The Main Task of the Left in the General Election is to Start Building an Opposition to Starmer’s Racist, Imperialist & neo-Liberal Politics

Why I Am Supporting Two British‑Palestinian Candidates Samar Ammar & Tanushka Mara

Tanuksha Mara & Leanne Mohamad at STAND UP 4 PALESTINE Speaking About Why They Are Standing in the General Election

In the current election there are some excellent candidates such as Andrew Feinstein in Holborn and St. Pancras, who is standing against Starmer and Leanne Mohamad who is going up against Wes Streeting in Ilford North. I want to focus on two excellent British Palestinian candidates.

Tanuksha Mara is standing as an Independent Socialist candidate in Hove, which used to be the posher part of Brighton.  Currently it is represented by ‘Killer Kyle’ the Vice Chair of Labour Friends of Israel. Kyle is a hard-line supporter of Starmer, an open Zionist and someone almost devoid of charisma or personality.

Picket of Kyle's Offices in Hove

Tanuksha is an award winning theatre director of Jordanian-Palestinian origin. Her family now lives in Jordan. She also writes for Middle East International

Samar Ammar was until recently the Chair of Bromsgrove Labour Party and a local councillor as well as a member of Unite. She had been put forward by her local party, with unanimous support, to become the MP for Bromsgrove.

She had only one disadvantage. She was of Palestinian origin and in Starmer’s Labour Party having any connection with the Palestinians automatically rules someone out of the running.

When Starmer parachuted in one of his clones, Samar resigned.

Being an overt Zionist and racist however is a distinct advantage which is why genocide supporter and professional Zionist Luke Akehurst was parachuted into the North Durham seat.

Akehurst supported in 2018 Israel shooting some 300 unarmed demonstrators at the Gaza fence dead and wounding thousands.  Amongst the dead were over 50 children but according to Akehurst they were all ‘Hamas terrorists’.

However in the eyes of Starmer and his racist supporters, support for the cold-blooded murder of Palestinians is seen as an advantage. Which is why Samar didn’t stand a chance of being selected. She has therefore decided to stand as an Independent candidate.  Please contribute to her Crowdfunder as she is fighting the campaign on a shoe-string.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sam-ammar-for-bromsgrove

My Own View on the Likely Outcome of the Most Boring Election on Record

This is a strange election. Not since 1997 has it been clear that one party is going to win overwhelmingly. The Tory Party is in a state of collapse with some even predicting that Sunak could lose his seat.

More worrying is the rise of the Reform Party who are tipped by some polls to get 3‑5 seats. What is difficult to predict is what is going to happen to the Independent Socialist candidates, not least Jeremy Corbyn.

I hope very much that Corbyn and George Galloway win their respective contests but I fear that a depoliticised and defeated working class may well reject them.  Likewise my fear is that the independent socialist candidates may also not fare as well as we hope. I suspect we are going to have a mixed bag of results.

It is a great pity that instead of Galloway announcing a fait accompli of 500 Workers Party candidates standing (which became 150) that he didn’t call for a convention of the left to decide these things. This is leaving aside such his appalling concession to Farage and the racists by calling for the British navy to be used in the Channel to repel asylum seekers. Instead of calling out the demonisation and scapegoating of refugees by the Tories/Farage and Starmer Galloway went along with it.

Leanne Mohamad Independent Socialist - Ilford North

At a time of increased privatisation of the NHS, the scandal of water companies pouring sewerage into the sea whilst paying their shareholders millions in dividends, Galloway chose cheap populist rhetoric. He could have pointed to the billions of pounds paid to the Tories through fraudulent COVID contracts or even the fact that refugees come here because we went to their countries and started wars.

Corbyn once again has demonstrated that he has the tactical nous of a lemming. If he was going to stand why wait till the last minute to announce it?  Why not declare early on that he was standing, throw down the gauntlet to Starmer and call for the formation of an alternative socialist party based around the manifesto he stood on in 2017?

