Defend Palestine's Children - Defend the Al Tafawk Centre

Israel’s ‘right to self-defence’ includes Soldiers Setting Dogs on Children Yet Starmer, Badenoch & the Monsters Who Rule Us Are More Concerned About Palestinian Marches Against Genocide Which Upset Zionist Feelings

Webinar Thursday May 14^th, 7 pm 2026

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https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1WIS2OPOS-unuTPWHe2hMQ

The Al Tafawk Centre in Jenin was established in 2010 as a sanctuary providing food, education and recreation, to children aged 3–16. It is the only kindergarten in the area. The centre has faced repeated raids, including destruction of its interior in 2021 and 2023, from the Israeli military. 

The Israeli Military Stops Children Going to School so They Demonstrate

Israeli soldiers punched holes in Al Tafawk's  Walls in 2023

Why did Israel raid and wreck a children’s centre in Jenin? and

Palestinian children in the West Bank are also under attack

In 2025 the Al Tafawk Centre was destroyed along with Jenin Refugee Camp.  It has re-established itself in Jenin City and is now under constant attack from the IDF. Armed soldiers frequently enter the Centre and assault staff.

The One Year old Child Tortured with Cigarettes

“For I did not consider myself justified in exterminating the men… and then allowing their children to grow up to wreak vengeance on our children and grandchildren.

The difficult decision had to be taken to make these people disappear from the face of the earth.

For the… https://t.co/1NLjol43DT

— BennyAdam (@BennyAdamTalks) August 25, 2024

We are holding this meeting in order to build political pressure on our complicit government  of war criminals who enable the Israeli state to murder and abuse Palestine’s children. We have a Labour Government that won't even impose sanctions on Israel for killing thousands of children yet it is happy to impose sanctions on Russia and Iran.

Even Israel cannot claim that its right to self-defence includes attacking young children.

Full CCTV footage: Israeli forces raid & seal shut DCIP office

On April 10 Defend Children International – Palestine also closed its doors. In 2021 Israel’s Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, a member of the anti-Netanyahu ‘change’ government, designated DCI-P a ‘terrorist’ organisation. The ‘Change’ government was no change for Palestinians.

Israel's torture of children

Lisa Nandy, who believe it or not was Chair of Labour Friends of Palestine has turned out to be a virulent opportunist and racist. She attacked the BBC for briefly putting on the film Gaza:  How  To Survive a Warzone, narrated by children in Gaza because one of their fathers had been a Deputy Minister in Gaza's government.  The allegation of being a Hamas member was unsubstantiated but if so, so what?  Compared to the Israeli government Hamas are like virginal choirboys.

Really glad to speak alongside @EmilyThornberry @CarolineLucas @hammersmithandy and others at a packed @PSCupdates rally for Palestine tonight. When you threaten children’s rights anywhere, you threaten children’s rights everywhere pic.twitter.com/P569XwGoW1

— Lisa Nandy MP (@lisanandy) November 28, 2018

Speakers at the webinar which is chaired by Ghada Karmi, an author & Palestinian academic and refugee from the Nakba in 1948 include

Khaled Quzmar from DCI-Palestine;

Karen, a former Volunteer at the Al Tafawk Centre;

Samer Jaber, a former Child Prisoner of Israel,

Tony Greenstein of The Brighton Trust and

Naomi Wayne, trustee of the British Shalom-Salaam Trust

We have invited Zarah Sultana and Layla Moran MPs but we have heard nothing from either of them yet.

The Israeli Military Punched Holes in Al Tafawks Outside Walls

Numbers were written on the women's hands just as numbers were branded on the bodies of Auschwitz prisoners

The Zionist Attitude to Palestinian Children Mirrors that of the Nazis to Jewish Children

Israel has historically been obsessed with demographic statistics. How many Jews and Arabs were born in the night. This is natural in a Jewish ethno-nationalist state. Israel isn’t culturally or spiritually or even religiously Jewish – it is racially Jewish.

It is inevitable that that turns into hatred of the other, i.e. the Palestinians. They are not Jewish, not ‘one of us’ they are therefore the enemy. This is as true of ‘liberal’ and ‘left’ Zionists as it is of the right-wing kind.

The same was true of South Africa which fretted about the lack of White immigrants. Christian nationalist states in Eastern Europe were the most enthusiastic participants in the holocaust because Jews rendered their states racially ‘impure’

The children of Jews in Germany and Europe were also seen as a threat to the Volksgemeinschaft, the racially pure community. The same applies in Israel today although, like in Germany, it is often disguised in ‘anti-terrorist’ rhetoric.

Himmler, the head of the SS explained this when he told senior SS Generals at Posnan on October 6 1943:

For I did not consider myself justified in exterminating the men... and then allowing their children to grow up to wreak vengeance on our children and grandchildren. The difficult decision had to be taken to make these people disappear from the face of the earth. For the organization that had to carry out this duty it was the most difficult that we have ever had to undertake.’

