The Murder of 2 Jews at a Manchester Synagogue is as Despicable as Israeli snipers killing 2 Catholics at Gaza’s Holy Family Parish Church or Murdering Muslims in Mosques

 The Board of Deputies & the Zionist Lobby said that British Jews Support Genocide in Gaza

Is it Surprising That Someone Believed Them?

It goes without saying that the attack on Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester should be condemned unreservedly. British Jews are not responsible for the war crimes and genocide taking place in Gaza, despite the best efforts of the claque of Zionist organisations to get people to believe that they are.

The so-called Jewish representative organisations like the Board of Deputies, the Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish Leadership Council and the astoundingly stupid Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis bear a large responsibility for what happened in Manchester when two Jewish worshippers lost their lives.

As far as I can ascertain from two AI programmes (Chat GP and Grok) there has never been a fatal attack on a Jewish synagogue before 2 October 2025. The person who carried out the attack, Jihad al-Shamie, is highly likely to have been motivated, not by racial hatred but by Israel’s war crimes and genocide in Gaza.

Contrary to Starmer’s suggestion that an age-old anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews is to blame, the causes are modern. It is Starmer’s supply of arms and weaponry to Israel and support of military collaboration with Israel that helped cause the murders in Manchester.

In November 2009 on the BBC’s Big Questions I attacked those Zionist organisations in Britain who spend their time trying to convince people that British Jews support Israel’s war crimes. This was reported by the Jewish Chronicle as ‘The Board of Deputies is to blame for rising antisemitism in Britain, according to a leading member of a Jewish anti-Israel group’.

What I said was that:

 “Of course there’s no justification for antisemitism, but there’s also no justification for the Board of Deputies calling rallies in support of the invasion of Lebanon and Gaza in the name of the British Jewish community. That causes antisemitism. [Jewish Chronicle 19.11.09].

Those who openly supported the murder and massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and Palestine in the name of British Jews are those who are ultimately guilty for the murder of 2 Jewish worshippers in Manchester.

Less than a week ago on Twitter I told the Board of Deputies

If you want to stop anti-Semitism @boardofdeputies then stop associating British Jews with the Holocaust in Gaza.
Your support for Zionism, a Christian ideology originally, makes Jews unsafe because most people don't like those who starve children to death. That's what the… https://t.co/IAgx9f3hsT

— Tony Greenstein tonygreenstein.com (@TonyGreenstein) September 29, 2025

The Board of Deputies Protesting That The Government Has Resumed Funding UNWRA and Is Not Objecting to the ICC's Jurisdiction re Israeli War Crimes

I went on to say that

Any British Jews who supports Israel's holocaust and starvation in Gaza should not complain of 'antisemitic hate' when what it really is is a justifiable reaction against Jewish Nazism.

The Board defends Israel's cold-blooded murder of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators as Hamas using children as pawns

The Board of Deputies has consistently supported every war crime of the Israeli state. It supported the murder of over 300 unarmed Palestinians in Gaza in the Great Return march. It supports Israel’s genocide and indeed penalised those few Deputies who eventually spoke out against the genocide.

The Jewish Chronicle Defends Israel's Starvation of Children by Pretending That They All Suffered from Medical Conditions not Lack of Food!

The Jewish Chronicle has been even worse. It should be renamed ‘The Holocaust Denial Gazette’. It has repeatedly defended Israel starving Palestinian children to death claiming that they had medical pre-conditions. It is as if starving to death already ill children was justified. Previously only Hitler justified starving disabled children as part of his ‘euthenasia’ program.

It took the Times of Israel to rebut the lies of the British Jewish Establishment which had justified Israel’s policy of starving the population of Gaza. The ToI quoted two senior Israeli doctors, including the head of the pediatric gastroenterology unit at one of Israel’s premier medical institutions, who ‘insisted that al-Mutawaq’s severely emaciated state is not the result of his preexisting medical conditions alone.’

