Tony Greenstein | 19 February 2025 | Post Views:

There was a time when the Police professed to be politically neutral. However that has gone out of the window as the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, openly boasted of how he is cracking down on Palestinian demonstrations in London.

Rowley’s reasons are really quite touching for someone who is in charge of an organisation which has been found to be institutionally racist by numerous inquiries, including by the historic MacPherson Inquiry into the murder of Black teenager, Stephen Lawrence.

Although the Inquiry didn’t get to the bottom of the Police’s links with his killers, subsequent further information emerged from Victoria and Naomi Smith, who were related to the Norris family, whose son David Norris was eventually gaoled for Stephen’s murder. Clifford Norris, the father of David Norris, used a network of corrupt Metropolitan police officers to protect himself and his close relations from justice.

To this day there has been no investigation into these claims of police corruption. But rest assured. Although the murder of a Black teenager didn’t impact on the Met until the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry reached its damning verdict, the Met are however very sensitive to the impact of demonstrations against Genocide in Gaza on Zionist Jews. So much so that they go out of their way to get them to make complaints.

The Met’s assumption that all Jews are supportive of Genocide in Palestine and Israeli Apartheid is itself anti-Semitic. And why not? In the 1930s from my own research Brighton Police entertained visiting delegations of the German Police, even when, after 1936, Heinrich Himmler was put in charge of both the German Police and the SS.

Of course attacks on free speech and the right of assembly aren’t confined to Britain. In Switzerland two weeks ago the Executive Director of Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah was kidnapped off the street and held incommunicado for three days before being expelled from the country. Ali had been invited to address a meeting on Palestine.

Last Tuesday police and politicians in Germany tried to cancel a meeting in Berlin featuring Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories. Organisers were forced to move the event to a smaller venue.   

The organizers, DiEM25, said in a statement on its website: 

“In a deeply concerning escalation, the organisers of ‘Reclaiming the Discourse: Palestine, Justice, and Truth’ – an event featuring UN Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese – are facing ruthless attacks on their fundamental rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and expression.

The venue, Kühlhaus Berlin, faced immense pressure from German politicians and the Berlin police to cancel the event. This is not only a disgrace but a direct assault on the rule of law and the core principles of democracy. It also represents an attack on businesses coerced into submission through mafia-like tactics, where intimidation has reached alarming extremes. …

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In the 1930s when anti-Semitism was a real issue, the Metropolitan Police sided with the fascists and at the Battle of Cable Street did its best to force thousands of fascists on the Jewish East End. However working class solidarity and a demonstration of 200,000 forced them back.

Today the Police purport to be concerned about anti-Semitism when it comes to protest against Genocide and War Crimes in Gaza. Of course they could try implementing the International Criminal Court Act 2001 which makes being ancillary to or participating in war crimes, even when abroad, an offence.

However British complicity in war crimes doesn’t disturb the Met but evidence-free allegations that Jews are afraid to walk the streets because of Palestine solidarity demonstrations, does concern them.  In other words the Met has adopted the Zionist narrative that to support the Palestinians is in itself anti-Semitic. 

We had the absurd spectacle of the Jewish Bloc on a Palestine Demonstration in London in December 2023 being separated off from the rest of the demonstrators because the Police found it difficult to accept that Jews could support the Palestinians.

Where does this racist nonsense come from?  Perhaps Mark Rowley could answer and explain the nature of the briefings that are given to his officers. This is a legacy of colonial divide and rule. As part of this false narrative anti-Zionist Jews suddenly become invisible.

Suddenly the only genuine Jews are racist Jews like Susan Caplan. Ms Caplan, did respond to the invitation of the Met to complain about the demonstrations. We know this because the Met, in complete disregard of the Data Protection Laws, distributed her email to all and sundry! Caplan’s response is interesting, not because it contains any gems of wisdom but because of the insight it provides into the Zionist mind.

There was a time when Israel claimed to be ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ however Genocide, Mass Murder and Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank combined with incidents like the raid and arrest of two bookshop owners in East Jerusalem have put paid to that myth.

In her email Caplan complained ‘as a Jewish person’ that ‘it is unacceptable to allow this protest to continue with it’s (sic) inciteful behaviour.’ We are not told who is being incited and against whom but we can guess.  Inciting against Israel’s racist and genocidal Ambassador Tzipi Hotoveli is clearly unacceptable to the said Caplan.

Not only this but the protests ‘have become uncontrollable’ and ‘cause more divide (sic) rather than peace and unity.’ There is nothing in the way of evidence to back these assertions but I suspect that evidence is the last thing the Met are looking for. As for peace and unity one wonders whether Caplan really expects the demonstrators to hand out white doves to the supporters of Genocide and unite with them.

And then we come to Caplan’s real concern. ‘Calling for the end of Israel, the end of Zionism is unacceptable [Caplan loves this word] hate speech and must not be allowed.’

As I wrote in my letter to her, Zionism is a political ideology which is based on hateful racism and calling for it to go is no different from calling for Apartheid South Africa or the Nazi state to disappear.

Caplan’s final flourish was to allege that political demands for an end to Zionism constitute ‘hate speech’ – and of course we are all against hate speech, an all-embracing term which includes those who hate capitalism, racism and oppression.

Forbidding demonstrations against racism is what the Israeli state does all the time. What Caplan and those who put her up to this really want is for Britain to adopt the norms of the Israeli state which allows demonstrations calling for ‘Death to the Arabs’but which bans anything which opposes Genocide or Israeli state racism.

I finished my letter by referring to an incident in Miami Beach, Florida when a Jewish Zionist shot up a vehicle containing two Israelis, who he mistook for Palestinians! This is not the first time that Israelis have attacked other Israelis in the mistaken belief that they were really Palestinians.

