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21 January 2025

Why are the Police, the BBC & National Press Refusing to Even Mention Ivor Caplin's Arrest?

Compare This to My Arrest – Sussex Police & the CPS Can Be Relied on To Do Their Utmost to Avoid Prosecuting Caplin



WARNING –you may find some of the pictures below this post offensive – they were all posted by Ivor Caplin and illustrates his interests

You might think that the arrest of a former Defence Minister and government Whip on charges of child grooming would make the pages of all the national dailies.  But if so you would be wrong? Only the Daily Mail did so.

The BBC had a short report  Man arrested on suspicion of child sex offence but it did not name him. This narrowed down the suspects to a mere half of the population. The only clues to Caplin’s identity were that he was 66 and local to Brighton (in fact he is local to Hove).

Compare this to the BBC’s coverage of my arrest. ‘Terrorism charge over man's online comments’ which gave both my name and the street where I live. Why the disparity?

When I was arrested and charged this was covered by the BBC and the Brighton Argus which published an article Brighton man charged with terror offences over Hamas comments which both named me and the street where I live. On Caplin’s arrest they printed nothing. 

Brighton & Hove News went one further with ‘Tony Greenstein charged with terrorism offence’ from which you might assume that I had been found with a bomb in my pocket rather than having published a blog that was not to the Police’s liking.

When Caplin, a former Under-Secretary of State for Defence and Veteran’s Minister as well as former Chair of the genocide supporters of the Jewish Labour Movement, was arrested the Jewish Chronicle, which had extensively covered my previous arrest deleted an article on the arrest.  Only the Jewish News led on ‘Caplin arrested on ‘suspicion of engaging in sexual communication with a child’.

When I was expelled from the Labour Party the Jewish Chronicle ran a story, Tony Greenstein expelled from Labour Party over abusive behaviour which quoted Caplin

‘Welcoming the decision to expel Mr Greenstein, Ivor Caplin, south east chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, said: “His continued membership is at complete odds with our collective values of solidarity, tolerance and respect.

“Deliberately harassing, intimidatory and hateful language of the kind Tony Greenstein has continually used has no place inside the Labour movement.

“Despite the unacceptably long time it has taken to reach this conclusion, we are heartened that the party has sent out a clear message on this today.

“We will continue to press the party to deal firmly and swiftly with antisemitism, including the high number of cases that are still waiting to be resolved."

The only national paper, bar the Mail, which led on Caplin’s arrest was the Scottish National which reported that Former Labour minister arrested after vigilante paedophile sting.

The Guardian of course said nothing which is not surprising since Caplin had been such an integral part of their false ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign in the Labour Party.

There is an easy explanation. Caplin is a prominent Zionist.  I suspect that great efforts will be made to prove that Caplin was only trying to contact a 15 year old boy in order that they could play chess together!

And what of the Police?  When I was charged they issued a statement which said:

“A 70-year-old man has been charged with a terrorism offence as part of an investigation by officers from Counter Terrorism South East (CTPSE).

“Anthony Greenstein, of XXXX, Brighton, has been charged with one count of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, namely Hamas, contrary to Section 12(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000.

“The charge is in connection with comments made online on Saturday 7 October 2023.

“He has been bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 12 December.



What Ivor Caplin Doesn't Lack Is Influential Friends

Sussex Police also issued a statement when I was first arrested in 2023. Compare this to what Sussex Police said when Caplin was arrested:

“We are aware of footage circulating on social media showing a man in Brighton being detained on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child.

“Officers can confirm that a local 66-year-old man was arrested on Saturday January 11 and currently remains in custody. They later elaborated

“A 66-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child on 11 January has been released on bail until 10 April while further enquiries are carried out.”

No name and no address. Why the disparity?  It would seem that there are forces in society who help and protect powerful paedophiles and equally powerful forces out to portray me as a ‘terrorist’.

One can only hope that one of his bail conditions is surrendering his passport or Ivor may end up in Israel

Skwawkbox’s headline was Former chair of JLM pro-Israel lobby group arrested on suspicion of child sex offences.

