There’s a pattern of activity of people on the left, where they are quite active on Twitter/X … until there’s some bad news about Islam. Then they go missing.
When the Trump administration took out Iran’s terrorist Czar, Owen was all over the story. But he went very quiet when the Iranians shot down the passenger plane.
Owen’s next vanishing trick occurred when the Batley teacher had to go into hiding in fear of his life because Islamic extremists were threatening him. Owen had been very interested in Batley, as Jo Cox’s sister was the candidate for Labour in the Batley & Spen election.
When the Islamic terrorist enclave of Gaza attacked Israel on October 7 2023, Owen wen missing yet again. This time he waited until the 9th October, not to give Hamas a slap on the wrist, but to lay into Israel for responding to the invasion and slaughter of Israelis.
What we might expect of our politicians and political commentators, even those critical of Israel, is a swift, explicit and vehement condemnation of the Islamic terrorism of Hamas. But not from Corbyn.
The narrative is that Israel sponsor Hamas, and/or the CIA have something to do with it. This tweet is typical.
We do know the CIA backed the Taliban against the Soviet Union, but later had to fight the Taliban in the “war or terrorism” when coalition forces invaded Afghanistan. And it’s a fair bet to say that the CIA and Israel’s Mosad have their fingers in many pies in the Middle East.
But then so do most Islamist states or organisations – for example, the Israel strike on the Iranian compound in Syria was an attack on a number of actors that are involved in such clandastine activities themselves.
Since 2013 Iran has maintained a presence of its troops in Syria in response to the Syrian civil war, as Syria is a crucial ally of Iran. Additionally, it has been involved in training and funding paramilitary forces from Hezbollah, along with foreign militias from Iraq and Afghanistan, not only in Syria but also in neighboring Lebanon.
But, does the conspiracy theory hold up in sense claimed, that the CIA and Israel have been funding Hamas?
Hold that thought, that question, and for the moment, suppose it is true, that the CIA and Israel have been funding Hamas. This raises another question, and one that conspiracy theoriests of various sorts will be keen to answer – why would they? But let’s park the question of the motivation of the CIA and Israel. Let’s just assume they did.
What next? What can it tell us about the Muslims of Hamas that we didn’t know already?
If you’re a member of a law abiding organisation, a “religion of peace”, that’s at peace with its neighbours, because your neighbours are “people of the book”, what would you do if those neighers said, “Hey, here’s some money, buy some arms and come and attack us so we can make you look bad?” Would you be stupid enough to fall for it?
You see, the problem with this conspiracy theory is it absolves Hamas of all agency in the atrocities they commit, and futher, it is a particularly antisemitic conspiracy, because it feeds off the many antisemitic tropes about Jews and their coniving ways.
It still takes the motivation of the Muslims* of Hamas to actually do the following:
Carry out the atrocities of October 7.
Continue to fire rockets into Israel.
Commit suicide bombings of buses and other targets in Israel.
Indoctrinate their children on Palestinian TV to hate Jews, to become martyrs for Islam, and to stab Jews.
This hatred has been going on for 1400 years, instigated initially by Mohammed when the Jews of Medina would not side with him in his battles – his ‘final solution’ being to massacre the Jews of Medina, and to be invloved in that personally. This has set the model for Jew hatred in Islam ever since.
No, Muslims that support Hamas, al Qaida, ISIS, Boko Haram and many other extremist and terrorist Muslim organisations are fully motivated by Islam, and it is their own agency that is responsible for anything they do.
So, even if it were true that the CIA and Israel funded Hamas, it still takes Muslims to commit the horrifica attacks of October the 7th, and just to remind you, this is what they did, much of it taken from their own phones and body cams. I must warn you that this is terrible, but you have a duty to know what Hamas is capable of.
And this isn’t unique. And nor is this denial of Muslim agency. It happened with ISIS. Of course Obama pulled out of Iraq too soon, leaving it in a mess, and of course Bush and Blair take some blame for attacking Iraq, even though Saddam Hussein was a brutal dicator. But it still required “ordinary Muslims”, “nice young men”, “indoctrinated young girls” to make their way to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS and start genocide of Yazidis, the taking of sex slaves, the burning alive, the chopping of heads, the cricifixions, and all manner of barbarity that echoes the ways of Mohammed and his Merry Men of 1400 years ago.
Muslims are agents that follow the Quran and Hadith. When they kill the way they did on October the 7th, it wasn’t some unusual event, or an act of resistance. It was Islamic terrorism, the Islamic terrorism we have seen time and time again.
It’s one heck of a long list for a “religion of peace”.
* Muslims of Hamas … when we talk about hamas, ISIS, Boko Haram, and other Islamic terrorist groups, there is often the claim theya re “Nothing to do with Islam” or they do not follow Islam as they should. But it’s only ever Muslims. Even on October 7, I don’t know of any Christians or Druze from Gaza that joined them. Historically there have been instances of Chistians persecuting Jews in Palestine, but these are usually separate incidents. And in the 2oth and 21st centuries I don’t know of any Christians joining any Muslim Islamic terrorist organisation. Why is this significant? Because the narrative of the Middle East conflict is often framed as Israeli v Arab or Jew v Arab, when there are Arab Jews, and other non-Muslim Arabs, and Irainains consider themselves Persion, not Arab, and many reject the “Arab religion”, Islam. It would be far more accurate to speak as we find: Muslims engage in Islamic terrorism, not anyone else.
