Some disgusting “anarchists”

14Nov09

From the CST blog:

The Jerusalem Post reports:

Unknown vandals defaced tombstones and spray-painted anti-Semitic and anti-Israel graffiti at the Jewish cemetery in the Polish seaside resort city of Sopot, near Gdansk.

Tombstones in seaside Polish city Sopot were vandalized during All Saints’ Day.

Inscriptions such as “Israel = The Third Reich,” “Free Palestine” and “Stop the Jewish domination” were among those scrawled on a number of graves as well as the wall surrounding the burial ground. [Read the rest]

The original report is here.

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Jenny Tonge’s Jobbik connection

13Nov09

In the week that the BNP have formed a formal alliance with Jobbik, the Hungarian fascist party, why is the connection of anti-Zionist Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Jenny Tonge apparently only of interest to the Jewish press? In reverse chronological order, see here, here, here. Background here.

Other lefties who consort with fascists: the Quakers. Other far right nutcases who consort with Lib Dems: Bill Christison.

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Variousness 14

13Nov09

/// Germany: Stefan Steinberg on Peter Sloterdijk’s defence of German Central Bank executive member Thilo Sarrazin and his racist, antisemitic outburst. The Chicago Boyz on East Germany then and now. And Slack Andy with some antifa notes:

In Germany: “An 88-year-old former Waffen SS fanatic went has gone on trial accused of the wartime execution of three civilians in the Netherlands during the Second World War”, while elsewhere a German woman is keeping Berlin clean of neo-Nazi propaganda, a mission inspired by her encountering a sticker 20 years ago: ‘”I was angry that I hadn’t scratched the sticker off,” she recalls. She returned that evening and it was still hanging there. She couldn’t understand why the many people who had waited at the bus stop that day hadn’t bothered to remove it. “So I decided to stop looking the other way,” she says.’

Which was, of course, her first mistake.

/// Holocaust comparison: Brazil: Shimon Hilter. US/UK: Far right Tory Dan Hannan is at it again, in bed with Ron Paul in attacks on the NHS using dodgy WWII references (source). UK: Exposing the right-wing press use of dodgy Hitler references (e.g. liberals are fascists, binmen are nazis or all scientists are Josef Mengele).

//Paganism in strange places: Dan Halloran, conservative, Republican, Odinist: Queens Tribune, Village Voice, Cargo Culte.

/// Critique and theory: New from Anarchist Federation: Against Nationalism. Postone v Debord. Zizek quotes Postone [via PD].

“NS: So we have lost the political economy in Marx?
SZ: There are some marginal good signs – Moishe Postone is one of the few people who really asks the question, what to do with Marx’s political economy today? ….. If you read the predominant cultural left, you’d have thought that Marx’s Capital is some kind of treatise on commodity fetishism and other cultural phenomena. Sorry, but Marx meant it as a critical theory of society, giving a diagnosis and so on. I think things today call for analysis”

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Soft porn and German imperialism

06Nov09

Here (via here).

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Variousness 13

02Nov09

/// Germany: More on the The Third World in the Second World War exhibition from Robin Shepherd. 1969 and the Holocaust. Interview with TOP Berlin.* Rosa Luxemburg’s corpse: The stench of decay on the German Left, 1932–2009.

/// France: Dieudonné fined for antisemitic stunt.

/// USA: Ward Churchill and his antisemitic friend Valdas Anelauskas. Rose City Antifa versus the alt. fascists. Antisemitism as a compliment? J Street’s poor choice of friends. The LaRouche/Fulani cults and the New York elections.

/// Inglourious Basterds: GW Pabst’s Jackboot Mutiny.

/// Theory and critique: Claussen on Adorno.* On Karl Korsch. Noam Chomsky and genocidal causality. ‘Productive’ and ‘unproductive’ labour.

/// Other variousnesses: Roland, Bob.

* = via Schalom Libertad.

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Variousness 12

26Oct09

Antisemitism: Why Left Wing Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism [via @ndy]; California’s leftist Pacifica hosts bilingual neo-nazi and antisemitic show; the Islamist-populist alliance; more on Michael Moore.

Theory and critique: New Moishe Postone; Why anarchists should not attack banks.

“National anarchism”, “autonomous nationalism” and their variants: in Auckland, in the Czech Republic, in California, (Background: on California “national anarchists”; on Australian “national anarchists”. Useful resource: Confronting Reactionaries Within the Movement: A Reader in Primitivism, Anarcho-Primitivism and General Anti-Civilisationism.)

Germany: Banning all “extremism”.

Inglorious basterds: The lego version.

