London bus stops defaced with anti-Israel posters: “Israel is a racist endeavour”

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This is not surprising to those of us who have been for years documenting the new antisemitism on the left. But what was once in the closet is now proudly displayed and waved about like a flag — much like in 1930s Germany. Jewish leaders and organizations have ignored this. Worse, they attacked those of who refused to be silent. What better example of this craven cowardice than Jewish communal groups backing my ban to the UK. In 2013, the Jewish Board of Deputies vice-president Jonathan Arkush said my presence would be “deeply unhelpful to community relations.” A shameful example of the dhimmi Jew in an Islamic state.

“‘Israel Is a Racist Endeavour’ Signs Seen on London Bus Stops”

Several signs stating that “Israel is a racist endeavour” were spotted throughout various London bus stops on Wednesday.

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Here are some pictures of the signs, which appeared in Bloomsbury, Elephant and Castle, Waterloo Bridge and Westminster:

I had to do a double take when I saw *this* on Westminster Bridge

— Aine Lagan (@ainemichellel) 10:16 AM – Sep 5, 2018

Oh dear god there’s more of them https://twitter.com/londonpalestine/status/1037348127509032965?s=21 …

— Aine Lagan (@ainemichellel) 11:03 AM – Sep 5, 2018

Who’s fundingthis ad campaign?? @JCDecaux_UK @antisemitism @BritainIsrael @JewishChron @JewishNewsUK

— Katie Rose (@the_loop_line) 8:34 AM – Sep 5, 2018 · South Bank

American Jewish Committee (AJC) Assistant Executive Director Avi Mayer weighed in:

There are now antisemitic posters appearing across London. This is absolutely horrifying. https://twitter.com/ainemichellel/status/1037358835978194944 …

— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) 2:40 PM – Sep 5, 2018

Criticizing Israeli policies or actions is legitimate. Characterizing the Jewish state—and no other—as a “racist endeavor” is antisemitic. That this is happening in the heart of London is shocking. https://twitter.com/ainemichellel/status/1037358835978194944 …

— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) 2:45 PM – Sep 5, 2018

According to Jewish News, London Palestine Action took responsibility for the signs.

“Israel, as a Jewish majority state, could not have been established without the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians,” London Palestine Action wrote on their Facebook page. “Those Palestinians and their descendants, that were forced to leave in 1947/48, have not been allowed to return to their homes and land because they are not Jewish.  Over 60 Israeli laws already exist that restrict the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Israel has recently enacted the ‘Nation-State law’ declaring that only Jews have the right to self-determination in the country, and has stripped Arabic as an official language, entrenching the Apartheid that exists on the land.”

“Israel is a racist endeavor.”

Created by ethnic cleansing; maintained by ethnic exclusion. Israel is a #racistendeavour

— LDNPalestineAction (@LondonPalestine) 9:34 AM – Sep 5, 2018

Rights denied based entirely on ethnicity. Israel is a #racistendeavour pic.twitter.com/iYqcsu6PyI

— LDNPalestineAction (@LondonPalestine) 9:53 AM – Sep 5, 2018

1.8 million Palestinians, mainly refugees, locked in Gaza for being the wrong ethnicity. Israel is a #racistendeavour pic.twitter.com/bTmzN0Dwhy

— LDNPalestineAction (@LondonPalestine) 10:44 AM – Sep 5, 2018

70 years of UK govt-approved dispossession, destruction and displacement. Israel is a #racistendeavour pic.twitter.com/M9BrlHy9wT

— LDNPalestineAction (@LondonPalestine) 11:06 AM – Sep 5, 2018

We won’t stop speaking the truth: that Israel is, and has always been, a #racistendeavour pic.twitter.com/uLadKvelQR

— LDNPalestineAction (@LondonPalestine) 3:27 PM – Sep 5, 2018

Transport for London (TfL) said in a statement that the signs were not authorized for that advertising space and they were working to take them down.

“These adverts are absolutely not authorized by TfL or our advertising partner JCDecaux,” a TfL spokesperson said. “It is flyposting and therefore an act of vandalism which we take extremely seriously. We have instructed our contractors to remove any of these posters found on our network immediately.”

As the Jewish News noted, the signs came the day after Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn attempted to add a statement to the Labour Party’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism describing “Israel, its policies or the circumstances around its foundation as racist.” Corbyn’s attempt was rejected.

The Jewish Chronicle’s Daniel Sugarman noted that calling Israel “a racist endeavor” references an IHRA example as to criticism of Israel that amounts to anti-Semitism.

“I see it as clear evidence that Labour’s inability/unwillingness to deal with anti-Semitism gives credibility to these views,” Saul Schneider, who saw one of the signs in Bloomsbury, told Sugarman. “So worrying that people just walk by and take it in.”

“London bus stops defaced with anti-Israel posters mocking IHRA antisemitism definition,” by Daniel Sugarman, The JC, September 5, 2018 (thanks to Mark):

Bus stops across London have been defaced with anti-Israel posters mocking the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, after Labour finally announced it would adopt it, albeit with a significant caveat.

At least four different sites – Elephant and Castle, Waterloo Bridge, Bloomsbury and Westminster, across the road from Parliament itself, have seen advertising hoardings on bus stops fly posted with posters saying “Israel is a racist endeavour”.

This refers to one of the examples of contemporary antisemitism given in the IHRA definition, which says calling “a state of Israel… a racist endeavour” could amount to Jew-hate.

JC Decaux, the advertising firm which owns a number of the defaced hoardings, confirmed that this was “vandalism – not advertising”, and that it had reported the bus stops in question and they would be “reposted soon.”

