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7 May 2026

The Manufacture of an ‘Anti-Semitism’ Crisis

Open Letter to the Green Party Council and Members - The anti-Semitism smear that ruined Corbyn’s Labour now targets the Greens Polanski must not repeat Jeremy Corbyn’s mistakes

Institutional racism in Met ‘worse now’ than after Macpherson inquiry, says former officer

Yesterday it was announced that 100 police officers were to be deployed in Jewish areas of London to prevent the non-existent anti-Semitism crisis from growing. The only benefit of this will be that there are less police officers to harass Black people in other parts of London!




Never before have police deployed to stop racist attacks on a community. Usually they have increased the threat. It is not for nothing that after the Stephen Lawrence murder the Metropolitan turned their attention, not to catching the killers but to infiltrating the defence campaign.

After a long campaign the MacPherson Inquiry branded the Met institutionally racist. Baroness Casey found years later that the Met hadn’t changed in the slightest. If anything they had become worse.

As crisis and war grow in the Middle East with Israel’s war on the Lebanese people accompanying the Genocide in Gaza and the War on Iran, so consent is being manufactured for British support for Israel and Zionism. It is not enough that we have been supplying weapons to the IDF.

Almost immediately Keir Starmer held a press conference to announce that demonstrations against genocide in Gaza were connected with the knife attack in Golders Green. Not even the slightest evidence was put forward to justify his naked exploitation of the attack.

Opinion: Unbelievably, Keir Starmer can now be compared to Boris Johnson

The far more likely explanation for any rise in anti-Semitism, is the determination of the Board of Deputies to claim that British Jews support the Genocide in  Gaza. Starmer, who as Paul Holden showed, had gained the leadership of the Labour Party through outright fraud, was once again demonstrating his amazing talent for being more dishonest than Boris Johnson, which is quite an achievement.

The contrast between the attacks on Muslims and Jews is little less than astounding. Last year twenty-seven mosques in the UK were attacked between July and October. The Peacehaven Mosque which is just along the sea from Brighton was burnt to the ground. There was no press hysteria, no Starmer press conference. A few reports, mostly local and that was it.

Brighton & Hove Reform's Halloween Poster

There were certainly no special police units assembled, in Brighton or elsewhere. Racism against Black and Brown people is a feature of life. The party likely to win the most council seats is the overtly racist Reform party many of whose members are simply fascists. Deportation is on their agenda as are the threats of ICE-type squads.

The press and media have descended into an orgy of confected hysteria in their desire to exploit and manipulate Jewish fears of attack. It is not the attacks themselves but the hysteria of the press, police and politicians which is driving Jewish fears. Talk of British Jews going to Israel by Zionists deliberately compounds the stupidity. There is nowhere in the world that is more dangerous to Jews than Israel.

Three people are stabbed every day in London. Over one thousand people a year, of all religions and none. None of these ever warrant a national prime ministerial TV address. But when two Jewish people are stabbed it is as if it is Kristallnacht again. If it had been two Muslims instead of one who had been stabbed the chances of Starmer going on prime time TV to condemn Zionist attacks on Muslims are about minus zero.

Tell Mama documented 3,680 offline incidents in 2024, which includes assaults and vandalism, representing a 72% increase compared to two years prior. Cases of physical assault against Muslims rose by 73% between 2023 and 2024 whereas physical assaults against Jews are extremely low. The manipulation of ‘anti-Semitism’ incidents against Jews only occurs because the statistics include opposition to Israel and support for Palestine in them. They are blatantly manipulated.

In the y/e March 2025 there was a 6% increase in race hate crimes and a 3% increase in religious hate crimes recorded by the police (excluding the MPS). There were falls in the other 3 strands, sexual orientation (down 2%), disability (down 8%) and transgender (down 11%)

There was a 19% increase in religious hate crimes targeted at Muslims (excluding the MPS), with a spike in these offences seen at the time of the Southport murders and subsequent disorder

Labour's Svengali style anti-Semitic cartoon

Abdul Wali Mamozai, a Muslim man, was murdered in Bracknell on 27 April, a few days before a mentally ill man wounded two Jewish people — and one Muslim man — in London. Yet we heard next to nothing about this.

