Bomb Hoax in Liverpool – We Shall Not Be Silenced by Zionist Threats of Violence or Fake Accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’

“The fools, the fools, the fools” neither by bombs nor lies will they prevent us showing The Political Lynching of Jackie Walker

At about 7.15 pm on Tuesday evening, the World Premier of The Political Lynching of Jackie Walker was due to take place at Blackburne House, Liverpool, on the fringe of the Labour Party Conference.

The very fact that this film had to be shown in a small venue near the Liverpool Philharmonic rather than at the Black E was because Momentum’s The World Transformed had banned it and Jackie Walker (along with Free Speech on Israel and Labour Against the Witchhunt).  The World Transformed has strict limits to its transformation even if the rightward moving Red Pepper chooses to keep silent.

It is 99% certain that the phone call came from a Zionist group. No one else had the motive. The person who made the hoax bomb threat spoke of a ‘Jewish event’ taking place. Zionist hatred of anti-Zionist Jews, 'self haters' or 'kapos' and Jackie Walker in particular is far higher than that of British fascists. Anti-Zionist Jews are subject to much greater anti-Semitic abuse by Zionists than by non-Jewish anti-Semites. Indeed one of their favourite complaints is that we too weren't exterminated in the concentration camps.

The Board of Deputies tries to counteract the results of their extreme religious authority

The stupidity of these Zionists, who imagine that they can shut down debate and even a film with the threat of a bomb is reminiscent of the funeral oration by Padraig Pearse in August 2015 for O’Donovan Rossa, a prominent Irish Republican

“the fools, the fools, the fools! —they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”

I have a particular interest in this film since the title of the film and the play of the same name are taken from a blog which I wrote, The Jewish Labour Movement and its Political Lynching of Jackie Walker, on September 17^th 2016, over two weeks before Jackie was suspended for a second time in the wake of the 2016 Labour Party Conference. As the Jewish News admitted 

‘The title is a reference to an article by Marxist commentator Tony Greenstein, who wrote: “The attacks on Jackie Walker and others are political, a determined effort by the Israel lobby to make Britain’s Labour Party safe for Israel and Zionism.”

The previous May Jackie had been suspended and then reinstated within 3 weeks, as a result of a discussion she had had with a friend over the question of Jewish involvement with slavery. The Jewish Labour Movement refused to accept Jackie's reinstatement. The JLM, who are supposedly ‘left’ Zionists, lied and defamed Jackie in an effort to secure her reinstatement. 

This was one of many vile, racist tweets that were a consequence of Jewish Labour Movement attacks.  Not once has the JLM condemned these tweets

More Zionist abuse of Jackie

The lies that the JLM told gave rise to a vicious tirade of racist abuse and social media posts attacking Jackie as a Black person and denying that she was even Jewish.  Being Black meant that Jackie was the ‘wrong sort of Jew’. Of course where the JLM led, the openly fascist Zionists followed. 

I noticed, in the run up to the 2016 Labour Party Conference, that the JLM were targeting Jackie, including withdrawing an invitation to speak to John McDonnell, and I saw in this vendetta nothing less than a political lynching.

Also active in this campaign was Momentum’s racist boss Jon Lansman who threw Jackie to the wolves by removing her as Deputy Chair of Momentum. As did the Zionist 'Trotskyists' the AWL.

Since then there has been a steady stream of vitriol and abuse by those seeking to portray Jackie Walker as a racist and anti-Semite.  Repeated attempts have been made to prevent meetings at which Jackie was due to speak and at which her play The Lynching has been shown. 

These attempts at shutting down the free speech of a Black Jewish woman have not been made by fascists but by the Zionist Board of Deputies of British Jews.

When Jackie and I spoke in Brighton and  Nottingham, the BOD phoned the venues beforehand attempting to get the meetings called off. Similar attempts were made to prevent Jackie appearing in Bradford and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Pure distilled  hypocrisy from @boardofdeputies

Even if the hoax bomb caller was unknown there can be no doubt that he was doing the work that Marie van der Zyl, Jonathan Arkush and the Board of Deputies have been doing these past two years.

The Board of Deputies doing their best to label Jackie Walker an anti-semite

Even if their methods were slightly different the objective was the same.  To prevent Jackie Walker exercising her right of free speech. Defence of the pernicious and racist Israeli state was the aim of both Marie Van Der Zyle and the hoax bomb caller. Whereas Ms Zyle merely threatened, cajoled and lied to the owners of venues which she contacted, the anonymous person who phoned on Tuesday simply promised to blow people up Israeli style.

