No Jews left in Iraq for ISIS to slaughter

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the new leader of the global Caliphate (OR ISIS as it used to be called) has, naturally, called for a new holocaust against Jews via a  graphic posted  on his twitter account : 

“The Real Zionist Holocaust is Predicted in the Hadiths! The Hour [resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and the tree will say: “Oh, Muslim, servant of  Allah, there is a Jew behind me, kill him! THE PROMISED Holocaust"

This Anti-Semitic propaganda should come as no surprise as it has been playing an important role in the terrorist group’s recruitment efforts; indeed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, placed Jews on the side of evil in a speech posted last Tuesday on the Internet in which he called on Muslims to join him, “O ummah of Islam, the world today has been divided into two camps and two trenches … The camp of Islam and faith, and the camp of kufr (disbelief) and hypocrisy … all being led by America and Russia, and being mobilized by the Jews,” al-Baghdadi said.

I bet he is a bit pissed that he can do sod all about this because previous secular & heretical Iraqi governments of 1948 to 1972 already got rid of the Jews of Iraq,  part of The Sephardim or in Israel 'Mizrahi' , because just like the Jews of Syria there are practically no Jews left in either of these countries. In fact hardly any Jews are left in the middle east, outside of Israel. Clearly it is not that secular Arab government beat the fundamentalists to a bit of ethnic cleansing ? Surely not.....

Errr........

The BNP Youth - "heartless Zionists" and "militant homosexuals" are to blame for Britain's ills

If it is one political party I detest it is the so called 'British National Party' or BNP. For  those of  our readership outside of the UK, they are nothing more than thugs of the traditional far right (& have 2 MEP's). Last week, their 'youth wing'  released this video (I'm not going to link via YouTube as I refuse to give such an odious polity, which makes me sick, a visible platform on my blog).As my helpful guide of anti-semitism & anti-zionism showed [here], Jew haters will often camouflage their racism with the term 'anti-zionism' but it pretty much one and the same thing, although nowadays they will often attack Islam and ignore Jews (at least in propaganda), but in this video the mask  has slipped. We see the full vent of their  bigotry, angst and anger against society, whose ills are the fault of the following groups  - 

• "militant homosexuals"
• "cultural marxists", 
• "banksters", 
• "heartless Zionists",
• "capitalists"
• " the media", 
• "UK immigration policy" 

. As Jake Wallis Simons of the Daily Telegraph noted* -

"Earlier this week, BNP Youth released a campaign video entitled Fight Back (above). It is in equal part worrying and comical. Beginning with music that evokes a Death Star fascist aesthetic, it is presented by a handful of (white) teenagers, all of whom look awkward, pimply, nerdy and gauche – the sort of kids who would be stalwart members of the Dungeons and Dragons society if they hadn't been quite so politically aware. And the message they promote, which targets "militant homosexuals", "cultural marxists", bankers, "heartless Zionists", the media, UK immigration policy and (bizarrely) Doreen Lawrence, comes across as little more than unreconstructed fascism."

Thankfully according to the latest polls, this party is heading toward welcome oblivion. But we must always be on guard against such bigotry. I only hope that UKIP isn't anything other than a more 'respectable'  outlet for such radical views, especially after the Farrage meltdown on Friday. 

Time will tell. 

It always does.


* Hannah made a brief skirmish into the comments. She was too nice with the BNP supporters on Jake's blog.

Where is your 'inner bitch' Hannah? 

The BNP, Fish 'N Chips & Judaism , sorry Zionism

Today I had the 'pleasure' of leaflets from the BNP, which if people do not already know is a far right British political party. Now for several years, the BNP under its leader Nick Griffin [MEP], has been insisting for years that they are not racist or anti- semitic. 

Except when our Nick says this :

'An unholy alliance of leftists, capitalists and Zionist supremacists has schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation with the deliberate aim of breeding us out of existence in our own homelands. As indigenous resistance to this human genetic modification industry grows, the criminal elite seeks new ways to camouflage their project. First, their immigrant pawns were temporary guest workers. Then it was a multiracial experiment. Then they were refugees. Then the answer to a shrinking population. Different excuses, different lies. And asylum is just another one, but the real aim stays the same: the biggest genocide in human history, the final solution of the Christian European problem. This crime demands a new set of Nuremberg trials and you people will be in the dock.'

Get that? 'Zionist supremacists' are responsible for immigration to 'breed 'us' out of existence'.

