Do not be deceived. The murdered innocents of Gaza are not those who are really suffering. It is the liberal Jews like Hadley Freeman, victims of the new anti-Semitism.
Israel is a state openly founded on racist and theocratic grounds, in which Jews have an absolute right to live in Israel, wherever in the world they were born and their families have been for centuries, and nobody else does. The unfortunate pre-1946 occupants of the land have been mostly driven out into refugee camps, including in Gaza, while religiously motivated settlers continue apace to grab the best Palestinian land and water. The state does this for them precisely and explicity because they are Jewish. Those non-Jews who remained in Israel proper are subject to a whole raft of apartheid style legislation, even governing whom they may marry, and the quantity of this legislation is increasing. 140 Israeli laws specify treatment by race.
Israel is as a state entirely based and run on a racist premise. Its very foundation is racist. But while the Israeli state may steal land specifically for Jews, make provision for Jews, and make life difficult for non-Jews, anybody else who mentions Jews in the context of Israeli behaviour is a vicious racist and anti-Semite. This warped and ludicrous logic is enforced by political orthodoxy and the mainstream media.
It is as though, in opposing apartheid, it was taboo to mention it had been invented for the benefit of white people.
Reading Freeman’s long self-pitying self-centred whinge I was waiting to find out what had actually happened to her to occasion some distress. Had she had a brick through her window? Had she been assaulted in the street? Has somebody hurled racial abuse at her?
Apparently none of the above. It appears that she feels under unfair pressure to denounce the actions of Israel. And- horror of horrors – the Tricycle Theatre has cancelled a Jewish Film Festival in Kilburn because it was financed by the Israeli Embassy. Oh no, the agony! How can a poor girl survive in a North London which is so rife with anti-Semitism! It reminded me forcefully of the very first diplomatic social engagement of my professional career, in 1985 when our Afrikaaner hostess held forth on how she thought people looked down on her in Harrods.
I deplore racism with every part of my being, all racism. Freeman makes what is intended to be a smart observation that the Tricycle’s act “reminds me how very far I am from the States”. It is very plain that she regrets that and believes that the US attitude to Israel is better than the British one.
This then morphs into the meme that the reaction to the Gaza massacre is part of a wave of the “new anti-Semitism”. There have indeed been several deplorable anti-Semitic incidents in Europe in the last few months. But they have killed absolutely nobody in the last two years, while Israel has killed 1,500 people. There have been three terrible examples of racial murders of Jews in the past eight years, and there needs to be continued and unremitting vigilance against all hate crime. The disruption of Hadley’s cinema treats and the daubing of paint on a synagogue are in themselves bad things. But do they really compare to the massive disproportionate force being used to destroy over 1,000 women and children in a month in Gaza, and the context of the entire seventy year programme of ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people?
You are right, Hadley. Just because you are Jewish does not mean you should be under special pressure to condemn Israel’s actions. But if you take it upon yourself to write a long article on the subject, we are entitled to expect you – as a human being – to condemn the massacre. And as in the article you write about nothing but your own angst and the evils of anti-Semitism, and manage not a single word of sympathy or regret for the victims of the terrible massacre in Gaza, we are entitled to form our own opinion.
And my opinion is that you are a wholly self-centred and self-regarding little person with an abject lack of moral perspective, who seems to think the murder of 1500 people is about the impact on your feelings.
Hadley, you are not disgusting because you are Jewish: you are just a disgusting human being.
großer witz
8 Aug, 2014 – 8:33 pm
“Anyone know which day the march in London against the Islamic State’s genocide is planned for?”
Did you not attend the Stop the War demonstrations in 2003, Gobbler?
@Je:
I haven’t forgotten our conversation about “IraqBodyCount”…
I was being controversial, but can back up what I say. The Zionist movement was started by non-Jews, but used Jews to help gain momentum, and enable it to become an influential movement in four major world powers of the time: Britain, France, Italy, and the US. I can go further, but I’m basing this on history. Your use of the word conspiracy in this way is disingenuous… of course every movement starts with a small group of people with a plan.
@Guano: Sadly, this isn’t new. The USIsrael alliance provided weaponry to both sides in the 1980s Iran-Iraq war. Thatcher used her influence to get UK involved as well… this should have ended with the publishing of the 1996 Scott Report, but Blair did nothing much about it.
Evidently there are now two “contributors” whom cannot distinguish quotations from comments on this blog! (strange coincidence or is it a conspiracy?)
Miscegenation ist verboten coming loud and clear, yet there seems to be some kind of an infantile pedantry to distract from the issues; “show me the laws”
Anti-Miscegenation Law in Israel
Israel’s vile anti-miscegenation squads
‘Protecting’ Jewish girls from Arabs
Segregation today!
Segregation tomorrow!
Segregation forever!
@Mary: Although irritating, it is a clever move though… although he’s taking an opposite view to most of us, he wants to still be perceived as part of the community and one of Craig’s favourites.
Glad you are fully recovered and back on form!
