The Jury Aren’t Being Allowed to Know the Context of the Defendant’s Actions, Their Right to Acquit on the Grounds of Conscience Nor that They will be Sentenced, if found Guilty of Criminal Damage, as Terrorists
Zarah Sultana Speech in House of Commons - How Judges & the State
are Trying to Rig the Retrial of Filton 24 by Keeping Jurors in the Dark
On the 13th
April I went to Woolwich Crown Court where the first 6 of the Filton 24 were
facing a retrial. Last February all 6 defendants were acquitted of
aggravated burglary, the most serious of the charges, carrying a life sentence.
Palestine Action defendants are blocked from explaining their motives or mentioning Israel, genocide, or the target of their actions
The British state is destroying its own courts to protect Israel's apartheid system
Three of the
six, were cleared
by the jury of violent disorder and the prosecution last week offered no
evidence on this charge against the remaining 3 defendants.
The only
charges outstanding are those of criminal damage and in the case of Samuel
Corner, Grievous Bodily Harm in respect of Police Sergeant Kate Evans.
Picket on the First Day of the Retrial
The mass
media was full of allegations that Corner had deliberately attacked Evans with
a sledgehammer. In fact the injury was barely noticeable and the charge of GBH
is grossly excessive.
Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday - Cleared of Demonstrators
What the
lying British media did not report was that Pava, a synthetic pepper spray had
been directed at his face blinding him and then he heard a fellow actionist
screaming out in pain. He swung his sledgehammer instinctively and having been
blinded. But you wouldn’t expect the
feral British press to report the truth.
WATCH - Trudi Warner arrested, handcuffed, and carried for holding a placard with the law written on it outside Woolwich Crown Court.
“There’s a High Court Ruling about this law”
Trudi ought to know, because the case was “the Secretary General vs Trudi Warner”, and Trudi won. pic.twitter.com/i9UOorjpDz
Judge Jeremy Johnson - Doing His Best to Secure Guilty Verdicts - A Ruling Class Patsy
This week we
learn, and thanks to Zarah Sultana for using her privelege to reveal this in a
speech in the House of Commons, that Judge Jeremy Johnson, who spent his
legal life defending the State and MI6, including ruling that Assange
should be deported, has ordered that the jury should not be informed that if
the defendants are convicted of criminal damage they will be sentenced as
‘terrorists’.
It is part
of the sick society that we live in that you are a ‘terrorist’ if you damage a
death factory that is producing drones to murder children and you are a hero if
you profit out of those deaths. ‘Justice’ Jeremy Johnson is a fit
representative of such a society but it is Starmer, Yvette Cooper and the
coconuts that go by the name of Lammy and Shabana Mahmood who are presiding
over this injustice.
The jury
acquittals in February are why Lammy is determined to abolish jury trials for
those liable for less than 3 year sentences. The jury is the one independent
element in the whole so-called Justice System. Judges are appointed by the
Executive and are their creatures. This so-called Labour Government is
determined to continue where the last Tory government left off.
Supporting
Genocide is illegal under British law. Sections 51/52 of the International
Criminal Court Act 2001 make the commission or support of genocide a criminal
offence. Yet last year the High Court allowed
the government to continue to supply arms for that genocide citing ‘reasons of
state’.
Our judges
have no morality and bend the law to fit what they see as the needs of the
State. Just as they do their best to adjust their rulings to the needs of their
class and justify it through the use of weasel words.
Picket on the First Day of the Retrial
BREAKING
A dozen sign-holders have shown up outside Woolwich Crown Court today.
This is in response to the Met’s draconian restrictions on yesterday’s peaceful (and totally lawful) vigil outside Woolwich Crown Court, where two sign-holders were unlawfully arrested.
Demonstrators Had Been Moved to the Opposite Side of the Road & Forbidden to Use Loud Hailers
I was happy
to be asked to speak to the wonderful people who had gathered there and who had
congregated to make sure that the jury and others passing by knew that this
trial was a fit up.
Five of the Filton 6
Woolwich Crown
Court is next to Belmarsh Prison and it is surrounded by high metal fences.
