David Evans email stating that Jews feel unsafe when faced with robust debate is about as anti-Semitic as it gets
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It should be a statement of the obvious that the Labour Right has never been interested in opposing
racism. That is why, if there was no other reason, their concern with
‘anti-Semitism’ is a brazen lie.
It was New Labour that
demonised asylum seekers and used Islamaphobia to discipline Britain’s Muslim
communities. It is why you never hear anything from them today about the Windrush
Scandal, the continuing deportation of Black people to the Caribbean or Grenfell Tower. As we all know, Black Lives Matter was only a 'moment'.
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The ‘anti-Semitism’ the Right constantly talk about is always at the level of the metaphysical. It has no
concrete manifestations. Black people are subject to Stop and Search,
Windrush deportations, Police violence and disproportionate imprisonment,
coupled with economic discrimination. Which of these applies to British Jews? None is the answer.
All the leading lights in
the fake ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign are themselves racists. Take Tom Watson who
declared that he wouldn’t rest until the last ‘anti-Semite’ was expelled from
the Labour Party. This is the same Tom Watson who issued a leaflet as Campaign
Manager in the Hodge Hill by-election of 2004, which declared that "Labour is on your side – the Lib Dems are on
the side of failed asylum seekers".
Watson gave unflinching
support to Phil Woolas, who fought the 2010 General Election on a platform of Islamaphobia. He painted his Lib-Dem opponent as a supporter of violent Jihadism. So outrageous were
Woolas’s lies that the High Court removed him from Parliament. Woolas fought
the campaign on the basis of ‘making
the White folk angry.’
John Mann, the ‘anti-Semitism
Czar’ was also very concerned about ‘anti-Semitism’ but this didn’t stop
him demonising Gypsies and Roma. In 2007 he brought out the Bassetlaw
anti-social behaviour handbook which listed Travellers alongside Alcohol,
Fireworks, Rubbish, Neighbours from Hell, Noisy Neighbours and Alcohol as a
problem of anti-social behaviour.
Support
for the Israeli state and Zionism is strongest amongst neo-Nazis and the far-Right. Strange that. In the German
Bundestag the most
pro-Zionist party is the far-Right AfD, which contains a large number of
neo-Nazis. From Tommy
Robinson to the neo-Nazi founder of the alt-Right Richard Spencer (a
‘white Zionist’) today's neo-Nazis are the foremost supporters of Zionism
and Israel’s ethno-religious nationalism. No better example of this phenomenon
is Donald Trump himself. Trump has no hesitation in indulging
the anti-Semitism of his followers yet he is also the most pro-Zionist
President there has ever been.
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The answer to this
conundrum is simplicity itself. Fascists and anti-Semites admire Israel because
the ‘Jewish’ state is the kind of state they aspire to create. It is an
ethno-nationalist state that has complete disregard for minorities within its
borders and maintains a violent racist occupation over the West Bank which
makes Apartheid South Africa seem a children’s playground in comparison.
When I was interviewed after being suspended by the Labour Party as part of the 'anti-Semitism' witchhunt I was asked about a post in which I said that Israel is waiting for the holocaust survivors to die in order that it can save on welfare benefits. I was asked nothing about anti-Semitism.
This kind of criticism of Israel, which draws on the holocaust, is anti-Semitic
according to the IHRA definition of ‘anti-Semitism’. The only problem was that I was quoting from
the headline
of an article in the Israeli paper Ha'aretz! Perhaps they too are anti-Semitic? Idiot Harry Gregson who interviewed me, before jumping ship to the Independent Group certainly thought so.
The Zionist movement,
which fought against the rescue of
Jews from Hitler’s clutches during the ongoing holocaust, actively seeking to prevent
Jews seeking refuge in countries other than Palestine, has exploited the
holocaust as a means of warding off criticism. The holocaust has
been very profitable to Israel. It
enabled Israel to build its
submarine fleet courtesy of West Germany as well as obtain monetary reparations. In return Israel gave
West Germany a kosher certificate that enabled it to be accepted as a
key member of NATO.
