Anti-Semitic? No – His only crime was supporting Palestinian Human Rights
twenty years ago, after I had told the then Labour Friends of Israel organiser,
Valerie Cocks, the wife of the Chief Whip, Michael Cocks where to go.
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| Pilloried for his support of the Palestinians |
However I have forgiven Gerald and indeed come to admire and respect him despite the fact that he is still a
Zionist, of sorts. He boasts of his
friendship with every Labour Zionist Prime Minister whilst forgetting that it
was Labour Zionism which presided over the original expulsion of the
Palestinian refugees. He undoubtedly
wouldn’t accept my argument that there is nothing that Likud has done that the
Israeli Labour Party hasn’t done before it.
Nonetheless Gerald Kaufman has been a consistent supporter of Palestinian
human rights for the past decade and more and a few ill-chosen words, which
contained a kernel of truth, have led to him being viciously attacked for
‘anti-Semitism’ in the Zionist press.
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| Sir Gerald Kaufman is one of the last members of Harold Wilson’s kitchen cabinet |
I want to say here and now that Gerald Kaufman is no anti-Semites, unlike
many of his detractors. I have no
hesitation in defending him. He is a
magnificent defender of human rights, unlike his detractors.
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| Gerald Kaufman on a trip to Israel as part of a parliamentary delegation |
This all began when Kaufman spoke to the Palestine Return Centre. He apparently said that ‘”There is now a big group of Conservative
members of Parliament who are pro-Israel whatever government does and they are
not interested in what Israel, in what the Israeli government does.”
not interested in the fact that Palestinians are living a repressed life, and
are liable to be shot at any time. In the last few days alone the Israelis have
murdered 52 Palestinians and nobody pays attention and this government doesn’t
care.”
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| The so-called Campaign Against anti-Semitism is partially sighted. Only Palestinians qualify. |
The Zionist ‘Campaign Against Anti-Semitism’, whose only concern is to link ‘anti-Semitism’ with support
for the Palestinians, claimed that ‘The
speech delivered by Sir Gerald Kaufman, as reported by David Collier, is
antisemitic and the Labour Party must investigate immediately.’ And as if to impress us with their
credentials, we are informed that the ‘Campaign
Against Antisemitism is in contact with the Opposition Chief Whip.’
The so-called CAS [a political propaganda group that has just become a ‘charity’] sprang up during Operation Protective Edge last year, when
over 2,200 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli blitzkrieg on Gaza,
including over 550 children. The CAS’s
sole concern was to deflect support for the Palestinians by making claims of
‘anti-Semitism’ against opponents of Israel.
Not once, ever, have they
expressed the slightest concern about the Palestinian victims of Israel’s
attacks.
This is not surprising since those involved in CAS are devoted Zionists and
supporters of Israel, right or wrong.
People like Simon Cobbs of the far-Right Sussex Friends of Israel which
last year invited Mordechai Kedar, an Israeli ‘academic’ and former officer to
speak. Kedar has advocated raping
Palestinian women in the fight against ‘terrorism’. Picket Meeting Of Israeli Professor Kedar Who Advocates Rape As A Deterrent – The Zionist Federation and Sussex Friends of Israel Invite an Advocate of Rape to Speak
to prove that Kaufman was anti-Semitic. The only problem is that the
EUMC definition of anti-Semitism is globally derecognised. The European Union Monitoring Committee
definition was only ever a ‘working definition’ and it is now no longer even
that. The EUMC’s successor body, the
Fundamental Rights Agency has erased it from its website. Blanca Tapia of the FRA was quoted, in The Times of Israel as saying that it
‘had never viewed the document as a valid definition. Agency officials
said the document had been pulled offline “together with other non-official
documents.” EU drops its ‘working definition’ of anti-Semitism
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| The racist Palestinian Media Watch group |
dishonesty of the so-called ‘Campaign Against Anti-Semitism’ The Zionist hatred of Sir Gerald Kaufman is
because of his withering criticism of Israel’s barbarities. If you want an example of this go to the blog post I did Sir Gerald Kaufman, veteran British Parliamentarian and Zionist compares Israelis in Gaza to the Nazis when he made one of the finest parliamentary speeches I have heard.
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| The Campaign Against anti-Semitism uses the racist anti-Palestinian group Palestinian Media Watch for its evidence |
Conservative Party – as in the general election in May – support from the
Jewish Chronicle, all of those things, bias the Conservatives.”
In essence this is true. The people
who are giving the money to the CFI are Jewish and they don’t care one little
bit about the evil that results from their donation. These donors of murder money are the people
who should be condemned, not someone who criticises them using language which
identifies them by religion rather than their politics.
The term ‘Jewish money’ is a short-hand. Of course it would be better to say ‘Zionist money’
or ‘Zionist donors’ but to say, in the context of donations to the CFI that the
money is ‘Jewish money’ is not anti-Semitic. Zionist propaganda organisations and Israeli government hasbara spend all their waking time claiming that to be Jewish is to be a Zionist (except for a few Jewish ‘traitors’ or to use the Nazi term, ‘self-haters’).