It’s one law for right-wing former Labour Zionist ministers who are caught trying to make contact with children and quite another law for  those of us who support the Palestinian resistance against a genocidal army that has killed more than 20,000 Palestinian children.

And of course there is a logic to this.  If the British government, from Starmer down, can say nothing about the murder of thousands of Palestinian children, why on earth should they be bothered about the grooming of one 15 year old boy?

The Hypocrisy of these People Knows No Limits

In the eyes of the Police and Establishment grooming young children is considered a lesser crime than supporting an anti-colonial guerrilla struggle. Paedophillia amongst our rulers has always been treated lightly if at all.

We only have to consider the way four different Police forces, including Sussex, went out of their way to protect Jimmy Saville. According to an Inspectorate of Constabulary Report in 2007. The HMIC report said:

“Both officers (from Sussex and Surrey) appear to have alerted each other to the reluctance of their respective victims and both decided that neither was able to support the other. As a result, opportunities for mutual support were lost.”

Sussex Police were also involved in protecting another high society paedophile, the Bishop of Lewes Peter Ball, friend of Prince now King Charles III. Initially, in 1993, Ball was merely cautioned for his crimes. Eventually in 2015 he was gaoled for 32 months for quite horrendous abuse. The Independent Inquiry into Child Abuse found that a victim of Ball, Philip Johnson, after having learned in September 1996 that his younger brother had also been sexually abused visited a Sussex Police Station, where he reported the offences committed by Cotton and Pritchard, two other priests.

Mr Johnson said he was made to feel uncomfortable by the officers, who appeared to view him “as a threat to children … I felt that I was being investigated more than Cotton or Pritchard.

Starmer’s CPS protected Saville and then destroyed the files in 2010 when Starmer was Director of Public Prosecutions. The historic attitude to the abuse of children by the rich and powerful was exemplified by Peter Morrison MP, Thatcher’s Personal Private Secretary who was protected by Thatcher and MI5 despite his proclivities being well known.

Caplin and fellow Zionist and current Hove MP, Peter 'Killer' Kyle

Greg Hadfield has written an interesting article that should be required reading for anyone interested in why Sussex Police have treated Caplin with kid gloves. In essence Caplin was part of a right-wing Gay Labour Mafia in Brighton & Hove which includes local MP Peter ‘Killer’ Kyle, his ex-boyfriend, who lives literally a stone throws away. Chris Ward, the new Starmerite MP for Brighton Kemptown seems to have been another member of this clique.

Ward was the Starmer imposed stooge in Brighton Kemptown at the last election. A complete nonentity he ran Hanbury Strategy, a PR/Lobbying group with his Tory election opponent, Khobi Vallis at the last election.

Chris Ward’s original CV sent to members mentioned that he once worked for Caplin, but all reference to working for him has been removed since Caplin was suspended by the Labour Party last year. As Greg Hadfield observed, this is an extremely unusual occurrence for someone on the right of the party. 

In Revealed: Zionism, abuse, pornography, and worse Hadfield outlines a whole series of disturbing occurrences.

Caplin was the first Labour MP that Hove had ever had.  Caplin was a Defence Minister at the time of the invasion of Iraq.  I can remember him scuttling out of the backdoor of Hove Town Hall when we came to talk with him!  And he panicked and called the Police when we next met up with him at Portslade Town hall.

Caplin has been addicted to Crystal Meths for the last 18 months and genocide for over 20 years.  Last June Caplin was arrested for a sexual assault on a young man at the YMCA hostel in Brighton’s North Road. Suffice to say Sussex  Police managed to avoid having to investigate the case too hard and Caplin escaped prosecution.

As Andy Winter, an Argus columnist and former Labour councillor recalled being told: “Whenever something odd happens in the Labour Party, all roads lead back to Ivor Caplin.” Guess who helped select the Council candidates for 2023 – including two who didn’t live in Brighton? Yes that’s right, Ivor Caplin. It was Caplin who was appointed to the Labour Party’s South East Executive with the explicit task of weeding out anyone on the left.

No wonder that Labour councillors in Brighton & Hove have had nothing to say about the Genocide in Gaza given who they owe their position to.

