Anglophobia gone mad!!
Stockport council force a couple to remove their expelair because the mozlems next door objected to the smell of frying bacon.
BBC Radio 4 12.30pm today (now).
Message to one diktator re another
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Taqqiya!! BBC calls Mohammed el Baradei a"leading dissident". BBC Radio 4 News Midday.
In the time of communism in Europe, a dissident was an anti-Soviet activist: a pro-democracy campaigner.
Now in this time of "the world turned upside-down", Mohammed el Baradei, former IEAE atomic weapons inspector and turner of a blind eye to Iran's nuclear weapons programme, is teaming up with the Mozlem Brotherhood, to take control of Egypt!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10224274
3 June 2010 "Egypt's biggest opposition group has said it will back the former UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei's political change campaign, reports say."
The "dissident" clearly has the support of Western governments, particularly that of the jihadi in the White House.
They have turned a greater threat to democracy and a greater threat to increased freedom in izlamic countries - into a "dissident", a victim, a member of the oppressed, and therefore deserving of their patronage!
Now in this time of "the world turned upside-down", Mohammed el Baradei, former IEAE atomic weapons inspector and turner of a blind eye to Iran's nuclear weapons programme, is teaming up with the Mozlem Brotherhood, to take control of Egypt!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10224274
3 June 2010 "Egypt's biggest opposition group has said it will back the former UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei's political change campaign, reports say."
The "dissident" clearly has the support of Western governments, particularly that of the jihadi in the White House.
They have turned a greater threat to democracy and a greater threat to increased freedom in izlamic countries - into a "dissident", a victim, a member of the oppressed, and therefore deserving of their patronage!
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Lebanon Occupied by Hizbollah.
If you can't stomach the truth, look away now!
Hizbollah, the colonising arm of the Shia mozlem state of Iran, has completed its occupation of Lebanon
Old school teaching better for retaining knowledge - Telegraph
Repeat after me, copy down 100 times:
I TOLD YOU SO!!
Old school teaching better for retaining knowledge - Telegraph
I TOLD YOU SO!!
Old school teaching better for retaining knowledge - Telegraph
There are no words for this savagery: no animal does this!!
"A 13-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal injuries four days after a family-arranged marriage to a man almost twice her age, a human rights group said.
Ilham Mahdi al Assi died last Friday in a hospital in Yemen's Hajja province, the Shaqaeq Arab Forum for Human Rights said, quoting a medical report."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1264729/Child-bride-13-dies-internal-injuries-days-arranged-marriage-Yemen.html
Alvin Lustig, Modern American Design Pioneer 1915-1955
A hidden gem!! Only 40 years old when he died!
Alvin Lustig, Modern American Design Pioneer 1915-1955
Nasa captures runaway star - Telegraph
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| The blue star near the centre of this image is Zeta Ophiuchi Photo: AP Nasa captures runaway star - Telegraph: "The massive star is racing at 54,000 mph through a cloud of dust and gas. |
It recorded the yellow arc as its powerful stellar winds push the gas and dust out of the way.
Astronomers believe the star, labelled Zeta in the constellation of Ophiuchus the snake charmer, once revolved around another star."
Norway: 13 year old girl raped at knife-point on marriage night!
"Every year you are my beloved," the man wrote his cousin in what police thinks is a wedding album. She was just 13.
Now, four years later, the girl lives in a secret location in Norway. Police fear she might be abducted and killed is anybody in her family gets to her.
Police think that the cousin (24), aunt (47), uncle (51), the girl's mother (39) and her father (40) are responsible for the most serious forced-marriage case in Norway ever - and have charged all five in a trial which begins in Oslo today."
But then Norway is one of the most pro-izlamic and anti-Semitic countries in the EU: why the surprise? the government there even permits mozlem racism against it's own children! On this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE8kmJlJWRs
Islam in Europe: Oslo: Family charged for marrying off 13 year old daughter
Now, four years later, the girl lives in a secret location in Norway. Police fear she might be abducted and killed is anybody in her family gets to her.
Police think that the cousin (24), aunt (47), uncle (51), the girl's mother (39) and her father (40) are responsible for the most serious forced-marriage case in Norway ever - and have charged all five in a trial which begins in Oslo today."
