Mass Lobby of Labour’s NEC Tuesday July 20th 12.00 - Stop the Purge of Socialists

 Starmer to Expel Thousands of Socialists while Readmitting Islamaphobe Trevor Phillips

It is clear from reports in the yellow press that Starmer is embarking on a purge of socialists and anti-racists in the Labour Party. This comes after Trevor Phillips quietly had his suspension lifted about a month ago. Phillips was suspended in March 2020 after a series of racist comments such as Muslims were ‘a nation within a nation’.

Phillips was also quoted in the Guardian as saying that it was correct for Muslims to be judged collectively: “You keep saying that I make these generalisations,” he said. “But the truth is, if you do belong to a group, whether it is a church, or a football club, you identify with a particular set of values, and you stand for it. And frankly you are judged by that.”

It is accepted by all that blaming all Jews for the actions of an individual is racist, yet when it comes to Muslims this is perfectly acceptable to Starmer and Evans. If ever there were proof that Starmer’s commitment to ‘rooting out anti-Semitism’ was a vicious anti-Palestinian hoax this is it.

And then there was the call by far-right Labour MP Neil Coyle for Jewish Voices for Labour should be expelled too. There is a word for those who call for the expulsion of Jews from the Labour Party – ah yes, anti-Semitism.  However I suspect it was not the same ‘anti-Semitism’ that Starmer  pledged to get rid of.

Four groups are going to be proscribed – Labour Against the Witchhunt (LAW), Labour in Exile Network (LIEN), Socialist Appeal and Chris Williamson’s Resist.

These measures only affect the aforementioned 3 groups.  LAW is a longstanding group first formed in the 1980s when Jeremy Corbyn was its Secretary.  It was refounded in 2017 to fight back against the bogus ‘anti-Semitism’ witchhunt which Corbyn succumbed to.

LIEN was formed in the wake of Corbyn’s suspension last October. Despite being reinstated to the Party Sturmer refused to reinstate the Whip forcing him to sit as an independent MP.  Over a hundred Constituency Labour Parties passed motions of no confidence in Sturmer and his glove puppet Evans and demanded the reinstatement of Corbyn.

Keir Starmer has none of the above three!

Starmer and the unelected Evans reacted in the way we have come to expect of the Labour Right. Evans declared that CLPs were ‘not competent’ to discuss such resolutions. This Stalinist approach to democracy will be warmly applauded by the capitalist press, not least the Mirror and Guardian.

Those CLPs and officers that refused to be intimidated were suspended and their officers either suspended or expelled if they refused to accept the dictate of Starmer and his big business buddies. 

Starmer was elected leader on a pledge of being the ‘unity’ candidate who would take forward the manifesto pledges of Corbyn. These were lies as was his reason ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theories’ for sacking Rebecca Long-Bailey as Education Shadow and then Corbyn himself.

Starmer was funded in his leadership campaign by a bevy of wealthy individuals – Bob Latham (£100K), Waheed Ali (£100K), Martin Taylor, a hedge fund manager (£95K), Clive Hollick (£50K), Trevor Chinn, a long-time Zionist & owner of Kwik Fit (£50K), Peter Coates, owner of Bet365 (£25K), Martin Clarke, former AA finance director (£25K) and a former  funder of the defunct Change UK/Independent Group. One of the few examples of a rat joining a sinking ship and Paul Myners (£10K). Just 8 rich individuals contributed nearly half a million pounds yet Starmer used various legal stratagems to hide the fact from Labour members that it was wealthy businessmen who were funding his campaign until the election was over. It might have given the game away if members had been aware that he was funded by a ratbag of Blairite entrepreneurs.

Sir Keir is repaying the debt he owes Chinn and the Israel Lobby by expelling and purging socialists from the Labour Party. He intend to complete what Blair started.  To remake Labour into a second party of capitalism and to purge it of any trace of socialism.

Except that when Blair began his campaign to repeal Clause IV he was riding high in the polls as was Kinnock before him.  Starmer by contrast is in a dire position electorally. He lost one by-election in Hartlepool, a seat Labour had never before lost, nearly lost another by-election and in a third by-election Labour got the worst ever election result in its history, 1.6%.