Caplin’s sudden announcement, in November 2004, barely five months before Blair called a general election, that he wouldn’t be a candidate was due to a front-page scoop in the ill-fated News of the World. In the end the article was confined to the inside pages.

Caplin seems to be addicted to posting, re-posting and replying to pornographic images and videos on what was his Twitter feed.  

No indication was given that this was Ivor Caplin - he got away with it again

Brighton & Hove News reported on June 11 204 that Caplin had been suspended by the Labour Party ‘after serious allegations were made about him.’ Clearly this related to the sexual assault on the young homeless man, the investigation into which Brighton Police dropped. Yet we were given no clue as to what these allegations were about.

Jo Wadsworth, the Brighton & Hove Editor, who is to journalism what Harold Shipman was to care for the elderly, commented that

In recent weeks, Mr Caplin has been tweeting increasingly explicit images of young men, ranging from semi-naked stills to pornographic videos.

Caplin is reputed to have had sex with any number of rent boys and male prostitutes. Clearly he has a problem. As Hadfield commented:

When this conduct is undertaken by a senior figure in a political party, with a public facade of trusted respectability, it is positively dangerous. Especially in an organisation with inadequate safeguarding procedures.

In an opaque, hierarchical, and undemocratic Labour Party — where whistleblowing is now punished rather than welcomed — it is a disaster waiting to happen.

Teenage members as young as 14 out on the #LabourDoorstep, canvassing in tiny groups — often on ill-lit streets and accompanied by older, more experienced, more trusted, more powerful party colleagues — must be protected.

Caplin sees young boys as something to be exploited, used and abused. It is little wonder that he is an avid Zionist.

However nothing Caplin did was sufficient to deter Starmer who has had problems of his own when it comes to sexual predators. Hadfield commented that

We do not know if Caplin is a paedophile or not. I hope he will have his day in court, so we can find out.

And I do not have any evidence at all to substantiate wild rumours about a Labour “sex ring” or a “rape network” in Brighton and Hove.

Which is another way of saying that Brighton & Hove Labour Party may indeed have a ‘sex ring’ or ‘rape network’. Hadfield asked

Did all his followers on X/Twitter always block him, have dormant accounts, or mute him, or just not notice the daily waterfall of extreme pornography? All the photographs? All the videos?


Amongst those who followed him were Tom Watson, Jack Lubner, chair of Young Labour, Mike Katz, chair of the JLM and Gurinder Singh Josan, the far-right Labour MP for Smethwick and friend of Luke Akehurst. Even the Crown Prosecution Service (@CPSUK) followed Caplin as well as former Chief Superintendent Nick May, Sussex Police’s Divisional Commander for Brighton and Hove (until his retirement in September 2021) and a friend of Fiona Sharpe. As Hadfield commented:

One thing I do know is that the likes of Ms Sharpe and Caplin are so embedded in the local criminal justice system, not to mention the local mainstream media, that they feel they can get away with anything. They have friends in high places.

No complaint from them is too trivial to be taken seriously (Sharpe and Sussex Police); no mendacious story is so insubstantial that a quote from “a senior Labour source” won’t generate a headline.

This is very true. A woman Palestine solidarity member in Brighton was seriously assaulted at the Clocktower but Sussex Police refused to prosecute because they claimed her witness wasn’t independent (which is a job for the courts not them)!  

Fiona Sharpe harasses Yasser and then claimed or rather lied in court that she had been harassed

But when has that ever stopped them using Fiona Sharpe as a witness despite her proven record of lying in court? [See The Janus Faced Fiona Sharpe of Sussex Friends of Israel] When she gave evidence at the trial of a Palestinian man, Yasser some years ago, everything she said was contradicted by the video evidence. Yasser was acquitted.

Sussex Police are using Fiona Sharpe again though in a case being brought against a Brighton woman for damaging a paste board in Palmeira Square, which shouldn’t even be there and which uses Israel’s ‘hostages’ to justify genocide in Gaza. It is grossly offensive to opponents of genocide but Sussex Police bend over backwards to support Sharpe, Caplin and her clique of misfits.