There was a heavy police presence because preventing justice being done is more
important than catching rapists and other criminals.
I also went
up on Thursday 23 April and it was a totally different atmosphere. The Met had
applied Section 14 of the Public Order Act and cleared the entrance to the
court of all demonstrators. I later learnt that two members of Defend Our
Juries, including Trudy Warner, had been arrested
for holding signs saying that the jury deserved to know the whole truth, not
what they are spoonfed by Judge Johnson.
Other signs
emphasised that a jury has the right to acquit according to their convictions
and conscience. This dates back to the 1670
case of Edward Bushell when the Judge instructed the jury to convict
William Penn and William Mead of having spoken to a seditious assembly. Only
the state church had that right.
The First Day of the Retrial When Demonstrations Were Not Prohibited
Despite being
locked up without food, water, fire or chamber pot the jury refused to convict
and were heavily fined (the equivalent of one year’s wages. Edward Bushell was
gaoled for refusing to pay the fine and was eventually released after a writ of
habeus corpus was granted by a
reluctant Chief Justice Vaughan.
Today there
is a marble plaque at the Old Bailey commemorating this decision and it reads:
Near this site WILLIAM PENN and WILLIAM MEAD
were tried in 1670 for preaching to an unlawful assembly ... This tablet
commemorates the courage and endurance of the jury,... who refused to give a
verdict against them although locked up without food for two nights; and were
fined for their final verdict of Not Guilty. The case of these jurymen was reviewed
on a writ of habeas corpus and Chief Justice Vaughan delivered the opinion of
the Court which established the right of juries to give their verdict according
to their convictions.”
The Metropolitan Police arrest of the two demonstrators was
an unlawful arrest whose purpose was to prevent the jury from knowing of their
rights. On Friday another
12 people were arrested for holding similar signs. The Metropolitan Police
are in the business of establishing a Police State courtesy of the lying
Starmer and Mahmood.
The signs asserted
the rights of jurors (jury equity). One of the two is Trudi Warner. She was holding
the exact same sign she held when unlawfully arrested in 2023, which became the
focus of a year-long case to prove that it is not unlawful to hold this sign
outside a court.The High Court determined
that holding such a sign is not illegal, (Solicitor
General vs Trudi Warner) but the Met decided to simply ignore this case.
Not only are
jurors in the Filton 24 trial being denied the truth inside court, their right
to make a decision based on their conscience, irrespective of a judge’s
direction, is also being hidden from them.
It is
impossible to know at this stage what the decision of the jury will be. I’m
told that it has less Black and Muslim people on it. No doubt the state has vetted the lists
beforehand.
Picket on the First Day of the Retrial
Let us hope
that the Filton 6 are acquitted of the remaining charge and Samuel Corner is
also found not guilty. Despite the lies of the Daily Mail and the Zionist Jewish Chronicle the Filton 24 are
heroes and people like Jeremy Johnson and the Shabana Mahmoods of this world
are the villains. See:
The Met Police Offered Sympathy to the Victims of the Sydney Attack but
none to the Palestinian Victims of Israeli Genocide – this is what Police
Racism is All About
PALESTINE DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE JUSTICE MINISTRY IN SUPPORT OF THE HUNGER STRIKERS 17 December 2025
Zarah Sultana is to be congratulated for taking the
initiative last night and standing outside
HMP Bronzefield whilst the scumbags that Sodexho employs were denying medical
treatment and refusing to call an ambulance to Qesser
Zuhra.
Eventually, after a number
of arrests and the usual police violence coupled with energetic protests by
those who had congregated outside an ambulance was called.
Tonight's demonstration outside the Injustice Ministry
I’m not leaving until HMP Bronzefield accept an ambulance to transfer hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah to hospital for urgent medical care that she desperately needs. pic.twitter.com/AVpPFOT6lE
I repeatedly rang HMP
Bronzefield last night and was left speaking to an answer phone or a phone that
just kept ringing. Clearly the duty of care to prisoners at this privatised
prison is non-existent.
