Baltimore: America always loves a Mammy

By William PLEASANT

Black Baltimore remains ablaze for Freddie Gray...

On Monday (April 28, 2015), in the shadow of Mondawmin Mall, the last corporate-owned retail outlet in the northwest Baltimore 'hood, a Black mother, dressed in obvious working class chic attire, spotted her son among the throng of enraged youths hurling anything within reach at platoons of police guarding the stores. She jumped the boy, punching, shoving and cursing. She screamed: ”You thought I wouldn’t recognize you?!” She continued hitting the young man, who accepted her blows and verbal abuse without retaliation. He followed his mother to her car. The woman continued to scream:

Child torture and humiliation as a social survival strategy in Baltimore?

"Boy! Get your behind.
What is wrong with you huh?? What is wrong with you?
Take the fucking mask off. You wanna be brave? Take it off!
You wanna be out here doing this dumb stuff? This dumb shit? Get the fuck over here. Get over here now! You hear what I say?
Come over here. Get over here!!"

The young teen winced in shame and sheepishly followed his mother out of the camera frame. Another Black child was flogged and publicly humiliated in the street. It is unlikely that the Mondawmin Mall incident was the first time the teenager had been whooped and cursed. But this time the episode was captured by Baltimore's WMAR, an ABC-affiliated television station. The video went viral, garnering thousands of instant views.

Indeed, the tweet world went wild with applause for the mother, much of it characterized as this: To the mom that smacked her kid for rioting in Baltimore, good on you. We need more parents like you. #momoftheyear— Chad Carman (@CharminCarman) April 28, 2015

Not surprisingly, much of the social media chatter came from other Black people who praised the publicly abusive parent. America, especially Black America, had its Mother of the Year, its newest Mammy.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts

The mother's televised felonious assault on her son became so popular that Baltimore's now deposed  Police Commissioner Anthony Batts felt compelled to quip, during a news conference, “And if you saw in one scene, you had a mother who grabbed their child who had a hood on his head and she started smacking him on the head because she was so embarrassed. I wish I had more parents who took charge of their kids tonight.” The police love Mammies, too.

Not to be outdone, the Black Preacher Class joined in praising the mother. Thumping their Bibles, they reminded their routinely financially-fleeced sheep that a verse in Proverbs 13:24 that says, “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.” They conveniently failed to add that, in Hebrew--the accepted root language of the Judeo-Christian scriptures-- the word translated as “rod” is the same word used in Psalms 23:4, “thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.” The shepherd’s rod was used to guide the sheep, not to whip them.

Young Black people must be disciplined through corporal punishment and verbal abuse, so goes wisdom of the Negro Sages of the Ages. But the word “discipline” comes from the Latin “discipuli,” which means student or disciple, strongly suggesting a teacher-pupil relationship between a parent and child. Punishment comes from the Greek word “poine” and its Latin derivative “poena,” which mean revenge, and form the root words of pain, penalty and penitentiary. But semantics has little place in American social sympathy for tree limb-belt buckle-whip-bareknuckle-boot wielding Mammies.

The truth of the matter is that neither discipline nor punishment are the social motivations of Mammies. They are actually plantation functionaries charged with the task of keeping the pickaninnies politically subservient to the Master and the social manners required by the system of White Supremacy. Mammies are preferred dispensaries of Black child terror and torture. The woman at the Mondawmin Mall on Monday was merely carrying on time honored tradition of chattel slavery in America.

While 70 percent of Americans approve of corporal punishment, Blacks have a historically specific relationship to the practice of child abuse. Parental child torture has always been a central feature in the slave society. Black psychiatrists William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs described it in their 1968 book “Black Rage.”

They wrote: “Beating in child-rearing actually has its psychological roots in slavery and even yet [B]lack parents will feel that, just as they have suffered beatings as children, so it is right that their children be so treated.” In short, corporal punishment is a sort of perverse Black FOLKWAY.

Some historians believe that Black slave parents (Mammies) often showed manifest contempt for their children in order to simply appease the sadism of the white slave-owners. This was a way of demonstrating loyalty and worth to the master. The revolutionary psychiatrist Frantz Fanon pointed out a similar trait among the French lower stratum colonial functionaries in Algeria. 

