Far-right Britain First fosters ties with Zionist movement

You blame ... Arab maternity rate and life expectancy on the Isreali occupation ..?!..unbelievable..

It's a worldwide trend ... secondly how many Palestinians have been murdered bombed or forcibly exiled since 1949 by the isreali occupation ?

90% of the Palestinian population was ethnically cleansed in 1948..

Like I said read Plan Dalet..

 

When the UN Resolutions in regard to R.O.R. are implemented amongst the others isreal and usa ignore and have vetoed for decades, then peace will hopefully come for Palestine.. like it did in South Africa.

Zionism is a Racist colonialist ideology even in its "Liberal" guises.

There are very few Zionists nowadays, in fact. I've previously explained what the word means. It does NOT mean a Jew. Israel is not 'in occupation'- as a sovereign state, its land is its own. There never was a Palestinian state. Thanks to the internecine hatred evinced by Palestinians for each other, there probably never will be a Palestinian state. There are many doubts as to whether there was ever a Palestinian people, as opposed to people who lived in that area for short terms. The only long-term residents are Jews ("Sabras").

Actually Jeffrey, a Sabra is a Jewish person who is born in Israel, or if they were born pre-1948, born in pre-Israel Palestine. It's a term that only came into being quite recently, in the 1920s and 1930s, well after the advent of Zionism.

In the 1950s and 1960s, when a lot of Israelis were immigrants, it was a bit of a status symbol, and a Sabra was somebody who had not immigrated to Palestine or Israel, but had been born there.

Sabra usually meant somebody of the 'New Yishuv', who's parents or grandparents had been post-Zionist immigrants, not the 'Old Yishuv', who's Jewish ancestors may have been in what is now Israel/Palestine for hundreds or even thousands of years.

There are very few Zionists nowadays, in fact. I've previously explained what the word means. It does NOT mean a Jew. Israel is not 'in occupation'- as a sovereign state, its land is its own. There never was a Palestinian state. Thanks to the internecine hatred evinced by Palestinians for each other, there probably never will be a Palestinian state. There are many doubts as to whether there was ever a Palestinian people, as opposed to people who lived in that area for short terms. The only long-term residents are Jews ("Sabras").

Another post by you that is nothing but pure racism and factually incorrect ..and how a moderator on here can express fascistic comments like that on a public forum is beyond me.

You deny that Palestinians are a people ... and then claim a people who were ethnically cleansed with in a few short years by incoming Zionist settlers from europe and north america etc ,Had and Have no right to resist a fascist settler colonial state on Their land ...that they were either ethnic cleansed from or where they reside under a murderous foreign military or/and Apartheid occupation .. (?)

Anyone who supports the Zionist occupation is a Zionist ...

The Syrians lived in Syria for millienia just as the Palestinians lived in Palestine for millennia and the Iraqis Lebanese and Jordanians in their post Sykes-Picot boundaries too..

..Are you gonna claim the Palestinians all came from the Arabian peninsula just to work for the Zionist settlers.. ??only the most ardent Zionist racists and fascists claim that these days..

Debating with Zionists/Fascists who tell you black is white and vice versa is a futile exercise...

It's about time you realised, WestTinsley, that the MAJORITY of Jewish Israelis today are not Ashkenazi and have no ancestral connection with Europe at all, or any place other than than North Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

Another post by you that is nothing but pure racism and factually incorrect ..and how a moderator on here can express fascistic comments like that on a public forum is beyond me.

You deny that Palestinians are a people ... and then claim a people who were ethnically cleansed with in a few short years by incoming Zionist settlers from europe and north america etc ,Had and Have no right to resist a fascist settler colonial state on Their land ...that they were either ethnic cleansed from or where they reside under a murderous foreign military or/and Apartheid occupation .. (?)

Anyone who supports the Zionist occupation is a Zionist ...

 

 

The Syrians lived in Syria for millienia just as the Palestinians lived in Palestine for millennia and the Iraqis Lebanese and Jordanians in their post Sykes-Picot boundaries too..

..Are you gonna claim the Palestinians all came from the Arabian peninsula just to work for the Zionist settlers.. ??only the most ardent Zionist racists and fascists claim that these days..

 

Debating with Zionists/Fascists who tell you black is white and vice versa is a futile exercise...

Remember Transjordan? Most so-called 'Palestinians' came from there, the eastern bank of the River Jordan. I agree that Syrians live in Syria, but that's not the issue here.

