Another
Corbyn Own Goal
Labour Should Have Rejected the EHRC Investigation as Politically Motivated
I sometimes feel that it would be both
cheaper and more efficient if Jeremy Corbyn replaced his advisors, Seamus Milne
and Andrew Murray, with a tape recorder with a few pre-recorded messages, ‘I surrender’ ‘I apologise’. ‘I promise to
do better’.
The Equalities and Human Rights
Commission announced
on the 28th May that it was going to hold an investigation into the Labour
Party under s.20
of the Equality Act. Its terms of reference are here.
It is a catastrophic mistake to have welcomed
this ‘investigation’. It is a politically
motivated establishment attack under the guise of racism. The internal affairs
of the Labour Party are none of the EHRC’s business. The allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’
have nothing to do with anti-Semitism, i.e. hatred or hostility to Jews and
everything to do with Israel.
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| One of the major themes of the CAA, who made the complaint against Labour, is that most Muslims are antisemitic |
That is why the main demand of the Board
of Deputies and the two organisations who made the complaints that led to this
inquiry – the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism
and the Jewish
Labour Movement – was for Labour to introduce the IHRA
definition of ‘anti-Semitism’.
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| This is the racist stereotype that the Campaign Against Antisemitism featured |
Instead of welcoming the investigation
the Labour Party should have challenged it as politically motivated, biased and
tendentious. Labour should have asked why there was no equivalent investigation
into Tory party Islamaphobia or into the Tory party’s anti-Semitic partners in
the European
Conservative Reform Group, in the European parliament.
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| Nothing Corbyn says will ever convince his opponents - which is why he should stop appeasing them |
At the very least the investigation should
have been challenged legally. The pathetic gutlessness of Corbyn’s response may
yet come back to haunt him. However
given that he has conceded all along to the bogus ‘anti-Semitism’ taunts it was
all but inevitable that he would lie down and accept with grateful thanks the
latest humiliation.
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| The CAA has run over 300 anti-Corbyn articles on its website |
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| The only photo the CAA could find for their report on Muslim 'antisemitism' was of a dark person (Muslim?) holding a Hitler was right poster |
There are numerous reasons why this ‘investigation’
should have been rejected.
i.
The two
organisations whose complaints led to the investigation are part of the Zionist/Israel
lobby.
ii.
The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism in particular,
a so-called charity, has waged a virulent and abusive campaign against Corbyn. It has hundreds of articles on its web site
attacking Corbyn.
iii.
The CAA is a
deeply racist Islamaphobic organisation. One only needs to look at their racist
profile of a male Muslim to see where their politics are coming from.
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| The Jewish Labour Movement Boasts that the Israeli Labor Party is their 'sister party' - we should believe them |
iv.
The Jewish
Labour Movement which is the other organisation responsible for making the
complaint is the British branch of the Israeli Labour Party. A party of ethnic cleansing and colonisation. It is a party that has supported
the deportation of Black African refugees from Israel because they are not Jewish.
Of course the real problem is that Corbyn should fought back against the fake
‘anti-Semitism’ allegations, which were begun by the Daily
Mail in 2015, when they started. Corbyn had enough experience in the Palestine
solidarity movement to know that the standard accusation against all Palestine activists
is that they are anti-Semitic. It is inexplicable that Corbyn is still incapable
of understanding this simple point.
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| That Corbyn did not question the motives behind this 'investigation' is inexplicable |
Today denying that the Labour Party faces an ‘anti-Semitism’ problem is
in itself proof of being an ‘anti-Semite.’ Yet the Zionists repeatedly allege
that Corbyn is anti-Semitic and a racist. It should be abundantly clear even to
the simplest mind that the ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations are motivated by the Zionist
lobby yet Corbyn is incapable of speaking this simple truth.
Instead he and John McDonnell have behaved throughout the affair as if
the Board of Deputies of British Jews were some benign organisation that was
genuinely concerned about anti-Semitism, even to the extent of organising an ‘anti-racist’
demonstration outside parliament in March 2018.
This is the organisation which has
a history of telling Jews, from the Battle of
Cable Street to the National Front, not to confront fascists and to keep
their heads down and stay indoors.
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| Boris Johnson merits a slap on the wrist from this tame Tory body |
Corbyn should have gone onto the offensive. The Tories are about to elect
someone who believes
that Black people are ‘picanninies’ with ‘water melon smiles’ and who refers to
Muslim women wearing the burka as ‘letter boxes’. This is the party of the ‘hostile environment
policy’ and Windrush. Yet it too
has condemned Corbyn as ‘anti-Semitic’. Yet Corbyn is too spineless and feeble to
rebut any of these attacks.
The real question is why, at no stage, has the EHRC not opened an investigation
into the Windrush scandal and Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment policy’ If its
concern is racism then how is it that hundreds of Black British citizens have
been deported and this useless establishment body hasn’t stirred itself? Or is it incapable of investigating the government
that funds it?
The real reason is that the EHRC is not and never has been an anti-racist
body. It is a body whose main purpose is to see that discrimination does not
affect the workings of the market. It is
about incorporating the anti-racist struggle.
It is staffed by the great and good from the corporate world. There isn’t
one trade union commissioner. In its current investigation it is using fake
allegations of anti-Semitism in order to do the Establishment’s dirty work of
attacking Corbyn. And Corbyn is stupid
enough to have given them a stamp of approval.