Today is the day that people vote in the local elections. Reform are tipped to win the most seats, Labour is heading towards a meltdown, the Tories will also lose out and the Greens are expected to win 500 seats.

Daily Mail's anti-Semitic caricature

That is why the Tory press has been going hell for leather on the theme that the Green Party is anti-Semitic and in the words of the paper that loved Hitler, Polanski’s Greens Are A ‘Party Of Poison’. The Daily Mail, like all the papers, is seriously worried about ‘anti-Semitism’.

Times' Antisemitic cartoon

Of course that hasn’t stopped The Times, Mail, Sun & Telegraph from publishing anti-Semitic caricatures of Zack Polanski with all the features of typical Nazi style cartoons. All of this is quite understandable because anti-Semites have always been the main supporters of Zionism and at the root of all the concern about anti-Semitism is support for Israel, i.e. British foreign policy in the Middle East.

Times' Antisemitic cartoon

Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, who is supposed to be a civil servant, couldn’t resist joining in the fray with an Open Letter to Polanski because the latter had condemned the fact that the Police had kicked in the head 10 times the person who is alleged to have stabbed people.

The Police had previously not disclosed in their public relations that the person who had stabbed two Jewish people had also stabbed a Muslim man earlier in the morning. The guy had mental health problems too which casts doubt over whether anti-Semitism was the main motive.

"Any comment on the man who raped a Sikh woman solely because he thought she was Muslim?" one social media user said in reply to Starmer on social media, referring to a case which was concluded in April, with the attacker receiving a life sentence.

Similar questions were put to Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, who, in a recent interview with LBC host Nick Ferrari, appeared to imply that attacks on Black communities attract greater attention than those on the Jewish community. Badenoch at the same time as advocating the banning of pro-Palestine marches was all in favour of Tommy Robinson’s fash fest. 

This aspect didn’t feature strongly in the newspaper coverage either because it was one of those inconvenient facts.

What we are seeing is a rerun of the Corbyn playbook with false anti-Semitism smears now being directed at the Green Party. Unfortunately the Green Party and Polanski show every sign of following in the footsteps of Jeremy Corbyn and treating in good faith the allegations of bad faith actors.

That is why I wrote an article for Al Jazeera on The anti-Semitism smear that ruined Corbyn’s Labour now targets the Greens warning that ‘Zack Polanski must not repeat Jeremy Corbyn’s mistakes’. As people will know I was suspended on vague allegations of ‘documented’ anti-Semitism on April 16. Well known film producer Mark Adderley has been suspended as have about 30 other Council candidates. Instead of defending its candidates the Green Party is showing every sign of following Corbyn into the wilderness.

In the article I describe the genesis of the false anti-Semitism smears now being directed at the Green Party. Why now?  Because the Green Party has gone from being a fringe party that no one took seriously to a major player. It also has radical policy on the genocide in Palestine and the threat of an overt ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion was enough to trigger the fury of Israel’s defenders in the British press.

I have also written an Open Letter to the Green Party Council calling out their suspension of myself and the Green Party’s Council Candidates. I suspect that the sudden attacks on the Green Party will not have a great effect today. That was also what happened with Corbyn. Despite the initial ‘anti-Semitism’ attacks Corbyn went on to win the largest swing to Labour in 2017 that Labour had achieved since 1945.

However the Zionists and their establishment allies didn’t give up. They simply doubled down and faced with a compliant Corbyn who soon began to sing from the same hymn sheet as them the anti-Semitism attack did the trick in 2019 coupled with sabotage from the likes of Brexit Secretary Starmer.

The Green Party’s only chance will be to fight back and resist the attempts to paint them as anti-Semites because of their support for the Palestinians. Whether they will do so remains to be seen.

Tony Greenstein 

Open Letter to the Green Party Council and Members

Thursday 6 May 2026

Dear Friends,

Later today voters will be going to the polls. We shall see whether or not the vile anti-Semitic attacks of the media has had any effect on the forecast of 500 Green gains.

Of one thing we can be sure. The ‘anti-Semitism’ attacks on the Green Party will continue until they are challenged. If Jeremy Corbyn’s electoral success in 2017 is anything to go by, these same bad faith actors will redouble their efforts.

