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Right-wing extremists are trying to exploit claims of anti-Semitism and racism. Don’t let them

Dis-influencers: they try to flood the media and social media with falsehoods, to blind you to the facts.

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Is this the new theme of UK politics – projecting one’s own behaviour onto others?

This Writer has already mentioned it in connection with the behaviour of BBC reporters at the Rochdale by-election count.

But it also seems to be gripping our political classes, who are trying to get us to believe that Jewish people across the UK are living in fear of Nazi-style persecution – when it is they who seem desperate to impose it on all of us.

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So we are being spoon-fed reports the like of which Aaron Winter discusses below:

He’s right on the button. The article states:

Jewish people in Britain say they are considering leaving the country as it “feels like Nazi Germany”, amid a surge in antisemitic incidents since the 7 October Hamas massacre in Israel.

Physical attacks, threats and accusations of “slaughtering babies” are among the incidents suffered by terrified residents, after recent figures showed more than 4,000 reports of antisemitism last year.

The number of Islamophobic incidents in the UK has also soared.

How many of these alleged incidents have been investigated by police? Where are the figures showing how many of them were found to have actually taken place? And why have those figures not been reported?

Answer: because none of them have. They are simply claims that have been made and then bandied about by pressure groups like the so-called Community Security Trust, in order to heighten fear among the public and boost support for their own political ends.

CST is getting £54 million of public money from Rishi Sunak, on the basis of nothing more than hearsay.

The Independent reports two alleged anti-Semitic incidents – but one-sidedly. Only the claims of the alleged victims are put forward and we hear nothing from the people they accuse. That is not balanced reporting.

And other Jews are furious:

The Independent also reports that the Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned George Galloway’s Rochdale by-election win as a “dark day” for the UK’s Jewish community – but consider this:

Meanwhile, other Jews are suffering abuse and intimidation from the self-appointed representatives and organisations claiming to represent all Jews in the UK, who want to prevent their fellows from expressing any support for the people of Palestine who are suffering a genocide at the hands of the government and military of Israel, the country that presents itself as the nation-state of the Jewish people:

The knock-on effect is that organisations speaking up for the persecuted Palestinians are themselves being persecuted – here in the UK.

The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg has echoed the comments of Lord Walney, formerly the Labour MP John Woodcocksuggested that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign should be de-platformed – its voice silenced among the media and political classes:

Woodcock (or Walney if you like) left Labour under a cloud after one of his former staff members said he had sent her inappropriate text messages between 2014 and 2016. The allegations were never fully investigated.

This Writer agrees. It seems improper to trumpet this man’s allegations about others while ignoring the fact that he has unexamined allegations against himself. How can we believe anything he says?

Also resurfacing as a consequence of the claims of anti-Semitism is Islamophobia; if anti-Semitism is said to be rising because of the way Israel has carried out its assault on Gaza, then it is also being claimed that Muslims are acting in solidarity with their fellows in that land – with violence; and that has triggered a wave of anti-Muslim feeling.

We see it in the resurgence of the long-debunked trope of “no-go” areas in our towns and cities, where it is claimed nobody is welcome who is not a Muslim. It isn’t true – but notice that politicians representing these areas seem to be conspicuously absent from the debates:

Open Democracy puts its finger on what is really happening:

The fears about antisemitism, particularly in relation to such marches and solidarity, are being stoked by political figures and the media. This was evident when former home secretary Suella Braverman called ceasefire protests “hate marches”.

We need to … address fears; challenge misconceptions, misrepresentations and politicisation; and fight antisemitism itself, instead of targeting and delegitimising critics of Israel and the fight against other racisms, occupation and genocide.

The author, who is clearly Jewish, expresses joy at Jewish participation in pro-Palestine activities:

Something that gives me hope, however, has been the solidarity expressed by communities around the world – among them Jewish groups such as If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace, Na’amod, the Black-Jewish Alliance, and Jewdas.

On the one hand, our presence in these movements as Jewish people can help offset accusations that opposition to Israel is antisemitic. On the other, many of us are accused of being self-hating, kapos, Judenrats, and not Jewish anyway.

And JINOs, apparently.

And, of course, opposing Israel does not become antisemitic just because someone who is not Jewish does it.

The accusation of genocide directed at Israel is framed by critics as antisemitism or even Holocaust minimisation. This not only serves genocide denial and spits in the face of the promise ‘Never Again’, but also corresponds to the redemption of the Nazis and the actual minimisation of the Holocaust.

So instead of the UK becoming like Nazi Germany because of anti-Semitism alleged against people who want to see Palestine supported before Israel destroys it completely, it is becoming like Nazi Germany because of the behaviour of the Zionist organisations, media outlets and politicians who are supporting Israel.

They are simply projecting their own abhorrent behaviour onto others – making it seem that it is their opponents who are the wrong-doers and not them.

What is to be done about it?

The first choice is obvious: you simply don’t believe what the pro-Zionist, anti-Palestinian mob are saying, from Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer down to the keyboard warriors on the social media.

Beyond that, it should be our responsibility to do to them what they so keenly wish to do to those of us who are trying to present the facts: we should do what we can to remove them from public life.

