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| Hatchet job by the CAA |
The ‘New
International Definition of Anti-Semitism’ Saying Anything That Upsets Zionist Propaganda Organisations like the CAA
fact that Israel’s favourite propaganda organisation in this country, the Campaign
Against Anti-Semitism, had not until yesterday attacked me. Indeed searching their site I came up with no
mentions whatsoever of my name!
a result of my campaign, I have now gone within a week from 0 to 3 appearances
on the CAA website!
questioning their charity registration I have brought the wrath of god on my
head (I assume that that’s not anti-Semitic!).
It seems as if the CAA had some difficulty deciding how best to approach
the matter. It was clearly important to
attack me but the question was how. In
the end they opted for the hackneyed ‘left=right’ formulation ‘TonyGreenstein’s attempt to shut down Campaign Against Antisemitism showcases thesimilarities between far-left and far-right’.
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| some of Gideon Falter, CAA Chairman’s directorships |
what can you expect from people whose only answer to anything is to shout ‘anti-Semitism’?
has a good pedigree. No less than Adolf Hitler pursued this particular
theme as part of his belief in the International Jewish Conspiracy Theory. In a
speech on 28th July 1922 Hitler spoke of how:
The Jews were a ‘capitalist people who ‘found a way to lay
their hands on the fourth estate. [the proletariat] The Jew founded the Social
Democratic, the Communist Movement… On the Right, he attempted to intensify all
existing wrongs to such an extent that [the worker] … would be provoked beyond
measure.’
idiotic. Because some on the Left
support Brexit and the BNP do, does that mean that the Left=BNP? Perhaps because both dogs and cats have tails
that dog=cat? It is an absurd process of
‘logic’.
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| My place in infamy is assured! |
Tonge ‘signed up to a petition
proposed by notorious antisemite Tony Greenstein.’ To make such a statement, without a whiff of evidence,
is clearly defamatory. The CAA is
increasingly being forced into assertions of anti-Semitism without any
underlying or justifying rationale.
supported Hitler’ the Daily Mail Online attacking the petition which noted that
‘We are extremely grateful to Baroness Deech, Bob Blackman MP, Matthew Offord
MP and Mike Freer MP, all of whom rushed to defend our work.’ They are all Tories, not a species usually
known for their hostility to racism. I
can’t remember any of the above supporting the Dubs amendment supporting the
admission of child refugees into Britain.
But then the ‘anti-Semitism’ of the CAA has little if anything to do
with what most people consider to be racism.
defined as an antisemite under the International
Definition of Antisemitism, which states that “Denying the…intentionality
of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist
Germany…during World War II” is antisemitic.’
It is in fact the International Holocaust Definition of Anti-Semitism. The IHRA definition uses more cautious phrases such as ‘might’ or ‘could’ but for the CAA the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism outlaws anti-Zionism.
denying the intentionality of the genocide of Jews, and others during the Holocaust
would indeed be anti-Semitic. But of course I have never done so. What they
are objecting to is the fact that I have drawn attention to the fact that the Nazis,
quite consciously, supported the Zionist movement in Germany prior to the
outbreak of war.
example Lucy Dawidowicz and Francis Nicosia have admitted. I realise that it is painful but that’s how
life is. What it isn’t however is anti-Semitic. Unless the truth is also anti-Semitic.
writes in her book ‘War Against the Jews’ that Reinhardt Heydrich, who Gerald
Reitlinger rightly describes as the “real engineer of the final solution” issued
a directive stating:
‘the activity of the Zionist-oriented youth organizations
that are engaged in the occupational restructuring of the Jews for agriculture
and manual trades prior to their emigration to Palestine lies in the interest
of the National Socialist state’s leadership.’
These organisations therefore ‘are not to be treated with that
strictness that it is necessary to apply to the members of the so-called
German-Jewish organizations (assimilationists)’. [Lucy Dawidowicz, War Against
the Jews, pp.118, citing Mommsen ‘Der Nationalsozialistische Polizeistaat
pp.78/9 and Nicosia, Zionism and anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, p.119.
Schwarze Korps, which was the paper of the SS, wrote in a similar vein:
the Zionists adhere to a strict racial position and by
emigrating to Palestine they are helping to build their own Jewish state….
The assimilation-minded Jews deny their race and insist on their loyalty to
Germany or claim to be Christians because they have been baptised in order to
subvert National Socialist principles. [Randolph
Braham, The Politics of Genocide – The Holocaust in Hungary, Vol. 1. Columbia
University Press, 1981 p. 484, fn. 94., 5 May 1935, L. Dawidowicz, p.118,
citing Karl Schleunes, The twisted road to Auschwitz – Nazi policy towards the
Jews 1933-39, 1970].
people like Robert Spencer, one of the founders of the Alt-Right movement in
the USA, support Israel as a fellow ethnic nationalist state. Indeed the phenomenon of white supremacists
and Islamaphobes supporting Israel as a racial state that they would like to
emulate is common throughout Europe, from Le Pen to Geert Wilders to Herr
Strache.
