The Zionist Attempts to Close Down Debate on Zionism Lies in Ruins After Last Weekend’s LRC Conference
At last Saturday’s Labour
Representative Committee’s AGM John McDonnell
and Laura Pidcock decided to take a day trip to the Left.
Gone was the McDonnell who
wanted war criminal Alistair
Campbell reinstated in the Labour Party and who said that Starmer’s COVID
strategy was 100% correct. Now he talked of Solidarity and even the Grunwick Strike
(past battles always make social democrats more at ease than current ones)!
Amongst those listening
and taking part were Jackie Walker and Tony Greenstein. McDonnell and Pidcott
didn’t bat an eyelid. Surely they hadn’t forgotten the Board
of Deputies ’10 Commandments’ No. 5 of which stipulated that
Any MPs, Peers, councilors, members or CLPs who
support, campaign or provide a platform for people who have been expelled or
suspended in the wake of anti-Semitic incidents should themselves be suspended
from membership
Jackie Walker is also
mentioned in Commandment No. 4, alongside Ken Livingstone, as someone who will
never be readmitted to the Party. McDonnell and Pidcock up to now have never
made it clear whether they reject or accept the BOD's McCarthyist programme,
whereas the miserable Rebecca Long-Bailey signed up to the Commandments in an
attempt to gain the racist vote in her bid for Labour’s leadership.
I have to say that I am
extremely pleased that John McDonnell and Laura Pidcock, whose behaviour
throughout the witchhunt has not been a model of socialist solidarity have now
seen the error of their ways. The repentance of the sinner on the Road to
Damascus is to be welcomed.
The Zionist attempt to
construct a ‘banned list’ is no different in principle to the actions of their
good friends in the Apartheid regime. I’m pleased to say that their attempts now lies in ruins.
The Conference itself was
a damp squib. I was ruled out of order when attempting to move reference back
of the section of the LRC’s dire statement ‘Learning
from mistakes of the past five years’. Clearly the leadership of the LRC has learnt nothing at all.
I copy the relevant section of the Executive
Statement below. It asks ‘Did Jeremy make mistakes? Of course he did’ and then
concludes that ‘Frankly his conduct as an individual has been heroic.’ Perhaps I
have an aversion to hero worship, but to me his conduct wasn’t so much heroic
as idiocy on stereoids. Others may call throwing your friends and comrades
under the bus cowardice.
Not once did it seem to Corbyn that the anti-Semitism attacks, on him
and others, were the normal Zionist Weaponisation of Anti-Semitism. Because if
he had realised this he might have called it out. Despite employing numerous
advisers it doesn’t seem to have occurred to Corbyn that what he needed to do
was to fight back and devise a strategy which consisted of more than the words ‘I
surrender’.
Firstly by making a major speech explaining that when you have to
justify house demolitions of civilians as part of Israel’s ongoing ethnic
cleansing or imprisonment without trial of children as young as 12 then
‘anti-Semitism’ is about the only card you can play.
Over ¾ of Labour’s membership consistently
refused to accept that Labour had an anti-Semitism
problem yet Corbyn insisted on appeasing enemies who would not be appeased.
Corbyn had a duty to call out the gaggle of Blairites and what John Prescott
called the ‘bitterites’ who levelled the charge of anti-Semitism at anyone they
disliked.
Instead Corbyn threw his friends, one by one, under the bus to appease
Tom Watson and the Jewish Labour Movement and then in the final insult to the
members tried to ennoble Watson as well as Iain McNicol.
In the Leaked Report that Starmer is doing his best to bury the following appears on page 306
and in with slightly different wording on pages 333, 346 and 573. There are
other references to ‘rebuilding trust’
with the Jewish community without once stopping to ask themselves why only 22%
of Jews voted for his predecessor, the Jewish Ed Miliband.
Jeremy Corbyn himself and members
of his staff team requested to GLU that particular antisemitism cases be dealt
with. In 2017 LOTO staff chased for action on high-profile antisemitism cases
Ken Livingstone, Tony Greenstein, Jackie Walker and Marc Wadsworth, stressing
that these cases were of great concern to Jewish stakeholders and that
resolving them was essential to “rebuilding trust between the Labour Party and
the Jewish community”. GLU often failed to quickly progress these cases, as
well as on several cases of antisemitism that LOTO staff directly raised or
discussed with GLU.
Well all the above named were expelled or forced out of the Labour
Party. Did it ‘rebuild trust’ with the mythical Jewish community? Of course not. Our expulsions merely ‘proved’ that the
Labour Party had an anti-Semitism problem so they upped their demands and
Corbyn and the even more servile Jenny Formby rushed to expel even more people
even more quickly. To do this they devised the fast track expulsion procedures
so that people could be expelled without a hearing.
The 2019 Labour Party Conference was told that these fast-track
procedures would only be used in ‘egregious’ cases but that was a lie. They have
been used in every ‘anti-Semitism’
case. And the faster Formby expelled people the more this proved Labour had a
problem with ‘anti-Semitism’ so they expelled even more people.
