EVERYDAY ZIONIST RACISM: The Israeli Policeman’s Lot is Not a Happy One as Plod is Caught Out Only Giving Arabs a Traffic Ticket

 Israel's Palestinians citizens are told ‘You are not Israelis you are Arabs’ as they are prevented from having a picnic in a ‘Jewish’ area

It was with the best of intentions that an Israeli Policeman boarded a bus from Modi’in in the West Bank to Tel Aviv to check on little things like the (Palestinian) labourer’s permits to be in Israel. Because just like in South Africa Palestinians need permits and passes to be outside their Bantustan.

However this particular plod was an especially caring person which is, as you can imagine, quite unusual in Israel. He was particularly concerned for the safety of the Palestinian passengers who were not wearing their seat belts. So concerned that he handed out 250 Shekel fines all round.

Now there are certain people who are carping that he ignored the 6 or so Jewish passengers on the same bus but I am mystified.  Clearly this policeman was more concerned for the safety of the Palestinians than Israeli Jews! Is that racism?  Sure they probably can’t afford about £60 in fines from their meagre wages but that’s better than being killed or injured.

If anything he should be accused of anti-Semitism for not caring equally for the Jewish passengers!

The second article is a little reminder that Israel is a Jewish Supremacist state even in respect of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Zionist propagandists usually use the fact that Israeli Arabs can vote as proof that Israel is a democracy. But a democracy doesn’t distinguish between its citizens.  It treats them equally or attempts to do so.

Here was an Israeli Arab family having a picnic but they made the mistake of holding their picnic in the Occupied West Bank.  The nearby Jewish settlers took exception. To them an Arab is an Arab, regardless of where they come from. And they don’t like Arabs. So they summoned the Israeli army who, of course, agreed with them.

In their ‘logic’ the West Bank is Jewish not Palestinian land.  Israeli Palestinians have no more right to be there than Palestinians who live there. And it is the function of the IDF to keep it that way.

Of one thing we can be sure.  Neither the racist Israeli Policeman nor the soldiers will be punished after the ‘investigation’.

Tony Greenstein

Israeli Police Fine Only Arab Passengers for Not Wearing Seat Belts on Public Bus

Passengers say officer conducting inspection was deliberately discriminating and didn't check Jewish passengers at all, while police deny their claims

A policeman conducting a routine inspection of a public bus in central Israel fined only Arab passengers for not wearing seat belts while not checking Jewish ones, according to several passengers.

Witnesses who were on the bus from Modi'in to Tel Aviv told Haaretz that it was a case of deliberate discrimination, while police denied racial profiling had taken place.

The bus in question, operated by the Kavim bus company, stopped on Sunday morning at morning near a major interchange on Route 443 for what the police described as “enforcement of traffic laws and coronavirus regulations.” Most of the passengers were Palestinians from the West Bank with permits to work in Israel who had gotten on the bus at the Maccabim border checkpoint. The driver of the bus, Mahmoud Mujahid, said he estimated that six of the 29 passengers on the bus were Jewish.

According to several passengers, the policeman approached the Arab passengers and spent about half an hour checking their documents. After all of them had presented permits showing that they were allowed to enter Israel, almost all received 250 shekel ($76) citations for not wearing seatbelts, a violation of the law that is thought to be enforced very rarely. None of the Jews were reportedly checked or fined. The driver, who is Arab, was also not fined.

Arab passengers expressed outrage at the citations and threw them on the floor of the bus, prompting the policeman to say that they would be receive another fine, for 700 shekels ($213) if they did so. In a video of the incident, the driver can be heard saying, “The Israel Police are abusing laborers. [The policeman] is treating them like animals. These are human beings on their way to make a living.”

Mujahid, the driver, a resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab, said he was initially warned that he too would be fined, but that the policeman later reconsidered. He said that when he objected to the citations given to the passengers, he was told that if he didn’t proceed onward on his route, he would be fined for obstructing traffic.

“I’ve never heard of a seat belt fine on public transportation,” he said. “Even police officers who get on the bus don’t buckle up.”

