As Zionism moves
towards its Final Solution, Trump, Starmer and Germany’s Genocidal
leaders Remain Fulsome in Their Support of Israel’s ‘Right To Defend Itself’
Zionism’s Endgame: a ‘Final
Solution’ for the Palestinians, w/ Tony Greenstein
We are living in a world where our
rulers don’t even pretend to be on the side of the angels. Their amorality is a
badge of pride.
As far as Trump is concerned all that
matters in Ukraine is American access to Ukraine’s rare minerals. Likewise in
Gaza, never mind the people, what is important is the potential value of Mediterranean
real estate.The fact that 2 million
people live there is irrelevant.
Fact Check on Genocidal Song on Israel’s Kan Public
Broadcaster
You might think that after 4
genocides to their credit that the German state would be reluctant to support a
fifth genocide. Not a bit of it. German politicians have embraced Israel’s
genocide in Gaza because it makes them feel better about their own genocides. What
could be better than a ‘Jewish’ state perpetrating the genocide.
Israel's Oldest & Most Popular Podcast - 2 Nice Jewish Boys Discuss
Erasing Gaza
Zionism and its bastard state, has played
the role of helping the German State come to terms with the Nazi holocaust. Now
that a far-right party, the AfD, a
large portion of whose membership consists of neo-Nazis, has come second in the
elections, the German state is moving towards a relativisation of the Holocaust.
It is no surprise that Israel’s Diaspora Minister is a fan of Hitler saluting
Elon Musk.
The Netherland's Fascist Leader Geert Wilders and Israel's Labor President Isaac Herzog Get On Famously
After all. If Israel can perpetrate a
holocaust in Gaza why should Germany be forever burdened with a guilt complex over
its holocaust?It is difficult to argue
with such logic.
Israel’s Friendship Song of
Annihilation – as sung by Israeli school children
For those who doubt that Germany has
participated in 5 genocides then here they are: the Maji Maji
genocide in East Africa/Tanganyika, the Nama/Herero genocide,
the Turkish genocide
of Armenia (Germany was in alliance with Turkey inWW1), the Jewish/Nazi holocaust and now the
Israeli holocaust in Gaza.
I say this by way of introduction.
Netanyahu has done all he could to get back to the genocide in Gaza and has
broken the ceasefire repeatedly. Less aid has gone in than was agreed, Israeli
soldiers have repeatedly killed civilians and as I write the release of the
last batch of Palestinian hostages has been delayed on another pretext.
Tony Greenstein at the Glasgow Anti-Racist/Palestine Solidarity
Demonstration March 2024
There isn’t an agreement that Israel
has been party to that hasn’t been broken.Israel was supposed to be out of Lebanon but it is now saying that it
will maintain 5 permanent bases,
naturally in support of its ‘right to self defence’. It has also made it clear
that it is staying in Southern Syria following the fall of Assad.
I sometimes think how unlucky Nazi
Germany was with its propaganda chief. Goebbels really wasn’t up to it. If
Hitler had the benefit of the Daily Mail and
BBC then every conquest he made could
have been presented as an act of self-defence.
Israel’s goal today remains the same.
The removal of the Palestinians from Gaza. In my interview with Rania I was
sceptical of their ability to pull it off but as time goes on I am increasingly
fearful that they may get away with a large-scale ‘transfer’ given the supine
nature of the Arab leaders and the willingness of the Americans to support it.
European leaders’ opposition isn’t
worth a bucket of warm spit. We can see Netanyahu prepare the ground with his ludicrous lies that the two Bibas children were killed by Hamas.We should treat this story on a par with the allegations that Hamas had chopped off the heads of 40 babies which what
the media ran with.It was a lie then
and it is a lie now.
But who should leap out to amplify
the false stories that Netanyahu, an inveterate and well known liar
peddled?Why our own snake-like Foreign
Secretary, David Lammy and of course the viperous Sturmer
himself.
Hostage kisses Hamas
Those who repeat Israel’s lies about
child-killers are deliberately paving the way for a continued genocide and ethnic
cleansing in Gaza. Instead of directing their fire at the torture, starvation,
rapind to death and the appalling condition of the Palestinian hostages and
noting the welcome and friendly relations of many of the Israeli prisoners with
their Palestinian captors, Starmer and the BBC focus on yet more Zionist
atrocity propaganda.
All the evidence is, as Yocheved Lifshitz said, that Hamas treated
Israel's captives humanely
The vile killing of the Bibas children by Hamas terrorists is sick and abhorrent, as is the failure to return the body of their mother Shiri to the grieving family. Her body must be returned. The hostages must be released. This nightmare must end. https://t.co/dScjVpbySh
There is little doubt that Netanyahu
and his fellow war-criminals are itching to restart the genocide. It is
incumbent upon the anti-war movement in this country to step up the protests.
Starmer and Lammy have not issued on word of protest at Israel’s mistreatment
of the Palestinian prisoners, their humiliating release and abuse. The token
demonstrations wandering through London have to step up. Our first rallying
point should be the BBC and the Metropolitan Police with their ‘anti-Semitism’
scam should be told to go to hell. We will meet at the BBC because they are the
originators of the lies that facilitate genocide.
Interviews with Katie Halper and Rania Khalek
In January and February I was
interviewed on a wide range of topics by Katie Halper and Rania Khalek. These
included my arrest on October 4 for calling Israel ‘Hitler’s Bastard Offspring’.
The filth didn’t like the comparison. They even thought it was anti-Semitic
though the thick plod were unable to explain why in my interview.
As I explained to Katie, anti-Zionist
Jews are invisible so perhaps that is why. But if they weren’t so stupid they
would understand that Zionism is of Christian not Jewish origin.Jews always opposed Zionism until the
holocaust apart from a few freaks and reactionaries.
Of course today the Zionists exploit
the holocaust for all its worth with Gilad Erdan, Israel’s representative to
the UN donning a Yellow Star.
His comparison with the Jewish dead of the holocaust was sickening. If he had had
any integrity he would have worn a swastika.Zionism has always exploited the Jews who died in the holocaust whom Zionism
turned its back on.
According to
Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first President, the Jews who died in the holocaust were:
dust on the wheels of history and they
may have to be blown away. We don’t want them pouring into Palestine. We don’t
want Tel Aviv to become another low-grade ghetto.
Erdan ‘forgot’ to mention that during
the Hitler era the Zionists were the Nazis favourite Jews. Explaining why
Zionists were the good Jews, unlike the ‘assimilationist’ Jews who kept on
insisting that they were Jewish Germans, Reinhardt Heydrich, head of the SS,
said:
The activity of the
Zionist-oriented youth organisations that are engaged in the occupational
restructuring of the Jews … lies in the interest of the National Socialist
state’s leadership. (These organizations) are not to be treated with that
strictness that it is necessary to apply to the members of the so-called
German-Jewish organizations (assimilationists).
