behest of the Apartheid regime
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| Moshe Machover |
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| Moshe’s expulsion letter |
Imagine if, during the Apartheid era, White South
Africa exiles opposed to the Apartheid regime had been expelled from the Labour
Party for ‘racism’ against Whites.
Crazy? Imagine there had been a
Labour Friends of (White) South Africa which had demanded the expulsion of
these ‘anti-White’ racists. Even more
ludicrous. Well that is exactly the
situation in the Labour Party today.
alongside the Labour Party seeking to subvert its democracy. As we saw from the Al Jazeera programme The Lobby the Israeli Embassy, headed by its war criminal
Ambassador Mark Regev, has deliberately sought to interfere in and destabilise
the party alongside creatures such as Jeremy Newmark of the Jewish Labour
Movement. The South Africans tried this
kind of thing but with less success.
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| Labour’s witch hunting General Secretary Iain McNicol who Corbyn has failed to move against yet |
Friends of Israel is to help in the overthrow of Jeremy Corbyn who, despite his
appeasement of the Israel Lobby, is seen as a dire and mortal threat. His speech to Conference in which he spoke of
support of the Palestinians and opposition to the settlements and the siege of
Gaza will have won him no plaudits amongst the Zionists.
cleansing state because it is an essential part of the alliance with the United
States. Tom Watson and Luke Akehurst are
prepared to turn a blind eye to any war crime, any human rights violation, any
act of racism however vile because Israel is the United State’s watchdog in the
area.
or any of the cacophony of Zionists who bleat about ‘anti-Semitism’ in the Labour
Party once expressed any indignation about Israel’s gaoling and shackling of Palestinian
children as young as 12. The beating and
torture of children (Jewish children of course operate under a similar regime
to this country). Not one protest about
the demolition of Palestinian homes, villages or the endemic discrimination in
the ‘Jewish’ state. The real racism in the
Labour Party is that of the Right and in that I include Labour Friends of
Israel supporter, Emily Thornberry.
nonsense is about. In much the same way
as Tom Watson et al. are happy to support Israel’s ally in the region, Saudi
Arabia in its genocidal war against Yemen.
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| The Zionist paper which welcomed the Nuremberg Laws |
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| This article is a translation from the Zionist Federation of Germany’s paper, Judische Rundschau of 17.9.35., two days after the Nuremberg Laws were announced. This article comes from the site of the Israeli holocaust propaganda museum, Yad Vashem but mentioning it is anti-semitic! |
at its fringe meeting by explaining Corbyn’s absence as they shouted ‘where is he’ as if beckoning a naughty
school boy. Unfortunately her
explanation, that he was working on his big speech, was somewhat contradicted
by pictures of him having a jolly time at the Daily Mirror reception!
amongst its civil service and staff. In particular its General Secretary Iain
McNicol and the Compliance Unit under John Stolliday. Iain McNicol, the General Secretary of the
Labour Party and the Witch-finder General is something of a hero to Labour
Friends of Israel and quite rightly so.
He was greeted with a rapturous reception by the LFI meeting. [see Ian
McNicol Receives the Warmest Welcome of Anyone at Labour Friends of Apartheid
Israel Meeting]
comrade and friend Moshe Machover, the founder of Matzpen, the Socialist
Organisation in Israel has been expelled.
Just like that, without even a hearing or the opportunity to answer the
charges levelled against him. Expelled at the whim of a petty Blairite
apparatchik, someone who would have been at home rooting out communists in the
McCarthy era or fingering the enemies of Stalin. A cipher who goes by the title of Head of
Disputes, one Sam Matthews. Matthews
department even has an Orwellian title since its main role is to cause
disputes!
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| Moshe at the lectern |
National Executive Committee there is no excuse not to demand that this
expulsion is reversed and Moshe and all other people expelled reinstated. This is a matter of principle. If Corbyn has any bottle he will finally put
an end to this nonsense.
he writes for and ‘associates with’
the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Well so do I. I have written for Weekly
Worker for over a decade but neither Moshe nor I are members of the CPGB. Since when is it an expulsion offence to
write articles for or speak at the conferences of other organisations?
McCarthyism of the old question that the House of UnAmerican Activities used to
ask ‘are you or have you ever been associated
with …’.
Israeli anti-Zionist. He has inspired a
generation of Jewish and non-Jewish anti-Zionists. I first became an anti-Zionist as a
consequence of reading his joint article with Haim Hanegbi and Akiva Orr back
in 1970, The Class Nature of Israeli Society. The idea
that Machover, a Marxist, is ‘anti-Semitic’ is for the birds. Unlike his Zionist detractors he doesn’t have
a racist bone in his body.
my blog the article that led to Moshe’s expulsion. Saying
the unsayable about Zionist Support for the 1935 Nuremberg Laws & Nazi
favouritism of German Zionism. Today we learnt that Moshe Machover has been
expelled. The reason, as ludicrous as it
can be in the Orwellian world of Labour’s witch hunters, is
‘anti-Semitism’. As the subtitle of my
blog post said ‘It might be true but it’s
anti-Semitic to say it!’
