- As 2009 comes to a close and we reflect on all that's
gone down over the past 12 months in the realm of resistance to the onslaught
of Zionist intrusion into the lives of Canadians and people in general
there's a whole lot to be thankful for.
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- Over two years ago, when Harry Abrams and B'nai Brith
Canada laid their sec. 13 "hate crime" complaint against myself
and my website RadicalPress.com, I was virtually standing alone in challenging
their attempt to use this Bolshevik-style piece of "human rights"
legislation to stop Canadians from expressing their views and opinions
on the domestic and foreign policies of the Israeli government.
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- And when I say standing virtually alone, I don't mean
that I was the first person to resist their draconian, totalitarian tactics
of smearing and forcing an individual to appear before quasi-judicial "show
trial" tribunals. There were many courageous Canadians before me who
had the foresight and vision to understand that our only means of defense
was to fight the very legislation that the Zionist Jew lobbyists had embedded
into our judiciary over the past half century.
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- But at the time (2007) the public perception of Israel
as a racist, supremacist and apartheid state was not anywhere near what
it is today as we stand upon the threshold of the second decade of the
21st Century. So much has happened over the past two years that I hesitate
to even begin covering all the issues. Suffice it to say that the exceptionally
cruel and devastating and evil attack upon Gaza during the Christmas season
of 2008/09 was the ice-breaker in terms of sufficiently blowing the minds
of people around the world as to the actual reality of what the Zionist
state of Israel embodies.
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- That one event exposed the black claw of racism and supremacist
ideology that lay hidden behind all the Zionist controlled media's smoke
screen of daily propaganda. It smashed forever what was a false and deceptive
icon: the concept of the state of Israel as a democratic and free nation.
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- Now, as we begin 2010 the tables are quickly turning
on the Big Lie but the Harper government of Canada is not about to give
up its Zionist agenda easily. As Ulli Diemer's article below clearly shows
they are deliberately working on new strategies to maintain control of
our freedom of speech and this is part of the reason for Harper's prorogation
of parliament yesterday. They need the darkness and anonymity of silence
to conspire together for the benefit of the Israeli state and the satanic
ideals embodied in their ideologically false messiah known as political
Zionism.
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- In my own struggles with the Canadian Human Rights Commission
and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and B'nai Brith Canada over the
past two years, I've experienced first hand the level of deception and
the corruption that permeates these government appointed bodies. They will
stop at nothing to fulfill their agenda of censorship and ultimate control
of the Internet because they know, as sure as they know the sun will rise
tomorrow upon a new year, that if they aren't successful in controlling
the Internet and the Media and the Government then all hell will eventually
break loose as more and more inquisitive and concerned individuals become
aware of the true nature of Israel and the true agenda of political Zionism.
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- And this is why Ulli's title, "Tactics of desperation"
is a most fitting one. They are desperate to stop the increased expansion
of information about Israel and Zionism that is exploding on the net and
that is why they are resorting to such desperate moves as contained in
their "hate crimes" legislation which they have been slyly foisting
upon Canada and the USA and the EU nations and Australia and New Zealand,
etc. over the past number of years. Short of shutting down the whole world
wide web (now an impossibility without global repercussions to everyone)
they are frantically searching for some balm to sooth the Achilles Heel
that they can't seem to prevent from exposing their true nature.
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- 2010, I hopefully predict, will continue to see more
and more individuals and groups and organizations rising to their feet
and declaring to the Harper government that their illicit love affair with
Israel and Zionism must come to an abrupt end.
-
- Enough of our young men and women have been sacrificed
upon the blood-spattered Zionist altar of greed and war and lies and deception
in Afghanistan. Enough of our citizens have been spied upon and hunted
down and kidnapped and forced to endure torture and loss of their constitutional
rights and ended up in foreign jails all due to the depraved and pathological
machinations of this cabal of Zionist traitors who have breached the walls
of our federal government and usurped the one power that belongs to all
Canadians and not to the seditious tyrants who now lurk about our hallowed
halls of parliament desperately trying to figure out new ways of forging
more chains for Canada.
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- It's my additional hope that Canada's Jewish community
will rise up further in 2010 and acknowledge the role that they must assume
in bringing to the attention of all Canadians the ever-present threat to
our collective freedom posed by the Harper government and its assorted
band of sycophants. The Jewish community stands to lose the most if they
don't start setting aside their own fears and phobias and start to work
in earnest with the non-Jewish sectors of Canadian society who also are
determined to resist this growing threat to our nation. My own experience
over the past two years in trying to liaise with Jewish orgs on the issue
of Zionism tells me this will be one of the more challenging aspects of
fighting the false accusation of "anti-Semitism."
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- My New Year's Resolution for 2010 will be the same as
it was for 2008 and 2009: to do whatever is in my power to draw attention
to the immediate danger to Canada posed by the Jewish media and lobby groups
here in this country who are behaving in a most seditious manner in their
quest to subvert our Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms and
substitute them for the law of the jungle, i.e. Zionism and Racist Supremacism
and Hatred and War.
