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To Those Who Think All Jews
Are Pro-Israel & Zionists
By Israel Shamir
3-6-4
Wendy Campbell is a film-maker from California, and a familiar face:
her powerful essays already appeared on this list and elsewhere. Today
we offer her provocative and biting description of her visit to the
city where the main street is called Yitzshak Rabin Boulevard. No, it
is not Tel Aviv, but Miami.
But first, an announcement: Wendy made a new documentary called
"Neturei Karta: Jews Against Zionism" and it will be screened on April
14 at 7:30 pm at La Pena Cultural Center at 1305 Shattuck Ave.,
Berkeley.
Wendy describes her film as an "interview with the engaging Rabbi
Weiss of the Ultra Orthodox Jewish group called Neturei Karta (which
means "Guardians of the City" in the ancient Aramaic language), which
was formed in the 1930's before Israel was created in 1948, to protest
the new movement called Zionism. Rabbi Weiss, who is based just north
of New York City, explains why his worldwide organization believes
that Zionism is the exact opposite of Judaism and why they pray for
the peaceful dismantling of the Zionist state of Israel.
Mainstream media has always ignored the activism of the Neturei Karta
and other anti-Zionism groups, so this film may be somewhat shocking,
but very enlightening, for many people who have always thought that
all Jews are pro-Israel and Zionists. Rabbi Weiss provides a
fascinating and concise history of Judaism and how Zionism has been
aggressively seeking to transform it, revealing their intimidation
tactics and falsehoods. He explains how the only way that true peace
can be achieved is through achieving justice for the Palestinian
people, by apologizing for having oppressed them and for stealing
their land. He advocates making amends with them by providing
reparations and allowing them equal rights.
According to Rabbi Weiss, Zionism is blatant racism and against true
Jewish values. He asserts that Judaism is a religion, but Zionism has
attempted to replace religion with nationalism. For more information
about Neturei Karta, please visit
<http://www.nkusa.org/>www.nkusa.org.
For more information on film-maker Wendy Campbell's previous
documentary, "Truth: Exposing Israeli Apartheid", please visit
<http://www.exposingisraeliapartheid.com/>www.exposingisraeliapartheid.com.
Miami, Florida: Zionist Occupied Territory?
By Wendy Campbell
Recently, my boyfriend and I decided to take a trip to South Beach
Miami along with a couple days down in Key West, just for fun. These
days, as anti-war and anti-Zionism activists, with a special interest
in resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict which is fueled by US tax
dollars, we tend to see everything through highly politicized lenses.
Of course, we both know that Florida has a large population of
American Jews, but we were surprised with the "Zionization" of
Florida, as well as the mention by people on two separate occasions in
Key West, who didn't even know about our politics, of Israeli
money-laundering that is going on there. Israel is the largest
producer of the rave party drug Ecstasy, and apparently the Israeli
druglords also collude with South American drug dealers. The Israeli
drug dealers are said to launder money through their cheesy tourist
trap tee-shirt shops that line the lower end of Duval Street in Key
West, the last island of the Florida Keys. Since this activity seems
to be common knowledge, maybe there is some collusion with local
authorities as well.
The Definition of Zionism
At any rate, please allow me to explain my definition of "Zionism".
Zionism is a racist ideology that allows for Jews from anywhere in the
world to go to Israel-Palestine to claim superior rights to the land
and government there at the expense of the indigenous non-Jewish
Palestinians. It can be argued that Zionist Jews expect certain
privileges above and beyond the average citizen in any country they
live. By the way, not all Jews are Zionists, and not all American Jews
think of Israel as their homeland. Many American Jews, I'm sure, if
not most, think of themselves as Americans first and foremost. Many
American Jews, I'm sure, accept their fellow Americans as equals
regardless of their religion, race, ethnicity or gender. However, only
Jews enjoy completely equal rights in Israel, where it is not a true
secular democracy even for Jews, in that only marriages between Jews
are acknowledged as legal in Israel, for just one example.
Furthermore, all non-Jews are marginalized in Israel.
