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Tony Greenstein on Zionist Anti-Semitism
Last Wednesday Tony Greenstein, a veteran Jewish opponent of racism, Fascism and Zionism, put up on his blog a piece about how Zionists resort to anti-Semitic rhetoric when attacking their Jewish opponents. He made it very clear that this was because, in his view, anti-Semitism was at the very heart of Zionism.
The Hate Mail Directed at Jenny Manson, Jackie Walker and Tony Greenstein
Greenstein began his piece with some very nasty examples of Zionist anti-Semitic hate messages sent to himself, Jenny Manson, the chair of Jewish Voice for Labour and Jackie Walker. Manson was left a vile message on her voice mail calling her a 'f***ing Nazi bitch', 'Nazi cow' and ranting that she should be burned in a gas oven, and should burn in hell, in acid. He points out that this disgusting rant mixed the Zionist accusation that non-Zionists are Nazis, with the real Nazi abuse that a Jewish person should be gassed like the innocent millions in the Holocaust. He compares this with another unpleasant message sent to Jackie Walker, which questioned whether she was really Jewish and that she should be put into a burning bin. He also put up the full text of a hate message he received, which called him a 'traitorous b***ard', 'a left-liberal Jew', 'a cowardly traitor', who should go back to the shtetls and ghettos under non-Jewish domination, and said that it was a pity that Hitler or the Angel of Death missed his house, that of his family, and Naturei Karta's, the Jewish anti-Zionist organisation. Greenstein compared this with another message he'd received which denied the existence of the Holocaust. Greenstein states he passed on both of these messages to the Community Security Trust, which compiles lists of anti-Semitic incidents. They duly logged the second message, but refused to list the first, as they don't include anti-Semitic incidents perpetrated by Jews. Discussing the reason for this omission, he quotes the Jewish American anti-Zionist, Aurora Levins Morales, who states in her book, On Anti-Semitism, that she gets anti-Semitic abuse from Zionists, because they really believe that the only way Jews can be safe is to have their own homeland where only they are the privileged people.
The Nazi Nicknames Adopted by Israeli Soldiers
Greenstein goes on to make the point that under the right circumstances, every people can become racists. It was, he states, inevitable that Jewish Israelis should develop the same mindset and attitudes as their Nazi oppressors. He cites articles in Haaretz and al Hamishmar from 1989 about Israeli army units that called themselves after Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor, who experimented on Jews and other human victims in the concentration camps; 'Our Nazis', for those squaddies in the IDF who liked to beat Arabs, and 'the Auschwitz 10' and 'Demjanjuks', after a sadistic concentration camp guard, who was just being tried. He also quoted a supporter of Lehava, the Israeli group that campaigns against racial mixing, who said that it was 'unfortunate' that Hitler attacked the wrong nation, as Jews were the chosen race. He also describes an incident from 2012 involving Israeli schoolchildren, who had been taken to see the play Ghetto, about Jewish life in Vilna during the Nazi occupation. Instead of sympathising with the suffering of their parents' and grandparents', the kids instead applauded the Nazis, even cheering on a scene in which a kapo struck a Jew.
Herzl and Anti-Semitism
Greenstein then goes on to show how there always was a confluence of interests between Zionism and anti-Semitism. He quotes Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, who believed that gentile anti-Semitism contained the Divine will to good by forcing Jews to close ranks. He also quotes a piece from the Jewish paper, Davar, from the 1950s in which the writer stated he would like to select a group of 'efficient young men' who would be sent to countries in which the Jewish population are engaged in 'sinful self-satisfaction'. These men would then paint anti-Semitic hate messages on walls disguised as non-Jews and demanding that they go to Palestine. He states that Zionism was never really concerned with fighting anti-Semitism. It was concerned with gathering the Jewish people together to establish a Jewish state. And so Zionists came to see their real enemies as the Jewish opponents of Zionism, who should themselves be the victims of anti-Semitism.
He states that, contra France's President Macron, who declared that anti-Zionism was a new version of anti-Semitism, Jewish history shows that it is Zionism that actually has the closest similarity to gentile anti-Semitism. He illustrates this with a passage from Herzl's The Jewish State, which lays the blame for anti-Semitism on the Jews themselves. For Herzl, Jews, who married gentiles were lost to the 'Jewish tribe' and he declared he had no quarrel with the 'honest anti-Semites' who would spur on Jewish emigration. He also recognised that people would accuse him of 'giving a handle to anti-Semitism' when he said that the Jews were one people. One of the very many Jews, who did consider Zionism anti-Semitic was Lucien Wolf, the head of Britain's Conjoint Committee and British Jewry's 'unofficial foreign minister', who is quoted as saying
'I have spent most of my life in combating these very doctrines, when presented to me in the form of anti-Semitism, and I can only regard them as the more dangerous when they come to me in the guise of Zionism. They constitute a capitulation to our enemies.'
Herzl also admired Edouard Droumont, a notorious anti-Semite and anti-Dreyfusard, who Herzl declared was 'an artist' and was delighted when Droumont gave The Jewish State a glowing review.
The Zionists also agreed with the anti-Semites that the Jews were an 'asocial' body that did not belong among gentiles. The Marxist Zionist left, which followed the doctrines of Ber Borochov, Hashomer Hatzair and later Mapam, believed that there were too many rich Jews at the top of diaspora Jewish society and not enough workers. The reality, however, was that the vast majority of Jews in the Russian Empire lived in grinding poverty. The Zionists also agreed with the anti-Semites that Jews were either rootless cosmopolitans behind Communist agitation or the excesses of capitalism. He once again quotes Herzl, who wrote
