{"id":2654,"date":"2019-06-29T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2019-07-05T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T19:23:07","slug":"facebook-bans-criticism-of-israel-as-anti-semitic-hate-speech-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=2654","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Bans Criticism of Israel as Anti-Semitic Hate Speech (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rashid_indiana\"<\/a>Villainizing Critics of Israeli\u2019s Crimes<\/h3>\n

\u200bThis past April a politically astute Native American historian, Tom \u201cBig Warrior\u201d Watts, was banned from Facebook for supposedly posting anti-Semitic hate speech.<\/p>\n

\u200bThe alleged hate speech was a reply he\u2019d posted to a meme which stated, \u201cIf you don\u2019t support Israel you support the terrorists.\u201d Tom replied, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t make sense because Israel practices terrorism and supports the terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200bFor this post Facebook banned Tom for 30 days.<\/p>\n

\u200bFacebook\u2019s reaction to criticism of Israel\u2019s practices against Third-world peoples, under the pretext of stopping hate speech, reflects a recent trend in the West of smearing vocal members of oppressed peoples as anti-Semitic who dare speak out publicly against Israel\u2019s crimes, especially its crimes against the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

\u200bSuch notable Black political activists, as Angela Y. Davis and Marc Lamont Hill were smeared as anti-Semitic for just such public speech, and as a result lost civil rights awards and job positions.<\/p>\n

\u200bAs U. S. political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal observed in a February 24, 2019 audio post on Prison Radio:<\/p>\n

\u200b\u201cWhy and how does it become anti-Semitic when communities of the oppressed support each other?…<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither Angela Davis, nor Marc Lamont Hill are anti-Semetic; they are anti-racist, anti-oppression and anti-imperialist.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u201cAnd no one \u2013 NO ONE \u2013 has the right to tell any oppressed people who they may \u2013 or may not \u2013 support.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Palestinians Are Semitic People<\/h3>\n

\u200bMany Jewish people themselves oppose Israeli\u2019s policies against the Palestinians and others, including such prominent Jewish intellectuals as Noam Chomsky. Yet, Israeli\u2019s anti-Palestinian propagandists like to pretend that they speak for all Jews, and use this pretense to portray those who speak against Israeli crimes against the Palestinians as anti-Semitic and enemies of the Jewish people.<\/p>\n

\u200bHow this has been achieved bears witness to the power and influence of this propaganda machine in turning reality on its head, by effectively erasing from world consciousness that the Palestinians are themselves a Semitic people. As are all the groups of Arabs and Hebrews of Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa or the Levant.<\/p>\n

\u200bFurthermore, Israel is a state not a people. It is the people of the Levant who are Semites not the state of Israel. And by extension, practices of displacement and violent abuses of such peoples is anti-Semitism of the purest sort. In fact, under international law it is a crime called ethnic cleansing and genocide.<\/p>\n

\u200bThe real anti-Semitism here is Israel\u2019s policies targeted specifically at the Palestinians, such as its violent displacement of millions of Palestinians and theft of their land since 1947, which continues through summary razings of their homes, olive groves and even entire villages upon which illegal Israeli settlements are built; routine massacres of Palestinians by the Israeli military, including targeted killings of children as legitimate military targets; mass imprisonments of them; systematic bombing of their homes, schools, hospitals, mosques, celebratory events; confining them to refugee camps where food, medical supplies and other basic necessities are blocked from entry under brutal military occupation and encirclement and so on \u2013 policies which are designed to destroy them or drive them away by making life unbearable.<\/p>\n

\u200bNot to mention the routine expulsions and outright apartheid and Jim Crow style conditions under which Arabs and dark skinned Sephardic and African Jews live within Israel\u2019s borders \u2013 those who aren\u2019t swept up in routine mass deportations.<\/p>\n

\u200bIsrael\u2019s designs from the outset, as expressed repeatedly by its first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, has been to consume much of the Arab territory of the region, including Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and so on, in what Ben-Gurion called the \u201cZionist aspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200bThis is why Israel has angled throughout its existence to incrementally seize, settle and annex surrounding territories while blocking Palestinian rights to return to land taken from them and their achieving statehood. An agenda that duplicates what Amerika did to Native Americans in its continental expansion and the German Nazis aspired to replicate in Central and Eastern Europe by displacing Poles, Slavs, Roma, Jews and others through pogroms, displacement and violent extermination of non-Aryans.
\n\u200bTo expose the true face of Zionist designs in the Middle East is to unmask a hideous and truly anti-Semitic criminal agenda against Palestinians.<\/p>\n

\u200bThis is why anyone who speaks out in support of Palestinian human rights and against their blatant violations under Israel\u2019s occupation, is subject to smear attacks and censorship. To turn reality right side up would be to recognize that today Israel is the greatest practitioner of anti-Semitism, and blatant racism. And all conscientious people have a right to <>speak out against these abuses.<\/p>\n

\u200bEnd the occupation of Palestine!
\n\u200bDare to struggle Dare to win!
\n\u200bAll Power to the People!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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