I
saw the Guardian article and agree with Jonathan Cook here. My first
thought was that the Jewish fans concerns arise from the fact that they
support the Zionist's slaughter and decades old occupation or at the
very least refuse to condemn what Israel is doing in Gaza at the
present, and they are unwilling to raise it. In other words, they oppose
the protest and its demands. I
don't know all the details and am aware that Anti-Semites will
opportunistically use the Palestinian cause in order to push their
filth. If there were genuine verbal or Anti-Semitic slogans or attacks
on anyone perceived as Jewish that's a different matter of course. But I
was viciously attacked by a woman (I have no idea if she was Jewish or not) in my local grocery store for saying I
was anti-Zionist. She accused me of supporting the extermination of an
entire culture and race of people. To her, Zionism is Judaism. Here in
the US, young Jews in particular are leading the charge for Palestinian
rights, and end to the occupation and the "genocide" in Gaza. RM
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Gaza is paying the ultimate price for decades of media pandering to Zionist bigotry
The Guardian and other media continue to prioritise the 'sensitivities' of an ideological minority over the public's right to protest against a genocide in which our elites are complicit
We all understand that, shamefully, a number of Zionist Jews and non-Jews identify so completely with Israel that they are not only willing to excuse the mass slaughter and starvation of civilians in Gaza but think others should not even be allowed to express disquiet at the slaughter.
Hardline Zionists tell us they find concern for the welfare of Palestinians "offensive", and that they feel "unsafe" when others raise such concerns or call for a ceasefire to end the bloodshed.
The question for the rest of us is: How do we deal with those "sensitivities", and how much do we prioritise the “offence” taken by hardline Zionists?
Not unreasonably, most ordinary people place very little weight on the “sensitivities” of those who believe mass slaughter and the starvation of children should be allowed to proceed, at least when weighed against the sensitivities of those opposed to mass death.
What's so weird is the way, as far as official bodies and the western media are concerned, those priorities have been turned upside down.
Here, in fairly typical fashion, the Guardian falls over backwards to indulge the "feelings" of a few Jewish Arsenal fans because they "felt unsafe" and "betrayed" by their club for not more aggressively stopping protests last weekend at a Women’s Super League game by other fans over the complicity of the UK government in Gaza's genocide.
No evidence is produced by either the fans or the Guardian that any Jewish fan was in any danger whatsoever. Just that a few Palestinian flags were smuggled into the stadium, that leaflets and stickers were handed out, and that some protesters tried to engage with fans as they arrived at the stadium – presumably in that dangerous tradition of trying to persuade others of the validity of one’s position.
But the Guardian sympathetically dedicates a great deal of space to relaying the concerns of this handful of Jewish fans who "believe their safety was compromised by security staff not curtailing the protest" – that is, those who wanted to prevent an entirely peaceful demonstration taking place in a public space outside the ground.
The story is risible. It is news as therapy for Zionists and gaslighting for the rest of us.
But it is decades of nonsense journalism about Israel and its apologists of precisely this kind that has led us to the dismal place we are today.
The constant indulgence by the political and media class, the constant elevation of these kinds of ugly, ignoble "feelings" – feelings that dehumanise and vilify Palestinians, as well as anyone acting in solidarity with their suffering – the constant treatment of Zionist bigotry as warranted, as justified, as normal, that has gotten us into a position where Israel can commit genocide and its western allies and parts of their Jewish populations can treat it as “offensive” to raise the matter.
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