Showing posts with label Jewish people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish people. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Holocaust survivors condemn Gaza genocide and denounce growing Nazification of "Israel"

247 Jewish survivors of Nazi death camps have already signed the following letter condemning the Gaza genocide: 

Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza

As Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine. We further condemn the United States for providing Israel with the funding to carry out the attack, and Western states more generally for using their diplomatic muscle to protect Israel from condemnation. Genocide begins with the silence of the world.

We are alarmed by the extreme, racist dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli society, which has reached a fever-pitch. In Israel, politicians and pundits in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post have called openly for genocide of Palestinians and right-wing Israelis are adopting Neo-Nazi insignia.

Furthermore, we are disgusted and outraged by Elie Wiesel’s abuse of our history in these pages to promote blatant falsehoods used to justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the murder of nearly 2,000 Palestinians, including many hundreds of children. Nothing can justify bombing UN shelters, homes, hospitals and universities. Nothing can justify depriving people of electricity and water.

We must raise our collective voices and use our collective power to bring about an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. We call for an immediate end to the siege against and blockade of Gaza. We call for the full economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel. “Never again” must mean NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!

Source and further information: International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

When smearing accusations of antisemitism is a pretext for actual antisemitic terrorism

Look well at this guy (left) because he is the chief smearer of the Zionist¹ Hasbara² all around. Marvin Hier is so lowly that he dared to declare the Brazilian champion of Palestinian struggle, cartoonist Carlos Latuff, "antisemitic" for stating the obvious: that Netanyahu bombed the largest concentration camp on Earth (Gaza Strip), massacring hundreds, including dozens of children, just because he hoped to rally support among the rabid colonialists who hold the so-called Israeli citizenship (many of which live in the USA in fact, or arrived to Palestine a few years ago from Russia or wherever, but still hold rights that the natives of Palestine do not in most cases). 

The "antisemitic" cartoon is at the right. The meaning is obvious and there's nothing "antisemitic" in it other than Netanyahu and his truly antisemitic (anti-Palestinian, who are not just Arab-speakers, a Semitic language, but are the most direct descendants of ancient Jews) many crimes. 

I normally do not care if racism, apartheid and war crimes are antisemitic or of any other kind. Ethics are the same for all ethnicities... unless you happen to be a racist and your ethics are racist themselves. But in this case I must emphasize that there is hardly anything more antisemitic than the crimes against Palestinians, who are doubly semitic: Arab (by language) and Jewish (by ancestry).

Of course Latuff, who already warned years ago against the petty abuse by the Zionazis of the term "antisemitism" to mean not anymore hatred of Semitic Peoples in general or Jews in particular but to arbitrarily include all opposition to Israel, i.e. Antizionism, has taken it with a good laugh, even with some pride - not for being antisemitic but for being inevitably smeared by the true antisemites of the Zionist International, the hypocrytes! His answer was this other cartoon, showing his pride for pissing off the Zionazis:


Notice please the subtle detail of the "SS" ensign by which Latuff honors Hier as the Nazi he is. 

If you still have any doubt, I'll ask you a question: who would you trust: an angry rabbi who is buddy of genocidal criminals like Netanyahu (never mind the banksters who fund them both) or Jane Fonda?

Of course the company whom he was entitled with was not in most cases something to be proud of: three European Nazi parties and another ghostly entity (football hooligans) and the less clear cases of Islamist leaders in Iran, Egypt and the USA (see the original SWC pamphlet).

But there was at least another person smeared as well by Hier's venom. This one is a German journalist Jakob Augstein, who has been strongly critical of Israel. What did he say to piss off the Zionazi rabbi? Unlike with Latuff, where the merits are rather dissimulated, with Augstein they bothered quoting him in length:

JAKOB AUGSTEIN
OWNER / EDITOR, DER FREITAG WEEKLY
CONTRIBUTOR, SPIEGEL ONLINE


“With backing from the US, where the president must secure the support of Jewish lobby groups, and in Germany, where coping with history, in the meantime, has a military component, the Netanyahu government keeps the world on a leash with an ever-swelling war chant.”


