Large Lobby for Chris Williamson Outside Labour HQ as Tom Watson and Jon Lansman Sneak into by the Backdoor

As the BBC & the Establishment Step up the War Against Corbyn a 200 strong Lobby Calls for Reinstatement of Chris Williamson

Can you imagine the howls of outrage from the prostitute press and the BBC if it had been Margaret Hodge who was suspended and the NEC had then decided to reject a decision of an NEC panel to reinstate her and instead summon a new panel?

That was what happened yesterday was procedurally outrageous. The panel recommendation to reinstate Chris Williamson was overturned and a new panel appointed.  It’s like a judge rejecting a jury verdict and promptly appointing a new jury.  But of course the press and BBC don’t see it like that because Chris Williamson being a socialist is the enemy.

No doubt if the second panel decides to reinstate Chris we will have a third panel appointed.  Because the ‘evidence’ of anti-Semitism is non-existent.

The process is an entire farce. We can assume that the new panel will do their duty and refer Chris Williamson to the National Kangaroo Committee in order that he can be expelled.  Why?  Because the State of Israel via the so-called Jewish Labour Movement (which in fact has a majority of non-Jews in its ranks) has decreed that the most prominent anti-racist in the Parliamentary Labour Party should be expelled.

This process is not taking place in a vacuum.  It is part of the same process we saw tonight when BBC Panorama ran an hour long programme on ‘anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party.  Not once did the programme question the veracity of ‘anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party despite three-quarters of members rejecting the nonsense of Labour anti-Semitism.

Not once did the BBC programme question why Jewish members of the party had been prominent in the expulsions.  Of course if they had asked those questions it may have turned out that the answer was one which was too uncomfortable for them to handle.

Of course, as this blog has repeatedly pointed out, Jeremy Corbyn made a fatal mistake of accepting the fake anti-Semitism smears.  This allowed his enemies to exploit this concession and go in for the kill. 

The irony is that the witchhunt of Chris Williamson is being led by a man, Tom Watson, who has a long record of racism stretching back to the Birmingham Hodshrove by-election when he told the electorate that Labour was ‘on your side’ unlike the Lib Dems who ‘were on the side of asylum seekers’.  This ghastly man wrote in Labour Uncut about how he had lost sleep thinking about ‘poor Phil’ – the racist Labour MP that the High Court removed from Parliament after he lied about his Lib Dem opponent claiming that he supported Islamic terrorists.

In other words the anti-Semitism witchhunt in the Labour Party is led by racists such as Tom Watson and the millionaire property developer Jon Lansman who literally owns Momentum.

It is clear that the Right will not stop braying until Chris Williamson is expelled. My advice to Chris is to come out fighting and ensure, first of all, that Jackie Walker’s film, The Witchhunt is now shown in Parliament.

Those of us on the Left have a clear task.  To ensure that an independent left is built separate from Momentum.  Momentum, because it lacks all democracy, cannot be reformed.  Momentum was initially born out of the Jeremy Corbyn for leadership campaign.  Today it is in the enemy camp. Next week in Brighton and Hove there will be a crucial meeting of the local Momentum group when there will be a contest between supporters of Lansman and his opponents.

As the supporters of the United States and British imperialism rely on their good friends Tom Watson and the Jewish Labour Movement to do their dirty work inside the Labour Party we have to break with people like Lansman who have openly allied themselves with the supporters and ‘friends’ of the only apartheid state in the world, Israel.

Tony Greenstein

Labour’s Expulsion of Cyril Chilson, a Child of Holocaust Survivors, Says Everything You Need to Know About Labour's 'Antisemitism' Witchhunt

Emina Ibrahim, Vice Chair of Momentum,  A Collaborator in this Racist Outrage

Below is the case of Cyril Chilson, an academic at Oxford University and an ex-Israeli who served as a Captain in the Israeli army.  

Cyril's parents were both Holocaust survivors, including his mother who was a Auschwitz concentration camp.  His father only just escaped the Nazi invasion of Soviet-occupied Poland and went on to fight in the Soviet army.  As such Cyril was an ideal target for the vile racists behind the racist witch-hunt.  Perfect in fact.

