I discovered by accident that a campaign from international Israel-sympathizers has been initiated to get my facebook account blocked, in addition to the accounts of a number of other Palestine sympathizers. See the list under this item from the pro-Israeli website http://www.giyus.org/
It has later been re-posted in a wide range of pro-Israeli websites:
http://www.google.no/search?q=%22Help+Israel+and+the+IDF+win+the+next+fi...
I am a County Council representative for the Norwegian Red Party, and two of the others on the list are active in the Palestine Committee in Trondheim. In addition, Espen Goffeng which was much in norwegian media after he was involved in the last Ship-to-gaza action is on the list.
This is obviously a part of a propaganda war aimed at preventing Palestine sympathizers to spread their side of the story online. The article includes a number of accusations of anti-Semitism, which are completely unreasonable - both I, the Red Party and the Palestine Committee, have always been very clear in distinguishing between the state of Israel and Jews as a people. The world's Jews are of course in no way responsible for the actions of the state of Israel, and many Jews are of course also strongly opposed to the policys of Israel.
This is nothing more than an undemocratic attempt to silence those who speak for the Palestinian cause, and it shows how shallow the democratic temperament of Israels "internet soldiers" is in real life.
The article makes it very clear that this is part of a propaganda war now that a new Ship two Gaza-action is on the way. It is sad that people use such tactics - trying to hinder the free speach of their opponents - although it is obviously a less bloody one than the atrocities the IDF are comitting towards Palestinians on a daily basis. If nothing else, I can take it as a sign that those who go to such steps do not have any real good arguments ...
We do not take the word anti-Semitism lightly and we use it with full care. Objective criticism of foreign policy is legitimate and part of the democratic foundation on which Israel is based. However, sadly, there is nothing objective about the way the "Free Gaza" movement views the concept of Israel as Jewish state.
The "Free Gaza" movement cooperates with Hamas - a terror organization whose aim is to eradicate the Jewish state. There is no reason to do so - unless the "Free Gaza" movement hates Jews. There is no reason to deny Jews the right to a state of their own under the camouflage of the "right of return" (http://www.freegaza.org/en/about-gaza/stealing-gazas-gas/720-pou) - unless the "Free Gaza" movement hates Jews. There is no reason to oppose only Israel's human right violations and ignore everyone else's from Syria's to Libya's – unless the "Free Gaza" movement hates hate Jews. There is no reason to ignore the fact the whole world, from the Turkey to the EU, believe the flotilla to be improper and an unnecessary provocation - unless the "Free Gaza" movement hates Jews. Want more? See http://bit.ly/h4eH5V.
First of all - you are calling me an aniti-semite. Tak a look at what I have written f.ex. here (in norwegian but through google translate): http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=no&ie=UTF-8&layout...
Do you still feel it is justified to call me an anti-semite? This list seems rather randomly put together. At least one of the people on it is an israeli himself. To briefly answer a couple of your questions.
"The "Free Gaza" movement cooperates with Hamas - a terror organization whose aim is to eradicate the Jewish state. There is no reason to do so - unless the "Free Gaza" movement hates Jews."
There is one simple reason to do this. Weather you like it or not - Hamas is the democratically elected government of the palestinians in Gaza. (In the only free elections the palestinians have been able to conduct thus far) If you want to help the people in Gaza, you have to cooperate wit them. I stand on the oter side of the spectrum from Hamas politically, but it is not my job to tell the palestinians who to vote for. That is their democratic right, and it is nobodys right to punish an entire people based on their government. i dont't do that with regardst to Israelis, and I don't do that with regards to palestinians.
"There is no reason to deny Jews the right to a state of their own under the camouflage of the "right of return" - unless the "Free Gaza" movement hates Jews"
- So if you reject a majority population making specific beneficial laws for their ethnicity, this means you have a racist prejudice towards this majority? How upside-down can your worldview get?
"There is no reason to oppose only Israel's human right violations and ignore everyone else's from Syria's to Libya's – unless the "Free Gaza" movement hates hate Jews."
Who ignores everybody elses's violations? The only reason there is (until the recent uprisings) little debate about the atrocities of arab dictatorships, is that everybody agrees they are brutal dictatorships. When everybody agrees on an issue, there naturally is little debate. However - you will find that the same leftists who criticise israel, also criticise western governments cooperation with these dictatorships.
"There is no reason to ignore the fact the whole world, from the Turkey to the EU, believe the flotilla to be improper and an unnecessary provocation - unless the "Free Gaza" movement hates Jews."
Uh - so the reason could not be that you reject the illegal and brutal occupation and annexation of palestinian land by the israeli state, and their illegal blocade of Gaza? Which is the argument of everybody I know that support it? None of these issues you bring up, really have anything to do with jews - they have to do with policies of the Israeli state. In fact I know of many jews who agree with me on this. Your tendency to identify the state of Israel with the worlds jews, can ignite antisemitism - I am however trying to combat it.
If you truly mean what you said, then you should know that you have been a tool of an anti-Semitics movement, Hamas. Democratically elected or not, Hamas formal goal is to eradicate Israel and kill all Jews. Yes, you have been played by a movement that is saying out loud that it plans to murder all Jews.
You can and should read the entire charter of Hamas at http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp , but here a couple of excerpts from Hamas' charter:
• "the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realization of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews)"
• Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it
If supporting such a horrible movement is not an anti-Semitics behavior in your books, then what would?
Roni - as an atheist, on the opposite side of the political spectrum of Hamas, I can tell you - weather you know it or not - you are presenting a caricature of Hamas. As other organizations it has factions - some are extreme - other more moderate. In negotiations with Fatah, Hamas had de-facto accepted Israel when the Israeli government attacked the palestinian areas, enprisoned parlamentarians and torpedoed the palestinian unification process. This was not a smart move if you truly want Israel to have a future.
As to my stance, this really does not matter - as I do not support Hamas either way. I support Palestine, and I reject the illegal occupation and annexation of land by Israel, as does the overwhelming majority of the worlds population, including many jews, and jewish organizations. If you continue to label this stance anti-semitic, you can not expect to be taken seriously.
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