Showing posts with label Auschwitz. Show all posts
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23 July 2025

Stop Starving Gaza’s Children - Brighton Sit-in Protests the Complicity of Starmer & Lammy in Israel’s Death by Hunger Policy in Gaza

 ‘Israel Claims to Inherit the Memory of the Jews Who Died in the Holocaust – What They Inherit is the Memory of Those Who Killed the Jews’


Tony Greenstein speech at Brighton Station Sit In 22 July 2025

It was Primo Levi, the Italian Jew who survived Auschwitz who was reputed to have said that the Palestinians are Israel’s Jews. In fact it was his interviewer who said it and he assented to it.

Levi said “Everybody is somebody’s Jew,” to Filippo Gentiloni, from the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, in an interview published on June 29, 1982. He completed the Levi quote with his own comment: “And today Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis.” It was the logical extension of Levi’s own quote and Levi's call for the resignation of Begin and Sharon over the massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Beirut.

Today we face a deliberately engineered starvation of the population of Gaza as the Western world looks on and as the vile Trump administration continues to support that starvation. This includes the mass killing of those who enter the death traps run by the Christian so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Only Zionism could devise a food programme that was really a game of Russian roulette.

The 10th illustration of the IHRA misdefinition of anti-Semitism says that comparisons between Nazi Germany and Israeli policies are anti-Semitic. Perhaps someone can explain how starving a civilian population in the Warsaw Ghetto is any different from starving it in the Gaza Ghetto?

In the meantime child starvation is surging in Gaza. Having barred all journalists from Gaza, because Israel knew that it couldn’t defend what they would see, journalists too are now starving. This is what Zionism has turned out to be, a replication of the Nazis, but this time it is backed by our own war criminal politicians.

Not only are the Palestinians the descendants of the ancient Hebrews but they are now experiencing what the Nazis did to the Jews of Europe at the hands of the European settlers who colonised Palestine.  They are in every sense the real Jews of Palestine unlike the ‘Jewish’ colonists.

The sit-in and protest at Brighton  railway station was called because of the starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli state. It is testament to the hypocrisy of the British Establishment and its Tory media mouthpieces that a few weeks ago at Glastonbury the media manufactured one of these moral panics so beloved of our rulers over Bobby Vylan’s chant of Death to the IDF.   

It is difficult to understand the objection of politicians and their BBC mouthpiece to Vylan’s chant. The IDF is no different to the Schutztaffel (SS). It is a criminal organisation of racial supremacists. The death of its genocidaires should cause no one to lose any sleep. It is either them or the people of Gaza who they are starving to death.

Demonstrators protesting against the Starvation of Palestinians invade Churchill Sq Shopping Centre

Netanyahu likes to claim that the Israeli army is the ‘most moral army in the world’. If that were true then the sooner we disband all armies the better. Israel’s genocidal army has set new records. It dresses up in the underwear of the women it has murdered and plays with the toys of the children who their snipers have shot in the head. It prevents anaesthetics entering Gaza in order that children having their limbs amputated might suffer.

Israel likes to pretend that it inherits the memory of those Jews who died in the Nazi holocaust (no other victims concern it). But as readers of my book will know it was the Zionist movement which led the way in collaboration with Hitler and the Nazis.

There are those who claim that Israel is a refuge from anti-Semitism but Zionism and its bastard creation is the main cause of anti-Semitism.  Not unsurprisingly, given that the so-called representative organisation of British Jews, the Board of Deputies, supports Israel’s barbarities in the name of British Jews, many people hold Jews responsible for the atrocities and are tempted to blame them and worse for the atrocities. This is misguided but understandable.

Speeches at Brighton Railway Station sit-in against Starvation of Gazans - Sami & Youth Action

The best way of combating what little anti-Semitism there is in British society is for Jews to dissociate themselves from Israel, Zionism and what is happening in Gaza. People like Phil Rosenberg, President of the BOD, are the main cause of anti-Semitism in Britain today. This is quite deliberate. There is nothing Zionists like better than anti-Semitism to justify their ethnic cleansing project in Palestine.

