Open Letter to Jeremy Corbyn from Jackie Walker & Tony Greenstein – Why We Don’t Support You Becoming Leader of Your Party

Corbyn Still Doesn’t Understand that There was NO ‘Anti-Semitism’ Problem in the Labour Party & that the EHRC Report was a Put Up Job

This Open Letter Can Be Downloaded Here

Corbyn's Car Crash Interview on BBC's London Politics Program 2 November 2025

Jackie Walker and Tony Greenstein were the first Jewish members of the Labour Party to be expelled as part of the ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign.

Jackie’s offence was to have talked, in a private conversation about the Jewish role in the slave trade, an undoubted fact.

My offence was to use ‘Zio’ as shorthand for ‘Zionist’. That was seen as anti-Semitic, the assumption being that Zionists are all Jews, itself an anti-Semitic assumption.

Corbyn's Full Interview on London Politics Show 2 November 25

My other offence was to call the racist Zionist MP for Liverpool Riverside, Louise Ellman, the MP for Tel Aviv South. The constituency eventually forced her to quit. I asked my expulsion hearing whether it had been racist to call the John Carlisle, the Tory MP for Luton, the MP for Bloemfontein West on account of his support for Apartheid in South Africa but I never got a response!

John Carlisle - the MP for Luton & Bloemfontein West

This is how it’s done - Clare Short Interview w/ Newsnight on Labours Antisemitism Scam w/ its Stupidest MP Siobhan McDonagh

It was therefore with something approaching horror that I listened to Jeremy Corbyn’s interview with the London Politics Programme on Sunday November 2 when he was challenged by Samantha Simmonds about the anti-Semitism smear campaign in the Labour Party.

Instead of responding robustly and saying that there wasn’t an anti-Semitism problem, that anti-Semitism was weaponised then and now by those who defend or deny the Genocide in Gaza, Corbyn demonstrated that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

It was beyond pathetic. It shows that although Corbyn has many talents and his honesty is beyond question he isn’t a political fighter. He is also proof that without having some theoretical background to your socialist politics you become in the end a political weathervane.

Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away (

Let’s be honest Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party between 2015 and 2019 was nothing short of disastrous. Having won a fantastic victory at the 2017 General Election, the largest swing to Labour since 1945 he threw it all away as Bob Dylan once put it.

Corbyn allowed the ‘anti-Semitism’ smears to go unchallenged. He never fought back against his enemies in the Jewish Labour Movement which as Asa Winstanley showed had only been refounded to remove him. Asa was suspended as a result of his journalism and Corbyn didn’t lift a finger to help him. He was even denied credentials at the 2019 Labour Party conference.

Corbyn begged the JLM to stay in the Party (not that they were really thinking of leaving) for which they rewarded him with a vote of no confidence.

Corbyn himself proposed to expel people without a hearing

When Jennie Formby replaced the hated Crooked Iain McNicol as General Secretary the number of expulsions increased and Corbyn took pride in this. He even introduced a fast track expulsion mechanism. Now there were no hearings.

It was supposed to be only for ‘egregious’ cases but this too was a lie. It was used for everyone. My friend and comrade Anne Mitchell, an avowed socialist, anti-racist and the then Secretary of Brighton and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign fell victim. Her crime? Having posted criticism of Israel and Zionism. This was the horror show that Corbyn presided over. See Richard Kuper’s post on JVL ‘A Grave Miscarriage of Justice: the case of Anne Mitchell’.

The man who had been Secretary of Labour Against the Witchhunt in the 1980s now became the architect of a mass expulsion campaign. Corbyn thought the Zionists would pat him on the back for this but of course they didn’t. They hadn’t forgotten that he had once championed the Palestinian cause. On becoming Leader in 2015 he had tried to woo Labour Friends of Israel. Indeed he hardly mentioned Palestine in his first two years as Leader.

Instead of being satisfied with the increased rate of expulsions, the Zionists used the increased number of expulsions as proof that there was a problem with anti-Semitism. As I once said in a public meeting in Brighton and Hove with his strongest supporter, Chris Williamson MP, who he also betrayed, there were undoubtedly some paedophiles in the Labour Party but did that mean there was a paedophile problem?

Tony Greenstein & Anti Semitism in Labour - Labour in Exile Meeting circa March 2021-1

Yes there were undoubtedly a few anti-Semites in the Labour Party. So what? Far fewer than in a Tory Party whose leader, Boris Johnson, had written a book 72 Virgins full of anti-Semitic tropes.