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One of the Jewish passengers claimed that it was clear to her that the policeman was harassing the Arab passengers. “None of the passengers were buckled at all,” she told Haaretz. “We thought it was an inspection for permits,” she said, referring to permits issued to West Bank Palestinians allowing them to enter Israel. “He didn’t even look at us [Jewish passengers]. It wasn’t pleasant. I didn’t dare open my mouth. It was clear that it was deliberate, explicit, disgusting and racist. It was obvious. It’s something that isn’t done. Everyone was in shock. The driver begged, ‘Why are you doing this to them?”

The police said in response: “In an inspection of dozens of vehicles and buses, several of them were found to have passengers who were not buckled as required. Some of the passengers and drivers who were the subject of the enforcement were Jews and some were Arab, and contrary to what was claimed, the citations were issued only for violations that were identified and without any relation to the person’s origin or religion.”

“This is something out of Alabama in the 1960s,” said Knesset member Ahmad Tibi, chairman of the Ta’al party, part of the Joint List electoral alliance of majority Arab parties.

“It’s humiliating, racist conduct and a blatantly discriminatory use of means of enforcement for arbitrary and racist [purposes]. I demand that the police commissioner investigate the incident, cancel the citations and put the police officers on trial.”

“This is something out of Alabama in the 1960s,”Ahmad Tibi

Israeli settlers harass an Arab Israeli family having a picnic outside the village of Jibya in the West Bank on February 6, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)

'You're Not Israelis, You're Arabs': Settlers and Soldiers Expel Family Having a Picnic

The Arab family, all Israeli citizens, was picnicking at a site near Ramallah, not far from an outpost, when settlers harassed them and called the army

Israeli soldiers ejected an Israeli Arab family from a site near Kafr Jibiya in the Ramallah area of the West Bank on Saturday, where the family was having a picnic. The soldiers arrived on the scene after Israelis from a nearby Jewish settlement outpost called them to the site.

In two video clips of the incident, the settlers are first seen approaching the family and telling them to leave, although the site is not within the confines of any West Bank Jewish settlement. When the family refused, one of the settlers took their belongings and threw beverages from their cups onto their campfire. The settlers continued saying - "You're not Israelis, you're Arabs, we did you a favour when we let you stay," and then called the army.

The family filmed a soldier who arrived on the scene, who told them that they had to leave. “I don’t want to use too much force. You’re not allowed here,” the soldier is heard saying.

The mother of the family told the soldier it was public space. And in an apparent attempt to say that as Israeli citizens, they are entitled to be present at the site in the West Bank just as they could picnic in the Carmel Mountains within Israel proper, she asked, “Isn’t an Israeli allowed to be in the Carmel Mountains?”

 “You’re in the Carmel Mountains? ”You’re not allowed to be here. Please leave. Come on,” the soldier replied.

There is an unauthorized settlement outpost near the site called Zvi’s Farm, which was partially built on state land and partially on privately owned land.

The Israeli army said it was aware of the incident and will "look into the combatants' conduct."

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‘You’re not Israelis, you’re Arabs’: Settlers oust family picnicking in W. Bank

 

 

Magen David Ambulance Deliberate Delayed Treatment

American press coverage grants Israelis all the humanity

Philip Weiss on October 13, 2015 

Aviva Yisrael, armed settler, in photo she supplied to USA Today

Hillary Clinton’s shocking statement yesterday sympathizing with Israeli Jewish victims of attacks and saying nothing about Palestinian victims is actually reflective of American press coverage. 

Mainstream news sites continue to emphasize Jewish victims over Palestinian victims, and leave out the larger context of the conflict, Israeli occupation and the hatred it is producing, on both sides.

For instance, USA Today has a grotesque account of a Glock-bearing settler that portrays her as a pioneer confronting savagery (“Glocker mom”) and leaves out the military occupation she lives inside, entirely.

As violent clashes erupted throughout Israel and Palestinian territories, Aviva Yisraeli decided to carry a handgun while commuting from her home in the West Bank settlement of Tekoa to a weekly course in Jerusalem. “I feel that it’s important for us to do everything in our power to protect ourselves,” said the mother of four, adding that she refuses to be a “sitting duck.”

Reporter Shira Rubin repeatedly speaks about “Arab” violence:

The Israeli government announced new policies to contain Arab violence..