The attempt of the Zionist propagandists to justify Israel’s policy of starving the population, denying it was even happening, by suggesting that photographs of starving children were misleading in not mentioning pre-existing medical ailments was given legs by a particularly nauseating apologist for Israeli war crimes, David Collier. This was quickly followed up by the misnamed Honest Reporting Zionist site

The Board of Deputies and other Zionist organisations were at the centre of the fake and false 'antisemitism' allegations

The ToI quoted Israeli doctors as having

insisted that no child suffering from such diseases in Israel or most other Western countries would be so skeletal or display such severe malnutrition, and that he was likely in such condition due to an inability to access the proper nutritional supplements.

Prof. Dan Turner, the head of a pediatric gastroenterology unit and Deputy Dean of the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University stated that

You categorically do not find kids looking like that in Israel or Western countries. Even patients with background diseases should not be malnourished like that. A patient like that would be admitted to hospital.

None of this is to justify what happened in Manchester. There are those in the Palestine solidarity movement who buy into the Zionist lie that Israel is a Jewish state and that the British and US states are controlled by Zionists. Such people therefore believe that attacking individual Jewish Zionists in Britain or the US is the solution to Western imperialism’s support for Israel.

These lies are dangerously wrong. Israel is supported by Western elites, not because the British or American states are controlled by Zionists or subject to Zionist infiltration as Professor David Miller has stupidly suggested but because Western imperialism deems it in its interests to support the Israeli attack dog in the Middle East. See Jonathan Cook’s The billionaire class want you thinking Israel controls the West and In Gaza, western colonialism has been unmasked

It is in the interests of western elites to pretend that their support for Israel is all about their concern for Jews and ‘anti-Semitism’, the only form of racism that Trump, Reform and the Tories condemn. That this is all about a ‘Jewish’ state trying to protect itself, albeit over zealously at times, and tie that in with the interests of Jewish populations in the West.

It is convenient for those self-same elites to disguise their own interests in oil and geo-political strategy with concern for Jews. Jews have become the moral alibi for Israel's war crimes and the slaughter of thousands of children, the rape and murder of women and the torture camps for Gaza’s men.

Those who condemn the killing of 2 Jewish worshippers in Manchester should equally condemn the killing of Muslim and Christian worshippers in Gaza yet the genocidal Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and the genocide supporting President of the Board of Deputies, Phil Rosenberg have said nothing about the attacks on places of worship in Gaza. On the contrary when 36 Deputies issued a mild letter of criticism in the FT Rosenberg had them disciplined and issued his own letter saying that ‘The Board of Deputies stands firmly with Israel… not THAT letter.’

ABC - Holy Family Church in Gaza Attacked - 2 Murdered

The attack on a Manchester synagogue and the killing of two worshippers was no more reprehensible than Israel’s repeated attacks on mosques and churches in Gaza and the killing of thousands of worshippers. Unfortunately the only attacks that have gained publicity have been those on Gaza’s only Catholic church, the Holy Family Parish. Israeli snipers on 16 December 2023 killed two parishioners, mother and daughter Nahida and Samar Anton.

Cardinal Nicholls interview over sniper attack on Holy Family Church - Mother and Daughter Shot Dead

The Wikipedia article gives the background to the Israeli assault on the Holy Family church. Pope Francis rang the priest Father Gabriel Romanelli every night and condemned Israel’s attacks as terrorism.  Something which the new Pope Leo hasn’t done.

Israel’s liar-in-chief and Prime Minister, Netanyahu, ‘regretted’ the fact that ‘stray ammunition’ hit Gaza's only Catholic Church, killing three people sheltering there. No one else doubts that Israeli tanks deliberately fired shells at the Church which the IDF considers to be an obstacle to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Although the Zionists will purport to condemn the attack on a Manchester synagogue in reality many, especially in Israel, will welcome it. There is a long history of Zionists seeing anti-Semitic attacks as a good thing in that it will drive Jews into believing that only a ‘Jewish’ state can protect them.

