Rabbi burning Israeli passport

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Ajánlom alábbi londoni kép riportot minden földszinti antiszemita olvasómnak...

Hogy ezek után én is filoszemita és cionista leszek megint, -merthogy mégiscsak zsidókat reklámozom- sem nem lep meg, sem nem érdekel.
Az ostobaságot semmilyen szinten nem bírom, mint ahogyan nem bírom a gőgös, nagyképű cionistákat sem.
Nekik is szól ez az anyag.

Van másik út.
A mi utunk!!!

Izraelben született de szégyelli cionista útlevelét.
Avraham Greenberg rabi elégeti izraeli útlevelét tiltakozásul a Gázai palesztinok lemészárlásáért egy a IHRC által szervezett a cionisták elleni tüntetésen a Trafalgar Squaren, 2009 januárjában.

Born in Israel but ashamed of his zionist passport, Rabbi Avraham Greenberg burns his Israeli passport in protest at the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza at a counter-demo organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission opposing a zionist rally in Trafalgar Square on January 2009.

A rabbi from the Neturei Karta, (Orthodox Jews United Against Zionism) Rabbi Avraham Greenberg, gave a short speech in Yiddish before burning his Israeli passport in protest at the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.

Rabbi Avhraham Greenberg holding Israeli Passport

A rabi és izraeli útlevele

Israeli Passport in flames
Izraeli útlevél lángokban

Israeli passport - izraeli útlevél

Rabbi Beck translated the words of Rabbi Avraham Greenberg, saying he felt ashamed to hold an Israeli passport. He also said:
"The zionists destroyed the good harmony that we had together with Muslims. We used to live in harmony and peace with the Muslims all over the world, even today Jews live in Iran, in Algeria, in Tunisia, in Yemen peacefully. The only problem the Jews have is in the state of Israel. Zionists proclaim they want to make a safe haven for Jews. The most dangerous place for Jews today is in the state of Israel. Jews can live much better, much safer, in all the Muslim countries - like Morocco, like Iran..

Its true today we have terrorists, but the terrorists are the zionists not the Muslims.."

After burning the passport the rabbis spit on its remains to cheers from the crowd "Judaism here to stay, Zionism no way". Massoud Shadjareh, the chair of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, and Rabbi Beck embraced each other and together with the crowd chanted "We are all Palestinians" in reply to Rabbi Avraham Greenberg who had wished that one day, after the demise of Israel, he may acquire a Palestinian passport.

Then Rabbi Beck lead the crowds in the chant "Judaism YES, Zionism NO, the state of Israel must GO"
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Racist and sexist Israeli military shirts show the mindset that led to war crimes in Gaza

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Ha'aretz is continuing to divulge soldier testimonies from Gaza. You can find the fullest report yet here. The messianic fervor that fueled the Israeli policy of collective punishment is laid bare.I'm not going to comment on it yet, just go read it.

There is another report in today's Ha'aretz that I do want to comment on. Uri Blau's article "'No virgins, no terror attacks'" describes the practice of Israeli soldiers getting custom clothing printed with their unit's insignia along with graphics and text. Below are some examples of shirts that were printed, along with some of the images. These images only appeared on Ha'aretz's Hebrew-language website:

• A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him.
• A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills."
• After Operation Cast Lead, soldiers from that battalion printed a T-shirt depicting a vulture sexually penetrating Hamas' prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh
• A "graduation" shirt for those who have completed another snipers course depicts a Palestinian baby, who grows into a combative boy and then an armed adult, with the inscription, "No matter how it begins, we'll put an end to it."
• There are also plenty of shirts with blatant sexual messages. For example, the Lavi battalion produced a shirt featuring a drawing of a soldier next to a young woman with bruises, and the slogan, "Bet you got raped!"
• A few of the images underscore actions whose existence the army officially denies - such as "confirming the kill" (shooting a bullet into an enemy victim's head from close range, to ensure he is dead), or harming religious sites, or female or child non-combatants.
• "Let every Arab mother know that her son's fate is in my hands!" had previously been banned for use on another infantry unit's shirt. A Givati soldier said this week, however, that at the end of last year, his platoon printed up dozens of shirts, fleece jackets and pants bearing this slogan.
• "It has a drawing depicting a soldier as the Angel of Death, next to a gun and an Arab town," he explains. "The text was very powerful. The funniest part was that when our soldier came to get the shirts, the man who printed them was an Arab, and the soldier felt so bad that he told the girl at the counter to bring them to him."
• In 2006, soldiers from the "Carmon Team" course for elite-unit marksmen printed a shirt with a drawing of a knife-wielding Palestinian in the crosshairs of a gun sight, and the slogan, "You've got to run fast, run fast, run fast, before it's all over." Below is a drawing of Arab women weeping over a grave and the words: "And afterward they cry, and afterward they cry." [The inscriptions are riffs on a popular song.]
• Another sniper's shirt also features an Arab man in the crosshairs, and the announcement, "Everything is with the best of intentions."
• A shirt printed after Operation Cast Lead in Gaza for Battalion 890 of the Paratroops depicts a King Kong-like soldier in a city under attack. The slogan is unambiguous: "If you believe it can be fixed, then believe it can be destroyed!"

