More Confessions by Israeli Veterans that they Expelled the Palestinians in 1948

Israeli army veterans admit role in massacres of Palestinians in 1948

Tuesday, 16 October 2012 16:05

Amnon Neumann

The testimony of 83-year-old Yitzhak Tishler, who lives in Mafsirt Tsyon, confirms the accounts provided by other veterans who spoke of looting houses and stores. He also said that he took part in the killing of dozens of villagers in the village of Al-Sheikh near Haifa in revenge for the Jewish workers who were killed in a quarrel near Rifyanry

Mr. Neumann admitted that he took part in displacing Palestinians from their villages.

Dozens of Israeli army veterans have admitted their involvement in massacres against Palestinian civilians in 1948, and acknowledged that Zionism misled them and is a catastrophe for both Jews and Arabs. The details have been revealed by the Yazkern organisation, which was founded in 2001 and seeks to unveil the truth and spread the Palestinian narrative of the country's history among Israelis and convince them of Zionism's false account. The organisation believes in a one-state solution and in Palestinians' right to return to their land and homes.

Pictures taken of Nakba in 1948

Israeli army veteran Amnon Neumann is 82 and from Haifa. He said that he was a member of the Palmach, the elite fighting force of the Haganah, the underground army of the Yeshuv Jewish community during the period of the British Mandate of Palestine. Neumann joined the Palmach in 1946 after he came to Palestine from Poland at the age of 16.

Building demolished by Zionist forces

He said that there were no real battles due to Palestinian poverty and lack of organisation, training and arms. The official Israeli account of that period claims that the displacement and killing of Palestinians was the normal result of a war.

Civilian killed by Hagannah lies dead

Mr. Neumann admitted that he took part in displacing Palestinians from the villages of Simism, Najd, Kawkaba, Burayr and other places which were fully inhabited by their owners; this runs contrary to Zionist claims. Confessing to his participation in the massacre that was committed against the people of Burayr, Neumann noted that they had Czech-made guns which they used to expel the local inhabitants towards the Gaza Strip.

The Haganah forces were surrounding the village on three sides, he recalls, and firing in the air before entering and expelling its people forcefully. The houses were burnt down, as per the orders the armed forces had received. According to the veteran, he heard a confession by a Haganah officer after the occupation of Burayr that he had shot a Palestinian girl in the head after raping her. It was later revealed, said Neumann, that the girl had indeed been raped.

Another veteran, Arhamel Khnovitc, also 83 years old, now lives in the settlement of Daghania. He confessed that he took part in the massacre in the Dahmash Mosque in Al-Lydd in July 1948; he also took part in the ethnic cleansing of the villages of Jamzu and Dan'el.

"I headed to the mosque, as per an order from the command, and I kept my ears and eyes open after I quietly opened the door,” said Khnovitc. “Then I fired a Fiat missile, following orders. Many corpses flew and got stuck to the walls due to the severity of the blast."

Arab buildings destroyed in Nakba

Benyamin Eisht, 85, who lives in Bilhaym, said that he saw the Palestinian survivors of Al-Lydd and Ramla after the massacre, walking in lines toward Ramallah, with dead bodies scattered on the sides of the road.

Arab buildings bombed and set on fire in 1948

The testimony of 83-year-old Yitzhak Tishler, who lives in Mafsirt Tsyon, confirms the accounts provided by other veterans who spoke of looting houses and stores. He also said that he took part in the killing of dozens of villagers in the village of Al-Sheikh near Haifa in revenge for the Jewish workers who were killed in a quarrel near Rifyanry.

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Israeli Democracy Index Confirms Jewish Racism is Rampant

48.9% of the the Jews agree with the statement that Jews should have more rights than non Jews

Ethiopia's Black Jews Demonstrate Against Israeli Jewish Racism - Many Israeli Jews don't see them as Jewish  unlike non-Jewish white Russians

 An Israeli comrade writes:

'This is the Haaretz English story on this important poll, which happens to be the 'positive spin' version... The Hebrew story (link below), written by a different journalist (Jonathan Lis), is the 'realistic version' pointing to the same stats but in a rather different light, which is far more critical. The Hebrew header reads "Democracy Index: Half the Public Supports Preferential Rights to Jews" (obviously, the "public" here is the Jewish public). The Hebrew version starts by pointing to the finding that 48.9% of the the Jews agree with the statement that Jews should have more rights than non Jews, a significant increase since 2009. It then focuses on the deterioration of the 'balance' between democratic and Jewish state where, among those polled, 'democratic' loses in favor of 'Jewish'.

As is clearly demonstrated by the article header and sub-header, below, the English version is a different story altogether, focusing on those parts of the survey whose results display "improvements" over past years. For example, Arabs are no longer the number one on the list of undesirable neighbors; since the last survey, they've been replaced by foreign workers... (They surely must feel much better about this one...) Only towards the end of the English version coverage of the ugly reality returns, but with less emphasis and detail than can be found in the Hebrew version.'

Israeli flag flying over Maale Adumim - Israeli settlement just outside Jerusalem

English: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.550838
Hebrew: http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politi/.premium-1.2133862
Among Israeli Jews - Poll: Jewish majority more important than West Bank sovereignty

Fewer Jewish Israelis favor policies that encourage Arab emigration away from Israel, compared with past.

By Judy Maltz | Oct. 6, 2013

Almost two-thirds of Israeli Jews believe it is more important for their country to maintain a Jewish majority than to maintain sovereignty over the West Bank. Only 21 percent feel maintaining sovereignty over the West Bank is more important than preserving the Jewish majority and 7 percent believe both are equally important.

Campaign poster for Shimon Gafsou, mayor of upper Nazareth, who is so proud of the title 'racist scum' that he put up posters to that effect, promising not to change the "Jewish character" of the city and to prevent the building of an Arab school. Photo: QUIQUE KIERSZENBAUM

These were among the findings of the 2013 Israeli Democracy Index,   published Sunday by the Guttman Center for Surveys  the Israel Democracy Institute. The index, released annually since 2003, measures trends in public opinion.

