We Are Seeing a Repeat of Corbyn’s Disastrous Labour Leadership - He Has Learnt Nothing From His Expulsion of Anti-Zionists & Betrayal of Comrades
Corbyn's Car Crash Interview on London Politics Program 2 November 2025
The following blog is, as the title suggests, extremely critical of Jeremy Corbyn and his behaviour in the formation of Your Party and his treatment of Zarah Sultana. I do not expect those who substitute hero worship for critical analysis to understand or accept what I write. I hope though that before denouncing what I write that people take the time to read what I say.
Reason can never defeat blind faith. That is the secret of religion. But for those who are open to rational argument the case I make is powerful. No one can defend Corbyn's behaviour as leader of the Labour Party in dancing to the Zionist tune. In years to come no one will defend his obstinacy, delay tactics and undemocratic practices in Your Party. What will seem obvious in the future eludes many people now.
Bob Dylan's I Threw It All Away Could be Corbyn's Signature Tune
Your Party started out with a massive advantage. Within weeks it had 800,000 potential supporters yet Corbyn by his petulance and nepotism has thrown it all away.
With Reform and Authoritarianism growing day by day the need for a strong socialist and left wing party is overwhelming. Corbyn's refusal to subordinate his own prejudices and whims to that of the movement is indefensible. His rejection of a co-leadership with a young enthusiastic MP is nothing short of selfish and outrageous.
His wife, Laura Alvarez is said to be concerned about Corbyn's legacy. Ironically Corbyn's legacy will be one of failure, of someone who dithered, delayed and procrastinated when decisiveness was required. He will be seen to have betrayed not only his comrades like Ken Livingstone but also his own past reputation.
It is a living tragedy and those who are blinded by idol worship will rue the day they didn't sit down and ask themselves how it is that Corbyn never once fought the Right when he became leader and today is repeating the same trick. Corbyn is singlehandedly sinking YP by refusing to accept that maybe being the sole leader of YP isn't his by right.
For the past few weeks Your Party has become obsessed with its own internal elections for
the Central Executive Committee. It is as if the world outside, the
de-proscription of Palestine Action and the acquittals of the Filton 24 had
ever happened. The looming war on Iran is barely discussed.
I have been bombarded with increasingly frantic messages from Corbyn’s Peace & Justice Project [PJP] saying that if The Many slate, don’t win the internal elections then Your Party is doomed.
The latest message, sent on Sunday, says that ‘Jeremy Corbyn needs your help’ and that if I don’t vote for his slate then YP
is in real danger of becoming... an angry fringe party that conducts purity tests at the door and rails against potential allies.’
On 22 January I receive a mailshot from PJP, calling on me to endorse Corbyn from info@thecorbynproject.com.
On February 2 I was told that the Many ‘will make Jeremy Your Party’s Parliamentary Leader’ ignoring a ballot of members in favour of a collective leadership. It is ironic that in Parliament Corbyn describes himself as an Independent not a Your Party MP.
On February 4 another mailshot explained that ‘Jeremy
is uniquely placed for this role’ because of his ’record of moral clarity’. It didn’t mention his disastrous Labour Party leadership
when he threw away victory by appeasing the Right.
On February 9 I was told that ‘Your Party [could[ become(s) the broad, inclusive party.’ On February 15 it was ‘make or break for Your Party’. The choice being between ‘A mass socialist
party’ or ‘A narrow fringe party.’
Last Friday they told me that ‘The next three days will decide if Your Party survives as a viable political force.’
Leaving
aside the increasingly frenetic nature of these messages I wonder how the PJP/ Corbyn
Project have obtained my email address. I never joined PJP. Corbyn’s election
campaign has had access to the YP mailing list because Karie Murphy and his
wife Laura Alvarez, the power behind the throne, are running the elections,
debarring candidates and doing their best to fix the results.
Were other
candidates given the chance of mailing YP members or was it just Corbyn’s slate?
This is a corrupt election practice. Murphy has never been elected. She’s
accountable to no one yet she makes the decisions. This is Corbyn's idea of democracy.
I have had
no mailshot from anyone else. Everyone else standing for election has had to
make do as best they can.
There are some
good people on The Many slate like
ex-MP Laura Smith and there are also abusive characters like Terry Deans. I
don’t like slates because they are all or nothing but a group that talks about
fairness and equality has seized control of YP’s machine and is being anything
but fair.
