There was a cornucopia of naivety, cynicism, virtue signalling, dishonesty on display recently at the launch event for the National Hate Crime Awards, which are ostensibly being handed out later in the year to those who the judges feel are doing their bit to stop ‘hate crime’ or even the emotion of ‘hate’ itself. However a quick examination of some of those who are organising, supporting, working for, attending or interacting with the organisers, shows a large number of the crooked and the naïve, along with a sprinkling of fake charities and even a few Jew and Israel haters.
The event is being organised by the Faith Matters and Tell Mama organisations and at least one of these organisations Tell Mama would easily qualify for the description of ‘crooked’. This group has a long and ignominious history of lying about the numbers of anti-Muslim crimes and for cooking the books when it comes to statistics. They even left a provably fake story, about a woman being attacked in Birmingham because she was Muslim, up on their site for over a year and continued to treat this story as true, even when it had been disproved in the courts. Tell Mama, started by Fiyaz Mughal, is a group in receipt of very large amounts of public money to promote their opinion that there is a large amount of ‘Islamophobia’ occurring in Britain for which the only cure, according to them, is more punitive legal sanctions on those who speak out against Islam, more public money to Islamic groups like Tell Mama and drastic censorship on what people can say about Islam. For doing this sort of activity, Tell Mama get approximately £181,000 per year of our money. But it doesn’t stop there. The amount of public money that has been spent on projects and organisations run by, founded or controlled by Fiyaz Mughal over the last decade is astonishing and adds up to well over a million pounds which Mughal has in the past spunked on such delights as a ‘care for Islamic converts’ project (£100,000), a ‘women’s mosque directory’ (£37,675), a ‘Muslim chaplaincy project (£90,000) along with £397,000 given to Tell Mama in the financial year 2010-11. All these figures come from data obtained from Freedom of Information Act requests by other bloggers and researchers, that this blog has seen. Some call Tell Mama ‘mendacious grievance mongering taqiyya artists’ but others just prefer to keep things simple and call them parasitic crooks. They are so bad that I, along with a growing number of others, am suspicious of anything that Tell Mama, Faith Matters or Fiyaz Mughal himself is or has been involved in. It’s not going too far to say that those who have associated themselves with Tell Mama, such as Peter Tatchell, have ended up being mocked for it and are suffering ongoing reputational damage. Finally on the matter of the finances of the various Fiyaz Mughal organisations: What will be obvious to many readers is that vastly more of our money has been spent on Tell Mama, than appears to have been spent by the police prosecuting Muslim ‘refugees’ suspected of carrying out a brutal gang rape on a young mum in Sunderland. More detail of the money, our money, currently being wasted on Tell Mama can be found HERE
The group most associated with this ‘National Hate Crime Awards that the label ‘naïve’ could reasonably be applied to, would be the idiotic Christian clerics who provide Tell Mama and Fiyaz Mughal with a sort of ‘clerical drag’ that Tell Mama and Mughal can don when needed. They, like the Jewish organisations which have allied themselves with Mughal and Tell Mama, are being used to provide Mughal’s organisations with a cloak of respectability. This association also has the benefit for Mughal and Tell Mama of being a shield against criticism. For example Tell Mama would be only one among many Islamic groups calling for censorship of what British citizens can and can’t say about Islam, but by joining with naïve Christians the management of Tell Mama can point to these clerics and communal figures and say: ‘look others think similarly that it’s right to restrict speech to protect people’s feelings’. Jewish communal figures and groups who are involved with Tell Mama, Mughal’s other groups such as Faith Matters and these ‘National Hate Crime Awards’ are being very naïve about what they are becoming involved in. This is especially so, when groups and companies like the Community Security Trust (CST), The Jewish News and Rabbis such as Baroness Neuberger, end up being mercilessly exploited by Tell Mama and presumably by other Fiyaz Mughal organisations and entities, in order to advance the aims of Mughal’s projects. I see very little long term benefit coming to the British Jewish community from their association with Mughal and his works. For example: If and it’s not impossible, the anger that is growing about this bunch of charlatans and wasters called Tell Mama gets worse and yet more dishonesty from Tell Mama about the number and type of ‘hate crimes’ comes out, which is highly likely, it could leave high profile British Jews and Jewish organisations with a large amount of egg on a large number of faces.
The Christian clerics who assist the various organisations in the taxpayer funded Fiyaz Mughal empire are in a similar but less perilous position, since they are not part of an absolute minority of the population as Jews are. The naïve and foolish Christian clerics who’ve backed Mughal’s various organisations will probably be shunted off to some other post where their idiocies will do less harm should the political winds change against Tell Mama. On the other hand the communal embarrassment for Jews, if and when Tell Mama goes tits up, which is a distinct possibility if public anger at their ongoing funding continues to grow as it is, will be more politically and emotionally damaging for the Jewish community, precisely because we are dealing with so very few people. If Tell Mama are unable to hold back the rising tide of scandals surrounding themselves and their associates, again also a likely possibility; then those who have associated with Tell Mama will have a lot of questions to answer.