Starmer is taking Labour down to what will be a historic political defeat at the next election. Why  Because he has nothing to say.  As the Tories introduce a new NHS reform bill Labour sits silent because under Starmer Labour does not oppose private companies taking over more and more of the NHS.  The same is true for the Labour Party on the Police and Crime Bill.  Starmer has no concept of what opposition is because he and the Labour Right have no fundamental differences with the Tories.

It is time for the Campaign Group of MPs to get off their knees and start fighting back. If Sir Keir is successful socialism inside the Labour Party will be dead. It is regrettable that Jeremy Corbyn has taken the legal route in fighting back rather than campaigning for the removal of Starmer.

We also have to be honest and say that much of the Labour Left under Lansman, Corbyn and McDonnell helped bring this situation about when they introduced the ‘fast track’ system of expulsions. It should be a lesson to all that when you appease Labour’s Right they only demand more.  It is also highly unlikely, given he has already had one legal setback, that Corbyn will be victorious.

Last night representatives of LAW, LIEN, LRC, LLA, Socialist Appeal and JVL met to plan the fightback which will start with the Lobby this Tuesday July 20^th outside the Labour Party headquarters  at 105 Victoria St, London SW1E 6QT.

Unfortunately despite Socialist Appeal making it clear that they wanted to fight the purge politically, by calling for Starmer to go, the majority in the meeting did not agree.

The Right are proposing to revive the McCarthyist list of proscribed organisations that was abandoned in 1973. Anyone who is a member or supporter of the four groups will be automatically expelled.

Membership of the above groups will be held to be “incompatible with membership of the Labour Party”, as they have their own programme, membership, and structures. Three of the four organisations on the list do not do that whereas the right-wing factions Progress, Labour First and the Jewish Labour Movement do qualify. Indeed the JLM is affiliated internationally to the World Zionist Organisation and is the overseas wing of the Israeli Labor Party. All 3 of the above right-wing organisations openly campaigned against Labour under Corbyn’s leadership and the JLM went so far as to refuse to support Labour candidates at the 2019 general election.

We were informed at the meeting that Momentum’s National Coordinating Group will be issuing a statement tomorrow opposing Starmer’s proposals. Apparently the man who did more than anyone to weaken the Labour Left, Jon Lansman, has also made clear his opposition to what is being proposed by the Right.

When Keir Starmer promised to ‘root out antisemitism’ in the Labour Party what he was really saying was that he was going to root out the left. Unfortunately the present Momentum leadership still hasn’t come to terms with this despite dozens of Jewish members being suspended.

 False charges of ‘antisemitism’ have been used to prevent any discussion or expression of solidarity with Palestinians of which the ruling out of order of a motion to Hove Labour Party on the advice of Labour’s racist and anti-Semitic South-East Regional Organiser Scott Horner is but the latest example.

The position of LAW and LIEN is quite clear. There should be no automatic expulsions.  Everyone is entitled to a fair hearing and due process. The National Constitutional Committee, an elected body, which is there to hear disciplinary cases has been totally sidelined.

If you have been suspended or expelled you or they are trying to silence your local party then you should come to this protest-lobby of the NEC at 12 noon this Tuesday 20 July and tell your story.  Email Norman on info@labour-in-exile.org to let us know.

Norman Thomas, who founded LIEN said in a statement:

“There is wide agreement Starmer is pretty pathetic at fighting the Tories, but he’s in overdrive when it comes to attacking his own members. He has destroyed democracy in Labour to get rid of the thousands of people who joined after Jeremy Corbyn became leader.”

Thomas said there would be more action to come – including at the conference in September.

 “This is just the beginning of the fightback. We are fighting for the future of the Labour party,” he said.

The whole left must stand in solidarity with these four organisations and oppose this latest purge. If Starmer succeeds on Tuesday then other groups will be added to the list.  

See also Labour’s planned purge is an act of self-sabotage and Sir Keir set to expel 1,000 leftwing members in four ‘poisonous’ groups in the Morning Star and in Canary Labour wants to ban left wing members, but they’re taking the fight to party HQ and on Skwawkbox Exclusive: the FOUR left groups Labour plans to outlaw – and the ‘Labour’ MP who wants left-wing Jews added to the list. 

