If you’re having trouble coping with the idea that Keir Starmer’s Labour Party – for all its posturing about opposing racism, opposing anti-Semitism – is in fact both anti-Semitic and racist, here’s some context.
Way back in 2017, just two years after Jeremy Corbyn was elected as leader of the Labour Party, the Tory-owned polling firm YouGov ran a survey on anti-Semitism in the main political parties.
The results will be surprising to anybody who believes Labour became more anti-Semitic under Mr Corbyn’s leadership: in fact, the reverse is the case.
The poll was commissioned by the Campaign Against Antisemitism, and This Writer’s experience of that organisation suggests that this was an attempt to find that Labour had become more anti-Semitic between 2015 (before Mr Corbyn was elected) and 2017.
But the graph shows that anti-Semitic attitudes among Labour members had not only fallen – they had fallen more sharply than in either the Conservative or Liberal Democrat parties:
Dorset Eye explains what the findings said to Mr Corbyn’s political opponents:
It meant a lot of work was required to tarnish the name of a long term human rights supporter and anti racist. This is when the establishment set to work.
That work involved attacking campaigners against racism and anti-Semitism as exactly the kind of people they opposed. It involved accusing Jewish people of being anti-Semites.
It involved vilifying Mr Corbyn and his supporters – including Diane Abbott; the woman who receives more racist hate mail than any other MP has now been accused of racism herself.
All on the basis of a lie – or at least, on a claim that could not be supported by the facts. Keir Starmer’s right-wingers in Labour have a lot to answer for.
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No love lost: Keir Starmer and Diane Abbott seem never to have been particularly friendly to each other.
It seems the pleas of the intelligent members of the UK community have fallen on deaf ears, and Diane Abbott remains suspended after a letter from her about racism was published by a newspaper.
What can be said about that? Here’s a highly-pertinent response:
Diane Abbott writes a clumsy and badly expressed letter about the structural/institutional hierarchy of racism in UK, where the response to it better explains what the point is than anything she wrote.
Yes: certain people who are well-known for this kind of behaviour have been stirring up anti-Abbott sentiment in the media:
Shocked but not suprised that all the usual celebs are doing the tv sofa tours. What Diane said was clumsy and ill-thought out, but the foundation of what she was saying re the hierarchy of racism in the UK is arguably true, and playing out before our eyes. #IStandWithDianeAbbott
One of the “usual celebs” was Lord John Mann, a former Labour MP who was ennobled by Boris Johnson, if I recall correctly, in order to become the Tory government’s advisor on anti-Semitism.
I am Jewish
Lord John Mann has used false allegations of Antisemitism for ulterior factional purposes
Mann is not a particularly good spokesman for the anti-Abbott brigade because he is ill-suited to standing up for travellers; he was interviewed by Nottinghamshire Police after complaints were received about a brochure he issued on anti-social behaviour that singled out the travelling community.
The police’s written response to the complainant referred to the brochure as a “hate incident”.
Remember also that Mann managed to rustle up a TV crew at very short notice to ambush Ken Livingstone on a BBC stairwell, after a radio interview with Vanessa Feltz discussing anti-Semitism claims against Labour MP Naz Shah, and berated him for being “A disgusting racist” for “re-writing history”, “a Nazi apologist”, “factually wrong” and a “calculated lie” put about by “conspiracy theorists”.
But it was Mann who was “factually wrong”: nothing Livingstone said in his Feltz interview was racist; he didn’t re-write history but merely quoted it; so he wasn’t being a Nazi apologist. It was factually accurate, so could not be a calculated lie, no matter who Mann said put it about.
On the other side of the Abbott argument, Martin Forde KC – the author of the now-infamous Forde Report that Keir Starmer commissioned but then ignored because it detailed a “heirarchy of racism” in the Labour Party that put anti-Semitism above racism against people of colour, Muslims or other minority groups (and we may include the Gypsy/Roma/Traveller community) – had previously “spoken out” in ways that confirmed what Ms Abbott was trying to say in her letter:
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The article quoted Mr Forde as saying: “Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, isn’t taken as seriously as antisemitism. That’s the perception that came through.”