The next group involved in the ‘National Hate Crime Awards’ is one that truly and honestly deserves the epithet ‘Fake Charity’. Stop Hate UK give the appearance to the public that they are a grass roots anti-hate organisation that is generously supported by voluntary contributions. However, a study of one of their financial returns to the Charity Commission and other research, published in an article on this site in 2015, shows that this organisation is neither independent nor funded by the public. At the time of the publication of the 2015 article, the Stop Hate UK organisation was being funded by the UK taxpayer through grants. They were not a grass roots organisation in fact they were the very opposite of a grass roots entity. Stop Hate UK grew out of a project set up in 1995 by Leeds City Council called the ‘Leeds Racial Harassment Project’ and had staff which were paid for by Leeds Council. The later changed their name to Stop Hate UK and became a nationwide entity but one that was still in the main funded by taxpayers through government grants. The accounts for the year ending 31st March 2014 show that the Stop Hate UK organisation raised a measly £1,934 from voluntary donations and a whopping £255,637 from grants and contracts the ‘charity’ had engaged in. As you can see, Stop Hate UK is neither independent of government funding or influence and it was not set up independently by private citizens who perceived that there was a need that required filling. Stop Hate UK was initially a creation dreamed up by Leeds City Council, no more no less.
Now we move on to the most concerning aspect of this tale and that is the presence of those who hate the existence of the State of Israel with a passion that is so intense and so rarely aimed at any other nation, that maybe Jew haters is one word that could accurately be used to describe them. If the only country in the world that you can hate with such intensity is the Jewish state, then it makes me wonder what that says about the attitudes to Jews as a people and Judaism as a religious path, that some of these individuals and groups hold?
Information has come into this blog’s possession that show that for a so called ‘Anti Hate Crime’ organisation the ‘Anti Hate Crime Awards’ organisers seem to have a pretty relaxed attitude to those whose hatred of Israel is bordering on the genocidal. One of those who are obsessed with their hatred of the State of Israel is a man called Joseph Willits. He is associated with a rabidly anti Israel group called CAABU and his blog is one that drips with hatred, not just for Israel but for Jews. His writings about how there are ‘Zionists’ in place across Britain’s business sector doing Israel’s bidding is the sort of thing we normally see coming from the neo-Nazis or extremist Muslims. Willits is a man who sees a Zionist conspiracy around every corner, yet he is a man that Tell Mama are prepared to call a ‘human rights’ activist. In a Tweet sent to Willits with regards to the Anti Hate Crime Awards event, Tell Mama said:
Willits is not the sort that many reasonable people would recognise as someone in favour of human rights, he certainly doesn’t seem to care about the human rights of the Israelis for example. Willits is not beyond smearing people who demonstrate in favour of the State of Israel. In one incident, following a demonstration against CAABU, who had invited Richard Falk, a notorious pro-Arab Israel hater, to a meeting at the London School of Economics, Willits smeared Jonathan Hoffman the well known pro-Israel activist, as being ‘not much better than the EDL’. This he did in a Tweet about the demonstration. The Tweet read:
Mr Hoffman considered that he had been defamed by Willits and enquired of him whether his, as in Mr Hoffman’s human rights mattered?
So far Mr Hoffman has not to my knowledge had a reply or an apology from Willits.
Both Willits and his blog and some of the groups that he is associated with are pure anti Israel and anti Jewish poison. With a public record and statements such as Willits has made, I have to question the wisdom and the judgement of Tell Mama in treating this man as some sort of honoured individual?
The presence of Willits and probably others like him in the environs of a Tell Mama-run project should give everyone who is involved or associated with Tell Mama and who is not crooked in some way, some serious cause for concern. It seems to show stupendous naivety and incompetence on the part of Tell Mama in treating Willits as some sort of ‘friend’ and human rights hero. If I was cynical I would say that Tell Mama could be quite happy to smile sweetly at their Jewish supporters and Tell Mama board members, such as Richard Benson, who is ex-CST and head of Board of Jewish Deputies anti-Semitism division, whilst behind their backs giving a free pass to Israel-haters and those who are obsessed with ‘Zionist plots’ such as Willits.
As I said earlier, the policy of Jewish groups and individuals associating themselves with Tell Mama and other projects that have had the involvement of Fiyaz Mughal is not going to end well. At the very least it’s going to end up with the British Jewish community being seen as fools for falling in with a ship of charlatans like Tell Mama. At the very worst, it’s going to end up with members of the British Jewish Establishment supporting and funding, though projects like Tell Mama, those who desire the demise of both the State of Israel and possibly the Jewish people itself. The British Jewish community did not equip themselves with as nearly a long enough spoon as they should have done when they decided to sup with Fiyaz Mughal and Tell Mama.
I don’t know about how this blog’s Jewish readers feel about this but there are a few of us who are becoming sick to death of seeing communal talent and communal resources, of the sort that built up organisations such as the CST and other Jewish organisations, being taken for a ride by well connected Islamic ‘Wormtongues’ like Fiyaz Mughal’s Tell Mama organisation. Groups like Tell Mama are using other groups such as gays, ex-Muslims, Christians and especially Jews, in the same way as gay actors and actresses in the 1940’s had ‘beard’ marriages, in order hide from the public the true nature of their sexuality. Members of other groups are being mercilessly exploited by Tell Mama for the purposes of increasing Tell Mama’s credibility and the credibility of those who are associated with them. The fact that Tell Mama could treat with respect a man who has a rabid hatred of the ancestral homeland of the world’s Jews should cause those Jewish and Christian organisations that are currently deeply involved with Tell Mama to reconsider their support for it.
These national Hate Crime Awards will probably take on, to a large degree, the character of the individuals and the organisations who are closely involved with organising, promoting and running it. As many of the individuals and organisations associated with this project are crooked, naïve, fake or carry about them the whiff of Jew-hate, then we can expect the National Hate Crime Awards to be similarly bent, naïve, fake and highly selective in their condemnation of some types of “Hate” whilst studiously ignoring others.
