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Zionists organizing a pro war demo at Israeli embassy Wednesday 7th

target the war mongers | 07.01.2009 00:24 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Terror War | World

Guess who's going to be trying to hold a demo outside the Israeli embassy just half an hour after the daily emergency anti-war protest? Yes the UK Zionist Federation is mobilizing a pro-war demo in support of the Israeli attacks on gaza....

7th January 7:30 to 9:30
Israeli embassy, Kensington
Palace Green, W8 4QB

Note, the Zionists are reassuring those who may attend that there will be security and police there.

Time to bring the war home?

target the war mongers
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Just pointing out...

07.01.2009 01:17

They're not all war mongers or crazy Zionists.

I condemn both Hamas for it's indiscriminate rocket attacks and use of human shields, and the IDF for it's blatant disregard for civilian casualties.

They're both guilty of crimes against humanity and the leaders of both should be tried before a war crimes tribunal.

Anti Hamas & Anti IDF


Distorted logic

07.01.2009 02:29

So, according to your distorted logic, which obviously aims to cover up the Zionist crime, after the second world war not only the nazi criminals but also the resistance organizations should have been sent to Nuremberg! Did it occur to you that Hamas and the people in Gaza fight an occupation? Has any occupier in History been evicted just by negotiations?

Steve


Slap-In-The-Face

07.01.2009 03:00

Not having an account, what does that link to, an appeal for a Zionist pro war demo or an appeal for a counter demo ?

Book


Distorted Logic?

07.01.2009 04:58

"Has any occupier in History been evicted just by negotiations?"

Well Australia was part of the British Empire. 1931 Statute of Westminster wasn't motivated by violence. But you're not really interested, are you?

Cynic


some are more equal than others

07.01.2009 07:14

Well perhaps you would settle for the Orwellian saying. The BBC with their "impartial coverage" of events in the middle east would certainly be down with that ..

Rude 2 Point


not all zionists

07.01.2009 08:47

they're not all crazy zionists? this is the zionist federation we are talking about! thats exactly what they are you fool. thats why they're organising this ridiculous demo...

justme


Original post appears to suggest personal violence again Zionist picketers

07.01.2009 09:34

"Note, the Zionists are reassuring those who may attend that there will be security and police there.

Time to bring the war home?"

I can't believe no one has commented on this before. This is a disgraceful intimation: that physical attacks ("war") should be brought against "the Zionists" who attend this counter demonstration!

I am not a pacifist, and if people want to fight the police to get to the embassy, go ahead. But thuggery against non-violent political opponents is completely unnaceptable from a revolutionary anti-capitalist point of view. There is no suggestion that British Zionists pose a physical threat to anyone.

We need to be quicker to notice and challenge this sort of nut-jobbery.

A (visibly) Jewish friend of mine was spat at yesterday, and subjected to a variety of anti-semitic comments: not at the demonstration, but going about his business. This trend is completely unnacceptable. We need a consistent opposition to racism.

I will be at the embassy demo again today.

Tom


No platform for Nazis no Platform for Zionists!

07.01.2009 10:46

Some commentators seem to think that we should allow Zionists to have platform to preach their support for the mass slaughter of the Palestinians. Would those same people also agree that a neo Nazi rally should be allowed to go unoppossed? I think not.

Zionism is Nazism


Zionist War Mongers a Fair Target

07.01.2009 11:36

"There is no suggestion that British Zionists pose a physical threat to anyone."

LOL My god, that's one of the most stupid comments I've ever seen on indymedia.

1.4 million palestinians are under immediate and real physical threat from the Zionist occupiers.

The British Zionists are THE main lobby group for Israel in the UK and they the architects of Israel's very existence - an existence that came about after a campaign of terrorist bombing and murders by the Zionists. Their current efforts are around legitimizing the attacks on Gaza through their media pressure groups such as 'Just Journalism' and getting their members to blitz online forums with messages of support for Israel. They also organize training in propaganda, fly journalists to Israel to be wined and dined, mobilize to lobby parliament etc. They are also collecting money for the IDF.

The Zionist here are providing direct support for the massacres in Palestine and can easily be identified as a legitimate target for campaigning in this country - far more so than the British police who get sent to stand between us and them.

solidarity for the innocents


Zionism, Fascism, and physical violence.

07.01.2009 11:53

The question is not "should they have a platform?", but "should they be physically attacked
?".

For example, if it was proposed that members of the Israeli government be banned from speaking at my university, I would support a resolution at my student union to that effect.

There are two crucial ways in which British fascists are different from British Zionists, with respect to questions of physical violence.

1) British fascists personally use physical violence themselves - so anti-fascist violence is justified against them.

2) British fascism relies, in large part, on an ideology of personal physical strength, toughness, machismo, and superiority - an ideology which can effectively combatted, by way of demonstration, through phyical violence.

