The High Court in London: are Keir Starmer and Labour spending more time there than Vox Political’s Mike has?
Can you believe how many high-profile court cases Keir Starmer’s Labour is embroiled in?
Witch-hunters from Labour Against Anti-Semitism have launched a demand for millions of pounds in damages because they reckon the so-called ‘Labour Leaks’ report has outed nine of them as having made complaints against party members.
The trouble is… it seems they have been publicly admitting it themselves.
Meanwhile, Keir Starmer is still pursuing – through the courts – people he thinks were behind the leaking of that damning report, even though he doesn’t actually have the faintest idea who was responsible.
All in all, this litigation against the Left is costing Starmer a fortune – but he won’t give up because he doesn’t like to lose.
Meanwhile, Labour is – what? – £15 million short of the cash it needs to carry out a winnable general election campaign, because Starmer squandered the £13 million Jeremy Corbyn left in the party bank account (on court cases) and either turned away or expelled the member who would others have contributed and campaigned for funds.
It seems the private firms he thought would support him haven’t bothered.
Here’s Damo, to put some meat on the bones I’ve laid out for you above:
So Starmer's Labour is getting sued apparently, by LAAS of all people! Surely they're on Team Keith you'd think and indeed at least one of those suing Labour is standing as a Councillor for Labour, has been imposed on the local party at that, so its an absolute farce. Who is… pic.twitter.com/UB115hFn9x
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The campaigning group Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) has won an out-of-court victory in its battle to get compensation for women born in the 1950s whose pension age has been raised by government decision.
WASPI is not arguing that the pension age should not have been raised, stating that this was done by democratic government decision – but that the way the Department for Work and Pensions provided information about it meant that women were unable to make appropriate choices that they would have made if they had known earlier that their State Pension age would increase, and that this has had emotional and financial impacts on their lives.
The group is arguing for fair, fast and straightforward compensation for the emotional and financial losses – both direct losses and lost opportunities – that women have suffered.
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has been charged with producing three reports. The first was to establish whether there was maladministration by the DWP in failing to inform affected women that they would not receive their pension when they expected to do so, and that they should make appropriate financial plans.
That report has been published and has stated that there was maladministration.
The second report was to establish whether six sample complainants had suffered any direct financial loss because of DWP maladministration, or any loss of opportunities to make different financial choices.
That report was published and stated that none of them had suffered any such losses.
WASPI argued that the Ombudsman’s reasoning was legally flawed and this would impact on decisions affecting all 1950s born women who were victims of the DWP’s maladministration and said it would bring a judicial review if he would not withdraw the Stage 2 report and think again.
A decision last week means the Ombudsman will indeed withdraw that report.
It is now considered to be legally flawed, and a court will be asked to make a quashing order (because the Ombudsman has no power to withdraw a report that has been sent to complainants and MPs).
The Ombudsman will then reconsider the question of injustice in a re-written second report that must be changed to accommodate the agreement that the original report was flawed.
When a new second report is accepted, the process will move on to a third report which will consider what remedies are necessary for the injustices done to 3.6 million women.
It must also consider whether such remedies should be given to the estates of women who have died in the time since the change to their state pension age was announced.
This Writer’s view is that this is not a total victory; the Ombudsman may merely seek – and find – another excuse to deny women born in the 1950s any compensation for the injustice they have suffered and campaigners need to be aware of that.
And WASPI accepts that it doesn’t speak for all women who have been disadvantaged by the pension age change. Some are campaigning for full compensation – payment of the amount of pension they would have received if the age change had not happened. WASPI does not think the government will accept such demands.
It is a step forward – but the battle for compensation is a long way from being over.
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SLAPP. It stands for “Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation” and refers to the practice of rich and powerful people taking others to court (notably journalists) in order to halt debate about them that is in the public interest and stifle free speech.
