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The Guardian found itself last weekend at the centre of an anti-semitism controversy. Its cartoonist Martin Rowson was accused of using anti-Jewish “tropes” as he depicted a Conservative government mired in corruption, including in its ties to the outgoing BBC chairman, Richard Sharp.

There was a certain Schadenfreude in watching the Guardian squirm as it was accused of antisemitism by a wide range of Jewish establishment bodies and its media rivals. After all, it was the Guardian that was the most eager and effective media organisation in cheerleading evidence-free claims – promoted by those same Jewish groups – that the Labour party was “plagued” by anti-semitism under its previous leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

As a paper supposedly representing the left, the corporate Guardian’s attacks on Corbyn injected unwarranted credibility into smears from the wider, billionaire-owned media that might otherwise have appeared too transparently to have been the establishment’s handiwork. Corbyn was reviled because he was the first politician in living memory to challenge the neoliberal consensus at home, one that keeps a tiny elite enriched, and to reject the West’s endless resource wars against the Global South.

It was the sustained campaign against him – one that largely hinged on conflating antisemitism with trenchant criticism of Israel – that ultimately led to Cobyn’s suspension from the parliamentary Labour party. He has been replaced by the all-too establishment-friendly Sir Keir Starmer.

The redefinition of “antisemitism” has proved to be the gift that keeps on giving: Corbyn is now banned from running as a Labour candidate in the seat he has represented for 40 years, despite the warm ties he has forged with large segments of the Jewish community there.

With the row over its cartoon, the Guardian has briefly found that what you sow, you can reap. It had to hurriedly take down the image, while Rowson issued a profuse apology.

Mountain of shit

According to the same Jewish organisations that hounded Corbyn, the paper’s depiction of Sharp – who few knew was Jewish, even among Guardian staff apparently – plays on long-standing antisemitic tropes. Sharp’s face is said to be too caricatured, and his grimace too sinister, even though he is made to look far, far less grotesque than (the non-Jewish) former prime minister Boris Johnson.

Sharp carries a “carboard box of unemployment” marked with the name Goldman Sachs, the large investment bank where he accumulated so much money he was able to donate more than £400,000 of it to the Tory party. Johnson repaid the favour by appointing him BBC chairman, even though Sharp had no qualifications for the job. He was finally brought down by further revelations that he had concealed sleazy personal ties to Johnson.

Jewish organisations, however, believe any reference to Sharp’s connection to Goldman Sachs is antisemitic because the bank’s name sounds a little too obviously Jewish. Presumably, in their eyes, there should be no visual association between Sharp and money either – despite his enormous riches and that fact’s pertinence to the issue of corruption in public life – because of the historic association made by antisemites of Jews with greed and wealth.

Rishi Sunak, Johnson’s successor – and again, more unpleasantly caricatured than Sharp – is in the cardboard box, because he worked for the outgoing BBC chairman at Goldman Sachs. One might assume that the cartoonist intended this to suggest that the wheel of corruption has come full circle. But Jewish organisations read it differently, as a signifier that Sunak is Sharp’s puppet – another antisemitic trope – even though Johnson sits above them both, high up on a mountain of faeces grasping bags of money while turning everything in British public life to shit.

Topping off Rowson’s offence is a toy squid in the cardboard box, a jokey reference to a well-known description of Goldman Sachs by the US leftwing writer Matt Taibbi. Thirteen years ago, he called the bank “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money”.

It seems that description now needs reassessing as antisemitic too.

Useful bludgeon

But, of course, though the Guardian has had its feathers ruffled by the incident, it is not going to face any real consequences for its transgression – and certainly none of the kind its columnists insisted Corbyn suffer.

No one, least of all Jewish organisations that police modern public discourse so assiduously, is calling the Guardian “institutionally antisemitic” as a result. Nor will its senior editors, such as editor-in-chief Kath Viner, be forced out of their jobs, as Corbyn was from his. Ofcom will not investigate the Guardian and issue a denunciatory report, as the Equalities and Human Rights Commission did into Labour under Corbyn – the commission’s first and only investigation of a mainstream political party.

The Guardian is not like Corbyn. Since Viner took over the helm, it is enthusiastically on board with Britain’s neoliberal establishment, and barely bothers to hide the fact that it is under the security services’ thumb. Its chief function is to rally support on the left for Starmer as the leader of a politically neutered Labour party, one that now reliably backs Israel as it oppresses the Palestinians and cheerleads Nato’s expansionist wars to surround Russia and China.

The Guardian won’t be targeted. The same figures who demonised Corbyn very much kept the gloves on as they berated the paper over the cartoon.

Dave Rich, head of policy at the Community Security Trust, wrote a commentary in the Guardian (of course) castigating the paper for running the cartoon. However, he was quick to discount any possibility that the paper or Rowson had committed the crime of intentional antisemitism. Their sin was more one of carelessness and thoughtlessness.

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The aim was not to weaponise antisemitism to damage the Guardian, as happened to Corbyn, but to reinforce the limits of public discourse. It was a reminder that there is a price to pay – potentially a catastrophic one – for straying too far into topics the establishment wishes to remain off-limits.

It was a reminder that the charge of antisemitism is still a powerful bludgeon, one that can be deployed to intimidate the left when its critiques of key establishment interests gain too much traction. How can we be so sure? Because that same bludgeon is kept safely in the drawer whenever it comes to the right, however overtly antisemitic their politics.

The Guardian was quick to offer reassurances it would not repeat its error. While noting that none of his staff knew Sharp was Jewish, opinion page editor Hugh Muir promised readers “there will need to be learning” from the incident.

Viner drove the point home: “The publication of this cartoon highlights failures in our editorial processes, which we are determined to address. We are working on what those changes might be so that we can be sure that something like this won’t happen again.”

What readers can be sure of is that those changes will further enfeeble the Guardian’s already tepid efforts to hold power to account. It is important to understand why.

Imagery hijacked

What the Guardian cartoon incident reveals is the degree to which official discourse about antisemitism has now squarely placed the cart before the horse.

In his Guardian article, Rich gives a clue as to how this works in practice. He starts by making an incisive point:

It is unlikely that anybody would complain if a Guardian cartoonist drew Boris Johnson as a gorilla. All’s fair in political satire, cartoonists are expected to be scurrilous, and the former prime minister is fair game. But if that same cartoonist drew a black politician in simian form, it would be obviously racist. This is the principle to hold in mind when decoding Martin Rowson’s cartoon of outgoing BBC chair Richard Sharp, who is Jewish.

Rich observes that the context of racism is critically important, or as he puts it: “Centuries of anti-Jewish caricaturists (and to be clear, I do not accuse Rowson or the Guardian of falling into this category) have generated an extensive library of visual tropes to convey their hatred of, and disgust for, Jews.”

True, but Rich’s analogy is not quite as straightforward as he makes it sound.

We understand that a cartoon depicting a black politician as a monkey is racist, not just because of historical context, but because, by definition, the cartoonist’s visual comparison is entirely gratuitious. There is no reason to link a black politician with a monkey except to suggest that the politician is primitive or subhuman. The cartoonist’s racist meaning and intention are transparent.

But things get more complicated when it comes to the “library of visual tropes” about Jews. And that is because long ago the far-right appropriated the left’s visual lexicon, a lexicon developed by satirists and caricaturists to critique power. The racist right hijacked this imagery to attack Jews – and for obvious reasons.

Two birds, one stone

The far-right found it could kill two birds with one stone. By appropriating the language of the left, it deflected public animosity away from the proper target – a depraved, parasitic ruling class – and turned it instead towards scapegoat groups: Jews, Roma, Communists. It stripped out the left’s structural, economic critique of power and replaced it with facile finger-pointing at “subversive elements”. Instead of hitting up, the far-right punched down.

The deflection was particularly successful against Jews because some – unlike most Roma or Communists – were visibly successful within the capitalist system.

This is a major reason why an establishment in deep trouble, and its media, are so ready to tolerate far-right street thugs offering simple-minded slogans that blame minorities for society’s ills. It will tolerate a Nigel Farage long before it does a Jeremy Corbyn.

That lesson was all to evident, of course, in Germany as the Weimar Republic collapsed in the immediate period before Hitler seized power. The German aristocracy and business elite colluded with the Nazis precisely because they viewed Hitler to be much less of a threat to their interests than local communist and socialist parties.

Language police

There is another reason why the establishment’s discourse enthusiastically embraces political confusion about antisemitism. The far-right has polluted the well from which the left once drank. It has imbued the imagery and language relied on by the left to mobilise popular sentiment against ruling elites with the taint of antisemitism.

