How then will Labour fare in the election? This is
probably the most difficult election to call. I fear a Tory majority but there
may well be a hung parliament though if the Lib Dems continue to slide in the
polls that may be less likely. What is clear is that there is no surge to
Labour. I cannot see a Labour victory or an increase in the present number of
seats. By failing to see that the British Establishment would do all they
could, in conjunction with the United States and Israel, to ensure that an
anti-imperialist would not become Prime Minister the Left has to face the
future with a Labour Party minus Jeremy Corbyn.
In last week’s Brighton Independent I had an article which suggested that Miliband was
determined to lose. Of course he’d like to win but he refuses to break
from the consensus behind austerity.... Labour is going to face a wipe-out
in its Scottish bastion because they are perceived as the ‘red Tories’. ...
My prediction? The Tories will be the
largest party. Labour plus the SNP should be within spitting distance of
the magical 324 need for an overall majority. Hopefully the Lib-Dems, the
most disgusting and unprincipled party of all will suffer heavy losses.
UKIP is unlikely to gain more than 2-3 seats and the Greens will keep their one
seat. Who forms a government? Miliband might unless he proves
particularly stupid.’
Like most people I was taken by surprise by
Cameron’s narrow majority.
In 2017 contrary to all those who believed that Labour’s
election campaign would be a rerun of 1983 under Michael Foot, I foresaw that
the Tory campaign under ‘strong and
stable’ Theresa May would crash, which it did.
Sir Kid Starver was the first person to welcome my expulsion. the first Jewish person, from the Labour Party in February 2016
It was Harold Wilson who said
that a week is a long time in politics. Seven weeks is a political
eternity. Theresa May has taken a gamble that her 21% lead will
hold. It is a gamble that she may yet come to regret.
There is only one direction that
her lead can go and that is down. Once her lead falls then a snowball
effect can take over. What is essential is that Labour marks out the key
areas on which it is going to base its appeal. The danger is that Corbyn
is going to continue with his ‘strategy’ of appeasing the Right and appealing
to all good men and women. If so that will be a recipe for disaster.
No election is guaranteed to be
without its surprises. Theresa May is a cautious conservative. She
is literally the product of her background, a conservative vicar’s
daughter. Reactionary, parochial and small-minded, she is a bigot for all
seasons. What doesn’t help is that she is both wooden and
unoriginal. The danger is that Corbyn tries to emulate her.
I do not have a crystal ball. My initial predictions, that there
would or could be a hung parliament was based on my assessment of the
situation. This is still quite possible as the Tories are widely detested
for their attacks on the working poor, people on benefits and the
continuous privatisation of the NHS. They are seen as the party of a
vicious class rule, which is what austerity is about.
That does not, however, mean that the Tories will necessarily be
defeated. People do not vote in line with their class interests.
The whole purpose of the patriotic card, used by a succession of ruling class
scoundrels from Pitt to May, is to blind people to their real interests.
It is saying that British workers and the poor have more in common with the
rich and the ruling class than they do with each other. The Tory press of
course is doing its best to foster illusions in Strong and Stable.
David Lammy Meeting his Constituents
Labour could still become the largest party but I also
sense a vigorous fightback by the Right. It seems that one part of the
prediction I made will not come true. The Lib-Dems are not going to gain
enough seats to prop up another Tory coalition At the moment they are
tipped to win just one extra seat. By ruling out any form of pact with
Labour under Corbyn, the Lib-Dems have guaranteed their own irrelevance.
We could be in for a period of political instability
such as we have not known for 40 years. This is one of the hardest
elections to call. A Tory government is still possible if it cobbles
together a coalition of the Lib-Dems & the Ulster Unionists-DUP. Even
a majority Tory government cannot be ruled out.
What then will be the result tomorrow? Again I
have to confess that predicting the results of any election is not easy. It is
clear that Starmer’s rebranded Tory Party will win the election, although I
have a feeling that the majority will not be as large as predicted.
Tanushka Mara, Socialist Independent Hove
What is clear is that this has been the dullest
election in decades with no real differences between Tory and Starmer Labour. I
expect the turnout to be down.
The Lib Dems should pick up disaffected Tories
though I doubt that it will be above 50 as has been predicted.
I also expect the Green Party to keep Brighton Pavilion
and possible gain one or two more. We are told the Reform party will win up to
5 seats. That is possible though I hope not. Farage certainly annoyed the
imperialists with his perfectly reasonable explanation that NATO and the United
States provoked Russia into invading.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
in 1962 was provoked by the US placing nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey which were then matched by Soviet nuclear missiles
in Cuba. So it is
obvious why Russia didn’t want a nuclear alliance on their borders. Farage was savaged, called a Putin lover etc.
so that may have an effect on their election chances.
