A few weeks
ago I did a blog about the decision by Sussex Friends of Israel to abandon
their pitch in Brighton’s New Road and instead go to the Clocktower where they do
their best to try and disrupt the activities of the long-standing Palestine Solidarity
Campaign stall.The reasons they gave
for this were that allegedly the Police wouldn’t protect them from members of
the public who didn’t like racists peddling their hate on the streets of Brighton.
[Sussex
Friends of Israel’s Attempt to Disrupt and Prevent a Palestine Solidarity Stall
in Brighton Town Centre]
Sure enough
this Saturday members of the SFI were joined by about a dozen members from
London and a few Brighton members.Seeing that we were not at the Clocktower, (because we decamp to
Waitrose when it is raining), they followed us and proceeded to do their best
to disrupt our leafletting.
In fact the
only effect of their actions is to cause deep revulsion in members of the
public resulting in us running out of leaflets! For example the green grocer’s store
opposite us, Taj, brought us out teas
and coffees for us. As you can see in this video where one of the Zionist lovelies
spits out ‘piss off’ at a member of
the public, they are hardly winning hearts and minds!
I thought in
view of the scenes in the videos, where their only chant was ‘Jew haters’ that I should remind people,
especially those like the Brighton and Hove councillors who voted to endorse
the IHRA ‘definition of anti-Semitism’ recently, that the only racists and hate
mongers on the streets of Brighton and Hove are Fiona Sharp’s SFI.Fiona Sharpe, the Secretary of SFI, has
rebadged herself as the Community Safety and Jewish Representative Council representative
so it is good to show her in her true colours.
SFI have a web site and a Code of Conduct.I invite people to compare the Code with the
film taken last Saturday and previous Saturdays and see if the words ‘hypocrite’ springs to mind.In a religious sense it is the gulf between
what one preaches and what one practices. Politically it represents the gap
between what you say you believe in and what you actually believe in.
According to their Code
‘SFI
stakeholders should aim to refrain from harassment – unwelcome verbal,
offensive, abusive or physical behavior – especially whensuch
conduct interferes with another person or creates an intimidating, hostile or
offensive environment.’
Another provision in
this excellent Code of Conduct specifies that
‘SFI
seeks to honour individual, cultural and role differences’ and
‘SFI respects the opinions, knowledge,
insight, experience and expertise of all members of the general public.’
Perhaps screaming ‘Jew haters’ and in Fiona Sharpe’s
shouting ‘fascist’ in the ear of Yasser,
a Palestinian member of PSC, is an example of this respect.
SFI
also preach tolerance:
‘SFI respects
the opinions, knowledge, insight, experience and expertise of all members of the general public.’
Note the reference to ‘all’One can only assume
that despite having lived in Britain for most, if not all, of their miserable
lives that members of SFI still have only a shaky grasp of the English language
or, for that matter, British irony.Not,
I hasten to add, because they are Jewish but because they are bad Zionist liars!
But
it is SFI’s Christian Evangelist supporters who stand out. They manage to
combine racism against Palestinians (‘what
is Palestine? is a frequent meme) with anti-Semitism. These ‘Christians’ do
not discriminate – they hate virtually everyone.
Christian Zionism was
a product of the Protestant Reformation, with its belief that in order for
there to be a second coming of Christ, the Jews must return to the Holy Land. These
are the End Times. The nearer Israel is to a nuclear war the happier are our Christians
because that is a divine signal that the End is Nigh. Hence the Christian Zionists
are amongst the supporters of the most racist and exterminatory wing of Zionist.
According to their beliefs the Battle of Armageddon will follow during
which most Jews will die, a second Holocaust, and the remaining third will be
transported up to heavens in The
Rapture. This is the lunacy which motivates our band of Christian Zionists
in Sussex FOI. Of course the indigenous Palestinians have no rights at all and
these Christian fascists would quite happily accept their extermination as
their fellows in America did when the native Americans were exterminated.
Prime
amongst these is the President of Christians United for Israel, John Hagee. CUFI
has 1.4 million members so it is not an insignificant organisation.In 2008 Hagee endorsed Senator John
McCain, Obama’s Republican opponent. McCain. McCain was forced to disavow Hagee
as news of a sermon he gave in the late 1990’s became public.
