This is the same Chief Rabbi Who Supported Tebbit’s Cricket Test & Marched
with Israel’s Fascist Settlers chanting ‘Death to the Arabs’
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| Pathetic Marie van der Zyl of the Zionist Board of Deputies protesting in vain at the appearance of Chris Williamson |
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| Chris Williamson - the only Labour MP with the guts to call out the fake 'antisemitism' campaign was thrown under the bus by Corbyn and Russell-Moyle |
On August 8th in Brighton we defied a Zionist campaign
of abuse and intimidation, which forced the Quaker’s Friends Meeting House to
cancel a meeting with Chris Williamson.
Despite this we
held the meeting and defied the Zionist scum who tried to stop the meeting.
Two weeks later I overheard a conversation in my local
supermarket, Morrisons, by two people. They were discussing how ‘the Jews want to stop Corbyn.’ I
intervened and pointed out that ‘the Jews’ were in fact Zionists including
people such as the racist MP for Hove Peter Kyle and most of the British press.
Yet it is very understandable that non-Jews who get their
information from the media and BBC will believe that all Jews hate Corbyn. They
will not know that Professor Geoffrey Alderman, the foremost academic historian
of the Jewish community, has been waging a lonely campaign to get his fellow Zionists
to tell the truth. In an article
in the Spectator last May he asked ‘Is Jeremy Corbyn really
anti-Semitic?’ and
then proceeded to show why he was not.
The campaign to show that the Labour Party is anti-Semitic and
that Corbyn is an anti-Semite has always been evidence-free. It has been based
on the interests of Britain’s Establishment and its voice the BBC. It is in the
interests of the rich and powerful to demonstrate that Corbyn’s Labour is anti-Semitic. If they were honest they would say that their
real reasons were the threat that Corbyn represents to their pockets.
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| Chief Rabbis supporting Tories is an old tradition |
The Zionists if they were honest would say that what riles
them most is that Corbyn has consistently supported the Palestinians, but of
course they aren’t honest.
Britain’s Chief Rabbis have a habit of supporting the
Conservative Party dating back to Immanuel Jakobovitz’s support
for Margaret Thatcher and even further back, but none have been this blatant.
Ephraim Mirvis’s attack
on Corbyn has absolutely nothing to do with racism or anti-Semitism. This is
the same person who was singing
the praise of Norman Tebbit’s ‘cricket test’ not so long ago. The ‘cricket
test’ was devised to show that the ‘real home’ of Britain’s Asian population is
not in England but India and Pakistan.
Ironically if the same test were applied to British Jews then
it would show that many of them belong in Israel! Which is what the Zionists desire most of
all.
Mirvis’s instruction to Jews not to vote Labour is part of a
well co-ordinated campaign to use ‘anti-Semitism’ as a weapon to inflict damage
and destroy Labour’s electoral prospects.
What has made it most effective is the fact that Corbyn,
instead of standing up from the start and saying that Labour did not have an anti-Semitism
problem, that the allegations against it were malicious and without foundation,
bought into the narrative.
No one forced Corbyn to adopt the IHRA misdefinition of anti-Semitism
originally. It was all his own work.
This is the same Ephraim Mirvis who joined
his predecessor Jonathan Sacks and thousands of far-Right settlers on the 2017
Jerusalem Day ‘March of Flags’. The favourite chant of the settlers was ‘Death to the Arabs.’ Mirvis had no
hesitation in joining those who desire nothing more than the expulsion of the Palestinians.
an annual,
gender-segregated extreme-right, pro-occupation religious carnival of hatred,
marking the anniversary of Israel's capture of Jerusalem by humiliating the
city's Palestinian Muslims.
marchers
vandalized shops in Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter, chanted "Death to
Arabs" and "The (Jewish) Temple Will Be Built, the (Al Aqsa) Mosque
will be Burned Down," shattered windows and door locks, and poured glue
into the locks of shops forced to close for fear of further damage.’ And they
repeated Samson's prayer in Judges 16:28: "May
I avenge (the loss of) my two eyes with one act of vengeance against the
Palestinians – may their name be blotted out!"
This did not
stop Sacks extending
a “personal invitation” to Diaspora
Jews to join him on a trip to Israel which includes “leading” the March of the
Flags on Jerusalem Day and “dancing with
our brave [Israeli Defence Force] soldiers” in the settler enclave inside
Hebron.
Haaretz Anna
Roiser pleaded
with Sacks not to attend, saying:
one of the
world’s most respected rabbis sends a message of normalization and acceptance
of the occupation... Many Jews in the
Diaspora work hard to emphasize that being Jewish is not synonymous with
supporting the Israeli government, and that supporting Israel’s right to exist
is not synonymous with supporting the occupation. Rabbi Sacks’ actions risk
undermining these messages.
Not only did
Sacks ignore them he marched together with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. It seems
that Mirvis finds it difficult to oppose any other form of racism bar ‘anti-Semitism’.
See Chief
Rabbi and Lord Sacks should not back this march
However the attacks of
Ephraim Mirvis, the BBC and the Jewish Chronicle would not have had any
resonance but for the enemy within. Prime amongst those who laid the basis for these
attacks is Jon Lansman, who I have emailed and texted tonight.
Dear Mr Lansman
I hope you are pleased with your
work. By helping to spread the myth of Labour antisemitism you paved the
way for today's campaign by the Chief Rabbi and the media.
