The latest victim of the growing
witchhunt inside the Labour Party is Asa Winstanley, a journalist with Electronic
Intifada. Asa learnt of his suspension, not from the Labour Party but from the Jewish
Chronicle to whom it was leaked. His offence was to call
the Jewish Labour Movement a ‘proxy
for the Israeli Embassy.’
Telling the truth about the JLM relationship with the Israeli Embassy is apparently 'antisemitic' & a suspension offence |
Once again the Compliance Unit has
leaked personal information and details of Labour’s disciplinary process to the
press before the person themselves has been notified. This is in clear
violation of the GDPR. This used to be regular practice under Iain
McNicol. It has now resurfaced.
It would appear that nothing has
changed since the days of Iain McNicoll. After writing one
strong letter to Tom Watson, Jennie Formby has now surrendered. Instead of questioning suspensions for expressing one's opinions about the witch-hunt (how is that anti-Semitic?) she has given the Compliance Unit a green light to purge the Left. The pace of suspensions is thus increasing and once again we have the situation of old tweets being microscopically examined for any signs of dissidence.
It isn’t anti-Semites who are being
suspended it is journalists, activists, socialists. Due process has gone out of the window.
The suspension of Asa Winstanley is an
attack on freedom of speech. Asa has written many well researched articles proving
how the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign in the Labour Party has been manufactured by Israeli
state front groups such as the Jewish Labour Movement. Articles such as How
Israel lobby manufactured UK Labour Party’s anti-Semitism crisis and Jewish
Labour Movement was refounded to fight Corbyn. Asa has shown how e.g. at Oxford University Labour Club the allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’
were manufactured by a former intern for Israeli propaganda group, BICOM.
The JLM is a scab organisation inviting the State to interfere in the Labour Party |
Asa’s last article, showing how the JLM had
almost ceased to exist until the Israeli Embassy revived it in 2015 and
injected money into it, with the express purpose of waging a war against Jeremy
Corbyn, caused them particular grief. The JLM was until recently chaired by fraud
and crook Jeremy Newmark who, despite being exposed in the Jewish
Chronicle and being subject to a Police
investigation is still a Labour councillor.
In Israel they murder journalists they don't like |
I am not surprised that the Zionist movement
has targeted Asa Winstanley. He should count himself lucky. In Israel they shoot
disagreeable journalists!
The suspension of Asa Winstanley takes place hot
on the heels of the suspension
of Sean McCallum, the Mayoral candidate in Mansfield on the basis of two tweets
posted two years ago.
One member
of Mansfield CLP describes what happened:
‘We had already elected a
prospective candidate who then withdrew, so we went through the process again.
After the new candidate was chosen, someone with too much time on their hands
and an axe to grind went through his social media posts and found 2 posts from
2 years ago, complained, and Sean McCallum was immediately suspended. This man
is NOT anti-semitic or racist in any way, he was devastated and has resigned from
the Labour party with immediate effect, he says that once his term as a
councillor comes to an end he will walk away from politics.’
Sean, who is a firefighter and who served in Iraq, spelt out his feelings in a letter to members of Mansfield CLP:
‘The first, was an online article
which explained the origins of an illustration used by Labour MP Naz Shah in a
tweet for which she was suspended and later apologised. The article explains
that the creator of the illustration was an eminent Jewish Professor Norman
Finklestein, an analyst and expert in the Israeli/Palestine conflict, whose
parents survived the holocaust. My comments on this article are correct, there
is no evidence of anti-Semitism within it. I do not accept that this indicates
that I am of an anti-Semitic disposition".
Regarding the other post he says:
"I was (poorly) attempting to express my anger and frustration towards the
government of Israel, and its political and military policies regarding
Palestine. This does not make me an anti-Semite –it makes me someone who cares
deeply about the loss of life on both sides of that conflict".
"I have no faith at all that
a fair and equitable process would indeed take place-there is a battle raging
within the Labour Party which has nothing to do with racism, and everything to
do with power and control.
Whilst it is absolutely vital
that the importance of tackling anti-Semitism is not minimised, and that my
poor choice of words is acknowledged, it is also apparent to many observers and
Labour Party members that the issue is also being weaponised, as factions
within struggle for control and ultimately power. This in itself is cynical,
and in my view dilutes the seriousness
of fighting racism in all forms."
