A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

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Postby American Dream » Mon Oct 19, 2015 12:31 pm

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UKIP COUNCILLOR QUITS AFTER HE WAS REPORTED TO BE ‘FORMER BNP MEMBER’

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A UK Independence Party councillor in the party’s Clacton stronghold has been forced to resign – after it emerged he was on a list of members of the BNP.

Laurie Gray was one of 22 UKIP councillors elected in May this year to sit on Tendring District Council in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

Clacton is an area dominated by UKIP, electing the party’s only current Member of Parliament, Douglas Carswell.

Mr Gray was forced to stand down earlier this week – after it emerged his name was on a leaked list of members of the far-right British National Party, from 2008.

However, he says he is unsure why his details were on the membership list, and denies he was an active member of the far-right party.
He claimed to the Clacton Gazette: “As far as I know, I wasn’t a member of the BNP.

“I remember a few years ago filling out a questionnaire. I got an email, but I didn’t go to any meetings or anything. I’m 62 and the first time I voted was last year for Douglas Carswell.

He added: “I deny knowing I was a member of the BNP. The first I knew about it was a phone call saying I was on a list.

“It must have been one of those mindless mistakes you make when messing about on the computer.

“I resigned from UKIP ten minutes after seeing the report. I did that because I respect UKIP too much to bring it into disrepute.”

The council’s UKIP group leader Mark Stephenson told the newspaper: “I was shocked to find out last week of Laurie’s history with the BNP. UKIP has a zero tolerance of people who have joined this organisation.

“Laurie has given his resignation from the party and in doing so from the UKIP group on the council.”

Mr Gray will continue to sit as an independent.

A recruitment video released by the BNP last year claims that “militant homosexuals” are part of an “unholy alliance” taking charge of the country in order to destroy families.

The party also claims that the BBC is forcing ‘homosexual perversions’ on the country.

Former BNP leader Nick Griffin, who was expelled from the far-right party following an internal coup, previously revealed that he now votes for UKIP.


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Postby Twyla LaSarc » Mon Oct 19, 2015 5:28 pm

Diego Rivera was the famous muralist whose work was destroyed by Rockefeller. Both those english guys blew it.
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:43 am

The Man Behind the Dragon Tattoo

During the 1980s Stieg wrote many articles for Internationalen on myriad topics. His first long feature was a Marxist interpretation of Jules Verne, reflecting Stieg’s interest in science fiction. But while he wrote a few articles on cultural matters and science his primary focus was imperialism, right-wing politics, and terrorism.

His headlines included: “Reagan in Nazi plot,” “The man behind international right-wing terrorism,” “Neo-Nazis in Europe recruiting assassins to Nicaragua,” etc. Stieg’s thoroughly researched articles followed the networks of the extreme right both inside and outside Sweden, old and new Nazis, and their connections with establishment politics.

Stieg was also very interested in the revolution in the West Indian island of Grenada following the Sandinista victory in Nicaragua in 1979. He and Eva went to Grenada in 1981 to learn more about the revolution and were impressed by Maurice Bishop’s socialist project and the New Jewel Movement. Stieg and Eva viewed Bishop’s project as a democratic example of revolutionary change rooted in deep popular support and engagement — far from the Stalinist dictatorships in the East. Internationalen was actually the only Swedish newspaper that published commissioned articles on “Grenada’s unknown revolution.”

After returning to Sweden, Stieg and Eva became active in organizing a support committee for Grenada and lectured about their experiences throughout the country. The 1983 coup d’état by a Stalinist faction within Grenada’s radical regime — which overthrew and murdered Bishop — was a major shock to Stieg and Eva.

When the coup was immediately followed by an American military intervention that wiped out the socialist effort, Stieg and Eva stayed in constant telephone contact with Grenadian solidarity activists who narrated the dramatic events. Stieg’s articles in Internationalen thus became a unique documentation of the rise and fall of Grenada’s often overlooked revolution.

