On the 1st April 2015, Iraqi born British Pro-Israel activist Orim Shimshon came to visit Israel and we invited him to give a talk to a room full of other Pro-Israel activists and followers of his activism. In addition there were 2 other speakers at the small private event which was hosted by Bat Zion Susskind, Mr Tom Trento founder of the "United West" as well as Mr Jeremy Dery, an ex-Likud representative who used to work with Israeli Druze politician Ayoob Kara.
If you have some time then I suggest you listen to these talks
Well there I was minding my own business, as you can see, and then out of nowhere, all my childhood memories of Apartheid appeared before my very eyes. Right there I froze, finger on trigger (camera), tears filling my eyes and no tree close by to hug. At first I didn’t know what it was but then I realized that I am witness to the Israeli Apartheid that BDS has been talking about for so long now. I was lost for words, until now of course and well I decided I need to show the world how well the Apartheid system in Israel is doing.
I recently stumbled upon this guy, Tamir Yacobi, while scanning my Facebook news feed for interesting content. Turns out that he attended a “Breaking The Silence” event in Tel Aviv recently, to give his testimony.
However, he ended up “Breaking The Silence” on the entire lot of them there by his opening words simply being too positive for their liking. He started to give his testimony about his experiences in the IDF and moments after he started talking, he was demanded to leave the stage and then casually frog marched off of it by 2 hired security guys. That single moment proved the complete bias and hypocrisy of far-left wing Israeli organizations such as “Breaking The Silence” – they didn’t even bother to let him complete his testimony, at least for the purposes of being fair.
If you are confused, Mr Yacobi is Pro-Israel and merely wanted to expose this organization for the hypocrites they are, by giving his truthful testimony and only that.
So I decided to make contact with him and he granted me permission to copy his video to my Youtube account, for the purposes of adding English subtitles to it.
Well Roseanne Barr has finally seen the light and decided to not only retweetmany of Israellycool's Twitter posts but she has also decided to follow Israel Muse as shown below in the screenshot of my Twitter feed.
Pro-Israel blogger Israellycool has been monitoring her progress quite closely and she has made a clear and strong shift from being very anti-Israeli to being more of a supporter of Israel. However I am not sure what made her change her tune, especially considering her boyfriend Johnny Argent is extremely anti-Israeli and at times anti-Semitic. He hangs out with self-hating useful idiots such as Gilad Atzmon. I had many arguments on twitter with both Johnny Argent and Gilad Atzmon in the past and it's clear who was influencing who there. Let's hope she will stay on the side of fact and reason.
Haifa University conferred its highest distinction on a number of dignitaries this year, including former South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk.
The honorary degree was awarded in recognition of Mr FW de Klerk's leadership which has brought about the end of the policy of racial segregation in South Africa; for his actions to promote constitutionalism and a shared life; and for his promotion of pluralism and equality without prejudice.
The ceremony took place today, Tuesday 27th May, in Haifa.
He was then interviewed on Israel's Channel 2 News by Udi Segal. I have translated the Hebrew in the video for you to understand and have also provided a transcript of the video below:
Newscaster: John Kerry, threw the word Apartheid into the Middle East debate a few weeks ago, which is what the radical Left in Israel also claims, but the person who knows the word Apartheid very well, the person who ended this racist regime as the President of South Africa, FW De Klerk, he is now the one who said today in a special interview with Udi Segal that this comparison is unnecessary and not fair.
On the other hand he says to learn from his experience to initiate this and to walk in the enemies shoes in order to try solve the conflict. Tonight he is receiving his honorary doctorate from the Haifa University. Here are his words:
Udi Segal: This man who made history when he brought down the Apartheid regime with Nelson Mandela, former South African president FW De Klerk, rejects the international comparisons and he states, as someone with experience, that Israel is not an Apartheid state, and as opposed to Kerry's comment, Israel is not on the way there.
FW de Klerk: You have closed borders but America has closed borders, they dont allow every Mexican who wants to come in come in. You have Palestinians living in Israel with full political rights represented in the Knesset. You dont have discriminatory laws against them that they may not swim on certain beaches or anything like that. I think its unfair to call Israel an Apartheid state. If Kerry did so I think he made a mistake.
Udi Segal: To be fair, Kerry said that Israel can be an Apartheid state if it will not go to the 2-state solution. Do you think it can be an Apartheid state?
FW de Klerk: The test will be, does everybody living then in such a unitary state, will everybody have full political rights? Will everybody enjoy their full human rights? If they will, it's not an Apartheid state.
Udi Segal: In other words this is not the situation and Israel might only get to this state in the case where 1 state has 2 Nationalities.
De Klerk claims that the situation is different between the 2 states (IL & SA), that the idea of separation couldn't have worked in South Africa but could be the most moral solution in Israel, however it may disappear.
FW de Klerk: In the case of South Africa, we became economically totally integrated and it no longer made sense. We became an economic omelette and once you make an omelette out of eggs you can never separate the yellow and the white again. So no, in our case, the concept of separateness failed. Im not saying its the right solution for Israel but there will come in Israel a turning point where if the main obstacles at the moment which exist through a successful 2 state solution are not remove, the 2 state will become impossible. So, as an outsider I would say, believing that a 2 state solution might be the best one, you will have to move fast, see the window of opportunity, jump through it, it might close.
Udi Segal: This evening De Klerk received the honorary doctorate from the Haifa University.