But Yisraeli and many neighbors said tougher security measures have done little to deter Palestinian assailants….

“The Arabs have absolutely no fear from our army .…but when I started carrying our gun, I realized that they do have fear from the civilian response,” she said. “As they say, it’s better to visit you in jail than at the graveyard.”

Yagil Henken, a military historian at the Israeli Defense Forces college whose brother was killed in a West Bank shooting on Oct. 1, said he carries a gun to assuage his “paranoia,” but his West Bank community is still maintaining a calm resolve.

Did the Jim Crow south or the Algerian colonial-settlers ever get such a fair shake from the establishment press?

The New York Times publishes an article by Jodi Rudoren and Isabel Kershner, “4 Attacks by Palestinians Leave 3 Dead in Israel,” which again portrays Arabs as malefactors, some of whom actually have freedom to “freely roam the country” and “work in Jewish areas.”

A police spokeswoman said the steps to be considered included a complete closing of Jerusalem’s Arab neighborhoods, whose residents are generally not citizens of Israel but can freely roam the country and often work in Jewish areas, and an easing of gun-licensing procedures.

But those Arabs think that “the country” is also theirs, and for good reason. The Times mentions the occupation, but fairly far down. Donald Johnson explains that the article reflects an institutional bias:

It focuses on Israeli shootings but only in cases where the dead Palestinian either had stabbed someone or was accused of wielding a knife and whose innocence can’t be proven. (And yes, a Palestinian killed by Israelis is guilty until proven innocent, and if so it is still not Israel’s fault.). They quote critics and skeptics of the police, but the message is that the Israelis are at worst guilty of shooting Palestinians who have been violent or might be violent.

I don’t recall a single NYT story devoted to the shooting of Gaza fishermen–it has been mentioned in passing and I am certain this was only due to reader complaints, but shootings that can’t be spun as understandable reactions to Palestinian violence don’t interest the NYT. Doesn’t fit the narrative.

The Times piece is open to comment, the first time in days that the Times has permitted comment; and the Readers’ Picks echo concerns we have on this site. TMC in New York:

New York Times, this is outright racist coverage. I’m sick of it. I watched a video of a two year old girl killed by an Israeli bomb being hugged by her father and you attempt to make it sound like the Palestinians are are attacking Israelis out of the blue. You ignore the context of the occupation. Editors, writers, internet post reviewers, have you no empathy? Is this how you would have covered apartheid in South Africa? I’d love to say you are on the wrong side of history, but there is a distinct chance the Israelis will succeed in wiping out the Palestinians, partially because of resorting like this. 

For shame.

And Finnbar in Seattle makes a similar point.

Very biased reporting, showing compassion for Israelis but none for the Palestinians. When we are finally able to show compassion for all that suffer then maybe there will be a solution.

This Washington Post article about the spate of Palestinian attacks: by William Booth and Ruth Eglash dares to state that Palestinian violence is a response to occupation in the third paragraph:

Palestinians are also frustrated by their own weak leaders and almost 50 years of military occupation. 

The latest round of U.S.-brokered peace talks collapsed last year in failure.

But the article doesn’t really follow up that point. Its concern is Jewish victims, till the last paragraph says:

At least 30 Palestinians, including rock throwers and knife attackers, have been killed by Israeli forces and civilians. Palestinians say that several of their dead were shot and killed without cause.

And on twitter, Eglash reminds us of the society she lives in:

U know the situation is out of control when ur 13-yr-old comes home from school n says: “I’m still alive”

Here by contrast is fantastic coverage by Ynet of a racist mob of Israeli Jews going out at night to hunt down Arabs in Jerusalem.700 people are in this mob! And the reporting by Roi Yanovsky is terrifying:

During their entire march, organized by La Familia (a group of far-right fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer club) and Lehava (a right-wing organization dedicated to preventing the “assimilation” of Jews with non-Jews in Israel), the protesters chanted slogans such as “death to Arabs” and “may your village burn,” and looked for Arabs to attack. And indeed, after the protest ended a number of the participants attacked a taxi driver and attempted to attack other Arab passersby. 