The findings also indicate what might be considered a softening in attitudes of Jewish Israelis toward the country’s Arab citizens. About 44 percent of Jewish respondents said this year that they favored government policies that encourage Arab emigration, down from 51 percent in 2010 and 54 percent in 2009 – the last two times this question was asked in the survey.

Similarly, the survey shows that Arabs no longer top the list of neighbors Israeli Jews would consider undesirable, replaced now by foreign workers. Almost 57 percent of Jewish respondents said that having foreign workers as neighbors would bother them. Next in line among those considered undesirable neighbors for Israeli Jews were an Arab family (48 percent), a homosexual couple (30.5 percent), ultra-Orthodox Jews (21 percent) and Shabbat desecrators (10 percent).

Slightly over 46 percent of Arab respondents said that having homosexual neighbors would bother them. Next in line among those considered undesirable neighbors for Arab Israelis were a Jewish family (42 percent) and foreign workers (31 percent).

The Israeli Democracy Index bases itself on a representative sample of 1,000 Israeli adults. The following are some other key findings published on Sunday:

A substantial majority of Jewish Israelis (63 percent) believes soldiers do not have the right to refuse to serve in the West Bank because they oppose the occupation. Slightly over half believe soldiers do not have the right to disobey an order to evacuate settlements either.

More than half of Israeli Jews (52 percent) believe that human and civil rights organizations, such as the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and B’Tselem, harm the state, while 36 percent disagree.

Overall, young Israeli Jews are more patriotic and right-wing in their leanings than their elders.
Close to half (49 percent) of all Israeli Jews believe that Jewish citizens should have more rights than non-Jewish citizens.

Most Jews feel that critical national decisions should be determined by a Jewish majority, both on matters of peace and security (67 percent) and on socioeconomic issues (57 percent).

Roughly one out of every three Israeli Jews (31 percent) believes that only Jews should determine the outcome of a referendum on peace that includes withdrawal from the West Bank.

Three-quarters of Israeli Jews believe Israel can be both a Jewish and democratic state. Only one-third of Arab respondents shared this view.

Roughly one-third of the Jewish respondents think the Jewish component of Israel’s definition as a Jewish and democratic state is more important, while 29 percent attach greater importance to the democratic component. The percentage of respondents who prefer the combined definition “Jewish and democratic” has declined steadily in recent years, reaching 37 percent this year.

The share of Jewish respondents who would choose democratic principles over Jewish religious law in the event of a conflict between the two is 43 percent – much higher than the 28 percent who would opt for the latter.

Jewish Israelis most frequently assess the country’s overall situation as “so-so” (43 percent,) with 37 percent calling it “good” and 18 percent calling it “bad.” A much higher percentage of Israeli Arabs (39 percent) consider the situation “bad.”

An overwhelming 83 percent of Jewish Israelis said they are proud to be Israelis and two-thirds said they feel part of the state and its problems. Among Arabs, only a minority of 40 percent said they felt proud to be Israeli or have a sense of belonging to the country (28 percent).

About 42 percent of Israelis feel the right to live with dignity is upheld “too little” or “far too little” in the country.

Almost two-thirds of Israelis believe it is important to narrow socioeconomic gaps in the country even if this means raising taxes.

As in past surveys, the army topped the list of institutions and public servants deemed trustworthy by Jewish Israelis, followed by the president of Israel. Among Arab citizens, the Supreme Court topped the list, followed by the media.

Although the assessment of Knesset members’ performance has improved somewhat, compared with previous surveys, more than two-thirds of Israelis still feel that their politicians are more concerned with their own interests than those of the public.

Just Like Nazi Germany - No Sex Between the Races

Banning sexual relations between a Jew and a non-Jew

A protest against the attack by a Jewish mob on three Palestinians in Zion Sq., Jerusalem. August 18, 2012 (photo: Activestills)

 There is one primary difference between Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1939 (i.e before the final solution began) and Apartheid South Africa and Israel.  Whereas the first two enacted legislation explicitly forbidding sexual relations between 'races', Israel prefers more informal methods.  Among Israeli Jews there is an overwhelming consensus against such relations. Jews who break this taboo are ostracised and there is a major campaign by the religious and settler right to prevent and if necessary  break-up such relations.  Because of the overwhelming racism in Israeli society, this is as effective as legislation in Germany and South Africa was.

Sabbar Kashur - imprisoned for rape by deception

As I reported at the time, an Arab male Sabbar Kashur, was given an 18 month prison sentence and held under house detention for two years for ‘impersonating a Jew’.   His offence?  Rape by deceit!  High Court frees Arab in case of 'rape by impersonating Jew'

 Now there is a good argument that someone carrying a transmittable disease (HIV, Hepatitis etc.) is under a positive duty to inform the woman (or man) of their condition and that such a failure means there was no genuine consent.  But only in Israel, is pretending to be of a different religion an offence  considered rape.  Kashur was freed by the Supreme Court after massive international pressure drew the same comparisons between Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa and Israel.

The Nuremberg Race Laws (the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor). Germany, September 15, 1935.  — National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

As the articles below show, the pressure is immense on a Jewish woman not to have sex with an Arab (it doesn’t work the same way with a Jewish man – the same was true in Nazi Germany where Hitler had a much more tolerant attitude to relations between German men and Jewish women, because the racial gene pool was not affected).

As the Holocaust Encyclopedia’s article Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany outlines:

‘At their annual party rally held in Nuremberg in September 1935, the Nazi leaders announced new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology. These "Nuremberg Laws" excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or German-related blood."

Israel racist?  Perish the thought.  After all, it’s the Middle East’s only democracy!

It should be noted that Orthodox Jews have always opposed such relations   with non-Jews.  When I grew up there was a taboo against 'marrying-out'.  But many Jews did so and today in Britain and the USA a majority marry out.  But when the State and society enforce such medieval attitudes with the power of the state, then it becomes not chavinist but racist, a demonstration of a sick, racist society.  In Israel this opposition is not confined to the religious sector.  Naftali Bennett leads the settler  Jewish Home party which is secular and anti-religious.


