Don't push Jews into the arms of fascists
anti-fascist and anti-zionist | 15.10.2010 10:20 | Anti-racism | Palestine | South Coast
Why would Tony Greenstein push Jews into the arms of the EDL, it will only help the EDL and increase anti-semitism and islamophobia. It is disgusting!
On 24th October a right wing American rabbi is going to speak at a demonstration by the fascist EDL at the Israeli embassy in London. This is bad enough but it seems that one so-called anti-fascist is quite happy at the idea.
The Jewish Chronicle has an online poll asking if rabbis should work with the EDL and astonishingly Tony Greenstein sent an email to the Boycott Israel Network group saying that he had voted yes, and that everyone in the group should do the same because "It will be quite good to us that a JC poll comes out in favour of working with the EDL!!!"
I am so gobsmacked by this that I have pasted a screenshot of his email because it is so outrageous I would not blame anyone for not believing me. We all know that the EDL have Jewish supporters but this is something that all anti-fascists and anti-zionists should be trying to discourage, to do the opposite is disgusting. It will push more Jews into the arms of the EDL and encourage others to support the EDL if they see that Jews do.
It will increase hostility between Jews and Muslims when we should be working to bring them together as allies against the fascists. What kind of Jewish anti-fascist does something that will increase anti-semitism and islamophobia in this way?
Plus it is downright dishonest, we do not need to fake evidence to prove that we are right, it makes us look stupid and untrustworthy and discredits our cause. How Tony thinks this helps the Palestinians or protects Muslims from the fascist EDL I have no idea but I want no part of it.
The Jewish Chronicle has an online poll asking if rabbis should work with the EDL and astonishingly Tony Greenstein sent an email to the Boycott Israel Network group saying that he had voted yes, and that everyone in the group should do the same because "It will be quite good to us that a JC poll comes out in favour of working with the EDL!!!"
I am so gobsmacked by this that I have pasted a screenshot of his email because it is so outrageous I would not blame anyone for not believing me. We all know that the EDL have Jewish supporters but this is something that all anti-fascists and anti-zionists should be trying to discourage, to do the opposite is disgusting. It will push more Jews into the arms of the EDL and encourage others to support the EDL if they see that Jews do.
It will increase hostility between Jews and Muslims when we should be working to bring them together as allies against the fascists. What kind of Jewish anti-fascist does something that will increase anti-semitism and islamophobia in this way?
Plus it is downright dishonest, we do not need to fake evidence to prove that we are right, it makes us look stupid and untrustworthy and discredits our cause. How Tony thinks this helps the Palestinians or protects Muslims from the fascist EDL I have no idea but I want no part of it.
anti-fascist and anti-zionist
Comments
Hide the following 4 comments
Jews and fascism
15.10.2010 12:31
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?"
Anon
context
15.10.2010 13:39
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.
note
what drives jews right
15.10.2010 14:18
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.
left
Zionists and Fascists
15.10.2010 15:09
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...
insidejob