Caroline Lucas Vilifies anti-Zionist Professor David Miller alongside Virulent
Racists like Bob Blackman MP, Baronesses Deech and Cox?
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| My letter in Ha'aretz |
Caroline, when you were
elected to Parliament as the first Green MP in 2010 I had no hesitation in supporting
you. The chance to have an alternative to another cloned New Labour MP was
attractive.
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| This is the letter signed by over 100 MPs and Peers in which Caroline Lucas joined hands with virulent racists |
However since then you have
followed in the footsteps of Green Parties throughout Europe who, as in Ireland,
have got into bed with both conservative parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. In
Germany it was a Green Party coalition that took German troops into their first
armed conflicts abroad post 45, in Kosova and Afghanistan.
It seems that there is an
iron rule that however radical they are before getting elected, Green MPs become
assimilated to the establishment. That is the problem with trying to green
capitalism.
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| Caroline Lucas and her Establishment Friends |
I am however amazed that you
have added your name to a letter whose sole purpose is to secure the dismissal
of Bristol University Professor David Miller, under the guise of protecting
Jewish students.
This letter criticises
academics supporting Miller for signing ‘a
factually inaccurate letter’. This is ironic coming from those who falsely allege
that David ‘has undermined the safety and
security of Jewish students.’
What did David do? Did he visit Jewish students in the middle of
the night with a group of thugs? No he put forward well researched criticisms,
not of Jewish students but Zionist student groups operating on campuses who whitewash
the record of the Israeli state.
The Israeli state has just
been described as a Jewish Supremacist Apartheid State by Israeli human rights group,
B’Tselem. Not surprisingly the Israeli state finds it difficult to defend
things like refusing to supply Palestinians with COVID vaccines at one and
the same time as vaccinating Jewish settlers. Is it any surprise that seeks
it accuses its critics, including David Miller, of anti-Semitism?
Supposing that the Anti-Apartheid
Movement had criticised pro-Apartheid South African student groups 30 years
ago? Would you have signed a letter attacking the AAM as endangering the safety
of South African students? If not why have you signed this letter?
The letter you signed falsely accuses David Miller of having ‘framed Jewish students.. as pawns or tools
of a foreign government.’ No he didn’t. What David said was that Jewish students
were being used as “political pawns by a violent,
racist foreign regime engaged in ethnic cleansing.” There is a crucial
difference between the two.
The Israeli
government uses the Jewish Diaspora as pawns. That is a fact. In the United States the Israeli Foreign Ministry even
distributed a questionnaire asking American Jews ‘to indicate where their allegiance would lie
in the case of a crisis between the two countries.’
David’s statement that ‘Bristol’s
JSoc like all JSocs, operates under the auspices of the Union of Jewish
Students (UJS), an Israel lobby group’ and is part of ‘a campaign of censorship and manufactured
hysteria’ that
is ‘directed by the State of Israel’ is true.
The Union of Jewish Students is not
a Jewish student group but a Zionist group
whose first loyalty is to the Israeli state. Support for Israel is enshrined in
UJS’s constitution. Its objects
include
‘inspiring
Jewish students to make an enduring commitment to their Jewish identity, Israel, and the community.’
Jewish students who are not
Zionists ineligible to join UJS and where they have done they come under attack
from UJS. Independent Jewish Voices, which isn’t anti-Zionist, described what happened at SOAS:
Emma Clyne, a Swedish Jew,
writes of her experience as chairperson of the Jewish Society at SOAS in
2006-07. She came under intense pressure from the Union of Jewish Students, the
umbrella organisation which works with Jewish societies in universities.
Before she became the chair
of the SOAS Jewish Society, she had found it was like an Israel Society…. She
took over the chair on condition that there was to be a clear distinction
between the Jewish Society and the Israel Society. This led to a furious
reaction from the Union of Jewish Students, which told her: “That’s not what the Jewish Society does. You
can’t separate Israeli politics from Jewish identity. It is all the same.”
The antagonism towards her
reached a peak after she went to the launch of IJV in 2007 and found the
speakers “honest articulate and inspirational.” When she invited some of the
speakers to a meeting at SOAS to discuss “the
impact of nationalism on Jewish identity” the pressure on her increased,
and she was told that the Union of Jewish Students and the Israeli Embassy were
very concerned about the meeting.
I described
what happened when Emma organised a meeting with speakers such as Sir Geoffrey
Bindman QC:
According
to... Emma Clyne, posters for a meeting the society put on were repeatedly torn
down. Ms Clyne told a meeting of Independent Jewish Voices on May 15 that she had to
put new ones up every day.
