Part 1: The Union of Jewish Students is not a Cuddly Group of Fragile Jewish Students – it is the Israeli State on Campus – Dedicated to Defaming Opponents of Israeli Apartheid
Part 2 will look at UJS's record of attacking Jewish anti-Zionists and dissident Jews
I
have just learnt from a member of management at Bristol University, who has to remain anonymous, unhappy
about the pressure being exerted on the university to dismiss Professor
Miller, that the hearing will be next week.
This is the BOD real agenda
The
campaign to dismiss David Miller has been a combined campaign of the British
Establishment, led by the Union of Jewish Students.
Their supporters include the Board of Deputies,
the Community Security Trust, over 100 MPs and peers,
the All Parliamentary Group Against
Anti-Semitism and of course the lie sheet
that goes by the name of the Jewish Chronicle.
David Miller
Extreme
Pressure to Dismiss David Miller
The
campaign to have David Miller dismissed for calling for an end to Zionism, a
racist political ideology and his criticism of the Union of Jewish Students,
has been in full flow ever since February when David spoke at a meeting of the Labour Campaign for Free
Speech. Since then there has been a Zionist tsunami washing over
Bristol University. It has been led by the Union of Jewish Students which, as
Al Jazeera’s The Lobby revealed in January 2017, is funded by the
Israeli Embassy.
Demonstration at Bristol University Earlier This Year
At
the same time David Miller has been gagged by the university, unable to speak
out in his own defence, to rebut the lies and half-truths peddled by his opponents.
What will it take for Bristol to sack this lecturer? wrote Sabrina
Miller in the Jewish Chronicle of 4 March. ‘Jewish students do not feel safe from him yet the
university refuses to dismiss David Miller.’ The idea that Jewish students
are such snowflakes that anti-Zionist ideas make them run to mummy suggests
that they belong in a kindergarten not a university. In not standing up for David Miller, Bristol
University has failed in its basic duty of care to David Miller. Vice
Chancellor Hugh Brady should be ashamed of himself.
On the
same day The Times reported that MPs and peers call on Bristol University to
condemn academic in antisemitism row.
This campaign has continued incessantly since February. On
August 12 the Jewish News reported
‘Outrage as
Professor Miller set to teach ‘offensive’ module despite investigation’ and of course the ‘Union of Jewish
Students accuses University of Bristol of ‘legitimising the targeted attacks he
made towards Jewish students’.
The Zionist campaign is perfectly
understandable because in Israel, if you are a Palestinian, then you are guilty
until proven innocent as the appalling
case of Mohammed el-Halabi ‘Has a
lone Palestinian aid worker been falsely accused of the biggest aid money heist
in history?’ demonstrates. Despite being cleared by two audits of stealing
money for Hamas, he has been imprisoned by Israel for over 5 years. Israeli
prosecutors offered him deals to leave prison if only he pleaded guilty. This is the Zionist justice that UJS and the
Jewish Chronicle want Bristol University adopt.
On 30 June Jewish News told how ‘100
days and counting: Uni ‘dragging feet’ over ‘pawns of Israel’ investigation’.
David Miller said that Israel and UJS used Jewish students as pawns not that
the students were pawns (although some of them clearly are).
Jewish News reported on 28 July that ‘Bristol Uni ‘refused to discuss’ David Miller probe in meeting with UJS and J-soc’. How strange that an employer refuses to discuss employment matters with external bodies. Perhaps Jewish News will enlighten us as to what has happened to its former foreign editor Stephen Oryszczuk? See ‘Jewish News foreign editor takes leave after criticising paper's coverage of Labour anti-Semitism row
The corrupt
Communities Secretary ‘Robert
Jenrick has criticised one of Britain's most prestigious universities, saying
that its Jewish students feel "unsafe and unwelcome". How one
might ask does he know? Has he spoken to
any? Or is he repeating the lies of the JC?
The Jewish Chronicle of 13 August
reported
how
‘the All Party Parliamentary Group on Antisemitism
wrote to Bristol Vice Chancellor Hugh Brady, attacking the university’s
“institutional failure… to tackle anti-Jewish racism”.
In fact the APPGA, including scab
‘Labour’ MP Rosie Duffield has written 3 times to Bristol University to
pile the pressure on. At the same time the government has taken steps to ensure
that holocaust deniers can speak unchallenged at universities.
If you deny the extermination by the Nazis of millions of people,
including 6 million Jews, then that is perfectly
acceptable to these MPs. But if you
challenge the apartheid movement called Zionism and thereby challenge the basis
of British foreign policy in the Middle East then you must be banned, sacked
and vilified.