The Zionists and anti-semites blend into one another

For the past two years the BOD has been accusing Jackie Walker of ‘anti-Semitism’. For example in November 2016, when trying to persuade a church in Bradford to cancel a meeting at which she was due to speak, the Board described Jackie as “an unapologetic Jew-baiter’. Yet these hypocrites, afraid of the backlash against this bomb hoax, describe it as an ‘anti-Semitic bomb threat’. 

Even the racist Sun gets worked up by 'antisemitism'

Only this week the Sun reported that the Labour MP for Tel Aviv South and Liverpool Riverside, Louise Ellman had:  "blasted the attempts to promote her worldview, saying it was “disgraceful” for banned activists to be tolerated by other party members. Dame Louise told a Jewish Labour Movement meeting: “Jackie Walker, suspended by the party, is going around this conference with her show The Lynching of Jackie Walker."

This Zionist was puzzled how Jackie, suspended because of a diagnosis of antisemitism, could be a victim of anti-semitism

Not surprisingly the BOD's take on this came as something of a shock to some Zionists who couldn’t quite work out why it was anti-semitic to attack an ‘anti-Semite’. The person the Board demonised yesterday as a ‘Jew baiter’  has now become the victim of anti-Semitism! This has proved too much for some of their own stupid supporters.

But if the BOD are serious in what they say then they should abandon their demonisation of Jackie and support the showing of this film. Indeed they Board should ensure that it is shown in synagogues and Jewish communal halls in all areas with a significant Jewish population.  After all they wouldn’t want the terrorists to win would they? 

Most people are unpersuaded that Jesus has any relevance to today

The reaction or lack of it of the mass media has been conspicuous by its absence.  Nothing in every paper bar the Guardian and nothing of course on the BBC.  If this had been a bomb scare directed at a Zionist event then the cameras would have been popping away.  Luciana Berger MP, who has been given a police escort to protect her from fake anti-Semitism, would have been mouthing off .  The Blessed Margaret Hodge would have compared herself to a victim in Auschwitz.   

Clearly the rabid writer was a little bit confused!

So inane and dishonest was the Guardian's coverage that this reader assumed that the bomb threat was directed against the Zionists! 

The Guardian need not have bothered to cover the story. The headline over its piece was Jewish event at Labour conference abandoned after bomb scare. Leaving aside the fact that it wasn't a 'Jewish event' the clear impression was left that this was another Zionist event that had been disrupted.  After all the Guardian has done more than most to conflate anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism and to portray being Jewish as being a Zionist.

Although some 100 people were prevented from watching this film on Tuesday, the bomb hoaxers will inevitably experience what is known as 'blowback'. The inevitable reaction to this latest Zionist attempt to close down free speech is that far more people now will want to see what it is that the Zionists are trying to close down.

Tony Greenstein

If the Board of Deputies are sincere in their condemnation then should ensure the film receives the widest possible circulation

Alternative Notes from Labour Party Conference

Packed Labour Against the Witchhunt Meeting Hears Chris Williamson MP condemn the ‘antisemitism’ witchhunt

Alexei Sayle

Having arrived too late to attend Jeremy Corbyn’s meeting at Liverpool’s Pierhead on Saturday night, I went straight to a meeting at the CASA, Liverpool Labour Movement’s pub in Hope Street, Liverpool. The CASA was set up as a result of the failure of the strike of the 500 Sacked Liverpool Dockers in 1995-98 which was sold out by Bill Morris and the TGWU leadership.#

It was the venue for the unveiling of a plaque to the 47 Liverpool councillors who defied the Thatcher government and refused to set a rate in the 1980’s.  This was a Council which built more homes for working class people than every other Labour Council put together.

LAW public meeting last night - standing room only

Audrey White who compared the proceedings

The labour movement failed these heroes and Neil Kinnock scabbed on them with an infamous speech attacking them which led to the walking out from Labour Party conference of the late Eric Heffer MP.

Speakers included Tony Mulhearn, one of the 47 and Len McCluskey, General Secretary of UNITE.  They were introduced by Audrey White, a veteran working class fighter who went on strike against sexual harassmAurnt at work when she was sacked in 1983.  She is also active in the Liverpool  branch of Labour Against the Witchhunt.

