A recent "discourse" on Talkbacks with some American Jews, who cling to Liberalism and the Democratic Party at the expense of their "Jewish heritage" over the "anti-Jewish" stance by BLM. Led to accusations that pro-Israel, pro Zionists were liars and that the BLM original platform / charter posted on the Internet does NOT have clauses "hateful" of Jews but ONLY anti-Zionistic and anti-Israel rhetoric.
However, by back checking we can clearly see that Black Lives Matters leaders have adopted the Communist insurgency rule book, outlined to those members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) during their indoctrination by the KGB, on how to removing all evidence on the Internet of their "Original Manifesto"- Cree- Platform of their original anti-Israel anti-Zionist section.
In multiple articles like "How Did Black Lives Matter Come To Charge Israel With ‘Genocide’?" by Sam Kestenbaum from August 9, 2016. The link to the text of the "manifesto" is "broken".
I can also refer you also to this Israellycool article from 2016 regarding a Letter to the Editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Bishop Lawrence M. Wooten, President of the Ecumenical Leadership Council of St. Louis, who wrote,
"We sincerely recognize the value of law enforcement officers and realize that the majority are devoted public servants. However, we also believe that Black Lives Matter plays a vital role in addressing racially driven police abuse in America.Recently, Black Lives Matter issued a platform of demands. One of the demands called for the elimination of U.S. aid to Israel. Their argument is that Israel is an apartheid state perpetrating genocide against the Palestinians. Most of the platform’s readers are likely unaware that its Israel/Palestine section was written by an activist who was born and raised as a Jew, although Rachel Gilmer says she no longer identifies as (being) Jewish.The Ecumenical Leadership Council of Missouri, representing hundreds of predominantly African-American churches throughout the state, rejects without hesitation any notion or assertion that Israel operates as an apartheid country. We embrace our Jewish brethren in America and respect Israel as a Jewish state."
Because of this I sent a request to Canary Mission to see if they have a copy and they sent me the link to an archived copy.
From a key wikki page is this passage regarding regarding Benjamin Ndugga-Kabuye who was the "co-author' of the anti-Israel section of the Black Lives matter Platform:
"Amid the nearly 40,000 words that make up the recent manifesto issued by a large coalition affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, two have raised an outcry among mainstream Jewish organizations and leaders.Those two words, in a brief section about Israel, are “apartheid” and “genocide.”
The original August 1, 2016 manifesto, was penned by a coalition of some 60 grassroots organizations known as the Movement for Black Lives. Supposedly their credo and manifesto are largely focused on the group’s ideas for achieving racial justice for African Americans in the United States, and that "Israel" was NOT specifically targeted.
Accordingly we are informed;
"... few knew that it was a woman with a Jewish background who co-wrote the very section that provoked them.
And just WHO is this woman with a Jewish background ?
Rachel Gilmer, is a 28-year-old African American who was born to an African-American father and a "white Jewish mother".
According to her short biography, "though raised as a Jew Gilmer had participated as a teen in the Young Judaea Zionist youth group". Since that time she has "distanced herself" from organized religion and in university Gilmer somehow transformed into a full fledged JINO -Jew in name only fervent anti-Zionist and had become actively involved in black-Palestinian solidarity work.
Gilmer is associated with the activist group Dream Defenders. A group whose original and main aim was to ending police and prisons (especially private prisons) as part of their policy and is geared towards people of color who share the goal of multi-racial organizing, among other goals.
However, since the involvement of the "Tragedy Tourists of Nachbaland" in the riots of Ferguson, Missouri beginning in August of 2014, after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. The Dream Defender's, as well as the BLM group, have been subverted and hijacked by the "Tragedy Tourists of Nachbaland" -the Palestinians.
Under the influence of Rachel Gilmer Dream Defenders has;
"been on the forefront of recent black-Palestinian solidarity efforts, such as bringing high-profile delegations of African-American activists to Israel and the West Bank."
According to the credits on the BLM web site Gilmer, and Benjamin Ndugga-Kabuye, from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, were the sole authors of the anti-Israel / Zionism section of the platform issued by the Movement for Black Lives.