Of course, Labour’s choice to ignore Mr Forde makes what many consider to be a very clear statement:
The Labour party and the entire mainstream media have been deliberately ignoring the Forde Report. Even the Tories have ignored it.
Martin Forde KC has been disrespected by them all.
So instead of Diane Abbott, it seems Labour leader Keir Starmer may be more accurately described as racist – especially as he ignored his undertaking to the Equality and Human Rights Commission that any allegation of racism/anti-Semitism would be handled by an independent process.
Just Keir Starmer admitting to interfering in the disciplinary process by claiming "I acted swiftly" to suspend her, & by pre judging an investigation here. What are you going to do about it.https://t.co/hBJp1H4zcY
… but as far as This Writer is aware, that organisation has not responded.
Other examples of incidents that could be described as ingrained Labour Party racism abound.
For example:
Luciana Berger, Margaret Hodge and Jess Phillips pictured here participating in something rather resembling a lynch mob targeted at a black socialist trade unionist. pic.twitter.com/zCaqbyY0Xj
They were on their way to a “kangaroo court” hearing of the case against Marc Wadsworth, who was accused of anti-Semitism when he criticised Ruth Smeeth for associating with a representative of the Tory-supporting Daily Telegraph. We have transcripts of what he said and none of it was anti-Semitic; he didn’t even know she was Jewish at the time.
That’s how Labour treats people of colour. And how does it treat Jewish party members? Here’s Diana Neslen:
"The [Labour] Party has investigated, disciplined or expelled 55 Jewish members for anti-Semitism, 2 of whom died during the process." Jewish Grandmother Diana Neslen recounts her painful experiences at the hands of the Labour Party for campaigning on behalf of Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/NdRrxir1o5
— Ragged Trousered Philanderer (@RaggedTP) April 24, 2023
That’s how Labour treats anti-Semitism claims against people on the left wing of the party, of course.
Here’s how it treats anti-Semitism claims against people on the right wing:
Labour readmitted Neil Coyle after racially abusing a journalist and a sexual harassment claim upheld.
Barry Sheerman & Steve Reed made antisemitic remarks and were allowed to get away with boilerplate apologies.
Put it all together and, once again, we see a clear indication that the Labour Party under Keir Starmer is itself a viciously racist organisation; it uses accusations of racism as a tool to remove people of colour and Jewish people from its membership lists.
But the tactic may backfire; too many people are realising what Labour has been doing.
What could this mean for the party, electorally?
Here's a thought, if Starmer refuses to restore the whip to Diane Abbot and she stands as an independent at the next general election like Corbyn, is that another "safe" Labour seat Starmer will lose because the people of Hackney are more likely to vote for Abbot?
— richard cann 💙♿🇵🇸🇾🇪🐠☮️ (@richard_cann1) April 24, 2023
I wonder how many would consider it.
Independent, left-wing MPs would vote with Labour on policies that would help the general population, but would oppose the Tory-oriented policies that Keir Starmer favours.
If enough were elected, they could provide a valuable brake on the kind of politics that has brought the UK to its current sorry state.
And out of the hatred and horror of Starmer’s Labour purges, it might wrest something good.
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Here’s another hypocrite moment: Starmer took the knee for Black Lives Matter but to him it meant nothing more than a photo opportunity. He attacked the organisation shortly after as a “moment”.
Seriously, send links. I know there are a lot of them out there!
For now, let’s have a look at this moment on Good Morning Britain when Keir Starmer was asked if Diane Abbott would be suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party indefinitely, as Jeremy Corbyn was, if she is found to have been anti-Semitic – for “consistency”. Of course, Jeremy Corbyn has not been found to have been anti-Semitic, so it wouldn’t be consistent with anything.
