The Lie of Labour Anti-Semitism - Whilst Hungary’s Anti-Semitic Prime Minister Orban is Welcomed by Netanyahu 3 Zionist Papers Jointly Attack Corbyn as ‘Anti-Semitic’

YOU CAN’T APPEASE ZIONISM It's time McDonnell & Corbyn STOPPED started fighting back We Are Witnessing a Slow Motion Coup

ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID STATE AND SAYING SO IS NOT ANTI-SEMITIC

Open Letter to Stephen Pollard, Editor of the Jewish Chronicle

It's true - the idiocy and malevolence of the front pages are 'unprecedented' whether they should boast about it is another matter

All three Zionist newspapers - the Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News and Jewish Telegraph - have printed the same anti-Labour, anti-Corbyn front page. They call it unprecedented and they are right. 

The adoption of the big lie technique that Hitler pioneered when he argued in Mein Kampf that the benefit of telling a "colossal" lie was that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously" is indeed unprecedented. Never before have papers that call themselves Jewish done so much to stir up anti-Semitism.

If their campaign succeeds in overthrowing Corbyn, which is its purpose, then many people will indeed blame 'the Jews'.  Stephen Pollard and his fellow reactionaries are playing with fire.

The purpose of this campaign is not to fight anti-Semitism but to remove Corbyn. That is why John McDonnell particularly is behaving in a cowardly and stupid fashion. Quoting an unnamed Labour MP, the Jewish Chronicle’s Lee Harpin wrote: “John McDonnell wants power at any cost. If this means making the Labour antisemitism row go away for the time being then so be it. Jeremy isn’t quite so malleable — and neither are those who work alongside him at the top.”

Every reactionary Tory paper is concerned about 'antisemitism'

At any cost means accepting a definition of ‘anti-Semitism’ which renders support for the Palestinians and opposition to Zionism racist. It means abandoning any form of international solidarity.  It means turning a blind eye to Israeli Apartheid for the sake of a temporary peace.

McDonnell’s ‘strategy’ is not only unprincipled but stupid. This latest attack on Corbyn is not about the IHRA, still less anti-Semitism.  It is the beginning of an attempt to remove the Corbyn leadership entirely. As the Tories face their Waterloo over Brexit, the Establishment in this country are panicking at the prospect of a Corbyn government.

If McDonnell loses his nerve now, then we can be sure he will be putty in the hands of the City of London were he were to become Chancellor.  Cowardice today will mean treachery tomorrow.

According to the joint editorials Labour’s refusal to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism in full means that the use of the phrases “Dirty Jew” and “Zionist bitch” is now acceptable in the Labour Party. This is a lie worthy of Goebbels himself. It is a measure of the desperation of the Express’s former editor, Stephen Pollard, that he resorts to such nonsense.

‘Zionist bitch’ may be sexist and offensive, even when used against Margaret Hodge, but it is less offensive than calling Jeremy Corbyn a ‘fucking anti-Semite’. And it is far less offensive than attacking the victims of child abuse, as Hodge did when Islington Council leader.

Now this foul woman is a Jewish Chronicle hero

For 3 years the Zionist lobby, including the Labour Right, the Israeli Embassy, Jewish Chronicle and Britain’s yellow press, have poured cold water on any suggestion that their concerns about Labour ‘anti-Semitism’ were motivated by Israel and Zionism. They were only concerned with Jew hatred they told us yet even a cursory reading of their whinging makes it clear that Israel is at the centre of their concerns.

Leaving aside the hysterical nonsense about an ‘existential threat to Jewish life in this country that would be posed by a Corbyn -led government’ what concerns them is the ‘deleting and amending four key examples of antisemitism relating to Israel.’

