Jews thinking of supporting the EDL should be wary. It is now fairly clear that Muslims are the new Jews in the discrimination stakes, it is common now to hear the far right state that Muslims are planning to take over country X and instantiate Sharia law. This should ring alarm bells for anyone who has heard the 'Jews taking over the world' conspiracy rhetoric.

Likewise, a far-right street movement which mobilises to physically attack an ethnic group should remind many people of the 1930s.

In the words of Naomi Klein, "Never again to everyone, or never again to us?"

Given the deeply antisemitic tenor of so much of the anti-Zionist argument, maybe it's not surprising that one opportunist rabbi is going to try to capitalize on it, and that others are going to use it to try to insult UK Jews as a whole by implying they belong in the EDL.

After all, the Neturei Karta are a tiny, tiny little sect, but you can count on their being at anything anti-Israel, up to and including Uncle Mahmoud's little "The Holocaust Didn't Happen" conference. Some people will do anything to get in the papers.

Here's a quote from Israel Shamir: "I think it is every Muslim's and Christian's duty to deny the Holocaust, to reject this belief, just as Abraham and Moses rejected the idols. Any person who confesses to God should deny the Holocaust."

Yet there are those "progressives" who think Shamir is a pro-Palestinian hero, who laud his "passion for justice," who have no real problem with Shamir's buddying around with Holocaust deniers, who literally weep that he has been rejected by the pro-Palestinian mainstream as a jew-hating crank and who still believe, at root, that Shamir was a victim of some zionist plot, not his own well-publicized antisemitic ravings.

Yet there are those "progressives" who think Shamir is a pro-Palestinian hero, who laud his "passion for justice," who have no real problem with Shamir's buddying around with Holocaust deniers...


 http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/nazisupport.cfm
NAZI SUPPORT OF ZIONISM
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the founder of modern Zionism, recognized that anti-Semitism would further his cause, the creation of a separate state for Jews. To solve the Jewish Question, he maintained “we must, above all, make it an international political issue.”[1]Herzl wrote that Zionism offered the world a welcome “final solution of the Jewish question.”[2]In his “Diaries”, page 19, Herzl stated “Anti-Semites will become our surest friends, anti-Semitic countries our allies.”

Zionism was supported by the German SS and Gestapo.[3] [4] [5] [6] Hitler himself personally supported Zionism.[7] [8] During the 1930’s, in cooperation with the German authorities, Zionist groups organized a network of some 40 camps throughout Germany where prospective settlers were trained for their new lives in Palestine. As late as 1942 Zionists operated at least one of these officially authorized “Kibbutz” training camps[9] over which flew the blue and white banner which would one day be adopted as the national flag of “Israel”.[10]

The Transfer Agreement (which promoted the emigration of German Jews to Palestine) implemented in 1933 and abandoned at the beginning of WWII is an important example of the cooperation between Hitler’s Germany and international Zionism. [11] Through this agreement, Hitler’s Third Reich did more than any other government during the 1930’s to support Jewish development in Palestine and further the Zionist goals...