Open Letter to Jeremy Corbyn from Jackie Walker & Tony Greenstein – Why We Don’t Support You Becoming Leader of Your Party

Corbyn Still Doesn’t Understand that There was NO ‘Anti-Semitism’ Problem in the Labour Party & that the EHRC Report was a Put Up Job

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Corbyn's Car Crash Interview on BBC's London Politics Program 2 November 2025

Jackie Walker and Tony Greenstein were the first Jewish members of the Labour Party to be expelled as part of the ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign.

Jackie’s offence was to have talked, in a private conversation about the Jewish role in the slave trade, an undoubted fact.

My offence was to use ‘Zio’ as shorthand for ‘Zionist’. That was seen as anti-Semitic, the assumption being that Zionists are all Jews, itself an anti-Semitic assumption.

Corbyn's Full Interview on London Politics Show 2 November 25

My other offence was to call the racist Zionist MP for Liverpool Riverside, Louise Ellman, the MP for Tel Aviv South. The constituency eventually forced her to quit. I asked my expulsion hearing whether it had been racist to call the John Carlisle, the Tory MP for Luton, the MP for Bloemfontein West on account of his support for Apartheid in South Africa but I never got a response!

John Carlisle - the MP for Luton & Bloemfontein West

This is how it’s done - Clare Short Interview w/ Newsnight on Labours Antisemitism Scam w/ its Stupidest MP Siobhan McDonagh

It was therefore with something approaching horror that I listened to Jeremy Corbyn’s interview with the London Politics Programme on Sunday November 2 when he was challenged by Samantha Simmonds about the anti-Semitism smear campaign in the Labour Party.

Instead of responding robustly and saying that there wasn’t an anti-Semitism problem, that anti-Semitism was weaponised then and now by those who defend or deny the Genocide in Gaza, Corbyn demonstrated that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

It was beyond pathetic. It shows that although Corbyn has many talents and his honesty is beyond question he isn’t a political fighter. He is also proof that without having some theoretical background to your socialist politics you become in the end a political weathervane.

Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away (

Let’s be honest Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party between 2015 and 2019 was nothing short of disastrous. Having won a fantastic victory at the 2017 General Election, the largest swing to Labour since 1945 he threw it all away as Bob Dylan once put it.

Corbyn allowed the ‘anti-Semitism’ smears to go unchallenged. He never fought back against his enemies in the Jewish Labour Movement which as Asa Winstanley showed had only been refounded to remove him. Asa was suspended as a result of his journalism and Corbyn didn’t lift a finger to help him. He was even denied credentials at the 2019 Labour Party conference.

Corbyn begged the JLM to stay in the Party (not that they were really thinking of leaving) for which they rewarded him with a vote of no confidence.

Corbyn himself proposed to expel people without a hearing

When Jennie Formby replaced the hated Crooked Iain McNicol as General Secretary the number of expulsions increased and Corbyn took pride in this. He even introduced a fast track expulsion mechanism. Now there were no hearings.

It was supposed to be only for ‘egregious’ cases but this too was a lie. It was used for everyone. My friend and comrade Anne Mitchell, an avowed socialist, anti-racist and the then Secretary of Brighton and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign fell victim. Her crime? Having posted criticism of Israel and Zionism. This was the horror show that Corbyn presided over. See Richard Kuper’s post on JVL ‘A Grave Miscarriage of Justice: the case of Anne Mitchell’.

The man who had been Secretary of Labour Against the Witchhunt in the 1980s now became the architect of a mass expulsion campaign. Corbyn thought the Zionists would pat him on the back for this but of course they didn’t. They hadn’t forgotten that he had once championed the Palestinian cause. On becoming Leader in 2015 he had tried to woo Labour Friends of Israel. Indeed he hardly mentioned Palestine in his first two years as Leader.

Instead of being satisfied with the increased rate of expulsions, the Zionists used the increased number of expulsions as proof that there was a problem with anti-Semitism. As I once said in a public meeting in Brighton and Hove with his strongest supporter, Chris Williamson MP, who he also betrayed, there were undoubtedly some paedophiles in the Labour Party but did that mean there was a paedophile problem?

Tony Greenstein & Anti Semitism in Labour - Labour in Exile Meeting circa March 2021-1

Yes there were undoubtedly a few anti-Semites in the Labour Party. So what? Far fewer than in a Tory Party whose leader, Boris Johnson, had written a book 72 Virgins full of anti-Semitic tropes.

Instead Corbyn’s response during the BBC interview was that of Tom Watson, an avid supporter of Apartheid Israel:  ‘One anti-Semite is one too many.’ Utterly facile and trite remark. Parties aren’t there to purify their membership. A mass party will contain all sorts of people, including racists. A serious socialist party will seek to educate and win over people to anti-racism not expel them unless they are dedicated fascists.