Frantz Fanon, MD

He wrote: "By torturing, [the police agent] manifests an exemplary loyalty to the system. And indeed the French soldiers can hardly do otherwise without condemning French domination. Every Frenchman in Algeria must behave like a torturer." (Toward the African Revolution: Political Essays, trans. Haakon Chevalier (New York: Grove Press, 1967), 71.) In a like manner, every slave afflicted with the slave mentality felt compelled to demonstrate thralldom to the master.

Keep in mind that the slave Mammies who brutalized their own children often suckled and fawned over their masters' white children. The beloved Black Mammy is actually an emblem of motherly charms, a staple character of American literature and film in 19th and 20th centuries. White supremacy needs and loves Mammies for their dual social roles as the nurturing mother (reserved for white kids) and the tormentor (reserved for Black kids).

But there was another side of the coin. Terror in the cotton field at the hands of overseers (Black and white) often provoked parents to beat Black children in the slave shack, or at times in the presence of the slave owner in order to break a rebellious child’s spirit. Black parents beat their children to keep them from misbehaving in the eyes of whites who had the power to send Black youth to their deaths for the slightest offense. Today, many black parents fear that a loose tongue or flash of temper could get their child killed by a trigger-happy cop. They would rather beat their offspring than bury them.

Indeed, the snarling and punching parent at Mondawmin Mall on Monday is basking in her 15 minutes of fame. She is America's favorite Mammy of the moment. Her name is Toya Graham, and she boastfully explained the attack on her son to the adoring corporate media. Speaking to CNN (April 29), she declared, "I'm a no-tolerant mother. Everybody who knows me, knows I don't play that. He knew. He knew he was in trouble."

Graham recounted that she and her son made eye contact and she didn't even think about the news cameras when she went after the teen. She was probably telling the truth. Her assault was the social reflex of a slave.

Graham continued, "That's my only son and at the end of the day I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray. I was angry. I was shocked, because you never want to see your child out there doing that."

The logic of Graham's antics resides uniquely and solely in the psychosis of white supremacy and Black political emasculation. By her estimation, if Freddie Gray had been appropriately humiliated and beaten by his mother or father, then he would not be dead today. Sickness! Let's apply science. If Freddie Gray had managed to elude the Baltimore policemen, legally empowered to maim and/or murder Black youths with impunity, then Freddie Gray would be alive today. Let's marry science, not slave torture.

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The battle of Zip Code 21217

by Malik Sekou OSEI
William PLEASANT
  
Let us be clear: On Monday, April 27, 2015, Baltimore's slave youths went on a rampage. There were running battles with the city's police throughout the southwestern sector of the city. A few stores were looted and burned. Police were pelted with bottles and bricks and their vehicles were smashed. Was the night's rampage the opening shot of the Black revolution? Was it emblematic of Black political outrage and social readiness to confront The State?   

Our answer is an emphatic NO. The Baltimore uprising actually exposed the utter political disarmament of the Black working class and lower stratum. West Baltimore ablaze last night was only a smoldering social dystopia on a landscape peppered by the RUINS OF LANGUAGE.

Freddie Gray, already injured by Baltimore police, would end up in a hospital with his neck nearly severed less than an hour after this photo was taken..

Freddie Gray, age 25, is dead at the hands of the police. Accused of reckless eyeballing a cop, he was summarily and publicly executed. His murder was recorded by dozens of slumdweller on their telephone cameras.  Somehow his neck was crushed in the back of a paddywagon. It took a week or so for him to die in a hospital from his injuries. Gray's murder ignited retaliatory, spontaneous street actions against the police and some businesses. Given the locus of the fighting, the injuries and mayhem could have been far more extreme. 

(The initial looting sites were along West North Ave. at the Pennsylvania Ave. intersection. The riot moved west along North Ave. and north along Pennsylvania toward the Mondawmin Mall, the last remaining retail center in Baltimore proper. This CVS pharmacy was looted and burned. A tremendous amount of prescription narcotics were taken..)

In lock step, the usual cast of Black elected officials and preachers answered the uprising with quick denunciation. They insisted that the burning and looting was the work of "outside agitators" (Read: communists) and "thugs" (Read: gangbangers) who did not respect the death of Freddie Gray. City council members Bernard C. Young and  Brandon Scott went as far as to describe the street fighters as "cowards." But the issue at hand, understood in the slums of Baltimore, is that the police and their ostensible blackface political leaders never respected the "life" of Freddie Gray, nor lives of poor Black Baltimoreans.

