Why has Israel Become a Mirror Image of Nazi Germany and why has Yad Vashem, the Zionist holocaust memorial museum, joined the ranks of holocaust deniers?

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When I brought out Zionism During the Holocaust in 2022, the central theme of which was Zionist collaboration with the Nazis, many people, even some Palestine supporters, thought I was going too far in my comparisons of the Zionist movement with the Nazis.

In 2019 when I declared that Israel was Hitler’s Bastard Offspring, the Jewish Chronicle reported it as ‘Infamous anti-Israel activist Tony Greenstein called Jewish state 'Hitler's bastard offspring'. Owen Jones responded to the arguments about Zionist collaboration by saying ‘No, Jews did not collaborate in their own genocide’ which is of course true. But the Zionists certainly collaborated and worse.

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At that time Jones equated Zionists and Jews as one and the same.  I hope that today, after having opposed Israel’s genocide and being called an anti-Semite himself, Jones has had second thoughts.

Katie Halper interviews John Mearsheimer About His Statement  That Israel is Behaving Like the Nazis

Today comparisons between Israel, Zionism and the Nazis are commonplace. When John Mearsheimer, the Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, was interviewed by Katie Halper, he confessed that

the more time goes by... the Israelis look like the Nazis, their rhetoric, their behaviour is truly appalling. The Jewish State is behaving like the Nazis did.

Everything I’ve been saying for years has suddenly become commonplace, respectable even. How has this come about? Why is it that I saw in Israel an incipient Nazism that people have only just started to recognise with the Genocide in Gaza?

My awakening was my realisation that the Zionist narrative which placed them at the centre of resistance to the Nazis was one long lie. Whereas most Jews were horrified at the rise of the Nazis and immediately launched a Boycott of Nazi Germany, the Zionists were gleeful. Their movement could only profit at the expense of the Jews.

That was why the Zionists were so vehemently opposed to the Boycott. As the German Zionist Federation wrote in a letter to Hitler, on 21 June 1933, ‘Boycott propaganda… is in essence unZionist, because Zionism wants not to do battle but to convince and to build’.  This letter can be found in Lucy Dawidowicz’s Holocaust Reader.

No-one forced the Zionists to write this obsequious letter. It was purely voluntary, an attempt to get themselves in the good books of the Nazis. The Zionist leadership saw the rise to power of the Nazis as a ‘golden opportunity’ that must not be wasted.

Noah Lucas, a critical Zionist and a lecturer at Sheffield University wrote in Modern History of Israel that:

 ‘As the European holocaust erupted, Ben-Gurion saw it as a decisive opportunity for Zionism... Ben-Gurion above all others sensed the tremendous possibilities inherent in the dynamic of the chaos and carnage in Europe…. In conditions of peace,… Zionism could not move the masses of world Jewry. The forces unleashed by Hitler in all their horror must be harnessed to the advantage of Zionism. ... By the end of 1942… the struggle for a Jewish state became the primary concern of the movement.’ 

In October 1942, at the height of the Holocaust, Ben-Gurion surveyed the prospects for Zionism remarking to the Zionist Executive that:

Disaster is strength if channelled to a productive course. The whole trick of Zionism is that it knows how to channel our disaster, not into despondency or degradation, as is the case in the Diaspora, but into a source of creativity and exploitation.

Ben-Gurion and the Zionist leadership prioritised building a ‘Jewish’ state over rescuing Jews. They went so far as to sabotage rescue attempts that didn’t involve Palestine as a destination. If the Zionists could do this to Jews it doesn’t take much imagination to understand what they are capable of with respect to the Palestinians.

Little Nazi Becky Explaining the Need to Destroy Palestinian Children

And what is worse is that the Nazi holocaust has become the justification for Gaza’s holocaust. The Palestinians of Gaza are described by Israelis as Nazis as justification for the genocide they are perpetrating. A moment’s reflection would show how absurd this is.

It was the Nazis not their victims who had heavy weapons, aircraft and bombs. It was the Nazi military and the SS formations that carried out the most brutal of atrocities not civilians. Yet Palestinian civilians are routinely called ‘Nazis’ as a justification for their murder and obliteration. Zionism depoliticises Nazism and reduces it simply to is anti-Semitic components. Fascism is left absent.

In 1948 Ben-Gurion and his compatriots coldly planned the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in order that they could create a Jewish state. Even in the 55% of the portion of Palestine the UN had allotted to the Zionists there was a rough parity of Jews and Arabs. For a Jewish state to remain ethnically Jewish it was essential to expel the Palestinians. Ethnic cleansing and massacres were their only choice.

Zionism has always been something of a Nazi reprise. Did not Hitler start off with ethnic cleansing? Contrary to the Zionist belief that Nazism was solely about murdering Jews, it was dedicated to the racial resettlement of the whole of Europe and the colonisation of the East with German settlers. Just like the Nazis, the Zionists talk of  ‘lebensraum’ or living space.

