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11 May 2025

An Open Letter to the Metropolitan Police’s Racist Anti-Palestinian Commissioner, Mark Rowley

You Have Done Your Best To Ban Demonstrations Against Gaza’s Genocide – Using Jews As Your Moral Alibi – That Makes You Not the Protesters anti-Semitic

Emailed to:  mark.rowley@met.police.uk

Dear Sir Mark Rowley,

You do not know me. I am just one of the thousands who have been wrongfully arrested by your officers.

The Battle of Cable Street

On October 4th 2024, the 88th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, when the Met tried to batter their way through 200,000 anti-fascists in order to allow supporters of the British Union of Fascists to march through the Jewish East End, I was arrested at the Swiss Cottage demonstration against Israel’s racist and genocidal Ambassador Tzipi Hotoveli. I was accused of having committed a ‘racially aggravated offence’.

My ‘crime’ was having compared the Israeli state to Nazi Germany. I cited an article in which I compared the Nazi holocaust to the Israeli holocaust.



Tony Greenstein arrested for his speech outside the residence of Israels Ambassador Tzipi Hotoveli

On 13th November I was informed that you would not be charging me. My arrest was thus unlawful. I told your officers that I was disappointed that I could not challenge in court your attack on freedom of speech and your belief that policing political speech is part of the Met’s duties.

I know that people in your position have no sense of irony but arresting Jewish people for anti-Semitism is like awarding Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

Tony Greenstein Speech in Liverpool 12 January 2025 at Palestine Solidarity Demo

You have made it clear that that the only Jews who count are racists and Zionists. Anti-Zionist and anti-racist Jews are invisible because we refuse to be the moral alibi for the British government’s complicity in the Genocide in Gaza.

The constant theme when banning Palestinian demonstrations is that solidarity with Palestine is inherently anti-Jewish. That’s why on December 7 your officers surrounded the Jewish Bloc in order to ‘protect’ them from other marchers!

You have now abused your powers once again to ban the demonstration against Israel’s Ambassador over a large part of North London. The pretext is that it’s a ‘Jewish’ area despite only 8.5% of Swiss Cottage residents being Jewish. Again the assumption is that Jews support Genocide. If anyone Sir Mark is an anti-Semite it is you.

It is time that you got it through your thick head that not all Jews support Zionism, Israeli Genocide. Historically Jews have been in the forefront of opposition to racism & fascism.

Mark Rowley's Police State in Action - Demonstrations on Palestine are Banned from the Area in Red

Today there is a growing Jewish revolt against Israel’s neo-Nazi politics of ethnic cleansing. People realise that one of the lessons of the Holocaust is opposition to all forms of racism.

Yehuda Elkana, a child survivor of Auschwitz and former President of the Central European University spoke of

a profound existential “Angst” fed by a particular interpretation of the lessons of the holocaust … that we are the eternal victim. In this ancient belief … I see the tragic and paradoxical victory of Hitler. Two nations, metaphorically speaking, emerged from the ashes of Auschwitz: a minority who assert, “this must never happen again,” and a frightened and haunted majority who assert, “this must never happen to us again.”

Instead of fighting the terrorism that the British state created the Police are chasing political dissidents

The Metropolitan Police Used To Be Institutionally Anti-Semitic - Now It Supports Zionism – Nothing Much Has Changed

When anti-Semitism was prevalent in Britain it was also rife in the Met. During the 1930s there were even exchanges visits between the Nazi police and the Met. Today the Met is pro-Zionist. It is a change without a difference.

Anti-Semites have always supported Zionism as a means to get rid of the Jews in their midst. As A B Yehoshua, an Israeli novelist once said ‘Even today, in a perverse way, a real anti-Semite must be a Zionist.’  (Jewish Chronicle 22.1.82.)

That is why Tommy Robinson declared that he is a Zionist. That is why the neo-Nazi founder of the alt-right Richard Spencer, said he was a White Zionist. Every bigot and racist today loves Israel – from Marine Le Pen to the neo-Nazi AfD in Germany to Donald Trump. You are not alone Sir Mark.

