Britain's Labour Party continues to insist there is no deep-seated anti-Semitism in their Corbyn inspired far left leadership and, if there is some Jew-hatred, it has nothing to do with an accepted detestation of Israel which they consider "legitimate" and, therefore, can't possibly be anti-Semitic.
Or can it?
Let's examine the recent tweets of a Labour councillor, Damien Enticott from Bognor Regis, who accused Jews of "drinking blood and sucking baby's ****'s."
He continued his libel by claiming that this was done by "Talmud Jews. Talmud Jews are parasites!"
Having made his point, he concluded by saying that "All Talmud Jews need executing."
Undeniably anti-Semitic, and no doubt, this Labour lout will have his wrist slapped by Corbyn. But this has nothing to do with Israel, surely, they insist. Read on...
In another comment, our Bognor bogeyman wrote, "Hitler would have a solution for Israel," and he went on to suggest that, "They should bring back concentration camps for Zionists."
The gruesome Enticott is pictured to the right of two of his fellow Labourites.
Hands up those who continue to say that Anti-Zionism is not Anti-Semitism?
I will supply you with a book packed with evidence to prove that hatred of Israel is tied by a Jew-hating umbilical cord to a psychotic anti-Semitism.
Barry Shaw is the author of Fighting Hamas, BDS, and Anti-Semitism.
He is also the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Saturday, 28 July 2018
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Israel, and Native Americans and Canadians.
Very recently, I was honored with a phone call from a native
American tribal leader who was, perhaps surprisingly to many as it was to me,
on a visit to Israel.
He told me of his passionate support for Israel. He rightly
saw the Jews as the indigenous people of the land, something that appealed to
his own tribal history. He also saw our modern history, including the return of the Jewish people to their land, as a confirmation of his biblical teachings.
He shocked me by what he told me next. The Palestinians have
been conducting a well-orchestrated propaganda campaign to reach the hearts and
minds of this ignored American community. My new contact informed me that much
of the funding and organization of this anti-Israel jihad is based in Turkey. Sections of Hamas
operates from there after becoming severely restricted in Gaza.
The campaign is based on strategic disinformation.
Native Americans are reminded of a history of being indigenous natives of
America who have had their land occupied by white colonial supremacists and suffering centuries of oppression, which parallels the so-called history of the
Palestinian people who have also been robbed of their land and suppressed by
colonial white oppressors.
This simple message is having an effect, particularly as
native Americans (and to a large extent, native Canadians) have been ignored by
the Israeli government as if they do not exist. The battleground of thoughts, ideas, history, and facts have been left deserted, vacant for the false narratives of our adversaries ot take effect. This has to stop.
.
A recent phenomenon highlighted the ignorance of the Israeli
authorities over the identity of native Americans and Canadians.
This month, Netanya hosted the World Lacrosse
Championships. Competitors from around the world are having their first
experience of Israel. They are loving their visit, and the games have been organized
superbly. Competitors from diverse countries such as Hong Kong, Poland, Uganda,
Luxembourg, China, Turkey, Peru, South Korea, Peru, join the major nations of
the world in this important sporting event.
Also participating are players representing
the Iroquois National lacrosse team based in Canada. It was touch and go
before they received their permits to come to Israel at the last minute. They
were waiting at Toronto Pearson Airport as bureaucratic efforts were being made
to allow them to travel to Israel on their native Haudenosaunee passports,
rather than on Canadian passports. Their plane was delayed for three hours.
The bureaucratic impasse was
solved thanks to the intervention of Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian Justice
Minister, who pulled strings at top level both in Canada and in Israel. In the
end they arrived and were met by VIPs including former Knesset Member, Dov
Lipman, to welcome them to Israel.
They had also come under enormous pressure from the BDS Movement to boycott the event, but their passion for their sport and their desire to participate in the World Championships was a no-brainer for them.