These shirts have to get the approval from IDF commanders and are a military tradition, although the explicit nature of these shirts seem new. Bar-Ilan University Sociologist Dr. Orna Sasson-Levy is quoted as saying the shirts are "part of a radicalization process the entire country is undergoing, and the soldiers are at its forefront." Israeli anti-militarism activist Sergeiy Sandler, who works for the important organization New Profile, emailed this article out saying the shirts are "a long-standing tradition in Israeli military units; you see those shirts, although usually with less outrageous designs, on the streets all over the place. A picture's worth a thousand words, isn't it?"

I don't imagine these types of shirts are unique to Israel. I bet there are similar ones created by US soldiers in Iraq. But the shirts do point to an environment where mass war crimes can be carried out. They reflect a mindset where Palestinian life is disdained, when it's even acknowledged. One of the soldiers says it best in their testimony describing the killing of a mother and her two children: "the atmosphere in general, from what I understood from most of my men who I talked to ... I don't know how to describe it .... The lives of Palestinians, let's say, is something very, very less important than the lives of our soldiers. So as far as they are concerned they can justify it that way."

Source: Mondoweiss

More on this topic:

'Shooting and crying'

Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques - IDF fashion 2009

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Lázadás New Yorkban

.Tüntető New York-i egyetemisták

A NY University diákjai fellázadtak az iskola vezetése ellen, többek között a tandíj emelése ellen tüntettek de egyben követelik, hogy az egyetem adjon ki legalabb13 ösztöndíjat Palesztin és Gazai diákoknak és váltóztassák meg a Palesztin-ellenes propagandát az egyetem tantárgyaiban... Az egyetem (többnyire zsidó vallású) vezetése erre nem hajlandó és a diákok barikádokat emeltek a fontosabb épületekben... mielőtt letartoztattak őket. Ebben az az érdekes, hogy a USA média csak a tandíj dolgot említi és elhallgatta a Palesztin érdekeltségi részleteket... de az egyik diák leleplezte ezt és irt egy cikket erről úgy, hogy most az ügy nagyobb balhé lett mintha őszintén írták és tudósították volna róla...
A The New York Times-ban megjelent cikk:

Katt a logora!



(LH, e blog New Yorki tudósítójától).

A Religion, A Race, Or a Geopolitical Construction?

