Open Letter to Attorney General Jeremy Wright August 2018

The Right Hon. Jeremy Wright QC MP Attorney General Attorney General’s Office 20 Victoria Street London SW1H 0NF Jeremy.wright.mp@parliament.uk …

Open Letter to Attorney General Jeremy Wright

A de-facto Palestine is being created outside of any official negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority

“It would be a planned community …… contain enough housing for up to 40,000 Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.”

A de-facto Palestine is being created outside of any official negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority

The non-existent Jew

The Cogwar 8 Years On: BLM, BDS & the wokeocracy

On 27 July 2020 Campaign4Truth hosted Prof Richard Landes. Eight years ago he said:

“It’s not every generation that gets to defend a civilisation,” and advised that silence wasn’t an option. 

So here are we these 8 years later and we ask, “How have we done?” 

When Richard was last in London in January 2020, he spoke at our event: “The Corruption of the Language: Palestinian Cognitive Warfare Targets Western School Curricula”  

Now six months later we find that language has indeed played a large role in the extraordinary events that have taken place in this short space of time. We have all become  familiar with the following words and acronyms:

Covid19, Corona virus, Pandemic, Wuhan, Ventilators, Face masks, Wash your hands, Social distancing, BLM, BDS, Cancel Culture, Fake News, Trump Derangement Syndrome, and of course the latest buzz word WOKE.

Many might be asking what this means and what has it to do with this thing called a Cogwar. Thats where Richard Landes came in.

SDK Question 1
Richard, let’s start with the media and journalists and their journalism. What role has the media played this year in all of the extraordinary events that are still rolling out and can we look back to find a trail from the past that brings us to where we are today? Fake news – an expression now inseparable from President Trump? Discuss. 

RL Reply
Covid has revealed a worrying series of gaps, between data and policy, between safety and economic life, and most terrifying, at least in my mind, a gap between what our journalists and their editors tell us, and what’s happening. 

So much of the information seems so politicised, a tendency increased by twitter mobs and the canceling of so much discourse as “racist.” And not surprisingly, in a world where Linda Sarsour is a “progressive” star, real feminists like Phyllis Chesler get canceled.

And this is true all around. Fox and CNN, BBC and France2. We are dealing with a huge challenge to our civilisation, and the information by which we navigate that challenge is strongly tainted. We’re fighting a night fight and we’re moon-blind.

Now what made it possible for our major legacy media to get so politicised that they resemble the early days of the US “partisan press.” Modern conditions demand a much higher level of accuracy in reporting than we’re currently getting.

In my reading of the last 20 years, during which this has happened on a large scale, this begins with the legacy media’s reporting of the 2^nd intifada. At that time, on an unprecedented scale, they systematically reported Palestinian war propaganda as news (what I call “lethal journalism”) and under-reported the genocidal hatreds that lay behind the “suicide martyr” terror campaign. To this day, people think of the conflict in terms of the Palestinian freedom fighters and the Israeli overlords.

Both the al Durah story and the “Jenin Massacre” (both chapters in my book) represent exceptional hoaxes in the history of modern journalism, both for the spread of the memes within the legacy media (not just one paper duped), and their reluctance to correct either their past or future behaviour. They felt they were doing “right” by distorting the situation to favour the Palestinians (who really don’t like criticism) and the Israelis (who you can insult to their face and they’ll take it). 

Gradually this made progress. Dan Rather got caught with a fake letter criticising the young George Bush, which he released just before, and therefore hopefully to tip the election in favour of Kerry in 2004. When he got caught, the NYT defended him on the grounds that it was “fake but accurate” – the same argument used to reject the claims that Muhammad al Durah footage of the IDF killing a Palestinian boy aged 12 in the arms of his father was faked. And Rather and the NYT were part of a larger group turning out anti-Bush political propaganda. The Lancet rushed into publication (on the web first!) in order to publish deeply problematic statistics that accused Bush of killing over 100,000 in Iraq.

Similarly with Muslims. The media bent over backwards not to criticise Muslims, not to associate Muslim terror with Islam. For Obama administration officials, the words “radical Islam” were taboo. The victims of the Fort Hood massacre carried out by a Palestinian-American jihadi yelling “Allahu Akhbar,” were injured and killed in a “work-place accident.” Any criticism of Islam was considered Islamophobic, and that accusation was so powerful, that for over a decade no one in authority dared protect British girls from sexual slavery at the hands of Pakistani Muslims for fear of being called an Islamophobe. What a tremendous victory for the Caliphater cogwar.

By the end of the new century’s first decade (what I call the “aughts” the 00s), the “us-them” attitude that has spread throughout the news media, enforced by cancel-culture bullying, that has deeply damaged the information we get. Trump’s election has had a huge impact, aggravating the problem. The NYT apologised for having assured their readers that Trump couldn’t win (because that narrative overrode their reporting accuracy), only to dive ever-more completely into partisan politics in the aftermath. The recent firing of James Bennet and resignation of Bari Weiss  shows how far the “mob” has penetrated the legacy media: it was a massive shift toward cancel culture’s grip.

Now, with Covid, the situation is no longer even a bad joke. The rapidity with which various narratives (no big deal, be free vs. big deal, stay at home and wear a mask) fell victim to a journalistic agenda was stunning.

If you haven’t you’ve got to see the humour of Canadian comic Ryan Long on the insane symmetries between right and left, watch this:  

Canadian Comic Ryan Long

And of course, in such a world, conspiracy theories multiply at the speed of light, with the internet providing petrie dish conditions. Everywhere people see plots, malevolent intentions, hidden forces working their ruin, often Jews or Israel. And given the pathetically skewed information we get from an activist journalism that cares more about manipulating people into the right-thinking than accuracy, it’s hard to counter such concerns.

SDK Question 2
Our title reads “Wokeocracy as an apocalyptic millenarian movement”
Woke is the 2020 buzz word, some say its PC on steroids.
The urban dictionary describes it as simply being aware of whats going on in society in relation to racism and social injustice. 

Please expand on his concept of Wokeocracy as an apocalyptic millenarian movement, an ideology that postulates the traumatic end to an era promising relief from sufferings and giving rise to salvation in a new golden age. 

RL Replies
First some definitions:

• Millennialism: belief in a coming period of “heaven on earth”, in the flesh.
• Eschatology: end of the world, saved go to heaven, damned to hell.
• Apocalyptic: imminence. whether millennium or eschaton, it’s about to happen.
• Varieties of apocalyptic activism: 
  • Cataclysmic/violent (destroying the world to save it) 
  • Transformative/peaceful (voluntary change of heart)

Woke are a reincarnation of ’60s New Age millennialism, passed through a Frankfurt-School academia of tenured (failed) radicals, weaponised by the internet, and now storming out from their study halls to impose the truth on a sinful and recalcitrant social world of suffocating, systemic oppression. In the late 4^th century in the Mediterranean, monks emerged from their cells and cloisters to attack pagan blasphemies, kill their teachers and burn their libraries. Today it’s done bloodlessly through cancel culture.

The woke leaders are all convinced they’ve seen the light and know the truth. Racism is systemic in America (where, by those standards, is it not?). Privileged need to step down and make room for the oppressed. Modern capitalism is bad – look at global warming. The Israelis and the Americans are the enemy; our Islamist and Palestinian brothers are in the same trench against colonial settler genocide and unbearable racism at home. If only we can dismantle this “evil empire” the world will be filled with good, simple men like Luke Skywalker and his merry men.

