My ‘Crime’ is
Supporting Palestinian Resistance While the British State Aids Israel’s
Genocide
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On
December 20 2023 I was arrested in a dawn raid at my home by officers of Counter-Terrorism
Police SE. Their logo states that their objective is to counter
terrorism but today it is to criminalise support for liberation
movements and anti-colonial struggles – be they in Palestine or Kurdistan.
My
first reaction on being told I was being arrested for a tweet I had posted a month
previously was ‘this is Orwellian’ .At first I was led to believe
that I was being prosecuted under s.12(1A) of the
Terrorism Act 2000, ‘expressing
an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation’.
Now
I understand the prosecution is under s.12(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000
This
is a blatant attempt to criminalise support for any anti-colonial or resistance
organisation of the oppressed. Israel is in an illegal occupation of Gaza, as
it has been for 58 years but any expression for armed resistance against Israel’s
military and genocidal violence is a criminal offence.
We
only have to remember when Margaret Thatcher called
the ANC a terrorist organisation to know that none of this is new. There has
always been an attempt by governments to brand armed opposition ‘terrorist’.
The Nazis called the French and Czech resistance ‘terrorist’.
As
Professor
John Dugard KC, a distinguished South Africa International Lawyer and ad-hoc
judge of the International Court of Justice said:
Terrorism is
an emotive word that has no place in the assessment of the conduct of either a
government or a resistance movement. One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s
terrorist. Few would today label members of the French resistance in World War
II as “terrorist” and most would have no hesitation in describing the Nazi
forces as “terrorist”. Yet today most western states refrain from describing
the acts of government forces as acts of terror but have no hesitation in so
describing the acts of resistance movements and other non-state actors.
The Central Criminal Court 'The Old Bailey'
The
use of proscription, be it against Hamas or the PKK, the Kurdish Workers Party
is an attempt to shut down free speech on support for groups that the British government
does not approve of for political reasons. It has nothing whatsoever to do with
terrorism.
We
all know what terrorism is. It is the planting of a bomb in July 2017 that killed 22
young people at the Manchester Arena Ariana Grande Concert or the attack by
ISIS on the Bataclan concert in Paris that murdered some 100 people.
But
here’s the rub. Salman Abedi was allowed to
go to fight with Libyan jihadi groups in the fight against Colonel Gaddaffis’s
government by MI5.ISIS which carried out
the Bataclan attacks didn’t even exist before Britain and the United States illegal
attack on Iraq.
The
‘terrorism’ that is used as a pretext to attack domestic support for the
resistance organisations of the oppressed has in most cases been created by
western foreign policy. Hilary Clinton admitted that it was US
policy of supporting Jihadi fighters in Afghanistan which created Al
Qaeda.Every time that the British and
American states have employed far-right Islamist fighters to take out regimes
they don’t like there has been blow back.
And
today we see the blow back in terms of our own rights and civil liberties. It
is not me, Natalie
Strecker, Sarah
Wilkinson or Asa
Winstanley or Richard
Medhurst, all of whom have had their homes raided, computer equipment
stolen and been arrested and/or charged (except for Asa) accused of supporting
terrorism. That accolade belongs to the British government and the intelligence
agencies.
That
is what my trial and the trial of all the other people who have been arrested
is about.And that is why you should
join me on Friday January 31 outside the Central Criminal Court, the Old
Bailey, in London.
The
government has even attempted to roll back the right of jurors, derived
from the 1670 case of Edward
Bushells, to deliver a verdict contrary to a judge’s directions and in
accordance with their conscience with the arrest of
Trudy Warner and others who had the temerity to inform jurors of their right.
Compare This to My Arrest – Sussex Police & the CPS Can
Be Relied on To Do Their Utmost to Avoid Prosecuting Caplin
WARNING –you may find some of the pictures below this post offensive
– they were all posted by Ivor Caplin and illustrates his interests
You might think that the
arrest of a former Defence Minister and government Whip on charges of child
grooming would make the pages of all the national dailies.But if so you would be wrong? Only the Daily Mail did
so.
The BBC had a short reportMan arrested on suspicion of child sex offencebut it did not name him. This
narrowed down the suspects to a mere half of the population. The only clues to
Caplin’s identity were that he was 66 and local to Brighton (in fact he is
local to Hove).
