MORE FAKE ANTISEMITISM Alan Bull, Labour candidate in Peterborough suspended as a result of malicious allegations of anti-Semitism

It’s time for Jennie Formby to find Witchfinder General Sam Matthews a real job 

Update

In the light of further information I have since received I cannot continue to support Alan’s campaign although I do not accept the description of him as a holocaust denier

I learnt yesterday that Alan Bull has been suspended by Sam Matthews, Blairite detreitus left after the departure of McNicol, Oldknow, Stolliday and co.  Alan has been blocked from standing for Labour in the forthcoming local elections in Peterborough because of the malicious allegations of two  far-Right Labour councillors, Richard Ferris & Matthew Mahabadi..

The Real Target is Corbyn

What makes the allegations particularly heinous are the wholly malicious manner in which they have been made, including the photoshopping of social media posts in order to make out that Alan is a holocaust denier.  He has been subject to vicious and vitriolic abuse from the trolls of Labour Against AntiSemitism @LabourAgainstAS, most of whom aren’t even in the Labour Party.

Alan Bull has been under investigation by the Labour party since July  2017  as a result of these complaints, which involve doctored facebook posts being sent to Labour's Eastern region.  Mr Bull was asked a number of questions about these posts and he responded in full in November 2017.

Sam Matthews standard letter of suspension

 Since then Alan has not been given any information about the progress of the investigation. Many people have written supporting letters in his defence. At the local Labour Campaign Forum meeting in November, although these doctored posts were circulated, Alan’s candidature was nonetheless ratified and was selected as candidate for Stanground South.

Having failed to derail his nomination through Labour's democratic procedures the Right have instead used the tried and trusted methods of McCarthyism - false and wounding allegations.

Cllr. Richard Ferris - the race hate baiter

Cllr. Mahabadi - Ferris's partner in crime

A complaint was made  to the Eastern Region in November 2017 about the fact that these doctored posts, which were subject to investigation, had apparently been leaked to the press by Labour members. No action was taken against those who were responsible.

Cllr. Richard Ferris's malicious and baiting tweets - for which he should be suspended

 

Ferris's vicious racist tweets

An article about Mr Bull was published in the Peterborough Telegraph in February 2018. The two councillors who made the malicious allegations, Richard Ferris and Matthew Mahabadi, not happy with the investigation, took it upon themselves to launch a smear campaign against Alan. They have continually fed the press with leaked information.

It isn't anti-semitism that Ferris is opposed to but the Palestinians

Ferris and Mahabadi arrived at a full council meeting on 7th March in Peterborough wearing red T shirts with the slogan “Labour against anti Semitism” at the moment when Alan Bull arrived as a guest to the meeting. They have now launched a twitter page called “ Labour councillors against anti-Semitism” which is almost entirely devoted to defaming Alan and where doctored Facebook posts have been posted naming him publicly as an anti-Semite and a bigot.

This behaviour is not only grossly detrimental to the party but also detrimental to Mr Bulls’s chances of winning the seat for Labour. Mr Ferris, as can be seen in one of the screen shots, when Mr Bull advertised a canvassing session commented “We don’t canvass for deluded bigots, ta very much”

Another key target is Chris Williamson MP - one of the PLP's most committed socialists

As a member of Alan’s CLP wrote:

‘This behaviour by two councillors from our own party is totally unacceptable  and should be dealt with as a matter of urgency. We have elections in 7 weeks’ time,  and Mr Bull like many others is working hard for his campaign, and is being hounded and smeared in this disgraceful way. They are bringing the party into disrepute as well as making slanderous and libellous comments about a fellow member and candidate... I sincerely hope that these individuals will be disciplined as a matter of urgency before they cause any more damage.’

The next meeting of the Disputes Committee is in 4 weeks time. It is clear that this sudden decision is intended to prevent a socialist candidate standing for election.  Even if as we expect Alan is cleared of any wrongdoing then the suspension will have served its purpose.  These most recent public smears and false allegations made against Alan by these two far right Labour councillors will have served their purpose and Sam Matthews is a willing partner to this deception.

