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UKIP Friends
Of Israel -
http://www.ukipfoi.moonfruit.com/
Another friend of Israel has just [ 2014-09-02 ] popped up. Given the
name of the website it is questionable. Are they fools, third chancers,
whatever? Pass.
Friends of Israel in UKIP
"More Jews should join UKIP to help the party combat far-right extremism and
bolster support for Israel, activists have claimed.
Revelations about extreme comments made by UKIP candidates ahead of
today’s local elections should not discourage members of the Jewish
community from supporting the party, they said.
Backing for Israel within UKIP was “massive” and growing,
added Curtis Sinclair, an executive member of the UKIP Friends of Israel
group........... Mr. Sinclair said: “UKIP Friends of Israel is part of the
solution to ensuring these sort of people don’t stand again. A strong
friends group is helpful for achieving a decent stable of candidates. Read
the rest
here"
Zionism In UKIP, The Real Story
The BNP claim
that
UKIP has “sold out to the Zionist lobby” should be seen as a clear
indication that opinions remain exactly as they always have in the party
that was formed in 1982 as a splinter group from the National Front [ It
is also true - Editor ].
Far from having sold out to the
Zionist lobby, I can testify that UKIP is a party within which there is an
extremely healthy debate on foreign policy and, between the party members
and party leaders alike, there is no consensus on a particularly
pro-Israel policy.
UKIP's official policy
statements, such as one entitled “Out of the EU, into the World” (currently
under review), make reasonable claims of support for Israel, in particular:
the nation's right to exist, to defend itself proportionately, and a
rejection of attempts to sanction Israel by supranational organisations for
defending itself.
It is the goal of my
organisation, Friends of Israel in UKIP
(FOIIU), to take these policies further and make UKIP a
party that British Zionists and members of the Jewish community in Britain
can be proud to be affiliated with.
And yet, contrary to the BNP's
insinuation FOIIU was launched by myself, back when I was a sixth form
student in 2010, with no help from any external neocon organisation or
remuneration from ‘Zionist paymasters’. In fact, the only funding to get the
organisation going was my pocket money.
In the same spirit it was merely
helpful volunteers from within the party, from a variety of backgrounds –
some religious, some secular, and others with a personal connection to
Israel – who helped me to set up the organisation. In fact, I am the only
Jewish member of the FOIIU committee.
The liveliness of the debate
within UKIP should also counter claims of any Zionist lobby stranglehold.
Two years ago, an NEC motion was put forward which came close to shutting
down FOIIU on the basis that special interest groups may distract the party
from its ultimate goal: Britain's withdrawal from the EU. Fortunately, we
managed to win this argument and we would later accept fully the setting up
of a Friends of Palestine in Israel group to maintain healthy debate. Sadly,
certain members of this latter organisation have made some
deplorable statements in recent months.
For years UKIP had to fight off
smears that it was a party of the BNP in blazers; if one good thing has come
out of these outlandish BNP remarks, it is the fact that the BNP is
indicating an attempt to distinguish itself from UKIP – a party it has long
since tried to court in order to make an electoral pact.
Any sensible observer will view
the claims made by the BNP as nothing more than pure fantasy. Nevertheless,
they will provide great nutrition for the conspiracy theorists and social
deviants who feed off Nick Griffin's teat.
Meanwhile, support for Zionism
from within UKIP will likely continue to grow on the understanding that
Britain and Israel are both seeing their right to self-determination and
their national sovereignty threatened by external powers.
