Corbyn Still Doesn’t Understand that There was NO ‘Anti-Semitism’ Problem in the Labour Party & that the EHRC Report was a Put Up Job
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Corbyn's Car Crash
Interview on BBC's London Politics Program 2 November 2025
Jackie Walker and Tony Greenstein were the first Jewish members of the
Labour Party to be expelled as part of the ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign.
Jackie’s offence
was to have talked,
in a private conversation about the Jewish role in the slave trade, an
undoubted fact.
My offence was to use ‘Zio’ as shorthand for ‘Zionist’. That was seen as
anti-Semitic, the assumption being that Zionists are all Jews, itself an
anti-Semitic assumption.
Corbyn's
Full Interview on London Politics Show 2 November 25
My other offence was to call
the racist Zionist MP for Liverpool Riverside, Louise Ellman, the MP for Tel
Aviv South. The constituency eventually
forced her to quit. I asked my expulsion hearing whether it had been racist
to call
the John Carlisle, the Tory MP for Luton, the MP for Bloemfontein West on
account of his support for Apartheid in South Africa but I never got a
response!
John Carlisle - the MP for Luton & Bloemfontein West
This is how it’s done - Clare
Short Interview w/ Newsnight on Labours Antisemitism Scam w/ its Stupidest MP
Siobhan McDonagh
It was therefore with something approaching horror that I listened to Jeremy Corbyn’s interview with the London Politics Programme on Sunday November 2 when he was challenged by Samantha Simmonds about the anti-Semitism smear campaign in the Labour Party.
Instead of responding robustly and saying that there
wasn’t an anti-Semitism problem, that anti-Semitism was weaponised then and now
by those who defend or deny the Genocide in Gaza, Corbyn demonstrated that you
can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
It was beyond pathetic. It shows that although Corbyn
has many talents and his honesty is beyond question he isn’t a political
fighter. He is also proof that without having some theoretical background to
your socialist politics you become in the end a political weathervane.
Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away (
Let’s be honest Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour
Party between 2015 and 2019 was nothing short of disastrous. Having won a
fantastic victory at the 2017 General Election, the largest swing to Labour
since 1945 he threw it
all away as Bob Dylan once put it.
Corbyn allowed the ‘anti-Semitism’ smears to go unchallenged. He never fought back against his enemies in the Jewish Labour Movement which as Asa Winstanley showed had only been refounded to remove him. Asa was suspended as a result of his journalism and Corbyn didn’t lift a finger to help him. He was even denied credentials at the 2019 Labour Party conference.
Corbyn begged
the JLM to stay in the Party (not that they were really thinking of leaving)
for which they rewarded
him with a vote of no confidence.
Corbyn himself proposed to expel people without a hearing
When Jennie Formby replaced the hated Crooked Iain
McNicol as General Secretary the number of expulsions increased and Corbyn took
pride in this. He even introduced
a fast track expulsion mechanism. Now there were no hearings.
It was supposed to be only for ‘egregious’ cases but
this too was a lie. It was used for everyone. My friend and comrade Anne
Mitchell, an avowed socialist, anti-racist and the then Secretary of Brighton
and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign fell victim. Her crime? Having posted
criticism of Israel and Zionism. This was the horror show that Corbyn presided
over. See Richard Kuper’s post
on JVL ‘A Grave Miscarriage of Justice: the case of Anne Mitchell’.
The man who had been Secretary of Labour Against the
Witchhunt in the 1980s now became the architect of a mass expulsion campaign.
Corbyn thought the Zionists would pat him on the back for this but of course
they didn’t. They hadn’t forgotten that he had once championed the Palestinian
cause. On becoming Leader in 2015 he had tried
to woo Labour Friends of Israel. Indeed he hardly mentioned Palestine in
his first two years as Leader.
Instead of being satisfied with the increased rate of expulsions, the Zionists used
the increased number of expulsions as proof that there was a problem with
anti-Semitism. As I once said
in a public meeting in Brighton and Hove with his strongest supporter, Chris
Williamson MP, who he also betrayed, there were undoubtedly some paedophiles in
the Labour Party but did that mean there was a paedophile problem?
Tony Greenstein & Anti Semitism in Labour - Labour in
Exile Meeting circa March 2021-1
Yes there were undoubtedly a few anti-Semites in the
Labour Party. So what? Far fewer than in a Tory Party whose leader, Boris
Johnson, had written
a book 72 Virgins full of
anti-Semitic tropes.
Instead Corbyn’s response during the BBC interview was that of Tom Watson, an
avid supporter of Apartheid Israel: ‘One anti-Semite is one too many.’ Utterly
facile and trite remark. Parties aren’t there to purify their membership. A
mass party will contain all sorts of people, including racists. A serious socialist
party will seek to educate and win over people to anti-racism not expel them
unless they are dedicated fascists.
