Index to Items concerning the
Board of Deputies of British Jews
and their activities against Free Speech in Britain
THE SINISTER ADVICE OF AN ANONYMOUS expert of the League of Human Rights of the B’nai Brith Canada, writing after the 1996 “Goebbels” débâcle, after analysing why David Irving’s works were so plausible, and hence dangerous: “It is all the more clear why his activities must be curtailed, and why his alleged legitimacy must be eradicated.“ |
The Board of Deputies was established in 1760 as a voluntary association of synagogue representatives; its constitution dates from 1835. Its full name for statutory purposes is “The London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews“. Its 350 members are elected from 200 synagogues and forty Jewish organisations in the U.K.
The Board lists its terms of reference and objects as follows. The Board shall
“Protect, support and defend the interests, religious rights, and culture of Jews and the Jewish community.”
“Defend and ensure the security, safety, well being and standing of British Jews in cooperation with the statutory authorities and relevant parties.”
“Take such appropriate action as lies within its power to advance Israel’s security, welfare and standing.”
“Support and seek to protect Jews and Jewish communities outside the U.K.”
“Initiate, undertake and coordinate research into matters affecting the Jewish community.”
- Interpal, Palestinian charitable fund, sues Board of Deputies of British Jews for libel for calling it terrorist
- BoD’s outrage at Mel Gibson’s film The Passion Of The Christ
- Outrage expressed by Board over British media’s Israel coverage
- Lord Janner allegation reported: “Geville Janner and Little Boys”
- Board’s outrage when the BBC broadcasts anti-Israel poetry
- Publisher Tony Hancock’s acquittal outrages Board
- June 2001: Board sells stolen “ritual murder” manuscript by Sir Richard Burton | Christie’s catalogue offers Burton manuscript | Christie’s catalogue entry | Uproar at failed auction of Burton manuscript on human sacrifice by British Board of Deputies
- Complaint to the Charities Commission about the Wiener Library Ltd withholding documents during the Lipstadt trial
- Board resumes Nazi-style tactics to “persuade” British libraries not to stock Irving books
- Fury of Board at BBC for breaking the anti-Irving boycott
- Board probes Mr Irving’s bank account at Barclays
- Academics threaten to boycott Oxford over Irving speech
- On July 17, 1991 the Board of Deputies asks the German secret service to silence David Irving’s Lectures in Germany. The Verfassungsschutz replies confidentially on August 9, 1991: German and English texts.
- Documents on the Board’s agent Professor Gerald Fleming (real name: Gerhard Flehinger): twenty years of betraying colleagues
- In November 1991 the Board Organises Pressure on Macmillan Ltd., David Irving’s London Publisher, to Violate their Contracts with him |Eye-witness account of a secret meeting at the Board’s London headquarters on December 12, 1991 to plot this pressure | The minutes of this secret meeting (of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Educational Trust)
- Late in 1991 a campaign of organised violence against bookshops begins
- Jun 5, 1992: South African Jewish Board of Deputies reports to Michael Whinge on the successful outcome of campaign against Mr Irving
- “Confidential: David Irving Biographical Information” … the libellous smear Reports, compiled in 1991 and 1992, supplied anonymously by Michael Whinge of the London Board of Deputies of British Jews to Canadian Jews to plant in Ottawa files, June 1992. [See Whinge’s affidavit confessing to this, 1996]
- Discussion by Mr Irving of this mendacious “Intelligence report” planted by the Board of Deputies of British Jews in secret Canadian Government files
- On June 22, 1992, the Austrian Ambassador in London assures the Board that a Warrant is out for the Writer’s Arrest
- Hansard (House of Commons Report) London, July 10, 1992: Glenda Jackson MP asks Government to prosecute Mr Irving
- After the Board decides to destroy Mr Irving’s reputation, it launches an all-out press offensive using “British historian” Gerhard Fleming as a pawn. The Berliner Morgenpost reports, July 14, 1992.[ in German]
- The Board organises a riot outside Mr Irving’s private residence: Allgemeine jüdische Wochenzeitung, July 16, 1992 [ in German]
- Mr Irving’s told Mishcon de Reya, Apr 19, 1999 he loaned a tape of his speech of Sept 19, 1992 to the Jewish Chronicle. The newspaper supplied an illicit transcript to the Board of Deputies, which in turn rushed copies around the globe — it surfaced in Australia
- Campaigning for Mr Irving’s Imprisonment by the Germans, the Board Supplies to the German Embassy in October 1992 a Manuscript. The Embassy thanks by letter on November 9, 1992
- On January 14, 1993, the Board of Deputies of British Jews issues a libellous Press Release Smearing the British Writer
- Possibility of suing Board’s agent Gerald Gable for Libels in a book; a standard Letter before Action is sent to publisher Longman’s in Nov 1995
- February 1996: a Repulsive attempt by international Jewish agencies to Incriminate David Irving in the Oklahoma City Bombing
- March 18, 1996, David Irving warns Anthony Lerman of the Institute of Jewish Affairs against spreading the “Oklahoma” Smear
- David Irving answers the Board’s impertinent questions in 1996
- November 4, 1996: David Irving lodges a formal complaint with the Data Protection Agency about the Board’s illegal use of computerised databases.
- Affidavit by Michael Whinge, “Research Director” of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, November 19, 1996, in which he admits that the Board supplied the lying reports about David Irving to the Canadian authorities.
- The German communist newspaper Antifaschistische Nachrichten,No. 6/1997, repeats the Board of Deputies of British Jews allegations.[ in German]
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- Australian Herald Sun, December 23, 1997: Apology by Australia Israel Publications for David Pryce-Jones article
- May 1998: Board of Deputies of British Jews pleads for funds to aid Deborah Lipstadt’s Defence in Libel Action brought by David Irving
David Irving’s Legal Actions against the Board under the Defamation Act: IndexDavid Irving’s Complaints against the Board under the Data Protection Act (1984):
August 21, 1997: David Irving again Challenges the Board of Deputies and its CST to Provide Copies of their Data under the Data Protection Act
The Smear Campaign Began in 1963