20 November 2024

Britain’s Police are Waging a War on Freedom of Speech and Opponents of Genocide in the name of ‘anti-terrorism’

The ‘LiberalEstablishment – from the Guardian to Liberty - has averted its eyes as the Police Raid & Arrest Dissident Journalists & Palestine Solidarity Activists


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Natalie Strecker, a pacifist based in Jersey, is the latest activist to be arrested by the Police on their favourite pretext, supporting a proscribed organisation contrary to s.12(1A) of the Terrorism Act 2000. It’s called the ‘rule of law’.

The Jersey Post has more courage and integrity than the 'liberal' Guardian when it comes to Police attacks on activists

Since October 7 the Police have been very busy trying to take out key Palestine solidarity activists. Electronic Intifada journalist Asa Winstanley had his house raided and his electronic devices stolen by the Police a few weeks ago. Asa wasn’t actually arrested but this gives a clue to the Police’s motivation. Stopping the publication of alternative news. They prefer the ‘reliable’ media to be our sole source of news – from the BBC to the Guardian to the Daily Mail.

Sarah Wilkinson Interview

Sarah Wilkinson was also arrested recently by Police thugs in balaclavas, who stole her passport, without even telling her, whilst making it a condition of bail that she surrender it. They stole her money, overturned her grandmother’s urn of ashes, hid her bank cards and trashed her house. She was forbidden to even use a phone until the police were forced to withdraw the bail conditions.

Palestine Action, a direct action group committed to putting Elbit and other suppliers of arms to Israel have been the victim of extreme repression with the Filton 10 being held until their trial in a year’s time for doing what the Police should be doing, which is stopping the activities of those contributing towards genocide in Palestine.

Only today we hear that another 10 Palestine Action activists have been arrested.

But there is one law that the Police have ignored - the International Criminal Court Act 2001 - which makes being party to and aiding in the commission of war crimes and genocide a criminal act. We can’t imagine why they are not interested in enforcing this Act!

Sections 52 and 53 make it quite clear that genocide and acts ancilliary to genocide, whether committed in this country or abroad, will be treated as committed in this country.

Proceedings will only be initiated by the Attorney General but I’m sure Richard Hermer wouldn’t want to be seen to be endorsing acts ancilliary to genocide by his colleagues, such as supplying spare parts for aircraft that bomb civilians!

I’ve been arrested twice in the past 12 months. Firstly on December 20 2023 when my flat was raided and all my electronic devices were stolen. The second time was at the picket of notorious racist, Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotoveli’s residence when I compared Israel’s actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis. My ‘offence’ was ‘racially aggravated harassment’ of a Zionist, Richard Millett, the sole Zionist counter-demonstrator, who has called holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos ‘scum’ for opposing Israel’s genocide.

There are no known examples of the Police arresting Zionist demonstrators for violence, genocidal speech or racism. Police harassment is strictly in one direction only.

I was recently informed that I was not being charged, making my arrest and detention unlawful. A couple of weeks after my arrest 79 year-old Israeli Professor  Haim Bresheeth, who is suffering from cancer, was arrested at the same spot and held all night in a cold cell in  Holborn police station. He too has been told that he is not going to be charged. Another unlawful arrest and detention.

Richard Medhurst, another journalist, was stopped at an airport, detained, arrested and held in abysmal conditions and again all his electronic devices were stolen.

Others arrested under the same pretexts include Richard Barnard, an activist in Palestine Action.

Thomas Bingham, former Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord, was described as ‘the greatest jurist of our time’ by Lord Hope of Craighead. Bingham formulated 8 rules of law in his book The rule of law. A number of them are applicable to the present, cavalier disregard of the law by the Police in their attempt to ride roughshod over our rights and to suppress political dissent.

The most important for our purposes is the eighth rule – which states that

The rule of law requires compliance by the state with its obligations in international law as in national law.

Britain is party to the Genocide Convention which therefore makes it part of British law but for the police it is a no-go area.  They are not interested in enforcing provisions of international law that have been incorporated in domestic law. Bear in mind the third of Bingham’s rules of law:

The laws of the land should apply equally to all’. It is clear that there is one law for activists and another for government politicians and war criminals like Starmer and Lammy.

Article 2 (a)-(d) of the Genocide Convention makes it crystal clear that Israel’s behaviour in Gaza is a classic example of genocide. Only the fifth provision, the forcible transfer of children out of the area is inapplicable, because Israel prefers to kill Palestinian children to transferring them out of harms way.

The fifth provision also makes it clear that genocide can take place without anyone being killed so our idiot of a Foreign Secretary, David Lammy’s assertion, that not enough people have been killed for it to be a genocide, is simply wrong. Starmer’s denial of a genocide is more sinister. He knows full well that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide.  Starmer is no different from a neo-Nazi holocaust denier.

