The “Zionist Tendency” – the enemy within – must be removed

By Stuart Littlewood

For the last 17 years the Israelis have presided over the largest concentration camp in the world whose 2.3 million inmates, half of them children, have been kept on starvation rations with no hope of escape, and permanently robbed of their right to self-determination, while Israeli citizens living comfortably nearby have known (and presumably approved) of the cruelty and misery inflicted by their government on fellow humans on the other side of the fence. So comfortable were they with this abominable situation that many of them set up their deckchairs to enjoy the Israeli military’s periodic “mowing the lawn” (bombardments to trim down the Gaza population) with beer in hand.

When this grisly, immoral and totally unnecessary exhibition of one-sided military might is over, one of our first tasks in securing peace is to purge what I call the “Zionist Tendency” from all corridors of power in the West. This is where the problem lies. These are Israel’s stooges who identify with Zionism and promote its sinister and unlawful ambitions inside the UK and other Western parliaments. They are the root cause of strife in the Middle East and, if not removed, will continue to be.

Britain’s century of betrayal

The Allied Powers’ promise of independence in Sir Henry McMahon’s correspondence with Sharif Hussein ibn Ali of Mecca in 1915 in return for the Arabs’ help in defeating Turkey was scuppered the following year by the Sykes-Picot Agreement between France and Britain redrawing the map of the Middle Eastern territories they had won.

Then in 1917 came the infamous “Declaration” by Zionist convert Balfour, saying: “In Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country. The four powers are committed to Zionism…” The decision was strongly opposed by the only Jew in the British Cabinet at that time, Lord Edwin Montagu, who called Zionism “a mischievous political creed” and insisted Balfour inserted the clause “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing and non-Jewish communities…” But this crucial safeguard was jettisoned as soon as it became an obstacle to Zionist ambitions.

Others opposed it too, with Lord Sydenham warning that “what we have done, by concessions not to the Jewish people but to a Zionist extreme section, is to start a running sore in the East, and no-one can tell how far that sore will extend.”

It seems Britain, as the mandated power, should have granted Palestine provisional independence in accordance with Article 22 of the 1923 League of Nations ‘Mandate Agreement’ for Palestine, but didn’t – with ongoing consequences.

And in 1948 Britain walked away from its Mandate responsibilities, leaving the Palestinians at the mercy of Jewish terrorist militias carrying out their programme of murder, massacre, ethnic cleansing, illegal occupation and annexation, which continues to this day.

This last fortnight we have watched, with disbelief and utter disgust, Rishi Sunak and his ministerial gang recruited from the Zionist Tendency throwing the Palestinians in Gaza to the wolves with a thumbs-up to what can only be described as deliberate genocide.

Terrorists branding others as terrorists

Proscribing Hamas as a terrorist organisation was cleverer than it deserved to be. It became so easy for politicians of the “Zionist Tendency” and with genocidal leanings to vilify Palestinians while painting their Israeli friends as the plucky victims of murder and mayhem, without having to explain their continuous illegal occupation and slaughter of the indigenous Palestinians, beginning with the massacres at Deir Yassin and Lydda in 1948.

The definition of terrorism used was very likely the one in the Executive Order signed by George W Bush in 2001 and stating terrorism to be an activity that (i) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure; and (ii) appears to be intended # to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; # to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or # to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, kidnapping or hostage-taking.

The whole world sees the irony: that this definition, used for crushing the countries, organisations and individuals the US administration doesn’t like, fits Israel – and the United States itself – like a glove. And, of course, there’s nothing anyone can teach Israelis about terrorism. They wrote the manual. Read their Dalet Plan, or “Plan D“, the Zionists’ blueprint for the violent and bloody takeover of the Palestinian homeland, drawn up in early 1948 on the orders of David Ben-Gurion, then boss of the Jewish Agency. Plan Dis one of the vilest documents in history and the Israelis have been zealously carrying it out ever since.

And while we hear ad nauseam about Israel’s right to defend itself nobody dares mention that Palestinians have a prior right, under international law and UN Resolution 37/43, in their struggle for “liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle”.

That resolution also strongly condemns “the constant and deliberate violations of the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people, as well as the expansionist activities of Israel in the Middle East, which constitute an obstacle to the achievement of self-determination and independence by the Palestinian people and a threat to peace and stability in the region.”

But such is the strength of the Zionist Tendency that when the UN’s secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, recently ventured to say, ever so gently, at a UNSecurity Council meeting, that “it is important to… recognise that the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum” and “the Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation”, Israel immediately threw a wobbly and called for his resignation, expecting the usual suspects around the Western world to back its preposterous demand. Which they slavishly did.

Imagine the drama if Guterres had spoken further truths such as “there would be no Hamas, and no need for a Hamas, if it wasn’t for the 75 years of brutal oppression, misery, dispossession and slaughter meted out by Israel”. Or he’d mentioned that in the 23 years up to just before this latest escalation, the Israelis had already killed 10,550 Palestinians while the Palestinians had killed just 1,330 Israelis; and when it comes to butchering children it’s 2,270 Palestinian children killed versus 145 Israeli children, a ratio of nearly 16:1 (Israeli figures, B’Tselem).

Everyone is rightly upset about the 222 Israeli hostages taken by Hamas. But don’t they know that right now 5,200 Palestinians, including 33 women and 170 children, are rotting in Israeli jails? The child prisoners are usually snatched from their homes in night raids by the Israeli army. And there are 1,264 Palestinians under “administrative detention”, which means they are held indefinitely behind bars without facing trial or any charges. Detention can be extended indefinitely based on “secret evidence”, meaning a detainee can spend months if not years in prison without being charged. Why is no-one screaming for their release?

Meanwhile, as I write, nearly 3,000 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces in less than three weeks, and an estimated 940 Palestinian children are missing under the Gaza rubble – that’s from Defense for Children International this morning [27 October 2023]. Satisfied Mr Biden, Mr Sunak?

Now some good news: sorting out the Zionist Tendency has already started. The London-based International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has served notice on prime minister Rishi Sunak warning of “the legal peril his apparent unqualified support to the policy of the Government of Israel placed him and his fellow ministers”. It says “we intend to bring legal proceedings against politicians in the UK and elsewhere where there is evidence that they have aided, abetted or in any other way supported, encouraged or provided material assistance in the commission of a war crime”.

And the ICJP wants “each Government official that has encouraged war crimes in Gaza to rescind their statements in public”. A similar letter was sent to the Labour opposition leader Keir Starmer. Campaigners in other countries may wish to do the same.

In the meantime, the British government should heed the warning (from Jews themselves) that Jews around the world will suffer for Israel’s misconduct. That’s so obvious. The same goes for Britain’s misconduct. Our leaders should worry about how their infatuation with the apartheid state not only stokes anti-Semitism but also hatred of Britain.

The dream of a lasting peace in the Middle East depends on the speed of re-education for those who need it and the eventual triumph of the goodies over the baddies in the Western governments that have created and helped to perpetuate the inhuman tragedy that sickens us today.