But then Norway is one of the most pro-izlamic and anti-Semitic countries in the EU: why the surprise? the government there even permits mozlem racism against it's own children! On this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE8kmJlJWRs
Islam in Europe: Oslo: Family charged for marrying off 13 year old daughter
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Vatican Bank Chief Economist under investigation for Money Laundering.
"Within the Vatican is the only branch of the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), otherwise known as the Vatican bank. Its ATM uses Latin.
Only Vatican employees and religious institutions are allowed to open accounts in the bank — which you’d think would make it the most moral bank in the world.
So why is its chief, economist Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, under investigation for money laundering?"
Is it something to do with his middle name, GOTTI??
In Hebrew "alah" means curse: Zechariah warns of an alah(curse)spreading over the Earth.
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| Miniature of Mohammed re-dedicating the Black Stone at the Kaaba. From Jami Al-Tawarikh ("The Universal History" written by Rashid Al-Din), a manuscript in the Library of the University of Edinburgh; illustrated in Tabriz, Persia, c. 1315. |
Jimmy Brady at Atlas Shrugs:
"Thousands of years before Mohammad, Islam was warned about in the Torah - in Hebrew, "alah" means "curse". Zechariah warns of an alah(curse)spreading over the Earth. Also the Christian Bible warns of an Antichrist cult whose characteristics are: disregard for womens rights, believing it serves "god"when it kills innocents, worships a "god"of war, beheads non-adherents, bows to an object(a fallen star - meteorite),persecutes Jews, blasphemes the True God....AND all the nations that it will reside in are NAMED in Ezekiel 28-32!
It is time for Jews and Christians to realise we both worship the same God AND He gave us the information we need in His Word. The generation that saw God's people return to THEIR land will see the Messiah.1948+70=2018....2018-7=2011.There will be seven years of tribulations before the return of Messiah."
The warning was also given by the prophet Zoroaster, 500BC, who named evil as "the Lie". Lying is a core precept of izlam: taqqiya and kitman in Arabic.
Nigeria: Muslims kill 6 in machete attacks on Christian villages; the Associated Press tells us "6 dead in religion-torn central Nigerian region" - Jihad Watch
Nigeria: Muslims kill 6 in machete attacks on Christian villages; the Associated Press tells us "6 dead in religion-torn central Nigerian region" - Jihad Watch: "JOS, Nigeria -- Authorities say machete-wielding attackers have killed six people in two attacks on Christian villages in central Nigeria.
The attacks occurred Sunday night south of Jos with attackers armed with machetes and firearms targeting two Christian villages.
Violence between Christians and Muslims has claimed more than 500 lives over the last year in Jos and surrounding areas.
Officials say the raid was in retaliation for a New Year's Eve attack on a van full of Muslims returning from a wedding that left at least eight people dead."
The attacks occurred Sunday night south of Jos with attackers armed with machetes and firearms targeting two Christian villages.
Violence between Christians and Muslims has claimed more than 500 lives over the last year in Jos and surrounding areas.
Officials say the raid was in retaliation for a New Year's Eve attack on a van full of Muslims returning from a wedding that left at least eight people dead."
Rest in Peace, Brave Green Leaders!
We who watched the Green Wave uprising will NEVER forget you! MARG BAR DIKTATOR!! AZADI IRAN!!
Gates of Vienna: Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/24/2011:
The authorities confirmed that this morning two political activists, Jafar Kazemi and Mohammad Ali Hajaghaei, were hanged, the Tehran prosecutor’s office announced. They had been arrested during the demonstrations against President Ahmadinejad’s re-election. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had urged Iranian authorities to show clemency but to no avail.
And so the crackdown against demonstrators continues. Ayatollah Vaez Tabasi, the custodian of Imam Reza shrine, renewed his attacks green wave leaders, calling them “seditious leaders who fight against Islam to promote ignorance and oppose Iran’s supreme leader”.
Monday, 24 January 2011
The Liar and anti-Semite Lowkey gets a new Stage!
According to the PCS website for spreading blood-libels and lies against Jews and Israel, "The musician and poet, Lowkey, a PSC patron, said people must never be made to feel ashamed for opposing Zionism, adding: ‘Zionism isn't about self-determination. Zionism is about colonialism, imperialism and ethnic cleansing.'
Lowkey is half Iraqi , and considers himself an expert on things "Zionist" I do not think he even knows what the word means: he just heard it one day and copied it, like all infantile and retarded vicious fascists!
