Another Feather in the Cap of Jonathan Hoffman - He Disrupts a Meeting of the East London Humanists

Despite his Nose Growing Even Longer Hoffie Denies Working with the BNP & EDL!

The photo above which Hoffman described as 'photoshopped' was all too genuine. In the middle is Roberta Moore of the EDL's Jewish Division, o the left is Harvey Garfield, another neo-Nazi Zionist and in  the background in army fatigues are Croydon EDL with whom Hoffie was happily demonstrating - however pointing this out makes you a 'fucking liar'

Jonathan Hoffman's grovelling apology for saying that a photo of him with the EDL and assorted fascists was 'photoshopped'

As he said on his blog in justification for having destroyed another meeting:

Well bear in mind that these ‘humanists’ are affiliated to the National Secular Society which has been pretty obnoxious towards Jews.

Please someone tell the fool that humanists don’t like any religion! That is why they are humanists and it is also why they are affiliated to the National Secular Society. (What he means is they don't like the religion not the individuals who practice the religion)

The East London Humanists decided to invite David Rosenberg, the mild-mannered Secretary and founder of the Jewish Socialist Group to speak to a meeting on anti-Semitism. David and I have long disagreed on many things since he is a compulsive moderate. However my sympathies go out to him over having his meeting disrupted by that ecumenical friend of fascists, Jonathan Hoffman.

Jonathan Hoffman and Yochi Davies (an Israeli nut) posing for a photo - proud of their work in breaking up a meeting

From Hoffman's website - justifying the breaking up of a Humanist meeting - note his use of the neo-Nazi term 'renegade Jew' i.e. non-racist Jews

Hoffman, who was only recently convicted of harassment of a Palestinian woman decided that the invitation to David to speak to the Humanists was intolerable. If there is one thing that Hoffman and his fellow fascists like Yochie Davies hates it is free speech. Like their compatriots in Israel it is a red rag to a Zionist bull.

How one Zionist who is also a humanist described Hoffie's behaviour

You can see Hoffie’s explanation of his behaviour on Facebook and his website.

David Rosenburg is a racist according to Hoffie. The same David Rosenberg who I have seen on numerous anti-fascist demonstrations against the BNP, NF etc. Of course Labour’s anti-Semitism moral panic has enabled racists to think they can accuse anti-racists of racism. This is all the fashion these days.

I must confess I have never seen Hoffman on a single anti-racist or anti-fascist demonstration. David was a ‘liar’ (one of his favourite words because it saves you having to explain why you disagree with someone) because he says that the IHRA ‘definition’ of anti-Semitism prevents criticism of Israel. 

How a fellow Zionist who attended the meeting described Hoffie's behaviour

Hoffie’s response was to say that the IHRA allows criticism of Israel.  This is a half truth – but as they say a half truth is worse than a lie. What the IHRA actually says is that:

criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic

But Israel isn’t ‘any other country’ it is a state based on a single ethnicity and which practises apartheid. One of the 11 illustrations of ‘anti-Semitism’ says that:

‘Applying double standards by requiring of it [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation’

According to Hoffman this photo is a 'fucking lie' - his appearance alongside the EDL's Kevin Carroll is just one of those coincidences

The problem is that Israel is not a democratic nation. Indeed it isn’t a nation! Prime Minister Netanyahu openly says that Israel is a Jewish state not a state of its own citizens. Therefore, by definition, it can’t be a democratic state. It is a settler colonial state.

Ipso facto the IHRA does prevent criticism and therefore David Rosenberg is telling the truth and is not a racist whereas Hoffie is both a liar and a racist. But according to Hoffie a racist is someone who believes Israel is a racist state so you can’t win!

But the biggest whopper of the night was when Hoffie called David a ‘liar’ ‘a fucking liar’ for saying that Hoffie is happy to work with the EDL and the BNP. Indeed he seemed to lose all self control at that point!  It would appear that the truth has the same effect on Hoffie that the light has on Dracula.

Jonathan Hoffman works with a broad spectrum of British fascists - he is not sectarian - all that is required is that they're Zionists

Besser as Bond going undercover on the Al Quds march gathering intelligence for Britain First

Besser with Britain First's Deputy Leader Jayda Fransen

Hoffman (right) with Paul Besser, Britain First's Intelligence Officer (although extremely stupid!) and Sharon Klaff  (Pegida, Tommy Robinson supporter)

Jonathan Hoffman has stood on picket lines with the EDL, danced down the street with Roberta Moore, the organiser of their Jewish section (the JDL), stood side by side with Paul Besser, ex-Intelligence Office of Britain First on pickets and demonstrations, liaised with Kevin Caroll, an EDL leader, works with Tommy Robinson supporters and people like Danny Thomo, body guard to Robinson as well as Pegida’s Sharon Klaff and Ambrosine Shitrit.