Zionist American Jews are the chauvinistic Jews who commonly believe
in innate, irreducible differences from others and their own
cultural-religious superiority to gentiles, or non-Jews. This attitude
apparently enables them to justify Israel's national campaign of
blatant ethnic cleansing against the non-Jewish Palestinians at worst
as per "hard Zionists" or at the very least, complete segregation as
per the apartheid two-state solution favored by "soft Zionists".
American Zionist Jews tend to think of Israel as their homeland, and
to perceive America as the "cash cow" and military vessel for
achieving Zionist hegemony as well as convenient place to live where
they can enjoy prosperity, freedom and protection from the strife that
occurs in Israel because of Zionism. Zionists in America espouse
universalistic, democratic principles for Americans while trying to
cover up Nazi-like campaigns in Israel against the Palestinians. U.S.
policies now reflect this abhorrent double standard in the so-called
"war on terrorism" in Iraq which is being waged on Israel's behalf.
Zionists also push and often succeed for Jewish supremacy in many
areas of American politics, media and culture to serve their narrow
interests, often at the expense of non-Jewish Americans. American
Zionist Jews tend to place their first loyalty to Israel, over and
above any loyalty to America.
We congratulate American Jews who possess the moral clarity to
denounce Zionism loudly and clearly, and invite all others to do so as
well.
Zionized Miami and the Media
Back to the subject matter at hand. Is Miami, Florida,
Zionist-occupied territory?
There were many things that we observed that led us to believe it is.
And we wonder, is the rest of America going to follow suit? We hope
not.
For instance, most of the newspapers we looked at seemed to be by, for
and about Jews. The fact is that Miami is a highly diverse and
multi-cultural city, with a strong presence of Americans that come
from many backgrounds: Cuban, South American, European and African. As
a side-note, we met many Argentinians, who appear to be the latest new
wave of immigrants. Of course, we weren't sure who were actually
American citizens, but obviously many people in Miami are indeed
American citizens. Why is it that such a culturally diverse city seems
to have media so dominated by those who are Jewish? This could also be
said about American media at large, however it is not always quite so
blatantly noticeable. In Israel, from what I understand, the liberal
newspaper the Ha'aretz employs no Gentile (non-Jewish) writers! In
other words, in any place that has been "Zionized", the non-Jews tend
to be dispossessed and marginalized, and otherwise subjugated to
various degrees.
Jewish Discrimination Against Christians
Here is a very telling front-page story of the Jan. 29 issue of the
Miami newspaper the Sun Post. A woman by the name of Sondra Snowdon
has been on a hunger strike to protest the fact that her town would
not allow any Christmas decorations to be displayed other than a
Christmas tree yet many Jewish decorations for Hanukkah were allowed,
such as the menorah and the Star of David. She and another woman from
another community who has also been experiencing the same kind of
discrimination against the display of Christmas decorations are
considering taking civil action. As per the article, Councilman Robert
Yaffe said the council should make a "better effort to embrace the
celebrations of all members of the community." Now isn't that a fact!
It seems obvious that Zionist Jews have a propensity for cultural
competitiveness and even discriminate against non-Jews, including
Christians, and most obviously Muslims. By the way, Hanukkah is a
minor holiday in the Jewish religion, yet it has been elevated by
Zionist Jews in order to compete and even at times to dominate over
the most holy day for Christians, the holiday of Christmas, a time
that is now simply referred to "The Holidays".
Zionist Jews relentlessly seek to promote programs to educate
Americans about their version of the Holocaust, which by the way,
claimed many non-Jewish victims including the ones who gave their
lives to end the war although this is not emphasized by Zionists. As
they seek to bring Jewish culture to mainstream America, Zionists
often display insensitivity if not hostility towards others'
religions, including Christianity, as well as others' nationalities,
in particular for example, Germans, Austrians and all Arabs.
