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The primary focus of the Zionist movement and the Israeli lobby is not combating anti-Semitism but rather combating critics of Israel’s colonial apartheid regime and the crimes it is perpetrating against the Palestinian people.

 

Zionists’ inflammation of antisemitism    By Ali Kazak

 

Zionists deliberately conflate Judaism with Zionism and assert every Jew is a Zionist, while Israel, on the other hand, calls itself a Jewish state. So when some people are deceived and view Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians as Jewish crimes and hold Jews accountable, the Zionists vehemently denounce them and scream anti-Semitism.

By conflating Judaism with Zionism, committing their crimes and hiding behind the Jewish people, the Zionists intentionally blame Jews for the crimes Israel is committing in their name; in doing so, they instigate resentment, hatred and hostility toward Jews.

Through this conflation, they also seek to achieve a number of other goals: brand critics of Israel as anti-Semites to silence them, launch campaigns to outlaw opposition to Israel under the banner of anti-Semitism, detracting attention away from Israel’s war crimes to “the threat of anti-Semitism”, inserting fear in the hearts of Jews to pressure them to immigrate to Israel and tighten control over Jewish institutions.

However, people’s reaction is; if opposing Israeli colonialism, war crimes, apartheid and ethnic cleansing is anti-Semitism, then I am proud to be anti-Semitic. This is best expressed by the renowned Australian author, speechwriter, and film director the late Bob Ellis in his letter printed in The Australian newspaper on 29 October 2003: ‘Is it anti-Semitic to say it is wrong to bulldoze apartment blocks and leave the tenants with nowhere to live? Then I swear on the head of my grandmother Rachel Larkman that I am anti-Semitic too…’

Associating Jews with Israeli crimes, combined with the new Zionist definition of antisemitism, shows how little interest the Zionists have for Jews, not caring about the harm that causes them as long as it serves the Zionist colonial project in the heart of the Arab world.

In fact, the father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, didn’t perceive any conflict with anti-Semites. He even asked for their assistance and considered them allies for his colonial project in Palestine. In his diaries, he wrote, “The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic​​ countries our allies.”[1]

Since Israel is a settler colonial project, Jewish immigration is fundamental to its existence; without anti-Semitism, there would be no motive for Jews to leave their homelands and immigrate to Israel; that is why the Zionist project needs anti-Semitism to force Jews to go to Israel to keep it alive.

Yoav Litvin, an Israeli-American doctor of psychology neuroscience, wrote, in an article titled “Ethical Jews reject Zionism”, that “Zionists have always had an interest in fomenting anti-Semitism worldwide, with the goal of driving Jewish immigration, preferably white, to Palestine/Israel as a means of battling the Palestinian ‘demographic threat’.”[2]

The New York Yiddish newspaper Kemper, quoted the editor of Davar, a newspaper of the Israeli Socialist Labour (Mapai) party, in 1952, writing, “I shall not be ashamed to confess that if I had the power, as I have the will, I would select a score of efficient young men-intelligent, decent, devoted to our ideal and burning with the desire to help redeem Jews … The task of these young men would be to disguise themselves as non-Jews and plague Jews with anti-Semitic slogans such as ‘Bloody Jew’, ‘Jew go to Palestine’, and similar intimacies. I can vouch that the results in terms of a considerable immigration to Israel from these countries would be ten thousand times larger than the results brought by thousands of emissaries who have been preaching for decades to deaf ears.”[3]

In an article by Amos Oz published in the Israeli daily Davar on 17 December 1982, he used the abbreviation Z. for a person he interviewed following Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, who it is believed to be General Ariel Sharon, telling him, “Let me tell you what is the most important thing, the sweetest fruit of the war in Lebanon: It is that now they [the gentiles] don’t just hate Israel. Thanks to us, they now also hate all those Feinschmecker Jews in Paris, London, New York, Frankfurt and Montreal, in all their holes. At last they hate all these nice Yids, who say they are different from us, that they are not Israeli thugs, that they are different Jews, clean and decent…. The Yid has been rejected, not only did he crucify Jesus, but he also crucified Arafat in Sabra and Shatila. They are being identified with us and that’s a good thing! Their cemeteries are being desecrated, their synagogues are set on fire, all their old nicknames are being revived, they are being expelled from the best clubs, people shoot into their ethnic restaurants murdering small children, forcing them to remove any sign showing them to be Jews, forcing them to move and change their profession.

