How Long are Momentum Members Going To Accept a Jewish Supremacist and Zionist as Leader?

Jon Lansman Joins the Lynch Mob in his Attack on Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth and Pete Willsman

A selection of the choicest tweets that were inspired by the Jewish Labour Movement/Jon Lansman's campaign against Jackie Walker

In May 2016 Jackie Walker, Vice-Chair of Momentum was suspended from the Labour Party for ‘anti-semitism’.  In a private Facebook discussion with a friend about her dual Black-Jewish inheritance, she remarked that ‘my ancestors too, were the chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade.’  If this had been a public discussion  then Jackie would have said that her ancestors were among the chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade.  [see The lynching of Jackie Walker]

However the intention of the Israel Advocacy Movement, which hacked the conversation, was to ‘take out’ Jackie, who was seen as a thorn in the side of the Israel’s supporters in the Labour Party.

McDonnell speaking alongside Jackie Walker at an LRC meeting in Brighton.  McDonnell has subsequently capitulated to the Zionists

Three weeks later Jackie was reinstated but the Jewish Labour Movement, the British representatives of the Israeli Labor Party, refused to accept this decision and they decided to wage a campaign akin to a political lynching, whose purpose was to renew her suspension.  When John McDonnell spoke at a Labour Representative Committee meeting alongside Jackie in early September 2016 in Brighton, he was criticised and had an invitation to speak at a JLM fringe meeting withdrawn.

One of many abusive tweets caused by the actions of Lansman's Zionist friends - for some strange reason they weren't deemed worthy of comment by the yellow press in this country

Since then there has been a vile racist campaign, as the tweets I am publishing here demonstrate, against Jackie.  Neither the Jewish Labour Movement nor Jon Lansman have uttered one word of criticism against this abuse. They have been happy to go along with racist abuse as long as it is not about antisemitism.  Not once have they ever dissociated themselves from the abuse that Jackie has received.  Lansman's only concern is with 'unconscious' or fake antisemitism.

That is why Lansman is a Jewish supremacist and Zionist. He looks at everything from one perspective only - is it good for Jews.  Any other form of racism is secondary too him.  He will surround himself with pliant Black people but the moment they rebel he will cut them off.

Lansman as part of Labour Party delegation meeting people from the Palestinian Authority

Ten days before the 2016 Labour Conference I wrote a blog The Jewish Labour Movement and its Political Lynching of Jackie Walker. It was obvious to me what was going to happen. At the Conference Jackie attended a JLM ‘training event’ which Adam Langleben, the recently defeated racist Labour candidate in Hendon West secretly taped. Jackie said that she hadn’t heard a definition of anti-semitism that she could accept and that Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations should not just be about Jews but about all those who were murdered by the Nazis. This was held to be antisemitic because anything anti-Zionists say about the Holocaust or antisemitism is by definition 'anti-Semitic'.

Jon Lansman - unelected Chair of Momentum, Zionist and Jewish supremacist

Even a survivor of Auschwitz, Hajo Meyer, was accused of 'anti-semitism' for comparing what he went through with what Palestinians experience and Corbyn stupidly apologised. However when the Blessed Margaret Hodge compared being subject of a disciplinary investigation to what Jewish refugees from the Nazis suffered there are no cries of 'antisemitism'.

Free Speech on Israel's picket of the TSSA HQ near Euston in October 2016 when Lansman effected the removal of Jackie Walker as Momentum Vice-Chair

Jackie’s words were distorted to suggest what she was saying was anti-semitic. They clearly weren’t but the person who enabled this campaign of political assassination was Jon Lansman.  Lansman proposed that Jackie be removed as Vice-Chair of Momentum and with the support of the Alliance for Workers Liberty this was agreed to early in October 2016.

