The Zionist Bookburners Get to Work as My Crowdfunder Gets Taken Down

Crowdfunder Caves In to Zionist Pressure after Just 2 Days

First a riddle. What is the difference between Joseph Goebbels and the Zionist Lobby? Answer: Goebbels burnt books after they were printed.  The Zionists try to burn the books before they are printed!

The decision by Crowdfunder on Tuesday to cancel my appeal was not only predictable but I predicted it! I launched a Crowdfunder for a book I have written, Zionism During the Holocaust, and sure enough pressure from the Lobby (Board of Deputies, CST, CAA, Hate not Hope etc.) guaranteed the inevitable. I received the following email from Christine McCormick [christine.mccormick@crowdfunder.intercom-mail.com]:

Hello Tony,

Your project on Crowdfunder has been flagged as breaching our guidelines. Upon review our team has confirmed that based on the information available the project is in contravention of Crowdfunder’s terms of use.

Unfortunately this means we must now close this project, refunding any pledges back to the supporters. We hope you understand that we have a duty to uphold our Terms of Use and guidelines, in the best interest of the Crowdfunder community.

Christine didn’t of course tell me who did the ‘flagging’ but then again she didn’t have to. My Crowdfunder was ‘in contravention of Crowdfunder’s terms of use’. Christine gave no indication of which terms she was referring to. Perhaps I infringed E (1.1.2(c)) which says that that:

(c) all content posted by you is lawful and not defamatory, abusive, threatening, harassing, obscene, discriminatory, or otherwise objectionable or embarrassing to any other person as determined by us in our sole discretion;

Clearly any reference to the Zionist relationship to the Nazis was bound to be objectionable and embarrassing to the Zionists. The right to offend is what Free Speech is all about. Speech that doesn't offend anyone is what keeps repressive governments in power. Crowdfunder therefore had the right to use their ‘sole discretion’ to take down the Crowdfunder but in so doing they were acting as petty censors without a principle to their name.

As Salman Rushdie, whose book Satanic Verses certainly offended many Muslims said:

“The idea that any kind of free society can be constructed in which people will never be offended or insulted is absurd. 

As George Orwell observed:

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

The strange thing is that on Sunday Erin [erin.curran@crowdfunder.intercom-mail.com] had emailed me to say that my Crowdfunder had been extended from 28 days to Always On. Clearly Erin hadn’t spotted my breach of Crowdfunder’s Guidelines:

Hello Tony,

Thank you for your email and for your feedback. Your project has been switched over to Always On so that you can continue to accept donations.

You will receive any future pledges every couple days on a rolling basis in to your bank account within 7 working days of them being pledged once your initial payout has been processed

So what changed between Sunday and Tuesday? One can only surmise that in that time the Zionists decided to pile the pressure on Crowdfunder and that they succumbed to the pressure. Groups like Crowdfunder exist to make a profit not to benefit the public good, so the idea of defending free speech is not on their agenda. Profits come before principles.

By the time Crowdfunder had closed the Appeal, I had raised £710, over 10% of my target of £6,500.

But if Crowdfunder has been economical with the truth in their email to me they have been positively dishonest with those who had contributed.

The Crowdfunder Team [support@crowdfunder.co.uk] emailed all donors with the following message:

Hi XXX,

Unfortunately we have not been able to transfer your payment to the I want to publish Zionism During the Holocaust and we are in the process of refunding your pledge. You should see the payment in your account within 5-10 days.

Thank you for supporting this and we’re sorry this particular cause was unable to achieve its goal.

Crowdfunder is the leading UK platform helping worthy and fantastic causes raise funds to make a real difference. If you would like to explore supporting any of these projects or fundraisers, please use the link below to find a cause that would be extremely pleased to receive your support.

Thanks,
The Crowdfunder Team

Instead of saying outright that they had taken down my Appeal, because the Zionists had objected to the truth, they were told what was an outright lie:

‘Unfortunately we have not been able to transfer your payment to the I want to publish Zionism During the Holocaust’

There was of course no technical problem with the transfer of funds. And then, to compound this lie they told another:  ‘we’re sorry this particular cause was unable to achieve its goal.’  To which the obvious response is ‘If you’re so sorry why did you take it down’ . However Corporations never tell the truth when a lie will suffice.

Where Now?