As we write, 1000-plus people have re-assembled at the corner of Pennsylvania and North Avenue. They are attempting to march westward, but they are blocked by a line of riot police and national guard troops. Round Two has commenced. The National Guardsmen were recruited by the city's Black mayor, Stephanie Rawlings Blake and a phalanx of Black "civil rights" hucksters.

(MAP of the uprising's epicenter) https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3097196,-76.6425277,17z

Who are the people staring down the police today? West Baltimore, the site of the Freddie Gray execution (Zip Code 21217), in regards to population density and poverty, ranks among biggest slums in the United States.

Estimated Zip Code 21217 population in 2013: 40,443 (Landmass: 2.3 miles)
Median household income: $21,969 (Maryland: $73,971 / US: $53,657)
Median house or condo value: $43,104 / Renters: 70% (Maryland: 34%)
Median contract rent: $779
Unemployment: 20% (Grotesque under-estimate)
Residents below the poverty level: 37%
Median resident age: 39.3 / (20.2% Currently Married / 57.5 Never Married)

These are the people who have taken to the streets and who are battling police with their bare hands. They live in utter filth, surrounded by the torched hulks of abandoned buildings, ignored by the Black-run city government. Baltimore’s affluent city center, containing a world-class university and hospital system, is ringed by scenes of abject poverty; whole neighborhoods of decaying row houses, with tens of thousands living in poverty.

Baltimore is a fetid social scrap heap fit for demolition. 

Moreover and specifically, the corner of Pennsylvania and North is an open-air drug market where high-powered prescription narcotics are dispensed to neighborhood junkies and white suburban patrons by unemployed Black men like M&Ms. (More details at http://www.city-data.com/zips/21217.html)

Hardly a rampage of looters, the slumdwellers in the streets of Baltimore today are people who have been pushed to social desperation. They are indeed the Wretched of the Earth. The oafish Mayor Rawling-Blake recently chided the outraged street people, declaring,  "It's idiotic to think by destroying your city, you're going to make life better for anybody." For the residents of Zip Code 21217, the City of Baltimore is already a fetid social scrap heap fit for demolition. 

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the epitome of US urban failure.

It is within this context that police violence, revolving entrapment by the criminal courts system, poverty and the studied ineptitude of Black Democratic Party elected officials feed social rage like gasoline on a flame. The truth that is never spoken: Most of the social tormentors of the Black working class and lower stratum in Baltimore are themselves Black. 

The young people who have taken to streets of Baltimore today have witnessed the murder of Trayvon Martin by an out-of-work security guard posing as a law enforcement official. They have seen Michael Brown gunned down in Missouri. They were appalled to see Eric Garner literally strangled in the street like a dog by NYC policemen.  Then came the video-broadcast of Baltimore's Freddie Gray--just one of scores of younger Black men maimed and murdered by police in Baltimore every week. Baltimore has a long history of police brutality, which has resulted in $5.7 million in payouts to victims since 2011. The Baltimore Sun newspaper recounts that “Victims include a 15-year-old boy riding a dirt bike, a 26-year-old pregnant accountant who had witnessed a beating, a 50-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets, a 65-year-old church deacon rolling a cigarette and an 87-year-old grandmother aiding her wounded grandson.”

The killing of Freddie Gray actually mirrored a 2005 police murder in the city, in which Dondi Johnson had his spine fractured after he was given an intentional “rough ride” in a police van that arrived at the station in half the time it would have taken if it were driving at the speed limit. His family received a $7.4 million judgment, which was consequently reduced to $200,000.  In the Gray and Johnson cases, police were forced to admit that, contrary to protocol, they did not use seat belts to restrain the handcuffed prisoners. In fact, the city of Philadelphia has also been forced to pay  over $2 million to settle lawsuits alleging that “rough rides” left two people paralyzed.

Consequently, these victims and their supporters have now made Zip Code 21217 ungovernable. It is a reflex of outrage. They have no political agenda, no revolutionary program, not even a coherent set of demands for reform. This reserve army of labor, these utterly de-classed youths only possess their bodies and fury.

The homicidal character of the police officers’ actions underscores a fundamental reality of American life: in Black  working-class neighborhoods throughout the United States, the police function as de facto death squads, treating workers and young Black people as an occupied population, to be put down with arbitrary arrest, violence and even murder.

The antisocial views promoted among the increasingly militarized police were reflected in the revelation this week that the National Guard officers overseeing the crackdown in Ferguson, Missouri referred in official documents to peaceful protesters engaging in their constitutionally protected right to free speech as “enemy forces.”

