POETRY REVIEWS by Gideon Polya

The following links to poetry reviews by Gideon Polya are listed alphabetically in relation to the authors of the books being reviewed (for detailed reviews see below and

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COHEN, Leonard. "Hallelujah"- see Gideon Polya, “Pro-Zionist Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) & Apartheid Israel’s Palestinian Genocide”, Bellaciao, 17 November 2016: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article23561 .

DYLAN, Bob. "Blowin' in the wind" - see Gideon Polya, “Zionist Nobel laureate Bob Dylan & Neighbourhood Bully”, MWC News, 18 November 2016: http://www.mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/62232-bob-dylan-a-neighbourhood-bully.html

DYLAN, Bob. "Neighbourhood bully"- see Gideon Polya, “Zionist Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan & Neighbourhood Bully”, MWC News, 18 November 2016: http://www.mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/62232-bob-dylan-a-neighbourhood-bully.html

MCCORMICK, Peter Dodds under the nom-de-plume "Amicus". "Advance Australia Fair" - see Gideon Polya, “Advance Australia Fair” Hides Australian Racism, Theft, Genocide, Ecocide, Speciescide & Terracide”, Countercurrents, 1 July 2019: https://countercurrents.org/2019/07/advance-australia-fair-hides-australian-racism-theft-genocide-ecocide-speciescide-terracide .

COHEN, Leonard. "Hallelujah"

Pro-Zionist Canadian singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen died on 7 November 2016. Leonard Cohen’s death has prompted world-wide mourning from his numerous fans, but missing from the Mainstream media coverage outside Apartheid Israel is his shameful role, together with many other performers, as a Zionist collaborator through repeated concert tours of nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel and his lying by omission over Apartheid Israel’s ongoing Palestinian Genocide.

Leonard Cohen (1934 –2016), the much-honoured and iconic Jewish Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist, died at the age of 82. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, personal relationships and sexuality, and generated a huge following around the world [1]. Leonard Cohen’s songs are beautifully sad, wistful, dark, lyrical and bordering on transcendental truth, like lost or unrealized love. Richard Gehr writing in RollingStone has summarized Cohen’s musical life thus: “Cohen was the dark eminence among a small pantheon of extremely influential singer-songwriters to emerge in the Sixties and early Seventies. Only Bob Dylan exerted a more profound influence upon his generation, and perhaps only Paul Simon and fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell equalled him as a song poet. Cohen's haunting bass voice, nylon-stringed guitar patterns and Greek-chorus backing vocals shaped evocative songs that dealt with love and hate, sex and spirituality, war and peace, ecstasy and depression. He was also the rare artist of his generation to enjoy artistic success into his Eighties, releasing his final album, You Want It Darker, earlier this year” [2].

However, despite Leonard Cohen’s earnest search for enlightenment and truth, he managed to not only ignore the Elephant in the Room reality of Apartheid Israel’s ongoing Palestinian Genocide but also to act as an active Zionist collaborator helping to legitimize a genocidally racist, Apartheid rogue state. Of course Leonard Cohen was not alone in this shameful Zionist collaboration and white-washing of a genocidal Apartheid state – governments and Mainstream media have a similar commitment to Apartheid Israel throughout the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted West.

In 2009, despite protests from human rights groups, iconic Jewish Canadian singer Leonard Cohen performed at a sell-out concert at the 50,000-seat Ramat Gan stadium near Tel Aviv as part of this 2008-2009 world tour. Leonard Cohen was due to sing in Ramallah at the 736-seat Ramallah Cultural Palace by way of “balance” , but this was scrapped because of Palestinian objections to Leonard Cohen’s implicit collaboration with Apartheid Israel. The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) stated: "Ramallah will not receive Cohen as long as he is intent on whitewashing Israel's colonial apartheid by performing in Israel" [3]. This was Leonard Cohen's first performance in Apartheid Israel since 1980 and it was announced that the huge proceeds would go to a fund in partnership with Amnesty International to be used by Israeli and Palestinian peace groups, but Amnesty International withdrew from any involvement [1, 4].

Thus Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) press release (New York, NY, August 18, 2009): “Amnesty International has announced today that it will abstain from any involvement in the Leonard Cohen concert in Tel Aviv and will not be party to any fund that benefits from the concert’s proceeds. A number of media accounts had reported that Amnesty International was to manage or otherwise partner in a fund created from the proceeds of Cohen’s concert in Israel that would be used to benefit Israeli and Palestinian groups. Amnesty International’s announcement today followed an international outcry over the human rights organization’s reported involvement in the Leonard Cohen concert fund, and an earlier international call for Cohen to boycott apartheid Israel. Omar Barghouti from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) commented, “We welcome Amnesty International’s withdrawal from this ill-conceived project which is clearly intended to whitewash Israel’s violations of international law and human rights. By abandoning the Leonard Cohen project in Tel Aviv, Amnesty International has dealt Cohen and his public relations team a severe blow, denying them the cover of the organization’s prestige and respectability…” [4]. For other reports about the Leonard Cohen concert in Apartheid Israel see [5].

In 1973 Jewish Zionist Leonard Cohen dropped everything and came to Apartheid Israel to sing to genocidal and war criminal Israel Defence Force (IDF) troops defending territory they had illegally occupied in the war criminal 1967 war. Serial war criminal, human rights abuser, anti-Arab anti-Semite, mass murderer and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu eulogized Leonard Cohen on the occasion of Cohen’s passing (11 November 2016): “Leonard Cohen was a great creator, a talented artist, and a warm Jew, who loved the people of Israel and the state of Israel. I will not forget how he came to Israel during the Yom Kippur War in order to sing to IDF soldiers, out of a deep feeling of partnership. His touching voice will continue to accompany us, like his prayer ‘Hallelujah.’ May his memory be a blessing” [6]. The similarly genocide- and mass murder-complicit Israeli President, Reuven Rivlin, also sang the praises of Zionist collaborator Leonard Cohen as “A giant of a creator, open to all people, who also knew how to accompany the State of Israel in the fields of battle and in times of growth”[6].

That wonderful Palestinian humanitarian Jesus Christ tells the parable of the Good Samaritan who did not “pass by on the other side”, helped a badly beaten and robbed Jew “And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him” [7] . In contrast, a “priest” and a “Levite” both saw the injured Jew but each “passed by on the other side” [7]. In relation to the sorely oppressed, egregiously robbed and substantially ethnically cleansed Indigenous Palestinians, in 1973, 1980 and 2009 Leonard Cohen very publicly “passed by on the other side” three (3) times in singing to Jewish Israelis in genocidally racist Apartheid Israel.

Again that wonderful Palestinian humanitarian Jesus Christ predicted at the Last Supper that Peter would betray him three times: “Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice… Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: "Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly” [8]. By repeatedly singing to genocidally racist Apartheid Israel, Leonard Cohen has betrayed Humanity thrice.

Richard Lightbown stated “to the dead we owe the truth” in commenting on the Leonard Cohen legacy of failure to face the reality of the racist Zionists’ Palestinian Genocide (11 November 2016): “Like vintage wine gone sour, Leonard Cohen’s beautiful love songs became tainted by his contribution to the normalization of Israel’s criminal policies. The man who saw himself as a soldier on stage just didn’t have it in himself to face the realities of everyday Palestinian existence. For a writer who had criticised social injustice this was a coward’s response to a gross injustice”, a failure that outstanding Australian pro-Palestinian human rights activist Dr Vacy Vlazna described as: “The emptiness between words and actions” (see [9]).

And the dead are many and the other injustices are many. 2 million Indigenous Palestinians have been killed since the mid-1930s by violence (0.1 million) or Zionist-imposed deprivation (1.9 million). Of over 12 million Palestinians (half of them children) , over 6 million are forbidden to even step foot in their own country under pain of death, and of 6.4 million Indigenous Palestinian subjects of Apartheid Israel, 4.7 million are held hostage without human rights, charge or trial in the blockaded Gaza Concentration Camp (2 million) or in West Bank ghettoes (2.7 million) under IDF guns, with 1.7 million Palestinian Israelis living as Third Class citizens in a racist Apartheid state with Nazi-style race laws. Of the now majority population in Palestine of 6.4 million Israeli Palestinian subjects, 73% are excluded from voting for the government ruling them – Apartheid indeed [10, 11].

Leonard Cohen’s most famous song was “Hallelujah” (“praise God”) that says that “praise God” can come from “the holy or the broken”, referencing both David and Samson, morally flawed and genocidally violent Hebrew heroes in circa 1000 BC against the Philistines (from whom Palestine draws it ancient name):

“Now I've heard there was a secret chord

That David played, and it pleased the Lord

But you don't really care for music, do you?

It goes like this

The fourth, the fifth

The minor fall, the major lift

The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you

She tied you to a kitchen chair

She broke your throne, and she cut your hair

And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain

I don't even know the name

But if I did, well really, what's it to you?

There's a blaze of light

In every word

It doesn't matter which you heard

The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much

I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch

I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

And even though it all went wrong

I'll stand before the Lord of Song

With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah” [12].

For an analyis of “Hallelujah” as a gemisch of sex and religion see [13]. The first verse of the song references the genocidally racist proto-Zionist and proto-Nazi King David whose Star of David adorns the blood-soaked flag of Apartheid Israel. David was a genocidally racist mass murderer who completely exterminated the inhabitants of Canaanite towns, of which the Jebusite city Jerusalem was the largest to be completely ethnically cleansed by this proto-Nazi psychopath of 3,000 years ago. However David had a saving grace of being a musician who could find “the sacred chord” of sublime beauty.

The second verse of “Hallelujah”, references Samson whose powers vanish when the Philistine Delilah cuts his hair, and David’s lust for Bathsheba the wife of Uriah the Hittite, a soldier who David arranges to be killed in battle. But musical genius transcends human weakness and sex: “And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah”.

The third verse praises the universality of truth from whatever flawed source: “There's a blaze of light/ In every word/ It doesn't matter which you heard/ The holy or the broken Hallelujah”.

The fourth verse is a personal confession of a flawed life cleansed by the truth and Hallelujah (“praise God” for a monotheist, “praise Goodness” for a secular Humanist, “praise Beauty” for an artist or poet, or “praise Truth” (or the best approximation to the Truth) for a scientist. Indeed John Keats concludes in an Ode on A Grecian Urn”: “'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” [14].

