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The Film The Israel Lobby Doesn’t Want You To See
Today The Electronic Intifada published the first two parts of "The Lobby – USA", a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s covert influence campaigns in the United States.
The planned broadcast of the film was prevented by Qatar, which owns Al Jazeera, on behalf of Israel.
From EI's description:
To get unprecedented access to the Israel lobby’s inner workings, undercover reporter “Tony” posed as a pro-Israel volunteer in Washington.
The resulting film exposes the efforts of Israel and its lobbyists to spy on, smear and intimidate US citizens who support Palestinian human rights, especially BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
It shows that Israel’s semi-covert black-ops government agency, the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, is operating this effort in collusion with an extensive network of US-based organizations.
These include the Israel on Campus Coalition, The Israel Project and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
It is amazing that Israel gets away with such spying and intelligence operations against U.S. citizens and within the United States.
Israel and its lobby did a lot to suppress the movie and its wider distribution. That can only mean that it is good and deserves a large viewership.
Watch it here.
Oh goodie, Raid for CS! I was going to say Kryptonite but Superman he ain’t. So I doubt he’ll come crawling here. I guess this is one way to get a hasbara reprieve!
So kidding aside. Ask yourselves, who are the real merchants of anti-Semitism? It’s like I’ve been saying Zionism is many things that should be condemned: supremacist, fascist (anti-Democratic, anti-free speech and so on), even terrorist since acts of terror are executed on its behalf and it’s so much more, but it wouldn’t be able to carry out all the preceding with total impunity without abusing power on many levels and at the highest level in many countries and especially in the U.S. and U.K.
So IMO, the film grazed the surface, although, it touched on important facets of that abuse: influence peddling, censorship, attacking free speech and the right to protest, very lightly touched on media and government corruption, and finally its efforts to recruit and poison minds at the academic level, which represents harnessing power for the future.
Ironically, I watched Bill Maher this week and he touched on Trump’s pathological deception and how he, Maher, has an innate aversion to deception. He had a guest at the beginning who wrote an article on the Pittsburgh incident, who was obviously Democrat, and what I would call a rabid Zionist who by the way loved Trump’s annexation of Jerusalem to the Jewish cause. So Maher, who claims to hate deception, went on about Israel, condoning what Israel has to do to survive, IOW, like it’s a necessary evil, but not using evil to describe it, when in fact for starters, Israel is holding an entire population of millions in an Apartheid perpetual life sentence while it steals their land and ethnically cleanses them. So then Maher’s aversion to deception stops at the edge of Zionism.
THIS is the quintessential liberal today — A FAKE. Liberal in all things but Zionism. At least on the Right, what you see is what you get. This is only a fraction of how Zionism is distorting morality and the truth.
I have to say that while EI and AJ accomplish some good in getting out the truth, it’s just not enough. BDS is very powerful, that’s why Zionists are on the offensive in universities, but it can’t remain on that level alone. It must reach powerful unions, the entertainment industry, sports and despite the disappearing billboard in the film, billboards everywhere. But it’s not going to happen because Trump and Congress are going to make it illegal and punish countries that don’t make it illegal.
There’s only one way to stop this. Jews must stop it. In another universe where someone else has the power, right? Or we could clone courageous individuals like Gilad Atzmon.
This excerpt from his biography solidifies what he really stands for and not the way he’s painted even with EI. Anti-Zionists must stop shunning him like he’s a pariah.
Three weeks before the end of his military service, in the wake of the war, his troupe visited an IDF detention camp at Ansar, Lebanon. He later wrote that this was a ‘life-changing’ experience, coming into direct contact with the conditions of captured Palestinians, some locked in solitary confinement in what he took at first to be 1 metre square concrete boxes for guard dogs. During a guided tour, he states that, as he peered across the barbed wire at the POWs, he felt that ‘the place was a concentration camp. The inmates were the ‘Jews’, and I was nothing but a ‘Nazi’.’
He just defined the foundation of Zionism. He sees what most don’t. Our efforts are impotent and stagnant without that kind of courage to disavow in every sense, even when the consequences are ridicule, defamation and isolation. The victims of Zionism already are too many to count. The ghosts of their bodies cover the wasteland in countries that Zionism has touched, not to mention those whose careers have been ended by speaking out.
Zionism didn’t make the desert bloom; it turned it into a sea of Red.
Posted by: Circe | Nov 3 2018 15:47 utc | 42
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