Regular readers will have noticed that I don’t like Islamic fundamentalists. Nor — though this is perhaps less often on display — do I much like Scottish Nationalists. Not just because their primary cause is to break up one of the two most successful political unions in history, but because so many of their secondary causes are so rancid as well.
Take this poster advertising a ‘Women for Gaza’ rally in Glasgow this Saturday.
The headline speaker is Nicola Sturgeon MSP. She is the Deputy First Minister of Scotland and leading light of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP).
And one of the two other scheduled speakers is Yvonne Ridley — the notorious convert nutcase with whom I have hadcross words before. Ridley used to be most famous for expressing solidarity with the leading al-Qaeda beheader and wedding-bomber Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. In recent days she has re-entered the fray by calling for a ‘Zionist-free Scotland’ (an extension of her ‘Respect’ party leader’s call for an ‘Israeli-free Bradford’).
It is to be expected that Ridley, Galloway et al should utter such fulminations. But why is the Deputy First Minister of Scotland endorsing such sentiments by sharing a platform with their proponents? Does Scotland’s Deputy First Minister also want to make Scotland ‘Zionist-free’? I suppose she will say that she is simply showing support for the women of Gaza, in which case she ought to join a rally against Hamas rather than an anti-Israel one.
But the most rabid forms of anti-peace, anti-Israel activism seem to have become part of the SNP agenda. And it is a tragedy. After all, what of the noble tradition of Scottish support for the state of Israel? Where does it leave Jews and non-Jews who are Scottish and believe in Israel’s right to defend itself — or at least not to be annihilated by the ISIS-like forces of Hamas? Where does it leave Jim Murphy, Baroness Smith, Gordon Brown, Malcolm Rifkind and George Robertson? Where does it leave the Zionist tradition of the Church of Scotland, Jo Grimond, Arthur Balfour and John Buchan? Come to that, where exactly does it leave the people of Newton Mearns or the Jewish populations of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh or Glasgow?
That, in the end, is the problem with the nationalists of the SNP kind. They are never content with their own brand of sectarianism. They want to import and propel every other nasty form of sectarianism too. If Nicola Sturgeon goes ahead with the event this weekend then the best that will be said of her is that she is utterly ignorant of the swamps in which she is swimming.
Tags: Gaza, Israel, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland,SNPRegular readers will have noticed that I don’t like Islamic fundamentalists. Nor — though this is perhaps less often on display — do I much like Scottish Nationalists. Not just because their primary cause is to break up one of the two most successful political unions in history, but because so many of their secondary causes are so rancid as well.
Take this poster advertising a ‘Women for Gaza’ rally in Glasgow this Saturday.
The headline speaker is Nicola Sturgeon MSP. She is the Deputy First Minister of Scotland and leading light of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP).
And one of the two other scheduled speakers is Yvonne Ridley — the notorious convert nutcase with whom I have hadcross words before. Ridley used to be most famous for expressing solidarity with the leading al-Qaeda beheader and wedding-bomber Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. In recent days she has re-entered the fray by calling for a ‘Zionist-free Scotland’ (an extension of her ‘Respect’ party leader’s call for an ‘Israeli-free Bradford’).
It is to be expected that Ridley, Galloway et al should utter such fulminations. But why is the Deputy First Minister of Scotland endorsing such sentiments by sharing a platform with their proponents? Does Scotland’s Deputy First Minister also want to make Scotland ‘Zionist-free’? I suppose she will say that she is simply showing support for the women of Gaza, in which case she ought to join a rally against Hamas rather than an anti-Israel one.
But the most rabid forms of anti-peace, anti-Israel activism seem to have become part of the SNP agenda. And it is a tragedy. After all, what of the noble tradition of Scottish support for the state of Israel? Where does it leave Jews and non-Jews who are Scottish and believe in Israel’s right to defend itself — or at least not to be annihilated by the ISIS-like forces of Hamas? Where does it leave Jim Murphy, Baroness Smith, Gordon Brown, Malcolm Rifkind and George Robertson? Where does it leave the Zionist tradition of the Church of Scotland, Jo Grimond, Arthur Balfour and John Buchan? Come to that, where exactly does it leave the people of Newton Mearns or the Jewish populations of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh or Glasgow?
That, in the end, is the problem with the nationalists of the SNP kind. They are never content with their own brand of sectarianism. They want to import and propel every other nasty form of sectarianism too. If Nicola Sturgeon goes ahead with the event this weekend then the best that will be said of her is that she is utterly ignorant of the swamps in which she is swimming.
Tags: Gaza, Israel, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland,SNP
There is a vast difference between being a Jew and Zionism.
ReplyDeleteThe Zioinist movement was started in 1948 by Lord Balfour, of Jewish decent, but an atheist.
Zionism is not a religious movement, it is a political movement.
No true Jew would support Zionism and the Zionist agenda, to control the worlds banks, armies, religions and the one world government (aka New World Order).
The Zionist movement started to supposedly repatriate and find a space for Jews who had not a country of their own. Zionist has hijacked the Jews.....it uses the Jews for its own Satanic agenda.
Why are these Zionists not dark skinned like the Palestinians?
The Palestinians are being killed amass, having their land confiscated, stripped of their freedom.
Whilst the Israelis (most ignorant of what is really going on) are handed weapons paid for by the USA.
IF you are a TRUE Jew, you would not even entertain Zionism for one second.
Unfortunately, as I said before, Zionism and its warmongering agenda, its hatred of the Arabs and humankind in general, is fooling us all.
Zionists are acting like Nazis, the Palestinians are in a situation likened to the Blacks in South Africa.
And you cannot use your secretarian argument in this case. Jews are being targeting, because most people are ignorant of the difference between TRUE Jews and Zionist demonic agendas.
If you do not know the difference you need to do the research.
All men are equal, in Gods eyes, Jew and Arab, rich or poor.
The Zionists are not of God, they are a Satanic movement, They want to have control of EVERYTHING on this planet and are USING the Jews as a vehicle to implement their plans.
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www.jewsagainstzionism.com