Some autumn colour in Kew Gardens today:
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The Met have banned a UKIP march through Whitechapel. The call for ‘mass deportations’ had caused “significant community concerns”. Well yes.
On the other hand:
Full text:
They have dressed as terrorists and chanted ancient battle cries warning Jews: “Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews! The army of Mohammed is returning”.
For two years, @MetPoliceUK Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has gaslit Londoners, telling us that he lacked legal powers and that the marches were peaceful anyway. He has spent approaching £100m of our money ‘policing’ these marches by threatening to arrest people like @GideonFalter for being “Quite openly Jewish” and interrogating a man for wearing a “provocative” Star of David necklace.
The Met’s decision about the march in Tower Hamlets, whatever its specific merits or otherwise, was made in response to “significant community concerns.” Our community’s concerns have been so significant that people are avoiding town completely and even emigrating, but that has not swayed the Met’s policy even after two long years.
Enough is enough. This is two tier policing. Sir Mark Rowley must resign immediately or be sacked.
Jews don’t count.
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An unreported scandal, from Julie Bindel at UnHerd:
By now, everyone is familiar with the grooming gang scandal. But few people realise how serious the problem is in London — and those who do are very reluctant to call it out. As we are only now discovering, the capital’s politicians, police and social workers are just as guilty as those pilloried Up North for conspiring to keep this growing threat out of the public eye. Rather than exposing and stopping the trafficking of girls, they have dodged the issue by saying this isn’t sexual exploitation: instead they say the girls are criminals too. They’re being recruited for “county lines”, to move and supply drugs.
Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, produced exactly this deflection at the beginning of the year. Asked directly, by Susan Hall, leader of the Conservatives in the London Assembly: “Just how many grooming gangs have we got in London?”, Khan replied with an unhelpful: “The situation in London in relation to young people being groomed is different to other parts of the country.”
Sadiq Khan deflecting? Surely not.
The really shocking thing, though, is that we have been here before. While Khan keeps his own counsel, Keir Starmer’s grooming gang inquiry, which was resisted for so long, is already falling apart. Members of the initial panel have claimed that the terms of the investigation are already being watered down — expanding to include exploitation beyond the grooming gangs — and cite “a disturbing conflict of interest” regarding the identities of two possible chairs. Fiona Goddard, a member of the panel and a grooming gang victim, sent a searing note of resignation, in which she echoed a refrain which is now too all familiar: “I’m further concerned by the condescending and controlling language used towards survivors throughout this process who have had to fight every day just to be believed.”
As the scandal in London grows, the process for bringing institutions to account is in complete disarray. And last night, a fourth member of the Starmer inquiry resigned: all four women are victims; all four are sick of the continued cover-up. The question for the rest of us is: how can there ever be justice for the abused girls, and retribution for the perpetrators, if public servants such as Khan remain in denial?
They’ll do everything they can to deny the ethnic dimension. That’s been the story from the start – and it’s still the story, in northern towns and in London.
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Reinforcing a point made yesterday, Jo Bartosch at UnHerd – Scrapping NCHIs is not the end of the thought police:
Britain’s unrepentant thought-criminals have cheered following the news that the Metropolitan Police has promised to stop probing non-crime hate incidents. The irony, of course, is that the police never investigated NCHIs in the first place: the entire category is a bureaucratic afterbirth of complaints which failed to meet the criminal threshold for a hate crime. An NCHI is merely a record that someone has taken offence to another’s words or actions.
And that will continue.
The persistence of NCHIs points to a deeper malaise. Today’s officers aren’t merely enforcing laws — they’re policing social orthodoxy. And at a time when every misstep can be shared online, perception matters more than ever. Already this week, a video has gone viral of a Jewish man being told by officers that his Star of David necklace might cause “offence” to pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
British policing rests on the fragile principle of consent — the understanding that the public cooperates because it trusts the police to act impartially. By siding with activists against majority opinion, officers have squandered that trust, alienating the very people whose cooperation they depend on: the ordinary, law-abiding public. The Met’s slippery statement suggests the top brass may, at last, sense the danger. But until they stop policing opinion instead of crime, they risk finding themselves in a country where no one consents to being policed at all.
Though according to the Times, all police forces may soon stop recording non-crime hate incidents:
A review of the police’s recording of non-crime hate incidents has recommended that all forces scrap the practice, The Times can reveal.
The College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council will advise the home secretary that the incidents should no longer be recorded by any force in England and Wales.
An interim report submitted last week to Sarah Jones, the policing minister, urged that the practice be dropped. The final review is expected to be delivered to Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, in December.
That would be good. If it’s a non-crime, then why would the police be involved? Seems simple enough.
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It’s not just here in the UK. In Holland too:
Translation:
At #Erasmus University, a new Dreyfus affair is looming. The target is Prof. #ElenaKantorowicz-Reznichenko. A demonstration against her is taking place on 10/28. In the announcement, she is referred to as “ZIO PROFESSOR.” Her “crime”: she studied in Haifa and worked at the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Israel. Earlier, Muslim Rights Watch leveled the accusation that the professor incites violence against Palestinians, Muslims, and Arabs. Nothing to that effect, a research committee of Erasmus ruled. Moreover, several retweets by Kantorowicz turned out to have been manipulated by a PhD candidate whose aim was to damage her.
It would be deeply tragic if the announced demonstration targeting one single person were allowed to take place. This is a #witchhunt against a meritorious lecturer, solely because of her background. University administrators and politicians must resolutely condemn this expression of disgusting discrimination!
