Eretz Israel is our unforgettable historic homeland...The Jews who will it shall achieve their State...And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind.(Theodor Herzl, DerJudenstaat, 1896)
We offer peace and amity to all the neighbouring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Jewish nation for the common good of all. The State of Israel is ready to contribute its full share to the peaceful progress and development of the Middle East.(From Proclamation of the State of Israel, 5 Iyar 5708; 14 May 1948) With a liberal democratic political system operating under the rule of law, a flourishing market economy producing technological innovation to the benefit of the wider world, and a population as educated and cultured as anywhere in Europe or North America, Israel is a normal Western country with a right to be treated as such in the community of nations.... For the global jihad, Israel may be the first objective. But it will not be the last.(Friends of Israel Initiative)
First, before we look at the foolishness below, here is, in high resolution video, is British terror victim Kay Wilson's magbificently outstanding speech indicting the capitulation of the British political establishment (as seen in certain legislation) to the haters who have been permitted to hold the disgusting Al Quds Day march (see my previous post):
(Israelly Cool video, acknowledging footage by Rebel Media and Sussex Friends of Israel)
Boy, can London pharmacist and local Al Quds Day supremo Nazim Ali jump! He won't be putting on any calories all the time he inveighs against the Zionist Entity in this frenzied manner:
The above is a still from the Alex Seymour video below, in which, among other delights, we see a Jewish kid in a red cap being manhandled by marchers ("Arrest the fascist!" "Fucking bastard!"), and familiar anti-Israel warhorses Mick Napier, Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi and Sandra Watfa (the lady with the powerful lungs and beautiful hair) spewing their usual invective
Mrs Wimborne-Idrissi and the nuts from Neturei Karta were not the only Jews at the parade where the flag of the antisemitic terror group Hezbollah was flying high and in profusion; squint closely and who do we observe in this shot but (in the baseball cap) the little lady of "Jewish heritage" who frequents "Kick Israel Out of FIFA" demos.
Now, where have I seen this Neturei Karta nut, fist raised against the Zionist Entity, up close and personal with Nazir Ali?
Oh, yes, of course. At Tooting recently for an event involving an Iftar meal, "Free Palestine" badge in lapel.
And the owner of the back of that head? I'd know that straight spikey coiffure anywhere.
Yes, it belongs to this chap, one Stephen Sizer, pictured denouncing Israel at the (sparsely attended) event:
Careful not to bend the knee to Baal, sirrah!
Not a word of reproach regarding Islamic incitement to Jew-hatred, then, ex-vicar?
The smiling Israel-hater on the right of the picture at left, and in full Israel-denouncing flood below, is, well, you really don't need me to introduce you, do you?
You may, however, not be quite so well-acquainted with the Israel-hater standing next to Stephen Sizer.
He's Nazim Ali, a pharmacist and director of the so-called “Advocacy Group” of the UK Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC). He appears to be the master of ceremonies of choice at London's toxic Al Quds Day rallies, the Iran-sponsored hate fest which seems to be becoming ever more overtly antisemitic each year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYInkVkBjhI
Back in 2012 it fell to Mr Ali to welcome to the rostrum the following enthusiastic quartet of hardened Israel-demonisers to perform their rabble-rousing against the Zionist entity each in turn.
Unreconstructed old Trotskyite, now leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn:
Loquacious Irish anti-Israel agitator Sean Clinton:
Demagogic Scottish PSC chief Mick Napier, like Sizer a frequent guest on Iran's propaganda channel Press TV:
At this year's Al Quds day rally in London, Mr Ali's own intemperate demagoguery was in full decibel force.
Addled by the presence of a courageous group of men and women proudly holding Israeli flags, who slowed the hate parade as it snaked its evil way along Regent Street, Hezbollah flags flying as usual (despite a plea to London mayor Sadiq Khan and others in authority that flying the terrorist flag be banned) and even managed to halt it until coralled by Mr Plod, Mr Ali resorted to racism raw and rude inveighing
"Babykillers ... Occupation ... It's in their genes ... European alleged Jews ...