Jewish Dominance On Street Signs
Another example of Zionist hegemony over mainstream America in Miami
could be seen in the street signs. Many streets such as 12th Street,
15th Street. 16th Street or 20th Street had Jewish names over them,
such as Abe Resnick, Bernard Horowitz and Irving Meyer. Abe Resnick is
on the board of the Holocaust Memorial in Miami, by the way. We saw no
other names over South Beach Miami street signs besides Jewish
names-no Hispanic names, not even English names. At one point we did
see a street named for Flagler, who virtually created South Beach
Miami in the very first place, so that seems surely fitting. There was
even one street sign that was simply Yitzshak Rabin Boulevard! What
other politician of a foreign country has a boulevard named after him
in America? Yitzshak Rabin may have been the only somewhat decent
Israeli prime minister, but does that earn him a street named just for
him in America? Apparently some people think so. Later, we chuckled
when we saw that the sign over 20th Street next to the Holocaust
Memorial bore the additional name "Jerusalem Street".
The Holocaust Museum as a Wartime Propaganda Tool
While we are on the topic of the Holocaust Memorial which we visited
while we were there, which is no doubt at least partially paid for
with non-Jewish American tax money, this is what we observed. First of
all it is a very impressive memorial, with a lily pond, and an outdoor
entry way lined by a wall of panels for names of the victims of the
Holocaust (reminiscent of the Viet Nam War Memorial), which leads to a
central circular walled plaza with a very dramatic monumental bronze
sculpture of a hand outreaching towards the sky, with the naked,
starved bodies of concentration camp inmates grasping for life at its
base. After some quick calculations, we concluded that there were only
about 26,000 names on the wall! On top of that, there were forms one
could fill in and submit for $36 per name to be added, as there were
many blank panels waiting to be filled in with names. Which led us to
a very compelling question.
The compelling question is this: if it is true as the Zionists' claim
that there were six million Jews killed during the Holocaust under
Hitler during WWII, then why has there been no complete central
compilation of the victims' names? Surely, with all the research and
Holocaust "scholarship", along with the claims and litigation that
came in for compensation and reparations from Germany, Switzerland and
other European countries, along with the aid of modern computers,
there must be a central database with all of the names of the victims.
But apparently, to the best of our knowledge, there is not. Why not?
Could it be that Zionists know that such a compilation would possibly
come up far shorter than six million Jewish victims? Could it be that
this would lead to an open discussion of all the claims that Zionists
make about the Holocaust? Could it be that this would lead to the
lifting of the taboo against questioning Zionist claims about the
Holocaust? Although we all know the Holocaust was a heinous occurrence
in history, the Zionists insist that it is the worst occurrence in all
history of mankind in their own chauvinistic, ethnocentric fashion,
when in actuality, any genocidal, ethnic cleansing of any people is
equally abhorrent, and that applies to what the Zionists are now
supporting in Israel against the non-Jewish Palestinians who are the
indigenous people of the Holy Land.
We realize also that the Holocaust is a sensitive topic, as well as a
highly unpleasant topic in every aspect, however, if any country is
accused of committing the worst crime in history, shouldn't there be a
burden of proof? The untold volumes of "missing names" should concern
everyone interested in truth and historical accuracy. Already, even
Jewish Zionist scholars have apparently uncovered truths that
contradict some of the Holocaust lore, but never-the-less, the
Holocaust lore originally put forth by the Zionists years ago as
"fact" remains unchanged for public consumption.
We came to the conclusion that the Holocaust Museum, which is only one
of many across this country and around the world, is definitely a very
potent wartime propaganda tool, again funded at least partially by tax
dollars.
The Role of Jews in the Bolshevik Revolution Airbrushed Away
In South Beach Miami, there is also a very interesting museum that
specifically features posters and artifacts of wartime propaganda. On
the 6th floor of the Wolfsonian Museum, there were many posters from
WWII from various countries from both sides of the war, including from
America, Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and so on. We found one poster
that was printed in 1942 in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands to be
especially interesting. The text read "BOLSJEWISME IS MOORD!" which
translates, according to the placard beside it, as "BOLSHEVISM IS
MURDER!". However, there was no reference to the fact that the letters
"J-E-W" were inserted into the word or why it was. It's something that
most people would most likely not notice. Most people don't have a
clue about the fact that Jews were prominent leaders in the Bolshevik
revolution in Russia. Was this omission an oversight or further
evidence of the unwritten rule against offending certain powerful
sensibilities?