Only two weeks ago Pollard called the Labour Party ‘institutionally anti-Semitic’.  Why? Because ‘instead of adopting the [IHRA] definition... Labour has excised the parts which relate to Israel and how criticism of Israel can be antisemitic.’ Precisely and what are these parts?

i.                       Calling Israel ‘a racist endeavour’.  Only last week Israel passed the Jewish Nation State Law, which even liberal Zionists acknowledge is an Apartheid Law. It removed Arabic as an official language, supports Jewish –only settlements and deliberately omitted any reference to equality.  Is calling this racist anti-Semitic?

If Arabs paraded through the streets of Tel Aviv with this banner the Police would arrest them, beat them up and they would receive at least a couple of years in prison - Jews however have complete immunity 

ii.                    Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is also anti-Semitic.  Why?  When mobs demonstrate with banners proclaiming ‘kill them all’ whilst chanting ‘death to the Arabs’ is that not reminiscent of a certain European state in the 1930’s?  Recently hundreds of Jews demonstrated in Afula protesting against the sale of a house to an Arab. Is that not similar to signs in German towns saying ‘Jews not welcome’?

iii.                 Another of their concerns is ‘Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination’. But the idea that Jews form a separate nation with the right to self-determination is an anti-Semitic idea.  It rests on the belief that Jews don’t belong in the states where they live. It follows therefore that Jews owe their loyalty to Israel, the self-proclaimed ‘Jewish state’ than to the country they live in. But the IHRA says this is also anti-Semitic! 

The IHRA is so contradictory that by its own definition it is anti-Semitic! Sir Stephen Sedley, the Jewish former Court of Appeal Judge criticised it as not a definition. David Feldman, the Director of the Pears Institute for Studying Anti-Semitism defined it as ‘bewilderingly imprecise.’

The IHRA Definition is NOT the Issue

The latest Zionist attack is NOT about the IHRA definition of Anti-Semitism or anti-Semitism. It is about removing the Corbyn leadership, which is why people like John McDonnell and Rebecca Long-Bailey, who believe that if they retreat on this all will be well, are digging their own political graves.

Brian Klug is right when he says Labour’s new Anti-Semitism Code of Conduct has adopted the IHRA in all fundamental respects.  What Klug fails to understand is that this alleged non-adoption of the IHRA by Labour is just a pretext, a fig leaf. 

For the past 3 years I and others have argued that the anti-Semitism witchhunt is not about anti-Semitism. Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth, Ken Livingstone and Tony Greenstein have just been collateral damage. It is about Jeremy Corbyn. We were just useful scapegoats. It is to Jeremy and even more so John McDonnell’s shame that they have betrayed comrades in order to appease racists.

One of the lessons of the fight against fascism is that appeasement simply encourages your enemy. Of course the British ruling class weren’t really appeasing fascism. Chamberlain and the Tory Party supported Hitler's destruction of the German working class organisations. They wanted Hitler to attack the Soviet Union. It was only when Hitler attacked British interests in Europe that they had second thoughts.

However much Corbyn and McDonnell appeased them the Zionists came back for more. McDonnell in particular doesn’t seem to understand that their real agenda was never ‘anti-Semitism’. There was no anti-Semitism. It was always about defending Israel and removing Corbyn, in no particular order.

The time has now come for Corbyn and Momentum, with or without Lansman, to call a halt to this policy of appeasing Israel's supporters. To use the Zionist slogan of March 26^th, Enough is Enough.  NO MORE CONCESSIONS TO ZIONISM AND ITS RACIST AGENDA.

A touching photo of the racist Orban and Netanyahu couples

This was the week that Hungary’s anti-Semitic Prime Minister paid a visit to Israel and paid homage at Israel’s Holocaust propaganda museum, Yad Vashem. A group of Israelis, mainly Holocaust survivors, held a protest at the visit of a man who has sought to rehabilitate Hungary’s pro-Nazi war time leader, Admiral Horthy. Horthy presided over the deportation of nearly ½m  Hungary Jews to Auschwitz, yet Orban called him an ‘exceptional statesman’

Veronika Cohen, one of the demonstrators and a Hungarian Holocaust survivor explained ‘I don’t think that you have to be a Holocaust survivor or a Hungarian to be here to say that Orban has no business coming here,”.