Of course the British Establishment and people like the Metropolitan Police’s despicable Commissioner, Mark Rowley, are eager to associate Jews with Israeli war crimes. The British government and the Police pretend that they are concerned about ‘anti-Semitism’ in order to clamp down on Palestine solidarity protests. If that concern was genuine then they would do all in their power to draw a sharp distinction between Jews in Britain and the war criminals in Tel Aviv.

Israeli Soldiers Play Sadistic Games with the Toys of Palestinian Children They Have Murdered

Tonight around 200 people occupied Brighton railway station for an hour last night whilst people chanted ‘Free Palestine’ and other slogans. I spoke first and compared Israel to Nazi Germany pointing out that Israel’s policy today of starving Palestinians in Gaza is no different from the Death by Hunger policy of the Nazi Governor of Poland, Hans Frank.  Frank was hanged at Nuremberg after the war. As I said in my speech both Lammy and Starmer belong in the dock in a fresh Nuremberg trial. Starmer and Lammy are no different from Hans Frank, Streicher and the others Nazis who were hanged.

Those who deny genocide in Gaza today consciously lie like Starmer and Lammy. Genocide scholars like the Israeli academic Omar Bartov, have no doubt about what is happening. All international human rights groups have long ago declared what is happening a genocide. Those who deny genocide in Gaza are no different from those who deny the Nazi holocaust. The Zionists are the Jewish equivalent of neo-Nazi holocaust deniers.

Starmer himself is well known to have said Vukovar and Srebenica were genocides. 1,200 and 8,000 people were killed there.  In Gaza when the dust settles we could be looking at half a million murdered. This snake of a politician is nothing but a cold, calculated, desiccated human being.


Kit Malthouse accuses David Lammy of complicity in the Genocide in Gaza 22.7.25

It is ironic that it wasn’t Labour MPs or even the independent MPs (what has happened to the Muslim MPs who were elected last year? They have gone remarkably silent) but a Tory MP, Kit Malthouse who has been the fiercest critic of the genocide. Yesterday he accused David Lammy of complicity in the genocide. This fat, bumbling, corrupt politician who has taken thousands of pounds in bribes from the Israel lobby, called Malthouse’s accusations ‘unseemly’. Parliamentary etiquette matters more to Lammy than the lives of the children who are wasting away in Gaza.

Meanwhile the Labour benches are epitomised by the craven figure of our Brighton and Hove MPs, Chris Ward – Starmer’s political footstool – and Peter Kyle, the former boyfriend of the ex-MP for Hove and friend of under-age boys Ivor Caplin.

But I digress. After occupying the station we marched to Brighton’s Churchill Square shopping centre which we wound through like a snake, chanting. People welcomed us and filmed it before we marched again to the Clocktower, which is Brighton’s central landmark. The march had grown meanwhile to about 500.

I attach some photos and videos of what happened Brighton has a vibrant Palestine solidarity movement and our small Zionist claque, every time they show their face in public, face the contempt of ordinary people.

Tony Greenstein





5 June 2025

Google’s Blogspot Takes Down An Open Letter to Keir Starmer Which Called Him a ‘War Criminal Who Doubles as Britain’s Prime Minister’

 Google Once Proclaimed ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Now They Do Nothing But Evil

You can still read the blog here

https://tonygreenstein.com/an-open-letter-to-the-war-criminal-who-doubles-as-britains-prime-minister/

Israel's controversial computing contract | Digital Dilemma

Yesterday I published an Open Letter to Keir Starmer calling him a war criminal. Today it doesn’t exist as Google has taken it down from my Blogspot blog. When I went to see how many hits it had had I was greeted with a message



‘This post was deleted because it violates Blogger community guidelines. To republish, please update the content to adhere to the guidelines.

Of course there is no ‘Blogger community’ just faceless, amoral censors who responded no doubt to an offended genocide supporter. Someone had taken exception to Starmer being called what he is.

Fortunately I set up some years ago a shadow blog and that is what the donations that people send to my Blog Appeal  goes towards maintaining. The article that Google censored can be accessed here.

There can be no doubt that Starmer is a war criminal. Anyone who supplies weapons and military intelligence to an ongoing genocide is a war criminal whose place is in the Hague. What Google objected to was factually correct. If the IG Farben trial of August 1947 were repeated today, Starmer would have been in the dock facing the prospect of being hanged for willingly aiding the genocidaires.