The New Yellow Star?

It is rather unfortunate that some Israelis, especially Arab Jews, look like other non-Jewish Arabs. Perhaps Israel should make it compulsory for Palestinians to have a distinguishing mark on their clothes in order that assailants don’t keep mistaking Jews for Arabs. The Nazis used the Yellow Star. Perhaps Israel could use the Watermelon?

The injuries to the two Israelis were minor and didn’t affect their racism. The father took to Facebook to complain of their ‘anti-Semitic’ experience and true to his Zionist sympathies finished with the slogan ‘Death to the Arabs.’  You really could not make it up.

Tony Greenstein

18 February 2025

Dear Ms Caplan,

Thank you for your email to the Police complaining about the weekly demonstration at Swiss Cottage against Israel’s Ambassador, Tzipi Hotoveli. Despite doing their best to engineer complaints (or ‘victim statements’) the Police nonetheless had the good manners to send your response to other interested parties.

I hope you won’t take offence if a Jewish anti-Zionist replies to you. Your email is a good example of the Zionist mindset and is indicative of everything that is wrong with Zionism, Zionists and supporters of Israeli Apartheid.

You say that ‘calling for the end to Israel, the end to Zionism is unacceptable hate speech and must not be allowed to continue’. Thus speaks the authentic voice of the Israeli Police State.

Zionism is a political ideology, like fascism. It is perfectly appropriate to call for an end to it. Its origins lie in Christian Zionism. Its aim was to form, in Theodor Herzl’s words, a state which would  ‘form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.’  

Zionism when it first began was welcomed by anti-Semites, as a means of being rid of the Jews in their midst, and was seen by most Jews as a form of Jewish anti-Semitism. That was why the Balfour Declaration was proposed by Arthur Balfour, a Christian Zionist and anti-Semite who, when Prime Minister, introduced the 1905 Aliens Act designed to keep Jewish refugees out of Britain. It is noteworthy that the only person to oppose the Declaration in the Lloyd George War Cabinet was its only Jewish member, Sir Edwin Montagu.

Calling for an end to the Israeli state is no more a form of hate speech than calling for the end to the Nazi State or the Apartheid State of South Africa. It is only fascists and racists who cannot distinguish between a state and the people who live in that state. I call for the end to the Israeli state because it is a state of Jewish Supremacy and Apartheid.

Why is it unacceptable for people to express views in public that you disagree with?  This isn’t Israel where Palestinian speech is repressed and anti-racist protests are met with police batons and bans. Have you not heard of the raid on the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem this past week when the owners were arrested and books were carried away in plastic bags? I seem to remember there was another European state in the 1930s which also didn’t like books of the wrong kind.

But perhaps you have forgotten where you are living?  Freedom of Speech and the Right of Assembly are basic democratic rights which haven’t yet been extinguished in Britain. I realise that you and your fellow Zionists are doing your best to achieve this, with the complicity of the Metropolitan Police, Starmer and Yvette Cooper but we are there to resist you.

The present genocide in Gaza is something that should be protested against, in particular by Jewish people. You should hang your head in shame that after the genocide of Jews by Hitler that you support the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

You probably know nothing about the genesis of the Holocaust so let me remind you that on October 4 1943 at Posen (Posnan) in Poland, Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS justified the extermination of Jews to a group of senior SS Generals thus:

We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude to animals, will also adopt a decent attitude to these human animals…

On 9 October 2023 Yoav Gallant spoke in similar terms when he said:

I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly, [Times of Israel, 9.10.25]

I don’t wish upset you with too many uncomfortable facts Susan, but on 6 October 1943, also at Posen, Himmler explained why Jewish children also had to be killed:

I did not assume to have the right to exterminate the men… and have the avengers personified in the children to become adults for our children and grandchildren. [Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, fn. 3, p.294]

Compare this to what Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the pre-military Kiryat Moshe Yeshivah, said on 7 March 2024: 

‘Today’s terrorists are the children of the prior [military] operation that left them alive. The women are essentially the ones who are producing the terrorists,’ he said, adding that when someone comes to kill you, you should be quick to kill them. “It’s not only the 14- or 16-year-old boy, the 20- or 30-year-old man who takes up a weapon against you but also the future generation. There’s really no difference,” 

So you can see how similar is the ideology behind the Zionist genocide in Gaza and the Nazi genocide of Jews.

Is this inciteful as you alleged?  No it is educational. The only question really is whether you wish to be educated or would you rather wallow in your ignorance? The Israeli state is Hitler’s bastard offspring which is why genuine anti-Semites like Trump love Israel.

Richard Spencer, the neo-Nazi who organised the Charlottesville march where those taking part chanted “Jews will not replace us’ even described himself as a White Zionist. Who could possibly disagree with him?

But let me finish this on a lighter note. Yesterday in Miami Beach, Florida a Jewish Zionist mistook two Israelis for Palestinians and opened fire on them. The ‘victims’, who survived unscathed immediately posted on Facebook describing their attack as anti-Semitic and finishing their post with ‘Death to the Arabs.’

Death to the Arabs’ is the slogan that is chanted by the Israeli right. In Germany and Poland  before the war Death to the Jews was the slogan of the anti-Semites. Perhaps now you understand why there is a demonstration against Tzipi Hotoveli, who is on record as saying there is no Palestinian history and who called for the murder of 600,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

Kind regards,

Tony Greenstein

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2 Comments

  1. Graham Garwood on 19/02/2025 at 10:43am

    A most interesting read but also a bit upsetting maintdue to the fact such hatred towards fellow humans still exists and seemingly nothing has changed.

  2. Liz McNulty on 19/02/2025 at 5:20pm

    Solidarity with all Jews oppose Zionism, apartheid, genocide♥️

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