As Abraham Shpadrong (Sharon) wrote in Davar in July 1952:

… if I had the power, as I have the will, I would select a score of efficient young men… and I would send them to the countries where Jews are absorbed in sinful self-satisfaction. The task of these young men would be to disguise themselves as non-Jews, and plague these Jews with anti-semitic slogans, such as 'Bloody Jew,' 'Jews go to Palestine,' and similar 'intimacies.' I can vouch that the results, in terms of considerable immigration to Israel from these countries, would be ten thousand times larger than the results brought by thousands of emissaries who have been, for decades, preaching to deaf ears. [Alfred Lilienthal, The Other Side of the Coin, Devin-Adair, NY, p. 47].

Iraqi Jews Were Convinced that Israeli Agents Had a Hand in Their Uprooting – Avi Shlaim

In Iraq in 1950/51 Zionist agents planted bombs in Jewish cafes and threw a bomb into a synagogue, Masuda Shemtov, in order to simulate anti-Semitism.

Without anti-Semitism there is no Zionism which is why the Zionist leaders welcomed Hitler to power and saw a ‘golden opportunity’ for their movement in the rise of the Nazis. Those  supporters of the Palestinians who see their salvation in anti-Semitism are doing exactly what the Zionists want them to do. The murder of two Jews in Manchester can only be of benefit to Israel and its supporters. It is in the interests of Zionism to increase the level of anti-Semitism in the West.  Anti-Semitism has been Zionism's best recruiting sergeant. That is why the actions of Jihad al-Shamie have ended up strengthening Zionism not weakening it.

It is also why those who believe that it is in the interests of the Palestinians to unite with neo-Nazis, as Rehiana Ali clearly does, are unwittingly serving the interests of Zionism not the Palestinians.

Tony Greenstein

A VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH – Twitter Restores Tony Greenstein’s Suspended Account

Malicious Zionist Complaint of ‘Anti-Semitism’ by Jack Mendel of Jewish News has been Rejected by Twitter

Twitter's standard response to my initial appeals

On November 17^th there was a message on my Twitter account informing me that my account had been suspended for ‘hateful conduct’.  It quickly became apparent that a complaint had been made by a ‘journalist’ Jack Mendel @mendelpol of Jewish News. 

I immediately posted an article and followed it up with another article a few days later. Mendel openly boasted of his cowardly deed stating

‘I reported Greenstein for repeatedly sending me messages filled with hate, including using far right ‘Zio’ term, and various comparisons of Jews and Israel to nazism.’

 fake journalist Jack Mendel knows no shame

Jack Mendel was and is a liar. Far from me contacting him it was the other way around.  I was responding to him and his friends. Nothing I said had anything to do with hate.  I don’t do hate nor do I hate this ‘so-called journalist’ (his description not mine) who, unable to engage in the cut and thrust of political debate, reached for Twitter's censor. However I have nothing but contempt for a 'journalist' who attempts to close down free speech. All under the guise of opposing ‘hate speech’ no less. What I hate is racism and Zionism.

Twitter's standard response

The facts are quite simple. The Jewish Leadership Council, an unelected Zionist group tweeted three times its support of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, which was supposedly in response to the firing of firecrackers (‘rockets’). To the JLC and its faithful lapdog Mendel, Israel was reacting to Hamas’s firing. In actual fact Hamas was reacting to a botched operation in Gaza by an undercover Israeli military squad that went wrong.  Botched Israeli Operation in Gaza Endangers Human Rights Groups. Israel’s undercover squad posed as aid workers for a charity working in Gaza thus endangering all humanitarian relief workers.  They murdered 7 people for the loss of one of their own as they extricated themselves.

Battling for Israel - Zionism's Fake Journalist Jack Mendel

On November 15^th I responded pointing out that there is a long record of aggressors posing as the victim. I pointed out that 80 years ago, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland it pretended that it was the victim. Nazi soldiers dressed up in Polish uniforms staged a mock attack on a German radio station at Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia. The details can be found in the second of Richard Evan’s trilogy ‘The Third Reich in Power’. pp.699/700.

