If Falter lied, hasn’t he brought his whole movement into disrepute?
Jewish writer Martin Odoni, in The Critique Archives, has raised important points about Zionist pro-Israel campaigner Gideon Falter, of fake charity the Campaign Against Antisemitism – most clearly: if Falter lied, hasn’t he brought his whole movement into disrepute?
Falter took it on himself to put on his kippah, grab a camera crew (on the Sabbath? Bit of a contradiction, this), and go out to cross a road being used for a pro-Palestine demonstration march, walking against the flow of the marchers, until he was stopped by the police.
He then picked a fight with the officer who tried to explain why he couldn’t cross at that point – forcing apologies from the Metropolitan Police and words of support from politicians, until they realised that his story was fishy.
As Mr Odoni puts it:
Falter himself is one of the most zealous pro-Israel fanatics on Earth, and as is always the case with fanatics, he is quite unable to grasp that his need to tell lies to advance the position of Zionism demonstrates that Zionism is wrong; if his position were a truthful one, he would not need to tell lies; the truth would be all that is needed.
That’s right, isn’t it – obviously? Lying undermines his position if he reckons he’s standing up for the truth.
Did Falter lie? Well:
Falter claims he ‘stumbled’ across the march, as though he had no idea it would be there, but the presence of his camera crew is way too much of a coincidence for anyone to buy that.
Falter was hoping to push his way into the march, against the flow of its movement, to provoke an angry reaction from the marchers, and then present any slightest gesture of hostility as ‘evidence’ of protester anti-Semitism.
That would be a lie, if true – and it’s what the evidence suggests.
As the police officer was preventing him from doing it, but in a clumsy way, Falter decided to make a big deal out of that instead, moaning that the police were “curtailing the rights of law-abiding Londoners” to walk wherever they like freely. A bit rich coming from a man who has called for the protest marches to be stamped out?
That would be hypocrisy, of course – wanting particular rights for himself while denying them to others.
Falter tried to claim that the police officer’s comment that he was “openly Jewish” meant that appearing in traditional Jewish clothing was a provocation for anti-Semitic violence by the marchers.
But in fact there is no evidence to support this. In fact,
there is clear evidence that the Zionists are in no danger from the demonstrators, because in recent weeks, Zionists have attempted to set up counter-demos in London, Manchester and Birmingham to confront the pro-Palestine marchers.
There has not been any actual violence of note. Sure, there’s been mockery, name-calling etc, but no one has raised a fist.
The conclusion?
Despite his claims that his rights were being curtailed due to being Jewish, he was really upset about not being allowed to provoke a riot that was almost certainly never going to happen anyway.
Oh, and there’s one more lie – allegedly – that can be debunked by all this. Thousands of people up and down the country have complained about political demonstrations, but only Falter managed to get his whinge on the news.
The fact that this silly failed stunt even got into the media once again demonstrates that David Baddiel could not be further from the truth when he says, “Jews Don’t Count!”
Fair?
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The presumption was that they were looked upon favourably in the first instance Mike ❗ Interesting to note the legs this “playing the eternal victim” has though. Rancid, nasty people, one and all.
Disrepute;-
Loss or want of reputation; disesteem; discredit; dishonor.
Synonyms III – repute, low esteem, disrespect.
Perhaps ‘next time’ the Police might advise that it is a free country and he may cross the road if he wants to. Falter seems eager to cause trouble and no doubt he would – strikes me that this could lead to one or more charges when he got himself arrested.
The problem with that is that he would have dragged down with him the peaceful protest marchers he would have involved. They did not deserve that and the police officer knew it.