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Joseph Massad: “When [Western] countries supported the establishment of Israel in 1948, their shared values and commitments to settler-colonialism and racism were identical.”

▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-and-west-shared-values-racism-and-settler-colonialism

Lesbiennes du monde Arabe médiéval
Iris Miské, Médiapart, le 21 novembre 2016
▻https://blogs.mediapart.fr/iris-miske/blog/211116/lesbiennes-du-monde-arabe-medieval

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#femmes #arabe #monde_arabe #perse #turquie #lesbienne #homosexualité #sexe #genre #moyen_âge #histoire

Soixante-dix ans de chansons pour la Palestine –
Par Emmanuel Dror
CONTRETEMPS
►http://www.contretemps.eu/chansons-palestine

Si la chanson est reconnue depuis longtemps comme un écho des opinions populaires, voire comme un instrument de ralliement derrière une cause, dans le cas de la Palestine elle joue un rôle supplémentaire. Ce n’est pas un mystère : l’entreprise de colonisation du territoire palestinien s’est très tôt accompagnée d’une colonisation culturelle qui a entravé, menacé de disparition, voire totalement nié la culture palestinienne. Dans un tel contexte, les chansons palestiniennes, ou même celles qui « parlent de Palestine », en plus de participer à la lutte proprement dite, constituent en elles-mêmes des actes de résistance, des « preuves de vie », des preuves de créativité d’une population qui ne se laisse pas détruire. C’est cette histoire que nous allons explorer ici.

 

L’article qui fait autorité sur l’histoire récente de la Palestine à travers la musique est celui de Joseph Massad, publié en anglais en 2003[1]. C’est à partir de cet article que je propose ici une approche similaire, en français, complétée par une mise à jour rendue nécessaire notamment par l’arrivée massive du rap dans les années 2000. Cette approche sera également étendue aux musiciens occidentaux qui, depuis les années 1980, contribuent à la mise en musique d’une histoire palestinienne, y compris depuis 2005, à travers leur participation à la composante culturelle de la campagne internationale de Boycott, Désinvestissement et Sanctions (BDS) lancée contre l’État israélien. Néanmoins, comme Massad, je ne rechercherai pas l’exhaustivité, mais à souligner comment la musique d’une époque réagit à l’actualité, comment elle exprime les sentiments populaires, parfois en contradiction avec les discours officiels, mais aussi comment elle mobilise les populations selon des registres « de leur temps ».

Lecture by Joseph Massad: 100 Years Balfour Declaration Hosted by Verein Dar Al Janub Vienna Austria – 2017.11.04
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzktQKBGxY

Joseph Massad : “After all, Israeli racism only manifests in its flag, its national anthem, and a bunch of laws that are necessary to safeguard Jewish privilege” —> ▻http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General/Story2289.html

Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal interviewed Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad re: Zionism.

They’ve uploaded a transcript and the podcast.

Please listen, read, and share!
▻http://moderaterebelsradio.com/episode-9-transcript-zionism-anti-semitism-joseph-massad

Les nombreuses questions de la Déclaration #Balfour | Agence Media Palestine
▻http://www.agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2017/11/11/les-nombreuses-questions-de-la-declaration-balfour

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Par Joseph Massad

La vision du monde raciste d’Arthur Balfour
David Cronin, Electronic Intifada, le 18 octobre 2017
▻http://www.agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2017/10/19/la-vision-du-monde-raciste-darthur-balfour

#Palestine #Grande-Bretagne #Déclaration_Balfour #Balfour_declaration #Histoire #Sionisme #Racisme #Colonialisme #Moyen_Orient

Columbia University Professors Sign Petition in Support of BDS - Jewish World News - Haaretz - Israeli News Source Haaretz.com
▻http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.706529

