When Boris Johnson condemns Williamson' Reinstatement – What
More Do You Need to Know about the Fake Anti-Semitism Campaign?
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The paper that supported Hitler was also outraged
It
is extremely welcome that Chris Williamson, one of the few socialist MPs, has
had the whip restored. The outpouring of hate and bile from the
Zionists and racists are wholly predictable and synthetic. However unless this
is defended by the Left it may be short-lived.
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Margaret
Hodge, who as Leader of Islington Council covered
up child abuse condemned
the decision as ‘unbelievable’ and ‘turning a blind eye to Jew-hate’.
This is the same Margaret Hodge whom the BNP sent a bunch
of flowers to as a thank you for having endorsed their policy of only
housing ‘local’ i.e. White families. As the Guardian reported in an article BNP
backs Hodge in housing row
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Just to remind ourselves of the position of the paper of British liberalism |
The British National Party has supported Margaret Hodge
in calling for British-born families to take priority over immigrants in the
queue for council homes. They have
seized on the Labour MP's comments as a vindication of its extremist policies.
'Labour MP Margaret Hodge deserves a word of compliment from the BNP for her efforts to raise the thorny
issue of social housing for native Britons...
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Like a lynch mob - Jess Phillips and company accompanied Ruth Smeeth |
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The Zionist campaign over 'antisemitism' has netted a lot of Black and Jewish activists |
‘intentionally undermined, marginalised
and harassed the British Jewish community and Jewish Labour Party members,
which has continually brought the Labour Party into disrepute.’
The bigger the lie the more it is to be believed.
What Smeeth means is that Chris dared to criticise and call out the McCarthyist
tactics of Zionist leaders and the Jewish Labour Movement’s false anti-Semitism
narrative in particular.
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Utterly predictable from the Zionist Chronicle |
The
Jewish Chronicle described
Chris Williamson as a ‘Jew baiter’. Of course he is no such thing. The
cynicism of Zionists like the Jewish Chronicle’s ‘Liar’ Lee Harpin who writes
this nonsense is unbelievable. It
trivialises anti-Semitism and makes it into a mere political bargaining chip, a
cheap name to attack your political enemies with.
There
were Jew baiters like Julius
Streicher, the editor of the Nazi paper der Sturmer who
was hanged at Nuremburg. Sir Oswald Moseley of the British Union of Fascists
was another Jew baiter but Chris Williamson?
I defy the Zionists to produce even one sentence of Chris’s that is anti-Semitic.
Board
of Deputies Vice President Amanda Bowman
said the lifting of the suspension was “an utter disgrace”. This is the
same organisation which supported
Israel’s use of snipers against unarmed demonstrators protesting against Israel’s
siege of Gaza. The Board is an unrepresentative Zionist group masquerading as
representative of Britain’s Jewish community.
According
to the Jewish Chronicle’s Political Correspondent, ‘liar’ Lee Harpin one of
Chris’s offences was that he ‘claimed
Tony Greenstein – who was expelled for allegations involving antisemitism – had
a right to hold his “anti-Zionist views”.’
Quite amazing really. Presumably this idiot thinks I don’t have the
right to be an anti-Zionist. I think
Liar Lee has forgotten that this is not Israel, where people are gaoled for
their views, but Britain.
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It is difficult to disagree with the Jewish Chronicle's now editor |
And what was Chris’s original ‘crime’? To quote from the
Tory supporting Politics
Home: Chris Williamson told a Momentum
meeting that:
"The party that has done more
to stand up to racism is now being demonised as a racist, bigoted party.
“I have got to say I think our party's
response has been partly responsible for that because in my opinion… we've
backed off far too much, we have given too much ground, we've been too
apologetic...
"We've done
more to actually address the scourge of anti-semitism than any other political
party. Any other political party. And yet we are being traduced."
But the icing on the cake of this racist hypocrisy
is the reaction of notorious racist and candidate to be leader of the Tory
Party and Prime Minister, Boris Johnson who tweeted:
"Shameful
that Labour have reinstated this key Corbyn ally back into their party after
his appalling remarks. We must never allow these apologists for anti-Semitism
anywhere near government."
This
is the man who described
Black people as ‘picanninies’ and having ‘water melon smiles’ and who compared
Muslim women to ‘letter boxes’ and bank robbers. Johnson whose whole campaign
strategy has been guided
by the viciously racist former Trump advisor Steve Bannon.