If their own leaders cared about the homelessness of 'Palestinians' and if the latter wanted democratic rights, they'd be better-off as citizens of Israel. But they won't want that, of course, because that'd mean:

a. being able to vote, inc. voting their own racist leaders out of office; and

b. having to recognise Israel which only a few Arab states do (wonder why?)

And as for alleging racism or mounting futile arguments: perhaps you've not looked in the mirror recently?

Your comments are racist and disgraceful if you cant see that then pity you. But being a UKIP wannabee and a Right wing Zionist what would we expect. You shouldn't be a mod on this Forum ..

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To claim Palestinians cam from Jordan Proves the fascist Naqba Denier that you are.

BTW 65% of Those in Jordan are from Palestine they were sent into exile there due to Zionist ethnic cleansing ..not bad considering the Zionists who had been in the country a matter of decade cleared out 90% of the native population

I wonder how many more Jews have to gather before the messiah returns.. and have they started building the 3rd temple yet.. bet ol Jesus beards getting long waiting for them slow coaches.

Your comments are racist and disgraceful if you cant see that then pity you. But being a UKIP wannabee and a Right wing Zionist what would we expect. You shouldn't be a mod on this Forum ..

 

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To claim Palestinians cam from Jordan Proves the fascist Naqba Denier that you are.

 

BTW 65% of Those in Jordan are from Palestine they were sent into exile there due to Zionist ethnic cleansing ..not bad considering the Zionists who had been in the country a matter of decade cleared out 90% of the native population

I've re-read your post and cannot see any facts in it at all.

You wouldn't know a fact if you tripped over one.

EU refuses to condemn Israeli genocide plan

Ali Abunimah

Power Suits

14 September 2017

 

Israeli lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich has adopted the values of the German SS, according to a Holocaust expert. But EU won’t condemn his genocidal plan for Palestinians. (via Facebook)

A party with members in Israel’s government has just endorsed a plan to force Palestinians out of their homeland.

 

A prominent Holocaust scholar previously called the plan potentially genocidal and likened the values of its chief proponent to those of the Nazi SS.

 

Yet the European Union, which claims a moral mission to combat extremism, racism and xenophobia, is refusing to condemn it.

 

The National Union faction, which has members in Israel’s parliament as part of the Jewish Home party, approved the plan at a conference this week.

 

It calls for annexing the occupied West Bank into a Greater Israel and effectively forcing Palestinians out of their homeland under threat of violence if they refuse Israel’s terms.

 

According to the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz, the plan long promoted by Jewish Home lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich is a “surrender-or-transfer ultimatum to the Palestinians.”

 

Palestinians would be offered a grim choice: “Anyone who is willing and able to relinquish the fulfillment of his national aspirations will be able to stay here and live as an individual in the Jewish state,” the plan states.

 

Otherwise, “Anyone who is unwilling or unable to relinquish his national aspirations will receive assistance from us to emigrate to one of the Arab countries.”

 

But if Palestinians don’t choose to surrender to the “Jewish state” or leave, they will be met with even “greater force” than the brutality Israel already uses to suppress the rights of millions of people under military occupation.

 

Netanyahu’s “stamp of approval”

The plan was unanimously approved by conference delegates, including Uri Ariel, agriculture minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet.

 

Both Ariel and Smotrich are prominent among Israeli extremists who support replacing the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem with a Jewish temple.

 

Netanyahu has not explicitly endorsed the plan but gave it what Haaretz termed a “stamp of approval” by sending a recorded greeting to the conference.

 

“I was happy to hear that you are devoting the discussions at the conference to the subject of the future of the Land of Israel,” Netanyahu said. “Up until not so many years ago, this country was deserted and abandoned, but since we returned to Zion, after generations of exile, the Land of Israel is flourishing.”

 

Netanyahu’s assertion that Palestine was “deserted and abandoned” prior to Zionist colonization is not only a falsification of history but a potential justification for future acts to forcibly remove Palestinians.

 

Genocide

The plan adopted by the conference very likely meets the international legal definition of genocide.

 

It states that its objective is “to dismantle the Palestinian national collective.”

 

The international convention on preventing genocide defines genocide as any of a number of acts carried out “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”

 

Although in the popular understanding genocide is equated with physical extermination of a group of human beings, its legal definition includes a broader number of acts. The key issue in defining an act as genocidal is the intention of its perpetrator.

 

Proponents of the plan explicitly state that existence of the Palestinians as a people is an obstacle to fulfilling Jewish ethnic-religious domination, and that they intend to target Palestinians because they are members of a particular national group.

 

“We do not assume that there are two narratives here that are equal,” Smotrich explained. “There’s one side that’s correct, and another that is undermining the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.”