It is no surprise that the Guardian has failed to cover the continued series of raids that have taken place. What is more surprising is that Liberty, the old National Council for Civil Liberties, has not responded to our invitation to provide a speaker. It is as if all the erstwhile liberals have hauled up the White Flag and surrendered to the security state.

Tony Greenstein

Lord Bingham’s 8 Rules of Law

 (1)      The law must be accessible and so far as possible intelligible, clear and predictable.

(2)       Questions of legal right and liability should ordinarily be resolved by application of the law and not the exercise of discretion.

(3)       The laws of the land should apply equally to all, save to the extent that objective differences justify differentiation.

(4)       Ministers and public officers at all levels must exercise the powers conferred on them in good faith, fairly, for the purpose for which the powers were conferred, without exceeding the limits of such powers and not unreasonably.

(5)       The law must afford adequate protection of fundamental human rights.

(6)       Means must be provided for resolving, without prohibitive cost or inordinate delay, bona fide civil disputes which the parties themselves are unable to resolve.

(7)       The adjudicative procedures provided by the state should be fair.

(8)       The rule of law requires compliance by the state with its obligations in international law as in national law.

In the parliamentary debate in the House of Lords’s Constitution Committee, former Attorney-General 2010-14, Dominic Grieve KC, said the rule of law encompasses:

“the system of rules that we have in our country to ensure that the decisions we make and the way the Executive and, ultimately, individuals, organisations and institutions behave are subject to the law—both our own domestic law and international law—and that the processes by which the law can be applied work.48

David Gauke, Lord Chancellor 2018–19 stated that the rule of law means:

“the … sense that the law applies equally to everyone, that no one is above the law and, in particular, that the Government must comply with the law.”49

Lord Keen of Elie KC, Advocate General for Scotland 2015–20 s said:

“that all institutions and parties should be equal before the law and subject to the law, that the law should be publicly available, and they should be capable of ascertaining what their rights and obligations are thereunder … It extends not just to domestic law but to the sphere of international law.”50

It is clear that the actions of the Police and the refusal of the present Attorney General Lord Richard Hermer KC to take any action in regard to the enforcement of Britain’s legal obligations to oppose genocide make a mockery of the Attorney General’s position as an independent legal adviser to the government.

This is not surprising since Hermer was appointed by Starmer to advise  the government on compliance with the law.  It’s not often that a poacher appoints the gamekeeper! The same contradictions occurred in 2003 when the then Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, completely changed his position on the legality of the invasion of Iraq under political pressure.

Richard Hermer has also bucked under the pressure and is now openly condoning the refusal of the government to ban arms sales to Israel even though they are contributing to the ongoing genocide.

One thing is for sure. We are not going to be cowed by this Police State repression whilst genocide in going on in Gaza. We understand full well the role that the Police have in backing Starmer’s policy of giving 100% support to Genocide Joe Biden and Killer Kamala. That is why we are holding a meeting on the arrests this Friday.  Please come along.

Tony Greenstein

18 November 2024

How Zionism used the Nazi holocaust to justify Israel’s holocaust in Gaza

Recording 

How the Zionists Rewrote the History of the Holocaust


Webinar Tuesday 12 November 2024



There are also recordings of each individual speaker

Tom Suarez -  https://youtu.be/HKwJv8yJnRk

Haim Bresheeth:  https://youtu.be/kDRAdQ-qXCs

Tony Greenstein:  https://youtu.be/tafsGMX8sY8

Stephen Kapos: https://youtu.be/kysNCNgGBwk

Last Tuesday Jewish Network for Palestine and the Socialist Labour Network held a webinar on how Zionism has rewritten the history of the holocaust in order to justify genocide in Gaza.

It is difficult to think of anything more disgusting than using the memory of the Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis to justify the murder of Palestinian children and their parents in Gaza.

The Western powers – the United States, Britain and especially the German state - are happy to go along with this rewriting of history. After all it lets them off the hook and avoids western leaders having to answer uncomfortable questions such as why the US and Britain refused to admit Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.

Stephen Kapos and other descendants of holocaust survivors

A recent example of this is how the riot and racist attacks of the Tel Aviv Maccabi fans in the Netherlands was turned into a second Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom of November 9-10 when 100 Jews were murdered and nearly all synagogues were burnt to the ground.

This could only happen because the attacks by Israel’s racist thugs on Arabs in Amsterdam was conveniently ignored, just as Israel’s war crimes in Gaza are ignored. The chants of ‘Death to the Arabs’ ‘May Your Villages Burn’ and ‘There is no school in Gaza today because there are no children’ somehow disappeared down the memory hole of Starmer, Scholtz, Biden and the Netherland’s idiot Prime Minister Schoof.

