Posted by scrabb on March 1, 2019, 1:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Thank you Sue "
John, you ask what could Corbyn do -- or have done -- to avert this anti-semitic smear onslaught. Take a look at George Galloway being interviewed last week on Sky News. There's your answer. He comes right out and says Labour is not an anti-semitic party, that Corbyn "doesn't have a particle, a molecule, of anti-semitism in his body" and that a Macarthyite smear campaign is being conducted by the media -- including Sky News -- and goes on to accuse them of using the tactics of Goebbels to demonise Corbyn, using the Labour Party as an excuse.
It isn't so much the actual content of what GG says as his manner -- he punches out his points one by one, won't take the usual interviewer's bs and sets the debate on his own terms This is what JC should have done from the very first moment these accusations started. But what did he do? He entered the debate on the terms set by the smearers, so was on the back-foot and feebly saying he was going to "root out" anti-semitism, thereby accepting there was something to root out. This is no way to behave, no way to defend and refute racist slurs against him. Think what he did when Hodge called him -- to his face in Parliament -- a f*cking anti-semite. Nothing. When Livingstone and Greenstein and Jackie Walker had been EXPELLED from the Labour party for absolutely nothing, Corbyn allows himself to be insulted and slandered and the vile accuser just gets away with it. He should have immediately called for her conduct to be investigated and for her to be suspended while the inquiry was taking place. Even more, he should have taken her to a court of law (if that were legally possible) and sued her for slander.
Yes, Corbyn has been put in a terrible situation, but he has bungled it from the start, including not reprimanding Watson and also telling McDonnel not to be such a bloody fool in meekly giving way to the ravening media and their Israeli masters.
As a final point, why didn't anyone in the Labour Party bring up time and again the undercover story by Channel 4 and Al-Jazeera showing what the Israeli embassy was up to in trying to bring down elected politicians? The documented evidence was there in plain sight! Bring it up repeatedly. Expose the lies for what they are.