Jeremy Newmark accused of Theft and Embezzlement - Is this just more anti-Semitism?

From Perjury to Corruption – Newmark was an Ideal Representative of Zionism & the Jewish Labour Movement

According to the 'logic' employed by the Jewish Labour Movement in its hunt for anti-Semitism, since the Jew as a swindler or fraudster is an anti-Semitic stereotype (or trope as the Zionists love to say!) then since Jeremy Newmark is Jewish and the allegations are of fraud, he must be the victim of anti-Semitism!  It doesn't matter that they are true!

Well it couldn't have happened to a nicer man! The Audit Report the Jewish Chronicle obtained has shown, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Jeremy Newmark, Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement is as corrupt financially as he is politically. Back in March 2013 an Employment Tribunal Fraser v University College Union, when finding  that the UCU was not anti-Semitic when it adopted support for BDS, called Jeremy Newmark a liar, which in legal terms means a perjurer. The decision of the Employment Tribunal and Employment Judge Snelson was that:

‘we have rejected as untrue the evidence of Ms Ashworth and Mr Newmark concerning the incident at the 2008 Congress... Evidence given to us about booing, jeering and harassing of Jewish speakers at Congress debates was also false, as truthful witnesses on the Claimant’s side accepted. One painfully ill-judged example of playing to the gallery was Mr Newmark’s preposterous claim, in answer to the suggestion in cross-examination that he had attempted to push his way into the 2008 meeting, that a ‘pushy Jew’ stereotype was being applied to him.’ 

We got an inkling of today’s story in May last year when the Jewish Chronicle ran the story Jeremy Newmark in row over £3,000 taxi fares over taxi bills which Newmark ran up in Israel totalling £3000 which Newmark had tried to avoid, dating from 2013-14 .

Notwithstanding this, for the past two years, the Labour Party has treated Newmark as if he was God’s Vicar on Earth.  Only two weeks ago, in reaction to the victory of the Left in the National Executive elections and the replacement of Anne Black by Christian Shawcroft as Chair of Labour's Disputes Committee, Corbyn’s office met with Newmark to reassure him that those slated for expulsion as part of the anti-Semitism witch-hunt – Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth Ken Livingsone and myself – would be expelled.  

The internal audit 

It was a naked attempt to influence the outcome of pending disciplinary hearings.  Yet instead of sending this corrupt representative of the Israeli Labour Party away with a flea in his ear, Jeremy Corbyn quite disgracefully granted him an audience in order to put pressure on Labour's already prejudiced and grossly unfair disciplinary process.  This is despite the fact that the JLM has been unremittingly hostile to Corbyn, voting 92-4% in favour of Owen Smith in the 2016 leadership elections.  Unfortunately Corbyn felt he has to appease this creature.

The Jewish Chronicle scoop makes grim reading.  He was the antithesis of a socialist.  Newmark booked himself into VIP lounges at airports, drove a £46,000 hire car with his own personal number plate [CRO0K1] all at the expense of the Jewish Leadership Council whom he defrauded of thousands of pounds.  Despite this Seamus Milne advised that Corbyn lay down the red carpet.

The JLC under Newmark as CEO was a body consisting of the wealthiest members of the Jewish community in Britain – capitalists like Stanley Kalms, Micky Davies and Gerald Ronson.  It was also completely unaccountable and a pro-Israel 'charity'.

Newmark and his supporters at the General Election

Newmark is leader of the Labour group on Hertsmere Council.  As Labour candidate at the General Election he was only narrowly defeated in the Finchley and Golders Green constituency thanks to Jeremy Corbyn, despite his contempt for everything Corbyn stands for.  We were nearly landed with Jeremy Newmark MP.  The evidence against Newmark is damning: An internal audit showed that between 2006 and 203 Newmark defrauded the JLC of thousands of pounds.  Newmark:

* Billed thousands of pounds of “inappropriate” personal expenses to the JLC — including holidays in Israel and VIP transport for himself, his wife and their children

* Withdrew thousands of pounds of unaccounted for cash on JLC credit and debit cards while failing to provide receipts to justify this expenditure

* Leased a new BMW car worth £46,000, paid for by the JLC, to which he fixed his own personal number plate — and then attempted to have his wife insured on the vehicle

* Employed his wife’s fundraising and events consultancy firm, Secure Prospects, to run a JLC-backed educational project, paying the company more than £36,000 — in spite of concern expressed by the governors of two leading Jewish schools that the project was not being properly managed

* Misled communal charities, including the London Jewish Forum and Chabad, over the true cost of projects in an attempt to secure larger donations

* Attempted to cover up possible financial irregularities by blocking communication between the JLC and its auditors, after staff became suspicious about his conduct.

