Het enorme verschil in behandeling van Israëlische- vs. Palestijnse gijzelaars: fake news en desinformatie >> Deel II

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Gisteren berichtte ik over het verschil in behandeling wat betreft de Israëlische gijzelaars en ‘gevangen’ Palestijnen (lees: Palestijnse gijzelaars)*. Het gaat hierbij niet alleen om hoe de gijzelaars van beide kanten zijn behandeld, echter om nog even aan te geven hoe dat zit: wat betreft de Israëlische behandeling van gijzelaars, voornamelijk vrouwen en kinderen, is deze schunnig (tot en met martelingen aan toe waar de dood op volgt, ofwel gruwelijke moorden), terwijl de Hamasstrijders de gegijzelde en krijgsgevangen genomen Israëliërs uitermate netjes hebben behandeld en behandelen. Nee >> het gaat hier ook om hoe de reguliere westerse media hebben durven berichten en nog steeds berichten over deze ruil van gijzelaars.

Zoals ik gisteren al heb uitgelegd, houden de reguliere westerse media aan wat de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël aan berichten brengt over deze zaken, ofwel de zonder aanklacht en vorm van proces gegijzelde (‘gevangengehouden’) Palestijnen die in zogenaamde ‘administratieve detentie’ worden gehouden, worden weggezet als gevangenen en zelfs als terroristen…. Daarnaast worden ook de gevangengenomen Israëlische militairen weggezet als gegijzelden, terwijl die media zelf blijven spreken over de oorlog in de Gazastrook (en niet over de genocide die daar openlijk werd en zal worden uitgevoerd) en derhalve die militairen moeten aanmerken als krijgsgevangenen!!

Vóórdat de eerste gegijzelden werden vrijgelaten sprak het grootste deel van de reguliere westerse media over Palestijnse terroristen die Israël zou vrijlaten, in werkelijkheid ging het om vrouwen en kinderen die zijn vrijgelaten….. (vrouwen en kinderen die werden gegijzeld onder de belachelijke regels van ‘administratieve detentie’)

Op NPO Radio1 nieuws van afgelopen nacht om 4.00 u. meldde de nieuwslezer dat Israël vandaag 110 ‘Palestijnse gevangenen’ zou vrijlaten, waar deze aan toevoegde dat meerdere mediaorganen hebben bericht dat zich onder die ‘gevangenen’ 3 terroristen zouden bevinden…. Ofwel de staatszendgemachtigde NOS herhaalt meestal trouw wat de fascistisch, genocidale apartheidsstaat Israël deze staatsomroep voorkauwt, echter als er andere nieuwsmedia zijn die het gore lef hebben nog harder te liegen over wie zich tussen de zogenaamde gevangenen zou bevinden >> ‘terroristen’, heeft dezelfde NOS er geen probleem mee om deze smerige leugen te herhalen!! (ofwel hier is sprake van fake news [nepnieuws] en desinformatie, iets waarvan omroepen als de NOS de sociale media beschuldigen!!)

Daarbij zijn de zogenaamde terroristen niets anders dan verzetsstrijders, want vergeet niet dat de bevolking die krijgt te maken met een terreur-overheersing door een ander land in feite de plicht en het recht heeft zich te verzetten, zoals dit het geval was tijdens nazi-Duitse bezetting van ons land ten tijde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog (WOII)….. De nazi-Duitse bezetting heeft het verzet in ons land destijds ook weggezet als terreur (zoals de nazi’s dat ook deden over het verzet in andere door de nazi’s bezette landen).

Voorts was ik gisteren vergeten te melden dat afgelopen dinsdag in het radionieuws van 9.30 u. op Deutschlandfunk (radio) in het kader van de Auschwitz bevrijding en de herdenking van de Holocaust werd gemeld dat het antisemitisme in Duitsland steeds meer toeneemt. Niets mee mis zou je zo denken, ware het niet dat men in Duitsland vrij algemeen kritiek op Israël ziet als antisemitisme….. (alweer >> desinformatie!!) Niet voor niets ook dat men in hetzelfde nieuwsbericht wist te melden dat dit antisemitisme is toegenomen sinds ‘das Massaker’ van ‘terreurorganisatie Hamas’ op 7 oktober 2023…..

Al evenzo heb ik gisteren uitgelegd hoe zwaar er is gelogen over de gebeurtenissen op 7 oktober 2023 en wat er die dag werkelijk is gebeurd….. Zo heeft het Israëlische leger een groot deel van de Israëliërs zelf vermoord, alleen om te voorkomen dat ze als gijzelaars zouden kunnen worden gebruikt, dit volgens de zogenaamde Hannibal-richtlijn….. Twee vliegen in één klap, immers nu kon men Hamas beschuldigen verantwoordelijk te zijn voor alle doden op die dag in 2023, daar men in Israël dondersgoed beseft dat de reguliere westerse media de door hen gemaakte leugens zullen overnemen en uitdragen, hoeveel bewijzen er ook zijn dat de vork anders in de steel steekt, bewijzen als getuigenissen van Israëliërs die één en ander van dichtbij hebben meegemaakt…. Zoals een Israëlische vrouw die het bloedbad bij het muziekfestival wist te ontsnappen en vertelde dat Israëlische helikopters de auto’s van festivalgangers onder vuur nam, daar men aannam dat zich hierin ook Hamasleden bevonden die de eigenaars van die auto’s zouden hebben willen gijzelen….. Die auto’s zijn in een grote kuil gedumpt en begraven zodat men niet kon controleren wat er werkelijk gebeurde die dag…..

De Britse premier Starmer (van Labour), de schoft die Jeremy Corbyn z’n verkiezing tot premier heeft gestolen door hem en een aantal andere Labourleden te beschuldigen antisemitisch te zijn, werd volop gesteund door de reguliere media, staatsmedia (als de BBC) en zogenaamde deskundigen…. (fake news en desinformatie!!!) Terwijl Corbyn NB joodse medewerkers had en bevriend was met Hajo Meijer een overlevende van Auschwitz en medewerker van ‘Een Ander Joods Geluid!! (die joodse medewerkers van Corbyn werden ook door de niet-Joden Starmer en z’n misdadigers als antisemitisch weggezet, wat ze nog net niet durfden te zeggen over Hajo Meijer….). De werkelijke reden om Corbyn NB een partijgenoot van Starmer de verkiezingen te laten verliezen was het feit dat hij als te links werd bevonden, zo wilde hij onmiddellijk een eind maken aan het feit dar rond de 4 miljoen kinderen in GB dagelijks met honger naar school moeten…. Dezelfde Starmer heeft vorig jaar gesteld dat Israël het volste recht had om de bevolking van de Gazastrook uit te hongeren en water te ontzeggen, wat niets anders is dan een genocidale handeling en één van de ergste oorlogsmisdaden!!

