The First Book on the Zionists' Fake Anti-Semitism Witchhunt which followed Corbyn’s Election as Labour Leader
The
False Anti-Semitism Wars have been waged ever since Jeremy Corbyn was elected
leader in the summer of 2015. Today their target is the wider Palestine
solidarity movement.
It’s
not easy to review a book in which you are a contributor! What I set out to do
was give was a potted history of how ‘anti-Semitism’ was deployed as a propaganda
weapon against Corbyn and the Left by oth the Zionist movement, the right-wing
of the Labour Party and their accomplices in the prostitute press, not least
the Guardian.
The
first chapter by Karl Sabbagh, ‘the
summer of anti-Semitism’ set the scene with Gordon Brown’s speech urging
Labour to adopt the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. Sabbagh caustically
remarks that newspapers used to report the news. Brown’s speech ‘was as newsworthy as a speech by the Pope’
praising Roman Catholicism.’
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| Just a small sample of the vitriol thrown at the Labour Party by the bourgeois press |
Sabbagh
takes issue with former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks comments in which he asks ‘is this country safe to bring up our (Jewish)
children’ and contrasts the position
today with when Oswald Moseley and the British Union of Fascists organised in the
East End of London. My own father, who was at the Battle of Cable Street in
1936, told me how certain streets were too dangerous for Jews to walk
down.
What
was the cause of this nonsense? Jeremy Corbyn telling 2 Zionist misfits,
Jonathan Hoffman and Richard Millett, that despite having lived in Britain for
most if not all of their lives, they lacked an understanding of British irony.
Why? Because of ‘their hostile reactions
to a rather witty speech by the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK’ who
wasn’t native to these shores. Nothing racist about that.
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| The Guardian's pretentious and pompous Rafael Behr |
Sabbagh points to the
central contradiction of the ‘anti-Semitism allegations – they are based on the
oppression of Palestinians:
‘Much of the attack on Labour has
been in the name of racism, with Jews as one target. But many Zionists... seem
only concerned with anti-Semitism, while expressing support for bigoted views
about other groups, notably the Palestinians.’
The most vicious of
the Zionist groups, the misnamed Campaign Against Anti-Semitism [CAA] even
claimed that ‘more than half of British
Jews felt that anti-Semitism today echoed that of the 1930’s.’ Ha’aretz’s
Anshel Pfeffer suggested
that this
‘showed a disconnect bordering
on hysteria... not only are they woefully ignorant of recent Jewish history but
have little concept of what real anti-Semitism is.’
Sabbagh also points to
the hypocrisy of the so-called intellectual Jonathan Sacks, a man whose trade
is in bigotry dressed up as profundity. What
could be more ludicrous than his comparison of Jeremy Corbyn to Enoch
Powell. This is the same Sacks who
wrote, in 2017, that arch racist Douglas Murray had written one of the ‘best books of the year’ [The Strange Death of Europe] in which he had
quoted Powell’s infamous 1968 Rivers of Blood speech favourably and who said that
the consequence of Muslim immigration would be to destroy White, Christian
Europe. This is also the same Sacks who encouraged
Jews to join the annual pogrom that goes by the name of Jerusalem Day. [Chief Rabbi and Lord Sacks should not back
this march], Nina Morris-Evans in the Jewish
News (25.5.17.) described how
This march has
come to be associated with growing levels of hate speech and racist violence,
including shouts of “Death to Arabs” and vandalism to Palestinian property.’
My
article takes readers through the history of the anti-Semitism witchhunt beginning
with my own suspension in March 2016. I place the anti-Corbyn campaign in the
context of what is and was concerted state destabilisation. Corbyn is seen by
the British, American and Israeli authorities as a threat. I refer people to the
book which Phil Agee, a former CIA agent, wrote, over 40 years ago Inside the Company about CIA
destabilisation in South America.
I
suggest that the media blitz has not been spontaneous. It shows every sign of having been
co-ordinated with the British state in conjunction with the Guardian and
Jonathan Freedland. This has been brilliantly highlighted by fivefilters
who have produced a series of the Guardian’s most abysmal anti-Corbyn headlines.
See also The
Guardian and Jonathan Freedland's tedious Campaign against Corbyn. My favourite
Guardian headline is by the terminally boring Roy Greenslade’s ‘Yes Jeremy Corbyn has suffered a
bad press but where’s the harm?’ If Greenslade is incapable of
answering that question then he has no business calling himself a journalist.
