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Below is an exchange of correspondence between Lee Jasper and Dr. Tony Martin, along with the international comnmunity's expressions of outrage.
Dr. Martin's Response to CancellationTo: Lee Jasper (Jasper's bio), Mayor's Office, London From: Tony Martin (Dr. Martin's Bio), Professor of Africana Studies, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA Re: Your cancellation of invitation to Mayor's First Voice Conference Da: 15 October 2003 You called yesterday and expressed upset because a
Jewish newspaper said that I spoke at a conference organized by David
Irving and another organized by the Institute for Historical Review. You
also said something not entirely coherent about what you called
"holocaust denial." About an hour afterwards you emailed me
abruptly revoking Rosemary Emodi's five months, old invitation to me to
address the First Voice Conference, on the basis of the concerns
transmitted to you by your Jewish sources. I thought that you were just
another overwrought Jew who sees "antisemites" everywhere, an
annoying though partly explicable phenomenon. Now, however, I discover
that you are that most singular of phenomena, to wit a black talking head
for Jewish ventriloquism. I addressed the first abovementioned conference
on the Jewish role in the African slave trade, a topic that overwrought
Jews consider ipso facto antisemitic. I addressed the other on the tactics
of organized Jewry against persons like myself who they disagree with. Organized Jewry, speaking through you, has defined the organizers of both these conferences as antisemitic and, as affirmed in your email, they have defined me as antisemitic for accepting their invitations. This kind of reasoning would also make me a talking head for overwrought Jews for my willingness to speak at your conference. I hope that someday you will become as diligent in the knowledge of your own history as you now appear to be in mindlessly parroting the misconceptions of others. Then maybe you will interrogate your handlers on the following questions, among many others
The Babylonian Talmud's invention of the Hamitic Myth, whereby God supposedly cursed Black people with dark skin, bulging eyes and huge genitals and relegated them to be the slaves of others for eternity. Millions of your African forebears lost their lives in the slave trade on the strength of this pretext for enslaving them. They must be turning in their graves now to behold your antics. You can find documentation for all this in my book, The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront. Your thoughtless transmission of allegations of antisemitism is both libelous and incongruous. I wonder what usefulness someone so out of sympathy with his own community can be as a representative of that community to the mayor's office. Dr. Tony Martin Read the international comnmunity's expressions of outrage.
Lee Jasper's Dis-Invitation
Thank you for taking the time to speak to me today. Having confirmed with you that you attended and spoke at David Irving's 'Real History Conference' in 2001 and the Institute for Historical Review's annual conference in 2002 and that both of these conferences included speakers known for their anti-Semitic and racist activities including Holocaust denial, the Mayor's Office has decided to withdraw its invitation to you to address the First Voice conference on Saturday 25 October. The appearance of a close association between yourself and extreme right wing academics and organisations at these conferences has left the Mayor's Office with no alternative but to withdraw its invitation. It is with some regret that I write this email, because of your obvious expertise in relation to the life and works of Marcus Garvey. Yours sincerely Email Lee Jasper at Lee.Jasper@london.gov.uk
[Editor's Note: The Hon. Marcus M. Garvey held the Uncle Toms up for public ridicule. The Uncle Tom, he often said, was "the type of Negro who would lick the white man's spittle off his mouth if the white man asked him so to do." Source: The American Directory of Certified Uncle Toms (2002)] Read the international comnmunity's expressions of outrage.
Prof. Tony Martin Responds to the Controversy: Re sharing a platform with "a known Fascist and racist" 1) The Jews are very good at creating red herrings and defining people and situations to their liking. 2) Their action here has little to do with David Irving since they have been attacking me since at least 1993, eight years before I spoke at Irving's Real History Conference in Cincinnati. My Jewish Onslaught was written ten years ago in 1993 in response to their earlier campaign. 3) The real issue then and now was and is their objection to my using the Nation of Islam's Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews in a class. They seem to think that they are somehow exempt from acknowledging their role in our enslavement and paying us reparations. Theirs was in fact an important role and one that their own scholars have documented. Among the many responses to their untenable position was a big rally at Howard University in 1994 when Khalid Muhammad, Len Jeffries, Malik Zulu Shabazz, I and others spoke. 4) I am a historian and I speak for all kinds of forums, including even Uncle Tom forums on occasion, if I feel that somebody in the audience might benefit from my message. This does not necessarily make me an Uncle Tom or whatever the ideology of the convener happens to be. I have even spoken for Jews on occasion. 5) David Irving may be a Fascist -- I don't know. All I know is that the Jews have been calling me a racist, antisemite and everything but a child of God for years. My first instincts are not to take them seriously unless I can independently verify what they are saying. I did read an account of Irving's libel case where he is said to have written a poem saying that he did not want his daughter to marry a Rastafarian or something like that. On his website he had photos of a Caribbean sister who had worked for him for years. He argued from this that he was not racist. Not wanting his daughter to marry a Rastafarian pales into insignificance next to some of the racism of Jews that you will see documented in my The Jewish Onslaught. In particular I would draw your attention to some of the Jewish hate mail that I reprinted in the book's appendix. 6) They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and it seems to me that people like Lee Jasper are so unhinged from their own history and community that they fall easy prey to other people's agendas besides their own. Or in some cases it may be a deliberate opportunistic decision to get ahead. I don't know Lee well enough to say which category he falls into. --------------------- Anyway brother thanks for the support and for giving me the opportunity to respond to these questions. I will cc this to others who I have been speaking with since these are important questions which others may have been asking. All the best. Tony Read the international comnmunity's expressions of outrage.
Dr. Martin's Letter to London Mayor Ken Livingstone Dear Mr. Mayor: Re "Livingstone bars 'anti-Jewish' historian from conference"
Could you please send me a copy of the correspondence? I don't suppose that it is confidential since the Jewish Chronicle has already quoted part of it. Thank you. Tony Martin
e-mail Professor Martin
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Dear
Professor Martin,
I
have only just received a copy of the above-captioned Jewish
Chronicle article (October 17, 2003, page 1). The Jewish
Chronicle has managed, even within the confines of a relatively short
piece, to include a few factually incorrect statements. This makes me
wonder what other errors of fact or interpretation may be contained in the
correspondence between Mrs. Louise Ellman (Labour MP for Liverpool 
Riverside
and vice-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Council against Anti-Semitism)
and yourself. According to the Jewish Chronicle, this exchange of
letters constituted the basis both for your "prompt and appropriate
action" (your words, per the JC) and Mrs. Ellman's delight at
"the mayor's quick move" (her words, per the article).
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