Three Chapters from the history of the Anti-Semitic Kingdom of Albion - Edition of 2005_04_26

Three Chapters from the history of the Anti-Semitic Kingdom of Albion - Edition of 2005_04_26

See note at article's end.

Chapter 1 - 1218: England introduces the yellow badge of shame for Jews.

The following is cited from site of The Wild Olive Branch

In March 1218 the Royal Council, under pressure from Papal legate, ordered that all adult Jews wear the cloth "badge of shame". It was a yellow felt or taffeta shape representing the two tablets of the Law, 2 fingers wide by 4 long. In 1275 it was increased to 6x3. These were troubled times as the church was becoming increasingly Anti-Semitic and Crusaders were questioning going off to the "Holy Land" to kill infidels when they had Jews at home to deal with first. Jews were suspect because they were not under the rigid control the church exercised over the natives, and because they were conspicuously different and separate in dress, lifestyle, customs, language, and education (locals were illiterate and innumerate). Their business was a source of resentment to those who owed them money.

Chapter 2 - The crimes perpetrated by John Bully against the Jewish people in Palestine, 1920-1948, are enough to fill an encyclopaedia. Still, some crimes are worse than others, and among the worst is the British complicity in the Arab ambush of a medical convoy making its way to Hadassah hospital on April 13, 1948.

There are numerous online sources which document these facts. For example, The Emperor's New Clothes, TENC, writes:

[O]n April 13, within full sight of a British army post, [Arabs] attack a Hadassah medical convoy flying a medical symbol in the course of which 76 persons were killed and 20 wounded. The casualties included the Director of the Hadassah Hospital, Dr. H. Yassky, doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel, as well as academic staff including scientists attached to the Hebrew University of Mt. Scopus.

This attack took place within two hundred yards of a British Army Post. Iraqi soldiers were among the Arab gangs which attacked the convoy. The attack lasted for six hours before the eyes of the British Military, who not only failed to halt the attack, but prevented the Haganah from coming to the rescue.

A detailed report is included in a PDF file which may be found on the Hadassah site. It includes this eye-witness testimony:

From the rear opening I saw that all the time the British army passed in large convoys. They continued on their way. We shouted ‘Help! We have wounded women and men!’ But they did not stop. Armored cars of the police arrived and stood for a time without extending any help whatever and without even communicating with us.
Nobody can claim that John Bully gassed the Jews in Auschwitz; but it is a fact that the Brits refused to bomb the rail lines or the gas chambers, and in my books they stand accused as accessories for this reason. Similarly, nobody can claim that John Bully murdered the 78 Jewish victims of the convoy massacre, but in my books the Brits are guilty, guilty, guilty.

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A burnt out armoured car and murdered Jews from the Haddassah convoy, 13 April 1948 [Source: Jerusalem Archives]

Chapter 3 - The reaction to the declaration of boycott by the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) is not dying down, and if I have my way, it never will. Today, I quote from a Times Online article, dated 23 Apr 2005:

Lecturers condemned for vote to boycott Israeli universities

Universities UK, which represents vice-chancellors and principals, condemned the move as “inimical to academic freedom”. The Academic Friends of Israel, whose patron is Dr Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, called it “a backward step in the current climate of positive moves being made in the region”...

The AUT, which represents 49,000 academics, carried the resolution by 96 votes to 92 at its meeting in Eastbourne.

This week Professor Avishay Braverman, head of the Israeli Association, a group of Israeli academics, and president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, warned the union that severing links would freeze Israeli participation in bilateral research and “neither aid Palestinians nor promote dialogue”.

Also see "Blinkered and ill-timed: The AUT boycott of Israeli universities is inimical to academic freedom", at Time Online, 2005_04_25.

In my humble opinion, nothing short of massive retaliation is called for. I have already called for a total boycott of the Anti-Semitic Kingdom of Albion, and I have been practicing what I preach for a couple of years. If we all did that, the Brits would learn pretty quickly on what side their bread is buttered.

I would like to underscore two more points. First, the timing of the AUT resolution, coming as it is when Israel is making one concession after the next, proves that the anti-Semites will not suspend their rebarbative conduct regardless of what Israel does. She might as well defend her citizens and rights with zeal, and by doing so earn the respect of her true friends.

Second, do not fail to note that the entity behind the AUT move is no other than Shereen "Oswald Mosley" Benjamin, "who is Jewish", according to Time Online. My advice to the other British Jews: keep your passports updated, pack a light suitcase, and thank your good luck that Israel exists. And, yes, had I offered this advice to the German Jews in 1932, they, too, would have found my text risible.

Editor's note: The AUT resolution (see IsraPundit) has so infuriated me, that I am running a daily column on "the history of the Anti-Semitic Kingdom of Albion". The three chapters cover, respectively, pre-modern history, the 1920-1948 period, and a recent item of relevance. Lest we forget!

I leave the final word to the Old Testament, Deuteronomy 25:17-18 -

17: Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,

18: how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary...

Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at April 26, 2005 08:03 AM

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1. AV said:

Joseph: what are these measures of boycott against Britain that you speak of? And also, we must remember that we cannot fight every battle, and right now the academic battle seems secondary to the actual survival of Israel.

Posted by: AV on April 26, 2005 09:19 AM

2. J. Lichty said:

AV: right now the academic battle seems secondary to the actual survival of Israel.

They are all one in the same. It starts (as it did in 1930's Europe) with the deligitmization and the boycotts. Then we know where it goes from there. Setting the stage is someting that comes naturally on that side of the pond. I am heartened to see that 92 of 186 voted against it.

Posted by: J. Lichty on April 26, 2005 12:04 PM

3. Joseph Alexander Norland said:

AV: I would be delighted to discuss the questions you raised if you send me a genuinte e-mail address. Mine is Israpundit@yahoo.com.

Posted by: Joseph Alexander Norland on April 26, 2005 05:24 PM

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