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Regarding the situation in Gaza. A main reason that the issue of Palestine is out of the reach of most British people's understanding stems from massive gaps in British education filled in by a misinforming media; resulting in the confusion of, in the context of what is called Israel, whether Judaism is a religion, a race, or a
nation; when Zionism discusses all three interchangeably and as one, instead of three quite distinct concepts.
A religion is neither a country, a nation, or a race. An ethnic race is not a country or a nationality or a religion. No path lab has yet found genes passing on a religious belief. A nation is a geo-
political entity, not a race or a religion. A country can have a religion, or many religions; religion can come from a country, or many countries; but a religion cannot have a country. There is no
such thing as a Presbyterian Passport.
This deliberate confusion results in the Zionist claim that people of a certain religious belief – Judaism – have a right to a State "homeland."
I don't believe in any religion and have no need for any God. But having been brought up as a Roman Catholic, do I have a right to Vatican City as a homeland, or Rome, or perhaps I could have the whole southern half of Italy! And what is my evidence? The Bible of
course! Rolled up bits of paper written thousands of years ago by different people at different historical times. It is as factual as a Walt Disney manuscript found 2000 years hence in the desert of what once was Hollywood proves that Mickey Mouse existed.
As a child I was taught the Bible – about Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael and all that. I also "knew" about Father Christmas, Mother Goose and Mickey married Minnie and had Pluto! Now I read grown up books. From my various dictionaries comes the following:
"Jews are people who practice the Jewish religion. They are of all races, Negro and Mongolian. European Jews are of many different biological types; physically they resemble the populations among whom they live… A state cannot be Jewish, just as a chair or a bus cannot be Jewish...The state is no more than a tool, a tool that is efficient or a tool that is defective, a tool that is suitable or a tool that is undesirable. And this tool must belong to all its citizens – Jews, Moslems, Christians.. . The concept of a 'Jewish State' is nothing other than a snare."
Looking at old maps you'll find a big country called Palestine. But in my school and college syllabus books it wasn't there! Then I found out about some more academically hidden grown up books telling the truth – that the formation of the State of Israel is a Zionist
geopolitical creation:
"His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object…"
(Arthur Balfour, to Lord Rothschild, 1917. (The Balfour Declaration. ))
"His Majesty's Government must maintain a continuing interest in that area if only because our economic and financial interests in Middle East were of vast importance to us... If these interests were lost to us, the effect on the life of this country would be a considerable
reduction in the standard of living... British interests in the Middle East contributed substantially… to the wage packets of the workpeople of this country." (Labour Foreign Secretary Bevin, House of Parliament, May 16 1947.)
"The development of primary production of all sorts in the colonial territories and dependent areas …throughout the world is a life and death matter for the economy of this country." (Food Minister Mr. Strachey, House of Parliament, Jan 20 1948.)
Great idea of the British – divide people by religion or race and you can carve up the world into manageable bite-sized pieces. Family size when you compare Israel with what's left of Palestine!
Many Jews by religion, and many Israelis by nationality, are not Zionists. Although having been born into a geopolitical situation they had no part in creating, do not believe in their
acquired "right" to the establishment of the state of Israel as a homeland. A Zionist is not necessarily either a Jew or an Israeli, just a supporter of the idea of Zionism, often American or British, eg: Balfour and others.
Palestinian and non Zionist Israeli and Jewish friends of mine have a joke that goes something like: if that damn Moses turned to the left instead of the right when he came down from the mountain, we'd have had all the oil and the Arabs would have had all the sand and oranges.

And thus Israel is what it always has been since oil was discovered in the Middle East; it is a piece of proxy American military real estate on the edge of all that oil.
The Bible is neither history nor International Law.
Was it Shakespeare? who said "Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up." And Marie Curie: "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." And Einstein: "The most remarkable thing about the world is that you can understand it."

Brian Mitchell. Slough, UK.
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Henry Siegman: Israel’s Lies

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Western governments and most of the Western media have accepted a number of Israeli claims justifying the military assault on Gaza: that Hamas consistently violated the six-month truce that Israel observed and then refused to extend it; that Israel therefore had no choice but to destroy Hamas’s capacity to launch missiles into Israeli towns; that Hamas is a terrorist organisation, part of a global jihadi network; and that Israel has acted not only in its own defence but on behalf of an international struggle by Western democracies against this network.

I am not aware of a single major American newspaper, radio station or TV channel whose coverage of the assault on Gaza questions this version of events. Criticism of Israel’s actions, if any (and there has been none from the Bush administration), has focused instead on whether the IDF’s carnage is proportional to the threat it sought to counter, and whether it is taking adequate measures to prevent civilian casualties.

Middle East peacemaking has been smothered in deceptive euphemisms, so let me state bluntly that each of these claims is a lie. Israel, not Hamas, violated the truce: Hamas undertook to stop firing rockets into Israel; in return, Israel was to ease its throttlehold on Gaza. In fact, during the truce, it tightened it further. This was confirmed not only by every neutral international observer and NGO on the scene but by Brigadier General (Res.) Shmuel Zakai, a former commander of the IDF’s Gaza Division. In an interview in Ha’aretz on 22 December, he accused Israel’s government of having made a ‘central error’ during the tahdiyeh, the six-month period of relative truce, by failing ‘to take advantage of the calm to improve, rather than markedly worsen, the economic plight of the Palestinians of the Strip . . . When you create a tahdiyeh, and the economic pressure on the Strip continues,’ General Zakai said, ‘it is obvious that Hamas will try to reach an improved tahdiyeh, and that their way to achieve this is resumed Qassam fire . . . You cannot just land blows, leave the Palestinians in Gaza in the economic distress they’re in, and expect that Hamas will just sit around and do nothing.’

