Tony Greenstein | 22 January 2025 | Post Views:

You might think that the arrest of a former Defence Minister and government Whip on charges of child grooming would make the pages of all the national dailies.  But if so you would be wrong? Only the Daily Mail did so.

The BBC had a short report  Man arrested on suspicion of child sex offence but it did not name him. This narrowed down the suspects to a mere half of the population. The only clues to Caplin’s identity were that he was 66 and local to Brighton (in fact he is local to Hove).

Compare this to the BBC’s coverage of my arrest. ‘Terrorism charge over man’s online comments’ which gave both my name and the street where I live. Why the disparity?

When I was arrested and charged this was covered by the BBC and the Brighton Argus which published an article Brighton man charged with terror offences over Hamas comments which both named me and the street where I live. On Caplin’s arrest they printed nothing. 

Brighton & Hove News went one further with ‘Tony Greenstein charged with terrorism offence’ from which you might assume that I had been found with a bomb in my pocket rather than having published a blog that was not to the Police’s liking.

When Caplin, a former Under-Secretary of State for Defence and Veteran’s Minister as well as former Chair of the genocide supporters of the Jewish Labour Movement, was arrested the Jewish Chronicle, which had extensively covered my previous arrest deleted an article on the arrest.  Only the Jewish News led on ‘Caplin arrested on ‘suspicion of engaging in sexual communication with a child’.

When I was expelled from the Labour Party the Jewish Chronicle ran a story, Tony Greenstein expelled from Labour Party over abusive behaviour which quoted Caplin

Welcoming the decision to expel Mr Greenstein, Ivor Caplin, south east chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, said: “His continued membership is at complete odds with our collective values of solidarity, tolerance and respect.

“Deliberately harassing, intimidatory and hateful language of the kind Tony Greenstein has continually used has no place inside the Labour movement.

“Despite the unacceptably long time it has taken to reach this conclusion, we are heartened that the party has sent out a clear message on this today.

“We will continue to press the party to deal firmly and swiftly with antisemitism, including the high number of cases that are still waiting to be resolved.”

The only national paper, bar the Mail, which led on Caplin’s arrest was the Scottish National which reported that Former Labour minister arrested after vigilante paedophile sting.

The Guardian of course said nothing which is not surprising since Caplin had been such an integral part of their false ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign in the Labour Party.

There is an easy explanation. Caplin is a prominent Zionist.  I suspect that great efforts will be made to prove that Caplin was only trying to contact a 15 year old boy in order that they could play chess together!

And what of the Police?  When I was charged they issued a statement which said:

“A 70-year-old man has been charged with a terrorism offence as part of an investigation by officers from Counter Terrorism South East (CTPSE).

“Anthony Greenstein, of XXXX, Brighton, has been charged with one count of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, namely Hamas, contrary to Section 12(1) of the Terrorism Act 2000.

“The charge is in connection with comments made online on Saturday 7 October 2023.

“He has been bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 12 December.

https://twitter.com/GregHadfield/status/1881306243769446482
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What Ivor Caplin Doesn’t Lack Is Influential Friends

Sussex Police also issued a statement when I was first arrested in 2023. Compare this to what Sussex Police said when Caplin was arrested:

“We are aware of footage circulating on social media showing a man in Brighton being detained on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child.

“Officers can confirm that a local 66-year-old man was arrested on Saturday January 11 and currently remains in custody. They later elaborated

“A 66-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child on 11 January has been released on bail until 10 April while further enquiries are carried out.”

No name and no address. Why the disparity?  It would seem that there are forces in society who help and protect powerful paedophiles and equally powerful forces out to portray me as a ‘terrorist’.

One can only hope that one of his bail conditions is surrendering his passport or Ivor may end up in Israel

Skwawkbox’s headline was Former chair of JLM pro-Israel lobby group arrested on suspicion of child sex offences.

It’s one law for right-wing former Labour Zionist ministers who are caught trying to make contact with children and quite another law for  those of us who support the Palestinian resistance against a genocidal army that has killed more than 20,000 Palestinian children.

And of course there is a logic to this.  If the British government, from Starmer down, can say nothing about the murder of thousands of Palestinian children, why on earth should they be bothered about the grooming of one 15 year old boy?

The Hypocrisy of these People Knows No Limits

In the eyes of the Police and Establishment grooming young children is considered a lesser crime than supporting an anti-colonial guerrilla struggle. Paedophillia amongst our rulers has always been treated lightly if at all.

We only have to consider the way four different Police forces, including Sussex, went out of their way to protect Jimmy Saville. According to an Inspectorate of Constabulary Report in 2007. The HMIC report said:

“Both officers (from Sussex and Surrey) appear to have alerted each other to the reluctance of their respective victims and both decided that neither was able to support the other. As a result, opportunities for mutual support were lost.”