These conceptions, and the murderous actions that accompany them, are the expression of a society deeply corrupted by vast levels of poverty, social inequality and racism, in which the police increasingly see themselves as the “thin blue line” separating the impoverished masses and Black people from the financial oligarchy that has enriched itself fabulously at the expense of the 99 percent.

Baltimore is representative of the massive decay and deterioration of Black working-class living standards over the past several decades, leading its population to drop by nearly a third.

Demolition of Bethlehem Steel's "L" Blast Furnace is emblematic of the economic rot in Baltimore.

Since 1970 the city has lost more than 84 percent of its manufacturing jobs, while the official general poverty rate has hit more than 25 percent. The beginning of this year saw the demolition of the towering Blast Furnace, once the heart of the Bethlehem Steel mill at Sparrows Point, which employed thousands of people over the course of a century.

Conditions of social misery are accompanied by extraordinarily brutal and repressive policies directed against the city’s Black population and the poor. Last year, Baltimore enacted a law fining the parents of children who violate the city’s 9:00 PM curfew up to $500. But the city has no coherent youth policy whatsoever. After a day in confinement in the city's dilapidated and poorly run schools, what are children to do? In Baltimore, nobody gives a damn! Likewise, advocates for the homeless denounced the curfew, which allows police to detain any young person caught outside after hours, saying it will push the city’s 2,400 homeless youth “farther into the shadows.”

In perhaps the most draconian attack on the city’s population, the city administration last month announced that it would begin shutting off water to as many as 25,000 poor residents, triggering protests.

These egregious attacks on the social rights of the Black people takes place in a city where the mayor, police commissioner, and the majority of city council members are African American, and which has been run by the Democratic Party for decades, exploding the claim that electing minority candidates of this big-business party is a means to improve the lot of Black members of the 99 percent who, if lucky,are given the privilege to work at sub-survival wages at dead-end jobs.

The uprising in the wake of Freddie Gray’s murder is actually a social referendum on Baltimore's affluent Black elite which has lined its pockets for decades with federal and state funds in the name of improving the lot of the Black masses. These Democratic Party elected fakirs and assorted poverty pimps have delivered nothing but an army of occupation to the streets of impoverished Baltimore.    
   
The brutality meted out against the Black population of Baltimore, both by the police and politicians, is a concentrated expression of the assault on the working poor that has taken place nationwide, resulting in an enormous collapse in living standards and the effective halving of wages for manufacturing jobs.

The growth of poverty and social inequality has been accompanied by the militarization of the police, which has been coordinated at the highest level of the state by the Obama administration. Even while categorically refusing to even track police killings on the national level, the Obama regime has transferred billions of dollars in military hardware to local police. The White House has repeatedly refused to bring federal charges against killer cops, including former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, the killer of unarmed teenager Michael Brown.

 Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that despite its claims of sympathy for the victims of police violence, “at the Supreme Court... [the Obama administration’s] Justice Department has supported police officers every time an excessive-force case has made its way to arguments.”While thousands of people have been killed at the hands of police over the past decade, only 54 officers have been charged for killing people in the line of duty, of whom only 11 were convicted, receiving mostly wrist-slap sentences.

War, exploitation and racism are the inevitable by-products of the capitalist system. The defense of democratic rights, including freedom from police violence and poverty cannot be separated from the struggle to overthrow this corrupt and brutal system of race and class-driven terror, and actual social development of a genuinely egalitarian society—REVOLUTION. 

For history is on our side, but not time…
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Selma, drool and the Stations of the Cross

By

Malik Sekou OSEI

William PLEASANT

Selma, Alabama-- March 7, 2015

I just sat through a sterile rousing speech. I guess my E-mails and text messages and phone calls that I received only illustrated that there is a large proportion of the African American population who can be entertained to death, as pragmatically keeping it “real.”

Here is a necessary reality check: 

President Obama had charming and warmhearted tidings in Selma, but his alleged people, the African American people, are among the most jailed and tortured people on the planet, under the Red, White and Blue of American democracy.

 As usual, I have heard folks rant and rave about the brilliant and inspirational oration given by President Barack Obama in Selma. That guy can sho flap his lips! Nonetheless, it is also imperative and central for Black people to look beyond words to see if those words are followed by certain and substantial action that has a real impact on their lives. Face it, Blacks continue to endure the kind of torture that has led observers to verify that America is arguably the most racist industrialized nation in the world.  It has been cited time and time again that when it comes to rates of economic inequality, educational inequality and inequality in the criminal justice system, whites live one reality and African Americans are living another.  In fact, I dare say that if white Americans were forced to endure the Black condition for just one month, they’d be marching in the streets and demanding that their leaders step down for blatant incompetence and severe social neglect.

