Palestine Action: How and why they have crossed the line into antisemitism.
Finally — the blood libel, “Israel’s love for blood”Jonathan S. Tobin: What is the greatest threat to Jews?
This is the clincher, which makes it pretty clear that this is no normal “activism”. Which other countries, during protests, have been accused of having a “love for blood”? I challenge you to Google it, the answer is: none (except for Israel of course)
This is vehemence on a scale that goes far beyond normal hatred. It is the kind of hatred whipped up against the Jews by Nazi Germany in the late 1930’s.
The last video I discuss is the one featuring Sarah Wilkinson, talking about why she is an activist against Elbit. In her words, Israel doesn’t mearly cause deaths during a war with a determined enemy, it “slaughters Palstinian civillians”
Behind the doors of an innocuous looking office door in Shenstone, the evil Zionists design “some of the most hidious weapons in the world”, which are “responsible for the death of hundreds of thoudanss of men women and children”
The number of Palestinian “people” Israel has “slaughtered” seems astronomical — even by the standards of its neighbours, who do far worse. Then comes the accusation that Palestinians are used as “Guinea pigs”, conjuring up images of animals in cages, having goodness knowns what awful experiments performed on them .
As a person, whose identity as a Jew is determined by his long Jewish ancestry (many of whom were murdered in Nazi death camps), and who grew up in Northern Israel, where Jewsish nuses regularly work alongside doctors, videos such as these don’t make me angry - they make me frightened, very frightened, because if these people believe that we are as evil as the worst Nazis (or possibly even more so), then what is to stop them trying to harm or even kill us in order to support a “just cause”?
I my opinion, had Labour got into power, with much of the party membership (and many officials too) apparently believing these sorts of things about Israel, it is not inconceivable that they would have moved to outlaw anyone with any connection to Israel or anyone perceived as a “Zionist” (most British Jews would fall under this category)
I hope to have show n that the direct-action group Palestine Action are motivated by the oldest hatred in the world. Their statements are replete with echoes of the blood libel, which originated here in England in 1144 (in Norwich), where 18 Jewish leaders where executed as a consequence. The total expulsion of English Jews followed shortly after.
Palestine Action should not be regarded as a normal activist group, but rather they should be regarded as were Combat 18 — a British neo Nazi group from the 1990’s. And their antisemitism should be made clear to the public.
These groups are prepared to mobilize their supporters to march on behalf of an issue that is, for all of the hyperbolic and largely dishonest rhetoric expended on its behalf, tangential to Jewish issues. Yet there is little sign that they will be heading to the streets to protest another bout of Iran appeasement from the Democrats.Lapid: 2022 will see intense effort to paint Israel as apartheid state
In analyzing this issue, we need to discount President Joe Biden's transparently false attempts to compare voter ID laws to "Jim Crow" or his claim that this presents the "greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War. That's not hyperbole. Since the Civil War." It's a statement that makes one wonder whether even a president as prone to hyperbole as Biden actually knows what the word means.
Instead, this points us toward something that ought to be at the top of any theoretical end-of-year list of top 10 mistakes that Jewish organizations make.
I don't doubt that many of the constituents and donors of the JCPA, the ADL and the host of other liberal Jewish groups enlisted to fight for the president's priorities will applaud the willingness of these organizations to do so. In a time when politics now fills the role religion used to play in most people's lives, partisanship is second nature, and most Jews are Democrats.
Many if not most American Jews consider issues which are not particular to Jewish interests to be the most important priorities. That notwithstanding, those organizations that exist to defend specifically Jewish interests, whether it is to combat antisemitism or to speak up on behalf of Jewish security, should nonetheless prioritize those topics. If they don't, then they've essentially discarded their main responsibilities and have become merely Jewish auxiliaries for non-Jewish interests.
So, if Jewish groups are going to treat the Democrats' partisan claims about voting to be (as Harris would have it) the top issue, while either running interference for Biden's Iran appeasement plans or treating it as an issue of lesser importance, then that matters a great deal. If that's the direction they are headed in, and there's little reason to doubt it, then they might as well drop the pretense that they are defending Jewish interests.
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid warned on Monday that Israel will face intense campaigns to label it an apartheid state in 2022.
“We think that in the coming year, there will be debate that is unprecedented in its venom and in its radioactivity around the words ‘Israel as an apartheid state,'” Lapid said during a Zoom briefing with Israeli journalists.
“In 2022, it will be a tangible threat,” he predicted.
Lapid pointed at Palestinian campaigns against Israel in the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and the UN Human Rights Council’s establishment of a permanent “Commission of Inquiry” — the most potent tool at the council’s disposal — into Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, including Operation Guardian of the Walls in May 2021.
“The commission of inquiry into Guardian of the Walls is unprecedented because it doesn’t have a time limit, it doesn’t have a limit of scope, and it is well-funded with many people working on it.,” Israel’s top diplomat emphasized.
Lapid pointed out that the COI has a budget of $5.5 million with 18 staffers. By contrast, the COI looking into the Syrian Civil War has an annual budget of about $2.5 million and 12 staffers.
“It shows where it is heading,” he said, stressing that the campaign by the Palestinian Authority and anti-Israel organizations could affect Israel’s ability to participate in international cultural and sporting events, among other challenges.
Lapid called the accusation that Israel is an apartheid state “a despicable lie.”