Goodbye Anti-Semitism. Hello Israelophobia, the New and Improved Zionist Scarecrow

The Telegraph (a.k.a. the Daily Telegraph, and nicknamed the Torygraph) is a deeply conservative British tabloid with sympathy for the Germans during World War I. It later tried to suppress Winston Churchill's anti-Nazi posture at the onset of World War II. The Nazi and anti-Jewish ideology was very pervasive in British society, mostly within the conservative elements of society, including all the way up to the British Royal family who, let us remember, were and remain of German aristocratic stock.

According to Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Telegraph_Affair], the "Daily Telegraph Affair" was the uproar that followed the 28 October 1908 publication in the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, of comments by German Emperor Wilhelm II. The affair was a major diplomatic blunder that worsened relations and badly hurt the Kaiser's reputation. The Telegraph had fraudulently published notes by a British Army officer Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley as an interview with the German Emperor that included wild statements and diplomatically damaging remarks, the most infamous of which was directed at the English people.  

 

The Daily Telegraph logo next to you-know-whose logo

 

 

 

 

Just like all conservatives at the time, as well as those of today, the British conservative movement has in the very least deep sympathies for Fascism and anti-Jewish ideas. Their blind support for Israel is due to their refusal to admit to themselves not only the failure, but the abhorrent duplicity of their British colonial mandate in Palestine, and also to compensate for their own hatred of Jews by a boundless fake support to their colony Israel. They did it with South Africa, why would it be any different with Palestine? See appended to this piece a comprehensive list of 20th century British Fascist and Nazi parties and organizations. Their sheer number suggests that British conservative society remains viciously Anti-Semitic. 

The Telegraph seems to have realized that the term "anti-Semitic" no longer scares people who criticize Israel as an apartheid state. Their affinity and nostalgia for their lost South African Apartheid colony makes them feel closer to their still extant Apartheid colony of Israel. They lost South Africa and are trying their best not to lose Israel. So they have now come up with a new term they seem determined to implant in their readers' minds to replace the worn out "anti-Semitic" and become the new scarecrow against criticizing Israel. Now keep in mind that the Telegraph is a deeply conservative British rag with roots in the Imperialism, Colonialism, Fascism and Anti-Semitism of 18th-20th century Britain. Their desperate efforts at redeeming themselves is at the very least laughable. 

The fact is that in every colonized country it tormented and pilfered for hundreds of years, British colonialism invariably left behind it a divided land, wars, mass massacres, and shattered lives: Israel-Palestine, India-Pakistan, South Africa, US-Canada, etc.

One Jake Wallis Simons wrote a piece recently in the Telegraph (August 27, 2023) entitled "Israelophobia is the one hatred that polite society embraces", whose purpose is to promote a book he wrote on the subject that is apparently not selling very well. Now in British racist parlance, "polite" implies conservative. Thus, The Telegraph, through Simons, makes the following asinine arguments:

Israel is only 1 per cent of the Middle East (the Middle East being a western colonial concept to describe a geography with ambiguous boundaries and that is based on dubious linguistic and religious criteria). Israel is also only 75 years old. Therefore, Israel is like a child and should not matter that much given its size and age. A small child that kills is not like an adult that kills, and should be let loose to continue killing. Strange argument.

Another lie often propagated by Zionist apologists is that Israel is the only liberal democracy in the region, notwithstanding the fact that it is an ultra-religious fundamentalist state fabricated around the fictional garbage of the bible, namely that God chose the Hebrews as his pet people, ordered them to commit the First Nakba against the Canaanites, the Palestinians' ancestors, specifically ordering Joshua to murder every child, woman, man AND beast, and seize their land, the land He in his racist Bronze Age wisdom granted the Hebrews as their "promised land". 

Either of two things: The whole "promised land" fantasy is in all likelihood a fictional fabrication typical of biblical bullshit, and therefore this fable cannot reasonably be used to justify the barbaric existence of Israel today as a so-called homeland for the returning Jews. Now, if we assume it to be true, this macabre event constitutes one of the first recorded genocides in human history, one carried out by the Hebrews (ancestors of the Jews) against the Canaanites (ancestors of the Palestinians), a genocide for which modern Israel represents a second installment. I wonder whether Yahweh should evolve out of his Bronze Age hideout into the modern world and recant this murderous command to his pet people to genocide an entire people (the Canaanites) and dispossess them of their land. At the very least, He should be tried in a criminal court for crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Then Mr. Simons says that Israel is "not particularly violent". How sweet of his propaganda. It is only a tiny bit violent, not that much. That he admits that Israel is "sort of" violent is sufficient for sane people to conclude that Israel is indeed violent. To buffet his argument, Simons admits that Israel has killed upwards of 86,000 people, which is "negligible" when compared with the killing of 600,000 Iraqis by the Americans, Israel's main sponsors and funders after Britain lost its imperial colonial status.

Then, Mr. Simons says that Israel "is not a bad place to live".What he means is that while it is a little violent, Israel's puny violence (as one of the most hypermilitarized countries on earth, thanks to British and American military and financial assistance) manages to survive the hatred it generates among the native indigenous Palestinians whom it has eviscerated out of their millennial land and continues to brutally occupy. What success! Yes, the fact that foreign invading settlers have water and electricity and roads specifically built for them, while the native indigenous people are dehumanized and herded behind racist walls into destitute refugee camps, is really not a problem. A brilliant success, from a 19th century colonial perspective.

And now, to dispel any critique of the paradisiac features of Apartheid ultra-religious racist Israel, Mr. Simons blames a whole bunch of people, inluding Israel's own victims, and feels he must coin a new term to replace the dying term of "anti-Semitism": ISRAELOPHOBIA. Tough to utter, scarier sounding than the more poetic anti-Semitism, but it will serve from now on in the Zionist propaganda toolbox, perhaps for a while. At least that is what Mr. Simons hopes. 

First, he blames Christians after listing a bunch of Zionist lies. Since the Holy Land is "Jewish" (which is not true, as we saw earlier. Joshua's Jews massacred the Canaanites and took their land), and since Jerusalem is "Jewish" (it was, but for only 300 years of its history over at least 3,000 years), and since the fantasy and dubious figure of Jesus, the self-proclaimed Son of God, is "Jewish", then the Christians are jealous of the Jews and blame them because everything the Christians believe is Jewish! 

Hence a long history of anti-Semitism among Christians, with "anti-Semitism" being a misnomer since Jews represent only 5% of all Semites on the Globe. As people emerged from the ignorance of the pre-18th century period, they have come to realize that Jews are not the only Semites around, which made them lose the exclusivity of victimhood with which they have long blackmailed Europeans and others into subscribing to the Zionist propaganda. With this premise, Mr. Simons now makes his next move: Introduce his new Zionist propaganda tool: ISRAELOPHOBIA, by defining it as “the old hatred decanted into new bottles”. From now on, stop using anti-Semitism and use Israelophobia instead. Since anti-semitism can no longer logically be applied exclusively to Jews - worse yet, it does apply to the Palestinian victims of the Jews who thus become anti-semitic! - the new "Israelophobia" is very specific and cannot be "stolen" from them. There are so many other Semites around, but there is only one Israel, luckily for the civilized world.

Mr. Simons then places everything in the same blender as it were: "Like the anti-Semitism of previous centuries, the bigotry is based on conspiracy theories and falsehoods. Israel is accused of pulling the strings of politicians, finance and the media". 

No, Mr. Simons, if some numskulls of the extreme right and left conspiracy theory club use stupid arguments like the ones you describe, no one in the world of sane, reasonable and moderate people is accusing Israel of conspiracies and plots. You should not insidiously amalgamate legitimate questions with irrational claims, just as you should have never amalgamated legitimate Palestinian National Resistance and the right to self-determination with extremist Islamist terrorism. Stop doing that. It's unethical. Israel is guilty, and therefore legitimitally accused of land theft (true fact), apartheid (true fact), racism (didn't Israel's minister Ben-Gvir say that Israelis have rights but Palestinians don't?), expansionism (the state of Israel has no constitution, which means it deliberatly refuses to delineate its borders, which suggests that it plans of stealing more land)... And those facts do not excuse the anti-Semitism which has existed long before the creation of the colony of Israel. They simply objectively judge Apartheid Israel for its actions, as was the case with Apartheid South Africa where no one hated the white Afrikaaners because they were white, but simply because they were racist and were dehumanizing the native indigenous black south-Africans.