IG Farben was the largest company in Europe and the world’s largest chemical and pharmaceutical company. It manufactured Zyklon B, the gas used to murder people in the gas chambers. It also used Auschwitz inmates as slave labour.

Starmer’s culpability for war crimes and crimes against humanity is no less than that of the Directors of IG Farben.

Although  politicians pretend that Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians, nearly half of whom are children, is just military warfare, every single human rights group from Amnesty International to Human Rights Watch has said that what is taking place is genocide and extermination.

It’s not as if Israeli politicians hide their intentions. Never before have politicians of a state committing war crimes been so brazen. Prime Minister Netanyahu stated that

You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember.

Amalek was the tribe that God commanded the Israelites to wipe out. He commanded:

Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.

So why has Google been so sensitive. After all this was the company which once had a mission statement proudly proclaiming ‘Don’t Be Evil’.  Yet today Google does nothing but evil.

As we do these days, I asked Chat GP what had happened to Google’s slogan. It told me that officially it had not dropped Don't be evil’. It had simply been relegated to obscurity.

Until the early 2010s ‘Don't be evil’ ‘was a central part of Google's corporate code of conduct and public image’. It was prominently featured at the top of Google's Code of Conduct. But in 2015: When Google reorganized under the new parent company Alphabet Inc., the phrase ‘Do the right thing’ replaced ‘Don't be evil’ as the main ethical guideline.

In May 2018: Google updated its Code of Conduct and moved ‘Don't be evil’ from the beginning to the very end of the document. The line reads:

And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

Well employees of Google did speak up about its collaboration with Israel in perpetrating war crimes.  What happened? It was reported that ‘Google has sacked 28 workers who took part in protests against a deal the technology giant has with the Israeli government. It went on:

Google has a joint contract with Amazon worth $1.2bn (£960m) called Project Nimbus which provides Israel's government and military with cloud computing and AI infrastructure.

Employees affiliated with the protest group No Tech For Apartheid, staged sit-ins at the company’s New York and Sunnyvale, California offices.

Google said Project Nimbus "is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services”....

The dismissals, which Google confirmed to the BBC, escalated longstanding tensions between the company and employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.

Marches were held last year, following the start of the war in Gaza in October, with protesters holding banners that read “No More Genocide For Profit”.

In the most recent protests, staff entered offices and refused to leave prompting Google to call law enforcement. In a statement Google called the behaviour "completely unacceptable".

Googlers Against Genocide Gains Steam As Google Workers Fight AI, Cloud Contracts With Israel

An article in Al Jazeera in April 2024 reported that

Project Nimbus, the joint contract between Google and Amazon signed in 2021 aims to provide cloud computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology services to the Israeli government and its military, which has faced condemnation for its war on Gaza, described by United Nations experts and several countries as a “genocide”.

Why are Google employees protesting against Project Nimbus?

Last week’s sit-ins in New York and California’s Sunnyvale were led by No Tech For Apartheid, which has been organising Google employees against Project Nimbus since 2021. Employees are opposing their employer’s ties with Israel.

Tech workers are demanding that they have the right to know how their labour is going to be used. With little clarity about the project, they fear the technology might be used for harm. Workers at Amazon and Facebook parent Meta have also clashed with their employers over war links.

It is impossible to feel excited and energised to work when you know your company is providing the Israeli government products that are helping it commit atrocities in Palestine,” said, Tina Vachovsky, staff software engineer at Google, in a testimonial published on the No Tech Apartheid website.

According to a 2021 report by the US-based news outlet The Intercept, Google is offering advanced AI capabilities to Israel, which could harvest data for facial recognition and object tracking as part of Project Nimbus.

 There’s actually a shocking lack of transparency around exactly what this project covers, outside of providing interoperable, comprehensive cloud computing, which is essentially systems of data storage, data management and sharing,” Ramesh Srinivasan, professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), told Al Jazeera.

Data for the Israeli governments, of course, is likely to extend to the Israeli [army]. So it’s a project that marks and sort of highlights the direct connections that big technology companies in the United States have, not only to the so-called military-industrial complex, but to directly aiding and abetting the Israeli government.”

