Today Jones Claims He Was the
Victim & Suffered Depression as a Result – the Evidence Shows That Not
Only Is He a Liar But That He Obtained Money by Deception
Knowing how sensitive readers of this blog are, I
recommend that before you read any further that you have a box of paper tissues
handy.
Earlier this week my attention was drawn to an article
in the Weekly Liar about an action for slander that I brought against ex-councillor
Josh Jones of Dartford Labour Party.
According to the Weekly Liar I brought a bogus legal action against Jones alleging that he had called me a holocaust denier. Despite JJ denying my accusations I nonetheless proceeded with my claim forcing him to hire expensive lawyers, Peter Carter-F*** of Private Eye fame. When the High Court came to examine my allegations they threw them out and awarded Jones £20,000 costs.
As my courts costs were zero, being on benefits, I suffered
no financial loss whereas Jones was let footing the bill. It is, as you will
appreciate, a tale of wickedness and malice on my part. I picked on an innocent
man who only wanted to do his bit fighting anti-Semitism.
As
a result Jones became depressed at having to spend his entire savings defending
his reputation. According to the Weekly
Liar
my actions had ‘a significant impact on
his mental health and forced him to delay his dream of buying a house.’ At
this point you are probably reaching for those tissues as this is nothing if
not a morality
tale.
However
this story has a happy ending. After having suffered in silence for over a year,
afraid of bringing his plight to my attention, Jones launched a crowdfunder.
Helped along by an article
Fury over £20k bill after failed
Greenstein lawsuit Jones crowdfunder reached its £20K target in 4 days. His
savings are now safe thanks to the gullibility of British Zionists!
It
is noticeable that the main donor is ‘anonymous’. Most donors being too ashamed
to give their names. The largest donor, Sir Trevor Chinn, who funds Labour
Friends of Israel and other Zionist causes, was not so shy. He gave £1K. Chinn has
previously
given £50K to Starmer’s leadership campaign.
So
is it true that I harassed and nearly bankrupted an innocent man? Should I hang
my head in shame and forever shun polite company? Or is Josh Jones a liar, a
conman and a fraud?
The evidence below makes
it quite clear that JJ is all of those things and more. He is now employed by
John Lewis. They might like to consider whether employing a fraudster, who has obtained
via his crowdfunder
money by deception, is a fit and honest person.
What happened in Dartford LP on
Friday 27 April 2018?
A motion was brought by the Labour Group to Dartford
General Committee that the racist Jewish
Labour Movement should be asked to conduct ‘anti-Semitism’ training. Which was
like asking Tommy Robinson to give a talk on the fight against Islamaphobia or the
late Harold Shipman giving a lecture on how to care for the elderly!
The last time I made the front page of the Weekly Liar
was some 14 years ago when I successfully proposed to UNISON’s conference that
it should adopt BDS. This was the pre-Stephen Pollard era when the Jewish Chronicle was still a newspaper
as opposed to a propaganda rag. Its reporter, Bernard Josephs, came up to
congratulate me on what he termed my excellent speech.
However Bernard was a journalist of the old school who
had this annoying habit of ringing you up before writing a story about
you. Under the Stephen Pollard, a friend
of fascists and anti-Semites everywhere (as long as they are Zionists) such
quaint habits have long since died a death.
The motion from the Labour Group was amended by Paul
Field to add Jewish Voices for Labour and the Jewish Socialist Group to those
who should be invited to help train people in anti-Semitism.
My own view is that this ‘anti-Semitism training’ is a
complete nonsense. If you don’t know what anti-Semitism is then you should
consult the OED
– ‘hostility to or prejudice against Jews.’
You don’t need to define racism to fight it. Those who want to define anti-Semitism
have a hidden agenda – conflating anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism. That is the
purpose of the IHRA.
Replying to Paul JJ opposed the amendment because the
JLM didn’t contain holocaust deniers. The implication was that JVL did contain holocaust
deniers. The meeting then voted to reject the Councillors’ motion in favour of
Paul’s amendment. Paul then got up to say that he hoped JJ was not implying
that JVL contained holocaust deniers.
It
was at this point that Jones got up to directly allege that both Tony
Greenstein and Alan Bull were holocaust deniers and members of JVL. In fact neither
Alan nor myself are members of JVL. Nor
are we holocaust deniers.