It’s seems absurd, and it’s easy to make fun of (Tatiana McGrath’s Woke). But it’s also tragically true. We live in a world shaped by sci-fi movies.

Two key movie memes of the millennial generations are Star Trek’s evil empire (us) and ET’s lovable other (them). Today we privileged whiteys must oppose evil us and bend the knee to just them.

Part of the change from the 60s is how much “revolutionary” behaviour is programmed rather than spontaneous, how much is expended manifesting, signaling, virtue. 

It’s precisely this virtue signaling that cripples an opposition. As many commentators have noted, the big guys like Stephen Pinker who get social justice mobbed, will survive. 

The message is to the lesser, up and coming thinkers. Refuse the virtue signals at your own risk.

The millennial ideology behind this is what its proponents in academia call Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies, an openly partisan academic field that insists that man is inherently peaceful, that anyone who disagrees is a war monger, that if their techniques would be followed, we would enter an era free of War. (Alongside Gays and Feminists for Palestine, there are few more self-parodying names than that of “Historians against War.”) 

It’s a secular version of Isaiah’s promise, a favourite of early Christian preaching, a source of inspiration to those who created the UN, a favourite of the sixties. “Ain’t a gonna study war no more, I ain’t a gonna study war no more.” 

And although it may not get fully explicit about its religious inspiration, it’s definitely more active than its earlier religious manifestations. When there’s no God, people have to build the millennium by themselves.

Many people have noted the “religious” dimension of the wokeocracy. Certainly BDS has rituals of recruitment and initiation. Most of these religious traits are also apocalyptic traits – 

• the division of the world into good and evil, 
• the legitimation of violence for the sake of collective salvation, 
• the enforcement of a dogma from which there is no dissent.

Eric Hoffer noted in his classic study of modern millennial movements, True Believer, mass movements of true believers don’t need a god, but they do need a devil. And that’s the modern privileged whites. Anything to undermine them, including falsifying evidence, is legitimate.

The irony here is that the ally this messianic endeavor is the other major apocalyptic movement of our day, the Caliphaters, namely Muslims who believe that in this generation, there will be a global Caliphate ruling the entire world.

This is an active cataclysmic movement (i.e. we are god’s instrument in carrying out the necessary violence to destroy evil (kuffār) and introduce the perfect society: a global Caliphate dispensing sharia law. And it’s goal is a hierarchical millennium: Muslims rule over dhimmi. 

One would think a peaceful movement would steer clear of such apocalyptic testosterone, but no, we have the marriage of post-modern masochism and pre-modern sadism. 

As anyone fleeing Islamic theocracies will tell you, they start and accede to power through an alliance with the Left. And then they eat them up.

SDK Question 3
BLM – the movement has exploded into our lives and is embraced in the mainstream as a force for change, acknowledging past injustices served to the black communities including slavery, police violence and discriminatory racism. This movement has been around for some time, so what is the significance of it right now in this year of pandemic and what’s the connection with BDS? How does this tie in with Cancel Culture? What’s actually going on?

RL Replies
Black Lives Matter, the formal organisation, needs to be distinguished from BLM, the sentiment and movement for social justice that sentiment informs. 

Unquestionably, no matter how heinous the personality, no one, not even George Floyd deserves to die the way he did. And any attitude that somehow black lives matter less than white ones (or whatever one’s race), reflects a level of racial prejudice that most Americans find reprehensible. 

Of course, that’s already a huge step away from the kind of systemic racism one finds in countries like Japan, China, India, Brazil, etc. But in the current atmosphere, one can’t even say that.

A University of Syracuse Law Professor had the nerve to point out that the meme that launched the Ferguson Riots and #BlackLivesMatter’s prominence in 2015 – hands up don’t shoot! – was actually not true. His colleagues and the students tried to get him fired.

A U Penn professor had the nerve to want to point out that much of the current anti-racist sentiment comes from the open-mindedness of white editors

Romano took issue with the idea that the publishing business operated with “the full benefits of white supremacy and institutional racism” and that “white gatekeeping had been working to stifle black voices at every level of our industry,” as the statement contended. These assertions, he argued, amounted to “calumnies on multiple generations of white publishers and editors” who had fought to publish authors of colour. “I resent the idea that whites in the book publishing and literary world are an oppositional force that needs to be assigned to reeducation camps,” he wrote.

The response: a petition calling on the administration to Fire Carlin Romano from UPenn

Dear Faculty & Deans of the Annenberg School for Communication,

I write to express my outrage and disappointment over the recent behaviour of Carlin Romano, specifically in relation to racist remarks he made and a sustained campaign of targeting black people and women on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.

Outrage at him targeting black people and women, by disagreeing with their dogmatic assertions of white supremacist evil.

But from there to the BLM movement as founded by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi with its combination of Frankfurt school critical theory, neo-Marxian ideology, with its intersectional alliance with the Palestinian movement, there’s an enormous leap.

Instead of black lives matter, we have black lives taken by cops and whites are what matter, and even if reducing police presence and intervention means more blacks – children and women – are killed by black gangs. That’s not a problem.

Similarly, the link with the Palestinians is based on the same twisted logic: Palestinians and their supporters are only interested in Palestinian or Arab lives when Israelis can be blamed. A hundred times as many Arabs killed in Syria? Palestinians victims of Lebanese apartheid? Not an issue. 

Thus BLM had a plank in their manifesto platform accusing Israel of genocide. And in those woke circles, just as it is not permissible for someone to say that whites aren’t racist, it’s not permissible to say Israel isn’t genocidal. And, ironically, just as you can’t defend Israel (or whites) you can’t criticise Palestinians or blacks: to say Palestinians teach their children and their people genocidal hatred is not admissible, even as to say Blacks have their own forms of racism is unacceptable.

Right now, BLM, the political movement, is using the sentiment “Black Lives Matter” – which is true – to dominate the discussion, to dox and cancel and expel anyone who does not toe the line. There’s a formal alliance between wokesters, BLM activists and Caliphaters to attack any one who might stray from the party line. Obviously one of their prime targets is Jews and Zionists.

And so an allegedly progressive movement welcomes some of the most patriarchal belligerent folks in the world (Caliphaters) and blocks participation from one of the most progressive populations. “Gays and Feminists for Palestine.” As the joke goes, “How many wokesters does it take to change a light bulb?” That’s not funny.

SDK Question 4
Virtue signaling and honour-shame.

RL Replies
Definition:
shame-honour: what others think of you is most important 
Megalothymia: lust for glory
Onēidophobia: horror of being publicly humiliated.
Shame-honour culture: one in which it is expected, permitted, even required to shed blood for the sake of one’s honour/avoiding shame.

Today, we’re less violent, but still limbic captives to the need to save face.

Chinese proverb.
Basic difference in situations where the individual must chose telling the truth and suffering humiliation or lying and saving face.
When Judah says about Tamar: “She was more righteous than I” he chooses public humiliation and personal integrity over public honour and private guilt (having her burned alive for shaming his family).

In cultures where honour is prized over integrity, you get systemic dishonesty, dogmatic gaslighting of reality, in other words, memes like “America is the most racist society; Israel is genocidal; Palestinians are freedom fighters; BLM cares about all black lives.”

Shaming through internet: accusations of islamophobia, racism, white supremacist and your career is over.

Cancel culture
Part of what’s interesting here is a radical inversion. In primitive shame-honour cultures, alpha males make sure no one can insult them by threatening and deploying force. Today, people make sure you can’t criticise them by claiming victim status and seeking allies in shaming others for “hurting them,” for “endangering their lives.”

