The Hypocrisy of Ephraim Mirvis’s Attacks on Corbyn’s ‘Anti-Semitism’

This is the same Chief Rabbi Who Supported Tebbit’s Cricket Test & Marched with Israel’s Fascist Settlers chanting ‘Death to the Arabs’

If there is one thing guaranteed to increase anti-Semitism in this country it is the sight of Jewish leaders attacking a Labour Party that represents the only hope for millions of British people living in poverty. They will conclude that Jews are the friends of privilege and power.

Pathetic Marie van der Zyl of the Zionist Board of Deputies protesting in vain at the appearance of Chris Williamson

Chris Williamson - the only Labour MP with the guts to call out the fake 'antisemitism' campaign was thrown under the bus by Corbyn and Russell-Moyle

On August 8^th in Brighton we defied a Zionist campaign of abuse and intimidation, which forced the Quaker’s Friends Meeting House to cancel a meeting with Chris Williamson.  Despite this we held the meeting and defied the Zionist scum who tried to stop the meeting.

Two weeks later I overheard a conversation in my local supermarket, Morrisons, by two people. They were discussing how ‘the Jews want to stop Corbyn.’ I intervened and pointed out that ‘the Jews’ were in fact Zionists including people such as the racist MP for Hove Peter Kyle and most of the British press.

Yet it is very understandable that non-Jews who get their information from the media and BBC will believe that all Jews hate Corbyn. They will not know that Professor Geoffrey Alderman, the foremost academic historian of the Jewish community, has been waging a lonely campaign to get his fellow Zionists to tell the truth. In an article in the Spectator last May he asked ‘Is Jeremy Corbyn really anti-Semitic?’ and then proceeded to show why he was not.

The campaign to show that the Labour Party is anti-Semitic and that Corbyn is an anti-Semite has always been evidence-free. It has been based on the interests of Britain’s Establishment and its voice the BBC. It is in the interests of the rich and powerful to demonstrate that Corbyn’s Labour is anti-Semitic.  If they were honest they would say that their real reasons were the threat that Corbyn represents to their pockets.

Chief Rabbis supporting Tories is an old tradition

The Zionists if they were honest would say that what riles them most is that Corbyn has consistently supported the Palestinians, but of course they aren’t honest.

Britain’s Chief Rabbis have a habit of supporting the Conservative Party dating back to Immanuel Jakobovitz’s support for Margaret Thatcher and even further back, but none have been this blatant.

Ephraim Mirvis’s attack on Corbyn has absolutely nothing to do with racism or anti-Semitism. This is the same person who was singing the praise of Norman Tebbit’s ‘cricket test’ not so long ago. The ‘cricket test’ was devised to show that the ‘real home’ of Britain’s Asian population is not in England but India and Pakistan.

Ironically if the same test were applied to British Jews then it would show that many of them belong in Israel!  Which is what the Zionists desire most of all.

Mirvis’s instruction to Jews not to vote Labour is part of a well co-ordinated campaign to use ‘anti-Semitism’ as a weapon to inflict damage and destroy Labour’s electoral prospects.

What has made it most effective is the fact that Corbyn, instead of standing up from the start and saying that Labour did not have an anti-Semitism problem, that the allegations against it were malicious and without foundation, bought into the narrative.

No one forced Corbyn to adopt the IHRA misdefinition of anti-Semitism originally. It was all his own work.

This is the same Ephraim Mirvis who joined his predecessor Jonathan Sacks and thousands of far-Right settlers on the 2017 Jerusalem Day ‘March of Flags’. The favourite chant of the settlers was ‘Death to the Arabs.’ Mirvis had no hesitation in joining those who desire nothing more than the expulsion of the Palestinians.