The appropriately named Daniel Berke with Tommy Robinson - also solicitor to Jonathan Hoffman

Quite amazingly out of the 20,000 or so solicitors in Britain, the only one that Hoffie could find to defend him against charges of assault and harassment of a woman earlier this year was Daniel Berke, who is also Tommy Robinson's solicitor from Manchester?  A coincidence?  We think not.

No one is too right-wing for Hoffie as long as they are a Zionist. Below are a few photos to illustrate that though the matter is painful for him, Hoffman is, in his own phrase, a fucking liar.

All the Jewish neo-Nazis in one frame - Paul Besser (Britain First) centre back, Hoffman next to him, front row Ambrosin Shitrit (Pegida/Tommy Robinson), front right 'Mad' Mel Gharial who will go with any fascist who will have her

'Mad' Mel Gharial,  impecunious Zionist with Danny Thomas (Tomo) bodyguard to Tommy Robinson at 2019 Al Quds march - Gharial is one of Hoffie's close associates

Background to Danny Thomo - a failed kidnapper

Even Dan Sheldon, Campaign Organiser of the Israeli funded Union of Jewish Students was so pissed off with Hoffman’s behaviour, that in a debate with Hoffman he openly accused him of being

‘happy to demonstrate side by side with members of the EDL Jewish Division. He lied about the last one saying that a picture of him with the EDL was photoshopped. But after a legal intervention he was forced to admit that the photo was genuine.’

I am proud to say that it was my blog which outed him over this in August 2010, but not before he threatened me with legal action!!

In fact when the photographer who snapped him with Roberta Moore, David Hoffman, was accused by Hoffie of photoshopping he threatened to sue and Hoffie had to publish this apology:

‘On my Jewish Chronicle blog I described a photograph taken on 14 August 2010 at the pro-Ahava demonstration as "fraudulent". I also wrote "That photo was 'Photoshopped' -- and it is bloody obvious that it was 'Photoshopped' I do not discuss but I do identify lies and fraudulent Photoshopped photos."

These statements were entirely without foundation and I had made no attempt to check their accuracy. I accept that the photo was absolutely genuine and had not been tampered with in any way. The photographer, David Hoffman, is a well known and respected photojournalist and I apologise to him unreservedly for my hasty and unfounded comments and for the distress and embarrassment caused.’

You might think that having just swallowed several large helpings of humble pie that Hoffie might retire with indigestion. No such luck.

Hoffie’s excuse for demonstrating alongside the EDL when we picketed Ahava in Covent Garden was that the Police refused to create a separate pen for the Zionists and the EDL. He stated that

‘Nine years ago, anti-Israel campaigners repeatedly picketed an Israeli-owned shop in London. I led the counter-demonstrations, and requested that the police separate us from any EDL supporters as I did not wish to be associated with them (see here).’

The link that Hoffie directed us to is an article on Harry’s Place. In it there is an email from Inspector Martin Edwards to Hoffie explaining that he could not have a separate pen from the EDL. The only problem is that this email is dated 25^th October 2010 whereas the photo of Hoffman in the company of fascists, which he originally described as ‘photoshopped’ is dated 14^th August 2010. In other words for over 2 months Hoffie had no qualms about demonstrating with the EDL and it was only when we pointed out his relationship with the fascists that Hoffie approached the Police!

In any case this is irrelevant. Anti-Zionists have never demonstrated alongside fascists and anti-Semites. We would not have tolerated them and on the few occasions when, in the 1980’s members of the National Front attempted to join Palestinian demonstrations we physically stopped them.

If the EDL had attempted to join our picket there would have been blood on the pavement. The Police would have had to separate us yet Hoffman was perfectly happy to demonstrate alongside fascists and anti-Semites because to him the most important thing is defending Israel. He has no principled object to demonstrating with fascists and anti-Semites.

No one in the Jewish community had any doubts that Kevin Myers was an anti-Semite for writing that Jews never knowingly undersell themselves - with 1 exception - Jonathan Hoffman

Hoffman is, like many Zionists, prepared to go that extra mile to exonerate genuine anti-Semites as long as they are pro-Israel. When Sunday Times journalist Kevin Myers was excoriated for an anti-Semitic article he wrote about equal pay (he opposed it!) and wrote concerning two female Jewish broadcasters, Vanessa Feltz and Claudia Winkleman:

Hoffman and Britain First's Paul Besser - both protesting against 'antisemitism'!!

