| The "Israel is Apartheid" lie, like all Leftist antisemitism, was started by Stalinistsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 Apr 04:45 AM Here are excer | | Here are excerpts from a 2004 article by Stan Crooke which can be read, believe it or not, at the Workers Liberty website.
It shows the origins of the "Zionism is Apartheid" lie, along with many others. The Stalinist roots of left "anti-Zionism"
In the 1970s the rulers of the USSR launched a sustained 'anti-Zionist' campaign, in fact anti-semitic. No surprise. But an examination of the publications from that campaign shows something much more shocking than the fact that the old Stalinist despots were ready to use any sort of reactionary prejudice for their own ends. It demonstrates that much of what many British and international leftists - even Trotskyists - say about Israel is an indirect and unwitting copy of the Stalinists' efforts at constructing a Marxist-sounding gloss on old anti-semitic themes. Zionism equals racism; Zionism equals imperialism; Zionism equals South African apartheid; Israel is the USA's 'watchdog' in the Middle East; Zionism is complicit with, or even promotes, anti-semitism - all these themes, now commonplace on the left, were pioneered by the Stalinists. The core of the Stalinist argument was their old technique of 'the amalgam'. Zionism, so the Stalinists claimed, was tied up with, allied to, linked with, or responsible for, every reactionary force that right-minded people might detest - capitalism, imperialism, even anti-semitism and Nazism. The...Read More |
From Ian: Human Rights Watch: Israel commits crime of apartheid, UN must apply sanctions The right-wing Israeli group NGO Monitor condemned the apartheid accusations, saying they were part of larger global campaign to discredit Israel and undermine its identity as a Jewish state. "HRW's report is part of a concerted NGO campaign over the past 18 months to interject the term 'apartheid' into discourse about Israel," it said. "Indeed, HRW reiterates, cites and quotes many of these NGOs in its publication." "In a broader context, this report is another move in the decades-long series of obsessive attacks against Israel and its legitimacy as the nation-state of the Jewish people," NGO Monitor said. HRW's report distanced its accusation of apartheid from any comparisons with South African apartheid, which is often used to discredit that claim. Instead, HRW spoke of a three-pronged definition based on the Rome Statute: an intent to maintain racial domination by one group over another; a context of systematic oppression of one group over another; and inhumane acts. Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, both within and outside sovereign Israel, met this definition of the crimes of apartheid, HRW said. The report did not take direct issue with Israel's identity as an ethnically national Jewish state. But as an example of discrimination, it cited Israel's...Read More |
For the second year in a row, Iran is canceling its annual Quds Day hatefest against Israel because of the coronavirus. The holiday was originally created by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, when he announced: I invite Muslims all over the globe to consecrate the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan as Al-Quds Day and to proclaim the international solidarity of Muslims in support of the legitimate rights of the Muslim people of Palestine. ... I ask all the Muslims of the world and the Muslim governments to join together to sever the hand of this usurper and its supporters. I call on all the Muslims of the world to select as Al-Quds Day the last Friday in the holy month of Ramadan—which is itself a determining period and can also be the determiner of the Palestinian people's fate—and through a ceremony demonstrating the solidarity of Muslims world-wide, announce their support for the legitimate rights of the Muslim people. I ask God Almighty for the victory of the Muslims over the infidels.
I always though Jews were dhimmis,. not infidels (kafirs) - but who am I to argue with the Ayatollah? Quds Day is held on the last Friday in Ramadan, which would have been May 7 this year. Iran is now seeing record numbers of deaths and illnesses from...Read More |
The response by the far-Left on the multiple attacks against synagogues in Riverdale is different than in the past (when attacks like these from non-white supremacists were ignored.)
This thread by Sasha Parsley Kesler, a member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, was widely shared: I am holding the pain & fear in my #Riverdale #Jewish community after 4 synagogues were vandalized in 6 incidents this weekend. Jews have a long history of seeing our synagogues attacked, triggering the memory of deadly violence that has followed across the world. As Jews we feel the profound threat of antisemitic violence. Our community's fear & pain demand action. Our vision is a NYC free from hate violence, where all communities impacted by bigotry come together & reject approaches that pit us against each other.
https://jfrej.org/campaigns/freedom-to-thrive/hate-violence-prevention-initiative I am also imaging another way to respond to this violence, one that does not invite further militarized policing of our streets & communities. I am hearing that the local @NYPD50Pct will double its patrols in response to these incident. I understand the gut reaction in white Jewish communities to look to police as our protectors. And we all know that more policing does not make us ALL safer. Riverdale is a diverse community - I do...Read More |
From Ian: John Kerry, Enemy of Israel As the Trump years proved, there are a number of options available as we wait for the Iranian regime to come to its senses or, hopefully, crumble, including maximum economic pressure and sabotage. Last week, Israel reportedly blew up Iran's Natanz nuclear facility's electrical substation, located 40 to 50 meters underground, damaging "thousands of centrifuges." This is likely the second time in the past few months that the Israelis have been able to smuggle explosives into the facility and detonate them remotely. Of course, this incident is only one in a long line of unexplained fires, assassinations, and computer worms that have caused substantial delays and damage to the illegal Iranian nuclear-weapons program. All of these efforts have likely saved lives by delaying the ability of Iran to become another North Korea — or worse, since Iran exports terror all over the world. During the Obama years, Democrats would offer an ugly false choice: You either support diplomacy with the "moderate" wing of the theocratic state, or you endorse "war"; either fly unmarked euros in tonnage and bail out the Mullahs, or plunge America into another Iraq War. At one point, Obama claimed that the Republican caucus was making "common cause" with Iranian hard-liners. The opposite was true. In the leaked audio from Zarif, we hear that the military and theocratic forces in the...Read More |
The word "apartheid" is becoming a standard part of NGO discourse on Israel, with the new Human Rights Watch report I've been critiquing, the B'Tselem report from January, and the recent dishonest B'Tselem "poll" attempting to prove that Israelis agree.
One question that no one is asking: what is different today than in, say, 2000 - or even 1975?
The name of the HRW report is "A Threshold Crossed," meaning that Israel has reached the point of apartheid, implying that up until now it hadn't.
What threshold are they talking about?
The "occupation" isn't new. The Oslo Accords that say where Israel has security control isn't new. Settlements aren't new. The actual physical area taken up by Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria is nearly identical to what it was 25 years ago. The number of physical settlements is pretty much the same as they were in 1993 at the onset of Oslo. (Actually less, because there are no Gaza settlements...Read More |
In a stunning change of US policy, the Biden administration has issued a statement of support for the notoriously antisemitic Durban Conference of 2001.
The UN World Conference Against Racism held in 2001 was an antisemitic hatefest. Flyer handed out at Durban The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were distributed at the conference by the Ahlul Bait Foundation of South Africa. Antisemitic flyers literally supporting Hitler and banners supporting terrorism against Israel were featured.
The conference had two elements, an NGO Forum and a Governmental Conference.
The NGO Forum - with the enthusiastic participation of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch - was where the BDS strategy started. It attacked every Jewish organization in attendance. Its final declaration called Israel a "racist apartheid state" guilty of "war crimes, acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing." Statements denouncing attacks on Jews and synagogues were removed from the final declaration.
The Governmental Conference was not as explicit in its antisemitism but it was no better. Its final declaration singled out Israel, listing only Palestinians specifically under the 45 paragraphs in the section of "victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance."
Paragraphs against antisemitism were removed in the final statement...Read More |
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