Anmerkungen zu Tommy Robinson

Die Verhaftung von Tommy Robinson schlagenweltweit Wellen, überall rufen sog. Islamkritiker zur Solidarität auf.

Der Autor dieser Zeilen, Mark Gardener, ist Direktor des Community Security Trust (CST), einer Organisation, die in England in etwa die Rolle erfüllt, die der AJC in Deutschland und die die ADL in den USA einnehmen. Und er findet für Robinson in der Times of Israel sehr klare Worte:

Tommy Robinson is not (yet at least) a political leader in the sense of those modern European nationalists whom Sharansky warned against in both London and Jerusalem, but he poses the same questions to our Jewish morality and politics. He has visited Israel and proudly sat on an Israeli tank: but what is Israel for him? Is it the post Holocaust saviour of world Jewry? Is it the modern fulfilment of millennia of Jewish longing? Or, at heart, is it just a really good way of sticking two fingers up at Muslims?

CST, the Board of Deputies and many other Jewish groups have long argued that such nationalism is morally and politically unacceptable. We have explained how racism works, how it feeds off catch all language and how it can begin with one target group but never ends there. I want to address this latest episode from another direction, using the reason why Robinson is now in jail.

The detail of Robinson’s imprisonment is that he deliberately broke very straightforward suspended jail sentence conditions. Last year a judge told him, “turn up at another court, refer to people as “Muslim paedophiles, Muslim rapists” and so on and so forth while trials are ongoing…and you will find yourself inside. Do you understand? Thank you very much.” Despite this, or perhaps because of this, Robinson stood outside a trial, filming those coming in and out, broadcasting it on Facebook and risking the collapse of the trial. So, he was jailed.

Nevertheless, we now hear from his supporters, including some Jews, that Robinson was imprisoned to prevent media coverage of “Muslim” sex grooming gangs and paedophiles. Think for a moment what this means, that (despite the million times you have seen it in the papers and TV news), there is a conspiracy in Britain between our legal system, the judiciary and the mass media to cover up “Muslim” crimes. Why would this be? To somehow better enable a “Muslim” takeover of Britain? Or less sensationally, is it because the ruling elite don’t want you to know what their mass immigration policies have led to?