{"id":212870,"date":"2020-09-01T06:48:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T06:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212870"},"modified":"2020-09-03T05:43:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T05:43:13","slug":"israels-false-flag-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212870","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s false flag anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asa Winstanley — Middle East Monitor Aug 29, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u201cThe anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies\u201d \u2013 thus spoke<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl.<\/span><\/p>\n

Herzl was far from the only Zionist to advocate for an alliance with anti-Semites, and this malign pattern still holds today.<\/span><\/p>\n

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New volunteers for the Ukrainian interior ministry’s “Azov” battalion take their oath of allegiance to their country during a ceremony in Kiev. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

In Ukraine, for example, Israel has been arming and training the Azov Battalion<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a vehemently anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi militia.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of Israel\u2019s strongest political and moral allies in the present day is Christians United for Israel, an organisation which, based on dubious figures, claims a membership of some six million supporters.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Christian Zionist group was founded by John Hagee, A US televangelist and mega-pastor with a lucrative line in \u201cend times\u201d theology books, DVDs and other assorted merchandise. Hagee once preached that Adolf Hitler was \u201ca hunter\u201d sent by God to chase the Jews \u201cback\u201d to Palestine in order to become colonial settlers and found the State of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Evangelical Christian Zionists like Hagee have a disturbingly anti-Semitic theology which prophetises that, at the end of history, the Jews will be split between those who convert to Christianity en masse<\/em>, and those who are doomed to the fiery pits of hell.<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet, Hagee is a firm friend and ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hagee gave the valedictory prayer<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>at the dedication of the new US embassy in Jerusalem when it was opened in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also addressing the attendees to that ceremony was another right-wing Evangelical leader, Robert Jeffress.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeffress is another anti-Semite racist and Islamophobe. During one interview with a Christian TV channel, he claimed that Jews, Muslims and Mormons are all going to hell.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIslam is wrong. It is a heresy from the pit of hell,\u201d he declared. \u201cMormonism is wrong. It is a heresy from the pit of hell.\u201d He continued: \u201cJudaism \u2013 you can\u2019t be saved being a Jew. You know who said that, by the way? The three greatest Jews in the New Testament: Peter, Paul and Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli politicians like Netanyahu are no doubt aware of the hateful ideology of such allies. But as long as these allies are committed to political support for the State of Israel and defending its crimes, they do not care.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Evangelical lobby, after all, still has an immense amount of power and influence in US politics. And \u2013 as Jewish support for Israel declines \u2013 it is gradually becoming a leading component of the Israeli lobby.<\/span><\/p>\n

Christians United for Israel\u2019s annual summit is starting to rival American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in terms of the big political hitters which it manages to attract.<\/span><\/p>\n

Its virtual summit in June<\/strong><\/span><\/a> included speakers such as the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin, Israeli war minister Benny Gantz, anti-BDS Minister Gilad Erdan, former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, Senator and former presidential candidate Ted Cruz, Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.<\/span><\/p>\n

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David Friedman, U.S. Ambassador to Israel (left) with Trump. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Given this true context and history, it should not be a surprise to find Zionists promoting anti-Semitism. After all, both Zionists and anti-Semites want to see Jews leave their home countries to become settlers in Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n

For some, this may seem counter-intuitive. But that relies on the common misconception that the word \u201cZionist\u201d is equivalent to the word \u201cJewish\u201d \u2013 it is not.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJewishness\u201d is either a religious or a cultural identity (or both), whereas Zionism is a political ideology. This is an important distinction.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the great Black American thinker James Baldwin put it<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: \u201cIn order to be a Zionist, it is not necessary to love the Jews. I know some Zionists who are definitely anti-Semitic. And to be a Jew is not necessarily to be a Zionist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One particularly shocking, if not surprising, example of Zionist anti-Semitism came earlier in August, in Scotland.<\/span><\/p>\n

The news emerged that Edward Sutherland, an activist with the Confederation of Friends of Israel, was being investigated by the teaching regulator for anti-Semitic posts he made on Facebook<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amongst the anti-Jewish screeds he spewed out were that Jewish lawyer Matthew Berlow\u2019s \u201cbig nose\u201d had been put \u201cout of joint\u201d. Caricatures of grotesque, big-nosed Jews have been a common theme of anti-Semitic propaganda<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>for many decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until his recent troubles, Sutherland manned the Glasgow Friends of Israel stall every weekend. Now he faces the possibility of losing his teaching job. In news from the \u201cyou couldn\u2019t make it up\u201d department, Sutherland\u2019s job title is \u201chead of religious and moral education\u201d at the school where he teaches, Belmont Academy in Ayr.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sutherland posted online using a fake Facebook profile \u2013 in the name of an invented persona he portrayed as a \u201cpro-Palestinian\u201d activist. The plan was to smear the Palestine solidarity movement. This could thus be fairly described as a \u201cfalse flag\u201d campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is quite a long history of Israeli and pro-Israel-lobby involvement in such things, for the purposes of propaganda against Palestinians and their supporters.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Anti-Defamation League, for example, in the 1980s and 1990s, ran a spy ring in the US<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, infiltrating Palestine solidarity and other left-wing and anti-racist groups. They fed and sold the information on, to both Israel and the South African apartheid regime.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their main spy, Roy Bullock, attempted a similar false flag, by attempting to forge a link between the Arab group he had infiltrated and a neo-Nazi Holocaust revisionist group.<\/span><\/p>\n

And what better example of such campaigns, than the years-long attack on Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party for their \u201canti-Semitism\u201d? Israel was deeply implicated<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in that too.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Zionism and anti-Semitism are two sides of the same coin. Or as Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism put it: \u201canti-Semites will become our most dependable friends\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":110352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212872,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212870\/revisions\/212872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}