What is the truth?
Whoever took the minutes excised Jones’ naming of Tony
Greenstein and Alan Bull. A subsequent meeting failed to amend them for the
sake of accuracy. However the minutes nonetheless confirm that Josh Jones did make the comments about holocaust
deniers. They quote Paul Field as saying:
Paul Field
believes that Josh Jones earlier comments regarding holocaust deniers not being
part of the membership of the JLM is slanderous as it infers that there are
such deniers in other groups, such as the JSG.
The
minutes then go on to quote Josh Jones:
He (JJ) states
that only the JLM is affiliated to the Labour Party, is the only group without holocaust deniers.’ (my emphasis)
It is clear beyond doubt that JJ was making an
allegation that Jewish anti-Zionists were holocaust deniers, contrary to all
his protestations.
Paul
emailed me after seeing the Jewish Chronicle article to say:
The perpetrator presenting
himself as victim again! 8 of us signed witness statements (including the
then Chair of the Party) saying we heard Jones call Tony a holocaust
denier. He managed to get that struck from the minutes but the fact that
Jones also said JVL should not be asked to talk to members because it
'harboured holocaust deniers' was not removed. It prompted JVL to complain that
this was grossly offensive and that many of its members had relatives who died
in the holocaust.
In fact there were 9 not 8 independent witnesses. Graphical
extracts from their statements are below. All names have been removed.
The statement of the Chair encapsulates what happened:
1.
At the start of the meeting Steve Nunn, Chair of Dartford Labour Party,
stepped down from the Chair because he wished to contribute to the debate....
2.
When Paul Field’s amendment inviting Jewish Socialist Group and Jewish
Voice for Labour as well as Jewish Labour Movement to a future meeting came up
for discussion, Councillor Joshua Jones spoke against extending the invitation
beyond the JLM which he said was the only group which is formally affiliated to
the Labour Party and does not contain holocaust deniers.
3.
Paul Field then spoke, and said he hoped that Joshua Jones’ earlier
comment regarding Holocaust deniers not being part of the membership of the JLM
was not intended to infer that holocaust deniers are among the membership of JVL
and Jewish Socialist Group as it would be offensive and defamatory for him to
suggest that they were.
4.
Joshua Jones, then replied directly to Paul Field in the debate, saying
JVL contains “holocaust deniers such as Alan Ball and Tony Greenstein.” Paul Field objected that his comments were
defamatory and said “I hope you have a good lawyer”....
6 On 20 May 2018, I emailed Paul Field
supporting his amendment to April minutes as as a true
and accurate account of what was said in the meeting. A Copy of Mr Field’s amended minutes are at
Exhibit One and a copy of my email to Mr Field is at Exhibit Two of this
statement.
Not only was I defamed by JJ but Jewish Voices for
Labour too were accused by this pathetic liar who parades himself as a ‘victim’,
of being holocaust deniers. JJ personifies the fake Labour ‘anti-Semitism’
allegations of the Labour Right. The bigger the lie, the more they play victim.
Except that in this case I didn’t let the lie pass quietly by.
JVL also submitted a complaint to Dartford Labour
Party complaining about JJ. However the party chose to do nothing about what
was an anti-Semitic attack. It is difficult to think of anything more
disgusting than calling Jewish people holocaust deniers. But that is the irony.
Non-Jewish supporters of Zionism, like Trump and Orban, are usually anti-Semites
just as some of the most ardent Evangelical opponents of gay rights in the United
States turn out to be gay!
Starmer’s Racism
May Rebound in Batley & Spen
Today we are seeing Keir Starmer, who promised to ‘root
out anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party on the brink of losing Batley and Spen
by-election as Muslim voters turn against Labour for its Islamaphobic and anti-Palestinian
stance. Starmer’s war against anti-racism and anti-Zionism have proved
disastrous. In his efforts to cuddle up to the British Establishment he has
failed to lay a punch on Boris Johnson despite the COVID disaster.
