Sunday, 31 July 2016
Kafka Comes to Brighton – First they suspend the Party & Remove the Elected Executive
Then They Hold an Investigation
into what happened at Brighton & Hove Labour Party AGM
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The pub where the race hate attack took place |
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Seema Chandwani and Michael Calderbank, both of whom were abused |
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Having suspended the BHDLP and reinstated the defeated Executive, the NEC has now decided to conduct an investigation. Worthy of Alice in Wonderland's Trial or Kafka. |
On July 12th Ann Black, Chair of the Labour
Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) suspended Brighton & Hove District
Labour Party. This was because of
allegations which were made by those who had lost the elections to the BHDLP Executive
at the 9th July AGM of the district party. Supporters of Progress had lost these
elections very heavily, nearly 2-1. It
was an AGM attended by some 600 party members.
Black also removed, at a whim, the newly elected Executive and
reinstated the old Executive who had been voted out of office.
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There was no 'unhappy security staff member' nor was there any CCTV footage. Warren Morgan has suddenly become disinterested in finding proof of his allegations because the damage has now been done. |
Black did these things on the basis of allegations
by Progress councillors Warren Morgan and Emma Daniels that there had been a
spitting incident involving the caretaker of City College where the meeting was
held and more general allegations of ‘negative aggression’. This account of affairs has been vehemently
denied by local party members and the new Secretary Greg Hadfield has
accumulated some 60
witness statements.
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Pub security log of the race hate incident |
City College have since confirmed that no
allegation or complaint has been made to it.
The allegation of spitting has been shown to be false. CCTV footage of the area at the time of the
alleged incident has been examined and it showed nothing untoward had happened.
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City College statement makes it clear that there has been no complaint about the fictitious spitting incident |
Despite this the Party remains suspended, forbidden
to hold meetings of any kind and the elected Executive remains removed because
Ann Black doesn’t have the honesty or integrity to fess up to the fact that
she, at the very minimum, made a mistake.
There was however a nasty hate incident involving a
local thug, Harris Fitch, a Progress supporter and friend of Labour Councillors
such as Emma Daniels and Caroline Penn.
Fitch is or was registered as a Labour Party member at Penn’s home
address. A visiting Momentum speaker
from London, Seema Chandwani and her friend Michael Calderbank, were told to ‘fuck
off back to London’ by Fitch and an unnamed friend when they went for a meal at
a pub by Brighton Station, Grand Central.
Warren Morgan and Emma Daniels, who were happy to
promote a fictitious spitting incident have kept quiet and refused to comment
on the hate attack that did occur. It
seems that their concern about ‘intimidation’ is extremely selective. For more information see Revealed: The
anti-Corbyn “moderate” in Brighton and Hove who stands accused of the
hate-crime against Seema Chandwani
In the meantime, having suspended the Party and
removed the elected Executive, Ann Black has set in train an investigation into
the very incidents about which she has already made a decision. Kafkaesque?
One Katherine Buckingham sent an email, at 8.24 pm on 28th
July to the local Labour Party announcing an investigation was to be held, over
2 weeks after Black’s decisions. The
email reads:
Dear member,
Over recent weeks a number of complaints have been brought to the attention of national officers of the Labour Party regarding Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party.
For that reason, the General Secretary has asked me to conduct an investigation into recent events in the District Party. I will be reporting to the NEC Disputes Panel in due course.
You are welcome to send me your views on current issues in the District Party. If you wish to contribute, please email your statement to BrightonHove_enquiry@labour.org.uk by Monday 8th August. All submissions will be treated in confidence. If you have already written a statement to me, the General Secretary or the regional office these will be considered and you do not need to resend them.
Many thanks,
KatherineKatherine Buckingham
Head of Disputes and DisciplineThe Labour Party
I sent an email today to Ann Black concerning
her suspension of Brighton & Hove Labour Party. Her actions are made even worse by the fact
that she is on the current Left-wing slate to the National Executive. The LRC has already issued a statement, which
I endorse, that Black must never again be supported by the Left for election to
the NEC in view of her role in the current witch hunt:
Dear
Ann Black,
Contrary
to your assertion below, the suspension of Brighton & Hove Labour Party has
not been covered in your report of the 19th July NEC meeting . I would
therefore like to ask:
i.
Why on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations and innuendo did you, as Chair
of the NEC Disputes Panel, suspend B&H Labour Party on 11th/12th July in an
unsigned email to the Secretary of Brighton & Hove DLP, Greg Hadfield?
ii.
The complaints made were vague and revolved around intimidation. The 60
extracts from statements made by those who attended the meeting suggests that
your decision to suspend the meeting was made on the basis of complaints from
those who lost the election or their supporters.
iii.