I also explained my own conversion to
anti-Zionism having been brought up in a Zionist family. I was brought up on
the lie that the Palestinian refugees voluntarily left their homes and villages
rather than being expelled at the point of a gun.
I also explained how, when Zionism
first arose, the only people who welcomed it were anti-Semites and that this is
true today too.I specifically mentioned
the President of America’s million strong Christians
United 4 Israel, John Hagee, who gave a sermon explaining why Hitler
was god’s emissary sent to drive the Jews to Palestine.
Orthodox Jews in particular opposed
Zionism. Agudat Yisrael was founded as a specifically anti-Zionist
organisation. This gives the lie to the claims of
Britain’s racist Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis that Zionism and Judaism have been
intertwined for 3,000 years.
I also went into the content of my
book in some depth explaining that for the Zionists building a ‘Jewish’ state
was the first priority in the holocaust and that Ben-Gurion is notorious for saying that if
there was a choice to be made between rescuing and saving Jews and building
their bastard state, the latter comes first.
When Britain offered to take 10,000
Jewish children in the wake of Kristallnacht the Zionists were outraged that
they weren’t going to Palestine. In a speech to Mapai’s (Israeli Labor Party)
Central Committee Ben-Gurion said:
If I knew that it
would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to
England, and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I
would opt for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of
these children, but also the history of the People of Israel.
I also described the Kasztner Affair and the
resulting trial in Israel from 1954-8 when the leader of Hungarian Zionism, a
senior official and candidate in Mapai (the Israeli Labor Party) for the next
elections, Rudolf Kasztner, sued for libel when he was accused of being a Nazi
collaborator. He lost when it transpired that he had spent his time post-war at
Nuremberg testifying in favour of Nazi war criminals.
Kasztner had concluded a deal with
Eichmann that if the Nazis agreed to a train out of Hungary for the select few
(Zionists, bourgeois and a few rabbis) he would not inform Hungarian Jews of
the Auschwitz Protocols which two escapees from Auschwitz had written detailing
where they would go if they boarded a deportation train. Up till then no one
knew that Auschwitz was an extermination camp. Kasztner went so far as to
misinform those who were deported that they were travelling to a fictious
resettlement camp, Kenyermeze.
With Rania I gave an outline of the
development of Zionist historiography of the holocaust and how it had been
distorted to accord with Zionist myths of Jewish resistance. Zionism has rewritten
the letters and memoirs of the Zionist resistance fighters in the Warsaw ghetto
eliminating their criticisms of the Zionist movement.This was in order that their writings should accord
with the Zionist narrative that they led the resistance and were heroes rather
than sordid collaborators.
The Zionist historians had also
erased entirely the role of Jewish anti-Zionists, in particular the Jewish
anti-Zionist Bund and its leader, the last Commander of the Resistance, Marek
Edelman.
With Rania I first discussed Trump’s
ethnic cleansing plans. I was sceptical that they would succeed but I am less
so now as all the indications are that Israel is looking for an excuse to
resume the genocide.
We discussed the reaction of Israeli
Jews to the plan. 80% support it and
just 3% think its amoral. Which means that 97% of Israelis are not only amoral
bastards but genocidaires too.The other
17% either can’t make their mind up about it or think it’s not practical.
I imagine some Nazis also thought the
extermination of Jews, Poles, Gays, Roma etc. was not practical. This is the morality
of Israelis and that’s why I find it hard to explain why in a democratic,
secular stateIsraeli Jews would have
the right to national rights as Jews. It is difficult explaining why Palestinians
should be forced to live side by side with genocidal would be murderers.
There is an overwhelming case for American
Jews with 2 passports, especially the settlers on the West Bank, to be deported
back to Brooklyn.
I also explained that Hitler didn’t
start out with a plan to genocide the Jews. His plan, like the Zionists was
ethnic cleansing.It was only when that
failed that genocide became his only option if he wanted to be rid of the Jews.
The same ‘dilemma’ faces the Zionists.If it can’t be expulsion it must be holocaust.
I went into how the very history of
the holocaust had been rewritten by the Zionists to emphasise Jewish
resistance, despite it being very low apart from the Warsaw Ghetto and a few
others such as at Bialystock which went off at half cock, Lachwa and Minsk.
We discussed the situation of Arab
Jews in Israel and how Israel deliberately set out to destabilise their
position in 1948. In Iraq it is well documented
that they planted bombs in synagogues and other places Jews frequented in order
to stimulate flight. Avi Shlaim, an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University in
his book Three Worlds has
recently come up with further proof of Zionist involvement in the bombings.
When the Zionist underground threw a
grenade into the courtyard of the Masudo Shemtov synagogue in Baghdad, killing
2 people, they stimulated a mass emigration of the oldest Jewish community in
the world.Out of 135,000 Jews only
10,000 remained after 1951.
I also told how when they arrived in
Israel Iraq’s Jews were treated like animals and were sprayed with DDT. Three Worlds also explains how a rich
cultured community were turned into poor labourers in Israel, forced to sleep
in tents and how they were deArabised.
I described how Holocaust Worship today leads to the creation
of holocaust museums (but not for Black slaves or the Native Indians) such as
the United StatesHolocaust Museum where
history has been rewritten.When I went
there Pastor Niemoller’s saying ‘First
they came for ...’ was hanging above the entrance except it had been changed.
The first category was ‘First they came
for the communists’ but that wouldn’t do in cold war America so it was
omitted.
I also showed how two-thirds of the members of the Judenrate,
the Nazi Councils that the Nazis established to help implement the Final
Solution, were Zionist. It was the Judenrate and not the Nazis who rounded up
Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Rania observed that the Palestinian Authority was
the Palestinian equivalent of the Judenrate!
I quoted Hannah Arendt who said in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem that
Wherever Jews lived, there were recognized Jewish leaders, and this
leadership, almost without exception, cooperated in one way or another, for one
reason or another, with the Nazis. The whole truth was that if the Jewish
people had really been unorganized and leaderless, there would have been chaos
and plenty of misery but the total number of victims would hardly have been
between four and a half and six million people.[1]
I told how the Warsaw ghetto resistance’s first task was to
execute Jewish collaborators. They couldn’t have organised a rebellion with the
collaborators operating. This is equally true of the Palestinian revolution. It
too has to execute its collaborators.
Katie discussed my book, Zionism During the Holocaust in some
depth in particular how the Zionist movement has weaponised Jewish suffering
and anti-Semitism whilst refusing to draw any universal lessons from the Holocaust.
I also spoke about my arrest under the Terrorism Acts and the attacks on the
Palestine solidarity movement in Britain and Europe.