The horrors of October 7 are there for all to see (though many that are fools or anti-Semites, or both, look away and even deny they happened).
Those that survived as and escaped on the daya, or as returning hostages that are eventually released (in deals where many more terrorists are released from Israel than hostages from Hamas), tell their stories.
But first, the first responders tell you what they found.
First Responders
Post-atrocities Testimonies
Hostage Stories
Freed Israeli Hostages Tell Their Stories. Youtube video.
Some of the hostages speak of their religious convictions, and of the prayers they say contributed to their god’s assistance. It’s natural for the religious to pray in such circumstances, and to think their god has decided to spare them (or as one puts it, has placed them in captivity for a reason). This is not different from similar prayers by Muslims in Gaza, or mothers of terrorists who tank god for taking their children as martyrs. There are many reasons for these wars that have raged for millennia, but religion plays its part.
The trauma of 9 year old Emily, who was released from Hamas captivity
In captivity in Gaza with a 6 year old girl
Daniel Aloni was kidnapped by Hamas and taken to Gaza with her 6-year-old daughter Emelia and was released after 49 days in captivity.
I am Israel’s Lady in Red and this is how I survived Nova festival massacre
Terror Survivor Details Horrors of Israel Attack
What many people don’t realise is that on October 7 there was a massive barrage of rocket fire from Hamas; and what’s significant for those ignorant of the lives of Israelis, is that rocket attacks are so ‘normal’, that this one was only unusual because of its intensity.
Another fact of life is the casual talk of ‘safe rooms’, which many communities have in hteir homes, Hamas rocket and mortor attacks are so common.
So, Londoners, marching for a Ceasefire, ask your grandparents and greatgrandparents, if they are still alive, when they were sheltering in their Anderson shelters during the Blitz, how would they have responded to demands from them for a ceasefire, while allowing the Nazis to continue the Blitz.
Adele Raemer here also talks about the facebook group for those living near the border with Gaza, that she had posted in September about Hamas practicing their attack. There are questions about why October 7 was such a surprise for Israel, but when you live with constant Hamas rocket attacks, terror attacks through the tunnels, a degree of ‘normality’ sets in. I can’t imagine Isralis being so unprepared in the future.
These are stories I hear when I was a child about the Holocaust. I’m living in my own coutry, in the Land of Israel, we have an army, we’re in 2023. How is it I am hiding in my safe room, from the Nazis of 2023, who are coming to kill me because I’m a Jew. When they say, “From the riover to the sea”, that’s a genocidal war cryt, and I take them at their word.
Adele Raemer, survivor of Islamic terrorism of October 7
Survivors Recount Harrowing October 7th battle at Nahal Oz base
Inside the Kibbutz Be’eri Massacre: Hamas war on Israel
Yarin Levin | Survivor of the Hamas Terrorist Attack | USC Shoah Foundation
Nitzan Ezra’s testimony of October 7, 2023
Hamas Atrocities
For those of you that still doubt the events of October 7 2023, there is ample evidence provided by the terrorists themselves, in their own words, in their own videos:
“Nothing to do with Islam!” A plea we’ve heard time after time in the West whenever an Islamic terrorist attack has occurred.
Don’t look away, you who are ignorant and say “Islamism is not Islam”, or you shockingly clueless apologists for Islamic madness, as you shout “Stop the genocide! Ceasefire!” and in the next breath “From the river to the sea!” – you have no idea what genocide is.
Listen to the “Allahu Akbar!” cries from the Hamas terrorists as they carry out their work for Allah, the killing of Jews, and the cheering Gazans shouting “Allahu Akbar!” as Hamas return with living and dead trophies of their butchery. This is what “From the river to the sea!” means; this is what ‘Genocide’ means.
I haven’t yet persuaded myself to post the videos here directly. You must take responsibility for yourself, and choose to witness them. Below are links to sites that contain them.
You Have a Duty to Witness Hamas
As horrific as these recordings are, they are a fraction of what happened. Some of the horrors were recorded, but have not been released.
This is Hamas – Some of the blood raw footage filmed and shared by Hamas of Gaza.
Hammas Massacre – Some of the same footage, more images, more horror.
(*These sites may be closed down at some point, by the sensitive souls that don’t want to stare human horror in its face; or by those that don’t like to offend the easily offended; or those who want to protect the bonds of wealth; or by those that love death as you love life.)
Worse Than Nazis?
This evidence should stand as a memorial to the victims of Islamic extremism. The images and videos, many recorded by Hamas and other Gazans themselves, should be on display in every Holocaust museum, because they rank with the work of the Nazis.
No! They are worse than even the Nazis. The horrific glee with which these Muslim ‘Palestinians’ shouted their praise for Allah as they butchered women, children, babies; the pride with which they phoned home to tell their parents of how many Jews they’d killed, surpasses the cold brutality of the Nazis.
If you don’t believe me, watch, and listen … you must listen. We become immune to visual atrocities. But it’s near impossible not to absorb the religious fanatical pleasure that fellow humans indulge in while they are raping and butchering another fellow human.