Forty Columbia University faculty members have signed a petition urging the New York school to divest from companies that “supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people.”
The petition was released Monday morning to mark the first day of Israel Apartheid Week, the Columbia Spectator reported.
According to the petition, the signatories “stand with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine as well as with Jewish Voice for Peace in calling upon the University to take a moral stance against Israel’s violence in all its forms.”
They include Rashid Khalidi, a history and Middle Eastern studies professor who is a longtime critic of Israel and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement; Joseph Massad, a professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history who sees Zionism as a racist and colonialist movement, and Nadia Abu El-Haj, an anthropology professor who received tenure in 2007 following a heated battle over the merits of her work, particularly a book that accuses Israel of manipulating archaeological findings to legitimize its existence.
The most heavily represented departments among the signers are Middle Eastern South Asian and Africa studies, or MESAAS, English and comparative literature, and anthropology.
Partha Chatterjee, an anthropology and MESAAS professor at the Ivy League school who signed, told the Spectator in an email that he wanted to protest Israel’s security regime, which “virtually amounts to apartheid.”
“I fully support every effort to put pressure on the Israeli government to end its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands,” he said.
Dirk Salomons, a signatory who is a senior lecturer at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, told the Spectator, “I’ve always had a feeling as a Jew that a Jewish state should rise slightly above the lack of morality of its neighbors. It pains me to see how a country which I love and which I have visited many times can be so blind to the needs of its neighbors.”

“Islam in Liberalism” by Joseph Massad
▻http://www.arabvoices.net

▻http://www.arabvoices.net/archives/kpft_160106_190000av.mp3

The Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History at the University of Houston held an event on December 3, 2015 titled “Islam in Liberalism”. The guest speaker was Joseph Massad, Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. He is the author of Islam in Liberalism (Chicago, 2015); Desiring Arabs (Chicago, 2007), which was awarded the Lionel Trilling Book Award; The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinian Question (Routledge, 2006); and Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan (Columbia, 2001).

Le legs destructeur des libéraux arabes par Joseph Massad | Culture et politique arabes
►http://cpa.hypotheses.org/5492

C’est devenu un lieu commun que de présenter les islamistes arabes de tous bords (libéraux, conservateurs, radicaux, néolibéraux, modérés, extrémistes, non-violents, violents, etc.) comme une des plus – si ce n’est la plus – dangereuses des menaces au sein des forces politiques présentes dans le monde arabe depuis la guerre de 1967.

En réalité, comme on va le voir, c’est une nouvelle sorte de libéraux arabes – laïques et islamistes (même si les premiers ont été de loin les plus dangereux – qui ont constitué et qui continuent à constituer la force politique la plus destructrice dans le monde arabe d’après la guerre de 1967.

Le dernier billet de CPA est à nouveau une traduction. J’avais signalé ce texte de Joseph Massad, il m’a paru mériter une traduction en français. Ca décoiffe !

The destructive legacy of Arab liberals | Joseph Massad ▻http://electronicintifada.net/content/destructive-legacy-arab-liberals/14385

Ironies abound. Terrified by the popular Arab schadenfreude expressed in massive demonstrations across the Arab world in solidarity with Iraq, demonstrations that did not sympathize with Kuwait and other oil-producing Gulf countries, the illiberal Saudis launched pan-Arab newspapers and satellite channels that bombarded the Arab world with pro-Saudi and pro-US liberal propaganda to reverse this Arab anti-imperial nationalist tide that also opposed the Arab regimes allied with US imperialism.

Intellectuals from across the Arab world joined the effort, abandoning old leftist, communist, Nasserist and Islamist positions and adopted the much, much more profitable pro-US and pro-Israel liberal line politically, and the neoliberal economic order being globalized. By the dawn of the new century, the Saudis and the Americans issued new orders to their media and agents to spread an unprecedented sectarian campaign against Shiites inside and outside the Arab world.

The campaign would be first articulated in 2004 by the new and neoliberal King Abdullah of Jordan, a self-styled “liberal” monarch who possesses absolute and unchecked power. The king expressed his and others’ fear of the rise of a “Shiite crescent” in the region.

It is in this regional context that Syrian liberals joined the fray. Upon the long-awaited death of President Hafez al-Assad in 2000, they launched what they called a “Damascus Spring” from intellectual salons and from the halls of the US embassy in Damascus, whose cultural attaché was a main sponsor of their “Spring.”

While they would soon be suppressed by the authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad, Syrian liberals would re-emerge in 2011 claiming to speak for “revolutionary” forces that have, with the full participation of the repressive Assad regime, caused the death of hundreds of thousands and destroyed the country.

The US ambassador would also aid in their efforts by making appointments and assigning roles within the Syrian exile opposition. Not unlike their Iraqi counterparts, the Syrian liberals — secularists and Islamists alike — called for imperial intervention in the name of democracy and to end the Syrian dictatorship. They got what they wished for in the form of the draconian Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS — also known as ISIL or just “Islamic State”).

