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Oct. 5, 2012 7:25am Sharona Schwartz

The Free Gaza Movement, a pro-Palestinian group known for its sponsorship of flotillas to Gaza including the famous sail in May 2010 that ended in a violent confrontation with IDF soldiers, sent out a shocking tweet from its official Twitter account blaming “Zionists” for running concentration camps and murdering Jews during the Nazi Holocaust.

This is the tweet that was sent out September 30 along with a link to an anti-Semitic video including the outlandish charge that Jews orchestrated the Holocaust:

Though the message was deleted, it was exposed the next day by Avi Mayer who heads social media for the Jewish Agency for Israel and responded with this tweet:

The Free Gaza Movement, and its founder Greta Berlin, quickly went into damage-control mode, publishing statements backing away from the tweet. The National Post reports:

Within hours, the American founder of the movement, Greta Berlin, tweeted that she had intended only to publish the link to her private Facebook account, but it was accidentally redirected to the Free Gaza Twitter feed.

“I shared it without watching it. I am sorry that I just sent it forward without looking at it. It won’t happen again,” read a tweet from the Free Gaza Movement account, posted Wednesday afternoon.

Free Gaza Movement’s website on Thursday had this:

This TWEET did not come from Free Gaza, and does not represent FG’s position in any way whatsoever; in fact we condemn its content. It came from Greta’s private Facebook page and was shared with a group of people who were discussing propaganda and racism, and this link was an example of the terrible propaganda that could be spewed on websites. For some reason, Facebook connected our Free Gaza account to her personal Facebook account, and the link was posted.

This is not the first charge of anti-Semitism leveled against the Free Gaza group. National Post documents the self-professed humanitarian organization’s previous associations with racism:

The Free Gaza Twitter feed has lately referred to Israeli prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] as “a complete lunatic,” promoted the view that a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians is equivalent to “racism,” and defended Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against charges of anti-Semitism.

As the tweet blaming Zionist Jews for orchestrating the Holocaust spread, U.S. blogger Adam Holland came upon a cached Free Gaza tweet from September 21 which linked to Im Wald von Katyn, a 1943 Nazi propaganda film.

Avi Mayer, who first exposed the story, discovered that the man speaking in the video that Greta Berlin linked to in the Free Gaza Movement’s tweet is the late anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Eustace Mullins. On his blog, Mayer transcribed parts of the video which included these repulsive statements:

• That “the ‘Na’ of National Socialism joined with the Zionist Party, the World Zionist Party, in 1923, and ever after was known as the Nazis, N-A-Z-I. The ‘zi’ was for ‘Zionists.’”

• That Adolf Hitler allied himself with the Zionists and that “the mission of the Nazis was to force the anti-Zionist Jews to accept Zionism. And this is what the concentration camps were about.”

• That “the concentration camps were run by the Zionist Jews in order to punish and get rid of the anti-Zionist Jews, which they did.”

• That “in fact some Jews themselves even claim that there should be a statue to Adolf Hitler in Israel because he created the State of Israel.”

Mayer details some of Mullins’ past virulently anti-Semitic statements including this one: “This religious ceremony of drinking the blood of an innocent gentile child is basic to the Jew’s entire concept of his existence as a parasite, living off of the blood of the host.”

According to its website, the Free Gaza Movement’s endorsers include Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and even the pro-Palestinian Israeli organizations Yesh Gvul and Zochrot. Question now is: are they going to continue to stand quietly as endorsers, or raise their voices against this demonstration of racism – intentional or not?

The Free Gaza Movement is not a tax deductible charity under IRS code 501(c)3, and its website refers potential donors to write checks to the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, an anti-Israel publication. Free Gaza Movement calls that group its “fiscal sponsor in the United States” which accepts tax-deductible donations on the controversial group’s behalf.

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Comments (25)

Wat Tyler
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:44pm
SHOCKING! (sarcasm added)

I noticed Israel holds top position in Beck’s “Election Scorecard”. We all care more about The Tribe then our own backyard…well, some of us anyhow (treason).

What a stooge.

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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on October 21, 2012 at 2:50pm
  Blazers love Jews on this site. They don’t care that leftist, progressive Jews (which vote 90% Democratic in every election) are their political enemy.
  
  http://rense.com/general44/sevenjewishamericans.htm
  
  “Those seven Jewish men collectively control ABC, NBC, CBS, the Turner Broadcasting System, CNN, MTV, Universal Studios, MCA Records, Geffen Records, DGC Records, GRP Records, Rising Tide Records, Curb/Universal Records, and Interscope Records.”
  
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cosmic dogma
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 12:09am
satanic KIng of the underworld worshipper= LIAR. Only the demonically possessed could imagine or say such a thing.

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kalli
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 7:38pm
Funny how people who “accidentally” out themselves always end up with a swift kick to their backside when caught with their pants down.

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Vrilgesellschaft
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 2:56pm
Are these the same Palestinian supporters who have romantic liaisons with donkeys and pigs?

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neoconenemy
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 2:48pm
Yes zionists are infact responsible for the ‘holocaust’. Britain offered up Cyprus, parts of Argentina, Uganda, and Madagscar for the establishment of a Jewish state but the zionists refused. Not only that but zionists in the FDR administration as well as in Canada, and Europe refused to admit fleeing Jewish refugees many of whom perished at sea and some ultimately ended up back in Germany. Zionists are responsible for the death of many Jews, but hey the ends justify the means. Just ask Ben Gurion.