Instead the fightback of Amsterdam residents who gave the Israeli thugs a deserved thrashing was paraded as an anti-Semitic pogrom.

There was nothing more sick than the fascist leader of the Netherlands, who leads its biggest parliamentary party The Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, bemoaning the ‘anti-Semitic’ attacks whilst using it as a pretext to call for the deportation of Moroccans living in the Netherlands.

Dutch Nazi Party (NSB) marching in Amsterdam 

Netherlands had the highest rate of extermination of Jews of any Western country in the holocaust.  This was in part because it had a relatively strong fascist party the NSB, which helped the Gestapo winkle out Jews in hiding like Anne Frank. It doesn’t take much imagination to recognise that 84 years ago, Geert Wilders would not have been a member of the Communist Party which organised the strikes against the Jewish deportations. Geert Wilders would have been a prominent leader of the Dutch Nazi Party, the NSB. The idea that this fascist would have joined Dutch workers in their strike against the deportations is absurd.

Ursula von der Liar

The same is true of the far-right President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. A member of the Christian  Democrats, whose antecedents lie in the Weimar conservative parties including the anti-Semitic DNVP which helped put Hitler in power. If Von Der Liar had been alive 90 years ago she would have been a cheer leader for the Nazis but today Jews are a useful stalking horse for western imperialism in the Middle East.

We organised this webinar precisely because western leaders and its prostitute media have turned the Nazi holocaust into a justification for their war plans and racism.

Tom Suarez

The first speaker was Tom Suarez who has written two excellently researched books, State of Terror and Palestine Hijacked.  Tom described Zionism as a cult and Anti-Semitism as its drug. He described the cruel cynicism of Zionism which opposed all rescue plans for Jewish refugees from the Nazis that didn’t involve Palestine as its destination. He recalled the opposition of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, to the Kindertransport in 1938/9, after Kristallnacht, which saved 10,000 German Jewish children from death.

As Ben-Gurion explained to the Central Committee of Mapai, the Israeli Labour Party, on 9 December 1938:

If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of these children, but also the history of the People of Israel. 

Letter to the Jewish Chronicle  5 February 1993  

This was the policy of the Zionist movement throughout the war. Another example he gave was of the deliberate sabotage of the efforts of Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld, Chair of the Chief Rabbi’s Rescue Committee by the Board of Deputies, which at that time was controlled by the Zionists. Indeed its President Selig Brodestsky openly boasted of this sabotage. You can read about this in my book Zionism During the Holocaust.

HMS Patria

Tom described how the Haganah, the forerunner of the Israeli Occupation Forces, sank the Patria, because they preferred dead refugees to them being transported by the British to Mauritius. Over 250 of the 2,000 refugees died. The Haganah lied and claimed that the refugees themselves had sunk the boat because they preferred dying to living anywhere but Palestine. The habit of lying hasn't left them.

Tom emphasised how anti-Semitism is key to holding Jews in the diaspora in permanent fear, be it fake or genuine. The holocaust has been weaponised in order that Israel can continue its ethnic cleansing.

The Patria sinking in Haifa harbour

After the war the Zionists insisted that Jews be separated from non-Jews in the Displaced Persons camps and in the Jewish camps there was a reign of terror to force them to go, not to the United States or Britain but to Palestine. Those who didn’t want to go were beaten up and worse.

Rabbi Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine ran a kidnapping operation for Jewish children who had been placed with non-Jewish families during the war. They were torn from those families, regardless of their own wishes. In some cases children whose parents were in England were still forced to go to Palestine.

The second speaker was Haim Bresheeth, the Israeli academic who was recently arrested by the police in London as part of their attacks on Palestine solidarity supporters. The third speaker was Tony Greenstein, author of Zionism During the Holocaust and the final speaker was Stephen Kapos, who was a child survivor of the Hungarian holocaust. He was sheltered by a Christian group in Budapest.

Stephen Kapos

The session was chaired by Esther Giles from the Socialist Labour Network. On January 27 we will be holding a similar meeting on Holocaust Memorial Day. We are determined not to allow the Zionists a monopoly over the holocaust narrative in order to use one holocaust to justify more holocausts.

Tony Greenstein

16 November 2024

The Met Have Informed Me That I Won’t Be Charged for Comparing Israel’s Gaza Holocaust to the Nazi Holocaust

I was arrested on October 4, the 88th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street when the Met Tried to Force the British Union of Fascists on Jewish East Enders – 300,000 Stopped Them – the Met is Still the Same Racist Force

You may remember that I was arrested on October 4th for daring to make a comparison between Israel’s holocaust in Gaza and the Nazi holocaust. Two days ago I was informed by the Police that they weren’t bringing any charges.

