A few days ago Mike reported that the Labour party had declined to investigate right-wing Labour MP Neil Coyle for an anti-Semitic tweet he’d made about Jewish Voice for Labour. This was despite complaints from Sir Geoffrey Bindman, QC; Avi Shlaim, a very respected professor of Middle Eastern history at Oxford; and Harold Immanuel, all three of whom are Jewish, to Starmer. Coyle had tweeted that JVL’s members were “outright Communists who have their own political party/ies they can ruin”. Mike has pointed out that it fits the genuine Nazi anti-Semitic trope of identifying Jews with Communism. Hitler ranted about ‘Judaeo-Bolshevism’. One of the accusations the Nazis hurled at the SPD, the rough German equivalent of the Labour party, was that it had been infiltrated by Jews, who were expelling its gentile members as part of a plot to take over the German parliament. And at the very least it demonstrates a clear anti-Semitism in the sense of a hatred of Jews as Jews, regardless of ideological, political and religious reasons.
However, the only response from the Labour party was two auto-acknowledgements, the first to the initial complaint, the second to the trio’s request for a meeting.
This shows the utter partisanship and ideological motivation of the anti-Semitism witch hunt. It was never about anti-Semitism – it was merely a useful pretext for the right to purge the party of socialists and critics of Israel, very many of whom are Jewish. As a result members of the JVL were 224 times more likely than gentiles to be accused and purged. But this has now increased to 300 times.
Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters were never anti-Semites. But it seems that Starmer’s supporters may be, despite their leader’s declaration that he is ‘100 per cent Zionist’.
But they’re good right-wing neoliberals, so they get away with it.
Tags: anti-semitism, Anti-Semitism Smears, Avi Shlaim, Geoffrey Bindman, Harold Immanuel, Jeremy Corbyn, Jewish Voice for Labour, Jews, Keir Starmer, Middle East, Neoliberalism, Oxford University, Purges, Social Democrat Party (Germany), Vox Political, Zionism
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February 11, 2022 at 11:31 am |
What do you expect from a party leader who witch-hunts Jewish members on charges of anti-Semitism?
February 11, 2022 at 12:18 pm |
I expect precisely that, Brian – nothing but false witch hunt and a blind eye to real anti-Semitism among his followers.