Cyril was expelled for two years by Labour’s National Kangaroo Court on March 20^th as part of the fight against 'anti-semitism' in the Labour Party.

Tony Greenstein

Cyril Chilson

Giving the Truth a Voice in Labour's Kangaroo Court

I had been suspended since August 2016. Was it a coincidence that the letter from the Party, informing me about my suspension (following an anonymous (!) ‘complaint’, came through my letter box only a short time after I posted on the Labour website a note in  support of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership?

Be that as it may, it seems that after this extended period of incubation the NEC and the NCC became all of a sudden quite anxious to get things done. Was the impending election of a new General Secretary the stimulus to this newly found efficiency? I was contacted in November 2017 and was given three weeks to respond and find legal representation. The NCC rejected my request to have Tony Greenstein as my legal representative, despite his legal qualifications. When Daniel Bennett, a Barrister from the Doughty Street Chambers volunteered to act on my behalf the NCC agreed at last to defer the hearing. Having been forced to accept that being represented by a lawyer would deprive me of the right to speak during the hearing, I decided to represent myself and give up Mr Bennett’s kind offer. with my wife as my ‘silent friend’. My wife joined me as a ‘silent friend’.

Maggi Cosins - the Right-wing GMB Chair of the National Kangaroo Court

We arrived at the hearing venue, the Jurys Inn Hotel in Oxford where the NCC panel met. The panel was chaired by one Maggie Cousins. Her lieutenants were Emina Ibrahim and Douglas Fairbairn. The ‘prosecutor’ (appearing here under the bureaucratic euphemism: ‘presenter’) was a certain Dan Hogan from the infamous Compliance Unit. A young trainee-apparatchik with a title to match: ‘Investigations Officer’. He was accompanied by Louise Withers-Green, an even younger ‘silent friend’.

 The session began with Mr Hogan’s presentation i.e. the charges against me. He homed in on an assortment of my tweets which were the sole material used as ‘evidence’ by the NEC industrious investigators.

A mass grave in Belzec, which was a pure extermination camp

Hogan pulled out of nowhere  the Chakrabarti Report. To the best of my knowledge this report may have been endorsed by the Party, but not implemented. I tried to question the use of the Chakrabarti Report ad hoc while the official status of this document remains unclear. At this point the Chair, Ms Cosins started to shout at me: “If you go on like this, you will have to leave the room.”  Hogan ‘apologised’ for not having added the said report to the bundle and dispatched Jane Shaw, Secretary to the NCC, to photocopy the pages thereof. The same thing happened with Hogan’s reliance on the IHRA definition which was called into question by me. I referred Hogan and the panel to the resolution of the last Party conference whereby the endorsement of the definition for Antisemitism which was laid down by  IHRA in 2016, was limited to the preamble, not to the examples which follow it. Once again, the Chair chided me: ‘Keep this for your own presentation’. When I tried to clarify that this was a procedural issue, given that this material did not appear in the bundle and the Party’s own rules make it clear that no further evidence can be accepted after the deadline of evidence submissions, I was once again facing a threat from the Chair: “Enough of this. I have been very tolerant up until now”.

Hogan’s presentation was chequered with personal insults and mendacious statements. He did not refrain from character assassination by association aimed even at  those who were already expelled from the Party during the present witch hunt:  “Mr Chilson”, announced Hogan in dramatic pathos, “wanted to be represented by Tony Greenstein. This was followed by Mr Chilson dismissing Mr Daniel Bennett, a Barrister who volunteered to act on his behalf. One wonders why”. Mr Hogan seems to have forgotten that innuendo and indeed innuendo based on lawyer-client relationship (which is meant to be confidential), is unacceptable. What one should have really wondered in this context, is how come Mr Hogan knew that I had ‘dismissed’ Mr Bennett? He wasn’t briefed by Mr Bennett, surely?

