Corbynism without Corbyn – Lansman’s new strategy begs the question – what is the purpose of Momentum?

Labour’s biggest problem with ‘anti-Semitism’ is that it doesn't exist – why else was it only apparent when Corbyn became leader?

Above video is of the lynch mob killing of an Eritrean refugee in Israel - the maximum sentence for the murderers was 4 months gaol

With the end of 2018 we are in a politically fluid situation. Theresa May’s government is clearly on the rocks. Whether or not Jeremy Corbyn can take advantage of her difficulties depends on how he reacts to her Brexit crisis. It needs to be said that Corbyn’s present policy of inertia and waiting on events is the worst possible choice. Doing nothing is not a strategy. Brexit will only destroy May and Mogg if Corbyn abandons leftist petty nationalism.

Labour Against Antisemitism's New Year Video is a Textbook Example in The Making of False Allegations of Antisemitism

It is clear that the political Establishment is frightened at the prospect of a Corbyn led government. This includes not only the Tories and Lib-Dems but large parts of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Instead of waging a war against those clustered around the Jewish Labour Movement and Labour Friends of Israel, whose main enemy is Corbyn not May, Momentum and its Dictator Jon Lansman have adopted the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign whose sole purpose is removing Corbyn.

That well-known anti-racist paper, The Scum, is also aghast at Corbyn's 'race shame'

In my open letter to Lansman below, I make the very simple unarguable point that if anti-Semitism were really a problem in the Labour Party then why are the traditional forces of racism and anti-Semitism so opposed to it? The Tory papers, led by the formerly Hitler-loving Mail, have never been shy to employ anti-Semitism previously.  When the Mail attacked Ed Miliband, the Jewish leader of the Labour Party, because of his ‘alien’ father and his inability to eat a bacon sandwich that was obviously anti-Semitic.  Likewise when the Tory press rounded on George Soros as a ‘puppet master’ (Sun) for having funded the anti-Brexit cause the Zionists had nothing to say.

The absurd list of 'antisemites' by fake anti-racist Zionist site - omits Viktor Orban and the Polish regime, to name but a few genuine but pro-Israel antisemites

We should be clear.  Zionism does not and never has had any objection to anti-Semitism. Zionism starts from the premise that Jews do not belong in the lands where they are born. Their 'natural home' is in Israel. Which is what the anti-Semites also believe.

In these tweets you see a perfect example of malicious and false allegations of anti-Semitism - the US's Simon Wiesenthall Centre is a wholly Zionist propaganda organisation that has nothing to do with opposing racism and everything to do with defending Israel and attacking BDS

Without anti-Semitism there is no Zionism.  Historically Zionism has welcomed anti-Semitism because without it they would not have been able to form their racially exclusive state. That is why today the Israeli state is the best of friends with anti-Semitic regimes such as Orban’s Hungary, Heinz Christian-Strache’s Autsria and Poland’s Morawiecki.

This is abundantly provable from what the Zionists themselves said. For example the founder of Political Zionism Theodor Herzl was explicit in his Diaries that ‘the anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.’

The Left in the Labour Party is identified with Momentum.  Two years ago a coup was launched by Jon Lansman aimed at destroying its democracy. Today Momentum is a toothless tiger, often backing right-wing candidates as in Thanet South. An election machine incapable of mobilising for reselection inside the Labour Party. 

Emily Thornberry at the Zionist Limmud conference is interviewed by fellow racist Jon Lansman

We see the witchhunt, that we thought had gone away under Iain McNicol, come back as people like Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt are deselected as Parliamentary candidates because of attacks from Tory Guido Fawkes.  At the centre of this witchhunt is Lansman and the ‘left’ on the NEC.

My understanding is that Lansman and his supporters are now openly talking of Corbynism without Corbyn.  In other words the British Establishment and the Israeli state’s anti-Semitism campaign would have succeeded in their aim of removing someone who is seen as ‘unreliable’ from the standpoint of British capitalism.

Tony Greenstein

Open Letter to Momentum’s Owner and Dictator – Jon Lansman

Dear Jon,

My apologies for not having been in touch since you expelled me last summer. I’m sure you will understand when I say that absence doesn’t always make the heart grow fonder. It is however comforting to know that you have remained consistent in your lack of principles bar a determination to betray your ex-comrades. Beginning with Jackie Walker, the list has expanded to include Ken Livingstone, Christine Shawcroft, Pete Willsman and now Chris Williamson.

The Jewish Labour Movement's Peter Mason isn't happy about Thornberry's admittedly bizarre explanation of Corbyn's inability to face down his accusers

My attention was drawn to your remark at the recent Zionist Limmud Conference that the biggest problem in dealing with antisemitism in the Labour Party was that “the most influential antisemitism-deniers, unfortunately, are Jewish anti-Zionists”. Strange that isn’t it?