Two examples of SLAPP lawsuits are currently in the news: Russian oligarch and warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin’s abortive libel suit against a UK journalist, and Nadhim Zahawi’s attempt to silence another UK journalist who was investigating his tax affairs. This video clip features discussion of Zahawi’s SLAPP suit.
Prigozhin allegedly had help from the UK Treasury (headed at the time by Rishi Sunak) to dodge sanctions that had been imposed against him at the time. He is the founder of Wagner, a private army that is currently understood to be committing atrocities in Ukraine.
Zahawi failed to pay millions of pounds worth of tax after selling shares in polling firm YouGov that had been held by offshore trust Balshore Investments. He came to terms with the Treasury in which he agreed to make a payment – but the fact that he was Chancellor at the time – Treasury officers’ boss – has cast doubt on the ethical integrity of that agreement.
Neither of these cases should have been allowed to start, but they were – and the Prigozhin case left the journalist in question owing around £70,000 in legal fees before it was halted just after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war.
The UK government has previously pledged to give courts in England and Wales new powers to dismiss lawsuits employed by wealthy claimants to stifle free speech, but has yet to put forward any draft legislation.
A Private Members Bill put forward by Conservative Bob Seely has been tabled to concentrate Ministerial minds on the subject.
Quoted in The Guardian, he said, “As a business model, it is a form of legalised intimidation, effectively legal gangsterism” deployed by organised criminals, authoritarian states, oligarchs and corrupt corporations, which “undermines the good reputation of London”.
This Writer tends to agree – especially as I am the victim of a SLAPP lawsuit myself. I am currently appealing against a decision in favour of the Claimant. Details are available here: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/mike-sivier-libel-fight/
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Anti-Semitism? The Tory government’s plan to ban public bodies from taking part in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against a murderous foreign apartheid regime will be painted as a crusade against anti-Semitism. But it is one that will lack accurate evidence.
One of the (many) planned laws in Boris Johnson’s new legislative programme is one said to “prevent public bodies from adopting their own approach to international relations” by adopting ethical positions against foreign human rights abusers with boycotts of their exports.
It is widely understood that Johnson’s aim is to protect the government of Israel from the growing BDS movement, which seeks to end that country’s apartheid regime in Palestine.
This is – of course – hugely undemocratic. Local authorities and the devolved governments are elected by the UK’s voters and should be allowed to procure goods and services as they see fit, including according to a higher standard of ethics than that of the national UK government itself.
In essence, it seems the legislation is intended to smear those who refuse to tolerate the Israeli persecution of Palestine as anti-Semites. For some of us, it’s a familiar tactic.
Many people, including This Writer, have already been smeared as anti-Semites for opposing the harmful – indeed, homicidal – activities of a national government that presents itself as representing an entire ethnic group (it doesn’t; many Jews around the world are repulsed by the way Palestine is being treated).
Perversely, it is anti-racism campaigners who are being branded as anti-Semites – a brand that the UK’s own government intends to burn into local authorities, devolved governments and other public bodies if they insist on acting against the persecution of Palestine.
You can find out more about what has already happened – and help fight what is happening now – by visiting the website of a relatively new organisation whose title states exactly what it is about: the Campaign Against Bogus Antisemitism.
The organisation’s website states: “It is deeply hurtful to anti-racist campaigners to be branded as antisemitic. People are broken by the embarrassment and shame of attacks they suffer in the media, there for friends, family and other campaigning bodies to see – as if it were the truth… CABA aims to help set the record straight.
“We are a volunteer-led group dedicated to exposing and countering bogus antisemitism- through education and championing those unjustly accused.
“We are building a network of activists across UK, Palestine and further afield, working in a concerted manner, campaigning to allow us to decry apartheid in Israel without being branded ‘anti-Semites’.”
There’s a lot of information on the CABA site – This Writer hasn’t been able to read all of it, and I’m sure that much of it will be disputed by those with an interest in doing so.
But the intention seems an honest one – which is more than the Tory government can offer with its pro-racist, pro-apartheid planned law.
Give it a look and judge for yourself. You may learn a lot.
