Where Richard Silverstein Tries To Suggest Neo-Nazi Was Pro-Israel

A few days ago, British Labour MP Jo Cox died after being shot and stabbed multiple times by a man who apparently shouted “Britain first” as he launched the attack. And while she was certainly no friend of Israel – being a proponent of BDS – I was shocked by her savage murder.

There are those who have tried to politicize her murder, like anti-Israel douchebloggerTM Richard Silverstein, whose immediate thought after hearing of Cox’s murder seems to have been “How can I blame this on Israel?”

Alas, Silverstein was informed Mair was a “dedicated supporter of the National Alliance (NA), the once premier neo-Nazi organization in the US.”

And indeed, it looks like Mair was a vile Jew hater, in addition to being a vile murderer.

Thomas Mair was also known to have bought books from a US-based neo-Nazi group, including guides on how to build homemade guns and explosives, according to an anti-hate campaign group in the US.

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In the US, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) published receipts that appeared to show Mair bought, among other books, a manual on how to make a homemade pistol from the National Alliance.

The receipts, some of which date back to the 1990s, showed Mair spent more than $620 (£436) on literature from the group, which advocates the creation of an all-white homeland and the eradication of Jewish people.

Which you’d think would be a showstopper for any idea that he murdered Cox because he was pro-Israel.

But not to someone like Silverstein, who’s hatred of Israel trumps logic and reason.

And sure enough, in a post in which he also states the Orlando terrorist was not a radicalized Islamist but rather just a self-hating gay man, Silverstein continues to try to tie Cox’s murder with Israel.

(http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/06/18/orlando-killer-not-racicalized-rather-motivated-by-gay-self-hatred/)

In recent days, Britain has seen the horrific assassination of pro-immigrant activist and MP, Jo Cox, by a white supremacist, Thomas Mair.  The most salient element of the story appears to be his repeated shouting of “Britain First,” as he killed her and was being subdued by law enforcement.  The slogan is the name of a white supremacist political party campaigning against British membership in the EU (Cox was an ardent supporter of continued membership).

One of Cox’s most well-known missions was supporting Syrian refugees and encouraging their resettlement in Britain.  This was a position adamantly at odds with British far-right groups like the English Defense League and Britain First.  Cox was also a member of the parliamentary Friends of Palestine caucus.

One of my Twitter followers tweeted to me a telling YouTube video (above) in which Britain First leader, Paul Golding, shouts at his detractors his admiration for Israel.  This is a view common to the entire UK far-right.  It derives in part from its devout Islamophobia.  Thus, it sees Israel as a Middle Eastern bulwark against the evils of Islam.

At this point, the full range of Mair’s motivations for this crime are not known.  While it’s clear that his hatred of Cox’s support for immigration and EU membership were primary motives, it’s too early to know whether Israel and Palestine also played a role.

No matter whether this is true or not, it’s important to note that the most murderous elements of the European far-right have a deep and abiding affection for Israel.  Not because they love Jews, but because they hate the same enemy as Israel’s: Muslims.

Note how Silverstein admits he has no proof of the killer’s affection for Israel, yet still tries to make the connection. What he does not mention in his post is the killer’s disdain for Jews, something he was clearly aware of from the tweet he received and acknowledged above. Alas, mentioning that destroys his thesis.

Silverstein’s pathological hatred of Israel is already well-known, but publishing a post in which he tries to suggest a neo-Nazi may have murdered someone for opposing Israel shows just how far gone he really is.

11 thoughts on “Where Richard Silverstein Tries To Suggest Neo-Nazi Was Pro-Israel”

  1. That piece of shit Silverstein even tried to portray Eichman as a Zionist, so what do you expect. Of course, he whines when people tie Muslim killers to Islam, but has no problem connecting someone who actually hates Jews, to Israel. The thing is, he doesn’t actually believe anything he writes. He’s desperate for attention, so makes these crazy remarks. Who would pay attention to him if not for the “Jew who hates Israel” ploy.

  2. For those who don’t know Hebrew, Yonatan Yeshurun’s brilliant tweet above translates as, more or less:

    Translation: Our Elders in England have lost the Protocols that preceded the murder. The honest(?) finder is requested to send a copy

    A reference to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, beloved of anti-Semites (sorry, I mean anti-Zionists) everywhere.

  3. I would complain about his misusing the obscure Rabbinic term Tikun Olam, but that term is so misused today I kind of hope he ruins it for use.

    1. tikkun olam is not obscure. it is misused by the tikkun olamnicks…which is how one should refer to reform, consevative or any pseudo jewish cult that has replaced keeping the mitzvot with the concept.

      i have asked these tikkun olamnicks to provide me the source that proves it is either a mitzvah or a central tenet of judaism…this is the closest i have gotten
      and what it proves is the disdain the reform has for halacha and torah authorities.

      http://www.zeek.net/706tohu/

      1. It is central to the philosophy of Rav Cook, I believe, which means that its main real practitioners are the settlers… But I mean obscure because it is actually used for just a few rules in the mishna. Years ago I took it out of the header of the Judaism article in Wikipedia and replaced it with monotheism, which wasn’t there(!). I’m afraid to look….

        1. have a citation where rav kook said that tikkun olam,as it is currently understood by reform/conservative jews?

          tikun olam as practiced by reform/covervative and mouthed by some pseudo observant jews, is less than a century old. in a 3000 year old religion, how can a central tenet be less than 100 years old?

          tikun olam,as practiced is not judaism. it is a replacement for judaism. it is it’s own religion and from now on, i shall refer to practitioners as tikun olamnicks.

          and like the hellenist jews before them, they must be swept aside

  4. It is importan to keep in mind that Sliverstein himself, in his blog, has stated that he comes from a family with a history of severe mental illness, that he comes from a “dysfunctional family” and that he had a “troubled childhood”. t think this explains a lot. Normally, someone like him would be ignored. In fact, he is not known in the Jewish community in Seattle. However, major news media outlets such as the New York Times and Ha’aretz have been bamboozled into publicizing his rantings which should be a lesson to us on how much we can rely on the media. Israellycool is performing a major service to the Jewish community in exposing this man.

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