For 19 years Israel was able to sell itself as a western social democratic state in the Middle East. It could do this because it had reduced the Arabs in Israel to less than 20% of the population. But with the 6 Days War in 1967 and the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank the demons were released. Labour Zionism had been wedded, no less than the Revisionists, to the idea of a Greater Israel.

It was Israeli Labor politicians who promoted the first settlers in the West Bank. Yigal Allon, the leader of the Palmach shock troops, Yisrael Galili and Yitzhak Tabenkin, all from the left of the Zionist movement helped found the Greater Israel movement.

It was but a matter of time before the settlers gained a critical mass in the West Bank. Zionism is a form of political messianism which seeks the End Days every bit as much as the Christian Evangelicals. To the messianic right in Israel’s government, the Ben Gvirs and Smotrichs, the days of redemption and the return of the Messiah are at hand.

All that is needed is the building of the Third Temple and the resumption of animal sacrifices to complete the task. Of course that means the demolition of Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. That will also come to pass unless Zionism is stopped in its tracks.

Up till 1967 Israel was able to hide its apartheid nature behind a facade of granting its Palestinian citizens a vote knowing full well that in an ethnocracy they would be permanently excluded from power. Today they can’t hide it nor do they want to.

In 2015 Isaac Herzog, the then leader of the Israeli Labor Party and now President, told a gathering at Herzliya that

In about a decade, the Arabs between the Jordan and the Mediterranean will be a majority and the Jews a minority. The Jewish national home will become the Palestinian national home. We will be again, for the first time since 1948, a Jewish minority in an Arab state. I want to separate from the Palestinians. I want to keep a Jewish state with a Jewish majority. I don’t want 61 Palestinian MKs in Israel’s Knesset. I don’t want a Palestinian prime minister in Israel. I don’t want them to change my flag and my national anthem. I don’t want them to change the name of my country to Isra-stine. (my emphasis)

And there you have it. When it comes to racism, the Labour Zionism of Herzog is no different from that of Netanyahu. Perhaps it’s just that Netanyahu is more honest when he says that ‘Israel is a state of its Jewish citizens not a state of all its citizens.’

Ethnic cleansing is as integral to Zionism as water is to life. You cannot have one without the other. When ethnic cleansing is no longer feasible then Zionism, like Hitler, turns to genocide. Genocidal views of the Palestinians are shared by the majority of Israeli Jews.

The question is why the Israeli state has become the Nazi state of the 21^st century. The answer is simple. Israel was founded on the same principles that the Nazis espoused.

Zionism sought to establish a racially based Jewish state. The definition of ‘Jew’ that Israel uses in the Law of Return is almost identical to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws. The Nuremberg Laws banned Jews and non-Jews from marrying and having sexual relations. In Israel too it is impossible for Jews and non-Jews to marry.

New Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely supports Lehava, an anti-miscegenation organisation whose head is being tried for terrorism & anti-Arab incitement.

Their website says they aim to "save Jewish girls" relationships with "Arabs, non-Jews, & foreign workers"

#TzipiTalk pic.twitter.com/nzMWMuvNgV

— Palestine Solidarity Campaign (@PSCupdates) June 15, 2020

Although Israel doesn’t outlaw sexual relations between Jews and Arabs, Jews who have a relationship with an Arab are ostracised. The present Israeli Ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotoveli, was particularly concerned to combat intermarriage or miscegenation. It is called ‘national treason’. When a Jewish woman and an Arab man had a wedding there were demonstrations outside the reception. 

It should have been obvious that in a Jewish state, anyone who isn’t Jewish was going to be seen as an outsider. Israeli Palestinians are not even second class citizens. According to opinion polls the majority of Israelis, including most members of the present government, would like to expel them.

Israel likes to portray itself as the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ but following the Jewish Nation State Law of 2018 Israel is officially a state of its Jewish not all its citizens.

The most enthusiastic participants in the Nazi holocaust were the Christian ethno-nationalist states of Eastern Europe, like Romania, Slovakia and Croatia. Why expect Israel to be any different?

Given the right set of circumstances any group of people can become extreme racists and genocidaires. Why should Jewish people be any different?  Racism isn’t something that is biologically inherited.

Ethno-religious states are a relic of feudalism which is why Zionism hated Jewish Emancipation. Zionism was a Jewish Supremacist settler colonial movement. It used to be able to pass itself off as having a left-wing and a right-wing but during the genocide we have not had a peep out of the ‘left’ Zionists in the Jewish Labour Movement.

The goal of Netanyahu and the Israeli government, aided by Trump, is the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. However whether they are able to get away with it remains to be seen. Hitler also began with wanting to expel the Jews and ended up exterminating them. 

The IDF is deliberately killing as many Palestinians as possible. Which is why Bobby Vylan was absolutely right to say ‘Death to the IDF’.  Those who object would have objected to ‘Death to the SS’.

