Hampsta

For more than 100 years Jewish ex servicemen and women in Hackney have joined the communal Remembrance events. The memorial was actually unveiled in 1921 by a Jewish Victoria Cross medal holder so holds a special place in the story of British Jewry. This year was different because Hackney is now led by the Greens who echo the same Jew obsession as the Nazis. As a small but respectful protest, the Jewish ex servicemen stayed away from the community wreath laying until the Mayor of Hackney and her keffiyeh sporting activist councillors left. A small but heartbreaking rebellion, as Hackney AJEX chair Martin Sugarman, who is speaking here, told me: ‘We did not want to be associated in any way, or be complicit with the scurrilous Jew hatred of the Greens, or in any way be seen to give them credibility in Hackney, we attended the usual ceremony, with our Local branch Standard bearer, outside the church at St Johns's - as we have done for the past 100 years or so with fellow veterans and families - but refused to lay our Star of David poppy wreath. Instead we gathered in our small multi-faith group after the Greens had marched away, and held our own private wreath laying with a short  service in Hebrew and English, for all those who defended freedom and democracy.’