Jeremy Corbyn’s Arrogance & Disdain for Democracy Plus His Belief That He Alone Can Lead Your Party Is Destroying It

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 deproscription of Palestine Action and the acquittals of the Filton 24 had never 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.

Corbyn praising the Father of Israel's Nuclear Bomb Shimon Peres - A Thorough Going Racist

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 razed 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.

Corbyn's Car Crash interview on BBC London Politics

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.

Corbyn is incapable, even in the middle of a Zionist genocide, of understanding that Zionism doesn’t oppose genuine anti-Semites, it works with them. See ‘Two Jewish activists withdraw support for Corbyn’s Your Party bid over ‘unlearned lessons’

Even if the Grassroots slate and the Independents win it’s hard to see how YP will recover from the sabotage of Karie Murphy, Laura Alvarez and Corbyn. They have completely lost momentum, have driven thousands of socialists into the pro-capitalist, pro-NATO Green Party and have disillusioned those who believed Your Party (whose name should have been Left Party) was a feasible project.

Your Party had a chance of becoming a significant socialist alternative, not just to the Labour Party but to  Reform.  Thanks to Corbyn they have blown it.

Tony Greenstein