You Can’t Be An Anti-Racist If You Are Not An Anti-Imperialist – Racism isn’t prejudice but the Justification for Colonialism

Starmer should have gone down on both knees – to ask for forgiveness for his support for Zionism & Apartheid - you can’t pick & choose which victims of racism you support

Keir Starmer’s Statement – apologies for the poor quality which is beyond my control. The original can be seen here

Whatever his other faults, Jeremy Corbyn was a dedicated opponent of Apartheid in South Africa.  He even got arrested picketing the South Africa High Commission.

Starmer is completely different.  He was elected as Leader having accepted the Board of Deputies’s 10 Commandments (Pledges) drawn up by the Board of Deputies whose constitution commits it to defend Israel right or wrong.

Starmer was quoted in the Times of Israel has saying that ‘I support Zionism without qualification.” He then goes on to say ‘“If the definition of ‘Zionist’ is someone who believes in the state of Israel, in that sense I’m a Zionist.”

This means that Starmer, who fully understands the implications of what Zionism and a ‘Jewish’ state means, is a fully-paid up racist. He knows fully well that an ethno-nationalist Jewish state cannot be other than a state that relegates non-Jews to a guest status.

A Zionist is not someone who believes in the State of Israel in the abstract. It’s someone who supports Israel, as a Jewish state as opposed to a state of its own citizens.  As Netanyahu has often repeated, Israel is not a state of its own citizens but only of its Jewish citizens.  That is Apartheid.

That is why you get the phenomenon of what happened in Afula, a nearly 100% Jewish city in Israel.  Last summer, hundreds of Israelis in Afula demonstrated against the sale of a single house to an Arab.  The demonstrations included the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Afula.  This is what a Jewish state means in practice and it is this that the wretched Starmer and his useless deputy, Angela Rayner support.

Netanyahu has made it clear that when and if Israel annexes 30% of the West Bank including the Jordan Valley, it will only be annexing the land.  The people or rather the Palestinian people will not be granted Israeli citizenship. This is not just the policy of Netanyahu but of the whole Israeli government, including the Israeli Labor Party.

Palestinians in ‘enclaves’ will continue to live under military law.  This is what is called Apartheid but maybe the wretched Starmer has another word for it?  Zionism?

The Jewish Labour Movement  describe the ILP as their ‘sister’ party. Since the ILP has signed up to Netanyahu’s vision of legally entrenched Apartheid I look forward to them disaffiliating from them!

The JLM has been waging the ‘anti-Semitism’ war in the Labour Party with the full blessing of Starmer. On March 16 Starmer met with the JLM and they handed him a list of activists, especially Jewish activists, to target for expusion.

If we are to take Starmer at his word, he opposes the racist violence of the United States Police whilst supporting the Israeli state’s violence against Palestinian people.

In August 2016 Black Lives Matter caused a storm amongst the Zionists when, after sending a delegation to Israel/Palestine they adopted a policy which termed Israel an Apartheid state.  They also supported BDS and accused Israel of waging a genocidal war against the Palestinians.

Why?  Because Black people are the best able to recognise and understand the similarities between their experiences and that of the Palestinians. Of course White Liberals were outraged. None more so than Zionists who believed that their ‘support’ for BLM could, as has historically been the case with the leaders of America’s Black community, be exchanged for support for Israel.

BLM have refused to engage in this game of bartering support in exchange for betraying the Palestinians. That is why the Zionists have for the last 4 years been doing their best to undermine BLM. 

The present mass movement in the United States coupled with the historic support of America’s Jews for the Democrats, something reinforced by the naked anti-Semitism of Trump’s Christian Zionism, means American Jews have been even more repelled by the Republicans. America’s Jews know that racism against Black people is waged by the same people that would like to see them under the racist thumb.

That is one more reason why support for Israel is against the interests of America’s Jews. Israel is supported by the most racist elements in the USA.

But for Starmer to take the knee when he has openly come out in support of the Zionist state is the purest hypocrisy.