Picket of 'Killer' Kyle MP for Hove
My concerns are different. Which of the
bourgeois and pro-capitalist parties comes out on top is to all intents and
purposes irrelevant. Whether it is Sunak or Starmer who becomes Prime Minister,
racism, imperialism, poverty, exploitation and war will continue. They are
Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Starmer has been ruthless in purging the Labour
Party of socialists and left-wingers. Would that Jeremy Corbyn had had half as
much bottle he wouldn’t have been fighting as an independent today.
Will Corbyn win in Islington North?He should do but the polls say otherwise. Let
us hope so. However Corbyn has mishandled the withdrawal of the Labour Whip
like everything else. When it was clear he would not have the Whip reinstated
he should have resigned from the Labour Party and stood in a by–election for
the seat. As it is he has an uphill fight. I wish him well against his corrupt
opponent
Why I’m against mass immigration
I
also hope that George Galloway holds Rochdale but I fear he won’t. I hope he
wins because of genocide in Gaza not because I agree with him on much else. His
attempt to compete with Farage and the Tories on immigration is despicable. I have come in for some criticism from my
comrades for supporting him but in my view genocide in Palestine outweighs
virtually any other consideration, witness Sunak’s ill-judged attack on him
when he won the by-election.
A message I sent to George Galloway today
Galloway’s
comments in the video above are a disgrace. Immigration doesn’t lower wage
levels nor does it prevent people getting doctors’ appointments or children
getting places in schools. This is racist scapegoatism at its worst.
What
prevents people getting GP appointments is the lack of doctors we train plus
the reduction in what we pay them. Funding
for GP practices has been slashed by £350 million in real terms since 2019,
House of Commons Library research shows.
It was 6.9% lower in 2022/23 compared to 2018/19, once inflation is taken into
account. The average funding per patient was £165 in 2022/23, a real terms cut
of £12 per patient over the past four years. In other words nothing to do with
immigrants.
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The
same is true of nurses, whose bursaries the Tories stole in order to enrich
their cronies. The NHS has been defunded, part privatised and the money transferred
to military expenditure. Indeed but for overseas
doctors and nurses the NHS would be in a worse state than it already is.
The
same reactionary arguments were used when Jewish refugees came to Britain in
the 19 and 20 centuries. The answer to low wages was trade union organisation
not immigration controls. Three times in the 1880s the TUC called for ‘anti-alienist’
immigration controls because they preferred not to fight. Jewish workers
however formed their own trade unions and launched strike after strike – including
two mass tailors strikes in 1889
and 1912
alongside dockers strikes in the same years. That is how wages are raised.
I understand Labour HQ has instructed most London CLPs to stop canvassing tonight, to shut up shop, told not to operate committee rooms or have a get out the vote on election day. Utterly bizarre and dictatorial stuff. A sign of what they will be in government.
— Pamela Fitzpatrick (@pamelafitz4HW) July 1, 2024
However
much you control immigration it won’t affect the export of capital, which is
why it is such a bankrupt argument. Unless members of the Workers Party reign
Galloway in it is destined to become a pariah on the left.
‘Patriotism’ and immigration controls sit
uneasily with socialism. Patriotism means the working class doffing their cap
to their rulers and dying in their wars. National socialism is a contradiction
in terms.
In
this video Galloway is compared, quite rightly to Farage, Jenrick and
Braverman. This appeal to racism with all the dog whistles about fighting age
men and 3 star hostels and ‘illegal migrants’ rather than refugees suggests
that Galloway inhabits a very dark place.
A Side Of George Galloway You Have Never Seen?
“We have
already, and its only February, 65,000 people unchartered, undocumented,
unvetted. We have no idea who they are, we know most of them are men, and most of them are fighting
age men at that, who are now being put up in three star hotels sometimes a
little better even than that at the expense of the public potentially for ever
more when our forces cannot interdict a single one of the boats bringing illegal
migrants or Refugee claimants for asylum - we can’t know which until their
cases are heard and their cases have a backlog of hundreds of thousands.”
However
there is a brighter side to this election and that is the number of
anti-racist, socialist candidates.
I
was initially despondent about their chances but having taken note of the
vibrancy of the campaigns I am hopeful that they will garner a very sizeable
vote even if they don’t win. From these campaigns we have the opportunity to
rebuild the left but if Galloway continues as he is and the Workers Party doesn’t
reject this scapegoating, racist appeal to the most backward section of the working
class then Galloway will play no part in rebuilding the left.