He is a "poet" in the same way Benjamin Zephaniah is a "poet": a politically correct (and insulting to real ones!) tokenist construct. He is a musician in that he cannot sing or make music, but he can chant over an electronic back-beat.
"South Africans didn't oppose Apartheid because they hated white Europeans, - how does he know? And the French Resistance didn't resist because they hated Germans, he pointed out." How does he know that?
"People opposed imperialism because they refused to live in humiliation and they wanted to live with dignity. How much longer do we really expect the Palestinian people to daily live with humiliation? How much longer do we expect them to live in degradation and subjugation?'"
Let us look at "colonialism" first:
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| The mozlem East in the first half of the 13th century. |
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| The start of izlam,in the 6th century in a small part of what is now Arabia. |
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| This is the mozlem empire in the 9th century, showing the countries they have colonised. |
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| This is a map made in 1919, for T E Lawrence's The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. In the map made in 1919, the tribe of the Sauds, the Wahabis, can be seen taking up a smallish section of the whole Arabian peninsula. Whereas, in the next map, showing the creep of izlamic colonisation in the Middle East. This continues into Egypt, Syria, Turkey which were Christian countries before mozlems colonized them, and Afghanistan, which was Buddhist before mozlems colonised it, and Iran, which was Zoroastrian Persia before it was colonised by mozlems and India, which was Hindu before mozlems invaded it. And actually, Jews and Christians and Zoroastrians and animists lived peacefully in what is now Saudi Arabia, before Mohammed declared war on the Jews and Christians. He declared war because the Jews refused to adopt his psychotic perverted version of the Torah. So he started by murdereing the Jewish tribe of the Bani Kurayza who lived near Medina. Which was a Jewish city. Now let us talk of those who live in degradation and subjugation: mozlems and Christians who live in mozlem-colonized countries:   More can be seen here: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ Here is some references to the truth about mozlem aggression! http://juniperinthedesert.blogspot.com/2011/01/point-of-no-return-massacres-of-jews-by.html Lowkey's song for the philistines! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hai7q2L6fMc (The rabbis he is referring to are Naturei Karta.) |
Muslims sue Delaware school in USA for endorsing Christianity!!
The mozlems, who numbered only one in the class, were allowed to proceed with the lawsuit under English assumed names!
"The lawsuit was filed by “Jane Doe” in June 2005 on behalf of her daughter, “Nancy,” charging the district and fourth-grade teacher Cindy Cunningham at Shields Elementary School were explicitly endorsing Christianity and were creating an atmosphere hostile to Muslims in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection clause.!
WHERE IS ALL THE BULLSHIT ABOUT HOW JESUS IS A MOZLEM PROPHET? THAT IZLAM TOLERATES OTHER FAITHS? LIES LIES LIES!!
Muslims sue Delaware school district « Creeping Sharia
"Jesus turned and said: "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men." Matthew 16:23
Palestinians, KKK, Lauren Booth and George Galloway.
An ingathering of the Nazi/mozlem sewage brotherhood, all lovey-dovey with Gazan hate-publisher, Sameh Habeeb!
Poor Pastor Terry Jones is a SAINT compared to this pile of faeces!!
This is a quote from Habeeb's Philistine Telegraph:
"Egypt is another place where the people have been struggling for a long time for their basic human rights. In a rare interview, Dr. Ashraf Abdelghaffar, Secretary General Vice of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate and a Muslim Brotherhood leader, speaks out from Turkey on the reality of the so-called “International Muslim Brotherhood Networking Case” and the High State Security Court’s decision against him and others."http://www.paltelegraph.com/opinions/editorials/8264-speaking-out-for-justice-and-human-rights-exclusive-interview-by-dr-ashraf-abdelghaffer.html
What does a Muslim Brotherhood member know about human rights?
Only in the UK is this poison welcomed by our "government of the consensus"!!
Poor Pastor Terry Jones is a SAINT compared to this pile of faeces!!
This is a quote from Habeeb's Philistine Telegraph:
"Egypt is another place where the people have been struggling for a long time for their basic human rights. In a rare interview, Dr. Ashraf Abdelghaffar, Secretary General Vice of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate and a Muslim Brotherhood leader, speaks out from Turkey on the reality of the so-called “International Muslim Brotherhood Networking Case” and the High State Security Court’s decision against him and others."http://www.paltelegraph.com/opinions/editorials/8264-speaking-out-for-justice-and-human-rights-exclusive-interview-by-dr-ashraf-abdelghaffer.html
What does a Muslim Brotherhood member know about human rights?
