GENOCIDE - WHICH COUNTRIES ARE NOW DOING IT ON A DAILY BASIS?

Genocide is a vast subject which has been researched in great depth and many studies have been done on the topic.

Countries which are not normally given publicity who are deeply involved will surprise many people when they consider what these countries are doing and why.

We can of course start talking about genocide naming a few of the well-known historic countries, such as Turkey and the Armenians, and Germany and the Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Gays and Lesbians - and many others.

Some of the modern ones taking place under our noses, and generally ignored by politicians and media, are of course the USA and its indigenous and African-American populations, and Israel which is determined to occupy the whole of Palestine by ridding the country of its indigenous population bit by bit, one murder or two at a time and stealing their country bit by bit until they are in control of the whole area known historically as Palestine.

We now all know of some of the genocides having taken place on the African continent, but there are also those in Asian countries which are not given the media and international attention that they need, such as China and Tibet, and Myanmar and the Rohingyas.

ARE JEWS IN AUSTRALIA CITIZENS OF ISRAEL OR CITIZENS OF AUSTRALIA?

Where to start on this story?

What is anti-Israel propaganda?

A play about events in Gaza and human rights abuses by the Israelis when attacking Gaza - yet again - is now being put in the Australian Jewish category of "unabashedly one-sided."

.........and of course we repeatedly hear about the Palestinian side from the media and the Jewish and other communities in Australia? I don't think so!

The zionists in Australia, Jewish and Christian and others, would like to never hear about the Palestinians, the conditions under which they live and the human rights violations perpetrated by the Israeli government against them as if they are non-people, which of course is the zionist view.

As with South Africa, change will come when other members of the world community wake from their disgusting lethargy and do something about the butchery happening non-stop in the West Bank and Gaza.

This will occur because of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns around the world.

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VCE play accused of being 'anti-Israel propaganda'

May 9, 2016 The Age

Timna Jacks

Education Reporter

Cast of the play, Tales of A City by the Sea, when it premiered in 2014. Photo: The Age
 

Jewish groups have slammed the VCE authority, claiming it has selected a play for the year 12 drama curriculum that portrays Israel as a "blood-thirsty, evil war-machine" and amounts to "anti-Israel propaganda".

The play, Tales of A City by the Sea, was written by Samah Sabawi​, a Palestinian-Australian writer and activist, who supports the BDS [Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions] movement against Israel.

The play premiered in Melbourne in 2014, and will be performed for the second time at La Mama Courthouse, starting on Wednesday.

More than 1,300 students are studying VCE Drama this year.

Set in the Gaza strip during the 2008-09 Gaza War, the story centres around a Palestinian woman living in a Gaza refugee camp, who falls in love with an American-born Palestinian activist and doctor, who arrives on the Free Gaza boats.

It describes life during the war, depicting frequent shelling and "white phosphorous rain".

Characters in the play compare Israeli rule to "tyranny". One accuses Israel of leading a "massacre" of the the Palestinian people, questioning: "What Holy Scripture gave the command 'Thou shall wipe out their villages and scorch their land?'"

The play is one of six selected for year 12 students studying VCE drama. Students will watch the performance and study the text throughout the year.

Dr Dvir Abramovich​, chair of the B'nai B'rith​ Anti-Defamation Commission, a body raising awareness about anti-Semitism and hate speech, said the play portrays Israel as a "blood-thirsty, evil war-machine", without any explanation for the bombings, or the violence perpetrated by the Palestinian camp.

He took aim at the authority for including the "unabashedly one-sided" play in the curriculum, claiming the content was "anti-Israel propaganda".

"Nowhere to be found is the Israeli perspective ...  the suicide bombings inside Israel, the deaths of more than 160 children who were forced to dig tunnels by Hamas, the offers of peace by Israel, the thousands of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza," he said.

"What this play does, amongst other things, is to create a tremendously hostile climate in which any Jewish student who will see the play with their classmates … will be ashamed and worried about expressing any support for Israel or even admit that they have a link with the Jewish state."

Jennifer Huppert, president of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, echoed these concerns, claiming the play could "create negative views about Israelis and Jews in the classroom".

The playwright Ms Sabawi shot back, suggesting it was impossible to write a play about Palestinian people in Gaza without depicting Gaza as a war zone.