Yael Weiss-Reind, whose family was murdered in Hungary during the Holocaust, said that Yad Vashem was granting legitimacy to these regimes when it “accepts leaders who carry out policies and ideologies that are very similar to what we saw decades ago.”

Zionism has never had any compunction in working with genuine anti-Semites. Zionism is and always has been a Jewish form of anti-Semitism. As the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl wrote in his Diaries, in reaction to the Dreyfus Affair: ‘In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to "combat" anti-Semitism.’

Zionism has created in Israel an ethno -nationalist state that is a mirror image of similar states that existed in 1930’s Europe.  Zionism shares with anti-Semitism contempt for Diaspora Jewry. It believes the place of Jews is in Israel not Europe. It is fundamental to Zionist ideology that Jews don’t belong in the lands of their birth but in their own racial state.  Zionism believes that Jews form a nation apart from those they live amongst, which is also what anti-Semites believe. It is also why the Zionist attack on Corbyn and the Labour Party is hypocritical. 

There are some antisemites that Stephen Pollard doesn't object to

There is no greater hypocrite than Stephen Pollard, the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. Pollard is the man who defended the anti-Semitic Polish MEP Michal Kaminski, who was an MP for Jedwabne, a village in which, in 1941, fellow Poles herded up to 1600 Jews into a barn which they then set alight. Kaminski supported the Committee to Maintain the Good Name of Jedwabne yet Pollard went out of his way to defend Kaminski. Why? Because Kaminski was also a strong supporter of Israel! Pollard exclaimed that: “Far from being an antisemite, Mr Kaminski is about as pro-Israeli an MEP as exists.”

What has really prompted this attack on Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party is the fear that someone known for his opposition to US imperialism and Israel’s racism might become Prime Minister because of the precarious nature of May’s administration.

This hysterical attack betrays their weakness not strength. However much nonsense fills the pages of the newspapers and the TV screens most people do not accept the nonsense that Labour is overrun with anti-Semitism. That is why the treachery of Lansman in refusing to mobilise Momentum against these attacks is politically criminal. Momentum is losing its very reason for existence.

We need to tell the racists who wrote the joint editorials to get lost and take their Jewish only roads and towns with them. Israel is a racist endeavour. These are the same people who, when Trump came to power, fell over themselves to welcome him and his Administration to power, including anti-Semites like Steve Bannon, despite Trump having mounted the most anti-Semitic election campaign in history.

We need to ask why is it that Corbyn and McDonnell have still failed to hold a meeting with Jewish Voice for Labour, Free Speech on Israel and Labour Against the Witchhunt?  Instead of talking to their enemies, Corbyn and McDonnell should start talking to their Jewish friends.

Above is an Open Letter to Stephen Pollard, the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle.

Tony Greenstein

Dear Stephen,

You described the joint front pages of 3 Zionist papers this week as ‘unprecedented’. I agree. It is difficult to recollect when even the Jewish Chronicle saw deceiving its readers as its prime purpose. An article that suggests ‘dirty Jew’ and ‘Zionist bitch’ will now be ‘fair game’ in the Labour Party does not deserve to be taken seriously.

For the past three years, during the whole contrived ‘anti-Semitism’ crisis you failed to point to any actual anti-Semitism. That was why Jews such as Jackie Walker, Cyril Chilsom and myself were the most prominent targets. The only people who made anti-Semitic comments, calling Jews ‘self-haters’, ‘traitors’ or ‘kapos’ were Zionists.

It is noticeable that not once have you or your co-conspirators raised the Conservative Party’s membership of the ECR Group in the European Parliament, despite it containing two anti-Semitic parties – Poland’s Law & Justice and the Latvian LNNK.