Zionism was in essence a Jewish Racial Preservation Project that sought the equivalent of the thousand years Reich. It was prepared to sacrifice millions of Jews during WW2 in order to ensure the permanent life of the Jewish people-race. Ben-Gurion explained his thinking in January 1933 when he warned that

Zionism… is not primarily engaged in saving individuals’ and that if there was ‘a conflict of interest between saving individual Jews and the good of the Zionist enterprise, we shall say the enterprise comes first. [Shabtai Teveth, The Burning Ground 1886-1948), p. 855]

Chaim Weizmann, the President of the Zionist Organisation and the first President of the Israeli state was explicit in his speech to the 20^th World Zionist Congress (1937) in Zurich that

The old ones will pass, they will bear their fate or they will not. They are dust, economic and moral dust, in a cruel world…. Two millions, and perhaps less She’erith Hapletah- ‘only a remnant shall survive.’ We have to accept it.

In the Autumn 1937 issue of New Judea Weizmann elaborated:

We want only the best of Jewish youth to come to us. We want only the educated to enter Palestine for the purpose of increasing its culture. The other Jews will have to stay where they are and face whatever fate awaits them.  These millions of Jews are dust on the wheels of history and they may have to be blown away. We don’t want them pouring into Palestine.

When Roosevelt called the Evian Conference in July 1938 to try and find a solution to the Jewish refugee problem the Zionists were worried, lest the conference might succeed!

Ben-Gurion at a meeting of the Jewish Agency Executive on 26 June 1938 was unremittingly hostile to Evian:

‘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 Menachem Ussishkin, a member of the Zionist Executive  said 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.

If Zionism was prepared to sacrifice Jews to the Nazis to achieve its aims then it isn’t likely to have much difficult in killing Palestinians.

Last week it seemed as if the world woke up to Israel’s lies and realised that what we have been saying for nearly two years was true. Israel is perpetrating a genocide in Gaza and that includes starving the population, including children.

People are beginning to realise just what monsters Zionism has produced. The Heidi Bachrams and Victoria Bhogals of this world, with their self-serving lies and Netanyahu with his description of the SS, sorry IDF, as ‘the most moral army in the world’ are now seen for what they are – supporters of the new Auschwitz that is Gaza today.

There are even Israelis who talk of introducing gas chambers to complete the job. This is where Zionism has ended up.

Noone cut a more absurd figure than that prime piece of gammon, David Mencer, with his absurd statement that it was Hamas that was starving the people of Gaza and that the IDF was doing its best to act as wet nurse to Gaza’s babies.

When the Daily Express of all papers leads on successive days with pictures of the emaciated bodies of Palestinian babies even the most stupid Zionist knows or should know that the game is up.

Alistair Campbell admits that its genocide in Gaza & says false accusations of antisemitism are preventing debate!

Even people like Piers Morgan and Alistair Campbell now accept that Israel is carrying out a genocide and are beginning to understand that they have been on the wrong side of history.

No one should doubt that it is a holocaust in Gaza. When the dust settles on the rubble, it is likely that the number of deaths will be in the hundreds of thousands.

The only people who are unmoved are Starmer and Trump.  Trump is still blaming Hamas for what is happening in Gaza but the United States too is losing. The leader of the ‘free world’ is actively complicit in a Nazi-style genocide and yet Trump and Starmer, to say nothing of the Germans, are still supplying Israel with weapons.

Israeli leaders have been open about their intentions. It is the intention to wipe out and destroy a people that made this a genocide.

Israel Deliberately Burns the Food That It Prevented From Being Distributed

It is not as if the genocide deniers weren’t warned. On 9^th October Defence Minister Yoav Gallant spelled out exactly what Israel’s strategy was going to be when, in an an echo of Himmler’s description of the untermenschen he declared:

“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed, ... We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly

Gallant was not alone. Netanyahu compared the Palestinians to Amalek, who God commanded the Israelites to wipe out – to the very last child and suckling infant. President Isaac Herzog stated that there were no innocents in Gaza and Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, of the Bnei Moshe yeshiva openly advocated  the murder of Palestinian children because they are the future generation of Palestinian fighters.

Today's terrorists are the children of the prior [military] operation that left them alive. The women are essentially the ones who are producing the terrorists,... It's not only the 14 or 16-year-old boy, the 20 or 30-year-old man who takes up a weapon against you but also the future generation. There's really no difference

Mali and Israel’s other Nazi Rabbis have long been making the same argument that Himmler made about  Jewish children. At Posnan on October 6, 1943 Himmler told the SS Generals:

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.

Bob Geldof Asks How Israel Can Betray Its History by Starving Children - But This is Its History

When Bob Geldof was quizzed by Trevor Philips on Sky about the claims of Netanyahu that there was no famine he simply responded ‘he’s a liar’. One suspects that the BBC, which would have both sided the Nazi holocaust, would have edited it out.

