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Palestinian Workers, Human Rights, US Labor & Zionism

by Labor Video Project
This forum looks at laws against BDS, the history of US labor and Palestinian workers, the role of the ILWU and the fight for Palestinian workers and the relationship between Zionism and Nazism.
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Palestinian Workers, Human Rights, US Labor & Zionism
A forum was held in Oakland, CA on Palestinian workers, Human Rights, US Labor and Zionism. The forum focused on the struggle in solidarity with Palestinian workers and people, the role of US unions to Israel, the ILWU Local 10 labor action against Zim and the history of collaboration between the Zionist organizations and the Nazis during the the 1930's and during the 2nd WW. Speakers included
Fadi Saba, Luther Burbank Education Association president CTA*, of The Bill of Rights Defense Committee VP/Defending Dissent Foundation http://www.defendingdissent.org, http://www.bordc.org
Jeff Blankfort, Editor Of Labor Bulletin On The Middle East and Radio Host of KZYX&Z Takes on The World
Lenni Brenner, historian and author of Zionism In The Age Of The Dictators
Jack Heyman, ILWU Local 10 retired and Chair Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
For more information
http://bordc.org/campaigns/activism-is-not-terrorism/
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/1752
http://www.transportworkers.org
http://www.thestruggle.org/brenner_archive.htm
The forum was sponsored by United Public Workers For Action
http://www.upwa.info
* for identification only
Production of Labor Video Project
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§Protest Against Targeting of Palestinian Journalists
by Labor Video Project
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Palestinian journalists have been targeted by the Israeli government with jail, repression and murder.
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The Zionists invited the Nazis to Palestine and also collaborated to sell German goods to help the Nazi government despite the worldwide boycott. In honor of the visit of the Nazis to Palestine the Nazis struck these medallions.
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by Mike Novack
1) AT THE TIME, the Nazis had not yet decided that the "final solution" to make Europe Jew free was to kill them. Just kicking them out was still under consideration. To WHERE was the problem.

2) AFAIK there was no world wide boycott of Germany prior to WW II. Certainly not one involving the US. But I think most European countries still doing business with them too.
Could the Boycott Have Won?
http://www.thestruggle.org/could_boycott_have_won.htm

by Stanley Heller

November 9, 2012. Today is the anniversary of Kristallnacht and the Zionists, of course, will misuse its meaning to bash Palestinian human rights. But we have a perfect answer to throw back at the Zionists, their awful record of betraying Jews by making deals with the Nazis. The story was told by anti-Zionist Lenni Brenner in 1983, but it was also told by Zionist Edwin Black who focused on how the Transfer Agreement of 1933 destroyed the boycott against the Nazis. My article below is based on Black's work. (Page numbers cited refer to Black's "The Transfer Agreement".)

Besides refuting the Zionists, the facts in Black's book show 1) how boycott is legitimate and how Jews used it several times 2) the power of the 1933 boycott and its limitations.

One can argue that the Holocaust began with the November 9-10, 1938 Kristallnacht, when 1,000 synagogues were burned, 30,000 Jews thrown into concentration camps and around 100 killed outright. From discrimination and violent outrages, the Nazis had moved on to mass murder.

Could they have been stopped? What could have stopped them?

Recently I finished Edwin Black's "The Transfer Agreement", a proud Zionists account of how Palestinian and German Zionists dealt with the new Nazi government of the '30's and used German Jewish money to build up Jewish Palestine. (The Transfer Agreement, First Dialog edition 2009) For a Zionist, the book is as respectable as they come. It has an "Afterwords" by the head of the ADL, Abraham Foxman.

Black thinks the deal was a grand achievement, but he also knows full well that the "Transfer", as it was called, undermined the first serious attempt to stop Hitler, the worldwide boycott of German goods. He ends the book, "Was it madness or was it genius?"

I knew about the "Transfer" from the books of Lenni Brenner, "Zionism in the Age of the Dictators" and "The Iron Wall". He uncovered the whole sorry history of Zionist appeasement of anti-Semitism and their willingness to make deals with Nazis and Fascists. Black's book came out in 1984 around the same time as Brenner first book.

It's well written and well documented, but what is really impressive is how powerful the anti-Nazi boycott actually was. Six weeks after Hitler became Chancellor, thousands of war veterans marched down the streets of New York City demanding a boycott of German goods and were received by the mayor. A few weeks later 20,000 people filled Madison Square Garden and an estimated 35,000 more surrounded it, demanding an end to anti-Jewish attacks in Germany. Boycotts began around the world from Poland to Egypt.

Who then threw a cold wet blanket on all this? The Zionists. They made a deal with the Nazis. German Jewish money was used to buy German goods which Zionists in Palestine sold in the Middle East as a way of building up Palestine and partially compensating German Jews for Nazi theft of their wealth. The Zionists scabbed on the boycott and broke it.

This betrayal of the Jews by this maneuver has already been exposed by Brenner and others. The Zionist answer (and Edwin Black agrees) was that German Jewry was a lost cause and the best that could be done was to get Jewish money and refugees out of Germany. But was it? Could the boycott have succeeded?

The question is not just of historical curiosity, a what if? It's important now, when we work to use the boycott to oppose Israeli apartheid. How strong can a boycott be? What can it accomplish?

Earlier Boycotts


Edwin Black tells about earlier campaigns where Jews fought for their rights with boycotts. The first attempt was led by an international banker named Jacob Schiff. He took on the Czar and the Russian empire in the early 1900's, after a number of bloody anti-Jewish riots/massacres. He used his power to get banks to boycott Russia, to deny it loans. When the Russo-Japanese war broke out, he arranged for Japan to get $100 million in loans, a major factor in its victory. The Czar never relented and the outrages against Jews continued, but Schiff never backed down. He started the American Jewish Committee and, even though more and more Russian Jews were killed, Schiff didn't call off the boycott. As Black puts it "the Committee held that the anti-Semitic outrages of one regime could spread infectiously if not quarantined."

The next boycott was a success. It took place in the 1920's against the world's then most famous anti-Semite, Henry Ford. A genius carmaker, he was crackbrained politically. For seven years used his Dearborn Independent newspaper to publish the infamous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and other such sludge. Immediately Jews starting boycotting Ford cars. In Connecticut in 1921 there was a 400 car procession to greet Albert Einstein. One of the parade rules said "Positively no Ford machines permitted in line." (p.27) By 1927 Ford caved in, issued an abject letter of apology and burned five truckloads of his pamphlet "The International Jew".

Hitler certainly knew all about the later boycott. Henry Ford was his "inspiration" and was lauded right in Hitler's "Mein Kampf". So Hitler worried plenty about an economic boycott of Germany.

He had reason to worry. He had triumphed because of the incredible unemployment in Germany due to the Great Depression. People were seething. The Nazis were the biggest political party in Germany, but by no means a majority. It was the old general Hindenburg who had put Hitler in office. If the Nazis couldn't get people working major rebellion was likely to break out and the German Army could toss the Brownshirts right out.

Germany depended on foreign trade. "If exports fell too low Germany as a nation would again be faced with starvation. It had happened just 14 years earlier..."( p. 187) Germany had another problem, colossal foreign debt to pay reparations levied by the Allies for war damages in World War I. A boycott of Germany was a serious threat.