Sharpe, besides perjuring herself in court, is thick as thieves with Sussex Police. In February 2024 she was a recipient of the Chief Constable’s award for services rendered. The mind boggles as to what those services were! No doubt she is lobbying hard even as I write for the exoneration of the Honourable Ivor Caplin.

Indeed it was most unfortunate that Caplin was caught by a vigilante group while trying to recruit a child for a bit of sex on the side. His protestations of innocence and his web of lies make for amusing viewing. But we shall see whether the CPS manages to find a reason not to prosecute. Perhaps they will say it is ‘not in the public interest’ to have a high profile Zionist convicted of child grooming.

Not so many years ago, former President of the Board of Deputies and a former Labour MP and peer also managed to avoid prosecution for child abuse despite many horrendous allegations because of favourable treatment by the Police and the CPS.

Hadfield himself is now subject to a malicious prosecution by Sussex Police under s.127 of the Malicious Communications Act for posting a single screenshot in a single post of something Caplin posted, triggered by a vexatious complaint by Fiona Sharpe. He faces 5 years imprisonment if convicted whereas knowing Sussex Police they will exert themselves to the maximum to find reasons not to prosecute Fiona Sharpe’s friend Ivor Caplin.

As Hadfield notes ‘Just like in the Labour Party, so in the criminal justice system: the process is the punishment and the punishment is the process.’

The Jewish Labour Movement haven’t had a great deal of luck with their Chairmen. The first one, Jeremy Newmark defrauded the Jewish Leadership Council of £100,000 but got away with it because they didn’t want the publicity.

Their second Chair, Ivor Caplin is a suspected paedophile guilty of an attack on a young homeless man. 

One wonders what their third Chair, Lord Mike Katz has hidden in his ermine.  Katz earned his daily bread by lobbying for private rail companies. Really the JLM should be sued under the Trades Description Act. They may be Jewish but there is nothing of the labour movement about these frauds.

Tony Greenstein

Below - A Little of Caplin's Prostigous Twitter Output - No-one in the Labour Party, least of all Starmer, seemed to mind















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19 June 2023

Tanya Gold is to Journalism what Harold Shipman was to Care of the Elderly

Piglet ‘reviewed’ Asa Winstanley’s ‘Weaponising Anti-Semitism’ for the Jewish Chronicle – It would have helped if she had read it first!


Moshe Yalon - "Mein Kampf," reversed and Jewish Supremacy ideology infiltrated the government

I first came across Tanya Gold when Jackie Walker, the Black-Jewish activist who was expelled from the Labour Party, mentioned that there was a journalist who was interested in interviewing Jewish anti-Zionists for Harper’s Magazine and she wanted to put our side of the story.

Of course I should have been more wary and remembered that most journalists have the same relationship to the truth that Myra Hindley had to child protection. The article that eventually emerged was a work of fiction, and bad fiction at that.

‘Among Britain’s Anti-Semites’ was a studied exercise in deception and dishonesty. It was accompanied by a photograph of a demonstrator at the Zionist Enough is Enough demonstration on March 26 holding a poster ‘For the many not the Jew.’

This was supposed to be a joke. Yet it was instructive. It was a play on For the Many not the Few slogan of those who supported Jeremy Corbyn. It first emerged from the pen of Howard Jacobson, a minor comic novelist trapped in a Jewish paradigm.

‘For the Many not the Jew’ equated Jews with the rich few, as opposed to the many. Could anything be more anti-Semitic? It is a form of Jewish exceptionalism that says that Jews do not belong in normal society.

I wrote to Gold at the time about her piece:

‘What is remarkable for an article so long in gestation is its sheer superficiality and lack of insightful comment. What is sad is how bland and mundane it is. It is as if you lack even one original thought or idea.’

I was vaguely aware of Harper’s. It had a radical tradition. It published Seymour Hersh’s exposure of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and attacked the US invasion of Iraq. It was generally sympathetic to the Palestinians. Perhaps it was this which caught me off my guard.

Marriage between Jew and non-Jew in Israel is seen as a 'plague' by Zionists

If Gold had been honest I would have been happy to be interviewed but clearly she preferred subterfuge. It is as if she feared having her prejudices confronted. Or perhaps she was hoping that if she posed as a sympathiser then I could trapped into something genuinely anti-Semitic.

