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Another good article from Jonathon Cook. It is apparently racist to oppose Zionism because of its racism towards the Palestinians. It's like saying that if you don't like English Defence League skinheads because of their racism, then you being racist towards EDF skinheads. Therefore, to be anti-racist is to be racist.Everything is fixed and rigged, and everything is inverted, as the media is controlled by the elites. Maduro is said to be a dictator who imprisons and murders his enemues, while the brutal Saudi regime is ignored, even when MBS arrests and tortures to death family members and causes genocide in Yemen.Britain will be denied a moderate socialist alternative where even a leading member of a right-wing think tank says Corbyn has better plans to regenerate Britain that the
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Another good article from Jonathon Cook. It is apparently racist to oppose Zionism because of its racism towards the Palestinians. It's like saying that if you don't like English Defence League skinheads because of their racism, then you being racist towards EDF skinheads. Therefore, to be anti-racist is to be racist.Another good article from Jonathon Cook. It is apparently racist to oppose Zionism because of its racism towards the Palestinians. It's like saying that if you don't like English Defence League skinheads because of their racism, then you being racist towards EDF skinheads. Therefore, to be anti-racist is to be racist.Everything is fixed and rigged, and everything is inverted, as the media is controlled by the elites. Maduro is said to be a dictator who imprisons and murders his enemues, while the brutal Saudi regime is ignored, even when MBS arrests and tortures to death family members and causes genocide in Yemen.Britain will be denied a moderate socialist alternative where even a leading member of a right-wing think tank says Corbyn has better plans to regenerate Britain that the
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Institutional racism on Palestinians
Further, if a proportion of Jewish Labour party members have such a heavy personal investment in Israel that they refuse to countenance any meaningful curbs on Israel’s abuses of Palestinians – and that has been underscored repeatedly by public comments from the JLM and Labour Friends of Israel – then keeping them inside the party will require cracking down on all but the flimsiest criticism of Israel. It will tie the party’s hands on supporting Palestinian rights.
In the name of protecting the “Israel right or wrong” crowd from what they consider to be anti-semitic abuse, Labour will have to provide institutional support for Israel’s racism towards Palestinians.
In doing so, it will in fact simply be returning to the status quo in the party before Corbyn, when Labour turned a blind eye over many decades to the Palestinians’ dispossession by European Zionists who created an ugly anachronistic state where rights accrue based on one’s ethnicity and religion rather than citizenship.
Those in Labour who reject Britain’s continuing complicity in such crimes – ones the UK set in motion with the Balfour Declaration – will find, as a result, that it is they who have no home in Labour. That includes significant numbers of anti-Zionist Jews, Palestinians, Muslims and Palestinian solidarity activists.
Safe space for whom?
If the creation of a “safe space” for Jews in the Labour party is code, as it appears to be, for a safe space for hardline Zionist Jews, it will inevitably require that the party become a hostile environment for those engaged in other anti-racism battles.
Stripped bare, what Lansman and the witchfinders are saying is that Zionist Jewish sensitivities in the party are the only ones that count, that anything and everything must be done to indulge them, even if it means abusing non-Zionist Jewish members, black members, Palestinian and Muslim members, and those expressing solidarity with Palestinians.
This is precisely the political black hole into which simplistic, kneejerk identity politics inevitably gets sucked.
Right now, the establishment – represented by Richard Dearlove, a former head of the MI6 – is maliciously trying to frame Corbyn’s main adviser, Seumas Milne, as a Kremlin asset.
While the witchfinders claim to have unearthed a “pattern of behaviour” in Williamson’s efforts to expose their smears, in fact the real pattern of behaviour is there for all to see: a concerted McCarthyite campaign to destroy Corbyn before he can reach No 10.
Corbyn’s allies are being picked off one by one, from grassroots activists like Walker and Wadsworth to higher-placed supporters like Williamson and Milne. Soon Corbyn will stand alone, exposed before the inquisition that has been prepared for him.
Then Labour can be restored to the Blairites, the members silenced until they leave and any hope of offering a political alternative to the establishment safely shelved. Ordinary people will again be made passive spectators as the rich carry on playing with their lives and their futures as though Britain was simply a rigged game of Monopoly.