Why
did the Community Security Trust, which claims it is ‘working towards the elimination of
racism and anti-Semitism’ invite Suella Braverman to its 2023 Annual Dinner?
Cruella and the Refugee ‘Invasion’
There is
no doubt that Diane Abbot’s letter
to the Observer could have been better worded. Pigmentation or
colour isn’t the cause of racism though in Britain, because of our colonial
heritage, being Black and being victims of racism are synonymous. By racism
I mean institutionalised and state racism not prejudice. But nothing
in her letter was in any way racist or anti-Semitic.
It is
those who are calling for Diane’s expulsion, such as the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism
and the Jewish
Chronicle who are the most virulent racists. They give unqualified support to the world’s only apartheid state, Israel.
It was
only last week that the Jewish Chronicle Leader stated
that ‘There is no ‘context’ to the murder of the
Dees’ referring to the
killing of three British settlers in the West Bank. They alleged that the
settlers were killed because they were Jewish rather than because they were
settlers.
The context they denied was the murder of 95
Palestinians, including 17 children, by Israel in the first quarter of this
year. To say nothing of the reign of terror by settlers against Palestinians which culminated in a pogrom at Huwara and a call
to ‘wipe out’ the town by Israeli Finance
and Settlement Minister Bezalel Smotrich. This is because to the Jewish
Chronicle and the CAA Palestinian Lives Don’t Matter.
Even the Times of Israel carried the headline
‘Settler
extremists are sowing terror, Huwara riot was a ‘pogrom,’ top general says’.
Diane Abbot was wrong to say that Gypsy Roma
or Travellers don’t experience state racism. They clearly do and the current
Public Order Act, which gives Police further powers to harass Gypsy Roma is
proof of that. It is also clear that in the past the Irish have been victims of
British state racism, as have Jews in the more distant past.
Starmer and CST gaolbird Gerald Ronson
However there is nothing anti-Semitic about
saying that today Jews are a privileged section of White British society and
that they are not victims of racism, as opposed to prejudice. The real reason
for Diane Abbot’s suspension lies in the determination of Starmer to remove the
last vestiges of the Labour Left in Parliament whilst emphasising his support
for the ‘anti-Semitism’ weapon which the British state wields against
supporters of the Palestinians.
British Movement activists
If Starmer were genuinely concerned about
racism then Neil Coyle, a right-wing Labour MP who was suspended
from Parliament for 5 days for abusing
a British Chinese journalist, Henry Dyer and also
abusing a parliamentary assistant to another MP, would not have had the whip
restored. Nor would Trevor Philips, the racist broadcaster who believes
Muslims are a nation within a nation, been reinstated to the Labour Party. Diane Abbot on the other hand has been the subject
of more racist abuse than any other MP.
The
organisation which is responsible for combating ‘Anti-Semitism’ is the Community Security Trust, which is a project of Israel’s Mossad (MI6 ).
Cruella's Concern About 'Antisemitism' Stands in Contrast to Her Racist Attacks on Refugees and Indifference To the Windrush Scandal
Asa
Winstanley of Electronic Intifada revealed
the CST had denounced Jewish critics of Israel in secret reports
to the government in 2011.’ Winstanley described
how ‘evidence suggested that the CST
works behind the scenes with an assertively pro-Israel agenda not stated in its
charitable remit.’ The article also raised ‘serious questions over the CST’s links to the government of Israel and,
allegedly, to its intelligence services.’ When asked to comment on these
allegations the CST preferred to remain silent.
In particular, in a report sent to the Home Office, the CST denounced several “anti-Zionist British Jewish individuals and groups” as “extreme groups,” claiming they were “unrepresentative of the vast majority of British Jews.”
The report was primarily an attempt to help the government deport Palestinian political activist Raed Salah expressed concern that certain Jews had “voiced support for Salah,” recommending that the “extent of their credibility to speak on
these issues should be considered.”
David Hearst of the Guardian wrote
about how
just
17 minutes after receiving a report on the activist, prepared by Michael Whine
of the Community Security Trust… Faye Johnson, private secretary to the home
secretary, emailed about a parliamentary event Salah was due to attend.
"Is
there anything that we can do to prevent him from attending (eg could we
exclude him on the grounds of unacceptable behaviour?)"