The Canary has published a useful list of 17 independent candidates but there are many more.

There are also some on the left who still have illusions in the Green Party. They should stop their wishful thinking.

In Brighton Kemptown the local candidate in my constituency, Elaine Hills, has put out a leaflet that is entirely parochial. It doesn’t even mention Gaza or genocide. There is no mention of NATO, any conflict internationally or racism. It really sums up the Greens. Kitchen-table politics.

My own recommendation is to only vote for the Green Party as a very last resort. Where a socialist candidate is standing you should vote for them.

The Green Party is a pro-capitalist party. It seeks to green capitalism. It has adopted the Zionists’ IHRA misdefinition of anti-Semitism which was designed with no other purpose than to conflate anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. We see it being used constantly to defame student encampments and protests against genocide, despite the fact that those taking part include many Jews.

Recently I learnt from a statement posted by Jewish Greens, which is on the Green Party website, that the Green Party leadership has been meeting with ex-Labour MP John Mann, now Lord Mann, ‘to discuss the important issue of antisemitism’.

In fact anti-Semitism is extremely unimportant. If it was a problem does anyone think that a bigot like Suella Braverman would be concerned about it?

The only reference to Gaza by Jewish Greens is a statement referring to the ‘atrocious attacks on Israel by Hamas’. No mention of the genocidal attacks on the Palestinians of Gaza for over half a century. Quite what Jo Bird is doing in such an outfit beggars belief.

Lord Mann is best remembered for his hectoring and bullying attack on Ken Livingstone for having dared to mention the pro-Zionist policy of the Nazi state which resulted in the Ha'avara trading agreement which broke the Jewish Boycott of Nazi Germany.

Mann has a lengthy past record of racism, whether it is supporting Phil Woolas MP when the High Court removed him from Parliament after having run a nakedly racist campaign designed to ‘make the White folks angry’ with Muslims in his constituency of Oldham East & Saddleworth. In 2007 he produced a handbook on anti-social behaviour which targeted Gypsies and Roma as an example of anti-social behaviour.

I have correctly predicted the outcomes of the last 3 elections. I had no doubt that Miliband would fail in 2015 and Corbyn in 2019 and almost alone, I predicted that Corbyn could win in 2017 would do very well if not. But today it is difficult to hazard a guess, not only because of the volatility of the polls but because it is next to impossible to forecast how the Independent Socialists will do. 

It is clear that Starmer’s Labour Party will win. The toxic Tories are in a state of collapse having presided over rampant corruption, undemocratic legislation, bribes to their friends in high offices and racist attacks on migrants and asylum seekers for the past years.

However there is no enthusiasm for Starmer. I predict a low turnout as people see no reason for having to choose between two sets of Tories.  I imagine that many Tories will turn to the Lib Dems, who are a thoroughly pro-capitalist party. Whether they get more than 50 seats is anyone’s guess. Likewise it is unlikely that the Tories will get much more than 120 seats.

The unknown factor is the far-right Reform Party which has come out of nowhere. Farage is predicted to win the seat of Clacton. I hope not.

The SNP is predicted at the moment, after the fall-out from the corruption surrounding its former leader, Nicola Sturgeon, to do badly against the Labour Party. Not living in Scotland I have no idea if this will turn out to be true given that the Labour Party is a unionist party. But if they do badly it will be a self-inflicted defeat.

I also predict that overall the socialist independents are not going to fare very well because of a lack of any unified impact, although there may be exceptions. Although I support Galloway and the Workers Party where they are not standing against other socialist candidates, I fear that even Galloway may lose. I hope not because we need his oratory in Parliament, not least over Gaza.

I also hope that Chris Williamson, who is a thoroughly decent and principled socialist, wins in Derby North but I fear that this won’t happen.

