What’s Left of Labour? Come and hear Professor David Miller who has just been forced out of the Labour Party by Racist Zionists

What are the Prospects for Labour? Come and hear Professor David Miller - driven out of the Labour Party by racists and Zionists

What has Starmer’s Labour got to offer politically in addressing domestic and international issues? Poverty and Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, Palestine, and Kashmir?

Brighton and Hove Labour Left Alliance is putting on another zoom meeting to help you while away all those hours in self-isolation!

Join us for a discussion with Kerry-Anne Mendoza, David Miller, and Katherine Connelly.

Professor Miller is one of 5 academic authors of Bad News for Labour. Zionist pressure during the Labour Party conference forced Waterstones to cancel the book launch.  Fortunately Brighton & Hove Labour Left Alliance stepped in and held the book launch.

Speaker bios:

David Miller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol and the co-author of Bad News for Labour: AntiSemitism, The Party and Public Belief.
Kerry-Anne Mendoza is a writer, journalist, social commentator, and the editor of The Canary.

Katherine Connelly is a writer, historian, activist, and editor of Counterfire. She led the school strikes against the Iraq war in 2003 and co-ordinated the Emily Wilding Davison Memorial Campaign in 2013. Her biography of Sylvia Pankhurst was published by Pluto Press in 2013.

Professor David Miller forced to resign from the Labour Party this week

According to the Jewish Chronicle’s political correspondent ‘liar’ Lee Harpin, who was arrested for hacking into people’s voice mails, Professor David Miller has resigned from Labour blaming “the Zionist movement” only weeks after he was suspended from the party over allegations that did not involve antisemitism claims.

You might think that this is just another example of Labour ‘anti-Semitism’. Perhaps Liar Lee believes that the Jewish Chronicle’s readership is even more stupid than he is.

The Zionist CST clearly doesn't understand that academic freedom means the right to disagree with them!

The Zionist movement in Britain has targeted Professor Miller consistently.  On August 14^th last year Simon Rocker wrote  about how the Zionist Community Security Trust

“has called Bristol University "an utter disgrace" over its response to a complaint the CST made about a lecture linking it to the spread of Islamophobia.

The community’s defence organisation protested in March over a lecture given earlier in the year by sociology professor David Miller which claimed that parts of the Zionist movement were funding hatred of Muslims.”

Professor David Miller's statement of resignation

What you might wonder has ‘community defence’ got to do with the contents of a lecture. Did he attack Jews? No he criticised Zionism, a political ideology and movement.

Why was the CST contacting Bristol University? Have they never heard of academic freedom? These Zionist groups monitor lecturers, encouraging students to secretly record them and then like the little McCarthyites they are inform on them to their racist patrons. Let me give the CST and any other Zionists a little lesson in Judaism.

Informing on people, Lashon hara, is the vilest of sins in the Jewish religion. Thousands of Jews have died because of it, not least in the Holocaust because of informers. According to Chabad

lashon hara, negative talk, is a sin that has caused numerous tragedies for the Jewish people, and indeed the world, since the very beginning of history.

According to the first point in the above article

Lashon hara literally means “bad talk.” This means that it is forbidden to speak negatively about someone else, even if it is true.

The Nazi informers told the truth but their crimes were no less for it. Anne Frank was murdered because of an informer.  The fact that the Zionist movement is based today on this sin is proof in itself that there is nothing inherently ‘Jewish’ in Zionism.

There is absolutely no doubt that parts of the Zionist movement, such as the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism fund and deliberately stir up  anti-Muslim racism.

Professor Miller wrote that he believed his suspension

“has much to do with my record of evidence-based research on  the Zionist movement and its influence on the British left and British politics more widely”.

and that

“my work shows the Zionist movement is an actually existing transnational network of organisations, which work tirelessly to justify Israel’s ongoing dispossession of the Palestinians. It works in collaboration with the leading Western imperial powers, most obviously the US and UK.”

As Asa Winstanley wrote in New Labour purge against Israel critics

‘David Miller is an expert on the propaganda operations of state and corporate lobbies. He has documented the methods and history of the pro-Israel lobby for years.’

Amongst Miller’s crimes was suggesting ‘that most claims of antisemitism in the Labour Party were false.’ As the list of Jewish casualties of the ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations grows longer this is becoming ever more obviously true. As the JC noted

“Last year, the Community Security Trust had highlighted how he was “teaching his students that a wide range of British Jewish groups are one of the most important causes of Islamophobia today”.

