Racist UEFA Threaten Punishment
for Flying ‘illicit banner’
It was a wonderful display of solidarity by Celtic fans last
night when hundreds of Palestinian flags were flown by fans in defiance of
warnings by the Police and Club management.
They were displaying their anger that Celtic was playing the racist Hapoel
Beer Sheva side from Israel. Beer Sheva
is in Israel’s Negev Desert where Bedouin villages are at this very moment
being demolished to make way for Israeli towns.
Al Arakhib has been demolished over 100 times as it is an ‘unrecognised’
village. Only Arab villages are ever unrecognised.
Support for the Palestinians by Zionists is seen as support for the Nazis - a classic form of self-projection - and then they tell us that it is 'anti-Semitic' to associate their crimes with the Nazis!
Celtic is a club where a large number of the followers are
Irish Catholics and Republicans. Just as
the Loyalists in Northern Ireland identify with the Israelis, since Loyalism is
based on Protestant Supremacy, so Republicans identify with the oppressed Palestinians.
The so-called Jewish Human Rights Watch (many Zionist groups
use the term ‘watch’ i.e. SPY in their name), superimposed Swastikas on the
photos and claimed that this is really what was intended for the ‘Jewish
players; in the team and what they saw.
Of course JHRW has nothing to do with human rights, other than that they
oppose them for anyone who isn’t Jewish.
This is the racist projection of Jewish neo-Nazis or, as the
distinguished Israeli Jewish philosopher , chemist and religious scholar, Yeshayahu Leibowitz,
called them Judeo-Nazis. Just as Hitler demonised
the Jews and consigned them to concentration camps, so the Jewish neo-Nazis of
JHRW and similar groups wish to see the elimination of the Palestinians,
physically and politically. They thus
characterise them as the equivalent of the
Nazis, thus providing a justification for whatever calamity befalls
them.
Notice how the JHRW tweet states that ‘this is what you meant to say’ – which is aa
form of self-projection. Most Zionists
see any form of Palestinian identity as a swastika. Palestinians are not merely the reincarnation
of the Nazis but they are seen by many Zionists, not least Prime Minister Netanyahu
as the reincarnation of the Nazis. [see
Rewriting the Holocaust]
Note also how a protest against an Israeli team is portrayed
as an attack on a Jewish team. Israelis
are assumed to be Jewish since Palestinian Israelis are confined to the
margins of the self-declared Jewish State.
Israel’s football association tolerates a situation where clubs like Jerusalem’s
Beitar have an explicit policy of not employing Arab Israeli players. Again in another example of self-projection,
racist Zionists have convinced themselves that everyone else divides the world
up into races – them and us.
Enjoy the Zionists discomfiture at the expression of Palestinian
identity – because one of the key
aspects of settler colonialism is the attempt to eradicate and destroy the
identity of those they colonise.
The article below speaks for itself. How the fascist dross that constitute Israel's growing neo-Nazi milieu gloats over the death of an Israeli, Richard Lakin, who was stabbed by a Palestinian. Lakin was someone who was involved in various Israeli-Palestinian initiatives and therefore a 'leftist' in the eyes of Israel's fascists.
To those who say that this is just a tiny fringe, my response is this. If Israeli Arabs went on Facebook to gloat about the death of an Israeli who had been stabbed they would be arrested for incitement and be facing a year in gaol at the minimum. Why does the Israeli state do nothing about far-Rightists who do the same? The answer is obvious - they operate within the Zionist concensus today against leftists and 'Arab lovers' [it used to be 'Jew lovers' 'nigger lovers' etc.]
Facebook page defiling the memory of Israeli-American terror victim, Richard Lakin
In
Hebrew, the word for “victim” is korban, which has a strong religious
connotation akin to a ritual sacrifice. The term conveys the sense that
the victim offered up his or her life on the altar and it’s meant to ennoble
their suffering and sacrifice. One would expect this term to be used
reverently regarding Israelis murdered in the current round of terror attacks.
But not so.
