On the same day that “the leader of the free world” (a preening, solipsistic moron) welcomes a wanted war criminal (who’s own words have condemned him on numerous occasions over the past several years and whose arrogance, sadism and narcissism know no apparent bounds) to the heart of the political establishment in the world’s most powerful so-called Western democracy (although for generations now the only semblance of democracy appears to have been the right of a limited group of this democracy’s citizens to vote for any one of a number of candidates who have garnered sufficient financial support, from corporate backers, lobbyists or vested interests, who actually determine what they will do and how they will vote, once elected to either of the sham-democratically elected chambers of a recently emasculated legislature) the public service broadcaster of this country … the UK’s BBC (which increasingly would seem to stand for Baldly and Brazenly Corrupt) broadcasts a documentary in primetime on one of its two keystone channels.
This documentary first reminds us that “antisemitism is reaching never-before-seen levels” being very clear that what they mean by that, is hatred of Jews for being Jewish, or separately and quite distinctly, criticising or disagreeing publicly or privately with the acts, the government, legislature, executive, armed forces, security agencies, or the economic interests (in particular those of the military industrial complex) of the State of Israel.
The makers then treat us to an all-out Zionist smearing of the peoples of Eastern Europe, so that those of us in the UK can still think of ourselves as the “winners” of the Second World War, the “good guys”, who bravely defeated the Nazi’s and freed the poor, oppressed and almost entirely annihilated Jewish diaspora in Europe and created the circumstances by which they could “return” to the land “GOD” had “promised” to his “chosen people Israel” (as many hymns remind us). After 20 minutes of being on the winning side and feeling awful when presented with yet more harrowing footage and eye-witness accounts of the Nazis’ and the Lithuanians’ slaughter of 87,000 Jews (in the case of Lithuanian partisans in one location) oh yes, and about 25,000 Poles, Lithuanians and Romanis … thrown in as an aside, an afterthought, by the sanctimoniously emotional Simon Schama, I take my leave (for the night) of this new piece of disinformation. It’s just the latest in all the efforts of the BBC to emotionally and psychologically align viewers with Israel … as opposed to the Jews who find themselves deeply critical of Israel’s current incarnation … if not every incarnation of the “only Democracy in the Middle East” since the abhorrent settler-colonial state was imposed upon an indigenous population, which neither the settlers, nor their Western sponsor / protector states have ever acknowledged, since the dawn of the “Jewish State” in 1948.
The part-Lithuanian Jew who accepted the role of chief justice and executioner-in-chief of all those filthy, complicit Eastern Europeans. He appears to have forgotten the Ukrainians, who for present purposes have brought a note from their mothers to excuse them from inclusion in the national character assassination the BBC has confected. This is in spite of the fact that one of the divisions of the Waffen SS roaming abroad in the East at the time, was composed of Jew-hating Ukrainian fascists, many of whom then settled [with the help of the UK Foreign Office] in England, Canada and Australia after the War).
Poland follows Lithuania in the roll call of filthy Eastern bloc perpetrators of genocide, condemned for their complicity in the extermination of Jews trapped, in the Warsaw ghetto. Following further explicit footage of the poor Jews, measured to elicit the appropriate levels of disgust, Schama’s script quickly glosses over the fact that news of what was happening in the East “even reached the UK and its Western ally, the USA who one imagines could possibly understand how such atrocities could happen in Eastern Europe, but NEVER in a country like Britain which had been so welcoming to Jews”. The blindingly obvious contradictions, presented by the contemporaneous existence of Oswald Moseley’s black shirts, most notably amongst the Royal Family, the Duke of Windsor’s apparent close friendship with Adolph Hitler and the Aliens Act which “alienated” Jews wishing to enter England from Europe … enacted by the government of Arthur Balfour (of the Balfour Declaration infamy) in 1905, apparently slipping the mind of the celebrated historian of Jewish (substantially) and other histories.
I’m guessing the USA’s intelligence community was asleep on the job if it waited for news of what was happening to the East in Europe too, given the fact that the Nazis used American, IBM punch card computing technology as a convenient way to capture the personal details and location of every Jew who had the misfortune to be subjected to the governance and predation of the Third Reich. IBM developed its computing arm in service of the intelligence community. So the US government one can imagine was fully apprised of the Nazis’ plans and the final solution.