— Andrew Feinstein for Holborn & St Pancras (@andrewfeinstein) June 26, 2024
I
hope that Chris Williamson, who is standing in Derby North, as Deputy Leader of the WP, will make his own
position clear on the question of our opposition to demonising asylum seekers, racist
dog whistling and attempting to blame our social ills on migrants rather than
the tax dodging rich, the Tories’ COVIDcronies and privatisation.
Updated: Closing Blackburn Rally With Roger Waters - Yesterday was unforgettable. We have campaigned with open hearts and honed minds, against the slough of corruption which is politics under modern capitalism.
There
are also 40 TUSC candidates
standing, which is the Socialist Party’s electoral front, including ex-MP Dave
Nellist, who I support. The full list can be found here.
A
full list of Workers Party candidates is here but I
wouldn’t endorse all of them, eg. I support Sammar Amar in Bromsgrove not Aheesha
Zahir who has also made anti-refugee remarks. I support critically the WP candidates, in so far as its Manifesto
doesn’t include the racist nonsense that Galloway has been spouting about
refugees.
As
the Neo-Liberal Parties Head for a Record Low Vote, the Left has to Come
Together Under One Umbrella like in France
Time is Running Out Says
Young Palestinian Woman
There
is widespread contempt for Starmer’s new patriotic Tory Party. His parachuting
in of 14 army officers, his pledge to increase ‘defence’ expenditure, wrapping
the Union Jack around himself, reminiscent of the NF and his attack
on Bengalis, shows that Starmer is a racist fraud. As Samuel Johnson once said,
patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel’ and Starmer is nothing if not a
scoundrel.
The
tearing up of his 10
Pledges have marked Starmer out as a cynical liar on a par with Boris
Johnson. His reliance on corporate donors like Sir Trevor Chinn, a Zionist who gave
£50,000 to his leadership campaign, but whose identity he refused to
divulge during the leadership campaign, tells us everything about him.
My local Green Party candidate - not a mention of Gaza Genocide anywhere
The
parachuting in of lobbyists and right-wingers such as Chris
Ward in Brighton Kemptown, whilst deselecting the local MP and removing
candidates like Faiza Shaheen and the imposition of Luke
Akehurst have led to mass resignations. The Labour Party is beyond salvation.
By
sticking to Starmer the trade union barons have demonstrated that their loyalty
is to their own rather than their members’ interests. This is the problem that
the working class faces. We have to get rid of the Gary Smiths, Sharon Grahams
and Christine McAnea
There
are some brilliant socialists standing against Labour such as Andrew
Feinstein against Starmer, Jodi McIntyre
standing against Jess Philips despite scare
stories in the local media, Leanne
Mohamad standing against Wes Streeting and Tanushka
Mara standing against ‘Killer’ Kyle in Hove. The Green Party [GP] have
insisted on standing in every constituency, including against Jeremy Corbyn.
Despite their image as a ‘left’ party they are nothing of the sort.
A reminder about how broken promises are second nature to the Lib Dems
Starmer’s
war against the left provided the impetus for a socialist alternative in this
election. It goes against the grain not to vote. People want nothing to do with
the Liberal Democrats, after their austerity coalition with the Tories for 5
years and the breaking
of their pledge to abolish tuition fees. They are Tory lite. Yet the Greens
were in tactical alliance with them in the 2017 parliament.
Many
on the left see the GP, which at first sight has a radical manifesto, as on the
left. It isn’t. The GP is an opportunist not a socialist party. Its main aim is
to become part of the political establishment.It seeks to green capitalism not replace it. That is why many Tory
voters vote for it in local elections.
Allan
Todd, a former GP member, the first Green councillor in Keswick and member of
the party’s Climate Campaign Committee spoke
about ‘the number of times members of the
leadership spoke about the need to focus on attracting ‘soft Tory voters’. Their
other cause
for concern came after the 2017 general election, when the right wing of the
Party began pushing back against radical policies for social and economic
justice. On internal online discussion groups, there were many who began
calling for (and I quote) “such socialist stuff” to be left to the
Labour Party.
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Despite this I voted Green because in Brighton Kemptown there is
no socialist standing. However the Green Party is not an anti-imperialist
party. Where there are socialists, and I include the Worker’s
Party despite differences with them over immigration and the
family/sexuality, I support them. Some of their candidates, such as Chris
Williamson and Craig Murray, are excellent.
