I have been accused this week of conducting a witchhunt against London Citizens/Citizens
UK, the “citizens organisers” and darlings of the political class. It seems some people are quite content that this liberal institution has a trustee who supports Hamas. They may also turn a blind eye to concerns raised by End Child Detention Now about the
organisation’s peculiar partnership with the UK Border Agency:
The shrill cry of witchhunt comes from Independent Jewish Voices, the organisation set up to provide an alternative liberal outlet for British Jews.
As it happens, my charity funds London Citizens via the Future Jobs Fund, so I would better be described as a “concerned stakeholder”, to use the fashionable jargon. Indeed as a concerned citizen I worry when people are asking for an organisation to be given a free pass just because it says it does good work.
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