The Police trying to find a way through Cable Street 88 years ago - genuine anti-Semitism has never bothered the Met

It is ironic that on October 4, 1936 the Met, under Commissioner Philip Game, tried to force thousands of Sir Oswald Moseley’s British Union of Fascists and National Socialists through the Jewish East End. However up to 300,000 East End workers, including Catholic dockers and thousands of non-Jewish workers were having none of it. What ensued became known as the Battle of Cable Street. The Met then was riddled with anti-Semites just as today it is riddled with Islamaphobes. After battling for hours Philip Game was forced to admit defeat as barricades were thrown up.

Notice published in the Jewish Chronicle urging Jews to keep their heads down - when it comes to genuine anti-Semitism the Jewish & Zionist Establishment has always preferred a policy of keeping one's head down

The Met hasn’t changed even if the target of its racism has changed. But even now it has a penchant for arresting anti-Zionist Jews who don’t conform their idea of ‘proper’ Israel supporting nationalist bigots.

In 1936 the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Zionists told Jews they should stay at home and keep their heads down. Jewish workers ignored them in their thousands. Today there is no Jewish  working class.  Jews have migrated socio-economically upwards and politically rightwards such that their best friends today are bigots like Tommy Robinson and friends.

In my response I told DC O’Connor it was as I had predicted when I applied to vary my bail. The Police never had a case for racially/religiously aggravated harassment. It was simply another example of the Police deliberately trying to close down free speech on Palestine . If there was any harassment it was on the part of the police.

The person whose complaint against me led to my arrest was notorious Zionist fanatic Richard Millett who above describes a holocaust survivor who opposes genocide as 'scum' - this is the kind of person the Met takes seriously

I pointed out the even more outrageous arrest, two weeks later, of Professor Haim Bresheeth, a 79 year old Israeli academic suffering from cancer who was kept all night in a cold cell in Holborn police station by these bastards in uniform. He too was told he wouldn’t be charged.

Professor Haim Bresheeth - 79 year old Israeli academic who the Police arrested

It is noticeable that on no occasion have the Police arrested supporters of Israel’s genocide for their language. Supporting genocide is not an offence in the Met’s eyes, Opposing it is, despite the fact that committing or aiding the commission of war crimes or genocide is a specific offence in the International Criminal Court Act 2001, Section 52 of which specifically states that:

(1)   It is an offence against the law of England and Wales for a person to engage in conduct ancillary to an act to which this section applies.

(2)   This section applies to an act that if committed in England or Wales would constitute—

(a)   an offence under section 51 (genocide, crime against humanity or war crime), or

(b)   an offence under this section,

However the Met pick and choose which legislation they will enforce and which legislation they won’t enforce. They call it the ‘rule of law’ but in reality they turn the law into an instrument of political oppression.

The Met and the Anti-Terrorist Police are also engaged in a wholesale abuse of anti-terror legislation in order to clamp down on Palestine solidarity activists. In short the Police are, ever more obviously, becoming a political police whose job it is to attack critics of British foreign policy.

This man, believed to be one of the Zionist counter-demonstrators, was photographed pointing out Palestinian protesters to arrest. This is the collusion Palestine solidarity activists face in London

At the weekly protest at Swiss Cottage the Police eagerly video the speeches Palestine solidarity supporters make for any hint of a pretext with which to arrest them. Arrests are made, despite the Police being fully aware that charges are highly unlikely to follow. It is another form of intimidation. That is one reason why I informed Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, in a complaint I made on 15 November, that I will be bringing proceedings against the Met for Wrongful Arrest and Unlawful Imprisonment. You can read my complaint letter here.

When it comes to the billions of pounds lost in COVID fraud the Met are remarkably disinterested in enforcing the law

I have also made it clear that I will continue to compare Israel’s behaviour in Gaza with that of the Nazis. The false IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which asserts that such a comparison is anti-Semitic  is not, by its own admission, legally binding. In the Opinion of Hugh Tomlinson KC:

‘It is perhaps worth pointing out that the fact that conduct is “contrary” to the IHRA Definition could not, of itself, render  that conduct “illegal” in any sense.’

The IHRA has been described by Geoffrey Robertson KC as ‘not fit for purpose’.

Sir Stephen Sedley, a former Court of Appeal judge and himself Jewish, went even further in an article in London Review of Books, ‘Defining Anti-Semitism’, when he wrote that the IHRA ‘fails the first test of any definition: it is indefinite.’ So what the hell are the Metropolitan Police doing implementing a definition that is not legally binding, which is not fit for purpose and isn’t even a definition.  Apart from pleasing their political masters?

I intend to go back to the demonstration at Swiss Cottage in the near future to explain why Israel’s behaviour is certainly comparable with the Nazis. In some respects it may even be worse. Even the Nazis didn’t single out hospitals and their medical staff for death and destruction. It is a little known fact that the Jewish hospital in Berlin survived unscathed throughout the war and was still in operation when Berlin was liberated. If I am arrested again, so be it.