Mark Gardner, the CST’s Director of Communications claimed that:

"This vile slur includes the Board of Deputies, the Jewish Leadership Council, CST and others, including groups that focus on Israel, such as Bicom, UJIA, ZF and JNF.''

Gardner, a virulent Zionist, must be joking. The JNF refuses to lease or rent the 93% of land it controls in Israel to non-Jews. It is a viciously racist organisation.

Israel is the most anti-Islamic state in the world (alongside India). It has passed specifically anti-Muslim legislation such as the anti-Muezzin law. As Ha’aretz wrote The ‘Muezzin Law’ Is a Stain on the Law Books

Israel state policy has repeatedly been to divide and rule between Christian and Muslim Arabs.

Israel  has waged a war against the Al Aqsa mosque, invading it with armed troops to attack worshippers. See e.g. Israeli forces storm Al-Aqsa Mosque with tear gas, stun grenades

Why does Gardener think that the world’s leading neo-Nazis and Islamaphobes admire Israel if not because of its anti-Muslim hatred?  The role call is a long one. As Ha’aretz asked Why Is Mainstream Jewish Philanthropy Funding anti-Muslim, Far Right Pamela Geller?

As the Southern Poverty Law Centre wrote:

Pamela Geller is currently one of the most flamboyant anti-Muslim activists in the United States. Geller relentlessly pushes her Muslim-bashing on her blog, “Atlas Shrugs,” and is also a contributor to the far-right Breitbart News. …

Geller’s style consists of broad-brush denunciations of Islam, and preposterous claims such as that President Obama is the "love child" of Malcolm X..

  

Then there is Robert Spencer, Geller’s partner in crime who argues that the Palestinians ‘were invented’.  Both of them have been banned from entering Britain.

To say nothing of Richard Spencer -  neo-Nazi founder of the alt-Right – who declares himself a White Zionist.  Newsweek informs us that White Supremacist Richard Spencer Is a Fan of Israel's Nation-State Law.

And of course there are British fascists such as Tommy Robinson, who has also declared that he is a Zionist.  And there is Britain First.  See Far-right Britain First fosters ties with Zionist movement

The fact is that racists and fascists the world over love Israel for its Muslim bashing. If the CST don’t like David Miller telling the truth, then that’s tough.  It’s called freedom of speech.

The CST using ‘Jewish Defence’ as a pretext, has engaged in spying on lecturers in an attempt to destroy free speech on Israel. In the same article the CST admits that it supplied Bristol University with a copy of a slide it alleged had been used in a lecture that listed the “Zionist movement (parts of)” as one of the “five pillars” of Islamophobia.

‘The Jewish security group called Bristol University "an utter disgrace" over its response to the complaint and the failure to take action.’

One wonders what action the CST would like Bristol to take? Clearly they want him dismissed.

Rebecca Gould whose 'egregious' attack by the CAA was denounced by the author of the IHRA 

We know what the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism demands in the case of lecturers who upset it.  It calls for their sacking. It targeted Professor Rebecca Gould in February 2017 for a thoughtful article she wrote for Counterpunch on how people like the CAA and Israel use the Holocaust as a weapon against the Palestinians.

‘Dr Rebecca Gould, a lecturer at the University of Bristol, has been caught red-handed having written a sickening article about antisemitism.

Even Kenneth Stern, the American academic who drafted the Zionists IHRA misdefinition of anti-Semitism launched a scathing attack on what the CAA had done in Rebecca Gould’s case. In testimony to the US Congress he wrote:

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.26 The university then conducted the inquiry.27 And while it ultimately found no basis to discipline the professor, the exercise itself was chilling and McCarthy-like

Let’s have a closer look at the CST’s sister organisation, the CAA. Its Anti-Semitism Barometer 2019 demands:

‘FULL PROSCRIPTION OF HAMAS. In 2001, the UK proscribed Hamas’ military wing, ... However, it has not proscribed its political wing. Hamas is a genocidal antisemitic terrorist organisation which seeks the murder of all Jews worldwide. Article 7 of the Hamas Covenant issued in 1988, which remains Hamas’ governing document states that: “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them.

One could of course dredge up similar war-like statements from the Bible e.g. the Book of Joshua is about a Jewish genocidaire, who is a hero to the Zionist movement and former Premier David Ben Gurion.

