Calling
a spade a spade – a massacre a massacre
This
is the BBC. There were “clashes” and large numbers just
“happened” to die.
When
Is a Massacre Not a Massacre?
14
May, 2018
On
the day the Israeli Defence Force massacred dozens of unarmed
Palestinians in Gaza and maimed over 400 more, our media has
carefully avoided the use of the word massacre. Here is a Google
search of News I did five minutes ago on the word “massacre”.
A
massacre occurred today in which more people were killed than at
Glencoe. All of them were unarmed and the majority were well over a
hundred yards from the border fence. It says everything about the
kind of nightmare fascist state Israel now is, that if you look
through those news results for “massacre”, the only mention you
get of Palestinians is a claim by the Israeli Defence Force that the
Palestinian Defence Forces were planning a massacre of Israelis.
The
Turkish government have now come out with a statement condemning the
massacre, and in the UK the Daily Express and the Daily Star have
both reported that; but both have chosen to put the word “massacre”
in the Turkish statement into inverted commas, as though it were not
true.
The
Western media far prefers the word “clashes” to “massacre”.
Because those terrible Palestinians insist upon demonstrating against
the continuing theft of all their land and resources, and keep
attacking innocent Israeli bullets with their heads and bodies. If
you look through the Google search of News this time for “clashes”,
you discover that the western and Israeli media peculiarly have
precisely the same preference for this entirely inappropriate word.
That, again, is fascinating.
The
gross injustice of the apartheid state of Israel appears immutable.
The overwhelming force of the political and financial Establishment
is behind Israel in the West, in the Russian oligarchy and even in
most of the horribly corrupt leadership of Arab states. But the
situation is not as dire as it seems, because the hold of those
Establishment elites on the people they exploit has never been more
shaky. Israel remains a touchstone issue. In order to help redress
the terrible agony of the Palestinians, we must first effect a change
in our own system of elite exploitation of the people at home. That
change is coming.
The Stomach-Churning Victim Blaming by “Labour Friends of Israel”
14
May, 2018
The
true face of the organisation calling itself “Labour Friends of
Israel” has been revealed today, in truly disgusting victim-blaming
tweets reacting to the massacre of over fifty Palestinians –
including yet more children – by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza.
No
Israelis were injured and no “border communities” attacked. This
amplification of the worst extreme right wing zionist propaganda by
the Likud government shows beyond doubt that “Labour Friends of
Israel” is nothing whatsoever to do with the professed values of
the Labour Party, but rather a well-funded entryist front solely
intended to promote the interests of a violent, expansionist and
aggressive foreign state.
I
am not a Labour Party member and I do not know what institutional
ties the “Labour Friends of Israel” has to the Labour Party, but
whatever they are they should be cut off immediately.
The
“Labour Friends of Israel” featured very prominently on our TV
screens after the recent English local elections, beating the drum
for their widespread accusations of anti-semitism within the Labour
Party. They have been driving that agenda for many months. One would
like to think that the mainstream media would, after today, cease to
accept them as a genuine and well-motivated group and understand them
for the hate-filled fanatics they truly are. Of course that will not
happen, and they will be back on television shortly accusing yet more
lifelong anti-racism campaigners who have the temerity to criticise
Israel.
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