If you search the EHRC’s site under Windrush
you come up with just one result which is one more than if you search under ‘hostile
environment policy’. So despite the
major racist scandals of the past 5 years being none of the business of this
so-called anti-racist organisation Corbyn and his supporters are incapable of
calling this useless corporate ‘diversity’ organisation out.
Who are the great
and good who make up the EHRC and its Commissioners?
Below are their profiles taken
from the EHRC web pages:
David Isaac CBE
(Chair)
David is a partner at law firm Pinsent Masons and
was previously Chair of Stonewall from 2003 to 2012.
Caroline
Waters (Deputy Chair)
Currently Vice President of Carers UK and Founder
and CEO of CW Consulting Box, Caroline Waters was also Director of People and
Policy at BT She chaired, for example, Employers for Carers from 2001 to 2013,
was founder and inaugural Chair of the Employers' Forum on Belief, and Chair of
the Lone Parents working group.
She is a Director of Roffey Park and a member of
the Whole Education Board.
Suzanne is an experienced board member, finance
professional and Chair.
Suzanne has extensive FTSE 250 board experience
gained in executive and non-executive roles and is currently a non-executive
director of WHSmith plc, where she is also Chair of the Audit
Committee. She was formerly Group Finance Director of Mitie Group plc, and
her earlier career was spent at Serco and in the accountancy profession with
PwC and Deloitte, where she specialised in corporate finance and
assurance.
Her other roles have included Chair of BITC in
the South West and Chair of the Business Services Association.
Suzanne is Fellow of the ICAEW and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts.
Pavita Cooper has over 25 years’ experience as an
executive talent leader across a range of multi-sector global blue-chip
organisations, including Shell, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group.
Pavita is a passionate advocate of greater
diversity; she campaigns tirelessly to change the face of British business.
Alasdair Henderson is a barrister at 1 Crown Office
Row, specialising in public law, human rights, employment law and equality law.
Rebecca Hilsenrath (Chief
Executive)
Rebecca Hilsenrath joined the Equality and Human
Rights Commission as Legal Officer in March 2014 and was appointed as Chief
Executive in 2016.
Prior to that, she was CEO of LawWorks (the
Solicitors Pro Bono Group), a national charity facilitating free legal advice
to community groups and individuals in need.
After graduating from Cambridge, Rebecca trained
and practiced at Linklaters, and then moved to the Government Legal Service,
where she held roles in the then Department for Education and Skills and in the
Attorney General’s Office.
Susan
Johnson OBE
Susan Johnson was, until her retirement in July
2015, Chief Executive at County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service,
where she was the first woman and non-uniformed chief executive to lead a Fire
and Rescue Service in the United Kingdom.
Helen is chair of the Renewables Infrastructure
Group Limited and deputy chair and senior independent director of Primary
Health Properties plc, both of which are companies listed on the main market on
the London Stock Exchange.
She is also a non-executive director of SSE plc and
Bonheur ASA, the latter being listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. She was, until
she retired in 2013, Group Company Secretary and General Counsel
of National Grid plc for 10 years. At National Grid she was also executive
sponsor of inclusion and diversity, about which she is passionate.
Helen has also been on the boards of Aga
Rangemaster Group plc, Stagecoach Group plc and SVG Capital plc.
Mark McLane is the Head of Global Diversity and
Inclusion for Barclays PLC.
Prior to Barclays, Mark was the Director of
Diversity and Inclusion for Booz Allen Hamilton, a professional services firm
in Washington DC.
He also held the position of Chief Diversity
Officer for Whirlpool Corporation.
Dr
Lesley Sawers (Scotland Commissioner)
Lesley is currently Executive Chair of GenAnalytics
Ltd, a specialist analytical and market insights consultancy focused on
business performance improvement linked to equality and diversity in the
workplace.
Previously Lesley was Vice Principal and Pro Vice
Chancellor for Business, Enterprise and Innovation at Glasgow Caledonian
University and Chief Executive of the Scottish Council for Development and
Industry. She has also held senior leadership positions at Scottish Power,
Royal Mail, CACI, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and VisitScotland.
Professor Swaran Singh is Head of Division, Mental
Health and Wellbeing, at the University of Warwick.
In short there isn’t a radical or grassroots antiracist amongst them. They are all in favour of ‘diversity’ and
incorporating struggles against the iniquities of capitalism but you won’t find
them on a picket line or demonstration.
Most of them have a corporate background and that is the main purpose of
the EHRC, to advise corporations on equality and diversity.
The EHRC is completely unfit to step into the middle of what is a
political battle in the Labour Party between left and right under the guise of ‘anti-Semitism’. All those alleging ‘anti-Semitism’ are also
those who pushed the fake IHRA definition of ‘anti-Semitism’.
However the result of accepting without question the EHRC investigation will
be that if they come out, as is highly likely, with an adverse report then it
is going to be one more potent weapon in the armoury of the Right.
It is an own goal to have accepted or welcomed the Inquiry. They should have been challenged legally and
there should have been fierce resistance to this attempt to neutralise the left
leadership of the Labour Party via bogus complaints of anti-Semitism.
As for the Jewish Labour Movement, they should be thrown out on their
ear for having done their best to undermine and destroy the Labour Party at the
very moment when the Tories are facing a political crisis.
But instead, when they engaged in some grandstanding and threatened to
leave the Labour Party Corbyn begged
them to stay! They rewarded his
idiocy with a motion of no
confidence in him.
Tony Greenstein
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