The main allegation, of a spitting incident, which was made by Cllr. Warren
Morgan, has now been shown to have no legs. The alleged incident, which
involved a caretaker of City College, has been demonstrated not to have
occurred. City College has made no such allegation. No complaint has been
received by them. No such incident is seen on the CCTV and Warren Morgan
and Emma Daniels, who both asserted that there was such an incident, by their
own admission witnessed nothing.
iv.
Why did you reverse the decision of the largest AGM ever, of 600 people, to
elect a new Executive instead of first holding an Inquiry?
v.
Why has it taken till 28th July for Katherine Buckingham (below) to write
stating that she is conducting an inquiry into the AGM of BHDLP of 9th July,
when you have already taken a decision to suspend the party and remove the
democratically elected Executive? Why did you annul an election before
the Inquiry was begun? Is it normal practice to suspend a party, remove
its elected Executive and then conduct an Inquiry?
There
was clearly a meeting which voted to elect a new Executive. No one has
suggested there were any improprieties in the conduct of the count, why have
you undemocratically overturned the decision of a 600 strong AGM?
This
demonstrates to me that you are unfit to be a member of a grassroots left slate
in future NEC elections if you cannot be trusted to act democratically in the
here and now.
If
the inquiry of Ms Buckingham is to have any integrity or validity then you
should acknowledge your mistake and instantly reverse your hasty decision to
depose a democratically elected Executive.
Tony
Greenstein
(suspended
member)
Saturday, 30 July 2016
Israel’s Slaughter of 546 Children
This is a passionate
and breathless article by Gideon Levy, who with Amira Hass is Ha’aretz’s most
dedicated and committed columnists. Ha’aretz
is the sole liberal Israeli daily, but many of its columnists are anything but
liberal.
During the slaughter
of the innocents in Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Gideon Levy was one of
5% of Israelis who opposed what was happening.
When he went to Ashdod in the South of Israel to report on what was
happening he was nearly lynched by a mob and had to be rescued by security.
The
mood in Israel was summed up by a popular slogan on the streets: There’s
No School In Gaza, There Are No More Kids Left’ Israelis literally rejoiced in the killing of
Palestinian children. This is not an aberration. Anyone who understands Israeli society knows
that it is only superficially a democratic society. It has had a state of emergency ever since it
was formed. Censorship, administrative
detention without trial for 6 months renewable, torture, police brutality and
murder – as well as the ritual murder that Israeli Palestinians face – is what
passes for the norm in Israeli society.
This
sickness which Gideon Levy describes so well is what makes the debate over ‘anti-Semitism’
in the Labour Party – a naked attempt to cow supporters of the Palestinians so outrageous. Those trendy liberals in the Labour Party like
Owen Jones who sought to gain a pat on the head and avoid attention from the
identity politics that surround Zionism think that they can combine superficial
support for the Palestinians with opposition to ‘anti-Semitism’ – which is a
weapon that Zionism deploys against supporters of the Palestinians and anti-Zionists.
That
is why the racists of the Jewish Labour Movement and their Progress supporters
need to be faced down rather than flattered and pampered. In Brighton we have seen a whole clutch of
right-wingers, such as Council leader Warren Morgan and Emma Daniels (a racist
feminist) join the JLM, an affiliate of the World Zionist Organisation and the British
branch of the Israeli Labour Party.
The
passion and the anger of Gideon Levy, who is one of a diminishing band of
left-wing and anti-racist Israelis is unfortunately not matched by those who
pay lipservice to the Palestinians whilst dancing with Labour’s Zionists. I intend in a future blog to do a more
detailed and critical analysis of why Labour Zionism is no different in essence
from Likud and the right-wing of the Zionist movement.
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Children look through a hole in the wall of a burned bedroom where three children were killed by a fire in Gaza City, May 7, 2016. Khalil Hamra, AP |
Gideon Levy Jul 27,
2016 7:08 PM
One hundred and
eighty babies and children up to the age of 5. One hundred and eighty helpless
babies and toddlers that the Israel Defense Forces killed in Gaza in the 2014 Israel-Gaza
conflict. In their sleep, in their play, as they fled; in their beds or in
their parents’ arms.
Try to imagine – the
army killed 546 children in the course of 50 days. More than 10 children a day,
a classroom every three days. Try to imagine.
But these updated,
verified figures, released by the B’Tselem NGO on the second anniversary of the
killing, are hard to imagine. It’s easier to dismiss them with a shrug, a look
in the other direction or the lame excuses of Israeli propaganda.
The figures that
should have haunted Israeli society and keep it awake at night – that should
have sparked a stormy public debate and shaken it– are of no interest at all.
Any natural disaster at the end of the world would have evoked more human
feelings here than this slaughter, which Israel committed an hour’s drive from
Tel Aviv.
By comparison – 84
Israeli children, horrific, were killed in the difficult eight years from the
start of the second intifada to Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in 2008; 546
Palestinian children were killed over 50 days in the summer of 2014.