Nick Cohen’s Don’t tell me you weren’t warned about Corbyn which called his readers ‘fucking fools’ runs him a close second along with Freedland’s I’ve felt the Bern. And Jeremy Corbyn, you’re no Senator Sanders. Guardian writers love pretending that they are attacking
Corbyn because they are the genuine radicals!
Of
course some people will laugh at my suggestion that the Deep State has been
influencing the press and people like Freedland who also writes for the Jewish
Chronicle. Peoples’ memories are short. It wasn’t so long ago that BBC
journalist John Tusa fronted a CIA sponsored News Agency Forum World Features.
The
false anti-Semitism campaign began with Corbyn’s alleged association with a
holocaust denier, Paul Eisen, progressed to Gerald Kaufmann’s allegations about
‘Jewish money’ and the allegations that the Labour Club at Oxford University
was riddled with anti-Semitism and the Royall Inquiry. Then there was Naz Shah
and a humourous meme about Israel moving to the United States, Ken Livingstone
and Hitler’s support for Zionism, the Chakrabarti Report and Ruth Smeeth’s contrived
allegations of anti-Semitism against Mark Wadsworth until the present day when the
IHRA definition of ‘anti-Semitism’ was foisted on the Labour Party after
Luciana Berger had produced a long forgotten mural out of her hat. Not forgetting of course my own expulsion and
Jackie Walker’s suspension.
I
point to the role that the poisonous CAA, a ‘charity’ no less, has played in
the anti-Semitism affair with its hysterical denunciations. Also prominent in the
campaign was the overseas wing of the racist Israeli Labour Party, the Jewish
Labour Movement. When the General Secretary of the Labour Party, Iain McNicol
gave them permission to give ‘anti-Semitism training’ I remarked that it was
like asking Harold Shipman to give a course on medical ethics.
The
attacks on Ken Livingstone for having dared to say that the Zionist Emperor had
no clothes and that he had been found in a compromising position with the Nazis,
engaging in a profitable trade, marked a new stage in the anti-Semitism witchhunt.
All
of this was a precursor to a renewal of the fake anti-Semitism attacks in March
this year with a long erased mural of bankers that Luciana Berger suddenly
found at the bottom of her handbag. This helped build up the pressure which resulted
in Labour’s National Executive Committee adopting the IHRA.
I
spent the first few days of my holiday in Catalonia working on this chapter, whilst
ignoring my fellow travelling companions Fiona and Bill North as well as my
eldest son Daniel.
My
article was the first of four from people on the receiving end. The second article
was from Karl Sabbagh and told the story of how, when he was the director of
the MSD foundation, he also contributed a monthly column, as a freelance
journalist to the magazine World Medicine.
Karl chose to write an article in
September 1981 about the massacre at Deir Yassin in April 1948 when the
Zionist terror gangs, Irgun and Lehi,
massacred 254 people. Women, children
and old people were brutally murdered with knives and grenades and the
surviving men were paraded through Jerusalem prior to being shot. The Deir
Yassin massacre led to the flight of the Arabs and the Nakba.
Sabbagh
wrote the article as a group of doctors prepared to fly out to Israel for the
‘Medical Olympics’. It was an Open Letter to these doctors warning them that
they may be invited to the Government Hospital for Mental Diseases at Kfar
Shaul, some of whose patients reside in a group of buildings which were the
scene of the massacre.
Suffice
to say the heavens opened up and the journal was deluged with protests. It‘set in train a series of events which
showed in its most naked form the way in which a pressure group tries to
curtail press freedom, when it comes to criticising Israel and Zionism.’ You might think that nothing much has changed
in the intervening years.
The
Israeli Medical Association went on the offensive asking advertisers to withdraw
advertising until the magazine promised never to publish ‘PLO propaganda’. Several pharmaceutical companies wrote to World Medicine threatening reprisals. The
IMA also wrote to the Governors of the MSD Foundation suggesting they distance
themselves from Sabbagh’s article even though it had been written in his private
capacity. Jewish doctors wrote letters to the editor expressing their distress
and annoyance that the article had been published. They also wrote to Merck,
Sharp and Dohme, the company which funded the foundation, saying they would no
longer prescribe that company’s drugs. The IMA wrote to the Governors of the
Foundation, asking for reassurance that Sabbagh would not write similar things
in the future, although there was no connection between MSF and World Medicine. The Governors of the MSD
Foundation passed a motion criticising Sabbagh for a serious error of judgement.
