40 thoughts on “Obsessive and suffocating, 176 anti-Israel events in a month”

1. I feel physically sick. Rest assured that this will be sent out widely from the Archbishop of Canterbury , politicians of major parties, Council of Christians & Jews (UK / Australia),Christians United For Israel (CUFI), journalists, broadcasters, and many others in between. There are no words to thank you for what you do David, only humble gratitude.

2. Welcome to the Palestine industry.

3. Do you have data for the year as a whole? I am happy I now live in Canada and am icreasingly concerned for my family still in the UK

   1. Hi Daniel, I don’t have that type of data. On the one hand this month did carry two anniversaries, but on the other, I came across many groups that had events in October or have them scheduled for December, but didn’t do anything in the month I listed. I have no reason to believe this is not pretty standard for any month between September and April (May – July is university exam time + August is summer holiday).

      As for your family – there is no need to pack bags just yet. Unless they are directly involved in the struggle, or have children at school or university, it is still possible for Jews to believe everything is just fine. I believe that will change – but is still quite a way off.

      1. Thanks. I would be interested in any data especially broken down by area and other demographics.

4. It would be interesting to have a “control” list of comparable events about, say, Syria or Yemen over the same time period. It would be a lot of work but would enhance the validity of your findings hugely.

   1. David, it is being done. I am putting the list in as an appendix in a book I am trying to complete. There are some caveats to the accuracy of the vastly smaller number of events on the situation in places like Syria + Yemen (my unfamiliarity with the groups involved for a start). The chapter that uses the list as a reference looks at the obsession through the lens of ‘institutional racism’ as detailed in the Macpherson report. It was only because I felt this appendix would be of some current use to highlight the obsession, that I released it in this form via the blog.

   2. A control list of Israel lobby comparable events would be interesting too.

5. It has to be said that November was probably not ‘typical’, because of the number of events in opposition to the Balfour Centenary celebrations. in the first week of that month.

   1. Still astonishing though .. and yes, shows their claim about ‘not being able to get a platform’ is a lie.

      But their entire existence is based on lies so it’s not really surprising.

   2. I did think of this possibility as I was going along – but I was surprised at how few university events there were (palsocs with a November free diary) & there were non campus ‘November silent’ groups that are normally active. Many groups had October and will have December events, but none in November. Groups like INMINDS who normally operate a few only had one and so on. Perhaps because of the increase in Balfour activity, regional groups took a break. For example – the single big national trip to the demo on the 4th – how many individual events that weekend would have been cancelled? In the book, perhaps I will run several months, to see if it spiked, just to set aside that argument.

6. David are you suggesting that there should be a quota on meetings that displease the Israel lobby. Mick Davis once suggested something similar. Remember Mick Scoffie ?

   1. Anyway there never was a UJS campaign video quite like this

      https://www.facebook.com/yeswecohen/videos/1865011787161884/

      1. self hating as a jews all

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSrusP5SZI4

         1. Don’t put your faith in Geoffrey. A legend in his own mind.

            1. Faith Hrv ?

            2. Anyway Harv I think this is a pretty good effort from Geoffrey

               http://jewdas.org/how-the-bod-stole-sukkos/

            3. Though maybe not quite as good an effort as this one

               https://jewdas.org/jonathan-hoffman-anti-zionist-hero/

         2. You obviously subscribe to the theory of the beating of a butterfly’s wings. A few edgy Jewish rads raving it up in the Shoreditch massive once a month is about the sum total of it . They still go home to break bread with their families every Friday night . Not revolutionaries – just naughty Jewish children .

            1. Have you checked their Jewishness out with Scoffie Harv ?

               And of course they do make it out of Shoreditch once in a while

               https://jewdas.org/watch-our-video-from-last-years-birthwrong-trip-to-southern-spain/

               Even as far as Trafalgar Square once in a while

            2. I don’t check out Jewishness Stephen. I leave that to obsessives like you. Thanks for the Painted Bird videos – Germany’s best known Bundist Tribute Band. I prefer to listen to Australian Pink Floyd . That way I don’t get to listen to Waters . It’s a win win

   2. No, I am suggesting people be aware that the cause could be said to be ‘institutionally racist’, even if it does not set out to be, or if some of the activists are oblivious to it. If antisemitism is in any way a cause of the conflict itself (Arab refusal to accept Jewish self rule on Muslim land or religious Islamic antisemitism), then racism stands at the heart of the conflict. The perpetuation of the conflict similarly can be viewed through that lens. The ‘exceptionalism’ Israel receives, is also a matter of convenience (NGO’s don’t operate freely in Russia, you can’t shout at Chinese Soldiers, and you don’t volunteer to go to Syria), so it is convenience (supported by additional Jew hatred) piggybacking on the results of antisemitism.

      Some of the blacks arrested by the Met were indeed criminals, but the Met was still institutionally racist. Much of the problem wasn’t even connected to the MET directly (the racist societal infrastructure that placed the non whites in the police sights in the first place). All that racism still needed to be addressed and yet nobody was suggesting the Met stop arresting criminals who happened to be black.