It's his 6th visit to Israel. He knows and loves Israel and he is careful not to give advice but give hints as to what the way is to get out of this deadlocks of the negotiations. In short, Netanyahu and Abu Mazzen are doing the opposite of this.
Its called trust.
FW de Klerk: When we had deadlocks, our biggest success was when Mandela put himself in my position and went out of his way to understand my position and I at the same time put myself in Mandela's position and went out of my way to accommodate his core concerns and to break a deadlock you need initiatives. We sat down and said lets draw a list, what do we agree upon? ,and the list was longer than we expected and then slowly but surely we worked first on the easier things, where it was more easy through a give or take process to find each other and we reserved the most difficult ones for later and in the end we forced ourselves, we weren't forced by outside forces, we forced ourselves to say we have made such big progress, we must now resolve these difficult points.
Here is a short version with only his English comments
On the 19th February 2013, Pro-Israel blogger Elder of Ziyon came to visit Israel and I invited him to give a talk to a room full of other Pro-Israel activists and followers of his blog. Activists included Bat-Zion Susskind Sacks, Steve Ornstein from IsraelSeen, Laurence Seeff, Times of Israel blogger Maurice Ostroff and members of the Israeli Zionist organization Im Tirtzu.
If you have an hour and a half then I suggest you listen to this talk, it is excellent. The video contains slides that were shown at the talk Elder gave. However if you want the audio only then use the MixCloud file below the video.
NOTE: As per request from Ryan, he has asked that his talk not be released yet until further notice. I have disabled his talks only but you can still view the last video which is of Kay Wilson. Please check back here in a few weeks and you will be able to listen to the talk Ryan gave. Thank you.
On the 19th May 2014, Metis and Pro-Israel activistRyan Mervin Bellerose, gave a talk to a room full of Pro-Israel activists who are pictured and mentioned in my previous article here.
The talk was about 1 hour and 40 minutes and included a short Q&A section, as well as a final story from a terror attack survivor named Kay Wilson. Due to the length of this talk, I have split it up into 4 parts below. If you would like to hear the entire talk in one, then see the MixCloud file below these videos.
A room full of Pro-Israel activists including our hostess Bat Zion Susskind-Sacks, Aussie Dave & Brian John Thomas of Israellycool, Laurence Seeff , Irwin Blank, Reuven Kossover, John Sekulow, Michal Dar-El, Sara Chana Mandell, Diane Bederman of Times of Israel, the Ambassador of Costa Rica Rodrigo Carrera Jimenez, a Zionist Israeli Arab Bishara Shalash, a terror attack survivor Kay Wilson and the man with the biggest heart, among other things, Ryan Mervin Bellerose.....thanks for a wonderful and humorous speech Ryan! - see below!
UPDATE: Click here to listen to the talk Ryan gave.
UPDATE: Click here to listen to the talk Ryan gave.
Nationalist MK Tzipi Hotovely and MK Hanan Zouabi laced into each other in a filmed debate. Hotovely listed what she termed Zouabi's traitorous behavior. Zouabi could not hide, and actually didn't even try to hide, the contempt and hatred she has for the democratic country in whose parliament she is allowed to serve despite her disloyalty to it.
Thousands of Christians joined together with Jewish leaders to show their support for the nation of Israel as part of the annual Christians United for Israel Summit. Organized by pastor and televangelist John Hagee, the CUFI summit boasts plenty of big names—this year, they include TV host Glenn Beck, former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren.
In this video, Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon explains the historical facts relating to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The video explains where the terms "West Bank", "occupied territories" and "67 Borders" originated and how they are incorrectly used and applied.
I did not write this article for Zionists. We are already aware of what we are. It was written for anti-Zionists who think they know what we are. However, if you are neither, then I hope you, too, will find this educational enough to help you decide whether Zionism is the real problem in the world or whether the lack of understanding of what it is in the rest of the world is the real problem.
For as long as I can remember being taught about Zionism as a child and adolescent, I do recall mainly learning about Political Zionism and Practical Zionism. These included; the reasons for Zionism during pre-State of Israel era and the "Return To Zion" (anti-Semitism, Pogroms, the Holocaust); the events leading up to the establishment of the State of Israel; the declaration of Israel's Independence; Socialist Israel (Kibbutzim); the details and success stories of every war that Israel has faced since the 1948 Independence War till the 1982 First Lebanon War; Agricultural and Technological accomplishments; the serious importance of maintaining Israel as a Jewish State, the only Jewish State in the world as well as Jewish unity; and of course the religious aspect of the Jewish ancestral right to the land and the need to return to it...
Being a Jew, the above reasons would become sufficient enough to convince me to make Aliyah. However, since living here for some time I have realized that Zionism has not only maintained its original stance of being "Patriotic to the Jewish State" but that it has also evolved in so many ways...
The definition of Zionism is "the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, advocated, from its inception, tangible as well as spiritual aims. The term 'Zionism' was coined in 1890 by Nathan Birnbaum." (source)
This definition, as any, just does not express enough the real meaning of what Zionism actually is today and what it means to me and so many others...
Most of the world has a very distorted impression of what Zionism actually is. This distorted view has sparked off the many anti-Zionist movements that we see today...The problem is that their out-of-context view of factual Zionist events from the past has left a stain on their real understanding of Zionism, its evolvement and what modern Zionism has become today... The categorization of Zionism as a form of Nazism, racism, land theft and Arab-oppression is a clear indication that the anti-Zionist movements of today do not understand the events leading up to the establishment of Israel and the events that followed in a relative manner... They also completely ignore the legality of Israels establishment as noted in UN Resolution 181... I believe they have indulged in too much Palestinian/anti-Israel propaganda...