Videos and Witness Accounts
I suggest you look at and listen to the horrific evidence provided above. Here are other accounts where some of the terrible scenes are blurred out.
Eyewitness Accounts of Sexual Violence Against Israeli Women on October 7th
The interviewer asks, “How do you confront the claim that as long as allegedly there is no evidence of rape, we cannot clearly determine that those Israeli women experienced sexual violence?” (Does she know of Own Jones?)
I want whoever claims this and just wants justice, to come to me, look in my phone. What you see here, this blood stain, from here it was rolled down. I can’t make this public. There is only one interpretation, to the pictures I photographed. Not stories. What I touched with these hands, and saw with these eyes. That alone is enough to discredit any claims of this kind. I will present it at the Criminal Court of Justice in The Hague. There will be noone that can deny what I am telling and what I am showing.
I understand, more and more, that the world is talking to us with human logic, saying, “It can’t be. The UN denies it so it probably did not happen. Bring evidence.” I realised that I was there, when the evidence could be documented. I am here as a civil servant in he service of the people, in the service of the world. It’s for the world. The World needs to know this.
Interviewer, “Can you understand the sweeping denial of events, most of which were photographed? Are these political considerations, or maybe a degree of anti-Semitism?”
I think that the more unimaginable the horrors, the more convenient it is for people who want to deny them, to really stick to that narrative, that it couldn’t have happened. Because it’s so unimaginable, it’s so horrific.
I think we had to admit that anti-Semitism does exist, and we have seen very ugly parts of it in response to October 7.
It was rape. It was abuse. It was body part amputation, or both women and men. It was genital mutilation. We will never know the numbers or the scope. The significant point is they were not sporadic incidents. These were repeated incidents, at the same time in several areas.
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
Press Conf. on Sexual Violence Aspects of 7.10 – November 14, 2023
It is a potential existential error for liberal democratic societies to hear what Islamic extremists say, and then pretend they don’t mean it.
The distinction between a love of death and a love of life is important in understanding Islamic extremism. It’s the basis upon which too many Muslims in Gaza allow their children to be martyrs for Hamas. They may love their children. But too often in the warped manner of a death cult, they love even more the martyrdom of their child, for Allah.
This is no ‘Islamophobic’ message of mine. It comes from their own mouths.
Mohammed Hijab
We hear it from our very own Mohammed Hijab (you can appreciate the narcisism, and the homoerotic appeal to fellow enthusiasts – his sexual outbursts are legendary).
The difference between us and them is that for them, they think life begins. For us, we believe that death begins. We believe that life begins at death. We don’t care about death. We love death.
When you see who else shares his cultish view, you might start to suspect the benefit to the West of allowing extremists to flourish – tolerating intolerance is itself a suicidal norm now found across the West. Free speech for Islam, that promotes removing your free speech by killing you.
Mohammed Siddique Khan
While you might think Mo Hijab a bit of blow hard, with all his all talk and no action. You can’t think the same of Mohammed Saddique Khan, who, with his fellow Muslims was responsible for much death, injury and destruction, as one of the Londion 7/7 terrorists of July 2005. Suicide bombing is popular among members of the death cult.
We Love Death As You Love Life
Mohammed Siddique Khan
Mohammad Sidique Khan (Urdu: محمد صدیق خان; 20 October 1974 – 7 July 2005) was a Pakistani-British terrorist and the oldest of the four Islamist suicide bombers and believed to be the leader responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings, in which bombs were detonated on three London Underground trains and one bus in central London, suicide attacks, killing 56 people including the attackers and injuring over 700. Khan bombed the Edgware Road train killing himself and six other people.
There’s a certain irrational irony to his words, that beckons his own death at the hands of his enemies. Yet, the greater irony is we don’t believe them, until they do it.
The following link is for a French documentary (English voiceover) that follows an ISIS group, and witnesses the build up and final end of one of the Jihadists who prepares to make a suicide attack, and his fairwell has the air of a sinister pleasure, as he takes a captive on the mission with him. The psychological manipulation reminds me of other videos where ISIS terrorists express their love and best wishes for gay men they are about to throw off a roof. Psychopaths made by Islam.
Palestinian women are not like any other women in the world. They view their children as insignificant compared to the homeland.
Abbas Zaki, Fatah Central Committee member
Children of Palestine
The extremism of Islam is bred into the children of Muslim from an early age, and it includes the hatred of Jews, as many ex-Muslims will testify. And sadly, this is a key feature of the views of Muslims of Gaza, who elected Hamas. Even as Hamas committed the 7th October 2023 attacks on Israel, and returned with bodies and hostages, they had the cheering support of the majority of Gazans.
This should not be surprising, and many of those that committed the atrocities of 7th October 2023 are of an age that will have received such a Hamas ‘education’.
I will make my body a bomb that will blast the flesh of Zionists. … I will tear their bodies into little pieces and cause them more pain than they will ever know.
Palestinian Muslim boy, age 11
How do children acquire this mindset?
Mothers of a Martyr
This is a story of one mother who glorifies her son’s martyrdom: Mother of Martyr.
