Sunday, April 12, 2015

Which British Political Party is the most anti-semitic?




Update: The range of views offered by British political parties

In response to claims before the European elections in 2014 that Jewish voters must not vote for UKIP since it was 'antisemitic' I produced a summary of the extent to which antisemitism is rampant in all the main stream parties (and note that I consider anti-Zionism as an example of antisemitism) awarding a number of Arafats (rather than stars) to each (where in the spirit of Debbie Schlussel, 5 Arafats is the worse possible). Here is an update of that summary. (Further Update: UK Pro-jihad Muslim group boasts: “negotiating with Tory & Labour leadership”and note that Baroness Warsi is part of the gig).

The Labour Party
"due to pressure that had been placed on the courts by .. Jewish friends who own newspapers and TV channels". He added: "My case became more critical because I went to Gaza to support Palestinians", something that these Jews "opposed".
Over a third of its MPs in Parliament (i.e. with real power unlike UKIP) are committed to the total destruction of Israel and actively push for a total boycott of Israel to achieve this aim. These MPs include the likes of:
  • Paul Flynn who accused Britain's first Jewish ambassador to Israel of having 'divided loyalties'; 
  • Martin Linton,  who spoke about the "long tentacles of Israel" reaching into British politics; 
  • Gerald Kaufman who stated that "Just as Lord Ashcroft owns most of the Conservative Party, right-wing Jewish millionaires own the rest," and said "Here we are, the Jews again" when pro-Israel MP Louise Ellman rose to speak in the Commons;
  • Jeremy Corbyn, Sadiq Khan, and Andy Slaughter (the latter who even holds the position of Shadow Justice Minister) who not only campaign obsessively for the destruction of Israel, but have a long history of support for Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists, and they have all shared platforms with members of terrorist organisations, and notorious anti-Semitic, homophobic Islamists.
  • Former Foreign Minister Jack Straw who claimed that "Unlimited Jewish funds control US policy, and block Mideast peace" while also demanding respect and sympathy for the aspirations of the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Shabana Mahmood who in 2014 led a fanatical mob of anti-Israel demonstrators who forced the closure of a Sainsbury's store in Birmingham for selling Israeli produce.
  • John Prescott who in 2014 compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
The above is just the tip of the iceberg. The Labour Party has hundreds of elected local councillors and thousands of grass-root members whose antisemitism is channelled into their obsessive hatred of Israel and their belief in an international Zionist conspiracy.
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The Conservative Party
The ambivalent, and at times openly hostile attitude of the Cameron government to Israel has been extensively catalogued on this blog (where I have argued it is the most anti-Israel government since Ted Heath - another conservative antisemite - was PM in 1973). This includes:
  • Taking the lead in the EU initiative to boycott Israeli goods from the "occupied territories"
  • Selling arms to just about every despotic Arab state yet maintaining an arms embargo against Israel.
  • Taking the unprecedented steps of expelling Israeli diplomats from the UK 'in retaliation' for the death of a Hamas terrorist in Dubai that was never proved to have any Israeli involvement. 
  • Threatening to break off all diplomatic relations with Israel because Israel had the audacity to issue planning permits for building new homes in its capital city.
  • Taking the lead in condemning Israel for defending itself against terrorist attacks. Cameron also voiced the most bitter and irrational condemnation of any world leader after the Gaza Turkish flotilla fiasco.
  • Taking the lead in vicious condemnation of Israel for daring to build anywhere in its 'settlements'
  • The appointment of William Hague - the most anti-Israel Foreign Secretary in living memory; a man seemingly obsessed with Israeli 'aggression' and 'settlements', since he was rarely heard to speak about anything else.
  • Massively increased funding for the 'Palestinians' which has been proven to have been widely used to directly fund terrorism and antisemitic incitement; requests to investigate this funding have been continually ignored (the standard response I have received from politicians is that withdrawing this funding will lead to increased terrorism!)
  • Britain taking the lead in the EU in 'lawfare' against Israelis and Israeli owned businesses. Leading Israeli politicians (including even Tzippi Livni) and military leaders continue to be stopped from entering the country for fear of arrest under the 'Universal Jurisdiction' law that has been applied only to Israelis on trumped up charges by the antisemites of the Palestine Solidarity Committee. Cameron promised he would stop this happening but, despite claims that the law has been changed, it has failed to make any difference
  • A number of trials in which the defendants who have admitted to physical attacks and destruction of Israeli owned businesses have been found not guilty and even been praised by judges for their heroic activism. (Update: see amie's comment below about the Government having no power over judges, but note that not a single Conservative MP has publicly expressed any condemnation of this and indeed there have now been numerous cases where violent 'anti-Israel' demonstrators have been let off on the basis of being merely 'political protesters').
  • The introduction of policing policies which enabled anti-Israel 'demonstrators' in 2010, 2012 and 2014 to run riot in the streets of London attacking what they believed were Jewish owned businesses as well as Jewish counter demonstrators without fear of arrest (in fact the policy was instead to focus police manpower on confining the smaller numbers of peaceful pro-Israel demonstrators); 
  • The introduction of policing policies which enable anti-Israel 'demonstrators' to violently disrupt every public event (without fear of arrest or prosecution) in which an Israeli appears
  • An environment of such increased hostility to Israel in all walks of life that the campaign to boycott and deligitimize Israel and to equate Israel with apartheid are more firmly in the main stream than any other country in Europe.
  • The appointment of the anti-Israel Muslim supremacist Baroness Warsi to multiple positions of authority, which has resulted in many negative ramifications for Britain's Jewish community.
  • The banning from the UK of American bloggers for being 'too pro-Israel' and hence 'likely to antagonise Muslims'. At the same time antisemitic Muslim hate preachers are allowed in all the time.
  • The introduction of laws on 'hate speech' that have been primarily used to silence the voices of those who highlight the dangers of Islamic terrorism. In April 2015 they even promised that 'Islamaphobic attacks' (the bulk of which appear to be comments and articles on the web complaining about Islamic terrorists) will become a specific 'hate crime' under new legislation if they are re-elected.
  • The refusal to replace - or even reprimand - the openly Hamas supporting Consul-General in Jerusalem Alastair McPhail (Britain's highest ranking official in the Middle East).
Remember also that Cameron - before he was elected - actually tried to establish his 'pro-Muslim' credentials by bragging:
 ‘Unlike a lot of politicians from Britain who visit Israel, when I went I did stand in occupied East Jerusalem and actually referred to it as ‘occupied East Jerusalem,’ he says. ‘The Foreign Office bod who was with me said most ministers don’t dare say [that].’
And to prove that he meant it one of his first appointments in Office was Simon Fraser as the new head of the Foreign Office. Fraser had been sacked from his job in the last Conservative Government under John Major for cohabiting with an official of the PLO (which at the time was still officially designated as a terrorist organisation). 