In a statement, the tech giant said that the Nimbus contract “is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services”. The tech behemoth says it works with several governments around the world, including Israel.

The company fired at least 28 employees last week for “violating Google’s code of conduct” and “policy on harassment, discrimination and retaliation”. In addition, at least nine Google employees were arrested for the sit-ins at its offices in New York and Sunnyvale.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai issued a veiled warning in a blog post last week.

“We have a culture of vibrant, open discussion that enables us to create amazing products and turn great ideas into action. That’s important to preserve. But ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics. This is too important a moment as a company for us to be distracted,” he wrote.

In other words, whatever our mission statement says ‘ultimately we are a workplace... this is a business’ and we cannot be ‘distracted’ from our main goal which is to make as much money as possible in support of the war machine of imperialism. This is the logic of capitalism. Google is as much an amoral company as any other. The article goes on:

But tech workers have not been fazed by the warning. Mohammad Khatami, a Google software engineer who was arrested for participating in the sit-in in New York, told US outlet Democracy Now that workers were arrested for “speaking out against the use of our technology to power the first AI-powered genocide”.

Google fired another 20 protesters this week, according to the No Tech For Apartheid group, bringing the total number of people sacked to about 50.

“Google’s aims are clear: the corporation is attempting to quash dissent, silence its workers, and reassert its power over them,” Jane Chung, a spokesperson for No Tech For Apartheid, said on Tuesday.

Google said it fired the additional workers after its investigation gathered details from coworkers who were “physically disrupted” and it identified employees who used masks and did not carry their staff badges to hide their identities. It did not specify how many were fired.

Google is very concerned over the workers who were ‘physically disrupted’. But the Palestinians whose lives were disrupted, if not terminated, are of no concern.

Is there a history of tech workers opposing collaborations with the military?

This is not the first time Amazon and Google employees have voiced their displeasure with Project Nimbus. Last October, Amazon and Google employees expressed their concerns anonymously in an open letter  published by British news outlet The Guardian:

“We are writing as Google and Amazon employees of conscience from diverse backgrounds. We believe that the technology we build should work to serve and uplift people everywhere, including all of our users. As workers who keep these companies running, we are morally obligated to speak out against violations of these core values. For this reason, we are compelled to call on the leaders of Amazon and Google to pull out of Project Nimbus and cut all ties with the Israeli military. So far, more than 90 workers at Google and more than 300 at Amazon have signed this letter internally. We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.”

On March 4, at the Mind the Tech conference in New York, Google employee Eddie Hatfield stood up in a conference room and shouted, “I am a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveillance!”

Hatfield was fired days after interrupting the managing director of Google Israel, Barak Regev. This would eventually set the stage for the recent protests against Project Nimbus.

In December of last year, in response to Project Nimbus, 1,700 employees sent a petition to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy stating that 

by providing a cloud ecosystem for the Israeli public sector, Amazon is bolstering the artificial intelligence and surveillance capabilities of the Israeli military used to repress Palestinian activists and impose a brutal siege on Gaza.

Which other tech companies have ties with the Israeli military?

It’s not just cloud computing tech companies providing contracts to the Israeli military. In a report published last week by Brown University,  Roberto J Gonzalez, professor of cultural anthropology at San Jose State University, describes how the US public company Palantir Technologies is involved with Israel.

“For years, Palantir has had multiple contracts with the Israeli [army], and it extended its support for Israel after its war against Hamas began in October 2023,” Gonzalez said in comments in published on April 17.

Palantir, the Denver-based data analysis firm that provides military institutions with artificial intelligence, was co-founded by right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel. Palantir, which has worked with the US National Security Agency, has previously provided tech solutions for the Israeli military.

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), an international organisation that works to challenge injustices globally, has maintained a directory of “C­o­m­p­a­n­i­e­s P­r­o­f­i­t­i­n­g f­r­o­m I­s­r­a­e­l­’­s 2­0­2­3­-­2­0­2­4 a­t­t­a­c­k­s o­n G­a­z­a”. More than 50 companies hailing from the US, China, Germany and the United Kingdom have been listed.