Not to be outdone, Lebanese liberals and former Lebanese leftists, communists and Arab nationalists would also have their own “Spring” following the assassination of the corrupt and corrupting neoliberal billionaire, Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri in 2005. They would help launch a local sectarian anti-Shiite campaign in the country and would call for more imperial intervention to save them from their powerful Syrian, but not their more dangerous Israeli, neighbor. They would also relaunch anti-Palestinian campaigns by cheering the Lebanese army’s destruction of the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in 2007. While their country was under heavy Israeli bombardment in 2006, many of these liberals cheered on the Israelis privately and publicly and prayed for the destruction of Hizballah fighters to restore a “liberal” Lebanese order that they longed for.

Assimilating French Muslims | Joseph Massad
►http://electronicintifada.net/content/assimilating-french-muslims/14205

These are not ad hoc methods of torture that the French devised on the spot, but well-studied and well-practiced cruelties. In the Algeria of the nineteenth century, General Saint-Arnaud would burn Algerian revolutionaries alive in caves and his soldiers would rape Algerian women, as would French soldiers throughout the Algerian revolution of the 1950s and early 1960s.

Estimates of those the French killed include a million Vietnamese and a million Algerians. As for Madagascar, estimates have it that upwards of 100,000 people were killed by the French. These are just a few examples of French colonial barbarities in some colonies and not an exhaustive list by any means. French colonialism, under the grandiose heading of a mission civilisatrice, has clearly failed to civilize, most of all, the French themselves. The mission, it would seem, remains unaccomplished!

[…]

The ongoing French support of Syrian jihadists, including French and NATO facilitation, if not encouragement, of French Muslims to join the battles in Syria, belie the official horror of French Catholics at the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its decapitation practices. Perhaps French Muslim members of ISIS assimilated French Catholic culture far too well, especially as relates to intolerance and decapitation — for the French state’s “laïc” practice of executing criminals through decapitation by the guillotine continued until 1977, with the last person decapitated being coincidentally a French Muslim criminal.

[…]

Perhaps French Catholics (should we just call them Gaulois?) could learn some tolerance from French Muslims.

After all, it is French Muslims who have endured and continue to the best of their abilities to tolerate the decades-long racism and intolerance of French Catholics. Could French Catholics in turn learn to tolerate the tolerance of French Muslims? Shocking as this last idea may be to French Catholic and sectarian racists (who are of course “laïcs”), these same people never thought it shocking when as a colonial minority they sought to force the majority of the colonized to assimilate to their ways — whatever their ways are of course.

L’article de Joseph Massad est passionnant : Egypt’s propagandists and the Gaza massacre
▻http://electronicintifada.net/content/egypts-propagandists-and-gaza-massacre/13662

The uncharismatic Sisi, whose oratorical abilities rival those of Yasser Arafat, announced with much pomp in his 23 July speech marking the anniversary of the 1952 overthrow of the monarchy that Egypt had already sacrificed “100,000 Egyptian martyrs” for the Palestinian cause.

While few people doubt the sacrifices that Egyptian soldiers have made to defend Egypt in the last 67 years, to claim that these sacrifices were made on behalf of Palestine and the Palestinians is the ultimate in hypocrisy.

It is a line of argument that the ruling class of Egyptian thieves has been propagating in order to claim that Egypt’s terrible economy and state of poverty are not the product of this class’ outright pillage of Egypt with the help of their American and Saudi sponsors since the 1970s, but on account of Egypt’s alleged defense of Palestine and the Palestinians and President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s alleged commitment to liberate the Palestinians from Israel’s colonial occupation.

Al Jazeera once again removes Joseph Massad article on Palestine
▻http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/al-jazeera-once-again-removes-joseph-massad-article-palestine

Al Jazeera English has once again removed an article by Columbia University professor Joseph Massad hours after publishing it.

The article, “The Dahlan Factor,” appeared for several hours on the Qatar-based broadcaster’s website this morning at this link, but was later removed without explanation (the full article is republished below).