Jonathan Cook kwam afgelopen dinsdag met een artikel waarin hij beschrijft dat de Israëlische generaal-majoor Basyuk (ook wel aangeduid als Basiuk) Londen heeft bezocht, samen met een kleine delegatie zionistische (ofwel >> fascistische) joodse politici. Deze Basyuk is een vreselijke oorlogsmisdadiger en één van de hoofverantwoordelijken voor het uitvoeren van de genocide in de Gazastrook…. Ofwel Starmer en z’n misdadigers hebben er geen moeite mee om mensen valselijk te beschuldigen antisemitisch te zijn, of de zwaarste oorlogsmisdaden als gerechtvaardigd neer te zetten, ja zelfs wapens (in de breedste zin van het woord) en munitie te leveren waarmee Israël die genocide heeft uitgevoerd en weer zal uitvoeren…. Daarnaast heeft het inhumane neoliberale kabinet van ploert Starmer er geen moeite mee om één van de hoofdverantwoordelijken voor de genocide op de Palestijnen toe te staan Londen te bezoeken…..

ONGELOFELIJK EN ONVERDRAAGLIJK!!!


Het volgende bericht met video komt van X, één van de redenen waarom men dit een rechts platform noemt. Maar uiteraard is Musk een fascistische ploert (er worden veel berichten over de genocide in de Gazastrook geplaatst, alsof dat antisemitisch is):

Pelham @Resist_05·

Jan 29

There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been decimated, 100% of the population displaced and 50% of the deaths children…

So let’s just call it for what it really is… this is a GENOCIDE..🇵🇸💔


Hier het artikel van Jonathan Cook, eerder gepubliceerd op Declassified UK, ik nam het over van Jonathans Substack site.


(als je de Engelse taal niet beheerst, zet dan de tekst om in Nederlands met behulp van Google translate dat je rechts bovenaan deze pagina ziet staan, klik eerst in het menu op ‘Engels’, waarna je weer kan klikken op die vertaalapp, daarna zie je bovenaan in het menu ‘Nederlands’ staan >> klik daarop en de hele tekst staat vervolgens in het Nederlands, de vertaling is van een redelijk goede kwaliteit.)


Israel’s ‘genocide general’ welcomed in London – and the media yawns

Why is it only Declassified seeking to hold to account General Basyuk, who oversaw Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, as he meets UK officials?


Jonathan Cook

January 28, 2025


[First published by Declassified UK]

There have been two stories deeply revealing – in starkly contrasting ways – of the West’s relationship to Israel’s industrialised, militarised slaughter of the people of Gaza over the past 15 months.

Last week, Declassified UK carried out one of the fundamental duties of journalism. Its reporter Alex Morris sought to hold accountable a war crimes suspect evading justice. And not just any suspect.

Morris doorstepped Major General Oded Basyuk as he led an Israeli military delegation through the streets of London in meetings with the Ministry of Defence and the Royal United Services Institute, a UK “security think-tank” with close ties to the British government.

Basyuk, sometimes spelt Basiuk, heads the Israeli military’s operations directorate, whose responsibilities have included the development of the military strategy that guided Israel’s brutal 15-month assault on Gaza.

The International Court of Justice ruled a year ago that a “plausible” case had been made that Israel was committing a genocide in Gaza. Israel has effectively been on trial ever since.

Meanwhile, the ICJ’s sister court, the International Criminal Court (ICC), has issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity – most notably for their policy of blocking aid and starving the entire population of 2.3 million Palestinians there.

Basyuk was one of the central figures helping to devise and direct these genocidal acts.

He was also pivotal in overseeing the Israeli military’s invasion and occupation of south Lebanon. Israeli forces have been similarly levelling entire communities there and slaughtering civilians.

In other words, Basyuk is one of the biggest cogs in Israel’s genocidal war machine.

If the ICC finds the nerve to take on the new Trump administration – which is almost certain to sanction court officials for charging Netanyahu and Gallant – Basyuk will be at the head of the queue for an arrest warrant.


Diplomatic immunity


Which leads to a number of conundrums.

Not least, why is a major war crimes suspect such as Basyuk freely wandering the streets of London in the midst of two genocide-related legal cases against Israel?

Given that the ICC can issue arrest warrants in secret, and at short notice, how is Basyuk so confident that he can visit the UK without legal repercussions?

Further, Britain’s universal jurisdiction laws mean serious crimes can be prosecuted in the UK wherever they occurred, and separately from the ICC. A private application for his arrest could have been issued while he was here.

The only plausible answer is that the government of Keir Starmer gave him a gold-plated assurance that he would not be arrested under any circumstances during his visit.

That is precisely what happened back in November when Israel’s now-outgoing military chief of staff, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, visited Britain to meet officials from the Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office.

Starmer’s government issued Halevi with diplomatic immunity – a so-called “special mission certificate” – that blocked any possibility of legal redress against him.

As a signatory to the Rome Statute, it should be noted, Britain is legally obliged to enforce an arrest warrant issued by the ICC, though it has equivocated about whether in practice it would carry out an arrest of either Netanyahu or Gallant, if put to the test.

Criminal complicity


There are other puzzling questions that need answers.

In the midst of legal cases at the world’s two highest courts against the Israeli military for crimes against humanity, why would the Ministry of Defence think that Basyuk – one of Israel’s highest ranking commanders – was a suitable person to be meeting with and talking to?

What knowledge does Basyuk currently have to share with our own military chain of command that makes it so important to meet with him face to face in London, especially when his visit could potentially drag Starmer’s government into a legal showdown with the ICC or expose a shameful evasion of its legal obligations?

Basyuk’s visit serves as a reminder that the MoD is profoundly implicated in the Gaza genocide – as is Starmer himself.

It has approved the continuing sale of more than 90 per cent of British weapons and components to Israel, including those that have kept Israel’s fleet of F-35s in the air so that they can carpet bomb Gaza.

Additionally, the MoD is believed to have helped ship US and German munitions to Israel through air bases in the UK and from an RAF base in Cyprus, Akrotiri, without which the mass slaughter of Gaza’s children would not have been possible.

As Declassified revealed in October, the UK has been allowing regular secret flights of US special forces from Akrotiri to Israel.

And the MoD has been conducting surveillance flights over Gaza, almost certainly with the purpose of supplying intelligence to Israel to help it select targets as it has destroyed most residential properties, schools, universities, libraries, mosques, churches and bakeries.

A strong suspicion must be that the MoD invited Basyuk not only to deepen ties between the two militaries but to prepare for a renewed British role in the genocide should Israel return to the bombardment of Gaza after the first stage of the ceasefire is completed, as Netanyahu has threatened.



Media silence


And then there are questions for the British media.

How is it possible that Basyuk, a major war crimes suspect, is strolling around London at the head of an official Israeli military delegation in the midst of a genocide investigation by the ICJ and no major British media outlet has shown the slightest interest in doorstepping him, or in asking questions of the government about his visit?