According to @mendelpol these were ‘despicable remarks’.  To most people with a few brain cells this was a historical analogy. That is what history is about, comparisons.  Otherwise how do you make sense of historical events? Being unable to rebut my remarks Mendel sought the assistance of Twitter’s censor.  

Canary article helps launch campaign against Twitter censorship

On the 16^th November I responded by saying that what was despicable was the shooting down in cold blood of 200 unarmed demonstrators in Gaza and the decade long starvation siege. In Mendel’s morbid mind this became ‘This morning a Jewish activist sent me a tweet filled with anti-Semitic tropes.’ Zionists love the word tropes. It’s a cliché they use as a substitute for thinking, probably because it rhymes with dopes. According to Mendel ‘Being Jewish or having Jewish ancestry isn’t a free pass to saying things which play down antiSemitism/in the second case are anti-Semitic.’  

Being incapable of responding with anything useful Useless Jack Mendel reached for Twitter's Censor

I agree. Being Jewish doesn’t mean you can’t be anti-Semitic. Mendel himself is a good example of a Jewish anti-semite. Zionism was founded by an anti-Semite, Theodor Herzl and it is led today by another anti-Semite, Benjamin Netanyahu, a Holocaust Revisionist who cuddles up to all manner of anti-Semites including the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban. [see Rewriting the Holocaust – Jacobin]

It wasn’t me who said that Palestine was an ‘institute for the fumigation of Jewish vermin’ but Israel’s first Minister of Justice, Pinhas Rosenbluth. Zionism is a form of Jewish Anti-Semitism. 

Nothing I said was even remotely anti-Semitic. How can condemning Israel’s siege of Gaza or the murder of  unarmed Palestinians, including 21 year old medic Razan al-Najar, as she was dashing to help the wounded, be anti-Semitic?

If Mendel tried for once to engage  what passes for his brain he might realise that if anyone was being anti-Semitic it was he. What he was suggesting is that the murder of children and unarmed demonstrators is the embodiment of Jewish identity. That it is Jewish to kill innocent people. That is akin to saying that Jews are bloodthirsty creatures who enjoy killing children and young people.  It’s a modern version of the medieval blood libel. That is Zionism in the 21^st century. 

To this very day Yousaf's account is still active although it hasn't been used for 2 years, which suggests that it was a paid Israeli troll account

Being told it was a pity you didn't die in the Holocaust was not a breach of Twitter rules!

What was particularly outrageous about Twitter’s closing of my account was that repeatedly over the past two years I have complained of abuse from Zionist trolls including being told by a George Yousaf that it was a great shame that my family and I had not died in the Holocaust. To all my complaints Twitter responded that these were not breaches of their rules yet Mendel's false and malicious complaint was upheld. When I appealed against my suspension I received a negative standard response and got the same response repeatedly. Clearly these replies are not generated by human beings but by algorithm.

An example of the comments that Twitter found didn't breach their rules

It was only when a live human being at Twitter, because none of the responses I got was signed by a named person, was contacted personally and told that their refusal to reinstate my account was unacceptable and their practices would be raised if necessary in Parliament that my account was reinstated.

Twitter's standard response to complaints

What happened to me is not unique. Twitter and Facebook have been removing accounts of anti-Zionists and supporters of the Palestinians at the behest of Zionist bigots like @mendelpol. Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets are giant monopolies akin to the great trusts of the 19^th century.  The reaction then was to break these trusts up as being inimical to the public interest.  The control of an important area of public debate by private groups is something that sooner or later parliament is going to have to regulate.  It is unacceptable that unaccountable corporations can remove or censor people at will.

Abuse by Zionist supporter of Tommy Robinson, Mark Haringman - I am a thief, fraudster, child abuser and socialist - in no particular order - only in the twisted mind of a Zionist fascist would being a socialist be a crime!