Israel is presented to the West by Zionist propaganda as a "white" country. In fact, the media always focus on blond-haired, blue-eyed East European or American settlers (who are only Jewish by conversion, not by ethnic ascendancy) as the prototypical Israeli, while showing dark-haired, brown-eyed Palestinians, as if to always emphasize the point that Israelis are "like us" while Palestinians are "alien" to us. If Israelis speak English with an American accent, which makes them likable to the dumb US audience, it is because they ARE American settlers from Brooklyn, NY.

Then Mr. Simons goes on to elevate every insignificant detail using suspicious percentages to Israel's advantage to make his point: Despite being such a fantastic country, tiny Israel is hated by everyone, the poor thing, including by the wealthy and rich people on this earth: "Israelophobia is now one of a suite of “luxury beliefs” about race, gender, colonisation and slavery which are taken on by the elites as badges of political identity"... "patrician liberalism and old-fashioned socialism, shot through with the sort of intense focus on race that is normally only seen on the far Right".

At least, The Telegraph's Mr. Simons admits that extremist right-wing conservative British have always been anti-Semitic, but now they have graduated into Israelophobes.

With no conscience to aid him, Mr. Simons asperges the entire world with his brand new "Israelophobia" accusation: "Wherever you find toxic identity politics, you find Israelophobia. From the EU to the Foreign Office, from universities to museums, from publishing houses to advertising agencies, bigotry towards the Middle East’s only democracy is rife." Regardless of the tiresome lie that Israel is the only democray in the Middle East, Mr. Simons's paranoia wants us to believe that everyone is against Israel, the whole old and gigantic world is against tiny, little-violent, young Israel. Mr. Simons is literally saying that 8 billion people are wrong and that the 6 million plunderers of Palestine, foreign Jewish colonists, rapists, terrorists and settlers, are right.

According to this racist eunuch, any attempt by a Holocaust guilt-inflicted world to redress the existential harm done by genocide and land theft to the native indigenous Palestinians and bring them a modicum of justice "erodes Western self-respect; undermines our history; destroys national pride and patriotism; and sows social division. It emboldens our enemies, whether Islamists or Putin’s fascists". Why he omits "Zionist Jewish racist fundamentalist settlers" from his list of enemies is questionable at the very least.

He then throws his final punch which aims at digging the guilt deeper into the involuntary autonomous brains of Western minds and, like a vaccine, immunize Israel against future legitimate accusations of further land theft and ethnic cleansing against the remaining Palestinians: "Make no mistake", he says, "the fight against Israelophobia is the fight for Western liberalism." Self-serving stupidity could not have done better!

The British conservative movement is rife with racist hatred. Just as its embers continue to glow under the ashes, anti-Jewishness and anti-anything that is not white anglo-saxon protestant still smolders in Perfidious Albion. But it's been said and proven so many times in history: the path to peace can only be through justice. Mr. Simons, who thinks he can embark us on another century of lies, manufactured propaganda terminology, and false premises, is sweeping justice under the rug. Neither he, nor Israel nor Western liberalism will ever see peace as long as the Palestinian people are treated like disposable humans by Torah- and Bible-thumping barbarians. Just like the Crusades a millennium ago who came with an identical religious argument to take back the "Holy Land": They stayed 200 years but were ultimately evicted. Israel will never know peace as long as it pursues a blatant unfair and deliberately violent approach to abscond with the fictional biblical fantasy of the "Holy Land" otherwise known by its real name: Palestine. 