It is worth noting that in May of 2014, Gilmer traveled to Israel and the Judea and Shomron (the "disputed territories" or West Bank) on a trip sponsored by Hanan Ashrawi's MIFTAH group. While on her blatantly anti-Zionist anti-Israel one sided tour she was indoctrinated and further bamboozled with the Palestinian lies and commented later:
“While our struggles are not identical, it became so clear that we are up against the same system of state violence and repression,” “We must call for the divestment of the military industrial complex, just like we are calling for a divestment from the policing of our neighborhoods.”
I t is true that Gilmer is far from the only person responsible for the entire Movement for Black Lives platform.
According to the BLM website the manifesto was the result of a year of meetings, debates and conference calls among black-led organizations. Hundreds of individuals were involved. And Gilmer shared writing duties on the Israel section with just one other activist, Benjamin Ndugga-Kabuye, from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration.
Gilmer has stressed that the platform was written;
“for and by black people … to build connections between the Movement for Black Lives in the U.S. to movements for liberation around the world.”
It is hard to comprehend in reading her biographic background just where and when this animosity and hostility of Zionism and Israel evolved in the mind of this "rosy Jewish Young Judea" background she professes.
Here are the pertinent paragraphs from the original BLM archived copy of the BLM Charter/ Platform written by Rachel Gilmer and Benjamin Ndugga-Kabuye (Hat tip Canary Mission).
The highlighted text are atypical of the usual virulent hatefilled anti-Israel Palestinian dezinformatsiya propaganda based on semi actual facts which they use to distort and warp the wording to confuse and manipulate the minds of the "least intelligent".
From the BLM Mandate:
"The US military accounts for over 50 percent of discretionary federal spending, a total of 598.5 Billion dollars spent annually, as compared to 70 billion spent on education, 66 billion spent on healthcare, $63.2 billion spent on housing and 29.1 billion spent on social security and unemployment.
In addition, approximately 3 billion dollars in US aid is allocated to Israel, a state that practices systematic discrimination and has maintained a military occupation of Palestine for decades.
Together with aid to Egypt — Israel’s most important regional ally— this figure represents nearly 75 percent of all US aid dollars. As these figures demonstrate, resources and funds needed for reparations and for building a just and equitable society domestically are instead used to wage war against a majority of the world’s communities.
The US justifies and advances the global war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people. The US requires Israel to use 75 percent of all the military aid it receives to buy US-made arms. Consequently, every year billions of dollars are funneled from US taxpayers to hundreds of arms corporations, who then wage lobbying campaigns pushing for even more foreign military aid. The results of this policy are twofold: it not only diverts much needed funding from domestic education and social programs, but it makes US citizens complicit in the abuses committed by the Israeli government. Israel is an apartheid state with over 50 laws on the books that sanction discrimination against the Palestinian people. Palestinian homes and land are routinely bulldozed to make way for illegal Israeli settlements. Israeli soldiers also regularly arrest and detain Palestinians as young as 4 years old without due process. Everyday, Palestinians are forced to walk through military checkpoints along the US-funded apartheid wall.
As an "educated" and enlightened individual one truly has to stop, step back and wonder as to what level of intelligence exists within the leadership of the BLM - Dream Defenders when one reads these lines of such utter falsification of true facts that are readily available in a simple Google search!!
Let us take a critical look at the statements written by Rachel Gilmer and Benjamin Ndugga-Kabuye.
1) This anti-Israel attack point that -Gilmer - begins with "US AID" is truly odd since this main point of attack is derived form the conspiracy theories of the Aryan White Supremists, Neo-Nazi, anti Jewish, virulent anti-Semites linked to the philosophies of William Luther Pierce III a prominent American white nationalist and of course right-wing politician, and a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, David Dukes.
This anti-Israel stance was adopted by the Palestinian dezinformatsiya propaganda machine as a direct outcome of the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust which David Duke attended in Tehran, Iran in December 2006.
As you can see in the above photo Neo-Nazi White Supremacist cooperation is accepted when it comes to hatred of the Jews.
2) "Israel, a state that practices systematic discrimination and has maintained a military occupation of Palestine for decades".- WHY?
