Nothing Illustrates Israel’s Criminal Occupation & Western Complicity More Than The Deliberate Targeting of Palestinian Children's Education
The Children of Al Tafawk at the Arab-American University
Mona, the head teacher at the Al Tafawk Centre and the
children and families with her, were told that they must leave the
Arab-American University outside Jenin, where they were staying on April 11th.
They have now been given a reprieve but they must now pay for
their accommodation and many families are simply unable to afford it. Where
they will go? The report below from Karen, a former British volunteer at the Al
Tafawk Centre explains the situation they face at the moment as well as a
potted history of the Centre.
Mona is looking after and feeding the children, approximately
70, who used to attend the Al Tafawk Centre. It is a fraction of those who have
been displaced by Israel’s monstrous demolition of the Jenin refugee camp.
Never before has Zionism demonstrated so clearly that it is a barbaric movement
and ideology. It neither accepts nor even recognises International Law as we
can see with the genocide in Gaza.
For the past 5 years I have been raising funds for the Al
Tafawk Centre and although it no longer exists, having been demolished by
Israel, I am continuing to raise funds in order that the children who formerly
attended from Jenin refugee camp are supported. I would therefore ask people to
help us in that task by contributing to our Crowdfunder which is on Chuffed.
Go Fund Me tried to destroy our fundraiser - and failed
Background
to my own involvement
I first became involved in fundraising for the Al Tafawk
Children’s Centre in Jenin around 2018. I was approached by Susan, an activist
in the then National Union of Teachers (now the National Education Union).
Perhaps because I ran a widely read blog and set up a
Crowdfunder with Go Fund Me I was able to raise over £60,000 during that
time. At first we were only contributing
a few hundred pounds every quarter but gradually it increased to something like
£1,500 per month and today it is even more than that because of the dire
situation that Mona and the children face as they have been expelled by the
Israeli army from the Jenin Refugee Camp, which has been all but destroyed.
Israel's military trash a home
Earlier this year Go Fund Me turned hostile and sent me two
emails asking questions before deciding that we were in breach of US
regulations. The whole sad saga of GFM’s utter dishonesty in only just
discovering that we were in breach of US government sanctions, after 5 years,
can be read here and here.
What these scum really meant was that supporting Palestinians
in the West Bank contradicted US government policy in support of genociding
Palestinians.
This article was written in November 2023 after the last major attack before Israel's military completely destroyed the Centre
Fortunately I had anticipated that GFM, a billion dollar US
Corporation was highly likely to do this at some point or another so I took
precautions to anticipate this. The result was that I set up a new and very
successful Crowdfunder with Chuffed, an Australian platform, which has been
extremely successful.
In July 2021 and
again in November 2023 the
Israeli army raided the Al Tafawk Centre and destroyed its interior, whose
repair we and the British Salaam Shalom Trust funded. On the
latter occasion these racist bastards also punched large holes in the exterior
walls of the building. The idea of a Palestinian children’s centre was anathema
to these monsters.
Israeli soldiers took to ripping up children’s books because
one said they didn’t need to learn to read as they would grow up to become
‘terrorist’ and die anyway.
Below are reports from interviews that Karen, a former
volunteer at the Al Tafawk Centre Karen conducted with Mona. Karen speaks
fluent Arabic and she then translated and explained to me the situation of the
children as I was unclear as to what the situation was and what was happening.
Tony Greenstein
Destruction of the Al Tafawk Centre from the Inside
A History of the Al Tafawk Children’s Center, Jenin
Refugee Camp
This history of the Al
Tafawk Centre is taken from an interview between Karen, a former volunteer
teacher at the Centre, and Mona.
Until 2002 Mona, the Head
Teacher and her family lived in the building that would become the Al Tafawk
Center. During the 2nd Intifada the family were expelled from the camp and they
began living in the Al Hadaf area.
When Mona finished
university in 2011, she wanted to use the building for the benefit of children.
Mona was aware that children in the camp spent a lot of time in the streets.
Although UN schools operated in the camp they were not regularly open, so the
children did not have a regular routine. Her idea was to supplement the
education that children missed through closures.
She began with 6-11 year
olds - children in their 1st and 2nd Grades, supporting them with their school
work. Children in 1st grade in Jenin’s schools had the advantage of
having been to kindergarten which children in the refugee camp didn’t. They
were therefore at a disadvantage. That was the original purpose of the Al
Tafawk centre. The camp did not have a Kindergarten.
The children were very proud
of their achievements and were asking to study. Most of them came from
uneducated families. The numbers of children regularly coming to the Centre
increased from 20 to 30. Mona’s parents (both teachers) were extremely
supportive of what she was doing.
Fundscamefromdifferent sources-Mona’s parents, Mona herself through jobs such as
teaching English to richer families, caring and cleaning.
The Center grows
Mona was concerned about
the number of infants under the age of 6 spending so much time in the street.
She worried they “could be lost.” It cost about 300NIS (£75) to send a child to
Kindergarten which can feed a family for two weeks. Most families in the camp
could not afford this. Mona wanted these children to experience
enjoyment and peace not trauma.
Her father’s brother, who
owned the building where Al Tafawk was based, after being imprisoned by the
Israelis, went to work in Switzerland and on his return to Jenin agreed to let
Mona rent the whole building at half the rent - approx £200 per month.
In 2016 the center began
the camp’s only kindergarten with 20 children aged 4-5 years. Mona didn’t
anticipate the numbers to increase so quickly!
Israel's Soldiers Destroy People's Homes
A chance meeting
Mona caught sight of a
man called Bernard Regan, who was previously on the Executive of the National
Union of Teachers holding a Palestinian flag on a Facebook post. She messaged
him and asked for volunteer teachers of English to support Al Tafawk.
This resulted in
volunteer teachers from Britain going to teach at the Centre. Tony Greenstein
became involved when another activist in the NUT, Susan contacted Tony which
resulted in him taking over the fundraising.
Today
The center has been
destroyed by the Israeli military and Mona and the people from the camp are
staying at the Arab American University outside Jenin or at least they were
until April 11.
Israel's Destruction of People's Homes
Registration
In the early days Mona
registered the center as a charity, but she discovered that she was unable to
open a bank account or receive any support from the government this way. So she
registered instead as a Private Center with the Palestinian Ministry of
Education This way she could have a transparent bank account and have full
control over how money was spent.
Blood on the Floor After an IDF Raid
IDF Raids
The Israeli army raided
the center twice before the current demolition. Each time they destroyed
children’s work, smashed up the furniture, broke doors etc. This third time the
entire building has been demolished.
Hope for the future
Mona dreams of sitting
back in a newly built Al Tafawk center in the camp drinking coffee and laughing
with the children.
The Current Situation
Friday 12 April 2025
Hello Tony,
Just spoken to Mona again today.
We acknowledged that the situation
herself and the families are in is dire and the problem is a much bigger one
than we can solve. However, she is always glad of our support. She was at great
pains to emphasise that she cannot and does not want to ask you for money, but
whatever is received is spent on the children and whenever a donation arrives
she sees it as a blessing and is always very thankful.
Current situation
She and her family have been able to
rent rooms at the university for the next month, at a cost of 1,000NIS. This
does not include electricity but they do have water. To raise some money,
members of the family are collecting molokhia from the environs and selling it
on.
Mona estimates that more than half of
the families have been able to afford to stay in a room in the university -
these are families, like hers, who have managed to save some money in the past.
Again, they are trying to earn a bit of money in different ways, though none
have "real" jobs.
My Article for Al Jazeera After the First Israeli Raid
To rent in the city is more or less impossible
- the cost is 4,000NIS per month and that does not include water or
electricity. In addition, landlords are very reluctant to take in people from
the camp, because they are not sure how long they will be able to afford to
stay.
Some of those families without money
have gone to friends or family, but many families are falling out. It has
become a matter of survival. Many other poorer families are staying in the
woods, like the family in the video. Some are trying to return to the
university.
There is absolutely no help from bodies
like the UN or the Palestinian government. Some people still believe that the
UN will eventually come to help them.
Al Tafawk
Mona was very clear that the children
she is trying to help are those that were attending Al Tafawk. There are 60 -
70 of them. She is trying to provide one meal every two days to those under the
age of 14 with the money she receives in donations. She explained how guilty
she feels feeding these, but not others. But what else can she do?
Her good news is that she has managed
to find a place in Jenin City which would be prepared to rent a space to her
for the use of the children. This would cost 2,000NIS per month. However, she
would also need to rent a bus to transport the children, pay staff and still
provide food. She is not sure how this might happen, or really how much the
costs would be.
Hope this helps,
Karen
This massive destruction of Jenin Refugee Camp and the Al Tafawk Centre is all the work of Israel's finest
Wednesday 2nd
April 2025
Dear Friends,
Please find
below a number of reports.
Firstly I
asked a former volunteer at the Al Tafawk Centre Karen to talk to Mona, since
she speaks fluent Arabic and then to translate and explain to me the situation
of the children as I was a bit in the dark as to what the situation was and
what was happening.
Saturday 29th March 2025
Dear Tony,
I have had two lovely long conversations
with Mona, yesterday and today and have lots of info for you which I shall type
up and send later. But she wanted me to try and explain about her current
situation.
First of all, she would like you to know
that she is extremely grateful for all that you do. The support she and those
around her feel is invaluable at this time and really does help to keep her
strong.
The situation for the people of the camp is
dire, as I am sure you understand.
Currently, thousands of people from Jenin
Camp fill the rooms of 15 buildings at the Arab American University. The rent
on these buildings I believe has been made possible by the business community
of Jenin City, along with the supply of electricity for one month.