Right, OK hold the phone here, hold the phone ! It gets better, especially when one reads the BNP view on the Ukraine :

'The greatest irony of all is that, while naive Ukrainian nationalists blame Russia for the murder of millions during the 1930s, the Bolsheviks were overwhelmingly not Russian at all, although the majority of their victims were.Indeed, the radical Jewish racism and supremacism and anti-Christian hatred that in the 1930s produced the Bolshevik terror, now largely find their outlet in the extreme Zionism, anti-white fanaticism and globalism of the neo-cons.The Ukrainian nationalists who provided the backbone of the recent revolution/coup against the elected but pro-Russian government are undoubtedly sincere, but they have been manipulated, organised, funded and armed by sinister forces in the West, which are in reality very far from being Western'

Yes it is all the Jews, sorry , Zionist's fault [somehow].The BNP linkage of “Jewish racism”, “extreme Zionism”, “anti-white fanaticism” and “globalism” may seem bizarre to a person of reason anyone with a quarter of a brain cell which has been dissected by a newt with a heavy pair of shopping and poor eyesight , but it makes perfect sense in the strange, conspiracy-addled world of the far right.

As for Jewish, sorry Zionist contribution to British culture :

Oh dear what a terrible, Jewish, sorry Zionist conspiracy that we've forced 'indigenous' British to adopt as their national dish Sephardi Jewish food....

The lie of Israel ethnic cleansing- debunked

Ethnic cleansing , according to Wiki is  defined  as thus :

"Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic or religious groups from a given territory with the intent of creating a territory inhabited by people of a homogeneous or pure ethnicity, religion, culture, and history. The forces applied may be various forms of forced migration (deportation, population transfer), as well as mass murder, and intimidation"

One of the most vile accusations regarding the state of Israel is that she is somehow such an 'ethnic cleanser'- see here, here, and here  for just 3 examples a  1 second google search can come up with.Sadly there was 3,068,000 articles according to google search on Israel and ethnic cleansing, found in 0.38 seconds .

The propaganda does not, however, stand up to the facts. Firstly in Israel pre 1967  boundaries, the facts are as follows( source )  :



I draw to the reader's attention the FACT that in 1949, after the apparent 'ethnic cleansing' of Palestine, Jews made up 86.4% of Israel's population & you will also note that the Jewish percentage has been gradually declining, so by 2006 that proportion was down to 79.2%.


Hardly evidence of 'ethnic cleansing' & let us not forget that Israel's non Jewish citizens have  :

* An ability to vote in general elections & to be represented in the democratically elective body, called the Knesset

* Freedom of Speech

* Equality before the law

* The same privileges, benefits and rights as any other citizen

* Freedom of religion


Where else is this allowed in the middle east?? 


Turning now to the 'occupied territories' of the West Bank and Gaza and the Arab popualation we see that the population has steadily increased since Israel 'conquered' the land in 1967  : 

Where is this alleged 'ethnic cleansing'?

Another point of contention is the ridiculous demands that Israel give its capital , Jerusalem, to the Palestinians. But what's this? A majority of Jerusalem is in fact JEWISH :

What happened to the right of self determination of  people, does this not apply to Jewish Israelis ? 


We can see from the statistical  facts that there is NO ethnic cleansing going on in Israel or by Israel.... But as my sister has  noted , Arab & Muslim regimes have a track record which they won't admit to; for it is  they are the real ethnic cleansers of the middle east and did so less than 3 years after the murderous Fascist swines of Nazi Germany, who began with ethnic cleansing of Jews &  tried to exterminate every last and every single Jew on the earth [Source &  here ] :

In summary the population of non-Jewish Palestine has experienced a growth rate of 700%;  Sephardi Jews of the Middle East, outside of Israel a decrease of 99.9%.

Who is the real ethnic cleanser ?

Discuss

A knock at the door

Hello All,

This is my first blog post here, I hope it will be one of many...

Yesterday, as I was giving the house a thorough clean in time for Passover, there was a knock at the door. Who could this be, at 11 in the morning? It turned out to be two old ladies from the local C of E Church. Me being the good Jewish girl that I am, decided to invite them into the home and offer them a cup of tea or coffee. One we'd settled down, they came to the purpose of their visit. They were collecting throughout the Parish for.... a donation to their Church, specifically to repair their organ (that is the musical instrument). Whilst I knew that there was going to be a campaign to repair the Church organ, I politely declined the offer, explaining that as a Jew I did not feel that I could donate money which  was for the specific benefit of another religion and its worship. That didn't go down well, 'but' spluttered one of them 'the Church is the centre of the community and a beautiful building; it benefits everyone in the Parish' .