The president spoke about the importance of protecting voting rights for African Americans, Drool. What good are voting rights when the ballot only offers candidate choices from only two parties, parties that are in word and deed perpetrators of Black suffering? At the same time, Democrats love to mesmerize Black people with the myth of political enfranchisement because, quite frankly, Black people uniformly vote to keep Democrats in office. This self-serving drool, and Obama served up a heaping helping in Alabama this weekend. 

But when it comes to dealing with issues that many Black people care about (devastating levels of Black unemployment, Black youth being murdered in the streets by law enforcement  and historically outrageous levels of  mass incarceration),  do you really think that a voting registration card could have saved the lives of  Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Sean Bell, Tamir Rice or the homeless young man in L.A. named Charlie "Africa" Robinet or Jessica Hernandez and others victims of the daily slaughter by police of people of color in America?

Will Obama, the theatrical re-incarnation and consummation of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Edmund Pettus Bridge,  free a few thousand political prisoners who remain incarcerated due to the American “War On Drugs?” Will the drooling liberator of  2015 demand the release of scores of Black, Latino, Native and Asian people sent to dungeons in the last 40 years for their political resistance to white supremacy and capitalistic exploitation? Hell no! You can't get that from a drooler.

Does a procession and sermon sooth the daily suffering and 

address the political impotence of the poor?

Rather than applauding Obama's Roman Sophistry, Black people should appreciate that they have a number of objective social and political challenges that require the purgation of  sentimentality. Face it, despite all the humble prayers and wishes for salvation-through-Obama, Barack Obama, the negro now in charge, is not our friend. In fact, he is unapologetically hostile to the aspirations of Black people. Those aspirations are led by the demand for popular democracy and social equality, both anathemas to the people and system that Obama so passionately serves, though disguised in minstrel black face. Like the New Testament Stations of the Cross, Obama and his fellow Democratic Party parasites--Black and white--did no more than lead an ecclesiastical procession over the blood-soaked ground of the Black liberation movement in Selma, Alabama, stopping here and there to mumble pious platitudes and shed stage tears for the cameras. 

Now the 50th anniversary spectacle is over. Are you free?

History is on our side, but time is not…

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More on H4P: Team Hypocrite?

By Anonymous Palestine

The drama continues...

Anonymous Palestine

It started in November when a Palestinian activist in the Humanity for Palestine Forum posted that what Palestinians needs is an armed resistance not coats. Right then the non-Palestinian chief admin for the forum Carol Gai threw him out and spread a rumor that he's a zionist “infiltrator” which the members didnt believe and defended him. But Forum members were not having it and Rayyan Adam was invited back into the H4P Forum.

Not long after, November 18^th to be exact, another admin Lori Sloan went over the top accusing Rayyan of being a Zionist and working for Mossad. Well, as one can imagine that did not go over well. The whole conversation was made public and the chaos began.

The admin who made the accusation didnt apologise to Rayyan but the damage was done and the slandering machine went on while Rayyan was blocked from the forum and Rayyan living in the occupied West Bank felt the wrath of the accusation.

The Chief Admin of the main forum Carol Gai made several post that Rayyan Adam is a zionists and his blog “Sami the Bedouin” was not legitimate and would no longer be promoted to H4P members and was accused of being a zionist activist again.

Rayyan, or Sami the Bedouin, has been on FB longer than H4P, in fact four years longer and has built a wide range of supporters for Palestine through writing of his own life in his bloog. Many of these supporters have spoken with him and never questioned his authenticity and adored his blogs describing life under illegal zionist occupation including his own story in the zionist jails.

Shin Bet is the zionist regime's domestic torture and
political espionage service, Israel's FBI.

Numerous forum members along with other admins asked the head of H4P to issue a public apology and to state the Rayyan was not a Zionist. But the head of H4P, Peter Cohen refused and insisted that Rayyan Adam is a zionist infiltrator, trying to disfunction him and hence the real Palestinian activism.

So as time went by Rayyan being on the end of the social consequences of being called a Zionist was angered at the injustice and hypocrisy of “activists” for Palestine under the name Humanity for Palestine had caused him these problems. Others too were not happy about all that had happened.