Whine's report said Salah's record of provocative statements carried a
risk that his presence in the UK could have "a radicalising impact" on his audiences.
Raed Salah - Palestinian Israeli activist attacked and imprisoned by Israel on false charges of racism - it is only Israeli Arabs who are ever charged with racism
UK Border Agency officials were dubious about the CST’s evidence and they
were proved right. Andy Smith of the Special Cases Directorate said the action
would not only prolong Salah's stay in the UK but raise his profile. In the end
the warning of Smith and others proved correct and Saleh ended up
receiving compensation for false imprisonment
and overturning his deportation order. The CST ‘evidence’ consisted
of doctored quotes and fabrications.
The crux of the false
evidence that the CST supplied against Salah was that he wrote an
anti-Semitic poem containing the line: “You
Jews are criminal bombers of mosques”. As Asa Winstanley wrote
This
“poem” was fabricated in the context of a long-standing Israeli campaign of
attacks, detentions and disinformation against Salah. This particular forgery
looks to have been originally carried out by an editorial writer at the Jerusalem
Post. But this
highly problematic, hostile 2009 article was cited by the UK Border Agency
(UKBA) as the primary
factual basis for both the exclusion and deportation orders.
Unsurprisingly Saleh won
his appeal. The real question is why an organisation whose remit is
opposing anti-Semitism in Britain should feel the need to echo Israel’s racist
attacks on a Palestinian Israeli citizen. The reason is the close
links between the CST and Mossad, which has trained
the Community
Security Trust’s staff and volunteers.
In its attacks on Raed Salah, who should the CST quote in paragraph
28-30 of its submission to the First Tier Immigration Tribunal? A
racist Israeli professor who
makes the British National Party seem mild by comparison.
‘When the Muslim population gets to a critical
mass you have problems. That is a general rule, so if it applies everywhere it
applies in Australia." and ‘Australia should cap Muslim immigration or
risk being swamped by Indonesians.’
‘Muslim immigrants had a reputation for
manipulating the values of Western countries, taking advantage of their
hospitality and tolerance.’ ‘"French people say they are strangers in
their own country. This is a point of no return.’
The First Tier Tribunal criticised the CST for having
'failed to distinguish between anti-Semitism and criticism of the actions of the Israeli State and therefore gives an unbalanced perspective… '
The CST declares that its mission is to
Promote good relations
between British Jews and the rest of British society by working towards the
elimination of racism, and antisemitism in particular.
However
its decision to invite
Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who takes pride in her racist vitriol against
migrants and refugees, describing them as an ‘invasion’, as the guest speaker
at its 2023 Annual Dinner, gives the lie to its claim to have anything to do
with opposing racism. When it talks of 'antisemitism' what it really means is opposition to Zionism and Apartheid.
The CST claims
that it is a continuation of the Jewish 43 and 62 Groups which
physically confronted and fought a resurgent neo-Nazi and fascist movement
after the war and in the 1960s. However the evidence suggests otherwise.
Paul Besser, who regularly demonstrates with former Zionist Federation Vice-Chair Jonathan Hoffman
The CST
has never physically opposed fascist or neo-Nazi groups in Britain. In June 2010 it stood
by whilst a Zionist demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy was
joined by members of the English Defence League. It has never raised any
objection to the participation
in Zionist demonstrations of Zionist activists like Jonathan Hoffman, who
have worked
openly with members of fascist/neo-Nazi groups like Paul Besser of
Britain First.
Arrest of Morris Beckman of 43 Group
The CST is
a Zionist group which works with the Police whereas the 43 and 62 groups were
regularly attacked by the police. In his pamphlet on the 62
Group Steve Silver described how
It was not the two organised
attempts by the police to break the spirit of the 62 Group in 1963 and again in
1969 that caused the Group’s decline. In 1963 the police used brutal violence
and fit-ups; in 1969 it was a directive issued by a Deputy Commissioner to all
Borough Commanders instructing them to arrest on sight a list of around 15
people. (The Fighting Sixties, p.15)
The
CST doesn’t simply work hand in glove with the Board of Deputies, it came out
of them and other Jewish Establishment groups. Dave Rich, the CST’s Head of Policy explained that
The Association
of Jewish Ex-Servicemen, the Board of
Deputies of British Jews, JACOB and others all did their bit until the
disparate strands of Jewish communal defence eventually evolved into today’s
CST.
