As the Neo-Liberal Parties Head for a Record Low Vote, the Left has to Come Together Under One Umbrella like in France
Time is Running Out Says Young Palestinian Woman
There
is widespread contempt for Starmer’s new patriotic Tory Party. His parachuting
in of 14 army officers, his pledge to increase ‘defence’ expenditure, wrapping
the Union Jack around himself, reminiscent of the NF and his attack
on Bengalis, shows that Starmer is a racist fraud. As Samuel Johnson once said,
patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel’ and Starmer is nothing if not a
scoundrel.
The
tearing up of his 10
Pledges have marked Starmer out as a cynical liar on a par with Boris
Johnson. His reliance on corporate donors like Sir Trevor Chinn, a Zionist who gave
£50,000 to his leadership campaign, but whose identity he refused to
divulge during the leadership campaign, tells us everything about him.
The
parachuting in of lobbyists and right-wingers such as Chris
Ward in Brighton Kemptown, whilst deselecting the local MP and removing
candidates like Faiza Shaheen and the imposition of Luke
Akehurst have led to mass resignations. The Labour Party is beyond salvation.
By
sticking to Starmer the trade union barons have demonstrated that their loyalty
is to their own rather than their members’ interests. This is the problem that
the working class faces. We have to get rid of the Gary Smiths, Sharon Grahams
and Christine McAnea
There
are some brilliant socialists standing against Labour such as Andrew
Feinstein against Starmer, Jodi McIntyre
standing against Jess Philips despite scare
stories in the local media, Leanne
Mohamad standing against Wes Streeting and Tanushka
Mara standing against ‘Killer’ Kyle in Hove. The Green Party [GP] have
insisted on standing in every constituency, including against Jeremy Corbyn.
Despite their image as a ‘left’ party they are nothing of the sort.
A reminder about how broken promises are second nature to the Lib Dems
Starmer’s
war against the left provided the impetus for a socialist alternative in this
election. It goes against the grain not to vote. People want nothing to do with
the Liberal Democrats, after their austerity coalition with the Tories for 5
years and the breaking
of their pledge to abolish tuition fees. They are Tory lite. Yet the Greens
were in tactical alliance with them in the 2017 parliament.
Many
on the left see the GP, which at first sight has a radical manifesto, as on the
left. It isn’t. The GP is an opportunist not a socialist party. Its main aim is
to become part of the political establishment.
It seeks to green capitalism not replace it. That is why many Tory
voters vote for it in local elections.
Allan
Todd, a former GP member, the first Green councillor in Keswick and member of
the party’s Climate Campaign Committee spoke
about ‘the number of times members of the
leadership spoke about the need to focus on attracting ‘soft Tory voters’. Their
other cause for concern came after the 2017 general election, when the right wing of the Party began pushing back against radical policies for social and economic justice. On internal online discussion groups, there were many who began calling for (and I quote) “such socialist stuff” to be left to the Labour Party.
I'm standing to be Derby South's next MP.
— Chris Williamson (@DerbyChrisW) May 27, 2024
Help me land a blow against the genocidaires, the warmongers, and the privatising rip-off merchants who are backed by Labour and the Tories. The @WorkersPartyGB is the resistance to the political status quo. pic.twitter.com/Wnq8gGyeQt
Despite this I voted Green because in Brighton Kemptown there is
no socialist standing. However the Green Party is not an anti-imperialist
party. Where there are socialists, and I include the Worker’s
Party despite differences with them over immigration and the
family/sexuality, I support them. Some of their candidates, such as Chris
Williamson and Craig Murray, are excellent.
Following WW2 the US replaced the UK as the main imperialist
power. The US sought to dismantle the British Empire and bring an end to
imperial preference. According
to the US Office of Historian
Roosevelt wanted the British to
pay compensation [for Lend Lease aid during WW2] by dismantling their system of
Imperial Preference, which had been established by the British Government
during the Great Depression and was designed to encourage trade within the
British Empire by lowering tariff rates between members, while maintaining
discriminatory tariff rates against outsiders.
In
the Middle East the US allied with nationalists such as Egypt’s Gamal Abdul
Nasser, just so long as they were also anti-communist. Until 1967 it refrained
from too close a relationship with Israel. A good insight into the competition
between the US and Britain is James Barr’s Lords of the Desert which details
how both powers sought to destabilise and overthrow any regime not to their
liking.
