The Metropolitan Police Have Taken it Upon Themselves to Decide What We Can & Can’t Read as Books are Seized & Those Selling It Are Arrested

 It Must Have Been Something I Said! Jo Wadsworth of the Anti-Palestinian Brighton and Hove News Threatens to Report Me to the Police!

The Met arrest stall holders selling a book with a Swastika and Zionist Star of David Intertwined - Who the Hell are These Thick Bastards to Decide What We Can and Cannot Read?

All I did was to send Jo Wadsworth of Brighton and Hove News an email giving a link to my blog. True I headed it ‘ENJOY RACIST SCUMBAG’ but that was no reason to respond in the way she did:

Oh no, Tony "notorious antisemite" Greenstein has called me a bad name. How will I ever recover?

To which I responded that this was a good question.  I suggested that the answer lay in Wadsworth ‘Probably (by) gorging on the blood of the children in Gaza.  I should think that would be good recipe for you to try’.

 She had after all been perfectly happy with a multitude of comments defending Israel’s bombardment of hospitals, ambulances, homes and schools, its food, water and fuel  blockade and the murder of over 6,000 children and thousands of adults. In other words collective punishment, a flagrant breach of international law.

Orthodox anti-Zionist Jews in Jerusalem's Mea Sharim Display the Palestinian Flag - If they had been Palestinians the Police would have opened fire

It appears however that Ms Wadsworth is a more sensitive soul than I had given her credit for. She didn’t seem to take my comment that she was wallowing in the blood of thousands of children at all well.

Okay Tony I usually find your insults entertaining in a pathetic kind of way. But that's crossed a line. I'm now asking you not to contact me again and if you persist I will report you to the police.

It seems to have become the latest fashion amongst Zionists to report anything I say to the police. In fact I’m thinking of saving them the trouble and time by designing a handy form which they can email to the Police explaining why they have problems with freedom of speech.

First there was Heidi Bachram and now Jo Wadsworth. Who will be next?

At the same time the Metropolitan Police have decided that they have the right to decide what literature can be openly sold on Zionism at today’s demonstration and what posters can be displayed. According to the Met:

Images were shared on social media showing literature being distributed which featured a swastika inside a Star of David. Officers later spotted the same literature at a stall in Whitehall and arrested four people on suspicion of distributing material likely to stir up racial hatred.

The people they arrested were from the Communist Party of Great Britain Marxist Leninist  [@cpgbml]

I wasn’t aware that intertwining a Swastika and a Zionist Star of David graphically was a criminal offence. As I wrote in my book, Zionism During the Holocaust:

In the spring of 1933, Baron Leopold von Mildenstein, a member of the SS, and Kurt Tuchler of the ZVfD [German Zionist] Executive and their wives, boarded a train at Berlin to travel to Palestine. Tuchler had tried to persuade Mildenstein to write ‘something positive’ about Palestine in the Nazi press. Mildenstein agreed, provided that he was able to visit Palestine first. He stayed for six months and was clearly impressed by the “new Jew”.

On his return, Mildenstein published a series of 12 articles in Joseph Goebbels’ paper, Der Angriff, from 26 September to 9 October 1934 under the by-line ‘von Lim’ [Jacob Boas, ‘A Nazi Travels to Palestine’]. This trip was the subject of an article in the eminently respectable History Today of January 1980. Mildenstein served as head of Abteilung 112/II, the Jewish department (Judenreferat) of the Sicherheitsdienst, [SD] from the summer of 1935 to August 1936. Indeed so pleased were the Nazis with the trip that they struck a medal to commemorate the trip.

It is perfectly legitimate to argue that Zionist ideology and Nazi ideology share a lot in common. The Zionists admitted this themselves. On 21 June 1933, the German Zionist Federation wrote a letter to Hitler in which they explained that:

Zionism has no illusion about the difficulty of the Jewish condition which consists above all in an abnormal occupational pattern and in the fault of an intellectual and moral posture not rooted in one’s own tradition… an answer to the Jewish question truly satisfying to the national state can be brought about only with the collaboration of the Jewish movement that aims at a social, cultural and moral renewal of Jewry… On the foundation of the new state, which has established the principle of race... fruitful activity for the fatherland is possible. Our acknowledgement of Jewish nationality provides for a clear and sincere relationship to the German people and its national and racial realities. Precisely because we don’t wish to falsify these fundamentals, because we too are against mixed marriages and are for maintaining the purity of the Jewish group… The realisation of Zionism could only be hurt by resentment of Jews abroad against the German development. Boycott propaganda… is in essence fundamentally unZionist, because Zionism wants not to do battle but to convince and to build.’

The full letter can be found in Lucy Dawidowicz, A Holocaust Reader, pp. 150-153.  Who the hell are the Metropolitan Police to decide we can and cannot read? Of course it will give offence to Zionists to be reminded of the times when they had close fraternal relations with the Nazi State. However this is part of the historical record and only in Police States do thick coppers decide what people can and cannot read and see.