A
clue as to the reason
for its silence might lie in an article in the Jewish Chronicle of April 27 ("Students in
censorship row over IJV debate").
As the then Chair of UJS, Mitch Simmons, made clear ‘"It is the view of the UJS that
certain views are not acceptable under free speech." This is what you are
supporting Caroline. A full frontal attack on the freedom of Jewish students who
are not Zionists.
The UJS is the
student wing of the Zionist movement. It is affiliated to the World Zionist
Organisation which funds Jewish settlements in the West Bank. In the words of Ha'aretz, it has a ‘land theft division.’
UJS has been
particularly prominent in the campaign to impose the 500+ word IHRA definition
of anti-Semitism on universities. The IHRA’s sole purpose is to conflate
anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. As Sir Stephen Sedley, the Jewish former Court
of Appeal judge wrote, the IHRA isn’t even a
definition being indefinite.
The Jewish Chronicle described how UJS ‘reacted
with fury’ at the decision of the Academic Board of UCL to overwhelmingly reject
the use of the IHRA misdefinition of antisemitism.
A joint statement by the UCL JSoc and UJS said that
“Jewish student voices will not be
silenced, nor dictated to, by a small group of academics’ warning that “retraction of the definition will cause
considerable distress to Jewish students and major reputational damage to UCL”.
Note that word ‘distress’. A
definition that was supported
by Donald Trump and adopted by the anti-Semitic Prime Minister of Hungary,
Viktor Orban. The JC described
how UJS
‘singled out “several members” of the Jewish Studies
Department for being “key drivers” in the decision taken by the Academic Board,
adding: “We take particular exception to the Head of Department’s use of the
Department’s Newsletter to promote his views on this issue. One can only
imagine the intimidating impact this could have on students and other members
of the academic staff.” The head of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
and Professor of Rabbinic Judaism is Sacha Stern, who has repeatedly written of
his opposition to IHRA.
Does this language about Jewish academics at UCL
having an ‘intimidating impact’
remind you of anything?. How on earth can rejecting a bogus definition of
anti-Semitism beloved of anti-Semites intimidate Jewish students? I am
surprised Caroline have been taken in by this Israeli hasbara (propaganda).
David Hirsh, the lecturer who is quoted in the letter you signed told the JC: “In my whole life, I have never been in a
more hostile and antisemitic space than my union.”
The same happened at City University where the
student union decided to hold a referendum over the IHRA. [City University students union criticised over IHRA
referendum]
According to UJS the student union 'failed to consult Jewish students until
after the decision was made'. UJS feared that in a democratic debate it
might lose the argument. It preferred emotional blackmail using words such as ‘distress’ to discussing issues because
these are ‘intimidatory’. Apparently
it makes them feel ‘unsafe’. Zionism
and democracy go together like oil and water.
UJS complained that City University’s students
union had remained “adamant about the
referendum going ahead”. A spokesperson for City Students’ Union said it
promotes “freedom of speech as an
essential part of our democracy”. Given its support for the State of Israel
you can well understand the concerns of UJS.
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| Caroline Lucas as was - on the picket line |
What I find
laughable in the letter which you signed is the statement ‘We, the undersigned, wish you to know that we stand against hatred’
although the phrase ‘We know hate speech
when we see it’ rings true.
Ian Paisley, one
of the signatories and MP for the DUP, is fully aware of what hate speech is
being a member of an anti-Catholic Protestant party. There is no better example
of the symbiosis of Zionism and anti-Semitism than in Christian Zionism. The
leader of the million strong Christians United for Israel John Hagee, described Hitler as a messenger
from god sent to drive the Jews to Israel.
Another Christian
Zionist bigot Lord Pickles is one of the signatories to this letter. Pickles
has been reborn as an opponent of ‘anti-Semitism’. I know him however as an
anti-Gypsy bigot responsible for the eviction of the
Traveller camp at Dale Farm.
Pickles gained
his reputation as a councillor in Bradford when he played the race card
appealing to the racism of Bradford’s White population.
When in 1984 Ray
Honeyford, headmaster in a local school, wrote an article in Salisbury Review, a magazine
which acted as a bridge between the Tory Right and overtly fascist groups there
were calls to suspend him. Pickles gave him unstinting support. Honeyford wrote:
The term ‘racism’, for instance, functions not as a
word with which to create insight, but as a slogan designed to suppress
constructive thought.... Cultural enrichment’ is the approved term for the West
Indian’s right to create an ear splitting cacophony for most of the night to
the detriment of his neighbour’s sanity, or for the Notting Hill Festival whose
success or failure is judged by the level of street crime which accompanies it.’