I've got to admit at that point, I sort of saw of red mist. You see I do, as a way of helping a friend in our town, who is also the Secretary of the Church, type up the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting of the Church (I do have sympathy, you see for a Mrs Hubbard type,  70 year old woman with chronic arthritis).   I couldn't quite see the logic here given that the membership of said Church is all of  50 people (out of a population of 3,000). And this is where I kinda lost it and told them that  if they had more members then they might be able to afford the repair themselves or perhaps if their own relatively affluent membership donated more than 50p per week per head to the Church, then they wouldn't need to beg off others. Needless to say they made a quick exit from my house soon after. I do feel guilty in some ways, but then I do think my point was a fair one. 

Shortly after there was another knock on the door. Oy, what is going on. This time a young women in her twenties and a middle aged women, I noticed they'd got Bibles & leaflets in their hands. At this rate I thought, I'll need another kettle. But, I thought it is raining and it wouldn't be very Jewish to slam the door in their faces. So much to their surprised and I think delight they got ushered in to our living room. So what were they knocking my door for? They were Bible believing Christians from a growing (200 members plus) Church from the bigger town by us, from something along the lines of the ' free evangelist church of Jesus the risen saviour'. They were in the neighbourhood, to invite people to a  Passover meal & presentation of the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Great. 

I said, well I am a Jew, who is going to be celebrating the start of Passover next Monday evening, in my own home and therefore had the real deal .I was hoping they'd be a bit more clued to the fact that they were coming to a Jewish household as I deliberately put my Menorah in the window and of course we have a mezuzah right by the door bell (!). I guess they don't teach that at Bible school, I mused. Their eyes lit up and they asked if I had ever considered learning about Jesus in the Old Testament and how he fulfilled all of the Jewish prophecies ? I said that I had no idea why they were knocking on my door, but even if I had of know I would still have let them into my house, because  it was cold, wet and windy outside and as they looked like they had already had several doors slammed in their faces , that I should do the Jewish thing and welcome them into my house for a bit of refreshment. I pointed to their Bibles and said that this was as Biblical as they were, in Leviticus 19, 33 to 34  & as to why I could not be a Christian, Deuteronomy 10, 17 to 19 among other places. I did say to them I would be happy to discuss with them at length an essay I had written a couple of years ago whist I was reading my  MA : why I am a Jew and not a Christian. Needless to say, we got into a bit of a heated discussion. They couldn't quite grasp the fact that I had as much knowledge about their Bible as they did, which  flummoxed them and they left the house as quickly as they could , which disappointed me as we'd only covered Isaiah 53,  let alone going on to a critique of 'Hebrews', salvation and St Paul, among other things.

 I received visits from two different types of Christians. Musing about this is  important because I still live in what is overwhelming a white middle class 'christian' area. I live in what is still technically a national Christian state,so that will always be the predominate culture of the UK*. Therefore to a Jew,who will always be a minority in the UK, important to know what is going on within Christianity as this has an impact upon our faith and fortunes as well. To me I saw that one  group seemed to be entirely wrapped up in their own world, but entirely confident that someone else should be picking up the tab for their Church. The other group was outward looking, but again entirely confident that someone else would just automatically accept whatever they had to say at face value and without comment and getting a tad upset at the challenge. I'm not sure whether or not either approach was particularly effective. I do know that Christianity in all of its forms is certainly not dying in the UK. Rather, perhaps it is shifting and changing. As the C of E withers into discussions, often byzantine e.g. 'saving the organ' at a local level, or the obsessions with women Vicars and gay marriage at a national level, there are other, younger and confident denominations that are taking its place. So I don't buy this baloney about the Christian Church dying in the UK. It is merely a matter of change. 

*mythology about Islam aside- I doubt that the majority of the English would ever be truly comfortable ever adopting that religion, although I accept it will be a large minority of the population in years to come, which brings  problems and issues as well.