I won’t even attempt to summarise the
topics we discussed but I enjoyed both interviews which were penetrating and
thoughtful. At a time when Israel is committing genocide in Gaza as a
consequence of colonial expansion and in the cause of racial purity, it is
incumbent on Jewish anti-Zionists to speak out against the horrors that are
taking place in our name.
Another point of comparison between Israel
and Nazi Germany is Israel’s policy of starvation of Gaza’s civilian population.
This is taken straight out of the Nazi playbook. 20% of the Warsaw ghetto, some
80,000 people, died from starvation. An even higher percentage died in Lodz,
the second biggest ghetto in Poland. Hans Frank, the Nazi governor of Poland,
spoke of Death By Hunger as does Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister,
who is of the opinion that starving 2 million people to
death would be ‘moral’ if only the West would allow him to get away with it!
The mass executions that Israel has
carried out and the mass graves, to say nothing of the torture camps, resemble
nothing so much as the Nazi policies towards the civilian population of the
countries they occupied. In some ways they are worse.
The major difference between Nazi
Germany and Israel is that anti-Semitism in Germany itself was mainly confined
to a hardcore of the Nazi party, the ‘old fighters’ whereas in Israel genocidal
racism is supported by the overwhelming majority of the Jewish population.
This is perhaps best summed up in the
hilarious story of a Zionist who went in search
of Palestinians to kill in Miami Beach, Florida and ended up shooting two
Israelis who he thought looked like Palestinians! The Israelis, assuming it was
an anti-Semitic attack by Palestinians, signed off with ‘death to the Arabs’ on Facebook.
According to the bogus IHRA
‘definition’ of anti-Semitism, it is anti-Semitic to compare Israel to Nazi
Germany (but is it anti-German to compare Nazi Germany to Israel?!). Yet
Israelis go out of their way to draw such parallels themselves. A Nazi
mentality has descended on the Jewish population of Israel.
An article in Ha’aretz
'When You Leave Israel and Enter Gaza, You Are God': described how many
soldiers in Gaza reported moral injuries: "I felt like, like, like a Nazi
... it looked exactly like we were actually the Nazis and they were the
Jews."
It Must Have Been Something I Said! Jo Wadsworth of
the Anti-Palestinian Brighton and Hove News
Threatens to Report Me to the Police!
The Met arrest stall holders selling a book with a Swastika and Zionist
Star of David Intertwined - Who the Hell are These Thick Bastards to
Decide What We Can and Cannot Read?
All I did was to send Jo Wadsworth of Brighton
and Hove News an email giving a link
to my blog. True I headed it ‘ENJOY RACIST SCUMBAG’ but that was no
reason to respond in the way she did:
Oh no, Tony "notorious
antisemite" Greenstein has called me a bad name. How will I ever recover?
To which I responded that this was a good question. I suggested that
the answer lay in Wadsworth ‘Probably (by) gorging on the blood of the children in
Gaza. I should think that would be good recipe for you to try’.
She had after all been perfectly
happy with a multitude of comments defending Israel’s bombardment of hospitals,
ambulances, homes and schools, its food, water and fuelblockade and the murder of over 6,000 children
and thousands of adults. In other words collective punishment, a flagrant
breach of international law.
Orthodox anti-Zionist Jews in Jerusalem's Mea Sharim Display the Palestinian Flag - If they had been Palestinians the Police would have opened fire
It appears however that Ms Wadsworth is a more sensitive soul than I had
given her credit for. She didn’t seem to take my comment that she was wallowing
in the blood of thousands of children at all well.
Okay Tony I usually find your insults entertaining
in a pathetic kind of way. But that's crossed a line. I'm now asking you not to
contact me again and if you persist I will report you to the police.
It seems to have become the latest fashion amongst Zionists to report
anything I say to the police. In fact I’m thinking of saving them the trouble and
time by designing a handy form which they can email to the Police explaining
why they have problems with freedom of speech.
First there was Heidi
Bachram and now Jo Wadsworth. Who will be next?
At the same time the Metropolitan Police have decided that they have the
right to decide what literature can be openly sold on Zionism at today’s
demonstration and what posters can be displayed. According
to the Met:
Images were shared on social
media showing literature being distributed which featured a swastika inside a
Star of David. Officers later spotted the same literature at a stall in
Whitehall and arrested four people on suspicion of distributing material likely
to stir up racial hatred.
The people
they arrested were from the Communist Party of Great Britain Marxist
Leninist[@cpgbml]
I wasn’t
aware that intertwining a Swastika and a Zionist Star of David graphically was
a criminal offence. As I wrote in my book, Zionism
During the Holocaust:
In
the spring of 1933, Baron Leopold von
Mildenstein, a member of the SS, and Kurt Tuchler of the ZVfD [German Zionist]
Executive and their wives, boarded a train at Berlin to travel to Palestine.
Tuchler had tried to persuade Mildenstein to write ‘something positive’ about
Palestine in the Nazi press. Mildenstein agreed, provided that he was able to
visit Palestine first. He stayed for six months and was clearly impressed by
the “new Jew”.
On his return, Mildenstein published a
series of 12 articles in Joseph Goebbels’ paper, Der Angriff, from 26
September to 9 October 1934 under the by-line ‘von Lim’ [Jacob Boas, ‘A Nazi Travels to Palestine’]. This trip was
the subject of an article in the eminently respectable History
TodayofJanuary 1980. Mildenstein served as
head of Abteilung 112/II,the Jewish department (Judenreferat) of the Sicherheitsdienst, [SD] from the summer
of 1935 to August 1936. Indeed so pleased were the Nazis with the trip that
they struck a medal to commemorate the trip.
It is perfectly legitimate to argue
that Zionist ideology and Nazi ideology share a lot in common. The Zionists
admitted this themselves. On 21 June 1933, the German Zionist Federation wrote
a letter to Hitler in which they explained that:
Zionism has no
illusion about the difficulty of the Jewish condition which consists above all
in an abnormal occupational pattern and in the fault of an intellectual and
moral posture not rooted in one’s own tradition… an answer to the Jewish
question truly satisfying to the national state can be brought about only with
the collaboration of the Jewish movement that aims at a social, cultural and
moral renewal of Jewry… On the foundation of the new state, which has
established the principle of race... fruitful activity for the fatherland is
possible. Our acknowledgement of Jewish nationality provides for a clear and
sincere relationship to the German people and its national and racial
realities. Precisely because we don’t wish to falsify these fundamentals,
because we too are against mixed marriages and are for maintaining the purity
of the Jewish group… The realisation of Zionism could only be hurt by
resentment of Jews abroad against the German development. Boycott propaganda…
is in essence fundamentally unZionist, because Zionism wants not to do battle
but to convince and to build.’