Haaretz’s Bradley Burston described the March as:

an annual, gender-segregated extreme-right, pro-occupation religious carnival of hatred, marking the anniversary of Israel's capture of Jerusalem by humiliating the city's Palestinian Muslims.

marchers vandalized shops in Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter, chanted "Death to Arabs" and "The (Jewish) Temple Will Be Built, the (Al Aqsa) Mosque will be Burned Down," shattered windows and door locks, and poured glue into the locks of shops forced to close for fear of further damage.’ And they repeated Samson's prayer in Judges 16:28: "May I avenge (the loss of) my two eyes with one act of vengeance against the Palestinians – may their name be blotted out!"

This did not stop Sacks extending a “personal invitation” to Diaspora Jews to join him on a trip to Israel which includes “leading” the March of the Flags on Jerusalem Day and “dancing with our brave [Israeli Defence Force] soldiers” in the settler enclave inside Hebron.

Haaretz Anna Roiser pleaded with Sacks not to attend, saying:

one of the world’s most respected rabbis sends a message of normalization and acceptance of the occupation...  Many Jews in the Diaspora work hard to emphasize that being Jewish is not synonymous with supporting the Israeli government, and that supporting Israel’s right to exist is not synonymous with supporting the occupation. Rabbi Sacks’ actions risk undermining these messages.

Not only did Sacks ignore them he marched together with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. It seems that Mirvis finds it difficult to oppose any other form of racism bar ‘anti-Semitism’. See Chief Rabbi and Lord Sacks should not back this march

However the attacks of  Ephraim Mirvis, the BBC and the Jewish Chronicle would not have had any resonance but for the enemy within. Prime amongst those who laid the basis for these attacks is Jon Lansman, who I have emailed and texted tonight.

Dear Mr Lansman

I hope you are pleased with your work.  By helping to spread the myth of Labour antisemitism you paved the way for today's campaign by the Chief Rabbi and the media.

It should now be clear even to you that 'antisemitism' is just a pretext for an attack by the Jewish Establishment and your Zionist friends on Corbyn and a radical Labour government.

The Jewish Labour Movement, a name which is a lie in itself, fully supported Mirvis's attack.  This is the same Zionist group whose platforms you graed whilst attacking Jackie Walker, Ken Livingstone, Marc Wadsworth, Chris Williamson and me.

What you and Momentum have sown others have reaped.

If you had any shame then you would retire now and take heed of Enoch Powell's dictum, which you are so fond of quoting, that all political careers end in failure.

However as you are shameless I suspect you will continue to wreak havoc and damage.

Regards as ever

tony

John McDonnell also bought into this nonsense. He told Ken Livingstone to apologise for his remarks because ‘the Jews are a very forgiving people.’ Russell Lloyd-Moyle, the Brighton Kemptown MP, lied to me when I challenged him over his refusal to support Chris Williamson.

But above all the fault lies with Corbyn himself and his advisors, in particular Seamus Milne. Corbyn, given his experience in Palestine solidarity, knew that ‘anti-Semitism’ is the standard accusation of Israel’s defenders. I doubt if there is one single Palestine activist in Britain who hasn’t been accused of ‘anti-Semitism’. 

Corbyn should have drawn up a strategy from the start and stuck with it. It was obvious to me and it should have been to him that the ‘anti-Semitism’ he was being accused of was not hatred of Jews but hatred of what Israel does.  That is why his denials that he was anti-Semitic or his pathetic repetition of how much he abhorred anti-Semitism have cut no ice. They were besides the point.

Corbyn was not being accused of Jew hatred but hatred of Zionism. If Corbyn from the start had responded vigorously and stated that he wasn’t going to be deflected from talking about Israeli Apartheid by ‘anti-Semitism’ then he would have buried the whole matter. Instead he made a rod for his own back by apologising, temporising, hesitating and failing to respond. He gave in repeatedly to people like Tom Watson. Even more appalling he threw comrades and friends like Ken Livingstone and Chris Williamson overboard.

