Islam Times - Lars Adelskogh is a prominent Anti-Zionist
writer, translator and lecturer. He studied Slavic
languages at the University of Uppsala and Oriental
languages at the University of Stockholm. In 2002 he
published
En tom säck kan inte stå (An Empty Bag Cannot
Stand), in which he explains Holocaust revisionism...
During the Holocaust conference in Tehran 2006 this book was
presented as a gift to Dr Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic
Republic. Adelskogh used to work as a teacher but he was
dismissed because of his views. He has translated Kevin
MacDonald’s book
The Culture of Critique into Swedish. He is
well known to young Muslim intellectuals in Sweden for his
knowledge, courage and kindness. We are in the holy month of
Ramadan and soon we will be commemorating the annual Quds Day,
which was established by the late Imam Khomeini. I took the
opportunity to ask a few questions.
Mohamed Omar: What motivates you in your intellectual
struggle against Zionism?
Lars Adelskogh: I have been an anti-Zionist
since 1972, that is to say, all my adult life (I was born in
1950). As soon as I learned the facts of the matter – how the
Jewish Zionists had forced the Palestinians out of their
ancestral land, killing many of them in the process, and robbing
them of their property, I saw that truth and justice were on
their side as against the lies and crimes of the Zionists. You
see, we were not taught these facts in school or at the
university, nor did we read them in the newspapers. Everywhere
it was only the Zionist version of history, the myth of “the
land without people for the people without a land”. However, it
was not until I learned the facts of another Zionist myth, that
of the so-called Holocaust, the alleged annihilation by the
Germans of six million Jews, mainly in fabulous “gas chambers” –
whose function no engineer or chemist has been able to explain –
that I decided to write my book on this issue. These two Zionist
myths are intertwined, of course, since the so-called Holocaust
provided the Zionist with a most effective moral club they could
swing at those who dared to criticize their policies against the
Palestinians. As I see it, dismantling the myth of the alleged
Holocaust is as important in the intellectual struggle against
Zionism as dismantling the other Zionist myths, for example, of
their “right” to Palestine.
Mohamed Omar: Is Zionism a problem in Sweden?
Lars Adelskogh: It is. You could say that in
important respects it is The Problem. As you know yourself, on
Monday you may be a renowned figure in the cultural sphere, a
celebrated poet, though you are a Moslem, but – of course – a
“moderate one”. Then on Tuesday you come out as a supporter of
the Palestinians, sympathizer with Hamas and the Islamic
Republic of Iran. On Wednesday you are over and done with. You
have become a non-existent person, or the bogeyman that people
use to scare children with. Your poems will not be read on the
radio any more.
“Zionism” is a word I do not use very much nowadays. I prefer to
talk about “Judeocracy” instead, the striving of a small group
of extremist Jews to rule all the rest of us. And then you may
say that “Judeocracy trumps democracy”.
You may believe you have certain democratic rights such as
freedom of speech. However, you must not exercise such a right
to criticize the extremist Jews or their doings. I did, and I
lost my job after three days of relentless attacks in the radio,
on TV, and in many newspapers. I was lucky though. I did not end
up in jail as my friend Ahmed Rami did, here in Sweden. His
“crime” was that he quoted the Bible and Marx on Jewish
extremism.
Under Judeocracy you do not have the right to free speech. You
do not even have the right to free listening. A know a man who
was a teacher but was fired from his job as I was – but not for
anything he said in speech or writing, but merely for listening
to forbidden truths. He attended a lecture given in Stockholm in
March 2007 by Prof. Robert Faurisson, the famous Holocaust
revisionist and champion of the Palestinians. He was indiscrete
about his attendance to a colleague at his school. She reported
him to the headmaster, and he was promptly fired.
Under Judeocracy you do not have freedom of assembly either. It
is impossible to publicly announce lectures and discussion
evenings on themes critical of Zionism or Judeocracy. All such
meetings must be held in secret. When I had given my first
lecture to the Aguéli Study Group in the city of Uppsala, the
city’s leading newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning attacked – not me or
anything I had said – but the landlord for renting the premises
to such an association. “Such a thing must not happen again!”
And it did not. Liberal rights are all right as long as they do
not collide with the interests of Judeocracy . So Judeocracy
trumps liberalism as well as democracy at large. If you have not
recognized this truth, you need to wake up from your slumber.
