A message to those Jews who are desperate to remove Trump ...

 ...unless you hate Israel, and are keen to welcome socialism to the USA, then you are a useful idiot.

Even if you have no opinion on Israel at all and are not a socialist, then you need to realise that Trump is the only person who can stand against the globalist/socialst "Great Reset":

A case study in hypocrisy : criticism of Soros against criticism of Abramovich

The people now criticising Abramovich - a proud Jew for investing in Israel (where he is now a citizen) are the very same people who say that anybody who criticizes atheist ‘Jew’ Soros for funding anti-Israel organizations is ‘antisemitic’.

Moreover, David Collier has done a fine expose of the Abramovich 'story'. It really is driven by the usual antisemitic, anti-Israel narrative and lies. Why is the well-funded Board of Deputies not doing this kind of research? Oh of course they are among those who call criticism of Soros "dog-whislte antisemitism": 

 

Cancel culture: antisemitism is the acceptable for of racism

The cultural Marxists are busy 'cancelling' every historical writer who they perceive was in any way associated with racism. Yet the same people are today celebrating 'Roald Dahl Day', with many new books about his works and new initiatives to get children's to read his books. Being openly and proudly antisemitic is apparently just fine (note: I don't believe any writers should be 'cancelled' - just pointing out the hypocrisy).

 

The Black Lives Matter movement: proud Marxists but now trying to cover up their antisemitism

Updated 28 June 2020 (Note the tweet below from the official BLM UK and the way BLM Oxford advertise their event)

Tweet from BLM UK today

BLM Oxford use the same antisemitic image Corbyn was called out for to advertise their event 27/6/20

The fact that Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization which seeks to defund the police and abolish capitalism can be seen by its own policy statements and adverts as well as the words of its leaders.  In the UK these aims are clearly stated on their gofundme page which today has amassed over a million pounds in less than a month (see screenshot below).

However, BLM is starting to become rather more coy about its deep rooted antisemitism.

When the BLM movement first came to prominence in the USA in 2014 its antisemitism was so blatant that even extreme leftist Jews and Jewish organizations called it out - see for example, this Ha'artetz article: Black Lives Matter Endorses BDS: Israel Is 'Apartheid State'. 

The roots of BLM antisemitism were also well documented in articles such as Where does Black Lives Matter antisemitism come from?

However, while the movement's leaders and aims have not changed, because they have recently become the darlings of the main stream media and social media organizations (including Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia) a concerted attempt has been made to suppress or erase all evidence of BLM's current and past record of antisemitism. A particular case in point is their 2016 policy platform section titled “Invest/Divest”. This was the document that managed to upset even Ha'artez. It was part of a policy drafted by more than 50 organizations affiliated with the BLM movement (known as the Movement for Black Lives). It expressed support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and called Israel an “apartheid state,”  stating that the United States, through military support for Israel, is complicit in the “genocide taking place against the Palestinian people.”

The orginal link to that document no longer works (only a very heavily edited version of the orginal 'Vision' document can be found here).  The "Invest/Divest" section of the Movement for Black Lives website  contains a summary of the orginal statement with all references to specific international issues removed. However, there are links to several more detailed statements including this one containing several of the original antisemitic libels  (below is a screen shot of some of the text before they remove this too).

 

What BLM cannot cover up is the fact that their antisemitism has been very much to the fore in the recent protests. For example, Daniel Greenfield has documented the antisemitic attacks by BLM 'protesters' in America in June 2020:

• LA Rabbi: Black Lives Matter Pogrom Was Like Kristalnacht  
• A Farrakhan Supporter Led the LA Black Lives Matter Rally That Became a Pogrom
• Here Are the Heroes Whose Statues Black Lives Matter Has Attacked

A recent article by Karen Harradine highlights how the BLM antisemitism has also been evident in protests in the UK.  In Paris the BLM protestors chanted "Dirty Jews" and "Jewish whores"

More here:

• BLM's anti-semitism must be addressed https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2020/06/11/blms-anti-semitism-must-be-addressed/
• BLM's agenda https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/blms_agenda.html
• https://www.israellycool.com/2020/06/09/how-should-we-deal-with-the-fact-that-black-lives-matter-has-an-antisemitism-problem/
• https://blacklivesmatter.com/defundthepolice/
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8441405/The-avowed-aims-British-arm-Black-Lives-Matter.html
• BLM founder who Begged Allah For Strength Not To ‘Kill Sub Human Whites’ Received a Government Award ‘Encouraging A Run For Public Office
• Black Lives Matter Founder Proudly Admits BLM Is A Radical Marxist Organization https://en-volve.com/2020/06/19/watch-black-lives-matter-founder-proudly-admits-blm-is-a-radical-marxist-organization/
• LA Synagoges vandalised by BLM protestors https://www.stopantisemitism.org/antisemitic-incidents-36/la-synagogue-vandalized-with-fuk-israel-and-free-palestine-during-george-floyd-riots

How Black Lives Matter is working with pro-Hamas forces to destroy the USA and Israel: 

Antisemitism today....