Following WW2 the US replaced the UK as the main imperialist
power. The US sought to dismantle the British Empire and bring an end to
imperial preference. According
to the US Office of Historian
Roosevelt wanted the British to
pay compensation [for Lend Lease aid during WW2] by dismantling their system of
Imperial Preference, which had been established by the British Government
during the Great Depression and was designed to encourage trade within the
British Empire by lowering tariff rates between members, while maintaining
discriminatory tariff rates against outsiders.
In
the Middle East the US allied with nationalists such as Egypt’s Gamal Abdul
Nasser, just so long as they were also anti-communist. Until 1967 it refrained
from too close a relationship with Israel. A good insight into the competition
between the US and Britain is James Barr’s Lords of the Desert which details
how both powers sought to destabilise and overthrow any regime not to their
liking.
The
US was responsible for overthrowing radical regimes in Guatemala
and Iran
(1953), Chile
(1973), Congo
(1960), Brazil
(1964), Indonesia
(1965). It has also maintained a blockade
of Cuba since 1962. It took over from the French and fought a bloody war in
Vietnam before it was forced to withdraw.
The
US war drive today centres on the proxy war in Ukraine, the arming and
financing of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and the ‘pivot to China’ via the
AUKUS Pact. US foreign policy, whether it is the isolation of Russia or attacks
on Libya and Syria is conducted in the context of NATO’s framework.
Yet
in 2023 the GP abandoned
their policy of withdrawal from NATO. The pretext
for this was Ukraine despite the responsibility for this war lying with NATO. The
US insisted, despite promises
to Gorbachev at the time of German reunification, on expanding NATO in Eastern
Europe right up to the borders of Russia.
The
GP argues that NATO is a defensive pact despite it waging war in Afghanistan
and Libya as well as orchestrating the bombing of Serbia, Syria and Libya. The GP
is at heart an imperialist party.
Victoria Nulan talking to US Ambassador
to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt about who to put into Ukraine’s Government
It
was the US
role in the overthrow of the elected President of Ukraine, Yanukavych in
2014, which set the scene for Russia’s invasion in 2022. Assistant Secretary of
State Victoria Nuland’s conversation with Geoffrey Pyatt, US Ambassador to
Ukraine, was bugged
by the Russians. Newland and Pyatt were discussing the make-up of the new
Ukrainian government.
This
directly led to the banning of Russian language rights in Ukraine (which 39% of the
population speaks) and then a war on Luhansk and
Donetsk regions. A war which was conducted by Ukraine’s state sponsored
neo-Nazi militias such as the Azov Battalion.
As
Dimitry (not his real name) a member of Azov battalion explained
in an interview with the Guardian in 2014:
I have nothing against Russian
nationalists, or a great Russia,"
said Dmitry, as we sped through the dark Mariupol night in a pickup truck, a
machine gunner positioned in the back. "But Putin's not even a Russian.
Putin's a Jew.... Dmitry claimed not to be a Nazi, but waxed lyrical about Adolf Hitler as a
military leader, and believes the Holocaust never happened.
Those
who doubt this should listen to John Mearsheimer’s lecture to King’s
College students or read John Pilger’s May 2014 article
which predicted war in Ukraine. He wrote
Every year the
American historian William Blum publishes
his "updated summary of the record of US foreign policy" which shows
that, since 1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many
of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30
countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used chemical and
biological weapons; and attempted to assassinate foreign leaders.
John Mearsheimer’s lecture at King’s College
By
accepting NATO the GP accepts the role of US imperialism vs other countries, Israel
included. The US created death squad regimes in Latin Americaa and trained them
in torture and counter insurgency at the School of
Americas. Lesley Gill, who sat in on School of America’s classes, described how
So widely
documented is the participation of the School’s graduates in torture, murder,
and political repression throughout Latin America that in 2001 the School
officially changed its name to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security
Cooperation.
US sanctions and aggression has led to a trail
of failed states. Having created and sponsored Islamic fundamentalist and
terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda, it used them as an excuse for the War on Terror.
There
is a complete absence of any recognition by the GP of what US and Western
imperialism has entailed for the peoples of the Global South. Instead we are
fed a series of platitudes such
as
‘The Green Party recognises that
NATO has an important role in ensuring the ability of its member states to
respond to threats to their security’ before going to say that ‘We would work
within NATO to achieve (1) A greater focus on global peacebuilding (2) A
commitment to a ‘No First Use’ of nuclear weapons.
Working
with NATO for peace is like working with a rapist to ensure the safety of women
or with Nigel Farage to achieve better race relations. The GP disguises its
purpose with bland verbiage.