It had broken out spontaneously in many countries. In the U.S. it was the group, Jewish War Veterans which started out in the streets with their thousands on March 23, 1933. The Madison Square Garden rally took place four days later. It was broadcast live on the radio to 200 cities around the country. At the same time there were rallies in Chicago, Washington, Houston and over 70 other cities. Black estimates that as many as two million Americans took part.( p. 43) William Green of the American Federation of Labor pledged support of his 3 million members for Jewish rights.

Mass meetings were held in Poland and a boycott declared in Vilna spread to other cities. In London Jewish ship "were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen..." (p.47). Teenagers patrolled the streets with boycott flyers.

In the U.S. the Jewish War Veterans set up an office and began a project to connect U.S. merchants with non-German suppliers. "Pickets were thrown around U.S. stores carrying German goods." (p. 47) Big stores would cancel orders of German goods and announce it in press conferences.

Hitler and Goebbels responded with a violent anti-Jewish boycott on April 1st. Jewish stores were surrounded. Customers were threatened or beaten, goods ruined.

Yet, the international boycotts of German goods continued and grew larger. In Salonika , Greece on April 3 seventy thousand Greek Jews gathered in a mass protest. Major orders were cancelled in Holland, France, Belgium, Egypt, Denmark and Finland. (p. 110).

This was combined with threats of military attack on Germany. Polish forces were put on high readiness. They were very aware of Hitler's demands on territory given it in the Versailles treaty. "German officials were in fact astonished that at the historically anti-Semitic Polish people would allow Jewish persecution in Germany to become the pretext for a war. But it was happening." (p. 113) Germany also had to worry about France. If it didn't pay its war debts France might invade and seize property just as it did in 1923.

On April 23 the German Ambassador to Italy sent a telegram to Berlin saying that the Czech President was considering joining Poland in an attack on Germany. Three days later the German Ambassador in Czechoslovakia confirmed the news.

In May Samuel Untermeyer, a very influential millionaire and Jewish leader made headlines when he called for a U.S. boycott of all German goods to start right away. On May 10 commerce in New York City virtually stopped and a parade of 100,000 Jews took to the streets. "At Seventeenth Street, thousands of assembled labor unionists, their ranks extended to the East River, flowed in to the mainstream" (p. 119)

And then the Zionists threw it all away.

A Bizzaro World View


They had never fought the Nazis. When socialists and communists were battling Nazis in the streets of Berlin the German Zionists were collecting money for trees in Palestine. It came out of their worldview. Starting with Theodore Herzl they adopted the bizzaro nationalist idea that Jews living outside of a national home had a culture that was abnormal and that attempts to assimilate in the larger society actually caused anti-Semitism. As Black describes it, "Herzl declares that Jewish persecution is not an aberrant facet of bigoted society, but a natural reaction to the appearance of a foreign group - the Jews." (p. 73) Herzl was half agreeing with anti-Semites. This led him to to meet with reactionary leaders in their common desire have Jews leave Europe. So Herzl met with Kaiser Wilhelm, and most notoriously with Russian Interior Minister von Plehve who had personally arranged a massacre of Jews at Kishnev years earlier.

As we have seen once Hitler became Chancellor the spontaneous reaction of Jews around the world was to mobilize against him. For Zionists their immediate thought was to see if the German disaster could be used to the advantage of their colonial project.

On March 25th Herman Goering, then President of the German Reichstag, summoned German Jewish leaders to meet with him privately. Kurt Blumenfeld, the President of the German Zionist Federation got himself included. This was actually quite a feat since as Edwin Black writes German Zionists really represented only 1 or 2% of German Jews. (p. 35)

Goering ordered the Jewish leaders to stop worldwide demonstrations and boycott efforts especially the upcoming Madison Square Garden rally. Three of the leaders said they didn't have the influence to do so, but Blumenfeld said that as part of an international group, Zionists were "uniquely capable" of talking to Jewish leaders around the world. Black states, "Once uttered the words uniquely changed the relationship between the Nazis and Zionists". (p. 36)

The Nazis realized these Zionists would actually do it. They were willing to undercut the overwhelming desire of German Jews to be Germans and would work with the Nazis to send the Jews out of Germany.

"A Stake Through the Heart"


At the end of March while tens of thousands were marching and calling for the boycott a Zionist businessman named Sam Cohen was in Frankfurt making a deal with German government officials. It would allow German Jews to bypass a law that was set up a few years before Hitler to keep virtually all German money inside of Germany. The Zionists would get an exemption. The way it worked was that a German Jew would give over all his property to a German bank and in return would get a thousand British pound sterling once in Palestine. The amount was what the British demanded for entry into the colony.

As it turned out the initial deal had to be reworked. The Nazis didn't want to give out precious foreign currency, but they were willing to send German goods to Palestine. There it could be sold and the proceeds go to immigrants to Palestine and to Zionist institutions. To make a very long story short the equivalent of tens of millions of 1930's U.S. dollars were sent to Palestine. The actual amount is unclear. Black first says $100 million (p. xxi), but later that $30 million came from the Transfer Agreement (p. 379).

With Palestinian Jews selling massive amounts of German machinery, a strong boycott of German goods was impossible. Black is quite clear, the deal would "pierce a stake through the heart of the Jewish-led anti-Nazi boycott". (p.86)

Rip-Off


In purely money terms German Jews were being ripped off. According to Black Jewish assets in Germany were "around RM 10 billion" (p. 187). In the '30 the exchange rate of marks to dollars was between 4.25 to 2.5 depending on the year. So a rough estimate is that German Jewish wealth was about $3 billion of with Black's estimate about 3% made it to Palestine. (for exchange rates click here)

Black says the Transfer Agreement directly brought 20,000 Jews to Palestine and claims 40,000 more came indirectly (p.379) That means 90% of German Jews went elsewhere or were left behind.

So a small portion of German Jewry and a tiny part of their money was saved for Palestine, but at what cost? As Black states it drove a stake into the heart of the boycott. When the Zionist Congress met at Prague that year they refused to consider any measure in support of boycott. How could they? They were preparing to become salesmen of tens of millions of dollars of German goods.

Rabbi Stephen Wise of the U.S. had led the 100,000 New York Jews in the march in May. He headed the World Jewish Congress which was meeting in Geneva shortly after the Zionist Congress. The Congress had been set up to meet the challenge of Hitlerism. Wise had frequently praised the boycott and was expected to make the Congress' major order of business the organizing of the boycott. A resolution was prepared to empower a Central Jewish Committee to ban any Jewish dealings with the Reich, to end the Transfer Agreement and to organize what had been a spontaneous boycott. (p.359) At the climactic moment, however, Wise pulled back and made no effort to give the boycott organization. Wise was a major Zionist and in the end he adopted their logic. He gave lip service to the boycott and then gave over running it to a Paris based Zionist organization. As Black writes "The boycott would be led by leaders who in fact opposed it." (p. 359)

Staying true to the boycott was Samuel Untermeyer, a millionaire U.S. businessman. He had organized a "World Jewish Economic Conference" in Amsterdam in July of 1933. It had attracted delegates of 16 countries and came up with the slogan "Germany will crack this winter." The New York Times gave the conference front page coverage. When the 75 year old Untermeyer returned to the U.S. in August he was met on the gangplank by 5,000 cheering supporters. (p.276). He spoke on a national radio hookup and denounced as "traitors" any Jews who bought German products or traveled on German ships. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were raised for boycott offices, flyers, telephones, etc.