The Judgment of the London Central Employment Tribunal under Judge Snelson

The Audit Report suggested that Newmark showed “no adherence to JLC Expenses Policy”.  It also states: “JN has commonly withdrawn cash while abroad which has been difficult to monitor.” 

Tel Aviv's Hilton Hotel where Newmark and his family stayed for free

Newmark stayed at the Tel Aviv Hilton in August 2012 costing £3,628.52 for a one-week stay. Mr Newmark was joined by his wife and children for a mere £520.58 of personal expenses which were also added to the bill.

Newmark “could not provide any paperwork for the stay” and he was warned that putting personal expenses on the JLC credit card ‘would be seen as fraudulent’.  Newmark however disagreed. 

Of course one cannot be too critical of Newmark since a group set up by the Board of Deputies and the JLC – the Fair Play Campaign Group – which was dedicated to opposing support for the Palestinians – was also defrauded of thousands of pounds.  Arguably Newmark did the Palestinians a good service!!

Other minor misdemeanours included taking out a contract on a £46,000 car and trying to add his wife to the list of those insured to drive courtesy of the JLC. 

What was worse though was that the trustees of the JLC – which  was a charity – decided to cover up what Newmark had done because they judged it would cause too much reputational damage.  They therefore didn’t inform the police.  The trustees — including former chairman Sir Mick Davis, who is now chief executive of the Conservative Party, and property tycoon Leo Noé — accepted Mr Newmark’s resignation on the grounds of ill health after 7 years running the charity.  For all the gory details see Revealed: JLC audit reports Jeremy Newmark deceived it out of thousands of pounds.

The internal audit report found that ‘it “appears to be standard practice in the JLC to falsify information relating to finances”  See Secrecy over Jeremy Newmark leaves the JLC with much to answer  If we said that this was standard Zionist accounting practice we would be accused of, yes you got it, 'anti-Semitism'.

In The political fallout from the Newmark scandal will hit both Labour and Conservatives for once I agree with the Jewish Chronicle’s diminutive political editor Marcus Dysch (who threatened to sue me recently for calling him a racist) that ‘the repercussions for the JLM are likely to be serious.... the group will now be tainted by Mr Newmark’s involvement, perhaps irrevocably so.’

The JLM, which more than any other organisation, sponsored the false ‘anti-Semitism’ witch hunt against Black, Jewish and non-Jewish anti racist activists alike has now been shown to have been led by one of the most corrupt individuals to have entered the political  scene.  It is impossible to separate Newmark's financial from his political corruption and his racist Zionism.

 

The JLM, which is the British representative of the racist Israeli Labour Party, has refused to  speak out against the deportation of Black African refugees from Africa for fear of offending the ILP.   Indeed it has refused to oppose any aspect of Israel's brutal military occupation.  Its only role is as an apologist for Israel.  Dysch speaks about how ‘After last year’s Al Jazeera secret filming, and the Priti Patel affair, British Jews could ill afford another political scandal.’  However he is wrong.  It is not British Jews but the Zionist movement in Britain which should be ashamed.  

Dysch remarks on ‘How devastating that the behaviour of one man should bring such embarrassment and pain.’  To those of us who came into contact with this deeply unpleasant and dishonest man, the wonder is that it took so long to figure him out.  Newmark’s discomfiture will at least bring some comfort to those who were the target of his attacks.

For what its worth Newmark’s answer to the Report is that ‘it is easy to take things out of context and try to create a picture that is removed from reality.’  Newmark claimed that well after he left the JLC he was retained as a consultant.  The JLC however flatly deny that.

According to JC Editor Stephen Pollard, at least 10 times a year he was asked when he was going to expose Newmark. The long term damage is in the cover-up.  Instead of reporting Newmark to the Police for corruption, the JLC allowed him to resign on grounds of ill-health.  For once I agree with Pollard:

‘Imagine, for example, if the board of the JC found out that I had leased a £46,000 BMW and put my personal number plate on it, had taken my family with me on work trips and had repeatedly, over many years, taken cash out from an ATM using a JC corporate bank account and not supplied receipts for the spending of that cash. As it happens, I have cancer. But so what? And what relevance would any upset be to my wife and family? The only appropriate response would be to sack me and call the police.

