 To
all my Arab sisters and brothers.
On August 24th, the National Alliance (NA)--one of the
largest and most dangerous neo-Nazi groups in America--is
planning a "Rock against Israel" demonstration
in Washington DC. This is a white supremacist group that
is claiming to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian
people against the Jews and the American government.
They plan to rally at the Capitol Building from 11am to
1pm and then meet for dinner and a 'white power' concert
in the evening. The NA is calling for what they claim
will be "the largest gathering of white nationalists
at the US capitol in history". On August 24th they
will probably have the largest gathering of white
supremacists since the mass Ku Klux Klan marches of the
20s.
Over the past year the NA has held 3
rallies at the Israeli embassy and two at the German
embassy.
Their last rally at the Israeli embassy, where 200
neo-Nazi skinheads were doing the Hitler salute in
formation while holding the Palestinian flag, had little
organized opposition. We have to stop this racist scum
from polluting the Palestinian cause.
This is a call to all Arabs and especially Palestinians
to come out on August 24th to stop the Nazis from
hijacking our cause in order to use it to justify ethnic
cleansing. We have a special responsibility to say that
we have nothing in common with these Nazis. There can be
nothing more effective, to stop this devious strategic
manoeuvre, than letting them hear it from the horse's
mouth: "We are Arabs, We are Palestinians and our
struggle for liberation is diametrically opposed to your
program of ethniccleansing.
We stand against Zionism but we stand against
anti-Semitism and Fascism.We make the distinction between
the political movement to ethnically cleanse the
Palestinians and the religion of Judaism. We know that if
your rhetoric ever gains legitimacy we'll be the first on
the chopping block.
This contingent will be gathered behind a banner and
around chants that express this message and will pass out
fliers to the public and the press.
If we don't do this, our Nazi enemies will claim our
noble cause and our Zionist enemies will try to present
them as our face
Writing this message up on
Aug.24th for the Sept Handstand, I am wondering what will
be the outcome of this Protest.
Meantime follows a short internet discussion by Israel
Shamir, a journalist, and two friends Miguel and Susanne,
both of whom are in Europe, Italy and Germany
respectively.
...Israel Shamir:. The event is organised by some right-wing
Americans, loosely connected to a small group called
National Alliance (NA). Whatever one thinks about NA, one
would expect a satisfied shrug, at least, if not outright
support coming from Palestinians and their friends in the
US.
Instead, in the emails there is this hysterical letter,
addressed to "all my Arab sisters and
brothers", calling to violently confront the event
in a military manner (!) "in several different
contingents with various risk levels". The letter is
extremely violent and is written in intemperate language
of hate, the like of it we have not seen before: "We
have to stop this racist scum from polluting the
Palestinian cause", no less. The organisers of the
event are described as "neo-Nazis",
"fascists", "Nazi enemies" and
"anti-Semites". It is composed by a mysterious
East Coast Anti-Fascist Network, and has some Arab names
attached to it, though for sure it isn't written by an
Arab.
It is a mistake to describe anybody as "scum".
We should promote more tolerant discourse, accepting or
arguing, not fighting somebody else's war. The letter of
this "anti-fascist Network" looks like an
attempt of the Jewish lobby to make its adversaries to
fight each other.
I do not intend even to enter discussion, whether the
organisers of the event are good guys or bad guys. They
can't be more racist than the present Israeli government
and the American Jewish community leadership. They can't
be more racist than Pat Roberson and his bunch of
(anti-)Christian Zionists. Let this anti-fascist (and
surely crypto-Jewish) network go out and fight
them first. I would bless whoever supports the cause of
Palestine without checking their ideological credentials.
I bless all supporters of Palestine full stop.
However, navigating to the home page of the NA, one finds
a cartoon to
sympathise with. It is rather crude depiction of a
Neo-Con, looking like a cross between Kissinger and
Perle, asking America to kill his enemies: Iraq, Iran,
Saudi Arabia and so forth. Yes, these guys are short of
finesse, some of their ideas are weird, but they came to
correct conclusion: America should not fight the WWIII
for the Zionists' sake.
In our Togethernet, "the freest discussion group in
the known Universe" , we have some people who will
attend the concert. One of them wrote: "I don't
know of ANY white 'supremacists' outside of a couple of
fantasizing juvenile delinquents in the World Church of
the Creator and some Hollywood Nazis. And a section of
the Republican Party personified by George Bush.
'Supremacist' is a label created by the Zionists of the
ADL and kindred spirits. It was used for the same
purpose as calling all Palestinian opposition to
Zionist occupation and invasion, 'terrorism'. Methinks
the Zionists engage in a lot of projectionism when
they cast their epithets".
. If indeed these men are not supremacists, but cultural
separatists, as they claim, we certainly can do things
together with them, and with another group of cultural
separatists, the Black Muslims, too.
"If we don't do this, our Nazi enemies will
claim our noble cause and our Zionist enemies will try to
present them as our face".
Let him rest assured. In Israel, and in Jewish
communities overseas, Palestinians are presented as Nazis
on daily basis. Menachem Begin called Arafat, "Hitler"
years ago. If there is a nasty thing that the
Jewish-owned media could say and print about
Palestinians, they already did it. When Palestinian
children are shot, Palestinians are blamed that they let
their children out. The Palestinians are already smeared
so much that they can not be smeared more: they are
already described as Jew-haters and baby-killers. How
come we Jews do not become "discredited"
because of Kahane terrorists or Sharon's assassins?
Because people understand: not every Jew is a Judeo-Nazi.
In the same way, Americans can distinguish between
different opponents of the Israeli apartheid.