They weren’t killed
by the hand of God. Ideological pilots, conscientious artillerymen, humane tank
crews and moral infantrymen killed them at the order of their no-less virtuous
commanders.
They didn’t kill them
in a real war, facing a significant military force, nor in a war of no choice.
They killed most of them with bombs from the air or by shells from a distance,
without even seeing them. In most cases all they saw was their tiny figures playing
on the beach, huddling in their shabby homes, sleeping or running for their
lives on the sophisticated computer screens and joy sticks of the no less
sophisticated soldiers and pilots. They didn’t mean to kill them, but they
pressed the button and killed them. Hundreds of soldiers who killed hundreds of
children.
Two years later, the
huge headline “The parents’ outcry” (in Yediot Ahronoth yesterday) doesn’t, of
course, refer in any way to the outcry of the bereaved parents over there.
Israel has never paid any heed to its actions there. If a commission of inquiry
is set up to look into the Gaza conflict, it will be over the tunnels.
Israel hasn’t even
looked straight at the facts and confessed. It was all for security’s sake,
inevitable, Israel is the victim, they are Satan, that’s how it is in war,
that’s how it always is – a 100 times more Palestinian fatalities than Israeli
ones in Cast Lead, 30 times more in the 2014 conflict. (“So, did you want more
Israelis to be killed?”)
This ghastly lack of proportion
doesn’t raise any question or doubt, not to mention criticism. Nor does what’s
left – 90,000 residents still homeless, living for the past two years among the
debris or in wretched tin huts. A Swedish journalist who visited Gaza for a few
days last week returned with the pictures – tin boxes housing people whose
homes were destroyed in Huza’a, near Khan Yunis.
There’s no point in
continuing to describe the magnitude of the disaster in Gaza. It’s of no
concern to anyone in Israel. Human compassion over Gaza? Funny. Even the fact
that, due to the bombardments and the siege, 90 million liters of raw sewage
flow from Gaza into the Mediterranean Sea, the same sea our children bathe in,
doesn’t bother anyone here.
But it’s
inconceivable how Israelis can go on being so pleased with themselves and their
army in view of the facts of the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. How come, even as
time goes by, their stomachs don’t turn, if only for a minute? What can we make
of people who say seriously about an army that killed hundreds of children only
two years ago, that it’s the most moral army in the world? And what should we
make of the society and state that has this as its discourse?
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What have they got to hide?
Labour Response to Subject Access Request - Blacked Out Emails
Like the Gestapo & Stasi
Labour’s Witch-hunters Hide Identity of Informers
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Labour's idea of a disclosure of information! |
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Times article based on leaked information |
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A helpful warning to the Compliance Unit to beware of the new Brighton LP Secretary who is also a journalist! |
A closed society encourages anonymous informants and
goes to extraordinary lengths, including breaking the law, in order to protect
them. The idea that people who make
allegations against others might be called to account and expected to defend their allegations, is
foreign to these people.
I have been suspended for ‘anti-Semitism’ from
the Labour Party since March 18th.
My original letter of suspension refused to elaborate on the reasons why
I had been suspended, other than that they were for remarks I was alleged to
have made. The first time I knew of some of the details of
my suspension was when the Telegraph and The Times printed details of why I had
been suspended on April 2nd.
See Labour’s
Disciplinary Procedures would put the Star Chamber to Shame and The
Paper of Record Joins in the 'anti-semitism' Witch-hunt
On May 9th I put in a Subject Access
Request under section 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998. It was received on May 13th. I didn’t get a reply until July 19th,
a mere 67 days later. The prescribed
period for responding to such a request is 40 days.
The DPA s.7(4) prescribes that:
(4)Where a data controller cannot
comply with the request without disclosing information relating to another
individual who can be identified from that information, he is not obliged to
comply with the request unless—
(a)the other individual has
consented to the disclosure of the information to the person making the
request, or
(b)it is reasonable in all the
circumstances to comply with the request without the consent of the other
individual.
(5)In subsection (4) the
reference to information relating to another individual includes a reference to
information identifying that individual as the source of the information sought
by the request; and that subsection is not to be construed as excusing a data
controller from communicating so much of the information sought by the request
as can be communicated without disclosing the identity of the other individual
concerned, whether by the omission of names or other identifying particulars or
otherwise.
(6)In determining for the
purposes of subsection (4)(b) whether it is reasonable in all the circumstances
to comply with the request without the consent of the other individual
concerned, regard shall be had, in particular, to—
(a)any duty of confidentiality
owed to the other individual,
(b)any steps taken by the data
controller with a view to seeking the consent of the other individual,
(c)whether the other individual
is capable of giving consent, and
(d)any express refusal of consent
by the other individual.
(7)An individual making a request
under this section may, in such cases as may be prescribed, specify that his
request is limited to personal data of any prescribed description.
