On Monday the CAA Will Attempt to Have My Libel Action Thrown Out – Their Defence? That Their Accusations are ‘Honest Opinions’!
One
of the most remarkable things about the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign against Corbyn
and the Left is that it has been evidence free. All the main targets – Jackie
Walker, Marc Wadsworth, Chris Williamson, Ken Livingstone and myself, were
suspended and then expelled – not for anti-Semitism but for catch-all charges
such as bringing the Party into disrepute.
The most vicious Zionist organisation behind this campaign was the misnamed Campaign
Against Anti-Semitism. The CAA was formed in the summer of 2014 during
the height of Operation Protective Edge. Its mission was to target opponents of
Israel’s genocidal attacks, which killed
2,200 civilians including 551 children, as ‘anti-Semitic’.
The
CAA was one of the 2 complainants to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
The other organisation, the Jewish Labour Movement, ‘the
sister party’ of the racist Israeli Labor Party was also reinvented
in 2015.
On
6th February 2017 I made a formal complaint
to the Charity Commission about the Campaign
Against Anti-Semitism complaining that it was a political organisation
masquerading as a charity. On 10th February I followed this up with
a more
substantial complaint. I also put a petition
up on Change.org asking people to support my call for the CAA to be
deregistered by the CC.
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| The CAA claimed in its plea to Change.org that its purpose was to promote racial harmony! At least they have a sense of humour |
Almost
immediately, the CAA had made a panic stricken formal
complaint to Change.org, saying that
‘We do not libel
opponents of Israel, we factually report the activities of antisemites.
Claiming otherwise is severely damaging to our reputation.
The
CAA probably forgot they were no longer in Israel. But since every opponent of
Zionism or Israeli Apartheid is by the CAA’s definition an anti-Semite, the two
amount to the same.
Change.org.
emailed
me on 9th February 2017 giving me 4 days notice to respond,
otherwise they would take the petition down. I spent a very long night writing
a 5,000
word response! 8 days later Change.org informed me that they had rejected
the CAA’s complaint.
Please be
assured that we
will not remove
your petition unless we are legally compelled to do so.
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| Change.org's robust defence of freedom of speech is what British universities should do when these McCarthyists approach them - the CAA shut up and its legal threats vanished |
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| Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs is setting up groups like the CAA in the USA and Europe with a $50m budget |
Nothing
further was heard from the CAA. Their legal threats had been a bluff. The last
thing they wanted was for their lies to be tested in court. The behaviour of change.org
stands in marked contrast to 38 degrees who took down a petition
criticising the BBC’s Laura ‘Tory’ Kuensberg, which is why I’ll have nothing to
do with 38 degrees.
I
did a blog
on what happened. To date the petition
has gathered more than 8,200 signatures (You can still sign!).
Nothing
illustrates better the fake and confected nature of what has been called the anti-Semitism
‘disinformation paradigm’ than
the activities of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism. Despite calling anyone
who is a critic of Israel an ‘anti-Semite’ the CAA turns a blind eye to
anti-Semitism when it comes from the far-Right.
On one condition. That these anti-Semites
also support Israel.
Hence why there are over
700 posts on the CAA’s website condemning Jeremy Corbyn and not one with anything to say about
Tommy Robinson. Robinson came from the holocaust denying British National Party
[BNP]. Today Robinson keeps company with the same
Polish neo-Nazis that the CAA purports to oppose. Robinson however is also an ardent
Zionist. As was the case with the Nazis, Zionism is more than happy to do
business with anti-Semites just as long as they support their project to remove
Jews from the diaspora.
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| It's no surprise that the CAA's go to paper is the Daily Mail which campaigned against the admission of Jewish refugees from the Nazis in the 1930's |
The Revenge of the Campaign Against
Anti-Semitism
The CAA’s revenge was not long in coming. On 26th February 2017
the first of 5 articles appeared with the snappy title ‘TONY GREENSTEIN’S ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN
CAMPAIGN AGAINST ANTISEMITISM SHOWCASES THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN FAR-LEFT AND
FAR-RIGHT”.
It accused me of being a ‘notorious anti-Semite’.
The CAA love capital letters, probably because they believe shouting
works best. It is one more thing that they have in common with Trump. In an
attempt to discredit a letter that I and 61 others had published in the
Guardian (before the letters page was Freedlandised) they referred to 30+ year
old minor convictions of mine.
The CAA expressed how ‘extremely
grateful they were to 3 Tory MPs and
one Tory Peer including the notorious Islamaphobes Bob Blackman MP and Lady
Deech, ‘all of whom rushed to defend our work’. The Daily Mail,
a paper campaigned against the admission of Jewish
refugees from Hitler published a supportive
article.
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| When I brought out a book on Fighting Fascism in Brighton it was picketed by the Zionists friends in the EDL, complete with Israeli flag! Presumably they didn't realise that I was an anti-Semite! |
Why
I Initiated a Libel Action
On 13th February 2018, just before the one year limitation
period was due to run out, I began legal proceedings for defamation. At the same
time I launched a crowd funding appeal to pay for it, first with Justgiving and
then Go
Fund Me. I found the latter deducts less! Without the generosity of
hundreds of people who were outraged at the behaviour of the CAA my action
would have been short-lived. I am extremely grateful for the sacrifices people
have made to fund this action. For tactical reasons I can’t yet divulge just
how much I have received but I have spent just over £26,000 on legal advice and
representation over the past 2½ years. Compare this with the CAA’s costs of
£44,000 for this one hearing alone. Their total costs are over £100,000.
After having obtained initial advice from barrister Jonathan Price from
Doughty Street Chambers on a pro bono basis I went on to instruct Jonathan to
prepare the Claim Form and Particulars of Claim.
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| Secretive funding of dirty tricks groups like the CAA is standard practice for Israel's MSA |
There then followed a Defence from the CAA and I then responded with a
Reply. The first major hearing was on 14th February 2019, a year
after the claim was first initiated. I now instructed David Mitchell of Ely
Chambers, now 39 Essex Chambers. Its purpose was to decide on meaning, except
that Judge Nicklin, a conservative judge, didn’t rule on what anti-Semitism
meant!
However his decision was adverse.
Under the Defamation
Act 2013 there are two main defences.
One is section 2, The Truth, under which it is a defence if the
Defendant is able to ‘show that the
imputation conveyed by the statement complained of is substantially true.’
You might have thought the Zionists would have grasped the opportunity to
defend the case on the grounds that it was substantially true. Not a bit of it.
Instead they preferred Section 3 ‘Honest Opinion’ under which a Defendant
is not guilty of libeling someone if the allegation that was made is shown to
be their honest opinion even if isn’t true!
