Voilà, c'est comme cela que démarre sa bio sur le site de son émission en ligne, The Katie Halper Show.
Elle va donner encore quelques détails sur sa personne dans la vidéo ci-dessous, témoignage-analyse qu'elle vient d'enregistrer pour l'excellente plateforme britannique indépendante Double Down News. Mais surtout, elle, qui est juive, va prouver que tout ce qu'on vous a dit sur Israël est un mensonge.
Veuillez trouver sous la vidéo insérée, dont la durée est d'environ 9' 30'', une transcription de ses propos en anglais comme aide à la compréhension.
Les liens et les gloses entre crochets sont de mon cru.
TRANSCRIPTION [et remarques] :
There's literally nothing that Israel won't do in the name of vengeance and in the name of continuing Zionism. For some people, the takeaway is, as long as they're not literally putting people in ovens, as long as they're not doing exactly what the Nazis did, that somehow that's okay. It's actually not okay: Never again! doesn't mean Never again! in the exact same way that the Nazis did it. If that's your takeaway from the Holocaust, you really need to look at yourself and do some soul searching.
I'm Jewish, I lost members of my family during the Holocaust, and the truth is Israel does not represent me. Israel does not make me safer. In fact, it puts me, and all Jews, in greater danger because as Israel commits these crimes against humanity, and live-streams them and, in some cases, gleefully live-streams them —we've seen soldiers doing this—, Israel doing that and saying it's in the name of Jews, that will create anti-Semitism.
The idea that Israel represents all Jews is in itself an antisemitic idea. The dual loyalty trope says that all Jews are monolith and we're all loyal to Israel, and we can't be trusted to be loyal to other governments, regardless of where we live. That is really what Israel is leaning into, and you have antisemites and then, the government of Israel, AIPAC and the ADL, all making the same argument, which I think really shows you the dangers and the inherent anti-Semitism of Zionism.
People like to claim that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic; well, it's actually not, given that you literally have more Christian Zionist in the world than you have Jewish Zionists. This particular Christian form of Zionism wants Jews to go back to Israel so we can provoke the end times, Armageddon.
All Jews, except a very lucky 400, who accept Christ as their lord and savior, burn for all of eternity. So, these are the allies.
All these cancel culture warriors, who talk about right-wingers being cancelled are very silent, interestingly enough, when it comes to critics of Israel, who are probably the most canceled people of all. If you're a Palestinian critic of Israel, you're very very very canceled. If you're Jewish critic of Israel, you're less canceled, but you're still canceled: you're just canceled as a self-loathing Jew, as opposed to an antisemite, which is a significant difference. I mean, I was fired by a network for saying [in The Hill TV’s “Rising” ] that Israel is an apartheid state. So, my being Jewish didn't really protect me and, of course, there's a huge bias in the way that corporate media reports on Israel-Palestine. They're very clear when Russia does something: ‘Russia bombs, Russia strikes, Russia kills’. When it's Israel, it's often ‘Palestinians killed in attack, Palestinians dead after bombing’… We even know that networks and outlets instruct their writers and reporters not to use certain words, like ‘genocide’, not even to use the word ‘Palestine’.
In fact, the reporting by the New York Times on the alleged mass rape used by Hamas was so bad that they had to cancel a podcast that they were going to do about it, because there was so little to back it up.
[Katie Halper évoque l'indigne canular du New York Times intitulé 'Screams Without Words': How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7. Cf. à cet égard :
— Max Blumenthal et Aaron Maté, Screams without proof: questions for NYT about shoddy ‘Hamas mass rape’ report, 10.01.2024.
— James North, Extraordinary charges of bias emerge against NYTimes reporter Anat Schwartz. New doubts are emerging about the New York Times’s coverage of sexual violence in the October 7 attack. The paper must explain why it broke its own rules by hiring a clearly biased writer who endorsed racist and violent rhetoric toward Palestinians, Mondoweiss, 25.02.2024.
— Ali Abunimah Media Watch, NY Times found no 7 October rape victims, reporter admits, The Electronic Intifada, 1.03.2024. Nora Borrows-Friedman et Ali Abunimah sur Youtube : Scandal Grows Around Fraudulent New York Times "Mass Rapes" Investigation.
— Lee Mordechai (historien israélien), Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War, 5.12.2024 (version 6.5.5, dernière actualisation à ce jour-ci).
Bien entendu, il y eut beaucoup d'autres média occidentaux qui rabâchèrent à l'infini, sans preuves, la même rengaine des bébés décapités, des viols en masse, etc, en fait, la totalité des média mainstream d'Occident. Au point qu'il y a encore aujourd'hui beaucoup de gens de bonne foi qui y croient.]
Now, on the other hand you have countless stories and allegations of Israelis raping Palestinians: that got totally ignored. [Une longue histoire...]