If you will, instead of leading with their right fist, they lead with their glass jaw. And we recoil in horror at the thought we might hurt them.

Comparison with Chinese cultural revolution.
And there is of course the blatant denial of reality, the constant gaslighting which almost seems designed to ferret out people with any sanity left. In the midst of a global pandemic, thousands of epidemiologists and health scientists signed an open letter claiming that protesting took precedence over disease control. Even there lies a parallel: during the Cultural Revolution, marauding Red Guards created a cerebrospinal meningitis pandemic which killed 160,000 people. Then as now, making revolution trumped public health. 

So people virtue-signal: Look at me, I’m good.

In the Jewish world this produces what some people call “as-a-Jew” – people like a well-known Jewish/British playwright, who never said anything about being Jewish, but suddenly found themselves compelled to harshly criticise Israel after the “Jenin massacre.” They didn’t check to see if the accusations were true. Since their friends bought into it, they stepped in line. In some shame-honour cultures, you kill a relative (most often a daughter) for shaming the family, in some cases, even if she’s innocent. The rumour is enough. These as-a-Jews don’t have the chops to kill their relative Israel, but they will side with people who want to kill her, and they don’t care whether the accusations against her are true. The shame is enough. Proxy honour killings.

The massive capitulation to BLM/woke/caliphater ideology is driven by fear of shame.

It’s very similar to the dynamics of the Emperor’s new clothes. Instead of fear of being called a fool for saying the emperor is naked, today’s courtiers are afraid of being called racist. So they nod eagerly to affirm the ridiculous counter-truths of the woke dogma. Only this time, instead of foolish courtiers playing into the narrative of a vain emperor, it’s frightened “thought leaders” fuelling a destructive millennial movement driven by hate.

SDK Question 5 
Please sum up these momentous occurrences in this extraordinary year of 2020, 8 years on from when you said it’s not every generation that gets to defend a civilisation. Have we been silent?

RL Replies
We’ve been way too silent. And that’s led to a catastrophic situation where a deeply sketchy character who won the presidency in part because of the systemic dishonesty of the “liberal” media, upholds basic Western principles, while highly educated and accomplished intellectuals fuel regressive political forces.

Courage

If Roosevelt could reassure the US by claiming that the only thing we need fear is fear itself, then I’d say the only thing we need fear is shame itself. Choose integrity over shame, honesty over virtue-signaling.Challenge the dogmas. Don’t let people get away with cheap shots like “racism” and “islamophobia,” and “white supremacy.”

One of the big differences between today’s “peace-loving” millennial wokesters and the 60s is that in the 60s people were genuinely committed to life and love and honesty. Today the people being empowered by the cognitive war on the West are drawn disturbingly to death. Why else would progressives in the early aughts make the Palestinian cause the litmus test of leftist credentials, at the very moment that Palestinians taught their children to seek death, killing as many civilian enemies as possible?

As Moses tells the children of Israel. You have a choice between death and life. Choose life. And do it visibly. Stick your head above the parapet and start shooting back. It’s only words… so far.

Prof Richard Landes is an American-Israeli historian and author, specializing in Millennialism, the belief advanced by some religious denominations that a Golden Age or Paradise will occur on Earth prior to the final judgment and future eternal state of the “World to Come”. Richard coined the term “Pallywood”, the practice of staged filming to create evidence against Israel for the benefit of a Palestinian people. He has published many books and articles.

Here is a link to his blog  
CV: http://www.theaugeanstables.com/richard-landes-cv/  
Blog: The Augeans Stables
Twitter: @richard_landes 
Academic Articles: https://bu.academia.edu/RLandes

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Why is Sir Mick Davis of the Conservative Party Calling Jews ‘Far Right’?

Sir Mick Davis  suggests that by showing the documentary film ‘Homelands’ we have joined “a small number of fringe groups and individuals within the Jewish community who could, by any definition, be described as far right“.  This is absurd. Whilst Katie Hopkins may not be everyone’s cup of tea, we suspect that many journalists and JC readers will identify with some aspect of the documentary ‘Homelands’:

• Mehdi Hassan (New Statesman, 2013) writes that “The sorry truth is that the virus of anti- Semitism has infected the British Muslim community …. It’s our dirty little secret”

• A recent survey undertaken by the EU found that almost 90 percent of European Jews have suffered some violence (including offensive online messages). Nearly one third of these are dispensed by “someone with an extremist Muslim view”.
  
  
• Journalist Hardeep Singh says that We need to talk about Muslim anti-Semitism‘. Nobody accuses him of hijack when he broaches the subject of Mireille Knoll, the 85-year-old wheelchair-bound Holocaust survivor, who was stabbed 11 times and set alight by a Muslim neighbour.

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali says that “Islamic anti-Semitism is of a “scale and scope” that most people in the West do not understand and is therefore all the more insidious”

Organising events with speakers is one aspect of what we do. In fact we have platformed some of the social media bullies now attacking us. We believe in free speech and democracy,  and have hosted speakers from across the political divide, encouraging debate and dialogue. An example can be found here. 

In his race to find Kahanists under the bed, Mick Davis thoroughly misrepresents us:

We do not perceive the threat from extremism as coming from “all Muslims and only Muslims”, but we will not serve the issue of interfaith relations by ignoring what is a very real problem.

We screened ‘Homelands’ because it highlights the issue of Islamic antisemitism and extremism which is underreported, including in the Jewish Press. It includes for example the overlooked account of  Nadia Remadna, a Muslim woman in Paris who is trying to curb extremism in Muslim youth and who was thrown out of a café for being – yes – a woman. 

None of the establishment leadership – Sir Mick included – has ever attended any of our events. We don’t recall seeing Sir Mick at demonstrations either. He would therefore not know of the changing demographic of what are antisemitic, anti Israel demonstrations and events across the UK that pose a real and present danger to UK Jews as well as the wider population.

As the son of Revisionist Jews, Sir Mick must surely be aware of the attempts through the ages to eradicate the Jewish people. He would know that it is not we who adhere to the “Great Replacement Theory”, but rather this demographic that uses Palestinianism, a belief in ‘replacement theology’ that makes obsolete the Jewish faith, to spread its hatred for everything Jewish, under the guise of anti Zionism. It is comprised increasingly from across the Islamic/Left spectrum including Islamists like FOA (Friends of Al Aqsa), IHRC (Islamic Human Rights Committee), Palestine Return Centre etc and diehard western antisemites of Jeremy Corbyn’s PSC (he remains a Patron of the PSC/BDS) and Stop the War Coalition, amongst others.

Jeremy Corbyn with his ‘friend’ Ishmail Patel of FOA

If Sir Mick followed our work, he’d find amongst other material, a log of almost every antisemitic, anti Israel meetings organised by the collective force of these groups.

Sir Mick is the CEO and Treasurer of the Conservative Party. He is ideally placed to bring such racist anti Jewish events to the attention of Government. Of course he could also have helped with our petition to have notorious antisemite Linda Sarsour excluded from her MEND speaking tour of major UK cities.

Had Sir Mick instead paid attention to the Palestine Expo at Olympia in London just 4 days after our screening of ‘Homelands’, he’d have found on sale children’s books that brainwash British children, airbrushing Judaism out of our bible stories. Instead of turning his fire on Zionist activists, Sir Mick ought have been focussing on the antisemites gathered in London where speaker after speaker called for the demise of the world’s only Jewish State, Israel.

