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of israel is a terror state the terrorists that terrorize i'll testify my television television 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 wherever they try palestine will never hello i'm chris.
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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 shining light on the influence of an ultras sect known as khabad. on his website it claims to be, and i quote, the most dynamic force in jewish life today. it's certainly true that this extremist faction will significant influence over israel's genocidal military and it's leading politicians too, as the chief chakra will in explain in this report. in december, in beet hanon, in northern gazza, a jewish religious outpost was established in a partially destroyed building. this was described as the first khabar house in gaza. khabad is an ultra orthodox jewish sect, it has many adherents in the genocidal occupation forces, many of whom wear khabad patches on their uniforms. here is a zinus tank flying the...
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distinctive khabad flag in gazza. in addition, there are khabad rabbies attached to the occupation forces. one notes that the genocide is actually about rooting out evil. here two khabad rabbies erected the jewish in religious symbol the manora in ghazza. but what is khabad? it styles itself as a friendly outgoing movement dedicated to helping jews reconnect with judaism. in reality, it is a jewish supremacist sect. in the past it was anti-zionist, but back then, even as far back as 1929, its adherence in al-khalil or hebron, as it's called by the of zionists, were involved in spying on the palestinians for the hagana terror militia as well as storing weapons for them. khabad is now so ultrazionist that it called in december for ghazza to be recolonized with jewish settlers. worse, israeli paperits of of reports its adherents believe as out in the
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tanya. khabad's key religious text states that gentiles have only animal souls, not human souls. in january this year, the tanya was printed out by occupation forces in ghaza. this supremacism is carried over into its attitude to the palestinians. followers of ahabad raginsberg are known as the hilltop youth. two of his followers wrote the hugely controversial king's torah, which was also recommended. ginsberg, the book states that it is permissible to kill palestinian children, even babies. there is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately and not only during combat with adults. it's not just words. ginsberg's followers in the so-called hilltop youth are said by the zionist intelligence agency shinbet to be responsible for. most price tag revenge
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attacks on palestinians in the west bank in 1988 famously met with the leader of khabad in new york where the sect has its global hq. of netanyahu has maintained a relationship with khabad ever since. here he is addressing them in 2014. these are the forces supported and aided by the us and the uk, unleashed as part of the genocide in gaza. joining me in the studio as usual is our resident expert david miller. david's an 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 zaham university. he's also a co-director of the lobby and watch dog spinwatch and is a leading british scholarly critic of israel. joining us again as our guest. today is amar khasmi. armar is an
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anti-imperialist political activist and a commentator. he previously worked on jeremy corbin's 2016 leadership campaign and was a political advisor in my parliamentary office from 2017 to 2019. welcome to the show, david, the chief report there showed that habad is deeply embedded in the the genocide being conducted by the zionist entity, mean does that strike you was odd for for a group that that used to be anti-zionist? well, this is an anti-zionist group which was always really pro zionist, it's a curious thing, even although it was formally anticianus up until really up until 1967, it was only after 1967 they... formally made their kind of peace with zionism, but back in 1929 in hebron, they actually stored hagana weapons in the in the bank belonging to one of the hamabad followers, and they were engaged in spying on the local palestinians and passing the information over to what the nacent uh mossad, prior to the creation of the state of
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israel, so they've been uh anti-sianists who have been collaborating with and using zionism in order to further the settlement activities which the uh approved of, yeah, well, i mean this this group calling for the recolonization of gaza, i mean appears to be ultrazionis and it, well, certainly, and david just run through some of the history there, i mean they did formally at one point oppose the creation of the state of israel, but this is a thoroughly ultra zionist sect, i mean uh, they believe uh, i mean, the design is so fanatical, they believe that the current israeli state, yes, has no real authority against them, they oppose any sort of uh peace deals and in the most recent offensive uh on gaza, the genocide has been perpetrated against gaza, they've had the audacity to set up a khabad house in the uh gaza strip uh in december of last year, so
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this is a thoroughly pro zionist organization is deeply uh involved and embedded in not just supporting it in terms of words and in terms of ideology. also materially in terms of fundraising and lobbing. well david, i mean obviously you've touched on this already, but i just wonder whether you could um perhaps explain how this group along with you, many other asidic groups, i mean used to be antisionist. well, if you listen to natura carter, which is the militant anti-zionist hastic group, they say routinely, if you listen to their their talks, in 1947, the chief rabbi of jerusalem said we should not have a jewish state and... that was the position of almost all the his sec at the time. now what's happened since then is that they've made progressively they made their peace with the cionist so in the case of harbad for example they have a written agreement with the the idf that that when they join the idf that 25% of the the guys so