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Variousness 11

19Oct09

// Israel/Palestine: Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle of the direct actions of the AAtW and Palestinians escalate. Uri Gordon’s Anarchy Alive on video. (Plus ZMag review.) Another friend for the Palestinian cause: Hungary’s fascist Jobbik party. The first “anti-Zionist” anti-war movement.

// Boycott news (for @ndy): Ken Loach vs Israeli film. Will they boycott antibiotics? Vanessa Redgrave won’t stand for the anti-Israel boycott. It is hard to believe that someone as bright as Naomi Klein gets it wrong so many times. Whom does this boycott help?

// Germany: The DDR’s Nazi heritage. The “Jamaica coalition”: the Greens align with the Right in Saarland. Nazi garden gnome “art”. Porsche’s slave labourers. Momo and the grey men: structural antisemitism in children’s books?

// Baader-Meinhof: On Hitchens and Baader-Meinhof: Red or brown? Who cares. (More from Terry Glavin, linking to J Carter Wood, who links to Andrew Hammel, who links to Paul Hockenos).

// US: Alison Weir of CounterPunch continues to promote blood libel. Lyndon LaRouche zombies sing.

// UK: Remember Johanna Kaschka? The ex-Baader Meinhof fellow traveller, later connected to George Galloway and now a Tory and embroiled in a libel case against Labour bloggers? Oh, and also a theorist of bizarre conspiracies involving Masons and the New World Order? Read Dave Osler and Lucy Lips for an update. Also: The International Marxist Group and the morality of the Brighton bombing. Ken and Hamas.

// Austria: Praising Haider.

http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2009/10/07/first-anti-zionist-anti-war-movement-jews-boer-war-discussion-israel-and-apartheit-

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The Ideological Evolution of Horst Mahler: The Far Left-Extreme Right Synthesis

17Oct09

@ndy writes:

Yeah. Thought I may as well throw this up, if only ’cause I reckon Anti-German Translation will link to it, and every time they link to my blog, I get a free bagel from Glick’s (but ssshhh, don’t tell anyone — it’ll like, totally blow my cover!).

It’s the story of a quack who’s gone to the dogs.

Or to put it another way: it’s the story of a nice middle class German boy who went to University, read too many books, joined a Marxist urban guerilla group, went to jail, left jail, became a right-wing ideologue, and is now back.

In jail.

So, how could I not? Go read it.

The Ideological Evolution of Horst Mahler: The Far Left-Extreme Right Synthesis
George Michael
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
Volume 32, Issue 4, April 2009

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Prole synthesis: The 43 Group

17Oct09

(In response to this and this.)

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Zog not keynmol: Yiddish partisan march

16Oct09

Cross-posted at Poumista.

Song of the partisans: a Yiddish partisan march, with breakbeats, by geberk.

History is Made at Night, a propos of Marek Edelman:

Yesterday’s post on mandolins and anti-fascist resistance in Warsaw has prompted this response from Ruin Gebirk in Berlin:

“I read your story about the mandoline, it was interesting, I too have a strong interest in the jewish resistance history and I am specially fascinated by the “little” stories. When I was young we were singing the jiddish songs of Hirsh Glik and others… since I know about your electronical music background I wanted to share my new track with you: I called it jiddish partizan marsh, it’s based on the melody of Sog nit kejnmal als du gejst den letztn”.

jiddish partizan marsh by gebirk

Wikipedia: Hirsch Glick (1922 Vilna, Poland – 1944 Estonia) was a Jewish poet and partisan.

Glik was born in Vilna in 1922. He began to write Yiddish poetry in his teens and became co-founder of Yungvald (Young Forest), a group of young Jewish poets. After the German assault on Soviet Union in 1941, Hirsh Glik was imprisoned in the Weiße Wache concentration camp and later transferred to Vilna Ghetto. Glick involved himself in the ghetto’s artistic community while simultaneously participating in the underground and took part in the 1942 ghetto uprising. In 1943 he wrote his most famous work, the song Zog nit keynmol, az du geyst dem letstn veg (זאג ניט קיינמאל, אז דו גייסט דעם לעצטן וועג), which became the anthem of the Jewish partisan movement, and Shtil, di nakht iz oysgeshternt. He was inspired to write this work by news that arrived of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Glik managed to flee when the ghetto was being liquidated in October 1943, but was re-captured. He was later deported to a concentration camp in Estonia. During his captivity he continued to compose songs and poems. In July 1944, with the Soviet Army approaching, Glik escaped. He was never heard from again, and was presumed captured and executed by the Germans (reportedly in August 1944).

