Barely since the accession to the British throne of Charles the third, yet during this short period there have been a multitude of articles claiming that Charles is a friend of Muslims and, by extension, of the Palestinians.
Faraan: Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a new hereditary monarch has assumed power in Britain. Charles III has received the full thrust of the British establishment, with numerous prominent assets mobilized to beautify his image in the eyes of his subjects.
He has served as an arms lobbyist for decades, smoothing arms sales for BAE Systems in the Middle East. He has also been found to accept cash gifts and plastic bags from Arab Monarchs, purportedly in exchange for state honours. He is also believed by many to have had a role in the killing of his former wife, Princess Diana Spencer, and her Muslim fiancé, Dodi Al Fayed. Both the father of Dodi and Diana herself pointed the finger in his direction. Diana had sent a letter to her lawyer six months before she died, predicting the exact way she would be killed, claiming, Charles was behind the plan.
Following the death of Elizabeth II, a new hereditary monarch has assumed power in Britain. Charles has received the full trust of the British establishment, with numerous prominent assets mobilised to beautify his image in the eyes of his subjects. Clearly Charles is, undoubtedly, of questionable character, but what has not been examined is his relationship with the Israel lobby.
The monarch has been a key patron of the World Jewish Relief Organization for many years. The organization shares fundraisers with Zionist settlements and is funded by key Israel lobbyist and convicted fraudster Gerald Ronson. Charles described Israel lobbyists Jonathan Sacks as a trusted guide, an inspired teacher and a true and steadfast friend.
The former chief rabbi of Britain was the President of the United Jewish Israel Appeal, which is one of the three national institutions of the Zionist entity. Baron Sacks was also on the board of an anti BDS Israeli lobby group targeting school children called “One Voice”. Jonathan Sacks also described anti Zionism as the new anti-semitism, a key theme of the Israel lobby group in Britain.
He described the Israeli military as instilling a sense of genuine altruism. The rabbi also heaped praise on the controversial birthright Israel program, claiming it was “perhaps the greatest single innovation in Jewish life in the past quarter century”. His death was mourned by Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid claiming that he misses conversations with him, and that his presence in the world made him a better person. Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, described Sacks as “a giant of a man”.
The Israel lobby in England seems to have been quietly mobilized around the campaign to improve Charles’s image in the Muslim community. A senior fellow at the NATO think tank, the Atlantic Council, Ben Judah, has been a key proponent of the idea that Charles harbors some deep affection for the Muslim faith. He presumptuously writes in The Washington Post that “Britain’s new head of state is an admirer of Islam, a critic of Western interventionism, and the champion of multiculturalism”.
It’s important to note that Ben Judah came of age writing for a key Israel lobby rag, the Jewish Chronicle, in which he proudly describes Jacob Farge Raphael, a peer of Judah’s grandfather and advisor to Narendra Modi, as a hero and a one man AIPAC in Calcutta. Several leading Democratic presidential candidates skip the AIPAC conference in Washington in a shift in discourse on Israel.
During the smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn, Judah also revealed himself as a fervent supporter of key Israel lobby groups writing: “Only this year have I begun to feel truly proud of British Jews. We are proud of the dogged exposure done by Jewish activists like the campaign against anti-semitism. We are proud of the Jewish Chronicle for revealing a flourishing culture of conspiracy theories inside the Labour Party, because who else is going to do it for you?”
