Helping the Noble Baroness understand the Connection between Labour Friends of Israel’s support for War Crimes in Gaza and its advocacy of Livingstone’s expulsion
A few days ago I did a post The
Mask of Deceit Slips from the Face of Chakrabarti as She Supports Livingstone’s
Expulsion. Naturally I sent a copy to the noble Baroness. Unfortunately it would seem that good manners amongst noble
members of the Upper House are not what they were as I haven’t yet received a
reply. Or perhaps these life peers simply don’t have the breeding of their hereditary colleagues.
Mask of Deceit Slips from the Face of Chakrabarti as She Supports Livingstone’s
Expulsion. Naturally I sent a copy to the noble Baroness. Unfortunately it would seem that good manners amongst noble
members of the Upper House are not what they were as I haven’t yet received a
reply. Or perhaps these life peers simply don’t have the breeding of their hereditary colleagues.
Alternatively Shami Chakrabarti may have felt she had nothing to say . This
too would not be too surprising since in her vacuous and fake angry interview (after all she had nothing to be angry about) what she
did have to say was completely wrong.
too would not be too surprising since in her vacuous and fake angry interview (after all she had nothing to be angry about) what she
did have to say was completely wrong.
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| Labour’s lightweight Shadow Attorney General attacks the very civil liberties she once defended |
This new member of Labour’s legal establishment travels with very little ideological baggage, still less any commitment to socialism. It is noticeable that she has not been able to generate any similar emotions when it came to the cold and calculated gunning down of unarmed civilians, including children, medics and journalists in Gaza by Israeli snipers positioned behind earthworks for the task.
Despite Chakrabarti’s previous record on civil liberties it would seem that they don’t extend beyond the borders of Britain. International solidarity is not a concept with which the noble Baroness is familiar. Clearly the ‘antisemitism’ of words is more important than live bullets and pulverised bones.
I thought I should share my letter
with you my dear reader as Shami Chakrabarti is one more
addition to the travelling Right show who use ‘anti-Semitism’ in order to
disguise not only their direction of travel politically but their own political shallowness.
with you my dear reader as Shami Chakrabarti is one more
addition to the travelling Right show who use ‘anti-Semitism’ in order to
disguise not only their direction of travel politically but their own political shallowness.
Tony Greenstein
Dear Ms
Chakrabarti,
Chakrabarti,
You may
recall that, as a Jewish member of the Labour Party who was suspended, because
of the false anti-semitism campaign, I gave evidence to you as part of your
Inquiry into racism and anti-semitism.
recall that, as a Jewish member of the Labour Party who was suspended, because
of the false anti-semitism campaign, I gave evidence to you as part of your
Inquiry into racism and anti-semitism.
I am
extremely disappointed that on BBC’s Sunday Politics show you saw fit to make an
unwarranted attack on Ken Livingstone. You described his opinion on Nazi
support for the Zionist movement as ‘incendiary’.
Perhaps but it was also true. Maybe you found it incendiary because you didn’t understand it?
extremely disappointed that on BBC’s Sunday Politics show you saw fit to make an
unwarranted attack on Ken Livingstone. You described his opinion on Nazi
support for the Zionist movement as ‘incendiary’.
Perhaps but it was also true. Maybe you found it incendiary because you didn’t understand it?
Your
assertion that Ken’s opinions were an attack on German Jews simply demonstrates
your own ignorance. The German Zionist movement represented less than 5% of
German Jews. It was a political movement which openly sought to
collaborate with the Nazis and to suggest that people should keep quiet about
that now is to advocate political censorship. It is but a short step from that
to book burning.
assertion that Ken’s opinions were an attack on German Jews simply demonstrates
your own ignorance. The German Zionist movement represented less than 5% of
German Jews. It was a political movement which openly sought to
collaborate with the Nazis and to suggest that people should keep quiet about
that now is to advocate political censorship. It is but a short step from that
to book burning.
Ken
Livingstone’s expulsion has been a high priority for both Labour Friends of Israel and the
Jewish Labour Movement, both of whom assert that Ken was being
anti-Semitic. This is the same LFI who, only this week, justified the murder of over 60
unarmed Palestinians in Gaza including an 8 month old baby who exercised the right to demonstrate.
Livingstone’s expulsion has been a high priority for both Labour Friends of Israel and the
Jewish Labour Movement, both of whom assert that Ken was being
anti-Semitic. This is the same LFI who, only this week, justified the murder of over 60
unarmed Palestinians in Gaza including an 8 month old baby who exercised the right to demonstrate.
