Jews for Justice for Palestinians. What a handle! It implies that non-signatories are for Injustice for Palestinians. What about Jews for Justice for Palestinians and Israelis?
The JFJFP mission statement is pretty platitudinous at first, then it tails off into stuff that makes you think they’ve relied solely on the BBC for information.
Their blogroll features the websites of authors of those self-hating diatribes in the Guardian.
Luvvies like Stephen Fry typify ‘I’m-alright-Jack As-a-Jews’ all wrapped in the cosy embrace of the establishment security blanket. Why should they bother tearing out their hair over the complexities of the M/E, or waste precious time anguishing over why people defend evil Israel? They may as well relax and let the BBC take the strain. It’s the most well respected organisation there is, surely? Or does the BBC simplify everything for the simpletons they have created through years of dumbing everything down and missing half of it out ?
Personally, if I could be certain that the JFJFPs knew the full story, the ominously vast number of signatories would bother me in quite a different way. But I fear they might have been listening to the BBC, and relying on Wyre Davies and Jeremy Bowen to put them in the picture. For example, would they just pooh-pooh these little known facts about settlements and ignore the ‘history of the geography’ of the region if they had read these articles? Would they completely dismiss this credible hypothesis, which questions the whole desirability of “Peace” if they’d taken the trouble to read it and apply their brains to some of the similar material that’s out there before signing up?
Will BBC interviewers ask Ed Miliband about this? His mother is one of those signatories, as the Jerusalem Post‘s headline makes very clear: UK Labor chief’s mom backs Jewish anti-blockade group.
Yes, when I read Archbishop Cranmer’s article linked to by George R, I was thinking that none of those what-ifs, whens and whatevers would be likely to occur. He aint exactly gonna be cast as a Zionist, is he? I thought.
Is it likely that he’d ever “call for a strong, independent and secure Israel,” “attend an event organised by Labour Friends of Israel,” “express concern about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the threat they pose to stability in the Middle East,” “ mention that 80 members of his family were slaughtered in the Holocaust, many of them in Auschwitz,” or least of all “condemn trade union calls for economic and academic boycotts of Israeli goods and services!!”
But now that mummy has been outed as an As-a-Jew, and he says he’s his own man, maybe he will do some of those things after all, and the UK will have the chance to prove that it IS the antisemitic capital, if not any other kind of capital, of Europe.