The main group of protesters, which was controlled by the police, didn’t engage in physical violence, but small splinter groups moved toward the city center and began searching for Arabs. They entered stores, asking clerks if Arabs were employed there. They asked employees random questions like “what’s the time?” in order to test their accent. 

Yanovsky helps save a Palestinian storekeeper from harm.

Ynet is at least acknowledging the deep racism inside Israeli society. That hatred was also expressed in this shocking video from Jerusalem of a wounded Palestinian 13-year-old who was charged with stabbing someone before he was run over by a car. An Israeli shouts at him: “Die you fuck, die you son of a whore, die die, die you son of 66 whores.” His name is Ahmed Manasra and you can see that he is not receiving medical attention and that an Israeli officer pushes him to the pavement with his foot when he seeks to sit up. We haven’t put it on our site because it is so disturbing. The New York Times mentions the boy’s injury and the killing of his cousin Hassan, who also allegedly participated in the attack, but does not identify them by name.

Correction: I initially mixed up Ahmed Manasra, 13, for Hassan Manasra, 15, in my description of the video and said the boy in the video is dying. Ahmed survived the serious injuries. Palestinian Center for Human Rights has set the matter straight. It also makes clear that the cousins’ alleged attack took place in Pisgat Ze’ev, which is in occupied East Jerusalem, not Israel, as the NYT states.

Thanks to James North.

Child Killed and His Cousin Seriously Wounded Amidst Settlers' Cry "Die" and "David Red Star" Ambulance Deliberate Delay

Tuesday, 13 October 2015 00:00

Date: 13 October 2015

Ahmed Saleh Mahayan (Manasra) (13), 

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the crime committed by Israeli forces on Monday, 12 October 2015, in occupied East Jerusalem, which resulted in killing Hassan Khaled Mahayna (Manasra) (15), from Beit Hanina village, north of the city. Moreover, PCHR condemns the deliberate delay made by the David Red Star ambulance crew to offer first aid to his cousin, who was deliberately run over by Israeli forces. PCHR warns against the increasing number of killings among Palestinian civilians, including children and girls, in the occupied city on the grounds of suspicion of carrying out stabbings against Israeli forces and settlers. This crime was committed few hours after the killing of Mostafa al-Khateeb (18), from Sour Baher village, south of occupied Jerusalem. Furthermore, PCHR denounces this crime that is added to the series of Israeli crimes committed in East Jerusalem in particular, and the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) in general. Therefore, PCHR calls upon the international community to take immediate action and fulfill its legal and moral obligations to protect the Palestinian civilians in the oPt. PCHR believes that the silence of the international community towards these crimes encourages the Israeli government to continue its policy that violates the international humanitarian law.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, on Monday afternoon, 12 October 2015, Israeli forces opened fire at Hassan Khaled Mahayna (Manasra) (15) and deliberately run over his cousin Ahmed Saleh Mahayan (Manasra) (13), both are from Beit Hanina village, north of occupied East Jerusalem. They were attacked while going to a mall near their family houses in "Pisgat Ze'ev" settlement. As a result, the first child was killed by several bullet wounds, while the other sustained serious wounds. The Israeli police claimed that two settlers were seriously wounded as the two Palestinian boys had stabbed them.

A video published by Ma'an Satellite Channel showed Ahmed after he was deliberately run over in the light rail area. In spite of the boy's wound, bleeding and cries for help, Israeli settlers and police officers insulted and swore at him calling for brutally killing him. The video also documents the presence of a David Red Star ambulance crew in the scene but did not offer the boy first aid on time responding to the settlers' calls stating, "Die Die".

The killed boy's family said to PCHR fieldworker in the city that their son Hassan is a 10^th grade student at Ibn Khaldoun School, and his cousin is an 8^th grade student at the New Generation School. Both of them went back home in Beit Hanina village from their school and then went out heading to the nearby mall in "Pisgat Ze'ev" settlement. Hassan wanted to buy a games CD and Ahmed wanted to buy a pigeon. The family refuted the Israeli police story.

Afterwards, Israeli Special Forces raided over 10 nearby houses belonging to the same family. They detained the family members in the family's divan and cordoned them. They also arrested the two boys' fathers and took them to al-Qashala police station to be questioned.