When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; and at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.
This is exactly the sentiments of that terrible Tsarist anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which has inspired so much Nazism, Fascism and real Jew-hatred in the 20th century.
Other Zionist Anti-Semitism
Greenstein goes on to quote the Israeli novelist, A.B. Yehoshua, who said that Jews treated other people's countries as hotels. And when Zionists described diaspora Jews, they sounded exactly like gentile anti-Semites. The first Israeli Minister of Justice, Pinhas Rosenbluth, described Palestine as an 'institute for the fumigation of Jewish vermin'. Jacob Klatzkin, the co-editor of the Jewish newspaper, Die Welt, and co-founder of the Encylopaedia Judaica, wrote that Jews were
'a people disfigured in both body and soul – in a word, of a horror… some sort of outlandish creature… in any case, not a pure national type… some sort of oddity among the peoples going by the name of Jew.'
Hashomer Hatzair's Weltanschauung, first published in 1917, and then republished in 1936, also described Jews in hostile terms:
"a caricature of a normal, natural human being, both physically and spiritually. As an individual in society he revolts and throws off the harness of social obligations, knows no order nor discipline."
Greenstein concludes
Why is this relevant? Because even today Zionism considers the Jewish diaspora as essentially worthless. Whenever a choice has to be made between the Jews and the Jewish state then the interests of the latter always take priority.
http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2019/04/why-when-zionists-abuse-their-jewish.html
The Identification of the Oppressed with their Oppressors
This is deeply shocking stuff, and it shows that Zionists have absolutely no business whatsoever accusing decent people, particularly self-respecting Torah-observant and secular Jews, of anti-Semitism. Greenstein has elsewhere argued that Zionism is a capitulation to anti-Semitism. It also reminds me of a comment the great journalist of the gogglebox, Clive James wrote way back in the 1970s. He observed in a piece about Roman Catholic children identifying with the British army in Northern Ireland, that oppressed peoples often supported and took on the views of their oppressors. I think James may have been wrong in the case of Ulster Catholics, as many of them initially supported the deployment of British troops, because they expected them to be far more impartial than the police. But it does seem to apply to many Zionists' view of the degraded nature of diaspora Jewry following Herzl.
Israel's Abandonment of Diaspora Jewry for Its Own Interests
And Zionists have shown themselves to be perfectly willing to sacrifice diaspora Jews to real anti-Semitism if it will benefit Israel. Greenstein has blogged about how one of the Zionist pioneers – I have a feeling it may have been David Ben Gurion – said that he would rather half of Europe's Jews were wiped out by the Nazis, if half of them went to Israel, than all of them being saved by going to Britain. George Soros, the billionaire financier, who is cordially hated by Zionists and gentile anti-Semites, despises Zionism because of the deal Kasztner, the leader of Hungarian Zionism during the Nazi occupation, struck with the Nazis. This allowed for tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews to be sent to the death camps in return for a certain number escaping to Israel. And they're still doing it today. David Rosenberg has written time and again on his blog, Rebel Notes, about the threat posed to eastern Europe's remaining Jews by the extreme nationalist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim regimes in Hungary, Poland, the Ukraine and the Baltic states. But these have received little criticism from Israel, because they support the Israeli states and buy its armaments. Stephen Pollard, the gentile editor of the Jewish Chronicle, notoriously declared that a far-right Polish MEP wasn't an anti-Semite, but a true friend of Israel. This was a politician, who among other things, supported legislation banning any discussion of Polish collaboration with the Nazis in the Holocaust, contrary to historical fact and ordinary, common morality.
Anti-Semitism and the Idea of a Chosen People
As for that comment by the Lehava supporter stating that Hitler shouldn't have attacked the Jews, because they were the Chosen People, this is deeply offensive and dangerous for a variety of reasons. One common anti-Semitic accusation is that the Jews believe themselves to be superior to everyone else because they believe themselves to be God's elect. There have been many attempts by Jews to tackle this misconception. In the 1920s, I believe, some German synagogues removed a prayer from their services referring to them as the Chosen People, because they were afraid it would give their non-Jewish compatriots the wrong idea. Other Jewish authorities have pointed out, citing the Bible, that their status of the Jewish people does not confer on them any kind of superiority. Rather, God chose the Jews because they were the smallest, weakest people, who are called upon to be a servant people.
Many Jews are uncomfortable with the idea of being a Chosen People, and some reject it outright. My guess is that some of this discomfort may also be due to the apparent similarity of the doctrine to secular ideas of racial superiority. I knew a lad at college, who bitterly hated Christianity, though he definitely wasn't an anti-Semite nor any kind of Nazi. Quite the opposite. He believed that the roots of Nazi racism lay in the Old Testament and the idea of a Chosen People. He was wrong. Nazism grew out of western biological racism, which was founded in the 19th century by the French count, Gobineau. This also inspired Nazism, although the Nazis also took over and exploited Christian anti-Semitism. The Lehava supporter's statement about Hitler and the Jews as the Chosen People would support the prejudiced views of the opponents of Judaism and Christianity as the origins of racism.
