Caitlin Johnstone was recently labeled a 'sick psycho' for her clear-headed piece about anti-semitism following the hateful Manchester synagogue stabbings and double-killing (apparently one unfortunate victim shot by police).
[https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/on-the-manchester-synagogue-attack]
After the attack an Arab-Israeli hasbarist named Jonathan Elkhoury jumped on Twitter to tell me that “When you dehumanize Israelis and Jews to this level, you end up with a terrorist attack in a synagogue in the UK,” adding, “You’re as complicit as the terrorists attack you sick psycho.”
Is she a 'sick psycho' or is it really case of the madmen running the asylum?
Apart from Netanyahu obviously, one of the madmen is clearly UK PM Keir Starmer of whom the BBC reported:
He added that hatred against Jews "is rising once again, and Britain must defeat it once again", as he reflected on the history of Jews seeking refuge in the UK.
[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrpxgk6x68o]
Leaving aside that it was the Soviet Union that broke the back of Nazi Germany, occupied Berlin forcing Hitler's suicide and liberated many of the despicable Nazi extermination camps in the East, what this lame and lazy statement does not say is that:
- People killing random Jews in the UK, if not mentally ill nutcases, are more likely to be radicalized, fundamentalist Muslims who hate all Jews and don't care who they murder to satisfy themselves (unless the alleged Manchester murderer Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent, was just another ordinary Brit who happens to strap fake suicide bomb-belts to his waist for kicks on his way to the chip shop)
- Anti-Israel feeling is rising in the UK because Israel is pursuing a genocide in Gaza, bombs whomever and wherever it likes and breaks international laws whenever it feels like it because it knows it has the backing of the USA.
Unfortunately for Starmer, he can't blame 'far right thugs' or Reform here - especially as many of those protesting for Palestinian rights and stirring things up are solidly 'left' of Reform - which is a shame as this would have fitted his overall narrative better.
So what Britain must actually defeat is radical, fundamentalist Muslims imposing their specific hatreds onto the general UK population, including Jews, and an Israeli regime that cares nothing for non-Jewish human life and rights and acts with Trump-backed impunity.
That is the way to 'take back' the Union Jack flag to help stop people beheading British servicemen (Lee Rigby-RIP) and killing Jews, and not this pathetic, pandering rhetoric from Starmer.