By the 1980s, like most countries, the left-wing radicalization of the seventies was broken in Sweden. In the wake of Thatcher and Reagan’s victories and their neoliberal offensive, the extreme right resurfaced — in Sweden racist skinheads, neo-Nazis, and white power music became a common feature in youth milieus.

Together with other antiracist activists the SP initiated the campaign group Stoppa Rasismen (Stop Racism) in 1984, and Stieg became active in publishing the group’s bulletin of the same name. By then he had already met with the editors of the British antifascist magazine Searchlight and had agreed to write about developments in Sweden. The Searchlight engagement was mirrored in articles for Internationalen about antifascism in Britain, both historical and contemporary.

As the 1980s turned into the ’90s the world political situation radically changed. With “the fall of the wall” and dissolution of the Soviet Union, Stalinist communism seemed to vanish, leaving the European ideological field open to both liberal capitalism and a new popular right. In 1991 Sweden elected a conservative government (for the first time since 1928), and the radical right-wing and anti-immigrant party, Ny Demokrati (New Democracy) gained seats in parliament for the first time.

That conservative breakthrough ushered in a turbulent decade in Sweden, not only in terms of the deregulation of the Swedish economy and the partial dismantling of the welfare state, but also in rising right-wing and neo-Nazi activity, which became increasingly more violent. Immigrants were murdered while journalists and left-wing activists were terrorized; in 1999 a journalist and his son were wounded as their car was blown to pieces, and a radical unionist in Stockholm was shot and killed in his home by Nazis.

Antiracist and antifascist engagement became Stieg’s overall priority during this period. Together with another journalist, Stieg wrote a book in 1991 on right-wing extremism and toured the country lecturing on the threat. In 1995 he founded Expo, a Swedish version of Searchlight. The magazine investigated and traced white power and Nazi networks and was met with furious hatred from right wing extremists. Bookstores that sold the magazine got their windows smashed, its print shop was threatened, and journalists who wrote for Expo were put on Nazi death lists.

For Stieg and Eva these were years of extreme activity and exhaustion. Along with constant security threats, everything in the magazine was made on free time and without pay. But the hard work paid off. The magazine became well-known and respected and when it was openly terrorized by Nazis the two main Swedish evening tabloids published it as a supplement.

Stieg quit his job at TT in 1999 to work full time as a writer and lecturer on racism and right-wing extremism. In the short time before his untimely death Stieg succeeded in establishing a more stable economic base for the magazine and broadening its non-partisan scope by including antiracists and antifascists from a variety of political backgrounds, including socialists, liberals, and anyone else opposed to the rising tide of right-wing extremism.

Stieg never formally resigned from his membership in Socialistiska partiet, but the northern section of the Stockholm branch, where he was a member, was dissolved in the early ’90s, around the same time that Stieg and Eva moved from the suburbs. Like all of the radical left, Socialistiska partiet’s membership and influence declined in the late 1980s and early ’90s, as members dropped out or, like Stieg, moved on to activities where they felt they could make a difference.

Stieg’s last article for Internationalen in 1988 — entitled “Glasnost in the streets of Moscow. Like a warm wind” — expressed the Trotskyist hope for democratic socialism in Soviet Union. Socialistiska partiet and its predecessors had always supported radical democratic movements in the Eastern bloc, from the Prague Spring of 1968 to clandestine Soviet trade unions and Solidarnosc in Poland.

That hope was extinguished in the 1990s, and as a result, defending the welfare state and fighting against racism and right-wing extremism came to dominate the left agenda in Sweden and Europe more broadly. The new wave of feminism was also linked to this orientation, expressing both the limitations of the old left and growing women’s resistance against the ideals and practices of the advancing right.

The combination of antiracism, feminism, and struggle for social justice was nothing new for Stieg. His politics were rooted in these ideals, both in terms of his personal life and in his lifelong political experiences. His disgust for the oppression of women and active engagement for women’s rights is expressed in many of his articles, particularly those from Grenada. But Stieg’s feminism could also be seen in his everyday politics, like internal party discussions in which he argued for universal military service for women — a minority position not always appreciated by the anti-militarists in the organization.