The symbol of Israel’s
exploitation was the creation of Yad Vashem, a holocaust propaganda museum, which sought to portray Arab opposition to Zionism as being an extension of
Nazi hatred of the Jews. Yad Vashem was built
almost next door to the village of Deir Yassin (Givat Shaul) which was subject
to a terrible massacre in April 1948 when over 100 Arabs – men, women and
children – were slaughtered with knives and grendades by the Irgun terror
militia. Yet when a guide to Yad Vashem, Itamar Shapira pointed this out he was
instantly dismissed for
‘politicising’ the holocaust.
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If pointing
out the comparisons between the Jewish and Palestinian tragedy is unacceptable
to Yad Vashem then what is acceptable is the invitation it extends to neo-Nazis
and Hitler worshippers. This first began under the Israeli Labour Government of
Yitzhak Rabin when John Vorster, the Prime Minister of South Africa was invited to
Israel in 1976. As is always the case with state visitors they are taken to Yad
Vashem so that they are made aware of the fact that Israel derives its
legitimacy from the tragedy of European Jews. The fact that Vorster had been interned during
the war as a Nazi supporter made no difference.
Since then a whole flock
of neo-Nazi and far-Right visitors have made the compulsory pilgrimage to Yad
Vashem. These include two leaders who have openly praised Hitler! Brazil’s Bolsonaro
and Philippines Duterte.
Then there was Austria’s Jorg
Haider leader of the Freedom Party, which was founded by a former member of
the SS. Not leaving out the world’s premier
anti-Semitic ruler, Viktor Orban of Hungary. Orban praised
Hungary’s pro-Nazi leader Admiral Horthy who presided over the deportation of
nearly half a million Jews to Auschwitz, as an ‘exceptional statesman’. Orban’s visit provoked protests
outside by holocaust survivors but that doesn't stop Netanyahu being best friends with Orban.
One of the lessons of the holocaust is that no refugee or asylum
seeker should be turned away like Jewish refugees were. Israel refuses to grant asylum to any non-Jewish refugees.
Not only Netanyahu but the whole political spectrum of Zionist opinion, including
the Israeli
Labour Party, has supported attempts to deport Israel’s 40,000 Black
African Jews because they are not Jewish.
It should therefore not be a surprise that a Knesset committee has just proposed Effi Eitam, a right-wing hawk and an avowed racist, to become
the next Chair of Yad Vashem. It really is a fitting appointment and I only
hope that no one impedes his appointment. In 2006 Eitam made these comments:
We
will have to do three things: expel most of the Arabs of Judea and Samaria
[West Bank] from here. It is impossible with all these Arabs and it is
impossible to give up the territory, because we have already seen what they are
doing there. Some may be able to stay under certain conditions, but most will
have to go. We will have to make another decision, and that is to kick out the
Israeli Arabs from the political system. Here, too, things are clear as day: we
have created a fifth column, a group of first-degree traitors, so we cannot
continue to allow such a hostile and large presence in Israel’s political
system. Third, in the face of the Iranian threat, we will have to act
differently from everything we have done until today. These are three things
that will require a change in our ethics of warfare.
Those with a sense of history will understand that the legend of the
‘stab in the back’ and a ‘fifth column’ were integral to the German nationalist myths that circulated in the wake of Germany's defeat in the first World War that
Germany had lost, not because of any military failure but because of the treacherous Jews. Eitam is indeed
an appropriate appointment.
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Why do I mention
this? Because if Jeremy Corbyn had
indeed introduced anti-Semitism to the Labour Party, if anti-Semitism was
indeed a problem in the Labour Party then the Jewish Labour Movement and the
Zionist lobby would not have been in the slightest bit interested. Zionism has never fought anti-Semitism. The Board
of Deputies has never called an
anti-racist demonstration in its history.
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In 1936 the Board told Jews not to oppose Moseley’s Blackshirts at
the Battle of Cable Street. In the 1970s
it spent most of its time attacking the Anti-Nazi League not the National
Front. Hence its demonstration in March 2018, purportedly against Corbyn’s
‘anti-Semitism’ attracted people like Norman Tebbit and Ian Paisley Jnr.. If
the Board had been in the slightest concerned about anti-Semitism it would have
pulled up Boris Johnson about the anti-Semitic
comments about Jewish media moguls fixing election results in Russia in his
2004 novel 72
Virgins.