In “Hallelujah”, Leonard Cohen adverts only to the sexual proclivities or sexual weaknesses of Samson and David [13]. However Jewish convert, self-asserted “nice”, pro-human rights but anti-BDS Zionist, Geraldine Brooks, pulls almost no punches in describing the appalling crimes of David in her factional novel “The Sacred Chord”, the title of which derived from Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” [15, 16]. Thus, for example, David cold-bloodedly kills the father and uncle of shepherd boy Natan [Nathan in the Bible ] . Natan survives by having a fit in which he talks like a God-inspired prophet to the killer, who is so impressed that he takes Natan on as a prophet just as Shmuel [Samuel] was the prophet of Shaul [Saul], the Israelite king eventually deposed by the Lord for not completely killing all of his conquered Canaanites and their livestock. Insurgent David under threat from King Saul becomes a mercenary ally of the Plishtim [Philistines, and hence the term Palestine] and after attacking and destroying Canaanite towns pretends to the Plishtim that he has been attacking Israelite towns – however to prevent the secret emerging, David orders that the Canaanite populations be totally exterminated (one notes that an appropriate anagram today for ISRAEL is e-LIARS). David successfully impregnates Batsheva [Bathsheba], wife of Uriah the Hittite, and then arranges for Uriah to die in battle (the child of this lust dies associated with Divine curse but a second child grows up to eventually be King Solomon). As part of a political deal, David betrays 5 grandsons of Saul via Merav to the Givonites who hunt them down and kill them. David unwisely protects his son who has raped his own sister. David’s further son Absalom kills the rapist, is persuaded to rebel against David and is killed, leaving a despairing David to utter the utterly tragic words: “ O my son Absolom, my son, my son Absolom! Would God I had died for thee, O Absolom, my son, my son!” [17] . However Geraldine Brooks falsely sanitizes the Bible in having a victorious David allowing the defeated Jebusites to leave Jerusalem in peace, whereas to John Wesley the Bible actually implies that they were exterminated and any surviving Jebusites forbidden to return [16].

Leonard Cohen’s songs are beautifully sad, wistful, and dark and skirt some kinds of transcendental truth. However, Leonard Cohen’s line “I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you” in “Hallelujah”, turns on its head his role as a de facto apologist for racist Zionism and Apartheid Israel’s ongoing Palestinian Genocide through his repeated concert tours of Apartheid Israel. His lie in “Hallelujah” is a lie of omission. In “Hallelujah” the weakness or crime of both David and Samson is merely sexual surrender to a woman who is not Jewish (a shikse in Yiddish) and hardly a crime today for 99.9% of Humanity. The lie in “Hallelujah” is an immense lie of omission about the Israelite Palestinian Genocide of 1,000 BC just as the lie of omission of Leonard Cohen’s pro-Zionism and Zionist collaboration is the US-, UK-, EU-, Canada- and Australia-backed Zionist Palestinian Genocide of the last century that is still continuing while the Western world looks the other way. 2 million Palestinians, one quarter of them women, half of them children, three quarters of them women and children have died from Zionist violence (0.1 million) or from Zionist- imposed deprivation (1.9 million) since the mid-1930s whereas 4,000 Zionist colonizers have been killed since 1920 [10, 11].

Of course Leonard Cohen is not alone in his crimes of being a Zionist collaborator and of resolutely not acknowledging the ongoing the Palestinian Genocide. Numerous other performers have also travelled to Apartheid Israel and thus lent legitimacy to this neo-Nazi Apartheid rogue state. Thus, for example, Jewish Zionist Bob Dylan, Elton John, Justin Bieber, and Madonna have also performed in Apartheid Israel [18].

Lying by omission is deadly as revealed by the shocking dimensions of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide and the other appalling human rights abuses by by genocidally racist Zionists and US-, UK-, France-, Canada- and Australia-backed Apartheid Israel can be summed up by the following appalling key statistics:

(1) Since 1936 there have been 2 million Palestinian deaths from Zionist violence (0.1 million) or Zionist-imposed deprivation (1.9 million );

(2) There are 7 million Palestinian refugees and all of the over 12 million Palestinians are excluded from all or part of Palestine;

(3) Of over 12 million Palestinians (half of them children), 6 million are forbidden to even step foot in their own country, 4.7 million are held hostage with zero human rights under Israeli guns in the Gaza Concentration Camp (2.0 million) or in ever-dwindling West Bank Bantustan ghettoes (2.7 million), and 1.7 million live as Third Class citizens as Israeli Palestinians under Nazi-style Apartheid Israeli race laws;

(4) 90% of Palestine has now been ethnically cleansed of Indigenous Palestinian inhabitants;

(5) GDP per capita is US$2,900 for Occupied Palestinians as compared to US$37,700 for Apartheid Israel;

(6) Through imposed deprivation, each year Apartheid Israel passively murders about 2,700 under-5 year old Palestinian infants and passively murders 4,200 Occupied Palestinians in general;

(7) Apartheid Israel violently kills an average of about 500 Occupied Palestinians each year;

(8) Occupied Palestinians are deprived of essentially all human rights by Apartheid Israel ;

(9) Nuclear terrorist, serial war criminal, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide, racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel determines that the 37% of its subjects who are Occupied Palestinians cannot vote for the government ruling them;

(10) US-backed Apartheid Israel in its genocidal treatment of the Palestinians ignores numerous UN General Assembly Resolutions and UN Security Council Resolutions, the UN Genocide Convention, the Geneva Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Rights of the Child Convention, the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and many other aspects of International Law;

(11) Apartheid Israel has attacked 12 countries and occupied 5 with 1950-2005 avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries neighbouring Apartheid Israel totalling 24 million;

(12) Apartheid Israel and its traitorous and genocidally racist Zionist agents have subverted and perverted Western democracy, media and institutions with appalling mortality consequences:

(a) 17 million avoidable deaths from deprivation globally each year and 1,500 million such deaths since 1950 (this including 600 million Muslims), this carnage being linked to Zionist perversion of US aid and foreign policy [19];

(b) 32 million Muslim deaths from violence (5 million) or imposed deprivation (27 million) in 20 countries subject to US Alliance invasion since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity that may also have involved Apartheid Israel and Saudi Arabia and which precipitated the US War on Terror (aka the US War on Muslims) [20- 25].

(c) millions of Indigenous deaths from violence or imposed deprivation in countries subject to Apartheid Israeli-backed, genocidal civil wars, notably Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Syria and South Sudan.

(d) 23 million American preventable deaths since 9-11 (1.7 million annually) inescapably linked to Zionist-beholden US Governments committing to a $7 trillion long-term accrual cost of the killing of millions of Muslims abroad in the War on Terror instead of keeping millions of Americans alive at home. Pro-Zionist, US lackey Australia has similarly committed to $11 billion per year long-term to the War on Terror ($165 billion since 9-11) with this fiscal perversion linked to 1.2 million preventable deaths since 9-11. Canada has similarly committed hugely to the War on Terror with this linked to 0.1 million Canadian preventable deaths annually or 1.5 million preventable deaths in Canada since 9-11. Similarly, 150,000 UK residents die preventably each year. The annual probability of a UK resident dying from a preventable cause (e.g. smoking, drinking, obesity, adverse hospital events, violence etc) is 1 in 417, this being 38,000 times higher than the annual probability of being killed by a terrorist of 1 in 15.8 million [26-30].

And of course this horrendous Zionist-linked carnage was resolutely ignored by self-asserted “seeker after truth” but Zionist collaborator, Apartheid Israel white-washer and ignorer of the Palestinian Genocide, Leonard Cohen. Genocide ignoring and holocaust ignoring are far, far worse than repugnant genocide denial and holocaust denial because the latter at least permit rebuttal and public discussion.

Indeed numerous anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish intellectuals, writers, leaders and artists around the world have variously spoken out against the genocidal crimes of Apartheid Israel and the need for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against this genocidally racist Apartheid rogue state and its supporters [32- 36]. Thus, for example, outstanding anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Jared Diamond in his best-selling book "Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) enunciated the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people" – an injunction grossly violated by racist Zionist (RZ)-run Apartheid Israel and its racist, genocide-committing and genocide-ignoring US Alliance backers [34].

Conclusions.

It is now too late for the late Leonard Cohen to “bear witness” to the horrendous and genocidal crimes of the racist Zionists (RZs). Decent anti-racist people around the word must (a) inform everyone they can, (b) urge and apply Boycotts. Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and all the people, politicians, parties, countries, companies and corporations complicit in the racist Zionist Palestinian Genocide by nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide, racist Zionist-run, neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel (just as BDS was successfully applied against US-, UK-, Australia- and Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa), and (c) declare that Zionism is genocidal racism and the racist Zionists and their supporters must be sidelined from public life as have been Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

References.

[1]. “Leonard Cohen”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen#2008_tour .

[2]. Richard Gehr, “Leonard Cohen dead at 82. Hugely influential singer and songwriter’s work spanned nearly 50 years”, RollingStone, November 2016: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792 .

[3]. “Leonard Cohen concert cancelled in Israel row”, Telegraph, 15 July 2009: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/5832165/Leonard-Cohen-concert-cancelled-in-Israel-row.html .

[4]. Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) press release, “Amnesty International withdraws from Leonard Cohen’s Israel concert fund”, New York, NY, 18 August 2009: https://palsolidarity.org/2009/08/amnesty-international-withdraws-from-leonard-cohen%e2%80%99s-israel-concert-fund/ .

[5] International Solidarity Movement, “Tag Archives: Leonard Cohen”: https://palsolidarity.org/tag/leonard-cohen/ .

[6]. Barney Breen-Portnoy, “Netanyahu: I will never forget how Leonard Cohen came to Israel during Yom Kipur War to sing to IDF troops out of deep feeling of partnership”, Algemeiner, 11 November 2016: https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/11/11/netanyahu-i-will-never-forget-how-leonard-cohen-came-to-israel-during-yom-kippur-war-to-sing-to-idf-troops-out-of-deep-feeling-of-partnership/ .

[7]. New Testament, Holy Bible, King James version, Luke 10: 30-37: http://biblehub.com/luke/10-34.htm .