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Anders Breivik, Stieg Larsson, and the Men with the Nazi Tattoos

—By James Ridgeway| Tue Jul. 26, 2011


ImageStieg Larsson is the best-known novelist of the past decade, his Millennium Trilogy read by tens of millions of people worldwide. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its two successors are beloved for their thrilling plots and compelling title character. But Larsson also embedded in his novels the abiding cause of his life: his crusade against the far-right movements that he saw as the scourge of Scandinavia and a threat to modern European society. Yet this part of his message never quite got through. Instead, the world stood in shock this weekend as Norway fell victim to precisely the kind of extremist violence Larsson had warned about.

The trilogy that has been met with such an enthusiastic but curiously apolitical response was written by a consummately political man: Raised by a grandfather who had been imprisoned during World War II for his anti-Nazi views, Larsson was in his youth a member of the Communist Workers Party and editor, for a time, of the Swedish Trotskyist journal Fjarde Internationalen. He later became the Scandinavian correspondent of Searchlight, the British anti-fascist and anti-racist magazine, and in 1995, amid an uptick in neo-Nazi violence in Sweden, he founded its Swedish equivalent, Expo—the model for the Millennium magazine featured in his trilogy. In the US, both Expo and Searchlight have maintained ties with another group that tracks the far right, the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. As an expert on the neo-Nazi movements, Larsson was once invited to lecture on the subject at Scotland Yard.

As Expo grew, the neo-Nazis in Sweden targeted it, threatening Larsson (who died in 2004) and his partner of 30 years, Eva Gabrielsson. According to Gabrielsson's book, "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me, both of them were placed on hit lists and were in enough danger to barricade their apartment doors and arrange for special police protection. "Stieg would receive bullets in the mail, and once someone was waiting for him outside the entrance of the TT building [where he worked]. Warned in time, Stieg slipped out a back door," Gabrielsson writes.

"Our answering machine was set permanently on 'record' to keep evidence of the threats we received," she continues, "and they were always in the same vein: 'Piece of shit, you Jew-fucker…Traitor, we'll tear you apart…and we know where you live.'" At the sign of the slightest provocation on their apartment block, police cars would descend on the street. The danger was undeniably real: Two journalists who once worked for Expo and were later employed by Aftonbladet, one of Sweden's largest newspapers, wrote an expose of the neo-Nazi black-metal music operations. One of them was seriously injured when his car was bombed. A labor union leader who revealed neo-Nazi names was shot dead.

These events, and what Larsson felt was the government's failure to protect citizens, made their way into Larsson's fiction, says Gabrielsson, for example via the murders of Dag Svensson and Mia Bergman in The Girl Who Played With Fire: "In fact, everything of this nature described in The Millennium Trilogy has happened at one time or another to a Swedish citizen, journalist, politician, public prosecutor, unionist, or policeman. Nothing was made up."

Up until recently, Sweden has had Scandinavia's most well defined neo-fascist movement, with the Norwegian movement comparatively small and scattered. However, far-right splinter factions are in touch with one another across Europe and even with their counterparts in the United States. Larsson and Devin Burghart, of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, were coauthors of a 2001 Searchlight article that laid out ties between the National Alliance, an American neo-Nazi group, and the "black metal" scene in Norway. At the time the Alliance was led by the since-deceased William Pierce, the leading guru of the American racist far right and the author of the The Turner Diaries, which has been called the bible of domestic terrorism. Pierce had set up a cultural conduit for the neo-Nazi movement by taking over Resistance Records, a white-power record company in the United States, along with a Norwegian company called Cymophane.

In the wake of this weekend's attacks in Oslo, it was Expo that once again was at the forefront, exposing what is so far suspect Anders Behring Breivik's most direct link to the contemporary neo-Nazi scene in Scandinavia. In his manifesto and on the website where he regularly posted, Breivik portrays himself as a conservative Christian and heir to the Knights Templar crusaders. At the same time, Breivik's ideology was reportedly influenced by the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, racist Norwegian Defence League and its inspiration, the English Defense League. He also appears sympathetic to the established racist line of the British National Party and National Front. And he has been a member of the anti-immigration Progress Party, the second-largest political party in Norway.