Now meaningful critiques of power can be easily and retroactively diagnosed as symptoms of antisemitism – because the left’s tools have been stolen from them. The left has been stripped of the populist lexicon with which to attack the ruling class.

This has been particularly obvious in relation to criticism of Israel, now defined as the “New Antisemitism”. Cartoonists using visual “tropes” to ascribe malign motivation to foreign powers, whether Official Enemies such as Syria and Russia or Good Guys such as Western states, find themselves certain to come a cropper if they try to do the same with Israel.

Here are examples of two famous cartoonists who immediately found themselves falling foul of the language police when they targeted Israel:

In the case of the leftwing Steve Bell, his repeated efforts to portray Israel in a harshly critical light eventually led to the Guardian quietly ousting him.

The Labour party under Starmer has only intensified this erosion of the left’s room to critique Israel. Now the use of terms like “Zionism”, the racist political ideology that seeks to justify Israel’s oppression of Palestinians, or “Israeli apartheid”, the outcome of decades of Zionist policy in Israel and Palestine, are cited as evidence of antisemitism.

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But the rot has spread much further afield. Nowadays, simply using expressions like “the ruling class”, “bankers”, the “establishment” or “a global elite” is likely to get one denounced as an antisemite, as though anyone referencing these predatory groups representing global capital must also believe that Jews are a cabal controlling the world.

Critique of power

A good illustration of this problem is the now-infamous London mural that is so regularly trotted out as evidence of Corbyn’s antisemitism. Rich himself refers to it, distinguishing the Guardian’s publication of Rowson’s cartoon from Corbyn’s opposition to the erasure of a piece of street art. The former is treated as unfortunate; the latter as definitive proof of the Labour leader’s supposed covert racism, a racism that apparently justified the UK’s three leading Jewish papers claiming that he posed an “existential threat” to Britain’s thriving Jewish community.

One can argue over how successful the mural is, or what the intention behind it was. Those are separate debates worth having. But there are no obvious clues – at least to any casual observer – that the mural is antisemitic, except for the fact that the far-right has associated the ideas of greedy bankers with Jews.

The image itself deploys a once-familiar, populist left visual lexicon critiquing capitalism, exploitation and elite power. Workers on their hands and knees support a Monopoly-style board overseen by six real-life banking figures, two of whom were Jewish (Rich falsely implies all six were).

Above them is the “Eye of Providence” – an all-seeing, divine eye within a pyramid – a symbol familiar from the one-dollar bill and one that can be found on churches and Masonic buildings.

Again one can argue over what the artist meant, but there is reason enough for those viewing the mural, most especially on the left, to interpret it according to familiar leftwing critiques of power. It suggests that there is a class war in which workers are simply pawns in a capital accumulation game being played by an elite that worships Mammon, while claiming its incomparable wealth is divinely ordained.

It is antisemitic only if we imagine, like Rich, that Jews comprise most of the greedy bankers.

Pulling punches

Where does this leave the left? Well, as Rowson just found out, it means it is all but impossible to use the left’s traditional – and most vivid and resonant – imagery to critique the power elite when someone who is Jewish, such as Richard Sharp, is implicated in its crimes.

Punches must be pulled, gloves must be kept on, the caricatures kept to a minimum, implications of greed, predatory behaviour and power removed, even if the targets of the cartoon are greedy, powerful and predatory.

Remember: The Guardian just censored a cartoon that showed a thieving Boris Johnson turning everything he touches to shit, that incriminated Rishi Sunak in this world of sleaze, and reviled a ruling class feeding at the trough like pigs. And the paper did so only because one of the actors in this real-life conspiracy happens, so it turns out, to be Jewish.

Any cartoonist watching what just happened to Rowson will have absorbed the main lesson. It is extremely risky to use the traditional lexicon, visual or otherwise, of the left.

Should Sharp be portrayed differently from other powerful actors just because he is Jewish? And if, as the Guardian says, its opinion-page staff did not know Sharp was Jewish, is the lesson for cartoonists and columnists that it would be wiser to assume anyone in power might be Jewish and avoid language or imagery that that could later cause their outlet harm?

Even more significantly, might the lesson for newspaper editors be that they should impose just such a rule – to tone down political language and imagery criticising the ruling class – whatever the wishes of cartoonists and columnists to avoid “causing offence”? And how resistant to such pressures might an editor like Viner really be when her paper’s job is to serve as the faux-left, Starmerite-wing of the establishment?

Not very, seems the only plausible response.

Which will prove another triumph for the establishment as the gradual evolution of antisemitism as a weapon with which to crush the left continues apace.

The already-narrow space to critique a West hurtling towards self-destruction, risking nuclear armageddon and environmental collapse, just got a little bit narrower. And we will all be the poorer for it.

(Republished from Jonathan Cook by permission of author or representative)
 
• Category: Ideology • Tags: Antisemitism, Britain, Jews, Political Correctness 
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  1. God lefties fight against Jews is pathetic and limp-wristed. They support Palestine because they’re browner than Jews. I feel for how the Palestinians are treated, but understand this is an extension of Jewish thought and how they treat ANYONE they have power over.

    If Jews were doing this to Whites Cook would be fighting antisemitism instead of White interests

  2. Notsofast says:

    just another brick in the wall (no pun intended), one more goose step, on our inextricable march to a full informational police state. the new thought crimes bill working it’s way through the upper irish house is quite frightening. the restrict act in the u.s. as well, and the narcos act linking drugs to terrorism so we can treat mexico like syria and walk all over their sovereignty, as well as being able to deny constitutionally guaranteed rights to drug arrests as they are now narcoterrorists. this is all happening very quickly throughout the west as the western narrative has become so absurd, that the only way they can continue their pantomime ponzi scheme, is by eliminating all descenting voices and terrifying the rest into silence.

    • Thanks: RobinG
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    , @ld
  3. @Shitposter_in Chief

    I have literally no idea whether Palestinians live “under the threat of genocide, daily”, as the anti-Zionists claim, or if they live “under much better conditions than in any Muslim country”, as the Zionists claim… (or if it’s some scenario in-between.)
    And I will not spend time in trying to figure it out. (I’ve more important things to do, y’now.)

    Naturally, such Zionist argument fails: Just because Arabs have better¹ lives in Israel than in any Arab country (supposing this is even true), doesn’t mean they’re equal to Jews – hence, the “Apartheid State” metaphor.

    A real thinker should simply ask, “So what?” regarding such metaphor.
    But, of course, there are very few courageous thinkers. “Ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” are peremptorily deemed self-evident evil!
    Pseudo-intellectual Philip Giraldi does it every time! High-toned denunciations of “ethnic cleansing” – no arguments given why it’s wrong, you have to accept it as unquestionable, like some sort of religious dogma.
    Y’know, “International Law” says so, bro!

    1. “Better” as understood in materialistic and liberal terms. (“liberal” in the American Democratic Party conception.)

  4. Diversity makes the US stronger!
    🙂
    But it’s genocide for poor little Israel.
    <:-(

    • Agree: Richard B
  5. @Vergissmeinnicht

    I agree. I have sympathy toward them, but they’re not my people.

    Anti-white leftists like Cook side with them because they’re brown. If Jews did this to Whites Cook would virtue signal against antisemitism until the cows came home.

    He refuses to see that they act the way they do because of Talmudic exceptionalism. They’d do it to anyone they had the power to do it to. They act the way they do in the West because they can, but he’s far too cowardly to point that out.

    • Replies: @Vergissmeinnicht
  6. (the non-Jewish) former prime minister Boris Johnson.

    Really? Meet Boris’s great-grandfather:

    Elias Avery Loew was born on 15 October 1879 in Moscow (then part of the Russian Empire) to a Lithuanian Jewish family headed by Charles Loew, a silk and embroidery merchant, and his wife, Sarah Ragoler. He emigrated to New York City with his parents in 1892, becoming a citizen of the United States in 1900. In 1918 he altered the spelling of his surname to Lowe.

    • Replies: @JM
  7. Dutch Boy says:

    Cook and other lefties should realize that one’s actual attitude toward Jews is immaterial. If you oppose the Jewish agenda in any way to any degree, you are an anti-Semite according to the Jewish thought police. That agenda includes the sexual and demographic revolutions (which most lefties support anyway) and the neo-con/Zionist project, which some lefties oppose.

    • Replies: @che guava
  8. “the “Eye of Providence” – an all-seeing, divine eye within a pyramid – a symbol familiar from the one-dollar bill and one that can be found on churches and Masonic buildings.”

    This is also on the front wall by the front doors of USPS buildings in the USA, the supposed reason because its on the reverse side of the great seal.