Zionist Silence over their Anti-Semitism
The existence of the virulent anti-Semitism in Zionism, which Tony Greenstein describes, also raises another issue. Why won't Zionist organisations like the Community Security Trust log anti-Semitic incidents and hate speech committed by Jews? It seems to be a prohibition that really only goes one way. As we've seen, very many of the decent people vilified and smeared as anti-Semites in the Labour party and elsewhere for their opposition to israel's oppression of the Palestinians have been Jewish. Their Zionist opponents have shown themselves to have no qualms about accusing them of Jew-hatred. But it seems they do not want to record instances where decent Jewish critics of Israel have been so reviled.
Not only is this a disgusting double standard, it also makes you wonder what they're hiding. Is there so much of this vilification, that if it was recorded, Zionists would find themselves exposed as some of the worst anti-Semites?
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Cyril Chilson – Israeli Peace Activist Expelled from Labour for 'Anti-Semitism'
As Mike pointed out in his description of the kangaroo court, which fraudulently decided he was an anti-Semite, its head, Maggie Cousins, has form in these proceedings. She was the head of the kangaroo court that expelled the committed anti-racism campaigner, Marc Wadsworth, for anti-Semitism despite his work with the Board of Deputies of British Jews formulating legislation to combat the BNP and their genuinely anti-Semitic attacks on Jews in the '80s and '90s. And she was head of the kangaroo court that expelled Cyril Chilson, a naturalized Brit from Israel, also for anti-Semitism.
I found Mr. Chilson's account of his kangaroo court on Labour Briefing for the 23rd April 2018. It's entitled 'From the IDF to the NCC'. Chilson explains that he came to this country in 1996 to study ancient history as a postgraduate student at Brasenose College, Oxford. He had previously spent 16 years in the Israeli Defence Force. In his last post there, he had been a foreign press liaison at the IDF spokesman unit. His duties were to whitewash the atrocities he'd seen committed by the Israeli armed forces, and spoonfeed information to foreign journos.
His experiences in the military, and his own strong socialist beliefs led him to join the Peace Now movement and the now defunct Israeli socialist party, MAPAM. He states, however, that it was only in Britain that he finally came to realise the true objectives of the Israeli state, which was the colonization of Palestine.
He became a naturalized British citizen in 2006, and joined the Labour party during Gordon Brown's brief tenure of No. 10, because he was afraid of the Tories being re-elected. He considered them exactly the same as the Israeli far-right Likud party. And he welcome the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in 2015. Soon after that, that media became swamped with anti-Corbyn propaganda. His experience within the Israeli propaganda machine allowed him to recognize it very clearly as 'Hasbara' – Israeli state civilian propaganda, which is coordinated from the Israeli Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem. He was particular watchful about the anonymous accounts, which appeared on Twitter spreading false anti-Semitism accusations. These were also made against him and his family. They included an appeal to the Oxford College at which Chilson teaches to have him sacked.
He makes it clear that the charges of anti-Semitism against him are particularly grotesque, as his mother was saved from death in the concentration camps at the very last minute. His father was a member of the Soviet air force, whose own family were also murdered by the Nazis.
But Labour charged him with anti-Semitism was his criticism of Israel's persecution of the Palestinians in its apartheid system, its occupation and colonization of the West Bank, and other seized territory, like East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights and the siege of Gaza.
His accusers particularly smeared him as an anti-Semite because of his description of the way the Israeli state mobilized foreign Jewish communities to present its propaganda. And the charges they made against him, are exactly the same charges they made against Mike. Chilson writes
My accusers were very keen to recast comments I made on Israel's success in recruiting certain leaders of western Jewish communities and turning them into zealous supporters who ostracise opposing Jewish voices, as "making mendacious allegations about Jews as a collective" and "accusing Jews, supporters of Israel and critics of antisemitism as being more loyal to Israel than to the UK…". And most ludicrous – accusing me of " denying Jewish people the language to describe their own oppression. "
Mike was also accused of claiming that Jews and supporters of Israel were more loyal to that country than the UK, and denying Jews the language to describe their own oppression. Which makes you wonder whether the genuine racists in these kangaroo courts are simply robots following a pre-written script, into which they shoehorn the comments of the people they smear in order to make the charges sound even halfway reasonable.
Chilson concludes
With such a charge sheet, it did not come entirely as a surprise that Ms Cousins and her adjutants ran the disciplinary hearing as a kangaroo court from start to finish. I was constantly disrupted and harassed by the chair and the 'presenter' Dan Hogan, and my replies to the accusations were largely ignored. When Ms Cousins declared that the charges were 'proved' I decided to leave the kangaroo court in disgust. The anticipated expulsion letter arrived four days later. I have been expelled for two years. Presumably I am expected to be cured from my 'antisemitism' by then.
See: http://labourbriefing.squarespace.com/home/2018/4/23/cjanr1izd9qmjeuak2r0tpmruex8k9