[8]. The New Testament, The Holy Bible , King James version, Mathew 26:34 and 26: 75: http://biblehub.com/matthew/26-34.htm .

[9]. Richard Lightbown, “On Leonard Cohen and BDS: to the dead we owe the truth”, The Palestine Chronicle, 11 November 2016: http://www.palestinechronicle.com/on-leonard-cohen-and-bds-to-the-dead-we-owe-the-truth/ .

[10]. “Palestinian Genocide” : http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ .

[11]. Gideon Polya, "2015 update on the ongoing Palestinian Genocide by Apartheid Israel", Palestinian Genocide, 2015: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/2015-update .

[12]. Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah”, Leonard Cohen Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leonardcohen/hallelujah.html .

[13]. “How Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah ”brilliantly mingled sex, religion”, Rolling Stone: 3 December 2012: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-book-excerpt-leonard-cohen-writes-hallelujah-in-the-holy-or-the-broken-20121203 .

[14]. John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”: http://www.bartleby.com/101/625.html .

[15]. Geraldine Brooks, “The Secret Chord”, Viking, 2015.

[16]. Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Secret Chord” By Geraldine Brooks. Palestinian Genocide By Israelites In 1000BC And By Zionists Today”, Countercurrents, 30 May, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya300516.htm .

[17]. Old Testament, The Holy Bible, King James version, Book 2 Samuel 18: 33: http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/18-33.htm .

[18]. Nima Shirazi, “No surprise Bob Dylan is visiting the “neighbourhood bully””, Mondoweiss, 13 April 2013: http://mondoweiss.net/2011/04/no-surprise-dylan-is-visiting-the-neighborhood-bully/ .

[19]. Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes an avoidable mortality-related history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web : http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/ .

[20]. “Palestinian Genocide” : http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ .

[21]. “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ .

[22]. Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ .

[23]. “Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ .

[24]. “Experts; US did 9-11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/ .

[25]. Gideon Polya,“Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm .

[26]. Gideon Polya , “West Ignores 11 Million Muslim War Deaths & 23 Million Preventable American Deaths Since US Government's False-flag 9-11 Atrocity”, Countercurrents, 9 September, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090915.htm .

[27]. Gideon Polya, “American Holocaust, Millions Of Untimely American Deaths And $40 Trillion Cost Of Israel To Americans”, 27 August, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270813.htm .

[28]. Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm .

[29]. Gideon Polya, “Pro-Zionist, Pro-war, Pro-Opium, War Criminal Canadian Government Defames Iran & Cuts Diplomatic Links”, Countercurrents, 10 September, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya100912.htm .

[30]. Gideon Polya, “UK Terror Hysteria exposed – Empirical Annual Probability of UK Terrorism Death 1 in 16 million”, Countercurrents, 16 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160914.htm .

[31]. Yotam Feldman, “Naomi Klein: oppose the state not the people”, Haaretz, 2 July 2007: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097058.html .

[32]. “Boycott Apartheid Israel”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/.

[33]. “Gaza Concentration Camp”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/gaza-concentration .

[34]. “Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/ .

[35]. “Non-Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/nonjewsagainstracistzionism/ .

[36]. “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban .

DYLAN, Bob. "Neighbourhood bully" & "Blowin' in the wind" - see Gideon Polya, “Zionist Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan & Neighbourhood Bully”, MWC News, 18 November 2016: http://www.mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/62232-bob-dylan-a-neighbourhood-bully.html

Zionist Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan & Neighbourhood Bully

Gideon Polya

The acclaimed Jewish American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan was recently controversially awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. However the close association of Bob Dylan with nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist and democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel has tainted this award. Good literature is about critically revealing truths about humanity through songs, poetry, plays, short stories and novels. In sharp contrast, Bob Dylan’s poem “Neighbourhood bully” is full of untruths and half truths that support the racist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic Zionist agenda and thus betrays the fundamental truthfulness ethos of good literature. However a fundamental crime against Humanity and truth of “Neighbourhood bully” is that it falsely identifies Judaism and all Jews with the political ideology of Zionism that is genocidal racism in obscene 19th century theory and in horrendous 20th century and 21st century practice.

Anti-racist Jews are justifiably proud of the moral and humanitarian and moral tradition of Judaism that has had a huge impact on Islam and Christianity in past millennia and on secular humanism since Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), the subsequent Enlightenment and the 19th century Jewish assimilation with European cultures.

For anti-racist Jews and indeed all anti-racist humanitarians the core moral messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and from the more general WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slav, Jewish and Gypsy dead) are “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone”, “bear witness” and “zero tolerance for lying”. While the late Jewish Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen repeatedly visited Apartheid Israel, acclaimed anti-racist Jewish Canadian writer Naomi Klein, has observed these sacred injunctions and has unequivocally stated: “There is a debate among Jews - I'm a Jew by the way. The debate boils down to the question: "Never again to everyone, or never again to us?... [Some Jews] even think we get one get-away-with-genocide-free card...There is another strain in the Jewish tradition that say[s], “Never again to anyone.””. Numerous anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish intellectuals, writers, leaders and artists around the world have variously spoken out against the genocidal crimes of Apartheid Israel and the need for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against this genocidally racist Apartheid rogue state and its supporters. Thus, for example, outstanding anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Jared Diamond in his best-selling book "Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) enunciated the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people" – an injunction grossly violated by racist Zionist (RZ)-run Apartheid Israel and its racist, genocide-committing and genocide-ignoring US Alliance backers (for further such humane opinions Google “Jews Against Racist Zionism”).

Indeed the 2 millennia Orthodox Jewish tradition rejects Zionism on theological as well as humanitarian grounds, asserting that the return to Zion (Jerusalem) can only happen when the Moschiach (Messiah) arrives and informs the whole world of the glory of Adonai (the Lord). Thus the True Torah Jews of the Neturei Karta on the blasphemy and heresy of the Zionist State: "The founding of the Zionist State is in direct contradiction to the teachings of the Torah, which forbids the establishment of a Jewish State and commands Jews to remain in exile until released from that exile by G-d Himself without any human intervention. At which time all Nations of the world will live together in peace. Two thousand years ago, at the time of the destruction of the holy Temple, the Jewish people were commanded by the Creator (kesubos 111a) not to go up en masse to the land of Israel; not to rebel against the nations; and not to in any way attempt to end the exile. Torah faithful Jews are to behave in a civil, honest and grateful manner towards their host nations throughout the world. The Zionist intervention against G-d’s will by establishing the ‘State of Israel’, represents a direct rebellion against G-d and the Torah, a rebellion which has generated untold pain and suffering, to Jew and non-Jew alike”.

Before reviewing Bob Dylan’s “Neighbourhood bully” in detail, it is useful to briefly review the history of Zionism. Racist psychopath and founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was torn between Argentina and Palestine as a suitable location for a Jewish Homeland but in his 1896 book “Der Judenstaat” (“The Jewish State”) argued for the notion of a Jewish state in Palestine as Western -backed and “a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism”. The British conquered Palestine in WW1 and in 1917 issued the Balfour Declaration of a Jewish Homeland in Palestine as a ploy to get Russian Zionists to keep Russia the war. In 1880 the population of Ottoman Turkey-ruled Palestine comprised 500,000 Indigenous Arab Palestinians and 25,000 Jews of whom half were Jewish immigrants. The post-WW1 flood of Zionist colonizers led to friction with the Indigenous Palestinians and the rise of genocidal Zionist terrorism. Zionist terrorists collaborated with the Nazis and killed British servicemen before, during and after WW2. By 1947, 1/3 of the population of the Palestine Mandate was Jewish, but after British Partition of Palestine and UN recognition of a “Jewish state”, the genocidally racist Zionist terrorists expelled half the Indigenous Palestinian population from villages, towns and cities and seized nearly 80% of the land of Palestine in a genocide called the Nakbah (the catastrophe). A second Nakbah occurred in 1967 when a now nuclear-armed and US-backed Apartheid Israel attacked all it neighbours and occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, part of Lebanon, the Sinai and the Golan Heights, sending hundreds of thousands more Palestinians fleeing their homes. A nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel periodically invades its neighbours and regularly subjects its Gaza Concentration Camp inmates to horrendous destruction of life and property by army, navy and air force bombing, rocketing , shooting and shelling.

This is the horrendous reality for Indigenous Palestinians:

1) Since the mid-1930s there have been 2 million Palestinian deaths from Zionist violence (0.1 million) or Zionist-imposed deprivation (1.9 million );

(2) There are 7 million Palestinian refugees and all of the over 12 million Palestinians are excluded from all or part of Palestine;

(3) Of over 12 million Palestinians (half of them children), 6 million are forbidden to even step foot in their own country, 4.7 million are held hostage with zero human rights under Israeli guns in the Gaza Concentration Camp (2.0 million) or in ever-dwindling West Bank mini-Bantustan ghettoes (2.7 million), and 1.7 million live as Third Class citizens as Israeli Palestinians under Nazi-style Apartheid Israeli race laws;

(4) 90% of Palestine has now been ethnically cleansed of Indigenous Palestinian inhabitants;

(5) GDP per capita is US$2,900 for Occupied Palestinians as compared to US$37,700 for Apartheid Israel;

(6) Through imposed deprivation, each year Apartheid Israel passively murders about 2,700 under-5 year old Palestinian infants and passively murders 4,200 Occupied Palestinians in general;

(7) Apartheid Israel violently kills an average of about 500 Occupied Palestinians each year;

(8) Occupied Palestinians are deprived of essentially all human rights by Apartheid Israel ;

(9) Democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel determines that of the 52% of its subjects who are Indigenous Palestinians, 73% cannot vote for the government ruling them ;

(10) US-backed Apartheid Israel in its genocidal treatment of the Indigenous Palestinians ignores numerous UN General Assembly Resolutions and UN Security Council Resolutions, the UN Genocide Convention, the Geneva Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Rights of the Child Convention, the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and many other aspects of International Law (Google “Palestinian Genocide”).

However Jewish American pro-Zionist, Zionist collaborator, and 2016 Literature Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan sees Apartheid Israel as a victim rather than as a perpetrator in his sarcastically entitled poem “Neighborhood bully” as systematically analysed below from a 2016 perspective:

Verse 1. Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,

His enemies say he's on their land.

They got him outnumbered about a million to one,

He got no place to escape to, no place to run.

