Showing posts with label Primo Levi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Primo Levi. Show all posts

23 July 2025

Stop Starving Gaza’s Children - Brighton Sit-in Protests the Complicity of Starmer & Lammy in Israel’s Death by Hunger Policy in Gaza

 ‘Israel Claims to Inherit the Memory of the Jews Who Died in the Holocaust – What They Inherit is the Memory of Those Who Killed the Jews’


Tony Greenstein speech at Brighton Station Sit In 22 July 2025

It was Primo Levi, the Italian Jew who survived Auschwitz who was reputed to have said that the Palestinians are Israel’s Jews. In fact it was his interviewer who said it and he assented to it.

Levi said “Everybody is somebody’s Jew,” to Filippo Gentiloni, from the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, in an interview published on June 29, 1982. He completed the Levi quote with his own comment: “And today Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis.” It was the logical extension of Levi’s own quote and Levi's call for the resignation of Begin and Sharon over the massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Beirut.

Today we face a deliberately engineered starvation of the population of Gaza as the Western world looks on and as the vile Trump administration continues to support that starvation. This includes the mass killing of those who enter the death traps run by the Christian so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Only Zionism could devise a food programme that was really a game of Russian roulette.

The 10th illustration of the IHRA misdefinition of anti-Semitism says that comparisons between Nazi Germany and Israeli policies are anti-Semitic. Perhaps someone can explain how starving a civilian population in the Warsaw Ghetto is any different from starving it in the Gaza Ghetto?

In the meantime child starvation is surging in Gaza. Having barred all journalists from Gaza, because Israel knew that it couldn’t defend what they would see, journalists too are now starving. This is what Zionism has turned out to be, a replication of the Nazis, but this time it is backed by our own war criminal politicians.

Not only are the Palestinians the descendants of the ancient Hebrews but they are now experiencing what the Nazis did to the Jews of Europe at the hands of the European settlers who colonised Palestine.  They are in every sense the real Jews of Palestine unlike the ‘Jewish’ colonists.

The sit-in and protest at Brighton  railway station was called because of the starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli state. It is testament to the hypocrisy of the British Establishment and its Tory media mouthpieces that a few weeks ago at Glastonbury the media manufactured one of these moral panics so beloved of our rulers over Bobby Vylan’s chant of Death to the IDF.   

It is difficult to understand the objection of politicians and their BBC mouthpiece to Vylan’s chant. The IDF is no different to the Schutztaffel (SS). It is a criminal organisation of racial supremacists. The death of its genocidaires should cause no one to lose any sleep. It is either them or the people of Gaza who they are starving to death.

Demonstrators protesting against the Starvation of Palestinians invade Churchill Sq Shopping Centre

Netanyahu likes to claim that the Israeli army is the ‘most moral army in the world’. If that were true then the sooner we disband all armies the better. Israel’s genocidal army has set new records. It dresses up in the underwear of the women it has murdered and plays with the toys of the children who their snipers have shot in the head. It prevents anaesthetics entering Gaza in order that children having their limbs amputated might suffer.

Israel likes to pretend that it inherits the memory of those Jews who died in the Nazi holocaust (no other victims concern it). But as readers of my book will know it was the Zionist movement which led the way in collaboration with Hitler and the Nazis.

There are those who claim that Israel is a refuge from anti-Semitism but Zionism and its bastard creation is the main cause of anti-Semitism.  Not unsurprisingly, given that the so-called representative organisation of British Jews, the Board of Deputies, supports Israel’s barbarities in the name of British Jews, many people hold Jews responsible for the atrocities and are tempted to blame them and worse for the atrocities. This is misguided but understandable.

Speeches at Brighton Railway Station sit-in against Starvation of Gazans - Sami & Youth Action

The best way of combating what little anti-Semitism there is in British society is for Jews to dissociate themselves from Israel, Zionism and what is happening in Gaza. People like Phil Rosenberg, President of the BOD, are the main cause of anti-Semitism in Britain today. This is quite deliberate. There is nothing Zionists like better than anti-Semitism to justify their ethnic cleansing project in Palestine.

Of course the British Establishment and people like the Metropolitan Police’s despicable Commissioner, Mark Rowley, are eager to associate Jews with Israeli war crimes. The British government and the Police pretend that they are concerned about ‘anti-Semitism’ in order to clamp down on Palestine solidarity protests. If that concern was genuine then they would do all in their power to draw a sharp distinction between Jews in Britain and the war criminals in Tel Aviv.