The US was responsible for overthrowing radical regimes in Guatemala and Iran (1953), Chile (1973), Congo (1960), Brazil (1964), Indonesia (1965). It has also maintained a blockade of Cuba since 1962. It took over from the French and fought a bloody war in Vietnam before it was forced to withdraw.
The
US war drive today centres on the proxy war in Ukraine, the arming and
financing of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and the ‘pivot to China’ via the
AUKUS Pact. US foreign policy, whether it is the isolation of Russia or attacks
on Libya and Syria is conducted in the context of NATO’s framework.
Yet
in 2023 the GP abandoned
their policy of withdrawal from NATO. The pretext
for this was Ukraine despite the responsibility for this war lying with NATO. The
US insisted, despite promises
to Gorbachev at the time of German reunification, on expanding NATO in Eastern
Europe right up to the borders of Russia.
The
GP argues that NATO is a defensive pact despite it waging war in Afghanistan
and Libya as well as orchestrating the bombing of Serbia, Syria and Libya. The GP
is at heart an imperialist party.
Victoria Nulan talking to US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt about who to put into Ukraine’s Government
It
was the US
role in the overthrow of the elected President of Ukraine, Yanukavych in
2014, which set the scene for Russia’s invasion in 2022. Assistant Secretary of
State Victoria Nuland’s conversation with Geoffrey Pyatt, US Ambassador to
Ukraine, was bugged
by the Russians. Newland and Pyatt were discussing the make-up of the new
Ukrainian government.
This
directly led to the banning of Russian language rights in Ukraine (which 39% of the
population speaks) and then a war on Luhansk and
Donetsk regions. A war which was conducted by Ukraine’s state sponsored
neo-Nazi militias such as the Azov Battalion.
As
Dimitry (not his real name) a member of Azov battalion explained
in an interview with the Guardian in 2014:
I have nothing against Russian
nationalists, or a great Russia,"
said Dmitry, as we sped through the dark Mariupol night in a pickup truck, a
machine gunner positioned in the back. "But Putin's not even a Russian.
Putin's a Jew.... Dmitry claimed not to be a Nazi, but waxed lyrical about Adolf Hitler as a
military leader, and believes the Holocaust never happened.
None
of this prevented Israel from working
with, as well as arming
and training this neo-Nazi militia.
Those
who doubt this should listen to John Mearsheimer’s lecture to King’s
College students or read John Pilger’s May 2014 article
which predicted war in Ukraine. He wrote
Every year the American historian William Blum publishes his "updated summary of the record of US foreign policy" which shows that, since 1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used chemical and biological weapons; and attempted to assassinate foreign leaders.
John Mearsheimer’s lecture at King’s College
By
accepting NATO the GP accepts the role of US imperialism vs other countries, Israel
included. The US created death squad regimes in Latin Americaa and trained them
in torture and counter insurgency at the School of
Americas. Lesley Gill, who sat in on School of America’s classes, described how
So widely
documented is the participation of the School’s graduates in torture, murder,
and political repression throughout Latin America that in 2001 the School
officially changed its name to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security
Cooperation.
US sanctions and aggression has led to a trail
of failed states. Having created and sponsored Islamic fundamentalist and
terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda, it used them as an excuse for the War on Terror.
There
is a complete absence of any recognition by the GP of what US and Western
imperialism has entailed for the peoples of the Global South. Instead we are
fed a series of platitudes such
as
‘The Green Party recognises that
NATO has an important role in ensuring the ability of its member states to
respond to threats to their security’ before going to say that ‘We would work
within NATO to achieve (1) A greater focus on global peacebuilding (2) A
commitment to a ‘No First Use’ of nuclear weapons.
Working
with NATO for peace is like working with a rapist to ensure the safety of women
or with Nigel Farage to achieve better race relations. The GP disguises its
purpose with bland verbiage.
Green
policy on Israel/Palestine consists of human rights rhetoric devoid of analysis.
Their failure to recognise the role of British and Western imperialism is not
an oversight. It is fundamental to their chauvinist and racist first worldism. Partly
it is a reflection of their electoralism but it is also a reflection of their
own class politics.
Anti-Semitism
During
the Corbyn years the GP adopted this false
antiracism of the right. ‘Anti-Semitism’ was a form of White ‘racism’ that
defined opponents of Zionism as racists on the basis that people oppose Zionism
and the Israeli state, not because of what it does to the Palestinians but
because of their religion. It is as if anti-Apartheid campaigners in South
Africa had opposed apartheid because of the colour of the settlers’ skin.