The Independent also says that Kaufman also claimed that “more than
half” of the stabbings that have recently happened in the West Bank,
Jerusalem and the rest of Israel were fabricated, in comments that were
recorded by blogger David Collier. No doubt this too was proof positive of his
‘anti-Semitism’.
Sir Gerald Kaufman, for making “completely unacceptable” remarks about the
Jewish community.’
clear that though the words could have been chosen more wisely the sentiments
were sound enough. Those rich Jewish
scoundrels who donate thousands to CFI in order to support the oppression of
the Palestinian people are no less guilty of war crimes than those who pull the
trigger. Gerald Kaufman’s ‘racism’ pales into insignifiance against
the crimes of these powerful supporters of genocide. It is nothing less than utter hypocrisy.
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| No less than 590 search items revealed in a search of the Jewish Chronicle archives |
– The Term ‘Jewish money’ is used by the Jewish Chronicle 590 times!
Jewish Chronicle is utter and total tripe even on its own terms. Here is the
strange thing. I had a brainwave. How many times has the term ‘Jewish money’ appeared
in the Jewish Chronicle, the
self-declared Zionist mouthpiece of the Jewish community? Well I did a quick search on its archive and
came up with the result. No less than
590 mentions! Now some of these are
articles on the anti-Semitic use of the term ‘Jewish money’ but many of them
are nothing of the kind. ‘Jewish money’
is simply an accepted term when used by ‘JC’ correspondents but it becomes anti-Semitic when used by someone who is a supporter of
human rights.
Chronicle Uses of the Term ‘Jewish Money’
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| Another example of Alderman’s anti-Semitism! |
columnist Geoffrey Alderman, Obama’s
false Iran Alternative (14.8.15) Alderman speaks of ‘the fact that Jewish
money, albeit American-Jewish money
– is being used to this end has led the president to adopt an unfortunate and
worrying rhetoric. Israel and its
supporters are warmongers and American-Jewish
money is being used to drag America into war.’ In other words ‘Jewish money’ is being used
to campaign against the US-Iran agreement.’
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| Alderman – a Zionist hypocrite calls for Gerald Kaufman’s banning for doing the same as he does! |
phrase ‘Jewish money’ twice within
the same article he had the effrontery to use his column of 20th
November A man who deserves banning to call for Gerald Kaufmann’s excommunication from the Jewish
community.
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| Alderman: opposing anti-Semitism is ‘political correctness’ |
had previously excused very explicit anti-Semitic remarks, such as the comments
of David Whelan, former owner of Wigan Athletic football club who stated that ‘there is nothing like a Jew who sees money slipping
through his fingers’ and when challenged by the Guardian responded that ‘I think they [Jews] are very shrewd people….
I think Jewish people do chase money more than everybody else. I don’t think that’s offensive at all.’
sad and miserable tale of political correctness taken to new depths of
absurdity.’ This football fuss is a bit rich 5.12.14. Despite ‘shrewd’ being used in the sense of canny or mean, i.e. a
stereotypical comment about Jews and money, Alderman’s comment was ‘who reading this column could take umbrage
at that?’ And as for Jews chasing money, Alderman was
most circumspect: ‘as far as I’m aware no serious research has been done on this
subject. But it’s certainly true that
the Jewish view of money differs considerably from that of Christianity.’
noses are distinctive and longer than non-Jewish noses, or make some other anti-Semitic comment, Alderman will
pipe up that no one has yet measured or quantified the length of the noses!
and so we should rest with the old adage that hypocrisy is the tribute that
vice pays to virtue. But Alderman is not
alone in his hypocrisy:
‘Jewish lobby’ remark’ we learn that Katy Kay commented on the Presidential
contenders that ‘no one running for
President wants to alienate the power and money of the Jewish lobby.’ Quite.
And the BBC was quite happy defending Ms Kay.
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| Aaronovitch is quite happy with the phrase ‘Jewish money’ |
David Aaronovitch, ‘The Rumours and the
Rampage’ Aaro was quite happy to talk of a ‘Mr Bacile, the Zionist Israeli who had made a $5 million film with Jewish money had gradually turned into
Mr Nakoula, the indicted fraudster…’
we learn that ‘The Metropolitan Museum
and the Museum of Modern Art used to refuse Jewish money. Now if you
walk into the Met every second gallery or pavilion has a Jewish name on it.’
of London expresses his or her dismay at ‘Jewish
money being used for this purpose’
[hunting down elderly Nazi war criminals] and in yet another article ‘I know I am, I’m sure I am, I’m Turkey
till I die’ Simon Round explains that ‘The
Swiss nicked a lot of Jewish money,
whereas the Turks didn’t do anything particularly bad in the war…’ 13.6.08.
article ‘Diamond dealers shine as
property slumps for this year’s Rich Listers’ that ‘Nonetheless, Rich List compiler Philip Beresford saw it as ‘a very
good year for Jewish money, both new
and old.’ No doubt it was. After all diamonds are more than just a girl’s best
friend.
