He was then given a platform by the Murdoch Sunday Times to claim “I was treated like a criminal for being Jewish. The Met chief must go”. Do go on. “Being Jewish in pubic feels like a brave act. Last weekend I went to Synagogue, as I do most Saturdays. After the service I went for a walk, as I do most Saturdays. It was early afternoon … and I was with five others”.
And? “At Aldwych, we came across the pro-Palestinian protest and we started to cross the road as the front of the march got to us. Suddenly I felt hands on me. I looked around to see a Police officer, who was shoving me on to the pavement. He said: ‘You are quite openly Jewish, this is a pro-Palestinian march. I’m not accusing you of anything but I’m worried about the reaction to your presence’”. Some seriously clumsy language from the Met’s finest.
However, and here we encounter a significantly-sized however, the BBC’s account, while it stresses “Mr Falter … says he was not there to counter-protest”, also notes that the cops told him “You will be escorted out of this area so you can go about your business, go where you want freely, or if you choose to remain here because you are causing a breach of peace with all these other people, you will be arrested”. “With all these other people”.
Falter has, meanwhile, sounded off at length about his experience, and “said Sir Mark [Rowley, Met Commissioner] should resign or be sacked and he claimed ‘racists, extremists and terrorist-sympathisers’ had been ‘emboldened’ by the Met's ‘failure to curtail the marches’”. So who backs him?
It should be remembered that the CAA has significant previous form, from its list of Honorary Patrons including at least six individuals who have either exhibited racist behaviour, used racism for their own ends, or been singularly unwise in their choice of language in areas concerning race, through one of those Patrons hosting a hate preacher at the Commons, to appearing as if it wanted to professionally ruin one of its targets. Enough wasn’t enough.
But recently, Falter and the CAA overreached themselves, putting the boot into Labour leader Keir Starmer when the latter visited the Holocaust Memorial during a visit to Berlin. “It is a matter of decency and long-established convention in Germany that you never stoop to using the Berlin Holocaust Memorial as some kind of a prop” told the CAA. There was more.
“But to incorporate the Memorial as the backdrop for a political clip that does not even mention the Holocaust is an insult”. The blowback came from … Margaret Hodge, Ruth Smeeth, and Lee Harpin. Ms Hodge told “I’m fed up of CAA using antisemitism as a front to attack Labour. Time to call them out for what and who they really are. More concerned with undermining Labour than rooting out antisemitism”. OH WHAT A GIVEAWAY.
So the CAA was out of favour, and out of time, when its head man just happened to be in the same place as a march in solidarity with the Palestinians. Now, a moment of verbal idiocy from the Met has given his organisation a new credibility which it may not totally deserve.
Let’s see all the footage, from the CAA and elsewhere. No pressure, now.
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9 comments:
Oh irony of ironies.
The Zionist-without-qualification Starmer and his fellow Quislings attacked by the same religious nutjobs who helped him into place. That's the same kind of nutjobs caught on Al Jazeera camera bribing assorted "Labour" Quislings. Just as the far right thug Mann just "happened" to be accompanied by a corporate media "news" camera crew when he assaulted Ken Livingstone.
Lest we forget, ALL of these people - Starmer and co included - are the same types who smeared the good and decent man that is Jeremy Corbyn.
And this is the gang of far right scumbags who will form the next Sesame Street government.
I too was reminded of John Mann and the coincidence of the camera crew with him.
That's all very well, Anonymous Eternal, but can we rely on your vote in the upcoming local, mayoral and general elections?
(PS Don't forget your voter ID).
On BBC "News" Falter was unchallenged when he spoke about "lawless mobs".
One more example of BBC sly propaganda. The plot sickens.
Anonymous said...
Oh irony of ironies. my tinfoil is missing again.
01:14.
And yet again you picked it up and put it on. Even at that hour.
20:19.
U alright hun?
Can I make one amendment Tim? CAA were one hundred percent in the right when they called out Starmer for his use of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial in his video. In that instance it was Hodge and co who revealed their tribalism.
That said, it's a rotten "charity" and your article is otherwise spot on.
Nowhere but from him did I hear of the group being called "scum". He said the PC drew the attention of the protesters who started yelling abuse at his group, yet this hasn't been mentioned anywhere.
Surely, if caught on his video or the police bodycam, that would be more proof for his argument, yet he would rather haul the police across the coals.
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