The theft of Palestinian organs, from those Israel has murdered, is another example of their Nazi-like mentality

If my speech offends racist Zionists and genocide supporters that's also fine. No one is forcing them to listen. Perhaps they will even learn something. In Israel it is not unusual to make such comparisons. As Stephen Sedley ruled, in the landmark case on free speech, Redmond Bate v DPP,  

“free speech includes not only the inoffensive but also the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and provocative, provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having


For example the late Professor Ze’ev Sternhell, a child survivor of the Premszyl ghetto in Nazi occupied Poland wrote an article in Ha’aretz, that in Israel there was a ‘Growing Fascism and a Racism Akin to Early Nazism’. No doubt the idiot who approved my arrest would have had no compunction in arresting a holocaust survivor for making such a comparison!

Jewish kids dressed as Israeli soldiers in N15 area with fake guns walking past local mosque as children leave

The comparisons begin with Defence Minister Yoav Gallant when he began the genocide, when he described Palestinians as “human animals” – the very same phrase that Himmler used about the Jews on October 4, 1943, in a talk to SS generals. Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke about how “justified and moral” it would be to starve two million Palestinians, which is no different from the Nazi policy towards the Russians and Hans Frank’s implementation in Poland of ‘death by hunger’ against the Jewish ghettos.

We are facing a full square attack on basic democratic rights and freedom of speech by the police, backed by the State, Starmer and much of the judiciary. Erstwhile liberals such as Liberty are keeping quiet whilst anti-genocide activists are gaoled and harassed.

However those who stand silent are likely to find that the situation gets worse rather than better. So join the pickets of Hotoveli each Friday night and show that the Police and Starmer will not be allowed to introduce a police state by the back door.

Tony Greenstein 

12 November 2024

If you want to be a football hooligan you should be an Israeli football hooligan – then Israel will give you compensation if you get injured

 The press & the world’s leaders ignored the racist attacks of Tel Aviv Maccabi Fans & concentrated on the Justified Reaction to these Fascist Thugs

When Lies & Disinformation Become the Norm It Means That We Have Entered an Era of Permanent War – What happened in Amsterdam was not a Pogrom but Israeli thugs getting a taste of their own medicine

Israeli hooligans provoke clashes in Amsterdam after chanting anti-Palestinian slogans

Truth they say is the first casualty of war and this has been particularly evident in the coverage of the fight back by Dutch citizens when attacked by Israel’s racist football fans.

Once again ‘anti-Semitism’ has proven to be the false anti-racism of the right. It is the only ‘racism’ that they are concerned about. Ursula von der Leyen, the far-right German President of the European Commission couldn’t restrain herself. It was all about ‘anti-Semitism’. Nothing about attacks on Arabs or Dutch citizens.

What von der Liar was saying that any amount of anti-Arab racism and attacks on Arabs was ok, but if the victims should fight back then that would be ‘anti-Semitism’.

90 years ago this plastic von Pappen figure would have been complaining about the Jews of Germany. The idea that von der Liar would have stood out to oppose Nazi anti-Semitism is wishful thinking. The Nazis were put in power by the German conservative Deutsche National Volks Party of which Liar’s Christian Democrats are the heir.

Another pip squeak to put his oar in was Dutch Prime Minister, Dick Schoof, who decried “antisemitic attacks on Israeli citizens.”

Excellent short Owen Jones podcast

It is one of the talents of our rulers that they can spout any amount of verbiage without actually saying anything. Even Holland’s King, Willem-Alexander got into the act which proves that there is no fool like a Royal Fool.

history has taught us how intimidation goes from bad to worse, with horrific consequences. Jewish people must feel safe in the Netherlands

What history has taught us is that any group of people can become racists and genocidaires, Jewish people included. Racism is not a biological inheritance. 

This is the senile fool who said he'd seen photos of the heads of severed babies after October 7 until it was 'walked back' by the White House  - Biden is a genocidal liar

What Schoof and Willem-Alexander forget is that they represent the Dutch State which bent over backwards to collaborate with the Nazi occupation, unlike Denmark nearby. The Blue Police, the predecessors of today’s Dutch Police thugs, took an active part, alongside the Gestapo, in winkling out Jews in hiding. I really don’t think we need lessons from the heirs of Nazi collaborators.

Anne Frank was not a Zionist but unfortunately Zionists have colonised all the holocaust memorial organisation. Anne considered Zionists as freaks. All the so-called holocaust organisations have echoed to the same lies

Instead of pointing out that Israel’s fans got a dose of their own medicine Schoof wittered on about anti-Semitism. As did Starmer and Lammy.

