Gideon Polya/MWC NEWS

I am an anti-racist, humanitarian, agnostic, Humanist scientist whose family has suffered racist genocide, dispossession and exile. In my view the Zionist colonization of Palestine should never have happened but it has.  The State of Israel is recognized by the UN and 5 million Jewish Israelis (all “existential Zionists” but unfortunately still ruled in an Apartheid State by Zionists) Must make peace - with equity, justice and reconciliation -  with 5.5 million Subject Indigenous Palestinians in the Holy Land and millions more forbidden by Racist Zionists from returning  to their stolen homeland. With mandatory non-racism such Peace with equity, justice and reconciliation is possible now.

The fundamental message of the Holocaust is zero tolerance for racism - and I am obliged as a decent human being (and one whose family was decimated by the racist Nazis)  to oppose Racist Zionists.

I agree with a large body of Jewish and non-Jewish scholars that Political Zionism was a racist, colonial enterprise that arose in the mid-19th century at a time of massive European racist colonialism involving invasion, occupation, subjugation and genocide of Indigenous inhabitants in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific  (for detailed description and analysis of European colonialism and genocide see the following books: Diamond, J. (1997), Guns, Germs and Steel. The Fates of Human Societies (Jonathan Cape, London); Chalk, F. & Jonassohn, K. (1990), The History and Sociology of Genocide. Analyses and Case Studies (Yale University Press, New Haven); Lindqvist, S. (1992), Exterminate All the Brutes (Granta Books, London, 2002); and “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya).

I also appreciate that a large body of Jewish theologians were strongly anti-Zionist because they believed in "Israel" as a 2 millennium Kingdom of the Mind, whose citizens were Torah-observant Jews, and the 2 millennium Orthodox Jewish position that "Israel" thus defined would only return to Zion (Jerusalem) when the Moschiah (Messiah) reveals the glory of Adonai (the Lord) to the Whole World (for a compendium of views of such eminent anti-Zionists - including the outstanding 19th century theologian Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch [my great great grandfather had exactly the same name], Nathan Birnbaum [who actually coined the term Zionism but eventually rejected Zionism] and many others - see Selzer, M. (1970), Zionism Reconsidered: The Rejection of Jewish Normalcy (Macmillan, London, 1970)).

Indeed the Balfour Declaration - the British Government's "permission" for Jews to occupy someone else's country that Britain had conquered - made it quite clear that there should be NO detriment to the Indigenous inhabitants,

Nevertheless, with UK and US support the Zionist colonial enterprise DID happen and there are now 5 million Jewish Israelis exclusively ruling the whole of the Holy Land which also contains 1.5 million Arab Israelis and 4 million Occupied Palestinians living in what Professor Noam Chomsky and other Jewish scholars describe as a "Prison", but which can be legitimately described as a horrendously abusive Concentration Camp.

The Political Zionist enterprise was and is racist and colonialist and violates the fundamental message from the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust ) (6 million victims) and of the World war 2 Holocaust in general ( 30 million Slavs, Jews and Roma murdered) - zero tolerance for racism.

Zionism  has had a devastating impact on the Indigenous Inhabitants of Palestine - 50,000 violently killed; 0.3 million post-1967 excess deaths out of an average 1967-2008 population of 1.8 million (comparable in magnitude to the Jewish Holocaust in Hungary: 0.2 million excess deaths out of  a population of 0.7 million Jewish Hungarians); 0.2 million  post-invasion under-5 infant deaths (cf 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis in the period 1941-1945); 7 million refugees (4.3 million registered with the UN in the Middle East); mass imprisonment in horribly abusive conditions of millions of Occupied Palestinians for over 40 years; 2,400 under-5 year old Occupied Palestinian infants deliberately but passively murdered by  Zionist-Israel each year; 85% of Christian Occupied Palestinians have fled; and a race-based system that has led outstanding anti-racist Jewish South African hero in the fight against racism and South African Government Minister Ronnie Kasrils to declare (after visiting Israel): "Israel 2007: worse than Apartheid" (see: here ).

Notwithstanding the above, the reality  is that the "State of Israel" exists de facto and de jure, has 5 million Jewish inhabitants (Zionists by existential definition, and perhaps 50% born in Palestine, but unfortunately ruled by anti-Arab anti-Semitic Zionists) and is a legal member of the UN - albeit as a racist, war criminal, genocidal, grossly human rights-abusing nuclear terrorist, race-based Apartheid state that continues (with US, UK and EU support) to grossly violate International Conventions and International Law . I agree with outstanding anti-racist, humanitarian Jewish intellectuals around the world (e.g. the UK IJV, Australia's IAJV, US Not In My Name) and in Israel (e.g. B'Tselem and Gush Shalom) that peace with equity, justice and reconciliation should happen now.

Peace with equity, justice and reconciliation is possible now (e.g. for peace proposal discussions between outstanding Israeli anti-racist humanitarians Uri Avnery and Professor Ilan Pappe) - but the mandatory pre-requisite  is zero tolerance for racism.

Unfortunately the Zionists running Apartheid Israel appear firmly committed to a 150 year racist  and genocidal agenda – and 4 million Occupied Palestinians (half of them children) remain incarcerated in a horribly abusive,  Zionist-run  Concentration Camp. The recent Occupied Palestinian breakout from Rafah illustrates the sheer desperation of these prisoners of US-backed Apartheid Israel.

I have an Italian  friend from the tiny, vulnerable, no-place-to-hide Lipari Islands (the classical Aeolian Islands off the northern coast of Sicily) who  observed that ”the message from World War Two is that we are all Jews”. The Danes in WW2 put on the Star of David to protest anti-Semitic Nazi policies, effectively also saying “We are all Jews” (all but 100 of 6,000 Danish Jews were able to escape to Sweden).

Indeed opposition to mass murder of the Jews by Fascist Italy and by Fascist Hungary invited German invasion but meant that a much fewer proportion of Italian and Hungarian Jews were killed than in other parts of Nazi-occupied Europe (9,000/120,000 = 7.5% in Italy and 200,000/700,000 = 29% in Hungary as compared to 5,648,000/8,177,000 = 69% for Nazi-occupied Europe as a whole) (data from (see: Gilbert, M. (1969), Jewish History Atlas (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London) and Gilbert, M. (1982), Atlas of the Holocaust (Michael Joseph, London)).

On our increasingly crowded Spaceship Earth the message from the Gaza Concentration Camp and the Occupied Palestinian Concentration Camp in general is that “We Are All Palestinian” – and we should act accordingly by imposing national and international Sanctions and Boycotts on Apartheid Israel and its Western supporters.

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