Following revelations that the kind-looking old man from this viral photo was actually a rabid antisemite, Britain’s Daily Mail has done the right thing, writing a piece exposing him and his vile views, not to mention the antisemitic reaction of the BLM activist shown talking to him.
They actually interview him, and his reaction is textbook anti-Zionist-not-antisemite: denial of his antisemitism, while showing how he really is antisemitic.
Speaking to MailOnline last night, Mr Curran blamed the controversy over the picture on ‘Zionists’ who were targeting him online because of his ‘anti-racist’ views.
‘The Zionists are now trying to say that I’m anti-Semitic,’ he said. ‘Jewish people are being racist. They don’t like Irish Republicans and they are trying to demonise me.’
Describing his encounter with Ms Smith, he said: ‘I was telling her about history, that lots of bad things have happened to a lot of people, not just Jews.
‘What happened to a black people through slavery was also a crime and a Holocaust. This is what I’m trying to teach the new generation of activists.’
And in an astonishing rant, he added: ‘Other people play down their sufferings, but the Jewish people don’t. You have to ask yourself why.
‘They make more of what happened to them than anyone else. Jewish people have used the Holocaust for their own ends.’
And in case that somehow doesn’t convince you he is an antisemite, this might
The retired London Underground worker, who told MailOnline he was an old friend of Jeremy Corbyn,…
