Fri 3 Aug 2018, 06:45 AM | Posted by editor
LETTER By Harry Hutchinson, Labour Party Northern Ireland
This latest antisemitic attack on Labour, the third in the last week, perpetuates the false claims that Labour is a party of anti-Jewish sentiment.
Corbyn apologized for sharing a platform in 2010 with a Holocaust survivor who compared the Israel government to Nazism. This apology comes days after Peter Willsman was asked to resign from the NEC for calling those behind these antisemitic claims as ‘Trump fanatics’; all in a week that Labour was criticized for not adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.
Zionism has infiltrated the Labour Party with the aim of quelling all criticism within the party of the apartheid Israel state. Though the Israel Embassy in London, the Israel Government has, like in the US, infiltrated British political parties, particularly Labour.
The Israel Government fears a future Labour Government will support the Palestinian cause and oppose the Zionist agenda of suppressing Palestinians from being part of the Israeli state. Netanyahu is acutely aware of the international pressure that brought down the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Corbyn and the Labour leadership have done nothing to deal with these Zionist antisemitic claims; in fact, they have exacerbated such claims, by not making the clear distinction between being anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
The Labour Leadership have not come to the support of members like Greenstein, Walker and Wadsworth, who have been expelled or suspended for criticizing the Israeli Government. In fact Labour’s shadow foreign secretary supported the expulsion of Livingstone, as did Lansman, the head of Momentum.
Corbyn is not the victim of these anti-Semitic attacks, he is the benefactor. There is a danger that the Labour leadership moves to the right as an election looms closer and allows the massive purge of members to continue, through the National Constitutional Committee. A purge of members that, according to the Financial Times almost a year ago, has run to over 10,000 members. This purge is not just those critical of Israel, but socialists opposed to Trident and other left activists opposed to private health companies.
The fightback against the purges is happening, like Labour Against the Witch-hunt. This fightback must also be geared against the Zionist infiltration in Labour. Zionism has no place in the mass party of the working class.