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join the idf can go off to yashivas for for year may be in new york or or somewhere one the other worldwide uh offices whereas some the other his groups are still sufficiently antisignist. they refuse to allow their children when they reach 18 to serve in the idf, but never, so there's an ongoing process there, where the where the idf are trying to enc encourage them to join, and they have throughout the west bank and the illegal settlements, they have these uh what what are known as idf yeshivas where they're allowed to go and do taura study and then they also have to go and kill few palestinians on the weekend, so is that kind of arrangement and that's that's how it works and that's that's what's compromised almost all the historic sec now there's only one that... which is quite a large one, which remains formally anticionist, but it's been a process from really in the 1930s to today of of compromising that anti-zionism and and bringing the the kind of ultrazionism of the hystic sects into the service of the zionist entity. how are latiffa mentioned in the
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report there about the so-called price tag attacks which are associated with this group? just say what is about that will you? well these price tag attacks are essentially revenge attacks against palestinians involved or perceived to have been involved in actor resistance against the zionist regime, we often hear in the west that these are the just these extremist settlers acting sort of their own volition, but actually they act as an extension of the israeli regime as militas for them, they essentially completely unaccountable, they have total impunity, often they're actually aided and abetted by the idf in the west bank, and the israeli intelligence agency, shinbet has said that the vast majority of these people involved in the... attacks are linked to um this extremist faction based in the yitsar settlement in particular there's actually kabad linked yashiva jewish seminary in that settlement so we see that it's really these individuals are involved in it but of course they're completely supported by uh the
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israeli regime and david what about this king's toura's justification for killing palestinian babies what's that about well mean when you read this for the... time you sort of you think, can this be true? but when you look back at it, the actual main theological tome, the tanya, describes gentiles as being as being having husks for souls and... they're not they have animal souls, they're not fully human, and of course you know it's a small step from deciding that that to say, well actually in that case you can, you can kill children who are not jewish, and in the case of palestinians, that the key question is, will they grow up to challenge us in the future, of course something which you can't tell about baby, but nevertheless they can tell and they can tell that any palestinian baby is a threat to them in the future and they can be engaged regardless of whether you're trying to kill their parents or not, you can just kill the babies by themselves and this is the depths the hot. of of the the philosophy and the ideas of this sect and of course we see that enacted every day in gaza today and tomorrow
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and yesterday and that's what's been going on here, this is the ideological justification for the direct killing and assassination sometimes we've seen through by israeli snipers direct shots through the head of children and that this is the ideological justification yeah incredible well mean netan has been a prominent and very long-term um presence in the zionist power structure, mean just say a little will you though about his connection with the khabad? well, you know, if you look at netanyahu and his sort of family background, it's quite clear that he has very long a term connection with sort of the revision of scientis movement in general, his father was aid to jabatinski, um, after javatinski died now his father continue to work on the revisionist zionist movement. um, a hostage recovery raid in the 1970s, netan
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yahoo was injured, his brother jonathan was killed, and afterwards netanyahu set up - institute called the jonathan um foundation, jonathan institute, which uh helps to research, so-called terrorism and help to sort of give birth in the mid-1980s to this idea of islamic terrorism, and uh, so... in terms of promoting these sorts of ideas and being associated with science extremism uh and also being associated with hababad, this is something that national yahu has been associated with for many, many decades, right? well we'll come back to the discussion a moment after our second report, which looks at the worldwide distribution of habad offices, it's links to literal nazis and it's deplorable fundraising activities. in december, it was revealed that the habbad. group in the uk was fundraising to support the genocide in gaza. rabai arya sufrin of
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khabad claimed back in october that hamas is worse than isis in full conformity with zyanis entity talking points. he also disclosed that his son is a british recruit to the occupation forces and was in occupy palestine at the time. the habad appeal read vital equipment needed by the idf. funds raise will go direct to equipment needed by aron doff sufrrin's reserve unit up in the north of israel and support units. aron doff sufrin is of course the son of the rabbi, serving actively in the genocidal occupation forces. kabad luvovic is an ultra orthodox asidic sect which also happens to be an genocidal cult. it originates in luubavichi in russia near the border with belarus. it's a global movement with more than 5,000 offices in over 100 countries and in all. states of the us. it even has offices in seemingly unlikely places like china,