Now summing this problem up on the plane of principles, you
might say that in the world after 1945 where aggressive and
militant nationalism, racism, and colonialism were supposed to
be things of the past, to be supplanted by peace, international
cooperation, and the recognition of universal human rights,
there remains one brand of aggressive and militant nationalism
that still has to be accepted, one brand of racism, and one
brand of colonialism that you must not merely accept but even
recognize as the “Jewish people’s right to self-determination”.
If you do not – you are denounced as a Nazi or an Islamo-fascist
– or if you are a Jew – a self-hater. This is simply abnormal, a
collective mental disease, to be rightly diagnosed only by the
psychiatrists of the future.
You have to fight problems in the order of their importance.
That is why the struggle against Zionism, or Judeocracy, comes
first.
Mohamed Omar: Did Zionism have a hand in the recent
terrorist attacks in Norway?
Lars Adelskogh: It is obvious, since the
terrorist Behring Breivik was motivated by his hatred of Moslems
and Islam and his admiration of Israel. He drew his inspiration
mainly from so-called anti-Jihadist propagandists such as Bath
Yeor, Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz, Andrew
Bostom, and the Gates of Vienna website, all of them being
unabashed Zionists. Also the Social-Democratic youth that had
gathered on Utøya were markedly anti-Zionist, holding up posters
saying “Boycott Israel” on July 21, the day before Behring
Breivik murdered them. Was it a coincidence that July 22 was the
65th anniversary of the bombing of King David Hotel in
Jerusalem, a terrorist attack by the Zionist Irgun gang that
killed 91 people? I think not.
In the matter of Behring Breivik’s Zionist extremism we need
neither speculate nor interpret, however. It is quite sufficient
to quote from his 1500-page manifesto,
“2083”:
“Assist Israel in deporting all Muslim Syrians (also referred to
as ‘Palestinians’) from the Gaza strip, the West bank and
Jerusalem. These territories will be included in Israel.
However, Jerusalem will come under joint Christian-Jewish
administration. Demolish the abomination known as the Al-Aqsa
mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and rebuild the
Temple of Salomon – the Third Temple as described in the Book of
Ezekiel, chapters 40-42. The Third Temple will become a place of
worship for both Jews and Christians. The Dome of the Rock is
regarded as occupying the actual space where the Temple once
stood.”
Comments are superfluous, are they not?
Mohamed Omar: What is the role of the Islamic Republic of
Iran in countering Zionism?
Lars Adelskogh: A very important one, I think.
I would even go so far as to say that if it were not for the
massive support and military assistance of the Islamic Republic
of Iran to the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples, both would have
succumbed to Zionist aggression long ago. The Iranian aid to
Hezbollah was probably decisive for the latter’s victory in the
last war (2006) against the Zionist entity. All true
anti-Zionists must share a sense deep gratitude to the Islamic
Republic of Iran, not only for this sweet victory, but for the
ongoing support of many years past.
I think that the Zionists are not really afraid of the “threat”
of a “nuclear Iran”. Their leaders know perfectly well that Iran
has only a nuclear energy programme, not a nuclear weapons
programme, as they have not managed to find even a shred of a
proof of the latter. What worries them though, and very much, is
the fact that Iran is the hub of anti-Zionist activism, and they
know that they will not be able to effect the “final solution”
of the “Palestinian problem”, that is deporting them en masse to
Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, and killing those who resist, as
long as Islamic Iran remains a staunch protector of the Moslems
of the region. That is the real reason why Zionists in the
United States and Europe constantly forge plans of aggression
against Iran. The “nuclear threat” is just a lie, as is
everything the Zionists say.
Mohamed Omar: What is the importance of Quds Day? Can
demonstrating make a difference?
Lars Adelskogh: It is important as a constant reminder, once
every year, for we must not forget, we must not give up the
struggle. It is important here in Sweden, as well, as we could
see two years ago, when suddenly even organizations and people
who until then had managed to masquerade as “anti-Zionists” and
“friends of the Palestinian people”, such as ISM, had to
publicly denounce the Quds Day demonstration and recommend their
members not to have anything to do with it or its organizers.
Whether it can make a difference only the future can tell. When
in the future, not the too distant future, I hope, Palestine is
liberated, and we shall be able to write the history of that
liberation, and all the movements and people who contributed to
this noble achievement will be given their due credit, then
perhaps it will be said that our demonstrations made a
difference.
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