Racist politics
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Europe voted for its parliament on Thursday. The results of the polls are out tonight.
Well in advance of the big day (June 4th), I'd been bombarded with invitations to Facebook groups and people handing out flyers on Northumberland Street, and other types of publicity telling me not to vote for the British National Party on June 4th. I've mentioned them before on this blog - about six months ago when their members were 'outed' on the internet and I had thought it was funny how people were scrambling to deny their affiliations with the party (because of their racist attitudes towards the non-white population of Britain). In a nutshell, they want Britain to be a country for its 'indigenous' population of WASPs (which sounds like a fair demand at first) but want the minority groups like brown people, Jews, homosexuals and other 'dirty' people out of Britain.
And they're not alone. There are like-minded parties across Europe, like the National Democratic Party of Germany and the Front National in France. The fear surrounding the June 4th polls was that one or more of these fascist parties would gain seats in the European Parliament. And it happened.
I don't know much about the other European nations but a substantial number of people in Britain must have voted for the BNP, because they won 1 seat (up from 0 seats in the 2004 elections) in the EU parliament. I checked the poll statistics on the BBC and it turns out that Yorkshire is the culprit - they voted the BNP in. People's disappointed Facebook statuses started to make sense.
Does one seat really matter? I reckon it does, because they're up from zero (0) seats to having one, which means their ideology is gaining acceptance.
But I'm not even from Europe, why do I care? To be honest, the BNP aren't sufficiently powerful at this point to do anything that will affect me personally (e.g. stop me from training in the UK). However, I've been living here a while, I have good non-white British friends who can get affected directly by the BNP's fascism and I ought to stick up for them.
The problem is that the BNP are cashing in on the snafus of the other parties, like the recent expenses claims scandal in which MPs from several political parties were involved. The BNP also remorselessly shame other parties' members for not keeping their promises to voters - which is a fairly democratic thing to do, but it pulls votes towards the BNP.
Easier said than done (and I'm certainly not the one doing anything) but the other parties really need to get their act together if they want to impede this fascist party's invasion into British and European government.
Speaking of racism, the journalist Max Blumenthal filmed a telling video of young American Jews in Jerusalem voicing their humble opinions of Barack Obama the night before he gave a brilliant speech to the Muslim world in Cairo. Granted, the young foreigners in the first video had had a few, but alcohol doesn't automatically make you a racist (e.g. "White power, fuck the niggers!" at 0.54 seconds) unless you already harbor such ideas about other races.
Notice the still-sober girl at 1.04 seconds who has some strong opinions about Obama's background and his support for the 'Orabs', but being Jewish and in Israel, doesn't know who Benjamin Netanyahu is ("Who's Benjamin Yahoo?"). Honestly mate.
I'll leave you to discover the rest of the video yourself, if you can stomach the blatant racism oozing from the mouths of people whose grand- and great-grandparents were once persecuted under a racist European government (see above).
I know that these idiots and their zealotry don't represent all of American Jewry (certainly not some of my Jewish American friends) and it's unfair to judge all Jews based on their behavior. But I have a thought: you know how Avigdor Lieberman, the foreign minister of Israel is demanding that Israeli Arabs swear loyalty to the state or get out and basically wants to place a blanket ban on Israeli Arab culture - what if American Jews were made to swear loyalty to America (which would mean no drunken swearing at the nigger president), give up their Israeli citizenship if they have it and be made to support all of America's policies on the Middle East whether they liked them or not? Think about it. That would be equal to Lieberman's demands from Israeli Arabs, but also outrageously undemocratic. That's probably what the oppressed Israeli Arab minority thinks too.