It is because Corbyn bought into the myth that anti-Semitism was a problem in the Labour Party that he is now facing such problems. Every time he apologised the Zionists asked for more. These scoundrels aren’t interested in genuine anti-Semitism.  Israel is their only concern. It is curious that in the thousands of stories on Labour ‘anti-Semitism’ there is such a marked absence of evidence.

See this very excellent article by Jamie Stern Weiner ‘Smoke Without Fire: The Myth of a 'Labour Antisemitism' Crisis’. My only criticism of it is that the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign is not about anti-Semitism and it’s not based on logic. Like fascism it is essentially irrational and it cannot be defeated by rational argument.

The ‘Anti-Semitism’ campaign is an Establishment ideological attack. It cannot be met on its own terms but by an implacable opposition that repeats that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. We should not be afraid of pointing out that Jews today are not oppressed. They are a largely racist community of White people, with high levels of Islamaphobia, the majority of whom supports Zionism and Jewish exclusivism.  It is a privileged community which is repeating the errors of old when Jewish communities in Poland and elsewhere allowed themselves to be used by the nobles and kings. It didn’t end well then and it may not end well now.

The campaign to frighten the Jewish community in this country that Labour is anti-Semitic may have succeeded but all that means is that it is a testament to the powerful effect of a media manufactured campaign and the creation of a consensus.  It is also testament to the fundamental stupidity of most British Jews today.

I am reminded of an article in 2015 in Ha’aretz by Anshel Pfeffer on the ‘finding’ in a survey by the far-Right Campaign Against Anti-Semitism that 56% of British Jews agreed that “the recent rise in anti-Semitism in Britain has some echoes of the 1930s.”  Pfeffer wrote that

‘If the majority of British Jews and the authors of the CAA report actually believe that, then it’s hard to take anything they say about contemporary anti-Semitism in their home country seriously. If they honestly think that the situation in Britain today echoes the 1930s when Jews were still banned from a wide variety of clubs and associations, when a popular fascist party, supported by members of the nobility and popular newspapers, were marching in support of Hitler, when large parts of the British establishment were appeasing Nazi Germany and the government was resolutely opposed to allowing Jewish refugees of Nazism in to Britain, finally relenting in 1938 to allow 10,000 children to arrive — but not their parents who were to die in the Holocaust (that shameful aspect of the Kindertransport that is seldom mentioned) — and when the situation of Jews in other European countries at the time was so much worse, then not only are they woefully ignorant of recent Jewish history but have little concept of what real anti-Semitism is beyond the type they see online.

After pointing out that British Jews today are exceedingly well represented in Parliament, Pfeffer went on to state that:

To compare today’s Britain, for all its faults, with the Jews’ situation in 1930s exhibits a disconnect from reality which borders on hysteria.

If Mirvis was seriously concerned about anti-Semitism in political parties then he would have asked why the Conservative Party’s MEPs supported the anti-Semitic Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a no confidence vote in the European parliament.  The reason is that Orban may not like Jews very much but he is the best friend of Israel. Likewise he could ask why  Tory MEP’s sit in the same political group (ECR) in the European parliament as fascists and anti-Semites.

However as Mirvis is a right-wing Tory it is unlikely he will turn on his friends, even in the cause of ‘anti-Semitism’.

Tony Greenstein

Netanyahu Invites the neo-Nazi Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) to help him form a new Coalition government

As Labour MPs indulge in attacks on fake ‘anti-Semitism’ Israel moves to the ultra-Right

In 1984 Rabbi Meir Kahane of Kach (Thus) entered the Knesset with over 25,000 votes.  Kach stood on a programme which, as The Times of Israel’s Michael Aarenau noted even members of Likud likened to the Nazis’ 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws.

Smotrich, Netanyahu and Itamar Gvir - the difference between them is one of semantics

In 1988, when polls suggested that Kach could get between 4 and 12 seats, Kahane was banned from standing by the Supreme Court. The reason that Kach was banned had nothing to do with opposition to racism but a fear that the image of Israel would be damaged. In the four years that Kahane was a Knesset member, when he spoke all the other 119 members would walk out.