you can search the Jewish Chronicle archives yourself if you are a subscriber
(no they don’t’ do public interest. It costs
£5 to download each pdf file!, But I’ve
screen printed them for free for your benefit!
is as common as muck. It is used
continually within the Jewish community and to pretend that its use is anti-Semitic
is just plain, vanilla hypocrisy that only Zionists are capable of. Operating in a high visibility arena Gerald
Kaufman’s only crime was to lay himself open to the criticism and vitriol of
the professional ‘anti-Semite’ merchants. Never was Jesus’ comment about discerning the
mote in one’s brother’s eye before the beam in one’s own eye more
relevant. Yet it is the Zionist movement
that is truly and disgustingly anti-Semitic.
Jewish vermin’ then there is no doubt
that this would be deeply anti-Semitic.
Yet Israel’s first Justice Minister Pinhas Rosenbluth described
Palestine as ‘an institute for the
fumigation of Jewish vermin’. [Joachim Doron, p.169 Classic Zionism and
modern anti-Semitism: parallels and influences’ (1883-1914), Studies in Zionism
8, Autumn 1983].
Organisation, went one better, describing German Jewish refugees as ‘the germ-carriers of a new outbreak of
anti-Semitism.’ [Edwin Black, Ha’avara – The Transfer Agreement, p.259,
citing Palestine Post 5.7.33].
Zionist Organisation paper Die Welt, held that Jews were:
– in a word, of a horror… some sort of outlandish creature… in any case, not a
pure national type…. some sort of oddity among the peoples going by the name
of Jew.’ [Arthur Herzberg, The Zionist
Idea, p. 322/323, Temple, Atheneum, New York
1981].
churlish to continue. Zionism held that Diaspora Jews had developed unhealthy asocial characteristics and only ‘normalisation’ on
Jewish national soil would remedy this.
They held that the anti-Semites were in fact correct. As the founder of Political Zionism, Theodor Herzl wrote :
In
Paris…, I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began
to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, recognise the emptiness
and futility of trying to ‘combat’ anti-Semitism. Diaries (p.8)
Jews outside Palestine/Israel. In
Klatzkin’s words the Jews were ‘a people
disfigured in both body and soul’ because they were not ‘a pure national type’. Only a ‘return’ to Palestine could remedy this. This attitude persists today but groups like
the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism [CAS] deliberately ignore Zionist anti-Semitism
and pretend that they are horrified by the ‘anti-Semitism’ of fighters for
Palestinian human rights like Gerald Kaufman. It is noticeable that they have little or nothing to say about the anti-Semitism of the English Defence League and the British National Party, because these groups are also supporters of Zionism.
ordinary and more to the point he was pursuing a human rights agenda, unlike
those who criticise him in order to justify and whitewash the most atrocious
war crimes.
Gerald Kaufman. He is a splendid example
of the Jewish tradition of anti-racism.
Chronicle under the editorship of cold-war warrior and Henry Jackson Society
member, Stephen Pollard, launched the campaign against Sir Gerald Kaufman. Pollard it was who defended arch-anti-Semite,
Michal Kaminski, Euro-MP for Poland’s Law & Justice Party and Chairman of
the European Conservatives & Reform Group which the Tories belong to.
many anti-Semites) fought tooth and nail against an apology being given in Poland
and a memorial being erected in Jedwabne in memory of the Jews (estimates range from 300 to
900) who were herded into a barn and burnt alive in 1941 by anti-Semitic Poles. Pollard’s description of Kaminski was that ‘ “Far
from being an anti-Semite, Mr Kaminski is about as pro-Israeli an MEP as
exists.” Which is half true. Kaminski is as pro-Israeli as it gets. But he is also anti-Semitic. Just as
the BNP and EDL are both anti-Semitic
and pro-Zionist.
In a Guardian Comment Is Free piece (9.10.09.) Pollard went even further: ‘Poland’s Kaminski is not an antisemite:
he’s a friend to Jews’. Indeed
Kaminski is ‘one of the greatest friends to the Jews in a town [Brussels]
where antisemitism and a visceral loathing of Israel are rife.
that anti-Semitism and support for Zionism go hand in hand. If he isn’t aware of this then he could do
worse than consult back copies of his own paper! One of Israel’s finest novelists A B
Yehoshua, in a lecture to the Union of Jewish Students observed that
“Anti-Zionism is not the product of the non-Jews. On the contrary, the Gentiles have always encouraged Zionism, hoping that it would help to rid them of the Jews in their midst. Even today, in a perverse way, a real anti-Semite must be a Zionist” [Jewish Chronicle 22.1.82.]
See Jedwabne – The Polish Village Where Up to 900 Jews Were Burnt Alive by Fellow Poles – Michal Kaminski the Polish Zionist & anti-Semite that Jewish Chronicle Editor Stephen Pollard Just Loves