Palestinian Muslim ‘Education’
What can you expect of children who are indoctrinated like this: The Palestinian Incitement Exposed. Some of the scenes from this video:
When you hear the question, “Why are there so many children is Israeli prisons?”, now you know.
The Islamic corruption of innocence has been going on for so long, is it any wonder children grow up hating Jews.
Palestinian Children – The Lagacy of a Death Cult
Death Cult Gazans Wish Martyrdom On Their Children
Antisemitism Terrorist Training of Children
Gazan child …
We asked Hitler why he left some of you (Jews) alive. He did so in order to show us how wicked you are. We will come to you from under the ground and hammer fear into your hearts, and above the ground we will tear your bodies apart with our rockets. Scram into the shelters, you mice, you sons of a Jewish woman!
In this recording of the IDF calling and warning Palestinians to leave an area, this is how those Palestinians live their death cult.
They expess tehir wish to be martyrs, specifically to use their own deaths and those of their children as propaganda tools against Israel. They explicitly use themselves and their children as human shields, to protect Hamas (there’s no way of knowing the extent to which Abu Younes is involved with Hamas himself – ‘civillian’ is a generous presumption, given his response.)
They don’t see Jews as humans, and cite the Quran and other Muslim texts as reasons for hating the Jews.
Israel – A Contrast
Despite the many antisemitic induced lies about the war on Hamas of 2023/24, there are of course too many Jews that also devalue life. But that’s not the basis of the Jewish state, or its multi-ethnic and multi-faith citizens who would prefer peace.
We can forgive the Arabs [Muslims] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs [Muslims] when they love their children more than they hate us.
Golda Meir
Another statement expressed the wish for life that drives Israelis
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs – We have no place to go.
I guess we have no choice. Either we do everything that is possible, and may seem to others as impossible, and just give up. Or we do everything that is really impossible and we remain alive. There’s one more basic thing that I think that people outside of Israel must realize, and if they understand and accept that, maybe other things will fall into place.
For instance, we’re not the only people in the world who’ve had difficulties with neighbors; that has happened to many. We are the only country in the world whose neighbors do not say, “We are going to war because we want a certain piece of land from Israel,” or waterways or anything of that kind. We’re the only people in the world where our neighbors openly announce they just won’t have us here. And they will not give up fighting and they will not give up war as long as we remain alive. Here.
So this is the crux of the problem: it isn’t anything concrete that they want from us. That’s why it doesn’t make sense when people say, “Give up this and give up the other place. Give up the Golan Heights,” for instance. What happened when we were not on the Golan Heights? We were not on the Golan Heights before ’67, and for 19 years, Syria had guns up there and shot at our agricultural settlements below. We were not on the Golan Heights! So what, if we give up the Golan Heights, they will stop shooting? We were not in the Suez Canal when the war started.
It’s because Egypt and Syria and the other Arab [Muslim] countries refuse to acquiesce to our existence. Therefore there can be no compromise. They say we must be dead. And we say we want to be alive. Between life and death, I don’t know of a compromise. And that’s why we have no choice.”
60 Minutes Interview, September 1973
Thankfully, more and more of the Arab Muslim world is seeing sense, seeing peace and prosperity of not following the expansionist route to Islamic domination (though stealthier means are afoot and aided by the gullible West).
Perhaps after the defeat of Hamas, if a flourishing peaceful Gaza can be rebuilt, perhaps peace will follow.
However, in the back of your mind you must remain cogniscent of an uncomfortable set of facts:
Muslims believe Mohammed was the perfect example.
Mohammed slaughtered Jews personally. Mohammed preached the end times, where
Every tree and rock will say, “Oh Muslim, there is a Jew behind me. Come kill him.”
In a cult where the word of Allah is supposedly revealed to the prophet Mohammed, and is supposed to be valid for all time, even in liberal Muslim societies, how do you prevent this thematic hatred of Jews re-appearing?
Even peaceful Muslims, like the Ahmadiyya, are persecuted by fellow Muslims. Why? Because they invented an additional prophet to explain away many non-peaceful aspects of Islam. Ahmadis are persecuted in Pakistan, where their sect originated. You might wonder if they feel the same as Golda Meir …
We will only have peace with fellow Muslims when they love their children more than they hate us.
Hope For Deradicalisation
This is Manwar Ali. He was a radicalised Muslim, and as with many others, he bought into the death cult.
“.. for a long time I lived for death. I was a young man who believed that jihad is to be believed in the language of force and violence.”
You can watch Manwar present his story in this TED talk. Sadly, the indoctrination of children into radical Islam could take several generations to undo, if it can be done at all. Please watch. It’s a moving story.
Hamas have kids indoctrinated. Tell me Gazans are not Hamas
Hamas Indoctrinate Children
Meet Umm Osama the wife of a senior Hamas leader. Thinks Palestinian mothers should sacrifice their children’s souls as martyrs for the sake of Allah, and that mothers need to teach their children to kill Jews.
“Mother must instill in her children the love of Jihad [Killing infidels for Allah] and martyrdom for the sake of Allah. If every mother were to prevent her son from waging Jihad against Jews for the sake of Allah, who would wage Jihad?”
Why do people think Jeremy Corbyn is a terrorist sympethising antisemite?
