The Zionist Empire Strikes Back
Well it’s not really an empire and this is barely a strike, but I like a bit of mild table turning. I don’t support any cultural boycotts and obviously not when they’re uniquely directed at Israel. So it’s nice to hear that a few civic minded Israel supporters gave a leading BDS-hole a taste of her own medicine.
Miriam Margolyes has been mentioned here at Israellycool a few times. Most recently she was one of the more prominent names on a mainly C and D list of celebrities calling for Israel’s Habima theatre company to be boycotted when they performed at The Globe theatre in London.
My earlier postings about how anti-Zionists are really just racists seem to be completely on the money with Miriam. It may be unintentional because their own stupidity causes them to hate Zionism based on the Jew haters definition of Zionism instead of what it really is. And the clip of her on Richard’s page saying how few of her friends are black to Will.i.am is particularly foul.
The indefatigable Richard Millet reports on the flag waving protest outside her latest show in London, head to his post for video and more.
Early Saturday evening a small group of pro-Israel activists stood outside Arts Depot in Finchley, north London handing out leaflets to people going into see Miriam Margolyes’ show Dickens’ Women.
The activists explained to them that Margolyes had signed a letter to The Guardian that asked The Globe to withdraw its invitation to Habima (The National Theatre of Israel) to give two performances of The Merchant of Venice as one of its 37 Shakespeare plays in 37 languages season.
The letter was silent on performances to be given by theatre companies from China, Russia, The Palestinian territories, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Turkey etc. despite human rights atrocities in those places.
BTW, taken from a comment on that post by Jonathan Hoffman, here is a brief run down of her anti-Israel CV.
Miriam Margolyes –
- Appeared in the antisemitic play “Seven Jewish Children” in Australia and as a result was dropped from Jewish Care fundraiser event
- Tried to stop the appearance of Israel’s National Theatre Company Habima at the Globe Theatre in London last month
- Made an antisemitic comparison of the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust and the current conditions for residents of Gaza (Andrew Marr Show, BBC TV, 2010)
- Supported the Enough! Anti-Israel rally in London in 2007
- Has said “The people who run Israel now can look at Arabs and see vermin, and that is what the Nazis did”
Nice lady. She’ll need more than Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility to hide from that list.
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Cheers, Brian. Great headline. Love it. Wish I’d thought of it. You should be making up them up for The Sun especially after their:
Cane Ukraine, Wayne…and avoid Spain pain.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4380990/Wayne-Rooney-out-to-spark-England-goal-fest-against-Ukraine.html
As it says on my bathroom door: We aim to please (you aim too please).
And I’m trying to recover the use of the word “indefatigable”: I fear that word has needed rehabilitation ever since George Galloway used it for Saddam Hussein!
Aren’t you kind of trodding on sacred AussieDave ground here? I feel like I just got flashed by a renegade Ewok or something.
Helen Thomas’ twin sister?
A really productive evening . Most theatre goers were unaware of her track record and were deeply concerned that she was a signature to a letter attempting to get her fellow actors ( not that playing a witch in Harry Potter qualifies her as such ) banned from appearing at the Globe .
She plays the mildly dotty elderly dowager to perfection . Underneath the facade is a vindictive biased individual whose supposed humanitarian ideals stops short of the suffering caused to the israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism .
In reality , she is a cultural fascist and hypocrite and while we didn’t adopt the same gutter tactics as her Palestinian Solidarity thugs , the three of us accomplished far more by simply engaging with her audience .
Margoyles and those of her ilk should not expect one way traffic from here on .
We need more grass roots activists to follow her global tour in order to protest against this Morally reprehensible cultural fascist and bigot .
The Zionist empire oh my God. Two lunatics from the idiot fringe of the ZF, that the sane community will have no truck with. and a man with a camera.
Do try to be slightly less ridiculous.
Thank you for making my point: the notion of a Zionist Empire IS completely ridiculous!
Colonies are not always indicative of Empire. For example the Athenians established colonies in Asia Minor, Italy, Sicily etc but no one speaks of an Athenian Empire.
And for the truth about this particular little band of nut jobs see here
http://.wordpress.com/the-zionist-federationedl-alliance
We Brits don’t get our definition of Zionism from Malay tweets.
There is no chosen nation, Jesus the Christ fulfils the promise. Anything else is a lie. Israel is an occupier, and should be sanctioned. If that fails, war is the only option to get if off Palestinian land.