Although the pretext for their attacks is ‘anti-Semitism’ we can be sure that this is merely a pretext for other concerns such as their wealth and power. It is important that the Green Party learns the lessons of Corbyn’s period as Leader. That was why I wrote an article for Al Jazeera, which was published yesterday. I wrote:

Corbyn never once questioned the good faith of his Zionist accusers. Instead, he acted as their messenger, repeatedly apologised, promised to do better, and threw friends under the bus, eventually echoing his opponents’ narrative.... he even said that anyone who denied the anti-Semitism “problem” in Labour was “contributing to the problem”.

Corbyn’s strategy of appeasement... was a disaster. His opponents simply demanded more and more concessions. Eventually, Corbyn became a victim of the witch-hunt... and he, too, was expelled.

I have been suspended on the basis of 11 words: ‘Documented history of antisemitism, including court decisions and recent terrorism charges.’ Despite repeatedly writing asking for clarification, none has been forthcoming. As the Public Interest Law Centre wrote on 1 May:

There are serious concerns regarding the lack of due process, failures to adhere to the Party’s own internal policies and procedures, and the failure to properly particularise the allegations made against him. In particular, the complaints have not been set out with sufficient clarity or supported by evidence. Mr Greenstein is therefore clearly being prevented from a fair and informed opportunity to respond.

No evidence has been forthcoming, I have not been given a copy of the complaint nor the identity of the complainant, still less the documentation referred to. In short the process is Kafkaesque.

What is also clear is that the complaint is not based on anything I have done. It is purely political and that is why it is inappropriate to keep it confidential. That protects my accusers not me.

The same goes for the Council candidates who have been suspended and thrown to the wolves. I referred in particular to the case against Mark Adderley in my Open Letter to Zack Polanski.

The allegations against Mark are based on the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism rather than the Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism, even though both are Green Party policy. The IHRA conflates anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Its principal author, American academic Kenneth Stern, in testimony to Congress in November 2017, wrote that

The definition was not drafted, and was never intended, as a tool to target or chill speech on a college campus. In fact, at a conference in 2010 ..., I highlighted this misuse, and the damage it could do....

A Holocaust survivor was required to change the title of a campus talk, and the university mandated it be recorded, after an Israeli diplomat complained that the title violated the definition.

Perhaps most egregious, an off-campus group citing the definition called on a university to conduct an inquiry of a professor (who received her PhD from Columbia) for antisemitism, based on an article she had written years before. The university then conducted the inquiry. And while it ultimately found no basis to discipline the professor, the exercise itself was chilling and McCarthy-like.

What the Green Party has done, with the suspension Mark Adderly, myself and others, is to embark on a McCarthyite exercise whose purpose is to chill free speech. Mark is charged with having ‘Made antisemitic comments comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.’

This is the 10th of the 11 ‘illustrations’ of anti-Semitism in the IHRA. By way of contrast the JDA does NOT state that comparisons with Nazi Germany are anti-Semitic. What it does state is that

Thus, even if contentious, it is not antisemitic, in and of itself, to compare Israel with other historical cases, including settler-colonialism or apartheid.

It is noteworthy that the person(s) who formulated the charges against Mark chose to rely on a Zionist definition of anti-Semitism rather than one emanating from hundreds of scholars of Holocaust history, Jewish studies, and Middle East studies, most of whom are Jewish.

In other words the witchhunt in the Green Party is being driven by Zionist members of the GPC, people who subscribe to a racist ideology. Of course we have not been given a clue as to the identity of those who drew up the charges. Clearly they prefer to work in the shadows.

As I mentioned in my Open Letter comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany are legion, especially among holocaust survivors. To give but one example, Shlomo Shmelzman, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, stated that:

In my childhood I have suffered fear, hunger and humiliation when I passed from the Warsaw Ghetto, through labor camps, to Buchenwald. Today, as a citizen of Israel, I cannot accept the systematic destruction of cities, towns, and refugee camps… I hear too many familiar sounds today…. I hear “dirty Arabs” and I remember “dirty Jews.” I hear about “closed areas” and I remember ghettos and camps. I hear “two-legged beasts” and I remember “Untermenschen.”… Too many things in Israel remind me of too many things from my childhood.