In July 2014 Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home party, who later became Israel’s Justice Minister in the ‘change’ government, posted a text on Facebook, written by Israeli writer, Uri Elitzur, which referred to Palestinian children as "little snakes." Not only must ‘terrorists die but so must

the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They must follow in the footsteps of their sons, there is nothing more just than that. They must go, and so must the physical house in which they raised the snake. Otherwise, more little snakes will grow there....

Ayelet Shaked's Original Facebook Post

In Israel it is the Rabbis who act as the legitimisers for the genocide and murder of children. There are a whole nest of these genocidal vipers who call themselves rabbis.

Rabbi Mali who trains religious Jews for the Israeli army advocates killing Palestinian children

Rabbi Eliyahu Mali of Bnei Moshe Yeshiva in Jaffa openly advocated  the murder of Palestinian children. Like Himmler he saw Palestinian children as the future generation of fighters.

Today's terrorists are the children of the prior [military] operation that left them alive. The women are essentially the ones who are producing the terrorists,... It's not only the 14 or 16-year-old boy, the 20 or 30-year-old man who takes up a weapon against you but also the future generation. There's really no difference

Rabbi Mali explains why killing Palestinian children is good - this monster teaches future soldiers

Mali called, during a conference on 8 March, for the Israeli army to kill ‘all residents of Gaza’. When asked whether this included babies he said:

“Those who create the terrorists” should also be killed, in reference to women in Gaza. Elderly people are also legitimate targets, according to Mali.

"There is no such thing called innocent creature. By the way, the elderly man is capable of carrying a rifle and shooting. Therefore, the Torah is very clear in the ruling."

Naturally the Israeli Police recommended that no charges be brought against Mali but if he had been an Israeli Palestinian they would have been arrested, beaten up and charged. 

This is the ideology that produces soldiers who set dogs on children and who snipe children in the head for fun in Gaza. This is the state that Starmer, Lammy, Badenoch et al justify, in addition to our own Chief Genocidal Rabbi Mirvis.

As Susan Abuhalwa explained in her speech to the Oxford Union, which that latter body censored,

“… and in the 1980s and ’90s, Israeli soldiers had left booby-trapped toys in southern Lebanon that exploded when excited children picked them up.”

This is a matter of public record, cited in the UK Parliament and multiple reports and periodicals at the time. It speaks volumes that the Oxford Union, which has historically platformed far-right speakers and racists in the name of ‘freedom of speech’ has nonetheless censored pro-Palestinian speech in the name of ‘anti-Semitism’ no doubt.

Tony Greenstein

Do not spare a soul': Israeli rabbi says women, children should be killed in Gaza

 'Erase Gaza': How genocidal rhetoric became normalised in Israel

The Murder of 2 Jews at a Manchester Synagogue is as Despicable as Israeli snipers killing 2 Catholics at Gaza’s Holy Family Parish Church or Murdering Muslims in Mosques

 The Board of Deputies & the Zionist Lobby said that British Jews Support Genocide in Gaza

Is it Surprising That Someone Believed Them?

It goes without saying that the attack on Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester should be condemned unreservedly. British Jews are not responsible for the war crimes and genocide taking place in Gaza, despite the best efforts of the claque of Zionist organisations to get people to believe that they are.

The so-called Jewish representative organisations like the Board of Deputies, the Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish Leadership Council and the astoundingly stupid Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis bear a large responsibility for what happened in Manchester when two Jewish worshippers lost their lives.

As far as I can ascertain from two AI programmes (Chat GP and Grok) there has never been a fatal attack on a Jewish synagogue before 2 October 2025. The person who carried out the attack, Jihad al-Shamie, is highly likely to have been motivated, not by racial hatred but by Israel’s war crimes and genocide in Gaza.

Contrary to Starmer’s suggestion that an age-old anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews is to blame, the causes are modern. It is Starmer’s supply of arms and weaponry to Israel and support of military collaboration with Israel that helped cause the murders in Manchester.

In November 2009 on the BBC’s Big Questions I attacked those Zionist organisations in Britain who spend their time trying to convince people that British Jews support Israel’s war crimes. This was reported by the Jewish Chronicle as ‘The Board of Deputies is to blame for rising antisemitism in Britain, according to a leading member of a Jewish anti-Israel group’.

What I said was that:

 “Of course there’s no justification for antisemitism, but there’s also no justification for the Board of Deputies calling rallies in support of the invasion of Lebanon and Gaza in the name of the British Jewish community. That causes antisemitism. [Jewish Chronicle 19.11.09].

Those who openly supported the murder and massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and Palestine in the name of British Jews are those who are ultimately guilty for the murder of 2 Jewish worshippers in Manchester.