Giving superior rights to Jews, allowing immingration of Jews and killing or exiling the natives is not something that is in sync with British Christian values.
Bring back the Crusades, I say! Or better yet, the Spanish Inquisition. Those were real Christian values.
Jim the Crusades were pretty mild compared to the genocides and holocausts starting with the ones in the Old Testament. Whats sauce for the goose isn’t sauce for the gander? Samson the first suicide bomber, you could say.
More Christians and others have died at the hands of Jews from the Bolsheviks to the Zionists than the entire Crusader head count of Jewish victims. If that didn’t make you think that the ‘covenent’ people cannot be so, and if they are, why shouldn’t others do the same and be condemned for it? Not approving the crusades, just saying you know, your hypocricy.
Well if you try to ignore all that links Jews to Israel and Jerusalem (whist not actually stating on what grounds the English have a right to England) then you ARE getting your definition of Zionism from a Malay tweeter or even worse. And by worse I’m thinking Christian replacement theology. That’s only one grade better than Islamic replacement theology.
Those who are English by birth still have superior rights when it comes to claiming UK citizenship than those born in Turkey right? I know you’ve given up with the EU but you still give preferential treatment to those born on your soil under certain other conditions?
And by the way, when are you going to do the democratic thing and allow the 2 million legal resident aliens the right to vote in general elections? Surely you can’t be a democracy until every Pole, German or Frenchman can help pick your PM!
As and when the so called “Palestinians” prove they had a thriving, non-Jewish civilisation with art, culture and archaeologic remains 3000 years ago and with traditions that speak of Israel and Jerusalem continuously since despite enforced absence by some (not all) then I’ll step aside.
What they’re doing now is not war, it’s terrorism. Let them wage war, and take theirs chances. Although, historically, they started war, lost, then whined to be given what they wanted to gain through war.
Your dead pagan Jewish mangod deity on a stick was nobody’s messiah.
All of his “disciples” died for a lie.
And, you ignorant christian buffoon, you’ve overlooked what is written in the very bible you claim to believe in:
The Covenant of Sinai is Eternal! Thanks for playing.
Shyguy, I was stating mine and Christian beliefs in response to the article that called the Brits stupid for not being boot licky to Israel.
You are free to believe what you want, I have no objection to you not believing in Jesus. I do object to your thinking I should be the Christian you want me to be, by quoting out of context verses. Those don’t mean what you think they mean. They mean that the law was fulfilled through Jesus who also taught “My kingdom is not of this world”. That is our belief. Not replacement theology. Israel as a land based people is not God’s people in Christianity.
Two millenia ago, the followers of the Christ, had nobody when the pharisees were inciting the Romans to crucify him. That won’t happen today, Sir.
You won’t impose your beliefs on Christians then condemn them when they reject your heresay. Nor will we stand by if you do it to others, like the Palestinians.
Hey James 1975
Shouldn”t you be out on a ledge some where? Also every time you ride the London tube – remember that one of your Pock-ee-stani born citizens might blow you up. Now piss off and die!
That was a disgusting comment, calling Jesus Christ a “dead pagan mangod on a stick.” I don’t believe Jesus was divine, but an awful lot of people do. He certainly was a great human being.
Coming from a flaming rectal orifice like yourself, however, it’s no surprise to me that you made the comment you did.
You are despicable and beneath contempt. Gehen Sie in Meer scheissen.
Leitzanus (mockery in English, I guess) is a great sin, except for idolatry. Shy Guy only said the truth.
How do you know he was a great man? Were you there? 2000+ years is just a minute away in your 13 billion years theory, right?
No, you stinking miserable POS, I wasn’t there 2,000 years ago. Nor were were you, putz, to disprove what I wrote.
On the other hand, there’s plenty of proof the universe is billions of years old. If I had a time machine, I’d send you back 65 million years and drop you off right in the path of a T-Rex. If you somehow survived your encounter with Dino you’d get it when that asteroid crashed into what’s now the Yucatan shortly thereafter.
Like I said before, millions, billions, what’s the difference.
As long as your lobster and cheeseburger (maybe a McBacon with cheese on Yom Kippur?) are tasty, enjoy them. Just watch out not to choke on them.
You’re just as much out of line as James1975 is. Both imbecilic zealots; different sides of the same coin.