What
did David Miller Say That Was So Offensive?
What
was David’s crime? Calling for an end to Zionism as a functioning ideology. Can
anyone imagine that a tenured professor at a British university would have been
in danger of being dismissed for having called for an end to Apartheid 30 years
ago? Yet these hypocrites dress it up as protection for Jewish students. It
would have just as easy 30 years ago to say that opposition to Apartheid was a
threat to racist white students.
This is not the first time a Bristol Academic has come under attack
In
2017 the Zionist ‘charity’ Campaign Against Anti-Semitism called
for the dismissal of Jewish lecturer, Rachel Gould for having written an
article ‘Beyond Anti-Semitism’ for Counterpunch. Fat
lump Eric Pickles, former Tory Friends of Israel Chair termed it the worst example
of Holocaust denial he had ever seen. Bristol Post reporter Michael Ribbeck observed
that:
to claim, as
Sir Eric Pickles has done, that Dr Gould's paper is "one of the worst
cases of Holocaust denial" is quite frankly ridiculous and inflammatory.
Perhaps Sir
Eric should read up on the discredited historian David Irving before he starts
throwing around accusations and trite soundbites.
Kenneth
Stern, the drafter of the IHRA
misdefinition of anti-Semitism wrote, in testimony
to the US Congress about this case that:
Perhaps most egregious, an off-campus group citing the definition
called on a university to conduct an inquiry of a professor (who
received her PhD from Columbia) 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.
Chilling
and McCarthy like. That is an excellent description of the campaign to dismiss
David Miller.
Is this the 'abusive' message Isaacs claims was sent to him?
David Isaacs – Chair of Bristol J
Soc and a Liar
The
attack on David began
on February 15 in the Jewish Chronicle with an article by Liar Lee Harpin, arrested
for having hacked phones at the Daily Mirror. He got away with that and has
been defaming people ever since. He has since transferred his affections to the
Jewish News which, on 13 August reported that ‘David
Miller campaign accuses Jewish students of ‘whitewashing colonialism’.
‘The
president of the Jewish Society at the university, Edward Isaacs, has also said
that he was personally targeted for abuse in the wake of the academic’s
broadside against the J-Soc.’
It
went on to state that
‘‘The Union of Jewish Students has repeatedly
criticised Bristol University for failing to take action “to protect Jewish
students, who have been singled out and targeted.”
This
allegation is a complete lie and an example of the dishonesty of the campaign. Was the
‘abuse’ that Isaacs complains of from me? If so it was in response to an attempt
by Isaacs to join Labour Against the Witchhunt Facebook Group.
As the moderator I messaged him, asking what his motives were.
‘You have
applied to join Labour Against the Witchhunt. Why? You are Chair of a J Soc,
i.e. the UJS which is funded by the world’s only apartheid state.
Why should a
Zionist want to join an anti-racist group?’ Isaacs was attempting to join the
LAW group as a spy. If this is anti-Semitic abuse then I’m a pear tree!
A
second UJS member, AJ Solomon also applied
to join the group. Solomon was Deputy Chair of Bristol J Soc and clearly he and
Isaacs were acting in concert to try and infiltrate LAW. Unlike Isaacs Solomon responded
to my question and we engaged in a conversation. But then a funny thing happened.
He
first started off accusing me of being an anti-Semite, the usual trope but I
batted it back and he began to flounder – badly. So what did he do? He unsent his messages! The conversation is below. Losing the argument Solomon retreated. Was he
harassed? Well if posing difficult questions to a Zionist is harassment then I
guess I’m bang to rights!
Another
article in the Jewish Chronicle of
13 August, a classic piece piece of McCarthyism complained that
‘Prof Miller
is to teach two modules in the coming academic year, one of which has
previously been condemned by the Union of Jewish Students for containing
“offensive” material, the ‘Support David Miller Campaign’ accused the UJS and
Bristol JSoc of existing to “whitewash Zionist colonisation of Palestine” and
“manufacturing hysteria”.
The
Zionist press assumes that Bristol University administration are as stupid as
its few remaining readers. And they
might be right unfortunately. The first ‘Object’ in UJS’s constitution
reads:
2.11 Creating
meaningful Jewish campus experiences and inspiring Jewish students to make an
enduring commitment to their Jewish identity, Israel, and the community.’
