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Oh! Perfidious Left

Shaul Sedaka | 17.07.2003 11:59

The love affair between "Leftists" and Jihadists, oppressors of women and Holocaust deniers has gone public. The antisemitism that we wanted to forget provides the common denominator.

Twice in the last two years, in two European capitals, I was an eye witness to two demonstrations against two different wars. The signs, the shouts and the speeches were, as usual full of anti-American and anti-Israeli venom. But all of a sudden, I witnessed a miracle: the leftists, the liberals, the socialists, the pacifists, the Communists, the gays and even the Neturei Karta, silenced their voice of protest and the noise stopped. The reason: the Muslim demonstrators had knelt in the direction of Mecca and begun to pray.

Indeed, for a long time - actually for thirty months - the militant Left and the radical Islam have been in bed together. They are not making love under the blankets. They are performing the act openly and in broad daylight. We saw that in the mass demonstrations against the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq. The "enlightened" organizations which are shocked by every instance of the violation of human rights in the Third World have joined hands with the Jihadists, the oppressors of women, the deniers of the Holocaust and those who abhor democracy. The slogans of these demonstrators expose the reason for this unholy alliance - antisemitism. What we took care not to admit at the beginning of the Millennium, began rearing its ugly head with the outset of the present confrontation in the Territories. The Star of David is compared to a swastika. Zionism is Nazism, Herzl, Golda and Jabotinsky are the epitome of Fascism. The famous Jewish child from the Warsaw Ghetto has become the Palestinian child from Gaza. Hitler is alive and breathing, he speaks Hebrew and he lives in Israel. The Palestinians are the Jews of World War II. Their suicide bombers are the new heroes.

The European Left is no longer interested in Israel's lands. It wants its neck. Their hatred of Sharon is like their hatred of Bush. The long-haired, the skinheads and those who wear the Kafiya, all do the Danse Macabre around what they already imagine is the corpse of the Jewish State. For all of them, it was Israel that was behind the invasion of Baghdad by means of the Pentagon's Jewish Mafia. Israel is the one that is inciting Washington to attack Syria and Iran; and it is the one who is sketching a new map of the Middle East in which there would be no room for the Palestinians.

This Left falls at the feet of Arab tyrants. It grovels before their kaftans. It can be seen in demonstrations, justified in themselves, against globalization. In London it embraces those whose adherents carried out a suicide attack on the Tel-Aviv promenade. In Berlin, it tries to rub out, by means of Islam, the stain on the history of Germany. In Paris it is certain that it can buy a few more years of Muslim quiet for itself. In that city Muslim demonstrators attacked local girls, members of "Hashomer Hatzair", with no one from the Left lifting a finger to rescue them. From these demonstrations they will go to desecrate Jewish cemeteries. Antisemitism has become a national sport all over the Continent and moves between the press and the street.

There are those among them that once favored Israel. They admit it themselves. Many of them are Members of Parliament, newspaper editors and trade union leaders. Some of them belong to the generation of rebels in 1968. Some of them view things naively, but with many of them common sense is defeated by pathological hatred. They believe that only Israel stands between the world and eternal peace. Its annihilation will bring tranquility to the Middle East and will eliminate the Western-Arab conflict overnight. Some are motivated by feelings of guilt, some are fuelled by Saudi money and there are those who believe that the suicide bombers reflect the despair of Islam. There are those who can bear the sight of Arab killing Arab, for them it is a family quarrel. However, they cannot bear the thought that Israel is defending itself by killing Palestinian terrorists. They do not accept the claim that the weak, too, can carry out horrendous acts. On the contrary, in their feverish brains the explosive belt is the weapon of the desperate.

And in Israel? What has remained of the Left prefers to ignore the insane hatred that has grabbed its colleagues in Europe. At international gatherings the Israelis demean themselves before the Muslim participants simply because they exist. The Oslophiles continue to claim that the blame for the collapse of the political process rests squarely on the shoulders of Jerusalem. They talk about the "right of return", protest the setting up of the "apartheid fence", and denounce the targeted executions. Just between us: the Jihadists will not forgive even you when the day of reckoning arrives.

