I’ve written a piece for the Jewish Chronicle pointing out the discrepancy between the way antisemitic racism is dealt with by the police and the way they deal with other forms of racism, such as anti-black and anti-Muslim racism. I’ve tried to work out why it is that the police consider some minorities more deserving of their protection than others. Here’s the opening section:
The news that the Metropolitan Police has decided to take no further action against an Imam at an east London mosque who led a prayer for the destruction of Jewish homes does not come as a surprise.
But it’s ironic that it should follow so quickly on the heels of Essex Police’s investigation into Allison Pearson for a year-old tweet in which she accused the Met of double standards, saying that officers refused to pose with a British Friends of Israel banner but happily did so with some South Asian men holding up a green and red flag whom she described as “Jew haters”.
In fact, the men in the image were not pro-Hamas protesters celebrating the October 7th massacre but delegates from Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan’s political party, and were posing a year earlier with the Greater Manchester Police, not the Met. But she had a point: why were police officers allowing themselves to be photographed next to men holding up a PTI flag, given the party’s history of tolerating antisemitism? In 2020, PTI’s vice-chairman, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, then Pakistan’s foreign minister, described Jews as having “deep pockets” and said they “control the media”.
In spite of the fact that Pearson deleted the tweet the following day, Essex Police are still investigating her more than a year later. Indeed, it’s been escalated to Gold Command status by the Chief Constable, a category usually reserved for the most serious crimes such as terror attacks. It seems that criticising the police – or accusing the PTI of harbouring antisemites, it isn’t clear which – is a far graver matter in their eyes than calling for the destruction of Jewish homes.
According to the Guardian, the claim that Britain suffers from two-tier policing is a “myth” put about by the “far right”. But as several people pointed out when the newspaper made this charge, the Guardian has published numerous articles accusing the authorities of two-tier policing when it comes to race and sexuality. In other words, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that the police are racist and sexist, but to accuse them of being more relaxed about antisemitism than Islamophobia is a conspiracy theory. Sounds like two-tier reporting.
The fact that you’re less likely to be prosecuted for antisemitism than you are for stirring up other forms of racial hatred is hard to dispute. At the Free Speech Union, the advocacy group I run, we’re currently defending a man who is due to stand trial in February for posting an allegedly Islamophobic video on Facebook. We are also appealing the sentences of two people who received serious jail time for saying supposedly inflammatory things in the wake of the Southport attack.
Contrast their fate with that of the men arrested in 2021 for allegedly being part of a convoy driving through East Finchley and nearby areas in cars draped with Palestinian flags, from which people were heard calling for the rape and murder of Jews. Four were initially charged with using “threatening, abusive or insulting words” that were likely to stir up racial hatred, but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided there was no realistic prospect of a conviction.
What accounts for this double standard? Here’s my conclusion:
We all know the answer, of course. According to the high priests of our new public morality – radical progressive academics, for the most part – only black and brown people can be the victims of racism, with all Jews, including Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent, being considered “white”. This means that in the “pyramid of hate”, antisemitism is ranked far below anti-black and anti-Muslim prejudice.
This is the thinking behind describing Zionism as adjacent to “white supremacy”. It explains the outpouring of sympathy on university campuses across the West for the Palestinian victims of “settler colonialism”. It also accounts for the cognitive dissonance that has led to the emergence of groups such as Queers for Palestine. According to votaries of the woke cult, all “oppressed” peoples need to stand in solidarity with each other, even if one of those “marginalised” groups wants to throw the other off high buildings. They share a common enemy and the people with “deep pockets” who “control the media” are among the “oppressors”.
This thinking has long been entrenched in academia and the mainstream media but the fact that it has now infected the police and CPS is an alarming new development brought into sharp relief in the aftermath of October 7. The police are supposed to act “without fear or favour” and justice is supposed to be blind. We urgently need to restore those principles before we descend into a “two-tier society” in which some minorities enjoy the full protection of the law while others are considered fair game.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The police force at the centre of the Allison Pearson row has not investigated a controversial imam who called for “Zionists” to be destroyed. The Telegraph has more.
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This thinking has long been entrenched in academia and the mainstream media but the fact that it has now infected the police and CPS is an alarming new development
The police force has been corrupted by the Establishment’s mad anti-white ideology of woke marxo-fascism, so much so that it is no longer able to serve the interests of the native peoples of these islands. Indeed, the damage to the police force is now so great that I doubt it can be reformed, which means it will have to be re-built from the ground up. And that cannot be done while our current traitorous Establishment remains in power. We are entering hard times.
Minority Rule in Kiers Two Tier Britain
David Starkey Talks…
https://youtu.be/UCU1QnMr0n8?si=25jDCU0ivAlDjWi9
5 Tiers
-Whites – full force of the ‘law’
-Blacks and non Whites
-Musulmans (everyone’s favorite intolerant moon cult)
-Queers/Trans
-The Elite
2 Tiers would be an improvement.
We are already in the multi tier process.
Plod are corrupt, venal, useless.
Correct, and it doesn’t take much to go from groups of people being derided, to being despised, to being hated, to being eliminated. Look at history, look at the world today.
