Israel's 'Friendship' Song of Annihilation Sung by Children
The further away from the Holocaust
we get, the more the Western governments, in particular Britain, the United
States and Germany want to remember it.But it is a very selective memory.
Death by Hunger WAS a Nazi Speciality - the Zionists have learnt their lessons of the Holocaust well
During the Cold War and McCarthy era
mention of the Holocaust would mark you down as a communist sympathiser. In
Israel it was no different. In a 220-page Israeli history textbookpublished in 1948, just one page was devoted
to the Holocaust compared to 10 pages on the Napoleonic wars. In 1960, after an
official Holocaust Remembrance Day was already established, more than a quarter
of the educational institutions still ignored the event.
Fact check on the Genocidal Friendship Song Which Talks of Annihilation of the Palestinians of Gaza
It was only after the 1961 Eichmann trial,
that Israel began to construct a holocaust narrative that portrayed Israel as
the victim. Prior to that Israel saw itself as the heroic start-up nation
unlike the ‘accursed Galut’ (diaspora Jews). The ‘new Jews’ were not like the
sheep who had gone willingly to the slaughter in Europe.
'Exterminate Gaza' is one of the lessons that Israelis have learnt from the Holocaust
In the West and via institutions like
the US Holocaust Memorial Museum we are fed a
particular version of the holocaust. In particular what they don’t want to remember is how the
United States and Britain did everything in their power not to admit Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. What they also
don’t want to remember is that the Zionist organisations, including the Board of Deputies, set their face against any rescue
schemes for Jewish refugees that did not include Palestine.
Anti-Semitism was endemic in the
war-time British Government and Civil Service. At the Foreign Office Sir Alex
Cadogan was of the opinion in
January 1940 that ‘Jew control of our
propaganda would be [a] major disaster.’
Even the Nazis didn't destroy all traces of civilisation in the countries they attacked
In October 1942 Labour Home Secretary
Herbert Morrisonreceived a delegation of public figures asking
him for visas for 2,000 Jewish childrenand the elderly in VichyFrance. Morrisonrefused. Morrison set his face against
the admission of all but a handful of Jewish refugees. Apparently anti-Semitism
‘was just under the pavement.’ A
month later the Nazis overran Vichy Franceand these Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Morrisonwas said to doubt that the Germans were aiming
at the extermination of the Jews. [Lesley Urbach, The Failure to Amend Britain's Immigration Policy, pp. 52-3].
Israeli Children Sing Of Gaza Annihilation In HUGE Public relations Fail!- Jimmy Dore Show
Anthony Eden - British Foreign Secretary later Prime Minister
On December 17 1942 the Allies declared, that
Hitler was embarked on the extermination of European Jewry. On 8 January 1943,
Foreign Secretary Anthony Edenrejected the request of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Dr Temple, to provide guarantees to neutral
countries regarding the admission of refugees. Temple also asked that children
in particular be admitted to Britain [Sompolinsky, The British Government and the Holocaust, pp. 88-9]. Despite there being more visas for
children available than children Eden resolutely opposed the request.
Even the Nazis didn't destroy every hospital they encountered
Edenalso opposed issuing a warning by the three
Allied leaders to the Nazis in early 1944 regarding the extermination of the
Jews. Eden’s pretext wasthat such a declaration would be to the Jews’
disadvantage, prompting a furious response from John Pehle of America’s War
Refugee Board that this suggested that the Allies
had no objection to the Final Solution. Edenrelented though he succeeded in watering the
declaration down, excluding Germany’s Jewsas they were Germany’s internal affair.
Neither Biden nor Starmer condemned scenes like this of the humiliation and later torture of civilian populations en masse
Edentold the War Cabinet’s Refugee Committeethat the real reason for his opposition was
that there ‘is likely to be redoubled
pressure upon us for measures of rescue.’ [Sompolinsky p.129]
One
FOofficial was of the opinion that ‘a disproportionate amount of the time of the
office is being wasted in dealing with these wailing Jews.’ [Sompolinsky,
p.209] When 200 Jews, including 70 children, drowned as the Salvadorsank in the Sea of Marmara on 12 December
1940, TM Snow, Head of the FOrefugee section commented that
‘There could have been no more opportune
disaster from the point of view of stopping this traffic.’
[Bernard Wasserstein, Britain and the Jews of
Europe, 1939-1945. p. 69]
Edenwas concerned that if Britain offered to take
in Jewish refugeesthen: ‘Hitlermight well take us up on any such offer.’ [Wasserstein, p.168] The Cabinet Committee on Jewish
Refugees, which included Clement Attlee, sent a memorandum to the US State
Departmenton 20 January 1943 warning that:
there is a possibility that the Germans or
their satellites may change over from the policy of extermination to one of
extrusion, and aim as they did before the war at embarrassing other countries
by flooding them with alien immigrants..
A letter sent by the Ministry of Economic Affairs to US
Ambassador Winant in London, explained how, in respect of a proposal to send
funds to Geneva that:
The Foreign Office are concerned with the difficulties
of disposing of any considerable numbers of Jews should they be
rescued from enemy-occupied territory...’.[Arthur Morse, While Six Million Died, p.
85.]
Fortunately for the Committee Hitlernever wavered in his determination to achieve
a Final Solution. The British Establishment now conveniently forgets what its
record during the Holocaust was like.Much like the Zionists. They all shed tears today about the Holocaust but
their counterparts 80+ years were resolutely opposed to the admission of Jewish
refugees.But today they remember the
holocaust as a justification for the Israeli state, which was created in the
image of Nazi Germany.
As Meier Sompolinsky, a Zionist, admitted in his book The British Government and the Holocaust – The Failure
of Anglo-Jewish leadership,
Zionist policy of that period was to use the spectre
of Jewish annihilation in Europe as pressure to open the gates of Palestine...
The Zionist emphasis was certainly not favourable to the refugee cause.
