Monthly Archives: September 2018
The Power of Filmmaking – Mend the Gap
Films can be a powerful catalyst for awakening change. Remember Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth“? I suspect many Americans were launched off their sofas to make a difference on climate change as a result.
Lora and Maurice in northern New Mexico
I came to appreciate the hard work that goes into filmmaking when I spent several weeks this summer in a cabin in a remote part of northern New Mexico with filmmaker Maurice Jacobsen who was editing a new documentary about Gaza. A lot of work, patience and love go into every minute of a new film. Watch for Maurice’s new documentary to be released very shortly. Here’s a snippet. Then I received an invitation to attend and speak at the Freedom Film Fest in Malaysia. This is the 16th year of the annual fest, which showcases award-winning social justice and human rights films. Appropriately, the theme this…
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Walking the Talk
Friends and I made a large human peace sign at UNM on Friday (9/21/18). I reflected on the forces that have marched us towards many more wars since the signing of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 70 years ago. Perhaps we are less safe, less secure and less peaceful than the human community was in 1948.
The next day I joined the #Gaza5k run/walk in DC virtually by walking 5k in Albuquerque around the UNM Golf Course. I measured my distance with my Steps App and felt a sense of accomplishment, although I wish I could have been with my friends in DC. Action together is more fulfilling than solitary action.
During my personal #Gaza5k I meditated about the extreme hardships occurring in Gaza today which are preventable, fixable and avoidable if only the U.S. government had the political will to stand up for the oppressed, rather than…
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ISRAEL RUNNING AHATE CAMPAIGN AGAINST JEREMY CORBYN
Israel running campaign against Jeremy Corbyn
Lobby Watch 7 August 2018
An app operated as part of an Israeli government propaganda campaign issued a “mission” for social media users to make comments against Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, accusing him of anti-Semitism.
This is the latest evidence of an Israeli campaign of psychological warfare against the UK’s main opposition party.
The Act.IL app on Sunday falsely accused Corbyn of comparing Israel to Nazi Germany in a 2010 meeting which had been resurfaced by The Times last week.
The “mission” was documented in this Tweet by Michael Bueckert, a Canadian researcher who has been monitoring the app since last year.
The reality is very different from the app’s claims.
As my colleague Adri Nieuwhof explains, Corbyn hosted a meeting titled “Never Again – For Anyone” with Hajo Meyer, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp and an anti-Zionist who spoke out strongly for Palestinian rights.
Meyer passed away in 2014.
The Act.IL app asks users to comment on Facebook in response to a Huffington Post UK story about Corbyn’s alleged “anti-Israel remarks,” which it claims are “often a way to hide anti-Semitism.”
The “mission” directs users to click “like” on a comment by Facebook user “Nancy Saada,” and write their own comments echoing her criticisms of Labour.
“Nancy” has posted elsewhere on her Facebook profile a photo of herself in an Israeli army uniform posing on an armored vehicle draped with an Israeli flag.
Israeli sabotage
As The Electronic Intifada reported earlier this year, the Act.IL app is a product of Israel’s strategic affairs ministry.
That ministry directs Israel’s covert efforts to sabotage the Palestine solidarity movement around the world.
Its top civil servant is a former army intelligence officer and the ministry is staffed by veterans of various spy agencies whose names are classified.
The Act.IL “mission” is another piece of evidence of the Israeli campaign of psychological warfare against Labour.
It is part of a long-running influence operation by Israel and its lobby groups to smear Corbyn, a veteran Palestine solidarity activist, and to label the party he leads “institutionally anti-Semitic.”
The operation also aims to push Labour, where there is strong support for Palestinian rights among the grassroots, in a more pro-Israel direction.
A covert element of the effort revealed last year by the undercover Al Jazeera documentary The Lobby involved attempts by the Israeli embassy to set up a grassroots pro-Israel organization for Labour youth.
The campaign has found support among the declining Labour right, including many of the party’s lawmakers, some of them involved with pro-Israel groups.
The Jewish Labour Movement, an anti-Palestinian group deeply linked to the Israeli government, has been at the forefront of the effort.
The group is run by Ella Rose, a former Israeli embassy officer.
Rose has privately admitted that as JLM director, she maintained close links to Shai Masot, the Israeli embassy spy forced to leave the country last year after the Al Jazeera investigation exposed him plotting to “take down” a senior UK government minister.
Masot was also spearheading the effort to manufacture a grassroots pro-Israel organization within the party, a tactic known as astroturfing.
JLM demands
Adam Langleben, the Jewish Labour Movement’s campaigns officer, issued his group’s latest demands on Corbyn on Monday.
