The pogrom is the point
JVL Introduction
Sunday, 26th February 2023 saw a pogrom take place in the Palestinian town of Huwara, near Nablus on the West Bank.
The Guardian report’s standfirst to their report ‘Never like this before’: settler violence in West Bank escalates reads “Retaliatory rampage in Palestinian village likened to ‘Kristallnacht in Huwara’ with one dead and 350 injured”.
The headline to Gideon Levy’s Haaretz is a chilling “Israeli Settlers’ Hawara Pogrom Was a Preview of Sabra and Chatila 2” (a reference to the Maronite Christian Lebanese massacre of Palestinians in 1982, brokered by Israel at the time).
Orly Noy is chair of B’Tselem’s executive board and we repost her evaluation of these events for +972 Magazine in which she writes:
For above all the horrific legislation that this government will pass, the most important law in the Israeli books — which defines its identity and dictates its policy — is the law of Palestinian elimination. For this far-right government, this settler-colonial logic is a divine commandment; for the military, it is an operational duty.
Remember the history of pogroms against the Jews of Eastern Europe and weep…
This article was originally published by +972 Magazine,the Landline on Mon 27 Feb 2023. Read the original here.
The pogrom is the point
When Israeli officials call on settlers not to take the law into their own hands against Palestinians, they are actually saying ‘let the army do the job for you.’
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The Guardian and the BBC reports ‘it was retaliation……….’
Anyone hoping for protest from the UK Labour Party about this outrage will have to wait a long, long time. The Labour Party today is more likely to condone the violence and attempt to justify it. The Labour Party is now more Zionist than the Zionists.