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“Antisemitism” – the big con

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“Antisemitism” – the big con

Accusations of “antisemitism” have gotten to a level of falsehood today that the expression itself has lost all meaning.

The Jewish community are the most protected group in the UK – per-capita more tax money is spent on their ‘security’ than any other group in the country.

But there is no evidence that proves more hate crimes are perpetrated against them. Muslims actually are the most targeted group in the UK.

The point of per-capita is often raised – but that is irrelevant because the Muslim population is fourteen times larger than the Jewish community in England Wales – and so the actual hate crimes reported against Muslims is exponentially greater.

Example – if there are 10 Jews there would be 140 Muslims. And if we look at the data above, the reported crimes for Muslims to Jews is double – if every 2 Jews are reportedly facing hate crimes from the 10, then every 4 Muslims would reportedly be facing hate crimes from the 140. 2 into 10 is 5 and 4 into 140 is 35 – if we continue the example and assume this is occurring on a daily basis then every day 35 Muslims face reported hate crimes versus 2 Jews.

I will focus on hate against Jews; antisemitism, because that is the only one that is weaponised by Zionists, mainly Jewish Zionist groups and individuals to go after pro-Palestine activists to try to suppress any criticism of Israeli policies and Zionism – They harass, bully and intimidate people – often harassing them in their workplaces and seek to deprive people of a livelihood.

First of all we need to understand that when a report of antisemitism is made to the police – that report is recorded in the official police records which make up the 1,510 reported cases in the chart above.

These reports are not necessarily a crime, they are just a “reported incident” figure – the problem is, this figure is used by Zionists to paint a picture of “rising antisemitism and hate against Jews”.

What does it take for police to record something as an “antisemitic incident”? The short answer, not much at all; as long as someone “feels” something is antisemitic then that is enough to report it as an “antisemitic hate incident”.

“In the UK, if someone reports an incident they believe to be antisemitic, the police will record it as a hate incident, even if it does not meet the legal threshold of a hate crime. The perception of the victim or any other person (such as a witness) is key in determining whether an incident is treated as a hate incident. According to UK guidelines, if the person feels that the incident is motivated by hostility or prejudice based on religion (in this case, antisemitism), it will be recorded as such.

However, recording an incident as antisemitic does not automatically mean it will be investigated as a crime. It may still be classified as a “non-crime hate incident” if no laws have been broken, but it is recorded to ensure that patterns of behavior are monitored”. (Source: Metropolitan Police).

What kind of things are getting reported as antisemitism? Well.. here are some examples…

— Pro-Palestine demonstrators get reported as being antisemitic just for exercising their right to protest.

— Criticism of Israel is reported as antisemitism.

— Palestinian flags being waved are reported as being antisemitic.

— People proclaiming “God is great” is reported as antisemitic.

— “Palestine will be free” is reported as antisemitic.

— Anti-Zionism is reported as antisemitism. Anti-Zionism is a “protected philosophical belief”, there is case law for this now.

Almost anything even loosely related to Jews or Israel can be reported as antisemitic based on one’s ‘feelings’.

The next question is – is this happening, are people abusing the system and making false accusations based on fabrications and lies. The data proves it is happening in mass.

We know, because the key metric to look at is how many of those “reported incidents” result in a conviction – in the UK, when a perceived antisemitic hate crime is reported, the police record the incident, in the following days they assess the evidence, then they decide if they should present the case to a body called the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), and it is then up to them to decide whether to take the case to court or not – if they decide to take the case to court and once the legal process has ended with the judge concluding with a guilty verdict – it is only then can we say a crime has taken place. It is only then can we say a real hate crime against a Jewish person and / or entity has taken place.

We need to understand how many of these “reported incidents” of antisemitism conclude with a guilty verdict (a conviction).

What percentage of “reported antisemitic incidents” result in a conviction?

Around 1 percent!

That is according to Community Security Trust (CST) a largely taxpayer funded organisation exclusively for the protection of the Jewish community.

The CST did report that the percentage of antisemitic incidents resulting in a formal charge or prosecution is very low, around 1%.

This can be cross- referenced and verified with the official police and government records too.

Some say this is due to lack of evidence – but the reality does not back up that argument.

In the cases of “reported antisemitism” the evidence is not hard to find – whether it be online or offline – the online cases are all outlined in written and image form. The offline incidents are almost always happening in front of other people and again depicted a lot of the times by images and physical acts. The lack of evidence argument is a strong argument for crimes like sexual crimes / rape – where a lot of these acts are taking place behind closed doors, away from witnesses or the reach of CCTV cameras. The “lack of evidence” argument with cases of reported antisemitism is negligible.

In 2023, out of all the reported cases of “antisemitic incidents” of 1,510, with a conviction rate of around 1%, means in all of 2023 there were around 15 cases of real hate against Jews.

If we look at the details of the accusations of antisemitism – we can presume the reason for the very low conviction rate is because almost all of the accusations are based on lies, falsehoods, fabrications and a lack of understanding that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. A conflation of the latter accounts for the vast majority of the ‘reported incidents’.

The David Miller case ought to clarify this and prevent these egregious accusations from being made in the first place, they waste much needed public resource and police time, and prevent them from focusing on real crimes.

I fear they won’t cease though, because the Zionist / Israel lobby uses it as a weapon. It has very little to do with a genuine intent of trying to protect those in the Jewish community who are facing real Jew hate.

Probably because, evidently, Jew hate generally and relative to hate against Muslims is very low.

PS – even one case of Jew hate or any kind of hate crime is unacceptable.

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