Is John
McDonnell preparing to become Brutus to Corbyn’s Caesar?

First it
was a 6 year old mural. Today it is an 8 year old meeting on Holocaust Memorial
Day at which Hajo Meyer, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz spoke. Tomorrow it will
be another meeting because clearly there are scores of people researching everything
Corbyn attended in the hope of a new scandal.

The outrage of the Yellow Press and the Zionists is utterly synthetic.  Where is their outrage about the Saudi atrocities in Yemen or Israel’s continuous murder of Palestinians living under occupation? That Corbyn does not call out this hypocrisy demonstrates just how weak the man has become.

Corbyn did
nothing wrong 8 years ago in chairing a meeting pointing out the hypocrisy of Israel
using the slogan ‘Never Again’ whilst
massacring Palestinians. Corbyn should stop apologising
to a bunch of racists.

It is baffling that Corbyn still does not understand the nature of the campaign against him? It is
blindingly obvious that the Right are out to get him for everything he did in
the past. Instead of forever hoisting the white flag Corbyn should have the
political courage to stand up and defend what he once believed in.

I was at the meeting in Portcullis House
when Hajo Meyer spoke, as did the representatives of other groups who suffered holocausts
such as the Roma. The Guardian reports
that Corbyn has said that he appeared with people “whose views I completely reject” when he hosted a Holocaust
Memorial Day event in 2010, while he was a backbench MP.

This is a stupid lie. I remember very
clearly the warm words Corbyn and others had for Hajo. Corbyn was right then
and wrong now.  Hajo knew about Auschwitz
and anti-Semitism first hand, unlike Corbyn’s malevolent detractors in the Tory
press. He had every right to compare what
Israel was doing in Gaza to the Nazis.

Note the
word ‘compare’. Hajo didn’t say that Israel and Nazi Germany were the
same he compared the actions of a
state, which imprisons people in what David Cameron called a concentration camp,
and then bombards them with high tech missiles and explosives, to Germany’s
attacks on civilians.

There are numerous examples of Israelis
comparing their own state to Nazi Germany just as there are numerous examples
of Israel comparing the Palestinians to the Nazis. Two years ago Israel’s
own Deputy Chief of Staff, Yair Golan compared
Israel to pre-Holocaust Nazi Germany. Hebrew University lecturer Dr. Ofer
Cassif described
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked as ‘Neo-Nazi scum’ and said that “I think it’s fair to compare Israel
to Germany in the 1930s, and not to the years of genocide.”

The system of racial separation in Israel,
the barring of Arabs from nearly a thousand Jewish villages and communities is
no different to the barring of Jews from German towns and villages.  If the comparison hurts racist Zionists then
so much the better.

It is the defenders of Israel who describe the creation of
Israel as compensation to the Jewish people for the Holocaust. Holocaust
analogies are to Israel what butter is to bread!

Israeli
Labour Foreign Minister Abba Eban described the Green Line separating Israel
from the Occupied Territories as the ‘Auschwitz
Borders‘? Prime Minister Menachem
Begin described
Yassir Arafat under siege in Beirut as Hitler in his Berlin bunker. Deputy
Defence Minister Matan Vilnai threatened
a ‘bigger Shoah’ (Holocaust) against the Palestinians of Gaza and Netanyahu
stated that ‘it is 1938 and
Iran is Germany.’ Arab leaders
like Egypt’s Nasser were routinely talked
about as the ‘Hitler on the Nile’.

There
are also many right-wing Israelis who see their actions as comparable to the Nazis.
One group of soldiers compared
themselves to Dr Mengele, the notorious SS doctor in Auschwitz. Religious
philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the winner of the Israel Prize, called
the settlers on the West Bank ‘Judeo-Nazis.’:

Tom Segev, an Israeli historian and
journalist wrote
concerning the picture of a Palestinian, the Mufti of Jerusalem at Yad Vashem Holocaust
Museum in Israel that its purpose was to ‘‘conclude
that there is much in common between the Nazis’ plan to destroy the Jews and
the Arabs’ enmity to Israel.’ (The Seventh Million p.425). 

Israeli Professor of History, Edit
Zertal noted there hasn’t been a war involving Israel ‘that has not been perceived, defined, and conceptualized in terms of
the Holocaust.’ Israel has mobilised the Holocaust ‘in the service of Israeli
politics.’ Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood.  

Just last week Hungary’s anti-Semitic
Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, visited Israel and, as is the case with all
official visitors to Israel, Orban stopped off to shed a few tears at Yad
Vashem. Outside a group of Israelis, including Holocaust
survivors, held a protest at the visit of a man who has sought to rehabilitate
Hungary’s pro-Nazi war time leader, Admiral Horthy. Orban
called him an ‘exceptional
statesman’ and is waging a campaign in Hungary for his rehabilitation.
This is the man Netanyahu calls his friend.

Veronika Cohen, one of the demonstrators and a Holocaust
survivor explained
‘I don’t think that you have to be a
Holocaust survivor or a Hungarian to be here to say that Orban has no business
coming here,”. Yael Weiss-Reind,
whose family was murdered in Hungary during the Holocaust, said that Yad Vashem was granting legitimacy to these regimes when it “accepts leaders who carry out policies and
ideologies that are very similar to what we saw decades ago.”

Perhaps Veronika Cohen and
Yael Weiss-Reind are also anti-Semites according to the vipers of the British press,
John Mann MP and all the other anti-intellectuals who believe that any attempt
to draw parallels between Israel today and Nazi Germany is ‘anti-Semitic’.

In Israel comparisons with the
Nazis are run of the mill. Assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
was dressed
up by his opponents in SS uniform. Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, who won
the Israel prize, described the Jewish settlers on the West Bank as Judeo
Nazis. Menachem Begin compared Yassir Arafat in the Beirut siege to
Hitler in his final days in a Berlin bunker.

Hebrew University Professor
Ofer Cassif compared
Israel to Nazi Germany as did another Hebrew university academic, Daniel
Blatman, a Holocaust researcher, who compared
Israel to both South Africa and Nazi Germany.