The University campus is about 10 kms from
what used to be the camp and Jenin City and travelling to and from is unsafe.
Soldiers jeeps and armoured trucks drive in the streets - and as Mona found out
to her cost, they target anyone seen walking. Mona had been into the town and
on her return as the jeep drove past the door was deliberately opened, knocking
her to the ground. She lay there for several minutes, alone, until the trucks
drove away. If using a bus the price is 5NIS, money that many of the people do
not have.
Although the people of the camp are
grateful for the shelter of the university, the rooms are unsuitable for
families to live in. They have no hot water and many have no electricity. When
the people were expelled from the camp the IDF refused to allow them to take
anything, so they have relied on the kindness of others to bring some clothing
- there are no clothes washing facilities, so clothes are rinsed in cold water
to try and keep clean. There are scorpions and other insects which make life
very uncomfortable. There are families of 11 sharing a room.
The local schools do not accept the camp
children, however they have offered zoom lessons. This is very impractical with
a lack of internet access, electricity.
Many have been reduced to begging for food.
Again the business community has been bringing food, but this is becoming less
and less and the quality of the food being offered is becoming poorer. Photos
are taken when the food is handed over which makes receiving it very
uncomfortable.
Days are spent waiting for food. The
children playing in the stairways and corridors.
Mona spoke eloquently about the struggle to
stay alive. About how the violence and depravity of the soldiers has become
almost normal. When a friend or relative is killed, they mourn for a day and
the next day, wake up and start again. At first families would watch the news,
eager for any information, but now they don’t bother.
Children are taken from the streets and
they are told that their mother will be killed, that the child will be left
alone. Mona believes this to be instilling fear into the children from a very
early age. Drones with voices enter homes frightening the inhabitants and
making them flee. Mona fears this brainwashing will persuade the people to
agree to any demands made of them by Israel.
And so the people live in complete chaos,
with trauma and a fear for what the next day will bring. More and more families
arrive each day. It is in these conditions that Mona is trying to help others.
It is impossible for her to rent a room.
Rooms in the university are taken by families, renting in the city is around
3,000NIS and even if that money could be found, there is no way for the
children to travel there safely. Mona is adamant that the life of the children
is here and now. Where they are at the present moment is what matters and the
project in her heart is to try and keep them safe.
The money you have been sending has been
spent on food which is ridiculously expensive, but healthy. A meal of rice and
soup to feed one child costs 14NIS. So just 60 meals is 840NIS. Mona is
dividing one meal between 3 children to make the food go further. She has also
bought between 80 and 100 pairs of shoes for the children.
Mona is embarrassed to talk about money, to
accept money and she hates to beg. When in the camp Mona’s parents and her own
earnings from other jobs contributed to the running costs of the centre, your
donations made it possible to do so much more. But now she is totally reliant
on whatever can be spent. And she emphasises that nothing is enough.
At the moment, Mona is trying with the help
of one or two other teachers to visit small groups of children in the various
buildings and she wonders whether she could use some of the money you send to
pay them.
She has no idea what the next day will
bring and although one day she hopes to return to the camp and rebuild the
centre, that seems a distant dream and all she can do now is to concentrate on
doing what she can in the here and now. She remains strong and resolute and
determined to do all she can with any support she is offered.
The
Labour Files is
Janus Faced – its revelations about Starmer’s Police State of a Party
contradict the lie that Labour had an anti-Semitism problem
Al
Jazeera Labour Files - The Labour Files – Part 1:The Purge
The Labour Files – Part 2: The Crisis
The Labour Files – Part 3: The Hierarchy
Why Am I Reposting This?
On
3 November 2022 I posted this blog as a response to Al Jazeera’s The
Labour Files. Unfortunately Google took it down without notifying me.
Clearly someone mentioned in it was offended!
However
it was also posted to my Shadow Blog and
was in any event saved on my hard disk! I am reposting it now as it is still
relevant as it shows how the false anti-Semitism narrative was first weaponised
in the Labour Party. It also illustrates that too this day Jeremy Corbyn has
refused to evaluate the 'anti-Semitism' smear campaign in the Labour Party and
his role in it.
By
refusing to reassess the 'anti-Semitism' campaign, even now, Corbyn is still
legitimising the false accusation of anti-Semitism against the Palestinians.
Introduction to the Labour Files
I decided that rather than write an instant review of Al
Jazeera’s Labour Files that I would first watch them again.
Although they don’t explain how they obtained them, Al
Jazeera received the largest leak of internal files of a political party in
history. They reveal that in the fight to overturn the election of Jeremy
Corbyn, there was no tactic that was too dirty, no lie that was too
far-fetched, no smear that was too outrageous and no crime that was not worth
committing.
This was what passed for humour amongst Labour’s senior staff – none of whom were dismissed
It is to be hoped that people other than those featured will
be given an opportunity to access these files and see what was the real reason
behind their expulsion and the lies and deceptions behind it. I would be
interested to know whether I was given every document in my Subject Access
Request. Hopefully Al Jazeera will set
up an on-line database for all to access. I have raised this with producer,
Richard Sanders.
From the day of his election the Labour Right and the British
Establishment were determined to remove Corbyn. At first the Establishment’s
prostitute press, led by the Guardian, cast around for a suitable
weapon – Republicanism, support for Terrorism, spying for Communists, the
Economy and Homophobia.
However all of the above had a limited purchase.
‘Anti-Semitism’ provided the right combination of moral righteousness which,
when allied to identity politics and masquerading as anti-racism, packed a
punch like no other. Anti-Semitism had been raised by the Daily Mail and
Guardian even before Corbyn was elected.
It became the tried and trusted weapon of the Labour Right before
Starmer decided that proscribing organisations retrospectively and expelling
anyone associated with them was an easier route to being rid of the Left.
After all who doesn’t condemn anti-Semitism? Even the foulest
racists like Tommy Robinson would protest that they aren’t anti-Semitic. Why? Because the myth has been created that Jews
and only Jews were victims of the Holocaust. A myth that the Holocaust Memorial
Day Trust assiduously promotes.
Eric Pickles -a racist who opposes ‘antisemitism’ but loves Zionism
There are so many allegations of
wrongdoing, corruption, rigging of elections, dishonesty, bullying and
lawlessness in the Labour Files concerning Starmer’s Labour Party that
genuine journalists in a free press would spend weeks investigating them.
Instead The Guardian has clearly taken an editorial decision to ignore the Labour
Files. Its fake radical journalists, Chakrabarti, Owen Jones and George
Monbiot, have never once sought to challenge this censorship. Why?
What is revealed in The Labour
Files demonstrates that for four long years Jonathan Freedland, Raphael
Behr, Marina Hyde and co. engaged in Black Propaganda worthy of the press in a
police state. Freedland and his fellow presstitutes practised disinformation on
an industrial scale. Stopping the Labour Party falling into the hands of those
determined to challenge the neo-liberal consensus struck fear into the hearts
of the liberal Establishment..
There are a number of conclusions
that can be drawn from the Al Jazeera programmes but the main one is that
Corbyn’s promise of ‘kinder, gentler politics’ was precisely the wrong approach
to adopt to a vicious and feral Labour Right who would do anything in order to
ensure that Labour remained a safe, alternative party of capitalism.
The second conclusion flows from
the first. Instead of pushing back against the fake ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign
the Labour Left, with notable exceptions such as Labour Against the Witchhunt
and Chris Williamson MP, accepted the allegations as made in good faith and
went about demonising good anti-racists and anti-imperialists who were under
attack by apologists for apartheid.
Particularly shameful in this respect
was Jennie Formby, aptly called Judas Jennie by Chris Williamson. From a
position of support for the Palestinians and opposition to Zionism, to the
extent of questioning Baroness Royal’s chairing the inquiry into
‘anti-Semitism’ at Oxford University Labour Club in January 2016 she became the
most rabid of witch-hunters.
It was Formby who insisted that
Chris cancel a showing of the film ‘Witchhunt’at the House of Commons in 2019. Why?
Because it contradicted the Zionists’ ‘anti-Semitism’ narrative. Instead of resisting the Zionists’ attempts
to cancel any opinion bar their own, instead of asking why the Jewish Labour
Movement were so keen that the film should not be shown, JJ became a
McCarthyist.
Even worse, when Tom Watson called
for Williamson to be resuspended after he had been reinstated by an NEC Panel,
instead of defending due process JJ hurried to comply. And when it seemed
likely that the High Court would overturn this outrageous breach of natural
justice JJ then resuspended Chris for having given offence to Margaret Hodge.
JJ also declared, that motions condemning Chris’s suspension were ‘not
competent’.
When Corbyn was also suspended
Starmer and Evans used the same trick, declaring that motions of solidarity
were ‘not competent’. Thus Corbyn and JJ laid the ground for what was
to follow! Likewise when she and Corbyn proposed fast track expulsions.
But the major failure belonged to
Corbyn himself. Corbyn repeatedly stressed his opposition to anti-Semitism
without once understanding that when Zionists and the Board of Deputies talk
about ‘anti-Semitism’ what they really mean is anti-Zionism and opposition to
Israeli Apartheid. Which was why all of Corbyn’s protestations made no impact.
They entirely missed the point.
And by promising to ratchet up the
number of expulsions Corbyn and Formby gave credence to the idea that there was
some truth in what was being alleged about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.
From the start they assumed that the allegations were being made in good faith.
Corbyn’s emphasised that the fight against anti-Semitism was an ‘absolute
priority’ meaning that genuine anti-Black and Islamaphobia was not a
priority.
In any case anti-Semitism in
Britain is a prejudice not a form of racism, which is allied to state power.
Jews don’t suffer from institutional racism, police violence, economic
discrimination or fascist attacks unlike Black and other ethnic minorities.
Jews are the most privileged section of the White population. There is no
offence of Driving Whilst Jewish unlike Driving Whilst Black.
Not once did Corbyn or McDonnell
(who played a particularly disgraceful role) appreciate that when the Board of
Deputies talked of anti-Semitism that they meant was something entirely
different. It wouldn’t have taken much effort to look up Clause 3d of the Board
of Deputies Constitution which states that the Board shall:
Take such appropriate
action as lies within its power to advance Israel’s security, welfare and
standing.
The only MP who got it was Chris
Williamson whose omission from The Labour Files, along with Ken
Livingstone is all the more surprising.
One person comes out particularly
well from the Labour Files for the coherence of her argument and as a
spokesperson for the Palestine solidarity movement in Britain. I refer to Huda
Amori, one of the leaders of Palestine Action. It is ironic that Ben Jamal and Palestine
Solidarity Campaign is nowhere to be seen.
That is because they said nothing and did nothing throughout the entire
period. ‘Anti-Semitism’ seemed to them to be an irrelevance to supporting the
Palestinians even though it was consciously used to undermine support for
Palestine solidarity. Because it was the Palestinians who were the real victims
of the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign.
Huda made the obvious point that
the Palestinians didn’t choose the religion of their occupier. If Jews feel
affronted at support for Palestine, as many do, then that is because they have
signed up to a racist agenda.
The ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations
were designed to exclude Palestinians from the conversation. If you associated
Jews with the actions of Israel then you were almost guaranteed to be expelled.
This despite the fact that Israel carries out its actions as a Jewish state.
After all one of the 11
illustrations of ‘anti-Semitism’ according to the IHRA
misdefinition of anti-Semitism that the Zionists fought to get the
Labour Party to adopt was ‘Holding Jews
collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.’ Elsewhere in
the IHRA, in one of numerous contradictions, Israel is defined as being ‘conceived
as a Jewish collectivity’.
It is inevitable that people will
talk of Jews and Israel/Zionism in the same breath. Israel defines itself as a
Jewish state and it claims to represent not just its own citizens but world
Jewry. The Jerusalem
Programme of the World Zionist Organisation talks about the
‘centrality of the State of Israel and Jerusalem, its capital, in the
life of the (Jewish) nation.’
Likewise when Palestinians blame ‘the
Jews’ for their misfortunes this is not anti-Semitism but their experience
of the fact that those who come to kill and dispossess them do so as Jews.
Ghada Karmi, a British Palestinian
asked the rhetorical question at the core of the Labour ‘anti-Semitism’
campaign – ‘why should I and my family have left our homes?’ Her
answer was that
‘we were not allowed to return because we are of the wrong race – if
that is not racism I don’t know what is.’
When Ghada Karmi was invited to
speak to Hackney North CLP she was almost immediately shut up by the Chair
because she had dared to challenge the basis of the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign.
‘I was cut off. It was like a slap in the face. It was like being
elbowed out physically.’
Much of the Labour left, especially
that around Jon Lansman’s Momentum, was engaged in the censorship of the
Palestinian voice. All in the name of a fake anti-racism.
On the left Luke Akehurst and Jon Lansman – on
the right Akehurst defends Israel’s use of snipers against unarmed
demonstrators
The Board of
Deputies claimed to be the representative body of British Jews at the same time
as defending Israel’s actions,
right or wrong, even when Israeli snipers were executing unarmed demonstrators
in Gaza. As Huda observed people ‘had to walk on egg shells to get the
terminology exactly right’. Mention
the fact that those doing the shooting were Jewish and you would be suspended.
Huda summed up the feelings of many of us when she said
[1.07.40] ‘I wish Jeremy Corbyn had stood up for what he believed in at
that time.’ For his first two years as leader Corbyn was silent on
Palestine. He actively courted the JLM which he didn’t realise had been
refounded to get rid of him.
In what was a particularly disgraceful episode Corbyn handed the Del Singh Award to the JLM despite the vehement opposition of his family. The award was named after
a Labour activist and aid worker who was murdered by the Taliban. To hand the
award to an apartheid supporting organisation was a disgrace yet Corbyn was
pathetically eager to appease these racists. Even the Jewish Chronicle sub-headline was
‘Labour Party has disrespected Del Singh’s memory by giving honour to
Jewish organisation that supports Israel, says family’.
His appeasement of the Zionists didn’t do Corbyn much good.
In 2019 the JLM overwhelmingly passed a motion of no confidence in Corbyn despite him
having begged them not to disaffiliate from the Labour Party, which was
nothing more than grandstanding.
Corbyn never understood what Zionism was. He was an active patron
of Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign which has excised opposition to
Zionism from its constitution. Unfortunately rather than educate its
membership PSC keeps them in ignorance, all the better to control them.
The whole ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign was about getting one’s
language right. It was a social media witchhunt which should have been called
out from the start.
Did we always get the terminology right on South African
Apartheid? Activists referred to Afrikaaners when they meant South African
Whites. The Afrikaaners were the first
victims of concentration camps yet no-one was accused of racism for
misspeaking. As Andrew Feinstein, a former Jewish ANC MP, said in the
programme, the oppression of the Palestinians and a liberation struggle by its
very nature is going to include huge anger and suffering.
People struggle to explain the West’s backing for Israeli and
the support of the United States. They often mistakenly believe that Israel is
calling the shots rather than seeing that it is the United States’s racist
rottweiller in the Middle East. Sometimes this is often conflated with
America’s Jewish population rather than seeing support for Israel stemming from
the interests of US imperialism.
Since Israel calls itself a Jewish State it is not surprising
that people see Israel’s strength lying in the strength of Jews collectively.
This is not racism. Israel openly declares it speaks for all world Jewry. The
Israel Lobby speaks in the name of Jews. Yet it was on the basis of this
confusion that Labour’s witchhunters began trawling peoples’ social media.
Unfortunately The Labour Files never tried to
understand what it was that underlay the ability of the ‘anti-Semitism’
campaign to gain traction. Although nominally about hatred of Jews it was in
reality about opposition to Israel and Zionism. Criticism of Israel’s behaviour
such as the murder of 4 little children on Gaza’s beach by Israeli missiles was
nonetheless deemed anti-Semitic. Indeed just about any critical mention of
Israel ended up, under Jennie Formby, being deemed anti-Semitic.
The Labour Files veer between saying that on the one
hand there was a phenomenon of Labour anti-Semitism and saying it had been
manufactured to be rid of Corbyn.
The Labour Party is a criminal conspiracy against its own
members
I've faced more racism in my 5 years membership of the Labour Party than in the rest of my life combined - Marcia Hutcheson, ex-Labour Councillor
The Labour Files began with Greg Hadfield, the
elected and deposed Secretary of Brighton & Hove Labour Party, declaring that
Keir Starmer leads a lawless party. The programme provided many examples of
this lawlessness and disregard of rules and the law.
Perhaps the main lesson was that Corbyn and his dysfunctional
office ignored what Tony Benn had said, namely that the first job of a
socialist minister was to get on top of the civil service. It was this failure that doomed the Corbyn
Project. McNicol, Stolliday and co. should have been targeted as soon as they
started trying to remove supporters of Corbyn from the party during the 2015
election.
There will be people who make apologies for Corbyn citing the
pressure he was under. This is true but the fact remains that Corbyn never once
fought those seeking to destroy him. One such was ‘crooked’ Iain McNicol, the
General Secretary. On being elected McNicol offered Corbyn his resignation.
Instead of grabbing at the offer with both hands Corbyn asked him to stay on.
But Corbyn could still have gone on the attack against
Labour’s bureaucracy and created the pressure necessary to remove these agents
of the ruling class. When Corbyn defeated Owen Smith in 2016, after McNicol had
tried to stop him standing, it was the ideal opportunity to call for him to
step down. Even after the election result of June 2017, which McNicol,
Stolliday and all had done their best to prevent, Corbyn didn’t criticise
McNicol openly.
According to Al Jazeera there was a major antisemitism problem with
all these expulsions but the reality was that there wasn’t
Peter Oborne’s Chart Showing How Successful Judas Jennie and Corbyn Were At Expelling Anti-Racist Members
The political incoherence of the Labour Files was
demonstrated most graphically when Peter Oborne, displayed a large chart
showing how expulsions under Jennie Formby had increased ‘exponentially’
compared to her predecessor Crooked McNicol.
It is true that expulsions under JJ increased but that was a
sign of just how weak and desperate Corbyn
and her were. If they had stopped to think about what they were doing they
would have realised that by expelling so many good Labour activists all they
were doing was confirming the false allegations of the Right that there was an
anti-Semitism problem in the Labour Party.
And what was the result?
Was Corbyn and Formby given credit for their stupidity? Not at all. The EHRC Report didn’t even
mention all Corbyn’s endeavours. Instead
they said that all these ‘anti-Semites’ had been drawn to the Labour Party by
Corbyn himself. It was utterly futile
and an act of total stupidity.
Unfortunately the Labour Files are not totally
honest and I have written to Richard Sanders to ask that this be corrected. In
the second programme (28.59) the voice over says that ‘Our unit has
discovered links between [Jonathan] Hoffman and a far-right organisation.’
This is to say the least disingenuous. This blog revealed
this a mere 12 years ago! It is hardly a
revelation. Even Jonathan Hoffman admitted that I had been the first to rumble what he calls defamatory lies.
