I was arrested on October 4, the 88th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street when the Met Tried to Force the British Union of Fascists on Jewish East Enders – 300,000 Stopped Them – the Met is Still the Same Racist Force
You may remember that I was arrested on October 4th for daring to make a comparison between Israel’s holocaust in Gaza and the Nazi holocaust. Two days ago I was informed by the Police that they weren’t bringing any charges.
The Police trying to find a way through Cable Street 88 years ago – genuine anti-Semitism has never bothered the Met
It is ironic that on October 4, 1936 the Met, under Commissioner Philip Game, tried to force thousands of Sir Oswald Moseley’s British Union of Fascists and National Socialists through the Jewish East End. However up to 300,000 East End workers, including Catholic dockers and thousands of non-Jewish workers were having none of it. What ensued became known as the Battle of Cable Street. The Met then was riddled with anti-Semites just as today it is riddled with Islamaphobes. After battling for hours Philip Game was forced to admit defeat as barricades were thrown up.
Notice published in the Jewish Chronicle urging Jews to keep their heads down – when it comes to genuine anti-Semitism the Jewish & Zionist Establishment has always preferred a policy of keeping one’s head down
The Met hasn’t changed even if the target of its racism has changed. But even now it has a penchant for arresting anti-Zionist Jews who don’t conform their idea of ‘proper’ Israel supporting nationalist bigots.
In 1936 the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Zionists told Jews they should stay at home and keep their heads down. Jewish workers ignored them in their thousands. Today there is no Jewish working class. Jews have migrated socio-economically upwards and politically rightwards such that their best friends today are bigots like Tommy Robinson and friends.
In my response I told DC O’Connor it was as I had predicted when I applied to vary my bail. The Police never had a case for racially/religiously aggravated harassment. It was simply another example of the Police deliberately trying to close down free speech on Palestine . If there was any harassment it was on the part of the police.
The person whose complaint against me led to my arrest was notorious Zionist fanatic Richard Millett who above describes a holocaust survivor who opposes genocide as ‘scum’ – this is the kind of person the Met takes seriously
I pointed out the even more outrageous arrest, two weeks later, of Professor Haim Bresheeth, a 79 year old Israeli academic suffering from cancer who was kept all night in a cold cell in Holborn police station by these bastards in uniform. He too was told he wouldn’t be charged.
Professor Haim Bresheeth – 79 year old Israeli academic who the Police arrested
It is noticeable that on no occasion have the Police arrested supporters of Israel’s genocide for their language. Supporting genocide is not an offence in the Met’s eyes, Opposing it is, despite the fact that committing or aiding the commission of war crimes or genocide is a specific offence in the International Criminal Court Act 2001, Section 52 of which specifically states that:
(1) It is an offence against the law of England and Wales for a person to engage in conduct ancillary to an act to which this section applies.
(2) This section applies to an act that if committed in England or Wales would constitute—
(a) an offence under section 51 (genocide, crime against humanity or war crime), or
(b) an offence under this section,
However the Met pick and choose which legislation they will enforce and which legislation they won’t enforce. They call it the ‘rule of law’ but in reality they turn the law into an instrument of political oppression.
The Met and the Anti-Terrorist Police are also engaged in a wholesale abuse of anti-terror legislation in order to clamp down on Palestine solidarity activists. In short the Police are, ever more obviously, becoming a political police whose job it is to attack critics of British foreign policy.
This man, believed to be one of the Zionist counter-demonstrators, was photographed pointing out Palestinian protesters to arrest. This is the collusion Palestine solidarity activists face in London
At the weekly protest at Swiss Cottage the Police eagerly video the speeches Palestine solidarity supporters make for any hint of a pretext with which to arrest them. Arrests are made, despite the Police being fully aware that charges are highly unlikely to follow. It is another form of intimidation. That is one reason why I informed Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley that I will be bringing proceedings against the Met for Wrongful Arrest and Unlawful Imprisonment.
When it comes to the billions of pounds lost in COVID fraud the Met are remarkably disinterested in enforcing the law
I have also made it clear that I will continue to compare Israel’s behaviour in Gaza with that of the Nazis. The false IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which asserts that such a comparison is anti-Semitic is not, by its own admission, legally binding. In the Opinion of Hugh Tomlinson KC:
‘It is perhaps worth pointing out that the fact that conduct is “contrary” to the IHRA Definition could not, of itself, render that conduct “illegal” in any sense.’
The IHRA has been described by Geoffrey Robertson KC as ‘not fit for purpose’.
Sir Stephen Sedley, a former Court of Appeal judge and himself Jewish, went even further in an article in London Review of Books, ‘Defining Anti-Semitism’, when he wrote that the IHRA ‘fails the first test of any definition: it is indefinite.’ So what the hell are the Metropolitan Police doing implementing a definition that is not legally binding, which is not fit for purpose and isn’t even a definition. Apart from pleasing their political masters?
I intend to go back to the demonstration at Swiss Cottage in the near future to explain why Israel’s behaviour is certainly comparable with the Nazis. In some respects it may even be worse. Even the Nazis didn’t single out hospitals and their medical staff for death and destruction. It is a little known fact that the Jewish hospital in Berlin survived unscathed throughout the war and was still in operation when Berlin was liberated. If I am arrested again, so be it.
The theft of Palestinian organs, from those Israel has murdered, is another example of their Nazi-like mentality
If my speech offends racist Zionists and genocide supporters that’s also fine. No one is forcing them to listen. Perhaps they will even learn something. In Israel it is not unusual to make such comparisons. As Stephen Sedley ruled, in the landmark case on free speech, Redmond Bate v DPP,
“free speech includes not only the inoffensive but also the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and provocative, provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having
For example the late Professor Ze’ev Sternhell, a child survivor of the Premszyl ghetto in Nazi occupied Poland wrote an article in Ha’aretz, that in Israel there was a ‘Growing Fascism and a Racism Akin to Early Nazism’. No doubt the idiot who approved my arrest would have had no compunction in arresting a holocaust survivor for making such a comparison!
Jewish kids dressed as Israeli soldiers in N15 area with fake guns walking past local mosque as children leave
The comparisons begin with Defence Minister Yoav Gallant when he began the genocide, when he described Palestinians as “human animals” – the very same phrase that Himmler used about the Jews on October 4, 1943, in a talk to SS generals. Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke about how “justified and moral” it would be to starve two million Palestinians, which is no different from the Nazi policy towards the Russians and Hans Frank’s implementation in Poland of ‘death by hunger’ against the Jewish ghettos.
We are facing a full square attack on basic democratic rights and freedom of speech by the police, backed by the State, Starmer and much of the judiciary. Erstwhile liberals such as Liberty are keeping quiet whilst anti-genocide activists are gaoled and harassed.
However those who stand silent are likely to find that the situation gets worse rather than better. So join the pickets of Hotoveli each Friday night and show that the Police and Starmer will not be allowed to introduce a police state by the back door.
Tony Greenstein
