By Max Musson:
My attention was caught recently by an article published on the Jewish Chronicle website entitled, “Police pledge to crack down on antisemitic graffiti“.
The article states, “Police are investigating an increase in antisemitic graffiti in Manchester.
“Since October there have been five incidents in Prestwich and Whitefield, areas in the north of the city that are home to large numbers of Jews.”
I wondered what kind of graffiti had been sprayed or daubed as the article does not state what form the graffiti took other than quoting Mark Gardner of the Jewish Community Security Trust, who said: “We would encourage anybody who sees a swastika daubing or has any information regarding who is behind this to report it to the police and to CST.”
I wondered what issue might have caused the anti-Semitic graffiti and thought that the nature of the graffiti itself might provide a clue. I wondered why someone would suddenly be daubing swastikas in the northern parts of Manchester?
I searched online in the hope that there would be images of the graffiti, but none of the results were recent with the exception of the following photograph, which featured in the Manchester Evening News, showing a wall bearing the words, “Free Palestine”.
Now the slogan ‘Free Palestine’ might not be pleasing to British Jews who may have friends and relatives living in Israel, but it does not strike me as ‘anti-Semitic’ and if that is the extent of all of the recent graffiti, it would suggest a massive over-reaction on the part of the Police who have announced extensive measures to reassure Manchester’s Jewish community.
I returned to my online search and this time came up with another image which accompanies an article reporting the recent spate of daubings in the Manchester area, on the website of the European Jewish Congress, as follows:
The photograph shows the slogan “Jihad 4 Israel” sprayed on a shop window, and the photograph is taken from the inside of the shop, looking out through the lettering of the graffiti at an establishment called ‘Moshe’s’ across the street. The photograph therefore conveniently encapsulates the Islamic nature of the culprit, and the Jewish nature and assumed support for Israel of the ‘victim’, but rather too conveniently, however.
What struck me about this photograph is that it appeared incongruous that an Islamic anti-Semite would be both calm enough and stupid enough to coolly stand opposite a Jewish shop or restaurant for long enough to spray the slogan in very neat, back-to-front lettering that would be difficult for passers-by in the street to read.
You see, in order for the slogan to be orienated so that it is the right way around for people looking out through the shop window, it would need to have been sprayed on back-to-front if it was sprayed on the glass from the outside.
It is difficult to believe that the slogan was sprayed in this way for the following reasons:
1. It would be back-to-front as far as the largest potential audience is concerned. Only for people looking out through the shop window would the slogan be the right way around, but it would be the wrong way around for everybody else in the street and everybody looking out through the windows of Moshe’s place.
2. It would be difficult to spray the graffiti both neatly and back-to-front without taking so much time over it that one’s chances of being caught would be heightened to an unacceptable level.
I became interested in the location of Moshe’s place and searched for such an establishment in Prestwich and Whitefield. There is no such establishment in either Prestwich or Whitefield.
I searched again for Moshe’s in the Greater Manchester area, but alas there is no such shop or restaurant in the whole of Greater Manchester. Clearly the photograph which features with the article on the European Jewish Congress website, features an establishment that is situated elsewhere in the world.
I decided to find out where.
After some more Internet searches I discovered that the same photograph of Moshe’s place was used in an article in the London Evening Standard, about anti-Semitic incidents in London in 2009. I also discovered that Moshe’s Kosher Food & Wine shop is located on the Finchley Road in London’s Golders Green, London, NW11 0QB
Having made this discovery, I traced the shop:
I also traced the shop across the street from Moshe’s in order to determine the nature of the building that once had the ‘graffiti’ on its front window.
This building interested me because it occurred to me that the graffiti sprayers may have particularly wanted people in that shop to see the graffiti the right way around. This may have been so important to them that the fact that the graffiti would be back-to-front for everyone else may not have been important.
As you can see, the shop opposite Moshe’s is 774 Finchley Road and a vacant shop, to let, immediately to the left, which I believe is the building from which the photograph in question was taken.
The shop is not the kind of shop that would belong to an important Zionist Jew, the kind of person that the graffiti sprayers would have been targeting particularly, and so there has to be another explanation for the incongruous nature of the photograph taken through the graffiti sprayed window.
Focussing on the sprayed slogan itself, it occured to me that an Islamic anti-Semite would not have sprayed, ‘Jihad 4 Israel’, meaning ‘Holy war for Israel’, but would have sprayed, ‘Jihad Against Israel’, ‘Holy war against Israel’, and an Islamic culprit would not have referred to Israel as ‘Israel’ but as ‘Palestine’.
Taking these factors into consideration, it becomes obvious that the graffiti was sprayed that way around on the shop window and the photograph was taken from inside the shop looking out through the graffiti at Moshe’s place across the road, and deliberately, so that there would be in one photograph, the convenient encapsulation of the Islamic nature of the culprit, and the Jewish nature and assumed support for Israel of the ‘victim’.