  9. “Anti-semitism” and “anti-semitic” are used as antiwhite tools by jewish oligarchs
    to cow White people down.

    Don’t use the names of (((their))) giving, use the correct names of:

    anti-jew
    anti-jewish
    anti-jewishness
    anti-jewish racism
    anti-jew racism

    It puts the rabbit in the headlights by defining what it actually is rather
    than jewish people hiding behind the coined term “anti-semitism”.

  10. Isn’t the “anti-Semitism” label really praise? The Khazars who have stolen Palestine are going hard to wipe out the real Semites there. So if they say you are antisemitic, isn’t that a pat on the back?

  11. Juden claim that throughout history they were “oppressed” for no reasons at all.

    In that way, smallhats are Mosaic-versions of dindus. To wit: the Tribe (like blacks) never mentions why it was oppressed…only that Jews “dindu nuffins” to get expelled 109 times from civilized entities.

    Why are Whites such pussies? Why do they cower so much? Why do they not unite against the Toxic Two Percent? Why do they never ask if there’s any truth per stereotypes?

    Also, why do they never raise a stink about anticaucasianism or antijesusism?

    Finally, don’t use Jewish unless you also use Christianish. Stop kissing the enemy’s arse. Stop playing by the enemy’s rules. Whites need to start attacking those who attack them!

    • Agree: Gerhard57NL, Z-man
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    , @Z-man
  12. anon[627] • Disclaimer says:

    Profusely abusing “hate speech” following 911, Israel and neocons inflected heavy losses for US and captured later EU . This hate speech galvanized the war chants ,offered the vital supports to AUMF Patriot Act, sting operation, Guantanamo justification, extension of the war to Yemen Somiali and allowed people get away with talking about WW4 ( Pdohiretz ) and allowed people to get away with lamenting for the slow speed of destruction of entire ME( Bill Krystol ) . The hate speech allowed some bastard Goldberg ,bastard Netahyu,Sharon, Karmer , Joe Liberman explaining to white why profiling of muslim is necessary and ethical why terrorism meant Islam and why their religion need to be changed and both Saudi and Iran to be destroyed . Paid and bribed Woosley , ignorant emotional Boykin and other went along asking for war on Islam .Moron clueless bastard Bush incited violence by talking about :’ You are with us or against us. He incited violence and justified violence in the name of :We fight them over there so that we dont fight them here. These are examples of hate speeches now entombed in the land of amnesia .Not that long ago we were educated by the crowd of spineless moron like Macron and other when they burst into the chants: We are all Charlie Hedbo now.

    Now where are they now when Guardian (UK) offers apologies and erases the cartoon –
    (https://deadline.com/2023/04/the-guardian-deletes-anti-semitic-cartoon-bbc-chairman-1235341663/) that has no pictorial resemblance to the stereotypy of Jewish facial portrayal by anti- smite . But it refers to the man who is thief and he happens to be Jewish .It also refers to the financial crook destroying US economy that is Goldman . So UK cabinet , Macron ,nor Italian Le Pen nor German or Swedish rabble rouser against Muslim decide to stay quiet .
    Reminding them of the inconsistencies will provoke stupid response like – no body killing nobody .Hey morns – these bastards from BBC and the Goldman kill people by thousands cuts .
    Hey morons- those speeches by Podohoretz Lewis , Kagan , Liberman Kristol Woosley Bush ,Cheney Abrams Feith,Sharon ,and PNAC’s cretins kill just like Charlie Hedge killers had killed .

    Now hate speech has served the purpose ( even Abrahamic accord is the indirect product of hate speech- Mulsim countries wanted to do anything g to be on the good side of hate mongering tribe) , it ’s time to erase it . It has to be curbed lest the same neocons get exposed everyday .

  13. @Shitposter_in Chief

    I don’t know how many of ’em – but certainly they’re leftists who simply side with Muslims over Jews because Muslims’ skin colour is darker.
    .
    .
    .

    Anyway, this I find it super-annoying:

    After WWII, Jews could have had their country in pretty much anywhere they’d like!
    They chose a region where it’s some kind of desert, so nothing grows and there’s limited water… and oh: Their neighbours hate them!
    Genius!
    “Why?” you ask. For religious reasons!
    The worst reason to do anything on the Planet!
    (But I’m an atheist, so I could be biased…)

  14. anon[158] • Disclaimer says:

    “…Mueller Report. Nor was there any mention of an Israeli plot in the similarly redacted Senate Intelligence Committee Report on collusion charges in the 2016 election, or in any of the indictments or trials stemming from the Russia charges. Nor did any mention of Israeli involvement ever leak into the press. Yet I can reveal here the details of an elaborate covert operation personally directed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that aimed to use secret intelligence to clandestinely intervene at the highest levels in the presidential election on behalf of Trump. “
    https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-israel-collusion/

    Portraying this into a picture where Israeli players could be identified by their names or map or the flag will be deemed as abhorrent anti semitism .

    MORE
    ” the spring of 2016, no issue was more important to Benjamin Netanyahu than Donald Trump winning the White House. The GOP presidential candidate was key to everything he was after, from ending the Iran nuclear agreement, to recognizing Jerusalem—rather than Tel Aviv—as Israel’s capital, to continuing the occupation of Palestine. But November was months away, and there was no guarantee Trump would win. In the meantime, Netanyahu was under mounting pressure from President Barack Obama to finally resolve the issues surrounding Palestine. Leading the charge on behalf of Obama was Secretary of State John Kerry, who was equally determined to find a solution after many years of trying.

    Kerry was not alone. The Middle East Quartet, a group formed to mediate the Palestine-Israel peace process that included representatives from the United Nations, the European Union, the United States, and Russia, was also seeking a solution to the issues surrounding the occupation—and it was about to release a report that was expected to be highly critical of Israel. With so much on the line, Netanyahu appears to have made a drastic decision. He would dispatch a discreet, highly trusted aide, armed with critical intelligence, to covertly “intervene” in the US election to help put his man Trump in the White House. ”

  15. @Vergissmeinnicht

    You have no idea if they live under such threats? And another poster below you complains that Giraldi also mentions this threat without giving evident for it. The reason is that there are several historians who have shown that this is the case and there is no serious evidence that what they show might be wrong. Read for instance booksby Ilan Pappe., you can also read daily news which confirms this claim. You also don’t ask for a proof that Paris is the capital of France or that the Earth isn’t flat.

    That the Pa may live better in The Country is irrelevant. Many neighbour coutries were ruined and devastated by wars promoted by The Country. Independently of that the Pas have the right to what belongs to them.

  16. @Uncommonground

    I’m discussing ethicality, not facticity.

    Philosophy Professor (California State University, Los Angeles) Mohammed Abed¹ made “The Case for Genocide”!

    His paper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24332284

    1. Curiously, he is Palestinian.

    • Replies: @Uncommonground
  17. anon[419] • Disclaimer says:
    @Vergissmeinnicht

    Benefit comes from continued war. Peace kills Zionism like pesticide kills bugs. They could have got it in Cyprus,Madagaskar, or Falklands or S Argentina . But then US wouldnt have been sending 5 billions each year openly and another 10 billions covertly.

    Anyone can betray for a piece of silver. Doesnt take much.
    America is being betrayed each day by the war polemic coming from the Ziocons.

  18. Iris says:

    even though he is made to look far, far less grotesque than (the non-Jewish) former prime minister Boris Johnson.

    Just a quibble. Boris Johnson’s maternal great-grandfather, Elias Avery Lowe, was a Moscow-born Jew.

    Johnson confirmed this in a 2007 interview for the Jewish Chronicle:

    I feel Jewish when I feel the Jewish people are threatened or under attack, that’s when it sort of comes out,” Johnson said. “When I suddenly get a whiff of anti-Semitism, it’s then that you feel angry and protective.”

  19. @Vergissmeinnicht

    Thanks, I will try later to read the article in case I can have acess to it. But I don’ t think that the question of genocide is the important question, but the daily oppression of and violence against the Pals.

  20. @Uncommonground

    You have no idea if they live under such threats? And another poster below you complains that Giraldi also mentions this threat without giving evident for it. […]

    Giraldi does give evidence about the so-called ‘oppression’ on Palestinians, from sources like mondoweiss.net – can I trust ’em? I don’t know.

    Too polarised this topic; too much fog-of-war and propaganda…
    Even if I had the expertise and the interest in this subject, I’d still lack the time – to figure out where I side with.
    Hence, it’s just safer and FAIRER to just say “I don’t know”.

