IN March 1993, the Anti-Nazi League, the Jewish-aligned anti-fascist group, staged a
300-strong demonstration in London.
Reason: To protest a Jewish cemetery vandalism-desecration — that had never occurred (a cold fact that seems to have been restricted to the private
Jewish-community media).
The scam came to light after a watchman at the
Brighton and Hove Hebrew Congregation’s Florence Road
Cemetery grew suspicious at the march staged by the
Anti-Nazi League to protest an alleged desecration in which it was claimed that many tombstones had been daubed with swastikas.
To account for the lack of such vandalized tombstones at the graveyard it had been explained that “the gardener” had removed them.
The security officer, however, revealed to the Jewish
Chronicle that there was no gardener at the cemetery, and that the records showed no gravestone markings and daubings there for at least 30 years.