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Restore Britain’s talk of Gaza ‘genocide’ is as ridiculous as the Left’s. Genocide requires state intent. Instead, Israel deserves praise for the humanitarian care it has taken in its fight against terrorists
The Telegraph ^ | Aug 9, 2026 | Stephen Pollard

Posted on 08/09/2026 9:04:35 PM PDT by Words Matter

The accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is the gravest accusation that can be made against any nation – and also, as Howard Jacobson has pointed out, the most sadistic that can be made against Israel in particular, because it deliberately shifts the Jews from historical victims of genocide to being perpetrators.

That is why those who use it are either ignorant or malign – or, as in the case of Charlie Downes, campaign director and co-founder of far-Right party Restore Britain, both. Downes has a long history of using anti-semitic tropes (not least in his latest suggestion that “the Jews” have “bought” Nigel Farage). As Jacobson has put it: “There is a sadistic triumphalism in charging Jews with genocide, as though those making it feel they have their man at last.” A post from Charlie Downes, the campaign director and co-founder of far-Right party Restore Britain

A post from Charlie Downes, the campaign director and co-founder of far-Right party Restore Britain Credit: X Hitler first wrote about the “big lie” in Mein Kampf – the idea that ordinary people are more likely to fall for a huge, outrageous lie than a small, subtle one. The genocide lie is a typical example of this. Examine each of its constituent parts and the accusation falls apart. But that is rarely done – instead, the big genocide lie is repeated ad nauseam by those who seek to destroy Israel until it becomes almost an accepted fact by those who have never heard the detailed facts that disprove it.

.. Far from being accused of genocide, Israel should be praised for the extreme humanitarian care it has taken in its existential fight against terrorists out to destroy it.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Hamas; Qatar; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdulelsayed; deadbabystrategy; genocidelie; greaterislamproject; greaterisraelproject; humanshields; mamdani; pallyweid
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Great piece. https://archive.ph/72ffi
1 posted on 08/09/2026 9:04:35 PM PDT by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter ; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...

It explains the interest here and there around FR.


2 posted on 08/09/2026 9:14:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: SunkenCiv

By calling Israel the worst names of humanity, in the face of the facts is a world that has lost it’s moral compass and is being led by the nose by the radical Islam fascists and their useful idiots.

Truth? Facts? Events? Documentation all prove that what HAMAS/PLO/Hezbollah/Islamic Jihad, Daish, Taliban and a myriad of other PALEOstinian terror groups did to others (non-Muslims and Muslims) and are still doing to others - was/is indeed a genocide.

Everything these scum accuse Israel of is exactly what they themselves do...and they know it.

From the year ~600 CE to present these animals have not changed.

These scum carried out murder, rape, pillaging , torture, mutilation, necrophilia for centuries and what they did on 7 October 2023 to Israel’s Jews was more of the same.

It took Israel 3 weeks after this horrific event to invade Gaza but the Left and PALEOstinians already began to scream “Genocide”.

How evil and warped do you have to be to be considered the lowest form of life on Earth. These are the PALEOstinian Muslim hoards and their brethren now invading Europe.

WAKE UP WEST!!!


3 posted on 08/09/2026 9:31:00 PM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Words Matter
Islam has taken London. Islam has taken Manchester, and dozens of other UK cities. Still these morons obsess over "JEWS!!!"

Islam has taken New York. Islam is about to take Michigan. And all the fake-right grifters like Carlson can talk about is "JEWS!!!"

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so damn tragic.

4 posted on 08/09/2026 9:35:31 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Words Matter

Restore Britain is a vote splitter on the right and now the losers have been outed as the British versions of Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Thomas Massie.


5 posted on 08/09/2026 9:38:51 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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To: Words Matter

Wow. The Telegraph is even against calling Israelis genocidal. What happened?


6 posted on 08/09/2026 9:57:06 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals. )
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To: Netz

👍


7 posted on 08/09/2026 10:06:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: Words Matter ; SunkenCiv
Very good article. Basically a companion article to a piece you posted a couple of weeks ago:

Everything You Need to Know About Gaza’s Fatality Numbers [pallyweid fake "genocide"]

Of course the usual FRakestinians did not comment on that piece, and will probably stay away from this one as well.