In the same clip, Starmer refers to an “independent” disciplinary process. But he personally wrote the motion to exclude Jeremy Corbyn from being a candidate in general elections, and he has admitted that he personally intervened to have Diane Abbott suspended. So there’s no independence about the process at all:
Despite what Adil implies, the motion to prevent Corbyn from being a Labour candidate didn't mention antisemitism once. As for Starmer boasting about an independent process, he was the one who wrote the motion. And as for consistency, there isn't any. pic.twitter.com/nl28TH4PXs
So he wanted proportional representation to be brought in as a new electoral system a few years ago but, now that Labour might be able to win a big victory in a general election, he reckons the First Past The Post, largest-minority-vote takes-the-seat system is okay.
Please send links to more evidence of hypocrisy if you have it. Let’s keep this going!
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This happened during Keir Starmer’s time as Labour Party leader so Sheerman remained a party member, unsuspended, with no investigation, with Starmer’s blessing.
For him to condemn another Labour Party member who hasn’t even made as serious a transgression but has still apologised in a full and frank manner is blatant – brazen – hypocrisy.
There can only be one possible reason for the difference in Starmer’s approach: that Sheerman is a right-wing member of Starmer’s crony group, while Ms Abbott is a socialist.
Starmer’s words are yet another sign to left-wing, tribal Labour supporters that the party they once thought was theirs has changed and that they should not support it under any circumstances. That would be a betrayal of their own political beliefs.
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If you’re unaware of the situation, the UK’s first black female MP – Diane Abbott – has been deprived of Labour’s Parliamentary whip after she penned a letter that correctly pointed out that people of colour suffer racism more habitually than other ethnicities – but did it in a clumsy way.
Public reaction has been split – partly, in This Writer’s opinion, because Ms Abbott is famously the most racially abused member of Parliament. In fact, she receives more racially abusive correspondence than all other MPs put together, so it can hardly be surprising that people who themselves are lower than vermin have latched onto this.
Not only that, but she is a socialist, meaning that members of the right-wing faction that currently controls Labour, together with their supporters, also want her removed from that party. This incident has been their excuse to suspend her, pending an investigation on grounds of anti-Semitism.
There’s just one problem:
Members of their faction have been caught making far more clearly anti-Semitic comments. Like Ms Abbott, they subsequently apologised. Unlike her, their transgressions were instantly forgotten.
Here’s one example:
1 August 2020 – Barry Sheerman MP tweets about "silver shekels" in reference to 2 Jewish businessmen.
He deletes the tweets and apologises.
Labour's statement: "Barry has deleted the tweets and apologised. He deeply regrets the offence caused."
Claudia Webbe, a socialist MP who now sits as an Independent after being expelled from Labour, has pointed out the similarity, and others have added additional arguments to her words:
Solidarity with Diane.
She is the most racially-abused and misogynistically-abused woman in Parliament, and was subjected to abuse documented in Starmer’s own Forde Report.
If Starmer continues to ignore that and take no action, he must be told to stand down.
So on that level, Labour has no ground on which to continue with Ms Abbott’s suspension.
The other issue is whether her letter was anti-Semitic. Let’s consider:
Is it true that black people suffer racism based on the colour of their skin in a way Irish, Jewish and Traveller people generally don't?
Yes.
Could Diane Abbott have worded her letter better?
Yes.
Are racists using "antisemitism" as a political weapon against Abbott?
Yes.
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If you don’t believe that, let’s hear from some Jewish people (although Keir Starmer’s right-wing mob dispute their authenticity – apparently they are the “wrong type of Jew” and you can judge for yourself what that says about the current Labour leadership.
Her original letter was not antisemitic and the way some critics have rounded on her as if it were is cynical and unhelpful.
As a prominent Black Labour MP she cannot avoid discussing the way Black and Asian people are in the frontline of racist oppression – and the way the Black experience has been downplayed in the Labour Party. This was identified by Martin Forde in his report as a hierarchy of racism. The wording of Diane’s letter was unfortunate in that it appeared to compare forms of racism. Diane has rightly apologised for this.