It should now be clear even to
you that 'antisemitism' is just a pretext for an attack by the Jewish
Establishment and your Zionist friends on Corbyn and a radical Labour
government.
The Jewish Labour Movement, a
name which is a lie in itself, fully supported Mirvis's attack. This is
the same Zionist group whose platforms you graed whilst attacking Jackie
Walker, Ken Livingstone, Marc Wadsworth, Chris Williamson and me.
What you and Momentum have sown
others have reaped.
If you had any shame then you
would retire now and take heed of Enoch Powell's dictum, which you are so fond
of quoting, that all political careers end in failure.
However as you are shameless I
suspect you will continue to wreak havoc and damage.
Regards as ever
tony
John McDonnell also bought
into this nonsense. He told Ken Livingstone to apologise for his remarks
because ‘the Jews are a very forgiving
people.’ Russell Lloyd-Moyle, the Brighton Kemptown MP, lied to me when I
challenged him over his refusal to support Chris Williamson.
But above all the fault lies with Corbyn himself and his advisors,
in particular Seamus Milne. Corbyn, given his experience in Palestine solidarity,
knew that ‘anti-Semitism’ is the standard
accusation of Israel’s defenders. I doubt if there is one single Palestine activist
in Britain who hasn’t been accused of ‘anti-Semitism’.
Corbyn should have drawn up a strategy from the start and
stuck with it. It was obvious to me and it should have been to him that the ‘anti-Semitism’
he was being accused of was not hatred of Jews but hatred of what Israel does. That is why his denials that he was anti-Semitic
or his pathetic repetition of how much he abhorred anti-Semitism have cut no
ice. They were besides the point.
Corbyn was not being accused of Jew hatred but hatred of Zionism.
If Corbyn from the start had responded vigorously and stated that he wasn’t
going to be deflected from talking about Israeli Apartheid by ‘anti-Semitism’ then
he would have buried the whole matter. Instead he made a rod for his own back
by apologising, temporising, hesitating and failing to respond. He gave in
repeatedly to people like Tom Watson. Even more appalling he threw comrades and
friends like Ken Livingstone and Chris Williamson overboard.
It is because Corbyn bought into the myth that anti-Semitism
was a problem in the Labour Party that he is now facing such problems. Every
time he apologised the Zionists asked for more. These scoundrels aren’t
interested in genuine anti-Semitism. Israel
is their only concern. It is curious that in the thousands of stories on Labour
‘anti-Semitism’ there is such a marked absence of evidence.
See this very excellent article
by Jamie Stern Weiner ‘Smoke Without Fire: The Myth of a 'Labour
Antisemitism' Crisis’. My only criticism of it
is that the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign is not about anti-Semitism and it’s not based
on logic. Like fascism it is essentially irrational and it cannot be defeated
by rational argument.
The ‘Anti-Semitism’ campaign is an Establishment
ideological attack. It cannot be met on its own terms but by an implacable
opposition that repeats that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. We should not be
afraid of pointing out that Jews today are not oppressed. They are a largely
racist community of White people, with high levels of Islamaphobia, the
majority of whom supports Zionism and Jewish exclusivism. It is a privileged community which is
repeating the errors of old when Jewish communities in Poland and elsewhere
allowed themselves to be used by the nobles and kings. It didn’t end well then
and it may not end well now.
The campaign to frighten the Jewish community in this
country that Labour is anti-Semitic may have succeeded but all that means is
that it is a testament to the powerful effect of a media manufactured campaign
and the creation of a consensus. It is
also testament to the fundamental stupidity of most British Jews today.
I am reminded of an article
in 2015 in Ha’aretz by Anshel Pfeffer on the ‘finding’ in a survey by the
far-Right Campaign Against Anti-Semitism
that 56% of British Jews agreed that “the
recent rise in anti-Semitism in Britain has some echoes of the 1930s.” Pfeffer wrote that
‘If
the majority of British Jews and the authors of the CAA report actually believe
that, then it’s hard to take anything they say about contemporary anti-Semitism
in their home country seriously. If they honestly think that the situation in
Britain today echoes the 1930s when Jews were still banned from a wide variety
of clubs and associations, when a popular fascist party, supported by members
of the nobility and popular newspapers, were marching in support of Hitler,
when large parts of the British establishment were appeasing Nazi Germany and
the government was resolutely opposed to allowing Jewish refugees of Nazism in
to Britain, finally relenting in 1938 to allow 10,000 children to arrive — but
not their parents who were to die in the Holocaust (that shameful aspect of the
Kindertransport that is seldom mentioned) — and when the situation of Jews in
other European countries at the time was so much worse, then not only are they
woefully ignorant of recent Jewish history but have little concept of what real
anti-Semitism is beyond the type they see online.
After pointing out that British Jews today are exceedingly
well represented in Parliament, Pfeffer went on to state that:
To compare today’s Britain, for all its faults, with the
Jews’ situation in 1930s exhibits a disconnect from reality which borders on
hysteria.
If Mirvis was seriously concerned about anti-Semitism in
political parties then he would have asked why the Conservative Party’s MEPs supported
the anti-Semitic Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a no confidence vote
in the European parliament. The reason
is that Orban may not like Jews very much but he is the best friend of Israel.
Likewise he could ask why Tory MEP’s sit
in the same political group (ECR) in the European parliament as fascists
and anti-Semites.
However as Mirvis is a right-wing Tory it is unlikely he
will turn on his friends, even in the cause of ‘anti-Semitism’.
Tony Greenstein
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