We appeal to the socialist, anti-imperialist and working class public to endorse this statement. Email us at co*****************@***il.com if you wish to sign this (if the email appears blurred – click on it and it should clear. This is spam protection in many devices).
We, the undersigned, condemn the denunciation of David Miller as “Anti-Semitic’ by Tony Greenstein in his recent diatribe, titled “David Miller has gone from Asset to Liability for the Palestine Solidarity Movement” (https://tonygreenstein.com/david-miller-has-gone-from-asset-to-liability-for-the-palestine-solidarity-movement/) This claims that David Miller is “Targeting Jews and Jewish anti-Zionists” and this is supposedly explained by “David Miller’s Failure to Understand Why Imperialism Supports Zionism and Genocide in Gaza” and is therefore “Anti-Semitic”.
No evidence of anti-Semitism by David Miller, is presented in this denunciation (defined as to hostility to Jews as Jews). The core of the denunciation is of David Miller for supposedly not accepting a particular thesis of Tony’s on the origin of Zionism as a movement. This claims that historical figures such as Lords Shaftesbury and Salisbury were responsible for its creation in the 1840s, and that they were somehow responsible for the existence of the Zionist movement, not prominent Jewish figures like Herzl and Weizmann several decades later, who played the major role in creating a viable movement for a Jewish colonisation of Palestine near the turn of the century.
There is much room for historical debate about these things. Many would consider the claim that these earlier figures were somehow responsible for the creation of the Zionism movement, as unproven if not unlikely. It is not even clear what David Miller’s views on this are, or whether he has considered this issue, but he is still being condemned as ‘anti-Semitic’ supposedly because of this. It certainly does not follow in any case that non-acceptance of such a thesis is ‘anti-Semitic’.
Given the volume and frequency of false and pernicious allegations of anti-Semitism originating from individuals and groups claiming to be on the left, both Jewish and non-Jewish, discussion of the magnitude of opposition to Zionism among Jews and non-Jews is a matter on which free debate is a matter of great importance, for those on the receiving end of Israeli crimes, centrally Palestinians. Attempts to stifle free discussion on this by starting another witchhunt should be condemned.
Nothing in this statement involves endorsing in detail anything David Miller has said or done regarding how to address these issues, who to debate or discuss with, etc. We do however note that David Miller has won a considerable victory for all anti-Zionists with his victory over Bristol University, which unlawfully sacked him for his anti-Zionist views. For this he deserves solidarity and support, not an attempt to start a new witchhunt.
| Name | Location | Status/Organisation |
| Lowkey | London | Rapper |
| George Galloway | Former MP 1987-2024 | |
| Chris Williamson | Derby | Former Labour MP |
| Vanessa Beeley | Beirut | Journalist |
| Kit Klarenburg | Serbia | Grayzone UK |
| Sean Murray | Belfast | Filmmaker |
| Laith Marouf | Beirut | Free Palestine TV |
| Piers Robinson | Berlin | Organisation for Propaganda Studies. |
| Ammar Kazmi | London | Activist |
| Phil Bevin | Birmingham | Independent Writer and Researcher |
| Ian Donovan | London | Marxist activist |
| Consistent Democrats | Great Britain | Marxist political organisation |
| Mark Andresen | Torquay | Marxist activist |
| Paul Collins | Oxfordshire | Marxist activist |
| Mark Rozanov | Ex-USSR | Worker |
| Peter Gregson | Edinburgh | Palestine activist |
| Nasir Khan | Oslo | Marxist, antifascist and anti-imperialist activist |
| Marit Parker | South Wales | |
| Jon De Rennes | Thailand | |
| Faraz Khan | Hillingdon | activist, former Labour member |
| Gareth Murphy | London | Marxist activist |
| Dan Kovalik | United States | Lawyer and activist |
| Matthew Burrows | Liverpool | |
| Daniel Waterman | Netherlands | Former Labour activist |
| Shameen Suleman | Denbigh | |
| Philip Adams | Valencia, Spain | |
| Lina Abu Baker | Journalist | |
| Kay Lawrence | Torfaen | Palestine activist |
| Trish O’ Hara | Newham | Left activist |
| Barbara Sturrock | ||
| Eleanor McNamara | Liverpool | |
| Aine Kenny | Ireland | Journalist |
| Christopher Crookes | India | |
| William Battersby | ||
| John Howley | ||
| Diana Isserlis | Bristol | Marxist activist |
| Krysten Bignand | France | |
| Jason O’Connell | ||
| Anwar Sabar | Southall, Middlesex | |
| M. Moyna | ||
| Diab Issa El-Ali | ||
| Richard Comaish | ||
| Dr Kat Pijetlovic | Lisbon, Portugal | Assistant Professor of Law |
| Shakil Hussain | West Midlands | |
| Asif Kamal | ||
| Maha Hasan | ||
| Marie Lynam | London | Posadists Today |
| International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS) | Components in England, Scotland and Ireland | Campaigning body against imperialism’s anti-Russian Proxy War. |
| Theo Russell | London | New Communist Party of Britain |
| Myriam Chararbaty | Lebanon | Jounalist |
| Cillian McLoughlin | Ireland | Researcher |
| William Murphy | Virginia, United States | Revolutionary socialist |
| Frances Brackley |
I fully support the statement.