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This is brilliant from Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC):
Here are the details:
The government isn’t listening to what people are saying when we say Stop The Cuts to Universal Credit and give #20MoreForAll
So we need to start an #AudioRiot to make them hear us.
On Tuesday 28th September 11:30am Kings Cross Station (Courtyard in front of station) Euston Road London N1 9AL
Join our #AudioRiot and make some noise about the devastating changes to benefits which will have a huge impact on millions of peoples lives, including disabled people.
Bring everything you can that makes noise.
DPAC will be providing materials for you to take part too – but don’t let that stop you bringing:
Drums
Whistles
Cymbals
Bells
Klaxons
Loudspeakers
Everything you can!
Make some noise about the £20 cut to Universal Credit coming in September.
Make some noise about the reintroduction of sanctions and conditionality returning in October.
Make some noise about the discrimination against those on legacy benefits who never got the £20 to begin with.
Make some noise about the minimum income floor, the local area housing allowance and so much more
Make some noise about the disgraceful state of benefits in the UK overall.
This action will round off a series of events to raise awareness about the coming changes to benefits.
These include
Saturday 25th September 2021
Local Actions Nationwide
We are calling on all DPAC members, local groups & allies to mobilise is their areas to create an #AudioRiot of your own to resist the coming cuts and invite others to join the campaign.
Create your own orchestra with homemade instruments, create your own playlists and play them through phones/speakers, form a samba band – whatever works for you!
Send us details of your planned action, and we will promote it through our website, email network and social media channels.
And
Tuesday 28th September 2021 09:15 – 10:00 am
Vigil in support of those taking a Judicial Review of potential discrimination by DWP towards disabled people on legacy benefits.
Royal Courts of Justice Strand London WC2A 2LL
NEAREST STEP FREE STATION: Westminster
Online action
Details to follow
DPAC is aware that many of us in our community are still isolated, shielding, or even just protecting themselves and their loved ones; and cautious about taking part in public activism.
This is no barrier to taking part!! There will be online actions you can take
However, as our collective experience through since Covid entered our lives has taught us – disabled people need to have a central role in the discussions about how we build a future for us all that has a place for us all. That begins with defending what we have and building on it.
We have seen under successive governments of all stripes that the only way we can have any chance to secure that central role is to oppose government policies in the streets. We have been demonised, targeted and brutalised by attacks to our rights , services, living standards & working conditions for decades.
It is only by mobilising our community and allies in the face of theses attacks that we have been able to raise awareness and resist them.
And, that will be how we will continue to progress from here. With a view to reshaping the world to meet our aspirations.
Starmer’s hypocrisy: this image was made when Starmer was accusing individual Jews of anti-Semitism. Now he’s attacking organisations that will have Jews in their memberships – and Neil Coyne has called for one Jewish group to be proscribed as well, in an echo of Nazi demands during the Weimar period in Germany.
Boris Johnson’s Tories may be unfit to govern but Keir Starmer’s version of Labour is in no condition to take over as it continues its self-harming course to the political scrapheap.
Starmer’s latest big idea for electoral success is to make Labour even more like the Conservative Party by ending its pretence of being a “broad church”; he wants to ban membership from anyone who claims to be a socialist.
As stated in a previous article, he’s doing this by claiming that socialists – who want self-determination for people of all ethnicities, particularly those that currently suffer persecution – are anti-Semites (because this means they want self-determination for Palestinians who are persecuted by the Israeli government that Starmer smarms up to).
First on the list to get the chop are around 1,000 party members who also belong to Resist, Labour Against the Witchhunt, Labour in Exile and Socialist Action.
Their crimes appear to be claiming that many anti-Semitism allegations, for which Labour members have been suspended or expelled, were blown out of proportion and politically-motivated; welcoming such expelled or suspended members into their own ranks; and demanding the re-admission of Jeremy Corbyn into the Parliamentary Labour Party.
All of these stances may be demonstrably connected to support for Palestinians against Israeli persecution.
