The Al Tafawk
Children’s Centre which we have been supporting for 7 years is now under
constant military harassment with the IDF entering the Centre at will, with
guns pointed at staff. That is why we held a webinar last night with a range of
speakers. Now we need to build solidarity with Al Tafawk.
The Children of Al Tafawk
The Al Tafawk Centre was established in 2010 in
Jenin Refugee Camp. In January 2025 the refugee camp was demolished and with it
the Al Tafawk Centre.
With much difficulty the Centre set up anew in the
centre of Jenin city. However the harassment has continued and increased. In
essence any Palestinian civil society organisation is seen by Israel as a
threat to it as it seeks to ethnically cleanse the whole of the West Bank.
Only the Monsters of the IDF could torture an 18 month old child by stubbing their cigarettes out on him
In 2021 and 2023 the Israeli Defence Forces entered
the Centre and wrecked its interior.See:
Speakers at the webinar, which was
chaired by Ghada Karmi, a well known
Palestinian author an academic, included Khaled Quzmar fromDCI‑ Palestine, a charity dedicated to protecting children which
was declared a terrorist organisation in 2021.
Samer Jaber, a former Child Prisonerin Palestine who now lives in England spoke
of the trauma that still haunts him.
Karen, aformer English volunteer at the
Centre spoke of her experiences at the Centre and the situation they face and
then Mona, the Manager/Head Teacher
spoke about how desperate the situation was. Mona herself has been assaulted by
the IDF on numerous occasions.
The holes that the IDF created in the walls of the old Al Tafawk Centre
Naomi Wayne, a trustees
from theBritish
Shalom-Salaam Trust, a Jewish charity, also spoke about the help that her charity had given
the Al Tafawk centre and finally Tony Greenstein of the Brighton Trust spoke.
Everyone who I spoke to afterwards
described the webinar and the speakers as extremely moving. It is one of the
most despicable things about the Israeli occupation that they target even the
youngest children for their brutality and sadism.
In my speech I compared the behaviour
and attitude of the Nazis with the behaviour and attitudes of the Zionists.
On October 4 in a
speech to senior SS Generals, Heinrich Himmler explained why the Nazis were
also exterminating Jewish children:
‘I did not assume to have the right to
exterminate the men… and have the avengers personified in the children to
become adults for our children and grandchildren.’
Compare this with Rabbi Eliyahu Mali of the Bnei
Moshe pre-military yeshiva whose students go off to serve in the IDF. In
response to a question about whether it was right to exterminated children as
well as adults he replied:
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
The Zionists compare
the Palestinians to the Nazis and cry ‘anti-Semitism’ at the drop of a
hat.But the real comparison today is
between the Nazis and their Zionist progeny in Israel.
I am thinking that in order to bring pressure to bear on Israel that we should form a Friends of Al Tafawk. Anyone interested in this please contact me at tonygreenstein111@gmail.com.
Please take time to
watch the video and if you can afford it please donate to the 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
The Al Tafawk Centre in Jenin was established in
2010 as a sanctuary providing food, education and recreation, to children aged
3–16. It isthe 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
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.
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.
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 61943:
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.
Not One Holocaust Memorial Organisation Worldwide Has Condemned the Genocide in Gaza or Said That 'Never Again' Applies to the Palestinians
Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 – DeNazify Israel
The Holocaust Memorial Day
commemoration we have just held is the fourth to be organised by Jewish Network
for Palestine.It also had a record
attendance. 624 people registered for the meeting and 420 attended with a
maximum of 357 at any one time.
ØRania Khalek, a Lebanese-American
journalist who hosts Breakthrough News.
ØGhada Karmi, the author In Search of Fatima and many other
books. Ghada is one of the original 1948 Palestinians, who and Professor of
History at Exeter University and author of The
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
ØStephen
Kapos is a child survivor of the
Hungarian holocaust who was hidden by the Holy Family Church in Budapest.
Stephen is a well known figure on Britain’s Palestine solidarity demonstrations
who was questioned
by the Metropolitan Police about a public order offence!
