Video of the week –
Fighting For Israel - https://tinyurl.com/y97a8a3o
By Melanie
Phillips 15-12-2017
A
demonstration was held in London last week in protest at President Trump’s
recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. It featured the usual suspects:
the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, Friends of Al Aqsa,
War on Want, Socialist Worker.
Nothing
surprising about any of that. The far left — along with significant NGOs — is
motivated by a vicious loathing of Israel and support for those committed to
its extermination. It’s hardly news, therefore, that they would react so
virulently against the idea that the Jewish people are fully entitled, legally,
historically and morally, to declare that Jerusalem, which was only ever the
capital city of the Jewish people’s own national kingdom, remains its capital
city today.
Oh
–– and Jewish Voice for Labour, which claims not to be anti-Zionist but merely
to “uphold the right of supporters of justice for Palestinians to engage in
solidarity activities”, was also at the demo.
Well,
this is the “right” that JVL upheld last at last week’s “solidarity”
activity. Watch here as
the demonstrators chanted “Khaybar Khaybar, ya yahud, jaish Mohammed, as
yahud”.
This
translates as “Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the army of Mohammed will
return” — a reference to the Muslims’ slaughter of the Jews of Khaybar in 628
CE.
For
Islamist extremists and terrorists, this is a touchstone historical event which
they seek to re-enact today. Chanting this is to declare their intention to do
so. It is effectively incitement to murder Jews. And it was chanted on the
streets of London, at a demonstration supported by Jewish Voice for Labour and
under the noses of the “hate-crime” obsessed British police.
Of
course, the police don’t speak Arabic. But shouldn’t someone, somewhere in the
British security apparatus have worked out by now that it might be useful to
deploy a few Arabic speakers at such events because they invariably feature a
spot of incitement to genocide?
The
indefatigable David Collier reports on his blog (which
reproduced the picture above of one of those Khaybar chanters): “Within the
crowd, comments about ‘bloodsuckers’ could be heard, along with other hard-core
antisemitic statements. These groups, all of them, need to be held to account
for aligning with blatant anti-Jewish activity in London”.
Of
course nothing of the kind will occur. Three days after that
demonstration, The Times
reported that Tahra Ahmed, who runs a volunteer network to help
victims of the appalling Grenfell tower block fire in Kensington, west London
last June in which more than 70 people died, has been making deranged claims
about a Jewish conspiracy behind the fire against the background of a history of
antisemitic remarks.
“Attending
a town hall protest two days after the fire, she told reporters there that the
fire was a ‘holocaust’. She has previously described Hitler’s massacre of Jews
as the ‘holohoax’….she is known to antisemitism watchdogs who have been alarmed
by her public claims about the Nazi genocide and ‘Jewish power’.
“…On
Facebook Ms Ahmed has gone further in her virulent attacks on Jews. ‘Hitler and
the Germans were the victims of the Jewish conspiracy to destroy Germany,’ she
wrote.
“Of
Grenfell she has said: ‘Watch the live footage of people trapped in the inferno
with flames behind them. They were burnt alive in a Jewish sacrifice… Grenfell
is owned by a private Jewish property developer just like the twin towers. I
wonder how much Goldman [Goldman Sachs, a bank often targeted by antisemites]
is standing to make in the world’s most expensive real estate location
[Kensington]’.
“In
fact, Grenfell Tower is owned by the local council. Goldman Sachs has had no
involvement in the disaster apart from donating 100 boxes of children’s
clothing and books, helping residents access technology and matching employees’
appeal donations.”
Earlier
this year the Campaign against Antisemitism reported that
Beinazir Lasharie was appointed deputy mayor of Kensington and Chelsea “to help
the Council rebuild trust with residents following the tragedy at Grenfell
Tower”.
This
was despite Guido Fawkes in the Sun having
reported her as posting a video on Facebook entitled: “ISIS: Israeli Secret
Intelligence Service” and commenting on it: “Many people know about who was
behind 9/11 and also who is behind ISIS. I’ve nothing against Jews… just
sharing it.” Guido added: “Cllr Lasharie refused to apologise for her comments
and said: “I don’t know what to believe any more. I’ve seen compelling evidence
that links Zionists to ISIS.”
Lasharie defended herself
against the charge of antisemitism on the grounds that her husband and children
were part-Jewish and she didn’t think all Jews were Zionists. So that’s all
right, then.
Look
up the Khaybar chanting or Tahra Ahmed’s comments on the Guardianwebsite
and you’ll draw a blank. Look up Bainazir Lasharie and up comes an articlepublished
on Wednesday by Amelia Gentleman. It’s an entirely sympathetic piece — indeed,
as a traumatised surviver of the Grenfell fire, Lasharie deserves sympathy. But
as events in the Middle East remind us over and over again, victims even of the
most barbaric atrocities may nevertheless themselves harbour barbaric views.
Gentleman
writes of Lasharie: “The majority of the council is white, middle-class and
over 50, and she has found it hard since her election as a councillor in 2014
to make her voice heard.” Yet she makes no mention of the Jewish conspiracy
theory to which that voice reportedly gave expression.
Surprised?
But to the left, politically approved victims are always morally pure and any
claim of Muslim anti-Semitism is Islamophobic. Didn’t you know?
There is nothing at all that unites Arabs other than hatred of Israel.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing at all that unites Europe other than hatred of Israel.
What do all Arabs have in common? Islam.
What do all EU countries have in common? Christianity.
Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, should summon the British Ambassador to issue a reprimand regarding the BBC's repeated predictions of Arab violence to its audience of one billion people - every thirty minutes.
ReplyDeleteThe BBC is funded from taxes and is a state actor. Telling Arabs and Muslims around the world repeatedly that they are clearly expected to commit acts of violence is not reporting - it is provoking that very violence.
The BBC is a party to it, and its global followers, Reuters, CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times and countless others, are parties to that violence.
All of these protesters are from countries that did not exist and where there was no literacy at all when Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish nation living under the rule of law administered by judges.
ReplyDeleteThree thousand years ago King David ruled the Jewish nation living according to laws that today form the basis of all civilized societies.
Two thousand years ago the Tenth Roman Legion arrived in the Jewish capital, Jerusalem, and seriously changed the status quo. They destroyed Jerusalem, defoliated the country and killed, exiled or enslaved its Jewish population. The ancient status quo has since been restored, and now recognized by the world's foremost power. This bothers Europeans.
People have always adored the pictures of the barren, rock-strewn hilsides around the ancient city of Jerusalem made by artists over the centuries, and photographs from the nineteenth century.
What really bugs some people now is that Jews have built - that is re-built - a capital city on these Jerusalem hills and re-built the ancient walled city that was treated with such contempt by successive occupiers over twenty centuries and half a dozen conquests.
People around the world will have to outgrow their envy, greed and hatred -or whatever other emotion pulls their covetous gaze toward Jerusalem. It may take generations. In the meantime, if it's emptiness they want to see there are always old paintings by David Roberts and the writings of Mark Twain.
I read about this a week ago. If it is not hate speech, I have no idea what is. I believe that is not legal in Britain. Perhaps you can, when free of the EU, somehow reverse the stealth invasion of your homeland. You repelled the might of Nazi Germany. I have a hope that you can show the rest of the civilized world how to repel this insidious infiltration of our countries. I am Jewish, I take this personally, and I have hope for this war that befell us over 1400 years ago.
ReplyDeleteThank you for speaking out.
By the way, Khaybar is oddly similar, in a transliteration way, to Ka-Bar. I think they are available at Amazon.