Les homosexuels persécutés dans leurs pays ne sont pas assurés d’être protégés par l’Europe | Big Browser
▻http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/11/08/terre-dasile-les-homosexuels-persecutes-dans-leurs-pays-ne-s
Trop bonne l’Europe, elle veut bien accorder l’asile à des personnes emprisonnées dans leur pays, ça va pas être facile à mettre en œuvre. !

La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne (CJUE) a tranché : la persécution des homosexuels dans leurs pays d’origine – très souvent sur le continent africain – en raison de leur orientation sexuelle ne leur donnent pas nécessairement le droit au statut de réfugiés dans l’Union, contrairement aux espoirs qu’avaient formulés les associations et les ONG de défense des droits de l’homme.

L’arrêt de la Cour stipule que la persécution doit atteindre « un certain niveau de gravité » et que des lois homophobes ou même les menaces d’emprisonnement, tant qu’elles ne passent pas à l’acte, ne peuvent pas suffire à obtenir le statut de réfugié en Europe. Dans les cas où, par contre, les individus sont emprisonnés et persécutés pour homosexualité et que « les peines sont effectivement appliquées », l’Union européenne accordera l’asile.

#homophobie #homosexualité #justice #asile

Video: Joseph Massad on Zionism’s strategy of “Peace is War”
▻http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-joseph-massad-zionisms-strategy-peace-war

Indeed, long before George Orwell popularized the expression “war is peace” in his 1949 novel [1984], Zionism understood well that its colonial strategy depended on a deliberate and insistent confusion of the binary terms “war” and “peace” so that each of them hides behind the other as one and the same strategy: “peace” will always be the public name of a colonial war, and “war,” once it became necessary and public, would be articulated as the principal means to achieve the sought after “peace.” This is so central to Zionist and Israeli propaganda that Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, which killed 20,000 civilians, was termed operation “Peace for Galilee.”

#paix #guerre

The Struggle for Egypt
by Joseph Massad

sur la trahison de la gauche et des élites intellectuelle en Egypte

CounterPunch :
▻http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/12/the-struggle-for-egypt

Ever since Muhammad Mursi was elected president of Egypt in democratic elections marred by his Mubarakist opponent Ahmad Shafiq’s electoral corruption and bribes, a coalition of Egyptian liberals, Nasserists, leftists — including socialists and communists of varying stripes –and even Salafist and repentant Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members began to form slowly but steadily, establishing an alliance with Mubarak’s ruling bourgeoisie and holdover politicians from his regime to oust him from power, fearing that he and his party were preparing a “Nazi-like” takeover of the country and destroying its fledgling democracy.

Après avoir publié quelques articles témoignant d’un malaise quant à l’article de Joseph Massad (censuré puis réintégré par Al Jazeera), Mondoweiss publie maintenant un témoignage à charge contre le mouvement sioniste durant la seconde guerre mondiale (qui va donc sur le même terrain que Mondoweiss semblait trouver très glissant la semaine dernière) : Hannah Arendt and the Hungarian Jews.
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/hannah-arendt-hungarian.html

In point of fact, members of the Zionist movement actively collaborated with Nazism from the beginning. The World Zionist Organization sabotaged world Jewry’s attempt to boycott the Nazi economy in order to be allowed to send money from Germany to Palestine. They fought against liberalization of U.S. immigration laws, for they wanted European Jews to go to Palestine, notAmerica. As Ralph Schoenman wrote in The Hidden History of Zionism, “This obsession with colonizing Palestine and overwhelming the Arabs led the Zionist movement to oppose any rescue of the Jews facing extermination, because the ability to deflect manpower to Palestine would be impeded.”

David Ben-Gurion summarized to a meeting of “left” Zionists in 1938 in England, “If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.”

My cousin was one of several thousand Hungarian Jews who survived the fire: 800,000 died. A pact was signed by Dr. Rudolph Kastner of the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee and Nazi exterminator Adolph Eichmann in 1944 allowing 600 prominent Jews to leave in exchange for Zionist silence on the fate of the remainder.