I watched Starmer’s video statement with growing disbelief. Starmer can’t help the fact that he is a a wooden version of a human being. What he can help though is engaging in a piece of political theatre. His statement oozed with insincerity.

 ‘I was shocked and angered at the killing of George Floyd’ he began. Does anyone seriously believe this for a moment? As James Smith wrote last January ‘In 2009 and 2010, Starmer refused to prosecute the police officers accused of killing Jean Charles de Menezes and Ian Tomlinson (although in the latter case, he changed his mind in 2011 when new evidence came to light).’

In the Tomlinson case there was a Metropolitan Police and Independent Police Complaints Committee cover-up with a first post-mortem conducted by a dishonest and incompetent pathologist, who even the Met had reported to the Home Office in 2005.  He repeatedly failed to record bruises to the body in victims.  A trick he repeated with Tomlinson. Something which wasn’t helped by the fact the police had asked him to "rule out any assault or crush injuries associated with public order".

Whenever the Police were given an opportunity they lied.  Until video evidence surfaced they alleged the Police had tried to save Tomlinson but that they came under a hail of missiles.  When film emerged, there were no missiles nor any attempt to save Tomlinson.

In all this the IPCC and the Met colluded. Starmer, as Director of Public Prosecutions refused until a jury reached a verdict of unlawful killing to prosecute the policeman, Simon Harwood, who had a string of complaints against him.  In the end the jury acquitted him after a half-hearted prosecution.

Five days after George Floyd was murdered Palestinian Iyak Hallak, a 32 autistic man, was mowed down like a cornered animal, by the Israeli Border Police. The final 3 bullets killed him cowering in a garbage hut whilst his carer screamed to them that he was disabled.

In Israel none of the police have been arrested still less charged.  Starmer, who professes to be moved by the killing of George Floyd has said nothing.  Why? Because Starmer has declared he is a Zionist which means that he supports a Jewish supremacist state. 

Israel - Where the technique of knee on neck was first invented

Zionism aims to keep the Israeli state as Jewish as possible which is why ‘Jewish settlement’ is a national virtue written into the Jewish Nation State Law. It is why ‘demography’ i.e. the number of Arabs in the state is a national obsession.

 Jewish settlement means settlement at the expense of the Palestinians.  Within 1948 Israel it means Judaising the Negev, Galilee or Jerusalem. It is about displacing the indigenous population, which is why half Israel’s Arab villages are unrecognised, liable to be demolished at any time.

Netanyahu has introduced a raft of racist legislation in the Knesset as part of his belief in the ‘Zionist dream’.  Legislation such as the 2011 Admissions Committee Law which allows Jewish communities to legally bar Arabs, thus getting around an earlier court ruling in the case of Kadan which stated that Arabs could not be prevented from renting or leasing the 93% of Israeli land held for the ‘Jewish People’

Starmer, who is determined to appease Labour’s Zionist lobby, spoke of how ‘... the last week has shone a spotlight on the racism...’ He even had the audacity to quote Martin Luther King’s saying that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’. You would look in vain for Starmer saying anything about the injustices against the Palestinians. His wife’s family lives there.  We can only conclude that Starmer is a conscious racist

In his statement Starmer went on to

‘reflect on injustices in our own country... we must face to and understand and redress the systemic racial discrimination that exists in our own communities... the Labour Party stands with Black communities in our country and across the world because Black Lives Matter.’

This is the man who as DPP ensured that people caught over claiming their benefit, a minor problem compared to the billions lost in tax avoidance, could receive up to 10 years in prison.

When we read that

“Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy Angela Rayner have taken the knee in solidarity with “all those opposing anti-black racism”.

It is clearly a cynical attempt to cash in on public support for BLM. Starmer as DPP he was supremely unconcerned about Black deaths in custody

When Starmer says that George Floyd: “must not become just another name. His death must be a catalyst for change.” the insincerity of this pale, white stiff representative of the British Establishment is clear to all.  Starmer is the epitome of the Establishment’s opposition to change.  That was why he was their chosen candidate to replace Jeremy Corbyn.