Tony Greenstein & Anti Semitism in Labour - Labour in Exile Meeting circa March 2021-2

If Your Party is serious about destroying Nigel Farage’s Reform Party then it will admit all sorts of people with racist nonsense in their heads. What is it to do? Expel them as soon as they join? One thing is for sure, we are not going to have a party like the Labour Party which has genocidal racists like Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy and David Lammy at its head.

The EHRC Inquiry Into Henderson Never Reported

And then Corbyn was tackled about the EHRC Report on ‘Anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party and it got worse. Instead of saying the EHRC was a put up job by the Establishment he accepted its conclusions at face value. He said nothing about the Commissioner who wrote the Report, Alisdair Henderson, who was a racist, homophobic, anti-trans, far-right, Christian bigot who ‘liked’ or retweeted social media posts criticising Black Lives Matters protesters.

The EHRC itself was institutionally racist but Corbyn didn't think to challenge them

Corbyn simply accepted the EHRC Report without criticism in the interview. He just had minor quibbles about how much he had done to tackle the non-existent anti-Semitism. This was truly pathetic.

Alasdair Henderson, who led the EHRC inquiry into Labour party antisemitism liked a tweet decrying “offence-taking zealots” who accused fascist philosopher Roger Scruton of antisemitism, Islamophobia and homophobia, and one by Douglas Murray, who once called for Muslim immigration to Europe to be banned.

It's amazing to me that Tory ministers still flounder and flub when some media moron incants the magic words "misogynist" and "homophobe", as if those are empirical statements about reality, not highly ideological propaganda terms.

— NPRG (@CptHastings1916) September 3, 2020

Murray is the author of The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam. Murray argued that Europe “is committing suicide” by allowing non-European immigration into its borders and losing its “faith in its beliefs”. In other words he is a supporter of the anti-Semitic White Replacement Theory which holds that Jews are masterminding this immigration!

Douglas Murray

Murray, an Associate Director of the Islamophobic Henry Jackson Society, is an Islamophobe par excellence. In a February 2006 speech to the Dutch Parliament, Murray said

conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board: Europe must look like a less attractive proposition.

and that "All immigration into Europe from Muslim countries must stop.” This did not stop Suella Braverman as Home Secretary endorsing Murray.

Under Cameron the Conservative Party frontbench severed formal relations with Murray and his Centre for Social Cohesion. Today the Tory Party welcomes anyone who is a racist. That’s what comes from having a Coconut like Kemi Badenoch as leader.

Tom Watson's  Concerns About Antisemitism Didn't Extend to Other Forms of Racism - He Defended Phil Woolas Attempt to Harness a White Racist Vote

🧵The EHRC is wholly captured by conservatives. Commissioner Alasdair Henderson ran for Parliament in the resurrected Whig party. He also liked a tweet saying 'homophobe' and ‘misogynist’ were 'highly ideological propaganda terms'. And he led the Labour antisemitism inquiry. 1/11

— Steven Methven (@StevenJMethven) February 2, 2022

On 3 September 2020, Henderson liked a tweet which read:

“It’s amazing to me that Tory ministers still flounder and flub when some media moron incants the magic words ‘misogynist’ and ‘homophobe’, as if those are empirical statements about reality, not highly ideological propaganda terms.”

On 1 July, he retweeted a comment which said:

All the anti-fascists in Europe protesting against America, an actually free country, are too cowardly to do the same for Hong Kong, which is virtually a dictatorship now.

But then the EHRC was a repository for racists and bigots. Henderson was in his element. The Guardian revealed that David Goodhart and Jessica Butcher were going to be appointed to the EHRC board by Liz Truss, the laughable equalities minister. Goodhart had previously praised the government’s “hostile environment” policy which had seen hundreds of Black people with a right to be in this country deported while Butcher urged women who have been discriminated against at work not to “go cry to someone” but to “take the onus to circumvent the situation”.

See EHRC board member under scrutiny over social media use. What makes this worse is that Corbyn himself had previously accused the EHRC of being “part of the government machine”.

And what of the EHRC Report itself?  Well it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on. It was flawed from the start. It was shallow beyond belief. It found no anti-Semitism and conjured up political statements opposing the fake anti-Semitism smear campaign as anti-Semitic in themselves. It was the equivalent of a 3 card trick.

The EHRC report stated that: “The Labour party failed to investigate antisemitism complaints based on likes, retweets and shares on social media.” Yet if Corbyn had bothered to read the EHRC Report (& remember what he had read) he would have learnt that the two cases of ‘anti-Semitism’ that amounted to anti-Semitic conduct involved Rossendale councillor, Pam Bromley, who had posted on Facebook:

‘Had Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party pulled up the drawbridge and nipped the bogus AS [antisemitism] accusations in the bud in the first place we would not be where we are now and the fifth column in the LP [Labour Party] would not have managed to get such a foothold ... the Lobby has miscalculated ... The witch hunt has created brand new fightback networks ... The Lobby will then melt back into its own cesspit.’

