When Bliss Wylie Defended the Zionism is Racism Policy Leader Lucy Galvin Sought to Appease Zionist Supporters of Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing
Green Group Tried To Silence Her – Now This Councillor Faces Expulsion!
You might remember that one of the Zionist complaints was that the passing of the Zionism is Racism motion would lead to the expulsion of Zionists and Jews. Of course this was one of many lies, although why a racist would want to remain in an anti-racist and anti-Zionist party is baffling.
I have just learnt that Councillor Bliss Wylie was expelled by 13-5 from the Green Group with 3 councillors abstaining.
What Norwich Green Councillors prove is that when it comes to expelling people with opposing opinions it is the Zionists who do the expelling.
Norwich Greens had a majority of three on Norwich Council. After a meeting last night and after its councillors cast their votes for a motion, moved by their racist leader Lucy Galvin to expel Bliss Wylie from the group, the Green Group has cut that majority to one.
Lucy Galvin
There are now 20 Green Councillors, 12 Labour, 3 Lib Dems, 2 Reform and 1 Independent. When Lucy Galvin, issued a statement, without any consultation, condemning the new Zionism is Racism policy passed at the recent Green Party conference, Wylie called for her resignation at Green Party Leader.
Galvin retaliated by moving a motion calling for Wylie to be expelled from the group. The local Eastern Daily Press has covered the story of how an anti-racist transgender councillor has been singled out and victimised for her stance. It is difficult to believe that Galvin’s attitude to Wylie isn’t also motivated by Transphobia.
Zionism was the ideology and movement that led to the creation of the Israeli state. A state founded on the slogan that Palestine was ‘a land without a people for a people without a land.’
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To settler colonists, be it in Palestine, Australia or America, the indigenous population was invisible. The Australian colonists called it terra nullis, an empty land.
Why Zionism is a Form of Racism
In 1917 British imperialism pledged to support Zionist colonisation of Palestine, issuing the Balfour Declaration, named after Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour.
Sir Edwin Montague (left)
The only member of Lloyd George’s War Cabinet to oppose the Balfour Declaration was its only Jewish member, Sir Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India, who accused fellow cabinet members of anti-Semitism. Montagu declared:
It is no more true to say that a Jewish Englishman and a Jewish Moor are of the same nation than it is to say that a Christian Englishman and a Christian Frenchman are of the same nation
sir edwin montague
Montagu issued a Memorandum on the Anti-Semitism of the Present Government. Montagu, like most Jews at the time, saw Christian support for Zionism as stemming from anti-Semitism. They wanted British Jews to leave and where better to send them than Palestine.
As Israeli novelist, A B Yehoshua said in a talk to Jewish students in Britain (Jewish Chronicle 22.1.82.)
‘Anti-Zionism is not the product of the non-Jews. On the contrary, the Gentiles have always encouraged Zionism, hoping that it would help to rid them of the Jews in their midst. Even today, in a perverse way, a real anti-Semite must be a Zionist.’
Balfour had been Prime Minister in 1905 when he introduced the Aliens Act whose purpose was to prevent the entry of Jewish refugees fleeing the pogroms in Czarist Russia. When speaking in favour of the Bill Balfour said that:
Balfour was, like Galvin and her supporters, a racist and White Supremacist. He was known as ‘Bloody Balfour’ after the death of three people when police opened fire on a political protest in Mitchelstown, County Cork. In a debate in Parliament in 1906 Balfour defended the refusal to give the vote to Black people in South Africa saying.
We have to face the facts. Men are not born equal, the white and black races are not born with equal capacities: they are born with different capacities which education cannot and will not change
Balfour, like many Christian Zionists, combined support for Zionism with anti-Semitism. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organisation and Israel’s first President, described a conversation he had had with Balfour, who told him that he had met with Cosima Wagner, the widow of Richard Wagner. Balfour explained that ‘he shared many of her anti-Semitic postulates.’ Weizmann pointed out that
we, too… had drawn attention to the fact that Germans of the Mosaic persuasion were an undesirable and demoralizing phenomenon…
Most Jews at that time saw Zionism as a form of Jewish anti-Semitism. The anti-Semites wanted Jews to leave and the Zionists were only too happy to oblige.