But yesterday what was trefa (unclean) has now become kosher. What used to be Zionism’s forbidden fruits have now become its delicacies. But even in 1984, what Kahane said openly the other Zionist parties muttered behind closed doors.

Fearing defeat by the Centrist Right bloc of Benny Gantz’s Resilience and Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid parties Netanyahu openly pressurized the far-Right Jewish Home-National Union religious settlers’ parties to unite with Otzma Yehudit, the direct descendants of Kahane’s Kach.

One can get an idea of Otzma Yehudit’s politics from its leader Michael Ben Ari, who was a member of the 18^th Knesset for the National Union between 2009 and 2013. Apart from instigating a pogrom against Black African refugees in South Tel Aviv Ari is famous for tearing up a copy of the New Testament that a missionary sent him and putting it in a trash bin.

In September 2010 in response to being told that for every Israeli killed, six Palestinians had died, he remarked that "For every one dead on our side, we need to kill 500 and not six." This was five times the number of hostages that the Nazis murdered in Yugoslavia for every German soldier killed. Ben-Ari holds left-wing Jews and human rights organisations in particular contempt, referring to them as “germs” that need to be eradicated. During the 2012 Operation Pillar of Defence he stated that “there are no innocents in Gaza…mow them down! Kill the Gazans without thought or mercy!” This is who Netanyahu has gone out of his way to ensure will be a member of the next Knesset.

Netanyahu - it would seem there is no one on the Right with whom he won't get into bed with

It would be wrong however to simply concentrate on Otzma Yehudit. Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home), which had 6 members, including the Education and Justice Ministers in the last government, is no slouch when it comes to racism and bigotry.  Bezalel Smotrich, who described himself as a ‘proud homophobe’ distinguished himself by advocating separate maternity wards for Jewish and Arab women on the grounds that his wife didn’t want to give birth next to a woman whose child might become a ‘terrorist’. However, despite the outrage these comments provoked, it is a fact that 5 of Israel’s 7 major hospitals allow Jewish women to give birth in Arab free wards.

Habayit Hayehudi members vote to unite with Otzma Yehudit

In 2013, the Deputy Defence Minister Rabbi Eli Dahan openly stated of Palestinians that ‘To me, they are like animals, they aren’t human.’ Despite considering gays an abomination he held that “A Jew always has a much higher soul than a gentile, even if he is a homosexual.”

Whereas Menachem Begin, the first Likud Prime Minister would have nothing to do with Kahane and his brand of Jewish messianic fascism, there are no waters too polluted for Netanyahu to fish in.

The reasons for Netanyahu’s decision to invited Otzma Yehudit into the Knesset and the governing coalition were that the far-Right in Israel today commands at least 250,000 votes. The problem is that they are split between at least 4 parties meaning that these votes could be wasted. When Kahane was elected in 1984 Israel’s proportional representation system meant a party which gained 25,000 votes (1%) was guaranteed a seat but in the 2013 Knesset the threshold was increased from 2% to 3.25%.  The idea behind this was to exclude the Arab parties but instead the Arabs parties united to form the Joint List, becoming the third largest party in the Knesset with 13 seats.

In the words of YNet ‘A dynasty of racism and provocation is on its way to the Israeli parliament’. Yet Israel’s Arab population will ask what is new? Whether it was Labour or Likud governments they suffered ongoing violence and institutional discrimination. What we are seeing today is Zionist ideology and practice catching up with each other.  Whereas Israeli Labour governments spoke the language of collectivism and social democracy, they practised ethnic cleansing and exclusion. The new, openly fascist Right has taken the hypocrisy out of Zionism and in the process left Labour Zionism high and dry.