Instead, the trustees of the JLC took it upon themselves to bury all the evidence, going out of their way to keep it secret and ensure that the community was not allowed to know the truth about one of its most prominent figures’

But it’s not simply the story of one corrupt Zionist.  The real lesson is how someone so fundamentally corrupt politically and morally was able to pull the wool over so many peoples’ eyes for so long.  The fact that he is Chair of the JLM speaks volumes about the rotten decaying corpse of Labour Zionism.

I have today written to my old friend, Crooked McNicol, General Secretary of the Labour Party, asking whether Newmark is going to be suspended like so many of us for bringing the Party into disrepute.  The other question is whether the JLC is now going to report Newmark to the Police for a thorough investigation since it would only be just for Jeremy to experience a little of what Ahed Tamimi and all the other Palestinian prisoners, children included, are going through. 

I suggest that Jewish people, especially those living in London, should make an immediate complaint of fraud to the Metropolitan Police.  There is no Statute of Limitations when it comes to fraud.  

Perhaps we should set up a Change.org petition calling for Newmark to be prosecuted?

Tony Greenstein

Jewish Chronicle ‘Journalist’ Marcus Dysch Threatens to sue Tony Greenstein for Libel

Dysch Doesn’t Like Being Called a Racist – I don’t like being Called an anti-Semite!

  

Help Me Defend This Action Against the Zionist Liars and Defamers

Well I woke up today to be greeted by a friendly message from Marcus Dysch threatening me with libel.  Which immediately presented me with a problem.  Having gone to bed rather late, I didn’t get up till 11.30 and therefore I missed the 11 am deadline.  I therefore had no choice but to respond to the effect that wild horses or even a free lunch with JC Editor Stephen Pollard wouldn’t persuade me to delete the said tweets.

Mr Greenstein You have until 11am this morning to delete your libellous tweets calling me a racist. If they are not gone at that point I will instruct a lawyer. Marcus

Dysch is a journalist who takes a perverse pride in seeing how many mistakes he can cram into one article. In Labour activists to picket party’s Jew-hate hearings which is not on the JC’s  site, Dysch excelled himself.  First there were two photographs of Moshe Machover and Jackie Walker in the article which were captioned Tony Greenstein and Jackie Walker!

Dysch is the most poisonous member of the Jewish Chronicle’s staff.  A die hard Zionist, smear and libel are his only talents.  Compared to him, his predecessor Martin Bright was a man of the Enlightenment.  Most journalists, even those on the JC I have dealt with usually make some attempt to contact you before going into print.  Not so Dysch. 

It would seem that Marcus Dysch, the Jewish Chronicle’s sour-faced Political Editor is a sensitive soul underneath.  He can dish it out but he can’t take it.  Accusations and insinuations of anti-Semitism are his stock in trade but he squeals when accused of being a racist.  Dysch apparently objects to this and similar tweets

Dysch describes me as 'noxious' for criticising Louise Ellman - a supporter of Israeli child abuse

In his article in last week's Jewish Chronicle Labour activists to picket party’s Jew-hate hearings Dysch referred to proposed disciplinary hearings against Marc Wadsworth, Jackie Walker and myself.  After I sent a letter to the editor, the headline was changed to Suspended Labour activists plan to picket party’s antisemitism disciplinary hearings although the content remains the same including a reference to ‘Jew-hatred.’  Needless to say it was littered with his usual mistakes.

it seems there's something Dysch doesn't want me to read!!

In the same article Dysch referred to the bogus 'International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance' definition of anti-Semitism as the International Holocaust Memorial Alliance.  Things could only get better.

Dysch alleged that I had been suspended for ‘writing offensive blogs’ about Louise Ellman MP.  Not so.  My first blog on Ellman was written on 20^th June 2016 whereas I was suspended on March 18^th 2016.  I assume that even Dysch can count beyond 3 months. 

