British Patriot Jez Turner faces a prison sentence for criticizing Jews

May 20th, 2018

Awake Goy

Sourced from the Jewish website
Campaign Against Antisemitism

NEO-NAZI LEADER JEREMY BEDFORD-TURNER CONVICTED OF INCITEMENT TO RACIAL HATRED OVER “LET’S FREE ENGLAND FROM JEWISH CONTROL” SPEECH, FOLLOWING LANDMARK LEGAL VICTORY WON BY CAA

Moments ago, neo-Nazi leader Jeremy Bedford-Turner was unanimously convicted by a jury of incitement to racial hatred over a speech he gave in 2015 at a demonstration called to protest against the “Jewification” of Golders Green.

The sentence has not yet been handed down.

Private email of Lasha Darkmoon (May 19) to selected correspondents:

I know Jez personally, but only as an online correspondent. We’ve exchanged several friendly emails. A nice guy who wouldn’t harm a fly. I had no idea Jez was a “neo-Nazi”. Never once in his correspondence with me did he mention Hitler or Nazi Germany or say anything even vaguely inflammatory. He was always courteous and restrained, with a sunny disposition and a great sense of humor.

Too bad they’ve manufactured a reason to throw him in prison! When he emerges, he will have have a prison record. He will find it hard to get a job. He will no longer be invited to give lectures. Anyone who associates with him will be regarded as a leper, a neo-Nazi sympathizer. His freedom of speech will be severely curtailed, and he will have to watch every word he says from now on.

And yet we told that it is an “antisemitic canard” to talk of “Jewish power”. Jews are the Eternal Victims, facing endless pogroms and persecutions and fighting back valiantly against shocking calumnies. So we are instructed daily by the mass media.

Apologies for speaking out. I broke my own rule of being a “silent reader” on this forum! I did it for Jez’s sake, because I know he shouldn’t be in prison and that this is a cruel miscarriage of justice. There are others being similarly mistreated right now: Ursula Haverbeck, Monica Schaefer, Alison Chabloz. Who is next in line for the guillotine I shudder to think!

This certainly doesn’t increase our respect for the law.

LD

The article by Campaign Against Antisemitism continues:

The prosecution was blocked for two years by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), forcing Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) into a long legal battle which culminated in the CPS having to reverse its decision not to prosecute Mr Bedford-Turner.

CAA welcomes the verdict and the clear and strong message that it sends that stirring up racial hatred against Jews will not be tolerated, but the key question now is why the CPS got this case so dismally wrong.

In July 2015, neo-Nazis sought to march through Golders Green. Campaign Against Antisemitism stopped their march, and instead they gathered in Whitehall, Westminster in central London, on 4th July. In his speech to neo-Nazis surrounded by police, Mr Bedford-Turner said that:

“…all politicians are nothing but a bunch of puppets dancing to a Jewish tune, and the ruling regimes in the West for the last one hundred years have danced to the same tune.”

Evoking medieval libels which claimed that Jews drank the blood of non-Jewish children, Mr Bedford-Turner told his followers, of whom one third were from the violent extreme-right National Rebirth of Poland group, that the French Revolution and both World Wars were massacres perpetrated by Jews. He concluded that England was “merry” during the period of the expulsion of Jews from England and demanded: “Let’s free England from Jewish control.” The speech was filmed and posted on YouTube, where it remains.

LD: The article neglects to mention that Jez’s reference to England being known as “merry” during the long period of Jewish expulsion was not something Jez made up himself in order to mock the Jews; he was simply referring to a witty and well-known quote by Nesta Webster.

Under cross-examination on Friday, Mr Bedford-Turner defended his speech. Asked about his views on Jews, Mr Bedford-Turner said: “I would very much like them to leave England.” When asked if this applied to Jewish children, he answered: “Ideally, yes”, reasoning that “Jewish power would have no power if there were no Jews.” He also claimed that Jack the Ripper was a Jew but Jewish power covered this up to the consternation of Judge David Tomlinson. Mr Bedford-Turner’s supporters initially enthusiastically filled the public gallery, but their numbers dwindled over the course of three days in court.