However Pickles, who defended Tory MEPs sitting
with fascists and anti-Semites in the ECR
Group has been born again. As Mehdi Hassan wrote
in the New Statesman
Perhaps most shameful of all are the Tories' new allies from
Latvia, the For Fatherland and Freedom
(LNNK) party, whose sole MEP, Robert
Zile, sits in the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, and even
attended the Conservative party conference in Manchester.
The Tories have been keen to defend this controversial
party, which honours Latvia's Waffen SS veterans each year with an annual
parade in the capital city, Riga, on 16 March.
What
was Tory Party Chairman Eric Pickles response? He ‘condemned Labour and the
Lib Dems for recycling "old Soviet smears" and "endorsing Soviet propaganda" against the Latvians.’
This is the company you are keeping Caroline
Lucas. Support for Israel and Zionism makes
anti-racists out of racists and anti-Semites out of anti-racists.
Although he isn’t a signatory, the Leader
of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg, described
David Miller’s comments as ‘deeply wicked
and the sort of thing decent people simply do not say.’ Mogg knows quite a
lot about wickedness and what decent people do and say.
In
April 2019 Mogg tweeted a speech and video by Alice Weidel, Leader of Germany’s
AfD whose former leader Frauke Petry called for refugee boats to be fired upon.
This led to the AfD’s expulsion from the ECR. AfD members march regularly
alongside neo-Nazis. It is a party full of holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis but
it is also pro-Israel. This has led to it being put
under formal state surveillance. Even the Zionist
Jewish Chronicle had an article Jacob Rees-Mogg faces fury over 'disgraceful' promotion of
'antisemitic' German party.
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| This is what the Mogg Tweeted |
Mogg, spoke
last year of the “Illuminati who are taking the powers to themselves” in reference to
two Jewish MPs, Oliver Letwin and John Bercow. Michael
Berkowitz, Professor of Modern Jewish History at UCL, described this as ‘an
expressly antisemitic sentiment’, The Illuminati are at the centre of many
anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
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| Mogg and his anti-Semitic Illuminati |
Naturally the Board of Deputies, which kept
silent about Mogg’s comments, has led the campaign against David Miller.
President Marie van der Zyl said
that Miller’s comments “would not look
out of place on the pages of Der Stürmer”, the Nazis’ propaganda
newspaper.’ The IHRA defines comparisons between the Nazis and Israel as
anti-Semitic but naturally the Board is exempt from this.
The
Board of Deputies say that calling them part of the Israel lobby is
‘anti-Semitic’ yet, as Asa
Winstanley observed the Board of Deputies repeatedly defends
Israel, right or wrong. It attacked the decision of the International Criminal
Court to investigate Israeli war crimes as evidence of its ‘moral bankruptcy’. ‘What’, he asked, ‘has the ICC got to do with the British Jewish community? Nothing.’
The
Board also boasted of changing
a BBC headline about an Israeli air strike on Gaza that killed a woman and her
child. What one wonders has Gaza got to do with Britain’s Jews? The Board also defended
the murder by Israel of snipers of Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza killing
300 demonstrators and 50 children.
It
is clear that the BOD is a part of the Israeli lobby and it is also clear
Caroline that you have accepted this false narrative about such criticism
making Jewish students unsafe. It is Palestinian parents, wondering if their
children will be attacked by the Israeli military who feel unsafe. It is
Palestinian children blindfolded, arrested and beaten in the middle of the
night by Israel who feel unsafe. These Zionist snowflakes don’t know the
meaning of the word ‘unsafe’.
The Racists who Signed the Letter with Caroline Lucas
Speaking
of hatred, there is no better example than Baroness Ruth Deech.
Deech accused
Labour politicians of ‘cravenly’ adopting
‘anti-Semitic tropes and anti-Israel
demonization’’ in order to get Muslim votes, rather than standing up to Muslim
prejudices.
Deech described ‘right-wing
anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers’
as ‘buffoons of no importance’
whereas left-wing ‘anti-Semites’ should be taken very seriously. In her view
Nazi style anti-Semitism was of no importance compared to criticism of Israel.
Deech called Jews who were not Zionists ‘renegade Jews’. Itself anti-Semitic. She named these ‘renegades’ -
Gerald Kaufman, Norman Finkelstein, Avi Shlaim, Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe. The
Oxford English Dictionary definition
of ‘renegade’ is
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Having treacherously changed allegiance: a renegade bodyguard
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Having abandoned one’s religious beliefs: a renegade monk. Used in
conjunction with ‘Jew’ its archaic meaning is equivalent to apostate.