“This is a form of corporate welfare not only for the largest weapons manufacturers, like Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing, and General Dynamics, which have seen their stock prices skyrocket, but also for companies that are not typically seen as part of the weapons industry, such as Caterpillar, Ford, and Toyota,” the AFSC Action Center for Corporate Accountability states.

What do we know about collaborations between tech companies and armies around the world?

The US military and spy agencies signed contracts worth at least $53bn between 2019 and 2022, according to the report published by Brown University on April 17.

In December of 2022, the Pentagon awarded Google, Oracle, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft a $9bn contract for a top-secret cloud environment.

US-based companies like Clearview AI, based out of New York City, provide facial recognition software to help Ukraine identify Russian soldiers and officials who have participated in the military invasion. Ukraine was given free access to Clearview AI software starting in 2022. The same report also shows an increasing role of big tech in the military-industrial complex.

“Although much of the Pentagon’s $886bn budget is spent on conventional weapon systems and goes to well-established defense giants such as Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Boeing, and BAE Systems, a new political economy is emerging, driven by the imperatives of big tech companies, venture capital (VC), and private equity firms,” the report says.

Often, the introduction of new technologies can come at a terrible human cost if not properly tested and vetted.

“Everybody knows these AI systems will make mistakes … so that there will be wrongful deaths and wrongful assassinations as we’ve seen with so many civilian people in Gaza,” Srinivasan, the UCLA professor, says.

So what we have is Google Blogspot’s ‘Community Guidelines’ being hauled out in order to defend the genocide of Gaza’s Palestinians. Whether that is evil I will leave to others to decide.

Tony Greenstein

26 February 2025

My Interviews with Rania Khalek & Katie Halper & my Glasgow Demonstration Speech March 2024

 As Zionism moves towards its Final Solution, Trump, Starmer and Germany’s Genocidal leaders Remain Fulsome in Their Support of Israel’s ‘Right To Defend Itself’

Zionism’s Endgame: a ‘Final Solution’ for the Palestinians, w/ Tony Greenstein

We are living in a world where our rulers don’t even pretend to be on the side of the angels. Their amorality is a badge of pride.

As far as Trump is concerned all that matters in Ukraine is American access to Ukraine’s rare minerals. Likewise in Gaza, never mind the people, what is important is the potential value of Mediterranean real estate.  The fact that 2 million people live there is irrelevant.

Fact Check on Genocidal Song on Israel’s Kan Public Broadcaster

You might think that after 4 genocides to their credit that the German state would be reluctant to support a fifth genocide. Not a bit of it. German politicians have embraced Israel’s genocide in Gaza because it makes them feel better about their own genocides. What could be better than a ‘Jewish’ state perpetrating the genocide.

Israel's Oldest & Most Popular Podcast - 2 Nice Jewish Boys Discuss Erasing Gaza

Zionism and its bastard state, has played the role of helping the German State come to terms with the Nazi holocaust. Now that a far-right party, the AfD, a large portion of whose membership consists of neo-Nazis, has come second in the elections, the German state is moving towards a relativisation of the Holocaust. It is no surprise that Israel’s Diaspora Minister is a fan of Hitler saluting Elon Musk.

The Netherland's Fascist Leader Geert Wilders and Israel's Labor President Isaac Herzog Get On Famously

After all. If Israel can perpetrate a holocaust in Gaza why should Germany be forever burdened with a guilt complex over its holocaust?  It is difficult to argue with such logic.

Israel’s Friendship Song of Annihilation – as sung by Israeli school children

For those who doubt that Germany has participated in 5 genocides then here they are: the Maji Maji genocide in East Africa/Tanganyika, the Nama/Herero genocide, the Turkish genocide of Armenia (Germany was in alliance with Turkey in  WW1), the Jewish/Nazi holocaust and now the Israeli holocaust in Gaza.

I say this by way of introduction. Netanyahu has done all he could to get back to the genocide in Gaza and has broken the ceasefire repeatedly. Less aid has gone in than was agreed, Israeli soldiers have repeatedly killed civilians and as I write the release of the last batch of Palestinian hostages has been delayed on another pretext.