Here’s the part that marks Starmer out as an imbecile, though: in cutting members out of the party, he’s cutting off the membership fees that he needs, in order to maintain the machinery he is using to attack them.
As it is – at the same NEC meeting where he will demand the removal of the above-named groups, he will have to propose plans to make around a quarter of Labour Party staff jobless:
“@UKLabour’s ruling NEC is set to discuss plans for large-scale redundancies among staff, with up to 90 jobs at risk, as @Keir_Starmer seeks to repair the party’s shattered finances.”
Hilariously, the Guardian report tells us that the plan has been devised in a report entitled Organise to Win!
The report states:
Labour’s finances have been hit hard by fighting three general elections in the past six years, as well as a string of costly legal cases, and hopes of a membership bounce after Starmer took over failed to materialise.
The party paid out a six-figure sum a year ago to settle a case brought by seven former employees and a veteran BBC journalist, admitting it defamed them in the aftermath of a Panorama investigation into its handling of antisemitism.
It doesn’t mention the possibility that Labour had no need to settle, as its legal advisors had told Starmer that the party was likely to win if the case came to court. His decision to capitulate is inexplicable.
And how many other disasters have gone unreported? Labour lost thousands of pounds defending itself in court against This Writer’s case, that the party had broken its own disciplinary rules in order to expel me.
The finding was that the party had not broken its rules, which are extremely vague in respect of what may actually be done – but Labour did appear to have broken the regulations it had in place at the time, in order to justify throwing me out. The court ordered that Labour should not be repaid the thousands of pounds it had spent on the case.
How many other such cases have taken place? What other disputes have eroded the party’s funds?
Remember: Labour became the richest UK political party under Jeremy Corbyn because he inspired hundreds of thousands of people to join up – people Keir Starmer has been desperately trying to throw off since he became leader.
Starmer’s plan, it seems, was to go back to relying on donations from big businesses – the same model as that used by Tony Blair during the ‘New Labour’ period of the mid-1990s to 2015.
But his failure to inspire popular support – because he hasn’t said what he stands for – means businesses aren’t supporting him.
There is only one conclusion to draw:
Here’s an obvious, incontrovertible sentence you won’t read in the press tomorrow as Labour makes more layoffs:
The party is in a financial death spiral because of Keir Starmer. I have no idea whose advising him – it’s as if he’s trying to end the Labour Party.
If he isn’t trying to end his own party, then it is ironic that he might be saved from his own stupidity by NEC members who oppose the proscription plan. The UK’s biggest union, and Labour’s biggest donor – Unite – is against it:
Oh, brilliant plan. Labour is haemorrhaging member subscriptions, and is so broke it is having to lay off staff, so @Keir_Starmer's idea of repairing its finances is to enrage the party's largest donor by purging and victimising socialists. https://t.co/p6FzA7TW2Npic.twitter.com/qEsThNwAc2
— leftworks #WeAreCorbyn #IStandWithJeremyCorbyn (@leftworks1) July 19, 2021
The quoted section in the above tweet is from the Guardian article, again, and states:
Labour’s biggest donor, the Unite trade union, attacked the plans on Monday, saying: “While working-class communities are continuing to bear the brunt of the sickness and employment worries made much worse by Conservative mishandling of the pandemic, Labour is abandoning the field of battle against this government to turn its fire on its members instead.”
The union added that such “acts of political machismo” create a “sense of despair among voters who see a party at perpetual war with itself”.
And NEC members from the left-wing Grassroots Voice organisation also oppose the proscriptions:
— Nadia Jama – #GrassrootsVoice (@MizJama) July 19, 2021
The group states:
We believe that asking us to consider this matter … is a continuation of the destructive, factional behaviours from the leadership of the party which have marked the last year.
This isn’t just about the organisations we are being asked to consider… it is about … setting a precedent, proscribing these organisations as a forerunner to proscription of more and more groupings on the left of the party, to ultimately expel large sections of the Labour left and erase the Bennite and other socialist traditions within the party.