The tide has turned, at least for now, as Israel’s Nazi leaders realise that their lies are no longer believed. Perhaps the final straw was setting up the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, run by mercenaries, who killed those seeking food along with the IDF.  The GHF is a death trap run by a Christian Evangelist, the Rev. Johnnie Moore.

Over one thousand Palestinians were murdered in their attempt to stave off starvation yet still the Zionists and Mencer blamed Hamas which was doing its best to protect the food from the criminal gangs Israel had armed, as Netanyahu has admitted.

Although food has begun to enter Gaza Israel has not let up on its bombardment of civilians. Compared to the IDF, Hamas are the equivalent of Sunday school teachers. They have sought, against the odds, to protect the people of Gaza from the Nazi wolves that have descended upon the Gaza Strip. Their proscription is an outrage.

It is no wonder that Starmer’s Labour has plumbed new depths of unpopularity. It has nothing to say, still less do because it is tied at the hip to Trump’s lawless regime in the US. Starmer’s promise to recognise a Palestinian state by September is an empty gesture. There is no Palestinian state so how can one recognise one? It is symbolic at best. If he were serious he would stop the supply of arms.

However even the more intelligent sections of the British ruling class realise that whereas Blair was, at least until the Iraq war, a sophisticated advocate of their interests, Starmer and his clique of self-serving careerists are both inarticulate and corrupt. Starmer managed to secure the most freebies despite being a millionaire.

Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action is also beginning to haunt her.  If she had heeded the advice of Home Office officials she would have ignored the pressure of the Israeli government and the Zionist lobby. Yvette Cooper is a stupid woman, a rich, white ‘feminist’ who hypocritically identifies with the Suffragettes, who not only damaged property but also had a bombing campaign. They were called criminals and terrorists in their time.

Such is the groundswell of opposition to the ban that the heavy handed tactics of the Metropolitan Police and the Liverpool Police, far from frightening people off are causing them to defy this law in ever greater numbers.  It will be interesting to see whether Judge Chamberlain has a sensitive antennae or whether he will do what judges often do which is to rail at anything approaching subversion.

Either way August 9^th on which date Defend Our Juries have called for 500 people to hold signs supporting Palestine Action is likely to be oversubscribed. Police this week in Totnes, Devon and Edinburgh decided not to arrest the ‘terrorists’ including George Monbiot.

When a law lacks public support and is seen to attack the most basic of all liberties, the right to protest, people have no option to break the law. The law has become an instrument of coercion and oppression and it is an illegitimate law as Martin Luther King called it.  Or in the words of Dame Heather Hallett it is an oppressive law.

Israel may think it has won a military victory but the reality today is that it has drained away its support. It has shown that it is a failed, genocidal state which no more deserves to exist than the Nazi state or the Apartheid South African state.

Perhaps the final straw is the plan of the Israeli state and its Defence Minister, to establish what even Ehud Olmert, a former Prime Minister has described as a concentration camp.

The holocaust in Gaza has exposed like nothing before it the moral vacuum and sheer hollowness of the Holocaust industry. All its clichés about learning from the holocaust are seen to be nothing but empty words aimed at legitimising Zionism and its bastard child.

The former Chair of Yad Vashem, Avner Shalev, denied that Israel was perpetrating a genocide in Gaza. The present Chair of Yad Vashem, the former fascist and member of the anti-Arab Tehiya party, Dani Dayan, doubled down on this claiming that such a comparison ‘desecrates the memory of the victims.’

What desecrates the memory of Jewish holocaust victims is shooting children in the head and starving them to death, creating torture camps and razing Gaza to the ground in the same way as the Nazis raised the Warsaw Ghetto to the ground. What really defiles the memory of the holocaust victims is when one in two Jewish Israelis, indeed more than that, support the extermination of all Palestinians.

However Yad Vashem was not founded to draw universal lessons from the Nazi holocaust. Its purpose was to use the holocaust in order to justify the establishment of a racist Jewish state. It would appear that its attempts to defend the indefensible are coming apart at the seams. Those who deny the genocide in Gaza are no better than those who deny the Nazi holocaust.

Zionism, like Nazism and Apartheid belongs in the dustbin of history.  It is based on the subjugation of the other and it is to be hoped that Jews outside Israel will shake off the lobby and its rabbinical clique and join the human race again.

Tony Greenstein

The Zionist Plan for ‘Cleansing’ Gaza of its Palestinians is Not New – Like Many Such Ideas It Originated with their Nazi friends

 There is a German word for what is being proposed – Judenrein or today Arabrein

There is nothing new in Donald Trump and Netanyahu’s plans for the ‘evacuation’ of the Palestinians from Gaza. The Nazis’ devoted much time and energy to a similar ‘problem’.

From 1939 onwards hundreds of thousands  of Jews, Poles and Gypsies, were preventing the Warthegau, that part of Poland which was conquered and incorporated into Greater Germany, being settled with German colonists. Most of them were expelled to the Generalgouvernment, that part of Poland into which they intended to pour all the racial ‘mush’ (Himmler).

