When will they learn? Starmer is waging a
War on the Left - Anti-Semitism is his Pretext – STOP apologising for criticising Israeli Apartheid
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| Anne Pissaridou |
Three days ago, Brighton & Hove Labour Councillor Anne
Pissaridou was suspended for
‘anti-Semitism’. Her ‘crimes’ were two Facebook posts of at least 4 years
vintage. It says something about the pathetic state of the Labour
Party at the moment that her fellow councillors didn’t immediately protest at
the decision to deprive Labour of its status as a majority party on Brighton
and Hove Council.
The first question that should be asked is why someone was
trawling through 4 year old Facebook posts? I wouldn’t even know how
to access mine. Who is it that dug up Lloyd Russell-Moyles 11
year old Facebook post? It is clear that there is Israeli state involvement
in all of this. Israel barely bothers to hide the fact that it has a Ministry
of Dirty Tricks which goes by the name of the Ministry
of Strategic Affairs.
Four years ago one of their operatives, Shai Masot, was caught
with his pants down by Al Jazeera’s undercover programme, The Lobby.
Because of the close relationship between the British and Israeli states it was
all hushed up and Masot quietly left the country.
Anne Pissaridou
No one, absolutely no one, should be suspended for social media
posts alone. If someone is posting overtly anti-Semitic stuff then they
will also be active racists and unlikely to be in the Labour Party. If by
chance they are members of the party then they should be judged on their
actions not their words.
Racism is not about words (or to use the Zionists’ favourite word
‘tropes’) it is about deeds. It is what you do not what you say that
counts. One of the most remarkable things about the whole fake Labour
‘anti-Semitism’ campaign is that there are no Jewish victims, apart from people
like me, i.e. Jews who have been expelled for being anti-Zionists.
As was made clear from the leaked Labour Party report (see
my blog)
in the case of a genuine Holocaust denier, Christopher Crookes, Sam Matthews
and the Compliance Unit/GLU were not interested. It took a petition
of over 200 members of the International Section before he was suspended and
later expelled.
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| This is what Starmer (I'm a 100% Zionist is defending) - an Israeli Labour Party (to which the JLM is affiliated) that opposes a state of all its inhabitants - Herzog rebutted the idea that the Israeli Labour Party were 'Arab lovers' - the National Front used to call us 'nigger lovers' |
The reason is simple. So simple that even the thickest member of
the Labour Right, even Luke Stanger or Emma Daniels should get it. The ‘anti-Semitism’
witchhunt is not, and never was, about anti-Semitism. It is
unfortunate that many on the left, including Jewish Voices for Labour, still
don’t get it.
The witchhunt was always about
Zionism and Israel. Zionism from its very beginning accepted and understood
anti-Semitism. It never had a quarrel with genuine anti-‘Semitism.
After all the anti-Semites were doing the Zionists job for them. They were
‘encouraging’ Jews to leave.
As Theodor Herzl, the founder of Political Zionism wrote in
his Diaries (p.6) in the middle of the Dreyfus Affair:
In
Paris... I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began
to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognise the emptiness
and futility of trying to 'combat' anti-Semitism.
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| When the Argentinian Junta (1976-83) began torturing to death up to 3,000 Jewish leftists (10% of the disappeared though Jews are less than 1% of Argentinians) the Israeli state didn't want to know and not once criticised the Junta |
That is why today, the best friends of the Israeli state are
anti-Semitic and far-Right regimes such as Orban’s
Hungary. It is why the leaders Netanyahu is closest to include
open Hitler admirer Duterte and
Bolsonaro. It is why, when the Argentinian Junta was murdering Jews because
they were Jews, the lips
of the Israeli government fell silent.