All racism is abhorrent – and she has always fought against it. Historically Jews have been major victims – most notoriously in the time of the Holocaust. As Diane says in her tweeted apology, “Racism takes many forms and it is completely undeniable that Jewish people have suffered its monstrous effects, as have Irish people, Travellers and many others.”
The fight against racism today – certainly in this country – is centred on defence of Black and Asian people. This in no way discounts the experience of Jews. Jewish people in this country of course face prejudice and racism, in particular the Haredim, who in their dress are highly visible, but it is not institutional, structural racism that fundamentally affects their prospects and outcomes.
Yes, Diane’s letter should have been drafted with more care – but this is no ground for suspension from the Labour Party.
So that’s the opinion of (some) Jewish people. That would divest Labour of its other excuse to suspend Ms Abbott – except of course that Keir Starmer couldn’t give two figs about what left-wing Jews have to say.
And that leads us to one last point:
Labour's anti-Left purge goes on, and its inversion of reality hits peak-insanity, with #DianeAbbott, the most consistent victim of racism among MPs, suspended for "racism".
NEVER demand the left support #KeirStarmer. All he does is ATTACK the left. Solidarity must be two-way.
Exactly. This is now a litmus test for Labour’s electability.
If Starmer and his cronies don’t reinstate Ms Abbott, then left-wing voters who traditionally support Labour will know that they no longer have a home there and should not, under any circumstances, vote for that party while Keir Starmer and his team lead it.
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Diane Abbott: she has suffered more racist abuse than anybody you can name, due to the colour of her skin – and has now lost the Labour Parliamentary whip for attacking a newspaper article that apparently tried to minimise racism against people of colour.
First they came for Jeremy Corbyn…
Then they came for his grassroots supporters…
Then they came for left-wing Jews…
Now they are coming for members of the Socialist Campaign Group – and Diane Abbott is the first to be targeted.
She is an easy target because she has an unfortunate turn of phrase and often fails to think carefully before going public with her words.
This time, it has cost her the Labour whip, after the Observer published the following letter:
Diane Abbott must know what happened to Jews and gypsies in Germany in the 1930s and across Nazi occupied Europe during WW2. She must know about the Pale of Settlement and pogroms of the Russian empire in the C19. This is such a strange letter. pic.twitter.com/kDVoZCuPYF
For those who can’t read images, here‘s the letter in full:
Racism is black and white
Tomiwa Owolade claims that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people all suffer from “racism” (“Racism in Britain is not a black and white issue. It’s far more complicated”, Comment). They undoubtedly experience prejudice. This is similar to racism and the two words are often used as if they are interchangeable.
It is true that many types of white people with points of difference, such as redheads, can experience this prejudice. But they are not all their lives subject to racism. In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus. In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships. Diane Abbott
House of Commons, London SW1
Anybody can see what she was trying to do: she was pointing out that people of colour suffer racism far more often in their daily lives than those who might be defined as “white/European”, because the difference is visually obvious.
(It is also misleading. I have a friend who is white and Welsh, but whose face might seem to have a Middle-Eastern look about it to those who live by stereotypes. He tans very easily, and tells me that, when he has been on holiday abroad (lucky fellow!) he is habitually picked out for a “random” bomb check on the way back into the UK, by security officials who think he looks like an Islamic terrorist.)
Nobody who knows her history could deny that she has a very strong point; if I recall correctly, Ms Abbott receives more racist hate mail than all other MPs put together.
She tried to make a distinction by saying people of colour suffer racism while Irish people, Jews and Travellers (the GRT community), suffer prejudice instead – and that’s where she went wrong.
It’s all racism. Jewish people (for example) were originally Semitic (hence the word for hate against them: anti-Semitism), and the fact that their culture, like Christianity, has been successful in absorbing people from other races does not stop hatred being directed at them because they are different.
I was going to suggest that she could have used the word “xenophobia” to describe the hatred of people of colour in this context – the so-called “dislike of the unlike”. But that does not only refer to race/skin colour but also to culture, so it might be a better umbrella title for the prejudice faced by all the groups she mentions.