Shurat Hadin's Facebook Lawfare Page
For
some Israelis, dying in a terror attack is not enough to establish your bona
fides as a decent human being worthy of mourning. About a week ago, there
was a terror attack on a public bus in which two Israelis were killed and
several were injured. Among the most seriously injured was
Israeli-American, Richard
Lakin, age 76. He was a retired school principal who made aliyah in
the 1980s, opened a school to teach Israelis English, and engaged in
Israeli-Palestinian education initiatives. He volunteered with Yad
B’Yad, the school which was
torched by Israeli settlers about a year ago.
The Shadow in all his glory
Lakin
died yesterday of his wounds. His body wasn’t even cold
before Shurat HaDin signed him up as the lead plaintiff in its Facebook
lawfare lawsuit. I’m not certain how an ambulance chaser like that
signs up a man who is near death for a lawsuit. But presumably, his
family had power of attorney and signed on his behalf. It’s terribly
disconcerting that a man who dedicated his life to promoting peace will be
exploited for political purposes by right-wing Israelis who despise
Palestinians. I can’t help but believe that Lakin would not have
approved. But clearly his surviving family do.
The Shadow in all his Judeo-Nazi rapper glory
When
the Israeli gutter-classes on Facebook learned about Lakin’s “extreme leftist”
views they lit up with hatred and venom that is almost too difficult to believe
and too painful to read. The level of brutalism is beyond belief.
The Judeo-Nazi
chorus was led, as usual, by the Uber-Juden rapper, The
Shadow (aka Yossi Eliassi). Another Israeli rapper known for his
racist-populist
views,
Subliminal, called for burning Palestinians alive. It
appears the murdering Jewish thugs who burned down the Dawabsheh home a month
ago, killing all but a little boy who survived, were inspired by Subliminal’s
moral example. And the next Israeli “leftist” murdered by his fellow Jews
will have The Shadow to thank.
While
in other western countries there is always an alternative music scene
representing progressive artistic political values, in Israel music is
dominated by crude, violent, nationalist hate. So what else is new?
Here is a sampling of
the rapper’s Facebook page:
The
Shadow: Today Richard Lakin died of wounds suffered in
the bus attack. He was an English teacher and extreme-leftist activist
with Tag Meir (a group
against “Jewish terror”). Which shows you it doesn’t matter how many
leftists there are. They will work for the Arabs, sell us out, and betray
us in the name of Englightenment.
When
the terrorist arrives, all your activism won’t do you any good. The only
thing he will see is a Jew. For him, your blood is just the same for him
as that of an Orthodox Jew or a settler sitting by your side.
I
hope that his death will be a slap in the face that will wake them up to the
part they play and shake them out of their illusion in which they’re living and
cause them to take account of their beliefs. May his memory be for a
blessing.
Yuvi
Mouada: May his memory be for a blessing?? May
his memory be erased!
Noam
Shaharabani: It seems that Arabs do good things once in a
while.
Yuval
Segev: Don’t say his memory is for a blessing.
A disgusting human being and it’s good he died. And don’t say I’m
too extreme because that’s the only way the disgusting Left will understand…
Shahar
Peretz: In short, another terrorist died.
Eviad
Magidish: I don’t feel even a small bit of sadness.
A leftist is just like a terrorist to me.
Mendi
Mifi: An auspicious hour.
David
Kadosh: In this case, the terrorist did the State of
Israel a favor.
Rafael
Dadon: Only in this way, when extreme leftists start
dying in terror attacks, will they get some sense.
Bar
Cohen: We need a “Super Like” button for events like
this.
Malka
Shelech: Great, one less leftist!
Miki
Dahan: One less leftist to burn in Hell!
Efrat
Stern: Irony–at first there was sorrow [at the death
of the Jewish victims], but now it brings a smile to my face because this
should be the fate of all leftists to watch as their illusions
explode in their faces. I’m really not sorry. Not even sorry that
he was a Jew or that he died.
Tair
Tadona: At first I was sorry when I heard he died in
the hospital of his wounds. But now I have a smile on my face–that
this should be the fate of every deluded leftist alive.
Chen
& Amir Kalkabani: May his death be for a blessing!
Eitan
Zina: May they all die. They have it coming.
I wish them what I wish every terrorist.
Neria
Ivgy: Serious question–does this leftist
teacher get to sleep with the 72 virgins?
