THEY SHOULD BOW THEIR HEADS IN SHAME

Posted on 31 July 2011 by London BDS| Leave a comment

 

Report by BDS Activist

How times are changing! Now even the Jewish press are condemning the Zionists who counter-demonstrate outside Ahava.

Case in point is the 28 July edition of The Jewish News, a free newspaper that enjoys a large circulation throughout North London. The above op-ed piece, entitled ‘Norway’s nightmare and the EDL’ is about Anders Behring Breivik who killed scores of people in Norway recently in two separate attacks.

The last paragraph reads:

“Breivik had claimed links with the far-right English Defence League. These are (the) same people who march proudly with Israeli flags and who joined the anti-boycott picket outside the Ahava shop in Covent Garden. Those who stood with the EDL or who didn’t tell them to leave should now bow their heads in shame.”

The ultra-right English Defence League (EDL) is funded by London multi-millionaire Alan Lake who denies being linked by The Telegraph newspaper to Breivik. Another EDL link is Paul Ray, a self-described “founding father” of the EDL who now lives in Malta and is the leader of a similar Islamophobic organisation whose blog allegedly provided Breivik with inspiration that lead to his own insane actions. Searchlight Magazine also recently published links between Breivik and the EDL.

As we reported throughout the autumn of 2010, the EDL’s so-called ‘Jewish Division,’ consisting of Kahanist Roberta Moore and a few other assorted lowlife misfits, joined members of the Zionist Federation (ZF) in staging counter-demonstrations outside Ahava. 

Among members of the ZF who happily stood in unison alongside the EDL supporting Ahava were ZF Co Vice-Chair Jonathan Hoffman, Ian Sternberg, a ZF National Council Member in addition to Martin Sugarman, an Exams Officer at Westminster Kingsway College and Chair of the insignificant Hackney Anglo-Israel Twinning Association, as well as numerous other Zionist and Islamophobic miscreants and ignoramuses.

Here are a few images that were taken during the few weeks throughout the autumn of 2010 when the EDL joined the Zionist Federation outside Ahava.

As they say, birds of feather…

Match made in Hell: Kahanist Roberta Moore of the Islamophobic EDL together with Jonathan Hoffman, Co Vice-Chair of the Zionist Federation.

Unnamed Zionist Federation counter-protester (far left) along with Moore, her balaclava wearing friend and other EDL Jewish Division supporters.

Ian Sternberg (right), who's on the Zionist Federation's National Council, campaigning and leafleting alongside Kahanist Moore (back to camera, wearing blue jeans, in front of flag).

Sternberg again (centre), a leader in the Zionist Federation, conferring with Moore (right), then head of the EDL's Jewish Division.

Sternberg (right) - yet again - alongside EDL members supporting Ahava. The sign is being held by an EDL Jewish Division member, the man holding the flagpole and wearing the blue and yellow baseball cap, as well as the man in green standing in front are all EDL members or sympathisers.

A screenshot from an EDL Facebook page publicising a Zionist Federation supported Ahava "buycott" (which failed).

Update:
In November 2010, the EDL stopped counter-demonstrating at Ahava after a continuously low turnout by their Jewish Division.  
In March 2011, it was announced that Ahava’s landlord refused to renew its lease when it comes up for renewal in late September 2011 thanks to the fortnightly pickets, legal challenges, occupations and other direct actions. Human rights activists have vowed to continue their fortnightly protests until the shop is empty.
In June 2011, Jewish Division leader Roberta Moore either resigned or was most likely expelled after trying to forge an alliance with the Jewish Task Force, an American far-right group led by convicted terrorist Victor Vancier and considered too extreme even by the EDL. Moore now confines her activism to walking her dog and spewing her hateful ignorance on blogs.
The Zionist Federation-organised Ahava counter-demonstrations are dismal failures, often drawing fewer than five people.    
Meanwhile, the BDS Movement has gone from strength to strength, showing that a non-violent way exists to persuade Israel to comply with International Law and Universal Principals of Human Rights.
As most aptly stated in The Jewish News,

“Those who stood with the EDL or who didn’t tell them to leave should now bow their heads in shame.” 

Bow their heads in shame is right.

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