Tony Greenstein

  Racist Jews lead drive against ‘their’ women having sex with Palestinian men

Articles on the growth of the Jewish campaign against Jewish/Palestinian relations from Ma’an, Ha’aretz and +972.

Rabbi Dov Lior - "A Jewish fingernail is worth more than 1,000 non-Jewish lives" elected repeatedly to settler Yesha Rabbinical Council

The campaign against relationships, especially sexual, between Jewish women and Arab men is led by Lehava and, amongst others, Rabbi Dov Lior [above], notorious for his racist pronouncements including the proposals that Bedouin should be paid to move to ‘their homelands’ – Libya and Saudi Arabia.

 Jewish women banned from night shifts to avoid Arab ‘contact’

By Ma’an news
October 20, 2013
BETHLEHEM — Jewish women have been banned from working night shifts as a part of their national service at hospitals in Israel in order to avoid “contact with Arabs,” Israeli Channel 10 reported on Wednesday.

Israeli National Service Administration Director Sar-Shalom Jerbi issued the directive two weeks ago banning any volunteer shifts past 9 p.m. for women fulfilling their national service duties.
The director explained that “we reached the decision based on concern for our volunteers, and Minister [Naftali] Bennett gave his blessing.”

Naftali Bennett is the leader of the far-right Israeli political party “Jewish Home,” and is currently the minister of religious services.

Many young Jewish women in Israel choose to volunteer at hospitals in order to fulfill their national service requirements. The national service is an alternative to service in the Israeli army, which is required for most Israeli Jews.

The decision marks a victory for an intense campaign led by religious Zionist rabbis and other right-wing groups within Israel to prevent contact of any sort between Israeli Jews and Palestinians, especially between Jewish women and Palestinian men.

A flyer warning the public about an Arab who threatens to “defame” Jewish girls, distributed in a Jerusalem neighborhood in 2011.

According to the Channel 10 report, these groups began a campaign against women’s night-time service last year after reports surfaced of “intimate relations” between some Jewish volunteers and Palestinian doctors at hospitals.

In response to the decision, the director of the Lehava organization which was involved in the campaign issued a statement lamenting that the move did not go far enough. “Unfortunately, this is too narrow and too late a step. National service should be terminated anywhere there are non-Jews,” he said.

Lehava is an Israeli organization that campaigns to prevent relationships between Jewish women and non-Jewish men. The main targets of their campaigns tend to be Muslim and Christian Arabs.
Among the leaders of the campaign was Rabbi Dov Lior, the Chief Rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba settlements who was in 2011 arrested for incitement against Arabs.

Lior has previously made numerous controversial and racist statements towards non-Jews, and called Baruch Goldstein, the perpetrator of the 1994 Cave of Patriarchs massacre which claimed the lives of 29 Muslim worshipers, “holier than all the martyrs of the Holocaust.”

Jewish girls, beware the ‘evil’ Arab doctor

How did sex, which is supposed to be an intimate matter between two adults, become the doomsday weapon of generations of racists of whatever nationality or religion?
By Oudeh Basharat, Ha’aretz October 21, 2013

Arab physicians have become the latest target of racism. Photo by Nimrod Glickman

If Channel 10 were to run a news item about a tomato that caused an upset stomach, Heaven forbid, the officials in charge would make sure to get a comment, if not from the tomato itself, then at least from the farmer who had grown it. But Arab physicians do not have this luxury.

Channel 10’s main news broadcast last Wednesday evening reported that the National Civilian Service Administration had ordered its religiously observant women volunteers not to work after 9 P.M. According to the news broadcast, this decision was made by the Lehava anti-assimilation organization after “reports were received about intimate relationships between young women performing their national service and Arab physicians in the hospitals where they volunteered,” as reported on the Nana 10 online portal. The website quoted one of the rabbis as having said in the past, “I’m hearing horrible stories about good girls.” The head of the National Civilian Service Administration made sure to mention that the decision was made with the blessing of the minister in charge, Naftali Bennett.

Channel 10 conveyed the news item with equanimity, as if it were a weather report. Nobody there bothered to invite an Arab physician, or at least the director of the hospital where these lewd acts are supposedly taking place, to give their version of events. In the Soviet Union, Stalin himself concocted the Doctors’ Plot against Jewish physicians. Today, all that’s necessary are a few racist rabbis, the director of the National Civilian Service Administration, brother Naftali and a major media outlet that forgets to ask for a response from the ones being maligned — and voila: a plot that would give the anti-Jewish propaganda industry since the Middle Ages something to be proud of.

After turning the Arabs into thieves, layabouts, non-tax-paying deadbeats and backstabbers, now the time has come to malign the Arab physicians. And they, the jewel in the crown, are portrayed as sexual deviants who go after helpless teenage girls. Well then, ladies and gentlemen, be careful when you walk around in the hospitals, because you never know where it’s going to come from: the hallways teeming with hormone-ridden physicians on the prowl. This is the Arab portrayed in the Israeli media. In situations like these, when any response pales next to the plot, the writer Emile Habibi would mutter, “Treacherous time.”

How did sex, which is supposed to be an intimate matter between two adults, become the doomsday weapon of generations of racists of whatever nationality or religion — a weapon that brings all the hidden demons of their sick souls out into the open? But if so, why punish the Jewish women doctors and nurses, who will become easy prey for all the hormonal attacks of the Arab doctors once the teenage girls doing their national service have left for the night? Well, Jewish physicians, get out of bed and go to work! Stand guard en masse during the night to maintain racial purity. And as for you, Arab physicians, here you go — finally, an evening with your families and a warm bed at night, just as long as you do not profane the modesty of the Arab girls.