The background to this story in Alan Bull’s own words is this:

In June 2015 I had 5000 Facebook friends, many of whom enjoyed discussing a wide range of controversial subjects that didn’t appear in the mainstream media. My habit then, as now is as follows - friends send me posts they think are of interest. I repost mostly without comment to discover what other friends have to say about the article/MEM. When a friend comments, I cut and paste this-complete with their name, and paste above the article before reposting. This stimulates more comments and we all get a better understanding of the subject as a result. The most controversial article I posted privately to friends only, 2 years ago, was a documentary, with the controversial title, “Red cross confirm holocaust is a hoax”. The more accurate and considerably less shocking sub heading of this title was excluded by the screenshotter for maximum impact. As were ALL of the 46 comments, including a short exchange I had with a Jewish friend who commented, “Can I ask the intent of this article, are you denying the holocaust”? To which I replied, “Not at all, just posting for discussion and debate, as usual, best wishes, Alan”. These comments were seen by at least two independent witnesses before the post disappeared from my inbox, two days laterI was ratified last November.

These comments were removed, to create the impression that I, in some way agreed with the article in an attempt to misrepresent my intention and have me suspended from the party. 

Other articles claiming I was anti-Semitic included supporting a petition to reinstate Ken Livingstone and another article which was actually written by one of my Jewish friends!

I have one chance to have this appalling  decision overturned, and prevent the local party appointing their own candidate to replace me. But I need your URGENT help.

I NEED YOU to write urgently to your CLP secretary TODAY! To express your opposition to me being suspended, and your insistence that the individuals responsible for making this internal matter public are sanctioned.  Also to bombard Jenny Formby @Jenieunite

jennie.formby@unitetheunion.org jennie_formby@labour.org.uk

The LAAS trolls instruct Matthews to suspend Alan Bull

Euan Phillips, Chair of Tonbridge CLP and Emma Picken of Lewisham West are the main trolls involved in LAAS

LAAS has 'serious concerns' that Jennie Formby won't continue the witchhunt - lets hope so

The real target of LAAS is Corbyn himself - the Palestine Live FB group is an excuse - and it in fact contains virtually no antisemitic material anyway

Alan Bull’s offence is not having ever said he is a holocaust denier but that he distributed a Holocaust denial article for discussion.  Since when are topics such as Holocaust denial ‘forbidden’ by the ‘Labour anti-Semitism’ thought police?  These people have one goal only.  To smear anyone like Alan who is a Palestine solidarity supporter, if necessary by doctoring screen prints.  Their purpose is to deflect attention from things like Israel’s deportation of 40,000 Black African refugees or the comments this week by Israel’s Chief Rabbi that Black people are monkeys.  Their outrage over racism is entirely selective.

It's in Israel that you get the real White Supremacist racism and bigotry - Ferris, Matthews and Mahabdi's purpose is to distract from the real racism

Alan’s case

Alan was asked, during the course of his investigation, a series of questions about the posts, mainly - whether he thinks that “some people might find them offensive and/or anti-semitic” His answers are below.  Questions asked of him are in bold.

1.   

      I don’t doubt that you are able to appreciate that in a broad party like Labour anything is likely to cause offence to others who chose to take a different view.

    Personally I find it offensive that doctored Facebook posts with my name on them were handed out to everyone at a recent LCF meeting by the regional colleague who introduced the material with statements like, “this is definitely anti-semitic”, before any serious analysis of the evidence had taken place.

    I am a lifelong anti-racist and opposes all forms of racism, including anti-semitism, and I draw a sharp distinction between anti-semitism and anti-zionism, the latter which as an internationalist I support.

    I am concerned that the party appears to have started this investigation without identifying any objective anti-semitic content.

    Baroness Chakrabarti in her Report of June 2016 wrote, regarding the Party’s complaints procedure that:“It is also important that the procedures explain that those in respect of whom allegations have been made are clearly informed of the allegation(s) made against them, their factual basis and the identity of the complainant”. This has not happened.

    I am entitled to see the exact allegations that have been made, the name of his accuser, when and in what context they were made.

    The articles were not posted with intent to offend anybody. Rather they were reposted to friends, (not the public), to encourage discussion and debate as I have done with many other posts on a wide range of subjects.

    Articles were reposted inspired by the idea of Machloket (Torah Debate), and in the same spirit. Because I post articles does not mean I agree with them.

    I am now aware that I should restrict posting on FB to party political matters only – something I have become aware of since becoming actively involved in the Labour party. I am sorry for any offence that may have unintentionally been caused.

    I am also aware that my Facebook account has been hacked so that posts intended for friends only have been seen by the public and this has been done with deliberate intent to find materials with which to discredit my  membership.

   The same intent was apparent when the doctored facebook posts were leaked to the local press after the LCF meeting on 9^th November from inside the Labour party which would not only discredit me but also the Labour party itself.

Other Points to support Alan’s case

    A.    Question - Do you think these posts are offensive to some people or could be seen as anti-semitic?

Shami Chakrabarti's point was that "even offensive language on its own is only antisemitic if it is coupled with antisemitic intent ".

     The sharing of posts in itself does not show an anti-Semitic intent. It may be upsetting or offensive to some, in varying degrees. It is possible to disagree with the content of these posts.  Posting something by itself cannot be an action deserving sanction.

     In any event the people who hacked into his account were clearly looking for something to be offended by.

 Noone can be in control of the offence that others take. The party asked him to speculate on the inner feelings of others and he was in no position to comment on that. In any event, giving offence is the essence of free speech.  If no one was offended then all speech would be anodyne.  Offence itself is not and should not be a disciplinary offence.

 A Recent email from Alex Hall . secretary of LCF, 1^st December gave information about the use of social media as a Labour Member and “Tom Watson’s code of conduct”. This information had not been sent to members at any point  - and now this information was being distributed to candidates.  How can a member be held responsible under these rules if they have not been given them?

 There must be no more Labour Party kangaroo courts. The Labour Party should adopt Trade Union best practice on discipline of members. Natural justice: not procedural unfairness based on prejudice. Moshé Machover must be the last to suffer this injustice. (recently  summarily expelled and then re-instated)

“The  issue of weaponisation and false and malicious accusations of anti-Semitism which are hurled at those who dare to speak against the Zionist project of colonisation and its Israeli settler colonial state needs to be addressed and this vicious weapon thrown on the scrap-heap” as happened in the case of Moshe Machover  December 2017

1.      At the LCF meeting of 9^th November 2017

2.      Procedural rules appear to have been broken as the screenshot facebook posts from Alan were taken out of context, doctored and then presented to attendees as “evidence” before any investigation had taken place or defence given.

3.      Teddy Ryan, the Labour Party Regional Representative, produced confidential papers relating to Alan Bull that he had photocopied which he handed round the meeting. These were supposed to assist the delegates with their decision on ratification of Mr Bull as candidate for Stanground South.

4.      Teddy Ryan, also made several judgements on what he saw in front of him as “evidence of anti-Semitism”, even though the investigation in the case had not been concluded.  Some of the evidence presented to members of the LCF included “doctored” facebook posts which were intended to be prejudicial.

5.      It should not be necessary to point out that opposition to the Zionism or the Israeli government has no relation whatsoever to anti-Semitism, just as opposition to the British government has no relation to anti-British sentiment. Clearly Ryan believes anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are one and the same.

6.      Under the new rules for investigations, accusations against a member must be assessed by the investigating officer before it is progressed or used in any way. That assessment and initial investigation had not taken place? It was therefore entirely inappropriate for the accusations of anti-semitism to have been spread around in the manner that it was during the meeting by the Labour Party Regional Officer Teddy Ryan.

7.      The subjective issue of evidence “bringing the labour party into disrepute” should be balanced against the very strong likelihood that a fellow member of the Labour Party actively  trawled the Alan Bull’s Facebook to find posts which would discredit him as a candidate. This action, and the fact that the posts were presented in a distorted and manipulated manner, could equally be seen as bringing the party into disrepute.  Nothing in the behaviour of Alan Bull, a hard working activist, has been brought into question before this time.

8.    The above allegations are particularly disturbing since the Labour Party in Peterborough is on the verge of making a major breakthrough in Council elections and it would appear that one or more people are seeking to prevent that.

How to Cure the Labour Party of anti-Semitism – Expel a few Jews!

Reflections on my Expulsion from the Labour Party

The Morning Star 20.2.18. Editorial

After spending a relaxing day in London yesterday before dining with a friend in the evening. I went for lunch with an old friend today before attending a public meeting of Brighton and Hove Momentum in the evening.  The meeting at the Friends Meeting House was packed and Chris Williamson, the Derbyshire MP had got out of a sick bed to attend.  Greg Hadfield (who had also got out of a sick bed!) and Becky Massey co-chaired the meeting and held it together very well.

