Tory Jonathan Goldstein, Elected by No-One, ‘Sets five tests for Labour’
– Abandon Corbynism and all trace of Socialism and Anti-Imperialism
Norman Finkelstein recalls
in the chimera of British Anti-Semitism how his mother, a survivor of the Nazi concentration
camps, remarked that ‘It’s no accident
that Jews invented the word chutzpah.’
Chutzpah is a Yiddish
word meaning audacity, cheek, to have a nerve. The best example of Chutzpah is the
tale of a Jewish boy, who was hauled before a court of law having murderedBboth
his parents. Pleading for mercy the boy
declared that the court should be lenient because, after all, he is now an
orphan!
Jonathan Goldstein is
‘chairman’ of the wholly unelected Jewish Leadership Council. It used to
consist of big Jewish capitalists such as Stanley Kalms of Dixons and Micky
Davis of the mining giant Xtrata. Today it consists of the good and great of
various Jewish and Zionist organisations. Goldstein is about as reactionary a
Tory as it’s possible to find but nonetheless he believes that he has the right
to dictate to the Labour Party what it should do and how it should do it.
He believes that Unite trade
union should be sorted out and he wants all trace of what he calls ‘Corbynism’
eradicated. It will be a test of the current
leadership candidates as to which one is prepared to stand up to this
moral blackmail. We know that Keir
Starmer and Rebecca Long-Bailey will haul up the white flag of surrender. It
will be interesting to see whether Ian Lavery is prepared to do what Corbyn shied
away from and that is to call these reactionary Zionists out for the racists
they are.
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| It is almost as if Ed Miliband's leadership was a dry run for Corbyn - despite Miliband himself being Jewish |
The JLC has been one of a
number of major Zionist groups involved in the fake anti-Semitism campaign.
They are pleased with their ‘success’ at having defeated Corbyn. The issue of
‘anti-Semitism’ was barely mentioned on the doorstep. Its impact lay in the
inability of Jeremy Corbyn and his advisors to stand up to these political
blackmailers and to tell them to fuck off back to the sewers which they share
with their friend Donald Trump.
If Corbyn had had a
backbone and McDonnell hadn’t tried to please these supporters of Israeli racial
supremacy when the Zionists first began making accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’,
then the Zionists’ could have been shown the door. As it is Corbyn and
McDonnell got into the situation whereby the more they apologise the deeper was
the hole that they were digging for themselves.
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| Maureen Lipman also abandoned Corbyn over Israel, sorry 'antisemitism' - Miliband was a dry run for Corbyn |
‘Anti-Semitism’ has long
been the tried and tested accusation of defenders of Zionism. There isn’t a
single Palestine solidarity activist in Britain who hasn’t been accused of ‘anti-Semitism’.
When you openly
proclaim, as Zionist organisations repeatedly do, that anti-Zionism equals
anti-Semitism then it is obvious that opponents of Israel’s occupation regime
and its inbuilt racism will be accused
of ‘anti-Semitism’.
Corbyn’s silence and
inability to push back against the accusations was unforgiveable. It was a prime example of the inability of the
Labour left to articulate any clear and unambiguous class politics. Corbyn supported
the Palestinians but he treated it as a human rights not a political question. Zionism
to him was a mystery.
Now however the Zionists have
had their appetites whetted. These reactionary Tories now believe that they can
set ‘tests’ for the Labour Party. Note that they haven’t set any tests for a
Tory party led by an out and out racist, Boris Johnson, whose book 72
Virgins is replete with anti-Semitic memes and tropes.
Boris Johnson described
‘a Jewish character as an unethical
businessman with a large nose, who exploits immigrant workers and black women’.
You might think that Goldstein and the Zionist claque, if they were seriously
interested in anti-Semitism might have fired a broadside at Johnson. According
to the Jewish Chronicle’s Rosa Doherty Johnson ‘depicted Jews as controlling the media and being able to “fiddle”
elections in a novel he wrote when he was a backbench Conservative MP.’
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| Lest we forget, the Daily Mail, which today opposes 'antisemitism' attacked Ed Miliband because of his 'alien' Jewish Marxist father Ralph Miliband |
He also described a
Jewish character called Sammy Katz, as having a “proud nose and curly hair.”
He also described Kosovan
Muslims as having “hook noses” and
called a group of characters “pikeys”,
a slur for Travellers.
However you can rest
assured that when Goldstein calls for ‘a
zero tolerance approach to anti-Jewish racism’ you can be sure that what he
doesn’t mean is genuine anti-Semitism of the Boris Johnson or Britain First
variety.
What Goldstein means is
anti-Zionism. Opposition to the only
apartheid state, Israel, that exists in the world today.
Goldstein talks of the
election result being ‘a day of
extraordinary relief’ for British Jews.
If that true it was because a nasty and dishonest campaign of lies and
libels had been waged against Corbyn and the Labour Party for the past 4
years. If British Jews felt insecure it
was because their own leaders had campaigned to instil fear and insecurity in
Britain’s Jews.