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belarus, tunisia, morocco, and venezuela. it has prominent supporters in many places. the new argentinian president is a habbad devotee. donald trump, even donated to khabad, though not as much as his son-in-law, jard kushna, who has played a pivotal role in the normalization of the zionis entity. obviously khabad has been highly organized in ukraine and khabad followers were amongst. was recruited in the nazi asof battalion, which we should remember, was co-founded by a former member of the israeli occupation forces. palestine declassified previously reported on how ukrainian jewish oligarch, igor colimoski, bankroll habad in ukraine as well as the nazi azof and iido italians. back in the uk, there more than 100 hababad groups or offices. it flies under the radar and is widely regarded as well meaning. if a little eccentric, in reality, it is an extremist group which is building support for genocide
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in the uk. ironically, the community security trust has aided khabat giving them security advise after addition of palestine declassified exposed some of their activities. the cst has educating about extremism as one of its charitable objectives, but it is unwilling to educate us about the extremism of havad. there's a very good reason for that. geral ronson, which created and runs the cst, is himself an extremist and has been supporting khabad for more than half a century. here he is in 2013 as guest of honor at one of their. uk ambassador's award presented to gerald ronson cbe and dame gail ronson for their friendship and support over four decades. zinius extremists are widely distributed in the uk and form a mutually supportive network. this is key element of the justification and
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support for genocide in the uk. i expect a lot of people. in this country would be - absolutely shocked that a british habad group is is raising funds for the zinest occupation forces. i mean a british bad group is doing that, i mean that's incredible isn't it? well, i mean people i think would be shocked to find out that this uh organization has you know roughly around hundred branches across the entirety of the uk has a thousand branches in the united states, at least one in every single state has i think about 5,000 branches worldwide. this is... incredibly large organization that wilds a significant amount of um power in terms of its lobbing capacities as fundraising capacities uh and it's really never spoken about publicly despite the amount of influence that it has and of course it poses us this very innocent well-meaning organization, but then we see that it's raising funds for the israel occupation forces, it's 100% ideologically uh
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behind the genocide against the people of gaza as we heard it. in the program we have statements saying that it's legitimate to kill palestinian babies, mean i think if people in britain actually understood what this organization was, the sort of depth that it has in britain they'd be deeply deeply shocked. well, it certainly got some reach hasn't it, david, mean in in a hundred countries, but i was pleased to say that i don't believe they've got any base in in cuba. mean, is that right? well, mean it's interesting, there there are. bases in in venezuela, in revolutionary venezuela, they have branches in beijing and shanghai and other places in in china, many branches in russia too, as you you uh perhaps wouldn't expect in cuba there isn't an official base there, no, but they do have foothold, they have a, they have follower there who acts as if there are a habad house in havana, but
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they haven't formally got an office there, that's because of course the communist parties has uh uh not not allowed that, which right? which is a good thing too, but they have spread over 100 countries, mean it's truly extraordinary, that's that's many more countries then have a formal zionist presence by the zionist movement itself, which is around about 35 or 40 countries, but nevertheless this is an ultra zionist group spreading ultrasist messages all around 100 countries, it's a truly extraordinary reach for an organization and it flies so far under the radar that hardly anyone's even hard of it, well hopefully we hope to shed a bit of light on them, but 'i mean wonder what you can say uh a word or two about jared kushner and and his role in the normalization process? yes, i mean jared kushner firstly uh someone who is very close to khabad, he's personally donated thousands of dollars to khabad and uh during the trump regime he was given the sort of informal role to promote
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normalization in the gulf, we saw him as a very prominent public figure in the so-called abraham'. accords in 2020 in which uh bahrain and the united arab emirates formalized publicly the sort of uh you know diplomatic relationship they'd already been secretly having with israel but formally normalized with israel and kushna was very involved in that also in morocco and of course as well uh in terms of lobbying the saudi oligarchy which was very close to reaching a normalization agreement with israel before the events of the 7th of... october last year uh and you know after leaving the white house, i believe a hedgefund associated with him uh received two billion us dollars from the saudi arabian sovereign wealth funds, so this is someone's been deeply involved in that process and is closely linked to khabat, well i mean another sort of extraordinary revelation relating to this organization