Special Branch report – on a ‘Jew’ driving a car

In We Fight Fascists Daniel Sonabend, wrote about the 43 Group, which was formed by Jewish ex-servicemen in April 1946 to oppose the resurgence of fascist groups, led by Oswald Moseley. The reaction of the Police to them was extremely hostile. Genuine anti-Semitism not today’s false anti-Semitism has never bothered the Met.

Sonabend described the experiences of David Goldstein who was falsely arrested.



Four police officers leapt on him. He received several blows to the face and was knocked to the ground before being dragged to the nearest police car. The police later claimed Goldstein had provoked them by kicking the superintendent in the balls.

Accusing the victims of police violence of assault is something that Black people have a long experience of. Sonabend describes what happened at the police station.

they encountered the man Goldstein had reportedly attacked,... Superintendent Charles Satterthwaite. ‘Fucking Jew bastard’ Satterthwaite shouted at Silver as he repeatedly beat him, while two of his officers held Silver against the wall... Satterthwaite went for his face, which... was left ‘covered in a mass of blood.’




Satterthwaite was described by one Lennie Rolnick as ‘a first class anti-Semite who would have done well at Belsen.’

Anti-fascists were three times as likely to be arrested as fascists. Sonanbend concluded that ‘widespread anti-Semitism in the Metropolitan Police force’ was the explanation for this disparity in arrest rates. Sonanbend quotes Vidal Sassoon:

Two policemen held one of my comrades., Mo Levy, while a sergeant pounded him, beating him everywhere but the face, at the same time calling us ‘dirty Jew bastards’, ‘fucking Yids who Hitler missed’ and ‘sons of foreign whores.’

Sonanbend described the Met as an ‘institutionally anti-Semitic organisation.’ Ring any bells Sir Mark?

as well as being anti-Semitic and anti-communist, the police also harboured pro-fascist elements.’ ‘Many members of the Commercial Street Police Station ‘openly boast about being members of Jeffrey Hamm’s fascist party.

Metropolitan police assault pro Palestine campaigner Wasseem Yousuf

Nothing much has changed except for the victims. Instead of Jews it’s now Black people and Palestinian supporters like Wasseem Yousuf who are the victims of police violence.



Thugs in uniform attacked Wasseem for the ‘offence’ of carrying a Palestine flag and like the East End Jews of 80 years ago was charged with assaulting the police. Habits die hard Sir Mark. Perjury is nothing new to the Police.

Why are the police targeting Waseem Yousaf?

There is a petition here that can be signed demanding that your thugs are suspended Sir Mark but it should not take a petition for you to do your duty.

The Met Have Decided that Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is a Criminal Offence

You and the Met have taken it upon yourselves to decide what is and is not allowed to be said on the streets of London. You have become a political thought police.

You produced a 17 page Advice Sheet ‘Instructions about tackling the hate speech and actions by HAMAS supporters on the marches’. The title is instructive. Very few Palestinian protesters support Hamas. What we support is the right of the Palestinians, including Hamas, to resist  the violent and illegal occupation of Gaza by Israel.

Page16 of this sheet ‘Israeli Government/Nazism Comparisons’ says:

‘A particularly difficult areas is the comparison of either (a) the Israeli Government or the Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu with (b) either Nazism or Hitler.’

Why is it so difficult? There is more than enough evidence to prove this. Nissim Vaturi, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset said that Israel needs to "separate the children and women and kill the adults in Gaza, we are being too considerate. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said it is moral to starve 2 million people to death. It is a difficulty of your own making.

The sheet speaks of ‘comparisons between the actions of the Israeli Government and the actions of the Nazis (i.e. the holocaust)’. I realise that police officers are not historians. That is why you should keep your nose out of historical disputation – you are not qualified to offer an opinion.

The holocaust began on 22 June 1941 with Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia. The Nazi regime lasted from 1933-1941, so comparisons between the Nazis and the Israeli government/Zionists aren’t just about the holocaust.

Your advice sheet says that ‘There are also frequently oblique comparisons that relate to "genocide" or the phrase "never again.’ That is correct and the comparisons are not oblique. Israel’ attack on Gaza IS a genocide. The International Court of Justice in January 2024 ruled it was ‘plausible’ that a genocide was taking place. Every single human rights organisation from Amnesty International to Human Rights Watch believes that Israel is committing a genocide.