Tony Greenstein at the Glasgow Anti-Racist/Palestine Solidarity Demonstration March 2024

There isn’t an agreement that Israel has been party to that hasn’t been broken.  Israel was supposed to be out of Lebanon but it is now saying that it will maintain 5 permanent bases, naturally in support of its ‘right to self defence’. It has also made it clear that it is staying in Southern Syria following the fall of Assad.

I sometimes think how unlucky Nazi Germany was with its propaganda chief. Goebbels really wasn’t up to it. If Hitler had the benefit of the Daily Mail and BBC then every conquest he made could have been presented as an act of self-defence.

Israel’s goal today remains the same. The removal of the Palestinians from Gaza. In my interview with Rania I was sceptical of their ability to pull it off but as time goes on I am increasingly fearful that they may get away with a large-scale ‘transfer’ given the supine nature of the Arab leaders and the willingness of the Americans to support it.

European leaders’ opposition isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit. We can see Netanyahu prepare the ground with his ludicrous lies that the two Bibas children were killed by Hamas.  We should treat this story on a par with the allegations that Hamas had chopped off the heads of 40 babies which what the media ran with.  It was a lie then and it is a lie now.

But who should leap out to amplify the false stories that Netanyahu, an inveterate and well known liar peddled?  Why our own snake-like Foreign Secretary, David Lammy and of course the viperous Sturmer himself.

Hostage kisses Hamas

Those who repeat Israel’s lies about child-killers are deliberately paving the way for a continued genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Instead of directing their fire at the torture, starvation, rapind to death and the appalling condition of the Palestinian hostages and noting the welcome and friendly relations of many of the Israeli prisoners with their Palestinian captors, Starmer and the BBC focus on yet more Zionist atrocity propaganda.

All the evidence is, as Yocheved Lifshitz said, that Hamas treated Israel's captives humanely


There is little doubt that Netanyahu and his fellow war-criminals are itching to restart the genocide. It is incumbent upon the anti-war movement in this country to step up the protests. Starmer and Lammy have not issued on word of protest at Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinian prisoners, their humiliating release and abuse. The token demonstrations wandering through London have to step up. Our first rallying point should be the BBC and the Metropolitan Police with their ‘anti-Semitism’ scam should be told to go to hell. We will meet at the BBC because they are the originators of the lies that facilitate genocide.


Interviews with Katie Halper and Rania Khalek

In January and February I was interviewed on a wide range of topics by Katie Halper and Rania Khalek. These included my arrest on October 4 for calling Israel Hitler’s Bastard Offspring’. The filth didn’t like the comparison. They even thought it was anti-Semitic though the thick plod were unable to explain why in my interview.

As I explained to Katie, anti-Zionist Jews are invisible so perhaps that is why. But if they weren’t so stupid they would understand that Zionism is of Christian not Jewish origin.  Jews always opposed Zionism until the holocaust apart from a few freaks and reactionaries.

Of course today the Zionists exploit the holocaust for all its worth with Gilad Erdan, Israel’s representative to the UN donning a Yellow Star. His comparison with the Jewish dead of the holocaust was sickening. If he had had any integrity he would have worn a swastika.  Zionism has always exploited the Jews who died in the holocaust whom Zionism turned its back on.

According to Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first President, the Jews who died in the holocaust were:

dust on the wheels of history and they may have to be blown away. We don’t want them pouring into Palestine. We don’t want Tel Aviv to become another low-grade ghetto.

Erdan ‘forgot’ to mention that during the Hitler era the Zionists were the Nazis favourite Jews. Explaining why Zionists were the good Jews, unlike the ‘assimilationist’ Jews who kept on insisting that they were Jewish Germans, Reinhardt Heydrich, head of the SS, said:

The activity of the Zionist-oriented youth organisations that are engaged in the occupational restructuring of the Jews … lies in the interest of the National Socialist state’s leadership. (These organizations) are not to be treated with that strictness that it is necessary to apply to the members of the so-called German-Jewish organizations (assimilationists).

I also explained my own conversion to anti-Zionism having been brought up in a Zionist family. I was brought up on the lie that the Palestinian refugees voluntarily left their homes and villages rather than being expelled at the point of a gun.