Less than a week ago on Twitter I told the Board of Deputies

If you want to stop anti-Semitism @boardofdeputies then stop associating British Jews with the Holocaust in Gaza.
Your support for Zionism, a Christian ideology originally, makes Jews unsafe because most people don't like those who starve children to death. That's what the… https://t.co/IAgx9f3hsT

— Tony Greenstein tonygreenstein.com (@TonyGreenstein) September 29, 2025

The Board of Deputies Protesting That The Government Has Resumed Funding UNWRA and Is Not Objecting to the ICC's Jurisdiction re Israeli War Crimes

I went on to say that

Any British Jews who supports Israel's holocaust and starvation in Gaza should not complain of 'antisemitic hate' when what it really is is a justifiable reaction against Jewish Nazism.

The Board defends Israel's cold-blooded murder of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators as Hamas using children as pawns

The Board of Deputies has consistently supported every war crime of the Israeli state. It supported the murder of over 300 unarmed Palestinians in Gaza in the Great Return march. It supports Israel’s genocide and indeed penalised those few Deputies who eventually spoke out against the genocide.

The Jewish Chronicle Defends Israel's Starvation of Children by Pretending That They All Suffered from Medical Conditions not Lack of Food!

The Jewish Chronicle has been even worse. It should be renamed ‘The Holocaust Denial Gazette’. It has repeatedly defended Israel starving Palestinian children to death claiming that they had medical pre-conditions. It is as if starving to death already ill children was justified. Previously only Hitler justified starving disabled children as part of his ‘euthenasia’ program.

It took the Times of Israel to rebut the lies of the British Jewish Establishment which had justified Israel’s policy of starving the population of Gaza. The ToI quoted two senior Israeli doctors, including the head of the pediatric gastroenterology unit at one of Israel’s premier medical institutions, who ‘insisted that al-Mutawaq’s severely emaciated state is not the result of his preexisting medical conditions alone.’

The attempt of the Zionist propagandists to justify Israel’s policy of starving the population, denying it was even happening, by suggesting that photographs of starving children were misleading in not mentioning pre-existing medical ailments was given legs by a particularly nauseating apologist for Israeli war crimes, David Collier. This was quickly followed up by the misnamed Honest Reporting Zionist site

The Board of Deputies and other Zionist organisations were at the centre of the fake and false 'antisemitism' allegations

The ToI quoted Israeli doctors as having

insisted that no child suffering from such diseases in Israel or most other Western countries would be so skeletal or display such severe malnutrition, and that he was likely in such condition due to an inability to access the proper nutritional supplements.

Prof. Dan Turner, the head of a pediatric gastroenterology unit and Deputy Dean of the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University stated that

You categorically do not find kids looking like that in Israel or Western countries. Even patients with background diseases should not be malnourished like that. A patient like that would be admitted to hospital.

None of this is to justify what happened in Manchester. There are those in the Palestine solidarity movement who buy into the Zionist lie that Israel is a Jewish state and that the British and US states are controlled by Zionists. Such people therefore believe that attacking individual Jewish Zionists in Britain or the US is the solution to Western imperialism’s support for Israel.

These lies are dangerously wrong. Israel is supported by Western elites, not because the British or American states are controlled by Zionists or subject to Zionist infiltration as Professor David Miller has stupidly suggested but because Western imperialism deems it in its interests to support the Israeli attack dog in the Middle East. See Jonathan Cook’s The billionaire class want you thinking Israel controls the West and In Gaza, western colonialism has been unmasked

It is in the interests of western elites to pretend that their support for Israel is all about their concern for Jews and ‘anti-Semitism’, the only form of racism that Trump, Reform and the Tories condemn. That this is all about a ‘Jewish’ state trying to protect itself, albeit over zealously at times, and tie that in with the interests of Jewish populations in the West.

It is convenient for those self-same elites to disguise their own interests in oil and geo-political strategy with concern for Jews. Jews have become the moral alibi for Israel's war crimes and the slaughter of thousands of children, the rape and murder of women and the torture camps for Gaza’s men.

Those who condemn the killing of 2 Jewish worshippers in Manchester should equally condemn the killing of Muslim and Christian worshippers in Gaza yet the genocidal Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and the genocide supporting President of the Board of Deputies, Phil Rosenberg have said nothing about the attacks on places of worship in Gaza. On the contrary when 36 Deputies issued a mild letter of criticism in the FT Rosenberg had them disciplined and issued his own letter saying that ‘The Board of Deputies stands firmly with Israel… not THAT letter.’

ABC - Holy Family Church in Gaza Attacked - 2 Murdered

The attack on a Manchester synagogue and the killing of two worshippers was no more reprehensible than Israel’s repeated attacks on mosques and churches in Gaza and the killing of thousands of worshippers. Unfortunately the only attacks that have gained publicity have been those on Gaza’s only Catholic church, the Holy Family Parish. Israeli snipers on 16 December 2023 killed two parishioners, mother and daughter Nahida and Samar Anton.

