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.
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 tospy 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 toElon 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 disinformationhad 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.
Like Rats Deserting a Sinking Ship, Freedland, Aaronovitch, Baddiel &
Freeman Took Their 30 Pieces of Silver Whilst the JC Celebrated the Slaughter of Gaza’s
Children– But when Scandal Broke They Fled
Skwawkbox – The JC’s Libel Victims
The
Jewish Chronicle has reached the end of the road. The kindest thing to do with
it would be to put the financial equivalent of a Do Not Resuscitate notice on it.
Whatever happens to this apology for a newspaper, its reputation is blown for
good.
Jonathan Freedland's Self-Serving Statement
It is
no surprise that Jonathan Freedland, David Aaronovitch, David Baddiel and Hadley
Freeman have, at last, said goodbye to the JC. Like rats
deserting a sinking ship they left the captain Jake Wallis-Simons to drown in
his own disgrace.
Wallis-Simons
has faithfully defended the murder of
Palestinian civilians, children included, in Gaza whilst denying that what was
happening was genocide. This is the Zionist version of holocaust denial.
Simons posted and then deleted an
Islamaphobic tweet accusing Muslim Palestinians of staging a ‘Ramadan’ attack
on the Church of Annunciation in Gaza.
🧵Last week, the editor of “the world’s oldest and most influential Jewish newspaper” posted the following tweet propagating news that was both falsified and divisive. @JakeWSimons later deleted the tweet but not before it has been seen by thousands of people. pic.twitter.com/EZrsytWgZW
— Fahad Ansari 🇵🇸 (Stop the Gaza genocide) (@fahadansari) April 16, 2023
Not
only was this untrue, but it is Israeli soldiers who have attacked, not only
the Church of Annunciation but worshippers at the Church of Holy
Sepulchre. The church even closed its doors indefinitely because of Israel’s
attacks on it.
Jerusalem’s
far-right Council have repeatedly attacked Christian institutions through
methods such as taxation.Settlers and Orthodox
Jews have regularly spat at Christians and
priests in Jerusalem something defended by Israel’s Police
Minister, Ben Gvir.
This
has not prevented Wallis-Simons being a regular guest on Sky News Press Review
as well as appearing on BBC Question Time on October 12,
2023 as part of an all-Zionist panel.
The
scandal over the JC’s financing has been brewing for some time. They were the
consequence, not so much of Wallis-Simons, but his vituperative Islamaphobic predecessor
Stephen
Pollard, a founding member of the Islamaphobic Henry Jackson Society.
“Why did a British Jewish newspaper publish fake Israeli intelligence?”
At
one point the JC’s circulation hit 63,000.In the 1970s it averaged 50,000. As I wrote at the time, the JC’s circulation
declined when Pollard took over. It
went from from over 32,000 in 2008 to 20,000 in 2018.Wallis Simons gave it the kiss
of death as it plummeted to 6,000 paid copies
with another 6,000 given away, figures that provincial papers have.
When
the Zionist movement appeared in the late 19th Century, the JC
reflected the views of the Jewish Establishment which was hostile to any
attempt to suggest that, having won the battle for Emancipation, British Jews
didn’t belong in Britain. It described Zionism ‘as
ill-considered, retrogressive, impracticable, even dangerous.”
In
December 1906, L.J. Greenberg, an
English Zionist leader, bought the paper from Dutch banker
Jacobus Kann with the object of promoting Zionism. However at that time the JC
was not the extreme and partisan paper it became. In the 30s it was
vociferously opposed to the Zionist trade agreement, Ha'avara, with the Nazis, describing it as an ‘unclean thing’.
The
Forward realised that
you can be both anti-Semitic and pro-Zionist at one and the same time. In fact
the whole history of Zionism has been its friendly relations with anti-Semites,
both of whom agree that Jews are a nation separate from those they live
amongst.
Pollard
went as far as defending anti-Semites as long as they supported Zionism and
Israel. Pollard defended one fascist in particular,
the Chair of the European
Conservatives & Reform, Michal Kaminski MEP defended villagers in
Jedwabne who had herded up to 1,600 Jews into a barn which was then set alight
in July 1941. Kaminski when an MP opposed a national Polish apology for what
had happened in Jedwabne during the war.
After
books by Jan Tomasz Gross. [Neighbours: The
Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland,] and
Anna Bikont’s ‘The Crime and the Silence’, a movement grew up to
re-examine what had happened 60 years previously. Kaminski was in the forefront of those opposing an
apology.