That is most easily done with politicians. We’ve seen the upset that George Galloway’s election as MP for Rochdale has caused – and there is a general election coming.

Keir Starmer’s blind support for Israel, in the face of video evidence of that country’s military slaughtering children, has been particularly nauseating.

There is an excellent candidate standing against him – and for peace in Gaza – in his Holborn & St Pancras constituency.

Everybody there should vote for Andrew Feinstein. Those of us in other constituencies should look for the candidates who also oppose the right-wing, pro-Zionist dogma that we’re being force-fed, and do our best to get them into the House of Commons too.


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A new scandal for BBC political reporting: C***gate!

Fiction: the BBC reporting of the Rochdale by-election seems to have been tinged with the biases of the reporters, who referred to members of the public in the most derogatory ways possible.

The latest wheeze in politics seems to be ‘projection’ – claiming that somebody else is behaving inappropriately while behaving in exactly that inappropriate way oneself.

So the media at the Rochdale by-election count seem to have been keen to attack members of the public for rudeness while actually barging them out of the way and insulting them.

That is what the following video, featuring Newsnight editor Nicholas Watt, seems to be telling us:

Here’s The Canary‘s analysis of it:

We should take a dim view of this behaviour. The media exist to report the news, not to slant it towards their own political views while abusing the rest of us. For example, This Writer would never have described a member of the public in the terms used by the cameraman in the clip.

I look forward to hearing an explanation – possibly accompanied by resignations – and I hope we don’t have to wait long.

Chris Williamson schools timid BBC interviewer on the meaning of genocide

Talking straight: Chris Williamson.

Congratulations to former Labour MP Chris Williamson for putting a BBC interviewer straight about what’s going on in Gaza in no uncertain terms.

Speaking after fellow Workers’ Party politician George Galloway won the Rochdale by-election, Chris – who is a personal friend of This Site – expressed his horror that the Labour Party was “facilitating” and “supporting genocide” by Israel against the civilian population of Gaza.

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The interviewer – possibly at the behest of some unseen producer’s voice in his earpiece – moved to silence this shocking revelation of the facts, and… it did not go well for him:

Good for you Chris. You are absolutely right.

Nobody who supports genocide deserves any consideration from right-minded, decent people. And that includes the leaders and MPs of the Labour Party.


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Lyndsay Hoyle has triggered a wave of Islamophobia by politicians. Media stoke it

Lee Anderson: he’s known to be a big fan of the fellow on the left who said women who wear the burqa look like “bank robbers” and “letterboxes”, so it should be no surprise that he’s a raving Islamophobe.

Here’s how politicians create hysteria from nothing – cheered on by the media.

There’s no evidence that people who support Palestine, or Muslims, or anyone is threatening MPs.

There’s no evidence that Islamists are dominating our streets.

But already this false claim is being used to fuel demands for a new clampdown on protest that could turn the UK into a draconian police state.

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Read the following and then tell me if I’ve missed anything.


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BBC (and others?) distort reasons for Andy McDonald’s suspension. Why trust them?

Andy McDonald: according to the Labour Party, as quoted by the BBC, his call for peace between Israel and Palestine was “deeply offensive”. In what reversed reality?

The BBC has apologised publicly for distorting the reasons Keir Starmer had Andy McDonald’s Labour Party membership suspended.

He seems satisfied with this:

Others have been less accepting of the apology – if apology it was.

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What did Mr McDonald actually do, again? Here’s a report of it:

In his speech at a demonstration … Mr McDonald, a former shadow minister under Jeremy Corbyn, said: “We will not rest until we have justice. Until all people, Israelis and Palestinians, between the river and the sea, can live in peaceful liberty.”

The claim is that the words “From the River to the Sea” are anti-Semitic. This is nonsense. A Dutch court ruled that they are protected speech:

This Site reported on it, here, as follows:

The ruling was that the pro-Palestinian slogans … “are subject to various interpretations” and “relate to the state of Israel and possibly to people with Israeli citizenship, but do not relate to Jews because of their race or religion”.

Novara Media article I quoted also stated: “As to the claim that the slogan expresses a desire for Israel’s ‘destruction’, the historian of Palestine Maha Nassar has suggested that this eliminationist interpretation may derive from a post-six-day-war Israeli propaganda campaign that asserted that Palestinians wished to ‘throw Jews into the sea’.”

So the claim that the chant from which the words are taken is anti-Semitic may be Israeli propaganda.

But in any case, while Mr McDonald’s use of those particular words may have been a reference to that chant, it was not the chant itself.

He was in fact – and very clearly – making a call for peace between Israel and Palestine.

If a call for peace is described by Labour – or anyone – as “deeply offensive”, then we are all in dangerous territory indeed.


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If this Hollywood star is being blacklisted over Israel/Gaza, who else is?

Locked out: it seems the pro-Israel lobby has decided it can tell us who we want to watch on TV and in films, based on whether they support Israel’s genocide or not. Melissa Barrera spoke out in favour of letting the people of Gaza live – so she has been blacklisted, it seems.

This Site has already discussed the targeting of Melissa Barrera after she was reportedly fired from the Scream film franchise for making pro-Palestine comments.