The programme also stated (30.37) that ‘Hoffman and
(Richard) Millett distanced themselves from EDL in 2011 (whereas) others do
not.’ This is untrue. Hoffman’s distancing was entirely bogus and only
came about after I had exposed him. Hoffman cited emails he
had sent to the Police after the joint demonstrations at Ahava with the EDL. He
then went on to demonstrate alongside Paul Besser, former Intelligence Officer
for Britain First, as well as to work with a host of Zionist supporters of
Tommy Robinson.
Below I look at the content of The Labour Files and
what it says about the Labour Party today under Starmer and Evans.
Tony Greenstein
The Labour
Files
Angela Eagle and the fake allegations of homophobic abuse
The Suspension of
Wallasey and Brighton Labour Parties
The first programme The
Purge details how lies were spread by New Labour clone, Tessa Jowell, that
Angela Eagle, the lesbian MP for Wallasey had been subject to homophobic abuse
at the 2016 AGM of the party. The only problem was that Eagle hadn’t actually
been present at the meeting!
Councillor Paul Stuart Creates False Evidence
This didn’t stop former councillor Paul Stuart submitting a
note about Momentum activists’ undemocratic practices, which was literally
copied from a review of Michael Crick’s book on Militant 30 years ago! Tom
Watson used Stuart’s note as proof of
subversion in a memo to Corbyn. As James Schneider from Corbyn’s office said,
we were in the realm of the creation of facts. Peter Oborne, one of the few
honest journalists around made the point that this could only happen because of
a lack of media questioning.
The local rag ran with the lies of Warren Morgan
In one ludicrous scene we see Stuart demanding a police
investigation into the distribution by Paul Davies, Vice Chair of Wallasey
Labour Party, of flyers. Davies was alleged to have used Labour Party databases
in breach of the data protection laws. The only problem was that Davies was in
London at the time of the leafletting!
Nonetheless Davies was suspended after challenging Eagle and
her fellow liars to take a lie detector test. 3 of the 4 ‘witnesses’ at
Wallasey’s AGM who heard the dyke comment about Eagle just happened to have the
surnames ‘Stuart’. We also see how Eagle, who was challenging Corbyn for the
leadership at that stage, despite not having the support of her own party,
worked in tandem with Sam Matthews, Head of the Disputes Team and John Stolliday,
the racist head of the Compliance Unit. Stolliday is, to this day, employed
alongside Emily Oldknow, another known racist by UNISON.
The Lies of Warren Morgan
Warren Morgan & Spitting
On July 9 2016 in Brighton there was an AGM for what was the
largest party in Britain, more than 6,000 members. Before the meeting Momentum held a massive rally at
the Brighthelm community centre. In all my years in Brighton I’d never seen
such a large meeting. About 800 people crammed into their hall, the cafeteria
behind it and spilled over into the gardens outside.
After leaving the meeting people went directly to the AGM at
the nearby Brighton College of Technology. The meeting was so big that it had
to be held in 3 sessions. All the left candidates achieved 65% of the vote.
Democracy in action.
Warren Morgan & the Spitting Lies That
Were used to Overthrow Democracy in Brighton Labour Party & Overturn the
AGM Election Results
The spitting that never was
What was the reaction of the Labour Right in the person of
Warren Morgan, the Blairite Leader of Brighton and Hove Council? To make a series of false allegations of
spitting and bullying. Morgan knew he would have the backing of Labour
officials. In the words of Stolliday:
overturn AGM, deal with individuals. Shows
what we're up against - a bunch of SWP & Trots marching straight from a
rally to invade a CLP meeting and stuff handfuls of ballot papers in boxes even
when they;re not members of the party
Warren Morgan - author of the spitting lies
Karen Buckingham, GLU’s [Governance and Legal Unit] Head of
Disputes was later appointed as an ‘investigator’ into the allegations. She said:
“I say act now and worry about [rules and legal issues]
later, so long as we don't do something that'll end up fucknig everything else
up”. [Labour Leaked Report [LLR], p.113]
The reaction of Corbyn’s officials was a sign of what was to
come. When Hadfield was rung up he was told ‘We’ve got to do something
about the spitting’ to which he replied ‘what spitting’. There
was no allegation that was too far fetched for Corbyn’s useless office.
In the end even Buckingham could not uphold the allegations
of spitting since Greg had got hold of the CCTV covering the entrance to the
College. It proved that there was no
spitting. Buckingham refused to watch it on data protection grounds!!
I wrote a number of blogs on what was happening at the time
and they convey my own impressions of what happened and the lies of Morgan,
councillor Emma Daniels and other New Labour supporters on Brighton and Hove
Council.
Ann Black –
suspended Brighton/Hove Labour Party on a Lie
NEC member Ann Black was the Head of Disputes. She sanctioned
the immediate suspension of Brighton and Hove Labour Party without even
bothering to ask local members whether the allegations were true. Greg
Hadfield, the elected Secretary was suspended in order to ensure that a new
Executive had a right-wing majority.
Meanwhile in Hove constituency, its MP Peter Kyle, who is now
Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, is revealed as sending an email to
McNicol calling for the suspension and expulsion of Rebecca Massey, a prominent activist and
Chair of the branch of which Ivor Caplin, a former Zionist MP was a member.
THE WAR CRIMINAL & SUSPECTED PAEDOPHILE WHO CHAIRED
THE JEWISH LABOUR MOVEMENT
Caplin is a bona fide war criminal having been a junior
defence minister at the time of Blair’s invasion of Iraq. He also became Chair
of the right-wing Jewish Labour Movement. Caplin quoted from an article on the website of the Israeli funded Campaign Against
Anti-Semitism which spoke of Rebecca’s ‘Black heart’!
Caplin & Black Hearts - He is Probably an Expert in Them!
Lambs to the Slaughter – Becky Matthews
Hove
Labour Party Activist, Becky Matthews, Tells About the Lies and Deceit of those
Guilty of False Accusations of Antisemitism, Including Former Chair of the
Jewish Labour Movement Ivor Caplin, who was Caught in a Sting for Allegedly
Trying to Make Contact with Schoolboys for Sex
Becky was an active member of Brighton and Hove PSC and a
fine, articulate activist. The picture painted in the CAA’s scurrilous article,
that she was an anti-Semite, was simply a lie. Becky summed up the situation
when she said that activists in the party, who believed in fair play and
sticking to the rules were simply ‘lambs to the slaughter’ as the Right
disregarded any rule that was inconvenient, lied to order and engaged in what
can only be called the tactics of destabilisation learnt at the knee of the CIA
in Latin America.
Where Al Jazeera slipped up was in saying that the publishing
of this article was ‘the day that anti-Semitism was used for the first time
in Brighton and Hove’. It wasn’t.
The first use of ‘anti-Semitism’ was when I was suspended in
March 2016 by Stolliday quite explicitly because of criticism of Israel. I was
targeted by the Zionists from the start and even then there were those in
Momentum locally, like Clare Wadey, the Vice Chair of the Labour Representation
Committee, who gave credence to the allegations.
But as Hadfield said ‘from that one story there have been
6 yrs of abuse’. The CAA was formed
at the time of Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza
which killed 2,200 Palestinians including 551 children, with the express
purpose of labelling criticism of Israel ‘anti-Semitic’.
At no time did Corbyn or McDonnell protest the suspension of
either Wallasey or Brighton & Hove Labour parties. They were content for
their supporters to be attacked, votes to be annulled and dirty tricks to
continue whilst they continued their policy of appeasement. They could have
mobilised the membership to oust these bureaucrats but they chose to tolerate
and work with them.
The treatment of Ella Rose, Director of the JLM and a former
Israeli Embassy employee, contrasted markedly with that of Rebecca Massey and
Greg Hadfield.
Ella Rose of the
Jewish Labour Movement Threatens to 'take out' Jackie Walker
Ella Rose and taking out Jackie
Rose had been filmed in the Al Jazeera programme The Lobby threatening
violence against Jackie Walker, the suspended former Vice-Chair of Momentum.
“I saw Jackie Walker
on Saturday and thought, you know what, I could take her, she’s like 5’2 and
tiny,”
Ella Rose, who threatened violence against Jackie Walker, was given special treatment by the Disputes Team and Sam Matthews.
Rose did what all suspended people do in such a situation.
She emailed Sam Matthews telling him that she wouldn’t have said this ‘if I
had known the conversation was being recorded’. Which is much like a bank
robber asking to be acquitted on the grounds that if he had known the Police
were waiting for him then he would never have robbed the bank!
Founded in 1760 the Board of Deputies has only once ever
organised a demonstration against ‘antisemitism’ – not against the British
Union of Fascists, not National Front nor the BNP or the EDL – only against
Corbyn – fascist antisemitism is not its concern
The Abuse that the Guardian & the BBC Never
Got Around to Mentioning
For Britain’s media the only victims in the 4 year fake
‘anti-Semitism’ campaign were Zionist Jews.
The only heroes were people Luciana Berger MP who used harassment from a
few fascist oddballs, notably Joshua Bonehill Paine to smear the left with
‘anti-Semitism’. Berger had been
parachuted into the Wavertree seat in 2010 by Blair, having been the girl
friend of his son Euan.
Wavertree CLP hated her, not because she was Jewish but
because she was a right-wing implant who hadn’t even known the name of the legendary Liverpool
football manager, Bill Shankley. Of course Tom Watson and the Right conflated
the political opposition of Wavertree CLP,
whose Chair was Jewish, with fascist attacks on her.
Other heroines included Ruth Smeeth, the charlatan who
claimed Marc Wadsworth’s criticism of her was because she was Jewish. Smeeth or rather Lady Smeeth after Starmer’s
ennoblement, blatantly lied in claiming that she had received 25,000 hostile messages.
Another heroine was Louise Ellman MP for Liverpool Riverside
(she too was parachuted into the constituency). Ellman specialised in defending
Israel’s torture and treatment of Palestinian children. She was literally the
vilest of Zionists. When I called her the MP for South Tel Aviv I was accused of racism by the Jewish Chronicle until I pointed out that John Carlisle, a notorious supporter of
South Africa’s apartheid regime had been called the MP for Pretoria!
On 16th January 2016 a Parliamentary debate initiated by Sarah Champion was held
on Child Prisoners and Detainees: Occupied Palestinian Territories. Up
stood Ellman to defend the practices of the Israeli military in arresting
children early in the morning, blindfolding and beating them, holding them
without access to lawyers or their parents and trying them in military courts.
does she accept that
the context in which these situations occur is an organised campaign conducted
by the Palestinian authorities of incitement, to try to provoke young
Palestinians to carry out acts of violence towards other civilians, some of
which result in death, including the death of young children?
A classic example of
victim blaming but when I was expelled one of the main reasons was my ‘shaming’
Ellman by calling her a supporter of Israeli child abuse. My response was that Ellman was shameless.
Also omitted from all mention of Smeeth and Berger was the
fact that Smeeth had been employed by Zionist propaganda group, BICOM and
Berger had been a Director of Labour Friends of Israel. But when you are
running a smear campaign, facts can be awkward things.
Dianne Abbot
The MP who did receive the most abuse was Diane Abbot, an MP
for over 30 years. Not only vile fascist
abuse but abuse from within the Labour Party, not least from its staff. But
this went unmentioned. Only ‘anti-Semitism’ was considered important.
Jenny Manson
The media followed Orwell’s script to the letter in making
Black= White. Jewish Zionists were allowed to invent attacks that never took
place (see Izzy Lenga) whereas Jewish anti-Zionists who had been abused were
comprehensively ignored.
The second episode of Labour Files,
The
Crisisbegan with Jenny Manson, an elderly
Jewish woman who is co-Chair of Jewish Voices for Labour [JVL]. Jenny described
a number of examples of abuse, in particular one anonymous phone call. A Zionist left a message on Jenny’s ansaphone
along with his phone number! The Police
were therefore forced to take action but unlike the situation where Zionists
have been harassed, they issued a caution.
The real Zionist attitude to the holocaust and Jews who died
at Auschwitz is revealed in the message that Jenny received.
“you fucking Nazi bitch, you fucking Nazi scum, You should burn in the
gas oven,
You dirty fucking bitch,
Fucking, fucking Nazi cow you are
Stinking, stinking swine
I hope you die in a gas oven
You deserve everything, to burn in hell
To burn in acid
After having been called a ‘Nazi bitch’ the caller
then told her that she should die in a gas oven! It is a favourite line of attack by Zionists
on Jewish anti-Zionists to tell them that they deserve to die like the millions
of Jews in Europe who also rejected Zionism and died in the holocaust as a
result. I have experienced the same.
It is a favourite taunt of Zionists to tell Jewish
anti-Zionists that ‘Hitler was right’. Where I think Jenny went wrong
in the programme was to suggest that
For the first time
ever the Labour Party has walked into a disagreement between Jews over Zionism
and said one form of Jews are wrong, anti-Semitic.
This is wrong. The ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign was never about
Jews or anti-Semitism. What happened was that Jews were used as political stool
pigeons in order to give a moral base to the right-wing attack on Corbyn.
Pauline Hammerton – Killed By the Witchhunters
Pauline Hammerton – Killed
By the Witchhunters
Pauline Hammerton was the 80 year old woman mentioned by
Halima Khan (though not by name) in Al Jazeera’s ‘The Labour Files’ who
was killed by Labour’s witchhunters. The machinery for her expulsion had been
established by Jeremy Corbyn and Judas Jennie Formby not Starmer.
The sub-heading was: ‘Pauline was Killed by Lansman, the
Jewish Labour Movement and all those who supported the IHRA, a Charter for
making false charges of ‘anti-Semitism’ against anti-racists’
In 2017, Pauline had been one of over 500 signatories to a letter to the Guardian protesting
at the suspension of Ken Livingstone. You can see the full list of signatories here.
‘A cursory look at Pauline’s Facebook page shows that she was
anything but a racist. She was a decent, kind, concerned person who hated all
kinds of oppression. Pauline was Chair of Manchester Socialist Health
Association. That was why she supported the Palestinians. Pauline was the kind
of person who should be welcomed and respected. Instead she was expelled at the
instigation of Mike Katz and his fellow war-criminals in the JLM, the overseas
wing of the Israeli Labour Party….
Repeatedly I have been told by good socialists, suspended and
expelled by the Labour Party, how depressed they felt at being falsely accused
of anti-Semitism by those whose only purpose in life is to defame supporters of
the Palestinians, anti-Zionists and anti-racists. It is outrageous that good
socialists and anti-racists have been defamed and smeared for opposing the
world’s most racist state, Israel. We have had 4 long years of fake and false
allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’ by hypocrites, liars and defamers such as
Luciana Berger and Ruth Smeeth. Racists whose only mission was to defame
anti-racist activists….
When the Labour Party adopted the IHRA misdefinition of
anti-Semitism in September 2018 and when at last year’s conference, with the
support of the pathetic Corbyn, ‘fast track’ expulsions were agreed, i.e
expulsions without even a hearing, it was inevitable that sooner or later, that
it might have fatal consequences and cause great shock. Fast-track expulsions,
of which there were 25 in just one day this month, were obviously a ticking
time bomb. If any one person had the ability to stop the adoption of these
proposals and the IHRA in its track it was Jon Lansman
It is and remains an utter disgrace the fact that good
socialists like Pauline Hammerton were hounded to their deaths. This was one of
the by-products of Corbyn’s cowardice in not standing up to the fake
anti-Semitism campaign.
Tony Greenstein confronts Stanger at Brighton’s clocktower
Luke Stanger - the racist thug who specialised in the
harassment of women
The only thing that can be said in support of Luke Stanger, a
gormless buffoon who was used by Peter Kyle and the Labour Right, is that he
clearly suffers from mental health problems. However this is no excuse for his
behaviour in harassing Labour Party activists.
Stanger harassed Pamela Fitzpatrick, a local Harrow
councillor and eventually their parliamentary candidate, after the local CLP
voted to affiliate to JVL. Pamela was accused in a series of vile tweets of being
an anti-Semite and holocaust denier.
Ex left MP and former Campaign Group member
Lloyd Russell-Moyle gives a glowing tribute to Luke Stanger
Pamela was suspended following a completely fabricated
complaint of bullying by Cllr. Michael Borio. Local MP Gareth Thomas joined in,
writing to McNicol urging her expulsion even whilst he was sending emails to
local members supportive of Pamela!
Anne Mitchell, a member of Hove Labour Party Executive and a
prominent supporter of the Palestinians was accused by Stanger of being a ‘filthy
racist grandma’. The Labour Party eventually suspended Stanger, not
because of his harassment of women but because he had tweeted that:
If someone had substituted ‘Jew’ for ‘traveller
community’ they would have been expelled instantly. However as Al Jazeera
showed Stanger’s letter rejecting the accusations which began
The Jewish Chronicle never misses an opportunity to defend the thugs and misfits of the Zionist movement
I wish to state at
the outset that in my eight years of obsessive activism and seven years of
party membership, I have never intended to cause the party any harm or offense.
The 2 Poisonous Lukes
was written by another Luke, Luke Akehurst, who was employed
by We Believe in Israel. Akehurst is now an MP having been imposed in North Durham. Of course this made sense as this oaf is all but
illiterate but it shows the deep complicity of the leading lights in Labour’s
Right in the abusive activities of Stanger.
Stanger didn’t however confine his activities to women. A
particularly distressing and upsetting series of incidents involved Damian
McCarthy, a prominent activist in Hove Labour Party and Chair of a local Unite
branch. Stanger stalked Damian and a child he was taking to school.
The message sent to Damian McCarthy by a
Zionist abuser – the Police refused to take action and the media of course said
nothing
Damian’s workplace was rung up by Stanger and then Jonathan
Hoffman. One particularly vile tweet
threatened to behead Damian’s family and ‘skull fuck’ his dead mother. Damian described how the
attacks on his mother led to the premature death of his step father.
Stanger & the Accounts Clerk cum Chancellor Who Was Forced to Quit Her Job For Fiddling Her Expenses
The only good news that has come out of this is that as a result
of the publicity surrounding Stanger’s activities he was sacked by WJ Ltd who
employed him at Gatwick Airport! A taste of his own medicine.
Poetic Justice – Stanger was sacked after the
Al Jazeera programmes were broadcast!
Perhaps the strangest thing about the case of Luke Stanger is
that although the National Constitutional Committee voted to expel him, this was never implemented. He has been
welcomed back into Hove CLP by the Right. There is no rule which allows an
expelled member to continue in membership. It demonstrates the contempt for
Labour’s rule book when it comes to protecting the Right, even if, as in
Stanger’s case he has been found guilty of abusive, racist behaviour.
Starmer’s Police
State Democracy in the Labour Party
In his first speech to Labour Party conference Starmer took
no chances. Armed police stood in the aisles to try and deter heckling. After
Corbyn had been suspended the Black Mayor of Liverpool, Anne Rothery spoke up
in his support which resulted in her being removed from the shortlist for the
mayoral elections.
The same tricks were used by the Right against Rothery. False
allegations were made by local councillor Allan Dean who alleged that she had
physically attacked a corrupt local Labour councillor, Nick Small. The pattern is familiar. Get a local councillor to write a letter
making a series of false allegations and then the target of the attack is
suspended. Once again Corbyn and his office failed to speak out against these
tactics.
Liverpool’s
right wing Cllr. Nick Small – corrupt and obnoxious
Peter Oborne, the
former Telegraph political correspondent provided a running commentary. Despite
being a Tory Oborne is alone among right-wing journalists for his decency and
integrity which is why he parted company with the Daily Mail. Oborne’s comments
on Starmer’s contempt for democracy in the Labour Party was that
If that is
the way the Labour Party is conducting itself in Opposition, under Keir
Starmer, former DPP, is Keir Starmer going to behave like that in power’
The BBC has refused to explain why they only
interviewed members of the JLM who took part in the programme, why they didn't
identify them or include any other Jewish viewpoint
BBC
Panorama’s Is Labour Anti-Semitic?
The Labour Files – Part 4: The Spying Game
This was an interview between a Labour Party investigator and a Jewish woman Rica Bird in Liverpool. Westerman lied about this interview on the BBC Panorama programme ‘Is Labour Antisemitic’ when he alleged Rica asked him if he was from Israel. The tape recording of the interview shows clearly he was asked what branch of the Labour Party he was from.
The Lies of Labour
Investigator Ben Westerman
In July 2019 with an election in the offing, the BBC
fulfilled its traditional role on behalf of the British Establishment. Of one
thing the ruling class was certain of –a Corbyn premiership was to be avoided
at all costs. So naturally the Islamphobic anti-Corbyn journalist John Ware
presented a hit job on Corbyn’s Labour Party.
Starmer handed John Ware thousands of pounds
of members’ money in order to reinforce the allegations of ‘antisemitism’
against the Labour Party
In Liverpool Riverside Jewish member Helen Dickson was under
investigation. Her investigator was Ben Westerman who alleged that her silent
witness, Rica Bird had asked him ‘where are you from? Are you from Israel?
which he took as referring to Israel. If Rica had said this it’s difficult to
see how that could be anti-Semitic but Rica had said nothing of the sort.
What she had said was ‘‘so I’m just curious about what
branch are you in?’ and when Westerman said it wasn’t relevant Rica
accepted it. There is a world of difference between asking what Labour Party
Branch someone was in and asking if someone Jewish is from Israel.
The interview was recorded so it is clear that Westerman was
lying. But this and other instances of bias and failure to properly investigate
(for example contacting Rica for her response before broadcasting) were ignored
by Ofcom, the regulator of the broadcast media which simply refused to
investigate, despite there being a record 2,000+ complaints. Like other wings
of the Establishment Ofcom was not prepared to scrutinise the fake
‘anti-Semitism’ campaign.
As the Labour Files (42.00) rightly said, the Jews
interviewed in the Panorama programme were drawn entirely from the officers of
the anti-Corbyn JLM. Not one Jewish anti- Zionist was allowed to speak. It was
(48.30) the ‘BBC’s momentous intervention in British politics.’
The aftermath of the Panorama programme came when Corbyn and
his office alleged that the Disputes Team staff were themselves politically
motivated. They sued for libel. [1.10.17-1.2.18]
Despite this legal advice Starmer was eager to
concede the racist staff and Islamaphobe John Ware’s libel case
The reaction of Starmer was to settle the libel case and pay
the liars £700,000 despite Labour’s own lawyers advising that the Party was
likely to successfully defend their claims. As Peter Oborne remarked ‘This
is the most unambiguous legal advice I’ve ever seen’
What was the reason Starmer settled? Oborne suggests that he
was ‘defining himself against Corbyn’. I think a more simpler
explanation is that Starmer wanted the staff to succeed in order that he could
say that Corbyn’s Labour was anti-Semitic. Starmer wanted the EHRC Report to be
as damning as possible in order that he could use it against the left. This is
why he suspended Corbyn and anyone else who questioned the EHRC report. In the
process Starmer all but bankrupted the Labour Party.
John Ware’s claim for £150K was aimed at chilling free
speech. There were a number of defences including fair comment, qualified
privilege and honest opinion that could have been used but the last thing
Starmer wanted was for Labour’s defence to succeed.
Lenga's Lies
Perhaps the most unbelievable section of Is Labour
Anti-Semitic was when the JLM’s International Officer (& a Reserve
Officer in Israel’s Occupation Army) Izzy Lenga stated that ‘everyday’ she was
told ‘Hitler was right’ and that ‘he
didn’t go far enough’ in the Labour Party.
To anyone who has ever attended a Labour Party meeting this
is simply unbelievable. It was a straightforward lie without the slightest
evidence being produced. Had Lenga put
forward a complaint to the Labour Party about this abuse? Had she named culprits? Of course not. It was simply a false allegation that John
Ware ran with because of its shock effect.
Peter Oborne did a google search of Lenga and ‘Hitler was
right’ and lo and behold Ms Lenga had complained about this but at Birmingham
University where posters ‘Hitler was right’ had appeared. In other words nothing to do with the Labour
Party but for the BBC any lying allegation that discredited the Left in the
Labour Party was worth airing, especially when no one was called to rebut it or
even question her lies.
Criticising
Israel or Zionism was ‘anti-Semitic’ according to the IHRA misdefinition of
anti-Semitism
The Labour Party and Corbyn were facing a full-scale attack
from the BOD over ‘anti-Semitism’. But instead of fighting back they, and
especially the leader of Momentum, Jon Lansman, gave way.
James Schneider of the Leader of the Opposition’s Office said
[1.07.03] that ‘We adopted the IHRA because it was politically impossible
not to do so’ whereas ‘the counter pressure from Palestinian voices in
the media was absent’. Len McLuskey of Unite believed that by adopting the
IHRA the false anti-Semitism campaign would come to an end whereas the exact
opposite occurred.
Of course if Corbyn and LOTO had pushed back, if they had
questioned the JLM as to its links with the Israeli Embassy and its description of the racist Israeli Labor Party as its ‘sister’
party, then it could all have been very different.
Schneider, like the even more useless Seamus Milne, was a
product of the public school Oxbridge system. Socialism to these people was an
abstraction. The idea of standing up to the ruling class’s ideological
offensive never occurred to them. One can only speculate about what they
thought would happen if Corbyn had gained power.
We see [1.03.39-2] Margaret Hodge and Luciana Berger
demanding that the ‘NEC has to adopt the internationally agreed IHRA code’.
‘No ifs, not buts no caveats’ parrots Berger, the former director of
Israeli Embassy front Labour Friends of Israel. Not once did Corbyn or
LOTO wake up to the fact that the whole of the IHRA was rotten, designed to
redefine anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism. In September 2019 Labour’s NEC adopted
the IHRA misdefinition wholesale. People forget that Corbyn voluntarily adopted
the 38 word IHRA definition at the end of 2016.
Andrew Feinstein argued [1.04.56] that by approving the right
of self-determination for the Jewish people you are removing it from the Palestinian
people. Unfortunately this is not correct. It is not a question of two
conflicting rights, which is the narrative of the left Zionists. The real
problem is that there is no one single Jewish people. Jews are not a nation and
therefore self-determination doesn’t arise. The idea of a single Jewish people
is itself the basis of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories which the Zionists
adopted.
A good example of the hypocrisy of this campaign was seeing
Gordon Brown arguing that Labour must adopt the IHRA to combat anti-Semitism.
This is the same creature who used the National Front slogan of ‘British Jobs for
British Workers’
Ken Livingstone and Nazi Comparisons
When Ken Livingstone, remarked to Vanessa Feltz that Hitler
had supported Zionism all hell broke loose. This rapidly turned into Hitler was
a Zionist. It resulted in a media ambush involving John Mann calling
Livingstone a ‘Hitler apologist’ outside Parliament.
This was the same John Mann who had issued an Anti-Social Behaviour Handbook which described Travellers
as an example of anti-social behaviour. He was subsequently interviewed by the Police. Mann had supported the racist
Labour MP Phil Woolas who was removed by an Electoral Court from Parliament for
lying about his election opponent and who had run an election campaign in 2010
designed to ‘make the White folk angry’ at Muslims.
As Geoffrey Bindman QC explained anti-Semitism has
traditionally been understood as a hatred of Jews as Jews. The IHRA transformed that into hatred and
criticism of Zionism and Israel. Criticising Israeli settler terrorism had
become anti-semitic.
The
Elephant in the Room – the Links Between British Zionists, Tommy Robinson &
the Far Right
In the second episode of Labour Files we came across
the detritus of the Zionist movement in the persons of Daman Lenzner &
Jonathan Hoffman. They were both convicted of harassing and abusing Palestinian
protestors outside a Puma shop. Prior to their trial they had had a warrant issued for their arrest for failing to answer bail.
The programme (29.13) described how Hoffman ‘is
photographed alongside Roberta Moore’ a member of the Jewish Defence
League, the EDL’s Zionist wing and that she had expressed admiration for
neo-Nazi Andrei Breivik, the Norwegian fascist who killed 77 people, mainly
young socialists, in Oslo.
What was new in the Labour Files was the revelation
that Dan Fox, Stella Creasey’s foul mouthed boyfriend had been at a meeting of
the Zionist far right and that he considered himself close friends to Sharon
Klaff, an open Tommy Robinson/Pegida/AfD supporter.
Where Al
Jazeera Goes Wrong is in its take on Corbyn’s Alleged Interference in Labour’s
Disciplinary Process
Al Jazeera seemed unsure as to whether or not there was a
problem of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.
