On May 16, about 50 Jewish activists gathered in London’s Parliament
Square and, in a public display of phoney grief, davened Kaddish.
This gathering was less about a genuine empathy for dead
Palestinians. It was more an exhibition of Jew hatred for the Jewish state.
How do we know that? Well, these people proved they are not
equal opportunity grievers. They did not gather to mourn the 1242 Israelis
killed by Palestinian terrorists since the year 2000. Instead, they collected
together to publicly show their support for Palestinian terror. Of course,
these useful idiots would protest vehemently at such a suggestion but what
other conclusion can we reach when it was announced, from the Palestinian side,
that at least 53 of the 58 rioters shot by IDF soldiers were, in fact, either
members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad.
So, in mid-May, we had the spectacle of Jews meeting in the
heart of British democracy to pray for the souls of those that were prevented
by Jewish soldiers from slaughtering Jews.
Don’t take my word for it that this was their intention. Hamas
Gaza chief, Yahiya Sinwar, incited his people by telling them, “We will tear
down their borders and then tear out their hearts from their bodies.”
The grief in Parliament Square was by those who mourned the
failure of Sinwar, Ismail Haniya, and others to rip out any Jewish hearts
according to the Hamas vow to “fight the Jews until the Jews will hide
behind rocks and trees, which will cry out, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding
behind me. Come out and kill him!’”
While these Jews gather to mourn the death of Islamic
terrorists, the parents of the dead Hamas terrorists celebrate their sons’
deaths.
“My
son died as a Martyr defending Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. …Allah
willing, all of them will follow this path, all the youth of Palestine. Allah
be praised.”
These were the words of
the mother of Mohammad Tarareih who butchered 13-year-old Israeli girl, Hallel
Yaffa Arieh in 2016. There are many such words of praise from parents of the Palestinian
butchers of Israeli Jews. Yet no public or private Kaddish were made by these fools
for the soul of Yaffa.
Yet we witnessed the
sickening gimmick of young progressive (read “regressive”) Jews gathered to
mourn and honor dead members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in a faux display of
moral superiority based on fake human rights values. They said they were
expressing “Jewish values of justice,” and about the “Jewish principles of
the sanctity of life.”
What sanctimonious
hogwash! What they were doing was feeling sad for Palestinian who set out to
murder Jews.
As for their “morality,’
Seth Frantzman asked in his Jerusalem Post article, “had these fifty Jews
ever held a Kaddish for the dead of the Rwandan genocide or the thousands of
Yazidis machine-gunned to death by ISIS, or for the hundreds of Israelis killed
during the Second Intifada” or since by Palestinians? Or the Jewish victims
of antisemitism? Highly unlikely.
As for these Jews who never
publicly mourned for the many hundreds of Israeli Jews murdered by
Palestinians, shouldn’t they be told that Kaddish is a Jewish form of mourning normally
held for ones one people, and certainly not for those dedicated to slaughter
Jews? If that were so, the forefathers of these Parliament Square exhibitionists
would surely have been holding Kaddish for the Nazis.
Let’s be very clear
about it. This grotesque exhibition was a perverted form of anti-Semitism. When
one mourns for those who set out to murder Jews this is, indeed, a deep form of
Jew hatred, even if it is performed by Jews.
Who said you can’t be
Jewish and an anti-Semite? With our superior sense of Jewish cunning even this
is something we do better than the goyim.
It is shameful that,
among the fake mourners, and those who later spoke and tweeted their support for
them, were members of organizations that are officially represented in the Board
of Deputies of British Jews.
By their words and
actions, they shame and stain British Jewry. It is high time that such groups be outlawed rather
than welcomed into the bosom of British Jewry.
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.