Two nazi teenagers salute National Socialist Movement leaders, Colin Jordan and John Tyndall, in Trafalgar Square July 1962.
In the 1930s the Board refused to even publicly oppose fascism, stating that ‘We cannot declare ourselves against Fascism, per se’. Daniel Sonabend described in his book We Fight Fascists [pp. 7-8] how ‘there was deep resentment among the East End Jewish community towards the Board’ because of its inaction when it came to fighting the fascists.
Contrast
this with its eagerness to defend the Israeli state. The height
of its hypocrisy was when the BOD organised its first demonstration against ‘anti-Semitism’ in March 2018, against Jeremy Corbyn. When it came to overtly fascist and anti-Semitic groups the
Board has always preferred to do nothing.
Morris
Beckman, the founder of the 43 Group, described how ‘Outraged (Jewish) ex-servicemen engaged in furious dialogue’ with
the BOD’s Jewish Defence Committee about the renewed activity of Sir Oswald
Moseley’s fascists after the war only to be told that ‘it was no time to make waves’. [The 43 Group, pp.15-16, 1993,
Centerprise Publications].
Silver
described how
The activities of the 62 Group
resurrected the old defence debate about the best way to fight antisemitism, with
the Board of Deputies’ Jewish Defence Committee publicly frowning on the
gung-ho activities of the Jewish anti-fascists. (p.12)
Braverman Explaining That Past
Massacres of Refugees in Rwanda Won’t Deter Her From Sending More to the
Country
Far
from being an anti-racist body the CST is funded by a Tory government whose racist
vitriol against refugees as a means of dividing its opponents is second to
none. Braverman took the opportunity of the CST’s annual dinner to announce a ‘task force to tackle antisemitism’.
Home Office funding for the CST will also rise by £1m to £15m to provide
guards for Jewish synagogues and schools. Given the lack of any threat to
either, compared to the situation in the 1950s and 60s, one can only conclude
that this money is intended to create fear of a threat that isn’t actually
there.
Contrast
this with the non-stop attacks on mosques and other Islamic groups in Britain. According to Al
Jazeera,
About 42 percent
of surveyed mosques or Islamic bodies in the UK have come under attack in the
last three years, a new report says.’ So why you might ask is there such
concern over a non-existent threat to synagogues compared to the very real
threat to mosques which don’t receive government funding for the purposes of security.
Braverman
told
the CST’s Annual Dinner that
“Antisemitism is one of the great evils in the
world. It is vital that all people, but especially political leaders, challenge
antisemitism whenever and wherever they encounter it.’
Why
should a Home Secretary who described
the migration of refugees across the Channel as an ‘invasion’ and who boasts
that her ‘dream’ is to deport
refugees to Rwanda, be so concerned about anti-Semitism? The answer
is that she’s not concerned about genuine anti-Semitism but is about opposition to Zionism and the Israeli state which is characterised as
anti-Semitism.
Hence why Braverman pledged
to
“reaffirm the government’s support for the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, and encourage its
further adoption.
Since the IHRA is used solely to target support for
the Palestinians and opposition to Israeli Apartheid, whilst being useless in
the fight against neo-Nazism, we can see how and why Braverman are so keen to
conflate anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
For Cruella and the CST Fighting 'Antisemitism' and Supporting Racism Against Asylum Seekers Go Hand in Hand
This scaremongering about anti-Semitism and creating an
atmosphere of fear amongst British Jews is merely another demonstration of the
cynical hypocrisy of the present government.
Not forgetting of course that Starmer was also a guest
at the CST dinner. In total the CST has received £122 million from the Home
Office since 2015.
When was the last time you heard Braverman talking about Islamaphobia?
She and her ilk in the Conservative Party deny that such a thing even exists
yet she had no compunction in criticising
the Police for treating anti-Semitism as ‘racism lite’. Apparently
Abusive behaviour towards
Jews tended to be “accepted” and “normalised”, she said. By contrast, such
bullying would have “triggered a very firm response from law enforcement” if it
was directed at other minorities.