Karl
remarked that it was ‘entirely
understandable’ that the IMA didn’t want to be reminded of Israel’s dark
history but ‘what is odd is that they
were able to influence intelligent, sophisticated British doctors’ who ‘failed to see how they were being
manipulated.’
A
Dr Mann of Bolton was typical when he wrote to express his disgust at the
article and then added ‘Incidentally
whether or not Mr Sabbagh’s remarks are based on fact, I cannot say.’
In
fact even David Ben Gurion, the future Prime Minister of Israel, condemned the Deir
Yassin massacre. A hundred anonymous letters, full of venom were sent to the
home address of the editor of World
Medicine, including to his children.
This was just months before Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. Sabbagh draws
the conclusion that ‘for many Jews the
facts about Israeli actions are irrelevant. Anyone criticising Israeli action is clearly motivated by
anti-Semitism.’ This is unfortunately true but the question is why Zionist
Jews and it may not just have been Jewish doctors, had this power of
persuasion, which itself comes down to the question of what gives the Zionist
lobby its power. Sabbagh never provides an answer and one is left with the idea
that it is simply because they are Jewish rather than the fact that they
support Israel a hegemon in imperialist politics. Sabbagh concluded that these
‘sad offerings’ were from ‘very angry doctors’ most of whom did not
want what he had said to be true.
Sabbagh
is right say that it is ‘a function of
Zionism to prevent discussion of the past in case people realise that the
Palestinians have a case.’ Sabbagh notes that ‘these Princes of the profession’ would say that ‘the Jewish lobby is very powerful.’ and
he complains that they never asked why this was so. Unfortunately this is the
wrong question. Although members of the Zionist lobby might describe themselves
as Jewish the fact is that they were acting as part of the Israel/Zionist
lobby. That is where their power derives, not from the fact that they are
Jewish.
What
happened to Sabbagh over his article in World
Medicine has been repeated a thousand fold. The Zionist lobby does its best
to suppress freedom of speech but the reasons why it is able to do this is
because its power derives from the role that Israel plays in the Middle East.
That is why people like Trump and Steve Bannon combine ardent Zionism with
anti-Semitism. Sabbagh looks at this only in terms of the self-identification
of many of these doctors.
Sabbagh
asks ‘why did some uncommitted non-Jewish
doctors, some of them quite senior figures, respond so readily to the blatantly
organised lobby?’ I suggest that the reason lies in the conservative
politics of these doctors. World Medicine soon closed down under
the pressure and one of the main figures in this affair became Sir Donald Irvine
before becoming President of the General Medical Council.
In
2008 what happened to Sabbagh repeated itself after the British Medical Journal
published an article by Dr Derek Summerfield about the effects of Israel’s
actions in Gaza. Again there was a
similar Zionist campaign and a flurry of emails. Many of the barely literate
and abusive emails came from the USA. This time the campaign was co-ordinated by
a Zionist lobby group HonestReporting’.
The emails that were sent were full of spelling mistakes, abuse and the normal
assertions that Derek ‘hates the Jews
because their have more in their little finge than he has in his whole brain.’ Presumably in their anger and outrage grammar took
a hit. Appendix 2 devotes 4 pages to these illiterate, abusive emails. My
favourite one is ‘I hope you die of HIV
like Yasser Arafat’ who of course did no such thing.
None
of this should be any surprise.
Unfortunately Karl has drawn the wrong conclusions. The majority of
people involved in this kind of campaign might be Jewish but the question is
why many Jews today have allowed themselves to be co-opted by Israel.
The
third article is by Cyril Chilson. Cyril was born in Israel to the survivors of
the Nazi concentration camps. He was a member of Oxford Labour Party and
because he is also an anti-Zionist (& a convert to Catholicism) he is
subject to the normal accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’.
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| Labour First Witchfinder General Maggi Cosin with Blairite Liz Kendall |
His
mistake was to tweet anti-Israel comments.