This is where the poisonous politics of Blair,
Mandelson and Starmer are leading. In the Chesham and Amersham by-election last
Thursday, according to the BBC ‘Labour had the worst by-election result in the party's history, with
622 votes’ and 1.6% vote. At the 2019
election Labour was in 3rd place with 7,166 votes and 12.9% of the vote. And
that was after two years or right-wing sabotage. In 2017,
Labour gained second place with 11,374 votes and 20.6%.
As I pointed out in the middle of the attacks on Corbyn,
attacks which he failed to stand up to, the Labour Right has nothing to say and nothing to offer. It is in danger of going
the way of much of European social democracy. That is why the refusal of the
Campaign Group and Momentum to call for Starmer’s resignation is so pathetic
and cowardly.
What
Happened Next?
I immediately sent (28 April 2018) what is known as a pre-action
letter to JJ threatening him with legal action unless he apologised and
withdrew his comments. On 13 May 2018 JJ
sent me what can only be described as a pathetic
reply blaming everything on Paul Field!
I therefore
decided that I would sue him. As I was also involved in litigation with the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism I had
little spare time and it was not until 25th April 2019, two days
before the time limit expired, that I issued
my claim form. I was fortunate in securing the services of an excellent pro-bono
barrister Carol
Addy.
Although leaving it to the last minute was not
deliberate, the arrival of my claim must have been a shock to Jones who thought
he had got away with it and that I was bluffing!
Immediately
Jones solicitors applied
to strike out my application as having no reasonable prospects of success.
The 3 grounds were particularised in their skeleton
argument.
3.1. C is unable to particularise the words
complained of with the precision necessary to found a successful slander claim
and, even if amendment is permitted, C will remain in a position where he is
unable to prove the actual words spoken.
3.2. The words that C complains of in these
proceedings are not words that are actionable without proof of special damage,
and C has put no evidence forward throughout this litigation to evidence such
damage.
3.3. C’s position (both pleaded and actual) on
serious harm to reputation is such that C is unable to fulfil the “serious harm”
requirement as set out in section 1(1) of the Defamation Act 2013.
Although Jones application failed on the 1st
and 3rd grounds he succeeded on the 2nd. For slander to
succeed it must constitute ‘the
commission of a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment’.
Jones legal team then applied for £27K costs but
because they had failed on 2 of the 3 grounds this was cut by Master Eastman to
£20K.
Suffice to say that when his solicitors wrote to me
asking for a cheque I pleaded poverty.
Even if I had had the money wild horses would not have persuaded me to
cough up a penny!
According
to the Weekly
Liar Jones claimed he had suffered from stress, anxiety and depression:
The stressed caused by Mr Greenstein taking him to
court meant he needed to take time off work due to anxiety and depression.
“It got so bad at one point I was put on medication. I
was having to use all my savings to defend myself, I closed down my ISA and I
was living pay cheque to pay cheque,” Mr Jones said.
“Nothing like that has ever happened to me.”....
“I suppose it
was just old fashioned standing up to bullies. The whole experience has been an
education for me and I’ve learnt .. about antisemitism and how it manifests
itself.”
Mr Jones, who now works for John Lewis in their
head office, was reluctant to go public about his case or ask for help at the
beginning because he didn’t want to draw attention to Mr Greenstein.
I have no knowledge as to whether JJ did indeed suffer
depression. Given his record of lying I wouldn’t believe anything he says. But
even if he did then that is nothing compared to the suffering of the people in Palestine
whose torment JJ was defending.
False allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’ have but one purpose.
To deflect support from the victims of Israeli Apartheid to bogus accusations
of ‘anti-Semitism’.
As for the suggestion that JJ was ‘standing up to bullying’ I can only
suggest that he consults a dictionary. Responding to false allegations is not evidence
of bullying.
As for his having ‘learnt
.. about antisemitism and how it manifests itself’ this unstable narcissist
has clearly learnt nothing at all if he thinks making false accusations of anti-Semitism
against Jews is combatting anti-Semitism.
I have also sent a letter
to the Jewish Chronicle but since they don't print letters from
anti-Zionists I let it expand to 800 words as I told a few home truths to its
editor Stephen Pollard!
Tony Greenstein
Redacted Witness Statements
Witness 1
Witness 2
Witness 3
Witness 4
Witness 5
Witness 6
Witness 7
Witness 8
Witness 9
Witness 10
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