Twitter finds that Haringman (Newsdude) Tweets are in order

Like the privatised utilities, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc. should be treated as emanations of the State and thus be subject to public control and susceptible to Judicial Review and other forms of legal restraint. At the moment faceless people or machines make decisions without any independent oversight.

As long as Twitter and Facebook remain privately controlled one can expect malicious Zionists like @mendelpol to use the power of the Israeli state and Zionism's pernicious influence to effect the same censorship that the Israeli state itself imposes on its subjects.

I have a number of people and organisations to thank for helping me reverse Mendel's squalid little attempt at censorship. In no particular order.

Philip Weiss, of Mondoweiss, who carried my article Twitter closes down my account for ‘hateful conduct’ at a time when I was eager to get my story out.

A big thank you to Afroze Zaidi-Jivraj a journalist on the Canary, the Independent Media site whose article Twitter censors pro-Palestinian Jewish activist while allowing antisemitic abuse against him was immensely helpful.  Afroze was also helpful in other ways despite not being well. 

Thanks also to Asa Winstanley, the Electronic Intifada journalist for his article in Middle East Monitor, The relentless censorship of anti-Zionist Jews which started with the line that ‘Tony Greenstein is slowly but surely being disappeared from the internet’. I began to wonder whether my death sentence had been pronounced prematurely!  In the purported words of Mark Twain, the announcement of my death had been greatly exaggerated!

Also to be mentioned in dispatches are Ali Abunimah, the Director of Electronic Intifada and Richard Silverstein of Tikun Olam for their helpful advice at a difficult time

Naturally the right-wing pro-war site Harry’s Place, despite purporting to defend free speech, engaged in a piece of whatabouttery in order to rationalise Twitter’s censorship. HP, despite having as their slogan Orwell’s ‘Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear’ refused to defend my right to tell Zionists like @mendelpol what he didn’t want to hear!  But then HP has always been quite selective when it came to deciding whose free speech they defended! Or as the Muslim group Mend suggested, Orwell’s ‘‘Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful … and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’ is far more appropriate to hypocrites like HP and Jack Mendel.

It is to be expected that Zionist papers like Jewish News will employ ‘journalists’ who see it as their job to censor those whom they disagree with. That is because the Jewish News and the Jewish Chronicle are not so much newspapers as Zionist propaganda rags. Contrast this with the vigorous Jewish Forward in the United States which doesn’t hesitate to debate out all these issues.

It is a small but vital victory over those who would limit the free speech of Palestinian supporters and anti-Zionists.

Tony Greenstein

If Corbyn Doesn’t Slay the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Dragon It Will Slay Him

By refusing to confront the Israeli State's representatives in Labour, Corbyn is Building his own Funeral Pyre

"What started organically, therefore, morphed into a planned campaign to create a coalition of mostly Jewish activist academics, pro-Israel and national representative bodies in the Jewish Diaspora, and the aforementioned major American Jewish organizations to take the discussions in an increasingly political and ideological direction, linking anti-zionism and antisemitism ever more closely. A key player in and growing influence on this campaign was the Israeli government, pursuing a new policy since the late 1980s, through its then-recently-established Monitoring Forum on Antisemitism. The policy aimed at establishing Israeli hegemony over the monitoring and combatting of antisemitism by Jewish groups world wide. This was coordinated and mostly implemented by Mossad representatives working out of Israeli embassies"

- Antony Lerman, On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the struggle for Justice, pg 11

Tony Lerman was the founder of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research before he was forced out by people like Stanley Kalms, Tory Party Treasurer, Zionist and Director of IJPR.

It sometimes seems as if Corbyn has a death wish. Not only does he ignore the evidence that the anti-Semitism campaign has been manufactured to order, faked with the sole purpose of removing him, but he is doing his best to keep it alive. Personally ordering his supporters, Ken Livingstone and Christine Shawcroft, to resign in order to satisfy the Zionist and Labour Right witchhunters is madness. Corbyn's performance is indicative of someone who with a death wish, intent on building up his own funeral pyre.

