“There is Nothing At All Anti-Semitic About His Statement”: Andrew Bridgen Defended by Jewish Israeli Academic Whose Article He Tweeted
Andrew Bridgen, the British politician suspended as a Conservative MP over allegations of being anti-Semitic in a tweet criticising the Covid vaccines, has been defended by the Jewish Israeli academic whose article he linked to in the tweet in question.
Dr. Josh Guetzkow, a senior lecturer in criminology and sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told the Daily Sceptic that as a Jew living in Israel he was “surprised” by the accusations against Mr. Bridgen, because “there is nothing at all anti-Semitic about his statement”.
Mr. Bridgen became embroiled in allegations of anti-Semitism after tweeting on Wednesday morning that the Covid vaccines are “causing serious harms” and the vaccination campaign is “the biggest crime against humanity since the holocaust”.
Shortly afterwards he had the Conservative whip removed – meaning he was suspended from sitting as a Conservative MP and has to sit as an independent – for “crossing a line” in spreading “misinformation about the vaccine” and “causing great offence in the process”.
Tory Chief Whip Simon Hart said:
Andrew Bridgen has crossed a line, causing great offence in the process. As a nation we should be very proud of what has been achieved through the vaccine programme. The vaccine is the best defence against Covid that we have. Misinformation about the vaccine causes harm and costs lives. I am therefore removing the whip from Andrew Bridgen with immediate effect, pending a formal investigation.
John Mann, the Government’s independent anti-Semitism adviser, was unequivocal, saying: “There is no possibility that Bridgen can be allowed to stand at the next election. He cannot claim that he didn’t realise the level of offence that his remarks cause.”
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that he “completely condemn[ed] those types of comments in the strongest possible terms”.
“Obviously it is utterly unacceptable to make linkages and use language like that and I’m determined that the scourge of antisemitism is eradicated,” he told the Commons on Wednesday.
“It has absolutely no place in our society. I know the previous few years have been challenging for the Jewish community and I never want them to experience anything like that ever again.”
The Board of Deputies of British Jews tweeted: “For an MP to suggest that Covid vaccines are the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust is unconscionable. We will be writing to the Chair of the Conservative Party Nadhim Zahawi to express our deep concern and to ask for clarification as to what action will be taken.”
However, Dr. Guetzkow, whose tweeted article details the alarming, recently-released analysis of vaccine adverse event data from the U.S. CDC, said this is a “tempest in a teapot”.
“The hollow accusations against him only distract from genuine examples of anti-Semitism and ultimately hinder attempts to draw attention to them, much like the boy who cried wolf,” he said.
It is clear from the statement by the Chief Whip that Mr. Bridgen’s chief sin is to have criticised the vaccines. Mr. Hart’s statement notably does not mention anti-Semitism, but rather says that Mr. Bridgen is having the whip removed for “misinformation about the vaccine”, which “causes harm and costs lives”, adding only that he had caused “great offence in process”.
The allegations of anti-Semitism therefore appear to be just the opportunity party chiefs needed to mete out the punishment to the vaccine heretic.
What’s worse, as Dr. Guetzkow says, the anti-Semitism allegations are plainly ill-founded and only distract from the real anti-Semitism that continues to harm Jews around the world.
Stop Press: Dr. Guetzkow has pointed out that Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav has been drawing parallels between the extreme and discriminatory public health measures during the pandemic and the Holocaust throughout the the last three years.
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Surely, just detail…. Bet this isn’t reported by the PR team responsible for the attack
Bridgen seems to be Covid’s answer to Saint Paul.
We need a lot more Andrew Bridgens to replace all those silent cowards in Parliament and the ones who prop up this corruption.
Speaking of misinformation
“As a nation we should be very proud of what has been achieved through the vaccine programme. The vaccine is the best defence against Covid that we have.”
Get thee to Wannsee Simon Hart.
That’s got Simon Hart well and truly by the goolies.
Next.
What is wrong with saying the Holocaust is the worst crime against humanity and the Covid response was the next worst.
Well, maybe Stalin’s scourges were second? But I take your point.
Or Chairman Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”.
Or pol pots year zero
Nothing, obviously. But that’s not how this is being reported. It’s being reported as
Andrew Bridgen has been suspended as a Conservative MP for spreading misinformation about Covid vaccination.
It comes after the North West Leicestershire MP posted a tweet that compared vaccines to the Holocaust.
