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Labour 'in total
disarray' over antisemitism allegations, campaigners claim
Activists warn
anti-Jewish sentiment becoming 'institutionalised' in party and call unit
responsible for tackling complaints 'disjointed, confused and chaotic'
These attacks over unproved anti-Semitism are horrible, just
gutter politics.
A return of McCarthyism, with a new devil substituted
instead of communism.
There has not been one hard piece of evidence offered to
support any charges of anti-Semitism, and, to my mind, it is libelous to hurl
this term around, but it is done all the time with few willing to challenge the
shameful practice.
This behavior is a way of intimidating others into doing
what you want them to do. That is not democratic. That is not acceptable. And
that is not even civil or decent.
Trying to influence democratic elections in this way is
serious stuff, far more serious, and far more real, than all the fantasy
accusations made about Russian interference in Western elections.
I would suggest there is only one genuine cause for all of
this ugly bellowing, bellowing which keeps returning regularly since Jeremy
Corbyn was first elected leader of the Labour Party.
It is about Jeremy Corbyn’s being fair-minded on the matter
of Israel and the Palestinians – a terrible charge, that.
But, you see, being fair-minded is not allowed on this
topic.
We live in a world where Western governments are ceaselessly
lobbied to make laws which violate the democratic rights of their own citizens.
Perhaps the best example is the tireless campaign to create laws making support
for BDS - a peaceful and democratic form of protest against the clearest oppression
in Israel - illegal or punishable by economic sanctions.
The Lobby has already succeeded in getting such laws passed
in about 20 American states, and they are nothing more than a minor form of
tyranny. Just how does great injustice anywhere get changed if no form of
effective, peaceful opposition is allowed? It doesn’t.
You must be completely "with us or against us,"
effectively, is what the Israel Lobby asserts.
And our press, for the most part, supports the unscrupulous
claim.
Well, you get the government you deserve in the end.
Never forget the much-despised Tony Blair, the man who lied
his way to assisting in killing a million people, was a creature of the same
forces hacking away at Corbyn, someone who is an infinitely more honorable man.
Blair wasn't given the Israel Peace Prize of a million
dollars plus a whole lot of other sinecures and preferments for nothing. He
earned them.
He helped do Ariel Sharon's dirty work, the destruction of
Iraq having been a favorite project of Sharon’s from the beginning. Indeed, we
know from the comments of a number of high-level observers - including one slip
of the tongue by George Bush himself - as well as the logic of the actual
events, that that is the only thing the invasion of Iraq was ever really about.
Blair and his acolytes are still active in an unprincipled,
low-road anti-Corbyn campaign, which keeps flaring up with name-calling and
absolutely zero evidence of any wrong-doing.