(8)Subject to subsection (4), a
data controller shall comply with a request under this section promptly and in
any event before the end of the prescribed period beginning with the relevant
day.
(9)If a court is satisfied on the
application of any person who has made a request under the foregoing provisions
of this section that the data controller in question has failed to comply with
the request in contravention of those provisions, the court may order him to
comply with the request.
As will be seen from the documents which I have
been sent, the Labour Party has signally failed in its duty to disclose the
information I requested. In many cases
it has blanked out whole documents. In
all cases, except where the identity of the persons is clearly known, it has
blanked out the names of the informants.
Those who
make allegations against others should be prepared to
have their identities disclosed. Indeed
it should be a condition of receipt of such information that, just like in a
court of law, their identities are revealed.
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Anonymous informants are invited to supply information without fear of their identity being blown |
The model McNicol and his protégé John Stolliday
[JS], head of the Compliance Unit, have adopted is the method of the Gestapo
and the Stasi. Anonymous informants
providing information which, by definition, can never be tested. Such methods should
be repugnant to any party which considers itself democratic let alone
socialist.
I have therefore appealed to the Information
Commissioner to impress on McNicol and his minions their statutory responsibility. If necessary I will seek to enforce
disclosure of information under DPA s.7(9).
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Solicitor's warning to McNicol that he has a duty to act in good faith |
Background
to my suspension
Apparently I have been suspended for
anti-Semitism – which kind of makes sense.
If you want to show that you are dealing firmly with allegations of
anti-Semitism, then what better way to show this than to suspend a Jewish
anti-racist! Especially if you are
dealing with the kind of ‘anti-Semitism’ that involves criticism of the
‘Jewish’ State of Israel.
I am reminded of a joke of Hajo Meyer, a Jewish
survivor of Auschwitz:
‘formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews but nowadays
an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.'
Hajo Meyer was someone who refused
to accept the lesson that Zionism drew from the Holocaust, viz. that it
entitled Jews to be racists. Hajo believed
that the message of the Holocaust must be that genocide and racism must never
again occur to anyone – Jewish or non-Jewish.
Amongst my many sins was having compared
Israel’s marriage laws to those of the Nazis Nuremberg Laws. Comparisons between Israel and the Nazis is,
by definition anti-Semitic according to the Zionists - except when the Zionists
do it! For example when Netanyahu
explained how Hitler was talked into the Holocaust by the Palestinian Haj al
amin-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem. [see Rewriting
the Holocaust].
There are
very many examples of comparisons between Zionism and Nazism in the period
before the Holocaust. There are
differences too but Zionism’s belief in the need to create an ethnically pure
Jewish state and its obsession with a Jewish demographic majority in Israel, belong
to the Nazi era.
The reason why comparisons between
Zionism and Nazism are valid was best put by Professor Funkenstein, formerly Head of the Faculty of History at
Tel Aviv University. He compared soldiers
in the German army who refused to serve in concentration or extermination camps
to Israeli soldiers who refused to serve in the Occupied Territories. To those who asked how it was possible to
compare the actions of Nazi soldiers with Israelis, Funkenstein replied
“As
a historian I know that every comparison is limited. On the other hand, without
comparisons, no historiography is possible. Understanding a historical event is
a kind of translation into the language of our time. If we would leave every
phenomenon in its peculiarity, we could not make this translation. Every translation is an interpretation and
every interpretation is also a comparison. “
Chakrabarti
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Solicitor's letter warning McNicol that his leaking of information to Press is a serious disciplinary offence |
Shami Chakrabarti wrote in her report
on racism and anti-Semitism in the Labour Party that the
‘there is a lack of clarity and
confidence in current disciplinary procedures from all sides of the Party’ She went
on to say that ‘It is completely unfair,
unacceptable and a breach of Data Protection law that anyone should have found
out about being the subject to an investigation or their suspension by way of
the media and indeed that leaks, briefing or other publicity should so often
have accompanied a suspension pending investigation…. Labour Party should seek
to uphold the strongest principles of natural justice, however difficult the
circumstances, and to resist subjecting members to a trial by media.’
This
is the system that is presided over by Iain McNicol.
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Labour General Secretary Iain McNicol professing concern over the leaks to the Press that he and the Compliance Unit authorised |
As Jackie Walker observed, the Jewish Chronicle knew the details of her suspension
before she knew. It has been the
standard response of Labour’s Compliance Unit and Iain McNicol to deny
suspended members details of why they are suspended at the same time as they
leak the details to the media. So when McNicol wrote to me stating that
‘I am disappointed that you have taken the
opportunity to make an unwarranted attack on a hardworking and diligent member
of the Compliance Unit…’
and went on to say that
‘Like
you I regret that information was given to the media.
However, I entirely refute the allegation that the
Compliance Unit leaked any details of your suspension to the Daily Telegraph or
to anyone else.’
he was doing what comes natural to him. Lying.