Instead Corbyn’s response during the BBC interview was that of Tom Watson, an avid supporter of Apartheid Israel:  ‘One anti-Semite is one too many.’ Utterly facile and trite remark. Parties aren’t there to purify their membership. A mass party will contain all sorts of people, including racists. A serious socialist party will seek to educate and win over people to anti-racism not expel them unless they are dedicated fascists.

Tony Greenstein & Anti Semitism in Labour - Labour in Exile Meeting circa March 2021-2

If Your Party is serious about destroying Nigel Farage’s Reform Party then it will admit all sorts of people with racist nonsense in their heads. What is it to do? Expel them as soon as they join? One thing is for sure, we are not going to have a party like the Labour Party which has genocidal racists like Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy and David Lammy at its head.

The EHRC Inquiry Into Henderson Never Reported

And then Corbyn was tackled about the EHRC Report on ‘Anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party and it got worse. Instead of saying the EHRC was a put up job by the Establishment he accepted its conclusions at face value. He said nothing about the Commissioner who wrote the Report, Alisdair Henderson, who was a racist, homophobic, anti-trans, far-right, Christian bigot who ‘liked’ or retweeted social media posts criticising Black Lives Matters protesters.

The EHRC itself was institutionally racist but Corbyn didn't think to challenge them

Corbyn simply accepted the EHRC Report without criticism in the interview. He just had minor quibbles about how much he had done to tackle the non-existent anti-Semitism. This was truly pathetic.

Alasdair Henderson, who led the EHRC inquiry into Labour party antisemitism liked a tweet decrying “offence-taking zealots” who accused fascist philosopher Roger Scruton of antisemitism, Islamophobia and homophobia, and one by Douglas Murray, who once called for Muslim immigration to Europe to be banned.

It's amazing to me that Tory ministers still flounder and flub when some media moron incants the magic words "misogynist" and "homophobe", as if those are empirical statements about reality, not highly ideological propaganda terms.

— NPRG (@CptHastings1916) September 3, 2020

Murray is the author of The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam. Murray argued that Europe “is committing suicide” by allowing non-European immigration into its borders and losing its “faith in its beliefs”. In other words he is a supporter of the anti-Semitic White Replacement Theory which holds that Jews are masterminding this immigration!

Douglas Murray

Murray, an Associate Director of the Islamophobic Henry Jackson Society, is an Islamophobe par excellence. In a February 2006 speech to the Dutch Parliament, Murray said

conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board: Europe must look like a less attractive proposition.

and that "All immigration into Europe from Muslim countries must stop.” This did not stop Suella Braverman as Home Secretary endorsing Murray.

Under Cameron the Conservative Party frontbench severed formal relations with Murray and his Centre for Social Cohesion. Today the Tory Party welcomes anyone who is a racist. That’s what comes from having a Coconut like Kemi Badenoch as leader.

Tom Watson's  Concerns About Antisemitism Didn't Extend to Other Forms of Racism - He Defended Phil Woolas Attempt to Harness a White Racist Vote

🧵The EHRC is wholly captured by conservatives. Commissioner Alasdair Henderson ran for Parliament in the resurrected Whig party. He also liked a tweet saying 'homophobe' and ‘misogynist’ were 'highly ideological propaganda terms'. And he led the Labour antisemitism inquiry. 1/11

— Steven Methven (@StevenJMethven) February 2, 2022

On 3 September 2020, Henderson liked a tweet which read:

“It’s amazing to me that Tory ministers still flounder and flub when some media moron incants the magic words ‘misogynist’ and ‘homophobe’, as if those are empirical statements about reality, not highly ideological propaganda terms.”

On 1 July, he retweeted a comment which said:

All the anti-fascists in Europe protesting against America, an actually free country, are too cowardly to do the same for Hong Kong, which is virtually a dictatorship now.

But then the EHRC was a repository for racists and bigots. Henderson was in his element. The Guardian revealed that David Goodhart and Jessica Butcher were going to be appointed to the EHRC board by Liz Truss, the laughable equalities minister. Goodhart had previously praised the government’s “hostile environment” policy which had seen hundreds of Black people with a right to be in this country deported while Butcher urged women who have been discriminated against at work not to “go cry to someone” but to “take the onus to circumvent the situation”.

