Gilad Atzmon - Some People Never Learn the Lesson
On
Thursday afternoon, Gordon Brown learned that he was to become only the second
sitting British Prime Minister to be subject to a police
investigation.
This
is happening less than six months after Tony Blair had left Downing Street under
the severe cloud of a police probe into the Cash for Honours
affair.
For
Blair it was No 1 Labour fundraiser, the Zionist Lord Levy who got him into
serious trouble, for Brown it is Mr David Abrahams (in the photo, Abrahams is on
the right, with an MP friend) , just another 'Friend of Israel' and a provincial
chairman of Jewish Labour, who may be the one to finish off his political
career.
Once
again, the Labour Party had to admit that it erred by accepting donations from
dubious sources. ''The money was not lawfully declared, so it will be returned,'
said the Prime Minister, after the disclosure that Labour had benefited to the
tune of more than GBP 600,000 from a bizarre funding scheme arranged by David
Abrahams, an eccentric property tycoon who decided to donate his money by
proxy.
Apparently, Lord Levy and David Abrahams were not alone in
dragging Labour towards yet another political disaster. The third corner in this
disastrous triangle is Mr Jon Mendelsohn, a man who grasps the power of money
and politics. Mr Mendelsohn, an ex-chairman of Labour Friends of Israel, is the current chief fundraiser of the Labour
Party.
Seemingly and shamefully, the Labour Party did not learn its
lesson following the Lord Levy 'Cash for Honours' scandal. Once again they let
the supporters of Israel take care of their material needs.
I find
myself wondering how come Labour is so heavily entangled with those 'Friends of
Israel'? However, the most crucial issue here is actually the fact that not a
single British media outlet dares to ask the most important questions: what is
this cabal of self-declared 'Friends of Israel' trying to achieve by pouring
money into political parties? What is it that it is trying to buy? Where is the
money coming from? Is it their own money or is it delivered by their 'friends'
in the Israeli embassy or another Zionist apparatus?
British society is a multicultural society, this means that
very many people of different ethnic and racial origins live together in peace
and mutual respect. This is probably the greatest asset that the British culture
can offer momentarily, a multi-ethnic society made of communities of people who
treat each other with respect and tolerance. Many British Jews benefit and
contribute to the British multi-ethnic society. However, within the liberal
multi-cultural discourse it is 'politically incorrect' to associate ethnicity
and unlawful acts, something that our 'Friends of Israel' and 'Jewish Labour'
exploit beyond belief. Though they operate as an ethnic lobby, promoting some
radical, exclusive Jewish National interests, they wouldn�t like to be exposed
as such, definitely not in reference to their overwhelmingly disclosed unlawful
activity.
A
quick glance into the ideological fundaments the 'Labour Friend of Israel' makes
it clear that we are dealing here with some ardent Zionist Neo-conservative
worldviews: 'We are fundamentally sympathetic
to Israel's position as a liberal democracy facing constant security dilemmas
and existential threats'. For those who fail to understand: Israel is indeed a
democracy as long as you are Jewish. Within the Israeli controlled territories,
the vast majority of the Palestinians are not even citizens. Strictly speaking,
the 'Labour Friends of Israel', fundamentally supports an apartheid racist
Jewish state i.e. Israel. If this is not bad enough, they do just that at the
heart of British politics. Moreover, they do just that without even respecting
the elementary British ethical political norms.
Amid
British multi-culturalism, no one in Britain dares question the clear cabal of
Zionists who were fully engaged in transforming British politics into a Zionist
internal affair. British press and the media is fully aware of the complexity
entangled with those Friends of Israel and their fundamental sympathy, yet, they
are filling their mouths with water. Instead of standing up against this
dangerous lobby that acts to ally Britain with an apartheid state, they use some
sticky language, leaving the conclusions to the readers, if they are able to
make up their minds on their own. They refer to Jon Mendlesohn's affiliation
within the Labour Friends of Israel, they refer to David Abrahams being
a provincial
vice-chairman of the Jewish Labour Movement.
I
think that British media should be brave enough to stand up and report that
there is an Israeli lobby in Britain acting under the name of Jewish
Labour as well as
Labour Friends of Israel. There is no German lobby in Britain acting under the
name 'Aryan Labour' operating as well as 'Friends of Germany'. Nor there is a
Black Labour organisation also lobbying as the Friends of Zimbabwe. Seemingly,
Zionist lobbyists are the only ones who get away with their unique form of
racially orientated lobbying activity.
Funnily enough, the only press outlet in Britain that was
brave enough to confront the severe implications of the current Jewish affair
was actually the leading British Jewish weekly, the JC (Jewish
Chronicle).
'Fears
were growing this week of an antisemitic backlash following the latest Labour
Party cash scandal involving two prominent Jewish activists', said the
JC in its main
article last Friday.
