Israel Matzav

Spreading Hate, Destruction & Terrorism: The UN-NGO Cadre

The following is a sampling of direct quotes taken from the sites of U.N.-accredited NGOs. (Some of the sites contain generic disclaimers though the pieces have been deliberately featured.) The U.N. website links to some of these NGOs directly. They draw an inexorable line between anti-Semitism, belittling Jew-hatred or appropriating anti-Semitism, rejecting the legitimacy of a Jewish state, making wild-allegations against Israel of human-rights atrocities akin to the Nazis (starting with Israel's creation and not a 1967 occupation) and justifying armed struggle, murder, and terrorism. And for what has not been achieved by military force, there is the boycott.

• "That Star of David, which we are told is originally a religious symbol, symbolized hate and evil. Even today, I couldn't imagine a more hateful sign."
• "[M]any Americans and westerners, long misinformed by the Zionist-controlled media especially after the events of September 11, 2001..."
• "[S]o-called 'anti-semitism'...has now become the single most important element of Jewish identity."
• "[A]nti-semitism has been taking place for 100 years in Palestine, against the Palestinian Arab semites, by European Jewish colonialists. A mini-holocaust."
• "Zionism is against true Torah Judaism. But Zionism is even more than that; Zionism and anti-Jewish feelings are faces of the same coin of racism. In fact Hitler...talked about the "great movement" of Zionism (because both he and they agreed that Jews have no place in Europe)..."
• "We denounce the racist and colonial character of Zionism, Israel's State ideology..."
• "[W]e must recall Ben Gurions doctrine:...ethnic cleansing became an integral part of Zionism. If Palestinians cannot be removed by massacres and expulsion, they shall be removed by extermination..."
• "Al-Nakba (Arabic for Catastrophe) is the expression that was named after the historic and tragic event of the ethnic cleansing...and dispossession of the Palestinian people for the past five and a half decades."
• "Zionist apartheid, racism, and settler-colonialism in Palestine... is violative of the most basic human standards...Thus, the Palestinian resistance is justified..."
• "[T]he suicide bombers...have been nurtured by the high unemployment, the harassment of the checkpoints, the death of a loved one and sometimes the need to redeem themselves from having been recruited as collaborators in the Israeli prison camps."
• "What do you think of the suicide bombings?...First of all we don't call it a 'suicide attack,' we call it a 'martyr attack.'"
• "[I]t is not only correct to call Israel an apartheid state but it is more imperative that we Americans stop funding and investing in such an oppressive regime....Some would argue that we would be singling out Israel or taking sides...We also did not say we took sides when we divested and boycotted...Nazi Germany (a boycott which was actually only violated by the Zionist movement in their collaboration with the Nazi regime..."

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:13 AM