Vicious Agitprop From Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
November 19, 2012 14:30 by Simon Plosker
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
I gave up taking Yasmin “some of my best friends are Jews” Alibhai-Brown seriously many years ago. Unfortunately she regularly pens poisonous pieces against Israel and the situation in Gaza has allowed her to unleash more bile.
In her latest piece in The Independent, YAB demonstrates her historical ignorance:
It is exactly 95 years since Lord Balfour, the then Foreign Secretary, informed Baron Rothschild that Britain would back a new Jewish state on Palestinian territory as demanded by Zionists, some of them terrorists who had attacked British targets.
A bizarre claim considering that there were no Zionist attacks on British targets in 1917. In fact, it was only after the end of World War Two that Jewish groups in Mandate Palestine started targeting the British military. And what does YAB mean by “Palestinian territory”? After all, there had never been any sovereign Palestinian state throughout history.
The historical revisionism doesn’t end there:
Britain had no legal right to the land it breezily handed over and has never apologised for its disastrous decision.
While the Balfour Declaration is an important landmark in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel, YAB has conveniently forgotten some key facts:
Britain was legally administering the territory under a League of Nations Mandate and it certainly did not “breezily hand over” the land, which was to be partitioned under a United Nations plan in 1947 – a plan accepted by the Jews and rejected by the Arabs.
Once YAB has moved beyond her warped view of history, the real attack on Israel begins:
But I would put this question to Israeli apologists too: why can’t they muster human sympathy for dead Palestinian babies and their howling parents? Don’t they feel anything for these innocents? This time, Palestinians have paid tenfold for those three Israeli lives. Israel’s uncontrolled, unmonitored, unaccountable power can overwhelm any resistors or enemies, or people unlucky enough to be born Palestinian.
To suggest that Israelis don’t care for the lives of innocent Palestinian babies is utterly disgusting. There is only one side in this conflict that goes out of its way to avoid civilian casualties while Hamas would celebrate were they to score a direct hit on an Israeli kindergarten, killing Israeli children.
YAB also implies that Palestinian deaths are an act of Israeli vengeance for the deaths of three Israelis in Kiryat Malachi. Once again her history is defective. Israel’s operation is not based on revenge but on preventing rocket attacks on her citizens that have been ongoing for many years.
While Yasmin Alibhai-Brown pays lip service to criticizing Arab regimes and Iran, it cannot hide her prejudice when it comes to Israel.
Jeffrey
3:45 pm
Nov 20, 2012
Has anybody seen this morning’s London Metro? I have great sympathy for the Palestinian babies who are pictured in their funeral procession. I feel particularly sorry for the first one in the picture who clearly has his eyes open. Presumably this poor baby is going to be buried alive, I thought it was customary to wash a body before burying it. This child seems to have blood under his eyes. Presumably put there for theatrical effect.
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martin
4:23 pm
Nov 20, 2012
Well the Metro is owned by yhe Daily Mail, so no surprise there.
Who knows whether the child was killed unintentionally by Israel or not. There was one case of a youngster on a stretcher from Gaza, later found out to be from Syria.
Why are you only shocked by Gaza and not Syria, Jeffrey?
I have sympathy for all concerned, dead, injured, on both sides. but you should look to see who started this. 12 years of rocket attacks since 2001, property damaged, people kiolled, injured and traumatised. you probably were unaware of this because none of this is reported. Dead JJews = No News.
If you had been regularly targeted by terrorist cowards, who hide behind their human body shields,……..
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martin
4:26 pm
Nov 20, 2012
….what would you expect from your government? Place the blame faitrly and squarely on Hamas for starting this war crime of firing on civilians in the first place and the second war crime for placing your arms factories, missile sites etc within civilian areas.
Do you not have compassion for the Jewish children and babies slaughtered by Hamas and Fatah? where and when dis you condemn these acts?
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veryneat
4:42 pm
Nov 20, 2012
This woman is a thorough disgrace and so terribly ignorant. She clearly is unaware that “Palestine” was part of the Turkish empire for a very long time (hundreds of years) prior to the League of Nations mandate for its administration being handed to Britain. Why does The Independent rely on such prejudiced, uninformed writers? Have you ever seen such a misnomer for a newspaper? The only thing it is independent of is a search for truth, accuracy, fairness.
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Nov 20, 2012
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