Dr Joseph Mengele, the SS Doctor known as the Angel of Death

This was followed by a failure of Hogan’s reasoning. “Mr Chilson refused to engage with the NEC investigation”. When I reminded him that I did answer the questionnaire which was sent to me and asked him how this can be squared with my attendance which on the face of it contradicts his postulate, he ignored my question and instead the Chair again reprimanded me: “Don’t talk over him!” despite the fact that I never did so. In fact, Ms Cosins herself kept interrupting me time and again.

One of the charges against me was hinged on one of my tweets about Zionism whereby I reminded my interlocutor that following the Boycott of German goods  which the Jewish leadership in the US had organised after the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Nazis had swallowed their racist pride for fear of the impact on Germany’s frail economy and agreed to negotiate with the Zionist Federation, forced to treat the Zionist representatives as their equals.  Hogan tried to liken this to an act of Holocaust denial dubbing it ‘historical revisionism’. When I mentioned that I was a son of Holocaust survivors and therefore could not be anti-Semitic let alone a Holocaust denier, Hogan said “I only refer to the evidence, I don’t know you”… I went on to ask him if he was a trained historian with an expertise on the history of the Zionist movement in Nazi Germany. He admitted he was ‘no expert’. At this stage the Chair intervened: “I know everything about the history of Nazi Germany and everything about Jewish history  and I want this to stop and I want it to stop now! We are not here for a history lesson!”

Children in the Lodz Ghetto, which was the second largest ghetto after Warsaw in Poland and which survived almost till the end of the war

Was the Chair of the Kangaroo Court becoming concerned as Dan Hogan was losing ground?

Another contention which demonstrates the falsehood of the charges and the way in which they were looked at by the panel revolved around my tweet about the pro-Israeli lobby in the UK and those who run it. I highlighted the pivotal role of two individuals connected with the arms trade, Hogan tried to portray this as an attempt to present the UK Jewish community as a collective whose loyalty to the UK is questionable. Hogan went on to refer to it as a ‘typical anti-Semitic trope’. Likewise, drawing on one of my tweets in which I argued that ‘Jewish solidarity is not a sentiment but an investment’ he tried to develop this theme and claim that by criticising certain British Jews I was employing an anti-Semitic stereotype whereby Jews around the globe are collectively responsible for the policies and acts of the State of Israel.  ‘The investment’ theme’, declared Hogan, ‘is a typical reference to Jewish greed and manipulative behaviour’. 

When I reminded Hogan that even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day, he was struggling with the meaning of this metaphor. I had to explain to the puzzled ‘presenter’ that the existence of anti-Semitic tropes does not exclude the existence of Jewish individuals who sadly behave in a way reminiscent of those repulsive generalisations. If we were to refrain from criticising them because they happen to be Jewish, we betray the truth and by remaining silent we actually join the oppressors.  I also reiterated a claim which Hogan tried to dispute and found himself in a pickle due to his ignorance of Jewish contemporary history: the leadership of the Jewish communities in the western world (particularly in the US and the UK), adopted a policy of ‘right or wrong my country’ vis-à-vis the State of Israel especially since the coming to power of Likud in 1977. This is not a ‘trope’ or a ‘stereotype’ but a historical fact.

Emina Ibrahim - Vice Chair of Momentum goes along with all McNicol's expulsions

I referred Hogan to an article by the American Jewish columnist Jonathan Weissman on this specific issue, published only four days beforehand in the New York Times. Weissman criticises the American Jewish leadership for being ‘obsessive’ about Israel. So much so, that the community leaders had neglected domestic Jewish-American issues such as the  rising home-grown anti-Semitism. They also refrained from criticising the rise of far right anti-Semitism in Europe as this did not suit the Israeli foreign policy.  As regards Anglo- Jewry, Hogan kept ignoring my references to a study  by a Jewish sociologist from London City University which corroborated my claim that the majority of Jews in Britain regard the State of Israel as an essential part of their self-identity. Among these, 71% accept (to a variable extent) Israel’s policies in the occupied territories even if they are unhappy about parts or all of them.  All of this was labelled as ‘typical anti-Semitic conspiracy theories’.