Jonathan Arkush, the outgoing President of the Board of Deputies, which has been to the fore in making false allegations of anti-Semitism, is not only a right-wing Tory but a stupid one.  Arkush’s concerns about ‘anti-Semitism’ did not prevent him from welcoming Donald Trump and the anti-Semitic alt-Right to power in America. This despite the fact that Trump’s campaign openly employed anti-Semitic stereotypes and themes. [Anti-Semitism is no longer an undertone of Trump’s campaign. It’s the melody].

Donald Trump and his administration combine ardent Zionism with anti-Semitism.  Their campaign employed a variety of subtle and not so subtle anti-semitic messages such as the advert above - Crooked Hilary with the slogan 'most corrupt candidate ever!' inside a Star of David.  It couldn't be more blatant yet the Zionists didn't utter a peep.  Ha'aretz's headline said it all: Trump's Win, the Greatest Victory for anti-Semitism in America Since 1941 

Arkush though had no hesitation in welcoming Trump to power despite the fact that his administration included open fascists like Sebastian Gorka, who is a member of a group called the Vitézi Rend (Order of Vitéz), a far-right nationalist group in Hungary originally founded by Miklós Horthy, Hungary's pro-Nazi war-time dictator who presided over the deportation of nearly half a million Jews to Auschwitz.

The 'enough is enough' demonstration that the Zionists called on March 26th was the first 'antiracist' demonstration that the Board has ever called.  In the 1930's and 1970's they told the Jewish community to stay indoors and ignore the fascists - prominent amongst those attending were those well known anti-racists Norman Tebbit and Ian Paisley's DUP!!

Arkush doesn’t even bother to hide his views or disguise them in any way.  He doesn't do subtlety yet still Corbyn and McDonnell don’t get the message.

In his final speech before retiring as President of the Board of Deputies, Arkush said of Corbyn that “he has views which are antisemitic, and he has problematic views”

In the Guardian of 30^th May Arkush was quite explicit as to what he meant by ‘anti-Semitism’.  The problem was Corbyn's attitude to Israel:

“Delegitimising the state of Israel is antisemitic,” Arkush told the newspaper. “He was a chairman of Stop the War, which is responsible for some of the worst anti-Israel discourse.

“If he shares the prevalent discourse about Israel, then that view is unquestionably antisemitic.”

Chakrabarti, who was never a radical or a socialist, joined the ranks of the witchhunters in forcing Livingstone out

In other words anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are one and the same thing, yet the Right in the Labour Party throw a fit when people say the ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations are really about Israel.  They accuse us of believing in conspiracy theories, refusing to face reality, yet here is the leader of British Zionism confirming what we have been saying all along, that the fake anti-Semitism campaign is about Israel and the Palestinians.

To her credit, Rhea Wolfson, a Jewish member of Labour’s National Executive Committee defended Corbyn describing him as ‘one of the most principled people in politics’. Rhea was also correct to say that

‘Arkush’s claims are entirely without foundation. The evidence he cites? Jeremy’s criticisms of the actions of the Israeli government.  Criticising the actions of the Israeli government is not antisemitic.

Corbyn betrays his friends in order to appease his enemies

The problem though is that Rhea Wolfson remains a member of the Jewish Labour Movement, a group that has done more than most to spread the false anti-Semitism narrative. The JLM calls the Israeli Labour Party its ‘sister’ party. The leader of this racist party, Avi Gabbay, has just cut links with Corbyn because of

‘the hostility that you have shown to the Jewish community and the antisemitic statements and actions you have allowed”

Labour Friends of Israel tweet - blaming the murder of what is now over 115 Palestinians on the Palestinians.  In blaming Hamas, these racists denied Palestinians any agency.  Not one word of condemnation of Israeli snipers

If Rhea Wolfson means what she says then logically she should also cut links with the JLM, a group which, as the Al Jazeera under-cover programme The Lobby made clear, is in bed with the Israeli Embassy and its Ambassador Mark Regev. 