Expo revealed that since 2009 Breivik has also been part of the forum Nordisk (Nordic), whose 22,000 members, according to Expo (in a translation provided by Searchlight), range "from high-ranking members of the Sweden Democrats, a nationalist party with seats in the Swedish parliament, to leading members of the Nazi movement and to unhinged psychopaths. What unites the whole lot is a hatred of immigration and immigrants." A favorite topic was The Turner Diaries.

Despite the tireless work of Larsson and his successors at Expo, Norway seem to have put relatively little stock in the threat of homegrown extremists. In its annual threat assessment, published at the beginning of the year, the Norwegian security service reportedly said that "far-right and far-left extremist communities will not pose a serious threat to Norwegian society in 2011."

Writing in the Guardian, Matthew Goodwin, an expert on British fascist movements, argues that "until now, European democracies and their security services had focused almost exclusively on the threat from al=Qaida-inspired terrorism. Rightwing extremist groups and their more violent affiliates were dismissed as disorganised, fragmented and irrelevant movement." The Norway attacks, he says, might "prove to be a watershed moment in terms of how we approach far-right followers, groups and their ideology." If so, European governments will at last be heeding Stieg Larsson's warning.

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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Oct 21, 2015 11:00 am

at this point there can be no one more anti-Semitic than Netanyahu

“Netanyahu hates Palestinians so much that he is willing to absolve Hitler of the murder of 6 million Jews,” Mr. Erekat said. “[He] should stop using this human tragedy to score points for his political end.”
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Netanyahu says Palestinian gave Hitler idea for the Holocaust
Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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Postby American Dream » Tue Oct 27, 2015 10:24 am

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Europe’s right-wing “civil war” against refugees

By Mathijs van de Sande On October 26, 2015

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As right-wing leaders whip up the hatred, it is no longer exaggerated to claim that Europe is on the verge of a low-intensity civil war against refugees.

Photo taken at Pegida rally in Berlin, by Carsten Koall.

Explosives, heaps of Nazi propaganda and a substantial number of firearms are displayed on a table at the Bamberg police station. They were retrieved from the homes of several neo-Nazis in the Bavarian city. Thirteen people were arrested on suspicions of plotting a terrorist attack against a local refugee center, which currently houses more than 400 refugees.

The neo-Nazis planned to charge the center during a protest march organized by the extreme-right organization Die Rechte (“The Right”), using explosives and nitrate bombs that they had simply purchased on the Internet. Needless to say, the attack would have had disastrous, and most likely deadly, consequences for the center’s inhabitants.

These events do not stand on their own.

In the very same week, Europe was shaken by a murderous sword attack at a school in Sweden, leaving two dead and several wounded. The 21-year-old suspect, who was dressed in black and wearing an SS-helmet, allegedly had links to the Swedish extreme right, and clearly selected his victims on the basis of race.

And in Cologne, mayoral candidate Henriette Reker, whose campaign revolved around the support for refugees, was heavily wounded in a knife attack. Again, the perpetrator was affiliated with the extreme right, and openly declared that he was acting “to protect the country from foreigners.”

Next to the “incidents” that receive widespread media coverage, moreover, stands a seemingly endless series of arson attacks and other forms of vandalism against (projected as well as inhabited) asylum seekers centers in Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands. Besides a few devoted neo-Nazis, an even greater number of citizens without any prior experience in extreme-right activism are now getting organized in committees and campaigns against the opening of refugee centers in their neighborhoods.

Advocates of a more solidary approach receive serious threats, and new extreme-right movements are gaining visibility on Europe’s streets — not in the last place Germany’s ever-growing PEGIDA, which now also has branches in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Few mainstream politicians have been willing to openly affiliate with these movements, though there are significant exceptions. The infamous Geert Wilders, Dutch MP and leader of the Islamophobic “Freedom Party” attended a PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden.