In other words the choice is between fact and opinion. Quite bizzarely
Nicklin decided that if you call someone an anti-Semite then that is a matter
of opinion. Nicklin is a good example of the blinkered judge. If you are a food
critic and go to a restaurant and your review says that the food was lousy then
that is clearly a matter of opinion. If you call someone a racist or
anti-Semite then that is a factual matter. However Nicklin decided otherwise.
The parties then had to go through the whole process again, submitting an
amended claim and particulars, defence and reply.
After the Defence badgered me with Part 18 and 31 Requests for documents
and information, they decided in April that they would go for summary judgement
under Part 24,
of the Civil Procedure Rules which state that judgment should be given if the ‘claimant has no real prospect of succeeding
on the claim or issue’. That is what the hearing this Monday 26th October at the Royal Courts of Justice is
about. It starts at 11.15 a.m. I don’t
know if people will be admitted to the court because of COVID-19 or have a
separate room. However the make or break hearing is at last here, two and a
half years later.
Why the Campaign
Against Anti-Semitism and Honest Opinion are Strangers
The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism alleged in their Amended Defence that
I was, in their ‘honest opinion’ an anti-Semite because:
i.
I lied, with 61 other
people, when the Guardian printed a letter
alleging that the IHRA misdefinition of anti-Semitism prevents criticism of
Israel. The only problem is we didn’t say that! What we did say was that the
IHRA is ‘designed to silence public debate on
Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians.’
ii.
I lied when I told the
Charity Commission ‘that the CAA was a rightwing
political Zionist organisation that is not concerned with fascist groups who
were anti-Semitic Holocaust deniers.’ In fact I didn’t say that either (see below). But what’s one lie
amongst so many?
iii.
Almost all
my tweets are about Jews and Israel which are ‘unremittingly hostile towards, and abusive about, Jews, Israel and
supporters of Israel. None of them ever say anything positive about Israel or
Jews.’ The lies are tiresome. None of my articles are hostile or negative
towards Jews. I am also extremely supportive of Israelis who refuse to serve in
the Occupied Territories or who have the courage and integrity to oppose
Israel’s many war crimes. The problem is that there are so few!
iv.
My blog is
‘unremittingly
and aggressively antagonistic towards, the world’s only Jewish state and its
supporters, and who gladly throws around anti-Semitic tropes such as
comparisons between ‘Zionists’ and the Nazis. He regularly uses the word ‘Zio.’
The CAA, like all good
racists, is pathologically incapable of distinguishing between Jews and
Zionists. Yes Israel is the only Jewish state. Nazi Germany was the only Aryan
state and South Africa the only White Christian state. The question is what
kind of state Israel is not what flag it flies under.
v.
There is a
whole lot of trivia concerning my tweets which it would be tedious to go
through, so I shall just take a few examples: The CAA inanely claims that a
forged tweet from a member of Nazi Germany Labour Against Anti-Semitism, Emma
Picken was mine : It read:
‘did you treat a few Jew boys as well? Try to curb
your Zionist racism – although settlers are Hitler’s children.’
This is such a pathetic
forgery, an indication what fevered Zionist minds imagine we think that its
barely worth commenting on. However the CAA alleged that
‘The Claimant has falsely and dishonestly claimed that this tweet was a
forgery.’. Quite why it’s dishonest to
deny a forgery the CAA never explain.
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| The CAA has nothing to say about Zionist antisemitism |
‘Jew
boy’ is a virulently anti-Semitic term. Out of all the millions of words I
have written in the past 3 decades I defy anyone to produce a single example
where I have used this term. Whereas ‘Jew
boy’ is a favourite term of abuse by Zionists. Aviv Bushinsky, a former advisor
to Netanyahu, called
the US Ambassador Dan Shapiro ‘a little
Jew boy’ when he issued some mild criticisms of Israel. The CAA weren’t
interested.
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| The CAA consistently 'forget' that Raed Salah's deportation was overturned in the British courts - perhaps they think they are in Israel where people are detained without trial for years |
vi.
The CAA accused
me of anti-Semitism for supporting Raed Salah, a Palestinian Israeli cleric. It
was claimed Salah ‘has been excluded from
the United Kingdom by the government over concerns about his virulent
anti-Semitism.’ What the CAA ‘forgot’ to mention was that the Upper
Immigration Tribunal had overturned Raed Salah’s deportation
because it was based on a lie, a deliberate mistranslation of a poem of Salahs.
But why allow a lie to be disturbed by the truth?
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| The CAA had nothing to say about Zionist antisemitism such as Netanyahu's son Yair classic anti-Semitic cartoon above attacking George Soros |
vii.
The CAA
alleged that my statement ‘(a) Belief that Jews were responsible for the
Holocaust is common to orthodox Jews’ was anti-Semitic. ‘As the
Claimant well knows, virtually no Jews, orthodox or otherwise, consider that
Jews are responsible for the Holocaust.’ Presumably the late Ovadia Yosef,
Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel statement
that the holocaust was a punishment for past Jewish sins never happened. It is
true his statement was widely condemned but amongst the orthodox it is widely
accepted. Why? Because if you are religious
you believe god is responsible for everything.
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| Gideon Falter accuses me of anti-Semitism for revealing to non-Jews that most Orthodox Jews hold that the Holocaust was God's punishment for past sins |
Daniel Lasker of Ben Gurion
University wrote, in Reflection: The Holocaust as
Retributive Justice’ that
In the 50 years since the end of the holocaust,
theologians of every persuasion have tried to make sense of that terrible
event. One explanation, popular especially among the right-wing of Judaism
(known as Haredim in Hebrew or ‘Ultra
Orthodox’ in English) contends that the Holocaust was visited on the Jewish
people as a punishment for their sins. While there is no unanimity as to what
the sin was, there is general agreement that ultimately God was the author of
the Holocaust, just as He is the author of all history.’ It can be found in a Special
Edition of Shofar Vol. 15, No. 3.
I won’t accuse Gideon Falter
[GF], Chair of the CAA, of lying. Like most Zionist zealots he knows little or
nothing of Jewish or even Zionist history let alone religious debates.
viii.
I was held
to be anti-Semitic for saying that
when they came to Israel
thousands of Yemeni and other Jews had their babies stolen from them in
hospitals.’
The CAA stated that this
allegation ‘has been demonstrated to be
untrue by 3 independent inquiries in 1967, 1988 and 2001.’ Here you see that
the CAA is not only racist towards Palestinians but towards Arab Jews in Israel
too.
