I have just filed an Appeal with the Court of Appeal in my Libel Case Against the misnamed Campaign Against Antisemitism

Please help me fight the misnamed Campaign Against Antisemitism Israel’s ‘Antisemitism’ Attack Dog 

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On February 2018 I began proceedings against the CAA for defamation, calling me a 'notorious antisemite' See e.g. 

Tony Greenstein’s attempt to shut down Campaign Against Antisemitism showcases the similarities between far-left and far-right

On February 15th 2019 at a Preliminary Issues Hearing to determine the meaning of what the CAA said, Judge Nicklin ruled that calling someone an 'antisemite' is a matter of opinion not fact!  Nicklin chose to ignore the fact that the misnamed 'Campaign Against Antisemitism' called me, 5 times, a 'notorious antisemite'

Calling people 'antisemites' is the go to insult of those who spend their lives defending the world's most racist state. A state whose Prime Minister admitted last Sunday is not a state of its own citizens but only of its Jewish citizens.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-state-jewish-people-190311092510577.html

As we know Chris Williamson and countless other people in the Labour Party, all of them anti-racists have been accused by Zionists of 'antisemitism'.  Yet when these people are asked to justify their accusations they are unable to do so and instead say that that is their opinion!

Last Friday I filed an application to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal Nicklin's decision. This is costing money as British courts are not cheap. My opponents, the Campaign Against the Truth have access to unlimited finance from the Israeli state. I am dependent on yours and others generosity. If you can afford it please contribute.  If you can’t please share this as widely as possible.

This is not for my benefit but for all those libelled and defamed by the Zionists as a means of protecting the world's most racist state. If I fail I will be made bankrupt as the other sides costs are already over £50,000.  I have taken this on because we have to stand up to those who use the sufferings of Jewish people IN THE PAST as a justification for the suffering of Palestinians TODAY.

ALSO - please share this appeal as widely as possible on social media.

You can donate in a number of ways:

i.  By going to my Go Fund Me page

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3.  Via BACS to 'BUWC' please specifiy libel donation

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4.  Or post a cheque made out to BUWC at PO Box 173, Rottingdean, Brighton BN51 9EZ

Thanks

Tony Greenstein

African Refugees Get No Reprieve from Israel’s Racist Rage

Another brilliant article from the indefatigable Israeli-Canadian campaigner, David Sheen whose videos on Youtube are brilliant. See e.g. War on Africans 

Nothing better demonstrates the vicious racism of the Israeli state and what Zionism has led to than its treatment of the African refugees from Eritrea and Sudan.  Their crime is two fold - they are not Jewish and they are Black - an unforgivable combination.

They are called ‘infiltrators’ in a conscious echo of the term that was used to describe Palestinian refugees trying to return to their lands after 1948.  Thousands were murdered in cold blood as the Israeli Labour founders of Israel sought to ensure that Israel was as Jewish as possible.

Challenging the racist Zionist description of Black African refugees

Why 'infiltrators'?  Because they are non-Jews infiltrating a Jewish state and thereby making it less Jewish.

Today Africans fleeing from the vicious police state in Eritrea and the genocide in Sudan are refused en masse the right to stay in Israel.  Like the Jews of Russia and Poland in the last century they have  been subject to vicious pogroms led by the Israeli government.

Those with illusions in the Israeli Labour Party should note that the ILP has given full support to Netanyahu. 

The fortunes of the African refugee community targeted by the Israeli government for deportation have swung wildly in recent days

April 23, 2018 David Sheen The Electronic Intifada

African asylum seekers protest against Israel’s deportation plan, South Tel Aviv, 25 February. , Oren Ziv ActiveStills

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first announced a United Nations-backed deal to resettle some of them in the West, but then quickly retracted the plan after right-wing Israelis complained that the deal was too generous to asylum seekers.“I listened closely to many comments about the agreement. As a result, after reevaluating the advantages and disadvantages, I decided to cancel the deal,” Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page.

“Despite the growing legal and international limitations, we will continue to act with determination to exhaust all possibilities at our disposal to remove the infiltrators,” he added.