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- I also want to take this opportunity to thank those on
my list (and off) who have helped me out financially over the past year.
Without your contributions I would not have survived and been able to keep
my website running and my articles appearing and my legal documents forthcoming.
I owe you a tremendous debt of appreciation and will continue to do all
that I can to fight this national menace. God bless you all!
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- And so, happy New Year and please continue to...
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- Shine your Light for Love, Peace & Justice for All,
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- Arthur Topham
- Publisher/Editor - The Radical Press
- Canada's Radical News Network
- "Digging to the root of the issues since 1998"
- http://www.radicalpress.com
- radical@radicalpress.com
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- http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=1158
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- Tactics Of Desperation - Using False Accusations Of 'Anti-Semitism'
As A Weapon To Silence Criticism Of Israel
- By Ulli Diemer
- 12-29-9
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- Ulli Diemer argues that as world public opinion turns
against Israel, its racist apartheid regime and its occupation, the Zionist
state and its lobbies have turned to attempts to outlaw criticism of Israel
by labeling it as "anti-Semitism" attempts that need to
be exposed and challenged as a serious threat to basic freedoms. "At
the same time as it attempts to crush internal resistance, the Israeli
state, aided by its supporters in the United States and Canada, has launched
extremely aggressive and well-financed propaganda campaigns abroad whose
goal is to counteract the decline in support for Israel.
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- "A telling characteristic of these campaigns is
that they by and large do not focus on attempting to justify Israel's behaviour
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- "Instead, the focus has shifted to attempting to
shut down criticism of Israel by targeting the most outspoken critics with
crude smear tactics and outright censorship."For more than 60 years,
Israel has engaged in an unceasing campaign to dispossess Palestinians
of their land and their rights. Its ability to do this has depended on
three factors in particular:
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- · overwhelming military superiority;
- · keeping public opinion, especially in North
America and Europe, on its side; and
- · making ordinary working-class Israeli Jews
believe that it is in their interest to support Israel's Zionist elite
rather than making common cause with ordinary Palestinians.
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- Israel's military dominance is unchallenged, thanks to
unconditional support and limitless supplies of advanced military technology
and equipment provided by the United States and its allies (including Canada).
However, military dominance has not been able to achieve Israel's ultimate
goal: forcing Palestinians to stop resisting and to acquiesce in their
dispossession and oppression. Israel's relentless onslaught has been met
by equally determined Palestinian resistance which, despite the odds, steadfastly
refuses to accept the injustice of occupation.
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- This Palestinian resistance has called into being an
ever-growing international network of support and solidarity. In dozens
of countries and hundreds of communities around the world, organizations
and movements have emerged to demand that Israel be made to adhere to international
law and to basic principles of justice.
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- Israel and its supporters see these international campaigns
as a huge threat. Israel has escaped the sanctions that have been applied
to other states which commit human rights abuses and violate international
law only because the United States automatically vetoes all attempts to
hold Israel accountable. Israel is also crucially dependent on huge annual
inflows of foreign aid, to the point where it is conceivable that the state
would collapse if the flows of outside cash which prop it up were to be
withdrawn.
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- Anything that undermines public support in the US, Canada
and Europe, therefore, threatens the external backing on which the Israeli
state depends for its very existence. It is true that the governments which
turn a blind eye to Israel's violations of international law mostly ignore
popular opinion in their own countries as well, but this could change if
support for Israel were to become a serious political liability. In this
regard, what is particularly worrisome from Israel's point of view is the
fact that support for Israel among Jews in the United States and Canada,
especially among younger Jews, has declined dramatically. If Jews stop
supporting Israel, then all foreign support is in jeopardy.
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- Threats to Israel's international legitimacy bring with
them an even greater internal danger: the danger that Israeli Jews will
themselves start seeing the Zionist formula in essence, a militarized
apartheid state holding down the Palestinian population by force
as a dead end.
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- If working-class Israeli Jews were to see their interests
as being different from those of the ruling elite if they come round
to the view that their long-term interests will be better served if they
join Palestinians in working for a democratic secular state with equal
rights for Palestinians and Jews Israel's ruling class would find
itself in the same untenable position that the white elite in apartheid
South Africa faced in the early 1990s. Already, Israel's rulers are debating
what to do about the "demographic threat" they are facing: Israeli
Jews are leaving the country in increasing numbers to move to other countries,
while the Palestinian population continues to increase.
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- The Palestinian resistance, and the growing international
support which it has attracted, have had a substantial effect in changing
the way Israel is perceived. Increasingly, international public opinion
is no longer willing to turn a blind eye to ethnic cleansing, house demolitions,
systematic humiliations, imprisonment, torture, and the indiscriminate
killing of civilians, children as well as adults.