Nasir Khan, Historian of Ideas, Marxist, antifascist and anti-imperialist activist, living in Oslo
I support 💯
David Miller is annoying all the right people. Zionism is racist nationalist ideology. He stands on the right side of history.
Few people have been as bold in exposing the cancerous Zionist regime, and it’s pernicious influence. We need to hear more of this.
Agreed.
I stand with Professor David Miller.
This witch-hunt is not about “offense” — it’s about silencing truth.
Academic freedom matters. Dissent matters. And so does justice.
I take it Matthew and Phillip are willing to sign? Please let me know location and status if so.
We are talking about a Professor . To gain such a role this academic must have shown deep understanding and contributions to their field ( in this case Modern History ). As a ( former )Labour Party member who was ( himself ) victimised ( I am mentioned by name in suppressed Forde-EHRC Report ) , ie. silenced by the Zionist Blairite mafia, I would strongly protest against the similar victimisation of Dr.Miller.
I support miller wholeheartedly and I am totally surprised that Greenstein has taken the attitude that he has.
I am fully in support of David Miller!
The whole concept of ‘antisemitism’ needs to be reassessed in the light of the historical change of position of Jews from obvious victims to obvious oppressors. Oppressors do not deserve special protections over and above other groups.
Stop the witch hunt against David Miller.
David Miller is a scholar with extensive knowledge. He is a professor – Why would anyone imagine his learning is not thorough and provable. I am not a scholar and need his opinion to help shape mine. I respect his brilliance and his balance always. Stop silencing scholars – that is a terrible terrible road to take.
Stop the witch hunt! I stand with David Miller.
El McNamara, Liverpool.
Free press and academia . David Miller stood by his conscience- and so do I.
Free press and academia are human rights . David Miller stood by his conscience- and so do I.
Shameless hounding of principled brave individuals is not something we need in our society..
Here’s a response to Tony Greenstein that I posted on his blog. First he dodged all my points and instead misrepresented me as a ‘conspiracy theorist’.
Then he deleted the conversation. I.e. censorship.
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Tony Greenstein – strawman arguments + false anti-semitism smears!
Tony, you wrote: “If ‘antisemitism’ is the ritual accusation of the Zionists why try to prove them correct by attacking Jews as Jews?”
That is a false accusation — an illogical strawman argument. Prof. Miller is NOT doing that. He’s suggesting the exposing of jews who are zionists, NOT because they are ‘jewish’ but because they are ‘zionists’. You have misrepresented him. And his suggestion is fair because all such people are CURRENTLY supporting criminal, illegal activity (viz. war-crimes, terrorism and genocide).
Then you asked:
“Does anyone seriously think that Trump is seriously concerned about Jews or anti-Semitism?”
Yes! I do. Of course he is “seriously concerned”. Some if his kids are married to jewish zionists. His main donors are Jewish zionists. And he is a simple man who can be manipulated by flattery into thinking he will go down in history as a great man if he is a champion for jews and Israel.
You wrote:
“In holding Jews responsible for Israel’s holocaust in Gaza, Miller lets imperialism off the hook.”
I suggest this shows for some reason you are in denial. Of COURSE it is Jews who are “responsible for Israel’s holocaust in Gaza”. What sort of wierd construct of alternate reality have you created in your mind? Who else if not Jews are responsible?
That doesn’t mean “ALL Jews” are responsible. But if you can’t concede that all the people killing innocent civilians in Gaza and the West Bank are ‘jewish’ then you are living in a strange fantasy world that denies basic and obvious reality!
You asked:
“Why should [we] be concerned about Miller’s fans tracking down individual Zionists? “
Well, how about because at the moment they are permitted to act with anonymity and without culpability for their support of state-terrorism, racism and genocide. There are zionists in schools, in Universities, in main-stream-media, in government, in law enforcement and in the judiciary. If we start exposing them then they can no longer use their positions of influence to promote the genocide, and to criminalise and arrest the ones demanding an end to genocide. As it stands currently they can and ARE DOING exactly THAT with impunity. Exposing them and arresting them for THEIR criminal support and involvement of “plausible genocide” would help end that impunity.
You asked:
“are individual Zionists in Britain, many of whom are Jewish, really responsible for what Israel does?”
Yes, of course they are. Holy moly! How else do you think Israel is getting away with genocide? They can do that with western govt assistance and support BECAUSE there are so many, many Jewish zionists in positions of power and influence in nearly all western governments, civil services, judiciary, etc.
