I
am giving a series of talks on Zionism as part of the Labour Left
Alliance education programme. An introduction to Zionism, Zionism and anti-Semitism,
labour or socialist Zionism, Zionism during the holocaust and Zionism and what
it means in respect of today’s Israel.
These
talks were supposed to start 2 weeks ago but unfortunately Her Majesty insisted
that I stay in her accommodation in Birmingham, which to be frank wasn’t up to
that much!! All I’d done was try and redecorate one of Elbit’s many factories
of death in Britain.
At least the election of Jewish Nazis will demonstrate just where Israel is heading
Why
Zionism you may ask.Well Zionism is the
ideology and movement that led to today’s Israel.If you are one of the useless bureaucrats
that runs Palestine Solidarity Campaign then Zionism, the ideology of Jewish Supremacy
that led to the State of Israel and today’s Apartheid State is irrelevant.
Itamar Gvir - former member of Jewish Nazi party Kach - he has on his wall a picture of Baruch Goldstein who massacred 29 Palestinian worshippers in the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron
For
these people why Israel does what it
does is irrelevant. All that matters is that the Palestinians are a suitable
human rights cause and provide the opportunity for jobs and a living.Because to some Palestine solidarity is no
more than a job.
However
to socialists and anti-imperialists Zionism, the movement that created the State
of Israel, is the key to understanding everything.When everyone welcomed the Oslo Accords in
1993 as leading to a Palestinian state I stood out as the perpetual Jeremiah,
the Old Testament Prophet who was always crying ‘woe, woe’. But if you look at
my article
in October 1993 (misdated 1983!) in a debate with Julia Bard of the Jewish
Socialist Group it’s not hard to work out who was right and who got it wrong.
Avi Maoz
Today
the Israeli elections have elected
not one but two Jewish Nazis as part of the Religious
Zionism party. Itamar Gvir of Ozma Yehudit and Avi Maoz of the virulently
anti-gay Noam party. Not only this but they will be part of Netanyahu’s
governing coalition. Gvir is slated to become an Israeli Government Minister.
This
is the end result of Zionism. Jewish Nazis as Israeli government ministers. But
in one sense Meir Kahane, the founder of the Jewish Nazi Kach party was
right.Israel can be a democratic state
or it can be a Jewish state.It can’t be
both.
If
your not doing anything tomorrow night at 6 pm please tune in. The link is
If you call Israel
a racist state for targeting Palestinian children then Jennie Formby, Laura
Murray and Jon Lansman will suspend you for ‘anti-Semitism’
The report below from Mondoweiss is about a boy 8 years old, Malek Issa,
who was shot last week in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet by a policeman
whilst he was out buying a sandwich.
As the
video shows it was a normal bustling Saturday afternoon in Jerusalem when the
child was attacked by a psychopathic policeman.
Rather than
the officer being arrested and charged, as would be the case in a liberal
democratic state, which Israel pretends to be, the usual lies about ‘riot
control’ were provided by the Police PR department .
As the
video demonstrates there was no riot. Just an out of control Israeli animal.
The fact that the Police have already provided a series of lies as
justification guarantees that there will be no consequences or prosecution.After all the child is not Jewish so what
does it matter? Israel is a Jewish state and democratic rights, even for
children, only apply to Jews.
Let us be reasonable
and not make too much of a fuss. Otherwise you may find yourself accused by the
Jewish Labour Movement and its Siamese twin Labour Friends of Israel of ‘anti-Semitism’
for ‘singling out Israel’ and operating ‘double standards’ by only criticising Israel.
The IHRA definition
of ‘anti-Semitism’ which the Labour Party has adopted is quite clear:
‘Applying
double standards by requiring of it [Israel] a behavior not expected or
demanded of any other democratic nation.
is anti-Semitic.
Have you
criticised The Netherlands because its police blinded a child with a rubber
bullet?No?Then you are anti-Semitic. It’s no use
protesting that Netherlands police don’t shoot children in the face. That is
irrelevant.You have to treat Israel in
exactly the same as a liberal democracy and if you don’t you are ‘anti-Semitic’.
And if you
are a Labour Party member then Jennie Formby and her familiar, Laura Murray,
backed up by Jon Lansman, will suspend you for ‘anti-Semitism’.Because it is naturally assumed that all Jews
in Britain will be offended by criticism of the Israeli Police.
