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.
m
5:44 pm
Nov 19, 2012
I wonder what that ugly islamic twat “yasmin” think about all the JEWISH children that are murdered by cowardly terrorists, or do they not count as children.
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GABY
6:13 pm
Nov 19, 2012
Welll, both love and hatred are above protocol. And Yasmin’s hatred of Israel motivates her to behave in a biased and non-professional way, take sides and not check her evidence; in the end, she makes a fool of herself, although her inaccuracies do much damage. If she is such a lover of little Arab children, why doesn’t she write about the atrocities committed in Syria (those children don’t count either)? If she loves innocent Arab children as much as she hates the Jews (Israelis for that matter), she should cry out for the injustices done to the Syrian civilian population. A little self-respect Ms Yasmin and the media you represent. Unless the stocks of self-respect and dignity are really d
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Joe blogs
6:14 pm
Nov 19, 2012
She has admitted that she is often incontinent; this is yet another embarrassing moment for old smelly drawers.
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Wobbletwig
9:41 pm
Nov 19, 2012
This wicked witch should explain to her lovers (Could she be in a group of 72? Never) that they shoul not start with the big boys. They will get clobbered. By the way my anus is also Brown..
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W
6:22 pm
Nov 19, 2012
Some fool obviously reads her drivel, or she wouldn’t still be allowed to pen her delusional pieces. The media propaganda against Israel is so disgusting. Yasmin is a typical example of Palestinian delusion and lies. Speak a lie often enough and fools will believe it. We need an onslought of truth. Maybe if it is spoken often enough someone will believe it. Palestinian terrorists are the ones placing their innocent children in harms way. They don’t even care about their own people, but use them as pawns to make Israel appear even worse to the world. I’m sickened by the hate, and the innocents that are caught in the crossfire. I am even more sickened by those that deliberately do it.
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ahmed Emmet
6:42 pm
Nov 19, 2012
Palestinian kids learn its an honour to be a shaheed and kill as many Jews as possible. Hamas set the standard: 1 Israeli for 1027 Palestinian terrorists. So stop complaining!
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Morton
7:40 pm
Nov 19, 2012
If the number of killed has been reversed, what would this person and others like her be saying? If the number had been reversed, would the New York Times (one of the “many” newspapers controled by Jews) headline the death of Israeli children?
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Stephen
10:38 pm
Nov 19, 2012
I would think that the NYT would report the loss of the lives of 3 Palestinians due to the unwarranted aggressiveness of the IDF (with of course no mention that the IDF were defending the lives of 30 innocent Israeli Citizens from an unprovoked attack) and that the Hamas Terrorists were heroes defending …… some B.S. drivel ….. ) with NO mention that these COWARDLY freedom fighters had done so using children and their own people as human shields)
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Reuven
7:50 pm
Nov 19, 2012
Score one point for Truth in Advertising. With a name like “Alibhai” … what were you expecting?
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Womble
9:13 pm
Nov 19, 2012
“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?”
The answer to that question was given a long time ago by the great war correspondent Martha Gellhorn:
“The fancy word we use nowadays is “empathy”–entering into the emotions of others. I had appreciated and admired individual refugees but realized I had felt no blanket empathy for the Palestinian refugees, and finally I knew why… It is hard to sorrow for those who only sorrow over themselves. It is difficult to pity the pitiless.”
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Davies Samuel
9:30 pm
Nov 19, 2012
During the Ottoman Empire, the Turks used to say “When an Arab open his lips only lies
come out of them” Nothing has changed since.
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Brent Pudsey
11:47 pm
Nov 19, 2012
What needs to happen is a movement like the reconcilation movement in South Africa in which divisions were acknowledged , stories shared , forgiveness granted and steps to unity taken.
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Alain B
12:15 am
Nov 20, 2012
Yes, and let us not forget the marshmallows and the part where we sway while singing Kumbayah my Lord.
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m
12:35 am
Nov 20, 2012
Pudsey ?!
“What needs to happen is a movement like the reconcilation movement in South Africa ”
LOL. How does one “reconcile” with a terrorist entity that wants nothing else but to utterly destroy Israel and have spelled it out loud and clear in their very charter?
Are you serious or just being sarcastic?!
What planet are you currently living on?!?!?!??!
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Alain B
12:20 am
Nov 20, 2012
This poor excuse for a woman should change her initials from YAB to YAK, since she looks so much like one.
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AnaMaría
12:41 am
Nov 20, 2012
Her distorted opinion still keep trapped in the bias against Israel against Western causes and values. Yasmin_Alibhai-Brown, The Independent and the British “stablishment”press can’t be impartial as they give up the truth to Liberal and Arab World thinking perfectly described before now as a “utterly vile” pattern. Must the Empire still be punished for his colonial times? Maybe this people prefer to live in tents in the middle of nowhere, enjoying exotic civilizations… so, why to live in Britain as ticks sucking insatiable in its host animal? Go back to your history, appreciate life and respect humanity Alibhai.
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DRL
2:15 am
Nov 20, 2012
She is typical of the independents journalists, utterly shit. She almost makes Fisk sound sober….but not quite.
Her role in the left liberal media is ‘Token Muslim’ and naked Israeli hater, always good for the Gruniard reading w*nkers.
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Chris
3:07 am
Nov 20, 2012
For years we have referred to her as Yasmin Alibi-for-terrorism!
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Andrea Collins
3:18 am
Nov 20, 2012
I’ve given up listening to what she says but when watching her on a BBC Press Preview I thought, “oh. she’s looking old”. I’m not vain but I actually googled her age….
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m
4:17 am
Nov 20, 2012
Andrea, that was a seriously funny insult but oh so accurate as well.
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BUTSeriously
4:09 am
Nov 20, 2012
Israel was legally re-established via the UN with all nations voting – including all Islamic states. Israel was declared by the UN as the UNIQUE historical homeland of the Jews. Israel was a sovereign nation with the same name 3,000 years ago with Jerusalem her Capital and Hebron the birthplace of Judaism.
In contrast, the 23 Islamic regimes created 100 years ago never existed before, their borders made of oil deposits, all were created in secret with none voted at the UN.
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tooth fairy
4:40 am
Nov 20, 2012
Yasmin Brown is living in a fog bound fantasy. Her comments show that her head is stuck way up her a++ where the sun don’t shine. She is a clueless wicked witch.
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Frank Adam
11:08 am
Nov 20, 2012
Well YAB has proven the Hamas claim to love death more than Jews love life to be a lie like all other Arab statements on Israel – or anything else, as the Ottoman Turks knew too well.
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Andrew
12:57 pm
Nov 20, 2012
The devil can only keep his ‘playthings’ as long as God allows them to live, remember the cursed fig tree, it withered and died, so shall be the end of those who curse Israel. There have been many over the centuries who have both cursed and denied God, their ends are recorded in scripture, so shall the ends of these ‘critics’ be recorded in news reports, maybe their demise will be reported as accurately as their ‘stories’ were.
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Asher Garber
2:57 pm
Nov 20, 2012
Her pen is as ugly as her face.
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m
7:25 pm
Nov 20, 2012
Asher, they say that beauty is only skin deep but UGLY is to the core. Your comment was a good observation.
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