It’s been a busy couple of weeks –well attended Zoom meetings and the usual Zionist Campaigns Against Free Speech
Reinstate Jeremy Corbyn! End the witch hunt! Saturday
October 31 2020
What is Zionism -Tony Greenstein and Moshe Machover - Monday November 5th
Brighton & Hove LLA Meeting Reinstate Corbyn Friday 6 11 20
The Campaign to Topple Jeremy Corbyn: A webinar hosted by Miko Peled Monday November 9th 2020
Labour anti-Zionist Moshe Machover says he is ‘proud’ to share platform with those accused of antisemitism - Jewish Chronicle 9th November 2020
See below Open letter to the
Labour leader, Labour Disputes and Labour Legal Queries
One of the few good things
about the lockdown is the number of meetings that have sprung up on-line with
large audiences. Even better the Zionist lobby can do nothing about them.
I have taken part in four meetings in the past 2 weeks, beginning with a Brighton and Hove LAW meeting
on 31st October calling for an End to the Suspension of Jeremy
Corbyn and the Witchhunt. Speakers
including Chris Williamson, the former MP for Derby North and 3 of the most
prominent victims of the witchhunt – Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth and myself.
This was followed by What is Zionism, with Moshe Machover and myself explaining the background to this reactionary movement of Jewish supremacy so beloved of anti-Semites. Chris Williamson chaired the discussion with Tina Werkman.
Moshe threw out a challenge, which the Jewish Chronicle reported. In an Open Letter in Weekly Worker Machover reminded Keir Starmer, that in October 2017 he was expelled from the Labour Party and reinstated less than a month later, after a deluge of protests. Machover pointed to the fact that he denies that there is an anti-Semitism problem in the Labour Party and asked Starmer what he is going to do about it and whether his views are incompatible with membership of the Labour Party since he is classed as a ‘denialist’!
‘Denialism’ which Corbyn repeated like a hypnotised parrott,
holds that if you deny that there is a problem of Labour anti-Semitism then you
are also anti-Semitic! Which is like saying if you plead not guilty in court
then that is proof of your guilt?
‘Denialism’
is what those who conducted the witch trials in Salem, New England in the 17th
Century subscribed to. As Elizabeth Reis wrote:
“During
examinations, accused women were damned if they did and damned if they did not.
If they confessed to witchcraft charges, their admissions would prove the cases
against them; if they denied the charges, their very intractability, construed
as the refusal to admit to sin more generally, might mark them as sinners and
hence allies of the devil.”
The only women who were hanged at Salem were those who
denied their guilt. This is the pathetic nonsense that Corbyn and Formby signed
up to. Just as Corbyn pushed through the fast track expulsion procedures that
has meant that hundreds of people expelled haven’t even had a hearing. Now Corbyn
himself may fall victim to it.
On Friday 6th November Brighton & Hove Labour Left Alliance organised a local meeting against the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn. Howard Beckett, Assistant Secretary-General of UNITE and an opponent of Corbyn’s suspension was due to speak. Unfortunately after the Zionists objected to him speaking alongside myself, as an expelled person, he pulled out.
Like so many
on the Labour left who oppose Corbyn’s suspension Beckett doesn’t seem to
realise that bowing to the McCarthyist dictats of the Zionists and Board of
Deputies also means also subscribing to the rationale for Corbyn’s suspension and
probable expulsion. The fake anti-Semitism campaign, which was devised with the purpose
of overthrowing Corbyn, needs to be called out not heeded. Giving comfort to its authors simply legitimates the
campaign.
On November 9th I was pleased to take part in a
round table discussion hosted by Israeli Jewish anti-Zionist Miko Peled with
Chris Williamson and Asa Winstanley, the London-based journalist with
Electronic Intifada. We had an excellent discussion on the fake ‘anti-Semitism’
campaign with a large audience in attendance, both on Zoom, Youtube and Facebook.
All of these meetings were well attended and subject to the
usual Zionist attentions. Unfortunately for the Zionists, as they were taking
place on the Internet they couldn’t engage in their usual trick, which is
phoning up venues to get the meetings cancelled because of ‘anti-Semitism’ and
if that doesn’t work getting people to ring them up and abuse them.
Tony Greenstein
Dear comrades
I am a member of the Labour Party, Hampstead and
Kilburn CLP.
In early October 2017 I received a letter (dated
October 3) from Sam Matthews, then the party’s Head of Disputes, expelling me
from the party. The letter contained an insinuation that I had published an
“anti-Semitic article”. This smear was not only false, but entirely gratuitous,
as the reason given for my expulsion had nothing to do with the content of the
article in question. That reason, however, was found to be ineffectual, and my
expulsion was rescinded in a letter from the said Sam Matthews, dated October
26 2017.
I have since then demanded several times an
apology for the ‘anti-Semitism’ smear; but my demands were ignored.
I now have pleasure in drawing your attention to
my article, ‘An immoral dilemma: The trap of Zionist propaganda’ (Journal of
Palestine Studies Vol XLVII, No4, summer 2018), attached herewith; to my
article ‘Messianic Zionism: the ass and the red heifer’ (Monthly Review
February 2020); and to my article, ‘Weaponising “anti-Semitism”’ (Weekly
Worker April 23 2020).
Please advise me whether, in your considered
opinion, public expression of the views put forward in these articles is
compatible with my membership of the Labour Party. If it is not, I would
respectfully ask you to point out specifically which of these views are
incompatible with membership. I wish to add that I am determined to continue
advocating these views.
I am writing this as an open letter, because the
issues that it involves are not private, but of concern to members and
supporters of the party, and indeed to the general public.
Sincerely
Moshé Machover
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