Tony Greenstein & Anti
Semitism in Labour - Labour in Exile Meeting circa March 2021-2
If Your Party
is serious about destroying Nigel Farage’s Reform
Party then it will admit all sorts of people with racist nonsense in their
heads. What is it to do? Expel them as soon as they join? One thing is for
sure, we are not going to have a party like the Labour Party which has
genocidal racists like Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy and David Lammy at its head.
The EHRC Inquiry Into Henderson Never Reported
And then Corbyn was tackled about the EHRC
Report on ‘Anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party and it got worse. Instead of
saying the EHRC was a put up job by the Establishment he accepted its
conclusions at face value. He said nothing about the Commissioner who wrote the
Report, Alisdair Henderson, who was a racist, homophobic,
anti-trans,
far-right, Christian bigot who ‘liked’ or retweeted social media posts
criticising Black
Lives Matters protesters.
The EHRC itself was institutionally racist but Corbyn didn't think to challenge them
Corbyn simply accepted the EHRC Report without criticism in the
interview. He just had minor quibbles about how much he had done to tackle the
non-existent anti-Semitism. This was truly pathetic.
Alasdair Henderson, who led the EHRC
inquiry into Labour party antisemitism liked
a tweet decrying “offence-taking zealots”
who accused fascist philosopher Roger Scruton of
antisemitism, Islamophobia and homophobia, and one by Douglas Murray,
who once called for Muslim immigration to Europe to be banned.
It's amazing to me that Tory ministers still flounder and flub when some media moron incants the magic words "misogynist" and "homophobe", as if those are empirical statements about reality, not highly ideological propaganda terms.
— NPRG (@CptHastings1916) September 3, 2020
Murray is the author of The Strange Death of Europe:
Immigration, Identity, Islam. Murray argued that Europe “is committing
suicide” by allowing non-European immigration into its borders and losing its “faith in its beliefs”. In other words he
is a supporter
of the anti-Semitic
White Replacement Theory which holds that Jews are masterminding this
immigration!
Douglas Murray
Murray,
an Associate Director of the Islamophobic Henry Jackson Society, is an
Islamophobe par excellence. In a February 2006 speech to the Dutch Parliament,
Murray said
conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder
across the board: Europe must look like a less attractive proposition.
and that "All immigration into Europe from Muslim
countries must stop.” This did not stop Suella Braverman as Home Secretary endorsing
Murray.
Under
Cameron the Conservative Party frontbench severed
formal relations with Murray and his Centre for Social Cohesion. Today the Tory
Party welcomes anyone who is a racist. That’s what comes from having a Coconut
like Kemi Badenoch as leader.
Tom Watson's Concerns About Antisemitism Didn't Extend to Other Forms of Racism - He Defended Phil Woolas Attempt to Harness a White Racist Vote
🧵The EHRC is wholly captured by conservatives. Commissioner Alasdair Henderson ran for Parliament in the resurrected Whig party. He also liked a tweet saying 'homophobe' and ‘misogynist’ were 'highly ideological propaganda terms'. And he led the Labour antisemitism inquiry. 1/11
— Steven Methven (@StevenJMethven) February 2, 2022
On 3 September 2020, Henderson liked a tweet
which read:
“It’s
amazing to me that Tory ministers still flounder and flub when some media moron
incants the magic words ‘misogynist’ and ‘homophobe’, as if those are empirical
statements about reality, not highly ideological propaganda terms.”
On 1 July, he retweeted a comment
which said:
All
the anti-fascists in Europe protesting against America, an actually free
country, are too cowardly to do the same for Hong Kong, which is virtually a
dictatorship now.
But then the EHRC was a repository for racists and bigots. Henderson was
in his element. The Guardian revealed
that David Goodhart and Jessica Butcher were going to be appointed to the EHRC board
by Liz Truss, the laughable equalities minister. Goodhart had previously praised
the government’s “hostile
environment” policy which had seen hundreds of Black people with a right to
be in this country deported while Butcher urged
women who have been discriminated against at work not to “go cry to someone” but to “take the onus to circumvent the situation”.
See EHRC
board member under scrutiny over social media use. What makes this worse is
that Corbyn himself had previously accused
the EHRC of being “part of the government
machine”.
And what
of the EHRC Report itself? Well it wasn’t
worth the paper it was written on. It was flawed from the start. It was
shallow beyond belief. It found no anti-Semitism and conjured up political statements
opposing the fake anti-Semitism smear campaign as anti-Semitic in themselves.
It was the equivalent of a 3 card trick.
The
EHRC report stated that: “The Labour
party failed to investigate antisemitism complaints based on likes, retweets
and shares on social media.” Yet if Corbyn had bothered to read the EHRC
Report (& remember what he had read) he would have learnt that the two
cases of ‘anti-Semitism’ that amounted to anti-Semitic conduct involved Rossendale councillor,
Pam Bromley, who had posted on Facebook:
‘Had Jeremy Corbyn and the
Labour Party pulled up the drawbridge and nipped the bogus AS [antisemitism]
accusations in the bud in the first place we would not be where we are now and
the fifth column in the LP [Labour Party] would not have managed to get such a
foothold ... the Lobby has miscalculated ... The witch hunt has created brand
new fightback networks ... The Lobby will then melt back into its own cesspit.’
