Israel’s assassinations are based
on the idea that Palestinians would happily accept their dispossession but for a
few evil men
PÁDRAIG PEARSE’s Famous Funeral Oration for O’Donovan Rossa in August 1915)
“A minute of living with dignity and pride is better than a thousand years of a miserable life under the boots of the occupation.” - Yahya Sinwar from his novel, The Thorn and the Carnation
The
Zionists and their imperialist backers are celebrating the murder of Yahya
Sinwar just as they celebrated the murder
of Hassan Nasrallah and Ismail
Haniyeh. However the death of Nasrallah hasn’t stopped the Lebanese
Resistance inflicting heavy casualties on Israel’s ground invasion and the same
will be true in Gaza.
It
will not take long before more Palestinian and Lebanese resistance leaders
emerge that Israel will seek to assassinate. What cannot be assassinated is the
will of the Palestinians and Lebanese to resist Zionism, Israel’s war machine, ethnic
cleansing and dispossession.
It
was the same with the British occupation of Ireland. The blood of its martyrs
simply fertilised the soil of resistance. When the British defeated
the Easter Rising they took a bloody revenge executing
15 of their leaders.
More than
3,000 people suspected of supporting the uprising, directly or indirectly, were
arrested, and some 1,800 were sent to England and imprisoned there without
trial. The rushed executions,
mass arrests and martial law (which remained in effect through the autumn of
1916), fuelled public resentment toward the British and were among the factors
that helped build support for Irish independence.
The media doesn’t want you to see this Yahya Sinwar interview.
In the
1918 general election to Britain’s parliament, Sinn Fein won a majority of the
Irish seats.
Zionism and
Unionism were bedfellows. Ireland was partitioned in
1921 and the Palestine Mandate began in 1920
although legally the League of Nations only granted it in 1922. As Ronald
Storrs, the first Military Governor of Jerusalem said:
‘A Jewish State will be for England a little, loyal Ulster in a sea of
potentially hostile Arabism.’
James Connolly, the Irish socialist and trade unionist whom the British murdered
Zionism has proved somewhat more sturdy than its
Unionist sister owing to Israel’s political and strategic importance but just
as Ulster was established as a ‘Protestant
State for a Protestant People’ so Israel was created as a Jewish Supremacist
State, something embodied in the Jewish
Nation State Law.
The Zionists like all imperialist monsters will
celebrate the death of Yahya Sinwar who died a hero’s death. In his last
action, though his arm had been severed, he tossed a stick in defiance at the
drone which had entered the window of the building he was in.
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Reasons People HATE Keir Starmer
The Zionists, like all stupid imperialists, believe
that executions and assassinations will destroy the will of the peoples that
they have occupied and oppressed for so long.
Both Biden and Starmer welcomed
the death of Sinwar as they had Nasrallah’s murder. Starmer, in a particularly
disgusting passage, even for this slavish poodle of US imperialism, told
the assembled journalists that no-one should mourn the death of Sinwar.
Of one thing we can be sure - no one bar his cat will be mourning Starmer's passing
I suspect that Palestinians will treat Starmer’s
remarks with the same contempt
that most British people hold
him in. One thing is for sure and that is that Starmer’s passing will not
produce any grief comparable to that of Sinwar and Nasrallah.
Alexei Sayle: 'I hate Keir Starmer'
It
is noticeable that neither Starmer nor Biden could bring themselves to condemn
Israel’s bombing of the tent encampments surrounding Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza
and the burning
alive of men, women and children. That is real terrorism. State terrorism
but no words of condemnation emerged from either Genocide Joe or ‘Starver’
Starmer’s lips.
The
reality is that all the condemnations of Sinwar and Nasrallah as ‘terrorists’
are the dishonest verbiage of corrupt and dishonest imperialist politicians who
wouldn’t know what a principle was if it bit them on the backside.
Israel
has made clear its intentions to establish
settlements in Gaza, in total defiance of international law. The International
Court of Justice has recently declared
Israel’s occupation of both the West Bank and Gaza illegal.
Roger Casement - executed at Pentonville for High Treason even though, as an Irish patriot he owed the British Crown no loyalty
The
welcome of the corrupt neo-liberal leaders of Britain, the United States and Germany
for Israel’s murder campaign against the Palestinians and their leaders is a
demonstration that when it comes to it, might is all that is important. The
right of any occupied nation to resist their oppressors is disregarded.