The JLM is the overseas wing of the Israeli Labour Party which operates inside the British Labour Party. The Israeli Labour Party is not a left-wing party, it is a racist and nationalist party. It has never made a claim to be socialist or indeed anti-racist.  It openly says that Jews and Arabs can't live together.  It believes that the Arab birthrate in Israel is a 'problem'.

Gabbay supported the the deportation of 40,000 Black African refugees back to Eritrea and Sudan because they were neither White nor Jewish. Party leader Gabbay forces Zionist Union to back expulsion of migrants The ILP also supports the mass murder of unarmed demonstrators in Gaza in the past 4 weeks.

This little fascist Harry Saul Markham has a picture of Menachem Begin on his teeshirt - Begin was condemned by Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt and 20 other Jews in a letter to the New York Times in December 1948 for founding Herut 'a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties'

And yet despite all of this, when some of us have pointed out that the ‘anti-Semitism’ attacks have really been about Israel, Arkush and company complain that ‘we are accused of “smearing” Corbyn’.  Perish the thought!

Arkush and his side-kick, Jonathan Goldstein of the Jewish Leadership Council wrote an Open Letter to Corbyn in which they made it crystal clear that the ‘anti-Semitism’ they were talking about was anti-Zionism:

‘“Again and again, Jeremy Corbyn has sided with antisemites rather than Jews. At best, this derives from the far left’s obsessive hatred of Zionism, Zionists and Israel. At worst, it suggests a conspiratorial worldview in which mainstream Jewish communities are believed to be a hostile entity, a class enemy,”

If final proof were needed about the bogus nature of the ‘anti-Semitism’ claims, then Arkush gave the game away when he called the Jewish group that Corbyn visited to spend Seder with, Jewdas, a‘ source of virulent anti-Semitism.’.  Adding for good measure, horror of horrors, that not all of them were Jewish!

Labour Friends of Israel represents the Israeli Embassy inside the Labour Party - it talks of a 'cycle of violence' as if there were gang warfare in Gaza rather than an 11 year siege by Israel - not one word of condemnation of the deliberate shooting of unarmed demonstrators by Israel

Of course it does not need a genius to work out what the 'antisemitism' smears are about. The latest anti-Semitism furore, was sparked of by Luciana Berger MP, who produced a 6 year old, long erased mural, whose destruction Corbyn had opposed on free speech grounds.  This was such an obvious pretext that you would need an IQ of under 60 not to get it.

It had been pulled out of a hat, like a rabbit at a party, in time for the local elections.  The purpose was obvious.  To try and do as much damage as possible to Labour's local election results.  I have no doubt that at this very moment similar pretexts are being dusted down for use in the future.

I will therefore make a prediction.  Just as last year I was almost alone in predicting that Corbyn would come out of the General Election in a better shape than when he went into the election [see here and here] so I predict that unless Corbyn faces down the false anti-Semitism allegations he will fail to become Prime Minister.  The purpose of the anti-Semitism witch-hunt was not to remove me or Marc Wadsworth or Ken Livingstone.  It is to remove Jeremy Corbyn.  We are just collateral damage.  If Corbyn cannot see that then he does not deserve to become Prime Minister.

Corbyn has behave utterly stupidly and cowardly in betraying his friends to appease his enemies.  Telling Christine Shawcroft to resign from the NEC was the sign of some who was in panic mode.  To tell Livingstone he had to go, and there is absolutely no doubt that Jeremy Corbyn was personally involved, was even more stupid.  Livingstone was a strong and capable supporter.  Appeasing John Mann by sacrificing your closest political ally is shameful.

Corbyn's idiotic comment about 'pockets of anti-semitism' was used against him at the Zionists' 'antiracist' demonstration

The depths of Corbyn’s idiocy was betrayed in his comment that there are ‘pockets’ of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.  In giving sustenance to the idea that anti-Semitism is a living phenomenon in the Labour Party Corbyn was also giving sustenance to his enemies.  When we turn around and point out the bogus nature of the ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations the Right point to Corbyn and say that even he agrees with them. Corbyn is thus giving substance to a campaign whose purpose is to remove him.

