By Laura Stuart

30 November 2011

Laura Stuart condemns the lack of moral courage at the top echelon of the UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), as manifested in the PSC leadership pandering to Zionists by turning on pro-Palestinian activists, and warns the PSC leadership “to firm up because the vultures are already circling in the belief that the solidarity has been broken and the movement is falling apart”.

As an activist against human rights abuses, particularly of the sort that the Nazi-style entity called Israel inflicts on Palestinians on a daily basis, I have been fortunate to be involved in some direct actions which were very effective in exposing among other things the illegal collective punishment on one and a half million Palestinians – also known as the siege of Gaza.

More recently I have had the privilege to attend many lectures by intellectuals on various subjects relating to Zionism and it's evil ideology. This is a learning process which often finds me agreeing with most of what someone states as the issues facing Palestinians but perhaps not always agreeing on how each person or group sees the solution, such as was the case with the amazing Norman Finkelstein lecture recently.

The real meaning of solidarity

All protests, aid flotillas and convoys, and lectures feature people of different religions (or none) from a broad spectrum of political backgrounds, yet amazingly there is a huge amount of solidarity across the board with everyone contributing in many different ways within their own area of expertise. The common thread holding us all together is a firm belief in truth and Justice.

The Meir Institute report after the Mavi Marmara particularly noted, to its great consternation, that Muslims (Islamists as they call politically active Muslims) and people from every kind of religious and political background were able to unite against the common enemy of Zionist oppression. This is the real meaning of solidarity.

Muslims in particular are keenly aware that Zionists are actively engaged in oppressing Muslims in the West as well as in Palestine. One only has to read Zionists blogs to understand that their main obsession is Islam, and their main activity is trying to provoke never ending war between Western powers and Muslim countries.

Zionist stooges and the “anti-Semitism” slur

The Fox-Werritty-Gould agenda of pushing for war on Iran exposes the money and power behind the decisions that Western governments take and why. A recent report by Spin Watch, called "How Policy Exchange and the Centre for Social Cohesion encourage the Cold War on British Muslims", exposes the agenda of think tanks such as Policy Exchange and the Centre for Social Cohesion which seek to create suspicion against Muslims in the UK by promoting fear of terrorism from Muslims – an agenda which increasingly means restricting the personal freedoms of everyone in the name of security.

All activists who expose the truth about Zionist politics and the racial supremacy that is integral to that ideology are labelled as anti-Semitic. A bit of research uncovers the driving forces behind the changing definition of what anti-Semitism is.

Groups such as the so-called “Community Security Trust" (CST) want the British government to adopt the European Union working document on anti-Semitism which has never been used and would make anyone critical of Israel and it's policies anti-Semitic. When I look at the websites of my local MPs I find they attend CST annual dinners and, in the case of Mike Freer, even get named as a "Friend" of CST.

It is frightening to discover that lobby groups whose primary interest is a foreign country's security and expansionist agenda, and whose policies continue to cause so much death and human suffering in the Middle East, are operating at the heart of British politics. The British public should be very concerned, especially when the influence of these groups leads our government into waging illegal wars, causing the death of millions of innocents and needlessly putting British soldiers in harm’s way.

With the amount of funding that our government receives from wealthy Jewish businessmen, and with wealthy Jewish businessmen donating heavily to Jewish interest lobby groups, it is no surprise that pro-Palestine campaigners are up against a formidable force. Not only do we have to expose and take on the Israeli government, but we also have to expose and take on the Western governments as well. How simple would it be for Western governments to insist that Israel comply with international law and so bring an end to a lot of misery and suffering of the Palestinians, but governments such as the UK’s for one seem terminally helpless when it comes to Israel.

The fact that Zionist interest groups are not confined to Israel-Palestine alone but reach out and shape Western foreign policy means that there can be no peace as long as the Zionist agenda is the oppression and complete subjugation of billions of people, every single one whom they believe is a security threat, or at least wish to portray as such.

The weakest link

To be successful against the Zionist machine we have one weapon in our favour and that is solidarity. Every person following alternative media and who discovers the truth about injustice and the perpetrators of oppression finds it difficult to sit and do nothing.

As a Muslim, I have to operate within the Islamic worldview, the left-wing activists have their own views and they don't agree with some of our religious restrictions. However, on the whole we do not attack each other publicly or seek to disown, distance or discredit each other.

A chain is as strong as it's weakest link, and sadly at this time we are witnessing a weak link right at the top of the UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) leadership.

Some statements of appeasement to Zionists have been made by PSC leadership. This immediately led to an article on Zionist blogs which condemned the statement, twisting it's words and saying it was not enough. Even more worrying is the fact that PSC leadership have released a statement saying they do not work with Gilad Atzmon. Why? What possible reason is there for that statement? The immediate result was further comments on Zionists blogs asking, well, if the PSC is distancing itself from Gilad Atzmon, why didn’t it distance itself from Sheikh Raed Salah? In reality, Gilad Atzmon has huge support at PSC branches around the UK.

You see now? There can be no appeasement, there can be no weakest link, and anything said to curry favour with Zionists fails miserably and only creates more demands. Gilad Atzmon is not anti-Semitic  – if he were, his book, The Wandering Who?, would not be have been endorsed by some of the top humanists and academics of our time. Sheikh Raed Salah is also not anti-Semitic and the accusations against him, made by the very dubious translations of CST, failed to stand up to scrutiny.

Some very good activists have been encouraged to fall on their swords by the PSC  leadership because they believe some aspects of the holocaust should be re-examined. If they are not using PSC as a platform to express those views, why is it any business of the PSC? For example, if I believe the only solution to the Israel-Palestine situation is global jihad, isn't that my business as long as I am not saying it is PSC policy or using my position within the PSC to promote that view?

Echoes of Nazi Germany

There is an endless witch hunt going on in the UK by Zionists and a very small group of particularly venomous [self-proclaimed] anti-Zionists who want to control every group of activists, including those activists’ personal views. It is very shameful, but by now equally well known that the small group of [so-called] anti-Zionists are like a cancer within the movement, writing vile accusations on blogs and in emails about people (including me) and phoning people up, insisting to control who speaks or performs in public. Recently we saw how even men of the cloth were subject to a concerted hate campaign to halt a jazz concert, an action which had echoes of the Third Reich's censorship of jazz players in Nazi Germany. It was no surprise to me (an ex-Christian) when the Dean of Bradford tried to appease all sides in the dispute and ended up looking very wobbly and upsetting everyone.

There has to be real belief in our hearts that we are able to stand firm in the onslaught of lies, libellous blogs and, in my case, even anonymous and threatening emails. But if I can withstand those rather sinister attacks then, surely for those who are leaders within the movement it should be like water off a ducks back.

We are now at a crisis point. The leadership of the PSC has to firm up because the vultures are already circling in the belief that the solidarity has been broken and the movement is falling apart.

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