See EHRC board member under scrutiny over social media use. What makes this worse is that Corbyn himself had previously accused the EHRC of being “part of the government machine”.

And what of the EHRC Report itself?  Well it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on. It was flawed from the start. It was shallow beyond belief. It found no anti-Semitism and conjured up political statements opposing the fake anti-Semitism smear campaign as anti-Semitic in themselves. It was the equivalent of a 3 card trick.

The EHRC report stated that: “The Labour party failed to investigate antisemitism complaints based on likes, retweets and shares on social media.” Yet if Corbyn had bothered to read the EHRC Report (& remember what he had read) he would have learnt that the two cases of ‘anti-Semitism’ that amounted to anti-Semitic conduct involved Rossendale councillor, Pam Bromley, who had posted on Facebook:

‘Had Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party pulled up the drawbridge and nipped the bogus AS [antisemitism] accusations in the bud in the first place we would not be where we are now and the fifth column in the LP [Labour Party] would not have managed to get such a foothold ... the Lobby has miscalculated ... The witch hunt has created brand new fightback networks ... The Lobby will then melt back into its own cesspit.’

This isn’t harassment it is political speech.  Bromley was arguing that the ‘anti-Semitism problem’ in the Labour Party was nothing of the sort. What was Henderson’s finding?

Suggesting that complaints of antisemitism are fake or smears. Labour Party agents [Bromley and Livingstone] denied antisemitism in the Party and made comments dismissing complaints as ‘smears’ and ‘fake’. This conduct may target Jewish members as deliberately making up anti-Semitism complaints to undermine the Labour Party, and ignores legitimate and genuine complaints of antisemitism in the Party. These comments went beyond simply describing the agents’ own personal experience of antisemitism in the Party.

But there were many Jews who opposed the anti-Semitism smear campaign. That's why Jewish Voice for Labour was set up. The anti-Semitism smear campaign was driven by non-Jewish groups like Labour Against Anti-Semitism who were led by two non-Jews Euan Philips and Emma Picken. To disguise the fact that he wasn’t Jewish Philips took to calling himself David Gordstein, a Jewish sounding name as the Al Jazeera documentary series The Labour Files revealed .

This was the racism that the 'antisemitism' smear campaign aimed to defend

Philipps is not Jewish, and the name "Gordstein" was used in thousands of complaints submitted to the party. This was done to make the complaints appear as if they were coming from a Jew. The whole anti-Semitic scam was the product of non-Jewish racists which another non-Jewish racist Alisdair Henderson endorsed.

This flawed EHRC Report went on to say that Ken Livngstone, who was on Labour’s National Executive Committee at the time,

made reference to social media posts made by Naz Shah MP. Naz Shah’s posts included a graphic suggesting that Israel should be relocated to the United States, with the comment ‘problem solved’, and a post in which she appeared to liken Israeli policies to those of Hitler.

Can anyone say today that Israel’s behaviour in Gaza is not similar to that of the Nazis? There is nothing anti-Semitic about this at all. The EHRC Report said that Livingstone

‘sought to minimise their offensive nature. In his denial, Ken Livingstone alleged that scrutiny of Naz Shah’s conduct was part of a smear campaign by ‘the Israel lobby’ to stigmatise critics of Israel as antisemitic, and was intended to undermine and disrupt the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn MP.’

And this was anti-Semitic harassment. Of course it was nothing of the kind. It was political speech yet Corbyn didn’t have the bottle or the intelligence to see that this was an attack on free speech. Corbyn had been so tamed by the Zionist lobby at this time that he was prone to saying that denial of ‘anti-Semitism’ was anti-Semitic in itself.

Another example of ‘anti-Semitism’ was when, in April 2019, Pam Bromley posted on Facebook: ‘Looks like fake accusations of AS [antisemitism] to undermine Labour just aren’t working, so let’s have Chris Williamson reinstated’. And on 15 December 2019, she posted on Facebook about Jeremy Corbyn:

‘My major criticism of him – his failure to repel the fake accusations of antisemitism in the LP [Labour Party] – may not be repeated as the accusations may probably now magically disappear, now capitalism has got what it wanted’.

Henderson pompously concluded that:

‘we were satisfied that the antisemitic conduct had the effect of contributing to violating the dignity of a member or prospective member, or contributing to creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them.’

