How to cook up a terrorist group
The perfect recipe for political propaganda
Eleanor Steafel specializes in writing about food. Cooking involves bringing various ingredients together to create something that appeals to the palate. Strange then, to find her authoring a political piece in the Telegraph pushing the narrative that Palestine Action is a terrorist group.
In her article, Steafel uses a tried and tested recipe. Argument by association. Take an extreme outlier, add a lot of uncertainty, throw in some trigger words, and hey presto! You’ve plated up a terrorist organization for an unquestioning, biased audience. Congratulations! Attacking an organization that draws attention to British collusion in the illegal occupation, murder, starvation, and violent ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is such a brave thing to do.
The entire piece centres around one man. The language used conjures up an image of violent militants, hellbent on murder: gun, foot solider, and violent threat. A photograph of a gun, alleged to be in the hand of this man, suggests intent to shoot. Yet, it is not clear whether the item in question is a real gun, a replica, or a toy (presuming it is a real image). Either way, if the man is in possession of an illegal item, the police can, and should, take action. My understanding is that the police do take such matters very seriously, so it seems odd that the guy hasn’t been prosecuted for possession of illegal firearms. Regardless, one man does not make an organization.
A sprinkling of farcical elements are added, to appeal to the bigotry of the target audience. This man has tattoos, biceps, and a can muster a stern look!
We could swap some ingredients in Steafel’s recipe, leading to quite a different conclusion. In fact, now that we’ve collapsed her airy meringue, I think it’s time for something much more substantial.
Firstly, let’s take one outlier. How about Tommy Robinson? The right-wing racist and white supremacist has been treated like a VIP in Israel. On a past visit, he was even encouraged to pose standing on a tank with a gun. A large, automatic, real gun used to shoot real people with real bullets. Tommy Robinson (not his real name), is a violent, dishonest man with multiple criminal convictions.
Unlike Steafel. I don’t need to add bubbles of spurious uncertainty to inflate my dish. Robinson’s ties to the Israeli establishment are proven, and much deeper than standing with a tank, toting a real gun. (As if that wasn’t intimate enough.) In 2018, the Middle East Forum (MEF), a hard-line Israeli pressure group based in the US, paid toward legal defence costs for Tommy Robinson. They also boast about organizing public protests in his support. The MEF is headed by Gregg Roman, a former advisor to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and member of the Israeli Ministry of Defence. Robinson’s connections are firmly entrenched deep inside the Israeli corridors of power.
What do hard-line Israeli Zionists like Gregg Roman want? In 2016, Daniel Pipes, then the MEF president, said:
To become a normal people, one whose parents do not encourage their children to become suicide terrorists, Palestinian Arabs need to undergo the crucible of defeat …
In 2018, Gregg Roman went on record, criticizing peace negotiations. He wanted these subnormal Palestinian Arabs to know, and understand, that they are defeated. This aim had to be achieved through violence. He went on to say,
There is a change in the way Israel is thinking about the issue …
This change was pushed by the Israel Victory Project, initiated in 2017. It’s mission was to promote the US and Israel to adopt a policy of achieving a final victory for Israel. In 2019, Roman featured in an article on the Israel Victory Project website entitled, ‘Israel needs a real victory’. I wonder what he really meant by a ‘real’ victory?
We have seen how Israeli state actors were pushing for a final victory, or solution, to the issue of Palestine in the years running up to the October attacks of 2023. They didn’t want peace, they wanted Palestine in a ‘crucible’, and utterly defeated. No doubt, to do this in defiance of international law would have been tremendously difficult, without severe provocation.
Around the same time these plans were discovered, Israeli operatives were implanting pagers with explosives, intent on supplying them to Hezbollah. The New York Times reported that the 2023 attacks were carried out in accordance with those plans, acquired by Israel in 2022, ‘ … with shocking precision.’
Two days before the 2023 attacks, the Supernova Sukkot music festival location was moved. The original location was in Southern Israel, where it would have been far removed from the Hamas attacks. The new location placed it directly in the danger zone. I’m not sure what extremist, deep-state Jews would think about the attendees of a hedonistic, drug-fuelled rave, but perhaps some of them would look down on the young festival goers as ungodly.
It’s all such a strange run of coincidences, isn’t it?A revealing piece, penned by Gregg Roman for the Jewish Exponent, was published a week following the October 2023 attacks by Hamas. In it he said:
Hamas’ founding charter calls for the genocide of the Jews. The document strongly evokes Hitlerian views on Jews and world history. Hamas has no interest in living side by side with Israel: It wants to destroy the Jewish state, kill its inhabitants and to connect what had been Israel to a global Islamic empire.
So when you see Black Lives Matter, college leftists and “progressive” congressional representatives making excuses for, or positively reveling in, Hamas’ murderous attacks on Oct. 7 — the bloodiest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust — it is important to keep that in mind.