The original Hamas Charter, which has always been a dead letter, was disavowed in 2017. Dr. Ahmed Yousef, an adviser to Ismail Haniyeh (the senior political leader of Hamas), claimed that Hamas has changed its views over time since the charter was issued in 1988. In 2010 Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal stated that the Charter is "a piece of history and no longer relevant, but cannot be changed for internal reasons."

In May 2018 Bassem Naeem wrote an article for the Guardian, Hamas condemns the Holocaust. Strangely enough the Zionists never quote it!

Hamas is not anti-Jewish. Jews such as Ha’aretz’s Amira Hass have lived in the Gaza Strip without any harm coming to them. Jews have been regular visitors to Gaza. Of course when Israeli soldiers massacre their people in the name of the Jews then they will react accordingly.

CAA’s suggestion that Hamas is ‘a genocidal antisemitic terrorist organisation’ is a blatant example of Islamaphobia. Indeed the obsessive Zionist attacks on Hamas for its resistance activities are Islamaphobic.  The word ‘genocidal’ better applies to the State of Israel than  Hamas. Israel has killed thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Hamas has killed very few Israelis in retaliation for the carpet bombing of Gaza and all the other attacks.

Attacks on Hamas are a regular feature of Zionist propaganda. Zionist organisations like the Board of Deputies justified Israel’s murder by snipers of unarmed demonstrators through the false allegation that they were members of Hamas.  No doubt this included the 70+ children these vile murderers have mown down.

Starmer's session with the Jewish Labour Movement including handing him a hit list of people to expel

Hamas isn’t an organisation I support politically. It is a conservative Islamist group but the vast majority of Zionist attacks on it are spurious and racist. 

Not once has the CST or indeed any Zionist organisation disavowed the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism and its vile hostility to Muslims.  Indeed they work together and the Jewish Labour Movement, supposedly on the left of the Zionist movement, submitted a joint complaint to the EHRC about Labour ‘anti-Semitism’

Let us have a look at a 2016 CAA Report  British Muslims and antiSemitism.  It is as vile a piece of Islamaphobic propaganda as you will find. It has a picture of a man, we don’t know his religion but he’s dark so that will do, on the front cover holding a ‘Hitler was right’ poster. The implication is clear. All Muslims are Hitler supporters. The fact that this man was an oddity and that Hitler support is the prerogative of the far-Right elude them.

The Report included a full colour (later reduced to a Black and White silhouette after complaints) profile of a Muslim Male which if it had been the typical Jew i would have stimulated cries of ‘anti-Semitism’ from here to Lands End.  The link to the full report including the graphic has now disappeared. The CAA report read:

Today, our analysis of the ICM survey of British Muslims for Channel 4 and Juniper Television shows that the gradual buildup of understanding and friendship between Britain’s Jews and Muslims has been utterly eclipsed by growing antisemitism amongst British Muslims.

On every single count, British Muslims were more likely by far than the general British population to hold deeply antisemitic views. It is clear that many British Muslims reserve a special hatred for British Jews, rating Jews much less favourably than people of other religions or no religion, yet astonishingly British Muslims largely do not recognise antisemitism as a major problem.

It has long been suspected that sections of the British Muslim population harboured hatred towards British Jews. This survey goes some way to identifying pockets of prejudice, but it also shows that the prejudice is horrifyingly widespread.

Imagine if the same were said about British Jews?  There is no doubt that if such a survey were taken of British Jews then you would indeed see the depth of Islamaphobia in the Jewish community as a result of Zionist propaganda against Arabs over the years.

Come and hear David Miller explain why the Zionists are out to get him tonight at 7.00 p.m.

Come and also hear Kerry Ann Mendoza whose Canary news site has been under continual attack from the Zionists and the Labour Right.  It performs an invaluable service in combating mainstream media narratives.

Please REGISTER here for the meeting

Tony Greenstein

More Fake News – Zionist Claims that Anti-Semitism has increased by 30% in one year

Despite the headlines - Anti-Semitism in Britain is DECLINING not increasing

A decline in anti-Semitism doesn't serve Zionist interests

Update

A very useful comment by Alan Maddison below.  The salient points are:

1. Anti-Semitism represents around 1.5% of reported Hate Crimes in the UK.
2. Evidence of the inflated and tendetious nature of the CST report is that only 8% of claimed incidents are violent compared to the normal ratio for hate crimes of one-third.
3. One in four hate crime assaults lead to injury compared to none, either this year or last year, in the CST reports.  It clearly suggests that what is counted as an assault is trivial.