In fact the Zionists deliberately
undermined and blocked any attempt to rescue Jews that didn’t involve
Palestine. Why? Because their priority was building their ‘Jewish’ State not
saving Jews.
Where the Evian Conference was held
Boaz Evron, a former Israeli
journalist, in his book Jewish State or Israeli
Nation tells us of what happened when President Roosevelt called
the Evian Conference in
July 1938, with delegates from 32 states, in order to decide how to solve the
Jewish refugee question.
The Jewish Agency were extremely
fearful of what might happen if a refuge were found for Jewish refugees from Nazi
Germany that didn’t involve Palestine. According to their anti-Semitic logic,
if a refuge could be found in other countries what was the need for a Jewish
state?They preferred Jews to die at the
hands of the Nazis than live in another country.
This policy did not change when the
Holocaust began in earnest. It remained the same throughout the war. Evron
quotes from the minutes of the Jewish Agency Executive of June 26, 1938 where
it was decided to ‘belittle the
Conferenceas far as possible and to cause it
to decide nothing’.
[Boas Evron, Jewish State or Israeli
Nation, p. 260/1].
In a letter to the American Zionist
leader Stephen Wiseof 13 June 1938, which
was written at the
behest of Chaim Weizmann, the President of the World Zionist Organisation and Israel’s
first President, George Landauer, Director of the Central Bureau for the
Settlement of German Jews, spoke of his concerns.
Even if the conference does not propose immediately after its opening
other countries but Eretz Israel as venues for Jewish emigration, it will
certainly arouse a public response that could put the importance of Eretz
Israel in the shade... We are particularly worried that it would move Jewish organizations to
collect large sums of money for aid to Jewish refugees, and these collections
could interfere with our collection efforts.
Ben-Gurion at a meeting of the JAE of 26
June 1938 was
unremittingly hostile:
‘No rationalizations can turn the conference from a harmful to a useful
one. What can and should be done is to limit the damage as far as possible.'
At
the same meeting another Executive member, Menachem Ussishkinsaid that:
He hoped to hear in Evian that Eretz Israel remains
the main venue for Jewish emigration. All other emigration countries do not
interest him… The greatest danger is
that attempts will be made to find other territories for Jewish emigration.[my emphasis]
Selig Brodetsky
Slovakia was the first country to
deport its Jews to Auschwitz. It was a puppet Nazi state ruled by a Catholic priest,
Father Tiso of the fascist clerical Slovak Peoples Party
and its militia, the Hlinka Guard. When information was received about the
impending mass deportations of Slovakian Jews the Federation of Czechoslovakian
Jews organised a protest demonstration. The rally was held in early June 1942
and invitations were sent to Selig Brodetsky, President of the Board of
Deputies and its Secretary, Abraham Brotman. Both declined to attend. They were
asked to send a declaration but sufficed with a letter to the Chief Rabbi.
As Somplinsky observed (p.69) even Anthony Eden, the
Foreign Secretary and the Catholic Primate Cardinal Hinsley
had sent statements to be read in public. All the President of the BOD would do
was send an indirect letter. Somplinsky wrote that
‘it may be assumed that the heads of the BD believed
that the pain should be concealed and that such issues should not be brought to
the attention of the public.’
The Board of Deputies didn’t believe
in holding a demonstration against the deportation of Jews from Slovakia.In fact its first demonstration
against ‘anti-Semitism’ was against Jeremy Corbyn in March 2018. Clearly Hitler
was a benign figure compared to Corbyn.
In December 1939 the Zionist had
captured the Board of Deputies after nearly 30 years of trying. Brodetsky, a
Leeds University professor was its first Zionist President. For the Zionists it
was the Jewish State uber alles.
The Children of the Kindertransport
Many people will know that after the
Nazi pogrom of Kristallnacht,
the British Government offered 10,000 places for unaccompanied German Jewish
children in Britain, the Kindertransport.
The Zionists were outraged. Those children should go to Palestine or nowhere.
Weizmann demanded that the children
be brought to Palestine. If the Zionists had captured the
Board of Deputiesearlier then the children of the
Kindertransport might have become one more grisly statistic. Malcolm MacDonald, the Colonial Secretary, recalled:
I remember at the time that Weizmann’s attitude shocked me.He insisted on the children going to
Palestine. As far as he was concerned
it was Palestineor nowhere.
When MacDonaldrefused to guarantee
that the children would go on to PalestineWeizmanntold him that: ‘We shall fight you - and when I say fight I
mean fight.’ The Zionist leadership’s greatest fear was that the future and
destiny of Palestineand the plight of
European Jewrywould be considered as
two separate problems. As a result, efforts would be made to solve the problem of
European Jewrywithout using
Palestineas a refuge.
At a meeting of Vaad Leumi, the
Zionist assembly in Palestine on 2 December 1938, Ben-Gurionwas afraid that ‘ideological and territorialist plans would be formulated both among
the Jews and among the Gentiles’.
In a speech to Mapai’s [Israeli Labor
Party] Central Committeeon 9 December1938 he explained why:
If I knew that it would be possible to save all the
children in Germanyby 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.
The Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto
So when Zionists talk about the
Holocaust today we can treat what they say with a hefty pinch of salt. It was
the Zionist movement that provided most of the Judenrat collaborators and Jewish police in
Europe and in Palestine they acted to undermine the Jewish Boycott of Nazi
Germany. That is why, when Israeli state is carrying out a genocide in
Palestine it is more important than ever that we commemorate the Nazi holocaust
and see how its memory has been inverted and distorted to justify the Zionist
holocaust in Gaza.
The Zionists commemorate the Nazi
holocaust only in order that they can use it to legitimise their ongoing
holocaust and genocide. It is no surprise that the German State backs Israel to
the hilt with weaponry. As I wrote in my recent Al Jazeera article Why is Germany supporting
Israel’s genocide in Gaza?there hasn’t barely been a single genocide or holocaust that
the German state hasn’t smiled upon.