 

Values of the German SS

Daniel Blatman, a professor of Holocaust studies at Hebrew University, wrote in May that Smotrich takes inspiration for his plan from the biblical Book of Joshua, which describes the wholesale slaughter of a people by the “children of Israel.”

 

Blatman called Smotrich, a deputy speaker of the Israeli parliament the Knesset, “the most senior government figure to date to say unabashedly that the option of genocide is on the table if the Palestinians don’t agree to our terms.”

 

“Smotrich’s admiration for the biblical genocidaire Joshua bin Nun leads him to adopt values that resemble those of the German SS,” Blatman, a fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, added.

 

There is a long history of human rights scholarship and legal analysis that supports the assertion Israel is already committing genocide.

 

Israeli politicians have long promoted the forcible transfer of the Palestinians, and the idea has enjoyed broad and consistent public support.

 

EU silence

Last month, Vera Jourova, the European Union’s justice commissioner, recalled her visit to Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.

 

“We need to be the ones taking the message against racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism for future generations,” she wrote on Twitter.

 

“This is the EU,” Jourova added, raising the moral responsibility to speak out to a defining European value.

 

 

In keeping with this spirit, The Electronic Intifada asked the office of European foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini if it would offer a clear, unambiguous and specific condemnation of the transfer plan and of its endorsement by Israeli government ministers, including, implicitly, by Netanyahu.

 

But the EU refused to do so. Instead, a spokesperson provided a robotic, general statement that the “European Union supports a two-state solution and has consistently expressed that compliance with international law, including international human rights law, is a cornerstone for peace and security in the region.”

 

So much for moral leadership.

 

Unapologetic

Of course, the EU’s unwillingness to condemn the plan is hardly surprising. Jourova herself recently held friendly talks with another senior member of the Jewish Home party, Israeli justice minister Ayelet Shaked.

 

In 2014, Shaked notoriously promoted a call for genocide of the Palestinians on Facebook.

 

Shaked’s posting declared that “the entire Palestinian people is the enemy” and justified its destruction, “including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.”

 

And the EU’s embassy in Tel Aviv in July hired Israeli genocide advocate Avishai Ivri to star in a promotional video it posted on its Facebook page.

 

The embassy removed the video after The Electronic Intifada drew attention to Ivri’s calls to “wipe out” Gaza and systematically slaughter thousands of Palestinians.

 

But the EU never condemned Ivri’s statements or apologized for hiring him.

 

Honoring war criminals

While ignoring calls for the destruction of the Palestinian people, EU diplomats have plenty of time to honor those who have committed atrocities against them.

 

On Thursday, Emanuele Giaufret, the EU’s newly installed ambassador in Tel Aviv, attended a memorial for Shimon Peres, the former Israeli president who died a year ago.

 

 

Giaufret asserted that Peres was a “living inspiration to many” who “worked all his life” to “advance peace.”

 

Peres occupied virtually every senior post in the Israeli government during his decades long career.

 

“In all these roles,” historian Ilan Pappe recalled, “the decisions he took and the policies he pursued contributed to the destruction of the Palestinian people and did nothing to advance the cause of peace and reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis.”

 

Among those in attendance at the memorial were Henry Kissinger and Tony Blair, fitting characters to pay tribute to a man who Palestinians and Lebanese will always remember as an unrepentant racist, colonizer and war criminal.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/eu-refuses-condemn-israeli-genocide-plan

I thought this was about the far right in uk and their agenda...we all know the agenda of the zionists..if you don't, Google is yer mate!

You wouldn't know a fact if you tripped over one.

Glad that you found such an impartial source...

Germany’s new Nazis see Israel as role model

Ali Abunimah

Power Suits

25 September 2017

Israel and its supporters have made alliances with racists, anti-Semites and Islamophobes all over Europe. (via Flickr)

“Unfortunately, our worst fears have come true,” Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said of the electoral success in Sunday’s general election of Alternative for Germany.

Known by its German initials AfD, the extreme nationalist party won almost 100 seats in Germany’s lower house.

“A party that tolerates far-right views in its ranks and incites hate against minorities in our country is today not only in almost all state parliaments but also represented in the Bundestag,” Schuster said.

The party is notorious for harboring all manner of racists and extremists, including apologists for Germany’s war record and Holocaust revisionists.

It was a disaster that Germany’s mainstream politicians saw coming.

Sigmar Gabriel, the country’s foreign minister, warned earlier this month that if AfD scored well at the ballot box, “then we will have real Nazis in the German Reichstag for the first time since the end of World War II.”