These included that Labour adopt “unamended” the controversial IHRA definition of anti-Semitism which would define it as anti-Semitic to accurately describe the Israeli state as a “racist endeavor.”
The Israel lobby group is also demanding that Labour drop Chris Williamson – a leading leftist – as a lawmaker.
Instead of shutting down these claims as the bad faith attacks that they clearly are, Corbyn has continued a strategy of concession after concession that has only fueled the attacks.
He has rolled back his position on important matters of principle, like BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.
In a Guardian opinion piece on Friday, Corbyn offered “dialogue with community organizations, including the Jewish Labour Movement” to discuss their demand that the IHRA document be adopted in full, even as he acknowledged that some of its provisions have “been used by those wanting to restrict criticism of Israel that is not anti-Semitic.”
It is unclear what Corbyn hopes to achieve in “dialogue” with a group that has close ties to a hostile foreign power committed to manipulating his party from within.
Not surprisingly, the JLM immediately dismissed Corbyn’s opinion piece as “another article bemoaning a situation.”
In his list of demands, the JLM’s Langleben admits that any concession Corbyn makes will not be enough.
“These measures would have been welcomed, and maybe even celebrated, two years ago,” he writes of his demands.
But now Langleben claims that matters have “reached the point of no return.”
“Decisive and significant actions, not words, are the only thing that can bring us back from the brink,” Langleben states.
He doesn’t say who must take this action, or what the action is.
This is certainly open to the interpretation that the Jewish Labour Movement expects the party to take the action of ousting its leader.
As for that “brink,” I warned in a widely shared Twitter thread last month that the Labour right and the Israel lobby may be planning a damaging split from the party.
Since I made that prediction, there are more signs that this could be coming to pass.
The most common response to my prediction on social media was to welcome their departure.
But be warned: Mainstream media which have fueled sensational and often baseless smears will falsely portray any combined exit of right-wing lawmakers and anti-Palestinian activists as an “exodus of Jews” from the Labour Party. And yes, columnists supporting them will probably even use the same hackneyed biblical allusion.
YET EVEN WITH ALL THEIR EFFORTS TO DISCREDIT JEREMY HIS POPULARITY INCREASES.
donald trump says the jews are not gratful enough to him
Donald Trump Thinks the Jews Aren’t Grateful Enough
‘But I gave them Jerusalem!’ A recent report warned of a ‘growing frustration’ in the White House for U.S. Jews’ lack of appreciation for his policies toward Israel. Perhaps because they’re too grown up, and informed, to supply such unfounded adulation.
I hate to say this (well i do not)but I told you so .put your faith and trust in a white supremacist, racist , fascist KKK lover.This is what you get . Zionist Jews of Israel your days could very well be numbered as regards the billions of dollars that you get, take that away and your apartheid state will start to wither and crumble.
jeremy corbyn would back a second EU referendum.the leader of the largest socialist party in europe. ITALKFM you need to look at the facts if you want to stay in the eu back jeremy corbyn. Or commit suicide and follow theresa may.
Jeremy Corbyn would back a second EU referendum if Labour party activists support it
Ellen Manning,Yahoo News UK 5 hours ago
Jeremy Corbyn would be prepared to back a second referendum on the European Union if Labour activists support it.
The Labour leader insisted he was not calling for a public vote and believed a general election would be a better way to resolve the political crisis over the nature of the UK’s departure from the EU.
But, as the Labour conference began in Liverpool, a march of MPs, MEPs, union leaders and activists put pressure on the party to throw its weight behind a so-called People’s Vote.
More than 100 constituency parties have submitted motions calling for the issue to be put to a vote, with many activists believing that the aftermath of the rejection of Theresa May’s Chequers proposals by EU leaders is the right time to call for a fresh vote.
Mr Corbyn told the Sunday Mirror: “What comes out of conference I will adhere to. But I’m not calling for a second referendum. I hope we will agree that the best way of resolving this is a General Election.
“But I was elected to empower the members of the party. So if conference makes a decision I will not walk away from it and I will act accordingly.”
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And Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson told The Observer: “Jeremy and I were elected in 2015 to give the Labour Party back to its members.
“So if the people’s party decide they want the people to have a final say on the deal, we have to respect the view of our members and we will go out and argue for it.”
Their comments came as a YouGov survey of more than 1,000 Labour members for The Observer found 86% support a referendum on the outcome of Brexit talks, against just 8% who oppose it.
Even in the North and Midlands, where many Labour constituencies voted Leave in 2016, there was overwhelming support – 86% and 88% respectively – for a second vote.
Tory chairman Brandon Lewis said: “The last pretence that Labour ever respected the democratic decision of the British people is rapidly disappearing.”
