As a huge wave of the darkest antisemitic hatred crashes across the land, including calls for the mass murder of Jews, what is the "anti-racist" group "Hope not Hate" really worked up about?
Matthew Parris. 1/6
"Friends of Al Aqsa" is at the heart of the ugly agitation we are seeing, just as it has long been.
It is dedicated to fanatical hatred of Israel and promoting antisemites. Its founder and leader, Ismail Patel, is a fan of Hamas. Up the "anti-racist" street, right?
Oh. 2/6
Indeed, Hamas has built up an extensive UK support network since the 1990s. Journalists have covered it and counter-extremism activists have challenged it for years. It is one of the roots of Labour's ruin.
Going by their website, "Hope not Hate" hasn't even mentioned it. 3/6
The "Palestinian Forum in Britain" is another player behind today's ugly scenes. Israel=Nazis.
It used to bring some of the Middle East's very worst hate preachers to Britain before the Government banned them, with encouragement from activists, including Muslims.
Ah, I see. 4/6
Well, this is an outfit that was "delighted" to appoint Kevin Courtney of the NEU as a patron to its "HOPE Education Fund". One couldn't ask for a better friend for Islamists. He's with them all the way, even in defiance of Birmingham's Labour council. 5/6
Labour must not let Howard Beckett back into the party.
His record on antisemitism is appalling. Here are some of the episodes.
When the party suspended Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi of "Jewish Voice for Labour" (JVL) and Louise Regan last year, Beckett was furious. 1/13
He offered "solidarity" to the "outstanding comrades".
“The membership will not stand by idly and put up with it.”
"We will stand up to this leadership on behalf of all members of the Labour party”.
Both women were speakers at the same meeting. 2/13
David Hirsh on JVL: it "serves to kosherize Jeremy Corbyn’s antisemitic politics and to smear anyone who says they have experienced antisemitism in the Party".
As for Regan, her Corbynista antics were too much even for Labour left MP Nadia Whittome. 3/13 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
Some Islamist and far-left activists would have you believe that Keir Starmer pulled out of a "Ramadan Tent" event merely because the group's founder and CEO Omar Salha calls for a boycott of Israeli dates. There's much more to it than that. But even the dates story is nasty. 1/8
A month ago, Salha promoted a boycott call by "Friends of Al Aqsa", a fanatical Israel hatred outfit headed up by Ismail Patel. It is no stranger to controversy, to say the least.
In 2017, Sajid Javid, then Communities Secretary, called it on its record. 2/8
Writing to Ismail Patel, he noted "concerns that your organisation and those connected with it have expressed public support for a proscribed organisation, namely Hamas, and that you have supported events at which Hamas and Hizballah – also proscribed – have been praised”. 3/8
Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood have deep support networks in the UK. That's where one finds Adnan Hmidan.
And that's why Labour should beware: Hmidan is a party member, trying to push an Israeli out of his Labour job. Read on to learn more. 1/11 thejc.com/news/uk/i-love…
Yes, for Hmidan, it's "love" for Ahmed Yassin, the Hamas founder. The group's foundation saw the issue of the Hamas Covenant, a hateful and insane diatribe. It spots Zionist plots even in the Rotary and Lion Clubs, the drug trade, and alcoholism. A sort of "Mein Jihad". 2/11
This post by Hmidan marks the death of Mazen Faqha, shot in Gaza in 2017. He is shown sporting a Hamas headband. Commenters bless him.
What a passing to note. In 2003, Israel sentenced Faqha to nine life terms in prison. As a Hamas commander, he had been found guilty of... 3/11
The Bristol professor David Miller's "Spinwatch" venture was predictably ugly, even backing the notorious antisemite Tony Greenstein. So who funded it?
The biggest donor by far was the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, giving £201,000. Yes, the people who also funded Cage. 1/9
The Trust says it "supports people who address the root causes of conflict and injustice".
It needs to think about this very carefully, swapping "are" for "address" in some cases.
While doing so, it could consider some of its fellow "Spinwatch" funders. 2/9
In the Islamist camp, they included the Cordoba Foundation, called "a front for the Muslim Brotherhood" by David Cameron. It donated £15,000.
Cordoba is led by Anas Altikriti. Here he shares a happy moment with Hamas. He also backed jihadi attacks on our troops in Iraq. 3/9
Tony Gosling is a loopy conspiracy theorist. That's why you'll find him, to cite but one example, dismissing the official accounts of the 7/7 and Manchester bombings and the Salisbury poisonings with his fellow Richie Allen.
So, a fine conversation partner for David Miller. 1/10
Miller is on typical form with Gosling in this friendly chat. He flatly accuses our government of "telling lies" about the Salisbury poisonings, weeks after the UK and its allies had expelled scores of Russian officials in retaliation for the crime. 2/10
Then Miller turns to "raising questions" about the tyrant Assad's chemical attacks on his own people, one of his favourite topics.
Miller's record here is vile and goes back years now. Has he recanted? Of course not. Try doubling down. 3/10 thejc.com/comment/analys…
To understand the unrepentant fury of Corbynism, turn to a true comrade, the serving Doncaster councillor and former ASLEF president Tosh McDonald.
In a local podcast earlier this month, he certainly didn't hold back. Is what follows really OK by Labour? 1/11
He sets the tone by saying he sang, danced and got drunk when Thatcher died. He tells his "joke" about setting his alarm an hour earlier than needed so he could hate her for an hour longer. Then: “I feel pretty much the same way about the leaders of both parties right now." 2/11
On to the Jews, sorry, Zionists, in a long tirade.
He lays into the Labour MP Margaret Hodge, suggesting accusations should have been thrown at her, as surely some of her criticism of individuals was "vexatious". 3/11