In trying to dissuade the Iroquois not to come, BDS used a fraudulent Palestinian message that the famous Wingate Institute, which
houses Israel’s sporting excellent projects and facilities and one of the many
venues for the lacrosse event, was once an Arab village named Khirbat al-Zababida
which, they claimed, was “ethnically-cleansed” of its “Palestinian” inhabitants
in 1948.
BDS with this, as with everything else they push, was wrong. They were referring to the nearby villages of
Yakum and Gaash which, between 1944 and 1945 was predominantly Jewish owned,
the Arab landlords having sold barren land to the Palestinian Jews. The same
Arab landlords ordered the Arab peasants, who had no ownership rights to the land, to vacate the land to the new owners
who intended to develop the land for large scale agricultural purposes which
they did, employing many Arabs in its development.
These are Israeli facts, not the hateful fantasies of BDS.
Native Americans and Canadians need to hear our story. A story of an ancient people
returning to join our fellow Jews who never deserted the land for three
thousand years when it was the Land of Israel. Today, it has become the only
truly diverse nation in the Middle East where all are free to practice their
faith and traditions and to be represented in our democracy in the Knesset,
our national congress.
Native Americans and Canadians are a willing audience who
must get to hear our message. They have been ignored not only by the Israeli government
but also by Jewish and Christian Zionist organizations as if they don’t exist
and don’t have a voice.
Yet, these are precisely the type of communities that could
and should spread the truth about our history, both ancient and contemporary, for
our story resonates with them.
The Jews were indigenous to our
ancient land way before the birth of Islam, and those who are returning to take pride in the re-establishment
of our national home, share our love of the land.
Our message is a positive message
of reclamation personified in the glorious success and example of Israel.
The one simple truth that comes out of this, is this. That
native Americans, native Canadians, indeed native people from everywhere have
one thing in common with the Jews of Israel. We are all the original indigenous
people in our own lands. This is the simple truth that no BDS, Palestinian propagandist
can take away from us.
In an age of diversity and minority voices, instead of being
BDS-trained enemies of Israel, native Americans and Canadians can become the
most resonant ambassadors for Israel.
There are anti-Israel haters, BDS among them, who are
teaching them a false doctrine. There can be no salvation or prophecy based on
lies.
Let’s do something affirmative to help them.
Barry Shaw is the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy
at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
He is the author of ‘Fighting Hamas, BDS, and
Anti-Semitism’ and BDS for IDIOTS.’ Both available on Amazon.
Monday, 9 July 2018
Intersectionality Hypocrisy and the Jewish Question. An Israeli Perspective..
Intersectionality Hypocrisy and the Jewish Question.
An
Israeli perspective by Barry Shaw.
People with
strategic antennae can detect a throwback to the Soviet inspired canard of “Zionism
is Racism.” This radical left-wing anti-Israel trope raised its ugly head
way back in 2001 at the UN World Conference Against Racism in South Africa
where thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators and groups hijacked the event to
target the Jewish state with phony propaganda including apartheid accusations.
Sadly, despite being beaten down in the United Nations, this same anti-Zionism
has breathed new life and is active today on the campuses and streets of
America and Britain reaching out into support for Hamas and Hezbollah.
As it was
then, it is dressed up as a universal human rights issue. The same tiresome
aspersions are trotted out, and soft vacant minds of the impressionable young
are hooked on a cause to which they are physically detached but to which they have
been seduced to dedicate their energies. It fits their progressive upbringing. Sadly,
a growing number of the newly deceived are Jewish.
In America,
many have been raised by parents from the anti-war, hippie, flower power, era
who, from a distance, frowned on Israel for not bringing peace to the
Palestinians and, from their distant armchairs, encourage their kids to become
activists in an anti-Israel cause. And they claim to do it for the benefit
of an Israel that is too dumb and too aggressive to see the error of our
ways. What they have yet to realize is that firstly, they are wrong, and
secondly their kids have gone from being liberal to becoming the most illiberal,
closed-minded, and intolerant people in the community. They exist, you see, on
a higher moral plain than the rest of us. They know better.