The full letter can be
found in Lucy Dawidowicz, A Holocaust
Reader, pp. 150-153.Who the hell
are the Metropolitan Police to decide we can and cannot read? Of course it will
give offence to Zionists to be reminded of the times when they had close fraternal
relations with the Nazi State. However this is part of the historical record
and only in Police States do thick coppers decide what people can and cannot
read and see.
If Goebbels
were alive today he would be proud of how the BBC’s Ros Atkins has sanitised the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion
Hitchens pokes fund at how little Ros Atkins actually knows about neo-Nazism in Ukraine or anywhere else - Atkins is just an apologist for Azov and Ukraine's 'democratic' Nazis
Goebbels would be proud of the way in which the BBC's Ros Atkins has
whitewashed Ukraine's neo-Nazis
It never ceases to amaze me that the left has never made an
issue of the BBC license fee, which is the most regressive of all taxes. It currently stands at £159. However rich or
however poor you are you pay the same amount. For someone over 24 Job Seekers
Allowance is £77 pw, so the license fee is two full weeks of income plus a bit.
Richard Sharp - Islamaphobe and Tory Donor - who is BBC Chair
Compare this to the
Chairman of the BBC, Richard Sharp, a man whose salary is £160,000 per year for
a 3 day week. Leaving aside his other income, after tax he ‘earns’ £94,122, i.e. £1,810 per week. The license fee is 8.78% of
one week’s salary.
This interview on RT has disappeared from
most of social media. With difficulty I found it on Rachel Swindon's Twitter feed.
But it’s not simply the unfairness of the tax. The real problem
is that the BBC is in the words of John Pilger ‘the most refined propaganda service in the world’. RT has been silenced by Facebook.
To Palestinians the BBC is the ‘Voice of Israel’. It consistently portrays Israeli
violence as ‘retaliation’ against Palestinian violence by ignoring the reality
of Israel’s Occupation (a word that it never uses). It is a replay of the old Western
movies where the Red Indians used to attack, for some unknown reason, those
peaceful cowboys.
The BBC rarely reports the ongoing settler violence against the
Palestinians. Only when a Jewish settler is killed is violence reported. The
BBC is incapable of calling Israeli violence cold blooded murder.
The BBC rarely reports confiscation i.e. theft of Palestinian
land and when it does it provides no background by showing that this
is an ongoing process.
I have therefore penned an Open Letter to BBC Chair, Richard
Sharp.
Tony Greenstein
Strangely enough all these stories have disappeared - needs must
Dear Mr Sharp,
I want to explain why
I have no intention of paying a BBC license fee which pays your £160,000
salary. Given that you are reputed to be worth
a mere £100 million I suspect you won’t be going to bed hungry tonight, unlike
many of your viewers.
Since 2002 you have
also been a director
of the Centre for Policy Studies – a right-wing think tank founded by Thatcher.
The first duty
of the BBC Board, to which you were appointed
in February 2021, is to ‘Uphold and
protect the independence of the BBC.’ Who could possibly be more suitable than
a Tory Investment Banker and Islamaphobe who donated
over £400,000 to the Tories? Among those who appointed you was Catherine
Baxendale, who gave
a trifling £50,000 to the Tory party.
Steve Sweeney –
Morning Star interview Vanessa Beeley
A good example of your
political neutrality was the £35,000 you gave
to the Home Office ‘charity’ Quillam.
The reasons you gave for this largesse were that you were impressed
by Majid
Nawaz and his efforts to combat ‘radicalism and extremism.’
Majid
Nawaz and his conspiracies about a global palace coup
Those of a more
cynical mind might suggest that Majid Nawaz, who even LBC booted for his QAnon conspiracies about COVID and how the US election
was ‘stolen’ from Trump, was the personification of ‘radicalism and extremism’ . He believed that vaccinations were the product of “a
global palace coup that suspends our rights… by a network of fascists who seek
a New World Order”
The Azov Battalion may have dropped their insignia but their politics remain the same - the BBC notwithstanding
Quillam received over $1
million from the John
Templeton Foundation between 2014 to 2017. This Foundation works
with right-wing
Islamaphobic organisations with close ties to extreme right- Christian
networks.
Templeton and his wife
donated more than $1 million to Let
Freedom Ring, so that it could campaign against gay
marriage and contributed to “The Gathering” which promotesa “family values” agenda such as opposition to gay and
reproductive rights. This is as well as financing climate denier groups such as the
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
and pro-war neo-conservative groups like the American
Enterprise Institute.
According to Ros Atkins there are no neo-Nazis in Ukraine's army - Eduard Dolinsky, leader of Ukraine's Jewish community disagrees
Quillam drew up for MI5 a secret list which accused
peaceful Muslim groups, politicians and media of sharing the ideology of
terrorists. Groups included on this McCarthyist list included the Muslim Safety Forum and the Islamic Human Rights
Commission. Quillam’s briefing document said:
"The ideology of non-violent
Islamists is broadly the same as that of violent Islamists; they disagree only
on tactics.’
This was based on the theory that ‘non-violent extremism’ had
given birth to terrorism rather than such minor matters as the war in Iraq and
the bombing of Libya. This crackpot theory was as good a way as any of
demonising a whole community yet you saw fit to support.
Quillam
staged the fake ‘deradicalisation’ of Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll in
2013. They had allegedly left the EDL. Quilliam director Haras Rafiq then lied to a Parliamentary Select Committee
by denying that Quilliam had no “formal
business relationship with Tommy Robinson.” It later transpired that
Quilliam had been paying Robinson £2,000 a month, as Robinson
later admitted. See:
It’s quite
an impressive record for an organisation dedicated to combatting radicalism and
extremism.
As the
Jewish Chronicle proudly proclaimed, you are the BBC’s third Jewish
Chairman. It is reasonable to assume, having been an adviser to Boris Johnson, who combines racism,
anti-Semitism and Zionism, that like most rich right-wing Jews, you are also a
Zionist.
You
have continued the BBC’s uncritical support for Israel. At the end of May Yolande
Knell said
of thousands of far-right settlers chanting ‘death
to the Arabs’ as they invaded East Jerusalem that
Yolande Knell – the BBC’s grinning monkey praises Jewish pogromists
‘the mood of them is jubilant, festive.It feels like a party.... they’re celebrating
their presence at this spot.’
But it’s
not just the BBC’s bias on Israel that renders its claim to impartiality an
egregious lie. Ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine the BBC has functioned
as a NATO Broadcasting Corporation.
The BBC
has a bias against understanding. It always fails to give the background to the
events it reports. That was true of the Troubles in Ireland until it was embarrassed into commissioning a series on Irish history by Robert Kee. What
the BBC has never done is commission a similar series on the Zionist
colonisation of Palestine.