The current misunderstanding of Zionism is that Zionists today are no different than the Zionists prior to the establishment of the State of Israel and after it. This is a false assumption... Our needs and goals have changed drastically. We have learned the lessons of our ancestral Zionists and the founders of our State... We have had the time to iron out the finer details of what we as Zionists want to bring to the world, not only to ourselves... The Zionists of yesterday focused all of their attention and energy on rescuing and protecting the Jewish people by means of Aliyah, defense and then finally the declaration of our Independence along with the founding of a proper moral defense army to protect its own, the IDF... As modern day Zionists, we share this same common goal but now we are not only fighting for our survival as a Jewish people, we are also fighting for the survival of our Jewish State, its legitimacy, and at the same time we are bringing new concepts, ideas and innovations into the world which benefit everyone.
Let us take a look at what yesterday's Zionism entailed and what it meant to the world...
-Zionism Of Hope -National Zionism -Patriotic Zionism
Waves Of Aliyot - Zionism Of Hope
Original Zionism as an ideology spread throughout various Eastern European and Middle Eastern countries during times of great oppression of the Jews. This lead to the first 5 waves of Aliyot mainly from these countries. The First Aliyah was also known as the "The Farmers Aliyah." These were the people who laid the foundation for some of Israel's (Palestine then) Jewish settlements, such as Rishon LeZion, Rosh Pina, Zikhron Ya'aqov and Gedera. These people also contributed to the development of already established towns such as Petach Tikva and Newe Tzedek.
The second wave of Aliyot were idealists who sought to establish a communal agricultural settlement system in Palestine. They were credited with the "Revival of the Hebrew language" and establishing it as the standard language for Jews in Israel. They became the first Zionists to establish the Kibbutz movement and in 1909 founded Degania, the first Kibbutz. Kibbutzim started off as Utopian styled communities based on socialism and Zionism and mainly focused on the development of agriculture and agricultural technology. They later developed into being the pioneers of many Agricultural and Technological developments that we, the world, use today. Although Kibbutzim evolved away from being the Utopian styled communities, their focus today is mainly on the development of technologies and research rather than the need for social development. After the establishment of the State of Israel, this social development played an important role in the successful collaboration of the many different immigrants from various cultures in order to indoctrinate the people into developing a single Jewish Israeli culture, the one that we know today. Considering the size of Israel and the amount of immigration Israel has seen, this indoctrination was an absolute necessity if the State of Israel wanted to successfully accomplish a united Jewish state and identity as well as Israeli nationalism. The second wave also created the first security organization called "HaShomer" which established the foundation of the Haganah, a Jewish paramilitary organization.
The third wave of Aliyot was pretty much a continuation of the second wave with one exception, they established some important institutions and organizations such as the General Federation of Workers or Histadrut which has become one of the most powerful institutions in the State of Israel. They also contributed to the founding of the Haganah.
The fourth wave of Aliyot did not see much of an influence to the already established movements, organizations and institutions but as they were mainly from middle class business and industrial backgrounds, they were the main reason for the further development of Tel Aviv into the city we know today.
The fifth wave of Aliyot, mainly caused by the rise of Nazi Germany, saw a mass influx of academics, doctors, lawyers as well as musicians who founded the Philharmonic Orchestra. Some chose agricultural settlement and founded new Moshavim and Kibbutzim.
The sixth wave of Aliyot (Bricha) took place during the post-World War 2 period. It was a clandestine effort to help the Jewish Holocaust survivors escape Eastern Europe into British Palestine.
These six waves, although very similar in nature, saw the development of the State of Israel from the perspective of needing to escape anti-Semitism from their native countries. Their only intentions as far as Zionism was concerned was self-preservation and Jewish unity. Their reality consisted of nothing more than persecution, hatred, fear, oppression and the need to survive. Zionism was the only solution that would save them from all this. This level and definition of Zionism could be seen as "The Zionism of Hope".
Establishment Of The State And It's Defense - National Zionism
The six waves of Aliyot, which brought much hope to the Jewish people who were being severely oppressed, were in need of something more solid in order to assure their safety and the safety of the future Jewish population living in Palestine at the time.
During the British Mandate of Palestine, Britain would not allow opening Palestine to all Jewish refugees from Europe. In order to force the British to allow this, a Militant Zionist group called Lehi was formed in an effort to forcefully evict the British authorities from Palestine. Even though they were regarded as a "terrorist organization" by the British and later banned by the Israeli government, their intentions were solely to secure the safety of the Jewish refugees from other countries by allowing their immigration. They were, however, small in numbers.
Another Zionist Paramilitary group during the British Mandate of Palestine was called the Irgun. The British banned the immigration of more Jewish refugees from Europe so the intentions of the Irgun were to bring the millions of European Jews to Palestine and prevent them from being oppressed further. The Irgun oversaw the illegal immigration of these European Jews into the Land of Israel. The Irgun was also regarded as a "terrorist organization" by the British but after the establishment of the State of Israel it was relieved of that title. The Irgun sought to protect the Jewish people from the violent uprising of the Arabs towards Jews. Its policies included the right of every Jew to enter Palestine, the need for active retaliation to deter the Arabs and the understanding that only Jewish armed force would ensure the Jewish state. This policy needs to be understood relatively. They were later absorbed into the new Israel Defense Forces after Israel's declaration of Independence in 1948.
