Why are Labour’s MPs So Concerned About ‘Anti-Semitism’ When They Have Nothing to Say About the Deportation of Black People to the West Indies?

WE NEED TO DESELECT LABOUR's RACIST MPs Those who attacked Jenny Formby last Monday were the same ones who supported May’s ‘hostile environment’ policy and the Windrush Scandal

https://youtu.be/aPHqmP-lh84

 John Barnes Outburst on Racist Hypocrisy

You really couldn’t make it up.  Labour’s racist MPs, led by Tom Watson, whose favourite song (Am Yisrael Chai) is the Horst Wessel of Israel settlers, were in full dudgeon on Monday night. These racist rats were up in arms about ‘anti-Semitism’.  Not the anti-Semitism you and me understand, hatred or hostility to Jews, but criticism of Israel, the Apartheid Jewish state. 

Deportation Flight

Luciana Berger's Labour Friends of Israel said that the victims must accept responsibility for their own deaths - not Israel of course

Their complaint was that Labour was no longer expelling people at the drop of a hat under the former witch-finder general Maggi Cosins of Labour First.

Jennie Formby, Labour’s General Secretary had been summoned to the meeting, to explain why ‘anti-Semites’ hadn’t been expelled and they wanted to know the details (these fools don’t understand such niceties as Data Protection Regulations).

The JLM repeatedly claims that it represents the Jewish Community - what they are saying is that most Jews are racists like them

The tiny Jewish Labour Movement claims it represents the Jewish Community - is it any wonder people are fooled by these racists?

Labour Against the Witchhunt gives its support to Jim Sheridan

Once case particularly exercised them, that of former MP Jim Sheridan.  Jim had tweeted that despite his ‘respect and empathy for the Jewish community and their historic suffering’ this is no longer the case due to their Blairite plotting etc. At which point the heavens fell in.  How dare he attribute to all Jews the sins of only a few etc. It might be a fair point if this was not exactly what the Zionists do.

Jim Sheridan's mistaken comments but who was responsible for them

The twitter site of the Jewish Labour Movement states that it is ‘the Jewish community in the Labour Party.’ Not part of the Jewish community, not its Zionist component, all of the Jewish community. When Zionists regularly claim to represent all Jews is it any wonder that some people blame Jews for what Israel does rather than Zionists?

Luciana Berger is hated by her own constituents

A badly drafted motion was apparently approved by MPs without discussion by acclaim. It can be found here. It’s not necessary to rehearse the arguments about the fake anti-Semitism witchhunt.  The mere fact that Black anti-racist campaigner Marc Wadsworth, Cyril Chilson the child of parents who survived Nazi concentration camps and myself were expelled should tell you all you need to know about who the real targets of the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign were.  Not anti-Semites but Jewish and anti-racists opponents.

Labour MPs at their weekly meeting

Up before the witchhunters in March is Jackie Walker, the Black-Jewish anti-racist who is a prime target of Labour’s racist MPs. She has already been stabbed in the back by Momentum’s fuhrer Jon Lansman and I suspect that the JLM is already preparing white hoods for a march on the hearing as they did with Marc Wadsworth.

A good account of the meeting can be found here.

Luciana Berger is one of the most prominent Labour Zionists.  An officer with the JLM and Labour Friends of Israel she has never, not once, opposed the actions or policies of the Israeli state.  When Labour Friends of Israel last year supported the murder of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators she gave her support.  Luciana supports a Jewish state that explicitly discriminates against those who are not seen as part of the national collective.

Much has been made of the ‘abuse’ that Luciana Berger has received.  She has never revealed what this a ‘abuse’ consists of but her fellow Zionist, Ruth Smeeth read out 10 examples of emails she received. ALL of them were about her support of the Zionists.  Only one of them was anti-Semitic.

We can assume the same is true of Berger.  No doubt a few messages she has received are anti-Semitic but that should be seen in the context of Luciana Berger’s own vile racism. If you claim you represent Jews then unfortunately some people will be fooled. Most of her ‘abuse’ is nothing more than criticism of her support of the Apartheid regime in Tel Aviv. Of course any anti-Semitic abuse of Berger is deplorable but she has brought it on herself with her own vile racism.  Luciana Berger does not merit any sympathy.  The only thing she suffers from is self-victimhood. She is a pinup hero for every vile racist newspaper in Britain, from the Sun to the Mail.