You will probably
say at this point that associating British Jews with what Israel does is also anti-Semitic.
Well it is but so is criticising Israel, since it is a Jewish state.Since British Jews identify with Israel they
make ‘take offence’.And guess what? Being
offensive to Jews, even racist Jews, is also ‘anti-Semitic’!
Justifying the murder of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, on the pretext they are members of Hamas, an Islamic party, is perfectly acceptable in the party of Formby, Lansman and Laura Murray
Confused?Well of course you are because the Zionists
are allowed by the Right to have their cake and eat it. If you criticise Israel
in a way that is not the same as your criticism of other countries then that is
anti-Semitic.
Of course
defining criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic means Jews have an interest in Israeli
oppression. And that is certainy anti-Semitic! And just to confuse matters even
further the Board of Deputies, whose pledges the abysmal Long-Bailey has signed
up to, regularly issues statements supporting Israel’s latest war crime.
The death of Palestinian children is
not unusual. 56 were killed
in 2018. In 2019 33 were killed.
Although I don’t have the figures for children injured it must be in the
hundreds, perhaps over a thousand since on just one day in October, the 80th
Great Return march, 43 children were shot in Gaza.
As Nir
Hasson of Ha’aretz reported, in 2014, the police swapped their softer, blue
sponge-tipped bullets for the tougher black ones that cause more serious
injuries. Quite understandable as Palestinians are known to be thick-skinned.
Although Police regulations forbid officers from shooting at upper parts of the
body, and they are not permitted to shoot minors with these bullets, not a
single police officer has been charged with illegally shooting sponge-tipped
bullets.
The Justice
Department announced
that it has yet to decide whether to open an official investigation or summon
the officer in question just in case you were concerned.
The Labour
Right’s ‘anti-Semitism’ offensive and by Right, I include Lansman, Murray and
Formby, is designed precisely to prevent criticism of Israel as a racist state.
Because it is only a racist state that singles out the children of one ethnic group
for this special treatment.
I have
previously written to Jennie Formby asking why ex-NEC member Luke Akehurst,
Director of We Believe in Israel, a Zionist lobby group, has not been suspended
for supporting
Israeli snipers maiming and killing Palestinian demonstrators, children
included (over 70 have been killed in the Great Return demonstrations). Formby
has not responded which is not surprising since her position is indefensible.
However
although supporting the murder of Palestinian children is acceptable in today’s
Labour Party, posting a cartoon of a Palestinian being silenced by cries of ‘anti-Semitism’
is considered anti-Semitic. This is the reason that Mehmood Mirza, the
socialist candidate for a BAME position on the NEC, is the latest left
candidate to be suspended by the crooks and gerrymanders of Southside.
It is clear
that the witchhunt of socialists in the Labour Party is a racist one and it is
led by 3 racists – Formby, Lansman and Murray.
The story of a Palestinian boy who lost an eye after being shot in the
face by Israeli police has angered Palestinians across the occupied territories
who see the incident as another tragic example of Israel’s wrongful targeting
of Palestinians with excessive force.
Eight-year-old Malek Issa was on his way home from buying a sandwich on
Saturday afternoon in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya when
he was shot in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet fired by an Israeli
police officer.
Issa’s family told local media that the boy had left a restaurant and
was headed home when he was shot by police, allegedly at point blank range.
While Israeli police claimed that their officers were engaging in “riot
control” measures in Issawiya, video footage of the moments before the
shooting, published by Haaretz, shows what appears to be normal activity
in the street.
Amid a number of unassuming pedestrians and vehicles, a child in a blue
hoodie, purportedly Issa, can be seen dashing across the street and
disappearing around the corner, out of sight of the camera.
Moments later, all the pedestrians in view of the camera suddenly duck
their heads, seemingly in response to the gunshots, and beginning running. A
group of young men are then seen rushing out from the side street where Issa
had entered, carrying his flailing body into a civilian car to be taken to the
hospital.
By Tuesday, the family of Issa reported that his condition had
stabilized, but that he had lost sight in his left eye, and would be needing
surgery likely to remove his eye and to stop internal bleeding.
In a video published by the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, a
Palestinian NGO in the neighboring town of Silwan, Issa’s father Wael says his
son “escaped death” and that there was likely no brain damage — something the
family feared would happen due to the severity of his injuries.