However when it comes to anti-Zionism, which has been redefined as
‘anti-Semitism’ then the Zionists are vocal. When they say that anti-Zionism
equals anti-Semitism what they really mean is that it’s anti-Semitic to support
the Palestinians and to oppose the oppression of the Palestinians. And what is
the basic assumption behind this? That all Jews support Israel’s oppression of
the Palestinians which is about as anti-Semitic a ‘trope’ (to use the Zionists
favourite word) as you can get.
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| Tommy Robinson in the racial paradise of Israel |
It is also why anti-Semites such as Richard
Spencer and Tommy
Robinson are ardent supporters of the Zionist ethno-nationalist state.
There is nothing more that they would like to see adopted in Europe and the USA
than ttheir own ethno-nationalist white states.
The idea that Zionist organisations, whose raison d'être is
to support the world’s most racist state, are somehow opposed to anti-Semitism
is the big lie that has persisted for the past 5 years. It is the
lie that Corbyn, McDonnell and now Lloyd Russell-Moyle have swallowed.
Nearly 4 years ago Anne Pissaridou shared an article ‘Rothschild doubles
down on Gold as Banking Crisis Begins’ with a picture of Jacob
Rothschild with gold bars behind him. Anne’s comment was ‘interesting article’.
The second piece of ‘proof’ that she is 'antisemitic' was a post sharing an
article from Voxpoliticalonline.com with a picture of Corbyn meeting a rabbi
with the title ‘Jewish
Israeli journalist claims pro-Israel propagandist have ‘taken out a contract to
stop....’ presumably Corbyn.
The first article could be seen as anti-Semitic but there should
be no automatic assumption that the person who posted it is anti-Semitic.
The involvement of the Rothschilds in all sorts of nefarious
activities is a standard theme of conspiracy theorists. It is based on
anti-Semitic assumptions that the Rothschilds have such extraordinary financial
prowess that they can engineer things like the banking crash. There is no doubt
that the origins of the Rothschild’s conspiracy theories were anti-Semitic.
However most people who refer to the ‘Rothschilds’ are not
anti-Semitic. Indeed I’ve met some who didn’t realise that the
Rothschilds were Jewish! The mere fact of sharing such an article is not proof
that Anne Pissaridou is an anti-Semite. Not, that is, unless you
want her to be.
Today the place of the Rothschilds has been taken by George
Soros. And virtually the whole of the racist Right, Trump and Jacob Rees
Mogg included, subscribe to the notion that Soros is a destroyer of the White
nations and a supporter of subversion.
If this witchhunt was genuinely about anti-Semitism then there
would be an investigation into Anne’s activities. Has she hung
around with anti-Semites and racists? Has she written for far-Right
papers or gone on Tommy
Robinson support marches alongside a large number of Zionists?
But of course those who suspended Anne don’t for a minute believe
she is a far-Right infiltrator into the Labour Party. What they are
seeking to do is to remove as many people on the Left as possible. As
far as they are concerned you can be racist about just about anybody as long as
it’s not Jews or rather as long as you are not opposed to the Israeli state.
In the second article Anne quoted from Gideon Levy, a journalist
on Ha'aretz. It had nothing at all to do with anti-Semitism, unless of course
you think that opposing Zionism is anti-Semitic in which case you are saying
that anti-racist Jews are anti-Semitic!
Yet that is the ‘logic’ of genuine racists like former Brighton
& Hove Labour Leader Councillor Daniel Yates who immediately
opened his big mouth to issue platitudes about ‘anti-Semitism’.
Yates told the Argus that
“I
can only apologise for the hurt fear and betrayal these actions have caused
those who we seek to represent and support. There is no action I can take to
undo this.’
Where do these people live? No one who is Jewish will
give a tinker’s cuss about what Pissaridou shared on Facebook 4 years ago. People
are far more worried about Coronavirus and how this government has fucked up
big time killing thousands of people.
Of course it doesn’t help when Pissaridou say ‘“I am deeply sorry for
my actions and any distress I have caused to the Jewish community.’ Look
love, no one in the Jewish community has suffered the slightest distress for
any inane comments you have made.