It would be too much to expect Lammy, the Black face of imperialism to come out for once with an original thought

Sky News Deletes Video and Substituted a Lying One Instead

ISRAËLISCHE HOOLIGANS ZETTEN AMSTERDAM OP ZIJN KOP (ENG SUB) 

As Jonathan Cook wrote:

We know that an early report from the scene by Sky News’ reporter was one of the only to correctly describe the video as showing Israeli hooliganism, not antisemitism.

But Sky quickly took down that report, saying it wasn't "balanced". The channel then heavily re-edited the segment and issued a new version that presented the footage – now wrongly – as evidence of Dutch locals attacking Israeli fans.

That was crucial to shoring up the false “antisemitism” and “pogrom” narratives spread by western politicians and the establishment media.

Here's where it gets even more disturbing. The Dutch photographer interviewed by Jones says she was interviewed by Sky News about her footage before the second, re-edited report was aired.

In other words, not only was Sky's reporter correct in her first account of the events in Amsterdam, but Sky's news editors back in London knew exactly what the footage showed too – because the Dutch woman who filmed it had told them.

And yet Sky's news team still edited a correct news report to make it incorrect.

The only conclusion one can draw is that they did so to mislead their audience. They didn't make a mistake. They didn’t act out of ignorance. They knowingly aired disinformation. They intentionally peddled fake news.

In other words Sky News deliberately lied to its viewers.

Britain’s prostitute press, almost unanimously led with the ‘anti-Semitic’ attacks on Israel’s racist hooligans rather than what sparked the counter attacks.  Former Revolutionary Communist Party member, now Spiked ‘journalist’ and the Koch Brothers prostitute, Brendan O’Neill, informed us in The Telegraph that 'pogroms have returned to Europe, yet the ‘anti-racist’ Left are silent.' Presumably attacks on Moroccans and Arabs don’t count as pogroms because they are O’Neill’s untermenschen.

War criminal Blinken has prevented the State Department confirming Israeli war crimes - this man deserves the same penalty as the Nazi war criminals experienced at Nuremberg. Anti-Arab violence and genocide doesn't bother him 'antisemitism' does


The BBC, the Voice of the British Establishment, for which it acts as a well paid harlot, naturally only focussed on the well-deserved kicking that Israel’s fans got. But even their occasional reference to the Israeli fans violence was too much for the far-right Spectator.

Only the Daily Mail, in its first headline mentioned the violence of the Israeli football fans.  However it soon fell in with the rest of the pack.

The Guardian did likewise. In its article on more than 60 arrests, none of them football hooligans, there were just 2 out of 34 paragraphs that explained that the cause of the violence was the Israeli fans.

Dutch man being beaten up by Israeli football hooligans - but if u mention it you are anti-Semitic

 

A social media video verified by Reuters showed Maccabi fans setting off flares and chanting “Olé, olé, let the IDF win, we will fuck the Arabs”, referring to the Israel Defense Forces. The police chief said a large crowd of Maccabi supporters had then gathered on Dam Square on Thursday lunchtime and there had been “fights on both sides”...

One Amsterdam resident, Barbara Weenink, said she had found the behaviour of Israeli fans threatening. Weenink, who has demonstrated at pro-Palestine events, said she was warned not to go out with a keffiyeh on that evening. She did not see the events after the match but had seen Israeli football fans before it. “I saw the Israeli fans walking here before the match – I found it very threatening,” she said.

16 year old Dutch Boy’s Fearless Reporting Puts the World Press to Shame

Dutch Police Chief statement about some of the violent Israeli football fascists

The only Jewish paper to have a more balanced coverage of what happened in Amsterdam was The Forward, America’s oldest Jewish paper and formally a Bundist paper. It’s article talked about the ‘weaponisation’ of Dutch Jews’ fear and how ‘Many in the country’s small Jewish community say the incident was stripped of context’.

Jelle Zijlstra, who is Jewish and works as a community organizer in Amsterdam, made a post that went viral on Instagram stating that “multiple truths can exist at the same time.” It highlighted both the assaults on Israelis and footage of the fans shouting “F— Palestine” the night before.

“There was definitely antisemitism involved in some of the events that took place,” Zijlstra said in an interview. “Were Jews attacked in the streets? Yes, but those Jews were also violent hooligans.”

https://youtu.be/_LsYMpuYh3s

Israeli football thugs tearing down a Palestinian flag in Amsterdam

The Forward observed that:

some Dutch Jews noted that roving bands of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans had spent Tuesday and Wednesday nights marauding through the city center chanting racist anti-Arab slogans, climbing a facade to rip a Palestinian flag off the second story of an apartment building and assaulting a Moroccan taxi driver.

Forward’s article at least made an attempt to speak to those on the ground even if it didn’t interview any of the Arab attackers. It wrote

Ami Shuman, a photographer for the right-wing Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom, said he was trapped with his son while trying to escape the violence Thursday night, and that they eventually had to be escorted back to their hotel by the police.