Because despite his denials, he can’t produce counter evidence, but provides much circumstantial evidence that is typical of someone trying to avoid the charge without actually refuting it by explicit condemnation of the terrorist, turning up among terrorist supporters a little too often, and being quick and loud to condemn Israel while being reticent when he does condemn “all bombing” and continually failing in specific condemnation of the terrorists. In the case of Hamas he has been vocal in their support.
Twitter isn’t the sole output of any politician or commentator, but their bias on that platform is a good guide to their opinions, particularly if they use it frequently.
The horrific attacks by Hamas on Israelis and people of other nationalities on 7th October shocked the world. In many Muslim quarters, including in many Western towns and cities, it brought out the glorification of Hamas terrorism.
What we might expect of our politicians and political commentators, even those critical of Israel, is a swift, explicit and vehement condemnation of the Islamic terrorism of Hamas.
Not a chance of that from Corbyn. You could bet your shirt on it. That is not to say he has not condemned “all acts of violence” – it’s his duplicitous way of pretending he has covered his ass from charges of support for terrorists. However, the extent and tone of his coverage varies dramatically depending on who the victims are and who is doing the harm.
Corbyn’s usual output is two or more tweets a day on various topics, and that was the case from the 4th to the 6th October. On the 7th he managed one tweet, following the Hamas attack.
This was all he had to say on the day that Hamas attacked Israel, breaking through it’s border with Gaza, attacking and killing civillians, including people attending a music festival, and attended by the usual rain of rockets that are indescriminate in their targets (ironically to the extent that they don’t kill enough Israeli innocents as Hamas might wish, but do kill Gaza occupants when they go wrong, but the latter are involuntary sacrifical martyrs as far as Hamas are concerend).
In the face of the Hamas barbarism this is about as mealy-mouthed a comment Corbyn could get away with without showing actual support for the attack by what he calls “friends” and of whom he has this to say:
“The idea that an organisation dedicated towards the good of the Palestinian people and bringing about long term peace and social justice and political justice in the whole region should be labelled as a terrorist organisation by the British Government is a big big historical mistake.”
Dedicated to the good of the Palestinian people? No. They say not themselves, and even dismiss the well being of Palestinians, since according to the death cult they are martyrs for the cause.
Bringing about long term peace? Clearly not. They killed their Fatah opposition, who knows how many Palestinians directly, and even non-Israeli nationals.
Bringing about social justice? So, 7th October was social justice according to Corbyn? It’s not as if Corbyn didn’t know their history of killing Jewish and Muslim people.
In the whole region? Their stated intent is to take over the whole region, not to benefit it … but of course, Jihad and genocide of Jews is a benefit as far as Hamas is concerned, so perhaps that’s what Jezbollah meant.
To be explicit: Hamas is a death cult terrorist organisation that has opposed peace at every turn unless on its own terms, which include the annihilationof Israel, the killing of Jews, kaffir, blasphemers, apostates and others that will not submit to Islam. Along with ISIS, an offshoot of Hamas, it is one of the many horrific Islamic terrorist organisations active today around the world, but with a direct focus on Israel and Jews. And Corbyn, by his own words, approves of this organisation.
Corbyn had nothing to say on Twitter or Facebook on the 9th October. Better to keep quiet than continue to put your foot in your mouth.
Despite the mounting evidence of the Hamas Horror Show, Corbyn manages only two tweets on the 10th. You’d think if he could manage any comment at all it would be to blast Hamas and distance himself from them. No. He continues to play the duplicitous game. Note how saying “The horrific attacks on civillians in Israel were deplorable” does not actually condemn Hamas, but instead is a lead into attacks on Israel. His “times of war” ignore totally the fact that Israel is fighting a terrorist organisation motivated by an insane Islamic supremacist ideology intent on wiping out Israel.
From then on on Twitter and Facebook it’s as if the Hamas attacks never happened because once more he cares only about ‘Palestine’.
Outside of Twitter and Facebook, Corbyn is asked by journalists if he will condemn Hamas explicitly. As in the past, he will not. He only ever offers the same old double-speak, “I condemn all killing.”
Here he is on Piers Morgan doing his damndest to not condemn Hamas. Not only, he lies explicitly about not supporting Hamas. You can see from his own words above that he has explicitly supported Hamas.
Well, Corbyn, you don’t condemn it all with the veracity and strength the acts required with regard to Hamas, and it appears from your own actions and words, despite the gaslighting, you support them still.
You are a shockingly inhumane individually playing the role of a humanitarian.
On 7th October Hamas rockets rained down on Israel, Hamas broke through the wall (and they ask why the wall is there), and begand their killing spree.
This was an opportunity for the likes of Owen Jones, Jeremy Corbyn and other critics of Israel to show their agenda isn’t one of antisemitism. They could have come out and flat out denounced Hamas and the horrible attacks.
But, no… not unless they can have a dig at Israel.
These are the tweets of Owen Jones from the 7th. Let me rephrase that. These are the reposts of other tweets, made by Owen while he figures out how to make this look like he’s not an antisemite. They are all tweets attacking Israel, and where the a tweet even mentions the Hamas terrorism it does so in the context of “Well, Israel asked for it.”
Owen can’t manage one tweet that’s a direct condemnation of the Hamas attacks on Israel.