Itzik
Azoulay: The Shadow, you’re the pride of the Jewish
people!
The
irony of all this hate and incitement on this pro-Israel Facebook page is that
Shurat HaDin is sueing the same company for allegedly encouraging Arabs to kill
Jews. The hypocrisy of it all boggles the mind!
But
I’m not finished yet. Alas there is more. Ten days ago, a
Palestinian youth was walking down the street in Hebron. He was accosted
by a settler who began screaming at him. He then pulled out a gun and shot
the boy dead. After the murder, this is how the victim’s cousin
described the scene:
Abed
Sharbati, nephew of the eyewitnesses, added that after the attack, settlers set
up tables on the spot where Quwamseh was killed and distributed food and
drinks, “as if in celebration” Sharbati told MEE. This was still going on at
the time of writing.
Nor
is this an unusual occurrence. Rabbis for Human Rights describes the scene in
Hebron in 1994, only a few hours after Baruch Goldstein committed mass murder
(on the Jewish holiday of Purim), murdering 29 Palestinians:
Several
hours after the massacre, Knesset member Hanan Porat showed up in Qiryat Arba
and blessed the participant with a “Happy Purim” in front of the cameras. He
even reminded them that “it is a duty to be happy in Purim”. Porat,
among the settlement founders of the Yesha council, served at that
time as the a Knesset member on behalf of the Mafdal (National Religious
Party). The cheers of joy of Hanan Porat in the presence of the television
cameras were interpreted as cheers of joy and admiration for the massacre that
recently happened in the holy Cave of the Patriarchs.
So
the next time you hear hypocrites like these whine about Palestinians who
purportedly celebrate the death of Jews remember this lyric from the Broadway
musical: “Anything they can do we can do better!”
My
final word on this: I’ve written a number of times here when faced with such
Israeli abomination that I’m really not sure a nation of such people deserves
to survive. Even if it does, I’m not certain there’s enough humanity
among those who aren’t infected with this cancer to carry on.
When
Herzl devised the idea of a Jewish homeland he never told us that Israel must
live at all costs. That Israel, in order to survive, is permitted to
lapse into grotesqueness and horror. Would he ever have imagined
that the Altneuland would be a cesspool of genocidal and even fratricidal
rage?
Human
beings live for a reason. They live for values. They live because
life means something transcendent. Is life that is shorn of all humanity
worth living? Is a nation shorn of all decency worth surviving?
Israeli Police Tell Palestinians to Shut Their Shops as they Protect Settler Violence and Racism
Every year Jerusalem day is the pretext
for an orgy of hate and violence from settler mobs, aided and abetted by the Israeli
Police and Border Guards. This year a
legal attempt was made to secure an injunction by the Supreme Court rejected
that, despite the video evidence from last year. The Deputy Chief Justice confronted with the
evidence simply expressed pious wishes that the Police would exercise zero
tolerance towards those who chanted ‘Death to the Arabs’ and similar
slogans.
I’ve included a number of reports and
videos from a variety of sources to show the flavour of the day.
There was a contingent from Lehava, dedicated
to preventing pure Jewish women being ensnared by wily, predator Arab men. An image that is derived directly from the
Nuremburg Laws 1935. There have, of
course, been no condemnations by ‘mainstream’ Israeli politicians such as
Netanyahu.
As that great Orthodox scholar and
Professor at the Hebrew University, Yeshayahu Leibowitz said, religious-nationalism
is the direct opposite of religion. He
first coined the term ‘Judeo Nazis’ to describe the little pogromists that are
evident in the videos. Israel and Zionism
have taken the Bible and fashioned it into a nationalist creed and used the bits they agree with (never the
Prophets!) to legitimise their racist and fascist sentiments.
Whereas previously, under Labour Zionism and
Begin, there was an attempt to keep the racism hidden from view, today it is on
display for all to see. In some ways we should
be grateful for the fact that there is no pretence anymore but Palestinians are
paying a high price for this.
Submitted by Ali Abunimah
on Mon, 05/18/2015 - 11:48
Lehava' s gang, "Jerusalem day", 17.5.2015
Note: To see
Thousands of young Israelis, many of them children, rampaged through the Old
City of occupied Jerusalem on Sunday chanting “Death to the Arabs” and other
racist and anti-Muslim slogans.