There is no other explanation for the details of my suspension appearing
in the national press other than that the Compliance Unit leaked them. If the Compliance
Unit did not do the leaking, then who was responsible?
McNicol prefered not to respond when I put this question.
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Solicitor's letter to McNicol who did his best to keep Corbyn off the ballot paper |
Lies to McNicol are like water off a duck’s back. He even tried to deceive the Leader of the
Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell as to the timing of the National
Executive Committee meeting. Below are
the documents which the Labour Party have either redacted or blanked out
altogether. I have posted them on Google
and you can click on the link to read the document in its redacted entirety!
Documents Disclosed by the Labour Party
Doc
1: This is from a facetious
Zionist It follows from my revelation
that in 1984 Jeremy Corbyn was Chairperson of a Labour Movement Conference on
Palestine, which called for the disaffiliation of the racist Poalei Zion (now the
Jewish Labour Movement) from the Labour Party.
PZ, the British wing of the Israeli Labour Party, which ethnically
cleansed Palestine of nearly 90% of its Palestinians in 1947-8. It is a party that in elections attacks the
opposition Likud for being too soft on Arabs.
See When Jeremy Corbyn Supported a Democratic, Secular
State & Breaking Links with Poale Zion (JLM) and The Times & Jewish Chronicle Report our Story on
Corbyn Backtracking on Palestine
The email begins ‘There are some
very serious accusations in The Times today which are making you out to be some
form of antiSemite. How dare they.’ His mock indignation is belied by his two
emails, noteworthy only for their deceptive literary style, which is as
transparent as it is dishonest.
Doc
2 is a
supportive letter to Shami Chakrabarti which asks why I have been expelled from
the Labour Party (in fact suspended).
The name is blanked out.
Doc
3 is one of a number of documents which have
been completely and unlawfully blacked out.
All I am entitled to know is the fact of its existence!
Doc
4 is another completely blacked out document.
Doc
5 is from the Jewish Labour Movement and their
liar-in-chief, Jeremy Newmark. The first
email appears to be completely blacked out but the second is nonetheless
illuminating. After apologising for having
to write once again, Newmark protests that I published a full transcript of my
investigation hearing with SE Regional Organiser, Harry Gregson [HG]. The idea of open and transparent justice is
alien to Zionists. Newmark, having been
branded a liar in the Fraser
v UCU Employment Tribunal case,
should know that it is a practice of the courts, even in Israel, to provide transcripts
of hearings. What Newmark was really
objecting to was that I had made my interrogator HG and therefore the JLM
witch-hunters look stupid.
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Tweet objecting to racist JLM being in charge of anti-racist education |
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Newmark objects to the racist JLM being compared to Nick Griffin of BNP |
Newmark clearly didn’t like my post Labour’s
Inquisition – from the banal to the mundane which contains a link
to the 16 page transcript. Newmark says
that the transcript consists of ‘further
slurs against the JLM and our leadership’.
Jeremy Newmark takes himself very seriously being an important figure. He doesn’t take kindly to being
slighted. He is unaware that in court
proceedings what the accused says, however defamatory, is protected
speech.
According to Newmark, the transcript
apparently consists of ‘a whole host of
unsavoury comments’ and even worse has been published on at least 1 other website
as well as being circulated on social media.
Newmark informs McNicol or JS (this is blacked out!) that ‘he [me!] is determined to use the process itself to further disseminate
offensive, uncomradely and potentially actionable comments.’ The JLM doesn’t take kindly to criticism. Suffice to say I don’t expect to be sued
anytime soon as telling the truth is an absolute defence! As for being uncomradely, well I don’t
consider the JLM comrades and if my comments were offensive so much the better!
Apparently I am ‘fermenting hatred
and opposition’ to the JLM. Well I
certainly hope that people hate racism and therefore the JLM, whose sole
purpose is to defend Zionist racism. If
they hate a racist affiliate of the Party I won’t complain.
Newmark asks ‘is it acceptable to
publish a full transcript of a post-suspension interview… given that Mr G is
already suspended.’ You can see the
Israeli police state mentality at work.
Someone is using the trial process as part of a campaign against the
trial. You can just imagine Jeremy Newmark
at the time of the Guildford 4 complaining that people were campaigning against
the frame up!
Although much of the letters are blacked out one can gain a good
understanding of the mentality of Jeremy Newmark and the JLM.
Doc
6 is a Zionist complaining to Chakrabarti. Despite his name being blacked out the
company logo Searchlight Electric is left!
He complains that his son can’t walk in Manchester City Centre with a
skull cap without people conflating Israel and Jews. I agree that is wrong. The obvious answer is for the Jewish Board of
Deputies to stop claiming that British Jews support Israel and for Israeli
leaders to stop claiming that it is a Jewish state that acts on behalf of and represents
Jewish people like Mr X’s son. Illogically
the conclusion he draws is that opposition to a Jewish state is anti-Semitic.
