{"id":36900,"date":"2011-07-01T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T15:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=36900"},"modified":"2014-01-06T09:59:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:59:52","slug":"edl-jewish-division-leader-roberta-moore-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/07\/01\/edl-jewish-division-leader-roberta-moore-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"EDL Jewish division leader Roberta Moore quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36901\" title=\"Roberta-Moore\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Roberta-Moore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"256\" \/>By <!-- Author Start -->Jennifer Lipman<!-- Author End -->, June 29, 2011<\/div>\n<p><strong>The hardline activist at the forefront of the &#8220;Jewish Division&#8221; of the extreme right-wing English Defence League has announced that she does not wish to be a part of it any longer because of Nazi elements within it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roberta Moore, who has led the Jewish Division since it was launched more than a year ago, was accused earlier this month of being a divisive figure in the EDL.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Moore had attempted to co-ordinate her efforts with those of the far-right American Jewish Task Force, whose leader Victor Vancier has been imprisoned for terrorism offences. The move, in February, was heavily criticised by the EDL leadership.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement which she posted on Facebook, the Brazilian-born Ms Moore said she had been offered work on &#8220;an international level&#8221; elsewhere and so had decided to step down from the Jewish Division.<\/p>\n<p>Although she described the EDL as &#8220;doing a fantastic job&#8221; she said the party had been hijacked by elements who wanted to use it &#8220;for their own Nazi purposes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Moore said she still supported the EDL leaders and &#8220;all the genuine patriots out there who struggle to get their voices heard&#8221; but added that she no longer wished to be a part of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sincerely hope that the leaders will get the strength to squash the Nazis within,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will destroy this movement if allowed to remain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Gardner, from the Community Security Trust, said: <strong>&#8220;This latest development shows, yet again, why Jews should not be involved in such circles.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/uk-news\/50932\/edl-jewish-division-leader-roberta-moore-quits\">www.thejc.com<\/span>, June 30 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jennifer Lipman, June 29, 2011 The hardline activist at the forefront of the &#8220;Jewish Division&#8221; of the extreme right-wing English Defence League has announced that she does not wish to be a part of it any longer because of Nazi elements within it. Roberta Moore, who has led the Jewish Division since it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":36901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,922],"tags":[6159,2510,2553,6162,6163,6160,6161],"class_list":["post-36900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","category-world","tag-american-jewish-task-force","tag-edl","tag-english-defence-league","tag-extreme-right","tag-roberta-moore","tag-the-jewish-division","tag-victor-vancier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}