And please note that Black Lives Matter fit squarely in the middle column here (see https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8956/black-lives-matter-antisemitism):

Meet Stephen Reicher: The 'independent scientist' on the Government SAGE committee

Stephen Reicher is the so-called "independent scientist" on the Government’s SAGE committee who has been the most prominent in the campaign against Cummings and Boris Johnson. In fact, he is not a scientist at all. He is a social psychology professor. And, as for his 'independence', here he is in his own words on Twitter (screenshot in case he takes it all down). First, regarding Boris and Cummings:

When he uses his credentials  "as a Jew" to spread anti-Israel propaganda and demand  it should be boycotted, he seems to rely on antisemites for his material:

As you would expect he is a big fan of Corbyn

And of course he has an obsessive hatred of Donald Trump

There's plenty more on his twitter feed @ReicherStephen.
 Reicher is by no means unusual of the Government's 'scientific/academic' advisors. SAGE is completely dominated by people with exactly the same worldview.

Exposing the idiocy of responses to the Apartheid State slur and other lies about Israel

Imagine the following scenario:

A violent psychopath Paul - who lives in a different part of the country far away from your family -  has just been convicted of committing multiple murders and rapes (including child rape) in his local area in the last 2 years.

Your 95-year-old Grandma Sadie has been severely disabled and in a care home (close to where you live) that she has not left in the last 10 years. She cannot walk and suffers from dementia.

The psychopath - who has never met or had any contact with any of your family - suddenly declares that the person who committed all the recent crimes of which he has been convicted is your Grandma Sadie. He offers no reasons why he has singled out Grandma Sadie, and from prison he convinces all the other murderers and rapists to claim that Grandma Sadie also committed all the crimes for which they were convicted. They not only continually repeat the allegations, but also demand that Grandma Sadie must be removed from the care home and that you (and your family) must lose their jobs because you have been supporting her for many years.

Imagine if, instead of putting the focus on the murderers making the ludicrous allegations, your response is along the lines of the following:

"First of all, it is wrong to blame me or the rest of my family for Grandma's actions. I dispute the fact that she is a mass murdering rapist, because she has often been quite kind. However, we accept that Grandma can be quite grumpy and difficult at times - such as when she was rude once to the lady who brought her cold tea. Obviously every argument has two sides, and we accept that Paul and others have a legitimate right to believe Grandma is a mass murdering rapist. Indeed, they have every right to hold public meetings and demonstrations demanding Grandma be brought to justice, and as long as we have a right to reply we are happy to discuss the issue with them. But the claims also give me and my family a bad name. So, even though it is provably impossible that Grandma could have committed any crime, we are sufficiently concerned about the seriousness of the allegations that we will now stop all financial support to Grandma Sadie as long as I and other family members are allowed to keep our jobs" 

While this seems ridiculous, simply replace:

• psychopath Paul with the murderous psychopaths and child killers of Hamas and the PLO
• Paul's prisoner friends with other murderous Middle East tyrants and their vicious antisemitic supporters who dominate left-wing politics around the world
• the murder/rape accusations against Grandma Sadie with the "apartheid state" accusations against Israel (and other lies like "Israel is a colonial endeavour", "Israel murders Palestinian children" etc.)

Then the response is exactly analogous to the response of mainstream diaspora Jews.

Obsession with virtue-signalling to enemies of the Jewish people was the main factor in the demise of the Jewish Chronicle

So the Jewish Chronicle - and the Jewish News with which it was merging - are to be liquidated. Obviously, the coronavirus is being blamed as the reason for its demise, but this simply speeded the inevitable. I feel extremely sorry for those members of staff losing jobs who were not responsible for the increasingly leftist  and ambivalent stance to Israel that both newspapers had taken in the last 15 years.  Unfortunately, the goons who took over management and editorial control are ultimately the ones to blame for this outcome and the loss of jobs.