All of this information is readily available to those who care to Google. It is therefore disingenuous for anyone to label those who speak about Islamic antisemitism as “racist against Muslims“.  And no it is not a matter of “when they’re done with the Muslims they’ll come for the Jews“. It’s a matter of Jews – right here and right now – being the target of the alliance between Islamic/Left antisemitism.

What does Sir Mick think the entire issue of Labour antisemitism is all about? What flag was waived at the Labour Party Conference last year? Who does Jeremy Corbyn refer to as his ‘friends’? These matters have hogged the headlines for some years now and the very least we could expect from the CEO of the Conservative party is to have carried out in depth research. For who is best placed to brief the Government on these issues?

Does the Israeli Government owe this CEO aforethought over and above its own security? Isi Leibler wrote of Mick Davis in 2010 “for a person holding senior public office in a major Diaspora community to indulge in crude public attacks on Israeli leaders and relate to Israel’s security requirements in relation to their impact on his image in non-Jewish circles is surely bizarre and utterly unconscionable.” Now those “crude public attacks” are focused on us in much the same manner. 

We have not claimed that we are “the only people challenging the threat of Islamic extremism” or “the only people fighting antisemitism.” Indeed plenty of people fight antisemitism. But those who do not attend the many antisemitic demonstrations, nor the Iran backed annual antisemitic Al Quds day marches through London, nor any of the hundreds of antisemitic meetings throughout our country in church halls and on university campuses, ought not to rely on third party reports by a JC journalist who comes with an agenda.

It could be said that Sir Mick has used the language of our enemies in suggesting there is a risk of Israel becoming an “apartheid state”. Should the government of Israel make its policy decisions with as much attention to the impact on him as on the Israeli population – “And the impact on me is as significant as it is on Jews living in Israel… I want them to recognise that”?  And he seemingly fails to accept that sometimes live fire has to be used by the IDF defending the Gaza border. 

Sir Mick says in the Jewish Chronicle that support for Katie Hopkins is an “outrageous betrayal of Jewish values and history” when it is those who ignore the real and present dangers we outline who betray those values and history. One wonders therefore why the Jewish Chronicle feels the need to give space to his sanctimonious outpourings.

Being attacked by such a man is in truth a badge of honour.

Homelands – the reply

Today is 7/7/2019. It is 14 years since the London tube bombing, the biggest terrorist attack on the UK mainland since World War Two. We all stand in memory of the 52 who were mercilessly killed by terrorists.

The Jewish Chronicle sent their journalist, Ben Weich, to cover our screening of the documentary ‘Homelands’ on Tuesday night. We do not recognise much of Ben Weich’s JC piece, a great deal of which amounts to no more than vacuous, unctuous virtue signalling. 

Naturally we requested a right of reply. JC editor Stephen Pollard declined.

Clearly Weich was so imbued with emotional enthusiasm having at last caught us ‘at it’, that he failed to speak with the producers of the film, failed to raise his concerns during the free and open discussion and failed to interview the organisers.

After we provided this journalist with all the means to investigate and write a true and honest report, he distorted and selectively reported with the sole objective of suggesting that we are extremists. This is completely untrue.

Weich fails to tell his readers that this event had to be cancelled four times in Israel and twice in London, because of input from members of the Jewish establishment, determined to suppress free speech and dialogue. At great expense in London we provided sufficient trained security personnel – including a guard dog – because we take seriously our responsibility for safety. Weich’s report mendaciously juxtaposes the guard dog with a mention of “the BNP in Barking”. He describes Katie Hopkins as a “right wing agitator” but he made no attempt to pose a question to her at the event. No – in Weich’s universe it seems that truth becomes the victim while antisemites get a free ride. Then in his final paragraph he invokes the Holocaust to attempt to add weight to his absurd and offensive conclusion that our event was “Jewish flirtation with the far right and extreme nationalism”. 

You’d have thought that Weich might have commented on the revolting antisemitism which the film exposes. Instead he shoots the messengers.   

‘Homelands‘ is about the demographic changes in Europe – particularly the UK and France – that have left many who are not from a minority (eg white people in the UK) feeling alienated.  Weich mocks those who are interviewed in the film as “Vox pops of white British residents” but that fails to address the kind of alienation issues that led for instance to the Brexit vote in 2016. 

Weich says the film relies heavily “on exaggerations, slippery-slope arguments and cherry-picked statistics”. Like what? We saw Savile Town in Yorkshire where whites are less than 1% of the population and which was the home of 3 of the 4 suicide bombers who carried out the 7/7/2005 London bombings. Does Weich challenge any of those statistics?   

And we saw Bhai Mohan Singh of the Sikh Awareness Party describing how the Sikhs were the first to identify the Muslim grooming gangs. And we saw French Jews who are desperately worried about whether they and their children have a future in France. And we saw Nadia Remadna, a Muslim woman in Paris who is working to curb the growth of extremism amongst Muslim youth and who was thrown out of a café for being a woman. 

And why does he suggest that the film’s description of the murder of 85 year old Holocaust survivor Mirielle Knoll is a ‘hijacking’? Maybe if he had actually watched the film he would be a bit less offensive. Knoll was reportedly murdered by Yacine Mihoub, the 28-year old son of Knoll’s neighbour. Why in the context of discussing Islamic antisemitism in France is it ‘hijacking’ to say that? 

The Paris prosecutor’s office declined to characterize the origins of the two people; Mr. Kalifat said the principal suspect was of North African origin.

“These are not just thugs,” Mr. Kalifat said. “She was attacked because she was Jewish. This is what characterizes anti-Semitism in our country.”

The suspect “said that Jews have money, and that was the reason he attacked her,” Mr. Kalifat said, whose group is often consulted by the government. “She was absolutely massacred. Eleven knife wounds. That is hatred of the Jews, we see it in the fury of the murderer. This is how we recognize anti-Semitism.”

She survived the Holocaust, to die on a 2018 Hate Crime

One of the most poignant moments of ‘Homelands’ concerned the French couple who made Aliya, Monique and Daniel Kritowsky (apologies if spelling wrong).

But that must have occurred while Weich was asleep at our event ……… as did the description of the couple of the July 2014 anti-Israel demonstrations in Paris, where the Islamists screamed “Kill the Jews” and when 18 Jewish families had threats to move out of their homes. 

Weich must have slept through the film. No doubt he wrote his closing sentence “But Jewish flirtation with the far right and extreme nationalism – less than a century removed from the Holocaust – is sickening and tragically ironic in equal measure” before he even left home.

A more fitting closing sentence would be: 

“Islamic antisemitism is of a “scale and scope” that most people in the West do not understand and is therefore all the more insidious..”  Ayaan Hirsi Ali May 2019 

The repercussions of the JC publishing this hatchet job have been intense social media and online harassment, threats and bullying, too numerous to outline here. Suffice it to say that simply on the basis of Weich’s distortions, the full force of the entire Jewish establishment has attacked us, without any of them even having been at the screening! The BoD President immediately issued a statement (something she failed to do when we were attacked and beaten to unconsciousness outside a Corbyn supporters’ meeting) and the CST, the JLC, Quilliam, and individuals – including ardent antisemites and anti-Israel activists like George Galloway – all followed, discretion and due diligence discarded. 

Whatever you think about the messengers, the evidence in the film is undeniable, but it is ignored by Weich, whose sole concern seems to be to denigrate pro-Israel activists – after all, it’s not the first time he has done a hatchet job on Zionist activists………….