May be if Jews weren’t committing a genocide against Palestinians, people would be more sympathetic towards them.
According to worldpopulationreview.com the population of Gaza in 2023 was 778,179, and in 2024 it is 800,636.
So what?
They breed like rabbits.
Israel kills them like rabbits.
No mate, thats you pro war zealots… Its YOU that should send your sons to the front line in Israel….
Your’re so wedded to the concept of death and destruction….
The Jews today the other non believers tomorrow, worth a thought.
Yep, and then they will turn on each other, faction against faction.
I am doing something concrete.
I’m educating people like you.
Even Jewish experts on genocide and the holocaust agree that Israel is committing “genocide”.
●”It is no longer possible to deny that Israel was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions”
Professor Bartov, a former IDF soldier, is considered one of the world’s leading specialists on the subject of genocide.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov
●”Yes, it is genocide. This is exactly what genocide looks like”
Amos Goldberg, professor of Holocaust History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, wrote the following article about the situation in Gaza for an Israeli online magazine.
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/prof-amos-goldberg-yes-it-is-genocide/
●”A textbook case of genocide”
Raz Segal is an Israeli who is Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Genocide
https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide
The issue of two-tier policing and justice alongside must be constantly raised via as many media channels as possible. This is a corrosive device and Kneel’s bosses are well aware of the societal destruction these measures are causing so fightback is essential.
On the plus side as two-tier everything is constantly promoted it has the benefit of opening people’s eyes and ears. It is leading to an awakening and while the awakenings might result in further division at least we will have a clearer view of friends and enemies. It is now apparent that those espousing any form of anti-British sentiment will not back down and we in turn must firm up our patriotism and our Britishness.
For those who haven’t yet done so, join the Free Speech Union it is the only organisation with the resources and clout to make a difference and numbers count.
(I am not on commission by the way).
FSU does a good job but it is not enough. We need Reform as well.
I agree but the FSU is the only organisation standing up for free speech at the moment.
But we don’t need a Reform party that’s planning a “Bait & Switch”, swapping out Nigel for a Pakistani Muslim as Leader. Pakistan, Pakistan, recipient of the largest chunk of British Foreign Aid in the world, and yet so many of them are here in top jobs everywhere.
Why Pakistan? Why are they all from Pakistan?
Are we even allowed to notice this, or ask any questions about it?
Speaking of traitors earlier…but this is yet another example of what we’re up against. Look at all these whitey, masochistic mentalists. Why would you have a problem with somebody very reasonably stating that the government should be prioritising the homeless, rather than spending billions on migrants? You’d never ever see this sort of thing in an Islamic country if roles were reversed. We’re surrounded by cultists, and there’s plenty of memberships to choose from;
https://x.com/TPointUK/status/1859296892028371085
Too late, that boat has saiied.
Our police have gone the way of America’s FBI.
Face facts,
The solution is to copy what Trump’s about to do.
Pay attention.
“and anti-Muslim racism.”
What are the racial markers for Islam?
The longer friends of the elites are allowed to break the law without consequences the worse it will get. I am not sure whether the word appeasement implies error or reluctance so I have not used it here.
Elites are enthusiastically favouring groups who hate us and have commitments to destroy us.
All this is do clear that the denials by the elites must cause them much mirth away from view.
I suppose they would argue from a pragmatic point of view if they were being honest. Just the disparity in numbers between different groups means that in order to keep the peace they have to take into account the numbers within the population. But this is problematic, as they are wont to say, for a number of reasons and just reinforces the idea that democracy is essentially the tyranny of the majority. The white working class are considered untermenschen of course. And also it doesn’t explain why they come down so hard on ‘misgendering’ given the tiny number of people that this might offend.
The majority of faiths do not turn to the bomb, the machete, the knife to achieve their aims, therefore there is no risk in persecuting Jews, Christians etc. Possibly that is part of the rationale behind the 2 tier system
Fast tracked graduate entrants?
Will become?
We already are.
Starmer, the CPS, the judiciary, the Police, ‘academia’, and the Blob should be forced to watch videos of 9/11, on repeat, in public, until they get the message [which I’m sure I don’t need to spell out in detail…]
Good news for all Jews: for the fourth time the US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution failed in a vote of 14-1 as every other member of the 15-member Security Council, including the UK, supported the call for a ceasefire.
The resolution demanded “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire to be respected by all parties, and demanded “the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.”
Even though the resolution called for the unconditional release of Israeli hostages in Gaza, the US justified its veto by saying it didn’t make the hostage release a condition for a ceasefire.
The ambassador from Algeria, a non-permanent member of the Council, slammed the US veto. “Today’s message is clear to the Israeli occupying power: First you may continue your genocide. You may continue your collective punishment of the Palestinian people with complete impunity. In this chamber, you enjoy immunity,” said Ambassador Amar Bendjama.
The vote came just a few days after the US criticized Russia for vetoing a Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Sudan. “It is shocking that Russia has vetoed an effort to save lives – though perhaps, it shouldn’t be,” said US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who has cast previous votes to veto Gaza ceasefire resolutions.
(https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/20/us-vetoes-gaza-ceasefire-resolution-at-un-security-council/)