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| According to the CAA all mention of the scandal of the theft of Yemenite babies for adoption by White Ashkenazis is 'antisemitic' |
In the CAA’s
‘honest opinion’ there must be a hell of a lot of anti-Semites around,
including even at the BBC. There were 3 inquiries in
Israel and all of them were whitewashes. It is an ongoing scandal in Israel. [FT, 13.10.16. What
happened to the lost Yemenite children of Israel? Presumably YNet , an Israeli online version
of the daily Yediot Aharnot and The
Times of
Israel are also anti-Semitic for
reporting the same allegations. As the
Guardian reported in January 2018:
Families and activists believe that
several thousand children, mostly from poor Yemeni Jewish communities, were
systematically abducted by childless Jewish families of east European descent.
Other Arab and Balkan Jews have also claimed infants were taken after they
arrived in Israel.
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| Despite being an 'anti-Semite' I was targeted by neo-Nazis (perhaps they didn't realise that I was a closet sympathiser) |
ix.
I am alleged
to be anti-Semitic for supporting Ken Livingstone’s comment that Hitler
supported Zionism. Presumably Zionist historian David Cesarani was also an
anti-Semite when he wrote in his book Final Solution (p.96) that
‘The efforts of the Gestapo are oriented to promoting
Zionism as much as possible and lending support to its efforts to promote
emigration.’
x.
In Para.
9.7. the CAA lies when it claims that I allege that ‘Jews or Zionists were responsible not only for anti-semitism but for
the Holocaust.’ I claim neither and of course having made a vague
unsubstantiated allegation the CAA provides no proof.
xi.
In para. 9.8
the CAA claims that my blog
‘is
unremittingly hostile towards Jews, Israel and supporters of Israel and is
aggressive and offensive in its tone and language. Almost all the posts are on
the subject of Israel. None of them ever say anything positive about Israel or
Jews.
This is what
their ‘honest opinion’ defence amounts to. And the crème de la crème? I am
accused of anti-Semitism because:
‘The Claimant attacks Jewish
MPs as ‘the MP[s] for Tel Aviv’ including Louise Ellman and Luciana
Berger. An honest person could have held the opinion that the Claimant was
anti-Semitic from the fact that he accuses Jewish MPs of serving Israel rather
than their own constituencies.
I also alleged
that Joan Ryan, the non-Jewish Chair of Labour Friends of Israel was the MP for
Jerusalem Central. During the years of South Africa Apartheid the MP for Luton
North John Carlisle was called
the MP for Bloemfontein West.
My allegations have nothing to
do with the MP’s religion but their political affiliations.
I won’t bore
you with the rest but I shall make it available at a later date in order that you
have a lesson in lies, deception and evasion.
My Defence
I produced a lengthy witness statement which I shall only precis.
1.
GF alleged
in his witness statement ‘Mr Greenstein
is seeking to shut down the CAA’. Although I would not shed tears at the
CAA’s demise I have never sought to shut them down. I merely wish to give it
the same rights as any other political organisation, including the opportunity
to pay its taxes. It is fraudulent to hide behind a charity’s tax shield when
you are a political group.
2.
Joe Glasman,
D’s Head of Political Investigations made a video boasting: ‘The Beast is Slain’
‘Corbyn has been slaughtered.’ The nice Mr Glasman also tweeted at
Sadiq Khan ‘why you nominated an odious antisemite to be leader of the Labour
Party’.
3.
The CAA consistently
ignores right-wing anti-Semitism. Its only genuine concern is that from the
anti-Zionist left. It ignored Boris Johnson’s anti-Semitic comments about
Russian Jewish media moguls in his novel ’72 Virgins’.
GF said nothing
about Joe Glasman, Sadiq Khan Jacob
Rees-Mogg’s retweet of Alice Weidel, the Leader of Germany’s far-Right AfD.
AfD’s former leader Frauke Petry’s call for refugee boats to be sunk led to its
expulsion from the European Conservative & Reform Group in the European
Parliament. The AfD also marched
alongside neo-Nazis last year, leading to some of its members being put under
formal state surveillance. There is just one mention of Mogg on the CAA’s web
site and that is in an article attacking Ken
Livingstone! The AfD is a party full of
holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis but it also ardently pro-Israel.
GF failed to
comment on what Professor Michael Berkowitz, described as ‘an expressly antisemitic sentiment’, again by Mogg, who described 2
Jewish Tories, Oliver Letwin and John Bercow as
“Illuminati who are taking the
powers to themselves.” The Illuminati are at the centre of many
anti-Semitic theories. The CAA is silent concerning Tory anti-Semitism.
When Tory MEP’s
voted to support Viktor Orban, the far-Right anti-Semitic Prime Minister of
Hungary, who has waged a campaign against George Soros and praised Admiral Horthy, the pro-Nazi
war-time leader of Hungary as an ‘exceptional
statesman’ the CAA issued a mild
reprimand:
‘Conservative Party
allegedly seeks to cover up its MEPs’ Attempt to Thwart Censure of Hungarian
Government...’
Contrast this
with the Guardian’s
‘Tory MEPs voted to protect Orban the
authoritarian. This is a stain on Britain.’
4.
GF alleged that my
decision to join a counter-demonstration, organised by Jewish Voice for Labour
[JVL], to a rally organised by the Board of Deputies [BOD] on March 18th
2018 was motivated by anti-Semitism. GF is therefore saying that JVL, a 1,000
strong Jewish organisation, is also anti-Semitic and effectively defining all
anti-Zionist Jews as anti-Semitic. Which is what one would expect of an Israeli
government organisation.
The Board of
Deputies demonstration was called in support of the contention that the Labour
Party was anti-Semitic. Not once in its history, not even during the fight against
Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts, did the BOD organise a demonstration against
fascism or racism. In October 1936 the BOD advised Jews to stay away from
confronting the fascists. The only demonstrations that they have ever organised
have been in support of Israel.
Attendees at
the BOD demonstration included Ian Paisley MP of the anti-Catholic DUP. Another
first time attendee at an ‘anti-racist’ demonstration was Norman Tebbit,
previously famous for his ‘cricket
test’ which said
to Britain’s Asian population that they didn’t belong here. If a similar test
was applied to British Jews who support Israeli sports teams CAA would
presumably consider that anti-Semitic. Or would it? Many of the demonstrators carried an anti-Semitic poster ‘For the many not the Jew’. I couldn’t
possibly have joined such a racist demonstration.
Is opposing Jewish ‘self-determination’
and Comparing Zionism to Nazis anti-Semitic?
5.
GF alleged
that I am guilty of ‘Holocaust inversion’ ‘by
calling Jews Nazis’ and denying ‘the
right of self-determination to Jewish people.’ Of course it is a lie that I call Jews
‘Nazis’. Zionism, being a form of exclusivist ethno-nationalism, is not
dissimilar ideologically to Nazism. That is why the obsession
over Israel’s ‘demographic problem’, too many Arabs, is common to Zionist
political parties.
