Danny Danon Israel’s UN Ambassador, Benjamin Netanyahu, a war criminal, Gideon Saar, Israel’s Foreign Minister, Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, Bezalel Smotrich, Finance Minister and Israel Katz, Minister of Defence are all blaming the murder of two Israeli embassy members on the rise of antisemitism, which they say has been exacerbated by comments condemning Israel’s recent actions in Gaza by Starmer, Carney and Macron. Actions that have seen hundreds killed by the IDF and the destruction of hospitals. This is on top of using starvation as a weapon, a lesson learned from the Warsaw Ghetto. Though welcome, it has taken far too many months for leaders in the G7 to condemn the atrocities being perpetrated in Gaza by Israel. Let me also add that these very same Governments and leaders have, in practical terms, have done next to nothing to stop the slaughter in Gaza.
The unfortunate murders in Washington and the rise in Antisemitism, which I condemn, are on the heads of the new Goebbels, the new Führer, the new Ribbentrop, the new Himmler, the new Von Krosigk and the new Blomberg, not on those leaders who only recently have openly condemned Israel’s actions but have done nothing more. The reality is that the Israeli government has been emboldened by the lack of condemnation and action to restrain its genocidal behaviour. This inaction has resulted in the killing of 60,000 Palestinians, 30,000 of whom are women and children, in addition to turning Gaza into a lunar landscape.
The majority of the Israeli electorate may well now favour a ceasefire, but they are doing little to impose their will. If the Israeli public does not know by now that their elected government do not give a dam about the remaining hostages, otherwise known as fellow Israeli citizens, you truly have been Nuremberged. I am and always have been a supporter of a democratic Israeli state, alongside the need for a democratic Palestine; this should be more obvious to Israelis now than it has ever been.
Maybe the Israeli electorate could learn from the 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa, where 20,000 school students protested the imposition of the use of Afrikaans in their schools. In a brutal response by the police, hundreds of students were injured and hundreds killed. I doubt that the Israeli security service would do that to hundreds of thousands of its own citizens. If any Israeli believes that the aforementioned guys are acting in your national interest, you have either been asleep, have no humanity, or have also embraced the goal “from the river to the sea, not a Palestinian will be seen.” It is hard to believe that a community on which the worst crimes against humanity were committed are looking the other way, from atrocities being committed on their doorstep and on their behalf. A few hundred brave Israelis have come out and protested against the horrors being perpetrated in Gaza. However, like Peter Beinart, author of the groundbreaking book Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza, they are now treated as if they have committed treason against Jews and the Jewish state. The Israeli government is undermining the legacy of the Holocaust and those who survived the death camps, and who went on to tell us of man’s inhumanity to man, without an ounce of bitterness. The Israeli government and, by association, large swathes of the Israeli public have rendered the phrase “Never Again” as meaningless.
Finally, a glimmer of hope and honesty from Yair Golan, a left-wing politician and former deputy commander of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). He reported to have said “Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country, He went on to say on Israeli public radio, “A sane state does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set itself the goal of depopulating the population,”. His comment about “killing babies as a hobby” was confirmed when, on Friday, an Israeli airstrike on a house south of Khan Younis killed 9 children of Alaa Al Najjar, a paediatrician at Al Tahrir Clinic in the Nasser Medical Complex, one of the only hospitals functioning in Gaza. The attack on her house took place when she was at work; her husband, also a doctor, was badly injured.
Let’s all hope that Mr Golan is the catalyst to finally seeing the removal of this Israeli government, men who demean the word “Chosen” and whose inhumanity and values are neither Jewish nor gentile.
In case you are thinking, no, I haven’t forgotten the victims of October 7th, but remember the ratio is now getting closer to 1:100.
Suneil Sharma
May 25th 2025
The Gob 
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