I do not remember you generating any synthetic anger over this on television. Perhaps, as Aneurin Bevan once said, it’s all a question of political priorities.
It is clear that you know nothing about Zionism and its sordid, bloody history. Could I suggest that when you have nothing to
say it is a good idea to say nothing? Verbal flatulence is not attractive.
say it is a good idea to say nothing? Verbal flatulence is not attractive.
Zionism is a
movement which relegates the non-Jew and Palestinians in particular to the
status of the untermenschen or in Zionism’s racial hierarchy the lower races. It finds its expression in the Apartheid
structure of today’s Israeli state.
movement which relegates the non-Jew and Palestinians in particular to the
status of the untermenschen or in Zionism’s racial hierarchy the lower races. It finds its expression in the Apartheid
structure of today’s Israeli state.
If you care
to obtain a copy of Lucy Dawidowicz’s Holocaust Reader (pp. 150-153) from
Parliament’s library (which I understand is very good) you will read a letter
to Hitler from the German Zionist Federation of 21 June 1933. It reads:
to obtain a copy of Lucy Dawidowicz’s Holocaust Reader (pp. 150-153) from
Parliament’s library (which I understand is very good) you will read a letter
to Hitler from the German Zionist Federation of 21 June 1933. It reads:
… an answer to the Jewish question
truly satisfying to the national state can be brought about only with the collaboration of the Jewish movement
that aims at a social, cultural and moral renewal of Jewry…On the foundation of
the new state, which has established the principle of race… fruitful activity
for the fatherland is possible…. Our acknowledgement of Jewish nationality
provides for a clear and sincere relationship to the German people and its
national and racial realities. Precisely because we don’t wish to falsify these
fundamentals, because we too are against mixed marriages and are for
maintaining the purity of the Jewish group… The realisation of Zionism could
only be hurt by resentment of Jews abroad against the German development. (my
emphasis)
truly satisfying to the national state can be brought about only with the collaboration of the Jewish movement
that aims at a social, cultural and moral renewal of Jewry…On the foundation of
the new state, which has established the principle of race… fruitful activity
for the fatherland is possible…. Our acknowledgement of Jewish nationality
provides for a clear and sincere relationship to the German people and its
national and racial realities. Precisely because we don’t wish to falsify these
fundamentals, because we too are against mixed marriages and are for
maintaining the purity of the Jewish group… The realisation of Zionism could
only be hurt by resentment of Jews abroad against the German development. (my
emphasis)
The
late Lucy Dawidowicz was a Zionist Holocaust historian. The letter
above was the basis for collaboration between Zionism and Nazism.
late Lucy Dawidowicz was a Zionist Holocaust historian. The letter
above was the basis for collaboration between Zionism and Nazism.
The suggestion that Ken Livingstone’s remarks were an attack on all Jews presupposes that Jews and Zionists are both the same. If you believe that then you are no different from those anti-semites who also maintain that there is no difference.
There is a
history of former Directors and senior officers of Liberty (NCCL)
veering to the illiberal right when they have left office. Patricia Hewitt and
Harriet Harman are but two examples. In supporting the expulsion of Ken
Livingstone for having expressed his opinions about Zionism you would
appear to be following in their footsteps.
history of former Directors and senior officers of Liberty (NCCL)
veering to the illiberal right when they have left office. Patricia Hewitt and
Harriet Harman are but two examples. In supporting the expulsion of Ken
Livingstone for having expressed his opinions about Zionism you would
appear to be following in their footsteps.
It
is noticeable that you have had nothing to say about the real racism scandal in
recent months, that of Windrush. Unlike you Ken Livingstone has a
proud and active record in fighting racism. Your suggestion that the
truth can be anti-Semitic is absurd.
is noticeable that you have had nothing to say about the real racism scandal in
recent months, that of Windrush. Unlike you Ken Livingstone has a
proud and active record in fighting racism. Your suggestion that the
truth can be anti-Semitic is absurd.
It
is your support of Zionism, the ideology of Israeli Apartheid which
is, if anything, incompatible with a party that calls itself
socialist. The real question though is whether you even consider yourself a socialist?
is your support of Zionism, the ideology of Israeli Apartheid which
is, if anything, incompatible with a party that calls itself
socialist. The real question though is whether you even consider yourself a socialist?
Tony
Greenstein
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