Dysch also stated as fact that Marc Wadsworth had been suspended for ‘verbally abusing’ Ruth Smeeth MP.  Not so, this was an allegation.  People are still innocent until proven guilty.  This 'mistake' of course is perfectly understandable.  Dysch is  more at home with an Israeli ‘justice’ system in which the Military Courts achieve conviction rates of 99.74% (only Palestinians of course, Jewish settlers get to go before civilian courts). I doubt if even Stalin achieved that rate of success and Hitler certainly didn’t. 

Dysch should though be congratulated for spelling our 3 names right. But then again it's possible a sub-editor corrected them.

Dysch's lie that my attack on Ellman was because she was Jewish rather than that she was a supporter of Israeli abuse of Palestinian children

Already Dysch and the Jewish Labour Movement have the knives out for Yasmin Dar, the new Asian member of the NEC

In another article Dysch wrote that ‘veteran Jewish Labour MP Louise Ellman had been racially abused in blog posts written by Mr Greenstein.’  This is not only a lie it is racist.  It assumes that all Jewish people are Zionists and therefore if you criticise anyone who is Jewish you are automatically anti-Semitic.  I said nothing about Ellman’s ‘race’ nor did I mention that she was Jewish. Being Jewish was irrelevant. The fact that she was a Zionist was significant. 

Perhaps I’ve racially abused the non-Jewish Joan Ryan MP too for making similar comments? What I criticised Ellman for was her behaviour in a debate on Israeli abuse of Palestinian children in January 2016 when 3 times she intervened to defend the Israeli military.  Dysch, is incapable of reporting such simple facts.

It would be churlish to go through all Dysch’s mistakes and malevolence and it is hard to distinguish one from the other. There used to be a tradition that newspapers didn’t mix fact and comment. It is a tradition that Dysch is oblivious to. 

Dysch simply made up a statement by PSC Director Sarah Colborne accusing Palestinians opposed to Israel's attack on Gaza as being anti-Semitic

Dysch has become obsessed with the possibility that it may prove more difficult expelling Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth and myself for ‘anti-Semitism’ because there is no evidence that we are anti-semitic and there is a limit to even the inventive skills of McNicol's hacks.  As the article below shows, Dysch is not beneath inventing a quote or two when it suits his purpose (such as a lack of anything to write).

Dysch was severely censured for making up an 'anti-semitic' quote from PSC Director Sarah Colborne

The JLM are shameless - fearing that there is no evidence to justify expulsion they are putting overt pressure on the NEC & Corbyn to ensure that Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth & Tony Greenstein are expelled

What we are seeing is a growing desperation by the Zionists.  Only today Jeremy Newmark, the perjurer from the Jewish Labour Movement was visiting Jeremy Corbyn's office to put the pressure on to ensure that Jackie, Marc and myself are expelled.  Newmark knows the evidence doesn't stack up so he is trying to exert naked political power.  The fact that Christine Shawcroft was my silent witness at my investigaative meeting apparently is seen as relevant by these people. 

It is essential that Corbyn's office give a full account of what transpired today and dispel the impression that the JLM, the British branch of the racist Israeli Labour Party, is being bought off at the expense of expelling anti-racists from the Labour Party.

Some of my more recent posts involving Dysch include:

Why Am I Being Expelled? According to the Jewish Chronicle for Criticising Louise Ellman, Labour MP

A Comedy of Errors from the Jewish Chronicle – Marcus Dysch in Another Fine Mess

Why do we tolerate Labour MPs Joan Ryan, Louise Ellman and Ian Austin - all of whom support Israel’s abuse and torture of Palestinian children?

Palestinian Children are Caged like Animals with the support of Labour's Despicable MPs Louise Ellman and Joan Ryan

 Is it anti-Semitic to describe Ellman& Ryan as Israeli MPs? Zionism & Dual Loyalty

Suspended Labour activists plan to picket party’s antisemitism disciplinary hearings

Up till today Dysch had resisted the temptation to respond to me directly.  Silence was clearly the better part of valour.  For example I wrote to him on the 18^th December 2017 in response to a letter he had sent to a good friend of mine:

Mr Dysch,

XXXX has kindly forwarded me a copy of your email exchange.  I have a few comments.

You are much mistaken if you think I have questioned Louise Ellman's loyalty to this country.  I am not concerned with loyalty to states or nations.  I prefer to think of adherence to certain universal values such as human rights and anti-racism as being of greater import.  Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel and I am neither a patriot nor a scoundrel.