Mike also described how his counter-questions were interrupted by Cousins during his kangaroo court, as clearly she was unable to rebut them and feared that if the presenter answered truthfully, her case would collapse.
It is clearly outrageous that someone as well qualified as Mr. Chilson to recognize Israeli propaganda, himself the son of Holocaust survivors, who had served in the Israeli forces, should ever have been smeared as an anti-Semite. And it shows the complete absence of any morality or decency in the Israel lobby. They cannot tolerate any criticism of Israel, and so resort to smears and lies. And I've no doubt that Chilson was particularly targeted because he had been an Israeli propagandist, and so could very easily expose what was going on.
And there's also a very nasty streak of racism in Cousins, the NCC and their kangaroo court. Zionism has always cooperated with anti-Semites and Nazis, and this is true of British Zionists. They have marched with the Islamophobic EDL and the Nazis of Britain First. A couple of Zionist activists also show up at events sporting Kach T-shirts. Kach is a far-right, Israeli terrorist organization. Any gentile organization which behaved like this would rightly be accused in its turn of being Fascist. But the Fascists of the Israel lobby get away with it.
The Israel lobby also singles out Israel-critical Jews for abuse and vilification, reviling them as 'kapos', and 'traitors', and screaming that they wished their families had died in the Shoah.
They have also shown themselves very keen to silence the commemoration of the holocausts experienced by other ethnic groups, like Blacks. This happened to Jackie Walker. I think Walker was particularly concerned that the decimation of African societies during the Slave Trade, and the horrific conditions inflicted on the slaves, should be memorialized at the Holocaust Remembrance Day. She has an excellent point. Reading accounts of the conditions and laws erected by the White legislatures of the European colonies to keep African slaves in their place, you are struck by the sheer barbarity of their treatment. Apart from manacles and shackles, the punishments inflicted on the enslaved included flogging, mutilation, castration and being dissected alive. Life expectancy on the plantations was three years. They have rightly been described as 'concentration camps for Blacks'.
But Maggie Cousins and her ilk don't want this to be commemorated alongside the Holocaust. They deny that there are groups trying to reserve the Holocaust solely for that suffered by the Jews, even when this is being done, as Walker and Mike showed. And their harassment and persecution of Marc Wadsworth also shows they are intolerant of Black anti-racists and their concerns about anti-Black racism within the Labour party. This is also an element in the persecution of Ken Livingstone, as he raised this issue in a chapter on how the party failed Black Brits in his 1987 book, Livingstone's Labour.
Cousins is a racist, running the Labour party equivalent of Stalin's show trials, in order to preserve the power of the Israel lobby and prevent any criticism of the racism and ethnic cleansing of the Israeli state.
It is she, who should be put on trial, with Dan Hogan and the NEC, for this. Genuine anti-racists and opponents of anti-Semitism should say to her what they say to all other Fascists:
Off Our Streets, Fascist Scum!
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Vox Political and Jonathan Rosenhead on the Politicised Nature of the Anti-Semitism Smears
Today the Home Affairs Select Committee has endorsed the anti-Semitism smears, repeating the accusation, based on a very selective reading of the evidence, that anti-Semitism is rife in the Labour party has been for years. This accusation has been refuted time and again, but the establishment is determined to repeat due to their fears of Jeremy Corbyn and a properly socialist Labour party getting into power and actually doing something for the working class and reversing the wholesale looting of this country by the elite under Thatcherite neoliberal economics. Mike's already put up an article this morning attacking the Committee and refuting their allegations.
But before this latest repetition of these baseless accusations, Mike had already put up an excellent piece on Saturday, commenting on and reblogging an extract of a piece on the Open Democracy site by Jonathan Rosenhead demolishing the anti-Semitism allegations and pointing the finger at exactly who is really responsible for them, and why. As has been pointed out countless times before, this is the Israel lobby, comprising Jeremy Newmark, now the chief prosecutor in this inquisition, the Jewish Labour Movement, the Israeli ambassador, Mark Regev, and Ella Rose, who gave up her job as the Israeli embassy's public affairs officer to become the Director of the JLM. Mr Rosenhead notes that organisation the JLM is at least in an informal partnership with the Labour Friends of Israel and the Blairites in a coalition to remove Tony Blair.
Mr Rosenhead is a member of a group, Free Speech on Israel, which coalesced out of a gathering of Jewish Labour party supporters. At their inaugural meeting, the group found that, although they had over 1000 years of experience as Labour members, they could not think of a single instance where they had experienced anti-Semitism within the Labour party, and only a handful of times they had experienced it in their lives.
He also attacks the whole notion that there has been a spike in anti-Semitism in Britain. He notes that while the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain increased by 15% in the first months of this year over those in 2015, they are still below the number recorded in 2014 during the Gaza Crisis. So, he concludes, no upsurge.