I am pleased to say that the reaction of donors has been one of outrage.  Fortunately I anticipated what was likely to happen and made sure to contact every donor informing them of my fears and giving them my email address and alternative methods of payment. The result is that many donors have increased their donation!

Once again the Zionist reaction to those who tell the truth about their racist movement is censorship. Just as they tried to prevent the play Perdition being shown and Perfidy being sold (by buying up all the copies!) so they have resorted to their tried, trusted and failed methods of suppression.

Of course they will fail in their attempts because I am determined not to let them succeed. So they will resort to their next tactic.  Outright lying. It will be suggested that by referring to Nazi-Zionist Collaboration I am accusing the Jews who died in the holocaust of having killed themselves. Of course this won’t be true but that won’t stop the Zionists from making the claim.

Nor will they tell people that it was an Israeli court which found that the leader of Hungarian Zionism, Rudolf Kasztner, had ‘sold his soul to the devil’ when he made an agreement to sacrifice all but 1,684 of Hungary's 800,000 Jews.

The exact same thing happened to Hannah Arendt, the greatest political scientist of the last century, when she published her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. Arendt’s book gave the background to the Eichmann story and how he had worked with Kasztner. Arendt went over all the things that arose in the Kasztner Trial that the Eichmann Trial had been designed to erase.

Naturally the Zionists went to any lengths to defame Arendt, who was herself a refugee from Nazi Germany. No lie was too big. Arendt wrote about how:

the campaign, conducted with all the well-known means of image-making and opinion-manipulation, got much more attention than the controversy…. (it was) as though the pieces written against the book (and more frequently against its author) came “out of a mimeographing machine” … the clamor centered on the “image” of a book which was never written, and touched upon subjects that often had not only not been mentioned by me but had never occurred to me before.”

60 years later nothing much has changed. The Zionists are still trying to suppress the truth about the history of their racist project and they are still shouting ‘anti-Semitism’, even against Jewish holocaust survivors. 

There is one answer to this attack on free speech. Help me get my book out. Unfortunately ‘left’ publishers in this country such as Pluto Press, Verso and Zed Press took fright. My target is £6,500 and my intention is to sell the book, which will be about 550 pages and some 190,00 words long, at around £10 including p&p (but don’t hold me to that as there are still too many variables).

If you want to help defeat the Zionist Censorship Machine please donate in any one of the following ways:

1.              You can send a cheque made out to ‘B&HUWC’ to me at PO Box 173, Brighton BN51 9EZ

2.              You can send a donation to me at Paypal at tonygreenstein111@gmail.com

3.              You can pay by BACS to:

Name of Account:            B&HUWC (if your bank’s software says it doesn’t recognise the account proceed anyway!)

Account Number:             04094107

Sort Code:                           09-01-50 

You can also email the following at Crowdfunder to tell them what you think of their cowardly behaviour:

support@crowdfunder.co.uk

erin.curran@crowdfunder.intercom-mail.com

christine.mccormick@crowdfunder.intercom-mail.com

 Tony Greenstein

Open Letter to the Leader of Brighton and Hove Council, Nancy Platts – Free Speech is not a luxury

Instead of Defending Freedom of Speech You have Chosen to Appease the Supporters of Israel on the pretext of ‘anti-Semitism’

Below is an Open Letter I have sent to Nancy Platts, the Leader of Brighton and Hove Council. 

On two occasions in recent weeks, August 20^th and September 26^th Platts has inferred that Jews are under threat from  meetings on Palestine or alternatively that they are not welcome at such meetings.

The Zionists ban books, the Nazis burned them

What we have seen in recent months is the de facto implementation of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, a ‘definition’ whose sole purpose is to restrict freedom of speech on Palestine and Israel.

As readers will be aware, we in Brighton took steps before the recent Labour Party conference to pre-empt the local Zionists from inflicting their police state agenda on delegates and visitors by securing premises where events could be staged.

Tony Greenstein

The cancelled booklaunch was held at the Rialto to a far-larger audience

Open Letter to Nancy Platts

Dear Nancy,

Last Monday Waterstones Bookshop cancelled a book launch for Bad News for Labour. As its publisher, Pluto Press, explained:

This book clears the confusion by drawing on deep and original research on public beliefs and media representation of antisemitism and the Labour Party, revealing shocking findings of misinformation spread by the press, including the supposedly impartial BBC, and the liberal Guardian.