Caroline
Lucas and the GP leadership fought to get the IHRA
misdefinition of anti-Semitism adopted, despite it originating at Tel Aviv
University with the sole purpose of conflating anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
The person who drafted it, Kenneth Stern, testified
to Congress that the IHRA definition
has
been used primarily to suppress and chill some pro-Palestinian political
speech, and it is particularly inappropriate to use it in this fashion on
university campuses, where the point is to examine ideas, including ones that
might be contentious or disturbing.
It
is important to make a distinction between actual harassment, intimidation and
bullying, on the one hand, and expression of opinions, on the other.
See
Stern’s article I drafted the definition of antisemitism. Rightwing
Jews are weaponizing it.
The IHRA, whose very name tramples on the
memory of Jews who died in the holocaust, was devised in order to legitimise
Israeli Apartheid. One only has to observe the mobs of Jewish settlers,
accompanied by government ministers, in Jerusalem who chanted ‘Death to the Arabs’ as they invaded Arab East Jerusalem to ask
what kind of self-determination the IHRA refers to.
The seventh IHRA illustration of
‘anti-Semitism’ claims that ‘Denying the Jewish people their
right to self-determination is a ‘racist endeavor.’ The suggestion that Jews
are a separate nation from non-Jews among was historically considered a form of
anti-Semitism.
In
Brighton & Hove Green councillors in October 2018 voted
with the Tory and Labour groups to support the IHRA definition. Being on the
same side as the Tories over racism speaks volumes.
The
Green group put out a weasel worded statement
attempting to suggest that the IHRA and support of the Palestinians were not
incompatible. If that were so why is it that the Zionist movement supports the
IHRA whereas Palestinians oppose it?
The
statement quoted the Home Affairs Select Committee that:
·
“It is not anti-Semitic to criticise the Government
of Israel, without additional evidence to suggest anti-Semitic intent.
·
“It is not anti-Semitic to hold the Israeli
Government to the same standards as other liberal democracies, or to take a
particular interest in the Israeli Government’s policies or actions, without
additional evidence to suggest anti-Semitic intent.”
An Israeli car with a bumper sticker saying “finish them”. pic.twitter.com/lAmxBWvQkc
— Firas 🇵🇸 (@FirasPalestine) December 10, 2023
This entirely misses the point. Israel is not
a liberal democracy. Nor is it any particular Israeli government that is the
problem but the Israeli State itself. An ethnically based ‘Jewish’ state must
be racist. If Israel is a Jewish state then all non-Jews are, by definition, untermenschen. Why else would a
plurality of Israeli Jews call for the expulsion of Israeli Arab citizens? [Israel’s Religiously
Divided Society,
3/16. The most popular car bumper sticker in Israel is ‘finish them off’.
Has anyone in the GP ever asked themselves why
the founder of the alt-Right in America, neo-Nazi Richard Spencer describes himself as a ‘White Zionist’ or why Tommy Robinson
calls himself a Zionist or why Germany’s AfD,
riddled as it is with holocaust deniers, is the most pro-Zionist party in Germany?
Intellectual
poverty and clichés distinguish the GP on Palestine. Political expediency trumps principle. The
GP, instead of choosing the Oxford
English Dictionary definition of anti-Semitism, ‘hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people’ adopted both the
IHRA and the Jerusalem Declaration
on Anti-Semitism. Facing both ways at the same time is their means of
resolving political conflicts.
When
it came to the dismissal of Prof. David Miller at Bristol University, which an
employment tribunal found
to be unfair and discriminatory, Caroline Lucas put her
name to a letter calling for his dismissal. I wrote
to her pointing out that she was signing alongside racists such as Bob Blackman
MP, who supports discrimination against Dalits (untouchables) and the fascist Baroness
Cox. Lucas was completely unconcerned at the company she was keeping.
The same old 'antisemitism' smears the Zionists used on Corbyn's Labour Party
When
the Zionist Board of Deputies targeted GP candidates, instead of defending
them, the leadership abandoned them. None of their comments were anti-Semitic. This
was sheer political cowardice. According to the Jewish
Chronicle,
Talukdar
circulated photographs comparing Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin (sic) Netanyahu
with Adolf Hiter. One photo depicted Jewish prisoners being taken on a pickup
truck to a Nazi death camp. Talukdar captioned the photos “it’s becoming REALLY
hard to spot the difference” and the “past becomes the present”.