Only Declassified UK – an independent outlet with a tiny fraction of the resources of the BBC, the Guardian, the Times or the Telegraph – has chased him down, embarrassed him by asking him to his face whether he is a war criminal, and drawn attention to his presence in the UK.

It is not even as though we can assume this collective failure by the British establishment media was an oversight, and that for some inexplicable reason their military and security correspondents all failed to learn of Basyuk’s visit, as Declassified UK had done.

Because all these media outlets also ignored the video that went viral of Declassified UK’s Alex Morris challenging Basyuk to his face, “Are you a war criminal, General Basyuk?” and “Are you worried about being investigated by the ICC for war crimes?”

In stark contrast to the Israeli media, which widely reported on this supremely awkward confrontation for Basyuk, the British media has remained studiously silent.

They have not wondered why Basyuk, or earlier Halevi, has been allowed into the UK. Or what assurances Basyuk was given. Or what he and Halevi were here to discuss with the British officials.

Similarly, they have not taken this as an opportunity to focus on another story that so far has entirely passed them by and that Declassified has been at the forefront of exposing: Britain’s deep complicity in Israel’s genocide and the covert role in the genocide of RAF base Akrotiri, on Cypus.

These are not oversights. They are a consistent pattern of failure by the media that indicates one thing only: that these failures are entirely intentional. The British media has conspired with the British government every bit as criminally as the British government has colluded in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Through its silence, the British media has given the government cover to assist Israel in its mass slaughter of Palestinian civilians.

Europe-wide crackdown


The British establishment media has been similarly silent – if for opposing reasons – on another development related to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

While Basyuk was moving around London to meet British officials without fear of arrest or scrutiny, a Palestinan-American journalist was arrested by the police in Zurich at the weekend shortly before he was about to begin a speaking tour of Switzerland.

Ali Abunimah, editor of the veteran website Electronic Intifada, which is dedicated to Israel-Palestine issues, has been a long-standing and trenchant critic of Israel’s decades of abuses of the Palestinian people.

Alongside Declassified UK and a handful of other independent sites, Electronic Intifada has helped to challenge some of the key narrative deceptions Israel has promoted to rationalise the mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza – fake news that British media outlets have too often enthusiastically regurgitated.

Abunimah and his team undermined falsified claims of Hamas beheading and baking babies alive during its attack on Israel on October 7 2023, and of mass rapes by Hamas fighters that day.

The site has shone a light too on a secretive Israeli military protocol, the Hannibal directive, that was invoked during Hamas’ attack.

It allowed the Israeli military to kill a significant number of Israeli civilians, including children, to prevent them being abducted. Some of the resulting, horrifying deaths have been attributed to Hamas.

United Nations legal and human rights experts lost no time in condemning Abunimah’s arrest, calling it “shocking” and evidence of an “increasingly toxic” climate in Europe towards free speech.

But the Swiss authorities are not acting in isolation. This is part of a concerted, Europe-wide crackdown on protest against Israel or support for Palestinian rights – and Britain has been leading the way.

Draconian terror laws


Abunimah’s British colleague Asa Winstanley, an investigative journalist, had his home raided by London counter-terrorism police in October and his electronic devices seized under draconian terrorism laws.

He is one of several independent journalists being hounded over their criticisms of Israel.

Activists with Palestine Action, and its leader Richard Barnard, have been arrested and charged under similar laws for trying to stop firms in the UK making and supplying weapons to Israel for use in the genocide.

Israeli Jewish activists living in the UK, including Professor Haim Bresheeth and Yael Kahn, both of whom lost family members in the Holocaust, have been arrested in recent months for making speeches criticising Israel’s conduct in Gaza.

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Another anti-Zionist Jewish activist, Tony Greenstein, was charged in December under the same terrorism laws.

And in a sign that the Starmer government is determined to stamp out wider pro-Palestine and anti-genocide activism, the Metropolitan police used an iron fist this month in cracking down on the latest mass peaceful protest in London against the genocide – one that sought to highlight the heavy slanting of the BBC’s coverage in Israel’s favour.

The police arrested and charged two of the march organisers, including Ben Jamal, the director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, with entirely confected “public order” offences.

The Met also interviewed “under caution” and are investigating the march’s two figureheads: the leftwing MPs John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the Labour party.

World on its head


The contrast could not be more clear-cut – or telling.

Starmer’s government is happy to invite foreign war crimes suspects to the UK to learn from them, safe in the knowledge that the British media will do nothing to highlight their crimes or the UK’s complicity in those crimes.

And the Starmer government is equally happy to bully, arrest and charge journalists and peaceful demonstrators opposed to those war crimes, safe in the knowledge that the British media will do nothing to highlight the UK government’s duplicity or its trampling over the fundamental rights of free speech and protest.

The British police leave Israeli state terrorists in peace, while hounding peaceful protesters as terrorists. The world is turned on its head.

But this glaring contrast in treatment – by the government, the Met and the establishment media – serves precisely the same end: shielding Israel and its enablers in the British government from accountability.

All three institutions of the British state have colluded in oiling the wheels of Israel’s genocide machine. All have conspired to keep war crimes suspect General Basyuk out of public view, and make it harder to get him where he belongs: in the dock at The Hague.

All three have played separate but critically important roles in making the genocide in Gaza possible. And for that, they should be put in the dock too.

[Many thanks to Matthew Alford for the audio reading of this article.]

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* Zie: ‘Het enorme verschil in behandeling van Israëlische- vs. Palestijnse gijzelaars: fake news en desinformatie‘ (29 januari 2025) En zie de berichten onder de links in die blogpost!!


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Voorts zie ‘Keir Starmer’s support for the Gaza ceasefire is riddled with lies‘ Estimates are that it will take 80 years to rebuild Gaza. How is a ‘sovereign and viable Palestinian state’, or a ‘better future’, going to emerge out of ruins on that scale? (16 januari 2025, ook een artikel van Jonathan Cook)


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Let op!! De ruimte om reacties weer te geven werkt niet altijd. Als je commentaar hebt en het lukt niet op de normale manier, doe dit dan via het mailadres trippleu@gmail.com, ik zal deze dan opnemen onderaan in het bewuste artikel, althans als je geen geweld predikt, voorts plaats ik jouw reactie ook al staat deze diametraal tegenover dat bericht. Alvast mijn dank voor jouw eventuele reactie, Willem.