It is six years since the deaths of Eric Garner in New York from a chokehold in which he shouted ‘I can’t breathe’ and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

On 2^nd August the Movement for Black Lives issued a policy document which stated that

‘The US justifies and advances the global war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the genocide taking place.’

It described Israel as an Apartheid state and supported BDS.

According to CNN its Vision for Black Lives included ‘dozens of thoughtful policy recommendations designed to promote concrete, real-world solutions to racial and economic inequality.’ Unfortunately the Platform has disappeared from the Internet.

However it sparked a four year war by Zionist groups against BLM. In the The Tablet of 5 August 2016 Jonathan Greenblatt, Executive Director of the Anti-Defamation League, labeled the genocide slur “repellent”:

Prime amongst the Zionist groups attacking BLM was the right-wing Zionist Organisation of America. When Trump came to power, the Z ZOA invited Steve Bannon to be its guest of honour at its annual gala dinners in 2016 and 2017.  In 2016 a Jewish demonstration led by IfNotNow and Jewish Voices for Peace led to Bannon not turning up. 

In 2017 he did brave the Jewish mob accompanied by another Trump advisor, a genuine 24 carat neo-Nazi, Hungarian neo-Nazi Sebastian Gorka, a member of the fascist Vitenzi Rend with links to other anti-Semitic Hungarian groups.  [See EXCLUSIVE: Senior Trump Aide Forged Key Ties To Anti-Semitic Groups In Hungary, Forward, 24.2.17.] and Anti-Semites feted by Zionist Organization of America Electronic Intifada 15.11.17.]

Unfortunately the ZOA, led by far-Right bigot Mort Klein, has no tactical sense. So when it began criticising BLM at the very moment it was leading a mass movement, other Zionist groups and organisations took fright. The Jerusalem Post reported that

‘A coalition of Jewish and pro-Israel groups have called for Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, to be expelled from Jewish umbrella groups, accusing him of "bigotry" and "hatred" following a number of tweets by Klein in which he accused Black Lives Matter (BLM) of antisemitism and promoting violence.’

On 6 June Klein had urged the Southern Poverty Law Center to put BLM on their list of hate groups, tweeting:

"BLM is a Jew hating, White hating, Israel hating, conservative Black hating, violence promoting, dangerous Soros funded extremist group of haters."

Klein mixes anti-Black racism with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories involving George Soros as the all-powerful Jewish financier.

These Zionist groups, which have sat with the ZOA for years, tolerating Klein’s anti-Arab racism and bigotry, have suddenly woken up.  As the Times of Israel put it on 10^th June ‘At time of racial strife, US Jewish groups call to expel ZOA from umbrella org’

It wasn’t always like this.  In April 2018 Ha’aretz reported that a range of Zionist groups in the United States ‘condemn Black Lives Matter Platform for Accusing 'Apartheid' Israel of 'Genocide' ‘. According to Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council,

“We cannot and will not align ourselves with organizations that falsely and maliciously assert that Israel is committing ‘genocide,’”

a statement from the group read.

“We reject participation in any coalition that seeks to isolate and demonize Israel singularly amongst the nations of the world.”

In December 2016 Fox News’s report told how

‘an investigation conducted by the Haym Salomon Center reveals the group’s embrace of anti-Semitism and collaboration with a State Department-designated terror group.’ 

What led to this?

‘In August, Black Lives Matter singled out Israel for condemnation, declaring it an “apartheid” state engaged in “genocide.” These accusations angered Jewish leaders, many of whom had steadfastly supported the BLM cause.  Nonetheless, despite what can only be described as a total lack of relevance to its own agenda, BLM did not back down.’

The Zionists decided that opposition to apartheid in Israel was totally irrelevant to the fight for racial justice in the United States. That is what is called White Privilege.

Not backing down is indeed a sin in the eyes of Zionist groups accustomed to getting their way with the likes of Jeremy Corbyn. Their particular target was the Dream Defenders, who represent young migrants to America who are under most threat especially since Trump has removed the immunity from deportation.

Their offence was to proclaim solidarity with Palestinians. Fox explained that

‘DD claims that the black community in America, together with Palestinians in the “occupied” territories of Israel, are all victims of state-sanctioned violence. As such, the two causes are related and should learn “resistance” from each other.’