Labour initially omitted the “racist endeavour” example from the watered-down definition of antisemitism it adopted in July but adopted the full IHRA definition, including all examples, on Tuesday after a standoff with the Jewish community over the summer over its refusal.

But it was criticised by Jewish groups for including a “free speech” clause that said adopting the definition would not minimise debate on Israel.

Labour’s National Executive Committee said the clause would ensure the IHRA definition would not “in any way undermine freedom of expression on Israel or the rights of the Palestinians.” However, Labour Friends of Israel said it “totally undermines the other examples the party has supposedly just adopted”.

Meanwhile, anti-Israel campaigners attacked the party’s adoption of the entire definition, claiming that it would stifle free speech.

Saul Schneider spotted one of the posters on a bus stop in Southampton Row, Bloomsbury.

He told the JC he was “totally shocked to see this slogan on a billboard in central London.

“I see it as clear evidence that Labour’s inability/unwillingness to deal with antisemitism gives credibility to these views. So worrying that people just walk by and take it in. “

He reported it to the company that owns the site but said he had heard nothing back, and is hoping the police will take action….

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Rider
Rider
5 years ago

Hmm I haven’t read of any Israeli’s going around randomly stabbing people or driving trucks into crowds or gang raping girls like the savages do

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  Rider

Agree. In UK sharia Police go after those who protest muslim gang rapists and other crimes http://bit.ly/2r6F3cp

Free speech only for Left/liberal jihadis

spacearcadian
spacearcadian
5 years ago
Reply to  Rider

muslims are just excercising their freedom of speech. on the contrary the law opposes islamophobes like tony robinson

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
5 years ago
Reply to  Rider

Muslims slaughter Brits (and infidels everywhere) and Brits bash the
Jews? Terrorism works. Keep it up, Britain! You will one day suffer at
the hands of the Muslim filth with whom you so passionately support, and
very deservedly so!

Es werde Licht
Es werde Licht
5 years ago

The lefties feel no shame being antisemitic for Musel-votes.
I´m sure the Musel-population in GB is 10-times higher then the jewish population. That´s all lefties have to know.
Honesty, shame, self respect ? come on, just old fashion burdon for the lefties. Power, that´s what counts ( and with power money and influence ).
Doesn´t mather how destructive this Musels are, as minority they are victims ( like the lefties ).
Common goal – get individualism under state control.

Nefarious420
Nefarious420
5 years ago
Reply to  Es werde Licht

British/European jews are not about to go car ramming, bombing, or stabbing people if you say even lies about them. Muslims on the other hand will kill you if you recite a passage of the Koran at them that is true. So of course the leftists go after jews, it allows them to get muslim votes by showing they have a common enemy.

Es werde Licht
Es werde Licht
5 years ago

No, burning mosques will be the next. I trust english people.
Well not at this second. But as Europaen I can tell you it´s changed from “hey what´s going on ” to ” Fu*k this bastards”.
We are just waiting. Is the goverment willing to protect us ? If not we will take the case in our own hands.
The situation in Europe is horrible, specially in Germany, UK, Belgium, Sweden and France.
But believe me, not one of this countrys will be islamic – NOT ONE.

Nefarious420
Nefarious420
5 years ago
Reply to  Es werde Licht

I hope you are right, my Brother In Law came back from a trip to Europe on his way to America, he stopped by England, France, and Italy with his sons to show him where he backpacked with my sister on their honeymoon and do some sight seeing.

He described police states, lots of armed military by all the tourist and government buildings, said if I want to see Europe again, the time is now before the Europeans are out of money to defend themselves.

Wake up Europeans, it is not the Jews that are your enemies, but those your government chose to replace the Jews with Muslims who have openly said they are having a refugee jihad, and the West will fund this Jihad.

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
5 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

To Europeans, Jews are the enemy and have been for thousands of years.
In fact, European Jew hatred and the pathological obsession with Israel
forms a nearly unbreakable bond that unifies Europeans and Muslims, and
this is never going to change. Europe has shown that it is willing to
tolerate anything bad, detrimental and destructive for Europe as long as
it is also bad for Jews / Israel.

Nefarious420
Nefarious420
5 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

More like it is so too bad for Europe, Jews may leave Europistan for Israel, but it is the europeans who are going to be subjugated to Islam, Convert, Submit, or DIE.

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
5 years ago
Reply to  Es werde Licht

Although I’m not European, I have spent a lot of time there for work,
and I don’t see wide-scale burning of mosques anytime soon. From my
interactions while in Europe going as far back as the mid 1980s, the Jew
hatred and the pathological obsession with Israel forms a nearly
unbreakable bond that unifies Europeans and Muslims. Yes, as of late,
there has been some “noise” that has manifested itself in the form of
push back against immigration, but ultimately, European Jew hatred and
the alliances based on it will prove to be the more influential force.
Europe has shown that it is willing to tolerate anything bad and
detrimental for Europe as long as it is also bad for Jews / Israel.
Islam is a curse and punishment! Gen 12:3

Maranatha
Maranatha
5 years ago

Racist?
I don’t know of any moslem country who seats Christians or jews or anybody else in their Parliament as Israel does.
By the way, Miss Israel 2013 is from Ethiopia.
.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

No nation is perfect, but Israel is better than most Arab and Muslim countries by far.

Underzog
Underzog
5 years ago

Robert Spencer poisoned; this guy stabbed; Pam Geller and Co., nearly mass murdered? Welcome to the new normal for the Right.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

Recent development. They caught the perpetrator. Soddy Con, wearing a bikini, was seen running around posting these placards. He has called upon the London police to paint their nails and help him out.

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
5 years ago

It’s not just Corbyn and the Left. Although more recently it has been
more pronounced on the Left, European Jew hatred and the obsession with
Israel is a core ideology found throughout the European political
spectrum.

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