5,000 people have called on the Charity Commission to Deregister the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism – let’s make it 10,000 by next week

On Sunday the Far-Right CAA held a demonstration calling Jeremy Corbyn a racist and anti-Semite and Labour a racist party

The Charity Commission has clear guidelines in respect of charities, campaigning and political activity. In their Guidance Campaigning and political activity by charities at a glance, under key points, there are a number of bullet points that the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism are in breach of.  In particular:

There is a legal requirement that political campaigning, or political activity... must be undertaken by a charity only in the context of supporting the delivery of its charitable purposes. Unlike other forms of campaigning, it must not be the continuing and sole activity of the charity’.

148 references to Corbyn are on the CAA site - not one of them is complimentary

The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism are going to find their attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, as a racist and anti-Semite difficult if not impossible to justify.  There is little doubt that the main activity of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism is in defaming and attacking anti-Zionists and supporters of the Palestinians of which they see Jeremy Corbyn as a prime example.

The key legal requirement is that ‘in the political arena, a charity must stress its independence and ensure that any involvement it has with political parties is balanced.’

A glance at the CAA website demonstrates that the attention of the CAA is focussed almost exclusively on the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn in particular.

Maureen Lipman has now changed from Labour to Tories twice already!

A search today reveals 23 occasions when Theresa May was featured in articles, none of them critical, quite the opposite.  

Contrast this with Jeremy Corbyn.  There are 148 articles which mention him, none of them complimentary.  For example article no. 1 states

‘Jeremy Corbyn reacts to CAA demonstration by disgracefully dismissing Maureen Lipman’s speech against him.’   What possible public benefit or charitable purpose is served by this tendentious article?

The article Update on the national demonstration at 2pm this Sunday, calling on Labour to hold Jeremy Corbyn to account is an example of its measured and neutral tone:

‘Under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party has become a safe haven for racists. He is at home amongst them, having spent his political career seeking out and giving succour to Holocaust deniers, genocidal antisemitic terrorist groups and a litany of Jew-haters.’

How can this possibly be considered to be politically neutral or unbiased?  What possible purpose is served by this attack on Jeremy Corbyn?

Gideon Falter, far-Right Chair of the CAA speaks at their rally of about 200 people

 Its article ‘J'Accuse’ is similarly worded:

‘ “We accuse the Labour Party, its MPs and institutions, of complicity with and promotion of antisemitic racism. ... We are at an historic moment: there is no hiding place for them any longer. The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn is now a racist party and to be silent now is to condone. We call on all Labour MPs and members to act and support our disciplinary complaint against Jeremy Corbyn. This is the point of no return: future generations are watching.”

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Gideon Falter, Chairman of Campaign Against Antisemitism, said: “Under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party has been seized by racists. Jeremy Corbyn is at home amongst them, having spent his political career seeking out and giving his backing to Holocaust deniers, genocidal antisemitic terrorist groups, wild antisemitic conspiracy theorists and a litany of Jew-haters. This is the point of no return: Britain must stand up for its Jewish community against the racists in control of the Labour Party...’

Not only is Jeremy Corbyn a racist but so is the Labour Party as a whole.  And this is a politically neutral charity!  Now that William Shawcross, the Islamaphobe who was Chair of the Charity Commission, has departed we would expect this complaint, a successor to the one submitted last year to be quickly dealt with.

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION CALLING ON TH E CHARITY COMMISSION TO DEREGISTER THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM

We have over 5,000 signatures now.  In one week it will be delivered to the Charity Commission.  Let’s make it 10,000.

Tony Greenstein

Fancy that – Maureen Lipman Once Again Declares that She is Withdrawing All Support from the Labour Party

Pundits are asking whether Maureen Lipman Will Announce that she is Abandoning Labour for a Third Time 

This was Maureen Lipman in 2014 under Ed Miliband

And in 2017 it was Corbyn who had made Lipman a Tory not Ed Miliband after all!

Well I must say I was slightly taken aback when I read the Daily Mirror headline Maureen Lipman says 'Corbyn made me a Tory' during Labour anti-Semitism protest and calls for his resignation.  

Surely this can’t be the same Maureen Lipman who declared, over 3 years ago, that she could no longer support the Labour Party because Ed Miliband had supported a Palestinian state.  [Maureen Lipman drops long-standing support for Labour party, Guardian 29.10.14.]  This was despite Labour having its first ever Jewish leader, Ed Miliband, hardly a sign of antisemitism.

Despite having a Jewish leader Lipman could not support Ed Miliband's position on a Palestinian state

It would appear that in the interval between Ed Miliband standing down and Corbyn being elected, Maureen Lipman once again became a socialist

So the first time Maureen abandoned her support for the Labour Party because it supported a Palestinian state and the second time Maureen abandoned the Labour Party because it was anti-Semitic.  Could it be that in Maureen Lipman’s eyes, support for the Palestinians is equal to anti-Semitism?  After all that is what we have been saying all along.

It was only last week that Jonathans Arkush and Goldstein of the Board of Deputies and Jewish Leadership Council bleated that ‘We are told that our concerns are faked, and done at the command of Israel and/or Zionism (whatever that means); that anti-Semitism is merely "criticism of Israel"; that we call any and all criticism of Israel "anti-Semitic."

Well Maureen Lipman is proof of the fact that to Zionists, criticism of Israel and Zionism and Israel IS the same as anti-Semitism.  Of course we know that already because no less a personage than the Israeli Labour Party's former Foreign Minister Abba Eban declared

that ‘One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. Anti-Zionism is merely the new anti-Semitism.’

I look forward to Maureen withdrawing her support from the Labour Party for a third time when a suitable occasion occurs and I know we can count on the popular press to print this world shattering revelation as if it were one of the saddest days in the life of Maureen Lipman.

In fact Lipman is a died-in-the-wool anti-Arab racist with the mentality of a typical colonialist.  On 13 July 2006, in a debate on the BBC's This Week, she argued that "human life is not cheap to the Israelis, and human life on the other side is quite cheap actually, because they strap bombs to people and send them to blow themselves up’ 

The idea that life is cheap to the natives, that they do not mourn as we do, has historically always been a justification for the slaughter and genocide of native peoples.  They don’t feel pain like we do.   It justifies the attitude of Israeli soldiers for example who consider it a sport to shoot Arab demonstrators.

Tony Greenstein

A letter I have sent to the Independent tonight on receiving news that once again Lipman is betraying Labour

Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Letters Editor,

The Independent

191, Marsh Wall

London E14 9RS

Dear Sir,

I was interested to learn that Maureen Lipman has ‘identified with a placard reading “Corbyn made me a Tory”’ at a demonstration against ‘anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party last Sunday. [Hundreds join demonstration accusing Jeremy Corbyn of 'broken promise' on antisemitism, 8^th February].

Could this possibly be the same Maureen Lipman who was reported as saying that she could not vote for the ‘Chuka Harman Burnham Hunt Balls brigade’ in 2014 as a result of the decision of the Labour Party’s only Jewish leader Ed Miliban to support the recognition of a Palestinian state?  No doubt Miliband was also an anti-Semite! [Guardian, 29.10.14 Maureen Lipman drops long-standing support for Labour party

Perhaps Ms Lipman can tell us if she intends to abandon her support for the Labour Party a third time?

Yours faithfully,

Tony Greenstein