This was a result of a joint trip to the Palestinian territories in January 2015 by BLM and DD, the latter of which devoted‘an entire page’ of the DD web site is devoted to Palestinian solidarity. Unfortunately the web page is also missing.

The ADL, which calls itself an anti-racist organisation, has also been heavily involved in funding and organizing the trips of American Police to Israel to learn the latest techniques in repression, including the neck hold which Israel patented. The ADL in years gone by undertook spying on the anti-apartheid movement at the behest of South Africa’s secret police BOSS.

When Starbucks staff called the police after accusing Black customers of ‘loitering’ in April 2018, they set up a training day in racism awareness for their staff, which included the ADL. After protests from BLM Starbucks dropped the ADL from its ‘bias training’. Politico described how

‘Bowing to pressure from African-American activists, Starbucks excluded the Anti-Defamation League from an upcoming daylong anti-bias training session.... Almost immediately after the April 17 announcement, activists attacked Starbucks over the ADL's involvement, citing the ADL's support for Israel and its arms-length relationship to the Black Lives Matter movement.’

The activists described how

“The ADL is CONSTANTLY attacking black and brown people. This is a sign that they are tone deaf and not committed to addressing the concerns of black folk.”

As Cat Brooks, the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, told ABC News

"You can't be a piece of an anti-bias training when you openly support a racist, oppressive and brutal colonization of Palestine."

The Washington chapter of Black Lives Matter, meanwhile, tweeted that the ADL was "ultra pro-cop," and cited a 2016 letter in which Greenblatt said

"ADL has not endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement" because "a small minority of [its] leaders ... supported anti-Israel — and at times anti-Semitic — positions."

In Co-opting Black Lives Matter to target Israel,  Israel’s largest freesheet (owned by Sheldon Adelson) quoted Mark Greendorfer, president of the Zachor Legal Group attacking

"The cynical use of the Black Lives Matter by groups backed and controlled by foreign terror movements is nothing less than a repeat of the many other times that terror groups have used human shields to push their violence and hate,",

If Starmer is sincere in his support of BLM then he will have to drop his support for Zionism . But we know that he is anything but sincere.  When the statue of Edward Colsten was  thrown into Bristol’s harbour Starmer condemned the demonstrators.  You have to obey the law however unjust it is.  Martin Luther King’s take on this was slightly different. In Letter from Birmingham Jail he wrote

"How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: there are just laws, and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "An unjust law is no law at all."

Starmer would, if he’d been around at the time, told Anne Frank off for breaking the law by hiding from the Gestapo. As for the Suffragettes and Emily Davidson bringing down the King’s horse at the Derby, he would have been besides himself with rage. After all, the law must be obeyed, come hell or high water.

If you are going to quote Martin Luther King you can’t pick and choose which bits you like and which bits to ignore.  What MLK said came as part of a whole.

Meanwhile, as Canary shows, the attempts to demonise BLM, on both sides of the Atlantic proceed apace.

Tony Greenstein

Guardian Refuses to Print Letters From Jewish Opponents of the false allegations of Labour Antisemitism Criticising Freedland’s Racist Tirade

The Guardian Has Also Refused to Allow Any Reply to Freedland on its Comment Pages  

The letter the Guardian refused to print

Fresh from making false accusations on his Twitter account about Majid Mahmood, a Labour candidate in Birmingham, Jonathan Freedland set about Jeremy Corbyn (again) with his Many Jews want Boris Johnson out. But how can we vote for Jeremy Corbyn? 

Freedland accepts any gossip or rumour if it means doing down Black people

If Freedland were at all honest it might be entitled 'We don't vote Labour Because It's Not in Our Interests but Anti-Semitism Will Do as an Excuse!'

Freedland’s ‘explanation’ for his 'mistake' is almost interesting as his choice of target.  He says his source was ‘previously reliable’ which almost certainly means it’s one of the scabbing Labour staffers who are the residue from McNicol’s era and who should have been sacked as soon as Jennie Formby came into office.