But the racist Henderson could not point to which Jewish members had been offended which is what you have to do in an employment discrimination case. This was bogus law by a racist barrister. Yet Corbyn did not get it. After all he had appointed Keir Starmer to the Shadow Cabinet without the slightest due diligence and when he retired as Labour leader he nominated Tom Watson to the Lords!

This racist meme about male Muslims appeared in a report from the Campaign Against Antisemitism - one of two groups which referred the Labour Party to the EHRC for 'antisemitism'

Defenders of Zionism (and Corbyn still hasn’t come out clearly and said that he opposes this racist and genocidal ideology) have repeatedly accused opponents of Israel’s genocide of anti-Semitism. It is Netanyahu’s only defence to the charge of being a war criminal.

I despair of Corbyn’s inability to think on his feet, his submissiveness and refusal to condemn Zionism. What is clear is that in the event of the ‘anti-Semitism’ card being deployed again he will flounder. Under no circumstances should Jeremy Corbyn be leader of Your Party.

Instead my proposal is that Corbyn become the Honorary President of Your Party which will enable him to traverse the country speaking but that Zarah Sultana and Andrew Feinstein are the co-leaders.

People rightly admire and love Corbyn for sticking it out this long, for his honesty and support for the oppressed. However we have to face it, Jeremy Corbyn is not a leader.

Below are the relevant sections of the malevolent EHRC Report that Corbyn failed to criticise.

Tony Greenstein

The relevant sections of the EHRC Report

Google’s Blogspot Censors have Taken Down a 3½ Year Old Post Calling Edward Isaacs, former President of UJS and Chair of Bristol’s J-Soc, a Liar

The Jewish Chronicle Has a New Editor, Daniel Schwammenthal, and it Seems They’ve Realised That a Propaganda Rag Cannot Be a Newspaper

Edward Isaacs was Chair of Bristol’s Jewish (in fact Israel) Society when the campaign began in earnest against a sociology professor, David Miller. McCarthyism came easily to this spoilt rich Zionist brat.

My original message to Edward Isaacs

My clash with Isaacs began when he and his deputy, AJ Solomon applied to join the Labour Against the Witchhunt Facebook Group. As the Admin of the group I asked them why they wanted to join and if they were Zionists i.e. racists. See EXCLUSIVE: Bristol University Hearing into David Miller’s Right To Freedom of Speech Will Take Place Next Week as the Zionist Campaign to Dismiss Him Intensifies.

My Response to Google

Solomon got into a debate with me which he badly lost, resulting in him deleting his comments.  Isaacs merely threatened to sue me with Daddy’s money if I called him a liar again. So that’s what I did.  I called him a liar but no libel writ arrived so I guess it is an established fact now that Edward Isaacs, Chair of UJS from 2023-4 is a liar.

Naturally I put up a blog which remained up until yesterday. Now there is simply a page that says that the blog does not exist though it still appears on a Google search.

This is what Google objected to - the truth

Fortunately, some years ago, I decided that the risks of Google taking down a blog that has existed for some 16+ years were too great and I therefore invested in a website and a domain which is based in the United States. All my posts on Blogspot have been copied onto it including all legacy posts, just in case.

This is all that remains of my deleted blog!! Except on my shadow blog

Although it costs me an arm and a leg, hence my occasional appeals to readers, it is worth it not to let the Zionists destroy what is also a history of the Palestine solidarity movement in this country. You can however access it here.

This is  Blogspot's Explanation for Deleting a 31/2 year old post

Twice in the last year Google has taken down posts. This never used to happen and so I am thinking of leaving blogspot altogether and simply posting to my own site.

I therefore invite people to go to the post Edward Isaacs is a Liar on my site to see what has been irking Isaac’s for the past 3+ years. He was clearly hoping to join LAW in order to  spy on people there but I always check people who apply to join in case they are Zionists.

Isn’t it strange how these young amoral Zionists, who are so ready to call people ‘anti-Semites’ become so touchy when they are accused of not telling the truth?

Is the Jewish Chronicle Changing Under Its New Editor Daniel Schwammenthal?

It was inevitable after the public relations fiasco in which the Jewish Chronicle was found to have been printing as ‘Exclusives’ lying disinformation from Netanyahu’s office via a pimp who called himself a journalist, I refer to  Elon Perry, that its obnoxious, racist Editor Jake Wallis Simons had to go. Although he took nearly 6 months to get the message.