Jeremy Corbyn weggezet als nazi in fake news ‘antisemitisme schandaal’ >> haatzaaien met een ‘groter doel’

De voortdurende demonisering van Corbyn in de Britse reguliere media kent werkelijk geen grenzen meer, dagelijks wordt Corbyn door de stront gesleurd en afgezeken als antisemiet……. Niet dat daar ook maar één direct bewijs voor geleverd kan worden, sterker nog: Corbyn onderhoudt aantoonbaar goede relaties met joodse mensen en niet de minste, neem de intussen overleden van joodse komaf Nederlandse Hajo Meijer, een overlever van de nazi-dodenkampen, met wie hij een goede relatie had……
In het hieronder opgenomen artikel nog veel meer joodse mensen die het opnemen voor Corbyn, de Labour leider die in zijn team zelfs drie mensen van joodse komaf heeft, allen joden die allesbehalve vinden dat Corbyn een antisemiet is…..
Men is dan ook totaal niet bang dat met Corbyn de nazi’s over de Britse straten zullen marcheren, maar dat Corbyn na zoveel decennia neoliberaal wanbeleid gevoerd door opvolgende regeringen, ja zelfs door zijn eigen Labour Partij, een sociaal regeringsbeleid zal voeren……. Corbyn is te populair en dat dit zeker ook veel jongeren aanspreekt, is velen in het verkeerde keelgat geschoten…..

De schrijver van het artikel stelt terecht dat een deel van de Labour politici het beleid van Blair willen doorzetten, van Labour een tweede Tory partij maken* dit t.b.v. het inhumane, ijskoude neoliberalisme en de voortdurende Britse steun voor en deelname aan illegale oorlogen van de VS, waarmee deze Labour politici ook fungeren als lobbyisten van het militair-industrieel complex, een complex waar men vindt dat er niet lang en vaak genoeg oorlog gevoerd kan worden…….

Het sterkste pleidooi in het volgende artikel is wel de vaststelling dat het misbruik van het woord ‘antisemitisme’ in feite een trap na is voor de slachtoffers van de holocaust (een te korte samenvatting, lees het artikel)
De schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, dat eerder op MediaLens werd gepubliceerd (nam het over van Information Clearing House), neemt ook de opgestapte Labour leden onder de loep en geeft daarbij aan dat deze figuren een allesbehalve fris verleden hebben…….
Lees het volgende uiterst verontrustende, maar prima artikel en geeft het door, ook de Nederlandse media nemen de lulkoek van de Britse media over en stellen dat Labour een probleem heeft met antisemitisme, terwijl een groot aantal Britse joden lid is van Corbyns Labour Partij……. Intussen heeft de eerste aanval op Corbyn, n.a.v. het haatzaaien in de Britse media al plaatsgevonden……
The Fake News Nazi – Corbyn, Williamson And The Anti-Semitism Scandal
By Editor Media Lens

March 08, 2019 “Information Clearing House” – One of us had a discussion with an elderly relative:

‘He can’t be allowed to become Prime Minister.’

‘Why not?’

‘It’s so awful…’

‘What is?’

‘The way he hates the Jews.’

The last comment was spoken with real anguish, the result of continuous exposure to just two main news sources: the Daily Mail and the BBC.

What is astonishing is that, just four years ago, essentially no-one held this view of Jeremy Corbyn.

Corbyn first became an MP in 1983. He stood for the Labour leadership 32 years later, in May 2015. We searched the ProQuest database for UK newspaper articles containing:

‘Jeremy Corbyn’ and ‘anti-semitism’ before 1 May 2015 = 18 hits

‘Jeremy Corbyn’ and ‘anti-semitism’ after 1 May 2015 = 11,251 hits

None of the 18 hits accused Corbyn of anti-semitism. For his first 32 years as an MP, it just wasn’t a theme associated with him.

We also searched the ProQuest database for UK newspaper articles containing:

‘Labour Party’ and ‘anti-semitism’ before 1 May 2015 = 5,347 hits

‘Labour Party’ and ‘anti-semitism’ after 1 May 2015 = 13,921 hits

The archive begins in 1980, which means that more than twice as many articles have included these terms in the last four years than in the 35 years from 1980 until May 2015 when Corbyn stood for the Labour leadership. A standard response to these findings runs along these lines:

‘Irrelevant backbencher gets less Press attention than Leader of The Opposition SHOCKER. What’s your next scoop, Water Wet, Sky Blue?’

But in fact, Corbyn was not an irrelevant backbencher. We found 3,662 hits for articles mentioning Corbyn before May 2015. Many of these are mentions in passing, but he had also long been a high-profile anti-war MP at a time of numerous wars. And he was frequently smeared, only not about his supposed anti-semitism. Consider, for example, an article that appeared in The Sun in 1999, under a typically cruel title:

‘Why did it take you so long to dump him, Mrs Corbyn?’ (Ally Ross, The Sun, 13 May 1999)

The story:

‘EXTREME Left MP Jeremy Corbyn has been dumped by his missus after an amazing bust-up over their son’s education.’

The key issue, according to The Sun:

‘Now the question on everyone’s lips is: Why did it take her so long to leave the loathsome Lefty, and more importantly, why is she only moaning about his choice of schools?’

Because there was, apparently, plenty to moan about. The Sun described Corbyn as ‘class crusader Jeremy – a rabid IRA sympathiser’ who ‘not only looks and dresses like a third-rate Open University lecturer, he thinks like one too. In 1984 the Provo stooge invited twice-convicted terrorist and bomber Linda Quigley to the House of Commons just 13 days after the IRA’s murderous attack on Tories staying at the Grand Hotel in Brighton’.

This was pretty brutal stuff. The Sun added of Corbyn’s ex-wife:

‘Claudia’s saviour of the masses also suffers incredible delusions of grandeur. Communist states may be falling like dominoes, but raving Red Jeremy still believes his outdated views are relevant to modern-day Britain.’

And:

‘Not only is Jeremy a political coward who backs terrorists, he is also a self-confessed big girl’s blouse.’

And:

‘Jeremy’s mis-shapen suits, lumpy jumpers and nylon shirts are not exactly what the well-dressed radical is wearing in 1999… Claudia should be aware her ex is irredeemably, unforgivably, annoyingly stupid.’

Given the no-holds-barred nature of the smear, it is amazing that The Sun made no mention at all of Corbyn’s vile anti-semitism, viewed as his most obvious and dangerous defect now.
The reason is that, as this shows, not even his worst enemies viewed him as an anti-semite. The extreme Tory press aside, the accepted view of Corbyn pre-2015 is indicated by a long, admiring piece in which Jewish journalist Deborah Ross, whose family members were murdered in Polish pogroms even before the Nazi Holocaust was unleashed, interviewed him for the Independent in 2005. Ross commented:

‘He is also, it is generally agreed, an exemplary constituency MP. Even my friend Rebecca, who recently sought his help on a local issue, and never usually has a nice word to say about anybody, which is why I like her, describes him as a “totally genuine mensch”.’

Ross added:

‘As The Sun would have it, Mr Corbyn is a “beardy Bolshevik” and “loathsome lefty” but he does not come across as either. He has strong opinions but does not demand you listen to them, if you don’t want to.

‘He is scandal free, unless you count the hoo-ha a few years back when it was revealed that Jeremy’s oldest son would be attending a grammar school outside the borough.’