Volksdeutsche of Łódź greeting German cavalry in 1939

The Nazis managed, with difficulty, to resettle half a million Volksdeutsche in their place just as Israel hopes to settle Jews in Gaza. 

Hans Frank

Many were the conflicts within the Nazi bureaucracy between the Gauleiter Arthur Greiser and the Governor-General of the Generalgouvernment, Hans Frank. For those who are interested in Nazi resettlement policies you can read Christopher Browning’s article on Nazi resettlement policies.

Arthur Greiser

It was only when the Nazi plans for the resettlement of the Jews to the East were thwarted that they turned to extermination. So it is with Gaza, except that the Zionists reversed the process, first they began the extermination process and only then turned to expulsion.

Palestinian journalists demonstrate outside the Palestinian Authority against the banning of media

Yet despite this that pathetic poodle of US imperialism, Keir Starmer and his contemptible fool of a Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, could not bring themselves to criticise Trump. As the Guardian’s Peter Walker put it, ‘Prime minister and colleagues use political code to push back at proposal without directly criticising US president.’

Even Ed Davey of the Lib Dems criticised the loathsome Trump whilst pushing for the resurrection of that old lame duck, the two-state solution. Starmer has built his career on slavish loyalty to the American Empire and Trump is not going to stop him.

Starmer told us  how he was ‘moved’ by the image of Emily Damari, the Israeli hostage who was reunited with her family. The images of Palestinian hostages, who had been starved, beaten and tortured, did not make any impression on this apology for a human being. However it is doubtful that anything could move Starmer apart from a subsidy from one of his millionaire friends towards his wardrobe.

When Israel was established as a ‘Jewish’ State it fabricated a narrative that the Palestinian refugees had run away, on orders from the Arab regimes, despite pleas from the Zionists to stay. This was comprehensively debunked, first by Erskine Childers and Rashid Khalidi and then Israeli historians Benny Morris and Ilan Pappe.

I was brought up to believe this nonsense.  Israel had closed its archives and even reclassified documents that had been released in order to hide the truth. [see Burying the Nakba: How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs].

Benny Morris explained that ‘Defense Ministry officials apparently hope their actions will raise doubts about the conclusions and credibility of various scholars.’ This enabled people like Israel’s vile Ambassador, Tzipi Hotoveli, to proclaim that stories of the Nakba were an ‘Arab lie’.

Only 3% Of Jewish Israelis Think Trump's Ethnic Cleansing Plan For Gaza Is Immoral

Today there is no pretence. Israelis in their overwhelming majority want the Palestinians of Gaza (and the West Bank) either expelled or  exterminated. Some 82% of Israeli Jews support Trump’s plan and just 3% consider the proposals immoral. The rest think it impractical. This is what memory of the Holocaust has become in Zionist hands.

It is worth bearing in mind that Israelis are far more racist towards the Palestinians than Germans were to Jews. Anti-Semitism in Germany was never respectable. The Nazis had to work hard to persuade Germans and they never succeeded. Anti-Semitism was confined to the core of the Nazi party itself. Between 1930 and 1933 Hitler downplayed anti-Semitism to the point of non-existence.

Of course people will find this difficult to accept given the way the media portrays the reasons why Hitler came to power. However all serious historians agree. For example Ian Kershaw wrote in Popular Opinion and Dissent in the Third Reich that the more than five million extra votes that the Nazis obtained in the 1930 elections ‘were in no sense anti-Semites’. David Cesarani suggested in The Final Solution  that  Hitler’s attacks on Jews ‘diminished to vanishing point’. Even Zionist historian Yehuda Bauer accepted this. 

In 1939 Hitler began to fulfil his desire to create ‘living space’ lebensraum for the German people by conquering first Poland, then Western Europe and finally Russia. That is precisely what Israel is doing. Achieving its Arab-free living space.

For 15 months they carpet bombed Gaza under the pretence that they were seeking to destroy Hamas when it was obvious to anyone, bar Jews for Genocide and that inveterate liar Starmer, that Hamas was the one thing they hadn’t destroyed.

Hospitals, schools, clinics, universities, journalists, residential homes and agricultural land – all were subject to the an intensity of bombing that made the destruction of Nuremberg, Dresden and Hamburg seem like a picnic.

All the while Butcher Biden supplied the 2,000 lb bombs that enabled the devastation. Now Trump comes along and says that of course Palestinians can’t live in the rubble whilst still continuing to supply the 2000 lb bombs. The hypocrisy and mendacity of our rulers knows no bounds.

We have a weak and shaky ceasefire, which hasn’t stopped Israel killing Palestinians in Gaza although the bombing has (temporarily) stopped. There isn’t an agreement that Israel has made that hasn’t been broken and they are still killing people in Lebanon. Netanyahu and much of his coalition would like to restart the slaughter because to the Zionists not enough Palestinians have yet died.

