Hate plc: UK’s taxpayer-funded hate-crime industry

UK's taxpayer-funded hate crime industry
Gilad Atzmon writes:

In March 2016 the British government pledged £13.4 million to the Community Security Trust (CST), a Jewish body that is committed to fighting hatred against one group only. One would expect that, with all that money, the CST would do its job and curb anti-Semitism. But the miracle is that the opposite has occurred. Just two weeks later, according to the CST’s statistics, anti-Semitism went through the roof.

The Daily Mail reported on 27 July that 767 anti-Semitic hate crimes had been logged by the CST in the first six months of 2017, a 30 per cent rise over 2016. It is the highest figure since statistics were first kept 33 years ago. The CST reported an “unprecedented run of over 100 incidents each month back to April 2016”.

If the British government genuinely wants to fight anti-Semitism it would do better to reinstate British liberal values of universalism and tolerance that go beyond the interests of one group.

This conclusion to be drawn from the CST’s statistics is that the more public money is allocated to fight anti-Semitism, the more anti-Semitic the Britons become.

If this is the case, the cure for British anti-Semitism may be within reach:  to fight anti-Semitism, deprive the CST and similar organisations of taxpayers’ money!

Anti-Semitism is not really a social phenomenon; it is in fact a multi million pound industry. The more we spend on the fight against it, the more incidents are “recorded” to justify further spending.

If the British government genuinely wants to fight anti-Semitism it would do better to reinstate British liberal values of universalism and tolerance that go beyond the interests of one group. If British Jews feel unsafe, they should ensure that they are stripped of their exceptional status. They should insist that they are Britons like all other Britons: protected by the same laws as their neighbours.

In December 2016 the British government decided to step up the battle against anti-Semitism by adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. The IHRA’s definition was designed to suppress any criticism of Jewish politics, Zionism or Israel. Its intent was to make impossible the utterance of any criticism of anything that is in any way Jewish related. Yet, according to the new CST statistics, even this drastic measure didn’t reduce anti-Semitism at all. If anything, anti-Semitism increased sharply since the British government adopted the new definition.

… a growing number of Britons have been subjected to an orchestrated slanderous campaign run by Zionist institutions that are funded by British taxpayer money, such as CST and the Campaign Against anti-Semitism

I would advise both Jews and the British authorities that it is the exceptional treatment of one group that contributes to the growing animosity towards Jewish politics and Jewish lobbying.

But there is another problem that must be addressed. Although it is not clear whether anti-Semitism is actually on the rise, it is certain that a growing number of Britons have been subjected to an orchestrated slanderous campaign run by Zionist institutions that are funded by British taxpayer money, such as CST and the Campaign Against anti-Semitism. (CAA) These organisations attack Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour party, venues, intellectuals, artists, musicians, authors and anyone else they decide has dared to point at Israeli brutality and extensive Jewish political lobbying in Britain.

If Britain still cares for values of tolerance and intellectual exchange, it had better spend some taxpayer money defending its citizens, gentiles as well as Jews, from these foreign bodies. And if Britain truly cares for its Jews, it should protect them from the unfortunate consequences of the CST, the CAA and other Israeli lobbies operating in our midst.

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