‘“Good for them. Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost-with-all-hands stupidity.”

there was a consensus view that what Myers wrote was anti-Semitic. Even the far-Right Campaign Against Anti-Semitism condemned him. Indeed Myers had also flirted with Holocaust denial claiming that the Holocaust had become a ‘dogma’. There was just one person who exonerated him of anti-Semitism. Yes that’s right – Jonathan Hoffman. On his blog he wrote Is Kevin Myers really an anti-Semite? Why? Because Myers is pro-Zionist as well as being a racist (he once stated that the only thing Africa had given to the world was Aids). For an excellent deconstruction of Hoffman’s nonsense see Sharajsha’s A Response to Jonathan Hoffman’s Defence of Kevin Myers

Below are articles I have published on my blog about Hoffman’s fondness for working with fascists

Jonathan Hoffman, UJS, Tony Greenstein and the EDL

Jonathan Hoffman's Lies Catch Up With Him 29.8.10.

Union of Jewish Students Attack on Jonathan Hoffman 7.11.11.

Setting the EDL Cat Among the Zionist Pigeons 25.10.10.

Jonathan Hoffman of the Zionist Federation and the EDL’s Roberta Moore Hold a Joint Demonstration 14.8.10.

Zionist Federation & fascist EDL Join Hands in Supporting Israel's Murder at Sea - Jonathan Hoffman of the Zionist Federation Defends Allowing Fascists to Take Part 3 June 2010

 Jonathan Hoffman – Another Victim of anti-Semitism Hoffman Booted out as Zionist Vice-President 3 November 2012

Tony Greenstein

Some of my best friends are Zionists – The Case of the Sunday Times Kevin Myers

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Zionists defend anti-Semitic journalist because he is a devoted supporter of Israel

It used to be the case that anti-Semites used to deny their anti-Semitism by protesting that ‘some of my best friends are Jews’ .  This attitude was best exemplified by Himmler.  In a speech to leaders of the SS in Posen, Poland in October 1943 he declared:

And then they all come along, the eighty million good Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are swine, but this one is a first-class Jew.’ (some laughter) 

Himmler went on to describe the trials and tribulations of the SS:

‘Of all those who talk like this, not one has watched, not one has stood up to it. Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand. To have gone through this and yet – apart from a few exceptions, examples of human weakness – to have remained decent fellows, this is what has made us hard. This is a glorious page in our history that has never been written and shall never be written.’

This speech was recorded and used in evidence during the Nuremburg Trials.  

Zionist UK Media Watch forgives Murdoch's pro-Zionist Sunday Times

Today anti-Semites deny their anti-Semitism by proclaiming their devotion to Israel and Zionism. The Jewish Chronicle's editor, Stephen Pollard, exemplifies this practice.  

When speaking about Michal Kaminski, a prominent anti-Semitic politician and a leading member of Poland's far-Right Law and Justice Party, (as well as being Chair of the European Conservative and Reform Group in the European Parliament), Pollard exclaimed that: "Far from being an antisemite, Mr Kaminski is about as pro-Israeli an MEP as exists."

In other words if you support the Israeli state then you cannot be anti-Semitic.  This does of course have a certain logic to it, at least for Zionists.  If you believe that anti-Semitism equals anti-Zionism, then it follows that supporters of Israel and Zionism cannot be anti-Semites.  It is, as Tony Lerman described, an 'Alice in Wonderland' conclusion.

However it does ignore the fact that most of the far-Right in Europe - from France's Le Pen to Austria's Herr Strache - not forgetting our own British National Party and the EDL, manage to combined anti-Semitism and Zionism without any problem at all.  The Trump administration in the person of Steve Bannon of Breitbart also manages to combined  Zionism and anti-Semitism without any problems.

Pollard's defence of Kaminski was even too much for some Zionists, such as The Guardian's Jonathan Freedland. [Once no self-respecting politician would have gone near people such as Kaminski]. Kaminski denied wearing the Chrobry sword, the symbol of the far-Right anti-Semitic National Radical Camp Falanga.  Kaminski issued a categorical denial: “No, I never wear it. I don’t even know which symbol you are referring to' before admitting that he had in fact worn it!  The Chrobry sword was banned from being worn in Poland in 1933 because of its association with attacks on Jews.  