When Meir Kahane preached that Israel could be a Jewish state or a Democratic state he was stating a truth that generations of ‘left’ Zionists preferred to ignore. Labour Zionism spoke of a Jewish democratic state which was always an oxymoron. What happens if the Arabs’ higher birth-rate meant they become the majority?  Would the Zionist parties acquiesce in a non-Jewish state or would there be a new round of ethnic cleansing like in 1948?

In other words which is more important, a democratic or a Jewish state? For Zionism a Jewish state was always the most important goal. which was why a majority was gerrymandered by the new Israeli state in 1948 through the expulsion of 90% of the Arabs. In the words of one of the key organisations of Israeli Apartheid, the Jewish National Fund, ‘over 70% of the Jewish population in Israel opposes allocating KKL-JNF land to non-Jews, while over 80% prefer the definition of Israel as a Jewish state, rather than as the state of all its citizens.’

Members of Otzma Yehudit Baruch Marzel and Michael Ben Ari in a protest in Jerusalem, July 22, 20018. טס שפלן / ג'יני

Successive Zionist governments, beginning with the Israeli Labour governments of 1949-1977 were opposed to mixed marriages and sexual/ personal relationships between Jews and Arabs. That was why marriage between a Jew and a non-Jew was made impossible. As Hannah Arendt noted at the time of the Eichmann trial in 1961:

‘‘Israeli citizens, religious and non-religious seem agreed upon the desirability of having a law which prohibits intermarriage… there certainly was something breathtaking in the naiveté with which the prosecution denounced the infamous Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which had prohibited intermarriage and sexual intercourse between Jews and Germans.

Hannah

But what Labour and Likud whispered under their breath Kahane and the thugs of Lehava openly practiced. During his four year stint in the Knesset Kahane proposed a series of laws which outlined what a Jewish theocratic state would look like: As Bradley Burston noted in Ha'aretz this included:

- Revocation of non-Jewish citizenship.

- Expulsion of non-Jews from Jerusalem and eventually Israel.

- The eventual imposition of slavery on Arabs and other non-Jews.

- Prohibition of contact between Jews and Arabs, including sexual relations.

- Segregated beaches.

- Prohibition of non-Jews living in Jewish neighborhoods.

- Forced dissolution of all intermarriages.

Not only did much of this come straight from the 1935 Nazi Nuremburg Law but much of it merely codified existing practice.

For example the prohibition of non-Jews living in Jewish neighbourhoods is already existing practice.  Hundreds of Jewish communities in Israel are Jewish only. That was the purpose of the 2011 Admissions Committees Law, to keep out Arabs (and also Black and Sephardi Jews). This was reinforced by the Jewish Nation State Law 2018 which advocated Jewish Settlement as a ‘national value’. The JNF has been practicing Jewish only settlement since the early 20^th century but Israel’s far-Right wishes to make explicit that which was always implicit. What was previously normal but not written down in law is now becoming codified and rigid.

If the idea of Arabs as slaves seems far-fetched we should remember that the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef ruled that non-Jews would be expelled from Israel apart from a few who ‘will be allowed to remain in the land and fulfil roles reserved for gentiles in the service of Jews.’ That role was made clear in a sermon in 2010.  “Goyim (non-Jews) were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel,”

What Kahane represented was the face that Zionism itself could not bear to see.  However even though Kahane died at the hands of an assassin in 1990 his ideas have lived on. The present Israeli elections are likely to see the demise of Labour Zionism.  Meretz, which as the ‘Marxist’ Zionist Mapam was the second largest party in the 1949 Knesset, may be wiped out entirely. The Israeli Labour Party which until 1977 formed every single government is presently forecast to gain less than 10 seats (down from 24 in the present Knesset).