African refugees walk out of Holot

In November, it was reported that the Netanyahu government secured agreements with unnamed African nations for the latter to take in many of the approximately 40,000 refugees remaining in Israel, ostensibly in exchange for a fee of $5,000 per head.

But Netanyahu’s plans for expedited deportation were quashed after protests by refugee rights activists in Israel and abroad shamed those countries, now known to be Rwanda and Uganda, into disclaiming the scheme.

Unable to deliver on his promise to quickly expel all the Africans, Netanyahu grudgingly agreed to a plan brokered by the UN refugee agency UNHCR which, if carried out, would have seen thousands of the refugees resettled in Western nations in the coming years.

Eritreans mourn the victim of lynch mob 

But Germany and Italy, two of the countries cited by Netanyahu as committed to take in asylum seekers from Israel, quickly denied having ever agreed to accept refugees under the scheme.

Opposition to expulsion

Abandoned on all sides within hours of announcing the agreement, Netanyahu walked back the deal, first in part, then in whole, suspending it, and then canceling it altogether.

Although the deal would have provided political cover for Netanyahu’s planned expulsion of the refugees, his political camp vigorously opposed it because it also committed Israel to allowing around 20,000 Africans – mainly women and children – to remain in Israel for another five years and to help them move to parts of the country other than South Tel Aviv, where most of the community is concentrated.

Although a January poll showed that 66 percent of Israeli Jews support Netanyahu’s efforts to expel the refugees to Africa, a recent survey found that positions are reversed in those very areas where residents were more likely to actually encounter any of them.

A March poll revealed that in the greater Tel Aviv area, opposition to the expulsion reached 68 percent, and in the long-neglected neighborhoods of South Tel Aviv with the largest African populations, it hit 71 percent.

refugees at detention centre Holot

On 24 February and again on 24 March, some 20,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv to demonstrate in solidarity with the refugee community and demand that the Israeli government cancel plans to deport them, and instead work to improve the lives of all residents of the city’s delapidated southern district.

Protesters have criticized the Israeli government for having one of the lowest refugee acceptance rates in the world – less than 0.5 percent.

But Netanyahu has claimed that the non-Jewish refugees – about half Christian and half Muslim – pose a threat to Israel’s “national identity.”

In that sense Israel regards them similarly to how it has viewed indigenous Palestinians since its founding, when it expelled 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and barred them from returning because they are not Jews.

And local racists have long labored to shore up support for Netanyahu’s anti-African policies, and to demand that even crueler measures be taken against them.

“Mortal threat”

Shlomo Maslawi, representing Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party on the Tel Aviv city council, told Israeli TV that he would oppose Netanyahu’s now retracted plan, even though it included promises to invest in the overburdened neighborhoods of South Tel Aviv, until “the Eritreans are gone, down to the last Eritrean – only then will there be rehabilitation.”

In recent weeks, as refugee rights advocates across the country and around the world stepped up their protests, forcing the African governments conspiring with Israel to deny their involvement, Netanyahu lashed out at the refugees, smearing them as a mortal threat.

If he had not built a high-tech fence on Israel’s southern border five years ago, Netanyahu told an audience in March, the number of Africans in the country would be significantly higher, a condition he deemed “much worse” than “severe attacks by Sinai terrorists.”

Coming under rare criticism from some of Israel’s staunchest American defenders, other government officials also doubled down to defend the mass deportations to African states.

Interior minister Aryeh Deri told Israeli army radio that to take these asylum seekers, mainly from Eritrea and Sudan, and expel them to Rwanda and Uganda, would merely mean returning them “to their natural place.”

Avraham Neguise, currently Israel’s only Black legislator, a Jew of Ethiopian origin, also spoke out in support of the deportation to Rwanda and Uganda, telling Israel’s i24 TV, “Well, they came from Africa, and they’re going back to Africa.”

Yitzhak Yosef, one of Israel’s two national chief rabbis, also heaped scorn on the Africans in a sermon last month, in which he called Black people “monkeys” and the Hebrew equivalent of the N-word.

His fellow chief rabbi, Yisrael Lau, had already used that Hebrew version of the N-world to describe Black people, on his very first day in office.

Vigilante violence

These and many other incidents of anti-African incitement have ramped up racism against the refugees. The rage against asylum seekers has grown into a political force capable even of pressuring Netanyahu to cancel Israel’s international agreements.