Deech’s article is a good illustration of David
Miller’s argument that Zionism is one of the main props of Islamaphobia. Deech explained that:
The
U.K. census of 2011 revealed that Bradford’s population was 24.7% Muslim, and
no doubt it’s higher by now. There are wards of Bradford, Blackburn and Burnley
(the suspended councilors’ constituencies) where British Muslims reach 70% of
the local population.
Deech quoted an article in the
New Statesman about how
‘the virus of anti-Semitism has infected
the British Muslim community”. What is rarely mentioned is the high degree
of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racism in the Jewish community. It is the secret
that dare not speak its name but if you don’t measure it then it will remain
invisible.
In fact 61 per cent of those
questioned viewed Jewish people favourably, while an additional 14 per cent of
British Muslims had a sort-of middling opinion of Jewish people. This was
almost exactly the same as how Muslims viewed Catholics, Buddhists and Hindus
and the irreligious. That might have something to do with the fact that Muslims
in Britain are the victims of White racism unlike Jews.
As Free Speech on Israel noted
the Baroness’s words were identical to ‘early 20th century social attitudes to –
and government racial profiling of – British Jews’.
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| Bob Blackman - the Prince of Race Hatred |
But the Crown Prince of hatred Caroline
is fellow MP and signatory, Bob Blackman. Blackman was accused of Islamophobia
after posting an anti-Muslim article on Facebook which he subsequently
apologised for. [Bob
Blackman says he 'sincerely regret[s] any
upset caused']
Blackman,
the MP for Harrow East, had shared a story with the headline: “Muslim Somali sex gang say raping white
British children ‘part of their culture'.”
Miqdaad Versi of the Muslim
Council of Britain, tweeted:
“Deeply disappointing to see Tory MP Bob
Blackman once again endorse Islamophobia." Blackman had previously
retweeted an anti-Muslim post by Tommy Robinson.
Vice revealed
that Blackman had been a member of several far-right Islamophobic Facebook
groups such as "Britain for the British", "For Britain Political
Party" and "Pendragons Fight Back".
"Britain for the
British" is administered by BNP supporter
Steven Devlin. It features numerous comments which praise Hitler, and many more
which wish violence upon London Mayor Sadiq Khan, accusing him of being an
"Islamofascist" and "traitor", and hoping that he
dies.
Blackman is a patron of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism,
which was a Who’s Who of Britain’s most racist politicians.
Blackman is a supporter of the
Hindu chauvinist Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi and the BJP. When the Conservative
Friends of Kashmir began, Blackman urged
Boris Johnson not to recognise them.
When the BJP revoked Article 370
of India’s Constitution declaring martial law and occupying Kashmir with thousands
of troops, Blackman wrote
to Johnson describing the attack on Kashmir as an ‘excellent decision’. It would, he said allow the Kashmiri people ‘to enjoy the benefits of being part of India.’
Strangely enough the people of Kashmir weren’t very appreciative of being under
occupation!
Blackman also hosted
the outright Hindu racist Tapan Ghosh in the House of Commons. Tapash has
called for the UN to control the birth rate of Muslims, praised the genocide of
Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and said that Muslims should be forced to leave
their religion if they come to a western country.
But
you can imagine my surprise when I came across the Delhi newspaper, the Milli
Gazette. Gideon Falter of the CAA
attended a meeting in 2018 at the Commons at Blackman’s invitation. It
described him as a ‘rabidly pro-Hindutva Tory MP’.
Falter
told the meeting that he would do all he could to help eradicate the ‘duty’
on the government to make Caste an aspect of race in
the Equality Act 2010. [UK Government will repeal caste
law]
Untouchables in India are treated as less than human yet this vile MP, whom Caroline
Lucas considers congenial company, sought to remove caste discrimination as a
protected characteristic in the Equality Act. And you know what? Blackman and
his friends in the CAA succeeded.
Blackman
also opposes what he calls ‘Hinduphobia’. Anyone who challenges caste
discrimination or supports Kashmiri self-determination is a ‘Hinduphobe’. They
have taken a leaf out of the Zionists’ book. These Hindu chauvinists are hoping
to weaponise Hinduphobia against opponents of Hindu racism in the same way as
‘anti-Semitism’ has been weaponised against opponents of the Israeli state and
Zionism. See
The alliance between Israel,
Zionism and Hindu Nationalism is based on a shared belief in ethnic cleansing
and ethno-nationalism and UK: Corbyn, the Hindu far-right and
Israel’s partisans
TheyWorkForYou described how Blackman
almost always voted against laws to promote equality and human rights. It gives examples
of how Caroline Lucas’s fellow signatory of Caroline Lucas voted.