George Galloway making the most obvious of points

Chris Williamson MP speaking

The speakers were all excellent from the newly elected councillor, Nancy Platts to Bob from the anti-HDV campaign in Haringey to Paul of Acorn Renters Group.  There were a number of speakers from the floor starting with Riad who had been ‘auto excluded’ from the Labour Party quite outrageously owing to a minor criminal conviction.  I spoke last of all from the floor about my recent expulsion to thunderous applause.  Whatever the right-wing cranks and misfits of the Right may spin, most people understand very well that if there were a real problem of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party then you don’t solve it by expelling Jewish anti-Zionists!  That was why last night Kemptown CLP passed overwhelmingly a motion supporting Greg Hadfield against his suspension.

Tonight's packed Brighton & Hove Momentum meeting at which Chris Williamson MP spoke - I was given a rapturous reception by those present

 I’m overwhelmed with peoples' kindness whether it is wanting to take me out for meals or just sending good wishes.  People seem to feel I deserve some compensation for my expulsion and the Labour Party’s anti-Semitic treatment of me.  Most decent people feel anger that the racists and hacks of Labour's officialdom, combined with the Zionists who dominate the hierarchy of the Labour Party have expelled a Jewish anti-fascist and anti-racist.  Even worse Jackie Walker, a Black-Jewish anti-racist and Marc Wadsworth, another Black anti-racist and anti-fascist are up for the chop.

Brighton Argus 20.2.18.

People also feel disgust with @EminaIbrahim who is supposed to be on the left who voted with the Right on the NCC to expel me.  She seemed to be absorbed by the Right without displaying any independence.

Asking the most obvious of questions - who leaked the expulsion verdict before it had been announced - the answer is Sam Matthews, the scumbag who heads Labour's Disputes Department

It is very kind but I need to get back into a routine!  However it was good to take time out after the ordeal of my expulsion meeting, which was tedious in the extreme, not least because it is difficult getting across political concepts to people who seem to take pride in being thick.  The amount of support I have received has been extremely gratifying even if sections of the press [Huff Post/Breitbart] have of course distorted what has happened.  The Morning Star had an excellent editorial today making the obvious point that it was inevitable that the false ‘anti-Semitism’ witch hunt would begin by expelling a Jew.

Of course there have been the usual malcontents and what John Prescott calls the bitterites on social media - the sinister Euan Philipps and Emma Picken of @labourAgainstAS who take pride in their attacks on anti-racists as 'anti-semites'.  LAS has all the hallmarks of a state driven operation intent on political destabilisation.  Not leaving out the super narcissist himself Gary Spedding who confesses to having broken down in tears at my expulsion (of joy poor thing).  See Greg Hadfield’s excellent article The Labour Party outsources its duty of care to betting billionaires — with help from Capita!

Despite a few racist trolls around @LabourAgainstAS most people recognise that the 'anti-semitism' witch-hunt is a racist witch-hunt

There has been a Twitter blizzard.  Fortunately, apart from the few sad cases like @Euan Philipps the non-Jewish head of the troll group Labour Against AntiSemitism, most people have got the message, which is:

1.             If you want to oppose anti-Semitism then expelling Jews isn’t a good way to go about it

2.             That the false ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign in the Labour Party is about Israel not Jews.

3.             That the pretext for my expulsion, abuse of Zios, is a one way street since the activities of Philipps and his trolls and the abuse they regularly engage in never merit the attention of McNicol.  Indeed there must be a strong suspicion that McNicol’s henchmen, Sam Matthews in particular, are up to their eyes in Labour’s dirty tricks.

4.             The nature of the disciplinary process itself

Zionist trolls thought they'd back up their usual accusations of 'anti-semitism' by forging the 'evidence' by engaging in artistic creativity and photoshopping my name onto an anti-semitic tweet

Zionism, Jews and Anti-Semitism

It is no accident that Jews have been one of the major targets of the ‘anti-Semitism campaign because it is integral to Zionism’s claim to be a national movement that it represents all Jews.  Those who don’t are called ‘self-haters’ the same term that the Nazis used against anti-fascist Germans, who literally hated their race and nation.

The irony of course is that it is Zionism, a vicious racial doctrine that had no problem in opposing the rescue of Jews in the War if their destination wasn’t Palestine, that has most in common with anti-Semitism.