Corbyn is guilty
of the same undemocratic practices which led to his failed leadership of the
Labour Party. His strategy of appeasing Tom Watson and the Labour/Zionist Right
led to his defeat and has warped his judgement. What made it truly laughable was his final act of proposing Tom Watson's elevation to the House of Lords.
The Corbyn
I met and worked with in 1983, a young Bennite MP, is not the same as today’s Corbyn. Then he was a sponsor of the Labour Committee on Palestine, later to become the Labour Movement Campaign on Palestine, of
which I was Chair. He supported a democratic, secular state in Palestine and
Chaired a Labour Movement Conference that called for the disaffiliation of
Poalei Zion (now the Jewish Labour Movement) from the Labour Party.
When
Corbyn was elected Leader of the Labour Party in 2015 the first thing he did
was to act as the JLM’s messenger boy. Regular meetings with Jeremy Newmark,
the corrupt leader
of the JLM. Speaking at
the Labour Friends of Israel fringe meeting in 2016 was part of his wooing the
Zionists.
Corbyn
trumps his ‘moral clarity’ and peace
mongering but politically he is very weak. He doesn’t link war to capitalism
and imperialism and doesn’t oppose Zionism as a settler colonial movement whose
project, a Jewish State, means a state of Jewish Supremacy.
Zionism is
not a fluffy form of Jewish identity. Zionism demands that Palestinian villages
are raised to the ground to be replaced by Jewish settlements. They call it ‘redeeming
the land.’ When the Zionist Opposition leader, Yair Lapid says that what
he wants is ‘maximum Jews, maximum land
and minimum Arabs’ he is articulating the politics of Zionism.
When over
half of Israeli Jews call marrying
a non-Jew ‘national treason’ and when marrying a Palestinian is a social taboo
in Israel (it is impossible for a Jew and non-Jew to marry in Israel) we are in
Nuremberg territory, as Hannah Arendt pointed out in Eichmann in Jerusalem.
The Nazis’
1935 Nuremberg race laws made marriage between a Jew and an Aryan a crime. Yet
despite this Corbyn refuses to call himself an anti-Zionist whereas Zarah
Sultana has unequivocally stated that she is an anti-Zionist. Instead of joining with her Corbyn insists he supports the right of the Israeli Apartheid state to continue.
The survey was conducted, not in 2023 but 2003. It demonstrates the depth of racism in the
‘Jewish’ State. The poll found that over 75% did not approve of
apartment buildings being shared between Arabs and Jews. 60% said they would
not allow an Arab to visit their home.
About 40% of participants agreed that “Arabs should have their right to vote for
Knesset revoked”. Over half agreed that Israel should encourage its Arab
citizens to emigrate. Over half said they would not want to work under the direct management of an Arab, and 55% said “Arabs
and Jews should be separated at entertainment sites”. This is Zionism.
After 40
years of supporting the Palestinians Corbyn still hasn’t worked out why Israel is
like it is. He still supports a two
state solution not a single, non-racist unitary state.
It is as
if, in the day of South Africa Apartheid he were to support a separate White
state. Did Corbyn condemn the human rights record of the Apartheid state but
say that you couldn’t oppose Apartheid because it was a movement of White
identity?
No one would have bought this nonsense for a moment but Corbyn refuses to oppose Zionism. His peace and love stuff is a cop out, a way of politically avoiding saying that a Jewish settler state is a racist state.
The
‘Anti-Semitism Witchhunt’
In April
2020 a Report which originated as an internal, 860-page dossier, by
staff in the final days of Corbyn's leadership, was leaked. It was a direct response
to the EHRC
investigation
into allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’.
It included extensive, unredacted
WhatsApp messages and emails from senior Labour Party staff who were opposed to
Corbyn's leadership. These messages contained racist and sexist comments about
Corbyn supporters and demonstrated how these staff had, under Iain McNicol,
deliberately tried to sabotage the Labour Party’s electoral prospects.
The Witchhunter's Dirty Tricks Included Fixing the Composition of the National Constitutional Committee
The report was aimed at showing that Corbyn and his Leader of the Opposition Staff had done all they could to combat ‘anti-Semitism’. It never challenged the idea that the ‘anti-Semitism smear campaign’ had itself been fraudulent. This was its major political weakness and this was central to Corbyn’s inability to rebut the ‘anti-Semitism’ attacks. See my two blogs on the Leaked Report here and here.