6.
Even if Jews
form a single nation why is it anti-Semitic to oppose self-determination in the
form of a state? Is it racist to oppose Scottish or Catalan independence?
7.
It is a fact
that some Jews are neo-Nazis.
Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, of the Hebrew University described the Jewish
settlers as Judeo Nazis. The Nazis
dehumanised their victims and it was this that led to their extermination.
Zionism also dehumanises the Palestinians and indeed all non-Jews. For example:
a. Rabbi Dov Lior, the Chief Rabbi of the Yesha Settlers’ Council, said that ‘a Jewish fingernail is worth more than a
thousand non-Jewish lives.’
b. Rabbi Yaacov Perrin went one better and said that a Jewish fingernail
was worth more than a million non-Jewish lives.
c.
Eli Dahan, Deputy Defence
Minister said
of the Palestinians that ‘To me, they are
like animals, they aren’t human.’ Dahan explained that ‘“A Jew always has a much higher soul than a gentile, even if he is a
homosexual,”
d. In 2016 an Israeli soldier Elor Azaria shot a captive prisoner dead.
Because it was filmed he was arrested and served 9 months in prison. A
demonstration in his support was held in Tel Aviv where a crowd of thousands chanted
‘Death to the Arabs’. A banner ‘Kill them all’ was held high amongst
the demonstrators. Another banner proclaimed
‘My honour is my loyalty’, the slogan
of the Nazi SS.
e.
Israeli rabbis have repeatedly
compared the Palestinians to the Jews biblical enemies Amalek and the
Philistines. As former Israeli Education Minister, Shulamit Aloni wrote, ‘in the
settlements the Palestinians are called "Amalek," and the intention
is obvious to everyone’ which is to
wipe them out, even the youngest infant.
f.
Military Chief Rabbi Rontzki in
2008 gave
soldiers preparing to enter Gaza a booklet implying that all Palestinians
are their mortal enemies and that cruelty is sometimes a “good attribute".
g.
Rabbis Kastiel and Radler, who teach
at the Eli pre-military academy told their students that ‘Hitler was right’ although ‘he was on the wrong side, meaning
against the Jews’.[1] Radler also stated that ‘the Holocaust was a divine punishment designed to make the
Jewish people leave the diaspora...’
GF stated
that it is ‘profoundly offensive and
historically inaccurate (it is) to
invoke the Holocaust and to compare Israeli policy’ to that of the Nazis. But
Israeli politicians repeatedly invoke the Holocaust. Menachem Begin, Prime
Minister of Israel, described Yasser
Arafat of the PLO, during the siege of Beirut in 1982, as ‘Hitler in his bunker.’ Matan Vilnai, a former Deputy Defence
Minister, declared that the people of Gaza ‘will
bring upon themselves a bigger Shoah...’
If I had
said that what Israel was doing was the same
as the Nazis then that would clearly be wrong but not anti-Semitic. Until Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of
Russia, in June 1941, the Nazi policy towards the Jews had been expulsion not
genocide. That is Israeli policy towards the Palestinians.[2]
Professor Zeev Sternhell, a child survivor of a Nazi ghetto, wrote ‘In Israel, Growing
Fascism and a Racism Akin to Early Nazism’. Yair Golan, Deputy
Chief of Staff, made the same comparison and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Barak endorsed his comments. Daniel Blatman, a Professor of Holocaust
Studies compared Israel’s
deportation of Black refugees to the West’s refusal to admit Jewish refugees
during the Nazi era and developments in Israel to those which led to the
Nuremberg Laws. Supreme Court President Esther Hayut invoked the Nazi period
while Dr Ofer Cassif, a Hebrew University politics professor compared Israel to
Nazi Germany and called the
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked a ‘a
filthy neo-Nazi.’ Clearly there are a lot of ‘anti-Semites’ around and most
of them appear to be Jewish!
Gideon Falter’s
Contempt 4 Academic Freedom
8.
GF’s
uses the charge of anti-Semitism to target academics in particular. This is
political terrorism. It recalls the riposte of the US Army’s
Counsel, Joseph Welch to Joe McCarthy. ‘"Have you no decency, sir?" GF, like
McCarthy, is cruel, vindictive and demagogic. Particularly outrageous is the
call for universities to dismiss lecturers who defy their dictates.
GF describes as anti-Semitic my statement that:
‘denying the Holocaust is usually anti-Semitic. It is also,
especially in the Arab and underdeveloped world a reaction to Israel’s claim
that the Holocaust provides it with its legitimation. In other words there is a
functional and instrumental Holocaust denial which isn’t motivated by
anti-Semitism.
I attempted to explain the causes of the growth in
Holocaust denial and its different forms. GF isn’t interested in why Holocaust
denial is increasing but in its exploitation. 30 years ago the only people who denied the Holocaust were neo-Nazis.
Today there are millions of people who deny the Holocaust because Israel has
weaponised it. Gilbert Achcar, a Jewish
lecturer at the School of African and Oriental Studies asked
‘Are all forms of Holocaust
denial the same? Should such denial, when it comes from oppressors not be
distinguished from denial in the mouths of the oppressed., as the racism of
ruling whites is distinguished from that of subjugated blacks.’ [3]
Presumably GF will be writing to
SOAS demanding that Achcar be sacked. What Achcar has written pales in
comparison with what Israeli historians have written.
The transference of the Holocaust situation on to the Middle
East reality… not only created a false sense of the imminent danger of mass
destruction. It also immensely distorted
the image of the Holocaust, dwarfing the magnitude of the atrocities committed
by the Nazis, trivializing the unique agony of the victims and the survivors
and utterly demonizing the Arabs and their leaders.[4]
Fortunately Professor Zertal is beyond the reach of
D. It is ideological book burning.
Charity
Commission
9.
GF alleged that I lied
when I made a complaint to the Charity Commission. He claimed that:
On a date unknown, the Claimant told the Charity Commission
that the CAA was not concerned with fascist groups who were Holocaust deniers.
10.
I said no such thing.
What I did say
was more nuanced:
The CAA might be expected to concentrate on the
far-Right and holocaust deniers if it was genuinely concerned about
anti--Semitism. Instead it focuses almost
solely on the Labour Party and to a lesser extent on the Lib Dems (my
emphasis)
11.
I followed this up
with a longer
submission of 10th February:
the
CAA is not a charitable organisation. It is a political group masquerading as a
charity, whose primary purpose is to
libel and label critics of Israel and Zionism as anti-Semitic. It devotes most of its time to making false and
damaging accusations against anyone who is supportive of the Palestinians and
opposed to Zionism. Its web site is dominated
by articles and allegations to this effect....
12.
What I was saying was
that the D’s concern with the far-Right and Holocaust deniers was minimal not that it had no concerns.