But the most frightening effects of increased anti-Black sentiment are reserved for the refugees themselves.

Vigilante violence against African refugees has become increasingly common in recent years.

In 2012, an Israeli firebombed a daycare for the young children of African refugees, and in 2014, an Israeli man was indicted for stabbing an Eritrean baby in the head.

Israel's Labour 'Opposition' is as racist as Likud

According to prosecutors, the man later stated: “I attacked Black terrorists, there was a Black baby, they said that a Black baby, Blacks in general, are terrorists.”

The firebomber received only community service, while the stabber was sent for psychiatric treatment.

Since that time, in separate incidents, two refugees – Haftom Zarhum from Eritrea and Babikir Ali Adham-Uvdo from Sudan – were beaten to death in public places by Israeli mobs.

The charges against Adham-Uvdo’s killers were reduced from murder.

One of the killers is a minor whose sentence for “intentional injury” to Adham-Uvdo is yet to be determined. The adult assailant received a maximum jail sentence of 10 years for manslaughter in a plea bargain, although he will probably be released in just a few years.

An Israeli court is currently offering Zarhum’s killers community service.

Coerced to self-deport

This anti-African incitement, coupled with the news that African refugees, including some recently expelled from Israel, have experienced torture, extortion and detention in Libya, where open-air slave markets have been documented, is taking a toll not only on adults, but on Israeli youth, as well.

In February, one refugee confessed that a group of Israeli schoolchildren had approached him on a public bus and asked him, “How much can we sell you for?”

With the Rwanda-Uganda deal shelved in shame, and the UN deal for resettlement in the West now derailed by Netanyahu himself, the fate of the 40,000 African refugees left in Israel is once again unclear.

In lieu of the UN deal, Netanyahu is now reportedly pressuring coalition partners to reopen the Holot internment camp that it closed down only last month in anticipation of the planned expulsions.

Starting in December 2013, Israel rounded up thousands of African men into this detention center, in order to pressure them to self-deport.

By Netanyahu’s count, the government was able to coerce more than 20,000 to leave Israel in this way – a third of the African refugee community.

When the Israeli high court forbade the government from keeping those men incarcerated there for more than a year, the latter banned the refugees who it was compelled to release from moving back to Tel Aviv or Eilat, the two Israeli cities with the largest asylum-seeker communities at the time.

As Israel released Holot’s remaining inmates in March, it informed them that the list of cities they were now forbidden from living or working in had mushroomed from two to seven, adding to the list Petah Tikva, Bnei Brak, Ashdod, Netanya and Jerusalem.

Now Netanyahu’s coalition partners say they may now pass an even harsher version of the so-called Anti-Infiltration Law which they have used to criminalize refugees.

The new bill would build in measures to insulate it from being overturned by the high court.

If they follow through on their threat to neuter the court’s powers, there would no longer be any legal impediment to jailing the African refugees indefinitely in Holot until they agree to self-deport to whatever destination Israel coerces them to go to.

David Sheen is an independent writer and filmmaker. Born in Toronto, Canada, Sheen now lives in Dimona. His website is www.davidsheen.com and he can be followed on Twitter: @davidsheen.

These are the Israelis Labour should support – not its killers in uniform

Emily Thornberry should be supporting Israel's Teenage Refuseniks not Labour's Apologists for Israeli Apartheid

Emily Thornberry, the Shadow Foreign Secretary and member of Labour Friends of Israel has called for all critics of Zionism and the Israeli settler state to be expelled from the Labour Party.  As the Morning Star observed recently, she is following a Blairite foreign policy.

Thornberry argues for support for a 2 state solution but one thing she isn't is stupid.  A careerist, an Atlanticist, an astute right-winger yes, but stupid no.  She is well aware that the 2 state solution has long since died.  She only supports it because she knows that as long as this fiction survives, then the demand for equality of rights for Palestinians can be resisted.  The nonsense of 2 state is the only argument for maintaining Israel's apartheid without calling it such.

What we should be doing is supporting those Israelis who are confronting Israel's military establishment such as the soldiers group Breaking the Silence and those young Israelis who refuse to enlist in an army of occupation.