The truce, which began in June last year and was due for renewal in December, required both parties to refrain from violent action against the other. Hamas had to cease its rocket assaults and prevent the firing of rockets by other groups such as Islamic Jihad (even Israel’s intelligence agencies acknowledged this had been implemented with surprising effectiveness), and Israel had to put a stop to its targeted assassinations and military incursions. This understanding was seriously violated on 4 November, when the IDF entered Gaza and killed six members of Hamas. Hamas responded by launching Qassam rockets and Grad missiles. Even so, it offered to extend the truce, but only on condition that Israel ended its blockade. Israel refused. It could have met its obligation to protect its citizens by agreeing to ease the blockade, but it didn’t even try. It cannot be said that Israel launched its assault to protect its citizens from rockets. It did so to protect its right to continue the strangulation of Gaza’s population.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that Hamas declared an end to suicide bombings and rocket fire when it decided to join the Palestinian political process, and largely stuck to it for more than a year. Bush publicly welcomed that decision, citing it as an example of the success of his campaign for democracy in the Middle East. (He had no other success to point to.) When Hamas unexpectedly won the election, Israel and the US immediately sought to delegitimise the result and embraced Mahmoud Abbas, the head of Fatah, who until then had been dismissed by Israel’s leaders as a ‘plucked chicken’. They armed and trained his security forces to overthrow Hamas; and when Hamas – brutally, to be sure – pre-empted this violent attempt to reverse the result of the first honest democratic election in the modern Middle East, Israel and the Bush administration imposed the blockade.

Israel seeks to counter these indisputable facts by maintaining that in withdrawing Israeli settlements from Gaza in 2005, Ariel Sharon gave Hamas the chance to set out on the path to statehood, a chance it refused to take; instead, it transformed Gaza into a launching-pad for firing missiles at Israel’s civilian population. The charge is a lie twice over. First, for all its failings, Hamas brought to Gaza a level of law and order unknown in recent years, and did so without the large sums of money that donors showered on the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority. It eliminated the violent gangs and warlords who terrorised Gaza under Fatah’s rule. Non-observant Muslims, Christians and other minorities have more religious freedom under Hamas rule than they would have in Saudi Arabia, for example, or under many other Arab regimes.

The greater lie is that Sharon’s withdrawal from Gaza was intended as a prelude to further withdrawals and a peace agreement. This is how Sharon’s senior adviser Dov Weisglass, who was also his chief negotiator with the Americans, described the withdrawal from Gaza, in an interview with Ha’aretz in August 2004:

What I effectively agreed to with the Americans was that part of the settlements [i.e. the major settlement blocks on the West Bank] would not be dealt with at all, and the rest will not be dealt with until the Palestinians turn into Finns . . . The significance [of the agreement with the US] is the freezing of the political process. And when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and you prevent a discussion about the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package that is called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed from our agenda indefinitely. And all this with [President Bush’s] authority and permission . . . and the ratification of both houses of Congress.

Do the Israelis and Americans think that Palestinians don’t read the Israeli papers, or that when they saw what was happening on the West Bank they couldn’t figure out for themselves what Sharon was up to?

Israel’s government would like the world to believe that Hamas launched its Qassam rockets because that is what terrorists do and Hamas is a generic terrorist group. In fact, Hamas is no more a ‘terror organisation’ (Israel’s preferred term) than the Zionist movement was during its struggle for a Jewish homeland. In the late 1930s and 1940s, parties within the Zionist movement resorted to terrorist activities for strategic reasons. According to Benny Morris, it was the Irgun that first targeted civilians. He writes in Righteous Victims that an upsurge of Arab terrorism in 1937 ‘triggered a wave of Irgun bombings against Arab crowds and buses, introducing a new dimension to the conflict’. He also documents atrocities committed during the 1948-49 war by the IDF, admitting in a 2004 interview, published in Ha’aretz, that material released by Israel’s Ministry of Defence showed that ‘there were far more Israeli acts of massacre than I had previously thought . . . In the months of April-May 1948, units of the Haganah were given operational orders that stated explicitly that they were to uproot the villagers, expel them, and destroy the villages themselves.’ In a number of Palestinian villages and towns the IDF carried out organised executions of civilians. Asked by Ha’aretz whether he condemned the ethnic cleansing, Morris replied that he did not:

A Jewish state would not have come into being without the uprooting of 700,000 Palestinians. Therefore it was necessary to uproot them. There was no choice but to expel that population. It was necessary to cleanse the hinterland and cleanse the border areas and cleanse the main roads. It was necessary to cleanse the villages from which our convoys and our settlements were fired on.

