Crowdfunder Caves In to Zionist Pressure after Just 2 Days
First a
riddle. What is the difference between Joseph Goebbels and the Zionist Lobby?
Answer: Goebbels burnt books after they were printed. The Zionists try to burn the books before they are printed!
The decision by Crowdfunder on Tuesday to cancel my appeal was not only predictable but I predicted it! I launched a Crowdfunder for a book I have written, Zionism During the Holocaust, and sure enough pressure from the Lobby (Board of Deputies, CST, CAA, Hate not Hope etc.) guaranteed the inevitable. I received the following email from Christine McCormick [christine.mccormick@crowdfunder.intercom-mail.com]:
Hello Tony,
Your project on Crowdfunder has been flagged as breaching our guidelines. Upon review our team has confirmed that based on the information available the project is in contravention of Crowdfunder’s terms of use.
Unfortunately this means we must now close this project, refunding any pledges back to the supporters. We hope you understand that we have a duty to uphold our Terms of Use and guidelines, in the best interest of the Crowdfunder community.
Christine
didn’t of course tell me who did the ‘flagging’ but then again she didn’t have
to. My Crowdfunder was ‘in contravention
of Crowdfunder’s terms of use’. Christine gave no indication of which terms
she was referring to. Perhaps I infringed E (1.1.2(c)) which says that that:
(c) all content posted by you is lawful and not
defamatory, abusive, threatening, harassing, obscene, discriminatory, or
otherwise objectionable or embarrassing to any other person as determined by us
in our sole discretion;
Clearly any reference to the Zionist relationship
to the Nazis was bound to be objectionable and embarrassing to the Zionists. The right to offend is what Free Speech is all about. Speech that doesn't offend anyone is what keeps repressive governments in power. Crowdfunder therefore
had the right to use their ‘sole discretion’ to take down the
Crowdfunder but in so doing they were acting as petty censors without a principle to their name.
As Salman Rushdie, whose book Satanic Verses certainly offended many Muslims said:
“The idea that any kind of free society can be constructed in which people will never be offended or insulted is absurd.
As George Orwell observed:
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
The strange thing is that on Sunday Erin [erin.curran@crowdfunder.intercom-mail.com] had emailed me to say that my Crowdfunder had
been extended from 28 days to Always On. Clearly Erin hadn’t spotted my breach
of Crowdfunder’s Guidelines:
Hello Tony,
Thank you for your email
and for your feedback. Your project has been switched over to Always On so that
you can continue to accept donations.
You will receive any
future pledges every couple days on a rolling basis in to your bank account
within 7 working days of them being pledged once your initial payout has been
processed
So what
changed between Sunday and Tuesday? One can only surmise that in that time the Zionists
decided to pile the pressure on Crowdfunder and that they succumbed to the
pressure. Groups like Crowdfunder exist to make a profit not to benefit the
public good, so the idea of defending free speech is not on their agenda. Profits come before principles.
By the time
Crowdfunder had closed the Appeal, I had raised £710, over 10% of my target of
£6,500.
But if Crowdfunder
has been economical with the truth in their email to me they have been
positively dishonest with those who had contributed.
The
Crowdfunder Team [support@crowdfunder.co.uk]
emailed all donors with the following message:
Hi
XXX,
Unfortunately
we have not been able to transfer your payment to the I want to publish Zionism During the Holocaust and we are in the
process of refunding your pledge. You should see the payment in your account
within 5-10 days.
Thank
you for supporting this and we’re sorry this particular cause was unable to
achieve its goal.
Crowdfunder
is the leading UK platform helping worthy and fantastic causes raise funds to
make a real difference. If you would like to explore supporting any of these
projects or fundraisers, please use the link below to find a cause that would
be extremely pleased to receive your support.
Thanks,
The Crowdfunder Team
Instead of
saying outright that they had taken down my Appeal, because the Zionists had
objected to the truth, they were told what was an outright lie:
‘Unfortunately
we have not been able to transfer your payment to the I want to publish Zionism
During the Holocaust’
There was of course
no technical problem with the transfer of funds. And then, to compound this lie
they told another: ‘we’re sorry this particular cause was unable to achieve its goal.’ To which the obvious response is ‘If you’re so sorry why did you take it down’
. However Corporations never tell the truth when a lie
will suffice.