The JC
does realise that the affair would eventually affect the community. Seemingly,
the JC does not doubt the truth behind the current revelation. "The two main
figures in this week's controversy are Jon Mendelsohn, the Prime Minister's
election campaign fundraiser, and property magnate David Abrahams, who is
accused of breaking the law by using third parties to disguise donations of GBP
600,000 to Labour", said the JC.
Yet,
being the leading Jewish press outlet and addressing mainly British Jewish
audience, the paper offers as well an 'Elder of Zion' like pretext just to try
to cheer its readers. There is a 'whiff of antisemitism about it', says MP
Andrew Dismore to the JC. "People are looking for links to Jewish interests and
evidence of a Jewish conspiracy. The press are turning every stone to find
one."
I find
myself wondering how the JC can report some clear unlawful conduct in one
paragraph and then suggest a "Jewish conspiracy" in the next. For those who do
not realise, Abrahams and Mendelsohn are not a hidden conspiracy, their acts
have been exposed in broad daylight, they are mainstream news on the front of
each paper in this country, subject to police scrutiny.
"The
Hendon MP said he did not believe the case would have received such intensive
coverage if it did not involve Jews. The undercurrent of antisemitism is
worrying."
May I
assure the ignoramus Hendon MP that an exposed cabal of Saudi businessmen trying
to buy a leading British party would get at least as much
attention.
Paul
Usiskin, another Labour supporter and co-chair of Peace Now UK, said: "It
doesn't do the reputation of people communally linked to Israel any good to find
themselves willingly or unwillingly at the centre of matters to do with politics
and money."
Once
again, I find myself bewildered, this Usiskin sees things through, yet he
himself involved in some Judeo- centric political activity as a lobbyer for the
Zionist Peace Now UK.
"I
hope," adds Usiskin, "that in contrast to previous issues of this kind, people
do not link historical relations between Jews and financial
affairs."
And I
find myself wondering again, why shouldn't they? In fact, every British citizen
in general and British Jews in particular must reflect just about that because
this is the crux of the issue.
Jon
Benjamin, the Chief Executive of the notorious Board of Deputies, the Jewish
Lobby that recently tried to shatter the career of the democratically elected
Mayor of London, was there to say, "there is wide concern in this story and
clearly there is a potential for it to turn against us. We have been there
before."
For a
change, I agree with Jon Benjamin. Indeed you had been there before and more
than once, yet somehow you never learn your lesson.
A second ‘Jewish scandal’
29 November 2007
By By Bernard Josephs
Fears were growing this week of an antisemitic backlash following the latest Labour Party cash scandal involving two prominent Jewish activists.
Communal leaders expressed concern that the situation may mirror the cash-for-peerages affair, in which, after a long criminal investigation, Labour fundraiser Lord Levy faced no charges.
The two main figures in this week’s controversy are Jon Mendelsohn, the Prime Minister’s election campaign fundraiser, and property magnate David Abrahams, who is accused of breaking the law by using third parties to disguise donations of £600,000 to Labour.
Mr Mendelsohn, an ex-chairman of Labour Friends of Israel, wrote to Mr Abrahams, a member of the Jewish Labour Movement, last Thursday thanking him for his “help and support over many years” and offering to tell him of Labour’s future plans. MPs questioned whether he knew about Mr Abrahams’ methods, which break the law on political donations.
But the furore had a “whiff of antisemitism about it”, Labour MP Andrew Dismore told the JC. “People are looking for links to Jewish interests and evidence of a Jewish conspiracy. The press are turning every stone to find one.”
The Hendon MP said he did not believe the case would have received such intensive coverage “if it did not involve Jews. The undercurrent of antisemitism is worrying.” Jewish Leadership Council member Brian Kerner said: “I am sure the whole affair will have an
effect on the community.” Describing Mr Abrahams as a “good guy”, he warned: “It has an added effect of antisemitism — it won’t do us any good.”
Paul Usiskin, Labour supporter and co-chair of Peace Now UK, said: “It doesn’t do the reputation of people communally linked to Israel any good to find themselves willingly or unwillingly at the centre of matters to do with politics and money.
“I hope that, in contrast to previous issues of this kind, people do not link historical relations between Jews and financial affairs.”
Board of Deputies chief executive Jon Benjamin said: “There is wide concern in this story and clearly there is a potential for it to turn against us. We have been there before.”
MP Louise Ellman, chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, said the affair was “not a religious issue” but said she would like to see the investigation go ahead “as swiftly as possible”.
Mill Hill Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet, who earlier claimed that his congregant, Lord Levy, was “hung out to dry” by the media, said he would hesitate to draw a parallel between the two events, not least because “Lord Levy had done nothing wrong, while in this case something wrong had been done by all accounts, and admitted by everyone including the Prime Minister”.