In other words, when Jews target and kill innocent civilians to advance their national struggle, they are patriots. When their adversaries do so, they are terrorists.

It is too easy to describe Hamas simply as a ‘terror organisation’. It is a religious nationalist movement that resorts to terrorism, as the Zionist movement did during its struggle for statehood, in the mistaken belief that it is the only way to end an oppressive occupation and bring about a Palestinian state. While Hamas’s ideology formally calls for that state to be established on the ruins of the state of Israel, this doesn’t determine Hamas’s actual policies today any more than the same declaration in the PLO charter determined Fatah’s actions.

These are not the conclusions of an apologist for Hamas but the opinions of the former head of Mossad and Sharon’s national security adviser, Ephraim Halevy. The Hamas leadership has undergone a change ‘right under our very noses’, Halevy wrote recently in Yedioth Ahronoth, by recognising that ‘its ideological goal is not attainable and will not be in the foreseeable future.’ It is now ready and willing to see the establishment of a Palestinian state within the temporary borders of 1967. Halevy noted that while Hamas has not said how ‘temporary’ those borders would be, ‘they know that the moment a Palestinian state is established with their co-operation, they will be obligated to change the rules of the game: they will have to adopt a path that could lead them far from their original ideological goals.’ In an earlier article, Halevy also pointed out the absurdity of linking Hamas to al-Qaida.

In the eyes of al-Qaida, the members of Hamas are perceived as heretics due to their stated desire to participate, even indirectly, in processes of any understandings or agreements with Israel. [The Hamas political bureau chief, Khaled] Mashal’s declaration diametrically contradicts al-Qaida’s approach, and provides Israel with an opportunity, perhaps a historic one, to leverage it for the better.

Why then are Israel’s leaders so determined to destroy Hamas? Because they believe that its leadership, unlike that of Fatah, cannot be intimidated into accepting a peace accord that establishes a Palestinian ‘state’ made up of territorially disconnected entities over which Israel would be able to retain permanent control. Control of the West Bank has been the unwavering objective of Israel’s military, intelligence and political elites since the end of the Six-Day War.[*] They believe that Hamas would not permit such a cantonisation of Palestinian territory, no matter how long the occupation continues. They may be wrong about Abbas and his superannuated cohorts, but they are entirely right about Hamas.

Middle East observers wonder whether Israel’s assault on Hamas will succeed in destroying the organisation or expelling it from Gaza. This is an irrelevant question. If Israel plans to keep control over any future Palestinian entity, it will never find a Palestinian partner, and even if it succeeds in dismantling Hamas, the movement will in time be replaced by a far more radical Palestinian opposition.

If Barack Obama picks a seasoned Middle East envoy who clings to the idea that outsiders should not present their own proposals for a just and sustainable peace agreement, much less press the parties to accept it, but instead leave them to work out their differences, he will assure a future Palestinian resistance far more extreme than Hamas – one likely to be allied with al-Qaida. For the US, Europe and most of the rest of the world, this would be the worst possible outcome. Perhaps some Israelis, including the settler leadership, believe it would serve their purposes, since it would provide the government with a compelling pretext to hold on to all of Palestine. But this is a delusion that would bring about the end of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.

Anthony Cordesman, one of the most reliable military analysts of the Middle East, and a friend of Israel, argued in a 9 January report for the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the tactical advantages of continuing the operation in Gaza were outweighed by the strategic cost – and were probably no greater than any gains Israel may have made early in the war in selective strikes on key Hamas facilities. ‘Has Israel somehow blundered into a steadily escalating war without a clear strategic goal, or at least one it can credibly achieve?’ he asks. ‘Will Israel end in empowering an enemy in political terms that it defeated in tactical terms? Will Israel’s actions seriously damage the US position in the region, any hope of peace, as well as moderate Arab regimes and voices in the process? To be blunt, the answer so far seems to be yes.’ Cordesman concludes that ‘any leader can take a tough stand and claim that tactical gains are a meaningful victory. If this is all that Olmert, Livni and Barak have for an answer, then they have disgraced themselves and damaged their country and their friends.’