  21. Dumbo says:

    Who cares. They should me mercilessly mocked and laughed at until “anti-semitism” doesn’t have any meaning anymore. In fact it doesn’t. It just means anyone they don’t like. It’s never a problem when they constantly mock Christianity, is it?

    • Agree: Justrambling
    • Replies: @Justrambling
  22. @Vergissmeinnicht

    There are really many different sources which offer a coherent picture of what happens. There are the reports of soldiers who tell what they saw and did. There is the work of jornalists like Max Blumenthal who wrote 2 books, one of them will become a classic book about wars. There are daily news from several sources. Have you never taken a look at Haaretz or 972mag ? There are historical records. Historians say that now the government restricts access to documents to hide the ugly truth which they tell. There are videos which regularly show that the government systematically lies and that the version of the victims is true. There is the case of the young people making their propaganda “Birthright” trips to the land who realize that what they were shown was not the reality. There are ctitical films and many many books. There are texts like the one by Elisabeth (?) Hauser, “Dear Israel, this is why I left”.

    • Replies: @ld
  23. Al Ross says:

    The Brits still have a colonial mindset .

    Two things : Leave the Commonwealth , an act which should have been achieved when the word, ” “British” was excised from the descriptor of an importunate Third World detritus of Blacks and Browns whose existence was White – enhanced.

    Foreign Aid : Tell ’em , Fuck ’em

  24. Ambrose Kane [AKA "RockaBoatus"] says:

    I’m not pointing out something most of us don’t already know, but it’s apparent that Jews deliberately scream “anti-Semitism” against the most minor, stretched, and contrived examples of it in order to completely eliminate even the possibility of anyone saying something critical of Jews. They aim to not just stop all dissenting voices, but they seek to stop it at the point where you don’t even want to entertain “anti-Semitic” thoughts! This is how they shut both our mouths and our very thoughts.

    Jewish propagandists, such as the ADL and the $PlC, blow things way out reasonable proportions and go into emotional fits as a means of intimidating and preventing anyone from saying something they don’t like. They purposefully overreact. They want us all fearful, hesitant, always doubting ourselves, and constantly nervous as to whether we can criticize Jews and Israel.

    What other ethnic group (other than Jews) place such effirts on trying to shut everyone else up and engage in endless hysteria and fear mongering tactics? I know of none where there is this level of paranoia and bitter personal attacks on anyone who dares to question or even suggest that Jews might be wrong about something.

    There is something deeply wrong with these people. Although Jews on average are relatively intelligent people, they seem to have great difficulty in any collective introspection where they honestly and critically assess themselves as to why they have been booted from so many countries. You can only blame it on “anti-Semitism” for so long before people start to roll their eyes the same way many do when Blacks claim they can’t succeed in life because of the “racist white man.”

    • Agree: Richard B
    • Replies: @ATBOTL
    , @bobby pellit
  25. Z-man says:

    I’m going to become a Jeremy Corbin booster now that I saw that clip from 2018.
    Tropes, what a word. Funny and sinister at the same time. The ‘Thought Police’ tightening its grip.
    Years ago, 2 live Jews on the radio, one being Geraldo Rivera (Jerry Rivers 😆), were agreeing that calling a Joo a Jew was anti Semitic. Funny, ironic, but eventually sinister.
    This Semitic control must be overturned.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  26. @Lemmy Tellyuh

    Well put. “Anti-Semitism” is no more real than unicorns or the tooth fairy. It is a made up creature, (like the boogey man), used to frighten goyim who see too much and speak the truth too freely to button up.

    • Thanks: Z-man
  27. @Vergissmeinnicht

    It was the only region on earth that their ancient scriptures claimed they could lay a claim on, and those scriptures provided a “holy justification” for the claim at the same time. As for the land itself; the Brits bamboozled it away from the Palestinians and handed it over on a silver platter to the tribe. In fact, you have Blighty to thank for the enabling of everything that went on in the region from 1948 on. And when the Brit Empire crumbled and the Yanks took over, they became the new protectors and gained a tribe infested government for the trouble, just like the Brits had (and still have).

  28. @Vergissmeinnicht

    Abby Martin reported extensively on the matter. Reading her work will take away at least some of your doubts.

  29. Soon the Sun – the star, not the rag – will be deemed anti-semitic b/c it sheds too much light on Jews.

  30. Dumbo says:

    Why are British cartoons so ugly and grotesque?

    Also, as commenter Iris says above, Boris is also a Jew.

    But don’t say that Jews control anything, or are anything other than powerless, helpless victims.

    Or they may crush you and rape your soul.

    • Agree: MarkU
  31. Rentana says:

    Arabs lived best in Gaddafi’s Libya Not Israel.

  32. lavoisier says:

    I read through this essay and feel like I am being lied to.

    Does the author maintain that Jewish control of the press and the financial system, and with that power control of the government and its disastrous policies, is some sort of myth?

    It sure seems like he does, suggesting that the problems of England are somehow entirely the fault of some unidentifiable oligarchy.

    If one draws a cartoon showing the media organizations controlled by a powerful Jewish elite; or a cartoon with the banks being controlled by a powerful Jewish elite; or perhaps most offensive a cartoon showing the political class as whores being pimped out by a Jewish elite, would one be guilty of anti-Semitic tropes or would you just be describing the very unfortunate reality of the West today?

    You don’t need to call people names. Just deal with the facts, they are disturbing enough.

    • Agree: MarkU
    • Replies: @DaveE
  33. The only ‘way back for Hell’ here is to choose to use the word ‘semitic’ correctly. very simply, a person is semitic if their first language is semitic. (the word primarily applies to a group of middle Eastern languages, including Hebrew). So american Jews for example are not semites.

  34. @Shitposter_in Chief

    Let me tell you about the most rabid Palestinians supporters here in France, the far left, they only support them because they are brown and Muslims, most do not care about Christian Palestinians at all or Christian Holy sites (most actually would want to see them gone).

    If the Palestinians were let’s say blond and Christian, they would be cheering on the IDF and say they haven’t finished the job yet, they would advocate for a “final solution”. That same far left is completely okay with Europeans Jews, they have the same goal of open borders and genocide of the natives, they are globalists to the core, just a different version of it (or so they say at least).

    • Agree: JM
    • Replies: @feeding baitfish
    , @JM
  35. MarkU says:

    But the rot has spread much further afield. Nowadays, simply using expressions like “the ruling class”, “bankers”, the “establishment” or “a global elite” is likely to get one denounced as an antisemite, as though anyone referencing these predatory groups representing global capital must also believe that Jews are a cabal controlling the world.

    Remember the old saying “If the cap fits, wear it”.

    Some (((people))) obviously think the cap fits, who are we to disagree?

    Israel and Jews in general have far too much influence to be explained by anything other than absolutely rock crushing amounts of financial power. Anyone who doesn’t see that (including Jonathan Cook) is delusional.

  36. Don’t be confused, when they talk about right or left politicians they refer to the hand with which they hold the money, the ideological left hasn’t existed since the fifties.

  37. If you are Christian, Muslim, or otherwise non-Jewish, or if you simply talk about money, or talk about Wall Street banks, you are, in current political environment, anti-semitic.

    • Replies: @DanFromCT
  38. Z-man says:
    @Lemmy Tellyuh

    Why are Whites such pussies? Why do they cower so much? Why do they not unite against the Toxic Two Percent?

    Follow the money. Money and comfort make lions into pussycats.

  39. GMC says:

    Here, check out the new Embassy that the US is building in Lebanon – for Israel. But it’s only 1/2 the size of the new embassy next door in Iraq.

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/newly-released-images-massive-us-embassy-compound-lebanon-prompt-questions/5818780

  40. Anonymous[293] • Disclaimer says:

    A few years ago former Israeli education minister Shalomit Aloni admitted that the anti semitic charge is a trick Jews use to curtail any criticism of Israel and Jews. There it is. Right from the horses mouth.

  41. DanFromCT says:
    @Matt Lazarus

    Criticizing pornography, transgenderism, sexual degeneracy, the atomic spies, or the official narratives about the assassinations of the Kennedys or 9/11, are also considered “anti-Semitic tropes.”

  42. ld says:
    @Notsofast

    bet slither back under the rock where you belong Hasbara troll

  43. ld says:
    @Uncommonground

    Thank You

    A concerted effort to delegitimize the genocide being conducted in Gaza is infesting threads touching on the Zionist problem.
    As Israel is encircled and isolated the hasbara trolls are out in numbers.
    You have more patience than I.

  44. HT says:

    The more powerful and dangerous the Jew supremacists become, the louder they cry about anti-semitism. I pray that soon a leader comes forward who will free us from Satan’s children.