"Do we need to tell an Israeli love story every time we tell a Palestinian one?
 
"How ironic is it that a depoliticised play that puts the focus on the human dimension is being made political by interest groups who fail to see the world outside of their ideological filters," said Ms Sabawi, who is also a policy advisor to the Palestinian policy network Al-Shabaka.

Dr Jordy Silverstein, executive member of far-left Jewish group, the Australian Jewish Democratic Society, said while the play might be confronting, "telling these human stories is not 'anti-Israel'."

"It is vitally important that young people, including those who are Israeli or Jewish, are able to access these stories, and hear them articulated from a Palestinian perspective. Having this play on the VCE syllabus will help to open people's minds, not close them off."

Most Jewish schools speaking to Fairfax Media are not offering VCE drama this year, and have chosen theatre studies instead.

A Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority spokesman said: "VCAA is confident that VCE drama teachers will focus on the dramatic aspects of the play while providing an even-handed explanation of the political context."

This letter appeared in The Age the next day, Wednesday 11 May 2011:

Ban on humanity?

Early this year, the Israeli government banned from the school curriculum a book about a Jewish-Palestinian love affair. The reason given was that "intimate relations between Jews and non-Jews threatens the separate identity". Now, Israel advocacy groups want to ban a play from the Victorian school drama curriculum. Tales of a City by the Sea is a Palestinian love story set in the devastated Gaza Strip. Are Palestinians not allowed to be humanised and be portrayed loving Jews or themselves? 
Mark Bradbeer, Brunswick

Says it all, really!

DUAL CITIZENSHIP, SINGLE CITIZENSHIP, YOUNG AUSTRALIAN JEWS, YOUNG AUSTRALIAN MUSLIMS

For the last 100 years many Australian Jews have left Australia to live and work in Palestine/Israel, and many Jews have gone from Australia to fight with Israel against the Palestinians.

These people have not had their citizenship taken from them and they have not been threatened with removal of their citizenship as they become mercenaries and fight in foreign lands against people who have nothing whatever to do with their own places of birth.

From the 1917 Balfour Declaration onwards when the British government illegally agreed to provide a territory for Jews to have their own homeland - in someone else's homeland, the zionist quest to fill Palestine with more and more Jews has grown exponentially.

At the end of World War II after Europe had effectively killed off more than 6 million Jews between Hitler, Stalin and all the other anti-semitic countries in Europe, the victorious allied governments realised the zionist dream and with the establishment of the  United Nations Organisation they "agreed" to a partition of Palestine for Palestinians and Jews, and in 1948 Israel was born.

It was never the intention of the newly established Israeli state to allow half of Palestine to be occupied by Palestinians who would continue to push for their own homeland in their own territory, and world zionism, led by the United States money-rich zionists who supported successive US political parties to support Israel made sure that Israel would continue to expand at the expense of Palestine and the Palestinians.

There are many more Christian zionists than Jewish ones and they too have an agenda - if Israel is supported by rich countries and keeps the law of return which allows Jews from any country in the world to come and live in Israel - to empty their countries of Jews and get them all residing in one country - a Jewish country.

APARTHEID AUSTRALIA - PART 2

Young Muslim Australians are being monitored and stopped from leaving Australia to fight with Muslim states in the Middle East.

Young Jewish Australians are not even mentioned as they take off from Australia to go and fight for apartheid Israel in Palestine.

Spot the difference?

One good apartheid state deserves another.

Anyway ultimately, by supporting the zionists in Australia and helping Jews to go to Israel and out of Australia means the christian zionists hope to eventually empty Australia of Jews altogether. No doubt apartheid Australia ultimately hopes to incarcerate all Muslims who arrive here in Australia's concentration camps house in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.

And a good time was had by all...................!!!!

ZIONISTS IN AUSTRALIA, JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH! OI VEY!

Where does one start with the outrage because of actions, comments and statements from politicians who know nothing about certain topics but open their mouths and put as many feet into them as they can cram!

Julie Bishop comes to mind! Her ignorance is appalling, and she shoots from the hip about Israel, BDS, zionism and Edward Snowden. If anybody behaves as a traitor to the country she is supposed to serve, Bishop again comes to mind.