Pollard’s other hero, another MEP Roberts Zile
from Latvia’s LNNK distinguished himself each March by marching in Riga, the
scene of the first executions of German Jews in October 1941, when 5,000 were
machine gunned as they descended from the deportation trains from Germany, by the veterans of the Latvian SS. See Jedwabne – The Polish
Village Where Up to 900 Jews Were Burnt Alive by Fellow Poles
None
of this stopped Pollard writing that Kaminski was ‘one of the greatest
friends to the Jews” Kaminski, even if he didn’t like Jews very much loved
the State of Israel. Poland's Kaminski is not an antisemite: he's a
friend to Jews. Pollard also wrote in response to criticism from Jonathan Freedland
that
Robert Ziles - Latvian MEP who marched with the Latvian veterans of the Waffen SS - Stephen Pollard was foremost in defending him
“Jonathan Freedland attacked Michal
Kaminski, the Polish MEP; Roberts Zile, the Latvian MEP; and me. Freedland
seems to have decided that Kaminski is an antisemite; but, far from this,
Kaminski is – as his record in Brussels shows clearly – one of the greatest
friends to the Jews in a town where antisemitism and a visceral loathing of
Israel are rife.” (Once no self-respecting
politician would have gone near such people, 7 October)
A Palestinian Woman Comforts Emily, the Victim of the 'Jewish' State's Violence
Emily Henochowicz.
It was a
story that many papers had covered, including Israeli newspapers. It was
about an American Jewish teenager Emily Henochowicz who had lost an eye at the
Qualandiyah checkpoint in Jerusalem, where Palestinians cross to the West Bank
and back again. Emily had participated in a demonstration against forcing Palestinians to wait for hours in the hot sun for the ‘privilege’ of
being able to cross over to work or return to their home again.
A soldier
of the Israeli army, that beacon of moral righteousness fired a tear gas shell
directly at her face, blinding her in one eye. And just to show just how
wonderful the ‘Jewish’ state is, the government insisted that her family should
pay the bill for her hospital treatment.
I emailed
Pollard suggesting that this story should appear in the Jewish Chronicle so
that Jewish readers in Britain might understand just what Palestinians faced in
their normal life and how criticism is not motivated by anti-Semitism. Pollard emailed
back that
Dear Mr Greenstein,
Thank you for your email, which
will make a fine addition to my 'delete' folder.
Stephen Pollard
From that
day on I had nothing but contempt for this vile lump of lard.
Elon Perry
During
today’s genocide in Gaza the JC has been nothing more than the propaganda arm
of the Israeli military and Netanyahu. It is no wonder that it employed Elon
Perry without bothering to check his credentials. Perry claimed to have been a professor at
Tel Aviv University for 15 years amongst other lies.
Why
should the JC have checked what Perry told them? The JC has never checked its
facts when it came to writing scandalous stories about its anti-Zionist
opponents and Palestinians. Why change the habits of a lifetime? It has a
history of making things up. Why shouldn’t those it employs?
The
JC was forced to apologise to Nada al-Sanjari,
alleging she was one of a number of Momentum activists who had engaged in
anti-Semitic activities when she had never even been a member of Momentum. It
had to apologise to the charity Interpal,
to whom they also paid £50,000 damages. These were the tip of the iceberg. Most
people can’t afford to litigate in the libel courts.
Skwawkbox
listed 15 victims of the JC yet the
Regulator IPSOS, which found some 33 breaches of its own Code of Conduct in 3
years, refused to conduct an inquiry. Now
this scandal has broken out. IPSOS’s Chair, Lord Faulks gave as his explanation `
the
newspaper’s 2020 change of ownership and recent
changes in editorial leadership. Stephen Pollard stepped down as editor after
13 years last month, and was succeeded by his deputy Jake Wallis
Simons.
Well
we know how this turned out!One crook
gave way to another crook and now the JC’s past is beginning to catch up with
it. The disregard for facts was such that completely fictitious articles were
making it into the paper as ‘Exclusives’.Which in a sense they were!
What
is worse is that although there was indeed a change of ownership, we don’t know
who the new owners are!!
Alan Rusbridger, former Editor of the Guardian asked in April 2024 Who really funds the Jewish
Chronicle? It is a question yet to be answered.
Rusbridger’s article was the stone that started a landslide.
A few days after October 7, 2023, The Jewish Chronicle editor Jake Wallis Simons appeared on BBC Question Time.
He told the millions of watching that children had been beheaded and women and babies had been raped.
