Uncle TOMs

Uncle Toms

Every oppressed Nation has their Uncle Toms. And here I don't mean those white haired, or in our case the more pertinent "henna (orange)-bearded", fonts of wisdom and common sense.

But in Malcolm X's other sense.
Those being our men and women who so clearly identify with our would be oppressors, that when the oppressors' houses are burning down about them, they say "we, hurting, BOSS".

That hypocrisy of our Uncle Toms is often not evident, because sometimes it takes the appearance of reason amid arguments that amount to "don't shake the boat, lest WE ALL fall in and drown". A self serving argument that finds some resonance within each of us.

And it is this characteristic that makes the name Uncle Tom so apt.

However, often when you listen to them you will feel a growing dissatisfation, as if something is missing, as if something that needs to be said is being deliberately left unsaid.

And this is particularly the case when they seek the mantle of championing our people, whilst being encouraged to adopt that role by our would be oppressors (through monetary and other means).

The banter between Freedland and Banglawala, that I have attached, is a case in point.

Listen carefully to that portion of the attached podcast.

Feel their arguments.

Ask yourself, is there no measure of dissatisfaction that rises within your soul?

Then try to analyse the cause of that dissatisfaction before proceeding any further.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/audio/2010/may/13/free-speech-religion-judaism
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Didn't it feel that once again the Jewish people were allowed to be portrayed as victims.

And then wasn't that perception left unchallenged by Bunglawala?

Freedland argued that the Jewish collegiate students identified to a high degree with Israel, and so any anti-Israeli sentiments were bound of necessity to hurt them.

Bunglawala did not argue the like that in fact the Muslim Student Body within UK Universities likewise identified with their brothers and sisters in faith, in Palestine.

It begs one to think that there was a deliberate silence, to an argument that should have been abundantly clear to any Muslim.

However, because of that failure, purposeful or otherwise, to make that case we were left with a one-sided perception of the continued persecution of Jewish students within out Higher Education System.

And furthermore Bungawalla did not seek to push home the inequality in that whilst it is quite acceptable for a British Jewish student to identify with and then play his part in Israel's illegal occupation of another's land, by say spending time in a Kibbutz, it is not so for a Muslim who only seeks to show solidarity with an oppressed People.

Nor did he mention the reality of the assymetric nature of the Isreali Problem.

At the very least it is proven that the IDF (a misnomer) used white phosphorus shells recently in Gaza, and then there is no doubt of their wanton targeting of a civilian population.

And at worst, for the discerning eye that watches their actions and ignores their empty apologies, is their evident policy of the murder of Children. Why else, but to cause despair and to deplete a land of it's rightful people.

It might be argued that Bunglawalla was put on the spot since he had agreed to appear on a Jewish Podcast which would obvious seek to favour the Israeli point of view.

But then, it is obvious that the cause of much Israeli Oppression is supported and founded on the belief that they are the victims. Bunglawala should have exposed that error for what it was, and that is especially so if ever he were interested in doing good to his hosts and justice to the people.

Bunglawala, and all his ilk (MCB et al) are not our Champions!