The CAA, Tommy Robinson and the
Far-Right
13.
Not
only the leading fascist figure in Britain today, Tommy Robinson, merits just
one article on D’s website, and that in passing but that the BNP and Britain
First are also only mentioned in passing by CAA but there is nothing
on the groups themselves. The reason
for this is because they are pro-Israel.
14.
Other
far-Right Zionists who the CAA works with are who was Intelligence Officer for
the neo-Nazi Britain First, Paul Besser, Sharon Klaff, a Tommy Robinson
supporter who describes herself as a national socialist and Amanda Shitrit,
both of whom are supporters of Pegida, a
fascist group originating in Germany.
15.
When
in 2017 PSC held a demonstration on the 100th anniversary of the
Balfour Declaration it was disrupted by these activists and EDL supporters. In
its Report CAA noted
gleefully:
‘the marchers did not have the streets to themselves. As they continued
through the heart of London, their path was blocked by pro-Israel demonstrators
waving Israeli flags and singing Israeli songs, bringing the march to a
standstill for a time.’
16.
CAA
admitted that ‘Volunteers from our
Demonstration and Event Monitoring Unit went into the thick of the protesters
to gather evidence.’ CAA worked hand in glove with the
counter-demonstrators including Jonathan Hoffman, ex-Vice Chair of the Zionist
Federation, who was convicted of public order offences last year. Hoffman works
openly works with fascist groups, including the EDL and Tommy Robinson’s supporters.
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| Mel Gharial (left) and the CAA's Stephen Silverman (right) |
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| Steve Silverman (left with back turned) with Britain First's Paul Besser (with hat) |
17.
At
the 2019 Al Quds demonstration which CAA tried to ban, supporters of CAA including
their Investigations Officer Steven Silverman, were observed by me and others
working closely with far-Right Zionists and supporters of Tommy Robinson.
Silverman was photographed in the company of Daniel Thomas, Tommy Robinson’s
bodyguard who served
2 years in prison for an attempted kidnapping and Mel Gharial, the link
person between far-Right Zionists and Robinson’s supporters such as James
Goddard, convicted for harassment of Anna Soubry MP seen with another far-right
Zionist Martin Hiser.
18.
The
CAA, by its own admission, works closely
with far-Right Zionist David Collier who denies
even the existence of the Palestinian refugees.
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| Gideon Falter speaks at Hindu far-Right meeting promising support for their opposition to making caste discrimination unlawful |
Gideon Falter’s links with the Hindu
far-right
19.
The CAA has been consistently
Islamaphobic since its inception.
A Hindu Nationalist meeting called at the House of Commons in 2018 by Bob
Blackman MP, a patron of the CAA, was part of a campaign
against making caste discrimination unlawful under the 2010 Equality Act.[5]
There has been strong resistance by Hindu racists to even acknowledging caste
discrimination. GF was an invited speaker. He was reported as
‘assuring the
meeting that he and his supporters would do all they could to help eradicate
the ‘duty’ on the government to make Caste
an aspect of race’.[6] Blackman called for
people to learn from the way CAA had got
the IHRA passed in the Labour Party.
20.
What
Blackman meant was that ‘Hinduphobia’ should be used against opponents of Hindu
racism and India’s BJP government in the same way as ‘anti-Semitism’ has been
weaponised against opponents of Israeli racism. India’s Prime Minister,
Narendra Modi, was banned
from entering the US until 2014 because of his role in the 2002 anti-Muslim
pogroms in Gujarat, where 2,000 Muslims died.
Some of Gideon Falter’s Targets
21.
GF tells how he heard
Mr Rowan Laxton, who is currently British High Commissioner to Cameroon,
shouting ‘fucking Jews’ at a
television monitor in a gym. As a result of this false allegation Mr Laxton was
convicted at first instance but cleared at Southwark Crown Court.
Malakha
Shwaik
22.
On the basis of
allegations against Malakha Shwaik, a student at Exeter University. a number of
papers and media, both locally and nationally ran with the CAA’s false allegations.
23.
On
20 February 2017 CAA published a demonic
article headlined Expel Malaka
Shwaik’. All the black arts were used to portray Malaka as the devil
incarnate. CAA accused Shwaik of being ‘a
terrorist-supporting antisemite’. There wasn’t a shred of evidence to
support such vile abuse.
24.
To most people Malaka speaking
at a demonstration called in protest at a spate of anti-Semitic incidents on campus
would demonstrate that D’s allegation were false. Instead D, mocked Exeter
students ‘They did naturally what comes
to them...’
25.
D acknowledged that Malaka was
cleared after an investigation by the Students’ Guild of Exeter University but
despite this dishonestly pretended not to know what the allegations were.
26.
Whilst the Daily Mail,
Daily Express and Devon Live accepted the findings of the Guild investigation,
apologised and retracted their allegations, CAA refused to do so.
27.
The Guild
investigation found that none of Malaka’s
alleged statements, had been made in comments to her as part of an interview, were
anti-Semitic.
‘Zionism
ideology is no different than that of Hitler’s.’ To
a Palestinian dispossessed from their land this is a reasonable statement.
Historian Jacob Boas wrote that
The
Zionist ideal had its roots in the same romantic notions of Volk and soil which
had proven so enthralling to German society long before Hitler came to power.[7]
Francis Nicosia, Professor of
Holocaust Studies at Vermont University, wrote
Zionism
was a volkisch Jewish ideology and movement that started from the same
philosophical premises as German nationalism…’[8]
Donald
Niewyk wrote that the German Zionists were known as ‘volkish Jews.’ [9] If
CAA is correct all 3 of these historians are
anti-Semitic.
28.
Malaka
was also alleged to have said:
“If terrorism means protecting
and defending my land, I am so proud to be called terrorist. What an honour for
the Palestinians!”
The French Resistance were called
terrorists by the Nazis. As Lord Carrington, a former Foreign Secretary,
observed ‘one man’s terrorist is another
man’s freedom fighter’. This comment, which was made to Malaka, is
obviously not anti-Semitic.
29.
If
Britain was occupied would it be an act of terrorism to resist the
occupation? Being a racist GF is
incapable of understanding the Palestinian perspective.
Rachel Gould
30.
In
2011 Bristol University Professor Rachel Gould wrote Beyond Anti-Semitism’ an article about how the ‘the specter of anti-Semitism’ prevented discussion about the
Occupation and how the Holocaust had become ‘an instrument of ideology rather than a means of connecting with the
past.’
31.
GF
stated that CAA merely made ‘a
disciplinary complaint’ to Gould’s employer. In fact they did rather more
than that. CAA demanded
that Gould be dismissed.
32.
This
is not merely chilling it is Orwellian.