“Soon their palaces will be smeared with the slogan: Yids, go to Palestine! And you know what? They will go to Palestine because they will have no other choice! All this is a bonus we received from the Lebanese war. Tell me, wasn’t it worth it?”[4]

Thus, while Israeli leaders see the agitation of anti-Semitism as “worth it” and view anti-Semites as allies, as Herzl stated, and the more terrible anti-Semitism there is, the more beneficial for Israel, an increasing number of Jews around the world started to recognize the reality of Zionism and the Israeli regime it created in Palestine.

The Zionists claim they wanted to create a state where Jews would feel safe, but in reality, they created an entity more dangerous for Jews to be in than any other country. It is much safer for Jews to be in New York, London, Sydney and Melbourne, than be in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.

Recent events have shown the fragility of this regime, unable to protect itself despite being heavily armed to the teeth with the latest and most advanced American weapons, when a few Hamas fighters with light armaments inflicted a significant blow on its military units and security forces on 7 October. Israel was also unable to defend itself from Iran’s retaliation. It had to seek assistance from the United States, European countries and even Arab regimes for protection. In addition, the US sent American troops and deployed the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (Thaad) to protect Israel, providing it with over $24 billion (36 billion Australian dollars) and an air bridge supply of weapons, without which Israel would not have been able to sustain its aggressive war.

That is why the overwhelming majority of Jews refuse to immigrate to Israel, and a lot of Israelis are leaving which represents a fatal failure for the entire Zionist project.

This explains the escalation of Israel, its lobby and the Zionist-controlled Jewish organisations’ campaigns to conflate Zionism with Judaism and accuse Israel’s critics as anti-Jews, claiming “the rise of anti-Semitism” and consolidating their outdated propaganda that Jews are threatened in their homelands and need Israel as “a safe place”. At a time when Israel not only can’t protect Jews, but is seeking outside protection!

Since the inception of political Zionism in 1897, prominent spiritual, secular and political Jewish leaders, including the highly respected Australian Jewish Governor-General Sir Isaac Isaacs, opposed Zionism, and the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, viewing Zionism as a deceitful savior and a potential danger to Jewish welfare, safety, and a resurgence of anti-Semitism. They ridiculed Herzl’s premise that Jews were a nation; some even believed Herzl was “mentally unbalanced.”[5] William E. Hocking, a professor of philosophy at Harvard University said, he believes “political Zionists are the chief enemies of the Jewish interest in the world of tomorrow.”[6]

Today, Germany is one of the staunchest supporters of Israel. Its support is not limited to political and financial; it’s the second supplier of arms after the US, including advanced nuclear submarines, and is complicit with Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians.

German police have arrested Jewish citizens for protesting Israel’s war of genocide – accusing them of anti-Semitism! Along with arresting writers, musicians, poets, and anyone who is anti-Zionist.

Israel and its lobby can, through their influence over the media and politicians, mislead some people for some time, but they will not be able to mislead everyone all the time. More and more people are waking up to the colonial apartheid nature of Israel, and the genocidal war against the Palestinian people, despite the Western media’s complicity in covering up Israel’s genocide.

Instead of following the golden rule of not doing to others what you don’t want to be done to you, the Zionists learned the ugliest racism and atrocities committed against them by the Nazis and Europeans and brought it with them to Palestine to practice against the Palestinians in a most brutal, hateful and sadistic manner.

They skillfully refined Nazi propaganda into a sophisticated Hasbara industry that would have made Goebbels, the architect of Nazi propaganda, envious.

Israel can commit massacres, kill thousands and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, demolish their homes and ethnically cleanse them, but it will not be able to eradicate, defeat or force a 14 million strong Palestinian nation determined to achieve its legitimate rights to surrender. Israel failed to do so in 1948, and it failed throughout 76 years of attempting to do so. Who does not see that Israel is blind and deceiving themselves?

Even if all the Jews of the world immigrated to occupied Palestine, and all the Arab regimes recognised Israel and normalized their relations with it, the simple fact is that Israel cannot live in peace and security while it is denying the Palestinian people peace, security and their inalienable rights of return, self-determination and equality in their country.

If the Zionists were concerned about the interests of Jews and finding a safe place for them, they would have come to Palestine as friends to coexist with the Palestinian people, who were not against them coming to live in Palestine legally and peacefully as other people did, and not as colonists carrying with them hatred, racism and criminality.

The time has come for Jews to choose between living equally in security and peace with the Palestinian and Arab people in the Middle East or in the ghetto of a Zionist racist colonial state with continuing wars and bloodshed until this monstrous entity is ultimately defeated.