One of the larger Zionist paramilitary groups was called the Haganah, previously known as HaShomer, the defense organization established by the second wave of Aliyot. The roles of the Haganah included the protection of the Jewish people within Palestine against the many violent Arab revolts. Its members were trained and prepared for any external military attacks by surrounding countries. The Haganah later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.
The largest and most successful defense force of the Jewish people and the State of Israel was and still is the Israel Defense Force. From the establishment of the State of Israel until today, Israel has seen numerous wars instigated first by its internal Arab population and then through a continued instigation from its neighbouring countries and people. The need for the IDF became not only a right but also a complete necessity in order to defend the Jewish state. This wave of Zionism received more than 4000 volunteers from 56 countries to help fight in the War of Independence.
The IDF not only defended the Jews within the State but sought to bring the same protection to Jews in other countries. The IDF launched Operation Magic Carpet in 1949 and Operation Moses in 1984 to bring the oppressed Jews from Yemen and Ethiopia to the State of Israel where they could live freely and be permanently protected from any anti-Semitism and persecution.
While there may be some conflicts of interest between the various Zionist paramilitary groups, it is evident that all these groups shared a common goal, the protection of the Jewish people and the Jewish state. The Jews of the time needed this protection and most definitely needed the establishment of the State in order to assure their survival, nothing more. Their reality had moved from needing hope to securing hope by establishing their own national identity. This level and definition of Zionism could be seen as "National Zionism".
Protection Of The State And National Identity - Patriotic Zionism
Since its foundation, the State of Israel has been through many wars both on the battlefield and also in the political arena. Both required the constant dedication and commitment of the local population to defend the borders of the State as well as to fight the many political battles that Israel has faced over the decades and still faces today.
Mandatory military service was and still is a large part of this commitment. Citizens required constant affirmation that protection of the State was and still is Israel's first priority and that the battle to maintain Israels sovereignty and legitimacy is a completely legal and ethical one.
Patriotic Zionism also played a large role in the Zionist movements abroad whereby people such as myself were taught about Israel from a Patriotic perspective. In fact this level of Zionism was the highlight of everything I was taught regarding Zionism and Israel in general. Understanding the necessity to be patriotic to a country that I was not even born in and that I did not even live in yet became an instinct of second nature along with an unquestionable dedication to defend the State of Israel in any way possible from thousands of kilometers away. It's intention, I believe, was also to offer the diaspora Jews an opportunity to be a part of a Jewish national and international identity be it religious or secular. To be a part of the only Jewish State in the world.
The Zionists of yesterday understand the reality of the need to protect the State, as they felt first hand the wrath of the Arab revolts and uprisings before a solid foundation of Israel was established. Their reality moved from securing hope to securing the State and its people in every way possible. This level and definition of Zionism could be seen as "Patriotic Zionism". It is still very much in existence today.
The above forms of Zionism or "Original Zionism" as I like to call it, evolved solely around the preservation and protection of Jews both in and outside of the State of Israel. Protection of Israel's right to exist in the first place. However, people show mixed feelings about Original Zionism, while one shows inspiration and awe the other expresses hatred and disgust. I understand both, relatively, but only agree with the former. My understanding of this hatred towards Original Zionism is the understanding of the reasons people generally express. It usually stems from a serious lack of understanding of Jewish history and the history of Palestine as well as the assumption that Zionism is selfish due to it being almost exclusive to Jews. Before the State of Israel this assumption was accurate. Typical expressions such as "What is so special about Jews that only Jews should be saved?" arise. My response: "Jewish oppression has been the highlight of history. Nobody has ever and will ever look after the Jews, only Jews will look after the Jews, Zionism is the only thing that embraced the Jews. All actions to defend one's own family is deemed selfish, we just have a bigger family, wouldn't you do the same if it was your family in need of being saved?" Since the States founding, this assumption remains false.
Today we see many new forms of Zionism or New Age Zionism which has taken on not only Israel but also on the world. We have moved from the "selfish" act of needing to be saved and protected from the hands of anti-Semitism to the selfless want to bring all of our wonderfully creative ideas to the world and we have done just that.
Let us take a look at what Todays Zionism is and what it means to the world...
Zionist Israel is probably the only country in the world and in history that has ever cared for, aided and assisted its own arch enemy on a daily basis for years on end.
Israeli settler wants to help Syrians with humanitarian aid. He says: "As neighbors, and a people who take pride in our Jewish values, Israel can assist in the form of humanitarian and medical aid and benefit from the Syrian revolt."
Palestinian children who had been diagnosed with cancer had the opportunity to visit Israel's ski resort in the Hermon, they were accompanied by their families and had a fun filled day with the IDF's Alpine Unit.
An IDF paramedic helped a Palestinian woman give birth inside a military ambulance. She called for help and the IDF responded to it even though the area she was in was unreachable by an ambulance. The IDF paramedics comment on this: "I just reacted to the situation as any human being would."
An Israeli doctor extends helping hand to sick Palestinians. The doctor's comments: "When we are coming to pick up the sick kids, the (Palestinian and Israeli) checkpoint managers help us a lot."
A Kibbutz built a dairy farm for Palestinians in Hebron. A Palestinian said: "We turned to Kibbutz Afikim because the Israeli milk industry is No. 1 in the world, and we are happy to be able to use the knowledge and modernization of our neighbors to help us increase the amount of milk in the PA."