As with the complaints against me, the identity of one’s accusers was never
disclosed. As I had a law degree I offered to be Cyril’s legal representative
but it would appear that the Chair of the National Constitutional (Kangaroo)
Committee Maggi Cosin nearly choked. Cyril’s
choice of me was held by the Prosecutor Dan Hogan to be proof of his wickedness:
‘Mr Chilson’ announced Hogan in
dramatic pathos, ‘wanted to be
represented by Tony Greenstein.... One wonders why.’ In any normal court of law comments on the
accused’s choice of representative would be contempt of court. A professional
offence.
Cyril’s
description of the proceedings with Cosin in charge, makes the proceedings a
mixture of Alice Through the Looking Glass and Hanging Judge Jeffries. On more
than one occasion Cyril was threatened with being thrown out of his own
hearing.
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| Douglas Fairbairn, the misogynist abuser on Labour's NCC who sat in judgement of others for abuse |
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| In any fair system, Douglas Fairbairn would be appearing in front of the NCC not sitting in judgement of others |
Cosin, ably aided by a silent Douglas Fairbairn from the right-wing Community Union, repeatedly interrupted Cyril and refused to allow him to challenge Hogan. It is ironic that people accused of ‘abuse’ in the Labour Party had their cases heard by a Committee whose membership includef Fairbairn, who is notorious for his sexist and misogynist comments on Twitter. If it was anyone else they would have been suspended for comments such as ‘@britneyspears what a bitch’ or ‘Go to bed you silly woman’.
Cyril
used to tweet headlines concerning Israeli atrocities and then ask rhetorically
‘Is reporting this anti-Semitic?’Hogan,
who prided himself on having become the sorcerer’s apprentice, claimed that
such a question ‘denied Jewish people the
language to describe their persecution’. One feels like saying, ‘no you idiot, he’s taking the piss out of
those who would label support for the Palestinians as anti-Semitic.’ Hogan
asked Cyril questions such as ‘Can you
understand that your tweets come across as offensive.’ Apparently it is a
crime to offend racists.
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| The wit and wisdom of the NCC's misogynist Fairbairn |
Just
as in my hearing, Cosin turned round at the end and asked ‘Do you think your hearing was a fair one’. I simply replied ‘No’,
which caused her some surprise. Cyril was
more diplomatic: ‘I think the
question is unfair. I do have some misgivings about what went on here today but
I hope to be proven wrong.’ After 30
minutes all 3 charges were found proven (Cosin has a 100% record for finding
those hauled before her guilty). I should also add that Emina Ibrahim, Jon
Lansman’s tame Vice-Chair of Momentum was a member of both panels and she went
along with the verdicts).
On
hearing the verdict Cyril and his wife departed: ‘This was a colossal waste of time. Goodbye’. ‘Hang on! Don’t go! We haven’t reached a
decision yet!’ Cosin shouted ‘in a
last attempt to keep a facade of fairness.’ Cyril and his wife kept walking
and in the post arrived the sentence – 2 years expulsion. He was lucky, I got 5!
The
final story was about Tom Suarez. Suarez wrote a book, a very good book, in
October 2016 State
of Terror: how terrorism created modern
Israel. Based on original research Tom produced some excellent material
about the Zionist terror campaign against the Palestinians pre-1948 when hundreds
of Palestinian civilians died at the hands of the Irgun and Lehi.
Suarez’s
book tour was subject to concerted attacks by a group of Zionists determined
that he would not be able to speak. At SOAS David Collier, a so-called
researcher, and Jonathan Hoffman disrupted the event. The same two had been
active in stopping American Jewish Professor and UN Rapporteur Richard Falk
speaking on campus. In this they were aided by the Daily Mail whose report wasn’t about the threat to free speech, which
would be the case if it had been left-wingers disrupting a speaker. It led with
‘Israeli Embassy’s fury after
anti-Semitic hate speaker gives talk at a top London university.’ Suarez
isn’t anti-Semitic and what business is it of the Israeli Embassy who speaks on
campuses? Is it the function of an Embassy to object to speakers they don’t
like? Imagine if the German Embassy in the 1930’s had objected to anti-fascist
speakers. As Suarez puts it ‘In today’s
climate, the charge of anti-Semitism is its own proof. Like the McCarthyism of
1950s United States, being identified as an anti-Semite is akin to having the
plague.’