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) - The Fight Against ICE is the Fight for Palestine
The
theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day webinar was The Nazification of Israel. When I chose this title I wasn’t aware
of an article
by Orly Noy, in Israel’s +972 Magazine . Orly
wrote:
Gaza City is engulfed
in flames, as the Israeli army embarks on its long-threatened ground
offensive after weeks of relentless bombardment.... I urge you to watch the footage
streaming out of Gaza, and see what this euphemism really means.
Look into the eyes of people gripped by a terror unmatched even in
the darkest moments of this two-year genocide. See the rows of ash-covered
children lying on the blood-soaked floor of what was once a medical center —
some barely alive, others wailing in pain and fear — as desperate hands try to
comfort them or treat them with whatever medical supplies remain. Hear the
screams of families fleeing with nowhere to run. Witness parents scouring the
inferno for their children; limbs protruding from beneath the rubble; a
paramedic cradling a motionless girl, pleading with her to open her eyes, in
vain.
What Israel is doing in Gaza City is not the tragic byproduct of
chaotic events on the ground, but a well-calculated act of annihilation,
executed in cold blood by “the people’s army” — that is, the fathers, sons,
brothers, and neighbors of us Israelis.
How is it that, despite the mounting testimonies from Gaza’s concentration
and extermination
camps, no mass refusal movement has taken root in Israel? That after two
years of this carnage barely a handful of conscientious
objectors sit in prison is truly inconceivable....
Israel is unleashing a holocaust in Gaza, and it cannot be
dismissed as the will of the country’s current fascist leaders alone. This
horror runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. What we are
witnessing is the final stage in the nazification of Israeli society.
The urgent task now is to bring this holocaust to an end. But
stopping it is only the first step. If Israeli society is ever to return to the
fold of humanity, it must undergo a deep process of denazification....
Denazification must also include the recognition that what was
cannot remain. It will not be enough to simply replace the current government.
We must abandon the myth of Israel’s “Jewish and
democratic” character — a paradox whose iron grip helped pave the way to
the catastrophe we are now immersed in.
This deception must end with the
clear recognition that only two paths remain: either a Jewish, messianic,
genocidal state, or a truly democratic
state for all its citizens.
Orly concludes her article by
saying that ‘Zionism, in all its forms,
cannot be cleansed of the stain of this crime. It must be brought to an end.’ There
is no room for accommodation with Zionism. There is no ‘left-wing’ or ‘right-wing’
Zionism. They are the same creatures.
The process of deNazification must
begin with the recognition that Israel does not inherit the memory of the Jews
who died in the holocaust. On the contrary, Israel mirrors the Nazi racial
supremacy that led to the holocaust.
We must stop bowing our heads in
solemn acquiescence when the Zionists invoke the memory of the 6 million as justification
for the annihilation of the Palestinians. We must not repeat the slogan ‘Never Again’ without emphasising that
today this slogan applies to the Palestinians above all.
The Silence
of the Holocaust Memorial Organisations
Yad Vashem is Israel’s
holocaust memorial organisation. Yad Vashem’s purpose was never to draw
universal lessons from the holocaust. For Zionism the Jewish holocaust was
unique and if its unique then how can one draw universal lessons applicable to
all?
Yad Vashem’s aim has
always been to harnesses the memory of the holocaust dead to the Zionist project
and the building of a ‘Jewish’ state. How could it therefore condemn that very
state for perpetrating its own genocide?
Yad Vashem was never
intended as an anti-racist or anti-fascist institution. It was a Zionist
organisation. It has rebuffed many invitations in the past to widen its remit and
condemn particularly flagrant examples of Israeli and Zionist racism.
Yad Vashem had no
intention of changing its past practice now that Israel was becoming an openly
genocidal state. So when 50 holocaust researchers askedYad
Vashem to condemn the genocidal statements made by Israeli politicians,
military and other public figures, including Israeli government ministers and Prime
Minister Netanyahu himself, its Chairman, Dani Dayan refused.
Where Yad Vashem led,
the world’s holocaust memorial organisations followed. Not one holocaust
organisation has condemned Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Not one has declared that
the lesson of the Nazi holocaust was that the slogan ‘Never Again’ applied to
all people, Jewish and non-Jewish, Palestinians included.