Otzma Yehudit Marzel and Michael ben Ari

Naturally this is causing apoplexy among Zionism’s liberal supporters. Batya Ungar-Sargon, Opinion Editor of The Forward wrote that Netanyahu Just Invited Israel’s Equivalent Of The KKK To Join The Government. Ungar-Sargon, who has just finished targeting Congresswoman Ilhan Omar for tweeting that AIPAC is in the business of buying political support for Israel wrote that:

‘These are the David Dukes and the Richard Spencers of the Jewish State, people who believe that Jewish sovereignty depends on the oppression, ethnic cleansing and even murder of Israel’s Arab population.’

To listen to Ungar-Sargon you would imagine that ethnic cleansing, murder and oppression are novelties for the Palestinians.

American Jews, who have been shaken by the recent murder of 11 of their compatriots at Pittsburgh, are the most liberal part of America’s white population. They are especially sensitive since the Trump Administration combines white supremacy, demonisation of refugees and a not-too-hidden anti-Semitism with ardent support for Israel and Zionism. They are looking aghast as Israel moves off the political radar.

The American Jewish establishment is also shaken, not by the open association of with fascists and racists but by Netanyahu’s brazenness. For decades these leaders have turned a blind eye to all sorts of racist atrocities and provided cover for Israel’s repeated massacres. But what they cannot stand is that Israel no longer seems to care what others think of it. They know Trump will support them regardless. As Susie Gelman, a major Zionist philanthropist asks ‘Is there any line of decency and morality that he (Netanyahu) will not cross?” complaining that “Netanyahu’s actions are feeding the estrangement of young American Jews from Israel’ which is her real concern before assuring her interlocutors that ‘I still feel committed to the Israeli people’ making a fatuous distinction ‘between the Israeli government and the people of Israel.” Perhaps it has not occurred to Ms Gelman that the reason why Netanyahu can get away with what he does is that the Israeli people support and vote for him?

As Ha'aretz notes the main concern of America’s Jewish Establishment is not the fact of Israeli racism and ethnic cleansing but that ‘Netanyahu's move will hurt Israel's image and create rift with Jewish Americans.’

It is hard to stifle a smile when the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt whines that "There should be no room for racism & no accommodation for intolerance in Israel or any democracy," Where, one wonders, was Jonathan when the Chief Rabbi of Safed Shmuel Elihayu issued an edict in 2011 that Jews were forbidden to rent rooms and apartments to Arabs? When criticized Eliyahu was backed by hundreds of Israeli rabbis. To this day Eliyahu is a paid Israeli state official.

Zionism is coming full circle. The old hypocrisies have become redundant. Ideology and practice are coming into line. The logic of a Jewish state, like all ethno-nationalist states is that non-Jews do not belong. Just as Jews were not welcome in similar states in the Europe of the 1930’s.

Today there are large elements in Israel, in particular amongst the religious Zionists for whom the Palestinians represent the ancient foe of the Hebrews, the Amalekites. In Exodus 17:14, God told Moses that ‘I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.’ Yeah every man, woman, child and infant was to die. For those who are aware of the biblical story of Esther, Netanyahu is indeed the Jewish Haman.

Tony Greenstein  

Meir Kahane addresses a gathering at the Silver Springs Jewish Center in Maryland, October 27, 1988. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)

"Without unity the left will win." Page 4 and 5 of Israel Haiom newspaper, on Tuesday 19, 019.Israel Haiom screengrab

Meir Kahane in 1984Daniel Rosenblum

See below for articles about Netanyahu’s invitation to Kahane’s students:

Netanyahu Just Invited Israel’s Equivalent Of The KKK To Join The Government.

Banned in 1988, assassinated in 1990, mainstreamed in 2019: Kahane lives

U.S. Jewish Leaders Slam Netanyahu for Promoting Kahanists

Netanyahu Orchestrates Merger To Bring Extremists Into Knesset

I Thought Bibi Was Amoral. He's Not. He's Evil. Thanks to Him, Kahane Lives

Kahane Returns to the Knesset

Otzma Yehudit's history of racism and provocation

Israeli Holocaust Survivors Protest Against the Visit of Hungary's Antisemitic Prime Minister to its Holocaust Propaganda Museum, Yad Vashem

As soon as Labour Takes a 4% Lead the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Campaign Returns - If Corbyn Doesn’t Grow a Backbone and Fight Back the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Smears will devour him

In the very week that Israel passed the Jewish Nation State Law which ‘constitutionally enshrined discrimination against its Palestinian population’, making Israel an officially apartheid state, the false ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign returned. 