My jocular reference to Ellman as being the MP for Tel Aviv South is on a par with my reference to the non-Jewish Joan Ryan as the MP for Jerusalem Central.  In the days of the Apartheid regime in South Africa, we called John Carlisle, the Tory MP for Luton North, the MP for Pretoria.  Perhaps you think that too was racist?

Carlisle's allegiances were with the South African Apartheid State and Ms Ellman and Ryan's allegiances are with the Israeli apartheid state.  There is nothing, contrary to your silly assertion in the Jewish Chronicle, in the least anti-semitic about such an accusation.

In a week when a double amputee in Gaza, posing no threat to anyone, was murdered by an Israeli sniper with all the legal impunity that Israel grants its military killers, it is right and proper to call out MPs like Ellman for their support of Israel's egregious human rights violations and its   normative racism.

I know of course that nothing Israel does will disturb the conscience of an apologist for Israel's crimes such as you. The murder I described above or Liebermann's attack on the Arabs of Wadi Ara this week, that they do not belong, probably passed you by.  As a Zionist these are things to keep within the family.

I note that you referred to me as 'noxious'.  I don't believe that we have met so what you are really referring to are my opinions.  There was a time when Jewish Chronicle columnists, of the calibre of Chaim Bermant and TR Fyvel stuck to criticising someone's argument rather than attacking the messenger.  I realise that it that this would be rather difficult for you and so the making of personal insults is a necessary substitute.

Please be assured though that I take being attacked by a racist journalist for being 'noxious' as a compliment.  Long may I be harmful to journalistic toe rags such as yourself.

Kind regards

Tony Greenstein

As you can see I had already called Dysch a racist and I have no doubt that in his uncritical support for all of Israel’s acts that is the only fair description of him.

>>Mr XXXX

Many thanks for your email.

Given your repetition of Mr Greenstein’s suggestion that Mrs Ellman’s loyalty to this country is in question due to her comments on Israel, I can only assume you too are overly familiar with the sort of antisemitism you bizarrely appear to be attributing to me.

And I did mean noxious, which by any definition can mean “very unpleasant”. It could just as easily be applied in your own case.

Best

Marcus

But I have something to ask of you dear readers

Just over a month ago, I launched a crowdfunding appeal for £25,000.  So far it has reached just over £7,000 – 28% of the target.  My appeal was to fund a libel action against the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism and also to bring an Injunction against Labour’s Crooked General Secretary Iain McNicol.

The latter task was accomplished successfully and without any cost (Crooked McNicol funded it via a costs order!).  It has thrown the expulsions of Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth and myself into disarray.  The launching of proceedings against the CAA is imminent.  But now I need to defend myself from this racist toe rag of a journalist who is suing me.  For that I will need to obtain further legal advice and in the area of libel law that does not come cheap.  If Dysch were to succeed on some legal technicality then it would not just  be me who is affected.  Dysch will have access to unlimited funding from Israeli Minister Gilad Erdan’s slush fund.  So that is why I ask you to do 2 things.

1.      IF you can afford it please make a donation

2.     

      Whether you can afford it or not please share and circulate my appeal widely in the movement and on social media  We cannot allow the Zionists to silence us.

If you are able to make a donation please click my Crowdfunding Appeal

More on Dysch

If Dysch seriously believed I was responsible for removing Anne Black then he is more stupid than he looks

The original post by Dysch attacking Corbyn for allegedly associating with a holocust denier also said that the massacre of over 100 Palestinian women and children at Deir Yassin was simply an 'allegation' - this was later corrected but without mentioning that the article had been corrected - a breach of journalistic ethics until Asa Winstanley pointed this out to Pollard

In an article attacking Jeremy Corbyn, Dysch referred to the Deir Yassin massacre as 'alleged' - even David Ben Gurion apologised for the cold blooded murder of over 100 Palestinian civilians but to Dysch, this was just an allegation.  JC Editor Stephen Pollard, after criticism, deleted the word 'alleged' but failed to explain at the bottom of the article, as is good journalistic practice, that an alteration had been made until it was pointed out to him that screen prints had already been taken

A Comedy of Errors from the Jewish Chronicle – Marcus Dysch in Another Fine Mess

Jewish Chronicle Report of Labour Against the Witch-hunt takes Fake News to Trump Levels

Dysch is a Zionist clown who confuses Moshe Machover with me - but at least he got Jackie Walker right!  