15 January

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[*] See my piece in the LRB, 16 August 2007.

Henry Siegman, director of the US Middle East Project in New York, is a visiting research professor at SOAS, University of London. He is a former national director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America.

Other articles by this contributor:

The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam · There Is No Peace Process

Gaza’s Future · Breaching the Barrier

Jews in Solidarity with Palestine

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Sign the Statement | View list of Signers

Stop the U.S.-backed genocidal Israeli war on Gaza!

• Nearly a thousand women, men and children killed by U.S.-made Israeli bombs
• Thousands more wounded
• 1.5 million under siege for the past 18 months, without food, water, medicine, fuel
• Collective punishment for resisting occupation; emergency aid blocked
• Massive violations of international law
• Apartheid wall
• Racist oppression
• Homes and land stolen
• Forced into refugee camps
• 60 years of occupation, from the river to the sea

We Say Enough!

We Are
Jews in Solidarity with Palestine

No to Israel! Yes To Self-Determination, Democracy & Freedom!
Stop U.S. Funding of the War on Palestine!

Free Palestine

The whole world is horrified by the murderous Israeli assault against the suffering people of Gaza. From Seoul to Caracas, from Johannesburg to Amman to London, millions of people have poured into the streets to demand an end to this genocidal campaign, which is funded by the United States and carried out with U.S.-supplied weaponry.

There have also been protests in U.S. cities. While most of those marching are Arab-Americans, many African Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans and whites have joined in. Many Jewish people, outraged at Israel's war crimes and anguished that they are carried out in their name, are speaking out.

It's good that Jewish people of conscience are disassociating themselves from the Gaza aggression. But it's not enough. This atrocity is only the latest, and it's no aberration. It reflects the program of the Israeli settler state—which is based on the theft of Palestine, the ouster and suppression of the Palestinian people, and the racist ideology of Zionism—and of its primary sponsor, the Pentagon and U.S. business establishment.

It's not enough to oppose the bombing. It's not enough to demand an end to the 41-year occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. We stand in complete and unconditional support for the self-determination of the Palestinian people. This includes the right to return to Palestine, from the river to the sea, and the right to democratically determine the form and the future of the Palestinian state.

Nothing less will undo the historic crime of al Nakba—the 1948 catastrophe of the establishment of the state of Israel based on the ouster of the Palestinian people from their homeland, oppression and inequality.

That crime betrayed the whole history of the Jewish people. From helping topple the czar in Russia and build the unions in New York, to resisting pogroms and fighting to the last breath in the Warsaw Ghetto, opposition to persecution, oppression and racism was central to the Jewish heritage.

We call on Jewish people around the world, including those inside Israel, to join us in reclaiming that heritage. Reject racism and genocide. Reject the Zionist state, the very concept of which is racist to the core. Take the hand of our Palestinian sisters and brothers. Defend their righteous struggle to restore their stolen land and build a democratic Palestine.

This is not an impossible quest. Remember how mighty the settler state in South Africa seemed, only a little over two decades ago? The racist regime there was buttressed by U.S.—and Israeli—support. But it was battered by the unstoppable political and military struggle against apartheid, which gained worldwide support. Apartheid fell, replaced by a new state based on legal equality.

A future of equality for all is possible in Palestine too. Until this future is won, the Palestinian struggle will go on. We stand with that struggle.

Initial list of signers:

Toni Arenstein, NY
Dave Axelrod, NJ
Tibby Brooks, NY
Ellen Catalinotto, NY
Sara Catalinotto, NY
Hillel Cohen, Doctor of Public Health, NY
Naomi Cohen, NY
Heather Cottin, Long Island Troops Out Now Coalition, NY
Barbara Dorritie, Teacher, MA
Ellie Dorritie, ret., APWU*, WNY
Rachel Duell, prof., NJ
K. E. Durkin, NY
Sharon Eolis, nurse-practitioner, ret., NY
Shelley Ettinger, NY
Leslie Feinberg, Co-founder, Rainbow Flags for Mumia, NY
Irving Fierstein, artist, NY
Laurie Fierstein, NY
Michele Finkelman, AFSCME L. 215*, NY
Sherry Finkelman, UFT L. 2*, NY
Julie Fry, V-P., Assn. of Legal Aid Attorneys*, NY
Gavrielle Gemma, NJ
Michael Gimbel, del., NYC Central Labor Council*
Carl Glenn, NJ
Jerome Goldberg, attorney. MI
Marsha Goldberg, NY
Fred Goldstein. NY
Lila Goldstein, Students for Justice for Palestine*, MA
Judy Greenspan, CA
Sue Harris, Ph.D., NY
Joyce Kanowitz, NY
Stevan Kirschbaum, chair, Grievance Comm., USW L. 8751*, MA
Tova Klein, CA
Michael Kramer, I.D.F. veteran, Veterans for Peace, Chap. 021*, NJ
Donna Lazarus, UFT*, NJ
Milt Neidenberg, ret., Teamsters L. 840*, NJ
Frank Neisser, CWA L. 1701, ret.*, MA
Cornelia Rakow, NY
Arthur Rosen, NY
Anita Rosenblithe, AFT*, NY
Malcolm Sacks, Montreal
William Sacks, attorney, NY
Karina Mellos-Schechter. NY
Dave Schechter, NY
Susan Schnur, Transit Union L. 268*, OH
J.R. Singer, Ph.D., NY
David Sole, Pres., UAW L. 2334*, MA
Al Strasburger, NJ
Paul Teitelbaum, International Action Center, AZ
Jill White, EdD, IL
Eddie Yood, NY

*For purposes of identification only.
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Zsidó asszonyok a cionizmus rémtettei ellen: elfoglaltak a Torontói izraeli konzulátust!

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Femmes juives occupant le Consulat Israélien à Toronto

Jewish women occupied the Israeli consulate

Un groupe de femmes juives canadiennes occupent actuellement le Consulat israélien situé au 180, rue Bloor ouest à Toronto. Cette action vise à dénoncer les attaques incessantes d’Israël sur le peuple de Gaza.

Le groupe réalise cette occupation en solidarité avec les 1,5 millions de personnes à Gaza et pour s’assurer que la voix des juifs/juives qui s’insurgent contre les massacres à Gaza soit entendue. Il demande qu’Israël cesse ces attaques militaires et lève le siège de 18 mois sur la bande de Gaza, afin de permettre à l’aide humanitaire d’entrer dans le territoire.


Depuis le 17 décembre 2008, Israël mène une offensive militaire de grande envergure dans la bande de Gaza. Au moins 660 personnes sont mortes et 3000 ont été blessés lors des bombardements aériens et de l’invasion terrestre entamée le 3 janvier 2009. Israël a ignoré les appels internationaux pour un cessez-le-feu et refuse de permettre le transport de nourriture, de matériel médical et d’autres biens nécessaires à la vie dans la bande de Gaza.

Les manifestantes sont outrées de la plus récente attaque d’Israël sur le peuple palestinien et du refus du gouvernement canadien de condamner ces massacres. Elles sont profondément préoccupées par le fait que les canadienNEs n’entendent que les visions des groupes pro-Israël, présentées comme étant la seule voix des juifs/juives canadienNEs. Les manifestantes ont occupé le Consulat pour envoyer un message clair : de nombreux-euses juives/juifs canadienNEs ne supportent pas la violence d’Israël et ses politiques d’apartheid. Elles se joignent à toutes les personnes de consciences autour du monde qui demandent la fin de l’agression israélienne et la justice pour le peuple palestinien.

Le groupe inclut: Judy Rebick, professeure; Judith Deutsch, psychanalyste et présidente de Science for Peace; B.H. Yael, réalisatrice; Smadar Carmon, militante israélo-canadienne pour la paix et d’autres femmes.

Police arrest 8 protesters at Israeli consulate

Toronto police have arrested eight Canadian Jewish women who occupied the Israeli consulate on Bloor Street.

The group carried out the occupation to show their opposition to Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip and its two-year economic blockade of the territory, Miriam Garfinkle, a spokesperson, told ctvtoronto.ca on Wednesday.

The most prominent of the eight arrested is Toronto activist Judy Rebick. But the group also includes Israeli filmmaker B.H. Yael, peace activists and students, she said.

Police will be taking them to 52 Division, Garfinkle said.

A senior officer at 52 Division said the protesters would be taken to 53 Division, where they will face tresspassing and failure-to-disperse charges.

In a news release forwarded by Montreal-based Palestinian and Jewish Unity, the protesters said: "Protesters are outraged at Israel's latest assault on the Palestinian people and by the Canadian government's refusal to condemn these massacres.