Despite this peer reviewed book being authored by 5 distinguished academics, Waterstones was subject to a barrage of hostile attacks on social media from supporters of Israel, in particular by Sussex Friends of Israel. See for example here, here and here.

Ken Loach and Chris Williamson attend - standing room only

Sussex Friends of Israel openly encouraged people to get on the phone to abuse and harass the bookshop and its staff.

The accusations were familiar. The speakers were anti-Semitic, the book launch was a hate session and provocative to the Jewish community. Cancelling the book launch would be ‘hugely reassuring to the Brighton/Hove community’ (although 99.9% of them knew nothing about it!). The idea that a book launch in Waterstone’s bookshop would traumatise the Jewish community is risible.

Despite the best efforts of Peter Kyle, Daniel Yates and the rest of New Labour's scumbags, Chris Williamson's meeting on August 8th went off as planned

In the run-up to Labour’s Conference, Brighton and Hove Labour Left Alliance took steps to ensure that events threatened by SFI would be able to continue. We were mindful that there might be a repeat of what happened on and before August 8^th, when Peter Kyle MP and SFI took to abusing and threatening venues prepared to stage a meeting with Chris Williamson MP. Much to the chagrin of Councillor Dan Yates we held a large meeting in Regency Square.

We obtained an Events Licence enabling us to meet in Regency Square and we also hired for Saturday and Monday the Rialto Theatre. We had warned them that they would be subject to a barrage of abuse and threats from the usual suspects and on the usual grounds.

Greg Hadfield introduces the session on Modern Monetary Theory with Chris Williamson and Professor Bill Mitchell

When Waterstones cancelled the book launch we held it in the Rialto. All 5 authors: Professors Greg Philo and David Miller, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg and Antony Lerman, a world expert in anti-Semitism took part.

The suggestion that these speakers posed a threat to Jews is absurd. What SFI feared was that an academic analysis of Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign would expose the lies behind it.

The group that organised the Rialto

The fact that the supporters of Israel are so afraid of a book or book launch suggests that this whole campaign, supported by Britain’s racist media, has been driven primarily by those hostile to the Corbyn leadership of the Labour Party.

Former councillor Julie Cattell fostering fear and hatred and Fiona Sharpe, Sussex Friends of Israel's virulent racist and perjurer

Unfortunately the Council have enabled this attack on freedom of speech. It has done this through its adoption of the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism. What kind of definition is 500+ words? The purpose of the IHRA is to conflate anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. 

Even the person who drafted the IHRA, American academic Kenneth Stern, conceded in testimony to the US Congress that it ‘chills’ free speech and that that ‘Congress has enshrined a definition that can only help to chill, if not suppress, their political speech.’

Everyone who SFI hates is an anti-semite - only Tommy Robinson and the EDL escape their censure being pro-Zionist

Stern gave as an example the targeting by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, allies of SFI, of Bristol University academic Rachel Gould for an article she wrote in 2011 about the Holocaust. Stern described what had happened as ‘chilling and McCarthy-like.’

The reason why I am writing to you is because twice in recent weeks you have given sustenance to this campaign against free speech. In the Jewish News of 20^th August  you were quoted as saying ‘I am concerned to hear that there may be any events in or around Labour Party Conference where Jewish people would not feel welcome.’

What steps did you take to check out whether this allegation had any merit? In the Jewish News of 26 September reference you state that you ‘will not accept hate speech or hate crime’ in the context of a meeting entitled “BDS, Antisemitism and a free Palestine.” This meeting was held in the Old Courtroom on September 24, where author Tom Suarez, Azzam Tamimi and Miko Peled spoke.

The Zionist movement wanted to prevent Miko, an Israeli anti-Zionist  and other Jewish anti-Zionists speaking for the same reasons that the South African government suppressed the views of White opponents of Apartheid. This understandable.

Israel is a state where 93% of the land is reserved for Jews. Israel’s 20% Arab population has access to just over 2%. It is a state where hospitals segregate Jewish and Arab women in separate maternity wards. In Israel there are separate Jewish and Arab education sectors. Marriage between a Jew and Palestinian is not only impossible but mixed relationships are a social taboo. It is a state in which hundreds of Jewish communities legally bar Arabs from membership. In the city of Afula in June there were demonstrations led by the Mayor against the fact that a house had been sold to an Arab. This not anti-Semitism is the real agenda of SFI.