Police
must understand that Jews do count, says Braverman
On
8 December 2021 the Islamic Human Rights Commission wrote a letter to the
Charity Commission calling for an investigation into the Community Security
Trust because
it is clear
that the CST’s raison d’etre is actually to protect the state of Israel from
criticism and censure.
This is
evidenced from the fact that the organisation frequently attacks and challenges
those who organise or take part in campaigning for the rights of the
Palestinians, invariably using the tactics of character assassination, false
accusations, Islamophobia and racism.
Gerald Ronson, Chair of the CST addresses the dinner guests - in May 1990 he was gaoled for a year for theft, conspiracy and false accounting
Tony
Lerman, the founder of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research, who was witchhunted
out of the job of Director, documented
in his article Antisemitism Redefined
[Haymarket Book, Jewish Voice for Peace, 2017], how in the 1990’s the Israeli
state moved to take over the monitoring of statistics on anti-Semitism:
I
had close personal experience of the role the Mossad played in establishing
Israeli hegemony over the monitoring and combating of antisemitism. While I was
director of the Institute of Jewish Affairs (IJA) and its successor, the
'Institute for Jewish Policy Research’ I founded and was principal editor of
the annual Antisemitism World Report, the first objective, independent ,
country-by-country survey of anti semitism worldwide. The London Mossad
representative dealing with antisemitism made it clear to me that they were
very unhappy about our independent operation and then tried to pressure us into
either ceasing publication or merging our report with one that the then new
Project for the Study of Antisemitism at Tel Aviv University, headed by
Professor Dina Porat and part-financed by the Mossad, was beginning to produce. [On Anti-Semitism,
p.12].
What you might ask is Mossad, Israel’s
equivalent of MI6 or the CIA, doing being in charge of monitoring statistics
about anti-Semitism? What relationship does an
intelligence service have to questions of racism unless it is engaged in Black
Ops?
Colin Jordan at the BNP rally in May 1960 in Trafalgar Square
The only logical explanation for why Mossad, wanted
to take over something that clearly has nothing to do with them is because the
inexorable ‘rise of anti-Semitism’ has become a Zionist theme whose counterpart
is that only the ‘Jewish State’ is safe for Jews.
‘Anti-Semitism’ has become the Zionists’ principal
weapon in the fight against anti-Zionism, BDS and support for the Palestinians.
Indeed the logic of the current ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign is that Jews should do
what the anti-Semites want – which is to leave the countries they live in.
It is this that explains the appearance from
nowhere of groups like the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism.
The CAA arose in the middle of Operation Protective Edge,
Israel’s genocidal attack on the Gaza Strip.
The CST has been given the responsibility of
compiling statistics of anti-Semitism in Britain. They have been careful not to
overplay their hand. That is why they reject many complaints of anti-Semitism.
This has ironically meant rejecting in practice the IHRA definition because
this would make it too obvious that they are engaging in statistical fraud.
This is despite their support for the IHRA politically.
They have done this because they know that
once their statistics match the IHRA definition, i.e. that any manifestation of
anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism, their statistics would lose all credibility.
Nonetheless the CST has massaged the figures,
highlighting social media anti-Semitism (which could be infinite since a single
individual can post thousands of ‘anti-Semitic incidents) as well as providing
an elastic and fuzzy definition of what constitutes anti-Semitism.
The CST’s figures show an inexorable statistical increase, year on year, in anti-Semitic incidents, thus
feeding into the myth of increasing anti-Semitism. They depend on
self-reporting and thus the perception of the ‘victim’. There is no way of
judging whether the reports are true or false since the vast majority never
result in prosecution or conviction. There has also been a continual and marked
divergence between their statistics and those of the Police.
For further reading see
Attempts by Mossad front groups to have police
target Jewish and other activists
Labour hands more power to Israel’s lobby
EI exclusive: UK charity with Mossad links
secretly denounced anti-Zionist Jews to government
Manipulating Antisemitism Statistics - the CST
and CAA
The Community Security Trust - Policeman of the
Jewish Community
CST Gets Too Big for its Boots as Jewish
Critics Multiply
Zionist Community Security Trust in Dilemma
over Islamaphobic Conference
Community Security Trust Supplies False
Information to Deport Sheikh Raed Salah
CST Thugs Violently Eject 2 Jewish People from
Zionist ‘Environmental‘Meeting
