De
voortdurende demonisering van Corbyn in de Britse reguliere media kent werkelijk geen
grenzen meer, dagelijks wordt Corbyn door de stront gesleurd en
afgezeken als antisemiet……. Niet dat daar ook maar één direct
bewijs voor geleverd kan worden, sterker nog: Corbyn onderhoudt aantoonbaar goede relaties met joodse mensen en niet de minste, neem de intussen
overleden van joodse komaf Nederlandse Hajo Meijer, een overlever van de nazi-dodenkampen, met wie hij een
goede relatie had……
In
het hieronder opgenomen artikel nog veel meer joodse mensen die het
opnemen voor Corbyn, de Labour leider die in zijn team zelfs drie mensen van joodse
komaf heeft, allen joden die allesbehalve
vinden dat Corbyn een antisemiet is…..
Men
is dan ook totaal niet bang dat met Corbyn de nazi’s over de Britse
straten zullen marcheren, maar dat Corbyn na zoveel decennia
neoliberaal wanbeleid gevoerd door opvolgende regeringen, ja zelfs
door zijn eigen Labour Partij, een sociaal regeringsbeleid zal
voeren……. Corbyn is te populair en dat dit zeker ook veel
jongeren aanspreekt, is velen in het verkeerde keelgat geschoten…..
De schrijver van het artikel stelt terecht dat een deel van de Labour politici het beleid van Blair willen doorzetten, van Labour een tweede Tory partij maken* dit t.b.v. het inhumane, ijskoude neoliberalisme en de voortdurende Britse steun voor en deelname aan illegale oorlogen van de VS, waarmee deze Labour politici ook fungeren als lobbyisten van het militair-industrieel complex, een complex waar men vindt dat er niet lang en vaak genoeg oorlog gevoerd kan worden…….
Het sterkste pleidooi in het volgende artikel is wel de vaststelling dat het misbruik van het woord ‘antisemitisme’ in feite een trap na is voor de slachtoffers van de holocaust (een te korte samenvatting, lees het artikel)
De
schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, dat eerder op MediaLens werd gepubliceerd (nam het over van Information Clearing House), neemt ook de opgestapte Labour leden
onder de loep en geeft daarbij aan dat deze figuren een allesbehalve
fris verleden hebben…….
Lees
het volgende uiterst verontrustende, maar prima artikel en geeft het door, ook de Nederlandse media
nemen de lulkoek van de Britse media over en stellen dat Labour een
probleem heeft met antisemitisme, terwijl een groot aantal Britse joden lid is van Corbyns Labour Partij……. Intussen heeft de eerste aanval op Corbyn, n.a.v. het haatzaaien in de Britse media al plaatsgevonden……
The
Fake News Nazi – Corbyn, Williamson And The Anti-Semitism Scandal
By
Editor Media Lens
March
08, 2019 “Information
Clearing House” – One of us had a discussion
with an elderly relative:
‘He
can’t be allowed to become Prime Minister.’
‘Why
not?’
‘It’s
so awful…’
‘What
is?’
‘The
way he hates the Jews.’
The
last comment was spoken with real anguish, the result of continuous
exposure to just two main news sources: the Daily Mail and the BBC.
What
is astonishing is that, just four years ago, essentially no-one held
this view of Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn
first became an MP in 1983. He stood for the Labour leadership 32
years later, in May 2015. We searched the ProQuest database for UK
newspaper articles containing:
‘Jeremy
Corbyn’ and ‘anti-semitism’ before 1 May 2015 = 18 hits
‘Jeremy
Corbyn’ and ‘anti-semitism’ after 1 May 2015 = 11,251 hits
None
of the 18 hits accused Corbyn of anti-semitism. For his first 32
years as an MP, it just wasn’t a theme associated with him.
We
also searched the ProQuest database for UK newspaper articles
containing:
‘Labour
Party’ and ‘anti-semitism’ before 1 May 2015 = 5,347 hits
‘Labour
Party’ and ‘anti-semitism’ after 1 May 2015 = 13,921 hits
The
archive begins in 1980, which means that more than twice as many
articles have included these terms in the last four years than in the
35 years from 1980 until May 2015 when Corbyn stood for the Labour
leadership. A standard response to these findings runs
along these lines:
‘Irrelevant
backbencher gets less Press attention than Leader of The Opposition
SHOCKER. What’s your next scoop, Water Wet, Sky Blue?’