He's the neighborhood bully.

In this verse the “neighborhood bully” is evidently Apartheid Israel which has occupied and ethnically cleansed 90% of Palestine plus part of Lebanon, and part of Syria. However the population of this Zionist-occupied entity is now 12.6 million, comprising 5.9 million Jewish Israelis, 0.3 million non-Arab and non-Jewish Israelis, 1.7 million Palestinian Israelis and 4.7 million Occupied Palestinians, this being 1,500 milion/12.6 million = 119 to one rather than “about a million to one”. The Indigenous Palestinian subjects of Apartheid Israel now represent a 52% majority in Zionist-occupied Palestine. About 0.2 million Israelis have dual citizenship. The US-, UK-, EU-, Canada- and Australia-backed “neighborhood bully” reportedly has up to 400 nuclear weapons, has the fourth largest army in the world and variously attacks, devastates and occupies the territory of its neighbours with impunity.

Verse 2. The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,

He's criticized and condemned for being alive.

He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,

He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.

He's the neighborhood bully.

In this verse the “neighborhood bully” may still be Apartheid Israel. Since the mid-1930s there have been 2 million Palestinian deaths from Zionist violence (0.1 million) or Zionist-imposed deprivation (1.9 million) whereas violent Zionist colonizer deaths in Palestine total about 4,000. The words of this verse would precisely apply to Indigenous Palestinians living under the war criminal and illegal Apartheid Israeli Occupation.

Verse 3. The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,

He's wandered the earth an exiled man.

Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,

He's always on trial for just being born.

He's the neighborhood bully.

In this verse Dylan falsely conflates Zionist Jews with all Jews, including anti-racist Jews who find the crimes of genocidally racist Apartheid Israel morally reprehensible. Jews were indeed badly persecuted in Europe for 2,000 years, this culminating in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed) but had a good relationship with Muslims for about 1400 years until the Zionist Palestinian Genocide. Indeed this verse could well describe the over 12 million Palestinians, over half of whom are refugees and cannot return to their homes and homeland under pain of death. The 4.7 million Indigenous Palestinian subjects of Apartheid Israel who are highly abusively confined to the Gaza Concentration Camp (2 million) or to ever-dwindling West Bank ghettoes or mini-Bantustans are confined under guns without charge or trial for the asserted “crime” of “just being born” as Indigenous Palestinians living on a skerrick of the Palestine continuously inhabited by their forebears to the very dawn of agrarian civilization. As for “an exiled man”, anti-racist Jewish Israeli historian Professor Shlomo Sand in his seminal book “The Invention of the Jewish People” declares that there was no significant Jewish exile from Palestine (the Romans didn’t have cattle trucks and loved exacting taxes on productive populations). Indeed there is no non-Biblical evidence either for the Exodus from Egypt, for King David, or the huge Kingdom of David and Solomon. The genetic and cultural descendants of the Palestinian Jews at the time of Christ are actually the highly-persecuted, present-day Palestinians, the Jewish Israelis being largely descended from Berber, Yemeni and Khazar converts to Judaism in the first millennium AD. Indeed recent mitochondrial DNA analysis has found that the genetic lineage of female Ashkenazi Jews has an ancient European origin. Converse to having “been driven out of every land”, there were schemes over the last 2 centuries for Jewish colonization in about 20 countries around the world (see page 95, Martin Gilbert, “Jewish History Atlas”).

Verse 4. Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,

Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.

Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.

The bombs were meant for him.

He was supposed to feel bad.

He's the neighborhood bully.

This is evidently a reference to illegal Israeli bombing of targets in the Muslim world from Tunisia to Iraq. While home-made Gaza rockets have killed almost no Israelis, Apartheid Israel has responded with utterly disproportionate violence in attacks on the crowded Gaza Concentration Camp in 2006 (400 Palestinians killed, 1,000 Palestinians injured) , 2008-2009 (1,400 killed, 5,300 wounded), 2012 (160 killed, 400 wounded), and 2014 (2,300 killed, 1,000 wounded). While there have been about 4,000 Zionist colonizer deaths from Palestinian violence since 1920, the Zionists have been remorselessly massacring Palestinians since the formation of the race-based state of Israel. Apartheid Israel kills about 5,000 Indigenous Palestinians each year, with 10% killed violently and the rest dying from imposed deprivation. Since the mid-1930s there have been 2 million Palestinian deaths from Zionist violence (0.1 million) or from imposed deprivation (1.9 million) (Google Palestinian Genocide”).

Verse 5.Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim

That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,

'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back

And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.

He's the neighborhood bully.

“He’ll live by the rules” is an Orwellian lie when applied to a serial war criminal and human rights-violating Apartheid Israel which with US backing resolutely ignores numerous UN General Assembly Resolutions and UN Security Council Resolutions, the UN Genocide Convention, the Geneva Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Rights of the Child Convention, the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and many other aspects of International Law (see “Rogue State” by anti-racist Jewish American William Blum).

Verse 6. He got no allies to really speak of.

What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.

He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied

But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.

He's the neighborhood bully.

Again more Orwellian hasbara lies – indeed an appropriate anagram for ISRAEL is e-LIARS. Before 1967 Apartheid Israel was strongly backed by the UK and France, its allies in the war criminal invasion of Egypt in 1956. After Israeli acquisition of nuclear weapons by 1967 with French and US assistance, the US and thence the US Alliance of the UK, Australia, Canada , France and some other NATO members became resolute backers of Apartheid Israel. The long-term accrual cost to America of Zionist-promoted wars, aid to Apartheid Israel , and tens of million of American preventable deaths inescapably linked to this expenditure has been estimated to total $40 trillion. Indeed, as reported by Dr Kevin Barrett “The BBC announcer reported [3 October 2001] on an Israeli cabinet meeting: Shimon Peres had been pressuring Ariel Sharon to respect American calls for a ceasefire, lest the Americans turn against Israel. According to the BBC, a furious Sharon turned toward Peres, saying: “Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it”. The racist Zionist tail has been wagging the American dog for half a century.

Verse 7. Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,

They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.

Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.

To hurt one they would weep.

They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.

He's the neighborhood bully.

Apartheid Israel has attacked and occupied the territory of all of its 5 neighbours. The post-1950 avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries variously occupied by Apartheid Israel total 24 million (see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”). However Apartheid Israel has also attacked a further 7 countries from Tunisia to Iraq. In contrast, of the 12 countries military attacked by Apartheid Israel – Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Iraq and the US (the deadly Israeli attack on the unarmed USS Liberty in 1967 and a very likely Israeli involvement in the 9-11 atrocity) - almost none except for the US have invaded and occupied long-term other countries in the post-WW2 era. Turkey has made anti-Kurd forays into Iraq and Syria, and Iraq fought a US-backed war with Iran in 1980-1988 and was greenlighted by the US to invade Kuwait in 1990. The US has invaded 71 countries (50 since WW2) , has bases in 75 countries and of course subverts every country on earth.

Verse 8. Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,

Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.

He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,

In bed with nobody, under no one's command.

He's the neighborhood bully.

According to anti-racist Jewish Israeli historian Professor Shlomo Sand in his seminal book “The Invention of the Jewish People”, there is no evidence for the Exodus from Egypt or the exile from Palestine under the Romans. Babylon routinely took hostages from all its conquered lands and the Israelites/Jews in Babylon were heavily responsible for organizing the quasi-mythological history known to Christians as the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. The genocidally racist Zionist colonizers drove out the Indigenous Palestinians from the richest agricultural land in coastal Palestine and the Galilee. “A garden of paradise in the desert sand” is part of the Zionist “hasbara” myth of Zionists colonizing an empty and desolate land. Whence have come the over 12 million Indigenous Palestinians of today, and the 6.4 million Palestinian subject of Apartheid Israel who now represent a 52% majority of the land ruled with an iron fist by Apartheid Israel?

Verse 9. Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,

No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.

He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,

Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.

He's the neighborhood bully.

This verse reverts to falsely identifying Apartheid Israel with the persecuted Jews of Europe, many of whom found haven and made good lives in the US and the White and/or White-ruled parts of the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exodus of a flood of Jews from the ghettoes of Europe was associated with a flowering of science, technology, economic advances and medical advances to which assimilated Jews made a disproportionately high contribution.

Verse 10. What's anybody indebted to him for?

Nothin', they say.

He just likes to cause war.

Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,

They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.

He's the neighborhood bully.

This verse alludes to the European reality from the 18th century onwards that wars could be very profitable for entrepreneurs that included a growing class of wealthy Jews. Thus a Rothschild made a killing by getting the first intelligence of the victory against Napoleon at Waterloo. In the 21st century war remains highly profitable for the rich, notably the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-dominated Establishment of the US. Establishment control of the Mainstream media hides the real economic reasons for war behind a veil of lies, propaganda, “manufacturing consent”, patriotism, jingoism, racism, anti-Arab anti-Semitism and terror hysteria. Thus both Alan Greenspan on the Right and Noam Chomsky on the Left have concluded that the Iraq War was essentially about oil. Conservative humanitarian Dr Paul Craig Roberts (Father of Reaganomics) has put it succinctly : “Washington lies about everything”. Apartheid Israel repeatedly launches wars and attacks, noting that prior insider knowledge of such attacks or even sabre-rattling makes for highly profitable insider trading. The US War on Muslims has been associated with 32 million Muslim deaths from deprivation (27 million) or from violence (5 million) in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity in 2001 (that very likely involved both Apartheid Israel and Saudi Arabia). Apartheid Israel has benefited strategically from the US War on Muslims (aka the US War on Terror) through the devastation of its neighbours. The “He” in “He just likes to cause war” is a false generalization and an utterly obnoxious defamation of anti-racist Jews who have been disproportionately involved in anti-racism, anti-war and pro-human rights activism.

Verse 11. What has he done to wear so many scars?

Does he change the course of rivers?

Does he pollute the moon and stars?

Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,

Running out the clock, time standing still,

Neighborhood bully.