Britain's scandal over donations
from Labor Friends of Israel
Prime-Minister Brown and his Labour party minions are indebted to the well-funded Labour Friends of Israel. In fact there has been a long-standing connection between Israel and Labour and Conservative parties in Britain since Israel's creation. It is similar to the workings of the Israel Lobby in the U.S., except with a longer history in support of Israel's relentless persecution of the Palestinian people and covering-up for Israel's violence and terrorizing of the beleaguered Palestinians.
The positions taken by the British government on various matters pertaining to the occupation and devastation of Palestine by Israel and on other issues that concern Israel's relationship and actions toward its neighbours (such as the brutal, illegal war Israel waged on Lebanon and Tony Blair's refusal to condemn Israel's aggression and war crimes) is influenced by the money funneled into the coffers of the Labour Party by the LFI. And just like in the U.S. where the Lobby greases the palms and bends the elbows of Republicans and Democrats, and uses the smear of 'anti-Semitism" to silence the brave few who dare to criticize Israel and unstinting U.S support for it, the corresponding entity in the U.K covers both major parties.
Tony Blair, Bush's puppet, is now supposed to be the "impartial" Middle east envoy who will work for a "just and fair" settlement of the half-century Israeli colonial enterprise in Palestine!!
** Brown under fire over donations **,
BBC News, 28 November, 2007
Gordon Brown is asked if he is "cut out for the job" of PM, and likened to Mr Bean, during heated Commons exchanges.
http://news. bbc.co.uk/ go/em/fr/ -/2/hi/uk_ news/politics/ 7116952.stm
Prime-Minister Brown and his Labour party minions are indebted to the well-funded Labour Friends of Israel. In fact there has been a long-standing connection between Israel and Labour and Conservative parties in Britain since Israel's creation. It is similar to the workings of the Israel Lobby in the U.S., except with a longer history in support of Israel's relentless persecution of the Palestinian people and covering-up for Israel's violence and terrorizing of the beleaguered Palestinians.
The positions taken by the British government on various matters pertaining to the occupation and devastation of Palestine by Israel and on other issues that concern Israel's relationship and actions toward its neighbours (such as the brutal, illegal war Israel waged on Lebanon and Tony Blair's refusal to condemn Israel's aggression and war crimes) is influenced by the money funneled into the coffers of the Labour Party by the LFI. And just like in the U.S. where the Lobby greases the palms and bends the elbows of Republicans and Democrats, and uses the smear of 'anti-Semitism" to silence the brave few who dare to criticize Israel and unstinting U.S support for it, the corresponding entity in the U.K covers both major parties.
Tony Blair, Bush's puppet, is now supposed to be the "impartial" Middle east envoy who will work for a "just and fair" settlement of the half-century Israeli colonial enterprise in Palestine!!
** Brown under fire over donations **,
BBC News, 28 November, 2007
Gordon Brown is asked if he is "cut out for the job" of PM, and likened to Mr Bean, during heated Commons exchanges.
http://news. bbc.co.uk/ go/em/fr/ -/2/hi/uk_ news/politics/ 7116952.stm
http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/uk_news/ politics/ 7114500.stm
BBC News, 28 November, 2007
Property developer David Abrahams says he gave more than £650,000 to the Labour Party using associates' names because of a desire for privacy.... One account of events he disputes is that of Gordon Brown's chief fundraiser Jon Mendelsohn - one of two party officials who admit knowing about the disguised donations.
Mr Mendelsohn has said he only found out about it in September and was determined to put a stop to it. Mr Abrahams says he told Mr Mendelsohn of his funding arrangements at a dinner in April and was told "that sounds like a good idea" - Mr Mendelsohn says this is "fictional".
The two men have a "personal history of past disagreements" , according to Mr Mendelsohn. That appears to go back five years, to when Mr Abrahams was a member of the influential lobby group, Labour Friends of Israel. But earlier in the week Mr Mendelsohn was dragged into the spotlight over the donations when Mr Abrahams rang BBC's Newsnight and read out a letter from him, describing Mr Abrahams as "one of the (Labour) party's strongest supporters".
BBC News, 28 November, 2007
Property developer David Abrahams says he gave more than £650,000 to the Labour Party using associates' names because of a desire for privacy.... One account of events he disputes is that of Gordon Brown's chief fundraiser Jon Mendelsohn - one of two party officials who admit knowing about the disguised donations.
Mr Mendelsohn has said he only found out about it in September and was determined to put a stop to it. Mr Abrahams says he told Mr Mendelsohn of his funding arrangements at a dinner in April and was told "that sounds like a good idea" - Mr Mendelsohn says this is "fictional".
The two men have a "personal history of past disagreements" , according to Mr Mendelsohn. That appears to go back five years, to when Mr Abrahams was a member of the influential lobby group, Labour Friends of Israel. But earlier in the week Mr Mendelsohn was dragged into the spotlight over the donations when Mr Abrahams rang BBC's Newsnight and read out a letter from him, describing Mr Abrahams as "one of the (Labour) party's strongest supporters".