As I reflected on your comments, knowing full well the depth of your intellect, I wondered what you might say if Jews in Britain were subject to the same treatment as Palestinians in Israel. Perhaps if mobs in Britain were to chant ‘Death to the Jews’ in the same way as mobs in Israel chant ‘Death to the Arabs’ do you think that might be considered a racist endeavour? 

Of course we all know what it’s really about. As soon as it became clear three years ago that Corbyn was going to be the Labour Leader the cries of ‘anti-Semitism’ began. The fact that this campaign was spearheaded by the very same Tories who are in alliance with anti-Semitic parties in the European Parliament was merely coincidental.

Zionist Emily Thornberry is incapable of accepting that if Corbyn was upset by false accusations of anti-Semitism then so were we all!!

Of course if you possessed anything other than a low cunning and the skills of Machiavelli then this would have provided you with some clues as to its provenance. After all this campaign was supported by the same right-wing press that employed ‘journalists’ like Katie Hopkins, who compared refugees to ‘cockroaches’.

If there were any doubt about how genuine was Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism problem’ then it should have been resolved when Board of Deputies President Jonathan Arkush called Corbyn an anti-Semite. This was the same Arkush who welcomed Donald Trump’s election as President.  The same Trump who is both a White Supremacist and an anti-Semite.

It was also no coincidence that the worst ever anti-Semitic attack on American Jewry in Pittsburgh occurred two years into Trump’s Presidency.  Yet the response of Israel was to send their far-Right Education Minister Naftali Bennett to the US to defend Trump and his alt-Right supporters.  Yet for Arkush and the Zionist Board of Deputies it was the Jewish group Jewdas who were the ‘source of virulent anti-Semitism’.

The reason why Jewish anti-Zionists deny there is an anti-Semitism phenomenon in the Labour Party is because there is no evidence for it. What there is, at worst, are clumsy responses and reactions to Israeli war crimes. Crimes carried out by a Jewish state and defended by organisations that call themselves Jewish. But even the most stupid and ill-informed responses, which blame ‘the Rothschilds’ or David Icke’s lizards do not harm a single Jew.  No one has died from a tweet or social media post.

The Board of Deputies attacks on Corby might just have something to do with their support of Israel's murder of Palestinians

However over 200 unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, including 50 children, have died since the summer because Israeli snipers mowed them down. They include Razan al-Najar, a 21 year old medic who was murdered tending the wounded. Yet the vile racist Luke Akehurst, Director of We Believe in Israel, has campaigned in support of these war crimes.  Why have there been no calls for the expulsion of Akehurst and his supporters in Labour Friends of Israel who also supported these murders?  Is support for the commission of war crimes not an expellable offence? Yet when I was expelled for calling  Louise Ellman MP a supporter of the abuse of Palestinian children it was with the support of Momentum's Emina Ibrahim.

If there were any doubt that the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign against Corbyn was about Israel then one only need observe that 7 of the 11 illustrations of ‘anti-Semitism’ in the IHRA definition which you supported concern Israel. Holding that the Israeli state is racist is deemed anti-Semitic.

On December 11^th Ha’aretz reported that Evyatar Damari, who took part in a lynch mob killing of Haftom Zarhum, an Eritrean refugee, received a sentence of 4 months imprisonment. This was the heaviest sentence handed down to the lynch mob.  You can see the video for yourself if you have the stomach.

Also this year a 16 year old girl, Ahed Tamimi received an 8 month sentence for slapping a heavily armed Israeli soldier who invaded the grounds of her home in Bi’ilin, moments after they had nearly killed her cousin.

Eight months if a Palestinian slaps a soldier. months if a Jewish Israeli kills a refugee whom the Israeli government are trying to deport, with the support of the Israeli Labour Party. Yet if we say then according to the IHRA we are anti-Semites! If anti-racism is anti-Semitism then what you really mean is that racism is an integral part of what it means to be Jewish. Who then is anti-Semitic?

As you are also aware, your friends in the JLM have moved on from targeting Livingstone, Jackie Walker and myself to Chris Williamson MP. Once again you have shown your true colours. At least Jesus was betrayed by a kiss. Your behaviour is more akin to that of a viperous Uriah Heep.

When the JLM attacked Chris you responded that “we can’t tolerate this continuing” and stated that it was matter of time before he “does something which results in a complaint being made which will then have to be investigated”.

I understand that as a result of your ill-fated attempt to become Labour’s General Secretary relations between you and Jeremy are, shall we say, at an all-time low. I also understand that you have been putting about the idea of ‘Corbynism without Corbyn’ as you seek to boost the credentials of the openly Zionist Emily Thornberry, with whom you shared a platform at Limmud last week.

The only question that I have to ask, although you may find some difficulty answering it, is why Momentum, an organisation whose purpose is to support a Jeremy Corbyn government, tolerates a racist and a Zionist as its Chair? A person who owes no allegiance to Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party?

Yours as ever,

Tony Greenstein