Yet he could not in the end overcome established Jewish leadership, neither the wealthy Jews who thought that crying out too loud would create an anti-Semitic backlash nor the Zionists who in the words of Rabbi Abba Silver of Cleveland acted as if they were involved in a "bankruptcy sale and that the Jews of Palestine were endeavoring to salvage a few bargains for themselves." Germany introduced many populist rationing measures to keep afloat and it did not crack in the winter of 1933 nor in the years afterwards.

The Nazis gleefully used the Zionist scabbing on the boycott to their advantage. Lenni Brenner quotes British fascist Oswald Mosely in 1935 "Can you beat that! We are cutting off our nose to spite our face and refuse to trade with Germany in order to defend the poor Jews. The Jews themselves, in their own country, are to continue making profitable dealings with Germany themselves. Fascists can't better counter the malicious propaganda to destroy friendly relations with Germany than by using this fact."

Far From Hopeless


But back to the original question. Could the boycott have broken Hitler? Or did the Zionists properly reject "sentimentality" as they called it and do the right thing?

First let's understand what was at stake. It wasn't only the 600,000 German Jews who were in peril, but the entire world's Jewish population. In the Afterword to "The Transfer Agreement" Abe Foxman claims that Jews in the '30's couldn't imagine that the Nazis might kill them by the millions "nor could anyone". (p. 382) Untermeyer could. In 1933 he told his "World Economic Conference" that Hitler's government would "annihilate them economically, to deprive them of their citizenship ...and eventually exterminate them." (p. 206) From the start of the "Thousand Year Reich" it was obvious that Hitler and his gang were unparalleled in their viciousness. It was also clear that Nazi ideas wouldn't be confined to Germany. By the summer of 1933 Edwin Black lists Nazi incidents in 15 countries.

In 1933 the Zionists decided the cause of German Jews was hopeless and started bargaining for as much of the assets of German Jews as they could get. They cynically welcomed the boycott to a point, because the greater the threat the boycott was to the Nazis the more the Zionists could get out of them by breaking it.

But why would anyone in 1933 think that the cause of German Jews was hopeless?

We've already shown that internationally Germany was under threat of invasion. Popular sentiment had put hundreds of thousands into the streets, both Jew and non-Jews. Even in the face of opposition by Jewish leaders the boycott was strong enough in early 1934 to get retail giants Macy, Gimbels, Woolworth, Bloomingdale's and Lord and Taylor to sign an agreement to refuse to import German goods.

As Black showed again and again Germany was in really bad shape. He has a whole chapter called "Near the Cracking Point". By the summer of of '33 he says boycotting had "virtually bankrupted" the German shipping industry. Ironmaking was in trouble because of lack of exports. The German export surplus "was down 68%" from May to June and kept on dropping in the rest of the summer. (p. 264) Seizing Jewish owned property and giving it to totally untrained "Aryans" had brought about chaos. Germany was witnessing "mass corporate flight" by foreign companies each one dismissing German workers. The Nazis were keeping men employed by firing hundreds of thousands of women workers, and banning all workers from having a second job.

Then there are all the forces that could be organized to help the Jews. Black mentions trade unions several times. By 1933 unions were showing signs of fight in the U.S. 900,000 workers went on strike that year, triple that of the year before. And militancy would be growing in the years to come. Unemployed Councils were spearheading hunger marches demanding jobs. Veterans had staged a huge Bonus March in 1932. These were natural allies against Nazism.

Black almost totally ignores the Left, but in the depths of the Depression it was growing by leaps and bounds. Untermeyer was as capitalist as they come, but the rank and file of his American League for the Defense of Jewish Rights was full of radicals. The Left had been deeply divided in the late '30's partly by Stalin's mad Third Period strategy where he refused to ally with any other forces and called all other socialists "social fascists" and partly by the anti-revolutionary and patriotic Socialists who refused to work with Communists. Divided, the Left in Germany was crushed. But getting slugged in the face does get your attention and the takeover of Germany by the Nazis was a mighty blow. Little by little Stalin abandoned "ultra-leftism" moving on to "Popular Front" strategy. Hitler saw his mission as destroying the Soviet Union and Stalin knew this full well. A boycott movement would be enormously attractive to the radical Left.

Even Orthodox Jews could be recruited. The common impression is that the Orthodox stayed out of politics for Talmudic reasons and confined themselves to prayer. Yet Hitler's rise changed things, at least for some. The Assembly of Hebrew Orthodox Rabbis was meeting in New York on September 6, 1933. They were furious about the Zionist breaking of the boycott and were considering making them Cherem. Cherem is a curse of untouchability. If they made the Zionist Organization Charem all Orthodox Jews would have to steer clear of it. The rabbis were addressed by Untermeyer who advised that only German goods be put under the curse. This they did in a solemn ritual. (p. 351)

Barriers


There were, of course, barriers, too. One huge barrier was FDR. Though approached may times by various Jewish leaders his Secretary of State Cordell Hull would not raise a whisper of protest of Nazi persecution. In FDR's defense he literally had just become president in March of 1933 and was facing the Great Depression at its absolute bottom. He was trying to increase world trade as a way of fighting unemployment and feared a German collapse will mean default on $2 billion owned to the U.S.

The problem with FDR was would be the same problem with all the capitalist governments. They were meeting frequently with Germany to revive trade. Boycott was the last thing on their minds.

Another barrier is the very difficulty of a boycott. Publicity is one thing, but to be effective you have to have pickets out in front of stores looking possible shoppers right in the eye. Plus there is the counter measures that could and were taken by Germany, exporting via third countries or mislabeling products as "Made in Saxony" or "Made in Austria".

The final barrier was the nature of the German Nazis themselves, almost by definition the most brutal regime in history. They were not going to go quietly no matter what the difficulties in Germany.

The Nazis would have be thrown out physically by the Wehrmacht or a Left wing revolution. It would take a deadly serious alliance of world Jewry, the Left and threatened East European nations along with at least neutrality from "the West" to forge the immense pressure on Germany in which overthrow might be possible.

On Not Appeasing Hitler


Yet even if we look back from the 21st century and say that the barriers were too great and the boycott could not have taken down the Nazis there was still reason to pursue it and not "liquidation" of German Jewish assets and emigration of German Jews.

The boycott restrained and weakened Germany. As Edwin Black himself pointed out in the early '30 it forced Hitler to pull back on some anti-Jewish attacks to prevent the growth of the anti-Nazi movement. It denied Germany foreign exchange and the ability to "acquire the raw materials needed to rebuild its war machine." (p. 372)

But the biggest reason was that giving in to Hitler's psychotic nationalism only whetted his appetite. Giving in to him, appeasing him, was a disastrous policy. If Jews, his most hated and despised enemy, could deal with him it made it eminently reasonable for others to trod that same path of surrender.

So there is an answer to Edwin Black's question about the Transfer Agreement, his "Was it madness or was it genius?"

It was madness.