"practices systematic discrimination" -
This statement is pure Palestinian dezinformatsiya at it's best. The comparison is factually and morally inaccurate and is intended to delegitimize Israel. The "disputed territories"- the West Bank and Gaza are not part of sovereign Israel and are governed by the elected Palestinian Authority and Hamas leaders, so they cannot be compared to the internal policies of apartheid South Africa.
In the 1990s, the term "Israeli apartheid" gained prominence after Israel, as a result of the Oslo Accords, granted the Palestinians limited self-government in the form of the Palestinian Authority and established a system of permits and checkpoints in the Palestinian Territories. The apartheid accusation has gained additional traction following Israel's construction of the West Bank Barrier. By 2013 the analogy between the West Bank and Bantustans of apartheid-era South Africa was widely drawn in international circles. Also in the United States, where the notion had previously been taboo, Israel's rule over the occupied territories was increasingly compared to apartheid.
The allusion is to the "Apartheid state" accusation became a favorite lie of the Palestinian Propagandists to bring disdain upon Israel.
South African Judge Richard Goldstone, writing in The New York Times in October 2011, said that while there exists a degree of separation between Israeli Jews and Arabs;
"in Israel, there is no apartheid. Nothing there comes close to the definition of apartheid under the 1998 Rome Statute".
Concerning the West Bank, Goldstone wrote that the situation;
"is more complex. But here too there is no intent to maintain 'an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group'."
Goldstone also wrote in The New York Times,
"the charge that Israel is an apartheid state is a false and malicious one that precludes, rather than promotes, peace and harmony."
Several members of BLM profess to be "continuers" of the political beliefs of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC).
Black Panther leader Huey P Newton had been associated with the SNCC in a merger/ Newton Bobby Seale and other SNCC activists visited Lebanon in 1980 with Yasser Arafat and the PLO. When he was there Newton "further embraced" the "Palestinian Cause" and raised the subject of South African - Israel cooperation and of "Apartheid" in Africa. Huey P Newton was a political activist and an avid follower of Malcolm X. Newton professed to be a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party (1966–1982). Huey was known for being an advocate of communist-led governments in China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam.
As to the "Apartheid claim", there are those detractors that accuse Israel of "racial discrimination" or of "discrimination" against the Arab minority. Yet, facts on the ground clearly show that Israel on the whole is a Democratic country where all minorities and especially the Arab minority enjoy freedoms and rights unheard of in other nations.
It is easy to ignorantly banter about the Apartheid claim when one does not even know the truth of the meaning of the term "Apartheid"
2) military occupation of Palestine What is the truth in this statement? BLM has accepted and is spreading the true Palestinian intention as often stated by Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada and as mentioned in the charter of the PLO to eradicate the State of Israel!
Article 19: The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time, because they were contrary to the will of the Palestinian people and to their natural right in their homeland, and inconsistent with the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations, particularly the right to self-determination.
Since the inception of the "Jewish State" -UNR181 in November of 1947 the "Arabs of the Mandated Areas" aka the Palestinians have set out to eradicate it and have NEVER accepted a negotiated "Peace" since their stated objective is nothing less than the eradication of the Jewish (Independence from Dhimmitude Dominance) that Israel represents?
Also notice the statement DOES NOT talk about the; "military occupation of the West Bank" but of "Palestine"-the entire Eastern Mandated Area referred to in UNR181!!!
"Palestinian homes and land are routinely bulldozed to make way for illegal Israeli settlements."
When one searches for information on this delicate subject one is immediately immersed in the essence of the conflict between the Arabs of the Mandated Territories-aka the Palestinians and the Jews of Israel.
The core of the conflict is the possession of the land and the truth needs to be told but in all my searches on the Internet I was inundated with the Arab POV and not one word from the Israeli side.
First, this statement used by Gilmer comes directly from the Palestinian Propagandist "Guidebook" and speaks of "Palestinians" and "Israeli Settlements".
By Palestinians is she referring to "Arab Israelis" or those who reside in the "Disputed Territories"?