Israel occupies the West Bank and allocates full
democratic rights to Jewish settlers whilst granting no rights whatsoever to those
of another ethnicity, Palestinians. This is a classic example of Apartheid. Two
groups living in the same territory with different rights.
B’Tselem, Israel’s most respected human rights group said in
a Report in January that Israel is a ‘regime
of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is
apartheid.’
And
in April Human Rights Watch
drew the same conclusions in a 300 page report
‘A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and
the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution’. The examples are numerous -
from ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem to destruction of homes, water pipes
and solar panels and the theft and confiscation of land. All of which UJS defends in the name of Zionism.
This
is just the West Bank. In Israel itself
the Palestinian minority is treated as a barely tolerated minority. In May as Israel was attacking Gaza, there
were widespread pogroms against Israel’s Arab
citizens. This is what the attacks on
David Miller by UJS are about. Both Isaacs and Solomon spent their summer
vacation in Israel so they are fully aware of the pogroms and the ‘death to the Arabs’ March of the Flags
in Jerusalem. They should bear in mind that ‘death
to the Jews’ was the most popular slogan in Nazi Germany and Poland.
But
what was it that David Miller said that caused such offence? Did he call for
pogroms against Jewish students or threaten violence? Did he, like Bar Ilan
Professor Mordechai Kedar who advocated the rape of Palestinian women,
suggest raping Jewish women? To ask the question is to answer it.
Israel
is a Jewish state, i.e. a state not of all its citizens but of its Jewish
citizens. That is why it is inherently racist and that is why UJS seek to
demonise anti-Zionist academics like Miller.
Below
is a précis of what David actually said that the Union of Jewish Students and
the Zionist claque found ‘offensive’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=box7unWvr7E&t=5s
David Miller Addressing February 13
Meeting of LCFS
‘The enemy we face here is Zionism and the
imperial policies of the Israeli state... an all out onslaught by the Israeli
government on the left... it is how we defeat the ideology of Zionism in
practice. How do we ensure that Zionism
is ended... how we end the material reality of the jackboot of Zionism on the
neck of the Palestinians...
I’ve
been attacked and complained about by the head of the Bristol J Soc along with
the President of the Union of Jewish Students, both of which organisations are
formally members of the Zionist movement. J-Socs are part of the UJS, UJS is a
member of the World UJS which is a direct member of the World Zionist
Organisation. In its constitution UJS mention being pro-Israel. [David mentions similar attacks on other
academics at Warwick and other universities against anyone speaking out about
the Palestinians or criticising Zionism]... We
have to fight back against that and the way to do that is to organise proper
debate.’
So
for advocating a ‘fight back’ by
organising a ‘proper debate’ David
Miller is guilty of threatening the safety of Jewish students! This is
Orwellian doublespeak where words take on the
opposite of their actual meaning.
The Dishonest Attacks on David Miller
Of
one thing we should be clear. UJS’s attack on David Miller has nothing to do
with defending Jewish students – it’s about defending apartheid. As David’s
campaign was reported
saying:
“The UJS and
Bristol JSoc have been manufacturing hysteria around Professor Miller’s work
for over two years. This is due to his teaching about the role of parts of the
Zionist movement in promoting Islamophobia and his expertise on the subject.
Both the UJS and Bristol JSoc exist to whitewash Zionist colonisation of
Palestine and promote Israeli diplomatic objectives in the UK. No serious
observer should take the claims of ‘discomfort’ made by these pro-Israel
campaigners at face value, and they should not be allowed to dictate policy to
British universities.”
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Transcript of Exchange on Messenger with AJ Solomon – Vice Chair of
Bristol J Soc
why do you want to join Labour
Against the Witchhunt? To be blunt are you a Zionist? I note you are from the
University of Bristol so we can if necessary check if you've been involved in
the campaign against David Miller
28 Feb 2021, 02:28You sent
I asked you a question. You have
not answered. You are a member of Bristol J-Soc ie a racist and Zionist you are blocked.