On Monday 27 January, Holocaust
Memorial Day, we will be holding a meeting with a difference. We take on board
the words of Yehuda Elkana, a child survivor of Auschwitz,
a profound existential “Angst” fed by a particular interpretation of the lessons of the
holocaust … that we are the eternal victim. In this ancient belief… I see the
tragic and paradoxical victory of Hitler. Two nations, metaphorically speaking,
emerged from the ashes of Auschwitz: a minority who assert, “this must never happen again,” and a frightened and haunted majority
who assert, “this must never happen
to us again.”The
Need to Forget
Elkana went on to say that ‘The very existence of democracy is
endangered when the memory of the dead participates actively in the democratic
process.’ And that is what has happened.The dead Jews of Poland, who when they were alive voted overwhelmingly
against the Zionists, have been conscripted into Netanyahu’s genocidal army.
Zionism has consciously used the
memory of the 6 million dead Jews not to fight racism and fascism but to
justify it.Instead of Auschwitz being a
warning about the dangers of where racism leads, Gaza is permitted because of
Auschwitz.
What the Holocaust does do is provide
the Israeli state with a powerful rationale for its victimhood complex even as
it perpetrates a genocide. All settler states have a victim complex and believe
that it is the settlers who are hard done by. Israel is no different in this
respect but the Holocaust provides a unique moral justification and of course
the West is happy to support this.
It is
difficult to think of anything more disgusting than using the memory of the Jews
who died at the hands of the Nazis to justify the murder of Palestinian children
and their parents in Gaza.
The Western
powers – the United States, Britain and especially the German state - are happy
to go along with this rewriting of history. After all it lets them off the hook
and avoids western leaders having to answer uncomfortable questions such as why
the US and Britain refused to admit Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.
Stephen Kapos and other descendants of holocaust survivors
A recent
example of this is how the riot and racist attacks of the Tel Aviv Maccabi fans
in the Netherlands was turned into a second Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom
of November 9-10 when 100 Jews were murdered and nearly all synagogues were
burnt to the ground.
This could
only happen because the attacks by Israel’s racist thugs on Arabs in Amsterdam
was conveniently
ignored, just as Israel’s war crimes in Gaza are ignored. The chants of ‘Death to the Arabs’ ‘May Your Villages Burn’
and ‘There is no school in Gaza today
because there are no children’ somehow disappeared down the memory hole of
Starmer, Scholtz, Biden and the Netherland’s idiot Prime Minister Schoof.
Instead the
fightback of Amsterdam residents who gave the Israeli thugs a deserved
thrashing was paraded as an anti-Semitic
pogrom.
There was
nothing more sick than the fascist leader of the Netherlands, who leads its
biggest parliamentary party The Freedom Party,
Geert Wilders, bemoaning the ‘anti-Semitic’ attacks whilst using it as a
pretext to call
for the deportation of Moroccans living in the Netherlands.
Dutch Nazi Party (NSB) marching in Amsterdam
Netherlands
had the highest rate of extermination of Jews of any Western country in the holocaust.This was in part because it had a relatively
strong fascist party the NSB, which helped the Gestapo winkle out Jews in
hiding like Anne Frank. It doesn’t take much imagination to recognise that 84
years ago, Geert Wilders would not have been a member of the Communist Party
which organised the strikes against the Jewish deportations. Geert Wilders would
have been a prominent leader of the Dutch Nazi Party, the NSB. The idea that
this fascist would have joined Dutch workers in their strike against the deportations
is absurd.
Ursula von der Liar
The same is
true of the far-right President of the European Commission, Ursula
von der Leyen. A member of the Christian Democrats, whose antecedents lie in the Weimar
conservative parties including the anti-Semitic DNVP
which helped put Hitler in power. If Von Der Liar had been alive 90 years ago
she would have been a cheer leader for the Nazis but today Jews are a useful stalking
horse for western imperialism in the Middle East.
We
organised this webinar precisely because western leaders and its prostitute
media have turned the Nazi holocaust into a justification for their war plans
and racism.
Tom Suarez
The first
speaker was Tom Suarez who has written two excellently researched books, State of Terror and Palestine Hijacked. Tom
described Zionism as a cult and Anti-Semitism as its drug. He described the
cruel cynicism of Zionism which opposed all rescue plans for Jewish refugees
from the Nazis that didn’t involve Palestine as its destination. He recalled the opposition of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, to the Kindertransport in 1938/9, after Kristallnacht, which saved
10,000 German Jewish children from death.
As Ben-Gurion
explained to the Central Committee of Mapai, the Israeli Labour Party, on 9
December 1938:
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.
Letter to the Jewish Chronicle 5 February 1993
This was
the policy of the Zionist movement throughout the war. Another example he gave
was of the deliberate sabotage of the efforts of Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld,
Chair of the Chief Rabbi’s Rescue Committee by the Board of Deputies, which at
that time was controlled by the Zionists. Indeed its President Selig Brodestsky
openly boasted of this sabotage. You can read about this in my book Zionism During the Holocaust.
HMS Patria
Tom
described how the Haganah, the forerunner of the Israeli Occupation Forces, sank
the Patria, because they preferred dead refugees to them being transported by
the British to Mauritius. Over 250 of the 2,000 refugees died. The Haganah lied and claimed that the refugees themselves had sunk the boat because they preferred dying to living anywhere but Palestine. The habit of lying hasn't left them.
Tom
emphasised how anti-Semitism is key to holding Jews in the diaspora in
permanent fear, be it fake or genuine. The holocaust has been weaponised in
order that Israel can continue its ethnic cleansing.
The Patria sinking in Haifa harbour
After the
war the Zionists insisted that Jews be separated from non-Jews in the Displaced
Persons camps and in the Jewish camps there was a reign of terror to force them
to go, not to the United States or Britain but to Palestine. Those who didn’t
want to go were beaten up and worse.