    • Agree: Druid55
  45. Ummmpph! says:

    No matter what type of jew one may encounter in the world – Empire of Lies, they all share the End Jew Hatred Syndrome . . even Oriental jews. > > > https://donthavetolikeyou.com/2023/05/07/end-jew-hatred-syndrome/

  46. Munga Bulga [AKA "Wrong Way Out"] says:

    The world rulers are not Jews at all, but only “evil capitalists”. The evil right-wingers have wrongly suspected the innocent Jews with their anti-Semitism. Moreover, the far-right anti-Semitism prevents an effective criticism of the evil (Jewish) capitalism in the name of (Jewish) marxism. This makes perfect sense!

    • Replies: @Sir Gagsalot
  47. Anon[674] • Disclaimer says:

    Anti Semitism takes many forms. If you travel frequently and get seated next to a Jew, well dressed, but as stink as hell, and you ask to be moved, you are Anti Semitic.

    Too bad for you if the plane is filled and the flight is from New York to LA. You may feel nauseated at the stench but remember DO NOT BE ANTI SEMETIC !!

    Tip for travelling in the USA. Have a handkerchief and that Covid mask at hand along with some mild perfume. Spray perfume on both and place both over your nose. DO NOT spray it on the smelly Jew as this is anti semetic. Do not ask racist questions like “Dont you bathe ?” or “The dollar store has a special on Irish Spring” or “Is there a water shortage where you live ? ”

    These comments, remarks, suggestions (and maybe even your thoughts) are AntiSemitic and will trigger removal from the plane………in midflight if necessary.

    • Replies: @anarchyst
  48. ATBOTL says:

    Sharp’s face is said to be too caricatured, and his grimace too sinister, even though he is made to look far, far less grotesque than (the non-Jewish) former prime minister Boris Johnson.

    Boris Johnson is 1/4 jewish. He is also 1/4 turkish. Fully half of his ancestry is from middle eastern ethnic groups, which explains a lot.

    David Cameron was part jewish too.

  49. “STAND FOR NOTHING…

    FALL FOR ANYTHING”.

    Epithet for the goyim.

  50. Jews use the anti-Semitic slur to make sure us Gentiles stay on bended knee, always offering up praise, money to their broken banks, cannon fodder for endless Zionist wars & all sorts of noise to keep Blacks from finding out that Jews were the biggest slavers.
    When that day finally dawns on the Black Man, it will be interesting to watch how their former owners react to bright sunlight.

    • Replies: @ANon
    , @Canute
  51. @Telimektar

    Here in Norway ALL the political partys have either a fraction of Friends of Israel or the Palestina comitee.

    The zionist faction is anti nordic and think nationalism is Nazism and the Palestina faction is also anti nordic also think nationalism is Nazism.

    So Winston Churchill the modern Judas take on Zionism vs Bolshevism still lives in the mind the jewish supremacist who control our country.

    So either you support the zionist rightwing and get Barbara Learner Spectre genocidal policies or support the Labour left and get either a Tony Blair type anti white zionist or a anti white Jeremy Corbyn type social democrat.

    And the Corbyn types bring the immigrants to their party, while the Blair types use their support in jewry and judeas interest.

    Seem like a pattern, atleast all over the so called west, whatever the West means anymore.

    If the west include former colonies of the west, what good does it to use this distinction.

    I would rather belong to the North, then the west, if the west includes Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, North Africa and former African colonies, and in the minds of western rulers they do.
    And we have no choice, other than accept taking colonizers from these countries, according to our rulers, anything else is racist.

    And not only that but when these migrants get citizenship they can just go to any other western country.

    The swedish state actually payed their immigrants to go to Norway to seek work here, and they could enjoy the easier immigration system in Sweden.
    And we also get immigrants via UK, Italy and Germany too.

    The biggest immigrant groups in Norway is from the former british colonies, Pakistan and Somalia.

    That same far left is completely okay with Europeans Jews, they have the same goal of open borders and genocide of the natives, they are globalists to the core, just a different version of it (or so they say at least).

    The same is true here, I think the leftist jews are ashamed of what the Israelis do, but will not come to terms with that they are doing the almost the same to the native europeans.
    Just with other methods.
    But since they believe we are nazis, we deserve no rights.

    • Replies: @Telimektar
    , @Dave Bowman
  52. ANon[674] • Disclaimer says:
    @Greg Bacon

    Jews use the anti-Semitic slur to make sure us Gentiles stay on bended knee, always offering up praise, money to their broken banks, cannon fodder for endless Zionist wars & all sorts of noise to keep Blacks from finding out that Jews were the biggest slavers.

    When that day finally dawns on the Black Man, it will be interesting to watch how their former owners react to bright sunlight.

    We wish ! The black man suffers from several inherent maladies:
    1. He is naturally stupid
    2.He has been thoroughly brainwashed and hypnotised
    3. He is a lazy fuck and hence depends on the handouts
    4. He hungers for the pat on the head or the occasional disciplinary lash which proves he is loved

    The Tribe is fully aware of these degenerate traits (just 4 among many) and exploits them. When one or two black leaders get too uppity, their own colour assassins are used to cut them down.

    Poor black man. History has doomed him to be the victim of every other race on earth, up and even including his own Bruddas !

  53. @anon

    Those are the numbers we know about – the 15 billion annually.

    There is so much more indirectly – first are the wars that destroyed saddam, gadafi and Assad, Israel’s 3 biggest international adversaries.

    Second, there are countless government funded Holocaust education programs and museums, as well as anti terrorist funding, 90% of which goes to improving the security systems at aging synagogues and Jewish schools.

    Also, the US foreign aid to Jordan and Egypt, which were conditions of their cold peace with Israel, are also major annual expenses.

  54. Canute says:
    @Greg Bacon

    There was one who tried and his name was Malcolm X. They had him murdered. What most people fail to understand about the Jewish community is their predilection for executions whenever they find it necessary.

  55. @anon

    They could have got it in Cyprus,Madagaskar, or Falklands or S Argentina . But then US wouldnt have been sending 5 billions each year openly and another 10 billions covertly

    I don’t understand the need for them getting anything. They already had this:
    https://russiatrek.org/jewish-autonomous-oblast
    The Soviets could have cared less if the US was sending them money.

  56. Mark T says:

    There are just over 250k jewish people in uk, about 0.35% of the population. In the US it is nearer 2.5% of the population. It’s difficult to find the data but of the 500 Goldman partners it’s likely that more than 12 (US ratio) and certainly more than 2 (UK ratio) are Jewish. Indeed, it would have been more unusual if Richard Sharp was not Jewish. Like the media, (ownership) Harvard Law School and leadership of the Fed, on Wall Street, this group is curiously (massively) over-represented.

  57. Jim H says:

    ‘[“The racist right”] stripped out the left’s structural, economic critique of power and replaced it with facile finger-pointing at “subversive elements”. Instead of hitting up, the far-right punched down.’ — Jonathan Cook

    Divide and conquer … in this case with the left-right trope serving as a convenient distraction and straw man.

    Cook’s congenital leftism makes him no friend of white people and, ironically, of Palestinians either. If I were in the hasbara tribe, I’d up his pay and pat him on his little pointed head. Attaboy, Johnny!

    • Agree: Alden
  58. profnasty says:

    Let me see if I got this right.
    Our gracious host is providing deep political analysis, whilst our President is accused of rape.
    Analysis of….wait for it..,

    ENGLAND!!!

    Way to go,,,Bub.

    [Because our American Jews are all warm and fuzzy.]

  59. @Vergissmeinnicht

    After WWII, Jews could have had their country in pretty much anywhere they’d like!

    And they got it. That was always the object of the exercise since the late 1800s.

    They chose a region where it’s some kind of desert, so nothing grows and there’s limited water…
    (But I’m an atheist, so I could be biased…)

    It’s not a desert.
    A lot of stuff does grow there.
    There’s plenty of water.

    Otherwise, please to be explaining the Palestinians already living there.

    Not biased, just stupid and woefully, willfully, uninformed.

  60. ld says:
    @Notsofast

    sorry notsofast
    that was not intended for you

    • Thanks: Notsofast
  61. ATBOTL says:
    @Ambrose Kane

    Jews are psychologically very similar to other semitic and MENA peoples. We need to do a better job of putting jews in the context of their Middle Eastern origins and stop talking about jews like they are space aliens that came from nowhere.

    • Replies: @Ambrose Kane
    , @bjondo
  62. bjondo [AKA "wormssnakesbrain"] says:
    @Vergissmeinnicht

    Open eyes, ears, brain will follow.

