BBC betrays
Gaza charity
- Muslims should denounce Holocaust Day supremacy
Palestinian firefighters and UN staff rescue
food aid
after an Israeli bombing raid
Lady Renouf's open letter
23rd Jan 2009
Will Muslims denounce The International
Holocaust Day Jews-Only Commemoration as grotesquely biased in
the wake of genocide in Gaza under a century-long Jewish State
founding policy instituted in 1897 "to disappear" Palestine?
This week's decision by the BBC
to sabotage a nationwide charity appeal for the homeless, injured
and orphaned victims of Israeli aggression in Gaza demeans a broadcasting
organisation once respected worldwide.
In the name of “impartiality”,
the BBC has conclusively demonstrated its partiality - the same
partiality in favour of Israel which has infected ruling circles
throughout the Western world since the inception of the Zionist
project more than a century ago.
The Disasters
Emergency Committee had launched a nationwide appeal for Gaza.
This committee is an umbrella organisation comprising thirteen
aid charities: Action Aid, the British Red Cross, CAFOD, Care
International, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide, Help the Aged,
Islamic Relief, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund and
World Vision.
Since 1963 there has been an agreement
with UK broadcasters that when this Disasters Emergency Committee
launches an appeal, the broadcasters agree to give them a free
two minute slot in prime time.
The Committee's previous appeals
have included such disasters as the 1968 Iran earthquake, the
1973 Ethiopian drought and the 2004 Tsunami. Twice before - after
the 1967 war and the 1982 invasion of Lebanon - Israeli aggression
has led to the Disasters Emergency Committee having to launch
coordinated appeals to aid refugees, but the Committee remains
a respected, non-political organisation.
For the first time in the Committee's
history, its agreement with broadcasters broke down this week
when the BBC refused to broadcast an appeal for the thousands
of victims in Gaza, including many children, who are homeless
and without food, water or power.
Tony Benn gets out the message despite BBC
reluctance
By this refusal, the BBC has effectively
pulled the plug on the entire agreement, which depends on a unanimous
agreement among all major broadcasters. Though the charity appeal
will go ahead, the lack of broadcasts on major television and
radio stations is bound to reduce the funds raised by millions
of pounds.
A BBC statement said that the decision
was taken:
"to avoid any risk of compromising public confidence in the
BBC’s impartiality in the context of an ongoing news story."
Yet the Gaza appeal is focused
entirely on the urgent humanitarian needs of Gaza's people, regardless
of their political affiliation.
By contrast in 2001 the BBC coverage
of the first Holocaust Memorial Day was carried out in close
collaboration with the British government. The producer of
the BBC's coverage of the event admitted at the time:
"The BBC have been invited to produce the official event
on behalf of the Home Office, who have retained overall editorial
control."
The BBC had no problem with this
highly partial political decision, and has continued to have no
problem with the extreme partiality of Holocaust Memorial coverage,
even though many commentators (including Jewish academics such
as Norman Finkelstein) have repeatedly warned that the history
of European Jewry in the 1940s is abused and distorted to the
detriment of today's Palestinians, regularly culled by Israeli
forces under its founding state policy established by Theodor
Herzl who convened the First World Zionist Congress in 1897.
In Herzl's Diaries of 1895-6 he
advocates the strategy of genocide, "to disappear" the
indigenous population of Palestine, as we witness. Today we see
less of Herzl's recommended "discretion and circumspection".
For, as British philosopher Bertrand Russell stated on his death-bed
in 1970: "Every Israeli expansion is an exercise to discover
how much more Israeli aggression the world will tolerate".
Throughout the last month's genocidal
Israeli operations in Gaza, Zionism's apologists in the worldwide
media have incessantly deployed ”The Holocaust" as
their weapon of mass distraction. In so doing they are following
a long tradition. In 1948 Israel's founders manipulated the consciences
of the world's leaders by insisting that the Jewish people had
no safe homeland of their own since 70AD, and that “The
Holocaust" demonstrated the urgent need for such a homeland.
There was no mention that the founding state policy for a Jewish
State was a genocidal concept decided upon half a century before
Nazism.
Their sophistry ignored the fuller
context of Herzl’s Jewish State fifty years before the "Holocaust".
Sly euphemisms to his diary in 1895-6 amounted to a genocidal
blueprint for the creation of the World Zionist Jewish State:
"We must expropriate gently the private
property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to disappear
the penniless population ... Both the process of expropriation
and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and
circumspectly. Let the owners of the immovable property believe
that they are cheating us... ."
Max Nordau, Herzl's fellow foundering father of
the Zionist Jewish State defined the need for euphemism in "homeland"
not "State", thus: "We must deceive by its mildness
until such time as we have no need to dissimulate our real aims."
The propagandists of 1948 and their successors
also ignored the existence of the first Jewish homeland in Birobidjan,
created peacefully in 1928 and given official status in 1934.
(for further details see the "All Round Common Sense Option"
at www.birobidjan.co.uk)
International outrage at the terror campaign of
genocide chronically underway in Gaza needs to target Israel's
deceptive twistspeak - its cynical reversal of cause and effect
- in the historical facts denied or obscured to this day: the
Zionist state has neither the moral right nor the actual need
to exist in Palestine. The catch-cry "Next Year In Jerusalem"
has not called anything like sufficient Jews who wish to inflate
the low Jewish demographic ratio in World Zionism's criminally
founded HQ and rogues' bolt-hole created to avoid international
condemnation.
Such double standards will be evident again next
week, when the BBC to its shame will mark Holocaust Memorial Day
with numerous broadcasts but will refuse to broadcast an urgent
charity appeal to aid the homeless, maimed, century-long terrorised,
and dying in Gaza.
Concerned opponents of Israel's aggression thus
have two imperatives:
1) We must support the efforts of American law professor Francis
Anthony Boyle and Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire to begin the
process of prosecuting Israel for war crimes, through the creation
of a United Nations subsidiary organ to compile the necessary
evidence prior to issuing indictments;
2) We must urge organisations such as the Muslim Council of Britain,
which have misguidedly collaborated with the propagandistic Holocaust
Memorial Day, to withdraw such cooperation forthwith.
The disgrace of the BBC's sabotage of the Gaza
appeal is compounded by their uncritical sycophancy towards the
Zionist propaganda that permeates "Holocaust studies"
and "Holocaust Memorial Day". Those who respect the
victims of Gaza should have no part in this prejudicial propaganda
festival of race supremacism.
Michèle, Lady Renouf
Independent documentary film-maker
http://www.birobidjan.co.uk