Some attacked bystanders and journalists and banged on the shutters of
Palestinian stores that had been ordered to close at midday.
The mob march was the climax of “Jerusalem Day,” an Israeli national holiday
to celebrate the occupation of the eastern part of the city in 1967. Zionist
militias ethnically cleansed and
captured the western sector of Jerusalem in 1948.
Under international law, Israel’s purported annexation of Jerusalem
following the 1967 conquest is null and void and
is not recognized by any country in the world.
Racist chants
Sunday’s violent scenes began as occupation forces allowed large numbers of
religious and nationalist Israeli Jews to flow into into the area of the
Damascus Gate in the late afternoon.
This is an entrance to the walled Old City that was long a bustling market
for Palestinians from surrounding villages until Israel made access to the city
virtually impossible for millions of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Israelis, many chanting racist slogans, rally at the Damascus Gate before marching into Jerusalem’s Old City, 17 May.(Charlotte Silver)
Groups of young men and boys banded together in circles, chanting and
dancing.
The atmosphere quickly shifted to that of an angry mob, which first turned
on two women who held the Palestinian flag and then, with increasing frequency,
toward random Palestinian bystanders and journalists, according to The
Electronic Intifada’s Charlotte Silver, who reported from the scene. Haaretz published a
video of a mob attacking a Jordanian television crew and The
Times of Israel captured video of young Israelis harassing
a female journalist and preventing her from speaking to her
cameraperson.
Many sang Bible verses set to popular music, often embellished or altered to
justify Israeli rule over Palestinians. Among the numerous racist slogans was
“A Jew is a soul, an Arab is a son of a whore.”
The frenzied, sustained and widespread nature of the racist vitriol is
documented in a large amount of footage obtained by The Electronic Intifada,
only a small part of which is included in this post. This video, shot by the
Jerusalem resident known as Zalameh, provides
a good sense of the mixture of Jewish extremism and outright racism on display:
Israeli mob chants anti-Palestinian slogans in occupied Jerusalem
The video also shows two women holding a Palestinian flag being verbally
abused.
But Israeli Border Police on horseback, armed with sound bombs and guns,
kept most Palestinians out of the Damascus Gate area. Police monitored the
crowd, attempting to intervene when a pack of marchers would attack someone,
Silver said.
“May they all die”
In this video, several youths who spoke to Silver make virulently racist
comments. One says that they had come to celebrate the “liberation of Jerusalem
from the Palestinians,” others chiming in with “may their memory be erased.”
"Jerusalem Day" at Damascus Gate (occupied East Jerusalem), 17
May 2015
“May they all die today, all together,” another interjects. A child asserts
repeatedly that Jerusalem was “liberated” from “the donkeys.”
Similar expressions could be heard throughout the day from the chanting
mobs.
Israel expert Dena Shunra notes that the curse calling for someone’s name or
memory to be erased was typically used for enemies as despised as Adolf Hitler;
its use by Jewish youths against Palestinians is an indicator of extreme levels
of hatred.
While deeply disturbing, children cannot be held responsible for spouting
such views. But the large number of children participating in the hate march
underscores the systematic indoctrination and anti-Palestinian incitement to
which Israeli youth are exposed.
Jewish women as Jewish “goods”
The marchers then entered the Old City, charging down the narrow streets
which are usually full of Palestinian business owners and shoppers.
Members of the anti-miscengenation group Lehava, some again appearing to be very
young, also took part in the march, shouting “Arab beware – my sister is not
abandoned goods” (see video at the top of this post).
They also chanted, “Girls of Israel, for the Nation of Israel [Jews].”
These are warnings to Palestinian men to stay away from Jewish women who are
described, in effect, as property exclusively available to Jewish men.
Religious hatred
The same marchers can also be heard singing “Kahane still lives” to the tune
of a popular religious-nationalist song, “Our Father Still Lives” – which
refers to Abraham.
Meir Kahane, the
assassinated Brooklyn rabbi who founded the the Jewish Defense League, is thus
elevated almost to the level of a biblical patriarch.
Kahane also founded Kach – an
organization so racist and extreme that even in Israel it was outlawed and
classified as a terrorist group.