Prior to this meeting a group of Jewish Labour Party members had written to Lansman and Momentum’s Executive urging that they resist the calls for a witchhunt and the removal of Jackie.  We wrote:

‘We are seriously disturbed by the report in the Guardian Momentum likely to oust Jackie Walker over Holocaust remarks and a similar report in the Independent that ‘Senior members of Momentum are "fuming" at her remarks’. It is your duty not to betray comrades.’

Idiot Jess Phillips 'feminist' friend of Jacob Rees-Mogg

This gave Iain McNicol, Labour’s General Secretary, the cue to suspend Jackie.  Lansman was quoted in The Independent as saying

“I spoke to Jeremy Newmark of the Jewish Labour Movement this morning, he’s very upset and I can understand that – I work closely with Jeremy, I’ve been meeting with Jewish organisations to talk… I’ve been outspoken. I was very, very unhappy about… and I did comment on it, about it, what she had previously said.’

These comments were revealing.  Lansman openly admitted to working with the corrupt Chair of the JLM, Jeremy Newmark, who freely admitted to his close links with the Israeli Embassy and Mark Regev, its war criminal Ambassador. Lansman knows full well the relationship of the JLM to the Israeli Labor Party and its membership of the World Zionist Organisation, the main organisation of Israeli apartheid which funds  Jewish only Israeli settlements.  Lansman preferred to stab a Black anti-racist in the back rather than upset the JLM and the Israeli Embassy.

Fast forward to today. Recently Lansman has been to Israel. It would be difficult to go to Israel and not be aware of the virulent racism against Israel’s Palestinian citizens. Things such as the new Jewish Nation State Law which makes explicit the fact that Israel is an apartheid state, the interrogation of people at the airport (does any other democratic country interview people who visit to ensure that they hold the correct political opinions?) the violent anti-Arab demonstrations, the residential and educational segregation Lansman is aware of all of this yet what does he do?

In a private conversation with a member of Brent Momentum, Graham Durham, Lansman attacked Jackie Walker as an anti-semite, says he doesn’t know if Marc Wadsworth is anti-semitic and for good measure attacks Pete Willsman, though conceding he is not anti-semitic (probably because he is White). 

Everything Lansman says and does is from the perspective of a privileged White community in Britain, a community that has overwhelmingly voted Tory for 50 years. Lansman is a Jewish Supremacist and a racist who cannot tolerate Black people who challenge him. That was Jackie’s real crime as Deputy Chair of Momentum. Lansman personally appointed her, there was no election, because of her well known record as an anti-racist and anti-fascist.  However he could not control her and she was an anti-Zionist.  

Lansman’s support for Israel is no different from that of the alt-Right in the USA or  Tommy Robinson here.  He supports Zionism, right or wrong and his justification for the expulsion of Palestinian refugees in 1948, ethnic cleansing and his belief that ‘the Left must stop talking about ‘Zionism’  mark Lansman down as a supporter of western imperialism and the racism that is its handmaiden.  Lansman is a Jewish chauvinist who believes in Jewish exceptionalism. Zionism is the ideology of the Israeli State.  It believes in a pure Jewish racial state with Palestinians confined to the margins - hewers of wood and drawers of water in biblical terms.

Luke Akehurst justifies the murder of some 160 unarmed Palestinians gunned down by the Israeli military in Gaza yet this vile creature remains unsuspended

Contrast Lansman’s obsession with anti-semitism which he even calls it ‘unconscious’ in order to explain why it is that no one can ever find any examples of it in the Labour Party.  Yet not once, has Lansman called for the suspension of Luke Akehurst, an NEC candidate, who openly supported the murder of 160 Palestinians, children included, in the Gaza demonstrations.  If he had any integrity he would call for the suspension of Margaret Hodge for comparing her situation to that of Jews fleeing the Nazis but Lansman is not only a hypocrite but he is also a political coward.

How is it that a word out of place gets supporters of the Palestinians suspended yet Luke Akehurst is allowed to stand for the National Executive Committee?  Yet Lansman is silent as is much of the Left.  Anti-Palestinian racism is acceptable, but a word out of place about Jews leads to instant discipline.