There are many current and former members of the Conservative party in parliament and the House of Lords who share the same obsessive 'Zionist conspiracy', anti-Israel world views of their Labour colleagues. In addition to Baroness Warsi, these include people like David Mellor who has a long record of antisemitism cloaked in 'anti-Israel' rhetoric and who recently described Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich as an 'Israel-obsessed Russian' and Chris Patten the anti-Israel campaigner who also happens to be the Chairman of the anti-Israel BBC.  There are also many good old-fashioned antisemite Conservative MPs like Patrick Mercer who was caught on camera describing a female Israeli soldier as a “bloody Jew” in 2013. And there are MPs like Aidan Burley who hosted a Nazi-themed stag party (although as one commenter points below out he is not an antisemite). And then we have the openly antisemitic Islamist Conservative politicians like Gulzabeen Afsal, a Tory council candidate in Derby who wrote in Arabic (about Ed Miliband): “Nah bro! never ever will I drop that low and support the al yahud [Arabic for Jew] lol.” 
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The LibDem Party
While Labour's Ken Livingstone may be the most well-know main stream antisemitic politician, he is not the most antisemitic. That honour goes to Baroness Jenny Tonge who is so committed to the belief in a world-wide Zionist conspiracy that she is convinced that Israel steals the organs of disaster victims all around the world. She also famously expressed a desire to murder Israeli civilians as a suicide bomber. Yet Tonge is very popular in the LibDem party because her world view is shared by others MPs and most of the Party's grass-roots activists. She is not even the most senior LibDem to demand the destruction of the State of Israel since that is the wish and policy of none other than the Deputy Leader Simon Hughes, and there are few MPs more viciously antisemitic than David Ward, who equates Israel with the Nazis and who tweets about the power of the Jewish Board of Deputies. Not surprising therefore that the LibDems officially promote the campaign to boycott Israel.

