THERE have been a lot of openly pro-Zionist advertisements on Facebook recently, but I can never resist the urge to post a few home-truths. A little while ago, for example, I noticed that one advertisement was promoting Makor Rishon (Hebrew: מקור ראשון). This right-wing, Israeli source describes itself as “religious and nationalist” and, on this occasion, was quoting Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu to the effect that a “Jew has nothing to look for in the US or elsewhere in the world”.

Whilst this statement is a typical carrot-on-the-stick for American Jews who are being surreptitiously lured ‘back’ to a country that just-so-happens to be inhabited by indigenous Palestinians, or what’s left of them, I began by reminding the group’s followers that “This man preaches genocide” and that he is “absolute filth”. I thought I would come straight to the point. Predictably, it wasn’t long before Makor Rishon’s supporters came rushing to the Rabbi’s defence and the first told me that “I misunderstand the Rabbi in a very sad and unfortunate way”. Another switched the subject to Jewish assimilation:

“Troy, the rabi [sic] means that they will have assimilated and left the faith as most already have due to mix marriages. This is a sad fact. Many are already non afiliated [sic] and off the grid.”

This left me with no option but to explain how this kindly old Rabbi had once called for the “carpet bombing” of Palestinians, regardless how many innocent people would have died in the process. In his own words:

“If they don’t stop after we kill 100, then we must kill 1,000. If they do not stop after 1,000, then we must kill 10,000. If they still don’t stop, we must kill 100,000, even a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop.” (Jerusalem Post).

I followed this up by saying:

“I dread to think what will happen to innocent Jews once the American money dries up and they no longer need your colonialist puppet-state as a foothold in the Middle East. That’s all you are, after all, imperialist politics dressed up as religion. Lenni Brenni and Alfred Lilienthal were right all along. You’ve been duped.”

Needless to say, my comments went down like a pork sausage at a Bar Mitzvah and one rabid Zionist replied thusly:

“Troy I note you are an author of satanic books and quoted as being ‘a committed anti-Zionist’ – you are the disgusting preacher.”

Another, meanwhile, was so incapable of comprehending my remarks about the Rabbi and his wish to rain death on the local Arab population that he turned the conversation back to the dangers of intermarriage. I suppose it’s rather like the sixteenth-century Indians of South America who were apparently unable to make out the ships of the Spanish invaders because their ‘primitive’ brains were unable to process that level of technology.

Setting the cat among the pigeons in this way won’t win us many friends in the Zionist fraternity, that’s for sure, but they must nonetheless be challenged. If you see these advertisements pop up, then please do the same and stop these hate-mongers having it all their own way.