@Rehmat: Yes, that was a surprising, and very welcome, speech by “LFI” Gerald Kaufman. It was somewhat neutralised, when it came to light later that he was one of the biggest fiddlers of MPs expenses.
Awesome picture taken from the top of the BBC building forty minutes ago:
https://twitter.com/pjbodenham/status/498080913893634049/photo/1
Passerby
“Passerby (lengthy comments at 12h30)
Evidently there are now two “contributors” whom cannot distinguish quotations from comments on this blog! (strange coincidence or is it a conspiracy?)
Miscegenation ist verboten coming loud and clear, yet there seems to be some kind of an infantile pedantry to distract from the issues; “show me the laws”
Anti-Miscegenation Law in Israel”
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Passerby, you really are an awful liar but it’s always a pleasure to be able to nail you.
I asked you to back up your assertion (or , if you will, the assertion which you quoted, presumably with approval) that
“No Arabs can marry or for that matter sleep with any Jews, and those doing so will be punished for rape!”.
The tone of that suggests that this is the law in Israel.
I asked you to refer us to the Israel law(s) which forbid Arabs to marry or sleep with any Jews and that the penalty for so doing is to be chraged with rape.
All you have been able to do is to furnish a link, misleadingly titled “Anto Miscegenation Law in Israel”.
On examination, that link turns out to be a link to an excerpt from Russia Today on the subject of Jewish vigilante groups in Jerusalem seekin,g to prevent Jewish girls from dating Arab men.
So I invite you, for the third time, to refer us to the Israeli law(s) that forbid Arabs from marrying or sleeping with Jews.
If you cannot, or will not, I invite you to withdraw your original comment/disavow the quotation you supplied.
Do you – or do you not – want to be taken seriously on here?
This picture has now gone viral… 537 retweets.
No mention of the Gaza demonstration on BBC news. For how much longer?
Andreas w . mytze
8 Aug, 2014 – 10:33 pm
“what is anti-semitism? commenting on the holocaust in gaza?”
Andreas, anti-Semitism is racism towards the Semitic peoples. The word “Semite” may be used to refer to any member of any of a number of peoples of ancient South-western Asia descent including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews (Jews), Arabs, and their descendants.
However, the Jews who immigrated to Israel from Europe are not descendants of the ancient Hebrews and are thus not Semites.
So anti-Semite referring to the Jews is a misnomer.
The Palestinians in Gaza ARE Semites.
Confusing isn’t it?
Wow… something really is changing. Now on BBC news, including rooftop pictures:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28715052
@Je
“I tried posting the addresses for donations to UNRWA and Palestine Red Crescent to threads in papers like the Guardian and Daily Mail, just as I did here.”
My guess is that what they objected to was the rest of what you posted – there are good legal reasons if the content is similar to what you post here.
@Mary
“Jews have never stopped sacrificing their children.” – could you explain why this is “spot on” and not anti-Semitism? I commend your donation to DEC but it doesn’t entitle you to indulge in such general slurs against Jews as a whole.
Not so stupid Guano – Zionist Milliband the elder was the other nostril hole of Blair under the nose of the British public, so politically voided. Just in case time ‘peters out’ Milliband the younger is waiting in the wings with a few tricks to deceive an unschooled British vote.
Oh incidentally my bitches are guard dogs which is not haram I believe.
Watch live now on bambuser:
http://bambuser.com/v/4839618
R2S2 You had better contact Gilad Atzmon. As a Jew he knows what he is writing about.
Meanwhile a lovely song, if rather poignant, from Leon Rosselson who has such a strong voice aet 80.
http://stopwar.org.uk/news/a-song-for-gaza-the-ballad-of-rivka-and-mohammed#.U-YmN3JwbSc
“Joining the dots, UKUSIS give Hamas rockets in order to create a conflict”
Out of interest, is there any evidence that Hamas has rockets at all, other than Israel says so? After each sickening atrocity involving the bombing of a UN school or hospital (because, according to Israel, Hamas were firing rockets from there) has evidence of rocket launchers ever been found in the rubble, amongst all the dead children?
I don’t take lightly to insults or any hint of coercion!
There is no point in continuing this disparate dialogue based solely on your unintelligent interpretations of an earlier point made by someone else, that is further, reiterated by you over and over again, in an attempt of distract from the main thrust of the issue; the endemic, and systemic racism towards non Jews in Isreal.
Well Glasgow flew the Palestinian flag yesterday, and although I have issues with this Labour run council, I applaud their solidarity with the poor folk of Gaza.
O/T I do apologise.
The anti-independence minded Daily Record, gave Ed (Friends of Israel) Miliband a two page spread today, he ,scaremongered on everything from a no currency union, to the EU wouldn’t admit Scotland, due to Scotland not taking its share of UK debt.
The hypocrisy of the Canary Wharf owned Record (Who after all the facts on independence are studied), surely must now be considered anti-Scottish, have given a half page to a story, about a Better Together sign, that was damaged by some kids, which the Record claims are yes supporters.
