Early Day Motion Supporting IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism Means Supporting Israeli Apartheid

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This is what Joan Ryan MP’s idea of loyalty to the Labour Party amounted to

John Mann – the leader of the false ‘anti-Semitism’ witch hunt

This blog forced John Mann to delete the above FB page

The latest effort to restart the false ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign is an Early Day Motion, in essence a parliamentary petition which MPs sign, as an indication for the support a topic has.  John Mann has put a second EDM down this year supporting the International Holocaust Definition of anti-Semitism.  The IHRA, which is essentially the same as the old Working Definition on Anti-Semitism that the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency junked 4 years, has just been rejected by the University Colleges Union (UCU).

Fraser -v- UCU Employment Tribunal was scathing about the quality of Mann’s evidence

Whereas some on the Right, like Owen Smith, have accepted that they
were wrong and are apparently reformed sinners, others such as John Mann, Ryan, Streeting
and Woodcock are determined to continue the fight against Corbyn and the Left. For
them, the main enemy is Corbyn not the Conservatives.

Ken Livingstone being harangued by a bore

Ryan and Mann’s priorities are stopping Corbyn not achieving a Labour
government.  After all no one is more
supportive of Israel than Theresa May. She is the lesser evil. Mann campaigned
furiously in the summer of 2015 to have the ballot called off when it
appeared that Corbyn would win the leadership. A rekindling of the false
‘anti-Semitism’ campaign is seen by Mann, Ryan and co. as the best way of
undermining Corbyn.

Joan Ryan MP for Tel Aviv North attack on Corbyn is exploited by Daily Mail to attack Corbyn in election

Mann last year stage managed an attack
on Ken Livingstone in conjunction with the Murdoch media for speaking the truth
when he said that the Nazis had supported Zionism.  Mann as Chair of the Parliamentary Committee
on Anti-Semitism has fought a long- campaign alleging that the
Labour Party is overrun with ‘anti-Semitism’ and pillorying Corbyn for not rooting
out fake ‘anti-Semitism’.  He has called
for both myself
and Jackie
Walker to be expelled.

Mann has fought tirelessly to conflate criticism of the Israeli state
with ‘anti-Semitism’.  That is why he
supports the International
Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.  It contains a short, confusing and ambiguous
definition of anti-Semitism and then 11 examples which might be anti-Semitic, 7 of which relate to Israel.
Despite stating explicitly that it is a ‘non-legal definition’ the IHRA has
been used to attack free speech, Israel Apartheid week and Palestine events up
and down the country.

Letter from Joan Ryan to her constituents attacking Jeremy Corbyn –

A legal
opinion from Hugh Tomlinson QC was recently obtained which holds that the
IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is vague and unclear.  He concludes that ‘A public authority which sought to apply the IHRA Definition to
prohibit or sanction such activities [e.g. calling Israel a racist
endeavour or an Apartheid state] would be
acting unlawfully.’

Sir Stephen Sedley, the most radical civil liberties minded Judge to
have sat on the Court of Appeal, who is himself Jewish, was even more coruscating.  He spoke of:

The only thing Joan Ryan didn’t claim for was her toilet paper (wait – I’ll check!)

The IHRA definition has but one purpose.  By defining anti-Semitism as
loosely and vaguely as possible, it can brand virtually all opposition to Zionism
and Israel as ‘anti-Semitic’.  The IHRA
definition of anti-Semitism is over 420 words because it needs to be lengthy in
order to conflate anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.  There is a much shorter, 21 word definition
drawn up by Brian Klug in his lecture to the
Jewish Museum in Berlin ‘What
Do We Mean When We Say ‘Antisemitsm’?  Echoes of shattering glass’ in November
2014. Klug is a lecturer at Oxford University and an academic expert in
anti-Semitism. The problem for the Zionists is that it doesn’t mention Israel.  

‘antisemitism is a form of
hostility to Jews as Jews, where Jews are perceived as something other than
what they are.’

The IHRA is a group of 31
countries who have adopted a definition of ‘anti-Semitism’ which accords with
western support for Israel. It is an imperialist definition of ‘anti-Semitism’
and has nothing whatsoever to do with hatred of Jewish people.

Amongst these 31 countries is
Hungary, whose Prime Minister Victor Orban is a racist whose attitude to
refugees needs no elaborating.  Orban is
set on rehabilitating Admiral Horthy who presided over the deportation of nearly
½m Jews to Auschwitz from March 19th to July 9th 1944.  [The Reinterment
and Political Rehabilitation of Miklós Horthy, Randolph Braham]. 
Like the anti-Semites in Trump’s administration, Orban is ardently pro-Zionist. 
Another member state of the IHRA is Poland whose Law & Justice party government is sympathetic to anti-Semitism. 

Theresa May’s government has
warmly welcomed the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, yet the Tory Party is
part of the European Conservative and Reform group in the European
parliament.  This group includes Poland’s
Law & Justice Party as well as
Latvia’s Robert Zile of the Fatherland & Freedom/LNNK. Zile spends every
March going on a demonstration with the veterans of the Latvian Waffen SS who
participated in the extermination of Latvia’s Jews.

The IHRA is an inter-governmental
definition of anti-Semitism whose purpose is to brand opponents of Israel as
‘anti-Semitic’.  It has nothing to do
with the traditional understanding of anti-Semitism as hatred or hostility to
Jews.

In January John Mann, who I exposed
on this blog as a liar for denigrating a 90 year old Jewish doctor who had
criticised him, put down an EDM
supporting the IHRA definition of ‘anti-Semitism’.  Mann is now up to his old tricks again and
has proposed the following EDM. I suggest that people write to their MP and
also those MPs who signed the EDM last time, urging them not to sign it this
time.  It would be a waste of time
emailing the DUP MPs as they are all Christian Zionist bigots. Caroline Lucas
has already stated that she no longer supports the IHRA.

The MPs who signed the last EDM and
who were re-elected recently are:

 The e-contacts for the above are:

‘antisemitism is a form of hostility to Jews as
Jews, where Jews are perceived as something other than what they are.’

Joan Ryan’s Wiki entry on her expenses and attempts to cover her claims up