Chris Williamson MP speaking at the LAW meeting last night

I began the day early handing out leaflets and giving out Palestinian flags at Labour Party conference.  In the afternoon I helped give run a stall at Momentum’s misnamed The World Transformed at the Black E in Liverpool’s Chinatown.

The Black 'E' where most WTF events were staged

I say misnamed because the World is not that transformed that it can find space to include such subversive organisations as Free Speech on Israel, Jewish Voice for Labour, Jackie Walker’s The Lynching or Labour Against the War. WTF is the ‘radical’ face of Jon Lansman who is careful to ensure that his pet organisation keeps to acceptable political boundaries.

For example Anti-semitism is the subject of morning sessions but Israeli Apartheid is not acceptable!   

Jo Bird spoke first from JVL followed by Alexei Sayle who was on his humorous best.  Tony Mulhearn spoke next and described the treachery of Neil Kinnock’s attack on the Labour Liverpool councillors back in the mid-1980’s and his hypocrisy in attacking a council that had stuck to its pledges. Tony emphasised that retreat was not an option. 

Len McCluskey Audrey White with Tony Mulhearn speaking

I spoke next and emphasised that the ‘Anti-semitism’ witchhunt was not about anti-semitism.  It was about removing Corbyn as Leader. 

Chris Williamson gave an excellent speech ridiculing the witchhunt and emphasising that MPs are not doing a job.  They are representing or supposed to represent their members and the Labour Party. 

Chris pointed to the Orwellian nature of the witch-hunt whereby Black was White and White was Black.  Chris received a standing ovation. Last of all was Bob Walker, one of the Garston 3, a group of 70+ pensioners who had been expelled without so much as a hearing, because they had attended a meeting of the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition. Bob’s stories was extremely touching and described the callous way in which 3 pensioners had been treated.  He too received a standing ovation

There was a vigorous question and answer session afterwards before we retired to the pub!

Tony Greenstein 

The Sad and Steady Decline of the World’s Oldest Jewish Newspaper

In his efforts to destroy Jeremy Corbyn Stephen Pollard has Destroyed the Reputation & Circulation of the Jewish Chronicle

Even by the feral standards of Britain’s tabloid press, the Jewish Chronicle is in a class of its own.  Under former Daily Express editor, Stephen Pollard, the favoured son of Britain’s largest pornography publisher and EDL/UKIP supporter, Richard Desmond, the JC has staggered from the gutter to the sewer. Even the Sun and the Mail make occasional attempts at separating news from commentary. The JC sees no purpose in even pretending to be neutral (or even accurate).

The Jewish Chronicle has, over the summer, behaved like a demented cat on hot tiles. Its one and only abiding theme is that Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite. It has failed of course to provide even a smidgeon of proof to back up this libel. What it lacks in evidence it more than makes up for in shrieking, screaming headlines.

Pollard's screeching has not done the JC's circulation any good

It is little wonder that its circulation has declined since Pollard took over in 2008 from over 32,000 to 20,000 today. It also appears to be in considerable financial difficulty which might explain why Pollard has become the journalistic version of a rabid dog.

The Jewish Chronicle's absurd Goebbel's like propaganda

Things were not always like this.  Even though the paper has long supported the Zionist cause it has, in the past sought to achieve a modicum of balance.  Historically it was the paper of the Jewish Establishment and dull as ditchwater. Its main problem used to be how to keep its readers awake long enough to read it. (see British Jewry’s Family Newspaper:A Century of the “Jewish Chronicle”)

When the Zionist movement was first founded by Theodor Herzl at the end of the 19^th century, the Jewish Chronicle reflected the position of the Jewish Establishment which was hostile to this attempt to suggest that after having won the battle for Emancipation, British Jews didn’t belong in Britain. It described Zionism ‘as ill-considered, retrogressive, impracticable, even dangerous.”

The JC demonstrates its visceral racism in this headline. The continuous death of Palestinians murdered by the Israeli military is not considered 'violence'.  The death of a settler by contrast 'raises fears of fresh violence' in a Gaza which saw 160 people mown down by sniper fire

It was only the mass influx of Jews, fleeing the Russian pogroms, which caused a section of the Jewish Establishment to have second thoughts about Zionism. Palestine’s attractions lay in keeping the East European Jewish hordes from British shores and what they saw as the accompanying anti-Semitism. Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler summed up their attitude when he refused to condemn the 1905 Aliens Act, introduced by the Zionists' hero Arthur J Balfour. 'We must frankly agree' he wrote to Herbert Bentwich, 'that we do not desire to admit criminals and that there is force in the argument against the admission of those [Jews] mentally or physically afflicted.' [Geoffrey Alderman, Modern British Jewry]

The key battle in the struggle within the Jewish Establishment over Zionism came when Claude Montefiore and David Alexander of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Conjoint Committee sent a letter to The Times on 24^th May 1917 opposing Zionism and the movement to create a Jewish state. It caused a split in the Board and a vote to disown the letter.