Linda Sarsour: why she must be excluded from the UK

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Executive Summary

Antisemitism, racism, misogyny, sexism

Radicalisation

The case for exclusion

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Executive Summary

The British Government’s measures for excluding or deporting extremists under the Unacceptable Behaviour Policy includes a list of unacceptable behaviours that covers any non-UK national in the UK or abroad who uses any means or medium including:

• Writing, producing or distributing material,
• Public speaking including preaching,
• Running a website,
• Using a position of responsibility such as teacher, community or youth leader.

to express views that:

• Foment or justify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs,
• Seek to provoke others to terrorist acts,
• Foment other serious criminal activity or seek to provoke others to serious criminal acts,
• Foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK.

The list is indicative and not exhaustive.

The Home Secretary will consider whether, in light of the list, Linda Sarsour must be excluded from the UK on grounds that her presence here is not conducive to the public good. The Home Secretary will reach a decision whether she has brought herself within the scope of the list of unacceptable behaviours by making statements that foment or justify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK. Linda Sarsour meets the criteria for exclusion from the UK.

Linda Sarsour has been invited to participate on the panel of a MEND event in London entitled Losing my Religion  on Sunday 23 June 2019 as well as to undertake a speaking tour of major cities whilst in the UK.

Linda Sarsour is an American faith activist who emerged into the public domain in 2008 and came to prominence in 2016/17 as one of the the convenors and main actors in The Women’s March that propelled her onto a world stage of political activism. 

However, several sponsors have since withdrawn support for the Women’s March because of the antisemitism displayed by Linda Sarsour and two other conveners. Prominent amongst those who have withdrawn is the DNC (Democratic National Convention) amongst other liberal organisations.

As a prolific, blogger, commentator, writer and political activist she has a wide audience as she 

• speaks at conventions,
• posts on social media, 
• writes opeds,
• is prolific on Youtube.

Via these channels Linda Sarsour is a major player in fomenting inter-community racism, antisemitism, misogyny, sexism and violence as well as promoting the furtherance of beliefs that could encourage terrorist violence.

Specifically the areas of concern include Linda Sarsour’s:

• plans to appear on a panel in the UK for MEND and undertake a speaking tour of UK major cities,
• antisemitism, racism, misogyny and sexism that invokes community division as she continues to support one of the most vile racists in America, Louis Farrakhan the long-time leader of the NOI (Nation of Islam)
• radicalisation – praises and is a regular contributor to the organisations CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MAS referring to their founders as her heroes despite their reported links to terrorist organisations.

Antisemitism, racism, misogyny, sexism

Linda Sarsour “whitewashes” antisemitism . She is a major proponent of the idea that Jews are “white”. So that if Jews are white antisemitism does not exist, because whites are not an ethnic minority and only ethnic minorities can experience race hate. If antisemitism does not exist there cannot be race hate against Jews. This makes it okay to say anything you want about Jews with impunity despite the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism . 

Linda Sarsour is also amongst those who separate out anti-Zionism from antisemitism. This provides a platform for antisemitism under the guise of criticising Israel whist denying Jews the right to self determination, a right awarded to all ethnicities and national groups bar the Jews. Linda Sarsour tweeted “..Nothing is creepier than Zionism….”

Of MEND the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) wrote in its 2016 submission to the  UK Government Select Committee on Race Hate: 

“..that the approach taken by MEND risks increasing hostility and suspicion between the Jewish and Muslim communities, rather than building trust and empathy.”

and

“..statements attributed to MEND such as one by its CEO Sufiyan Ismail, in which he claimed that :

“in 300 years the Israeli lobby has not lost a vote in Parliament”… Given that the state of Israel has only existed since 1948, the “Israeli lobby” in this quote can only be a synonym for British Jews,…”

Dr. Denis MacEoin, a scholar of Middle Eastern affairs, the chair of North-East Friends of Israel in the UK, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute writes: 

“…. Sarsour’s stand on antisemitism amounts to much the same contradiction of British values [as others refused entry into the UK], again directly linked to the current spate of growing Jew-hatred.”

Linda Sarsour:

supported Ilahan Omar’s antisemitism when the US Representative tweeted of Jews “its all about the Benjamins”  saying:

“She didn’t know nothing in Somalia, about no antisemitism (sic). This is something she is learning along  the way now that she is a legislator.” 

and

She railed against Jews who called out her antisemitism projecting them as the racists, saying:

“But what has happened often from White Jews when they call you call (sic) an antisemite, is they look at Muslim women from an orientalist trope, that we are inherently antisemitic because we are Muslims, right?”

and

she invoked sexism, misogyny and racism to attack Nancy Pelosi’s bill about antisemitism saying:
“Nancy [Pelosi] is a typical white feminist upholding the patriarchy doing the dirty work of powerful white men,” … ”God forbid the men are upset — no worries, Nancy to the rescue to stroke their egos.”

Linda Sarsour Tweets profusely  enticing division in society, between men and women and between faiths as well as propagating violence:

“…who cares about facts when you are white supremacists obsessed w/1 smearing women of colour”

and

of her disgusting desire to castrate women
“Brigit Gabriel = Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She’s asking 4 an a$$ whippin’.(sic) I wish I could take their vaginas away – they don’t deserve to be women.” 

Ayaan Hirsi Ali  Brigitte Gabriel

and

of division
“How many times do I have to tell white women that we do not need to be saved by them? Is there code language I need to use to get thru?”

and

during a Twitter debate with Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, who is Jewish, she tweeted alongside a photograph of a child rock thrower in Israel
“The definition of courage #Palestine”

and

Asmi Fathelbab has accused Linda Sarsour of  having “supervised my sexual assault” when she worked with her at the Arab American Association 

“Controversial Muslim activist and Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour bullied an underling to cover up sex-abuse allegations in her Brooklyn office, a report said.”

and

Linda Sarsour refuses to distance herself from Louis Farrakhan who is a notorious Jew-hating community leader

John-Paul Pagano explains in his article The Women’s March has a Farrakhan Problem, that a year on from its inauguration several of its leaders have refused to distance themselves from “one of America’s leading antisemites, Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam [NOI]” in which antisemitism is revealed as “a crucial blind spot of contemporary left-wing activism.”

and

Linda Sarsour is amongst three of the four leaders of the Women’s March to have ties to Farrakhan and who fail to disassociate themselves from his extremist views.

and

Linda Sarsour denies ever meeting Louis Farrakhan, but they sat on the same panel in 2015: 

“..The Women’s March faux-pologies for their anti-Semitism are meaningless. You can’t apologize for something while denying your wrongdoing. Over on Bob Bland’s Facebook page, Linda Sarsour and WM staff continue to lie about their connections to Farrakhan. https://t.co/h5rNzxFxvdpic.twitter.com/crNkWnGYhj..” 

Amongst Farrakhan’s many grossly offensive and extremists expressions are antisemitism, anti-LGBT and anti-white proclamations:

Speaking about Jews as termites in Detroit at the 23rd anniversary of the Million Man March, amongst other comments  Farrakhan said:

“Call me an anti-Semite? Stop it! I’m anti-termite.” 

[The implication being that termites, in this case Jews, need to be exterminated]

and

sermon on 27 May 2018:

“Satanic Jews have infected the whole world with poison and deceit”.

and

Saviours’ Day speech, Chicago, Feb. 17, 2019

“Pedophilia and sexual perversion institutionalized (sic) in Hollywood and the entertainment industries can be traced to Talmudic principles and Jewish influence. Not Jewish influence, Satanic influence under the name of Jew.”