Tonight I attended a
demonstration outside the Justice Ministry which Palestine Solidarity Campaign had
belatedly called. The Police presence was heavy and intimidating but
nonetheless a thousand people gathered to show their solidarity. The Police had
earlier banned the demonstration from Downing Street as it might ‘interfere’
with a Chanukah celebration in Trafalgar Square.
Tonight's demonstration outside the Injustice Ministry
Once again the racist
Metropolitan Police use ‘anti-Semitism’ as the excuse to attack Palestine
solidarity and then they claim they are not political.
In a joint statement with
Manchester Police, the Met has also banned
the use of ‘Globalise the Intifada’ slogan. This despite their admitting that
the CPS has ruled against it legally. Thus we see the police state in formation
as a nakedly political police takes over.
The Palestine
Solidarity movement must now make this slogan, just as we made, ‘Palestine will be free, from the river to the
sea’ our slogan. Let the Met try and arrest us all.
have you ever offered any sympathy to the 100,000+ Palestinian victims of genocide @metpoliceuk? you are becoming more and more a political police force https://t.co/6s2dJ4owTD
— Tony Greenstein tonygreenstein.com (@TonyGreenstein) December 17, 2025
The Met and GMP offered
their condolences to the victims of the Australian terror attack. When have
they ever offered their condolences to the Palestinian victims of the Zionists?
Their racism is on
display for all to see. It stretches from Stephen Lawrence all the way to Palestine.
The BBC reported tonight
that two of the hunger strikers, Jon Cink and Umer
Khalid, have ended their hunger strike. I say this reluctantly but I believe
that now is the time to end all the hunger strikes. They have served their
purpose, which is highlighting the gross injustice of opponents of genocide
being remanded in custody whilst the supporters of the genocide are free to peddle
their lies.We do not want to see anyone
die and it is quite clear that Starmer and Lammy are quite prepared to allow them
to die.
Maccabi’s Match With Tel Aviv's Hapoel was Called Off Because their Racist Fans Rioted – Starmer is left with Egg on his Ugly Visage
Richard Sanders Brilliant Video for Double Down News on a Genocidal State and the Genocidal IDF
Perhaps the
only achievement that Starmer can claim to his credit is that he has managed to
make Boris Johnson look like a man of integrity and honesty. Whenever Starmer
is given the choice between lying and telling the truth he always chooses the
former.
When this
human android speaks it is important to understand that whatever other concerns
he has, the truth is not amongst them. His only concern is the advantage that
he thinks he will get.
Kier Starmer you owe an apology! And to all those that have been libellous wait for my letter before action! pic.twitter.com/ZQPt6UvFNk
It is
rather unfortunate for Starmer that events don’t always turn out as you want.
That is what happens to congenital liars. No sooner had Starmer branded the banning
of Tel Aviv Maccabi fans ‘anti-Semitic’ than they did what they always do –
they rioted. This time in Israel.The
resulting ban makes not only Starmer, but Nigel Farage, Bad Enoch and Ed Davey
look like the racist chancers they are.
Intrepid Dutch child reporter on what happened when Tel Aviv Maccabi fans rioted
When
Birmingham Police and the Council agreed
that the Tel Aviv Maccabi fans would be banned on safety grounds, an eminently
wise decision given their past record, Starmer jumped right in. He was happy to join
with Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson and the ultra-right supporters of Israeli
genocide.
Hello @10DowningStreet is this what you are fighting so hard to bring to the UK and why? Can someone please ask that if you occupy a seat in broadcasting? Please ask that because you are not at the moment and are falling short on a serious public interest story. https://t.co/oFPInhKaKz
Dutch man being beaten up by Tel Aviv Maccabi Fans in Amsterdam
The fact
that the Maccabi fans had gone
on a rampage last November in Amsterdam bothered him not. The fact that
they had chanted slogans like ‘we will
rape your girls’ or ‘Death to the
Arabs’ was of no concern.
Starmer and
the other scum like the far-right
Robert Jenrick knew full well the violent and racist record of Tel Aviv
Maccabi. If they didn’t they should have kept their mouths shut whilst they
found out.