We have to call a halt now to the suspension of people for whom anti-Semitism is a pretext. As an unnamed member of Mansfield CLP wrote:
‘So the Labour party has lost another good
councillor and dedicated member and we are the poorer for it, because of this
nonsense. We also have no mayoral candidate and we desperately need to remove
the "Independent" mayor (basically a Tory) who seems to be able to
veto everything that the council wants and control everything in a way that
seems totally undemocratic.
I know he doesn’t want to
challenge the Labour party on this, but I am letting you know because I really
feel that it is a witch hunt, anyone who wants to discredit someone for any
reason only seems to have to utter the words “anti-semitism” and that person is
suspended regardless of whether they are or not. I have no idea what we can do
to stop this nonsense but in the mean time, good people are being victimised
and driven out of the party/politics and the real racists are still out there causing
problems. In my opinion someone independent and with common sense should look
at complaints like this and others such as Jo Bird and Chris Williamson and
simply throw out complaints where there is no anti-semitism rather than
automatic suspensions for everyone (especially the left wing members). I have
no idea how we can achieve a fairer system but it can’t go on like this.
Idiot Jennie Formby has brought in Blair's right hand man Charlie |
What is even more unforgivable is
that Formby has called in Blair’s flat mate, friend and former Lord Chancellor
Charlie Falconer, someone who went along with all Blair’s wars and
privatisations and who is a deadly enemy to the Corbyn Project. No wonder that he is now calling for an investigation
into Corbyn’s own advisers. The net is closing in and the witch-hunters are
getting closer to Corbyn himself .
Coming in the wake of the suspension
of Jo Bird, a Jewish councillor in the Wirral and the suspension of Chris
Williamson MP we are facing a full witchhunt of anyone who dares speak out about
the McCarthyist madness that is gripping the Labour Party.
None of the above have been disciplined for
anything remotely anti-Semitic. It has now
become an offence merely to question the assertion that there is widespread anti-Semitism.
This is Orwellian and resembles Israeli democracy.
Israeli democracy - you can vote for any party that accepts Israel is a Jewish state not a state of all its citizens |
What this really is about of course is Israel. At the moment a General Election is taking
place in Israel where the main battle is between two Zionist parties – Likud and
Blue & White where the
main debate is as to who has killed the most Arabs. It is an election in
which 2 Arab parties and a Jewish member of the Communist Party have been banned,
a decision currently under appeal to the High Court. That is what happens in an
ethno-nationalist state. Israel is the most
racist state in the world and this is what Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism’ smear
campaign is about, defending the West’s armed watchdog in the Middle East.
Scab MP Stephen Kinnock calls for Darren Williams to be Suspended |
Darren Williams is the latest target of son of scab Stephen Kinnock |
Jewish Labour Movement MPs such as Louise
Ellman have defended through thick and thin the Israeli army’s occupation of
the West Bank. This MP, who I have
called the MP for Tel Aviv South, has even defended in a debate
in Parliament on Palestinian child prisoners Israeli army practices such as
kidnapping them in the early hours of the morning and blindfolding and beating
them.
This is what it's really about - Zionism and racism in Israel |
Only yesterday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu responding
to the suggestion that
Israel is a country of all its citizen, wrote to actress, Rotem Sela:
"Dear Rotem, an
important correction: Israel is not a state of all its citizens. According to
the Nation-State
Law that we passed, Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish
People - and them alone.
This is the racism that Labour’s current witchhunt
is designed to defend. We stand in full
solidarity with Asa Winstanley, Jo Bird, Sean McCallum, Jackie Walker and Chris
Williamson.
The
leaking of peoples’ details to the press is a blatantly illegal and we demand
that the Compliance Unit is closed down.
It is not fit for purpose.
This
is what Jennie Formby’s craven cowardice and bending the knee to Tom Watson is
about. As the local elections get nearer
so the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign will grow louder. The latest potential victim is Darren Williams who is on Labour's NEC. But, as I have said repeatedly in the past,
the real target is not me nor Chris Williamson or any of the people in t his
post, it is Jeremy Corbyn. Unfortunately
the fool does not realise it and appointing Blair’s buddy to reinvestigate
cases will only lasten the day that Corbyn is overthrown by a coup of his
own MPs.
Tony
Greenstein
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