Green
policy on Israel/Palestine consists of human rights rhetoric devoid of analysis.
Their failure to recognise the role of British and Western imperialism is not
an oversight. It is fundamental to their chauvinist and racist first worldism. Partly
it is a reflection of their electoralism but it is also a reflection of their
own class politics.
Anti-Semitism
During
the Corbyn years the GP adopted this false
antiracism of the right. ‘Anti-Semitism’ was a form of White ‘racism’ that
defined opponents of Zionism as racists on the basis that people oppose Zionism
and the Israeli state, not because of what it does to the Palestinians but
because of their religion. It is as if anti-Apartheid campaigners in South
Africa had opposed apartheid because of the colour of the settlers’ skin.
Caroline
Lucas and the GP leadership fought to get the IHRA
misdefinition of anti-Semitism adopted, despite it originating at Tel Aviv
University with the sole purpose of conflating anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
The person who drafted it, Kenneth Stern, testified
to Congress that the IHRA definition
has
been used primarily to suppress and chill some pro-Palestinian political
speech, and it is particularly inappropriate to use it in this fashion on
university campuses, where the point is to examine ideas, including ones that
might be contentious or disturbing.
It
is important to make a distinction between actual harassment, intimidation and
bullying, on the one hand, and expression of opinions, on the other.
The IHRA, whose very name tramples on the
memory of Jews who died in the holocaust, was devised in order to legitimise
Israeli Apartheid. One only has to observe the mobs of Jewish settlers,
accompanied by government ministers, in Jerusalem who chanted ‘Death to the Arabs’ as they invaded Arab East Jerusalem to ask
what kind of self-determination the IHRA refers to.
The seventh IHRA illustration of
‘anti-Semitism’ claims that ‘Denying the Jewish people their
right to self-determination is a ‘racist endeavor.’ The suggestion that Jews
are a separate nation from non-Jews among was historically considered a form of
anti-Semitism.
In
Brighton & Hove Green councillors in October 2018 voted
with the Tory and Labour groups to support the IHRA definition. Being on the
same side as the Tories over racism speaks volumes.
The
Green group put out a weasel worded statement
attempting to suggest that the IHRA and support of the Palestinians were not
incompatible. If that were so why is it that the Zionist movement supports the
IHRA whereas Palestinians oppose it?
The
statement quoted the Home Affairs Select Committee that:
·“It is not anti-Semitic to criticise the Government
of Israel, without additional evidence to suggest anti-Semitic intent.
· “It is not anti-Semitic to hold the Israeli
Government to the same standards as other liberal democracies, or to take a
particular interest in the Israeli Government’s policies or actions, without
additional evidence to suggest anti-Semitic intent.”
This entirely misses the point. Israel is not
a liberal democracy. Nor is it any particular Israeli government that is the
problem but the Israeli State itself. An ethnically based ‘Jewish’ state must
be racist. If Israel is a Jewish state then all non-Jews are, by definition, untermenschen. Why else would a
plurality of Israeli Jews call for the expulsion of Israeli Arab citizens? [Israel’s Religiously
Divided Society,
3/16. The most popular car bumper sticker in Israel is ‘finish them off’.
Has anyone in the GP ever asked themselves why
the founder of the alt-Right in America, neo-Nazi Richard Spencer describes himself as a ‘White Zionist’ or why Tommy Robinson
calls himself a Zionist or why Germany’s AfD,
riddled as it is with holocaust deniers, is the most pro-Zionist party in Germany?
Intellectual
poverty and clichés distinguish the GP on Palestine. Political expediency trumps principle. The
GP, instead of choosing the Oxford
English Dictionary definition of anti-Semitism, ‘hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people’ adopted both the
IHRA and the Jerusalem Declaration
on Anti-Semitism. Facing both ways at the same time is their means of
resolving political conflicts.
When
it came to the dismissal of Prof. David Miller at Bristol University, which an
employment tribunal found
to be unfair and discriminatory, Caroline Lucas put her
name to a letter calling for his dismissal. I wrote
to her pointing out that she was signing alongside racists such as Bob Blackman
MP, who supports discrimination against Dalits (untouchables) and the fascist Baroness
Cox. Lucas was completely unconcerned at the company she was keeping.