Rabbi
Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine ran a kidnapping operation for Jewish children
who had been placed with non-Jewish families during the war. They were torn
from those families, regardless of their own wishes. In some cases children
whose parents were in England were still forced to go to Palestine.
The second
speaker was Haim
Bresheeth, the Israeli academic who was recently arrested by the police in
London as part of their attacks on Palestine solidarity supporters. The third
speaker was Tony Greenstein, author of Zionism
During the Holocaustand the final speaker was Stephen Kapos, who was a
child survivor of the Hungarian holocaust. He was sheltered by a Christian group
in Budapest.
Stephen Kapos
The session
was chaired by Esther Giles from the Socialist Labour Network. On January 27 we
will be holding a similar meeting on Holocaust Memorial Day. We are determined
not to allow the Zionists a monopoly over the holocaust narrative in order to
use one holocaust to justify more holocausts.
Western Leaders Call Hamas ‘Terrorists’
yet compared to Israel’s rape, torture and child-killing machine, Hamas
is the equivalent of a church choir
A Child’s Question to their parents - Where were you when Gaza’s Genocide Was Taking Place?
I make no apologies for this being an omnibus blog. Israel's atrocities and war crimes are so massive and overwhelming, all of them supported unflinchingly by our government and that of the United States and Germany
In
Nazi Germany there were two types of camps - ‘ordinary’ concentration camps
such as Dachau and Ravensbruck and extermination or death camps like Treblinka
and Belzec. About one-third of the inmates died in the former but their primary
purpose was not extermination but the exploitation of labour and detention.
Starving Gaza
Auschwitz
was a dual purpose camp – it both provided labour to German firms such as IG
Farben as well as being, with Birkenau, a Death Camp.
In
the past people, even David Cameron, referred to
Gaza as the world’s largest open air prison or concentration camp. Today Gaza
is a Death Camp. It is Israel’s Auschwitz.
Kristallnacht
was the Nazi pogrom against the Jews on November 9-10 1938. Just as the
Zionists use October 7 as the excuse for genocide in Gaza, so too did the Nazis
used the assassination
of a minor diplomat in their Paris Embassy, Ernst vom Rath, by Herschel
Grynszpan as the excuse for Kristallnacht.
Jewish Doctor Mark Perlmutter interviewed on the horrors he witnessed as a surgeon in Gaza (4.20)
The
Palestinians broke out of their prison on October 7 because they had grown
tired of a 17 year siege, 57 year occupation and repeated ‘mowing the lawn’, Israel’s
quaint term for periodic murderous attacks against Gaza’s population. Grynszpan
assassinated vom Rath because of the treatment of his parents. Refugees in
Germany they had been deported to Poland which also refused to have them. They
were therefore stuck in a no-mans land between the two states until Poland relented
and took them in.
Only a stand up comedian could bring out the true irony of the West's support for Israel
The
similarities do not stop there. During Kristallnacht,
one Nazi was killed and in revenge nearly every synagogue in Germany was set on
fire, most Jewish businesses were attacked, a hundred German Jews killed and
30,000 incarcerated in concentration camps.
So
it is with Gaza, only more so. On October 7 of the 1,139 Israelis, who were
killed, one-third were members of the Israeli military and the paramilitary
Border Police.
Burmese Genocide Scholar 'Dr Maung Zarni'
It
is abundantly clear that Israel put into operation from midday a ‘mass
Hannibal’ based on the Hannibal
Directive, first drawn up in 1986, which stated that in the event that an
Israeli soldier is captured, it is better to kill him than to risk him being swapped
in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
Following October 7 Israel set about
constructing an atrocity narrative that bore no relation to what actually
happened.That some atrocities took
place is undeniable. Given what Palestinians in Gaza have suffered over the
years that is understandable. But the story that Israel created and which the
BBC and British press have swallowed is unrecognisable from what actually
happened.
Swedish Parliamentarian Attacks Government Policy on Gaza
My eye was caught, on October 8th
by a report
in the Times of Israel about how a Hamas
operative had killed a father and his partner in Kibbutz Re’im, after having
been attacked himself. He was alone with their two children. Did he do what the
Israeli military have done and murder them in cold blood?No. The father’s separated wife, Reut Karp
wrote:
The terrorist calmed down my Daria and Lavi,
covered them in a blanket, took lipstick and wrote on the wall: ‘The al-Qassam
[Brigades] people don’t murder children.’
A cartoon depicting Israel's murder of Hind Rajab, a 6 year old girl together with 2 paramedics
This proved to me that unlike Israel’s snipers
who deliberately aim at children’s heads and who killed 5-year old Hind
Rajab, these ‘terrorists’ had a morality that Zionism’s monsters totally
lack.
The Zionist imagination ran wild but Blinken
and Biden endorsed this atrocity propaganda. Biden testified that he had seen
photos of the beheaded babies, until the State Department ‘walked
this back’.
Israeli TV Broadcaster - People in Gaza deserve a hard agonising death
After this there was the ‘mass rape’ story
which the New York Times endorsed in ‘Screams without words’.
However this too fell apart when the family of the main ‘victim’, Gail
Abdush, disowned the article. It was revealed that the principal author Anat
Schwartz had ‘liked’ a Twitter post arguing for Gaza into a ‘slaughterhouse’. The
NYT newsroom was itself divided, resulting in a refusal to produce the Daily podcast.
See ‘Between the Hammer and the
Anvil’.
The Farce of Asking Israel to investigate itself
Israel’s atrocity propaganda
was unquestioningly accepted by the Western media because it underpinned their
support for Israel’s genocide. A cursory glance at the car graveyard that resulted
from October 7 makes it obvious that Israel was responsible for most deaths on
the day. Only Israel’s Apache helicopters with their hell-fire missiles are
capable of incinerating cars. Hamas did not have heavy weaponry. As Asa Winstanley
observed
‘If Hamas made a miscalculation in the planning of
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, it was perhaps to overestimate the value Israeli
planners assigned to the lives of their own people.