In 1933 People Boycotted German Goods – Today we Boycott Israeli Produce

 

most people walk past the shop as the message has got through

 

 

Ecostream - a 'customer free area'

An angry Hoffman in all his glory

Hoffman and his trademark flag lends support to the Boycott

 

 

 Jonathan Hoffman Joins the Boycott of Brighton Sodastream

Well he didn't actually advocate boycotting an Israeli shop, but he might as well have done!
 
To those who don’t know him, Jonathan Hoffman is the co-Chair of the Zionist Federation of Britain.  He also responsible, almost singlehandedly, for the successful closure of the Israeli shop Ahava in Covent Garden.  His trade mark is to shout a slogan, regardless of the effect or content, until all but the most dedicated supporters steer clear.

Hoffman was on fine form today. ‘No Nazi Boycotts in Brighton’ was his slogan.  He must have been ignorant of the fact that Brighton is where the neo-Nazi English Defence League were repulsed on April 22nd, without any help or support from Brighton’s Zionists.  Even stranger still given that Hoffman demonstrated alongside the English Defence League outside Ahava.  When we printed a photograph proving this Hoffman alleged it was ‘photoshopped’.  Very soon after he was forced into a grovelling apology to the photographer David Hoffman (no relation) who took exception to the suggestion that his photograph was anything but genuine and threatened him with a libel action.

Hoffman has an unerring ability to alienate even his own side.  Such was his  obnoxiousness that even the normally placid Board of Deputies of British Jews was forced to suspend him for one week  Statement regarding Board of Deputies International Division yesterday and when he attacked the placid Mick Davis, boss of Xtrata and the Jewish Leadership Council for having made some mild criticisms of Israel, UJIA chair threats to sue over resignation petition  he found himself facing another libel action and was once again was forced to withdraw his remarks.  Yet today he denied all!!

What would we do without the affable Jonathan Hoffman to support our cause!
 
At one stage today he became so confused that he was shouting his support of ‘green’ shops like Sodastream (ethnic cleansing is ‘green’ in Hoffie’s books) whilst also shouting ‘communists out of Brighton’ like the good McCarthyite he is.  

No wonder the only people going into the shop were dedicated Zionists.  At one point he was becoming so obnoxious that the Police had to warn him about his behaviour and when his flag flew in my face once too often I detached it from the stick he was waving it with, something else the Police were quite happy with.  Indeed one of the Zionists struck me going into the shop and then squealed when I defended myself as he attempted the same leaving the shop.  Suffice to say that the Police weren’t too impressed with his cries of having been attacked!

The main supporters of Sodastream today were, as always, fundamentalist Christian Zionists who'd like the Jews to return to the Holy Land in order that they can perish as quickly as possible and the Rapture of the Elect can Take Place.  Lovely people!

Tony Greenstein

The Zionists are consistently reactionary - in 1933 they Opposed a  Boycott of Hitler - Today they Oppose a Boycott of Israel

Jewish  War Veterans Boycotted Shops Selling German Goods - the Zionists Opposed the Boycott

Like the boy who cried wolf, supporters of Israel call a boycott of Israeli goods ‘anti-Semitic’.  They even compare it with the Nazi Boycott of Jewish Shops on 1st April 1933.   History to the Zionists is a flexible instrument, since they 'forget' that the Zionist movement played the role of the enemy within the Jewish community in the 1930s.  

The SA laid siege to Jewish shops just as the Zionists lay siege to Gaza

 The Nazis didn’t ‘boycott’ Jewish shops, they laid siege to them, just as Israel lays siege to Gaza today.  In 1933 Jewish groups and the labour movement who organised a boycott of German goods in protest at Hitler’s policies.  And it was the Zionist movement, a tiny minority of the Jewish community, which opposed a Boycott of Nazi Germany.  The Boycott threatened to bring down the Hitler regime and caused a major crisis for Hitler as the non-Nazi part of his coalition overruled him and Hindenburg and the Army supported them.  But the Zionists rescued Hitler by concluding a trade agreement with Nazi Germany.  But for the role of the Zionist movement, Hitler might have been deposed and there might have been no holocaust or invasion of Europe.

In May 1933 the German Consul in Jerusalem. Dr Wolf, wrote to the German Foreign Ministry, asking 'whether it would be possible to place at the disposal of Jewish emigrants (from Germany) part of their capital in order to finance the export of German goods to Palestine ... In this way it might be possible to wage a successful campaign against the Jewish boycott of Germany. It might be possible to make a breach in the wall of the anti-German boycott.' p.131 The Third Reich and the Transfer Agreement, David Yisraeli Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 6, No. 2. (1971), pp. 129-148.

‘March 23, 1933 was a day that had frightened the Nazi leaders.  A boycott was being organized by the Jewish War Veterans in the USA to enthusiastic approval.’  On March 27 ‘thousands were scheduled to rally at Madison Square Gardens…. Boycott movements were also fast developing in Lithuania, France, Holland, Great Britain and Egypt.’