As to "Israeli Settlements" and the use of the "illegal" Legality issue these terms are often used by the detractors of Israel to define the Jewish residents of the "disputed territories" who have constructed homes and residential townlets and villages upon grants and permits to construct on lands that once belonged to the Ottoman Turkish Government and were subsequentially passed on to the Mandate Regime of the British as delegated under The Mandate for Palestine created in the Treaty of Sèvres and later ratified in the Treaty of Lausanne July 24th 1923 by the League of Nations.
One must recall that historically the "Mandated Area" was offered to and never claimed by the "Arabs of the Mandated Areas" in the partition plan to be the "State for the Arabs of the Mandated Areas" or as they refer to themselves since 1964 as "Falestinians" were divided and had no "Shadow Authority" in the "West Bank" to claim jurisdiction when the Arab League Nations invaded.
Ergo when the Jordanian Legion invaded and illegally conquered the area and ethically cleansed ALL the Jewish occupants and expelled them. They did so in violation of article 2 of the UN Charter and ART. 5 of the Mandate For Palestine .
The Mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of the Government of any foreign Power.
The Jordanian's even went so far as to attempt to annex the "West Bank" (a move that was not recognized internationally) and therefore became the "Occupier" of the "Mandate Areas" from 1948 through June of 1967.
Furthermore, I would refer you to Article Six of the “Mandate for Palestine”, which states;
“the Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article Four, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.”
Accordingly, Article Six, makes it clear that Jewish settlements are not only permissible, but actually encouraged. Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) are perfectly legal.
The use of the phrase “Occupied Palestinian Territories” is a disingenuous term that misleads the international community, while encouraging Palestinian Arabs, with the right to use all measures to attack Israel, including the use of terrorism.
Not once are Arabs as a "people / nation" mentioned in the Mandate for Palestine. Nowhere in the document is there any granting of political rights to Arabs.
The communities of Hartuv, Kfar Etzion, Hebron, and the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem. had only been re established after exhaustive investigations making sure none were built on private land. Israel also argues that some of the settlements are built in areas where Jewish communities that existed before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War when many "West Bank" Jewish Communities were destroyed and the residents massacred or expelled, It seems reasonable to refer to the land of these communities as liberated as it was freed from the illegal occupation of Jordan and was returned to possession of its owners, the Jewish People. Therefore in these cases the application of the Geneva Convention is an entirely different issue.
With the negotiated peace treaty between Jordan and Israel in 1995 the Mandated area for the Jewish Homeland (Article 8 Mandate for Palestine) was returned and therefore the "West Bank" officially became Israeli territory as per International Law termed; Uti possidetis juris or uti possidetis iuris (Latin for "as you possess under law") is a principle of international law that states that newly formed sovereign states should have the same borders that their preceding dependent area had before their independence. So legally there is no need to annex since neither the Jordanians nor the "Falestinians" never claimed sovereignty. Since no country or government had claimed sovereignty over it than according to International Law “terra nullius”, or "land belonging to no one"
As to "bulldozing homes" this is done to ALL illegally built homes, both those of Jews as well as Arabs / Palestinians are "demolished"
This is an abject lie. Many times children have been detained and removed from areas of violence because their parents have allowed them to be used by demonstrators in acts of violence. I refer you to the #payforslay policies of the
Palestinian Authority where Palestinian Youth are encourage to commit acts of violence and murder.
Palestinian Authority where Palestinian Youth are encourage to commit acts of violence and murder.
Everyday, Palestinians are forced to walk through military checkpoints along the US-funded apartheid wall.
Have you ever noticed that those saying this never mentioned WHY the "security wall" was erected?
Nary a mention is given that prior to the horrific wave of suicide bombers released by Yasser Arafat on innocent Israeli civilians despite the Oslo Accords-see chart. Thousands of Palestinians crossed into Israel on a daily basis with almost no checkpoints nor barriers.
These detractors consistently fail to mention that many countries of the world have constructed barriers to prevent terrorism, drug smuggling and illegal immigration -see meme.
Upon reading this I can readily envisage the image of that ridiculous Minion with a stupefied look when one reads this utterly falsified anti-Zionist propaganda!