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The Green Party


While the Green Party attracts support from harmless (but brainless) environmentalists, there is no longer any dispute that antisemitic anti-Zionism is one of the core defining features of Green Party politicians in the UK. Comprehensive evidence of this can be found in this report. The Green Party is represented in Parliament by the MP and fanatical Israel-hater Caroline Lucas. She is not only one of the most active campaigners of the "Israeli apartheid" lie, but she has blamed Israel for most of the world’s problems, including bizarrely the Mumbai terrorist attack of 2008 in which Pakistani Muslims massacred nearly 200 people including the Chabad Rabbi and his wife. Not content with the Party's official and total boycott of Israel, Lucas also supports violent action against Israeli interests in the UK
A former member of the Green Party has explained in detail the extent to which the Party is  institutionally anti-Semitic. Lucas is certainly not alone. The Greens deputy leader since 2014 is Shahrar Ali who, as can be seen from the report here, is an anti-Israel fanatic and Islamist. The Green Party is closely aligned with the antisemitic Palestine Solidarity Campaign and some of its leading activists (like the insane Deborah Fink) are now standing as Green Party candidates. The Green Party is also increasingly aligned with the antisemitic socialist-Muslim party Respect (see below) - during the 2010 General Election the Green Party stood down in favour of Respect candidates in Birmingham Sparkbrook and Manchester, Blackley and Broughton.
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Respect
The Party (led by George Galloway) whose only three objectives are sharia law, socialism, and the destruction of Israel. Galloway's evangelical hatred of Israel is legendary, but he has plenty of competition in the Respect Party for the honour of being the most antisemitic. Yvonne Ridley (Respect's parliamentary candidate in the 2012 Rotherham by-election) said that "any Zionists in the Respect Party ... would be hunted down and kicked out. We have no time for Zionists." Many others in Respect have been less careful in saying "Zionist" when they meant "Jew".  Abul Hussain, a former member of Respect's national council, posted antisemitic comments on Facebook about "chopping off a Jewish person's sidelocks and confiscating their kippah". He also wrote about Jews, "Here's a penny go put it in the bank and [you] just might get a pound after ten years interest!".  Following her appointment as Respect's women's officer in Bradford in October 2012, it emerged that Naz Khan had recently commented on Facebook that "history teachers in our school" were and are "the first to start brainwashing us and our children into thinking the bad guy was Hitler. What have the Jews done good in this world??” Carole Swords, the chairwoman of the Respect Party in Tower Hamlets, was convicted for a public order offence after an assault on a Jewish man in 2011. Inside a Covent Garden Tesco Metro supermarket she had struck him in the face while he was protecting Israeli goods from unlawful damage (a subsequent appeal cleared her of the offence). At one rally she described Zionists as "cockroachs ... bugs [which] need to be stomped out" and at a different rally, Swords had told a Jewish protester to "go back to Russia"

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SNP (Scottish Nationalist Party)
This party's attitude to Israel is even worse than the Greens. Its leader Nicola Sturgeon is a fanatical Israel hater who has been happy to share speaking platforms not just with Hamas members and supporters but also with open antisemites. To give a feel for its policies, in 2011 the SNP-led West Dunbartonshire Council banned all Israeli books from its libraries.

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Welsh Nationalists  (Plaid Cymru)
All you need to know is that their leader is Leanne Wood who is actually a member and activist in the antisemitic Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

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UKIP
In 2014 after every major media outlet in the country spent months trawling through the background and social media activity of every one of the thousands of candidates and also tens of thousands of supporters of UKIP the 'antisemite' they managed to come up with was  Anna-Marie Crampton, a candidate in East Sussex, who apparently posted a blog article claiming that Zionists conspired with the Nazis to kill Jews in the Holocaust  (a viewpoint, incidentally, that is widely shared by leftists including some of the MPs cited above who continually equate Zionism with Nazism; it was also  the main claim of PA President Mohammed Abbas's doctoral thesis).  In fact, if you criticise someone on the left as being antisemitic for making the Zionist-Nazi collaboration claim you will be told that anti-Zionism has nothing to do with antisemitism. In fact, she told the party her account had been hacked and she was not responsible for the posts. Nevertheless, she was suspended from the party pending an investigation. If only the other main stream parties would take the same approach to their genuine and proud antisemites.
My owns views of UKIP, based on attending a meeting with Nigel Farage, are described here.