Shaul Sedaka

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Complacency of indulging facism in 'minority' communities

17.07.2003 14:34

Well said indeed! When is a BNP style nazi not a nazi? When they're not white or are wearing hijab or sirwal! Then we must ignore fascism, because it this context it's acceptable, or maybe because people are too cowardly to confront it.

It horrifically patronising and dangerously ignorant to assume the only racists, the only misogynists, the only neo-nazis, are whites of European extraction.

Lucuna Borniska


Little difference between BNP and Jihadis

17.07.2003 15:14

It's important people discuss the issue of Islamic extremism in the UK. There's far too much of a head-in-the-sand attitude about it. The BNP, who I vigorously oppose - have less than 10,000 members, a tiny insignificant amount - yet are routinely censored and attacked for engaging in the democratic process.

Meanwhile, Abu Hamza, Abu Qatada et al are never challenged on their dissemination of the kind of violent, racist, fascist rhetoric the BNP could only dream of getting away with.

The reason: no-one's scared of attacking white supremacists, but when it comes to Islamic supremacists, no-one dares to speak out because they could easily lose their jobs or be prosecuted by attracting the wrath of the wealthy, powerful and influential Islamic lobby.

Muslims (not all of them, but the majority, in my experience) have an inferiority complex not from a racial determinist perspective but from a political and social perspective. It's easy for them to play the victim, to point to the majority of today's international conflicts and fantasise that Muslims are being oppressed.

That's a smokescreen - these conflicts were caused by and are fuelled by Islamic extremism.

There's no better example than the Moscow theatre siege; the majority of the hijackers were Saudi nationals, who had no reason to be involved in the conflict other than to 'Islamize' it. The recent suicide bombings were the result of propagandising in Chechnya by the Saudis and Hamas, creators of the barbaric idea of the 'suicide bomber shahid'.

What I see is a complacent, decadent nation (i.e. the UK) willing to tolerate the overtly murderous hatred many Muslims demonstrate for their neighbours and the country that gave them refuge.

Why? Because it's been drummed into every citizen of this country that we must worship 'vibrant' multiculturalism at the expense of our own identities, that British and especially English culture has no value, or does not exist, and that those of us who are white should not only feel ashamed for the actions of our ancestors but should be repeatedly and persistently punished for it. The historical crimes of the ancestors of people of Arab or African descent, of course, are all the fault of the white man too; and when they've finished deciding how to argue that they're bound to let us know.

Unlike the supporters of the BNP etc, I support the ideals of equality and tolerance. I don't see how indulging Muslim radicals, discriminating against whites and denying British people who aren't from an ethnic minority a sense of identity achieves that.

I also wonder how many people are aware that it's perfectly legal to advertise a job 'NO WHITES' in the UK?

Not only have I seen such adverts (the one I'm thinking of said 'visible ethnic minorities ONLY' - whatever that means - presumably they have a skin colour chart or bonus points for a turban, but if you're a light skinned North African immigrant you're screwed) but it's government sponsored, government approved racism, ironically legislated in the Race Relations Act.

Gennadi Palkin


Oh you poor little British bastard!

17.07.2003 15:59

"Why? Because it's been drummed into every citizen of this country that we must worship 'vibrant' multiculturalism at the expense of our own identities, that British and especially English culture has no value, or does not exist, and that those of us who are white should not only feel ashamed for the actions of our ancestors but should be repeatedly and persistently punished for it."

What an awful comment. It really shows where you are coming from on this one. English culture has No value and nobody is accusing anybody of anything that people may have done years ago. You get called a racist bigot because you are a racist bigot and not because your grandad may have been.