Israel is a settler colonial state where Jews have privileges over
non-Jews and the indigenous population.
It is no different to similar states that Europeans established in the colonial
past. It is a state but one based on Jewish
racial supremacy. In so far as it claims
to be a Jewish state, Mr X’s criticism should be directed at Zionists not
anti-Zionists. Mr X also complains that
Jackie Walker and myself were readmitted to the Labour Party ‘without even so
much as apologising’ without saying what we’re supposed to be apologising
for. Jackie Walker is criticised for ‘peddling a lie that Jews were the main
financiers of the slave trade.’ Jackie
however never said any such thing. The
only lie being peddled is the one Mr X is peddling!
Doc
7-8 is another document from the JLM. For an organisation that claims not to have
been involved in my suspension they were remarkably well informed about when my
hearing was due to take place.
They seem to have taken exception to my perfectly reasonable comparison
between asking the JLM to conduct anti-racist education courses and asking Nick
Griffin of the BNP to do the same.
Griffin loves Israel because it is racist and anti-Islamic. It was Griffin who, on BBC Question Time some
years ago said that the BNP was ‘the only political party which in
the clashes between Israel and Gaza stood full-square behind Israel’s right to
deal with Hamas terrorists.” The Guardian of April 10th
2008 reported: Ruth Smeed, spokesperson for the Board of
Deputies of British Jews as saying that:
‘The BNP website is now one of
the most Zionist on the web - it goes further than any of the mainstream
parties in its support of Israel’.
Apparently my criticism of the JLM was ‘beyond any boundaries of normative political discourse’. Translating this, I think, means that you
mustn’t stray outside the strict parameters of what passes for political debate
in the bourgeois press and TV.
Revolutionary rhetoric is definitely beyond the boundaries. Further it is ‘an attempt to bring us [the JLM?] into disrepute’. Presumably
if we were to disaffiliate the JLM from the Labour Party we would avoid all
these problems?
Doc
9 – this is
from the same person as Doc 1 – the Zionist who is ‘concerned’ that Jeremy
Corbyn is being called an anti-Semite!
Doc
10 The reaction of the Labour Party
press office to the story on my blog about how Jeremy Corbyn sponsored and
chaired, in 1984, a Labour movement conference on Palestine which called for
the disaffiliation of Poalei Zion.
Instead of facing the issue and saying yes, Jeremy supports the
disaffiliation of the racist JLM, they preferred to say nothing.
Doc
11 From an unnamed person to HG – it
refers to a tweet about the bombing by Israel of homes, clinics etc. (in other
words nothing out of the normal when it comes to the Israeli military) which I
sent to idiot Brighton Labour Councillor Emma Daniels, when she announced she
was joining the Zionist Labour Movement.
It refers to ‘the latest
delightful communications with the delightful Mr Greenstein’ - Now why do I suspect that the person
concerned was being sarcastic?
Especially when they sign off !
Naturally I’m not allowed to know
the name of my admirer.
Doc
12 These are interesting documents despite heavy redaction. They involve internal dialogue of Labour
Party bureaucrats. The first email is completely blacked out. The second email on p.41 draws attention to a
blog post – which simply remarks that I had finally been told something of the
reasons for my suspension. I also
pointed out that peoples’ membership fees had also been wasted paying £30,000
on a new Compliance Administrator A
small victory – I have been told the basis of my suspension! - Labour Party is prepared to spend
nearly £30K a year on a new Compliance Administrator. An
anonymous Labour Party hack doesn’t seem to understand that when you accuse
someone of something that they might have the right to know what they are
accused of. They remark in a heavily
redacted email, that ‘no staff member
should have to put up with this. It’s
completely unacceptable.’ It is
fortunate that this person isn’t in charge of the Justice system. On p.42 a Caroline remarks, in a heading
entitled ‘Greenstein Suspension’ to HG
‘Depressing to think a year ago we were apparently on course to win an
election. Now we’ve been reduced to
this.’ It’s difficult to see the
connection with myself.
HG,
who has been delegated to investigate me and from who one might expect a
modicum of impartiality responds that ‘Obviously
his behaviour is unacceptable’ and that ‘this
is top of my list of priorities’.
One might have thought that the Regional Organiser for the Labour Party South-East
region might have other priorities than my investigation. HG reassures Caroline that ‘this matter will not be anywhere as
protracted as previous disciplinary action against certain Brighton members.’ I assume that this refers to the newly
elected Brighton Secretary, Greg Hadfield.
Greg was suspended without just cause for 11 months and told next to
nothing about why he was suspended.
On
the same day another anonymous person informs HG that I launched a ‘very unpleasant attack on Cllr Emma Daniel …
He also called Ivor Caplin a war criminal.’
