The UK’s neo-liberal New Labour regime happily lies in bed together with fascist Tel Aviv.
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UK prosecutors are colluding with Israeli embassy officials to classify protesters resisting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza as terrorists and to imprison them on heavily politicized grounds, an investigation by The Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg showed.
“Documents released by the British government reveal that London has been coordinating with Israeli officials to prosecute protestors associated with activist group Palestine Action for disrupting the operations of Elbit Systems, which manufactures deadly weapons being used in the genocide in Gaza,” Klarenberg wrote.
The documents suggest that Israel has successfully lobbied the UK to abandon well-established legal standards in order to charge activists resisting Israel’s genocide under harsh counter-terror laws.
There’s the pretty clear and obvious reasons of self-enrichment and looking out for national/regional interests in terms of geopolitical, strategic and economic advantages to be gained by having a friendly power in the region, but it seems like there’s also a sunk cost they keep piling on in having to avoid confronting how wrong they’ve been.
Virulent pro-Zionism and intolerance of questioning this seems to me to come in large part from a western sense of guilt and shame over having allowed the Holocaust to happen while western powers sat on the sidelines for way too long, and they have collectively overcompensated on this front since the end of WWII, blindly doing anything to say “We’re going to support the Jewish people going forward.” Doubling down on this now means that they can continue to convince themselves that this was the correct, morally justified choice, while withdrawing this unwavering support would mean they would eventually have to confront the question, “At what point did the Israelis and the Zionist project become evil?” Unfortunately for them, seriously grappling with this question would ultimately require admitting that this isn’t some recent development, but has been the case going back all the way to the very foundation of Israel, if not earlier. Without exceptional skills to manage this, admitting that the western powers have been materially aiding a genocide against one group of Semitic peoples to assuage their own guilt over having stood by to the point that the Nazis were able to advance an absolutely disgusting amount in their own revolting genocide against of the Jewish people (amongst many other groups in Europe), which almost no politician is willing to consider.
“So, to make up for how we enabled the Nazis and collectively screwed millions of Jews, we’ve been supporting a Zionist project that has been carrying out international propaganda and genocide for almost 80 years, to such great success in their propaganda efforts that Goebbels would be taking notes from it,” is a hard pill to swallow. Instead of facing the facts, they double down on this and keep their heads in the sand when it comes to the horrors of the Zionist state and its aims.
That’s a whole lot of words to say
Money…
They don’t have any fucking guilt at all are you kidding me
Yeah, pretending like American politicians have guilt over anti-Semitism is a take
Mm… yeah.
I’ve long assumed there was some guilt component involved for some of Israel’s international supporters (and particularly among Germans), but I could never quite work out how it could extend to supporting obvious genocide.
I think this sunk cost idea has some merit, particulatly in light of the fact that having to ignore inconvenient facts in order to continue that support actually dates back at least to the bombing of the King David Hotel, so that’s actually 80+ years of sunk cost.