Still no mention of the threats made to Jim Sillars, if he goes to Fife, nor the disgusting slur on his wife Margo, in which a note pushed through a yes office branch read, “I’m glad big mouth Margo’s dead.
@RepublicofScotland: Guardian poll
http://www.theguardian.com/world/poll/2014/aug/07/gaza-scotland-palestinian-flag-glasgow
68% in favour…
Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !
9 Aug, 2014 – 10:19 am
Adam
“They {ie, 1,5 million Arabs living in Israel}actually have more rights there than they have in any other Arab country.”
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This, surely, is un-arguable and needs to be repeated as often as necessary.
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No point in repeating it without facts, figures, references, links i.e. evidence.
Oh I forgot Habbabkuk, Zionists don’t provide those things.
Massive march in the original apartheid state. Bearing Habby’s comments in mind, whether we now have a second such state is a matter of debate. Anyway:
https://twitter.com/IslamicFocus/status/498077967335948288/photo/1
London demonstration now in Hyde Park. Est size: 150000, but people still filtering in. Live on RT news at 3 pm… how defiant!
Tweet of the day. Sums it up perfectly:
https://twitter.com/benwuk/status/498115805163581440
So much for Ms Freeman’s thoughts.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76842000/jpg/_76842075_023450950-1.jpg
Thousands in UK march to support Gaza
Thousands of people take part in a march in support of Gaza as renewed clashes break out between Israel and Hamas fighters.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28715052
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Gaza! Gaza! Don’t you cry. We will never let you die. _____________________________________________________
LOL. Crikey. It must have been those Hamas terrrrorists in one of their tunnels!
Fuel stolen from pipeline under Deputy PM’s Kent residenceChevening House Estate Chevening House Estate is shared by the Deputy Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary
Thieves have siphoned fuel from a pipeline which runs under Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s official country residence in Kent.
Esso’s South East pipeline runs from Fawley Refinery, in Hampshire, to Purfleet Fuel Terminal, in Essex.
The company said it discovered a section at Chevening, near Sevenoaks, had been tampered with.
The Sun reported 30,000 litres of fuel a day were stolen over seven months, with a value of £8.3m at the pumps.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-28723670
Fedup
“No Arabs can marry or for that matter sleep with any Jews, and those doing so will be punished for rape!”
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Not quite true Fedup, but there are problems for Jew/Non-Jew marriages in Israel.
Please research more carefully before posting such comments, as it gives ammunition to the Zionist trolls.
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“As many as one in 10 Israeli marriages are interfaith, with the non-Jewish partner often subjected to second-class treatment by the state.”
“Rona Shulman and Thomas Lebreton had been together for six years and had two daughters before they decided to tie the knot. But they had to leave Israel to get married, because Thomas isn’t Jewish, and Israeli law does not permit marriages between members of different religions within its borders.”
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/shavuot/.premium-1.596678
Do commentators on this blog have a solution to the Israel/Gaza situation? I do not, but would prefer to hear more from those who follow events as to what might be a sustainable solution. We can blame one or the other side, but what looks like offering a future that works for people who are suffering from the lack of an idea?
Speaking (video below) at “Free Palestine” rally on the weekend in Leeds British lawmaker George Galloway, founder and leader of the Respect Party, blasted BBC, western-puppet Arab leaders, British government of David Cameron and the opposition leader Ed Milliband for collaborating with the Zionist regime in murdering thousands of Gaza people.
“We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same,” said George Galloway on August 2.
Several British Jewish groups have registered complaints with the local police to investigate and take action against George Galloway for inciting hatred against Israel.
http://rehmat1.com/2014/08/09/uk-mp-galloway-israel-is-illegal-barbarous-savage-state/
James Mason – May I, along with two friendly Jewish blogger offer you a lasting “anti-Semitic” solution to the Jew-Palestinian problem in the Middle East.
A democratic one-state Palestine, based on ‘one-vote- one person’ with equal rights for all its citizen, dismantling of racist Zionist political parties and Israel Occupation Force (IOF), right of return for the natives and suitable compensations for their loss of properties to the Jew settlers – and of course the dismantling of country’s nuclear arsenal. All those racist Jews, who don’t want to live in peace with the natives – they should be allowed to migrate back to their ancestral lands – Germany, Russia, Poland, France, the UK, the US, etc. – as many White settlers did in South Africa, Algeria and India….
http://rehmat1.com/2014/08/09/uk-mp-galloway-israel-is-illegal-barbarous-savage-state/
Resident Dissident – my posts consisted of nothing else besides the two links to those two humanitarian sites for donations and saying that’s where to donate if people want. Being an emotionally defficient scumbag is the only possible reason anyone could have had for not passing or removing such a post.
How many times did they talk about UNRWA and the Red Crescent Ambulances – and the British press and BBC collectively, all of them as far as I could see, ignored the fact that they were asking for donations. Gave no information about that at all. In all the articles and all the airtime – said nothing.
James Mason
“Do commentators on this blog have a solution to the Israel/Gaza situation?”
Yeah the Israelis need to lift the siege. The Palestinians demands are all eminently reasonable.