Dutch Police Chief statement on the Tel Aviv Maccabi Hooligans
Anyone who
had any acquaintance with what happened in Amsterdam and the behaviour of
Maccabi fans knew that they had not only gone on a violent rampage but that
they had chanted the vilest racist slogans.
But why
should racist chants bother a confirmed and devoted racist like Starmer? A flag
shagger who believes ‘patriotism’ is enough to fill peoples’ stomachs. A man
(!) who only recently followed in Enoch Powell’s footsteps when bemoaning
this ‘island of strangers’ before
people reacted badly and he withdrew his racist
comments.
BREAKING: Tel Aviv derby football match cancelled after riots broke out in and around the stadiumhttps://t.co/G8gDzyqv3Q
Tel Aviv Maccabi Fans Chant 'We Will Rape Your Girls' - Starmer has no problem with this
Starmer’s
path to the Labour leadership was one long lie. He won the election on a radical
platform of 10
Pledges such as a promise to introduce a Prevention of Military
Intervention Act. Who has heard of that since? Certainly it hasn’t played much
part in the Coalition of the Willing as Starmer tries to keep the Ukraine war
going.
Maccabi thugs on the rampage
Above all
Starmer committed himself to Zionism. He declared, in the best traditions of
British imperialism that he was a ‘Zionist
without qualification’. In other words a racist, in word and deed.
It is yet
another question mark over Corbyn’s leadership qualities that he included
Starmer in his Shadow Cabinet. Corbyn is an appalling judge of character. Even
when Starmer announced
that Labour was supporting a new referendum on Brexit, he still kept the toad
on as Brexit spokesperson.
What REALLY Happened in Amsterdam - DDN
If Corbyn
had done basic due diligence on Starmer we might never have had this apology
for a robot. He was personally
responsible for the persecution of Julian Assange. He tried
to deport to the United States an autisticteenager Gary McKinnon who even Theresa May vetoed. Starmer sat on
the evidence that Jimmy Saville was guilty of gross child abuse and tried to cover
for killers in the Metropolitan Police.
Starmer’s
record should have spoken volumes yet for some reason Corbyn appointed him as
Brexit Secretary. Just as Corbyn recommended
for the House of Lords the main spokesman for the Labour Right, Tom Watson.
Starmer's Fake and Synthetic Remarks About Srebenica's Genocide When 8,000 Muslims Were Murdered
Starmer has
demonstrated his commitment to genocidal Israel. He said
in parliament that he knew what a genocide was and that Gaza wasn’t one.
However he omitted to tell us why Gaza
wasn’t a genocide when he argued that
Vukovar with 1200 deaths was a genocide and Srebenica
was a genocide.
'Why will Starmer call out Russia but not Israel?' | LBC
Starmer lied
when he said Labour had stopped arms shipments going to Israel when the amount
supplied by this government has exceeded
even that of the Tories.
Starmer has
spoken
repeatedly about the Israeli hostages and never once mentioned the torture
and beatings that all Palestinian prisoners face. Not once has he demanded, for
example, that the Red Cross be allowed in to Israeli torture camps.
This is where we are.
Keir Starmer, Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey all on the same side as far-right thug Tommy Robinson in defending an Israeli Football Team that chants songs about raping Arab women and killing Palestinian children.
When
British citizens were abducted off the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and beaten up he said nothing other than
that it
was a matter for the Israelis. Those on the flotilla were captured in
international waters. Is that not an issue for a so-called human rights lawyer?
Is the maltreatment of British citizens not an issue for the UK government?
The reality
is that Starmer and this government is tied at the hip to US foreign policy and
Trump in particular. This has taken on a particularly comic turn when Trump deliberately
humiliated Starmer at the Cairo ‘peace summit’ last week when he called
Starmer forward and then sent him back without speaking. His red face told the story
of his humiliation.
Starmer
himself is not just a pathetic individual without a trace of personality or
charisma. He represents a ‘Labour’ government which sees its job as making it
easy for parasites like United Health, with their eyes
on the NHS to go about their business of destroying our health system from
the inside.