In Britain,
a diminishing Jewish population is losing control over their country. Some of
them doggedly cling to a Labour Party that is riddled with anti-Semitism. Some
of the new generation to Israel not to support Israel but to visit European
NGO-funded Palestinian activists or, at home, participate in public displays of
mourning for dead Palestinians, mostly members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad terror
groups killed in attempts to cross into Israel and kill and kidnap Israelis.
Recently,
both American and the British anti-Israel Jewish fringe groups have used deception
(some would say fraud) by exploiting subsidized Israel Experience group trips to advance their
pro-Palestinian propaganda with other group members, or to attempt to hijack Israelis on the
street to their anti-Israel cause.
A small
group of them were caught trying to spread their “Israel is occupying
Palestine” garbage in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market. Ari Fuld, a noted
Israel advocate, videoed one of them with a simple question, “When did
Israel occupy Palestine?” The Jewish propagandist couldn’t answer the
question to that slogan printed in his t-shirt. Instead, he accused Fuld of harassment.
These are
the hashtag activists. Question their hashtag soundbites and slogans and they
fall apart. Read ‘BDS for IDIOTS’ and see how it applies to most of the
anti-Israel BDS propagandists.
Harassment? This
is surprising. One of the leaders on his side of the US political divide,
Maxine Waters, recently ordered leftists like him to harass those with opposing
views. She told them to “push back on them.
And tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” Yet this guy got upset when he comes to Israel to spread his unpopular lies
and someone pushes back on him.
Hypocrite!
Harassment
is something that pro-Israel spokespeople know very well. Try bringing the
truth about Israel and the Palestinians, let alone expose the fraudulent
messaging of the BDS Movement, to campuses in America and Britain. Good luck
with that.
The
anti-Israel views of the increasingly radical left of the Democratic Party in
America and within the British Labour Party, led by a leader who considers
Hamas and Hezbollah as his friends, could be a disaster in the making both for
Israel and for the Jews of those nations. Israeli voices are stifled at public
events. Should a pro-Israel event take place in Britain the venue must be kept a
closely-guarded secret due to fear of a violent disruptive backlash. Yet, it is
perfectly acceptable for thousands of flag-waving Israel-haters to take to the
streets of London in support of Hezbollah and Hamas.
In America,
there is no intersectionality for Zionist Jews. Intersectionality is a new
political word indicating a joining of interests between two or more different
groups. So, for example, it is acceptable to be a feminist or gay and a
supporter of the Palestinian cause.
If, however,
you are a feminist or gay and support Israel you are beyond the pale and banished
from the leftist club, a club in which the notoriously hateful Linda Sarsour is
one of the leaders that sets the rules.
Sarsour has
been adopted as an icon of this radical brand of politics and, as such, she
calls the shots. They think they are being awfully progressive and liberal but
they are, at heart, the most intolerant, radical, and regimented grouping in
America today. They twist reason into a pretzel to the extent that Sarsour can
grant Palestinian terror the badge of absolute moral justification.
Referring to
Sarsour, US rocker, Courtney Love, got slammed when she tweeted that “I
won’t follow anything that is being led by an anti-Semitic terrorist that’s
using feminism as a tool to promote her radicalism.”
Sarsour led
the twitter campaign against Love. This is, in itself, a metaphor of what
Sarsour is all about.
Sarsour has
not conducted acts of terror but she has promoted and glorified Palestinian
terrorists. In 1917, she shared a stage
with Rasmea Odeh, a female Palestinian terrorist who murdered two young
students outside a Jerusalem supermarket in 1969. She embraced Odeh and told
the audience that she was “honored and privileged to be here in this space, and honored
to be on this stage with Rasmea.”
