sleep in the bed israel is a terror state the terrorist that terrorize i'll testify my television televise i'm telling lies how many more resolutions have to be violated how many more children have to be annihilated this is not a war it is systematic genocide but whatever they try palestine will never die free palestine free palestine free palestine free palestine. hello, i'm chris williamson

and you're watching palestine declassified. we're the only weekly tv show that's dedicated to investigating and exposing the israeli regime's global war against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. in this week's show we'll be highlighting how zinust weaponization of antisemitism is beginning to spectacularly backfire. in november last year, one prominent zinius zelot made a preposterous accusation of antisemitism about a students mascot on the university. his 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 latifer 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 groveling 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 of and for wearing the colors of the palestinian flag. she called for miss georgiana to be expelled by her university and arrested by the police, taggy. in the prime minister, home secretary, ofcom, the bbc and oxford university. in fact, giorgio was in a team of four which had collectively picked the octopus, 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 giorgiana received death threats and abuse after baroness foster of smared her. foster 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 unfounded. 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." elnet 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, 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 an 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 the... to any effect by designs. joining me in the studio as usual is our resident 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 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 via skype. steve is lifelong socialist and trade union.

'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 quick'. is 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 fairy tales are like the idea that the blue octopus is um somehow in got some inherent anti-jewish meaning and it's absolutely preposterous isn't it? well it is preposterous and we should we should treat it with the derion it deserves. it doesn't deserve any proper analysis. it's just a 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 and the zionist will give them pictures of octopus like this lovely hanika octopus oscar here yes um and we say actually this was used by the nazis and any any representation of a blue octopus must be

antisemitic except of course the ones which are not antisemitic and it's used quite widely in in in jewish folklore and in in hanaka illustrations as as a project. thing so it's it's completely ridiculous and it's used just to weaponize anything that can be weaponized against those who criticize dialism. yeah, well it started by asking steve about the hysteria being generated to vilify opposition to the gaza genocide, like the ludicrous complaints against the university challenge students mascot and jacket. well, i mean it's it's quite obvious to 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... 'bround people are anything they wear can be interpreted, it seems these days as either in support of palestine or is somehow anti-semitic, and i think that this is agenda for others and it's to try to close down any debate and any criticism to frighten people,

the freeze people and the submission, and i think it's backfiring, it's backfiring badly, because people are are not being uh intimidated the out in the streets and they people are wearing'. palestinian colors very proudly. david, latifa's report there said that bariness fosters involved with this obscure british israel lobby group elnet. um, what more can you tell us about them? so elnet is a european leadership uh network and uh it was set up in brussels, it's been one 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 and of course this guy called charney who's 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 think 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, are there to make sure that that um decision makers 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 i ask steve for his thoughts on... deeply disturbing trend in zinanis messaging, yes it is, i mean, i think um, the the zionists weren't expecting the absolute backlash 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 geneside, they want immediate cease fire, but the the people that designs are target. in in in order to build a profile of somehow uh violent or extreme elements is the muslim population and it's completely on true. 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 english defense league who had been summoned to a counter demonstration by tommy robinson, but the by and large their marches have passed off without incident, so again i think their strategy has been ineffective. well as you saying david, i mean, the scientis lobbies really lost the the plot on this one, haven't they? i mean, you, i, latif's report highlighted that the blue octopus, and i think you were just making a point, actually, is actually a jewish friendly image, i mean,

how much more ridiculous can these characters get? well, they they they've overreached, right, and they overreach this this case where um, they they lost the liball action uh, and actually. the solicitors who took the the case for this young muslim student w the same soliciters who won my case in the tribunal so you z from 11 kbw so they they the 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 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 in any sense anti-semitic obviously, but yet nevertheless whenever they can try and find a way to however securitiesly to link the... a particular image to anti jewish hater, 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, they're creating genocide in gaza, and they have to find a way to fight back, i'm particularly talking muslim, 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 zaonists and admitted zionists to in lobby groups and with israel and are also uh members of the house of lord or baronesses and they're 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 - the fewing 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 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 has 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 fical examples of zanist 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 his. 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 misuse 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 garfield'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. garfiel 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 zinis movement, the mayor of newan. roxanna fayaz, who is a muslim, issued a strong statement the next day, nonsensically