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| In this article Cohen warns that Labour might get as low as 75 seats - he called Corbyn supporters 'fucking fools' - since I was one of the few to call the result correctly I offered Kath Viner, the Guardian's Editor the chance of hiring me instead of Cohen at half the salary but I'm still waiting for a reply! |
As
Suarez notes ‘the actual scale of
destruction is far greater than the paper trail’ since there is no way to
know how many people were intimidated by the Daily Mail from even inviting him. Hoffman and Collier complained
to SOAS and ‘simply lodging the complaint
enabled them to ‘corroborate’ it with their own headline in the Jewish News.’ When Zionists assert
something that is news. When
anti-Zionists say something it is either ignored or derided.
When
Suarez was due to speak at a Cambridge PSC meeting at Jesus Lane, Quaker
Meeting House it was the Board of Deputies who objected. The Board tried the
same with the Quaker Meeting House in Brighton when Jackie Walker spoke but
they failed. Jesus Lane, under pressure of time and lacking information,
cancelled the meeting. PSC Cambridge found another venue and kept it
confidential.
At
this meeting some Jesus Lane Friends were in attendance and saw for themselves
that nothing anti-Semitic was said. Not only did the Jewish Chronicle refuse to correct misstatements about the Quakers
but the original cancellation ‘was seized
upon as a self-corroboration prize.’ In the end the Quakers were forced to
put out a statement about ‘the continuing
misrepresentation by Jonathan Hoffman and others.’ They confirmed that the
Friends ‘have no reservations about Tom
Suarez or his work.’
The
moral of this story is that it is easier to spread a lie than to counteract it.
When the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution refused the Board’s
demands to cancel Tom’s talk the BOD used a new Jewish Chronicle piece ‘to further embellish the inventions about
me and about Jesus Lane that it had already refused to correct the year
before.’
The
Jewish Chronicle under tabloid editor Stephen Pollard is a Zionist propaganda
rag. The truth of a report is secondary
to its political utility. The BOD simply
functions as a Zionist pressure group.
Finally,
after the lies in the JC had been accompanied by a refusal to allow any right
of reply Tom contacted press regulator IPSOS. The JC's only defence was that
its views were ‘shared by many JC
readers.’ Which is not surprising as they only have their misreporting to
go by!
In
Portsmouth the Council’s Prevent officer, Charlie Pericleous, secured the
banning of Tom’s talk from all public venues. When challenged he refused to say
what his evidence was. At the University of Massachusetts 3 Zionist professors
organised a letter writing campaign however the President of the University
stood firm. The American press were little different from the Zionist press in
Britain. However a solitary exception
was when an article headlined ‘Hate does
have a home at UMass’ appeared in
the Amherst
Wire. On being presented with
a tape of the talk the online article was removed. At some universities Suarez
spoke without incident. One of the most avid distributors of the original Daily Mail piece was music critic Norman
Lebrecht who nearly bust a blood vessel in the Sunday Telegraph when we disrupted the Jerusalem Quartet concert in
London a few years ago! Some disruptions
are kosher it would seem.
The
third section of the book contains a raft of documents which give substance to our
allegations that there has been a concerted campaign of false allegations of
anti-Semitism. The introduction cites the Al Jazeera Programmes which have
finally been leaked in the United States which cite Eric Gallagher, the
development director of The Israel Project who boasted of how they got a Black
Lives Matters event cancelled by getting a donor to put in a call to the venue.
This is how the Zionist movement lives up to the anti-Semitic caricature of
rich Jews using money in order to purchase influence.
Included
is an article by the Jewish former Court of Appeal Judge Sir Stephen Sedley Defining Anti-Semitism in
the May 2017 London Review of Books. Geoffrey Robertson QC produced an Opinion
on the IHRA which found that it was ‘unfit
for purpose’.
In
Chapter 7, Eve Mykytun has an article ‘Exposed!
How Britain’s Anti-Semitism scaremongers operate.’ It contains a lot of
useful information about the CAA. It describes how in 2006 the Chair of the
CAA, Gideon Falter, fitted up a civil servant Rowan Laxton who he alleged had
said ‘fucking Jews’ when hearing
about the Israeli massacres in Gaza. At
the magistrates court Laxton was found guilty of using threatening behaviour
and he was fined and removed from his Foreign Office position. The Hitler
loving Daily Mail played its part in
ensuring that the case got national attention but surprisingly failed to
publicise Laxton’s successful appeal to the Crown Court where he was found not
guilty. Not for the first time Faltier had lied. Eight years later Falter formed
the CAA, which has developed lying into a fine art. Unfortunately Mykytun
herself generalises about Jews:
In contrast to the downtrodden,
Jews, as a group have been extraordinarily successful at utilising the media
and the courts and obtaining the power to ‘hold the feet of the government to
the fire.’
