Comrade Nadine
Nadine Rosa-Rosso of Belgium describes herself as an “independent communist activist”.
Presumably one reason she is independent is that her foray in Belgian electoral politics in 2003 ended in miserable failure.
Her “Workers Party of Belgium” teamed up with fellow radicals, including Djab Abou Jahjah, a racist thug who has been denied entry to the UK.
Belgians decided they didn’t want her or her allies to have power over anything. Collectively the group won just 0.6% of the vote nationwide.
Poor comrade Nadine.
Oh well, never mind. Hamas is very exciting if you are an “independent communist activist”. These days she campaigns not for election, but for the terrorists.
Earlier this year, fired up by a “resistance” jamboree in Beirut (the communiqué is here, thanks John Wight, you big boy), she issued a call for Hamas to be taken off EU terrorist sanctions lists.
That too doesn’t appear to be going all that well:
Does the European Left, which you represent, support you in this endeavor?
I don’t represent the European Left. I’m an independent communist activist. The appeal was launched on the first of February, addressing, especially, all the MEPs in the Green Group, the European United Left, and the Socialist Group. To this day, with the notable exception of Giulietto Chiesa (Italy, Socialist Group, European Parliament), who immediately signed the appeal, we have not received any response from other members. However, very famous communists, such as Henri Alleg and José Saramago, have joined the appeal.
Poor, poor comrade Nadine.
So try again in London. As reported here, she is scheduled to speak at a “Palestine & US Hegemony” event at Friends House on July 9th. Her fellow speakers will include a “Hezbollah representative” and Djab Abou Jahjah via video link from Lebanon, Azzam “Kaboom” Tamimi, and John Rees of the “Stop the War Coalition”.
There’s no stopping her, you know. She has seen the light from Gilad Atzmon:
For Gilad Atzmon it is this context that constitutes the real significance of the barrage of rockets by Hamas and the other Palestinian resistance organizations: “This week we all learned more about the ballistic capability of Hamas. Evidently, Hamas was rather restrained with Israel for a long while. It refrained from escalating the conflict to the whole of southern Israel. It occurred to me that the barrages of Qassams that have been landing sporadically on Sderot and Ashkelon were actually nothing but a message from the imprisoned Palestinians. First it was a message regarding stolen land, homes, fields and orchards: ‘Our beloved soil, we didn’t forget, we are still here fighting for you, sooner rather than later, we will come back, we will start again where we had stopped’. But it was also a clear message to the Israelis. ‘You out there, in Sderot, Beer Sheva, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Tel Aviv and Haifa, whether you realise it or not, you are actually living on our stolen land. You better start to pack because your time is running out, you have exhausted our patience. We, the Palestinian people, have nothing to lose anymore”. (Gilad Atzmon – Living on Borrowed Time in a Stolen Land)
What can be understood by an Israeli Jew, the European Left fails to understood, rather they find ’indefensible’ the necessity to take by force what has been stolen by force.
Got that? Bomb Tel Aviv until they leave!
Now some think it is fair to ask if people who are avid supporters of Hamas and fans of Gilad Atzmon are antisemitic. Well, don’t you try that one with this comrade. She has a pedigree, you see:
Fears of being labelled “anti-Semitic”: Although we are united in support of the Palestinian resistance, the Left fears being labelled ‘anti-Semitic’ if they refuse to recognise the legitimacy of Israel.
As communist I am part of a tradition which fought against fascism and Nazism. Communists protected Jews from the concentration camps, and many communists paid the ultimate sacrifice for this, many more than US soldiers in the war. Therefore nobody has the right to call us anti-Semitic. It is because our forefathers died defending Jews in the war that we now today stand with the Palestinian people and their resistance against Israel.
Rosa-Rosso is quite keen on violence in Europe too. She was encouraged by far left support for rioters in Athens earlier this year. So why don’t more people support the rioting youths in the French banlieues, she wonders?
Hit coppers, smash stuff up, burn things, yeah man.
John Rees is on to another winner here, isn’t he.
Comments
| 2 July 2009, 9:41 pm |
Therefore nobody has the right to call us anti-Semitic
OK, how about fuckwit moonbat, terrorists supporting, Jewish State hater.
| 2 July 2009, 10:23 pm |
No, a wingnut. But I am tickled to know that the USSR fought the Nazis in order to save the Jews from the concentration camps. You live and learn, eh?
How exactly do you pay the ultimate sacrifice, Nadine? She sounds like one of those programs that write poetry by randomly stringing words together.
| 2 July 2009, 10:46 pm |
I thought Abu Jahjah had claimed asylum in Belgium on the basis that he’d had to leave Lebanon due to differences of opinion with Hizbollah? Have they kissed and made up? Have the Belgians at least revoked his residency rights?