Israel claims its legitimacy from the Nazi holocaust. That is why comparisons between their behaviour and the Nazis are appropriate. When 60% of Israelis want to exterminate every Palestinian in Gaza and when 57% want to deport every Arab citizen of Israel, then the comparison with Nazi Germany is highly relevant.

For those with doubts I suggest watching Owen Jones’ podcast Israel’s VILEST Crime Yet - The Evidence Is Overwhelming about Israel training dogs to rape people. The last time this occurred was in Pinochet’s Chile under Ingrid Olderöck, who was a proud Nazi.

Already Backing Down

The Green Party can go down the road that Corbyn took or it can fight back against the accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’. It is an argument that can be won. The Times, Mail and other papers use anti-Semitic caricatures because for them anti-Semitism is not hostility to Jews but hostility to Zionism.



Black and Muslim members, who are 75% of those suspended, now find that their membership of the Green Party is in doubt whereas it should be those who have made these malicious complaints whose membership is in jeopardy. Elise Benjamin, who is the driving force behind the ‘anti-Semitism’ attacks is on record as saying that ‘the party’s recent surge in the polls.... feels very hollow – almost like a bereavement.” Clearly her loyalties lie elsewhere.

Whether I am expelled on a trumped up charge is neither here nor there. What matters is whether the Green Party, having adopted a popular set of policies is going to be thwarted by the same forces who fraudulently contrived to impose upon the Labour Party a leader for whom truth and lies are mere matters of convenience. I refer of course to Keir Starmer.

Solidarity,

Tony Greenstein

 

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6 August 2024

To Counter the Riots & Attacks on Refugees We Need a New Anti-fascist/Anti-Racist Movement – We Can't rely on the Police or State

Stand Up to  Racism is NOT that movement – it is a recruiting vehicle for the SWP & a cosy alliance with the Trade Union Bureaucracy


Tony Greenstein's speech at Palestine solidarity rally in Liverpool 4 August 2024


Tomorrow there will be a mobilisation in Brighton against the Fascists

Last Sunday I spoke at a Palestine solidarity rally in Liverpool. There was going to be a demonstration first and then a rally but fears of fascist attacks led to the demonstration being cancelled (although there was an impromptu one after the rally).

On the previous evening the fascists had rallied outside a mosque and burnt down the Spellow Library and Community Hub library, a 'one stop shop for one of the most deprived'. This story has been repeated throughout the country.

A remarkable achievement for fascist goons in Liverpool - they burnt down a local library and advice hub

Al Jazeera Rioting in Liverpool

Unfortunately Skwawkbox’s report did not tell the whole story about what happened in Liverpool. The previous day a thousand fascists had mobilised at the Pier Head, the traditional rallying place of the Labour Movement and just six anti-fascists were present. Although they were unable to attack the mosque in Walton the fascists did considerable damage.


If anyone bears responsibility for the riots today it is the disgusting coconut Suella Braverman. The irony is that she is the child of immigrants.

Although the catalyst was the murder of 3 young girls in Southport a week ago, the months and years of demonisation of refugees and Muslims have taken their toll. Sunak and Braverman, who were so voluble about ‘hate marches’ against genocide in Palestine and who were so concerned about ‘anti-Semitism’ have had nothing to say about the violent attacks on Black and Asian people and Mosques. Their indignation about racism is reserved exclusively for Jewish supporters of Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza.

If anyone bears responsibility for playing the same theme tune as Farage its Yvette Cooper - instead of changing the racist discourse she continued where Braverman left off - this is where bourgeois feminism has ended up


Those who talked about ‘swarms’ of migrants (David Cameron) and an ‘invasion’ of refugeees (Braverman) bear the responsibility for what has happened today. So does Yvette Cooper who only a week ago was proudly boasting about how she would wage war on refugees earning a crust washing cars. What a terrible crime it is to want to work!

Instead of attacking the obvious anti-Black and Islamaphobic racism of the rioters Starmer and Cooper frame what is happening in terms of thuggery and violence. 