The Jewish Chronicle under Stephen Pollard, a former editor of the Daily Express, has been the main vehicle spearheading the fake anti-semitism witch-hunt.  Pollard is a member of the cold-war Henry Jackson society.  He is a far-Right Zionist whose concern over anti-semitism is entirely cynical.  Pollard has no hesitation in supporting anti-Semites like the Polish MEP Michal Kaminski on the condition that they are supportive of the Israeli state.

Debate between Pollard and Freedland in which Pollard supports a far-Right anti-Semitic Polish MEP Michal Kaminski on the grounds that he is an ardent supporter of Israel - today over 90% of fascist and anti-Semitic parties support Zionism and hate Jews

Marcus Dysch is the Jewish Chronicle’s Political Editor and a devoted Zionist.  Dysch seems to have chosen the wrong career.  He would have been much better suited to creative writing and fiction than news, which requires at least a modicum of truth.  His latest effort is an article ‘Labour activists to picket party’s Jew-hate hearings.’ 

What I wondered was a ‘Jew-hate’ hearing.  Is it something Jackie Walker and me are expected to go to where members of Labour’s National Constitutional Committee can tell us how much they hate us?  Hardly seems worthwhile going to let alone picketing.  Maybe our placards should say ‘Jew haters out of the Compliance Unit, McNicol out of Southside’ (Labour Party HQ).

Dysch and Pollard

Laurel and Hardy

Compared to Dysch, the previous Political Editor of the JC, Martin Bright, was a paragon of virtue.  In line with editor Stephen Pollard’s determination to take the JC down market and at the same time reduce its readership to the bare minimum, Dysch has decided that he will take to inventing the news.

The two photographs accompanying his piece are headed ‘Tony Greenstein and Jackie Walker’.  However the photographs themselves are those of Moshe Machover and Jackie Walker.  I guess having got one of them right Dysch will be perfectly happy .  After all 50% is better than nothing!

Or perhaps Dysch was subconsciously trying to pay me a compliment by confusing me with Professor Machover. 

Dysch alleges we are fighting charges of ‘Jew hatred.’  Not true we are challenging fake allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’ as defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance i.e. hatred of Zionism and Israel’s racist state.  Dysch however can’t even get the IHRA right.  He describes it as the International Holocaust Memorial Alliance. 

Marcus Dysch - not one of the great intellects in the Zionist firmament

The nice thing about the Jewish Chronicle is that it doesn’t pretend to be neutral.  The idea that there might be a Chinese wall between comment and news is quite a quaint concept at the JC.  Fact and fiction are mixed up with commentary with gay abandon.

Thus Dysch writes that Marc Wadsworth ‘was suspended from the party in July 2016 after verbally abusing Ruth Smeeth, a Jewish MP.’  No Mr Dysch, this is an allegation.  It is not yet proven.  Indeed film of the incident proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there was no abuse.  In most areas of the world you are innocent until proven guilty but at the house journal of Britain’s Zionists it is the opposite way round.  Dysch probably thought he was on the West Bank when he wrote the article and thought this was the same as Israeli style military justice where there is a 99.74% chance of being convicted.

But what is one lie amongst many?

Dysch also manages to get the date of my proposed hearing wrong, it was supposed to be the 26^th not the 25^th.  It is also untrue that I was suspended ‘for writing offensive blogs about Louise Ellman, another Jewish MP.’  The blog in question, Time to Deselect Louise Ellman MP for Liverpool Riverside and Tel Aviv North – Apologist for Israel's Occupation Forces was written on 20^th June 2016 whereas I was suspended on March 18^th 2016.  Predicting the future is not one of the things that Crooked McNicol’s Compliance Unit is best known for.

Join Labour Against the Witchhunt and help organise a meeting in your CLP against McNicol's attack on supporters of Palestine

It is also untrue that we debated whether saying the United States is ‘servile’ to Israel is anti-Semitic.  It was accepted by virtually everyone at the meeting bar Gerry Downing, who came up with the phrase and Ian Donovan that of course it was anti-Semitic and also ludicrous.

What Dysch goes to great lengths to avoid telling his readers though is that the first half of the meeting was devoted to telling a small anti-Semitic group, Socialist Fight, that they were unwelcome in Labour Against the Witchhunt.  The reason being that they confuse the number of rich Jews in America with the reasons for American foreign policy namely its support for Israel.  Socialist Fight aren’t ‘Jew haters’ but their politics are without doubt anti-Semitic.