Jews
do not act as a group unlike Zionists. Unfortunately Mykytun spoils her
argument with a failure to distinguish between Jews and Zionists. It is no
surprise that this article was sourced from Redress.
Nonetheless
the article is a very serious analysis of the fraudulent use of statistics by
the CAA in order to generate headlines in a gullible press. Their 2016 annual
audit of anti-Semitism reports a 14.9% increase in crimes ‘targeting Jews’ yet
violent anti-Semitic crimes fell by 44.7%.
The CAA admits it can’t find an explanation for this anomaly although
the obvious one is that the 14.9% increase is bogus.
Mykytun
proves that the CAA is utterly dishonest in the way that it uses statistics.
Because many police forces don’t keep records the CAA ask them to conduct a
keyword search for the word ‘Jew’ despite being warned that not all such
occurrences are in relation to anti-Semitic incidents. Northumbria Police
described CAA’s attempts at finding the level of anti-Semitic incidents as a
‘fishing expedition’.
The
CAA’s primary concern is in producing headlines that can frighten Jews into
believing there is an upsurge in anti-Semitism. In 2017 they concluded that:
· One third of
British Jews were considering emigrating
· 80% of Jews saw
anti-Semitism disguised as comments about Israel
· 80% saw Labour
as anti-Semitic
· 50% of Jews
didn’t trust the Crown Prosecution Service
These
conclusions were obtained on the basis of a self-selecting survey on the
Internet. Anyone could fill it in, there
was no control mechanism or sampling.
The
absurdity of the CAA’s figures were demonstrated by the results in Derbyshire
where there was a 1050% increase in non-criminal anti-Semitic incidents (from 2
to 34). In Hertfordshire there was a 400% increase in anti-Semitic crime and a
surge of 800% in non-criminal anti-Semitic incidents. In West Yorkshire the CAA
were informed that the increase was due to administrative changes in the
recording process. This didn’t stop the CAA from including the figures!
In
Wiltshire there was a 13,900% increase in anti-Semitic incidents. This was too
much, even for the CAA, and they disregarded Wiltshire’s 540 Jews altogether
but on what methodological basis did they discard these figures and not others other
than the fact that the figures were an obvious nonsense? The CAA doesn’t say.
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| Jeremy Bedford-Turner, sentenced to 1 years imprisonment for incitement to racial hatred - believed all Jews should be deported from Britain |
Mykytun
covers two cases where the CAA forced the CPS to prosecute. One was a Jeremy
Bedford Turner who was convicted of incitement to racial hatred and
sentenced to a year imprisonment. He expressed the view that Jews should be
deported. I can’t say I feel too much
sympathy with him!
The
other case, Alison
Chabloz, is more disturbing. Ms Chabloz is a holocaust denier. She has
produced an extraordinarily offensive video ‘Survivors’
mocking the victims of the Hungarian Holocaust. However Holocaust denial is not
illegal in Britain. Nor should it be. It
is illegal in Germany and Austria, both of which have neo-Nazis in their
Parliament. Indeed in Austria the Freedom
Party of Heinz
Christian Strache is part of the governing coalition. Making
Holocaust denial does not seem to have had much effect.
Alison Chabloz, who is clearly mentally unwell, sentenced to a suspended sentence for holocaust denial - a dubious conviction
A
distinction should be made between incitement, as per Bedford-Turner and holding
an opinion, however offensive. In my view Chabloz should not have been
convicted. I also take the view of Raul Hilberg the most distinguished of all
Holocaust historians that even holocaust deniers make us question our knowledge
of the Holocaust.
Gilad
Atzmon also makes an appearance in Mykytun’s article. I have crossed swords
with Atzmon on many
occasions. Atzmon argues that if Israel calls itself a Jewish State
then one must look at what Jewishness means.
In other words he explains Israel by looking at the Jews rather than seeing
Israel as a colonial settler state.
Atzmon
is also careless. In response to the Jeremy Bedford-Turner prosecution Atzmon
accused Falter of making his living ‘manufacturing
anti-Semitic incidents.’ There is no doubt that Falter manufactures anti-Semitism.