If the JC hadn’t started supporting the unelected PLO over the elected Israeli government, or pimping for terrorists committed to Israel’s destruction at the very time they were targeting Israeli cities with hundreds of rockets a day, then perhaps British Jews would not have stopped buying it. Or maybe they would have retained more readers had they not continually given advertising and editorial space to deadly enemies of the Jewish State - under the pretext of  'the need for balance'** -  while at the same time viciously attacking pro-Israel Jews and especially pro-Israel non-Jews without giving them any right to reply. But most of all, it seems that the continual and obsessive virtue-signalling with 'Islamophobia'  and 'interfaith relations' were not of particularly compelling interest for British Jews; especially when the exact same leftist nonsense can be read for free in the Guardian and BBC online. The elitists in editorial control (and the same goes for those who lead the Board of Deputies, CST and other mainstream Jewish organisations) are delusional in thinking that the bubble in which they operate is any any way representative of the bulk of British Jewry and they lost sight of the fact that their purpose was to serve the British Jewish community and not the British Muslim community. Did they really think that getting approval from creeps like Fiyaz Mughal, Baroness Warsi and Sadiq Khan was going to lead to British Muslims buying the JC?

The JC and Jewish News failed the British Jewish community in so many ways. In addition to all of the above, they could have campaigned to stop British taxpayer funding going to Palestinian terrorists - it would have been popular and effective - but they never did. They could have been at the forefront in confronting the anti-Zionist lies that have driven almost all antisemitism in the UK in the last 15 years. But they refused to do so, pandering instead to the very community which was most prominent in pushing those lies, and even playing into this antisemitsm with their continual message of "Israel does bad things but it's not the fault of British Jews...". 

For evidence of all of the above see the following links (up until a couple of years ago I regularly blogged about the JC and Jewish News move to the left, but in the end I just could not stomach reading them) which are just a small subset of the role of shame:

• Stephen Pollard is an idiot. Like the rest of Britain's pathetic virtue-signalling Jewish 'leadership'
• At least this time those seeking Israel's destruction paid the Jewish Chronicle for their advert
• Jewish Chronicle publishes appeal for money to Hamas
• Jewish Chronicle's loathesome decision leads inevitably to yet more antisemitism and delegitimization of Israel 
• JC published already discredited anti-Israel story
• JC relies on Islamic Jihad for its 'news' 
• The increasingly unhinged JC
• Jonathan Freedland is a loathsome jerk who brings shame to the British Jewish community
• Britain's pathetic Jewish leadership 
• Jewish News promotes anti-Israel blood libel 
• Jewish Chronicle pimps for Hamas
• Jewish Press ignores cold blooded terrorist murder of Israeli boy
• What passes for "expert" Israel coverage in the Jewish Chronicle
• Jewish Chronicle gets it all wrong
• Just who in Britain stands up for Israel?

**It's a bit like demanding that the editor of Spurs Monthly must always include articles about Arsenal and Chelsea, as well as articles written by West Ham supporters....

Palestinian 'consistency' ....

So the Palestinian Authority has slammed Israel for daring to close mosques during the coronavirus crisis - while at the very same time condemning Hamas for NOT closing mosques.

 Just in case anybody was surprised by this apparent 'inconsistency' you should not be. It's how they operate....

Tim Burton's book and the question it raises about the Board of Deputies and CST's continued collaboration with Tell Mama

Too few people know that in the UK men and women have been imprisoned simply for posting tweets or messages that are critical of radical Islam or its supporters. One of those imprisoned was Tim Burton. He had dared challenge the Tell Mama organization and its highly litigious and sensitive leader Fiyaz Mughal (Tell Mama is the organization that continues to receive massive government support to report on 'Islamophobic attacks' even though it was previously found to be exagerrating them; and Mughal also sued a pro-Israel Jewish woman for criticizing Tell Mama).  I urge every member of the UK Jewish community to read Tim's book about his case and then ask their 'leaders' at the Board of Deputies and CST how they can possibly continue to collaborate closely with Tell Mama.

Tim Burton correctly describes himself as a 'political prisoner' because he was imprisoned for sending some obviously sarcastic emails to Tell Mama, which Mughal claimed were somehow 'personally threatening'. That such a case was ever brought by the CPS - and ended up in a Crown Court trial and a 3-month prison sentence - is a stain on the British judicial system. What happened to Burton was terrible for him personally, yet he tells his story with great humour.

I was going to do a detailed review of the book as I assumed nobody in the community had read it, but in fact a very good review and links to a lot of other related material is already available on the Fahrenheit211.net website.