But
in fact, Corbyn was not an irrelevant backbencher. We found 3,662
hits for articles mentioning Corbyn before May 2015. Many of these
are mentions in passing, but he had also long been a high-profile
anti-war MP at a time of numerous wars. And he was frequently
smeared, only not about his supposed anti-semitism.
Consider, for example, an article that appeared in The Sun in 1999,
under a typically cruel title:
‘Why
did it take you so long to dump him, Mrs Corbyn?’ (Ally Ross, The
Sun, 13 May 1999)
The
story:
‘EXTREME
Left MP Jeremy Corbyn has been dumped by his missus after an amazing
bust-up over their son’s education.’
The
key issue, according to The Sun:
‘Now
the question on everyone’s lips is: Why did it take her so long to
leave the loathsome Lefty, and more importantly, why is she only
moaning about his choice of schools?’
Because
there was, apparently, plenty to moan about. The Sun described Corbyn
as ‘class crusader Jeremy – a rabid IRA sympathiser’ who ‘not only
looks and dresses like a third-rate Open University lecturer, he
thinks like one too. In 1984 the Provo stooge invited twice-convicted
terrorist and bomber Linda Quigley to the House of Commons just 13
days after the IRA’s murderous attack on Tories staying at the Grand
Hotel in Brighton’.
This
was pretty brutal stuff. The Sun added of Corbyn’s ex-wife:
‘Claudia’s
saviour of the masses also suffers incredible delusions of grandeur.
Communist states may be falling like dominoes, but raving Red Jeremy
still believes his outdated views are relevant to modern-day
Britain.’
And:
‘Not
only is Jeremy a political coward who backs terrorists, he is also a
self-confessed big girl’s blouse.’
And:
‘Jeremy’s
mis-shapen suits, lumpy jumpers and nylon shirts are not exactly what
the well-dressed radical is wearing in 1999… Claudia should be
aware her ex is irredeemably, unforgivably, annoyingly stupid.’
Given
the no-holds-barred nature of the smear, it is amazing that The Sun
made no mention at all of Corbyn’s vile anti-semitism,
viewed as his most obvious and dangerous defect now.
The
reason is that, as this shows, not even his worst enemies viewed
him as an anti-semite. The extreme Tory press aside, the accepted
view of Corbyn pre-2015 is indicated by a long, admiring piece in
which Jewish journalist Deborah Ross, whose family members
were murdered in
Polish pogroms even before the Nazi Holocaust was unleashed,
interviewed him for the Independent in 2005. Ross commented:
‘He
is also, it is generally agreed, an exemplary constituency MP. Even
my friend Rebecca, who recently sought his help on a local issue, and
never usually has a nice word to say about anybody, which is why I
like her, describes him as a “totally genuine mensch”.’
Ross
added:
‘As
The Sun would have it, Mr Corbyn is a “beardy Bolshevik”
and “loathsome lefty” but he does not come across as
either. He has strong opinions but does not demand you listen to
them, if you don’t want to.
‘He
is scandal free, unless you count the hoo-ha a few years back when it
was revealed that Jeremy’s oldest son would be attending a grammar
school outside the borough.’
Joseph
Finlay is a former Deputy Editor of the Jewish Quarterly, who
co-founded a range of grassroots Jewish organisations such as Moishe
House London, Wandering Jews, Jewdas and The Open Talmud Project. On
2 March 2018, Finlay wrote in his blog under
the title, ‘Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-racist, not an anti-Semite’:
‘Firstly
we need to restore some perspective. The Labour party has thousands
of Jewish members, many Jewish councillors, a number of prominent
Jewish MPs and several Jewish members of its ruling council. Many
people at the heart of the Corbyn team, such as Jon Lansman, James
Schneider and Rhea Wolfson are also Jewish. Ed Miliband, the previous
party leader, was Jewish (and suffered antisemitism at the hands of
the press and the Conservatives). I have been a member for five years
and, as a Jew, have had only positive experiences.’
Finlay
added:
‘Jeremy
Corbyn has been MP for Islington North since 1983 – a constituency
with a significant Jewish population. Given that he has regularly
polled over 60% of the vote (73% in 2017) it seems likely that a
sizeable number of Jewish constituents voted for him. As a
constituency MP he regularly visited synagogues and has appeared at
many Jewish religious and cultural events. He is close friends with
the leaders of the Jewish Socialist Group, from whom he has gained a
rich knowledge of the history of the Jewish Labour Bund, and he has
named the defeat of Mosley’s Fascists at the Battle of Cable as a key
historical moment for him. His 2017 Holocaust Memorial Day statement
talked about Shmuel Zygielboym, the Polish Bund leader exiled to
London who committed suicide in an attempt to awaken the world to the
Nazi genocide. How many British politicians have that level of
knowledge of modern Jewish history?’