Sarsour
is a firm BDS supporter. She has said that “there is nothing creepier than
Zionism” and her solution to Zionism is the elimination of the Jewish
state. In other words, she would wipe Israel off the map. In her world, be a
feminist and support the Palestine liberation movement and you are in. Be a
feminist and support the Jewish liberation movement and you are banned from
entering her intersectionality club.
Unfortunately,
this mode of politics has become so trendy to impressionable youngsters that too
many Jewish kids are being seduced and sucked into the swill of this dangerous
nonsense.
Too
many of the unhinged and hate-mongering radical left look on Israel as “white
supremacists.” The Black Lives Matter folk look on Arab Palestinians as
their “brown brothers.” Their stunted, sloganistic thinking leave them
blinded to the fact that the majority of Israelis originate from Arab and
Muslim countries with thousands of black Africans from Ethiopia and that Israel
is the most diverse country in the whole of the Middle East and Africa.
If the
Black Lives Matter people really cared about their brethren beyond their
American shores they should be made aware that, today, slavery is being
practiced on a massive scale in Africa where blacks are forced into slavery and
black women are forced into sex slavery by slave traders and owners who are
predominantly Muslim and Arabs.
This is
where the BLM people share the crime of hypocrisy with the pro-Palestinian
intersectionality pretenders. Those who profess to champion the Palestinian
cause do so solely to hit on Israel, but are silent when abuses, oppression,
and slaughter, are heaped on Palestinian Arabs by other Arabs. Examples include
ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Assad in the bombing of the Palestinian
population in Syria, the 70-year-old apartheid inflicted on stateless refugees
in Jordan, and the blockade of Gaza imposed by Egypt. All go unchallenged by
those who profess to champion Palestinian human rights.
So goes
the “outrage” of Black Live Matter advocates who have adopted the
Palestinian movement into their revolutionary cause. They rage about Israeli “white
supremacists” in their slogans, but shockingly turn their backs on the
suffering and slavery of their African brethren. Do they not know that the
current plague of slavery in Africa is perpetrated by the Muslim Arabs they
support and the victims are their fellow blacks? Why doesn’t this appear in
their intersectionality activism?
What
connects current political trends in America and Britain is the rise of radical
Socialism hiding behind a thin veneer of liberal democracy. What we are witnessing in the Democratic Party is reminiscent of the clash between the Bolsheviks
and the Mensheviks, begun in 1903, to see how far left they could drag Russia. It is sad to see so many young impressionable Jewish minds
being dragged into this poor excuse for political progressivism. It is not
progressive. It is an intolerant regressive hard Socialism on its way to harsh Communism.
It's not surprising really. The "Zionism is Racism" sloganeering back in 2001 Durban was a Soviet-style form of propaganda. They saw Israel as "imperialistic," "capitalistic," "colonialistic," and any other "istic" they could invent. It got beaten down but has metastasized as intersectionality or identity politics. It is as hateful and as intolerant as it was in South Africa and way back at the turn of the last century in Communist Russia.
Two
questions should be answered by the naïve young Jews who have lost their
bearings and have bought into the misinformation about Israel. Can you still
call yourself a proud Jew when you associate and partner with those that boo
whenever G-d and Israel is mentioned? Don’t you have a feeling of betrayal to
your own people, to yourself? These are signs for you to walk away from a false
and hateful cause that will benefit neither Palestinians, nor Israelis, nor
you.
Work
your way through the delusion. Eventually, with moral clarity, you will arrive
at the reality and core belief in the survival and protection, indeed the
legitimate right of the Jewish people, to exist in peace in their own nation,
Israel. Allow us that at least.
Once
you arrive at that point you may be able to better sympathize with our young
men and women, those of your own age, who are prepared to fight and die to
protect us and our right to live in our own land.
You will
find this as moral and as just as anything being pumped out by people such as
Sarsour and BLM.
Barry Shaw is the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at
the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also the author of ‘BDS for
IDIOTS,’ and ‘Fighting Hamas, BDS, and Anti-Semitism.’ Make great gifts for
kids who really need to know what’s going on.