This suggests that in comparison with other hate crime incidents, the actual level of incidents in the CST Report are about one-quarter of those claimed.  To include social media posts is absurd, as the CST itself recognises when it counts as a single incident multiple broadcasts by the same outlet.  Social media attacks if actually counted would simply swamp any meaningful statistics given the level of racist tweets and FB comments and posts.  They are on a completely different level from actual verbal abuse or assault.

Anti-semitism is a marginal prejudice compared to racism against Muslims and Roma in most countries

More fake news from Stephen Pollard's Jewish Chronicle

Pollard replies to Jonathan Freedland defending Michal Kaminski

The Community Security Trust, an overtly Zionist organisation, that works closely with Mossad, Israel’s MI6, compiles annual and 6 monthly reports of the incidence of anti-Semitism.  Its figures often differ widely from those of the Police and are subjective.  They are based to a large extent on self-reporting, social media posts and an ingrained Zionist political assumptions that opposition to Israel is inherently anti-Semitic.

The Zionist Communist Security Trust's latest bogus offerings - complete with two helpfully placed display boards

Their latest Report  ANTISEMITIC INCIDENTS - January–June 2017, comes with a photo in some junkyard in Suffolk with a Star of David and the word ‘Die’ underneath side by side with a swastika.  Presumably the purpose behind this photo is to persuade us that this is a common phenomenon in most junkyards and industrial wasteyards in Britain!

We are breathlessly told that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain from January to June 2016 compared to the previous period has leapt from 589 to 767.  Anti-Semitism, like all forms of racism, should be condemned.  But the deliberate inflating of anti-Semitism, the political use of false accusations of anti-Semitism in order to deflect criticism of Israel, are equally appalling.  Zionism redefines anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism at the same time as ignoring genuine anti-Semitism.

A government poster in Hungary attacking George Soros - graffiti says 'stinking Jew'

We are told in the 2017 report that CST recorded 425 antisemitic incidents in Greater London, a rise of 10 per cent from the 387 incidents recorded in Greater London during the same period in 2016.  There are no comparisons with Police statistics but given the wide disparity between recorded crime incidents and the CST figures in previous years we should take the CST statistics with a hefty pinch of salt. 

An example of Zionist anti-Semitism directed at anti-Zionist Jews - CST won't record any such incidents

In the Independent of 29.12.15. we learn that Anti-Semitic attacks in London soar by 60 per cent in 2015.  ‘Between November 2014 and November 2015, a total of 483 such crimes were committed, up from 299 during the same period in the previous year.’  Although they say crimes were committed we are not told what the number of convictions are.

Compare this to the 2014 CST Incident Report the CST recorded 583 antisemitic incidents in Greater London in 2014.  Compare this to the Police figures of 299, almost double.

The Independent goes from bad to worse as it accepts the CST Report uncritically

According to the 2015 CST Incidents Report there were 472 incidents compared to 483 police recorded crimes so it would appear that the 2015 figures bore some relationship to the facts.  (in the 2016 CST Incidents Report the figure jumps from 472 to 494).

In 2016 the CST record the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Greater London as 813, a significant increase but how reliable are they?  The comparable Police figures are not available but I suggest that they are a mixed bag consisting of some anti-Semitic incidents coupled with a lot of padding to make the figures look good (in Zionist parlance an increase in anti-Semitism is always good because it demonstrates that the only place Jews aren’t under attack is Israel). 

The true face of  Zionist anti-Semitism

However let us pretend that the CST figures are true.  Then the question is how many of the incidents arise from the actions of Israel?  After all Zionist and Jewish organisations in Britain go out of their way to say that British Jews support the actions of Israel against the Palestinians.  They spend their time defending the indefensible in the name of British Jews.  Is it any wonder that some people take them at their word? 

