Hello, im Chris Williamson and youre watching palestine declassified. Were the only weekly tv show thats dedicated to investigating and exposing the israeli regimes global war against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. In this weeks show well be highlighting how zinius weaponization of antisemitism is beginning to spectacularly backfire. In november last year, one prominent zinist zellet made a preposterous accusation of antisemitism about a students mascot on the university. Tv quiz show, but she was left with a copious quantity of egg on her face after legal action was taken by the student who was targeted. As the tief abuchakra will explain in this report. According to baroness jacqueline foster, a blue octopus is one of the most disgusting antisemitic symbols. She claimed this in a groveling apology she was forced to make by rahman lo. The law firm acting for british Muslim Student malika giorgiana. Foster had taken. X formally twitter in november 2023 to denounce giorgiana, a contestant on the bbc quiz Show University challenge. She singled out miss georgiana as being responsible for the team mascot a blue octopus which foster described as being one of the most disgusting antisemitic symbols and for wearing the colors of the palestinian flag. She called for miss georgiana to be expelled by her university and arrested by the police. In the Prime Minister, home secretary, ofcom, the bbc and oxford university. In fact, georgiano was in team of four which had collectively picked the octopus, as it was one of their favorite animals. The jacket worn by miss georgiani on the show was navy, blue, orange, pink, and green. Melika giorgiana received Death Threats and abuse after baroness foster of smared her. Foster recently apologized saying, i wrongfully alleged that miss georgiana chose a blue octopus as her teams mascot, which i held her responsible for. I accept that these allegations were completely false and unfounded. I made a grave mistake in making those posts and i should not have done so. Naturally, prior to making her racist comments, the baroness had been a lobby trip in may 2023 to occupied palestine, with flights and accommodation paid for by zionist group. Elnet uk was set up by jone ryan, famous for inventing antisemitic slurs against labor party members, as exposed in the lobby and by paul chari, a former tank commander for the genocidal Occupation Forces. Foster is also on the senior Advisory Board of the Drone Delivery Group limited, lobby group for the drone industry. As is well known, the Occupation Forces in palestine are increasingly making use of drones to more effective. Effectively commit genocide in ghaza. But in the end, is a blue octopus actually an antisemitic trope . In fact, blue octopy are regularly used by jewish groups in a positive way, as in this childrens book, on oscar the octopus and in other examples. Zinius propaganda is increasingly overreaching and overheating. More and more people are becoming instinctively resistant to it. It remains to be seen how long it will continue. Continue to be deployed to any effect by designists. Joining me in the studio as usual is our resident expert david miller. David is academic and a former professor at Bristol University and is now a nonresident Senior Research fellow at the center of islam and Global Affairs at istanbul zayen university. Hes also a codirector of the lobby in watch dog spinwatch and is a leading british scholarly critic of israel and im pleased to welcome back Steve Headley as our guest contributor today and i spoke to him earlier by a skype. Steve is lifelong social and trade unionist who was the Senior Assistant general secretary of the rmt trade union until quite recently. Hes also been an antiracist propalestinian activist all his adult life. His book, derry boy was published in january. And quickly sold out at his book launch at the bookmarks book shop in central london. Welcome to the show. David, why earth do these senior politicians believe these fairy tales are like the idea that the blue octopus is um somehow in got some inherent antijewish meaning. Its absolutely preposterous, isnt it . Well, it is preposterous and we should we should treat it with dedision that deserves. It doesnt deserve any proper analysis. Its just a joke. I mean these people are just jokers, but the people. Who believe it are people who either are paid up zionists or have been convinced by paid up zionists that this is the case and the zionist will give them pictures of octopus like this lovely hanika octopus oscar here yes um and will say actually this was used by the nazis andf any any representation of a blue octopus must be antisemitic except of course the ones which are not antisemitic and its used quite widely in in in jewish folklore and in in hanaca uh illustrations as as a a projewish thing, so its its completely ridiculous and its used just to weaponize anything that can be weaponized against those who criticize dialism. Yeah, well i started by asking steve about the hysteria being generated to vilify opposition to the gaza genocide, like the ludicrous complaints against the University Challenge students mascot and jacket. Well, i mean its its quite obvious the anybody with a brain cell why she was targeted and thats because of her ethnicity, i mean she she was a brown person. And um brown people are anything they wear can be interpreted it seems these days as either in support of palestine or is somehow antisemitic and i think that uh this is agenda for of the design its to try to close down any debate and any criticism to frighten people to freeze people and the submission and i think its back far and its back fair and badly because people are are not being intimidated thought in the streets and they people. Are wearing palestinian colors very proudly. David, latifs report there said that bariness fosters involved with this obscure