Now it seems she has been blacklisted – her agents have dropped her and she is being verbally attacked for posting a link for donations to UNRWA, the aid organisation for Palestinians that lost funding from the UK and other countries, just because Israel made unfounded claims that it was harbouring terrorists:

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Who else is being denied the opportunity to earn a living because a homicidal foreign government will not tolerate factual accuracy?


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The double-standard of western media that treat Palestinians as sub-human

An injuried girl lies on the floor of Nasser Hospital in Gaza on January 22: apparently what happens to her isn’t anything like as important as what happens to the Israeli troops who attacked her because she is Palestinian, and Palestinians don’t matter. Why is that?

You are being misled by the mainstream media into believing that every Israeli death in Gaza is a tragedy but Palestinians are sub-human and their deaths are unimportant.

Hopefully, This Site will be able to redress the balance a little – with your help. Please share articles like this on the social media so your friends and contacts can understand the real situation.

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Here’s an article from Declassified, explaining the difference between the handling of Israeli and Palestinian deaths:

Twenty-four Israeli soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Gaza on 22 January. Mainstream media outlets around the world reacted in unison: that this was the “deadliest day” for Israel since 7 October.

This exact phrase was used in headlines on 23 January carried by news agencies such as Reuters and AFP, and major broadcasters including the BBC, CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC and ITV News.

The exact same phrase was also used by leading news titles including the New York TimesWashington PostWall Street JournalTime magazine, Daily Telegraph, the Sun, Jerusalem PostGuardian, London’s Evening StandardFinancial TimesIndependent and Yahoo News.

On the same day, Israeli forces killed almost 200 Palestinians in Gaza including at least 65 people in Khan Younis alone.

These deaths received no headlines in the above outlets. Where they were reported, they were listed as part of the regular daily round-up of events in an unfolding genocide that has now seen more than 26,000 people killed in Gaza.

How is it possible that the world’s media could embrace exactly the same phrase in relation to Israeli victims but largely ignore the identities of the much higher number of Palestinians killed?

Why would 22 January be described as “deadly” for one group of people but not for another?

Please read the rest of the article and tell us all why you think it is.

Source: For western media, Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not ‘deadly’


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Are these really the BBC’s new impartiality rules?

Is this for real?

And if it is, do you think these new rules are good ideas?

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#ICJ4Israel: the evidence is all in. Why did the BBC broadcast only Israel’s side? [STRONG LANGUAGE]

The International Court of Justice.

Western media organisations appear to have shown unacceptable bias in favour of Israel by choosing to broadcast only that country’s submissions to the International Court of Justice in response to being charged with genocide, and not those of South Africa.

Commentators on ‘X’ quickly had their say:

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If you want to know what Israel had to say, here it is. Apologies for the profanity in the comment but it’s indicative:

TL;DR? Try this:

Meanwhile, the Israeli government has been trying to sway opinions by buying advertising space on Google to put forward lies about South Africa’s case:

South Africa could not have advanced a blood libel because nothing in its case suggested that Israel is using Christian (it has to be Christian) children’s blood to bake Passover bread – which is the only way a blood libel can be defined.

South Africa’s case, being unbroadcast by the western news networks, was a bit harder to locate – but here are a few reports on it:

The Israeli government tried to undermine the evidence with another false claim:

And, of course, while all this was going on, Israel’s slaughter of Gazans continued:

The International Court of Justice has now heard all the evidence and will make a decision on whether to institute provisional measures for Israel to stop military operations, allow in humanitarian aid, punish anyone in the military who has broken international laws of warfare, allow in international observers and to keep the court updated on how that’s going.

Let’s hope the decision comes before all of Gaza has been levelled.


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BBC actively contributes to Gaza genocide with dehumanising reports

Owen Jones has – unusually – minimised the BBC’s complicity in the victimisation of Palestinians involved in Israel’s current massacre in Gaza.

His latest social media video refers to a study of 600 BBC reports, showing how the language used adds depth to the stories of (for example) “murdered” Israeli “grandfathers”, while minimising our ability to empathise with Palestinians who were killed or even, simply, “lost their lives”.

There’s a list of the way the BBC used particular words at around the nine minute mark on this clip:

But it’s actually worse!

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust has a web page devoted to “The 10 stages of genocide”. Visit it here.

Stage four is “dehumanisation”. The website refers to dehumanising language that is used to discourage people from identifying with or supporting a targeted group. Although its examples show that Tutsis were called “cockroaches” and Jews were called “vermin”, the use of language to increase sympathy with Israelis while denying it to Palestinians achieves the same effect.

I would also suggest that the BBC is currently instrumental in stage 10: “denial”. According to the website, “The perpetrators or later generations deny the existence of any crime.” We have seen Israeli politicians denying that genocide is being committed in Gaza many times – having been provided with a platform to do so by the BBC, among others.

That’s complicity, in This Writer’s book.

People are saying they won’t vote for Labour or the Conservatives in this year’s general election because both parties have supported the genocide.

Should we be boycotting the BBC – until whoever insisted on this discrimination against Palestinians, and in favour of Israel’s government, is not only removed but charged with aiding and abetting genocide?