IDF swearing in ceremony at Western Wall, Jerusalem

Dozens of Israeli teens: 'We refuse to enlist out of a commitment to peace'

‘Testimonies of former soldiers teach us that the reality of occupation does not allow one to make a difference from within. The power to change reality does not lay with the single soldier — but with the system as a whole.’

Solidarity protesters and family members protest for Israeli conscientious objector Tair Kaminer, Prison 400, central Israel, January 23, 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Sixty-three Israeli teenagers have published an open letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu on Thursday, declaring their refusal to join the Israeli army due to their opposition to the occupation.

 “The army carries out a racist government policy that enforces one legal system for Israelis and another for Palestinian in the same territory,” they write. “Therefore, we have decided not to take any part in the occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people… for as long as people live under an occupation that denies their human rights and national rights – we cannot have peace.”

The group calls itself the “2017 Seniors’ Letter,” continuing a long tradition of similar letters sent by high school seniors announcing their refusal to join the army, dating back to 1970 (the writer of this text was a signatory of the 2001 letter). Members of the group have stated they are willing to be imprisoned for their conscientious objection; one of them, Matan Helman, is already serving a prison sentence. The teens have also stated they will be traveling the country, speaking to others their age, challenging them to rethink their positions on military service and inviting them to join the movement.

The Israeli army does not recognize the right to conscientiously object to the draft based on rejection of the occupation. It does, however, allow for objection based solely on pacifism and the rejection of all forms of violence. These young refusers, therefore, are likely to be denied exemptions, and sent to repeated prison sentences of two to four weeks each, as has been the case with other conscientious objectors in recent years.

IDF refuseniks protest in Haifa in 2014 rami shlosh

In their letter, the young refusers list the occupation, the siege on Gaza, settlements, and violence toward Palestinians as the main reasons for the decision. However, they also mention the ongoing effects of militarism on the Israeli society, enshrining violent solutions instead of peace as a central value, and the effect the occupation has on strengthening Israeli capitalism and dependence on American military aid.

“Testimonies of former soldiers and heads of the security establishment teach us that the reality of occupation does not allow one to make a difference from within,” they write. “The power to change reality does not lay with the single soldier but with the system as a whole. Similarly, the blame for this reality does not lie with the soldier, but with the army and government. This is the system we wish to change.”

'We Won't Take Part in Occupation': Dozens of Teens Refuse to Enlist in Israeli Army in Letter to Netanyahu

A group of 63 teens have publicly declared they will refuse to be drafted into the Israel army, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Thursday morning.

“We have decided not to take part in the occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people,” they wrote in a letter sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and the defense and education ministers. “The ‘temporary’ situation has dragged on for 50 years, and we will not go on lending a hand.”

The high-schoolers criticized the government and the military in the letter. “The army is carrying out the government’s racist policy, which violates basic human rights and executes one law for Israelis and another law for Palestinians on the same territory,” they wrote.

The students also protested “intentional institutional incitement against Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line,” referring to the 1949 armistice line separating Israel from the West Bank, “and we here – draft-age boys and girls from different areas of the country and from different socioeconomic backgrounds – refuse to believe the system of incitement and to participate in the government’s arm of oppression and occupation.”

The letter called on others to reconsider being drafted, adding that intended to go around the country to recruit for their initiative.

 “We refuse to be drafted and to serve in the army out of an obligation to values of peace, justice and equality, with the knowledge that there is another reality that we could create together,” they wrote. “We call on girls our age to ask themselves, will army service work toward this reality?”

The signatories include Matan Helman, 20, of Kibbutz Haogen, who is serving jail time because of his refusal to be drafted into the army.

In early December, the education ministry and the IDF announced that they were working on a plan to increase the number of draftees enlisting for combat service. Currently, enlistment rates are sinking and dropout rates stand at over 7,000 male and female soldiers annually.