Ms Bikont believes Mr Kaminski helped inspire anti-Semitism in Jedwabne

A BBC Newsnight Report Digging up the truth about Michal Kaminiski quotes Maria Mazurczyk, a member in 2001 of the Committee to Defend the Good Name of Jedwabne, saying of Kaminski:

"I remember at the meeting he invited older people who remembered those times, those who had been driven out to Siberia, to say that they had not just been driven out because of the Russians, but above all because of their neighbours, the Jews."

Anna Bikont, a journalist with the leading Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza and author of 'The Crime and the Silence', described the atmosphere in Jedwabne where "there was such a lot of hate" against Jews.''  Although Kaminski was not there she believed he had helped inspire the deeply anti-Semitic atmosphere:

"Kaminski came to the place where an incredible crime was committed and he told not about the women, children, old people who died in this horrible manner, but he told about Jews who collaborated with Soviets and who killed Poles".

People gathered at Jedwabne memorial in 2001

Kaminski helped form in March 2001 the Committee to Defend the Good Name of Jedwabne. Most people would suggest that a good name was the last thing that Jedwabne possessed. In Jedwabne, a village in Western Poland, on July 10 1941 the inhabitants herded up to 1600 Jews, men, women and children, into a barn which was then set alight.  Not all inhabitants committed this atrocious crime but many did. 

Kaminski, whom Pollard defended as a 'good friend of the Jews' proclaimed in an interview with Martin Bright of the Jewish Chronicle (9.10.09. that '“If you are asking the Polish nation to apologise for the crime made in Jedwabne, you would require from the whole Jewish nation to apologise for what some Jewish Communists did in Eastern Poland.”  

Just this one quote alone demonstrates Kaminski's anti-Semitism.  Over 90% of Polish Jews died in the holocaust.  Thousands were massacred by their Polish neighbours, even after 1945, yet Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle has no problem defending an apologist for these pogromists.

The suggestion that the Jews collaborated with the Soviet troops is one of the standard justifications that Polish anti-Semites make for the pogroms and massacres of Jews.  After the Soviet troops had been driven out of Poland by the Nazis in June 1941, anti-Semites held that the Jews had collaborated with them and that they were responsible for the deportation of Polish non-Jews to Siberia. Kaminski not only led the opposition to the  national apology of Poland's President Kwasniewski but he also opposed the ceremony of remembrance in Jedwabne on July 10 2001, the 60th anniversary what happened in Jedwabne.
  
Kaminski's lies about Jewish involvement in deportations were a theme repeated by those who either denied or defended the massacre in Jedwabne (& similar massacres took place in surrounding villages like Radzilow).

But speaking of holocaust deniers, no one comes closer to this than the former Irish Sunday Times journalist Kevin Myers, who was sacked last weekend. As the Independent  and Jerusalem Post noted Myers had previously written that “There was no holocaust (or Holocaust, as my computer software insists) and six million Jews were not murdered by the Third Reich. These two statements of mine are irrefutable truths.”

It was therefore no surprise that in his column for the Irish edition of the Sunday Times, under the headline: “Sorry ladies, equal pay has to be earned,” Myers wrote: 

“I note that two of the best paid women presenters in the BBC – Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz, with whose, no doubt, sterling work I am tragically unacquainted – are Jewish. Good for them.

“Jews are not general noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost-with-all-hands stupidity.”

You would think it obvious that Myers is a died-in-the-wool anti-Semite.  Surely our good friends the Zios are jumping up and down about this genuine, bona-fide, 24 carat anti-Semite?

The Zionist UKMedia Watch is hot on 'anti-Semitism' of the anti-Zionist variety

After all, there is no group which is as hot on ‘anti-Semitism’ as UK Media Watch, a division of the American McCarthyist group CAMERA.  When the Guardian published a letter of mine earlier this year praising the late Jewish MP Gerald Kaufman, they were outraged.  Their headline told it all:  ‘How the Guardian’s decision to publish extremist Tony Greenstein normalises antisemitism’.  They wrote that ‘Kaufman’s most insidious comments about Jews occured during a Commons debate on the war in Gaza in 2009, a speech alluded to by left-wing extremist Tony Greenstein in a letter published on March 3rd in the Guardian.’ 

Gerald Kaufman, Jewish MP and Father of the House of Commons was a wicked anti-Semite for comparing Israel to Nazi Germany

Even worse was Kaufman’s statement that the Israeli government uses non-Jewish guilt over the Holocaust  in order to justify their murder of Palestinians.  One would have thought this was a self-evident truth. Israel shamelessly exploits the Holocaust for political purposes. Indeed if it were not for the Holocaust then Israel would have been called to task for its racism years ago.

