ANC was classed by the State Department as a terrorist organisation and until
2008 both the ANC and Nelson Mandela <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-government-considered-nelson-mandela-terrorist-until-2008-flna2d11708787">remained</a>
on the US terrorism watch lists.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That is why the
proscription of Hamas is entirely political. It has no objective basis. What I
and the others are being arrested and charged for is not support for terrorism
but support for the right of the oppressed to resist their oppressors. The law
under which people are being charged is both political and dishonest.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwqE-Yr1ex11hgtjMrYA_B1xh-YBauTbRZnaElVh09KuLotgD5EXHmrmvYo4txmWQkKNYMBOFUi_QPsRfHWe_3VrghMXzp1VmE8XC8gQ8aT_AWEOVtS7PQ0ejHMUmeaKPgH3JWq4jLDTWEXphesG8DcHK2L7otFp83hUpStePTNaGNM3eZcJ5OWCC3TqA7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1107" data-original-width="2149" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwqE-Yr1ex11hgtjMrYA_B1xh-YBauTbRZnaElVh09KuLotgD5EXHmrmvYo4txmWQkKNYMBOFUi_QPsRfHWe_3VrghMXzp1VmE8XC8gQ8aT_AWEOVtS7PQ0ejHMUmeaKPgH3JWq4jLDTWEXphesG8DcHK2L7otFp83hUpStePTNaGNM3eZcJ5OWCC3TqA7=w640-h330" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It is
indisputable that the arrest and charging of activists is about freedom of
speech on Palestine. It is an attempt to prevent us speaking out about genocide.
This is made clear in the third of my bail conditions where it says that I am:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Not to post on X (formerly Twitter) in
regards to the ongoing conflict in Gaza or the prescribed (sic) organisation
Hamas<o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQqgZNndNCi5N_FdZxPVF-U5ihm_TohtN0wTWqEnwcwhyS89x-C7n-8REnOFSEAgj8kx3amf7GAjEiYZEv1DRZa7UtEYvpTE4v8Azh6VqsDO9Lpj8FJihk9HK06Eguf6JMFHJA1lY6uOUkR2NrYZCIJaxJHzWqPDrbnCIcXNyRCAT0Eo0f2g30zS93f1vO/s1280/Eleanor_Roosevelt_UDHR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1015" data-original-width="1280" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQqgZNndNCi5N_FdZxPVF-U5ihm_TohtN0wTWqEnwcwhyS89x-C7n-8REnOFSEAgj8kx3amf7GAjEiYZEv1DRZa7UtEYvpTE4v8Azh6VqsDO9Lpj8FJihk9HK06Eguf6JMFHJA1lY6uOUkR2NrYZCIJaxJHzWqPDrbnCIcXNyRCAT0Eo0f2g30zS93f1vO/w640-h508/Eleanor_Roosevelt_UDHR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;">Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - which Western Governments are Busy Ignoring or even seeking to Abolish</span></b></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is a
clearly unlawful attempt to prevent me speaking out on Gaza’s ongoing genocide.
</span><a href="https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/convention_ENG"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Article 10.1</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> of the European Convention of Human Rights states:<a name="a"></a><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 36pt;"><span class="hgkelc"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt;">Everyone has the right to freedom of expression</span></span><span class="hgkelc"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. This right shall include
freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas
without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Although there
are restrictions in 10.2 they do not cover the expression of pure political
opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You might think
that Britain’s <a href="https://palestinecampaign.org/">Palestine Solidarity
Campaign</a> would be the first to protest at this misuse of the Terrorism Act.
Unfortunately the cowardice of PSC’s leadership of PSC is infinite.</span></h1><div><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Lost track of how many times Scottish pro-Palestine activist Mick Napier has been arrested over the years, only for charges to be dropped before trial or thrown out by a judge. He was in court again today for alleged activities during protests against Israel's war crimes in Gaza. <a href="https://t.co/efEAJt4ovR">pic.twitter.com/efEAJt4ovR</a></p>— Hassan Ghani (@hassan_ghani) <a href="https://twitter.com/hassan_ghani/status/1737140810909429856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div>
<h1 style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Electronic
Intifada’s Asa Winstanley </span><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/anti-terror-arrests-uk-over-support-palestinian-resistance"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">reports</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> that when:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Asked about both Napier and Greenstein, the Palestine Solidarity
Campaign headquartered in London – a separate organization from the Scottish
PSC – declined to comment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“No one is available to
comment,”</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> a
spokesperson said on Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Socialist Action leaders of PSC have made political cowardice
into a fine art.<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This video from Saturday Dec 16th shows the moment he was grabbed by police in Glasgow city centre as a Palestine protest dispersed. <a href="https://t.co/GZJTRRO2J9">pic.twitter.com/GZJTRRO2J9</a></span></p><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">— Hassan Ghani (@hassan_ghani) <a href="https://twitter.com/hassan_ghani/status/1737140959618506931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2023</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Do I
Support Hamas?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I should make it clear that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">politically</b> I don’t and never have supported Hamas as an Islamist
organisation (see </span><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2011/02/lousy-hamas-government.html"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> and </span><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2011/02/egyptian-counter-revolution-has-begun.html"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">). However
I also recognise that it is a Palestinian resistance organisation and as such
it is entitled, indeed duty bound, to defend Palestinians against the ethnic
cleansing and genocidal actions of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Israeli state. Ironically Hamas owes its </span><a href="https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2014/08/hamas-when-israel-netanyahu-did-their.html"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">creation</span></a><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> to the
actions of the Israeli state which in the late 1980s saw Hamas as a way of
undermining secular Palestinian nationalism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Like the United States sponsorship of the Taliban and Mojahedeen
in Afghanistan the Zionist outcry against Hamas is completely hypocritical.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Please
donate to our Crowdfunder<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Unfortunately this attack on Palestine solidarity activists
is also financially expensive. For example, although I was legally aided at the
Police Station, once on bail I am not eligible for legal aid until charged but
I need to retain a solicitor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Other people who have been arrested are, for different
reasons, ineligible for legal aid. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I have set up a <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/PalActionSupport">Crowdfunder</a>
with Just Giving specifically to support people who are arrested under the
Terrorism Act 2000 in connection with Palestine solidarity. Please give
generously whatever you can afford.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Tony Greenstein<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><span style="color: red;">See</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2023/12/22/exclusive-police-try-to-gag-greenstein-invade-privacy-through-bail-conditions/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Exclusive: police try to gag
Greenstein, invade privacy through bail conditions</span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2023/12/20/exclusive-greenstein-arrested-by-anti-terror-cops-for-one-tweet/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt;">Exclusive: Greenstein
arrested by anti-terror cops – for one tweet</span></a></h1>Tony Greensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300640929161205370noreply@blogger.com15