French Jewish terrorist escapes extradition to UK

A Jewish terrorist has remained at large in Paris for decades, despite admitting that he planted a bomb in a club for British servicemen in London.

Robert Misrahi also has information about the still unsolved murder of a young British student, killed by a parcel bomb sent by Misrahi’s fellow terrorists in the Stern Gang (also known by its Hebrew name Lehi).

Militant Zionists in Paris and London have recently combined to lobby for the arrest and extradition of the revisionist scholar Vincent Reynouard, who has committed no crime under UK law but will remain in an Edinburgh prison cell for at least the next three months until his case is heard. If he is sent to France, Jewish lobbyists there will demand that Reynouard should be incarcerated for at least another two years.

Yet their fellow Zionist Robert Misrahi remains a respected and celebrated éminence grise of the Parisian academic establishment.

British readers should be asking themselves: “Who is the real criminal – the historian or the bomber?”

Late one bitter cold evening in March 1947, young French philosophy student Robert Misrahi slipped away from a servicemen’s social club just off Trafalgar Square in the heart of London. Minutes later the British Colonies Club was wrecked by a massive explosion, causing many injuries but miraculously no deaths. Misrahi had left his overcoat at the club, its shoulders packed with gelignite.

This Trafalgar Square outrage was no one-off. Misrahi was part of a Jewish terrorist network responsible for a brutal campaign against British and Arab targets during the 1940s. Its most famous murders included the shooting of British cabinet minister Lord Moyne in Cairo in 1944; the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people in 1946; and the letter bomb that killed young Englishman Rex Farran at his family home in the Midlands in 1948.

While some of the history of this period is at last being addressed, much remains mysterious: no-one has been convicted for the bombings on British soil, and the extent of the network behind the crimes has yet to be established. Did Israel’s founding prime minister David Ben-Gurion orchestrate many of the terrorist crimes, despite distancing himself from the Stern Gang and their fellow gangsters in Menachem Begin’s Irgun? What were the financial links in the chain enabling purchase of arms and the international travels of gunmen and bombers? And perhaps most seriously, did the terrorists have allies inside the British political establishment, who (not for the first or last time) betrayed their own troops and had an ultimate allegiance to Britain’s enemies?

Truth and justice could be served very simply in this case, as campaigners including Peter Rushton (the author of this article), and Martin Webster (then-chairman of the Forgotten British Heroes Campaign) first pointed out to the head of Britain’s anti-terrorist squad in a series of letters in 2016.

The London bomber Robert Misrahi is alive and well, living in Paris where he spent most of the postwar years as an academic and is now Emeritus Professor of Ethical Philosophy at the Sorbonne. Having never uttered one word of apology or regret for his crimes, Misrahi has remained a militant Zionist throughout his life, defending each stage of Israeli aggression.

MI5, Special Branch and Home Office documents released during the last few years reveal that the British authorities had built up a dossier of evidence against Misrahi. They discovered that he had brought explosives from France to London in the false bottom of a suitcase.

British authorities also knew that although they had a few trusted informants among the French police and security forces, the Zionist terrorists had influential political friends in Paris who would obstruct any prosecution.

At the end of May 1947 Misrahi and several fellow members of his terrorist group – the Stern Gang (known to Jews as Lehi) – were arrested in a Paris police raid. They were caught red-handed with sub-machine guns, ammunition and bomb detonators. Yet when the case finally came to trial in February 1948 the terrorists escaped punishment. (By this stage the French government was itself secretly supplying Misrahi’s fellow Zionist gangsters in Palestine with arms.)

Today’s French government now has the chance to make amends for these shabby political deals with violent criminals. Here in Britain our own police and courts have the chance to settle an unsolved murder case and demonstrate that there will never be any hiding place for those who commit terrorist acts on British soil.

For Misrahi’s Trafalgar Square bomb was not the end of the story. One of his colleagues planted a bomb in the Colonial Office on Whitehall a few days later, which would have killed countless British civilians in the heart of London, but for a faulty timing mechanism.

There was no such lucky escape for Rex Farran, brother of British war hero Roy Farran. He was eviscerated by a parcel bomb sent to his family’s Staffordshire home in 1948 by Misrahi’s colleagues in the Paris-based Stern Gang cell.

The cell’s leader Yaacov Eliav had planned what would have been the worst terrorist atrocity of all time soon after Misrahi’s arrest. He obtained active cultures of cholera bacteria from Jewish contacts at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. A water engineer was sent to London to scout the best method of introducing cholera into the city’s water supply. It was only following Zionist success in winning UN backing later in 1947 that this cholera plan was abandoned.

Today’s Britons – especially the families of Rex Farran and other British servicemen killed or wounded by Zionist terrorists – deserve truth and justice. Stern Gang bomber Robert Misrahi is alive and well, openly mocking British justice. He is now 96 years old, but his fellow Zionists have made clear that they do not regard age as a barrier to the criminal law – they have themselves, for example, successfully demanded the jailing of the 94 year old German educator Ursula Haverbeck.

Meanwhile an entirely peaceful and law-abiding writer, publisher and film-maker – 53-year-old Vincent Reynouard – sits in a prison cell in Edinburgh, despite having committed no offence under UK law. It’s time to demand action from our new Prime Minister. The true criminal is the bomber Misrahi, not the revisionist historian Reynouard.

Justice demands that Reynouard be released, and Misrahi extradited to face belated justice for his terrorist crimes.