  63. Chris Moore says: • Website

    The elite-Anglo methodology of exaggerated injury and offense — patterned on the ((jewish)) methodology of exaggerating “anti-Semitism” in order to keep the Tribe intact and operating ruthlessly (these ((jews)) deliberately keep their lower downs fearful and on razor’s edge) has grown into a caricature. These people just look ridiculous and desperate, but they’ve been doing it so long they don’t know anything else.

    The Anglo-Kike has merged into one desperate, depraved and dying beast, it’s endless grift finally reaching end of days.

    It won’t be missed.

  64. Ambrose Kane [AKA "RockaBoatus"] says:
    @ATBOTL

    True (assuming one rejects the Khazar origins theory), but even then, I don’t see the same level of hysteria coming from Arabs and other Semitic peoples. What Jews engage in seems to be very unique in this respect, and it appears to come quite natural to them as well.

    They have learned well over the centuries to be extremely cunning, deceptive, to think long-term, and to be masters of propaganda. Granted, it shouldn’t cause us to view them as some sort of “space aliens” as you’ve rightly pointed out, but it should cause us to see them as a unique and very troublesome problem.

  65. All accusations of so-called “anti-Semitism” must be ignored with extreme prejudice. Certain Jews with no shame nor dignity nor honor use this so-called “anti-Semitism” crap as a rhetorical weapon to retain and maintain their ill-gotten power in all the nations that Jews have infiltrated.

    The JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire uses accusations of so-called “racism” and so-called “anti-Semitism” to attack White Core Americans who call into question the anti-White ruling class’s policies of mass legal immigration and mass illegal immigration and multicultural mayhem and wars on behalf of Israel and race quotas and the outlandish propaganda lies used to hide and obfuscate rampant disproportionate Black criminality.

    White Core America must absorb the nasty and vicious anti-White propaganda emanating from the corporate propaganda apparatus and the Democrat Party and parts of the Republican Party and White Core America must prepare the counter-attack against the forces of anti-White animosity.

    Ruling class removal is the order of the day in many European Christian nations, and none more so than the USA.

    My response to any bastard who accuses me of so-called “racism” or so-called “anti-Semitism” is to immediately counter-attack from every direction. I will never again vote for any political leader who cringes or blinks when they are accused of this or that involving something called “racism” or “anti-Semitism.”

    Tweets from 2014 and 2015:

    • Replies: @Alden
  66. The Guardian found itself last weekend at the centre of an anti-semitism controversy. Its cartoonist Martin Rowson was accused of using anti-Jewish “tropes” as he depicted a Conservative government mired in corruption, including in its ties to the outgoing BBC chairman, Richard Sharp.

    I say:

    JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG) have screeched like snout-twitching rats once too often about this or that TROPE.

    The European Christian ancestral core of the USA must use the TROPE — A — DOPE STRATEGY to wear down and tire out JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG).

    The European Christian ancestral core of the USA will block and absorb the vicious attacks from JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG) and then when the evil and demonic nation-wrecking Jew rodents get tired, the Historic American Nation will rhetorically blast the Jew slobs.

    THE USA IS A CHRISTIAN NATION

    THE USA IS A BRITISH PROTESTANT SETTLER NATION

    THE USA IS A EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN NATION

    THE ADL AND JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG) CAN GO TO HELL!

    ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH

  67. Corbyn got attacked by the JEW/ENGLISH Ruling Class of England.

    I think Corbyn is a mass immigration fanatic Baby Boomer Limey Rat, but there is no doubt that JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG) and the JEW/ENGLISH Ruling Class of Limey Land attacked Corbyn.

    Corbyn didn’t get down on all fours like a three dollar whore in front of JOG — JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY — and grovel and whimper like a bought and paid for politician whore at their globalizer Jew feet.

    Boris Johnson and Donny Trump are three dollar whores for the evil and immoral globalizer Jews in JOG — JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY.

    It is well known that Jews are the most ungrateful creatures in England and the USA. It is also well known that JOG — JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY — is using mass legal immigration and mass illegal immigration as demographic weapons to attack and destroy the historic American nation and the historic English nation.

    Honest Jews in England — if one is to be found — must tell the truth about their efforts to use mass legal immigration and mass illegal immigration as demographic weapons to attack and destroy the historic English nation.

    An honest American Jew named Larry Auster had this to say about the JEW QUESTION and the United States of America:

    The Jews also (as few people recognize, because the subject is forbidden) changed America in some profound and not always positive ways.

    In terms of national identity, Jews were instrumental in the reformulation of America as a universalist society based strictly on ideology rather than on peoplehood, a change that set the stage for mass Third-World immigration and the much more profound redefinition of America as a multicultural society.

    In terms of morality, many Jewish intellectuals, writers, and entertainers deliberately undermined the older Anglo-American Victorian ethos, a program of moral/cultural subversion that climaxed in the Sixties counterculture and the dominant nihilist culture of the 1980s and 1990s.

    In terms of politics, Jews were instrumental in replacing the old American order of Constitutional self-restraint with the statist politics of unrestrained compassion.

    https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2013/03/13/lawrence-auster-on-the-role-of-jews-in-disestablishing-white-christian-america/

    Tweet from 2015:

  68. BAMMAMA in Europe.

    Jews push White Nakba in the West, but whites cuck to Jews.

    Blacks now smell the blood of the cucked white race that welcomes replacement and cheers on blacks who carry out ACOWW.

  69. Why is the current left so retarded?

    Take Roger Waters. He condemns the Zionist colonization of Palestine but he pushes the non-white nakba against the West.

    Palestine was lost because of mass Jewish immigration. It led to the Great Replacement.
    So, if one opposes what the Jews did to Palestine, it would be consistent to defend Orban’s Hungarian policy, but the European Left calls on Hungary to open itself to colonization by foreigners and the great replacement.

    These people seem to vape on moral outrage without thinking through what they’re pushing. They don’t see the huge contradiction.
    They bemoan the history of Western colonization of other lands, but then say all the world must be open to mass colonization and the great replacement.

    Nationalism doesn’t need to be chauvinistic or aggressive. Hungarian nationalism isn’t about Hungary uber alles or contempt for others. It’s about appreciation and preservation of Hungary.
    True leftists should respect this. Under Soviet domination, this kind of nationalism was acknowledged and defended. Soviets never tried to erase Hungary.

    But the current Western leftists want Hungary to go the way of London or Paris or Dublin.

    • Replies: @Zarathustra
  70. @feeding baitfish

    You guys didn’t even have a colonial empire so the standard excuse of “those countries were part of the Empire 60 years ago so they have the right to come settle down if they wish” shouldn’t even apply to Norway at all.

    I don’t know how bad the situation is in Norway is but I can tell you for France it’s so over, French are either a minority or fast becoming one in the major cities, the smaller towns are far from immune and even in the middle of nowhere “refugees” are being settled in or next to small villages. Hope you guys will survive but I doubt France has more than say 20 years at most, we will be gone as a people far before this century end.

    If it’s any consolation to the Palestinians they will most likely survive far longer as a people than Europeans will, I’m including Eastern Europe in that too since immigration is and will be coming for them.

  71. anarchyst says:
    @Anon

    Jews who were “liberated” at the summation of WW2 had to be forced to use toilets. The soldiers running these facilities commented on the disgusting habits of the jews. It’s all documented. It is fact that their hygiene habits were nonexistent.
    Recently a jew couple was kicked off a airline flight originating in Detroit because they smelled so bad (stunk). Other passengers complained of the stench emanating from these jews. They made the news, as they claimed that they were being discriminated against (rightly so). Near the end of the article, it was mentioned that the airline provided them with a (free) hotel room overnight (where they could clean up their acts). The jews resumed their trip the next day without incident.
    Even today, there are more than a few jews who have no concept of proper hygiene. I’ll bet that (((they))) blame it on the “holocaust”. Oy Vey!

  72. @Ambrose Kane

    The Jews need antisemitism!

    There are big divisions within the Jewish community:

    1) Religious Jews v secular Jews

    2) Israeli Jews v diaspora Jews

    3) Northern European Jews (Ashkenazi) v Mediterranean Jews (Sephardic)

    4) Northern European Jews (Ashkenazi) v Middle Eastern Jews (Mizrahi)

    5) Northern European Jews (Ashkenazi) v African Jews (Ethiopian)

    There’s nothing like an external enemy (the goyim) to bring people together.

    The Jews need antisemitism!