Looking on the bright side however, it is true that Dysch not only got the day of the meeting right but also the fact that Jackie and myself chaired the meeting!  He also correctly reported that Moshe Machover had been elected as Honorary President of LAW.  In the circumstances Dysch should be given a medal for at least getting some things right!  I therefore thought it only right that I write a letter congratulating him on these things.

Tony Greenstein 

Marcus Dysch,

Political and Creative Writing Editor,

The Jewish Chronicle,

28 St. Albans Lane
London NW11 7QE

mdysch@thejc.com

Dear Marcus,

Please allow me to congratulate you on your most recent article for the Jewish Chronicle, ‘Labour activists to picket party’s Jew-hate hearings.’  (12.1.18.).  It was, for you, a model of accuracy and perspicacity.

Not only did you get the date of the meeting of Labour Against the Witch-hunt correct but you also accurately reported the fact that Jackie Walker and myself chaired the meeting.  Indeed, you even managed to get right the fact that Moshe Machover was elected as Honorary President of LAW.

Unfortunately, from there on in it was all downhill. The caption to the photographs accompanying the article said ‘Tony Greenstein and Jackie Walker’.  Unfortunately the photograph that was supposed to be me was in fact Moshe Machover.  I realise that compared to some of your howlers this was small beer but I thought I’d mention it all the same.

Similarly the Zionist IHRA definition of ‘anti-Semitism’ stands for International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (not International Holocaust Memorial Alliance). 

I know that you will think me churlish and pedantic but I was not suspended for ‘writing offensive blogs’ about Louise Ellman MP, the despicable supporter of the Israeli military’s child abuse. My blog Time to Deselect Louise Ellman MP for Liverpool Riverside and Tel Aviv North – Apologist for Israel's Occupation Forces was written on 20^th June 2016 whereas I was suspended on March 18^th 2016.  To the best of my recollection, June usually comes after March in the calendar year unless there is a new Zionist calendar. I am also told that she is the MP for Tel Aviv South not North (as well as the part-time MP for Liverpool Riverside).

I realise that you made your mind up long ago that we were all guilty but Marc Wadsworth was not suspended from the Labour Party ‘after verbally abusing’ the detestable Ruth Smeeth MP.  This was an allegation that Marc denies so any journalist worth his salt would have put the words ‘alleged’ before your phrase.  I realise that in Israel’s military courts you are guilty until proven innocent (and just 0.26% of the accused are found not guilty) but in Britain the burden of proof is still on the prosecution to prove guilt.

I also note your curious header ‘(Labour) party’s Jew-hate hearings.’ Does this mean that when Jackie and I attend our hearings people are going to tell us how much they hate us because we are Jewish? I realise that you find the concept of journalistic ethics somewhat alien but could I remind you that the allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’ against us are denied?

You also got the date of my hearing and that of Marc Wadsworth wrong, but what is one mistake amongst so many?

Gerry Downing was not excluded because his website carried ‘anti-Zionist conspiracy theories ‘.  He and Socialist Fight were excluded because they were anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists.  Anti-Semitism, White Supremacy and White Zionism aka Richard Spencer we leave to you and your Zionist bedfellows.

Can I also remind you that Jackie Walker was not suspended for comments about Jews being the chief financiers of the slave trade?  I realise, following the teachings of a certain Mr Goebbels that the more often you repeat a lie the easier it is to believe it, but the fact that Jackie did not include one word in what was a private conversation does not mean she subscribes to the view that Jews were the main  financial sponsors of slavery. Jews, being White, played a significant part but they were by no means the only people involved in this deathly trade.  Jackie was suspended for being a Black Jewish anti-Zionist.

Apart from these minor errors of fact your article was a model of accuracy.  You were also right to say that Professor Moshe Machover was reinstated to the Party but wrong to say there were any ‘concerns’ about the article he wrote.  It was a model of historical accuracy.

I never thought the day would come when I would begin to miss your predecessor as Political Editor, Martin Bright.  I hope you won’t take offence at my suggestion but have you ever considered writing fiction?  Creative writing can, I am told, be very fulfilling, personally and career wise.  I suspect with your imagination you would be a best seller.

With kind regards

Tony Greenstein

Vice-Chair