Stanley Heller is host of "The Struggle" TV News, http://www.TheStruggle.org mail [at] thestruggle.org



Zionist, Nazi Relations in 1930's Becomes Big Issue in British Politics-Interview With Lenni Brenner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUCKJX5_MmU&feature=youtu.be
Updates May 7




May 5 Video Interview with Lenni Brenner about Nazi-Zionist collaboration in the 1930's

Over 20,000 sign petition opposed to Labor MP who called Livingstone a "Nazi apologist"

April 29, 2016 Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, England has been suspended from the Labour Party, supposedly saying something about "Hitler supporting Zionism".

The comment on Zionism and Hitler was sloppy. But hopefully there's going to be an international examination what actually happened in the '30's, the collaboration of the mainstream Zionist organizations and the Nazis for at least 4 years and especially the betrayal of Jewish interests by Zionist organizations when they broke the anti-Nazi boycott

The issue is joined. Start reading up on it

1. The betrayal by Zionist organizations of the anti-Nazi boycott of the 1930's

2. The long history of betrayal of Jewish interests by prominent Zionists and Zionist organizations.

3. The issue of Zionist-Nazi collaboration was debated before a million people on British TV in 1987. Part 1, Part 2

The Lenni Brenner archive. It's Brenner that Ken Livingstone cites as having taught him about the period

Can Zionist Apologists Explain Away These Images?




April 30. Hitler from the start was a murderous beast and in Mein Kampf in the 1920's talked about gassing Jews. Yet for a number of years the Nazi government in fact encouraged emigration of Jews (while at the same time passing ever more vicious laws against Jews within Germany). German Jewish organizations tried to resist with one exception, Zionist organizations. They decided to cooperate with the Nazis on emigration even though they knew it would sabotage all hopes for resistance. They brought an SS official, Baron Leopold von Mildenstein, to Palestine who stayed there six months, and wrote about his experience positively in the SS magazine Angriff in a year long series of articles and had the above medal struck in honor of the trip.

That medal is real. Please explain it.



This is a picture of Haim Arlosoroff, a top Labour Zionist leader, assassinated in June 1933 weeks after he had bargained a preliminary version of "The Transfer Agreement" with the Nazi German government. In this agreement Zionists would sell German goods in Palestine and the Middle East so that German Jews could leave Germany with more of their capital. The agreement was furiously denounced by Revisionist Zionists because they knew it would doom the anti-Nazi boycott and weaken resistance to Hitler.

Arlosoroff was shot on June 16, 1933. A Revisionist Zionist named Avraham Stavsky was identified by Arlosoroff's wife Sima from some photos and she testified against him at his trial. He was convicted and sentenced to death. (The conviction was later overturned. Evidence had gone missing). According to Lenni Brenner, "In 1944 a ballistics expert discovered the gun that killed Arlosoroff was used in the Cairo assassination by the Stern Gang splitters from Jabotinsky’s organization." (Trace 1933 Murder Weapon to Stern Group Death Squad, Jewish Journal, 10 August 1973.)

You say Livingstone is just talking some antisemitic nonsense. What about the Revisionists (whose descendants have run the Israeli government since the late '70's) who were denouncing the same thing in the early '30's that Livingstone is talking about now?. They were so furious about it that they murdered a fellow Jew because of it.

Please explain.

BTW About That Supposedly Terrible Sentence About "Hitler" and "Legal"


May 1. Interesting that the supposedly outrageous meme where Labour MP Shah included the words, "what Hitler did in German was legal" is actually part of a famous "Birmingham Letter" by Martin Luther King of 1963 where he makes the point that just because something is "legal" it isn't necessarily moral and shouldn't necessarily be obeyed. Here is the quote and link

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.

The interviewer of Ken Livingstone brings up the "Hitler" "legal" business as supposedly an anti-Semitic statement being totally ignorant of its origin and intent. Livingstone then gives an imprecise answer about Hitler supporting Zionism and we're off to the races.

"Supporting Zionism"


The beast Hitler, or course, never had any desire to help Jews in any fashion. However, the Transfer Agreement negotiated by the Zionists with the Nazi German government did in fact support the Zionist project in Palestine. Read the glowing account of it by Edwin Black a very enthusiastic Zionist in his book "The Transfer Agreement". The Epilogue of the 2009 reprint (endorsed by Abraham Foxman of the ADL, no less) tells how the agreement led to an "economic explosion" in Palestine. He says "Palestine's economic absorbtiveness tripled, perhaps quadrupled..." He ends the book talking about the men who in 1933 decided to make the agreement. He writes, "These men were the creators of Israel. And in order to do so, each had to touch his hand to the ost controversial undertanking in Jewish history - the Transfer Agreement. It paved the way for a state". Here's a link to Edwin Black's website. Read his description of "The Transfer Agreement".

The Zionists and Hitler despised each other, but both thought they were brilliantly using each other. There's no doubt the agreement did help the Zionist project in Palestine in monetary ways, but at a collosal cost, sabotaging and destroying a major effort to defeat Hitler in the 1930's.

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Anatomy Of A Propaganda Blitz – Part 2: ‘Hitlergate’
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2016/819-anatomy-of-a-propaganda-blitz-part-2-hitlergate.html

IN ALERTS 2016 POST 17 MAY 2016 LAST UPDATED ON 17 MAY 2016 BY EDITOR HITS: 1031

The recent furore surrounding a supposed 'Labour antisemitism crisis' is a classic propaganda blitz of the kind described in Part 1 of this alert.



Dramatic New Evidence
As with so many propaganda blitzes, intense media coverage was triggered by 'dramatic new evidence'; namely, the discovery of a graphic posted by Naz Shah two years ago, before she became a Labour MP. The graphic shows a map of the United States with Israel superimposed in the middle, suggesting that a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict would be to relocate Israel to the US.

Shah's post was highlighted by right-wing political blogger Paul Staines who writes as Guido Fawkes:

'Naz Shah... shared a highly inflammatory graphic arguing in favour of the chilling "transportation" policy two years ago, adding the words "problem solved".'

Jonathan Freedland, comment editor at the Guardian, argued that leftists view Israel as 'a special case, uniquely deserving of hatred', and that this hatred 'lay behind' Shah's call 'for the "transportation" [of Israel to America] - a word with a chilling resonance for Jews'.

In the Observer, Andrew Rawnsley claimed that Shah believed 'that Israelis should be put on "transportation" to America, with all the chilling echoes that has for Jews'.

Guardian assistant editor Michael White reported that Shah had been suspended from the Labour party 'while the context of her antisemitic comments... are thoroughly investigated'. Clearly then, the jury was in - the comments were 'anti-semitic'.

By contrast, Israel-based former Guardian journalist Jonathan Cook, who was given a Martha Gellhorn special award for his work on the Middle East, argued that the map 'was clearly intended to be humorous rather than anti-semitic. I would make a further point. It is also obvious that the true target of the post is the US, not Jews or even Israel – making the anti-semitism claim even more ridiculous'.

Norman Finkelstein, Jewish author of 'The Holocaust Industry' and the son of Holocaust survivors, commented that he had originally posted the graphic on his website in 2014:

'An email correspondent must have sent it. It was, and still is, funny. Were it not for the current political context, nobody would have noticed Shah's reposting of it either. Otherwise, you'd have to be humourless. These sorts of jokes are a commonplace in the U.S. So, we have this joke: Why doesn't Israel become the 51st state? Answer: Because then, it would only have two senators. As crazy as the discourse on Israel is in America, at least we still have a sense of humour. It's inconceivable that any politician in the U.S. would be crucified for posting such a map.'