Then you wrote:
“The idea that the West supports Israel because Zionists have crept into powerful positions barely merits a response. Are the Christian Zionists in Trump’s cabinet all infiltrators? Is Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State a Zionist infiltrator?”
Wow! I think you are in denial.
Yes, Marco Rubio is a zionist infiltrator! Of course he is!
So is Kier Starmer. He himself has said so! Starmer didn’t get to be UK’s PM by fair nor transparent methods. He got to be PM because he is passionately zionist. Presumably also because his wife is a Jewish zionist and therefore so are his children Jewish and being brought up to be zionists.
Kier Kid-killer Starmar is only PM because Jewish Zionists fixed it for him. And that applies to all the recent PMs. It is no coincidence that ALL the leaders of ALL the main parties have been ‘friends of Israel members. The only one who wasn’t was Corbyn and thus Israel, Mossad and British Jewish zionists betrayed him, smeared him, and destroyed his electoral chances. This is evidence that you can inly get to be a leader of one of the three major UK parties if zionist jews vet you. The same applies in America to a greater degree. Do you really deny this?
You asked:
“Does the German state support Israel and attack Palestine solidarity demonstrations because of Jews?”
Yes! Yes! Yes! You appear to be unable distinguish between ‘some Jews’ and ‘ALL Jews’.
You defended your position by saying:
“Far-right and neo-Nazi groups are happy to support Zionism and Israel, not because they love Jews but because they hate Muslims and love imperialism”.
Correct but that is logical non-sequitur. Do I need to explain why?
You wrote:
“Miller is arguing that Islamaphobia in the West is a product of Zionism and Israel. “the soldiers of Zion have penetrated the security establishment of your state to make its policy.” How they managed to achieve this is not explained. To call this conspiratorial is an understatement.”
Oh boy! 🤦♂️
You have fallen into the deliberately set trap and mind-manipulation that is endemic nowadays.
Tony, Tony, Tony; people and organisations DO conspire. What do you think is going on with all the different nations’ espionage agencies. That is their job to conspire and detect their enemy’s conspiracies. C’mon. Get real! If you seriously believe there are no conspiracies ever and every group, nation, and agency are always acting completely transparently, then you have been deeply duped and deluded.
You ask how. Sheesh! Have you been living under a rock? 😮
They have “managed to achieve this” partly through the entertainment industry: decades of subtly manipulative and suggestive islamaphobic-supporting TV shows, and in the film industry, and in TV documentaries, and computer games, etc.
I stopped reading at this point.
You appear to me to be in denial on this aspect of world events, Tony.
So I suspect my reply will fall on deaf ears. My only hope is that I have given you some cause to consider, if only for a moment.
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Wow! You dodged almost every one of my points and didn’t answer a single one of my questions that I put to you and your position.
You wrote that you “couldn’t be bothered”. Great reasoning skills, Tony.
First you misrepresented me when you wrote: “you thinks it’s all a conspiracy then fine. We disagree.”
Wrong! I don’t think ANYTHING is “all a conspiracy”. You over-simplified what I wrote then attacked your our own over-simplified misrepresentation. Another strawman.
Your whole article on David Miller uses the same fallacious logic.
You claimed: “Miller talks about ‘the global struggle against Jewish supremacism’. In this phrase Miller conflates all Jewish people with the Israeli state like the Zionists”
Again you are misrepresenting him. As I read him, in that sentence he DOES NOT “conflates all Jewish people with” anything.
You replied with this:
“As for Miller, if he’s only interested in Zionist Jews then why go for anti-Zionist ones?”
You then answer with: “Doesn’t make sense does it.”
QUESTION FOR YOU (please at least answer this one):
Where does he do that? Please quote his exact wording where you think he does that?
This is such a great response. Well done.
Jews are a substantial part of the elite in the U.S. and elsewhere, and they are, in general, far more tribal and ethnocentric than other elites, as can be seen (among many other ways) from the formation of organizations like the MEGA group and the fact that the overwhelming majority of Jewish organizations are passionate supporters of Israel as a state by and for Jews. Through AIPAC and many other means, they have worked indefatigably for decades, both openly and secretively, to influence every facet of American society that might be relevant with regard to support for Israel.
As the great Israel Shahak held, American support for Israel is due primarily to Jewish power and chauvinism (is it really necessary to observe that not ALL Jews are powerful and chauvinistic?). The contention that power and chauvinism can never exert influence is fatuous.
Jews all over the world don t want to endorse Zionism and his crimes against humanity ! Are they anti semitics ?? It s a non sense !! Zionism is a political project not a race or a religion !!
I fully support Davide Miller
It is untrue that I deleted anything by Christopher C. I therefore see no need to reply to what he hasn’t submitted to my blog
Asking people to distort reality is called lying. Forcing people to believe anything other than what they see, hear and know is called gaslighting. Starving, butchering and killing 2 million civilians is called genocide. Stop the witch hunt against David Miller.
Fully support David Miller
Fully support David Miller