It doesn’t seem to have occurred to Formby and Corbyn that by expelling
anyone who mentioned the word ‘Zionism’ in anything other than a positive light
they were simply hastening their own demise. They surrendered the narrative to
their enemies.
Was the Zionist Establishment and the Board of Deputies pleased . with
them? Of course not. The Zionists knew that they had Labour’s
leadership on the run and they pursued them even more. Corbyn forgot Mick McGahey of the National
Union of Miner’s advice
that ‘they’ll
stop chasing you when you stop running,” Corbyn,
McDonnell and Formby never stopped running.
In the end Corbyn was subject to an ambush during the General Election by
the racist Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, who trained to become a
rabbi at the Har Etzmon Yeshiva on the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut. And what was Corbyn’s response? To ask for a meeting with him! Heroic? I can think of other words!
Hero Worship
Sections of the LRC Executive Report
12.
Did Jeremy make mistakes? Of course he did.
Everyone does. We, as loyal Corbynistas in the LRC, criticised Corbyn who,
pressured by the trade union barons, accepted a process less democratic than
the open selection called for by the majority of the membership. That spiked
the move to Party democratisation. How important were these
mistakes?
13.
We must remember what a weak position Corbyn – and
the left in general – was in, with a hostile PLP and Party bureaucracy, and
unprecedented vilification from the media. Frankly his conduct as an individual
has been heroic. The fundamental problem was that he alone was unable to
overcome the forces ranged against him in our movement. He was in a very weak
negotiating and bargaining position.
14.
There was an irreconcilable contradiction between
the need to transform the party and build a radical democratic grassroots
movement and the need to reach an accommodation with a right wing PLP.
The leadership feared a right wing split off from the PLP would make an
election victory more difficult and yet to abandon the grassroots would be to
give up in advance on the chance of a lifetime of achieving a radical Labour
government.
15.
It was a mistake to fail to facilitate the building
of an independent grassroots movement. It was a serious error not to
defend Corbyn’s supporters from the witch-hunt by accepting the narrative of
what were grossly distorted and politically weaponised allegations of
antisemitism which helped to divide and demoralise the Labour left
16.
The most fundamental mistake made by Corbyn’s team
was increasingly focusing on triangulating Brexit policies and parliamentary
procedures rather than mobilising and educating the rank and file. To combat
that would have required a giant mobilisation leading to a wholesale democratisation
of the labour movement – a mammoth task that the left failed to achieve.
17.
We live in unprecedented times. Johnson’s
administration looked set fair last year for five years of government with very
little opposition in sight. Now, with the onset of the pandemic and the
prospect of economic collapse, they must know they are on the rack. What of the
opposition? Unfortunately under Keir Starmer the PLP seems by a majority to
accept the role of a ‘loyal opposition’, playing Parliamentary games with the
Tories. But of course it’s not just up to them. The threats facing the labour
movement are vast. But so are the opportunities, if our movement is prepared to
take advantage of them.
The LRC is unable to come
to terms with what happened during Corbyn’s leadership, not least the way its
own President, John McDonnell, was the leading appeaser. This is betrayed in the
poverty of its analysis (if one can dignify it with such a description). And
because it draws no lessons from the debacle of Corbyn’s leadership it has
nothing to say about how the Left should go about tackling the right-wing leadership
of Keir Starmer.
According
to Andrew Fisher’s new book, after Margaret Hodge’s description of Corbyn
as a ‘fucking anti-Semite’ when McDonnell urged that she should suffer
no consequences, Corbyn didn’t speak to him for months. It would have been even better if Corbyn had
openly called for her suspension.
The LRC was in a prime
position during the past 5 years to become the leading organisation of the Left
in the Labour Party. Instead it sat on the sidelines and failed to organise any
opposition to the Right’s counter offensive. The LRC allowed Lansman’s Momentum
to first cement its position, move to the Right and in the end destroy the
Corbyn Project it had been founded to protect. Now the LRC is an organisation
without a role and without much of a voice either.
Laura Pidcock is seen by
activists as having a relatively clean pair of hands compared to
McDonnell. However as co-Chair of the
Campaign Group of MPs it was she who told Chris Williamson not to turn up to
meetings anymore once he had been suspended.
McDonnell, who was always
willing to speak up for the likes of Alistair Campbell and the British National
Party’s favourite MP, Margaret Hodge, kept his
silence like a Trappist monk when Chris Williamson was resuspended as a result
of a petition of right-wing peers and MPs organised by Tom Watson.
Even now the LRC, spurns
unity with the Labour Left Alliance and instead takes part in the stitch-up
that is known as the Centre Left Grassroots Alliance who, along with the CLPD
and Momentum, vetoed Jo Bird’s candidature for the NEC.
Still, at least those of
us expelled as a result of Corbyn’s betrayal can be grateful to McDonnell and
Pidcock for their belated opposition to the Board of Deputies’s McCarthyite 10 Pledges!
Tony Greenstein
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