Gideon Falter doesn’t appear to have had a good day.
As Skwawkbox reported earlier, ‘Campaign against Antisemitism’ (CAA) chief executive Falter’s claim that he had been prevented by police from crossing a road after just happening to ‘come across’ a pro-Palestine march looks to have fallen apart after a huge volume of eyewitness, photographic and video evidence emerged challenging the veracity of the claim. Falter appears to have fallen apart too in at least one interview.
Under relatively mild challenge from Sky News’s Kay Burley – and confronted by some facts from Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Ben Jamal – Falter flapped and then said he didn’t want to discuss the issue with Jamal any further. Burley, to her credit, cut him off when he tried to complete his propaganda without being scrutinised or challenged:
Sky News subsequently deleted its earlier video of Falter’s claims – whether in reaction to his performance in the Burley interview is not known.
Falter’s CAA group has been shown to have taken large amounts of funding from a ‘quasi-governmental’ Israeli organisation and featured prominently in the campaign to take down then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Falter himself has been shown to have made false claims of antisemitic speech on at least one occasion – leading to the prosecution, conviction and unanimous acquittal on appeal of a Foreign Office official. His claim about Saturday’s events fuelled calls for the banning of pro-Palestinian marches and the removal of Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley – who just happens to have previously refused the demands of right-wing, pro-Israel campaigners and politicians for the marches to be banned.
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As a writer at JVL recently noted
“Israel’s 2014 bombardment of Gaza…verified by the United Nations killed 2251 people, of which 551 were children. Since then, there have been continued attempts to portray Israel, and supporters of its violence, as the real victims. The dates even suggest that the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA) was formed before the corpse of the last Palestinian child killed in that “war” of 2014 had cooled in its grave.”
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/why-we-should-back-diane-abbott/
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NB Needless to say, a suspended sentence would have been MORE than enough to deter Marcus (and his colleague) from any similar protest. As for deporting him back to Germany….. did he kill someone, or rob a bank or whatever, in which case it would be justified to do so, but for a protest. George Monbiot summed it up in a recent article (link below).
‘Victimise people who raise a voice in Britain? Then destroy their families? Not in my name’
Protesting against the failure of the political class to protect us from harm, especially from the existential harm of environmental breakdown, is both rational and, in the current climate, heroic. Those who do so take on a burden of legal jeopardy on behalf of the rest of us, a burden that becomes heavier with every year, as the state throws not just new criminal measures but also new civil measures at those who dare dissent……
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/19/victimise-people-protest-britain-destroy-families-not-in-my-name
Having listened to commercial radio coverage of the agent provocateur’s ceaseless spout of lies, damn lies and wickedness, it is surprising that Faulty failed to get support from any presenter. Most callers and all guests were wise enough to see through the Faulty stunt.
You know Falter failed, when not a single presenter even of the most heartless and sordid right wing bents, support the faulty pathetic confrontation chasing drip.
But, how STUNNING to hear EVEN John Mann describe Faulty’s actions accurately.
Mann said that London is NOT a “no go area for Jews” nor anyone else.
What a bummer you are Mr Falter???
QUESTION: were widespread worldwide marches AGAINST the wanton slaughter of THOUSANDS of innocent men, women and children, … were they “dangerous”, “frightening” etc etc etc as the likes of Mr Faulty claims, then WHY did he and his entitled entourage try to bully the police to cross into the midsts of the THOUSANDS of people???
And why are hundred of Jewish people of faith and none, present at every single march, not just in the UK, but in DC, NY, CA and more, promoting peace???
Moreover, Mr Faulty says he intends to return at the next march against slaughter by the super armed tools of apartheid, open prison and illegal land stealing settlers, thus proving that he and his gang feel PERFECTLY safe amongst the THOUSANDS calling for the end of the cruel evil bloodshed.
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Jonathan Cook posted an excellent article about the affair earlier today in which he totally dismantles Gideon Falter’s machinations:
‘7 easy steps to outlawing marches that call for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza’
22 April 2024
The BBC and other media are willing co-conspirators in promoting the pro-genocide playbook of groups like the Campaign Against Antisemitism
How to interfere, once again, in British politics and further curtail fundamental civil liberties on behalf of a foreign power, Israel – all egged on by the political and media establishment – in seven easy steps:
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2024-04-22/outlaw-march-israel-genocide-gaza/
PS There’s just one word that describes Gideon Falter perfectly, and we all know what it is!
Who is this man? Where does his influence come from?
“Why didn’t the gideon cross the road”…
….because he left his religious book in the hotel room?
What a godawful wee shitebag falter is.
Really ought to count himself lucky the plod didn’t lose his rag, drag the rodent into the back of a van by his lugholes and give him a damn good hiding. I’ve seen beatings given out for far less.
God knows I detest police brutality, but it’d be nigh-on impossible to have sympathy for falter if that had happened.