There is of course a very simple test as to what is and is not
anti-Semitic. It is the Oxford English
Dictionary definition of anti-Semitism, 'opposition
to or discrimination against Jews' as Jews. If that was Anne’s intention in
posting the first article then yes the charge is justified. If it
was just an article which she read and found interesting then the charge is
nonsense.
The problem is that the IHRA
misdefinition of ‘anti-Semitism’ which Yates foisted on
Brighton & Hove Council has nothing to do with anti-Semitism and everything
to do with conflating anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, thus rendering at a
stroke thousands of anti-Zionist Jews as anti-Semites.
Daniel Yates, like most of his ilk, is a political careerist. Like
his predecessor, Warren Morgan, he is not the brightest tool in the box. But
even Yates should be able to understand this. If you say that anti-Zionism is
equal to anti-Semitism, which is what Yates is doing, then what he is saying is
that the 5-6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust were anti-Semites! Think
about it. 2-3% of German Jews were Zionists and in Poland in the
last elections in 1938 Polish Jews overwhelmingly rejected the Zionists. In
the Warsaw local elections out of 20 Jewish Council seats the anti-Zionist Bund won
17. The Zionists won just one. This is where the accusation that
anti-Zionism=anti-Semitism leads.
The real question is what are the motives of those who moved to
suspend Anne. Do they, for example, take the same attitude to other
forms of racism as they do to ‘anti-Semitism’ or are allegations of
anti-Semitism merely a smokescreen for another agenda entirely? An
agenda that involves a war on the Left?
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| Steve Reed MP - NOT sacked by Starmer |
An exercise in hypocrisy
Almost at the same time as Anne Pissaridou was being suspended
Labour frontbencher, Steve Reed, repeated a phrase that has come to be
identified with Jewish financiers pulling the strings of gullible non-Jews.
He asked ‘Is billionaire
former porn-baron Desmond the puppet master for the entire Tory cabinet?’ Richard
Desmond just happens to be Jewish. 'Puppet Master' is a term used by a host of
anti-Semites in regard to George Soros.
There has been a long
and vicious campaign against Soros by Netanyahu’s friend Viktor Orban
of Hungary who won the
2018 General Election by campaigning against him. Soros is the main
hate figure of the American far-Right. Anti-Semitic cartoons depicting Soros as
pulling the strings are regular features of the far-Right press.
3 years ago Yair Netanyahu, the son of Israel’s Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, posted an
anti-Semitic ‘puppet master’ cartoon attacking Soros. It was replete with David
Icke’s lizards. He was immediately praised by the neo-Nazi editor of the Daily
Stormer, Andrew Anglin and David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the KKK.
So what was Starmer’s response to Steve Reed’s anti-Semitic post? Absolutely
nothing. Likewise his response to right-wing MP Rachel Reeves tweet in
support of Hitler supporting Nancy Astor was likewise ignored.
Reed is but one example. The person who was identified
with the fake ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign more than anyone was Labour MP John Mann. Yet
Mann penned ‘The
Bassetlaw anti-social behaviour handbook’ some years ago which listed under
examples of anti-social behaviour such as ‘Rubbish’ and ‘Neighbours from Hell’
Travellers and Gypsies. He was subsequently interviewed by
the Police under caution for a suspected hate crime.
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| Tom Watson defended Phil Woolas MP who ran an election campaign based on 'making the white folk angry' |
The Labour Right, which professes to be so concerned about
‘anti-Semitism’ has throughout the years been distinguished by its hostility
and racism to Gypsies. Luke Stanger, currently
suspended for posting that Travellers are a social blight on
communities, is but one example.
It wasn't only Jews who were annihilated in the Holocaust.
Up to half a million Gypsies and Roma were murdered in the same gas as the Jews
yet you never hear about this from the Zionist Holocaust Memorial Trust or the
Labour Right.