Adrian Ramsay & the Green MPs believe you can support the Palestinians and also Zionism – in the 19th Century they would have supported the Slaves and the Slave Owners
The British Mandate in Palestine lasted from 1917 to 1948. Although the Zionists were a tiny handful in 1917, no more than 30,000, they were able to colonise the land behind the protection of British bayonets. They even brought the Black and Tans over from Ireland under Reginald Duff.
The Zionist settlements had a policy of excluding Palestinians from the land and evicting those who had ploughed the land for generations. The details were best described in the Report of Sir John Hope Simpson, an Inquiry set up after the 1929 riots in Palestine. It found that the provisions of the leases of the Jewish National Fund were openly racist. I quote:
The following is Article 23 of this lease (of Keren Kayemeth, the Jewish National Fund).:.
The lease also provides that the holding shall never be held by any but a Jew. If the holder, being a Jew, dies, leaving as his heir a non-Jew, the Fund shall obtain the right of restitution. ….
54 Zionist policy in regard to Arabs in their colonies. Attempts are constantly being made to establish the advantage which Jewish settlement has brought to the Arab. The most lofty sentiments are ventilated at public meetings and in Zionist propaganda. At the time of the Zionist Congress in 1921 a resolution was passed which “solemnly declared the desire of the Jewish people to live with the Arab people in relations of friendship and mutual respect, and, together with the Arab people, to develop the homeland common to both into a prosperous community which would ensure the growth of the peoples.”
This resolution is frequently quoted in proof of the excellent sentiments which Zionism cherishes towards the people of Palestine. The provisions quoted above, which are included in legal documents binding on every settler in a Zionist colony, are not compatible with the sentiments publicly expressed.
The Zionist settlers created an economy within an economy as part of forming a state within a state. Arabs were excluded from that economy.
Today Israel is the most racist country on Earth. An opinion poll conducted by Pennsylvania State University last year found that 47% of Israeli Jews wanted to exterminate every last Palestinian in Gaza and 56% wanted to deport Israel’s own Palestinian citizens. See Nearly half of Israelis support army killing all Palestinians in Gaza, poll finds. This is what Lucy Galvin and Norwich’s other Green racists support.
In fact the 47% becomes 60% when account is taken of the number of Israelis who said the Biblical parable of Amalek, a tribe god commanded the Israelites to destroy, yeah every child and suckling infant too, is still relevant.
The racism of Zionism is demonstrated by the latest election results. Both Netanyahu and the ‘Opposition’ are clear – they will not share power with the Arab parties. Because Israel is an ethno nationalist state, politics are ethnicised.
It is not class but race that counts, hence why Palestinians are ethnically cleansed so that Israel remains ‘democratic’. Only Hadash, the Communist Party which has both Jewish and Arab Knesset members, stands Jewish and Arab candidates.
If anyone thinks that this racism is a product of October 7 then the Ynet poll which was conducted in 2007 proves otherwise.
The arrest and prosecution of Sir Jonathan Porritt
In Marriage to an Arab is National Treason over half of Israel’s Jewish population held marriage of a Jewish woman to an Arab man was ‘national treason’. The respondents didn’t object to mixed marriage on religious but racial grounds.
75% didn’t approve of apartment buildings being shared with Arabs, 60% said they would not allow an Arab to visit their home, 40% agreed that “Arabs should have their right to vote for Knesset revoked” and over half agreed that Israel should encourage its Arab citizens to leave the country.
55% said “Arabs and Jews should be separated at entertainment sites”. Over 56% said they believed that Israel’s Arab citizens posed both a security and a demographic threat to the country.
Israel’s Burning Alive of 3 Year Old Marya Ghanem’s Parents and the Saving of the Child
Anyone who opposes the Zionism is Racism motion is either a fool, a racist or both and Lucy Galvin and her supporters among Norwich’s Green councillors qualify on both grounds.
Below is my Open Letter to Norwich’s Green councillors.
Tony Greenstein
An Open Letter to Norwich Green Councillors – Its Your Racist Leader Galvin not Bliss Who Has To Go
Dear Councillor,
I write as a longstanding Jewish anti-Zionist. The key lesson of the Nazi Genocide is that the extermination of Jews and Roma do not excuse the extermination of Palestinians in Gaza. Given the right set of circumstances any people can become racists and ethnic cleansers.
I am astounded that you are taking part in a racist witchhunt against the only Green Councillor, Bliss Wylie, to have taken a principled stance in support of the Palestinians and the Zionism is Racism policy of the Green Party.