Perry had claimed to have taken part in the Entebbe raid a mere 48 years ago, as well as having been a professor at Tel Aviv University for 15 years. Clearly he was a Walter Mitty character but then that fitted in well at the JC. The JC was was happy to have him write complete fabrications because printing lies is what it specialised in.

The fable that did him was about how Hamas leader, Yayha Sinwar was trying to escape to Iran with the hostages and that was why Israel needed to stay in the Philadelphia corridor in order to prevent such occurrences. There was no truth in this story and as we know, Sinwar died a martyr’s death throwing, with his last gasp of breath, a stick at the drone which located him. ‘Sinwar’s stick’ has since become famous as a symbol of Palestinian bravery and resistance.

However this time it was the Israeli end which did for editor Jake Wallis-Simons, whose other speciality was as a soft-porn novelist.  Netanyahu’s disinformation  had been part of a war against the army top brass and his political enemies. Hence why they were quick to rubbish the story.  As the Guardian commented

Despite being provided with a series of questions, Wallis Simons and the JC have so far declined to describe how Perry – an individual with no discernible journalistic track record, let alone as an investigative reporter – came to be writing for the paper or what due diligence had been exercised over an increasingly fantastic series of claims.

I mention all of this because Agnes Kory, a child survivor of the Nazi holocaust, sent me a copy of a letter she had sent to the Jewish Chronicle supporting the picket of Tzipi Hotoveli, the Israeli Ambassador, in Swiss Cottage where she lives.

I wished her good luck but I doubted very much that they would print it. Imagine my surprise when the Jewish Chronicle did just that! Under Pollard or Simons the chances are that Agnes’s letter would have ended up in the electronic equivalent of the waste paper basket.

At the same time I was contacted by a JC reporter, Jane Prinsley about a story they were doing about the demonstrations at Swiss Cottage. You may not think this is unusual but for the JC it is an innovation. Jane actually contacted me before writing the story!

It is of course good journalistic practice to contact people you intend to write about but it is not something that the JC have done since Pollard became Editor in 2008.

Imagine my surprise when I read Prinsley’s article. Even though it didn’t include all my points, it did accurately quote from the 3 out of 6 that they did use. I can’t imagine that Marcus Dysch or ‘Liar’ Lee even considering contacting their victims.

As I said in a letter to the JC (which I don’t expect to be published!) when ‘Liar’ Lee Harpin used to write articles involving me it was a pleasant past-time to see how many mistakes I could identify in each article. This is perhaps why the paper experienced so many adverse judgements of IPSOS, the so-called independent body that investigates complaints against newspapers and why it suffered so many libel defeats too.

As Jonathan Cook wrote ‘the Jewish Chronicle’s libel payouts were a small price to pay for smearing Corbyn and the left.’ The JC literally did not care if its stories were true or not.  The main objective was to damage Corbyn and the Left, which is why an unknown consortium was prepared to finance the paper despite knowing that it could only make losses as readers abandoned it. The BBC’s Director Robbie Gibb man fronted the take-over of the JC by anonymous billionaires.

My satirical letter to the Jewish Chronicle

The scandal involving Perry resulted in the JC's four principal columnists, headed by Jonathan Freedland and David Aaronovitch, resigning. The rats were abandoning ship.

Despite his attempts to cling on, Jake Wallis Simon’s days were numbered.  Whether this results in any substantive change in the JC is to be doubted. To date the JC has operated on the basis that 99.99% of British Jews are fully fledged Zionists. Jewish anti-Zionism has disappeared from its pages. The reality of what is happening to the Palestinians never even makes it into their pages thus reinforcing the belief that Palestinians (‘Arabs’) don’t like Israel because they are born anti-Semitic rather than that they might object to living in an apartheid state that steals their land.

However time will tell.

Tony Greenstein

Why the Palestine solidarity movement should have nothing to do with Peter Gregson

Statement from Palestine solidarity activists and organisations concerning Peter Gregson

IF YOU WISH TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THE STATEMENT BELOW PLEASE EMAIL ME AT tonygreenstein111@gmail.com

For a number of years Peter Gregson has been an activist on the fringes of the Palestine solidarity movement. Whereas previously he has been treated as a nuisance today his activities pose a threat to the solidarity movement and should be treated as such.