The Board was no more
interested in 2004 about Johnson’s anti-Semitism than it was in Jacob Rees
Mogg’s anti-Semitic comments
about the Illuminati. What you haven’t heard about Mogg’s comments? Well of
course you haven’t because the press wasn’t interested. Now if Corbyn had made
the comments it would have been front page news.
If there is one truth that people should assimilate it is that the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign against Corbyn had nothing whatever to do with anti-Semitism. It is because of Corbyn’s political cowardice and inability to understand Zionism that instead of facing it down he accepted the allegations and then tried to run with them. The faster Corbyn and Formby expelled people the more they proved that the accusations of the Board of Deputies were true and the greater the demands made upon them.
The graphic below is taken from Labour's leaked Report. Corbyn and his office (LOTO) pressurised the Compliance Unit into expelling me, Jackie Walker, Ken Livingstone and Marc Wadsworth. Why? To 'reestablish trust' with the Jewish community. Well we were expelled but did the Zionists shut up? Of course not. They simply upped their demands and then stabbed Corbyn in the back.
That is why the statement
of Andrew Scatterbrain, Chair of Momentum, that Corbyn’s suspension imperiled
the ‘fight against anti-Semitism’ was so pathetic. The ‘fight against
anti-Semitism’ has never been anything other than a fight against Corbynism and
socialism. The idea that Starmer and his glove puppet David Evans were
seriously concerned about racism against Jews or any other group should be left
for children’s bed time stories.
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| Extract from p.306, Labour's Leaked Report - Jeremy Corbyn Dug his Own Grave - was trust rebuilt when Jackie, Ken, Marc and myself were expelled? Of course not. The Zionists demanded more. |
When Evans sent out an
email ordering constituencies not to pass resolutions supporting Corbyn who did
he use as his political stage props?
Jews of course. Not actual Jews. Most
Jews in the Labour Party are not Zionists. He was referring to Jews in the Jewish Labour Movement who have largely entered Labour with the purpose of opposing Corbyn. Most would be equally
at home in the Tory Party. The JLM was refounded
in 2015 to oppose Corbyn. The JLM, like its ‘sister
party’ the ILP is as hostile to socialism and anti-racism as Nigel Farage’s
Brexit Party.
I have therefore submitted
a complaint to Labour’s Complaint Unit. The email Evans sent to CLPs and MPs saying Jews would be made uncomfortable by motions
supporting Corbyn contains at least 3 anti-Semitic tropes.
i.
It rests on the anti-Semitic stereotype of the weak and
sensitive Jew unable to withstand vigorous argument or debate.
ii.
It proceeds on the assumption that all Jews are supporters of
the Labour Right and Starmer.
iii.
It uses Jews as pawns in Starmer’s war with the left.
Meanwhile
I hope people enjoy the latest cartoon of Steve Bell to be censored
by the Guardian’s despicable editor, Kath Viner. I’ve been asked why someone
who put on My
Name is Rachel Corrie should at the same time become the Guardian’s most
Zionist editor in 50 years. I guess that
a £350,000 salary has its temptations.
Below is my complaint to Labour's Complaints Unit. I have every confidence that Evans will be looking for new employment!
Tony
Greenstein
National Complaints Team, The Labour Party, Southside,
105 Victoria Street LONDON SW1E 6QT
Email to complaints@labour.org.uk and Submitted via Complaints Form
Dear
Complaints Unit,
Re: A Complaint
Against David Evans for Anti-Semitism
I wish to
make a complaint against the Labour Party’s General Secretary, David Evans.
When Keir Starmer was elected as leader of the Labour Party he pledged
to “tear out this poison (anti-Semitism)
by its roots”. Unfortunately when
Jennie Formby was forced to resign Starmer appointed an anti-Semite in her
place.
On 30th
October Starmer suspended
Jeremy Corbyn for stating
that
‘the scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for
political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by
much of the media.’
What
Corbyn said was self-evidently true. The mere fact that the allegations of
anti-Semitism were supported by the racist Tory tabloids and politicians such
as Boris Johnson makes it clear that anti-Semitism did not spontaneously spring
up the moment Corbyn became leader. The fact that anti-Zionist Jews as well as
Black and Muslim anti-racists were suspended or expelled is proof of this.
What
is remarkable is that Labour’s right-wing MPs, who were complicit in the
Windrush Scandal, were so troubled by ‘anti-Semitism’. Just 6 Labour MPs,
amongst whom was Jeremy Corbyn, voted
against the
Immigration Act 2014 which introduced the ‘hostile environment.’
Tom Watson who proclaimed that he wouldn’t rest until the last anti-Semite was expelled was the same Tom Watson who, as campaign manager in the Hodge Hill by-election, issued a leaflet proclaiming that "Labour is on your side – the Lib Dems are on the side of failed asylum seekers".
Watson is
the same person who defended Phil Woolas MP when the High Court removed him from
Parliament in 2010 as a consequence of a campaign based on
‘making the white folk angry’. Tom
Watson had ‘lost sleep
over poor Phil’.
There was
also the ‘anti-Semitism
Czar’, Labour MP John Mann who issued
the Bassetlaw Anti-social Behaviour Handbook which categorized a whole ethnic
group, Gypsies and Roma, as an example of anti-social behaviour. This is exactly
what the Nazis did. Mann was subsequently interviewed
by Police.
However I digress.
The focus of my complaint is not yesterday’s men but the current General
Secretary, David Evans. Labour List reported
that in an email to local party secretaries and chairs Evans warned local parties against
considering motions on disciplinary cases that expressed
solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn. Because such motions would provide
“a
flashpoint for the expression of views that undermine the Labour Party’s
ability to provide a safe and welcoming space for all members, in particular
our Jewish members”.
This is clearly and unambiguously anti-Semitic for at
least 3 reasons. Nothing less than Evans immediate suspension will suffice if
Starmer’s promise to root anti-Semitism ‘by
its root’ is to be kept. When a fish rots it does so from its head down.
That is equally true of the Labour Party. If you fail to take action against
this unrepentant anti-Semite then Starmer’s words will ring hollow.
The
anti-Semitic stereotype of the vulnerable, effeminate, fragile and cowardly Jew
is a familiar one. As Rachel Byrne wrote
the aims of Zionism were to ‘re-embody and re-masculinize’ Jewish men. Anti-Semites
often “likened women to Jews in their
supposed adaptability, forwardness, and absence of reason”
Likewise
G.K. Chesterton, the famous writer and philosopher, the ‘prince of paradox’,
whose brother A.K. Chesterton was a member of Oswald Moseley’s British Union of
Fascists and a founder member of the National Front , argued
that ‘bravery
and patriotism were foreign to the Jewish makeup.’
If
Evans is really arguing that Jews in the Labour Party are too sensitive to be
able to debate a motion of solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn then it is clear that
he is in the wrong job.
Even
if we were to give Evans the benefit of what is a very large doubt and accept
that he wasn’t being intentionally anti-Semitic when he ascribed weakness and
cowardice to Jews, it is impossible to accept that he wasn’t aware of the anti-Semitic
implications of his statement.
There
is an irresistible inference to be drawn from the suggestion that debating a
motion of solidarity with Corbyn would make Jewish members of the Labour Party
feel unsafe. What Evans is saying is that most if not all Jewish members of the
Labour Party are in agreement with Corbyn’s suspension. Treating Jews as one
homogenous group is clearly anti-Semitic.
Evan’s
statement is also not true. All the evidence suggests that most Jewish Labour
Party members oppose Corbyn’s suspension. See for example the letter from Jewish members of Corbyn’s own constituency of Islington
North. It is the basis of the world Jewish conspiracy theory that Jews think
and act together.
Jews
like any other group in the Labour Party have a diverse range of opinions. The
idea that they will feel uncomfortable and afraid to debate the issue is to
other them. To single out Jews in the Labour Party from all other Labour Party
members is to stigmatise them. That is
clearly anti-Semitic.
It is
extremely regrettable that in his desire to eradicate anti-Semitism, Keir
Starmer has chosen to appoint an anti-Semite as General Secretary. Nothing less
than Evans immediate suspension will prove that Starmer was being sincere
in his original pledge.
It is also clear
that Evans was deliberately using Jewish members of the Labour Party as a
political football. That too is reprehensible and anti-Semitic.
I look
forward to hearing from you and I wish you good luck in your search for a
replacement General Secretary.
Comradely
greetings.
Tony
Greenstein
