Maxine Peake, Amnesty and The Independent have all admitted this is a baseless claim. A conspiracy theory which scapegoated the Jewish state for a racist Police murder in a different country.
1. Racist US cops have been kneeling on black people for a very long time
2. Even Amnesty admits it didn’t come from Israel
3. A tiny number of about 100 cops a year learn counter terrorism in Israel. The kneeling tactic isn’t taught because it isn’t used
It is frightening for Jews that the natural reflex of influential people and organisations is still to blame Jews. Scapegoating us for orchestrating events is ancient, culturally ingrained racism...
Why should we even have to explain that we are not responsible for police racism in the US? Why are people so keen to blame us? They consider themselves the purveyors of justice but are guilty of the very injustice they claim to be against: the hate passed on from their ancestors
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Post enlightenment, intellectuals used to debate the status of Jews. This was known as ‘the Jewish question’. For Jews, despite all their efforts, enlightenment ended in the gas chambers…
The new ‘Jewish question’ to fill the minds of intellectuals is called antizionism. It is a rallying call, and one of the most dominant ‘isms’ of our time…
Antisemitism is a fantasy version of Jews by racists. Likewise antizionism is a fantasy version of Jewish life, politics and history, using the same stereotypes and accusations
THEEAD ABOUT 🍊 AND 🍋
You’ll never see this nursery rhyme the same again....
1/5 It’s about impoverished Jews collecting Oranges and Lemons shipped by Livorno Jews to St Clement’s (Eastcheap - by the Thames wharves)...
2/5 They were fronted the money near St Martins (Outwich) and if they couldn’t sell their produce (to pay back what they owed) they endedup in Newgate, where they would hear the chimes of St Sepulchre opposite the Old Bailey...
3/5 Jews lived in tenements in Shoreditch and Stepney - places like this were packed with thousands of Jewish immigrants , mainly Ashkenazi but also Sephardi...