What is clear is that after the dust has settled, after July 4, the Left seriously needs to get its act together like the Left in France. There is no reason for different left sects and parties to compete with each other. Unity around a minimum set of demands should be the order of the day.  Otherwise we will let the bigots and racists around Farage win by default.

I urge people in Hove and Bromsgrove in particular to support two British Palestinian candidates – Tanuksha Mara and Samar Ammar.

Tony Greenstein

The BBC’s Idea of Impartiality is a Balance Between the Right and the Far-Right

When the BBC's Tim Davie says ‘We are absolutely driven by a passion for impartiality” it’s like Hitler saying he was driven by a passion for Jews

Tim Davie Interview

We should celebrate a rare victory over the BBC who have been forced to client climb down, reinstate and apologise to Gary Lineker. If Lineker had spoken out in support of Cruella Braverman’s abolition of the right to claim asylum and attacked refugees does anyone seriously think that Lineker would have been suspended?

That is why, when Tim Davie, talks about his ‘passion for impartiality’ he is a liar. Was Fiona Bruce suspended for defending Stanley Johnson’s ‘one-off’ breaking of his wife’s nose? Was Jeremy Clarkson suspended when he said that strikers should be shot, ‘in front of their families’ no less?

The list of BBC pundits and presenters who make right-wing comments without any action being taken against them is legendary. But when Lineker spoke out in support of refugees and had the audacity to compare the vitriol directed against them with the attacks on refugees in the 30s, both from the Mail and Express all hell broke loose. The Tory tabloids barked and Tim Davie jumped to attention.

However Lineker stood his ground, unlike the shameless cowards on Labour’s front bench who rushed to criticise Lineker’s remarks.  Yvette Cooper and Lady Nugee (Emily Thornberry) like good Zionists condemned the comparison with the 30s. Yet in the 30s the same attacks were made on Jewish refugees to this country that the Tories make now. The Daily Mail wrote on 20^th August 1938 that:

 “The way stateless Jews from Germany are pouring in from every port of this country is becoming an outrage:  the number of aliens entering the country through back door – a problem to which the Daily Mail has repeatedly pointed”

Let no one pretend that Britain has a good record on refugees. It is bloody awful and the record of the Labour Party is equally appalling.

The BBC was born in the womb of the British state. For decades, until the 1990s. MI5 vetted its staff to ensure that those deemed ‘subversive’ were excluded from employment.

In 1926 the BBC’s founder Lord Reith excluded the Archbishop of Canterbury from broadcasting to the nation because he favoured a settlement with the miners during the General Strike whereas the government sought to starve them back to work. The Catholic Archbishop of Westminster was allowed to broadcast because he condemned the strike as a sin against god.

Throughout its history the BBC has distinguished itself by hostility to the working class and trade unions. Whenever there is a strike they focus, not on the workers’ grievances but on the  impact of the strike on the public. They emphasise the inconvenience to the public not the struggle to get by of the workers. They tell us the cost of meeting the workers’ demands but never the cost of tax avoidance by the wealthy.

When was the last time the BBC questioned, still less informed us, of the catastrophic effect of NHS privatisation? When did they connect the PPE shortages at the start of the pandemic with the outsourcing of contracts and the ‘just in time’ mentality of the companies involved.

When was the last time the BBC questioned the incompatibility of the profit motive and the mission of the NHS to care for people regardless of cost?  The BBC has the values of capitalism and the market embedded in everything they say and do.

Not once do they ask, as with the Post Office or the Railways why workers are expected to take pay cuts in real terms when hundreds of millions of pounds go to shareholders. When they tell us how much it costs to meet workers’ demands have they ever gone on to ask why that cost could have more than been met by reducing dividend?

Jonathan Pie

The most infamous case of BBC bias was during the 1984-5 Miners’ strike when they focused, not on police violence but that of the miners.  At Orgreave Coke Depot where there was mass picketing, the BBC reversed the sequence of Police attacks on the miners and the miners retaliating by throwing stones. The Police attacks were portrayed as a response to the Miners’ actions. Eventually the BBC owned up but by then it was too late.