I was also surprised that your article was so fulsome in its praise of Margaret Hodge. Is this the same Hodge of whom you once said that her ‘foul hypocrisy just beggars belief’. That was just the headline! You also wrote: ‘It’s difficult to imagine a more blatant, shameful and utterly contemptible piece of two-faced hypocrisy than the behaviour of Margaret Hodge.’’ I couldn’t have put it better myself.  You also wrote:

‘Her behaviour drags the entire political system into disrepute, and she would now be well advised to withdraw from public life....

Last April, she apologised for what she called her “shameful naivety” when, as leader of Islington Council, she dismissively brushed aside the victims of paedophiles who preyed on children in council care. One victim, Demetrious Panton, who was abused by the former head of an Islington children’s home in the late 1970s, was dismissed by Mrs Hodge in a letter to the BBC as “extremely disturbed”. 

It was almost beyond parody when she was then appointed Children’s Minister by Tony Blair. ... the sheer grubbiness of her brand of hypocrisy leaves a stench that makes others look almost admirable.’

Matthew Norman wrote: ‘With a past like hers, Margaret Hodge might show a bit more humility.’ It would appear that a dose of Zionism is the best political disinfectant for getting rid of the ‘stench that makes others look almost admirable.’

The blessed Margaret was not the only one who was giving off a stench. Your concern about ‘anti-Semitism’ was not in evidence when Polish MEP Michal Kaminski was invited to speak to Conservative Friends of Israel. Kaminski was MP for Jedwabne, a village in which, in 1941, up to 1600 Jews had been herded by fellow Poles into a barn which was then set alight. When the truth of what occurred was revealed by two Polish Jewish historians Poland’s President Aleksander Kwasniewski agreed to make an apology, for which he was criticised by Kaminski.

Your response was to write an article Poland's Kaminski is not an antisemite: he's a friend to Jews in which you described him as ‘one of the greatest friends to the Jews in a town where antisemitism and a visceral loathing of Israel are rife.’ After all ‘ Mr Kaminski is about as pro-Israel an MEP as exists.’  Not only did Kaminski oppose an apology but he argued that those few who survived the Holocaust, should apologise to the Poles! It seems that there are some anti-Semites that you have no objections to.

Jeremy Corbyn’s crime is not that he hates Jews but he doesn’t support the Israeli state. You wrote ‘instead of adopting the (IHRA) definition ... Labour has excised the parts which relate to Israel and how criticism of Israel can be antisemitic.’

It is clear that your agenda is not anti-Semitism but Israel. If the Labour Party was anti-Semitic you would have no objection as long as it was pro-Zionist. Genuine anti-Semites in the Trump Administration, such as Steve Bannon, who objected to his children going to school with ‘whiny Jewish brats’ have never merited an ‘unprecedented’ joint front page article despite an election campaign which Dana Millbank described thus: Anti-Semitism is no longer an undertone of Trump’s campaign. It’s the melody. This did not prevent your fellow ‘anti-Semitism’ campaigner Jonathan Arkush from giving Trump a warm welcome.

Trump of course is pro-Israel whereas Corbyn is not, which is why Trump’s praise for the ‘fine people’ i.e. neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, who chanted ‘the Jews will not replace us’ seems to have made him the most popular President ever in Israel.

When you talked about the threat to Jewish life in this country what really concerned you was support for the world’s only Apartheid state. A state where hundreds of Jews can demonstrate in Afula against the sale of a house to an Arab.

If Jews in this country experienced what Palestinians in Israel undergo then your complaints of anti-Semitism would have some merit. Your gripes about non-existent anti-Semitism should be treated with contempt.

The time has come when Corbyn needs to get a backbone and tell you and your fellow creative writers where to go. The truth is, Stephen Pollard, you would not recognise anti-Semitism if it bit you on your ample backside. 