When the Los Angeles
Holocaust Museum posted
a graphic on Instagram with the message ‘Never again can’t only mean never
again for Jews’ there was a backlash from Zionist organisations. Their
complaint, that the statement might be interpreted as referring to Israel’s
genocide in Gaza, resulted in the post being deleted. The museum issued
a new statement:
We recently posted an item on social media that was part of a
pre-planned campaign intended to promote inclusivity and community that was
easily open to misinterpretation by some to be a political statement reflecting
the ongoing situation in the Middle East. That was not our intent.
The LA Holocaust Museum promised to ‘do better’ next time. Thus proving that ‘Never
Again’ in the eyes of Zionists excludes Palestinians and those that the West
considers its enemies. Never Again is only applicable to the Jews.
Karen
Pollock of Britain’s Holocaust Education Trust went even further. She condemned
the ‘shameful’ comparisons between the holocaust in Gaza and the Nazi genocide.
We should take on board what Primo Levi and his
interviewer concluded in an interview in 1982 after the massacre of
Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps.
Joan Acocella, writing in
the New Yorker in April 2013 recalled
how Primo Levi, the famous Italian Jewish survivor of Auschwitz told a
reporter, Filippo Gentiloni, from the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto,
that
“Everybody is somebody’s Jew,”.... At that point
in the interview, printed on June 29, 1982, Gentiloni closed the Levi quote and
added a sentence of his own: “And today
Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis.”
Although Primo Levi didn’t actually
say the words they were clearly in accord with his views and he never raised an
objection to them.
Today the Palestinians are suffering
at the hands of Israel what Jews experienced at the hands of European
anti-Semites.
Comparisons Between Nazi Germany and
Israel
The IHRA misdefinition of
anti-Semitism states
that ‘Drawing comparisons of contemporary
Israeli policy to that of the Nazis’ is anti-Semitic.
It is instructive therefore to list a
few comparisons between Nazi Germany and Israel today and then ask ourselves
whether the truth itself is anti-Semitic.
1.A good place to
start with is Arwa Mahdawi article
‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide
propaganda.’ She quotes Nissim Vaturi, the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset
stating that
“The
children and women must be separated and the adults in Gaza must be eliminated.
We are being too considerate,”
Vaturi
said this during an interview with Kol
BaRama radio in February 2025, when he also
called Palestinians “subhumans” and said the West Bank would be turned into
Gaza next.
Elad
Barashi, a TV producer with Channel 14, wrote
on 27 February 2025.
Gaza deserves death. The 2.6 million terrorists
in Gaza deserve death! … Men, women, and children – in every way possible, we
must simply carry out a Holocaust on them – yes, read that again –
H-O-L-O-C-A-U-S-T! For me, gas chambers. Train cars. And other cruel forms of
death for these Nazis. Without fear, without hesitation – simply crush,
eradicate, slaughter, flatten, dismantle, smash, shatter …. Gaza deserves
death. Let there be a Holocaust in Gaza
2.On 1 August 2025 Shimon
Elkabetz, Chairman of the Israel Film Council,urged
the extermination of the Palestinians ‘it’s just like using a lice comb’. Hitler in Mein Kampf compared Jews to lice.
Gallant on Palestinians as human animals
3.Israel’s Defence
Minister, Yoav Gallant, on 9th October 2023, described Palestinians as
‘human animals’. On October 4, 1943 Himmler
had described the Untermenschen in
exactly the same terms.
I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza
Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed.
“That we sentence 1.2 million Jews to die of hunger should be noted only marginally,” Hans Frank, the Nazi governor of occupied Poland, wrote in a diary entry. Today, more than two million Palestinians in Gaza are being forced, by design, into famine.”https://t.co/6ITI8Fh5Ihpic.twitter.com/OlEThwtEIM
In
June 1941, as Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, began the
Nazis implemented Der
Hungerplan, the starvation of those they conquered. 4.2 million Soviet citizens died as a result.
In
his diary Hans Frank, the Nazi Governor-General of Poland, wrote, that ‘we sentence 1.2 million Jews to die of
hunger should be noted only marginally.’