The same old 'antisemitism' smears the Zionists used on Corbyn's Labour Party
When
the Zionist Board of Deputies targeted GP candidates, instead of defending
them, the leadership abandoned them. None of their comments were anti-Semitic. This
was sheer political cowardice. According to the Jewish
Chronicle,
Talukdar
circulated photographs comparing Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin (sic) Netanyahu
with Adolf Hiter. One photo depicted Jewish prisoners being taken on a pickup
truck to a Nazi death camp. Talukdar captioned the photos “it’s becoming REALLY
hard to spot the difference” and the “past becomes the present”.
What
is anti-Semitic about this? There is an exterminationist mentality in Israel
today. Adam Keller, a veteran Israeli peace
activist, wrote
about how
This week Roy Sharon, a "respectable" radio
and TV commentator on the main Israeli broadcasting corporation, spoke very
explicitly of his desire to see “a million dead bodies in Gaza”.
And the streets of Tel Aviv are flooded with red
stickers reading "Exterminate Gaza!". Not "Destroy!", not
"Flatten!" – but clearly and explicitly "Exterminate
Gaza!". "Le-Ha-Sh-Mid!" - "Exterminate!" Every Jewish
Israeli knows from a young age exactly what this word means. ….
Not
merely calls
to ‘exterminate’ or chants of ‘Death to the Arabs’ [ ‘Death to the
Jews used to be the anti-Semitic chant]. Netanyahu invoked
Amalek who God commanded should be wiped out, every man, woman and child. Yoav
Gallant, Israel’s Defence Minister, called
Palestinians ‘human animals’ the same
phrase that Himmler used about the Jews on October 4 1943 in Posnan.
Professor
Ze’ev Sternhell, a child survivor of the Nazi
ghetto of Przemsylwrote
for Ha’aretz in January 2018, ‘In Israel, Growing Fascism and a Racism Akin
to Early Nazism’.Was
Sternhell an anti-Semite or are the GP’s leaders political cowards?
The
IHRA says that ‘Drawing comparisons of
contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis’ is anti-Semitic. The JDA
definition does not. It is clear that the GP in practice is only using the IHRA. The GP leadership could have
chosen Clause 15 of the JDA
which says that:
Political
speech does not have to be measured, proportional, tempered, or reasonable to
be protected... Criticism that some may see as excessive or contentious, or as
reflecting a “double standard,” is not, in and of itself, antisemitic... the
line between antisemitic and non-antisemitic speech is different from the line
between unreasonable and reasonable speech.
Another
candidate Elizabeth Wright, posted
an Instagram video in which a woman said:
“What’s left
for the Zionists [is] to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Palestinians…
I think this will happen soon.” She also posted a statement justifying
Palestinian “resistance”.
Is
this anti-Semitic? Comparing Israel’s behaviour in Gaza to Dracula? Israel has deliberately
executed children in Gaza. It has taken body parts from those they have
murdered. It is difficult to think of any allegation against Israel that is
anti-Semitic unless it is suggested that Israel behaves the way it does because
it is a Jewish state. Gaza has changed from a concentration camp into a death
camp.
The
third candidate Chris Brody, shared an article that suggested 9/11 and October
7 were “false flag operations executed to
open the path toward more slaughter and mayhem”. Note that Elizabeth Wright
and Brady merely shared an article or video.The suggestion that October 7 was carried out by Israel is based on the
fact that the Israeli military had advance knowledge of the attack. Whatever
the truth may be such a statement is not anti-Semitic.
Maddison
Wheeldon said
that ordinary Israelis “are akin to the
Germans that supported the Nazis”. A perfectly reasonable comparison. Not in
the least anti-Semitic but she was deselected.
Joe
Belcher claimed
that Israel had paid Hamas to carry out the 7 October attack saying it was part
of a “big pay-off” for Hamas leaders
that enabled Israel ‘to claim rights to “billions of dollars worth of oil and
gas” in Gazan waters.’ Batty no doubt but anti-Semitic? Why?
Also arousing
the wrath of the Zionists was Sherief
Hassan, the candidate for Hemel Hempstead, who liked a post which said “Israel must be eliminated” and another
which claimed Jeffrey Epstein ran a blackmail operation for Israel.
Saying
Israel must be eliminated as a state is no different from saying Apartheid
South Africa must be eliminated. It is Israel which is eliminating Palestinians.
That is the only issue.
As for
Jeffrey Epstein running a blackmail
operation for Israel that is clearly true. Even the Daily
Mailran the story. It is sourced from ex-Mossad official Ari
ben-Menashe and can be found on the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s
website!
The GP's
leadership has refused to push back against accusations which come from the
same bad faith actors who made similar accusations against Corbyn. This in the
middle of genocide in Gaza.