All these good things, and the major festival of racism — the Knesset’s winter session — are still in store for us. If the media adopt the promotional methods customary on television, then it’s likely that we’ll be seeing promos before the Knesset’s hearings with the slogan “Racism not of this world” alongside a photograph of MK Ze’ev Elkin, for example. Or an announcer saying, “How to sweep the Arabs out of the Knesset,” while Deputy Minister Danny Danon is shown holding a large broom with the words “The Governance Bill” written on it. MK Yariv Levin will also appear with a similar broom, bearing the caption “The Prawer Bill,” while the announcer tells us, in formal tones, of “an eviction operation that will surpass the expulsion from Spain.”

Yil’an al-shaitan, as the Arabic saying goes — damned be the devil, who feeds the anger and despair that lie in wait o ambush the best of both peoples. Collaboration in this ugly phenomenon is so prevalent in Israeli society, Jews and Arabs alike, that it is hard to know who here is a Jew and who an Arab. Faced with this arid desolation of racism, the soil yearns for the blooming oases of normalization. Give normalization a chance!

Benzi Gopstein, a leader of Lehava, the Israeli organization that wants to bar Jewish women from night shifts.

Jewish women can’t volunteer at night – to avoid ‘contact with Arabs’

Benzi Gopstein - Member of the neo-Nazi Kach Organisation treated with respect by Knesset MPs

The Israeli government succumbs to pressure by racist and anti-miscegenation organizations, banning Jewish women from volunteering in hospitals at night, when they might be more likely to encounter Arab workers and doctors.
By Mairav Zonszein, +972
October 17, 2013

Young Israeli women volunteering at hospitals in Israel as part of their national service (an alternative to serving in the Israel Defense Forces) will no longer be allowed to do night shifts in order to avoid any contact with Arabs, Channel 10 reported Wednesday (Hebrew).

The director of Israel’s National Service Administration, Sar-Shalom Jerbi, issued a directive two weeks ago banning any volunteer shifts past 9:00 p.m.: “We reached the decision based on concern for our volunteers, and Minister [Naftali] Bennett gave his blessing.”

According to the report, the decision was made following a pressure campaign waged by religious Zionist rabbis, among them notorious Kiryat Arba Rabbi Dov Lior (arrested in 2011 for incitement against Arabs and for legitimizing the killing of non-Jews in war time) and the radical Israeli anti-miscegenation organizationLehava. They began the campaign over the last year after hearing reports of “intimate relations” between some of the Palestinian-Arab doctors and the Israeli Jewish volunteers.

The decision was not sharp enough for Lehava, however, according to a statement issued by its director: “Unfortunately, this is too narrow and too late a step. National service should be terminated anywhere there are goyim [non-Jews].”

Just last month, I reported on another anti-miscegenation religious organization Yad La’achim, which is collecting IDs of Jewish Israeli girls who are found socializing with Arabs.

The holy war against Arab-Jewish relations and the Jerusalem lynch

Those who attacked Palestinians in central Jerusalem [August 17th, 2012] claimed they wanted to prevent them from speaking to Jewish girls. The fear of interracial relations once found only in the fringes of the right are now turning into a legitimate, mainstream political issue in national-religious circles.
By Noam Sheizaf, +972 August 21, 2012

There are several organizations promoting ethnic segregation in Israel, with a special emphasis on preventing relations between Jewish girls and Palestinian men. The most vocal is Lehava, an NGO that calls upon citizens to inform them of any case of mixed marriage or relationship. Their low-tech internet site, filled with racism and hate-talk, has a section titled “shame page,” which features the pictures of women, mostly public figures, who are in relationships with non-Jews. The head of Lehava, a Kahanist called Bentzi Gopstein, said today that the Jerusalem attackers “have raised Jewish honor from the floor and did what the police should have done.”

Likud MP Tzipi Hotovely a racist who believes Netanyahu is too soft  supports annexing the West Bank but says it would mean offering Palestinians Israeli citizenship

Likud deputy transport minister Tzipi Hotovely; she presided over a 2011 Knesset hearing on ‘Jewish identity’ which centred on eradicating intimate relationships between Jews and Arabs.

Lehava wouldn’t merit much attention if it wasn’t for their legitimacy in right-wing circles. In February 2011, MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) invited Gopstein to a formal session of the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of Women, along with other members of organizations who work to expose and prevent inter-racial relations. The title of the hearing was “the phenomena of assimilation in Israel – a special session in honor of Jewish Identity Day.”

Gopstein had the opportunity to explain the work of his organizations, and even to complain about “lack of cooperation” from the Ministry of Education; he mentioned the case of a school in Bat Yam “where 20 percent of the girls are dating Arabs.” MK Hotovely turned to a representative from the Department of Education, Dr. Zvi Zameret, for an explanation, and the latter, instead of calling racism for what it is, replied: “This is the first time I am hearing those figures… I made a note to look into that.”

A quote from Gopstein was the first one to appear in a press release that MK Hotovely sent following the session, and other Knesset members present at the debate congratulated her for tackling this issue.
The holy war against interracial relationships has been central to the agenda of racist groups throughout modern history. In many places, the first to suffer from attacks (and later, laws) were Jews. An attempt to introduce laws against intermarriage was the main reason the Knesset rejected Jewish supremacist Meir Kahane in the 1980s. At the time, Justice Shamgar wrote that such ideas “remind us of the worst persecution in Jewish history.”

Times have changed. The demand for racial purity is becoming mainstream, re-entering the Knesset through the front door. Leading rabbis, most of them state employees, have signed letters calling on Jewish homeowners to refrain from renting their apartments to Arabs, or warning Jewish girls against dating Arabs.

Michael Ben Ari - first disciple of Rabbi Meir Kahane elected to the Knesset for the National Union

 Michael Ben-Ari joined a party of 50 right-wingers who travelled to a village last May to prevent a Jewish woman marrying an Arab man. The former MK said, “We came to say that the women of Israel belong to the Jewish people. Assimilation is one of the greatest tragedies of the Jewish people. Every Jew can sleep tonight while clicking his tongue, but he must know that another daughter of Israel has married an Arab.”