So, day 1 and zero condemnation of Hamas so far. Maybe on the 8th he gets around to a tweet condemning the Hamas attack?
Nope. He does find time to repost an attack on Kier Starmer … but not Hamas. Let me emphasise that: Owen not only hasn’t directly and explicitly condemned Hamas at this stage, he has reposted ZERO tweets that condemn Hamas or the Hamas attack, or even directly and unequicolally express sympathy for their Israeli and other victims.
OK, so the 9th, surely he must realise that people are going to suspect his motives if he can’t directly and explicitly condemn Hamas.
Let’s start with his reposts. This is interesting: “It cheapens the concept of antisemitism for defenders of the Israeli government to pretend it is antisemitic to hold Israel to the same standards …” Whao! Hold on there. This is precisely what is NOT being done (held to the same standards), by Owen. Not ONE direct condemnation of the Hamas attacks at this point. Maybe THAT is what makes criticism of ONLY Israel look a tad antisemitic.
At last, Owen starts to give his own opinions … but not quite what you might hope for.
Not until his tweet well into the 9th does he manage to write “slaugther of civillians, and Hamas’ sadistic murder…” It’s an ass covering after thought, no more. From here on, his tweets are just a sickening tirade of anti-Israel attacks. He does manage one retweet of a tweet “Reports coming out of South Israel …”, but again, two days later, it’s an ass cover.
On the 10th he reports on his appearance on TV, where he performs “a lengthy condemnation of Hamas’ sickening atrocity.” A bit late, Owen, and under live pressure. It might have been more convincing had it been sooner on Twitter.
Incidentally, Owen is fond of retweeting Mehdi Hasan. But he couldn’t even retweet this one, which to Mehdi’s credit, despite his own biases, is clear enough, even if he doesn’t name Hamas explicitly:
This whole episode is another instance of where Owen Jones (like Jeremy Corbyn) has a tendency to go missing at crucial times. Other examples:
Naturally, the snivelling little twerp doesn’t like it when you drop Hamas charter quotes in his timeline as evidence what he might want to condemn with more effort..
There are many British left wing MPs and commentators covering their asses right now, making sure they include something about Hamas in their tweets. But hints of antisemitism shine through. They seem to gag on any attempt to directly and pre-emtively criticse Hamas, while exhibit all signs of verbal diarrhoea when it comes to criticisng Israel.
This is how to search for someone’s tweets on a topic:
Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn’s only tweet on Hamas is one of tacit support:
But his tweets on Israel are endless. It will come as no surprise that Corbyn is accused of antisemitism.
John McDonnel
John McDonnel at least hasn’t openly supported Hamas in a tweet, but he hasn’t been directly critical either…. prior to the 14th October, 7 days after the attack, he hadn’t even mentioned Hamas.
But, as you’ll see with others, he’s eventually twigged that it looks a little antisemitic if you don’t at least mention Hamas:
“Supporting or failing to condem either makes one complicit“
Well, by his own standards, he is complicit in the support of Hamas, by ommission.
But, note the ploy here that’s used by others. Hamas, if criticised at all, is always or mostly in the context of criticising Israel, the main target or their ire. Though Hamas terrorist attacks come first, they don’t openly and willingly criticise Hamas immediately, but rather wait for the Israeli response, when the left’s true colourse emerge, and Hamas, if mentioned at all, is merely ass cover, because they’re so used to being called antisemites or being asked “and your position on Hamas?”
Richard Burgon
One Tweet that directly references Hamas, several days after the Hamas attack, and then only as cover to criticise Israel.
Meanwhile, here he is among the Palestinian and Hamas supporters criticising Israel. One of his many tweets attacking Israel.
But surely, he can be found at rallies supporting Jews? Not according to his Twitter timeline search for “Jews or Jewish” … though he does make the grand effort of a token tweet on Holocaust memorial day … as do many of these hypocrites.
Keir Starmer
Now, we all realise Starmer, as leader of New New Labour, trying to distance themselves from the extremists in the party, had to come out and criticise Hamas, knowing full well this would bring down a rain of hate upon his head from the loony left. But, did he too really have to wait seven days after the attack to publish his first direct criticism of Hamas?
Well, at least on the 7th he did defend Israel.
However, his tweets on Israel seem to be few and belated. But, fair enough, the criticisms aren’t as persistent and unhinged as those of some of his colleagues. And his mentions of Palestine are fewer.
It seems he’s a little more cagey than others.
Owen Jones
Search: from:OwenJones84 Hamas
Owen is critical of Hamas, but often has a strange way of going about it. I genuinely don’t think he’s antisemitic, but does show his left wing bias, as he still sees much of the problem through the eyes of anti-colonialism … but like many on the left with the cherry picking of history, only seems to go as far back as the early and mid 20th century. There’s never a criticism of Islamic colonialism that an several occassions invaded what have been Jewish lands for most of recorded history. There very fact that Muslims built a mosque out of spite on Temple Mount, as significant Jewish holy place, seems to escape his notice. That Jews are persecuted still around the world, and that the ONE place they have where they can take it upon themselves to provide their own protection, and that this place is claimed by Hamas that has an existing charter to wipe Jews of the map, all this, but still, he can’t quite look at that wider picture, is resonant with his left leaning traditions: back the homophobic Muslims, attack Israel.