Israel-based
journalist Jonathan Cook notes that
a recent Labour Party report ‘decisively
undercut’ the claims of Corbyn’s critics ‘not only of endemic
anti-semitism in Labour, but of any significant problem at all’. Cook
summarised:
‘Over
the previous 10 months, 673 complaints had been filed against Labour
members over alleged anti-semitic behaviour, many based on online
comments. In a third of those cases, insufficient evidence had been
produced.
‘The
453 other allegations represented 0.08 percent of the 540,000-strong
Labour membership. Hardly “endemic” or “institutional”,
it seems.’
He
added:
‘That
echoed an earlier report by
the Commons home affairs committee, which found there was “no
reliable, empirical evidence” that Labour had more of an
anti-semitism problem than any other British political party.’
In
‘Antisemitism in contemporary Great Britain: A study of
attitudes towards Jews and Israel’ by the Jewish Institute for Policy
Research, L. Daniel Staetsky found:
‘Levels
of antisemitism among those on the left-wing of the political
spectrum, including the far-left, are indistinguishable from those
found in the general population. Yet, all parts of those on the left
of the political spectrum – including the “slightly
left-of-centre,” the “fairly left-wing” and the “very
left-wing” – exhibit higher levels of anti-Israelism than
average. The most antisemitic group on the political spectrum
consists of those who identify as very right-wing: the presence of
antisemitic attitudes in this group is 2 to 4 times higher compared
to the general population.’
The
report notes that ‘the prevalence of antisemitism on the far right is
considerably higher than on the left and in the political centre’.
Noam
Chomsky has commented:
‘The
charges of anti-Semitism against Corbyn are without merit, an
underhanded contribution to the disgraceful efforts to fend off the
threat that a political party might emerge that is led by an
admirable and decent human being, a party that is actually committed
to the interests and just demands of its popular constituency and the
great majority of the population generally, while also authentically
concerned with the rights of suffering and oppressed people
throughout the world. Plainly an intolerable threat to order.’ (Noam
Chomsky, email to Media Lens, 9 September 2018)
Suspending
Chris Williamson
On
February 27, a propaganda blitz was launched against anti-war Labour
MP Chris Williamson who had been filmed saying
that Labour Party responses to claims of anti-semitism had
exacerbated the crisis:
‘I’ve
got to say, I think our party’s response has been partly
responsible… Because, in my opinion, we’ve backed off far too much,
we’ve given too much ground, we’ve been too apologetic.’
Williamson
added:
‘We’ve
done more to address the scourge of anti-semitism than any political
party.’
It
is clear that Williamson was strongly endorsing the fight against
anti-semitism and was proud of the Labour Party’s record. Actual
anti-semites talk of ‘the scourge of Judaism’, Williamson talked of
‘the scourge of anti-semitism’. He was suggesting that the party had
been too apologetic in responding to a cynical smear campaign
attempting to destroy Corbyn by exploiting the issue of
anti-semitism.
Others
chose to see it differently. Guardian columnist Owen
Jones responded to
Williamson’s comments:
‘This
is utterly out of order. When does the left ever say we’ve been “too
apologetic” about fighting racism or bigotry? Why is he, a
non-Jew, right and Jon Lansman – a Jewish socialist who founded
Momentum and ran Corbyn’s second leadership campaign – wrong about
anti-Semitism?’
We replied:
‘”When
does the left ever say we’ve been “too apologetic” about
fighting racism or bigotry?'”
‘He’s
*endorsing* the fight against racism and bigotry. He’s saying Labour
has been too apologetic in responding to a cynical smear campaign to
destroy Corbyn in the name of anti-racism.’
Ash
Sharkar of Novara Media tweeted:
‘Chris
Williamson has been had the Labour whip suspended pending
investigation, which I think is the right decision. But much more
work must be done to proactively confront and dismantle
conspiratorial and antisemitic thinking on the left, and it goes much
further than expulsions.’
Aaron
Bastani, also of Novara Media, wrote:
‘I
think media coverage of the “Labour anti-semitism crisis”
is completely disproportionate – primarily because it underplays
problem more broadly across society.
‘Equally,
hearing & reading the things I have in recent days I wouldn’t
feel welcome in the party as a Jewish person.’