This final verse is false in applying “he” to all Jews but quite accurate when applied to racist Zionists, Apartheid Israel and the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-dominated neoliberal Establishments of the US and the Anglosphere. One notes that about 50% of American billionaires are Jewish although Jewish Americans represent only 2% of the population. This disproportionality extends to democratic representation, and despite representing 13% of the population, Black Americans have 5 times fewer congressional representatives than Jewish Americans who are 2% of the population. Unrestrained neoliberalism has now taken the world to a tipping point at which a catastrophic plus 2 degrees C temperature rise is now unavoidable and plus 1.5C may be reached in 4 years’ time. Yet Apartheid Israeli PM Netanyahu’s friend and pro-Zionist US president-elect Donald Trump is a climate change denier who proposes to discard the Paris Climate Agreement of aiming for no more than a 1-.5-2.0C temperature rise. “He” as the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-dominated, neoliberal Establishment has taken us to the realistic prospects of changing of the very course of rivers (as climate change impacts mega-deltas) and pollution of our view of the moon and stars ( sulphate aerosols that will alter our views of the moon and stars are dangerously proposed for global dimming to allow further pollution of the atmosphere by corporate climate criminals). Anti-racist Jewish Canadian activist Naomi Klein indeed argues for a climate revolution to save the planet. At a local level, Apartheid Israel has substantially demolished the former natural and cultural environment of Palestine, and the River Jordan has become a highly polluted remnant trickling through a Jordan Valley ethnically cleansed of Indigenous Palestinians to a Dead Sea, now really dying through pollution , ecocide and speciescide. A nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel now holds the whole world to ransom, threatening to destroy Humanity and much of the Biosphere – Apartheid Israel is now a global bully, not just a neighborhood bully. Human survivors will not to be able to see the moon and stars in the global nuclear winter following a major nuclear exchange.

Final comments.

Bob Dylan inspired us with his anthem for peace and justice, “Blowin’ in the wind” that commences: “How many roads must a man walk down/Before you call him a man?” and concludes “Yes, and how many years can some people exist/ Before they're allowed to be free?/ Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head/ And pretend that he just doesn't see?/ The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind/ The answer is blowin' in the wind” . However Bob Dylan’s repeated trips to Apartheid Israel, his support for the “neighbourhood bully” and his ignoring of the plight of the ethnically cleansed and horribly abused Indigenous Palestinians, all suggest that he should examine his own conscience using these very words of “Blowin’ in the wind” . Of course Bob Dylan is not the only performer or Westerner to have visited Apartheid Israel or supported what the Zionists and their supporters falsely call “the Jewish state”. Indeed most neoliberal Western politicians, parties, journalists and academics have been “sold” the false notion of Israel as a “Jewish state” that is “the only democracy in the Middle East” - 52% of the subjects of Apartheid Israel are Indigenous Palestinians, and a large body of decent, anti-racist Jews utterly reject democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel and its ongoing Palestinian Genocide.

Like Bob Dylan, the pro-Zionist, Jewish Canadian and similarly iconic singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) repeatedly visited Apartheid Israel and hence lent legitimacy to the Apartheid rogue state. It is too late for the late Leonard Cohen (who died on 7 November 2016) to no longer “turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see”, but it is not too late for 2016 Literature Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan to heed the words of “Blowin’ in the wind” in relation to Apartheid Israel and the ongoing Palestinian Genocide.

Nearly half a century of the obscene and war criminal Apartheid Israeli Occupation and the ongoing Palestinian Genocide demand zero tolerance for Apartheid Israel and its supporters. Decent, anti-racist people around the word must (a) inform everyone they can, (b) declare that Zionism is genocidal racism and that the racist Zionists and their supporters must be sidelined from public life as have been the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and, (c) urge and apply Boycotts. Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and all the people, politicians, parties, countries, companies and corporations complicit in the ongoing Palestinian Genocide by Apartheid Israel, just as BDS was successfully applied against US-, UK-, Australia- and Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa. There must be zero tolerance for racism.

“Advance Australia Fair” Hides Australian Racism, Theft, Genocide, Ecocide, Speciescide & Terracide

By Dr Gideon Polya

Despite widespread obesity Australians are obsessed with sport, and the world is familiar with Australia’s national anthem “Advance Australia Fair” being very frequently played at the Olympic Games and other sporting competitions. However the words are deeply racist and mendacious to the point that many Indigenous Australians are deeply offended, won’t stand for it (literally and metaphorically) and want it urgently replaced.

As explored in this carefully documented essay, informed and honest analysis shows that Australia’s national anthem “Advance Australia Fair” amounts to an unintended confession of White Australian racism, politically correct racism (PC racism), theft, war criminality, state terrorism, genocide, ethnocide, environmental vandalism, climate criminality, ecocide, speciescide, climate genocide, and endless, anti-science, neoliberal greed heading the world towards omnicide and terracide.

One of the most awful things a teacher can do to students is to lie, whether through lying by omission or lying by commission. Lying by omission is far, far worse than repugnant lying by commission because the latter at least permits public refutation and public debate. Yet Australian students are subject to massive child intellectual abuse through lying by omission e.g. they are not taught that the national anthem , “Advance Australia Fair”, amounts to massive lying by omission from beginning to end.

Australia’s national anthem used to be the same as the UK’s, namely “God Save the Queen”. However while White Australia was a faithful and jingoistic lackey of the UK in the period from British Invasion (1788) to WW2, it shifted allegiance markedly and became a craven lackey of the US after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941) and the fall of Singapore (January 1942). Forcing Japan into WW2 was a great victory for British diplomacy (having the US on their side meant that the Allies would certainly win WW2) [1, 2] and for the amoral, war profiteering, US capitalist Establishment (the US GDP grew by an astonishing 8-19% per annum during WW2) [3]. A dominant Australian myth – and indeed a compulsory article of faith in Australian public life - is that the Americans saved Australia from Japanese invasion, but expert advice has it that the Japanese military were overstretched and had no such intention [4].

As a UK lackey and/or a US lackey Australia has invaded 85 countries, with 30 of these invasions being genocidal atrocities [5-7]. Australia has been involved in all post-1950 US Asian wars, atrocities associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence or from war-imposed deprivation [5]. Indeed, as a craven US lackey Australia has been an enthusiastic member of the US Alliance and its War on Terror – 32 million Muslims have died from violence (5 million ) or from deprivation (27 million ) in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity that killed 3,000 people [7-14].

Australia nevertheless retained the British Monarch as Head of State, helped a nuclear terrorist Britain test nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and has been involved since WW2 in the Anglosphere “5-eyes” intelligence-sharing club that includes the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (but which also unofficially and secretly includes nuclear terrorist “democracy-by-genocide” Apartheid Israel with which the US shares intelligence on all the citizens of the “5-eyes” countries, including those of my country, Australia) [15]. Indeed, both the UK and the US were involved in the CIA-backed Coup that removed the progressive Whitlam Labor Government from power on Remembrance Day, 11 November 1975 [16] (but, of course, a cowardly, craven, look-the-other-way, US lackey Australia resolutely refuses to remember).

However increasing republican sentiment in rich and mindlessly pro-American Australia resulted in an official, final change of national anthem to “Advance Australia Fair” by the Hawke Labor Government in 1984 (it had been adopted for non-Royal occasions by the Whitlam Labor Government in 1974, but this was rapidly reversed back to “God save the Queen” by the subsequent right-wing Fraser Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Government) [17].

"Advance Australia Fair" was composed in the late 19th century by Peter Dodds McCormick under the nom-de-plume "Amicus" ("friend" in Latin) and was first performed in public in November 1878. It was composed and sung at a time when White Australia was still actively involved in the genocidal dispossession and active and passive mass murder of Indigenous Australians (the last massacre, the Coniston Massacre, occurred in 1928 in Central Australia, although presently on a global comparative scale, 4,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably from imposed deprivation each year in a continuing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide ) [1, 5-7, 18,-20].

Indigenous Australians are increasingly angry about the words of “Advance Australia Fair”. Thus some leading Indigenous Australian football players have refused to sing the national anthem [21]. Famed Australian Aboriginal soprano Deborah Cheetham refused to sing "Advance Australia Fair" at the 2015 Australian Football League (AFL) grand final [17]. I agree with their sentiments and not just because my dear late wife of nearly 52 years was a non-Indigenous Black Australian. As a scientist and humanitarian I find the words of “Advance Australia Fair” obnoxious because they are antithetical to truth-telling and hide the variously past and present horrendous Australian realities of racism, war criminality, climate criminality, theft, genocide, ecocide, speciescide, and foreshadowed omnicide and terracide.

Advance Australia Fair has been slightly amended over 150 years with the following being the present version [17]:

Australians all let us rejoice/ For we are young and free

We've golden soil and wealth for toil/ Our home is girt by sea

Our land abounds in nature's gifts/ Of beauty rich and rare

In history's page, let every stage/ Advance Australia Fair

In joyful strains then let us sing/ Advance Australia Fair.

Beneath our radiant Southern Cross/ We'll toil with hearts and hands

To make this Commonwealth of ours/ Renowned of all the lands

For those who've come across the seas/ We've boundless plains to share

With courage let us all combine / To Advance Australia Fair

In joyful strains then let us sing/ Advance Australia Fair.

“Advance Australia Fair” and White Australian racism, war criminality, climate criminality, theft, genocide, ecocide, speciescide, and foreshadowed omnicide and terracide, is set out below.

Advance Australia Fair. When these lyrics were written (circa 1875) , “fair” meant “white” to White Australians. Thus Bernard O’Dowd writing in circa 1900: “Yea, will we steel us to the death to fight -/ In such poor means alone avail - whome’er,/ Or Asian throng, or island brown, or white/ Blood-brother e’en, would cloud our prospect fair,/To guard the future from exotic blight!” [page 179 [1]. Famous Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson in a circa 1910 poem “To Be Amused”: “I see the colour line so drawn/ (I see it plain and speak I must),/ That our brown masters of the dawn/ Might, aye, have fair girls for their lusts” (page 179 [1]). The 1901-1974 so-called White Australia Policy was created and enforced, informed by such racist sentiments that were also expressed by White Australian politicians e.g. King O’Malley in a Federal Parliamentary speech in 1901: “We are here upon a continent set apart by the Creator for a Southern empire - for a Southern nation - and it is our duty to preserve this island continent for all eternity to the white race, irrespective of where they may come from” (page 179 [1], and Labor Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell in 1947: “Two Wongs do not make a White” (page 183 [1]).