It’s a form of racism that treats women as the object of the (Jewish) man, his to keep within the tribe. It’s not surprising therefore that the calls to ban women from public life come from the same national-Orthodox circles who want to “save” those women from Palestinian men. But while the attempts to limit the presence of women in public are (rightly) meeting fierce opposition, the revolting attempts to delegitimize, ban or punish interracial relations are endorsed by not-so-marginal circles, and practically accepted as a legitimate political concern within the Jewish mainstream.

Newspaper reports from the Jews for Justice Weekly Reports

McCarthy Style Attack on Brian Klug

  Zionism's Mediocre Academics Try to Censor

Conference on anti-Semitism

Brian Klug - Oxford don and target of the Zionist witch-hunters

On November 8-9th an international conference on anti-Semitism, is being held in Berlin. Under the name of the Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, (BICSA) (anyone these days can set up a Centre!) it seeks to prevent Brian Klug, one of the most thoughtful contributors to the debate over anti-Semitism from addressing the conference.

To that effect they have issued a dossier from 17 people.  The main contribution is from a Clemens Heni, whose primary objection is Klug’s refusal to acknowledge the ‘new anti-Semitism’.

Senator Joe McCarthy - Clemens Heni's political idol

Contributors include Gerald Steinberg and Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University. A university which bars Arab students from its dormitories, because of the ‘danger’ of sexual relations between them. If the prize idiot, Clemens Heni, who heads this forlorn effort to ban Jews who are not Zionists from having a public forum, doesn’t understand what is wrong with this, then he should remember that is a short distance Berlin, where he pontificates on anti-Semitism, to Nuremberg. Because of course the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour was promulgated in that city in 1935.  

The House Committee on UnAmerican Activities - a Model for Zionism

But in Israel today, sexual relations between Jew and Arab is met with a hostility that would have done Goebbels proud. Three years ago, an Israeli Arab Sabbar Kashur was jailed for 18 months and placed under house arrest for two years for impersonating a Jew and having sex with a Jewish woman. He was convicted of ‘rape by deceit’. High Court frees Arab in case of 'rape by impersonating Jew’ Ha’aretz 4.8.10.  And of course there was the case of the Chief Rabbi of Safed, Shmuel Eliyahu, who issued a ruling that Jews should not rent flats to Arabs - Artists say no to Eliyahu as chief rabbi.  Yet this is the tip of a racist Zionist iceberg.



Zionism's academic chump & McCarthyite -  Clemens Heni

Gerald Steinberg’s main contribution was to call Brian Klug ‘an immoral anti-Zionist’ for denying what only anti-Semites used to argue, that the Jews were a race and nation apart.  We also have an academic and Lt. Col Kedar, who spent 25 years, by his own admission, ‘in IDF military intelligence specialising in … Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic groups, and Israeli Arabs.; i.e. he was integrally involved in the repression of Israel’s Arabs, writing in favour of banning Brian Klug.  When it comes to racism in Israel this collection of misfits are like the 3 wise monkeys – the neither see, hear or speak of any evil.

List of Contributors to the publication

Chief Junk academic, Clemens Heni

Jonathan Hoffman & Millett - fresh from cavorting with the fascist EDL supporter of Ethnic Cleansing Ephraim Karsh

Far right-winger Gerald Steinberg

Even more absurd is the fact that the chump of chumps, Jonathan Hoffman, someone who was even denounced by fellow Zionists, was photographed dancing down the street with members of the fascist and holocaust denying English Defence League They were almost holding hands!  

So we have a Zionist publication dedicated to fighting ‘anti-Semitism’ which issues a call to ban anti-Zionist or non-Zionist Jews, containing an article by someone who has demonstrated and organised with the fascist EDL, to say nothing of Richard Millett, who was Hoffman’s bag carrier.

fascist EDL demonstrates its support for Zionism and Israel at Ahava

Then there is also a contribution from Ephraim Karsh of Kings College and the racist University of Bar-Ilan. Karsh’s main contribution to civilisation is to attack the fervently ultra-Zionist Benny Morris, for having revealed some of the truth about the Arabs of Palestine being driven out by massacre and forcible expulsion in 1948. In other words a supporter of mass murder and ethnic cleansing. There are one or two other nonentities who are not worth mentioning.

The main contribution is from Clemens Heni.  The main crime of Brian Klug is not to agree with the neo-con definition of ‘new anti-Semitism’. Israel is the ‘Jew’ among the nations. Apparently Israel is criticised because it is a Jewish state not because of what it does. Ordinary anti-Semitism is of little concern to them. The murder of 3,000 Argentinean Jews by the neo-Nazi Junta between 1976-83 and the silence of Israel, its blocking of exit visas to Jewish left-wingers and its $1 billion arms trade with the Junta are of no concern. Clemens is one of those Germans whose guilt over the past is transferred onto the Palestinians.

Even Prof. Yehuda Bauer, of the Hebrew University Jerusalem and Yad Vashem, an ardent apologist for Zionist collaboration with the Nazis during the war and Rudolph Kasztner in particular, says that ‘Western anti-Semitism is not new. This concept of "New Antisemitism" is, I think, quite false.’ 

If you ask 99% of people to define anti-Semitism, they will say it is hatred or discrimination against Jews. Some may mention the world Jewish conspiracy theory. Most people know what anti-Semitism is. In my lifetime Israel has become transformed from the ‘hero’ of 1967 to the world’s main pariah state, supported only by US dollars. This hasn’t been because of an upsurge in ‘anti-Semitism’, quite the opposite, but because of Israel’s open attacks against its own Arab citizens.

This is the main conjuring trick of Clemens Heni and his associates like Gerald Steinberg a founder of NGO Monitor, which seeks to deprive non-governmental organisations which criticise Israel or give help to the Palestinians of their funding. Another McCarthyite is Sam Westrop of Stand for Peace, whose idea of ‘peace’ is a good example of Orwell’s doublethink. War is peace, black is white. You get the message.

