Criminalisation As A Strategy To Silence Human Rights Activism Is The Greatest Threat To Humanity
by William Hanna, ProMosaik. Principled Support For The Palestinian
People’s Desire To Have The Same Rights And Opportunities As Israeli Jews Has
Now Been Slanderously Categorised As Anti-Semitic And Prosecutable As A
Criminal Offence
People’s Desire To Have The Same Rights And Opportunities As Israeli Jews Has
Now Been Slanderously Categorised As Anti-Semitic And Prosecutable As A
Criminal Offence
“Human rights defenders are those individuals, groups and organs
of society that promote and protect universally recognised human rights and
fundamental freedoms. Human rights defenders seek the promotion and protection
of civil and political rights as well as the promotion, protection and
realisation of economic, social and cultural rights. Human rights defenders
also promote and protect the rights of members of groups such as indigenous
communities. The definition does not include those individuals or groups who
commit or propagate violence.”
of society that promote and protect universally recognised human rights and
fundamental freedoms. Human rights defenders seek the promotion and protection
of civil and political rights as well as the promotion, protection and
realisation of economic, social and cultural rights. Human rights defenders
also promote and protect the rights of members of groups such as indigenous
communities. The definition does not include those individuals or groups who
commit or propagate violence.”
EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders
With the United Nations (UN) having been
made impotent by Security Council vetoes from a U.S. government controlled by
the Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — (http://www.countercurrents.org/hanna200814.htm) — and a selectively biased against Africa
International Criminal Court (ICC) wallowing in allegations of neo-imperialism
and racism, the chances of the blatant Israeli human rights violations or
Western imperialist barbarism being impartially investigated and effectively
punished are now virtually non-existent. The U.S. has vetoed some 50 UN
resolutions concerning Israel, and of 39 recent cases investigated by the ICC,
38 were on the African continent. In view of the abysmal failure of such august
international organisations to enforce some degree of impartial universal
justice, the urgent necessity for doing so has by default become the responsibility
of individual human rights activists and organisations.
made impotent by Security Council vetoes from a U.S. government controlled by
the Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — (http://www.countercurrents.org/hanna200814.htm) — and a selectively biased against Africa
International Criminal Court (ICC) wallowing in allegations of neo-imperialism
and racism, the chances of the blatant Israeli human rights violations or
Western imperialist barbarism being impartially investigated and effectively
punished are now virtually non-existent. The U.S. has vetoed some 50 UN
resolutions concerning Israel, and of 39 recent cases investigated by the ICC,
38 were on the African continent. In view of the abysmal failure of such august
international organisations to enforce some degree of impartial universal
justice, the urgent necessity for doing so has by default become the responsibility
of individual human rights activists and organisations.
While it was comparatively easy to
coercively control the corruptible ICC and UN because they operate within an
international political system susceptible to blackmail, bribery, bullying — (https://dissidentvoice.org/2014/07/israels-modus-operandi-blackmail-bribery-and-bullying/) — the forcing of individual human rights
activists and organisations into silent toleration of international law
violations was more problematic and required alternative strategies including
legislation that criminalised the right to freedom of speech and choice as is
currently the case with regards to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
peaceful movement against Israel. Israel’s response to BDS has been to
surreptitiously orchestrate a proxy war against it by browbeating Western
nations — led by Israel’s perpetually obliging lackey the U.S. — into enacting
legislation that would criminalise support for BDS. (https://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2017/02/25/illusions-of-democracy/)
coercively control the corruptible ICC and UN because they operate within an
international political system susceptible to blackmail, bribery, bullying — (https://dissidentvoice.org/2014/07/israels-modus-operandi-blackmail-bribery-and-bullying/) — the forcing of individual human rights
activists and organisations into silent toleration of international law
violations was more problematic and required alternative strategies including
legislation that criminalised the right to freedom of speech and choice as is
currently the case with regards to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
peaceful movement against Israel. Israel’s response to BDS has been to
surreptitiously orchestrate a proxy war against it by browbeating Western
nations — led by Israel’s perpetually obliging lackey the U.S. — into enacting
legislation that would criminalise support for BDS. (https://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2017/02/25/illusions-of-democracy/)
Israel’s promotion of such repressive
legislation, otherwise known as “lawfare,” was intended to encourage
anti-boycott legislation in friendly capitals around the world including
Canberra, Ottawa, and Washington; to push for lawsuits in Antipodean, European,
and North American courts against pro-BDS individuals and organisations; to
support legal actions against financial institutions that boycott illegal
Jewish settlements and/or Israeli companies; to ban anyone suspected of
supporting BDS from entering Israel; and to ensure the success of such
endeavours by activating a relentless global campaign by unprincipled Western
politicians and pro-Israel lobby groups — led by AIPAC— who would resort to
using Israel’s ultimate weapon of mass distortion by accusing the BDS movement of
being “anti-Semitic.” (http://themillenniumreport.com/2014/08/anti-semitism-the-ultimate-zionist-weapon/)