SA thugs close down Jewish shop despite the unpopularity of the siege,  The Palestinian economy is also closed down by Israeli checkpoints, border controls, buring of olive groves and land confiscation.

In a speech to the Reichstag Hitler declared:  ‘We need contact with the outside world and our foreign markets furnish a livelihood for millions of our fellow citizens…. By the next day, March 24, Reich leaders realized that boycott agitation was accelerating, especially in Great Britain.  Placards proclaiming BOYCOTT GERMANY spread infectiously throughout London, and were now in the windows of the most exclusive West End shops.’ 

Siege in Berlin - ended after less than a day by the Boycott Movement internationally

Goering, Hitler’s Deputy and President of the Reichstag, summoned the heads of Germany’s 3 major Jewish organizations … at noon the next day, Saturday March 25.  The Zionists were not invited because in 1933 ‘Zionism in Germany was a mere Jewish fringe movement.’  [Edwin Black, The Transfer Movement - The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine’, pp. 33-37, Brookline Books 1999].  But at the last moment the Zionists secured an invitation to the meeting.  Whilst the leaders of Germany’s Jewish organisations were resisting suggestions that they could do anything to stop the Boycott (they could hardly say they supported it) the Zionist attitude was entirely different: 

‘(Kurt) Blumenfeld … declared that the German Zionist Federation was uniquely capable of conferring with Jewish leaders in other countries, since German Zionists were affiliated with a worldwide organisation.  Once uttered, the words forever changed the relationship between the Nazis and the Zionists.  It was suddenly clear that the Jewish group the Reich had been ignoring was, in fact, the one it should be negotiating with in its efforts to combat the Jewish presence in Germany.  After all, both Nazis and Zionists agreed that Jews did not belong in Germany.’

The Zionist ‘objective was not … the preservation of Jewish rights in Germany.  Rather, they sought a means of turning the miseries of German Jewry into a new impetus for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.’
 
‘Within days of the JWV’s boycott declaration the Veterans showed the press well over $2 million in lost German orders… a mushrooming, even if uncoordinated, anti-German boycott movement was spreading throughout Europe and America…. Without a strong economy Germany could not rearm and could never begin its conquest of Europe.’ [Black p. 47]

When on March 28th the Nazis announced a ‘boycott’ of German Jewish shops on April 1st the international reaction was instantaneous.  The Boycott of German goods was stepped up and Hitler came under enormous pressure.  Foreign Minister von Neurath resigned (later retracting).  The SA Siege of Jewish shops which had been intended to be indefinite, was called off later the same day, April 1st.  [Black, pp. 46-68]  The violence that was later evident on Krystalnacht was kept in check because of the fear of Boycott in the West.  [Black, p.233]  The boycott ‘forced the Third Reich to vigilantly restrain anti-Jewish violence in Germany, since each incident helped intensify the anti-Nazi movement.’[Black p.372]

60% of  Capital Investment in the Yishuv - the Zionist Economy in Palestine - was from Nazi Germany

But on August 7 1933, the Zionist leaders scabbed on the Jews of Germany and concluded a trade agreement, Ha'avara, with Nazi Germany.  It led to $100 million dollar investment in the Palestine Jewish economy.  It helped build what became the Israeli economy.  Between 1933 and 1939 Ha'avara accounted for 60% of total capital investment in Jewish Palestine. [Jewish Frontier, May-June 1998, p.29, New York] 

Nazi Germany became the biggest exporter to the Zionist economy in Palestine!  When anti-fascists tried to persuade people to support a boycott of Nazi Germany ‘it became difficult to mobilize Britain when protest and boycott were incongruously disowned by Jewish leaders themselves.’   The one chance of bringing down Hitler early in his reign of terror had been sabotaged for the chance to build a ‘Jewish’ state.  Indeed the ‘Zionist leadership was compelled to go further.  The German economy would have to be safeguarded, stabilized, and if necessary reinforced.  Hence, the Nazi party and the Zionist Organisation shared a common stake in the recovery of Germany.  If the Hitler economy fell, both sides would be ruined.’ [Black p. 253]  

A Nazi Goes to Palestine - Goebbel's Der Angriff publishes a series of articles on how Baron Mildenstein was faschinated by Zionism

In March 1933 Baron von Mildenstein, who became the Head of the Gestapo’s Jewish desk before Eichman took over, spent 6 months touring the Kibbutzim in Palestine as a guest of the Zionist labour movement and Histadrut. [History Today, January 1980, Vol. 30, No. 1]  It was little wonder that ‘German Jewry vehemently rejected Zionism as an enemy from within.’ [Black p. 168]    Edwin Black incidentally is a vehement Zionist who nonetheless resisted the pressure put on him not to publish his book.

Boycott has always been a weapon of the oppressed from the Boycott of slave grown sugar in Britain in the 19th century to the Boycott of Apartheid produce from South Africa.  It is no surprise that the Zionists and their Christian fundamentalist supporters reject a Boycott of Israeli Goods.  After all, they also rejected the anti-Nazi Boycott!

Tony Greenstein