A British radio host who made numerous vile anti-Semitic statements over four years of broadcasts was sentenced to 32 months of jail last week and banned from broadcasting for ten years, Jewish News reported.
Graham Hart, 69, of Penponds, Camborne, pleaded guilty to eight counts of inciting racial hatred in June. His comments included comparing Jewish people to rats, calling Hitler “the greatest man of the twentieth century,” and denying the Holocaust.
He also labeled Jews who “run everything” as “filth, evil, and not of this world,” and said “it isn’t just the white people who hate the Jews … everyone hates the Jews.”
His comments also incited murder as he said: “The Jews have got to go down, they’ve just got to go down. Let’s get rid of the Jews. It’s time for them to go…I’ve had enough of these people now … the chaos that they cause. It’s always these same people that are behind everything. So, they’ve got to go. That’s the bottom line. How we’re going to do it…I don’t know”.
“I can’t think what else we can do. I don’t want to go with bloodshed but if that’s what it’s going to take, let’s get it done” and “I’m not armed….I wish I was. If anyone in the chatroom or any of the listeners want to send me a gun, it would be nice.”
Judge Robert Linford said Hart “set out to whip feelings of hatred to members of the Jewish faith.”
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) compiled a file of Hart’s comments over the years and transferred it to the police, who opened an investigation.
“The offenses he committed constitute some of the most extreme hatred towards Jews that we have ever encountered,” said Stephen Silverman of CAA. “It is vital that the Jewish community is protected from this man, which this sentence achieves.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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So i’m no expert or tzadik but i’m pretty sure it’s inappropriate to have a cross on YWN.
Anyone that thinks their feelings are more important than their freedom is a fool
What a disgrace the UK has come to, that there is no more freedom of speech. I thank Hashem that I live in the USA where such a case would be impossible. The man’s opinions are terrible, but they are his and he has the G-d given right to express them.
The USA’s founders did not fight to establish new rights for themselves. They fought for the rights they already had as Englishmen. England was a free country, with independent courts that the government had to obey. The problem in America was that it would violate people’s legal rights, and they couldn’t go to England to sue, and the government didn’t recognize the local courts’ authority.
Now America is free and Free England has fallen to fascism.
He will continue poisoning his fellow inmates in prison and certainly continue his crusades after his out in 16months time.
1. Technology gives you options to blur images… 2. but the hypocrisy of a racist Muslim carrying it, that is typical .
To oyyoyyoy: Yeah, the cross picture, that’s the problem.
The guy did get one thing right, which we all should remember: “everyone hates the Jews.”
There ARE christian palestinians, too.