This is the guy who funded Tommy Robinson, and organized protests in his support. Tommy Robinson has a long history of associating with neo-Nazi groups, including a large network who have procured significant foreign funding, and reported to share terrorist manuals and bomb-making tips. Gregg Roman, and Israeli intelligence, would be well aware of this. They have been deliberately destabilizing, and polarizing, the British state by recruiting criminals with racist ideologies, and funding and supporting their networks. Such support is behind rising hate crimes, prejudice, civil unrest, and rioting. It is criminal support and contrary to the social fabric and national security of Britain. Mind, we do have a serving Prime Minister who holds DAVOS to be superior to Parliament, so there isn’t much left to hold on to, is there?
Young kids in Israel are brainwashed and militarized from an early age, and, like Tommy Robinson, encouraged to carry lethal weapons. Of course, most nations encourage the militarization of children from a young age, as sickening as that is.
Explicit in Judaism is the belief that there is a god. One god. That the Jews were chosen by this god, above all others, to carry out god’s will, and that the Torah is god’s word. Violent supremacy is explicit in the Torah, specifically Deuteronomy 7:5:
When the Lord delivers the Israelites to the land, the other nations will be cast out.
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them.
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be His own treasure, out of all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
So, we have an international group who are using their influence to promote an ideological belief in their own supremacy. They have a track record of funding and supporting organized networks with criminal members who have disrupted the British state with violence and vandalism, and who are accessing terrorist training materials. This group is untrustworthy and overtly Machiavellian; even prepared to fund neo-Nazi puppets while it suits them.
This organization currently has two leaders who are wanted by the International Criminal Court for trial on charges of crimes against humanity. It is an organization that has defied international law for decades, including refusing to subject its nuclear facilities to IAEA safeguards; a condition required by 1981 UN Security Council Resolution 487. (Yet the US hasn’t bombed it yet?)
This group has a total disregard for British sovereignty, international law, and human life; they even make use of the Hannibal Directive which commands lethal force against one’s own people on the battlefield if it is deemed to be in the interests of the state (aka god). Yet, nobody is calling for them to be proscribed as a terrorist organization.
On the other hand, there’s a group who are trying to raise awareness of their government’s illegal collaboration with war criminals. They want to prevent military hardware being used for genocide. And there is no evidence they are extremists acting on an ideology of supremacy. That group is the one being singled out for fast legislative action to ban their existence. The media is using cookery journalists to make incongruent straw man arguments, hoping to get the public on side. I wonder if it has anything to do with the British arms industry and secret visits to the UK by senior members of the genocidal war machine?
It would be no surprise. After all, the British government was the one who made a promise to establish Israel in the Middle East in the 1917 Balfour declaration. A move that was premised on a history dating back two millennia, and a claim laid out in the ideological, extremist doctrine of the Torah. Yes, it’s shocking, isn’t is? There’s a whole history that existed prior to 2023, and even prior to WW2, that led up to contemporary events. Although, most people are caged in a memory hole shorter than the lifespan of a goldfish these days. So, unfortunately, they do not know that, based on the British mandate, Palestine was flooded with Jews prior to World War Two. They probably don’t know that Jewish terrorists bombed the British in 1946, killing 91 people. Nor that, between 1947 and 1949, ¾ million Palestinians were exiled from the land they were on, with thousands murdered in hundreds of separate atrocities. A campaign of ethnic cleansing that never stopped, but was resisted.
Clearly, the case for proscribing both the MEF and the Israeli government as terrorist organizations is far stronger than that set out against Palestine Action. So, we know that what is intended is political and ideological, not based on justice. We know that Israel has defied the UN Security Council over nuclear technology for over forty years. It never had bunker busting bombs dropped on it. We know that Israel is committing war crimes, that the language of racism and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine has been openly used, and acted upon, since the first British / Israeli invasion. We know that the British government is unprepared to do anything about it, and continues to arm the criminals. We know that the Torah is explicit about Jewish supremacy in the eyes of god, and that some Jews have called for the extermination of Palestinians; something that is currently taking place. We know that the MEF has funded and supported those behind societal division and destructive rioting within the UK. There can only be two reasons for British compliance. Racism, and / or fear of reprisals. Neither is just or moral.
Men, women, and children … we must simply carry out a Holocaust against them … gas chambers … And other cruel methods of death …
Elad Barashi from Channel 14, an Israeli Broadcaster.
We are coming to Gaza. We are coming to Lebanon. We will come to Iran … we will come to annihilate you.
All of this propaganda, and counter-propaganda, is ultimately about identity politics. And identity is about evolutionary social function. It is animalistic. People attach themselves, usually without question, to their heritage and religion. They do so to such an extent they are prepared to kill and die. It’s sad. I’ve met many Jews, and many Muslims. Most seemed like decent, reasonable people. I have no need to see either as Jew or Muslim, but as individuals capable of thinking for themselves and developing moral integrity separate from their beliefs; historical religious constructs, which for the main part were forced on them through accident of birth, and are not essential to the inherent worth of the individual.
So, perhaps it’s time for a new recipe, Eleanor Steafel? Maybe we could identify all ideological imperatives that single out any group, ethnicity, or religion as superior, chosen, or more worthy than others (in the eyes of god) and proscribe all of them? A sort of deconstructed melange of human stupidity that we could send for composting. Perhaps we could ban all arms exports too. Would that be enough to end the great clash of civilizations? Probably not. Violent supremacy is baked in to primate genes.