Londonistan: Britain's Terror State from Within by Melanie Phillips

Author:Melanie Phillips [Phillips, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Politics
Publisher: Gibson Square
Published: 2012-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

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THE RED-BLACK ALLIANCE

When the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced in October 2005 that he intended to ‘wipe Israel off the map,’ Britain, along with the rest of the civilised world, expressed revulsion. Yet, two days later, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of London to demand that Israel meet precisely such a fate.

While shocked demonstrators in Italy, Hungary, Austria and France waved around placards asking ‘Israel today, Europe tomorrow?’, London resounded instead to shouts for Israel’s destruction. Thousands of demonstrators marched through the city to mark ‘Al-Quds day’— when Muslims express solidarity with the Palestinian Arabs—on what was effectively a British march for genocide. The crowd chanted: ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ ‘Zionism, terrorism’ and ‘We are all Hezbollah’; and no one turned a hair. All those who had expressed outrage two days previously at the outburst from Iran suddenly fell silent when confronted not merely by calls for Israel’s annihilation but the spectacle of supporters of Iran’s terrorist army on the streets of London calling for the destruction of a lawfully constituted, democratic country. ‘[The response] was great,’ said the event organiser Massoud Shadjareh, director of the Islamic Human Rights Commission. ‘It helped us gauge the reaction from the public, which was quite positive.’1

One might have imagined that, in the wake of not just 9/11 but the London bombings of 2005, Britain would have recoiled in horror at any such threat by Islamists and wished to express solidarity with the fellow democracy that was being thus threatened. One might have thought that, with Nazi-style demonisation of the Jews pouring out of the Muslim world, the political left in particular would be springing to defend this beleaguered and tiny minority against the threat from clerical fascism. Doesn’t the left, after all, make the most vigorous cause possible against racism and prejudice in all its forms?

On the contrary. Far from being seen as the mortal enemy of the causes that progressive opinion holds so dear, such as sexual freedom or equal rights for women and homosexuals, the Islamic jihad has turned into the armed wing of the British left. As soon as the issue of Israel enters the picture, the British reaction to terror becomes ‘quite positive.’ Far from springing to Israel’s defence as a fellow target, the British become passive, mute and even sympathetic to the murderous sentiments being screamed by the marching jihadists.

For Israel is not viewed in Britain as the only democracy in the Middle East and one which has been under annihilatory attack by brutal tyrannies since its inception. It has instead become a pariah, viewed by ‘progressives’ in the same way that they formerly viewed South Africa under apartheid. Many in Britain think it was a mistake that the Jewish state was ever created and would rather like it to vanish—not that they would condone any large-scale loss of life, you understand, but if it could be done without any nasty violence they would welcome its disappearance.

The argument that it has done nothing to deserve such a fate except fight for its existence is scorned.

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