Hagee had
preached in this sermon that the Nazis had operated on God’s behalf to chase
the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine. According to Hagee, Adolf
Hitler was a "hunter," sent
by God, who was tasked with expediting God’s will of having the Jews
re-establish a state of Israel.
Going in and
out of biblical verse, Hagee preached:
‘And they the hunters should hunt
them,’ that will be the Jews. ‘From every mountain and
from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.’ If that doesn’t
describe what Hitler did in the holocaust you can’t see that.
He goes on:
Theodore
Herzl is the father of Zionism. He was a Jew who at the turn of the 19th
century said... ‘I want you to come and join me in the land of Israel.’ ... Those
who came founded Israel; those who did not went through the hell of the
holocaust.
"Then god sent a hunter. A
hunter is someone with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter.’ ... And
that might be offensive to some people but don’t let your heart be offended. I
didn’t write it, Jeremiah wrote it. It was the truth and it is the truth. How
did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God
said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the
land of Israel."
The best
description for Christian Zionists is that they are anti-Semites.It is no coincidence that they and Sussex
Friends of Israel, which was founded by an EDL supporter, Simon Cobbs, get on
so well.
There's something they don't want you to see!
Incidentally
John Hagee has gone to a lot of trouble to prevent this video of his sermon being
shown.Fortunately I downloaded a copy
years ago when it was available and I now make it available again. I suspect
that Youtube will delete it again so make a copy andshow it to your children!!
In Israel human rights activists are considered traitors, foreign
agents and terrorist supporters
One of the signs that Israel
is on the road to becoming an authoritarian state is the fact that even the herrenvolk, Jews who are human rights supporters or anti-war activists, are attacked as
traitors, spies, foreign agents and enemies of the State. Even the liberal New Israel Fund [NIF] is considered a hostile organisation.
Im Tirtzu video targeting New Israel Fund for allegedly persecuting Israeli soldiers
One particular object of attack is George Soros, the billionaire Jewish philanthropist, who has funded the NIF and Israeli human rights organisations. The Zionist attack on Soros is no different from the attacks of anti-semites. Indeed Netanyahu joined hands with the far-Right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the latter's attack on Soros.
Yair Netanyahu's cartoon which drew praise from neo-Nazis
Last year Netanyahu's son, Yair, drew a cartoon of Soros which received plaudits from David Duke of the KKK and Andrew Anglin of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer. The Jerusalem Post quoted Zehava Gal-On, former head of Meretz as saying that 'this won’t be the last time that neo-Nazis quote Netanyahu,” accusing him of “supporting world antisemitism” after the Foreign Ministry released a statement legitimizing criticism of Hungarian- American billionaire George Soros. William Echikson in Politico echoed this:
'During his campaign, Orbán blamed his country’s problems on a Jewish financier, George Soros — and won, big time. After his victory, Orbán spokesman, Zoltán Kovács, said the attacks on Soros “could not possibly be anti-Semitic, since they were echoed by Netanyahu.”
Don't let Soros have the last laugh, in a mocking echo of Hitler's prophecy speech when he talked about having the last laugh over the Jews who had derided him
Anti-semites claiming that their support for Zionism means they can't possibly be antisemitic has become a regular theme. When people say that anti-semites disguise or hide their anti-semitism by professing support for the Palestinians, the opposite is usually true. Most anti-semites today assert that they couldn't possibly be anti-semitic since they support Israel and Zionism. People such as Richard Spencer, the founder of the alt-Right who declares himself a 'White Zionist'. Viktor Orban has launched a campaign to rehabilitate Hungary's pro-Nazi war time ruler, Admiral Horthy, who presided over the deportation of nearly 1/2 million Jews to Auschwitz. This however has not stopped Netanyahu from striking up an alliance with Orban.
Im Tirzu, is part of the far-Right scene in Israel. It is a fascist pressure group which see it as its mission to demonise Israeli
human rights organisations, cultural figures of the left and indeed any
opposition to the right-wing nationalist demagogy that passes for debate in Israel. Even the Jerusalem District Court said it was
legitimate to call Im
Tirzu a fascist group.