Brighton & Hove News went one further with ‘Tony Greenstein charged with terrorism offence’ from which you might assume that I
had been found with a bomb in my pocket rather than having published a blog
that was not to the Police’s liking.
‘Welcoming the decision to expel Mr Greenstein, Ivor Caplin, south east
chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, said: “His continued membership is at
complete odds with our collective values of solidarity, tolerance and respect.
“Deliberately
harassing, intimidatory and hateful language of the kind Tony Greenstein has
continually used has no place inside the Labour movement.
“Despite the unacceptably long time it has
taken to reach this conclusion, we are heartened that the party has sent out a
clear message on this today.
“We will continue to
press the party to deal firmly and swiftly with antisemitism, including the
high number of cases that are still waiting to be resolved."
The Guardian of course said nothing which is not surprising since
Caplin had been such an integral part of their false ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign
in the Labour Party.
There is an easy
explanation. Caplin is a prominent Zionist.I suspect that great efforts will be made to prove that Caplin was only
trying to contact a 15 year old boy in order that they could play chess
together!
And what of the Police?When I was charged they issued a statement which said:
“A
70-year-old man has been charged with a terrorism offence as part of an
investigation by officers from Counter Terrorism South East (CTPSE).
“Anthony
Greenstein, of XXXX, Brighton, has been charged with one count of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, namely Hamas, contrary to Section 12(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000.
“The charge is in connection with comments made online on Saturday 7 October 2023.
“He has been bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 12 December.
🚨Ivor Caplin's qualifications to be on @GBNEWS *Supporter of Israeli aggression✅ *Blames Palestine for Middle East war✅ *Suspended as a member of Labour✅ *Has similar alleged perverted tastes as other current and former GBNews presenters✅ https://t.co/NGCRJDdlZQ
What Ivor Caplin Doesn't Lack Is Influential Friends
Sussex Police also issued a
statement when I was first arrested in 2023. Compare this to what Sussex Police
saidwhen Caplin was arrested:
“We
are aware of footage circulating on social media showing a man in Brighton
being detained on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a
child.
“Officers
can confirm that a local 66-year-old man was arrested on Saturday January 11
and currently remains in custody. They later elaborated
“A 66-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of
engaging in online sexual communications with a child on 11 January has been
released on bail until 10 April while further enquiries are carried out.”
No name and no address. Why the
disparity?It would seem that there are
forces in society who help and protect powerful paedophiles and equally
powerful forces out to portray me as a ‘terrorist’.
One can only hope that one of his bail conditions is surrendering his passport or Ivor may end up in Israel
It’s one
law for right-wing former Labour Zionist ministers who are caught trying to
make contact with children and quite another law forthose of us who support the Palestinian
resistance against a genocidal army that has killed more than 20,000
Palestinian children.
And of
course there is a logic to this.If the
British government, from Starmer down, can say nothing about the murder of
thousands of Palestinian children, why on earth should they be bothered about
the grooming of one 15 year old boy?
The Hypocrisy of these People Knows No Limits
In the eyes of the Police
and Establishment grooming young children is considered a lesser crime than
supporting an anti-colonial guerrilla struggle. Paedophillia amongst our rulers
has always been treated lightly if at all.
We only have to consider the way four
different Police forces, including Sussex, went out of their way to protect
Jimmy Saville. According to an Inspectorate of Constabulary Report in 2007. The HMIC report said:
“Both officers (from Sussex
and Surrey) appear to have alerted each other to the reluctance of their
respective victims and both decided that neither was able to support the other.
As a result, opportunities for mutual support were lost.”
Sussex Police were also involved in protecting another high society paedophile, the
Bishop of Lewes Peter Ball, friend of Prince now King Charles III. Initially,
in 1993, Ball was merely cautioned for his crimes. Eventually in 2015 he was
gaoled for 32 months for quite horrendous abuse. The Independent Inquiry into Child Abuse found that a victim of Ball, Philip
Johnson, after having learned in September 1996 that his younger brother had
also been sexually abused visited a Sussex Police Station, where he reported
the offences committed by Cotton and Pritchard, two other priests.
Mr Johnson said he was made
to feel uncomfortable by the officers, who appeared to view him “as a threat to
children … I felt that I was being investigated more than Cotton or Pritchard.