Tory chief whip Simon Hart said the comments had “crossed a line” and caused great offence.
[BBC]
As I already wrote elsewhere: This is the woke establishment going full-scale Life of Brian: Everybody heard Bridgen say Jehova! Stone him! As the statement of the BBC is factually wrong and seriously defamatory, I hope the BBC will end up having to do another embarrassing climbdown of the kind which was inflicted on them when they wrongly accused Cliff Richard of paedophilia.
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Coming to think of this, this doesn’t seem likely because of the careful weaselwording of the BBC statement: They mean to imply (and everybody’s going to understand that) likened but they didn’t actually write it, just compared. And The Holocaust was worse than X is certainly technically a comparison of X and the Holocaust.
So here is the thing. With his very statement Bridgen is trying to force a debate about the issue. And it’s a bit of “check” move. If the government wants to rebut the statement it is left with some difficult options. Say it’s an exaggeration, Stalin, Rwanda, the Killing Fields etc, could all be considered worse. But they’ll never say that because it would be admitting that some harm has been caused and that would spark off precisely the debate Bridgen wants. Deny the vaccines have caused harm at all. That would be equally foolish because it’s not true at all and they know it. Do what they’ve done and attack him back, in this case with absurd trumped up accusations of anti-semetism and whatever else. Deflect attention, make an outrageous accusation and hope there is enough of a pile on on Bridgen to beg them to make it stop. I’m not sure why simply not saying anything wasn’t an option. Maybe they tried for a while and he just wouldn’t shut up and go away, so they’ve dealt with him with option 3. This is why ultimately I have no respect or trust in our system or the people… Read more »
Sounds like a spot on assessment.
Because it’s worse than the Holocaust.
The jabs are going to kill far, far more people than the 2.25-2.5 million Jews murdered by the Germans and their allies.
Indeed. A very sly piece of evasion.
As usual, the hamfisted response has compounded the ‘problem’.
The ‘anti semitism’ allegation is silly.
The ‘misinformation about the vaccine’ disprovable by reference to peer reviewed and published papers.
And Mr Bridgen now has a bigger soapbox.
Good on you, Mr Bridgen. A great pity that there aren’t too many more MPs like you.
Worse than silly. Years of transparent propaganda against “anti-vaxxers” is strongly reminiscent of fascistic anti-semitism. Unthinking hypocrisy.
This is a ‘democratic’ socialist fascist government.
This country has been governed by socialist fascist governments since 1990.
The party whip, the government payroll, is too strong.
This country needs MPs with more independence.
Double their pay and make them more accountable to their constituencies.
Silly, but it’s going onto his Wikipedia page where it will remain.
I’m curious as to how calculated Bridgen’s statement is – whether he chose the words quite deliberately knowing it would bring bigger attention to the issue or whether he was inadvertently giving another example of Godwin’s law.
This is a calculated concerted response from the Establishment to an innocuous remark.
And it is great because it puts the issues firmly onto the political map.
It is now up to as many people as possible to write to their MPs and complain about the silence from them and the cowardice in keeping silent whilst millions have died because of corruption in W.H.O. and government health departments worldwide.
Not to mention the prevailing health fascism.
I’m Jewish and can think of nothing worse than the cry of ‘antisemitic’ by the establishment, whenever a convenient and emotive distraction is needed to evade criticism. Disgraceful, predictable and in boy who cried wolf terms, a very dangerous game to play.
Just to add, I have relatives with connections to North London and who have Jewish friends, I was willing to consider giving Peking Piffle the benefit of the doubt in the 2019 election over concerns of anti-semitism in the Labour party. And I stayed up half the night writing a lengthy post on this forum some months back defending and explaining the existence of the state of Israel. And I completely back your comments.
Correct.
And it isn’t as if our Beloved Leaders have even a reasonable record of action against genuine antisemitism.
The Labia wing of the Uniparty being only the most blatant example.
They have to get rid of Andrew Bridgen because he is bringing a focus on the truth, they the Conservatives and Labour etc cannot allow debate, acknowledgment of any sort regarding the devastating and life changing effects these forced injections have had on hundreds of thousands perhaps millions of lives. Careers, reputations, sources of income and influence will all disappear, the very real possibility of criminal convictions and the disgrace to themselves and generations of their families. So these people will now enter a very literal fight to the death where they will do anything, say anything even to the point of killing people to cover up what they have done. What is being done to Mr Bridgen and to others who have spoken out is only the start.
