The Israeli State, instead of being Recompense for the Extermination of Europe’s Jews, is the Embodiment of the Nazi Policies of Lebensraum and Racial Resettlement
Holocaust Memorial Day
Meeting 27.1.24.
Above is the recording of our hugely
successful Holocaust Memorial Day meeting last night. 333 people attended from
25 countries and every continent including 218 from the UK, 38 from South
Africa, 27 from the United States and 12 from Germany.
Instead of this being a typical Zionist Holocaust
Memorial Day meeting, using the memory of the Holocaust to reinforce the racist,
genocidal Israeli state, there were a series of speakers who spoke of the liberation
of humanity from the imperialist order which led to the Holocaust.
The meeting was chaired by Esther Giles from the Socialist Labour Network. Speakers included the foremost Israeli historian of the Nakba, Ilan Pappe; Ronnie Kasrils, the former leader of the ANC’s military wing, Umkonte we Sizwe and former Police Minister under Mandela.
Ghada Kharmi, a Palestinian doctor who was expelled with her family from Jerusalem in 1948 and a prolific author and academic, the latest book being One State, Suzanne Weiss, who as a child was hidden by the Jewish resistance from the Nazis in Auvergne, France; Stephen Kapos, who was hidden by the Holy Cross church group from the Nazis and the fascist Iron Cross in Budapest and Tony Greenstein from the SLN and Jewish Network for Palestine, the first Jewish member of the Labour Party to be expelled and author of Zionism During the Holocaust.
We intend to repeat this meeting next year. Never Again must the Zionists be allowed to lay claim to the memory of the Jewish dead of the Holocaust. They represent the perpetrators not the victims of the Holocaust.
When Yoav Gallant, Israel’s Defence
Minister, called Palestinians ‘Human
Animals’ he was repeating
word for word Himmler’s October 1943 Speeches in Poznan, Poland calling Jews ‘Human Animals’.
It is important that we do not allow the
Zionists to colonise HMD and thus trash the memory of the Jews and others who
died at the hands of the fascist barbarians. There is no one and nothing that
is closer to these fascists than the regime in Tel Aviv whose closest friends today
are those very same fascists – from our own Tommy Robinson to people like Geert
Wilders, Germany’s Afd and Norway’s Anders
Breivik, to say nothing of Trump and Bannon.
The
United States and its British Poodle Cut Food Aid to those Already Starving
Channel 4
Interview with Chris Gunnis, former spokesperson for
It was no surprise that the war criminals
who govern us – Biden, Sunak, Scholtz and the rest immediately cut of all aid
to UNWRA, the UN agency responsible for feeding the Palestinian refugees. Israel
has long desired
to eliminate UNWRA altogether. It is as Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UNWRA said, collective punishment.
But even if the allegations are true,
even if some UNWRA staff did participate in October 7, so what? Resistance
against an occupier is allowed under international law and is the right of any
occupied people.
Most people will understand what the
real motive is behind this decision. The leaders of western imperialism don’t
even bother to hide their anger at the decision of the International Court of
Justice at the Hague, weak as it was, that the case that the United States said
was ‘meritless’was upheld by the ICJ who considered genocide ‘plausible’.
The decision to attack UNWRA is clearly
in retaliation for against the decision to go to the ICJ. Such is the nature of
the ‘rules based order’. See below two articles from Mondoweiss. Naturally Israel’s
response
was to accuse the ICJ of anti-Semitism!
The go to explanation for all criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Never before has it been so obvious that
Western support has nothing to do with Jews or anti-Semitism and everything to
do with Western interests.
However in their desire to support the
West’s attack dog in the Middle East the west’s war mongers are risking setting
the whole of the region on fire.
If the Arab regimes, the Houthis apart,
weren’t so cowardly and subservient to the West, the genocide in Gaza could have
been stopped in its tracks long ago. An oil embargo, as in 1973, would have
forced the United States to reign in their racist Rottweiler.
Tony Greenstein
UNRWA once again in the crosshairs
On the very day that the ICJ ordered for Israel to ensure the
unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, Washington saw fit to cut
off all funding to UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian
refugees.
The decision came after Israel claimed that 12 UNRWA workers
had been involved in the October 7 attack. UNRWA has said that it has terminated
the contracts of these workers as it commissions an independent
investigation into the allegations — but the United Kingdom, Australia,
Italy, and Canada have followed
the U.S.’s lead and pulled their funding of the organization.
In an election year during which he is trying to convince the
American public that he is the only alternative to the return of Donald Trump
to the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden is following his predecessor’s
lead, as Trump had partially suspended funding to UNRWA in 2018.