“Israel’s nuclear power is a danger to the already fragile peace of the world. This statement has triggered an outcry. Because it’s true. And because it was made by a German, Guenter Grass, author and Nobel Prize winner. That is the key point. One must, therefore, thank him for taking it upon himself to speak for us all.”


“Israel is threatened by Islamic fundalmentalists in its neighborhood. But the Jews also have their fundamentalists, the ultra-orthodox Hareidim. They are not a small splinter group. They make up 10% of the Israeli population. They are cut from the same cloth as their Islamic fundamentalist opponents. They follow the law of revenge.”


“The fire burns in Libya, Sudan, Yemen, in countries which are among the poorest on earth. But those who set the fires live elsewhere. Furious young people burn the American, and recently, the German flag. They, too, are victims, just like the dead at Benghazi and Sanaa. Whom does this all this violence benefit? Always the insane and unscrupulous. And this time it’s the U.S. Republicans and Israeli government.”


“Gaza is a place out of the end of times….1.7 million people live there on 360 sq. kilometers. Israel incubates its own opponents there.”

Don't we agree with everything he wrote? I do. I proudly share the merits of Latuff and Augstein. And neither them nor I can be accused of racism (of which antisemitism would be a particular subset or expression) we can be accused of something very different: of defending Human Rights for everyone regardless of whether they are American, European, African or Asian. Regardless of whether they are Arab or Jewish or both. 

The only ones who should be accused here are the Zionists who aim to devaluate and degrade the meaning of the term antisemitism (of such sad memory) just because they want to use it as tool of their own racism, of their own antisemitism, of their own genocidal frenzy. 

They must be stopped.

Another related cartoon by Carlos Latuff (2009)

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¹ Zionism: imperialist colonialist European movement that aims to carve a homeland for Jews in Palestine (and maybe other ill-defined lands of West Asia and North Africa) on the mythical pretext that Jews originated there. To achieve this they must perform a massive genocide because, obviously, the natives of Palestine (who are surely more truly Jewish than modern Jews by deep ancestry) are not going to leave just because, much less after living there, generation after generation, from probably Neolithic times or even before. 

² Hasbara: Hebrew term that means Propaganda.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Historian Eric Hobsbawm's life thread merged with the Universe again

If there is one field other than politics in which Marxism is truly influential that is History. And much of that we owe to Eric Hobsbawm, who died yesterday at the venerable age of 95 at his home in London. 

His work, together with that of other Marxist historians, allows us to understand History not as mere sequence of monarchs and oligarchs, as the Conservative historians would like us to see it all, but from the real depths of the sociological reality of the common workers and due emphasis on the economic forces that drive history to a large extent. 

He remained a communist for all his life, even if he was radically critical of the Stalinist invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, describing their revolutions as ones of workers against a merely pseudo-socialist bureaucracy. 

Good work, comrade.

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Hungarian Nazi kicked for being Jewish

The founder of the terrorist group Hungarian Guard, infamous for its raids in Roma communities, has been expelled from the mother party Jobbik (of clear classical Nazi ideology, and disturbingly high electoral support) after it was known that his maternal grandmother was a Jewish survivor from Auschwitz. 

Source: Sare Antifaxista[es].

Friday, May 11, 2012

New York Hashidic Jews morally lynch community member who reported child abuse

Hasidic Judaism is one of those ultra-freaky religious sects or rather cults, as it's being evidenced now. Their members are notorious for their pre-modern dressing code, misogyny and extensive hysteric ritualism. 

A New Yorker member of this odd community, Mordechai Jungres, denounced a fellow member of the community to police for sexual abuse of his mentally disabled son. The reaction was totally cult-like, like you could expect from Scientologists and such: Jungres is since then receiving curses and threats for "turning a fellow Jew". 