Neither of these things are true of British Zionists.

In any case, those advocating this are keyboard warriors. Obviously no one is going to go be able to beat their way through police lines to attack the Zionist demonstrators - and especially not the authors of posts on indymedia. This disconnection with reality is typical of the minority wingnuts (almost always white and middle class) who advocate this sort of thing.

Imagine that the demonstators did attack the Zionists, and managed to 'win' the fight - what's going to happen? Inevitably it will escalate physically, with both sides taking precautions to 'defend themselves' in future, and probably take on the characteristics of religious/ethnic conflict, given the background of many of the demonstrators. Is that what you want?

Anyway, what good do you think it's going to do? There are solidarity activists in Gaza who some of us are regularly in touch with. They are asking us to escalate protests, block roads, get the Palesinian voice out there, etc. They are not asking for personal violence.

And furthermore, Zionism is not 'Nazism'. Zionism is a much broader ideology, which has quasi-fascist poles within it, as well as other, much softer poles. Like all nationalisms, it is always chauvinist, often racist, and - when it is militarily superior - promotes extreme military violence. It does not, as a rule, support the idea that all people of a certain ethnicity be exterminated.

If Israel is 'Nazi' so are Sudan (because of Darfur) and Russia (because of Checnya), as well,no doubt, as some of the warring parties in the Congo. In fact, throwing this term around is innacurate and pointless. Israel is just doing what modern capitalist states do - just what Britain and America did in Iraq.

Once again, these statements come from a tiny, loony minority of the movement.

Tom


Violence will get you no where

07.01.2009 13:27

Those who propose violence against the demonstrators "time to bring the war home" are disgusting and hypocritical. You can bet your bottom dollar these people are the first to cry to the police and state when the opposition smacks them back for intimidating and threatening them, and yet here you are playing big man bravery.

Then again you believe some are more equal than others, free speech for some (namely yourself) and then nothing for anyone else not even a whisper? I hear your friend Stalin is calling, heard he wants you to send another shipment of people to Siberia.

I know people who are attending the demo against Hamas tomorrow, they also happened to join in the protests against the IDF. Is the concept that both are disgusting organisations too difficult for you to comprehend?

Non violence


reply to Tom

07.01.2009 13:47

Not sure where Tom gets the idea that the first post is call for violence against individuals, the original poster writes "Time to bring the war home?" which could be taken in a number of ways and yet you chose to interpret it as a call for violence. Confronting fascist when they try to mass in the streets is a totally legitimate thing to be doing, especially in the light of this organizations direct support for the Israeli war machine.

Another poster writes to suggest that the demo tomorrow is a demo against Hamas which it clearly is not. It's a demo in support of Israeli aggression against gaza which is very very different from being a protest against Hamas. It would be a total contradiction to attend in support of both demos outside the embassy, one is demanding the end to Israeli hostilities and the other is rallying in support of it.


Jerry


smile and smile and smile

07.01.2009 13:59

... while the fish are well and truely shot - minnows n all - in the barrel that is Gaza.

Heed the calls from the ORGANIZED anti-whatnots and the clean and sober people who say that to fight BACK is the wrong thing, the bad thing ... the thing that will do no good.

Make sure you pick up your regular and mandatory placard at the same time as you stand in line to have your arm tied up behind your back whilst the other is twisted by the howl of self righteous indignation rising from your expectations of equality or parity ... lumped together we do not amount to a fingernail ...

Oh friends of zionism, come one and all ... hear me roar.

jackslucid
mail e-mail: jackslucid@hotmail.com


Tell ALL PRO-Palestine to ATTEND

07.01.2009 14:02

We must post info about counter demo on all active websites.
We need to attend and drown out the zionist criminal voices of support for those war criminals!

John


Rhetoric of non violence

07.01.2009 14:03

"thuggery against non-violent political opponents is completely unnaceptable from a revolutionary anti-capitalist point of view"

That's an interesting twist on the old non-violence rhetoric, 'unacceptable from a revolutionary anti-capitalist point of view'. Funny how that point of view conveniently matches that of the state in which the state has a monopoly on violence.

"if people want to fight the police to get to the embassy, go ahead"

Interesting that you seem to condone violence against the police tasked with protecting the zionists but not against the zionists themselves. Are the zionists non-violent simple because they rely on the state to provide their protection and dish out violence on their behalf? Are the zionists non-violent while they fund, support and put their political weight behind the Israeli Defence Forces murderous acts against civilians in Gaza and elsewhere?

"We need a consistent opposition to racism."

What racism is that? Since when was Zionism a race? There is nothing anti-Semitic about opposing zionism and their genocidal efforts in the occupied territories.

bored


Any News

07.01.2009 20:26

was any one at the protest at the Israeli Embassy? Did the zionists turn up?

Protestor


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