A crisis for zionism as Israel’s murderous attacks on Palestine continue
JVL Introduction
All untimely deaths are to be mourned but the media bias continues as we see detailed coverage of the six dead Israeli hostages, accounts of their lives compared with the almost numbers only reporting of the more than 40,000 Palestinians who have been killed. Israel has been found to be acting illegally by the International Court of Justice and yet when yesterday (September 1st) the UK foreign Secretary announced a 10% reduction in arms sales licences to Israel, this was met with horror by the United Synagogue’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis who astonishingly said: “the move would bolster unfounded claims that Israel was in breach of international humanitarian law” (my emphasis). The Board of Deputies of British Jews swiftly expressed “deep concern” with the government’s decision, saying it sends a “dangerous message to Hamas that they can commit appalling atrocities”. Of course the current reports do not include statements from Palestinians but, others, including Amnesty International and MPs such as Zarah Sultana (currently without the Labour Whip) saying that this does not go far enough.
Meanwhile the appalling and well documented atrocities committed by Israel evoke no opprobrium from the Jewish Establishment. In this article, from an Irish point of view, there is clear and understandable anger as well as heartbreak but Kelly goes on to argue that there is a crisis in Zionism and outlines both the tensions in Israel and the need to continue to build a mass movement for justice for Palestine and Palestinians.
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This article was originally published by Rebel News on Mon 2 Sep 2024. Read the original here.
Palestinian Liberation and the Crisis in Zionism
Blanket sympathetic coverage of the deaths of 6 Israeli hostages contrasts sharply with the scant regard for Palestinian humanity over 10 months of bombing…And it obscures important development in historic Palestine, including major fissures in the ranks of Zionism.
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It’s a tragedy that so few Europeans can see through the colonial mentality like the Irish.
Wikipedia has a “List of genocides” here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides, disheartening reading. As ourselves primates, we may compare the “Gombe Chimpanzee War” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War, “a violent conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in the Kigoma region of Tanzania between 1974 and 1978 …
“During the four-year conflict, all males of the Kahama community were killed, effectively disbanding the community. The victorious Kasakela then expanded into further territory but were later repelled by two other communities of chimpanzees.” (Konrad Lorenz missed all this.)
I dwell on this because I’ve long believed that our public discourse on politics, society and really human behaviour in general pays far too little attention to our evolved primate characteristics. (Sociobiology never deserved its bad name and happily revived as Evolutionary Psychology.)
Now it’s Israeli Jews and their genocidal accomplices from amongst global hegemonic elites and other enablers closer to home, but elsewhere in the past and, let’s face it, almost certainly in the future, it’s others with whatever rationalisations and groupthink mentalities of the day opportunism has conjured up and always will, until moral sense catches up with evolved intelligence. And that’ll be the day.
The main point I want to make is that I always thought, as I was once taught along with the alphabet, that Jews ought to be different. We were after all divinely mandated to be, according to Isaiah, ‘A light unto the nations.’
Perhaps with the dimming of Zionism’s seductive but destructive lamp, the energy that went into its meretricious glitter will now relight Isaiah’s eclipsed light and teach us Jews repentance and better, creative ways of being in the world.
Dhir He er said on Electronic Intifada that BDS is working probably as much to do with Israel’s collapsing economy.
Even Israeli companies have taken their pension fund investments out of Israel!