Israeli Soldiers Play Sadistic Games with the Toys of Palestinian Children They Have Murdered

Tonight around 200 people occupied Brighton railway station for an hour last night whilst people chanted ‘Free Palestine’ and other slogans. I spoke first and compared Israel to Nazi Germany pointing out that Israel’s policy today of starving Palestinians in Gaza is no different from the Death by Hunger policy of the Nazi Governor of Poland, Hans Frank.  Frank was hanged at Nuremberg after the war. As I said in my speech both Lammy and Starmer belong in the dock in a fresh Nuremberg trial. Starmer and Lammy are no different from Hans Frank, Streicher and the others Nazis who were hanged.

Those who deny genocide in Gaza today consciously lie like Starmer and Lammy. Genocide scholars like the Israeli academic Omar Bartov, have no doubt about what is happening. All international human rights groups have long ago declared what is happening a genocide. Those who deny genocide in Gaza are no different from those who deny the Nazi holocaust. The Zionists are the Jewish equivalent of neo-Nazi holocaust deniers.

Starmer himself is well known to have said Vukovar and Srebenica were genocides. 1,200 and 8,000 people were killed there.  In Gaza when the dust settles we could be looking at half a million murdered. This snake of a politician is nothing but a cold, calculated, desiccated human being.


Kit Malthouse accuses David Lammy of complicity in the Genocide in Gaza 22.7.25

It is ironic that it wasn’t Labour MPs or even the independent MPs (what has happened to the Muslim MPs who were elected last year? They have gone remarkably silent) but a Tory MP, Kit Malthouse who has been the fiercest critic of the genocide. Yesterday he accused David Lammy of complicity in the genocide. This fat, bumbling, corrupt politician who has taken thousands of pounds in bribes from the Israel lobby, called Malthouse’s accusations ‘unseemly’. Parliamentary etiquette matters more to Lammy than the lives of the children who are wasting away in Gaza.

Meanwhile the Labour benches are epitomised by the craven figure of our Brighton and Hove MPs, Chris Ward – Starmer’s political footstool – and Peter Kyle, the former boyfriend of the ex-MP for Hove and friend of under-age boys Ivor Caplin.

But I digress. After occupying the station we marched to Brighton’s Churchill Square shopping centre which we wound through like a snake, chanting. People welcomed us and filmed it before we marched again to the Clocktower, which is Brighton’s central landmark. The march had grown meanwhile to about 500.

I attach some photos and videos of what happened Brighton has a vibrant Palestine solidarity movement and our small Zionist claque, every time they show their face in public, face the contempt of ordinary people.

Tony Greenstein





18 June 2025

Recording - 'How Germany Transfers its Holocaust Guilt to the Palestinians'

The German State’s Support for Israel Mirrors the Nazis' Support for Zionism in the 1930s 

Recording of How Germany Transfers Its Guilt 20.6.25.

Wieldand Hoban, Iris Hefets, Ronnie Kasrils, Tony Greenstein, Tom Suarez

On Friday we are holding a webinar on the theme ‘How Germany Transfers Its Guilt to the Palestinians’ on German complicity in Israel’s holocaust in Gaza.

We will ask why is it that the German State has been so vociferous in supporting Israel’s Genocide in Gaza? What is it that compelled Germany to join Israel in defending itself at the International Court of Justice? Why is it that Germany supplies Israel with 30% of the weapons used to kill Palestinians?

Angela Merkl described Israel as the German State’s Staatsräson,”, its reason to exist and with good reason. After WW2 it was the reparations agreement between Germany and Israel which enabled Germany to join the Western Alliance against the Soviet Union.


Germany supplied billions of marks to Israel, much of it in military equipment, and in return Israel turned a blind eye to the failure of the German state to deNazify. During the Eichmann Trial strenuous efforts were made to keep the name of Hans Globke, Chancellor Konrad Adenaeur’s closest adviser out of the trial. 

Globke had been instrumental in drawing up and implementing the Nuremberg Laws which stripped German Jews of their nationality and citizenship. 

Israel in essence traded the memory of the Jewish dead in the holocaust for arms and money. This caused a massive uproar in Israel itself but the reparations agreement went ahead. The reparations themselves were paid to the Israeli state not the holocaust survivors.

The Nazis and the Zionists – the untold story

There is however nothing new in the German State’s support for Israel and Zionism. In the 1930s the Nazis were also very fond of the Zionists who they considered the ‘good Jews.’