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A couple of reports from Palestine Media Watch.
Hamas is again hiding its terror activities in schools and hospitals, as it did before and throughout the Gaza war. It has also redeployed its security forces across most of the regions of the Gaza Strip that are not under Israeli control, the Palestinian Authority official daily has reported. Moreover, Hamas is not only ruling over the Gazans, but it is auditing the activities of international aid agencies and making them pay taxes to Hamas….
The use in Gaza of civilian institutions, such as hospitals and schools, for terrorist activity was a fundamental part of Hamas’ war strategy. It served two purposes—1) It enabled Hamas to hide its terrorists and weapons in places that Israel could not easily detect or fight; and 2) when Israel did attack the terror infrastructures hidden in civilian surroundings, Israel was condemned by the entire world….
So, while Israel is prevented from attacking Hamas during the American-coordinated ceasefire, Hamas is taking advantage of Israel’s constraints to rebuild its terror infrastructures and rule across the Gaza Strip. In addition to the executions, arrests, and injuring of anti-Hamas forces, which have been widely publicized by Hamas itself in order to terrify any opposition, Hamas is secretly using hospitals and schools to enforce its rule, extorting humanitarian aid, and maintaining its armed presence across most of Gaza — all while protected by the ceasefire.
And, from last week:
Two days ago, Israel released 250 Palestinian terrorists, who had been serving at least one life sentence for murder, for the release of 20 Israeli hostages.
While in prison, the Palestinian Authority has paid the terrorists high monthly salaries, and now 160 new Palestinian terrorist millionaires are walking the streets.
In total, Palestinian Media Watch has calculated the PA paid these killers a total of at least 229,523,000 NIS, or close to at least 70 million dollars.
The Palestinian Authority ensures that it very much pays to slay.
A chart gives the payment details for the released terrorists.
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The grooming gangs enquiry is heading for a whitewash:
Two survivors of child sexual abuse have quit the national inquiry into grooming gangs, citing a “toxic, fearful environment” and a “high risk of people feeling silenced all over again”.
In a resignation letter on Monday, Fiona Goddard said the process so far had involved “secretive conduct” and instances of “condescending and controlling language” used towards survivors.
Goddard, who was groomed and repeatedly raped by a gang of men of Pakistani heritage from the age of 14, expressed concern about the candidates shortlisted to chair the inquiry: Jim Gamble, a former head of the Royal Ulster Constabulary special branch in Belfast; and Annie Hudson, a social worker.
“I fear the lack of trust in services from years of failings will have a negative impact in survivor engagement with this inquiry,” Goddard said. “Having a police officer or social worker leading the inquiry would once again be letting services mark their own homework.
“The shortlisting of these potential chairs shows the government’s complete lack of understanding of the level of failings involved in this scandal.”
A complete lack of understanding that’s been continuing for some twenty years.
Her fellow survivor Ellie-Ann Reynolds, from Barrow, has also made the decision to quit the panel. She said the “turning point” was the “push to widen the remit in ways that downplay the racial and religious motivations behind our abuse”.
In a statement seen by The Guardian, she said: “The Home Office held meetings we weren’t told about, made decisions we could not question and withheld information that directly affected our work. When I asked for clarity, I was treated with contempt and ignored.”
She claimed that one of the candidates for chairing the inquiry had links to Labour that had not been disclosed to survivors and said victims felt they were being manipulated.
Maggie Oliver, the former detective who blew the whistle on the Rochdale child sex abuse ring, told The Telegraph: “It really is another cover-up, another attempt to water down what this national inquiry should be. They’re even trying to expand it to cover child sexual abuse and not grooming gangs — any form of group-based abuse — again trying to muddy the waters and pretend that this kind of offending is not still going on. It is a national scandal.”
And the Telegraph:
A grooming gang inquiry adviser has said that “brown men” should not be blamed for the scandal.
Sabah Kaiser, who is a survivor of child sexual exploitation, said that claiming most of such crimes were committed by Asians was “destructive, distracting, irresponsible” and “not based on evidence”.
The national scandal continues.
Added. Now three down:
A third abuse survivor has resigned from their role in the government’s inquiry into grooming gangs.
“Elizabeth” – not her real name – joined Fiona Goddard and Ellie-Ann Reynolds, who quit the inquiry’s victims and survivors liaison panel on Monday in protest.
In her resignation letter, Elizabeth said the process felt like “a cover-up” and had “created a toxic environment for survivors”.
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From the Times, on the Met dropping charges against Graham Linehan:
The force said: “We understand the concern around this case. The commissioner has been clear he doesn’t believe officers should be policing toxic culture war debates, with current laws and rules on inciting violence online leaving them in an impossible position.
“As a result, the Met will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents. We believe this will provide clearer direction for officers, reduce ambiguity and enable them to focus on matters that meet the threshold for criminal investigations.
“These incidents will still be recorded and used as valuable pieces of intelligence to establish potential patterns of behaviour or criminality.
“We will continue to investigate and arrest those who commit hate crimes — allowing us to comply with statutory guidance while focusing our resources on criminality and public protection.”
“Quietly buried in the Met statement is the fact that they will continue to RECORD NCHIs. Too often, women have been the target of malicious and vexatious reports just for understanding reality and defending their rights.
“What has actually changed? Absolutely nothing. Nice try, Sir Mark Rowley. But, no cigar. Yet.“
Mick Hartley 