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.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
So if Sweden can do it…..It’s time for the wise words of Gad ‘Obe Wan’ Saad;
”The ultimate form of Suicidal Empathy:
Noble Prospective Immigrant: Please, please, please, please, please, let me into your society. I just want a chance to thrive. Please.
The West: OK, come in.
Noble Immigrant: I hate you. I hate your culture. I hate your values. I hate your religion. I have your freedoms. I hate your liberties. I hate the air that you breathe. I hate everything about you, your ancestors, and your descendants. We shall recreate here the exact society from which we fled. Your society is disgusting.
The West: Oh I see. Thank you for sharing your feedback. OK, so let us see how we can increase immigration from your Noble Societies.”
This guy looks like he’s off to a good start as a British citizen in terms of integrating. The ‘tea towel’ tells me all I need to know, but at least he had the Lord Mayor of Brighton to make him feel right at home;
https://x.com/JackBMontgomery/status/1879203930187665518
Imagine being so grateful and happy to reach your final destination in Europe and be given asylum and safety from the horrors you’ve left behind in your homeland that your first thought is to go out with your pals and gang rape a lone native female? I mean, if that doesn’t scream ”I’m eternally grateful to be here and I intend to learn and respect your customs, contribute and fully integrate into your society” I don’t know what does. And their measly sentences because they were tried as minors is the final insult. Geert needs to deport this scum;
”Four men were convicted in the cruel gang rape of a homeless woman in Helmond about a year ago. The District Court in Den Bosch sentenced three of them to 15 months in a youth detention center, and the other to 12 months, but they each can get three months of their sentence suspended if certain conditions are met. A fifth suspect was found guilty of sexual assault and sentenced to four months in juvenile detention.
The 33-year-old woman was alone on a park bench on December 16, 2023 in the Burgemeester Geukerspark in Helmond. The court surmised the allegations, saying that two of the co-defendants walked up to the woman, bound her, grabbed her under the arms, and dragged her to a grassy area. “She was then pushed to the ground and beaten, her mouth was pressed shut so that she could not scream for help and then she was brutally raped multiple times and in multiple rounds by the [suspects], both vaginally and anally.”
In this case, the four suspects convicted of gang rape were all “unaccompanied, minor foreigners,” the court noted, saying, “they still need a great deal of help and guidance in functioning in Dutch society.” They were also ordered to pay nearly 15,500 euros in compensation to the victim.
The Public Prosecution Service had recommended two years in youth detention against four of the five suspects, with several months suspended on condition. Under juvenile criminal law, the judges presiding over the case could impose a maximum of two years in a juvenile correctional facility for the convicted suspects. They could have added an order to spend a maximum of seven years in a psychiatric facility.
Had the court chosen to punish the suspects as adults, they could have received up to 12 years in prison for rape.”
https://nltimes.nl/2025/01/14/four-convicted-gang-rape-homeless-woman-spend-15-mos-youth-detention
Two years isn’t nearly enough. Deportation must follow.
Certain crimes shouldn’t allow the defence of “I’m only a child”. Stealing maybe; gang-rape: you knew it was wrong, you’re therefore an adult, pay the price.
Yes exactly. I was reading Geert Wilders Twitter page. Everyone up in arms about it, as you can imagine. They’re saying they don’t want to become like England and lots of references to the rape gangs, also the reason they voted PVV was to import less Islam and deport the trash. It’s tricky with a coalition government though. Not sure where these particular migrants are from. Dutch press is bad for paywalling anything worth reading.
The defence were using some BS excuse in court about how them being unaccompanied youths with no adult guidance made them more susceptible to getting into trouble. As if they somehow don’t know basic right from wrong and committing a serious offence like this is inevitable.
I’d like to know if they’re even minors at all and if they presented I.D that was checked. Oldest trick in the book, passing yourself off as a minor because it’s harder to be deported, as well as other perks, I’m sure. We don’t want dirtbags who don’t respect us, don’t appreciate this opportunity they have and can’t even adhere to the laws of the land.
Start the sentence with castration.
€15,000? So, about £12600? Wow.
“they still need a great deal of help and guidance in functioning in Dutch society.”
No shit! Whoever made the above comment, is morally reprehensible. Perhaps if they were subject to a similarly brutal attack, their appeasing attitude may change.
So, it can be done.
Yes. Interesting. How come Sweden has avoided being dragged to the ECHR? What’s the secret? We need it.
Part of the secret could be that “mainstream” political parties in Sweden are happy to work with “populist” parties rather than labelling them far right and refusing point blank to form a coalition with them. AfD are currently in second place in German opinion polls, even if they manage to increase their popularity before the elections in March as get more votes than any other party they won’t be part of the next government as under PR they won’t be able to form a majority government and all the other parties will gang up on them.
Interesting that they call the Sweden Democrats the “anti-immigration” party. Usually those kind of parties are referred to as “far right”.
Funny how one country, Sweden, is the only one to successfully cope with the fake covid terror and immigration. Doesn’t say much about the political/medical quality of the rest
https://x.com/recusant_raja/status/1876956597919842580?t=24LjeqRhm3iifRs28GPQIw&s=19
Oldham news – sort of.
Raja has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of CSE and the complicit politicians.
Well done the Swedes, I wonder how many of their rejects end up in Britain where they will find a warm welcome and benefits galore
Well done to the Swedes. They’ve obviously decided not to allow their country, culture and heritage to be completely destroyed.
Just got to start the deportations now.
Sweden seem to be leading the way in several things over the last 5 or so years.
Joining NATO was a possible blip!
Are they sure it is Swedish government policy stopping the migrant influx or is it that there are more places the migrants would rather go than Sweden? It’s hard for any place to compete for migrants with the free handouts and luxury accommodation provided by Britain.
Sweden has cracked down on asylum seekers and tightened rules around asylum, with hardline immigration policies. This proves it can be done…but there has to be a willingness to do it!
That willingness and determination is fundamentally lacking in U.K. politics, irrespective which political party has been in ‘power’ to date. Two-tier Starmer and his cronies in the House has no intention whatsoever to tackle the massive problem.