The Zionists alone were able to organise and even wear uniforms and parade with their own flags. Reinhard Heydrich, Deputy to Himmler in the SS, who Gerard Reitlinger described in The Final Solution as ‘the ‘real engineer of the final solution’ issued, on 28 January 1935 a Directive stating that:

the activity of the Zionist-oriented youth organisations that are engaged in the occupational restructuring of the Jews … lies in the interest of the National Socialist state’s leadership…. (they are) not to be treated with that strictness that it is necessary to apply to the members of the so-called German-Jewish organisations (assimilationists).

The result was that the activities of Zionist groups were supervised with ‘more benevolence’ than comparable activities by non-Zionist Jewish groups. The Gestapo and the SD ‘place(d) no restrictions on Zionist organisations.’

In May 1935 Schwarze Korps, paper of the SS, wrote that:

the Zionists adhere to a strict racial position and by emigrating to Palestine they are helping to build their own Jewish state.... The assimilation-minded Jews deny their race and insist on their loyalty to Germany or claim to be Christians because they have been baptised in order to subvert National Socialist principles.  [Lucy Dawidowicz, War Against the Jews, p.118]

Even the Nazis left the Jewish Hospital in Berlin alone whereas Israel has attacked every single hospital in Gaza

The Nazis and their fellow German nationalists had long favoured the Zionists who they saw as legitimising what they said about the Jews being a separate nation from the Germans. As early as 1919 Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi Party’s main theoretician, who was hanged at Nuremberg, wrote that 

Zionism must be vigorously supported in order to encourage a significant number of German Jews to leave for Palestine or other destinations.

The German State has instigated or been involved in four genocides or holocausts since the beginning of the 20th century. It is therefore no surprise that the German state should leap at the opportunity to lend its support to a fifth holocaust in Gaza.

The first were the Maji Maji and Herero/Nama genocides in East and South-West Africa between 1904 and 1907. The next genocide was the Armenian genocide carried out by the Turkish army but with the complicity of senior German generals. Turkey and Germany were allies in the first World War. Last of all was the Nazi Holocaust.

There were intimate links between the African holocausts and the Nazi holocaust. The German Colonial Governor of German South-West Africa during the genocides was Heinrich Ernst Göring, the father of Hermann Goering, Hitler’s Deputy.

It is therefore no surprise that the German state is funding and arming Israel’s genocide. There isn’t a genocide that the German State hasn’t smiled upon but this time it is being carried out with the support of most of Western Europe?

The Israeli state itself is being Nazified. Gaza is being subject to the same policy the Nazis applied to the Jewish ghettos of Poland, Death by Hunger. Gaza today is a death camp.

At the beginning of May, a well-known television producer, Elad Barashi posted on X: "Good morning, let there be a Shoa (Holocaust) in Gaza." 

And just in case the message hadn’t sunk home, wrote in another post

"I can't understand the people here in the State of Israel who don't want to fill Gaza with gas showers... or train cars... and finish this story! Let there be a Holocaust in Gaza."

The Israeli Police, who are quick to arrest Israeli Arabs for the slightest expression of support for the Palestinian resistance, have of course done nothing. Only Israeli Palestinians get arrested for ‘incitement’. Channel 14, the far-right TV Channel that supports Netanyahu has likewise done nothing.

Exterminatory, holocaust language has become normalised in Israel today where 47% of the population supports the extermination of every Palestinian in Gaza. In fact 65% believe that the lesson of Amalek, the tribe that god told the Israelites to wipe out to the last infant, is taken into consideration.

Israel’s so-called Humanitarian Aid Foundation has become a honey trap where massacres of hundreds of starving Palestinians take place daily.

We had an inkling of the true attitude of Israelis to even Palestinian citizens of Israel, who they falsely boast have equal rights when an Iranian missile struck Tamra, an ancient Palestinian town in Israel.

What was the reaction of residents in a nearby Jewish town? A video taken at the time shows one man crying ‘To the village! To the village!’ 

and then several women’s voices join in, someone starts clapping and together they sing a verse that has become a Jewish extremist anthem. It consists of one line: “May your village burn” sung over and over again

Four members of the Khatab family died because unlike Jewish citizens in Israel they did not have a bunker to hide in. The Guardian reported that:

in common with most Palestinian-majority towns, Tamra does not have a single underground shelter. Like much else in Israel, there is nothing equal about the way death comes from the sky.

“The Israeli government, since the creation of the state, didn’t invest in one public shelter for the Arab part of society.”

Tamra’s mayor, Mussa Abu Rumi, said. The reinforced “safe rooms” in new-build houses are an inferior alternative, as the fate of the Khatibs showed, and Abu Rumi said only 40% of Tamra residents even have those.

This is the reality of Israeli Apartheid yet miserable racist creatures like Starmer, Lammy and Kemi Badenoch talk about Israel being ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ even as it commits a genocide in Gaza.

