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 zinust weaponization of antisemitism is beginning to spectacularly backfire. In november last year, one prominent zinius zelot made a preposterous accusation of antisemitism about a students mascot on the university. His 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 latifer 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 to. 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 of 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, taggy. In the Prime Minister, home secretary, ofcom, the bbc and oxford university. In fact, giorgio was in a 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 charney, 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 effectively. Commit genocide in ghazza, 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 an 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 to be the. To any effect by designs. 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 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 via skype. Steve is lifelong socialist and trade union. 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 quick. Is 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 and its absolutely preposterous isnt it . Well it is preposterous and we should we should treat it with the derion it deserves. It doesnt deserve any proper analysis. Its just a joke. Mean these people are just jokers, but the people who believe it. Are people who either are paidup 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 we say actually this was used by the nazis and 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 hanaka illustrations as as a project. Thing so its its completely ridiculous and its used just to weaponize anything that can be weaponized against those who criticize dialism. Yeah, well it 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 to anybody with a brain cell why she was targeted and thats because of her ethnicity, i mean she she was a brown person and. bround 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 this is agenda for others and its to try to close down any debate and any criticism to frighten people, the freeze people and the submission, and i think its backfiring, its backfiring badly, because people are are not being uh intimidated the out in the streets and they people are wearing. Palestinian colors very proudly. David, latifas 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 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 from the lobby. Program famously invented antisemitic uh abuse against her and of course and of course this guy called charney whos been involved a whole range of science organizations former idf tank commander and its its 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 occupied palestine including think uh, this woman whos who went a trip last last year, i think it was, yes, and so i mean, thats what these these organizations are for, are there to make sure that that um Decision Makers in the house of lords or 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 i ask steve for his thoughts on. Deeply disturbing trend in zinanis messaging, yes it is, i mean, i think um, the the zionists 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 geneside, they want immediate cease fire, but the the people that designs are target. In 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 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 you saying david, i mean, the scientis lobbies really lost the the plot on this one, havent they . I mean, you, i, latifs report highlighted that the blue octopus, and i think you were 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 liball action uh, and actually. The solicitors who took the the case for this young Muslim Student w the same soliciters who won my case in the tribunal so you z from 11 kbw so they they the 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. Now 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, but yet nevertheless whenever they can try and find a way to however securitiesly to link the. A particular image to anti jewish hater, 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, im particularly talking muslim, 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 zaonists and admitted zionists to in lobby groups and with israel and are also uh 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 the fewing in politics in this country, we have to look at the israeli lobby and who theyre funding in parliaments in the house of lords and in the house of commons, 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 has 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 zanist hyperboly. Hissing is now apparently antisemitic too. On the 29th of february, the latest zinus overreach claimed that hissing a Council Meeting in newan, east london, was an act of antisemitism, since snakes, which are among those creatures that his. 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 zionist, being a member of the National Executive of the racist jewish Labor Movement, which is formally affiliated to the zinis movement, the mayor of newan. Roxanna fayaz, who is a muslim, issued a strong statement the next day, nonsensically referring to antisemitic 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 genocidal zinus regime. 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 pollad, who later presided over. Later disgraced in a scandal over missing cash from the Jewish Leadership Council and dennis macshaine, a former mp jailed for expenses fraud, among the other members of the Advisory Board were a whos who of islamophobes and or extremist zionistts, including michael wine of the Community Security trust. Back in 2009, eicsa were denounced as a dubious body involved in the sad politicizing of antisemitism by tony larman, the leading authority on the political uses of antisemitism. The truke. Banwagon will continue rolling until its brought to hault by collective refusal to take seriously the genocidal nonsense spouted by zionists. 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 zinius counselor claimed that hed been subjected to antisemitic hissing. Yeah, well first the. We went as members of the trades council of trade Union Council down in num to appose 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 newm 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 hisin didnt hear it ive um then on the night 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 has whatsoever, they did not his, but the atmosphere in the place was critical of the neighbor party, then we had the mayor roxanna faz who opened the meeting by giving a st. Of how shed met uh shed met richie sunak and how her and richie 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 to rostrom and he turned around and said um can people stop hissing behind my back we all looked at each other and whats no ones hissing, certainly we couldnt hear any hissing from where we were sitting, and then the the chair of the meeting shut 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, i didnt know, i didnt even know the guys name at the time, i didnt know his religion, i didnt know anything about him, but even if people were hissing, why would it be antisemitic . Mean, couldnt it just be like the body coming on in a in a program, in a theatre even when people would hiss, 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 troop b . 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 solly the name of not only the trade Union Protesters but the independent counselors that were present as well david i mean do we know if this counselor garfield . Has ever been involved in any phony antisemitism incidents in the past . Oh yes indeed, chris, we do. Hes been involved in all sorts of fony 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 durchionist, as if that was in some way antijewish, and of course hes previously denounced momentum in in the the local area as being antisemitic without 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 youn