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So there you have it....




24 comments:

amie said...

have been found not guilty and even been praised by judges for their heroic activism.

Whatever other issues arise from your critique of the Conservatives, it is completely untenable to lay the actions of individual judges acting completely independently under our separation of powers, at the door of the Conservative gvt. In fact, the judge who praised the defendants was reprimanded by the judicial disciplinary body.As reported here by.. Conservative Home page:
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2010/10/judge-bathurst-norman-is-reprimanded-for-grotesque-anti-israel-rant-to-jury-which-got-off-seven-acti.html

Donisthorpe boot boy. said...

Aiden Burley is a member of the conservative friends of Israel. He attended a stag party in which a participant dressed as a Nazi, he didn't and was not responsible. Ed Balls And Prince Harry have also been photographed in Nazi uniform's. I don't reckon either of them is an anti-Semite.
I have had this out with Aiden Burley and this very sensitive proud Jew and Zionist can assure you he isn't an anti-Semite but was the victim of political opportunism.

Confronting antisemitism and Israel hatred said...

To Donisthorpe boot boy:
I have updated the text accordingly

Unknown said...

A pretty sad state of affairs. Where is the Iron Lady when we need her?

Anonymous said...

Well done! Thanks for the scorecard delineating the players and the hypocrisy. --Sarah

Anonymous said...

So - who on earth will get my vote?
I have always been confident being a Jew in the UK, but now I am feeling uneasy and I am wondering "is this how it started in Germany?"

It seems to be "fashionable" to Jew-bash now.................

G-d help them all if we all leave.......

Shirley said...

Bravo!

Have tweeted link to the spineless Board of Deputies in the UK (who want British Jews to vote Tory).

Will save the link and post it regularly in the run up to the election, and I shall vote UKIP

Anonymous said...

Where's the bit about UKIP and Shechita. Farage is OK, but his central committee want to ban it.
If he fails in the election and is booted out, you are left with anti Shechita MP's

amie said...

Shirley: actually, the BOD is Labour leaning.

klaas jacob said...

You now the british polici are realy against Israel.The dum headed people with a small viuew over the cases in the midle east.
I hope and pray that the most british wi;ll see what is realy going on. I visted Isarel in 2007
and now the number of suiceded atacks are lesser than before the the wall . For me it has be 100 meters higher. israel are god choosen.Dont touch the holy land there wil come disaster over the uk. it is a serieus warning. shalom kj dw

Daphne Anson said...

A real tour de force, Edgar. Should be prescribed reading for all who support Israel.

Anonymous said...

David Cameron surprisingly made a wonderful speech at the Knesset pointing out that 1/6th of anti-cancer treatments (I believe) in British hospitals come from Israel and that Israel haters should not be hypocrites and therefore ought to refuse life saving medicines which come from the Jewish State. My problem with Cameron is that he is a lap dog for Britain hating, Israel hating and even America hating Barack Obama. As for Israel hating Foreign Secretary's it would be hard to top Sir Alec Douglas-Home and the notorious Ernest Bevin.

Anonymous said...

Erm, when quoting Jack Straw and Gerald Kaufman - you do know that Kaufman is Jewish don't you? And that Straw has a Jewish grandmother (I know the family, they're proud of their Jewish heritage). So yeah...probably they're not anti-semitic.

Anonymous said...

"antisemitism is channelled into their obsessive hatred of Israel and their belief in an international Zionist conspiracy".I see a difference between antisemtisism and a dislike of the policies of an oppressive government in Israel.

Anonymous said...

Antisemitism is embodied in this blog. Conflating the state of Israel and the Jewish people is deeply offensive. The article is also simply innacurate. I suspect this is a spoofed site set up by right wing groupsto discredit the Jewish people.you should be ashamed of yourself.

Anonymous said...

Search UKIP antisemitism to read the many examples of UKIP candidates and supporters expressing antisemitic views. A UKIP blog?