What
is anti-Semitic about this? There is an exterminationist mentality in Israel
today. Adam Keller, a veteran Israeli peace
activist, wrote
about how
This week Roy Sharon, a "respectable" radio and TV commentator on the main Israeli broadcasting corporation, spoke very explicitly of his desire to see “a million dead bodies in Gaza”.
And the streets of Tel Aviv are flooded with red stickers reading "Exterminate Gaza!". Not "Destroy!", not "Flatten!"– but clearly and explicitly "Exterminate Gaza!". "Le-Ha-Sh-Mid!" - "Exterminate!" Every Jewish Israeli knows from a young age exactly what this word means. ….
Not
merely calls
to ‘exterminate’ or chants of ‘Death to the Arabs’ [ ‘Death to the
Jews used to be the anti-Semitic chant]. Netanyahu invoked
Amalek who God commanded should be wiped out, every man, woman and child. Yoav
Gallant, Israel’s Defence Minister, called
Palestinians ‘human animals’ the same
phrase that Himmler used about the Jews on October 4 1943 in Posnan.
Professor
Ze’ev Sternhell, a child survivor of the Nazi
ghetto of Przemsylwrote
for Ha’aretz in January 2018, ‘In Israel, Growing Fascism and a Racism Akin
to Early Nazism’.Was
Sternhell an anti-Semite or are the GP’s leaders political cowards?
The
IHRA says that ‘Drawing comparisons of
contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis’ is anti-Semitic. The JDA
definition does not. It is clear that the GP in practice is only using the IHRA. The GP leadership could have
chosen Clause 15 of the JDA
which says that:
Political
speech does not have to be measured, proportional, tempered, or reasonable to
be protected... Criticism that some may see as excessive or contentious, or as
reflecting a “double standard,” is not, in and of itself, antisemitic... the
line between antisemitic and non-antisemitic speech is different from the line
between unreasonable and reasonable speech.
Another
candidate Elizabeth Wright, posted
an Instagram video in which a woman said:
“What’s left
for the Zionists [is] to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Palestinians…
I think this will happen soon.” She also posted a statement justifying
Palestinian “resistance”.
Is
this anti-Semitic? Comparing Israel’s behaviour in Gaza to Dracula? Israel has deliberately
executed children in Gaza. It has taken body parts from those they have
murdered. It is difficult to think of any allegation against Israel that is
anti-Semitic unless it is suggested that Israel behaves the way it does because
it is a Jewish state. Gaza has changed from a concentration camp into a death
camp.
The
third candidate Chris Brody, shared an article that suggested 9/11 and October
7 were “false flag operations executed to
open the path toward more slaughter and mayhem”. Note that Elizabeth Wright
and Brady merely shared an article or video.
The suggestion that October 7 was carried out by Israel is based on the
fact that the Israeli military had advance knowledge of the attack. Whatever
the truth may be such a statement is not anti-Semitic.
Maddison
Wheeldon said
that ordinary Israelis “are akin to the
Germans that supported the Nazis”. A perfectly reasonable comparison. Not in
the least anti-Semitic but she was deselected.
Joe
Belcher claimed
that Israel had paid Hamas to carry out the 7 October attack saying it was part
of a “big pay-off” for Hamas leaders
that enabled Israel ‘to claim rights to “billions of dollars worth of oil and
gas” in Gazan waters.’ Batty no doubt but anti-Semitic? Why?
Also arousing
the wrath of the Zionists was Sherief
Hassan, the candidate for Hemel Hempstead, who liked a post which said “Israel must be eliminated” and another
which claimed Jeffrey Epstein ran a blackmail operation for Israel.
Saying
Israel must be eliminated as a state is no different from saying Apartheid
South Africa must be eliminated. It is Israel which is eliminating Palestinians.
That is the only issue.
As for
Jeffrey Epstein running a blackmail
operation for Israel that is clearly true. Even the Daily
Mailran the story. It is sourced from ex-Mossad official Ari
ben-Menashe and can be found on the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s
website!
The GP's
leadership has refused to push back against accusations which come from the
same bad faith actors who made similar accusations against Corbyn. This in the
middle of genocide in Gaza.
Their statement and
that of Carla Denyer, its co-leader was:
“The Green
Party takes all accusations of antisemitism extremely seriously. We have robust
internal processes for all accusations raised.”
