Phil Anderer wrote:who is a Semite... ...you genuinely can't be pro-Palestine and antisemitic, since basically all Arabs are Semites. It's as if it's an identity the Israelis have tried to appropriate for themselves.
I have said it in the past, but I think Doc said it recently.
The Israeli fundamentalist Zionists have also very cleverly, over many years, managed to conflate any criticism of the Israeli government with '
antisemitism'. This has been a very successful tactic to lessen dissent of the Israeli government's apartheid. It was particularly successful when attacking Corbyn. There was zero evidence that Corbyn is antisemitic, in fact, quite the opposite, as he has many supporters & friends who are liberal Jews. But there were Jewish people within the Labour Party who would rather have a Johnson Prime Minister, than Corbyn. By removing him, and supporting a Johnson government, they stopped any future challenges against the Israeli government.
Another difficult term is Zionist. If you believe in the right of the Israeli state to exist, then, by definition, you are a "
Zionist", as that is the literal meaning. However, fundamentalist 'Zionists' believe in '
from the river to the sea', a trope that is highly offensive when used by Palestinians and their supporters, but acceptable when fundamentalist Jews say the same thing. Right wing Zionists want to wipe Palestine from the map entirely. I believe that was always the intention of this latest massacre of innocent people and the destruction of Gaza. This week, Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Gaza could not survive as an independent entity and it would be better for Palestinians there to leave for other countries. He supported a call by two members of the Israeli parliament who wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial, that Western countries should accept Gazan families who expressed a desire to relocate. This is a call for ethnic cleansing by a senior member of the Israeli government. Starmer clearly support's this.
Braverman stated that her husband is a "
proud Zionist" and they have relatives in the Israeli Defence Force, before saying that marches calling for an end to the slaughter were "
hate marches".
The new Foreign Secretary, when he was in his old job, was described as
"the most pro-Israeli Prime Minister, ever".
Starmer, whose wife & children are Jewish, and who observes Jewish traditions, literally supported the Israeli government's war crimes of cutting off water, and has refused to condemn the slaughter, saying the killing of 4,000+ children is "
self-defence" and sacking any Shadow Cabinet Members who dare to say differently.
Have you noticed another subtlety? The Labour spokespeople repeatedly say that the pressure for MP's to support a ceasefire '
comes from those MP's who have a substantial Muslim constituency'. Basically, they are saying that anyone who wants the slaughter to end is doing so because they are Muslim or Muslim supporters, and by therefore, by extension, supported the crimes against humanity of October 7th.
This is a genocide, and both major parties in the British Parliament are complicit.