Zionists are not Jews ..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzKKZ_1at5A
As reported by the Jewish Chronicle, inter alia:
'.... Mr Ali whipped up the 1,000 anti-Israel fanatics attending the march with a series of chants blaming the Grenfell Tower tragedy on “Zionism”.
He also called for Israel’s annihilation, and accused the Israel Defence Force of being a “terrorist organisation that murdered Palestinians, Jews and British soldiers.” [Emphasis added, here and below]
Mr Ali stayed at the head of the marchers ... for the two hours it took for the parade to make its way through central London to Grosvenor Square, Using a loud-hailer to lead them in a stream of anti-Israel abuse. \
At one point he spotted pro-Israel counter-demonstrators carrying Israeli flags.
He ordered the march to halt, insisting it would not move on until the “Zionist flag” was removed. He said: “We are fed up of the Zionists. We are fed up of their rabbis. We are fed of their synagogues. We are fed up of their supporters.”
Screaming into the microphone, Mr Ali guided the crowd in a chant of: “Judaism – yes. Zionism – no. The state of Israel must go.”
It was just as the march was about to set off that Mr Ali walked towards a small group of pro-Israeli demonstrators and began singing: “Bye, bye Zionists.”
He then made his remarks linking the Grenfell Tower tragedy to Zionism, adding: “These people do not know what justice is because it’s their supporters who are supporting the Tory Party, that’s who they are. Zionists who give money to the Tory Party to kill people in high rise blocks."
Mr Ali turned to the large police presence and said: “I am requesting that the police watch those trouble-makers over there. They will try to incite. That’s what they are good at causing violence. Do not react to the killers of British soldiers.”
He also repeatedly drew attention to the presence of a handful of members of the Jewish anti-Israel Neturei Karta group, praising as being “true” Jews.
He added: “Because these rabbis don’t kill people, because these rabbis don’t murder people, they are told they are traitors. Because Zionism is a fascist, evil ideology. It is an evil ideology to its core – that’s what Zionism is. That is why they killed British soldiers in order to get their country.”
During the march Mr Ali also claimed “Zionists” were supporters of Isis.
He said: ”Isis are being treated in their hospitals. Isis are being supported in the occupied Golan. Everyone knows that Zionist Israel and Isis are the same. They are brothers in arms.“
The Jewish Chronicle notes that the IHRC
Anti-Israel activists rejoice
'has repeatedly called for the repeal of much UK terror legislation – including the government’s Prevent strategy.
The Community Security Trust yesterday condemned Mr Ali’s comments linking Zionism to the Grenfell Towers fire as “grotesque.”
Lord Polak CBE, Conservative Friends Of Israel’s Honorary President wrote to Home Secretary Amber Rudd to express concern over the Hezbollah flag at Sunday’s march and called on the Metropolitan Police to charge those found in “direct contravention” of Section 13 of the Terrorism Act (2000).
The UK currently proscribes Hezbollah’s so-called ‘military wing’, while the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and Israel proscribe the terrorist organisation in its entirety.
The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office have been asked for comment....'
Heroes and heroines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOUlSX8Sz0A
Middle East analyst Jonathan Sacerdoti on the issue of the Hezbollah flag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp-E4rpRobE
For more on this be sure to see the the splendid coverage (with photographs) by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) here
The CAA observes, inter alia:
'In the wake of the terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, just
as the government has promised a crackdown on extremism and terrorism,
the red carpet has been rolled out for hundreds of supporters of
Hizballah in central London today.
The brave volunteers of our
Demonstration and Event Monitoring Unit went into the thick of the
pro-Hizballah supporters to capture evidence, whilst police officers
looked on inertly.
Some of the people at a splendid counter-rally
Marchers draped themselves in Hizballah flags
bearing a dagger and a raised fist clenching an assault rifle, and
organisers handed out flags for those who had not brought their own. The
organising charity even distributed placards emblazoned with the
slogan: “We are all Hizballah”. As the marchers claimed that Zionists
were responsible for ISIS and even the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower,
the Metropolitan Police Service refused to make arrests or even accept
reports of hate crimes when approached by members of the public, with
one Inspector even claiming that Hizballah flags belong to a legitimate
“state” instead of a terrorist organisation. Terrifyingly, demonstrators
even attached Hizballah flags to children whilst police looked on.