Hogan asked me or rather stated at some point: “so like most anti-Semites you think that all the Jewish community in the UK are in Israel’s pocket or collaborators of Hasbarah!” (the Israeli state-sponsored propaganda system). I said: No. No one could say such a thing about the late Sir Gerald Kauffman or the late Harold Pinter or the excellent members of Jewish Voice for Labour or Labour against the Witch Hunt, but these are, alas, the exception.  Let me remind you that certain dignitaries in the Jewish community called not to vote Labour in 2015 because ‘Ed Miliband’ as they put ‘is not one of us’.  Was it the bacon bap that he ate in public or rather his (fairly moderate) criticism of Israel that made Miliband fall afoul of them?

Cyril's father fought at Kursk, the largest tank battle in the second world war

When I was suspended I used (and I still do so) to tweet the headlines concerning the atrocities committed by Israel in the Palestinian territories. I added to those headlines the rhetorical question: ‘is reporting this anti-Semitic?’ Hogan tried to claim that by doing so I was mocking the very concept of anti-Semitism and thus “denying the Jewish people the language  to describe their persecution by a deliberate attempt of  hijacking the  definition of what anti-Semitism is”. Hogan failed to realise that he was actually conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism contrary to his own admission that ‘criticising Israel is not anti-Semitic’ and therefore he himself was actually denying me any language to describe the unpleasant truth. Certain Israeli Jews have become persecutors and certain Jews abroad support them by trying to gag anyone who dares to tell this simple and horrible truth.

“Are you denying”, asked Dan Hogan, relishing his freshly-baked scholasticism, “that by sending those tweets you were distracting from actual anti-Semitic acts which deserve redress and indeed, by doing so you were denying Jewish people the language to describe the prejudice, discrimination and hatred they are subject to? And if you do deny it, what for should a reasonable person send these questions? Who was meant to answer them?”

Here I had to remind the already ecstatic Mr Hogan that rhetorical questions were not meant to be answered. The Chair interjected: “we all know what a rhetorical question means.”

“Apparently not” I replied.

“Well, answer then:  what was the purpose of all of this? “

“Telling the truth and opposing the gagging by false accusations of anti-Semitism” I replied.

Mr Hogan wanted to continue but the Chair signalled him to stop. She seems to have realised that even in a Kangaroo Court, silly questions must be asked measuredly.

Now presented itself an opportunity for the hitherto silent panellist namely Ms  Emina Ibrahim to share with me her own pearls of wisdom: “Well, perhaps this is an issue of cultural differences. Take me for example: I am of Turkish – Cypriot background. In my culture we often use rhetorical questions to express displeasure or exasperation or at time, over-excitement. Perhaps this was an unnoticed return to your personal culture of origin?’

The question is whether she is going to continue where her predecessor, Crooked McNicol left off 

Cyril was the victim of this vile racist, Iain McNicol

I was profoundly shocked and I hope that my speechlessness may have allowed Ms Ibrahim to consider her question as  a rhetorical one, and therefore, a question not meant  to be answered.

Mr Hogan’s ‘cross examination’ featured repeated insinuations such as: “Have you been aware of the inflammatory nature of your twits?”, “Can you understand that your tweets come across as offensive?” “How do you feel about causing pain to Jewish members of Labour?” “Do you think that comments such as yours would make Labour an attractive and safe place for Jewish voters?”

I stressed time and again that I never meant to hurt anyone. I likewise apologised for any feelings which may have been hurt but at the same time I expressed my belief that mature and constructive politics must not involve sentiments. Rather, it must be realistic, truthful and logical. I then told the panellists how I was abused by one of the most active pro-Israel accounts on Twitter whose handle is @GnasherJew. This hitherto  anonymous operator (whose identity seems to have been revealed by now) did not refrain from appealing to the Oxford College in which I teach, requesting the College to sack me while adding an abusive description  of myself.

My account of the abusive and slanderous behaviour of @GnasherJew was simply ignored.  The above are of course only snippets from what went on during my hearing.  I concluded my summations by saying: “I never imagined, when I proudly joined the Party, that I, son of Holocaust survivors, would have to defend myself against allegations of anti-Semitism against other Party members who have chosen to use a weaponizing of anti-Semitism to achieve their political targets . You may disagree with me but expelling me from the Party will be tantamount to spitting on the non-existent graves of the Holocaust victim, including those of my extended family.”