Two very interesting letters in The Age newspaper on 20 January 2014 show how some people are intelligent and are able to think for themselves (the first letter), while others don't know what they are talking about and swallow any stories which are thrown in their direction (the second letter).

The writer of the second letter uses names incorrectly and outside the context in which the zionists use them, and also states "....what we have in Judaea (sic) and Samaria....." and her address is given as Chirnside Park, which is presumably in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and not in "Chaifo" or however the Hebraists spell it, in Northern Israel. Why on earth is she living in Australia when "her" country has open doors for zionist settlers, particularly in the occupied West Bank Palestinian lands?

As for "scholarly support", she does not quote who the scholars are, and what their legal sources are. There is nothing legal about an illegal occupation, despite what she is trying to parrot, and the fact that The Age newspaper prints such rubbish says something about the quality of the media in Australia.

In conflict

George Browning's response to Julie Bishop's comment that settlements in the West Bank do not breach any international law is not surprising (''Bishop's troubling stance on legality of Israeli settlements'', Forum, 18/1). What is surprising is the fact that Australia is on the UN Security Council and that her comments would appear to be in conflict with the Fourth Article of the Geneva Convention. Many countries that are in breach of UN regulations, such as Iran and North Korea, tend to have penalties imposed on them for breaches. Rules for some not for others, but then democratic principles are subject to evolutionary forces.

Rob Park, Surrey Hills

Wisdom in approach

There is much scholarly support for the proposition that the Israeli settlements are indeed legal. What we have in Judaea and Samaria is not the ''usual'' example of, say, one nation occupying another. Julie Bishop has responded wisely, by stating the matter should not be ''prejudged'' at this stage.
Vera Hardiman, Chirnside Park

There is nothing wise about what Julie Bishop says on the topic of Israel - she was bought out by the zionists long ago, and, like the rest of her colleagues, sings to their tune.

 

INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIA BLOG JOINS MAINSTREAM MEDIA

When Independent Australia started out, it was refreshingly different. Investigative journalism seemed back on the agenda, and exposures relating to the HSU, Kathy Jackson, Ashby, Slipper and all the goings-on seemed to promise more of the same.

Latest postings indicate a subtle injection of anti-semitism from people quoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and I am disgusted such postings were allowed by the moderators of the site.

As someone who is Jewish and has lived through some of the worst excesses of apartheid South Africa and to see that Israel has refined and extended the meaning and significance of apartheid in maintaining one of the world's biggest concentration camps is to abhor that which is done in the name of being a "Jewish State" and the only "democracy" in the middle east.

Israel is a country which has received unwavering support from most - if not all - of Australia's prime ministers and governments since at least 1980, and this zionism shows no signs of abating, both Gillard and Abbott showing how much they love that country. Considering how small is the Jewish vote in Australia, one has to wonder whether this "unqualified " support has more to do with financial issues than political ones, but it is repulsive nevertheless.

And then "independent" media online get themselves bogged down with rants about Jews and zionists controlling the world - the "Protocols" world conspiracy to control the USA, the banks, the world's finances, and many other things besides, leaves one despairing of where our freedoms lie.

Lie may be the operative work here, because so many lies are told about Jewish and zionist world control without proper analyses of the policies and politics of what is actually happening in all the countries involved and the numbers of Jews involved in all of these "conspiracies" and no one comes up with the understanding that there are more christian zionists than there are Jewish ones.

It really is disgusting and it goes on and on!

JEWS AGAINST THE OCCUPATION SPEAK OUT

The following item comes from Antony Loewenstein's blog on 23 November 2012:

MAGID - MULTI-MILLIONAIRE - OWNS AUSTRALIAN JEWISH NEWS aka ISRAELI ZIONIST TIMES - RIGHT-WING REACTIONARY RACIST HOMOPHOBIC BIGOT!

Robert Magid - who is he? - (the owner of the Australian Jewish News) - is reported in The Age newspaper on 8 August 2012 by Barney Zwartz 0n holocaust and compassion.

This is what Zwartz wrote:

Jewish call to curb compassion

August 8, 2012
Barney Zwartz

THE Jewish community should not be misled by compassion from the Holocaust into supporting Muslim boat people, the owner of The Australian Jewish News has argued in an article condemned by some as hate speech.