However they are by doing this drawing greater attention to that which they are desperate to hide.
“Truth is like a Lion, you don’t have to defend it, let it loose, it will defend itself”
These people in Governments and their advisors know nothing about truth, they have lived in dirt so long.
The people responsible have already killed a great many people.
exactly a few more added to the tally won’t matter as long as they can protect themselves.
Terrific post 👍
Let’s just hope that this is the over-sized hand grenade that finally blows the top off this disgusting scandal.
Those complicit need to hang their heads in shame.
Don’t mean to be a stickler for grammar, but I think your last sentence might have about four words too many 😉
Just joking, of course. Far being it from me to decide what should happen to those complicit. Of course, I can’t say what the many vaxxed injured and their families might be wont to do – particularly those pushed, cajoled or coerced into having just one more booster long after knowledge of the harms caused by the vaxx was well known.
😀 😀 😀
Too good to miss.
Having heard first hand some of the coercive tactics used by actual medical staff in hospitals who tried to get patients to have a “vaccine” I know exactly what you mean about my final sentence.
I hope that when it comes to it I can stick to my principles about capital punishment. There could be people who will struggle if they are more directly connected to those that have died from this toxic injection.
Fishy’s criticisms are carefully worded waffle although he drops a major bollock by effectively coming out against free speech. He probably thinks he was being smart in avoiding an ad hominem attack.
As my Dad always says – “always sleep on it.”
Rushing for a place on the podium Fishy comes across as a pissed-off school boy.
Must try harder lad.
Bit dumb of Rishi. People are already leery of him, this won’t win them over. Had he been smarter, he’d say that although he believes the vaxxes are the best thing since sliced bread and are wildly profitable totally safe and totally effective, he does believe that even 1 death due to the vaxx is 1 too many and they must therefore be investigated post haste. And then reference BoJo’s super-vaxx rollout that he was so proud of and indicate that perhaps it was a little too fast. But, too late, Rishi has decided to go down with the vaxx. If BoJo really wants to make a come-back, this would be the place to start. Mea culpa on being too hasty, throw the pharma companies and MHRA under the bus and all the political opponents who still want to pump people full of poison and say he’ll get to the bottom of this ghastly affair and ensure it never happens again. Sure, opportunistic as f-k, but whatever it takes to make the great poisoning stop. MP Michael Fabricant said that if Mr Bridgen’s comment deters people from being vaccinated and causes deaths as a direct consequence, he’ll have blood on… Read more »
Brilliant. Agree entirely 👍
Fishy can’t do anything other than endorse the bioweapon injections – the Narrative has to be adhered to otherwise he, like the previous two PMs, will be removed. He only got the job because when told to jump he asked ‘How high?’
Exactly this.
Comments presently allowed in DT article on this overwhelmingly supporting Andrew.No doubt will be disappeared soon .
Of course it was not anti semitic. The Chief Whip has effectively denied Tory MPs the right to question nthe most disastrous UK policy for decades, and the PM appointed the Chief Whip.
Peterson has been threatened with a struggle session for retraining or lose his license, interestingly recently he has started to speak out against the clot shots/mandates etc…
They’ve been after Peterson for a long time, starting with his standing up to the gender/trans agenda, the only purpose of which seems to be to harm vulnerable people, particularly kids.
Besides the opportunism of crying anti-semitism when it suits and ignoring real anti-semitism when that suits, whether or not a comparison can be made to the holocaust cannot be determined at this point. It has been admitted that all of the vaxxes have led to the deaths of people. First that was denied, until that was no longer possible, so slowly a handful of deaths have been admitted and payments have been made. There have been precious few autopsies and a lot of denial, we have no idea how many people died directly due to the vaxx. It will, of course, ultimately come out that and how people died – cardiac events and cancers undoubtedly leading the way, followed by debilitating neurological and autoimmune diseases. When this has been fully established, as it will be, then we can start totting up numbers. Having administered this toxic garbage to several billion people worldwide, it is not a far stretch to say that over a number of years we may easily be looking at 6 million or more deaths, certainly if they keep pumping this carp into people. All due to governmental malfeasance. The comparison may well be more apt than it… Read more »
Most people on here will have seen the vid clip with the vid clip with Billy:
“Well if we do a good job with the vaccines we can reduce that figure by 10 maybe 15%.”