Gregson is notorious for setting up his own ‘campaign’ groups such as LAZIR (Labour Against Zionist Islamophobic Racism) and the Campaign Against Bogus Anti-Semitism. Now it is the One Democratic Palestine [ODP].

In setting up ODP he is deliberately misleading people into believing that it is the same as the One Democratic State Campaign and One Democratic State Initiative.

Gregson was initially expelled by Labour Against the Witchhunt in 2019 for posting a petition linking to an article by Ian Fantom that defended a holocaust denier Nick Kollerstrom, who Gregson described as a ‘holocaust sceptic’. Fantom wrote that Kollerstrom ‘had been targeted in a witch-hunt for a literature review he wrote on ‘The Auschwitz “Gas Chamber” Illusion and a… swimming pool at Auschwitz.’

When requested to take this link down Gregson refused. Fantom and Kollerstrom are co-founders of the Keep Talking group which has hosted a variety of conspiracy theorists like Piers Corbyn and anti-Semites such as Gilad Atzmon.

Gregson’s reasons for participating in the ‘Keep Talking’ group’ was that ‘we need to use every single platform we can find to get our message out.’ This included the anti-Semitic far-Right. The Jewish Chronicle published an article based on correspondence which Gregson had made public detailing what had happened.

Gregson has since been refused membership by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jewish Network for Palestine and a host of similar groups.

Recently Gregson has espoused openly anti-Semitic arguments seeing the source of the government’s support for Zionism as being due to the undue influence of Jews. In an article on the anti-Semitic Redress site, he stated:

The people who foisted the IHRA definition upon us were the Jews in the UK who support Israel, so the question arises: do Jews in the UK have significant leverage within the bodies that represent our interests – our courts, our media, our trade unions, our political parties, our government?

Gregson answered his question in the affirmative. In a section ‘Rich Jewish bankers’ Gregson declared that ‘Right from the outset, rich Jewish bankers such as Lord Rothschild backed Zionism. It is unlikely we would have Israel now were it not for his influence.’

The suggestion that Israel owes its existence to ‘rich Jewish bankers’ is a classic anti-Semitic stereotype. It is also untrue. The Rothschilds were a house divided with the majority of the British family opposed to Zionism. For example the President of the anti-Zionist League of British Jews, formed in the wake of the Balfour Declaration, was Sir Lionel Rothschild, a Tory MP.

The Jewish bourgeoisie were overwhelmingly opposed to Zionism. The only member of the Lloyd George cabinet who opposed the Balfour Declaration was its only Jewish member, Sir Edwin Montagu. However facts rarely disturb Gregson.

Gregson wrote that ‘Plenty of politicians too… are Jewish and support Israel.’ Support for Israel is common to all politicians, Jewish and non-Jewish. Gregson singled out Jon Lansman and Rhea Wolfson who ‘used their tribal background shamelessly in 2018 to successfully remove our freedom of speech on Israel.’ Gregson completely ignores non-Jewish and Christian Zionist support for Zionism.

Gregson asserted that ‘it was the wealthy and influential Jews in politics and the media who foisted the IHRA definition upon us’. Gavin Williamson, who threatened universities with a loss of funding if they didn’t adopt the IHRA, is not Jewish. In conflating being Jewish with Zionism and Israel, Gregson echoes Zionist propaganda and the IHRA itself.

The struggle for Palestinian liberation and against Zionism is an anti-racist struggle. There is no place in the Palestine solidarity movement for those who spread anti-Semitic propaganda under the guise of support for the Palestinians. In so doing Gregson plays into the hands of the Zionists and Israel’s supporters.

We advise supporters of Palestine to reject Peter Gregson and keep a wide berth from his many and varied organisations. 

Representatives of religious Zionist youth group Bnei Akiva Meet Jewish Racist Bezalel Smotrich in London

Gregson’s Anti-Semitism Doesn’t Hurt Jews But It Does Hurt Palestinians

As Palestine solidarity activists are well aware, accusations of anti-Semitism are the only defence that apologists for Israeli Apartheid have left in their armoury. With Jewish neo-Nazi Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich in Israel’s coalition government and the reign of terror that is being conducted by the military junta in the West Bank, ‘anti-Semitism’ is their only answer to the call for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions.

It is with extreme reluctance that I circulated the statement below to activists asking them to sign a call for people to avoid Peter Gregson and his increasingly bizarre anti-Semitic statements such as his remark that

The people who foisted the IHRA definition upon us were the Jews in the UK who support Israel

Those of us with longer memories than the day before yesterday will recollect that it was the distinctly non-Jewish Gavin Williamson who foisted the IHRA fake definition of anti-Semitism upon universities by threatening their funding.

