It sometimes seems as if Corbyn has a death
wish. Not only does he ignore the evidence that the anti-Semitism campaign
has been manufactured to order, faked with the sole purpose of removing him,
but he is doing his best to keep it alive. Personally ordering his supporters, Ken
Livingstone and Christine Shawcroft, to resign in order to satisfy the Zionist
and Labour Right witchhunters is madness. Corbyn’s performance is indicative of
someone who with a death wish, intent on building up his own funeral pyre.

Jonathan
Arkush, the outgoing President of the Board of Deputies, which has been to the
fore in making false allegations of anti-Semitism, is not only a right-wing
Tory but a stupid one.  Arkush’s concerns
about ‘anti-Semitism’ did not prevent him from welcoming Donald Trump and
the anti-Semitic alt-Right to power in America. This despite the fact that
Trump’s campaign openly employed anti-Semitic stereotypes and themes. [Anti-Semitism
is no longer an undertone of Trump’s campaign. It’s the melody].

Donald Trump and his administration combine ardent Zionism with anti-Semitism.  Their campaign employed a variety of subtle and not so subtle anti-semitic messages such as the advert above – Crooked Hilary with the slogan ‘most corrupt candidate ever!’ inside a Star of David.  It couldn’t be more blatant yet the Zionists didn’t utter a peep.  Ha’aretz’s headline said it all: Trump’s Win, the Greatest Victory for anti-Semitism in America Since 1941 

Arkush though had no hesitation in welcoming Trump
to power despite the fact that his administration included open fascists like
Sebastian Gorka, who is a member of a group called the Vitézi Rend (Order of Vitéz), a far-right
nationalist group in Hungary originally founded by Miklós Horthy, Hungary’s
pro-Nazi war-time dictator who presided over the deportation of nearly half a
million Jews to Auschwitz.

Arkush
doesn’t even bother to hide his views or disguise them in any way.  He doesn’t do subtlety yet still Corbyn and
McDonnell don’t get the message.

In his final
speech before retiring as President of the Board
of Deputies, Arkush said of Corbyn that “he has views which are antisemitic, and he has problematic views”

In the Guardian of 30th
May Arkush was quite explicit as to what he meant by ‘anti-Semitism’.  The problem was Corbyn’s attitude to Israel:

In
other words anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are one and the same thing, yet the
Right in the Labour Party throw a fit when people say the ‘anti-Semitism’
allegations are really about Israel. 
They accuse us of believing in conspiracy theories, refusing to face
reality, yet here is the leader of British Zionism confirming what we have
been saying all along, that the fake anti-Semitism campaign is about Israel and the Palestinians.

The problem though is that Rhea
Wolfson remains a member of the Jewish Labour Movement, a group that has done
more than most to spread the false anti-Semitism narrative. The JLM calls the Israeli Labour Party its ‘sister’ party. The leader of this racist
party, Avi Gabbay, has just cut
links with Corbyn because of

‘the hostility that you have shown to the Jewish
community and the antisemitic statements and actions you have allowed”

If Rhea Wolfson means
what she says then logically she should also cut links with the JLM, a group
which, as the Al Jazeera under-cover programme The Lobby made clear, is in bed with the
Israeli Embassy and its Ambassador Mark Regev. 

The JLM is the overseas wing of the Israeli Labour Party which operates inside the
British Labour Party. The Israeli Labour Party is not a left-wing party, it is a
racist and nationalist party. It has never made a claim to be socialist or
indeed anti-racist.  It openly says that Jews and Arabs can’t live together.  It believes that the Arab birthrate in Israel is a ‘problem’.

Gabbay supported
the the deportation of 40,000 Black African refugees back to Eritrea and
Sudan because they were neither White nor Jewish. Party
leader Gabbay forces Zionist Union to back expulsion of migrants The ILP
also supports the mass murder of unarmed demonstrators in Gaza in the past 4
weeks.

And yet despite all of this, when
some of us have pointed out that the ‘anti-Semitism’ attacks have really been about Israel,
Arkush and company complain
that ‘we are accused of “smearing”
Corbyn’.  Perish the thought!

Arkush and his side-kick, Jonathan
Goldstein of the Jewish Leadership Council wrote an Open Letter to Corbyn in which they made it
crystal clear that the ‘anti-Semitism’ they were talking about was anti-Zionism:

If final proof were needed about the
bogus nature of the ‘anti-Semitism’ claims, then Arkush gave the game away when
he called
the Jewish group that Corbyn visited to spend Seder with, Jewdas, a‘ source of virulent anti-Semitism.’.  Adding for good measure, horror of horrors,
that not all of them were Jewish!

Of course it does not need a genius
to work out what the ‘antisemitism’ smears are about. The latest anti-Semitism
furore, was sparked of by Luciana Berger MP, who produced a 6 year old, long
erased mural, whose destruction Corbyn had opposed on free speech grounds.  This was such an obvious pretext that you
would need an IQ of under 60 not to get it.

It had been pulled out of a hat, like a
rabbit at a party, in time for the local elections.  The purpose was
obvious.  To try and do as much damage as possible to Labour’s local
election results.  I have no doubt that at this very moment similar
pretexts are being dusted down for use in the future.