Finkelstein responded powerfully to the idea that Shah's posting of the image was an endorsement of a 'chilling "transportation" policy':

'Frankly, I find that obscene. It's doubtful these Holocaust-mongers have a clue what the deportations were, or of the horrors that attended them. I remember my late mother describing her deportation. She was in the Warsaw Ghetto. The survivors of the Ghetto Uprising, about 30,000 Jews, were deported to Maijdanek concentration camp. They were herded into railroad cars. My mother was sitting in the railroad car next to a woman who had her child. And the woman – I know it will shock you – the woman suffocated her infant child to death in front of my mother. She suffocated her child, rather than take her to where they were going. That's what it meant to be deported. To compare that to someone posting a light-hearted, innocuous cartoon making a little joke about how Israel is in thrall to the U.S., or vice versa... it's sick. What are they doing? Don't they have any respect for the dead? All these desiccated Labour apparatchiks, dragging the Nazi holocaust through the mud for the sake of their petty jostling for power and position. Have they no shame?'

Emotional Tone And Intensity – Demonising Dissent
Former London mayor Ken Livingstone, a 'long-time ally' of Jeremy Corbyn but not an MP, defended Shah from the accusation of anti-semitism. He said:

'When Hitler won his election in 1932 his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews.'

This was met with the kind of cross-'spectrum' moral outrage that is so characteristic of a propaganda blitz. Again, everyone knew – or did they? - that Livingstone's comments were outrageous, monstrous, rabidly anti-semitic.

John Mann MP confronted Livingstone, calling him a 'a disgusting racist', 'a fucking disgrace' and 'a Nazi apologist'. The lengthy tirade was broadcast widely, with Mann thoughtfully checking to ensure the camera was catching the action. His denunciation was more 'dramatic new evidence' of a scandal, ideal ammunition for a propaganda blitz.

Few TV viewers will have been aware that Mann is 'one of Corbyn's strongest critics'. Last July, after Corbyn had become frontrunner in the leadership election race, Mann called for the Labour party to suspend the contest 'over fears of an "infiltration" by hard-left activists'. Mann said:

'It is pretty clear that what is happening amounts to infiltration of the Labour party.'

Mann's concern at the time was not anti-semitism but 'the Militant Tendency-types coming back in'.

The website TheyWorkForYou records that Mann 'Generally voted for use of UK military forces in operations overseas', 'Consistently voted for the [2003] Iraq war' and 'Consistently voted against an investigation into the Iraq war.' He voted for war on Libya in 2011, and again for war on Iraq in 2014. If any journalist highlighted the ironic location of the moral 'high ground' from which Mann was so volubly preaching at Livingstone, we missed it.

The Jewish Chronicle certainly agreed on Livingstone:

'Labour now seems to be a party that attracts antisemites like flies to a cesspit. Barely a week goes by without the identification of a racist party member or allegations of racist behaviour by those involved in the party.'

Under the title, 'Labour's Sickness', a Times leader presumably written by Blairite neocon Oliver Kamm denounced the 'grotesque analogies' offered by Livingstone, a 'trivial ignoramus'. The leader concluded:

'The tropes of antisemitism are... a stain on British public life. A great political party is harbouring a sickness and has a moral obligation to purge itself.' (Leader, 'Labour's Sickness,' The Times, April 28, 2016)

Under the headline, 'Labour's anti-semites put the party in peril,' the Daily Mail commented:

'Mr Corbyn gave not the faintest sign of understanding how monstrously and deliberately offensive it was of his long-term ally Ken Livingstone to make the absurd claim that Hitler was a Zionist.'

Richard Littlejohn wrote in the Mail under the title, 'The fascists at the poisoned heart of Labour':

'Naz [Shah] by name, Nazi by nature, was revealed to have backed the transportation of Jews in Israel to the United States. Red Ken rallied to her defence by claiming, absurdly, that Hitler was a Zionist.'

In the Mirror, the commentator Fleet Street Fox damned 'Ken Livingstone's ridiculous assertion that Hitler and the Jews were on the same side.'

A Guardian leader commented that the Labour party 'finds itself charged with being contaminated by antisemitism. And with singular crassness, instead of clearing the air on Thursday, Mr Livingstone encouraged the accusation'.

Jonathan Freedland wrote in the paper of Livingstone's comments:

'His version of history was garbled and insulting, suggesting that the Hitler who had already written Mein Kampf had not yet gone "mad" and was "supporting Zionism" - as if there is any moral comparison between wishing to inflict mass expulsion on a minority and the desire to build a thriving society where that minority might live.'

In fact, it is hardly in doubt that Livingstone intended to suggest that Hitler had become more insane when he committed genocide. This is not the same as arguing that he had previously been sane. Livingstone later commented of Hitler:

'He was a monster from start to finish but it's simply the historical fact. His policy was originally to send all of Germany's Jews to Israel [sic] and there were private meetings between the Zionist movement and Hitler's government which were kept confidential, they only became apparent after the war, when they were having a dialogue to do this.'

The late historian Howard Zinn supported the assertion of a Nazi descent into more extreme madness and also the claim that the Nazis initially planned to expel the Jews:

'Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide. This is the view of Princeton historian Arno Mayer, in his book Why Did the Heavens Not Darken, and it is supported by the chronology - that not until Germany was at war was the Final Solution adopted.

'[Raul] Hilberg, in his classic work on the Holocaust, says, "From 1938 to 1940, Hitler made extraordinary and unusual attempts to bring about a vast emigration scheme... The Jews were not killed before the emigration policy was literally exhausted." The Nazis found that the Western powers were not anxious to cooperate in emigration and that no one wanted the Jews.'

Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to victims of the Holocaust, also discusses 'The Transfer Agreement'.

Jonathan Cook wrote:

'Livingstone's mistake was both to express himself slackly in the heat of the moment and to refer to a history that was supposed to have been disappeared down the memory hole. But what he is saying is, in essence, true.'

Finkelstein commented:

'The Nazis considered many "resettlement" schemes – the Jews wouldn't have physically survived most of them in the long run – before they embarked on an outright exterminatory process. Livingstone is more or less accurate about this – or, as accurate as might be expected from a politician speaking off the cuff.'



Manufacturing Consensus
As so often, the propaganda coup de grace was supplied by a Guardian leftist; this time, Owen Jones, who tweeted:

'John McDonnell [Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer] was right to swiftly force Naz Shah's resignation - but now the party has to suspend her.'

One day later, Jones issued a further decree:

'Ken Livingstone has to be suspended from the Labour Party. Preferably before I pass out from punching myself in the face.'

Ali Abunimah, co-founder of Electronic Intifada, commented:

'Didn't always agree with Ken Livingstone but he's been an anti-racist fighter & took on Thatcher before @OwenJones84 was born. Sad to watch.'

Abunimah added:

'To watch @OwenJones84 throw Ken Livingstone under the bus to appease a bunch of hard-right racists is a truly pitiful sight.'

