“I had to protest” – former Colonel and descendant of Holocaust Survivors
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Former Army Colonel Chris Rombert is descended from Austrian Jews who had to flee the Anschluss. He felt obliged to protest on Saturday and was one of the c 522 who were arrested. He is a JVL solidarity member. Here he is interviewed for Skwawkbox and among much else of interest he said: “I do have a Jewish background and Jewish forebears. But of course everybody’s voice in this, everyone who has a conscience and is there to speak up, is valid. (My emph Ed)
But I think the usefulness of having Jewish people prepared to speak up and those who are Holocaust survivor descendants is that they’re trying to put the lie to the claim that all the horrors that are being perpetrated in Gaza and the West Bank and elsewhere are justified by the Holocaust and are being done in the name of Jewish people when they are not.”
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This article was originally published by Skwawkbox on Mon 11 Aug 2025. Read the original here.
Exclusive: ret’d army Col Chris Romberg, descendant of Holocaust survivors, on genocide and Starmer regime
Protester among hundreds arrested last weekend speaks out against UK’s hypocritical pro-Israel regime
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Great courage was shown by all who protested in Parliament Square on Saturday. They were upholding international by supporting Palestine Action, who themselves were following the rulings of the ICJ which stipulated that all states should take action to prevent this relentless genocide in Gaza. PA were disabling the aircraft that had a direct participation in the Gaza atrocities, which the UK government should have stopped. Instead we have the government pretending to be concerned and yet has done nothing to sanction Israel with an arms and trade embargo, expelling the racist genocidal Israeli ambassador, and then actually sent in a navy ship and task force to impose a ceasefire and have UK soldiers take over all the crossings to let all the aid flood in. This is an urgent rescue mission that does not need Trump to say yea or nay. But the UK is too in hoc with the Israel Lobby with all its funding of key figures in the cabinet, and are instead listening to the Israeli Embassy for its instructions. That is what nothing has been done to stop the arch terror state which should be the one to be proscribed.
A very impressive interview and once again one hears the voices of the informed which, to our shame, are ignored by the government and the MSM. An honourable man but our present political situation tends to regards truth and honour with contempt
It is thrilling that this heroic man is also a member of JVL — shows that our organisation is steadfastly building respect and reaching wider, as we always hoped.
Chris Rombert also raises interesting points about “who is a Jew’.