Gold took me out for an expenses-paid meal in Soho’s Chinatown. She gave no clue as to her real views. I count myself as fortunate that she didn’t quote me in her article because it would undoubtedly have been a lie! I wrote my experience up in The Dissection of a Lie - Harper’s Tale of Deceit and Deception. I wrote at the time:

Tanya Gold is nothing if not a junkie for every trite and shopworn phrase. It is the sheer lack of originality or evidence of any deep thought which is the most frustrating thing about her article. It is as if Gold had assembled every last cliché as she set out to repel her imagined critics. ‘Anti-Semitism’ she tells us ‘is the only racism that must not be defined by those who experience it.’ Racism isn’t ‘defined’ but described by its victims. Definitions are best left to experts in linguistics. Almost in the same breath she attacks Jewish Voice for Labour for their denial that they are anti-Zionist asking ‘I wonder if this is tactical’ Clearly some self-definitions are preferable to others!

This is by way of introduction to her ‘review’ of Asa Winstanley’s new book Weaponising Anti-Semitism. You can get a good measure of it by the title The book Adrian Mole would have written (if he hated Israel). I confess to not having been a fan of Adrian Mole but if she is comparing Winstanley to Adrian Mole then Gold is the ideal casting for Pamela Pigg aka Piglet, Adrian’s on-off girlfriend. It is also a most appropriate name reflecting as it does her charm and personality!

Winstanley asked Did the Jewish Chronicle’s reviewer Tanya Gold even read my book? The only true thing that Piglet wrote in her ‘review’ was the opening statement ‘Asa Winstanley blogs at the Electronic Intifada’ which she immediately spoiled by going on to say that EI was ‘a website dedicated to attacking Israel.’ Who, one wonders is Israel? EI is a site dedicated to exposing the day to day reality of Apartheid Israel and its horrors. It is as if a site that wrote about Nazi Germany was described as ‘a website dedicated to attacking Germany.’

An unfailing characteristic of most Zionists is how easily they fall into the mindset of the worst anti-Semite. According to Piglet Winstanley’s Twitter comment that the Board of Deputies is “actively involved in promoting Israeli genocide”, a factual statement, becomes an attack on Jews. Do all Jews promote Israeli genocide? Playing the amateur psychologist Piglet opines that Winstanley is ‘a man who dedicates his conscious hours to thinking about Jews. I think he dreams about us.’ Piglet not only projects onto others but does it embarrassingly badly.

Being of a decidedly limited intellect Piglet cannot conceive of Jews who are not racists or Zionists. Perhaps someone should remind her that most Jews who died in the Holocaust were not Zionists whereas two-thirds of the Judenrat, the Jewish Councils who collaborated with the Nazis, were Zionists.

Inter-racial relationships, between Arabs and Jews, are a taboo in Israel because it threatens Jewish national identity

One could even point out that when Zionism first arose in the late 19th century it was opposed by the overwhelming majority of Jews as a form of Jewish anti-Semitism. But why counter Piglet’s prejudices with facts?

Piglet aka Gold is incapable of reading the index of the book she is reviewing

A clue to the fact that Piglet didn’t bother to read Winstanley’s book is when she writes:

how come then JC editor Stephen Pollard exposed Jeremy Newmark — then leading the Jewish Labour Movement — for alleged accounting irregularities? Was it a (rare) mistake? If Jews represent the malevolent forces of Capital, why did we never try to destroy Gordon Brown, who is also a leftist?

As Winstanley points out

The book includes two and a half pages dedicated to the Newmark affair; pages which extensively cite the Jewish Chronicle (pp. 68-70) and explore the likely reason that Pollard exposed Newmark.

