English College Caves to Zionist Blackmail, Cancels pro-Palestine Concert

Using the stale "pro-Hamas" accusation against anyone calling for a Palestine free from illegal occupation, colonial brutality and genocide, an English adult education college has cancelled a concert after Zionists claimed it glorified Palestinian terrorism. Zionists have reduced all Palestinian movements for liberation from, and resistance to, the Zionist occupation to "terrorism" to brainwash and tame any criticism against what international instances have by now called genocide and issued arrest warrants against the top Jewish terrorists of the Zionist state, one war ciminal Benjamin netanyahu and the other war criminal Yoav Gallant, with many more to follow.

The Zionists are not the first colonial brutes to do that and in fact the "accusation of terrorism" is recycled around like cheap plastic in an absurd merry-go-round: The German Nazis accused the French resistance of terrorism, then the French themselves, colonizers of Algeria, accused the Algerian resistance of terrorism, and now the Zionist colonizers of Palestine accuse the Palestinian resistance of terrorism. It never ends.

Morley College London has canceled an event called "The World Stands With Palestine: Compositions for the Palestinian Struggle". The College's principal was incessantly harassed by Zionist lobbies until he caved in and argued that the cultural-political-musical event aiming at supporting a nation under genocide  would have promoted a “one-sided political view”. It would be as if an event in support of the French Resistance during WWII would be canceled because it does not include Nazis and their political views". Can English hypocrisy stoop any lower while it claims the highest standards of freedom of speech?.

Leaflets advertising the concert included an innocent image of hands holding a placard saying, “Stand with Palestine!! Stand with the Resistance!!”. Is there anythig wrong with resistance to occupation? A brutal genocidal occupation to boot?

The concert had been organised by the Cornelius Cardew Concerts Trust (CCCT), named after a composer of avant-garde and experimental music who died in a road accident in 1981.

Andrew Gower, the principal of Morley College – which once employed German-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution – moved quickly to cancel the event following a complaint from the rxtreme right-wing Zionist group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). Mr. Gower bent over backwards to justify his coerced decision in a convoluted statement that mangled free expression and freedom of speech into a Zionist mind-grinder: “Regrettably on this occasion, the proposed event slipped through the net of our editorial processes, including our Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Expression Policy.” 

Mr. Gower did not, at first, question the event: It had passed with flying colors through the editorial process of his college. But after the Zionists breathed down his neck (probably by threatening to withhold grants and donations as they did with American universities) and instructed him to notice "certain aspects" of the event, he suddenly saw the light and observed that the event's unfortunate aspects had "slipped" through the editorial process.

Mr Gower backpedaled like a faithful servant of the Zionists and said that had the policy been followed, Morley College “would not have given permission for an event of this nature to take place on the grounds that it presents as promoting a specific and one-sided political view”.  But the musicians behind the event have described the move as a “thuggish” attempt by Zionist UKLFI to silence Palestinian voices.

The Zionists had been alerted by members of the Jewish community who accused the event planners of organizing a concert “sympathetic to the actions of the terrorist group Hamas”. Again, any cultural expression of solidarity with, and freedom for, Palestine is reduced to an act of terrorism. Even the word "resistance" has become a bad word, only when it is aimed against the genocidal Zionist occupation of Palestine.

In their complaint to Morley College, the Zionists stated: “The ‘Resistance’ with reference to Palestine means an armed struggle, and not only against military targets. It is evident that the organizers of the event have adopted a particular political viewpoint which is supportive of the Palestinian ‘Resistance’ or armed struggle." Yeah? so? Since time immemorial, resistance to a brutal, land-stealing, gencoidal foreign occupation has had armed struggle as a central component. But Zionists insist on making an exception with Israel when it comes to all norms of human conduct.

Listen to the now-contrite and practically sobbing spokesman of Morley College London as he explained why the college changed its mind:  “We sincerely regret the offense caused by the proposed Cornelius Cardew Concert Trust concert. Morley is a politically neutral organisation, and the college has a proud record of inclusivity for all dating back to its foundation in 1889. Advancing diversity is a strongly held value... As soon as the issue was raised with senior management last week, the unequivocal decision was taken to withdraw our support as host, leading to the cancellation of the concert. As a result of this situation, we are strengthening our editorial processes.”

Offense? Neutrality? Diversity? Inclusivity? All down the garbage bin.

The concert organizers said they were countering with legal measures and are planning to stage the concert – which it described as consistent with the lofty ideals of humanity which it has always upheld – as soon as possible. “The musicians and composers who organised this CCCT concert ... have done so in deepest sympathy with the suffering Palestinian people and in response to their heroic struggle for their very existence. They reject this latest attempt to silence their music and their voices and to illegalise music itself through scaring composers and performers to remain silent and bullying the concert venue itself.”

The fight between brutal occupying Zionists and the Palestinian resistance continues. The only loser in this clash is filthy Morley College London that did not the courage to stand up for freedom and justice.