“What can pro-Israel entities gain from backing Tommy Robinson?” asks John Ware in an article this week. “Absolutely nothing,” says the British journalist, dismissing the series of allegations that the far-right agitator, who many hold responsible for the recent riots across the UK and anti-Muslim pogroms, is funded by Zionist groups.
Ware goes on to describe proponents of these claims as engaging in conspiratorial thinking, implying that anyone making a connection between far-right leaders sowing hate and division on the streets of Britain and Zionist leaders are anti-Semites peddling in conspiracy theories about Jewish puppet masters controlling the world.
Ware, who is no stranger to controversy, having produced the contentious BBC Panorama programme on alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and accused by his critics of stoking a witch-hunt against British Muslims, mentions Dr Anas Altikriti. The CEO and Founder of The Cordoba Foundation repeated widely shared claims that Robinson and his financiers are linked to the Zionist state of Israel and that the far-right protest on British streets were retribution for British solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. ….more