If you find calling Israel’s Genocide problematic then it is clear which side you are on. If Srebenica, with 8,000 dead was a genocide then Gaza with hundreds of thousands dead is certainly a genocide. It may be politically inconvenient for you and fellow war criminal Keir Starmer but that is tough. Any arrest you make as a result are political and unlawful.

The Advice Sheet also said that

These comparisons are particularly offensive as it likens the systematic extermination of over 6 million Jews with the military conduct of Israel in the Middle East.

To whom is it offensive? Jews? Many Jews see the parallels all too clearly. But even if Jews were to take offence, so what? Was Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses banned because it offended Muslims? It is clear where you are coming from.

In Redmond-Bate v DPP Stephen Sedley, a Jewish and later Court of Appeal judge, ruled that“Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.” I realise that you find concepts such as freedom of speech difficult to comprehend. The mindset of the average cop and free speech don’t make comfortable bedfellows.

I am therefore writing to you to demand that this Advice Sheet, especially page 16 on Nazi-Zionist comparisons is withdrawn as the advice in it isn’t worth a copper’s nark.

Over recent months you have displayed an increasing hostility to Palestine marches, starting with the banning of the march starting at the BBC on January 18. In my view the organisers should have ignored your dictats and told you to fuck off.

The Court of Appeal has now ruled that your powers to ban marches are less than you once thought. The last Conservative government was hostile to the idea of freedom of association and gave you enormous powers which you then abused.

However Sir Mark, not even the most reactionary and racist cop is beyond reform. I am therefore going to explain why it is that I said Israel is Hitler’s Bastard Offspring.

The IHRA ‘definition’ of anti-Semitism states that ‘Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis’ could be anti-Semitic. This has been widely criticised by leading lawyers and scholars. It was drawn up by the Zionist American Jewish Congress in order to conflate anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. It is no surprise that the Met should adopt the IHRA, which isn’t even a definition.

Anti-Semitism is a very simple concept. It is ‘hostility to or prejudice against Jews as Jews.’ Anti-Semitism has nothing to do with opposition to Zionism or Israel whereas most anti-Semites love and always have loved Israel and Zionism.

The IHRA ‘definition’ states that it is ‘non-legally binding’. So why is the Met using it as if it had the force of law?

Why the Israeli State is ‘Hitler’s Bastard Offspring’ and Why Nazi-Zionist Comparisons are Legitimate.

1.          When Israel’s war on Gaza began, wanted war criminal Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, called the Palestinians ‘human animals.’ When Heinrich Himmler addressed senior SS Generals in Posnan on October 4 1943 he called all non-Aryans ‘human animals’.

2.          Comparisons between Israel and the Holocaust have been made by numerous holocaust survivors. They are in a better position to form a judgement than you.

3.          When Shlomo Shmelzman, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, wrote a letter to the Israeli press announcing his hunger strike against the 1982 Lebanon War, he stated:

a.            In my childhood I have suffered fear, hunger and humiliation when I passed from the Warsaw Ghetto, through labor camps, to Buchenwald. Today, as a citizen of Israel, I cannot accept the systematic destruction of cities, towns, and refugee camps… I hear too many familiar sounds today…. I hear “dirty Arabs” and I remember “dirty Jews.” I hear about “closed areas” and I remember ghettos and camps. I hear “two-legged beasts” and I remember “Untermenschen.”… Too many things in Israel remind me of too many things from my childhood.

4.          Moshe Zimmerman, a Professor of German History at Tel Aviv University, compared the children of the Hebron settlers to those of the Hitler Youth.

5.          Lawrence Weschler, a contributor to The New Yorker, compared Gaza to Dachau before the Final Solution.

6.          Israeli psychologist Gavriel Solomon wrote that:

a.       The idea of Judenrein (Jew-free zone) or Arabrein is not new. . . . Some might say ‘how can you compare us to Nazis?’ I am not talking about the death camps, but about the year 1935. There were no camps yet, but there were racist laws. And we are heading forward toward these kinds of laws.

7.          Veronika Cohen, 80, a Holocaust survivor who was born in the ghetto in Budapest, said

“I don’t think we can remember our suffering without acknowledging the suffering of Gaza... To me, when I read the stories of their suffering in Gaza, it blends completely into how I feel about the Holocaust.”

