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

It's not Corbyn but Starmer’s Cynical Use of Jews to Attack the Left that is Anti-Semitic

The Labour Left Will Never Recover Until It Understands That ‘Anti-Semitism’ Was a Lie Designed by Racists to Defeat Anti-Racists

Keir Starmer’s ‘patriotism’ is the last refuge of a scoundrel – Corbyn must declare his candidacy now

Kendall Savages Jeremy Corbyn

Last Tuesday in that good socialist newspaper The Times Keir Starmer declared war on what’s left of the Labour Left, declaring that Jeremy Corbyn would not stand as a Labour Candidate in Islington North. I think everyone bar Corbyn himself knew that.

Like the charlatan he is Starmer wrapped himself in the flag declaring that ‘my Labour’, because to all intents and purposes, the ruling class, whose puppet he is, owns the party, would follow his dictats.

Not for nothing did Samuel Johnson declare that ‘patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel’. For if there is one thing that Starmer is, without a doubt, it is a political scoundrel.

• Ø Starmer promised to support public ownership and end outsourcing in the NHS and now he supports further privatisation.
• Ø Starmer promised to defend migrant rights and now criticises the Tories for not deporting more people.
• Ø Starmer promised to reverse the Tory cuts in corporation tax and when they did reverse them he opposed them!
• Ø Starmer promised to ‘put human rights at the heart of foreign policy’ and ended up supporting the Spycops Bill which grants immunity to state agents who torture people.
• Ø Starmer promised to ‘Promote peace and human rights’ and ended up as the advocate of NATO and more arms to Ukraine.
• Ø Starmer even broke the promise to provide ‘Effective opposition to the Tories’ as he pledged allegiance to Boris Johnson’s Covid strategy and supported the attack on the right to protest.

But it is on the issue of ‘anti-Semitism’ that Starmer has proven that the one quality he does have, lying, he has in spades. You might think that if Starmer was genuinely concerned about anti-Semitism then the last people he would suspend and expel would be Jewish members.

But you would be wrong. If you are Jewish in the Labour Party then you are 5+ times more likely to be expelled. Take 82 year old Diana Neslen, a former anti-Apartheid activist from South Africa. Labour’s witchhunters accused Diana of antisemitism over a single tweet from 2017, which said that “the existence of the state of Israel is a racist endeavour and I am an antiracist Jew”. It was only when Diana threatened legal action that the investigation was dropped.

Diana Neslen wasn’t the only Jewish anti-Apartheid activist from South Africa who was targeted. Riva Joffe, who died soon afterwards, was expelled outright. Of course this is understandable. Being a ‘Zionist without qualification’ Starmer has a fondness for apartheid.

You might think that even Starmer would think twice about persecuting a Jewish holocaust survivor. Think again. When Stephen Kapos, a child survivor of the Nazi occupation of Budapest, agreed to speak on Holocaust Memorial Day for the Socialist Labour Network he was threatened with expulsion leading him to resign.

It should be blindingly obvious that when Starmer talks about ‘anti-Semitism’ what he really means is anti-Zionism and opposition to the persecution of the Palestinians.  A persecution that involves house demolitions, torture, the burning of Palestinian crops and even the tear gassing of young children. All of this and more Starmer is quite happy to support as part of Britain’s alliance with the United States.

Starmer gives a clue as to his thinking when he describes anti-Semitism as a form of racism that

‘spreads like an infection. … those who call themselves “anti-racist” who are most blind to it.

 

 

If anti-racists are blind to it that might be because what Starmer describes as ‘anti-Semitism’ is opposition to racism. That is why Starmer pinned all this hopes on an adverse verdict by the EHRC. So eager was Starmer for an adverse verdict that he bought off former staff members who brought a libel action against the Labour Party, despite legal advice to the contrary. In the end a shoddy report by a far-right commissioner Alisdair Henderson, found just two instances of ‘anti-Semitism’ and both related to political criticism of false allegations of anti-Semitism.

It is no surprise that Starmer says

‘I knew we were getting it right… when Louise Ellman, a Jewish former Labour MP who under the previous leadership had suffered appalling abuse, came to Labour Party conference in 2021.

I met Ellman on a BBC Big Questions programme. A more unimpressive Dalek it is hard to imagine. She speaks in staccato and repeats like a mantra all the usual Zionist phrases. When the House of Commons debated Israel’s abuse of Palestinian children as young as 12, such as being woken and arrested in the middle of the night, blindfolded, beaten, denied food and access to a lawyer – Ellman got on her hind legs and justified their treatment. She spoke of:

the context in which these situations occur is an organised campaign conducted by the Palestinian authorities of incitement, to try to provoke young Palestinians to carry out acts of violence towards other civilians, some of which result in death, including the death of young children?

Ellman repeated the lie that Palestinian children are ‘incited’ to resist Israel’s occupation.  Nothing about a Military Government that has ruled the Palestinians for over half a century. A situation where their homes are demolished, land stolen, checkpoints and settler attacks.  To Ellman the Palestinians should be grateful for the Occupation!

