Written by Gamaliel Isaac 4-8-13
As
spring approaches and poisonous copies of the so called Israeli
Apartheid Wall sprout at Western universities during Israel Apartheid
week, and advertisements accusing Israel of apartheid are posted at
Metro North stations it is worthwhile to consider not only the apartheid
policies toward non-Muslims existing in Muslim countries but the
growing apartheid developing in West. Since the latter is hardly ever
mentioned, I will focus on it in this essay, especially apartheid in
England. There are countries in Europe where apartheid is worse than
England such as France and Sweden but a news item from England was the
inspiration of this essay and so I will focus on it. England is where a
member of parliament, George Galloway walked out of a debate with an
Israeli because the Israeli, as Mr. Galloway put it, was ?a supporter of
the apartheid state of Israel.? Israel does not have an official policy
of apartheid the way South Africa did therefore those who like Mr.
Galloway, accuse Israel of being an apartheid state loosely define
apartheid as policies that separate Jews from Arabs. Since Jews and
Arabs live together in Israel the accusation is levied against Israel on
the grounds of the separation wall that separates Palestinian snipers
from Israeli civilians as well as the predominantly Jewish population of
Jewish settlements. In this article I will apply the same loose
definition of apartheid that Mr. Galloway applies to Israel, to England.
In
1290 King Edward I, separated British Christians from Jews by issuing
an edict expelling all Jews from England. Jews were only allowed back in
England 350 years later because the civil wars in Britain had hurt the
economy and Oliver Cromwell hoped that importing Jews would help the
economy recover. Contrary to popular belief, England and not Germany was
the first European country where Jews had to wear an apartheid badge
that distinguished them from non-Jews. Massacres against Jews, such as
the massacre of York in 1190, took place in England hundreds of years
before the Nazis even existed.
British
Apartheid was not limited to Jews. During the second Boer War, the
British, in a form of brutal apartheid, separated Boer civilians from
the general population and put them in concentration camps, where many
children died due to poor hygiene and lack of food.
The
British enforced apartheid in Palestine. During the British mandate,
Muslims living in the Middle East did not want Jews living in their
midst and in the 1940s put pressure on England to stop Jews from
escaping to Palestine. British war ships enforced Islamic apartheid and
blocked Jews on floating wrecks from landing on the beaches of their
Biblical homeland. While Mahmoud Abbas says that no Jews will be allowed
to live in a future state of Palestine, Catherine Ashton, the British
High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the European Union, speaks
out against Jews building homes in Judea and Samaria.
Today,
a new form of apartheid is taking hold in Great Britain. Over 600,000
ethnic Brits have moved out of London alone over the last decade, many
to escape the Islamization of the areas of London in which they grew up.
That number is about equal to the number of Jews expelled from Arab
lands since 1948.
Muslims
are only 5% of the population in England yet one in 5 inmates in high
security prisons are Muslim and 1 in 5 teenage crimes are committed by
Muslims. Muslim children are persecuting children in British schools, in
fact in February, a 9 year old British boy committed suicide rather
than face continued persecution by them. In 2007 a 15 year old schoolboy
named Henry Webster was beaten with a hammer by a huge gang of Muslim
pupils and was left brain-damaged. Since then the school was the scene
of numerous violent incidents involving Muslim youth. Muslim men
threaten British schoolgirls daily. Muslim gangs have raped young
British girls and forced them into prostitution. Women are being told to
cover up in Islamic garb or else.
Muslim
Patrols have been accosting residents in London, demanding they abide
by the laws of what they claim to be Muslim areas. Posters have been
appearing in England which read: ?You are entering a Sharia-controlled
zone ? Islamic rules enforced.? Dr Michael Nazir-Ali the Bishop of
Rochester said that if a lost Englishman enters a Muslim no go area he
is beaten up for trespassing. Mark Tapson wrote that In the Tower
Hamlets in East London ? or as the Muslims there refer to it, ?the
Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets? ? imams known as the ?Tower Hamlets
Taliban? issue death threats to unveiled women, and gays are attacked by
gangs of young Muslim men. Muslims Against the Crusades has launched an
ambitious campaign to turn twelve British cities into independent
Islamic states, including Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and
what the group calls ?Londonistan.?
A
large percentage of Muslim immigrants who enter the European Union
arrive via Greece. Greece has built a fence to keep them out that is
patrolled by the European Union. One would think that if Europeans
patrol the Greek fence, they would understand the need by Israelis for a
fence. One would think that a non-Muslim Briton who had to flee his
home because it became a no-go area claimed by Muslim immigrants, would
be skeptical of Muslim claims that Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria
belong to them. One would expect that British victims of Muslim riots
would sympathize with Israeli victims of the Palestinian Intifada. One
would think that having been victims of Muslim terrorism the British
would sympathize with Israeli victims of Muslim terror.
Instead one finds rampant hostility in England and the rest of Europe
to the state of Israel. Not only that but a European Commission poll of
7,500 Europeans found that 59% believed that Israel is the top threat
to world peace, ahead of countries such as, Afghanistan and Iran.
Britons,
instead of worrying about the Israeli ?apartheid? wall, would be wise
to worry about what measures England can take to protect its citizens
from the growing threat of terrorism. Instead of demanding that Israel
keep Jews from moving into Judea and Samaria these Britons should worry
about being forced out of their own communities. Instead of worrying
whether an Israeli builds a home in Jerusalem the British would be wise
to worry about the giant mosque being built in their neighborhood.
Instead of demanding that Israel flood itself with Palestinian refugees,
the British should concern themselves with the rising population of
Muslim extremists in England. Instead of condemning Jews for being the
greatest threat to world peace they should remember that buried under
mountains of Iran, every moment of the day and night, centrifuges are
spinning.
Author’s web site: www.gamalielisaac.com
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