The Zionist reaction to Sinwar's death demonstrates both their physical and political blindness - Sinwar was sitting on the chair not hiding behind it
Those
who regard Nasrallah and Sinwar as ‘terrorists’ are following in the footsteps
of the Nazis who likewise regarded the leaders
of the Polish, French and Yugoslav Resistance. It is always the same. Those who
conquer other peoples’ countries brand any opposition as ‘terrorism’.
Fry's Message Was an Embrace of the British Establishment’s Support
for Genocide in Gaza under the Pretext of Opposition to Antisemitism
Stephen Fry’s Xmas Message on Behalf of the British Establishment
Dear
Stephen,
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 boasts
is a state, not for all its citizens but only those who are Jewish.
When
I refer to sadism I mean things like Israel’s removal
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.
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.
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.
Alexei Sayle’s Xmas Message
There
has been a trend in recent years for elderly Jewish comedians to bloviate
without going through any artistic process on various topics....
Now
the other elderly Jewish comedians follow the line that entirely plays into the
establishment ruling class narrative. They are an alternative to nothing. ..
One
of the elderly Jewish comedians has urged us to stand with the Jewish people.
Well fair enough.
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. ...
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 ‘instead of looking to Israel to make Jews
safe, we look instead to solidarity, freedom, justice and equality for
Palestinians and Jews everywhere’...
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.They lie and they lie and they
lie.... So let’s keep Palestine in our hearts and minds this Xmas.
As
Caitline Johnson writesconcerning
the ‘anti-Semitism’ smear against those who oppose Israeli war crimes:
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.
Your
‘new’ anti-Semitism has nothing to do with traditional anti-Semitism. Its sole
concern is about defending Israel – right or wrong.
Anti-Semitism
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 IHRA
misdefinition of anti-Semitism, a definition which
anti-Semites like Victor Orban of Hungary supports.
1.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....
5.The battle
against anti-Semitism is vital and is undermined whenever opposition to Israeli
government policies is automatically branded as anti-Semitic.
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.
Stephen Fry gets it half right.
Antisemitism is intolerable on any grounds.
What is also intolerable is weaponising antisemitism to cover for crimes of genocide by Israel against Palestinians.
Criticism of Israeli crimes is necessary for peace.
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.
We will celebrate when Arab
and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.
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 neo-Nazi
Tommy Robinson, ex-member of the holocaust
denying BNP wanted
to join the Zionist march against anti-Semitismrecently? He says
he is a Zionist. I think we can believe that.
Zionism’s
Anti-Semitic Supporters
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 ardentZionist.
Or
neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, founder of the alt-Right, who organised
the ‘Jews Will Not Replace Us’ march
at Charlottesville. That hasn’t stopped him claiming that he is a White
Zionist.
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, sees
Israel as the last defence of civilisation?
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.
South Africa’s crime? Filing
a claim 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.
The Blood Libel was the
false accusation made against the Jews of Medieval Europe that they baked
matzot, unleavened bread, with the blood of Christian children.
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.
Stephen
Fry’s Failure to Understand Anti-Semitism
Despite saying that you consider yourself Jewish you clearly weren’t brought up as one.I noticed in your Xmas Monologue that you
said that as a child you were almost unbearably fascinated by Xmas trivia.
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.
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!
It seems that Fry's Zionism has gone hand in hand with toleration of child abuse
You began your Xmas message by recalling how
you grew up as gay and saw a ‘long and
lonely’ life ‘exclusion, exile and
disgrace’ ahead because of the homophobia of the time.
Yet, as you observe, during your ‘short lifetime’ society has ‘moved towards an understanding and
acceptance’ 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.
You begin your rant by asserting that
anti-Semitism is a ‘light sleeper’ and you go on to say that it has now ‘woken up’. 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.
In the 1930s there was a large anti-Semitic fascist
party, the British
Union of Fascists, led by a member of the aristocracy Sir Oswald
Moseley, which was supported by many other members of that class.
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.
This became known as the Battle of Cable Street. However your friends in the Board of
Deputies and the Jewish Chronicle, were strongly opposed 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.
