Vile ‘prayer’ that attacked Queen and Parliament
THE Left- wing Jewish group behind a controversial Passover dinner attended by Jeremy Corbyn published an offensive prayer about the Royal Family and called for Parliament to be burnt down.
Jewdas has dismissed complaints of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party as ‘a malicious ploy to remove the leader of the Opposition’.
Since it was established in 2005, it has produced a raft of offensive material and even staged a satirical event celebrating ‘the glorious relationship between Jews and money’ in 2007.
The Daily Mail can today reveal that last year Jewdas published a ‘Prayer against the State of Israel’ that ended by saying: ‘F*** the Queen and especially f*** Prince Philip. Burn down Parliament. Full Communism. Amen.’
It also included the line: ‘Please God, smash the State of Israel. Smash it in the abundance of your love.’
Jewdas describes itself as a ‘radical’ and ‘alternative’ group for Jews.
In a statement posted on its website after the protest against anti-Semitism by Jewish community groups in Westminster, it wrote: ‘What has happened over the last week is anything but an attempt to address anti-Semitism.
‘It is the work of cynical manipulations by people whose express loyalty is to the Conservative Party and the Right wing of the Labour Party. It is a malicious ploy to remove the leader of the Opposition and put a stop to the possibility of a socialist government.’
It accused the Board of Deputies, Jewish Leadership Council and Jewish Labour Movement of ‘playing a dangerous game with people’s lives’.
‘In the build-up to local elections where Labour were expected to make significant gains, they have turned rumours and half-truths into a narrative that pretends another Holocaust is round the corner in Britain,’ Jewdas added. ‘Unfortunately, some fools even believe them.’
Joseph Finlay, who co-founded Jewdas in 2005, said in a 2016 interview with Vice magazine: ‘It’s a radical diaspora Jewish group that has taken an explicitly non-Zionist stance, alongside satirising the many absurdities of the British Jewish community and throwing excellent parties – 11 years later it is still standing, providing space for diasporic, radical and progressive Jews in the UK who do not feel catered for by the Jewish mainstream.’
Its first event, Punk Purim, was a party held in a rundown squat with posters of a rabbi smoking a joint and Che Guevara as a Hasidic Jew.
It featured Jewish hip-hop, Palestinian poetry, Kabbalistic graffiti and a ‘peepshow with Jewish girls’.
In 2006, a Jewdas spokesman told online magazine Spiked: ‘The Jewish community needs to be woken up. It is largely affluent, comfortable and unthinking … In relation to Israel, it takes a very Right-wing stance. The community is materialistic; it has swallowed the middle-class dream.’
In October that year, four of its members were arrested in Trafalgar Square for handing out offensive leaflets.
In January 2009, Jewdas was forced to apologise to the Board of Deputies after it tried to wreck a pro-Israel rally by sending out a hoax email claiming it had been cancelled.