More False Allegations of Anti-Semitism - their purpose is to shore up position of Progress MP Peter Kyle

Death Threats Sent to Labour's Rebecca Massey because of vile accusations by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism

According to the CAA, anyone who opposes Zionism and supports the Palestinians is anti-Semitic

The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism's scurrilous post that has led to death threats against Becky 

This scumbag is the person behind much of the CAA output - let him know how u feel

Apparently it is anti-Semitic to say what Ehud Olmert, Israel's last Prime Minister said viz. Israel controls the US and British foreign policy

Hove's far-right Progress MP Peter Kyle - his career is what these allegations are really about

2 weeks ago Becky Matthews, an activist in Brighton and Hove Momentum, an anti-Zionist and supporter of the Palestinians as well as being a long-standing anti-racist campaigner, was elected by 3 votes as Chair of the Hove Central and Brunswick and Adelaide ward.  This is the ward of Hove’s Progress MP Peter Kyle.  Panic set in amongst his supporters.

On Friday the right-wing Zionist charity, the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism printed a scurrilous article on their web site, Just another day for racist Labour as antisemitic tweets of Party’s Chair in Hove, Brunswick and Adelaide revealed.  The basis of this allegation of anti-Semitism were two tweets. 

The CAA insist that the Israel lobby is a 'misnomer' - 'she means a 'Jewish lobby' in other words Israel/Zionist=Jew.  Strangely the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee describes itself as 'America's bipartisan pro-Israel lobby' - strange that!!

Cllr. Caroline 'Poison' Penn - her only talent is a willingness to stab fellow Labour members in the back

Fascist Fitch - Cllr Caroline 'Poison' Penn's housemate

One was a well researched article by Asa Winstanley on the Electronic Intifada web site How Israel lobby manufactured UK Labour Party’s anti-Semitism crisis.  As the title says, it shows how the allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party after Jeremy Corbyn was elected Leader were manufactured by the Zionist lobby and its allies, including as we now know from the Al Jazeera programmes, The Lobby, the Israeli Embassy.  The article shows for example how early allegations against Vicky Kirby, who had allegedly tweeted about Jews having ‘big noses’ were entirely false.  She was in fact tweeting the script from a satirical play, Infidels, which was written by a Jewish playwright, David Badiel.  Guido Fawkes, the Tory blogger, had photoshopped her tweets and this was picked up by the mainstream media and other assorted liars.

Greg Hadfield, himself suspended on bogus charges, announces Becky's triumph which sent the libellers and defamers wild with fear

The other heinous offence of Becky was to tweet a comment to an article Corbyn's Victory Could Make Israel a Partisan Issue in British Politics in Israel’s Ha’aretz by Anshel Pfeffer, of September 12^th 2015, was ‘an interesting insight into how Israel has Tory and Labour parties under control’.  This isn’t a conclusion I would draw from reading the article which was more of a potted history of how Labour and the Tory party, up to the expected victory of Corbyn in the Labour leadership elections had been pro-Israel/Zionist.  Nonetheless it was a valid interpretation to make.  There is nothing whatsoever anti-Semitic about either of her tweets.

Caplin was busy tweeting his normal racist rubbish

War criminal and Junior Defence Minister at the time of Iraq War - Ivor Caplin

Israeli politicians themselves and their well-funded lobbies like AIPAC claim that they can control American foreign policy.  Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made exactly this claim when he said that he had forced Condoleeza Rice, the Secretary of State, to abstain in a UN vote.  Olmert Says He Made Rice Change Vote  Netanyahu made a very good attempt to exert control of US foreign policy last year when he flew to the US to address Congress as to why it shouldn’t endorse Obama’s Iran agreement. 

unpopular in Brighton & Hove - Crask is always willing to accuse others of his own sins

I consider Becky Matthews a good and close friend.  I have stood with her on anti-fascist and anti-racist demonstrations, I can  honestly say she hasn’t got a racist bone in her body.  Her detractors are people who wouldn’t be seen dead on a refugee demonstration or in opposition to the English Defence League.  It is those who make vile accusations of racism against sincere anti-racists who should hang their heads in shame.  First and foremost the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism which was formed at the height of Israel’s murderous war on Gaza when over 500 Palestinian children were murdered by Israel’s intense bombardment of the defenceless Palestinian population in the summer of 2014.  It has unbelievably been registered as a charity.  It is a Zionist political propaganda group, consisting of 3 people, who put out a volley of abuse against mainly labour and left-wing supporters of the Palestinians alleging anti-Semitism.  There is nothing charitable about it and it offers no public benefit, which is the test of a charity.