The Time Has Come To Deselect Luciana Berger and the Other Racist Rats Who Support Her

Yet at the same time as Labour MPs were working themselves up about ‘anti-Semitism’ there was real racism – the deportation of up to 50 Black people who had committed offences in this country, many minor but irrelevant because they have been living here often since childhood.  This is the racist outrage that Labour’s racist MPs chose to ignore so let’s just spell it out:

Jewish People in this County Do NOT Suffer From State Racism

Jews are not subject to deportation like Black people.

Jewish people do not suffer police violence.

Jewish people do not experience Police Stop and Search

Jewish people do not suffer economic discrimination.  No one suffers because they are Jewish, quite the contrary the Jewish community is richer and more privileged than the White community as a whole

Jews are not underrepresented in Parliament, quite the contrary they have always been over represented.

Jews do not suffer racist attacks with the sole exception of Jews who are visibly distinct i.e. Haredi and Ultra Orthodox Jews.  Ironically they were the one group that John Mann’s atrocious Select Committee Report on Anti-Semitism in 2016 ignored. They are also the one community, 29 of whose rabbis condemned the Board of Deputies for speaking on behalf of all Jews in their attacks on Corbyn. The British media managed not to report the statement of these rabbis!  Can’t imagine why? 

Charter flight deporting 29 of 50 people to Jamaica departed this morning

ZITA HOLBOURNE

LONDON, ENG, United Kingdom

7 Feb 2019 — 

Dear Supporter

Late last night , those detained at various Immigration Removal Centres were woken abruptly & brutally  in their cells & taken on the long drive in several vans to Birmingham airport.

One of those taken Twane Morgan, Who we are running a specific campaign for, was successful in getting a high court injunction yesterday afternoon removing him from the flight so it was a shock to him to be awoken by 6  armed officials in riot gear barging into his cell & snatching him out of his sleep. He then had to call and wake his legal team as he was already being transported cuffed to an escort.

I received an alarming call from his partner informing me 'they've taken him' and was able to speak to him via the phone of the escort he was cuffed to.

Prior to this I received an alarming messsge of a 22 year old man with PTSD  who was cutting his wrists observed by guards and that when 999 was called they advised that they have no jurisdiction to send an ambulance to a detention centre which I and others believe to be a breach of human rights and right to life.

He was subsequently apprehended and instead of considering his physical & psychological health & injury meant he was not fit to be deported and taken to hospital he was taken to the plane. I understand that he  and others made applications for asylum on the journey to the airport and were successful in being taken off the flight. 

On the journey those being deported are cuffed to an escort, have no phone and are dependant on emergency & last minute calls to loved ones through the escort. 

 Poor Twane's partner has planned to travel to take his children to say their final goodbyes last evening but when they got the good news he would not be taken this was not necessary so the period of approx 5 hours through the night was mental torture for Twane & his loved ones.

Twane was placed on the plane, strapped into his seat cuffed to security guards on either side before he got the news for second time that he would not be removed and was taken of flight.

The  Home Office said that 50 were to be deported describing them as hardened criminals guilty of very serious crimes but the details we have seen about those being deported or from conversations with them & their families is different. 

If their crimes were so serious that they were a danger as suggested by government then how were 21 removed at the last minute?

The fact that they were removed & at such a late stage illustrates how wrong charter flights are, snatching people & puttng them on a flight without allowing them tthe required time to get legal representation, prepare cases and lodge appeals is wrong & irresponsible. It opens the doors for  mistakes which have devestating adverse impacts on lives. Around 40 children were to be denied a parent through this flight with no regard for their rights either.

I received hearbreaking messages from loved ones of those being taken last night.

The Titan Airways flight was scheduled to depart at 7.30am, but actually took off at 8.16am (footage attached).

It's important that we continue to campaign against these deportations and whilst this petition was originally launched last year but now that the government have started these deportation flights again , we have the support for it of an umbrella group that BARAC UK is part of, BAME Lawyers for Justice.

