In het
hieronder door Tracy Keeling geschreven artikel, eerder verschenen op
The Canary, vertelt ze over Tom Bower, een bekende anti-Corbyn
fantast, die een boek schreef over Corbyn, genaamd ‘Corbyn’s Ruthless
Plot For Power’. Colomnist Peter Oborne van The Daily Mail schreef
een artikel op Middle East Eye over dit boek, waarin hij o.a. stelt
dat het boek diverse onwaarheden bevat, verder dat Bower systematisch
belangrijke feiten weglaat en op catastrofale manier de standaard
mist voor politieke berichtgeving……..

Oborne
stelt voorts dat hij Bowen meermaals heeft gevraagd te
reageren op zijn kritiek, alvorens tot publicatie over te gaan, maar dat hij geen antwoord kreeg van Bowen……

Mensen
je gelooft je ogen niet als je leest hoe belachelijk Bowen zijn
beweringen doet, zoals die over een extreme speech, die in de 80er
jaren werd geschreven, maar sindsdien door elke Labour leider werd
genegeerd, behalve door Corbyn….. Oborne nam contact op met de
schrijver van de speech, Richard Heller en deze bevestigde dat geen
Labour-leider contact met hem had opgenomen over deze speech,
inclusief Jeremy Corbyn……..

Echt
smerig zijn uiteraard de aantijgingen dat Corbyn een antisemiet is,
waar een paar Britse mediaorganen hem zelfs al uitmaken voor
fascist……*

De reguliere westerse media en het grootste deel van de westerse politiek zijn als de dood dat Corbyn de volgende verkiezingen wint en dan een radicaal ander (socialistisch) politiek beleid zal voeren, een beleid voor de burgers en niet voor oorlogsvoering en het welzijn van de rijke bevolking en de grote bedrijven en banken…. Alleen daarom beschuldigt men Corbyn van antisemitisme!

Bovendien zijn dit soort beschuldigingen door politici en de zogenaamde onafhankelijke massamedia, een trap na voor de slachtoffers van de holocaust*, daar men hun dood misbruikt voor het belasteren van mensen, die niets hebben met antisemitisme, maar wel met de vervolging van het Palestijnse volk door de nu officieel fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël….. Nogmaals: verzet tegen de uiterst bloedige onderdrukking van Palestijnen heeft niets, maar dan ook helemaal niets met antisemitisme te maken!!

Lees het
volgende artikel en zegt het voort, ook de Nederlandse media
berichten keer op keer dat Labour met een zwaar antisemitisch
probleem zit, pure nonsens zoals je begrijpt:

An
anti-Corbyn author goes into hiding after his book is exposed as an
utter sham

Tracy
Keeling
11th
March 2019

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor An anti-Corbyn author goes into hiding after his book is exposed as an utter sham

An
anti-Corbyn author appears to have gone into hiding after a
journalist exposed his book as an utter sham.

Writing
in Middle
East Eye on
9 March, Peter Oborne dismantled Tom
Bower’s Dangerous
Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot For Power. The Daily
Mail columnist says the
book “contains numerous falsehoods”, “systematically omits
relevant facts” and “catastrophically” fails to meet the
standards for political reporting.

Oborne
also says that, prior to publishing, he made numerous attempts to
contact Bower “in order to give him the chance to defend himself”.
But his efforts via email, text and phone were to no avail.

Here
are a few examples of Oborne’s research into the book’s claims
about Jeremy Corbyn. They may help explain why Bower isn’t eagerly
stepping up to face the music.

The
“extreme” speech

In
his book, Bower asserts that Corbyn adopted a speech written by
freelance speechwriter Richard Heller for the 2015 party conference.
Bower said Heller
wrote the speech in the 1980s and that it:

had
been repeatedly offered to every Labour leader since Michael Foot,
and always rejected as too extreme

Oborne
contacted Heller about this claim. He confirmed that he did offer the
speech to previous Labour leaders. But, contrary to Bower’s
assertion about its rejection, Heller toldOborne:

None
of the previous leaders replied to me at all.

So,
no Labour leader appears to have branded the speech “extreme”.
It’s Bower that does so – and conveniently gives his readers the
idea that Corbyn leans towards the “extreme” in the process.

“The
enemy of the [Jewish] working class”

Trying
to suggest that Corbyn is antisemitic, Bower also writes:

For
Corbyn, Jews were automatically assumed to be rich capitalist
financiers and bankers backed by Wall Street, and were all undoubted
swindlers. They were not victims of racism, but the enemy of the
working class.

As
Oborne argues, Bower ignores the fact that Corbyn has “a long
record of
opposing anti-semitism” in his book. But he even disproves his own
propaganda on this supposed prejudice. Bower asserts that
Corbyn:

conjured
a tale of a brave personal fight against exploitative Jewish
employers of sweatshop labour. Parochialism and fantasy fed the
original source of his anti-Semitism – namely, as he saw it, the
malign collective power of Jews. Corbyn was immersed in an unfamiliar
world. The union was dealing with struggling, overworked,
self-employed Jews

So,
he highlights the Labour leader’s time as a trade union official
‘railing’ against largely Jewish employers in the garment
industry as an example of antisemitism. But, as Oborne notes, in the
next sentence Bower admits that Corbyn was fighting for Jewish
workers.

Bower’s
own bias

Meanwhile,
Bower’s book reveals a lot about his own prejudices and his
capacity for hypocrisy. As Oborne explains:

Bower’s
concern with anti-semitism is clear. However, he talks of other
minority groups with a language which he would be unlikely to
tolerate if used about Jews.

One
such passage, about Corbyn’s constituents in the 1990s, reads:

By
1998, new arrivals from Somalia, Pakistan and Bangladesh had packed
into Islington North. Queues of migrants and asylum seekers at the
Red Rose sought Corbyn’s help to obtain homes, welfare benefits,
character references for bail, help to reduce their sentences after
criminal convictions, and intercession to avoid deportation.

Bower
is suggesting that these “new arrivals” to Islington are
scroungers and criminals. But, as immigration lawyer Colin
Yeo told Oborne:

The
casual conflation of immigration with crime is extremely unfortunate.
I seriously doubt there was much call for his assistance with bail,
benefits, character references or criminal appeals, more like help
with family members and refugee claims.

Clearly,
Bower’s offensive description of these immigrants speaks much more
about him than it does about them.

“Ugly
hatchet job”

Through
these examples, and many more, Oborne proves that
Bower’s book is nothing more than an “ugly hatchet job”. But
it’s one which has received rave
reviews from
the mainstream press. For Oborne, this begs a
question:

Are
British journalists allowing hostility to Corbyn to get in the way of
telling the truth?

The
incessant smears against
Corbyn – including in
Oborne’s Daily
Mail –
since he put himself up for Labour leader in 2015 provide the answer
to that. This “ugly hatchet job” of a book is just the nail in
the British media’s reputational coffin. Yes, if UK journalists
still feel under any obligation to tell the truth (it’s clearly not
a high priority),
that completely goes out of the window with Corbyn.