The CAA is devoted to nothing else but Atzmon went one step further and accused
Falter of making a living out of it. I
am quite prepared to believe he is an altruistic liar!
Mykytun
too employs a scattergun to deal with threats to free speech. Her analytical abilities leave a lot to be
desired politically but she makes a valid point when she questions whether ‘the CAA intensifies anti-Semitism by urging
Jews to find anti-Semitism everywhere.’ One suspects the CAA would be
exceedingly disappointed if they could not find anti-Semitism but given their
inventiveness that scenario is unlikely to occur.
Chapter
8 consists of the transcripts of the Al Jazeera programme, The Lobby which exposed Israeli agent Shai Masot and his attempts
to take down British politicians. It was a classic series with Joan Ryan MP,
Chair of the Labour Friends of Israel shown manufacturing a false anti-Semitism
incident against Labour delegate Jean Fitzpatrick.
One
of the book’s highlights is Chapter 9 where the Editor of Canary, Kerry
Ann-Mendoza, interviews
Stephen Oryszczuk, Foreign Editor of Jewish
News. On 25th July three Zionist papers, including his own, all
carried the same front page describing Jeremy Corbyn as an ‘existentialist threat’ to British Jews. This kind of borderline
paranoia is a sad commentary on what passes for the Jewish press in
England. Stephen disagreed. He described
phrases like ‘Corbynite contempt for
Jews’ as ‘vicious’ and ‘repulsive.’ ‘The rhetoric doesn’t match the reality.’ Clearly it is a case of a
good man fallen amongst rogues. Not surprisingly Stephen took leave soon
afterwards. Zionism doesn’t do dissent. Today the Zionist movement has united
around the IHRA misdefinition of anti-Semitism whereas Oryszczuk is of the
opinion, as is most legal and academic opinion that ‘the core definition itself is appalling. To call it woolly and vague
is an understatement.’ There are no prizes for the boy who declares that the
Emperor isn’t wearing any clothes. I suspect Oryszczuk will be looking for a
new career!
Chapter
10 consists of the Report of the Committee for Privileges and Conduct of the
House of Lords. A complaint had been made against Baroness Jenny Tonge when she
chaired a meeting of the Palestine Return Centre as part of the Balfour Apology
Campaign. At the meeting a Rabbi had ascribed the Holocaust to the behaviour of
an American Zionist Reform Rabbi Stephen Wise whose support for a Boycott of
Nazi Germany had driven Hitler mad.
It
was junk history but it is a fact that many Orthodox Rabbis hold God is responsible
for everything, Holocaust included. The idea that the sins of the Jews brought forth
the Holocaust is common. The late Ovadia
Yosef, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel. argued just this. If what
was said at the meeting was anti-Semitic then half the world’s Orthodox Rabbis
are anti-Semitic.
Suffice
to say nearly all the bogus Zionist complaints against Jenny were rejected the
allegations despite articles such as The Times ‘Jews blamed for Holocaust at ‘shameful House of Lords event.’
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Lords, Zionists all –Lords Beecham, Deech and Stunell – complained that the
meeting was ‘host to appalling
anti-Semitic comments and Holocaust denial by audience members.’ They were
all send the transcript of the actual meeting and asked to substantiate their
allegations. They couldn’t. All they
could complain of was that Jenny Tonge hadn’t shut the Rabbi up!!
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff,
the Commissioner for Standards rejected the allegations of Holocaust
revisionism made against Jenny. Karl Sabbagh sums up the current state of
affairs as this:
‘Zionists and supporters of
Israel have reached a stage where not only critical comments about Jews are
anti-Semitic, not only criticisms of Israel are anti-Semitic but even discussion of anti-Semitism is
anti-Semitic.’
Appendix
1 consists of a number of statements by prominent Zionists which, if used about
Jews, would be anti-Semitic. For example
the statement
by Rabbi Yaacov Perrin of 27.2.1994 in the NYR that ‘One million Palestinians are not worth a Jewish fingernail’ (there is
a misprint which says ‘Arab fingernail’. It is reminiscent of Rabbi Dov
Lior, who proclaimed
that‘A thousand non-Jewish lives are not
worth a Jew’s fingernail.’
Appendix
3 consists of an extract Labour,
Anti-Semitism and the News from the Media
Reform Coalition Report.
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false anti-Semitism campaign and all activists should possess one.
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