How most people see my expulsion

As the Chairman of the Jewish Agency and the first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben Gurion said just after Krystalnacht when the British Kindertransport program was being arranged and which would eventually save 10,000 German Jewish children:

If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of these children, but also the history of the People of Israel.’ [Ben Gurion at the Mapai Central Committee 7.12.38]

Zionism starts from the basis that Jews do not belong in the diaspora.  That their home is Israel.  Although most people are unaware of this Israel claims to be a state, not of its own citizens but of all Jews, its Jewish citizens included.  Its non-Jewish citizens are mere guests in someone else’s countries.

This is what Blairite MP Louise Ellman supports - apparently it is an offence to say that Ellman supports child abuse

It is this belief that Jews outside Israel are aliens in other peoples’ lands which is responsible for the alliance between Israel, Zionism and the anti-Semitic Right.  In the USA it is the magazine Breitbart, under its former CEO Steve Bannon which has distinguished itself by a mixture of White Supremacy, overt support for Zionism and vicious anti-feminism.

If Breitbart is the magazine of the alt-Right then the founder of this movement is Richard Spencer, an open neo-Nazi who has declared that he wants nothing more than to create in the USA a mirror image of Israel as an ethno nationalist state.  Just as Israel is based on one single ethnic group, the Jews, so Spencer wants to do the same in the USA with Whites.  Hence why Spencer calls himself a White Zionist.

The love affair in American between the far-Right and the Zionist movement led to Steve Bannon, Trump’s former Strategic Advisor, being a guest of honour at the Zionist Organisation of America’s annual dinner. See Bannon Addresses ZOA, Urges Jews to Join 'Insurgency' Against anti-Trump Republicans.  So alarming was this to many Jews that articles such as Naomi Zeveloff’s How Steve Bannon and Breitbart News Can Be Pro-Israel — and Anti-Semitic at the Same Time began appearing. Liberal Zionists who had been fed the nonsense about how it was opponents of Zionism who were anti-Semitic were wide eyed as the scales fell from their eyes.

Admiral Horthy Hungary's pro-Nazi wartime leader who Prime Minister Viktor Orban is now rehabilitating - Netanyahu's closest friend in Europe is the antisemitic leader of Hungary

In Europe Israel’s closes allies are the most anti-Semitic regimes such as Hungary and Poland.  A particularly awful example was when Netanyahu instructed the Israeli Ambassador in Hungary, shortly before his visit last July, to retract mild criticisms of the Prime Minister’s anti-Semitic campaign against George Soros.  Netanyahu also didn’t like Soros because he has funded Israeli human rights groups.  Orban portrayed Soros as the archetypal Jewish financier. What makes this even worse is that Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban was also in the middle of a campaign to rehabilitate Hungary’s pro-Nazi war-time leader Admiral Horthy, who had deported nearly ½m Hungary Jews to Auschwitz.

Yet no one who understands anything about Zionist relations with anti-Semitism should be at all surprised.  Historically Zionism has always welcomed anti-Semitism as a method of ‘helping’ Jews to emigrate to Palestine. 

As the founder of Political Zionism, Theodor Herzl wrote in his Diaries, at the time of the Dreyfuss Affair:

‘In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognise the emptiness and futility of trying to 'combat' anti-Semitism. [Diaries of Theodore Herzl, Gollancz, London 1958 p.6, May 1895]

That is why I have always emphasised that the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign in the Labour Party has nothing to do with anti-Semitism.  Anti-Semitism is marginal in the Labour Party.  In so far as a few people have made anti-Semitic comments, it is almost entirely a reaction to the claim that Israel’s war crimes are committed in the name of Jewish people.

Why the False ‘Anti-Semitism’ Campaign?

This is probably the easiest question to answer.  Why is there such a campaign?  Is there really anti-Semitism in the Labour Party?  The best answer is by Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford:

‘Anti-Semitism is not a real phenomenon within the Labour Party or any of the other major political parties. There are anti-Semitic incidents but they are usually related to Israel’s behaviour, Israeli brutality.  So every time there is an Israeli attack on Gaza and there have been 3 in the last 7 years there is a rise in anti-Semitic episodes and incidents in Britain. Fundamentally Israel and the Israeli propaganda machine and Israel’s friends in England and the Israel lobby in Britain deliberately confuse or conflate, and I stress they do it deliberately, anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism.  Anti-Semitism is hatred of the Jews as Jews.  Anti-Zionism is opposition to Israel as a colonial power and as an exclusive Jewish state.’