Best wishes,

Tony Greenstein 

Israeli Holocaust Survivors Protest Against the Visit of Hungary's Antisemitic Prime Minister to its Holocaust Propaganda Museum, Yad Vashem

As soon as Labour Takes a 4% Lead the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Campaign Returns - If Corbyn Doesn’t Grow a Backbone and Fight Back the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Smears will devour him

In the very week that Israel passed the Jewish Nation State Law which ‘constitutionally enshrined discrimination against its Palestinian population’, making Israel an officially apartheid state, the false ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign returned. 

The Jewish Nation State Law defines Israel as a state, not of its own citizens, but of Jews wherever they may live in the world. I have more rights, as a Jewish person living in Britain than a Palestinian citizen of Israel. If that is not racism then the word has lost all meaning. According to Bradley Burston, a senior editor of Ha’aretz,

‘In the dead of night early Thursday,  Netanyahu led the government in passing the Nation-State Bill, a law which effectively repealed and superseded the equality and democracy provisions of  Israel's Declaration of Independence as a guide for the future of the country. Gone is any mention of equality. In its place, directives that veer Israel towards genuine apartheid, including a downgrading of the status of the Arabic language and therefore of Arab citizens of Israel.’

Orban's election campaign consisted of anti-Soros posters

Arabic is no longer an official language. Although a clause explicitly allowing the creation of Jewish only communities was replaced with one supporting Jewish settlement in Arab areas this was just a matter of words. What it meant was a continuation of the policy of Judaisation of areas like the Galilee or the Negev, i.e. the creation of Jewish only settlements in places where there are too many Arabs.

But also this week we had the visit of Viktor Orban, the anti-Semitic Prime Minister of Hungary. Eva Balogh describes in Hungarian Spectrum how ‘In the last eight years the Hungarian government has made a serious effort to rewrite the history of the Holocaust and many other aspects of Hungarian-Jewish history.’ The form this takes is Orban’s rehabilitation of Admiral Horthy, Hungary’s wartime ruler who formed a pact with Nazi Germany and who presided over the deportation of nearly ½ million Jews to Auschwitz.

Israelis demonstrate in June in Afula, a northern Israeli city against the sale of a house to an Arab - according to the IHRA definition of  antisemitism, to call this racist is antisemitic

It is strange that in all the attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, Margaret Hodge and the other Zionist rubbish in the Labour Party don’t criticise the visit of a Holocaust revisionist, Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, to Israel despite Philip Stephen’s observation that Orban described Horthy as amongst Hungary’s “exceptional statesmen”.

Orban arrives to a hero's reception in Israel

Orban waged an anti-Semitic election campaign against Jewish billionaire George Soros employing all the old anti-Jewish stereotypes. The silence of the Jewish Labour Movement and the Hodges has been deafening. This was a campaign not only approved by Netanyahu but the subject of an anti-Semitic cartoon by his son Yair, a cartoon which neo-Nazis like David Duke openly praised. In an election speech in March Orban declared:

“We are fighting an enemy that is different from us. Not open, but hiding; not straightforward but crafty; not honest but base; not national but international; does not believe in working but speculates with money; does not have its own homeland but feels it owns the whole world.”

Both the antisemitic Orban and the fascist Netanyahu agree on hatred of Soros

This includes virtually every anti-Semitic dog whistle you can think of.  Speculation, usury, doesn’t believe in working, crafty, dishonest, doesn’t have a homeland i.e. no loyalty and yet Yad Vashem Zionism’s Holocaust propaganda museum laid down the red carpet to welcome this man.

Today we learn that ‘Dozens of demonstrators, including Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors, block Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s convoy outside Israeli Holocaust museum. ‘He is a danger to humanity.’ Attorney Eitay Mack, one of the organisers of the protest was quoted as saying that:

The useless IHRA publicises statements against 'antisemitism by the antisemitic Hungarian government

“Every dictator, every murderer who wants to buy weapons from Israel must come and lay a wreath at Yad Vashem. We saw the head of the junta in Myanmar come here for a visit, only to carry out a genocidal campaign months later. We saw the prime minister of Kenya, who is suspected of crimes against humanity. Yad Vashem has turned into an institution that whitewashes the crimes of these regimes — as long as they do business with Israel.”