So I will just note some things I got from the book that are not mentioned in that review:

• Possibly out of fear of yet further prison time, Burton never actually mentions either Fiyaz Mughal or Tell Mama by name anywhere in the book.  He refers to them respectively as "Fizzy Mendacious" and "Grievance Mongers UK" throughout.
• The 'mendacious' relates to Burton's very well publicised first trial where he was accused of a hate crime for calling Mughal a "mendacious grievance mongering taqiyya artist". The key thing is that at his first trial he had a competent laywer and also a very good expert witness to explain the concept of 'taqiyya'. He was found not guilty. However, things were different for the second trial in which he was accused of threatening behaviour for sending some obviously joke/sarcastic emails to Tell Mama. Not only did he have an appallingly incompetent barrister, but he was unable to call on the same expert 'taqiyya' witness because that witness had died since the first trial. Although Burton finally managed to get another expert witness, the barrister insisted that the witness should not be called at all. Hence, there was nobody to challenge the prosecution 'expert' on Islam (an expert who should probably not have been allowed because he failed to declare a conflict of interest - a matter which is the basis for Burton's claim of a mistrial).
• In addition to the story of his trial and imprisonment the book also contains  a compendium of relevant previous articles Burton has written on Islam and how the notion of 'Islamophobia' is used to close down free speech. 

See:

• A most highly recommended read – Pigeon on the Wing, The prison diaries of Tim Burton, a foe of Islam
• 'Tell Mama' did exaggerate anti-Muslim attacks: PCC rejects all Fiyaz Mughal’s complaints against us
• UK Muslim group says it will sue Jewish activist
• Escape from Big Mother: Free Speech of UK in Decay
• CST collaborate with Tell Mama 
• Board of Deputies and Fiyaz Mughal

The threat of right-wing extremism

The Board of Deputies, CST and many Muslim organizations have been mounting an increasingly hysterical campaign to highlight the threat of right-wing extremists to Jews, arguing that this threat is at least as serious as that posed by Islamic and/or leftist antisemites.Oh wait, what's this .....

This is what the Board of Deputies are pushing at the moment (they have never once convened a meeting to discuss Islamic antisemitism):

Stephen Pollard is an idiot. Like the rest of Britain's pathetic virtue-signalling Jewish 'leadership'

In May 2018 Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard joined with multiple antisemites in a blood libel against Israel, accusing the Jewish State of massacring 'Palestinian civilians' who were storming the Israeli border with Gaza (he blocked me on twitter for calling him out on this). He later issued an apology for his blood libel statement when it was proved that those killed were Hamas terrorists.  In today's Daily Express (where he is also an Editor) he says it’s wrong to call Muslim terrorists "Muslim terrorists" because it "implies that all Muslims are terrorists". Stephen Pollard is an idiot.

Pollard is part of the elitist clique who think they know what’s best for British Jews (and he’s by no means the worst). We have seen with the recent decision by the Jewish 'leadership'  to demonize and silence Colonel Richard Kemp and Melanie Phillips (see articles by Jonathan Hoffman and David Collier about this), that they will not tolerate anybody who dares raise concerns about Islamic antisemitism and terrorism, They have bought into the whole "Islamophobia" narrative in an attempt to appease people like Baroness Warsi (who claims to oppose antisemitism while being a vicious enemy of the Jewish state, whipping up antisemitic hatred of it among British Muslims). What started with the demonization of Tommy Robinson, Geert Wilders, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer (all true friends of Israel and the Jewish people) and then Katie Hopkins and Douglas Murray, was never going to end with just them. Now they seek to silence anybody on the 'right' of politics who raises these concerns and even accuse anybody who supports them of being 'racists'.  So, while many of the Jewish community's best friends are shunned by the Jewish leadership, that same leadership is happy to work with (and even invite to communal events): Israel-hating agitators like Warsi, antisemitic anti-Israel leftist Muslims like Naz Shah, and any number of left-wing politicians and activists who supported both Corbyn and the boycott campaign against Israel.

The Board of Deputies, The Jewish Leadership Council, CST, the JC and even recently the CAA are all complicit in the "Islamophobia" narrative. They are failing Britan's Jews.

p.s. Oh what’s this? Naz "the Jews are rallying" Shah - who said "Israel should be moved to America" and that Islamic rape gang victims should "shut up for the sake of diversity"- was a guest at an event last week hosted by the Jewish News, The Board of Deputies and the JLC at the UK’s most prestigious Jewish community centre JW3 last week. Do you think they’d ever invite Tommy Robinson?

The BoD et al are fundamentally racists because they believe Muslims who are antisemitic have no agency over their antisemitism and hence cannot be held accountable for it. So, in their view Muslims must always be forgiven, whereas any white, 'right-wing' person who raises concerns about the Islamic threat is considered a 'racist' who can never be redeemed.


Why we must fear challenge and expunge the word Islamophobia

Reminder: Britain still paying convicted terrorists

Kay Wilson is the British Israeli tour guide who, in 2010, miraculously survived a brutal machete attack by two sadistic Palestinian terrorists (Aiad Fatfata and Kifah Ghanimat) while hiking in a forest near Jerusalem. The American tourist she was escorting - Kristine Luken - was murdered in the attack. The terrorists simply wanted to 'kill some Jews' (although Kristine was in fact a Christian). Kay Wilson just posted this tweet about the UK Goverment's continued funding of Palestinian terrorists, including Aiad Fatfata and Kifah Ghanimat.