Your Support for Israel’s Genocide
You refer in your tirade to ‘the horrendous events’ of October 7,
and ‘the Israeli response.’ 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, killed
by the Israeli military when tanks fired shells at kibbutz houses in order
to prevent anyone being taken prisoner and swapped for Palestinian prisoners in
Israel.
Whilst you condemn the events of October 7 as ‘horrendous’ 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.
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%.
If this is true, then it is clear that
strenuous efforts must be made not to associate British Jews with what
Israel does. The advent of a ‘Jewish’ state has been a disaster for Jews
everywhere.
But the Board of Deputies has gone
out of its way 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?
In 2018 when Israeli snipers murdered over 300
unarmed Palestinians in Gaza the Board chose to criticise Hamas not the killers. A subsequent statement placed all the blame on the victims.
An Open Letter by over 100 Jews made our position crystal clear:
We are
appalled that the Board of Deputies (BoD) which claims to be “the
voice of British Jews,” has once again attempted to
justify the massacre of unarmed Palestinian people by the Israeli
military.
Is Anti-Semitism On the Increase in Britain?
There are good reasons for doubting that there
has been a massive increase in anti-Semitism. By its own
admission, the Metropolitan Police are using the IHRA definition of
anti-Semitism. As such its statistics are worthless.
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.
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.
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.
The Black Widow!
There are many other differences. Suella
Braverman, the most racist Home Secretary Britain has ever had was vociferous in her opposition to anti-Semitism (in fact
anti-Zionism).
xxxx
Israeli soldiers harassment of a Palestinian worker at Al Huda Gaz station in Al fawar camp in Hebron area. pic.twitter.com/HktNtHK20q
— Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti (@MustafaBarghou1) December 31, 2023
In 1936 Home Secretary Sir John Simon, insisted on the fascists being allowed to
march on the Jewish East End. In March 2023 Braverman was the guest of honour at the Annual Dinner of the CST, 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, ‘lies,
damned lies and statistics’.
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. ‘There is real fear stalking
the neighbourhoods of Britain’.
You say of your Jewish grandparents that:
I’m glad they aren’t alive now to read newspaper
stories that would have reminded them of the 1930s Europe that they left.
I am reminded of what Anshel Pffefer wrote in Ha’aretz
during the height of Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign. This was when the
Campaign Against Antisemitism was claiming that polls showed more than half of British Jews
felt that anti-Semitism echoed that of the 1930s. Pfeffer observed that if the CAA and British Jews
“actually
believe that, then it’s hard to take anything they say about contemporary
anti-Semitism in their home country seriously.”
Pfeffer added that such a belief showed
“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.”
Twice in recent years you have signed letters for Israeli lobby group CCFP/Stand
with Us. As Black rap artist, Lowkey, asked:
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?
The statement that you signed in 2007, began:
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.
The Producers of Your video
were involved in recruiting and training members of the Israeli Defence Force
The producers of Stephen Fry's controversial Christmas message were members of a Zionist youth group that funnels members into the Israeli military.
Fulwell73 was founded by Leo Pearlman, Benjamin Turner, Gabe Turner, and Ben Winston.
What makes your behaviour even worse Stephen is
that your video was produced by Fulwell73
Productions, 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.
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.
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.
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?
I’ve been crying since morning nonstop till I saw this message from Alexei Sayle, a British Jewish comedian.
At least some people have retained
their integrity in this sordid affair. Tamara Abood, a former Channel 4 commissioning editor, who is
now a psychotherapist working with people in the entertainment industry, criticised
Channel 4’s decision to screen the message.
She was also critical
of Fulwell 73, the production company that made the programme:
“The asymmetry
of the conflict was not remotely reflected in what Stephen Fry had to say. It
was carefully worded lip service.”
Ms Abood
added that Channel 4’s broadcast about anti-Semitism “demonstrates where the power lies”. Her LinkedIn post was ‘liked’
by Deborah Williams, the head of Creative Diversity Network, a diversity and
inclusion charity to the Zionists chagrin.
In
response to criticism by racist former colleagues Abood observed that “Historically the spectre of anti-Semitism has been used to silence
debate and I see a lot of that on here.”
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.
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 .
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.
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