Jonathan Freedland - Led the Fake 'Antisemitism' Campaign Against Corbyn

Even worse was the remark of Gregson that the Zionist movement supported the annihilation of European Jews. Such hyperbole is totally unnecessary. As I show in my recent book Zionism During the Holocaust the Zionists did many terrible things, from blocking routes of escape for Jewish refugees to entering into a trading agreement with the Nazis that destroyed the Jewish Boycott but there is no evidence that they supported Hitler’s final solution.

until 1940 most Jews refused to move to Israel on religious grounds. These were the people that Hitler gassed. With Zionist support. Proof? Over the period 1942-44, Rabbi Weissmandl of Hungary made a deal with Adolf Eichmann whereby the Germans would “sell” the Jews to him

Weissmandel made no deal with Eichmann, that was Rudolf Kasztner, the leader of Hungarian Jewry. If Gregson is referring to the Europa Plan of Weissmandel it was with Dieter Wisliceny not Eichmann. To accuse any Jew, even Zionists, of having supported Hitler’s extermination of the Jews is clearly anti-Semitic because it is blaming the dead for their own murder. The Nazis did not distinguish between Zionist and anti-Zionist Jews in the gas chambers. See A Political Health Warning - Why Palestine Solidarity Activists Should Have Nothing to do with Peter Gregson

As Boris Johnson demonstrated with his racist and anti-Semitic novel 72 Virgins the Zionist movement has no objection to genuine anti-Semitism. Instead it seeks to redefine opposition to racism as racism in an exercise of double think that Orwell long ago predicted.

Jews in Britain are overwhelmingly White and suffer no discrimination on account of being Jewish. Jews in Britain are a largely middle class community as Jewish historians Geoffrey Alderman and William Rubinstein have documented. Of course not all Jews are prosperous but on average they are. Nor do they suffer from state racism.

Nonetheless anti-Semitic prejudice is to be condemned, not because of its effect on Jews but because it is extremely damaging to the Palestinian cause. It lends weight to the false accusations of the Zionists that support for the Palestinians is anti-Semitic.

It is welcome that Asa Winstanley, author of Weaponising Anti-Semitism, which documents the scurrilous ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign waged against the left and Jeremy Corbyn, has signed the statement. Altogether 63 people and organisations have added their signature, representing a cross section of the Palestine solidarity and Jewish anti-Zionist spectrum. It is regrettable that noone in the Jewish Socialists Group signed the statement although people are welcome to add their signatures by commenting on the article or emailing me.

Although national PSC declined the opportunity to sign the statement activists from 7 PSC branches have added their signature in addition to two branches, Norwich and Cambridge. Mick Napier, founder member and former Chair of Scottish PSC has also signed.

Palestine Action Activists Picketing Court Hearing

Five activists from Palestine Action, including founders Huda Ammori and Richard Barnard as well five members of Jewish Network for Palestine have added their names as has John Tymon of Football Against Apartheid.

The Rev. Stephen Sizer - Victim of Justin Welby and the Zionists

Especially welcome is the Rev. Stephen Sizer, who was defrocked earlier in the year after false allegations of anti-Semitism from the Board of Deputies were upheld by a rigged Church of England tribunal. Justin Welby, the most right-wing Archbishop of Canterbury since George Carey, presided over the campaign against Stephen. Carey was later found to have covered up child abuse in the Church of England as Welby has also done.

The statement below conveys a very simple message. The cause of Palestine is an anti-racist one and when anti-Semites take up the cause we will act to isolate them in just the same way as we did Gilad Atzmon a decade ago.

Unlike the Zionists and the multiplicity of lobby groups such as the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism/CST/Board of Deputies etc. we will not tolerate racists in our ranks and we will call them out.

Speaking of which Joseph O’Neill’s Interfaith for Palestine based in Chester also needs to be ostracised. As this report of a speaking engagement by Alain Alameddine of One Democratic State Initiative shows,

Joseph O’Neill’s Interfaith for Palestine group is stuffed the most appalling bigots and anti-Semites. They invited me to speak a few years ago but when I took a look at their other speakers, who included holocaust denier Israel Shamir I declined.

Tony Greenstein