Australians all let us rejoice/ For we are young and free. Indigenous Australians (3.6% or 0.9 million out of 25 million) [20] suffer huge inequities in health, wealth, employment, income, education, housing, social circumstances, incarceration, deaths in custody, enforced child removal, opportunity and life expectancy (about 10 years less than for White Australians) [18, 22-25] and accordingly have much less to “rejoice” than White Australians (76%) or indeed non-Indigenous non-White Australians (21%). Indeed 3 million out of 25 million Australians live in poverty and are hardly “rejoicing” i.e. 1 in 8 adults and 1in 6 children live in poverty in rich Australia [23] , a country with a per capita GDP of about $58,000 [27].

Human society in Australia is hardly “young”. Indigenous Australian presence in Australia has been dated to 65,000 years ago [28]. Indigenous Australian cultures are thus by far the oldest continuous cultures in the world today. Indigenous Australians used fire to farm the land and to encourage fodder for kangaroos and wallabies – indeed the British invaders found the Indigenous-generated pasture landscape eminently suitable for sheep and cattle [29, 30]. However, while Indigenous Australians may have killed off the megafauna (e.g. giant kangaroos and giant wombats) over tens of thousands of years, the British invaders have destroyed much of the flora and fauna of Australia in a bit over 2 centuries – Australia is among world leaders for deforestation, land clearing and species extinction [31].

In contrast to Indigenous Australia’s remarkable, sustainable and 65,000-year stewardship, after a mere 230 years of White Australia raping the environment, Australia is among world leaders for the following 14 climate criminal and environment-destroying activities that variously threaten not just Australia but the whole world: (1) annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution [32-34], (2) live methanogenic livestock exports [35-43], (3) natural gas exports [44-46], (4) recoverable shale gas reserves that can be accessed by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) [47], (5) coal exports [48-52], (6) land clearing, deforestation and ecocide [53, 54], (7) speciescide or species extinction [55], (8) coral reef destruction [56-62], (9) whale killing and extinction threat through global warming impacting on krill stocks [63], (10) terminal carbon pollution budget exceedance [64-73], (11) per capita Carbon Debt [64-73], (12) ultimately GHG generating iron ore exports [74, 75 ], (13) climate change inaction [76], and (14) climate genocide and approach towards omnicide and terracide [77- 80]. Indeed Professor Jared Diamond in his book “Collapse” declares that European Australia has been “mining” its arable land (through overstocking, erosion, salinization and urbanization) to the extent that it may become a food importer [35].

Considering “young” in another sense, present-day Australia is hardly young and has an ageing population. Thus data from the UN Population Division shows that 0-19 year olds are 26% of the Australian population whereas they represent about 50% of the population of impoverished, high birth rate societies such as those in the Developing World (minus China) [5] and Indigenous Australia [20].While avoidable deaths from deprivation as a percentage of population is 0.4% for impoverished South Asia, 0.5% for impoverished Indigenous Australia, and 1.0% for impoverished non-Arab Africa, it is about 0.0% for the rich European countries of the Anglosphere and for China and the rich countries of East Asia [5].

Australia is hardly “free”. Australia was one of the world’s first democracies and one of the first countries to have suffrage for women. It has a system of compulsory and preferential voting that could be the envy of the democratic world. However there is a dark side to this noble picture. Australia was founded 231 years ago based on invasion, devastation, theft and genocide. The survivors of the ongoing, 2-century Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide were not even counted as Australian citizens until a 1967 referendum, being formerly numbered under a Flora and Fauna Act. Australia has a bicameral Federal system (the House of Representatives and the Senate) but the state of Tasmania (population 0.5 million) has 12 senators, the same number as for Victoria (population 6.4 million).

Australia does not have a Bill of Rights, and free speech has been greatly impaired through draconian defamation and anti-whistleblower laws, and most appallingly recently by draconian anti-terrorism laws. A decent democracy requires an informed electorate but US-, UK- , Zionist- and Intelligence-subverted Australian Mainstream media presstitutes have an appalling record of censorship and lying by omission, as have the media, politician, commentariat and academic presstitutes of other Western countries.

We've golden soil and wealth for toil/ Our home is girt by sea. Australia has all kinds of soils, none of them golden and ranging from the grey and brown to the red of the iron oxide-rich regions. The “wealth for toil” however comes at a price that is ignored by look-the-other-way, neoliberal Australia. Thus the agricultural wealth has come at the price of dispossession of the Indigenous inhabitants in an ongoing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide in which 2 million Indigenous Australians died from violence or imposed deprivation and disease, with violent deaths totalling about 0.1 million. Of 350-700 Indigenous languages and dialects in 1788, only 150 remain and of these all but 20 are endangered [18, 20]. Any species is priceless and a further price of “progress’ has been massive deforestation and biodiversity loss. Australia is among world leaders for land clearing, deforestation and ecocide [53, 54], speciescide or species extinction [55] and coral reef destruction [56-62]. As a leading climate criminal country Australia has a run up an inescapable, damage-related Carbon Debt of US$5 trillion that is increasing at US$0.51 trillion per year and at US$40,000 per head per year for under-30 year old Australians. Australia has 0.3% of the world’s population but contributes 6.0% of the world’s annual increase in Carbon Debt [82].

“Our home is girt by sea” has taken on a special significance in the last 2 decades as thousands of refugees fleeing Middle East refugee camps from genocidal US, UK and Apartheid Israeli wars have attempted to come to Australia by boat to seek asylum. For some reason (decency? humanity?) this was not regarded by Australians as a problem when tens of thousands of Vietnamese fled Vietnam by boat and found asylum in Australia. Like all refugees, they have contributed immensely to Australia. However American and Zionist-promoted post-9-11 Islamophobia and anti-Arab anti-Semitism after 9-11 created hysteria over boat-borne refugees that meant lengthy detention of such refugees in detention centres (concentration camps). In 2013 the Rudd Labor Government introduced a policy that meant that no boat-borne refugees could step foot in Australia – such refugees (men, women, mothers and children) were thence highly abusively and indefinitely incarcerated without charge or trial in offshore concentration camps on the Island Nation of Nauru and on Manus Island (Papua New Guinea) (for details of this ongoing atrocity see [83, 84]).

“Girt” is the past tense of “gird” (“strengthen” or “fortify”) , as in "gird your loins" meaning “arm yourself” or “prepare for danger or difficulties”. The ocean is a great moat separating White Australia from the rest of the world but especially from “non-White” countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific. White Australians just can’t help themselves – thus the 1901-1974, so-called White Australian Policy has been replaced by a “New White Australian Policy” that makes it much more difficult for non-Whites to get visas to enter White Australia [85]. Back in the 1960s several leading Australian nuclear scientists argued unsuccessfully for nuclear weapons to keep the “Asian millions” out of a “lifeboat Australia” [86]. However instead Australia opted for the “insurance premium” approach, becoming part of US state terrorism and US nuclear terrorism (and hence a nuclear target) through the ANZUS (Australian and New Zealand and US) Treaty, hosting US nuclear weapons-carrying US ships and thousands of child-killing US forces, involvement in all post-1950 US Asian Wars (40 million Asian deaths from violence or deprivation), involvement in the US War on Terror (32 million Muslim deaths from violence or deprivation since 9-11), opposition to a nuclear weapons ban, and through the joint Australia-US electronic spying base at Pine Gap in Central Australia that targets illegal US drone strikes from Libya to Pakistan and is critical for US nuclear terrorism [79, 87-89].

Politically correct racist (PC racist) Australians declare that “We are not racis, but” and have supported the devastation of African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries from Libya through to Korea, countries lying between White Australia and Mother England. The radical idea of “being nice to them” took second place to “bombing them back to the Stone Age”. Indeed the very world “radicalization” (the duty of academics and progressive activists alike) has become a pejorative term meaning influencing jihadi psychopaths (noting that the US has a long history of backing jihadis, and jihadis represent the greatest foreign asset of US imperialism – every jihadi atrocity provides an ”excuse” for US war and devastation of foreign lands. Racist Labor leader Arthur Calwell summed up “girt by sea” when he declared that “We will not let the yellow hordes contaminate our golden shores” (Chapter 17, page 183 [1]). Indeed a huge, modern, yellow-coloured work of art in a Melbourne park was instantly dubbed “the Yellow Peril”. Calwell and his fellow racists would be appalled by the reality that, largely through immigration, in Australia today Whites and non-Whites are 76% and 24%, respectively, of the population, but mollified by the fact that they represent 94.9% and 5.1%, respectively of the senior leadership of Australian organizations and institutions [90, 91]. And of course at the heart of “girt by sea” is the guilty knowledge that the genocidal British exterminators of the Indigenous Australians came by sea.

Our land abounds in nature's gifts/ Of beauty rich and rare. The genocidally racist British and thence the White Australians seized a whole continent “of beauty rich and rare” in a “land [that] abounds in nature’s gifts”, but in a bit over 230 years have devastated the flora and fauna in one of the greatest human-made, national mass extinction events. Australia is among world leaders for land clearing, deforestation and ecocide [53, 54], speciescide or species extinction [55] and coral reef destruction [56-62]. Dr John Woinarski and colleagues: “The highly distinctive and mostly endemic Australian land mammal fauna has suffered an extraordinary rate of extinction (>10% of the 273 endemic terrestrial species) over the last ∼200 y: in comparison, only one native land mammal from continental North America became extinct since European settlement. A further 21% of Australian endemic land mammal species are now assessed to be threatened, indicating that the rate of loss (of one to two extinctions per decade) is likely to continue” [92]. Australia leads the world in extinction of endemic mammals through massive ecosystem destruction and introduction of feral pests (e.g. rabbits, dogs, cats, foxes, buffalo, camels, pigs , rats, mice, horses and cane toads).

And while honest and rational people admit and learn from their mistakes, in 2019 a more than 50% of variously ignorant, stupid and/or greedily neoliberal Australians voted back in an anti-science, anti-environment, effective climate change denialist, pro-ecocide, pro-speciescide, pro-land clearing, pro-oil, pro-gas, pro-coal, and climate criminal Coalition Government.

In history's page, let every stage/ Advance Australia Fair. Unfortunately history is written by the victors and “history’s page” in Corporatocracy Australia is a massive exercise in lying by omission. Australia does not have a Bill of Rights, and free speech has been greatly impaired through draconian defamation and anti-whistleblower laws, and most appallingly recently through draconian anti-terrorism laws (e.g. 10 years in prison for revealing criminal acts by Australian security services) [93, 94]. Australia has become a pre-police state [95].