legislation, otherwise known as “lawfare,” was intended to encourage
anti-boycott legislation in friendly capitals around the world including
Canberra, Ottawa, and Washington; to push for lawsuits in Antipodean, European,
and North American courts against pro-BDS individuals and organisations; to
support legal actions against financial institutions that boycott illegal
Jewish settlements and/or Israeli companies; to ban anyone suspected of
supporting BDS from entering Israel; and to ensure the success of such
endeavours by activating a relentless global campaign by unprincipled Western
politicians and pro-Israel lobby groups — led by AIPAC— who would resort to
using Israel’s ultimate weapon of mass distortion by accusing the BDS movement of
being “anti-Semitic.” (http://themillenniumreport.com/2014/08/anti-semitism-the-ultimate-zionist-weapon/)
“Many of the young people here today are on the front lines of the
battle to oppose the alarming Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement known
as BDS . . . Particularly at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise across
the world, especially in Europe, we must repudiate all efforts to malign,
isolate, and undermine Israel and the Jewish people.”
battle to oppose the alarming Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement known
as BDS . . . Particularly at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise across
the world, especially in Europe, we must repudiate all efforts to malign,
isolate, and undermine Israel and the Jewish people.”
Hillary Clinton, addressing AIPAC’S annual policy conference in March 2016
Verification of Israel’s success in this
particular undertaking is nowhere more apparent than in the U.S. where democracy
has become an illusional joke at the expense of American taxpayers for whom the
reality — while daily providing Israel with $11 million in aid — is that half
of Americans are living below or near the poverty line with over 40 million of
them receiving food stamps; is that in any given month, some 1.7 million
households are living on a cash income of less than $2 per person per day;
is that One out of seven people in the U.S. is living in poverty; is that some
45 million of them are living below the poverty line; is that almost one out of
sixteen of them is living in deep poverty; is that racial and ethnic
minorities, women, children, and families headed by single women are
particularly vulnerable to poverty and deep poverty; is that Blacks and
Hispanics are more likely than whites to be poor, and to be in poverty and deep
poverty; is that children represent more than one-third of the people living in
poverty and deep poverty; is that poverty is a women’s issue with female-headed
families being more likely to be poor; and is that over a quarter of adults
with a disability live in poverty. And lest we forget: According to a recent
study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute
of Literacy, 32 million adults in the U.S. can’t read (14 percent of the
population); 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level; and
19 percent of high school graduates can’t read. Which may explain why AIPAC has
no problem in brainwashing most Americans of whom, incidentally, 62,984,825
voted for an illiterate psychopath to become the next President. (https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ineffable-reality-of-american-democracy-who-is-interfering-in-us-politics-russia-or-israel/5595276)
particular undertaking is nowhere more apparent than in the U.S. where democracy
has become an illusional joke at the expense of American taxpayers for whom the
reality — while daily providing Israel with $11 million in aid — is that half
of Americans are living below or near the poverty line with over 40 million of
them receiving food stamps; is that in any given month, some 1.7 million
households are living on a cash income of less than $2 per person per day;
is that One out of seven people in the U.S. is living in poverty; is that some
45 million of them are living below the poverty line; is that almost one out of
sixteen of them is living in deep poverty; is that racial and ethnic
minorities, women, children, and families headed by single women are
particularly vulnerable to poverty and deep poverty; is that Blacks and
Hispanics are more likely than whites to be poor, and to be in poverty and deep
poverty; is that children represent more than one-third of the people living in
poverty and deep poverty; is that poverty is a women’s issue with female-headed
families being more likely to be poor; and is that over a quarter of adults
with a disability live in poverty. And lest we forget: According to a recent
study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute
of Literacy, 32 million adults in the U.S. can’t read (14 percent of the
population); 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level; and
19 percent of high school graduates can’t read. Which may explain why AIPAC has
no problem in brainwashing most Americans of whom, incidentally, 62,984,825
voted for an illiterate psychopath to become the next President. (https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ineffable-reality-of-american-democracy-who-is-interfering-in-us-politics-russia-or-israel/5595276)
Consequently the gradual subversion of
so-called Western democracies by restrictive legislation is nowhere more
evident than in the U.S. where the the
opening phrase of “We the People” in the preamble to the country’s Constitution
has been replaced by humbug if not treasonous declarations such as that uttered
in September 1998 by the soon to be impeached President Bill “I did not have
sexual relations with that woman” Clinton:
so-called Western democracies by restrictive legislation is nowhere more
evident than in the U.S. where the the
opening phrase of “We the People” in the preamble to the country’s Constitution
has been replaced by humbug if not treasonous declarations such as that uttered
in September 1998 by the soon to be impeached President Bill “I did not have
sexual relations with that woman” Clinton:
“America and Israel share a special bond. Our relations are unique
among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, as a symbol of
freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted . . .
The relationship between our two countries is built on shared understandings
and values. Our peoples continue to enjoy the fruits of our excellent economic
and cultural cooperation as we prepare to enter the twenty-first century.”
among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, as a symbol of
freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted . . .
The relationship between our two countries is built on shared understandings
and values. Our peoples continue to enjoy the fruits of our excellent economic
and cultural cooperation as we prepare to enter the twenty-first century.”
The problem with having legislation that
suppresses criticism of Israel’s systematic violations of international law
with barbaric policies of illegal colonisation and overwhelming Israeli
“Defence” Force Apartheid oppression that amounts to deliberate ethnic
cleansing, is that such legislation can also be used by Western governments to
suppress dissent against their own unpopular polices by “citizens” whose loss
of freedoms transforms them into abject, subservient, powerless, and fearful
subjects. The nature of such fear was noted by Charles A. Weisman in his
book Who is Esau-Edom?: “Ever since the Jews invented the libel
charge of ‘anti-Semitism’ in the 1880s. It was first printed in the Jewish
Encyclopaedia (1901 Vol. 1, p. 641), and has been built up with Jewish money,
organisations, propaganda and lies (such as the Holocaust — Holohoax), so that
now the word is like a snake venom which paralyses one’s nervous system. Even
the mention of the word ‘Jew’ is shunned unless used in a most favourable and
positive context.” For understandable reasons, the insidious use of such
fear has been particularly successful in Germany. (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47528.htm)
suppresses criticism of Israel’s systematic violations of international law
with barbaric policies of illegal colonisation and overwhelming Israeli
“Defence” Force Apartheid oppression that amounts to deliberate ethnic
cleansing, is that such legislation can also be used by Western governments to
suppress dissent against their own unpopular polices by “citizens” whose loss
of freedoms transforms them into abject, subservient, powerless, and fearful
subjects. The nature of such fear was noted by Charles A. Weisman in his
book Who is Esau-Edom?: “Ever since the Jews invented the libel
charge of ‘anti-Semitism’ in the 1880s. It was first printed in the Jewish
Encyclopaedia (1901 Vol. 1, p. 641), and has been built up with Jewish money,
organisations, propaganda and lies (such as the Holocaust — Holohoax), so that
now the word is like a snake venom which paralyses one’s nervous system. Even
the mention of the word ‘Jew’ is shunned unless used in a most favourable and
positive context.” For understandable reasons, the insidious use of such
fear has been particularly successful in Germany. (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47528.htm)
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the
outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretence — the
sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and
untrammelled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes
no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not
a citizen.”
outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretence — the
sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and
untrammelled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes
no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not
a citizen.”
William E. Borah (1865-1940), prominent Republican attorney and longtime U.S.
Senator known as “The Lion of Idaho.”
Senator known as “The Lion of Idaho.”
William Hanna is a freelance writer with published
books the Hiramic Brotherhood of the Third Temple, The Tragedy of Palestine
and its Children, and Hiramic Brotherhood: Ezekiel’s Temple Prophesy which
is also due to be published in Arabic, Chinese, French, Italian,
German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Book and purchase information,
sample chapters, reviews, other articles, videos, and contact details at:
books the Hiramic Brotherhood of the Third Temple, The Tragedy of Palestine
and its Children, and Hiramic Brotherhood: Ezekiel’s Temple Prophesy which
is also due to be published in Arabic, Chinese, French, Italian,
German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Book and purchase information,
sample chapters, reviews, other articles, videos, and contact details at:
