There should now be no doubt whatsoever that a third attempt to remove Corbyn is underway. The ‘anti-semitic’ shenanigans were part of it.Hodge’s outbursts were a trailer. And now Tom Watson, despite his fake attempts to appear loyal at the last Labour Party conference is back to business as usual in The Observer today. Ignoring or playing softly, softly with these people will not work, leave alone apologising for ‘anti-semitic’ remarks by an Auschwitz survivor, who compared the Israeli leaders to Nazis.
Given the state of the Tory Party and a distinct possibility that an election could take place any minute the rulers of this country, including the Army tops and a chunk of the Parliamentary Labour Party are nervous that Corbyn could become the next Prime Minister and difficult to unseat. So they’re trying it on again and this needs to be stated loudly and clearly in public by him and others. The Labour Party and TUC conferences offer obvious locations for starting an offensive designed to deal with enemies on both fronts, external and internal. No more apologies please.
Well-meaning people think that everyone inside Labour wants to defeat the Tories. This is not the case. Blair has already appealed for a united front with Tory retainers to defeat Corbyn and his supports inside Labour would love to see Corbyn defeated. The fact that it was under his leadership that Labour obtained the second highest vote in its electoral history still rankles. I’ve heard many an extreme centre scumbag denounce democracy ….so the logic is obvious. Anyone but Corbyn. That’s their motto.
A Corbyn victory would have a global impact, especially in the rightward moving EU states. The choice they prefer is Macron or Salvini: extreme centre or extreme right? Britain today offerers another alternative . Extreme centre or radical social democracy?
[…] Hamas and Hezbollah don’t drop bombs on or shoot guided missiles at peoples’ homes, schools or hospitals. The ANC too were designated terrorists by Reagan and Thatcher and until recently the US had them on a terrorist watch list. Stop apologising for the fact that a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. Hajo Mayer, at a meeting you chaired, compared Israel to the Nazis. It was the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, General Yair Golan, who said three years ago that: “If there is something that frightens me about the memories of the Holocaust, it is the knowledge of the awful processes which happened in Europe in general, and in Germany in particular, 70, 80, 90 years ago, and finding traces of them here in our midst, today, in 2016 This is what veteran peacenick, Uri Avnery, himself a Zionist wrote: ‘The discrimination against the Palestinians in practically all spheres of life can be compared to the treatment of the Jews in the first phase of Nazi Germany. (The oppression of the Palestinians in the occupied territories resembles more the treatment of the Czechs in the “protectorate” after the Munich betrayal.) The rain of racist Bills in the Knesset, those already adopted and those in the works, strongly resembles the laws adopted by the Reichstag in the early days of the Nazi regime. Some rabbis call for a boycott of Arab shops. Like then. The call “Death to the Arabs” (“Judah verrecke”?) is regularly heard at soccer matches. A member of parliament has called for the separation between Jewish and Arab newborns in hospital. A chief rabbi has declared that Goyim (non-Jews) were created by God to serve the Jews. Our ministers for education and culture are busy subduing the schools, theatre and arts to the extreme rightist line, something known in German as Gleichschaltung. The supreme court, the pride of Israel, is being relentlessly attacked by the minister of justice. The Gaza Strip is a huge ghetto. Of course, no one in their right mind would even remotely compare Netanyahu to Hitler, but there are political parties here which do emit a strong fascist smell. The political riffraff peopling the present Netanyahu government could easily have found their place in the first Nazi government. One of the main slogans of our present government is to replace the “old elite”, considered too liberal, with a new one. One of the main Nazi slogans was to replace “das System”. Army rule By the way, when the Nazis came to power, almost all high-ranking officers of the German army were staunch anti-Nazis. They were even considering a putsch against Hitler. Their political leader was summarily executed a year later, when Hitler liquidated his opponents in his own party. We are told that Golan is now protected by a personal bodyguard, something that has never happened to a general in the annals of Israel. I strongly recommend people read the whole article. Uri Avnery: Israeli politics bears comparison with end of Weimar Germany and rise of fascism, Irish Times, 25.5.16. This relates to one of the ‘illustrations’ in the IHRA ‘definition’ of anti-Semitism. Corbyn made yet another rod for his own back by following meekly in the footsteps of Theresa May and adopting this dishonest and disingenuous script whose only purpose is to equate supporters of the Palestinians and opponents of Zionism with the Nazis. Corbyn is an ‘anti-Semite’ to those the BBC regularly interviews because he is reluctant to adopt the whole of the IHRA. Today we had a lively demonstration and made our views clear to the BBC, which John Pilger described as the most effective propaganda organisation in the world. We live in times which are Orwellian. Anti-racists are racists and anti-Semites whereas Tories, whose party was founded on racism and Empire are now anti-racists! A party which fought against the admission of Jewish refugees to Britain and under Lord Balfour introduced the anti-Semitic 1905 Aliens Bill is now apparently opposed to anti-Semitism. There is no more eloquent opponent of ‘anti-Semitism’ than Boris Johnson. The same man who described Black people as ‘picanninies’ with ‘watermelon smiles’ and who only yesterday described Muslim women as looking like letter boxes. This piece of filth is also a sincere opponent of ‘anti-Semitism’. The reality is that ‘anti-Semitism’ is the false anti-racism of the Right. It is a cover for real racism Islamaphobia. It is no wonder that one of the main proponents of the false anti-Semitism campaign, John Mann MP, is a bigoted racist when it comes to the Roma who he considers a social pest, much as the Nazis did. We need to turn the heat up on the BBC and all the other liars in the mainstream press. When we can have the racist press, the Sun and Mail, being in the forefront of the campaign against ‘anti-Semitism’ we can be sure that the ‘problem’ in the Labour Party is utterly contrived. That is why Corbyn has to be saved from his own stupidity. If he doesn’t start fighting back he is doomed. And the person who bears most responsibility is the scab leader of Momentum, Jon Lansman, a Zionist for whom defence of Israel is more important than a socialist Labour Party. Already there are reports of secret meetings of his MPs. CORBYN’S CURTAIN CALL: Furious MPs vow to ‘COLLAPSE’ leadership at SECRET MEETINGS We know who these MPs are and in the event Corbyn manages to win a working majority at the next election we can expect these scabs to refuse to support him as Prime Minister. We have to deselect Labour’s Tory MPs now. If their bluff isn’t called then they will, when the time is ripe, act as a Tory/Liberal 5th column. MPs such as Joan Ryan, Chris Leslie, Hilary Benn, John Mann, Wes Streeting, Louise Ellman, Luciana Berger, Ruth Smeeth, Ian Austin, Margaret Hodge et al should be ‘encouraged’ to join a more suitable party. Today’s picket should be the first of many such actions and well done to Jewish Voice for Labour for calling it. Tony Greenstein See Tariq Ali’s NEW ATTEMPT TO UNSEAT JEREMY CORBYN […]