Although this remains unconfirmed, Wilders’ party also appears to be heavily invested in the formation and funding of aforementioned citizen committees. His seemingly more moderate colleagues on the right, however, shy away from publicly associating themselves with these right-wing activist initiatives. Instead, they appear to stand on the sidelines, employing a number of well-tried frames in order to flare up the debate.

Their first and most prominent tactic is to systematically present refugees as “fortune hunters” who left their homes and forced their way into Europe in order to live a luxurious, lazy life at the expense of the “hard-working” European citizen.

Ironically, right-wing pro-austerity politicians are particularly eager to stress that the European welfare state will not be able to sustain itself under this pressure. The sudden increase of the European population and the costs it entails, they claim, will deprive us of the financial means to maintain our current standard of social security and solidarity.

Needless to say, we are speaking of the very same politicians and parties that have consistently strangled this welfare state to death over the last four decades. But this “argument” is also particularly fitting for those “new-right” populists (Wilders in the Netherlands, Marine Le Pen in France, Nigel Farage in the UK), who tend to pursue strongly neoliberal economic policies while disguising themselves as conservative but “social” anti-austerity parties.

A second prominent frame is of course the claim that every Muslim is a potential terrorist — or, at best, a fundamentalist — and that the national security of European member states is at stake. (Most of the refugees who currently make it to Europe are perceived as Muslim — whether and to what extent they actually identify themselves as such is deemed irrelevant.)

This particular Islamophobic frame is not exactly new, of course, but it is striking that some media and politicians actively seek to depict Syrian and Afghan refugees as religious fanatics. For example, a few weeks ago several media spread the rumor that in German asylum seekers centers, Christian refugees would be systematically bullied and intimidated by their Muslim peers.

By lack of any recent Muslim-perpetrated terrorism (as opposed to nationalistic and/or racist-inspired forms of political violence, which has boomed over the past months), conservative politicians throughout Europe endorsed this rumor in order to stress once more that Christians would not be safe so long as Muslim refugees were equally allowed access to the European continent.

Moreover, several governments — those of Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and soon Poland — have capitalized on this widespread Islamophobic stereotype, and announced that they would only grant admission to a limited group of Christian refugees.

This supposed incompatibility between “Islamic” and “Western” or “Christian” cultures is also employed in a third, increasingly prominent, frame that politicians use to invoke fear among their constituencies. Muslim men are consistently and systematically depicted as sexually hyper-aggressive. Although worrisome, reports of sexual harassment, forced marriages and rape at European refugee centers have been blown out of proportion in the media.

As some politicians present it, male refugees came here with no other intent than to rape “our” women and daughters — a qualification that of course is shockingly problematic in many respects, yet strikingly often heard even in the mainstream public debate.

Geert Wilders, for instance, recently referred in Parliament to Syrian refugees — who, in the public perception, are predominantly young and male — as “testosterone bombs.” In a similar fashion, his party’s main ideologist Martin Bosma once warned that Muslims were attempting to gain control over Dutch society through a “politics of the womb.”

As stated, this image of newly arrived refugees as inherently lazy, ungrateful, exploitative, dangerous, intolerant and sexually hyper-aggressive is not only upheld by the extreme-right. Quite the opposite: it appears that seemingly moderate right-wing politicians — not to mention the occasional “social democrat” — are often no less eager to present the so-called “stream” of refugees as an imminent threat to the European way of life.

As a “new” extreme right has increasingly been able to present itself as a respectable, legitimate voice in the public debate, center-right and even some popular “socialist” parties are particularly disposed to the risk of losing their voters’ support. As a consequence, and in line with the developments of the past 15 years, the dominant political discourse in many European countries has shifted dramatically to the right.

In the Netherlands, for instance, some local departments and individual MP’s of the ruling party VVD now tend to profile themselves as even tougher hardliners than their main competitor on the extreme-right side of the spectrum. And in Belgium, the leading Flemish party N-VA is invoking a discourse and implementing policies that its once-popular neo-fascist competitor Vlaams Blok could only have dreamed of.