Lansman stated to Graham Durham that ‘Jackie Walker is, I’m afraid, an anti-Semite. She provides leadership for other anti-semites.’

What utter malevolent racist bigotry.  Jackie unlike Lansman has been an active opponent of the National Front. Whilst Jackie was busy fighting the fascists Lansman was accumulating millions as a property developer. Her crime is being an anti-Zionist.  Lansman’s attack is despicable.  He provides no proof for his assertion that Jackie ‘provides leadership’ for other unnamed anti-semites nor could he.  This is a product of Lansman’s racist mindset. Lansman has never played any role or part in the anti-fascist movement. His sole concern has been to support the Israeli state.

Likewise Lansman’s attack on Marc Wadsworth.  He concedes that ‘he may not be anti-semitic’ which is the only form of racism that counts for Lansman, but he asserts that Marc came to the Chakrabarti press conference to cause trouble. How does Lansman know this? Because he spoke from the floor, the only contribution from a Black person in a press conference supposedly about  racism and not just anti-semitism. 

Because Marc was determined to include racism against Black people in the agenda of the meeting, he was guilty of disrupting it and therefore bringing the Labour Party into ‘disrepute’. Even worse he called out the dealing between right-wing Labour MP Ruth Smeeth and the Daily Telegraph.

Lansman also attacked, for good measure, Peter Willsman.  The only form of racism that matters to Lansman is anti-semitism, which barely exists. Racism against Black or Asian people is not his concern. 

The question is how we are going to remove Lansman who made his name over 30 years ago as a supporter of Tony Benn.  It would do well for us to remember the famous 5 questions of Benn:

“The House will forgive me for quoting five democratic questions that I have developed during my life. If one meets a powerful person--Rupert Murdoch, perhaps, or Joe Stalin or Hitler--one can ask five questions: what power do you have; where did you get it; in whose interests do you exercise it; to whom are you accountable; and, how can we get rid of you? Anyone who cannot answer the last of those questions does not live in a democratic system.”

Today Tony Benn would be accused of 'antisemitism' and suspended for comparing Rupert Murdoch to Hitler!

If Momentum members are serious about supporting Jeremy Corbyn then it is essential to remove Lansman.  Lansman’s treachery is such that it is only a matter of time before this racist property millionaire stabs Corbyn in the back too.  You have been warned!

Tony Greenstein

Lansman’s Conversation with Graham Durham:

From: Graham Durham
To: "brent-momentum@googlegroups.com" brent-momentum@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 10:36
Subject: [BRENT MOMENTUM] Exchange with Jon Lansman

GD:     Ok Jon your view accords with mine on an anti-racist Britain.But whilst understanding the support amongst Jews here for Israel we must not allow this to restrict our criticism or our understanding of how Irgun and other murder gangs created the state and the racist policies since.On anti-semitism I entirely agree with you and would never agree it should be unchallenged but the Hodge and Smeeth etc attacks abuse the desire to see anti-semitism challenged as they are simply a code for anti-Corbyn attacks.Sadly Jon your attacks on Jackie Walker,Pete Willsman and Marc Wadsworth place you in the wrong camp

JL     Jackie Walker is, I’m afraid, an anti-Semite. She provides leadership for other anti-semites. Marc Wadsworth went to the Chakrabarti report launch to disrupt it. He may not be anti Semitic but his actions were deliberate and brought the Party into disrepute. Pete Willsman is not in the same category at all but his consistent bad behaviour is not acceptable

Here is an image of Lansman and others from our Labour Party members visit to Palestine   sharing views with a PLA governor of a West Bank territory in June this year.Following this visit the group members have been following and debating events there and in the ongoing debate in the Labour Party.Last night Jon and I exchanged views and I was surprised at his response ( I’ll leave you to read it and ,for context,my comments he was responding to)