The Chair asked me after my concluding remarks: “Do you think your hearing was a fair one?”

“I think this question is unfair. I do have some misgivings about what went on here today, but I hope to be proven wrong”. I replied, trying hard to maintain a calm tone, hoping I was not showing my indignation and disgust at this ostensibly-innocent question.

There was a break of 30 minutes. When we returned to the room the Chair said: “The panel has decided that the charges against you have been proven. I want to remind you that we are able to expel you and would like to ask you whether there were any mitigating circumstances?”

So I was not proven wrong after all. This was indeed a kangaroo court that was apparently one track minded.

At this point, I decided that this farce had to be brought to an end. I grabbed my briefcase and said: “This was a colossal waste of time. Good bye!”

“Hang on! Don’t go! We haven’t reached a decision as yet!” Shouted the Chair in a last attempt to keep a façade of fairness. Me and my wife kept  walking and did not look back.

The letter with the expulsion for two years decision, arrived on the following Saturday. I found particularly repulsive the concluding paragraph:

“If you apply to re-join you will not be eligible to have your join date backdated to give you continuity with an earlier period of membership.”

BACKGROUND TO CYRIL CHILSON

Cyril Chilson was born in Petakh Tikva, near Tel Aviv, Israel, into a family of holocaust survivors.

His father Leon came from Drohobycz, a town situated south-west of Lwow, the regional capital of what used to be between the two world wars, the province of Galicia in Eastern Poland (now, part of Western Ukraine). Following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact Cyril’s father transferred to a technical school which was run by Red Army personnel. When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Leon joined the retreating school personnel twenty-four hours before the invading troops reached his hometown. Leon was drafted and trained by the Red Air Force as a combat pilot. He first saw action in air battles at the Finnish Front during the Soviet-Finnish Continuation War and later took part in the battles of Kursk and Stalingrad where his aircraft was shot down by a German anti-aircraft battery. Despite being wounded Leon managed to down a German fighter aircraft before parachuting himself out of his fire-engulfed plane. Nonetheless, he managed to make it to the nearest Soviet outpost with four (half-frozen) German soldiers he captured single-handedly en route. For this feat, he was decorated with the Soviet  Order of Glory (Russian: Орден Славы).

Lodzia, Cyril’s mother, was transferred in 1942 from her hometown Ozorkow in Central Poland, to the Lodz ghetto. Having survived there nearly two years, she was deported in summer 1944 together with her mother and sister to Auschwitz. Upon arrival Dr Mengele, who was in charge examined the newly-arrived and with his index finger decided who will be killed instantly and who could still make themselves useful to the Reich through hard labour. Lodzia and her mother Helena were granted the privilege to work for the Germans. However, Lodzia suddenly noticed that her sister was sent to the queue on  ‘the opposite side,’ i.e. to instant gassing in the crematoria. Lodzia dared to try and flatter  Dr Mengele  (speaking unasked to an SS officer, was deemed suicidal). Lodzia hoped to flatter Mengele by calling out towards him: ‘Herr Feldmarschall!.’ Instead of shooting her in the head (as everyone expected), Mengele asked Lodzia what he could do for her. Lodzia did again the unimaginable. She insisted (another taboo in the relations between Jews and Nazis) that an error had occurred. Her sister, she claimed,  was young and healthy and perfectly fit for work. Mengele asked Lodzia to point at her sister (the stunned inmates thought he wanted to murder both sisters to discourage any future impertinence). Lodzia did as she was  told and to the amazement of everyone present, Mengele ordered to remove Perla, Lodzia’s sister from the death queue and reunite her with her family among those destined momentarily for life.