Tellingly, one of N-VA’s most explicitly racist politicians — who is also believed to have ties to Flanders’ fascist movement — now is Belgium’s state secretary for asylum policy and migration. An explicit racism once associated with the marginal extreme right, in short, has turned mainstream.

In the meantime, the parliamentary left stands idly by. Although some social democrats and left-liberals reluctantly advocate a more “humane” migration policy, the aforementioned racist representations of refugees generally remain uncontested.

As the right has successfully framed the dominant public perception of refugees, the left avoids any direct confrontation on these matters. Fearful of losing popular support, they tend to deal with the refugee “crisis” in managerial terms. At best, they invoke a weak and depoliticized language that presents their constituency as “hospitable” or “welcoming” to Europe’s new “guests.”

This mainstream left of course is more than willing to condemn the increasing organized violence against refugees. But it nevertheless fails to establish its connection with the explicitly racist language that is produced by their right-wing counterparts.

Part of Europe’s population is systematically represented as inherently aggressive, parasitical, rapist and dangerous. At the same time, right-wing politicians consistently blame the political “establishment” (of which they are obviously part themselves) for ignoring the imminent dangers that “mass immigration” entails.

It should not surprise us, then, that some citizens sooner or later will “take matters into their own hands.” Even when media and representatives formally denounce their acts, the dominant right-wing discourse is perceived as an implicit legitimization or even encouragement.

Indeed, without either openly glorifying or condemning it, many right-wing politicians present the ensuing violence as a “logical” or “predictable” consequence of Europe’s migration policies.

It is no longer exaggerated, I think, to claim that Europe is on the verge of a low-intensity civil war against refugees and other minority communities. The responsibility for this emerging organized violence — which is not unlikely to strongly intensify in the months and years to come — lies not in the last place with its right-wing politicians.


Mathijs van de Sande is a PhD researcher in political philosophy at the KU Leuven (Belgium). He is a member of the Netherlands-based, radical left/anti-racist organization Doorbraak. Follow him on Twitter @MathijsvdSande.
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http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-asylum- ... cist-party

On October 26, 19 members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas were bagged by Greek police after the group occupied the headquarters for the Independent Greeks, a fascist party that is part of the current Syriza coalition government. The anarchists were charged with misdemeanors and the group later released a statement denouncing the government and demanding the release of a number of anarchist political prisoners and an intensification of the class war.

On October 25, in Cologne, Germany, police beat, tear gassed, and sprayed water cannons at anti-fascists counter-protesting a rally by the far-right, anti-immigrant group Hooligans Against Salafists (Hogesa). But on the bright side, only a few hundred of the fascist Hooligans Against Salafists showed up as opposed to the thousands of anti-fascist counter-protest
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Postby General Patton » Sat Oct 31, 2015 2:40 pm

American Dream » Tue Oct 27, 2015 9:24 am wrote:http://roarmag.org/2015/10/europe-refugee-crisis-xenophobia/

Europe’s right-wing “civil war” against refugees

By Mathijs van de Sande On October 26, 2015

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It is no longer exaggerated, I think, to claim that Europe is on the verge of a low-intensity civil war against refugees and other minority communities. The responsibility for this emerging organized violence — which is not unlikely to strongly intensify in the months and years to come — lies not in the last place with its right-wing politicians.




