Thank you for the Solidarity you have Shown to Mick Napier and Myself as Britain’s Police Try to Criminalise Palestinian Solidarity
If the Rotten & Corrupt Arab Regimes Followed the Example of the Houthis in Yemen & Cut Off the Oil then Israel’s Genocide Would Be Stopped Instantly
One thing is for sure. Nothing will ever be the same after the October 7th break-out from Gaza Concentration camp. ‘Normalisation’ by Saudi Arabia is off the agenda.
The venom attached to the death of 1,200 (but probably lower) number of Israeli deaths is in marked contrast to the indifference if not delight at the genocidal murder of Palestinians in Gaza.
There has been an adamant refusal by the mass media to publish the fact that one-third of the casualties were Israeli soldiers whom it was perfectly reasonable for Hamas to attack. International law recognises the right of an oppressed people to wage war on their oppressor.
Nor has there been an inkling of recognition that, as Israeli survivors like Jasmine Porat have testified, a majority of the remaining civilian deaths were caused by Israeli firepower.
One of the main purveyors of false stories of rape is ex-IDF spokesperson Cochav Elkayam-Levy whom the BBC naturally took to their bosom
Instead we have had fake stories of rape and torture of Israelis and 40 beheaded babies spread far and wide. The death of premature babies in Al Shifa hospital, directly caused by Israel, hasn’t merited so much as a response.
Israeli Anger Over the Truth of How Hamas Treats Its Prisoners Led to the Dismissal of the Hospital Employee Who Facilitated a Press Conference that Yochev Lifshitz Spoke At
The fact is that numerous Israeli hostages testified to their humane treatment by Hamas in marked contrast to the reports of summary execution of civilians by Israel and widespread torture of prisoners.
As Peter Oborne so rightly says, if Jesus was alive today his days would be numbered at the hands of the Zionist military. Gaza has definitively proved that the ‘human rights’ concerns of Western leaders when it comes to the Uighars of China and women in Iran are utter hypocrisy.
Every abomination from attacks on residential homes to the murder of over 100 journalists to mass torture, murder of doctors and the bombing of ambulances and schools has been applauded by Genocide Joe Biden and his pet puppets Sunak & Starmer.
The outpouring of rage over Russia’s sorely provoked invasion of Ukraine stands in marked contrast to the silence of western leaders over the slaughter of 10,000+ Palestinian children.
If there is one conclusion that cannot be avoided now it is that the ‘Jewish’ State of Israel, as an apartheid, genocidal state has got to go. Reform is impossible. Racism and murder is part of Israel’s DNA.
This should have been obvious all along. A Jewish ethno-nationalist state is, like all ethno-nationalist states, inherently racist. Zionism with its goal of a Greater Israel was never going to be content to stay within the 1948 Armistice Lines.
What is also clear is that the different wings of Zionism, from ‘left’ to ‘right’ are artificial. From Meretz to Otzmah Yehudit there is a consensus that the Arabs are outsiders in Israel. Ben Gvir wants ‘radical’ solutions such as expulsion but that was also the recipe of the Labour Zionists in 1948.
The difference this time around is that the whole world is watching. After 1948 the Zionists concocted a fiction that the Palestinian refugees left voluntarily because of the orders of Arab rulers despite being begged to stay. This time there can be no pretence as the United States and European powers turn a blind eye to Zionist desires to rid Gaza of its population.
The war against the Palestinians of Gaza has also brought into being a mass movement in support of the Palestinians. Despite the best attempts of the state to repress the movement and ban its marches, it has succeeded in mobilising over a million people in Britain.
We have to capitalise on this and ensure that the movement in support of the Palestinians and in opposition to Zionism grows in the coming months. Just as the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa 30 years ago created a mass movement so must the struggle against Zionism in Israel.
What is also clear is that we must create a national solidarity movement. Palestine Solidarity Campaign is not fit for purpose. It has jettisoned anti-Zionism and tried to appeal to the ‘mainstream’ of British politics. In that it has been wholly unsuccessful. Its refusal to say what it stands for, its failure to condemn the discredited two-state solution has mean that it has nothing to say on the ‘right to exist’ of the Israeli state. PSC has also refused to condemn the Vichy-style Palestinian Authority that the West supports.
PSC’s failure to call-out the fake anti-Semitism smear campaign has meant that its affiliated trade unions have faced two-ways. Supporting the Palestinians whilst also support Israel’s ‘right to exist.’
As you know Mick Napier and I have been arrested on ‘suspicion’ of supporting Hamas, which is proscribed as a ‘terrorist’ organisation on the say so of one man, Home Secretary Sajid David in 2021. We have since learnt of other arrests for the same ‘crime’.
So I want to make my position crystal clear. Although I don’t and never have supported Hamas politically, I support their and all Palestinians’ right to resist the Israeli military occupation and I hope that as many Israeli soldiers in Gaza are killed as possible.
I also reject the designation of Hamas as a ‘terrorist’ group. It is nothing of the sort. This designation is political and is not based on anything so much as factual evidence.
The Nazification of Israel proceeds apace. Gaza today is little more than a death camp where 2 million people are being subject to slow starvation, where water is not allowed in and where all civilian infrastructure is being destroyed on the presence that it contains Hamas headquarters.
A few days ago Israel even invaded a Christian church killing two worshippers, meriting a rare rebuke from the Pope.
Israel today has learnt the lessons of the Holocaust well. Exterminating people is not wrong per se as long as it’s not Jews who are dying. The level of racism in Israeli society today is far, far higher than in Nazi Germany where anti-Semitism was always confined to a minority, certainly before 1933.
Happy Yuletide and New Year
Tony Greenstein