referring to antisemitic abuse. across the ages, tropes, like the use 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. 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 against 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 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 pollad, who later presided over. later disgraced in a scandal over missing cash from the jewish leadership council and dennis macshaine, a former mp jailed for expenses fraud, among the other members of the advisory board were a who's who of islamophobes and or extremist zionistts, including michael 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

larman, the leading authority on the political uses of antisemitism. the truke. 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 zinius counselor claimed that he'd been subjected to anti-semitic hissing. yeah, well first the... we went as members of the trades council of trade union council down in num to appose 17 million pounds worth of cuts to the budget which would meant destroying the special educational needs budget redundancies and the decimation of services right across newm so everybody uh from the labour party who went up to defend the cuts got heckled mean there

were few choice comments made now this so-called hisin 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 has whatsoever, they did not his, but the atmosphere in the place was critical of the neighbor party, then we had the mayor roxanna faz who opened the meeting by giving a st. of how she'd met uh she'd met richie sunak and how her and richie sunak were completely opposed the intimidating political opponents and we can't have people criticized uh we can't 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 to rostrom and he turned around and said um can people stop

hissing behind my back we all looked at each other and what's no one's hissing, certainly we couldn't hear any hissing from where we were sitting, and then the the chair of the meeting shut 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 this interpretation was reached, i didn't know, i didn't even know the guy's name at the time, i didn't know his religion, i 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 would hiss, he's about to make 17 million pounds worth of cuts, maybe people would have hissed um, how would they know his religion, how would they possibly know his religion? and it's a, 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 b'? 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 an anti-semitic 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 david i mean do we know if this counselor garfield? has 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 fony antisemitism instance in the past. he was a participant 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 durchionist, as if that was in some way anti-jewish, and of course

he's previously denounced momentum in in the 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 and in zianist summer camps and the the usual sorts of connections that these kind of people have, these in the jewish 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 members of the palestinian solidary. palestinian solidarity committee, but that's not the reason that they were there that night, so why they would um why they would uh think it was those three particular people

and not anybody else, i mean i wasn't um i wasn't uh cautioned for hissing or had the police coming around my house to say that it was hissing and i was sitting right beside one of them so how could they distinguish it from being him and not me, may this 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 nuems got some history with islamophobic zinanish 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. semetism group where she was on the advisory board, then she became the chief executive officer of a an inter faith group dedicated to undermining muslim opposition to uh to british imperialism and to wars and then she

was after that 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 interfaith group so it's not surprising that that she would uh make this kind of statement what she made in your... to back up garfield's nonsense about snakes, well i also asked steve uh whether he thought the the police were were targeting these pro-palestine activists 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 police 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 where if the labor 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 certainly 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 in a 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 party uh want to diffuse that opposition and i think that there's no lie or slander that they won't use in order uh to make out that that people are somehow violent or anti-semitic or uh other ways 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 see fire. 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 in 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-racists, 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 will be fine, but it won't be fine, this is an all-out attack in this case on people from from the left, but of but usually it's on people who are palestinian or arab or muslim of origin and they 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 preferably from a lawyer but from comrades trusted people who who you you know understand. and these kinds of things, don't take the the the root of saying, i'll apologize, as you know, as i know, that never works, it's weaponiz, so you need to make sure that you've got proper

advice and you can take on these people so that you can take get involved in the processes which can fight back against thed as of course you absolut, i mean the apologies weaponizers are saying there and use, well they must have known they'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 residence expert professor david miller. the classide will 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 pedaled by the corporate media about palestine and the resistance to zianist 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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