Shock, Horror- did Stephen Pollard bungle?

Interesting to note that "Jihad Watch" doesn't seem to feature on Stephen Pollard's reading list. One has to wonder why. Is it that he believes that the stories that Robert Spencer covers are irrelevant? Or has he been instructed by the Kessler Foundation, which owns the JC, not to frighten The JC's readership?

Does anybody know how The JC in the 1930's responded to Nazism? I would be interested to read JC editorials from that time.

If anybody has access to this info, please post it here.

Try the JC's excellent online archive or David Cesarani's The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841-1991

Unfortunately, I haven't got access to David Cesarani's book. But I assume that the JC in the 1930' must have been a bit more on the ball.

At the moment, it seems to be reluctant to cover the Islamist threat. I think that this is a serious dereliction of duty; the JC is misleading British Jewry by refusing to discuss what is really going on.

Anthony, I think you need to read the JC. A week doesn't go by without some article or another decrying the Islamists.
Also, this ain't the 1930s -- there wasn't as far as I can recall a nuclear armed Jewish state then -- and the Islamists are not the Nazis (the EDL/BNP are though) since they do not have control over a highly advanced militarised state, like Germany was.

But here's what EDL members say about working with the ZF:
‘A friend of mine went with a dozen of his mates … the EDL battered f*ck out of The Ethnics. He said he never saw any ethnics with the EDL and him and the 2 or 3 thousand there couldn’t give a f*ck about Israel or Zionism and all they care about is beating up ethnics and Muslims in particular.’

I think that the situation today is, in many ways, as serious as the 1930's. But of course, there are many differences. History does not "carbon copy" repeat itself.

And of course, Wilders, Geller and Spencer et al are not on The JC's radar. Miriam Shaviv even wrote that Israel should have nothing to do with Wilders.

I am sure they are on the radar -- as nut jobs. And the JC was quite right this week to say that Jews should not get involved with the EDL/BNP.

telegramsam,

Take a look at Robert Spencer's "Jihad Watch".

What % of the articles posted are "nut jobs"?

About 100 or 70 years ago, people like Spencer would have wanted to solve the Jewish Question.

Welcome back BD!! At last someone with one of the sharpest pens on the blogasphere.

Everything you post and your comments to the JC house bloggers is what we want to read. Thank G-d there is someone to take these guys to task and doesn't grovel to them. Made my Sunday reading your links and comments, didn't bother going out for a paper.

I gave up reading the JC because the normal stuff posted here is an insult to our sensibilities.

They definitely lost a lot of readers like myself when they lost sharp writers like yourself and Joshua.

Maybe the advertisers did complain.

In 1936 the history of the Jews of Great Britain may have been very different if they had listened to the so called leaders of the day.

Before the Cable Street riots the Jewish Board of Deputies advised Jews to stay away. The Jewish Chronicle warned: "Jews are urgently warned to keep away from the route of the Blackshirt march and from their meetings.

More here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/sep/30/thefarright.past

Thank G-d the community didn't listen and they stopped Mosley and his Blackshirts. It was a victory for better judgement and should be a lesson to the BOD and the Jewish Chronicle.

Kahina,

Thanks for your support.

I have my doubts, however, that Volvo phoned The JC's advertising dept.. "Where's the Blacklisted Dictator gone? We can't sell our cars without him!"

I believe that the BOD, The JC and The Kessler Foundation (Nicky Saphir?) have together decided that Wilders, Geller and Spencer are beyond The Pale. But even if Pollard thinks that they are wrong, he should, at least, engage with their arguments. Stephen's unwillingness to do so, is an indication that he knows that he is unable to win the intellectual battle.

You forgot to add the Israeli Foreign minister to the list of unmentionables. If you write anything positive about Mr L your post if likely to disappear in a puff, and if you write to the JC newspaper even mentioning the YB party, your letter gets allocated to the bin.

There is an agenda and it's sinister.

Kahina,

British Jewry is treated like imbeciles by the British Jewish establishment. It is as if they are unable to make rational conclusions when presented with what is actually going on. They (the establishment) know what is in the best interests of the "mindless" Jewish masses, who should, of course, only worry their heads about the price of smoked salmon and the freshness of beigels.

Perhaps their logic is that all Good British Jews should be paid up members of the LIb-Cons?