January 02, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
One might
think that 2019 was the year war was
declared against anti-Semitism judging from
the pronouncements of politicians in
Washington, London, Paris and Berlin. To be
sure, Israel and its diaspora friends have
continued to play the “anti-Semitism” card
whenever their behavior is challenged but
the international passion to extirpate the
“new anti-Semitism” to include any and all
criticism of Israel is something quite
special that is being backed up by punitive
legislation.
In one of its more recent victory laps, British
Zionists are toasting Mazel Tov in their Hanukkah
celebrations over their part in the defeat of Labour
candidate Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn was demonized personally
by the British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis shortly before
the December election and was unfairly labeled an
anti-Semite by the Jewish media over his antipathy
towards Israeli actions and his willingness to recognize
the suffering of the Palestinians. From now on, no
British politician will be willing to challenge Jewish
power in the U.K. Indeed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who
claims some Jewish ancestry and spent some time in
his youth on a kibbutz, has already pledged to make any
criticism of Israel illegal in Britain. Moving the
British Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem will no doubt
soon follow.
Meanwhile, and as a direct result of the
unwillingness to confront Israel in any meaningful way,
war crimes committed by the Jewish state proliferate.
Every Friday there is a shooting gallery along the fence
with Gaza, where unarmed Palestinian protesters are
targeted by Israeli snipers. And in November, Israel
conducted a series of air strikes on the Gaza Strip
after its assassination of a senior Islamic Jihad
commander and his wife. At least 34
Palestinians were reported killed and more than 100
wounded in the two days of bombardment while no Israelis
were killed. An
attack on the makeshift home of the al-Sawarka family killed
eight members of the family, including children. A week
later, a
ninth member of the family, Mohammed al-Sawarka,
died from from his injuries.
The Israeli army carried out a perfunctory
investigation of the deaths and concluded
that that the army’s intelligence section had made a
mapping mistake that included the family home as part of
an Islamic Jihad “compound.” So a filing error led to
the deaths of nine innocent civilians in one family and,
of course, no one in the Israeli military was in any way
punished or even reprimanded. Or even apologized.
And when it is pushed to do so, Israel uses the
anti-Semitism weapon to render itself completely
unaccountable in spite of its war crimes.