Not One Brighton and Hove Labour Councillor nor Hove MP Peter Kyle Will Call for a Halt to the Genocide
Yesterday the largest ever Palestine
Solidarity Demonstration took place in Brighton and Hove. Over 3,000 people marched to a warm
reception from passing cars and locals. You can hear on the video above the
honking of car horns.
It was fitting that the march was
led by children in memory of the 5,000+ children that the Israeli state has
deliberately murdered in Gaza as it bombs homes, hospitals, schools and refugee
camps.
Yet NOT ONE Labour Councillor nor the despicable MP for Hove, Peter Kyle, who doubles up as
Shadow Science Minister and Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel has called
for an end to genocide in Gaza.
At the next election we must call
on people to vote no to having a war criminal as MP for Hove. His predecessor,
Ivor Caplin, former Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement was also a war criminal,
being a junior Defence Minister in Blair’s government at the time of the
Iraq War.
Yesterday I wrote to all 38 Labour Councillors
asking why they had not supported the demand for a ceasefire in Gaza. As of yet
none of them have replied.
In my letter I included two images –
one was a sticker, thousands of which are circulating in Israel with the message
‘Exterminate Gaza’. Extermination is
what the Nazis did and now Israel, in the name of fighting Nazis has adopted
exactly the same terminology.
Not for nothing did Primo Levi, the
Italian Jewish survivor of Auschwitz describe
the Palestinians as the Jews of the Middle East. Although Israelis may imagine
they are fighting the Nazis in reality they are the heirs of the Nazis.
When Yoav Gallant, Israel’s War Minister launched the current attacks on Gaza he declared that ‘We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly.’ When Hitler’s Deputy Heinrich Himmler sought to justify the extermination of the Jews in a speech in Poznań on 4 October 1943, he described the Nazis as ‘the only people in the world who have a decent attitude toward animals’ and who ‘will also take a decent towards these human animals’ referring to the Jews. [A Holocaust Reader, Lucy Dawidowicz, p.131]
Israeli PM Netanyahu Describes the Palestinians as Amalek whom god commanded the Israelites to wipe out to the last infant - as Israel is doing now in Gaza
If anyone doubts that genocide is in the hearts and minds of
the present Israeli government then one only has to listen to Benjamin Netanyahu,
the Prime Minister of Israel and read
his Letter to Soldiers and Commanders: 'Remember what Amalek did to you.'
In the Bible God commands King Saul in the first Book of
Samuel to kill every person in Amalek, a mythical
tribe. The prophet Samuel tells
Saul to
‘attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that
belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and
infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’
This can be found in Deuteronomy 25:17 or the first Book of
Samuel 15:2. It has been the standard interpretation of Amalek by those in Israel
who advocate the extermination of the Palestinians when they chant ‘Death to the Arabs’ to equate the Palestinians
with Amalek. Now the Israeli Prime Minister has done so we should be under no
illusions.
The fact that Biden, Sunak, Starmer, Macron, Scholz and the
other Western leaders are nonetheless willing, despite knowledge of this, to
support Israel unequivocally to the extent of supplying and resupplying Israel’s
missiles and bombs make them equally culpable
in the Israeli state’s war crimes. In short we are led by war criminals.
Tony Greenstein
this was the Zionist counter-demonstration in support of genocide - there were more police than Zios
The Zionist demonstration in support of Genocide