The Jewish Nation State Law defines Israel as a state, not of its own citizens, but of Jews wherever they may live in the world. I have more rights, as a Jewish person living in Britain than a Palestinian citizen of Israel. If that is not racism then the word has lost all meaning. According to Bradley Burston, a senior editor of Ha’aretz,

‘In the dead of night early Thursday,  Netanyahu led the government in passing the Nation-State Bill, a law which effectively repealed and superseded the equality and democracy provisions of  Israel's Declaration of Independence as a guide for the future of the country. Gone is any mention of equality. In its place, directives that veer Israel towards genuine apartheid, including a downgrading of the status of the Arabic language and therefore of Arab citizens of Israel.’

Orban's election campaign consisted of anti-Soros posters

Arabic is no longer an official language. Although a clause explicitly allowing the creation of Jewish only communities was replaced with one supporting Jewish settlement in Arab areas this was just a matter of words. What it meant was a continuation of the policy of Judaisation of areas like the Galilee or the Negev, i.e. the creation of Jewish only settlements in places where there are too many Arabs.

But also this week we had the visit of Viktor Orban, the anti-Semitic Prime Minister of Hungary. Eva Balogh describes in Hungarian Spectrum how ‘In the last eight years the Hungarian government has made a serious effort to rewrite the history of the Holocaust and many other aspects of Hungarian-Jewish history.’ The form this takes is Orban’s rehabilitation of Admiral Horthy, Hungary’s wartime ruler who formed a pact with Nazi Germany and who presided over the deportation of nearly ½ million Jews to Auschwitz.

Israelis demonstrate in June in Afula, a northern Israeli city against the sale of a house to an Arab - according to the IHRA definition of  antisemitism, to call this racist is antisemitic

It is strange that in all the attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, Margaret Hodge and the other Zionist rubbish in the Labour Party don’t criticise the visit of a Holocaust revisionist, Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, to Israel despite Philip Stephen’s observation that Orban described Horthy as amongst Hungary’s “exceptional statesmen”.

Orban arrives to a hero's reception in Israel

Orban waged an anti-Semitic election campaign against Jewish billionaire George Soros employing all the old anti-Jewish stereotypes. The silence of the Jewish Labour Movement and the Hodges has been deafening. This was a campaign not only approved by Netanyahu but the subject of an anti-Semitic cartoon by his son Yair, a cartoon which neo-Nazis like David Duke openly praised. In an election speech in March Orban declared:

“We are fighting an enemy that is different from us. Not open, but hiding; not straightforward but crafty; not honest but base; not national but international; does not believe in working but speculates with money; does not have its own homeland but feels it owns the whole world.”

Both the antisemitic Orban and the fascist Netanyahu agree on hatred of Soros

This includes virtually every anti-Semitic dog whistle you can think of.  Speculation, usury, doesn’t believe in working, crafty, dishonest, doesn’t have a homeland i.e. no loyalty and yet Yad Vashem Zionism’s Holocaust propaganda museum laid down the red carpet to welcome this man.

Today we learn that ‘Dozens of demonstrators, including Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors, block Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s convoy outside Israeli Holocaust museum. ‘He is a danger to humanity.’ Attorney Eitay Mack, one of the organisers of the protest was quoted as saying that:

The useless IHRA publicises statements against 'antisemitism by the antisemitic Hungarian government

“Every dictator, every murderer who wants to buy weapons from Israel must come and lay a wreath at Yad Vashem. We saw the head of the junta in Myanmar come here for a visit, only to carry out a genocidal campaign months later. We saw the prime minister of Kenya, who is suspected of crimes against humanity. Yad Vashem has turned into an institution that whitewashes the crimes of these regimes — as long as they do business with Israel.”