Then again,
Starmer has a supportive majority on the NEC, so the plans are expected to be agreed.
If so, then Starmer has stuffed the NEC with drones who are just as stupid as he is and the Labour Party no longer deserves to survive.
So those like Mrs Gee, below, who believe the Left is on a hiding to nothing if it carries on with Labour, may be entirely justified in that view – and, while it may take decades to get a new party up to the popularity Labour achieved under great left-wing leaders like Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson, it may be better to work towards that than to support a lost cause:
If I'm honest I don't want the whip restoring to Jeremy Corbyn
I'd rather other Labour MPs resigned the whip in protest & started a new party as part of a progressive alliance to seriously take on the Tories across the UK because clearly centrist Labour has no plans to do that
Whatever happens, it seems the Labour Party, as run by Keir Starmer, is over.
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“Keith”: this is just one comment on the way Starmer treats members of his own party who support the values on which Labour was formed, rather than the twisted parody that he leads.
This is excruciatingly poor behaviour by Keir Starmer.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has caught Covid-19, just days into his new job, and it means PM Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak have to go into self-isolation too – after humiliating themselves with an attempt to avoid it by saying they were on a ‘pilot’ scheme with daily testing.
Covid-19 infection rates are now regularly topping 50,000 a day; around around 50 people are dying of the disease every day as well – but it is against this background that the Tory government is ending social distancing restrictions that have helped ensure more of us don’t catch it!
With COVID infections and hospitalisations soaring, you might think the main opposition party would have better things to do. https://t.co/C1wC0Y9KnE
The Tory plan for another top-down restructuring of the NHS, that will restrict access to vital healthcare services because private companies will be taking your tax money for their profits, is well on its way through Parliament.
Also progressing towards becoming law are oppressive and racist plans to restrict our right to make political protests, arrest members of certain ethnic groups on sight (on the assumption that their existence means they will commit crimes), and force refugees to their deaths rather than allow them into the UK.
What is Leader of the Opposition Keir Starmer doing about all this? Nothing. He’s more interested in decimating his own party.
Under Starmer, Labour supports the lifting of social distancing rules – he backed the Tory re-opening of schools to the hilt, remember?
He made only token resistance to the NHS restructuring – and it has been widely speculated that this is because he receives donations from private healthcare. He isn’t interested in protecting your right to protest, either.
As for helping ethnic minorities, as far as Starmer is concerned, almost all of them can go hang. His support for ethnic minorities extends only to those members of the Jewish community who support hard-rightwing Zionists and those of that political shade who inhabit the government of Israel. It seems he is related to such people by marriage.
So, for example, he thinks this is okay:
Israel just destroyed the oldest known Canaanite cemetery in Palestine, a 4,200-year old site, to build an Israeli-settlers-only road.
This is a war crime.
The occupation regime is literally erasing Palestine’s history as the world looks on in silence. pic.twitter.com/kW17EqYVx4
Keir Starmer is set to expel 1000 left-wing Labour members to stamp out what he says is 'toxic extremism' yet he is happy to let this man back into the party. pic.twitter.com/xqNtApSXjQ
And that is why, instead of attacking the Tories’ many failures, Starmer is planning to purge more than 1,000 members of the Labour Party in the days before Parliament goes into summer recess.
Their crime? Not being right-wing enough to remain in an organisation that still describes itself as a “democratic socialist” party.
So much for Labour’s “broad church”.
According to the Mirror, which seems to be taking his side, he is attacking four groups: Resist, Labour Against the Witchhunt, Labour in Exile and Socialist Action.
Their crimes appear to be claiming that many anti-Semitism allegations, for which Labour members have been suspended or expelled, were blown out of proportion and politically-motivated; welcoming such expelled or suspended members into their own ranks; and demanding the re-admission of Jeremy Corbyn into the Parliamentary Labour Party.