We should not accept this . The violence and thuggery is a consequence of the politics of racism and scapegoatism and both Starmer and Cooper are equally guilty of creating the conditions in which it took place. The answer is NOT more legislation restricting the right to protest. The irony of restricting the right to protest against genocide in Gaza has been lost on these hypocrites.

As it is dozens of peace activists and protesters are in gaol, some with lengthy sentences, because direct action to prevent climate catastrophe is considered more dangerous than whipping up race hatred.

Starmer and his Zionist supporters went on about ‘anti-Semitism’ repeatedly although no Jewish synagogues were attacked nor were Jewish people. But when Mosques are attacked NOTHING IS SAID.

Cooper talked of the  ‘billions’ the asylum backlog is costing us which is a straightforward lie. Asylum seekers want to work and house themselves. It is the immigration rules that prevent this that is costing money.

Greater Manchester Police Attack Victim of  Race Attack

Scapegoating refugees is so much easier than tackling the real criminals such as Boris Johnson and Sunak who handed out billions of pounds of COVID contracts to their corrupt cronies - something the Met is refusing to investigate

What has cost us an estimated £15 billion is the COVID Contract frauds perpetrated by the last government when they established a VIP track to allow their friends and cronies, such as Baroness Mone, to secure lucrative contracts to provide Personal Protective Equipment, much of which was defective and never used.   Mone and her company Medpro was given over £200 million pounds for PPE that was unfit to use. The whole scheme was later judged illegal but the CPS and Metropolitan Police have not prosecuted anyone. Over £40 million was handed to Matt Hancock’s pub landlord, Matt Bourne, who had never before manufactured PPE.

Just imagine this corrupt pair, including Tory Peer Lady Mone, trousered over £200m & a profit of over £100m for PPE that was useless. The Met has done fuck all - however this is not newsworthy for the BBC

But the thugs and idiots who have run rampage in the last week know nothing of this because we have a ‘Labour’ government which is as much in hock to the rich and privileged as the last Tory government. Far better to attack refugees and Muslims than those who are really to blame. Starmer’s Labour has pledge to continue with austerity with Rachel Reeves removing the winter heating allowance from most pensioners.

Sussex Police actively tried their best to prevent the launch of my book on fighting fascism in Brighton - the Quakers of Friends Meeting House literally quaked, giving in to Police threats that they would provide no protection - the eventual EDL picket was barely enough to fill a phone box

Twice the Independent Police Complaints Commission upheld my complaint about Sussex Police trying to prevent an anti-fascist book launch - we should never think that the Police are neutral when it comes to racism or fascism

Sussex Police did their best to obstruct attendance at my book launch - their sympathy for the fascists was all too clear

The EDL picket of my book launch then moved to Churchill Square where they tried to attack the Palestine stall and got the shock of their lives as hundreds of shoppers turned on them - they had to seek police protection in the end - Tony Greenstein is speaking  with the megaphone

The Book that Brighton/Sussex Police tried to ban - demonstrating once again that the Police will never be our friends

The BBC have actively promoted the charlatan Farage and his racist agenda - and there are still those who call themselves anti-racists who pay the BBC licence fee

The attacks we have witnessed have political roots which have been exploited by charlatans like City money man, Nigel Farage, who the BBC have shamelessly promoted for years. We have to set our own agenda and the labour movement has been pitifully weak at doing this or combating the growth of the far-right.

The answer @FigureSpeech is not to pay the BBC Licence Fee

National Front march 1976 Bradford

I was active in the 1970’s in fighting fascism when the National Front was talked about as the third major party after having come third in the 1973 parliamentary by-election in West Bromwich with 16%, securing 18% of the vote in Leicester council elections and over 100,000 votes in the Greater London Council elections. But despite this I can't remember a fascist rally when the Left was outnumbered by the fascists. This is what is different this time around.

Oswald Moseley speaking at the Brighton Dome in 1936 - canny electricians wired up the speaker system that gave the assembled fascists a chance to listen to the Internationale!