Now search: from:OwenJones84 Israel
You’ll see the difference. Nowhere near as critical of Hamas as Israel, and doesn’t buy into the Islamic conspiracy against Jews quite as much as his hatred for Western imperialism.
You’ll notice a difference. With the former, it’s either jokey sarcastic responses or outright condemnation of those that suggests oppsoing Israle and supporting Palestine might hint at a tacit support for Hamas. There’s the “of course Hamas is wrong to kill Jews” token, naturally; what left wing communist Muslim could get away with not dropping the odd criticism of Hamas these days.
But the criticism of Israel always seems to carry more weight, more gravity. Funny, that, eh, Ash?
Chris Williamson
Say no more …
The Irony Of Conflation
Common among many of the left is this rejction of the notion that criticising Israel is not antisemitism, and that not criticising Hamas is not suppiort for Hamas.
Yet these very same people will have no trouble seeing support for women in sports as being transphobic, or criticising Islam (source of ISIS, Hamas, Hezbolah, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, as a far right misogynistic homophobic ideology) as being Islamophobic (fearing beheading, suicide boming, stabbing is not a phobia) or even racist (even when ex-Muslims do it – Islam isn’t a race).
The Left and Islam
The further irony is that the left see Muslims as a minority – all 1.8+ billion, an oppressed minority, when in fact not only are Muslims and non-Muslims oppressed in many Islamic states, but Israel is threatened by many of the surrounding Islamic states. This misconception, fueled by a hate of the West’s democracy and economic systems (evil Capitalism), is taking a long time to sink in.
You’d think the left would have cottoned on by now. The Irianian revolution consisted of Marxist and Islamist activists working together to overthrow the Shah. But what happened next? The Marxists were eliminated. The left are the dupes of Islamic expansionism.
Left Wing Antisemitism
There are antisemites of all political persuasions, some more explicit and self-ware and intentional than others. The odd nature of left wing antisemitism is that it seems to be a subconscious bias for many – they really believe they support Jews in their struggle against hatred, but find it stranegly difficult to consistently and loudly and proactively call out the antisemitism that has an obvious home in Islam (since its founder discovered his own antisemitism soon enough). And here we see another ironic similarity, between this subconscious bias of theirs, and their common claim that racism exists as a subconscious bias among white people … well, OK, yet left wing antisemitism doesn’t leap out at them as one form of it?
Questions about Israel always seem to be one sided. Though critics might reply, “Of course, Hamas shouldn’t fire rockets … but …”, it’s always the ‘but’ and ensuing excuses that are so revealing.
There’s a tendency to look back, to the history of the region … but only as far back as suits the anti-Israel narrative.
“Why is Israel bombing Palestinian buildings?”
Maybe if Palestinian terrorist didn’t fire rockets into Israel.
“Apartheid* Israel started it, persecuting Palestinians?”
Maybe if Palestinian terrorists didn’t kill Jews in Israel, coming through terror tunnels, sending incendiary kites over.
“They wouldn’t** if they didn’t have to live in Gaza prison.”
Gaza was walled because Palestinian terrorists attacked Jews so often, Israel refused to put up with it and created a security barrier. It’s to keep terrorists out of Israel, not to keep Gazans in (many of which work in Israel). They can leave via Egypt … Oh, wait, egypt doesn’t want Hamas terrorists either.
“The West Bank!”
The West Bank was taken by Jordan in one of the several attempts by Muslim neighbours to defeat Israel. Israel took it back in the six day war of 1967. Tough.
“The British and Zionists are to blame! 1948!”
Well, maybe, if Germany, Russia and practically every other country hadn’t persecuted Jews in the diaspora.
The Jews have ONE homeland.
Where was the international condemnation of Pakistan, created as a Muslim state, which persecutes Jews (are there any Jews left there?) There are many Islamic states. Why was there a need for another, if Jews can’t have ONE?
Israel is surrounded immediately by antagonistic Muslim states, that have attacked Israel, some of which indoctrinate their children with a hatred for Jews, in Muslim homes, in Muslim religious schools, on state TV children’s programmes in some cases. There are many liberal Muslims, and man, many ex-Muslims that attest to this teaching.
No wonder, Apartheid* Islam always persecuted Jews, as well as Christians, Atheists. Muslims even persecute the wrong type of Muslim, but critics of Israel don’t seem to mind, so accustomed are they to Islamofascism.
Perhaps many critics of Israel mean well, in defending Muslims, as they see it when they wave Palestinian flags. But there’s a gross ignorance about Islam that these dupes seem blind to. Islam is the second largest religion in the world, has plenty of ‘Muslim lands’ – an Apartheid term used by Muslims, because when Islamic law is implemented as intended, non-Muslims are second class citizens, having to pay differential taxes, and unable to hold various positions in the Islamic state.
It’s sometimes convenient to step back in history to pick a time when the land of Israel wasn’t in the hands of the Jews or their forebears, or when Jews or someone else can be blamed for the driving out of the Jews, other than Muslims.
The British are often blamed. Conveniently. But they ended up controlling the region only after the last Caliphate of the Ottoman Empire, but we’re not supposed to talk about the Islamic conquests, just as it’s reasonable to mention the Atlantic slave trade but not the Islamic slave trade, which pre/post dated and supplied the Atlantic slave trade.