Palestinians return to eastern Deir al-Balah to find homes destroyed after Israeli forces withdraw
Hamas’s
assumption that Israel would prioritise the safety of its own citizens was a
serious mistake. Central to Israel’s ideology is the belief that the individual
is worthless compared to the State itself. The Israeli state was willing to
sacrifice the hostages for the sake of killing and expelling Gaza’s
Palestinians. Taking Palestinian blood is more important than protecting their
own.
As the attack
on UNIFIL soldiers in Lebanon make clear, Israel is the mad dog of
international politics. When confronted with such a creature the only solution
is to put the Zionist beast down.
As many as 25 Palestinian prisoners from Gaza, including two women, were released this morning by Israeli occupation authorities at the Karm Abu Salem crossing, south of the Gaza Strip.
The former detainees were subsequently transported to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. pic.twitter.com/kZouMSJVaV
The Media has reflected the Israeli narrative of its hostages being mistreated, ignoring what they actually said. In contrast to the beatings and torture experienced by Palestinian prisoners - who are never considered hostages
But whereas
the leaders of France, Ireland, Spain and Italy have condemned
Israel for attacking UN soldiers, Starmer and Lammy have kept silent. This is
what Labour’s false ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign was about and it’s
noticeable that one of the ‘anti-Semitism victims’, Louise Ellman has denied
that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide.Labour Zionism always lines up behind their nominal opponents on the Zionist
right, including Ben Gvir and Smotrich.
I
once asked myself if there was anything that Israel could do, bar killing all Palestine’s
first-born, that would lead the US to cut off the arms supply and declare the
experiment with a ‘Jewish’ State at an end. Today I’m not even sure that
killing the first born would suffice.
Today
it is clear that there are no limits.
If Israel announced gas chambers for the Palestinians Biden would probably query
the type of gas and say that this was a red line. When Israel began the killing
his red line would disappear into the mists just as happened with the invasion
of Rafah.
As
the doctor’s letter
in July in The Lancet said, the true estimate of dead was not the conservative 37,000
from Gaza’s Ministry of Health but nearer 186,000. That figure is now at least a
quarter of a million.
The
monsters and war criminals of the West – Biden, Starmer, Sunak, Scholtz, Lammy,
not forgetting von der Leyen, repeat the phrase about ‘Israel’s right to self-defence’ or ‘Israel’s right to exist’.
Israel
has no more right to self-defence against those whose land they occupy than the
Nazis had against the French or Czechs. An occupier enjoys no such rights. Only
those under occupation enjoy such rights.
States
are not human beings. Only people have a right to exist. Israel has proved what
I said 5 years ago when I declared
that ‘Israel is Hitler’s Bastard
Offspring’. Like Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany its abolition is a
precondition for peace in the Middle East. The rotten and corrupt Arab regimes
that prop it up also have to go.
Dr Tanya Haj Hassan testimony on Israel's attacks on hospitals in Gaza and its savagery
One
of the most egregious war crimes committed by Israel has been its attacks on
Gaza’s hospitals and health facilities on the pretext that they are Hamas
bases. This letter,
written last August, from 30 UK doctors and health professionals who have been
to Gaza since last October gives the lie to this. They write of:
‘the deliberate targeting of
civilians on a mass scale,’ and how the estimate of 40,000
killed is a gross underestimate since it only includes identifiable
bodies.It speak of how ‘everyone in Gaza is sick, injured, or both’.
Health conditions in hospitals were horrific:
Israel's Duff Spokesman Defending Keeping out journalists
‘Virtually
every child under the age of five had both a cough and watery diarrhoea.
Jaundice and hepatitis... Pregnant women gave birth in unsanitary and
overcrowded conditions, as there is simply nowhere left which is not unsanitary
and overcrowded. Their infants were born underweight... Very few babies born
under these conditions are likely to survive.’
Epidemics are
raging in Gaza. In addition to that, Israel has not stopped bombarding
civilians in their tents or displacing the malnourished and sick population of
Gaza, approximately half of whom are children, to areas with no running water
or even toilets available.
All of us
treated children who seemed to have been deliberately targeted by military
violence. Bullet wounds to children’s heads and torsos and amputations of limbs
and eyes of children were commonplace.
The sole cancer
specialist hospital in Gaza, the Turkish–Palestinian Friendship Hospital, has
been rendered inoperative, turned into a temporary Israeli military base,
Some
of us have also been the direct victims of Israeli air strikes. Whilst sleeping
in a deconflicted safe house some of us were targeted by Israeli artillery. A
GBU-32 (Mk83) bomb landed 6 metres from the wall of our accommodation. This
resulted in significant damage to the house as well as injuries to the medical
team.
…
Israel has targeted our colleagues in Gaza for death, disappearance, and
torture. These unconscionable acts are entirely at odds with British law,
British values, and International Humanitarian Law.
Channel 4 onTorture
Israel’s
exterminationist mentality
Despite
using the holocaust in its defence what has been remarkable about Israel’s
reaction to October 7 has been the open espousal of the extermination and
annihilation of the Palestinians.
Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the Shirat Moshe yeshiva in
Jaffa, calledduring a conference on 8 March for the Israeli army to
kill ‘all residents of Gaza’. When
asked whether this included babies he said:
“Those who
create the terrorists” should also be killed, he said in
reference to women in Gaza. Despite these racist and genocidal remarks Israel’s
police recommended dropping the case. Elderly people are also legitimate targets, according to Mali.
"There is
no such thing called innocent creature. By the way, the elderly man is capable
of carrying a rifle and shooting. Therefore, the Torah is very clear in the
ruling."
“For I did not consider myself justified in exterminating the men… and then allowing their children to grow up to wreak vengeance on our children and grandchildren.
The difficult decision had to be taken to make these people disappear from the face of the earth.
