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NOVANEWS Delegitimization of Israel - A Strategic Threat Israel delegitimizers threaten its existence. Writing in Haaretz, Reut Institute Founder Gidi Grinstein, who formerly worked in the office of war criminal Ehud Barak, describes an "unholy alliance" aiming to turn Israel into a pariah state and recommends a comprehensive policy approach to address the challenge. We need not detail ourselves with the conspiracy aspect of this analysis, the unholy alliance. This is something beloved of conspiracy theorists. Hitler seized upon the Jews because they could explain both capitalism and communism and be blamed for both. One enemy as Hitler said is enough for the masses to digest. Likewise Grinstein and all the other propagandists know that presenting a multitude of enemies diffuses the messag...

NOVANEWS It is of course the ultimate, Zionist logic. If you stay in the diaspora or if you leave and then show some sympathy with the 'goys' (non-Jews) then you deserve nothing better than to be exterminated. Just like those who died in the holocaust, you have brought it on yourself. This of course was exactly the attitude of the Zionist leadership during the holocaust. The Holocaust barely figured in their deliberations, but the 'dangers' of saving Jews when Palestine was not involved, were indeed the subject of deliberations. No one better symbolised this than David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister. In 1938 he wrote a memo to the Zionist Executive on the dangers of what was termed 'refugeeism': 'If the Jews are faced with a choice between the refugee problem and rescuing Jews f...

NOVANEWS Below we reprint an excellent article on Electronic Intifada. Harvard Fellow Calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births Report, The Electronic Intifada 22 February 2010 A fellow at Harvard University`s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Martin Kramer, has called for `the West` to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide. Kramer, who is also a fellow at the influential Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), made the call early this month in a speech at Israel`s Herzliya conference, a video of which is posted on his blog (`Superfluous young men`) In the speech Kramer rejected common views that Islamist `radicalization` is caused by US policies...

NOVANEWS Review - Francis Nicosia and Zionist Collaboration with Nazi Germany Last summer whilst on holiday I took a copy of Francis Nicosia’s Zionism & anti-semitism in Nazi Germany for light reading! An appalling apologia for the collaboration of the Zionist movement in Germany with the new Nazi government, I said that I would do a review of that book and its predecessor, The Third Reich and the Palestine Question. This was completed and reprinted in the Weekly Worker late last year and I am now including it on the blog as an aid to those interesting in the subject of how the Zionist movement, which today is so quick as it is to accuse its opponents of ‘anti-semitism’ was not always so concerned about anti-semitism. Tony Greenstein Review: Francis Nicosia: The Third Reich and the Palesti...

NOVANEWS Milking Haiti's Plight for Israeli Public Relations The Cynicism of Israel's PR Aid to Haiti Is Israel’s help in Haiti really useful or a gigantic PR exercise asks Sol Salbe, the translater of the item below? As he notes, Yoel Donchin is a good person to answer the question. Prof Donchin is the director of the Patient Safety Unit at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem. His patriotism cannot be questioned he has served on most of Israel’s disaster relief missions. For his verdict read on. Naturally this item was meant for Israelis only, it was only published in Ynet but not Ynetnews and translated by this News Service.] In fact the answer cannot be anything other than yes. After the United States, in the last 30 years, the State which has caused most devastation and loss of li...

NOVANEWS Interference in the democratic process at the PSC AGM Prior to the 2009 AGM, a secret memo was circulated to a selected list of people who had access to voting rights by virtue of their membership of PSC and/or affiliated organizations. The memo asked them to attend the AGM and dictated to them to vote on motions and for a list of candidates to the EC. The memo was headed “This is a personal note - not for circulation”. It stated that: “This will in my view be an extremely important AGM because of the need to get the focus of the campaign firmly fixed on the events in Gaza and to keep trade unions at the centre of the PSC. There is an opposition within PSC which I firmly believe would take us well away from these objectives.” The clear implication was that those candidates who we...

NOVANEWS On the 6th February PSC will hold its Annual General Meeting. Socialist Action/CL's response to our letter expressing concern at the lack of democracy in PSC has been to put forward constitutional proposals which, if passed, will all but destroy PSC’s democracy. There will be an annual conference, but its powers will be limited. It will certainly not be sovereign, even theoretically. The Trade Union Action Committee, whose membership is unknown and is not open to ordinary PSC trade union activists or members, at present sends 2 delegates to PSC Executive. Constitutional amendment 5, which has clearly been instigated by the Executive, suggests that the representation of TUAC be doubled to 4! As these places are Bernard Regan's gift, this will mean that a fifth of the EC (4/20) will...

NOVANEWS   *PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN EXECUTIVE LIBELS ITS CRITICS. *PSC Executive Accuses Its Opponents of Being Zionist Agents. *Executive Response to Criticism is to Restrict Democracy Further Last summer, 13 of us (subsequently 27) sent a letter to Palestine Solidarity Campaign Executive. It is copied below*: As can be seen, we raised issues concerning the way PSC was being run. In the Annual Report of PSC Executive, which has just been sent (to some people) it states that ‘in August a group of 13 people made unsubstantiated allegations to the EC.’ A cursory reading of the Open Letter demonstrates that it wasn’t alleging anything, merely asking questions. Having the audacity to raise such questions was, however, deemed an act of lese majeste. PSC Executive and its Socialist ...

NOVANEWS "It's a shame that either Hitler or the Angel of Death, missed your family's house. Or Neturei Karta's." Normally I don't put anti-Semitic, holocaust denial or overt Zionist racist comments on my blog. However I'm going to make an exception today. Well I'm not going to post them but I'm going to place them together in the same article rather than as posts to older articles. The first is by a charming fellow by the name of 'Mossad' - quite fitting in the circumstances. Our fascist Zionist, because there is little doubt that he is such, starts off with the usual accusations of being a traitor (don't know where he got the bastard bit) as well as being a 'leftist liberal Jew'. One of Hitler's pet hates except be believed all Jews were such. Actually I'm not a liberal leftist but a Mar...

NOVANEWS If the U.S. Carried Out Ethnic Cleansing, Why Shouldn't Israel? I'm always pleased to hear people argue that Americans shouldn't criticize Israel for being a nation created and maintained through ethnic cleansing, seeing as the United States was established through ethnic cleansing too. Not because I think it's a persuasive argument, but because the fact that this argument is being made at all is a measure of just how far the debate on Israel-Palestine has progressed. It wasn't too long ago that Zionists claimed Palestine was "a land without a people". Even when it wasn't explicitly stated that Palestine was an empty land we treated it as if it was, by effectively excluding Palestine and Palestinians from discourse about Israel. So it's a huge step forward that today even some def...