I will therefore make
a prediction.  Just as last year I was
almost alone in predicting that Corbyn would come out of the General Election
in a better shape than when he went into the election [see here
and here]
so I predict that unless Corbyn faces down the false anti-Semitism allegations
he will fail to become Prime Minister.  The
purpose of the anti-Semitism witch-hunt was not to remove me or Marc Wadsworth
or Ken Livingstone.  It is to remove Jeremy
Corbyn.  We are just collateral damage.  If Corbyn cannot see that then he does not deserve to become Prime Minister.

Corbyn has
behave utterly stupidly and cowardly in betraying his friends to appease his
enemies.  Telling Christine Shawcroft to
resign from the NEC was the sign of some who was in panic mode.  To tell Livingstone he had to go, and there
is absolutely no doubt that Jeremy Corbyn was personally involved, was even
more stupid.  Livingstone was a strong
and capable supporter.  Appeasing John
Mann by sacrificing your closest political ally is shameful.

The depths
of Corbyn’s idiocy was betrayed in his comment that there are ‘pockets’
of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.  In
giving sustenance to the idea that anti-Semitism is a living phenomenon in the Labour
Party Corbyn was also giving sustenance to his enemies.  When we turn around and point out the bogus
nature of the ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations the Right point to Corbyn and say
that even he agrees with them. Corbyn is thus giving substance to a campaign whose purpose is to remove him.

Likewise
Momentum’s owner and dictator, Jon Lansman, with his crass
comments that Labour’s anti-Semitism was ‘unconscious’.  If antisemitism is unconscious then it isn’t be much of
a problem.  If only the Windrush victims
had faced ‘unconscious’ racism they would be laughing.  

The fact is
that Jews in Britain don’t experience state racism, deportation, police violence,
discrimination in the jobs market, false imprisonment etc.  Anti-Semitism exists at the margins.   Indeed most of what is called ‘anti-Semitism’
is simply a reaction to the war crimes Israel perpetrates in the name of Jews.

In Britain today it is hard to call antisemitism a form of racism.  It is more a form of prejudice.  It has no relationship to the nexus of power in this country.  Jews are White NOT Black.  Jews are not an ethnic minority or an oppressed group.  They suffer at worst marginal prejudice.  Indeed most prejudice results from the actions of Israel as a self-declared Jewish state.

The ‘anti-racism’
demonstration of March 26th called by the Board of Deputies was the
first such demonstration that the Board had ever called.  When it came to opposing Sir Oswald Moseley’s
British Union of Fascists in the 1930’s or the mass mobilisation of the Anti Nazi
League in the 1970’s the Board preached complete pacifity.  Jews were recommended to stay at home.  When it comes to Israel’s defence then the
Board is all in favour of demonstrating.  In
other words when it comes to defend Jews against real anti-Semitism, the Board
lies down and whimpers.  when it comes to defending Israel the Board comes out with guns a blazing.

Let me however
make another prediction. Although the ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations have died
down now that the local government elections are out of the way the embers are
still glowing.  Come the Labour Party conference
in the autumn or the local elections next year or possibly a general election
if Brexit blows up in May’s face, then ‘anti-Semitism will resurface.

 

Why?  Because ‘anti-Semitism’ is a potent weapon in
the hands of the Right.  It is difficult
to attack Corbyn over rail nationalisation or austerity or the other popular
elements of Labour’s programme. However anti-Semitism
is the Achilles heel of the Labour left. 
It gives the Right, especially the Labour Right, a sense of
righteousness that defending poverty and cuts doesn’t give them.

Of course
any idiot should be able to see that if the Sun, Daily Mail, Express and all the rest of the yellow
press are so opposed to ‘anti-Semitism’ in Labour at the same time as
they attack or demonise Black people, then there must be a catch. How can one oppose ‘anti-Semitism’ and
support all other forms of racism unless of course, ‘anti-Semitism’ is a code word
for supporting the Establishment, Capitalism and the politics of Imperialism.  ‘Antisemitism’ is really about foreign policy.

That is why
when John McDonnell says he ‘could
weep’ over Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism’ one wonders what he’s going to do
when faced with the determined resistance of the financial and industrial
capitalists when he tries to nationalise the utilities. The attack on Labour
for ‘anti-Semitism’ is so patently transparent that one wonders what kind of
idiot it is that doesn’t see it. 
McDonnell is now coming under attack
from The Telegraph for failing to dissociate himself from the Labour Representation
Committee, of which he is honorary President, because of the LRC’s support for
the victims of the anti-Semitism witchhunt like Jackie Walker.

Perhaps McDonnell will weep and resign from the LRC proclaiming that he didn’t know that they opposed the witchhunt of socialists?

‘Anti-Semitism’ is the gift that keeps giving. It is the only thing
that the Labour Right have going for them. 
It is what puts a left sheen on racists like Keir Starmer and John
Mann. If Corbyn cannot slay the ‘anti-Semitism’
dragon it will slay him. It cannot be avoided because the Right, which means
the BBC and the Tory tabloids, The Guardian included, won’t let it die down.

If Corbyn had
faced down the false anti-Semitism narrative two years ago when he was accused
of consorting
with holocaust deniers then he wouldn’t be facing these never ending attacks
now.  The time has come to put this beast to sleep alongside those who insist on breathing life into
what has become the equivalent of the political undead.

Tony Greenstein