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, 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 zinius weaponization of anti-semitism is beginning to spectacularly backfire. in november last year, one prominent zianist zelot 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 chief 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 law, 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.

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 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 in fact, giorgiana 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 respon." able 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. elnet uk was set up by jon ryan, famous for inventing anti-semitic slurs. against labor party members, as exposed in the lobby and by paul chari, 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. joining me in the studio as usual is 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 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 hudley 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 bookshop in central london. welcome to the show. maybe. but 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 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 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 in we give them pictures of octopus like this lovely hanaka octopus oscar here yes um and we'll 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 use quite widely in in in jewish folklore and in in

hanaka illustrations as as a a pro jewish thing so it's it's completely ridiculous and it's used just to weaponize anything that can be weaponized against those who critics yeah, well i 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 the 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 wear 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 oters 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 thought in the streets and the people are wearing palestinian colors very proudly david latif's report there said that bar 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 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. and of course this guy called charney who's uh been involved in a whole range of scientist 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 went a trip the last last year i think it was yes and so i mean. that that's what these these organizations are for there to make sure that that um decision makers in the house of lords and the house of commons who are not already signed up designism can be turned uh to to become fanatical pro zionists 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 zinanis messaging yes it is mean i think "the designists 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 genocide, they want an immediate seasfire,

but the the people that the scientists are targeting in in order to build a profile of somehow violent or extreme. elements is the muslim population and it's completely on true, mean i 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 who had been summoned to a counter demonstration by tommy robinson, but by and large their marches have passed off avoid incident, so again i think their strategy has been ineffective, well as saying david, mean the science lobby really lost the... the plot on this one haven't they? mean you latifu's report highlightted the blue octopus and i think you would just making the point actually is actually a jewish friendly image, mean how much more ridiculous can these characters get? well they they they've overreached right and they

overreached this this case where um the they lost the libal action uh and actually the siliciters who took the the case for this young muslim student with the same soliciters who won my case in the tribunal so... yeah, yeah, from, and from kbw, 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, this is an image from a garment which is being sold on amazon, not in any sense anti-semitic obviously, but yet whenever they can try and find a way to however securitiesly to link the a particular image to antitu 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 prop palestinian, because that's what's happening, they're

creating genocide in gaza, and they have to find a way to 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 when we've got zionists and admitted zionists who are in. lobby groups um with israel and the also members of the house of lord or baronessess and they are 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 interfuing in politics in this country, we have to look at the israeli lobby and who they're funding in parliaments in the house of lord. and in the house of comments uh, because if this was uh, 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 is say it, well it's time for our next report now and then we'll come back to the discussion this 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 newam, 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 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 the 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 zianist, being a member of the national executive of the racist jewish labor movement, which is formally affiliated to the zinis movement. the mayor of newam, roxan fayas, 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. in a speech at the council meeting before the alleged incident, she specifically raised comments by. 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 polard, who later presided over a record breaking run of falsehood at the jewish chronicle. jeremy new mark, later disgraced in scan. all over missing cash from the jewish leadership council and dennis macshaine, a former labor mp, jailed for expenses fraud. among the other members of the advisory board were house. two of islamophobes and or extremist zianists, including michael wine of the community security trust. back in 2009, eicsa were denounced as a dubious body involved in the sad politicizing of anti-semitism, 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 zinanists. well, steve was an eyewitness to the so-called newan snakegate rumpus, so we asked him to describe what happened and what the atmosphere was like when the zionist 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 neam to app 17 million pounds worth of. to the budget, which would meant destroying the special educational needs budget, redundancies and the decimation of services right across new, so everybody from the labour party who went up to defend the cuts got heckled, mean there were few choice comments made, now this so-called hissing, didn't hear it, i've 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 his, but the atmosphere in the place was critical of the labor party, then we had the mayor roxan feaz who opened the meeting by giving a statement of how she met, she met richy sunak and how her and richy sunak were completely opposed. is the intimidating political opponents, and we can't have people criticized, 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 the rostrom and he turned around and said, um, can people stop hissing behind my back, we all looked at each other and what's a

point, no one's hissing, certainly we couldn't hear any hissing from where we were sitting, and then the the ' 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 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... a uh program and a theatre even when people were hiss, he's about to make 17 million pounds worth of cuts, maybe people would have hist, 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 all about? so um, the the atmosphere that night, i believe was, it was, it was if you like, set up, 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. 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 uh phony anti-semitism 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 dchionist, 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 anti-semitic 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, these 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 antisemitism 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're three actives. unionists, i think they're also um members of the palestinian solidar, 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 that was those three particular people and not anybody else, mean i wasn't, i wasn't cautioned for hissing or i had the place coming round 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 that made this 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 up because of their political activities and they're trying to be silenced. david, the the elected mayor in newms 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-uh muslim anti-semitism group where she was on the advisory board, then she became the chief executive officer of an interfaith group dedicated to... mining uh muslim opposition to uh to imperialism and to wars and then she 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 zionis into faith groups so it's not surprising that that she would make this kind of statement which she made in newum to back up garfield's nonsense about snakes well i also asked. believe uh whether he thought that 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 place would have known who these people were if the labor counselors and the mayor hadn't pointed them out, and i can reiterate and i will go... the 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 um the the opposition to the war in gaza is growing in strength, and i think that the governments and the labour party uh want to diffuse that opposition, and i think that there's no lie or slam. there that they won't use in order uh 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 see fire n 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, 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. 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 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 these kinds of things, don't take the the the root of saying, i'll apologize, so that never works, it's weaponiz 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, as of course you've absolutely look, mean the apologies weapon is saying the z news, 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 residence expert professor david miller. side 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 pedal by the corporate media about palestine and the resistance to zinis brutality by showing today's program on your social media platforms. so until next time, this is chris williamson saying bye for now.

well, i think a lack of tech workers is the least of israel's problems right now. look, we're committed to win the war, we're going to win the war regardless of anything. uh, and i think that the when people look at economics of israel, they want to make sure first of all, we're secure city and country. so our security is economic element, if hamas thinks that uh we're going to end this with them uh returning to power, they're wrong. the far bigger problem it faces is first of all it's military challenge from the resistance on every front.

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ولا تحسبن الذين قتلوا في سبيل الله اموتا بل احياء عند ربهم يرزقون فرحin فرحيn bما اتاهم الله الا خوف عليهم ولا هم يحزنون صدق الله العلي العظيم.

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