Have you notice any Russian involvement in anti-immigration groups in Europe?
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Postby American Dream » Sun Nov 01, 2015 5:30 pm

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Anti-Semitism and the amen corner

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Today, I got a good idea of the mental makeup of the Baathist amen corner. The article above appeared on Thom Prentice’s Facebook timeline. My only knowledge of Prentice is that he used to write me friendly emails about this and that until he discovered that I was not into the whole Baathist fan club deal. When I saw the image of the stereotypical anti-Semitic cartoon on the left, I was a bit taken aback. I am opposed to any French laws that put people in jail for making either anti-Semitic or anti-Zionist statements but I don’t have any use for anti-Semitism per se. For me, the people who adapt to it are not part of the left. They are enemies of the left. When I went to the website where the article taking up the cause of the cartoonist was published, I discovered that it is put out by a couple of characters who mention that among their concerns is “historical revisionism”. You can bet what that is about. Five minutes of exploring their website revealed an article that stated: “Zionist leaders and activists gave Hitler more than enough ammunition to justify interning Jews in camps as a security threat to Germany.” Imagine that? Jews were put into Auschwitz because Hitler had legitimate security concerns. Meanwhile, Prentice continues to defend Hitler as having legitimate concerns. What a fucked up “left” we have today when someone like this can speak in its name.
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http://www.interpretermag.com/russian-p ... -alliance/
Russia seems to be getting serious about building an international alliance of extreme right parties that would aim at undermining the liberal democratic consensus in the West. In addition to providingfinancial support for parties such as France's Front National and using extreme right activists and politicians as tools of propaganda, Russia is now building what it calls the "World National-Conservative Movement" (WNCM). A number of the internal documents (passed to me by the Moscow-based "Sova Centre") provide an insight into the agenda and structure of the WNCM.
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The scope of the Russian project is rather impressive, and the list of parties and groups that the founders of the WNCM have invited to participate in the movement consists of 58 organisations. The majority of them come from Europe and the US, but there are also organisations from Chile, Japan, Mongolia, Syria, and Thailand. The political positions of the majority of these parties leave no doubt that the WNCM is an extreme right, rather than a "national conservative," movement. Here are some of the names from the list: Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen and Nordisk Ungdom (Scandinavia), Danskernes Parti (Denmark), Golden Dawn (Greece), Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Germany), Falanga (Poland), Generace Identity(Slovakia), Renouveau français (France), Noua Dreaptă (Romania),British Unity (UK). The list, however, also features less extreme - yet still far from the mainstream right - political parties such asPerussuomalaiset (Finland), Jobbik (Hungary), Slovenská národná strana (Slovakia), Kongres Nowej Prawicy (Poland), and some others. However, the core of the organisations invited to the WNCM is clearly on the extreme right, verging on neo-Nazism.
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1 November 2015
Topham Hate Crime Trial: Week One

This past week saw the long awaited Arthur Topham hate crime trial. For years Topham had posted blood libel screeds against the Jewish people on his website RadicalPress and despite the trial he continues to do so. A few years back a criminal complaint against him was made, he was arrested, and.... well.... here we are today.

...Paul Fromm had suggested at the London Forum that former KKK leader and convicted fraudser David Duke would be appearing as a defence witness arguing for the veracity of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. So far we haven't seen anything to support Paulie's claim, however Topham does confirm at least one defence witness:


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Gilad Atzmon has been condemned for his rapid antisemitism by a multitude of academics and artists, including members of the Palestinian activists who wrote an open letter (who themselves aren't exactly fans of Israel) disavowing any offers of support from Atzmon.

So of course, Gilad Atzmon is good people in Topham's view.





American Dream » Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:53 pm wrote:
It is, as such, not surprising that Atzmon’s work has received enthusiastic reviews by such prominent members of the racist right as former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, Kevin MacDonald of the Occidental Observer, David Icke, and Arthur Topham’s the Radical Press. It should not be surprising that Atzmon has distributed articles defending Holocaust deniers and those who write of “the Hitler we loved and why.”[15] These connections ultimately serve the interests of Zionism, which seeks to conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Jewishness. Zionist agents have repeatedly attempted to ensnare and link Palestinian, Arab, and/or Muslim rights advocates to Neo-Nazism, through dirty tricks and outright lies.