I think it is important to stand up against anti-Semitism as readers of this IMC know but anti-Semitism is not an exclusively muslim thing. This only breeds racism. Anti-Semitism is a standard part of "British" culture and cannot be blamed on a small minority of muslims. Just look at Shylock in the Merchant of Venice which is still a standard text for schools in england. Typical anti-Jewish racism staring you in the face and accepted as a part of "our culture". Which country refused Jewish refugees from Germany in the 30s? Which country helped cause problems between Jews and Arabs living in Palestine? Which country did everything possible to stop holocaust survivors going to Israel? Which country abstained their vote in the UN for the creation of Israel in 1948? Which democratic country´s media has been criticised for being the most anti-Jewish in their covering of the middle east? Which country´s state TV has been denied access to Israeli officials as a protest for bias? Every time "Britain" is the correct answer. Try blaming that on some tiny % of muslims.

Fight anti-Semitism and Islamaphobia!

mb


Eh?

17.07.2003 16:23

I've never been called a racist bigot, probably because it's laughably and manifestly rubbish.

How is asking for equality and tolerance racist? Why is it racist to point out the clear, proven, legally defined fact that ethnic minorities have more rights and more opportunities than non-minorities?

Your post was rather incoherent. Were you affirming the perception that there is no such thing as English culture? After the cheap 'racist bigot' jibe, you went rather off the point, rambling on about anti-semitism, which I don't remember mentioning.

If you notice, I didn't ignore the problem of white racism and fascism, hence the mention of the BNP. Nowhere did I ascribe all racism to Muslims or anyone else.

I said racism in minority communities (particularly Muslims), often against other minority communities, is worse, which is true; incidentally, the last person I heard utter the phrase 'paki scum' was an Iranian engineering student.

In contrast to your fantasy of people screaming 'racist bigot' at me:
a) I tend not to associate with people that intolerant
b) I've yet to hear a constructive, rational argument to the contrary
c) Those that have actually bothered to research and understand the various ethnic and cultural conflicts in the UK tend to agree with me.

Gennadi Palkin


The fallacy that 'they' are getting more than 'us'

17.07.2003 17:31

You said: "the clear, proven, legally defined fact that ethnic minorities have more rights and more opportunities than non-minorities?"

Oh, right. That'll be why black and Asian people own everything in Britain and have less unemployment, and better paid jobs, and an overwhelming majority of university places and live longer, and never, ever get beaten up and killed due to the colour of their skin.

Oh - wait a minute - they don't.

I can't belive people fall for this kind of drivel - if ethnic minorities "have more opportunities than non-minorities" then how come British culture and the balance of wealth is overwhelmingly white?

Duuuuuurh to the lot of you apologists for racism.

Mad Monk


The fallacy that you read my comment

17.07.2003 21:18

Another one who doesn't bother reading before spitting venom.

I wrote: "ethnic minorities have more rights and more opportunities than non-minorities?"

This is legally enshrined in the 1976 Race Relations Act and susequently exacerbated by amendments to that act. It is a legal fact, a reality.

You wrote: "That'll be why black and Asian people own everything in Britain and have less unemployment, and better paid jobs, and an overwhelming majority of university places and live longer, and never, ever get beaten up and killed due to the colour of their skin."

People of Indian background are better paid and better eductaed than the average, but it's nonsense to point to such statistics and draw such generalised conclusions as you have. By Asians you mean who, exactly, or do you not distinguish between, say, a Bangladeshi and Japanese?

Perhaps the reason some Asians don't live as long as other Asians in the UK is because of their diet. I haven't researched this and neither have you, but you feel perfectly able to slot it in to a big list of generalisations.

Unemployment; is this racism or might it have to do with English proficiency? I suppose that's dependent on whether you were referring to minorities born here, or immigrants. What about Romanian, or Albanian immigrants, who you exclude from your Black-Asian binary?

The fact is, Mad Monk, your comment has the distinct whiff of being ignorant, ostentaious and patronising.


Gennadi Palkin


suspicion

17.07.2003 21:53

taken in conjunction with disinformation further up this line you may be a little suspicious as to who is posting
Some interracial stirring appears to be going on
Don't be misled

dh


Thanks for the tip DH

17.07.2003 22:25

I was rather confused about some of the hostile, irrational comments.