Jones' tragicomic McCarthyist stance in all but ordering the suspension of Shah and Livingstone for supposed anti-semitism strongly reminds us of the way the Guardian's George Monbiot supported a nugatory smear of progressives promoted by his notoriously non-credible interlocutor, Oliver Kamm. Monbiot wrote that Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, John Pilger and Media Lens were part of a 'malign intellectual subculture' that sought 'to excuse savagery by denying the facts' of genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda. Monbiot even wrote an article titled, 'Media Cleanse'. As recently as March 25, Monbiot tweeted:

'Still waiting for Hume, Herman, Pilger, Media Lens etc to acknowl[edge] their terrible mistakes on Srebrenica'



Timing and Strange Coincidences
George Eaton, fiercely anti-Corbyn political editor of the hard-right 'centre-left' New Statesman, tried and failed to coin the term 'Hitlergate' to describe the scandal that had engulfed Livingstone (the Nexis media database finds no other mentions of the term). Eaton cited an anonymous MP arguing 'it firmly pins responsibility for next week's [local election] results on the hard-left antics'. This at least gave a good idea of the motivation behind the propaganda blitz.

Norman Finkelstein was again far beyond the corporate 'mainstream' in asking some obvious questions:

'The question you have to ask yourself is, why? Why has this issue been resurrected with a vengeance, so soon after its previous outing was disposed of as a farce?... The only plausible answer is, it's political. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the factual situation; instead, a few suspect cases of antisemitism – some real, some contrived – are being exploited for an ulterior political motive. As one senior Labour MP said the other day, it's transparently a smear campaign.'

He added:

'You can see this overlap between the Labour Right and pro-Israel groups personified in individuals like Jonathan Freedland, a Blairite hack who also regularly plays the antisemitism card. He's combined these two hobbies to attack Corbyn.'

Israeli historian Ilan Pappé noted how the young electorate supporting Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders in the US have a 'desire for cleaner, more moral politics that dare to challenge the neoliberal set up of economy and politics in the West'. The result being that 'Members of the political elites and establishment, in very senior positons, voice clear, unashamed support for Palestine.

'This is the background for the current vicious attack on the Labour Party and Corbyn. Whatever the Zionists in Britain point to, as an expression of anti-Semitism, which in the main are legitimate criticism of Israel, have been said before in the last 50 years. The pro-Zionist lobby in Britain, under direct guidance from Israel, picks them up because the clear anti-Zionist stance of BDS has reached the upper echelons. They are genuinely terrified by this development. Well done the BDS movement!'

Jonathan Cook summed it up:

'Corbyn and his supporters want to revive Labour as a party of social justice... This is nothing more than a class war to pave the way for a return of the Blairites to lead Labour.'

Chomsky has discussed the long-standing efforts to associate anti-semitism with anti-Zionism for political ends. In 1973, leading Israeli diplomat Abba Eban said that 'one of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all'. Critics of Israel were to be branded 'anti-semites', while Jewish critics like Chomsky were guilty of 'self-hatred'.

Asa Winstanley, investigative journalist at the Electronic Intifada, puts the supposed 'crisis of antisemitism' in context:

'A 2015 survey by Pew found that seven percent of the UK public held "unfavorable" views of Jews. By contrast, about a fifth held negative views of Muslims and almost two-fifths viewed Roma people unfavorably.

'There's no evidence to suggest that such views are any more prevalent in the Labour Party – and the tiny number of anti-Semitism complaints suggests they may well be less so in a movement many of whose activists have been in the frontline of anti-racist struggles.'


Conclusion - 'Emotionally Potent Oversimplifications'
The fact that completely false, or highly questionable, claims are repeatedly being affirmed by an instant, outraged 'consensus' across the media 'spectrum' is powerful evidence for the existence of a propaganda system undermining democracy.

Journalists may plead ignorance, but elites have openly advocated the 'manufacture of consent' in exactly this way for decades. In 1932, highly influential US foreign policy adviser Reinhold Niebuhr wroteof the need for 'emotionally potent oversimplifications' and 'necessary illusion' to overcome the threat to elite control posed by 'the stupidity of the average man'.

Vested interests are well aware that public opinion can be manipulated by 'emotionally potent' declarations of certainty, on the one hand, and by nurturing doubt on the other. Indeed, the flip side of the propaganda coin promoting false certainty was described by Phil Lesley, author of a handbook on corporate public relations:

'People generally do not favour action on a non-alarming situation when arguments seem to be balanced on both sides and there is a clear doubt. The weight of impressions on the public must be balanced so people will have doubts and lack motivation to take action. Accordingly, means are needed to get balancing information into the stream from sources that the public will find credible... Nurturing public doubts by demonstrating that this is not a clear-cut situation in support of the opponents usually is all that is necessary.' (Lesly, 'Coping with Opposition Groups', Public Relations Review 18, 1992, p.331)

The logic is crude but effective. When elites want to prevent action, for example in response to climate change, they work hard to encourage public doubts. When they want to attack Iraq, Libya or Syria, or Julian Assange, or Jeremy Corbyn - when it is vital that the situation be presented as clear cut - 'balancing infomation' must be ridiculed, damned and dismissed. These are the tasks of a propaganda blitz.

DE
by Three Cheers for BDS
The Boycott Divest Sanctions movement has been effective in cutting aid to Israel, a primary goal because the name of the game is always money. For more on the BDS movement, see https://bdsmovement.net/news/eleven-signs-bds-continues-grow-despite-israel’s-war-repression

As you get ready to vote in November, remember the Democrat & Republican parties are 100% pro-Israel at every level of office. Nazi USA is a proud supporter of Nazi Israel, an American military base and settlement colony, which protects US oil profits in the Middle East and around the world. Only Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party are anti-Zionist. For more in their programs, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home
http://www.glorialariva4president.com/program (Gloria LaRiva for President with a serious socialist program) (LaRiva demands: "4. Shut down all U.S. military bases around the world—bring all the troops, planes & ships home U.S. foreign policy uses the pretext of national security to enforce the imperialist interests of the biggest banks and corporations. That is what is behind the endless wars and occupations. Use the $1 trillion military budget instead to provide for people’s needs here and around the world. Abolish nuclear weapons. Stop U.S. aid to Israel. End the U.S. blockade of Cuba. Independence for Puerto Rico."
and
http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.gp.org/
http://www.jill2016.com/platform (Jill Stein for President) (Stein calls to "Stop U.S. financial and military support to human rights abusers. Barring substantial changes in their policies, this would include Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt.")

For more information on Zionism and their colonial and Nazi collaboration, US Zionists as proud anti-Communist witchhunters, Israel's support of Nazi Ukraine installed in an American financed coup under Democrat Obama and Israel's role in the 9/11 Inside Job and all other bombings and massacres since the 9/11 Inside Job, all of which were staged for the same reason as the 9/11 Inside Job: to promote war and fascism so as to maximize the profits of the capitalist class, see:

Solving 911 by Christopher Bollyn
(2012) Published by Christopher Bollyn. ISBN 978-0-9853225-8-8 http://www.bollyn.com
Laughing Israelis at World Trade Center on 9/11/01 identified themselves on TV, and much more on Israel’s complicity in the 911 Inside Job which should surprise no one since Israel, a US military base since its inception in 1948, is and always has been part of the US military-agent provocateur-spy system of US imperialism. EHUD OLMERT, mayor of Jerusalem in 2001, from a terrorist Irgun family, visited New York City on 9/10/11. While all civilian flights were grounded immediately after the 9/11/01 Inside Job and for at least a week thereafter, a full El Al Boeing 747 left New York City’s JFK airport for Israel with authorization from the US Department of Defense, and US military officials were at the JFK airport to make sure this flight was cleared for take-off. Florida, the alleged base of the non-existent “Arab hijackers” was and is a base for Israeli Mossad operations as is the rest of the USA. EHUD BARAK, who has degrees in physics and mathematics, attended Stanford University, was Israel’s Defense Minister during the Massacre of Gaza of 2008-2009, making him a war criminal according to the Goldstone Report, and was Prime Minister of Israel from July 1999 to March 2001, when he came to the US to work as a partner in SCP Partners, a Mossad-run private equity company concerned with “security,” which had in its portfolio a company called Megallurg Holdings, Inc. capable of producing and applying an advanced form of super-thermite, a powerful explosive, which was found in the dust of the Twin Towers. On 9/11/01, he stated on BBC TV that the world faces a War on Terror and called for an invasion of Afghanistan, clearly the cover for the 911 Inside Job.