The problem here is simply finding the right word for the distinction she intended, which is that the other groups can avoid abuse on occasions because their skin colour means they can blend in with what, for want of a better word, I’ll describe as the majority.
But it was enough for the usual suspects to spring to the attack – presumably secure in the knowledge that nobody is about to ask them to compare the amount of abuse those of them who present as white/European receive against Ms Abbott’s.
(Indeed, judging from the abuse that Ms Abbott has received over this letter, it seems some of them may even have perpetrated some of it.)
At the end of the day, it was a valid point made in a very clumsy way.
Ms Abbott has apologised for it, claiming that the letter published in The Observer was a draft that should not have gone out. That’s still her mistake, though – and one she should not have made. Here’s what she said:
I am writing regarding my letter that was recently published in the Observer.
I wish to wholly and unreservedly withdraw my remarks and disassociate myself from them.
The errors arose in an initial draft being sent. But there is no excuse, and I wish to apologise for any anguish caused.
Racism takes many forms, and it is completely undeniable that Jewish people have suffered its monstrous effects, as have Irish people, Travellers and many others.
So she accepts that she was at fault and has apologised.
If she was a member of Keir Starmer’s gang, that would be the end of it. But she isn’t, so she has lost the whip and there will undoubtedly be attempts to push her out of the party (or at least out of ever again being able to stand for election to the Hackney Parliamentary seat).
But some good has come of the row, because alongside the screaming, some people are discussing her points in a reasonable way. And they have good points to make:
Oh, Diane Abbott. What a daft thing to say. Travellers and Jews of course experience racism. But here's a few honest points I think very few people are actually honest about.
It’s possible to foresee difficulties for Keir Starmer, though, as the suspension can be seen to carry a meaning that is harmful to him:
Barry Sheerman, Steve Reed, Neil Coyle, and more got away with racist remarks by being on the right of the Labour party and issuing boilerplate apologies.
What are the odds Diane Abbott's apology will not be accepted?
Ever since DA became an MP she's had to work harder to prove she belongs, unlike every White MP. Every error she makes has been over-scutinized and analysed for days. And Corbyn-supporters will note a swift apology was not good enough for Starmer and his White team.
She's wrong, obviously, but she's being treated way worse than any other MP who says something stupid has been treated and that's because people don't want to engage with what she's saying about institutional racism against Black people.
And this is an important point about the online wolves who are currently baying for her blood:
That should read “hypocritical scum”, obviously.
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At the end of the day:
Diane Abbott overreacted to a newspaper article and published hasty words and, while that reflects badly on her, she has apologised, and that goes in her favour. The Labour Party that has suspended her – and the critics and abusers who have lined up to pour hate on her – will need to justify any action taken against her in that context – and I don’t think they’ll be able to.
It is they who will come out of this smelling like bull manure – not Ms Abbott.
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Labour left-winger Diane Abbott has been attacked by the Tories and their client media – including the Express – for claiming that Priti Patel wants to use “sonic booms” against asylum seekers as they cross the English Channel in small, flimsy boats.
But was she wrong?
Here’s what Ms Abbott wrote:
Our disgraceful Home Secretary Priti Patel wants to use sonic booms against desperate asylum seekers trying to cross the English channel in small boats pic.twitter.com/SYALxhcmWI
Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD) are already installed on two Border Force vessels but are used to issue voice commands, the Home Office said.
However, Downing Street policy experts called for them to be used as sound cannons that emit loud, high-frequency noise powerful enough to induce vomiting.
So there was evidence to support what she was saying. Apparently these sound cannons can induce ear damage so bad that people could go permanently deaf.
But while Downing Street may have been all in favour of deafening people including refugees from Afghanistan who were abandoned in the UK’s withdrawal from that country last year, the Home Office denied that any such plan was being considered…
… after Ms Abbott made her claim.
Are you convinced by that?
Whatever the truth of the matter, the good news is that the Tory government cannot, now, use LRADs aboard Border Force ships in the way Ms Abbott described, without causing severe reputational harm to the Home Secretary and her department.
