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Free Gaza group: Zionists ran concentration camps
2012-10-05
Group's head Tweets: “Zionists operated the concentration camps and helped murder millions of innocent Jews.”

The US head of The Free Gaza Movement, a pro-Palestinian group, unleashed a wave of criticism over the last several days after asserting on Twitter that Zionists ran concentration camps and murdered Jews.

Greta Berlin, the American co-founder of the hardcore anti-Israel group, tweeted on September 30, “Zionists operated the concentration camps and helped murder millions of innocent Jews.”

Berlin’s Tweet blaming Zionists for the Holocaust caught the eye of Avi Mayer, who oversees social media with the Jewish Agency for Israel. Mayer was the first to draw attention to Berlin on his tweeter feed, writing ”-- -- the folks behind the #Gaza flotilla -- reveal themselves to be the lowest anti-Semites.”

Mayer documented the chronology of BerlinÂ’s attacks on Jews and Israel, as well as the Holocaust revisionism of the Free Gaza group, on a Storify blog.

Mayer wrote, "The Free Gaza Movement is the key actor behind the successive flotillas that have sought to violate the maritime closure around Gaza in support of Hamas. It is chaired by Huwaida Arraf, who also heads the International Solidarity Movement (and has endorsed the use of violence against Israel), and its Board of Advisors includes such luminaries as Naomi Klein, Peter Hansen, and Jenny Tonge.”

He continued “It has been endorsed by a range of organizations and individuals, including Desmond Tutu, Jewish Voice for Peace, Code Pink, the Palestine Red Crescent Society, the Rachel Corrie Foundation, George Galloway, and Neturei Karta International.”

Prof. Gerald Steinberg, the head of the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, told The Jerusalem Post in a Thursday email, “The NGO activists in the so-called 'free Gaza' campaign have always reflected obsessive, irrational and immoral characteristics, and the revelation of links to crude antisemitism provides additional evidence. The members of organizations like the ISM [International Solidarity Movement] and others behind free Gaza, that lead the political war to demonize Israel and give support to terror groups, have been unmasked in an entirely unambiguous manner. Their facade of human rights and humanitarian aid, which was never supported by had any tangible evidence, has completely disintegrated."

According to an article in Canada’s National Post, Berlin said her tweet was meant for her private Facebook account and was mistakenly sent to the Free Gaza Twitter feed. The Canadian daily reported that a Tweet from Free Gaza quoted her as saying, “I shared it without watching it. I am sorry that I just sent it forward without looking at it. It won’t happen again.”

Berlin linked her Tweet to a video ostensibly from conspiracy theorist Eustace Mullins, who propagates the views that Jews are responsible for the Shoah and are admirers of Hitler.

Mayer wrote that “This video, endorsed and promoted by @FreeGazaOrg, claims Jews want to erect a statue of Hitler in Israel to thank him” and the person speaking in the video “appears to be the late anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Eustace Mullins.”

Berlin and her organization, the Free Gaza Movement, are linked to radical Islamist organizations and seek, according to critics, to delegitimize IsraelÂ’s right to exist. Berlin is currently on a book tour in Canada.
Posted by:Glinesh Craling7938

#7  Actually, it's not something the Free Gaza Movement (or Eustace Mullins, for that matter) thought up on their own. That meme has long been perpetuated in the Arab world, particularly among the Egyptians, especially under (the Soviet-backed) Nasser.
Posted by: Pappy   2012-10-05 18:39  

#6  My apologies, Jonathan. Clearly I shouldn't post until I've properly awakened from my morning nap. :-(
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-10-05 14:48  

#5  Mental illness isn't pretty, and for some reason they tend to find a home on the left.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-10-05 14:36  

#4  I assume Greta Berlin was born a Jew.

According to Wikipedia, Jeffrey, she was reared a Methodist in Detroit. But yes, she is a determined agitator.
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-10-05 11:40  

#3  I assume Greta Berlin was born a Jew. She knows she is lying, speaking provocations to promote antisemites to be active, to get Muslims to jump up and down. She is a determined agitator who is intentionally seeking to provoke people to do her harm in the hope it will advance her cause, the destruction of the Jews. She may soon get her first wish: violence on her person. No other people can be routinely slandered without a response from the so-called Media.
Posted by: Jonathan Rubinstein   2012-10-05 10:17  

#2  That goes way beyond being idiots.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-10-05 07:31  

#1  So that whole Nazi Holocaust thing was a Zionist conspiracy. Yes, it's all clear now. Man, them Juices are seriously nefarious! Either that or Greta and the gang are idiots of the first water.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-10-05 02:13  

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