Please help us grow this petition and the call to end this hostile & brutal act.

 Regards

 Zita

New Labour Supports Benefit Attacks and ‘Welfare Reforms’

Catt Reilly outside the Royal Courts of Justice

On 12th February 2013, a student Cat Reilly and a lorry driver Jamieson Wilson successfully took the government to court.  They argued that the benefit sanctions as being implemented were unlawful.  The Court of Appeal agreed.  Highly unusually, the Government immediately passed legislation of a retrospective nature, i.e. makes what wasn’t unlawful lawful.  Because this is like changing time and creates uncertainty as to what the law is, if an offence can suddently not become an offence, or something which is not an offence suddenty becomes a crime.  

Retrospective legislation is therefore very rare and it was only with the co-operation of the spineless Labour leadership under Ed Milliband that it was passed.
 
This raises another, wider problem.  Between all 3 major political parties there is barely a hair difference.  All three support neo-liberalism and the erosion of the NHS and Welfare State.  Indeed it can genuinely said that there is nothing New Labour did that the Tories/Lib. Dems haven’t continued.

Tony Greenstein

Ian Duncan-Smith, who ducked the challenge to try and live on £53 a week

the first Attlee government

Britain needs a new political party that rejects neoliberal policies and improves the lives of ordinary people

Posted: 29 Mar 2013

Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister 1945-51

As the age of austerity bites harder and deeper than many anticipated, it is little wonder that Ken Loach's new film The Spirit of '45,  charting the great post-war social advances, strikes a powerful chord. Yet the promise of opportunity, dignity, health and work, fulfilled by Labour's welfare state after 1945, is not to be one that we can look to today's Labour party for. Yet contemporary Britain – and beyond – is precisely where such policies are needed.

Ken Loach

Austerity is wreaking economic catastrophe on Europe, most recently on the people of Cyprus, but George Osborne is still following the same disastrous policies. Last week's budget came as no surprise: Osborne announced yet more spending cuts and extended the public sector's pay rise cap, amounting to a real terms pay cut. He's digging us even further into an economic hole, as the Office for Budget Responsibility's http://cdn.budgetresponsibility.independent.gov.uk/March-2013-EFO-44734674673453.pdf revised output forecast shows – from a predicted 1.2% growth down to 0.6%. That sounds like further decline, not the promised growth, and ordinary people are paying the price. The virulence of the government's economic attacks knows no bounds: Atos, workfare, council tax, the bedroom tax – punitive policies against the most vulnerable in society.

Catt Reilly outside slave labour employers Poundland

Judged by its own stated goals, government policy isn't working – borrowing will be around £61.5bn higher than planned. Of course the reality is that austerity policies are actually designed to dismantle the welfare state, bring down wages and fully marketise the economy, destroying all the social and economic gains of ordinary people since the second world war. So from the government point of view the policies are working.

Across society, there is an increasing understanding of the government's real agenda and as a result, opposition is mounting and economic alternatives are being discussed. Only last week, the Guardian published a letter from over 60 economists, warning that the worst was yet to come with 80% of the cuts still ahead of us.

Yet while economic alternatives are articulated, where can we turn politically to see these expressed as party policy? Who is on our side, to fight for an alternative? In the past many expected the Labour party to stand for us, and with us, but no longer. Workfare? Last week Labour abstained on the vote  and now the government can work over quarter of a million jobseekers. Bedroom tax? Would a Labour government repeal it?

We need policies that reject Tory cuts, regenerate the economy and improve the lives of ordinary people. We are not getting this from Labour. There is no doubt that some of Labour's past achievements have been remarkable – the welfare state, the NHS; a redistributive economy making unprecedented levels of health and education possible. But such achievements are in the past. Now Labour embraces cuts and privatisation and is dismantling its own great work. Labour has failed us. Nothing shows the contrast more clearly than The Spirit of '45.