There is little doubt that Freedland and others in the press have been fed a diet of internal Labour Party information since Corbyn was elected. The refusal to do what Blair did and ensure that the staff were loyal has contributed to Corbyn’s many difficulties.

The Guardian's 3 tepid letters critical of Freedland

Of course the ‘dilemma’ that Freedland talks of with regard to British Jews is no dilemma at all since 68% of Jews say they will vote Conservative today, which has barely changed from 2015 when 69% of Jews said they would vote Tory. The only switch is that support for the Lib Dems is up from 5% at the last election to 20% today.

In any event it is irrelevant. The Jewish community is only 250,000 strong nationally. Most of them have always voted Tory and the Jewish Labour Movement, which for some reason is affiliated to the Labour Party doesn’t even support Labour’s general election campaign.

However Freedland can rest easy because the Guardian Letters page has now taken to fall into line and protecting the Guardian from criticism. Since the departure of Letters Editor Nigel Wilmott and the appointment of Rory Foster the letters page has become increasingly hostile to Jewish anti-Zionists and pro-Palestinian opinion.

Foster has imposed a new condition on letters containing more than 1 signature.  Now everyone has to supply their phone number.  Since they didn’t announce this change, two lists of Jewish supporters criticising Freedland’s ‘anti-Semitism’ nonsense were not printed.

The pretext for this was a letter earlier this year from Jewish signatories supporting Chris Williamson. Two of the signatories had included after their names organisations with which they were involved – Hope not Hate and the JLM. 

The Board of Deputies complained and the Guardian jumped

Obviously the JLM didn’t like the fact that one of their members supported Chris Williamson but he didn’t make any claim to speak on behalf of the group.  Likewise with HnH.  The person was involved with them and presumably thought that an anti-fascist organisation would also be anti-racist.  The Canary covered this in some depth.

So on Monday there were 6 letters, 3 supportive of Freedland and 3 vaguely critical.  However none of the critical letters challenged the core of  Freedland’s 3 specific allegations as to why Corbyn was anti-Semitic. 

Freedland's 3 reasons were the banker mural, the allegation that British Zionists don’t possess a sense of irony and most importantly the false and lying allegations against Palestinian cleric Raed Salah.

The latter allegation was particularly disgusting since Raed Salah was cleared of all the things that Freedland alleged by the High Court.

I am therefore putting up the letter that I circulated and which garnered 37 signatures under the banner of Jewish Network for Peace.

An 'exclusive' interview between one racist and another racist - no 'antisemitism' here of course

It is noticeable that Freedland’s concern over ‘anti-Semitism’ is not matched by any concern over the Jewish Chronicle’s repeated flirting with Nigel Farage.  In 2013 the JC's far-right editor Stephen Pollard hosted Farage at an ‘exclusive readers’ event.’ Pollard had already made a name for himself as a racist bigot and associate of the Henry Jackson Society’s Douglas Murray. 

Racist birds of a feather - Britain's stupid Jewish community are oblivious to who they are in effect supporting

Farage whose racism was already known subsequently gave his support to the German far-Right Alternative for Germany party at the 2017 German Elections in which they gained 13% of the vote. The AfD is openly anti-Muslim and contains a large number of neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. It is however pro-Israel so all is forgiven as far as Pollard is concerned.

AfD's neo-Nazi leader Gauland is also pro-Zionist

Its deputy leader Alexander Gauland described the Holocaust as a ‘small bird dropping in over 1,000 years’ which recalls Jean Marie Le Pen’s infamous comment about the Holocaust being a detail in history.

The Jewish Chronicle backs a racist against Corbyn

None of this stopped the Jewish Chronicle’s  Political Editor, Liar Lee Harpin, reporting approvingly that a Brexit Party candidate was going to challenge Jeremy Corbyn in a stand against ‘anti-Semitism’. Only the Jewish Chronicle could support a racist as part of their campaign against 'anti-Semitism!

I have also submitted a response to Freedland's article to what is laughably known as Comment is Free.  Suffice to say I haven't had an acknowledgement.  Freedland and his ilk can only exist in a criticism free environment.  It will be printed elsewhere and on this blog in due course.

Which is one more reason to Boycott the Guardian