Instead he turns his focus on the Dutch … of course we’re all aware now of the recent growth of right-wing political parties in The Netherlands, Geert Wilders being the ghoulish poster-boy of the recent tide of fascist sentiment and political growth there; and so the Dutch are easy-meat for a lazy approach to propagandising.
Ask an AI tool whether Schama is a religious Jew, and your answer is most likely to be the same as I found on Google:
“While Simon Schama has a strong connection to his Jewish heritage and history, he is not explicitly described as being "religious" in the traditional sense, but rather as a "practical Zionist" who believes in a Jewish homeland.”
What the absolute f … … is a “practical Zionist”? One imagines that it might be an episcopal Christian, living in Texas who can turn his hand to most jobs around the house, like fixing the faucet or repairing a broken plank in the deck. He also would believe in the Jewish homeland … for all the wrong reasons … he’d like to the Jewish homeland and all the inhabitants thereof ultimately crushed to dust or burnt … but for practical reasons … because the annihilation of the Palestinians and then the resultant rise and ultimate destruction of the Jewish State in the fight and fires of Armageddon presage the ultimate “return” of his Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, following which he’ll no doubt imagine that he and his like will be welcomed into Heaven.
Back to Schama and you’ll find most Zionist Jews would probably also self describe as “practical” rather than “religious”. Jewishness is a flag of convenience to them. They’re only too cognisant of the fact that in Western (establishment and media) eyes being a Jewish Zionist is to be a member of an ultimately protected community … because they have all swallowed and now dictate by the letter of the interpretation of antisemitism dreamt up by the (Zionist) International Holocaust Remembrance Association as weaponised by pro-Zionist hate groups like the CST and the Anti Defamation League.
“The Road to Auschwitz”, Schama’s latest oeuvre was followed by “What They Found”, a further forty-five minutes of this latest BBC Holocaust-fest, just in case anyone was beginning to forget that it’s the practical Jews, who are the REAL victims out there in the World.
Was the timing of this rehearsal of the same tired arguments a coincidence, given the fact that the jet carrying the war criminal Netanyahu … the ultimate in “practicality” when one considers Jews as a people … had just swung on its convoluted route away from one country Hungary (hang-on! A filthy Eastern bloc state collaborator of the Nazis, if I’m not mistaken) willing to eschew the protections (such as remain) of international law in order to maintain a strong relationship with a committed genocidaire, via international airspace, safe airspace, towards what is possibly one of only two countries in which he can expect a welcome which doesn’t involve the execution of the ICC’s arrest warrant?
The sight of a somber Netanyahu, alongside his hideous wife, laying some sort of floral tribute by the Danube is almost as gut-churning as that of him cozying up to the blond-rinsed destroyer of international trade, his simpleton Veep and the least capable cabinet, even by the standards of the USA, ever; a cabinet which makes Lord Kitchener’s officer’s trunk look like the apogee of diplomacy.
And all the while back ‘ome in good ol’ Tel Aviv (which isn’t actually good, or old) Netanyahu’s fellow cabinet members, members of the worst cabinet in human history, are struggling to maintain the credibility of the barefaced lies which the BBC reports as if they came from a credible source of facts … such as the claim … really, this was repeated on the BBC’s own website … that the IDF buried the corpses of fifteen murdered PRCS and civil defence emergency workers with no provable history of terrorism, in order … to … protect … the … DEAD … remains … from predation by wild animals! Anyone who thinks that that is a plausible explanation for bulldozing 15 corpses, together with the vehicles they rode up in, into the sand of southern Gaza obviously also believes that there are metal-eating monsters living there that are incapable of sniffing out the remains of humans, who might well in some cases, have lost control of his bladder and bowels at the time of their death.
Read Dan Johnson’s incredible work of literally incredible journalism.
This dystopian nightmare will end at some point and I will awake to find it is still 2015, pre-Trump, pre-October 2023 and the old order … in which Israel prosecuted its genocide of the Palestinians with a modicum of decorum and not as if it had something better to do on Sunday, is the prevailing truth.
Until then … as the vile shill Clive Myrie, doyen of the BBC’s pro-Zionist propaganda machine tells us in the latest promotional video “The battle for THE TRUTH has just begun”.