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- tzion
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 5:45pm
  Oh so it was the zionists who prevented Jews from getting out of Europe? So it had nothing to do with the fact that America had instituted immigration quotas that discriminated against eastern Europeans and Italians (where most of those Jews were from). Nor did it have anything to do with the British closing Palestine to Jewish immigration in 1939 in order to appease the Arabs.
  
  Where are your facts? I want names. How do you explain the Evian Conference, which was attended by Golda Meir (a zionist) who, after the committee took no action other than to express its sympathy, is quoted as having said “I hope that never again shall my people have to rely on the world’s sympathy”.
  
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zoro51
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 12:33pm
all the land BELONGS TO ISREAL period.. a nazi holocoust.. who wants the hebrews wiped out.. MURDERING MUSLUMS.. talk about NAZI… look in the mirror ahkmhed.. ITS YOU who desires death n hate towards the jews.. FOOLS RAKKA.. you have NO CLUE youre in a MAN MADE CULT OF HATE N DEATH no allah that IS a stone idol you worship your prohpeht mohamuddf is bead n burried false were his words.. n YOU believed them BAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA many of you stone idol worshipers came n went n did not last.. ISREAL IS FOR EVER.. YOU ARE NOT

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 10:24am
Ridiculous! The old adage is still in effect. If you are going to lie, tell a big one, and people will believe the outrageous one.

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Rational Man
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 9:37am
Im’ not really “shocked” anymore by what insane people say about the Jews or Israel. The whole world is going insane. It only makes me worry, a little, that I might lose my mind too. The time of the end of this age is drawing close. I thank God for the Holy Spirit who leads me into all truth and not the lies of this world.

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- Rational Man
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 9:51am
  2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
  (NKJV)
  
  10 ….and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
  11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
  12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  
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Individualism
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 9:18am
You know that could be true the story and motives make sense and than of course then Neo Conservatives say something like radical islamists groups paid him off. who knows if the truth comes out history will change and probably for the better. at the time most jews wanted to stay in Europe and not move to Israel. holocaust truth now! 911 truth now!

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- tzion
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 5:56pm
  @Individualism
  WOW. So you find it suspicious that the number of Jews looking to go to Israel went up after the Holocaust? You find it unusual that, after seeing 6 million Jews murdered for no good reason and not even the great USA raising more than a finger to help, would seek an independent state? You find it unreasonable that before the war, when people had homes and businesses in Europe, that they were content to stay while afterwards they weren’t?
  
  The truth is that if the Nazis hadn’t perpetrated the Holocaust someone else would have eventually. Antisemitism didn’t sprout up as a convenient agent for Zionism, it had been around for over 1000 years. Herzl himself became a Zionist after observing how strong antisemitism was in France during the Dreyfus Affair. You speak as though all antisemitism is a reaction to Zionism when in actuality the precise opposite is true.
  
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- cosmic dogma
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 12:26am
  Indy- you NEED to read some history books. You are uneducated. PLEASE LEARN SOME HISTORICAL FACTS, BEFORE MAKING ANY MORE COMMENTS. Jews have been persecuted in every country, in every time period, probably because they are pacifists and usually financially secure. Easy pickings, so to speak. Just like the American Jews of today. Don’t like hard history, read historically based fiction- Leon Uris- Exodus. Try Rutherford’s -Sarum, some tidbits of the history of England. At least , try, to learn some facts before vomiting out islamic propaganda.
  
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Bikkiboo
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 8:55am
I thought the purpose of the Israelis turning Gaza over to the Palestinians was so they could have some territory of their own. Israel even left functioning greenhouses and other business buildings to be used by Palestinians, but all of these were quickly destroyed. These terror groups do NOT want the Palestinians to have their own land where they can support themselves. The terrorists would lose their “reason” for attacking Israel if Palestinians actually had their own places to live. As for Free Gaza; I thought it already was free when Israel turned it over to them. If not, who’s keeping it prisoner? Not Israel.

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mike551
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 7:53am
These peopleare in high positions in our govt. Time for a good ole fashioned purge.IMPEACH THE MUSLIM OBAMA NOW!!!

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momrules
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 7:52am
This is what they say among themselves. This is what they try to pass off as truth. This is what some people, who upon hearing this, believe because they want to believe these lies.

What it boils down to is they hate Jews and Israel.

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- justangry
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 6:12pm
  There’s some stuff out there that looks legit, but can be torn apart when you start asking questions. I keep thinking that if the media weren’t such dirty rotten liars, people wouldn’t be looking for alternative forms of information and get caught up in the hatred. I went looking for alternative sources of news during the RP blackout. I was amazed at how coordinated this stuff was. Collectivism is bad no matter which way it’s applied. I mean as for Zionists, I think you and Tzion are good people, but there are some bat crap crazy people on here as well that are every bit as radical as some of the Islamists out there. I’m not a huge fan of Ms. Schwartz’s propaganda either that’s for sure.
  
  On a side note, you should have heard the little one talking about the Garden of Eden the other day after school. She called it the “sneaky snake” It was SO cute.
  
  Peace
  
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Gonzo
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 7:39am
In the case of George Soros, they’re right.

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- D-Fence
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 7:57am
  Touche
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 9:21am
  they should interrogate the truth out of him.
  
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- Rational Man
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 9:42am
  Good point!
  Who is dumb enough to trust Soros after what he did to his own people?
  I guess that is how you get to be in Soros’ position. Stabbing everyone in the back………
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 7:35am
So the radicals continue to mount one on the other for a war with Israel. It figures that history would wind up repeating itself.

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- Konservative PUNK
  Posted on October 5, 2012 at 8:34am
  Not to mention, fulfilling ancient prophecy.
  
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Ars21689
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 7:34am
Is it really a shocking tweet?

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