It’s Sunday morning, so let’s go into the archives. Here’s a clip from the 2012 BBC documentary Shalom Belfast. Israeli journalist Ithamar Handelman Smith interviews Gordon McKnight, native of Bangor, the third largest town in Northern Ireland. McKnight is a recent convert to Judaism, and he wants to move to Israel. Sort of. Actually he wants to move, as a settler, to Occupied Palestine. Why?
Every little [bit] helps.
The Arabs have only been there a very short period of time. That’s why I do not recognize a Palestinian people, nation, nothing. They are a political invention, invented after the 1967 war.
Smith: But you from Bangor… has more right on the land than they do. You don’t find it a contradiction?
I can see why they would be upset… But my advice would be, you had a nice holiday, time to go home, that would be my advice.
Smith then takes over…
No word on what McKnight did. Though this sharp tweet:
@Tommymac90 Israeli fella looked like he was going to knock that McKnight lad out at one stage!
— Patrick Cullen (@patrickcullen01) December 19, 2012
Brainwashing. It’s as if I was watching an indoctrinated cult member…in the rapture.
Deprogramming advised. Smith’s efforts obviously did not work, though to his credit, he tried. I think Smith wanted benighted McKnight’s “membership papers” revoked.
What a world.
The journalist tells McKnight that the greatest rabbi of all time said the #1 rule is love they neighbor, not love thy Jewish neighbor. So how does McKight square that with what the Palestinians suffer daily under occupation? And that at a minimum of three generations living on the land, the Palestinians have been there a tad more than merely “being on vacation,” as McKnight characterized their life in the OT. McKnight says Israel has done more than enough to help the Palestinians…. So, anybody know if McKnight moved to the OT?
I think this clip is very valuable, precisely because the things this guy is saying are so downright silly. I would think that any Zionist would be embarrassed by this interview and would claim that he’s a stupid twerp, a bad apple. But he is actually articulating not only the truth that Israel bestows upon him the “right” to move to a different continent and assume superior rights over an indigenous population, but also the fundamental principles underlying the state. Rarely are these principles articulated by someone so ill-equipped to do so, someone who lays bare the injustice of the entire situation.
The Palestinians were invented in 1967? But, but I was told that they were invented in ’48 to piss off the Jews, or was it in the 1920’s when they all came from Outer Mongolia to take jobs in the new factories the Zionists built?
These people need to get their stories straight.
There is ignorance written all over his face. He makes statements that are not factual, and is naive enough to buy the narrative Americans are told ad nauseam by the media.
He would truly fit in the illegal settlement territories, blend in beautifully with their terrorists, and burn/steal an olive tree from those his simple mind thinks are the real
interlopers in the occupied territories. He already sounds, and looks. like one of them.