An IDF soldier and settlers save a Palestinian baby's life. The soldier said: "They know we have a skilled medical team here, and in any case of accident or injury they arrive and we help them."
The Ministry of Agriculture helps Palestinian farmers improve their techniques. A Palestinian doctor said: "We live in the same climate and under the same conditions so we don’t try to avoid receiving help from the accumulated Israeli experience."
The IDF sends humanitarian aid to Gaza during IDF operation to crackdown on Hamas. The aid was up 900% .
Israel helped about 150 Palestinians escape from Gaza after a bloody Hamas crackdown in Gaza. They were assisted in being relocated via Israel to Jericho.
Israelis help Palestinians harvest olive crops. One says: "I think what we do now is the way of peace. Palestinians and Jews work hand in hand on the trees and pick fruit together."
Israelis help Palestinian veterinarians fight avian flu. A doctor's comment: "This support sometimes helps us provide the Palestinians with services without charging them."
1976, the IDF opens a section of the Lebanese border, known as The Good Fence, to allow medical and other aid to residents of southern Lebanon who stood in need.
The list goes on...
Which country, army or ideology will help its own enemies in wartimes and in moments of peace? A Zionist one!
Helping The Sick And Needy - Philanthropic Zionism
Zionist Israel helps more countries and people in need of medical and charity assistance than any other country in the world.
Zionist Israel is usually the first country to respond to natural disaster situations than any other country on the planet.
Helping With Social Development And Education - Social Zionism
Zionist Israel does everything it can to develop social understanding, skills and education between various cultures and religions including it's own enemies.
Which other country, that has as many enemies as we do, offers this amount of social and educational development to anyone who needs it including its own enemies? A Zionist one!
Helping The Environment - Green Zionism
Zionist Israel cares about more than people, it cares about the environment too, which either way directly or indirectly affects people anywhere on the planet.
Which country has ever developed and shown as much interest in environmental technology, to be shared with the world, as Israel has? A Zionist one!
Helping The Medical, Technological And Scientific World Develop - Idealistic And Visionary Zionism
Zionist Israel cares for people and their environment, and at the same time cares for every important scientific and technological field that exists in order to improve the lives of everyone on the planet via research and development.
Which country has shown as much skill and innovation in the scientific, medical and technological fields in order to change the world for the better? A Zionist one!
I still do not know how so many people in this world can completely ignore the true meaning of Zionism and how it has progressed from being a "selfish" ideology as seen from an outsiders perspective (originally exclusive to Jews during times when it was absolutely needed) to being a completely selfless reality that shows absolute care and concern for its own people and people of every country/culture/race/religion in the world. Ask yourself this question, would you not do the same for your own family and then once your own family is safe from harms way would you not want to do the same for everyone else?
It is time the anti-Zionist movements of the world start to wake up and realize their own ignorance and the lack of understanding of Zionism that they preach to their followers. They need to realize that we cannot take full responsibility for the actions of our forefathers, we also cannot judge their actions in a negative light without fully understanding the realities they came from and the absolute necessity to never re-live those experiences. The only people alive today that completely understand that reality are the survivors of the Holocaust as well as the original pioneers of our country who gave their blood, sweat and tears to defend the people from the constant Arab uprisings. Israel is here, Zionism exists but Zionism is no longer about the need to have our own State, we have our own State whether the world likes it or not, Zionism is about what we can bring to the world through our own people and State.
If Zionism is Nazism then please tell me what good Nazism ever brought to the world besides being banished? Then compare it to the enormous amount of things that Zionism has done for its own people and the world and you will find that you can never mention that awful word (Nazism) in one breath with Zionism again.
This being said, we can, and should take responsibility for our actions today and the actions of our future. Zionism is there for everyone, it should be the answer to every world issue and I do hope that one day it will be seen in this light.
Zionism has evolved! It is time for the rest of the world to acknowledge its evolvement!
During Yom Hashoah this year I managed to watch the latest documentary on the
Nazis titled "A Film Unfinished", it inspired me to write this article. It is about a 60 minute reel of raw
footage that was discovered in an East German archive labeled "Das Ghetto" and
which portrays the life of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto of 1942. The film not only
shows the life of Jews within the ghetto, but it deliberately intends to show
the extreme differences between rich and poor Jews. The differences, however,
had all been staged to service the needs of the Nazi propaganda machine.
To quote parts from the documentary trailer: "In 1942, one of the only known
films of the Warsaw Ghetto was shot. Scenes of Jewish life were documented. For
decades after World War II, this footage was presented as truth. Until 40 years
later, when a missing reel was discovered..."
"This is the story of a film that was never completed. A film designed to
service propaganda for the third Reich, that empire that knew so well to
document its own evil."
"Let the world see what a paradise the Jews lived in."
In short, the documentary exposes the methods in which the Nazis intended to
show the general German population and the world how "well" Jews were living in
the Ghettos, even though the scenes were staged, and then to show how the Jews
that were living "well" did "not care" about the poor, starving or already dead
Jews at all... Other staged scenes included leaving dead bodies out in the
streets and then having "rich" Jews walk past the bodies and not even budge an
eyelid or show any concern, as though Jews do not care that the dead lay in
their streets... Next they would show scenes of the "rich" having a proper
Jewish burial as opposed to the poor who were just dumped into mass graves one
on top of the other, to "show" that Jews do not value the lives of the
poor...