Laughing Israelis at 9/11 Inside Job site in NYC:
Israelis – Not Muslims – Cheered in Jersey City on 9/11 by Glen Ford, 11/27/15 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/israelis-not-muslims-cheered-in-jersey-city-on-911/5491920
From: http://www.blackagendareport.com/print/israelis_cheered_9/11
Also see:
http://www.blackagendareport.com/node/966
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html"Joyous Celebration" during 9/11 World Trade Center Inside Job at http://israellobby.org/urbanmoving

http://www.martinmcmahonlaw.com
The milestone must read $34.5 billion lawsuit exposing the US-Zionist theft of Palestinian land is at http://www.martinmcmahonlaw.com/Tamimi_Complaint.pdf on the website of the plaintiffs' attorney, Martin McMahon and Associates and may be found with the use of PACER at the site of the US District Court, District of Columbia, Case 1:16-cv-00445, Tamimi v Adelson.

The defendants include Sheldon Adelson, Norman Braman, Lawrnce Ellison, Daniel Gilbert, John Hagee, Lev Leviev, Irving Moskowitz, Haim Saban, Elliott Abrams, American Friends of Ariel, Friends of Israel Defense Forces, Gush Etzion Foundation, The Hebron Fund, G4S PLC, RE/MAX, LLC, Readymix Industries, Veolia North America, Volvo Group, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co, Motorola Solutions, Inc, and Nordstrom, Inc.

The Complaint is for 1. Civil Conspiracy, 2. War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide, 3. Aggravated and Ongoing Trespass, 4. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) Violations under 18 USC §1962(C), 5. War Crime of Pillage.

On the Israeli Occupation Industry. http://whoprofits.org/ (A project of Israel’s Coalition of Women for Peace)

Apartheid Roads: Promoting Settlements, Punishing Palestinians
http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/opt_prot_maan_apartheid_roads_dec_2008.pdf

Construction of Settlements Upon Private Land
http://peacenow.org.il/eng/sites/default/files/Breaking_The_Law_formal%20data_March07Eng.pdf

Institute for Middle East Understanding: Elad, the Jewish National Fund & the US Taxpayer-Subsidized “Judaization” of Silwan, 10/8/14
http://imeu.org/article/elad-the-jewish-national-fund-the-us-taxpayer-subsidized-judaization-of-sil

Corporate Complicity in Israeli Detention G4S at
http://www.addameer.org/userfiles/Factsheet15April.pdf

By Hook and By Crook: Israeli Settlement Policy in the West Bank, July 2010
http://www.btselem.org/download/201007_by_hook_and_by_crook_eng.pdf

Torture and Abuse Under Interrogation updated 3/29/16
http://www.btselem.org/torture

B’tselem is the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

Palestinian killed during clashes with Israeli forces in Hebron, 12/12/15 from Ma’an News Agency at http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769295

Adalah-New York: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel: Open Follow-up Letter to Daphne Guinness re Ties with Leviev, 12/8/11 at
https://adalahny.org/document/699/open-follow-letter-daphne-guinness-re-ties-leviev
(Lev Leviev, the illegal settlement promoter, also owns a diamond company that profits from the exploitation of miners in Angola.)


Human Rights Watch: Dispatches: Corporations that Perpetuate Injustices in the Settlements, 1/20/16 at
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/01/20/dispatches-corporations-perpetuate-injustices-settlements

Human Rights Watch: Occupation, Inc. How Settlement Businesses Contribute to Israel’s Violations of Palestinian Rights, 1/19/16 at
https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/01/19/occupation-inc/how-settlement-businesses-contribute-israels-violations-palestinian

The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions: http://icahd.org/

American Friends Service Committee: Israel’s Settlement Policy in The Occupied Palestinian Territory
https://afsc.org/resource/israel%E2%80%99s-settlement-policy-occupied-palestinian-territory

Al Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East: Israel Denies Palestinians Equal Water Access, 4/8/13 at
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/westbank-water-restrictions-israel.html

Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism at:
http://www.quitpalestine.org/

US Aid to Israel Is ‘Too Much’ Say 61.9% of Americans
Yet additional secret U.S. aid may have ballooned to $1.9-$13.2 billion annually
By Grant Smith, 4/5/2016 at:
http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2016/04/05/us-aid-israel-much-say-61-9-americans/
“The US has provided more aid since Israel’s creation in 1948 – $250 billion adjusted for inflation – than to any other foreign country according to unclassified government figures adjusted for inflation. These figures do not include separate funding flows from state and municipal governments that Israel affinity organizations quietly lobby in order to provide even more aid to Israel. The quarter-trillion-dollar figure also excludes classified US federal government support.”

Israeli former security operatives in charge of Brussels airport security at time of 3/23/16 bombings. See “Former Israeli Intelligence Operatives Run Security at Brussels Airport” by Sott, 3/23/16 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/former-israeli-intelligence-operatives-run-security-at-brussels-airport/5516262


Israel’s participation in the 7/7/05 London staged bombing:
7/7 led to wars & loss of freedoms ... but do we know what really happened that day? By Tony Gosling, Martin Summers, 8/2/15 at
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/02/18775666.php
An Israeli firm also had access to London's tube tunnels, winning a CCTV contract when parts of the Underground were privatized a few months before the attacks. Verint Systems looked like a good bet but someone didn't do due diligence because the fraudster chairman Kobi Alexander, of Verint's parent company, Comverse Technologies, was on the run. He was evading the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) somewhere in Africa after disappearing with $13m of company money.

Meyer Lansky, a Jewish gangster, was a proud Zionist and contributed money and guns to the founding of Israel. See:
Cuba Pre-1959: The Rise and Fall of a U.S. Backed Dictator with Links to the Mob by Timothy Alexander Guzman, July 23, 2015 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-pre-1959-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-u-s-backed-dictator-with-links-to-the-mob/5464738

Torture by Israel of Rasmea Odeh with our tax dollars:
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/court-motion-details-palestinian-american-rasmea-odehs-torture-israeli

The torture perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians with US tax dollars in its efforts to steal Palestinian land was described with illustrations in Beyond Chutzpah: On The Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman Finkelstein (2005) University of California Press, particularly in the chapter, Chapter 6, Israel’s Abu Ghraib.