Im Tirzu is not a
marginal organisation.It is actively
supported by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu but not only him.The ‘opposition’ of Yesh Atid, a supposedly
centrist party under Yair Lapid and the Israeli Labour Party under its new
right-wing leader Avi Gabbay, also support the demonization of human rights
groups.
On its 10th
anniversary Netanyahu posted a video congratulating Im Tirzu on its fine work
The latest Im Tirzu video attacks the NIF which funds human rights
organisations such as Bt’selem as traitors who attack ‘our’ soldiers as they go about their thankless work murdering
Palestinians.It is the kind of
propaganda stuff you would expect of a fascist organisation for whom the
fatherland is uber alles.
You see the same adoration for the
forces of the state that existed in Nazi Germany.Im Tirzu specialises in
attacking dissident culture and even prominent left-Zionist cultural figures. The Nazi party also attacked avante garde
culture.In the words of Herman Goering,
‘when I hear the words culture, I reach
for my revolver.’
This is where Zionism and its racial supremacist, ethno-nationalist
state are now heading.A state where the very term ‘leftist’ is now a term of abuse.
Jonathan Offir’s article is a
timely reminder that far from being a democratic state, Israel is rapidly
removing democratic rights even from Jews.
The rightwing Israeli Jewish group “Im
Tirtzu” has published an incitement video, featuring Adi Shosberger, who has recently called soldiers near the Gaza fence ‘terrrorists,’ and an activist
from ‘Machsom Watch’ (‘Checkpoint watch’) who tells an Israeli soldier
“you are a disgrace”.
The video frames these actions as a
conspiracy of the progressive New Israel Fund. New Israel Fund, a global organization based in the U.S., has
supported Machsom Watch, but it has no connection to Shosberger. “I have
no connection to the New Israel Fund,” Shosberger writes, in Hebrew.
The Im Tirtzu video satirically promotes a
video game, where one plays a soldier confronting leftist activists:
“Do you
want to experience what IDF soldiers feel when they are persecuted by New
Israel Fund organizations?”, the
narrator says.
In the game,
the soldier confronts activists and ‘terrorists’ yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’. The narrator says:
“What are
you waiting for? Join the fight against the foreign agents.”
In the
actual video game, the soldier can kill the Palestinians, but has to jump over
the Israeli activists.
Shosberger,
who was protesting the manifestly illegal policy of shooting unarmed
protesters, has also been trashed by a
mainstream radio host who has publicly fantasized about her rape and murder,
calling her “stupid”, “filth” and “little bitch”.
The Israeli organization “Im Tirzu“ calls
itself “the largest grassroots Zionist movement in Israel,” but has been widely
labelled “fascist”. A Jerusalem court judge has even ruled that this is a legitimate charge.
woman reading out statement from Breaking the Silence
Its call to fight the “foreign agents” arose 2-1/2 years ago, when Im Tirtzu published a video which incited against four NGO’s: B’Tselem, the Public Committee
Against Torture in Israel, Breaking the Silence, and HaMoked: Center for the
Defense of the Individual. Staffers were personally named and framed as
“foreign agents”.
“While we fight terror, they fight us,” the
narrator said
That video
coincided with the push from Justice
Minister Ayelet Shaked, herself arguably a fascist, of the “Transparency bill” nearly two years ago, which forced organizations that receive more
than half their funding from institutions abroad (including from European
governments), to disclose it prominently in official reports. The law does not
specifically refer to leftwing organizations, but applies to about 25 NGOs.
Rightwing NGOs, such as those supporting Israel’s occupation of the West Bank,
tend to rely on private donations, which the law does not cover.
The recent video is a further incitement
against those who criticize Israeli policy, and it is making a blanket
judgement of any dissent to be a national treason by “foreign agents”.
Im Tirtzu is ostensibly calling for this
treatment of “foreign agents” to be implemented in law. But the incitement
there is so virulent, that it’s not difficult to see how someone might get the
idea that they should take the law into their own hands, and ‘teach these
foreign agents a lesson’ – as an act of patriotism, of course.
One might be inclined to see this merely as a
‘game’, as the video suggests it is. But it is not a game. It is dead serious.
It’s as serious as when the mentioned mainstream radio host Shai Goldstein says
he “feels like killing that woman” (Adi Shosberger). But many Israelis don’t
seem to get this. It passes as mere ‘outrage’, justified by the notion that the
“most moral army in the world” cannot possibly be carrying out acts of terrorism,
or even acting in ways which are a “disgrace”.