Tom Watson was the driving force behind the fake 'anti-semitism'
campaign yet he was a died-in-the-wool racist. Watson
had a long record of racism stretching back to the Birmingham Hodshrove
by-election when he told the
electorate that Labour was ‘on your side’ unlike the Lib Dems who ‘were
on the side of asylum seekers’.
This ghastly man wrote in
Labour Uncut about how he had lost sleep thinking about ‘poor Phil’
– the racist Labour MP Phil Woolas who the High Court removed from
Parliament after he lied about his Lib Dem opponent and ran an election
campaign based
on 'making the white folk angry'.
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| Jewish historian Professor Geoffrey Alderman made a complaint about Tom Watson's antisemitic remark - it was not progressed |
Tom Watson even issued an Easter message in
2019 referring to how the Jewish High Priests were responsible for the
crucifixion of Christ, one of the oldest and most deadly anti-Semitic myths.
If Corbyn, McDonnell and the rest had had anything residing
between their ears then the moment the Labour Right piped up about
‘anti-Semitism’ they would have pointed to their record over the
years on immigration, asylum seekers and Muslims. But the Labour
Left historically has also been the stupid left.
What Can We Do?
It should be crystal clear by now that the anti-Semitism campaign
is being used by Starmer, not merely to remove supporters of the Palestinians
but as a means of attacking the Left as a whole. It is not surprising that the
Zionists want to separate ‘anti-Semitism’ out from racism as David Feldman and
others of the Pears Institute for Anti-Semitism have suggested because their
version of anti-Semitism has nothing to do with racism. [see Labour
and Antisemitism: a Crisis Misunderstood]
For too long the Left, including the organised left, has sat
silently on the sidelines. JVL spent the last 2 years proving that
there were Jews opposed to Zionism and providing a 'Jewish cover' for Corbyn. Unfortunately
they didn’t get it that the ‘anti-Semitism’ smears were not about anti-Semitism
and that providing a Jewish cover for Corbyn was an exercise in futility since
he was not prepared to defend himself or his supporters.
The LRC has just gone along with a Centre Left Grassroots Alliance
slate that deliberately excluded Jo Bird, a Jewish anti-Zionist from the slate.
It is clear that Brighton is one of the targets of the
witchhunters and it is rumoured that other councillors are targets too – names
mentioned include Nikki Brennan, Nick Childs and Kate Knight. Even
soft-left Council leader Nancy Platts is being talked about.
It is incumbent on the left Councillors to say that they will not
accept the removal of the whip from Anne. That an injury to one is
an injury to all. If necessary all the Left councillors should
either resign the Whip and put the Greens in power or insist that Anne stays a
member of the Group. On no accounts should racist Dan Yates be
allowed to become Labour leader again.
Yates is an uncritical supporter of Zionism and Israel and close
to the far-Right Sussex Friends of Israel. He has no problem with an Israeli
state that bars its
20% Arab population to access 93% of ‘national’ i.e. Jewish national land. He
has no problem with a state where Jewish women can insist that they are able to
give birth in a maternity ward free
of Arab women, a state where Arabs are barred from any job that is
‘security’ related. He was no problem with a state whose Prime Minister says Israel
is not a state of all its citizens just its Jewish citizens.
It is incumbent on the 3 Brighton & Hove Labour Parties to
support Anne Pissaridou and demand her reinstatement – by the party nationally
and by councillors locally.
If Jews in Britain experienced a tenth of the discrimination of
Palestinians in Israel then they would be entitled to shout about anti-Semitism. As
it is they are used as an alibi for racists like Dan Yates.
The Left in the Labour Party needs to do what the Right did for
the past 4 years. The Right fought Corbyn regardless of the electoral
consequences. That is what the Left should also do. Why?
Because the election of Tory Starmer would be a bigger disaster than Blair
was. Starmer is as much our enemy as Boris Johnson and he should be
removed as early as possible The fact that he has been praised by
George Osborne should be proof enough.
Tony Greenstein
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