The Wolfangel which the Azov Battalion simply reverse - but to Ros Atkins it was simply decoration
Ukraine stands
out as an example of how the BBC has
jettisoned any claim to ‘due impartiality’. As John Pilger wrote you have
misrepresented events in
Ukraine as a malign act by Russia - when, in fact, the fascist led coup in
Ukraine was the work of the United States, aided by Germany and Nato.
This inversion of reality is
so pervasive that Washington's military encirclement and intimidation of Russia
is not contentious. It's not even news, but suppressed behind a smear and scare
campaign of the kind I grew up with during the first cold war.
The
suppression of the truth about Ukraine is one of the most complete news
blackouts I can remember. The biggest Western military build-up in the Caucasus
and Eastern Europe since world war two is blacked out. Washington's secret aid
to Kiev and its neo-Nazi brigades responsible for war crimes against the
population of eastern Ukraine is blacked out.
This
is an interview about the Ukrainian neo-Nazis penchant for chopping off heads,
ISIS style. As far as the BBC is concerned this interview never happened.
It is remarkable how neo-Nazis are now accepted in the White House and by the BBC
This was
written in 2014, yet you chose not to report US funding of the Maiden coup or
US military aid to neo-Nazi groups. The BBC has deliberately obscured the
origins of the war that is now taking place in order to paint Russia as the mainif not only culprit.
All of the
‘experts’ the BBC interviews coincidentally happen to be from the same pro-NATO
think tanks. If the BBC even made a stab at impartiality how could it fail to
interview John Mearsheimer of Chicago University, the Dean of
the Realist School of Political Science who sees the breaking of Western promises
to Gorbachev in 1991 over NATO expansion in Eastern Europe as the principal
cause of Russia’s invasion?
John Mearsheimer Lecture 16 June 2022
As
Professor Nicolas Guilhot said Mearsheimmer is an ‘irritant to
the Washington Foreign Policy Establishment.’ And what irritates the
Masters of War in Washington irritates the BBC too. Yet the BBC has no problem interviewing
war criminals like Kissinger and Blair. As Guilhot remarked we are in an ‘intellectual no fly
zone.’
Pilger interview on RT the BBC is part of the
established order in Britain
The BBC
was born in the womb of the British Establishment. Lord Reith, its first
Chairman, ensured that the BBC supported the government during the 1926 General
Strike by banning the Archbishop of Canterbury from broadcasting.
Unlike the Archbishop of Westminster, whose statement was broadcast, he refused
to condemn the strike as a sin against God.
Pilger referred to two studies of the BBC’s coverage
of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq by the University of Wales and Media
Tenor which found that the BBC’s coverage overwhelmingly reflected the Blair
government’s propaganda, including its lies about WMD. Less than 2% of BBC
reporting in this period allowed dissenting voices, despite a majority of
British people opposing the invasion.
George Bush condemns the 'wholly unjustified'
invasion of Iraq before correcting himself! Even Bush can see the comparison
with the US’s invasion of Iraq. However the BBC cannot!
What a contrast
to the BBC’s hostility to Russia’s invasion. The parallels between the 2
invasions were obvious, even to George Bush, the author of the Iraq war, when
in a Freudian slip he condemned ‘the
wholly unjustified invasion of Iraq’ before correcting himself.
The BBC
has completely ignored the 8 year war on the Donbas by Ukraine’s neo-Nazi militia,
A war that killed 14,000 people. See How ‘eastern Ukraine’ was lost.
Andrew Marr praising Blair for having got the
Iraq War right
On 9
April 2003, BBC political editor Andrew Marr stood outside 10 Downing Street and declared:
Mr Blair is
well aware that all his critics out there in the party and beyond aren’t going
to thank him, because they are only human, for being right when they’ve been
wrong...
it
would be entirely ungracious even for his critics not to acknowledge that
tonight he stands as a larger man and a stronger Prime Minister as a result.
Andrew Marr demonstrating his political impartiality
Well we
all know how that turned out! Researchers at John Hopkins University and the
Lancet, estimated that more than a million people died
as a result. The BBC ignored these findings.
The BBC
has reported the Ukrainian resistance but during the Iraq invasion there was no
such reports of the Iraqi resistance or the American atrocities that Wikileaks revealed. Nothing on
the thousands of deaths in Falluja. To this day the BBC has
ignored the kidnapping of Julian Assange, who did the job that you didn’t do.
Andrew Marr is 'congenial' - in other words always willing to help US imperialism sell its case
The BBC has
pride of place in the eyes of US neoconservatives as a cable from the US
embassy demonstrated when London Ambassador Sussman told
Hillary Clinton:
I hope you can
take some time out to tape an interview with leading British journalist Andrew
Marr.... It would be a powerful way for you to set out our priorities for
Afghanistan/Pakistan, and underline our premier partnership with the United
Kingdom. Marr is a congenial and knowlegable interviewer who will offer maximum
impact for your investment of time.
So loved
is Marr by the political elite that his book launch for Head of State, was held in Downing Street with David Cameron as the
host.
Liz
Thomson, breached the bonhomie and etiquette when she
asked Marr if having Cameron host the book launch ‘mightn’t compromise his position as impartial political interviewer for
the BBC’.
Marr’s wife,
Guardian columnist Jackie Ashley went ballistic telling Thomson that ‘you’ve ruined my evening’ before she ‘resumed the harangue, calling [Thomson]
‘despicable’ and ‘a B-I-T-C-H’.
According to the BBC the fellows above are liberals in disguise
Normalising
NATO’s neo-Nazi friends
When Putin
declared that his war aims included the deNazification of Ukraine, the BBC
decided to whitewash the Azov Battalion who had been occupying Mariupol and attacking
the Donbas for 8 years.
Steve Sweeney, International Editor
of the Morning Star explained after having come back from Lviv in the West, the
city is full of fascists of all stripes and
mercenaries. You won’t see this kind of interview on the BBC
The 'Jewish' Zelensky awarding the neo-Nazi head of Right Sector Ukraine's highest award - Atkins didn't get round to telling us about this!
Ros
Atkins, in an uninterrupted monologue, whitewashed the latest version of
the ‘moderate’ rebels that we saw in Afghanistan and Syria. Atkins asserted
that their incorporation into Ukraine’s National Guard had de-Nazified them
when it is far more likely that they polluted those around them. This was how
Hitler Nazified the German state.
After all, when you place a rotten apple in a barrel you don't expect it to become fresh as a result!
Arsen Avakov, the Fascist Interior Minister that Zelensky allowed to place neo-Nazis in senior police and security positions
Atkin’s
comment that Ukraine’s National Guard ‘was
under government command’ begs the question, so what?
The
National Guard was formed by Arsen Avakov, the fascist
Interior Minister and friend of Andrei Biletsky, the founder of Azov.