Only in the UK is this poison welcomed by our "government of the consensus"!!
Lies and propaganda from the leftist Manchester Evening News!
More lies, fabrications and propaganda!
"Muslims voice their solidarity with Jews today launching Missing Pages, a campaign highlighting forgotten stories from the Holocaust." "
"Also speaking will be celebrated Jewish American photographer, Norman Gershman, who will be talking about his project - Besa – Muslims who saved Jews in World War II.
Like in other European countries during World War 2, there were the odd Catholic or member of the Nazi party who helped hide Jews. But these are EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE.
"Mordechai Paladiel from Yad Vashem's Righteous Department surprised me with a suggestion to feature the untold story of a small group of Albanian Muslims who with their families and sometimes their entire villages saved all of the Jews within their borders and an additional two thousand Jews who sought refuge in Albania during the Nazi occupation."
He found one family who saved the children of a Jewish family , which is great. The rest is not proven
Besides, where has the Exploring Islam Foundation been when there have been mozlem attacks on Jews,( and Christians) in various European countries, including the UK? I have NEVER heard mention of them!
Gershman’s photographs are currently touring the UK in an exhibition which has been jointly sponsored by the Exploring Islam Foundation and Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Memorial in Israel).
EIF Campaigns director, Remona Aly said: "We are launching this campaign today because we want to show how Islam promotes diversity and co-existence and has no tolerance of anti-Semitism."
But the focus of EIF is this:
Our Work
At EIF, we want to dispel the common stereotypes and myths about Islam and Muslims by using strategic media campaigns. We understand the immense value of tailoring the style of communication to suit and address the information needs of distinct user groups.
Remona also refers to "Peter Sanders", who is a mozlem convert and a practiser of taqqiya, izlamic lying in order to promote izlam. He made this video about "integration". Basically, he TWISTS the true meaning of the word "integration", and implies that it means integrating Westerners into izlam, not mozlems into Western culture!
Remona Aly is a liar and practiser of taqqiya. Here is the koran on Jews:
The Ayatollah Khomeini, who dedicated his entire life to studying Islam, said that non-Muslims rank somewhere between "feces" and the "sweat of a camel that has consumed impure food." Small wonder. The Quran dehumanizes non-Muslims, describing them as “animals” and beasts:
Those who reject (Truth), among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists, will be in Hell-Fire, to dwell therein (for aye). They are the worst of creatures. (98:6)
Surely the vilest of animals in Allah's sight are those who disbelieve, then they would not believe. (8:55)Verse 7:176 compares unbelievers to "panting dogs" with regard to their idiocy and worthlessness. Verse 7:179 says they are like "cattle" only worse.
Verse 5:60 even says that Allah transformed Jews of the past into apes and pigs. This is echoed by verses 7:166 and 2:65.
A hadith says that Muhammad believed rats to be "mutated Jews" (Bukhari 54:524, also confirmed by Sahih Muslim 7135 and 7136).
Verses 46:29-35 even say that unbelieving men are worse than demons who believe in Muhammad.
According to Islamic law, non-Muslims may be owned as property by Muslims, but - in keeping with Islam's supremacist message - a fellow Muslim should never be (unless they convert to Islam after enslavement). Even Christians and Jews are not considered fully human in that the penalty for killing one of them is limited to one-third of the compensation due for unintentionally killing a Muslim.
The campaign has also attracted support from other leading organisations and figures including Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband, TV presenter Kristiane Backer and the Holocaust Educational Trust. For more information visit www.missingpages.co.uk.
Kristiane Backer is a mozlem convert who used to present MTV.
Ed Miliband is a Marxist and not a Jew in any meaningful sense. He may as well be a dalek.
