“In Conversation with… Ken Loach”, held today, at the Stand’s Freemason Hall in George Street, Edinburgh, drew one last question to Ken from the audience that was hotter than he expected. Ken was asked by Pete Gregson why he had thrown him “under the bus”.
Ken had initially been a huge fan of Pete’s, saying of the video Pete had made with Rabbi Ahron Cohen, about Pete’s expulsion from the GMB for “antisemitism”, that “Your case is made very clearly and is unanswerable. Pete, your position is justified and has to be defended. Solidarity!”
… which he followed up with, a year later, in a press release from his company 16 Films, saying:
“I find Peter Gregson’s views and behaviour utterly reprehensible, and I unequivocally reject his antisemitism. His misogynistic bullying of a young Jewish woman in the GMB union was also appalling. Had I been aware of these views and behaviour when he approached me, I categorically would not have engaged with him. I entirely support the GMB’s decision in expelling Peter Gregson.”
This condemnation of Pete was picked up by in a joint press statement with Show Racism the Red Card, a slur that was immediately republished in a digital pile-on by Antony Lerman (blog), Jonathan Cook (blog), Artists for Palestine and Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL). Thus, anyone Googling Pete’s name gets the impression from these multiple sources of lefty antiracism that he is, indeed, a Jew-hater. Pete has written to all of them (most frequently Ken) asking for their evidence of his antisemitic views. None have replied, but Jonathan Cook quietly removed the offending article from his website.
For years Gregson had been writing to Loach, asking him to explain his volte-face. All his letters were ignored, so Pete decided to challenge Ken at the Stand’s question and answer session today. To hear how Ken responded, view the 14-minute video at https://youtu.be/mLJExIX5jvk and -if you can’t make out the sound- with subtitles on TikTok – see Part 1 at https://www.tiktok.com/@pete.gregson/video/7271418256831925537 and Part 2 at https://www.tiktok.com/@pete.gregson/video/7271452263095225633
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Contact Pete Gregson on 0758 472 2191
See all articles and press releases in full at http://www.onepalestine.land/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Ken-Loach.pdf
The video of Pete with Rabbi Cohen that Ken loved is at www.tinyurl.com/gmbihra
See Ken’s condemnation of Pete at https://www.sixteenfilms.co.uk/news/2020/3/18/show-racism-the-red-card-and-ken-loach-a-statement-from-his-supporters
Ken can be contacted via his secretary Emma@sixteenfilms.co.uk
Also see Pete featured in this 2-minute video “The British Israel Trade Union Dialogue and the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty’s attempts to influence the trade union movement” at https://twitter.com/PDeclassified/status/1694733805876121768 This is a clip from the entire episode of “Zionist subversion of trade union” issued on 19th August 2012 at https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/08/19/709215/Trade-Union-Friends-of-Israel
The above press release was published by Redress at British screenwriter Ken Loach challenged before 500 people on bogus anti-Semitism – Redress Information & Analysis (redressonline.com)
More info on bogus antisemitism slurs against Pete at www.onepalestine.land/rogues-gallery/#pete-gregson
Rabbi Dovid Weiss of Neturei Karta recently said of Pete: We have known Pete Gregson personally for several years. He is in no way anti-Jewish; on the contrary he has tremendous respect for Jews and Judaism, while maintaining his moral position of sympathizing with the oppressed people of Palestine.
He goes on to note “the intolerant people who have branded Mr. Gregson an anti-Semite, following the usual Zionist tactic of expanding the definition of anti-Semitism to include anyone who doesn’t subscribe to their ideology.” See the letter at www.twingaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Pete-Gregson-Neturie-Karta-Support-1.png