It's really fascinating that we hear time and time again about the 40 beheaded Israeli babies, even though there was no evidence of that, and we do have evidence of actually beheaded babies [y compris historiquement], children with their heads blown off… I mean, we saw a child literally shredded. Various representatives of the Israeli government are never asked about that, they're never asked to condemn Israel's violence, they're never asked to condemn Israel's terrorism. There was a doctor who was tortured to death. [Cf. Aseel Mousa, Israeli officers tortured this doctor to death, then hid the news for months. Family and friends of Iyad al-Rantisi were shocked to hear he died in Israeli captivity. Now they seek an explanation, Middle East Eye, 27.06.2024]
If you don't already feel disturbed by the images of Palestinians, or the stories of Palestinians, the story of Hind Rajab, who was left in a car to die, when she was begging for help, and Israeli soldiers shot up the car and shot up the ambulance trying to rescue this girl, if that doesn't haunt you, I would really urge you to imagine this happening to a Jewish child during the Holocaust. I think that Jews should understand this, if anything more than other people, because of our history of being targeted, of being otherized, of being compared to vermin, of attempted extermination, of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and of the world looking the other way. That is something that we have to remember, that happened to us, we can't let that happen to other people, that's not Justice, that's not how we honor those killed in the Holocaust.
Everything that Israel tells you about its founding, about its history and about its role today is a lie. Some people think oh Israel was founded for Holocaust survivors and then, it got greedy, and took over too much land, and ruined its founding mission, which was to be a safe haven for Jews. The truth is it was founded on ethnic cleansing; it was not a Utopia. I think it's really eye opening to look at the actual language of early Zionists, because they were calling their banks Colonial Trust, they were talking about how “natives” always resist “colonists”; in other words, it's not just critics of Zionism who describe Zionism as colonial, it was the Zionists themselves.
Israeli Society really had a lot of disdain for Holocaust survivors. So, they did something very disgusting: they both weaponized the Holocaust, to justify their extermination of Palestinians, and they mistreated Holocaust survivors. In fact, they even refer to them as ‘sapon’, which means 'soap' in Hebrew, and that was because there was a myth that Nazis turned Jewish bodies into soap; it's not true, but that was a myth, and the important thing is that people thought that was true and they thought it would be appropriate to call survivors by that name.
Israel wanted to create a new Jew that was armed, that was working the land… they were ashamed of the Jews who were killed, they thought that they went to their slaughter like sheep, they were ashamed of Jews who were religious, Jews who were scholars, Jews who were also cosmopolitan. They really did ironically internalize a lot of anti-Semitism. [MEE, Zionist role in 1950s attacks on Iraqi Jews ‘confirmed’ by operative and police report. British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim cites 'incontrovertible evidence' from former Jewish agent showing Zionists bombed sites to encourage migration to Israel.]
There were Zionist bombings in the Middle East that were used to scare people into immigrating out of Iraq [cf. Naeim Giladi], out of Morocco, and into Israel.
That's how little they cared about Jewish people: they bombed synagogues in order to get people to leave the Middle East and go to Israel —where they would be mistreated, which is what happened to Mizrahi Jews. Some were basically put into camps.
They rejected Yiddish which was spoken by Eastern European and diasporic Jews and they also rejected Arabic which was spoken by Mizrahi Jews of the Middle East. Yiddish is an amazing language and it's dying out, and the reason it's dying out is because Israel chose to create modern Hebrew, which no one spoke, and they had a lot of disdain for a lot of Jewish culture.
So, Israel has always been a racist project, in many ways against Palestinians, but even against Jews themselves, and it's been an antisemitic project as well.
Not only is Judaism, obviously, much older than Zionism, but there was Christian Zionism from the very beginning, and that was fueled by anti-Semitism and the desire to get Jews out of Europe.
Lord Balfour, of the Balfour Declaration, was a major antisemite. Zionism actually requires anti-Semitism to justify its existence. So, for Zionists, they don't want to defeat anti-Semitism: they want to use it, to strengthen the state of Israel.
It's also true to remember that this is not a conflict about religion or culture. Jews and Christians and Muslims lived in peace, in harmony, in many areas of the Middle East for centuries. This is about power; this is about land. This goes back to resources, this goes back to the West wanting to have a foothold in the Middle East, this is not about religion.
Jewish anti-Zionism has existed since Zionism. A lot of Jews opposed Zionism because they I would say rightly predicted it would create anti-Semitism.
There is a very rich radical history of Jewish internationalism, during the Spanish Civil War, which many people see as the dry run for World War II, among all the international Brigades, so, all the volunteers who left their countries to fight in a war against fascism, and the most common language spoken was Yiddish, which speaks to this tradition.
If we look at so many struggles, like the civil rights movement in the United States, there were lots of Jews involved in that. Jewish people were overrepresented in that movement.
If you look at South Africa, some of the most active anti-apartheid activists were Jewish.
That's the tradition that I'm proud to be part of, not a tradition which weaponizes trauma, tragedy, and the Holocaust to kill more people.
Israel is unsustainable, there's no coming back from this. Something new needs to be created. Jews can live, side by side, with Muslims and Christians in Palestine, just as they have for centuries. If coexistence is so impossible and if anti-Semitism is so impossible to fight against, how is it that Jews live in Germany today? Germany was where anti-Semitism turned into the Holocaust, and yet somehow, Jews are able to live in Germany in safety. But we're supposed to believe that they can't live in Palestine in safety? Palestine is not the country that created Adolf Hitler. Palestine is not the country that created the Holocaust.
The biggest threat to Jewish safety is not a free Palestine: it's Zionism.
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