The coverage of the gross corruption in the allocation of COVID contracts, with the Tories having a VIP lane, whereby cronies and friends of Tory MPs and Ministers gained preferential access, has been virtually nil. What is inconvenient to the government is inconvenient to the BBC.

On Israel and Palestine the BBC is a byword for bias. Israeli attacks on Palestinians are always a reaction to Palestinian violence never the cause of such violence. Watching the BBC you would never know that Palestinians in the West Bank have experienced the rule of a military junta for over half a century. They speak of the Police keeping order whilst not mentioning that this is a colonial police force that is hostile to the Palestinians whilst protective of Jewish settlers.

When demonstrators in Jerusalem were chanting ‘death to the Arabs’ the Police attacked the Palestinians who protested.  Imagine that there were Palestinian crowds shouting ‘death to the Jews’. It would feature on every BBC news programme. But when Israelis chant ‘Death to the Arabs’ it provokes no comment.

Last year a riot of settlers on Jerusalem Day, a veritable pogrom, in East Jerusalem, was portrayed by BBC correspondent Yolande Knell in this 44 second video clip, as follows.

‘‘the mood of them is jubilant, festive.  It feels like a party.... they’re celebrating their presence at this spot.’

This video of last year’s march shows a variety of racist slogans such as ‘Mohammed is Dead’ ‘A Good Arab is a Dead Arab’’The Arab is a son of a bitch. and of course ‘Death to the Arabs.’

BBC reporters know that Jerusalem Day is a demonstration of Jewish Supremacism whose purpose is to make it clear that the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem is unwanted. Hence the reference in the above video to a second Nakba (ethnic cleansing of Palestinians). Notice the reaction of the Police.

The excuse made for Knell’s piece to camera, in response to my complaint, was that it ‘should be considered within the wider context of the article’ was pathetic. A visual piece to camera is clearly going to have more impact than a written article on the BBC web site.

Andrew Neil, who was a high profile political correspondent for the BBC and also chairman of the tory Spectator hasn’t hesitated to air his opinions on Brexit, Corbyn etc. without any come back.

Is it any wonder that the BBC behaves in this way when its Chairman, Richard Sharp, donated £400,000 to the Tory party while helping Boris Johnson, to secure loan of £800,000? We should treat the BBC for what it is – an Establishment Broadcasting Corporation.

Fiona Bruce defends Boris's dad breaking his wife’s nose – just a ‘one-off’

When Martine Croxall said she was ‘gleeful’ at the news that Boris Johnson had dropped out the Tory leadership race and would not return to Number 10 she was taken off the air.

Not only had Croxall said “Well, this is all very exciting, isn’t it? Am I allowed to be this gleeful? Well, I am!” but later she could be heard giggling and said: “Sorry! I shouldn’t probably. I’m probably breaking some sort of terrible due impartiality rule by giggling.”

Former culture secretary Nadine Dorries said it was an example of “deep seated bias” within the BBC. Croxall was not only taken off air following the comments but the BBC launched an “urgent” investigation, saying in a statement:

“It is imperative that we maintain the highest editorial standards. We have processes in place to uphold our standards, and these processes have been activated.”

Why has there been no action against the anti-Corbyn presenters Laura Kuenssberg and Fiona Bruce?

Throughout the Corbyn era the BBC led with attacks on ‘Labour anti-Semitism’. Andrew Neil devoted the whole of his Sunday politics in 2016 to attacking Labour ‘anti-Semitism’.

The tone of the programme was set by the voice over which asked:

‘Does Jeremy Corbyn support 4 causes like the Palestinians or Stop the War mean he’s not tough enough when there are allegations of anti-Semitism in Labour.’

There was no explanation why supporting the Palestinians or opposition to war should mean hostility to Jews, unless it is being suggested that Jews are war-like. Itself an anti-Semitic assumption.