He was talking about the world population reaching 9 billion and reducing that figure. Let’s say 10% of 9 billion. That is a lot of people.
Given that all of this has been planned years in advance I wouldn’t bet on his “vaccines” not having that 10% mortality baked in. What we don’t know is the time-scale but my money would be on 2030.
It could be that if someone else stands as the Tory candidate in his constituency, he could be elected as an independent. Depends on how switched on the local residents are, but that seat could be a cause célèbre at the next GE, if it’s well organised.
Yes, a poor choice of words for a tweet but the swiftness and severity of the response suggests to me – and I say this as a Jew – that purported anti-semitism (which I do not see here by the way) is being used as a smokescreen when there are growing questions about the vaccines themselves. Debate on this issue should not be limited in any way. It is much too important.
An antisemitic statement would need to be about jews, methinks. And Only the Holocaust was worse than X certainly isn’t one.
“Debate on this issue should not be limited in any way. It is much too important.”
That’s all that has to be said. Everything about these poisonous injections should be up for debate.
I think what this boils down to, as alluded to here by Will, is that nobody had a counter-argument worth a carrot to levy against the nuts-and-bolts substance of Mr Bridgen’s arguments; the arguments condemning his speech as containing “misinformation” obviously hold no water. For example, it is merely stated and not backed up, that “the vaccines are the best protection we have against Covid” and that they have “saved millions of lives” (something that can never be demonstrated to be beyond reasonable doubt).
All they have left in their pitiful arsenal is a spurious, ad-hominem-style claim of antisemitism. Imagining the case that this guy really was a racist intent on trivializing the Holocaust, it STILL would not invalidate the substance of the arguments he put forward in his speech, backed up by real world data!
But he’s not even that… his allusion to the Holocaust was intended to illustrate how tragic a death toll has and potentially will continue to be caused by the vaccine roll-out, by invoking such a comparison with this tragic historical mass-genocide event – not intended to trivialize it!
Exactly right. You posted my thoughts. 🙂 The whole anti-semitic slur is just a farcical, transparent act of desperation to pin something, *anything*, on this MP gone rogue in order to shut him down. They are beyond pathetic in their tactics and showing themselves up to be the devious, democide-loving psychopaths they are. I’ve read tweets by MPs defending the jabs who also previously tweeted about testing positive for Covid despite being multi-jabbed, but all hail the precious Jabs of Doom anyways. Bloody idiotic zealots! Yes they are indeed pitiful because, much like Dr McCullough or Steve Kirsch, nobody will go head to head in an actual, intelligent debate because they have nothing, whereas the aforementioned and their fellow truth-seeking colleagues have all the evidence, the winning hand, and you really can’t do sh*t against that can you? So the establishment scumbags must resort to scraping the barrel-tactics in order to cancel a dissident outlier. Well I hope this now has the opposite effect and Andrew goes on to do interviews with anyone who will give him air time or column inches. May our A.B go viral! But where are Bridgen’s fellow dissenting MPs? The few that took part in… Read more »
You would have to be pretty bloody illiterate to read his remarks as somehow containing Jew-hatred. We have fallen far in terms of anti-intellectualism but not this far. I suspect that this will be part of their undoing. And Andrew Bridgen is certainly becoming part of that..He has come clean about his conduct in the past and he refuses to behave like an imbecile.
“You would have to be pretty bloody illiterate to read his remarks as somehow containing Jew-hatred. “
I very much doubt anyone think he hates Jews. Possibly some people are genuinely offended by whatever he said, but most of those condemning it are just seizing on it as a convenient way to smear and silence him.
He’s over the target. The bastards have got the wind up ’em.
The situation is breaking we shouldn’t torture ourselves about the pace because we won’t have that issue for much longer, quite the contrary. When the general population gets the truth I have no idea where that will lead. Beause if you know how to measure energy, the enrgy that will come from this will just blow things apart, hence the slow and grudging acceptance by the media. And if you are unvaxxed you probably didn’t escape given the profile of these substances. Your life is likely also significantly shortened, you might’ve noticed it already in terms of cardiovascular health. It will certainly lead to a very intersting situation.
The very notion is completely absurd and involves several obvoious category errors. The point being that if this is the best that the enemy can throw then they are clearly on shaky ground and know themselves to be so. Trust me in three months time these people willl be searching for hideouts. The issue is worldwide there will be no safe havens.