What Norman
Finkelstein wrote in
his essay
almost exactly describes what happened to British Jews. It was an classic
example of mass psychosis and hysteria:
If residents of Salem,
Massachusetts, experienced deep anxiety about witches; if Americans experienced
deep anxiety about Communists; if White southerners experienced deep anxiety
about Black rapists; if Germans experienced deep anxiety about a
“Judeo-Bolshevik” conspiracy; and if, for that matter, Christians experienced
deep anxiety about Jewish ritual child-murderers—if an anxiety is widespread,
surely it doesn’t necessarily, or even probably, follow that it is a rational
fear. It could just as plausibly have been induced by powerful social forces
standing to benefit from a deliberately contrived paranoia. Or, in the case at
hand, it could spring from Jewish hypersensitivity—in light of historical
experience wholly understandable—to a phantom anti-Semitism (see Woody Allen’s Annie
Hall).
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| It is strange that a letter signed by 34 Orthodox Jewish rabbis never made it into one mainstream newspaper or the BBC - the powers of self-censorship in Britain newspapers must be the envy of police states the world over |
Britain’s Jews are not
subject to any form of state anti-Semitism. They do not experience economic discrimination,
police harassment or violence, charges of driving whilst Jewish,
disproportionate imprisonment or violent racist attacks. They are a privileged section of the White
population. The only section of the Jewish community which is distinguishable
and which has suffered physical attacks, the Orthodox Jewish community is the
very one which has distanced
itself from the Zionist leaders’ attacks on Corbyn.
There is no basis to Zionist complaints that the Labour Party
is racist. The fact that the Goldstein and the Board of Deputies’s Marie van
der Zyl have said nothing about Tory MEP’s sitting with anti-Semites in the European Parliament or their support for Hungary’s anti-Semitic Prime Minister Viktor Orban demonstrates
what their real agenda is and it isn’t anti-Semitism.
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| They said the same about Labour's only Jewish leader as Corbyn - he'd lost the 'trust' of Britain's Jews - why? Because he had supported a Palestinian state |
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| The lie that Corbyn lost the trust of Britain's Jews is demonstrated by the fact that most British Jews had not supported the Labour Party since the 1950's |
Jonathan Goldstein’s 5
demands include
1.
‘tearing up’ the Chakrabarti Report because it is a ‘whitewash’. What
they mean is it didn’t say that anti-Zionism was ‘anti-Semitic’.
2.
An independent disciplinary process in other words more people should
be expelled for supporting Palestinians and the Kangaroo Court should become a
fixed institutioin.
3.
A ‘zero-tolerance approach to anti-Jewish racism.’ Perhaps Goldstein would like to implement a
similar approach to anti-Muslim racism in the Jewish community and do something
about the band
of Zionists who make friends with people like Tommy Robinson.
4.
‘A commitment to political education and a real effort to address
left-anti-Semitism’. No, not right-wing anti-Semitism, because most fascists
and genuine anti-Semites today love
Israel, seeing in it their ideal state. And what is ‘left
anti-Semitism’? Goldstein doesn’t say
but we can guess it involves the IHRA and Israel.
5.
‘Condemn and proscribe factions within the party or any affiliated
trade union.’ In other words an
intensification of the witchhunt and an extension of it to Unite, the LRC,
Labour Briefing and even Momentum.
A separate
article ‘Corbyn’s exit ‘won’t end anti-Semitism’ states that ‘Goldstein also urges Corbyn’s successor to
take on the Unite union.’ which is seen as on the Left. In other words the
Zionists today are acting as the stalking horse of the ruling class and urging
an attack on the left as a whole.
A failure to stand up to
these McCarthyists and a continuation of Corbyn’s useless appeasement policy
will destroy the left inside the Labour Party.
In these circumstances
the left has to come together, ditch the nonsense that anti-Semitism is a
problem in the Labour Party and go on the offensive. The first target should be
the scab Jewish Labour Movement which is affiliated to the racist land thieves
of the World Zionist Organisation. The JLM didn’t even support Labour in the
general election. If there is to be a Jewish section it should not make support
for Israel a condition of membership and nor should it be affiliated to the
Israeli Labour Party, a racist party of ethnic cleansing which has less than 5%
support amongst Israeli Jews today.
The Zionists are the
cutting edge of the British ruling class. They will have their supporters both
in the Parliamentary Labour Party and the unions, the GMB and to a lesser
extent UNISON too. Dave Prentis in particular can be relied on to back them up.
Rebecca Long-Bailey has
already hauled up the white flag. There is no way that this charlatan should become
the Left’s candidate. The only
alternative in sight is Ian Lavery, former General Secretary of the National
Union of Miners.
The ruling class is going
to take advantage of Labour’s defeat on December 12th to try and
purge the Labour Party of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism. It is up to the Left to stop them.
Don’t say you haven’t been warned!
Tony Greenstein
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