Goodbye
28
Feb 2021, 15:19
You sentI suggest instead of pretending that you and the other Zionist Jewish students at Bristol are victims, when you are in fact perpetrators, active supporters of Israel, that you become like the Shministim, the brave Israeli youth who refuse to serve in an occupation army https://www.facebook.com/refusersn/videos/652696338746821
28 Feb 2021, 17:19You sent
Yeah it must be very stressful
supporting apartheid and having to face down anti-racists! https://tinyurl.com/yblgczbb
You sentEven more stressful having to deal with arguments you can't answer - it's called fake victimhood
28
Feb 2021, 22:59
AJhttps://www.adl.org/resources/tools-and-strategies/what-is-anti-israel-anti-semitic-anti-zionist
2
Mar 2021, 06:44
Is that the same ADL that spied for
South Africa's secret police (BOSS) and trains US Police Forces in how to kill
Black people better? Your as much a victim as Germany's 'Aryans' were in 1933! https://www.adl.org/who-we-are/our-organization/signature-programs/partnering-with-law-enforcement
2
Mar 2021, 10:24
AJJust deflecting from the fact that this clearly calls both you and David Miller an anti semite
2
Mar 2021, 19:12
You sent
Then that shows what a rubbish
definition it is then. If you redefine anti-Semitism to mean opposition to
Zionism then fine. We're all 'antisemitic' But at least I'm not a racist
scumbag like you!
AJThe article does not say anti-Semitism is the opposite to Zionism, it says anti-Zionism may be motivated by or a result of anti-Semitism
What is anti-Semitic is saying all Jews such as myself is
responsible for Israel’s actions
You sent
that is the position of the ADL.
Anti-Zionism is never motivated by anti-Semitism. That's why the friends of
Zionism are people like Trump, white supremacists like Tommy Robinson and
Richard Spencer and leaders like Viktor Orban. You are wet behind the ears. You
know nothing of Jewish or Zionist history. Polish Jews voted overwhelmingly for
the anti-Zionist Bund in the last free elections. In Warsaw out of 20 Jewish Council
seats the Bund won 17 and the Zionists precisely one
You sent
Yes it is anti-Semitic to say that
all Jews are responsible for Israel's crimes but you need to take it up with
Israel not me. Israel calls itself a Jewish state and specifically states that
it is a state of the whole Jewish people (a nonsense in itself). It is Zionism
which plays into the hands of anti-Semites which is why Zionism has
historically formed alliances with anti-Semites. I suspect like most Zionists
you know nothing about Zionism. Try reading Herzl's Jewish State where he talks
about the 'power of the purse' of Jews. Or the social Darwinist writings of
Arthur Ruppin, the second most important Palestinian Zionist after Ben Gurion
who openly proclaimed he was an anti-Semite. Do you even know of the concept of
the Negation of the Diaspora? When Zionism began most Jews accused it of being
a Jewish version of anti-Semitism.
The whole thing is of a deep sadness, IMO.
ReplyDeleteLet's face it: Zionism has won. The Palestinians will continue to protest (with our support) their ongoing dispossession but it won't make any difference. Israel has the last, most powerful superpower very firmly on its side.
As regards 'safe spaces', it's the Left having been hoisted on its own petard. Now we have Jewish students hiding behind the claim that they may feel 'uncomfortable' in the face of antizionist opinions! Ridiculous beyond reason...
No, Zionism has not won. In many ways it is losing. Zionism is not in the position of the American or Australian settlers. It is dependent on the world. It cannot carry out the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank and Gaza. Any attempt to do so would provoke massive instability in the Arab world. The US could not just stand by given its support for the Zionists.
DeleteTrue the position is terrible but you forget that there are 5 million Palestinians in the West Bank. They are not going anywhere. Meanwhile Israel is losing the battle ideologically and politically
Gert, the fact is that Zionism is losing, this is why Zionists are in such termoil now to try and stamp out any focus upon its racist basis. Weekly more and more young Jews in Israel are refusing to join the IDF and its suppression and brutal attacks upon Palestinians. They have been brought up on the myths of Zionism but when, as many of them do, look into the works of those such as Simha Flapan, they find out that the true motivation of Zionists is to dispossess Palestinians of their ancestral land and homes. No doubt they have also seen the video of the obnoxious American Zionist being confronted by a Palestinian woman who accused him of stealing her house. His reply was "if I don't steal it, someone else will".
DeleteIt is a slow process but there is progress, even though it's hampered by some of the most ardent Christian Zionists, particularly in the USA.
Yes, totally agree with Tony and Jack T. Zionism hasn't won. And its 'backer', the US, is on the rocks. Watch any of Chris Hedges' stuff on YouTube or read the book: America The Farewell Tour. Same with Zionism. The events of May this year demonstrates how badly the Zionist project is doing. And why racists are accusing anti-racists of racism. Maybe Tony, you should write a book on this: Zionism The Farewell Tour. :)
DeleteBut it is almost astonishing that the witchhunt in this country now seems even more intense than its American and decades old equivalent.
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