Zelensky nonetheless
kept Avakov on until July 2021 when he was replaced by Denys Monastyrsk, a ‘protege
of Avakov.’
Belarusian
neo-Nazi Serihy Korotkykh, the “Botsman,” who is suspected of masterminding the Bucha massacre, was close to Avakov. Korotkykh founded the
Russian far-right National Socialist Society. According to his Ukrainian asset
declarations,
Korotkykh worked as the head of the Interior Ministry’s Police Department for
the Security of Strategic Objects from 2015 to 2018.
‘National
Corps figures routinely visit the regiment, and the party’s ideologists lecture
Azov troops. Their blogs are published on the regiment’s site, while Azov’s
social media pages promote the National Corps.”
Zelensky is Jewish but he is also a Zionist and like Israel he finds Ukraine's neo-Nazis congenial
How did
Atkins achieve his objective? By pretending that Azov’s neo-Nazi origins were
in the past. Atkins asserted that:
i.Zelensky is Jewish
but he failed to mention that he is a Zionist.
Zionists have a record of forming alliances with neo-Nazis. Israel’s has long supplied
arms to the Azov Battalion.
ii.The main far right candidate in the 2019 election got 1.6% which was
irrelevant since they occupied key positions in the security state.
iii.In 2014 it was ‘under pressure
from Putin’ that the democratically elected Yakunovych backed out of an
agreement with the EU. Strangely enough there was no mention of the role of
Victoria Nuland, US Secretary of State and US funding of the fascist militias who killed over 100 demonstrators.
iv.Yakunovych fled to Russia with no mention of the armed neo-Nazi
militias that staged the coup (see Oliver Stone’s Ukraine on Fire).
According to Ros Atkins these neo-Nazis are a figment of our imagination
v.Putin annexed Crimea and backed separatists in parts of Eastern
Ukraine. Yes but Russian troops were not involved in the civil war caused by the
abolition of Russian language rights in a population, 40% of whom speak
Russian. No mention was made of the 90% of Crimea’s population who supported
joining Russia.
vi.The Wolfsangel which the Azov militia wears is not considered a fascist
symbol by Ukrainians. It was the symbol of SS divisions such as Das Reich.
According to Reporting Radicalism
‘Modern
neo-Nazis use it as a symbol of resistance. It is one of the most common
neo-Nazi symbols and is widely used by the far right in various countries as an
indicator of Nazi, neo-Nazi, and racist views... including the American
neo-Nazi terrorist organization, the Aryan Nation.
Atkins
failed to mention:
i.The Leaked conversation between Nuland and US
Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, which proves that the US was actively involved in forming
Ukraine’s post-coup government.
Vadim Troyan - a neo-Nazi appointed as Head of the Kyev Police
ii.The penetration at the highest levels of the Ukrainian state by
neo-Nazis. In 2014 Vadim Troyan, a founder of the fascist Patriot of Ukraine
and former Deputy Commander of Azov, was appointed Head of the Kyev Police. He
was appointed by the Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who had a history of
appointing fascists to senior positions in the Ukrainian state.
iii.That the founder of the Azov Brigade, Andriy Biletsky once wrote that Ukraine’s mission is
to “lead the White Races of the world in
a final crusade…against the Semite-led Untermenschen.” Atkins argued that
Biletsky had left to form the National Corps and was therefore no problem.
iv.That in October/November
2017, according to a Home Office document70% of conscripts did not show up for duty. Young Ukrainians refused to
fight in the Donbas and preferred emigration.
v.That Azov’s symbolism remains unchanged from the days of Biletsky, the
Nazi Wolfsangel, supposedly an intersection
of the letters N and I, for “National Idea.” This was also the logo of Patriot
of Ukraine.
Unfortunately Zelensky lost the clash and the war continued
vi.That Zelensky Made Peace with Ukraine’s
Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries after he had surrendered to their demands to abandon Minsk 2, which
the Ukraine government had negotiated, in the face of death threats, after his meeting at Zolote in 2019. Minsk 2 would have granted federal rights to the Donbas within a unified Ukraine. The fascists rejected this. For example:
“Mr. President thinks he is immortal.” Fedyana said: “A grenade may explode there, by chance. And it would be the nicest if
this happened during Moscow’s shelling.’
vii.That in 2019 Zelensky met with a
range of fascist groups telling reporters “Everyone
was there – the National Corps, Azov, and everyone else.” A few seats away
was Yehven Karas, leader of the neo-Nazi C14 gang.
Eduard Dolinsky, the leader of Ukraine's Jewish community on the anti-Semitism that Ros Atkins says doesn't exist
viii.How in 2019 Zelensky defended Ukrainian footballer
Roman Zolzulya against Spanish fans taunting him as a “Nazi.” Zolzulya had posedbeside photos of Stepan Bandera and openly supported Azov. Zelensky, described Zolzulya as “a true
patriot.” Zelensky’s Jewishness is irrelevant. He has thrown his lot in with Ukraine’s
neo-Nazis.
ix.There was no mention by Atkins of the fact that Ukraine is the only country in the world to have a national holiday in memory of a Nazi
collaborator, Stepan Bandera. Bandera is no ordinary collaborator. He and his Ukraine
Insurgent Army (UPA) were responsible for the death of 200,000 Jews and 100,000 Poles.
‘Most of the
(Polish) victims were women and children (who) were tortured before being
killed; some of the methods included rape, dismemberment or immolation, among others.
x.On January 22, 2010 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko made Bandera a “Hero of Ukraine.” It was Victor
Yakunovych, who the United States helped overthrow, who reversed this decision.
xi.According to The Forward, the oldest Jewish paper in
the United States, in 2014 after the Maidan coup, ‘the country has been erecting monuments to Nazi collaborators and
Holocaust perpetrators at an astounding pace — there’s been a new plaque or
street renaming nearly every week.’ What was the ‘Jewish’Zelensky’s reaction? “Stepan Bandera is a hero for a certain part of Ukrainians, and this is
a normal and cool thing. He was one of those who defended the freedom of
Ukraine.’
Atkins,
who parades as an expert on Ukrainian neo-Nazism, must have been aware of this.
The only conclusion one can draw Mr Sharp is that the BBC is happy employing an
apologist for Ukrainian neo-Nazism as a broadcaster.
To not
even mention how Ukraine’s neo-Nazis forced Zelensky to abandon his 2019
election platform to secure a peaceful solution of the crisis in the Donbas, is
as good example as any of the BBC’s political dishonesty.
Atkins
accepted that in 2015 Azov acknowledged that 10-20% of its members held
neo-Nazi views and that the degree of nazi views was ‘impossible to verify’ Yet Atkins dismissed this as ‘irrelevant because Azov was now part of
Ukraine’s National Guard.’