Where Now?
I am pleased to say that the reaction of donors has been one of outrage. Fortunately I anticipated what was likely to
happen and made sure to contact every donor informing them of my fears and giving
them my email address and alternative methods of payment. The result is
that many donors have increased their donation!
Once again
the Zionist reaction to those who tell the truth about their racist movement is
censorship. Just as they tried to prevent the play Perdition
being shown and Perfidy being sold
(by buying up all the copies!) so they have resorted to their tried, trusted
and failed methods of suppression.
Of course
they will fail in their attempts because I am determined not to let them
succeed. So they will resort to their next tactic. Outright lying. It will be suggested that by
referring to Nazi-Zionist Collaboration I am accusing the Jews who died in the holocaust
of having killed themselves. Of course this won’t be true but that won’t stop
the Zionists from making the claim.
Nor will
they tell people that it was an Israeli court which found that the leader of Hungarian
Zionism, Rudolf
Kasztner, had ‘sold his soul to the
devil’ when he made an agreement to sacrifice all but 1,684 of Hungary's 800,000 Jews.
The exact same
thing happened to Hannah Arendt, the greatest political scientist of the last century, when she
published her book Eichmann
in Jerusalem. Arendt’s book gave the background to the Eichmann story and how he had worked with Kasztner. Arendt
went over all the things that arose in the Kasztner Trial that the Eichmann Trial
had been designed to erase.
Naturally
the Zionists went to any lengths to defame Arendt, who was herself a refugee
from Nazi Germany. No lie was too big. Arendt wrote about how:
the campaign, conducted with all
the well-known means of image-making and opinion-manipulation, got much more
attention than the controversy…. (it was) as though the pieces written against
the book (and more frequently against its author) came “out of a mimeographing machine”
… the clamor centered on the “image” of a book which was never written, and
touched upon subjects that often had not only not been mentioned by me but had
never occurred to me before.”
60 years
later nothing much has changed. The Zionists are still trying to suppress the
truth about the history of their racist project and they are still shouting ‘anti-Semitism’, even against Jewish holocaust survivors.
There is one
answer to this attack on free speech. Help me get my book out. Unfortunately ‘left’
publishers in this country such as Pluto Press, Verso and Zed Press took fright.
My target is £6,500 and my intention is to sell the book, which will be about
550 pages and some 190,00 words long, at around £10 including p&p (but don’t
hold me to that as there are still too many variables).
If you want
to help defeat the Zionist Censorship Machine please donate in any one of the
following ways:
1.
You can send a cheque made
out to ‘B&HUWC’ to me at PO Box 173, Brighton BN51 9EZ
2.
You can send a donation to
me at Paypal at tonygreenstein111@gmail.com
3.
You can pay by BACS to:
Name of
Account: B&HUWC
(if your bank’s software says it doesn’t recognise the account proceed anyway!)
Account Number: 04094107
Sort Code: 09-01-50
You can
also email the following at Crowdfunder to tell them what you think of their cowardly behaviour:
erin.curran@crowdfunder.intercom-mail.com
christine.mccormick@crowdfunder.intercom-mail.com
Crowdfunder, like all other capitalist so-called services on the internet, is a private organisation and can set its own rules. They are not democratic or accountable in any way. Anyone on the Left should expect such companies and corporations to make our activities as difficult as they can. We need to find alternative methods instead of relying on our self-declared opposition.
ReplyDeleteDespicable but predictable. The suppression of the truth knows no end by Zionists! Only a matter of time though before Israel is considered another blight in world history
ReplyDeleteIs it a personal account or a business one? I tried B&HUWC (no spaces) and Tony Greenstein as the name of the account and got rejected by the Natwest 'payment and transfers' both times.
ReplyDeleteHi,
DeleteIt is a business account. Try 'Brighton and Hove Unemployed Workers Centre' which is its full name. Not my name. I'm not a signatory to it.
Crowdfunder and the online like take about 5% from the takings for their middleman overheads ~ whatever that means.
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