In
our latest book, ‘Propaganda Blitz’, we noted a key factor driving
home these smear blitzes:
‘while
a demonising propaganda blitz may arise from rightist politics and
media, the propaganda coup de grace ending public doubt
often comes from the “left-liberal” journalists at the
Guardian, the Independent, the BBC and Channel 4; and also from
non-corporate journalists who crave acceptance by these media. Again,
the logic is clear: if even celebrity progressive
journalists – people famous for their principled stands, and
colourful socks and ties – join the denunciations, then
there must be something to the claims. At this point, it
actually becomes difficult to doubt it’. (David Edwards and David
Cromwell, ‘Propaganda Blitz’, Pluto Press, 2018, pp.8-9)
Foreign
Wars – Racism Versus Speciesism
The
truth of the corporate media’s ‘ethical concern’ becomes clearer when
we consider Corbyn’s record on foreign wars. While the UK affects to
care deeply about racism, Chomsky has noted that the West’s endless
‘interventions’ – all reflexively supported by the same media damning
Corbyn now – are manifestations of a prejudice, beyond even racism,
that is a kind of speciesism:
‘Namely,
knowing that you are massacring them but not doing so intentionally
because you don’t regard them as worthy of concern. That is, you
don’t even care enough about them to intend to kill them. Thus when I
walk down the street, if I stop to think about it I know I’ll
probably kill lots of ants, but I don’t intend to kill them, because
in my mind they do not even rise to the level where it matters. There
are many such examples. To take one of the very minor ones, when
Clinton bombed the al-Shifa pharmaceutical facility in Sudan, he and
the other perpetrators surely knew that the bombing would kill
civilians (tens of thousands, apparently). But Clinton and associates
did not intend to kill them, because by the standards of Western
liberal humanitarian racism, they are no more significant than ants.
Same in the case of tens of millions of others.’ (Chomsky ZNet blog,
‘Samantha Power, Bush & Terrorism,’ 31 July 2007)
Even
if Corbyn was an anti-semite, a racist, he would still be a far safer
ethical choice than Tory and Blairite speciesists who value human
beings on the level of ants. After all, we find that
Jeremy Corbyn:
‘Consistently
voted against use of UK military forces in combat operations
overseas.’
‘Consistently
voted against the Iraq war.’
‘…
voted to say that the case for war against Iraq has not yet been
established’.
‘…
voted against a motion stating the Government should use all means
necessary to ensure the disarmament of Iraq’s weapons of mass
destruction. Support for the motion by the majority of MPs led to the
UK joining the US invasion of Iraq two days later’.
‘Generally
voted for investigations into the Iraq war.’
‘…
acted as teller for a vote on UK Air Strikes Against ISIL in Iraq’.
‘…
voted against the establishment of a no-fly zone in Libya’.
‘…
voted against the continued deployment of UK armed forces in
Afghanistan’.
‘…
voted to decline to authorise UK military action in Syria’.
‘…
voted against UK airstrikes against ISIL in Syria’.
‘Generally
voted against replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system.’
Consider,
by contrast, the record of the Labour MPs who have left the Labour
Party, supposedly in protest at the rise of anti-semitism, to form
The Independent Group:
Chuka
Umunna ‘Almost always voted for
use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’
Angela
Smith ‘Almost always voted for
use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’
Mike
Gapes ‘Generally voted for
use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’
Chris
Leslie ‘Almost always voted for
use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’
Luciana
Berger ‘Generally voted for
use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’
Joan
Ryan: ‘Consistently voted for
use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas’, ‘Consistently voted for the Iraq war’, ‘Consistently voted against
investigations into the Iraq war.’
Ann
Coffey ‘Almost always voted for
use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas.’
Gavin
Shuker ‘Voted a
mixture of for and against use of UK military forces in combat
operations overseas.’
Not
even his most extreme critics are suggesting that Corbyn is offering
the kind of threat to Jewish people consistently offered by Tory and
Blairite MPs to millions of people in countries like Iraq, Libya,
Syria, Venezuela, Iran and Yemen. Even if Corbyn had erred
in failing to perceive the ugliness of a mural declared
antisemitic by the press; even if had been lax in taking action
against party racists, and so on, how do these failings compare to
the destruction of whole countries in lie-based wars of aggression?
Why
do corporate media never make this moral comparison? Because they
are incapable of perceiving US-UK crimes against humanity as crimes;
a wilful moral blindness that renders them completely unfit to pass
judgement on Corbyn. Especially as they are themselves, of course,
complicit in these same war crimes.
