Fancy that – Maureen Lipman Once Again Declares that She is Withdrawing All Support from the Labour Party

Pundits are asking whether Maureen Lipman Will Announce that she is Abandoning Labour for a Third Time 

This was Maureen Lipman in 2014 under Ed Miliband

And in 2017 it was Corbyn who had made Lipman a Tory not Ed Miliband after all!

Well I must say I was slightly taken aback when I read the Daily Mirror headline Maureen Lipman says 'Corbyn made me a Tory' during Labour anti-Semitism protest and calls for his resignation.  

Surely this can’t be the same Maureen Lipman who declared, over 3 years ago, that she could no longer support the Labour Party because Ed Miliband had supported a Palestinian state.  [Maureen Lipman drops long-standing support for Labour party, Guardian 29.10.14.]  This was despite Labour having its first ever Jewish leader, Ed Miliband, hardly a sign of antisemitism.

Despite having a Jewish leader Lipman could not support Ed Miliband's position on a Palestinian state

It would appear that in the interval between Ed Miliband standing down and Corbyn being elected, Maureen Lipman once again became a socialist

So the first time Maureen abandoned her support for the Labour Party because it supported a Palestinian state and the second time Maureen abandoned the Labour Party because it was anti-Semitic.  Could it be that in Maureen Lipman’s eyes, support for the Palestinians is equal to anti-Semitism?  After all that is what we have been saying all along.

It was only last week that Jonathans Arkush and Goldstein of the Board of Deputies and Jewish Leadership Council bleated that ‘We are told that our concerns are faked, and done at the command of Israel and/or Zionism (whatever that means); that anti-Semitism is merely "criticism of Israel"; that we call any and all criticism of Israel "anti-Semitic."

Well Maureen Lipman is proof of the fact that to Zionists, criticism of Israel and Zionism and Israel IS the same as anti-Semitism.  Of course we know that already because no less a personage than the Israeli Labour Party's former Foreign Minister Abba Eban declared

that ‘One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. Anti-Zionism is merely the new anti-Semitism.’

I look forward to Maureen withdrawing her support from the Labour Party for a third time when a suitable occasion occurs and I know we can count on the popular press to print this world shattering revelation as if it were one of the saddest days in the life of Maureen Lipman.

In fact Lipman is a died-in-the-wool anti-Arab racist with the mentality of a typical colonialist.  On 13 July 2006, in a debate on the BBC's This Week, she argued that "human life is not cheap to the Israelis, and human life on the other side is quite cheap actually, because they strap bombs to people and send them to blow themselves up’ 

The idea that life is cheap to the natives, that they do not mourn as we do, has historically always been a justification for the slaughter and genocide of native peoples.  They don’t feel pain like we do.   It justifies the attitude of Israeli soldiers for example who consider it a sport to shoot Arab demonstrators.

Tony Greenstein

A letter I have sent to the Independent tonight on receiving news that once again Lipman is betraying Labour

Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Letters Editor,

The Independent

191, Marsh Wall

London E14 9RS

Dear Sir,

I was interested to learn that Maureen Lipman has ‘identified with a placard reading “Corbyn made me a Tory”’ at a demonstration against ‘anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party last Sunday. [Hundreds join demonstration accusing Jeremy Corbyn of 'broken promise' on antisemitism, 8^th February].

Could this possibly be the same Maureen Lipman who was reported as saying that she could not vote for the ‘Chuka Harman Burnham Hunt Balls brigade’ in 2014 as a result of the decision of the Labour Party’s only Jewish leader Ed Miliban to support the recognition of a Palestinian state?  No doubt Miliband was also an anti-Semite! [Guardian, 29.10.14 Maureen Lipman drops long-standing support for Labour party

Perhaps Ms Lipman can tell us if she intends to abandon her support for the Labour Party a third time?

Yours faithfully,

Tony Greenstein