Eventually in late December 2014 and after 3 months of slandering Rayyan secretly, Peter Cohen was compelled to apologize as Palestinian Anonymous had his Facebook chats and were going to make them public unless he did the right thing. And even then his apology was not an apology, it was just a trick from Peter to avoid confronting Rayyan and Anonymous Palestine. It would take forty comments by people to urge him to say that he was sorry on behalf of H4P for calling Rayyan a Zionist.

Just need to point out the problem in calling a Palestinian a Zionist, especially an occupied, tortured by Shin Bet and imprisoned Palestinian who has managed to rebuild his life, have a family and have gainful employment.

But the H4P slandering machine did not stop and went on secretly.

A core group of admins for H4P led by Carol Gai continued to mock Rayyan in secret groups they created for admins. They referred to him as “the one that cannot be named” and discussed if he was in the forum under alias Facebook names. There was no problem really with that, but the comments on these discussion posts continued the marginalization and denial of his legitimacy as a Palestinian. A number of admins were disgusted and began to record these conversations. One “admin” asked them to stop and they turned around and questioned her loyalty and demanded she explain her relationship with Rayyan.

But Team Hypocrite is exactly what it is, H4P, Hypocrites for Palestine. In fact they are The Real Housewives of H4P because of their constant gossiping and trashing of other admins and members. They have driven away or kicked out real Palestinian activists and good people who were there to do something for Palestine and demand justice for the occupied Palestinians.

During the preparation of the Shut Down AIPAC campaign they made too many problems and undid the project numerous times. They had Teresa Rossomando making unlimited comments and posts that made H4P look like fools. But Peter Cohen would not shut her down. Even when six admins determined that Teresa must leave the groups (she could stay in the Forum) because she would not stop, she would not address her concerns privately, they were overruled by Peter and Carol along withRina Idrus.

Team Humanity for Palestine also mocked a team member who was depressed and experiencing trauma from an act of violence months before, showing know humanity but antagonizing that person to extreme lengths. Another reason they are Team Hypocrite.

In addition to banning the real Palestinians activists like Rayyan and Nahida and slandering them as zionist agitators, H4P drove out Sloan first, then Schiff, then Santos, then Robinson, then Eisgrou, then Landers and they had nothing left to make the campaign a success. The three chief admins of H4P: Peter, drus, and  Gai had done nothing to facilitate the AIPAC campaign (look their wall activities to verify Feb20-28) and  they did not know anything about protesting, but they did know how to undermine it and make it a disaster. Actually they tried to abort the campaign.

But with all that said, from Schiff to Landers and all in between, they pulled together what they could to deliver on their promise of creating the online protests for Shut Down AIPAC and what does Peter Cohen do? He disconnects the website with all the campaign materials in Feb 27ht when he felt that the campaign is boosting. The website was eventually reinstated but the damage was done.

And even when Peter Cohen was called a Zionist and it showed up on Falastin News (which was stopped by Anonymous in favor of the shutownaipac campaign), the people of whose reputations of the lives he wrecked came to his aid and tried to turn the whole thing around while Idrus and Gai went around with Rossomando slandering the ex-H4P admin/members.

So two days into the campaign now, Team Hypocrite is still making it all about them with tweets to thousands “We support Palestine not slander” and long-winded posts on why they are protesting AIPAC “I am protesting AIPAC because I cannot stand to see Palestinians occupied.”

And when people were ignoring them they decided to stir more trouble by sharing private emails to people they knew who were easily angered to inflame things with the ex-team members trying to make the campaign a success.

So there is a moral to all this story, and it could even be a new proverb that could last for a long time:

When one who says they are an activist for Palestine but calls a Palestinian a Zionist, don’t be surprised in what they do next to undermine Palestine.

These three chief admins of H4P actually damaging the Palestinian cause and aiming at slandering the real activism of Palestine and empowering the yes-men activists.

We, Anonymous Palestine, highly suspect these three admins and want them out of the Palestinian activism. They have done much harm for the Palestinian activism and Palestine by stirring troubles for the real Palestinians and endangering their lives at the time they gave a bad idea for the international activists about Palestine.

In addition, they have played a negative role trying to abort the SHUTDOWNAIPAC campaign though we, Anonymous Palestine, have called upon them to put aside all the gossiping and slandering aside for the campaign.