Yet whatever Israel does, as far as Starmer, Trump and our own Jews for Genocide in the form of the Board of Deputies, are concerned it is acting in self-defence. It is an interesting legal concept as to whether an occupying power has the right of self-defence. Perhaps Russia has such a right in Ukraine! Maybe we should consult our favourite ‘human rights lawyer’ Sir Kid Starver.

I fear that Israel will find a pretext to restart the war against Gaza. What Trump has done is to provide Israel with a pretext to break the ceasefire, as Netanyahu has promised, after the first phase, in which case we will see a continuation of the genocide. This is a very real danger. Of course it will be difficult politically to restart the slaughter but that will depend on the American administration. One thing is for certain. The Arab regimes could stop it in a day if they stopped the oil.  And the Arab masses could stop it if they overthrew those regimes.

Israeli military operation in Jenin: Palestinian homes attacked with simultaneous blasts

Instead Israel’s war on the Palestinians has spread to the West Bank. For the past 5 years I have raised funds for the Al Tafawk Children’s Centre in Jenin refugee camp. Three times the Israeli military has deliberately wrecked the interior of the Centre.

Today I have no idea if Al Tafawk is even standing because much of Jenin’s refugee camp has been blown up and numerous people, including children have been killed. Yet still Western leaders have the audacity to about Israel’s ‘self-defence’. If only Goebbels had had such good propagandists as the BBC provide he could have achieved far more without the opprobrium.

Israeli Soldiers Celebrate Destruction in Jenin

Israel’s attack on Jenin we should not forget was preceded by 25 days of violence by the Quisling Palestine Authority. Yet even now organisations like Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign are afraid of calling these Quislings by their name. First Israel banned Al Jazeera and then the PA banned it.

See Two Days after Speaking to the Palestine Chronicle – Jenin Journalist Killed by Palestinian Authority

See The PA and Israel are allies in silencing the truth

Trump’s plan though is unlikely to be carried out. The last thing the Egyptian and Jordanian states want is hundreds of thousands of Palestinians determined to seek their revenge. Despite their role as collaborators, neither regime has a death wish.

If the Zionists cannot achieve an empty Gaza by ethnic cleansing then mass murder and genocide is the alternative and the only thing standing in the way are Hamas and the Palestinian resistance.

This of course is where Britain’s political police come in. They will do their utmost to arrest and persecute anyone who supports resistance to Israel’s genocide. All in the name of ‘the fight against terrorism’. This is the state of British ‘democracy’ today and we can rely on Britain’s compliant judiciary to do their best to help.

There has been one of those absurd ‘debates’ about whether Israel is committing genocide. As if not using the word changes the reality. I suggest people read Yuval Abraham’s article in +972 Magazine, Bomb the area, gas the tunnels: Israel’s unbridled war on Gaza’s underground as to what Israel’s tactics were. Abraham writes that:

The Israeli army intensively bombarded residential areas in Gaza when it lacked intelligence on the exact location of Hamas commanders hiding underground, and intentionally weaponized toxic byproducts of bombs to suffocate militants in their tunnels…

The investigation, based on conversations with 15 Israeli Military Intelligence and Shin Bet officers who have been involved in tunnel-targeting operations since October 7, exposes how this strategy aimed to compensate for the army’s inability to pinpoint targets in Hamas’ subterranean tunnel network. When targeting senior commanders in the group, the Israeli military authorized the killing of “triple-digit numbers” of Palestinian civilians as “collateral damage,” and maintained close real-time coordination with U.S. officials regarding the expected casualty figures.

 So there we have it. Israel was prepared to kill hundreds of Palestinian civilians on the off chance that they might kill a member of Hamas.  And then creatures like Lammy & Starmer dare to call Hamas ‘terrorist’.

In the process three Israeli hostages — Nik Beizer, Ron Sherman, and Elia Toledano — were killed by asphyxiation as a result of a Nov. 10, 2023, bombing that targeted Ahmed Ghandour, a Hamas brigade commander in northern Gaza. Even if the bombs didn’t kill them then the carbon monoxide they produced did.

Israel soldiers were not willing to fight in the tunnels but thought that carpet bombing would do the trick. Fortunately it didn’t and at the end of the war Hamas and the Resistance was killing more of Israel’s war criminal military than it was at the beginning.

Imagine if Hamas exploded a bomb in the middle of Tel Aviv because they believed a senior officer of the Israeli army was passing by?  Or Russia bombed a market place because it believed a Ukrainian general was doing his shopping there. The pages of the tabloids would be filled with blood curdling rhetoric.

Israel’s figures of Hamas fighters killed were always phony. Every male civilian they killed was a Hamas ‘terrorist’ but at the end of the day the Zionists ended up fooling themselves, which was why, when the ceasefire came into effect, Israelis were stunned to see hundreds of Hamas fighters in their distinctive olive green uniforms handing over the healthy and well-fed Israeli captives, unlike the emaciated and tortured bodies of the Palestinian captives that Israel had seized.