What
we do know is that in April 2020 the paper was rescued from liquidation by a
consortium that was headed by Sir Robbie Gibb, who is a government-appointed
BBC director. In his declaration of interest Gibb states that he has a 100% holding of
Jewish Chronicle Media.
The
problem is that Gibb doesn’t have that money. He was a front-man for person or
persons unknown who gifted £3.5 million to the JC. Other members of this consortium included
the ex-Labour MP John Woodcock
(Lord Walney) who was suspended by Labour for sexual harassment of an 18 year
old assistant. Others included Zionist operative Jonathan Sacerdoti
and John Ware who
produced the anti-Corbyn Is Labour Anti-Semiticprogramme
which has been assailed ever since it was broadcast in July 2019 for its dishonesty and downright lies.
A
newspaper which refuses to come clean about who owns it is not a newspaper. It
is a propaganda sheet. What is outrageous is that a BBC Director, who is
supposed to be responsible for impartiality at the BBC is himself party to
hiding the ownership of this pro-Israeli propaganda sheet.
The
Case ofGeoffrey Alderman
One
reason I have contempt for the 4 ‘journalists’ who have resigned from the JC is
because of their acquiescence in the sacking of Geoffrey Alderman. Zionists’ have
a totalitarian attitude to criticism.Pollard
was determined to shut down any dissent at the JC and Freedland went along with
this. The rot did not begin with the pathetic bigot Wallis-Simons. It began
under Pollard.
My
association with the JC goes back over 40 years.I say ‘association’ but only in so far as I
have long been a target of theirs!
Geoffrey D Paul was the editor between
1977 and 1990 when I became involved with the Palestine solidarity movement. He
was a Zionist but he was critical of the invasion and occupation ofLebanon. Although he was a Zionist he at
least allowed the targets of his criticism to respond to the attacks on them
and I had many letters in the Jewish Chronicle. In the one instance he refused
to print my letter I went to the Press Council and obtained, for the first
time, ever an adverse judgement against the JC.
Nonetheless
Paul stood by his columnist Chaim
Bermant who earlier than most argued for recognition of the PLO and
talking to the Palestinians.Contrast
this with the miserable Pollard.
Following my role speaking at UNISON Conference in support
of BDS the JC's Letter Writers were not Happy!
My Response to the JC's Readers
Its not unusual @DAaronovitch for rats to desert a sinking ship but why have you waited so long? this didn't start under the genocidie supporter @jakewsimons? fabricating stories was part of the business plan
there was all the fake 'antisemitism' allegations against Corbyn and… https://t.co/bkhAQtQiJq
— Tony Greenstein tonygreenstein.com (@TonyGreenstein) September 16, 2024
Long
and loud was the clamour of the JC’s readership for Bermant’s head but to his
credit, the Geoffrey Paul stood up for him and freedom of speech. That was why
the JC was a lively publication even if it made you chew your hair at times. It
also had interesting contributors such as its Literary Editor, T.R. Fyvel, who
succeeded George Orwell as literary editor of Tribune.
Despite
being a columnist for 14 years Pollard sent an email to Emeritus Professor
Geoffrey Alderman, the historian of the British Jewish community out of the
blue one day. It was blunt and to the point: “as editor I no longer wish to have you in the paper.” A decision confirmed by Pollard in a phone
conversation.
What
was Alderman’s offence?In an interview with the Times Higher Ed. of
July 13 2017 he said that ‘In the Oxford
empirical tradition, I shall go wherever the evidence takes me.’ For
Zionists, for whom defence of Israel right or wrong is everything, this is the
wrong approach. The truth is secondary to the hasbarah (propaganda).
In
an Interview with the THES (13.7.17.) Alderman outlined his
philosophy in the statement that ‘Folks don’t like the truth, do they? Even
academic folks. Very sad.’ It would make a good epitaph for Pollard when the
grim reaper comes a calling.
Alderman
though is not your average progressive, still less a socialist.He is religious and right-wing, as one would
expect of someone who was Professor of Politics at the Britain’s only private
university, Buckingham.
Alderman
was a man of contradiction, a ‘communal
gadfly’ as a JC article described him when he left the Board of Deputies to
the sound of boos. On the one hand he, of all people, in an article A man who deserves banning called,
in November 2015, for the banning of another Jewish dissident, Gerald Kaufmann
MP.
surely this wasn't the same Geoffrey Alderman who wrote, in an article Obama’s false Iran
Alternative (14.8.15) of ‘the fact that Jewish money, albeit American-Jewish money – is being
used to this end has led the president to adopt an unfortunate and worrying
rhetoric. Israel and its supporters are warmongers and American-Jewish
money is being used to drag America into war.’