Sussex Police were also involved in protecting another high society paedophile, the Bishop of Lewes Peter Ball, friend of Prince now King Charles III. Initially, in 1993, Ball was merely cautioned for his crimes. Eventually in 2015 he was gaoled for 32 months for quite horrendous abuse. The Independent Inquiry into Child Abuse found that a victim of Ball, Philip Johnson, after having learned in September 1996 that his younger brother had also been sexually abused visited a Sussex Police Station, where he reported the offences committed by Cotton and Pritchard, two other priests.

Mr Johnson said he was made to feel uncomfortable by the officers, who appeared to view him “as a threat to children … I felt that I was being investigated more than Cotton or Pritchard.

Starmer’s CPS protected Saville and then destroyed the files in 2010 when Starmer was Director of Public Prosecutions. The historic attitude to the abuse of children by the rich and powerful was exemplified by Peter Morrison MP, Thatcher’s Personal Private Secretary who was protected by Thatcher and MI5 despite his proclivities being well known.

Caplin and fellow Zionist and current Hove MP, Peter ‘Killer’ Kyle

Greg Hadfield has written an interesting article that should be required reading for anyone interested in why Sussex Police have treated Caplin with kid gloves. In essence Caplin was part of a right-wing Gay Labour Mafia in Brighton & Hove which includes local MP Peter ‘Killer’ Kyle, his ex-boyfriend, who lives literally a stone throws away. Chris Ward, the new Starmerite MP for Brighton Kemptown seems to have been another member of this clique.

Ward was the Starmer imposed stooge in Brighton Kemptown at the last election. A complete nonentity he ran Hanbury Strategy, a PR/Lobbying group with his Tory election opponent, Khobi Vallis at the last election.

Chris Ward’s original CV sent to members mentioned that he once worked for Caplin, but all reference to working for him has been removed since Caplin was suspended by the Labour Party last year. As Greg Hadfield observed, this is an extremely unusual occurrence for someone on the right of the party. 

In Revealed: Zionism, abuse, pornography, and worse Hadfield outlines a whole series of disturbing occurrences.

Caplin was the first Labour MP that Hove had ever had.  Caplin was a Defence Minister at the time of the invasion of Iraq.  I can remember him scuttling out of the backdoor of Hove Town Hall when we came to talk with him!  And he panicked and called the Police when we next met up with him at Portslade Town hall.

Caplin has been addicted to Crystal Meths for the last 18 months and genocide for over 20 years.  Last June Caplin was arrested for a sexual assault on a young man at the YMCA hostel in Brighton’s North Road. Suffice to say Sussex  Police managed to avoid having to investigate the case too hard and Caplin escaped prosecution.

As Andy Winter, an Argus columnist and former Labour councillor recalled being told: “Whenever something odd happens in the Labour Party, all roads lead back to Ivor Caplin.” Guess who helped select the Council candidates for 2023 – including two who didn’t live in Brighton? Yes that’s right, Ivor Caplin. It was Caplin who was appointed to the Labour Party’s South East Executive with the explicit task of weeding out anyone on the left.

No wonder that Labour councillors in Brighton & Hove have had nothing to say about the Genocide in Gaza given who they owe their position to.

Caplin’s sudden announcement, in November 2004, barely five months before Blair called a general election, that he wouldn’t be a candidate was due to a front-page scoop in the ill-fated News of the World. In the end the article was confined to the inside pages.

Caplin seems to be addicted to posting, re-posting and replying to pornographic images and videos on what was his Twitter feed.  

No indication was given that this was Ivor Caplin – he got away with it again

Brighton & Hove News reported on June 11 204 that Caplin had been suspended by the Labour Party ‘after serious allegations were made about him.’ Clearly this related to the sexual assault on the young homeless man, the investigation into which Brighton Police dropped. Yet we were given no clue as to what these allegations were about.

Jo Wadsworth, the Brighton & Hove Editor, who is to journalism what Harold Shipman was to care for the elderly, commented that

In recent weeks, Mr Caplin has been tweeting increasingly explicit images of young men, ranging from semi-naked stills to pornographic videos.

Caplin is reputed to have had sex with any number of rent boys and male prostitutes. Clearly he has a problem. As Hadfield commented:

When this conduct is undertaken by a senior figure in a political party, with a public facade of trusted respectability, it is positively dangerous. Especially in an organisation with inadequate safeguarding procedures.

In an opaque, hierarchical, and undemocratic Labour Party — where whistleblowing is now punished rather than welcomed — it is a disaster waiting to happen.