Joseph Finlay is a former Deputy Editor of the Jewish Quarterly, who co-founded a range of grassroots Jewish organisations such as Moishe House London, Wandering Jews, Jewdas and The Open Talmud Project. On 2 March 2018, Finlay wrote in his blog under the title, ‘Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-racist, not an anti-Semite’:

‘Firstly we need to restore some perspective. The Labour party has thousands of Jewish members, many Jewish councillors, a number of prominent Jewish MPs and several Jewish members of its ruling council. Many people at the heart of the Corbyn team, such as Jon Lansman, James Schneider and Rhea Wolfson are also Jewish. Ed Miliband, the previous party leader, was Jewish (and suffered antisemitism at the hands of the press and the Conservatives). I have been a member for five years and, as a Jew, have had only positive experiences.’

Finlay added:

‘Jeremy Corbyn has been MP for Islington North since 1983 – a constituency with a significant Jewish population. Given that he has regularly polled over 60% of the vote (73% in 2017) it seems likely that a sizeable number of Jewish constituents voted for him. As a constituency MP he regularly visited synagogues and has appeared at many Jewish religious and cultural events. He is close friends with the leaders of the Jewish Socialist Group, from whom he has gained a rich knowledge of the history of the Jewish Labour Bund, and he has named the defeat of Mosley’s Fascists at the Battle of Cable as a key historical moment for him. His 2017 Holocaust Memorial Day statement talked about Shmuel Zygielboym, the Polish Bund leader exiled to London who committed suicide in an attempt to awaken the world to the Nazi genocide. How many British politicians have that level of knowledge of modern Jewish history?’

Israel-based journalist Jonathan Cook notes that a recent Labour Party report ‘decisively undercut’ the claims of Corbyn’s critics ‘not only of endemic anti-semitism in Labour, but of any significant problem at all’. Cook summarised:

‘Over the previous 10 months, 673 complaints had been filed against Labour members over alleged anti-semitic behaviour, many based on online comments. In a third of those cases, insufficient evidence had been produced.

‘The 453 other allegations represented 0.08 percent of the 540,000-strong Labour membership. Hardly “endemic” or “institutional”, it seems.’

He added:

‘That echoed an earlier report by the Commons home affairs committee, which found there was “no reliable, empirical evidence” that Labour had more of an anti-semitism problem than any other British political party.’

In ‘Antisemitism in contemporary Great Britain: A study of attitudes towards Jews and Israel’ by the Jewish Institute for Policy Research, L. Daniel Staetsky found:

‘Levels of antisemitism among those on the left-wing of the political spectrum, including the far-left, are indistinguishable from those found in the general population. Yet, all parts of those on the left of the political spectrum – including the “slightly left-of-centre,” the “fairly left-wing” and the “very left-wing” – exhibit higher levels of anti-Israelism than average. The most antisemitic group on the political spectrum consists of those who identify as very right-wing: the presence of antisemitic attitudes in this group is 2 to 4 times higher compared to the general population.’

The report notes that ‘the prevalence of antisemitism on the far right is considerably higher than on the left and in the political centre’.

Noam Chomsky has commented:

‘The charges of anti-Semitism against Corbyn are without merit, an underhanded contribution to the disgraceful efforts to fend off the threat that a political party might emerge that is led by an admirable and decent human being, a party that is actually committed to the interests and just demands of its popular constituency and the great majority of the population generally, while also authentically concerned with the rights of suffering and oppressed people throughout the world. Plainly an intolerable threat to order.’ (Noam Chomsky, email to Media Lens, 9 September 2018)

Suspending Chris Williamson

On February 27, a propaganda blitz was launched against anti-war Labour MP Chris Williamson who had been filmed saying that Labour Party responses to claims of anti-semitism had exacerbated the crisis:

‘I’ve got to say, I think our party’s response has been partly responsible… Because, in my opinion, we’ve backed off far too much, we’ve given too much ground, we’ve been too apologetic.’

Williamson added:

‘We’ve done more to address the scourge of anti-semitism than any political party.’

It is clear that Williamson was strongly endorsing the fight against anti-semitism and was proud of the Labour Party’s record. Actual anti-semites talk of ‘the scourge of Judaism’, Williamson talked of ‘the scourge of anti-semitism’. He was suggesting that the party had been too apologetic in responding to a cynical smear campaign attempting to destroy Corbyn by exploiting the issue of anti-semitism.

Others chose to see it differently. Guardian columnist Owen Jones responded to Williamson’s comments:

‘This is utterly out of order. When does the left ever say we’ve been “too apologetic” about fighting racism or bigotry? Why is he, a non-Jew, right and Jon Lansman – a Jewish socialist who founded Momentum and ran Corbyn’s second leadership campaign – wrong about anti-Semitism?’

We replied:

‘”When does the left ever say we’ve been “too apologetic” about fighting racism or bigotry?'”

‘He’s *endorsing* the fight against racism and bigotry. He’s saying Labour has been too apologetic in responding to a cynical smear campaign to destroy Corbyn in the name of anti-racism.’

Ash Sharkar of Novara Media tweeted:

‘Chris Williamson has been had the Labour whip suspended pending investigation, which I think is the right decision. But much more work must be done to proactively confront and dismantle conspiratorial and antisemitic thinking on the left, and it goes much further than expulsions.’

Aaron Bastani, also of Novara Media, wrote:

‘I think media coverage of the “Labour anti-semitism crisis” is completely disproportionate – primarily because it underplays problem more broadly across society.

‘Equally, hearing & reading the things I have in recent days I wouldn’t feel welcome in the party as a Jewish person.’

In our latest book, ‘Propaganda Blitz’, we noted a key factor driving home these smear blitzes:

‘while a demonising propaganda blitz may arise from rightist politics and media, the propaganda coup de grace ending public doubt often comes from the “left-liberal” journalists at the Guardian, the Independent, the BBC and Channel 4; and also from non-corporate journalists who crave acceptance by these media. Again, the logic is clear: if even celebrity progressive journalists – people famous for their principled stands, and colourful socks and ties – join the denunciations, then there must be something to the claims. At this point, it actually becomes difficult to doubt it’. (David Edwards and David Cromwell, ‘Propaganda Blitz’, Pluto Press, 2018, pp.8-9)

Foreign Wars – Racism Versus Speciesism

The truth of the corporate media’s ‘ethical concern’ becomes clearer when we consider Corbyn’s record on foreign wars. While the UK affects to care deeply about racism, Chomsky has noted that the West’s endless ‘interventions’ – all reflexively supported by the same media damning Corbyn now – are manifestations of a prejudice, beyond even racism, that is a kind of speciesism:

‘Namely, knowing that you are massacring them but not doing so intentionally because you don’t regard them as worthy of concern. That is, you don’t even care enough about them to intend to kill them. Thus when I walk down the street, if I stop to think about it I know I’ll probably kill lots of ants, but I don’t intend to kill them, because in my mind they do not even rise to the level where it matters. There are many such examples. To take one of the very minor ones, when Clinton bombed the al-Shifa pharmaceutical facility in Sudan, he and the other perpetrators surely knew that the bombing would kill civilians (tens of thousands, apparently). But Clinton and associates did not intend to kill them, because by the standards of Western liberal humanitarian racism, they are no more significant than ants. Same in the case of tens of millions of others.’ (Chomsky ZNet blog, ‘Samantha Power, Bush & Terrorism,’ 31 July 2007)

Even if Corbyn was an anti-semite, a racist, he would still be a far safer ethical choice than Tory and Blairite speciesists who value human beings on the level of ants. After all, we find that Jeremy Corbyn:

‘Consistently voted against use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’

‘Consistently voted against the Iraq war.’

