‘Lib Dem Cowardice over Jenny Tonge and Jewish Racism
Some of you will recall how Jenny Tonge was forced to resign from the Liberal Democrats because at a meeting she chaired, an Orthodox Rabbi from the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect blamed Reform Rabbi Stephen Wise in America in 1933 for declaring a Boycott of Nazi Germany. Liberal Democrats Suspend British Peer for Supporting Palestinian Rights
In fact
the Rabbi was not only stupid but historically wrong. Wise did his best to stop the Jewish Boycott of
Nazi Germany, alongside the Zionists who reached a trade agreement with the Nazis
(Ha'avara) in August 1933. The pressure
for a Boycott came from the Jewish working class in America and elsewhere,
alongside the international labour movement.
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Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira - he co-wrote 'Torat HaMelech' (the King's Torah) which is a guide book to how you can legally kill a non-Jew, including non-Jewish children and infants |
It was
both the Zionist movement and the Jewish bourgeoisie who vehemently opposed the
Boycott. Wise in 1933 went along with a Boycott
only to sabotage its implementation when the time arose. The real leader of the Boycott Samuel
Untermeyer in the United States spoke of Wise as ‘the
kingpin of mischief-makers whose support for Boycott depended on the audience
he was addressing.’ But
on August 14th 1933, Wise was sufficiently stung by Untermeyer’s
criticism to declare his support for the Boycott when addressing the Prague
Jewish community. [Edwin Black, The Transfer
Agreement, pp. 276-7]
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Ovadia Yosef surrounded by Eli Yishai, an out and out racist and Aryeh Deri, the leader of Shas who has already served time in Israeli prisons for corruption |
As Untermeyer
said of Wise ‘You cannot put out a fire…
by just looking on.’ He called on the AJC’s members to ‘instruct these false leaders in no uncertain terms as to the stand
they must take… or resign their offices.’
In any
event the Boycott had nothing to do with the Holocaust and everything to do
with the war on Russia in June 1941.
One
particularly stupid MP, David Davies said
"May we have a debate on the use to which these premises may
be put following reports that outrageously a member of the House of Lords
presided over an event at which Israel was compared to Islamic State, and the
Jews were even blamed for their own genocide?"
If Davies or the other hypocrites and ignoramuses had knew
anything about the Holocaust or Jewish religious orthodoxy then they would have realised that the idea
that the Jews who died in the Holocaust were being punished for their own sins
is a common one amongst the religious Orthodoxy – both Zionist and anti-Zionist. No less than the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi
of Israel, Ovadia Yosef said in a sermon that:
“The six million Holocaust victims were
reincarnations of the souls of sinners, people who transgressed and did all
sorts of things which should not be done. They had been reincarnated in order
to atone.”
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Banned from Britain Rabbi Elitzur co-wrote Torat HaMelech - briefly arrested in Israel he was released without charge. |
Weekly
Saturday night sermon in August 2000
Pastor
John Hagee, President of Christians United for Israel said something very
similar. Quoting Jeremiah 16 he
intoned:
‘Behold I will send for many fishers and after will I send for many hunters. And they the hunters shall hunt them" — that will be the Jews — "from every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks." If that doesn't describe what Hitler did in the Holocaust — you can't see that.’
In other words Hitler was sent by god as a
hunter to drive the Jews to Israel. Yet Zionist groups rushed to support him. Why? Because he was, in addition to being an anti-Semite a strong supporter of Israel.
Abe Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League,
one of the main Zionist groups in the USA from saying
of Hagee, after he had ‘clarified’ his comments that
‘Pastor Hagee
has devoted his life to combating anti-Semitism and supporting the State of
Israel. We are grateful for his efforts to eradicate anti-Semitism and to
rally so many in the Christian community to stand with Israel.’
Rabbi
Ovadia Yosef didn’t only confine his comments to the Holocaust though. In 5 of Ovadia Yosef’s most controversial quotations Rabbi Yosef also explained
the real reasons for Hurricane Katrina.
It was a
divine punishment for godlessness and American support for the
disengagement from Gaza:
Other pearls of
wisdom include:
Ovadia
Yosef had very fixed views about non-Jews (Goyim) like the idiot David Davies
MP.
Warming to his theme, the good rabbi explained of non-Jews that:
“In Israel, death has no dominion over them… With gentiles,
it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them
longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money.
“This is his servant… That’s why he gets a long life,
to work well for this Jew.”
“Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will
plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat… That is why gentiles
were created.”
— Weekly Saturday night sermon in October 2010
“How can you make peace with a snake?”
“Those evildoers, the Arabs — it says in the Gemara
[Talmud] that God is sorry he ever created those sons of Ishmael.”
— Weekly Saturday night sermon in August 2000
So the
attack on Jenny Tonge was particularly hypocritical as the Zionists certainly
are aware that there is a large strand in Orthodox Jewry which holds that the Jews
brought the Holocaust on themselves because of their sinfulness.
You may think that Ovadia Yosef was just one made Jewish Rabbi but you'd be wrong. Yosef was a man who could and did break government coalitions in Israel, because he was the spiritual head of Shas, the main Sephardic party in the Knesset. Today they have 7 seats and are represented in the governing coalition of Netanyahu. If they were to pull out the coalition would fall. It is bigots such as this on whom Israel's governing coalition rests.