You would therefore assume that UKM would be down on Kevin Myers and the paper that printed his anti-Semitic comments like a ton of bricks.  Well I’m afraid you are wrong.  UKMedia Watch tweeted that it found the Times to be “generally good on issues of antisemitism.’  Naturally because Murdoch’s Times is also virulently pro-Zionist.

Zionism washes anti-Semitism whiter than white

The Zionist leaders of the Irish Jewish community were even worse.  The Jewish Chronicle reported that ‘Maurice Cohen, chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, insisted Mr Myers was not antisemitic, and had “inadvertently stumbled into an antisemitic trope”.’  Zionists love ‘tropes’ possibly because it rhymes with ‘dopes’ which is as good a description of them as any.

I'm not sure how you 'stumble' into anti-Semitism or any form of racism.  You either are or you are not anti-Semitic.  Perhaps its permanently dark in the South of Ireland, such that columnists are forever stumbling into one error or another.  

Of course there is another explanation.  Besides being a rank anti-Semite, Kevin Myers is also a fervent Zionist.  His belief that Jews are grasping, money grubbing, never knowingly under-paid sits well with his support for Israel.  According to Cohen though, it is all down to Myers having ‘ a particular curmudgeonly, cranky, idiosyncratic style.’

Of course Myers is not the only non-Jewish Zionist who has stumbled into ‘anti-Semitic tropes’.  There is Arthur J Balfour, a passionate Zionist who in 1905 introduced, as Prime Minister, the Aliens Act whose aim was to keep Jews fleeing the Czarist pogroms out of Britain.  In the Introduction to the History of Zionism by Nahum Sokolow, who later became President of the Zionist Organisation, Balfour made his anti-Semitism clear when speaking about Zionism:

"For as I read its meaning it is, among other things, a serious endeavour to mitigate the age-long miseries created for Western civilisation by the presence in its midst of a body which it too long regarded as alien and even hostile, but which it was equally unable to expel or to absorb. Surely, for this if for no other reason it should receive our support."

Balfour told Chaim Weizmann that he shared the “anti-Semitic postulates” of Cosima Wagner, who would become one of the first patrons of Adolf Hitler. Balfour did not believe that Jews could be assimilated into Gentile British society but he was happy to send them to Palestine.

Another strong supporter of Zionism, in whose Cabinet Balfour was Foreign Secretary, was Prime Minister David Lloyd George.  He described Herbert Samuel, who was Home Secretary and who went on to be the first British High Commissioner in Palestine as “a greedy, ambitious and grasping Jew with all the worst characteristics of his race.”

Indeed it is hard to think of a non-Jewish Zionist who wasn’t an anti-Semite.  From Edouard Drumont to Eichmann non-Jewish anti-Semites have nearly all been avid supporters of Zionism.   

It is no surprise that Frank Coughlan, a columnist in The Irish Independent should provide the answer to the mystery why UKMediaWatch,  Maurice Cohen of the Irish Jewish Representative Council and assorted Zionists believes that Kevin Myers has been much misunderstood.  Coughlan, who described the critics of Myers as ‘the haters’ ( a strange way to describe opponents of a myogynist and anti-Semite) explained thus:

It is ironic, for instance, that the anti-Semitic paragraphs that have surely finished his career came from the same pen that has defended Israeli foreign policy more consistently and eloquently than any other Irish journalist.

In November 2011, he wrote a waspish piece on the Irish left and its obsessive hatred of the Jewish homeland, a theme he has returned to again and again. The very same left that has now turned on him for being anti-Semitic.

'a year later, a headline had him stating emphatically that the only thing Africa had ever given the world was Aids.'- Frank Myers

After all, the poor misunderstood little Zionist was racist and abusive to everyone.  Coughlan writes that:  ‘‘More controversially again, a year later, a headline had him stating emphatically that the only thing Africa had ever given the world was Aids.’

Racist?  Perish the thought.  He was simply ‘Deliberately provocative’ even when ‘he picked at some tender scabs, particularly the treasured myths of romantic republicans.  Countess Markievicz, whom he thought mad, bad and dangerous to know, was caught in the crossfire a number of times.’

The Countess of Markievicz, for those who do not know, was a dissident member of the British aristocracy who supported Irish Republicanism.  She was ‘an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist.’ who was the first woman elected to the House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and was also the second woman to hold a cabinet position in the world (Minister for Labour in the Irish Republic, 1919–1922)

Being a combination of Republican, socialist and suffragette the good Countess probably represented the trinity of evil as far as Myers was concerned!

In many ways Myers was an ideal journalist for the Murdoch press.  They will be hard pressed to find a replacement bigot.