Militarism is a religion in Israel, like
Zionism, and people are being sacrificed by it in many ways. Mostly, it’s
Palestinians – but it’s also those who show solidarity with them. Then you’re a
“foreign agent”.
About Jonathan Ofir
Israeli musician, conductor and blogger / writer based
in Denmark.
The right-wing group's director tells Haaretz, however, that the public
has the right to know about cultural figures' left-wing affiliations.
The latest Im Tirtzu campaign, which targets left-wing artists. Pictured (from left): Sha'anan Street, Amos Oz, Joshua Sobol and Gila Almagor. From the Facebook page of Im Tirtzu
The right wing Im Tirtzu group, which last month stirred controversy over
its video targeting figures from left-wing organizations as foreign "moles," acknowledged that it had erred in a new poster that purports to expose some of
Israel's leading cultural figures as left-wing.
The acknowledgment of the mistake with regard to the poster, in which
authors Amos Oz, David Grossman and A.B. Yehoshua, actress Gila Almagor and
singer Chava Alberstein among others were labeled "moles in culture"
was posted on the organization's Facebook page over the signature of its
director general, Matan Peleg. The poster, which was put on the group's
Facebook page on Wednesday, disclosed what Im Tirtzu claimed was the
cultural figures' association with left-wing groups.
Despite the admission of error, in a conversation with Haaretz, Peleg
defended the poster and said the public has the right to know about the
political activities of those featured in it. The poster prompted widespread
condemnation from politicians on the right as well as the left, including
condemnation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Among those criticizing it were Education Minister Naftali Bennett, the
leader of the right-of-center Habayit Hayehudi party, who called the material
"embarrassing, unnecessary and humiliating." His party colleague,
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked added that artists identified with the left
should not be placed out of bounds. For his part, Likud Knesset member Benny
Begin called the outing of purported traitors "a longstanding ugly and
dangerous fascist trait."
In its Facebook post on Friday, Im Tirtzu did not provide detail
regarding what it viewed as mistaken in the poster, and did not remove it from
its website or remove the list of artists and intellectuals that accompanied
it. In a separate statement, Im Tirtzu reaffirmed that it was proud of its
initial "moles" campaign directed at figures associated with Israeli
human rights groups and left-wing organizations receiving foreign government
funding, saying that the mistake that it was acknowledging only related to the
poster featuring the cultural figures.
Friday's Facebook post over Peleg's name contained the following
admission regarding the poster: "We
made a mistake. We put up a mistaken post on a very important and substantial
subject and therefore we need to be much more careful." Saying that
the poster didn't constitute a campaign and that the organization wasn't
calling anyone a traitor, despite media allegations to that effect, the
statement in Peleg's name added: "We
take full responsibility and promise to continue to work with great faith on
behalf of the people of Israel and the soldiers of the IDF," the
Israel Defense Forces.
"We will continue to convey
pointed criticism of organizations that present IDF soldiers as war criminals
and against those calling for a boycott of the country. Many thanks to all
those who have supported us over the past two days and thank-you also to those
who set us straight over our mistake," the statement added.
Later Im Tirtzu issued a clarification that the acknowledgement of the
error related only to Wednesday's post of the poster and not the earlier
campaign "which exposed those who
harm IDF soldiers, [a campaign] over which we are proud and will continue [to publicize]."
In his conversation with Haaretz, however, Peleg defended his group's
publication of the list of cultural figures, information that he said was
already available elsewhere on the Internet. "The major advantage of the media storm that erupted is that now many in
Israeli society know that when they say 300 cultural figures have signed a
petition of one kind or another, they know they can check it name by name, and
it's possible that they will see some of the names on the public boards of
outside organizations," he explained.
When asked about his group's future direction, he replied: "The DNA of Im Tirtzu is to work
against organizations that harm IDF soldiers, and that won't change."
He explained that the Facebook post with the poster on cultural figures was not
removed because the group viewed the material posted on Facebook as an ongoing
feed, meaning that, with the posting of additional material, the poster appears
lower down.