Instead I’ll just have to be content that the knobhead has openly betrayed the trust of those members of the public who have been made aware of the shithouse tactics used.
And I sincerely hope the old bill aren’t gonna stand for any more of his or CAA’s disingenuousness in future.
And the MSM should throw this instance right back at them (CAA) the next time they start shrieking.
Aren’t the plods supposed to help you cross roads safely? It’s quite sweet really if you were pissed or unhinged.
cos the trusting souls he was needing to dupe were on this side….?
Crazy, crazy, crazy – but in my mind, “gideon” has become Sir Keir Rodney Starm$er (and R. Reeves), and is no-longer the original Austerity Carpet-Bomber, George Osborne, or the failing fibber in today’s news.
Sir Keir Gideon Starmer: the most dangerous prime minister we haven’t yet had.
You mean The Official Narrative on this has been a terminological inexactitude?
Say it ain’t so!
[Cue chorus of clueless harpies, wannabe trolls, and sycophantic wormtongue shills…….
….”It’s ‘The Putin Propaganda!’ Its ‘The Putin Propaganda!'”]
Also, I note the greasy, polygonal-headed one hasn’t uttered a peep. Can’t think why 😙🎶
What’s it to be, keef?
Were the old bill acting correctly?
Or are you allowing the CAA to undermine the sterling work done by our brave police now?
I think we should be told.
On the 9th October 2023, Iran’s Defence Minister Mohammad Ashtiani said on behalf of the Iranian government:
“I have ordered a complete siege on Tel aviv. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel. Everything is closed.”
In addition, according to Bloomberg television, 9th October 2023, he said “We are fighting human animals.”
During an interview with Nick Ferarri, of LBC News on 11th October 2023 at the Labour party conference in Albert dock Liverpool, Mr Ferarri posed questions to Keir Starmer regarding Iran’s intention to commit grave war crimes, including collective punishment and the withholding of food, water and energy to approximately 4 million men, women and children in Tel Aviv.
Mr Ferarri asked Mr Starmer “A siege is appropriate. Cutting off power, cutting off water?” To which Mr Starmer replied “I think that Iran does have, that right. It is an ongoing situation.”
The Jewish community, worldwide would call [rightly] for Starmer to be sent to the Hague, instead he is lauded by the political elite and MSM. Disgusting, Starmer does not even try to disguise his racism.
Starmer does not even try to disguise his racism.
How VERY dare you!? I was totally convinced of his sincerity when he took the knee….
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For all the time it took me to slap my forehead and wince 🤦
Gideon Falter: “All I was doing is trying to cross the road, along with my bodyguards and cameraman, and we had no idea there was a big march taking place in support of the Palestinians in Gaza close to the synagogue we’d just been to, and it was just purely coincidental.”
Hmm, I wonder how many times he’s been to this particular synagogue before?? Had he even been to a synagogue in the area prior to the episode with the police? Perhaps they – the police – should check CCTV in the area close to any synagogues (I would imagine that the synagogues themselves would have security cameras).
Wonder if Mr F with politicians & the media (some already very willing to believe what they want to believe?) was playing ‘Rope A Dope’ (?) and it is very interesting that Sunak (perhaps after seeing fuller evidence) has now apparently come to stand by the Police Chief.
Perhaps the best word I learnt at Uni (as the first in my w class family to go to Uni – as a mature student) was “Homogenous” and of course ALL groups are diverse and are not all the same eg some might be Left, Centrist, Liberal, Right Wing, non-political etc & even some Far Right, some very religious, fairly religious, secular, young, old, male, female, disabled, non-disabled, LGBT, Trans etc etc but some Right Wing groups don’t seem to get this?
They seem to think they speak for all?
Have attended 27 out of 28 marches for Peace in Palestine and we are wonderfully diverse citizens including plenty of Jewish Socialists & other Jewish progressives.
We are multiculturalism in action for Palestine & to stop the Genocide in Gaza!
The MSM and the Government and the fake opposition are all well aware that the marches include a large Jewish bloc – and many others who march separately from the bloc – and they’ve known that that’s the case since pretty much the outset. But it doesn’t fit with their narrative of course, and contradicts their black propaganda smear campaign and demonisation of the marchers.
They back the mass murder of tens of thousands of women and children and babies and elderly and the total destruction of their homeland AND smear hundreds of thousands calling for an end to the carnage. And only totally evil twisted demented anti-human beings are capable of doing THAT.
I see frank field’s croaked….finally.
One less tory.
Didn’t know he had convid. Ah well another unexplained death.
There is video of him trying to drive a van into a previous March
82% of Israelis support the Genocide, is this the end of the Jewish State
Falters faultline is the idea that Jews could support Genocide is as tenable as the CAA being a Charity
The Jewish Community could also never make Vexatious claims of anti semitism
Falter should be arrested and charged with hate crimes