The Mirror quotes one Labour source:
“Under Corbyn those from the far left fringes with poisonous beliefs and warped world-views were welcomed into the party. Keir is right to stamp out anti-Semitism and toxic extremism and get the party back into the decent mainstream of Labour values.”
The mainstream of Labour values – when This Writer was a member – included respecting the right of all ethnicities to self-determination. That includes Palestinians, who have been persecuted, murdered, and forced out of their homes and land by armed Israelis on the orders of a government that enforces racist, apartheid laws – a government that Keir Starmer slavishly supports and endorses.
It is not poisonous to believe that the Israeli government is wrong to murder Palestinian children.
It is poisonous to suggest that people who protest against such murders have “warped world-views”.
But Starmer won’t be concerning himself with the lies put forward by the Mirror‘s source; he agrees with them.
He may even agree with toxic Labour MP Neil Coyle – who has called for the expulsion of Jewish Labour members who do not share Starmer’s extreme – and I mean fanatical – right-wing views of what Israel should be:
Not far enough. JVL should be gone too. And other outright Communists who have their own political party/ies they can ruin. https://t.co/sLRk33dv17
There’s no reason to suggest that Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) are Communists. Or that any of the organisations Starmer will purge are “poisonous”, “toxic” or “warped”.
But it is easier to persuade doubters with emotive language than it is to actually provide a reasoned argument for the unreasonable thing Starmer is about to do.
Coyle’s tweet is anti-Semitic. JVL argues that the purge of Labour Party members on grounds of anti-Semitism is false – from a Jewish standpoint. Coyle is therefore prejudiced against these Jews because they are Jews, which is the classic definition of anti-Semitism. And Starmer is perfectly happy with that, meaning that he is also an anti-Semite, notwithstanding his familial connections to Judaism.
It’s all about politics, you see.
People who support Palestinians against a brutal hard-right regime that persecutes them are socialists. They want a better deal for everyone, so that people all over the world – including the UK – can live in freedom and be able to pursue their own prosperity without fear. Starmer isn’t interested in any of that.
Starmer’s only interest is in his own prosperity, which he considers to be best pursued by stamping on the faces of those of us who stand for traditional Labour values – the political priorities on which the party was founded, back in 1900.
So he will pretend to be on the side of the Jews – while actually attacking more of them than he supports.
He will pretend to stand up for Labour values – while crossing his fingers behind his back and telling himself that neoliberal “New Labour” (Tory) values are Labour values too.
And he will pretend to be a beacon of decency standing out against the chaos he says was created by his forerunner as Labour leader.
The trouble is, he isn’t any good at the pretence.
My response to the news that Keir Starmer is about to enact a purge of left-wing members of the Labour Party – egged on by the people who made up such accusations against Jeremy Corbyn. pic.twitter.com/xKB9FVChWR
The Zionist witchfinder general Keir Starmer , aided by proposed right wing leader of Unite Gerard Coyne continue the subjugation of socialist members of Labour, particularly Jewish folk. The dossiers compiled on them were produced by Assaf Kaplan, Israeli Spy. This is Labour.
— neil flek waugh . revolutionary socialist/marxist (@sammythedog1989) July 18, 2021
Every left critic of Starmer has been completed vindicated. Worth everyone remembering in future who got this right & who got it so disasterously wrong.
Keir Starmer wasn’t lying when he said he wanted to unite the Labour Party – it’s just that his strategy is to simply kick out anyone who disagrees with him.
Q. Why does Keir Starmer consider it acceptable for a Labour MP to call for the mass expulsion of socialist Jews from the Labour Party?
A. Because it's not about antisemitism. It never was. It's about purging genuine socialists, Jewish and non-Jewish, from the Labour Party. https://t.co/nBuMY5HsLw
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush 🟨🟥🥀🇵🇸 (@WarmongerHodges) July 18, 2021
— leftworks #WeAreCorbyn #IStandWithJeremyCorbyn (@leftworks1) July 18, 2021
Oh, and if you think I’m exaggerating the toxicity of Labour under Starmer, consider this attack on Owen Jones by a StarmerLabour supporter and former Labour councillor:
Absolutely disgusting.