I also explained how, when Zionism first arose, the only people who welcomed it were anti-Semites and that this is true today too.  I specifically mentioned the President of America’s million strong Christians United 4 Israel, John Hagee, who gave a sermon explaining why Hitler was god’s emissary sent to drive the Jews to Palestine.

Orthodox Jews in particular opposed Zionism. Agudat Yisrael was founded as a specifically anti-Zionist organisation. This gives the lie to the claims of Britain’s racist Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis that Zionism and Judaism have been intertwined for 3,000 years.

I also went into the content of my book in some depth explaining that for the Zionists building a ‘Jewish’ state was the first priority in the holocaust and that Ben-Gurion is notorious for saying that if there was a choice to be made between rescuing and saving Jews and building their bastard state, the latter comes first. 

When Britain offered to take 10,000 Jewish children in the wake of Kristallnacht the Zionists were outraged that they weren’t going to Palestine. In a speech to Mapai’s (Israeli Labor Party) Central Committee Ben-Gurion said:

If I knew 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.

I also described the Kasztner Affair and the resulting trial in Israel from 1954-8 when the leader of Hungarian Zionism, a senior official and candidate in Mapai (the Israeli Labor Party) for the next elections, Rudolf Kasztner, sued for libel when he was accused of being a Nazi collaborator. He lost when it transpired that he had spent his time post-war at Nuremberg testifying in favour of Nazi war criminals.

Kasztner had concluded a deal with Eichmann that if the Nazis agreed to a train out of Hungary for the select few (Zionists, bourgeois and a few rabbis) he would not inform Hungarian Jews of the Auschwitz Protocols which two escapees from Auschwitz had written detailing where they would go if they boarded a deportation train. Up till then no one knew that Auschwitz was an extermination camp. Kasztner went so far as to misinform those who were deported that they were travelling to a fictious resettlement camp, Kenyermeze.

With Rania I gave an outline of the development of Zionist historiography of the holocaust and how it had been distorted to accord with Zionist myths of Jewish resistance. Zionism has rewritten the letters and memoirs of the Zionist resistance fighters in the Warsaw ghetto eliminating their criticisms of the Zionist movement.  This was in order that their writings should accord with the Zionist narrative that they led the resistance and were heroes rather than sordid collaborators.

The Zionist historians had also erased entirely the role of Jewish anti-Zionists, in particular the Jewish anti-Zionist Bund and its leader, the last Commander of the Resistance, Marek Edelman.

With Rania I first discussed Trump’s ethnic cleansing plans. I was sceptical that they would succeed but I am less so now as all the indications are that Israel is looking for an excuse to resume the genocide.

We discussed the reaction of Israeli Jews to the plan. 80% support it and just 3% think its amoral. Which means that 97% of Israelis are not only amoral bastards but genocidaires too.  The other 17% either can’t make their mind up about it or think it’s not practical.

I imagine some Nazis also thought the extermination of Jews, Poles, Gays, Roma etc. was not practical. This is the morality of Israelis and that’s why I find it hard to explain why in a democratic, secular state  Israeli Jews would have the right to national rights as Jews. It is difficult explaining why Palestinians should be forced to live side by side with genocidal would be murderers.

There is an overwhelming case for American Jews with 2 passports, especially the settlers on the West Bank, to be deported back to Brooklyn.

I also explained that Hitler didn’t start out with a plan to genocide the Jews. His plan, like the Zionists was ethnic cleansing.  It was only when that failed that genocide became his only option if he wanted to be rid of the Jews. The same ‘dilemma’ faces the Zionists.  If it can’t be expulsion it must be holocaust.

I went into how the very history of the holocaust had been rewritten by the Zionists to emphasise Jewish resistance, despite it being very low apart from the Warsaw Ghetto and a few others such as at Bialystock which went off at half cock, Lachwa and Minsk.

We discussed the situation of Arab Jews in Israel and how Israel deliberately set out to destabilise their position in 1948. In Iraq it is well documented that they planted bombs in synagogues and other places Jews frequented in order to stimulate flight. Avi Shlaim, an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University in his book Three Worlds has recently come up with further proof of Zionist involvement in the bombings.

