Jew-loving fools trying to get people jailed: Israel’s desperate fan club attempt to redefine Extremism

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Michael Gove is the UK’s Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and he’s been tinkering with the meaning of ‘extremism’ to see if he can squeeze political advantage out of it for his doomed party and his own misguided ideology.

He saw an opportunity in all the noisy pushing and shoving between Muslims and Jews as a result of the human misery and despair generated by Israel’s insane genocide in Gaza.

Gove has just introduced a New Extremism Definition to Parliament. His ministerial statement mentions the “October 7 terror attacks in Israel” 3 times in as many paragraphs, including the headline. I searched frantically for corresponding references to the hundreds of Israeli terror attacks on Gaza and massacres in the West Bank but found none.

You see, Gove has described himself as “a proud Zionist” with a desire to “celebrate everything that Israel and the Jewish people have brought to the life of this world, so his stance is pitifully lopsided. I agree with him about the wonderful contribution by some Jewish people. But Israel? What planet is he on?

Of course, he’s a member of Conservative Friends of Israel and condemns the peaceful Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel as antisemitic. Gove has also said jihadist terrorists “hate Israel, and they wish to wipe out the Jewish people’s home, not because of what Israel does but because of what Israel is – free, democratic, liberal and western.” Yep, I think he must be on Pluto. Or something stronger.

Gove hopes his New Definition will ensure the Government are “not inadvertently providing a platform, funding or legitimacy to groups or individuals who attempt to advance extremist ideologies that negate our fundamental rights and freedoms and overturn the UK’s system of liberal parliamentary democracy”. Surely the real risk to our liberal democracy is Gove’s own extremist ideology imported from the hateful apartheid regime that’s been making life hell in the Holy Land for 76 years.

That’s not all. The enforcer of the New Definition is Lord Walney, described as the Government’s “independent” adviser on political violence and disruption. He’s been dispatched to persuade political leaders to ban their MPs from engaging with the Palestine solidarity movement. But milord Walney (aka John Zak Woodcock) is a former chairman of Labour Friends of Israel and can hardly be called independent.

No, you couldn’t make it up. And yes, law experts will have a field day tearing it apart.

Stuart Littlewood
15 March 2024

Source: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/03/israels-desperate-fan-club-attempt-to-redefine-extremism/