There is no doubt that the digging up of an 18 month old tweet served one purpose and one purpose alone.  It was to shore up the increasingly shaky position of Labour’s far-right Hove MP Peter Kyle.  A man who supported the bombing of Syria, who supported Blair’s war in Iraq and who opposed Caroline Lucas’s Reinstatement of the NHS Bill last year because he is in favour of the involvement of the private sector in the NHS.  I can remember, when hearing about his victory in Hove in 2015 over the Tory candidate by 700 votes remarking that the most right-wing candidate had won!

Apparently it is 'anti-Semitic' to accuse Chuku Umunna of  conflating Zionism and being Jewish!  the absurd Alice in the Wonderland position of the CAA - anything we disagree with is anti-Semitic

Suffice to say his supporters have been tweeting and retweeting the CAA’s libellous accusations.  Why?  Because the AGM of the newly established Hove Labour Party was due to be held tomorrow.  Kyle feared that his supporters would lose control over Hove Labour Party and that the continuation of his career as a Labour/Tory MP might be in jeopardy.

Cllr. Cattell  known for being a few sandwiches short of a picnic

Cllr. Julie Cattell combines a viperous tongue and stupidity in equal measure

Amongst the retweeters were former junior Defence Secretary at the time of the Iraq War and war criminal Ivor Caplin @ivorcaplin (reputedly an ex-partner of Kyle) and Progress Councillors Julie Cattell @cooljool80 and Caroline ‘Poison’ Penn @thepennydrops and @CllrCaroline.  Poison Penn despite her opposition to anti-Semitism allowed BNP supporter Fascist Fitch to use her address for Labour Party registration purposes.   See Revealed: The anti-Corbyn “moderate” in Brighton and Hove who stands accused of the hate-crime against Seema Chandwani

Another of the mockers and defamers was Edward Crask @edwardcrask, who stood for Treasurer of Brighton District Labour Party last July and lost only to have the election result annulled.  Never a popular figure he stood as delegate to Hove General Committee coming 31^st in the elections for 30 places!  Nonetheless the Zionist Jewish Labour Movement found him a place. 

Ralli Hall objects to 'anti-Semitic' supporters of the Palestinians but has no problems with advocates of rape

The Hove AGM was cancelled because the Jewish communal centre, Ralli Hall, where the meeting was supposed to take place, unilaterally terminated the booking.  This is the same Ralli Hall which staged a meeting 18 months ago featuring Professor Mordechai Kedar of Israel’s religious University Bar Ilan.  Kedar is a retired colonel in the Israeli army.  See The Zionist Federation and Sussex Friends of Israel Invite an Advocate of Rape to Speak

The CAA particularly didn't like Becky's defence of Ken Livingstone

Kedar is famous for his advocacy of rape against Palestinian women as a weapon of war.  Israel’s Ha'aretz newspaper in an article Israeli Professor's 'Rape as Terror Deterrent' Statement Draws Ire quoted him as saying that:  ‘'The only thing that deters a suicide bomber is the knowledge that if he pulls the trigger or blows himself up, his sister will be raped'. (22.7.14.). 

Palestine Solidarity Campaign picketed the meeting.  Many Jewish venues, including schools and synagogues, such as Finchley, cancelled their meetings when Kedar’s comments became known.  Even the Board of Deputies of British Jews dissociated themselves from Kedar but not Ralli Hall, which was quite happy for the rally to go ahead.  Their cancellation of the Hove AGM smacks of utter hypocrisy and Labour should never use this venue again.

As a consequence of the activities of Kyle’s supporters, Becky Matthews has received death threats and has referred these to the Police, as well as making a complaint to the Charity Commission about the scurrilous article on the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism website.