It then moves to another level whereby they intended to show the world the
"barbaric" rituals of Jews with regards to circumcision, keeping in mind that
the Germans of the time and most non-Jews did not circumcise their babies, so
seeing this could easily disgust people and lead them to believe that Jews are
inhumane, primitive and barbaric in our practices...Furthermore, they showed
staged scenes of poor religious men in a
Mikve, naked, with "rich" women who were also naked, in an attempt to portray our
religious practices as though they involve orgies of some sort, of course men
and women do not go into a Mikve at the same time or place and there is no such
religious practice that involves orgies of any sort...
Once the Nazis had convinced the general German population that the Jews were
living "well" in the ghettos, this would ease the minds of the Germans to not
ask any further questions, moreover once they convinced the Germans that Jews
were "inhumane and barbaric", this would be a reason for them to exterminate the
Jews and therefore have the support of the country to do so...
Here are some short examples of the continued use of anti-Semitic propaganda, I
say short because I could literally write a thesis with the full amount of
propaganda that is currently out there...
Pallywood & The Paparazzi
The use of visual propaganda rose up again with the invention of "Pallywood" and other forms of visual propaganda which I will go into in a moment...
Pallywood is a coinage used to describe alleged cases of "media manipulation,
distortion and outright fraud by the Palestinians and other Arabs ... designed
to win the public relations war against Israel."
It was publicized by
Richard Landes
who produced a documentary titled "Pallywood: According to Palestinian Sources"...
The documentary exposes the staged scenes which the Palestinians were setting up
with the intention of misleading the media and the world into believing that a
situation was far worse than it actually was and/or also staging violent
situations that were entirely made up and acted from beginning till end... All
"media" coverage was done by freelance photographers and cameramen not official
news sources...
Examples of this included the "Muhammad al-Durrah incident" where a
staged scene
was set to make as though the IDF had deliberately fired upon and killed Jamal
al-Durrah and his 12 year old son Muhammad al-Durrah... This was filmed by a
France 2 freelance cameraman but France 2 deliberately left out a
very important part of the video
which was discovered and
debunked by "The 2nd Draft"
in
this video... The part that was left out was at a point where the boy was supposedly
already dead yet he quickly peeks to see what he needs to do next...
This well executed (no pun intended) plan made Israel look bad just as much as
Nazi Germany was fated to be successful, and even if the intention was later
discovered to be fake, false or misdirected, the initial image always sticks in
peoples’ minds especially one of disgust… and no matter how much proof we can
later offer that debunks the incident, it will never convince people who have
already been convinced enough by seeing the first video…. anything else becomes
a conspiracy theory or a cover-up to them…
This one incident became an icon of hatred towards Israel, all the Muslim
countries had postage stamps honoring al-Durrah,
Daniel Pearl
was killed to avenge his "death",
Osama Bin Laden used the incident
to incite before 9/11 and streets, squares & academies have been named after
him... Al-Durrah was even referred to as "a tiny sleeping Jesus" - [Al-Quds, May
25, 2001] - He became a poster child for the Intifada...
"Jesus was Palestinian", "the Palestinians are Jesus"
Palestinians have gone as far as claiming that Jesus & Moses were Muslim
Palestinians and that Abraham was the first Muslim Palestinian, the use of
self-propaganda became a powerful influence on the people to justify their own
existence, history and heritage and in turn to make Jews look bad once again for
supposedly "killing Jesus their Messiah" as well as making the claim that we are
all "fake Jews" except for the "Hebrews or Israelites"...
Attempts to fabricate their own history to
convince people
that they are descendants of "Jesus the Palestinian" have gone as far as calling
Jesus "the first Palestinian Shahid – Martyr for Allah," [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, January 17, 2005]... Now whether Jesus was technically
called a Palestinian or not, because this area was known as Palestine, the fact
is that they are
rewriting their own history
as a direct connection to the Jewish Jesus which is of course impossible...
Palestine was only named Palestine 136 years after Jesus' death as part of
Rome's plan to cut the Jews' ties to their Land of Israel... Palestine was made
up of Palestinian Jews, Muslims and Christians. Palestinian is not a culture,
religion or race of people, at least not the same as the Palestinians that we
know of today...
Quotes such as the following are drummed into the minds of the Palestinians:
"We must not forget that (Jesus) Messiah, may peace be upon him, is
Palestinian, the son of Mary the Palestinian, who is sanctified by hundreds
of millions of believers in this world." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November
18, 2005]
"It was quite natural that the Palestinians rose to save their sanctuaries
[in Nazareth] without anyone thinking there is a difference between a
Christian and a Muslim… since in the Palestinian situation, the lord Messiah
[Jesus] and his mother [Mary] are both Galileans and Palestinians
…"[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 9, 2006]
"The Palestinian Galilee village of Kfar Kana takes pride in the fact that
in [the village] the Palestinian Messiah succeeded to turn water into
wine." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, December 14, 2004]
"…And a child from the De’haisha refugeecamp will shout: "Yes, we have won,
just as the prophets and [Jesus’] Apostles won," and the shahids will cry,
‘We shook the palm trees alongside Lady Earth and the lady of the people,
the Virgin Mary, and with her son the first Palestinian
Shahid." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, January 17, 2005]
Artist: "Our struggle today against the other side is an eternal one. It can
be said that it started 2,000 years ago and continues until today. I
demonstrate this through the figure of Jesus… The Israeli soldiers are
wearing army uniforms while Jesus has nothing except for the truth. When
they searched him at the entrance of Jerusalem, they found a stone, a piece
of bread and fish and he was cuffed. This is the Palestinian from the
beginning of the struggle until the end." [PA TV, July 21, 2000]
The mere belief that these people are of a heritage and descent that they are
not, becomes a major problem when they have convinced the rest of the world, who
actually believes them, that everything they say is true because they believe it
with such conviction... This then reassures the Pro-Palestinian mob that
"Palestinians" definitely have ancestral rights to this land and possibly
others, dating back to the times of Abraham, Moses and Jesus... this fuels the
support for the Palestinians "struggle" to get "their" land back...
