The Jewish Labour
Movement – British Branch of the Racist Israeli Labor PARTY
The Jewish Labour movement, led by
serial liar Jeremy Newmark, is the British branch of the Israeli Labour
Party. The ILP has a racist track record
second to none. They were the government
of Israel for the first 30 years. In
that time Israel’s Palestinian population spent the first 18 years under
military rule. All the institutions of
apartheid, such as Jewish National Fund, were integrated into Israeli society
as para state organisations in that period.
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| Isaac Herzog - Racist leader of Israeli Labour Party |
The Nakba, the expulsion of ¾ million
Arabs in 1947/8, the massacre of thousands and the confiscation of most Arab
land was carried out by Labour terror militias primarily – Hagannah and Palmach
(shock troops) in particular.
The left Zionist Mapam (now Meretz) party was no better. The infamous massacre at Dawayima was carried
out by these ‘Marxist’ Zionists: “Their socialism did not extend to their
non-Jewish fellow men.” Wrote David Hirst in his book ‘The Gun and the
Olive Branch’ (p.25)
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| Jeremy Newmark - racist liar |
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| The Judgment of the Employment Tribunal in Fraser v University College Union re Newmark |
The Political
Committee was briefed on 11 November 1948 by the recently ousted Chief of Staff
of the Haganah, Yisrael Galili, about the killing of civilians during
Operations Yoav and Hiram. Aharon Cohen led a call for an independent inquiry.
[Falsifying the Record: A Fresh Look at Zionist
Documentation of 1948, Benny Morris Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 24, No.
3. (Spring, 1995), pp. 44-62]. The problem was that
the commanders of these operations were senior Mapam members, Yitzhak Sadeh and
Moshe Carmel. Ben-Gurion however was
opposed to any investigations of atrocities committed by the Israeli military.
There is nothing
that Likud has done that Labour didn’t do before them, nor have they changed. Israeli Labour’s election campaigns have
focussed on scaring Jewish voters that Netanyahu’s policies, of not allowing
even the tiniest little Palestinian Bantustan will result in Israel becoming an
Arab state (god forbid).
Last week Isaac Herzog,
Labour’s leader said that the ILP mustn’t be identified as an ‘Arab lovers’
party. The term ‘Arab lover’ is a racist
taunt flung by the Right. Herzog is
saying that he doesn’t want the ILP to be considered in such terms. In Britain during the fight against fascist
from the National Front and British National Party we were accused of being ‘nigger
lovers’ and a previous generation were ‘Jew lovers’.
The irony today
is that the racists of the Jewish Labour Movement and Labour Friends of Israel are
driving the witch hunt of Black and
Asian members of the Party in particular.
Anyone who stands out against Zionism and Israeli Apartheid is liable
for the chop.
It is a myth
that the ILP bears any resemblance even to the pale pink European social
democratic parties. As Zeev Sternhell
shows in his book The Founding Myths of Israel, the ILP or Mapai as it was, was
always an anti-socialist party. Mapai
was formed in 1930 as a result of the merger of Hapoel Hatzair, an avowedly
anti-socialist party whose creed was the
labour of the land and Poalei Zion, under David Ben-Gurion. Although nominally socialist, it had in fact
junked socialism years ago when it committed itself to Jewish Labour i.e. a
boycott of Arab labour. It levied a special
sum from all of its members in order that a campaign was waged to picket out
Arab labourers from Jewish employers.
The ‘union’ Histadrut which the Labour Zionist parties formed in 1920,
saw class struggle in national terms. In
other words it was the Arabs, not Jewish employers, who were the class
enemy. Hence Histadrut was a Jewish only
‘union’.
Today the ILP is
a shadow of its former self. Apart from
2 governments, under Rabin and Barak and a shared administration of Peres and
Shamir, the ILP has been out of power for 40 years. Whereas in 1949 and subsequent elections, the
Labour Zionist parties secured a majority of seats in the Knesset today they
can muster less than a quarter.
But though
diminished in size, their racism is stronger than ever.
Tony Greenstein
Opposition leader tells party activists
that Yair Lapid is taking Labor's votes in opinion polls and Labor must prove
they can change the status quo without abandoning security.
Opposition head MK Isaac Herzog said
Tuesday in Ashkelon that in order to attract more voters there is a need to
shake the feeling that Labor Party members are “Arab-lovers.”
Herzog, the Labor Party chairman, was
speaking at a toast for party activists in Ashkelon, where he discussed the
changes in Israeli society and the need for the party to change in order to
attract voters.
“It’s true – Lapid is taking votes from
us today in the opinion polls,” Herzog said, referring to Yesh Atid chairman MK
Yair Lapid. “Among other things, he is moving to the right of us in the
national consciousness and that requires a discussion of what that says. After
all, we won’t be right-wing, but what does it say? Where do we enter the hearts
of the public, so they’ll believe that we have not only experience but the
ability to change the situation in the country without abandoning security?”
Herzog said he finds a feeling “in
endless encounters with the Israeli public that we are always Arab lovers. It’s
complicated, but that’s part of the issue, that’s part of the challenge. We are
a party that always knew how to be a ruling party.”
Herzog said one of the reasons that he
had “put out feelers to see if it was possible to link Israel’s two large
national movements into a political turnover” stemmed from the need for “a
large Israeli center.” Herzog said that in his opinion the gap between him and
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon is relatively small.
Herzog verbally attacked members of his
party, saying that they do not appreciate the achievement of the party under
his leadership in the last elections. “Since 1992 we haven’t had such great
political power, 24 Knesset seats are a lot…So what do we get? Whining. Whining
in the party and in the movement and MKs who hand us out grades all day long.
Instead of saying ‘look what wonderful work our faction is doing’…”
As for the criminal investigation
against him, Herzog said: “These are not easy days. I am completely calm. And I
know that I have to go through this like any other citizen.” Herzog added,
however, that the difference between him and an ordinary citizen is “that a
citizen doesn’t get headlines, and when I go through it, it serves all kinds of
factors and interests.”
Herzog leveled veiled criticism at
Zionist Union members saying: “That is why a party should stand behind the
leader, without blinking."
Herzog’s bureau responded: “We are not
afraid to deal with problems that we discover about the public’s attitude
toward the Labor Party and Zionist Union. One of the problems is the mistaken
and dangerous feeling that they are trying to label us with that we take the
needs of the Palestinians into consideration before those of the State of
Israel and its citizens. This is clearly a mistaken feeling, but it increases
in magnitude among groups that did not know us in the last elections and it’s
important for us to reach them in the process of a deep and broad campaign that
we are doing with our ‘expanding circles’ plan, the length and breadth of the
State of Israel and the communities that live here.”
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