Destroying
food and the production of food was core to Israel’s strategy from the start. ‘Israeli bulldozers and heavy machinery have
systematically razed fields, reducing them to dirt.’ See ‘How Israel destroyed Gaza's ability to feed
itself’. More than 90% of cattle and more than half of sheep and goat herds
in Gaza were killed whilst more than three-quarters of Gaza’s orchards have
been destroyed. A UN survey in September 2024 found that 70% of agricultural
land had been destroyed or damaged according to an analysis of satellite
imagery.
4.Rabbi Eliyahu Mali,
head of the pre-military Bnei Moshe Yeshivah in Jaffa, told
a conference of yeshivas on 27 March 2024 that:
Today's terrorists are the children of the prior
[military] operation that left them alive.... 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.
5.Tzemach Yehudah
Richter wrote
in the Times of Israel about Himmler’s
second speech at Poznań on 6 October 1943 along exactly the same lines.
I ask of you that that which I say to you in
this circle be really only heard and not ever discussed. We were faced with the
question: what about the women and children? – I decided to find a clear
solution to this problem too. I did not consider myself justified to
exterminate the men – in other words, to kill them or have them killed and
allow the avengers of our sons and grandsons in the form of their children to
grow up. The
difficult decision had to be made to have this people disappear from the earth.
And so we see how the ‘logic’ of
extermination in Nazi Germany has made its way over into the thinking of
Israel’s rabbis and soldiers.
Friendship Song 2023 - Israeli Schoolkids Sing
of the Annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza – Public broadcaster Kan TV Played
the Video
7.Israel’s public
broadcaster Kan showed
a video of a group of school children urging the ‘annihilation’ of the people
in Gaza.
Israeli
politician says ‘any child’ born in Gaza is ‘already a terrorist’
Nissim
Vaturi, said
every child born in Gaza is “already a
terrorist, from the moment of his birth” and that Gaza must be erased from
the face of the earth.
8.Amichai Eliyahu,
the Heritage Minister, openly
called for the starvation of the population.
9.Rabbis like Dov
Lior, the
spiritual mentor of Israel’s neo-Nazi Police Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, during
Operation Protective Edge in 2014, published
a letter saying that Jewish law permitted destroying the entire Gaza Strip to
bring peace to the south of Israel. Lior also praised the ISIS
attacks on Paris in 2015 when 137 people died.
"Other findings were grim: A majority of 56% of Jews supported the "transfer (forced expulsion) of Arab citizens of Israel to other countries." To put this in perspective, a 2015 large Pew poll in Israel found 48% of Jewish Israelis supported expelling Arab citizens from Israel. https://t.co/wYCgDifERw
10.A poll
Professor Tamir Sorek of Pennsylvania State University in May 2025 82% Israeli
Jews supported the transfer (expulsion) of residents of the Gaza Strip, 56% supported the expulsion of Palestinian citizens of Israel and nearly
half, 47% supported
killing all Palestinians in Gaza, rising to 60% when a further question about
the relevance of Amalek was asked.
What are we to make of this? It is
clear that all the holocaust education in the world has had no effect
whatsoever in Israel. On the contrary, holocaust education has enabled Israelis
to see themselves as victims at the very time that they are enforcing an
apartheid system and committing genocide. Holocaust education has reinforced
their sense of righteousness and entitlement. Israeli settler colonialism is
unique in the settlers seeing themselves as the victims of those they are
exterminating.
‘Never Again’ has enabled Israelis to
see the Palestinians as the Nazis and to therefore justify all measures,
including genocide, taken against them.
And this is the mark of the stupidity
of left groups like the Socialist Workers Party who mouth the same slogans here
without ever asking themselves why it is that the supporters of genocide in
Gaza also mouth ‘never again’ and what that might mean in the mouths of racists
and genocidaires. This why I have sent an open letter to the local SWP/SUTR.
I hope that Tuesday night’s HMD
webinar went some way to helping people understand that holocaust memorial
remembrance, which does not include the Palestinians and other victims of
holocausts and take a clear position against Zionism, ends up reinforcing the Zionist
victimisation complex that enables genocide to take place.
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