Lodzia, Perla and their mother Helena survived the Holocaust. They were liberated by the Red Army in Terezienstadt, Czechoslovakia. After three years in a Displaced Persons camp near Munich, they emigrated to Israel. Lodzia trained as a nurse and met Leon who arrived in Israel from France. Leon returned to Poland after the war  only to find out that the Nazis murdered his entire family (parents and two younger siblings)  in the concentration camp of Belzec in south-eastern Poland. He moved to Paris where he studied engineering. With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1951 and despite not being a Zionist, Leon chose to come to Israel. He became a senior official at the Israel Electric Company but passed away following a cardiac arrest aged 48.

Cyril  was educated at the first Hebrew secondary school in the world, Ha-Gymnasiya Ha-Ivrit Herzliyah in Tel Aviv (founded: 1906) and after his military service which was spent almost entirely in the occupied West Bank (where he witnessed the instrumentality of the  IDF  in the daily oppression of the Palestinian population), Cyril served  in Lebanon during the first Lebanon War in 1982 where he witnessed the treachery of the then secretary of defence General Ariel Sharon, who was responsible for  the infamous  massacre of thousands of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps on the outskirts of Beirut. As a reservist Cyril who is fluent in several  lanaguages, was transferred to the IDF spokesman unit and served there  as a liasion officer to foreign press. Cyril read Classics and History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem graduating with distinction. He worked as a journalist in the printed and electronic media. Cyril was news editor at the defunct Al Hamishmar Daily, the organ of the United Workers Party (MAPAM- also defunct) and served as news editor at Channel 1 of the Israeli TV. Alongside his socialist convictions he has been a staunch opponent of the Israeli occupation and supporter of justice for the Palestinian people. Cyril came to the UK as a post-graduate student and wrote a doctoral thesis at Brasenose College, Oxford about the 5^th century Palestinian-born  church historian Sozomenus of Bethelia (near Gaza). Cyril teaches at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. He is married to Dr Tali Chilson, a scholar of Jewish thought and Hebrew literature. They have two grown-up sons. He and his family have been naturalised as British Citizens. They live in Oxford.

Marc Wadsworth Victim of a Racist Witch-hunt - Framed by the Jewish Labour Movement & Ruth Smeeth MP

Say no to the victimisation of Black activists at the behest of the world’s only Apartheid State, Israel

Veteran anti-racist campaigner Marc Wadsworth is one of the many members of the Labour Party who have been unjustly suspended from the Labour Party. The National Kangaroo (Constitutional) Committee will decide next Wednesday if Marc should be expelled from the party. Judging by previous cases he can expect no justice.

Marc was first expelled and then readmitted only to be suspended after the launch of the Chakrabarti Report at a press conference 30^th June 2016.  

When Marc questioned why Labour MP Ruth Smeeth seemed to be trading information with that well known Labour supporting paper, the Daily Telegraph, he was immediately accused of ‘anti-Semitism’ on the prompting of Kevin Schofield, an ex-Sun journalist.  Marc was making the point about how few Black faces there were at a Press Conference that was supposed to be about racism in the Labour Party.

Although Marc had never, at any time, referred to Ruth Smeeth as Jewish, because he didn’t know that she was Jewish, Smeeth immediately got up on her hind legs screeching ‘how dare you, how dare you’ as if she had been embarrassed by her Black servant in front of polite company.  Immediately the lies started.  Marc had mentioned the press, therefore it was a ‘trope’ about Jewish control of the media.  That is how these people work.

Ruth Smeeth, the Lying Zionist MP who faked Victimhood at the Chakrabarti Press Conference

Ruth Smeeth doing her best to damage Labour and oust Corbyn

This week Smeeth has been the ‘hero’ of the false ‘anti-Semitism’ debate in the House of Commons.  The Tories held the debate in order to give an opportunity to the Labour Right - Smeeth, John Mann and Luciana Berger – to attack their own leader Jeremy Corbyn.  It was a Tory-Labour Right love fest. Smeeth read out 10 messages of ‘abuse’ she had received. Only 1 was explicitly anti-Semitic and all of them revolved  around her support for the Israeli state. 

It is unfortunate and unacceptable that some people react to support for the self-styled ‘Jewish’ state by resorting to anti-Semitism but the blame rests firmly with those who imply that Israel is acting on behalf of all Jews.  