‘… voted to say that the case for war against Iraq has not yet been established’.

‘… voted against a motion stating the Government should use all means necessary to ensure the disarmament of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Support for the motion by the majority of MPs led to the UK joining the US invasion of Iraq two days later’.

‘Generally voted for investigations into the Iraq war.’

‘… acted as teller for a vote on UK Air Strikes Against ISIL in Iraq’.

‘… voted against the establishment of a no-fly zone in Libya’.

‘… voted against the continued deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan’.

‘… voted to decline to authorise UK military action in Syria’.

‘… voted against UK airstrikes against ISIL in Syria’.

‘Generally voted against replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system.’

Consider, by contrast, the record of the Labour MPs who have left the Labour Party, supposedly in protest at the rise of anti-semitism, to form The Independent Group:

Chuka Umunna ‘Almost always voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’

Angela Smith ‘Almost always voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’

Mike Gapes ‘Generally voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’

Chris Leslie ‘Almost always voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’

Luciana Berger ‘Generally voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’

Joan Ryan: ‘Consistently voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas’, ‘Consistently voted for the Iraq war’, ‘Consistently voted against investigations into the Iraq war.’

Ann Coffey ‘Almost always voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’

Gavin Shuker ‘Voted a mixture of for and against use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’

Not even his most extreme critics are suggesting that Corbyn is offering the kind of threat to Jewish people consistently offered by Tory and Blairite MPs to millions of people in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Iran and Yemen. Even if Corbyn had erred in failing to perceive the ugliness of a mural declared antisemitic by the press; even if had been lax in taking action against party racists, and so on, how do these failings compare to the destruction of whole countries in lie-based wars of aggression?

Why do corporate media never make this moral comparison? Because they are incapable of perceiving US-UK crimes against humanity as crimes; a wilful moral blindness that renders them completely unfit to pass judgement on Corbyn. Especially as they are themselves, of course, complicit in these same war crimes.

Conclusion

The claim that Corbyn is an anti-semite presiding over a surge in Labour Party anti-semitism is fake news; it is a scam of the utmost cynicism and brutality. It should be viewed as the latest in a long line of attempts to destroy Corbyn by all necessary means. He has been smeared for not bowing low enough, for not singing loudly enough, for hating women, for disrespecting gay people, for consorting with terrorists, for refusing to unleash a nuclear holocaust, for being a shambolic leader, for being a shambolic dresser, for leading Labour towards certain electoral disaster, for being a Putinite stooge, for aping Trump, and so on. Now, finally, someone widely admired for thirty years as a decent, socialist MP, has been transformed into an anti-semite; or as game show assistant and political commentator Rachel Riley implies, a ‘Nazi’.

Anti-semitism does exist in the Labour Party, as it exists throughout UK society, and of course these delusions should be resisted and exposed. But the smear campaign against Corbyn is not rooted in concern for the welfare of Jewish people; it is not even about blocking a political leader who cares about Palestinian rights. It is about preventing Corbyn from undoing Tony Blair’s great achievement of transforming the Labour Party into a second Tory Party, thus ensuring voters have no option challenging corporate domination, including the ‘humanitarian interventions’ for oil and other resources. The goal is to stop Corbyn letting democracy out of its box.

Stephen Law of Heythrop College, University of London, warns that cavalier accusations made ‘on the basis of obviously flimsy or nonexistent evidence’ are ‘disrespecting the memory of the millions who were slaughtered by real antisemitism during the Holocaust’. But in fact, it is worse than that. State propagandists and their corporate media allies are exploiting the suffering of these millions as part of an attack on British democracy. This is obscene. But it is not particularly shocking after the campaigns of deceit which, as discussed, knowingly risked and then shattered the lives of millions of innocent human beings in US-UK wars of aggression.

One thing is certain, if Corbyn and his style of socialism can be made to disappear, we’ll hear no more about anti-semitism in the Labour Party, just as we heard no more about Iraqi democracy after Saddam Hussein, or human rights in Libya after Gaddafi; just as we will hear no more about press freedom in Venezuela, if Maduro is overthrown.

As this alert was being written, news emerged that Corbyn had been subjected to a physical assault in London, to muted concern from almost all corporate media and journalists (compare ‘mainstream’ reaction to news that Conservative MP Anna Soubry had been called a ‘Nazi’). Journalists claimed Corbyn had merely had an egg thrown at him. Labour MP Diane Abbott tweeted:

‘I was there. He punched Jeremy very hard. He happened to have an egg in his palm. But it could have been a knife. Horrible’

Perhaps journalists couldn’t bear to express concern for a person they have so completely reviled for almost four years. Or perhaps they knew their smears of a thoroughly decent, well-intentioned man would be thrown back at them. More likely, they just didn’t care. And that, finally, is the truth of their ‘ethical concern’ – they don’t care.


This article was originally published by “Media Lens” –
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* Ook onder de Labour regeringen in het begin van deze eeuw, de regeringen van opperploert Blair en oplichter Brown, gingen miljoenen kinderen met honger naar school……..

Zie ook:
Corbyn als schietschijf voor het Britse leger, reactie Tories: Corbyn is een groot gevaar voor Brittannië……

Antisemitische heksenjacht in GB bedoeld om pro-Palestijnse Labour politici de mond te snoeren

Esther Voet (Nieuw Israëlitisch Weekblad) ‘maakt grap’: ze vertrekt naar Israël vanwege groeiend antisemitisme……

The Guardian weigert brief van meer dan 200 Joodse vrouwen, waar dit medium loog en blijft liegen over ‘antisemitisme’ Corbyn

Anti-Corbyn boek valt door de mand als valse aanklacht >> schrijver duikt onder……

Esther Voet (hoofdredacteur Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad) over ‘antisemitisme’

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour en oppositie leider GB) veegt de vloer aan met vertrekkende ‘centrum’ Labour fractieleden







Daar Corbyn vooral voor antisemiet wordt uitgemaakt, nog wat links naar dat onderwerp:

Kritiek op Israël wordt door een leger van Israëlische trollen bevochten

Israël misbruikt de aanslag op de synagoge in Pittsburgh voor demonisering van steun aan de Palestijnen…….

