Left-wing Jewish activist arrested for ‘racially aggravated’ offence for comparing Israel’s genocide to behaviour of nazis
Jewish activist Tony Greenstein was arrested on Friday while demonstrating outside the London residence of far-right Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely – who has been described even by the Israeli press as ‘the ugly, extremist face of Israel’ and has said that Israel is justified in destroying the whole of Gaza in its war on the Palestinians there and that Israeli troops kill children because Hamas puts them in front of the soldiers.
Greenstein was one of a number of Jewish speakers at the event and arrested even though Israeli press have also compared Israel to the nazis:
He was arrested by terror police in December for a single tweet supporting Palestinian resistance and convicted last year for damage to a UK-based Israeli weapons factory, after a trial in which the judge forbade the actionists from explaining the context of trying to prevent Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians, despite only driving Palestine Action protesters to the factory in a van. The UK state is currently engaged in a clampdown on those who report on or protest against Israel’s war crimes, arresting and harassing even journalists.
In his fundraiser for legal costs to sue the Met police for its actions – or to defend himself if he is charged – Greenstein writes:
On Friday 4 October I was arrested at a demonstration outside the residence of Israel’s Ambassador to London, Tzipi Hotoveli. I spoke, as a Jewish anti-Zionist at the lobby and I compared the behaviour of the Nazis to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
At the end of the demonstration I was arrested for a ‘racially aggravated’ offence. I will be pleading not guilty if I am charged and if I’m not charged I will be bringing a civil suit for damages for false and malicious imprisionment against the Metropolitant Police.
I am asking people to help me stand up to Starmer’s thugs in uniform and not all free speech to be destroyed like it has in Israel
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Come along, Tony, you know the jails are full. Behave yourself.
Stop wasting police time – you rascal.
SUE‼️‼️‼️ No out of court settlements‼️‼️‼️
Tony if you read this you might wanna find out who made the complaint.
Find that out and make one of harassment against them. If the particular station you were taken to won’t wear it, go to the next, and the next, and the next. Demand to see the inspector/chief inspector at each one. Log each visit you might have to make.
If plod and cps wanna act like pricks, at least make them work for it. The complainant wants to make themselves the victim, make sure you’re the victim of their overt bias.
“Racially Aggravated” Offence? REALLY??
1 – Judaism is not a race, it is a religion. ‘Semitic’, a term derived from the bible (“Shem” was a son of Noah) and although “Abraham” is the progenitor of all single-deity theism (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) he and Shem are as ‘holy’ to Moslems and Chistians as to Jews, but the race of all Christian believers are not suddenly changed to ‘Shem-itic’ (semitic) for as long as their faith remains strong. Jews are not semities simply because they are Jewish. If they are negroid from Ethiopia or Sudan (lost tribe of Israel stuff) or Chinese oriental and convert they do not stop being negros, orientals and suddenly becomes “semites” in the meaningless sense that negroids of American birth or nationality are “African Americans”. It’s a “designation” not a race
2 – If Semitism is a valid ethno-biological concept then it equally applies to Palestinians, some Coptic Christians and some of those Arab and Persian Xians in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, etc.. How can helping some Semites defend themselves against other Semites be racially aggravated in the sense intended by this police-persecution?
Maybe we should each send as much as we can afford (or even just a notional 20p) to the fund Tony was supporting and inform the Met Police (or just say it on Facegook, Uber, XYZ, your baking app or Amazon) then these ‘owners of our data’ will inform MI5/6, GCHQ and the NSA on our behalf?
Support, credit and thanks to Tony. Appreciate your principles and strength.
G*d Damn any PM who allows this stalinistic authoritarianism to rule-the-roost in my country.
I’ve been listening to Tony on this morning’s The Crispin Flintoff Show.
He welcomes the opportunity to debate the issues, surrounding the definition of anti-Semitism. I have a sneaking feeling no one will want to take him on, in an open court debate, so don’t be surprised if the charges – such as they are – will be dropped.
It would be a shame, as it means the police – or whoever made the complaint – can simply continue complaining when the feeling takes them.
A buggeration factor, for Tony.
If it is racially aggravated offences which require their attention, then what passes for a policing service is looking in the wrong direction.
And deliberately so:
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/10/04/the-western-media-helped-create-these-horrors-in-the-middle-east/
Every single corporate media outlet in the Collective Worst – along with the majority of their so called ‘journalists’ – are actively complicit, not simply for racially aggravated offences but for the blatant support for genocide and wars of aggression by a Nazi State and its fascist backers.
They are now joined by the police, who are not only guilty of consciously looking in the wrong direction, but of wasting their own time and everyone else’s.
Tony Greenstein will not need reminding of the Industrial Tribunals case against Bristol University not long ago.
Prof David Miller, who was sacked by Bristol University for being an anti-Zionist, and despite two barrister reports exonerating him of claims made by Zionist students, wins a landmark employment tribunal case.
The ruling of unfair dismissal means for the first time it’s been recognised that anti-Zionism – the view that Israel is a racist, colonial state – is protected under the Equality Act.
His lawyer noted the importance of the timing of the ruling, as Israel seeks to shut down debate about its slaughter in Gaza:
“The genocide Israel is committing at present has woken the world up to the very belief David holds and was manifesting, which is that Zionism is inherently racist and must be opposed.”
Prof Miller observed of the verdict: “A genocidal and maximalist ideology like Zionism can only be effectively confronted by a maximalist anti-Zionism. Apologies, debate, and defensiveness of the sort illustrated by many on the left, and even in the Palestine Solidarity movement, will not work. The Zionist movement cannot be negotiated with. It must be defeated.”
IMPORTANT: In case Tony Greenstein hasn’t been able to contactyou to ask you to sign his letter to the Observer about Howard Jocobson’s article therein, please look it up and sign here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHs8bCao73tf08a9qP2SOD-hkobqqIGPkZIo61pNlds9HVZg/viewform
Thank you.
I came across this tweet, yesterday, qwertboi. I thought you might be interested.
Apparently, James Harding, ex-Ed of The Times, and ex-Director of BBC News and Current Affairs, now co-owner of Tortoise Media, is interested in buying – or buying into – The Guardian and The Observer.
It seems The Scott Trust’s ears pricked up, at the news. The journalists – not so much.
https://x.com/carolecadwalla/status/1842899757049450693
Thanks GP. Sad.
Their financial and editorial “independence” was lost the second they allowed GCHQ/MI5/CIA into their offices to destroy the computer on which they stored their copy of “wkileaks” – James Harding’s ownership would not change anything imho.
Cadewalla’s mock-alarm is part of a ‘business as usual’ deception act. She knows this better than most of us.
D-Notices, corporate control of the press and the other mechanisms that were used historically matter not-a-hoot now. The secret state/ rule of law doesn’t need ’em anymore now that the new world order openly has the CIA and its franchisees directly decide editorial content of everything.
“D-Notices, corporate control of the press and the other mechanisms that were used historically matter not-a-hoot now. The secret state/ rule of law doesn’t need ’em anymore now that the new world order openly has the CIA and its franchisees directly decide editorial content of everything.”
From the horse’s mouth……..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csSph593QcE&ab_channel=SkyNewsAustralia
“…..if they [social media] don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control”
The harpy, Clinton’s, argument goes on to call for repeal of the US Communications Act, Section 230, which provides legal protection for online platforms (not just Social Media) responsibility for third party content (including user content).
‘We came. We saw. WE took total control of everybody.’