The proposition is absurd and makes no sense. You could even argue that his remark is philo-semitic given that he is comparing an issue he cares about to the closest possible parallel he can come up with. Don’t let them shut down your thought processes an inch. That is the real game, essentially to drive us all to mush.
Bridgen could yet be our ‘Winston’
unless the current useless cycle of politics is broken before the next GE our children + the UK has no future
He needs a Rich Person to back him but to stay out of it
The formula to achieve political success very simple
Reform are not the solution
We elect these people, over 600 of them and we have one who might speak out. What does that tell you about the whole situation. And this wasn’t a sublte and clever plan it was obvious from the start. The engineering or remaing behind of the intelliglnt people is also part of the plan, admitted in the 1980s by a French scientist. This is no way to judge people. We carry everyone even if they are retarded because we know that yhe truth is greater than our priorities.
Anti-Semitism is just the initial smear to make people look away, deter them from looking any closer and making Bridgen a pariah. He only cites and, if anything, he, or rather the source, compares the crime with Nagasaki, Stalin’s, Mao’s&co, the Vietnam war, the 500.000 children killed in Iraq that were ‘worth it’ or with Thalidomide&co, but certainly not with the Big H. and, if anything, he is not relativizing the Big H. thereby, but cementing it further on its pedestal. But as the statement of Mr. Hart shows, they fully know that and are basically just using this to put into writing and action that any criticism of the holy gene-therapies is completely verboten. This is, of course, a move now born out of sheer desperation and, as Berenson just remarked, solely made to shield everyone involved from any liability. There is only one thing that is really wrong with Mr. Bridgen and his source’s statement: they might eventually be proven right, personally I think they will, but at the moment, the bigger and biggest crime since the Big H. is the deliberate sabotage of early Covid treatment options and cocktails on the basis of readily available cheap medicines… Read more »
Speaking of Jews and the Holocaust, this 86 year old Jewish lady, originally from Ukraine, is apparently to be forcibly removed from her flat, sectioned in some mental hospital and Covid jabbed against her will, as ordered by a court in Germany. I’ve no idea if something is lost in translation from the original German article but it seems unclear what the hell is going on here. Perhaps any German ( RW, Jaybee? ) poster can shed some light or is it literally what it says here?
“The facts of the case seem unbelievable, because Germany has probably really learned nothing at all from history. Confidants of a Ukrainian-born composer, famous in her homeland, turned to Report24. A court in Stuttgart has decided on a year of forced confinement in a closed psychiatric ward. First, however, the old lady is to be “vaccinated against Covid-19” twice – also with the use of force. An exclusive video shows: She is neither insane nor a danger to herself or others. She is simply afraid for her life.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/vaccination/tomorrow-she-will-be-taken-away-german-court-sentences-holocaust-survivor-85-to-forced-vaccination/
Oh my god!
I can’t watch mogwais video of the old Jewish lady ( it sounds too unreal ) but what could warrant such perverse treatment of her .
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that he “completely condemn[ed] those types of comments in the strongest possible terms”.
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We no longer have a democracy nor legal or human rights. Andrew Bridgen is being attacked for expressing his political/philosophical beliefs – which is unlawful discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. To the extent it inhibits his freedom of expression in Parliament it is a breach of privilege. So much for the Mother of all Parliaments. The House of Lords confirmed that freedom of speech is an English common law right [no need for ECHR or Human Rights Act]. It includes not merely the right to exercise free speech but the right of everyone to know. Per Lord Steyn in Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd [2001] 2 AC 127. “[T]here is a constitutional right to freedom of expression in England … By categorising this basic and fundamental right as a constitutional right its higher normative force is emphasised. These are perhaps some of the considerations which enabled Lord Goff in 1988 and Lord Keith in 1993 to hold that article 10 of the Convention and the English law on the point are in material respects the same.” However, the right to freedom of expression under the HRA is directly actionable. It is a personal right. [HRA s7]. Unfortunately it will not help… Read more »
Welcome to ChEngland. President Xi for our next Prime Minister. Hurrah!
Shutting people up was another feature of the Holocaust. Many were shut up permanently.
A few days ago on GB News Andrew Bridgen asked people who wanted to help to write to their MPs.
So pick your main points well – there are plenty here to choose from and write remembering to confirm you are a constituent.
And if you get no response write again. And again. And again.