In the latest edition, under the headline ''Curb the compassion'', Robert Magid said Jews tended to want to appear more compassionate than others because of their history of suffering oppression and persecution, but ''the Jews who fled the Holocaust fled certain death. I doubt there is a single boat person in that situation.''

Mr Magid said ''unscrupulous'' illegal immigrants pushed genuine asylum seekers down the queue and that immigration in other countries had led to ghettos and calls for sharia. He suggested hiding among Muslim boat people who had destroyed their documents would be an ideal way for al-Qaeda to smuggle a terrorist network into Australia.

The backlash has hit. An open letter on Facebook from the Australian Jewish Democratic Society had attracted nearly 400 signatures last night, as liberal and conservative religious leaders united against Mr Magid.

A leading Orthodox rabbi, Ralph Genende, wrote that although he was scared of Islamic extremism, there were no limits to compassion, and most fears about Muslim immigration were unfounded.

A Jewish author and commentator, Arnold Zable, said: ''Refugees and asylum seekers are only doing what we would do in their shoes, what Jews did in the immediate post-war era as they sought a way to a better life, and what Jews have done for centuries - including the massive emigration in the wake of the 1880s pogroms in Russia.''

The Union for Progressive Judaism released a statement saying it was ''sad and inaccurate'' to lump together refugees and terrorists and label them all as deceitful and criminal.

Last night, Mr Magid said he stood by every word of his article. ''I think the majority of people agree with me but they are not willing to come out and say what I am prepared to say. It is a very cogent statement.''

This letter was in The Age on 9 August 2012:

Insensitive at best
THE article "Curb the compassion" published in The Australian Jewish News by owner Robert Magid (''Jewish 'hate speech' article sparks outrage'', The Age, 8/8 ) is surprising for its lack of sensitivity and bigoted racism. Did Magid have a ''Larry David'' moment or was his ill-considered outburst a political strategy, aimed at garnering support from right-wing elements in Israel?
Jeffrey Kelson, Prahran

These letters were in the Sydney Morning Herald on 9 August 2012:

Even if everyone agreed with Magid, he'd still be wrong

Maybe Robert Magid needs re-educating (''Jewish call to curb compassion'', August 8).

I recommend that he watch the upcoming episodes on SBS of Go Back to Where You Come From because, really, no one in Australia should be pedalling ''the swirling myths that people who arrive by boat are handed a goodie bag of entitlements as they step ashore'', so eloquently pointed out by Laura Tingle's article in Quarterly Essay issue 46, 2012.

Indeed, he has only to check the website Bridge For Asylum Seekers to realise what is really going on here and overseas.

The organisation's honorary chairperson, Virginia Walker, has said refugees who queue up can expect to wait many years before being formally processed.
And just because he says a majority of people agree with him (even if that were true, which I doubt) this does not mean he is right.

Rebecca Nash Balmain

The vast majority of Jews disagree with Robert Magid but, even if every single Jew in Australia, 120,000 of them, agreed with his sentiments they would account for less than one per cent of all Australians, whatever their religion, who hold similar views.

George Fishman Vaucluse

Robert Magid must have had a terrible childhood to have grown up with such hatred in his soul - if indeed he has a soul.

Compassion is obviously something about which he knows very little, and indeed, he seems not to have any understanding of such emotions.

Jews have been persecuted around the world at least since the advent of christianity some 2000 odd years ago. They have fled from one country to another, to another, to another, in the hope of finding sanctuary and security in another country where they will not be subject to the savageries we have seen in this period of time against a particular sect or group of people.

Of course we know that people like Magid have no understanding of the notions of persecution, hatred, oppression and apartheid, because he is part of that group of 20th century dinosaurs called zionists whose sole aim is to steal land belonging to another persecuted people and make it their own, when they have no rights to it.

Magid has no regrets about what he has said and he stands by every word he has uttered. Is it his millionaire status that bestows such arrogance upon him, or is it some other inborn mental state which allows no argument and brooks no responses
from people who are unable to understand how one human being can respond to other human beings who have undergone such tragic circumstances that they have to find somewhere liveable and which literally saves their lives?

In any case, he is totally wrong in what he says about asylum seekers and the "Tony Abbott" line about queue jumpers. I really don't think Al Qieda would use asylum seeker methods to gain entry into Australia. They would probably come by plane and not be spotted by customs and ASIO as they would enter by some quasi-legitimate means.