33.
GF
took exception to Gould’s statement ‘Claiming
the Holocaust as a holy event sanctifies the state of Israel and whitewashes
its crimes.’ GF claims that ‘Dr Gould’s language fell foul of the IHRA
Definition.’ thus proving that the IHRA does indeed restrict public debate
and discussion.
34.
There
was nothing that Gould wrote that Israeli historians, such as Tom Segev and
Idith Zertal haven’t already said. By making a complaint to her employer CAA was
attempting to make academics fearful even to discuss certain subjects.
35.
As
a letter from Bindmans made clear, D’s complaint about anti-Semitism fails to
distinguish between Holocaust denial and ‘criticism
of the improper manipulation of the Holocaust’ by the Israeli state.
36.
When
Kenneth Stern, the principal drafter of the IHRA, testified to Congress about how the IHRA
definition had been abused, he referred to specifically to Gould as perhaps the
‘most egregious’ case where
an off-campus group citing the definition called on a
university to conduct an inquiry of a professor ... for antisemitism, based on
an article she had written years before. The university then conducted the
inquiry. And while it ultimately found no basis to discipline the professor,
the exercise itself was chilling and
McCarthy-like.
37.
The
‘off-campus group’ was the CAA yet
despite this GF stated
‘I do not know who the supposed drafter of the EUMCXR Definition is, or whether they did
truly made such comment, or whether it related to CAA’s actions or some other
use of the EUMCXR Definition or IHRA Definition.
38.
This is one more lie
from GF. On 16th July 2019 RPC the CAA’s solicitors wrote asking me for copies
of Stern's testimony which I sent.
It beggars belief that Falter, who has created his own
bastardised version of the IHRA doesn’t know who drafted it or who Stern was
referring to.
Jackie Walker – Inventing Holocaust Denial
39.
On 7 February 2017 the CAA published
‘Jackie Walker posts text asking whether
Hitler can really be blamed for the Holocaust.’ It speculated that Walker’s
post ‘leaves open the possibility that he
was justified.’ Walker’s post also left out the possibility that the Sun
revolves round the Earth! The implication was clear. Ms Walker is a holocaust
denier.
40.
The CAA based the
above post on a quotation from Nahum Goldmann’s ‘A Jewish Paradox’. Unknown to GF who is a typically ignorant
Zionist, Goldmann was quoting from Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion.
“If I were an
Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have
taken their country. It is true G-d promised it to us, but how could that
interest them? Our G-d is not theirs. There has been antisemitism, the Nazis,
Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have
come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
41.
The quotation said
nothing about Hitler’s responsibility for the Holocaust still less anything to
suggest that the Holocaust was justified. That was a malicious invention.
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| Highlighted is the paragraph in Nahum Goldman's autobiography Jackie Walker was quoting from |
42.
GF claimed
not to have seen any evidence that Ben Gurion said the above. That is
irrelevant. The fact is that Goldman believed he did.
43.
GF admits to a ‘mistake’ whilst claiming to be ‘careful to be factual.’ This was no
mistake. It is evidence of D’s methodology, which is to take what someone says,
distort it and put the most malevolent interpretation on it in order to label
it ‘anti-Semitic’. It is noteworthy that CAA did not apologise for
their ‘mistake’.
44.
Despite remembering
that it was ‘corrected within minutes”
GF could not recall who wrote the post. CAA clearly suffers from a
selective memory.
45.
Ben Gurion, despite
presiding over the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was capable of
understanding the position of the Arabs. He understood that their opposition to
the Israeli state did not stem from anti-Semitism but from the same reasons
that indigenous people have always resisted settler-colonialism.
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| Jack Mendel of Jewish News is another who hasn't apologised to Jackie Walker |
a.
GF alleged that the ‘only person publicising it was Ms Walker
herself’, thus blaming the victim. The Canadian Zionist Group ‘Never Again’
shared the post directly from D’s website. Not only was there an extensive
discussion underneath but there were 17 shares.
b.
Jack Mendel,
Political Correspondent for the Jewish News shared the post from
someone else, who also took it directly from the CAA’s site. CAA undoubtedly sent it to their thousands of subscribers too.
46.
GF
has perfected the art of labelling anything it dislikes as ‘anti-Semitic’.
The Dishonest Use of the IHRA
47.
GF’s
allegations of anti-Semitism are based on his own version of the IHRA which deliberately omits everything before
the 11 illustrations. This is dishonest.
48.
GF
suggests that if I fall foul of any of their examples of anti-Semitism they
meet the test in s.3(4) of the Defamation Act. However honesty is indivisible.
All the CAA’s allegations against me are based on a dishonest use of the IHRA.
49.
If
the hypothetical reasonable person were to be asked ‘what is anti-Semitism’ their response wouldn’t be the IHRA. It would
be something like ‘a person who dislikes
or hates Jews’.
50.
The
IHRA has no legal standing. The introduction to the IHRA describes it as a ‘non-legally binding definition of
antisemitism’ CAA always fails to mention this.
51.
At
an international
conference on the Working Definition of Anti-Semitism in 2011, Simone Veil
described the it as:
a practical guide for identifying incidents, collecting
data, and supporting the implementation and enforcement of legislation dealing
with antisemitism.
52.
At
no stage was it suggested that the WDA should be used to label people as
anti-Semites. Kenneth Stern, was clear about this:
(I) worry that some Jewish organizations... are doing so in
an inappropriate way, which bastardizes what it was intended to do.... (it) was
never meant to provide a framework for eviscerating free speech or academic
freedom, let alone labeling anyone an antisemite.[10]
53.
GF
purports not to have heard of Stern whom he describes as ‘one of the numerous drafters of the predecessor to the IHRA Definition’.
This is disingenuous. Stern is universally acknowledged as the person
responsible for drafting the IHRA.
54.
GF
goes to considerable effort to avoid mentioning Stern’s name.
55.
D’s
misuse of the IHRA, which was described by Stern as ‘chilling and McCarthy-like’. goes to the question of honesty
56.
I
emailed Stern on 21 August 2020 and asked ‘were you just one of many
drafters of the IHRA or the principal drafter? His response
was:
I was the "lead drafter" of the definition. Many others had a
hand, but I drafted the bulk of it and coordinated the process.
57.
I
also asked if he agreed that the use of the IHRA to target individuals as
anti-Semitic was an abuse? Stern referred me to an extract from his book
‘The Conflict within the conflict.’
The purpose of the definition, of course, was not to label
anyone an antisemite but rather to guide data collectors... For example, what
should be counted as an antisemitic hate crime? The definition wanted to avoid
asking the data collector to look into the actor’s mind, to see if he/she
really hated Jews.
58.