BEWARE H4P and the zionist "humanitarians!"

By Sami THE BEDOUIN

H4P and Me: The campaign of slander.

The zionist assassination policy started as early as the 1930s when the zionists did their first inventory of Palestinian intellectuals and leaders to be assassinated. This criminal activity still goes on, as hundreds of Palestinian leaders were assassinated in just a few months during the 2000 Second Intifada. It never stopped.

In tandem with the killings, the zionists nurtured and supported corrupt Palestinians to lead the Palestinians and aid the zionist project of occupying the whole of historic Palestine

There is not a single Jewish organization working for Palestine that is to be trusted.

H4P "Humanity For Palestine" [A Facebook Forum] is following the same  zionist campaign by slandering the real fighting Palestinians and nurturing the corrupt ones who are ready to cooperate with further colonization.

We Palestinians are not children to be led by zionist agents

Peter Cohen, a Brazilian Jew, created the H4P organization one year ago to lead Palestinian activism the way his zionist masters wanted it to go: to slander and alienate the real fighting Palestinians and nurture and support the corrupt ones who are running after AID DOLLARS. H4P is determined to turn the Palestinian people into beggars, dependant on the goodwill of a zionist charity.

Six months ago, the evidence on H4P began to surface. See the screenshot below...

Peter Cohen, the benevolent Jew, started octopus FB groups and forums to lead Palestinian activism the way he wants. In late September 2014, I was invited by an H4P member to join their "H4P forum" and, unknowingly, I obliged. As  a normal new member I started to post in defense of Palestine, referring to my own blog and my own jail experience. I was imprisoned in the Zionist jail for years! It seemed they were hostile to my contributions, They insisted that I post only material that promoted "peace and coexistence." Needless to say, I was summarily kicked out of the group and banned. I have no interest in satisfying Peter Cohen.

As I have lots of friends who are in their group, mayhem erupted. People demanded that I be brought back into the group. Since I was excluded, my friends threatened to leave the group. 

Cohen & Co. unsuccessfully tried to convince my friends that I was a zionist fraud. Eventually, I was asked to come back to ease the tensions there. I was out for four days during which the H4P admins tried different ways to personally contact me through Skype, phone or any other way. I refused to respond. Eventually, Peter Cohen sent me a zionist man called Howard Cohen and told me that Howard was a British "humanitarian" supporter of Palestine. That same evening, Howard Cohen reached me.

Howard told me that he's an Israeli living in the Negev (my homeland) and that he wanted to meet me in person in Jerusalem or through skype to verify who I am. I told him and I don’t trust zionists and I don’t meet them even if they are peaceful. How can an anti-zionist be an occupier living in my homeland and brag about being an anti-zionist. No way! It doesn't work that way.

Later on, Peter Cohen & Co. sent two other persons to skype with me: two sexy girls--one Australian and the other Dutch. I never trusted their creepy ways, as I have mastered the zionist assassination game.

After that, I was accepted shortly for a few days, probably to be studied carefully, and then soon I was kicked out again. The slandering process began by morally assassinating me. I was called names and cursed and even called as a "zionist" and even non-Arab. Who the hell do they think they are to decide who is a "good" Palestinian or not?

Look at this...Why would somebody write this?

The answer is simple: they were sent to sabotage the real Palestinians and create a new Palestinian activism that tails zionist propaganda. Led by Peter the Jew, they have done a great job in deactivating the real Palestinian activists and empowering the corrupt beggars.

I simply won't allow them to continue. I will expose them and fight them.

For THREE months I was slandered in their secret group and called dirty names. Different threads were initiated and edited and reedited to suit their slandering machine. One thread got over 100 comments initiated by their boss admin Carol Gai, the "humanist" Australian.
Not only me, but ALL the real Palestinian activists who have been blogging for years against the zionist occupation were attacked, slandered and kicked out of their "humanist" H4P.


Why?

I don’t reject the idea of having Jews among the Palestinian activism and even encourage that as there are some real great anti-zionist Jews. But should Palestinian activism be led by a Jew? Should it be led by a zionist Jew like Peter Cohen, who just got to know Palestine a year ago?

I won't let a Jew lead or corrupt our activism. WE, the Palestinians, are the ones to decide for our future and not a Brazilian Jew or any other supposed activist.

I will fight against the creepy "humanist" groups that try to make us dysfunctional and lackeys of zionism. For Palestine, I will give my life. I will never be a beggar for H4P "humanitarian" aid. For me, there can be no compromise.

