The Jewish Communities in Britain may not support the BNP, however, it is possible that the Euro-nationalist parties might be able to support the Kahanists in Israel.
Yes.
But it is not going to happen, is it?
Here's one lady who is highly skeptical of the BNP:
November 12, 2006
The troika of bigotryby Melanie Phillips
The unholy alliance between left-wingers and Islamic fascists — ‘We are all Hezbollah now’ — has been much discussed. Less noticed, but no less remarkable, is that both Islamists and their left-wing allies are almost indistinguishable, in their discourse of hate towards Jews and Israel, from white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
Now yet another twist is being given to this union of unspeakables. The British left and the neo-fascist British National Party are engaged in a grotesque tactical two-step around the issue of the Jews.
In an attempt to shed its thuggish image and win votes, the BNP leadership has repeatedly claimed that it has renounced the party’s defining antisemitism. In the BNP newsletter, party theorist John Bean criticised the ‘Judeo-obsessives’ in the ranks. With no sense of irony, he wrote that it was foolish to tar all Jews as villains when ‘only some of them’ were wrong-doers, and that they should be treated ‘like any other foreign people’ and as neither ‘intrinsically evil nor always the enemy’.
Don’t you just love that ‘always’? Of course, the whole thing is beyond satire. Visceral Jew-haters such as the BNP don’t suddenly see the light; indeed, as is plain from the above, even the language they use in attempting to disavow the prejudice is riddled with it. They remain as obsessed with ‘the Jewish question’ as they ever were. The only thing that has changed is their strategy.
They are trying to bury their reputation for thuggery and neo-fascism, and to pose instead as a respectable nationalist party defending Britain against the threat to its way of life. It won’t wash. Like all fascist parties, the BNP manipulate for their own ends genuine concerns that the political class has brushed aside. The concern today is radical Islamism. But the BNP’s platform against Muslims masks a racist hostility towards all immigrants, foreigners and Jews.
Despite the manifest absurdity of the BNP’s attempt to cosy up to the Jews, however, the left has seized on its manoeuvrings in order to smear Jews and Zionists as being the neo-fascists’ natural allies.
In the Communist Party’s Morning Star newspaper last September, Geoff Brown cited both the BNP’s support for Israel against Hezbollah, and chairman Nick Griffin’s support for the Jewish writer Bat Ye’or who has warned of an Islamist takeover of Europe, as evidence of a Jewish/fascist axis.
As was clear from this article, such a vicious attempt to link the Jews with the fascists was prompted in large measure by an attempt to bury the link between Islamic fascism and the left.
At a deeper level, however, it also solves a major intellectual problem for left-wingers. Abhorrence of the Holocaust is a defining issue for their self-image as anti-fascists and anti-racists. But hatred of Israel, founded on the ashes of the Shoah, has come to be no less defining an issue for that same self-image. With such a fundamental contradiction, something has to give.
One way to do it is subliminally to remove the Jews from the Holocaust. Since the left claim that the Jews of Israel have now turned into Nazis and that Muslims are the new Jews, it is a logical next step to invent an alliance between the Jews and the BNP —with the neo-fascists eagerly playing along with this odious fiction.
There is thus a fearful symmetry. The BNP believe Holocaust denial is essential to remove a major encumbrance to the destruction of democracy. The left have now invented their own form of Holocaust denial to remove a major encumbrance to the destruction of Israel.
The parallels go wider and deeper. Thus the former BNP chairman John Tyndall has ranted about ‘The wrath and hatred of organised Jewry’ which was on display in the ‘insane war in Iraq’ being waged in the interests of, guess who, Israel. Thus John Bean wrote: ‘None of this is to deny, of course, that Jews like Paul Wolfowitz , who engineered a war in which British soldiers are dying to prop up a New World Order that plans the liquidation of Britain, are complete bastards.’ Thus Nick Griffin has written that the neo-cons are ‘an unofficial overseas agitprop department of Israel’s ruling Likud party’.
Now where else, I wonder, have we heard this kind of garbage about Iraq and Wolfowitz and the right-wing Jewish cabal controlling American foreign policy? As Andrew McKibbin remarked about Griffin’s comment, in another article in the Morning Star: ‘One could read the above words in the Guardian!’
Never was a truer word spoken. The fact is that the left and the neo-fascists share more than either would care to admit. The Jews are the victims of both of them.
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