[…]

Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s organization proposed on Janurary 11, 1941, a formal military pact between his Irgun — a Zionist military organization — and the Third Reich. In offering to enter the war on the side of Germany, the Irgun proposed that, “The establishment of the historical Jewish State on a national and totalitarianbasis, and bound by a treaty with the German Reich, would be in the interest of a maintained and strengthened future German position of power in the Near East.” (see Lenni Brenner, “Zionism in the Age of the Dictators”, p. 49)

Vif débat sur les questions d’identités sexuelles « occidentales » considéré comme une norme universelle par Joseph Massad professeur à l’université de Columbia New-York ▻http://www.revuedeslivres.fr/l’empire-de-«-la-sexualite-»-ou-peut-on-ne-pas-etre-homosexuel-ou-het

De prime abord, rien de commun entre les politiques réactionnaires et criminelles des organisations qui promeuvent l’abstinence avant le mariage pour lutter contre le sida, et les revendications d’égalité des droits pour les homosexuels au Moyen-Orient. Mais, nous dit Joseph Massad, cette première appréhension masque le fait que les deux camps, aussi opposés soient-ils, ont en commun d’universaliser une certaine conception de la sexualité et de naturaliser le dualisme homo/hétéro. En participant ainsi à l’exportation impérialiste d’un cadre de pensée, ils invisibilisent et détruisent les formes de vie singulières des pays dont l’histoire n’a été celle ni de l’Europe ni des États-Unis.

#Sexualité #identité #Norme #Occident #Islam #Impérialisme #Capitalisme

Al Jazeera management orders Joseph Massad article pulled in act of pro-Israel censorship | The Electronic Intifada
▻http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/al-jazeera-management-orders-joseph-massad-article-pulled-act-pr

Le dernier article de Joseph Massad sur Al-Jazeera english retiré.

Explication:

Although Qatar-based Al Jazeera receives much criticism, and often deserved for reflecting Qatar’s foreign policy, the censorship of Massad’s article for political reasons is unprecedented because the English-language website had, until now, enjoyed complete editorial independence.

It is well understood that Al Jazeera’s red lines have always been criticism of Qatar or its Emir, and yet, Massad has even published several articles on Al Jazeera English that harshly criticized both Qatari foreign policy (See here, here and here) and the Emir himself without ever being censored.

And Massad has written plenty of articles that have enraged Zionists.

This indicates, without doubt, that the decision to remove Massad’s article today was taken at the highest level.

But why would this happen now?

One reasonable interpretation would be that the removal of Massad’s article reflects a tightening of the editorial line as the Qatar-based network launches its new channel, Al Jazeera America, which will rely – for access to cable systems, and “mainstream” credibility – on forging good relations with US elites.

An illustration of what this process might look like was on display when Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director of Al Jazeera’s international operations and the official responsible for setting up Al Jazeera America, recently visited Chicago – which will be home to a major Al Jazeera bureau.

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Sur Israël et la notion de boycott, par Joseph Massad. Attention, c’est assez terrifiant… Israel and the politics of boycott
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/201331884943284526.html

As a racially separatist Jewish economy and colony established on the lands of the Palestinians continued to be the primary goal of Zionism, the principle of boycott of Palestinian labour and products would become more aggressive as time passed. Like its parent Zionist movement before it, which used the tactic of boycott to effect racial separation and discrimination rather than end it, the Zionist labour Federation, the Histadrut, would begin in 1927 to use the time-honoured act of picketing. Picketing is traditionally used by workers and unions to end practices involving the exploitation and unfair treatment of workers. In the case of the Jewish colonists, they used picketing to bring about discrimination against Palestinian workers and to deny them employment in their own country. The Zionist picketing campaign sought to boycott Jewish businesses which continued to employ Palestinian labour as well as the goods the Palestinians produced. This was not only confined to the agricultural Jewish colonies in the Palestinian countryside, but also included urban settings where Jewish businesses employed Palestinians in the area of construction.

De la fluidité des catégories pour penser le monde et de l’impérialisme occidental : la sexualité et les produits laitiers

L’empire de la sexualité, ou Peut-on ne pas être homosexuel (ou hétérosexuel) ? Entretien avec Joseph Massad* | RdL La Revue des Livres
▻http://www.revuedeslivres.fr/l%e2%80%99empire-de-%c2%ab-la-sexualite-%c2%bb-ou-peut-on-ne-pas-etre