Emma Daniel announced on Twitter that she had joined the Zionist Jewish
Labour Movement. I simply pointed out
some salient facts about the organisation she had joined and the Israeli human
rights abuse that she was now endorsing.
Presumably pointing out that if you join a Zionist Apartheid
organisation you should be taken to endorse their politics is an ‘unpleasant
attack’. Perhaps I should have refrained
from pointing out that Israel gaols and tortures (Palestinian) children as
young as 12. As for the former MP for
Hove, Ivor Caplin. He was junior defence
Minister at the time of the Iraq War and fully merits the title of junior war
criminal.
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Zionist objects to my calling him a Jewish Nazi |
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Israeli Zionist generalises about all Palestinians being cowards - but Chair of Brighton LP Russell Lloyd-Moyle objects to the term Jewish Nazi |
Another
email from HG is entirely blacked out as is part of a further email. I don’t know who has penned it though I have
my suspicion that it could be the former Chair of the B&H Labour Party Russell
Lloyd-Moyle, who forwards a piece of ‘evidence’ whilst asking when the
Compliance Unit will finally hear the case.
The evidence he encloses is a twitter link to an image from @FalafelBig. Falafel who complains that I call ‘Jewish critics’,
in fact Zionists, Nazis rather than Zio scum.
Mr Falafel names himself after an Arab cuisine that Israel has stolen
and called its own. As other tweets
show, this person is an entrenched racist and fully merits the description of a
Jewish Nazi. For example his reaction to
Google’s decision to erase ‘Palestine’ from its maps and to replace it by
Israel was ‘how can you delete something
that never was’ In fact the area now
occupied by Israel was known as Palestine for 2,000 years.
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13 A small interchange between HG and JS in which the latter
suggests young Harry ‘might want to take
this pleasant Facebook post by Mr Greenstein into account as well.’ I assume that the stolid Stolliday was being
sarcastic!
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14 A minor
exchange with an Emillie Oldknow in which HG asks whether he’s got to agree to
a change in the date of the investigation hearing so that I can bring a silent
witness. Emillie advises that he does
have to agree.
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15 This is a
long email from JVoiceUK, a group which claims
to be ‘The Voice of Socialism and
Progressive Jewish Values’. It is
also a Zionist organisation and therein lies the problem. The email is sent to the Chakrabarti Inquiry
and attempts to defend Zionist collaboration with the Nazis. In truth it doesn’t understand it since it
suggests that this collaboration was solely based on Ha'avara, the Zionist
trade/transfer agreement with the Nazis.
Zionist collaboration went much further than Ha'avara. See here
and here.
JVoiceUK claims that Jewish
emigration from the Arab countries from 1948 onwards was a result of forced
emigration, whereas it was a product of a number of different circumstances
including, as in Iraq and elsewhere the activities of Zionist activists who
planted explosives and bombs in areas that Jews frequented to simulate
anti-Semitism. [See The
Zionist Destruction of the Iraqi Jewish Community] The incoherent email compares Hitler’s
support for Zionism with the Tories support for the Minimum Wage! In the section on myself and Charley Allan, a
Jewish reporter on the Morning Star, it equates giving offence to someone who is
Jewish to anti-Semitism. Giving offence
is the essence of free speech. Without
the right to offend the powerful and privileged, including Zionist racists,
then the right to free speech is meaningless.
It comes out with the absurd phrase that ‘when someone is offended that is the start of potential anti-Semitism’.
JVoiceUK introduce a new phrase
‘Ziophobia’ – presumably a fear of Zionism.
Ziophobia ‘ignores all forms of
left wing Zionism and Zionism that is pro-Palestine’. Perhaps we should have had ‘Apartheidphobia’
and perhaps ‘Naziphobia’ too!
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16 Concerns an informant. The first email is completely blacked out,
the second email omits the name of the recipient. The third e-mail is completely blacked out
too and the fourth email (pp. 113/4) is heavily redacted but concerns my
‘abuse’ of two councillors, Caroline Penn and Emma Daniels, who joined the JLM
and the right-wing Chair of Young Labour.
My ‘abuse’ consisted of pointing out that the JLM was the British wing
of the Israeli Labour Party. The
informant – who I suspect is the previous Chair of Brighton Labour Party, Lloyd
Russell-Moyle, complains that I was abusive to members who support or had
joined the JLM. I guess telling the
truth is also considered abusive! Moyle goes
on to state that ‘This is part of a general rudeness and offensive
nature of Tony, please note that this is nothing to do with his views on
Zionism.’ I shall leave it to others
to judge this.
