Anti-Semitism
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On pro-Israel use and abuse of holocaust remembrance
Twenty-five years ago, Norman Finkelstein detailed how Hitler’s destruction of European Jewry was weaponized against Palestinians. In his 2000 book The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, Finkelstein, whose grandparents perished in Nazi death camps, argued the US Jewish establishment exploited the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for economic and political gain… Continue reading
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Facing Prison Time in Germany for Criticizing an Israeli Journalist: The Case of Hüseyin Dogru
Amid a crackdown on pro-Palestine voices in Germany, a journalist regularly attacked as a Russian operative is facing up to three years in prison for defamation of an Israel-based journalist. Hüseyin Dogru, founder of red. media, has been charged with defamation for actions relating to a spat with Nicholas Potter, a German state-funded reporter working… Continue reading
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Jewish Chronicle scandal: Why was there no uproar over its long record of pro-Israel fake news?
Britain’s best-known Jewish newspaper has found itself thrust into the centre of an embarrassing and long-overdue storm over its involvement with the shadowy manoeuvrings of the pro-Israel lobby. Continue reading
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The burden Western liberals impose only on Palestinians
Since the beginning of Zionist Jewish colonization of their country in the 1880s, Palestinians have faced demands that they carry a double burden: to fight off the Jewish racist colonists while having to defend their colonizers against anti-Jewish European Christian racism. Continue reading
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Labour officials laughed at death of member accused of anti-Semitism
Labour officials laughed after learning that a member expelled for alleged anti-Semitism had died. The callous incident is revealed in Saturday’s episode of The Labour Files, the second of a new three-part series by Al Jazeera’s investigative unit. Former Labour investigations officer Halima Khan fights tears as she recounts the story, saying she blamed herself. Continue reading
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Court orders Deutsche Welle to reinstate second Palestinian journalist
The German state broadcaster was ordered by the Berlin labor court to reinstate her and pay all her legal costs. The decisive victory “suggests that the court recognized that Farah’s termination, based on a controversial investigation and unfounded allegations of anti-Semitism related to reports published before her employment contract, was illegal,” said the European Legal Support Center. Continue reading
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Forde Inquiry exposes Labour’s biggest problem: Keir Starmer
A long-delayed report by Martin Forde QC into “factionalism” within the British Labour Party during Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure was finally made public this week, more than two years after a leaked internal report detailed efforts by senior staff to undermine the former leader. Continue reading
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On Lavrov’s Spat With Israel – Who Is Right?
Wednesday, 4 May 2022 — Moon of Alabama Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in a spat with Israel over its support for Nazis militia in the Ukraine. The immediate cause is a passage in an interview Lavrov had with the Italian TV network Mediaset: Continue reading
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Israel stunned by Ukrainian neo-Nazis
The state-organized presence of neo-Nazis within the Ukrainian army is not anecdotal, even if it is not possible to quantify it in a certain way. On the other hand, it is easy to count their victims. In general indifference, they have killed 14,000 Ukrainians in eight years. This situation is one of the causes of… Continue reading
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Watch: Academic David Miller Speaks Out Following Firing & Israel Lobby Smear Campaign
Ironically, Miller’s book, “Bad News for Labour: Anti-Semitism, the Party and Public Belief,” detailed how bogus charges of anti-Semitism were weaponized against Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in order to defame and destroy him. Continue reading
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The Rebranding of Antisemitism after the Holocaust
This post is concerned with the legacy of the Holocaust as providing antisemitism as a policy tool exploited by Irsrael and Zionist activists to intensify Palestinian suffering and deflect attention from Israeli wrongdoing. Such exploitation dishonors and unduly complicates the justifiably hallowed memory of the Holocaust. Continue reading
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UK: Why is Owen Jones defending a Nazi collaborator?
Guardian columnist Owen Jones markets himself as a leading leftist voice. His profile on Twitter, where he has more than one million followers, emphasizes his “anti-fascist” credentials. Why, then, did he just publish a defense of a Nazi collaborator? An Israeli judge once ruled that Zionist leader Rezső Kasztner was Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann’s “catspaw,”… Continue reading
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The Newspaper That Smeared Corbyn & the Left
Jonathan Cook analyzes why a British media watchdog doesn’t take meaningful action against The Jewish Chronicle for its anti-Semitism libels against the former Labour leader and his followers. Continue reading
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Israel’s growing strategic threat to our freedom of speech
There is an old saying that you should not put the fox in charge of the hen house. It makes perfect sense, and yet that’s exactly what Western governments are increasingly starting to do when it comes to their freedom of speech policies. All bluster about “cancel culture” aside, the leading threat in the world… Continue reading
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France defies European court ruling upholding right to boycott Israel
The government of President Emmanuel Macron is defying a landmark judgment from the European Court of Human Rights that protects the right of people to call for a boycott of Israeli products. Continue reading
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Who Buys This Phony ‘Anti-Semitism’ Smear Language?
Semites are a language group not a religious group. They spoke (and still do) Semitic languages, especially the Canaanite and later Aramaic dialects of Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories. Continue reading
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Starmer’s Love Affair with Zionism Could Prove Fatal for Labour
Sir Keir Starmer, whose scalp has been dangling on the lodge-pole of the Board of Deputies since Day One of his leadership of the Labour Party, has sacked his rival Rebecca Long-Bailey from his front bench for – apparently – indulging in “antisemitic conspiracy theories”. Continue reading
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Labour Suspensions Over Leaked Antisemitism Report Include Former Senior Official Emilie Oldknow
The Labour party has suspended former senior staffer Emilie Oldknow along with several others, amid an ongoing investigation into a leaked report into antisemitism in the party, Novara Media has learned. Continue reading
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The smearing of Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn is the face of our new toxic politics
Last month Loach found himself plunged into the heart of a pitiless drama that could have come straight from one of his own films. This veteran chronicler of society’s ills was forced to stand down as a judge in a school anti-racism competition, falsely accused of racism himself and with no means of redress. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 