It is ironic that the main cause of what is termed anti-Semitism in Britain today is the so-called Jewish state.  This is not anti-Semitism, it consists is mainly of stupid reactions to the claims of Zionist organisations that British Jews fully supports Israel’s criminal  actions.  Since the CST fully supports the idea that British Jews are fully behind Israel’s crimes what they are effectively measuring is the efficacy of their and their fellow Zionists actions.  Israel claims it represents all Jews, not just its own Jewish citizens but all Jews worldwide.  Netanyahu describes himself as the Prime Minister of all Jews.  Why shouldn’t some people take what the Zionists say to be true?  Israel is, after all a Jewish State.

To the Zionists, the CST including, anything to do with support of the Palestinians or opposition to Zionism is automatically ‘anti-Semitic’.  The attacks on Palestine Expo 2017 this month described it as a ‘Jewish hate fest’ – a massive gathering of some 17,000 people that included numerous Jewish speakers as well as people like John Pilger. 

The Community Security Organisation, which changed its name to the CST, also sees as one of its tasks the removal of anti-Zionist Jews from communal functions - in this case they went to far removing members of Mapam, the fake Zionist leftists

Dave Rich, the CST’s Deputy Director of Communications, brought out a book last year entitled ‘The Left’s Jewish Problem’.  As Wikpedia describes it ‘Rich traces the origin of contemporary left-wing anti-Semitic anti-Israel rhetoric to the early 1970s, when Peter Hain and Louis Eakes of the Young Liberals wing of the British Liberal Party reconceptualized the national liberation movement of the Jewish people as an imperialist project imposing apartheid on an indigenous people.

The fact that a senior officer of the CST can seriously describe a settler colonial movement (which is how historically Zionism described itself) as a ‘national liberation movement of the Jewish people’ (when did change of description occur) is illustrative of the CST’s political problems.  Historically anti-fascist and socialists Jews always rejected the Zionist alliance with British imperialism.

To the Zionists anything smacking of the term Palestine is automatically anti-Semitic.  The fact is that most ‘anti-Semitism’ in Britain is a reaction to solidarity with the victims of Zionist settler colonialism and that is the main purpose of these fake news figures.

Those who cry ‘anti-Semitism’ at the drop of a hat are not only legitimising genuine anti-Semitism (because people find it difficult to distinguish between genuine anti-Semitism and the false Zionist variety) but they display their contempt for Jews who were the real victims of anti-Semitism. 

If you want to know what anti-Semitism really was like you could do worse than read ‘The Crime and the Silence’ by Anna Bikont.  This was a book about what happened in the town of Jedwabne on July 10 1941 in a town made up of 40% Jews.  Some of their Polish neighbours herded up to 1600 Jews into a barn which was then set ablaze.  It wasn’t even done at the instigation of the Nazis but by their own neighbours and activists in the Polish Nationalist Party (Endeks).

The Polish anti-Semite Michal Kaminski speaking at Israel's security conference in Herzliya

Nor was this the only such crime of this nature.  In nearby Radzilow, three days before Jedwabne, the whole population was rounded up and burned.  In 2001, a book by Jan Tomasz Gross, Neighbours, revealed what had happened in Jedwabne.  The Polish government under President Aleksander Kwasniewski reacted by apologising and under much criticism held a memorial meeting in Jedwabne and erected a monument to those murdered on the 60^th anniversary of the massacre. 

At the same time, in Jedwabne itself, led by its Catholic priest Father Orlowski and Bishop Stefanek, there was formed a Committee to Defend the Good Name of Jedwabne.  Its purpose being to defend those who took part in the murder of its Jews.  They pretended that it was the Nazis who carried out the massacre and also claimed that in any event the Jews had brought it on themselves by collaborating with the Russian troops when they invaded Western Poland and Jedwabne between 1939 and 1941.

To cite on typical incident from the book:

‘In August 1937, 65 violent anti-Jewish incidents were noted in the Bialystock region.... on August 19 during a market in the hamlet of Sniadowo a crowd shouting ‘Jews to Palestine’ and ‘There’s no room for you in Poland’ drove away tradesmen.  The fleeing Jews were thrashed with whips and one of them was hit on the head with a post.’ (p.44) 

Marek Edelman ‘the last living leader off the Warsaw Ghetto uprising’ and a leader of the socialist  and anti-Zionist Bund described how ‘Jedwabne was not the first case nor was it an isolated one.  In Poland at that time the mood was ripe for killing Jews.’ (p.9)   It wasn’t all Poles by any means, even in the Endek dominated Jedwabne.  Many Poles were horrified by what happened.  Edelman describes how in Warsaw maybe 100,000 Poles were involved in hiding and protecting the Jews, but nonetheless there was real murderous anti-Semitism even before the Nazi invasion, driven by the anti-communism of the Nationalist Right.