If Peter Cohen, the Brazilian Jew, is a "humanist, then let him go and humanize his fellow rampaging zionists ... We were humans long before Peter Cohen even dreamed of Palestine a year ago!

I have been watching them, collecting their posts and comments slandering me and other real Palestinians freedom fighters.

Peter Cohen, Carol Gai and Rina Idrus will never have their way with the Palestinian movement. I promise you we will fight them.

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Existentialist in the zionist Jail !!

By Sami THE BEDUOIN

One day I was standing by the window gazing vacantly and smoking at the lunch break at work when a colleague came and stood by me without me noticing her. I was looking out blankly and she was probably looking at my look, or the way I looked. Then suddenly, she asked me in a decisive and assuring tone: “Are you existentialist, Sami?” I was shocked and startled by that direct and unexpected question, and I remembered the interrogation "parties" they had on me in jail.

What? Existentialist? What’s that? And I was really astonished not only from the question but from the questioning person whom I never thought she knew (and I was right) anything of Sartre or Fanon.

What? Existentialist? Why the hell I am always taken to be an –ist?

“You are communist, and we know that,” roared the interrogator suddenly (actually not one but three interrogators to complete the “party”) which is part of their job to surprise you with new dimensions that you have never heard of!!!

Frantz Fanon, MD

“What? Existentialist?” and I, realizing that she is not an interrogator, burst in a sudden hysteric laugh. “Why do you think that I am ‘existentialist?” I got the courage to ask in a defensive way as if facing a mean interrogator in a decisive moment of a session.

“No, but really just asking. I mean the way you think, the way you talk, they way you contemplate dreamingly,” she explained apologetically.

“Is all that existentialism in me?” I asked in a sarcastic but polite way. “I don’t know but just asking!!”..Why the hell you ask?" I thought feeling the blood dripping on my side cheek. 

“I am the one to ask here, son of a bitch!” shouted the interrogator while his two mates were watching angrily, as if echoing his tone. One of them seemed to be taking his initial training on me. He is such a little “academician,” probably studying my case as a “strong headed” person, or probably having a seminar of “crises management”…. I looked at him, at them actually, and took my final decision ("I am not going to talk, even after death.")

Existentialist!!! Communist!!! Atheist!!! Tribalist!! Why the hell you ask, you little ignorant lady. Does it matter for you if I am existentialist or f_ _k-ist?

So, I am existential-IST, sweet lady!!!!

“What does it mean to be existentialist, dear?” I asked her in a defensive retaliation for her unexpected, perplexing and torturing question.

“I don’t know exactly, but it means to believe that you exist,” she responded.

The hell, I do exist. I am still not driven crazy, I thought to myself. I do feel the blood dripping down the side of my face. Silence! Silence… silence is my only weapon in this battle. Patience!! Who in Satan's sake can be patient while a  “academician” is conducting his experiment on him, on his very body, very mind, on his ability to hold a sustainable coordination between his mind and body???!!! Can an existentialist do this?

“Get up, you dirty athe-IST!” And he was looking at me in a clear irritation. 

You mustn’t be irritated, dear interrogator. Irritation is the first step for failing, I thought to myself, and kept motionless and silent, and didn’t get up. He got up swiftly looking at his mates, he urging them to help him, and they all jumped to attention. 

Is it time for a new party, I thought to myself, still trying to hold silent and coherent.I loath this word coherent.

“I don’t know, but I am sure you can give me a full and coherent explanation,” said the lady, cunningly smiling while still looking that perplexing look of… of… don’t know but so sweet and submissive.

Oh sweet lady!! Why in heaven you come to irritate me? Why should I give a coherent explanation to everybody, including the Israeli interrogators?!!!

“Take his clothes off!” the chief interrogator ordered his mates. They jumped on me, but I kept completely silent, motionless. The academician angrily punched my head then retreated as if stung by a snake. 

“Oh, shit!! His dirty blood, this asshole!!” he spat. 

And he was “smeared” with my blood.

Oh!! So clean and soft academician, It’s awful to have blood-smeared hands.
 But it’s my dear blood.

The hell, I have to start writing!!!

And still the crazy question is anguishly waiting for a quenching answer…. Why the hell am I taken to be –ist all the time…. Why can't I just be a simple Bedouin who is dreaming to live a normal life in this very HOLY, PROMISED LAND of THE CHOSEN PEOPLE?

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