Dave's helpful table of Anti-semitism vs Anti-Zionism

I've often been accused of 'cynically' conflating the term Judaism with Zionism, which is utter bull... but, but do Anti-semites and Anti -Zionists have anything in common. Let me be helpful , ecumenical and set the record straight  : 

Explanation	Anti-Semitism	Anti-Zionism
Official Definition	Hatred of Jews	Hatred of the Jewish state
What do its most vociferous proponents ultimately want	Physical destruction of the entire Jewish race	Physical destruction of the entire Jewish state
What is the core belief	The Jews are the root cause of most suffering in the world	The Jewish state is the root cause of most suffering in the world
What it based on	The singling out and demonization of Jews – and Jews alone - based on a set of complete lies about the political, economic, social and religious behaviour of Jews	The singling out and demonization of the Jewish state – and the Jewish state alone - based on a set of complete lies about the political, economic, social and religious behaviour of the Jewish state
How is it currently sustained	Continued and incessant lies about Jews – much of it emanating from Muslim countries - promulgated in the media and on the web – that is rarely if ever challenged	Continued and incessant lies about the Jewish State – much of it emanating from Muslim countries - promulgated in the media and on the web– that is rarely if ever challenged
Typical media presentation	Cartoons of big fat Jews who control the world and eat non-Jewish babies; cartoons of Jews killing non-Jewish children.	Cartoons of big fat Jews who control the world and eat non-Jewish babies; cartoons of Jewish soldiers killing Arab children
Who currently are the most virulent proponents	Muslims,  left-wing political activists, Black panthers, right-wing extremists, racists, self-hating Jews In Muslim countries Pew surveys report 96% of the population ‘hate Jews’	Muslims,  left-wing political activists, Black panthers, right-wing extremists, racists, self-hating Jews In Muslim countries Pew surveys report 98% of the population ‘hate Israel’
Most common beliefs	Jews are baby-killers;        Jews bake the blood of Christian children in their Passover matzos;         Jews did 9/11  The Jews control America, Britain, France (add any country you like, including even Arab ones) like  The Jews control the world banking system, the United Nations (add any international organization you like)	Zionists are baby-killers;       Zionists bake the blood of Arab children in their Passover matzos;          Zionists did 9/11          Zionists control America, Britain, France (add any country you like, including even Arab ones) like         Zionists control the world banking system, the United Nations (add any international organization you like)
Typical everyday behaviour	Criticizing Jews for certain character traits (such as meanness, aggressiveness, deviousness) that are actually far more prominent in all other ethnic and religious groups       Criticising  Jews for their genuinely good character traits (such as intelligence and business acumen) as in ‘The Jews use these traits to trick and steal from non-Jews’	Criticizing the Jewish State for certain character traits (such as meanness, aggressiveness, deviousness) that are actually far more prominent in all other countries         Criticizing Jews for their genuinely good character traits (such as intelligence and business acumen) as in ‘The Zionists use these traits to trick and steal from the Arabs’
More ‘active’ behaviour	Boycott Jewish businesses; vandalise Jewish-owned shops and their products, including  daubing Swastikas and Stars of David.	Boycott Jewish owned Israeli businesses; vandalise Jewish-owned Israeli shops and their products, including  daubing Swastikas and Stars of David.
What especially angers proponents	·         Jews defending themselves from attack;  ·         Any Jewish success in science and culture	·         The Jewish state defending itself from attack; ·         Any Israeli success in science and culture
What they have never heard of or must never be mentioned	The total destruction of Jewish communities in Muslim lands after the establishment of Israel	The total destruction of Jewish communities in Muslim lands after the establishment of Israel
Beliefs about the Holocaust	The holocaust is largely a myth perpetuated to gain sympathy for Israel	The holocaust is largely a myth perpetuated to gain sympathy for Israel. The only real holocaust was committed by Zionists against the Palestinians
About the killing of Jews by the Nazis	If it happened at all it was a natural reaction against Jewish crimes	If it really happened then the Jews must have had it coming to them. After all Zionism equals Nazism.
About the killing of Jews by Arab terrorists	If it really happens then the Jews must have had it coming to them	If it happens at all it is a natural reaction against Zionist crimes
About violence generally	Jews are legitimate targets for violence	Zionist Jews are legitimate targets for violence
Who are their heroes	Hitler -  because he “stood up to the Jews”	Saddam Hussein, Ahmedinejad and any other Muslim bigot you can think of – because they “stood up to the JewsZionists”
Mandatory reading	Protocols of the Elder of Zion, anything by Gilad Atzmon	Protocols of the Elder of Zion, anything by Gilad Atzmon
Most hated thing in the whole world	The State of Israel	The State of Israel