Radicalisation 

At the 54th ISNA Conference (Islamic Society of North America) in 2017, Linda Sarsour referred to her self-proclaimed  mentor Siraj Wahhaj  who has links to Hamas  as “my most favourite person in the room”. 

Some background to Wahhaj as well as Muslim Brotherhood  is required to explain how having such a mentor aligns Linda Sarsour with radicals who “foment or justify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs”.

In his recent article entitled Linda Sarsour’s Mentor, the WTC Bombing and a School Shooting Plot in New Mexico, Daniel Greenfield provides background to Imam Siraj Wahhaj:
   

Wahhaj, a Brooklyn-based former CAIR advisory board member, is just one of many Muslim leaders affiliated with the group who have been named or prosecuted by U.S. authorities for terrorism-related activities and crimes. 

“Wahhaj, whom Linda Sarsour  has admired and who in turn influenced her, was back in the national spotlight when his son Siraj Ibn Wahhaj  was arrested in Aug. 2018 and jailed on a Georgia warrant alleging child abduction. Law enforcement officers searching a rural northern New Mexico compound for a missing three-year-old boy found 11 children in filthy conditions and hardly any food, and weapons where Wahhaj was allegedly training them how to execute mass shootings in America’s schools…”

Linda Sarsour proclaimed that: 

ISIS is the product of a politicised foreign policy  of war on our people. 

and

Linda Sarsour said

“When we talk about ISIS, everyone is always like: ‘ISIS this, ISIS that…’ Why do I have to explain to everybody where ISIS came from? We have to challenge the frame that the media puts us in…”

and

an article in the leading Saudi media outlet Al-Arabiya entitled Details of calls to attack Trump by US ‘Muslim Sisters’ allied to Brotherhood  refers to:: 

“Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour with roots in Muslim Brotherhood and a member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations known as CAIR.”

and

“Linda Sarsour and her husband, Maher Jouda, who is also a Palestinian from al-Bireh, were investigated and  placed under observation by US Federal authorities in 2004 on their suspicious relations with extremist elements. Also, the New York Police Department opened an investigation into the Arab American Association of New York [Sarsour has been employed as the President of the Arab American Association of New York,]  for its links to terrorism and extremism, especially its links with the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.”

and

From all that is mentioned, we can touch the influence of Muslim Brotherhood in shaping the thoughts of American activist Linda Sarsour and consequently her declaring her “Jihad” against US President Donald Trump, in addition to her call for the application of “Sharia”, the rule of Islam in the United States of America, during a speech at the annual meeting of the San Francisco branch of CAIR.  These are terms used by Muslim Brotherhood teachings and in the views of Sayyid Qutb, a scholar and co-founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, as well as from Abul A’la Maududi’s books “Islam and Ignorance” and “Fundamentals of Islam”. These terms are used and preached also by al-Qaeda terrorist organization (sic) and ISIS extremist group.

ISNA, ICNA and Hamas

ISNA and ICNA are a named unindicted co-conspirator in the federal 2008 Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial, the largest successful terrorism financing prosecution in the U.S. which resulted in five officials of the HLF being convicted for illegally funnelling millions of dollars to HAMAS, a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organisation.

Linda Sarsour has links to ISNA 

Documents in the course of the terrorism trial of the Holy Land Foundation confirmed ISNA’s links to Hamas.

and

At the September 2018 ISNA Convention, she said:

“if you’re on the side of the oppressor, or you’re defending the oppressor or you’re actually trying to humanize the oppressor [Israel],” 

and 

“then that’s a problem sisters and brothers and we got to be able to say: that is not the position of the Muslim American community.”

In 2009, ISNA went to court asking to have their HLF unindicted co-conspirator status removed. However, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals federal judge Solis ruled that ISNA’s unindicted co-conspirator would stand since the government had “ample evidence” tying ISNA to HAMAS:

“..[t]he Government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT with HLF [Holy Land Foundation], the Islamic Association for Palestine (“IAP”), and with Hamas..”

and

In a 2004 article by Sarmad S Ali, Kerry Drew Disenchanted Arabs in Bay Ridge, published in the Columbia Journalism Review, the 24 year old Linda Sarsour recounts her family connections to Hamas as depicted in the Arab language terrorist newspaper that she is reading while being interviewed:

“..The paper carried fervent slogans calling on young people to become martyrs in the conflict with Israel.

.. One of the men, she said, was a cousin who has been in Israeli jails for 25 years. The other man, she said, was a family friend serving a 99-year prison sentence in Israel. Her brother-in-law, she said, is also serving a 12-year sentence, accused of being an activist in the Hamas, the religious militant group, though, she said, he was secular in his beliefs.”

and

In a 2017 article Women’s March Organiser recently met ex-Hamas operative, has family ties to terror group the Daily Caller published:

“..While it is unclear if Salah and Linda are related (though they share the same surname, she has suggested in the past on social media that they are not and did not respond to requests for comment), she has other family ties to alleged Hamas operatives. Though she avoids discussing it now, Sarsour has acknowledged in past interviews that she has cousins serving prison time in Israel because of their work for Hamas…

…Salah Sarsour met Awadallah in 1995 while serving an eight month prison sentence in Israel for supporting Hamas.

[Salah] Sarsour has not been charged with any crimes in the U.S. His brother Jamil [Sarsour]was arrested and charged in 2003 with money laundering after returning back to the U.S. from Israel. He served a four year jail sentence for his work for Hamas…”

ICNA and MAS (Islamic Circle of North America / Muslin American Society)

Linda Sarsour is a speaker at the ICNA/MAS conventions in Baltimore in which she explains a revisionist form of American History to an audience of “sisters and brothers”.  

In April 2019 a video was published of children in the MAS centre that exposed radicalisation of children. 

and

In her speech she says:
“..Heros are born of heroes. I consider people who founded organisations like ICNA, heroes. People who founded organisations like MAS and Islamic Relief and CAIR and …[inaudible] and all these wonderful organisations I consider them to be heroes.  

and

Linda Sarsour with other groups such as CAIR plead Religious rights of a murderer, but is silent on his victims

“At the mere mention of alleged discrimination against a Muslim, various Islamic activists groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and individuals such as Linda Sarsour sprang into action.“

The case for exclusion

“The British government collects information on individuals around the world who have demonstrated ‘unacceptable behaviour’ and an individual may then be placed on a watch list. That does not itself necessarily mean exclusion, but it will trigger the possibility of a decision to do so by the Home Secretary.”

Prevent Executive Summary 3.5:

“We judge that radicalisation is driven by an ideology which sanctions the use of violence; by propagandists for that ideology here and overseas; and by personal vulnerabilities and specific local factors which, for a range of reasons, make that ideology seem both attractive and compelling.“

This document reveals just a small portion of material readily available and accessible that casts doubt on Linda Sarsour’s suitability to undertake a speaking tour of the UK, particularly since the UK is currently in disarray about the levels of Jew hatred and antisemitism materialising across the country. Of particular concern is the rise of extreme forms of Jew hatred evidenced in both the far Right and far Left as well as amongst Islamic communities. As Mehdi Hasan   wrote in 2013:

“It pains me to have to admit this but anti-Semitism isn’t just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it’s routine and commonplace. Any Muslims reading this article – if they are honest with themselves – will know instantly what I am referring to. It’s our dirty little secret. You could call it the banality of Muslim anti-Semitism.”