Google Maps veegt Palestijns gebied van de kaart

De film over de pro-Israëlische lobby in de VS, die Israël verboden wil zien………

Israël zet snelle reactiemacht op poten tegen anti-Israëlische kritiek

Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen

De film over de pro-Israëlische lobby in de VS, die Israël verboden wil zien………

THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA (EI) heeft de 4 delen van ‘The Lobby – USA’ op haar site gezet. In de film is te zien hoe sterk de Israël lobby is in de VS en hoe ongelofelijk smerig dit geteisem handelt. Middels lastercampagnes, spionage en intimidatie van burgers die zich voor Palestijnse rechten uitspreken en die Israël vanwege haar ongebreidelde terreur bekritiseren, probeert men hen de mond te snoeren door hen af te schilderen als antisemieten…….

Ofwel op grond van kritiek op de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël, wil men critici afschilderen als antisemieten, lullig genoeg lukt dit in de meeste gevallen, al is het met behulp van de westerse reguliere media en het grootste deel van de westerse politici…… Let wel: dat hele label ‘antisemitisch’ is vooral belachelijk als men dit Palestijnen en andere arabieren aanwrijft, daar ook zij semieten zijn!!

Een ‘mooi voorbeeld’ van een lastercampagne is die tegen Jeremy Corbyn de Labour leider, hij wordt al anderhalf jaar lang voor antisemiet uitgemaakt, met hulp van o.a. ‘onafhankelijk zendgemachtigde’ BBC, dit ondanks de band die Corbyn heeft met Joden die kritisch zijn op Israël, zoals de band met onze inmiddels overleden Hajo Meijer, NB een Holocaust overlever, die werkte voor Een Ander Joods Geluid……. In de Britse dagbladen is eveneens amper of geen weerwoord te vinden, Corbyn moet en zal de volgende verkiezingen verliezen, daar zetten zich zelfs collega’s van Corbyn voor in, verraders als opperschoft Tony Blair………

Ook in ons land zijn pro-Israëlische zionisten fanatiek bezig tegen mensen die kritiek hebben op het moorddadige beleid van Israël, o.a. Stan van Houcke is sinds kort het doelwit van zionisten ofwel fascisten als Leon de Winter…….
Voor het artikel van Durden heb ik zelf de video’s overgenomen van YouTube (die van het originele artikel kan ik niet overnemen), ik geef ze i.t.t. tot het artikel op Zero Hedge wel alle 4 weer, plus nog een video, met de titel: ‘Evidence the Israel Lobby Control the US Government’. Mensen lees en verwonder je hoe machtig de pro-Israël lobby in feite is, verwondering ook hoe men dergelijke haatcampagnes kan voeren en het gore lef heeft mensen die opkomen voor de rechten van Palestijnen, als antisemitisch weg te zetten……
Lees, zie en geeft het door, tijd dat de ogen van de wereldbevolking opengaan en dat Israël wordt aangepakt voor de vreselijke terreur die het in haar illegaal gestichte staat en op de West Bank en de Gazastrook uitoefent, inclusief een enorm aantal massamoorden, niet alleen vlak voor en na de illegale stichting van Israël, maar tot op de dag van vandaag…
Israëlische leiders als Netanyahu en Lieberman hadden in Scheveningen al jaren hun levenslange gevangenisstraf moeten uitzitten, en dat beste bezoeker, heeft totaal niets met antisemitisme te maken, maar alles met gerechtigheid voor de gepleegde oorlogsmisdaden als massamoord en bijvoorbeeld het opsluiten en martelen van Palestijnse mensen en zelfs hun kinderen…….

Voorts zouden deze leiders terecht moeten staan voor zaken als het onthouden van water aan de Palestijnen, dit door vernieling van de bronnen (in de Gazastrook) en afdammingen in de Jordaan, t.b.v. de illegale Israëlische nederzettingen op de West Bank, waar Israël zich overigens totaal illegaal als bezettingsmacht bevindt, zoals nazi-Duitsland zich illegaal in ons land ophield van mei 1940 tot mei 1945
De 4 docu-films in het artikel hieronder werden door Al Jazeera gemaakt, echter deze mochten niet worden uitgezonden van Qatar, dit onder druk van Israël, Saoedi-Arabië en de VS……. De feiten in de documentaire werden o.a. verkregen door infiltratie >> een journalist gaf zich uit als een pro-Israëlische vrijwilliger in Washington.

Over censuur gesproken: ook Facebook doet mee aan pro-Israëlische lobby en het platform heeft al honderden accounts van Palestijnen verwijderd…….

En je weet het: als men een documentaire wil verbieden wil men zaken verborgen houden, ofwel Israël geeft in feite toe dat het een barbaars, inhumaan beleid voert t.a.v. de Palestijnen……. Dit alles (met nog een herhaling: het kan niet genoeg gezegd worden) in een illegaal gestichte staat op het grondgebied van die Palestijnen, dat te boek zou moeten staan als Palestina en niet als Israël!

Watch the film the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see

The Electronic Intifada 2 November 2018
Update: On 6 November, The Electronic Intifada published the final two episodes of The Lobby – USA. You can watch episodes three and four here.
The Electronic Intifada has obtained a complete copy of The Lobby – USA, a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s covert influence campaign in the United States.
We are releasing the leaked film simultaneously with France’s Orient XXI and Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar, which have respectively subtitled the episodes in French and Arabic.
The film was made by Al Jazeera during 2016 and was completed in October 2017.
But it was censored after Qatar, the gas-rich Gulf emirate that funds Al Jazeera, came under intense Israel lobby pressure not to air the film.
Although Al Jazeera’s director-general claimed last month that there were outstanding legal issues with the film, his assertions have been flatly contradicted by his own journalists.
In March, The Electronic Intifada was the first to report on any of the film’s specific content. We followed this in August by publishing the first extract of the film, and shortly after Max Blumenthal at the Grayzone Projectreleased others.
Since then, The Electronic Intifada has released three other extracts, and several other journalists have watched the entire film and written about it – including Alain Gresh and Antony Loewenstein.
Now The Electronic Intifada can reveal for the first time that it has obtained all four parts of the film.

You can watch the first two parts in the video embeds above and below. (deel 3 en 4 onder dit artikel van EI)
To get unprecedented access to the Israel lobby’s inner workings, undercover reporter “Tony” posed as a pro-Israel volunteer in Washington.
The resulting film exposes the efforts of Israel and its lobbyists to spy on, smear and intimidate US citizens who support Palestinian human rights, especially BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
It shows that Israel’s semi-covert black-ops government agency, the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, is operating this effort in collusion with an extensive network of US-based organizations.