Anti-Defamation League, a staunch Zionist organization, Supports Racist Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri and New York Police who choked Eric Garner to death after he protested 11 times that he can’t breathe. See
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PgWafnuqHRYkwN-y0h22g4PDCiyNrNUWbdOm36dDwYg/viewform?c=0&w=1


The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
(2006) Oneworld Publications, ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4
(Has full details on the 1948 to present mass murder of boys and men, rape and murder of girls and women and theft of Palestinian land all planned by David Ben-Gurion, first president of Israel, and cohorts, as Ben-Gurion described in his diary quoted in Pappe’s book.)

Israel-Palestine on Record by Howard Friel and Richard Falk
(2007) Verso, ISBN 978-1-84467-109-0 (Contains eyewitness testimony for 2000 to 2006 of Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes and the horrors of daily life in Occupied Palestine due to daily Israeli terrorism, all paid for with $6 billion US tax dollars annually, making Israel the 4th largest military gang in the world).

http://laborforpalestine.net/

“Israeli Company Targeted by Oakland Blockade Imports Ammunition Into US”
Thursday, 28 August 2014 By Darwin BondGraham Truthout Reprint at:
http://laborforpalestine.net/2014/08/28/israeli-company-targeted-by-oakland-blockade-imports-ammunition-into-us-truthout/

http://electronicintifada.net/

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/

http://www.adsagainstapartheid.com/

Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-natural-gas-the-israeli-invasion-and-gaza-s-offshore-gas-fields/11680

http://stop30billion.org/about.html

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
http://www.bollyn.com

International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
http://ijsn.net/

http://www.jonathan-cook.net/
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/
Jonathan Cook on the View from Nazareth: Reporting, Commentary and Analysis on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. (Nazareth is the capital of the Palestinian minority in Israel).

Occupy AIPAC (AIPAC stands for American Israel Public Affairs Committee-pro-capitalist, pro-Israel wealthy lobbyists who deliver almost entire US Congress and every president to support the US military base that exists to protect US Middle East oil profits and US imperialism around the world, commonly known as Israel. They are officially lobbyists but in reality, are a mouthpiece of the US capitalist class as Israel is a colony of the US. Occupy AIPAC opposes AIPAC.)
http://www.occupyaipac.org
http://www.occupyaipac.org/about/articles-on-aipac/

National Lawyers Guild: Free Palestine Committee
http://www.nlginternational.org/com/main.php?cid=11

Al-Nakba (Catastrophe) Awareness Campaign
http://www.al-nakba-history.com/

http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Children_and_Youth_Soldiers_Testimonies_2005_2011_Eng.pdf

http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/


Zionism in the Age of Dictators by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.pdf-archive.com/2012/04/11/zionism-in-the-age-of-the-dictators/

The Iron Wall by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/index.htm

The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/index.htm

51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis edited by Lenni Brenner
(2002) Barricade Books, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56980-235-1

The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black
(1984, 2001) Carroll & Graf, NY, ISBN 0-7867-0841-7
http://www.transferagreement.com/

The Third Reich and the Palestine Question by Francis Nicosia
(1985) University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-72731-3


Boycott, Divest, Sanctions Movement against Zionist Israel at
https://secure.avaaz.org/act/media.php?press_id=586 (Divestment Petition information to companies from people around the world)
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/israel_palestine_this_is_how_it_ends_loc/?slideshow (petition)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93hqlmrZKd8&feature=youtu.be
https://wedivest.org/
http://bdsmovement.net/
http://www.pacbi.org/
http://pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=869
http://www.quitpalestine.org/
http://www.bilerico.com/2013/05/saying_no_to_frameline_and_israeli_apartheid.php
http://endtheoccupation.org/
http://www.vtjp.org/
http://israeldivestmentcampaign.org/

US Campaign for Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
http://www.usacbi.org/category/boycott-news/

Madison, Wisconsin/Rafeh Sister City Project
http://www.madisonrafah.org/blog2013/

Gaza Ark:
http://www.gazaark.org/

The Israeli Military State starts in childhood at:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/indoctrinating-israeli-youths-to-be.html

"Ukraine: Israeli Special Forces Unit under Neo-Nazi Command Involved in Maidan Riots" by Michel Chossudovsky, 3/3/14 at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-israeli-special-forces-unit-under-neo-nazi-command-involved-in-maidan-riots/5371725

Zionist Supporters of “Good Night Left Side” European fascists at:
"Israeli calls for Palestinian blood ring at fever pitch" by David Sheen, 7/15/14 at
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-calls-palestinian-blood-ring-fever-pitch/13578
The screenshot enlarges the whole short video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzd4pytX7bg

Israel’s nuclear war capacity and history of threatening the former Soviet Union in an excellent article by John Steinbach:
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/policy/israeli-nuclear-policy/steinbach_israeli_program.pdf
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Zionsts and Anti-Communist Witchhunts in the USA

The Strange History of the Anti-Defamation League: ADL Spies
by Jeffrey Blankfort, June 12, 2013, Counterpunch at
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/12/adl-spies/

The Israel Lobby Archive at
http://www.irmep.org/ila/
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Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse by Sylvain Cypel
(2005, 2006) Other Press, ISBN 13:978-1-5905 1-210-4
(A good early history of the apartheid wall and history and contemporary life of Israel and its relationship to the US as a military base. The lack of separation of church and state is evident as “All Israeli students study the Hebrew Bible in public school for several hours a week, from the elementary grades through high school (knowledge of the Bible is tested on the high school exit examination.)” (p. 177) Superstition and militarism clearly go together This is a sign of an extremely backward society).

A Wall in Palestine by Rene Backman
(2006, 2010) Picador/St. Martin’s Press, NY ISBN 978-0-312-42781-8
(Good maps of the apartheid wall and description of resistance to it; it is clearly a land grab as there are means of going through wall and thus it has nothing to do with security; also describes segregated roads and racist license system).

An Israeli in Palestine by Jeff Halper (an American who moved to Israel in 1973 at age 27, is a professor of anthropology, is the leader of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Campaign against Israel described in Appendix 4). (2008) Pluto Press, ISBN 978-0-7453-2226-1. “There is not even a civil mechanism by which Jewish, Christian, and Muslim citizens of Israel can marry each other since personal status, citizenship, marriage, death, inheritance, is regulated by religious and not civil law.” p. 76

Palestine Inside Out by Saree Makdisi, (2008, 2010) Norton Press, ISBN 978-0-393-33844-7. With a beautiful foreword by Alice Walker, comparing the racist horrors of Zionist Israel to white racism in the USA, Makdisi, a Palestinian-American professor of English literature at UCLA, writes a detailed account of the daily horrors of life in Occupied Palestine. His periodic sections “By the Numbers” offer useful statistics, his maps are plentiful, and his entire book is a ringing indictment of the mental illness that is religion and the anti-women horror of theocratic states. As Americans read it, we must remember that this is all paid for with our tax dollars and supported 100% by every single Democratic and Republican politician at every level of government. It is opposed by all socialist parties and the Green Party.
http://sareemakdisi.net/books/

Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Vol. 3 by Alan Hart (2005, 2010) Clarity Press, ISBN 0-932863-69-8/978-0-932863-69-0. Alan Hart, a former ITN (part of British news agency that produces outstanding Channel 4 of UK) and BBC Panorama correspondent, covers the horrors of Zionism in Israel and its relationship to the United States from 1967 to January 2010 from the perspective of a non-Jewish journalist with lots of worthwhile insights.


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