The IHRA definition is being used for one purpose only.  To prevent political speech which offends supporters of Israel.  Despite SFI’s scaremongering the Jewish community is unconcerned. On August 8^th, the Zionist demonstration against Chris Williamson mustered less than 20 people, some of whom were Christian Zionists.

Even if it were true that the majority of the Jewish community is offended by a book launch that is no reason to cancel it. When Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses was issued we argued that freedom of speech trumps religious sensibilities. Why should that be any different when it comes to Jewish nationalists? Why was it right for Charlie Hebdo to offend Muslims yet it is forbidden to mention Israel’s abuse of human rights?

The vast majority of Jewish people in Brighton and Hove are not concerned with anti-Zionist meetings or whether or not a book debunks the false anti-Semitism narrative. The only people offended are Fiona Sharpe and Israel’s devotees.

Your duty as Council leader is to support the basic rights of Brighton residents under the European Convention of Human Rights, for example Articles 10 and 11. It is time to call the bluff of those who try to suppress any opinion bar their own. The best way to do that would be to reverse the adoption of the IHRA definition.

When my father took part in the Battle of Cable Street in 1936 against Oswald Moseley’s British Union of Fascists he didn’t need a definition of anti-Semitism in order to know who his enemy was. The only purpose of the IHRA is to restrict free speech.  It has nothing to do with racism which is why the Tory Right loves it so much.

Tony Greenstein

See  Waterstones cancels launch for book on Labour and anti-Semitism

Below are some of the abusive tweets and abuse that Waterstone's Received

To SFI book launches are matters of concern to the Jewish community

WE DEFIED ZIONISM'S BOOK BURNERS – FREE SPEECH TRIUMPHED AT THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE THIS WEEK

 We said no to Peter Kyle, Dan Yates and all the other Zionists and racists who tried to silence their socialist critics

At last year’s Labour Party conference in Liverpool the film premiere of Jackie Walker’s Witchhunt was stopped by a bomb threat.

The Rialto defied the worst that the Zionists could do to become a Free Speech Centre at Labour Party Conference

In August three Brighton venues - Brighthelm, Holiday Inn and Friends Meeting House - cancelled a talk on Modern Monetary Theory by Chris Williamson MP because of abusive and violent threats by the Zionist lobby.

Today's Zionists are emulating Goebbel's Book Burners

The initiative was taken by Peter Kyle MP for Hove, who personally contacted Brighthelm, a right-wing church and community centre and we understand Holiday Inn too in order to get them to cancel the meetings.  Phone calls, abusive tweets and even, in the case of the Holiday Inn, two thugs who walked in threatening the staff were deployed to get the venues to cancel.

All the abusers alleged Chris Williamson was an anti-Semite.  Of course these supporters of the world’s only apartheid state provided no evidence.

Despite this we held the meeting at Regency Square. We told the racists and Zionists including Peter Kyle and local councillor Dan Yates, that freedom of speech would triumph regardless. 

Greg Hadfield introduces the Book Launch and explains why it is being held at the Rialto

We were told the local Jewish community was worried for its safety by the exercise of free speech! These are the same people who supported Charlie Hebdo's right to ridicule the prophet Mohammed. 

In the end the Zionists managed a demonstration of less than 20 people, half of whom came down from London! The President of the Board of Deputies herself, Marie van der Zyle came only to find over 150 people willing to brave the racists and the thugs.

Ken  Loach and Chris Williamson attended the book launch - it was standing room only!

Having triumphed recently we were determined to ensure that Jackie and Chris would speak at this year’s Labour Party conference in Brighton.

Brighton and Hove Labour Left Alliance, which grew out of the Jon Lansman controlled Brighton and Hove Momentum, put in place plans to ensure that there would be alternative venues for controversial events.  First we obtained an Events License from Brighton and Hove Council for Regency Square to put a marquee or, as it turned out a gazebo up.  In the end we only did this for the first 2 days.

Packed audience at LRC meeting on Monday

Secondly we hired a central Brighton venue, The Rialto Theatre for the Saturday and Monday of conference. Despite the usual abusive tweets, phone calls etc. the Rialto held firm.  Its owners were briefed on what would happen and pledged to stand up to the abusers and thugs.  They proved true to their word.