-
- Faced with the erosion of its credibility and support,
the Israeli state has lashed out by using ever-increasing repression against
the non-violent Palestinian resistance. One of the centres of this resistance
is the village of Bil'in, which has been fighting the expansion of an illegal
Israeli settlement on its land with weekly non-violent protests for more
than five years now, protests which have turned Bil'in into an international
symbol of non-violent resistance. The Israeli state has been using ever
more extreme tactics of harassment and brutality to attempt to crush the
village and put an end to the protests, which it correctly believes are
causing substantial harm to Israel's international image. Similar tactics
of harassment and imprisonment are being used against other Palestinians
who resist, as well as against Jewish Israelis and international solidarity
activists who support the Palestinian cause.
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- At the same time as it attempts to crush internal resistance,
the Israeli state, aided by its supporters in the United States and Canada,
has launched extremely aggressive and well-financed propaganda campaigns
abroad whose goal is to counteract the decline in support for Israel.
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- A telling characteristic of these campaigns is that they
by and large do not focus on attempting to justify Israel's behaviour.
One has to assume that the architects of the propaganda efforts realize
that it is no longer possible to explain war crimes and human rights abuses
in a way that the international public will accept.
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- Instead, the focus has shifted to attempting to shut
down criticism of Israel by targeting the most outspoken critics with crude
smear tactics and outright censorship.
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- On a growing number of campuses, for example, this has
involved harassment and firing of outspoken professors (e.g. Norman Finkelstein,
Joel Kovel), as well as attempts to ban events such as "Israeli apartheid
week".
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- In Canada, we are now seeing an attempt to silence criticism
of Israel by labelling all such criticism as "anti-Semitism"
and therefore as hate speech. This tactic has a triple purpose: to suppress
public awareness of what Israel is doing; to discredit critics by smearing
them as "anti-Semitic", and to keep Jews onside by frightening
them with the spectre of anti-Semitism.
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- In Canada, the Harper government, fanatically pro-Israel,
is fully involved in this effort. It has cut funding to groups which have
supported Palestinians in their quest for justice, and it has set up a
Parliamentary body charged with coming up with the legal rationale for
making it illegal to criticize Israel.
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- If the Harper government is successful in getting its
way, statements such as the following, all of them expressions of generally
accepted principles of human rights and international law, will henceforth
be classified as anti-Semitic hate speech in Canada:
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- · "A state must be the state of all its
citizens".
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- Saying this will be classified as "anti-Semitic"
because it implies that the Israeli state has a duty to serve and represent
all of its citizens equally, Palestinians as well as Jews.
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- · "Everyone born in a state, and everyone
who has been a permanent resident for a specified and reasonable period
of time, is entitled to citizenship".
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- Saying this will be classified as "anti-Semitic"
because it would mean that Palestinians under the rule of the Israeli state
have the right to be citizens of Israel.
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- · "All citizens of a state must be equal
under the law, equally entitled to the rights, privileges and responsibilities
of citizenship. A state may not favour, or discriminate against, citizens,
on the grounds of religion, ethnicity, or race".
-
- Saying this will be classified as "anti-Semitic"
because it implies that Israel has to dismantle its discriminatory, apartheid-style
system of laws.
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- · "Every state must accept its internationally
recognized borders and must renounce all claims on territory outside of
its borders".
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- Saying this will be classified as "anti-Semitic"
because it would mean that Israel would have to stop seizing land beyond
its borders.
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- · "All states must abide by international
law, including the Geneva conventions, laws against collective punishment,
laws against torture, etc."
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- Saying this will be classified as "anti-Semitic"
because it implies that Israel has to stop engaging in ethnic cleansing,
collective punishment, and other violations of international law.
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- · "Refugees have a right to return to
the lands from which they were expelled by an invading army or occupying
power."
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- Saying this will be classified as "anti-Semitic"
because it means that the Palestinian refugees expelled from their homeland
by Israel must be allowed to exercise their right of return as guaranteed
by international law.
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- · "Sanctions should be applied to those
who violate international law."
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- Saying this will be classified as "anti-Semitic"
because it implies that Israel should face sanctions for engaging in collective
punishment and ethnic cleansing, for practising torture, for committing
war crimes, for defying UN resolutions and World Court rulings, and for
other illegal acts.
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- The attempt to outlaw criticism of Israel by labelling
it as "anti-Semitism" is a serious threat which needs to be exposed
and challenged. At the same time, it should also be recognized as a tactic
of desperation, a tactic that has become necessary because of the ever-growing
opposition to the crimes of the Israeli state.
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- The resort to increasingly blatant open repression is
a symptom of loss of control. In the past such tactics would not have been
necessary because any criticism of Israel was confined to the outer fringes
of public debate. Now it has become mainstream, and those who support an
ethnically defined, apartheid-style Israeli state are feeling increasingly
threatened. Those of us who support a democratic secular state should feel
encouraged, even though the struggle is far from won.
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- Ulli Diemer is a Canadian socialist writer, publisher
and archivist. He is the coordinator of Connexions, an online social justice
library. His Radical Digressions website is at http://www.diemer.ca. A
version of this article was originally published on his website. The version
on this website is published by permission of Ulli Diemer.
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- http://www.uruknet.info?p=61586
- http://www.redress.cc/palestine/udiemer20091230
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