The Israeli state and government really are a bunch of lying, propagandist lowlifes. After the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh was targeted by a Nazi shouting ‘All Jews must die’, the Israeli spin machine and its mouthpieces in Britain and America have swung into action to put the blame precisely where it doesn’t belong: on the liberal left.
In this video from Secular Talk, host Kyle Kulinski talks about a segment from American news in which the anchor interviewed the Israeli ambassador, Ron Dermer. The anchor asked him about the help the Israelis were giving the victims of this atrocity. Dermer replied that the Israelis were sending specialists in treating people traumatized by attacks such as this, after they occurred in Israel. The anchor then goes on to talk about whether Donald Trump is partly to blame for all this, in particular because of his refusal to put the blame squarely on the Nazis for the violence last year in Charlottesville. Dermer replies by saying Trump’s comment – which was that there were ‘good people’ on both sides – wasn’t helpful, but denies that the Orange Buffoon has any responsibility for this. He has, after all, Jews in his family.
He then goes to make what Kulinski later in the video describes as the ‘false equivalency’ argument. He starts talking about how anti-Semitism is everywhere, on both sides. Jews have been attacked as capitalists, who control everything. They have also been attacked as Communists. Anti-Semitism is growing. It’s on the left with Jeremy Corbyn in England, and in American colleges.
Kulinkski points out that the attack was carried out by a Nazi shouting ‘All Jews must die!’. He explains that the anti-Semitism Dermer’s attacking in American colleges is the BDS movement, the campaign to boycott goods and business produced in occupied Palestine. Israel views Corbyn and the BDS campaigners as anti-Semites simply because they want Israel to give Palestinians the same Human Rights that they currently reserve exclusively for Israelis. He states categorically that there are no left-wing Nazis attacking Jews and synagogues. He also suggests that Dermer doesn’t really believe what he’s saying about the Left, but it is doing so in the hope that others will. Kulinski then says that he would ignore this story, but he’s seen it very many times elsewhere. It’s just another example of the false equivalence the media makes between the Left and Right when crimes like this happen, even though the responsibility lies very much on the right. The Left isn’t responsible for crimes like this, whatever Joe Crowder, the anchor, believes.
It wasn’t just the Israeli ambassador to American making these slanderous claims either. On Tuesday Mike put up a post reporting a story from the Skwawkbox about a sockpuppet Twitter account in the name of Dean Brown, who was described by the anti-Corbyn site Left Over as a Corbyn supporter, Labour staffer and member of Momentum. ‘Dean Brown’ wrote tweeted in response to a Tweet by Netanyahu expressing his sorrow at the attacks ‘You brought it on yourselves’. ‘Dean Brown’ doesn’t exist. The person behind this sockpuppet attempt to smear the Labour party appears to be the same person behind the Wes Brown Tweet that fooled Yvette Cooper. Wes Brown also claimed to be a Corbyn supporter and a member of his staff. Wes Brown also doesn’t exist. According to Mike today, the identity of the idiot behind this deception has been revealed, despite his attempts to cover his tracks.
Unfortunately, the comedian David Schneider appears to have been taken in by this scam, and angrily sent a tweet attacking anti-Semitism on the left. Schneider was rightly annoyed by a tweet from a person asking if there would be the same outrage if Palestinians were shot. As Mike points out, there’s no evidence that this individual was left-wing or a member of the Labour party. Another target of Schneider’s anger was Jenny Tonge. She’s a Lib Dem and so is not a member of the Left, and definitely not a member of the Labour party.
Various journos also lined up to spread the smears. Rachel Campos-Duffy on Fox News claimed that left-wing anti-Semitism was behind the attack. And the Guardian hack Christina Patterson, reviewing the papers on Sky News said in connection to the shooting that Jeremy Corbyn was encouraging anti-Semitism in the Labour party.
In fact, as Mike shows, the opposite is the case. He presents a variety of Tweets from left-wingers, including the Skwawkbox and Corbyn himself, expressing every sympathy with the victims. Mike says
‘Left Over’ and the accounts mentioned in its tweet, the five UK journalists who linked the Pittsburgh killings with Jeremy Corbyn, Chris Williamson’s dogpilers and – sadly – David Schneider are all responsible for an anti-left, anti-Labour, anti-Corbyn-and-his-supporters smear that is all the more disgusting because of its context.
All should make public apologies immediately. Some should face disciplinary procedures for false reporting.
But we all know that’s not going to happen, don’t we?
Not while anti-Semitism is the one accusation people can make against political figures without any need for proof whatsoever.
Chris Williamson MP was attacked because he linked to a tweet about the head of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Marie van der Zyle, below, being criticized for using an anti-Semitic trope.
He ends his piece by explaining once again that he himself has been the victim of such smears, and asks his readers to contribute to the crowdfunding campaign to raise money to allow him to fight a libel case against those who smeared him.
There really is no decency behind Dermer, Patterson, Campos-Duffy or any of the other soulless, amoral hacks and shills, who have used this tragedy to smear the Left instead of putting the blame squarely where it belongs. It’s an utter travesty, and shows once again why no-one should trust the mainstream news.
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