Even a semi-literate hack would have checked the index of the book she was reviewing for the entry ‘Newmark, Jeremy’ but even this was too much for Piglet. When you are writing for the Jewish Chronicle it is de rigeur not to let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Tanya Gold aka Piglet who sees, hears and speaks no evil about Israeli apartheid

Her reference to Gordon Brown as a ‘leftist’ is laughable and says more about the politics of Piglet than anything. I doubt if the dour Scotsman’s most devoted admirer would describe the architect of Labour neo-liberalism, the man who forced through the disastrous Private Finance Initiative and who adopted the BNP slogan of ‘British Jobs for British Workers’, as a leftist. That Piglet considers Brown as a leftist says more about her than anything I could say.

Piglet, doesn’t like historical comparisons. She takes offence at the term ‘witch-hunt’ to describe the expulsions and purges in the Labour Party. Why? Because this is ‘dismissing the very real struggles of witches’. The thought that this might bring these struggles to life and give them a contemporary meaning, probably never occurred to her. Piglet is a simple soul and thinking too much hurts.

Henry Ford 

Piglet would have the persecution of the Salem ‘witches’ left in their own historical tomb. For her there are no lessons to be learnt from history. As that notorious anti-Semite, Henry Ford said ‘history is bunk’. Piglet has a lot in common with the anti-Semites she purports to dislike.

Piglet hates comparing. Each tragedy must be confined to its own box, left in its own peculiarity. For Zionism the holocaust is unique. There are no comparisons with anyone or anything. Hitler was uniquely evil and the Jews were unique victims. That is how Israel sells itself to the world. Anti-Semitism is unique. 

If we don’t compare then there is no historiography. Without comparing we cannot translate historical events into the present and make sense of them. Without comparisons we cannot understand the present either. Instead the past becomes a dead weight, a threat to the present because, as Jefferson observed, democracy and worship of the past are incompatible. For Zionism the holocaust is not a guiding light to fighting racism. It is the justification for its continuance.

Despite being the title of the 6th chapter Piglet has not heard of Arthur Miller’s play ‘The Crucible’. Since she didn’t feel the need to read the book why should she? The Jewish Chronicle employs polemicists not literary critics. No doubt the comparison Miller made between the witch-hunt in Salem and McCarthyism in the 1950s was also ‘dismissing the very real struggles of witches’. Piglet is a warrior for a very 21st century McCarthyism where the term ‘anti-Semite’ has replaced ‘communist’.

In an article for the New Yorker in October 1996 Miller explained that:

so many practices of the Salem trials were similar to those employed by the congressional committees that I could easily be accused of skewing history for a mere partisan purpose. Inevitably, it was no sooner known that my new play was about Salem than I had to confront the charge that such an analogy was specious—that there never were any witches but there certainly are Communists. In the seventeenth century, however, the existence of witches was never questioned by the loftiest minds in Europe and America;…

Of course, there were no Communists in 1692, but it was literally worth your life to deny witches or their powers, given the exhortation in the Bible, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” There had to be witches in the world or the Bible lied. ….

The more I read into the Salem panic, the more it touched off corresponding images of common experiences in the fifties: the old friend of a blacklisted person crossing the street to avoid being seen talking to him; the overnight conversions of former leftists into born-again patriots; and so on. Apparently, certain processes are universal. When Gentiles in Hitler’s Germany, for example, saw their Jewish neighbors being trucked off…, the common reaction, even among those unsympathetic to Nazism… was quite naturally to turn away in fear of being identified with the condemned. …

But below its concerns with justice the play evokes a lethal brew of illicit sexuality, fear of the supernatural, and political manipulation, a combination not unfamiliar these days. The film, by reaching the broad American audience as no play ever can, may well unearth still other connections to those buried public terrors that Salem first announced on this continent.

All of this is of no concern to Piglet. She is convinced that she is surrounded by anti-Semitic conspiracies and that those who criticise her beloved ‘Jewish state’ are ‘anti-Semites’ for which read ‘Communists.’

Piglet takes offence at Winstanley’s reference to the fact that British Jews vote overwhelmingly for the Tories and have done for over half a century. She complains that ‘until 2010, we were neatly divided between Labour and the Conservatives.’ Another sleight of Piglet’s hand. As Geoffrey Alderman, the historian of British Jewry points out:

"the face of London Jewry… is, arguably more bourgeois now than at any time since the mid-nineteenth century, and it is certainly more Conservative: at the last 4 general elections Jewish support for the Tories in Hendon North, Ilford North and Finchley has ranged from 52 to 68%; even in Hackney North it was (1979) as high as 36%. " ['Jewish Chronicle 28.3.86. 'Two Cheers for the GLC'].

