Leftists accuse Netanyahu, settlers of brewing ‘another assassination’ with ads

[Israeli]

Meretz, Peace Now ask AG to order police investigation of the Samaria Settlers Committee for alleged incitement with its new video comparing Europeans to Nazis and left-wing groups as their Jewish collaborators.

By Ilan Lior 03:53 16.02.15

Meretz Knesset candidates and Peace Now asked the attorney general on Sunday to order a police investigation of the Samaria Settlers Committee for alleged incitement with its new video comparing Europeans to Nazis and left-wing groups as their Jewish collaborators.

“This incitement video, which was totally financed with public funds and ends with a figure hanging from a tree, is a Goebbels-style act of incitement that could lead to bloodshed and another political assassination,” Peace Now wrote in its letter to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein.

“The video by the Samaria Settlers Committee hints at the culpability of left-wing organizations and at the need to attack them. The left meant to be attacked is us,” wrote Meretz Knesset candidates Mossi Raz and Gaby Lasky.

“We already have experience with Netanyahu’s inciting remarks, as expressed during the demonstrations of the 1990s against [Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin, may his memory be blessed, and that were also expressed last summer during Operation Protective Edge when the focus was, once again, the left and the Arab public,” wrote Raz and Lasky in their letter to Weinstein. “Now, to serve his electoral needs, Netanyahu is once again using incitement to scare and terrify, and to turn the Israeli left into a target for his poisonous barbs, despite the potentially dangerous consequences of this.”

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.642681

[Israeli]

1. Background :

Samaria Settler Council under fire for video depicting leftists as anti-Semite collaborators

Animated video titled 'The Eternal Jew' features a German named Herr Stürmer paying a hooked-nosed Jew for slanderous information about the IDF and Israel; Peace Now demands AG to open police investigation into video.

Ynetnews
Published: 02.15.15, 17:26 / Israel News

The Samaria Settlers Committee published a video on Saturday accusing Israeli left wing NGOs of receiving "millions of euros from Europe" to smear Israel in the press.

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Also see :

WATCH: The most anti-Semitic Israeli cartoon ever made?

http://972mag.com/watch-the-most-anti-semitic-israeli-cartoon-ever-made/102698/

Settler group's new video: Money-grabbing leftists playing into European Nazis' hands

The Samaria Residents' Council's new viral campaign has a very clear message: The Europeans were and remain Nazis.

The message is very clear. The Europeans were and remain Nazis. To them, Israeli left-wing organizations are carbon copies of the money-grubbing Yid who would sell his compatriots until he, too is no longer needed. The video shamelessly and bluntly uses classic anti-Semitic and Nazi tropes in the spirit of the blood libels, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and "Jew Suss."

There is nothing new about comparing leftists, peace activists, human rights organizations and journalists with Nazi collaborators. It reached its peak around the time of the Oslo Accords, together with using names like Yids or Jew-boys, Judenrat and quislings. One well-known visual expression of this sentiment came in the form of drawings or photoshopped images showing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in a Gestapo uniform with a swastika armband.

Before today, however, this appeared to be the province of a relatively limited, marginal slice of what is considered the extreme right. The uploading of this video ups the ante in two ways. First, in that Europeans rather than Palestinians were cast in the role of the Nazis. Second, in that the video was produced and posted to the Internet by an organization that is solidly part of the establishment, the Samaria Residents' Council.

The council does specialize in provocations and blunt-edged campaigns, but it is an official representative of settlers in the Samaria region of the West Bank. Its chairman is Benny Katzover, a founding father of the settlements and a former chairman of the Samaria Regional Council. Just last week the committee held a large event in Jerusalem together with Lev Haolam, an organization founded for the purpose of marketing products from the settlements and undermining the boycott of such goods. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended the event as part of his election campaign and even addressed the audience, saying, "I want to give my blessing to this important enterprise."

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.642526

NB : At the end of the video there are are the logos of the following organizations: The New Israel Fund, B'Tselem, Yesh Din, Machsom Watch, Rabbis for Human Rights, Peace Now, Breaking the Silence (Shovrim Shtika) and Yesh Gvul.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. It is chilling that some would stoop so low as to revive elements of the worst time

in world history, for either Europeans or Israelis, for political gain.

It's truly revolting.