He is most remembered for his demand that the entire Palestinian population
be expelled from lands occupied by Israel.
Voices can also be heard chanting that the Muslim prophet Muhammad was a
“homo” and a “son of a whore,” among other slogans calculated to provoke and
denigrate.
The expressions of virulent, even genocidal, hatred for Palestinians are
reminiscent of the “Death to the Arabs”
marches in the city which culminated in the abduction and burning alive of
Palestinian teen Muhammad Abu Khudair
last July.
Demolish Jerusalem’s mosques
A leaflet distributed at a “Jerusalem Day” march calls on the Israeli government to “bring down” the al-Aqsa mosque so it can be replaced with a Jewish temple.(Charlotte Silver)
Jewish extremist organizations handed out leaflets demanding that the
Israeli government demolish Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque and
the Dome of the Rock to make way for a Jewish Third Temple in their place.
The leaflet in the picture, collected at the Sunday march, states:
In honor of Jerusalem Day, we all demand of the Israeli government: to bring
down the mosques on the Temple Mount so that we can build the Temple and renew
the offering of sacrifices.
It is signed by an organization called “Returning to the [Temple] Mount.”
The atmosphere of intense hatred and religious-nationalist chauvinism was no
doubt encouraged by a declaration from
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “Jerusalem was always the
capital of the Jewish people alone – and not of any other nation.”
The march culminated in a mass rally
at the Western Wall, attended by education minister Naftali Bennett,
leader of the Jewish Home (Habayit Hayehudi)
party among other government figures. With thanks to Dena Shunra for translation and analysis.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Jerusalem Day celebration at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem, on May 17, 2015. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
claimed Jerusalem has always been the capital “of the Jewish people alone,
not of any other people” at a Jerusalem Day ceremony on Ammunition
Hill, in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem on May 17.
“Jerusalem won’t become once again a wounded and
bisected city,” he continued. “We will forever keep Jerusalem united under Israeli
sovereignty.”
Netanyahu pledged to “continue to build and
nurture [Jerusalem], to expand her neighborhoods.”
The prime minister has long insisted that Israel
must control East Jerusalem. In the same celebration in 2010, he maintained that “We cannot divide or freeze a city
as vibrant and creative as Jerusalem – we will continue to build and be built
by it” and averred “We are the generation which was lucky enough to see our
holy sites liberated and returned to our hands, and it is upon us to transfer
this right to our children.”
Jerusalem Day, celebrated every year on the 28th day
of Iyar, the second month in the Jewish calendar, commemorates what
Israel calls the “reunification” of Jerusalem.
Extremist Israelis mark the day every year by
marching through the Old City of occupied Jerusalem chanting racist and anti-Muslim
slogans like “Death to the Arabs.”
Journalist Charlotte Silver, reporting from the
2015 commemoration for The Electronic Intifada, interviewed Israelis who proclaimed “May they all [the
Palestinians] die today, all together.” A young Israeli applauded Israel for
liberating Jerusalem from “the donkeys.” Another expressed hope that
the memory of the Palestinians who were ethnically cleansed from Jerusalem will
be “erased.”
Israeli leftists protest a Jerusalem Day march on 17 May 2015. (Photo: AFP/Gali Tibbon)
Several hundred Israeli leftists protested the march, chanting slogans such as “Jerusalem will not be
silent, outlaw racism.” The activists, largely from the left-wing
organization Jerusalem Won’t Tolerate Racism, dubbed the demonstration a
“march of hate,” and held signs reading “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies”
(red sign in Hebrew above) and “We are against incitement. We are against
racism” (purple sign in Arabic above).
Decades of Illegal Occupation
Israel militarily occupied East Jerusalem in 1967. For
decades, the United Nations has insisted that this occupation is illegal.
“Israel’s unilateral annexation of East Jerusalem and the surrounding West Bank
hinterland contravenes international law. It is not recognized by the
international community which considers East Jerusalem an integral part of the
occupied Palestinian territory,” the UN maintains, citing Security Council resolutions 252, 267, 471,
476, and 478.
“Since 1967, Israeli measures have altered the status of
East Jerusalem and affected the residency status of Palestinians, their access
to basic services, and their ability to plan and develop their communities,”
the UN continues.