7. If only the neer do wells had a merest idea of the negligible impact their posturing and petty machinations has on Israel, they would give up and do something useful with their lives. In reality BDS failures are in inverse proportion to Israel’s success.

   1. You seem to be at odds with David here Harv. David seems to be very concerned.

      ” The cause ” is not an institution David apart from the fact that there is likely not just one cause.

      But leaving that aside obviously something had to be done about the met and institutional racism. What would you like to be done about too many events that dis[lease the Israel lobby?
      Palsocs ? How many JSoc events were there last month ? Street stalls ffs ?

      Suffocating ? Only if you were compelled to attend all of these events.

      This entire post reeks of hysteria and paranoia.

      Not your finest hour David

      1. Oh Stephen, sorry to disappoint but not every piece of a jigsaw can be a corner piece, side piece, or an elusive connection between two blocks you’ve been building. Sometimes, a jigsaw piece is just another part of the sky. This is not about a ‘finest hour’, it is part of a wannabee appendix, used to (as Ian rightly points out) counter the absurd notion I had heard just two days ago in Westminster. Because I have been working on it, and the comment was made – I thought I would highlight the absurdity by posting it here.

         How many Jsoc events? Are you joking?

         As for the ’cause’ not being an institution, you are better than simply playing someone so one dimensional. You are right, something needed to be done about the Met and institutional racism, and I hope nobody fools themselves into believing that we have even begun to dig ourselves out of those holes. But the institutional racism referenced in the report, wasn’t just about the end result (the racism of the institution) – but rather the systemic societal racism that makes the black man more likely to be a Met target in the first place. ‘Society’ isn’t an institution either. If Israel is more likely to be a target of public frustration, than say Switzerland, and antisemitism is in part responsible for this (the conflict itself), then parallels can be drawn. In any event, I am currently exploring that avenue, and the list of events is simply evidence of the clear obsession’ the UK has. No more – no less.

      2. If you read my comment, I referred specifically to Israelis , not David and not grass roots Uk Zionists. We may be concerned but the fact is you and your ilk are of zero consequence to Israel . You don’t exist. I suggest you try reading what’s there and not what’s in your warped hate filled imagination.

         1. Harv I am as interested in what is of conseqence to Israel or Israelis as I am in the results of last Sundays results in the 4th division of the Albanian basket league.

            1. Lol . You obviously do otherwise you wouldn’t be obsessing about it here on a constant basis . We are what sustains you . It’s cathartic for you to vent your hate on this site and it beats visiting a shrink . Cheaper too

            2. Harv I don’t obsess about Israel. Israel, like apartheid South Africa will implode under the weight of it’s racist contradictions. My concern is the assault on hard won civil liberties in the UK by its front orgs, in the meantime.

8. Taking your disingenuous trousers out for a spin Bellers? You are well aware that the purpose of the piece is a response to the suggestion that limited time is given to “Free Speech on Israel” and that the argument is “not given any platform at all. David simply presents examples that show the contrary. Not really a hysterical response or paranoia is it really? Just showing that a statement is inaccurate. isn’t he? Come on Bellers, unlike the more primitive trolls here you do have a go from time to time but even you can play a better game than this.

   1. Ian I am not budging an inch on this. Ordinarily I would have said a centimetre but what with brexit and all. I avoid being gratuitously offensive to David because he passes my 4 hours in the pub test. And at the end of the day there are ultimately two kinds of people in the world. Those that pass the test and those that don’t.

      This is awful. Ten plagues bad.

      1. Bellers your budgies are of no interest to me at all. We both know that we don’t come here to change minds as much as we’re aware of our respective roles here, aren’t we?

         Fair play to you though. Anticipating that anyone would spend 4 hours in the pub with you has restored my faith in the power of boundless optimism.

         1. You spend a lot of time engaged with stuff that you have no interest in Ian

            1. I do Bellers. But as a diagnosed ornithobic I got sidetracked when you mentioned your budgie.

            2. Oh. Well thats all right then

      2. “Not budging”, even! You stand by the Jew-smear that the “Israel Lobby’ is controlling and repressing you even though David has just proven that the “repressed” party is goose-stepping freely all over town… Yet you call *David*’ paranoid / hysterical!

         Truly, you would be a harmless pub joker, except that your same paranoia/hysteria is exactly what had Nazis “defending themselves” against Jewish infants….which is why David is indeed the clear-thinking one; not you.

         My advice: keep your antisemitism. But at least improve your talking points. Not everyone is an idiot.

         1. PnL You are just trying to make me blush I can tell.

9. I think there is an upside to this. As the government morphs into a Nazi state with laser like focus on one thing and only one thing – the extermination of all the Jews in a far off country that the UK government has no control over then it’s lost track, lost interest in doing anything about the UK in the UK. Let everything implode in flames at home. Let everything fail. Let the social clock in Britain unwind a thousand years. All I ask, all anyone asks, is that as you become a third world nation, abandon your nuclear weapons before you return to the Dark Ages. Beyond that? Good luck and godspeed. When you kill the last person who remembers how to keep the lights on, you squat around the dung fire and shake your fists at Allah.

10. You are clearly doing a great service David.

    Thank you.

11. You can add a protest last saturday next to Concordia university in Montréal.

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