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Appendix: List of British Nazi and Fascist movements of the 20th century:

PRE-WW II:

• The British Fascists (BF), founded in 1923 as the British Fascisti by Rotha Lintorn-Orman
  
• The National Fascisti, a splinter group of the BF founded in 1924 that loved Mussolini
  
• The Imperial Fascist League (IFL) formed by Arnold Leese in 1929 embraced Nazism
• The British Union of Fascists (BUF), formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley was the largest British fascist party with support from members of the House of Lords, Commons, and others
  
• The Militant Christian Patriots (1935) were a strongly anti-Semitic propaganda organization
  
• The pro-Nazi National Socialist League, formed in 1937 by William Joyce and John Beckett
  
• The English National Association, initially called the British National Party
  
• The Scottish Fascist Democratic Party (early 1930s) under William Weir Gilmour
  
• The British Democratic Party became involved in the Coordinating Committee, an initiative of Archibald Maule Ramsay in the late 1930s
  
• The British Empire Fascist Party, set up by Graham Seton Hutchinson in November 1933, was strongly anti-Semitic
  
• The British People's Party (BPP) was founded in 1939 and led by ex-British Union of Fascists (BUF) member John Beckett, a co-founder with William Joyce of the National Socialist League
  
• The British Union emerged in the early 1930s and worked with the BF
• The British United Fascists were established in Kensington in 1933. The BUF's Blackshirts attacked their offices
  
• The British Empire Fascists were mentioned in 1920s reports in the Socialist Review
  
• The Fascist Movement was another 1920s splinter group from the BF
  
• Italian Fascismo was established in Leith in 1924, with a black-shirted uniform. It was entirely mimetic of Italian fascism and was particularly popular among Edinburgh's Italian community
• The Kensington Fascist Party 1920s-1930s. Worked closely with the BF, IFL and the Unity Band
  
• The Legion of Loyalists in 1931 signed a BF document calling for the abolition of parliamentary government. It joined the British Council Against European Commitments, a pro-German umbrella organization founded by Viscount Lymington in 1938
  
• The Loyalty League emerged in 1923 as an anti-Semitic group attached to the Conservative Party that sought to promote Italian fascism
• The Nordic League, active between 1935 and 1939, was a coordinating body for various Nazi extremist movements
  
• The Nordics were a small group of anti-Semitic "racial nationalists^"
  
• The Scottish Union of Fascists was set up by T.W. Denholm-Hay in 1934 as a Scottish-minded breakaway from the BUF
  
• The Stamford Fascists were a 1926 splinter group from the BF
  
• The United Empire Fascist Party was established by C.G. Wodehouse-Temple in December 1933 and included a former IFL member and agent for Nazi Germany
• The Unity Band was established by Lieutenant-Colonel Oscar Boulton in 1930
  
• The White Knights of Britain, also known as the Hooded Men, were a Ku Klux Klan-inspired secret society that existed between 1937 and 1938. Deeply anti-Semitic, the swastika was their emblem and Edward I of England was their patron figure due to his expulsion of the Jews
  
• The Yorkshire Fascists emerged in the 1920-1930s
  

POST WWII:

• The Union Movement, a re-founded version of the BUF that played a pivotal role in developing the Europeanist outlook of neo-fascism
  
• The British National Party (1960–1967) which uproduced pro-Nazi propaganda until 1962
  
• The National Socialist Movement (NSM), a breakaway from the BNP that was openly Nazi and was a charter member of the World Union of National Socialists
• The Greater Britain Movement, set up by John Tyndall when he split from the NSM, called for a specifically British form of Nazism
• The British Movement, a 1968 branch of the NSM, used images of Hitler and the swastika on election literature
• The November 9th Society, a neo-Nazi organization founded by Terry Flynn in 1977.
  
• The Britain First Party which is a right-wing, anti-Islam and ultranationalist party that has been described as "fascist" by multiple media outlets
• The National Socialist Action Party, a splinter group from the BM formed in 1982
• National Action, a banned neo-Nazi terrorist organization that has done political activism
• New British Union, an openly fascist group founded in January 2013 by Gary Raikes, a former British National Party candidate for Scotland