8 posted on 08/09/2026 10:20:50 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ScaniaBoy; All
The main architect of pushing the fake "genocide" lie in Gaza (where Palestine government uses its civikians) among DSA candidates is infamous Hasan Piker, nephew of TYT Cenk Uygur (both Turkish Islamic immigrants) who co anchored that site.. Consider the hypocrisy:

They wouldn't change their name The YOUNG TURKS who massacred some 1.5 million Christians in Armenian [real] genocide by jihad Turkey.


9 posted on 08/09/2026 10:27:34 PM PDT by Words Matter
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To: Netz

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men….. the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled— the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.“
Winston Churchill


10 posted on 08/09/2026 10:27:37 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: ScaniaBoy

Yes. Thanks.


11 posted on 08/09/2026 10:27:51 PM PDT by Words Matter
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To: HYPOCRACY

Yes


12 posted on 08/09/2026 10:29:42 PM PDT by Words Matter
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To: SunkenCiv

No doubt


13 posted on 08/09/2026 10:30:08 PM PDT by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter

Very good point re TYT: Hypocrisy galore.


14 posted on 08/09/2026 10:36:24 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Words Matter ; SunkenCiv; Netz; montag813; HYPOCRACY; VanShuyten; doc maverick; ScaniaBoy
What a rubbish article with an even more rubbish headline.

First of all, those claiming that Restore Britain is obsessing over Jews at the expense of Islam clearly didn't bother opening the actual Telegraph article to see the actual tweet quoted:

Not a single mention of Jews or Israel.

So why in the world does this headline make it seem as though Restore Britain has remarked about a "Gaza genocide", when the actual article contains nothing to support the headline in question? They don't even link to anything supporting their contention that “the Jews” have “bought” Nigel Farage (in fact, the one link included under Charles Downes' name is...not about Jews, but about Downes claiming that Britain's national identity depends on their Christian ancestry!). So where did they get it from?

The only recent tweet that could reasonably correspond to this is regarding foreign influence in general (which actual lists Qatar ahead of Israel!)...

...or, it could be about the fact that he simply responded to Nigel Farage's tweet about how he "can't be bought"...with a single picture of Farage speaking before the Reform Jewish Alliance, from back in bloody February:

In fact, the specific allegation was not made by Charlie Downs himself...but rather, a spokesman for Labour's anti-semitism advocacy group: "Alex Hearn, a spokesman for the advocacy group Labour Against Anti-Semitism, accused Downes of reviving "the oldest smear" against Jews. "Restore Britain's spokesman insinuated that Nigel Farage had been bought by Jews — the oldest smear about money and influence, delivered as a picture so that nothing could be quoted back at him," Hearn told The Telegraph. He also criticized Downes for previously stating that Restore Britain believes "Britain is a people defined by indigenous British ancestry and Christian faith," arguing that such a definition excludes Jews and other minorities regardless of how long their families have lived in Britain."

Maybe, perhaps, his emphasis isn't on "da Jooz", but on foreign and non-British influences in general, especially given all the ink spilled about Islam, or about the antipathy against white British people:

As Carl Benjamin accurately described it: this is just the Telegraph "sperging out".

I mean, look at this. How is anything but a sperg out?


15 posted on 08/09/2026 10:43:42 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Take a Valium, dude.


16 posted on 08/09/2026 10:51:01 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th ( I am obsessed with not being obsessed with anything.)
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To: Repeal The 17th
Forgive me if I'm only slightly incensed that Freepers would let shoddy unsubstantiated allegations of antisemitism color their opinion of an anti-Islam, pro-Christian political party.
17 posted on 08/09/2026 10:53:19 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Rockies are in last place in NL West ...


18 posted on 08/09/2026 10:58:15 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th ( I am obsessed with not being obsessed with anything.)
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Dear Ultra Sonic 007,

Take a sip of your favourite beverage, and carefully reread the penultimate sentence of Charlie Downes’s tweet you quoted.

LOL!

19 posted on 08/09/2026 11:05:18 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ScaniaBoy

...well fudge, I completely missed that.


20 posted on 08/09/2026 11:08:08 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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