The
fact that Boris Johnson and the Daily
Mail have gone to town over the reinstatement of Chris Williamson just
shows what this is about – it has nothing to do with ‘anti-Semitism’ or ‘Jew baiting’
and everything to do with Israel and opposition to Zionism.
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Jack London compared a scab and blackleg to a rattlesnake |
When
Chris Williamson was suspended, Owen Jones was to the fore in stabbing
him in the back, all in the name of a ‘healing
process with Britain’s Jewish community.’
Of course Owen Jones was, as is normally the case, providing a left
gloss on the fact that it was the Labour Right and Tom Watson who had, with
Tory support, called for his suspension.
Yet
what is amazing is that not one MP from the Corbynites of the Socialist Campaign
Group of MPs spoke out. All of them,
without exception, kept quiet.
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Unsurprisingly Tom Watson and the Daily Mail are in the same boat |
Richard
Burgon, Dianne Abbot, Dennis Skinner, Cat Smith, Laura Pidcock, Lloyd
Russell-Moyle etc. said nothing. This
cowardly silence can and will only help the Right. Remaining silent only strengthens the Right. The idea that this is about ‘anti-Semitism’
or Jews is for the birds.
This
is about Israel, Zionism, support for shooting Gaza’s protestors, demolishing Palestinian
villages whilst crying ‘anti-Semitism’ at anyone who critiques the State that
does all of this.
The
Jewish Labour Movement’s MPs, who are interchangeable with those of the Labour
Friends of Israel, have been to the forefront in supporting the demolition of Palestinian
homes, the arrest and physical abuse and torture of children and all the other
abominations of Israel’s military occupation.
That
is why we should welcome Chris’s reinstatement and call for Momentum and the
Campaign Group of MPs to end their shameful silence.
I also sent this message to the 27 Campaign Group of Labour MPs
Dear Campaign Group MP
Today Chris Williamson unexpectedly but quite correctly had the Labour Whip restored to him.
The allegations of 'antisemitism' against him are and always were bogus. It should be sufficient in itself to note that the Board of Deputies and Labour Friends of Israel/JLM who make these charges defended and supported Israel's mowing down of unarmed demonstrators in Gaza. To say nothing of their support of the half century old military occupation of Palestine.
At a time when the Tory press, Boris Johnson, various Zionists and other assorted reactionaries are attacking Chris, is it too much to expect that you might raise your head above the parapet and publicly welcome him back?
Or is cowardice your only card?
Tony Greenstein
Members of the Campaign Group are:
I also sent the following letter to the Jewish Chronicle in response to its vile article
Letters Editor,
The
Jewish Chronicle
28 St. Albans Lane
London NW11 7QE
Dear
Sir:
The
restoration of the Labour whip to Chris Williamson is to be welcomed by all
those who oppose racism. Your headline ‘Outrage
as Labour lifts suspension of 'Jew-baiter' MP Chris Williamson’ is itself
outrageous.
Nothing
Chris has said or done in any way merits the description ‘Jew baiter’. It is no
surprise that neither you, Ruth Smeeth, the Board of Deputies or any other of
his Zionist detractors are able to quote a single sentence or phrase that Chris
has uttered which is in anyway anti-Semitic.
You
are well aware that Chris Williamson signed a petition in support of Gilad
Atzmon in ignorance of his anti-Semitism.
As someone who led the campaign against Atzmon, long before the Zionist
movement took it up, these allegations are simply opportunist. In any event I opposed Atzmon’s politics not
his music and I support his right to play his music.
The
allegation that Chris has harassed, baited, marginalised etc. the Jewish
community is just poppycock. The real reason for the attacks on Chris
Williamson is his anti-Zionist politics and his support for the Palestinians.
Once again the Jewish Chronicle pretends that all Jews are Zionists and
supporters of Israeli right or wrong, which according to the IHRA definition of
anti-Semitism is anti-Semitic!
Lee
Harpin claims that one of Chris Williamson’s offence is claiming that I have a
right to hold anti-Zionist views. Is it the Jewish Chronicle’s position that I
don’t have the right to be an anti-Zionist? I don’t believe even Israel makes
holding anti-Zionist views a criminal offence! This is McCarthism gone mad.
Yours faithfully,
Tony Greenstein