As long as Israel perpetrates war crimes against the Palestinians and as long as it claims to do this in the name of all Jewish people, so long will there be, low level anti-Semitism.  The irony is that anti-Semitism today, except for the neo-Nazi variety which Zionism has no problem with, as in the USA, is a product of Israel and Zionism.  That is the irony.  The Jewish state is responsible for most of today’s anti-Semitism.

Personal Abuse

McNicol ignored this abuse by former  councillor Craig Turton and the support for Turton by the present head of Brighton Council, Warren Morgan

One of the key charges against me is of personal abuse of Zionists.  I pointed out to the Panel that no less than 4 times I had complained to Iain McNicol, Labour’s crooked General Secretary, about a post from the Leader of Brighton and Hove Council, Warren Morgan, in which another, former Labour councillor, Craig Turton, had called me a ‘poisonous piece of shit’ only to be told ‘’Thanks Craig, appreciate that.  Hope you are well.’ by Morgan.  All my complaints were ignored because only abuse by the Left is an offence in the Labour Party.  Abuse by the Right is tolerated if not encouraged and there is good reason to believe that senior Labour Party employees such as Sam Matthews are working hand-in-glove with the trolls of Labour Against Anti-Semitism.

Caroline 'Poison' Penn was waged a vendetta against the elected Secretary of Brighton & District Labour Party, Greg Hadfield, before Penn and Warren Morgan's lies got Greg suspended

Another local councillor who is to the forefront of the anti-Semitic witchhunt in Brighton is one Councillor ‘Poison’ Penn who launched a series of vicious tweets attacking Greg Hadfield, who was elected Secretary of Brighton and Hove District Labour Party.  Greg was and has been suspended for about 18 months as a result of the allegations of those like Penn and Morgan whose lies about spitting got the party suspended in the first place.  Hadfield's reward for having exposed the lies of the Right was to become suspended

Ms Penn who has close links to the troll group, Labour Against Anti-Semitism, also submitted during my legal battle with the Labour Party over Data Protection a false and dishonest statement suggesting I had harassed her.  Twice Penn complained to the Police and twice her complaints were rejected.  Her allegations that I had publicised personal information about her is a simple  lie but of course impressed the Judge.

Penn's perjured email to the County Court, secured by the Labour Party, in order to provide false evidence that she was at risk if her identity was revealed.

 The inherent unfairness of the disciplinary process

There is really no pretence that the disciplinary process in the Labour Party is fair and above board.  It is a weapon in the hands of the Right.  If anyone was in any doubt then the refusal of Iain McNicol to suspend Jeremy Newmark, the Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement who was alleged to have defrauded a Jewish charity out of tens of thousands of pounds proves this beyond doubt.  McNicol’s response was to call this a ‘private’ matter, ‘historic’ even.  Nothing about bringing the party into disrepute because that allegation so solely reserved for the Left.

As the Labour Party barrister Ogg accepted in his skeleton argument argument, all the charges related to after my suspension.  It therefore follows that my suspension was, in terms of Labour’s own constitution, unlawful.  It has no rational basis.  I was targeted by the Jewish Labour Movement and other Zionist groups in the Labour Party and suspended for absolutely no reason.  Having been targeted they then went about finding evidence.  That is why it took them 20 months before they had assembled a case.

Any party that claimed to be a democratic socialist one would have reinstated me automatically.  But in the Labour Party the disciplinary process is in the hands of the Right and in particular the Crooked General Secretary Iain McNicol and his equally crooked subaltern Sam Matthews.  For them the disciplinary process is nothing but a means with which to ensure that the Right holds on to control of the levers of power.  Disciplinary procedures, investigations etc. have been used as a factional instrument.

But that is why the Left should have no truck with the witch hunt.  It is a weapon against not for Corbyn.  He won’t buy time by playing along with the anti-Semitism witch hunt because its purpose is to be rid of him.  That is why the Zionist lobby can never be satisfied. However many victims are served up to them, they will always demand more.

It is in this context that the behaviour of the so-called ‘left’ representative, Emena Ibrahim, who is Vice-Chair of Momentum, on Labour’s National Constitutional Committee needs to be examined. It is outrageous that a senior officer of Momentum has gone along with this racist witch-hunt.

Tony Greenstein