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https://mailstrom.blogspot.com/2012/10/jewish-history.htmlA useful read from my personal blog Mailstrom of an article by Schlomo Sand, professor of history at Tel Aviv university.
Another interesting article on race and immigration myths from history attacking Ike's favourite source – the supposed anglo-saxon roots of England.https://www.alternet.org/ancient-skeletons-annihilate-right-wing-talking-point
Israel plays the Holocaust card yet againhttps://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-holocaust-syria/netanyahu-uses-holocaust-event-to-urge-action-against-syria-iran-idUKKBN1HI31S
The blog Socialist Courier has used various logos, including dual language ones, to emphasise the non-nationalism of the SPC.The Toronto Branch Facebook has created a pretty red rose logo
i stand to be corrected but in my adult life, i have never heaard of a situation that Russia directly threatened to attack American forces.http://www.dw.com/en/donald-trump-tells-russia-missiles-fired-at-syria-will-be-coming/a-43340472
And the Zionist suppression of Jewish culture – the Yiddish languagehttp://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/When-Zionism-feared-Yiddish-351939Actual terrorist attacks were carried out against Yiddish printers and meetingshttp://strangeside.com/yiddish-in-israel/
“Expressions of classic traditional antisemitism are back and, for example, the term ‘Jew’ has become a swear word,” it says.The report highlights a strengthening of the extreme right in some European counties, “accompanied by slogans and symbols reminiscent of the 1930s” and “the intensity of the anti-Jewish sentiments expressed in a variety of ways […] especially on street demonstrations”. It says this may explain a discrepancy between the levels of fear among European Jews and the actual number of incidents. The 105-page report examines the prevalence of antisemitism in Europe, the post-Soviet region, the US, Canada, Australia, South America and South Africa. It records 327 major incidents of violence, vandalism and desecration in 2017, compared with a peak of 1,118 in 2009 and a low of 78 in 1989, the year the study began. It found 30% of attacks were directed at individuals, 20% at cemeteries and memorial sites, and 17% at synagogues. Once more we get anti-zionism or anti-Israel described as anti-semitism “The rise of leftist antisemitism that supports radical Muslim anti-Israeli attitudes expressed in antisemitic terms such as in the BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions] and Antifa [militant anti-fascist] movements, and certainly in the UK Labour party led by Jeremy Corbyn.” Many Jews in the UK were “losing their traditional political home” as a result of feeling betrayed by Labour, it adds. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/11/traditional-antisemitism-is-back-global-study-finds The Kantor Center is not explained in the article. Their website is here http://kantorcenter.tau.ac.il/ Anti-semitism and the British Left can be read here in PDFhttp://kantorcenter.tau.ac.il/sites/default/files/Dave%20Rich%20180128.pdf
Quote:It is hard to overstate how important anti-Zionist Jews and Israelis have been in encouraging the British Left to relate to Israel through an anti-Zionist lens, while reassuring them that there is no antisemitism in their movement.And indeed, many Zionists wish to hide the fact that there is such a thing as Zionist nationalism and when Jews and Israelis accuse the state of being Zionist, they too require to be de-legitimised…providing ammunition to the anti-semites
Quote:Truqui also spoke at length about Satan, who he described as a pragmatic foe. “The devil tempts the holy man in his holiness and the sinner in his sin,” he says.While he is at pains to point out that he does not believe Pope Francis is possessed or vexed by the devil, he says that the devil would know that Francis would not be tempted by lust for a woman. Instead, he would prey on Francis’s sympathy for the poor, and tempt him to ignore the affluent.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/11/exorcist-priest-catholic-church-vexation
This article could have been posted on various threads on the forumhttps://dissidentvoice.org/2018/04/killing-mosquitoes-the-latest-gaza-massacres-pro-israel-media-bias-and-the-weapon-of-antisemitism/
Quote:The truth is that the deadliest racism today is indicated by the casual way in which the West and its allies rain violence down on countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. Although human rights are typically used as a pretext, the real goal is control of natural resources and the global economy; the tears of compassion evaporate the instant that an Official Enemy obstructing Western control has been overthrown."They can't have a maple leaf on a socialist banner. "They can if they want. It is a separate independent party. Would you consider it grounds to cut contact?The historyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_leafPersonally, i agree the "national" connotations contradicts the "global" context of socialism
Ealing councillors voted unanimously to approve a “safe zone” to shield women from demonstrators at centre run by the charity Marie Stopes. It follows complaints that women using the west London centre were being harassed and intimidated by anti-abortion protesters, some brandishing large images of foetuses.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ealing-council-abortion-clinic-ban-protests-marie-stopes-london-labour-party-a8298621.html
Quote:Gabbay, who is likely to be the centre-left alliance’s candidate for prime minister at the next election, has signalled a shift to the right in recent months, backing Israeli soldiers’ actions over the shooting of protesters in Gaza and suggesting Israeli settlers should not be forced out of their homes in the event of a peace deal.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/10/israeli-labor-leader-cuts-ties-jeremy-corbyn-antisemitismThe hypocrisy…the cutting of connections should have been the other way around
Israel's Labor Party has suspended relations with UK Labour In a letter to Mr Corbyn, leader Avi Gabbay claims he has allowed "anti-Semitic statements and actions".And he also accuses the UK Labour leader of "very public hatred of the policies of the government of the state of Israel". Gabbay says the policies of Israel's opposition party and the ruling coalition government were "aligned" when it came to the "security of our citizens and the actions of our soldiers" and Mr Corbyn had shown "hatred" of the government's policies in these areas. As Gabbay clearly does is conflate the two issues…jewishness and Israel's government and its zionism but the record of the Israeli Labor Party is not necessarily a proud one in the past such as their support for the deportation of African migrants.http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-43716587
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/04/09/snipers-shooting-unarmed-people-100-meters-isnt-clash“Clash” implies some degree of symmetry. When one side is dying by the dozens and the other is sitting behind a heavily secured wall, firing at will on unarmed people from hundreds of feet away (some of whom are wearing vests marked “PRESS”), this is not a “clash.” It’s more accurately described, at the very least, “firing on protesters.”