The first shock came when Mordechai Jungreis learned that his mentally disabled teenage son was being molested in a Jewish ritual bathhouse in Brooklyn. The second came after Mr. Jungreis complained, and the man accused of the abuse was arrested.
Old friends started walking stonily past him and his family on the streets of Williamsburg. Their landlord kicked them out of their apartment. Anonymous messages filled their answering machine, cursing Mr. Jungreis for turning in a fellow Jew. And, he said, the mother of a child in a wheelchair confronted Mr. Jungreis’s mother-in-law, saying the same man had molested her son, and she “did not report this crime, so why did your son-in-law have to?”


These people seem to prefer children with disabilities to suffer sexual abuses at the hands of their members than impart justice (it does not seem that any kind of community justice, i.e. lynching, was implemented instead, what surely means that they are alright with "a fellow Jew" sexually abusing another "fellow Jew").

Source: Brown Pundits (source to NYT but it's pay per view).

Friday, March 30, 2012

'San Francisco Jewish Federation officially excommunicates large swath of Jewish population' (Muzzle Watch)

The San Francisco Bay Area’s Jewish Federation has made it official.

Here in one of the most cosmopolitan, diversity-friendly and culture-loving places on earth, there is a new litmus test for Jewish identity and it has absolutely nothing to do with religious practice, cultural expression, personal history or the values you embrace. Membership in the Jewish community has been officially reduced to one and only one question- do you UNCONDITIONALLY love Israel?

Do you love Israel so much that you are willing to stand by and do nothing as it destroys itself and everyone it controls by repeatedly violating international law, sending its youngest citizens to enforce the 43-year occupation of another people,  imprisoning them, killing them with impunity, denying them the right to health and education and work and claiming it’s all in the name of security while taking more Palestinian land and water and trees each day.
In other words, are you willing to love Israel to death?

If the answer is YES, you’re in! If the answer is NO, and you have the chutzpah to embrace the principled, creative, peaceful methods of Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and Gandhi as a way to pressure Israel to  help provide true democracy for all Israelis and Palestinians, then you’re out!

... full story at Muzzle Watch.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Lenni Brenner on how Zionists collaborate with the Nazis and Mussolini

With the publication in Spanish language of US historian Lenni Brenner's book Zionism in the Age of Dictators, discussed at La Haine today, I have become aware of this interview available online (YouTube by Stanheller55) with him, which is a must watch (or listen) for anyone interested in the real history of Zionism.

Sound warning: while the introduction (beginning of first video) has a normal sound level, the interview itself has a quite low sound and you will need to notably increase your speakers' volume to understand it.




 



Sunday, October 17, 2010

A little homage to Benoît Mandelbrot

Benoît Mandelbrot was one of the great geniuses of our era, comparable to Einstein, Hawkins, Maldacena and very few others. He died on October 14 at the venerable age of 85.

Of Jewish ethnicity, born in Poland, raised in France, living in France, Switzerland and the USA, he stands as a universal genius by all standards.

He like no other helped us to discover the beauty and importance of Chaos mathematics and its physical implications. He is best known for defining the concept of fractals, a pillar of Chaos theory.

His best known quote, which is a beautiful synthesis of poetry and deep intellectual provocation is this one:

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

A quote I just love.

In spite of his unique greatness he never received the Nobel Prize, what says nothing good about this media-hyped Scandinavian honor. He did receive many other prizes and honors in his life however, all well deserved.

To the left, photo of the deceased genius (2007, from Wikipedia) and some magnifications of the famous Mandelbrot set, arbitrarily chosen for their beauty (M=10⁻¹, M=10⁶ and M=10⁹). All from The Chaos Hypertextbook.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Zionist troops used tasers in their war action against Jewish humanitarian ship with British flag

Chet posts today the first-person account (by Glyn Secker) of the Israeli assault against the small Jewish boat carrying aid to Gaza.

The assault happened in international waters, what is illegal and an act of war (against the UK, and therefore against NATO) by all accounts, and again included excessive use of violence. Luckily this time there were no fatal casualties but it could have been, as the Yonatan Shapira, a former Israeli pilot recycled into pacifist, was gratuitously hit with a taser gun targeted directly against the heart, which is forbidden and known to have caused deaths in the past. 

Another act of violence was the towing of the boat at extremely high speeds in rough waters. 

Read the whole story at JUSTICE.