He also observes that the explanations for this non-existent massive culture of anti-Semitism in the Labour party is either explained by it being endemic on the Left, or that it is somehow due to the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader, are mutually contradictory. He states that in a previous discussion of this topic in another Open Democracy article, it had been shown that the comments and tweets that were treated as anti-Semitic and the basis for suspension were not about Jews, but about Israel and Zionism. He makes it clear that this is an invented crisis, and is about criminalising innocent behaviour. This is deliberately redefining criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism, in order to justify the territorial expansion of Israel and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians on one side and to leave the party securely in the hands of the Blairites on the other.
See Mike's article at: http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/10/15/how-allegations-of-left-anti-semitism-have-been-weaponised-against-jeremy-corbyn/
Jonathan Rosenhead himself is Emeritus Professor of Operational Research at the LSE, and Chair of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine. As with Tony Greenstein and the signatories of the letter to the Guardian protesting against Jackie Walker's suspension, Prof Rosenhead is clearly extremely well-informed about these issues, and his original article contains much more highly relevant information.
He notes that while Holocaust Memorial Day is supposed to mark all the genocides that have occurred from the Shoah onwards, in practice it concentrates very much on the Jewish experience. It does not commemorate the 500,000 Roma (Gypsies) and the 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, who were also murdered by the Nazis. And in his words, it only pays lip-service to the genocide in Rwanda.
He also notes how convenient the cut-off date for the commemoration of genocides is for Britain and America. The Americans might be sensitive about their role in the slave trade and the ethnic cleansing of the Amerindians in the 18th and 19th centuries, just as Britain was also responsible for its role in the slave trade and the genocide of Aboriginal Australians. He states:
The absence from Holocaust Memorial Day of the millions of slaves who died on the Atlantic crossing and then through the brutal conditions of slave labour is no accident, no act of God. And it is no sacrilege for Jackie Walker to point up this glaring omission.
He also points out that Jackie Walker was, contra the impression you're given by the mainstream media, quite correct in questioning the definition of anti-Semitism used by Mike Katz and the JLM, who were organising the training day at which Mrs Walker made the comments that have been used to suspend her as vice-chair of Momentum. Katz declared that the definition used was that of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, which had been taken over by the European Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee, which were both Zionist organisations. The main author of the EUMC definition was Kenneth Stern, an attorney, who was the American Jewish Committee's expert on anti-Semitism and extremism. And his definition of anti-Semitism included anti-Zionism, because of Israel's nature as a Jewish state. The result was a lengthy document of 500 words intended to criminalise criticism of Israel, produced not by the EU, but by an American Zionist organisation. Brian Klug, an Oxford academic specialising in the study of anti-Semitism, just sums it up in 21. This simply defines it as a hatred of Jews as Jews, in which they are seen as something they are not.
In fact, the EUMC definition of anti-Semitism has never been officially endorsed by the EU. The EU itself closed the EUMC down in 2007 and transferred its power to the Fundamental Rights Agency, which refused to endorse the definition and took it off its website.
The definition was taken up in 2006 by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Semitism under its chair, Denis MacShane. But nine years later in 2015, the Group brought out another report under its new chair, John Mann, which did not use the definition. It commission another, sub-report, from Prof David Feldman, which used that of Brian Klug. Prof. Rosenhead also states that his own union, the UCU, resolved not to use the EUMC definition in 2011, and that in 2013 the BBC Trust declared that the EUMC definition had no standing.
Prof Rosenhead then goes on to discuss the history of the Jewish Labour Movement. This was formerly Poale Zion, which originated in the early 20th century amongst Jewish/Zionist and Marxist workers, and has been affiliated to the Labour party since 1920. After the colonisation of Israel, it suffered a series of splits and mergers in that country to produce two of that nation's main parties, MAPAI and MAPAM. In the 1930s and 1940s Poale Zion in the UK had members and supporters such as Harold Laski, Ian Mikardo and Sidney Silverman. In 1946 it had 2000 members. However, over the last 50 years the organisation has shrunk immensely as Israel's persecution of the Palestinians alienated many on the Left and, indeed, the Centre of British politics. In 2004 the organisation rebranded itself as the Jewish Labour Movement, and is also affiliated to the Israeli Labour party and the World Zionist Organisation. Its website remained inactive up to 2015, though it may have had an active email list. That year its chair, Louise Ellman, stepped down, as was replaced by Jeremy Newmark, who began a new, more aggressive phase of the organisation. There is no evidence from whence the JLM gets its funding, which is obviously very generous. As well as a member of his local Labour party, Newmark is executive of the Jewish Leadership Council, and has been Communications Director for the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sachs.
Prof Rosenhead also describes how Newmark presented evidence against the University and College Union before an Employment Tribunal in 2013, in which he accused it of anti-Semitic behaviour. The Tribunal utterly dismissed the claim, declaring
"We greatly regret that the case was ever brought. At heart, it represents an impermissible attempt to achieve a political end by litigious means."
The panel also described one of his claims as 'preposterous' and found that one of his other statements, that 'the union was no longer a fit arena for free speech' was one "which we found not only extraordinarily arrogant but also disturbing."
