Oppose the Attempts of Progress and the Zionists to
Expel Ken Livingstone & Destroy Labour Party Democracy

The Guardian is virtually running the campaign to expel Livingstone as it provides free publicity and editorials and opinion pieces – all of them anti-Livingstone

Today’s Progress and Zionist letter in the Guardian

Today’s Guardian has a letter from the Jewish
Labour Movement with over a thousand signatures.  Many of them are not Jewish and a large percentage
of them are, by their own admission not supporters of the Labour Party, e.g. Cllr.
Inkpin-Leissner, who resigned from the Labour Party in Brighton to sit as an
Independent in the Council.  [see Far-Right Brighton Labour Councillor resigns from
Labour Party citing ‘anti-Semitism’ as his excuse]

The call to expel Livingstone is the precursor to the removal of Corbyn

This letter is a roll call of the Right
in the Labour Party.  There are no
figures on the Left openly supporting it but behind the scenes Momentum’s Jon
Lansman is doing its best to undermine support for Livingstone.  The Alliance for Workers Liberty openly
support Livingstone’s expulsion too!

Livingstone’s principled support for the Palestinians is his real offence

Jeremy Corbyn in supporting action
against Corbyn is oblivious to the consequences for himself.  It is up to us to oppose the removal of
Livingstone for three reasons:

i.              
Democracy
and free speech in the Labour Party around Israel and Palestine must be defended
against the racist supporters of Apartheid.

ii.            
Nothing
Livingstone said was remotely anti-Semitic but he is an opponent of Israel, a
state which demolishes Arab villages to put Jewish towns in their place. 

iii.          
The
removal of Livingstone will pave the way for the removal of Jeremy Corbyn.

Owen Jones and co. support Livingstone’s removal as the first step to being rid of Corbyn

All the Brighton signatories I can see
are not Jewish but are supporters of Progress, including Councillor Julie
Cattell, who allowed a BNP supporting member of the Labour Party, Harris Fitch,
to register her address for the purpose of Labour Party membership.  Also on the signatory list is the leader of Brighton
and Hove Council, Warren Morgan, a non-Jewish Progress and Jewish Labour
Movement member.

The Guardian heading ‘Jewish Labour says Livingstone must go’
is extremely misleading.  It is Zionist Labour
and Progress/Labour First who are calling for Livingstone’s removal. Most Jewish Labour Party members are not
calling for the expulsion of Livingstone because they are socialists not racist
Zionists.

We have therefore drawn up a letter
which we asking Labour Party members and supporters, Jewish and non-Jewish, who
support Ken Livingstone to sign.  If you
agree with it, please send your name and CLP to:[email protected]

Letter to the
National Press – Please sign

As Jewish and non-Jewish members and supporters of
the Labour Party, we reject the call from supporters of Zionism and the Labour
Right for the expulsion of Ken Livingstone. [Jewish Labour members say
Livingstone must go, April 6th] 

Those who call for a new disciplinary hearing
simply because they didn’t like the conclusions of the previous one,
demonstrate their contempt for democracy and due process. 

A year ago Livingstone, responding to a question
from Vanessa Feltz on BBC Radio London, said: ‘Let’s remember when Hitler won
his election in 1932, his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel.
He was supporting Zionism.’ 

There is nothing
whatsoever anti-Semitic about this.  Francis Nicosia, the Raul Hilberg
Professor of Holocaust Studies at Vermont University wrote in his book Zionism
and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany (p. 79) that: 

‘Throughout the
1930’s, as part of the regime’s determination to force Jews to leave Germany,
there was almost unanimous support in German government and Nazi party circles
for promoting Zionism among German Jews’   Is telling the truth also
anti-Semitic?

As Donald Trump and
his supporters demonstrate, support for Zionism can go hand in hand with
anti-Semitism.  

What the campaign
against Livingstone is really about is his long-standing support for the
Palestinians and his opposition to Zionism and the policies of the Israeli
state.  

Those who help to
throw Livingstone overboard today are preparing the way for Jeremy Corbyn’s removal
tomorrow. 

Yours faithfully,

If you agree please send your name and CLP (if you have one) to [email protected]