It is a
government without a shred of radicalism. Compared even to Blair’s New Labour
Starmer is just a reactionary interlude between the Tories and Farage’s Reform.
The only thing Starmer has offered us is more repressive public order
legislation, the banning
of Palestine Action, the attack on the disabled and claimants and a series
of scandals such as Angela Rayner trying to avoid paying
tax on her third home.
Starmer has
shown himself to be a devoted supporter of Zionism, genocide in Gaza and the
weaponisation of anti-Semitism. It was obvious to anyone with a brain cell to
spare that the banning of Tel Aviv Maccabi was not because they were Jewish but
because they were violent racist thugs.
Starmer's Many Lies Trip Him Up in a Web of Deceit
It wasn’t
Jews who were banned but Maccabi fans. In pretending that all Jews were banned
Starmer was beinghis usual lying self.
The British
government is well aware that Israel is a state where nearly 60% of Jews want
to deport its Palestinian citizens and over 80% want to ethnically cleanse
Gaza and over 60% want
to kill every living human being there. Yet this counts for nothing
compared to their fake ‘anti-Semitism’ concerns.
Just as
‘anti-Semitism’ is the only
form of racism Trump is concerned about so too with Starmer and the rest of
the misfits in his cabinet. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is most concerned
about ‘anti-Semitism’ in universities but has nothing to say about attacks on
mosques or Islamaphobia.
Far from
being on the rise, ‘anti-Semitism’ is at an all-time low. It is only its
redefinition as opposition to Zionism and genocide that enables the Met Police,
Starmer and the Zionists to pretend that it is on the increase. This dishonesty
has now exploded with the riot of Tel Aviv Maccabi yesterday.
When asked
what could go wrong, Tory Prime Minister Harold MacMillan said‘events boy, events’. So it has
proved with Britain’s most unpopular and least charismatic Prime Minister.
Corbyn’s Leadership of Labour was a Disaster - We Cannot Afford a Repeat
Performance With Karie Murphy & James Schneider As Advisors
The Membership Must Control The Left (Your) Party & Tell Corbyn to Work With NOT Isolate Zarah/
Zarah Sultana – Why I am an Anti-Zionist
It is no
secret that there were tensions between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana.Zarah bounced
Corbyn into forming the Your Party when she resigned from the Labour Party.
Corbyn did nothing to hide his dismay that she had had the gall to call for an
end to his dithering and delay about whether or not to form a new party.
It is
therefore doubly disturbing that Corbyn, along with the four Independent MPs –
none of whom claims to be a socialist – launched an attack on Zarah for sending
out details of a new membership portal for Your Party.
The threat
to invoke legal action including a complaint to the Information Commissioner
are disgraceful. Has Corbyn not had enough of State interference, such as the
EHRC report on ‘anti-Semitism’, in the British political system? The dispute is
a political not legal one.
The panicked reaction of the all-male Independent MPs
Instead of
supporting his co-leader, Corbyn attacked Sultana. Zarah is totally correct in
calling out this misogyny and terming it a ‘sexist boys club’. Corbyn should be ashamed of aligning with the
group of male, Muslim MPs who were elected on opposition to the genocide in
Gaza but who are not otherwise progressive or on the left.
Corbyn has
aligned himself with sexists against a young, politically principled woman MP.
Socialists should have no difficulty in deciding where their loyalties lie.
Corbyn seems determined to repeat the mistakes which led to his defeat as
Labour leader.
Corbyn really
needs to get a grip and put the overwhelming desire of people to see an
alternative to Starmer and Farage at the top of his priorities. Instead of
excluding Zarah he must talk to her. The Independent MPs are welcome to join
the party but they must not have special privileges.
Politically
they are a mixed bunch. Adnan Hussein was elected in Blackburn with a communalist
vote defeating Craig Murray. Shokat Adams opposes the idea of a left or socialist party because we might put off
people on the right.