If there was no anti-Semitism phenomenon then the Zionist allegations
were false. But if there was an anti-Semitism problem, even if it was
exaggerated, then the campaign itself was justified.
The Labour Files argued that if Corbyn did interfere in the disciplinary
process it was only to speed it up. Thus they accepted the thrust of the
Zionist attack. Unfortunately Al Jazeera went along with this completely
muddled take on what happened. It was the narrative of Lansman, the Alliance
for Workers Liberty and some of Corbyn’s supporters, including those who
compiled Labour’s Leaked Report. They argued that Corbyn did his best to fight
‘anti-Semitism’ but was undermined by the ‘factionalism’ of his opponent thus
not getting that the ‘anti-Semitism’ had but one purpose – getting rid of
Corbyn.
The Forde Report [1.18.18] found no evidence of any attempt
by the Corbyn leadership to interfere in disciplinary processes. Maybe but the real problem was not that Corbyn
interfered but that he didn’t interferein the disciplinary process. The GLU should have been prevented
from pursuing people for false allegations of anti-Semitism. Instead Corbyn was content to let the witchhunters
have a clear field.
We learn (37.33-2) that ‘factionalism’ had prevented the
investigation of anti-Semitism cases implying that there was a problem but the
determination of McNicol and co. to pursue Corbyn supporters had detracted from
the fight against anti-Semitism.
This is political illiteracy. The primary fight was against
Corbyn and his supporters. ‘Anti-Semitism’ was the means to conduct that fight.
Thus Momentum Chair Andrew Scattergood reacted to Corbyn’s suspension by saying that it ‘undermined
the fight against anti-Semitism’! We had a 5 minute segment of the second
programme whose theme (37.33) was that it was McNicols staff who had stopped
Labour from tackling anti-semitism. We were told (38.16) that
‘Corbyn is frustrated
and writes to McNicol in February 2018 angry that Disputes Team is so
ineffective in tackling anti-Semitism cases.’
It was like a chicken complaining that the fox had
indigestion and couldn’t eat it!
When Judas Jennie took over from McNicol as General Sec
retary there was no record keeping, according to Halima Khan, the former member
of the Disputes Team.
Now it might be true that Stolliday and Matthews were
inefficient in keeping track of the ‘evidence’ of ‘anti-Semitism’ in those that
they had suspended but so what? Perhaps that was because the ‘evidence’ was so
thin.
This (40.07) culminated in Peter Oborne & his graph in
which he demonstrated that expulsions under JJ had increased ‘exponentially’ since taking over from McNicol. Oborne states
that ‘This graph alone raises questions about dominant media narrative in
the Corbyn era’
The only problem is that the graph proves nothing of the
kind. Indeed the massive increase in expulsions under JJ ‘proved’ that there
was indeed a massive anti-Semitism problem in the Labour Party. In other words
the faster Corbyn and JJ expelled people the more they proved that the Zionists
had been right after all!
In fact nearly all of those JF had expelled, including Chris
Williamson MP (whom Formby excluded from running as a Labour candidate) were not
anti-Semites. The same Labour Files featured Anne Mitchell who had
been expelled under JJ’s not McNicol’s watch. It was surprising that (41.32)
Andrew Feinstein, who is politically very good, fell into this trap saying that
the ‘key failings of the Labour Party took place before April 2018) when
McNicol was finally prised out.’
The Labour Files take on the EHRC programme was, as
a result of this political muddle, extremely weak. So it says (50.46) that prior to the period
when Formby became General Secretary none of the staff were investigated. That is
true but irrelevant to the main question which is whether there was an
anti-Semitism phenomenon at all.
Corbyn and Formby were trying to speed up the expulsion of people who
were not anti-Semitic. Indeed he introduced at the 2019 conference the ‘fast
track’ expulsions which we were assured would only be used against ‘egregious’
cases of anti-Semitism.
That was a lie. The fast-track expulsions were used against every case of alleged anti-Semitism. All
those who were expelled were denied a hearing. Anonymous bureaucrats made the
decision. Ironically Corbyn himself was later suspended under the same
procedures.
Towards the end of his leadership Corbyn was running on a
treadmill of the Right’s making. Of course the EHRC Report was absurd to
suggest (52.06) that by trying to speed up Ken Livingstone’s case Corbyn was
discriminating against Jewish members. But
what does that say about Corbyn? What The Labour Files didn’t mention
was the fact that its author, Alisdair Henderson, was a supporter of the
far-Right who defended the fascist
philosopher Roger Scruton and who ‘liked’ or retweeted social media posts
criticising Black Lives Matters protesters.
Henderson described the words misogynist and homophobe as “highly
ideological propaganda terms.” Again The Labour Files were
extremely weak politically.
Other criticisms of the EHRC, such as their redefinition of
harassment as political disagreement weren’t touched upon.
Marc Wadsworth
Marc is a Black anti-racist activist who did more than any
single person to bring the Stephen Lawrence affair to the public’s attention by
arranging a meeting between his parents and Nelson Mandela. The refusal of
Corbyn and his apparatchiks to speak out in his defence was particularly
disgusting.
As Marc said (53.15) of the NCC Panel under Magi Cosins, a
supporter of the right-wing Labour First, ‘they’d already decided I was
guilty whatever evidence put before them.’ Marc was the only person on the programme to
make any criticism of Corbyn: (53.34 ) ‘Jeremy Corbyn threw me under a
bus.’
Was There a
Hierarchy of Racism?- Marcia Hutchinson Labour Councillor 'I've faced more racism in the Labor Party
than in my whole life'
One of the main catch phrases of much of the left about
Labour is that there is a hierarchy of racism with anti-Semitism at the top and
Islamaphobia and anti-Black racism at the bottom. I disagree.
For there to be a hierarchy of racism Labour Party must have
been concerned about actual anti-Semitism whereas all the evidence is that if
you were one of the few genuine and bona fide anti-Semites in the Labour Party
the chances were that Matthews and his cronies were not be interested in you.
Labour’s Disputes Team were only interested in expelling anti-Zionists.
In Episode 3 ‘The
Hierarchy’ we hear from
Marcia Hutchinson, a Black councillor in Manchester, who said that she had
faced more racism in the Labour Party than in the whole of her life. (5.27) Yet
this was never tackled by Corbyn who allowed himself to be diverted by the fake
‘anti-Semitism’ allegations, made by the same anti-Black and Islamaphobic
racists.
The programme includes audio by a Black worker detailing her
experience of racism working at Southside, Labour’s HQ. ‘I brought my
experience to the party and I was held to different standards than White men.’ There
was an hour long meeting with her line manager about her where she wasn’t given
a right of reply. As Marcia remarked: ‘It is utterly sickening that this is
happening in a party that claims to be anti-racist.
Diane Abbott
Slither is what a snake does - Diane Abbott's experience of Labour Party racism
We learn of a 17
strong WhatsApp messaging group that included McNicol which was replete with
racist attacks on Dianne Abbot who it had just been announced had Type 2
Diabetes. The following exchange speaks for itself:
Sarah Mulholland: Diane Abbot suddenly ill for today’s
vote so wasn’t able to make it.
Emilie Oldknow (now UNISON Assistant
General Secretary) ‘Hahaha’
Patrick Heneghan ((Executive Director -
Elections, Campaigns and Organisation) ‘Dr’s note please’
Sarah Mulholland: ‘She literally makes
me sick’
Julie Lawrence: ‘She looked perfectly fine when I saw her slithering down Vic
St.’
Marcia Hutcheson had a
brief response: ‘Slither is what a snake does.’ (55.47) Labour’s racist staff had
utterly dehumanised Diane.
Starmer promised the
Black staff at Southside that there would be an inquiry into this racism. What happened? It was Black staff like Halima Khan who were
dismissed. ‘Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership
is giving succour to racists within the party’ remarked Hutcheson. The
racists stayed put as this ‘Zionist
without qualification’ proceeded to instigate a racist purge of the Labour Party.
The Forde Report concluded that ‘the Labour Party is not
a welcoming place for people of colour’. Halima Khan told how ‘anti-Semitism
is the organisation’s priority’ (13.41) and that everything would drop if there
was an email from the Jewish Chronicle. Complaints about Islamaphobia were
binned or forgotten about.
The Islamaphobia of Trevor Phillips
Halima Khan video
Labour member and Sunday Times ‘journalist’ Rod Liddle had
declared that Islam is ‘an unpleasant ideology’ (16.29) Oldknow decided
to sit on the complaint because Liddle was chummy with Ian Austin and Tom
Watson. It took two years before was he suspended. Trevor Philips, who was
eventually suspended for a whole series of racist statements such as that
Muslims are a ‘nation within a nation’ was quietly reinstated under
Starmer. Halima Khan was dismissed on suspicion that she had leaked this decision
A reluctance to take action against a genuine
Holocaust denier Chris Crookes
In August 2016 a member of Labour International complained to
the Disputes Team about Chris Crookes, who was an open holocaust denier (Labour
Leaked Report pp. 277-281).
It was only in February 2018, after Sam Matthews had done
nothing, when 289 members of Labour International signed a petition demanding
action, that the wheels slowly turned.
John Stolliday – the head of the GLU who ignored genuine racists and misogynists – has now transferred to UNISON – a union which ostensibly has policy opposing racism and misogyny
On 26 March 2018, Matthews finally initiated a case. Between
August 2016 and February 2018 the case of Chris Crookes was raised with
Matthews twelve times, Stolliday four times, with other GLU staff four times
and McNicol twice. Crookes was finally suspended in March 2018 and expelled in
July 2019. Unfortunately Labour Files failed to ask why the difference
in approach between anti-Zionists accused of anti-Semitism and a genuine
holocaust denier.