Yael Weiss-Reind, whose family was murdered in Hungary during the Holocaust, said that Yad Vashem was granting legitimacy to these regimes when it “accepts leaders who carry out policies and ideologies that are very similar to what we saw decades ago.”

“My family is from Hungary,” she says, “my grandfather was murdered in Auschwitz, and the prime minister of Hungary, who is being welcomed here with respect, has previously expressed his admiration for the leader who helped carry out the annihilation of 564,000 Jews. I am disgusted by the fact that the State of Israel is hosting him.”

The dark side

According to the Zionist ‘definition’ of anti-Semitism, Yael Weiss-Reind, despite being a Holocaust survivor, and Attorney Mack are both anti-Semites.  They dared to compare the actions of Israel to those of the Nazis. 

When Ken Livingstone mentioned the fact that the Nazis supported Zionism all hell broke loose even though it was factually true. When Netanyahu praises and invites as an honoured guest a man who is rehabilitating Horthy, who dispatched Jews to Auschwitz, Hodge, Berger, Smeeth and the rest of the cacophonous ‘anti-Semitism’ brigade remain silent. Such is the hypocrisy of the Zionists.

What is tragic though is that Corbyn, McDonnell and their supporters don’t call this hypocrisy out.  The Zionists latest complaint is that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism hasn’t been adopted lock, stock and barrel by the NEC. All 500+ words of it. 

Yair Netanyahu's antisemitic cartoon - widely admired by neo-Nazis like David Duke ex-KKK

There have been numerous critiques of this bogus definition of anti-Semitism, a definition that 31 states including Hungary’s anti-Semitic government have happily signed up to. Critiques such as that of the Jewish former Court of Appeal judge Sir Stephen Sedley in ‘Defining Anti-Semitism’, Hugh Tomlison QC’s Opinion and Anthony Lerman’s Why turning to Jewish exceptionalism to fight antisemitism is a failing project.

The IHRA, whose only purpose is to conflate anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is intellectually threadbare. It consists of a 38 word definition and then 11 ‘illustrations’ of anti-Semitism, 7 of which refer to Israel. For example it holds that criticism of Israel as a ‘racist endeavour’ is anti-Semitic which is absurd.  If it is true that Israel is racist how can that be anti-Semitic?

The IHRA holds that ‘Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination  e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor’ is anti-Semitic.  In other words Israel is the product of Jewish self-determination, i.e. it is, as it claims, a Jewish nation state. But that is an anti-Semitic concept because it implies that Jews aren’t nationals of the states they live in. 

Another illustration says that ‘Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.’ is anti-Semitic!  Well if Israel is the product of Jewish self-determination then it is right to hold them responsible for Israel’s actions. In other words the IHRA, by its own definition, is anti-Semitic!

Yet instead of making these simple arguments and rebutting the allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’ Corbyn and his advisers continues to act as if their accusers were acting in good faith.  It should be abundantly clear that Hodge, Pollard, Smeeth and co. have all the attributes of a hungry pirhana fish.  They are vultures hovering over their prey. Lansman’s Momentum is paralysed because its owner, Jon Lansman is a Zionist.

It is time for supporters of Corbyn to fight back because there is one overriding reason for this anti-Semitism campaign – it isn’t to get rid of Tony Greenstein, Ken Livingstone, Marc Wadsworth or Jackie Walker.  The target is Jeremy Corbyn and until Corbyn is removed then the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign will continue unabated. That is a good reason why people should join Labour Against the Witchhunt and our Facebook page.

I also recommend watching this short Interview with Moshe Machover on the new Labour Anti-Semitism Code