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with the illegally occupied people of palestine. in this week's show we'll be highlighting how zinis weaponization of antisemitism is beginning to spectacularly back fire. in november last year, one prominent zianist zellat made a preposterous accusation of antisemitism about a students mascot on the university challenge tv quiz show, but she was left with a copious quantity of egg on her face after legal action was taken by the student who was targeted. as the tief abuchakra will explain in this report. according to baroness jacqueline foster, a blue octopus is one of the most disgusting anti-semitic symbols. she claimed this in a grovling apology she was forced to make by rahman lo, the law firm acting for british muslim student malika giorgiana. foster had taken to x, formally twitter in november 2023 to denounce giorgiana, a contestant on the bbc quiz show university challenge. she singled out miss georgiana as being responsible. for the team

mascot a blue octopus, which foster described as being one of the most disgusting anti-semitic symbols and for wearing the in colors of the palestinian flag. she called for miss georgiana to be expelled by her university and arrested by the police, tagging in the prime minister, home secretary, ofcom, the bbc and oxford university. in fact, giorgiana was in a team of four which had collectively picked the... as it was one of their favorite animals. the jacket worn by miss georgiani on the show was navy, blue, orange, pink, and green. melika georgiana received death threats and abuse after baroness foster smared her. foster of recently apologized, saying, "i wrongfully alleged that miss georgiana chose a blue octopus as her team's mascot, which i held her responsible for. i accept that these allegations were completely false and unfouound." "i made a grave mistake in making

those posts and i should not have done so. naturally, prior to making her racist comments, the baroness had been a lobby trip in may 2023 to occupied palestine with flights and accommodation paid for by zionist group lnet uk. lnet uk was set up by jone ryan, famous for inventing anti-semitic slurs against labor party members, as exposed in the lobby and by paul charney. a former tank commander for the genocidal occupation forces. foster is also on the senior advisory board of the drone delivery group limited, lobby group for the drone industry. as is well known, the occupation forces in palestine are increasingly making use of drones to more effectively commit genocide in ghazza. but in the end, is a blue octopus actually an anti-semitic trope? in fact, blue octopy are regularly used by jewish. groups

in a positive way, as in this children's book, on oscar the octopus, and in other examples. zinius propaganda is increasingly overreaching and overheating, more and more people are becoming instinctively resistant to it. it remains to be seen how long it will continue to be deployed to any effect by designists. jony me in the studio as usual is our residence expert david miller. david is academic and a former professor at bristol university. and is now a non-resident senior research fellow at the center of islam and global affairs at istanbul zayen university. he's also a co-director of the lobby in watch dog spinwatch and is a leading british scholarly critic of israel. and i'm pleased to welcome back steve headley as our guest contributor today and i spoke to him earlier by a skype. steve is lifelong socialist and trade unionist who was the senior assistant general secretary of the rmt trade union until quite recently. he's also been an anti-racist pro-palestinian activist all his adult life. his book derry boy was published.

in january and quickly sold out at his book launch at the bookmarks book shop in central london. welcome to the show. david, why earth do these senior politicians believe these fairytas? i like the idea that the blue octopus is um somehow in got some inherent anti-jewish meaning, it's absolutely proposterous isn't it? well, it is preposterous and we should we should treat it with derision it deserves, it doesn't deserve any proper analysis, it's just joke, mean these people are just jokers, but the people who believe it are people who either are paid up zionists or have been convinced by paid up zionists that this is the case, designers will give them pictures of octopus like this lovely hanika octopus oscar here, yes? and say actually this was used by the nazis andf any any representation of a blue octopus must be antisemitic except of course the ones which are not anti-semitic and it's used quite widely in in in jewish folklore and in in hanaca illustrations as as a a projewish

thing so it's it's completely ridiculous and it's used just to weaponize anything that can be weaponized against those who criticized dialism yeah well i started by asking steve about the hysteria being generated to silify opposition to the gaza genocide, like the ludicrous complaints against the university challenged students mascot in jacket. well, i mean it's it's quite obvious that anybody with a brain cell why she was targeted, and that's because of her ethnicity. i mean, she she was a brown person, and um, brown people are anything they where can be interpreted, it seems these days as either in support of palestine or is somehow anti-semitic. and i think that uh this is agenda for others in it's to try to close down any debate and any criticism to frighten people to freeze people and the submission and i think it's back far and it's backfiring badly because people are are not being uh intimidated the right in the streets and they people are wearing