There was a 45 second rant from Wes Streeting on Labour ‘anti-Semitism’ followed by a 25 second response from James Schneider, a Momentum supporter defending Corbyn but not saying much else.

John Mann, the Zionist MP and Chair of the so-called Parliamentary Anti-Semitism Committee, who believes that boycotts of Israel are inherently anti-Semitic, was given an uninterrupted 6 minutes and 4 seconds. In other words those arguing that the LP was saturated with anti-Semitism had a mere 16 times as much time as the person who defended Corbyn. At no point did Andrew Neil question Mann’s assumptions of Labour ‘anti-Semitism’. It was taken for granted.

Mann wasn’t asked, at any stage, for any evidence to support his arguments. Neil asked 6 questions, none of them probing.

The first was ‘is there a problem with anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.’ An interviewer with any sense of balance of fairness would have asked ‘Why do you say there is an anti-Semitism problem… ‘ or ‘what is the evidence for your assertion that…’

Mann engaged in empty rhetoric but provided not a scrap of evidence for his assertions. 

The second question was no better. It assumed there was a problem of anti-Semitism. ‘Why has it come back’ and his third question simply asked ‘why in the Labour Party. Again no challenge to the central thesis.

Neil’s fourth question referred to Corbyn’s ‘friends in Hamas and Hezbollah’ which is a repetition of the media lies.  Corbyn chaired a meeting at which he referred to the speakers as ‘friends’ in a general and polite sense.  That was all.  They weren’t his personal friends. In any event neither organisation is anti-Semitic.

Neil then suggested that Corbyn shared platforms with people hostile to Israel and whether that is anti-Semitic. The assumption being that hostility to the Zionist state is anti-Semitic.

His fifth question was no different. Are you doing enough about this. Again the assumption that there was Labour ‘anti-Semitism’.

But it was Neil’s 6^th question which was most ironical. Andrew Neil demonstrated that the only problem with anti-Semitism lies with people like himself.  He asked about the ‘Jewish vote’ as if there is a block Jewish vote to begin with.

Another irony is that when Andrew Neil was Editor of the Sunday Times who did he hire to verify the Goebbels Diaries? Holocaust denier David Irving!

And when Boris Johnson was Editor of The Spectator he hired Taki, the owner of Takis magazine for whom David Duke of the KKK wrote. Taki supported the openly Nazi Golden Dawn Party in Greece. And who was Chairman of the Board of Press Holdings Media Group which owns The Spectator? Andrew Neil! The hypocrisy is endless.

Taki himself was deeply anti-Semitic. As his biography records:

Taki was able to run columns on ‘bongo bongo land’, West Indians ‘multiplying like flies’ and one on the world Jewish conspiracy, in which he described himself as a ‘soi-disant anti-Semite’.

So where are the left-wing reporters and news journalists at the BBC?  We have Tory Laura Kuensberg and Nick Robinson, ex-President of the Oxford University Conservative Association.

Former communications officer for Theresa May, Robbie Gibb, is on the BBC board. Tim Davie, the current BBC director general, previously stood as a councillor for the Tory Party in Hammersmith and was deputy chair of Hammersmith & Fulham Conservative party.

The question Davie has repeatedly failed to answer was why was Lineker silenced for a tweet criticising the current government when it had no issues with Lineker’s political views when he opened the BBC coverage of the Qatar World Cup with a monologue detailing human rights issues in the Arab country? Impartiality, it would seem, is only relevant when criticising policies of the Conservative party.

Under the heading of ‘impartiality’ the BBC has neglected to cover the scandal of our sewage-filled waterways. Corporate vandalism is never a good story.

The BBC’s coverage of Ukraine has been lamentable. When the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up the BBC highlighted US and Ukrainian accusations that the Russians had blown up their own pipelines. A child of 6 could have told them this was unlikely given that the Russians owned it. But if your ‘impartiality’ guidelines dictate you support NATO’s narrative then the absurd becomes true.