Additionally, at approximately 13:00 on the same day, Israeli police officers opened fire at the schoolgirl Marah Bakeer (17) from Beit Hanina village. As a result, she was seriously wounded. She was then taken to a hospital in West Jerusalem for medical treatment. Israeli officers opened fire at the girl after a settler attempted to attack her when she was present at the bus stop in al-Shaikh Jarrah area, north of the Old City, after finishing her school.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, the aforementioned schoolgirl was on her way back home from Abdullah Bin al-Hussein School for Girls along with her friend in the street. They both stopped at the red traffic light when a settler cursed them. He kept chasing them to the bus stop in Shaikh Jarrah area near the Israeli police headquarters. The settler was crying that Bakeer is "A terrorist" and she had a knife and attempted to stab him. The Israeli police hurried up and fired four live bullets at Bakeer although she was begging them and saying that she did nothing. One of her friends said that Marah fell to the ground after she was shot, after which dozens of Israeli police and intelligence officers surrounded her and pointed their guns at her although she was bleeding and screaming. When a Palestinian young man attempted to help her, the Israeli police officers arrested him and accused him of being involved with her in planning for a stabbing. The Israeli police claimed that Bakeer was suspected by a Border Guard officer, so he stopped her. Once he approached her, she took a knife out and attempted to stab him, but he opened fire at her.

PCHR strongly condemns these crimes that proves the increasing number of killings among Palestinian civilians in the oPt in general and occupied East Jerusalem in particular. Moreover, PCHR stresses that in the above-mentioned cases, Israeli forces could have used less force against the victims or could have arrested and tied them if their allegations were true. PCHR reiterates its call upon the international community to take immediate and effective actions to put an end to such crimes and reiterates its call for the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 to fulfill their obligations under Article 1; i.e., to respect and to ensure respect for the Convention in all circumstances, and their obligation under Article 146 to prosecute persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention.  These grave breaches constitute war crimes under Article 147 of the same Convention and Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions.  

Settler’s anti-Semitic Video – Funded by the Israeli State

The first reaction of Jews to Zionism was that it was nothing but a form of Jewish anti-Semitism.  That is why the anti-Semites loved Zionism.  Both groups believed that Jews did not belong in the countries they lived in but Palestine.  The Zionists went on to accept that the anti-Semites were right.  In 'exile' (Galut) the Jews had developed very unhealthy, asocial characteristics.  

As Jacob Klatzkin, the editor of the Zionist Organisation’s Die Welt (1909-11) and co-founder of Encyclopedia Judaica in 1924  argued :

A classical anti-Semitic cartoon - courtesy of the Samaria Regional Council

'If we do not admit the rightfulness of anti-Semitism we deny the rightfulness of our own nationalism... Instead of establishing societies for defence against the anti-Semites who want to reduce our rights, we should establish societies for defence against our friends, who desire to defend our rights.'  B. Matovu, “The Zionist Wish and the Nazi Deed’ Issue, Winter 1966-7. Uri Davies, ‘Utopia Incorporated’ p. 17.

Jacob Klatzkin held that Jews were: 'a people disfigured in both body and soul - in a word, of a horror… some sort of outlandish creature… in any case, not a pure national type.... some sort of oddity among the peoples going by the name of Jew.' [Arthur Herzberg, The Zionist Idea, p. 322/323, Temple, Atheneum, New York 1981]

This settler video, funded by the Israeli state, is living proof of it.  Directed against Israeli Jews who tell the truth about the Occupation it has all the steretypes of traditional anti-Semitism.  The hook nosed Jew, willing to sell out his own for a golden Euro coin, Mr Sturmer (Der Sturmer was   the pornographic anti-Semitic newspaper edited by Julius Streicher, a Nazi leader executed at Nuremberg in 1946 for crimes against humanity).

It portrays the ‘eternal Jew’ a film that Goebbels made in 1940.  No matter what the Jew remains the same, except on his national soil of course.  The Zionist counterpart to the Eternal Jew being Eternal anti-Semitism.  Both are and were lies but like a dog returning to its vomit, we see the settlers of the West Bank returning to the crudest anti-Semitic tropes and steretypes.