However, supporters of Hizballah did not have the streets to
themselves. As they marched down iconic Regent Street, their path was
blocked by anti-terrorist protesters chanting “Terrorists” and playing
Jewish music (they had come prepared with a saxophonist). The police
however suddenly spurred into action, with vans of officers arriving
within seconds to start demanding that the anti-terrorist protesters
move out of the way, with reports of pushing and shoving.
The
brazen display of support for a genocidal antisemitic terrorist group
was met with inaction, but opposition by members of the public was
swiftly rounded upon.
Outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square,
marchers were addressed by figures including Mick Napier, Chair of the
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who was convicted in March of
aggravated trespass over allegations of intimidating bank staff at a
demonstration against investment by Barclays Bank in an Israeli company.
Campaign Against Antisemitism will analyse the excitable speeches....
Hizballah is clear that it seeks the
genocide of Jews worldwide, committing terrorist atrocities from Bangkok
to Buenos Aires to Burgas. As Britain mourns those we have so recently
lost to Islamist terrorism, the Metropolitan Police Service and Charity
Commission permitted Hizballah supporters to mount a show of force
through the heart of London. This is the reality of the supposed
crackdown on extremism and terrorism. Since the authorities intend to
take no action, it now falls to us to ensure that there are consequences
for those who organised a pro-terrorist show of strength through the
heart of London today. We will also be reviewing our legal options for
holding the authorities to account over their utterly despicable failure
to act.'
In response to yesterday's attack on a mosque at London's Finsbury Park, Theresa May has wasted no time in declaring:
"... It
is a reminder that terrorism, extremism and hatred take many forms and
our determination to tackle them must be the same, whoever is
responsible.
As I said here two weeks ago, there has been far
too much tolerance of extremism in our country over many years - and
that means extremism of any kind, including Islamophobia.
That
is why this government will act to stamp out extremist and hateful
ideology - both across society and on the internet, so it is denied a
safe space to grow.
It is why we will be reviewing our
counter-terrorism strategy and ensuring that police and security
services have the powers they need.
And it is why we will
establish a new Commission for Countering Extremism as a statutory body
to help fight hatred and extremism in the same way as we have fought
racism - because this extremism is every bit as insidious and
destructive to our values and our way of life and we will stop at
nothing to defeat it.
Today's attack falls at a difficult time in
the life of this city, following on from the attack on London Bridge
two weeks ago - and of course the unimaginable tragedy of Grenfell Tower
last week, on which I will chair another meeting of ministers and
officials later today.
But what we have seen throughout - whether
in the heroism of the ordinary citizens who fought off the attackers at
London Bridge, the unbreakable resolve of the residents in Kensington,
or this morning the spirit of the community that apprehended this
attacker - is that this is an extraordinary city of extraordinary
people.
It is home to a multitude of communities that together make London one of the greatest cities on earth.
Diverse, welcoming, vibrant, compassionate, confident and determined never to give in to hate.
These
are the values that define this city. These are the values that define
this country. These are the values that this government will uphold.
These are the values that will prevail."[Emphasis added]
Words that ring horribly hollow in the wake of Al Quds Day's incitement
to antisemitism and the tolerance of extremists glorying in the
hateful Hezbollah flag.
With this latest march the Al Quds Day organisers and their lily-livered enablers have descended into the very heart of darkness. Moseley's British Union of Fascists, when they marched through the Jewish East End during the Devil's Decade of the 1930s, had at least the excuse of not knowing the ultimate depths to which antisemitism can lead. Today's antisemites have no such excuse. Nor do the authorities who tolerate this grotesque Jew-baiting and turn a blind eye to it in the name of the Appeasement of our time.
'.... A parade which features explicit racial incitement and sectarian militarism raises challenging questions concerning the legal limits of free speech. Firstly, it is remarkable that anti-Semitic exhortation is given police protection through Oxford Street. Secondly, it highlights a hole in extant anti-terror legislation. While the military wing of Hezbollah is proscribed in the UK, those adorning Hezbollah garb conveniently stapled themselves with leaflets expressing their solidarity with the political wing. This technicality is surely falsified by reality.
As Karl Popper astutely argued, ‘Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.’
