By Daphne Anson
The tissue of lies associated with the flare-ups on the Gaza-Israel border in recent days has been well-investigated by Honest Reporting, here.
That the usual suspects are making the most of the opportunity to demonise Israel is, of course, to be expected, and in Australia as well as in London and elsewhere anti-Israel activists, typically a strange yet familiar concoction of far leftists and their Islamic allies, have been on the march to demonstrate support for the so-called “Great Return March”.
Through the lens of anti-Israel campaigner Alex Seymour (aka Seymour Alexander), a glimpse of the bourgeois Corbynista types who made common cause with Muslim defenders of Hamas to protest in London’s Whitehall on Saturday at Israel’s treatment of (ahem) “peaceful demonstrators” at “a family picnic”:
How very Corbynesque of Corbyn to leave an Israel-demonising message on Facebook to be read to the demonstrators, a message that maintained, inter alia, the extremist sentiment that the so-called “refugees” (the only hereditary refugees in the world) have a “right to return to their homes” (with all that would mean for the continuation of the state of Israel!)
“The majority of the people of the Gaza Strip are stateless refugees, subject to a decade long blockade and the denial of basic human and political rights. More than two thirds are reliant on humanitarian assistance, with limited access to the most basic amenities, such as water and electricity.
They have a right to protest against their appalling conditions and the continuing blockade and occupation of Palestinian land, and in support of their right to return to their homes and their right to self-determination.” [Emphasis added]
How does the bit about Hamas go in Lord Sugar’s delicious poetic tweet on Corbyn, that I reproduced a few days ago? Ah. yes!
Easier for the inhabitants of Gaza to blame Israel for real and imagined troubles than the fanatical bloodthirsty hard men to whom they are in thraldom.
No sympathy at all for the Israelis, facing the threat of violation of their borders (“invasion” in plain language):
On the same day that demo was held in London, half a world away in Melbourne the usual contingents of Muslims and lefties demonstrated, affirming their support for
“the bravery and resilience of protesting Gazan refugees….
Residents of Gaza are demanding their Right of Return to these erased and ethnically cleansed cities in commemoration of 70 years of Nakba, or Catastrophe, which marks the beginning of genocide and zionist occupation.
We demand the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador of [sic] Australia. We call on Australian politicians to break political and economic ties and condemn the massacre in Gaza”
And chanting that old pregnant-with-meaning catch cry “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free”. Below: a small section of the marching crowd, ahead of the inevitable gaggle of “Socialist Alliance” placard-wavers.
More on the Melbourne demo here (from which I reproduce this photo of a brave bystander):
On Sunday a similar event occurred in downtown Sydney:
Recognise anyone? Yes, behind the flag in the lower photo that’s Stephen Sizer’s soulmate, Father Dave Smith, in clerical garb and keffiyeh. In the left foreground is academic Nick Riemer, next to Palestinian activist Shamikh Badra, and (far right) the far left’s Pip Hinman.
Meanwhile, today by the verbose deputy leader of the Welsh Greens, an anti-Israel stalwart of an often eyebrow-raising kind (as regular readers of my blog will be aware):
How very green of that Green.
Does she not know? Has she not heard?
There are no Israeli troops occupying Gaza. Nor, of course, Jewish “settlers”. None since 2005.
As for the legal status of Israel and the West Bank, an interesting interview with Professor Eugene Kontorovich here
An Israeli’s petition regarding Hamas here
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