Let us suppose for the sake of argument, that these
'white supremacists' are real Nazis. In the US, the
"pro-white" people are not courted by the
Jewish community, but it still could happen, if we do not
watch out.The Jewish supremacists are a million times
stronger than all White supremacists put together.
Elementary strategy calls us to avoid giving any support
to the Jewish cause, until the apartheid in Palestine is
dismantled.
As for the concert, probably some Palestinians and
their friends will get there, and the rest would stay
away. The organisers did not ask for anybody's
endorsement. Let the anti-fascists keep their strength
for more worthy cause. And whoever will go to fight for
the American Jewish community, let him be prepared for
disappointment. His chivalry will not be reciprocated.
...Miguel
The "National Alliance" is not representative
in any way of ordinary Americans of European origin,
perplexed and confused by globalization. It is also quite
different from "right-wing" organizations in
Europe.
It is a tiny organization - a few hundred people would be
a very generous figure - stemming from the milieu of
crackpots, FBI infiltrators, psychotics and honest
adolescent dreamers which have for decades made up the
"neo-Nazi right" in the USA. A beautiful book -
"Neo-nazis, Klansmen,
Communists and Others on the Fringe" - came out
about ten years ago, describing this world. These people
are basically the "white" equivalent of the
street gangs of the blacks, though far smaller in number.
They have done a few nasty deeds, most of which however
fall into the category of common crime rather than real
politics. Politically, they are nothing.
These minute organizations however have a symbiotic and
perverse relationship with the Zionists. The ADL and
similar organizations employ hundreds of people full time
to track down groups like the NA, in order to prove to
ordinary people of Jewish origin in the USA that they
need Israel
to protect them (and that the ADL needs more money).
At the same time, these "neo-Nazi" groups have
learned how to come out with exactly the provocative kind
of exhibitions which the ADL wants. The unwritten
agreement is that the "neo-Nazis" will get
publicity like no other little group of adolescents could
ever dream of, in exchange for providing the ADL with
exactly the photos they want.
In this case, photos that show that the "real"
force behind the Palestinians is not the thirst for
justice, but an eternal anti-Semitic plot to exterminate
anybody who happens to have had a Jewish
great-grandmother. Hitler reborn, Amalek, the kids from
Brazil and all the
rest.
This is the point that the "anti-Fascist"
protestors, alas, fail to understand. They take these
"neo-Nazis" at their face value, as a real
threat.
However I am also a little worried that Israel Shamir too
seems to take the NA folk for what they claim to be:
people who may have the wrong ideas, but at least are
genuinely on the side of the Palestinians. They are not.
They are people who are perfectly aware of the damage
they will do to the Palestinians by holding this
demonstration, but think the publicity their tiny group
will get is well worth it. And that is their real crime
...Susanne
You are talking about the people who
organize this rock-concert as if they were an authentic
political movement of far-right orientation. Have you
ever taken into account the hypothesis that this might
not be the case ? Have you - facts at hand - ever thought
about the possibility that their performances are being
staged and funded by branches of the government in order
to discredit the known organizations and
grassroot-movements which oppose the Middle East policy
of the United States ? We in Europe have a long
experience with these folks and it is no wonder at all
that they are showing up in this moment with these
slogans. Have you ever investigated into their
biographies, into their links to the secret services ?
>
Well, when the zealous Minister for the Interior, Otto
Schilly, wanted to get the German neo-Nazi party of Horst
Mahler suppressed on the grounds of it's unconstitutional
political goals, he got an ugly surprise: at the
beginning of this year, the Supreme Court in Germany
rejected the request of the Government to hold trial
against the neo-Nazi-party NPD, after the investigations
ordered by the Court had brought to light that all, but
virtually all of the party's leading representatives
where themselves on the payroll of the German secret
services, hence they had acted within the responsibility
of the Minister of Interiors !
The German right-wing extremist's head, Horst Mahler, has
himself a thirty-year record of the murkiest imaginable
cooperation with the secret services. He has always acted
under the eyes of the police, even when he was still the
legal counselor of Bader-Meinhof-group some thirty years
ago. People officially wanted by the police went in and
out of his lawyer's office, the contract signed to hire
motorscooter with which the General Attorney of the
Federal Republic of Germany was killed in 1977, had been
handed out by Mahler's office.
>
It is important to bear in mind the strong international
cooperation between these movements: whenever the German
judicial authorities draw up an arrest-warrant against
one of these neo-Nazi thugs (I am referring to
homicide-cases, not to simple rioting), the guy quickly
and quietly disappears to the United States. There is
more than one good reason why the USA are opposing any
idea of an International Penal Court: they want to retain
the possibility of giving safe harbour to the agents
provocateurs of their own international network of
destabilizers. Horst Mahler showing up, as he did in
2000, as a historian ready to lead a team of
"researchers" against the Holocaust-paradigm,
is a downright joke. None of the renowned German
historians who are indeed dismantling the Zionist version
of the Holocaust-paradigm by the work they are doing -
like Goetz Aley, the Mommsen brothers, Lutz Klinkhammer,
Christian Gerlach, Wolfgang Sofsky - would ever have
shown up at Horst Mahlers ralley. But these are the names
that anybody truly interested in holding a conference
against the Holocaust-industry should keep in mind and I
cannot interpret the Mahler-initiative in any other terms
than as an attempt, surely coordinated with the secret
services of the USA, to discredit the dismantling of the
Zionist myths being done by the real historians. The
problem is, that the neo-Nazi extremists are not
authentic. They are a tool at the service of others.
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