Poundland - one of the shops benefiting from free labour

Labour is not alone in its shift rightwards and its embrace of neoliberal economic policies. Its sister parties across Europe have taken the same path over the past two decades. Yet elsewhere in Europe, new parties and coalitions – such as Syriza in Greece or Die Linke in Germany – have begun to fill the left space, offering an alternative political, social and economic vision. The anomaly which leaves Britain without a left political alternative – one defending the welfare state, investing for jobs, homes and education, transforming our economy – has to end. For this reason we are calling on people to join the discussion on forming a new party of the left – you can find out more about our appeal here. The working class cannot remain without political representation, without defence, when all its victories and advances are being destroyed.

Ken Loach, Kate Hudson and Gilbert Achcar

Labour 'pressed MPs to abstain on welfare vote'

MPs put under 'significant pressure' by party leaders to abstain on crucial vote, says outgoing parliamentary private secretary

Shiv Malik and Hugh Mui, guardian.co.uk, Sunday 24 March 2013

The bill, which seeks to overturn a court appeal ruling on the Poundland case, is expected to be passed into law this week.

Labour's frontbench team put "significant pressure" on MPs to abstain during a crucial vote on emergency retrospective welfare legislation, a recently resigned parliamentary private secretary has told the Guardian.

Ian Mearns MP said he voted against the government's jobseekers (back-to-work schemes) bill on Tuesday because he thought the unemployed were already suffering enough from "Kafkaesque" benefit sanction decisions made by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

The fast-tracked bill, which seeks to overturn the outcome of a court appeal ruling on the Poundland case, is expected to be passed into law early this week.

It will ensure that the DWP no longer has to pay £130m in benefit sanction rebates to 250,000 jobseekers by retrospectively making lawful regulations deemed unlawful by three senior judges since February.

Mearns said that after passing through the Commons' no lobby he sent a text to his former boss, the shadow secretary for international development, Ivan Lewis, and the party's chief whip, Rosie Winterton, saying he had resigned.

"I was under no illusions that I would be sacked if I voted against the party wishes. So immediately on having gone through the no lobby and having voted against the government bill, I then texted both the chief whip and the shadow secretary of state for international development … to say, with a heavy heart, I resign."

"Among 43 or 44 Labour MPs who voted [against the bill], I was the one who had the PPS position. But I know a significant amount of pressure was brought to bear on other colleagues in similar positions.

"There were an awful lot of people who were clearly unhappy … well over half of the parliamentary Labour party were clearly uncomfortable with the position that was taken by the leadership," Mearns said.

The Gateshead MP said that during last Monday's weekly meeting of the parliamentary Labour party "there wasn't a single person in the room who spoke in agreement with the position being put forward by the leadership team".

His description of the meeting was confirmed by other MPs who did not want to be named.

Mearns said the rebellion by over 40 Labour MPs included a former chief whip, Nick Brown, former housing minister John Healey and a former junior minister, Derek Twigg.

"These people aren't the usual suspects. I think the frontbench had their reasons [for wanting everyone to abstain from voting] but I must admit, I still don't completely understand why we were put into that position in the first instance."

One Labour source said the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, had not wanted to lose fiscal credibility on the eve of the budget by being seen to be favouring a £130m payout to benefit claimants.

Mearns criticised his own shadow frontbench for misunderstanding the nature of the benefit sanctions regime.

"It just seems to me that our frontbench stance is that everybody who's been guilty of some sort of [benefit] infringement and had a sanction against them since 2011 is someone swinging the lead or taking a political stance," he said.

"Gosh, I really do wish there were that many thousands of people who were willing to take a political stance and lose benefits for the sake of putting a marker down against workfare … I just don't think that's the case at all."

Mearns spoke as disgruntled Labour MPs prepared to vent more rage at Monday's planned meeting of the parliamentary Labour party. Many who obeyed the order to abstain anticipate an angry reaction from union backers and activists in their constituencies. "There is a lot of anger still because we were forced to do something that we knew was wrong," he said.

Ed Miliband is not expected to attend the meeting but a source said Liam Byrne, the shadow work and pensions secretary and target of much ire, is likely to be, adding: "The feeling is that left to his own devices we would consistently be voting with the Tories. We urgently need to develop a distinctively Labour approach on welfare and not just keep following the Tories."