Linda Sarsour is evidentially a proponent of the intersection of religion and activism. Historically this is a means of conversion. We know that the early Christians used this to spread the word of Christ and in so doing Christianity grew, sometimes by violent means. We also know that Islam is a proselytising religion. 

It is submitted that Linda Sarsour engages in unacceptable behaviour by fostering hatred that might lead to inter-community violence in the United Kingdom. 

It is our submission that Linda Sarsour meets the criteria for exclusion from entry into the UK.

Campaign4Truth & Eye on Antisemitism 
Supported by Petition Signatories
4th June 2019

 

 

 

Other speakers on the Losing my Religion panel on Sunday 23 June 2019

Mallia Bouattia: former National Union of Students (NUS) leader who has been embroiled in various anti-Semitic controversies.  During her time as a student at the University of Birmingham, she was involved in hosting a play called “Seven Jewish Children” which has been widely criticised as anti-Semitic.  In 2016 she was accused of “outright racism” by the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee over comments she made relating to Israel — that the University of Birmingham was a “Zionist outpost” and referred to “Zionist-led media outlets“.  Immersed in the identity politics of the far-left, Bouattia has a history of re-tweeting posts about white privilege and referencing it to Islamophobia: e.g. re-tweeting tweet, “White privilege is encouraging an Islamophobic smear fest against a Muslim Congresswoman because she stands against racism and apartheid, then thinking you can waltz into a vigil for dead Muslims and not p*** people off.“

Rahim Jung: a presenter on the Saudi-funded Islam Channel, which broadcasting regulator Ofcom investigated in 2018 for promoting divisive and hard-line views in Britain, including political bias, advocating violence against women and supporting marital rape.  Ofcom said it was “conducting an assessment of content on Islam Channel to determine whether it complies with the broadcasting code“.  The station, which claims it has one million viewers daily, reaches 59% of British Muslims, according to government research reported in 2008 (there are no more-recent independent figures). Its presenters also include Haitham al- Haddad, a preacher described by the Quilliam think tank as “one of the most dangerous men in Britain”, Yasir Qadhi, who has said killing gay people is part of Islam, and Abu Hanifa, who said on air that wishing someone “Merry Christmas” was a “sin” Muslims should “avoid“ — a not insignificant statement, given an Ahmadi Muslim shopkeeper was murdered by a Sunni fanatic for wishing his customers a Happy Easter in 2016. 

Jung is involved in MEND’s activities and also cooperates with Muslim Aid (a fundraiser for Hamas) and READ foundation, a charity whose “partners” include the World Association of Muslim Youth and the Qatar Charitable Society, both of which have also funded Hamas.  In addition, the READ Foundation has promoted a number of extremist speakers at its fundraising events.  These speakers include Uthman Lateef, who has expressed support for Al Qaeda terrorists; and Sulaiman Gani, a Muslim chaplain with links to Hizb ut-Tahrir, who has voiced backing for convicted terrorist Aafia Siddiqui, described by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller as “an al-Qaeda operative and facilitator.”  In spite of these activities, in 2013, the British government granted £189,550 to the READ Foundation.  Jung also cooperates with Islamic Help, a charity that is a member of the Muslim Charities Forum (MCF) — a body which was stripped of state funding in a crackdown on Islamist extremism.  Islamic Help itself was also stripped of state funding after inviting an unnamed “individual with extremist views” to speak at an event.  Furthermore, Islamic Help, which has an office in Gaza, has been accused of working with and funding the Islamic Society of Gaza, a Hamas front organization which operated the “terrorist kindergarten”. 

Yasir Qadhi: a Pakistani-American Muslim scholar who, in 2001, described the holocaust as a hoax, claiming that “Hitler never intended to mass-destroy the Jews” and that the Holocaust was “false propaganda”.  He later retracted these comments and claimed he had been misled into making them.  However, he has more recently posted links to articles by a notorious Holocaust denier on an Islamic online forum, according to the Centre for Social Cohesion. 

Sheikh Zahir Mahmood: an imam who graduated from al-Jamia al-Islamiyya, Karachi, Pakistan, a seminary described by the International Crisis Group as the “fountainhead of Deobandi militancy” in Pakistan.  It has spawned jihadi groups, such as Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). Mahmood has been described by interfaith organisation StandforPeace as a “hate preacher”.  He was one of the participants of a Viva Palestina convoy to Gaza and stated (oxymoronically) that Palestinians have lived in an “open concentration camp for 60 years”.  In a speech in Birmingham in March 2009, he claimed it was “a perverted narrative” to suggest that Hamas members were terrorists and said they were merely “defending their country“.  He added: “What the Palestinians are going through is far greater than what the blacks went through in South Africa but because Israel is an ally [of the UK] we will turn a blind eye to these atrocities.” He has also called for people to be “mobilised” to support the Palestinians.

Tez Ilyas: an activist-comedian who works with Islamic charity, Human Appeal.  Human Appeal has links with Hamas and has run events with 17.  

Akala: : a rapper, left-wing activist and self-styled public intellectual who endorsed Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 UK general election.  He wrote in The Guardian that he would be voting for Corbyn because, “for the first time in my adult life, and perhaps for the first time in British history, someone I would consider to be a fundamentally decent human being has a chance of being elected.”  His activism has included campaigning to ‘decolonise’ British university curricula and he has published a book titled Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire.  He tends towards an anti-American and anti-Israel stance, which surfaced in his Twitter comments on the possible legalisation of marijuana sales: “Now the US and to lesser degree Israel look set to control the industry after decades of bullying Jamaica and criminalising its own ppl (US)” and “In a decade if/when US & Israeli companies are making tens of billions off weed ppl will ask dumb questions like why is Jamaica still poor“.  An unfavourable reading of his views might cast them as expressing anti-white racism.  Referring to white working-class British people, he said, “These are stupid people” and he claims that British society is “institutionally racist”.

Saliha Mahmood Ahmed: a celebrity chef who supports/works at events organized by Muslim Aid – a charity with a track-record of fundraising for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Muslim Aid also has links to Islamic Forum of Europe — the European wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a Southeast Asian Islamist political party with close ties to the Global Muslim Brotherhood.

Mufti Abdur-Rahman (Abdur-Rahman Ibn Yusuf Mangera): the director of  ZamZam Academy, which has promoted material endorsing ‘wife beating’ and material which could be interpreted as endorsing child marriage. 

Note: Everything written in this research paper can be found in the public domain and where possible links to source have been provided.

Calls for genocide on Grosvenor Square

Since President Trump issued his intention to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, Israel’s capital city, all manner of protests have sprung up across the globe. Demonstrations outside the US Embassy at London’s Grosvenor Square is no exception. There has been a protest there every weekend since that announcement and it seems they’ll be going on into the future.

Last Saturday (6^th January 2018) the protest was organised by the Sultan Bahu Centre of Alum Rock in the West Midlands, with about 200 people bussed to London for the occasion.

The event details drew my attention. So, I went along to witness what this group might have to say, having been at the first demonstration there on 8^th December 2017 where some vitriolic antisemitism abounded.

As I arrived I was confronted by Kamel Hawwash, of the Palestine Solidarity Campaignn (PSC), one of the speakers at a House of Commons meeting hosted by Mark Hendrik MP in April 2017 that saw four us forcibly removed by 7 armed policemen. Mr Hawwash thought he could repeat this performance on the streets of London in the absence of protection from an MP in the House of Commons, greeting me with an “I know you”, telling me to leave, then calling his buddy the constable with no name to intimidate me to comply, under threat of calling his boss. I did move to the “public gallery” from where I was able to record most of the speeches, having refused to be moved on from there by the same rather biased police officer.