At the EDL demonstration in London on 27 July there were approximately 15,000 fascists and just 5,000 anti-fascists.  This is something we have to reverse. Of course times have changed. 40 years ago the labour movement was strong with a closed shop in the docks, cars and mines. There were major industrial battles between the working class and the government. Today the working class is atomised and depoliticised. Production has been transferred to the Global South and what used to be referred to as the proletariat has been dispersed. Today it is doctors not dockers who go on strike.

South Yorkshire which was at the heart of the mining industry and an incredibly political working class now sees the effect of deindustrialisation as lumpen youth turn their attention to easy scapegoats such as refugees and Black people.

In sleepy Lewes the NF tried to hold an election meeting in the 1979 General Election but it was surrounded by hundreds of anti-fascist protesters

We need to make our arguments based on class not the liberal diversity agenda which ends up with the Sunaks, Bravermans and Priti Patels of this world. Yorkshire was made an industrial desert by Thatcher and neo-liberal economics. It wasn’t migrants who closed the mines and the docks but those  who own the billionaire press and their friends.

A good letter from the 5 independent MPs but where were the useless Campaign Group of MPs like Abbot and McDonnell

When the rioters say they ‘want their country back’ the obvious question is when did you ever own it? Those who own the wealth of this country don’t have a moment’s hesitation in transferring their money abroad or moving their factories to India or South Korea. Unfortunately the most basic arguments for socialism have been abandoned by a Labour Party which wraps itself in the Union Jack to hide its political bankruptcy.

What we need is to create a mass anti-fascist and anti-racist movement in Britain which can challenge the racist ideas in the heads of young white kids who, lacking any future, target vulnerable minorities. Most of those taking part in the riots are not fascists or neo-Nazis but they are easily recruitable fodder for those who are.

Thousands of anti-fascists came out to prevent an NF march in Wood Green in London

The 1970’s saw major pitched battles between fascists and anti-fascists such as that at Wood Green in April 1977 (where Corbyn earned his spurs) and at Lewisham in August 1977 where the riot police made their first appearance on the mainland. The SWP led the physical force mobilisation on the afternoon of the National Front march. In the morning Mervyn Stockwood, the Bishop of Southwark led a march of liberals and other worthies anxious to avoid any confrontation.

The Metropolitan Police did their best to baton their way through for the National Front as a rain of bricks and missiles landed on them from the local Black youth. After completing just one-third of the route the police gave up. That is the spirit we have to rekindle. Physical force opposition to fascist groups is based on the idea that if you allow fascists and their supporters to control the streets you will lose the battle.

Brighton Anti-Fascist Mobilisation 1981 Against NF March - The Level

In 1976 Brighton & Hove  Anti-Fascist Committee was created, based on the labour movement and a year later the Anti-Nazi League was created. It became, along with Rock Against Racism (which came into being after Eric Clapton gave his support to Enoch Powell) a mass movement. The only mass movement that the SWP has ever initiated.  

When Brighton ANL was created we had mass meetings every month in the old Resource Centre in North Road (where Brighthelm is now) of 400-500. In April 1978 the ANL and RAR organised a massive carnival in London of over 100,000 people which gathered in Trafalgar Square to march the 6 miles to Victoria Park in Brixton. Bands like the Clash and Tom Robinson played. There were a number of other carnivals. The political cultural aspect of the struggle rather than paper selling knocked the stuffing out of the white and old, stale and male National Front. NF stood for No Fun.

Brighton Anti-Fascist Mobilisation Against the NF early 80s

 After the General Election of 1979 when Thatcher came to power and the NF got a derisory 0.6% of the vote the NF took to thuggery and street violence. As Secretary of Brighton ANL at the time I helped organise the anti-fascist response which drove them from the streets of Brighton although not before there had been 3 fascist demonstrations. I record these events in my book in 2012 The Fight Against Fascism in Brighton and the South Coast.

Today’s Stand Up To Racism is a pale shadow of the ANL at its height. It is not only an SWP recruiting vehicle it has effectively become the subcontractor for the trade union bureaucracy allowing them to hive off anti-racism to SUTR whilst actually doing nothing to combat racism amongst their own members.

National Front and British Movement members give the Hitler salute at the 1981 demonstration in Brighton at which I was arrested (& acquitted)!