Cardinal Nicholls interview over sniper attack on Holy Family Church - Mother and Daughter Shot Dead

The Wikipedia article gives the background to the Israeli assault on the Holy Family church. Pope Francis rang the priest Father Gabriel Romanelli every night and condemned Israel’s attacks as terrorism.  Something which the new Pope Leo hasn’t done.

Israel’s liar-in-chief and Prime Minister, Netanyahu, ‘regretted’ the fact that ‘stray ammunition’ hit Gaza's only Catholic Church, killing three people sheltering there. No one else doubts that Israeli tanks deliberately fired shells at the Church which the IDF considers to be an obstacle to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Although the Zionists will purport to condemn the attack on a Manchester synagogue in reality many, especially in Israel, will welcome it. There is a long history of Zionists seeing anti-Semitic attacks as a good thing in that it will drive Jews into believing that only a ‘Jewish’ state can protect them.

As Abraham Shpadrong (Sharon) wrote in Davar in July 1952:

… if I had the power, as I have the will, I would select a score of efficient young men… and I would send them to the countries where Jews are absorbed in sinful self-satisfaction. The task of these young men would be to disguise themselves as non-Jews, and plague these Jews with anti-semitic slogans, such as 'Bloody Jew,' 'Jews go to Palestine,' and similar 'intimacies.' I can vouch that the results, in terms of considerable immigration to Israel from these countries, would be ten thousand times larger than the results brought by thousands of emissaries who have been, for decades, preaching to deaf ears. [Alfred Lilienthal, The Other Side of the Coin, Devin-Adair, NY, p. 47].

Iraqi Jews Were Convinced that Israeli Agents Had a Hand in Their Uprooting – Avi Shlaim

In Iraq in 1950/51 Zionist agents planted bombs in Jewish cafes and threw a bomb into a synagogue, Masuda Shemtov, in order to simulate anti-Semitism.

Without anti-Semitism there is no Zionism which is why the Zionist leaders welcomed Hitler to power and saw a ‘golden opportunity’ for their movement in the rise of the Nazis. Those  supporters of the Palestinians who see their salvation in anti-Semitism are doing exactly what the Zionists want them to do. The murder of two Jews in Manchester can only be of benefit to Israel and its supporters. It is in the interests of Zionism to increase the level of anti-Semitism in the West.  Anti-Semitism has been Zionism's best recruiting sergeant. That is why the actions of Jihad al-Shamie have ended up strengthening Zionism not weakening it.

It is also why those who believe that it is in the interests of the Palestinians to unite with neo-Nazis, as Rehiana Ali clearly does, are unwittingly serving the interests of Zionism not the Palestinians.

Tony Greenstein

Jo Bird - The Candidate that Lansman and Formby Suspended - is Speaking This Saturday in Brighton

Please show your support for Jo Bird, who is standing for Labour’s National Executive Committee. There have already been attempts to stop the meeting by the Church-run Brighthelm Community Centre which refused to accept the booking.

These Christian reactionaries, who previously cancelled meetings with Jackie Walker and Chris Williamson, find freedom of speech a difficult concept to understand.

This is the march that racist Chief Rabbi Mirvis took part in

Even under the man we called 'crooked' McNicol, Labour's former General Secretary, there was never an attempt to stop someone standing for office by suspending them.

Even McNicol never intervened in an election to help his favoured candidates by suspending their socialist opponents. This is what Lansman and Formby are now doing.

Jo Bird has now been suspended twice. Once for making an innocuous joke about 'Jew process' (far less offensive than the anti-Semitic Zionist 'joke' about the 'Many not the Jew' which implies all Jewish people are part of the few i.e. rich, speculators etc.

This is the march that racist Chief Rabbi Mirvis took part in

Graham Durham was suspended for calling Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis a Tory -The Truth under Jennie Formby’s Orwellian Regime is now Anti-semitic!

Suspensions include:

Ø    Graham Durham for correctly calling the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, a Tory. He could also have called him a racist settler rabbi who took part in the 2017 March for Flags as part of Jerusalem Day when thousands of settler youth storm into the Arab Quarter chanting 'Death to the Arabs' and other homilies.  Mirvis and his predecessor as Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, refused appeals by more liberal Zionists not to take part.

Ø    NEC BAME candidate Keith Hussein is also, we understand, under administrative suspension.

Ø    Possibly the most pernicious case is that of West Ham’s Mehmood Mizra, who has by far the greatest number of CLP nominations for the BAME seat at 75, as well as backing from the transport union TSSA.

The suspensions of 1 Jewish and 2 Black candidates demonstrates that Jennie Formby and Jon Lansman are participating in a racist and anti-Semitic witch-hunt.