I wonder what Comrade Nadine will have to say about this?
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443697533&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
| 2 July 2009, 11:05 pm |
Yuck!
| 2 July 2009, 11:13 pm |
Nursey, Abou Jahjah is planning to speak to FH by way of a video link… from Lebanon.
| 2 July 2009, 11:17 pm |
And all the dead commies killed by their fellow commies for the good of the good commies and the future well being of the good commies were not really bad commies they just didn’t understand that the good commies have the right to be right because they are the good commies and the others the bad commies were bad commies because they thought the good commies were the bad commies when in fact anyone who knows anything about the commies knows that there is no such thing as good commies or bad commies there is just commies.
Clear? No? Oh well never mind then.
| 2 July 2009, 11:22 pm |
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| 2 July 2009, 11:43 pm |
Alec -yes, exactly. What’s he doing back there if he was so scared of Hiz before?
| 2 July 2009, 11:46 pm |
Plenty of nutters out there but I’m not too worried about this one.
Anaximanders – that made me laugh, a lot. Thanks
| 2 July 2009, 11:57 pm |
Maybe his opponets in the gang-fight he initiated were splatted in 2006, Nursey.
Pardon, Anaximanders?
| 3 July 2009, 1:01 am |
Just messing about Alec, I have the Flu and am feeling very sorry for myself, if I don’t get better soon I will have to join a Left wing political party.
Just a joke you understand.
| 3 July 2009, 1:11 am |
Anaximander’s -ah, so today’s government tweaking of the swine flu statistics to 100,000 a day is your fault! Hope you recover soon, but remember that ‘drink lots of fluids’ does not mean vino. :)
| 3 July 2009, 1:18 am |
Just messing about as well, Anaximanders (or should we call you Sandal?).
Now, I’m not meaning to excuse Rosa-Rossa, but she is clearly quite thick. Does anyone know what she does/did professionally?
| 3 July 2009, 1:46 am |
Thanks Israelinurse, water it is, call me anything you wish Alec my real is Eric but sandal is fine. I Just don’t like people calling me a racist or fascist or other such insult because truly if people such as I are considered by some to be racist then the world of politics is firmly lodged in a pseudo reality than can only end in tears.
I need to go to bed and read something good, I have two books by Maria Doria Russell “The Sparrow” and its sequel “Children of God”. They were given to me by a friend who like me is an atheist. I need some Sci-fi escapism at the moment, at the moment the world of politics is far to depressing for a flu victim.
See you guys Later.
| 3 July 2009, 8:41 am |
Eric, the world of politics IS firmly lodged in a pseudo reality.
Get well soon!
| 3 July 2009, 8:42 am |
Try Pandora’s Star, which I am reading at the moment. It’s nice and fat, and can be used as a doorstop if you don’t like it.
| 3 July 2009, 9:06 am |
The Workers Party of Belgium, of which Cde Nadine is a leading light, are a fairly well-known bunch of moonbats. They emerged from the crepuscular gloom of post-Maoist doo-daa-ism after the collapse of the USSR and have been doing their thing for “revolutionary internationalism” and “anti-revisionism” on the Stalinist Left ever since. Keen fans of Uncle Joe and all things Gulag, the WPB have been forging links with other like minded loonies across Europe for some time. They have established links with the moribund New Communist Party of Britain and were, for some time, very friendly with the utterly insane Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), until the latter grouplet proved to be so politically off-the-wall that even the WPB could no longer stand the company (the CPBM-L support Mugabe, North Korea, regard China as the acme of socialist achievement and disagree with Stalin only over the recognition of Israel – he did reluctantly, they think he should not have at all).
Meanwhile, the Workers Party of Belgium have involved themselves in a number of campaigns of varying degrees of detachment from reality that have caused other post-Maoist outfits in Europe and beyond to seriously doubt the collective sanity of the WPB. These have included support for the Continuity IRA, ETA, toying with “national Bolshevik” (read: neo-Nazi) lookalikes in some former Warsaw Pact states (including the former East Germany).
Just to add a thick “Dear Leader” veneer to this rotten frame, the hugely long, immensely dull and incredibly weird texts pumped out by the WPB must make it a contender for the European eliminator rounds of the Kim Il Sung Revolutionary Prize for Self-Serving Bilge…
| 3 July 2009, 9:10 am |
Apologies – that should be
“The CPGBML support Mugabe…”
The CPBML are a completely different set of moonbats, wedded to a doctrine of “socialist nationalism” – equally as weird.
| 3 July 2009, 10:10 am |
On her website, can someone tell me what the Carrefour thing means?
| 3 July 2009, 11:36 am |
A union dispute at Carrefour, the French hypermarche chain, is distracting the Workers Party of Belgium rather a lot at the moment, Tory. See the French (or Flemish) pages of the WPB website for details of the powerful blows being directed at this beast of monopoly capital by the workers of the Low Countries directed by their vanguard, the WPB… ;)
| 3 July 2009, 11:41 am |
Tory, see here (in French):
| 3 July 2009, 1:05 pm |
Rosa Luxemburg would be turning in her grave.
http://brockley.blogspot.com/2009/03/red-rosa-versus-red-pink-nadine.html
| 3 July 2009, 1:55 pm |
“As communist I am part of a tradition which fought against fascism and Nazism.”