Speakers called for the liberation of all ’Palestine’ with a crowd chanting the war cry of Nara-E-Takbeer with repeated calls to free Palestine. The speeches were as expected, or at least those I could understand: vitriolic fantasy, propaganda of lies and distortions, with a fair taste of racism. There were two Jewish speakers. This rather pious, self-important minority of a minority spoke with a certainty that they were accepted by their hosts and the crowd simply because they propagated the same lies and distortions. Perhaps from the euphoria of a public platform in front of what must have been to them a large, eager audience, they missed a flavour that caught the attention of the casual passer-by, a sense that whilst they were echoing the required narrative, they remain despised as Jews.

Probably the most striking aspect of this demonstration was the number of speeches delivered in a foreign tongue with no interpretation, so that the police, there to keep the peace, were largely unable to understand what was being said. Now having had some of those speeches translated (thanks to our friend Shadman Zaman) it is revealed that the content was vile, worse than could be expected: antisemitic, enticing hatred of Jews, right there on a public street in London.

Daud Abdullah of the Palestine Return Centre spoke about money, blackmail and deception, saying Jerusalem is not for sale. He told the largely Pakistani crowd with no real sense or knowledge of Middle Eastern or Jewish history that the Palestinians had been in the area for thousands of years saying:

”There are some people who make business through blackmail and deception and they got rich and they became billionaires and they want to conduct international politics on the basis of blackmail and deception”

Another unidentified speaker delivering his talk in Urdu, also incited hatred and anger amongst the crowd toward Jews:

“Judaism was supposed to be the religion to claim justice in the world, but they didn’t do that. What they did was incite violence and unrest.  In places where there was only peace, they created violence. They have forgotten their own history now not even realising what kind of torture they are doing to the Palestinians. They are raping Palestinian women, killing Palestinian children in front of their mothers, …..

…..they [the Jews] must realise that now the Muslim world is very anxious and once the Muslim world becomes united, the Jews will have nowhere to go, so the Jews better realise their mistakes.”

There is more yet to be translated, but I reckon this taster provides an idea of how our politically correct society is overseeing this growing racism, with now completely overt and brazen threats on the lives of Jews being given a pass for fear of being branded Islamophobic.

This is no longer simply about antisemitism.

It’s about a genocide being coerced on a minority section of our society, the Jews.

It’s a war being enabled by fear, a fear created by the hijackers of our free society, so that we are silenced into submission, robbed of the right to name this racist ideology.

After all this was a demonstration organised by “many of the mosques in our cities” according to the Facebook event page.

advertisement from event page of Sultan Bahu Centre of Alum Rock

Waltham Forest adopts IHRA

Ann Frank memorial in Waltham Forest

 

Campaign4Truth / Eye on Antisemitism

delivered a speech to Waltham Forest Council on 13 December 2018.

On 13 December 1945 five  Nazi concentration camp guards are hanged for crimes against humanity. 

 

 

Political antisemitism is at its peak since Europe 1930/45.  Across the UK, councils are being badgered by  antisemitic political activists to boycott Israel on the basis that its okay to boycott the Jewish state as that is not anti Jewish. 

But thats wrong. Its wrong because that excuse is used as a smokescreen to camouflage their antisemitism. For example:

The supporters of the boycott Israel movements constantly use anti Jewish tropes as did over 50 Labour party MPs, councillors and members like Naz Shah MP who posted racist tropes about Israel that included antisemitism when she suggested Israel’s population should be “transported” to America and “Problem solved and save you bank charges for the £3bn you transfer yearly.”

The definition of antisemitism was agreed by the IHRA to be used as a safeguard to prevent a recurrence of the Holocaust in which one third of world Jewry was exterminated, the evidence burned in the ovens of Europe, their ashes fertilising the forests that are a smokescreen for that vileness.

A recent survey of over 16,000 people across Europe reflecting the highest Jew hatred in modern times, shows that antisemitism has become so normalised that Jews are leaving in droves.

It underscores the fears of Jews across the UK who feel threatened each time a council agrees to abide by the propaganda fed by the BDS /PSC activists who are largely associated with organisations like Workers Revolutionary Party and Socialist Worker amongst other organisations, found at demonstrations across the UK where protesting against the existence of the Jewish state is commonplace. One commonly accepted definition of anti-semitism includes precisely the holding of Israel, the Jewish State, to standards that are not applied to any other countries. 

Local councils represent all citizens, Jews included and it is essential that they in general, and Waltham Forest in particular, heed their duty of care to all citizens by accepting this safeguard definition to regulate any possible situation in which Jews again face extermination as a result of unchecked antisemitism.

Its time to weed out political Jew hatred from our governance so that we never again need to say “Never Again”, showing that Jews too matter. 

The findings of the EU survey make for a sobering read. They underscore that antisemitism remains pervasive across the EU, the UK included and has, in many ways, become disturbingly normalised. This important information provided can support policymakers in stepping up their efforts to ensure the safety and dignity of all Jewish people living in the UK. Taking that first step is to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism in its entirety. 

Talk of contemplating the navel as fasciitis sets in

 

 

 

Dear Rayla Javaid

Thank you for your email cancelling my pre-booked free ticket for the event you have organised to discuss Labour, Britain’s Jews and Antisemitism – A Different Perspective.

Please can you explain why my ticket was cancelled for this event? Given the brouhaha these last couple of years about the institutional Jew hatred prevalent in the Labour Party, it seems rather brazen that certain Jews have had their tickets withdrawn for a meeting to discuss that very topic. Of course these cancellations are further statement about the embedded Jew hate still prevalent in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour/Momentum project.

Before you jump to defend this position pointing out Momentum is created/run by a Jew and this particular meeting is called by Jews, you’d need to understand that Jews are a very diverse community, with a small section of autocannibalists practicing placentophagy in an attempt to disown their being born into the Jewish nation.

Clearly, in view of these cancellations, there will be an incestuous dialogue between the chosen many, but not for certain Jews. Talk of contemplating the navel as fasciitis sets in.  This is Labour killing itself from within riddled as it is with a sectarian vision. For a non-socialist like myself that is great news. For those who thought socialism had all the hallmarks of a fair egalitarian enterprise, it is an extreme bereaving experience as they are left orphaned in this hijack of their political home.

I have tried to access your website http://www.redbridgemomentum.org/contact.php but alas it is “Under Construction”, a state it seems its been in since its inception in 2016. This adds meaning to the idea of a “closed shop”, so closed it exists only as a cell reminiscent of its communist state apparatchiks, now copycatted by terrorist endeavours of the Red/Green Alliance Labour partners. If this is an indication of the kind of governance this Labour project will bring to our Great British nation, I’d suggest that sane voters look elsewhere to place their X.

I think I speak for all those whose tickets you have cancelled in saying we would have liked to explore this topic with you and your audience, but clearly your closed shop has its doors shut tight on anything you’d prefer not to deliver to your foot-soldiers, lest they begin to slither away from the Momentum thought-speak. Its a great pity you are denying them the right to free speech.

Please rest assured that we will continue to resist your resolve to bring to this great country of ours a form of government that scorns on our forefathers’ sacrifices that contributed to our surviving the second World War. To you and your endeavours we say Never Again.

Enjoy your navel gazing tonight.

Yours

Sharon Klaff

Campaign4Truth

campaign4t@gmail.com