A decent democracy requires an informed electorate but Australia has become a Kleptocracy, Plutocracy, Murdochracy, Palmerocracy, Clivocracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy in which Big Money purchase people, politicians, parties, public perception of reality, votes, more power and hence more private wealth. In the 2019 Australian Federal Election, a variously ignorant, stupid and/or greedy electorate returned a US lackey, pro-Apartheid Israel, pro-war, war criminal, anti-science, anti-environment, effective climate change denialist, climate criminal, and greedily neoliberal Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Government – but key roles were played in this debacle by right-wing mining billionaire Clive Palmer (who invested $60-80 million into electioneering) and by US citizen and right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch (whose News Corp has 70% of the city newspaper readership in Australia). US-, UK- , Zionist- and Intelligence-subverted Australian Mainstream media presstitutes have an appalling record of censorship and lying by omission as have the media, politician, commentariat and academic presstitutes of other Western countries [93, 96] .

In joyful strains then let us sing/ Advance Australia Fair. Who is singing joyfully about what? Certainly not the impoverished, disabled, sick, elderly and Indigenous Australians about their parlous circumstances. Certainly not the young who suffer massive institutional sexual abuse, vastly greater and largely ignored non-institutional sexual abuse [97-100], horrendous intellectual child abuse in religious schools [101, 102], educational Apartheid [103, 104], and outrageous intergenerational inequity through the destruction of the environment, biodiversity and their future by ignorant, stupid, greedy and climate criminal adult Australians [32-34, 105]. Certainly not intellectuals, academics and other informed truth-tellers constrained by censoring laws and codes of conduct, and robbed of “effective free speech” by a profoundly censoring, neo-fascist society [93-96, 106].

Beneath our radiant Southern Cross/ We'll toil with hearts and hands/ To make this Commonwealth of ours/ Renowned of all the lands. About 75% of Australians live in an urban environment of towns and cities. Urban air pollution means that the Southern Cross constellation seen in the Southern Hemisphere is only “radiant” in largely uninhabited non-urban areas. In Melbourne one can typically see only a dozen or so stars at night, and of the 5 stars of the Southern Cross (that adorns the Australian and New Zealand flags as seen on earth, and also as seen in reverse from some vast distance in space on the Brazilian flag), the weakest fifth star is typically very hard to see. A consequence of Australian urbanization is that about 10,000 Australians die annually from air pollution. However deaths from air pollution in London (population 9 million) has been re-assessed upwards to about 9,000 per year (taking the effects of nitrogen oxides into account) and applying this to Australia might double estimated annual Australian air pollution deaths. 7 million people die from air pollution each year worldwide, and pollutants from the burning of Australia’s world leading coal exports ultimately cause the death of 75,000 people per year [51].

“Commonwealth” means a political entity founded for the” common good”, as for example the republican “Commonwealth of England” under the Protector Oliver Cromwell in 1649 to 1660, and the “Commonwealth of Australia” (from 1901 onwards). However the implicit assertion of “common good” wears thin when one considers the 3 million Australians who live in poverty, the 0.9 million Australian children living in poverty, the 0.9 million Indigenous Australian suffering gross inequity and a 10 year life expectancy gap, the 50% of Australians now having a chronic disease [108], the 2/3 of Australian children subject to gross Educational Apartheid, the 1/3 of Australian children attending religious schools and subject to gross intellectual child abuse (through imposition of anti-science clap-trap) , and the 3/3 of Australian children subject to intolerable intergenerational injustice through the destruction of the environment, biodiversity and their future by ignorant, stupid, greedy and climate criminal adult Australians [32-34, 101].

Indeed 85,000 Australians die preventably each year from “lifestyle” or “political choice” reasons, the breakdown (including some overlaps) being as follows: (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,900 Australian suicides (circa100 being veterans) , (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) [109, 110].

Yet a bit over 50% of Australians voted recently to return an environment- and Australian-killing, neoliberal Coalition Government, a collective action that can only be explained in terms of ignorance, stupidity and greed. Post-election the traumatized Opposition Labor Party appears to accept the neo-fascist notion that helping the poor and disadvantaged at the expense of the rich is “class war” that must not be tolerated. The bottom line: never get between an Aussie and a bucket of money [105, 111]. A substantially ignorant, stupid and greedy Australian electorate has committed to greedy, deadly and ecocidal neoliberalism at the expense of the “common good”, Humanity and the Biosphere. Neoliberalism demands maximal freedom for the smart and advantaged to exploit the human and natural resources of the world for private profit, whereas social humanism (socialism, democratic socialism, ecosocialism, the welfare state ) seeks to maximize human happiness, opportunity and dignity through evolving inter-national and intra-national social contracts [112, 113].

Australia is legitimately “renowned of all the lands” as being among the very first countries to have one-person-one-vote democracy, female suffrage, free trade unions, the 8 hour day, and free, compulsory, secular education. However there is also a very dark side of a White Australia that has committed genocide at home and also genocide abroad as an agent of British or American imperialism. Thus as a UK or US lackey Australia has invaded 85 countries as compared to the British 193, France 82, the US 72 (52 after WW2), Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12, China 2 and Korea (arguably none) [5-7, 114- 117]. 30 of these Australian invasions have involved genocide. Indeed the Aboriginal Genocide is qualitatively the worst genocide in human history – while 2 million Indigenous Australians died from violence, deprivation or introduced disease, an ongoing Aboriginal Ethnocide has meant that of 350-700 Indigenous languages and dialects in 1788, only 150 survive with all but 20 endangered by the ethnocidal policies of a racist White Australia [18].

Certainly not “renowned of all the lands” is White Australia’s role in the Indian Holocaust that involved 1,800 million avoidable Indians deaths from imposed deprivation in the 2-century British Raj (1757-1947). Thus in the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Indian Holocaust, WW2 Bengal Famine) the genocidal British with White Australian complicity deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death for strategic reasons. Australia was involved by withholding grain from its huge wartime grain stores from its starving ally Indian (so much for Australia’s much-vaunted “mateship”) [1, 5, 6, 118-119].

It is hardly surprising given this history that racist, pro-Apartheid White Australia is second only to Trump America as a supporter of nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist, genocidally racist, democracy by genocide Apartheid Israel. The racist Zionists so beloved by the Australian Lib-Labs (Liberal Party –National Party Coalition and Labor) are the worst ant-Arab anti-Semites in the world through their support for the ongoing Palestinian Genocide (2.2 million deaths from violence, 0.1 million, or from deprivation , 2.1 million since 1915 ) and the ongoing Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide (32 million Muslims deaths from violence, 5 million, or avoidably from deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity that killed 3,000 innocent people). The racist Zionists so loved by the Australian Coalition and Labor are also the worst anti-Jewish anti-Semites in the world through false conflation of these appalling genocidal crimes with all Jews, including anti-racist Jewish humanitarians who resolutely condemn these crimes [120].

For those who've come across the seas/ We've boundless plains to share. This racist White Australian doggerel was written in 19th century Australia when the only people to “come across the seas” to Australia were British convicts, free settlers, Melanesian slave labour for the Queensland sugar cane fields (many deported after 1901), and Chinese goldminers (many also deported to help keep Australia White). The so-called White Australia Policy largely ensured that those coming “across the seas” to White Australia in the period 1901-1974 were also White. The abolition of the so-called White Australia Policy by the progressive Whitlam Labor Government in 1974 has meant that Australia is now 76% White and 24% non-White. However old habits die hard, and those holding senior executive positions in Australia today are 95% White and only 5% non-White [90, 91].

The “boundless plains” referred to are the pastoral lands developed by Indigenous Australians for kangaroo grazing but ethnically cleansed by the White Australian invaders for cattle and sheep (as was done to my Scots forebears displaced by the English and English-backed Scottish lairds in the 18th and 19th centuries for sheep in the Scottish Clearances in the Scottish Highlands) [1].

Of course the “sharing” within White-dominated Australia is increasingly inequitable. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2014): “The top 20% of households when ranked by their level of wealth, owned 62% of total [net] household wealth in 2013–2014. By comparison, the bottom 20% of households, owned less than 1% of all [net] household wealth” [121]. Thus in 2014 the net wealth of the top 20% was 0.62 x A$ 10.52 trillion = A$6.52 trillion or A$6,520 billion - a 1% annual wealth tax on the top 20% of households would yield A$65.2 billion each year [122] and could abolish Australia’s huge Gross National Debt of A$629 billion (2019) [123] in about 10 years.

With courage let us all combine / To Advance Australia Fair/ In joyful strains then let us sing/ Advance Australia Fair. Make music they might, like the musicians on the ill-fated Titanic who nobly played on to the end. Given the relentlessly increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution it is effectively too late to avoid a catastrophic plus 2 degrees Centigrade grade temperature rise. At an average of +1C it is already too late for parts of the world (e.g. the Island Nations and the Arctic) [77-80, 124, 125]. The IPCC ‘s latest report details the numerous bad outcomes of a global +1.5 degree Centigrade (+1.5C) of warming versus the catastrophic outcomes from a +2C e.g. a further 70-90% decline of coral reefs at +1.5C versus more than 99% loss at +2C. Crucially, the IPCC report is a consensus and hence a very conservative document, and its propositions are statistical . The IPCC Report says that for less than +1.5C coal burning must cease by 2050 but also declares that the terminal CO2 pollution budget for a 66% chance of avoiding +1.5C will be used up in 10 years [126, 127].

Final comments. Australia’s national anthem “Advance Australia Fair” is a racist White Australian 19th century poem that is offensive to decent Australians and to Indigenous Australians in particular. It should be a national embarrassment and immediately replaced by something that is inoffensive, humane and uniting. One of the worst things a teacher can do is to lie to students. Teachers throughout Australia are obliged to honestly analyse the text of “Advance Australia Fair” with their students in the interests of a more honest, more decent, more just and more inclusive society. There must be zero tolerance for racism, war criminality, genocide and climate criminality.