The placard explained how the poster graphically featured the horrors
of a young girl raped, a man tortured and murdered, and Christianity
under attack, as shown in the shattered crucifix on the ground,
committed at the hands of the Bolsheviks. This was designed by the
Nazi Germans to play on the Europeans' anxiety of the savageness of
Red Army of the Communist Soviet Union. What is interesting is that,
just like in the overall American and European discourse, the role of
Jews, many of whom were leaders in the brutal Bolshevik Communist
Soviet Union, has been airbrushed out of history, just like it was
deleted out of the placard at the museum, even while staring you in
the face from the poster. In fact, a couple of top German politicians
were recently publicly admonished for making a public reference to the
significant role that Jews played during the Bolshevik Revolution and
Communist Soviet Union.
The Taboo Against Criticizing Zionist Israel and the Behavior of
Zionist Jews
This all fits into the pattern of the strong taboo against speaking
about Jews at all in connection with anything negative, no matter how
justified. Holocaust lore has created a potent taboo against
criticizing specifically Jewish political actions. In today's "post
Holocaust" environment, Jews are to be viewed either in a uniformly
positive light or as victims. This surely benefits Israel's ongoing
campaign of ethnic cleansing against the non-Jews in Palestine-Israel,
not to mention their privileged status here. The fear of the smear of
"anti-Semitism" is deliberately intended to diminish all legitimate
protest against Zionism and its crimes. Expect to see still more
Holocaust Museums, Holocaust classes in both public and private
Christian schools, movies, cartoons, artifacts, etc. coming soon to a
neighborhood near you!
The repetition is essential in order to constantly attempt to justify
Israel's on-going ethnic cleansing campaign which now includes the
building of the monumental Apartheid Wall, which also illegally
separates more Palestinians from their land, another example of
under-reporting of Israel's wrong-doings. The logic that follows, is
if the Jews are portrayed as always innocent of any wrongful behavior,
then the only reason one could be anti-Jew or more accurately,
anti-Zionism, is because of some irrational hatred, and never because
of their lawless behavior. However this attempt to protect Jews from
"scapegoating" or more accurately from holding Zionist Jews and Israel
accountable for their behavior, is in fact directly allowing Zionist
Jews to continue breaking international law with impunity.
The Need to Demand Equal Rights for All Everywhere Now
It is time for all Americans of all races, religions and ethnicities,
including non-Zionist Jews, to stop being timid or blackmailed into
allowing a separate political or moral standard for Zionist Jews and
the Jewish state of Israel. No topic should be taboo, unless it is
pure hate-mongering, something which anyone of any religion is capable
of, but which must be avoided. No one people's suffering is any more
important than any other people's suffering. "Never again" coined by
arch Zionist racist Meir Kahane, should mean never again should there
be a holocaust or any persecution of any people because of their race,
religion, ethnicity or gender, either here in America, or in
Israel-Palestine or anywhere in the world, especially any country that
receives American tax dollars. There must be no double standards
allowed for anyone. All people and all countries must abide by
International Law, or else be held accountable for their crimes
against humanity in a recognized international court of law. It is
time to address the Palestine-Israel conflict in a completely truthful
manner, and demand that the Palestinians be allowed the same human
rights as the Israelis.
Using the formula which dismantled apartheid in South Africa,
similarly Israel must be pressured by all people of conscience to
transform into a true secular democracy with equal rights for all
regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.
Firstly, a Truth and Reconciliation Committee must be set up, and the
suffering of the Palestinian people due to Zionism must be fully and
truthfully acknowledged by the world, and most especially by Israel.
Then steps must be taken to create a true secular democratic
government that guarantees equal rights for all to replace the current
racist, Zionist government in Israel which favors only Jews.
Additionally, all Palestinians must be compensated for their losses,
including all the Palestinian refugees who must be allowed to claim
their inalienable right to return to Palestine-Israel. This is their
right according to UN Resolutions, International Law and world
opinion. The U.S. and all the nations of the UN should participate in
accomplishing this.
Once this is accomplished, and it can be done if enough people demand
it and work for it, then this will allow a new era of peace and good
will to emerge throughout the world, rather than endless war.
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