Why Does Hove Jewish Centre, Ralli Hall Allow an Advocate of Rape to Speak but ban an Anti-Racist Critic of Israel

Ralli Hall Cancelled Hove Labour Party meeting because of criticism of Israel yet allowed Mordechai Kedar, an Advocate of Rape to Speak

Argus 17th February from 8 members of Brighton & Hove PSC 

Simon Cobbs of Sussex Friends of Israel organised the 'meet a rape supporter'

In the course of this post I wrote that:

‘Hove AGM was cancelled because the Jewish communal centre, Ralli Hall, where the meeting was supposed to take place, unilaterally terminated the booking.  This is the same Ralli Hall which staged a meeting 18 months ago featuring Professor Mordechai Kedar of Israel’s religious University Bar Ilan.  Kedar is a retired colonel in the Israeli army.  See The Zionist Federation and Sussex Friends of Israel Invite an Advocate of Rape to Speak

As Israel's Ha'aretz Reported Kedar's statement

I wrote that:

‘Kedar is famous for his advocacy of rape against Palestinian women as a weapon of war.  Israel’s Ha'aretz newspaper in an article Israeli Professor's 'Rape as Terror Deterrent' Statement Draws Ire quoted him as saying that:  ‘'The only thing that deters a suicide bomber is the knowledge that if he pulls the trigger or blows himself up, his sister will be raped'. (22.7.14.). 

Brighton and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign held a demonstration outside the meeting.  Many Jewish venues, including schools and synagogues, such as Finchley, cancelled their meetings when Kedar’s comments became known.  Even the Board of Deputies of British Jews dissociated themselves from Kedar but not Ralli Hall, which was quite happy for the rally to go ahead. 

Kedar was the guest of the Sussex Jewish Representative Council, the Zionist Federation and our old friends Sussex Friends of Israel

I have therefore written to their Manager, Maxine Gordon as to why they prefer advocates of rape to critics of Israel.  A letter from 8 members of PSC, including myself, appeared in today’s Argus newspaper.  Ralli Hall has a lot of questions to ask.

I have also written a second letter to those in control of  Ralli Hall.  I won’t be holding my breath waiting for a reply.

Dear Ralli Hall,

You appear to have ignored the message that I sent you conerning your double standards when it comes to false allegations of anti-Semitism and allowing, Mordechai Kedar, an advocate of rape in war, to speak at Ralli Hall. 

According to the Argus your Manager Maxine Gordon said that she 'no choice' but to cancel a meeting of Hove Labour Party because of 'contentious statements made by Rebecca Massey on social media about Israel and Judaism.'

Clearly Ms Gordon hasn't heard of free speech.  Calling out Israel's racism is a matter of fact and is only 'contentious' in the eyes of those who prefer to turn a blind eye to Israeli atrocities, i.e. apologists for Israeli war crimes. I won't bother to enumerate such minor matters as the making of an Israeli hero out of the cold-blooded murderer Elor Azaria or the recent demolition of a Bedouin village Umm al-Hiran in the Negev to make way for the Jewish town of Hiran.

In The Times in the 1930's under Editor Geoffrey Dawson The Times forbade any mention of German anti-semitism during the pre-war years when the Nazi Party ruled Germany.  Criticism of the Nazis was also 'contentious' so Ms Gordon is in good company.

Even the Zionist Federation was forced to pull the meetings at schools

You said that because Becky Massey was attending a meeting at Ralli Hall on Sunday, February 3, you didn't feel it would be 'appropriate for the meeting to continue.”

Perhaps you can tell me why it was 'appropriate' for Kedar who said that '“The only thing that can deter terrorists, like those who kidnapped the children and killed them, is the knowledge that their sister or their mother will be raped.”  to speak at Ralli Hall?

The only conclusion that can be drawn is that you find support for rape in war less objectionable than criticism of Israel's war cimes.  I hope you found our letter concerning this to your liking in yesterday's Argus!  I attach a copy.

Rape is fine for Ralli Hall's Owners but Support for the Palestinians is Verboten

Ralli Hall - Zionist Centre in Hove Permits Meetings for Advocate of Rape but not Supporters of the Palestinians

Kedar was a welcome guest for Ralli Hall unlike supporters of the Palestinians and anti-Zionists

I can remember the demonstration well, because I was in the throes of advanced liver disease.  However I was determined to turn out on a bitterly cold evening to protest at the Sussex Friends of Israel/Zionist Federation meeting being held there.  The speaker was Mordechai Kedar, Professor at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, a racist religious institution.  Kedar was a retired colonel in the Israeli Occupation Forces.

Kedar had an unusual theory.  As I reported at the time 'The statement by Kedar that the mothers or sisters of ‘terrorists’ should be raped breaks new ground, even for the religious Orthodox.'

Advert for Kedar meeting in Brighton December 2014 held by the far-Right Sussex Friends of Israel

On Friday, the far-Right Zionist group, the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism posted a nasty little article accusing Becky Massey, a member of the Labour Party and Palestine Solidarity Campaign of anti-Semitism.  'Anti-Semitism' is the normal Zionist accusation directed against supporters of the Palestinians so nothing new there.

Synagogues barred Kedar but Ralli Hall was happy to host a rape advocate

What makes this different is that the  owners of Ralli  Hall cancelled the pre-booked AGM of Hove Labour Party on the basis of the CAA's scurrilous and lying little article.  They took it upon themselves to support the allegations in the article without having any way of knowing whether or not the accusations in it were true or not.

So we can only conclude that the Zionists who run Ralli Hall are quite happy with the idea that the sisters or  mothers or wives of men who are accused of 'terrorism' should be raped, but are unhappy with someone who is falsely accused of anti-Semitism.  Perhaps they think that this has some biblical justification, since Zionists usually resort to the Bible to justify most of Israel's abominations.

Even the Zionist Federation cancelled Kedar's meetings in schools and Finchley synagogue abruptly cancelled Kedar's meeting when it heard about his views on rape and war.  However the good Zionists of Ralli Hall were made of sterner stuff.  They couldn't see anything wrong with the idea of raping women in war, despite approaches which were made to them at the time.

Rape supporters are welcome but opponents of Israeli Apartheid are forbidden

But when a false accusation of 'anti-Semitism' is made against someone on the basis of their views on Israel then the meeting of the Labour Party is banned because she will be in attendance.  No allegation was made that Becky had made any derogatory remarks about Jews as individuals but that Israel had an unhealthy influence on British and American foreign policy - something confirmed by the recent programmes 'The Lobby' on Al Jazeera.  You can read the details of what Becky is alleged to have done and the background to it here

Even the Zionist Federation realised it could not have an advocate of rape speaking in Jewish schools

I have sent the following email to Ralli Hall's organisers.  We shall see what they have to say or not as the case may be!

Tony Greenstein

Dear Ralli Hall, 

I intend to give this as much publicity on social media as possible.  Your hypocrisy is quite staggering.

You cancelled a meeting of Hove Labour Party today because of a nasty little attack on an anti-racist woman, Becky Massey, who is an anti-Zionist and supporter of the Palestinians.

Perhaps you like to justify why you object to a supporter of the Palestinians but you were happy in December 2014 to host Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University who advocates rape of women as a weapon of war? 

http://azvsas.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/picket-meeting-of-israeli-professor.html
I and others will be most interested in your answer.  Meanwhile I have posted the details of your hypocrisy here: 

http://azvsas.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/more-false-allegations-of-anti-semitism.html 

Tony Greenstein
Tony Greenstein

Email announcing that the Hove AGM had suddenly been cancelled by the racists and misogynist of Ralli Hall