- Excellent round up on Chris Williamson - Greenstein Archived Message
Posted by MikeD
on June 28, 2019, 9:35 am
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https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2019/06/jeremy-corbyn-must-defend-chris.html ...What is happening over the restoration of the whip to Chris Williamson is outrageous. He was duly tried by a panel of the National Executive. The Right are not happy with the decision and are therefore demanding that the verdict be annulled. It’s like the prosecution having a second bite of the cherry in a court case. ... 118 MPs and peers have demanded that there should be no political interference in decisions regarding anti-Semitism, blithely unaware that that is exactly what they are doing. Once again Jeremy Corbyn, instead of defending Chris Williamson and stating loudly that he is not anti-Semitic, has pathetically restated that he is not an anti-Semite. We should use the list of 118 (minus about 25 Lords) as a target list for deselection. These are people whose first loyalty is to the Israeli state and Britain’s pro-American foreign policy rather than to any conception of socialism. For over 3 years the Zionist lobby and the Jewish Labour Movement (who are one and the same thing) have mounted campaigns against a whole series of targets. Each time Corbyn and Momentum, in the form of Jon Lansman have given way. Each time the Israeli Embassy lobby, which is what the JLM is, have simply increased their demands. Now even telling the truth about the Israel lobby is ‘anti-Semitic’ (thus equating Jews with Israel and Zionism)... If Corbyn had called out the weaponisation of anti-Semitism from the beginning then he would not have faced the past 4 years of hell... But what is worse is that our so-called friends, people like Jon Lansman, the unelected leader of Momentum, have attacked Chris Williamson. Lansman has worked with the JLM and defended them throughout. Despite the fact that the JLM are the self-proclaimed ‘sister party’ of the racist Israeli Labour Party... If one good thing comes out of this Lansman has exposed himself. Anyone who defends him now is of the Right not Left. Likewise Owen Jones who has supported the suspension of Chris Williamson. Jones is and always has been a fair-weather friend of the Left. He too has befriended the JLM whilst pretending to be a supporter of the Palestinians... What this whole episode has revealed is the weakness of the Left. Not one MP as far as I’m aware has come out in support of Chris Williamson. The so-called Campaign Group of MPs has remained silent. The cowardice is damning. Can you imagine Tony Benn having remained silent whilst this witchhunt was going on or Eric Heffer? ... The fact is that those leading the charge against Chris are the same MPs who refused to vote against the 2014 Immigration Act which introduced the ‘hostile environment’ policy which led to the Windrush deportations. The concern for ‘anti-Semitism’ against a privileged white community is in stark contrast to the actual racism against Black people. What racism have Jewish people experienced? A few anti-Semitic social media posts at worst. No one has died from a tweet. Yet hundreds of people, some of whom have died, suffered from Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ policy. In 2014 how many Labour MPs broke the whip to vote against the Tories Immigration Act? Just 6 – Corbyn, McDonnell, Abbot, Kelvin MacKenzie (also suspended). This is the extent of the hypocrisy over the fake and false ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations. Defending Chris Williamson is essential to defending the Corbyn leadership of the Labour Party. Unfortunately Corbyn himself is incapable of recognising the fact that throwing Chris overboard won’t make him stronger but weaker. Appeasing the Right doesn’t make them go away they just become emboldened. That is why the defence of Chris Williamson is, despite Corbyn’s cowardice a defence of Corbyn! |