This isn’t harassment
it is political speech. Bromley was
arguing that the ‘anti-Semitism problem’ in the Labour Party was nothing of the
sort. What was Henderson’s finding?
Suggesting that complaints of antisemitism are
fake or smears. Labour Party agents [Bromley and Livingstone] denied
antisemitism in the Party and made comments dismissing complaints as ‘smears’
and ‘fake’. This conduct may target Jewish members as deliberately making up
anti-Semitism complaints to undermine the Labour Party, and ignores legitimate
and genuine complaints of antisemitism in the Party. These comments went beyond
simply describing the agents’ own personal experience of antisemitism in the
Party.
But there were many Jews who opposed the anti-Semitism smear campaign. That's why Jewish Voice for Labour was set up. The anti-Semitism smear campaign was driven by non-Jewish groups like Labour Against Anti-Semitism who were led by two non-Jews Euan Philips and Emma Picken. To disguise the fact that he wasn’t Jewish Philips took to calling himself David Gordstein, a Jewish sounding name as the Al Jazeera documentary series The Labour Files revealed .
This was the racism that the 'antisemitism' smear campaign aimed to defend
Philipps
is not Jewish, and the name "Gordstein" was used in thousands of
complaints submitted to the party. This was done to make the complaints appear
as if they were coming from a Jew. The whole anti-Semitic scam was the product of
non-Jewish racists which another non-Jewish racist Alisdair Henderson endorsed.
This flawed EHRC Report went on to say that
Ken Livngstone, who was on Labour’s National Executive Committee at the time,
made reference to social media posts made by
Naz Shah MP. Naz Shah’s posts included a graphic suggesting that Israel should
be relocated to the United States, with the comment ‘problem solved’, and a
post in which she appeared to liken Israeli policies to those of Hitler.
Can anyone say today that Israel’s behaviour
in Gaza is not similar to that of the Nazis? There is nothing anti-Semitic about
this at all. The EHRC Report said that Livingstone
‘sought to minimise their offensive nature. In
his denial, Ken Livingstone alleged that scrutiny of Naz Shah’s conduct was
part of a smear campaign by ‘the Israel lobby’ to stigmatise critics of Israel
as antisemitic, and was intended to undermine and disrupt the leadership of
Jeremy Corbyn MP.’
And this was anti-Semitic harassment. Of
course it was nothing of the kind. It was political speech yet Corbyn didn’t
have the bottle or the intelligence to see that this was an attack on free
speech. Corbyn had been so tamed by the Zionist lobby at this time that he was
prone to saying that denial of ‘anti-Semitism’ was anti-Semitic in itself.
Another example of ‘anti-Semitism’ was when, in
April 2019, Pam Bromley posted on Facebook: ‘Looks
like fake accusations of AS [antisemitism] to undermine Labour just aren’t working,
so let’s have Chris Williamson reinstated’. And on 15 December 2019, she
posted on Facebook about Jeremy Corbyn:
‘My major criticism of him – his failure to
repel the fake accusations of antisemitism in the LP [Labour Party] – may not
be repeated as the accusations may probably now magically disappear, now
capitalism has got what it wanted’.
Henderson pompously concluded that:
‘we were satisfied that the antisemitic
conduct had the effect of contributing to violating the dignity of a member or
prospective member, or contributing to creating an intimidating, hostile,
degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them.’
But the racist Henderson could not point to
which Jewish members had been offended which is what you have to do in an
employment discrimination case. This was bogus law by a racist barrister. Yet
Corbyn did not get it. After all he had appointed Keir Starmer to the Shadow
Cabinet without the slightest due diligence and when he retired as Labour
leader he nominated Tom Watson to the Lords!
This racist meme about male Muslims appeared in a report from the Campaign Against Antisemitism - one of two groups which referred the Labour Party to the EHRC for 'antisemitism'
Defenders of Zionism (and Corbyn still hasn’t
come out clearly and said that he opposes this racist and genocidal ideology)
have repeatedly accused opponents of Israel’s genocide of anti-Semitism. It is
Netanyahu’s only defence to the charge of being a war criminal.
I despair of Corbyn’s inability to think on
his feet, his submissiveness and refusal to condemn Zionism. What is clear is
that in the event of the ‘anti-Semitism’ card being deployed again he will flounder.
Under no circumstances should Jeremy Corbyn be leader of Your Party.
Instead my proposal is that Corbyn become the
Honorary President of Your Party which will enable him to traverse the country
speaking but that Zarah Sultana and Andrew Feinstein are the co-leaders.
People rightly admire and love Corbyn for
sticking it out this long, for his honesty and support for the oppressed.
However we have to face it, Jeremy Corbyn is not a leader.
Below are the relevant sections of the malevolent EHRC Report that Corbyn failed to criticise.
Tony Greenstein
The relevant sections of the EHRC Report