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
"The Protocols of the Elders of Ziyon
is a fabricated document; its content is demonstrably fictional in its entirety.
It was originally produced in Russia between 1897 and 1903, possibly by
Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky, head of the Paris office of the Russian Secret Police, and unknown others. It
is a fraudulent, anti-Semitic text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for
achieving global domination."
This famous piece of propaganda was used continuously to demonize the Jews and
is still in use today, the so called protocols have even been published online
by many anti-Semitic websites such as
JewWatch.com
and
BibleBelievers.org.au...
Youtube has its
fair share
of propaganda videos "exposing the truth" about Jews by using the Protocols as a
tool to convince people of the Jewish and Zionist "conspiracies" such as
world domination,
mass media control,
control of the banking systems
and more...
Facebook
is no different... It is sadly amusing what these people come up with... So far
only a few have put in the effort to
debunk
this
hoax...
Here is a list of some of the times this book has been used for propaganda
purposes:
1920: The Protocols were published in Poland, France, England,
and the United States. These editions blame the Russian Revolution on Jewish
conspirators and warn of
Bolshevism
spreading to the West.
1920: Automaker Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent
published The International Jew, an Americanized version of the Protocols to which he later apologized for
doing so. It is
available online
to read.
1933: Adolf
Hitler made "good" use
of it, he published 23 editions of it before World War II began.
1938: "Radio priest" Father
Charles E. Coughlin
serialized the Protocols in his newspaper, Social Justice.
1960: The Protocols were featured in an article published by
Salah Dasuqi, military governor of Cairo, in "al-Majallaaa", the official cultural journal.
1974: Idi Amin, the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, cited
the book as evidence of a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, and as
justification for his self-proclaimed plans to destroy Israel. He
reveals this
in an interview during the documentary "Idi Amin Dada".
1985: An English-language edition of Protocols was published by
the Islamic Propagation Organization and
issued in Iran.
1997: The Protocols become a
best-seller in Syria, it was exhibited and sold at the Damascus International Book Fair. It was
then reprinted in 2004 and 2005.
2002: Egyptian satellite television
broadcasts
a 41-part miniseries "Horseman Without a Horse", which is based largely on the Protocols.
2003: A 30-part television miniseries called "Al Shatat (The Diaspora)", produced in Syria, was
broadcasted
on Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV. The series depicts a “global Jewish government,”
as described in the Protocols.
2003: An exhibition of holy books of monotheistic religions at
the
Alexandria Library
in Egypt includes a copy of the
Protocols next to the Torah. UNESCO issues a public denunciation of the Alexandria Library exhibition.
2004: The Protocols are published in Okinawa,
Japan.
2005: A Spanish-language edition of the Protocols,
published in Mexico City, says that whether or not the Protocols are authentic, history shows that
Zionists intend to dominate the world.
2005: An edition of the Protocols was
authorized by the Syrian Ministry
of Information, claims that the Elders of Zion coordinated the September 11,
2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
2006: Saudi Arabian schoolbooks contain explicit summaries of
the
Protocols as factual.
2011: The
Charter of Hamas
explicitly refers to the Protocols, accepting them as factual and makes
several references to Freemasons as one of the "secret societies" controlled
by "Zionists".
The list goes on and will continue to go on as a powerful propaganda tool
against Jews, Israel and Zionists!
Israeli "Apartheid"
Since the term "Israeli Apartheid" was invented, vast amounts of anti-Israel
campaigns increased in numbers with intent to directly compare the real
South African Apartheid
regime to the current Israeli regime... It was in fact
stated back in 2004 by UN agent
John Dugard that the Israeli "Apartheid regime in territories is worse than in
South Africa"....
"In a 2007 report, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine John Dugard
stated that 'elements of the
Israeli occupation constitute forms of colonialism and of apartheid, which are contrary to international law' and suggested that the 'legal
consequences of a prolonged occupation with features of colonialism and
apartheid' be put to the International Court of Justice. South Africa's
statutory research agency the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) stated in a
2009 report that 'the State of Israel exercises control in the [Occupied
Palestinian Territories] with the purpose of
maintaining a system of domination by Jews over Palestinians
and that this system constitutes a breach of the prohibition of apartheid.' In
2010 United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine Richard A. Falk reported
that
criminal apartheid features of the Israeli occupation
had been entrenched in the three years since the report of his predecessor, John
Dugard." (source)
The so-called "Israeli Apartheid" libel has spawned campaigns such as:
Once again the list goes on a mile long... Prominent Palestinians,
Jewish anti-Zionists,
South Africans,
Americans
and Europeans have been at the forefront of these campaigns.
