Fabricated claims of anti-semitism from the pro-Israel lobby
It’s mischievous at best for the New Zealand Jewish Council to make claims of anti-semitism with the graffiti spraypainted on the fence of the Israeli consulate in Auckland.
The words “Free Gaza”, Save the kids”, “Ceasefire” and “Free Palestine” were written on the fence in the Auckland suburb of Epsom overnight.
Juliet Moses from the New Zealand Jewish Council was aware of the incident and said the targeting of Jewish properties was unacceptable.
“There is a real escalation in antisemitism and graffiti is one of the manifestations of that.”
In the couple of paragraphs she morphs a “Free Gaza” message on the Israeli consulate fence into “targeting Jewish properties” and then talks about “graffiti as a manifestation of anti-semitism”.
It’s always disappointing when the media doesn’t challenge such a blatant fabrication.
“Conflating criticism of Israel with anti-semitism is a persistent tactic used by the pro-Israel lobby to defend Israel and discourage politicians and the media from speaking out against Israel’s outrageous policies and practices directed against Palestinians”.
They do it because it works. Just look at the spineless, cowardly behaviour of Labour and National politicians who are happy to condemn attacks on Israeli civilians but are deathly silent on Israeli war crimes.
New Zealanders are quite rightly outraged at the genocidal slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza – over 10,000 killed including at least 3,900 children – and the graffiti reflects that outrage.
While PSNA was not involved in this graffiti and arson incident and we don’t see it as helpful for the Palestinian cause we can absolutely understand the motivation.
There is nothing anti-semitic in it.
If a similar graffiti attack had been made on a Russian Consulate after its invasion and occupation of Ukraine the whole country would probably have cheered.
Last year the New Zealand Jewish Council promoted a “survey on anti-semitism” which declared that calling Israel an apartheid state or supporting BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel were “markers of anti-semitism”.
It’s time these lies and mischievous inventions were called out for the rubbish they are.
The pro-Israel lobby has less interest in real anti-semitism than it does in using “whatever means necessary”, including lies and fabrications, to protect the apartheid state of Israel.
As a plight those who stand against Israel are marked by a chronic inability to recognise Israel’s enemies. Even when Israel’s enemies do there very best to tell everyone who they are.
While PSNA was not involved in this graffiti and arson incident and we don’t see it as helpful for the Palestinian cause we can absolutely understand the motivation. (No way not those high and mighty supporters of PLO eh).
There is nothing anti-semitic in it. (No nothing to see here)
Just like the cowardly attacks and butchering of Israeli men, women and children by Hamas – nothing to see here eh John Boy?!
Are you an anti-semite? member of PLO NZ Inc?
Until some actual evidence, such as video or admission, or even online outing, is produced as to the perpetrators of the Graffiti and slight fire it remains highly suspicious.
I still remember the alleged “fire bombing” (a pathetic minor blaze if that) of one of Anne Tolley’s Electoral offices at the time of the big TPPA march in Auckland. Despite CCTV cameras in the vicinity no one was ever fingered let alone apprehended or interviewed by the cops as far as the public are aware–so the suspicion remains it was a false flag inside job.
Fire or arson is not acceptable as a protest tactic in NZ but graffiti is fine in my view. A bit of spray paint hardly compares to 10,000 non combatant lives extinguished by the IDF butchers.
Julie Moses is in an invidious position. She would have done better to say nothing. Raising the spectre of anti Semitism played straight into Zionist / Israeli messaging, aligning NZ Jews with Israel.
Im not Jewish, I haven’t asked NZ Jews who they support and I’m not going to assume they are unanimous one way or the other.
Targeting Jews and property here for Israels actions is a mistake. Take the message to the offices of our MPs, to Parliament because they need to hear how we feel. Protest at the Israel Consulate, fly a Palestinian flag. But lay off our Jews, that just feeds to Zionist troll machine.
No Moses wants it – they want their ‘poor’ plight in the headlines as often as possible.
The oppressed have become the oppressors.
Of course Jewish supporters of Palestine have have spoken at numerous rallies in the past few weeks.
Yep, This “Graffiti” attack screams of a false flag operation. I mean even card carrying Nazis would not have done such a clean job, correctly spelt in such an attractive font. And even then they aren’t stupid enough to burn their own message. Token burn I mean. And before you can say Rumplestiltskin Rimmer shows up to defend Vandalism and racial divide. The Irony.
Some years ago the online progressive American newspaper Common Dreams voiced concerns that a major donor had threatened to cut all funding if ‘antisemitic’ comments in the paper continued. I had noticed how huge the comment section was for many of the articles but usually read only a few of these.
The editors stopped all commenting for about three weeks then made the announcement that the offending comments had been finally tracked to one city, one university, one room and one computer use by one Jew who was posting comments using 25 – 27 ‘Names.’ Common Dreams changed their commenting system so this was prevented from ever happening again and the comments dwindled right down.
They left a prominent link to the story on their Home page for about three months.
The graffiti targeted a Jewish place of worship. To me that is not acceptable. We should not assume that everyone of the Jewish faith supports the attempts to exterminate Palestinian Arabs, because that is simply not the case. The US or Israeli embassies, or any New Zealand government facility would have been a more appropriate target.
My apologies. The report I heard through mainstream media was that the Beth Shalom synagogue was targeted. We now have confirmation that it was actually the adjoining Auckland Consulate of the State of Israel. The regime’s disinformation machine is running at full throttle, and I was one of those taken in by the claim that a synagogue was targeted.
This is what state owned broadcaster RNZ had to say
“An Auckland Jewish community centre’s fence has been vandalised overnight, with an attempt to set it on fire.
Pro Palestinian graffiti was sprayed on the fence of the Beth Shalom centre in Epsom on Tuesday night.
A neighbour said she saw two small fires, one on either side of the fence, but they did not take hold.
Google maps wrongly lists the property as being the Israeli Consulate.”
Not surprising if after its disgraceful purge of content and staff RNZ is now just blatantly lying to us.
Cry me a river .
When Israeli cats get barred from cat shows, when Israeli art collections are seized en route, when Israeli property is confiscated and sold, when Israeli orchestra conductors are sacked and Jewish books banned, when Israeli athletes are called upon to condemn Israel or be barred from competing, when the very fact of your nationality is grounds for others to abuse you with impunity amidst cheers from the crowd, then I might think Israel has something to grizzle about
Just whitewash over the words with whitewash paint and if the words keep reappearing just replace the perimeter fence with, say, prison bars 🙂
The surrounds of your rental also need weeding by the looks – mow your lawns if needed! We have in New Zealand an established set of rules for maintaining dwellings and I’m not sure this tired frontage meets the threshold for such standards 🙂
A reminder: inclusiveness, diversity, equality. New Zealand has community standards based on best practice regulation and mutual respect, but we also have stringent moral and ethical standards: we reject all forms of violence (especially the economy of violence), disinformation (including lies, propaganda, coercion, manipulation and unbridled censorship), racial and ethnic superiority, religious fanaticism, bulldozer colonialism, contractual agreements with extremists, subjugation of poor brown people and weaponized victimhood 🙂
When the results of zionist Israels ‘work’ are shown support for Israel goes down ,,,,, for who could possibly support such things ??
Youtube has of course censored it making the content not possible to view …
Do Not Turn Away. #Gaza – https://www.bitchute.com/video/7VAvYoERpQM/