Refugees seeking asylum in the UK can take comfort from that – if from little else.
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Hypocritical flag-waver: Keir Starmer speaks to the cameras in praise of our Armed Forces who have fought race hate and genocide – but he also supports a genocidal racist, and has said nothing against racist moves to unseat black female MPs in his own party.
Was anybody fooled by Keir Starmers display of commemoration and humility in memory of those in our Armed Forces who fought, among other things, against race hate and genocide?
Here’s his message:
Today, we say thank you to everyone who has served, and continues to serve, in our armed forces.
And here’s another message by Keir Starmer, sent on the previous day, supporting genocidal racist Tzipi Hotovely and condemning the peaceful protesters who told her she was not welcome on their college campus:
The demonstration was peaceful. It is Hotovely who demands violence against people who do not belong to her own ethnic group – a group to which Starmer belongs by marriage and supports in his business dealings and political activities.
The message is clear:
Keir Starmer sent a clear message tonight. The same one he sent during BLM. If you are a student or anyone for that matter who is brave enough to stand up and confront injustice and racism when you see it normalised, he is not on your side.
… and that includes anybody who has served in the Armed Forces, fighting race hate and genocide.
Now, that race hate and intolerance are making themselves clear within the ranks of the Parliamentary Labour Party, as it seems Starmer is planning to deselect four sitting MPs – for the crime of being black:
It seems the claim is that some in local party groups are stirring up unrest on the basis that some of the named black women were selected as supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, rather than as representatives of the people in the constituencies.
Among those facing deselection is Zarah Sultana, who is widely accepted to have been one of the most effective MPs in a Labour Party that has been rendered toothless by Starmer’s leadership:
The witch hunt has turned its ire towards Zarah Sultana – the best new MP in the whole of parliament. She is effective, compassionate, hard working and on the right side of history – and those are the reasons the apartheid supporting members of Labour Party can't stomach her.
She recently highlighted the racist abuse she receives from members of the public, posting on Twitter an email she received on her return from bereavement leave after the death of her grandmother:
Having spent a couple of days away on bereavement leave, I came back to my emails today. This is what I found. Muslim women in politics shouldn't have to tolerate this. pic.twitter.com/KFQ0zVVkER
What has Starmer done to support his MP in the face of this racism?
Nothing.
I’ll say it again:
He has done nothing.
He supports genocidal racists and he undermines people of colour in his own organisation – while pretending to be pious for the cameras.
What a verminous, racist hypocrite.
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Raducanu: she won the US Open so the racists in UK politics are happy to let this Romanian-heritage teenager be British. What would they have called her if she had lost?
The BBC really is contemptible these days.
Its daily Politics Live programme has just taken time out to criticise Diane Abbott for making a perfectly reasonable point.
After Emma Raducanu won the US Open Ladies Singles tennis final, Nigel Farage was among the many who praised her up.
But arch Brexiter Farage, while campaigning for the UK to leave the European Union, had previously stated that he would not want a Romanian living next door to him.
Ms Raducanu’s heritage is Romanian.
So Ms Abbott was absolutely right to make this point:
Extraordinary hypocrisy from @Nigel_Farage After her triumph at the US Open, he is keen to praise Romanian heritage tennis star @EmmaRaducanu But not so long ago he was saying he wouldn’t want a Romanian family to move in next to him pic.twitter.com/oQBNd1To2r
Led by host Jo Coburn, guests united to say that Farage’s words were in the past and that it is wrong to use a sporting even to score political points.
So it’s fine for politicians like Boris Johnson (and, indeed, Farage) to make hay when sportspeople representing the UK do well – no matter that they personally have expressed racist views that constitute abuse against individuals among those sportspeople in the past?
I don’t think so!
The whole disgrace was encapsulated in a tweet before Ms Raducanu’s victory (that I didn’t save, sadly).
It said that, depending on the result, the Daily Mail would tell us whether she was British or not.
And it’s a good point.
Would these creepy politicians be quite so keen to let bygones be bygones if Ms Raducanu had not won?
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