Their statement and
that of Carla Denyer, its co-leader was:
“The Green
Party takes all accusations of antisemitism extremely seriously. We have robust
internal processes for all accusations raised.”
There is also a statement
on the GP website saying that the leadership has been meeting with Lord John
Mann ‘to discuss the important issue of
antisemitism’. If anti-Semitism in Britain was a problem does anyone think
that bigots like Suella Braverman, Sunak, Mann and Starmer would be concerned
about it?
John
Mann hectors and bullies Ken Livingstone about Nazi-Zionistcollaboration
Mann
when he was a Labour MP hectored
and bullied Ken Livingstone for having mentioned the pro-Zionist policy of
the Nazi state which resulted in the Ha'avara
trading agreement which broke the Jewish Boycott of Nazi Germany. That is a
historical fact.
After
leaving Labour Livingstone applied
to join the GP. His application was rejected because the GP accepted that
Livingstone, who pioneered anti-racism in local government whilst leader of the
Greater London Council, was anti-Semitic or tolerant of it.
Under
Starmer Jews in the Labour Party are up
to 13 times more likely to be expelled than non-Jews but the GP leadership have
swallowed the lie of Labour anti-Semitism.
Mann
is a dedicated racist towards anyone bar Jews. He supported
Phil Woolas MP when the High Court removed him from Parliament in 2011 after
having run an Islamaphobic election campaign designed to ‘make
the White folks angry’ in Oldham East & Saddleworth.
In
2007 he produced a handbook
on anti-social behaviour which targeted
Gypsies and Roma, giving them as examples of anti-social behaviour. This was precisely the charge that the Nazis
made against Gypsies and Roma, that they were asocial. They ended up alongside
Jews in the gas chambers. Yet the GP has no problem sitting down with this
racist scumbag to talk about ‘anti-Semitism’.
John Mann's opposition to 'antisemitism' doesn't extend to any other form of racism - strange that!
Mann
was interviewed
by Nottinghamshire Police on 28.11.16. as part of an investigation into ‘hate
crime’ for having produced this racist handbook and given a warning. Yet the GP
leadership entertains this anti-Roma racist. Mann never once voted against the
Tories racist immigration laws, including the hostile environment Immigration
Act 2014. Just 6 Labour MPs voted
against it.
Isn't it strange how all those who oppose the fake Zionist definition of 'antisemitism' are racist towards everyone else - but the Greens just don't get it
On 9 June 2024 the GP issued
a joint statement with Mann:
“Lord
Mann and the leadership team at The Green Party of England and Wales met last
week to discuss the important issue of antisemitism. Both parties have
committed to continued dialogue and working together to ensure that
antisemitism, like all racism, has no place in Green politics and to better
educate Green representatives about anti-Jewish racism. The Green Party has
taken a series of proactive steps towards these goals but understands that this
will take consistent work going forward.”
The GP current
manifesto on Israel/Palestine is nowhere near having an anti-Zionist
position. Under the heading A Fairer, Greener Worldthere is a small section ‘Israel and Palestine’.
John Mann's Opposition to 'antisemitism' does not extend to Islamaphobia or any other form of racism - strange that - perhaps he's a Zionist?
Even
after 8 months of genocide in Gaza the Greens haven’t bothered to take the time
to make themselves familiar with the situation of the Palestinians. There isn’t
a word about genocide or ethnic cleansing.
released hostage tells how Israel killed captives
rather than let them be captured
The
section begins by condemning ‘the
appalling murder of hundreds of Israeli civilians by Hamas’ seemingly
ignorant of the fact that one-third were Israeli soldiers and that many of the
remainder were killed by Israeli tanks and Apache helicopters intent on
preventing the taking of captives under the Hannibal
Directive.
Israeli
forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says (5.52)
Jasmine
Porat, one of only 2 captives to escape from a house in Kibbutz Be’eri told
Israeli television, it was an Israeli tank that opened fire on the house she
was sheltering in killing the civilians.
Zionism's Genocidal Mentality Meant It was
Better to Kill Your Own People Than Let Them Be Captured
The
GP statement ignores Israel’s ‘mowing
the lawn’, as Israel demonstrates who is in control by deliberately
massacring civilians every few years. Or as David Weinberg wrote
in the Jerusalem Post
Winning
the current war
against Hamas is not only about denying the terrorist army’s ability to
target Israel ... A critical part of Israel’s purpose in this conflict is
proving that the Jewish state retains freedom of military action against its
enemies...