And the jewel in the crown? Disgraced former MP Dennis McShameless. A crook who created invoices in order to enrich himself in Parliamentary expenses, was forced to resign from the British parliament last year. He is under investigation by the Police (though they are not exactly exerting themselves). He has set himself up as an expert in anti-Semitism. Previously he criticised the ‘anti-Semitism’ of Hugo Chavez on behalf of the US State department and is a cold war warrior, a relic of the past. 

MacShane and his partner-in-crime John Mann MP, who were given their license to libel by war criminal Tony Blair, were ‘expert’ witnesses in the recent Employment Tribunal case brought against Britain’s Universities College Union. The tribunal savaged McShane & Mann:

‘Both gave glib evidence, appearing supremely confident of the rightness of their positions. For Dr MacShane, it seemed that all answers lay in the MacPherson Report (the effect of which he appeared to misunderstand). Mr Mann could manage without even that assistance. He told us that the leaders of the Respondents were at fault for the way in which they conducted debates but did not enlighten us as to what they were doing wrong or what they should be doing differently. He did not claim ever to have witnessed any Congress or other UCU meeting. And when it came to anti- Semitism in the context of debate about the Middle East, he announced, "It's clear to me where the line is ... " but unfortunately eschewed the opportunity to locate it for us. Both parliamentarians clearly enjoyed making speeches. Neither seemed at ease with the idea of being required to answer a question not to his liking.’ [my emphasis]

And that sums it up in a nutshell. Academic impostors like Heni only get away with their nonsense because they are never held to account for their views. When MacShane and Mann took the witness stand they were incapable of defending their nonsense. But to the academic propagandist Clemens Heni, who would no doubt have presented an equally ardent defence of the Stasi if circumstances had been different, a refusal to acknowledge his pet theory is in itself anti-Semitic.

One can judge the academic bona fides of Clemens Heni from his description of Independent Jewish Voices as ‘an anti-Israel group’. Quite the contrary, it has developed into a Jewish group mainly concerned with the (lack of) human rights in Israel. It is a group that has rejected the equation of Israel’s barbarities, its torture, the Apartheid Wall etc. with Jews in the West. Other than that it has no consensus on the question of Zionism.

It is blindingly obvious, as the Zionist Community Security Trust’s statistics make clear, that attacks on Jews increase when Israel bombs and kills a few hundred more Palestinians. Instead Clemens Heni concentrates on an obscure Saudi Arabian and his anti-Semitic poem. Strange that Saudi Arabia and Israel have an unwritten alliance and that the USA is the main supporter of the corrupt Wahhabi rulers. But as Herzl wrote ‘the anti-Semites will be our friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies’ (p.84 Diaries)

What passes for ‘anti-Semitism’ in the Arab world is primarily a reaction to Israel. The anti-Semitism that led to the annihilation of Europe’s Jewish communities in the holocaust has no comparison in a region of the world where Jews lived peaceably for centuries. The only countries under Nazi and Vichy rule in the war where 99% of the Jews survived were the Arab countries and Muslim Albania (& Denmark)).

Clemens Heni and his gaggle of witch-hunters aren’t interested in anti-Semitism per se. As Heni complains ‘For him [Brian Klug], antisemitism only exists in marginal neo-Nazi groups or among people who promote obvious antisemitic conspiracy myths.’ Yes it’s quite a good start but one can understand why Heni doesn’t find this so ‘interesting’. After all most fascist and far-Right parties in Europe are pro-Israel. From the BNP and EDL in Britain to Poland’s Kaminisk and Latvia’s Robert Ziles (who marches each year with the Waffen SS veterans). See Conservatives Anti-Semitic Friend Declares his Undying Sympathy for Israel! 


Brian Klug’s main crime is that he exposed the European Union Monitoring Committees Definition of anti-Semitism as a bogus Zionist construct. The EUMC’s successor, the Fundamental Right's Agemcu, has now dispensed with what was only a working definition, foisted on them by the American Jewish Congress, a Zionist group and removed it from it from its web site. (see SWC to EU Baroness Ashton: “Return Anti-Semitism Definition Document to EU Fundamental Rights Agency Website”.

Just what type of idiot heads the Berlin Centre for anti-Semitism can be gauged by Hen’s comment that ‘Neo-Nazis killed Muslims in Germany in recent years not because they were seen as Muslims, but because they were seen as non-Germans or immigrants.’  I don’t recall Americans or Britons being killed for being non-German!  But this comes from someone who believes that if the Palestinians kill a bible bashing settler from Brooklyn, then that is automatically ‘anti-Semitic’ because the settler was Jewish.  Israel should therefore be given unlimited impunity for whatever it does. 

If you criticise an Israeli kindergarten for refusing to admit an Arab child, because they are Arab, then that is anti-Semitic!  It no surprise that Zionism’s Junk Academic Clemens Heni describes in his witch-hunting article ‘the security fence in Israel (which is in some regions a wall) as ―Apartheid wall.'  The fact that it deliberately carves deep into the West Bank is irrelevant.  In fact it doesn’t even exist in many Israeli localities, so much for the ‘security’ pretext.  But no doubt the International Court of Justice was also being anti-Semitic when it ruled that the Apartheid Wall was illegal under international law.

I must confess that I know Brian and occasionally meet up for a drink or meal.  Brian is not an anti-Zionist but a non-Zionist like Tony Lerman who was witch-hunted out as Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.   We have many disagreements but on one thing we agree - the days when people could be intimidated by accusations of 'anti-Semitism' are over.

Tony Greenstein

Review: FLIRTING WITH THE CAMERA by Ros Clarke

Tom Metcalfe is an über-successful fashion photographer. But he wants to be more—he wants to be an artist! To that end, he's planning an exhibit of depressing and hopeless landscapes reflecting the emotional wasteland that is his life. Now he just has to find that punch of humanity and pathos the gallery manager insists he needs. At an open casting call, he makes his way through numerous models; but it's only when Hattie Bell shows up that Tom realizes he's found his muse. Will these two crazy kids get together despite their emotional Issues?