palestinian colors very proudly. david's report there said that bariness fosters involved with this obscure british israel lobby group elnet um what more can you tell us about then? so elnet is a european leadership uh network and uh it was set up in brussels, it's been one of the key brussels israel lobby groups for some years now, but they recently set up a british branch which is uh created by john ryan who famously from the lobby program famously invented antisemitic uh abuse against her and of course former mp and of course this guy called charney who's uh been involved. a whole range of science organizations, former idf tank commander, and it's it's his function is as with all israel lobby groups is to uh radicalize and and um propagandize uh decision makers and of course that's why they've taken decision makers from parliament to occupied palestine, including uh this

woman who's who went a trip last last year i think it was yes and so i mean that's what these these organizations are for there to make sure that that um decision making. in the house of lords or the house of commons who are not already signed up designism can be turned uh to to become fanatical prozionists right? well the young woman on the university challenge was was singled out specifically because she's was visibly muslim so we ask steve for his thoughts on this deeply disturbing trend in zinis messaging. yes it is. mean i think um the the zists weren't expecting the absolute back. glass to the genocide in gaza, not only muslims, but 70%, over 70% of the british population, the entire british population, regardless of religion or ethnicity, want to stop to this genocide, they want immediate cease fire, but the the people that the zionists are

targeting in in order to build a profile of somehow violent or extreme elements is the muslim population, and it's completely on through, i mean i've personally been on every demonstration, i've seen very very little violence at all, the main violence that i saw was from members of the the uh english defense league, he had been summoned to a counter demonstration by tommy robertson, but the by and large their marches have passed off for incident, so again i think their strategy has been ineffective. well as the saying david, i mean the sign is lobby really lost the the plot on this one, haven't they? i mean, latif's report. highlighted the blue octopus, and i think you would just making a point actually, is actually a jewish friendly image, i mean, much more ridiculous get his characters get, well, they they they've overreached right, and they overreached in this this case where the they lost the liable action uh, and actually the sollicitors who

took the case for this young muslim student were the same solicitters who won my case in the tribunal, so you from and zam from. were you so they they they've taken this case and they've shown that actually you can't just say any old nonsense about people and expect to get away with it so they've won in this case now in examples like this here's another another. happy blue octopus uh this is an image from a garment which is being sold on amazon, not any sense anti-semitic obviously uh, but yet whenever they can try and find a way to however securitously to link the a particular image to antichu hatred they will they will take it because of course they are desperate to find ways to criticize and to to destroy those of us who are pro- palestinian because that's what's happening. the they're creating genocide in gaza and they have to find a way to fight back and particularly targeting muslims as we've seen, well i then

asked steve about baroness foster's involvement in the deadly drone industry and what that tells us about the values of many of those who are currently engaged in british public life? well i think um when we've got zianists and uh admitted zianists who are in lobby groups um with israel and are also uh members of the house of lord or barenesses and they're uh involved in drones that are being used to kill people in palestine, innocent people in palestine. we have to ask who is running politics in this country, have we got a foreign country in the shape of israel and interfering in politics in this country, we have to look at the israeli lobby and who they're funding in parliaments in the house of lords and in the house of commons, because if this was - if this was russian. influence uh, for example, there would be a whole huw and cry about it, there would be

investigation, but it seems to be just be accepted that the israeli lobby can uh sponsor mps giving them huge sums of money uh foster lords and give them huge sums of money and absolutely nothing is said, well it's time for our next report now and then we'll come back to the discussion, this one outlines some of the other fasical examples of zinist hyperboly. hissing is now apparently anti-semitic too. on the 29th of february, the latest zinus overreach claimed that hissing a council meeting in newan, east london was an act of antisemitism. since snakes, which are among those creatures that hiss, have been used in anti-jewish propaganda. three socialist activists were later arrested at midnight for racial harassment under the public order act in a shameful. use of police time and resources, they deny any hissing. the counselor, josh