Pro-Israel funder backs new Nazis

While Germany needs no lessons in how to be racist, this catastrophe can in part be attributed to leaders in Israel and their fanatical supporters: for years they have made common cause with Europe’s far right, demonizing Muslims as alien invaders who must be rejected and even expelled to maintain a mythical European purity.

It can also be attributed to German leaders who for decades have strengthened this racist Israel by financing Israel’s military occupation and oppression of Palestinians.

What happened in Germany is another facet of the white supremacist-Zionist alliance that has found a home in Donald Trump’s White House.

In the past few weeks, liberal flagships The New York Times and The Washington Post have been hunting for the nonexistent shadows of Russian interference in the German election.

Meanwhile, as Lee Fang reported for The Intercept, the Gatestone Institute, the think tank of major Islamophobia industry funder Nina Rosenwald, was flooding German social media with “a steady flow of inflammatory content about the German election, focused on stoking fears about immigrants and Muslims.”

The Gatestone Institute is chaired by John Bolton, the neoconservative former US diplomat notorious for his hawkish support of the invasion of Iraq.

Gatestone articles making claims about Christianity becoming “extinct” and warning about the construction of mosques in Germany were regularly translated into German and posted by AfD politicians and sympathizers.

Story after story claimed that migrants and refugees were raping German women and bringing dangerous diseases to the country, classic themes of the Nazi propaganda once used to incite genocidal hatred of Jews.

In a tragic irony, Rosenwald’s father, an heir to the Sears department store fortune, used his wealth to help Jewish refugees flee persecution in Europe.

His daughter took a different path. Journalist Max Blumenthal has called Nina Rosenwald the “sugar mama of anti-Muslim hate.”

Blumenthal reported in 2012 that Rosenwald “used her millions to cement the alliance between the pro-Israel lobby and the Islamophobic fringe.”

In addition to funding a host of the most notorious anti-Muslim demagogues, Blumenthal reported that Rosenwald “served on the board of AIPAC, the central arm of America’s Israel lobby, and holds leadership roles in a host of mainstream pro-Israel organizations.”

The party of Anders Breivik

In a profile the day after the election, The Jerusalem Report, published by the right-wing Jerusalem Post, gave AfD deputy leader Beatrix von Storch a platform to set out the party’s anti-Muslim ideology.

The Jerusalem Report also quotes German political scientist Marcel Lewandowsky explaining that “AfD members view the European Union as a traitor to Europe’s Christian heritage because they let in the Muslims. The view is that the Islamization of Europe was caused by the EU.”

“Replacement” by Muslims, Lewandowsky explained, “is the core of the fear of AfD voters.”

This means that the core ideology of the party is indistinguishable from that of Anders Breivik, the Norwegian who murdered dozens of his fellow citizens, mostly teenagers at a Labor Party youth camp, in July 2011, in the name of stopping the “Islamization” of Europe.

One of the biggest benefactors of Rosenwald’s largesse, according to Blumenthal, has been Daniel Pipes, the influential pro-Israel, anti-Muslim demagogue who Breivik cited 18 times in his notorious manifesto.

Admiration for Israel

AfD deputy leader von Storch, who sits in the European Parliament, also uses The Jerusalem Report interview to lay out her party’s pro-Israel stance, comparing its German nationalism to Israel’s Zionist ideology.

According to the The Jerusalem Report, von Storch is a founder of “Friends of Judea and Samaria,” a far-right European Parliament grouping that supports Israel’s illegal colonization of occupied Palestinian land.

Bizarrely, that group lists as one of its contact persons the head of the “Shomron Regional Council,” a settler organization in the occupied West Bank.

“Israel could be a role model for Germany,” von Storch told The Jerusalem Report. “Israel is a democracy that has a free and pluralistic society. Israel also makes efforts to preserve its unique culture and traditions. The same should be possible for Germany and any other nation.”

Von Storch’s identification with Israel echoes that of US Nazi demagogue Richard Spencer, who has described his vision of an Aryan “ethno-state” as “white Zionism.”

AfD chair Frauke Petry has also expressed support for Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. In February, she told the right-wing Jewish publication Tablet that her only visit to Israel gave her a positive view of the country.

“Suddenly the picture you get is somewhat different than what you got when you live far away,” she said.

Israel’s settler leaders have taken note. As the world reeled from AfD’s electoral success, Yehuda Glick, a lawmaker in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, tweeted that all those who were “in a panic” about AfD should rest assured that Petry was working “intensively” to expel any anti-Semitic elements.

