Israeli Jewish attacks on mosques, Palestinian
religious sites and Palestinian worshippers, are well documented. Palestinian
attacks on Jewish synagogues and Jews, also occur. Graffiti can often be seen
scrawled on walls declaring, "Gas
the Arab's."
Attacks by Israeli Jews on Christians and Christian
sites of worship, are also on the rise, since the ultra-Orthodox and religious
Zionist parties, formed a hard-right Israeli government. Christian priests are
often spat on and harassed by Israeli Jews and Christian grave yards are being
desecrated.
Earlier this year, a conference organised by the Open University of
Israel entitled, "Why Do (Some) Jews
Spit on Gentiles", was denounced as anti-Semitic and cancelled after
intervention by a key aide to the mayor of Jerusalem. The conference was
organized in response to a rise in attacks on nuns and priests in Israel.
The Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben
Gvir, has said that "Israelis
spitting on Christians is an old Jewish tradition." It might well be,
but I'm pretty sure it's not good for Israeli tourism or for Christians.
Jonathan Reynolds MP, who represents Stalybridge
& Hyde, in Greater Manchester, manages to sit with his arse on both sides
of the same fence. An invertebrate, he's both Chair of 'Christians on the Left' and vice-chair of 'Labour Friends of Israel' A mealy-mouthed Christian and a languid
Labour politician, Reynolds is unlikely to publicly condemn attacks on either
Muslim or Christian religious sites by Israeli Jews.
Amnesty International have accused Israel of
committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinians and enforcing a
system of oppression and domination against them. Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
denounced Israel as an "apartheid
state" and urged Presbyterians to divest from companies that support
apartheid Israel. Yet, deluded Reynolds, believes that Israel is the only real
democracy in the Middle East and the only country where minorities have full
equality before the law. Reynolds conveniently overlooks the fact that much of
the West Bank has been under illegal Israeli occupation since 1967 and that
many Palestinians have had land stolen from them and their homes demolished by
the Israeli army, supporting illegal Jewish settlers.
The Israeli's have also turned the Gaza strip, into
the biggest open-air jail in the world. In 2014, the Prime Minister of Israel,
Benjamin Netanyahu, defended the Nation-State bill and declared Israel to be,
"The national-state of the Jewish people and the Jewish people
alone." Despite Israel being a racist apartheid state and violating
international law, the leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmeroid, says he
supports "Zionism without qualification."
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