Corbyn's office ended up urging that the expulsions be carried out more quickly
The report was never submitted to
the EHRC on legal advice. Prepared in March 2020 it was leaked to the media in
April 2020, shortly after Starmer became leader. The leak triggered an inquiry
led by Martin Forde QC (the Forde Report) which Starmer did his best to close
down and then ignore.
Starmer launched expensive legal
proceedings against those he thought had leaked the Report. He wasn’t concerned
about the virulent racism and sexism of people like Emily Oldknow, John
Stolliday and others – both of whom were employed later by the right-wing
leadership of UNISON.
In a good example of genuine anti-Semitism my Jewish sounding name was used as a 'search term' on activists
In these
extracts from the Labour Leaked Report two things stand out:
i.
Corbyn’s close relationship with
the JLM.
ii.
Corbyn’s refusal even to
countenance the possibility that the ‘anti-Semitism’ that the JLM and Labour
Right were talking about was anti-Zionism, opposition to the Israeli state.
Corbyn
showed a complete lack of judgement. When I was suspended in March 2016 I had one
message. It was that Jackie Walker and myself were not the real target. We were
collateral damage. The real target was Corbyn. The Zionists made no attempt to
disguise their hatred of Corbyn yet he was blissfully unaware. This was
unforgiveable.
Corbyn had
been around the Palestine solidarity movement long enough to know that
‘anti-Semitism’ was the first resort of the Zionists to any criticism.
Even Len
McLuskey, whose own role was disgraceful, twigged that something was wrong when
he wrote in Huffington Post in August 2018 that the
Board of Deputies and JLM ‘are refusing
to take yes for an answer’. Whatever concessions Corbyn made they wanted
more – his scalp.
The JLM was dead up till 2015. When Corbyn
was elected leader it was refounded
for the sole purpose of leading the campaign to remove
Corbyn. Asa Winstanley, in an article which led to his suspension, described
how Jeremy Newmark and a key Israeli Embassy operative explained how“a bunch of us sat
in a coffee shop in Golders Green” around September 2015 to“talk about
re-forming the JLM to do something with it.’
Despite appeasing
and acting as their errand boy, the JLM passed
a motion of no confidence in Corbyn, days after he had begged them
not to disaffiliate from the Labour Party. A bogus threat designed to win them sympathy.
Corbyn’s ‘strategy’
was to retreat, apologise
and promise to do better. However the JLM had no intention of letting up
because their explicit aim was removing Corbyn altogether.
Chris Williamson was the ONLY Labour MP to oppose the 'anti-Semitism' witchhunt
18 months ago Jackie
Walker, Chris Williamson, myself and others wrote
to Corbyn saying that it was time to admit
that thousands of Labour members had been victim
of false allegations of anti-Semitism and that if he had fought back against the Zionists he might have been
Prime Minister.
Corbyn
refused to respond, despite two reminders. To this day Corbyn has refused to accept
that he made any mistakes in throwing his political friends overboard.
It is this
which explains his witchhunting today. Corbyn has a bad conscience over how he
behaved when he was leader of the Labour Party. He cannot come to terms with
the fact that instead of appeasing the Zionists and their false anti-Semitism allegations
he should have fought them.
Corbyn
betrayed those who had stuck out their necks to support him. Not only did Corbyn
say nothing over the expulsions of Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth or myself but he
actually urged that our expulsions be sped up.
Corbyn betrayal of Ken Livingstone, the former leader of the Greater London Council, was
shameful. Livingstone had stuck his neck out to defend Corbyn. He had repeatedly
come to Corbyn’s rescue but Corbyn didn’t lift so much as a finger to support
him. Instead he cast him to the wolves and John Mann.
Nothing
that Livingstone had said, about the Nazis supporting Zionism was wrong. Hitler
had supported the
Ha’avara trade agreement between the Zionists and the Nazis when sections of the
Nazi party had opposed it. Livingstone was forced out of the Labour Party for
raising a historical fact. See my debate with
Google’s AI!
When I was
interviewed by
Vanessa Feltz on BBC London, (Feltz had conducted the original interview with
Livingstone), I made mincemeat of her. Yet Corbyn apologised to all his critics.
When the
Zionists targeted Chris Williamson, Corbyn’s most ardent supporter in the
Parliamentary Labour Party, who alone of the Campaign Group understood what the
‘anti-Semitism’ witchhunt was really about, he too was betrayed.