garfield, denounced the alleged hissing as attempt to bully him out of public life, as a result of his ethnicity. the pathetic level the victimhood is astonishing. the alleged hissing is audible for no more than three seconds and then there's garfiel's response. if members in the gallery want to hiss me, they might wish to speak to my face about the issues they have, but chair. i won't accept it. i'm going to join the meeting for 15 minutes. garfield is, of course, a card carrying zionist, being a member of the national executive of the racist jewish labor movement, which is formally affiliated to the zinanis movement. the mayor of newan, roxan fayaz, who is a muslim, issued a strong statement the next day, nonsensically referring to antisemitic abuse. across the ages, tropes like the youth. of snakes have been used to fuel stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination against jewish people. why

would fire say that? maybe it was her attendance the day before the council session, at the annual dinner of the community security trust, the group which runs point for the genocidal zinus regime. in a speech at the council meeting before the alleged incident, she specifically raised comments by the prime minister there about the alleged increase in violence and intimidation. elected representative last night i um was with uh members of the jewish community over at the community security trust um event um in central london, the prime minister was there and he did speak about something that resonated with me, he spoke about the significant increase in violence and intimidatory behavior being faced in by elected representative. alternatively, part of the reason might be

the advisory role in a zinis lobby group, the european institute for the study of contemporary antisemitism. among the directors of eisca were chairman stephen polard, who later presided over a record breaking run of falsehood at the jewish chronicle. jeremy newmark later disgraced in a scandal over missing cash from the jewish leadership council and dennis macshane. a former labor mp jailed for expenses fraud. among the other members of the advisory board were a who's who of islamophobes and or extremist zinists, including my... wine of the community security trust. back in 2009, eicsa were denounced as a dubious body involved in the sad politicizing of antisemitism by tony layerman, the leading authority on the political uses of antisemitism. the trope banwagon will continue rolling until it's brought to hault

by collective refusal to take seriously the genocidal nonsense spouted by zionists. "well, steve was an eyewitness to the so-called newam snakegate rumpus, so i asked him to describe what happened and what the atmosphere was like when the zianist counselor claimed that he'd been subjected to anti-semitic hissing. yeah, well, first of all, we went as members of the trades council of trade union council down in newam to a post 17 million pounds worth of cuts to the budget, which would meant destroying the special education. needs budget redundancies and the destination of services right across newm, so everybody uh from the labour party who went up to defend the cuts got hackled, mean there were few choice comments made, now this so-called hissing, didn't hear it, i've um then on the night didn't hear it, i was sitting right beside one of the persons

accused and right behind one of the other person accused, i was sitting about four paces or five paces from the third person who was accused and i will tell you now absolutely none of them hist whatsoever, they did not hiss, but the atmosphere in the place was critical of the labor party, then we had the mayor roxanna fiaz who opened the meeting by giving a statement of how she met uh she'd met richy sunak and how her and richy sunack were completely opposed the intimidating political opponents and we count the people criticized uh we count the... have politicians criticized in a way that would upset them and she said kind of set the scene for this guy who came on called garfields and he came up the rostrom and he turned around and said um can people stop hissing behind my back we all looked at each other and went what's a point no one's hissing certainly we couldn't hear any hissing from where we were sitting and then the the chair of the meeting

so shut the meeting down and somehow um this hissing that i couldn't hear was interpreted as anti-semitic in some way. now i have no idea how did this uh interpretation was reached? didn't know, didn't even know the guy's name at the time, didn't know his religion, didn't know anything about him, but even if people were hissing, why would it be anti-semitic? mean, couldn't it just be like the body coming on in a in a program in a theatre even when people were his, he's about to make 17. million pounds worth of cuts, maybe people would have his, um, how would they know his religion, how would they possibly know his religion, and it's i think it's a it's a it's a sort of troop that can be turned the other way, why would people hiss a jewish people, i don't understand it, and what is that troop all about, so um, the the atmosphere that night i believe was, it

was, it was, if you like setup, i think um, people uh reacted at the first opportunity. to anything that they could interpret as antisemitic and used it to try and solly the name of not only the trade union protesters, but the independent counselors that were present as well. well, david, i mean, do we know if this counselor garfield characters ever been involved in any phony anti-semitism incidents in the past? oh, yes, indeed, chris, we do. he's been involved in all sorts of f anti-semitism instance in the past. he was a part. in the panorama program is labor anti-semitic when he uh couldn't even come up with an anti-semitic allegation, he said that he was sometimes called a dirty zionist as if that was in some way anti-jewish and of course he is previously denounced momentum in in the local area as being antisemitic without again without producing any evidence, he has a long, long history of this, if you go back to some years before that, he's of