"The campaign has also been backed by Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI). Its founder, Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, said "I, along with members of Minhaj-ul-Quran International worldwide, wholeheartedly endorse this valuable initiative on the part of Exploring Islam Foundation to rediscover the close links between these two communities"...He added: "Jews and Muslims share a common heritage as Abrahamic religions, and history bears witness to the long record of peaceful co-existence and cooperation between adherents of these two religions, which at certain times, such as in medieval Spain, made a positive and lasting impact on the world."This is the condition of the Jews under mozlem rule: Is this what Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri thinks suitable for Jews? Is this what Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is offering the Jews:
"Their status was that of Dhimmis, non-Muslims living in a land governed by Muslims. The Jews had limited autonomy, but full rights to practice their religion, as well as full protection by their Muslim rulers; but this did not occur for free. There was a specific tax called the jizya that Dhimmis had to pay to receive these benefits. Having its origin in the Qur'an, it states Dhimmis who did not pay this tax, should either convert to Islam, or face the death penalty (Qur'an 9, 29). This tax, higher than the tax Muslims had to pay, was in several occasions one of the most important sources of income for the kingdom. The jizya was not only a tax, but also a symbolic expression of subordination" ( http://www.sephardicstudies.org/islam.html ).
This is what Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has to say about Israel, with absolutely no concern or consideration for Jews in their own country. He just spouts the usual mozlem delegitimising rant, implying that Jews and Israelis are not allowed to protect themselves and their land from the colonising, rampaging mozlem savages of Hamas and Fatah!
"The joint session of Federal Council of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and Majlis-e-Shura of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, which continued for two consecutive days, concluded on January 18, 2009. Addressing the joint session telephonically from Canada, Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said that the Muslim Umma was confronted with most difficult, perilous and trying times.
The efforts needed to be geared for unity within the Umma at the international level and education should be declared as the topmost priority in the entire Muslim world. He said that there was acute need of diverting maximum resources for the spread of science and technology.
Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri condemned the Israeli aggression in the strongest terms, regretting that 50 plus Muslim countries, OIC and the Arab League could not play any role in containing Israel from carrying on with its massacre of the innocent Muslims including children and women. He urged the international community to prosecute Israel in the International Court of Justice for its war crimes in Ghaza and pressurise the Jewish state to withdraw its forces from the Palestinian city.
The joint session condemned Israeli barbarism in Palestine and adopted a number of resolutions with consensus. The first resolution related to condemnation of the passivity and inaction of OIC and the Arab League and the double standards displayed by the world powers and the United Nations. The joint session also decided to further accelerate the fund raising campaign for the rehabilitation of the affected Palestinian Muslims under the banner of Minhaj Welfare Foundation after the ceasefire takes effect in Ghaza. Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri had already established a relief and rehabilitation fund with Rs. 10 million in this regard. The rich and affluent people were urged to donate generously for the cause of rehabilitation of the Palestinians." http://www.minhaj.org
Well, well! Here we get to the poisonous heart of the matter: the lies about Jewish/mozlem shared heritage - Mohammed stole parts of the Torah and perverted them to suit himself, co-existence as in slavery, dhimmitude and taxation of Jews under mozlem rule in Abbasid Spain! In fact, all over the mozlem colonised world, where previously, Jews had lived in peace with Christians, animists, Zoroastrians, Buddhists and Hindus!
"Long record of peaceful co-existence"?? In 1941, before the State of Israel even existed, so no blame can be laid THERE, the mozlems committed the "Farhud" in Iraq:
Farhud refers to the pogrom or "violent dispossession" carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on June 1-2, 1941 during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. The riots occurred in a power vacuum following the collapse of the pro-Nazi government of Rashid Ali while the city was in a state of instability. Before British and Transjordanian forces arrived, around 175 Jews had been killed and 1,000 injured. Looting of Jewish property took place and 900 Jewish homes were destroyed.[1] By 1951, 110,000 Jews - 80% of Iraqi Jewry - had emigrated from the country, most to Israel.[2] The Farhud has been called the "forgotten pogrom of the Holocaust" and "the beginning of the end of the Jewish community of Iraq", a community that had existed for 2,600 years.[3]
So to Jewish World War II survivor Dr Scarlett Epstein OBE and Jewish American photographer, Norman Gershman, Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks and Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband:
Are you going to sanction this propagation of lies about Jews and their history, and sit down with the mozlems who only seek to be "inspired by Muhammad"?
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1406102_new_campaign_shows_muslim_solidarity_with_holocaust_memorial_day
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Gates of Vienna: “I Don’t Care About the Law”
"This is my land...I don't care about the law...I am going to kill you!"
Mozlem scum in Leicestershire.
Gates of Vienna: “I Don’t Care About the Law”
Point of no return: Massacres of Jews by Muslims before 1948
Let' s get the facts straight, Peter Kosinsky, liar by omission and "elision"!!