There is also a statement
on the GP website saying that the leadership has been meeting with Lord John
Mann ‘to discuss the important issue of
antisemitism’. If anti-Semitism in Britain was a problem does anyone think
that bigots like Suella Braverman, Sunak, Mann and Starmer would be concerned
about it?
John
Mann hectors and bullies Ken Livingstone about Nazi-Zionist collaboration
Mann
when he was a Labour MP hectored
and bullied Ken Livingstone for having mentioned the pro-Zionist policy of
the Nazi state which resulted in the Ha'avara
trading agreement which broke the Jewish Boycott of Nazi Germany. That is a
historical fact.
After
leaving Labour Livingstone applied
to join the GP. His application was rejected because the GP accepted that
Livingstone, who pioneered anti-racism in local government whilst leader of the
Greater London Council, was anti-Semitic or tolerant of it.
Under
Starmer Jews in the Labour Party are up
to 13 times more likely to be expelled than non-Jews but the GP leadership have
swallowed the lie of Labour anti-Semitism.
Mann
is a dedicated racist towards anyone bar Jews. He supported
Phil Woolas MP when the High Court removed him from Parliament in 2011 after
having run an Islamaphobic election campaign designed to ‘make
the White folks angry’ in Oldham East & Saddleworth.
In
2007 he produced a handbook
on anti-social behaviour which targeted
Gypsies and Roma, giving them as examples of anti-social behaviour. This was precisely the charge that the Nazis
made against Gypsies and Roma, that they were asocial. They ended up alongside
Jews in the gas chambers. Yet the GP has no problem sitting down with this
racist scumbag to talk about ‘anti-Semitism’.
John Mann's opposition to 'antisemitism' doesn't extend to any other form of racism - strange that!
Mann
was interviewed
by Nottinghamshire Police on 28.11.16. as part of an investigation into ‘hate
crime’ for having produced this racist handbook and given a warning. Yet the GP
leadership entertains this anti-Roma racist. Mann never once voted against the
Tories racist immigration laws, including the hostile environment Immigration
Act 2014. Just 6 Labour MPs voted
against it.
Isn't it strange how all those who oppose the fake Zionist definition of 'antisemitism' are racist towards everyone else - but the Greens just don't get it
On 9 June 2024 the GP issued
a joint statement with Mann:
“Lord
Mann and the leadership team at The Green Party of England and Wales met last
week to discuss the important issue of antisemitism. Both parties have
committed to continued dialogue and working together to ensure that
antisemitism, like all racism, has no place in Green politics and to better
educate Green representatives about anti-Jewish racism. The Green Party has
taken a series of proactive steps towards these goals but understands that this
will take consistent work going forward.”
The GP current
manifesto on Israel/Palestine is nowhere near having an anti-Zionist
position. Under the heading A Fairer, Greener Worldthere is a small section ‘Israel and Palestine’.
John Mann's Opposition to 'antisemitism' does not extend to Islamaphobia or any other form of racism - strange that - perhaps he's a Zionist?
Even
after 8 months of genocide in Gaza the Greens haven’t bothered to take the time
to make themselves familiar with the situation of the Palestinians. There isn’t
a word about genocide or ethnic cleansing.
released hostage tells how Israel killed captives
rather than let them be captured
The
section begins by condemning ‘the
appalling murder of hundreds of Israeli civilians by Hamas’ seemingly
ignorant of the fact that one-third were Israeli soldiers and that many of the
remainder were killed by Israeli tanks and Apache helicopters intent on
preventing the taking of captives under the Hannibal
Directive.
Israeli
forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says (5.52)
Jasmine
Porat, one of only 2 captives to escape from a house in Kibbutz Be’eri told
Israeli television, it was an Israeli tank that opened fire on the house she
was sheltering in killing the civilians.
Zionism's Genocidal Mentality Meant It was Better to Kill Your Own People Than Let Them Be Captured
The
GP statement ignores Israel’s ‘mowing
the lawn’, as Israel demonstrates who is in control by deliberately
massacring civilians every few years. Or as David Weinberg wrote
in the Jerusalem Post
Winning
the current war
against Hamas is not only about denying the terrorist army’s ability to
target Israel ... A critical part of Israel’s purpose in this conflict is
proving that the Jewish state retains freedom of military action against its
enemies...
Just like mowing your front lawn,
this is constant, hard work. If you fail to do so, weeds grow wild and snakes
begin to slither around in the brush. So too, reducing enemy capabilities and
ambitions in Gaza require Israeli military readiness and government willingness
to use force intermittently, while maintaining a healthy and resilient Israeli
home front....