Likewise Momentum’s owner and dictator, Jon Lansman, with his crass comments that Labour’s anti-Semitism was ‘unconscious’.  If antisemitism is unconscious then it isn't be much of a problem.  If only the Windrush victims had faced ‘unconscious’ racism they would be laughing.  

The fact is that Jews in Britain don’t experience state racism, deportation, police violence, discrimination in the jobs market, false imprisonment etc.  Anti-Semitism exists at the margins.   Indeed most of what is called ‘anti-Semitism’ is simply a reaction to the war crimes Israel perpetrates in the name of Jews.

In Britain today it is hard to call antisemitism a form of racism.  It is more a form of prejudice.  It has no relationship to the nexus of power in this country.  Jews are White NOT Black.  Jews are not an ethnic minority or an oppressed group.  They suffer at worst marginal prejudice.  Indeed most prejudice results from the actions of Israel as a self-declared Jewish state.

The ‘anti-racism’ demonstration of March 26^th called by the Board of Deputies was the first such demonstration that the Board had ever called.  When it came to opposing Sir Oswald Moseley’s British Union of Fascists in the 1930’s or the mass mobilisation of the Anti Nazi League in the 1970’s the Board preached complete pacifity.  Jews were recommended to stay at home.  When it comes to Israel’s defence then the Board is all in favour of demonstrating.  In other words when it comes to defend Jews against real anti-Semitism, the Board lies down and whimpers.  when it comes to defending Israel the Board comes out with guns a blazing.

Let me however make another prediction. Although the ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations have died down now that the local government elections are out of the way the embers are still glowing.  Come the Labour Party conference in the autumn or the local elections next year or possibly a general election if Brexit blows up in May’s face, then ‘anti-Semitism will resurface.

 

Why?  Because ‘anti-Semitism’ is a potent weapon in the hands of the Right.  It is difficult to attack Corbyn over rail nationalisation or austerity or the other popular elements of Labour’s programme. However anti-Semitism is the Achilles heel of the Labour left.  It gives the Right, especially the Labour Right, a sense of righteousness that defending poverty and cuts doesn’t give them.

Of course any idiot should be able to see that if the Sun, Daily Mail, Express and all the rest of the yellow press are so opposed to ‘anti-Semitism’ in Labour at the same time as they attack or demonise Black people, then there must be a catch. How can one oppose ‘anti-Semitism’ and support all other forms of racism unless of course, ‘anti-Semitism’ is a code word for supporting the Establishment, Capitalism and the politics of Imperialism.  'Antisemitism' is really about foreign policy.

That is why when John McDonnell says he ‘could weep’ over Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism’ one wonders what he’s going to do when faced with the determined resistance of the financial and industrial capitalists when he tries to nationalise the utilities. The attack on Labour for ‘anti-Semitism’ is so patently transparent that one wonders what kind of idiot it is that doesn’t see it.  McDonnell is now coming under attack from The Telegraph for failing to dissociate himself from the Labour Representation Committee, of which he is honorary President, because of the LRC’s support for the victims of the anti-Semitism witchhunt like Jackie Walker.

Perhaps McDonnell will weep and resign from the LRC proclaiming that he didn't know that they opposed the witchhunt of socialists?

‘Anti-Semitism’ is the gift that keeps giving. It is the only thing that the Labour Right have going for them.  It is what puts a left sheen on racists like Keir Starmer and John Mann. If Corbyn cannot slay the ‘anti-Semitism’ dragon it will slay him. It cannot be avoided because the Right, which means the BBC and the Tory tabloids, The Guardian included, won’t let it die down.

If Corbyn had faced down the false anti-Semitism narrative two years ago when he was accused of consorting with holocaust deniers then he wouldn’t be facing these never ending attacks now.  The time has come to put this beast to sleep alongside those who insist on breathing life into what has become the equivalent of the political undead.

Tony Greenstein