Stern
wrote in The Guardian of Trump’s
Executive Order that
‘The ‘working definition of antisemitism’ was never intended
to silence speech, but that’s what Trump’s executive order accomplished… This
order is an attack on academic freedom and free speech, and will harm not only
pro-Palestinian advocates, but also Jewish students and faculty, and the
academy itself.’
59.
In testimony to
Congress’s Judiciary Committee on November 7 2017 Stern warned that ‘The definition was not drafted, and was never intended, as a tool to
target or chill speech on a college campus.’
Yet this is what CAA has strived to achieve.
60.
By excluding the
actual 38 word definition and the clause saying it is ‘non legally binding’ CAA has created its own definition of
‘anti-Semitism’.
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| The CAA naturally attacks the mild Palestine Solidarity Campaign as 'riddled with bigotry' - a term better applied to the CAA |
A Question of Honesty
61.
No
right-minded person, especially after the Holocaust, wants to be called an
anti-Semite. The accusation of anti-Semitism is designed to intimidate people
and make them afraid to speak out against Israel’s human rights abuses and ethnic
cleansing.
D has dishonestly ignored the following qualifications before
the 11 illustrations:
a.
“To guide
IHRA in its work, the following examples may
serve as illustrations”
b.
“Manifestations
might include…”
c.
“Contemporary
examples of antisemitism… could,
taking into account the overall context, include…”
62.
The
illustrations are not part of the definition.
As the IHRA Secretariat has confirmed,
the IHRA is only the first 38 words.
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| This is Zionism - Jews should not live with non-Jews |
The
Defendant’s hypocrisy over racism
63.
If
CAA was genuinely concerned about anti-Semitism it would be at the forefront of
opposing other forms of racism. Instead CAA has been prominent in attacking
Black Lives Matter [BLM] for ‘anti-Semitism’. CAA claimed the credit for a BBC
instruction to staff not to wear BLM symbols. It also boasted of
‘a considerable withdrawal of support from the movement by mainstream society
and celebrities...’
64.
If
the CAA were antiracist one would expect it to also criticise the racism that is the everyday experience of Arabs
in Israel. Yet CAA has never once
criticised Israeli racism. Indeed the very mention of such racism is deemed
anti-Semitic. Yet if the treatment that Israeli Arabs experienced was meted out
to British Jews, CAA would cry ‘anti-Semitism’.
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| Jewish homes for Jewish people - what if Britain operated a similar scheme and cities refused to rent to Jews - would that be anti-Semitic - Falter has avoided this question |
65.
For
example in Afula hundreds of Israeli Jews demonstrated against the sale of a
single house to an Arab.[11]
In Safed Chief Rabbi, Shmuel Eliyahu, issued an edict that Jews must not let
property to Arabs. Dozens of other rabbis supported him. Arabs are barred from hundreds of Jewish only
communities in Israel. All of this CAA supports.
The
Defendant’s Fear Mongering
66.
In
2015 CAA produced a Report which
concluded that 45% of British people hold anti-Semitic views. The
Institute of Jewish Policy Research [IJPR] said of D’s claim that the majority
of British Jews considered antisemitism today an echo of the 1930s that it “verges into irresponsible territory – it is
an incendiary finding..’ It also claimed
that Report was ‘littered with flaws”.
Anshel Pfeffer in Ha’aretz was
even blunter.
Jews are represented in Britain in numbers that are many
times their proportion of the population in both Houses of Parliament, on the
Sunday Times Rich List, in media, academia, professions.... To compare today’s
Britain, for all its faults, with the Jews’ situation in 1930s exhibits a
disconnect from reality which borders on hysteria.
67.
The
Jewish Chronicle’s Survation poll
poured scorn on D’s ‘findings’ that over half the British Jewish population
were thinking of leaving. Some 88% of British Jews stated that they had no intention
of emigrating.
The Defendant’s Anti-Muslim Racism
68.
In
2016 CAA brought out a Report ‘British Muslims and Anti-Semitism’. [12] It spoke of how:
the gradual build up of understanding and friendship between
Britain’s Jews and Muslims has been utterly eclipsed by growing antisemitism
amongst British Muslims. On every single count, British Muslims were more
likely by far than the general British population to hold deeply antisemitic
views. It is clear that many British Muslims reserve a special hatred for
British Jews...’
69.
This claim is not only a racist generalisation
but a deliberate attempt to stir up divisions between Jews and Muslims. As even
Dave Rich of the Zionist Community Security Trust observed
This latest poll showed something else that is interesting,
and is not specific to Muslims: that people who believe antisemitic things
about Jews rarely think of themselves as antisemitic... simply pointing out
that somebody has said, written or tweeted something antisemitic is not always
a guide to how they consciously feel about Jews.
Such subtlety
of analysis is beyond GF. The CAA’s purpose lies in magnifying the level of
anti-Semitism as part of the Zionist goal of getting Jews to move to their
‘real home’.[13]
70.
On
the cover of the CAA’s Report was a picture of a Black person holding a poster
with the slogan ‘Free Gaza – Hitler You
Were Right’. I have never seen anything remotely similar on a demonstration.
This photograph can only have been intended to infer that such views are the
norm amongst Muslims.
71.
Equally
racist is the CAA’s ‘Profile of British Muslim Anti-Semitism’.
If a graphic of a typical Jewish male had been printed then CAA would cry
‘anti-Semitism’. 4 years later and CAA is still using the same ‘Hitler’ poster:
72.
The
CAA is fraudulently manipulating statistical surveys of public opinion, all of
which have found that anti-Semitism is greater on the Right than the Left. The IJPR reported:
The political left... appears in these surveys as a more
Jewish-friendly, or neutral, segment of the population.... the absence of clear
signs of negativity towards Jews on the political left in these surveys appears
particularly curious in the current context.
73.
In
2017 even CAA observed that ‘Labour Party supporters are less likely to
be antisemitic than other voters’. This ran counter to CAA’s narrative. CAA
‘solved’ this problem in when D’s Antisemitism
Barometer 2019
found that
‘Antisemitism on the far-left now exceeds antisemitism on
the far-right. The leader of the once fiercely anti-racist Labour Party is now
the candidate of choice for anti-Jewish racists’.
74.
How
was this stunning turnaround achieved? CAA achieved this by the simple device
of changing the questions! Now there were 5
new questions, all about Israel, such as ‘Israel and its supporters are a bad influence on our democracy’
75.
D’s
attitude to opinion polls is akin to reverse engineering. You start with the
result you want and then devise the questions. D’s methodology is fundamentally
dishonest.[14]
D
Specialises in Targeting Jewish anti-Zionists
76.