See 50 Years After Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood Speech’ Parliament Debates Fake ‘Anti-Semitism’ and Applauds Zionist MPs Luciana Berger and Ruth Smeeth

Luciana Berger, Zionist anti-Corbyn MP

Smeeth is a senior officer in the Jewish Labour Movement.  The JLM is the British wing of the Israeli Labour Party, a Jewish supremacist, segregationist party responsible for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.  It is a Zionist party which supports Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to deport 40,000 Black African refugees from Israel.

Smeeth is an ardent Zionist.  Her allegations of 'anti-semitism' against Marc Wadsworth are a smear whose real purpose is to undermine the Corbyn leadership of the Labour Party and to outlaw criticism of the world’s only apartheid state.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with anti-Semitism.

Stephen Lawrence

As viewers of BBC 1’s documentary on Stephen Lawrence will have seen this week, Marc was an integral part of the campaign to uncover the truth about who killed Stephen and to hold the Metropolitan Police to account.

Thanks to the long campaign, two of his killers, Gary Dobson and David Norris, were eventually gaoled. The MacPherson Inquiry which was held labelled the Metropolitan Police institutionally racist.  Despite having played no part whatsoever in this campaign the JLM attempted to hijack and pervert the conclusions of this Inquiry to suggest that Jewish Zionists, i.e. the supporters of settler colonialism, should be allowed to define themselves as victims of ‘anti-Semitism’ even though Jews in this country, unlike Black and Asian people, do not suffer from state or Police racism. In other words Jews who are Zionist and who object to criticism of Israel can then turn around and say they are a ‘victim’.

Gary Dobson (left) and David Norris - gaoled for life for the murder of Stephen Lawrence 

This is identity politics gone mad.  Imagine what use might have been made of this nonsense if White Afrikaaners had taken advantage of it. They could have proclaimed themselves the victim when people criticised Apartheid.  Indeed that is what the National Front and BNP tried to do with their 'Rights for Whites' campaigns.

Stephen Lawrence's Family

At the moment the false anti-Semitism campaign is in full cry.  It was started off by another professional Israel supporter, Luciana Berger MP who produced out of a hat a 6 year old Facebook post by Jeremy Corbyn concerning a mural in the East End that was alleged to be anti-Semitic.  Berger and Smeeth’s main concerns are for the Israeli state rather than their constituents.  Smeeth has been exposed by Wikileaks as a source for the US Embassy.

According to the logic of identity politics, since Jewish Zionists are now a protected minority so should White racists be 

This lobby is extremely important.  It is high time that we derailed this campaign of destabilisation aimed at Corbyn.  It is a tragedy that Momentum, 40,000 strong – is actually aiding and abetting the witchhunt with the active connivance of Jon Lansman.

Please come along to the Lobby and make your voice heard: Solidarity with Marc!

EXCLUSIVE - The Lies of Ruth Smeeth MP led to the suspension of Marc Wadsworth

See Mark Wadsworth in BBC's Stephen Lawrence - the murder that change a nation - Series 1 - the loss of joy

Wes Streeting ‘shouts in Dianne Abbott’s face’ and arranges march against ‘Windrush child’

Centrist MP for Ilford North Wes Streeting's week has resulted in him being accused of having 'questions to answer' about a 'worrying pattern of behaviour'.

Streeting has clashed twice with Labour front-bencher Diane Abbott - and has sent an email inviting colleagues and others to join him next week in a show of strength against a black Labour activist and 'Windrush child'.

Diane Abbott

Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott has suffered the most vile abuse - receiving almost half of all abuse received by female MPs in the run-up to the General Election. She has spoken movingly of the terrible hate-messages she receives on a daily basis.

On Tuesday, she had just spoken in a parliamentary debate - about personal abuse she has received, the seriousness with which Labour treats the issue of antisemitism and the measures the party is taking to combat it. Ms Abbott also made a number of points that the Haredi Jewish community had asked her to raise - and for which the community praised her later.

As Home Secretary Amber Rudd began to respond, Streeting made an intervention - to side against his own party - and against Abbott's representations on behalf of the Jewish community in her constituency.