It is time for them to liberate themselves from Zionism and put their hands in the hands of the anti-Zionist Jews, the Palestinians and freedom loving people around the world against the common enemy, Zionism.

 

https://johnmenadue.com/zionists-inflammation-of-antisemitism/

 

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U.N. Condemns U.S. for Protecting Israel’s Gaza Genocide

 

1 November 2024, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Tragically, however, this condemnation was only implicit — not courageous, not explicit. Here are the details:

The fully authorized U.N. chief investigator into what Israel is doing in Gaza, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, held a press conference on October 31st, to introduce her latest report. She unequivocally called what Israel is doing there a “genocide,” and said that the countries whose Governments are assisting this genocide (chief of which is the U.S., which has donated $18 billion in weapons for Israel to be able to do it and to continue doing it) are accompices to this genocide. She was, however, ambivalent about the 7 October 2023 attack by Gazans into Israel (which Israel and its allies cite as being the ‘justification’ for what Israel now is doing in Gaza), both condemning it, and, at 15:03 in her video presentation, saying that, “After 9/11, there is an increasing intolerance for people’s claims for self-determination, and we are no longer in the decolonization era when the right to resist [against the imperialist] was to an extent even celebrated [she mentioned Mandela in this context]; we are [now] in an era when resistance is often seen and labelled as terrorism.” (In other words: according to this new line, Israel is slaughtering “terrorists” not individuals who have a right to be there.) If Palestinians have a right to resist Israel’s armed occupation of their lands — both the West Bank and Gaza — then they have a self-defense right to kill Israelis, and yet both Israel and its allies claim that this is not so, and they even allege that when the Palestinians on October 7th of 2023 slaughtered around 1,200 Israelis, that act justifies anything (up to and including genocide) against all Gazans, as being ‘self-defense’ by Israel, not “genocide.”

Her formal report on 1 October 2024 to the U.N.’s General Assembly was titled “Genocide as colonial erasure”. Its “Summary” said “The violence that Israel has unleashed against the Palestinians post-7 October is not happening in a vacuum, but is part of a long-term intentional, systematic, Stateorganized forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians. This trajectory risks causing irreparable prejudice to the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine. Member States must intervene now to prevent new atrocities that will further scar human history.” Early in her report, she noted: “Two important legal developments informed the present report. First, in its Advisory Opinion of July 2024, ICJ [International Court of Justice] declared the prolonged presence of Israel in the whole of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including its colony regime,4 as unlawful5 and aimed at annexation.6 It stated that Israeli annexation was designed to be permanent, creating ‘irreversible effects on the ground’,7 ‘undermin[ing] the integrity of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’8 and seeking to ‘acquire sovereignty over an occupied territory’.9”

Furthermore: “The Court recognized the violation of non-derogable norms prohibiting territorial acquisition by force,10 racial segregation and apartheid,11 and protecting the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people,12 concluding that the occupation constitutes an act of aggression, in all but name, deriving in part from its settlercolonial nature.13 It stressed the obligation to rapidly end the occupation, dismantle and evacuate the colonies, provide full reparation to Palestinian victims and allow the return of Palestinians displaced since 1967.14”

Section three of the report was titled “III. The unfolding genocide as a ‘means to an end’.” It noted that: “In August 2024, the Finance Minister of Israel, Bezalel Smotrich, stated that starving the entire Gaza population was ‘justified and moral’, even if 2 million people consequently died.93 In recent months, 83 per cent of food aid was prevented from entering Gaza,94 and the civilian police in Rafah were repeatedly targeted, impairing distribution.95 At least 34 deaths from malnutrition were recorded by 14 September 2024.96 At the time of writing, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was evaluating a plan to block all food supplies to northern Gaza97 proposed by adviser Giora Eiland,98 who previously endorsed introducing epidemics as a military tactic.99 The killing of civilian police and clan leadership providing security for food distribution further compounded the crisis across Gaza.100 Starvation and deprivation tactics in the north have been particularly egregious.101”