Israel’s 2,000 lb bombs were supplied by the United States despite knowing how they would be used but ‘bloody’ Blinken stymied any declaration that human rights violations were being carried out. Why?

Because under the Leahy law if the US State Department declared that Israel was committing war crimes then the U.S. Government would have been barred from using funds to assist in those crimes. Instead investigations into Israel’s war crimes never progressed beyond an initial stage.

"אז יאמרו בגויים הגדיל ה' לעשות עם אלה, הגדיל ה' לעשות עמנו היינו שמחים"

ועוד יותר טוב ועוד יותר טוב.

תודה לך הנשיא טראמפ.

Together, we will make the world great again 🇮🇱🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/3Wjx0VZRTK

— בצלאל סמוטריץ' (@bezalelsm) February 4, 2025

Netanyahu and his far-right partner Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Finance Minister,  ‘proud homophobe’ and fascist are itching to get back into the bombing on the grounds that if you haven’t succeeded yet try, try and try again. But what is clear is that Hamas and the Palestinian Resistance has not been defeated and is unlikely to be defeated. 

At the moment Israel’s genocidal lust and desire for more living space is now translating into war on the people of the West Bank.

Even Trump cannot simply declare that he wants Palestinians to leave Gaza because he wants the gas fields in the sea off Gaza. Instead he dresses it up as concern for the Palestinians. He wrote that the Palestinians in Gaza would have "far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region."

There is nothing new in this duplicity. As Abdaljawad Omar wrote:

the same language has been used before. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson justified the Indian Removal Act as a necessary measure for the “happiness” of Native Americans, ethnically cleansing them under the guise of protecting their way of life....

The logic remains unchanged — displacement framed as pragmatism, ethnic cleansing cloaked in the language of order and progress, and for Trump: Palestinians as an obstacle to a beautiful beachfront where everyone could live, including “some Palestinians.”  

In Trump’s impossible Gaza plan can still do a great deal of harm Michelle Plitnick wrote that ‘in one of the cruelest, most repulsive twists of the Trump argument, he actually argued that his plan for ethnic cleansing was intended to benefit the Palestinians.’

This could be so magnificent. But more importantly than that is the people that have been absolutely destroyed that live there now can live in peace in a much better situation because they are living in hell. And those people will now be able to live in peace. We’ll make sure that it’s done world class.

It is noticeable that German leaders have said next to nothing. But why should Germany’s leaders say anything? The worse it gets for Palestinians the more they can come to terms with their own holocausts. After all, if even the Jews perpetrate a holocaust then it can’t be that bad.

Today Gaza is unliveable in because Israel deliberately made it so. For the Palestinians to be removed would be to reward the war criminals. That Trump can suggest it and the media can actually debate it seriously demonstrates how low moral standards have sunk in the western world.

One wonders what Western leaders would say if Putin had carpet bombed Ukraine and then said he was removing the population to save them further trauma and he expected Britain, Germany and France to take them in and foot the bill! All in order that they could have ‘beautiful’ lives free from Russian bombs! Yet this is what Trump is saying and our leaders cannot even spell out the implications for fear of offending his fragile ego.

We are entering a period of great uncertainty. The Palestine solidarity movement has a responsibility to step up its protests and begin to make life uncomfortable for those in power. Instead of allowing the Metropolitan Police to disrupt our protests we should be disrupting the rhythms of London. The first thing we should be doing is to hold the demonstration which was initially planned for the BBC – with or without the agreement of Britain’s political police.

Tony Greenstein

See also 

The Gaza 'war' was a lie, as is the ceasefire. Trump just told you

Jonathan Cook

The PA and Israel are allies in silencing the truth

The PA and Israel are allies in silencing the truth

I witnessed firsthand the PA’s brutality against journalists in Gaza. Its possible return does not bode well for us.

Published On 1 Feb 2025 

A group of Palestinian journalists protest in front of the Palestinian Legislative Council headquarters against the decision of the Palestinian Authority to close Bethlehem-based private TV channel, Al-Roah, in Gaza City on October 17 1999 [File: Mohammad Saber/AFP]

On December 28, 21-year-old journalism student Shatha Al-Sabbagh was assassinated near her home in Jenin. Her family accused snipers from the Palestinian Authority (PA) deployed in the camp of shooting her in the head. Al-Sabbagh had been active on social media, documenting the suffering of Jenin residents during the raids by Israel and the PA.

Just a few days after Al-Sabbagh’s assassination, the authorities in Ramallah banned Al Jazeera from reporting from the occupied West Bank. Three weeks later, PA forces arrested Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamad Atrash.