Tony Greenstein

By Dimi Reider

|Published February 14, 2015

WATCH: The most anti-Semitic Israeli cartoon ever made?

[This post has been updated]
The Samaria Settler Council — an organization representing Israeli settlements in northern West Bank — has just uploaded a pretty jaw-dropping piece of propaganda. It’s subtitled in English and really needs to be seen to be believed. But in case you don’t want to do it to yourselves, it shows a wealthy European named Herr Stürmer (get it?) tossing shiny Euro coins to a hook-nosed, vicious character referred to only as “ze Jew.”


“Ze Jew” is paid by his master (whose face is obscured by a newspaper parodying Haaretz headlines on Israeli human rights abuses) to besmirch Israel, its soldiers and its settlers. At the end, when Herr Stürmer has no further use for him, “ze Jew” obligingly hangs himself (got that one?). The depiction of the dissenting and/or diasporic Jew as identical to the anti-Semitic caricature is a sadly familiar trope of Zionist nationalism, dating all the way back to the earliest days of the movement. The punchline is supposed to be that this is the same hooked-nosed, money-grabbing, media-manipulator that European paymasters have always seen in the Jews. But the cartoon was not drawn by Europeans — it was conceived, drawn and paid for by Israelis, for Israelis, about Israelis.

One can only wonder how right wingers, of all people, have the gall to call critics of Israeli policies ”self-hating Jews”.

UPDATE: The Samaria Settler Council is a non-profit, but most of its funds comes from the Samaria Regional Council, which is an elected local authority (confusing, I know). As Labor MK Stav Shaffir wrote to her followers on Saturday night, “In case you were wondering who was sponsoring that filth, the answer is: you” – some NIS 1.3 million of taxpayer money in the last year alone, according to Shaffir.

Since going online, the video has been lambasted by just about everyone, including settler leaders. Danny Dayan, one-time chair of Yesha Council and number one advocate for the settlement movement, stressed the Council does not represent him, while Naftali Bennett tried to place some distance between himself and the video, albeit obliquely.

“I think the clip is inappropriate,” Bennet told Army Radio. “The content, incidentally, is very true: Europe funds organizations that harm IDF soldiers, and that’s a fact. I think this should be dealt with through legal means. I’m generally against using Nazi allegories.” Later on Sunday, even the Samaria Regional Council itself professed revulsion with the clip.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Samaria Settler Council, Benny Katzover, doubled down behind the video, saying the uncut version was even harsher. “It had much stronger imagery because the picture of leftist organizations courting the greatest anti-Semites is an outrageous one,” he said to the same radio station. “But we knew that the Israeli public, which isn’t really aware of what is going on, can’t really take overdoses all at once [sic], so we softened it up.”

Morbid curiosity abounds.

Left-wing NGOs warn settler group’s video could incite to violence

Left-wing Israeli organizations are calling for the Attorney General to investigate a Jewish settler organization under Israel’s anti-incitement law for a video it shared on social media.

The Samaria Settlers’ Committee, an organization headed by veteran settler leader and Gush Emunim founder Benny Katzover, uploaded the two-minute-long animated clip to YouTube on Saturday. Its critics accuse it of being anti-Semitic and an incitement to violence against the leaders, members and supporters of left-wing organizations.

The video, which has been viewed close to 30,000 times in less than a day, is indeed replete with anti-Semitic tropes and makes clear allusions to the Nazis.

In the clip, an unseen character named “Mr. Stürmer” (Der Stürmer was the name of a Nazi newspaper that spread anti-Semitic propaganda) sits behind a newspaper titled, “Hasmol” (Hebrew for “The Left”). This unseen character orders a hook-nosed Jew to dig up and bring him untruthful news items for his newspaper about Israel and the IDF. Each time the obsequious Jew brings him this “information,” he tosses a Euro coin at him. Eventually Mr. Stürmer has no more use for the Jew and tells him to take care of himself.

The video, titled “The Eternal Jew” (also the name of an infamous anti-Semitic propaganda movie put out by the Nazis in 1940), ends with an image of the Jew hanging from a tree. Next to him are the logos of 10 different left-wing Israeli non-governmental organizations, including the New Israel Fund, Peace Now and B’Tselem and the following sentence: “The Europeans maybe seem different to you today, but to them…you are exactly the same.”