Peter
Hitchens summed this up as ‘bilge... minimising the importance of
neo-Nazis in Ukraine ('only' 20% of one Ukrainian Army unit are neo-Nazis, so
that is all right).’ According to Atkins, even if Azov
did have Nazi habits they ‘were just good
fighters’.
‘Context is vital here’ said Atkins when suggesting that
Azov was 1000 strong. This is a lie as Mariupol demonstrated. According to
Stanford’s Center for International Security and
Cooperation in 2019
Azov had 22,500 followers (20,000 National Corps members, 1500 Azov Regiment,
1000 National Militia). Today it is far in excess of that. Atkins’ assertion
that Azov is ‘a tiny fraction of the
Ukrainian military’ is another BBC lie.
Centuria is the West's major training hub for Ukraine's armed forces - but according to the BBC nothing is amiss
Atkins
said that Azov is ‘not the same force as
in 2014’. For once Atkins was telling the truth. Clearly it has grown
stronger and far better equipped whilst losing nothing of its original
ideology.
Atkin’s allegation
that the original core had been ‘drowned
out by the mass of newcomers’ is without foundation. It is speculation
and wishful thinking. If a group of state-funded neo-Nazis enters an already far-right
environment, the opposite is going to occur – namely that the rest of the
barrel will become rotten. See Azov
Battalion
There was no mention by Atkins of the Report Far Right
Group Made Its Home in Ukraine’s Major Military Western Training Hub from
George Washington University’s Institute
for European, Russian and Euroasian Studies. Why was evidence of the
adoption of neo-Nazis by the main Ukrainian State training centre ignored by
Atkins? Centuria consists of the traditional officer corps yet they have adopted the ideas of symbols of Ukraine's neo-Nazis.
In celebration of International Women’s Day NATO’s Twitter account celebrated the “remarkable women of Ukraine” with a photo of a woman in military
gear with a patch of the Nazi “Black Sun” on her uniform. It was quickly deleted when critics seized on it.
NATO was forced to delete this tweet as the woman in the picture is wearing a neo-Nazi symbol
The woman on the bottom right is wearing the Nazi symbol a Black Sun but that's ok by the BBC
Atkins referred
to the wearing of White Supremacist symbols saying that there is ‘no evidence such sentiments are widespread’.
Has Atkins not heard of Ukraine preventing Black people boarding buses out of
Ukraine and turning back Black people at its borders? Perhaps
he should consult this news story ‘Nigeria condemns
treatment of Africans.’ It is after all on the BBC’s own website.
This sign is on display outside Azov's Kyev Base - if it were a hammer and sickle does anyone think it would last a day?
According to the Intercept’s Seth Harp at the end
of June, the Azov Battalion’s base on the outskirts of Kyev was crawling with
neo-Nazis and White Supremacists.
‘It also has far more autonomy than any other
regiment of the army. “Azov is growing,” Maksym Zhorin, the commander of an
Azov special operations unit in Kyiv, told me in April. “Our emphasis is on the
future.... Also, who knows who was responsible for it, but “WHITE POWER” was
spray-painted on the kiosk right in front of us, alongside the driveway — in
English.'
The BBC's Ros Atkins failed to mention this little get together!
But it’s
not only the Azov Battalion. Bellingcat reported that on October 13 2019 photographs circulated
on social media showing Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk on stage at a
“Veterans Strong” concert in Kyiv organized by Andriy Medvedko a far-right
member of C14 accused of murder headlined by a neo-Nazi band. Sokyra Peruna,
whose swastika-like logo is behind Honcharuk.
‘The Prime Minister wasn’t the only cabinet member
from Ukraine’s new government to be there — the Minister of Veteran Affairs, Oksana Koliada, joined Prime Minister
Honcharuk at the concert, and even promoted the event in a Facebook post (archive) the day before it took place.’
The
episode is a further example of how Ukraine’s far-right continues to be
normalized by top leaders in the country. Not only are Ukraine’s top ministers
attending events organized by far-right figures, they have also had a literal
seat at the table with Zelenskyy... Simultaneously, far-right organizations
across Ukraine have taken the lead in organizing “No capitulation!” protests
against Zelenskyy’s soon-to-be-launched talks with Russia...’
i.repeated the story about Russia bombing a maternity hospital in Mariupol.
Patrick Harrington’s interview with the Matron of the hospital told a different
story. Azov forces had evicted the patients before setting up base. Atkins said
that ‘there’s no evidence that Azov was
based there or that it was a military facility’. What more evidence does he
need? When the Israelis claims that hospitals in Gaza are Hamas bases the BBC
accepts that without question. Why?
ii.Atkins assertion that ‘Putin has
the reasons to do this but he doesn’t have the facts’. Nor it would seems does
the BBC’s Ross Atkins. Or if he does he chooses not to use them.
iii.When Atkins said that ‘Nazis
don’t hold Ukrainians hostage, they’re not launching attacks on Ukrainians’
he ignored the 8 year war on the Donbas by Azov forces.
It is true that the BBC didn’t report it but it didn’t report the thousands killed by US drones in
Afghanistan and Pakistan either. Presumably if the BBC doesn’t report something
it hasn’t happened?
attack on civilians in Kiev by fascist gangs
iv.Atkins informed us that the ‘search
(for Nazis) will continue to be in vain.’ Perhaps he missed what happened
in the Greek Parliament when the ‘Jewish’ Zelensky introduced an Azov member.
According to the Greek City Times
By
bringing Nazis into the video call in front of the Greek parliament to speak on
behalf of his government... he insulted the parliaments and the peoples of our
countries.... Zelensky handed a gift to Vladimir Putin by playing the role of
one of his “useful idiots”, lending credence to the Russian president’s claim
to need to “denazify” Ukraine. The Ukrainian president, in his address to the
Greek Parliament, provided a platform to two neo-Nazis who supposedly represent
the resistance of the Ukrainian people and indeed of the Greek homogeneity,
thus undermining his country’s noble battle against Russia’s invasion.
Zelensky was presumably unaware of the fight of Greek people against the Nazi Golden Dawn Party which was responsible for a wave of murders, attacks against the Roma, attacks on migrants, illegal possession of weapons and racketeering..
What is
remarkable is the BBC’s hypocrisy. You have gone to town over Russia’s
occupation of Ukraine but can’t even bring themselves yourself to use the word Occupation when it
comes to Israel’s 55 year occupation of the Palestinian territories. When the BBC reports from Palestine you take care to ensure that the Israeli version of events
is given primacy.
When
Israel assassinated Shireen Abu Akleh, the media investigated
Israel’s assassination of a well known journalist. CBS,
the Washington Post, CNN and even the New York Times. The BBC behaved as it always does.