63 Israeli Teens Sign Open Letter To Netanyahu: We Refuse To Serve IDF

Israeli conscientious objectors.Read more: https://forward.com/fast-forward/391012/63-israeli-teens-sign-open-letter-to-netanyahu-we-refuse-to-serve-idf/

Israeli conscientious objectors.Read more: https://forward.com/fast-forward/391012/63-israeli-teens-sign-open-letter-to-netanyahu-we-refuse-to-serve-idf/

Israeli conscientious objectors.Read more: https://forward.com/fast-forward/391012/63-israeli-teens-sign-open-letter-to-netanyahu-we-refuse-to-serve-idf/

(JTA) — Some 63 Israeli high school students signed a public letter declaring that they will refuse to be drafted into the Israel Defense Forces.

The letter, published on Thursday in the Hebrew-language daily Yediot Acharonot, was addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Education Minister Naftali Bennett and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot.

“The army implements the policy of a racist government that violates basic human rights, which applies one law to Israelis and another to the Palestinians in the same area,” the students, most in 12th grade, wrote. “Therefore we decided to not take part in the occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people, which separates people into two hostile camps. Because as long as people live under occupation that denies them human rights and national rights we cannot achieve peace.”

The letter also said: “An entire nation is living under institutionalized incitement directed against Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line, and we are here – young men and women from different parts of the country and different social backgrounds – refusing to believe the systematic incitement or participate in the government’s oppressive and occupying arm.'

One of the signatories currently is serving in jail over his refusal to be drafted, Haaretz reported.

Medical issues and religious objection are considered valid reason for exemption from military service. Exemptions are not made for conscientious objectors.

Andrew Anglin - Editor of Nazi Daily Stormer distinguishes between Zionist Israelis and Diaspora Jews

If you are sceptical about Nazi-Zionist Collaboration then try explaining the open alliance between Zionists and the Alt-Right

Andrew Anglin - I've just become informed that there is a Jewish-Israel alt-Right.  I'm happy about this...

I must confess to rubbing my eyes at this programme on Israeli TV and the open praise by Andrew Anglin, the openly neo-Nazi editor of the Daily Stormer for Yair Netanyahu.  Benjamin Netanyahu has not said a word about his Nazi supporting son.  On the contrary he has gone out of his way to appear with him in public.  One can only assume that the conversation in the Netanyahu household is supportive of the alt-Right in comparison with their hatred of anything on the left.

This Israeli TV programme seems to have been a plug for neo-Nazis - Israeli and American.  We have Andrew Anglin interviewed and saying that 'I stand with Yair and his memes and I'm glad to see that there is an 'Alt Right in Israel who are standing against the corrosive influence in the West of the Jewish people.'

Israeli TV interviewer on Anglin

 The programme interviews a Michelle Ghora who is an Israeli Jew investigating Anglin but who is clearly sympathetic to him.   Ghora says that 'These people' (meaning neo-Nazis) have a point to complain about their countries being controlled by a hostile elite (i.e. Jews).'  You couldn't make it up.  Here you have on Israeli prime time TV, a supporter of neo-Nazis being interviewed about the praise of one of the world's leading neo-Nazis for the son of the Israeli Prime Minister

You wonder how the Jewish Labour Movement and their ilk have the gall to complain when we call Israel a racist state!

Benjamin Netanyahu makes it clear he stands by his son's comments

Anglin goes on to say that 'Yair is the man who is under attack here.  The man can't be judged by his father.  The man is being attacked by everyone in the world.  All the American Jews are coming out and attacking him.  All these leftist Israeli papers are calling him an anti-Semite.  And what he is doing is standing up against George Soros and the.... liberal Jews.  I'm defending Yair Netanyahu because he's stood up against the Jews.'

The interviewer, in what is almost a surreal bizarre interviewer then says of Anglin that he seems like 'a handsome, well spoken man, is there a point to what he is saying.'

KKK leader and holocaust denier David Duke extends his thanks to Yair

Anglin goes on to say that 'I've just become informed that there is a Jewish-Israel alt-Right.  I'm happy about this.... They are using some of our memes, it is based upon our movement, they are bothered, sick of the same people in the same way.'  

However there is an important point that needs to be made here.  Anglin is making a clear distinction between Israeli Jews and Zionists, who are racially aware and Diaspora Jews who are up to their old tricks, controlling other nations.  In this you see the coming together of Zionist ideology, which was always hostile to the diaspora and neo-Nazi anti-semitism.