The video is evidently an attack on European funding of Israeli NGOs working to advance Israeli-Palestinian cooperation and protect Palestinians rights. A statement issued to The Times of Israel by the Samaria Settlers’ Committee quoting Katzover confirms that this was the intended message.

“In recent years, the support of foreign bodies and governments for extreme leftist organizations in Israel has grown. We are talking about foreign governments whose goal is to destroy the lives of Jews in the Land of Israel in general, and in particular over the Green Line, and do so with funding of hundreds and millions of Euros,” Katzover said.

“The purpose of the video is to show that even in the best case, Israeli leftist organizations are acting like idiotic pawns of the swarm of modern anti-Semitism. In the worst case, they are consciously acting to destroy the State of Israel as the national home of the Jewish people.”

On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked the video, saying in a statement that he is “stridently against the comparison between organizations or Israeli individuals — from any political stripe — and between Nazi Germany and condemn any use of it for elections.”

In 2011 and 2013, right-wing Knesset members attempted to advance a bill that would limit foreign funding for Israeli NGOs that support the prosecution of IDF officers in international courts or campaign for boycotting Israeli institutions or products.

Sunday morning, Peace Now posted on Facebook a letter that it sent to Israel’s Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein calling on him to order a police investigation of the Samaria Settlers’ Committee.

“…In this case we are talking about a true breach of the law. We believe there is an actual possibility that after watching a video like this, a person could carry out an act, either planned or spontaneous, against these organizations and activists, either in the Occupied Territories, or within Israel,” Peace Now general secretary Yariv Oppenheimer wrote.

Peace Now general secretary Yariv Oppenheimer (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Oppenheimer also pointed out that the video was made with public money.

“The budget of the Samaria Settlers’ Committee comes from the Samaria Regional Council…this projects the message that this is not just a video by a fly-by-night organization, but rather the official position of state authorities,” he wrote.

Labor MK Stav Shaffir posted on Facebook her disgust for the video, and shared that NIS 1.3 million of public funds go to the Samaria Settlers’ Council every year.

Uri Misgav, writing in Haaretz, agreed that the fact that this video was made and disseminated by the Samaria Settlers’ Committee raises the anti-left rhetoric to a new level.

“Comparisons between left wingers and peace activists, human rights organizations and journalists to Nazi collaborators are not a new thing. This phenomenon reached its peak in the years around the time that the Oslo Accords were signed…But until today it seemed that this was coming from the fringes of the right-wing. The escalation of this new video is significant for two reasons. First, here we see the Europeans—and not the Palestinians—portrayed as Nazis. And second, this was produced and shared by a body that is completely part of the establishment,” Misgav wrote.

Neta Patrick, executive director of Yesh Din, an Israeli organization working to defend the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank, issued a statement calling the video an attempt at “incitement against civil society organizations.”

“It seems that after they failed to convince the public in other ways, they decided turned to Nazi propaganda. I pity the person whose feverish mind conceived those kind of images,” she said.

A spokesman for the Justice Ministry told The Times of Israel he was aware of complaints lodged with the Attorney General about the “Eternal Jew” video, but that the ministry was not issuing any comment on the matter at this time.

The Board of Deputies Invites Anti-Semitic Attacks on British Jews

The Board of Deputies of British Jews    told Jews to Stay Indoors when Sir Oswald Moseley's Fascists Marched - but it demonstrates in support of the Mass Killing of Palestinians

The Board of Deputies Attitude to Settler and Zionist Attacks on Palestinians

In Palestine, after a wave of settler attacks on Palestinians  from settlers and the army, and the violent invasion of the Al Aqsa mosque by settlers and soldiers, Palestinians have fought back with stones and knives. 

Jews demonstrating outside the Board of Deputies

The burning to death of 3 out of 4 members of the Dawabshe family in August, when settlers threw molotov cocktails inside the building and at all exits, to prevent any escape, triggered off what is now the largest uprising for years.