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| Over the summer Moshe and me gave a joint talk at the CPGB’s Communist University – grounds for our expulsions |
his article for Labour Party Marxists that far from opposing anti-Semitism,
Zionism has always accepted if not welcomed it as a means of separating out
Jews from non-Jews. Zionism begins from
an acceptance of the anti-Semitic idea that Jews cannot live in non-Jewish
society. That is why Israel was
established. In the Nazi era the Zionist
movement far from opposing the Nazis sought to cut deals with them. They actually welcomed the Nuremberg Laws, which stripped German Jews of
citizenship and Machover’s article quoted directly from the translation of an
article in the German Zionist paper Judische Rundschau which can be found on the site of the Zionist Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem. Of course the Zionists didn’t know at the
time (1935) that Nazism would change from expulsion and separation to genocide,
though many Jews had premonitions of this, as did Trotsky. Today we know better. Genocide is the accompaniment of any movement
for expulsion as Burma is showing us at the moment.
one must draw any attention to what the Zionist actual role was when
anti-Semitism was not some contrived fantasy.
Today when there is virtually no anti-Semitism the Zionists create fake
anti-Semitism in order to attack their opponents.
Moshe’s
article was classified as ‘anti-Semitic’ under the Zionists’ International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism that Corbyn adopted in
yet another attempt to appease the Right. Despite being told that Labour had only adopted the introduction to it and not the examples, it is clear that Labour’s witch hunting bureaucracy has adopted the definition wholesale.
We can see how the IHRA is being used, not to combat anti-Semitism but
to combat anti-Zionist. Indeed the main victim
of the IHRA are Jews!
The
IHRA is almost the same as the discredited Working Definition on Anti-Semitism that
was abandoned by the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency in 2013. The Working Definition was drawn up by the Zionist American Jewish Committee. It consists of a vague and open ended
definition
‘Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as
hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are
directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward
Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.’
This was followed by 11
examples of ‘anti-Semitism’, 7 of which are concerned with Israel. Thus it is clear that the purpose of the definition is not to clarify what antisemitism means but to conflate antiZionism with anti-Semitism. As Sir Stephen Sedley, a former Court of Appeal Judge wrote in his article Defining Anti-Semitism in May’s edition of London Review of Books, the IHRA
‘fails the first test of any definition: it is indefinite. ‘A certain
perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred’ invites a string
of questions. Is anti-Semitism solely a matter of perception? What about
discriminatory practices and policies? What about perceptions of Jews
that are expressed otherwise than as hatred?
These gaps are
unlikely to be accidental. Their effect, whether or not it is their
purpose, is to permit perceptions of Jews which fall short of
expressions of racial hostility to be stigmatised as anti-Semitic.
The example that Moshe seems to have fallen foul of
is the one that says ‘Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to
that of the Nazis.’ might be anti-Semitic. In fact Moshe was writing about the historic position and policy of the Zionist
movement vs the Nazis, but anything that mentions the Nazis in connection with Israel is good
enough.
one that says ‘Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to
that of the Nazis.’ might be anti-Semitic. In
fact Moshe was writing about the historic position and policy
of the Zionist movement vs the Nazis, but anything that mentions the Nazis in
connection with Israel is good enough.
‘anti-Semitism’ is ‘Denying the Jewish people their right to
self-determination (e.g. by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is
a racist endeavour).’ In other words it accepts that Jews are a
nation, a postulate that previously only anti-Semites used to believe
in. There follows a sentence which bears no logical relationship to
it, claiming that Israel is a racist endeavour. Quite why refusing to
accept the right of Jews to self-determination has any bearing on anti-Semitism
is bizarre. What connection that has with the fact, because it is a fact,
that Israel is a racist state is incomprehensible. These are two
sentences strung together in a non sequitur.
for an alliance of states, including the anti-Semitic governments of Poland and
Hungary, which are also avidly pro-Zionist and pro-Israel.
IHRA definition self-evidently has nothing to do with anti-Semitism and
everything to do with preventing criticism of Zionism.
Israel obtained a a coruscating Opinion of
the IHRA by Hugh Tomlinson QC which is worth reading as is the article Defining
Anti-Semitism in London Review of Books by Sedley, who is
himself Jewish. Both Tomlinson and Sedley criticise the definition
as a whole but the more liberal and defeatist elements in the Palestine
solidarity movement such as Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Jewish Voice for
Labour believe that you can accept the first part of the definition without the
second part. This is fundamentally mistaken. A fish is
rotten from the head down.
witch hunters was: ‘I have just been expelled from the Labour Party – for telling the
truth, which is falsely and maliciously described as “antisemitic”.’
happened. On the contrary it is a sign
of the weakness of the Labour Right.
After a conference where their political weaknesses became all too apparent,
with the successful Free Speech on Israel and Jewish Voices for Labour
meetings, coupled with the rapturous reception for two Jewish anti-Zionist speakers
and then the applause for Jeremy Corbyn’s mention of Palestine, which was the
loudest of any part of his speech, it is clear that the Zionists have not won
any friends in the Labour Party. Their
only friends of McNicol and people like the witch hunting liar who is leader of
Brighton and Hove Labour Council, Warren Morgan.
planning a fightback and the first meeting of a new Labour Against the
Witchhunt meeting is planned for October 21st, 12.00 pm at the
Calthorpe Arms in Kings Cross Road.
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| ‘Evidence’ that Moshe is a socialist and therefore ineligible for membership of the Labour Party |
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| More evidence against Moshe – an article he wrote for Labour Party Marxists |
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| One of the articles that got Moshe expelled |