"If you assume responsibility,
you assume responsibility," he said. "Now
that we have written what is mistaken in it, we will certainly leave it so
anyone who wants to form an impression will do so. We are not evading
responsibility. We wrote in the post what we view as a mistake and we are
moving forward."
A verdict by the Jerusalem District Court finds that
recognizing ‘certain lines of resemblance’ to fascism in the ideology or
activities of the right-wing movement can be seen as ‘truthful.’ The verdict is
a major blow to Im Tirtzu’s efforts to portray itself as a mainstream, grassroots
movement.
The extreme-right group Im Tirtzu
lost a court case against a group of leftist activists who opened a Facebook
page called “Im Tirtzu
– A Fascist Movement.” Judge Raphael Ya’akobi of the Jerusalem District
Court determined that some of Im Tirtzu’s attributes bear certain similarities
to fascism – thus allowing the activists to use both a freedom of speech
defense, as well as “spoken truth” defense.
Ya’akobi ruled against Im Tirtzu
in all claims of the lawsuit, except for a post on the group’s page which drew
similarities between Im Tirzu and Nazi ideology.
Im Tirtzu has become known over
the past several years for their attacks on left-wing academics and
organizations. Following the
Goldstone Report on 2008-09’s
Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, Im Tirtzu accused
the New Israel Fund of aiding, through the various organizations it supports,
the UN fact finding mission. A personal campaign against the head of the NIF,
Naomi Chazan, bore
anti-Semitic features [disclaimer: +972
Magazine is on the New Israel Fund’s donor-advised list].
Ad by Im Tirzu blaming the head of NIF Naomi Hazan in the creation of the Goldstone report
Three-and-a-half years ago, Im
Tirtzu filed lawsuit against the creators of the Facebook page “Im Tirtzu – a
Fascist Movement,” demanding NIS 2.6 million ($720,000 US) in compensation and
the removal of the page. During the procedures, the defendants had Professor
Zeev Sternhell, a world expert on fascism, testify on the resemblance between
Im Tirtzu’s activities and those of the
European extreme right in the first half of
the twentieth century. Sternhell himself was a victim of a pipe-bomb
attack by Jewish terrorist Ya’akov “Jack” Teitel.
Furthermore, Ya’akobi ruled that
in all cases but one, the name of the Facebook page and the specific posts that
were brought before him fall under the right to free opinion. Thus, a
slanderous motive cannot be attributed to them.
Although the court could have
stopped there, Ya’akobi also accepted the defense of “a truthful publication,”
that the critique of Im Tirtzu as part of the political debate was in the
public’s interest. In other words, the court is not stating the Im Tirtzu is a
fascist movement (or that it isn’t, for that matter), but that because there
exist “certain lines of resemblance” to fascism, calling them as such cannot be
considered slanderous.
This is a major blow to Im
Tirtzu’s attempts to position themselves as a mainstream grassroots movement.
In the past, group members threatened a lawsuit
against Wikipedia Israel for calling it “a right-wing movement” on its entry.
Im Tirtzu has been sponsored by
John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel. According to the movement’s report,
in recent years most of the support to Im Tirtzu comes from the Central Fund of
Israel, which sponsors various religious, right-wing and settler causes.
The Jerusalem court did not call
for compensation regarding the single claim in which it ruled in favor of Im
Tirtzu, since the case is likely to end up in the Supreme Court.
Debate between Tony Greenstein, a Jewish anti-Zionist & Daniel Randall of the Alliance 4 Workers Liberty
Is ‘left’ Anti-Semitism a genuine problem or an Invention of the Right?
Thursday September 15th 19.00-21.00 Lord Nelson Pub, Trafalgar Street, Brighton
Britain's neo-Nazi & fascist groups recognise who their friends are: English Defence League attack on Birmingham PSC stall - waving the Israeli flag with one hand and giving a Hitler salute with the other
In BBC1’s Question Time debate (September 8th) between Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith, Smith denounced the thousands of alleged infiltrators into the Labour Party.He singled out for mention the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty as ‘anti-Semitic’.Ignorance seems to be Smith’s only redeeming virtue, given that there is no group on the left which is more assiduously pro-Zionist and supportive of the Israeli state as a Jewish state than the AWL.It should be said that there is no evidence I have seen that they are anti-Semitic either!