Yael Weiss-Reind, whose family was murdered in Hungary during the Holocaust, said that Yad Vashem was granting legitimacy to these regimes when it “accepts leaders who carry out policies and ideologies that are very similar to what we saw decades ago.”

“My family is from Hungary,” she says, “my grandfather was murdered in Auschwitz, and the prime minister of Hungary, who is being welcomed here with respect, has previously expressed his admiration for the leader who helped carry out the annihilation of 564,000 Jews. I am disgusted by the fact that the State of Israel is hosting him.”

The dark side

According to the Zionist ‘definition’ of anti-Semitism, Yael Weiss-Reind, despite being a Holocaust survivor, and Attorney Mack are both anti-Semites.  They dared to compare the actions of Israel to those of the Nazis. 

When Ken Livingstone mentioned the fact that the Nazis supported Zionism all hell broke loose even though it was factually true. When Netanyahu praises and invites as an honoured guest a man who is rehabilitating Horthy, who dispatched Jews to Auschwitz, Hodge, Berger, Smeeth and the rest of the cacophonous ‘anti-Semitism’ brigade remain silent. Such is the hypocrisy of the Zionists.

What is tragic though is that Corbyn, McDonnell and their supporters don’t call this hypocrisy out.  The Zionists latest complaint is that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism hasn’t been adopted lock, stock and barrel by the NEC. All 500+ words of it. 

Yair Netanyahu's antisemitic cartoon - widely admired by neo-Nazis like David Duke ex-KKK

There have been numerous critiques of this bogus definition of anti-Semitism, a definition that 31 states including Hungary’s anti-Semitic government have happily signed up to. Critiques such as that of the Jewish former Court of Appeal judge Sir Stephen Sedley in ‘Defining Anti-Semitism’, Hugh Tomlison QC’s Opinion and Anthony Lerman’s Why turning to Jewish exceptionalism to fight antisemitism is a failing project.

The IHRA, whose only purpose is to conflate anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is intellectually threadbare. It consists of a 38 word definition and then 11 ‘illustrations’ of anti-Semitism, 7 of which refer to Israel. For example it holds that criticism of Israel as a ‘racist endeavour’ is anti-Semitic which is absurd.  If it is true that Israel is racist how can that be anti-Semitic?

The IHRA holds that ‘Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination  e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor’ is anti-Semitic.  In other words Israel is the product of Jewish self-determination, i.e. it is, as it claims, a Jewish nation state. But that is an anti-Semitic concept because it implies that Jews aren’t nationals of the states they live in. 

Another illustration says that ‘Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.’ is anti-Semitic!  Well if Israel is the product of Jewish self-determination then it is right to hold them responsible for Israel’s actions. In other words the IHRA, by its own definition, is anti-Semitic!

Yet instead of making these simple arguments and rebutting the allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’ Corbyn and his advisers continues to act as if their accusers were acting in good faith.  It should be abundantly clear that Hodge, Pollard, Smeeth and co. have all the attributes of a hungry pirhana fish.  They are vultures hovering over their prey. Lansman’s Momentum is paralysed because its owner, Jon Lansman is a Zionist.

It is time for supporters of Corbyn to fight back because there is one overriding reason for this anti-Semitism campaign – it isn’t to get rid of Tony Greenstein, Ken Livingstone, Marc Wadsworth or Jackie Walker.  The target is Jeremy Corbyn and until Corbyn is removed then the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign will continue unabated. That is a good reason why people should join Labour Against the Witchhunt and our Facebook page.

I also recommend watching this short Interview with Moshe Machover on the new Labour Anti-Semitism Code