London, 1962: the National Socialist Movement, a bunch of Nazi wannabes and Hitler worshippers, held a rally in Trafalgar Square under the slogan “FREE BRITAIN FROM JEWISH CONTROL.”
I don't understand how West Yorkshire Police saw no grounds for action, even after reviewing the footage of this event in Leeds. A clearer example of hate speech and incitement to violence would be hard to find.
"It is hard to avoid the conclusion that we are now seeing the influence of Miller’s thinking on the wider pro-Palestinian movement. He has fallen out with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, after PSC’s chair Ben Jamal recently labelled Miller an antisemite and a racist (in response, Miller said that PSC has been “infiltrated by Zionists”). PSC has even sent an anti-Miller briefing to its branches to try to stop them giving him a platform; but it isn’t hard to see where the direction of travel, the energy and edginess, lies in that movement. As for PSC, given their reluctance to stop people with antisemitic placards and chants from attending their marches and meetings, it’s a case of too little, too late."
1) Heart of stone not to laugh
2) Paul Weller appears to be relying on the David Miller defense which succeeded that his (Weller's) "antizionism" is his philosophical belief and that he is the victim of wrongful discrimination by his former accountants who told him to take his business elsewhere
Excellent analysis. It was inevitable that the Antizionism of the Pro Palestine movement would end with an open pogromist anti jewish mindset, it couldn’t have been any other way.
The frequent attacks on Jews and Israelis is not the culmination of that process, but the begging of a much larger genocidal movement.
This is not the deceptive “Jewish Question”, whereas people look at The Jew for an answer, but the more realistic “Antisemitic Question”.
PS And when we see Reform and Conservative opportunists like Jenrick happy to platform with overt fascists, that line of a difference continues to thin too
As ever you join the dots invisible to far too many. The supposed inviolate gap that the far left claim between <i>their</i> definition of antisemitism and their staunch opposition to Israel and its policies gets ever thinner. The dog whistle of “Zionist” was rightly called out in the various Labour Party reports - but the damage being inflicted on Gaza appeals to the raw emotion of 2000 years of conscious and unconscious emotive prejudice and when they run out of non Jewish enemies to invent we know what comes next.
Behind the scenes, it seems like PSC has for years tried to keep a distance from Lowkey, Miller and, for tactical reasons, Palestine Action. We can only speculate why they tried to keep a low profile around it, but I suspect they did not want to fracture the movement.
I don't understand how West Yorkshire Police saw no grounds for action, even after reviewing the footage of this event in Leeds. A clearer example of hate speech and incitement to violence would be hard to find.
"It is hard to avoid the conclusion that we are now seeing the influence of Miller’s thinking on the wider pro-Palestinian movement. He has fallen out with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, after PSC’s chair Ben Jamal recently labelled Miller an antisemite and a racist (in response, Miller said that PSC has been “infiltrated by Zionists”). PSC has even sent an anti-Miller briefing to its branches to try to stop them giving him a platform; but it isn’t hard to see where the direction of travel, the energy and edginess, lies in that movement. As for PSC, given their reluctance to stop people with antisemitic placards and chants from attending their marches and meetings, it’s a case of too little, too late."
1) Heart of stone not to laugh
2) Paul Weller appears to be relying on the David Miller defense which succeeded that his (Weller's) "antizionism" is his philosophical belief and that he is the victim of wrongful discrimination by his former accountants who told him to take his business elsewhere
Hastings Jewish Community is doing its best, reporting whatever we can to the police, but it is still overwhelming!
Excellent analysis. It was inevitable that the Antizionism of the Pro Palestine movement would end with an open pogromist anti jewish mindset, it couldn’t have been any other way.
The frequent attacks on Jews and Israelis is not the culmination of that process, but the begging of a much larger genocidal movement.
This is not the deceptive “Jewish Question”, whereas people look at The Jew for an answer, but the more realistic “Antisemitic Question”.
PS And when we see Reform and Conservative opportunists like Jenrick happy to platform with overt fascists, that line of a difference continues to thin too
As ever you join the dots invisible to far too many. The supposed inviolate gap that the far left claim between <i>their</i> definition of antisemitism and their staunch opposition to Israel and its policies gets ever thinner. The dog whistle of “Zionist” was rightly called out in the various Labour Party reports - but the damage being inflicted on Gaza appeals to the raw emotion of 2000 years of conscious and unconscious emotive prejudice and when they run out of non Jewish enemies to invent we know what comes next.
Behind the scenes, it seems like PSC has for years tried to keep a distance from Lowkey, Miller and, for tactical reasons, Palestine Action. We can only speculate why they tried to keep a low profile around it, but I suspect they did not want to fracture the movement.
They're Nazis, plain and simple.