"They are deeply concerned that Canadians are hearing the views of pro-Israel groups who are being represented as the only voice of Jewish Canadians. The protesters have occupied the consulate to send a clear statement that many Jewish-Canadians do not support Israel's violence and apartheid policies. "

The Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor St. W. has been the scene of two major protests since Israel began its operation against the Palestinian Islamic militant group and political party Hamas on Dec. 27.

Israeli has said it is carrying out the operation to end Hamas's ability to launch rocket attacks against its territory.

According to Palestinian and UN figures, about 300 of the more than 670 killed inside Gaza have been civilians.

Eduardo Rozsa Flores: Anti war demonstration in Tel Aviv

To the dismay of the Israeli ruling class, thousands of Jews and Palestinians came this Saturday to Tel Aviv for a mass demonstration against the war (see video below). This is unprecedented. In the Lebanese war it took two months of bloody entanglement for so many protestors to show up. The protestors were constantly harassed by Zionist counter-protests which show just how frightened they are of the emerging protest movement in Israel. Small as it is now, the Zionists are instinctively aware of the fact that it holds the only real key to their downfall.
The Zionist chauvinism that characterized the first days of the operation is gradually being replaced by fear of yet another debacle such as in Lebanon. Journalists are constantly asking political and military leaders for the actual goals which this operation intends to achieve. The answers are always vague and illusive, such as "to radically change the array of deterrence". In that background, the announcement of Barak on Saturday was especially alarming. He said that the operation would take a long time and would have numerous victims. With no one knowing what this operation is for, this holds a puzzling future for the stability of the political system in Israel: after the chauvinism fades away, the death toll will keep increasing and many questions will be raised by the people of the illegal zionist state.
Eduardo Rozsa Flores

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Zionism i not Healthy

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RABBI GOLDSTEIN EXPLAINS

JUDAISM and ZIONISM....WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?

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Thank you for watching! Please research this further! GOD bless Netueri Karta (Jews against Zionism) Muslims do NOT hate Jews, we hate Zionism!

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A plakát szövege:
"Zsidó vagyok,
és azt szeretném ha Izrael
abbahagyna a palesztinok legyilkolását"
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Érdekes beszéd 1961-ből...Egy zsidó disszidens inti Amerikát.

Benjamin H. Freeedman beszéde a Willard Hotelban Washington, D.C-ben, a Conde McGinley féle hazafias újság, a Common Sense rendezésében

Benjamin Harrison Freedman (NY,1890-1984)

Zsidó családban nőtt fel és zsidó vallás szerinti nevelésben részesült. Üzleti karrierje során ő lett a Woodbury Soap Company cég fő tulajdonosa. Tanúja volt és bizonyos fokig közvetlen résztvevője azoknak a politikai és pénzügyi manipulációknak, amelyek elősegítették a kommunizmus hatalomra kerülését és Izrael, mint cionista állam létrehozását, valamint az amerikai politikai élet és tömegtájékoztatás zsidó hegemónia alá kerülését. Mint a zsidó érdekek képviselője bejárása volt az Egyesült Államok hét elnökéhez.
Szakított a judaizmussal, és áttért a katolikus hitre. A zsidó történelemben és kultúrában szerzett jártassága és kutatásai eredményeként arra a meggyőződésre jutott, hogy a zsidókra és a judaizmusra vonatkozó közkeletű elképzelések részben tévesek, és még magukat ezeket a kifejezéseket is el kell utasítani.

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Anti-cionista ortodox zsidók tömeg tüntetése "Izrael állam" ellen

Több mint tízezer ortodox zsidó, ismert és népszerű rabbik tucatjainak a vezetésével tüntetett New York cityben, az "izraeli" konzulátus előtt, hogy tiltakozzon "Izrael" állam léte ellen, a cionista állam által elkövetett atrocitások ellen, és a Jeruzsálembe tervezett "Gay Pride Parade" (Meleg Büszkésség Parádé) ellen.

A felszólalások témái voltak az "Izrael Állam" puszta létének az elítélése, valamint az összes gonoszság, ördögi cselekedet és embertelenség, amely ebből az „Isten karomló államból” fakad.
Különös fontosságot kölcsönözték a megmozdulásnak a közelmúltban a gazai Bait Hanuni palesztin lakosság ellen, a cionisták által elkövetett szörnyűséges és embertelen támadások.

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