Censored by Qatar


The film was suppressed after the government of Qatar came under intense pressure not to release it – ironically from the very same lobby whose influence and antics the film exposes.
Clayton Swisher, Al Jazeera’s head of investigations, revealed in an article for The Forward in March that Al Jazeera had sent more than 70 letters to individuals and organizations who appear in or are discussed in the film, providing them with an opportunity to respond.
Only three did so. Instead, pro-Israel groups have endeavored to suppress the film that exposes the lobby’s activities.
In April, Al Jazeera’s management was forced to deny a claim by the hard-right Zionist Organization of America that the film had been canceled altogether.
In June, The Electronic Intifada learned that a high level source in Doha had said the film’s indefinite delay was due to “national security” concerns of the Qatari government.

Covert action


Reifkind – then an Israeli embassy employee – describing her typical work day as “mainly gathering intel, reporting back to Israel … to report back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Strategic Affairs.”
She discusses the Israeli government “giving our support” to front groups “in that behind-the-scenes way.”
Reifkind also admits to using fake Facebook profiles to infiltrate the circles of Palestine solidarity activists on campus.
The film also reveals that US-based groups coordinate their efforts directly with the Israeli government, particularly its Ministry of Strategic Affairs.
Run by a former military intelligence officer, the ministry is in charge of Israel’s global campaign of covert sabotage targeting the BDS movement.
The film shows footage of the very same ex-military intelligence officer, Sima Vaknin-Gil, claiming to have mapped Palestinian rights activism “globally. Not just the United States, not just campuses, but campuses and intersectionality and labor unions and churches.”
She promises to use this data for “offense activity” against Palestine activists.
Jacob Baime, executive director of the Israel on Campus Coalition, claims in the undercover footage that his organization uses “corporate level, enterprise-grade social media intelligence software” to gather lists of Palestine-related student events on campus, “generally within about 30 seconds or less” of them being posted online.
Baime also admits on hidden camera that his group “coordinates” with the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs.
Baime states that his researchers “issue early warning alerts to our partners” – including Israeli ministries.
Baime’s colleague Ian Hersh admits in the film to adding Israel’s “Ministry of Strategic Affairs to our operations and intelligence brief.”

Psychological warfare”


Baime describes how his group has used anonymous websites to target activists.
With the anti-Israel people, what’s most effective, what we’ve found at least in the last year, is you do the opposition research, put up some anonymous website, and then put up targeted Facebook ads,” Baime explains in part three of the film.
Canary Mission is a good example,” he states. “It’s psychological warfare.”
The film names, for the first time, convicted tax evader Adam Milstein as the multimillionaire funder and mastermind of Canary Mission – an anonymous smear site targeting student activists.
The Electronic Intifada revealed this in a clip in August.
Eric Gallagher, then fundraising director for The Israel Project, is seen in the undercover footage admitting that “Adam Milstein, he’s the guy who funds” Canary Mission.
Milstein also funds The Israel Project, Gallagher states.
Gallagher says that when he was working for AIPAC, Washington’s most powerful Israel lobby group, “I was literally emailing back and forth with [Adam Milstein] while he was in jail.”
Despite not replying to Al Jazeera’s request for comment, Milstein denied that he and his family foundation “are funders of Canary Mission” on the same day The Electronic Intifada published the clip.
Since then, Josh Nathan-Kazis of The Forward has identified several other groups in the US who fund Canary Mission.

Suppressed film


In March, The Electronic Intifada published the first details of what is in the film.
We reported that it showed Sima Vaknin-Gil claiming to have leading neoconservative think tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies working for her ministry.
The undercover footage shows Vaknin-Gil claiming that “We have FDD. We have others working on” projects including “data gathering, information analysis, working on activist organizations, money trail. This is something that only a country, with its resources, can do the best.”
As noted in part one of the documentary, the existence of the film and the identity of the undercover reporter became known after footage he had shot for it was used in Al Jazeera’s The Lobby – about Israel’s covert influence campaign in the UK – aired in early 2017.
Since then, Israel lobbyists have heavily pressured Qatar to prevent the US film from airing.

Foreign agent”


Clayton Swisher, Al Jazeera’s head of investigations, first confirmed in October 2017 that the network had run an undercover reporter in the US Israel lobby at the same time as in the UK.
Swisher promised the film would be released “very soon,” but it never came out.
Multiple Israel lobby sources told Israel’s Haaretz newspaper in February that they had received assurances from Qatari leaders late last year that the documentary would not be aired.
Qatar denied this, but the paper stood by its story.
Swisher’s op-ed in The Forward was his first public comment on the matter since he had announced the documentary.
In it, he refutes Israel lobby allegations about the film and expresses frustration that Al Jazeera had not aired it, apparently due to outside pressure.
Several pro-Israel lawmakers in Washington have piled on more pressure by pushing the
Department of Justice to force Al Jazeera to register as a “foreign agent” under a counterespionage law dating from the 1930s.

The Israel lobby goes to Doha


While the film was delayed, a wave of prominent pro-Israel figures visited Qatar at the invitation of its ruler, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
They have included some of the most right-wing and extreme figures among Israel’s defenders in the US, such as Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and Morton Klein, the head of the Zionist Organization of America.
Swisher wrote in The Forward that he ran into Dershowitz at a Doha restaurant during one of these visits, and invited the professor to a private viewing of the film.
I have no problem with any of the secret filming,” Swisher says Dershowitz told him afterwards.
And I can even see this being broadcast on PBS” – the US public broadcaster.
Yet it appears that Israel lobby efforts to quash the film were successful – until now.

Deel 3 en 4 van The Lobby – USA

Hier de video Evidence the Israel Lobby Control the US Government’:

Zie ook:
Kritiek op Israël wordt door een leger van Israëlische trollen bevochten

Israël misbruikt de aanslag op de synagoge in Pittsburgh voor demonisering van steun aan de Palestijnen…….

Google Maps veegt Palestijns gebied van de kaart

Israël zet snelle reactiemacht op poten tegen anti-Israëlische kritiek

Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….

Britse justitie gaat ‘hate crimes’ van Labour onderzoeken

Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen

Hajo Meyer 12 augustus 1924 – 23 augustus 2014

Gisteren overleed Hajo Meyer, een groot man met een dito humaan hart. Meneer Meyer dank voor uw grootse inzet, om tot een meer humane wereld te komen. Hierbij mijn medeleven en veel sterkte bij dit verlies voor zijn dierbaren. Zijn heengaan is een groot verlies voor de mensen die serieus vrede nastreven en daarmee voor de wereld in haar geheel. Hajo Meyer stelde onder meer, dat de Gazastrook niets anders is dan een groot concentratiekamp voor Palestijnen. Lees over deze natuurkundige en oud-bestuurslid van Een Ander Joods Geluid, die Auschwitz overleefde, op de site van Stan van Houcke.

Hajo Meyer: ‘Alleen de teloorgang van de eigen ethiek zal het jodendom vernietigen.’