Monday, 2 July 2018
The Arab world opens up to the truth about Palestinian violence and rejectionism.
I read an
amazing news item bearing the headline ‘Hamas Double Standard on Syria.’
This piece of
journalism reported on the Palestinian community suffering massive destruction
with over ten thousand displaced and many hundreds killed in artillery bombing
and aerial bombardments.
The
journalist, Kheir Allah, called it “one of the biggest tragedies in
Palestinian history, one that calls for widespread condemnation and
denunciation.”
Why was
there no “widespread condemnation and denunciation”?
Because this
wasn’t in the Gaza Strip, nor in Judea & Samaria in which the “Hate Israel”
mob could scream and shout. This was in a place called Yarmouk and the perpetrators
of this massacre were first the Syrian rebels, then ISIS, and then Russia-Iran
assisted Assad regime. When there is no Israel to blame, the Palestinian issue
is just a yawn.
But this
wasn’t the thrust of the article. The aim of the article was the silence of the
Palestinian leadership both in Ramallah and in Gaza City to this issue.
“Even the
Palestinian leadership has remained silent,” the journalist wrote. “Worst of all is Hamas chief,
Ismail Haniyeh, who went so far as to describe the Syrian regime as a ‘guardian
of Palestinian rights.’”
Assad’s
planes are bombing Palestinian homes and killing the civilians, yet Hamas calls
the Syrian dictator a guardian of Palestinian rights!
Kheir Allah stated
that Haniyeh’s silence about the deaths, injuries, and homelessness "revealed
that Hamas does not care at all about the rights of Palestinians.”
He went on to
question, “If Hamas is not bothered by the condition of Palestinian refugees
abroad, why should it care about those living in the Gaza Strip? Indeed, since
Hamas took over Gaza a decade ago, it has done nothing to improve the living conditions
of the population it controls. The only thing the people of Gaza have
experienced under Hamas rule is increased misery and isolation.”
The
surprising revelation was that this article did not appear in a pro-Israel Western
newspaper, but in the London edition of Al-Arab on June 23.
When you see
the Arab media exposing painful truths about the oppression of the Palestinian people
by their own leadership and the total disregard of their people living elsewhere
in the violent Arab world this really is newsworthy, but it is happening more
often in recent weeks.
Al-Arab
concluded its piece by warning Haniyeh that he is paying the price for aligning
itself with “the worst regimes in the region that have brought death and
destruction upon the people of Palestine.”
Slowly, but
surely, the Arab world is beginning to open up and express themselves truthfully
about the conflicted and divided Palestinian political leadership.
Hamas was
angry, and the Palestinian Authority was silent, when earlier this year the
Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir, described Hamas as an ‘extremist’ and
a “terrorist” group at a meeting of the European Parliament Foreign
Affairs Committee in Brussels.
Saudi
Arabian political researcher, Abdul Hameed al-Hakeem, in a tweet early in 2018,
called on Hamas to decide between what he called “the Iranian Nazi regime” and
peace with Israel.
The new
ruler of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Sultan, after saying in April that “Israel
has a right to its own homeland” backed up that statement in stronger terms
a week later by saying that the Palestinians should accept peace proposals or “shut
up!”
“For the past 40 years, the Palestinian leadership has missed
opportunities again and again, and rejected all the offers it was given. It’s
about time that the Palestinians accept the offers, and agree to come to the
negotiating table — or they should shut up and stop complaining.”
There is
little doubt that much of the Arab world have had it with the whining and
violent rejectionism on both sides of the Palestinian political chasm. They
clearly see that Fatah and Hamas hate each other almost as much as they both
hate Israel, and they are fed up with them.
They have more pressing things to
worry about, such as Iran, and possibly peace with Israel.
Barry
Shaw is the author of ‘Fighting Hamas, BDS, and Anti-Semitism.’ He is
the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic
Studies.
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