british israel lobby group, elnet. Um, what more can you tell us about them . So elnet is a european leadership uh network and uh it was set up in brussels, its been one of the key brussels israel lobby groups for some years now, but they recently set up a British Branch which is uh created by john ryan who famously yeah. From the Lobby Program famously invented antisemitic uh abuse against her and of course former mp and of course this guy called charney whos uh been involved a whole range of scientist organizations former idf tank commander and its is his function is as with all israel lobby groups is to uh radicalize and and um propagandize uh Decision Makers and of course thats why theyve taken Decision Makers from parliament to occupy including uh this woman who whos who went a trip the last last year i think it was yes and so i mean thats what these these organizations are for there to make sure that that um Decision Makers in the house of lords and the house of commons who are not already signed up designism can be turned uh to to become fanatical prozionists right well the young woman on the University Challenge was was singled out specifically because shes was visibly muslim so we ask steve for his thoughts on this deeply disturbing trend in zin messaging . Yes it is, mean i think um the designs werent expecting the absolute backlash to the genocide in gaza, not only muslims but 70 , over 70 of the British Population, the entire British Population regardless of religion or ethnicity want to stop to this genocide, they want an immediate seasfire, but the the people that designers. Are targeting in in order to build a profile of somehow uh violent or extreme elements is the Muslim Population and its completely on true, i mean ive personally been on every demonstration, ive seen very very little violence at all, the main violence that i saw was from members of the the uh English Defense League who had been summoned to a counter demonstration by tommy robinson, but the by and large their marches have passed off without incident, so again i think their strategy has been. Ineffective, well as i saying david, i mean, you design lobbies really lost the the plot on this one, havent they, i mean, i latifs report highlighted that the blue octopus, and i think you would just making a point actually, is actually a jewish friendly image, i mean, how much more ridiculous can these characters get, well, they they theyve overreached right, and they overreach this this case where um, they they lost the libal action uh, and actually the solicitors who took the the case for this young Muslim Student were the same solicitors who won my case in the tribunal so you know z from kbw so theyve theyve taken this case and theyve shown that actually you cant just say any old nonsense about people and expect to get away with it, so they theyve won in this case, in examples like this, heres another another happy blue octopus uh, this is an image from a garment which is being sold on amazon, not in any sense antisemitic obviously uh, but yet whenever they can try and find a way to however securitiesly to link, the a particular image to antitush hatred, they will they will take it, because of course they are desperate to find ways to criticize and to to destroy those of us who are pro palestinian, because thats whats happening, theyre creating genocide in gaza, and they have to find a way to fight back, and particularly targeting muslims, as weve seen, well, i then asked steve about baroness fosters involvement in the deadly drone industry, and what that tells us about the values of many of those who are currently engaged in british public. Life well, i think um, when weve got zaanists and admitted zianists who are in lobby groups and with israel, and are also members of the house of lord or baronesses, and theyre involved in drones that are being used to kill people in palestine, innocent people in palestine, we have to ask who is running politics in this country, have we got a foreign country in the shape of israel . Um interfering in politics in this country, we have to look at the israeli lobby and who theyre funding in parliament, in the house of lords and in the house of comments uh, because if this was if this was russian influence, for example, there would be a whole huw and cry about it, there would be investigation, but it seems to be just be accepted that the israeli lobby can uh sponsor mps giving them huge sums of money uh foster lords and give them huge sums of money. And absolutely nothing is said, well its time for our next report now and then well come back to the discussion. This one outlines some of the other fical examples of zinist hyperboly. Hissing is now apparently antisemetic too. On the 29th of february, the latest zinus overreach claimed that hissing a Council Meeting in newam, east london, was an act of antisemitism since snakes, which are among those creatures. That hiss have been used in antijewish propaganda. Three socialist activists were later arrested at midnight for racial harassment under the public order act in a shameful misuse of police time and resources. They deny any hissing. The counselor Josh Garfield denounced the alleged hissing as attempt to bully him out of public life as a result of his ethnicity. The pathetic level the victimhood is astonishing. The alleged hissing is audible for no more than three seconds and then theres garfields response. If members in the gallery want to hiss me, they might wish to speak to my face about the issues they have, but chair, i wont accept it. Im going to join the meeting for 15 minutes. Garfiel is, of course, a card carrying zinist, being a member of the National Executive of the racist jewish labor movement, which is formally affiliated to the zinis movement. The mayor. Of newam, roxan fayas, who is a muslim, issued a strong statement the next day, nonsensically referring