Though there have been many conquerors of the region of Israel up to the middle of the 20th century, since 1948, when Israel was established as the ONE Jewish homeland, Jews have suffered persecutions in and expulsions from ‘Muslim lands’, so that Israel is the ONLY place for Jews to go.
And yet, after several wars on Israel, still the Muslim nations around them want to drive Israel, and Jews off the map. And their allies, usually left wing fools that mysteriously seem to favour the ultra-conservative, misogynistic, homophobic (i.e. far-right) political religious ideology of Islam.
“No, it’s not Jews, it’s Israel”
Really? The world persecutes Jews wherever they are, drives them into their ONE and legitimate homeland, … and then tries once more to drive them out again.
There’s no end to this, especially from Islamic haters of Jews.
“They wouldn’t** if they didn’t have to live in Gaza prison.”
Of course they would. It’s the stated aim of terrorist Hamas, and of the rogue state of Iran, and it’s only recently that some of the more pragmatic Arab Islamic neighbours have finally figured harassing Israel isn’t working and have acknowledged Israel’s right to exist.
There will remain disputed borders, as there are around the world that don’t attract an irate antisemitic crowd. But Israel stands as a state and has a right to defend itself. If it’s over zealous sometimes, by all means criticise it. But if you keep calling for sanctions, or want Israel prosecuted for human rights violations, or whatever else you can think of, then at least be balanced.
If you want to criticise Israel for ‘killing children’, at least have the decency to thoroughly condemn Hamas for deliberately putting children in harms way. And do the same for all the other examples of Muslims elsewhere that devalue the lives of children: grooming gangs, honour killings, FGM, brutal religious schools, forced marriages, under age marriages. Stop being such hypocrites. …
Israel, then and now
You might think I’m exaggerating about the antisemitic motivated focus on Israel. So, let me give you a couple of examples from the UK. I pick on these two because they are similar in their biases, not that they are the only ones. They are the ones I notice most.:
Jeremy Corbyn – A long time ‘friend’ of terrorists, seen at the graveside of IRA and Islamic terrorists, recently Labour Party leader, at a time that saw increasing antisemitism in the party, and Corbyn sharing platforms with known antisemites.
Owen Jones – Not an MP, but a Labour Party member, and long time choir boy for the party, and for a time, a strong supporter of Corbyn.
It’s difficult to pin either down as explicit antisemites, but according to the current progressive popular measures of ‘unconscious bias’ and ‘unconscious racism’ these two fit the bill of at least ‘unconscious’ antisemitism.
They tout themselves as champions of the oppressed and persecuted, when Israel is supposedly doing the persecuting, then they go missing in action for other causes. Some examples from their twitter feeds might help make the point, as both of them are not shy when it comes to tweeting about Palestinian rights and Israel’s ‘crimes’.
Who are the subjects of these empty feeds?
Nassir Hussain was a Muslim, in the UK. He converted to Christianity. Leaving Islam is a capital crime in Islam – supposedly not in the UK. As it is, he got away lightly with a beating, using baseball bats, by local Muslims, all being caught on security cameras he had to have installed because he was being persecuted by Muslims.
Corbyn and Jones are not interested.
Asad Shah was an Ahmadi Muslim. Ahmadi Muslims are persecuted in Pakistan, and are prohibited in law from calling themselves Muslims. Their mosques are often attacked in Pakistan. Their HQ is now in the UK. But, since we have a large Pakistani community in the UK they are not entirely free here. The Muslim Council of Britain has a page dedicated to denouncing them – though, of course, in the nicest possible way so as not to infringe British draconian hate speech laws. Well, it was too much for one Muslim, who drove from Bradford, up to Glasgow where Asad Shah lived, in order to kill him. In the aftermath the Ahmadi community attempted to hold an inter-faith peace event, to which Jewish and Christian leaders turned up … but not Sunni or Shia Muslim leaders.
Corbyn and Jones are not interested.
Asia Bibi is a Christian woman who served ten years in prison in Pakistan on some trumped up charge that was entirely about religious sectarianism. When Pakistan’s courts freed here, there were massive religious demonstrations encouraged in Pakistan to have her hanged. To Britain’s shame, we did not offer her sanctuary. To be honest, given the zealotry of some of our Muslims, many of whom were only too keen to join ISIS, it might have been a wise move from our government, “We’d like to offer you a home here, Asia, but you wouldn’t be safe from too many our own Pakistani Muslim community. Don’t tell anyone I said that.”
Corbyn and Jones are not interested.
These are not the only examples of Corbyn and Jones going missing in action in revealing ways.
Here are two very similar posts, about how, outraged at the killing of Iranian tyrant Qasem Soleimani, they both went missing in action when the Iranians shot down an airliner, killing all on board, so reluctant are they to criticise Iran.
To repeat, these are not the only culprits that focus more than a little suspiciously on Israel, the home of the Jews, but because they are OUR British far left progressive champions of the oppressed, particularly when Jews appear (according to hamas propaganda) to be doing the oppressing, and hardly ever when Muslims actually and very overtly are, when there are far more examples of the latter.
Ramblings 