What Piglet relies on is the blip that occurred during the Blair years. However the trends have been clear since the 1950s.

Piglet dismisses comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany cursorily:

Israel has Nazi-like policies because they practise collective punishment. Anything else? Not really.

But Piglet doesn’t look very far. The pogrom at Huwara has probably not impinged upon her consciousness. The annual ‘Death to the Arabs’ March of the Flags, which the Israeli Police defend, is probably just a party. The fact that Israel now has a neo-Nazi Police Minister in Ben Gvir, according to former Likud Defence Minister Moshe Yalon (‘a reverse Mein Kamp’) is of no consequence.

The fact that Israeli soldiers and police shoot Palestinians who defend themselves against pogroms in the West Bank but have never once shot a settler, because you don’t shoot Jews, tells or should tell even Piglet why Israel has gone down the road of Apartheid.

Piglet is particularly exercised by the fact that Winstanley

digs out every document on the relations between early Zionists and Nazi Germany. “Zionist leaders were explicitly comparing their own movement to Nazism,” he writes. There is “a degree of ideological affinity between the Nazis and Zionism”. The goal of the Haavara agreement was “to save German Jewish capital, not German Jewish lives” and it “stabilised” the Nazi regime. This is a monstrous distortion, but it is useful: the insinuation that Jewish Nazis performed the Shoah on themselves.

Note that Piglet doesn’t challenge the veracity of the documents Winstanley ‘digs out’. She objects to the suggestion that Ha’avara was agreed to by the Nazis when the Nazi state was imperiled by a Boycott which 99% of world Jewry supported. It wasn’t Winstanley who wrote

the Nazi party and the Zionist Organization shared a common stake in the recovery of Germany. If the Hitler economy fell, both sides would be ruined.

It was Edwin Black, a right-wing Zionist in The Transfer Agreement (p.253). Black also described how

the anti-Hitler boycott was threatening to kill the Third Reich in its infancy, either through utter bankruptcy or by promoting an imminent invasion of Germany…The destruction of Hitler’s tenuous regime… loomed as the crisis of the hour in Berlin

Whilst most Jews were doing their best to strangle the Nazi beast in its infancy the Zionist movement saw only opportunities and wanted it to survive. That is the record of the quisling movement that Piglet defends.

The pro-Zionist Jewish Chronicle pulled no punches about Ha’avara and its breaking of the Boycott of Nazi Germany:

We say that that is aiding and comforting one of the most savage oppressions, even in Jewish history…. It breaks the united Jewish boycott front, a front let it not be forgotten, with which non-Jewish sympathisers were also aligned. [Jewish Chronicle ‘The Unclean Thing,’ 27.12.35.]

David Cesarani, the Zionist historian, suggested that those who doubted the viability of the regime in 1933 ‘were not engaged in wishful thinking’ and that it was beset by enemies coupled with a chronic balance of payments deficit.

So at a time when the Nazi government was at its weakest and world Jewry was doing its best to cause it to collapse, the Zionist movement was doing its best to strengthen it but Piglet sees nothing wrong in this.

In Zionism During the Holocaust I write that:

Berl Katznelson, a founder of Mapai and editor of Davar as well as Ben-Gurion’s effective deputy, saw the rise of Hitler as ‘an opportunity to build and flourish like none we have ever had or ever will have.’  Ben-Gurion was even more optimistic. ‘The Nazis’ victory would become “a fertile force for Zionism.” [Tom Segev, The Seventh Million]

To Piglet all this is ‘a monstrous distortion, but it is useful: the insinuation that Jewish Nazis performed the Shoah on themselves.’ No one except Piglet has mentioned Jewish Nazis. The Zionist movement was a Quisling movement which collaborated but to Piglet this is the way of dismissing the treachery of the Zionist leaders at the time.