8.          In the same article Ruth Vleeschhouwer Falak, 89, who survived the Nazi-occupation of the Netherlands as a child, said she was standing there because

“in the 1930s, if Germans had stood up loudly against the Nazi party, maybe they wouldn’t have been able to do what they did to us. Speaking up is not a choice for me.”

9.          Ilana Drukker Tokotin, 87, who spent her childhood hiding from the Nazis, said that

The saying is never again; that means never again for anybody. That’s really what we’re standing here for”

Stephen Kapos is 5th from the left

10.    More recently Stephen Kapos, a child survivor of the Nazi occupation of Hungary wrote that

a.            ‘Israel’s plan is to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza in order to force as many people as possible to leave. This policy has many differences from Nazi Germany’s plan to destroy Jewish society in Europe – but it also has many similarities. That is why, as a Holocaust survivor, I’ve felt compelled to join various pro-Palestine protests in London.

Recently you interviewed Stephen under caution. In the eyes of you and your officers even holocaust survivors are now criminals. Opposition to genocide is becoming an offence in London’s police state.

11.    Marika Sherwood, a holocaust survivor, academic and anti-racist was barred under the IHRA from giving a talk at Manchester University titled “You’re doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to me.” Israel’s war criminal Ambassador Mark Regev had objected to it.


12.    But it’s not only anti-Zionists who make the comparisons between Israel and the Nazis. It is the Hebron settlers who daub ‘Arabs to the gas chambers’ on a cemetery. Or it’s Elad Barashi, a television producer on Israel’s Channel 14 who wrote on Twitter: ‘Good morning, let there be a Shoah (Holocaust) in Gaza.’ In another post, he wrote,

"I can't understand the people here in the State of Israel who don't want to fill Gaza with gas showers... or train cars... and finish this story! Let there be a Holocaust in Gaza."

Sir Mark Rowley - A Very Sick Man

If you think that bombing hospitals and murdering thousands of children is ‘military conduct’ then you are a very sick man Sir Mark Rowley.

13.    You went out of your way in your advice sheet not to call what’s happening in Gaza a genocide. You referred instead to Israel’s ‘military conduct’.  If you think that bombing hospitals, murdering thousands of children, torturing prisoners, raping women is ‘military conduct’ then you are a very sick man Sir Mark.

Why this leading Israeli Holocaust scholar says it's a genocide in Gaza | The InnerView


14.    Israeli holocaust historians such as Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Omar Bartov and Daniel Blatman accept that Israel’s actions in Gaza are genocidal. What expertise do you have? Over 55 scholars in holocaust and genocide studies signed a statement that said the same. Over 800 legal scholars said that Israel may be perpetrating the ‘crime of Genocide’ in Gaza. What expertise do you have? Being a bigot and a racist is not a qualification.


So you see Sir Mark there are plenty of Jews who think Nazi-Zionist comparisons are valid in times of genocide. I don’t expect you to agree but that is what freedom of speech is all about. People having the right to say what they want to say without fear of arrest by thugs in uniform. If people take offense so what? People often find the truth offensive.

I realise that a policeman’s mind is a closed mind. You have chosen to keep company with and take counsel from the Zionist Board of Deputies, a group that represents barely 30% of British Jews. They have every right to their racist views. What they don’t have the right to expect is to have the Met become their enforcer. You don’t have the right to arrest those who disagree with your own anti-Palestinian racism.

Rowley’s response to Louise Casey's Report on Racism, Misogyny in the force

The Metropolitan Police’s Institutional Racism

The Met has been called ‘institutionally racist’ by the Stephen Lawrence inquiry and more recently by Baroness Casey’s review. The latter was commissioned after the murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens, who fellow officers called ‘the rapist’.

You promised to change the behaviour of your officers but given your own racism that is unlikely. Not only should you withdraw your ill-conceived advice sheet on what is anti-Semitic but you should also resign.

An institutionally racist organisation cannot cleanse itself of the stain of racism whilst it is headed by a racist. In your anti-Palestinian actions and behaviour you have proved that you are as bigoted as your predecessor Cressida Dick.