"We are indebted to Torbjorn Karfunkel, who has blown the myth of peaceful coexistence sky-high with his pre-1948 'massacre map' of Jews by Muslims (click on the map to enlarge). The map is not exhaustive, but goes back to the 7th century, when Mohammed's followers massacred Jewish tribes in Arabia. It reminds us that Jews were murdered in Spain in 1066, in spite of the 'Andalusian Golden Age'. The cluster of explosive dots over Morocco recalls that relationships between Jews and Muslims during the 19th century were not always plain sailing." Read the rest here: Point of no return: Massacres of Jews by Muslims before 1948
"We are indebted to Torbjorn Karfunkel, who has blown the myth of peaceful coexistence sky-high with his pre-1948 'massacre map' of Jews by Muslims (click on the map to enlarge). The map is not exhaustive, but goes back to the 7th century, when Mohammed's followers massacred Jewish tribes in Arabia. It reminds us that Jews were murdered in Spain in 1066, in spite of the 'Andalusian Golden Age'. The cluster of explosive dots over Morocco recalls that relationships between Jews and Muslims during the 19th century were not always plain sailing." Read the rest here: Point of no return: Massacres of Jews by Muslims before 1948
Kapo Peter Kosminsky Delegetimises Israel with Biased Film.
Peter Kosminsky, right, in Israel to make his propaganda.
No mention of the Arab mozlems led by Hitler's ally, Haj Amin al Husseini!
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| Haj Amin and Hitler, 1941 |
Full article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/jan/23/peter-kosminsky-palestine-mandate-drama
Peter Kosminsky:
I myself am a second-generation Briton, at least on my mother’s side. She was what would now be called an asylum-seeker, fleeing certain death in Vienna, arriving alone at Victoria station with a label tied around her neck. I only exist because Britain gave her sanctuary. All my life I’ve felt the consequential battle within me. On the one hand, the desire to be accepted – to obscure (if I’m honest, to conceal) my foreignness and out-British the Brits. To dress like them, act like them, react like them, to dig into their society and succeed according to their rules. On the other hand, the competing desire to be true to who I really am, to deny Britishness, on occasion to pour scorn on its arrogance and small-mindedness and, to be faithful, culturally and intellectually, to my immigrant forebears, who, when you get right down to it, weren’t very British at all.
Others might say it’s really not my problem. I didn’t pass these new repressive laws; I don’t support the foreign policy of the British Government. I’m innocent. Are we? Are we innocent? I know the impact the anti-terror laws are having on British Muslims, even if I choose to look away. I know how the attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan and how uncritical support for Israel are seen by Muslims here and overseas but, like so many others, I do nothing; I look away. Can I, under these circumstances, claim to be truly innocent? Can you? Can we really, with honour, complain if we get caught up in the inevitable backlash – here on the streets of our green and sometimes pleasant land?‘Britz’ is on Channel 4 on October 31 and November 1 2009
Between 1945 and 1948, some 100,000 soldiers served in the British-controlled Mandate of Palestine. Kosminsky's team spoke to around 80; he found the men's stories to be both gripping and moving, so he carried on, wading next through letters, diaries, memoirs and history books. Slowly, a theme began to emerge. "The thing that came out most strongly," he says, "was that the men all arrived in Palestine feeling incredibly pro-Jewish. A few of them had helped to liberate the [concentration] camps, so they had seen what had happened [to the Jews] with their own eyes. And everyone had heard the stories and seen the newsreels.
"When Jewish refugees arrived in Palestine off the boats, and were caged and beaten by British forces [the British placed strict limitations on Jewish immigration to Palestine], many soldiers didn't like it all. They knew what these people had been through. Over time, though, the soldiers' attitudes changed. Some of this was just the usual British support for the underdog; there's no question that by 1948 [when Israeldeclared itself an independent state] the Arabs were perceived as that. But also, if you're being attacked on a daily basis [by the Jewish resistance]{1}, if you're under constant threat of kidnap, if you're confined to barracks behind a lot of razor wire, your feelings are bound to change."
Kosminsky's first idea was to make a drama about a British soldier who would exemplify this shift. "I suppose it started out as standard Kosminsky fare, which was pointing the finger at Britain. First of all, these men don't have a memorial; they're forgotten. It's only recently that they were allowed to march to the Cenotaph. When they came back to Britain, no one wanted to know; pulling out of Palestine was a terrible humiliation, a total defeat. Second, we were the colonial power in Palestine and, as in so many other examples of our retreat from Empire, we left it totally fucked up. Chaos. We washed our hands of it. I wanted to say: if you think the Israeli-Palestinian situation is not our problem, think again. We were there, we left, and 60 years later, it is still a problem."