And if you refer to the Zionist movement as Quislings then you are tarnishing all Jews. A not-so-clever debating trick which omits the salient fact that the Zionists were but 2% of German Jewry. They were treated as freaks and oddities by most Jews, they were the HitlerJuden. Piglet informs us that

Jews genuinely feared Corbyn, and that almost everything we feared has come to pass. Nor can he acknowledge the eruption of antisemitism after 2015.

The fear may have been genuine. The Jewish Chronicle and the Board of Deputies had been doing their level best to whip up fears but as to evidence of the ‘eruption’ of anti-Semitism we are left none the wiser. Piglet offers none. Mere assertion is not proof.

In ‘Among Britain’s Anti-Semites’ Piglet is particularly exercised by the presence of Ken Loach at the launch of JVL. She reminds us that in 1987 he directed Jim Allen’s play Perdition which was based on Israel’s trial of Rudolf Kasztner, leader of Hungarian Zionism during the war. Ken Loach’s Perdition was ‘a monstrous libel’ for criticising Kasztner’s ‘bargain with the Nazis that saved 1,684 Jews in 1944.’ She didn’t tell us why it was that Eichmann agreed to such a bargain.

For an answer one would have to turn to Eichmann’s interview with Sassen, a Dutch Nazi journalist as serialized in Life Magazine, (28.11.60.)

It was a good bargain. For keeping order in the camps, the price of 15,000 to 20,000 Jews … was not too high for me…. there was a very strong similarity between our attitudes in the SS and the viewpoint of these immensely idealistic Zionist leaders…. And because Kasztner rendered us a great service by helping keep the deportation camps peaceful, I would let his groups escape.... That was the ‘gentleman’s agreement’ I had with Kasztner.

Perhaps Rudolph Vrba, who escaped from Auschwitz on April 10 1944 and who warned of the preparations being made to exterminate Hungarian Jewry was also guilty of a monstrous libel when he wrote in the Daily Herald of February 1961:

“I accuse certain Jewish leaders of one of the most ghastly deeds of the war. This small group of quislings knew what was happening to their brethren in Hitler's gas chambers and bought their own lives with the price of silence. Among them was Dr Kasztner.”

Piglet should be aware that fellow Zionist Jonathan Freedland, when looking for a Jewish hero of the holocaust alighted on Vrba because there were so few Zionist heroes for his book The Escape Artist.

Members of the Kasztner Train of the Prominents

Piglet’s comment on Zionist opposition to the Kindertransport, which saved 10,000 Jewish children in England was that ‘a few merely said they would prefer the children to be settled in Palestine.’ Clearly her research didn’t extend to the speech of David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister. In a speech on 9 December 1938 he explained that:

‘If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of these children, but also the history of the People of Israel.’

It expressed the attitude of the Zionist minority at the time which Piglet defends with all the charms that you would expect of Mole’s girlfriend.

Perhaps we should leave the final word to Haim Cohen, the Attorney General and Kasztner’s lawyer in his appeal to the Supreme Court against the lower court’s verdict:

If in Kasztner’s opinion, rightly or wrongly, he believed that one million Jews were hopelessly doomed, he was allowed not to inform them of their fate; and to concentrate on the saving of the few. He was entitled to make a deal with the Nazis for the saving of a few hundred and entitled not to warn the millions ... that was his duty… It has always been our Zionist tradition to select the few out of many in arranging the immigration to Palestine ... Are we to be called traitors? [1]

Eichmann, the chief exterminator, knew that the Jews would be peaceful and not resist if he allowed the Prominents to be saved, that the Train of the Prominents was organized on Eichmann’s orders to facilitate the extermination of the whole people. … if all the Jews of Hungary are to be sent to their death he is entitled to organize a rescue train for 600 people. He is not only entitled to it but is also bound to act accordingly.

Piglet however is convinced, to use her own analogy, that she is the only wise one on a ship of fools. Those who died in the Holocaust simply didn’t understand that their own lives were transitory whereas a Jewish State would live on forever. And just like her boyfriend Mole, Piglet will continue to write the same rubbish for as long as it pays her.

Tony Greenstein


[1]        Hecht, p. 195, https://tinyurl.com/bnycybb

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