r/NewsAndPolitics • u/One-Washer • Nov 04 '24

Israel/Palestine Exclusive: Prof Haim Bresheeth’s anti-genocide speech before he was arrested for ‘terrorism’

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u/Curious_Associate904 Nov 04 '24

I remember how I told people that the terrorism act would be misused to do this kind of thing. I remember being told I was paranoid.

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u/AsianEiji Nov 04 '24

Too bad it wasn't in the USA, so that law can be repealed by him suing the government.

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u/One-Washer Nov 04 '24 edited Nov 04 '24

Professor Haim Bresheeth was arrested Friday for his speech at a demo. This article sums everything up. His speech he did before the arrest is the last link, which is also in the same article. He was released Saturday, but remains under investigation:

He describes himself:

I would like to tell you about my background, in order to support my request. I am an academic, author and filmmaker, an ex-Israeli Jew who has been active for over five decades as a socialist, anti-Zionist and anti-racist activist. My parents were Polish Jews, survivors of Auschwitz and other camps. They ended forced onto death marches to the Third Reich after the Auschwitz camp was vacated by the SS in Mid-January 1945. My mother was freed by the British forces in Bergen-Belsen, and my father was freed by the US forces in Mauthausen. I was born in a Displaced Persons Camp in Italy, and arrived in Israel as a baby, during June 1948, as no European country would then accept Holocaust survivors.

I served in the Israeli Army (IDF) as a junior infantry officer, and took part in two wars, in 1967 and 1973, after which I turned into a committed pacifist. I came to study in Britain in 1972, and a short while afterwards I have learnt much about Zionism which I did not while in Israel, thus becoming an ardent supporter of Palestinian rights, and an anti-Zionist activist. I was an active supporter of the Anti-Apartheid Movement as a Labour member in the 1970s and acted against racist organisations throughout my life. My films, books and articles reflect the same political views outlined here; these include a popular book on the Holocaust (Introduction to the Holocaust, with Stuart Hood, 1994, 2001 2014), among others, a BBC documentary film (State of Danger, with Jenny Morgan, BBC2, March 1988) about the first Intifada, and a forthcoming volume on the Israeli Army (An Army Like No Other, May 2020) . I have re-joined the Labour Party after decades, when Jeremy Corbyn was elected to the leadership, as I regained hope in promoting a progressive agenda for the party, after years of Blairism.

Source: https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/haim-bresheeth-asks-to-be-refered-to-the-compliance-unit-for-antisemitism/

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u/nihilistmoron Nov 05 '24

Yea but he is "antisemitic". So all of that goes out through the window

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u/Ampris_bobbo8u Nov 05 '24

make 1984 fiction again plz

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u/Dust-Explosion Nov 05 '24

If this was on r/Melbourne, it would be removed. They do not remove however, articles supporting Israel. How deep does this go?

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u/littlefinger08 Nov 05 '24

Try posting anything on WorldNews or News and see what happens :)

The silencing of speech and opinon against the state of Israel is outright concerning. You can comment, but you can't even post a single link/article that is critical of Isreal in those subreddits. It's incredible.

Manufacturing consent has made it's way to social media platforms. Incredible.

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u/Dust-Explosion Nov 05 '24

Cheers, totally! Honestly I’m being a pest in the hope that other people are… Of course pro genocide people will laugh it off or not care but people aren’t stupid.

Need to slip some credible info in their feeds occasionally. Shame we have to sneak in to do it! What is also concerning are the amount of Israeli bots popping up all over the place.

World news hub, Britain (very surprisingly..!) and a few others it’s not the case. It is horrifying either way. The suppression of truth and accusing anti genocide activists of anti semitism. We can write to the UN and AFP for the record. Obviously nothing will happen but it’s the long game. Not going to be silent on this one.

They can’t hide the atrocities forever. Problem is time is seriously running out for 2.3million innocent civilians under constant artillery bombardment with UN aid now cut off.