Halima Khan told how the word ‘Palestine’ became a search
term when seeking evidence of ‘anti-Semitism’. This was the result of adopting
the IHRA.
We also learnt that 23% of all complaints involved 1 person
and 12% came from the racist Labour Against Anti-Semitism. We also
learnt that LAAS’s Director, Euan Philips used the pseudonym David Gordstein, a
clearly Jewish name for someone who is not Jewish.
Starmer’s Purge of
the Left and Anti-Semitism
Halima Khan stated [1.08.41]
that
‘the criteria for anti-Semitism changed quite dramatically within
Keir’s leadership. It was clear that anti-Semitism was going to be used under
the new leadership to strike out as many left-wing members as possible.’
The ground had been laid by Corbyn for what happened under
Starmer. As Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi
explained at least 56 Jewish members have been investigated, suspended or
expelled for ‘anti-Semitism’. Jewish members are 6.3 times more likely to be
investigated by the Labour Party for anti-Semitism than non-Jews. Jenny Manson exclaimed ‘How dare they
tell us we are anti-Semitic’
Board
of Deputies Amanda Bowman makes it clear at a meeting with Steve Reed that the
‘antisemitism’ campaign is really about criticism of Israeli Apartheid
We also saw a classic example of the BOD interfering in
something that was none of their business, viz. Labour’s attitude to Tory
legislation on BDS. Amanda Bowman, Vice President of the BOD, [1.13.35] advised
Steve Reed MP who is on Starmer’s front bench, not to oppose the legislation.
Reed committed the Labour Party never to accept attempts to ‘exceptionalise
and delegitimize Israel.’
The Labour Files - The Hierarchy
Stalking in Newham
You cannot understand the flagrant disregard of all
democratic norms, the flouting of inconvenient rules and the willingness to
tolerate and encourage skulduggery and dishonesty, without understand that all
this comes from the top. Starmer is a man without an ounce of principle or
honesty. Socialism is not a word in his vocabulary.
In Oliver Eagleton’s book The Starmer Project we
learn of Starmer’s reaction to Extraordinary Rendition, when Binyamin Mohammed
was arrested in 2002 in Karachi and tortured under the supervision of the CIA. Overseeing his treatment was an agent of MI5. When Mohamed was transferred to Morocco he
experienced far worse torture with his penis and chest being repeatedly slashed
with a razor. All of this under the direction and supervision of an MI5 agent.
Newham - Labour's Dossier on Newham Members is Breaking the Law
Mohamed eventually returned to the UK via Guantanamo and
produced evidence of the involvement of MI5.
Starmer’s response as DPP was to announce that there was ‘insufficient
evidence to prosecute.’ The Head of MI5 Jonathan Evans was ‘delighted’
and described the MI5 agent as ‘a dedicated public servant who has worked
with skill and courage over many years to keep the people of this country safe
from terrorism.’
Starmer preferred to pursue people who overclaimed welfare
benefits with fraud charges carrying 10 years sentences and prosecuting women
whose rapists were acquitted for lying. And of course pursuing Julian Assange
on behalf of the Americans.
When Gary McKinnon an autistic hacker hacked into US military
databases to find information on UFOs Starmer was determined to extradite him
to the US criminal ‘justice’ system.
When his mother confronted Starmer face to face he
robotically told her that ‘I’m feeling very uncomfortable. Speaking to you is making me feel very
uncomfortable.’ He must have felt the same when Audrey White confronted
him over his betrayal of Liverpool’s Hillsborough fans. Even Boris Johnson
described a decision to deport McKinnon as ‘extraordinary cruel and
inhuman.’ But Starmer is above such considerations. He is a process man.
When Theresa May decided to turn down the extradition request
Starmer reacted with ‘fury’. He flew immediately to see Obama’s
Attorney General Eric Holder to plead that this should not jeopardise their
relationship.
Corbyn’s failure to do due diligence on Starmer is one among
many of his calamitous failures and one which he has paid dearly for since.
Starmer should have been sacked not promoted to Brexit Secretary.
Starmer's Secret
State - Labour's surveillance of its South Asian members in Newham
In Newham where, according to Halima Khan, members of the
Labour Party were stalked. Children were followed to their school. Detailed
files were built up on activists, where they worked, what they owned and who
lived in their properties.
Newham was a 100% Labour borough and the party was controlled
by a clique of mainly White politicians who ensured that the Labour Party was a
closed shop. When Corbyn was elected leader all this changed and there was an
influx of Muslims and Black people.
Carl Morris, the Regional Organiser and Amy Fode, the
Regional Director, were not happy with what was happening. Morris (23.03)
alerted Southside to a group of predominantly Asian men on the pavement waiting
outside for Newham AGM to start. Fode took a picture of them. They spoke of a
group of Pakistanis infiltrating the Labour Party. Muslims
were good enough to vote for the Labour Party but they were not expected to
become members and active around their own issues.
When local Councillor Obaid Khan was suspended from the
Labour Party local community groups sent a letter to Newham’s Mayor, Robin
Wales alleging racial discrimination. It accused Wales of having ‘contrived
and manipulated the Party processes to get him unfairly expelled with trumped
up and false accusations.’Wales
sent this to Stolliday who, without bothering to examine the allegations,
expressed his sympathy with Wales and accepted that the letter was libellous.
Today Stolliday does the same in UNISON.
Carel Buxton described how, when Starmer was elected, Mehmood
Mirza and Tahir Mirza were victimised and expelled: ‘it was like warfare’. A 100 page dossier was compiled, mainly
on S Asian residents. New Labour members were identified by race (32.08).
People were racially profiled into dialects. Much of the information had been
obtained from Labour files. The GDPR requires reports on data breaches within
72 hours yet nothing was reported. Mirza was suspended within weeks. Halima
Khan described the dossier as ‘potentially criminal’ (39.28) from
which she was removed.
Halima Khan asked if supporting Palestine meant her job would
be at risk. She was told by the person she asked that they would have to
get back to her on that. (45.42)
At Southside they set up a Black Community Engagement Plan
whose purpose was not to tackle racism but to regain the Black vote. All but
one of the team writing it was White. The plan focused on appeasing Whites.
(52.00) As Peter Oborne observed it was the Battle for the Bigoted White Vote.
The Hacking of Inside Croydon by Friends of Starmer and Evans
In the Labour Files – Part 4: The Spying Game we learn of clearly
criminal conduct in Croydon and how the
Labour Right deals with dissent among councillors.
Steven Downes, the Editor of Inside Croydon, dedicated
to uncovering the many scandals, cronyism and corruption amongst Croydon councillors,
found himself locked out of his own email account. He had been hacked.
Downes first learnt about the purpose of the hack when he
came across a tweet naming 3 Labour Councillors as sources for Inside
Croydon. (3.40)
Labour uses hacked emails from Inside Croydon to expel 3 Councillors
Ruth Bannister, a local right-winger, was the source
of the leak. How did the Labour Party react to this? Did they emulate Tom Watson’s outrage when he
pursued the News of the World and the Murdoch press about the hacking of
peoples’ phones? Not a bit of it.
Councillor Clive Fraser, the chief whip, sought to speak to
Andrew Pelling, one of the 3 councillors about 6 emails he had sent to Croydon
Inside. London Region informed Fraser that he could use these criminally
obtained emails in Fraser’s determination to pursue the councillors. In other
words the Labour Party itself was complicit, if not in the hacking then in
using the illegally obtained emails. (7.44)
Fraser to Pelling
Bannister herself then levelled a complaint against the 3
councillors, Andrew Pelling, Stephen Mann & Robert Canning, for ‘leaking
confidential and damaging info from Council and Labour Group.’ One wonders
what was so damaging about the info and why it was that she thought that
members of the public weren’t entitled to know what their elected
representatives were up to. (7.44)
Steve Reed, the local MP and Shadow Justice Minister, also
emailed the leaked dossier. Reed must, as Downes said, know what to do with
what are stolen goods yet he said nothing. The Party didn’t even alert Downes
to the hack.
David Evans was informed of what was happening in his own
backyard but his only concern was with any Labour Party members in contact with
Inside Croydon. Fraser made a complaint against David White, a veteran
Labour Party member and Corbyn supporter, using some of the hacked emails.
White was expelled for ‘anti-Semitism’ as a result of the trade in hacked
emails. As someone who has met White on numerous occasions I must confess I
never detected any anti-Semitism in him but then again, unlike Evans/Starmer
I’m Jewish!
It was only when Jerry Fitzpatrick, a lawyer, was installed
as the new chief whip at Croydon, that the alarm was sounded. Fitzpatrick
called the emails ‘stolen goods’ whereas the Labour Party’s own lawyer Alex
Barros-Curtis raised no objection. Consideration should be given to making a
formal complaint about Barros-Curtis to the Solicitors Regulation Authority. He
seemed to be quite at home with illegality by Labour Party witchhunters.
But the hacking was not over. Emails from Downes to people
were being blind copied to Hamida Ali, Leader of Croydon Council & Clive
Fraser. Downes computer settings had been tampered with. Fitzpatrick sent
multiple emails to the GLU and Evans asking whether Hamida Ali and Fraser had
to inform the police. He got no response. Andrew Pelling was later expelled as
a result of the hacking. As Pelling observed, what is a party that associates
itself with hacking of the press going to do when it’s in government? Will it
condone it with national newspapers or are they exempt? The Labour Party’s
response was that it wasn’t a lawless organisation but a rules-based one. To my
knowledge there are no Labour Party rules that condone hacking. Not even under
Sir Starmer.
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