    • Agree: mulga mumblebrain
  73. bjondo [AKA "wormssnakesbrain"] says:
    @ATBOTL

    Jews are psychologically very similar to other semitic and MENA peoples

    If Yid are psychologically very similar to other semitic and MENA peoples, what people
    wouldn’t be? I think comment is way off. Yid are diseased like no other. Nothing like
    peoples of the Middle East.

    Maybe not from space, but certainly aliens from somewhere not Middle East.

  74. @Telimektar

    In the capital Oslo, some school districts have majority immigrants, but our government have populated immigrants everywhere to try to integrate them as they call it, they give the municipalitys money for X number of years to settle refugees.
    And when that money runs out many immigrants will move into the big cities to live among thier own.

    There exist asylumindustry where many poor municipalities take refugees for state government money and that creates jobs in a deindustrialised society.
    And if some local democracy tries to stop this, they will be demonised in the media.
    And you have private initiative which rents out property to the to the government to house these refugees.
    Laywers, police, NGOs, translation, municipal service jobs, hotel and property owners wich gets safe and steady buisness deals from the government.
    Many small towns are transit towns, before the imigrants move to the big cities, most migrants dont want to live there.

    You also have legal immigration from outside europe, family reunion where family members of the refugees or migrant workers come. Many of these imigrants also go home to their country of origin and find a marriage partner to bring here.

    Just yesterday, the Norwegian government had to evacuate sudanese asylum seekers wich had gone back home on vacation.
    This has become so crazy that I believe it cant continue much longer.

    The palestinians have atleast solidarity among their own.

  75. We understand that a cartoon depicting a black politician as a monkey is racist, not just because of historical context, but because, by definition, the cartoonist’s visual comparison is entirely gratuitious [sic].

    We understand no such thing, and we reject the author’s use of the hot-button word racist without his so much as attempting a definition of the term.

    There is no reason to link a black politician with a monkey except to suggest that the politician is primitive or subhuman. The cartoonist’s racist meaning and intention are transparent.

    Nonsense. Many ethnicities have been depicted as apes in political cartoons — the Irish and Germans come to mind. Why do those of African descent rate special protection or consideration? The author is a perfect example of someone who, while railing against the current sliding of the Overton Window, has completely acquiesced to its previous movement.

  76. DaveE says:
    @lavoisier

    Best comment on this thread. THANKS!

  77. Phibbs says:

    Anti-Semitism is a natural (and righteous) response to bad Jewish behavior in Israel and the blatant disloyalty in the Jewish community in America. Add to that all the rot & evil the Jews support from censorship to Black Lives Matter to Critical Race Theory to the culture of victimhood to the greed of Jewish Wall Street to the Jew-owned porn industry to the extremist gay agenda, etc., and you know that the only people who are not anti-Semitic are stupid Goyim.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  78. Nonsense. Many ethnicities have been depicted as apes in political cartoons — the Irish and Germans come to mind. Why do those of African descent rate special protection or consideration? The author is a perfect example of someone who, while railing against the current sliding of the Overton Window, has completely acquiesced to its previous movement.

    I say:

    Cartoonist Thomas Nast Wasn’t Wrong And He Won’t Be The Last To Notice Something About The Nasty Leprechaun John Brennan Types.

    CIA Government Worker John Brennan Carved Up The Electronic Intelligence Gathering Apparatus Of The United States Government To Spy On The Trump Campaign For Partisan Purposes.

    John Brennan And His Ilk Are Carving Up The Constitution Of The United States Just Like Treasonous Elements Carved Up The Democrat Party.

    John Brennan Is An Enemy Of The US Constitution And John Brennan Is An Enemy Of The American People.

    John Brennan Has Revealed The Rot And Corruption In The CIA.

    The CIA must Be Abolished. The CIA Is Full Of John Brennan Type Treasonites.

    Let The NSA And The Military Intelligence Outfits Handle Intelligence Duties For The American Empire.

  79. Zane says:

    I am tired of all this anti-semanticism.

    Get semantic!

  80. @Dumbo

    Is there any other ethnic card out there that has been so overused and to such devastating effect as the antisemitic one? And all is based on victimhood of a holocaust whose veracity is questionable.

  81. I did not feel schadenfreude to see the Guardian hoist on its own stinking ‘antisemitism’ petard-I felt joy and real happiness. It also shows that no matter how much the Sabbat Goyim grovel and seek to ingratiate themselves with our Masters, they are utterly dispensable if ANY Jew or group of Jews wish to harm them.

    • Agree: Alden
  82. @Phibbs

    Judeophobia is mistaken in that it lumps ALL Jews together as antipathetic, based on the actions of a few. A large ‘few’ at times, and an overly rich and powerful few, to be sure, but the Jews are NOT a undifferentiated blob. No group, however defined, is such.
    Oppose, denounce and criticise Evil Jews, or those acting badly, but don’t throw in every Jew because it just feeds the xenophobia and goy-hatred of the worst elements of Jewry. ‘Antisemitism’, of course, is a racket, a tactic designed to smear, intimidate, silence and punish critics of Zionazi crimes against humanity, and the nefarious actions of the worst of the Jews.

  83. @Z-man

    The Corbyn lynching proved that ANYONE, even a lifelong friend of Jews, even hereditary as his parents fought fascists in the East End with Jews, supported by thousands of UK Jews and the strongest anti-racist in Parliament in the UK, Corbyn, could be denounced, tried, found guilty and executed on OUTRIGHT lies.
    That is the sinister beauty of ‘antisemitism’ accusations. There is NO defence, not even the demonstrable truth. Accusation proves guilt, and attempts to defend yourself are yet further proof.

    • Replies: @Z-man
    , @Chris Moore
  84. Bukowski says:

    Jonathan Cook – free speech and freedom of expression should be for everyone. But where were you when 2 British men were imprisoned for distributing a comic book called Tales of the Holohoax ?

    http://www.heretical.com/sgs-2011/jsummary.html

    This was the same country – Britain – that made such a big deal about the Muhammad cartoons yet they sent people to jail for cartoons themselves.
    https://archive.org/details/tales-of-the-holohoax_202203/mode/2up

  85. @Telimektar

    The very same thing is happening in the United Kingdom. The cities are already overwhelmed with immigrants so they are sending them further afield. The biggest problem is that the politicians are sending them to areas that are already incredibly poverty striken. There were 3 murders in one day in London using machetes. If anyone had the slightst doubt that the powers that be detest the working/middle class Whites – this should open their eyes.

  86. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @mulga mumblebrain

    The Corbyn lynching proved that ANYONE, even a lifelong friend of Jews, even hereditary as his parents fought fascists in the East End with Jews, supported by thousands of UK Jews and the strongest anti-racist in Parliament in the UK, Corbyn, could be denounced, tried, found guilty and executed on OUTRIGHT lies.

    mulga “Hebrew brush” mumblebrain, you’ve finally realized the toxic poison of cynically playing the “racism” and “anti-Semitism” card, and how the entire corrupt, greedy, sadistic, depraved enterprise leads to civilizational eclipse.

    The “racism” card is currently being played against the entirety of what remains of Western Civilization by the most cynical, corrupt, greedy, sadistic, depraved belly-crawlers out there — Zoglodytes — and every White that joins in (if they’re lucky) is going to end up like the calculating Corbyn who thought he could build a career by pandering to ((jews)) and ended up getting consumed by the Zionist “anti-Semitism” shtick.

    But more likely, they’ll end up dead. These Zoglodyte sub-humans have unleashed the whirlwind. Just like the ((Marxists)) did.

    • Agree: Richard B
  87. England Is Inundated With Money-Grubbing, Nation-Wrecking Jew Plutocrat Rats

    Jew Jew Jew koo-koo ka-Jew.

    The comic potential of Jews in England is massive.

    Where is Charles Dickens’s Alfred Jingle when you need him? I’m sure Jingle could put a funny spin on the doings of Jews in England. Maybe not so funny, because English civilization is being destroyed by the mass immigration and multicultural mayhem pushed by Jew rats and their bought and paid for politician whores.

    Tweet from 2015:

  88. Nadim says:

    The Jewish mafia members, Mark Dubowitz, and Roya Hakakian, both from FDD are Mossad agents who claim it is NOT Israel that kills Palestinians, it is the rockets launched by the Palestinians that kills themselves including CHILDREN. We spit at you both, Jewish Mafia terrorists.

    Roya Hakakian Retweeted
    Israel יש
    @Israel
    10h
    25% of rockets launched by the Islamic Jihad have fallen in Gaza.
    These misfires killed four innocent civilians including a ten year old.

    The Islamic Jihad isn’t just a threat to Israel. It’s a threat to the innocent men, women and children in Gaza that it happily places in the line of fire.