#العيسوية #اصابة الوالد: " اصابة مالك كانت قاتلة… نجا من الموت..
لكنه فقد بصره في العين اليسرى "آخر تطورات الحالة الصحية للطفل مالك عيسى
8سنوات والذي اصيب السبت بعيار مطاطي وهو في طريقه الى منزله عائدا من مدرسته ..
برفقة شقيقاته حاملا حقيبته المدرسية وبعض السكاكر!! #تفاصيل#Issawiya#InjuryThe
child's father: "Malek's injury was fatal … He survived … but he lost his
sight in the left eye."The latest development of the health condition of
the boy, Malek Issa, 8 years old, who was wounded with a rubber bullet on his
way home from school .. accompanied by his sisters, carrying his school bag and
some candy !! #details
Wael added that there was fear that if doctors could not control the
internal bleeding, the inflammation from Malek’s left eye could spread to his
right eye.
No stone throwing or ‘rioting’ preceded shot
Israeli police told the media that the officer in question claimed to
have fired his weapon at a wall for “calibration” purposes, and that he thought
Issa was hit by an alleged Palestinian stone-thrower.
In a report, Haaretzquoted eyewitnesses who said Israeli policemen were just “standing there”
in the neighborhood, and that no stone throwing or “rioting” was happening.
The witnesses said that the officer was knowingly aimed at the boy and
fired directly at him. One witness, a local bus driver, said that when he
confronted the officer over what he had done, “he told me to move on,” while
his fellow officers threatened to beat the bus driver up.
According to Haaretz, the Justice Ministry’s unit for
investigating police officers took statement from eyewitnesses, but was not yet
undertaking an official investigation, but rather a “probe” into the incident.
As of Wednesday, the policeman in question had not yet been summoned by
the ministry to give an official statement on the matter.
It remained unclear if the officer was still on active duty following
the shooting.
An all too common occurrence
The shooting of Issa struck a chord with Palestinians across the
occupied territory due to the chilling familiarity of the incident.
In each of the cases listed above, the Palestinian boys who were injured
were reportedly engaged in mundane activities, like Issa, and were still
targeted by Israeli forces. Additionally, in each case, no wrongdoing was found
on part of the soldiers or officers responsible.
Palestinians and human rights groups have long criticized Israel for its
excessive use of force against Palestinians and the lack of accountability for
the Israeli soldiers who commit such crimes.
In East Jerusalem, residents complain of over policing of their
neighborhoods by Israeli police, unnecessary stops and searches of minors and
young men, and frequent raids and arrests.
In June, a 21-year-old youth from the town was shot dead during
protests. Rights groups later said that he posed no direct threat to soldiers
at the time.
Locals alleged that the number of arrests in the last half of 2019 is as
high as 600, with child arrests in Issawiya making up 41 per cent of all child
detentions recorded in East Jerusalem.
It is, what you might call, the beginning of the end. For years Zionist sophists have used the slogan of a Jewish Democracy, when what they meant was a Jewish Demographic Majority. Because given the choice between democracy and demography most Israelis and Zionists will choose the latter. Well now it’s official. Jews are a minority in Greater Israel and thus all the talk of 2 states has one purpose in mind – to disguise the nature of Israeli apartheid by pretending that a 2 state solution is possible. In other words, support for 2 states is now rapidly becoming a face saver for Zionist apartheid. Let’s hope Norman Finkelstein takes note.
Amid a dry economic report published yesterday in The Marker lies an official announcement/ acknowledgment of unparalleled importance: The government of Israel confirms that between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River there is no longer a Jewish majority. In other words, in the territory under Israel's jurisdiction a situation of apartheid exists. A Jewish minority rules over an Arab majority.
Hila Raz's article reports that the Tax Authority is trying to pass an amendment to the law for the purpose of revising the ceiling for eligibility for tax benefits, whose aim, in turn, is to encourage exports. According to the Export Promotion Law approved in 2005, a factory is entitled to a tax break if at least 25 percent of its income stemmed from sales to a market with at least 12 million residents. A Ministry of Finance memorandum on the amendment to the law notes that in 2011 the population of Israel and the Palestinian Authority exceeded the 12 million mark, which enables manufacturers who market to these consumers to enjoy a tax break. The Tax Authority's diligent officials would like to raise the threshold for qualifying for the benefit by two million residents, so that they will not have to grant the benefit to exporters who sell their wares in Israel and the territories.