Alderman’s main sin in
Pollard’s eyes had been to contradict the JC’s propaganda barrage that Corbyn
was the worst anti-Semite since Adolf Hitler. Having worked with Corbyn
Alderman knew that this was not true and he wrote an article in The Spectator Is Jeremy Corbyn really anti-Semitic?
in which he stated that:
The fact of the matter is that Corbyn has an impressive record of
supporting Jewish communal initiatives. For instance he was recently supportive of Jewish efforts to
facilitate the speedy issue of death certificates by the north London coroner.
In 2015 he took part in a ceremony in his Islington constituency to commemorate
the founding of the North London Synagogue. In 2010 he put his name to an
Early Day Motion (tabled by Diane Abbott) calling on the UK government to
facilitate the settlement of Yemeni Jews in Britain. Indeed I could fill this
entire article with a list of philo-Semitic EDMs that Corbyn has signed since
he was first elected as Labour MP for Islington North in 1983.
As
if this was not blasphemy enough, Alderman went on to declare that ‘in my view context is, again, paramount.’
Alderman wrote:
‘I will agree that from time to time, as backbench MP and party leader,
Corbyn has acted unwisely. But the grounds for labelling him an anti-Semite
simply do not exist.’
In the eyes of Pollard and the
Board of Deputies Alderman had committed a Chillul Hashem, which is about as great
a sin as man is capable of viz. telling the truth.
Of course to most normal people it is obvious that
Corbyn was not anti-Semitic. But Zionists are not normal. Their values are,
above all, those of state worship and veneration of the land over the people
who live on it. To that end lying is just a means to an end.
Alderman wasn’t the first journalist to suffer at the
hands of the Zionist press for expressing a dissenting opinion. Stephen
Oryszczuk the foreign editor of Jewish
News dared to criticise his own paper’s attack on Corbyn. He told The Canary:
It’s
repulsive. This is a dedicated anti-racist we’re trashing. I just don’t buy
into it at all.
Neither did the Jewish News editor as Oryszczuk was
immediately put on gardening leave and soon after parted company.
Jewish academic Professor Geoffrey Alderman has been no-platformed by
the UK’s oldest Jewish newspaper, the Jewish Chronicle.
Announcing this, Professor Alderman has made public the contents of an
email sent to him by the Jewish Chronicle’s editor, Stephen Pollard.
In that email, Pollard told Alderman that “as editor I no longer wish to
have you in the paper.”
This decision was confirmed by Pollard in a phone conversation with
Alderman on 31 January 2020.
Such was Pollard’s
dishonesty that he wouldn’t even give a reason for his decision.However Alderman's crimes were not hard to fathom.
Amongst which were an article in The Independent headed ‘This Labour Party row will not be settled by relying on a
flawed and faulty definition of antisemitism’.
Attacking the IHRA misdefinition of ‘anti-Semitism’,
which has the status amongst Zionists of Moses’ tablets of stone, Alderman wrote that the 11 examples of anti-Semitism in the IHRA
‘embed numerous internal contradictions. One example affects to condemn
as antisemitic “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of
the Nazis.” But the preamble that introduces all 11 examples explains that
manifestations of antisemitism “might include the targeting of the state of
Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel
similar to that levelled against any other country cannot be regarded as
antisemitic.”
Well, a number
of political regimes around the world have been criticised because they are
alleged to be pursuing policies reminiscent of the Nazis. So how in principle
can it be antisemitic to draw a comparison between “contemporary” Israeli
policy and that of the Nazis?
Alderman compounded his ‘crimes’ by making a
submission to the EHRC slating the IHRA
definition. One of the wondrous things about the IHRA is that virtually no
academics or legal scholars defend it and yet it continues to dominate the
narrative. An example of Marx’s dictum that the ruling ideas in society
are the ideas of the ruling class.
Although Alderman was banned from writing for the
JCPollard’s pages were left open for
arch Islamaphobe Melanie Phillips one of whose pieces was ‘Don’t fall for bogus claims of
‘Islamophobia’’
I first came across Alderman’s name in 1978
when the Board of Deputies was launching ‘kamikaze attacks’ (Maurice Ludman,
Editor Searchlight No. 41) against the Anti-Nazi League because of its
anti-Zionist founders. The ANL bothered the Board far more than the National
Front. Alderman along with others like Miriam Karlin criticised their approach.
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