Right-wing trolls and media target Michael Rosen over Newbon death
JVL Introduction
Nobody vocal on the left, particularly if they support Palestinian rights, is unused to being trolled and gaslit by the right and by ardent Zionists. The harassment of Michael Rosen, however, goes well beyond what most of us have suffered.
Peter Newbon, it appears from evidence presented to the inquest, was a deeply troubled man with many things pushing him towards his suicide.
No evidence at the inquest linked Michael Rosen to this sad event – his name wasn’t even mentioned – but this hasn’t stopped a battalion of trolls from repeatedly trying to blame him.
The story goes back to Newbon’s appropriation of Rosen’s much-loved Bear Hunt book to slur Jeremy Corbyn in a way that would appear to be defamatory (see the image above). Rosen complained about Newbon’s actions for how they affected him, and then Newbon tried to sue Rosen…
This article was originally published by Skwawkbox on Mon 10 Apr 2023. Read the original here.
Right-wing trolls and media target Rosen over Newbon death – here’s what they should be asking instead
Newbon inquest rules suicide – but the right are targeting the one man who wasn’t even mentioned
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Solidarity with the lovely, decent, anti racist Michael Rosen.
Solidarity Michael. Thanks for this article folks.
The three inserts in this piece by Barrister Jane Heybroek (??) are blocked by Microsoft Edge.
To read them, you can go to the Google Chrome bowser and read this blog article on the JVL website.
[I may be getting myself a different browser, as I smell foul-play]
The blog article regarding the right-wing trolling attack on Michael Rosen highlights the spiteful and hateful mentality of some very sick people.
The complicity of the MSM in failing to call out this poison is shameful.
The lesson that should be learnt but won’t from this type of story is that vulnerable people will be caught up in such campaigns and may not be able to handle the consequences. This is not about one political affiliation as it happens across the spectrum and also in many walks of life where vulnerable people are exploited.
Future generations will be horrified to hear about the campaign of lies and smears that were and still are, being used against those with the decency and integrity to oppose a violent apartheid state.
History will show that the level of mis-information and outright lies perpetrated by the anti Socialists and the appalling British media, is very little different to the propaganda pushed by the Nazis in Germany.
Michael Rosen is a legend and should remain as such in all children’s minds, not smeared by these filthy-minded Zionists. They should leave him alone. Solidarity Michael.
This case sums up the most horrific aspect of this whole argument about who is and who is not an antisemite; and that is the notion that Jews are antisemitic because they cannot support Israel politically or morally. The success the Zionist Hasbarists have had in persuading so many people through a compliant MSM that the acceptance of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state is the only way that Jews have of claiming to be Jewish has ruined any chance of their being any kind of sensible public debate about Israel’s oppressive acts against the Palestinian people. This is a major issue for all anti-Zionists, and has to be fought at every turn.
Solidarity with Michael.
It’s a sickening story. I hadn’t realised that the attacks on Michael Rosen on this matter were persisting.
I see that author L.S. Sharrow (she of the hateful tweets shown in the article) wrote a short format piece called “The Nomadic Jew at the Palestine Human Rights Rally: A Satire” in which a liberal, pro-Palestine Jew attends a rally for Palestine and finds out that she is hated by those she wanted to support. Described as ‘factually accurate’ and a ‘fun read’ in the Amazon reviews,, it’s free in e-format.
I thought I’d look at the Companies House entry for LAAS to see who the current directors are. I was surprised to see that Peter Newbon was shown as ‘resigned’ on April 25th, 2022, which, I understand is some months after his death. A company must notify Companies House, on form TM01, of the death of a Director within 14 days. (TM01 does not allow a reason for the termination to be given,; all terminations appear, I believe, as ‘resigned’). The notification was made on May 4th 2022.
Jonathan Hoffman is even tardier as he has not closed a Change.org petition entitled “Rebutting spurious antisemitism charges against Dr Pete Newbon” which repeats all the slurs against Michael Rosen. Surely this potentially libellous petition should be taken down?
LAAS has always been a ‘dormant’ company, which simply means it has never had any assets, reserves or financial transactions. There can be perfectly valid reasons for creating a dormant company.
What stands out in this story is, the hateful fanaticism of Israel supporters, the venom in their Tweets against Michael is vicious. I hope all this doesn’t get Michael down and he can let go and get on with his life.