The Jewish Chronicle takes Zionism to its logical antisemitic conclusion - Jewish MPs should separate themselves off

Margaret Hodge and Zionist Anti-semitism

Fast forward a century to Margaret Hodge’s outburst in the House of Commons when she called Jeremy Corbyn ‘a fucking anti-Semite and racist’ on account of his lack of sympathy for Zionism. This caused a rush of blood to Pollard’s head. Pollard called for Jewish MPs to leave the Labour Party. Jewish Labour MPs must quit the party and form a new bloc of independents.

It doesn’t seem to have occurred to Pollard that calling for Jewish MPs to leave the party they are a member of on the basis of their religious affiliation is itself anti-Semitic! We have to go back nearly a century to Poland where, as a result of the Minority Treaties a block of Jewish MPs sat as Jews in their own right.

Those who advocate the separation of Jews from  mainstream parliamentary parties are usually anti-Semites. The practice of Jews sitting apart on ghetto benches in universities in pre-war Poland was a consequence of the vicious antisemitism amongst Polish students. Yet this is what the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle was advocating when he urged Jewish MPs to separate themselves off from non-Jews. All in the name of fighting anti-Semitism!

Hodge’s behaviour had been triggered by the refusal of Corbyn and Labour’s NEC to adopt wholesale the IHRA‘Definition’ of Anti-Semitism. Pollard complained that ‘instead of adopting the definition... has excised the parts which relate to Israel and how criticism of Israel can be antisemitic.’  When we criticise the Zionists' false anti-Semitism campaign as really being about Israel we are condemned as ‘anti-Semitic’!

Pollard, in his enthusiasm for the dramatic, spoke of how ‘one extraordinary, unplanned event has indeed changed the dynamics. Dame Margaret Hodge’s confrontation of Jeremy Corbyn in a corridor of the House of Commons, calling him an “antisemite and a racist”, seems to have burst a dam.’

A week later the Jewish Chronicle, together with two other Jewish newspapers, in a collective act of madness, published a joint front page which spoke of ‘the existential threat to Jewish life in this country that would be posed by a Jeremy Corbyn-led government.’

The Jewish Chronicle all but accused Jeremy Corbyn of seeking to build concentration camps and why?  Because he refused to endorse a 'definition' of anti-semitism which has been universally panned  by legal and academic critics. 

The Director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism Professor David Feldman, who was also Vice-Chair of the Chakrabarti Inquiry, described the IHRA as‘bewilderingly imprecise.’

Sir Stephen Sedley, a former Judge in the Court of Appeal who is also Jewish wrote that the IHRA ‘fails the first test of any definition: it is indefinite.’

Hugh Tomlinson QC in an Opinion declared that the IHRA had a potential chilling effect on public bodies which, in the absence of definitional clarity, may seek to sanction or prohibit any conduct which has been labelled by third parties as antisemitic without applying any clear criterion of assessment.

Geoffrey Robertson QC, a renowned human rights lawyer described the IHRA as 'not fit for purpose'.

Are all of these people vicious anti-semites whose pronouncements pose an 'existential threat' to the Jewish community today? The hysteria of Britain's Zionist press defies rational explanation.  Racism does strange things to people.  Yet these are the forces driving the Labour Party into declaring that opposition to Zionism is anti-Semitism.

The Jewish Forward

In one fell swoop the Zionist press in this country demonstrated not only how little difference there is between them but how they are little more than  propaganda sheets.  Contrast this with America's main Jewish paper The Forward which has a broad range of articles and themes on political issues, including from Jews who are not Zionists and even, God forbid, Palestinians!

It's a question that the JC avoids - why are so many anti-Semites such ardent fans of Israel?