Yours sincerely,

Tony Greenstein

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19 February 2025

UPDATE: Zionist WhatsApp Group Urges Their Friends to Email the Police Posing as Local Residents to Complain About ‘Disruption’ & ‘anti-Semitism’ at Hotoveli Picket

Just In Case Their Brain Dead Supporters Don’t Know What To Write, They Are Provided With Helpful Clichés 



When the local police at SNTEK-PrimroseHill@met.police.uk decided to try and mobilise local opinion against the weekly demonstrations about Israel’s Genocidal Ambassador, Tzipi Hotoveli, it was an open invitation to their Zionist friends to get their mates London-wide to join in.

When the local filth tried to obtain ‘impact statements’ from residents of Swiss Cottage, it was obvious that Zionist groups would try and swamp the police Inbox with bogus replies. Sure enough the Israel Supporters WhatsApp group has done just that, inviting all their mates London-wide.

Impact statements are only given at court hearings from the victims of crime, so the very use of this term betrayed the Police’s mentality that demonstrations are a crime.

As one local resident told me, the noise of the traffic is such that anyone complaining about noise is simply lying. I suggest that Palestine supporters do the same.




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The Metropolitan Police Letter Which Encouraged Residents to Complain About the Demonstrations Against Israeli Ambassador, Tzipi Hotoveli

A Reply to Susan Caplan, a Zionist Who Wrote That the Demonstrations ‘Must Not Be Allowed to Continue’ 

There was a time when the Police professed to be politically neutral. However that has gone out of the window as the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, openly boasted of how he is cracking down on Palestinian demonstrations in London.

Rowley’s reasons are really quite touching for someone who is in charge of an organisation which has been found to be institutionally racist by numerous inquiries, including by the historic MacPherson Inquiry into the murder of Black teenager, Stephen Lawrence.

Although the Inquiry didn’t get to the bottom of the Police’s links with his killers, subsequent further information emerged from Victoria and Naomi Smith, who were related to the Norris family, whose son David Norris was eventually gaoled for Stephen’s murder. Clifford Norris, the father of David Norris, used a network of corrupt Metropolitan police officers to protect himself and his close relations from justice.

To this day there has been no investigation into these claims of police corruption. But rest assured. Although the murder of a Black teenager didn’t impact on the Met until the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry reached its damning verdict, the Met are however very sensitive to the impact of demonstrations against Genocide in Gaza on Zionist Jews. So much so that they go out of their way to get them to make complaints.

The Met’s assumption that all Jews are supportive of Genocide in Palestine and Israeli Apartheid is itself anti-Semitic. And why not? In the 1930s from my own research Brighton Police entertained visiting delegations of the German Police, even when, after 1936, Heinrich Himmler was put in charge of both the German Police and the SS.

Of course attacks on free speech and the right of assembly aren’t confined to Britain. In Switzerland two weeks ago the Executive Director of Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah was kidnapped off the street and held incommunicado for three days before being expelled from the country. Ali had been invited to address a meeting on Palestine.

Last Tuesday police and politicians in Germany tried to cancel a meeting in Berlin featuring Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories. Organisers were forced to move the event to a smaller venue.   

The organizers, DiEM25, said in a statement on its website: 

“In a deeply concerning escalation, the organisers of ‘Reclaiming the Discourse: Palestine, Justice, and Truth’ – an event featuring UN Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese – are facing ruthless attacks on their fundamental rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and expression.

The venue, Kühlhaus Berlin, faced immense pressure from German politicians and the Berlin police to cancel the event. This is not only a disgrace but a direct assault on the rule of law and the core principles of democracy. It also represents an attack on businesses coerced into submission through mafia-like tactics, where intimidation has reached alarming extremes. …

LIVE FROM BERLIN: Palestine, Justice and the Power of Truth with Francesca Albanese and more

In the 1930s when anti-Semitism was a real issue, the Metropolitan Police sided with the fascists and at the Battle of Cable Street did its best to force thousands of fascists on the Jewish East End. However working class solidarity and a demonstration of 200,000 forced them back.

Today the Police purport to be concerned about anti-Semitism when it comes to protest against Genocide and War Crimes in Gaza. Of course they could try implementing the International Criminal Court Act 2001 which makes being ancillary to or participating in war crimes, even when abroad, an offence.

However British complicity in war crimes doesn’t disturb the Met but evidence-free allegations that Jews are afraid to walk the streets because of Palestine solidarity demonstrations, does concern them.  In other words the Met has adopted the Zionist narrative that to support the Palestinians is in itself anti-Semitic. 

We had the absurd spectacle of the Jewish Bloc on a Palestine Demonstration in London in December 2023 being separated off from the rest of the demonstrators because the Police found it difficult to accept that Jews could support the Palestinians.

Where does this racist nonsense come from?  Perhaps Mark Rowley could answer and explain the nature of the briefings that are given to his officers. This is a legacy of colonial divide and rule. As part of this false narrative anti-Zionist Jews suddenly become invisible.

Suddenly the only genuine Jews are racist Jews like Susan Caplan. Ms Caplan, did respond to the invitation of the Met to complain about the demonstrations. We know this because the Met, in complete disregard of the Data Protection Laws, distributed her email to all and sundry! Caplan’s response is interesting, not because it contains any gems of wisdom but because of the insight it provides into the Zionist mind.

There was a time when Israel claimed to be ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ however Genocide, Mass Murder and Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank combined with incidents like the raid and arrest of two bookshop owners in East Jerusalem have put paid to that myth.

In her email Caplan complained ‘as a Jewish person’ that ‘it is unacceptable to allow this protest to continue with it’s (sic) inciteful behaviour.’ We are not told who is being incited and against whom but we can guess.  Inciting against Israel’s racist and genocidal Ambassador Tzipi Hotoveli is clearly unacceptable to the said Caplan.

Not only this but the protests ‘have become uncontrollable’ and ‘cause more divide (sic) rather than peace and unity.’ There is nothing in the way of evidence to back these assertions but I suspect that evidence is the last thing the Met are looking for. As for peace and unity one wonders whether Caplan really expects the demonstrators to hand out white doves to the supporters of Genocide and unite with them.

And then we come to Caplan’s real concern. ‘Calling for the end of Israel, the end of Zionism is unacceptable [Caplan loves this word] hate speech and must not be allowed.’

As I wrote in my letter to her, Zionism is a political ideology which is based on hateful racism and calling for it to go is no different from calling for Apartheid South Africa or the Nazi state to disappear.


Caplan’s final flourish was to allege that political demands for an end to Zionism constitute ‘hate speech’ – and of course we are all against hate speech, an all-embracing term which includes those who hate capitalism, racism and oppression.


Forbidding demonstrations against racism is what the Israeli state does all the time. What Caplan and those who put her up to this really want is for Britain to adopt the norms of the Israeli state which allows demonstrations calling for ‘Death to the Arabs’ but which bans anything which opposes Genocide or Israeli state racism.

I finished my letter by referring to an incident in Miami Beach, Florida when a Jewish Zionist shot up a vehicle containing two Israelis, who he mistook for Palestinians! This is not the first time that Israelis have attacked other Israelis in the mistaken belief that they were really Palestinians.

The New Yellow Star?

It is rather unfortunate that some Israelis, especially Arab Jews, look like other non-Jewish Arabs. Perhaps Israel should make it compulsory for Palestinians to have a distinguishing mark on their clothes in order that assailants don’t keep mistaking Jews for Arabs. The Nazis used the Yellow Star. Perhaps Israel could use the Watermelon?

The injuries to the two Israelis were minor and didn’t affect their racism. The father took to Facebook to complain of their ‘anti-Semitic’ experience and true to his Zionist sympathies finished with the slogan ‘Death to the Arabs.’  You really could not make it up.

Tony Greenstein

18 February 2025

 

Dear Ms Caplan,

 

Thank you for your email to the Police complaining about the weekly demonstration at Swiss Cottage against Israel’s Ambassador, Tzipi Hotoveli. Despite doing their best to engineer complaints (or ‘victim statements’) the Police nonetheless had the good manners to send your response to other interested parties.

 

I hope you won't take offence if a Jewish anti-Zionist replies to you. Your email is a good example of the Zionist mindset and is indicative of everything that is wrong with Zionism, Zionists and supporters of Israeli Apartheid.

 

You say that 'calling for the end to Israel, the end to Zionism is unacceptable hate speech and must not be allowed to continue'. Thus speaks the authentic voice of the Israeli Police State.