Now go shove a lobster, claws-first, where the sun never shines.
Sorry, no lobsters around here and btw, you’re a lobster-shover, like you said before.
It’s sad, oh so sad, the only thing that comes from you is either fecal orientated or the place it comes out from.
Which leads me to think…ah forget it, it’s not worth it.
I had my fun with you and hopefully lots more to come!
Remeber: Keep it civilized
P.S.: I’m enjoying this so much! You sound more like you get angry…remember this is Israellycool, so keep it cool!
Being the dunderhead you are, Tommy Boy, you may not realize that the person you really insulted wasn’t me, but my wife. I consider myself very fortunate indeed to be married to this wonderful, intelligent and beautiful woman, Protestant that she is. Funny, I don’t get this crap from her side of the family; they treat me like a king, Jewish that I am.
One way in which I don’t fit the “Jewish” stereotype is that I’m a big, muscular gym rat who bench presses well over 300 pounds, and does it regularly. Actually, most Jews don’t fit it either except for Haredim, whom if they’re not fat-asses are pencil necked geeks who couldn’t whup a 14-year-old unless it was one of their sons.
Drop dead – literally.
Not that I endorse what James1975 said in any way. I guess this website, like Tikun Olam and Failed Messiah, attracts its share of idiots on both sides.
Comparing this site with Tikkunolame (yes, I know how to spell it correctly) is an insult! Shame on you! (the failed messiah one I don’t know…)
Tom, I didn’t compare this website with Sliverschwanz’s except to point out that idiots post on both (as well as FM). Idiots such as yourself.
You’ve just proven my point, asshole.
I see…cursing and calling people names is probably much easier than arguing with facts. Oh well, how low Morris, how low have you fallen?
I understand he types to us from the hole of his outhouse.
Morris, piss be upon him.
Arguing with facts? Such as the “fact” that the universe was created 5,772 years ago, shmuck?
Hi James
Do you have a date yet for the rapture
Hopefully you will be the first to take the golden chariot
The ignorant malicious responses to my criticism of Zionism are the reason Zionism is evil.
Brian thinks he can impose his beliefs on others and then when they reject his imposition, he thinks it is ‘replacement theology’.
Sir, you and others follow what you want. Your comparing British not giving rights to Poles and French to vote is absolutely pathetic. We give equal rights to all. Christian values demand it, we do not impose second class status, and oppress non Christians.
Poles and French can take British nationality, then they can vote. Brits who emigrate, are expected to be loyal to their country. Not a fifth column for Britian, getting peopple to fight wars, for Britian.
Jews in England have equal rights, they can immigrate legally. Christians and others cannot emigrate to Israel. Israel is an evil aggressor. To even compare Britian to Israel is an insult.
Even if you believe the covenent is valid for yourself, do you think it obligates us to accept it? No Sir.
One Question:
Do you believe that your ‘covenent’ gives you the right to ethnically cleanse people living in a land they chose to after Jews left? We will never this.
If this is Zionism, it is doomed.
“Christians and others cannot emigrate to Israel.”
Oh, boo hoo! Every sovereign nation has the right to decide who it will admit. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights gives persons the right to leave a country, not the right to enter. Britain chose to admit hordes of Muslims and is now paying the price for it.
“To even compare Britain to Israel is an insult.”
Right, it is an insult to Israel. After all, the British Empire just happened spontaneously, no?
“Christians and others cannot emigrate to Israel.”
Yes they can. But they can’t be fast-tracked to citizenship like Jews can (if they so chose).
As for the rest of your anti=Jewish crap, it’s mostly lies with a heavy dose of distortion. I’m sorry you’ve been so deceived.
James
I want to be one of the saved Jews
Praise be the lord our host and saviour
Three hail Mary’s etc
Where can I pick up my Golden Chariot of fire and which year is it .
Nothing more than 2 years and fully loaded -
By the way I think you may have taken a wrong turn
Try Jew watch . Better still take a subscription .
Hi James
Ever heard of ‘ius sanguinis’? For example ethnic Germans get priority for German citizenship. I guess that’s wrong too in your book – after all, you would not want to be accused of inconsistency now would you?
http://www.toponline.org/books/kits/germany%20in%20europe/handout10.pdf
She looks and sounds like a thoroughly revolting old communist.
By the way Miriam, Will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas has performed in Israel.