    But Richard Medhurst exposes the LIES of Roya Hakakian, and Dubowitz, the war criminals.

    UK, a terrorist state, put FAKE ‘Iran opposition’ whore under Police protection when this whore bring FAKE charges. The so called ‘Iran opposition’ has already 100% discredited and they have NO credibility in any shape and form. Why anyone wants to spend a bullet for a CIA whore, which worth nothing?

    Mark Dubowitz Retweeted
    Andrea Stricker
    @StrickerNonpro
    2h
    Iranian dissident put under 24-hour police protection in UK after threats to life

    But the majority of the western politician traitors are supporting Israelis’ massacre of Palestinians including CHILDREN. No support for Palestinians even with empty slogans and words. Shame on you all.
    No global campaign or hashtag for Gaza’s children, like what the Jewish mafia members and their terrorists did for FAKE mahsa protests to topple the Iranian government.

    Twenty-nine Palestinians have been killed including CHILDREN and more than 90 injured in Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip since Tuesday, according to the health ministry in the besieged coastal enclave.

  89. @feeding baitfish

    The biggest immigrant groups in Norway is from the former british colonies, Pakistan and Somalia

    Neither Pakistan nor Somalia have EVER been “British colonies”.

    As a part of India BEFORE the Indians insisted on self-destructive and pointless “self-governance”, finally implemented in 1948, what is now modern-day Pakistan was part of the Indian sub-Continent under formal British Raj governorship. But no part of either India OR the land now called Pakistan was ever considered in English constitutional law to be a “Colony”. They were simply lands under (probably temporary) political governance – partly for their own long-term economic benefit.

    Somalia has never even been formally occupied by British forces – let alone received a constitutional Governorship.

    • Replies: @feeding baitfish
    , @Anon
  90. Alden says:
    @Charles Pewitt

    The old WASP ruling class abdicated on a national level in the 1950s.

    The old WASP ruling class abdicated in the north east Atlantic coast cities after the civil war due to Irish and Germans becoming the rulers of those cities.

    The WASPS never ruled the midwestern states and cities. That was first German territory, later Irish and other groups in the cities.

  91. @Dave Bowman

    I will concede that colony might not be the right wording, english is not my first language.

    Consider this, are you happy you got all these pakistanis and indians over there in the UK, you would think they would be satisfied with getting their own countries.

    Why do you think they chose the UK and not some gulf country.

    What perfidious albion does unformally can be just as devestating as what they do formally.
    And that also include my own country.

  92. Nadim says:

    Israel, the apartheid entity, not only is looting American people, $4 billions/year, out of their Taxes where should be used for health and education of American people, but also Israel lies about the ‘service’ gives for the money. Israel has lied about the success of ‘Iron Dome’, telling you 95% of the time is effective, in fact is ONLY 5%.

    asad abukhalil asaad abu khalil
    @asadabukhil
    7h
    Beware of Zionist propaganda in the Arab media funded by NATO and Soros governments. A military technical expert at MIT University showed years ago that the success rate of Iron Dome did not exceed five percent, and not 98 percent, as the enemy claimed at the time.

  93. JM says:
    @Telimektar

    You describe the garbage perfectly. And not just in France.

  94. JM says:
    @Oil Can Harry

    Thanks for the lubrication.

    He looks inbred.

  95. Richard B says:
    @Shitposter_in Chief

    Great comment!

    Case in point: Roger Waters in Paris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDzex9ic0KQ

    Video Link
    Fat chance of him ever giving a damn about working class white girls in his own country being raped by the Muslims he uses to feed his addiction to mood-altering through self-righteousness.

    It’s about time people realize that virtue signalling isn’t a virtue. It’s a vice.
    Worse, it’s a form of mental illness. From this perspective a better example of mass psychosis than a Roger Waters concert would be hard to imagine.

    He’s certainly proving Nietzsche right.
    Insanity in individuals is rare. In groups it’s the norm.
    And notice the obnoxious feel good authoritarianism he displays be saying like my politics or fuck off. Doesn’t get more Orwellian than a Roger Waters political rally.
    I mean Rock show.

  96. @Richard B

    This is one very pissed off Zionazi troll-but when are they EVER not pissed off?

  97. Meena says:

    “Der Spiegel, that paragon of German social democratic liberalism, pictured Erdogan sitting on a cracked throne behind him a crescent, the symbol of Islam, was breaking apart.

    “In the 100th year of its existence, the Turkish Republic is at a crossroads: if Erdogan is confirmed in office for a second time, observers fear he could turn the country into a dictatorship; he could become ruler for life, abolish elections.”

    Can you imagine the uproar there would have been if Der Spiegel had put Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has allied himself with terrorists and fascists, on a fractured Jewish throne, with the Star of David breaking up behind him?”

    David Hearst

    Middle East Monitor

  98. Anon[242] • Disclaimer says:
    @Dave Bowman

    “ They were simply lands under (probably temporary) political governance – partly for their own long-term economic benefit.”
    Don’t come here regurgitating stupidities .

    And , yes — India was a colony of British . Get that fact inside your empty skull .
    Enoch Powell was sore . His dream of becoming a viceroy was dashed in 1947.

  99. anon[185] • Disclaimer says:
    @Richard B

    Sorry to know that you got violated without ever being able to figure it out who did that to you .
    911 comes to mind .

  100. @Richard B

    I suppose it would be OK if his music/lyrics expressed a political message, as some bands do, as then the people would go for that, but to play his music and then express political messages in-between is wrong.

  101. che guava says:
    @Dutch Boy

    Cook is a fool, negative references to the ‘Guardian’ on his part are a joke, he was among the worst Guardianistas while employed there.

    Partly re-published in Japan, too, foolish enough to buy the paper some days at the time, study of English and politics, so I know the reality of Cook’s Guardianista past.

    His references to the Grauniad are always like words of a spurned lover, instead of truth.

    Cook is as full of his inner Guardianista as Winston Smith has been filled with love for Big Brother at the end of that novel.

    In the case of Cook, not a fictional character, it is a shame that he will never wake up.

    • Replies: @Commentator Mike
  102. @che guava

    There is very little difference these days between the Guardian and the Telegraph, or most of the MSM. In the 70s you knew what to expect from different newspapers.

    • Replies: @Wielgus
    , @che guava
  103. Wielgus says:
    @Commentator Mike

    The Guardian… I remember in 1982, at the time of the Falklands War, an author who supported the war and wrote a rather quickly published book about it not long after it ended wrote that even The Grauniad had not actually expressed treasonable views about the conflict. However its loyalty to the “war” effort was questioned by many and he thought he had to defend it. Not something that can be said now…
    There are those who think that paper was always fake opposition, though.

  104. che guava says:
    @Commentator Mike

    Probably. I don’t know. The Guardian has a scoldy tone, and their writers all use photos of themselves looking snootily over their shoulders.

    They have a thing ‘comment is free’, it’s like a slogan from 1984, you’ll soon be banned even for mild digressions. The comments ‘ombudsman’ will reply once and dissemble.

    • Agree: Wielgus
    • Replies: @Wielgus
  105. Wielgus says:
    @che guava

    During a recent hospital stay I got friends to bring in copies of The Grauniad as well as some books. I dunno, I must have been desperate for reading material. But scoldy tone… Yes.
    Steve Bell was an institution on that paper but obviously Zionism proved too powerful to keep him on, as far as the editors were concerned.

    • Replies: @che guava
  106. che guava says:
    @Wielgus

    Agree on Bell, though not generally understanding enough of Brit. politics at times, didn’t always get the joke, but understood many, including the one that led to his exile.

  107. KA says:

    “U.S. policy follows the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, which was widely adopted by Western governments after lobbying by Jewish groups, E.U. leaders and the alliance itself.”

    “On the Saudi trip, she said, “I happened to be sitting with an imam who said to me, ‘If Israel solved the Palestinian issue, there would be no antisemitism.’”

    The professor in her wanted to trace the history of antisemitism back to the 12th century.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/politics/antisemitism-jews-israel-deborah-lipstadt-biden.html

    I dont agree with the imam. But interesting obfuscation,digression,and condescending behaviors from this lady.
    It is like explaining the armed struggle of the 13 colonies against British by saying history of disobedience can be traced back to chilhood or could be observed everyday in the police station
    .

  108. KA says:

    MAY 18, 2023
    Hitler Wins Again: The Guardian Cartoon Controversy
    BY CHARLES THOMSON

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/18/hitler-wins-again-the-guardian-cartoon-controversy/

  109. This story is stuffed full of examples of semitism. Who could fail to be anti such bad behaviour?

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