We urgently need to recreate a mass anti-fascist and anti-racist movement that involves both the labour movement and Black and Asian communities. At the moment Asian communities themselves are heavily split on communal lines, not only between Hindutva supporters and Muslims but between Sunni and Shi'ite.  It is worth reading an article on The Muslim Vote by Craig Murray about the Muslim vote in Blackburn where he was a Workers Party candidate.

George Galloway on the Boat People and the Royal Navy

It also means that there is a responsibility on those like George Galloway not to echo and amplify the message of the racists. If refugees stay in hotels it is because they are not allowed to work not because they wish to do so.

The far-right have established themselves all over Europe in countries where social democracy once reigned, such as Sweden and the Netherlands. We have a duty to ensure that this does not happen here and that means there is no room for left sectarianism and using anti-racism as a party building exercise. Nor is there room for the kind of communalism that Craig Murray experienced. Black is a political not a physical colour. The fact that the murderer of the girls in Southport was a Christian fundamentalist did not affect in the slightest the belief that ‘the Muslims’ were responsible.

After the fascists had attacked a lone Black man in Manchester Greater Manchester Police set upon him, leaving the fascist thugs alone

What we are also witnessing is a coming together of the Zionists and the far-right. For the fascists the best opponents of Muslims are Zionists and the Israeli state. Tommy Robinson is an open admirer of the Israeli state and its wars. Fascist symbols and the Israeli flag go together very well. Zionism has no problem with holocaust deniers. It's Palestinian supporters who are their enemies. As Geert Wilders, the leader of the Netherland’s Freedom Party, which became the largest party at the 2023 elections said ‘If Jerusalem falls into the hands of the Muslims, Athens and Rome will be next.’

SUTR has consistently refused to take up the issue of anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism. That was why Brighton & Hove PSC disaffiliated from them locally. In Scotland they have marched for 5 years with Glasgow Friends of Israel. SUTR seems unable to understand that Israeli Apartheid is racist and worse even than its South Africa counterpart was 30 years ago.

The SWP is still cowed by ‘anti-Semitism’. Like dinosaurs, they are incapable of understanding that the patterns of racism change. Jews were once the victims of racism. Today they are mostly the supporters of racism in the form of the Israeli state.

Of course not all Jews are Zionists. Those who are anti-Zionists are not deterred by the mention of Palestine. So it is Zionist Jews that SUTR are directly appeasing. They don't understand that Zionists have no interest in fighting fascism. When the Board of Deputies organised a march against ‘anti-Semitism’ recently Tommy Robinson went along to join it.

Support for the Palestinians and opposition to Israeli Apartheid must be central to any anti-racist and anti-fascist movement today. There is no room for the participation of Zionists and supporters of Jewish Supremacy.

Joe Solo responds to HOPE not hate controversy – Not The Andrew Marr Show

That is why anti-fascists should have absolutely nothing to do with the Zionist HatenotHope group run by Nick Lowles. It is an anti-left Zionist organisation and its former Deputy Director and Company Secretary, ex-Labour MP Ruth Smeeth (now Baroness Anderson) led the false ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign.

In particular she targeted for expulsion Marc Wadsworth, the veteran Black anti-racist activist after making false allegations of anti-Semitism. She was also a member of the Jewish Labour Movement .


HnH led the attacks on Chris Williamson and even withdrew a ‘Hero Award’ from Jo Solo, a socialist musician, when they learnt that he was also a supporter of Chris Williamson, the former Labour MP.

Such was the backlash to what they had done, that they later rescinded their decision and decided after all to give him the £5,000 which he had all along intended to give to other organisations anyway. A crowdfunder for Jo had raised double that so Jo was in a good position to say ‘no thank you’.  Egg on HnH’s faces all round.

Lady Smeeth was named in a Wikileaks US Embassy Cable as a ‘strictly protect asset’.  In other words she was an intelligence asset. Lowles came from Gerry Gable’s Searchlight Magazine which was well known for trading information on fascists in exchange for handing over information on left activists and anarchists.

HnH is clearly an MI5/Mossad Intelligence Cutout and should be avoided like the plague.

Tony Greenstein

See The BBC condemns the riots and sanitises the far right in the same breath

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