Whereas the Jewish Chronicle has refrained from criticising the anti-Semites and racists that make up the Trump Administration, the Forward  has had a series of eviscerating headlines such as Naomi Zeveloff’s How Steve Bannon and Breitbart News Can Be Pro-Israel and Anti-Semitic at the Same Time. The Forward’s liberal editors and writers have been forced to confront the fact that the Trump regime is both anti-Semitic and ardently pro-Zionist at one and the same time.  The Forward has articles questioning the relationship between American Jews and Israel, a topic that the JC wouldn't even go near for fear of attracting a lightning bolt.

The JC simply does not mention the phenomenon of real antisemitism in the Trump Administration despite the presence of people like Sebastian Gorka, a fully-fledged fascist and member of the neo-Nazi Vitézi Rend who was Deputy Assistant to Trump.

Whereas The Forward is not afraid of taking up debates about matters of concern to the American Jewish community regardless of Zionist sensitivities, the Jewish Chronicle ploughs the ever more shrill and hysterical furrow of a bogus and fabricated ‘anti-Semitism’.

You are unlikely to read an article such as American Jewry Is Israel’s New Opposition Party in the JC. Editor Jane Eisner writes about how 'the two largest, most important Jewish population centers on the planet are drifting dangerously apart.'  Eisner is a liberal Zionist.

Kaminski 

Michal Kaminski of Poland's Law & Justice Party, who openly wore the Chrobry Sword, the symbol of the anti-Semitic National Radical Camp (ONR) is defended as a 'friend' of the Jews by Pollard!

Pollard has never hesitated to defend anti-Semites who support Israel. His concern is the ‘Jewish State’ not the Jews. Pollard went out on a limb to defend the Tories' membership of the European Conservative and Reform group alongside anti-Semitic parties and members. Pollard defended one fascist in particular, the Chair of the ECR, Michal Kaminski, who had defended villagers in Jedwabne who had herded up to 1,600 Jews into a barn which was then set alight in 1941.

This did not stop Pollard in the Guardian of 9.10.09. writing that Kaminski was ‘one of the greatest friends to the Jews in a town where antisemitism and a visceral loathing of Israel are rife.’ Kaminski, even if he didn’t like Jews very much loved the State of Israel. Poland's Kaminski is not an antisemite: he's a friend to Jews

A good example of the dishonest and distorted coverage of anything related to Corbyn is the story in this week’s Jewish Chronicle ‘Corbynites in plot to unseat pro-Jewish MPs.’ Most readers would assume that this meant a campaign to target Jewish MPs because they are Jewish. The first paragraph of this article talks about ‘A co-ordinated and targeted hard-left plot to threaten and destabilise Jewish MPs and their supporters in the Labour Party.’

In fact Joan Ryan, the MP who was no-confidenced by her own Labour Party Enfield North last week is not Jewish or for that matter pro-Jewish (whatever that means).  Ryan is the Chair of Labour Friends of Israel and is well known for her greed and dishonesty having claimed the most expenses of any MP in 2006-7 and having been runner up in 2005-6, to say nothing of having tried to frame Labour delegate Jean Fitzpatrick as an antisemite at the 2016 Labour Party Conference. [See The Lobby - Episode 3 'An Antisemitic Trope]

The letter from 29 Jewish Rabbis supporting Jeremy Corbyn

The affair of the letter which was signed by 29 Orthodox Jewish Rabbis last week, dissociating themselves and their communities from the Chief Rabbi’s letter attacking Corbyn, is another example of the Jewish Chronicle’s dishonesty. When the letter first surfaced the Jewish Chronicle of 10th September claimed that the letter had been ‘condemned as fake’. Two days later it owned up to the fact that it was in fact genuine although it still tried to discredit it. Organisations distance themselves from ‘letter from Charedi rabbis’ defending Corbyn ran the headline. Because of course a letter from Jewish rabbis opposing its own campaign of vilification doesn’t quite square with the image of Corbyn that the Jewish Chronicle has portrayed.

In other words the JC now accepted that the letter was genuine.  However at no point did the JC follow normal journalistic practice which notes at the bottom of any article just what if any changes have taken place since the article first appeared.

 Skwawkbox, which has covered this issue in depth, noted that ‘The JC appears to use software to prevent any archiving of its pages.’ Not only had the headline changed but the content of the article had also changed.  Now it was being alleged, not that the letter was a fake but that the rabbis who signed it had been ‘misled’ as to its contents.

A spokesman for the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Communities in response to these allegations by the Jewish Chronicle commented that ‘This is a sad state of affairs and a commentary on the lengths to which some people will go. Of course the letter is genuine.’ And of course the Zionist organisations behind the anti-Semitism campaign have a vested interest in pretending that they represent the whole Jewish community. To them being Jewish is synonymous with being a Zionist.