Compare
this with what Heinrich Himmler told
senior SS Generals on October 4th 1943 in Posen (Posnan):
For I did not consider myself
justified in exterminating the men—in other words, killing them or having them
killed—and then allowing their children to grow up to wreak vengeance on our
children and grandchildren. The difficult decision had to be taken to make
these people disappear from the face of the earth. For the organization that
had to carry out this duty it was the most difficult tHimmler 6 October 1943,
Posen (Posnan)
Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Contrast this with the treatment
of Arab Israeli Professor
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian who was first suspended then reinstated by the Hebrew
University and then arrested by the Police and held in conditions amounting to
torture. This was in response to her interview on the Makdisi Street podcast
calling for the abolition of Zionism.
Shalhoub-Kevorkian was detained
by police on the afternoon of 18 April and held overnight in conditions her
lawyers described as “terrible” and designed to humiliate.
“This case is unique,” said Hassan Jabareen, her lawyer.
“This
is not only about one professor, it could be a [precedent] for any academic who
goes against the consensus in wartime.”
This is the ‘democratic’ Israel that Starmer and his Lammy defend.
“We are fighting human animals, and
we are acting accordingly,” Israel’s Defence Minister, Yoav
Gallant, said at the start of the genocide. “We will eliminate everything - they will regret it,”
Netanyahu evoked a biblical analogy referring to the Amalekites,
which was interpreted as a call to wipe out Gaza.
“You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible -
we do remember,”
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"There
will be no electricity and no water (in Gaza), there will only be destruction.
You wanted hell, you will get hell," declared Maj. Gen. Ghassan
Alian, who heads the Israeli army’s Coordination of Government Activities
in the Palestinian Territories (COGAT).
Moshe Feiglin, the founder of Israel's right-wing Zehut Party
and former Likud representative in Israel’s parliament, also called for the complete
destruction of Gaza.
“There is one and only (one) solution, which is to completely destroy
Gaza before invading it. I mean destruction like what happened in Dresden and
Hiroshima, without nuclear weapons,”
Feiglin was at least honest. In an interview with Israel’s
Channel 12 he said:
As Hitler said, I can't live if one Jew is left, we can't live here if
one 'Islamo-Nazi' remains in Gaza
Amit Halevi, a Likud member in parliament, said,
There should be two goals for this victory: One, there is no more
Muslim land in the land of Israel … After we make it the land of Israel, Gaza
should be left as a monument, like Sodom.
“Nakba? Expel them all,”Nissim
Vaturi, deputy speaker for Israel’s parliament, said.
If the Egyptians care so much for them - they are welcome to have them
wrapped in cellophane tied with a green ribbon.”
Ariel Kallner MK said,
“Nakba to the enemy now! This day is our Pearl Harbour. We will still
learn the lessons. Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the
Nakba of 48. A Nakba in Gaza and a Nakba for anyone who dares to join!”
Yinon Magal, a journalist and politician, said, “It is time for Nakba 2.” On ‘X’, Magal
captioned a picture of a carpet-bombed neighbourhood, “This is how all of Gaza should look”.
“Your expectation is that tomorrow morning we’d drop what amounts to
some kind of a nuclear bomb on all of Gaza, flattening them, eliminating
everybody there,” the interviewer said.
According
to Jessica Buxbaum an investigation from Palestinian digital rights
organization, 7amleh,
found that Facebook approved adverts calling to “wipe out Gaza, its women, children, and elderly” as well as to kill
Palestinians, burn down Gaza, deport Palestinians to other countries, and carry
out a second Nakba.
This is not new. In 1969 Golda Meir stated, “There was no such thing as Palestinians”.
In March 2024 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich repeated
the claim,“no such thing as the
Palestinian people”.
“The Hamas atrocities of October
7th... transformed what has been the rhetoric of marginalised groups into a
flood of statements now made by politicians, journalists and celebrities,”
Rabbi Dov
Lior, Chairman of the Jewish Rabbinical Council, was quoted as saying “during warfare, killing non-Jewish
civilians is permitted if it saves Jewish lives”. According to Lior’s
ruling, Israeli occupation troops in Gaza are allowed to kill and harm “so-called innocent civilians” during
warfare.
“The law of our Torah is to have mercy on our soldiers and to save
them. This is the real moral behind Israel’s Torah and we must not feel guilty
due to foreign morals,”
according
to Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv. Lior added that Jewish lives were more important
than non-Jewish lives. Rabbi Lior is considered among the most learned sages of
the Torah.
“…a
thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail”
According
to Al
Jazeera however, after speaking to many rabbis, it is clear that Lior’s
views and interpretation of Jewish Law enjoy far more popularity and acceptance
than Rabbi Froman, Chairman of the Jewish Rabbinical Council’s relatively
dovish interpretations.
The basic
point of disagreement concerns whether Biblical injunctions apply equally to
Jews and non-Jews. Lior, like most of the rabbis of the Gush Emunim settler
movement, Lior believes that Biblical commandments such as “thou shall not murder” refer only to
“Jews” since the Torah was given to Jews, not Gentiles.
Settlers’
rabbi
Dov Lior
is the chief rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba and head of the “Council of Rabbis
of Judea and Samaria.” In 1994, he strongly supported the murder by an American
immigrant settler, Baruch Goldstein, of 29 Palestinian worshippers at the
Ibrahimi Mosque.
Lior
praised Goldstein, calling him a “great
saint and rabbi … may his memory be blessed”. Several months after the
massacre, Lior told disciples in Kiryat Arba near the occupied
West Bank city of Hebron
“Jewish blood was redder than non-Jewish blood … and
that a Jewish life is preferred by the Lord than a non-Jewish life”.
It would be churlish of me to
draw any comparison with the Nazis. The two Chief Rabbis of Israel (for Ashkenazim
and Sephardis) have refused to condemn or repudiate Lior’s views.
Mirkaz
Ha’rav officials in West Jerusalem (the main religious College where Dov Lior
teaches) refused
to comment on Lior’s edict when contacted by Aljazeera. The official
religious establishment has consistently supported attacks carried out by the
occupying army against Palestinian civilians.