These developments come as the Israeli occupation has killed more than 200 media workers in Gaza and arrested dozens across the occupied Palestinian territories. It has also banned Al Jazeera and refused to allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza. The fact that the PA’s actions mirror Israel’s reveals a shared agenda to suppress independent journalism and control public opinion.

To Palestinian journalists, that is hardly news. The PA has never been our protector. It has always been a complicit partner in our brutalisation. That is true in the West Bank and it was true in Gaza when the PA was in power there. I witnessed it myself.

Growing up in Gaza, I watched how my people were oppressed by Israeli forces and by the PA. In 1994, the Israeli occupation formally handed over the Strip to the PA to administer under the provisions of the Oslo Accords. The PA remained in power until 2007. During these 13 years, we saw more collaboration with the Israeli occupation than any meaningful attempt at liberation. For journalists, the PA’s presence was not just oppressive, it was life-threatening, as its forces actively stifled voices to maintain its fragile grip on power.

As a journalism student in Gaza, I experienced this suppression firsthand. I walked the streets, witnessing PA security officers looting shops, their arrogance apparent in the brazen act of theft. One day, when I attempted to document this, a Palestinian officer violently grabbed me, ripped my camera from my hands, and smashed it to the ground. This wasn’t just an assault, it was an attack on my right to bear witness. The officer’s aggression only ceased when a group of women intervened, forcing him to retreat in a rare moment of restraint.

I knew the risks of being a journalist in Gaza and like other media workers, I learned to navigate them. But the fear I felt near the PA forces’ ambush points was unlike anything else. That was because there was never logic to their aggressive actions and no way to anticipate when they might turn on you.

Walking near the PA forces felt like stepping into a minefield. One moment, there was the illusion of safety, and the next, you faced the brutality of those who were supposedly there to protect you. This uncertainty and tension made their presence more terrifying than being on a battlefield.

Years later, I would cover the training sessions of Qassam Brigades under the constant hum of Israeli drones and the ever-looming threat of air strikes. It was dangerous but predictable – much more so than the actions of the PA.

Under the PA, we learned to speak in code. Journalists self-censored out of fear of retribution. The PA was often referred to as “cousins of Israeli occupation” – a grim acknowledgement of its complicity.

As the PA was fighting to stay in power in Gaza after losing the 2006 elections to Hamas, its brutality escalated. In May 2007, gunmen in presidential guard uniforms killed journalist Suleiman Abdul-Rahim al-Ashi and media worker Mohammad Matar Abdo. It was an execution meant to send a clear message to those who witnessed it.

When Hamas took over, its government also imposed restrictions on press freedoms, but its censorship was inconsistent. Once, while documenting the new policewomen’s division, I was ordered to show my photos to a Hamas officer so he could censor any image he deemed immodest. I often managed to bypass these restrictions by swapping my memory cards preemptively.

The officers weren’t fond of anyone overriding their orders, but instead of outright punishment, they resorted to petty power plays—investigations, revoked access, or unnecessary provocations. Unlike the PA, Hamas did not operate within a system of coordination with Israeli forces to suppress journalism, but the restrictions journalists faced still created an environment of uncertainty and self-censorship. Any violation on their part, however, was met with swift international condemnation—something the PA rarely faced, despite its far more systematic repression.

After losing control of Gaza, the PA shifted its focus to the West Bank, intensifying its campaign of media suppression. Detentions, violent crackdowns, and the silencing of critical voices became commonplace. Their collaboration with Israel was not passive; it was active. From surveillance to campaigns of violence, they play a crucial role in maintaining the status quo, stifling any dissent that challenges their power and the occupation.

In 2016, the PA’s collusion became even more apparent when they coordinated with Israeli authorities in the arrest of prominent journalist and press freedom advocate Omar Nazzal, who had criticised Ramallah for how it handled the suspected murder of Palestinian citizen Omar al-Naif at its embassy in Bulgaria.

In 2017, the PA launched a campaign of intimidation, arresting five journalists from different outlets.

In 2019, the Palestinian Authority blocked the website of Quds News Network, a youth-led media outlet that has gained immense popularity. This was part of a wider ban imposed by the Ramallah Magistrate’s Court that blocked access to 24 other news websites and social media pages.

In 2021, after the violent death of activist Nizar Banat in the PA’s custody sparked protests, its forces sought to crack down on journalists and media outlets covering them.

In this context, the prospect of the PA returning to Gaza following the ceasefire agreement raises serious concerns for journalists who have already endured the horrors of genocide. For those who survived, this could mean a new chapter of repression that reflects the PA’s history of censorship, arrests and stifling of press freedoms.

Despite the grave threats that Palestinian journalists face from Israel and from those who pretend to represent the Palestinian people, they persevere. Their work transcends borders, reflecting a shared struggle against tyranny. Their resilience speaks not only to the Palestinian cause but to the broader fight for liberation, justice and dignity.

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Eman Mohammed is an award-winning Palestinian-American photojournalist and Senior TED fellow currently based in Washington, DC.