Corbyn
refused to stand up for Williamson when Tom Watson organised a campaign to
resuspend Chris.
I don’t
know what went through Corbyn’s head at this time. He shied away from any
confrontation with the Labour Right. With General Secretary Jennie Formby he stepped
up the expulsion of any critic of Israel who fell foul of the Zionists. Anne
Mitchell, the Secretary of Brighton and Hove PSC, was expelled for criticising Israel. It was obvious to us what was happening. Corbyn however
saw nothing.
At the
2018 Labour Party Conference Corbyn opposed the Open Selection of Labour MPs
and got Len McLuskey to break his mandate. As I wrote at the
time, this marked the death of the Corbyn Project. Corbyn was protecting the
Right.
In 2019 he
and Jennie Formby sought to speed up the witchhunt of socialists and so they
proposed a ‘fast track’ system whereby anti-Semitism cases would be dealt with
without even a hearing, thus avoiding the National Constitutional Committee.
At
conference delegates were told that only the most ‘egregious’ cases would be
dealt with in this way. This was a lie. Every
single anti-Semitism case was fast-tracked.
In an interview with
Middle East Eye in June 20 Corbyn said:
“I then realised there was a logjam building up in the party on
individual cases. And so I proposed the expansion of the National
Constitutional Committee, which was duly done in order to deal with cases more
quickly. I also introduced a system where egregious cases could be dealt with
very quickly, but still within the ambit of rules of natural justice. So I feel
that the attacks on me have been extremely unfair on this.”
How could
expelling people without a hearing be compatible with natural justice? This was
an egregious lie. From then on the NCC did not deal with any ‘anti-Semitism’
cases. You were accused, asked for a response and then expelled.
This
self-serving lie demonstrated, even after the election of Starmer, that Corbyn
still did not understand what had happened. He still thought the allegations of
‘anti-Semitism’ were genuine. This is the man who believes that he is capable
of leading Your Party when the
reality is that he would cave in at the first whiff of ‘anti-Semitism’ being
alleged.
The Formation of Your Party, Zarah and Karie
When Zarah Sultana resigned the Labour Whip and announced that she and Corbyn would be co-leaders immediately 70,000 people expressed an interest in joining a new party. Within weeks this had grown to 800,000. But equally soon people became disillusioned with Corbyn's delaying tactics and prolonged sulks. See I quit Alba to join Your Party (but I resigned)
Corbyn had
dithered and delayed for months in announcing the formation of a new party.
Zarah bounced Corbyn into it. Instead of being grateful he resented this
upstart secular Muslim woman and turned for solace to the male Muslim MPs, who
also told him that he should work with Zarah.
Frustration
at Corbyn’s behaviour and his reliance on his old failed advisors led to Jamie
Driscoll’s defection to the Green Party and the withdrawal altogether of Andrew Feinstein who gained over 7,000 votes against Starmer in the General Election.
Corbyn’s
behaviour has been that of a petulant spoilt child. He prefers to make Your Party his plaything rather than
work together with Zarah as joint leaders. He forced the ballot on the method
of leadership and when the outcome of the vote was not to his liking he
announces that he is going to ignore it.
If the
membership had been offered the choice of co-leadership I have no doubt they
would have voted for that but his mate Karie Murphy chose the questions.
Despite
conference voting that people can be members of two parties Murphy has been
expelling people deemed members of another party and some who aren’t members.
I accept
that if someone is a member of a party standing candidates against YP or using YP
to recruit to their sect there is a problem. However the way to deal with it is
not through bureaucratic expulsions but by building a mass membership.
The worst
indictment against Corbyn is that instead of agreeing a temporary interim civil
service in YP consisting of supporters of both him and Zarah, he inserted Murphy,
his wife and other advisors into YP’s central office, wherever that is, and
they made the decisions without any accountability.
I have no faith whatever in a party led by Corbyn because Corbyn has shown that he cannot stand up to the Right.
In
November Jackie Walker and myself sent an Open Letter to
Corbyn explaining why we couldn’t support him as sole leader of Your Party. This was based on a car crash interview
with Samantha Simmonds on BBC London Politics Show. When questioned about the
‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign instead of rebutting the whole premise he
accepted the framing and simply explained that he did his utmost to get rid of
those the Zionists demanded.
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