It faithfully reported the Israeli lie that it was a
firefight in which it was the Palestinians who killed her.
‘Abu Aqla was shot dead in disputed circumstances on
Wednesday, with Israel and Palestinians trading blame’
Such equivalence
is not part of the BBC's coverage when it comes to Ukraine
As David
Roger, a former BAFTA winner wrote in an email to me, the BBC employs a
sophisticated system to weed out anything that might give offence to the
Israeli Embassy.
‘when I worked in-house at the BBC
for a few months I met two journalists who were resigning because they said the
whole news department had been told by the then BBC1 Commissionerto stop showing Israel in any bad light that
would bring the Embassy down on their heads . It was Embassy intervention that
had got Jeremy Bowen brought home after he stood in Gaza in 2014 and angrily
refuted Israeli claims that the hundreds of dead children were being used as
human shields.
They stressed reporters could
file excellent reports giving the true
picture but they were all filtered & in effect redacted by the London
editors . The 24 news channel I feel often escapes the censorship that fillets
the main channel news. Their long live footage of the Shireen funeral attack
was really chilling and there was a half hour interview with her colleague
who’d been trapped beside her that was very powerful .
None of this ever reaches their
main channel bulletins or the truly dreadful Newsnight & Breakfast
programmes . It’s the editors .
The BBC
has consistently portrayed Ukraine as a democratic state despite the fact that the
Communist Party of Ukraine and all left-wing parties and independent media are
banned.
Ukraine’s SBU hunts down anyone who opposes
the war or who supports secession
The
deliberate targeting for assassination and torture by the Internal Security
Police SBU is also ignored by the BBC. For example
An appeal by Mayor of
Kupiansk, Gennady Nikolaevich Matsegora, for the return of his daughter who's
been kidnapped by Ukraine's SBU as a way of getting at him. This has happened
to a number of Mayors who don't follow Zelensky's narrative
Vlodymyr
Struk the Mayor of Kreminna in Luhansk, was abducted from his home and murdered by Ukrainian forces for his support
for a separate Luhansk. Imagine that someone advocating Scottish independence was murdered for their views. This is the reality of Ukraine over the past 8 years.
Denis Kireev was executed by the SBU
Denis
Kireev, a negotiator for Ukraine was considered by the SBU to be too interested
in reaching a peace agreement. The SBU therefore abducted and executed him. Or Mikhail & Aleksander
Kononovich who have been arrested because they are communists.
Dmitri Djangirov is another journalist branded
pro-Russian who has gone missing. Between 1991 and 2018 some 65 journalists
have been murdered in Ukraine. Yet unlike Russia, Ukraine’s
murder of journalists goes unreported by the BBC. Why?
Ukraine's war crimes are not something that
the BBC is prepared to show - all war crimes are committed by Russia
There is no
doubt that the Russian Army has committed war crimes and the BBC have faithfully reported these. But it has comprehensively ignored war crimes committed by Ukrainian forces. According to the BBC
the Ukraine Army are an adult version of the Boy Scouts.
Bucha
At the
beginning of April in Bucha Russian forces were alleged to have massacred over 700
Ukrainians. There is evidence that this was carried out by Ukraine’s National
Police and its Safari Unit. The BBC have, of course, ignored anything contradicting NATO's narrative.
In an article and on my blog I explained that the massacre in
Bucha was probably a false flag atrocity attributed to Russia.
The independent Scheerpost
has an article by Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News
and a former U.N. correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globethat
also questions the accepted narrative. Questions
Abound About Bucha Massacre which argues:
‘The West has
made a snap judgment about who is responsible for the massacre at the Ukrainian
town of Bucha with calls for more stringent sanctions on Russia, but the
question of guilt is far from decided.’
Laurie’s article notes that:
Evidence of
crimes in Bucha appeared only on the fourth day (after the Russian withdrawal)
after the Security Service of Ukraine and representatives of Ukrainian media
arrived in the town. All Russian units completely withdrew from Bucha on March
30, and ‘not a single local resident was
injured’ during the time when Bucha was under the control of Russian
troops,” the Russian MOD said in a post
on Telegram.
What
happened then on the 1st and 2nd Jason Michael McCann pointed
out in a piece in Standpoint Zero thatThe
New York Times was in Bucha on Saturday and did not report a massacre.
In Bucha,
the NYT was close to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, whose soldiers
appear in the paper’s photographs. In his piece, McCann suggests that Azov may
responsible for the killings:
“Something
very interesting then happens on [Saturday] 2 April, hours before a massacre is
brought to the attention of the national and international media. The US and
EU-funded Gorshenin Institute online [Ukrainian language] site Left Bank announced
that:
‘Special
forces have begun a clearing operation in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region,
which has been liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The city is being
cleared from saboteurs and accomplices of Russian forces.’
The
Russian military has by now completely left the city, so this sounds for all
the world like reprisals. The state authorities would be going through the city
searching for ‘saboteurs’ and ‘accomplices of Russian forces.’ Only the day
before [Friday], Ekaterina Ukraintsiva, representing the town council
authority, appeared on an information video on the Bucha Live Telegram page wearing
military fatigues and seated in front of a Ukrainian flag to announce ‘the
cleansing of the city.’ She informed residents that the arrival of the Azov
battalion did not mean that liberation was complete (but it was, the Russians
had fully withdrawn), and that a ‘complete sweep’ had to be performed.”
Not only NATO but the BBC doesn't manage to see any neo-Nazis
Does
this not raise suspicion? Clearly not because the BBC never questions NATO’s narrative. The BBC only reports the official
version of events. It does not investigate. It acts as a conduit for our rulers’
lies and propaganda.Which is why it is
having a hard time today explaining Russia’s victories in the Donbas.
It is a mystery why there were no bodies
evident in Bucha when the Mayor spoke beaming to cameras on March 31. This also
includes a clip of the head of the Safari Police Unit, neo-nazi Korotkykh asking
for permission to shoot civilians - again not something the BBC would show
Why there were no bodies
evident in Bucha when the Mayor spoke beaming to cameras on March 31.
Ros Atkins and the BBC ignore the wave of neo-Nazi attacks on Gypsies
This
is why, alone of daily papers, the Morning Star does not appear on ‘What the Papers Say’. The excuse is that
it’s a paper of the Communist Party. Yet the Telegraph, which is the house
paper of the Tory Party, does appear. Virtually all papers are owned by billionaires
like Rupert Murdoch and Lord Rothermere. That does not bother the BBC because
they all sing from the same hymn sheet. They were, like the BBC, opponents
of Corbyn.
I
trust therefore that you will understand that, being Jewish, I have no
intention to help subsidise a propaganda broadcasting corporation that treats
Ukraine’s neo-Nazis as the new normal.
Yours sincerely,
Tony
Greenstein
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