Another Holocaust Denier Linked to Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn has been a Patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign since at least 2003. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) was founded in 1982 but almost collapsed in 1998. One of its executive members, Francis Clark-Lowes, helped "resuscitate" it by serving as its National Chair between 1998 and 2001. Later he served as one of its Directors.

Francis Clark-Lowes is a Holocaust Denier and was obsessed with "Jewish power" from the beginning of his involvement with the PSC.

In January 1999 he wrote to his fellow members of the PSC committee urging the PSC to recruit more Jews because "non-Israeli Jews in the West are, as a body, an extremely potent force". In the same note he complained that:

"only rather bland statements follow about the unworthy use of ‘the holocaust’ [his quotation marks], and anything which might conceivably be construed as revisionism is avoided like the plague."

In May 1999 Clark-Lowes told a conference that:

"a cursory review of holocaust literature reveals that most of the books on this subject are written by Jews, and their almost exclusive concern is the suffering of Jews. I ask myself whether this process has more to do with buttressing the ‘fantasy’ ... of Jewish identity than with understanding the nature of atrocity...At the risk of being labelled a revisionist...I want to suggest that there is something wrong with the use of the Nazi atrocities for this purpose...It is for this reason I find it better to avoid the word ‘holocaust’, and to refer instead to ‘Nazi massacres’, or ‘Nazi atrocities’.

In 2000, he wrote to all member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign suggesting that they should engage with Jews because "they are more likely to be interested and to have the power to influence Israeli politics than any other group. Their influence on those in the West with the power to exert pressure where it matters is also likely to be greater."

Clark-Lowes is a close friend of Paul Eisen - the self-declared Holocaust Denier whose events Corbyn has attended. In 2005 when Eisen declared himself to be a Holocaust Denier, Clark-Lowes defended him, writing that "unconsciously or consciously almost all criticism of Israel and support for the Palestinians undergoes a process of amendment to comply with the demands of Jewish power." and that "Whatever the truth about the Nazi atrocities, we agree, I think, that Finkelstein is correct is describing 'the Holocaust' as an industry. To me that industry is a tangible representation of Jewish power."

Clark-Lowes himself eventually came clean declaring "I am proud to call myself a ‘Holocaust denier.’"

Eventually, Clark-Lowes was expelled from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in 2011 and appealed at its AGM in January 2012. In his appeal speech he spoke of the "Holocaust myth" and the need to challenge "Jewish ideology". The members of the PSC voted to uphold the expulsion - although 20% refused to do so.

Jeremy Corbyn was present at that AGM!

So once again Corbyn is faced with awkward questions about his relationship with a Holocaust Denier. When did he become a Patron of the PSC? How many events organised by Clark-Lowes has he attended? How may meetings has he had with Clark-Lowes? When did he become aware that the PSC was being run by a Holocaust Denier?

What explanations will Corbyn come up with to explain yet another association with a Holocaust Denier?

Tony Gratrex of Reading PSC

UPDATE: You can read this post and other similar ones on my new blog "Exposing Anti-Semitism".

Most of this has been reported at Harry's Place before. Tony Gratrex is involved with Reading PSC. He's listed as the contact for them in this pdf. Here he's mentioned as representing them at a branch meeting.

In the original report, Harry's Place revealed who Gratrex thought controlled the media and international banking:

You state that the jews do not control the media but that it is under self censorship.
This is patently wrong and only a cursory glance using the internet will show that a majority of the media is jewish owned or controlled.
During the interview you use the expression "who pays the piper calls the tune" and that is precisely the problem when one considers who controls the international banking system.

Here's another comment, not in the original report, that Gratrex left on an overtly anti-Semitic blog:

Not all adherents to the Torah are enemies of humanity.
You are forgetting the Neturei Karta Jews

Aside from the obvious anti-Semitism of calling all but a tiny handful of Jews "enemies of humanity", one wonders what attracted Mr Gratrex to this particular blog...

Bristol PSC and Cliff Hanley

UPDATE: You can read this post and other similar ones on my new blog "Exposing Anti-Semitism".

Cliff Hanley is the Chair or Secretary of Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Their website is registered in his name and he is also the owner of their Yahoo group, under the username "fagbolt".

He is something of a fan of Holocaust denier Anthony Lawson. He has published two of his videos on his blogs. In his introduction to Lawson's video on wikileaks (which essentially argues that wikileaks was an invention of the CIA/Mossad and by the way 9/11 was an inside job of course) he says:

Anthony Lawson has produced another fine thought-provoking news-bomb

Hanley doesn't just repost extremism from others he also declares it himself. He told a local newspaper that:

Israel is not a true country. It is simply a flawed policy.

And what about Hamas?

Hamas does not want to destroy all Jews. 'All Jews' would include the Israelis who regularly join in the anti-wall, anti-occupation demos with their Palestinian friends, for instance.

But Mr Hanley is not alone among members of Bristol PSC for holding extreme views or indeed liking Anthony Lawson. His video in which he says that Holocaust denial is really "research" into "questionable aspects of the alleged events" is linked to in one message.

Another message is entitled "How the Jewish Lobby Works" and links to a YouTube video of the same name. There are also messages citing material from American Free Press and rense.com.

In this message Mr Hanley links to the (now removed) Facebook group "Third Palestinian Intifada" claiming that:

it's of more than passing interest

The group was removed (at least in part) because it advocated violence and stated:

Judgment Day will be brought upon us only once the Muslims have killed all of the Jews

Another message links to a video entitled "Israeli Terrorism and the Talmud" which opens with a fabricated quote from "Libbre David 37".  No such Jewish book exists but the "quotation" is regularly used by anti-Semites the world over.

Holocaust Denial at Norwich PSC

UPDATE: You can read this post and other similar ones on my new blog "Exposing Anti-Semitism".

Last week, Harry's Place revealed that the former Chair of the West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign runs a website that publishes Holocaust denial. It turned out that he had been expelled as Chair because of it. Now it's the turn of Norwich Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

An article reprinted on the site is taken from the "Israel's stooges" section of the redress.cc website. It was published in 2009 and refers to the appointment of Ivan Lewis as Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The article states:

Mr Lewis is also a trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust, a body founded in 1988 by British pro-Israel lobbyists Greville Janner and Merlyn Rees with the aim of maintaining a culture of gentile guilt and Jewish victimhood in British schools.

More worrying, though, is a video posted on the site entitled "Israeli Apartheid and the Nakba". It was created by Holocaust denier Anthony Lawson. Lawson said in an interview that:

it seems that there is no solid evidence that Germany put in train a plan to systematically murder Jews using gas chambers. I have no doubt that some Germans were as cruel as some of those bombing-raid planners, and that a lot of unnecessary deaths resulted from that cruel streak, which seems to show itself in so many humans, but I do not think that the facts support the planned systematic- extermination scenario that the ever-growing number of Holocaust museums claim was perpetrated by the Germans.

In the video, Lawson states:

All over the world Zionists build museums and memorials to their Holocaust and strive to put people in gaol for what is more properly described as historical research but which they call Holocaust denial or revisionism; an attempt to prohibit enquiry into even the more questionable aspects of the alleged events which took place in forced labour camps during the Nazi era.

While he is narrating these lines, the video shows photos of well-known Holocaust deniers Ernst Zundel, Germar Rudolf, Robert Faurisson, David Irving, Sylvia Stolz and Gerald Toben.

The webmaster of the Norwich PSC site is Khaled Sa'aran. He also works for Norfolk County Council (Children's Services. As the webmatser, he must surely take responsibility for what is published on the site.