to antisemetic abuse. Across the ages, tropes like the use of snakes, have been used to fuel stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination against jewish people. Why would fire say that . Maybe it was her attendance, the day before the council session, at the annual dinner of the Community Security trust, the group which runs point for the genocidals. Minus regime. In a speech at the Council Meeting before the alleged incident, she specifically raised comments by the Prime Minister there about the alleged increase in violence and intimidation against elected representative. Last night, i um was with uh members of the Jewish Community over at the Community Security trust um event um in central london. The Prime Minister was there. And he did speak about something that resonated with me, he spoke about the significant increase in violence and intimidatory behavior being faced by elected representative. Alternatively, part of the reason might be the advisory role in a zinis lobby group, the European Institute for the study of contemporary antisemitism. Among the directors of eisca were chairman stephen polard, who later president over a record breaking run of falsehood at the jewish chronicle. Jeremy new mark, later disgraced in a scandal over missing cash from the Jewish Leadership Council and dennis macshain a former labor mp jailed for expenses fraud, among the other members of the Advisory Board were whose who of islamophobes and or extremist zingists, including michael leon of the Community Security trust. Back in 2009, eicsa were denounced as a dubious body involved in the sad politicizing of antisemitism by tony layerman, the leading authority on the political uses of antisemitism. The trope bandwagon will continue rolling until its brought to hault by collective refusal to take seriously the genocidal nonsense spouted by zinanists. Well, steve was an eyewitness to the socalled newam snakegate rumpus, so i asked him to describe what happened and what the atmosphere was like when the zinust counselor claimed that hed been subjected to antisemitic hissing. Yeah, well. First of all we went as members of the trades council of trade Union Council down in newm to pool 17 Million Pounds worth of cuts to the budget which would meant destroying the special Educational Needs budget redundancies and the decimation of services right across them so everybody uh from the labour party who went up to defend the cuts got heckled mean there were few choice comments made now this socalled hissing didnt hear it ive um then on the night i didnt hear it, i was sitting right beside one of the persons accused and right behind one of the other person accused, i was sitting about four paces or five paces from the third person who was accused and i will tell you now absolutely none of them hist whatsoever they did not his, but the atmosphere in the place was critical of the labor party uh then we had the mayor roxan feaz who opened the meeting by. A statement of how she met uh shed met richy sunak and how her and richy sunak were completely opposed the intimidating political opponents and we cant have people criticized uh we cant have politicians criticized in a way that would upset them and she said kind of set the scene for this guy who came on called garfields and he came up the rostrom and he turned around and said um can people stop hissing behind my back we all looked at each other and went whats one point no ones hissing, certainly we couldnt hear any hissing from where we were sitting, and then the the chair of the meeting so shut the meeting down and somehow um this hissing that i couldnt hear was interpreted as antisemitic in some way. Now i have no idea how this interpretation was reached, didnt know, didnt even know the guys name at the time, didnt know his religion, didnt know anything about him. But even if people were hissing, why would it be antisemitic . I mean, couldnt it just be like the barry coming on in a in a program in a theatre even when people would his, hes about to make 17 Million Pounds worth of cuts, maybe people would have hissed, um, how would they know his religion, how would they possibly know his religion . And its a, i think its a, its a its a sort of troop that can be turned the other way, why would people hiss a jewish people . I dont understand it, and what is that . Trope all about, so um, the the atmosphere that night, i believe was, it was, it was, if you like, setup, i think, um, people uh, reacted at the first opportunity to anything that they could interpret as an antisemitic and used it to try and silly the name of not only the trade union protesters, but the independent counselors that were present as well, well david, i mean, do we know if this counselor garfield . Characters ever been involved in any phony antisemitism incidents in the past . Oh yes indeed chris, we do. Hes been involved in all sorts of phony antisemitism instance in the past. He was a participant in the Panorama Program is labor antisemitic when he uh couldnt even come up with an antisemitic allegation. He said that he was sometimes called a duty zionist as if that was in some way antijewish and of course hes previously denounced momentum in in the local area as being antisemitic with again. Without producing any evidence, he has a long, long history of this, if you go back to some years before that, hes of course been involved with radicalizing young kids and in zionist summer camps and the the usual sorts of connections that these kind of people have, these in the jewish labor labor movement, on the the National Executive of that organization, so yeah, hes making a career, hes not even 30, and hes making a career of fake antisemitism allegations, right . Well, i then asked steve about the background of the three socialists who who were. Marketed in this incident . Yeah, there are three members of our trades council, the