The Jewish Chronicle Has a New Editor, Daniel Schwammenthal, and it Seems They’ve Realised That a Propaganda Rag Cannot Be a Newspaper
Edward Isaacs was Chair of Bristol’s
Jewish (in fact Israel) Society when the campaign began in earnest against a
sociology professor, David Miller. McCarthyism came easily to this spoilt rich
Zionist brat.
My original message to Edward Isaacs
My clash with Isaacs began when he
and his deputy, AJ Solomon applied to join the Labour Against the Witchhunt
Facebook Group. As the Admin of the group I asked them why they wanted to join
and if they were Zionists i.e. racists. See EXCLUSIVE: Bristol University Hearing into David Miller’s Right To
Freedom of Speech Will Take Place Next Week as the Zionist Campaign to Dismiss
Him Intensifies.
My Response to Google
Solomon got into a debate with me
which he badly lost, resulting in him deleting his comments. Isaacs merely threatened to sue me with
Daddy’s money if I called him a liar again. So that’s what I did. I called him a liar but no libel writ arrived
so I guess it is an established fact now that Edward Isaacs, Chair of UJS from 2023-4 is a liar.
Naturally I put up a blog which
remained up until yesterday. Now there is simply a page that says that the blog does not
exist though it still appears on a Google search.
This is what Google objected to - the truth
Fortunately, some years ago, I
decided that the risks of Google taking down a blog that has existed for some
16+ years were too great and I therefore invested in a website and a domain
which is based in the United States. All my posts on Blogspot have been copied
onto it including all legacy posts, just in case.
This is all that remains of my deleted blog!! Except on my shadow blog
Although it costs me an arm and a leg, hence my occasional appeals to readers, it is worth it not to let the Zionists destroy what is also a history of the Palestine solidarity movement in this country. You can however access it here.
This is Blogspot's Explanation for Deleting a 31/2 year old post
Twice in the last year Google has
taken down posts. This never used to happen and so I am thinking of leaving
blogspot altogether and simply posting to my own site.
I therefore invite people to go to
the post Edward Isaacs is a Liar on my site to see what has been
irking Isaac’s for the past 3+ years. He was clearly hoping to join LAW in
order to spy on people there but I
always check people who apply to join in case they are Zionists.
Isn’t it strange how these young
amoral Zionists, who are so ready to call people ‘anti-Semites’ become so
touchy when they are accused of not telling the truth?
Is the Jewish Chronicle Changing Under Its New Editor Daniel
Schwammenthal?
It was
inevitable after the public relations fiasco in which the Jewish Chronicle was found to have been printing as ‘Exclusives’
lying disinformation from Netanyahu’s office via a pimp who called himself a journalist,
I refer to Elon Perry, that its
obnoxious, racist Editor Jake Wallis Simons had to go. Although he took nearly
6 months to get the message.
Perry had
claimed to have taken part in the Entebbe raid a mere 48 years ago, as well as
having been a professor at Tel Aviv University for 15 years. Clearly he was a
Walter Mitty character but then that fitted in well at the JC. The JC was was happy
to have him write complete fabrications because printing lies is what it
specialised in.
The fable
that did him was about how Hamas leader, Yayha Sinwar was trying to escape to
Iran with the hostages and that was why Israel needed to stay in the
Philadelphia corridor in order to prevent such occurrences. There was no truth
in this story and as we know, Sinwar died a martyr’s death throwing, with his
last gasp of breath, a stick at the drone which located him. ‘Sinwar’s stick’
has since become famous as a symbol of Palestinian bravery and resistance.
However
this time it was the Israeli end which did for editor Jake Wallis-Simons, whose
other speciality was as a soft-porn novelist. Netanyahu’s disinformation had been part of a war against the army top
brass and his political enemies. Hence why they were quick to rubbish the
story. As the Guardian commented
Despite being provided with a series of questions,
Wallis Simons and the JC have so far declined to describe how Perry – an
individual with no discernible journalistic track record, let alone as an
investigative reporter – came to be writing for the paper or what due diligence
had been exercised over an increasingly fantastic series of claims.
I mention
all of this because Agnes Kory, a child survivor of the Nazi holocaust, sent me
a copy of a letter she had sent to the Jewish Chronicle supporting the picket
of Tzipi Hotoveli, the Israeli Ambassador, in Swiss Cottage where she lives.
I wished
her good luck but I doubted very much that they would print it. Imagine my
surprise when the Jewish Chronicle did just
that! Under Pollard or Simons the chances are that Agnes’s letter
would have ended up in the electronic equivalent of the waste paper basket.
At the same
time I was contacted by a JC reporter,
Jane Prinsley about a story they were doing about the demonstrations at Swiss
Cottage. You may not think this is unusual but for the JC it is an innovation. Jane actually contacted me before writing
the story!
It is of
course good journalistic practice to contact people you intend to write about
but it is not something that the JC have
done since Pollard became Editor in 2008.
Imagine my
surprise when I read Prinsley’s article. Even
though it didn’t include all my points, it did accurately quote from the 3 out
of 6 that they did use. I can’t imagine that Marcus Dysch or ‘Liar’ Lee even considering
contacting their victims.
As I said
in a letter to the JC (which I don’t
expect to be published!) when ‘Liar’ Lee Harpin used to write articles
involving me it was a pleasant past-time to see how many mistakes I could
identify in each article. This is perhaps why the paper experienced
so many adverse judgements of IPSOS, the so-called independent body that
investigates complaints against newspapers and why it suffered so many
libel defeats too.
As Jonathan Cook wrote ‘the
Jewish Chronicle’s libel payouts were a small price to pay for smearing
Corbyn and the left.’
The JC literally did not care if its
stories were true or not. The main
objective was to damage Corbyn and the Left, which is why an unknown consortium
was prepared to finance the paper despite knowing that it could only make
losses as readers abandoned it. The BBC’s Director Robbie Gibb
man fronted the take-over of the JC
by anonymous billionaires.
My satirical letter to the Jewish Chronicle
The scandal involving Perry resulted in the JC's four principal columnists, headed
by Jonathan Freedland and David Aaronovitch, resigning. The rats were
abandoning ship.
Despite his attempts to cling on, Jake Wallis
Simon’s days were numbered. Whether this
results in any substantive change in the JC
is to be doubted. To date the JC has
operated on the basis that 99.99% of British Jews are fully fledged Zionists. Jewish
anti-Zionism has disappeared from its pages. The reality of what is happening
to the Palestinians never even makes it into their pages thus reinforcing the
belief that Palestinians (‘Arabs’) don’t like Israel because they are born anti-Semitic
rather than that they might object to living in an apartheid state that steals
their land.
However time will tell.
Tony
Greenstein
