Channel 4 News – Cyril Chilson and Tony Greenstein interviewed

To George Osborne and the Tory press we were a ‘mob’

If there was any justice in the Labour Party the
person facing a two day disciplinary hearing would not be Marc Wadsworth but
Ruth Smeeth.  The filmed evidence of her departure in ‘tears’ (can
you see them?) from the Chakrabarti Report press conference demonstrates
without a shadow of a doubt that there was nothing said that was at all
anti-Semitic.  Marc called out Smeeth’s relations with The Telegraph
and complained at the lack of Black voices at the press conference.

Yet Wes Streeting MP could claim today that ‘
I’m afraid it does say something about the culture that we’re up against that a
Jewish MP going to give evidence against someone who has abused her is greeted
by a protest outside’.   Streeting is a good example
of the whole of the false anti-Semitism crewe.  He assumed that
Marc is guilty as charged, yet the whole purpose of a hearing – even before the
rigged jury of Maggi Cousins and the National Kangaroo Committee – is to
inquire into whether the allegations are proven or not. 

The fact that Smeeth is Jewish is irrelevant. The
fact is that compared to Marc she is highly privileged.

Labour
Against the Witchhunt held a lobby of the hearing at Church House, Westminster
today  from 9.30 onwards.  About 20 MPs including the usual anti-Corbyn
suspects – Streeting, Frank Field, Margaret Hodge, Jesse Philips and Peter
Kyle escorted Smeeth to the venue.  There they were met with
over 70 demonstrators.

It was no
doubt something of a surprise to see that Marc had so many
friends.  Streeting looked most unhappy.  What Streeting
didn’t appreciate is that Marc is an anti-racist of longstanding. Marc was
heavily involved in the Stephen Lawrence Defence Campaign and was interviewed
as part of the BBC 3 part documentary shown last week on the Stephen Lawrence
murder.  Smeeth on the other hand has had no involvement in
anti-racist work being a former employee of BICOM, the main propaganda arm for
Israel, the world’s only apartheid state, in Britain. 

Jeremy Corbyn’s office in a typical act of cowardice contacted Marc to
ask that the demonstration outside the hearing be called
off.  Presumably they wanted Marc to walk in alone whilst the Right
mobilised.  Jeremy has known Marc for at least 20 years and knows
full well that he is not an anti-Semite.  It is shameful how Jeremy
has thrown Marc and others to the wolves in order to appease the Labour Right
not realizing that the target of the anti-Semitism campaign is not Jackie, Marc
or myself but Corbyn himself.

This whole fake ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign has been manufactured over the
past few weeks with one purpose in mind – to damage Labour’s chances in the
local elections.  That was why Luciana Berger dug up a 6 year old
Facebook comment by Corbyn concerning a long erased
Mural.  Unfortunately some on the Left who should know better, like
Jon Lansman and Richard Seymour, have falled for the Rights decoy tactics as
these ex-leftists pronounce that there must be something in the bogus
anti-Semitism claims.

We are faced with an incremental campaign to get rid of Corbyn. It was
strange watching the Channel 4 footage above and seeing right-wing Tory,
Jonathan Arkush, of the Board of Deputies proclaiming that Labour should not
tolerate Ken Livingstone.  The same man who welcomed Trump and his
anti-Semitic entourage without any murmur or protest.

Our lobby lasted from 9.30-1.00.  It was lively and
good humoured and just after 1,00 Marc came out to meet a media
scrum.  Labour Against the Witchhunt is the only organisation to
consistently oppose a witch hunt whose principla aim is to remove Corbyn’s
leadership.

Tony Greenstein

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