Palestine is off the map.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Whatever happened to Palestine?

https://www.change.org/p/google-inc-...te&utm_term=cs

[Balanbam00]

I don't know BT I heared its like there was a drain and the someone, ( Arafat ?) pulled the plug and the the whole thing disapeared ! It got sucked in!

That's not important just keep sending them cash, some people do get 'sucked in',even today.

But eh is this you??

https://wp.me/p9XqAk-qZu

[Balanbam00]

B T Take a holiday in Gaza, has it been bombed to hell in there?

https://youtu.be/JBo7i-TXy6s

[The Bedlington Terrier]

B T Take a holiday in Gaza, has it been bombed to hell in there?

https://youtu.be/JBo7i-TXy6s

You well know we can't get a VISA to get into the Strip Balan.

[Balanbam00]

You well know we can't get a VISA to get into the Strip Balan.- How do I know just Israelis can not get inside ,( but we have the key to all gates !!)

I thought friends of J C can go anywhere? I hope you have looked at the video above. https://youtu.be/JBo7i-TXy6s

Not bad really if Hamas would invest more. Young man would find it hard to marry ,no brass, unless they are part of Hamas .

But go to the fence for a days work ,they pay for that.

[Balanbam00]

To understand Labour anti-semitism, go back to the USSR's giant anti-Zionism campaign
The defeat of Soviet-supported Arab troops in 1967 triggered a 20-year wave of propaganda against Jews - a time when top Corbyn advisers Seumas Milne and Andrew Murray were coming of age politically It was the defeat of Soviet-supported Arab states in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war that triggered the campaign. The defeat hit hard against Soviet interests in the Middle East. In their search for a hidden culprit and convenient scapegoat, the country’s ideologues alighted on a tried and true villain of the late Stalinist period: the anti-Soviet global Zionist conspiracy.

The campaign that followed – a product of the KGB and Communist Party’s ideological apparatus – was epic in scale. It produced hundreds of books and thousands of articles demonising Zionism. Their authors borrowed heavily from the anti-semitic tropes of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and even Mein Kampf, repackaging those ideas to fit the socialist anti-racist framework.

The USSR used the foreign propaganda branch of its state-owned media machine to deliver campaign’s messages to audiences around the globe. Novosti Press Agency, the Soviet primary foreign broadcasting outfit with deep connections to intelligence and propaganda structures, facilitated the effort. So did Radio Moscow’s foreign broadcasts, which added up to thousands of hours of programming monthly, delivered in eighty languages. Tens of millions of copies of Soviet periodicals circulated abroad. The USSR financed western and third world Communist parties, leftist publications and front organizations in exchange for propaganda support.

The campaign played a crucial role in redefining Zionism away from its original meaning and painting it as a racist, fascist, Nazi-like, genocidal, imperialist, colonialist, militarist and apartheid-promoting conspiratorial ideology. The 1975 UN General Assembly “Zionism Is Racism” resolution, which the Soviet delegation spent a decade promoting, paved the way for broad demonisation of Zionism and Israel at the UN and beyond.

Accused of anti-semitism, Soviet leadership indignantly dismissed the accusations as “Zionist tricks”. But the country’s 2.6 million Soviet Jews knew better. For them, their country’s anti-Zionism translated into diminished educational and professional opportunities, inability to practise Jewish customs and religion and the daily insults of casual anti-semitism. Rumors of impending pogroms that spread through the country in 1988 proved to be the final straw. In the following decade, two million Jews left the country.

Soviet-style anti-Zionism had painful repercussions for Jews in other socialist bloc countries. Poland’s 1968 anti-Zionist campaign quickly degenerated into an antisemitic witch-hunt, resulting in expulsions and forced emigration of some 15,000 Jews.

It also harmed Jews beyond the immediate Soviet sphere of influence. Author Dave Rich documented how the adoption of UN’s “Zionism Is Racism” resolution opened the door for British Students’ Unions to restrict the activities and funding of Jewish societies on campuses or even ban them. Soviet sponsorship of Palestinian and western far-left terrorism resulted in countless Jewish deaths.

History of the late Soviet anti-Zionist campaign illustrates just how deeply politically weaponised anti-Zionism can be intertwined with anti-semitism. It also helps put in context the Labour Party’s own strident anti-Zionism.

Two of Jeremy Corbyn’s top advisers, Seumas Milne and Andrew Murray, came of age politically at a time when the Soviet anti-Zionist campaign was at its peak, and were active in just the kind of pro-Soviet circles that would have exposed them to its ideas. When Mr Corbyn uses the word “Zionist” as a term of abuse or Ken Livingstone’s claims that “Hitler was supporting Zionism” before murdering six million Jews, echoes of Soviet anti-Zionist propaganda come through loud and clear.

In July 1990, shortly before the USSR fell apart, Pravda, the Soviet Communist party’s official newspaper, published an editorial admitting to the wrongs of the Soviet anti-Zionist campaign. “Considerable damage was done by a group of authors who, while pretending to fight Zionism, began to resurrect many notions of the anti-semitic propaganda of the Black Hundreds and of fascist origin,” it read. “Hiding under Marxist phraseology, they came out with coarse attacks on Jewish culture, on Judaism and on Jews in general.”

Perhaps the Labour Party’s hard left leaders should take a clue from Pravda. Their ability to resolve the scandal tearing the party apart depends on their ability to see the links between their Soviet-style anti-Zionism and anti-semitism.

Izabella Tabarovsky

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Please don't roll out the anti-Semitism tag again Balan to justify the creeping Israeli genocide of the Palestinians?

[alfinyalcabo]

Strange statement that BT,when every mussie in the world would wipe the Israelis off the face of the earth.. Hmmm

[sinkov]

This is disappointing, when I saw the title of the thread I thought the Israelis had finally seen sense and nuked the ****hole, but no it's still there.

[Balanbam00]

I am going to find the book, '' The guide for the perplexed,'' by the 'Ramban'. A nice read for you B T ,until the football starts . He wrote it in the 10th century,there is nothing there about Palestine ,but who knows maybe you find something?? He wrote it for scholars etc ,like you ,but in to-days world there are those who just can not 'beam into', to-days world '