Mr Bedford-Turner was only prosecuted because we forced the CPS to defend British Jews, against its will. The CPS was expertly represented by Louis Mably QC during the trial, but though the prosecution cannot be faulted, the CPS itself has behaved appallingly to try to stop this prosecution from taking place. Mr Bedford-Turner was only prosecuted because we forced the CPS to defend British Jews, against its will.

After CAA reported the speech to the Metropolitan Police Service, Mr Bedford-Turner was interviewed by police officers and a file was passed to the CPS, but after more than five months, senior lawyers from the CPS’s Counter Terrorism Division finally confirmed that they would not to prosecute the case. The CPS told us that there was no realistic prospect of a jury finding that Mr Bedford-Turner’s speech amounted to incitement to racial or religious hatred, defined by law as using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour with the intention (or likely consequence) of stirring up racial or religious hatred. CAA’s Chairman, Gideon Falter, who had witnessed the speech, applied for Victims’ Right to Review, but was told by the CPS that he was not a victim and had no victim’s rights.

Faced with no alternative, CAA took the unusual step of issuing judicial review proceedings to submit the CPS decision to the scrutiny of the High Court. CAA was partly motivated by a growing concern that the CPS is failing to take antisemitic crime seriously. 2015, the year in which the crime was committed, was amongst the worst years on record for antisemitic hate crime. Yet of 15,442 prosecutions of hate crimes by the CPS that year, only 12 were prosecutions of antisemitic hate crime. In the years since, as antisemitic crime has surged, the CPS has continued to prosecute only a paltry number of antisemitic crimes.

We have since been told by a source at the CPS that it was the Director of Public Prosecutions who personally interceded to overrule a senior prosecutor who had advised going ahead with the prosecution. Whilst waiting for the High Court to decide whether to allow CAA to proceed, the case was brought to the attention of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Chief Executive of the CPS, but we have since been told by a source at the CPS that it was the Director of Public Prosecutions who personally interceded to overrule a senior prosecutor who had advised going ahead with the prosecution.

In the end, on 6th January 2017, the Hon. Mr Justice Haddon-Cave gave CAA’s judicial review permission to proceed on all grounds and limited CAA’s cost liability to zero. He held that this case “raises potentially important issues for society in this growing area of racist and religious hate crime.” The case was expedited to be held before a Divisional Court of the Administrative Division of the High Court on Wednesday 8th March 2017, but on the eve of the hearing, after more than a year of maintaining that her decision was correct, the Director of Public Prosecutions agreed that the decision should be quashed and taken again by a more senior lawyer.

CAA was represented pro bono by leading counsel Brian Kennelly QC, junior counsel Jamie Susskind, and solicitor David Sonn, to whom we are immensely grateful, and without whom Mr Bedford-Turner would have escaped justice.

Now that Mr Bedford-Turner has been convicted, CAA has been entirely vindicated.

More than half of British Jews believe that the CPS is doing too little to fight antisemitism. CAA’s latest Antisemitism Barometer research shows that following a 45% surge in antisemitic crime and a 36% drop in charging of antisemitic crime:

Almost one in three British Jews have considered leaving the UK due to antisemitism. Only 59% of British Jews feel welcome in the UK, and 17% feel unwelcome. 37% of British Jews have been concealing their Judaism in public.
Only 23% of British Jews think the CPS does enough to protect them. More than half of British Jews believe that the CPS is doing too little to fight antisemitism.

64% of British Jews felt that the authorities were not doing enough to address and punish antisemitism. Only 39% of British Jews have confidence that if they reported a hate crime, it would be prosecuted if there was enough evidence.

For more on Jez Turner, see “The Trial of Jez Turner: A Jewish Witchhunt“, which is an abridged version by Lasha Darkmoon of an excellent article by Andrew Joyce on the Occidental Observer.