Conclusion
The
claim that Corbyn is an anti-semite presiding over a surge in Labour
Party anti-semitism is fake news; it is a scam of the utmost cynicism
and brutality. It should be viewed as the latest in a
long line of attempts to
destroy Corbyn by all necessary means. He has been smeared for not
bowing low enough, for not singing loudly enough, for hating women,
for disrespecting gay people, for consorting with terrorists, for
refusing to unleash a nuclear holocaust, for being a shambolic
leader, for being a shambolic dresser, for leading Labour towards
certain electoral disaster, for being a Putinite stooge, for aping
Trump, and so on. Now, finally, someone widely admired for thirty
years as a decent, socialist MP, has been transformed into an
anti-semite; or as game show assistant and political commentator
Rachel Riley implies,
a ‘Nazi’.
Anti-semitism
does exist in the Labour Party, as it exists throughout UK society,
and of course these delusions should be resisted and exposed. But the
smear campaign against Corbyn is not rooted in concern for the
welfare of Jewish people; it is not even about blocking a political
leader who cares about Palestinian rights. It is about preventing
Corbyn from undoing Tony Blair’s great achievement of transforming
the Labour Party into a second Tory Party, thus ensuring voters have
no option challenging corporate domination, including the
‘humanitarian interventions’ for oil and other resources. The goal is
to stop Corbyn letting democracy out of its box.
Stephen
Law of Heythrop College, University of London, warns that
cavalier accusations made ‘on the basis of obviously flimsy or
nonexistent evidence’ are ‘disrespecting the memory of the millions
who were slaughtered by real antisemitism during the Holocaust’. But
in fact, it is worse than that. State propagandists and their
corporate media allies are exploiting the suffering of
these millions as part of an attack on British democracy. This is
obscene. But it is not particularly shocking after the campaigns of
deceit which, as discussed, knowingly risked and then shattered the
lives of millions of innocent human beings in US-UK wars of
aggression.
One
thing is certain, if Corbyn and his style of socialism can be made to
disappear, we’ll hear no more about anti-semitism in the Labour
Party, just as we heard no more about Iraqi democracy after Saddam
Hussein, or human rights in Libya after Gaddafi; just as we will hear
no more about press freedom in Venezuela, if Maduro is overthrown.
As
this alert was being written, news emerged that
Corbyn had been subjected to a physical assault in London, to muted
concern from almost all corporate media and journalists (compare
‘mainstream’ reaction to
news that Conservative MP Anna Soubry had been called a ‘Nazi’).
Journalists claimed Corbyn had merely had an egg thrown at him.
Labour MP Diane Abbott tweeted:
‘I
was there. He punched Jeremy very hard. He happened to have an egg in
his palm. But it could have been a knife. Horrible’
Perhaps
journalists couldn’t bear to express concern for a person they have
so completely reviled for almost four years. Or perhaps they knew
their smears of a thoroughly decent, well-intentioned man would be
thrown back at them. More likely, they just didn’t care. And that,
finally, is the truth of their ‘ethical concern’ – they don’t care.
This
article was originally published by “Media
Lens”
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* Ook onder de Labour regeringen in het begin van deze eeuw, de regeringen van opperploert Blair en oplichter Brown, gingen miljoenen kinderen met honger naar school……..
Zie ook:
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‘Anti-Corbyn boek valt door de mand als valse aanklacht >> schrijver duikt onder……‘
‘Esther Voet (hoofdredacteur Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad) over ‘antisemitisme’‘
‘BBC presentator maakt per ongeluk promotie voor het socialisme‘
‘The Mail on Sunday en Sky News schieten levensgrote antisemitische bok bij het belasteren van Corbyn‘
‘BBC wijst meer en meer naar Corbyn als medeschuldige voor de Brexit‘
‘Simon Wiesenthal Center: antisemitische top tien 2018 >> o.a. moorden toegestaan voor Joden‘
‘BBC Media Action: een smerige propaganda organisatie, mede door Nederland betaald‘
‘Britse justitie gaat ‘hate crimes’ van Labour onderzoeken‘
‘Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….‘
Daar Corbyn vooral voor antisemiet wordt uitgemaakt, nog wat links naar dat onderwerp:
‘Kritiek op Israël wordt door een leger van Israëlische trollen bevochten‘
‘Google Maps veegt Palestijns gebied van de kaart‘
‘De film over de pro-Israëlische lobby in de VS, die Israël verboden wil zien………‘
‘Israël zet snelle reactiemacht op poten tegen anti-Israëlische kritiek‘
‘Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen‘