Gennadi Palkin


Glad to be of assistance

17.07.2003 22:31

Though I was actually fingering you above the others

dh


Left Racism

18.07.2003 09:09

what a surprise...rather than deal with the points about white people's legal rights vis a vis legal rights for 'minorities' dh et al scream 'racist'..
dh: do you have any idea how offensive YOUR views are with the implicit dogma that white people are priveldged? Tell that to white workers on the estate i live..tell them that their pigmentation has got a whole lot better life than people with darker skin..
Maybe you'd like to tell the parents/loved ones etc of whites who have been killed in antiwhite racist attacks that its all in their mind..or do you think racism is something that white can only dish out (if you do for one thing you've never heard a Pakistani and an Indian go at it!)
I guess now i will predictably be accussed of being a 'racist' 'nazi' or 'babyeater'..though i bet when it comes to antiracist activity my record is rather longer than our armchair liberal friend..

Gerk Francis


Duped by the race issue you morons

18.07.2003 10:41

Sorry but no matter how much you pump up your whingeing self-pity with a lot of blathering about "white people on me estate" you are STILL falling into the age old trap of blaiming race for the poverty of working people, black or white.

It is a fact that white (European/Caucasian whatever) people GENERALLY are better off than ethnic minorities for a number of reasons, mostly the legacy of imperialism.

It is also a fact that the extreme right have always tried to get white workers to blame other races" for their situation.

The reason white or black or yellow or any worker is skint and shat on is due to CAPITALISM and the inequality (not to mention the racism and division and bitterness) that it breeds, not because some other colour skin is doing marginally better (oh whoopee a new council flat in Hackney).

Any white worker who blames other races for their poverty is a tool of fascism and no amount of prolier-than-thou bleating and accusations of being middle-class (Ha! That's a laugh!) will change that.

Mad Monk


Duped By State Sanctioned Anti-Racism You Morons!

18.07.2003 11:17

Er please come to an estate and explain to white workers how they are 'better off'..all the European Regeneration money for example goes to places percieved to have a 'race' problem..ie where ethnic minorities have rioted in the belief that they were suffering from racism rather than poverty...
Its the pc m/c Left that constantly wants ethnic minorities to think of themselves as ethnic minorities..strnage that those actually active & ethnic minority often see themsleves in terms of Class..for example the long tradition of Sikh support for communist & radical groups/ideas..the Indian Workers Association etc etc
But *sigh* its sooooooooooo much easier to lazily smear anyone who questions why the State encourages racial rather than class identity as a 'racist'!

Story Of Slavery


Socialists For White Power!

18.07.2003 11:51

I agree! The Left shouldn't be siding with nasty ethnic types or fussing on about racism! I mean it's not as if there was a tradition of internationalism or anti-racism on the Left or anything like that! Surely a TRUE REAL WORKING-CLASS socialist stands for nation, race, God, Crown and Flag, not pc multiculti nonsense!

Time to unite with the BNP and crush the Muslims in the name of democracy and the WHITE WORKING CLASS! EIN VOLK, EIN REICH!

a nonny mouse


A non-white fascist is still a fascist

18.07.2003 13:27

How ironic that 'a nonny mouse' should try and silence criticism of the so called 'brown supremacists', i.e. wankers with nothing but patronising pity for their stereotypical 'poor Asian' or generalised Black woman in their hearts - by screaming nazi slogans.

Typical evasion tactic by 'new racists' like 'a nonny mouse', trying to undermine discussions about equality by squealing, finger pointing and censorship.

The fight against racism of every variety will continue whether shrill little fascists like 'a nonny mouse' like it or not.

Gennadi Palkin


What is this British , English culture

18.07.2003 18:54

Can someone please inform me as to just what is British or English culture? Please define what this culture is as i simply have no idea.Is it the food CURRIES and Mcshit burgers?Is it music and the various art forms?Isimply have no idea what British culture is or was.It appears to me that culturaly we are mimmicking the good old USA.To be quite honest about this subject i think the whole of Britain should be towed out accross the atlantic so we could become the 51st state of the USA.Plaese can anyone help me understand this British culture thing?

Redkop