Shraga Stern, the Haredi Jewish activist who helped organise the letter from twenty-nine Orthodox rabbis sent a letter to the JC in response to their attempts to portray the letter as either a fake or unrepresentative. Not surprisingly the Jewish Chronicle has not published it.  It is reprinted below.

It now appears that Haredi Jews, who are sick of the attacks in their name on Jeremy Corbyn by the Board of Deputies are now planning their own protests outside the Board's annual fundraising dinner in November.

Clearly the Board of Deputies have been stung by this demonstration by Haredi Jews that the Board does not speak for them.  The JC has acted as their faithful mouthpiece. In the Jewish Chronicle this week the Board condemned what they called the “divide and rule” tactics of a “small group of malcontents”. The Board’s anger boiled over adding that “The Charedi community has had no better ally than the Board of Deputies” and that they “should be protesting against antisemitism, not against attempts to fight it.”

This is doubly ironic as the Board has never organized against genuine anti-Semitism.  From the campaign against Oswald Moseley’s British Union of Fascism in the 1930’s to the Anti-Nazi League in the 1970’ the Board’s position has always been to appeal to Jews not to confront the fascists and anti-Semites.  Only when it comes to critics of Israel does the BOD gird its loins!

The Haredi community, because it is visibly different in how it dresses stands out as distinctly Jewish. Uniquely among Jews it experiences racist and anti-Semitic attacks. This was the one section of the Jewish community that was comprehensively ignored by the Report of Parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee on Anti-Semitism which was issued in October 2016.

As the letter below from Shraga Stern makes clear, the Board of Deputies represents a minority of Jews in Britain.  The Board's claims have been supported by the BBC and the British media precisely because it is in their interests to support Israel.

Unpublished Letter from Shraga Stern to the Jewish Chronicle

We believe that the anti-Semitism smear and witch hunt against Jeremy Corbyn is a Zionist agenda and has all the footprints leading to that direction. It is being promoted by the Board of Deputies and by the self-made unelected JLC, who are a well-known pro-Israel bodies-  and it’s completely cruel and unjustified.

The Board of Deputies and JLC do not represent Charedi Jews, who do not have voting rights at BoD elections and number today over fifty thousand in the UK, of which 30,000 live in Stamford Hill. According to a 2007 study by Dr Markov Wise at the University of Manchester, almost three out of every four Jewish births in the UK – home to the largest strictly Orthodox community in Europe – are in the Charedi community.

The strange thing here is that they are 263,000 Jews living in UK according to the 2011 census. Half of them do not belong to a synagogue according to BoD population statistics, so this half would not have voting rights in the BoD elections.

Add this up with 50,000 Charedi Jews it equals 181,000 out of 263,000 who will not fall under the BoD and the BoD do not represent them. So how on earth can the BoD have the chutzpah to say they represent the Jews in UK? BoD is a pro-Israel body and only represent a very particular part of Jews who are pro-Israel.

Charedi Jews and most mainstream Jews in the UK are only interested in Anglo Jewry matters and do not get involved in Israel politics. However saying this we do recognise that real anti-Semitism is an issue all over the country and in all political parties. We are convinced that Jeremy Corbyn is doing his best to tackle real anti-Semitism in his party while still giving his people of his party freedom of speech to criticize Israel.

However, we are nowhere near to fleeing this country because of this. As a Charedi Jew I can say that Charedi Jews are the most vulnerable to anti-Semitic attacks as they dress differently and one can see that they are Jewish, therefore this support letter from leading Charedi rabbis from Stamford Hill including Chief Rabbi Padwa from the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (UOHC) says it all.

Jeremy is a long friend and neighbour of the Charedi community here and everyone who knows him personally says that he loves Jews and is against real anti-Semitism, and this is what he has done all his life.

Times have changed and we will not stop here. We will not be hijacked by the BoD and JLC. We will go further then this to make it clear to all the government bodies and to the press, not to fall into the trap of the BoD and JLC who are extremist Zionist bodies and do not represent mainstream Jews.

Discussions are now taking place that I’m personally aware of and talks are in place on considering setting up a new body of Board of Deputies of mainstream British Jews that will focus only on anglo-jewish matters and will represent the entire Jewish population no matter if they are associated to a BoD synagogue or not and act for the many Jews not the few.