It
is clear today that calls for the extermination and wiping out of the Palestinians
are not confined to a small minority in Israel.
Since
October 7 2023, Law for Palestine [LFP] has amassed a body of evidence exposing
the incitement to violence and genocidal intent of Israeli officials and public
figures. It includes over 500 violent and genocidal incitements, in the form of
social media posts, TV interviews and official statements from Israeli
politicians, army personnel, journalists, and other influential personalities.
The thematic areas that are already uploaded are statements and
incitement by:
* To download a PDF file that includes all the documents merged together, click here*
On February 27 2024 LFP released a special new
database spotlighting Israeli incitement to genocide since the ICJ’s order on
January 26, 2024, directing Israel to halt genocidal acts and incitement.
Access it here – click
You
will remember the recent murder of American citizen AyÅŸenur
Eygi. The Biden Administration has done absolutely nothing about it.
Despite Israeli forces killing 26-year-old US citizen AyÅŸenur Eygi as she demonstrated against
Israel’s illegal settlement activity in the West Bank the White House has not
bothered to reach out to her family.
The US insists that Israel’s government is investigating the crime,
Israel’s initial findings have already been undermined. Volunteers and other
eyewitnesses have not even heard from this “investigation.”
“No one from the investigation
has contacted us,” said Vivi, a volunteer with
Faz3a, a group leading a campaign to provide protective presence to Palestinians
against illegal Israeli settler activity. “what kind of investigation are you
doing if you aren’t even talking to the people who are right next to her when
she was killed.”
The Sexual Assaults that Israel Doesn't Mention
“No one from the State Department
or anyone back in America has contacted us,” she added.
The volunteers wanted to focus on the reason they are there at all: the
suffering of the Palestinian people. “The
language from Biden and Harris is still…’I will support Israel's right to
defend itself,’ but we've seen that there's absolutely no defense
going on here in the West Bank. They're attacking refugee camps here that house
generations of people who have been displaced during previous Nakbas, who are
just waiting with the hope to maybe one day go back.”
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“An accident, ricocheted off the
ground”
The US first responded as if the killing was accidental. “We deplore this tragic loss,” Antony
Blinken said adding “the most important
thing to do is to gather the facts, and that’s exactly what we’re in the
process of doing... any actions that we take are driven by the facts.”
Israel’s military announced its initial findings saying it was "highly likely" that Eygi "was hit indirectly &
unintentionally (it)was not aimed at
her but at the key instigator of the riot."
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Shortly after, Biden told reporters: "Apparently it
was an accident, ricocheted off the ground and just got hit by accident. I'm
working that out now,” going even further than the Israeli military’s
already-spurious claim.
Implicit in the Israeli military’s claim was that they were indeed
shooting into the crowd, but somehow didn’t hit their intended target. But footage reported by the Washington Post
shows that the Israeli military shot Eygi more than 30 minutes after the peak
of confrontations, 20 minutes after demonstrators moved down the road over 200
yards away from Israeli forces.
Eygi’s family responded to Biden’s statement, saying they were “deeply offended by the suggestion that her killing by a trained sniper
was in any way unintentional.”
The following Wednesday Biden and Harris released relatively stronger
statements. Both referring to the killing as a “tragic error” — but Harris referred to the incident as “the killing of” Eygi while Biden left
it as “the death of...”
AyÅŸenur’s family responded calling out the continued
reference to the shooting as accidental.
Let us be
clear, an American citizen was killed by a foreign military in a targeted
attack. The appropriate action is for President Biden and Vice President Harris
to speak with the family directly, and order an independent, transparent
investigation into the killing.
Israel’s military has killed numerous Americans including teenagers
Mohammad Khdour & Tawfic Abdel Jabbar; World Central Kitchen worker Jacob
Flickinger; 78-year-old Omar Assad; journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh; Rachel Corrie
yet they’ve faced no consequences for any of it.
In May, the administration released a long-awaited report, which
admitted it was “reasonable to assess”
Israel was using US weapons in violation of international law. It listed the
WCK attack as among those it could not “reach
definitive conclusions” as to whether US weapons were used, nevertheless
holding that Israel could keep receiving weapons.
There is another high-profile case which the US has been pressed to
investigate where Israel has lied in their findings: that is the killing of Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her. In that case, the
US deferred for months to the Israeli government, which, as reported also lied about the extent of
their investigative efforts.
Lisa Hajjar, UC-Santa Barbara, MERIP Editorial
Committee, Basil Farraj, Birzeit University
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State Secrets and
Crimes
A video of nine soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee was
broadcast on Israel’s
Channel 12. Later in the day, a mob converged on Israel’s
Supreme Court and disrupted a hearing about Sde Teiman.
Sde Teiman is an Israeli military camp in the Negev desert thathas been characterized as a “black site”
because it is inaccessible to independent monitors and officials regard the
identities and treatment of Palestinians held there.
The veil of secrecy shrouding Sde Teiman was lifted in April when Ha’aretz reported on a letter sent to Israeli cabinet members by a doctor working at the facility.
Just this week, two
prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which
unfortunately is a routine event. I am writing to warn you that the facilities’
operations do not comply with a single section among those dealing with health
in the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law."
Sde Teiman - Israel's Torture Camp in the Negev Desert
doctors sometimes
amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing;
of medical procedures sometimes performed by underqualified medics earning it a
reputation for being ‘a paradise for interns’; and where the air is filled with
the smell of neglected wounds left to rot.
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The decision by Israeli doctors
to perform medical procedures on detainees without anesthesia is not due to
shortages, as is the case for doctors in Gaza; One informant told CNN: “I was asked to learn how to do things on the
patients, performing minor medical procedures that are totally outside my
expertise.”
