Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s special adviser Ben Judah has been filmed making comments about London, during in interview with a Dutch TV programme in 2016 to promote his book ‘This is London’, that have been described as a ‘shocking racist rant’.
In the clip, Judah describes London as ‘not an English city any more’. Instead, he says, it is full of ‘Nigerian churches in bingo halls’ and ‘mosques in basements’ – and he laments that London’s ‘story now doesn’t have very much to do with me’, but rather ‘the Polish builder, the African cleaner, the imam’, before claiming that those having children or grandchildren in London have a ‘70% chance’ that they will be of ‘mixed race or mixed religion or mixed ethnicity’:
Judah’s position with Lammy is noted on Judah’s Linkedin page:
According to a 2022 article by Prof David Miller, Judah – who began working for Lammy in March when Lammy was Shadow Foreign Secretary, wrote a play during his university studies that ‘involved the inevitable Islamic terrorist who subsequently turns out to be antisemitic’ and Judah:
did his bit for the witch hunt between 2015 and 2019. Prior to it, though, he had already claimed in May 2015 that he was pinned to the wall, throttled, punched in the head and told to ‘Get out you f***ing Jew’, by George Galloway supporters in Bradford, a charge emphatically denied by Galloway and his Respect Party.
Judah now works for the NATO lobby group the Atlantic Council, having previously worked at the “regime-change friendly” European Council on Foreign Relations and then the neoconservative US think tank the Hudson Institute, which champions aggressive, Israel-centric US foreign policies.
A transcript of the video can be found here.
Steve Powers, who posted the video to Twitter/X, described it as a ‘shocking racist rant’. The full 2016 Buitenhof video, in which Judah also says London can be watched here.
David Lammy, like his boss Keir Starmer, has denied that Israel is committing genocide.
Judah and David Lammy were contacted for comment but had not responded by the time of publication.
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CRONYISM – Ed Miliband has bailed out wind turbine company Veritas. The amount has been kept secret ….
What they also hoped you wouldn’t spot is that MP Stephen Kinnock’s WIFE Helle Thorning- Schmidt is a board director of Veritas.
She’s also the ex PM of Denmark & sits on the oversight board of Meta AND The Klaus Schwab Foundation.
Keep it in the “family” (Interpret family as actual family or … people with the “right views.”
Anyway, here’ Guido Fawkes “full list” (I don’t think it’s the full list by any means!)
Joe Dancey, Labour candidate for Stockton West, is Wes Streeting’s partner.
Josh MacAlister, candidate for West Cumbria, is Wes Streeting’s ex.
Hamish Falconer, candidate for Lincoln, is son of Former Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Charlie Falconer.
Liam Conlon, candidate for Beckenham and Penge, is Sue Gray’s son.
Imogen Walker, candidate for Lanark and Hamilton East, is Labour campaign director Morgan McSweeney’s wife.
Jake Richards, candidate for Rother Valley, is the son of former New Statesman political editor Steve Richards. Jake is also brother-in-law of fellow nepo-baby Gregor Poynton.
Emma Foody, candidate for Cramlington and Killingworth, is the wife of Labour MP and Shadow Minister for Policing Alex Norris.
Jo White, candidate for Bassetlaw, is the wife of former Labour MP for Bassetlaw John Mann.
Markus Campbell-Savours, candidate for Penrith and Solway, is the son of former Workington MP Lord Dale Campbell-Savours.
Chris Murray, candidate for Edinburgh East, is the son of former Glasgow East MP Margaret Curran.
Gregor Poynton, candidate for Livingston, was previously married to former Labour MP Gemma Doyle.
They of course missed out the Reeves sisters, the Eagle sisters, and I don’t know how many more…
https://order-order.com/2024/02/06/2024-election-full-list-of-nepo-baby-candidates/
Early 2016 – when Labour was attracting hundreds of thousands new members and building its Corbyn wave- a member of several Atlanticist think tanks, Ben Judah, published a book, This is London: Life and Death in the World City. It got glowing reviews from The Times and Katherine Viner’s theGuardnog (which – remember – should be DUMPED and only linked-to as archived copies). The Financial Times marvelled at its “revelatory” nature and summarised it as “an epic work of reportage”.
the-londoner co uk (Joshi Herrmann and Andrew Kersley) investigated the work and summarised it as ‘A book by the foreign secretary’s aide Ben Judah (which) paints a disturbing picture of the capital, littered with racial stereotypes and falsehoods”.
If only to see how fair and reasonable Steve Walker’s report here is, you can read Herrmann and Kersley’s original article here, https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/a-government-advisor-wrote-a-libel-against-london-why-did-we-believe-it/
Read it and weep. Labour is lost.
Someone should tell this upstart that at the turn of the twentieth century politicians like him said exactly the same thing about Jews.
If judah doesnt like it in that london** he can always sod off to tel aviv for the rest of his days. Can’t think why he’d be missed, neither.
At least the Polish plumber and the African cleaner are making a far more valuable contribution to society than some disgruntled political gobshite who produces zilch.
**let’s face it, london’s shite anyway.
From the link
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/08/british-jews-find-their-voice/566435/
Sometimes, I wished I was another kind of Jew—an American, an Israeli, even an Iraqi like my ancestors
‘Nuff said.