Corbyn Must Defend Chris Williamson MP Against False Accusations of Anti-Semitism

The Jewish Labour Movement and the Zionist lobby have got their teeth into another anti-racist.  Having politically lynched Jackie Walker last year and demonised Ken Livingstone this year they are now targeting Chris Williamson, the MP for Derby North.  His offence?  Saying that anti-Semitism has been weaponised.  According to the Jewish News [Labour MP again claims anti-Semitism has been ‘weaponised in cynical and manipulative way’] Chris said that he stood “in absolute solidarity with anyone who is a victim of anti-Semitism or other forms of racism, as the Labour Party has done. Anti-Semitism is repugnant and a scourge on society”.

However this is not good enough for the Zionist lobby because their main concern isn’t defence of Jews or anti-Semitism but labelling critics of Israel as ‘anti-Semites’.  It reminds me of what Hajo Meyer, a Dutch survivor of Auschwitz and an anti-Zionist used to say:  

That is why I have been suspended for nearly 18 months, despite being Jewish.  There has been a continual use by the JLM, which is on the far-Right of the Labour Party, of anti-Semitism as a weapon against the Left.  Williamson also said:

 “What can’t be acceptable is where it is being used in order to wage a proxy war against the leadership of the Labour Party and Momentum.... These aren’t my words, these are the words of members of the Jewish community who are very upset about how anti-Semitism is being weaponised. I’m not speaking in isolation or making this up. I’ve been a member of the Labour Party for 41 years and I’ve never witnessed any anti-Semitism..”

None of us have witnessed anti-Semitism because it doesn’t exist in the Labour Party.  What we are seeing of course is an attempt by the supporters of the world’s only Apartheid State to use bogus accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ as a means of deflecting attention where it should be focussed – on Israel’s horrific starvation siege of Gaza, its murder of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, its house demolitions and evictions.  Those like the JLM wite the JLM being a member of the Word Zionist Organisation, a body which funds settlements in Palestine.

Marie van der Zyl of the Board of Deputies told Radio Derby that the MP’s suggestion of “weaponisation” was “absolutely offensive.  What some of us find offensive is spurious accusations of anti-Semitism being made, repeatedly, against anyone who criticises the Israeli state. 

If the Jewish Labour Movement, Marie van der Zyl and the Board of Deputies are seriously concerned with opposing anti-Semitism then they can start a little bit nearer home.  This blog [EXCLUSIVE – Lifting the lid on Collaboration between the Far Right and Zionist Activists] and Electronic Intifada [Far-right Britain First fosters ties with Zionist movement]have just exposed how Jonathan Hoffman, a former Vice-Chair of the Zionist Federation, demonstrated outside the Palestine Expo 2017 conference recently with a neo-Nazi, Paul Besser of Britain First.

Hoffman is a member of the Board of Deputies.  Why hasn’t he been suspended?  Perhaps if Marie van der Zyl, the JLM or any other Zionist sock puppets are really concerned about anti-Semitism then they will first remove a member of their own organisation who works openly with neo-Nazis.  Then they might turn to members of NW Friends of Israel who demonstrate alongside the EDL, as has Hoffman and his friends.  Instead they have kept quiet about the racists in their own movement, people who are happy to work side by side with genuine anti-Semites and fascists.

Today neo-Nazis and the anti-Semitic far-Right are wholly in favour of Israel. Israel is seen as the most hostile anti-Muslim and anti-Arab state in the world.  Richard Spencer, a neo-Nazi and founder of the Alt Right in America told Israel’s Channel 2 in an interview that he was a White Zionist.  He is absolutely enamoured with how Israel deals with non-Jews e.g. by preventing mixed marriage and how it relegates Arabs to the margins of Israeli society.  He would like to do that with Jews in America.

Even some liberal Zionists (and the JLM are not liberal Zionist) are finally waking up to the fact that you can be ardently pro-Israel and Zionist  and still dislike Jews.  Naomi Zeveloff, a correspondent with the Jewish Forward  almost seemed to be in shock as she explained that ‘though it would seem impossible to hate Jews but love the Jewish state, these two viewpoints are not as contradictory as they appear.’  She interviewed Steven M. Cohen, a sociologist at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, who explained to her that ‘There is actually “little correlation” between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. To be sure, anti-Semitism is found among the anti-Zionist left. But it is also found among the Zionist right’  

Ruth Smeeth, the right-wing Labour MP who claimed she was the victim a year ago of anti-Semitism at the Chakrabarti press conference attacked Chris Williamson at the recent JLM conference.  She said that "I think every time Chris Williamson opens his mouth he helps our cause. His ramblings - they did nothing more than ensure the leadership had to distance themselves from him. "Every time that may speaks I almost want to thank him. But that is not what I will be doing when we return to Parliament on Tuesday.  This will get raised at the PLP, I've already raised it with the head of the PLP, and I'll be raising it with the Chief Whip, and I'll be raising it with the leader of the Labour Party.’[Corbyn "can't get head around" antisemitism, says leading Jewish MP]

Smeeth has form.  She accused well known Black anti-racist Marc Wadsworth of ‘anti-Semitism’ at the press conference for the Chakrabarti Report.  This was a blatant lie. As I wroteat the time:

I am though interested to know what Smeeth means by ‘our cause’.  It’s not socialism she is talking about!  She is talking about the cause of Zionism i.e. Israel inside the Labour Party.  Suffice to say that well-known anti-racist paper The Sun got into the act.  [Jeremy Corbyn urged to take action against his hard-left ally Chris Williamson after he described antisemitism accusations as ‘bulls**t]  Even the Sun opposes 'antiSemitism'!!

Isn’t it strange how every racist tabloid in Britain is concerned about ‘anti-Semitism’.  It is to be hoped that Jeremy Corbyn will now stand up to the Zionist lobby, after the General Election, because if he doesn’t he will make a rod for his own back.  The Zionists will not be appeased.  Anyone who raises their head above the parapet in support of the Palestinians or in opposition to Zionism will be attacked for anti-Semitism whereas the real racists are the JLM and everything they represent.  They boast of being the Israeli Labour Party’s ‘sister’ party , a thoroughly racist anti-Arab party and we should take them at their word.