(Of course, if Britain's Jewish community 'leaders' used even a fraction of the effort they spend campaigning against "Islamophobia" on stopping the Govt's continued funding of convicted terrorists then this could all have been stopped long ago. But instead all those 'leaders' are now investing efforts in demonizing such obvious threats to the Jewish community like Colonel Richard Kemp and Melanie Phillips because of their "Islamophobia". See articles by Jonathan Hoffman and David Collier about this).

Incidentally when a friend of mine wrote to their MP about the Government funding Kay's killers in 2013 this was the response letter. It say the  Government cannot reduce aid to the PA as there could be "all manner of unintended consequences". In others words "we must keep paying the terrorists otherwise their terrorism might get even worse".

Also interesting to note is what this MP says about the 'unnacountable EU'. This Labour MP subsequently campaigned strongly to remain in the EU......Typical hypocrisy.

See: UK funding Palestinian terrorists: how this could have been stopped

Palestinian election 2019....

Think of this. In just a few hours time it is possible the Palestinians will have their first democratically elected leader for 15 years....

UPDATE 13 Dec 2019: Fortunately Corbyn wasn't elected.....

On killing terrorst leaders

Just in case you were puzzled about this ....

Exeter University Jewish Society and Israel Society - raising money for Islamic Relief

Two weeks ago I reported on Harry Markham's experiences with Bristol University Jewish Society - their policy of disassociating themselves with Israel and their leader pushing a narrative of "pervasive racism in Israel" and "Jewish settlers carrying out terrorist attacks".

Now Harry has alerted me to what is going on at Exeter University. Like Bristol, the Jewish Society and Israel Society there have rejected his offer to present Israel's case, but are perfectly happy to team up with those who seek Israel's destruction. In an act of supreme virtue-signalling (which would be comical if it wasn't true) they have decided, for "Charity Week", to join the Islamic Society in raising money for the 'charity' Islamic Relief.

If Jewish students really are determined to virtue-signal in this way, there are surely suitable Muslim charities they could have teamed up with (although why they would take precedence over, say Hindu or Sikh charities I have no idea). Unfortunately, Islamic Relief is not one of them. Those unaware of the dubious history of this 'charity' should look at this detailed report from the Middle East Forum that is summarised in this article. I have previously covered Islamic Relief on this blog when Norwood made a similarly incomprehensible decision to team up with them. Islamic Relief has long been accused of involvement in terrorism as reported here. In 2006 the Israeli Government outlawed Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) from its work in Judea and Samaria,  declaring that it was "designed to further Hamas's ideology among the Palestinian population" and in 2014 claimed that the 'charity' was involved in sending cash to Hamas. In 2014 HSBC cut its ties with IRW due to concerns over its terrorist links.  Even the United Arab Emirates banned IRW because of its terrorist links.


So Britain's Jewish student leadership regard dynamic, young unapologetic Zionists like Harry Markham as extremists to be censored, while cosying-up to (and now funding) terror-supporting Islamists.

See

• Unite Our Powers Chairty Week: Jewish students raising money for Islamic Relief
• The depressing state of Britain's Jewish students
• Islamic Relief: Charity/Extremism/Terror
• Norwood and Islamic Relief

The useless Board of Deputies and its new Public Affairs Officer

Just when you thought the Board of Deputies could not possibly get even more useless...

Not exactly what I'd expect from a person in charge of 'Public Affairs'.

Dec 2020 Update: Daniel Sugarman is the person who led the online lynching of Melanie Phillips for daring to write about how accusations of "Islamophobia" were being used to silence anybody raising concerns anout islamic antisemitism.

The depressing state of Britain’s Jewish students.

Harry Markham, the dynamic and brilliant young National Director of Herut UK and self-declared 'unapologetic Zionist' has offered several times to speak to Bristol University’s Jewish Society (one of the country’s biggest). They have never even responded to his requests and it appears they have a policy of disassociating themselves with Israel.

