November 15, 2024

Israeli genocide and fascism in Gaza must be named and confronted

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At core, fascism is about lies. Fascism takes love, cooperation and the joys of diversity and inverts them – prioritising hatred, selfishness and an obliteration of human differences.

Nazi Germany forced the Jews, Sinti-Roma, Homosexuals, Slavs and anyone who opposed them into a choice – flee or die. There were many opportunities to prevent the holocaust, but none were taken.

Israel has become a fascist state and is this very morning presenting the Palestinian people with the fascist choice – flee or die. Israeli fascism is nothing new, they have engaged in illegal invasions, murder and ethnic cleansing in an attempt to obliterate the difference that Palestinians represent.

Fascists manipulate injustice for their own ends and often that injustice is real. Israeli fascists have weaponised the holocaust to insulate their actions from moral scrutiny, adroitly misrepresenting criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism. Sadly the west is not minded to apply moral scrutiny to Israel and western media outlets have become very skilled at bullying those who attempt to hold them to account.

With the heinous attack perpetrated by the terrorists of Hamas, Israeli fascists have a perfect excuse to silence moral opposition – and where the horror of those attacks isn’t enough they can amplify it by way of lies.

Israeli apartheid has turned the Gaza strip into an open air prison – that prison has become both a showroom for weaponry and a testing ground for grotesque experiments in social control – another fascist horror revisited.

In all prisons of this kind, the prisoners will eventually rebel and thus Hamas briefly visited upon Israel what Israel has been visiting upon Palestine for decades, Israel’s revenge for that brief insurrection will now reveal the true aims of fascism.

Israel has already killed and injured thousands of men, women and children in an orgy of revenge. Israeli planes have dropped over 6,000 bombs on soft civilian targets in Gaza, not to kill Hamas (for Israel intelligence failures ably demonstrate they cannot do that) but to kill Palestinians as a form of collective punishment.

When Hitler flew into a rage and ordered the bombing of Belgrade following the overthrow of the government that had agreed to join the Nazis, he called it ‘Operation Punishment’ – the parallels are obvious and good people must not shirk from them.

The choice facing Palestinians in northern Gaza today is flee or die, Israel is demanding that 1.1 million people evacuate in 24 hours.

Israel is preparing to flatten Gaza to further aims of revenge and ethnic cleansing. Hamas will be used by Israel and its enablers as both justification and camouflage. This framing of Israeli genocide as a war of defence against Hamas is a heinous lie, one which seeks to enable fascists to kill with impunity.

Hamas will slip away long before the butchery begins in earnest and the countless innocents remaining will be killed solely for the ‘crime’ of being Palestinian. The west will also put pressure on Egypt to accept a mass influx of Palestinian refugees, a key part of the overall aim of ethnic cleansing. 

The west doesn’t care what Israel does, so long as they retain their geopolitical outpost. The west has long licenced, fostered and supported Israeli fascism for exactly this reason, the venal moral bankruptcy of the U.S. and its vassals is complete.

The time has come to make a choice – either we call out the Israeli invasion, occupation, blockade, murders, apartheid and ethnic cleansing as fascism or we collude with it.

All protest will be smeared as anti-Semitic apologia for Hamas terrorism – but this is not a war between Israel and Hamas, but an inevitable genocidal end game of fascism.

The British tory government has been swift to issue Israel with an unequivocal blank cheque and has begun  to arrest pro-Palestinian protestors

Distressingly the British Labour Party is embracing fascism now with Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry bluntly affirming Israel’s ‘right’ to commit racist war crimes. 

There are many many Jews in Israel and around the world who are utterly appalled by the depravity of the Israeli government and they must be supported. The majority of people in the west do not support ethnic cleansing and murder – they must unite and speak out. 

History records how evil cliques can hold sway when good people remain silent. We must confront the fascists and all their enablers – NOW. 

Do not imagine that Israeli fascism will remain confined – it will spread globally until defeated.  

It said that ‘those who go along – get along’.  It is time to think with the utmost seriousness about where we are getting along to…

…and choose your side.    


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