The BBC has failed to so much as mention the revelations of Seymour Hersh, the legendary Pulitzer prize winning reporter, that it was the United States that carried out the bombing of the Nordstream pipeline.

And then there is Jeremy Corbyn. Who can forget the lying dishonest production by John Ware, Is Labour Anti-Semitic?

In Liverpool Riverside Jewish member Helen Marks was under investigation. Her investigator was Ben Westerman who alleged that Rica Bird had asked him ‘where are you from? Are you from Israel?

What Rica had said was ‘‘so I’m just curious about what branch are you in?’ and when Westerman said it wasn’t relevant Rica accepted it. There is a world of difference between asking what Labour Party Branch someone is in and asking if someone Jewish is from Israel.

The interview was recorded so it is clear that Westerman was lying. As the Labour Files rightly said, the Jews interviewed in the Panorama programme were drawn entirely from the officers of the anti-Corbyn Jewish Labour Movement. Not one Jewish anti- Zionist was interviewed. Another example of BBC impartiality!

Rica Bird

Lord Sugar of The Apprentice has a history of political outbursts including interviews calling on people to vote Conservative to tweeting a mocked-up image of Corbyn sitting next to Adolf Hitler. But ‘passionate’ Tim Davie was unmoved by such bias.

Given Tim Davie is so ‘passionate’ about impartiality there is a long list of issues that he could tackle. The first could be the sycophantic coverage of the deaths of the Queen and Prince Philip. Endless interviews with the queues to see her coffin. Given around a quarter of the British people are Republican why is there no balance on the  Royal Parasites?

We could ask why Nigel Farage has made so many appearances on Question Time. As the Scottish National reported in May 2019:

IN a completely unsurprising turn of events, the BBC has come under fire over its lack of impartiality. 

Last night's episode of Question Time marked Nigel Farage's 33rd appearance on the show.

The third-largest Westminster party was of course not represented on the broadcaster's flagship political show.

It is clear that the BBC has always had a racist agenda. Why else put Farage on Question Time so much? UKIP and the Brexit Party never son a single parliamentary seat. This is the clue to the action taken against Gary Lineker. The BBC is a thoroughly racist institution that thinks a few token Black presenters will overcome its racist agenda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=5_JC371jxPI&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fblogspot.com%2F&feature=emb_logo

Not forgetting Andrew Marr who, when Blair launched an unprovoked war of aggression against Iraq outdid himself.

Mr Blair is well aware that all his critics out there in the party and beyond aren’t going to thank him, because they are only human, for being right when they’ve been wrong...

it would be entirely ungracious even for his critics not to acknowledge that tonight he stands as a larger man and a stronger Prime Minister as a result.

We all know how that turned out! Researchers at John Hopkins University and the Lancet, estimated that more than a million people died as a result of the war. The BBC naturally ignored these findings.

It was no surprise that Marr’s book launch for Head of State, was held in Downing Street with David Cameron as the host.

Liz Thomson, breached the bonhomie and etiquette when she asked Marr if having Cameron host the book launch ‘mightn’t compromise his position as impartial political interviewer for the BBC’.

Marr’s wife, Guardian columnist Jackie Ashley went ballistic telling Thomson that ‘you’ve ruined my evening’ before she ‘resumed the harangue, calling [Thomson] ‘despicable’ and ‘a B-I-T-C-H’.

The BBC has reported the Ukrainian resistance but during the Iraq invasion there were no favourable reports of the Iraqi resistance or the American atrocities that Wikileaks revealed. Nothing on the thousands of deaths in Falluja. To this day the BBC has ignored the kidnapping of Julian Assange, who did the job that the BBC failed to do. Investigate American war crimes.

So when Tim Davie says he is ‘passionate’ about BBC impartiality my only response is ‘pass the sick bucket Alice.’

Tony Greenstein

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