Glick, a leader in the apocalyptic movement that seeks to destroy Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque and replace it with a Jewish temple, also recommended an article outlining AfD’s pro-Israel stance.

According to Tablet, Petry’s visit also led her to believe “that Europe should be learning more from Israel in its fight against terrorism.”

According to a recent survey, this strong support for Israel is felt across the ranks of AfD’s leadership.

Alliance with Zionism

There is a clear logic for AfD leaders to join the newly invigorated alliance between far-right, traditionally anti-Semitic forces on the one hand, and Israel and Zionists on the other.

Party chair Petry has argued that Jews should should be willing to talk to AfD over supposedly common interests, explaining, according to Tablet, that “it is the left wing in Germany and new Muslim immigrants who are leading her country’s anti-Israel movement.”

“Both anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are strongest in the Islamic community, as well as the left,” von Storch said. “They reject the fact that the Judeo-Christian foundations of European civilization are instrumental to its success. We recognize the threat they pose to both Israel and Germany’s Jewish community and their safety is a high priority for us.”

This is of course the most brazen revisionism: for centuries Europe’s Christian authorities not only did not consider Jews as a foundational part of their “civilization,” but persecuted them mercilessly, eventually attempting genocide.

But such facts are glossed over in the interests of a present-day anti-Muslim alliance that is prepared to torch the increasingly frayed fabric of pluralistic societies for the sake of Israel and German national purification.

Israel’s support for fascists

Critically, as Glick’s tweets indicate, this has not been a one-way affair. It has been encouraged by Israel and its lobby groups.

The notion that Israel is the spearhead of a Western civilizational battlefront against Islam has been a key claim of Netanyahu.

He and other Israeli leaders have exploited every terrorist outrage in Europe to advance the poisonous message that Israel is “fighting the same fight.”

And powerful Israel lobby groups, such as the Anti-Defamation League, that are now expressing alarm at the electoral success of the AfD, are far from innocent.

For years, the Anti-Defamation League – which poses as an “anti-hate” group – courted and whitewashed influential anti-Muslim hate-preachers because they supported its pro-Israel agenda.

This embrace between Zionists and their supposed opposites continues to thrive in the welcome former Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka have found from Israel and its lobby groups.

Bannon will speak at the Zionist Organization of America’s upcoming gala, while Gorka, who has ties to Nazis and violent anti-Semitic militias, was recently welcomed in Israel.

It can be seen in the Israeli government’s long and conspicuous silence while the rest of the world condemned August’s neo-Nazi rampage in Charlottesville, Virginia.

It can also be seen in Netanyahu’s embrace of far-right European leaders including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has attempted to rehabilitate his country’s Hitler-allied wartime leadership.

While the brazenness of this alliance may be shocking, it dates back to the early years of both the Zionist and Nazi movements. As Columbia University professor Joseph Massad has pointed out, Zionists and European anti-Semites historically shared the same analysis: that Jews were alien to Europe and had to be moved elsewhere.

And it continues: Israeli commentators are noting that Israel has not rushed to condemn AfD.

Netanyahu – always quick to pounce on the alleged anti-Semitism of Israel’s critics – took to Twitter to congratulate Chancellor Angela Merkel on her victory, but has so far remained silent about the subject that everyone else is talking about.

Going mainstream

Despite its electoral success, AfD is riven by splits: its chair Frauke Petry made the surprise announcement on Monday that she won’t join her party’s parliamentary caucus.

One strategy party leaders are deploying to make AfD more palatable is to try to assuage the fears of the Jewish community.

Undoubtedly, it will continue to attempt to do so by expressing admiration and support for Israel – the same approach as France’s historically anti-Semitic Front National.

We can expect to see AfD double down on its support of Israel, including its colonial settlements in “Judea and Samaria.”

But this is indeed a mark of its mainstreaming. Historically, Germany’s postwar establishment, including the governments led by Merkel, has “atoned” for the country’s genocide of Jews by supporting Israel to commit crimes against Palestinians.

Billions of dollars of German “reparations” went not to helping Holocaust survivors, but to arming Israel to carry out military occupation and colonization.

For Palestinians, then, Merkel’s “moderate” centrism and AfD’s overt bigotry and racism, are little different in effect.

Just as Donald Trump presents the unvarnished face of the American militarism and imperialism that has victimized people around the world for decades, AfD is in some ways a more honest voice of a Germany that speaks of “human rights,” while unconditionally supporting an Israel whose main export is extremism and Islamophobia.

Europe’s nativist racism joined with this ill-wind from Israel produces a toxic mix

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/germanys-new-nazis-see-israel-role-model