Robin Shepherd
robinshepherdonline.com
02 July '10
The eminent Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz frequently provides a useful analogy about Israel’s predicament in the tribunals of international law. It is analogous, he argues, to the position that black people faced in the American south of the 1930s. The legal system would work fine in judging a case between a white man and another white man. A black man facing another black man may get a lesser degree of justice due to the insouciance of the system, but a reasonable degree of fairness could still be expected. Put a white man against a black man, however, and the black man never stood a chance due to the weight of the prejudices against him.
Dershowitz’s analogy is powerful and striking. But a decision taken in a British court this week suggests that analogies with America in the 1930s are no longer necessary. Bigotry against the Jewish state is now so entrenched in contemporary British society that juries have begun to acquit criminals merely if they can show that they acted against Israeli interests. No other defence is necessary.
This extraordinary moment in modern British legal history took place this week in the southern English coastal city of Brighton — a city known for its strong affiliations with the Green Party and other leftist causes. It transpired in a case involving five defendants who had broken into the EDO MBM owned arms factory in January 2009 at the time of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.
For a more detailed and disturbing article, Melanie Phillips:The hellish histrionics of Hove Propaganda Court
The five admitted breaking into the factory — which was exporting military equipment at the time to Israel — and causing £180,000 ($275,000) worth of damage. Despite actually admitting to an offence that would usually carry a substantial jail sentence, the jury acquitted them, accepting their defence that although they had committed a crime they were doing so in order to prevent the greater offence of Israeli “war crimes”.
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The British authorities tried to kidnap an 8 yr old Jewish child from Israel last week, claiming he's not Jewish and that his mother isn't and that her marriage certificate issued by the
ReplyDeleteJerusalem Rabbinate this past Chanukah was forged.
Why do they want the 8 yr old? Because under British law, once they take your older kids from you they have automatic license to take any newborn babies, even from a different father or mother; and this feeds the corrupt adoption system they have going in Britain.
The British are basically in the market of selling children these days.
The Brits are proving themselves to be the same kind of trash the Germans proved themselves to be 80 years. Our government, a bought out pack of flunkies, will do nothing. We ourselves will have to take action and take vengeance on the British trash.
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