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[65]. Gideon Polya, “Current Carbon Debt Or Carbon Credit For All Countries: Australia , Canada And US Default On Carbon Debt”, Countercurrents, 4 October, 2013: https://www.countercurrents.org/polya041013.htm

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[71. Gideon Polya, “Resolutely promised prosecutions of climate criminals may force urgent climate action”, Global Research, 8 February 2019: https://www.globalresearch.ca/resolutely-promised-prosecutions-of-climate-criminals-may-force-urgent-climate-action/5667949 .

[72]. Gideon Polya, “Inescapable $200-$250 trillion global Carbon Debt increasing by $16 trillion annually”, Countercurrents, 27 April 2019: https://countercurrents.org/2019/04/27/inescapable-200-250-trillion-global-carbon-debt-increasing-by-16-trillion-annually-gideon-polya/ .

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[79]. “Nuclear weapons ban, end poverty and reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/nuclear-weapons-ban .

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[83]. Behrouz Boochani, “No Friend But The Mountains. Writing from Manus Prison”, Picador , Sydney, 2018.

[84]. Gideon Polya, “”Review: “No Friend but the Mountains” – Australia’s Manus Island Concentration Camp exposed”, Countercurrents, 11 April 2019: https://countercurrents.org/2019/04/review-no-friend-but-the-mountains-australias-manus-island-concentration-camp-exposed .

[85]. Gideon Polya, “Pro-Apartheid Australia’s New White Australia Policy & compulsory values statement”, Countercurrents, 12 May 2017: https://countercurrents.org/2017/05/pro-apartheid-australias-new-white-australia-policy-compulsory-australian-values-statement .

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[87]. Philip Dorling, “Australian intelligence “feeding data” for deadly US drone strikes”, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 May 2014:http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australian-intelligence-feeding-data-used-for-deadly-us-drone-strikes-20140526-38ywk.html .

[88]. Mark Corcoran, “Drone strikes based on work at Pine Gap could see Australians charged, Malcolm Fraser says”, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 April 2014: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-28/australians-could-be-charged-over-us-drone-strikes-fraser/5416224 .

[89]. John Stapleton, “Australia’s dirty secret”, UNSW Canberra, 4 December 2015: https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/drone-wars-australias-dirty-secret .

[90]. Tim Soutphomassane, Greg Whitwell, Kate Jordan and Philipp Ivanov, “Leading for Change. A blueprint for cultural diversity and inclusive leadership revisited”, 2018.

[91]. Gideon Polya, “Review: “Leading for change”- corporate cultural diversity deficiency and Australian financial scandals”, Countercurrents, 3 May 20198: https://countercurrents.org/2018/05/03/review-leading-for-change-corporate-cultural-diversity-deficiency-australian-financial-scandals/ .

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[93]. Gideon Polya, “Media Lying, Media Censorship & Australian Federal Police Raids On Media In Pre-Police State Australia”, Countercurrents, 15 June 2019: https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/media-lying-media-censorship-australian-federal-police-raids-on-media-in-pre-police-state-australia .

[94]. Gideon Polya, “Terror Hysteria - Draconian New Australian Anti-Terrorism Laws Target Journalists, Muslims And Human Rights”, Countercurrents, 8 October, 2014: https://countercurrents.org/polya0810114.htm .

[95]. Andrew Wilkie, “Talking point: our nation fast becoming a police state”, The Mercury, 13 June 2015: https://www.themercury.com.au/news/opinion/talking-point-our-nation-fast-becoming-a-police-state/news-story/60f40367da7c3780c1efc6913c58a398 .

[96]. Gideon Polya,” Australian ABC & UK BBC fake news through lying by omission”, Countercurrents, 2 May 2017: https://countercurrents.org/2017/05/australian-abc-and-uk-bbc-fake-news-through-lying-by-omission .

[97]. Gideon Polya, “ Australian and Western mainstream media ignore massive and deadly child abuse in war and peace”, Global Research, 11 March 2016: https://www.globalresearch.ca/australian-and-western-mainstream-media-ignore-massive-and-deadly-child-abuse-in-war-and-peace/5513504 .

[98]. Dunne, M.P., Purdie, D.M., Cook, M.D., Boyle, F.M. & Najman, J.M.(2003), Is child sexual abuse declining? Evidence from a population-based survey of men and women in Australia , Child Abuse & Neglect, vol. 27 (2), pp141-152).

[99]. Gideon Polya, “Sectarian Australian Mainstream Ignores Horrendous Child Sexual Abuse Of 4.4 Million Australians”, Countercurrents, 15 November, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya151112.htm ,

[100]. Jane Lee, “Child abuse victims lead “shorter lives” than other children, royal commission hears”, The Age, 25 May 2015:http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/child-abuse-victims-live-shorter-lives-than-other-children-royal-commission-hears-20150525-gh8y1d.html .

[101]. Gideon Polya, “Australia shocked by cricket ball tampering but ignores horrendous Australian crimes from child abuse to genocide”, Countercurrents, 24 April 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/04/australia-shocked-by-cricket-ball-tampering-but-ignores-horrendous-australian-crimes-from-child-abuse-to-genocide .

[102]. Gideon Polya, “37 Ways Of Tackling Australian Educational Apartheid And Social Inequity”, Countercurrents, 22 May, 2013: https://countercurrents.org/polya220513.htm .

[103]. “Educational Apartheid”: https://sites.google.com/site/educationalapartheid/ .

[104]. Gideon Polya, “37 Ways Of Tackling Australian Educational Apartheid And Social Inequity”. Countercurrents, 22 May 2013: https://countercurrents.org/polya220513.htm .

[105]. Gideon Polya, “Climate criminal Australia ignores its hugely increasing Carbon Debt & massive subsidies for GHG pollution”, Countercurrents, 8 June 2019: https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/climate-criminal-australia-ignores-its-hugely-increasing-carbon-debt-massive-subsidies-for-ghg-pollution .

[106]. Gideon Polya, “Current academic censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities”, Free University Education: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/academic-censorship .

[107]. “Crux”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crux

[108]. Tracy Bowden and Amy Donaldson, “Nearly 50 per cent of Australians now have a chronic disease – many of them preventable”

[109]. Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Cost For Australia Of US War On Terror”, Countercurrents, 14 October, 2012: https://countercurrents.org/polya141012.htm .

[110]. Gideon Polya, “ Australian state terrorism (4). Jingoistic, US Lackey Australia’s Deadly Betrayal Of Its Traumatized Veterans”, Stop state terrorism, 2018: https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/australian-state-terrorism-4 .

[111]. Gideon Polya, “ABC & Mainstream media lying by omission enabled Trumpist & climate criminal Coalition victory”, Countercurrents, 28 May 2019: https://countercurrents.org/2019/05/abc-mainstream-media-lying-by-omission-enabled-trumpist-climate-criminal-australian-coalition-victory .

[112]. Brian Ellis, “Social Humanism. A New Metaphysics”, Routledge , UK , 2012.

[113]. Gideon Polya, “Book Review: “Social Humanism. A New Metaphysics” By Brian Ellis - Last Chance To Save Planet?”, Countercurrents, 19 August, 2012: https://www.countercurrents.org/polya190812.htm .

[114]. Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm .

[115]. Gideon Polya, “The US Has Invaded 70 Nations Since 1776 – Make 4 July Independence From America Day”, Countercurrents, 5 July, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya050713.htm .

[116]. Gideon Polya, “British Have Invaded 193 Countries: Make 26 January ( Australia Day, Invasion Day) British Invasion Day”, Countercurrents, 23 January, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230115.htm .

[117]. Gideon Polya, “President Hollande And French Invasion Of Privacy Versus French Invasion Of 80 Countries Since 800 AD”, Countercurrents, 15 January, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya150114.htm .

[118]. Gideon Polya (2011), “Australia And Britain Killed 6-7 Million Indians In WW2 Bengal Famine”, Countercurrents, 29 September, 2011: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya290911.htm .

[119]. Gideon Polya (2011), "WW2 Bengali Holocaust: “Churchill's Secret War” By Madhusree Mukerjee", Countercurrents, 13 June, 2011: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya130611.htm .

[120]. Gideon Polya, “Pro-Apartheid Israel Australian Labor Party scraps outstanding anti-Israel Apartheid candidate, Melissa Parke”, Global Research, 18 April 2019: https://www.globalresearch.ca/pro-apartheid-israel-australian-labor-party-anti-apartheid-candidate-melissa-parke/5674801 .

[121]. Australian Bureau of Statistics, “Income and wealth distribution”, 2014: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/6523.0~2013-14~Main%20Features~Income%20and%20Wealth%20Distribution~6 .

[122]. “1% ON 1%: one percent annual wealth tax on One Percenters” website ( https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/1-on-1 .

[123]. “Australian government debt”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_government_debt .

[124]. “Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming .

[125]. Gideon Polya, “Huge Carbon Debt and Intergenerational Injustice: CO2 drawdown necessity”, Global Research, 7 June 2018: https://www.globalresearch.ca/huge-carbon-debt-and-intergenerational-injustice-co2-drawdown-necessity/5643365 .

[126]. IPCC, “Global warming of 1.5 °C. Summary for Policymakers”, 8 October 2018: http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf .

[127]. Gideon Polya, “IPCC +1.5C avoidance report – effectively too late but stop coal burning for “less bad” catastrophes”, Countercurrents, 12 October 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/ipcc-1-5c-avoidance-report-effectively-too-late-but-stop-coal-burning-for-less-bad-catastrophes .

Dr Gideon Polya taught science students at a major Australian university for 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London , 2003). He has published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ); see also his contributions “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/australian-complicity-in-iraq-mass-mortality/3369002#transcript

) and “Ongoing Palestinian Genocide” in “The Plight of the Palestinians (edited by William Cook, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/4047-the-plight-of-the-palestinians.html ). He has published a revised and updated 2008 version of his 1998 book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” (see: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ) as biofuel-, globalization- and climate-driven global food price increases threaten a greater famine catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that killed 6-7 million Indians in the “forgotten” World War 2 Bengal Famine (see recent BBC broadcast involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and others: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/social-economic-history/listen-the-bengal-famine ; Gideon Polya: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/home ; Gideon Polya Writing: https://sites.google.com/site/gideonpolyawriting/ ; Gideon Polya, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Polya ) . When words fail one can say it in pictures - for images of Gideon Polya's huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/ .

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