Dans l’entretien reproduit ci-dessous, d’abord publié dans les pages de la RdL n° 9 (janv.-fév. 2012), Joseph Massad dénonce le projet impérialiste d’universalisation des normes occidentales de la sexualité – à travers notamment l’imposition au monde non-occidental du dualisme homo/hétéro – et il critique l’action des ONG LGBT qui relaient selon lui ce projet. Ces analyses ont suscité de vives discussions au sein du collectif éditorial de la RdL et au-delà. Comme chaque fois que l’on touche aux ressorts profonds de nos engagements, le risque d’une hystérisation du débat menaçait ! Nous avons donc choisi d’organiser un échange polémique entre, d’une part, Philippe Colomb et Stéphane Lavignotte et, d’autre part, Joseph Massad, échange que nos lecteurs pourront découvrir dans la RdL n° 10 qui vient de paraître. Nous espérons que le problème soulevé aura trouvé à travers cet échange une formulation plus exigeante et plus rigoureuse, loin des simplifications et des interprétations abusives.

En contrepoint, voir le brillant pastiche sur Karlremarks :
The Empire of Cheese : An Interview with Joseph Massad

Following his colossal interview ‘The Empire of Sexuality’, we arranged to interview the most prominent Arab intellectual in the post-Fatimid era, Joseph Massad, about another problematic concept at the intersection of late capitalism and Euro-American hegemony, cheese. We were intrigued by Massad’s comments about western culture’s tendency to label the various stages of milk into clear-cut ‘categories’, such as butter, cheese and ice cream, so we dispatched Alex Osman Fassbinder and Mga Mga Mawali Mxmachk (the x is silent) to talk to him. The interview below promises to radically transform how we understand and conceptualise dairy products.

▻http://www.karlremarks.com/2013/03/the-empire-of-cheese-interview-with.html

Sionisme, antisémitisme et colonialisme
Joseph Massad / 24 décembre 2012 - Al Jazeera - traduction : Info-Palestine/JPP
▻http://www.info-palestine.eu/spip.php?article13121

L’antisémitisme d’État s’avéra très utile pour le sionisme. En effet, les dirigeants sionistes reconnurent consciemment que l’antisémitisme d’État était essentiel à leur projet colonial. Herzl ne mâche pas ses mots à ce sujet. Il déclare dans son livre fondateur, « les gouvernements de tous les pays ravagés par l’antisémitisme seront vivement intéressés pour nous aider à obtenir (la) souveraineté que nous voulons » ; et en effet, ce ne sont pas « seulement les pauvres Juifs » qui vont contribuer au financement d’une immigration des Juifs d’Europe, « mais aussi les Chrétiens qui veulent s’en débarrasser » .

Herzl conclut dans ses Diaries (son journal), « les antisémites seront nos amis les plus dévoués et les pays antisémites nos alliés » . Il ne s’agit pas de fautes d’étourderie ou d’erreurs, mais bien d’une stratégie à long terme que le sionisme et Israël continuent de déployer encore de nos jours.

Qu’Arthur Balfour, qui était un antisémite protestant notoire, ait parrainé en 1905 un projet de loi (Aliens Act – Loi sur les étrangers) pour empêcher les Juifs d’Europe de l’Est fuyant les pogroms d’immigrer en Angleterre n’est pas étranger au fait que les sionistes se précipitèrent pour le courtiser, et encore moins à son propre soutien du projet sioniste avec la « Déclaration Balfour », qui allait rediriger les Juifs hors d’Angleterre.

Quand les Nazis prirent le pouvoir en Allemagne, les sionistes, partageant la compréhension de Herzl que l’antisémitisme est l’allié du sionisme, furent le seul groupe juif à collaborer avec eux. En fait, à l’inverse de tous les autres Juifs allemands (et de toute personne à l’intérieur comme à l’extérieur de l’Allemagne) qui reconnaissaient le nazisme comme le pire ennemi des Juifs, le sionisme le vit comme une opportunité pour renforcer sa colonisation de la Palestine.

cité dans la version anglaise par @george
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/105454

Palestine : Le vote de reconnaissance de la Palestine à l’ONU légitime un statu quo raciste - Joseph Massad
►http://www.ism-france.org/analyses/Le-vote-de-reconnaissance-de-la-Palestine-a-l-ONU-legitime-un-statu-quo-

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Bethléem, 29.11.2012 - Des centaines de Palestiniens écoutent le discours de M. Abbas aux Nations Unies, dont les images sont projetées sur le mur construit par l’entité sioniste en plein milieu de la ville (Photo Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)