course been involved with radicalizing young kids in in zionist summer camps and the usual sorts of connections that these kind of people have, he's in the church label labor movement on the the national executive of that organization, so yeah, he's making a career, he's not even 30, and he's making a career of fake anti-semitism allegations, right? well, i then asked steve about the background of the three socialists who who were targeted in this incident? yeah, there are three members of our trades council, the three active trade unionists, i think they're also um members of the... think that was those three particular people and not any? else, mean i wasn't, i wasn't caution for hising or the police coming around my house to say that it wassing and i was sitting right beside one of them, so how could they

distinguish it from being him and not me, it made the selection his noise, it's it's just bizarre, it doesn't make sense, so i think again there's an element of people who have been active on the issue of palestine, active in in opposing the genocide have been singled out because of their political activities and they're trying to be silenced. david, the the elected mayor in nuem's got some history with islamophobic zionist lobby groups, doesn't she? she has, i mean she she has been involved for a long time in the the area of extremism and radicalization, and she was involved with this uh this anti muslim uh antisemitism group where she was on the advisory board, then she became the chief executive officer of a an interfaith group dedicated to undermining uh muslim opposition to uh to imperialism and to wars and then was after that and the chief executive of another organization which is run by guy who's a personal friend of benjamin netanyahu, so she has a long history of involvement with with

zionism and with zionist inter faith groups, so it's not surprising that that she would make this kind of statement which he made in youum to back up garfield's nonsense about snakes, well i also asked steve uh whether he thought that the police were were targeting these pro-palestine. activist or whether the mayor was to blame and whether he thought this was a colossal waste of police time. i think that the names of these individuals were given to the place by uh the counselors in the hall or perhaps the mayor, i don't know which which of them did it, perhaps both, but there's no way that the police would have known who these people were if the labour counselors and the mayor hadn't pointed them out and i can reiterate and i will go to court and swear this, um, heard no hissing whatsoever and said there was no hissing coming from the person beside me, the person in front of me or the person just off to my left. i just think, i just think we're a very a very dangerous time where the the

opposition to the war in gaza is growing in strength, and i think that the governments and the labour party want to diffuse that opposition, and i think that there's no lie or slander that they won't use in order to make out that that people are somehow violent. or anti-semitic or uh otherwise behaving improperly and you know it's just not true and labor have to understand that their policy is very unpopular, the government's policy is very unpopular, most labor supporters, the vast majority of labor supporters want to cease fire now and labor are not delivering that and they will pay, they will pay at the bullet box, people will not vote for them, and hope that people will vote for candidates that are demanding peace in palestine. david, what would you advise people who are caught up in these all well wellian situations like this? what happens when people are caught up in these situations usually is that they are surprised by what's

happened because of course they've not done anything wrong, they're not, they're usually anti-racist, they've not been anti-semitic, and they don't understand that that this is a this is something serious and they sort of think that it can go away or you can just you know try and discuss it with people and it'll be fine, but it it won't be fine, this is an all out attack in this case on... people from uh from the left, but of but usually it's on people who are palestinian or arab or muslim of origin and deliberately target muslims for this kind of activity, you need to get advice swiftly, don't speak to anyone else until you've got advice pref from a lawyer but from comrades trusted people who who you you know understand these kinds of things, don't take the the the route of saying i'll apologize you as i know that never works, it's weaponiz, so you need to make sure that you've got proper. uh advice and you can take on these people so that you can take get involved in the processes which can fight back against them uh of course you've absolutely mean the apologies weaponizers are

saying this use well he must have known he's done something wrong and then that gives them license and to to to go further well anyway that's it now for another show so so thank you for watching and and thanks obviously to our guest steve hedley and our resident expert professor david miller palestine classide we'll be back next week with more forensic investigations and analysis. and you can follow the show on facebook, twitter and telegram where we post regular clips and updates. you can also help us to counteract the disinformation pedal by the corporate media about palestine and the resistance to zinis brutality, by sharing today's program on your social media platforms. so until next time, this is chris williamson, saying bye for now.

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