[Israeli]

4. Its part of the Right's campaign to ...

....delegitimize the Left any which way they can RDO.

Yes its truly revolting and disgusting ....but its nothing new for us .

see : http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/02/14/settlers-revive-der-shturmer-to-smear-left/

What is really interesting is their defence of their video ....see :

Settlers Defend Goebbels-Like Video Incitement

" Did we succeed in shocking you and arousing a public debate? That was the goal.

Dear friends, we’ve heard all the voices dissing us in the media today. We’re not surprised. We wanted to arouse public debate over what we see as self-destruction. Sometimes you have to do this in a way that forces people to look and listen to you.

We see thousands of Palestinian buildings being constructed illegally on State land and funded by anti-Semites [the EU]. We hear about investigations of defense ministry officials throughout the world and at the Hague. We see daily harassment by radical Leftists against our soldiers. We see bullying propaganda by the radical Left against settlements.

Some do this out of ideology. Some out of greed. All of them are causing the world to harass us. Calls for boycott against Israel are increasing and delegitimization echoes everywhere.

When we turn to the world and ask: what have you learned? We hear back: “Look, Jews are saying this [supporting boycotts]. It can’t be anti-Semitism.” In this way, the poison seeps throughout. Through self-hatred, the radical Left will bring us all to self-destruction.

There is nothing in the video which was meant to incite against one group or another. It’s an attempt to show those who have been blinded by the caress of foreign money how he [sic] is really seen by his “patron.”

We Shomron settlers do not intend to remain quiet about delegitimization. We will remain here always to arouse our people. We simply love our land. "

Source : http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/02/15/settler-video-producers-defend-nazi-like-incitement/

[MisterP]

3. Jews (and other minorities) around the globe know full well that pictures and words can be easily

used to kill--as basically orders in writing rather than in person; all Europe legally recognizes this potential (even if only a few groups have been extended protection)

remember, newspaper editors could swing for what they printed

[Israeli]

5. Mondoweiss has more details ....

...than the English Israeli media :


Settlers’ video accuses B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, Peace Now and New Israel Fund of collaborating with Nazi anti-Semites

Israel/Palestine Philip Weiss

The video has been taken up by the American Muslim-basher Pamela Geller, in a piece of “unhinged incitement against ‘leftwing Jews’,” Dan Cohen tweets. Geller writes in support of the video:

The leftwing Jew is not a Jew. He is an un-Jew, a JINO, a jewicidal, a kapo, and has been a pox on our house all throughout Jewish history.
They are powerful in Israel and the bane of its existence.
We too, suffer their sickness here in the States. Notorious quislings like Peter Beinart, Max Blumenthal, Ezra Klein et al are the bane of our existence.
The video’s extreme language is indicative of the crisis inside Jewish life and the potential for violence in Israel and Palestine after nearly 50 years of occupation. It is also evidence of the international traction of the boycott movement. Boycott is one of the headlines in the Nazi-like newspaper.

Source: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/02/settlers-breaking-collaborating?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=536fa9e0c6-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-536fa9e0c6-398418937

[Israeli]

6. Settler body had no issue with anti-Semitic motifs in anti-left video

Samaria Regional Council had claimed that they did not approve of the video before publication, but in turns out they only disagreed with the final scene.

By Chaim Levinson

The Samaria Regional Council, which funds the group that published a controversial video likening Israeli leftists to Nazi collaborators, did approve of the publication of the clip, contradicting a previous statement, Haaretz learned on Wednesday.

The cartoon, entitled "The Eternal Jew," was published earlier this week by the Samaria Residents Council, and caused a flurry of controversy with its portrayal of left-wing Israelis as serving the interests of anti-Semitic masters in exchange for a few Euros. The clip sparked public outrage, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the clip on Facebook.

The Samaria Residents Council receives roughly 1.2 million shekels ($300,00) per year from the Samaria Regional Council, which constitutes 90 percent of its budget. After the cartoon was published, the Samaria Regional Council stated that it did not agree with the content of the clip. Before it was released, however, the cartoon was presented to the heads of the regional council, who had no issues with the anti-Semitic motifs. They did, however, express reservations about the ending of the video, which shows the Jewish collaborator committing suicide at the behest of his master.

Continued @ http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.643011

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