Trope alert: How Zionists in the West invent anti-Jewish hatred

By David Miller

According to Baroness Jacqueline Foster, a blue Octopus is "one of the most disgusting antisemitic symbols". The British conservative politician claimed this in a grovelling apology she was forced to make by Rahman Lowe, the law firm acting for British Muslim student Melika Gorgianeh.

Foster had taken to X (formerly Twitter) in November 2023 to denounce Gorgianeh, a contestant on the BBC quiz show ‘University Challenge’.

She singled out Gorgianeh as being responsible for the Team mascot, a blue Octopus, which Foster described as being one of the most “disgusting antisemitic symbols” and for wearing the colours of the Palestinian flag. 

She called for Gorgianeh to be “expelled” by her university and “arrested” by the police, tagging in the Prime Minister, Home Secretary, Ofcom, the BBC and Oxford University.

In fact, Gorgianeh was in a team of four that had collectively picked the Octopus as it was, revealed the BBC, “one of their favourite animals”.

The jacket worn by Gorgianeh on the show was navy blue, orange, pink and green, and bought from the high street retailer Zara. It was thus not in the colours of the Palestinian flag.

Gorgianeh received death threats and abuse after Baroness Foster smeared her and singled her out simply on the basis of being visibly Muslim.

Foster recently apologised, saying “I wrongly alleged that Ms. Gorgianeh chose … a blue octopus, as her team’s mascot which I held her responsible for. I accept that these allegations were completely false and unfounded. I made a grave mistake in making those posts and I should not have done so.”

Naturally, prior to making her racist comments, the Baroness had been on a lobbying trip in May 2023 to occupied Palestine with flights and accommodation paid for by the Zionist group ELNET UK.  

She can be seen in the Knesset in this post on Instagram. Elnet UK was set up by Joan Ryan famous for inventing antisemitic slurs against Labour Party members, as exposed in The Lobby and by Paul Charney, a former tank commander for the genocidal Israeli occupation forces.

Foster is also on the “senior advisory board” of the Drone Delivery Group Limited, a lobby group for the drone industry.  As is well known, the occupation forces in Palestine are increasingly making use of drones to more effectively commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

But in the end, is a blue Octopus actually an anti-Semitic trope?  In fact blue Octopi are regularly used by Jewish groups in a positive way as in this children’s book, Oscar the Octopus and in other examples

Zionist propaganda is increasingly overreaching and overheating.  More and more people are becoming instinctively resistant to it. 

Hissing is now apparently anti-Semitic too!

On February 29, the latest Zionist overreach claimed that “hissing” at a council meeting in Newham East London was an act of anti-Semitism since snakes, which are among those creatures that hiss, have been used in anti-Jewish propaganda.

Three socialist activists were later arrested, two of them at midnight, for “racial harassment” under the Public Order Act in a shameful misuse of police time and resources. They denied any hissing!

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The councillor, Josh Garfield, denounced the alleged hissing as an attempt to bully him out of public life as a result of his “ethnicity”. The pathetic level of the victimhood was astounding. 

The alleged hissing is audible in the Council Livestream of the event for no more than 3 seconds (around 1.24:16-1.24:18). Immediately after came Garfield’s response: “If members of the gallery want to hiss me they may want to speak to my face about the issues they have. Chair, I won’t accept it.”

Garfield is of course a card-carrying Zionist being a member of the National Executive of the racist Jewish Labour Movement, which is formally affiliated with the Zionist movement.

The mayor of Newham Rokhsana Fiaz, who is a Muslim, issued a strong statement the next day, nonsensically referring to “antisemitic abuse”.

It included the passage: “Across the ages, tropes like the use of snakes have been used to fuel stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination against Jewish people.”

In fact, there is no evidence that anyone has ever previously been accused of the use of hissing as an anti-Semitic shorthand for snakes and thus for Jews.

But, why would Fiaz say that?

Maybe it was her attendance the day before the council session at the Annual dinner of the Community Security Trust, the group that runs point for the genocidal Zionist regime.

In a speech at the council meeting before the alleged incident, she specifically raised comments by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak there about the alleged increase in violence and intimidation against elected representatives.

“He did speak”, she said “about something that resonated with me.  He spoke about the significant increase in violence and intimidatory behaviour being faced by elected representatives at all levels”.

Alternatively, part of the reason might be her previous advisory role in a Zionist lobby group, the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism in 2009.

Among the directors of EISCA was Chairman Stephen Pollard – who later presided over a record-breaking run of falsehoods at the Jewish Chronicle;

Jeremy Newmark – later disgraced in a scandal over missing cash from the Jewish Leadership Council; and Denis MacShane, a former Labour MP jailed for expenses fraud.

Among other members of the advisory board were a who’s who of Islamophobes and/or extremist Zionists including Douglas Murray, Daniel Finkelstein and Michael Whine of the aforementioned Community Security Trust.

Back in 2009, EICSA was denounced as a “dubious body” involved in the “sad politicising” of antisemitism by Tony Lerman, the leading authority on the political uses of anti-Semitism.

Fiaz went on to work as Chief Executive of two other projects both of which sought to normalise Zionism via interfaith activities until 2017 when she was elected as a councillor in Newham.

The Trope bandwagon will continue rolling until it is brought to a halt by a collective refusal to take seriously the genocidal nonsense spouted by Zionists.

David Miller is the producer and co-host of Press TV’s weekly Palestine Declassified show. He was sacked from Bristol University in October 2021 over his Palestine advocacy. 

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