Teenage members as young as 14 out on the #LabourDoorstep, canvassing in tiny groups — often on ill-lit streets and accompanied by older, more experienced, more trusted, more powerful party colleagues — must be protected.

Caplin sees young boys as something to be exploited, used and abused. It is little wonder that he is an avid Zionist.

However nothing Caplin did was sufficient to deter Starmer who has had problems of his own when it comes to sexual predators. Hadfield commented that

We do not know if Caplin is a paedophile or not. I hope he will have his day in court, so we can find out.

And I do not have any evidence at all to substantiate wild rumours about a Labour “sex ring” or a “rape network” in Brighton and Hove.

Which is another way of saying that Brighton & Hove Labour Party may indeed have a ‘sex ring’ or ‘rape network’. Hadfield asked

Did all his followers on X/Twitter always block him, have dormant accounts, or mute him, or just not notice the daily waterfall of extreme pornography? All the photographs? All the videos?

Amongst those who followed him were Tom Watson, Jack Lubner, chair of Young Labour, Mike Katz, chair of the JLM and Gurinder Singh Josan, the far-right Labour MP for Smethwick and friend of Luke Akehurst. Even the Crown Prosecution Service (@CPSUK) followed Caplin as well as former Chief Superintendent Nick May, Sussex Police’s Divisional Commander for Brighton and Hove (until his retirement in September 2021) and a friend of Fiona Sharpe. As Hadfield commented:

One thing I do know is that the likes of Ms Sharpe and Caplin are so embedded in the local criminal justice system, not to mention the local mainstream media, that they feel they can get away with anything. They have friends in high places.

No complaint from them is too trivial to be taken seriously (Sharpe and Sussex Police); no mendacious story is so insubstantial that a quote from “a senior Labour source” won’t generate a headline.

This is very true. A woman Palestine solidarity member in Brighton was seriously assaulted at the Clocktower but Sussex Police refused to prosecute because they claimed her witness wasn’t independent (which is a job for the courts not them)!  

Fiona Sharpe harasses Yasser and then claimed or rather lied in court that she had been harassed

But when has that ever stopped them using Fiona Sharpe as a witness despite her proven record of lying in court? [See The Janus Faced Fiona Sharpe of Sussex Friends of Israel] When she gave evidence at the trial of a Palestinian man, Yasser some years ago, everything she said was contradicted by the video evidence. Yasser was acquitted.

Sussex Police are using Fiona Sharpe again though in a case being brought against a Brighton woman for damaging a paste board in Palmeira Square, which shouldn’t even be there and which uses Israel’s ‘hostages’ to justify genocide in Gaza. It is grossly offensive to opponents of genocide but Sussex Police bend over backwards to support Sharpe, Caplin and her clique of misfits.

Sharpe, besides perjuring herself in court, is thick as thieves with Sussex Police. In February 2024 she was a recipient of the Chief Constable’s award for services rendered. The mind boggles as to what those services were! No doubt she is lobbying hard even as I write for the exoneration of the Honourable Ivor Caplin.

Indeed it was most unfortunate that Caplin was caught by a vigilante group while trying to recruit a child for a bit of sex on the side. His protestations of innocence and his web of lies make for amusing viewing. But we shall see whether the CPS manages to find a reason not to prosecute. Perhaps they will say it is ‘not in the public interest’ to have a high profile Zionist convicted of child grooming.

Not so many years ago, former President of the Board of Deputies and a former Labour MP and peer Greville ‘Grovel’ Janner also managed to avoid prosecution for child abuse despite many horrendous allegations because of favourable treatment by the Police and the CPS.

Hadfield himself is now subject to a malicious prosecution by Sussex Police under s.127 of the Malicious Communications Act for posting a single screenshot in a single post of something Caplin posted, triggered by a vexatious complaint by Fiona Sharpe. He faces 5 years imprisonment if convicted whereas knowing Sussex Police they will exert themselves to the maximum to find reasons not to prosecute Fiona Sharpe’s friend Ivor Caplin.

As Hadfield notes ‘Just like in the Labour Party, so in the criminal justice system: the process is the punishment and the punishment is the process.’

The Jewish Labour Movement haven’t had a great deal of luck with their Chairmen. The first one, Jeremy Newmark defrauded the Jewish Leadership Council of £100,000 but got away with it because they didn’t want the publicity.

Their second Chair, Ivor Caplin is a suspected paedophile guilty of an attack on a young homeless man. 

One wonders what their third Chair, Lord Mike Katz has hidden in his ermine.  Katz earned his daily bread by lobbying for private rail companies. Really the JLM should be sued under the Trades Description Act. They may be Jewish but there is nothing of the labour movement about these frauds.

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