Maybe Magid needs to go back to school and learn a few basics about the facts of life as they are lived in Australia in 2012!!

100,000 JEWS IN AUSTRALIA, 10 MILLION ZIONISTS IN AUSTRALIA! BIZARRE!!!

The article below appeared in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers on 17 January 2012.

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry is a body which represents a portion of Australia's Jewish population, which at the moment is about 100,000 people. Assuming that a number of these are children and a number of these are secular Jews, we are also aware that a very large number - increasing every time Israel performs some further acts of violence against the Palestinians - are not zionists and also do not necessarily count themselves as Jewish in the census, but are atheists who were born of Jewish parents.

There are about 22 million people in Australia, and according to the actions of parliamentarians of all persuasions - now including some of the Greens - there seem to be about 10 million zionists.

The Jewish population works out at about 0.45 per cent of the total population, but seem to feel that they have the right to cry "anti-semitism" as soon as some issue arises which shows Israel in a negative light.

As this seems to be happening more and more frequently with less and less justification, it is time that organisations such as the ECAJ and JCCV and NSW Jewish Board of Deputies are made to understand that some Australians are still allowed a certain modicum of free speech, that not everything must be banned or censored because they demand it and because the federal government and its loyal opposition support them in the Jewish/Israel/Palestine issue, and that when films or programmes are shown on television or the big screen, people have the right to see them.

Criticise if they will, ban or censor they may not!

Oh, and if the Jewish zionists are so unhappy about life in Australia, I am sure Israel beckons!!

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Jewish outcry on SBS series

By Leesha McKenny

January 17, 2012

The Promise.

A LEADING Jewish body is seeking to halt promotion and DVD sales of SBS series The Promise, a drama set in Israel and the occupied territories that it likened to Nazi propaganda.

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry said the British-made drama, inspired by accounts of British soldiers who served in Palestine during the 1940s, was anti-Semitic and in direct violation of the SBS code covering prejudice, racism and discrimination.

The four-part series, which screened late last year, depicts a young British woman retracing the footsteps of her grandfather, a soldier in the final years of the British Mandate in Palestine.

In its 31-page complaint to the SBS ombudsman, the council said historical inaccuracies and ''consistently negative portrayals'' of the central Jewish characters made the series comparable to the 1940 Nazi film Jud Suss.
It contended that identifiably Muslim characters would not be similarly portrayed by SBS.

In a letter to the broadcaster, the council's executive director, Peter Wertheim, said the complaint also related to any marketing or sale of the DVD, which would be ''inappropriate'' while the determination was pending.

The TV drama prompted a similar reaction following its screening in Britain last year. The UK's Office of Communications received 44 complaints about the series, none of which were upheld.

In an online question-and-answer session after the final episode aired in Britain, its Jewish writer-director, Peter Kosminsky, said 80 British veterans had been interviewed during research for The Promise.

''If criticism of Israel becomes entirely synonymous with anti-Semitism, it becomes almost impossible to attempt any kind of reasoned analysis of what is clearly one of the saddest and most intractable conflicts facing the human race today,'' he said.

The General Delegation of Palestine to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, which represents the Palestinian Authority, said the council's complaint was ''an attempt to silence legitimate historical investigation, recollection and representation''.

An SBS spokeswoman said the broadcaster had received a high level of positive and negative viewer feedback on the series. She said that as the complaint was expected to be resolved before the February 8 DVD release, ''it is unnecessary to provide any undertaking regarding the DVD release''. ''SBS will assess its position in relation to the sale of DVDs once the complaint has been resolved,'' she said.

Letter in The Age 18 January 2012

A leading Jewish body, in an effort to suppress DVD sales of the SBS series The Promise, has likened the program to Nazi propaganda. This shameful attempt at censorship is bad enough without the use of such loaded language. If the Executive Council of Australian Jewry thinks the show is unbalanced, fine; if they think it is bad television, say so; but to label it Nazi propaganda diminishes the credibility of the council and the dignity of Jews everywhere. I have no doubt that the council would have had no trouble at all with the program if the “consistently negative portrayals” were of Palestinians or British characters or if the “historical inaccuracies” fell in their favour. You may call the program propaganda; I call your public-relations efforts hypocrisy.

Jeremy Kenner, Mordialloc