Why? On the colonisation of Palestine and the constant screams of “anti-Semitism”

Anti-Semitism of Zionism
Sam Bentley writes:

The problem in Palestine is not the majority of Jewish people that live there; I am sure that on the whole they are a good, peaceful people.1 The problem is the state and Zionist government of Israel, the violent illegal settlers and extremists like Benzi Gopstein of the right wing group Lehava. The way Israel acts with no fear of recrimination or impunity is a poor reflection on the lack of action or recrimination on the part of the international community and the UN.

Media blindspot

It is very hard to understand why mainstream media are not reporting on the atrocities happening to Palestinians on a daily basis. Why is a nine-y/ear-old boy being shot in the head with an exploding bullet by an Israeli army sniper not reported by mainstream media? Why is the fact that hundreds of Palestinians, including children, are being held in prison in “administrative detention” not being questioned by the mainstream media and international community? Why was the fact that a four-year-old child was arrested and interrogated by the Israeli army not a major news item on evening news channels worldwide? Why was the fact that Israeli forces raided a Palestinian home, shot an unarmed Palestinian woman in the head, and then abducted her son, not mentioned in mainstream media? Why does mainstream media continue to report Israel as the victim in all this? When Israel embarks on a campaign of firing missiles on Gaza and the people in Gaza dare to retaliate, why is Israel always portrayed as the victim? This is despite the fact that it is Palestinians that are killed and injured in large numbers while few Israelis are injured and even fewer killed. There are a lot of whys with no answers from anybody in mainstream media.

Zionist terror networks – the lobby

To me the biggest WHY throughout all this is why is anti-Semitism treated as being worse than other forms of bigotry. e.g. Islamophobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism, ageism, etc? I asked one of followers of the pro-Israel Twitter account GnasherJews that question months ago and he could not answer me. Can anybody reading this article answer this question for me? Can anybody answer any of the WHYs in this article? I did meet one person who could answer one of my whys and perhaps his answer covered all of my whys. I recently met the Labour candidate for my constituency and asked him why anti-Semitism is treated as being worse than all other forms of bigotry. His answer was very simple: the Israeli lobby. It has a large amount of power and vast wealth, especially in the UK and USA. It contributes huge sums to political parties and campaigners, with Sheldon Adelson and Donald Trump being the perfect example of this. The lobby orchestrates smear campaigns against those who do not support it, as has happened with Jeremy Corbyn and other Labour Party MPs and members. It, of course, is assisted in these smear campaigns within the country where the campaigns are taking place. Sometimes the assistance comes from within the political party targeted, as shown in the AlJazeera documentary The Lobby.

There is something fundamentally wrong when one group of people can colonise the land of another group of people; then evict the current occupants from their homes, demolish their homes and charge them for the demolition of their homes. The colonists then begin to murder and imprison the indigenous population and declare that they have the right to do so as they are “God’s chosen people”. The rest of the world sits and watches as the colonists do this and just shrug their shoulders and say”Meh”.

Illegal settlers deliberately raze and set fire to valuable olive tree orchards, thus depriving Palestinians of their source of income. They deliberately aim their cars at and run Palestinians over – this includes children. They throw stones at passing cars driven by Palestinians, sometimes killing occupants of these cars. They may get arrested for these offences but they are seldom punished. The teen that was arrested for the death of Aisha al-Rabi, who died after being hit in the head by a stone thrown at the car in which she was a passenger, was released on house arrest and never prosecuted.

If you dare to question or criticise Israel you are immediately accused of “anti-Semitism”, this due to the “weaponising” of the term anti-Semitism and the wording of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism. You are classed as the worst of all possible racists and you then have to fight to clear your name, as in the cases of MP Chris Williamson and Jackie Walker, both expelled from the Labour Party; and the journalist Asa Winstanley who was suspended from the Labour Party. The way all three of these people, and others, have been treated by Labour’s National Executive Committee is quite disgraceful.

To end this piece, I ask this final question and this time it is a what. What is the hold that Israel has over some of the most powerful nations and peoples of the world? What is it that make the international community and the UN reluctant to point the finger and censure Israel? Is it really all about the money or is there something else involved?

If you have answers to any of the questions above, then please let us know.


Comments:

Pete Gregson:

The holocaust.

We in the UK were pretty anti-Semitic up until 1945 (our leaders wanted Jews to go to Palestine rather than the UK). Then when the full horror of the murder of six million became apparent, murders that we failed to prevent (Churchill knew of them but chose to do nothing), we felt so guilty that we gave them Palestine.

Israel has perverted the definition of anti-Semitism so much that our guilt has now been layered with fear: fear of being branded a Jew-hater for saying anything negative about Israel at all.

In this environment of guilt and fear people look the other way: our Middle East moral compass is shot.

It takes courage verging on foolhardiness to point this out. But Britain created this mess and Britain must lead in fixing it. We need a new anti-apartheid movement to fight this injustice: it undermines a peaceful future

Guy:

Just finished reading your article “Why? On the colonisation of Palestine and the constant screams of ‘anti-Semitism’”.

The reason no one is talking about the the reality in Palestine is mostly because the media are owned by these neocon perps and now, since much has been revealed about the Eptein death-read-murder-possibly still alive scenario, we know that so many powerful people have been compromised and will do as they are told or face the same fate as Andrew in the UK .He is no prince as far as I am concerned . 

I recently attended an evening event sponsored by IJV [Independent Jewish Voices] of Canada in my home province and viewed a film called “5 Broken Cameras ” and everything the writer of this article,Sam Bentley , has written is absolutely true.The horror of life in Palestine is hell on earth, though the struggle to disclose the reality must continue until justice is attained .

Thank you for what you do in spreading truth and light where lies and darkness are so prevalent.

David Ward:

The holocaust of course.

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