Zionism is a racist movement which colonised Palestine under the slogan ‘a land without a people for a people without a land.’ To the colonisers, all indigenous peoples were invisible.
Zionism is a form of Jewish anti-Semitism. Zionism accepts that Jews do not belong in the Diaspora but should live in Israel. Anti-Semites have always supported Zionism hoping that it would help rid them of the Jews in their midst. Even today, as Israeli novelist AB Yehoshua said, ‘a real anti-Semite must also be a Zionist’.
Arthur James Balfour who issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917 was an anti-Semite who introduced the Aliens Act of 1905 aimed at preventing the entry of Jewish refugees from the Russia pogroms. Today neo-Nazis like Tommy Robinson and Richard Spencer declare that they are White Zionists.
Israel is an Apartheid state where there are two systems of law in the same territory – one for Jews and another for Palestinians. What is apartheid if not racism? As Primo Levi, the Italian Auschwitz survivor said, “Everyone is somebody’s Jew, and today the Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis.”
The support of some Jews in Britain for Israel is no more relevant than that of White expatriates who supported apartheid in South Africa. Jews today are not persecuted.
Israel is a monstrous state which locks up Palestinian children and sexually abuses the majority of Palestinian girls and women and even rapes men in prison. Israeli human rights group B’tselem described Israel’s prison system as a network of torture camps. Israel literally starved 17 year old Walid Ahmad to death. No Jewish child under 14 can be imprisoned but Palestinian children as young as 12 are locked up, usually without trial.
American Jewish doctor Mark Perlmutter, a veteran of over 30 conflicts, saw Palestinian children literally buried alive by bulldozers. Those of you who doubt these Nazi style atrocities should watch NAZA, the award winning film that has just been released. This is what Galvin is asking you to defend when you attack Bliss Wylie.
Israel has just held elections and Arab Israeli parties have gained 19 out of 120 seats. Yet instead of being part of coalition talks both Zionist blocs have said in advance that no Arab party will be in Israel’s government. Arabs have a vote but no power in Israel.
Israel is an ethno-nationalist ‘Jewish’ state. States based on a religious ethnicity are the most racist of all. Or have you forgotten why Thomas Paine supported the French Revolution which separated Church from state? Israel is politically a medieval state..
It was the Christian ethno-nationalist states of Eastern Europe which were the most eager participants in the Holocaust. Slovakia, with a priest as President, asked the Nazis to take ‘their’ Jews,. Romania butchered half of its 600,000 Jews without any help from the Nazis. Croatia was the only Nazi occupied state to have its own extermination camp, Jasenovac.
When the Nazis occupied Poland they placed Jews in ghettos and starved them. That is happening today in Gaza. As Israel’s Finance Minister Smotrich said: “it may be just and moral” to starve 2 million Gazans but “no one in the world would let us.” He was wrong. The Lucy Galvins of this world have been happy to allow it whilst crying ‘anti-Semitism’.
Holocaust survivors have been the most outspoken because Israeli atrocities remind them of their own experiences. At the time of the Lebanon War in 1982, Shlomo Shmelzman, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, announced a hunger strike stating:
Today, as a citizen of IsraelI cannot accept the systematic destruction of cities, towns, and refugee camps… I hear too many familiar sounds today…. I hear “dirty Arabs” and I remember “dirty Jews.”I hear about “closed areas” and I remember ghettos and camps. I hear “two-legged beasts” and I remember “Untermenschen.”… Too many things in Israel remind me of too many things from my childhood
In the opinion poll conducted by Pennsylvania State University, 47% of Israeli Jews support exterminating every Palestinian in Gaza and 56% supported deporting Israel’s own Arab citizens. This is what racists like Lucy Galvin and Bliss Wylie’s persecutors are supporting.
The question of Zionism is today hotly disputed among Jews. Because of the Gaza Genocide, an increasing number of Jews are dissociating themselves from Zionism. According to the IJPR 44% of young Jews (20-30) define themselves as non or anti-Zionist. The question is whether you support racist or anti-racist Jews.
It should be a no brainer that Zionism is Racism. What kind of state mandates a compulsory death penalty for one ethnic group, Palestinians, but not Jews? What kind of state is it which openly states that it is a state, not of all its citizens but only its Jewish citizens?
I hope you reconsider Galvin’s racist attack on Bliss and that you remove her from the Green Group’s leadership.
Yours sincerely,
Tony Greenstein