Moyle appeals for the investigation to be conducted urgently as ‘the local party is being disrupted (despite
him being a suspended member) by his presence at public events… and the shadow
of his reappointment hanging over us.’ And just in case the message hadn’t got
through about how dangerous I was, Moyle pleaded ‘Can I remind you that Tony can be a manipulative person, it is
important that the case against him is watertight.’’ Lloyd seems to fear that if the
witch-hunters don’t follow a fair process then I might have grounds for
overturning any expulsion. Clearly he
fails to understand that unfairness lies at the heart of the process.
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17 On page 116
there is another completely blacked out email.
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18 On p. 143 there is a letter from a supporter of myself
and Jackie Walker protesting our suspensions.
Again the name of the person is redacted.
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19 Another
supportive letter. This time the name of
the Rev. Beverley Molineaux is left at the end of the document but her name is
redacted at the top!
It is a powerful letter and speaks of ‘This almost McCarthy like witch hunt that has unfolded’ and speaks
of how I have been ‘a campaigner against
holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. So
how has someone with these credentials been suspended?’ Beverley also speaks about the suspension
of Jackie Walker and she quotes Jackie’s statement that ‘I have been suspended from the Labour Party for alleged anti-Semitic
comments. I have been an active
anti-racist trainer and campaigner for years, often in all white communities
and in the most vulnerable situations.’
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20 This is
another supportive letter. Again the
name of the person and who she copied it to is blacked out but Val Cane’s name
is left at the bottom of the letter! Val
is an active trade unionist in Brighton with the National Union of Teachers.
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21 Another
supportive letter. This time from
someone who is Jewish and a former Labour parliamentary candidate who joined
the Labour Party 45 years ago. The
identity of the person is blacked out.
As s/he says, there is anti-Semitism in the Party ‘but I have never actually experienced it within the party… It is
rare.’ S/he notes that both Jackie
Walker and myself are Jewish and correctly notes that what the suspensions are
about ‘is an unwillingness to keep quiet
about what Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians.’
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22 This is a
curious email presumably a press release stating that I have been
suspended. Needless to say all salient
points are blacked out.
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23 This
contains a response to a Jews 4 Jeremy press release about my suspension. All names are blacked out.
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24 This is
another supportive letter from a Jewish member of the Labour Party
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25 All names
are blacked out from an email from an informer.
It reads much like the many communications that used to be sent to the
Stasi and Gestapo. One email is entirely
blacked out and the person hopes that Greg Hadfield, the newly elected
Secretary of Brighton Labour Party (before he was deposed!) won’t get anything
into the press whilst highlighting an article Greg wrote on the difference
between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
It contains various allegations against me, including a false allegation
of fraud and the fact that I stood 4 times (actually 3) against the Labour
Party. The informer seems to have problems
with facts.
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26 Another
letter from a Jewish member of the Labour Party adding his name to that of the
52 Jewish members who signed a letter supporting me.
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27 This consists
of 3 mails – 2 of which are entirely blacked out. It would appear that HG went fishing for
information and the informant tells him that he has no information on the
issues relevant to my suspension but gives some background on me. I suspect that the informant is either Dave
Leppar, the previous MP or his wife, Jean Leppar, however I cannot be certain
about this.
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28 This is
another email from an anonymous informant.
Most of the email is blanked out but point 6 complains that he hasn’t
replied to me because I put everything online.
He asks when my accusations that JS leaked details of my case to the
press has become actionable. The answer
of course is never, since they are true!
Is it, he asks ok to call people ‘scum’, as opposed to ‘Zio scum’! Again it depends on who I’m calling
‘scum’. The one witty point is when he
asks ‘does he give the Andrew Fisher
defence.’ Fisher is an advisor to
Jeremy Corbyn whom the Right tried to prevent being employed on the grounds
that he had, as a joke, recommended support for Class War in an election.
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29 2 emails
from anonymous Zionists who attack me and others. One of them says that the witch-hunts ‘save the party and restore our values!’ Presumably these include the values of Israel
which today bulldozed the home of a Palestinian who was inside his home, thus
murdering him.
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30 HG on a query from the Jewish Chronicle which was interested
in my suspension. I can’t imagine why!
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31 An
intriguing letter from someone who is supportive of my case who observes that I
am ‘not a man to mince his words mind you
and perhaps this has upset you.’ From
the language I suspect this person occupies some position in the Labour Party echelons.
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32 A sarcastic
remark from some Labour Party hack asking how many of Brighton Labour Party’s
members attended a meeting which voted to oppose my suspension.
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33 An internal memo to HG relating to the bureaucratic
mechanisms of the suspensions. It would
appear that on 17th May there were 5 suspensions in the SE Region.
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34 An anonymous ill-wisher who cannot imagine why I was
allowed to join the Party. Apparently
neither the Greens or the SWP will have anything to do with me! Strange that.
It’s not been my experience but who am I to quibble?
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35 A lying
email from crooked Iain McNicol, Labour Party General Secretary in reply to me.
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Letter in response to Mike Creighton who is responsible for responding to Data Protection Act requests |
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