Khaled Mahajneh was the first lawyer the military permitted to visit Sde
Teiman. He went to the facility on June 19 to meet with Mohammad Arab, an Al
Araby TV journalist who was taken into custody in March while covering the
Israeli attack on al-Shifa Hospital. In an interview with +972, Mahajneh said, “The situation
there is more horrific than anything we’ve heard about Abu Ghraib and
Guantánamo.”
Amid abundant evidence ofsystematicrape, torture and murder of Palestinian prisoners Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the
military advocate general, began an investigation of a gang rape by nine
soldiers at Sde Teiman. A Palestinian from Gaza was so badly brutalized in the
course of being sodomized that he suffered a ruptured bowel, severe damage to
his anus, broken ribs and lung damage. He was transferred in critical condition
to a nearby hospital where he required surgery. Dr. Yoel Donchin, who treated
him at Sde Teiman, told Ha’aretz that he was shocked an Israeli guard could do such
a thing. “I was certain this was revenge
by Nukhba against Nukhba.” He added,
If the state and
Knesset members think there’s no limit to how much you can abuse prisoners,
they should kill them themselves, like the Nazis did, or close the hospitals…If
they maintain a hospital only for the sake of defending ourselves at the Hague,
that's no good.
On July 29, military police were dispatched to Sde Teiman to take into custody the nine reservists accused of the gang rape; one
of them a major who commands Force 100, the unit that operates Sde Teiman (and
other military detention facilities). Another reservist also wanted for
multiple acts of aggravated abuse of prisoners was not on the base at the time.
Soldiers from Force 100 resisted the
military police in an attempt to
prevent the arrests.
they barricaded
themselves along with the wanted suspects in a show of solidarity. During this
standoff, a mob of about 200 Israelis, including some members of the Knesset,
stormed the base to support the soldiers. Police stationed nearby waited over
an hour to enter the base and expel the rioters.
Israeli Soldier on Television Defending the Rape of Prisoners
As events at Sde Teiman were unfolding, there were debates in the Knesset over the military advocate general's move to
investigate soldiers for gang rape. Likud member Yuli Edelstein, who
chairs the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said,
A situation where
masked military police officers conduct a raid on an IDF base is not acceptable
to me and I will not allow it to happen again. Our soldiers are not criminals
and this disgraceful persecution of our soldiers is unacceptable to me.
Ahmad Tibi MK asked: “Is inserting
an explosive into the rectum of a person legitimate?” Likud member Hanoch
Milvetsky retorted, “If he is a Nukhba,
everything is legitimate.” Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir chimed in that
the sight of
military policemen arriving to arrest our best heroes in Sde Teiman is nothing
short of shameful. The summer camp and tolerance for terrorists are over. Our
soldiers must receive full support.”
When the nine suspects finally were arrested, they were transferred to
Beit Lid for questioning. There, an even larger mob—including members of Force
100—stormed the base and rampaged to protest the arrests. On July 31, two of the suspects were released without charges, three more were released earlier this week. The other five remain under
investigation. On August 1, it was reported that the gang-raped detainee was returned to Sde Teiman.
2 ‘Nice Jewish Boys’ Israel’sgenocidal podcast
‘Two Nice Jewish Boys’ is Israel’s oldest podcast fronted by Naor
Meningher and Eytan Weinstein. Meningher’s website boasts that he worked with
Netanyahu on his 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 campaigns, doing chatbots, digital
data projects and viral video creation. “I
was also responsible of managing all the digital channels of the Prime
Minister.”
Here are a few extracts from their podcast discussing erasing
the Palestinians from the Earth. According to Katherine
Hearst
A clip
from an English-language Israeli podcast
showing hosts Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein discussing the idea of
eradicating all Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza has gone
viral online.
If you gave me
a button to just erase Gaza, every single living being in Gaza would no longer
be living tomorrow. I would press it in a second.
He claimed that “most Israelis” would do the same. Meningher
added that they would also want to wipe out Palestinians in “the territories”.“Because that’s the reality we live in, it’s us or them, and it has to
be them,” Weinstein said.
However they also sounded a note of regret that in Gaza,
maybe there’s
mass destruction but there's not massive death. Forgive us if we don’t give a
shit if everybody there dies. It’s just the way we feel. It’s just the way
Israelis feel,” Weinstein said.
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Radio Rwanda
The clip of Weinstein and Meningher lauding the
idea of five million Palestinians in Gaza Strip and the West Bank being wiped
out has drawn fierce criticism online. “Radio
Rwanda in full effect here. This is deeply disturbing,” journalist Samira
Mohyedeen wrote
on X, referring to the broadcasts that incited genocide against the Tutsis
during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
This didn’t stop me for being arrested for daring to compare
the Nazis to the Israeli state. Perhaps because it was only 5 and not 6 million
that the comparison was inappropriate? Maybe with Lebanon’s millions the way is
now open for making such a comparison.
CBC journalist Evan Dyer shared the clip
on X, pointing to Meningher’s former media roles in Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s last five political campaigns.
“This is
not a fringe show or fringe people… the show is as mainstream as it gets,” Dyer
wrote, citing a review of the podcast by Times of Israel that billed it as a “platform for free and open conversations”.
Journalist Najat Abdi also shared the video on X,
saying that she did so
“because there
will come a time where animals like @EytanWeinstein will deny saying this, particularly when
they will be held legally accountable for the incitement of genocide”.
“Platforms
like @YouTube will also
have to answer to this,” Abdi added.
In response, the podcast posted
a gif of a finger pressing a red button.
Israeli journalist Yinon Magal on the show “Hapatriotim” on
Israel’s Channel 14, joked
that Joe Biden’s red line was the killing of 30,000 Palestinians. The singer
Kobi Peretz asked if that was the number of dead for a day. The audience
erupted in applause and laughter.
We
place "booby-trapped" cans resembling food tins in the rubble. Starving Palestinians are injured or
killed when they open them. We broadcast the sounds of women screaming and
babies crying from quadcopters to
lurePalestinians out so we can shoot them. We announce food distribution points
and use artillery and snipers to carry out massacres.