three active trade unionists, i think theyre also members of the palestinian sall. Palestinian solidarity committee, but thats not the reason that they were there that night, so why they would um why they would uh think that was those three particular people and not anybody else, i mean i wasnt um i wasnt uh cautioned for hissing or i had the place coming around my house to say that it was hissing and i was sitting right beside one of them so how could they distinguish it from being him and not me that made this selection his noise its its just bizarre it doesnt make sense so i think again theres element of people who have been active on the issue of palestine, active in in opposing the genocide, have been singled out because of their political activities, and theyre trying to be silenced. David, the the elected mayor in newms got some history with islamophobic zionist lobby groups, doesnt she . She has, i mean, she she has been involved for a long time in the the area of extremism and radicalization, and she was involved with this uh, this antiuh muslim uh. Antisemitism group where she was on the Advisory Board, then she became the chief executive officer of a an Inter Faith Group dedicated to undermining uh muslim opposition to uh to imperialism and to wars and then she was after that the chief executive of another organization which is run by guy whos a personal friend of Benjamin Netanyahu so she has a long history of involvement with with zionism and with zionist Inter Faith Group so its not surprising that that she would make this kind of statement which she made uh to back up garfields nonsense about snakes, well i also asked steve uh whether he thought that the police were were targeting these propalestine activists or whether the mayor was to blame and whether he thought this was a colossal waste of police time. I think that the names of these individuals were given to the police by uh the counselors in the hall or perhaps the mayor, i dont know which which of them did it, perhaps both, but theres no way that the police would have. Knowing who these people were if the labor counselors and the mayor hadnt pointed them out and i can reiterate and i will go to court and swear this um heard no hissing whatsoever and certainly there was no hissing coming from the person beside me the person in front of me or the person just off to my left. I just think i just think were in a very very dangerous time where um the the opposition to the war in gaza is growing in strength and i think that the governmentts and the labour party uh want to diffuse that opposition and i think that theres no lie or slander that they wont use in order uh to make out that that people are somehow violent or antisemitic or uh otherwise behaving in properly and you know its just not true and labor have to understand that their policy is very unpopular the governments policy is very unpopular most labor supporters the vast majority of labor supporters want to is far enough and labor are not delivering that and they will pay, they will pay at the bullet box, people will not vote for them, and hope that people will vote for candidates that are demanding peace in palestine. David, what would you advise people who are caught up in these all well in situations like this . What happens when people are caught up in these situations usually is that they are surprised by whats happen because of course theyve not done anything wrong, theyre not, theyre usually antiracists, theyve not been antisemitic and they dont. Stand that that this is a this is something serious and they sort of think that it can go away or you can just you know try and discuss it with people and it will be fine, but it it wont be fine, this is an allout attack in this case on people from from the left, but of but usually its on people who are palestinian or arab or muslim of origin and they deliberately target muslims for this kind of activity, you need to get advice swiftly, dont speak to anyone else until youve got advice preferably from a lawyer but from comrays trusted people who who you you. Now understand these kinds of things, dont take the the the root of saying, ill apologize, as you, as i know, that never works, its weaponiz, so you need to make sure that youve got proper advice and you can take on these people so that you can take get involved in the processes which can fight back against, no indeed, as of course youve absolutely, i mean the apologies weapon is are saying then used while they must have known hes done something wrong and then that gives them license and to to to go further, well anyway thats it now. For another show, so so thank you for watching, and and thanks obviously to our guest steve hedley and our residence expert professor david miller. Palestine will be back next week with more forensic investigations and analysis and you can follow the show on facebook, twitter and telegram where we post regular clips and updates. 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Well, i think a lack of tech workers is the least of israels problems right now. Look, were committed to win the war, were going to win the war regardless of anything, uh, and i think that the when people look at the economics of israel, they want to make sure first of all. For secure city and country, so our security is economic element, if hamas thinks that uh were going to end this with them uh returning to power, theyre wrong. The far bigger problem it faces is first of all its military challenge from the resistance on every front. You top official. Complains of fan being used as a weapon of war by israel in gaza. Iran strongly condemns israels attack on Gazas Al Shifa hospital as blame violation of International Laws and principles. Like we just said the eu top official complains a fan being used as a weapon of war by israel to kill people in gaza and cuba says a us embassy in havana is seeking