Polish anti-Semite Michal Kaminski having a friendly chat with Israel's Ambassador to the UK Ron Prossor

In 2001 the far-Right Law and Justice Party, a racist and often anti-Semitic party, which is now in government in Poland opposed a national apology for Jedwabne.  Dr Rafal Pankowski, a member of the Never Again Association and author of The Populist Radical Right in Poland described the role played by Law and Justice Party MP for  the area of Jedwabne, Michal Kaminski

"As a local MP, Kaminski played a key role in the campaign questioning the Polish responsibility for the Jedwabne massacre. The campaign had strongly antisemitic overtones,"

In an interview with the nationalist Nasza Polska newspaper in March 2001 Kaminski argued that, ‘while the massacre could not be defended, Poles should not apologise for what they did until Jews apologised to them for their actions which had included "murdering Poles".’  Is Michal Kaminski fit to lead the Tories in Europe?  Can you imagine?  Kaminski said that those Polish Jews, the perhaps 5% out of 3.3 million who survived the Holocaust should apologise to those who had acted as their executioners?

Not only did Kaminski chair the European Conservative Reform group in the European parliament, which the Tories had just joined, he was defended by people such as the current Chair of Conservative Friends of Israel, Eric Pickles.  He was also defended by leading Zionists in the Jewish Leadership Council and not least by Stephen Pollard, the racist who editor of the Jewish Chronicle.  Pollard is another who is very hot on ‘anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party.

Pollard, penned an article for the Guardian (9.10.09.) titled ‘Poland’s Kaminski is not an anti-Semite – he’s a friend to Jews.’  Even Pollard had to admit that Kaminski as a 15 year old joined The National Rebirth of Poland which was ‘virulently anti-Semitic and neofascist’.  Nonetheless Kaminski was a ‘friend to the Jews’.  why?  Because he was a supporter of Israel in Brussels where ‘visceral loathing of Israel are rife.’  In other words his support of Israel and Zionism excused his virulent anti-Semitism.  In the same article Pollard defended the Latvian MEP Robert Zile who every goesMarch on a march with the veterans of the Latvian Waffen SS.

None of this should be of any surprise.  Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has just returned from a visit to Hungary to greet his friend Viktor Orban, who when not demonising Muslim immigrants is busy rehabilitating the pro-Nazi leader of war-time Hungary who presided over the deportation of 437,000 Jews to Auschwitz.  See Israel’s love-in with Hungary’s anti-Semites exposes the ugly core of Zionism.  Indeed Netanyahu and the Zionists joined in with Orban’s anti-Semitic attacks on George Soros, who is held by the fascist and racist Right to be the archetypal figure of the International Jewish Financier. 

Even some liberal Zionists began to find out with the ascent to power of Donald Trump and his chief aide, Steve Bannon, ex-CEO of Breitbart News, that being an anti-Semite and a Zionist are quite compatible.  Naomi Zeveloff in Forward 15.11.16 How Steve Bannon and Breitbart News Can Be Pro-Israel — and Anti-Semitic at the Same Time described how ‘Breitbart News, ‘is widely known as a platform for white nationalism and anti-Semitism. It is also brazenly Zionist…’

This is the context in which the CST’s Report on Anti-Semitism should be treated.  23% of the anti-Semitic incidents were held to be politically motivated of which 49, some 28% were ‘anti-Zionist’.  This in itself is proof of where the CST is coming from.  Anti-Zionism is a form of anti-racism.  It opposes the Jewish Supremacist State of Israel.  If someone is anti-Semitic then they are not anti-Zionist.   It is Zionism which is happy to work with and co-exist with anti-Semitism. 

I get from time to time virulent anti-Semitic tweets from Zionists, like ‘shame your family survived world can do without cunts line (sic!) you.’  It is a common insult to use the Nazi term of ‘self hater’ against Jews with a conscience.  It is also logical.  Zionism holds that the only way to avoid anti-Semitism is to go to Israel.  Those Jews who don’t do this and even worse oppose Israel and Zionism deserve everything they get.  So anti-Zionist Jews are often told that it was a pity that Hitler didn’t get them.  Far from having a section for anti-Zionism if the CST were honest they would have a section reserved for Zionist anti-Semitism.  But here is the catch.  According to the spokesman for the CST Mark Gardener ‘CST does not classify clashes between Jews as antisemitic incidents.’  Zionist attacks on Jews, even if they are virulently anti-Semitic, don’t count as anti-Semitism! 