Prof. Rosenhead final section, Making Unbelieve, concludes
The whole operation has been breath-takingly successful for the last 8 months. And it is not over. JLM, for example, is pressing for a change in the Labour Party's constitution that would make it (even) easier to exclude people on suspicion of harbouring antisemitic tendencies. It has influence at the highest levels in the Labour Party. The very training session run by JLM that led to Jackie Walker's second suspension was set up by the Labour Party bureaucracy in direct contradiction of the Chakrabarti inquiry. Their report recommended against such targeted training, and in favour of broader anti-racist education. But, hey, who's counting? Not the Labour Party apparatus.
Free Speech on Israel aims to expose this soufflé of a Ponzi scheme. It rests on the shifting sands of unreliable evidence, and on assertions that contradict our (Jewish and non-Jewish) everyday experience. Not least, the claims about a Jewish community united in its alignment behind Israel is yet more make believe. The best survey evidence we have is that 31% of UK Jews describe themselves as 'No, not Zionist'; and many of the remainder are deeply concerned over Israel's policies.
We should suspend our belief.
This not just confirms and shows in greater detail the highly political nature of the allegations, but also the extremely tenuous existence of one of the organisation behind them. The Jewish Labour Movement was virtually moribund until it was taken over by Newmark. Like the Blairite group, 'Labour Future', it is well-funded, but the origins of its money is shrouded in mystery. It also appears to have very few members. It's clearly an example of a numerically insignificant organisation trying to throw its weight around as if it were a mass-movement with undisputed authority, rather than the opposite.
This follows the pattern that Prof Finkelstein and others in the anti-Zionist movement in the US have observed about the Zionist movement in their country: that support for Israel amongst American Jews is waning. As the years pass, Israel may soon become completely irrelevant to young American Jews' construction of their identities. Prof Rosenhead in this article points out that 31% of Jewish Brits say that they're not Zionists, and many others are ambivalent or opposed to aspects of the regime and its policy towards the Palestinians. The British press, by contrast, has maintained that 75 per cent of British Jews state that Israel is 'very important' to their sense of identity. That was the claim repeated in the I, but as this paper is consistently anti-Corbyn, I take its claim here with more than a pinch of salt.
The Blairites and the Israel Lobby are both in a severe crisis, and are trying to hang on to power through the libelling of decent people, like Jackie Walker, who make perfectly reasonable comments. It is people like Newmark, who are trying to stifle democratic debate. We should not let them. The smearing should stop immediately. Those who have been vilified should be directly reinstated, including Jackie Walker as Momentum's Vice-Chair.
And where it can be shown that those making the accusations have libelled their victims, they should be prosecuted and forced to pay for their malicious crimes.
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Latin Tarot – the link between the numeric significant of every card and the symbolic meanings of the trump cards have been masked in mystery for centuries. Around the 15th century, the first tarot deck was invented, becoming very popular in the European countries.
There's little information available on the original significance of the tarot trump cars except for pictures that appeared to point in the direction of certain possible meanings. Some folks have tried guessing as to what the link is and what these symbolic pictures were intended to be. However, the majority of experts have pondered that the truth will never be uncovered.
Of course, you can easily deduce its origins. Just look at the trump cards' Latin names in a regular deck. Not long after the first decks were developed, they were numbered and parallel connections were made, associating the 22 cards to their equivalent meanings in both Greek and Hebrew. However, these Latin names were never available to the public and a Latin system for tarot cards never came about.
It wasn't until sometime later that several experts studied the Latin cards and found some interesting results. It looks like the first letter of every name matches with the Latin alphabet letters in A to Z order. According to the Latin alphabet, the letter Y was not introduced until later when Greek transcription was needed. Technically, there are just 22 letters in the Latin alphabet.
Interestingly enough, Latin deck translations perfectly fit with today's trump card meanings and with the alphabetical and numeric letter order. The High Priest card's Latin name is Flamen. It's the sixth card of 22 trump cards. And, its first letter is also the sixth letter of the alphabet.
For many centuries, people were under the impression that symbolic pictures of the tarot trump cards were designed to characterize the different Gods and Goddesses. Rather, these folks said the connections linking Latin letters and numbers were just a coincidence, as there was no real purpose behind them.
Other folks deduced that the connections found were really indicators to Pythagorean symbol, which represents the transcendent spirits of the counting (Natural) number. The Pythagorean beliefs, in regards to the structure of the universe, feel that the Natural number is the key to several important human and physical reality properties.
It's really no surprise that free LT readings have gained a significant amount of popularity over time. It cannot be stressed enough that the significance and importance of the trump cards have made a real impact on the world. And, even though a link between the Latin cards will never be completely discovered, the cards readings are astonishingly precise even today. Still, the magical aura surrounding the tarot cards continues to capture the thoughts of anyone and everyone.


