Comments on: Calls grow for UK government to recognise Palestine following Israel election result

By: Dave Roberts

Dave Roberts — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 23:05:39 +0000

Stop attacking Israel, have free elections, women’s rights, gay rights, stop keeping Palestinians in the camps as political pawns and so much more.

By: Marian Hobson

Marian Hobson — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:18:18 +0000

“Normal civilised stuff”. I totally agree. I have just helped fund the purchse of **gas masks** for a Palestinian primary school in Hebron. Needed against settler incursions, yes, but these are watched by. an Israeli army standing by.

By: Averil Wood

Averil Wood — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:06:22 +0000

Will you insist that those same conditions apply to Israel – an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth ?

By: Dave Roberts

Dave Roberts — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:12:20 +0000

I agree that Palestine should be recognised when it agrees to behave like a normal member of the community of nations.Women,s rights, no killing of gays people, no Jew hatred. All of the normal civilised stuff.

By: Patrick Newman

Patrick Newman — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:10:02 +0000

Recognise Palestine – of course, but there are powerful pro-Israeli and pro-Netanyahu forces in the UK. It is clear that Israel runs the biggest concentration camp in the world and quickly becoming an Apartheid state with its new citizen laws. Expect it to interfere in British politics particularly if it looks as if Corbyn is likely to be PM. Already it appears that the genuine issue of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party has been weaponised by anti-Corbyn factions in the PLP and those outside in the various lobby groups purporting to represent the views of British Jew (population est. about 300,000 in the UK – mostly resident in Greater London and the Home Counties).

By: Jon Cloke

Jon Cloke — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:55:59 +0000

It is surely no coincidence that the outrageous ‘antisemitism’ campaign is being intensified at a time when pro-Palestinian progressive factions are making more and more of an impact on government in the UK and the US.

Neither is it a coincidence that as the BDS movement grows ever stronger and more active, more effort is being made by the extreme-right of politics across the liberal western democracies to clamp down on democracy and terminate freedom of speech on behalf of Apartheid Israel. Over 50 states in the US have passed anti-BDS legislation which directly contravenes the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

As we all know, the voice of progressive groups in the Jewish community which support the cause of the Palestinians are being censore by the mainstream media (MSM) across Europe and the US, at the same time as extremist right-wing voices of a Kahanist bent are given a public megaphone as if they, and the extreme non-Jewish right that supports a militant Israel, were the only voice of the global Jewish community.

The mass falsehoods being promoted by the UK MSM amongst others is born out of the fear of a progressive, socially-active Labour government beginning to reverse decades of the damage done to the UK, firstly by unrestrained neoliberalism and then by the smoke-and-mirrors ‘economics’ of austerity. We should be in no doubt that if the Labour Leadership were able to wave a magic wand and make the antisemitism fraud go away overnight, within a very quick space of time there would be some other PR campaign being launched to try and stop Labour from forming a government.

No other party has policies designed to reverse the unlimited access to UK government circles that has been gven to representatives of Apartheid Israel, and no other party has the truly radical platform of changes needed to make any impact at all on our deteriorating environment – the Green New Deal, People’s QE, etc. It is no coincidence that those factions determined to intensify the ‘antisemitism’ campaign against Labour are also those who most resist measures against climate change.

Just as we can either have a society based on mass consumerism (for a short while longer) or we can have a liveable planet, but not both, we can either have universal human rights for everybody (including Palestinians) or for nobody – Palestinians and Palestine are not a sub-catergory of humanity to be excluded as a special case. If the global community cannot recognise the massive historical injustices done to the Palestinian community (with the active help of generations of UK governments) and act on them, then we as a species do not deserve to survive the climate-driven, planetary disaster that is rushing down on us…