My contribution to the BOD page - for some reason it disappeared!  Zionists don't believe in free speech

In Gaza Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinians on the other side of the security fence killing 6 Palestinians.  The truth is that Palestinian lives are cheap to the Zionist warmongers.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews has decided to hold a demonstration next Tuesday 13^th October at 5 Galena Road, W6 0LT London, United Kingdom.  .  They are asking British people to believe that Jews in Britain support the far-Right genocidal Israeli  government of Benjamin Netanyahu.  If this were true then Jews in Britain would indeed be legitimate targets for attack because they would be culpable and responsible for what is happening in Palestine.  Of course they are not responsible nor is there anything approaching unanimity in the Jewish community regarding Israeli violence against the Palestinians.

When the fascists marched in the Jewish East End the Board of Deputies told them to say at home

What the Board of Deputies are really doing is to invite anti-Semitic attacks on Jews which they can then blame on the Palestinians.  If there are such attacks then the primary responsibility is that of the Board of Deputies.

A number of Jewish groups will therefore be holding a counter-demonstration at the Palestinian mission in London and it may well be that other people  may wish to attend.

The Board is posting an events page at and it would be good if those with the rellevant technical abilities were to bombard the site with a denial of  service attack.

The Board of Deputies eagerness to support Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestinians contrasts with its historic attitude to the British Union of Fascists when they told Jews, at the Battle of Cable Street in October 1936 to stay home and keep their heads down.  [see Bericht über die Schlachtin der Cable Street]  It is to be hoped that they will again be ignored.

I posted my own contribution to the Board’s Face Book page.  Suffice to say it was taken down, presumably there are some Jews that the Board don’t represent.  I kept a copy again and it’s now back up again – for the moment anyway!

Tony Greenstein 

The 'most moral army in the world' backs up settlers setting fire to Palestinian olive groves

Yet more disturbing videos of the Israeli army backing up stone-throwing settlers who set fire to Palestinian olive groves.  I suspect that the settlers won’t receive the minimum 4 year sentences that now apply to Palestinians!

Tony Greenstein

Video: Israeli soldiers protect settlers as they attack Palestinians

Charlotte Silver Rights and Accountability 8 October 2015

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem today released six damning videos of heavily-armed Israeli soldiers escorting Israeli settlers as they hurl stones at Palestinians and set fire to their olive groves.

In the above video, Israeli soldiers are embedded within a group of masked settlers from the Yitzhar settlement in the northern occupied West Bank. The footage shows soldiers — crouching among settlers who are slinging stones — while they fire tear gas canisters in the same direction.  

In another video, soldiers stand idly by as they watch settlers set fire to Palestinian fields belonging to the village of Urif:

The video below shows a settler helping a soldier load tear gas canisters into his launcher while other settlers throw stones with slingshots.

“Settler rampage”

The videos were filmed on 3 and 4 October by B’Tselem volunteers. In a press release accompanying the videos, B’Tselem calls the footage “the most blatant example of the tacit support of the settler rampage by forces on the ground.”

The group also points out that the military is “shirking” its obligation to provide protection to Palestinians as stated under international law. 

“The soldier not only refrains from stopping the settlers, but on the contrary, is helped by a masked settler who carries his military backpack containing tear-gas canisters, and even loads the canisters onto the soldier’s six-shot launcher,” B’Tselem states.

The Israeli government has declared a “war” on stone throwers — but only when the stone throwers are Palestinian.

Settlers in Yitzhar, which is located on a hilltop, regularly harass Palestinians in the villages of Burin and Urif below.

Impunity

Meanwhile, Israeli settlers and soldiers enjoy impunity as the numbers of injured and dead Palestinians rise. 

Ma’an News Agency reports that on Thursday, Israeli forces shot and killed 20-year-old Wissam Faraj in Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem during an invasion. Since Saturday, Israeli military forces have injured 800 Palestinians, 60 of whom were shot with live fire. 

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement activity in the West Bank, says there have been more than 130 settler attacks on Palestinians in the last week.

Israeli legal rights group Yesh Din says it has received dozens of complaints from Palestinians who are reporting their vehicles and homes being stoned at junctions, attempts at arson and home break-ins and the torching of their farmland.

Some West Bank villages are forming patrols to guard their residents from settler attacks, a trend that has increased since the July firebombing by Israeli settlers of a Palestinian home in Duma. That attack killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha and his parents.