Request to 'Government Advisor on Antisemitism'

Request to 'Government Advisor on Antisemitism':


Good afternoon,

Please could you respond to my questions as raised earlier in December on Twitter.

I have 'longformed' them below, for easier comprehension, and expanded on some of the shortened questions with examples.

Yours sincerely,

Illinois Cook

1.

What is antisemitism? please define.

2. What is 'growth' of prejudice? - Define and prove growth.

3. What is the role of an advisor on AS?

4. Why is the role 'with' / announced by/ assigned to, created by , paid for by 1 particular political party only, the right wing Conservative Party? [Is that the reason why you never seem to mention AS on, by or from the right, or the Conservative Party's position on AS allies, donors, foreign governments? Why has Labour instituted strict procedures vs AS for its membership, but other parties have not, and have not insisted their members sign up to them anyway? In what ways could the creation of the role be described as linked, other than in terms of timing, to 2019, or to your decision on whether to stand for re-election, rather than any other year, and in what way could it be described as being linked to the fake Labour AS 'crisis' gingered up online by eg. actors including Cohen, Berger etc. as shown in Chris Friel's 'MuralGaga' research, available online, or now in the several documents detailing the smear? - cf 'Bad News for Labour', 'Antisemitism and the Labour Party' - ed J Stern-Weiner. Define your view on the Labour Party and AS, and on the relationship Zionism has with the right of politics and the AS advisor's view on / relationship with Zionism, please comment on the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) view that Zionism is racism and of eg. Mandela, Pappe's and Kasrils' views on Apartheid in Israel, the meaning of Apartheid to you, and the comparison of this with the terms 'racism', and AS. Please comment on Left wing Jewish People who support Palestine and who support Boycotting the Apartheid Israeli regime being commonly labelled AS, and on studies which find AS to be less prevalent on the left and on media relationship to stories of AS including Advisor's view on 'smearing' vs 'evidence' and news selection and other news and presentation bias claims re various main stream media including BBC, and the evidence that was presented by the media during the last few years, the numbers and data relating to people who have been prosecuted for hate speech using current legal system for AS, also the reason for and justification for, the word 'Independent' in your full title, as given today on twitter at least, and the reason you have an @parliament email address] 5. The 'Advisor' role clearly, judging by your tweets, includes 'instigating' an investigation/investigating? Please define investigations which your role as an advisor includes instigating, and reporting systems, funding, regulation, hierarchy or connection to other reports / regulations / bodies / crimes / the courts / enforcement etc.

6. What are your full powers? [I have not heard of an AS prosecutor, or judge, or enforcement, I am only aware of hate crime laws and dodgy libel cases in which celebs or fake and discredited AS orgs like CAA or lawyers like Mark Lewis attempt to out-buy actual anti-racists to leave them with court bills, cf Greenstein, Silver, Heybroek. [what overlap, if any, does the role have with EHRC, the IHRA definition with examples, press and social media companies' own rules on user conduct, the defamation law cf.

The Defamation Act 2013, the 'honest opinion' defence, the 'fair comment' defence. What action if any will you be taking against these and other smearers for their cheapening of AS in order to 'take down' (cf Shai Masot conspiracy) members of the left, who oppose rightwing elements who support the Israeli state and those who oppose Israeli Apartheid or support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions vs the Israeli state.]

7. What qualifications do you have for the role? [Did others apply? Did you play a role against South African Apartheid or other racism or AS previously? - Please describe ]

8. [Define antisemitism in terms of prejudice and racism and actions and private speech and public tweets], and please discuss how I could measure my own prejudices, with regard to human beings.

9. Please talk about your own prejudices, how they could affect the role?

John Mann

@LordJohnMann

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Dec 13

I can this morning announce that as government advisor on antisemitism that I will be instigating an investigation this January into the role of the Canary and other websites in the growth of antisemitism in the United Kingdom. https://twitter.com/supergutman/status/1205296902301990912

illinois cook 

@illi4141

·

Dec 13

Replying to

@LordJohnMann

What is Antisemitism? what is growth of prejudice? Prove growth. What is the role of an advisor on AS? Y is role with 1 political party? Adv. includes instigating an investigatn/investigating? What r your powers? What qualifications?Measure my prejudice. Tlk about your prejudices

  

John Mann

@LordJohnMann

·

Dec 31

Not a civil servant and you don’t pay my salary. But all questions welcome. You can email mannjl@Parliament.uk or you can write a letter.



Update: There has been no proper response, only this :

Illinois Cook <illi41g@gmail.com>	Tue, 31 Dec 2019, 17:15
to Lord, bcc: Chris, bcc: michael, bcc: info, bcc: psc, bcc: me

Yes, so in the new year, perhaps I could get a proper response?

There's nothing in Hansard except one sentence in the Jenrick Statement, and some contributions previous which have no relevance to my questions on your role. 

We have agreed so far that such info should be available, and this could not purely of course be so on the basis of me trapesing round the country asking you a question at every meeting with no prepared info for you to hand over for scrutiny as you must agree?

A full result would most preferably take the form of the info i have asked for to be provided online for public scrutiny, or if it doesn't exist yet, to be provided to myself or the public, and then myself or any interested party being able to ask questions about it. Without having to travel would surely be a more modern and ethical solution at that stage also.

Yours sincerely,

Illi Cook

On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, 16:41 MANN OF HOLBECK MOOR, Lord, <mannjl@parliament.uk> wrote:

Looks like you will need to attend one of the numerous public events - averaging one a week and I suggest you search Hansard for all the detail you want- it’s fully accessible to you.

Happy New Year

John

  

Updated 28 May 2020, no further response from Tsar Mann. Total Fraud.

Further to my 'BBC communication' post in May 2010 re BBC Bias / impartiality, which I updated today

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to me Tue, 20 Nov 2018, 16:56

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