“We call on
the countries that announced the cessation of their support for UNRWA to
immediately reverse their decision, which entails great political and
humanitarian relief risks, as at this particular time and in light of the
continuing aggression against the Palestinian people, we need the maximum
support for this international organization and not stopping support and
assistance to it,”
Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Hussein
al-Sheikh wrote on
X.
Hamas, meanwhile, called on the United Nations “not to yield
to the threats and blackmails.”
“We stress the importance of the role of these agencies in providing relief to our people and documenting the crimes of the occupation, which exceed the most horrific crimes known to humanity in our modern era,”
JEREMY CORBYN: Britain joining other countries in suspending funding for #UNRWA amounts to collective punishment.
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) January 27, 2024
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the movement said in a statement.
Even as the U.S. appears steadfast in siding with Israel,
Biden is facing
legal trouble at home over his administration’s failure to stop the ongoing
genocide in Gaza.
Palestinians testified
on Friday in front of a federal court, in a case brought forth by the
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against Biden, Secretary of State Antony
Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, arguing that the three
high-ranking officials are liable under U.S. law for complicity in Israel’s
violations of the Genocide Convention.
Biden cuts off
life-saving aid to Palestinians based on Israeli allegations against UNRWA
The State Department has paused funding for
UNRWA after the Israeli government accused 12 employees of being involved in
the October 7 attack.
The State Department paused
additional funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after the Israeli government accused 12 UNRWA
workers of being involved in the October 7 Hamas attack.
A press statement from State Department spokesperson Matthew
Miller said the Biden administration was “extremely
troubled by the allegations.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken
with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “to emphasize the necessity of a thorough and swift investigation of
this matter.”
UNRWA has already terminated the staffers and opened an
investigation into the allegations. “The
Israeli authorities have provided UNRWA with information about the alleged
involvement of several UNRWA employees in the horrific attacks on Israel on
October 7,”said
UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini.
“To protect
the agency’s ability to deliver humanitarian assistance, I have taken the
decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these staff members and
launch an investigation in order to establish the truth without delay.”
UNRWA COMMISSIONER-GENERAL:
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) January 27, 2024
The suspension of the agency's funding is shocking and threatens humanitarian work in the region, especially in Gaza.
I call on countries that suspended funding to reconsider their decisions.
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Many have noted that UNRWA provides life-saving aid to more
than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza.
“Based on
unproven allegations alone, the U.S. has cut off funding to UNRWA, one of few
groups which provides crucial on the ground aid to Palestinians,”said the
antiwar group CODEPINK. “Yet, as Israel
commits war crime after war crime, the U.S. continues sending weapons.”
“The US is
collectively punishing Palestinians, who rely on UNRWA to survive, based on
Israeli allegations against 0.0004% of UNRWA’s staff. Outrageous,”said the
Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU).
The Biden administration’s announcement comes on the same day
that the UN’s top court ordered
Israel to prevent genocidal acts Gaza and a U.S. court began hearing a lawsuit
accusing Israel of genocide.
NEW: The State Department has put a temporary hold on funding for UNRWA, the main UN agency in Gaza, following allegations that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks in Israel pic.twitter.com/HXtr7AzISa
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) January 26, 2024
NEW: The State Department has put a temporary hold on funding for UNRWA, the main UN agency in Gaza, following allegations that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks in Israel pic.twitter.com/HXtr7AzISa
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) January 26, 2024
Commentators questioned the State Department’s timing across
social media.
“So, the US
State Dept drops a rather significant statement on (unsubstantiated) allegations
against UNRWA workers and pulling funding on the day of the ICJ ruling which
finds sufficient evidence for plausible genocidal acts—- and decides there’s no
need for a press briefing,”
wrote AJ+’s
Sana Saeed. “Honestly, this would be
masterful manufacturing of the news if it wasn’t so transparent.”
“The US chose
to stop funds to UNRWA only an hour after the ICJ decision,” tweetedUSCPR Organizing
& Advocacy Director Iman Abid. “Israel kills over 33,000
Palestinians and the US still continues to negotiate an increase in funding to
Israel. I don’t know what more you need to know about this administration.”
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant praised the move on
Twitter. “Major changes need to take
place so that international efforts, funds and humanitarian initiatives don’t
fuel Hamas terrorism and the murder of Israelis,” he wrote. “Terrorism under the guise of humanitarian
work is a disgrace to the UN and the principles it claims to represent.”
In December, UNRWA announced
that Israel’s onslaught against Gaza had killed 142 employees of the
organization.