October 7 was a shock to an Israel because the
Palestinian Resistance attacked first for once. Israel had lain siege to Gaza
for 17 years.
The Palestinian Resistance decided for once to
initiate an attack. There is an international law right to resists an
occupation but that is something that the GP does not quote. The call to end arms sales to Israel is welcome
but would the GP, if it came to power, observe it?
The Green Party's Manifesto on Palestine
Contrary to Israeli Propaganda the Hostages have been treated well says Israel Journalist Alon David
Another indication of the pro-Israeli
orientation of the GP is its call to ‘Redouble(d)
efforts to secure the release of hostages taken on 7th October 2023.’ Israel has over 8,000 Palestinian prisoner,
suffering dire treatment including torture. Over 2,000 are held in
Adminstrative Detention, imprisoned without trial. The rest have been convicted
by Military Courts which have a 99.74%
conviction rate. Yet there is no mention of them.
The call
to reinstate funding for UNRWA and support for South Africa’s submission to the
International Court of Justice is welcome. But nowhere does the GP talk about
Israeli Apartheid, still less Zionism, the ideology of the Israeli state. As
Yair Lapid put
it, Zionism means maximum land and
minimum Arabs. The GP approach is human rights based but it ignores the
conclusion of human rights groups Amnesty,
HRW
and B’Tselem
that Israel is an apartheid state.
In its response to a
Palestine Solidarity Campaign questionnaire the GP calls
for the Palestinian people to recognise the right of the state of Israel to
exist within recognised, agreed and secure borders. Would they have called on
Black people to do the same in South Africa?
As
long as Israel is an ethno-nationalist state it is not going to do any of the
things the GP calls for. From its foundation Israel refused to define its
borders. On May 12 1948, three days before it declared independence, the People’s
Administration voted 5-4 not to define its borders or to accept those of UN
resolution 181. Expansion is inherent in the settler-colonial dynamic. Yet the GP doesn’t recognise this paradigm.
It is
welcome that the GP supports BDS but it is not in its manifesto. If the
experience of Brighton & Hove Council when it was under Green control is
anything to go by, this will be a dead letter.
Germany has to be the only country where Green MPs fly Israel and Ukraine flags https://t.co/sUfukkO3N3
— James Jackson (@derJamesJackson) October 31, 2023
The
experience internationally of Green Parties is not a good one. In Germany Die Grunen is avidly pro-NATO and
pro-Zionist. Pro-Palestinian activists
have filed criminal charges against Volker Beck, a former Green member of parliament,
for incitement of hate and denial of war crimes. It has gone along with the
severe repression of Palestine solidarity demonstrations and even a police
attack on a Palestine Congress in Berlin, which included the banning from
Germany of Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek Finance Minister.
For as long as the GP refuses to discuss Palestine seriously or develop an analysis of why the situation in Palestine exists and as long as it defers to Zionist cries of ‘anti-Semitism’ then it will be confined to human rights rhetoric.
It is as if, during the Apartheid era in South Africa, the GP condemned human rights abuses but had nothing to say about Apartheid. Zionism is Israel’s Apartheid ideology.
Mark
Strong - Brighton Green, Zionist, Strong on smearing opponents as 'antisemitic'
One anecdote. In Brighton I was added to a Green Supporters in Kemptown WhatsApp group without my knowledge. The group was set up for non-GP supporters in the election. I was removed soon after without posting by Mark Strong, a Green Admin who has a history of support for Zionism, genocide in Gaza and involvement with the Labour ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations. Clearly an anti-Zionist was not to his liking. Strong is not unrepresentative of the Green rank and file.
Strong also didn't welcome Stop the War publicity on a Green WA Group - Apparently it doesn't fit with their policy on Israel Gaza or more likely with Strong's support for 'plausible' genocide in Gaza
Interestingly though it seems that the cowards in the GP leadership won't come out and say that what is happening in Gaza is genocide. They rely on the International Court of Justice's ultra-cautious phrase 'plausible genocide'.
Strong also didn't welcome Stop the War publicity on a Green WA Group - Apparently it doesn't fit with their policy on Israel Gaza or more likely with Strong's support for 'plausible' genocide in Gaza.
The Green Party prefers to hide behind legal jargon in order to offend the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Zionist lobby.
As soon as Strong saw
my name I was removed - I guess I am to Zionists what the silver cross is to
Dracula!
Tony Greenstein