Just like mowing your front lawn,
this is constant, hard work. If you fail to do so, weeds grow wild and snakes
begin to slither around in the brush. So too, reducing enemy capabilities and
ambitions in Gaza require Israeli military readiness and government willingness
to use force intermittently, while maintaining a healthy and resilient Israeli
home front....
October 7 was a shock to an Israel because the
Palestinian Resistance attacked first for once. Israel had lain siege to Gaza
for 17 years.
The Palestinian Resistance decided for once to
initiate an attack. There is an international law right to resists an
occupation but that is something that the GP does not quote. The call to end arms sales to Israel is welcome
but would the GP, if it came to power, observe it?
The Green Party's Manifesto on Palestine
Contrary
to Israeli Propaganda the Hostages have been treated well says Israel
Journalist Alon David
Another indication of the pro-Israeli
orientation of the GP is its call to ‘Redouble(d)
efforts to secure the release of hostages taken on 7th October 2023.’Israel has over 8,000 Palestinian prisoner,
suffering dire treatment including torture. Over 2,000 are held in
Adminstrative Detention, imprisoned without trial. The rest have been convicted
by Military Courts which have a 99.74%
conviction rate. Yet there is no mention of them.
The call
to reinstate funding for UNRWA and support for South Africa’s submission to the
International Court of Justice is welcome. But nowhere does the GP talk about
Israeli Apartheid, still less Zionism, the ideology of the Israeli state. As
Yair Lapid put
it, Zionism means maximum land and
minimum Arabs. The GP approach is human rights based but it ignores the
conclusion of human rights groups Amnesty,
HRW
and B’Tselem
that Israel is an apartheid state.
Israel's fake evidence that was used to justify bombing and
destroying Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital
In its response to a
Palestine Solidarity Campaign questionnaire the GP calls
for the Palestinian people to recognise the right of the state of Israel to
exist within recognised, agreed and secure borders. Would they have called on
Black people to do the same in South Africa?
As
long as Israel is an ethno-nationalist state it is not going to do any of the
things the GP calls for. From its foundation Israel refused to define its
borders. On May 12 1948, three days before it declared independence, the People’s
Administration voted 5-4 not to define its borders or to accept those of UN
resolution 181. Expansion is inherent in the settler-colonial dynamic.Yet the GP doesn’t recognise this paradigm.
It is
welcome that the GP supports BDS but it is not in its manifesto. If the
experience of Brighton & Hove Council when it was under Green control is
anything to go by, this will be a dead letter.
Germany has to be the only country where Green MPs fly Israel and Ukraine flags https://t.co/sUfukkO3N3
The
experience internationally of Green Parties is not a good one. In Germany Die Grunen is avidly pro-NATO and
pro-Zionist.Pro-Palestinian activists
have filed criminal charges against Volker Beck, a former Green member of parliament,
for incitement of hate and denial of war crimes. It has gone along with the
severe repression of Palestine solidarity demonstrations and even a police
attack on a Palestine Congress in Berlin, which included the banning from
Germany of Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek Finance Minister.
For as long as the GP refuses to discuss Palestine seriously or develop an analysis of why the situation in Palestine exists and as long as it defers to Zionist cries of ‘anti-Semitism’ then it will be confined to human rights rhetoric.
It is as if, during the Apartheid era in South Africa, the GP condemned human rights abuses but had nothing to say about Apartheid. Zionism is Israel’s Apartheid ideology.
Mark
Strong - Brighton Green, Zionist, Strong on smearing opponents as 'antisemitic'
One anecdote. In Brighton I was added to a Green Supporters in Kemptown WhatsApp group without my knowledge. The group was set up for non-GP supporters in the election. I was removed soon after without posting by Mark Strong, a Green Admin who has a history of support for Zionism, genocide in Gaza and involvement with the Labour ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations. Clearly an anti-Zionist was not to his liking. Strong is not unrepresentative of the Green rank and file.
Strong also didn't welcome Stop the War publicity on a Green WA Group - Apparently it doesn't fit with their policy on Israel Gaza or more likely with Strong's support for 'plausible' genocide in Gaza
Interestingly though it seems that the cowards in the GP leadership won't come out and say that what is happening in Gaza is genocide. They rely on the International Court of Justice's ultra-cautious phrase 'plausible genocide'.
Strong also didn't welcome Stop the War publicity on a Green WA Group - Apparently it doesn't fit with their policy on Israel Gaza or more likely with Strong's support for 'plausible' genocide in Gaza.
The Green Party prefers to hide behind legal jargon in order to offend the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Zionist lobby.
As soon as Strong saw
my name I was removed - I guess I am to Zionists what the silver cross is to
Dracula!
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