“We saw violence, we saw people with black eyes, deep cuts under their eyes, we saw someone accidentally hit by a police officer, and a woman crying,” Shuman told The Times of Israel. “They came in masses, running through the alleys.”

Forced to answer for Israel

Waterman, who also works as a strategic adviser to a local nonprofit called Jewish Social Work, spent Friday helping Israeli fans who volunteers had ferried to a safe location provided by a Jewish sports club in Amsterdam.

He noted that the violence appeared to have been targeted only at the Israeli visitors, and not Dutch Jews or Jewish institutions. But Waterman said many in the community were nonetheless shaken, especially after a year in which they have faced a spike in antisemitic and anti-Israel activity in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel and the start of the war in Gaza.

Waterman said many Dutch Jews are treated like representatives of Israel, a special burden in a country of only 30,000 Jews. “You might be the only Jewish kid in your school and kids say, ‘Hey, what are you people doing in Israel? Why are you killing kids?’” he explained. “It can force you to defend things you don’t necessarily agree with.”

Local Amsterdam residents tell how they were assaulted and menaced

Israeli football thugs shouting 'we will rape your girls' - if u oppose this it makes u antisemitic

The answer is quite simple. Jewish bodies should dissociate themselves from Israel’s genocide and say that Zionists don’t speak in our name. It’s quite simple. When Jews defend Israel’s genocide, in the name of Jews, they can’t complain if there is a counter-reaction.

The article also mentioned

Antisemitic chants are also common at Dutch soccer stadiums. “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas,” used to be a popular cheer for fans of teams playing Ajax, because of its association with Jews. It has fallen out of favor in recent years, but other derogatory songs have taken its place.

“I’ll speak to fans who assure me that they are not antisemitic, they’re just doing it because of Ajax, but there’s definitely some other factors,” said Boaz Krone, a social worker in Amsterdam.

If there are anti-Semitic chants they should be condemned but they are not dissimilar to similar chants at Tottenham. But because Israel claims that it represents all world Jews it is incumbent upon Jews to dissociate themselves from the horror that Israel represents. If they don’t they can’t complain. You can’t have your cake and eat it.

Meanwhile, far-right Dutch politicians, who took control of the government in July, have positioned themselves as protectors of Holland’s Jews by seizing on antisemitism from Arab and Muslim residents of the country.

A mob of Israeli thugs (fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv) attack a Palestinian in ATHENS, GREECE!


84 years ago when the Nazis occupied The Netherlands, the NSB, the Dutch National Socialist Organisation, began attacks on the Jews. It was the working class in Amsterdam who repelled them and then went on General Strike. I have no doubt that if Wilders had been alive at the time, he would have been a prominent Dutch national socialist.

Ofer Casif, the only Jewish member of the Knesset who isn't a Zionist has been suspended for 6 months for opposing Israel's genocidal racism - this is Israeli democracy in action

But our lazy, lying press could not even be bothered to interview Dutch Jews about what they thought of the matter. They were content to take their cue from the stuffed dummy Starmer and his Black parrot Lammy, whose only concern is to keep in step with Senile Biden.

The Israeli fans were attacked, not because they were Jewish but because they were Israeli thugs. A small point but one lost of the mass media. If this had been an anti-Semitic attack then it’s strange that Amsterdam’s 14,000 Jews haven’t received similar treatment.

Maccabi fans thought they could behave in the same way as they do at home where racist chants and thuggery are dealt with by a Zionist police force that only ever arrests Palestinians. Hopefully they learnt a valuable lesson and will keep their bigotry to themselves next time they have an overseas outing.

But what does the coverage by the Lying Press tell us about their coverage overall?  This wasn’t a one-off mistake but a continuation of  their refusal to cover a year long genocide in Gaza.  Or when they do cover it they frame it as Hitler’s sorry Israel’s ‘right to self-defence.’

Imagine Vladimir Putin had declared that the Ukrainian resistance was ensconced in hospitals and proceeded to bomb them. It doesn’t take much imagination to forecast their outraged reaction.

The 'Green' Foreign Minister of Germany, Anna Baerbock, shows that she's no different from the other bourgeois  parties in her anti-Arab racism and support for Zionist genocide

Imagine that Putin declared half of Ukraine a free-fire zone like the North of Gaza and refused the entry of food, fuel and water we would rightly compare him to the Nazis. After all it was Hans Frank, the Governor-General of the General Gouvernment, Poland, who declared a policy of ‘death by hunger’.

Yet if you even dare mention a comparison between the Nazis and Israel you will, like me a month ago, be arrested for a ‘racially aggravated offence’.  You see Israel and Zionists are a race according to the thick, racist coppers of the Metropolitan Police.