Glick’s songs on youtube

[1]shtil di nakht [2] Partisan Song (zog nit keynmol) [3] Partisan Song (zog nit keynmol)

Wikipedia: Zog Nit Keynmol

“Zog Nit Keyn Mol” (Yiddish: זאָג ניט קיין מאָל) (also referred to as “Partizaner Lid” or “Partisan song”, though it shares this title with other works) is the name of a Yiddish song written in 1943 by Hirsh Glick, a young Jewish inmate of the Vilna Ghetto. The song is considered one of the chief anthems of Holocaust survivors and is sung in memorial services around the world. During the war it was the anthem of various Jewish partisan brigades.

A mural of Mordechai Anielewicz and his girlfriend Mira Fuchrer in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The mural is headed by the opening line of the song.

The lyrics Glik wrote were later set to music by Dmitri Pokrass.

Meaning

The title means “Never Say”, and derives from the first line of the song, “Never say that you have reached the final road.” “Zog Nit Keynmol” was adopted by a number of Jewish partisan groups operating in Eastern Europe. It became a symbol of resistance against Nazi Germany’s persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust.

Lyrics

English translation Never say this is the final road for you, Though leadened skies may cover over days of blue. As the hour that we longed for is so near, Our step beats out the message: we are here! From lands so green with palms to lands all white with snow. We shall be coming with our anguish and our woe, And where a spurt of our blood fell on the earth, There are courage and our spirit have rebirth! The early morning sun will brighten our day, And yesterday with our foe will fade away, But if the sun delays and in the east remains – This song as password generations must remain. This song was written with our blood and not with lead, It’s not a little tune that birds sing overhead, This song a people sang amid collapsing walls, With pistols in hand they heeded to the call. Therefore never say the road now ends for you, Though leadened skies may cover over days of blue. As the hour that we longed for is so near, Our step beats out the message: we are here!

Yiddish in transliteration zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg, khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg. kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho, s’vet a poyk ton undzer trot: mir zaynen do! fun grinem palmenland biz vaysn land fun shney, mir kumen on mit undzer payn, mit undzer vey, un vu gefaln iz a shprits fun undzer blut, shprotsn vet dort undzer gvure, undzer mut! s’vet di morgnzun bagildn undz dem haynt, un der nekht vet farshvindn mit dem faynt, nor oyb farzamen vet di zun in der kayor – vi a parol zol geyn dos lid fun dor tsu dor. dos lid geshribn iz mit blut, un nit mit blay, s’iz nit keyn lidl fun a foygl oyf der fray, dos hot a folk tsvishn falndike vent dos lid gezungen mit naganes in di hent. to zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg, khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg. kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho – es vet a poyk ton undzer trot: mir zaynen do!

Original Yiddish זאָג ניט קיין מאָל, אַז דו גייסט דעם לעצטן וועג, כאָטש הימלען בלײַענע פֿאַרשטעלן בלויע טעג. קומען וועט נאָך אונדזער אויסגעבענקטע שעה – ס׳וועט אַ פּויק טאָן אונדזער טראָט: מיר זײַנען דאָ! פֿון גרינעם פּאַלמענלאַנד ביז ווײַסן לאַנד פֿון שניי, מיר קומען אָן מיט אונדזער פּײַן, מיט אונדזער וויי, און וווּ געפֿאַלן ס׳איז אַ שפּריץ פֿון אונדזער בלוט, שפּראָצן וועט דאָרט אונדזער גבֿורה, אונדזער מוט! ס׳וועט די מאָרגנזון באַגילדן אונדז דעם הײַנט, און דער נעכט וועט פֿאַרשווינדן מיט דעם פֿײַנט, נאָר אויב פֿאַרזאַמען וועט די זון אין דער קאַיאָר – ווי אַ פּאַראָל זאָל גיין דאָס ליד פֿון דור צו דור. דאָס ליד געשריבן איז מיט בלוט, און מיט בלײַ, ס׳איז ניט קיין לידל פֿון אַ פֿויגל אויף דער פֿרײַ, דאָס האָט אַ פֿאָלק צווישן פֿאַלנדיקע ווענט דאָס ליד געזונגען מיט נאַגאַנעס אין די הענט. טאָ זאָג ניט קיין מאָל, אַז דו גייסט דעם לעצטן וועג, כאָטש הימלען בלײַענע פֿאַרשטעלן בלויע טעג. קומען וועט נאָך אונדזער אויסגעבענקטע שעה – ס׳וועט אַ פּויק טאָן אונדזער טראָט: מיר זײַנען דאָ!

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