Ahead there be major spoilers...

I picked up Flirting with the Camera because Penny from Penny Romance recommended it, saying it was about "a chunky girl heroine who has good self-esteem and thinks she's beautiful." That sounded unusual and refreshing! And indeed, Hattie had no body issues whatsoever, something I found interesting (and a tad unrealistic, but delightfully so) considering she wants to work in an industry obsessed with appearances and maintaining a certain look.

I loved the character of Hattie, who was over-the-top, confident, and full of personality in a His-Girl-Friday kind of way. She's sexy and doesn't put up with any bullshit. I also liked Tom, despite the fact that the frequency with which he "dragged his eyes" over Hattie's curves made me roll my eyes a few times. Tom's kind of an asshole when we first meet him, which is entirely consistent with my preconceived notions of fashion photographers (anyone seen Blow-Up?), but Ros Clarke does a good job of making him seem like someone who could maybe possibly be a good guy. Deep down in there, somewhere.

The first half of Flirting with the Camera was fun and fast-paced, but then Hattie's photoshoot ended and she and Tom went their separate ways. How would they get back together? I wondered to myself. Now, maybe I was off my game the week I read Flirting with the Camera or something, but for some reason Hattie's deep, dark secret—that she had an abortion when she was younger—didn't warn me that she would magically become pregnant during the course of the book, thus resolving all issues.

Yes! I knew I'd find a use for this GIF some day.

I'm not a huge fan of "convenient baby romances" to begin with, but my main problem with Hattie's pregnancy was that it was used as a shortcut to resolving Tom's issues and bringing him and Hattie together in a believable and emotionally satisfying way. They have to get together for the sake of the baby, so Tom abruptly goes from being a complete commitment-phobe who's convinced he'll kill Hattie just like he did his last girlfriend, to "knowing" he couldn't have saved Lianne (like Lulu in The Cuckoo's Calling! What is it with models and these L-names?). Not only does the baby magically appear, it magically fixes all Tom's Issues! So instead of focusing on Tom gradually working through his feelings of guilt and fear, the conflict in the second half of Flirting with the Camera focuses instead on whether or not Hattie's going to get another abortion. And then if she doesn't, whether or not Tom will step up to the plate and be a father to the little tyke. Settling down for the sake of a kid is a solid on his part, but it's not terribly romantic.

To be fair, I thought the fact that Hattie had an abortion in the past, and the reason[s] why she might have one again (she doesn't, naturally, but the decision was up in the air for a bit) was handled fairly. She's not a Horrible Person just because she had an abortion, and she's not exactly scarred for life either (though she is broken hearted). Still, the focus on the pregnancy in the second half of the novella slowed the story down and didn't further the romance much, either.

Since I felt like the conflict was misplaced and the conclusion was rushed, Flirting with the Camera left me a bit frustrated and unsatisfied. But overall it's an okay read, and if you like confident heroines who aren't shrinking violets or innocent ingenues, this one's worth picking up.


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Sodastream picket – Brighton 1st November

Supporters of the Jewish Defence League & other Zionist Loonies Take Over

Sussex Friends of Palestine picket Sodastream

Christian Fundamentalist & Zionist Jill Young supporting gay rights!  A lovable loony.

 I have only attended the picket of Sodastream (they call themselves Ecostream to chime in with Brighton’s green reputation fitfully.

The snarling face of the Sussex Friends of Israel leader Simon Cobbs

The tactics of the Zionists seem to be to intimidate the protestors and in particular to home in on Jewish anti-Zionists. One specimen, an Israeli, repeatedly called me a ‘traitor’ despite my making clear that I don’t owe any loyalty to a movement that collaborated with the Nazis and welcomed anti-Semitism

Jason  White's pro-EDL/JDL site

I was also told a couple of times that I was a ‘self-hater’ and my response was that nothing could be further from the truth, but I certainly hated them!

'Jason White's racist site - Muslims value Jewish death more than they do Muslim life'  And the Zionists complain we call them racist!

A good example of the latter is to be found in the Diaries of Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism. But what he said has been repeated in one form or another hundreds of times by other Zionists:

Cobbs at a loss for words

‘‘anti-Semitism, which is a strong and unconscious force among the masses, will not harm the Jews. I consider it to be a movement useful to the Jewish character…. Education is accomplished only through hard knocks.’ [Diaries, p.10]

Jason Whites  site promotes a 3rd Jewish temple - he is a supporter of Ateret  HaCohanim which is particularly active in Jerusalem evicting Palestinian families from houses they have lived in for centuries

Eventually I called him a Jewish Nazi [because accusations of ‘self-hatred’ and ‘traitor’ were directed by the Nazis at anyone who opposed them and their policies on race and nation]

Said Israeli then squealed and complained to the Police who were uninterested. This week there were a few additions, Zionist thugs and madmen. At least some of them plus the leader of the Zionists, Simon Cobb, are supporters of the Jewish Defence League, which in the USA is classified as a terrorist organisation (the only Zionist group to be so called) and which is the Jewish division of EDL and an integral part of Kach, an organisation led by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, which even other Zionist groups called Jewish-Nazis.

Cobbs - Zionist leader - not a happy man

One of the new recruits is one Jason White, judging by whose facebook page supports those who want to build the third temple, and knock down the mosques on temple mount, the 3^rd holiest place in Islam. What he lacks in brains he makes up for with a loud American voice. When asked how many Palestinian children they’d killed, he didn’t deny it but simply said his son did that now. A lovely example of Zionism at its best (worst).

Would you like to meet him on a dark night?

At the end of the demonstration one of the fascists steamed into me calling me a 'commie cunt' twice.  His details were  taken and to be fair even some of the Zionists dissociated themselves from this thuggery - though not of course Cobbs.

J'ai Deux Amours, Neither of Which Are These Books

I really need to stop reading every book that crosses my path and has the word "Paris" in the title, you guys.

In the past two weeks I've read two books that both take place in pre-War Paris (well, kinda). And they both kind of sucked, although for different reasons.