When I said that Louise Ellman was a supporter of Israeli child abuse I was accused at my disciplinary hearing of having ‘shamed’ her.  My response, that she was shameless.  But it’s no accident that Starmer has wooed this vile woman.

When Starmer says that ‘the Labour Party I lead is patriotic’ what he really means is that it is now a party which is subservient to the rich and powerful. Patriotism is for the poor. The rich owe no allegiance to anything but their own pockets.

Unsurprisingly Starmer declared that Corbyn wouldn’t be standing at the next election as a Labour candidate. No doubt Corbyn feels betrayed by someone who once declared that he was a friend as well as a colleague but if so he brought it on himself.

It is of course true that Starmer’s decision is a “flagrant attack” on democracy and that the attempt to block his candidacy is “a denial of due process” however the precedent was set by Corbyn himself when he and Jennie Formby barred Chris Williamson, his most loyal MP, from standing at the last election in 2019.

The question is whether Corbyn will stand and if so when he will declare his hand. According to the Guardian’s Deputy political editor and former Jewish Chronicle hack, Jessica Elgot this ‘would pose an existential dilemma for Momentum’ and what’s left of the Socialist Campaign Group [SCG]. If so then the sooner that Corbyn makes up his mind the better. There is no point in waiting for the inevitable.

Having led the left to defeat by trying to appease the right Corbyn owes it to his supporters to break free of Starmer’s neo-liberal Tory Party  Mk. II and create a new working class socialist party.

Of course this would pose a dilemma for the SCG but one thing is abundantly clear.  Either the SCG abandons what remains of their politics or Starmer will be rid of them. Indeed breaking from the Labour Party, if Corbyn played his cards right, could result in the downfall of Starmer who remains personally unpopular in the country not least because he oozes insincerity and is seen to stand for nothing.

But it is incumbent on Corbyn to come to terms with what happened during his 4 years leadership. It is time to face up to the fact that what Labour experienced was not anti-Semitism but an orchestrated campaign by the right, led by the Daily Mail and the Jewish Chronicle, to paint opposition to the Israeli state as ‘anti-Semitism’.

The problem with Corbyn, as his confrontation with Liz Kendall demonstrated, is that he is still wedded to the idea that the Labour Party had a problem with anti-Semitism when it didn’t. The very fact that Starmer has been expelling so many Jewish people testifies to that fact. When asked if he would apologise by Peston the obvious answer was ‘apologise for what?’.

It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to work out that if anti-Semitism had been a problem in the Labour Party then it is hardly likely that the Mail, Sun and Express, to say nothing of the Guardian, would have been so concerned about it. Corbyn could have made all these points and more but instead he tried to explain the difference between exaggerating the numbers of those expelled for anti-Semitism and exaggerating anti-Semitism.  A wholly futile exercise.

Similarly Justin Schlosberg’s points about Labour under Formby being better at expelling people for ‘anti-Semitism’ than Iain McNicol conceded the fact that ‘anti-Semitism’ was a problem when it wasn’t. It is irrelevant whether or not Corbyn interfered with the disciplinary process. If he didn’t he should have!

Corbyn above all should have known that when people support the Palestinians they are, as a matter of course, accused of anti-Semitism. He has been around the Palestine solidarity movement for 40 years yet instead of rebutting the accusation he took it personally. He never took the time to understand Zionism.

Instead from the very start Corbyn began appeasing the Right and the Jewish Labour Movement in particular. Yet they were unappeasable.  The only thing they were interested in was being rid of him.

So we had the absurdity on pages 306, 333, 346 of the Leaked Report  which stated that:

Jeremy Corbyn himself and members of his staff team requested to GLU that particular antisemitism cases be dealt with. In 2017 LOTO staff chased for action on high-profile antisemitism cases Ken Livingstone, Tony Greenstein, Jackie Walker and Marc Wadsworth, stressing that these cases were of great concern to Jewish stakeholders and that resolving them was essential to “rebuilding trust between the Labour Party and the Jewish community”.

Well we were all expelled or forced out and all that happened was that the Zionists came for more victims like Chris Williamson, Pete Willsman and Christine Shawcroft – all of whom were duly delivered up. And yet, far from saving Corbyn it merely ensured his defeat, not least because he apologised so much that he lost all credibility. You never apologise to your enemies you take the fight to them.

Anyone hoping that the SCG, which has split in two, would rise to the challenge is going to be disappointed. Diane Abbot has declared her support for NATO and Starmer. McDonnell has become a war hawk on Ukraine and there is disarray all round. The cowards are running for cover faster than greased lightening.

If Corbyn is going to salvage anything from the present situation he needs to break from Labour now and take steps to form a new socialist party.  This would allow trade unionist to pressure their unions to do likewise. The Labour Party is dead to the left.

Will Corbyn do it?  I wouldn’t advise you to hold your breath!

Tony Greenstein