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on January 17, 2025, 5:44 pm
Meet Central Synagogue’s Fascist Rabbi who the Met are using as a Pretext to Ban Protests Outside the BBC
Barry Lerer called on Lammy to Apologise for Suspending 8% of Britain’s Arms Supplies to Israel & Blamed Palestinian Parents for Israel’s Murder of Their Children
Above is an interview by Ben Jamal of PSC with Middle East Eye where he quotes extracts from sermons made at the Central Synagogue.
The synagogue's rabidly far-right Rabbi Barry Lerer and his synagogue have hosted a never ending series of right-wing figures including Michael Howard, Boris's sister Rachel Johnson and Theresa Villiers MP - as well as the mad genocidal ‘journalist’ Melanie Phillips and Campaign Against Anti-Semitism’s Gideon Falter.
Fascist Lerer has as much right to his political views as Nick Griffin and Tommy Robinson but this helps us understand why he has complained to the Met. He totally ignores, not just secular left-wing Jews, but religious Jews who attend the Palestine demos and who are very warmly received.
Since a Novara article this week, the synagogue has taken down the webpages of its sermons, so I have added some extracts from these sermons as footnotes to. Google has a record of all these webpages so any extracts can be confirmed.
Lerer condemns the UN, the International Court of Justice and ends up quoting the equally far right Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, who was trained in a settler yeshivah, to the effect that Israel is going to extraordinary lengths to protect human life.
If after at least 200,000 deaths, including indirect deaths, the deliberate starvation of the Palestinians of Gaza, the deliberate bombing of tent encampments burning their inhabitants alive, Lerer thinks that Israel is taking care to uphold humanitarian law one can only assume that he is a fantasist, a liar or both. Or just a raving loony fascist of the type that used to stick out their right arm.
Either way this is the kind of person the Institutionally Racist Metropolitan Police is relying on to enforce their ban.
Perhaps accusing Palestinians of being ‘human animals’ as Israel’s Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, did, in an echo of Himmler’s description of Jews is upholding humanitarian law? On 9th October Gallant declared:
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” Gallant says following an assessment at the IDF Southern Command in Beersheba.
“We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,”
Or Netanyahu’s comparison of Palestinians with Amalek whom god commanded the Israelites to wipe out to every man, woman or children. Or Bezalel Smotrich’s saying that it is morally right to starve 2 million people. Ctd....
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