When the Zionist underground threw a grenade into the courtyard of the Masudo Shemtov synagogue in Baghdad, killing 2 people, they stimulated a mass emigration of the oldest Jewish community in the world.  Out of 135,000 Jews only 10,000 remained after 1951.

I also told how when they arrived in Israel Iraq’s Jews were treated like animals and were sprayed with DDT. Three Worlds also explains how a rich cultured community were turned into poor labourers in Israel, forced to sleep in tents and how they were deArabised.

I described how Holocaust Worship today leads to the creation of holocaust museums (but not for Black slaves or the Native Indians) such as the United States  Holocaust Museum where history has been rewritten.  When I went there Pastor Niemoller’s saying ‘First they came for ...’ was hanging above the entrance except it had been changed. The first category was ‘First they came for the communists’ but that wouldn’t do in cold war America so it was omitted.

I also showed how two-thirds of the members of the Judenrate, the Nazi Councils that the Nazis established to help implement the Final Solution, were Zionist. It was the Judenrate and not the Nazis who rounded up Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Rania observed that the Palestinian Authority was the Palestinian equivalent of the Judenrate!

I quoted Hannah Arendt who said in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem that

Wherever Jews lived, there were recognized Jewish leaders, and this leadership, almost without exception, cooperated in one way or another, for one reason or another, with the Nazis. The whole truth was that if the Jewish people had really been unorganized and leaderless, there would have been chaos and plenty of misery but the total number of victims would hardly have been between four and a half and six million people.[1]

I told how the Warsaw ghetto resistance’s first task was to execute Jewish collaborators. They couldn’t have organised a rebellion with the collaborators operating. This is equally true of the Palestinian revolution. It too has to execute its collaborators.

Katie discussed my book, Zionism During the Holocaust in some depth in particular how the Zionist movement has weaponised Jewish suffering and anti-Semitism whilst refusing to draw any universal lessons from the Holocaust. I also spoke about my arrest under the Terrorism Acts and the attacks on the Palestine solidarity movement in Britain and Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU1xaPJYDXg

The Katie Halper Show – Interview with Tony Greenstein, Jenny Manson & Rabbi Herschel Gluck

I won’t even attempt to summarise the topics we discussed but I enjoyed both interviews which were penetrating and thoughtful. At a time when Israel is committing genocide in Gaza as a consequence of colonial expansion and in the cause of racial purity, it is incumbent on Jewish anti-Zionists to speak out against the horrors that are taking place in our name.

Another point of comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany is Israel’s policy of starvation of Gaza’s civilian population. This is taken straight out of the Nazi playbook. 20% of the Warsaw ghetto, some 80,000 people, died from starvation. An even higher percentage died in Lodz, the second biggest ghetto in Poland. Hans Frank, the Nazi governor of Poland, spoke of Death By Hunger as does Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister, who is of the opinion that starving 2 million people to death would be ‘moral’ if only the West would allow him to get away with it!

The mass executions that Israel has carried out and the mass graves, to say nothing of the torture camps, resemble nothing so much as the Nazi policies towards the civilian population of the countries they occupied. In some ways they are worse.

The major difference between Nazi Germany and Israel is that anti-Semitism in Germany itself was mainly confined to a hardcore of the Nazi party, the ‘old fighters’ whereas in Israel genocidal racism is supported by the overwhelming majority of the Jewish population.

This is perhaps best summed up in the hilarious story of a Zionist who went in search of Palestinians to kill in Miami Beach, Florida and ended up shooting two Israelis who he thought looked like Palestinians! The Israelis, assuming it was an anti-Semitic attack by Palestinians, signed off with ‘death to the Arabs’ on Facebook.

According to the bogus IHRA ‘definition’ of anti-Semitism, it is anti-Semitic to compare Israel to Nazi Germany (but is it anti-German to compare Nazi Germany to Israel?!). Yet Israelis go out of their way to draw such parallels themselves. A Nazi mentality has descended on the Jewish population of Israel.

An article in Ha’aretz 'When You Leave Israel and Enter Gaza, You Are God': described how many soldiers in Gaza reported moral injuries: "I felt like, like, like a Nazi ... it looked exactly like we were actually the Nazis and they were the Jews."



[1]        Arendt, p. 125.