This chap needs to be expelled. If I can be expelled for saying I’d vote for Thelma Walker then there is no excuse whatsoever when it comes to this.
Most harmful of all is the fact that Starmer won’t gain anything by this monumental act of Labour Party self-harm – for a simple reason summed up in this tweet:
The irony of mass expulsions is that the main messages that will be conveyed to the electorate will be that the Labour Party is both irredeemably fractured & brimful with dangerous extremists.
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The Daily Brexit (otherwise known as the Express) has used concerns over planned training on how to spot anti-Semitism in the Labour Party to trot out the tripe that was used to attack Jeremy Corbyn – again.
“HARD Left supporters of Jeremy Corbyn have started a social media campaign to stop Labour members from carrying out antisemitism training,” the article begins – but nowhere does it provide examples to show that any of these people are Communists.
The reporting continues in a way that – although it avoids direct lies – may be considered dishonest.
“The course… has been recommended to members after the party became mired in an antisemitism scandal under Mr Corbyn’s leadership,” it states – failing to note that the majority of accusations were false. The entire campaign was an attempt to undermine Corbyn with lies.
“Among its objections to the training is that it is being run by an organisation which was vehemently critical for the former Labour leader.” Really?
Or would it be more accurate to say the objection to JLM is the fear that it will record members’ contributions, selectively edit them and then send them to media organisations like the Brexit as further proof of anti-Semitism?
“Several … cited the case of former Labour member Jackie Walker, who was expelled following comments she made during an antisemitism training session, in which she criticised Holocaust Memorial Day for only commemorating Jewish victims.” Ms Walker was the victim of this recording-selective-editing-and-release-to-the-media tactic, yet the Brexit skates over that fact without mentioning it.
“They are also furious that JLM successfully persuaded the party to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism which recognises that attacks on Israel are often antisemitic.”
More accurately: the IHRA working definition confuses anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the actions of the Israeli state, making it possible to accuse people of anti-Semitism when they are actually – and accurately – criticising Israeli persecution of Palestinians.
There’s no mention in the article of the fact that the man who wrote the IHRA definition has himself admitted it is not fit for purpose, for this very reason.
It seems likely that whoever wrote the story – David Maddox, political editor (I don’t know him either) – was simply quoting from a press release he had been sent, and hadn’t actually done a scrap of work to check the facts.
Who would send such a press release? My bet is on the person quoted in the article – Euan Philipps of that famous hate group, Labour Against Anti-Semitism.
LAAS has submitted hundreds – maybe thousands – of spurious anti-Semitism accusations against party members, most of which failed to trigger an investigation. Because they were false?
It typically scrapes information from Labour members’ activities on the internet and then presents it as evidence of anti-Semitism – often with little or no justification. The Brexit‘s claim to have seen 300 WhatsApp messages supports LAAS involvement.
None of the comments quoted in the article demonstrate any evidence of anti-Semitism – although some will claim that the way Zionism is mentioned qualifies.
Zionism, in its simplest form, is the desire for Jewish people to be able to live within the historic borders of Israel.
But the ideology has been perverted to justify the forcible removal – including killing – of Palestinians who have lived on that land for many hundreds of years by the contradictorily-named Israeli Defence Force.
Criticism of such racist hate crimes is habitually dismissed as anti-Semitism, remember. You see how this accusation game works?
This Writer has already called for these “training” sessions to be ignored.
The Jewish Labour Movement is not an acceptable provider. Evidence supporting claims of its affiliation with a racist party in Israel, that it was revived specifically to undermine Corbyn, and that it supports the aggressive Zionism I have described above is demonstrable.
What a shame the zealots who launched – and perpetuate – this campaign against decent Labour Party members are supported in their aims by so-called news reporters who appear to be little more than typists.
