The decision to prosecute former President of the British Board of Jewish Deputies Greville Janner on 22 charges of historic child abuse means a long hot summer is ahead in London. The surprise new twist comes after an independent QC — senior lawyer — reviewed the case and said that a prosecution go could ahead.

It was a much criticised previous ruling by the government’s chief law officer, that Janner was too ill with Alzheimer’s to be tried, that set off a firestorm of controversy. The law officer’s decision was baffling when it was revealed there were adequate procedures for trying such defendants and they were used quite frequently.

The Occidental Observer amongst others had shown how his senility had not prevented him attending House of Lords debates and speaking or drawing hundreds of thousands of expenses.

But TOO has been the only media outlet to dare to ask whether it was Janner’s position as a leading Jewish politician at the nexus of the relationship between British politics and Jewish power in Britain that protected him. Read more

Despite the well-known Jewish influence, the MSM in the US will often (surprisingly) take a pro-Palestinian tack regarding perhaps the most well-known of the perennial problems in the Mideast. Some of the media feel the need to present different viewpoints (if only to go through the motions?), employ left-wing journalists who are consistently pro-Israel, find fault with J Street but not demonize it, report on the involvement of (outlying) Jews in the BDS movement sympathetically, let the world know about the thoughts of a left-leaning Jew such as Max Blumenthal, and generally note divisions among the Jews.

To a point.

Let’s look at the New York Times, the Grey Lady, the Paper of Record…since that newspaper is Jewish-controlled, yet certainly has never shied away from printing news and opinion that would be considered “not-exactly-pro-Israel,” and on certain occasions has printed what could only be called “anti-Israel” content.

Jack Lew, the first shomer Shabbat Orthodox Jewish Treasury Secretary — indeed the highest-ranking Orthodox Jew in any administration so far — was recently called a “court Jew” by hecklers at a conference organized by The Jerusalem Post.  Lew was attempting to defend the Obama administration’s ‘framework agreement’ with Iran that deals with that country’s nuclear energy and weapons aspirations. Read more

The lack-lustre British general election campaign has been spiced up somewhat with the news of a link between a party leader and one of the greatest murderers of the twentieth century Genrikh Yagoda.

According to the Daily Mail, the  Liberal Democrat party leader Nick Clegg —  who was the Deputy Prime Minister — had an aunt in twenties Moscow who was a Mata Hari-type spy who spread her favours far and wide in the cause of whoever was paying her; entrapping and compromising various paramours including British diplomats and Soviet big wigs.

The Mail alleges that Baroness Moura Budberg worked for the genocidal Jewish Bolshevik Yagoda and may have been one of his sexual conquests. Yagoda was the director of the NKVD during its most bloodthirsty period in the thirties when many millions of ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians and many others were liquidated at his hands.

Jewish ethnicity may have been one of the factors that Clegg’s aunt and Yagoda had in common as Jews who were a tiny fraction of the Russian population, predominated at the top end of Bolshevik society.  They were particularly thick on the ground in the ruthless security apparatus and there has been continued speculation that their genocidal ruthlessness was fuelled by ethnic hatred of Whites.

Thanks to the Toronto Globe and Mail we now know that Nick Clegg is a cousin of the Canadian Liberal Party leader — and ethnic Jew —  Michael Ignatieff. The Huffington Post has described Clegg’s family background as “shrouded in mystery” although it is heavily Dutch and Russian aristocratic.

This would mean that this is the first British general election where all three candidates for the prime minister’s post have varying strong degrees of Jewish antecedence. The incumbent prime minister David Cameron has already boasted of his strong Jewish roots to no less than the Knesset.

But in many ways it is the Jewish roots of Cameron’s closest rival Ed Miliband which are most intriguing. Unlike the other two, Miliband is fully ethnically Jewish and boasts an impressive family pedigree with roots that go deep into Britain’s Marxist world.

Was Ed Miliband’s Trotskyist grandfather involved in the liquidation of White Russians who were opposed to communism?  This intriguing question was asked by one of Vladimir Putin’s closest advisors eight years ago and has never been satisfactorily answered.  Kremlin insider Geb Pavlovsky even said that Ed Miliband may have “inherited” his hatred of Russia from his Polish-born grandfather Samuel.

The Milibands have always played down their family’s Bolshevik past and instead preferred to talk about the dozens of family members from the Polish side who died in the Holocaust. Ed Miliband has always been keen to play up this part of the family history

TOO has already asked whether Ed Miliband’s father Ralph himself was a KGB stooge or whether he just liked the company of KGB agents.  There is no question that in the sixties, intellectual Ralph Miliband moved in the same circles as many Marxist Jews of Russian background. There is equally no question that Britain’s security services were deeply concerned because of  their KGB links, especially abouty a Russian attache called “Lev”, a frequent visitor to the Miliband Hampstead home who was not slow to throw money and gifts around when it came to getting what he wanted.  David Horowitz remembers a ham-fisted attempt to recruit him in the sixties.

In the end this is all history and is overshadowed by one simple salient fact — the Friends of Israel lobby groups are the most powerful in British politics and eighty per cent of Conservative MPs are members of Conservative Friends of Israel.