Starmer’s CPS protected Saville
and then destroyed the files in 2010 when Starmer was
Director of Public Prosecutions. The historic attitude to the abuse of children
by the rich and powerful was exemplified by Peter Morrison MP, Thatcher’s Personal Private Secretary who was protected by Thatcher and MI5 despite his
proclivities being well known.
Caplin and fellow Zionist and current Hove MP, Peter 'Killer' Kyle
Greg
Hadfield has written an interesting
article that should be required reading for anyone interested in why Sussex
Police have treated Caplin with kid gloves. In essence Caplin was part of a
right-wing Gay Labour Mafia in Brighton & Hove which includes local MP
Peter ‘Killer’ Kyle, his ex-boyfriend, who lives literally a stone throws away.
Chris Ward, the new
Starmerite MP for Brighton Kemptown seems to have been another member of this
clique.
Ward was
the Starmer imposed stooge in Brighton Kemptown at the last election. A
complete nonentity he ran Hanbury
Strategy, a PR/Lobbying group with his Tory election opponent,
Khobi Vallis at the last election.
Chris
Ward’s original CV sent to members mentioned that he once worked for Caplin,
but all reference to working for him has been removed since Caplin was
suspended by the Labour Party last year. As Greg Hadfield observed, this is an
extremely unusual occurrence for someone on the right of the party.
Caplin was
the first Labour MP that Hove had ever had.Caplin was a Defence Minister at the time of the invasion of Iraq.I can remember him scuttling out of the
backdoor of Hove Town Hall when we came to talk with him!And he panicked and called the Police when we
next met up with him at Portslade Town hall.
Caplin has
been addicted to Crystal Meths for the last 18 months and genocide for over 20
years.Last June Caplin was arrested for a
sexual assault on a young man at the YMCA hostel in Brighton’s North Road.
Suffice to say SussexPolice managed to
avoid having to investigate the case too hard and Caplin escaped prosecution.
As Andy Winter, an Argus columnist and former Labour councillor recalled being told: “Whenever
something odd happens in the Labour Party, all roads lead back to Ivor Caplin.”
Guess who helped select the Council candidates for 2023 – including two who
didn’t live in Brighton? Yes that’s right, Ivor Caplin. It was Caplin who was appointed to
the Labour Party’s South East Executive with the explicit task of weeding out
anyone on the left.
No wonder that Labour councillors in
Brighton & Hove have had nothing to say about the Genocide in Gaza given
who they owe their position to.
Caplin’s sudden announcement, in
November 2004, barely five months before Blair called a general election, that
he wouldn’t be a candidate was due to a front-page scoop in the ill-fated News of the World. In the end the
article was confined to the inside pages.
Caplin seems to be addicted to posting, re-posting and
replying to pornographic images and videos on what was his Twitter feed.
No indication was given that this was Ivor Caplin - he got away with it again
Brighton & Hove
News reported on June 11 204 that Caplin had been
suspended by the Labour Party ‘after
serious allegations were made about him.’ Clearly this related to the
sexual assault on the young homeless man, the investigation into which Brighton
Police dropped. Yet we were given no clue as to what these allegations were
about.
Jo Wadsworth, the Brighton
& Hove Editor, who is to journalism what Harold Shipman was to care for
the elderly, commented that
In recent weeks, Mr
Caplin has been tweeting increasingly explicit images of young men, ranging
from semi-naked stills to pornographic videos.
Caplin is reputed to have had sex with any number of
rent boys and male prostitutes. Clearly he has a problem. As Hadfield
commented:
When this conduct is undertaken by a senior figure
in a political party, with a public facade of trusted respectability, it is
positively dangerous. Especially in an organisation with inadequate
safeguarding procedures.
In an opaque, hierarchical, and undemocratic Labour
Party — where whistleblowing is now punished rather than welcomed — it is a
disaster waiting to happen.
Teenage members as young as 14 out on the
#LabourDoorstep, canvassing in tiny groups — often on ill-lit streets and
accompanied by older, more experienced, more trusted, more powerful party
colleagues — must be protected.
Caplin sees young boys as something to be exploited,
used and abused. It is little wonder that he is an avid Zionist.
However nothing Caplin did was sufficient to deter Starmer
who has had problems of his own when it comes to sexual predators. Hadfield
commented that
We do not know if Caplin is a paedophile or not. I
hope he will have his day in court, so we can find out.
And I do not have any evidence at all to
substantiate wild rumours about a Labour “sex ring” or a “rape network” in
Brighton and Hove.