To gain some insights into this Yachadization of Britain's Jewish students, Harry alerted me to this public post on the Facebook page of Bristol University student Sabrina Miller. 

https://www.facebook.com/100002208381787/posts/2437338879683034

Sabrina is an active Jewish student at Bristol who has been “elected as an NUS delegate to represent the entire Bristol student body”. Despite the article title (“Being a Zionist on Campus”) and the promising beginning in which she says that campus Israel hatred she feared never materialized, it is clear that, whatever her thoughts about Israel before entering the University, her thoughts must have changed since she got there as she says:

After being forced to digest some really uncomfortable truths about Israel I am so grateful that I've been able to discuss the conflict with many people who don't preach that the IDF “is the most moral army in the world” or that “Israeli settlements aren’t a barrier to peace”

I invite people to read the comments on the article. For those who cannot access FaceBook, I reproduce the most relevant parts of the discussion between Sabrina and Harry Markham below. It is depressing to know that Sabrina, rather than Harry, may represent the future of British Jews (I have highlighted some of Sabrina's text).

Harry Markham: What are the "uncomfortable truths about Israel" you are talking about? Why are Israelis living in Judea and Samaria an obstacle to peace? If it was such an obstacle, why wasn't there peace from 1949 till 1967 when Jordanian Islamism made that region Judenrein?! This kind of appeasement doesn't work, Sabrina.

You write beautifully, but you now believe these false narratives.

Jews not in the Bristol Jsoc exec should be thoroughly outraged by your Jsoc and its sheer cowardice.

Sabrina Miller: Firstly, why do you keep attacking the JSOC committee because we don't agree with you on Israel. JSOC is so much more than Israel, we do so much for the jewish community here and calling us cowards because we're not right wing is neither true or helpful. Secondly we were all democratically voted in so whether or not you like it, Jews at Bristol support us and this committee..  So onto your first question of 'uncomfortable truths'. Uncomfortable truths include the racism that exists and pervades Israeli society. Those truths include listening to the impact that occupation has on the lives of Palestinians. Uncomfortable truths is learning about the terror attacks committed by Jewish settlers to name a few. Truths like 750 000 Palestinains were displaced during the independence war and many of them still live in refugee camps in Lebanon, Gaza, WB + other places * I believe in a 2 state solution. Like jews have a right to self determination so do Palestinians. Thus in my opinion settlements prevent the establishment of a future autonomous Palestinian state - hope that answers your questions xx

Harry Markham: 1. Your Jsoc and its refusal to do Israel/Zionist activity only contributes to antisemitism in Bristol. It is quite extraordinary that the voice of Jewish students at Bristol rather than taking a lead in the fight against antisemitism, it has become part of the problem.

2. I wholeheartedly agree that Jsoc should be more than Israel. But your Jsoc represents different parts of Jewish identity - and Zionism is part of it. I can think of no other reason than cowardice for your Jsoc not doing Zionist activity. And if those in your Jsoc don't like it, then just like how some don't like the religious part, they don't need to come to those events. But don't make Zionist students feel they have no representation.

3. Why is racism in Israel an uncomfortable truth? Like me, you strive to normalise Zionism and Israel, so why shouldn't Israel have societal issues like racism? Every nation in the world suffers from this cancer, Israel is no different. We have our problems, which country in the world doesn't have problems?

4. How can Israel occupy something which under international law belongs to them? The Mandate for Palestine 1922, later reaffirmed by Article 80 of UN law, means an Israeli presence is legal. Which law makes our presence illegal? Which law states our presence is that of "occupation"?

5. Which terror attacks?

6. Firstly, 750,000 is an overly inflated figure. The real number is around 550,000 - 600,000.

And let's look at this idea of "displacement" -

In 1937 and in 1947, a two state solution was proposed. The Arabs rejected this, Israel agreed to it. Arab leaders such as Azzam Pashra said on the day of Israeli independence, where Israel stated its commitment to live with all people in harmony, "This will be a war of extermination and to a momentous massacre which will be remembered like the Mongolian Massacres and the Crusades." Inspite of Israel's efforts at peace, Islamic intolerance meant this is what Israel was up against. And Israel had a duty to defend itself. There was no surgical effort to remove Arabs residing in Israel. This was a lie that arose from the myth of Deir Yassin "Massacre", which was used as a tool of fear by the Arab leaders to get the Arab population out of Israel, and return when Israel is destroyed. Just look at Haifa, in 1947 it had the second largest Arab population in the land. The Hagannah insisted the Arab population will stay, they even broke the festival of Passover in order to bake bread for the local Arab inhabitants. Sir Alan Cunningham, the British Commissionor of Palestine said, "British authorities in Haifa have formed the impression that totllal evacuation is being urged on the Haifa Arab quarters and that the townsfolk themselves are against it." The local British Police Commander noted in a letter "Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives."

And yes, they are living in nasty refugee camps. Israel has offered opportunities at resolving this such as the Lausanne proposal, however everytime the Arab leaders reject these proposals. Why?