This isn’t harassment it is political speech.  Bromley was arguing that the ‘anti-Semitism problem’ in the Labour Party was nothing of the sort. What was Henderson’s finding?

Suggesting that complaints of antisemitism are fake or smears. Labour Party agents [Bromley and Livingstone] denied antisemitism in the Party and made comments dismissing complaints as ‘smears’ and ‘fake’. This conduct may target Jewish members as deliberately making up anti-Semitism complaints to undermine the Labour Party, and ignores legitimate and genuine complaints of antisemitism in the Party. These comments went beyond simply describing the agents’ own personal experience of antisemitism in the Party.

But there were many Jews who opposed the anti-Semitism smear campaign. That's why Jewish Voice for Labour was set up. The anti-Semitism smear campaign was driven by non-Jewish groups like Labour Against Anti-Semitism who were led by two non-Jews Euan Philips and Emma Picken. To disguise the fact that he wasn’t Jewish Philips took to calling himself David Gordstein, a Jewish sounding name as the Al Jazeera documentary series The Labour Files revealed .

This was the racism that the 'antisemitism' smear campaign aimed to defend

Philipps is not Jewish, and the name "Gordstein" was used in thousands of complaints submitted to the party. This was done to make the complaints appear as if they were coming from a Jew. The whole anti-Semitic scam was the product of non-Jewish racists which another non-Jewish racist Alisdair Henderson endorsed.

This flawed EHRC Report went on to say that Ken Livngstone, who was on Labour’s National Executive Committee at the time,

made reference to social media posts made by Naz Shah MP. Naz Shah’s posts included a graphic suggesting that Israel should be relocated to the United States, with the comment ‘problem solved’, and a post in which she appeared to liken Israeli policies to those of Hitler.

Can anyone say today that Israel’s behaviour in Gaza is not similar to that of the Nazis? There is nothing anti-Semitic about this at all. The EHRC Report said that Livingstone

‘sought to minimise their offensive nature. In his denial, Ken Livingstone alleged that scrutiny of Naz Shah’s conduct was part of a smear campaign by ‘the Israel lobby’ to stigmatise critics of Israel as antisemitic, and was intended to undermine and disrupt the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn MP.’

And this was anti-Semitic harassment. Of course it was nothing of the kind. It was political speech yet Corbyn didn’t have the bottle or the intelligence to see that this was an attack on free speech. Corbyn had been so tamed by the Zionist lobby at this time that he was prone to saying that denial of ‘anti-Semitism’ was anti-Semitic in itself.

Another example of ‘anti-Semitism’ was when, in April 2019, Pam Bromley posted on Facebook: ‘Looks like fake accusations of AS [antisemitism] to undermine Labour just aren’t working, so let’s have Chris Williamson reinstated’. And on 15 December 2019, she posted on Facebook about Jeremy Corbyn:

‘My major criticism of him – his failure to repel the fake accusations of antisemitism in the LP [Labour Party] – may not be repeated as the accusations may probably now magically disappear, now capitalism has got what it wanted’.

Henderson pompously concluded that:

‘we were satisfied that the antisemitic conduct had the effect of contributing to violating the dignity of a member or prospective member, or contributing to creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them.’

But the racist Henderson could not point to which Jewish members had been offended which is what you have to do in an employment discrimination case. This was bogus law by a racist barrister. Yet Corbyn did not get it. After all he had appointed Keir Starmer to the Shadow Cabinet without the slightest due diligence and when he retired as Labour leader he nominated Tom Watson to the Lords!

This racist meme about male Muslims appeared in a report from the Campaign Against Antisemitism - one of two groups which referred the Labour Party to the EHRC for 'antisemitism'

Defenders of Zionism (and Corbyn still hasn’t come out clearly and said that he opposes this racist and genocidal ideology) have repeatedly accused opponents of Israel’s genocide of anti-Semitism. It is Netanyahu’s only defence to the charge of being a war criminal.

I despair of Corbyn’s inability to think on his feet, his submissiveness and refusal to condemn Zionism. What is clear is that in the event of the ‘anti-Semitism’ card being deployed again he will flounder. Under no circumstances should Jeremy Corbyn be leader of Your Party.

Instead my proposal is that Corbyn become the Honorary President of Your Party which will enable him to traverse the country speaking but that Zarah Sultana and Andrew Feinstein are the co-leaders.

People rightly admire and love Corbyn for sticking it out this long, for his honesty and support for the oppressed. However we have to face it, Jeremy Corbyn is not a leader.

Below are the relevant sections of the malevolent EHRC Report that Corbyn failed to criticise.

Tony Greenstein

The relevant sections of the EHRC Report