(left to right)  Wes Streeting, Diane Abbot, Marc Wadsworth

Mr Streeting wasn't finished. In a parliamentary corridor, Streeting is alleged to have literally shouted in Ms Abbott's face, standing toe to toe with her and screaming 'not my party!', in front of a number of onlookers.

Witnesses described Streeting's behaviour as so intimidating that he had to be physically steered away from the Labour front-bencher.

Marc Wadsworth, left, introducing Stephen Lawrence's family to Nelson Mandela

Marc Wadsworth is a veteran black Labour activist. He featured in the BBC's documentary about Stephen Lawrence, "Stephen, the murder that changed a nation" this week, when he was seen introducing Stephen's mother Doreen to the late South African president Nelson Mandela.

Wadsworth was suspended by the party last year after challenging Labour MP Ruth Smeeth at the launch of the Chakrabarti report, who then walked out of the meeting.

Ms Smeeth quoted Wadsworth as accusing her of a 'media conspiracy', a well-known antisemitic trope, but video evidence showed that Wadsworth had not said that.

His exact words were:

I saw that the Telegraph handed a copy of a press release to Ruth Smeeth MP so you can see who is working hand in hand. If you look around this room, how many African, Caribbean and Asian people are there? We need to get our house in order, don't we?

Wadsworth's complaint was about the lack of representation for BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) people - an issue he continues to fight for in spite of his suspension, as he was instrumental in the recent launch of the Grassroots Black Left group.

Wadsworth was initially summarily expelled from the Labour Party but reinstated and suspended after his lawyers wrote to Labour’s compliance unit pointing out that it had acted unlawfully and not in accordance with the party’s rules.

Neither the expulsion letter nor the suspension notification mentioned allegations of antisemitism – that charge was added over six months later, in January 2017.

Since then, he has remained suspended – in spite of a public letter of support printed in the Guardian from twelve prominent supporters including black and Jewish activists - and Wadsworth has felt so severely attacked that he felt compelled to crowdfund to have full legal representation at his disciplinary hearing next week.

In the same week as his issues with Diane Abbott, Wes Streeting sent the following message to parliamentary colleagues:

Apologies for the impersonal message, but I wonder if I can enlist you to provide some practical moral support for our friend and colleague Ruth Smeeth next Wednesday morning (25th April)?

She is giving evidence against Mark Wadsworth - the guy who abused her at the antisemitism inquiry launch - and we expect there to be a protest outside against her.

To give Ruth some moral support and solidarity, I am assembling a group of Labour MPs and Peers in Westminster Hall at 940am. We will then walk with Ruth to Church House nearby. We won’t be allowed in with her, but I can’t tell you how much a strong turnout will mean to her - and how much better it would be if we outnumber the protesters.

So, if you can make it let me know by email or text.

Wednesday 25th April
940am
Westminster Hall

Thanks for your support,

Wes Streeting

Readers will judge for themselves whether the video above of Wadsworth's challenge to Ms Smeeth constitutes 'abuse'.

But while it is clear that no abuse of Ms Smeeth en route to the hearing can be condoned, Streeting's email also represents an attempt to counter demonstrations in support of a suspended black activist's attempt to clear his name of allegations he insists are unfounded.

Wadsworth told the SKWAWKBOX:

It's ironic that in this week of media attention on the Tories' abuse of the Windrush generation, I find Wes trying to organise a parliamentary protest against me, in spite of the evidence.

My dad came to this country from Jamaica at his own expense during World War Two to join the RAF to fight against the nazis. He went back in 1946 but then came back to the UK on the Windrush in 1948 - I'm a Windrush child.

Given his two or three tweets this week condemning the government's treatment of the Windrush generation, I'd have hoped Wes would be supporting a Windrush descendant who's fighting for the representation of black and Asian people in the Labour Party, but it seems that's not going to happen.

Taken together with his clashes with Diane Abbott this week, it represents a worrying pattern of behaviour and Wes has questions to answer.

The SKWAWKBOX contacted Mr Streeting for comment. At the time of publication, he had not responded.