London Times Exposes Columnist "Israel Shamir" as Swedish neo-Nazi

For many years the most openly anti-Semitic "Jew" filling the web with columns, attacking not only Israel but all of Judaism and Jewry, has been someone calling himself "Israel Shamir". He is the darling of both the far Left and the neonazi Right, not to mention al-Jazeera. His columns were carried for a while on Israel's far-Left daily "Haaretz", which often resembles a Palestinian newspaper published in Hebrew. He openly supports al-Qaeda and Islamist terror.

"Shamir" describes himself as a Russian born Jew turned anti-Zionist, and also describes himself as an "Israeli columnist based in Jaffa." For many years I have suspected that Shamir is not who he pretends to be. Some Zionist groups began making a similar assertion last year, although RENSE and similar neonazi web sites rushed to defend the myth of "Shamir". (Interestingly, "Shamir" is a fan of antiwar.com's Justin Raimondo although thinks Raimondo is too moderate.) A Maariv columnist, Ben Dror Yemini, claims he exists but converted to Christianity long ago.

"Shamir" in fact is today (at least) a Swede and not a Jew at all, but has worked for Zavtra, Russia’s most anti-Semitic publication, and is allied with the Vanguard News Network, set up by an American, Alex Linder - a man so extreme that he was even ostracised by the US neo-Nazi National Alliance.

"Shamir's" own Web site proudly reprints his views: “Jews asked God to kill, destroy, humiliate, exterminate, defame, starve, impale Christians, to usher in Divine Vengeance and to cover God’s mantle with blood of goyim… ” “The Ashkenazi Jews believed that spilled Jewish blood has a magic effect of calling down Divine Vengeance on the heads of the Gentiles… The picture of Jews slaughtering children for cultic reasons exerted huge impact on the Christian peoples of Europe.”

"Shamir" exceeds the extremism even of people like DePaul University's Norman Finkelstein. Even Nigel Perry, a hater of Israel who runs the pro-terror "Electronic Intifada" Web site, has denounced "Shamir" as an anti-Semite after "Shamir" ran a column containing medieval anti-Jewish blood libels. PLO front groups love him, although some Arabs have denounced him as an anti-Semite.

The London Times has now also "outed" this "Shamir". He is a Swedish neonazi named Jöran Jermas, whatever he once called himself in the past. "Shamir's" name came up over a controversy in Britain this week in which a Moslem Labor Party member of the House of Lords named Lord Ahmed hosted a book launch in the Lords for the man going by the pen name of "Israel Shamir."

The Times writes:

"The gist of Shamir/Jermas’s speech at the meeting can be gleaned from its title, `Jews and the Empire.' It included observations such as: `All the [political] parties are Zionist-infiltrated.' `Your newspapers belong to Zionists… Jews indeed own, control and edit a big share of mass media, this mainstay of Imperial thinking.' `In the Middle East we have just one reason for wars, terror and trouble — and that is Jewish supremacy drive… in Iraq, the US and its British dependency continue the same old fight for ensuring Jewish supremacy in the Middle East.' `The Jews like an Empire… This love of Empire explains the easiness Jews change their allegiance… Simple minds call it ‘treacherous behaviour,’ but it is actually love of Empire per se. Now, there is a large and thriving Muslim community in England… they are now on the side of freedom, against the Empire, and they are not afraid of enforcers of Judaic values, Jewish or Gentile. This community is very important in order to turn the tide.' Why would Lord Ahmed have hosted such a man in the Lords? It is, of course, possible that Lord Ahmed had no idea that Shamir/Jermas was a rabid anti-Semite. Yet it takes only a quick Google to discover his views and background.'"

All this has come after a series of incidents involving comments by Labor Party officials considered offensive. In January, Labour produced two posters, one depicting Michael Howard as a Shylock or Fagin caricature, the other pasting faces of Mr. Howard and Oliver Letwin onto pigs’ bodies. This came following London Mayor Red Ken Livingstone’s comparison of a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard.