John Mann’s Attempt to Cancel The Canary and Skwawkbox Fails as Press Regulator Impress Clears Them of ‘Anti-Semitism’ Allegations

Joe Solo Gives Hate not Hope a Lesson in what Solidarity and Socialism Means

Interview with Joe Solo

Last Sunday at the Labour Grassroots meeting, Joe Solo was a guest. A few week’s ago HnH removed an award from Joe at the behest of the Zionists and their vile Director Ruth Smeeth. Trolls had dug up posts of Joe’s on Twitter supporting Chris Williamson.

Joe gave HnH and Nick Lowles an excellent lesson in what socialism means – solidarity with comrades when they come under attack by the ruling class and its McCarthite messenger boys and girls. It’s worth emphasising what Joe said:

‘I stood by a comrade in struggle

Which is what a socialist should do...

How can you condemn somebody for that?

You’re backdating allegations further down the line

Onto a photograph two years before

And then throwing me under the bus and allowing reputational damage

It’s a really really dangerous path to walk down

What this does is it makes you scared of demonstrating solidarity

So it essentially takes the one thing Socialists have

Which is standing by each other and it turns it against you

You can’t – otherwise you might be accused of this

You can’t stand with that person because they might go on to say something else

It is an attack on solidarity...

But I stand by the decision then

I stood by a comrade in struggle

I’d stand by a comrade in struggle tomorrow

And damn awards socialism is about us

And all I’m doing is reminding people of that...

That’s the message of We Shall Overcome

That should be the message to socialists everywhere

You can change it, you can fight back, you can build it

 

Sturmer's Dagger Was Well Hidden

It is now obvious to all but the politically blind that the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign against Labour Party members was contrived, confected and orchestrated by Zionist groups, with the purpose of removing Corbyn as leader of the party.

It is unfortunate that Corbyn himself did not stand up to this malevolent campaign. Unfortunately he chose to appease his enemies and betray his friends. Not a good strategy although it should have been clear that if the right-wing was so concerned about ‘anti-Semitism’ then something must be wrong.

Not only were false allegations made against Chris Williamson, the only MP to stand up against the Zionists but Corbyn’s allies such as Jennie Formby and Jon Lansman joined in this despicable witchhunt

Stürmer was elected promising to ‘tear out anti-Semitism by the roots’. What this has meant is that Jewish anti-racists like the late Rive Joffe, who fought racism at the sharp end in South Africa, Mike Howard and Graham Bash, a member of the Labour Party for 53 years, have been expelled. This gives the lie to the idea that any of this was about anti-Semitism. If you are Jewish in the Labour Party you are 5 times more likely to be subject to expulsion & suspension than if you are non-Jewish. The only thing Stürmer excels at is lying.

John Mann lied and said Dr Glatt hadn't written the letter below

Today he goes cap in hand to the racist Labour Friends of Israel and pledges his undying loyalty to the Apartheid State that he calls a ‘rumbustious democracy.’

The false anti-Semitism campaign was always about defending Israel, Zionism and Britain’s strategic alliance with the United States’s racist Rottweiler in the Middle East.

One of the organisations which led this campaign was Hate not Hope. Ruth Smeeth, who makes being obnoxious into an art form, directed her bile at Marc Wadsworth. Today Smeeth is the CEO of Index for Censorship (well it has to be admitted that she does know quite a lot about censoring people!!)

When Joe Solo won a Heroes Award from HnH, after a vote by the public, it was inevitable once it was known that he had defended Chris that HnH would strip him of his award and the £5,000 prize.

Tony Booth

However HnH didn’t reckon with the backlash. Tony Booth, himself Jewish, started a Crowdfunder which within 4 days raised over twice the HnH prize.

HnH were so taken aback that in the end they crawled on their knees to Joe and begged him to take the cash! Joe to his credit told them where to go. They could keep their 30 pieces of silver.

John Mann Sets His Sight on the Alternative Media

John Mann, the Tories ‘anti-Semitism Czar’ was ennobled by the Tories with the job of weaponising ‘anti-Semitism’. He immediately set his sights on trying to close down the alternative media, The Canary and Skwawkbox. He therefore commissioned a Report ‘Anti-Semitism and the alternative media’ by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism’s academic prostitute Daniel Allington.

John Mann in all his glory

See my article ‘Daniel Allington is the Academic Fraud Behind the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism’s ‘Research’ into Anti-Semitism’. Allington, who is a hardline Zionist, set himself the task of ‘proving’ that the Left was more anti-Semitic than the Right. Quite a difficult task you may think since it’s not the Left which murdered millions of Jews or agitated against them. But Allington rose to the challenge.

Ruth Smeeth is the CEO for Index on Censorship - a subject that as a Zionist she knows a lot about

The problem was that even the CAA’s own surveys showed that the Right was more anti-Semitic than the left. They based this on a series of statements, some of them quite dubious, about Jews. For example ‘Jewish people consider themselves to be better than other British people’

This was highly inconvenient to the CAA, a far-right Zionist group who are close to Tommy Robinson’s fascist supporters. So they got Allington to come up with a series of statements about Israel that would prove that it was the left that was anti-Semitic!

So in their Anti-Semitism Barometer 2019 they could make the claim that ‘Antisemitism on the far-left now exceeds antisemitism on the far-right.’ How did they manage this?

Simple. By drawing up series of 6 questions which were about people’s attitude to Israel! Of course you might say that Israel is not a Jew but to Zionists there is no difference.  Jews exist to support Israel (apart from us ‘self-haters’ of course).

Normally when scientists want to prove something they sample the evidence and then draw the appropriate conclusions. Allington, as a social scientist, has a slightly different method.  First he reaches his conclusions and then he sets about fixing the evidence! Clearly he has a bright career ahead of him. He could get a job with Exxon and ‘prove’ that there is no such thing as climate change. The possibilities are endless.

John Mann with advice on how to get rid of Travellers

That is why Allington is an academic fraud, a charlatan who if King’s College cares about its reputation should fire him.

Below are the 6 new questions that ‘prove’ the Left is now more anti-Semitic than the Right.

1.     Israel and its supporters are a bad influence on our democracy.”

2.     “Israel can get away with anything because its supporters control the media.”

3.     “Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews.”

4.     “I am comfortable spending time with people who openly support Israel.”

5.     “Israel makes a positive contribution to the world.”

6.     “Israel is right to defend itself against those who want to destroy it.”

What you might ask has any of the above to do with anti-Semitism? How is Question 1, asserting that Israel is bad for democracy anti-Semitic? Or Question 4? If you are not comfortable spending time with supporters of Israel you are anti-Semitic? Does this include not wishing to keep company with Christian Zionists?

What if people had problems keeping company with supporters of Nazi Germany does that make them anti-German?

Allington is an example of how many academics have willingly hired themselves to the highest bidder and prostituted their profession.

It was not surprising that John Mann would turn to a dishonest and fraudulent academic like Allington. Mann wanted proof that The Canary and Skwawkbox were anti-Semitic and Allington supplied it in the form of ‘Anti-Semitism and the ‘alternative media’.

Steve Walker from Skwawkbox

A complaint was then made to press regulator Impress and that’s where it went wrong. Because they cleared both news outlets of Allington and John Mann’s false allegations. But as Steve Topple said, this has caused immense stress amongst Canary’s journalists.

Interview with Steve Walker of Skwawkbox and Steve Topple of The Canary

I intend to make a formal complaint to King’s College against this fake and fraudulent academic. Can I ask that readers of this blog bombard King’s College with complaints about why they are employing someone who would be better employed collecting garbage, not least his own?

John Mann's racist handbook described Gypsies in terms of a social nuisance

As Steve Walker says, John Mann is himself a racist bigot. He produced a virulently anti-Gypsy Handbook which led to an interview under caution with the Police for suspected hate crimes. 

Dr Glatt's letter to John Mann

Five years ago John Mann alleged that a letter from a 90 year old Jewish Dr Glatt, who has since died, was a forgery. Dr Glatt had criticised how Mann had exploited ‘anti-Semitism’ for his own purposes. Mann alleged the letter had been penned by a supporter of Momentum who had then coerced Dr Glatt to sign it.

Dr Glatt was furious and penned an Open Letter to Mann in his own handwriting. See my blog post ‘Open Letter to John Mann MP from a 90 Year Old Jewish Dr Glatt’. The letter was brilliant and as a result Mann took his false allegations of forgery off Facebook. See A Desperate John Mann MP Tries to Undermine 90 year old Jewish Doctor's Letter by Falsely Alleging It was a Forgery.

John Mann was one of the Labour MPs to attack Harriet Harman for having suspended Phil Woolas

Mann has a long history of racism. He supported the racist Labour MP Phil Woolas who fought campaign which was designed to ‘make the white folk angry.’. See John Mann MP – Zionist Scumbag and Apologist for Phil Woolas, New Labour Racist Kicked Out by an Electoral Court Just like the Russian Czars, John Mann is an incorrigible racist and anti-Semite!

Tony Greenstein

HnH Scores Own Goal As First It Cancels Joe Solo and then Offers Him Back the Money he Won!

 Hate not Hope and the vile Ruth Smeeth Use McCarthyite Tactics to Smear Joe as an ‘anti-Semite’ for Supporting Chris Williamson 

Watch Tony Greenstein and David Miller on Resist TV

The Problem with Hope not Hate

Wednesday 24 November 7.00 pm

I first saw Joe Solo at the Festival of Resistance 6 weeks ago, a genuinely empathetic working class street performer. So it was no surprise that a socialist, an anti-racist and anti-imperialist should come in for a vicious attack by the misnamed Hope not Hate which is a right-wing ‘anti-fascist’ group.

HnH was first formed in 2004 and in 2011 it split with its parent organisation, Searchlight Anti-Fascist Magazine which also had a record of smearing anti-fascists and anti-racists. The split was not based on any principled disagreements but about money. Nick Lowles, its Director wanted to be free of the ageing Zionist Gerry Gable in order to make as much money as he wanted without restrictions placed on what he could do with it.

At first Lowles proclaimed that he was not ‘vocalising’ about Palestine and the group had no position on Israel/Palestine. But that soon changed as it was made clear that if he didn’t take sides then money would dry up, certainly from Establishment and Zionist sources.

One of the tweets that Hate not Hope objected to

Literally Hate not Hope sold its soul to the Zionist devil. It leaps upon any manifestation of sympathy with the Palestinians and describes it as ‘anti-Semitic’.

In June 2015 the detestable racist former MP Ruth Smeeth was appointed as Deputy Director of HnH. Two years later HnH became part of the ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign against Corbyn and later against Chris Williamson. Smeeth is now a Director of HnH.

Liron Velleman

Nor is Smeeth the only paid-up Zionist at HnH. Liron Velleman, the Political Organiser at HnH is policy officer for the rabidly right-wing Jewish Labour Movement. It’s a small world as they say!

Gurinder Singh Josan

And just in case you were worried the trustee board is chaired by Labour far right NEC member, Gurinder Singh Josan.

On 1 November HnH invited people to vote from a shortlist of 6 for their ‘Hope Hero’ awards. Out of the 6 people selected, Joe Solo won the award. What happened next was predictable. The ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign went into operation.

On 17 November HnH issued a statement with scab ‘union’ Community, the only trade union to support Zionism and the State of Israel, that they were withdrawing the award. People had voted for Joe on the basis of the work he had put in in forming ‘We Shall Overcome’ an artist led response to growing poverty. Just the kind of grassroots work anti-racists and anti-fascists should be involved in.

This vitriolic statement from Nick Lowles MBE was made because tweets had been uncovered in which Joe had defended Chris Williamson from the attacks which had received. Chris, one of the few working class MPs the Labour Party had was also the only one to oppose the fake ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign.

Joe Solo at the Festival of Resistance

Tony Booth on the Not the Andy Marr  Show with Crispin Flintoft

If HnH had its ear to the ground then they would know that Joe also performed at Chris Williamson’s Festival of Resistance on the evening of Saturday October 16. As Chris noted:

HnH is basically a smear machine. Its latest attacks on Joe Solo and me have plumbed new depths. Joe was instrumental in establishing the ‘We Shall Overcome’ initiative in 2015, which brought musicians together to give hope to disadvantaged communities and raise money to help others. Yet Joe is now being smeared.‘

Like the bullies and liars that they are, HnH reckoned without the anger of the ordinary mass of people. In many ways HnH are like Nicola Doward, Headmistress of Stretford High School who tried to steal the funds children had collected for the Palestinian victims of Israeli bombing and hand them over to an Israeli charity. She was taken aback by the furore.

See Joe Solo at this year’s Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival

Crowdfunder

Likewise with Nick Lowles. He mixes in such rarefied and reactionary circles that he has come to believe all this nonsense about Labour anti-Semitism and in particular Chris Williamson. So they were taken aback at the reaction to their decision. Nick Lowles doesn’t understand that ‘Labour Anti-Semitism’ was a ruling class narrative.  Most people were oblivious to it.

To rub salt in the wounds not only had Hate not Hope removed Joe as a prize winner and taken away the £5,000 prize he had won but they suggested that this working class fighter against racism needed ‘training’ on anti-Semitism. Training as Tony Booth says is what you give to a dog.  Human beings have education, which is a 2 way affair.

But it’s not Joe who needs anti-racist education but Nick Lowles Liron Velleman and the execrable Ruth Smeeth. They need to understand that when you demolish homes of Palestinians in order to move Jewish settlers in that is racist.

When I can go to Israel anytime I like and claim citizenship, because I’m Jewish but my friend who is a Palestinian, born and brought up there, has no such right that is racism.   

If you go to the statement that HnH issued alongside the scab Community Union, then what is remarkable is the number of adverse comments. It is clear that Lowles and Smeeth have misjudged the mood of people.  Talk of Labour ‘anti-Semitism’ may have been common at the dinner tables in North London but real people did not buy into this fable.

And if you go to Joe’s Facebook page there are literally hundreds of supportive comments and only the odd Zionist.

Statement by Joe Solo on Facebook

So when Tony Booth put up a fundraiser to replace the £5,000 that was Joe’s prize it was no surprise that within 4 days it had raised over double that amount. So strong was the reaction to Hate not Hope’s decision that Lowles’ lackeys were forced to go, cap in hand to Joe and ask him to take their soiled money, donated no doubt by some Zionist millionaire, after all.  Unsurprisingly Joe turned them down with a statement that sums up everything about Joe:

I am a Working Class Socialist Trade Unionist and I’m afraid taking that money after the abuse I have suffered this last 36 hours would be the equivalent of hanging my head in shame and crossing a picket line. Something I would not and could not do.

But Hate not Hope and Nick Lowles have form. Back in 2018 the National Union of Students Black Students made it clear that they did not want Lowles as a speaker because of his Zionism and Islamaphobia, which are really Siamese twins.

Nick Lowles was also taken to task by Liz Feketo of the Institute of Race Relations for his adoption of a racist narrative during the ‘grooming affair’ in the North of England in accepting the conflation of Pakistani men with child abuse.

HnH has been in the forefront of the false and confected moral panic over Labour ‘Anti-Semitism’. A moral panic that newspapers like the Daily Mail and The Sun did their best to promote.  The same papers that had no difficulty employing a neo-Nazi Katie Hopkins as a columnist. To those who doubt this I suggest you watch Chris Williamson’s Reaching Over The Noise - Is Labour Really Antisemitic? which is a retort to the deliberately deceptive and dishonest BBC Panorama programme ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’

HnH’s Zionism did not come out of nowhere. It began with Searchlight Magazine. In the 1980s, during the Reagan era, it ran with an overtly anti-Arab racist agenda positing what it called ‘The New Axis’ made up of Arabs and Black leaders together with fascists.

Its editor, Gerry Gable, had resigned from the Communist  Party because it was no longer pro-Zionist.  Gable himself worked both with Israeli and British intelligence. We discovered this when the New Statesman published a leaked memo from Gable to his boss, Barry Cox, at London Weekend Television. It spoke of MI5’s ‘left watchers’.

Gable followed this up with a concerted attempt to destabilise Anti-Fascist Action by making a series of false accusations of  Nazi links about anarchist groups and individuals such as Class War.

Gable and Lowles were both implicated in a series of racist incidents prompting an impressively large number of Black organisations to write an Open Letter to Searchlight (which of course it didn’t print but which Labour Briefing did print).

In 1977 the then Labour Home Secretary, Merlyn Rees, was proposing to deport American journalist Mark Hosenball and ex-CIA agent Phil Agee. Gable was willing to spread dirty about both of them alleging that Phil Kelly, who later became editor of Tribune and an Islington Councillor, had trained as a ‘terrorist’ in Jordan with the PLO and other nonsense.

Gable calls me a 'Jew hater' for solidarity with the Palestinians

I crossed swords with Gable frequently in my role as a member of Anti-Fascist Action’s Executive and as part of my role in fighting fascism in Brighton. Gable called me a ‘Jew hater’ in an editorial in the Winter 2015/16 issue, just as the fake ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign was being rolled out in the Labour Party. Gable offered, in the same editorial to ‘give evidence about the current probems that urgently need to be tackled.’