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Q: PostgreSQL transform json to composite type i'm experimenting with the new json functions in POstgreSQL 9.4 and find most of them very usefull. For example transforming a Composite type into json in order to help back end processes to map a functions result easier.
but what i can't get working is the other way, transforming a json string into an object of a Composite type.
please note that the functioncall to_json(...) is used here to simulate a json string that has the exact structure of the composite type
DROP TYPE IF EXISTS myType_1;
DROP TYPE IF EXISTS myType_0;

CREATE TYPE myType_0 AS (
    id SMALLINT,
    name TEXT
);

CREATE TYPE myType_1 AS (
    since TIMESTAMP,
    objects myType_0[]
);

SELECT json_populate_record(NULL::myType_1,
                            to_json( ROW( now(),
                                          ARRAY[ROW(1,'name1')::myType_0,
                                                ROW(2,'name2')::myType_0,
                                                ROW(4,'name3')::myType_0])::myType_1))

the code Returns
ERROR:  malformed array literal: "[{"id":1,"name":"name1"},{"id":2,"name":"name2"},{"id":4,"name":"name3"}]"
DETAIL:  "[" must introduce explicitly-specified array dimensions.

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At the heart of the historic district of Rosmeur, the apartment is on the second floor of an old character house overlooking a quiet square.
Ideally located, the rental is quiet while enjoying the close proximity of the town center. You can even spend your holiday without using a car.
Completely renovated in 2014, the apartment is bright, spacious and comfortable. You spend your holiday in a modern and cozy atmosphere and enjoy the unobstructed view of the bay of Douarnenez.
The rental has all the amenities: open kitchen with bar, dining room with sofa and DVD player, washing machine, space for drying clothes in the attic of the house.
Note if you want to come two families: a second apartment is located on the same floor of our house, you can see our listing HomeAway No. 674 840.
The house is close to shops, the fishing port and coastal path. The beaches are easily accessible on foot.
- Artists' studios and galleries.
In summer you can access our garden at the back of the house.
Many sports and cultural events, tours, guided walks are offered throughout the year in Douarnenez and around. In the city center, while nearby, many artists' studios are worth visiting. Concerts, fest-noz, theater, exhibitions are regularly showing.
Appartement très agréable, calme et lumineux, idéalement situé au pointe du Raz et presqu'île de Crozon et à proximité du port du Rosmeur, des halles et de tous les commerces. La disponibilité et l'accueil de Sophie ainsi que ses conseils touristiques sont un plus!
Très agréable séjour dans cet appartement rénové avec gout, on s'y sent comme chez soi! J'y reviendrai assurément!
Merci beaucoup. Je serai ravie de vous accueillir lors d'un prochain séjour.