She also noted that: “On 27 August 2024, Israeli forces launched operation ‘Summer Camps’ against Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Tubas and Tulkarem, fulfilling the promise to treat the West Bank like Gaza.137 For days on end, thousands were placed under curfew, without food or water.138 Israeli forces targeted ambulances, blocked entrances to hospitals and laid siege to Jenin Hospital.139 Bulldozers destroyed streets and electricity and public health infrastructure.140 Hundreds lost their homes and property; 141 more than 1,000 families in Jenin were displaced.142 Thirty-six were killed, including eight children.143 Targeted attacks on the health sector have been replicated in the West Bank. Medical workers and infrastructure were attacked 538 times, killing 23 people and injuring 100 and damaging 54 medical facilities, 20 mobile clinics and 374 ambulances,144 while critical medical care was impeded.145 Permits for Palestinians to access medical care outside the West Bank sharply declined.146 On 29 May 2024, governance of the West Bank was officially transferred from military to civilian authorities – furthering de jure annexation – and placed under Bezalel Smotrich, a committed Eretz Yisrael politician.147 The largest single land appropriation in 30 years was then approved.148”

Here is from a sub sub-section that deals with lies by Israel and its allies about what is happening and why:

C. Totality of the conduct: genocidal intent rationalized as self-defence 

In the face of such wholesale destruction, the stated goals of Israel, accepted by some States, remain “to eradicate Hamas”241 and “bring the hostages home”. 242 Neither of these goals, or motives, preclude a finding of genocidal intent as the only reasonable inference to be drawn. Instead, both motives, together and disjunctively, substantiate the genocidal intent.

Whatever the already highly discredited International Criminal Court (ICC) will formally rule regarding South Africa’s legal case that Israel is committing genocide there, the U.N.’s own authorized expert on the matter is already clear that it is genocide in action and intent, and that it has foreign nations that are accomplices.

The report continues:

Accountability for genocide cannot be limited to criminal responsibility of individuals, who are to be judged in criminal trials with due process guarantees. It would be a tragic paradox if the rights of victims were subordinated to the guarantees afforded to alleged perpetrators and their Governments.281 Furthermore, the responsibility of the State must be assessed in its own right. The moment one genocidal act occurs and the special intent manifests, this signals that genocide is taking place. This is the moment to intervene – early intervention being the only way to prevent more atrocities that will scar human history.

However, her “Conclusions” and “Recommendations” inexplicably avoided addressing any culpability for Israel’s accomplices. Only Israel and its leaders are to be concerned — none of the U.S. and other leaders who have continued to supply Israel with the means to do this. There is only this that she says regarding that matter:

As the ICC Prosecutor has warned, “if we do not demonstrate our willingness to apply the law equally, if it is seen as applied selectively, we will be creating the conditions of its complete collapse. This is the true risk we face at this perilous moment.”

That word “selectively” is the key there: the ICC’s credibility will suffer “complete collapse” unless not ONLY Israel’s leaders but those in the U.S. and other Israel-allied nations that pushed for and got their taxpayers implicated as being funders of this genocide, will be prosecuted. Principal among those would be Joe Biden.

At 1:47 in the October 31st video presentation, she said: “I can say that for over one year I’ve pleaded all concerned to all concerned parties, uh, particularly those States who can exert more influence on the State of Israel to take concrete actions to stop the destruction of Gaza …” as-if “influence” were involved here and not simply the supplying to Israel of the physical means, the weaponry and satellite intelligence that are essential to perpetrating it, which are actually ENABLING Israel to do this.

At 11:29, a journalist asked, “My other question is regarding a third party role in the war that’s going on, whether it has to do with delivering weapons, uh, I mean their responsibility … accountability for not only Israel but also for third parties.” Ms. Albanese replied by wandering around on other topics for ten minutes and apparently thought that she should now take another question, but then at 21:55 the questioner reminded her that this question had been ignored; and then Albanese wandered more through international human-rights law, and reparations, and then suddenly she again closed her response simply by saying, at 23:32, “Member States continue to trade with Israel and to transfer weapons,” at which point, a different questioner was called.

If I could, I’d fire her and any other such U.N. official who likewise won’t so much as even just CONSIDER that the U.S. Government must be prosecuted for this genocide.

Our time is the end of the pinnacle of the U.S. Government’s imperial power as being the lone superpower, that’s over; but for how much longer can this Government stand above international law, instead of — like every nation MUST be — subject to it? Perhaps Ms. Albanese hasn’t yetgotten the message. Of course, that is no excuse, but it might be the explanation for her embarrassing performance there.

PS: If you like this article, please email it to all your friends or otherwise let others know about it. None of the U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media will likely publish it (nor link to it, since doing that might also hurt them with Google or etc.). I am not asking for money, but I am asking my readers to spread my articles far and wide, because I specialize in documenting what the Deep State is constantly hiding. This is, in fact, today’s samizdat.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.

 

https://theduran.com/u-n-condemns-u-s-for-protecting-israels-gaza-genocide/

 

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