One year
ago Jackie Walker, Chris Williamson, Asa Winstanley, Anne Mitchell and myself wrote a letter to Corbyn asking him to reassess the role that false accusations of
anti-Semitism played in his downfall as Leader of the Labour Party and his
reaction to them.
During
Corbyn’s leadership hundreds of good socialists were expelled from the Labour
Party for ‘anti-Semitism’, in reality criticising the State of Israel. This was
at the behest of the genocide supporting Jewish Labour Movement who claimed
that it was all about ‘anti-Semitism’ when anyone with a few brain cells could
see that their sole concern was support of the apartheid state of genocide.
We did not
receive a reply to our letter. It was obvious to me as soon as I was suspended,
in March 2016, that neither myself nor Jackie Walker or later on, Ken
Livingstone, Marc Wadsworth and Chris Williamson were the real targets.
We were
just collateral damage. The real target was Corbyn. Despite Corbyn and Jennie
Formby presiding over an increasing number of expulsions the Zionists were not
satisfied.Corbyn and Formby were proud
of the number of ‘anti-Semites’, i.e. socialists that they had expelled. Not
once did it occur to the dim-witted two that the more people who were expelled,
the more it confirmed the false allegations of the Zionists that anti-Semitism
was indeed a real problem inside the Labour Party.
Corbyn’s
efforts to appease the JLM and the Labour Right had no effect whatsoever except
to give them confidence. No sooner had Corbyn satisfied one demand than they went
on to make another demand. As Len McCluskey wrote
in Huffington Post Zionist leaders refused
to accept ‘yes’ as an answer.
The JLM passed
a motion of no confidence in Corbyn, days after had begged
them not to disaffiliate from the Labour Party. A bogus threat designed to
win sympathy for these poor ‘victims’ of anti-Semitism.
Corbyn’s
strategy, if one can call it that, was to retreat, apologise
and promise to do better. However the
JLM had no intention of letting up because they had been refounded
in 2015 with the explicit aim of removing Corbyn.
Accusations
of ‘anti-Semitism’ were seen as the ideal way to undermine Corbyn. It was
designed to confuse an identity politics left that confuses racism with prejudice
and fails to understand that ‘hatespeech’ can often be a code for support for the oppressor. In 2015
people were not wise to the weaponisation of anti-Semitism as a means of
undermining the Palestinian struggle. They are now.
Corbyn has learnt
nothing from his years of leadership. Of course it is understandable that the
whole period was traumatic for him but that is no excuse for refusing to learn
the lessons of that period. Instead he takes pride in his anti-intellectual
approach.
Of course there were a tiny handful
of anti-Semites in the Labour Party. No doubt there were tiny numbers of
paedophiles too.Every party has them
but no one said that Labour was ‘overrun’ with paedophiles. In fact the Tory
Party was led by an anti-Semite,Boris
Johnson, who in his novel 72 Virginsportrayed
a Jewish character, Sammy Katz, with a “proud
nose and curly hair”, and ‘painted
him as a malevolent, stingy, snake-like Jewish businessman who exploits
immigrant workers for profit.’ Johnson also described Jewish oligarchs who
run the media and fiddle the figures to fix elections.
Not only
did Corbyn throw allies like Livingstone, Wadsworth and Williamson under the
bus but according to the Labour
Leaked Report, his office, in the form of the obnoxious Laura Murray, tried
to get the right-wing staff, who detested Corbyn, to speed things up!
Corbyn's Private Office Was Asking the Labour Right to Expel More Socialists
Whenever
the Right, usually in the shape of Tom Watson barked, Corbyn jumped. His only
query was as to how high. He supported
Jon Lansman, the millionaire property developer who has now joined
the JLM, in destroying Momentum’s democracy.
When Chris
Williamson was reinstated
by an NEC disciplinary panel Tom Watson organised a round robin petition of the
Labour Right to protest. Instead of standing up to Watson and defending
Williamson Corbyn got Jennie Formby to resuspend
him.