The identify keyword in the nsd.conf file is used to specify the string that should be returned when the name server is queried for id.server in the chaos class. While the string can be specified in the nsd.conf file, and the zone complier accepts the string without error or warning, the string is ignored, and NSD will always return the hostname obtained from the OS in response to this query.
Fix is in the svn repository. Will be in 3.0.3.
What happened was that the hostname detected for the computer was overriding the identity from the config file. Fixed order of processing.


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Q: how do I handle an array differently using Javascript and Nodejs I am trying to create an array that pass one item waits for a response from my node server from a list.
My data input to JavaScript is from a text area in html then I am trying to send each line one at a time it can only send the next array item when my nodeJS has finished can anyone show me any example's or ways to post an array one item at a time.
instead of in one big chunk like I am getting currently.

my full html

<title>Welcome To ....</title>

 WELCOME TO ....

<form>

<textarea rows="10" cols="60" name="alpha"></textarea>

<input type="button" value="show array" onclick="showArray(textareaToArray(this.form.alpha ))">

</form>

<textarea id="message" rows="6" cols="60" name="message"></textarea>

A: Well, you code seems OK, except the regexp you use.
You should split the string using \n character. You are using \n\r, which is not a Windown line break character sequence.
Window character sequence is \r\n.
See here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/nonprint.html


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