By Anthony Bellchambers
1. Binyamin Netanyahu claims to
speak for the majority of world Jewry although, in fact, he represents
only a minority of Jewish Israelis and Americans – those who support his
right-wing, Likud Party. To many others, particularly in Europe, he is
considered a US-financed, Zionist rabble-rouser with an extremist
political agenda that rejects any Palestinian state and requires the
‘transfer’ of all indigenous Arabs out of former Palestine.
2. Israeli policies such as the
illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (to prevent the
establishment of a Palestinian state); the 8 year blockade of essential
supplies into Gaza; the mis-labelling of exported fruit and vegetables
to Europe and the horrific killing of hundreds of defenceless women and
children in Gaza – all have the effect of exacerbating antisemitism
around the world. The agenda of the Israeli government against the
indigenous Arab population being the primary driver of anti-Jewish
feeling both in Europe and globally.
3. Netanyahu is well aware of
this link and the detrimental effect of his policies on the security of
Jewish communities worldwide, and on public opinion, but he also knows
that the greater the increase in antisemitism the more French, British
and other Jewish nationals will be forced to sell their homes and
reluctantly leave the countries of their birth to seek sanctuary in
Israel. This is a key principle of the Netanyahu government agenda that
all American, European and diaspora Jews should be ‘persuaded’ to
emigrate to the Israeli state – together with their assets.
4. However, this agenda is also
partly supported by millions of evangelist, Christian Zionists in
America, who believe in the literal word of the bible and whose goal is
for all 14 million Jews in the world to be relocated to the Israeli
state where they can be baptised and converted, en masse, into the
Christian church! The Israeli government ministers smile knowingly
behind their hands as they accept this support – without which their
economy would collapse.
5. The Israel lobby in America
comprises over a dozen organisations including AIPAC, the primary
Zionist political pressure group with links into the White House that
heavily influences US foreign policy around the world.
However, for many integrated
European Jewish communities, Mr Netanyahu’s alleged war crimes in Gaza
plus his violent, expansionist agenda with its consequent rise in
antisemitism, are very bad news indeed.
The head of UNICEF said
yesterday, that 392 children had been killed in the conflict between
Israel and Hamas, and that about 370,000 children had been traumatised.
A boycott of academic and
trading links with the state of Israel now seems to be inevitable
consequence of the atrocities carried out in Gaza.
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