By Jeffrey Herf, Published in The Chronicle of Higher Education; November 22, 2009)
"Between 1939 and 1945, shortwave radio transmitters near Berlin broadcast Nazi propaganda in many languages around the world, including Arabic throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and Persian programs in Iran. English-language transcripts of the Arabic broadcasts shed light on a particularly dark chapter in the globalization of pernicious ideas. The transcripts’ significance, however, is not purely historical. Since September 11, 2001, scholars have debated the lineages, similarities, and differences between Nazi anti-Semitism and the anti-Semitism of Islamic extremists. These radio broadcasts suggest that Nazi Arabic-language propaganda helped introduce radical anti-Semitism into the Middle East, where it found common ground with anti-Jewish currents in Islam.
In a 2007 book, Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 (Telos Press), the German political scientist Matthias Kuentzel details how Nazi ideology influenced Islamist ideologues like Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, as well as the Palestinian leader Haj Amin al-Husseini. More recent examples abound. The founding charter of Hamas, the militant Palestinian group, recapitulates conspiracy theories about Jews that were popular in Europe in the 20th century. Al Qaeda’s war against “the Zionist-Crusader Alliance” and the anti-Zionist rants of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran also display a blend of anti-Semitic themes rooted in Nazi and fascist, as well as Islamist, traditions. To be sure, each of these movements and ideologies have non-European, local, and regional causes and inspirations. But the formulation of Nazi propaganda during World War II and its dissemination stand as a decisive episode in the development of radical Islamism."
On the other side stood the Irgun, as ruthless as any 21st-century terrorist organisation.{2} When the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which served as the British Mandatory authorities' headquarters, was bombed in July 1946, 91 people died, many of them civilians. "They were extremely effective. You only have to compare the attack on the King David to something like the Brighton Bomb [in which the IRA killed five people] to see that. There's a moving memoir by the colonial secretary, who survived. He spent a week attending the funerals of his friends, became unhinged and had to be invalided out. He lost his reason."
Somewhere along the line, Kosminsky decided that his film would need to tell two stories: one set in the Mandate of Palestine, the other in Israel, 2011.
{2} They were fighting for survival! What about the muzscum and their murderous terror tactics? Were the Jews supposed to lie down and let themselves be killed, as all Nazis wanted?
Thereafter, Kosminsky tells us two stories: there is Len (Christian Cooke), Erin's grandfather, who will find himself and his men constantly under attack by the Irgun, but who will also have life-changing relationships with both a young Jewish woman, Clara, and a Palestinian man, Hassan, who works as a tea-wallah in his barracks; and there is Erin, whose stay in Israel turns into something rather more than a gap-year adventure, thanks to Paul, Eliza's peace activist brother, {3}and to the diary, whose central secret will lead her to embark on an extraordinary quest. It is Erin who will honour, on behalf of her dying grandfather, the promise of the series' title.
Irgun (Hebrew: ארגון; shorthand for Ha'Irgun HaTzva'i HaLe'umi BeEretz Yisra'el, הארגון הצבאי הלאומי בארץ ישראל, "National Military Organization in the Land of Israel") was a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in the British mandate of Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah (Hebrew: "The Defense", ההגנה). Since the group originally broke from the Haganah it became known as the Haganah Bet (Hebrew: literally "Defense 'B' " or "Second Defense", הגנה ב), or alternatively as Haganah Ha'leumit (ההגנה הלאומית) or Ha'ma'amad (המעמד).[1] Irgun members were absorbed into the Israel Defence Forces at the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In present-day Israel, the Irgun is commonly referred to as Etzel (אצ"ל), an acronym of the Hebrew initials.
“ For the sake of drama, there are elisions. But critics will struggle if they accuse Kosminsky of exaggeration.” In other words, LIES!! “Elision = omission of sound or syllable.
"In 1929, when Jews sat down while they prayed at the Western Wall, violating Islamic prohibitions against Jews sitting there - a mob of Arabs swarmed over Hebron sadistically killing dozens. The Jewish baker was baked in his own oven. A Jewish scholar's brain was extricated and used as a ball." Personal memory of survivor.
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