Over two days we showed Jackie Walker’s film Witchhunt twice to packed audiences. 

Chris Williamson addressing an impromptu crowd at Regency Square on Sunday

On the Saturday there was a packed out audience to hear a variety of speakers on freedom of speech  including Jackie Walker, Chris Williamson and Anne Mitchell, a suspended member of Hove Labour Party and Chair of Brighton PSC.

On the Monday there was a session on Culture, Arts, and Freedom with Jackie Walker and Professor David Miller of Bristol University.

Greg Hadfield introduces the talk by Professor Bill Mitchell and Chris Williamson MP on Modern Monetary Theory

There was a talk by Chris Williamson and Professor Bill Mitchell, a world renowned economist.

In the evening the Labour Representation Committee, whose President is John McDonnell, held a packed meeting with Jackie Walker, Chris Williamson, Ian Hodson, President of the Bakers Union and Adriana Alvarez from the United States.

At the same time a book launch at Brighton’s Waterstones for Bad News for Labour had just been cancelled. This was a consequence of a barrage of abusive and racist emails and tweets from Zionists alleging that a book investigating the allegations of anti-Semitism against the Labour Party was ‘anti-Semitic’.

The Zionist ‘logic’ is that anyone who attempts to disprove that there is an ‘anti-Semitism’ crisis in the Labour Party is also anti-Semitic! It is the logic of Salem where denying you were a witch was evidence you were one!

Kerry-Ann Mendoza introduces Jackie Walker and Steve Tiller

In the words of Pluto’s managing director Veruschka Selbach

 “This book is an academic study into one of the most contentious issues facing our society today. It is worrying that abuse and intimidation were used to close down free and open discussion of anti-semitism in the Labour party. We have run events at various Waterstones in Pluto’s 50-year history. “This is the first time they have cancelled an event, saying we were unprofessional.

Fortunately we were able to accommodate the book launch at the Rialto Theatre and instead of 50 people attending at Waterstones we had a packed audience of over 100 people. All five academics - Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Antony Lerman and David Miller — came along to launch their book.

The Zionist attempt to prevent the launch of a book debunking their lies about ‘anti-Semitism’ failed.  Big thanks in particular to Greg Hadfield, an ex-Fleet Street journalist and Labour Party activist who found the venue!  And thanks to the wonderful staff at the Rialto itself.

Jackie Walker speaks at the LRC Meeting with Chris Williamson

After the book launch Kerry Ann Mendoza, Editor of The Canary interviewed Jackie Walker and Steve Tiller.  And after that we had a party!!

With  a theatre accommodating 100 people upstairs and a bar downstairs, with a live feed, accommodating another 50 people, we ensured that Free Speech on Palestine triumphed at the Rialto.

Down the road was The World Transformed, an offshoot of Jon Lansman's Momentum.  Unfortunately transforming the world was the last thing they were concerned with. They have refused to touch the witchhunt or have any sessions on Palestine or Zionism.  The WTF is about accommodating to capitalism not challenging it.  It is a place for the comfortable left that doesn't believe in struggle - from Novara Media to the (Not so) Red Pepper.

Tony Greenstein

All the Zionist abusers above make one assumption - that the Rialto was hosting antisemitism - presumably a book about the false antisemitism smear campaign is by definition antisemitic or the LRC meeting...

Examples of the Zionist Abuse that led to Waterstone's Cancellation of a Book Launch

It would appear that some village has lost its idiot

Former Labour Councillor Julie Cattell encouraging a Boycott of the Rialto for Hosting a Range of Events this week - Cattle is a supporter of Sussex Friends of Israel which says it opposes boycotts - but only of Israel!

Julie Cattell openly encourages people to place false reviews on Trip Advisor and elsewhere to damage the Rialto commercially - these are the underhand and dishonest tactics of the Zionists

Two idiots find it 'unbelievable' that we resist their attempts to shut down free speech - Julie Cattell doesn't even seem to understand the term

Julie Cattell, former Labour councillor who was ousted in May, piling pressure on Waterstone's to cancel the book launch or face a boycott - these are the same people who throw their hands up in horror at a boycott of Apartheid Israel

The Zionist Board of Deputies and Sussex Jewish Representative Council (which is SFI in disguise) add their weight to the book burners