AWL has almost single handedly pioneered the concept
of ‘left anti-Semitism’ despite the fact that it is the Right and the Far Right
which has historically been anti-Semitic.Most anti-Semites have also, at one and the same time, been avidly pro-Zionist.
For example William Stanley Shaw,the
President of the British Brothers League, the first anti-Semitic organisation
in this country,wrote:
Owen Smith - sees anti-Semitism everywhere - including the AWL
‘I am a firm believer in the Zionist
movement, which the British Brothers League will do much incidentally to
foster. The return of the Jews to
Palestine is one of the most striking signs of the times’ [Jewish Chronicle 8.11.1901] Like many of his
ilk, Shaw was anti-Semitic, an Evangelical Christian and a supporter of Zionism. Today in the United States, the most ardent
supporters of Zionism are the Christian Zionists and the million strong Christians United for Israel, led by the anti-Semitic Pastor John Hagee.
More
recently Ruth Smeed, a spokesperson for the Zionist Board of Deputies of British
Jews admitted that ‘‘The BNP website is
now one of the most Zionist on the web – it goes further than any of the
mainstream parties in its support of Israel’. When Ken Livingstone spoke about Hitler’s
support for Zionism he was shouted down, although historically he was correct
in all but minor details.
The AWL are alone on the Left in supporting the idea of 'left anti-Semitism'
Anti-Semites
have always supported Zionism and Zionists have always supported anti-Semites. The attack against Corbyn as ‘anti-Semitic’ was
led by the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Stephen Pollard. To Pollard Jeremy Corbyn’s support for the Palestinians
and his opposition to Zionism were proof positive of his ‘anti-Semitism’.
Yet when
David Cameron was under attack for his association with Michal Kaminski, the Chair
of the European Conservative and Reform Group in the European Parliament, Pollard
had no hesitation in supporting both Cameron and Kaminski. Kaminski was then a member of Poland’s far-Right
Law & Justice Party and formerly a member of NOP, a party that the Chief
Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich, described
as neo-Nazi. In 2001, Kaminski opposed
a Polish apology for the massacre of up to 900 Jews by Poles in the village of
Jedwabne. The Jews were herded into a
barn which was then set ablaze. In Kaminski’s
view it was the Jews who owed Poland an apology.
Pollard
wrote that ‘There
are few things more despicable than anti-Semitism, but here's one of them: using a false
charge of anti-Semitism for political gain.
Yet it seems there are few depths to which some will not sink in
their desperation to damage David Cameron. …....Far from
being an anti-Semite, Mr Kaminski is about as pro-Israeli an MEP as exists.’ [Anti-Semitic
mudslinging of the worst kind (7.8.2009)
Unfortunately Pollard failed to
take his own advice. Although he was in
2009 seeking to protect the reputation of the Tory leader, David Cameron, in
2015/16 he was seeking to damage the reputation of the Labour leader Jeremy
Corbyn. As Antony Lerman noted, ‘The idea that being
"pro-Israeli" inoculates you against being an antisemite, or that it
means that you are incapable of holding antisemitic views, is simply false –
both as a theoretical proposition and as a statement of fact.’ But
is Kaminski good for the Jews?
The AWL is an oddity amongst the
Left. They campaign on the slogan ‘2
Peoples, 2 States’ and see a Jewish state as a positive virtue. Alone among the Left, the AWL have been
vociferous opponents of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. When I spoke at UNISON’s national conference
in 2007 in support of BDS, the only speaker from the left was from AWL. Notwithstanding which the motion passed with
about 80% support!
AWL are blind to the fact that
even within Israel, Palestinians are treated as guests, there on
sufferance. They view the opposition of
people on the Left to Israel as a form of ‘left anti-Semitism’ but also, at one
and the same time, accept that this ‘anti-Semitism’ is not racist. Its guru, Sean Matgamna writes that ‘apart from a nut here and there, left-wing
anti-semites are not racist.’ [What is “left-wing
anti-semitism”?]
In my view this is nothing other
than a capitulation to social chauvinism and western imperialism. It is not the first time that the AWL has
done this. After the American invasion
of Iraq they were alone in opposing the call for the withdrawal. They oppose the call for a United Ireland and
were hostile to the idea of Argentinian sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas
islands.