NB. I would emphasise here that there is no reason to believe that Moshe’s Kosher Food & Wine were in any way involved in the creation of the photograph in which their shop features. Furthermore, while evidently Jewish, there is no reason to suppose that the proprietors are particularly strong supporters of the state of Israel.
It now appears likely however, that the contents of this photograph have been deliberately staged in order to provide news media with ‘the perfect photograph’ with which to illustrate a story about anti-Semitic daubings, at a time when no actual photographs of anti-Semitic daubings can be found, possibly because the alleged ‘anti-Semitic’ daubings don’t really exist or are so trivial that they will not be sufficient to get readers outraged or excited. My suspicions are that the ‘graffiti’ was probably sprayed the right way around on the inside of the window, which would account for its neatness.
Clearly, organisations like the CST exist only to counter anti-Semitism and therefore they have a need to find evidence of anti-Semitism in order to justify their existence and to keep the Jewish community in a heightened state of ethnocentric tension.
There have been well-documented cases in the past in which allegedly anti-Semitic graffiti has been fabricated by Jewish extremists and it would be deplorable if it were to be found that race relations between Jews and non-Jews were being deliberately aggravated by either Jewish extremists or the news media responsible for this photograph.
Most importantly, news media should employ due diligence in order to ensure that the photographic evidence they produce is in fact genuine. This particularly so, when the use of inflammatory images is likely to incite minority group paranoia and needlessly increase inter-racial tensions.
By Max Musson © 2013
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Florian Geyer
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Very interesting and I don’t doubt the false flag nature of the graffiti in question. I have studied the photos you have posted though and I think that the writing is on the pavement side of the bus shelter in front of the shop window, rather than being on the shop window itself. In the graffiti photo, you can see one of the upright frame sections between two glass panels and also part of the bus shelter roof. The photographer has framed the graffiti by standing in front of the shop window, aiming into the street. I could be wrong though.
Max Musson
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Yes, the graffiti may have been sprayed on the glass panel that forms the rear of the bus shelter, in which case it would not need to have been sprayed back-to-front.
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My criticisms of the words used still stand however and strongly suggest that the graffiti is not genuine.
Steve
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I’m supporting the bus stop theory having looked at it on Google Earth but none the less, the story in the zionist media is at best misleading & would indicate that so called “anti Semitism” is not that much of a problem.
There seems to be a constant need amongst this faction to present themselves as victims so as to disguise their real position in life.
I think this is yet another self inflicted wound.
Crusader66
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Good detective work Max, the MSM cannot and should not be believed and everyone should question what they are being told or taught.
Just recently some British newspapers including The Times, Independent, Daily Mail, ITV and even infowars were going with the Syrian fetus-sniper story which has been debunked here.
The article carries a photo of an alleged x-ray of a fetus with a large caliber bullet in it’s skull but shows no damage to the skull, no entry wound alas another photoshop media job.
British Press Shills for Syria War With ‘Baby Snipers’ Story
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=82671
Richard
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Oy Vey! We’d have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling racial nationalist types!
Michael Woodbridge
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When Martin Luther wrote about the ‘Jewish problem’ in a treatise entitled, ‘The Jews and their Lies’, he asserted that dishonesty is endemic among Jews and proposed a series of harsh ‘remedies’ that make the National Socialist government and the Nuremberg Race Laws of Germany in the 1930s/40s look positively benign.
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While such measures would appear overly harsh and extreme in the modern day, and would certainly not be deserved by most Jews, there would appear to be a vocal minority amongst the Jewish community and their friends in the media, with a propensity for over exaggeration, if not downright falsehood.
frederickdixon
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“…there is no reason to suppose that the proprietors are particularly strong supporters of the state of Israel”. Well no, but in my experience of Jews – including personal friendship – almost all ARE strong supporters of the state of Israel. which they regard as their real country. I don’t blame them for their love of Israel, but I do wonder if their considerable influence is always exercised in the interests of Britain first? (I think I know the answer!).
Great piece of detective work, Max.
AAA
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Isn’t “Free Palestine” actually pro-Semitic in light of the hidden fact that Palestinians are also Semites?
Steve
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Yes it is & anti zionist at the same time but of course this lobby always describe critics as anti Semitic even when they themselves are not Semites by any stretch of the imagination.
Hypocrisy, they do it so well.
Kenny Bryant
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It’s on the shop window – take a butchers at the J & L where they ‘cover’ the bus shelter frame.
Florian Geyer
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It’s can’t be on the shop window. You can see the reflection of the rectangular beading which is present on the wooden panels below the shop window. You can see it to the left of the “I” in Israel.
Crusader66
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Not sure about that because where the graffiti overlaps the frame.
Steve
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You’re looking through the glass panel at the back to the front of the shelter & you can see the squared bus information dot matrix directly above on the underneath of the roof.
On the right of the picture you can see the silver car reflected in the glass of the side panel of the bus shelter.