I see the anti-Jewish Methodist blogger is getting desperate with a very sad "with friends like this who needs enemies" tarring British Jews with the English Defence League brush. Any stick to beat the Jews.
But the story is a little more complicated as Joseph W comments on that blog.
One of the leading lights of York Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Terry Gollogly endorsed the rigging of a Jewish Chronicle online poll.
The Jewish Chronicle question was "should Rabbis work with the EDL?" This follows the distressing news that the "English" Defence League whom I have mentioned elsewhere were to demonstrate outside the Israeli embassy and joined by an eccentric Rabbi from California.
The anti Israel lobby thought it would be a weeze to get the JC readers to vote "Yes", giving the impression that Britain's Jewish community were in favour of working with this bunch of racists - provoking exactly the sort of response that our non-too-worldly-wise anti-Jewish semi-official blogger in Methodism now proudly parades.
Terry Gallogly, secretary of York Palestine Solidarity Campaign, says: “People might like to vote in this poll if only to embarrass Hoffie [Jonathan Hoffman] and the Zionist Federation."
Now what has the rantings and dirty tricks of the Secretary of the York Palestine Liberation Front got to do with the Methodist Church?
The Chair of the York Palestine Solidarity Campaign is none other than Stephen Leah. He is a Methodist. No ordinary Methodist.
Stephen Leah was one of the prime movers behind the biased report on Israel which led to the disgrafeful anti-Israel resolution at the 2010 Methodist Conference.
In the report Leah is described as:
Dr Stephen Leah – Peace campaigner with contacts in UK peace and justice community and in Israel/Palestine
No mention is made of his long term connection with the York Palestine Solidarity or his association with someone who would encourage the rigging of an online poll in order to defame Britain's Jewish community.
If Stephen Leah reads this he is welcome to set the record straight.
Did he take part in the Jewish Chronicle poll as suggested by Gollogly?
Has he distanced himself and the Methodist Church which he represents on this issue from this defamatory stunt?
Is he still working with Terry Gollogly?
But to some this won't matter. Last week saw the humiliating failure on an anti-Israel online petiton amongst British Methodists (even though it was signed by someone else involved in the JC rigging scandal).
Now they are scrapping the barrel.