Yassar Arafat's side, Sakhwe Abesh said, "To us, the refugee issue is the winning card toneuich means the end of the Israeli state." Or even Lt Geb Galloway, former director of UNRWA said, "It is perfectly clear that Arab nations do not want to solve the Arab refugee problem. They want to keep it ae an open score, as an affront against the UN and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don't give a damm whether refugees live or die."

The real injustice is your failure to speak about what happened in Hebron 1929 (67 Jews massacred), Arab Riots 1936 -1939 (over 400 Jews massacred). These are just two of many anti Jewish massacres in pre state Israel. These were real injustices - what you have given me is unsubstantiated and this historical revisionism has become the new Blood Libel.

You have the privilege of living in the diaspora. You are not living in Sderot facing regular rocket attacks. If you want to change Israel, move there. Don't be part of the problem and put Jews on the backfoot here in the UK by endorsing antisemitic narratives. Debunk them. Israelis don't want your North West London diaspora privilege, they want your support.

The ball is in your court...

See also:

• Fighting Academic Boycotts of Israel 
• Wow. This new UJS campaign is really going to force the antisemites to change their strategy 
• OneVoice at Birmingham University: Pity Britain's Jewish students if this is the best 'pro-Israel' advocacy they hear on campus
• Yachad stoops ever lower and becomes increasingly dangerous for Israel supporters in the UK
• Whose idea was it to have an anti-Zionist and a Muslim Brotherhood supporter put Israel's case to the Cambridge Union?

Twitter exchange shows that every Corbyn supporter really has bought into the antisemitic lies he spews about Israel

This is an actual exchange I had on twitter last week (my twitter handle is @Cant_fool_me) with some key text highlighted. These people really are not very bright are they? But this is Corbyn's base.

Supporting a narrative that results in the murder of Jewish teenagers like Dvir Sorek

Yesterday a 19-year-old orthodox Israeli yeshiva student - Dvir Sorek - was murdered in a savage Palestinian terrorist attack. He was on his way to give his Rabbi some books he had just bought him as a gift near his yeshiva in Migdal Oz, Gush Etzion, Judea. This is how the useless Times of Israel reported the murder:

Times of Israel, 8 August 2019

Like most Jewish Israeli teenagers Dvir was conscripted into the army. He had not even started his training yet and here he was off-duty, unarmed and not in uniform. Yet, the TOI headline and image presents the lying anti-Israel narrative pushed by the mainstream media and political elites:

• The teenage Dvir is not a person with a name; he is a 'soldier'.  This is despite the fact that Dvir had been identified long before the TOI article was up.
• To ensure he is stripped of humanity and to emphasize the 'militaristic nature of Israel' the TOI chooses to use a photo of armed Israeli soldiers rather than a photo of Dvir (which was already widely available).
• The Jewish communities of Gush Etzion - in the heart of Judea - are not homes but  'West Bank settlements' (the ancient Jewish area was desolute before 1920 when it was bought and developed by Jews; in 1948 the Jordanian army destroyed it, killing or expelling every single Jew until Israel ended the illegal Jordanian occupation in 1967).

Dvir Sorek

The TOI headline and image are classic BBC tactics  - for example, see how closely it matches the narrative of how the BBC reported the murder of Dafna Meir. (see image at bottom).

The underlying message is always the same in these cases. As a 'soldier' he must have been involved in 'oppressing Palestinians' and he was also a 'settler' living on their stolen lands. His killing was therefore a 'justified act of resistance'.

Coupled with the the culture of antisemitic hatred and incitement to kill Jews within Palestinian society, this narrative not only leads to the murder of innocent Jewish kids like Dvir, but also to the depraved celebration of such murders throughout Palestinian society:

It is one thing for antisemites to be pushing this narrative. That mainstream Jewish publications (TOI, Jerusalem Post, Jewish Chronicle etc.) and organizations (Board of Deputies, Yachad etc) do it is unacceptable.

By referring to every Israeli teenager as a soldier, by demonizing people who live in our ancient Jewish homlelands as 'illegal settlers' and referring to that area as 'occupied West Bank' (rather than its correct geographic title of Judea and Samaria), and continuing to stress "there can be no peace without the removal of such settlers" (i.e. the failed 2-state solution) the Jewish voices that push this narrative are very much part of the problem.

What is certain is that the terrorist murderers of Dvir will (once caught and sentenced) receive a massive salary for life financed by UK and EU taxpayers - and the media (and mainstream Jewish organizations who could influence the UK and EU governmens) will never mention this. Nor will the media (or the Jewish organizations) ever mention the Palestinian culture of celebrating such murders and the glorification of the murderers.

BBC headline Jan 2016 after murder of Dafna Meir in her home.