Post reported the demand that:
… the German Zionist Federation be given recognition by the
Government as the only instrument for the exclusive control of German Jewish
life was made by the Executive of that body in a proclamation today. All German
Jewish organizations, it was declared, should be dominated by the Zionist
spirit. [http://www.counterpunch.org/2002/12/23/51-documents/
Lenni Brenner, 51 Documents, 23.12.02.]
relationship between the Zionist movement and the Nazis established that it is
barely worth arguing. The Zionists, when
the Nazis came to power, welcomed their arrival as confirmation of their thesis
that Jews had no place in another peoples’ land.
Zionism’s daily paper, Davar, saw the rise of Hitler as “an opportunity to
build and flourish like none we have ever had or ever will have”. [Nicosia, ZANG, p.91] Rabbi Joachim Prinz, one
of the leaders of German Zionism and later President of the American Jewish Congress
and Vice Chairman of the World Jewish Congress admitted that:
“It was morally
disturbing to seem to be considered as the favoured children of the Nazi
Government, particularly when it dissolved the anti-Zionist youth groups, and
seemed in other ways to prefer the Zionists. The Nazis asked for a ‘more
Zionist behaviour.” [Joachim Prinz, Zionism under the Nazi Government, Young
Zionist (London, November 1937), p.18]
of the idea of a Jewish diaspora, it is called ‘negation of the diaspora’. Of course there is a contradiction between
the fact of the existence of Jewish communities outside Israel and the Zionist belief
that it is only in Israel that a Jewish life can be fulfilled. However whenever there is a rise of anti-Semitism
(as oppose to the fake kind, anti-Zionism) then Zionism responds as it always
has.
and the coming to power of people like Steve Bannon of Breitbart and the
Alt-Right as his Strategic Advisor, we see that Zionism is reacting once again
in the ways that Zionism has traditionally reacted. It welcomes
genuine anti-Semitism, it seeks to work with it. Hence why Mort Klein and the Zionist Organisation
of America invited
Bannon to its annual gala dinner. In
what is a familiar refrain he says
that as Bannon is a friend of Israel he cannot be anti-Semitic. Bannon and
Breitbart: Friends of Israel, not anti-Semites.
considerable anguish. After all they
have been brought up with the idea that Zionism is opposed to ‘anti-Semitism’ which
they have been told manifests itself as opposition to Israel and yet when it
comes to anti-Semitism of the far-Breitbart Right, Zionism has no
objections.
a liberal Zionist paper seemed shell-shocked, not only by Trump’s victory and
the open anti-Semitism of his supporters, but at the welcome they received from
the Israeli government and the Zionist movement. In what seemed to be a
journey of self-discovery How
Steve Bannon and Breitbart News Can Be Pro-Israel — and Anti-Semitic at the Same
Time, the Forward’s Naomi
Zeveloff declared that:
it would seem impossible to hate Jews but love the Jewish state, these two
viewpoints are not as contradictory as they appear.
sociologist at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion that there
is “little correlation” between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, and that
“Many people who dislike Jews like Israel and many people who are critical
toward Israel are affectionate toward Jews.”
This might seem like bread and butter to some of us, a statement of the
obvious, but to those who have been brought up on anti-Zionism=anti-Semitism
propaganda, it is indeed a revelation.
Zeveloff was shocked by the fact that although Trump ‘has professed
an ultra-right view of Israel… many of Trump’s followers spout
anti-Semitism.’ Zeveloff cites Yael
Sternhell, a Tel Aviv University professor of history and American studies,
that “As long as Jews are in Israel fighting the ‘good fight’ with the Arab
world as a bastion of American ideals and values in the Middle East, then they
are very useful and admirable allies,” but “Once they are home demanding a
multi-cultural democracy, demanding that the country accommodate their
religion, their belief and their custom that is a different story.”
this. Anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are
one and the same. It says that ‘Mr
Greenstein may be known also for the company he keeps: often appearing
supporting Jackie Walker, who has also (twice) suspended by the Labour Party
for antisemitism. Ms Walker’s antisemitism is well known’.
with Jackie Walker, and note only that this article is libelous of her too! McCarthyite guilt-by-association is one of
the favourite ploys of the CAA.
accusation that their ‘anti-fascist’ work was merely a façade, window dressing
for their real purpose of attacking anti-Zionist groups and anti-Zionism. They say that my assertion to this effect ‘will
no doubt raise eyebrows’ with the Charity Commission ‘since, as it is well
known that challenging fascist neo-Nazis is a primary focus of our work, and
has been since our campaign was founded.’
founded in the midst of Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s genocidal attack on
Gaza, in order to combat opposition to that war, which it deemed ‘anti-Semitic’
I’m not sure how they keep a straight face.
convictions of mine 33 years ago. Not
only are they long spent but this is in itself an offence under the
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and of course nothing to do with my views
whatsoever. But then again the CAA have
no alternative but to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
the CAA is in receipt of some of the $50m that Gilad Erdan’s Ministry of
Strategic Affairs has budgeted to combat BDS.
There are also a number of other allegations concerning them which I
shall reveal in due course.