“Israeli settlement activity in East Jerusalem is
illegal and occurs at the expense of land and resources for Palestinian
construction and development, placing residents at risk of forced eviction,
displacement and dispossession,” the UN also notes. “As the occupying power,
Israel is responsible for administering the occupied territory for the benefit
of the protected Palestinian population.”
Attacked Journalists
Palestinian photojournalist Nidal Ashtiyeh was shot in the face by Israeli occupation forces on 17 May 2015. (Photo: Ahmad Talat Hassan)
Israeli police assaulted and broke
the cameras of Palestinian journalists who
were filming the Jerusalem Day protests. The reporters say they had
the proper accreditation to film the march, but were attacked anyway.
A journalist reported that Israeli police evacuated the
area and refused to allow anyone except Israeli settlers in.
Just a few days before, on 15 May, Israeli occupation forces shot a
Palestinian journalist in the face with
a rubber-coated steel bullet. The man had been photographing a
Nakba Day protest. He was wearing a gas mask, the glass of which the bullet
shattered, wounding his left eye.
RT crew attacked by Israeli police in Jerusalem (VIDEO)
Published time: May 17, 2015 18:11 Edited time: May 19, 2015 06:30
a terrible time we had to pass through check points that they erected everywhere along the Old City, they asked us to move away from the Damascus gate point. They didn't do it gently, they pushed us and broke our camera,” RT Arabic reporter Dalia Nammari later told RT International.An RT Arabic TV crew was attacked by Israeli police while covering the Jerusalem Day march in the Old City. Although the journalists had all documents permitting them to cover the event, the police prevented them from going live.
The reporter added that other journalists covering the event were treated the same “brutal” way by the Israeli police.
Dalia Nammari and the cameraman Muhammad Aishu were filming the march of settlers, which they had been accredited to, when the police interfered with their work and took away the camera. The crew continued to report from the scene using a smart phone and going on air live via Skype, when the police attacked them again.
“They took away my earpiece ... they are demanding from everyone – even journalists, to evacuate the area. Even Palestinians who live in the city can’t be present here because of the settlers’ march,” Nammari said.
The Israeli settlers took to the streets of Jerusalem to mark the day when Israel occupied the eastern side of Jerusalem in 1967, Nammari reported. Many were carrying posters reading “Jerusalem for Israelis.”
The controversial Israeli march through Jerusalem and its Muslim quarters is an annual event, marking the anniversary of Israel's capture of East Jerusalem. Police estimated that more than 30,000 Israelis took part in this year's rally, Reuters reported. They marched through the areas of the city, the overall population of which includes more than 30 percent of Palestinians.
The march resulted in confrontations, with mounted Israeli police clashing with dozens of rock-throwing Palestinians, who were protesting the Jewish nationalists march, Reuters reported. Two officers were injured and six Palestinians were arrested, police sources said.
The RT Arabic crew managed to film some of the clashes before being assaulted themselves by Israeli police.
Brutal attacks by Israeli law enforcement are “rare to be filmed, but not rare to happen,” Sarit Michaelli of the Israeli info center for human rights has previously told RT.
On Saturday, a Palestinian journalist suffered at the hands of the Israeli army, being shot in the eye with a rubber bullet. The photojournalist was taking pictures during a march to commemorate Nakba, or Catastrophe Day, when Palestinians were displaced in the creation of Israel.
“This is a usual behavior for the Israeli army against journalists and against peaceful non-violent Palestinian demonstrators,” Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary of the Palestine National Initiative told RT.
“During the last attack on Gaza less than a year ago the Israeli army killed 18 journalists including an Italian journalist in their attack on the Palestinian people. So this violation of the freedom of expression and violation of the right of journalists to cover what happens is a frequent behavior of the Israeli army which respects nobody,” Barghouti told RT, adding that this time the clashes happened during celebrations of annexation of East Jerusalem, which is “considered illegal by every international law.”
Last year, Israeli forces raided a building in Ramallah where the offices of several media outlets, including RT's Arabic channel, were located. The troops broke down the doors of the offices, destroyed some of the equipment and confiscated records.