The first was The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King. It follows the walking and talking of Harris Stuyvesant, an itinerant PI who's trying to find a missing girl in what the author continually reminds us is 1929 Paris. As in, "But hey, it's 1929 Paris!" The "twist" is that Harris slept with Pip before she disappeared. Quelle horreur, y'all. As he follows Pip's trail, he discovers artists are assholes, and one of them might have killed Pip.

Now, I didn't pick up this book JUST because it had the word Paris in the title; I was also intrigued because I like King's Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes novels (or I did, until I DNF'd two in a row because they were boring me). Based on those books I expected better research and writing from King than I got in this novel. It was almost as if she got all her research from watching Midnight in Paris and Discovery Channel documentaries: everything from the historical characters to the bone-filled catacombs has been treaded and retreaded a thousand times. Even the scenes with Sylvia Beach (whom Harris naturally knows, because I'm sure she loved hanging out with aging private investigators) are so obviously based on those two photographs of her that are in every documentary about Paris in the 1920s. And naturally Picasso, Salvador Dalí, F. Scott Fitgerald, and Cole Porter all have to be mentioned. Come on, I can get this stuff from any book. I had to roll my eyes when it turned out Harris knew Ernest Hemingway, and Kiki de Montparnasse (but never even heard of the guy Kiki lived with for nearly a decade, Man Ray? Makes no sense).

The lack of original and unexpected story lines wouldn't have bothered me too much if King actually brought the city and society of Paris to life, but she didn't. There was a whole lot of tell and not show going on—some passages read distinctly guidebook-y—and while King might have been going for a crime noir type novel, the tone of the writing was too light to pull it off. I was also a little bothered by the way some of the surrealists, like Man Ray and Lee Miller, were portrayed. But to be fair, that's probably because of my background in art history.

In the end The Bones of Paris just wasn't interesting enough to hold my attention. I only read it for a few days, but it felt like WEEKS because nothing happened and I didn't give a damn if Harris found Pip or not. Or if he threw himself into the Seine, for that matter. The Bones of Paris was a DNF, and I think it will also be the last book I read by King.





The second novel, Midnight Train to Paris, was originally released as a Kindle serial and is about a journalist whose twin sister is kidnapped from a train along with two other women. Just so happens, 75 years earlier three other women were taken from the same train, at the same place and time. Coincidence?! Soon Jillian is traveling to Switzerland with her ex-luvarh (who used to be in the CIA but is now a private super-investigator) to find her sister and solve both kidnappings, in both time periods!

There is sooo much going on in this book: corrupt US senators, child abuse, murrrrder, betrayal, scandal (sounds like an ABC lineup), art, time travel, train mysteries, castles hidden in the mountains, insanity... LORDY LORDY. I have to admit that I enjoyed it a lot more than The Bones of Paris because there was stuff going on (what a concept), even though the writing was much worse. For example, the author took care to describe, in detail, the driving routes her characters took to get from one place to another, yet didn't bother to research average weather patterns in the Alps or what people wear when it's cold outside. Hint: it's generally more than a pencil skirt, heels, and a light jacket.

Nevertheless, I was having fun reading it. But about halfway through Midnight Train to Paris, I started to lose interest because there was a complete lack of plausibility. Not just the inconsistencies in clothing, but in the characters' behavior and the numerous incredible coincidences. I didn't care if Jillian and her cookie cutter hero got together, if her sister would survive, or even if Jill would. When the hero and heroine traveled back in time and the heroine started getting messages across space-time from her sister, it got to be too much. I skimmed to the end, so trust me when I say it only gets more ridiculous as the book goes on. Also, there are only about three pages that actually take place in Paris. You can definitely feel free to skip this pulpy mess of a novel.


Have you read any good books set in Paris lately?


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Jennifer Burrows on What is it About Books?

Today I'm hosting a guest post from Jennifer Burrows, author of A Shot In the Dark, as part of her blog tour with ABG Reads Books Tours. There's a tour-wide Rafflecopter giveaway at the end of her post, so be sure to enter!

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I love reading books, almost more than I love writing them.   A good writer can get me so absorbed in the story and the characters that I won’t put down the book until I’ve finished it.  I love the feeling of escaping into another reality especially when I’m stressed, or just need a break from everyday life.  Often times, the feelings the characters have are so palpable, it makes me relate to them.

I recently read the Hard Rock Series by C.M. Stunich.  Without giving up too much of the story, two rock stars, Naomi and Turner,  have a history in which one can’t remember yet he was attracted to the other and wasn’t sure why.  Naomi had been hurt very badly by Turner and was trying her hardest to forget about him.  There was so much raw emotion with this story, and the pull of the love-hate relationship made me eager for more.  Needless to say, I read these books about two months ago and I’m still thinking about them.

I like a book that keeps me guessing.  I don’t like when I can figure out the plot and how the story is going to end in the first three chapters.  I started a book this week and it was just that, very predictable.  I haven’t been able to pick it back up.  There are only so many books I can read about womanizing gazillionares who fall for the girl who drastically changes his life for the better.  I need more from a book.

While I love the dirty romance books, I also love thrillers.  I can’t say enough about Dan Brown’s books.  How many books do you read in which you learn something and yet you’re thoroughly entertained the entire way through.  Now if Dan could add a little more romance, I’d be all in!

I love finding a good book boyfriend.  Who doesn’t?  In the Hard Rock Serious, Turner Campbell is dirty.  He has a dirty mind, dirty mouth, and he’s physically dirty.  I was having a hard time getting into that.  But when I looked at the cover and saw what Turner was supposed to look like, I was all in.  Turner went from dirty gross to dirty hot in about thirty seconds.  That is the power of a great book.  Between the story, the cover, and the mental images the reader creates a connection is created with the author and the story.

Many people say they don’t like to read or they don’t have time to read.  My personal feeling is they haven’t found the right book.  Because when you find the right book, you suddenly love to read and you make the time to finish it.

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