NOVANEWS
Barring of Jewish socialists and anti-Zionists from Zionist meetings
I also asked in my letter to Gardener why it was, that at a meeting at which David Bellamy was supposed to speak, two anti-Zionist Jewish speakers were physically removed from the hall because they had asked questions which were not deemed friendly and from a critical perspective.
Gardener’s response (8th March) is that ‘If someone disrupts an event and does not stop when asked to do so, they will be asked to leave. This is solely due to behaviour, not ideology.’ And pigs, including kosher ones, can fly.
It is well known that the CST is a policeman of Zionist meetings and that its remit includes barring anti-Zionists from meetings and physically removing them if their screening process fails. The action of the CST heavies was witnessed by the Institute of Education’s own security staff. Gardener here has no other option than to simly and blatantly lie.
The CST’s predecessor organisation, the Community Security Organisation, which operated like CST today as a stewards’ organisation, openly barred not merely anti-Zionists but non-Zionist groups like the Jewish Socialists Group from Jewish meetings.
Indeed it was reported in the Jewish Chronicle of 17.8.90., after a complaint by Liberty, that the Board of Deputies had apologised to the ‘left’ Zionist organisation Mapam whose members were also barred! The CSO/CST being so right-wing that they were taken in by the left rhetoric of Mapam.