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Anti-Semitic: and this tweet was published by a director of Labour Against Anti-Semitism (who isn’t a member of the Labour Party). Credibility blown?
When it all falls apart for so-called anti-Semitism crusaders, it seems to fall apart badly.
Peter Newbon is a director of Labour Against Anti-Semitism (LAAS), despite not being a member of the Labour Party (it would be interesting to find out if he has any other political affiliations).
Apparently Pete Newbon, one of the directors of Labour Against Antisemitism Ltd, is not a member of the Labour Party? pic.twitter.com/TMNRdt9cG5
— Meghan ate my Corgi (@LibrtarianLeft) May 19, 2021
Today, May 19, he tweeted an image of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reading Jewish former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen’s book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt to a group of children, with the image altered so the book appears to be the anti-Semitic text The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The caption was: “‘Oh no! A J-… er, I mean a ZIONIST! A nasty, horrible Zionist! We can’t go over him, we can’t go under him, we’ll have to make an effigy…'”
This is clearly an anti-Semitic message, linking all Jewish people with a racist ideology in what appears to be an attempt to “normalise” Zionism along the lines of Robert Jenrick’s “Anti-Zionism is antisemitism” nonsense.
Now, serious questions are being asked about Labour Against Anti-Semitism, and Newbon’s university job also appears to be at risk.
Dear @NorthumbriaUni Do you take action when your staff engage in potentially criminal activity, such as racially motivated harassment, in this case antisemitic targeting? https://t.co/zotzQXSoF1
— Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 (@MichaelRosenYes) May 19, 2021
Questions are even being asked of the Labour Party, whose leaders have signalled support for LAAS on many occasions:
Hi @UKLabour I thought LAAS was supposed to be AGAINST antisemitism? And yet one of your members who is part of that has tried to discredit one of our most loved Jewish authors with several saying the attack was a/s in itself? Not convinced you’re being genuine.@NorthumbriaUnihttps://t.co/sLpMjELbbK
— Mark Mandelson – Undermining Starmer Every Day (@NeworpK) May 19, 2021
Let’s all keep a close eye on this one.
I think some very nasty people have a lot of explaining to do.
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Here’s a useful Twitter thread from David Rosenberg:
They first called for an Inquiry In November 2018 three months after they had launched a petition: "Jeremy Corbyn is an antisemite and must go". They eventually had to remove the "comments page" of the signatories to that petition, because of what those signatories had added.
CAA only removed these comments, and stopped more, after they were exposed on social media. Lots of signatories came from Israel and America. Many commentators regard CAA as a rabidly pro-Israel body and have accused it of anti-Palestinian racism.
It will be interesting to see if the views of non/anti-Zionist Jewish members, many of whom have longstanding records of activism against racism and fascism, and for human rights, and who hold elected positions in their CLPs, or as councillors, will be represented in the Report.
Antisemitism must of course be challenged wherever it rears its head, as must any bigotry. Today we mark 2 years since the Pittsburgh Synagogue massacre by a neo-Nazi gunman, filled with hate and incensed by that synagogue raising funds for refugee projects.
This is where the frontline of the fight against antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism is located. I hope we don't get diverted from that crucial struggle or divided by the report form an Inquiry that many suspect is rooted in factional politics far from that front line.
The point about the Campaign Against Antisemitism is well-made.
This so-called charity is nothing of the kind – as anybody victimised by its attentions knows very well.
The CAA attacked me in 2017, publishing an article attacking me as an anti-Semite on the eve of local elections in which I was standing as a Labour Party candidate in order, it seems clear to me, to discredit me and interfere with my chances of election.
None of the claims in the article were accurate.
The author had taken articles I had written and selectively quoted from them passages that could be made to appear anti-Semitic.
This is quote-doctoring, which any respectable journalist will tell you is an unacceptable practice.
Another word for it is lying.
That is the kind of organisation that wanted the EHRC investigation.
Remember that when you find out what’s in the report.
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