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (which is subordinate to the Prime Minister's Office ), of the 12 million residents living under Israeli rule, the number of Jews is just under 5.9 million (as of April 25 ). Twelve million minus 5.9 million Jews equals 6.1 million non-Jews. In other words, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, there is a pretty Jewish state as far as its laws and customs, but the reality is not so democratic. Foreign sources report that Jews had already become a minority in the area of the greater Land of Israel several years ago. From now on, it is an official statistic.
There will certainly be those who argue that the 12 million includes the resident of the Gaza Strip, which Israel evacuated, and that I should have deducted 1.5 million people from the number of non-Jewish residents. But the 12 million, which does happen to include the residents of the Gaza Strip, is an official figure appearing on Ministry of Finance stationery. If this population "is not considered" for purposes of the demographic balance, the Finance Ministry should be so kind as to deduct it from the limit for receiving the tax breaks and from the balance of its income.
U.S. intel cries 'apartheid' The term "apartheid" features prominently in an article in the on-line magazine Foreign Policy Journal on a new "confidential report" prepared by 16 American intelligence agencies. Franklin Lamb reported from Beirut to the Foreign Policy Journal on the "confidential report, which he claims compares Israel to the apartheid regime in South Africa. The document, he says, warns that the Arab Spring and the Muslim awakening will encourage 1.2 billion Muslims to fight against what they refer to as "the immoral European occupation of Palestine." Lamb argues that the report accuses Israel of intervening in internal American affairs via 60 organizations and some 7,500 administration officials. The report, Lamb says, advises the United States to leave Israel alone as its existence sabotages the American interest in moving closer to the Arab world and the Iranian people.
A quick Google search reveals interesting details about Lamb; you can find him in friendly pose with the arch-terrorist Samir Kuntar. His profile states that he is a board member of the Sabra-Shatila Foundation, a volunteer with the Palestinian Civil Rights Campaign, a regular guest on talk shows of Hezbollah's Al-Manar station and a contributing writer to the Electronic Intifada site. It is hard to believe that Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen bothered to scrutinize the scoop maker. Otherwise even an ardent supporter of the Netanyahu government like her would not have waved Lamb's above-mentioned article in the meetings she is having with Florida Jewish communities as convincing proof that Hussein Obama is an enemy of Israel.
Netanyahu may not need to worry about reports that "the intelligence report will be presented to President Obama." However, ahead of the U.S. elections, the prime minister certainly must raise his level of concern over all matters of U.S.-Israel relations. Leaving aside the exaggerations scattered throughout the article on "the report," the findings attributed to it reflect the prevailing White House attitude toward Netanyahu. The official acknowledgment that Jews have become a minority in the land of Israel could only reinforce the claims against Israeli rule over the Palestinians and the international support, including that of the Americans, for establishing a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. It is unnecessary to dwell on what the prime minister may expect if Obama remains in the White House for four more years. But even if Mitt Romney spends the next four years there, Obama will continue to hold full presidential authority until January 20, 2013.
Reminder: President Reagan's decision to open a dialogue with the PLO (following the organization's declaration of independence on the basis of UN Resolution 242, which includes recognition of Israel ) was made during a period of transition, after the 1988 U.S. election. It was Reagan's revenge on Yitzhak Shamir for impeding the peace process and the London Agreement for an international peace conference. In the present case, the transition overlaps with an Israeli election campaign. What damage would an outgoing President Obama incur if the day after the November 6 U.S. elections, he instructs the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to support Palestine's bid to join the organization? On the other hand, a campaigning Netanyahu will not have a problem turning that move into additional proof that the whole world is against us and therefore the country really needs a strong leader.
Boycotting the boycotters The umbrella group of Jewish organizations in Canada, the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA ), recently instructed its operatives, including Hillel branches on college campuses, to distance themselves from all those calling for a boycott of the settlements. Consequently they refused to host American Jewish author Peter Beinart and sidelined Canadian Friends of Peace Now. In response to the United Church of Canada's decision to boycott products from the settlements, CIJA leaders decided to boycott the interreligious dialogue program with the church. Steve McDonald, the CIJA associate director of communications, said in response that while the organization holds open discussions on the issue of the settlements, it fights against the use of boycotts. No, the associate director said, he was certain he saw no inherent contradiction. There are bad boycotts and there are good boycotts