It
is not impossible for a Jewish person to be anti-Semitic. Historically most
Jewish people saw Zionism as a form of Jewish anti-Semitism. As Francis
Nicosia, wrote:
‘whereas today non-Jewish criticism of
Zionism or the State of Israel are often dismissed as motivated by a deeper
anti-Semitism, in Herzl’s day an opposite non-Jewish reaction, one of support
for the Zionist idea, might have resulted in a similar reaction.’[15]
77.
When
Lloyd George’s War Cabinet adopted the Balfour Declaration in 1917 its sole
opponent was its only Jewish member, Sir Edwin
Montagu who issued a memo
titled ‘on the Anti-Semitism
of the Present (British) Government’.
It is no more true to say that a Jewish Englishman and a
Jewish Moor are of the same nation than it is to say that a Christian
Englishman and a Christian Frenchman are of the same nation.
78.
D
finds Jewish ‘anti-Semites’ everywhere. Coincidentally all of them are
anti-Zionists. Virtually all prominent anti-Zionist Jews have been targeted.
Not one Zionist Jew, despite the overlap between the Zionist Right and far-Right,
has been named.
a.
Naomi Wimborne-Iddrissi,
a senior member of Jewish Voices for Labour [JVL] – CAA has no less than eight
articles attacking
her as anti-Semitic.
b.
Glyn Secker, the
Secretary of JVL has 9 articles attacking
him as anti-Semitic.
c.
Moshe Machover, an
Israeli Professor at Kings College has 10 articles devoted to him. After
Machover spoke at Queen Mary College CAA wrote
to the College
to ascertain why Professor Machover was allowed to speak and
lodge a complaint, and have additionally written to King’s College London and
the London School of Economics to ascertain his employment status, and request
that disciplinary proceedings be instigated.
d.
The
late Gerald Kaufman
MP was Father of
the House of Commons. He was an MP for 47 years until his death in 2017. He was
Chair of the Culture Committee and Shadow Foreign Secretary. Although a Zionist
Kaufman was appalled
at the treatment of the Palestinians. It was this that made him anathema for
extreme Zionists like the CAA.
Before Kaufman’s death CAA made a series of vicious attacks on him. On his death the
CAA posted Sir
Gerald Kaufman MP’s words have left a rotting stain on our institutions. The sheer nastiness and viciousness of
this article says everything that needs to be said about CAA. The death of a
Jewish MP who had contributed so much to public life in Britain meant nothing
to CAA.
e.
Mike Cushman,
Secretary of Free Speech on Israel has only one article attacking him. Clearly he
must do better.
f.
Jenny Manson,
Chair of JVL has four articles devoted to her including one whose title makes
it clear what the D’s agenda is: ‘Why
the so-called Jewish Voice for Labour is a sham’
79.
If
the CAA were genuinely committed to combating anti-Semitism then it would reach
out to all Jews including anti-Zionists. Because D’s purpose is fighting
anti-Zionism it can’t do that. That is why it tries to silence even Jewish speakers.
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| Gideon Falter is Vice-Chair of the JNF which only rents or leases land to Jews - which explains the activities of the CAA |
Gideon
Falter is Vice-Chair of the Ethnic Cleansing Jewish National Fund
80.
GF
is listed
as a trustee and Vice Chair of the Jewish
National Fund Charitable Trust registration no. 225910 otherwise known as
JNF UK.
81.
The
JNF was founded
in 1901 to buy and develop land for Zionist settlements. Once purchased no
Arabs could work or live on that land again.
82.
The
JNF’s land discrimination policies led to the 1929 riots in Palestine. The Report of a
Royal Commission into their causes, chaired by Sir John Hope-Simpson found
that.
the result of the purchase of land in Palestine by the Jewish National
Fund has been that land has been extra-territorialised. It ceases to be land
from which the Arab can gain any advantage either now or at any time in the
future.... Not only can he never hope to lease or to cultivate it, but, by the
stringent provisions of the lease of the JNF, he is deprived for ever from
employment on that land....
83.
With
the establishment of the Israeli State the JNF was incorporated by the 1953 JNF
Law and nearly 2 million dunums of confiscated Arab land was given or sold cheaply to it.
84.
The
JNF owns 13% of
Israel’s land and controls a further 80%. Israeli Arabs are excluded by the JNF
from its land. In 2000 in Ka’adan v
Israeli Land Administration the High Court ruled
that a state body could not refuse to sell JNF land to a non-Jew. The JNF’s
reaction was to quote a survey
that it had commissioned:
over 70% of the Jewish population in Israel opposes allocating KKL-JNF
land to non-Jews, while over 80% prefer the definition of Israel as a Jewish
state, rather than as the state of all its citizens
The JNF’s desire for a Jewish rather than a democratic state
was enacted into law with the Jewish
Nation State Law. Nothing could be clearer. The JNF is an agency of Apartheid
and GF is its willing servant.
85.
The
Objects
of JNF UK on 22 May 2010 were:
The relief of poverty, and the
furtherance of any other purposes which are charitable according to English
law, within the State of Israel as... Benefit persons of Jewish religion, race
or origin.
[1] Rabbis
say ‘Hitler was right, pluralism the true Holocaust’, https://tinyurl.com/y3a3dql4
[2] The
Origins of Nazi Genocide, Henry Feingold, University of North Carolina Press,
1995.
[3] Achchar,
The Arabs and the Holocaust, p. 261.
[4] Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of
Nationhood, Cambridge 2005, p.100.
[5] UK
Government will repeal caste law, https://dsnuk.org/2018/08/13/public-consultation-results/
[6]
Milli Gazette, 10 Dec 2019,
[7] Jacob
Boas, German Jewry’s Search for Renewal in the Hitler Era, D1017.
[8] Nicosia,
Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany
[ZANG], p. 2.
[9] Niewyk,
Jews in Weimar Germany, p.139.
[10] https://tinyurl.com/yxgewrfw Kenneth
Stern, The Working Definition of Antisemitism – A Reappraisal
[11] Independent
14.6.18. https://tinyurl.com/yccjn7fr Israeli town residents take to
streets in hundreds to protest sale of house to Arabs
[12] CAA issues report on British Muslims and
antisemitism, https://tinyurl.com/yxqgzqn3
The full report has disappeared from D’s site but a copy can be found
here https://tinyurl.com/yymp8bod
[13] When
11 Jews were killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue killings, the leader of the
Israeli Labor Party, Avi Gabbay told American Jews to ‘come home’ to their
‘real home’. https://tinyurl.com/y8y867dg
[14] My
thanks to Alan Maddison and Jamie Stern-Weiner, Brief Response to an
‘Antisemitism’ Hoax, https://jamiesternweiner.wordpress.com/2019/12/03/fake-campaign-against-antisemitism/
[15] Nicosia,
Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, p.7. Cambridge University Press
2008.
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