Which is another way of saying that Brighton &
Hove Labour Party may indeed have a ‘sex ring’ or ‘rape network’. Hadfield
asked
Did all his followers on X/Twitter always block him,
have dormant accounts, or mute him, or just not notice the daily waterfall of
extreme pornography? All the photographs? All the videos?
Amongst those who followed him were Tom Watson, Jack
Lubner, chair of Young Labour, Mike Katz, chair of the JLM and Gurinder Singh
Josan, the far-right Labour MP for Smethwick and friend of Luke Akehurst. Even
the Crown Prosecution Service (@CPSUK) followed Caplin as well as former
Chief Superintendent Nick May, Sussex Police’s Divisional Commander for
Brighton and Hove (until his retirement in September 2021) and a friend of Fiona Sharpe. As Hadfield commented:
One thing I do know is that the likes of Ms Sharpe
and Caplin are so embedded in the local criminal justice system, not to mention
the local mainstream media, that they feel they can get away with anything. They
have friends in high places.
No complaint from them is too trivial to be taken
seriously (Sharpe and Sussex Police); no mendacious story is so insubstantial
that a quote from “a senior Labour source” won’t generate a headline.
This is very true. A woman Palestine solidarity member
in Brighton was seriously assaulted at the Clocktower but Sussex Police refused
to prosecute because they claimed her witness wasn’t independent (which is a
job for the courts not them)!
Fiona Sharpe harasses Yasser and then claimed or
rather lied in court that she had been harassed
But when has that ever stopped them using Fiona Sharpe
as a witness despite her proven record of lying in court? [See The Janus Faced Fiona Sharpe of
Sussex Friends of Israel] When she gave evidence at the trial of a Palestinian man, Yasser some
years ago, everything she said was contradicted by the video evidence. Yasser
was acquitted.
Sussex Police are using Fiona Sharpe again though in a
case being brought against a Brighton woman for damaging a paste board in
Palmeira Square, which shouldn’t even be there and which uses Israel’s
‘hostages’ to justify genocide in Gaza. It is grossly offensive to opponents of
genocide but Sussex Police bend over backwards to support Sharpe, Caplin and
her clique of misfits.
Sharpe, besides perjuring herself in court, is thick
as thieves with Sussex Police. In February 2024 she was a recipient of the Chief Constable’s award for
services rendered. The mind boggles as to what those services were! No doubt
she is lobbying hard even as I write for the exoneration of the Honourable Ivor
Caplin.
Indeed it was most unfortunate that Caplin was caught
by a vigilante group while trying to recruit a child for a bit of sex on the
side. His protestations of innocence and his web of lies make for amusing
viewing. But we shall see whether the CPS manages to find a reason not to
prosecute. Perhaps they will say it is ‘not
in the public interest’ to have a high profile Zionist convicted of child
grooming.
Not so many years ago, former President of the Board
of Deputies and a former Labour MP and peer also managed to avoid prosecution
for child abuse despite many horrendous allegations because of favourable treatment
by the Police and the CPS.
Hadfield himself is now subject to a malicious
prosecution by Sussex Police under s.127 of the Malicious Communications Act
for posting a single screenshot in a single post of something Caplin posted,
triggered by a vexatious complaint by Fiona Sharpe. He faces 5 years
imprisonment if convicted whereas knowing Sussex Police they will exert
themselves to the maximum to find reasons not to prosecute Fiona Sharpe’s
friend Ivor Caplin.
As Hadfield notes ‘Just
like in the Labour Party, so in the criminal justice system: the process is the punishment and the punishment is the process.’
The Jewish Labour Movement haven’t had a great deal of luck
with their Chairmen. The first one, Jeremy Newmark defrauded the Jewish Leadership Council of
£100,000 but got away with it because they didn’t want the publicity.
Their second Chair, Ivor Caplin is a suspected
paedophile guilty of an attack on a young homeless man.
One wonders what their third Chair, Lord Mike Katz has
hidden in his ermine.Katz earned his
daily bread by lobbying for private rail companies. Really
the JLM should be sued under the Trades Description Act. They may be Jewish but
there is nothing of the labour movement about these frauds.
Tony Greenstein
Below - A Little of Caplin's Prostigous Twitter Output - No-one in the Labour Party, least of all Starmer, seemed to mind