Raheem Kassam: Another friend of the Jews and Israel comes under fire from those claiming to fight antisemitism

If you are a public figure who is an unapologetic friend of Israel and the Jews then you will eventually come under attack from leftist Jews and mainstream Jewish organizations. This is because unapologetic supporters of Israel and the Jews understand the threat posed (not just to Jews and Israel but to all domocratic nations) by both Islamic extremism and anti-Israel leftists/globalists like George Soros. By highlighting the first of those threats you will be called a racist/Islamophobe and by highlighting the second you will be called an antisemite.

Because Raheem Kassam dared criticize Soros (correctly calling him a Nazi collaborator who is not a Jew) he joins the ranks of other great supporters of Israel and the Jews in being called an antisemite by the 'court' Jews.

Margaret Hodge: a case study in why appeasing antisemites with anti-Israel rhetoric does not work

Many prominent British Jews who are currently most vocal in 'challenging' antisemitism in the Labour Party turn out to be people who also have a record of appeasement to antisemites in the sense of either a) strident anti-Israel rhetoric; or b) simply disassociating themselves from Israel.

These attitudes actually lead to increased antisemitism since it empowers antisemites to spew antisemitism under the guise of anti-Zionism (they can say 'Zionists are baby-killers' instead of 'Jews are baby-killers' and, in defence, can point to prominent Jews who promote that message). But, interestingly, it is also the case that all the sycophantic appeasing does not actually make the antisemites like you any better.

There is no better example of this than the MP Margaret Hodge. She has been consistent in promoting lies and blood libels against the Jewish State. Here's a reminder of the despicable statement she issued last year after continued unprovoked violent attacks by Palestinians at the Gaza border fence against Israel (contrary to what she said even the Palestinians later admitted that almost all those killed were armed Hamas terrorists):

Did it do her any good? Did it protect her personally from antisemitic attacks? Clearly not based on this tweet she posted in March 2019:

(note the anguish at being treated this way despite stressing her 'opposition to Israel'). And things have got much worse as indicated by what she tweeted last week:

Did she ever apologize for pushing the anti-Israel blood libels? No*

Another obvious example of this is ex-comedian, 'as a Jew' David Baddiel. He was always proud to promote his anti-Israel credentials. Now he also claims to be leading the fight against antisemitism ...and moaning about the antisemitic abuse he gets for it.

See also:

• Britain’s Media, Politicians and Jewish leaders STILL perplexed at increase in antisemitism 

*Several others like Stephen Pollard were quick to push the same blood libel, but at least had the decency to apologize when it was later proved false. But, of course, a large proportion of Hodge's constituents are Muslims. Also, we are not allowed to say that there is a special problem with Muslim antisemitism. Indeed, simply raising the issue of Muslim antisemitism in France led to several of the 'prominent Jews fighting antisemitism' to call me a racist on twitter.

Tommy Robinson jailed for asking paedophile rapist how he feels

..and the main stream media and leftists are rejoicing about it.

Pictures from today at the Old Bailey and the march to Westminster:

UK funding Palestinian terrorists: how this could have been stopped

A week after the British Government announced yet more 'emergency cash' for the Palestinian Authority through UNRWA, the Palestinian Authority proudly announces a big increase in the payments it is making under its 'pay to slay' scheme (in which the more Jews a terrorist kills the greater the payment to the terrorist and/or his family).

These payments could easily have been stopped years ago if any of the well-funded mainstream Jewish organizations (the Board of Deputies, CST, JLC) had taken the slightest interest in doing so. There is tremendous public animosity towards the Government's £14 billion foreign aid programme. A vast majority of Brits want this funding stopped completely (except for genuine emergencies like earthquakes). Every week there are stories in the press of the ludicrous and undeserved schemes being funded around the world and each reminds the British public why they want the entire budget scrapped. Yet, curiously, the biggest and most disgraceful use of this aid is never mentioned. While stories of funding the African Spice girls are often repeated, the scandal of one of the biggest recipients of UK aid - the Palestinians - using the money to pay terrorists is never mentioned.

The Jewish organizations should have been raising this issue every single day with whatever politicians and reporters they know. If they had placed just a few full page advertisements highlighting the pay-to-slay scheme they would have been kicking at an open door as far as the British public were concerned. If they had publicized the case of British victims of Palestinian terrorists, such as Kay Wilson, the British public would have demanded an immediate stop to the payments.

But, to the best of my knowledge, the BoD have never publicly raised this issue. Today they were cosying up to the man who was dishing out money last week to the terrorists. Is this an example of the so-called 'quite diplomacy' they always talk about - but which never actually works? Judging by the two particular BoD individuals in the photo, you can be sure that they never discussed Kay Wilson and the payments being made to her attackers with British money.....

See also: The useless Board of Deputies