In a message sent to my blog, a Zionist posted ‘Greenstein, you traitorous bastard, you leftist liberal Jew.’  (in Israel these days there is no greater insult than being a ‘leftist’) went on to explain how ‘It's a shame that either Hitler or the Angel of Death, missed your family's house. Or Neturei Karta's.’  finishing up with ‘Don't even call yourself a Jew,traitor.’  According to the CST this is a ‘conflict’ between Jews rather than Zionist anti-Semitism!

It would be easy to take apart CST’s 2017 Report on Anti-Semitism.  19% of it consists of social media posts, which may be anti-Semitic but hardly constitute a threat to someone’s life and limb. They document 80 physical attacks but we have no way of knowing what these consist of. What we do know is that none of them were what they describe as ‘Extreme Violence’ i.e. GBH.  Of course any attack should be taken seriously, but when Muslims have to put up with arson attacks on Mosques and at Finsbury Park Mosque a racist driving a van onto the pavement killing one worshipper and injuring several others, we can put this into context. The attacks on Muslims are much more serious, much of the CST’s incidents consist of twitter posts and anti-Israel chants.  Yet the government has spent millions of pounds defending Jewish institutions from a non-existent threat but has done nothing similar to protect mosques and Muslim institutions.  Why?  Because the Government’s anti-terrorist strategy Prevent is based on a racist perception of Muslims as a problem.  Defending Jewish property is a way of defending support for Israel and Zionism – an essential requirement of British foreign policy.

We are told that there were ‘51 incidents of Damage & Desecration of Jewish property’ but we are not told exactly what these consist of.  Almost certainly they are trivial and minor instances of criminal damage, if that.  Indeed the CST doesn’t bother to outline what ‘Jewish property’ consists of.  There is no means of independently verifying the CST’s incidents except to say that there is a marked disparity, as I’ve noted before, between their reports and those of the Police.  For example how many of the assaults resulted in Police prosecutions?  What was the context?  At the Ecostream demonstrations in British four years ago I defended myself against an extremely racist Israeli AShaike Rozanski who attacked me. Yet I was the one who was charged with assault.  But perhaps this was too was recorded as an anti-Semitic incident?  Who knows except that the Police dropped charges.  Indeed there were a whole number of wholly bogus allegations made at the demonstrations against Palestine supporters, all of which led to acquittals in the courts.  Were they anti-Semitic incidents?

Until there is proper verification and independent oversight of how the CST works and records incidents everything they say and report should be treated sceptically.

Of course there are anti-Semitic attacks, in particular on ultra-orthodox Jews in Stamford Hill who are easily recognised as Jews by their garb.  Such attacks were completely ignored by the Home Affairs Select Committee Report on Anti-Semitism of October 2016 which recommended adoption of the bogus IHRA definition of anti-Semitism.

Like South Africa's Apartheid Prime Minister John Vorster before him, Kaminski is happy to pay homage to Zionism at the Yad Vashem propaganda museum

What we are seeing with the CST Report on Anti-Semitism, which has been taken up avidly by a press determined to defend and support the Israeli state, is the political weaponisation of anti-Semitism.  For the Zionists the encouragement of the belief that the British Jewish community is facing a tsunami of anti-Semitism is useful, not least in order to encourage the emigration of British Jews to Israel.

In the Pew Research Centre’s Global Attitudes Survey 2016 just 7% of British people are shown as having unfavourable attitudes to Jews compared to 45% for Roma and 28% for Muslims.  In other words racism against Muslims is measured as 4 times higher than anti-Semitism and anti-Roma hatred is over 6 times worse in Britain.  In Hungary which Netanyahu praises so highly a third of respondents (32%) harbour anti-Jewish feelings, again less than the 72% hostility to Muslims.  In other words, despite the best efforts of Zionism to create fake news about anti-Semitism, hatred of Jews in most countries, especially in Western Europe is all but non-existent.   To even attempt to compare it with the Nazi era, as the misnamed Campaign Against Anti-Semitism does, is to belittle and diminish the very real anti-Semitism that Jews in the 1930s experienced.