If von der Leyen had been alive 90 years ago she would have been the first to justify Hitler’s actions. The German State has always loved holocausts – from that in Namibia, Ost Afrika and Armenia to the Nazi holocaust and now Israel’s holocaust. Indeed it is hard to think of a holocaust that the German state hasn’t smiled upon.

The fact that those who claim to inherit the memory of the holocaust victims are perpetrating a holocaust themselves normalises and trivialises what happened during the Final Solution. See my article in Al Jazeera ‘Why is Germany supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza?’

The Zionists, who did their best to obstruct the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust understand full well the motives of Olaf Scholz and von der Leyen. When Israelis chant, as the Maccabi fans did ‘death to the Arabs’ or ‘there is no school in Gaza because there are no children’ they demonstrate that the majority of Israelis can now be called Judeo-Nazis. ‘Death to the Jews’ was the favourite chant of German and Polish anti-Semites in the 1930s. The fact that the Dutch Police, acting in the best traditions of the Blue police, failed to arrest any Tel Aviv Maccabee fans testifies to their racism.

See Sana Saeed’s No, there were no ‘antisemitic pogroms’ in Amsterdam. Here’s what really happened.

Olé, olé!

Olé, olé, olé!

Let the IDF win and fuck the Arabs!

Olé, olé!

Olé, olé, olé!

Why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there!”

These are the sentiments that Starmer, Lammy Biden and all the ratpack who ‘lead us’ are happy to ignore. Only racism against Jews counts these days. Why? Because Jews are the moral alibi, the tame colonial pets, for the West’s military adventures in the Middle East. Unfortunately most Jews are too stupid to understand this.

As Mouin Rabbani noted

Not only do the Israeli club’s supporters have a reputation for genocidal racism (their motto is “Death to the Arabs”, supplemented with the chant, “May Your Village Burn”), but many of those who traveled to Amsterdam have during the past year served in the Israeli military’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

But then ministers in the Israeli government, such as Ben Gvir and Smotrich, have demonstrated with and chanted ‘death to the Arabs’ themselves. Ben Gvir had a poster on his wall of Baruch Goldstein, who opened fire in the Ibrahimi Mosque killing 29 worshippers. This is the kind of racist slime that makes up Israel’s government.

Britain’s media, unlike Al Jazeera, has wilfully ignored the destruction of hospitals and schools, the murder of children, the bombing of tent encampments and all the other genocidal acts of Israel because they are propagandists for the imperialist axis of the USA, Britain and Germany. Never have our rulers stood so naked.

Our task is to build the Palestine solidarity movement but also to make clear what we stand for. We must say explicitly that Israel, like South Africa under Apartheid, is a failed state that cannot be reformed. It has to go. Unfortunately the past year of genocide has taught Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign absolutely nothing.

The forthcoming AGM in 2025 has a plan and ‘strategy’ document, if one can call it that, which simply repeats past failures. New thinking is not and will not be PSC’s forte as long as it remains in the hands of a tiny political clique.

What is clear, though not to Ben Jamal or PSC, is that the British state fully supports Israel come hell or high water. No amount of polite lobbying is going to change that.

Putting people like Starmer, (a human representation of the police state) and Lisa Nandy on your platform doesn’t advance the cause one iota. The minimum PSC can do is to adopt an anti-Zionist stance and jettison the 2 state solution as an illusion that acts as a smokescreen for continued Israeli colonisation and ethnic cleansing.

When Britain’s media do focus on Gaza they always take care to put it in the context of the October 7 break out from the world’s largest prison. The lives of Israelis are worth more than a hundred if not a thousand Palestinian lives. This is precisely what Ben Gvir’s spiritual mentor, Rabbi Dov Lior, Chair of the Settlement Rabbis, said.

A Jewish fingernail is worth a thousand non-Jewish lives

 If there is one takeaway from Gaza it is that Zionism and the Israeli state have a limited shelf life. Its main supporters are far-right politicians or neo-Nazis – Viktor Orban, Trump, Geert Wilders, Tommy Robinson, Richard Spencer. After all if you are a neo-Nazi what is there not to like about the Israeli ethno-religious state?

But all is not doom and gloom. Spare a thought for your average Tel Aviv Maccabi hooligan. Having been bested by those ‘dirty’ Arabs and terrorised for once, they are at least eligible, as victims of a ‘hostile action’ to compensation from Israel’s National Insurance.

'Victims' of 'anti-Semitism' arrive back in Israel 

Compensation for injured racist thugs

But dear readers please don’t fret or worry for Israel’s beat up hooligans.  Israel's National Insurance will ensure that they get ‘mental assistance for the victims of violent actions perpetrated in against Israelis in Holland.’ Eat your heart out you anti-Semites!  Only in Israel could it pay to be a racist football thug. 

Tony Greenstein