Reply #27: As far as proof that the extreme right isn't trying to penetrate

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the left, I can give you two names.

The first is Gilad Atzmon (an opinion piece by this racist was unforunately posted in this forum), a man born Jewish in Israel but who now engages in anti-semitic rhetoric so foul it would make a drunk Mel Gibson blush. Mr. Atzmon has been invited to speak for 2-3 consecutive years at the SWP's Communist rally/convention in the UK. Whatever one may say about him, he is certainly on the left. Though, it bears noting, that UK Anti-Zionist Jewish organizations have denounced his bigotry and embrace of Neo-Nazi rhetoric and propaganda.

Mr. Atzmon is close friends and a strong ideological ally (regarding Israel) of a man who calls himself Israel Shamir. Israel Shamir labels himself a Russian-born Jew who has lived in Israel--hoping that will shield him from criticisms of his anti-semitic (Christ killers rhetoric, etc) speech.

Who is Israel Shamir?

Israel Shamir is a writer and journalist who is known as a controversial anti-Zionist. He is a citizen of Sweden, where his legal name is Adam Ermash <1> (previously Jöran Jermas). Critics (including several pro-Palestinian activists) have accused Shamir of anti-Semitism and of misrepresenting his background and career.

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Shamir is an active supporter of coalition and interaction of Far Left and Far Right. He maintains links with, and is supported by far right activists and in many countries <33>, including Horst Mahler <34> in Germany, Martin Webster <35> in the UK, and David Duke <36> in the USA.

He has berated Arab-Americans for demonstrating against the National Alliance who demonstrated against Zionists saying; "I would bless whoever supports the cause of Palestine without checking their ideological credentials. I bless all supporters of Palestine full stop." This attitude was based on Shamir's concept of balance: "The world is full of bad guys, and things are good only if and when the bad guys balance each other. Saddam would balance Sharon, while the White supremacists would balance the Jewish supremacists."<37>

In Poisoning Wells<25>, Shamir repeats: "The Jews and non-Jews would be able to live together happily, after the Jewish supremacy trend will be vanquished. However, until it is achieved, we, the friends of Palestine, should seek understanding and cooperation with all possible allies, black, white, red, green or rainbow, as blessed are the seekers of peace."<25>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Shamir

More on Israel Shamir:

Here is the background to my hostility towards Israel Shamir, who also writes under the names of Schmerlin, Robert David, Vassili Krasevsky and Jöran Jermas. I cannot vouch for which of these is the real Israel Shamir:

Shamir is apparently a right-wing Russian journalist, who pretends to be an Israeli Jewish leftist. He claims to live in Jaffa, and may well have a home there, but he also seems to live in Sweden. He uses a Swedish email address, and his website used to be hosted there. His son was deported from Israel to Sweden, and when Shamir tried to sell Nazi memorabilia to David Irving, he wrote to him from 16 Dalagatan, Stockholm, phone and fax [phone].

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Last year, he announced his “conversion” to Greek Orthodox Christianity; I’m sure he was a Christian long before this, but found it useful to pose as a Jew. I stress his Christianity because it is key to his positions. He subscribes to the most anti-Jewish strand of Greek Orthodoxy, and regularly denounces “the Jews” (or “the Mammonites,” as he sometimes calls us) as Christ-killers.

His essay “Christmas Greetings to Hellenes”<1> is revealing. He writes: “The Jews are forever fighting Christ and the Church; there is no chance for peace in the Holy Land unless the position of the Synagogue is undermined and the Jews saved by the Church…only the Orthodox Church can offer true salvation to the Jews escaping their supremacist creed.... There should be an effort to help the Israeli Jews to reach salvation. It can’t be separated from the question of Palestinian clergy, for the Palestinian clergy can show the Israelis that the way of the Church is also the true path to peace.”

In his 2001 Easter Message he wrote: “The Jewish supremacy forces and the greed worshippers united again to crucify Christ…. Two thousand years ago, the spirit of brotherhood rose again, to give hope for the second joust. If he is defeated again, we all shall become forever slaves to our faceless masters. They will destroy the Mother Earth herself, turn her into waste lands of Mordor. They need this victory to bind U.S. together by the dark forces of domination. Let U.S. deny them, this time.”<2>

I’m not given to looking for anti-Jewish racism under every stone; but I think that, in this case, it is shouting from the roof-tops! Like many U.S. racists, he refers to the forces of ZOG (Zionist Government) to explain the behavior of the U.S., where he writes: “This brings us back, to the Fifth Element of Luc Besson, for in the movie as in real life, Zog is not an independent force. A slave of Mammon, a servant of the Shadow, he is helping the Dark force fulfill its metaphysical task, to blot out the Light of Christ and to turn our world into Godless desert. That is why he sends bulldozers to wipe out flowers in Palestine, sends troops to sack Baghdad and Damascus, threatens Paris and Moscow, perverts Christianity.”<3>

Other essays are titled “The Vampire Killers,” “Poisoning Wells,” “Kugel Eaters,” “Bloodcurdling Libel” (in which he claims that Jews really did murder Christian children to use their blood in matzo,<4> “New Portnoy’s Complaint,” “The Elders of Zion” and the “Masters of Discourse” (where he argues that it doesn’t matter if the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are a forgery; they are true in any case), and other titles clearly designed to stigmatise Jews. This is not incidental; his comment on Le Pen’s success in the first round of the French elections was “Le Pen is a bad guy in my books, but bad guys will be called to undo the excessive Jewish power if the good guys fail to do it.”<5>

http://www.socialistviewpoint.org/sept_04/sept_04_22.html

From the extreme left to the extreme right in one link.