The last
and final opportunity was over the Open Selection of MPs. Here was the chance
to get rid of the right-wing detritus in the Parliamentary Labour Party. Corbyn
had always supported mandatory reselection as a young MP. But when Labour MPs
pressurised him to oppose it he persuaded
Len McCluskey of Unite to break the union’s mandate and also oppose it. By
opposing Open Selection Corbyn signed his own death warrant.
Six years
later amidst the Genocide in Gaza one would have thought Corbyn would at last have
learnt something. That ‘anti-Semitism’ was a smear to be employed against
opponents of Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing. That Zionism, far from
being a form of Jewish identity is a vicious, racist ideology that treats
Palestinians as subhumans.
Instead
Corbyn merely witters on that anti-Semitism is a terrible thing without any
understanding of the fact that the ‘anti-Semitism’ that the Zionists talk about
is anti-Zionism. It should be obvious to Corbyn that ‘anti-Semitism’ is the only
defence that Israel’s genocidaires have left. Anyone who criticises them is an
‘anti-Semite’. Yet Corbyn gives no indication that he has learnt anything at
all from his period as Leader of the Labour Party.
No-one
doubts that Corbyn is a veteran supporter of the Palestinians. That is why the Zionists
and their imperialist allies on the Labour Right targeted him. However, even
now, he has no understanding of the reasons for the Palestinians plight. He
does not see that ethnic cleansing is an integral
part of the Zionist dream of a purely Jewish ethno-nationalist state.
Corbyn was
a vigorous opponent of the Apartheid regime in South Africa. He was even arrested
because of it. Corbyn would have been the first to say that opposing the South
African regime’s human rights abuses was not enough if one did not oppose
Apartheid itself. Yet when it comes to Israel Corbyn opposes the attacks on
Palestinians without understanding that this derives from Zionism, the ideology
behind Israeli apartheid.
Corbyn still supports the 2 State Solution even though it has been
the main smokescreen which has enabled the expansion of the settlements on the West Bank
and the growth of the messianic neo-Nazi Jewish Right in Israel. Two states
means a ‘Jewish’ settler colonial state continuing.
Zarah
Sultana, by way of contrast has understood that
Corbyn’s adoption of the IHRA misdefintion of anti-Semitism was a fatal
mistake. Zarah’s declaration that she is a proud
anti-Zionist should therefore have been welcomed. Instead of huffing and
puffing Corbyn should have joined her.
Instead
Corbyn has instead reverted back to his failed advisors in Collective, James
Schneider and Karie Murphy, the architects of Corbyn’s disastrous failings
first time around. It is as if Corbyn is congenitally incapable of learning
from his past mistakes.
Corbyn has
learnt nothing from what happened between 2015 and 2019. He doesn’t get how
‘anti-Semitism’ was weaponised by the Zionists and the British Establishment.
The same Establishment that is now actively supporting and participating in the
Genocide in Gaza.
James Schneider's Pamphlet That Bolstered the Fake Anti-Semitism Campaign
I hope that
despite the breaking out of open warfare that all those involved, in particular
Corbyn, will realise that Your Party (despite the opposition
of Shockat Adams to terming it a left party) will make its politics clear to
all and adopt a name, such as The Left Party.
We face a
neo-fascist racist party leading the polls. Starmer’s Labour is not only incapable
of fighting racism it doesn’t want to. Racism and imperialism are deeply
embedded in it. I hope Corbyn recognises that his petty squabbles with Zarah must not get in the way of the main task which is to defeat Nigel Farage’s racist Reform Party.
For my part
I have no hesitation in supporting Zarah Sultana and all anti-racists and
anti-imperialists and opponents of misogyny and sexism will do the same. I have
therefore joined as a member paying £5 per month despite the dire
warnings of Corbyn and the other independent MPs.
If Corbyn
is serious about forming a new left party that can challenge Farage then he has
to put his ego to one side and stop being precious. He also has to accept that
after the Holocaust in Gaza politics around Palestine have changed and that
there is no merit in clinging to outdated concepts and ideas. Becoming an open anti-Zionist
himself is long overdue if opposition to apartheid and racism is a principle.
Tony
Greenstein
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