...In our struggle against Zionism, racism, and all forms of colonialism and imperialism, there is no place for antisemitism or the vilification of Jews, Palestinians or any people based on their religions, cultures, nationalities, ethnicity or history. At this historic junction—when the need to struggle for the liberation of Palestine is more vital than ever and the fault lines of capitalist empire are becoming more widely exposed—no anti-oppressive revolution can be built with ultra-right allies or upon foundations friendly to creeping fascism.


http://mondoweiss.net/2012/03/palestini ... tzmon.html
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:49 pm

2 November 2015

Topham Trial: Paulie's Summary

Not long after we summarized (as best we could) the Topham hate crimes trial, Paulie also posted his take. We won't include the entire missive; a few selected entries should suffice.

Though it appears to have been written on October 31, Paulie's piece wasn't uploaded until late Sunday. And it starts both with the general entitled whining that we've come to expect....

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.... as well as the creepy, "ew" factor that we've come to know and squirm uncomfortably in response to:

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Again, ew....

What Paulie does confirm is that the defence appear to be trying to argue the "truth" of the antisemitic blood libels reprinted and editorialized on Topham's website, focusing especially on the work of Elizabeth Dilling and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion which Paulie writes, "is a blueprint for establishing Jewish world dominance and world government," not even bothering with the pretense of including the word "allegedly."

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In short, it looks like the defence has created a bit of a straw man. Take a fraudulent document (the Protocols) and present it as truth, as well as made-up and/or misinterpreted (willfully or otherwise) commentaries from a massive tome devoid of any context (the Talmud) and then put the creators of those documents on trial (though as noted numerous times, it has been proven the Protocols were not written by Jews in the first place).



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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Wed Nov 04, 2015 2:22 pm

Excerpted from: http://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/2 ... ymore.html

Arthur Topham: Not Pretending Anymore

There was a time, not long ago, when Arthur Topham claimed that he wasn't an anti-Semite. No, he was merely opposed to Zionism and Zionists. Besides, he couldn't be an anti-Semite since he claimed his wife had Jewish ancestry (though we're not sure that there was anything actually presented to substantiate that claim).

But it looks like any pretext has been dropped. The city has been razed and the lands surrounding it salted. Suffice it to say it's hard to convince anyone that you are not an anti-Semite when you post stuff like this:


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At least he's being a little more honest now, if one wants to give him that much credit.

But then most of our readers didn't need Topham to convince them in the first place of his nature.



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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby jakell » Wed Nov 04, 2015 2:30 pm

Makes a change from the constant crypto-Nazis-under-the-bed claims, although I'm sure they will be re-evoked when such obvious characters become a little dull
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Wed Nov 04, 2015 11:13 pm

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 89175.html

Hate crimes against Muslims in London 'up by 70%', police figures show

Metropolitan Police figures show total of 816 Islamophobic offences in past year

Alexander Sehmer Monday 7 September 2015

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Women are said to make up the majority of victims of Islamophobic attacks

London's Muslims have faced a 70% increase in Islamophobic attacks over the past year, according to figures from the Metropolitan Police.

The Met's statistics record a total of 816 Islamophobic hate crimes in the 12 months to July 2015, up from 478 over the same period in 2013-14.

Racist and religious hate crimes in London increased overall by 27%, with 13,007 incidents recorded.
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby coffin_dodger » Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:32 am

American Dream » Thu Nov 05, 2015 4:13 am wrote:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hate-crimes-against-muslims-in-london-up-by-70-according-to-police-10489175.html

Hate crimes against Muslims in London 'up by 70%', police figures show

Metropolitan Police figures show total of 816 Islamophobic offences in past year

Alexander Sehmer Monday 7 September 2015

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Women are said to make up the majority of victims of Islamophobic attacks

London's Muslims have faced a 70% increase in Islamophobic attacks over the past year, according to figures from the Metropolitan Police.

The Met's statistics record a total of 816 Islamophobic hate crimes in the 12 months to July 2015, up from 478 over the same period in 2013-14.

Racist and religious hate crimes in London increased overall by 27%, with 13,007 incidents recorded.


I really enjoy rhetoric heavily laced with irony. Thanks, AD!

Stats from the Metropolitan Police are never massaged to meet the agenda set by the Gov't. :rofl2
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