No, you’re not. You’re part of a tradition which cut a dirty deal with fascism and Nazism, shortly after sabotaging the Spanish Republic and letting Franco win, supporting Hitler by propaganda and assistance in repression for the first year and three quarters of his war, and which only started flighting at all when the invasion left it no choice. Consistent enemies of the real libertarian Left, collaborators with (and arse-lickers of) fascism whenever it suits you, you lot are and always were a fucking disgrace.
| 3 July 2009, 3:39 pm |
Thanks ermintrude. The French ‘anti-Tesco’ Resistance then.
| 3 July 2009, 5:09 pm |
I’m wondering if Harry’s Place is spending too much time looking at marginal types, and thus exaggerating their importance.
It’s fine to look at radical Islamists or left-wing moonbats if they speak on behalf of major organizations or are in a position to influence policy. And it doesn’t hurt to look at the margins now and then, anyway.
But this focus on wingnuts from the right and left can wear thin after awhile. One hungers for a more general overview.
What do backbenchers and voters from all parties think? What are columnists from the Guardian and the Times saying these days? It might be worthwhile to give more more space to them–not just the most outrageous among them, but the most influential among them.
Never mind about George Galloway, Nadine Rosa-Rosso, Cynthia McKinney, Yvonne Ridley, Gilad Atzmon, Lauren Booth, etc. How much do these people really count at the end of the day? At the very least, HP shouldn’t focus on them so much. It’s becoming a kind of freak show.
| 3 July 2009, 6:05 pm |
Joanne – I take your point, but on the whole the various players in the democratic debate can be left alone, and can make their own points. We (or I, as I can only speak for myself) are mainly concerned with the attacks made on liberal democracy from its fringes. The people you mention do not count for much in themselves, but they’ve managed to create an atmosphere in which Islamic extremists get away with pretty well anything in the name of “Palestine”, bringing illiberal thuggishness into the politics of this country. Harry’s Place is active in turning the tide here; we have just had a major influence in getting a Hesbollah/Hamas meeting cancelled. A small triumph, but a triumph nonetheless: the liberal world has been put on notice that Islamists will no longer get a free ride, as we’re prepared to counter-demonstrate.
So other sites can concentrate on the minutiae of democratic politics (on which HP contributors hold widely divergent views). We need to focus on, and delegitimise, the nutters.
| 3 July 2009, 6:07 pm |
I take your point, Joanne, it is well made. However (from an entirely personal point of view) I find the study and tracking of such assorted moonbats, wingnuts and associated loons a pleasant – if perhaps eccentric, if not perverse – diversion.
| 4 July 2009, 3:22 am |
OK, I understand.
If your actual aim is to track the extremists, that’s fine. Then I would merely suggest that you cast your net a bit wider.
Granted, nuanced political shifts by center-left and center-right MPs can make for bland reading. That’s a good point. But I still think you could trawl the political mainstream for maddening political stupidity to fisk, as you already do at times.
So, for instance, you could give more space to Monbiot, Toynbee, Fisk, Pilger, Alibhai-Brown and their ilk. And I’m sure there’s no shortage of idiots in politics, the arts, and NGOs–on the right and left–who spout inanities that you could skewer.
I’m not saying you should ignore the extremists who poison the political atmosphere, only that you should also focus on extremist nonsense from more “establishment” types, as they can do the most damage. With too much exposure, even Galloway will start to seem dull.
| 1 August 2009, 6:53 pm |
Just to mention that NRR was expelled from the WPB because of her alliances with JahJah and willingness to brint the WPB on the islamist path
“This week we all learned more about the ballistic capability of Hamas. Evidently, Hamas was rather restrained with Israel for a long while. It refrained from escalating the conflict to the whole of southern Israel. It occurred to me that the barrages of Qassams that have been landing sporadically on Sderot and Ashkelon were actually nothing but a message from the imprisoned Palestinians
No problem! Israel’s response was simply “You really MUST stop doing that chaps and come to the negotiating table”.
We, the Palestinian people, have nothing to lose anymore”
Go Kamikaze Hamas! Let’s end you quickly. I always say that when you have nothing to lose then you can lie about anything – like today’s lie about a Palestinian being killed by a tank shell was actually killed by a Hamas mortar.