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david um is that um number of them apparently signed up to fight in the... nazi asov battalion in ukraine, i mean can that really be true? well, i'm afraid it is true chris, i mean the the the thing that you've got to understand about habad in in ukraine is that the in the uk and in the us is an official zionist movement and then there there's habad, and the official zionist movement mainly runs the organized jewish community, in ukraine the organized jewish community is mainly run by habad, and that's true actually also in in russia, and so what you see is that when kolisky the the uh oligar, ukrainian oligarch, i think, we can talk about a bit later, when when he is involved in funding something like hababad, he's also involved in funding as of and and the idar battalions. and what you see then is you saw in the film that there are there are photographs from from z papers of of bad followers joining up to fight the russians and of course some of these are are joining
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up with the the azas of battalion incredible well it is incredible i mean uh and i wonder what you make of that uh arm i mean david mentioned there that you go kolimoiski involved in funding the azov battalion and huge habad community uh in nipro as well, i mean, this is amazing, isn't it? yes, well, i mean, uh, kolimysky uh, is of course is fantastically rich oligarch, maybe not so more, much anymore after being sanctioned and having some of his funds uh, taken away from him in london as well, but he's a rich oligarch with you, cipriot israeli citizenship, uh, and after the 2014 maidon couran ukraine, he was given control of the nipro oblast, which is, very... strategically important region in in southeastern uh ukraine and he helped to develop and create several armed militions, he helped to support as we just heard financially the uh nazi
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linked or neonazi you could even say ideologically as of and adar um uh battalions and as well as that he's also helped to fund khabad extensively helped to fund uh a khabar um jewish community center which is said to be the largest in the world, this is a deeply nefarious uh figure, deeply corrupt individual, he uh is actually wanted by the us justice department, he and his family can't travel there, he was actually put in pre-trial detention in ukraine very recently uh on um charges of money laundering and fraud, so this is someone who's used his wealth uh got it in the various ways potentially and has used it to help. support this movement, another interesting funnder david, of course is gerald ronson, isn't it? i mean uh, he the guy who runs the the zianist community security trust, which you
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know is adjacent to uh uh or works with with mossad, i mean this is the organization that claims that anti-semitism is is skyrocketing, i mean what do you make of all that? so the very most recent report uh on the skyrocting nature of antisemitism, you of course counts uh people shouting free power. as being an indication of anti-semitism shows the the utter bankruptcy of their research, but we should also be looking much more closely at ronson's uh charitable ventures, which of course have been involved for more than 50 years now in supporting habar this extremist group, the cst says in its charitable objectives that it's supposed to educate the public about extremism, but they won't be doing any educating at all about habad because they don't regard the extremism of habad as being extremism at all, indicates that the deep rot at the heart of the cst, an organization which gets some 15 million a year from the home office, and i think he's also got an extra 3 million top after october
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the 7th from our daily departed uh home secretary suala braven, so this is a deeply, deeply corrupt organization engaged in in in promoting effectively anti-palestinian racism a daily basis. i mean, gerald rodenson's involvement is is is is really curious to say the league. isn't it? i mean, uh, i mean it's uh, yeah, look, i mean, this is this is the guy who was remember, he was uh, put in jail for for fraud, yeah, that's part of the guinness fraud scandal, and he he in his autobiography, he bangs on about radical islam and islamophobic stuff in his in his book, and this is an organization we're supposed to, the public is supposed to trust in dealing with anti-semitism, yes, indeed, well, i'm afraid we are out of time again, so let me thank our guest amamar kasmi, and of course our resident at. for professor david miller, palestiny classified will be back next week with more forensic investigations and analysis, and in the meantime, please share today's program on your social media platforms to help us continue growing our
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audience and countering the disinformation that is carried in the corporate media, and remember you can follow the show on facebook, twitter and telegram where we post regular clips and updates, so until next time, this is chris williamson saying, bye for now. this week on expos a, the israeli entity assault on rafah was depicted as successful rescue operation, masking its true nature as a direct attack on one of the few remaining safe zones for palestinian civilians in gaza, within zinist israeli. media circles, prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been accused of deceat regarding his claims of targeting hamas and freeing all hostages. moreover, a staggering 97% of arab respondents reported.
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experiencing psychological distress during the gaza conflict with 92% expressing the belief that the palestinian cause is not solarly a concern for palestinians but for all arabs. expose: the truth is just a revelation away.
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first tv headlines this hour 141 days after the start of the us israeli genocide in gaza, the killing and destruction campaign against palestinians continues with the death flow nearing 30,000. iman's leader slams was hypocrisy regarding the ongoing bloodshed in gaza, condemning the u.s. for. repeatedly vedoing un resolutions to stop the onslot. also the headlines of the second anniversary the ukaine russia war, moscow once again says the west is prolonging the conflict by its financial and military support for kiev.