Unknown said...

This article probably needs some revision. After the election of Jeremy Corbyn I think Labour deserves an extra Ahmadinejad (and possibly Saddam).

Anonymous said...

I am appalled and ashamed to be a Jew. That so many of us are so narrow sighted or just plain dumb to fall for the many press lies. Some of those people listed above have not uttered a word suggesting or supporting the dismantling of Israel. AS for the claims about Blaire being forced out because of his support of Isreal, it's so ridiculous it's laughable.

Our people have a great advantage over most because we stick together & look out for each other. I see it amongst black people but not to the same extent. Unfortunately, it is now being used for political manipulation, much of which is based on misquotes or out-and-out lies.

I suffered segrigation, bullying & abuse for much of my early life. A vast majority of that abuse was from right-wing filth. My experiences as a Jew at boarding school were nightmarish & it was during that time that I found solace within the Labour Party & I have been a member ever since. Most are good people, inclusive, caring & selfless. Whenever there has been allegations they have been dealt with fairly & appropriate actions always taken., But one fact that needs driving home is that an anti-Semitic comment doesn't an anti-Semitic make. People, feeling insulted, frustrated & impotent sometimes say thigs to hurt whilst not meaning them. Are you all so stupid as to not know that?
If you are intelligent, knowledgeable & honest, you know that none of the mainstream Parties is anti-Semitic, just that a tiny number of supporters are . . . and that UKIP & the Tories are the true homes of the bigots.

Now, Jeremy Corbyn. I had the pleasure of conversing for several hours with that gentleman & he is all good, one of the kindest, least bigoted people I have ever had the pleasure of spending time with. If the detractors had actually spent some time personally getting to know him they would know the allegations are ridiculous to & would hang their heads in shame. For the record, I voted for Ed, but not Blaire as I could see straight through that psychopath's act...I'm good at reading people, a survival instinct I acquired through necessity.

So let's fight against bigotry, segregation & inequality, but let's do it honestly, which hasn't been the case recently. The whole fight against anti-Semitism is being belittled & undermined by false flags. Lots of people look at these claims & some see the lies & then become cynical about genuine incidents.

As for you fools claims that various people "hate Isreal", grow up. They don't have a problem with Jews, nor Israel's existence, it's the murder, occupation & lies the Israeli government dish out that they have an issue with. Anybody with a basic knowledge of psychology, who have devoted time to studying Netanyahu will know that he is a genuine psychopath and as such, will never seek peace.

Anonymous said...

MY god you jewish arsoles are so paranoid I just whish a little bit of this was true I find it hard to vote for a party because I'm an anti Zionist not anti semetic I'm anti Zionist there is a difference

Unnaturalgeek said...

Christ, this is absurd...there is a lot of information that has been wholly taken out of context. Not only do you seem to not fully understand the history of Zionism itself, you seem to not understand that the Israeli state government has more akin to colonisers, rather than the 'noble zionists' you claim.

Zionism itself wasn't originally about a physical homeland, but the idea you find home within oneself. It's just that over the centuries, individuals have interpreted the idea of Zionism and holy scriptures in their own ideals. This has since led to several branches of Zionism.

What is happening in Israel is not Zionism, it is colonisation.

Oh btw, religious history is my speciality and because I am not religious myself, I won't look at it with rose-tinted glasses.

Pedro the fisherman said...

According to history, the United Nations opposed the illegal establishment of Israel as a Jewish state. According to 1940+ maps of the area now called Israel there existed a state in its own right known as Palestine. Following the Ben Gurion? Pusch Palestine was wiped off the face of the earth. It is widely accepted by all because Israel claims so that Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah believe Israel should be wiped from the face of the earth.Am I missing something here?Am I a Zionist or am I an antisemite?

Confronting antisemitism and Israel hatred said...

Pedro: You are a totally ignorant antisemite. Goodbye

Pedro the fisherman said...

So Edgar, educate me and the rest please. Which part of my comment was untrue or is it just because I am highly and proudly critical of Israel. If the latter is the case then more than half the world, including 98% of the UN representatives who have openly criticised that land for disregarding a whole host of resolutions but most importantly its human rights actions.

Come back please. Ill' we'll miss you otherwise.

Anonymous said...

Your are all fruitcakes! Anonymous