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On 18 Jul 2019: Blackman voted not to legalise abortion in any
circumstances in Northern Ireland.
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On 9 Jul 2019: Blackman voted not to permit same-sex marriage in
Northern Ireland.
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On 13 Jun 2018: Blackman voted against retaining the EU "Charter of
Fundamental Rights" as part of UK law.
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On 26 May 2016: Blackman voted in favour of repealing the Human Rights
Act 1998 and against plans to save the steel industry.
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On 30 Jan 2014: Blackman voted to only allow human rights grounds to be
used to prevent a foreign criminal being deported in cases where there would be
a breach of the right to life, or right not to be tortured; and to add a new
exemption to deportation for cases where harm to the criminal's children
outweighs the public interest in removal.
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On 16 Apr 2013: Blackman voted to remove the duty on the Commission for
Equality and Human Rights to support the development of a society where
people's ability to achieve their potential is not limited by prejudice or
discrimination and there is respect for human rights.
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On 16 Apr 2013: Blackman voted against making it illegal to discriminate
on the basis of caste
In an article Bob
on caste as a protected characteristic of the Equality Act 2010 Blackman revealed
how
‘MPs received a written ministerial statement making
it clear that this protected characteristic is going to be removed from the Equality
Act. Bob urged the Minister to bring forward, without delay, proposals to
remove this unnecessary, ill-thought-out and divisive move in the Equality Act
2010.’
The reaction of the HARROW
MONITORING GROUP was that Blackman
plays the divisive ‘caste’ card!
The parliamentary debate led to a statutory requirement to include
caste in the Equality Act as a separate aspect of race. In 2013 a clause
against caste discrimination was inserted into the Equality Act 2010.
Referring to his 2015 Harrow East campaign, Sunny Hundal of the Hindustan
Times tweeted “Astonishing. Tory MP in London playing Hindu divide-and-rule
caste politics with leaflets for Hindus. Nasty”. Commenting on Blackman’s campaign,
London assembly member and 2017 parliamentary candidate for Harrow East Navin
Shah said,
“The
general election also saw the same old issues like Kashmiri Pundits and caste
legislation dragged out for the Tory propaganda to find cheap favours amongst
Indian / Hindu voters”.
But the Queen of anti-Islamic bigots is another
signatory to the letter Caroline Lucas signed, Baroness Caroline
Cox. In
February 2009, Cox and UKIP peer Lord Pearson invited the
leader of the Dutch Freedom Party Geert
Wilders, who supports banning the
Islamic religion outright, to show the anti-Islam film Fitna
at the House of Lords. Wilders was banned from entering Britain. Cox
accused the Government of appeasing militant Islam.
In 2010 Cox and Pearson successfully
hosted Wilders and his film with 200 members of the English Defence League marching in
support of the screening. Cox said in a speech in Israel that “Islam
is using the freedoms of democracy to destroy it”
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| Geert Wilders - Baroness Cox's Fascist Friend |
Cox, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, is prominent in the Henry Jackson Society and is a director of the far-Right Gatestone Institute which hosts her writings online. In 2007, she told the Jerusalem Summit, an anti-Palestinian network of which she has been co-president since 2005, that “Britain has been deeply infiltrated” by Islamist extremists, who have converted the country into “a base for training and teaching militant Islam”. She added that “Britain’s cultural and spiritual heritage are under threat.”
Cox also told the Jerusalem Post she was concerned about “the disturbing alliance between the Islamists and the Left in the UK,”
According to Craig Murray, Cox is “a prominent supporter of organisations which actively and openly promote the ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians from Gaza.’
So
Caroline Lucas are you going to allow your name to stay on this letter
alongside a whole group of racist, war mongering MPs, the detritus of New
Labour such as Lords Austen and Mann?
You
say you are a supporter of Palestinian human rights. The absence of those
rights isn’t an act of god. The lack of any human rights comes from Zionism, a Jewish
Supremacist ideology and movement which has for the past 70+ years built a
society where non-Jews are the Untermenschen of Israel.
The
letter signed by your fellow parliamentarians has nothing to do with defence of
Jewish students. It has everything to do with demonising a decent radical
lecturer and inflicting a body blow against academic freedom in this country. Your
decision to sign the letter is shameful. Please remove your name at once.
Tony
Greenstein
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