The Zionists Wrote Off the Millions of Jews in Europe as 'Dust on the wheels of history'

An article in Ha’aretz 'When You Leave Israel and Enter Gaza, You Are God': described how many soldiers in Gaza reported moral injuries: "I felt like, like, like a Nazi ... it looked exactly like we were actually the Nazis and they were the Jews."

Ironically this is exactly what the Italian Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, Primo Levi, said to a reporter, Filippo Gentiloni, from the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, that Everybody is somebody’s Jew,”. At that point in the interview, printed on June 29, 1982, Gentiloni closed the Levi quote and added a sentence of his own: “And today Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis.”

Today it should be clear to all except the politically blind that Zionism, the ideology of Jewish Supremacism that created the Israeli state, was drawn from the same poisonous stream that the Nazi party and its ideologues drank from.

Is it any wonder that the German state enthuses over Israel? Far from assuaging its guilt, Israel’s genocide in Gaza helps Germany normalise and relativise the Nazi holocaust.

Tony Greenstein 

6 November 2023

Monster Brighton and Hove Palestine Demonstration Demands ‘Stop Bombing Gaza’ and ‘Ceasefire Now’

Not One Brighton and Hove Labour Councillor nor Hove MP Peter Kyle Will Call for a Halt to the Genocide

Brighton & Hove Palestine Demonstration - Excerpts

Yesterday the largest ever Palestine Solidarity Demonstration took place in Brighton and Hove.   Over 3,000 people marched to a warm reception from passing cars and locals. You can hear on the video above the honking of car horns.

It was fitting that the march was led by children in memory of the 5,000+ children that the Israeli state has deliberately murdered in Gaza as it bombs homes, hospitals, schools and refugee camps.

Yet NOT ONE Labour Councillor nor the despicable MP  for Hove, Peter Kyle, who doubles up as Shadow Science Minister and Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel has called for an end to genocide in Gaza.

At the next election we must call on people to vote no to having a war criminal as MP for Hove. His predecessor, Ivor Caplin, former Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement was also a war criminal, being a junior Defence Minister in Blair’s government at the time of the Iraq  War.

Yesterday I wrote to all 38 Labour Councillors asking why they had not supported the demand for a ceasefire in Gaza. As of yet none of them have replied.

In my letter I included two images – one was a sticker, thousands of which are circulating in Israel with the message ‘Exterminate Gaza’. Extermination is what the Nazis did and now Israel, in the name of fighting Nazis has adopted exactly the same terminology.

Not for nothing did Primo Levi, the Italian Jewish survivor of Auschwitz describe the Palestinians as the Jews of the Middle East. Although Israelis may imagine they are fighting the Nazis in reality they are the heirs of the Nazis.

Echoing Hitler's Deputy Heinrich Himmler, Israel's War Minister Yoav Gallant Calls the Palestinians 'human animals'

When Yoav Gallant, Israel’s War Minister launched the current attacks on Gaza he declared that ‘We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly.’  When Hitler’s Deputy Heinrich Himmler sought to justify the extermination of the Jews in a speech in Poznań on 4 October 1943, he described the Nazis as ‘the only people in the world who have a decent attitude toward animals’ and who ‘will also take a decent towards these human animals’ referring to the Jews. [A Holocaust Reader, Lucy Dawidowicz, p.131]

Israeli PM Netanyahu Describes the Palestinians as Amalek whom god commanded the Israelites to wipe out to the last infant - as Israel is doing now in Gaza

If anyone doubts that genocide is in the hearts and minds of the present Israeli government then one only has to listen to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel and read his Letter to Soldiers and Commanders: 'Remember what Amalek did to you.'

In the Bible God commands King Saul in the first Book of Samuel to kill every person in Amalek, a mythical tribe. The prophet Samuel tells Saul to

‘attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’

This can be found in Deuteronomy 25:17 or the first Book of Samuel 15:2. It has been the standard interpretation of Amalek by those in Israel who advocate the extermination of the Palestinians when they chant ‘Death to the Arabs’ to equate the Palestinians with Amalek. Now the Israeli Prime Minister has done so we should be under no illusions.

The fact that Biden, Sunak, Starmer, Macron, Scholz and the other Western leaders are nonetheless willing, despite knowledge of this, to support Israel unequivocally to the extent of supplying and resupplying Israel’s missiles and bombs make them equally culpable  in the Israeli state’s war crimes. In short we are led by war criminals.

Tony Greenstein

this was the Zionist counter-demonstration in support of genocide - there were more police than Zios

The Zionist demonstration in support of Genocide