Yet no matter how many of us attempt to debunk this myth, the damage is
already done... The usual suspects,
Youtube
and
Facebook, are of course overwhelmed with propaganda footage and campaigns of how
Israel is supposedly an Apartheid regime, even
Enrique Iglesias agrees...
This has become the "latest and greatest" tactic to use in the fight to
delegitimize Israel by demonizing Jews who support Israel, Zionists, Israelis
and well truthfully any Jews in general too but many will argue that they
"love" Jews but hate Israelis or Zionists, which is true for some, but many
who are actually anti-Semitic, hide behind the "political correctness" of
being anti-Zionist rather than anti-Semitic...
Illogical arguments in support of Israel being an Apartheid state usually go
something like
"Jews are against Israel's occupation and against Israeli Apartheid"-
this to them translates into meaning that because
some Jews are against Israel
and do believe that Israel is an Apartheid regime that therefore the majority
of Jews and Israelis MUST be wrong... Many a time I have seen this line used
and it holds no weight when it is analyzed properly, it is a meaningless
argument like saying
"some Americans hate America because of the Iraq War therefore America is
wrong and should be put on trial"- As absurd as this sounds, people use these as arguments all the time in
defense of their belief that "Israel is evil"... This is a direct result of
the "Israeli Apartheid" propaganda that is out there...
I used to live in Apartheid South Africa, I grew up there and witnessed many
incidents of real Apartheid on a daily basis. I now live in Israel for many
years and I can assure you that there is no Israeli Apartheid, there never has
been and never will be! During the Apartheid we, as Jews, were not allowed to
go to certain places such as country clubs where they had signs stating "No
Blacks, No Dogs, No Jews", you will never see a sign in Israel preventing an
Arab whether Muslim or Christian from entering, not even at the Western Wall
(Kotel). Perhaps I am hallucinating when I go to the shopping mall and see
well dressed happy Arabs
in the
same shopping malls
that I go to or when I visit the Tel Aviv University and see many Arab
students &
professors
walking around the campus without being hassled by anyone... Yet people
will then argue that it is the Palestinians who are suffering from the
"Apartheid" due to the wall but this too makes no logical sense because
Palestinians are not a part of Israel AT ALL, they have their own governing
body, laws, rules and regulations to follow that have nothing to do with
Israel in the least... they are no different to Jordanians or Egyptians in
that they are not a part of Israel so therefore have to pass through border
control points anyway if they wish to enter & exit Israel, what is the
difference? Every border has a fence, this particular one has a wall, where is
the difference besides cosmetically? Even
Egypt has a wall
on the border of Gaza but that is "apparently" acceptable...
"The Satanic Talmud & The Synagogue Of Satan & The Zionist
Illuminati"
Another new, or maybe not so new, form of anti-Semitic propaganda is the
comparison between the
Talmud, Kaballah
and Satanism / Devil Worship as well as a continued belief (Protocols) that
the Jews are actually the
Illuminati
who hide behind the world and seek to control it or who have been controlling
it for thousands of years like puppet masters... It has gone viral!
While no one is really sure who first came up with this preposterous idea that
Jews are Satanic or members of the so called Illuminati, but the conspiracy
theorists out there have really got the hang of this one and have managed to
"convert" many an ignorant person into believing this total nonsense....
An example of one such person is "Brother Nathanael" who is an Orthodox Christian street evangelist that warns people of the
dangers of the Jews being in control of the world... He started the "Brother Nathanael Foundation" and also runs the notorious "Real Zionist News" blog and interestingly enough was supposedly born a Jew but converted to
Christianity to escape from the "evil claws" of Judaism... His Youtube videos,
of which he
has many, show him explaining
why he left Judaism
and how to
break the Zionist power... His followers have been led to believe that all Jews, except ones that
convert to Christianity, are evil Satan worshipers and must be stopped... As
candid as he looks, speaks and acts is as dangerous as this man actually
is...
I won't go too much into these 2 deranged people but I will say that they have
both influenced the minds of ignorant people in many ways... For one Texe Marrs, the author, was inspired by Andrew Carrington's Synagogue of Satan as
well as Youtube, once again, is full of "proof" that "Jews are evil Satan worshippers"...
These 2 people have opened the door to many Christian fundamentalists who
believe that the Jews killed Jesus as well as white supremists, to enhance
their belief that Jews are, yes I said it again "evil Satan worshipers"... I
cannot begin to tell you how many arguments I have had with these people
online to try get them to see the ridiculousness of this belief of us being
what they claim we are...
I am sure you get the point of all of this by now but I did feel the need to
go into as much detail as I did above so that the people out there who may not
be aware of all of these things, as much as I am aware, can at least get a
taste of the very real "Unfinished and continued" use of anti-Semitic
propaganda that the world has to offer on a daily basis, at the click of a
mouse and also
for entertainment...
All of the above examples are propaganda tricks and fabrications of the truth
that are used only to re-assure people’s anti-Semitic approach or to convince
"new recruits" in the same way that the Nazis used false films and other
methods to convince their own people that killing the Jews was the right
solution... Today it is no different, whether it means killing the Jews or
destroying Israel, there is no difference whatsoever... Israel is a Jewish
homeland, always was and always will be and the need that these people have to
destroy Israel is directly connected to the reality that Israel is Jewish, no
other reason whatsoever can excuse the need for all of the above, even Yunis
al Astal, a member of the Palestinian Authority parliament
agrees...
The film unfinished continues today....
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