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schtum .....

schtum .....

Given the presumed monolithic backing for Israel, there is a fear of being misrepresented, alienated or roundly pillaried which means the minority keep schtum.

The majority still see Jewish anti-Zionism as a perverse act of self-contradiction. For them, the idea of a state run on the paramountcy of one particular grouping, religious or otherwise, presents no problems. 

And yet, in a week in which the writer Mike Marqusee released his much anticipated memoir, If I am Not for Myself, in time for the 60th anniversary, a spate of media commentary has brought Jewish anti-Zionism out of the shadows and onto blogs, feature articles and the radio.  

Marqusee's assertion that it is 'okay' to be Jewish and anti-Zionist in 2008 has been liberating: there have been calls for the formation of an officially recognised mouthpiece to represent this section of Anglo-Jewry, and fight the atrocities being carried out in Palestine in their name.  

Anti-Zionist Jews Come Out Of The Shadows

bad dreams .....

"If you will it," wrote Theodore Herzl, the founding father of the Zionist movement, in 1902, "it is no dream". 

The dream to which he referred was the establishment of a Jewish state in the Arab country of Palestine. 

To realise the dream, he insisted, the Jews must be willing to seize the reigns of history by renouncing the classical Jewish tradition of pacifism and collaborating with European anti-Semites who supported the Zionist movement as a means of ridding Europe of its "Jewish problem". 

Ultimately, the indigenous population of Palestine would have to be forced from the country. 

In 1948 the dream was realised with the establishment of the state of Israel and the flight of the Palestinians from almost 80 per cent of their homeland. Though some Zionist apologists have insisted that Israel did not practice a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing, the displacement of the Palestinians was an indispensable part of the Zionist dream. 

In a country that was overwhelmingly non-Jewish it would have been impossible to establish a Jewish state without the expulsion of its native population. 

A Celebration That Ignores The Plight Of Palestine

an agreed set of lies ....

Through constant vilification of Muslims and Arabs, Western propaganda is exonerating Israel and covering-up for Israel’s oppression and war crimes against the Palestinian people. In this sense, Western anti-Semitism has come full cycle: from the victimisation of Jews to the dehumanisation and victimisation of the Palestinians. 

The recent display of arrogance by Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, who claimed that Palestinian legitimate resistance to Israel’s terror amounts to “anti-Semitism”, is just an abhorrent case in point. 

Sixty years on, Palestinians continue to live under unimaginable suffering while the rest of the world is manipulated by opportunist politicians and Zionists-controlled media to look the other way. In his recent visit to Gaza, former president of the U.S., Jimmy Carter observes: “The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world by sea, air, or land. An entire population is being brutally punished”.

Carter rightly calls Israel an Apartheid state, and concludes: “The world must not stand idle while innocent people are treated cruelly. It is time for strong voices in Europe, the US, Israel, and elsewhere to speak out and condemn this human rights tragedy among the Palestinian people”. (Daily Star, Egypt, 06 May 2008).  

As a result of exposing some of Israel’s war crimes, Carter was vilified and accused of “anti-Semitism” by pro-Israel Zion-fascists such as Alan Dershowitz and Daniel Pipes.  

Celebrating 60 Years Of Israel’s Terror