 

Zionism is a political ideology, like fascism. It is perfectly appropriate to call for an end to it. Its origins lie in Christian Zionism. Its aim was to form, in Theodor Herzl’s words, a state which would  ‘form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.’  

 

Zionism when it first began was welcomed by anti-Semites, as a means of being rid of the Jews in their midst, and was seen by most Jews as a form of Jewish anti-Semitism. That was why the Balfour Declaration was proposed by Arthur Balfour, a Christian Zionist and anti-Semite who, when Prime Minister, introduced the 1905 Aliens Act designed to keep Jewish refugees out of Britain. It is noteworthy that the only person to oppose the Declaration in the Lloyd George War Cabinet was its only Jewish member, Sir Edwin Montagu.

 

Calling for an end to the Israeli state is no more a form of hate speech than calling for the end to the Nazi State or the Apartheid State of South Africa. It is only fascists and racists who cannot distinguish between a state and the people who live in that state. I call for the end to the Israeli state because it is a state of Jewish Supremacy and Apartheid.

 

Why is it unacceptable for people to express views in public that you disagree with?  This isn't Israel where Palestinian speech is repressed and anti-racist protests are met with police batons and bans. Have you not heard of the raid on the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem this past week when the owners were arrested and books were carried away in plastic bags? I seem to remember there was another European state in the 1930s which also didn’t like books of the wrong kind.

 

But perhaps you have forgotten where you are living?  Freedom of Speech and the Right of Assembly are basic democratic rights which haven't yet been extinguished in Britain. I realise that you and your fellow Zionists are doing your best to achieve this, with the complicity of the Metropolitan Police, Starmer and Yvette Cooper but we are there to resist you.

 

The present genocide in Gaza is something that should be protested against, in particular by Jewish people. You should hang your head in shame that after the genocide of Jews by Hitler that you support the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

 

You probably know nothing about the genesis of the Holocaust so let me remind you that on October 4 1943 at Posen (Posnan) in Poland, Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS justified the extermination of Jews to a group of senior SS Generals thus:

            We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude to animals, will         also adopt a decent attitude to these human animals...’

 

On 9 October 2023 Yoav Gallant spoke in similar terms when he said:

            “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel,    everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,” [Times of             Israel, 9.10.25]

I don't wish upset you with too many uncomfortable facts Susan, but on 6 October 1943, also at Posen, Himmler explained why Jewish children also had to be killed:

            ‘I did not assume to have the right to exterminate the men… and have the avengers personified in    the children to become adults for our children and grandchildren.’ [Raul Hilberg, The Destruction           of the European Jews, fn. 3, p.294]

Compare this to what Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the pre-military Kiryat Moshe Yeshivah, said on 7 March 2024: 

            “Today’s terrorists are the children of the prior [military] operation that left them alive. The women are essentially the ones who are producing the terrorists,” he said, adding that when        someone comes to kill you, you should be quick to kill them. “It’s not only the 14- or 16-year-old      boy, the 20- or 30-year-old man who takes up a weapon against you but also the future           generation. There’s really no difference,” 

So you can see how similar is the ideology behind the Zionist genocide in Gaza and the Nazi genocide of Jews.

Is this inciteful as you alleged?  No it is educational. The only question really is whether you wish to be educated or would you rather wallow in your ignorance? The Israeli state is Hitler's bastard offspring which is why genuine anti-Semites like Trump love Israel.

Richard Spencer, the neo-Nazi who organised the Charlottesville march where those taking part chanted “Jews will not replace us’ even described himself as a White Zionist. Who could possibly disagree with him?

But let me finish this on a lighter note. Yesterday in Miami Beach, Florida a Jewish Zionist mistook two Israelis for Palestinians and opened fire on them. The ‘victims’, who survived unscathed immediately posted on Facebook describing their attack as anti-Semitic and finishing their post with ‘Death to the Arabs.’

‘Death to the Arabs’ is the slogan that is chanted by the Israeli right. In Germany and Poland  before the war Death to the Jews was the slogan of the anti-Semites. Perhaps now you understand why there is a demonstration against Tzipi Hotoveli, who is on record as saying there is no Palestinian history and who called for the murder of 600,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

Kind regards,

Tony Greenstein

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